Don't forget the Cleary case. Jeanne Cleary was strangled and raped (in that order) in her bed in her dorm. The assailant, Josoph Henry walked through 3 propped doors, including her own, that she had left open because her roomate had lost her keys. Although Henry was found guilty and sentenced to death - despite his defense of "I have a medical condition that makes me black out when I'm drunk (no, really) - Lehigh was sued by Cleary's parents because they didn't do enough to ensure their daughter's safety. Lehigh lost, which effectively brought "in loco parentis" back to college campuses, which had largely been abandoned in the 60's and 70's.
Nope - it overwrote the boot sector of floppies, blowing away your data. None of the PC's on campus had hd's - there were boot floppies strewn around everywhere, and we kept all of our data on 5 1/4 floppies. Losing that data could get very upsetting.
The solution was trivial - making the boot sector read only. But the idea was there.
I was at Lehigh when this was released. One of the first self propagating viruses, with a time delay to allow for greater infection, that was actually destructive. It was sort of a non-event to the users there; imagine my surprise when I looked it up years later and it figures prominently in virus history.
"They must know, at a certain level, that internet radio is good for them."
Really? heard a saying a numbetr of years ago, which I shall paraphrase: "Never underestimate the power of a human being to stare at reality full on and yet still ignore it". I dont' believe for one minute that the people who pull the strings for SoundExchange see the internet as anything but a threat, which they either need to eliminate or control. The reality of internet music distribution may have been explained to them ad nauseam, but that doesn't mean they will believe it.
"So Google is asking to make the spectrum cheaper."
Not quite. I believe that, by requesting the frequencies be made open access (and thereby eliminating some vendor lock-in), the frequencies would be made *less valuable* to the owner from the standpoint of maximizing revenue. Therefore, the big names will have less incentive to bid high on them, since they have less chance of recovering their investment under their current business plan (exclusive lock-in, etc.) This will allow different companies to compete whose business model may not be based on turning those frequencies directly into cash.
ATT is pissed because Google wants the rules of the game changed to let others play. Right now it's as if basketball nets were set at 12', and only dunks counted. There are perhaps a dozen people in the world who could play that game. Google is asking that the net be lowered to 10' so that those abnormally giant behemoths have at least some competition from others - still abnormally large, but there's a lot more of them.
This is a delaying tactic until Congress is out of session. Just keep in mind that their real goal is to accomplish exactly what is feared - eliminating internet radio. While Congress is in session, there is a chance they will intervene. Wait a few weeks, the reprieve will be over, bills will go out, then it's "lights out" and Congress will be too busy pocketing contributions from the folks back home to notice.
"if he was caught on tape having sex with an underage boy, they'd say it was a liberal framejob."
When a Republican congressman was caught sending inappropriate messages to a male page, he was summarily kicked out by the Republican leadership, and resigned in disgrace. There was some evidence that the publicising of the incident was politically driven, and the Republican leadership was pretty poor during the whole thing, but in the end the congressman got what he deserved - he abused his position and lost it.
Contrast to 20 years ago, when the same thing happened to a Democrat. The leadership at the time, also democrats, gave the guy a slap on the wrist and he continued to serve another decade before he retired. Yes, there was skulduggery and fals accusations, but in the end, a congressman abused his position and nothing happened.
Yes, Congress and politics are corrup through and through - just be careful with the throwaway lines you use to condemn one party or another.
"What exactly did Apple purchase? It was and is an open source project. Trademarks aren't mentioned. "
Perhaps, oh, the source code? Just like it says?
Under the GPL, the author does NOT give up his rights to do whatever the hell he wants with the code, including sell it. The GPL simply grants others the right to copy and distribute the code, subject to certain limitations.
Now Apple owns the copyright to the code. They can take it closed, relicense it, dual license it, or use it for ass paper. But the stuff already release under the GPL remains there. Why is any of this so hard to understand?
So, if I invent a version that gives data on why the name sucks (the otehr main problem with the program), will the developers pay attention to that too?
But since the FCC has pretty much zero say over patent reform, does that mean they should be precluded from doing anything at all, even if it is a minor relief?
Or is patent reform just your hobbyhorse and you see everything from astride that creaky steed?
But if you can identify them, you may be able to catch: - the financier - the bomb maker - the smuggler - etc.
Suicide bombers don't operate in a vacuum. Most of the time, they are tools of someone with a larger plan, who is definitely NOT interested in dying for their cause.
That is not to say I agree with blanket surveillance, but only that information after the fact can be useful even if it doesn't stop the crime itself.
Bank: "Yes, at 0325 yesterday your account was logged into and the money transferred"
User: "But I didn't do it!"
Bank: "Well, sir, the proper login and password were used, and our logs indicate it came from the same IP address your previous transactions came from. If you did not personally do it, did soeone else in your household do it?"
User: "I live alone, and I work night shift. No one was at the house last night"
Bank: "We're sorry sir, but it sounds like you have been a victim of computer fraud. That's when someone else has stolen your money, just like if you lost your checkbook. We would be more than happy to cooperate with the authorities to provide any data we have. Let us know who to send the data to. Thanks, buh-bye"
Cold? Yes. But I'd rather be responsible for my own computer security than the bank be allowed to root around in my computer.
(Please note this does not apply to data leaks from teh banks or other businesses - they are guilty of negligence, on top of whatever fraud drains the account)
So the cases I cited weren't decided 8-1? Because the original poster referred to "all" the decisions.
But I guess "a higher percentage" and "last 6 decisions" means "all" in your vocabulary. Not a math major I suppose.
I guess if an issue isn't black and white, evil and good, conservative and liberal, Republican and Democrat, it's filled with "lies". Not a philosophy major either.
Wow - flashback time. In 5th grade, I had to write a report on bears. I described their diet as "catholic" (note lower case "c"), because of the original definition of the word. I was also being a wiseass - I went to St. Catherine of Sienna.
I'm still bitter I got marked down - they were being very nigardly with the grades.
One could easily give credit to the results of past performance. Yahoo was the #1 search engine for years because it delivered good results. Google became first because it delivered beter results, and generally still does. MS search got a bad reputation from stories about manipulating search results. And the "in house" engine has no past performance - who would trust that at all?
"Cyberbullying is only dangerous insofar as it leads to physical assault."
I don't know. To use my previous example, if some teen girl blogs about how she saw my daughter in a liplock with another girl at the mall, and my girl was home at the time, why is that not libel? Or if my son starts getting "anonymous" emails about how he's going to get his ass kicked Wed. after school, is that not assault (the threat, as opposed to battery, which is the act)? Even aside from the fact that it probably won't happen?
"Nope. The supreme court now splits nicely down party lines for every vote.
I wonder how many 5-4 votes have gone through in the last six months, with votes falling the same way every time."
Funny, I can recall 2 cases with 8-1 votes just off the top of my head: no knock warrants and shareholder lawsuits. But hey, why let reality (or a 5 secong Google search) knock you off your pedestal.
Sure about that? Cause the black eye I got in grade school went away in a couple of weeks. If instead I had been labeled as homosexual on the Web, replete with photoshopped pictures and "testimonials" from others, I might still be living with the consequences.
And to head off the PC "Being gay isn't wrong" responses, Catholic school in the 70's was NOT the place to be labelled a fag, true sexual orientation notwithstanding.
And to head off the other side of teh house, no, I do not think new laws need to be made. We just need to apply the old ones in an aggressive manner. Bullying shouldn't be tolerated, period. It is assault and/or battery, or stalking and harrassment. Just because it's kids doesn't mean it isn't wrong AND illegal.
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Don't forget the Cleary case. Jeanne Cleary was strangled and raped (in that order) in her bed in her dorm. The assailant, Josoph Henry walked through 3 propped doors, including her own, that she had left open because her roomate had lost her keys. Although Henry was found guilty and sentenced to death - despite his defense of "I have a medical condition that makes me black out when I'm drunk (no, really) - Lehigh was sued by Cleary's parents because they didn't do enough to ensure their daughter's safety. Lehigh lost, which effectively brought "in loco parentis" back to college campuses, which had largely been abandoned in the 60's and 70's.
"Still, sounds like something very harmless"
Nope - it overwrote the boot sector of floppies, blowing away your data. None of the PC's on campus had hd's - there were boot floppies strewn around everywhere, and we kept all of our data on 5 1/4 floppies. Losing that data could get very upsetting.
The solution was trivial - making the boot sector read only. But the idea was there.
I was at Lehigh when this was released. One of the first self propagating viruses, with a time delay to allow for greater infection, that was actually destructive. It was sort of a non-event to the users there; imagine my surprise when I looked it up years later and it figures prominently in virus history.
...does it go to Eleven?
"They must know, at a certain level, that internet radio is good for them."
Really? heard a saying a numbetr of years ago, which I shall paraphrase: "Never underestimate the power of a human being to stare at reality full on and yet still ignore it". I dont' believe for one minute that the people who pull the strings for SoundExchange see the internet as anything but a threat, which they either need to eliminate or control. The reality of internet music distribution may have been explained to them ad nauseam, but that doesn't mean they will believe it.
"So Google is asking to make the spectrum cheaper."
Not quite. I believe that, by requesting the frequencies be made open access (and thereby eliminating some vendor lock-in), the frequencies would be made *less valuable* to the owner from the standpoint of maximizing revenue. Therefore, the big names will have less incentive to bid high on them, since they have less chance of recovering their investment under their current business plan (exclusive lock-in, etc.) This will allow different companies to compete whose business model may not be based on turning those frequencies directly into cash.
ATT is pissed because Google wants the rules of the game changed to let others play. Right now it's as if basketball nets were set at 12', and only dunks counted. There are perhaps a dozen people in the world who could play that game. Google is asking that the net be lowered to 10' so that those abnormally giant behemoths have at least some competition from others - still abnormally large, but there's a lot more of them.
This is a delaying tactic until Congress is out of session. Just keep in mind that their real goal is to accomplish exactly what is feared - eliminating internet radio. While Congress is in session, there is a chance they will intervene. Wait a few weeks, the reprieve will be over, bills will go out, then it's "lights out" and Congress will be too busy pocketing contributions from the folks back home to notice.
"if he was caught on tape having sex with an underage boy, they'd say it was a liberal framejob."
When a Republican congressman was caught sending inappropriate messages to a male page, he was summarily kicked out by the Republican leadership, and resigned in disgrace. There was some evidence that the publicising of the incident was politically driven, and the Republican leadership was pretty poor during the whole thing, but in the end the congressman got what he deserved - he abused his position and lost it.
Contrast to 20 years ago, when the same thing happened to a Democrat. The leadership at the time, also democrats, gave the guy a slap on the wrist and he continued to serve another decade before he retired. Yes, there was skulduggery and fals accusations, but in the end, a congressman abused his position and nothing happened.
Yes, Congress and politics are corrup through and through - just be careful with the throwaway lines you use to condemn one party or another.
"What exactly did Apple purchase? It was and is an open source project. Trademarks aren't mentioned. "
Perhaps, oh, the source code? Just like it says?
Under the GPL, the author does NOT give up his rights to do whatever the hell he wants with the code, including sell it. The GPL simply grants others the right to copy and distribute the code, subject to certain limitations.
Now Apple owns the copyright to the code. They can take it closed, relicense it, dual license it, or use it for ass paper. But the stuff already release under the GPL remains there. Why is any of this so hard to understand?
So, if I invent a version that gives data on why the name sucks (the otehr main problem with the program), will the developers pay attention to that too?
But since the FCC has pretty much zero say over patent reform, does that mean they should be precluded from doing anything at all, even if it is a minor relief?
Or is patent reform just your hobbyhorse and you see everything from astride that creaky steed?
He's a Republican...he's Eeeevilllll!
My world is shaken to its core.
"There's nobody to catch!"
But if you can identify them, you may be able to catch:
- the financier
- the bomb maker
- the smuggler
- etc.
Suicide bombers don't operate in a vacuum. Most of the time, they are tools of someone with a larger plan, who is definitely NOT interested in dying for their cause.
That is not to say I agree with blanket surveillance, but only that information after the fact can be useful even if it doesn't stop the crime itself.
Bloomberg and his thieving Republican cronies...
Wait - he's not a Republican anymore? And he only changed to the Repubs to get elected in the first place?
Nevermind.
Lighten up, Francis.
And all the bread and toilet paper is MINE! ALL MINE!!!
MUAHaHahahahah!!
(Gotta credit my wife with this one - she's truly evil)
Don't kid yourself - your wife is the only owner - she just pretends otherwise.
User: "My bank account is empty!"
Bank: "Yes, at 0325 yesterday your account was logged into and the money transferred"
User: "But I didn't do it!"
Bank: "Well, sir, the proper login and password were used, and our logs indicate it came from the same IP address your previous transactions came from. If you did not personally do it, did soeone else in your household do it?"
User: "I live alone, and I work night shift. No one was at the house last night"
Bank: "We're sorry sir, but it sounds like you have been a victim of computer fraud. That's when someone else has stolen your money, just like if you lost your checkbook. We would be more than happy to cooperate with the authorities to provide any data we have. Let us know who to send the data to. Thanks, buh-bye"
Cold? Yes. But I'd rather be responsible for my own computer security than the bank be allowed to root around in my computer.
(Please note this does not apply to data leaks from teh banks or other businesses - they are guilty of negligence, on top of whatever fraud drains the account)
So the cases I cited weren't decided 8-1? Because the original poster referred to "all" the decisions.
But I guess "a higher percentage" and "last 6 decisions" means "all" in your vocabulary. Not a math major I suppose.
I guess if an issue isn't black and white, evil and good, conservative and liberal, Republican and Democrat, it's filled with "lies". Not a philosophy major either.
"Bears are Catholic."
Wow - flashback time. In 5th grade, I had to write a report on bears. I described their diet as "catholic" (note lower case "c"), because of the original definition of the word. I was also being a wiseass - I went to St. Catherine of Sienna.
I'm still bitter I got marked down - they were being very nigardly with the grades.
One could easily give credit to the results of past performance. Yahoo was the #1 search engine for years because it delivered good results. Google became first because it delivered beter results, and generally still does. MS search got a bad reputation from stories about manipulating search results. And the "in house" engine has no past performance - who would trust that at all?
"Cyberbullying is only dangerous insofar as it leads to physical assault."
I don't know. To use my previous example, if some teen girl blogs about how she saw my daughter in a liplock with another girl at the mall, and my girl was home at the time, why is that not libel? Or if my son starts getting "anonymous" emails about how he's going to get his ass kicked Wed. after school, is that not assault (the threat, as opposed to battery, which is the act)? Even aside from the fact that it probably won't happen?
Tell him to have an electrician check the neutrals in his breaker panel. If there are por connections, weird things start happening.
"Nope. The supreme court now splits nicely down party lines for every vote.
I wonder how many 5-4 votes have gone through in the last six months, with votes falling the same way every time."
Funny, I can recall 2 cases with 8-1 votes just off the top of my head: no knock warrants and shareholder lawsuits. But hey, why let reality (or a 5 secong Google search) knock you off your pedestal.
Sure about that? Cause the black eye I got in grade school went away in a couple of weeks. If instead I had been labeled as homosexual on the Web, replete with photoshopped pictures and "testimonials" from others, I might still be living with the consequences.
And to head off the PC "Being gay isn't wrong" responses, Catholic school in the 70's was NOT the place to be labelled a fag, true sexual orientation notwithstanding.
And to head off the other side of teh house, no, I do not think new laws need to be made. We just need to apply the old ones in an aggressive manner. Bullying shouldn't be tolerated, period. It is assault and/or battery, or stalking and harrassment. Just because it's kids doesn't mean it isn't wrong AND illegal.