It is this that they are attributing to text messaging. Before, it took a certain amount of time for word of mouth to spread. Now it is happening much faster.
Because obviously your trust in the movie industry's unbiased, scientific, and statistical analysis of their loss in revenue is heart-warming. Nowhere in the article did it state these claims were backed up by hard statistics conducted by an independent 3rd party. It couldn't be that people are holding off from seeing the movie until the second week, or that the Hulk really isn't appealing to anyone (didn't you watch the commercials??).
Before you go ahead and flame someone for their doubt, don't blindly believe industry's factless claims. You were probably modded up by an MPAA employee anyway...
I'm a music graduate student, and many of my collegues are aspiring musicians in both traditional (classical), jazz, and popular music. Many of them are torn between unrestricted filesharing and protecting their music and future incomes, on the verge of signing to a major label. How do you propose that musicians are mass-marketed (e.g. the only real reason any sane musician signs to a major) if the revenue stream of the labels is purportedly dwindling due to unrestricted filesharing?
New York Official Says Power Grid Overloaded -CNN
Thu August 14, 2003 05:04 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York State official said the Niagara Mohawk power grid overloaded on Thursday, causing a massive power outage, CNN reported, and New York Major Michael Bloomberg said it was likely a natural occurrence.
"It may be well into the evening before power comes back on," Bloomberg told the U.S. cable television network. He said smoke from a Consolidated Edison Inc. plant in the city was due to the plant's automatic shutdown, not to a fire, as had been reported.
He said, "I can tell you 100 percent sure that there is no evidence as of this moment whatsoever of any terrorism."
A massive power outage swept across swaths of the eastern United States and Canada on Thursday, leaving sections of New York, Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto without electricity, witnesses said.
It was not immediately clear whether the Niagara Mohawk problem caused the wider outage.
You can get a message to the president much more easily through them than if you try directly via e-mail. This is how representative democracy works.
If you are truly interested in contacting your congressman/woman or sentor, the best way is through fax. I called my senator's regional office, and the intern said that most faxes are actually read by the senators because someone took the effort to fax directly. Try http://www.senate.gov/ or http://www.house.gov/, and find a fax number if you really want to say something. But I have a feeling this is too much effort in our representative McDonalds/Wal-Mart/MTV democracy.
My radio TiVo thinks I'm gay...
on
TiVo For Radio?
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
If it even works close to this I'll be sure to have a full selection of Ani DiFranco and Liberace at my fingertips!
Funny how only in capitalist modern societies this musical copyright thing is such an issue. I'm a graduate student in musicology (yes, that means I make less than an IT helpdesk tech), but throughout history most famous musicians and composers made their living ripping off their peers (ever heard of JS Bach, Mozart, Beethoven)
Samples ARE protected by copyright
By the same token, it's funny how a crappy bass line can cost $1.5mil....pay me half that, and I'll actually write a good one....
I realize that a talented producer can cost a lot of money and some bands drink a lot of beer, but why aren't the benefits of lower production costs being passed on to the consumer?
This opens up a bigger can of worms than just wanna-be home music-producing-armchair musicians with a PC and dumbed-down software. Sure, anyone can buy protools, record some tracks in their basement, and mix an album (albeit amateur) and burn a few CDs for their friends. But this absolutely doesn't take the place of a well-trained, well-connected producer established in the industry. Unfortunately very few who produce their own make into the big leagues, but those who have, have done it quite well. But then again, those musicians are in the slim minority.
If you've taken a look at the music industry (trust me, I'm in it) lately, the money doesn't end up in the hands of the musicians, nor the producers (but they're not doing bad, mind you, if you hit the big time) but lining the pockets of the major labels. Remember, artists pay for their studio time and mixing and post-production, not the labels, who mass produce and market the albums once they are released. Besides, production isn't the major cost associated with an album's success- it's the marketing done by a major label.
...that this patent is legal, or infact actually even exists. For one thing. it's like saying a large corporation who didn't develop photography technology patents the B&W photograph after people have been taking photos for 100 years with cameras the company doesn't even produce (and then charging the amateur photographer a fee for every picture he takes!). The article states:
SBC Communication's claim of ownership for a common Web site formatting tool is based on a pair of patents, U.S. Patent No. 5,933,841, having a grant date of August 1999, and U.S. Patent No. 6,442,574, which issued three years later in 2002. Both patents cover a "structured document browser" having an invention date at least as early as May 1996, which is the filing date for both the original application that matured into the '841 patent and the continuation application that resulted in the '574 patent.
but Netscape had this technology implemented in 1995, found here:
2.0B1 Oct. 1995 First Beta of the Navigator release added several HTML 3 elements, Frames and the ability to handle Java.
I'm not up on my copyright law, but this has to make one question validity. I can't imagine it holding up in court...
I've noticed even more invasive ads, more so than pop-unders or pop-ups (see this google article for their take on it). Coming to the mainstream it seems that flash ads that popup over the page itself and make some noise are becoming quite popular, and I've decided to completely stop visiting these sites, weather.com being one of them. (I think they're running an ad right now where a rhino busts through your page...wahoo.) Thankfully, the National Weather Service is ad-free! These ads are not only annoying, but make it difficult to close and take too much time when all you want is real content.
F.A. Porsche (the guys who designed the 911 and some Samsung LCD monitors)
Actually, no. If you read the previous posting you would discover that this is Porsche Designs GmbH, *not* the same as the car company, nor the designers of the 911. These folks started out in 1972 (when was the 911 first on the market?) and design everything from LCDs to kitchen sinks to scooters. But sorry, no 911.
And by reading into their website a little further, they have 12-14 employees. Makes you wonder why this laptop is so shoddy...
A subpoena is a written court order requiring the attendance of the person named in the subpoena at a specified time and place for the purpose of being questioned under oath concerning a particular matter which is the subject of an investigation, proceeding, or lawsuit. A subpoena is issued by someone authorized by law, usually by the attorney for a party to a lawsuit, but very often issued by someone authorized to conduct an investigation such as the State Attorney General or local District Attorney.
In addition to requiring the attendance of a person, a subpoena may also require the production of a paper, document, or other object relevant to the particular investigation, proceeding, or lawsuit. Usually a subpoena directs that the person named appear and give testimony in open court. However, certain subpoenas require the person to appear before a person or tribunal other than a court, such as a grand jury.
A warrant, on the other hand, is a writen court order for the legal seize or search of property, or for the arrest of a person. Regarding civil and criminal cases, the discovery period is still in effect, and subpoenas are protected in either case.
and in the first line of the article, it states that our beloved Mosaic definitely isn't the first:
Little did they know that their pet project, a humble application named Mosaic, would fundamentally change everyday life. While Web browsers with graphical interfaces had traded hands among academics years earlier, Mosaic was the first to be widely adopted and introduce the masses to the Internet.
How reading becomes difficult when you want to post so quickly...
Don't like these bills coming across your state legislatures? Write to your local senator or congressman. Go to the Michigan State Homepage and lookup your rep, write them an email, call them, fax them. Don't think it works? Try it and you will get a reply.
Better yet, check the Michigan State Legislature website, and find out when this bill is up for a public hearing before the committee. This is the best use of your time if you are truly concerned. Since we are all somewhat tech-savvy, our input is paramount to countering the massive brainwashing and lobbying the motion picture and recording industry is pounding into your statehouse. Take a day off work, do some research, and tell the committees how this will affect their constituents. I know if this ever hits my home state, I will be first in line to speak out.
It is your right to take advantage of democracy. Sure, it's difficult to change federal legislation, but if you pack the state house, you will get local media coverage, and your state reps will take note. Or you could just keep complaining here...
But why does he think he can just move the stuff to the Netherlands? He is still a US citizen and a Michigan citizen...
No, actually, he's not. Reading the article helps a bit:
Though nobody has yet been prosecuted under the law, Provos, a German national, says his concern is genuine. "As a foreigner I have to be very careful... I'd rather follow the law to the letter than be negatively surprised later."
I'm assuming with the state of internation relations as of late, he's probably most worried of being deported, or better yet detained as an enemy combatant for aiding with terror plots, let alone finishing his dissertation.
Besides, "A Diamond is Forever" is a DeBeers marketing sloagan created in the 1920s, not some ancient piece of wisdom.
...which was featured in/. a little bit ago here. br> The original article is quite a good read about the diamond industry and how *not pricy* actual diamonds really are. The true price seems to be paid in marketing, inflated costs, monopoly of the industry, and exploitation of indiginous people. Hell, you can make diamonds from the ashes of your dead greatgrandmother!
don't take this as flaimbait, but if you read the article, the title is taken from an actual quote:
"People say this doesn't happen in this country," McGeady said, "but one of my neighbors has been disappeared. It's not what he might have done that matters to me -- they disappeared him. They need to question him and let him go, or charge him. It's like Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka."
/. nor the poster of the artile didn't come up with the phrase. maybe a little sensational, but it still didn't get you to read the artcle...
...too lazy to dig deep enough, here's a description of the illness from the site:
What Is Environmental Illness?
In 1990 the CBS television series Northern Exposure introduced America to a little known community of disabled people through the character of Mike Monroe, a lawyer afflicted by an illness known as MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity) who sought refuge in a peculiar geodesic dome home on the outskirts of the eclectic Alaskan community featured in the series. Mike was 'allergic to the 20th Century' and suffered a variety of symptoms in response to the most minor exposures to chemicals. Though writers of this series took much liberty with the facts of this ailment, the essential social condition of people with this illness was well portrayed, in particular the alienation and social anxiety associated with having an illness that no one really comprehended, least of all those in the medical community who would normally be relied on for understanding and compassion.
It is unclear precisely when MCS first emerged because misdiagnosis and politically motivated denial have consistently accompanied it to the present day. But over the 1980s physicians throughout the industrialized nations of the world began reporting a steadily growing number of cases of people developing a host of chronic symptoms, sometimes vague, sometimes plain, and sometimes dramatically life-threatening, which seemed to have no obvious pathology other than an association with the presence of common household industrial products or pollution. Symptoms ranged from things one might normally associate with conventional flu or allergy -such as asthmatic, skin, and gastrointestinal reactions- to neurological effects both subtle and dramatic -such as cognitive difficulty, numbness, trembling, twitching and spasms, and partial to total paralysis. Some patients claimed sensitivity to things well beyond the conventional clinical sphere, such as electromagnetic fields produced by appliances and electrical wiring. And there were few symptoms any patients had consistently in common other than a general progressive malaise dubbed 'chronic fatigue' and a vague chronic muscle or joint pain labeled Fibromyalgia. Many could trace the onset of their illness to a trigger exposure to some specific chemical product which resulted in a sudden flu-like illness and rapid break-down, though therafter their reactions would come in response to exposures to a vast assortment of things, including foods and sometimes natural contaminants like pollen, fungal spores, dusts, and natural fragrances.
Most MCS suffers tended to succumb to the condition in mid adult-hood and are often female with middle-class backgrounds. In the US there is a preponderance of them from northern and eastern urban/suburban regions, suggesting an association with general environmental pollution levels. Male cases were rarer and more often associated with specific industrial chemical contamination or industy-related pre-cursor illnesses such as the Systemic Candidiasis which is common among brewery workers. (GWS suffers, as noted below, are veterans and mostly male, their trigger exposure related to whatever they were subjected to in the Gulf War) Children were the rarest group but also a rapidly growing one, due perhaps to an increasingly sedentary and sequestered lifestyle that keeps children exposed to more indoor air pollution coupled to a steadily decreasing quality of diet for children in industrialized countries.
These cases proved immediately politically controversial because of the implication that they could be related to ubiquitous consumer products. These 'human canaries', as some physicians had dubbed them, were a potential threat to corporate interests and the government agencies charged with establishing safety and health standards. Thus there was a tendency by the medical establishment to at first dismiss the growing number of reports and then to promote a psychosomatic explanation that effectively blamed the patient -or the
...could interfere with various types of military radar systems, whether ones used for tracking storms, monitoring aircraft or guiding missiles and other weapons....5-gigahertz band that is eagerly sought by American technology companies and is already in civilian use internationally...
No copyright violations will take place, these files will merely have arbitrary sizes similar to the length of a 3 to 4 minute MP3 audio file encoded at 128kbps. Clients which connect to our peer-to-peer clients, and then afterwards attempt to illegally access the network will be immediately blacklisted from Information Wave's network.
...when the machine that connects to these arbitrary p2p clients ends up inside the IWT network? Are they blacklisted as well? It seems as if they are trying to gather addresses to ban RIAA access, no?
IDC based its projection of $280 million in sales within four years on efforts by Red Hat, SuSE and others to wring more money from Linux, in part by making it more difficult for users to obtain the software for free, Gillen said.
I truly wonder how RedHat, et al will actually physically accomplish this and still maintain their support in the community.
"There's plenty of evidence to back Princeton's excuse that they were just "testing" the system...Like the responsible hackers who merely hack to test for security holes..."
There may be plenty of evidence, but unfortunately, the way in which Princeton admissions went about this was far from legitimate. It would make sense that if, all things being equal, Princeton were merely checking the security of another University's similar online acceptance system (not that they couldnt get a beta version and test it themselves in a controlled environment of course), but what they did in fact was not this. You have to look at intent here- they checked multiple student accounts, not just one. It would be easy enough to test the security of just one student with the supplied information. Secondly, they used *private* information that was privy to them- SSN's of applicants who applied to both schools....which brings us to the matter of Princeton's intent, but I'm sure a grand jury (if it gets that far, and hopefully it will) will decide that.
We believe atleast as strongly, if not more strongly than most nations, that our ways are the correct ones and we have the right to make others live by those same beliefs.
....and although I agree with you on most accounts, you can't argue that free speech isn't worth fighting for. That, by in large, is correct and as ameri-centric as it is, should be imposed on the rest of the world. Plain and simple.
Slashdot Mirror
It is this that they are attributing to text messaging. Before, it took a certain amount of time for word of mouth to spread. Now it is happening much faster.
Because obviously your trust in the movie industry's unbiased, scientific, and statistical analysis of their loss in revenue is heart-warming. Nowhere in the article did it state these claims were backed up by hard statistics conducted by an independent 3rd party. It couldn't be that people are holding off from seeing the movie until the second week, or that the Hulk really isn't appealing to anyone (didn't you watch the commercials??).
Before you go ahead and flame someone for their doubt, don't blindly believe industry's factless claims. You were probably modded up by an MPAA employee anyway...
I'm a music graduate student, and many of my collegues are aspiring musicians in both traditional (classical), jazz, and popular music. Many of them are torn between unrestricted filesharing and protecting their music and future incomes, on the verge of signing to a major label. How do you propose that musicians are mass-marketed (e.g. the only real reason any sane musician signs to a major) if the revenue stream of the labels is purportedly dwindling due to unrestricted filesharing?
This article from Reuters explains a little:
New York Official Says Power Grid Overloaded -CNN
Thu August 14, 2003 05:04 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New York State official said the Niagara Mohawk power grid overloaded on Thursday, causing a massive power outage, CNN reported, and New York Major Michael Bloomberg said it was likely a natural occurrence. "It may be well into the evening before power comes back on," Bloomberg told the U.S. cable television network. He said smoke from a Consolidated Edison Inc. plant in the city was due to the plant's automatic shutdown, not to a fire, as had been reported. He said, "I can tell you 100 percent sure that there is no evidence as of this moment whatsoever of any terrorism." A massive power outage swept across swaths of the eastern United States and Canada on Thursday, leaving sections of New York, Detroit, Cleveland and Toronto without electricity, witnesses said. It was not immediately clear whether the Niagara Mohawk problem caused the wider outage.
You can get a message to the president much more easily through them than if you try directly via e-mail. This is how representative democracy works.
If you are truly interested in contacting your congressman/woman or sentor, the best way is through fax. I called my senator's regional office, and the intern said that most faxes are actually read by the senators because someone took the effort to fax directly. Try http://www.senate.gov/ or http://www.house.gov/, and find a fax number if you really want to say something. But I have a feeling this is too much effort in our representative McDonalds/Wal-Mart/MTV democracy.
If it even works close to this I'll be sure to have a full selection of Ani DiFranco and Liberace at my fingertips!
Funny how only in capitalist modern societies this musical copyright thing is such an issue. I'm a graduate student in musicology (yes, that means I make less than an IT helpdesk tech), but throughout history most famous musicians and composers made their living ripping off their peers (ever heard of JS Bach, Mozart, Beethoven)
Samples ARE protected by copyright
By the same token, it's funny how a crappy bass line can cost $1.5mil....pay me half that, and I'll actually write a good one....
Could an MP3 player be considered a study aid if perhaps it were to be filled with Audio Books?
But more importantly, Audio Cliffs Notes!
I realize that a talented producer can cost a lot of money and some bands drink a lot of beer, but why aren't the benefits of lower production costs being passed on to the consumer?
This opens up a bigger can of worms than just wanna-be home music-producing-armchair musicians with a PC and dumbed-down software. Sure, anyone can buy protools, record some tracks in their basement, and mix an album (albeit amateur) and burn a few CDs for their friends. But this absolutely doesn't take the place of a well-trained, well- connected producer established in the industry. Unfortunately very few who produce their own make into the big leagues, but those who have, have done it quite well. But then again, those musicians are in the slim minority.
If you've taken a look at the music industry (trust me, I'm in it) lately, the money doesn't end up in the hands of the musicians, nor the producers (but they're not doing bad, mind you, if you hit the big time) but lining the pockets of the major labels. Remember, artists pay for their studio time and mixing and post-production, not the labels, who mass produce and market the albums once they are released. Besides, production isn't the major cost associated with an album's success- it's the marketing done by a major label.
...that this patent is legal, or infact actually even exists. For one thing. it's like saying a large corporation who didn't develop photography technology patents the B&W photograph after people have been taking photos for 100 years with cameras the company doesn't even produce (and then charging the amateur photographer a fee for every picture he takes!). The article states:
SBC Communication's claim of ownership for a common Web site formatting tool is based on a pair of patents, U.S. Patent No. 5,933,841, having a grant date of August 1999, and U.S. Patent No. 6,442,574, which issued three years later in 2002. Both patents cover a "structured document browser" having an invention date at least as early as May 1996, which is the filing date for both the original application that matured into the '841 patent and the continuation application that resulted in the '574 patent.
but Netscape had this technology implemented in 1995, found here:
2.0B1 Oct. 1995 First Beta of the Navigator release added several HTML 3 elements, Frames and the ability to handle Java.
I'm not up on my copyright law, but this has to make one question validity. I can't imagine it holding up in court...
I've noticed even more invasive ads, more so than pop-unders or pop-ups (see this google article for their take on it). Coming to the mainstream it seems that flash ads that popup over the page itself and make some noise are becoming quite popular, and I've decided to completely stop visiting these sites, weather.com being one of them. (I think they're running an ad right now where a rhino busts through your page...wahoo.) Thankfully, the National Weather Service is ad-free! These ads are not only annoying, but make it difficult to close and take too much time when all you want is real content.
This article on Low-End Media for User Empowerment explains why simple adverstising works, and why complex doesn't.
F.A. Porsche (the guys who designed the 911 and some Samsung LCD monitors)
Actually, no. If you read the previous posting you would discover that this is Porsche Designs GmbH, *not* the same as the car company, nor the designers of the 911. These folks started out in 1972 (when was the 911 first on the market?) and design everything from LCDs to kitchen sinks to scooters. But sorry, no 911.
And by reading into their website a little further, they have 12-14 employees. Makes you wonder why this laptop is so shoddy...
DMCA authorizes a *subpoena* not warrant. You need to be aware of the legal differences here.
From the TN bar association website:
A subpoena is a written court order requiring the attendance of the person named in the subpoena at a specified time and place for the purpose of being questioned under oath concerning a particular matter which is the subject of an investigation, proceeding, or lawsuit. A subpoena is issued by someone authorized by law, usually by the attorney for a party to a lawsuit, but very often issued by someone authorized to conduct an investigation such as the State Attorney General or local District Attorney.
In addition to requiring the attendance of a person, a subpoena may also require the production of a paper, document, or other object relevant to the particular investigation, proceeding, or lawsuit. Usually a subpoena directs that the person named appear and give testimony in open court. However, certain subpoenas require the person to appear before a person or tribunal other than a court, such as a grand jury.
A warrant, on the other hand, is a writen court order for the legal seize or search of property, or for the arrest of a person. Regarding civil and criminal cases, the discovery period is still in effect, and subpoenas are protected in either case.
and in the first line of the article, it states that our beloved Mosaic definitely isn't the first:
Little did they know that their pet project, a humble application named Mosaic, would fundamentally change everyday life. While Web browsers with graphical interfaces had traded hands among academics years earlier, Mosaic was the first to be widely adopted and introduce the masses to the Internet.
How reading becomes difficult when you want to post so quickly...
...now that it's slashdotted...
Google cache is great. Here's the article.
...do something about it.
Don't like these bills coming across your state legislatures? Write to your local senator or congressman. Go to the Michigan State Homepage and lookup your rep, write them an email, call them, fax them. Don't think it works? Try it and you will get a reply.
Better yet, check the Michigan State Legislature website, and find out when this bill is up for a public hearing before the committee. This is the best use of your time if you are truly concerned. Since we are all somewhat tech-savvy, our input is paramount to countering the massive brainwashing and lobbying the motion picture and recording industry is pounding into your statehouse. Take a day off work, do some research, and tell the committees how this will affect their constituents. I know if this ever hits my home state, I will be first in line to speak out.
It is your right to take advantage of democracy. Sure, it's difficult to change federal legislation, but if you pack the state house, you will get local media coverage, and your state reps will take note. Or you could just keep complaining here...
But why does he think he can just move the stuff to the Netherlands? He is still a US citizen and a Michigan citizen...
No, actually, he's not. Reading the article helps a bit:
Though nobody has yet been prosecuted under the law, Provos, a German national, says his concern is genuine. "As a foreigner I have to be very careful... I'd rather follow the law to the letter than be negatively surprised later."
I'm assuming with the state of internation relations as of late, he's probably most worried of being deported, or better yet detained as an enemy combatant for aiding with terror plots, let alone finishing his dissertation.
Besides, "A Diamond is Forever" is a DeBeers marketing sloagan created in the 1920s, not some ancient piece of wisdom.
...which was featured in /. a little bit ago here. br>
The original article is quite a good read about the diamond industry and how *not pricy* actual diamonds really are. The true price seems to be paid in marketing, inflated costs, monopoly of the industry, and exploitation of indiginous people. Hell, you can make diamonds from the ashes of your dead greatgrandmother!
don't take this as flaimbait, but if you read the article, the title is taken from an actual quote:
"People say this doesn't happen in this country," McGeady said, "but one of my neighbors has been disappeared. It's not what he might have done that matters to me -- they disappeared him. They need to question him and let him go, or charge him. It's like Alice in Wonderland meets Franz Kafka."
/. nor the poster of the artile didn't come up with the phrase. maybe a little sensational, but it still didn't get you to read the artcle...
Do you feel obvious relationship to and advocacy of Linux skew any statistics that you would release or predict?
Does this bias (and it would be difficult to deny that it's apparent) affect how we as a community and the less Linux-savvy view these numbers?
...too lazy to dig deep enough, here's a description of the illness from the site:
What Is Environmental Illness?
In 1990 the CBS television series Northern Exposure introduced America to a little known community of disabled people through the character of Mike Monroe, a lawyer afflicted by an illness known as MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity) who sought refuge in a peculiar geodesic dome home on the outskirts of the eclectic Alaskan community featured in the series. Mike was 'allergic to the 20th Century' and suffered a variety of symptoms in response to the most minor exposures to chemicals. Though writers of this series took much liberty with the facts of this ailment, the essential social condition of people with this illness was well portrayed, in particular the alienation and social anxiety associated with having an illness that no one really comprehended, least of all those in the medical community who would normally be relied on for understanding and compassion.
It is unclear precisely when MCS first emerged because misdiagnosis and politically motivated denial have consistently accompanied it to the present day. But over the 1980s physicians throughout the industrialized nations of the world began reporting a steadily growing number of cases of people developing a host of chronic symptoms, sometimes vague, sometimes plain, and sometimes dramatically life-threatening, which seemed to have no obvious pathology other than an association with the presence of common household industrial products or pollution. Symptoms ranged from things one might normally associate with conventional flu or allergy -such as asthmatic, skin, and gastrointestinal reactions- to neurological effects both subtle and dramatic -such as cognitive difficulty, numbness, trembling, twitching and spasms, and partial to total paralysis. Some patients claimed sensitivity to things well beyond the conventional clinical sphere, such as electromagnetic fields produced by appliances and electrical wiring. And there were few symptoms any patients had consistently in common other than a general progressive malaise dubbed 'chronic fatigue' and a vague chronic muscle or joint pain labeled Fibromyalgia. Many could trace the onset of their illness to a trigger exposure to some specific chemical product which resulted in a sudden flu-like illness and rapid break-down, though therafter their reactions would come in response to exposures to a vast assortment of things, including foods and sometimes natural contaminants like pollen, fungal spores, dusts, and natural fragrances.
Most MCS suffers tended to succumb to the condition in mid adult-hood and are often female with middle-class backgrounds. In the US there is a preponderance of them from northern and eastern urban/suburban regions, suggesting an association with general environmental pollution levels. Male cases were rarer and more often associated with specific industrial chemical contamination or industy-related pre-cursor illnesses such as the Systemic Candidiasis which is common among brewery workers. (GWS suffers, as noted below, are veterans and mostly male, their trigger exposure related to whatever they were subjected to in the Gulf War) Children were the rarest group but also a rapidly growing one, due perhaps to an increasingly sedentary and sequestered lifestyle that keeps children exposed to more indoor air pollution coupled to a steadily decreasing quality of diet for children in industrialized countries.
These cases proved immediately politically controversial because of the implication that they could be related to ubiquitous consumer products. These 'human canaries', as some physicians had dubbed them, were a potential threat to corporate interests and the government agencies charged with establishing safety and health standards. Thus there was a tendency by the medical establishment to at first dismiss the growing number of reports and then to promote a psychosomatic explanation that effectively blamed the patient -or the
...could interfere with various types of military radar systems, whether ones used for tracking storms, monitoring aircraft or guiding missiles and other weapons....5-gigahertz band that is eagerly sought by American technology companies and is already in civilian use internationally...
Nice..our missiles will only work domestically!
No copyright violations will take place, these files will merely have arbitrary sizes similar to the length of a 3 to 4 minute MP3 audio file encoded at 128kbps. Clients which connect to our peer-to-peer clients, and then afterwards attempt to illegally access the network will be immediately blacklisted from Information Wave's network.
...when the machine that connects to these arbitrary p2p clients ends up inside the IWT network? Are they blacklisted as well? It seems as if they are trying to gather addresses to ban RIAA access, no?
IDC based its projection of $280 million in sales within four years on efforts by Red Hat, SuSE and others to wring more money from Linux, in part by making it more difficult for users to obtain the software for free, Gillen said.
I truly wonder how RedHat, et al will actually physically accomplish this and still maintain their support in the community.
Oh wait, do they still have the support?
"There's plenty of evidence to back Princeton's excuse that they were just "testing" the system...Like the responsible hackers who merely hack to test for security holes..."
There may be plenty of evidence, but unfortunately, the way in which Princeton admissions went about this was far from legitimate. It would make sense that if, all things being equal, Princeton were merely checking the security of another University's similar online acceptance system (not that they couldnt get a beta version and test it themselves in a controlled environment of course), but what they did in fact was not this. You have to look at intent here- they checked multiple student accounts, not just one. It would be easy enough to test the security of just one student with the supplied information. Secondly, they used *private* information that was privy to them- SSN's of applicants who applied to both schools....which brings us to the matter of Princeton's intent, but I'm sure a grand jury (if it gets that far, and hopefully it will) will decide that.
We believe atleast as strongly, if not more strongly than most nations, that our ways are the correct ones and we have the right to make others live by those same beliefs.
....and although I agree with you on most accounts, you can't argue that free speech isn't worth fighting for. That, by in large, is correct and as ameri-centric as it is, should be imposed on the rest of the world. Plain and simple.