Just how is software "unlicensed", and how does it become illegal to use it? First sale, yes, that's SALE of any product, software, cars, CDs and so on are SOLD first, THEN you get to read some arcane "license" packed deep inside MS boxes. Sorry, THAT is not legal either!
It is NOT a license simply because MS stated that it is, it MUST have YOUR signature and "his" signature on a CONTRACT OF LICENSE, THEN and ONLY then is it legally binding!
When you pays your money, you buys your goods, your goods are yours to do with as you see fit, and there is NOTHING MS can do or say about it!
Placing a pricetag on software ELIMINATES MS "ownership, right and title" to THAT package!
Look at your driver's "license"....does that also not require YOUR signature BEFORE it is valid? Even the states REQUIRE your signature before anything is "validated", MS is NOT the law and can NOT enforce EULAs on you at their discretion.
Prior sale rules OUT any clauses MS might have included within their products. No matter what ANY attorney states, it is not legally binding upon the end user simply because he/she clicked OKAY to the agreement during installation of his/her software. It was paid for BEFORE the "agreement" was known or viewable, which makes such tactics ILLEGAL and NON BINDING in ANY court of law.
Show me even ONE binding license or contract that neither requires or needs any signatures from either party upon it to be legally enforceable, not one I dare say has ever been created nor upheld in any court proceeding!
*Same software CD, six machines...SAME "license".....ALL non binding*!
Software is "sold" NOT licensed, or it should be freely given away as a condition to such a license. Anything else is not legally binding.
Adding another revenue stream into the river, one sees that the total revenue has just been divided up into 1/4, 1/3 or less/more BECAUSE of MS adding X-box revenue, or lack of it now. The actual revenue is tallied, but with a losing product like X-box, that too must be included. All profit/loss(P&L) lowers the total capital gains overall when stretched across multiple product lines, one will see a lower income over cost because X-box has yet to entrench itself deep enough in the gaming "scene".
MS "could" give away copies, but even I will admit MS has lgitimacy to charge something for what they have. I for one would love to see MS being broken up into at least three sub groups, run by NOT BILL types, and NOT connected with IT in any fashion either. To allow NOT BILL to maintain a grip on the subs would, or should reinstate anti-trust charges against MS for violating court orders, and violations such as this, would also bring contempt of court charges for going counter to the judges order, and willfuly I might add as well.
What SHOULD be ordered is that MS can no longer supply their software pre-bundled on ANY machine sold in the U.S.. This should never have been allowed, and if it is allowed, then MS should be ORDERED to INVALIDATE any "license" agreements their software has, even more so that they all come UNSEEN and do not have a copy of a "license" YOU, the customer must sign, clicking is NOT a valid form of contract or licensing, since MS considered the "license" to be legal and binding, it MUST be SIGNED by the SELLER and PURCHASER to be valid. No contract in this(U.S.) is legal nor binding without signatures! Why do you think you must SIGN your driver's "license" folks, even if it has YOUR pic on it? Even the STATES REQUIRE your hand signed signature for validity, MS can not supercede ANY state's requirement/s, or can they now?
New PC? Sorry sir, none of our products are loaded with windows, it's illegal to sell a PC with the "system" pre-loaded. We "can" load windoze for you, at the going rate of $99.00, plus $25.00 service charge for our tech's time if you want to go that route.
That is what SHOULD be the method to business, not the way it currently is.
If MS wants to give away software, that's their business, but it should not be forced upon them, or anybody for that matter.
Have a problem you would like resolved? Can't locate your "party member"? Look in the green pages under <Government services *see Microsoft* Contact your legal representative in the Microsoft alumni listings. Or visit "us" on the web at: http/www.microsoft.gov/services/representatives/st ate/corp_level_BSA.htm.
*Gotta love a company that just CAN'T let a day pass without trying to violate yet another anti-trust law*!
George B.: Yes Bill, that was a fine "donation" you made to the patriot act, but that was yesterday's anti-trust fines! What'll you buy for me TODAY Bill?
Sure! I use Proxim's PC card 802.11b LAN cards for connection to my three desktops, two laptops; all linked to the iNET with an 802.11b "wireless" modem. I restrict my file sharing and drive sharing, but multi-user modem sharing is easily configured under network neighborhood. Proxim "makes" you run a single password on ALL network connected systems for the reasons given, "security", of course.
Symphony cards are cheap to buy, give great range(over 150 feet here) and only sacked my billfold of $29.00 for each 802.11b PC LAN card!
Initial "fine tuning" is a bit rough, and the CD asks for windoze 98SE\options\cabs so it can copy drivers for the LAN card.
The only "problem" for these cards is that you CAN'T share a scanner, but you can share mapped drives, printers and selected files.
I have yet to try encrypted data from one to many/one transfers, but see no reason why this should not work.
One other thing I will try, is to set the network password to <blank> just to see if it will still function as a LAN, manual states no, but if all were set to <blank> as a password, then it should still work....I shall see.
I pray NOT to any man/deity, no matter who or what he/she is/was!
I do not need a "god" in my life to obtain hope, strength or wisdom, as religion is for the weak of mind and soul.
Science is the "art" of truth and knowledge through research, tests and trial/error/s, supported by facts and histories of a global scale, and not found obscured in texts of scripts written by many, condensed intot a single volume and diseminated to the hoards over millenia.
Truth and science proved that under no circumstance could or has a god or gods walked this planet, taken "huiman" form nor formulated laws to be obeyed.
Why would ANY god/deity NEED the "obedience" of humanity in the first place?
If such a god/deity "were" so powerful, it would simply MAKE humanity follow its rules and laws.
Prove there was/is a god/deity worth worshipping, and I'll show you a society made up of mindless idiots wandering aimlessly about muttering bilge of a "bible" written by man, offered to humanity as "the" word of god, but fabricated from lies and fables punctuated by half-truths and tall tales.
Read about the Ark...what IS a "cubit"? It is written that the highest peaks and mountains were covered with water that rose upwards of 25 cubits.
Next; this Ark, was built with the very same measuring "standards", and its length/breadth was 35 X 15 cubits, and the height was also 15 cubits.
Let's take a peek at the facts: The Himalaya mountain range has the tallest peak, at 25,000 + feet tall, the construction of a vessel that large would NOT be possible in the era it was purported to be built in, nor is one of such magnitude even possible today, even with the highly advanced engineering and construction methods currently used!
Such a fable is just that; a fable, NOT fact, proof or otherwise, but the "bible" IS a book of stories, nothing more. Certainly not a volume of god's laws or rules on how "mankind" is to behave, such ideology is foolis in the extreme.
Being such that the Himalayan range was "only" 25 cubits/25,000 feet, that places the ark at over 25,000 feet in length....ASTOUNDING!
If such a vessel were built, surely there MUST be large parts of this "ship" easily viewd from many vantage points, even the shuttle flying overhead missed such gargantuan pieces of this structure, so by the very fact that "man" was too primitive in mind to build anything of such magnitude; one can only come to the conclusion that the ark is a hoax, nothing more.
Dare I type this; but PROVE this poster wrong!
Show photos, recon....ANYTHING to support the claim/s that this ark ever existed, or could have existed.
*God told me to post this message on/. this morning while we conversed about world affairs*. J.F.C Act I, Sc.II
I am so happy the UK "royalty" is only in the UK! Freedom of speech in the U.S. IS a right, and shall be forever if "real" americans have anything to say about it.
Why do so many europeans "assume" that speech of any sort is not a "right", but granted by aristocracy? Did those people somehow gain total power over the masses without their knowing it? Or does this power come from some form of god or the pope perhaps?
Sadly, the world is collapsing onto itself and those that think that no person has any right to say anything, regardless of what that might be should keep those primitive beliefs all to themselves and stop attempting to make others feel subservient to the "royals" that ARE the main cause of restrictions upon freedoms that ARE the right of EVERY person on this planet, no matter what some moron king or queen says! Who the H**L do they think THEY are anyway, gods?
No government has any deity granted powers of total control, and those that try should be eliminated once and for all, to the betterment of society.
As was stated by some wise individual, as a by-line to a message; i quote: We shall all be free when the last king is strangled to death by the intestines of the last priest*, end quote.
Religion and royalty have been the MOST despotic forms of controlling the populace, anywhere, and maintaining this form of status-quo serves no good to those under such control, but continues allowing a minority to keep a tight grip around the people's throats for fear of imprisonment, fines and even death! Why are so many governments deathly afraid of outspoken citizens? Could it be that dissent and civil disobedience arises when those in power feel threatened by people speaking their minds openly about revolt, or reformation of a current form of government?
I don't know about the remainder of the world, but I was born FREE, to do, say and act any way I choose, as long as my actions do not trample another's rights, why should it matter what I say?
Maybe what I said sheds truth and fear in their minds about how badly those in power have abused their jobs and authority so horribly, that should it ever come to light just how horrendously that power was abused, they would find themselves without a job perhaps?
People rule governments, not the opposite, no matter where one lives on the planet, adn the sooner we force this idea into the minds of those elected, the better we shall all be for it as well.
The U.S. government governs with CONSENT of the governed, this is NOT a right of the government, but a granted, enumerated(limited) authority that WE THE PEOPLE have placed upon those we elect to do OUR bidding.
Humanity has a RIGHT to do whatever it pleases! No one person was given supreme power over anybody, "we" gave it to those chumps, by force or by vote. It's still a human right to do and say whatever we'd like!
The ONLY way to prevent my speaking out against ANYTHING would be to kill me, but then, you damn well better prepare to die yourself for the attempt!
I rule my life MY way and nobody else has a right to decide otherwise!
When was this planet ordained by to be "ruled" by dumb people?
The fact of this discussion is that China WILL fall to a free market economy, no matter how hard the ruling parties try to stifle it; it's inevitable and WILL become a FACT whether they like it or not!
Power and "royalty" are NOT granted or owed to anybody, but taken at the tip of a sword, point of a gun, or by the pen of an asshole!®(C)2002, EAE
Copyright by the Copyleft and left where it should be, in the garbage can of democracy and the New World Disorder!
Again, many FORGET that Itanium is NOT a 32 bit processor, so no compilers geared solely for 32 bits will work properly with a CPU MADE for 64 bits! The whole chip architecture is ABOVE the x86 world as we buy it now, dump your thoughts of how clock speeds alone tell the "story" of how good or bad a CPU is.
Intel and Itanium WILL give the royal BOOT to REAL workstations, no doubt about it! Many have posted this very same "story" on the DIFFERENCES in x86 and 64 bit processors, but NOBODY SEES the truth.
Stop falling for the speel about clock cycles and how "badly" the Itanium works with current compilers, of course it's bad, it's NOT designed for x86 platforms!
Try shoving a 6-cylinder, 300+ horsepower Lycoming into an ultralight and make it fly level, good luck!
Itanium has too much "horsepower" over ANY x86 architecture in production now.
I just gave away a Vectra! What a piece of SHIT that "machine" was! I hate the mfg. methods used by HP with the voltage regulator module in the upper left sied of the main board(off the backplane that is). It's held in by tabs you depress for module release. I'd HATE to have that pop out when the system was on, since THAT is the 3.1 Volt regulator for the P-II CPU. It did have the Intel chipset(forget which version though), but the sound card(that crazy diagonal goof-board) but they DID have a Matrox 3D card with 8 Mb of V-ram, which was okay for HP to include. You break the tabs on the cover when you attempt to flip the side latches and actually remove the face, so the front cover now does not fit snug and rattles with the fans running! I did like the ducting of the CPU fan, I saved that for a project I have, and fitted the CPU with two direct-blasting air movers bolted to the heat sink. Tha machine locked up a few times under WIN98SE, and even DOS, Pascal and C++ caused errors along with the ctrl/alt/del screen popping up telling me that Windows Explorer is "not" responding...HUH? I wasn't even running IE to start, so WHY did THAT message pop up in the first place? Anyway, HP is ranked right along side Packard Bell in the quality standings...JUNK(junque)!
I swapped out the Matrox vid card and left an SIS 1Mb video card in for somebody else to play with.
Since when is 640 X 480 resolution SVGA?
*Xerox and Wurlitzer have merged, they are now making reproductive organs*
I saved my "old" Rodime, 10Mb HD just for historical reference. It's a 5-1/4" full height drive. That, and the Seagate ST-225, 251Rs and so on WERE battleships compared to the fragile junk that's out today. WD used to be a good drive "name" to own and use, but after many crashes and having more bad sectors than good made me rethink my stand on their quality, like some mid '80s Fujitsu drives...GARBAGE! I also have a few ST-225s and such on my shelves for comparison with the thin, lightweight paper drives on the market today, what was worth buying then, surely does not hold up now. Raise the storage capacity, lower the weight, make the controller even more susceptible to static and have the audacity to make the hardware out of inferior materials makes me want to hurl!
Reminds me of U.S. auto makers of the 1970s all over again!
Living in a rust belt made me see just how BAD fords REALLY are and how fast they rust, over any GM/Chrysler products! A firend of mine has a 1999 Taurus, it's got perforations by the wheel wells on the driver's side, and the hatch is holed just under the center of the window. I told him he should shoot a few pics and begin a product liability suit against ford for producing faulty equipment that could be judged unsafe due to how rapidly their products rust here. I have a 1990 Chevy Corsica that is 100% rust FREE, even spending its whole life OUTSIDE, it's still clean, and there's no underbody rusting either. My 1990 Plymouth Acclaim is the same way, no rust and clean underbody. WHY can't ford make a car that lasts past 2-3 years before rust eats your money away? PCs are the same way, cheap products sold for super high prices.
I have my flame suit on, so light 'em up and let's get to it now!
I had my LTE5300s crash fully and had to swap the CD drive for the floppy drive and connect my PCMCIA CD drive, copy any CD driver to C: and THEN, swap the floppy for the 6X drive the LTE came with and run the OEM disk first then the upgrade disk second. My OEM disk is OLD and the upgrade of 98 has drivers I use and delete garbage video drivers, modem drivers(who the hell uses ANY 14.4 or 33.6 modems for dialup service since 1990 anyhow? Why does MS keep GARBAGE like this? I am happy to need only one machine with this bloated, goat-smelling maggot-ware! Delete what you don't need, run msconfig and uncheck what doesn't need to be noticed on startup, like registration, AOL instant mangler, ALL DOS, system tray and whatever more I can keep off my start group to "speed" initial loading.
Good morning Mrs. Gates; I am here to restore your version of WIN98SE on your system. Please be advised that the bill reflects my service only, and not the price of the software(which I am supplying freely), the big difference you must know about is that you can not call for tech support or updates from the MS website because the copy you now have is obviously registered to some other schmuck i don't know. Easy "method" of bypassing the "distribution" restrictions and receiveing payment for "pirated" copies...you never sold anything, but gave the copy freely to another. As far as "home" printers go; I have had great luck with Lexmark(IBM) printers. They might be slower(my Z-11 is), but they go forever! I recall my Panasonic KXP-1080 dot-matrix printer, what a durable machine that was! I dropped it on the floor several times while moving papers, and moving the desk so many times I wore out the pads on the feet. That was a solidly built printer for what we call now a junk pile!
*Running CP/M on a Vector S-100 bus machine since 1980*
My two Compaq LTE5300's and a Toshiba 4800CT run fine with no problems, but a Kingston memory card DID cause a system lockup on cold boot(32Mb) on both LTEs.
Since very few materials give near free-space resistance(Ohms) of 377 Ohms, we must separate the signal leads for the clock/s by at least 2-4 layers if the core speed is higher than 600 Mhz. Due to the shorter wavelengths of higher frequency CPUs, the crosstalk will negate the effort to increase FSB speeds and CPU clock rates while minimizing the latency built in with memory/CPU/FSB and controller speeds. Input and output signals will attenuate each other if they are not kept out of phase with each other constantly. In-phase signals cancel each other, but at the least, attenuate the integrity of those signals so that the data sent/received is garbled enough to make it useless for the CPU to use and transfer to the appropriate controller.
Rambus is a technology best left in the labs for the time being. Use what's best for your particular platform/s, use that if it functions well and causes no data loss or system lockups.
Board makers are too fast to accept anything that might grant a slight performance boost over a competitor's products. Choose the chipset/maker with extreme care and personal prejudice.
Bechmarks are tests that speak nothing of RAW power of the "system", but flaunt a CPU's core speed as the tell-all to total system throughput, which is NOT the real-world match to CAD, mathematica, or any pure processor hungry program that eats memory bandwidth and chews up CPU time performing several calculations and controlling functions in a split second. Heat is the "natural" by-product of clock speed/s, O/C'ing a CPU and then running a benchmark test to compare that against real world results is just a misleading application misused to amuse and confuse the actual processor's true capabilities.
The P-4 does NOT have any applications currently written that make full use of the high memory bandwidth it has, therefore, the current applications can't push the CPU to its MAXIMUM capabilities or speed/s.
The larger pipeline of the P-4 will slow the processor down if the data it handles is not written to make full use of that pipeline!
A quick perusal of the architecture will show you that the entire processor core is designed for programs and applications that CAN make full use of the pipeline, FSB speed, memory type and latency. Latency is both good and bad, if applied improperly, the CPU speed/FSB will become even more sluggish when the wrong memory specification is used with a chipset that over-allocates resources to the wrong areas; just as the right memory spec. used improperly will cause other failures with faster refresh rates, and memory dumps when the system is not "expecting" a memory dump. Limiting and eliminating board problems will become ever more problematic for main board designers with the ever increasing processor speeds as well as FSB speeds. A certain amount of "leveling" will be required for all component makers to play a little game of "catch up".
Stop designing CPUs with higher clock rates, and design a processor that USES the current speed EFFICIENTLY and PROPERLY, speed is NOT the do-all-end-all to the computer world. Show me even ONE application that suffers from NOT being run at 1 Ghz., nobody can I dare to bet!
Memory is now becoming the true bottleneck it once was when money was a factor, now it's compatibility between the "architectures" that has become the arch enemy. Rambus this, DDR that, SD there and so on...
ONE specification will rule Intel and another will rule AMD, you just have to sift through the B.S. spewed forth by those wanting your money.
Do a real test with your processor; UNDERCLOCK it, run it at the FSB speed if you can, or mod the BIOS to reflect that as close as you can. Does your application still run smoothly? Okay, slower, but stable, right? Now, return it to the normal speed, adjust the BIOS to reflect that as well, now run your application with different memory. Does the system still run stable? Time to swap to DDR next..same test, swap again; RD this time, and keep going. NOW, you have a base to judge what memory YOU can run stably, and without lockups.
Next, return the memory you have problems with to the store for a refund......YOU CHEAT!
I have a pair of 32 Mb. cards for my Compaq LTE5300, one is the correct speed, and one is slower, both cards work, but the slower memory caused the system to crash on cold boots, the "proper" speed card works no matter what. I have two LTE5300 notebooks, both do the very same thing when swapping these cards, so memory speed DOES make a difference, for me at least. I at least tested this in a real world application and based my findings from that. Your mileage may very.
I see a nation filled with "Bubba" towtruck owners! Now you have rich folk being FORCED to call "Bubba" for a tow to his favorite garage.
Bubba has a camera linked to several websites...he posted his towing schedule and names of those towed.......IE.. Donald Trump, Newt Gingrinch, Al (I invented the internet) Gore...the list gets bigger!
Even we "poor" folks DO have a way of interacting with "rich" folks...it just takes a bit of ingenuity to make this happen.
Gee, YOUR post appears to be geared solely towards/about the POLICE(NAZIS) of THIS nation(U.S.)!
Who kills more...POLICE!
Who kidnaps more people...OUR GOVERNMENT!
Who shot Amadou Diallo...THE POLiCE!
For doing what....NOTHING!
I trust the FIREMEN!
I trust the EMTs!
I NEVER trust police...NEVER!!!
I now NEVER trust this government!!
I will NEVER take a commercial flight(don't have to, I'm a pilot)!
Care to "enlighten" the world with warm thoughts of our "gracious" government?
When the FBI raids a home, do they have FULL-AUTO weapons pointed at YOU....YES!!!!
When YOU fight back with your.45, do YOU have body armor and a gas mask as well?....NO i'll bet!
Do the nazi police have ARMORED VEHICLES to ATTACK YOU?.......YES!
Do you have an armored vehicle to PROTECT yourself against INVASION?......NOPE!!
I made a decision many yeas ago, to have EVERY piece of "protection" that I can afford and implement..I HAVE full body armor(It WILL STOP a.454 Casull round at point-blank range), and a gas mask that filters out current airborne NBC agents.
I reload ALL my own ammo.!
I do my own gunsmithing(A MUST for consistent headshots!).
I shoot/train regularly for quick response, fast draws and accuracy of shot placement( another MUST).
Do I feel "safe" living with nazi police driving by my home?....NO WAY!
Invade me...I SHOOT!
Invade another...I'll assist!
Shoot at me...I RETURN FIRE!I don't give a damn WHO you are...you fired at me first!
I have every RIGHT to self preservation...police or not!
Do I look for a reason to go "gunning" for trouble...NO!
Will I back down if it comes to me...NO!!!
Commit a crime in my presence, I'll arrest YOU at gunpoint!(citizen's arrest powers)!
NO effort is too great for me to stop fighting for my rights!
Carry and READ/UNDERSTAND the BILL OF RIGHTS!
I carry a booklet in my car and have one in the home as well!
Limit the information you provide, falsify that which you can, and deny at all times, anything that restricts your ability to know what anybody knows about you.
While driving on the highway, always watch out for the vehicle that's directly behind the vehicle in front of you!
Live free, love free, live secure and safe....FOREVER!
I would rather HAVE a gun, and NOT need it, then to NEED a gun, and NOT have one available to me!
Join the NRA for FREEDOM FIRST!
Even IBM acknowledges Linux(shameless plug!).
*This message posted on a stolen computer loaded with pirated windows and Linux....my PGP keys are also forged out of solid billet steel for security!*
I will say right here and now, that if I EVER see a surveillance camera placed in ANY public are, I will climb up or use a bucket to reach it and SMASH the damn things, wherever they are located!
Who and what gives any government the "right" to invade every aspect of a nation of supposedly "free" people? Did the constitution and the bill of rights include some by-law indicating the right of government to snoop into OUR PRIVATE lives and use what information gained from that, AGAINST US for whatever reason/purpose? I think not.
Does anybody realize that the DMCA "law" is WORLDWIDE in scope according to Asscroft and company? Yep, that's right folks, the nazi states of DUHmerica has decided for itself that ANY U.S. law can and WILL be prosecuted against ANYBODY, ANYWHERE if the DMCA is "ciolated"(see Elcomsoft case here). Damn, that law must be airtight and legal in China too! If I were Elcomsoft, I would send letters to the U.S. worded carefully to indicate that the DMCA can go screw itself, and it does NOT apply in Russia, nor will it be allowed to be used against a Russian national(is there any sovereignty for nations anymore?).
Since when does the U.S. have the right or authority to enforce or act upon national laws OUTSIDE the territorial boundaries of the U.S.?
I trust THIS government as much as I "trust" a nest of aggravated hornets from ever attacking me for knocking down their nest!
I think the government(which I own) MUST be open to pubic reviews at any time deemed necessary, save for VALID security "issues" alone.
Not one bit of information that is NOT directly linked to national security can be kept from the public, and ANY attempt to circumvent(I love that word!) full disclosure to the public shall be fired from office and imprisoned for 20 years for TREASON against the citizens of the U.S.!
Damn, i want ALL the nasty "secrets" brought out into the open! MY money PAYS for their work, i NEED access to that work to ensure my money is spent the way it should be spent, and NEVER on golf outings and oval office blow jobs!
Clinton defrauded america by STEALING TIME FROM HIS DUTIES FOR A FRIGGIN' BLOW JOB! Hey! Can I charge "hooker time" to the county too?
The above statement is TRUE and is public knowledge, so Clinton has NO legal recourse to quash what I posted!(it's public record!), not to mention we ALL PAID for that BJ as well!
Monica, where are you...show me what Clinton paid for with MY money was worth stealing for.
Open/transparency for government will never work with what is currently in "power". We MUST destroy this by votes, and if that does not work, with guns next!
Want to eliminate financial crime? Make the government give everybody a million dollars when they reach 21 years of age, withthe understanding that this sum is ALL they will get from the government, what YOU do with it after you get it, is YOUR business, lose it, you get no more forever! Can't work you assume...HOW? If this "kid" were thinking of robbery to get money for food, then YES, it WILL work! We have big business stealing money from YOU right now, and you don't care, so why care if some 21 Yr. old gets "rich" for "free"...to build a life, business, home or...?
If we ALL had money, then the "need" for crime WILL be reduced to a single digit statistic.
Why steal a candy bar when you can buy 10 million of them? Same goes for cars, clothes and more...the money IS in your pockets, no more "need" to deny another of his/her money, right...YES!!!
Money in the hands of everybody will do nothing but GOOD, and the "ills" of a poor society will be relegated to paperback rags in some historical archive.....
If this is not the case, then WHY do poor people STEAL MONEY then? If everybody is rich, then there is NO NEED to steal money to buy/get what you want or need in life...crime is damn near eliminated!
The only method of ensuring compliance and maintaining lawful activities with respect to surveillance cameras should include these:
1. Use of ALL surveillance cameras and equipment for personal use and/or personal gain is a FELONY, punishable by imprisonment of up to 10 years and a $20,000.00 fine. Mandatory imprisonment of 5 years will be required above all fines.
2. Use of the surveilllance equipment is limited to court ordered monitoring ONLY, and shall be monitored by a civilian compliance group with the authority to assess fines and penalties for abuse of the surveillance equipment. The civilian agency has sole authority and can not be suspended by any chief of police, sheriff or district attorney in any respect, nor at any time except by court order stipulating lawful suspension of surveillance activities for a specified time and purpose.
3. Penalties for illegal use of surveillance cameras and equipment for personal gain shall be the termination and loss of all pensions, benefits and medical payments, nor limited to the prior, but can be expanded to include any government plan or plans for the party or parties found guilty of said abuse/s.
4. Additional penalties shall include the MANDATORY FIVE YEAR(5 year) prison term in a federal penitentiary and loss of ALL government benefits as of date of first indictment, and shall be non-reversible and forever in force.
5. All public surveillance WILL be posted on the public internet at the same time the video is streamed into the headquarters for surveillance, and shall be forever made public barring ONLY that information that is to be used in a current court hearing/case to minimize the potential impact on jury tampering and intimidation. The civilian agency shall coordinate this effort with the courts and the district attorney on the strict compliance and application of any and all surveillance video used and stored for such action, but such "evidence" shall be fully destroyed upon closure of said court hearings/cases and no records shall be maintained, stored or archived for future action/s.
6. No officer, agent or public official shall be in a position of authority above the civilian agency at any time, and any person or persons attempting to coerce said agency personnel into actions not within the scope of their authority shall be guilty of a felony and fined a minimum penalty of $2,000.00.
7. Any officer of the court who, shall knowingly, or willingly involve him/herself in the actions stated above, and by doing so places these persons in a position of distrust of office and shall be suspended without pay for the duration of an investigation. Pending the outcome of said investigation/s, the involved officer/s shall either be fired, fined, jailed, imprisoned and fined, or both upon finding said persons guilty of any of the above illegal acts.
Checks and balances ARE needed, and when applied against those that do the surveillance, they too WILL be less likely of violating the law, with penalties four times harsher than you or I would receive, and rightly so. Those in positions of authority should be held to the highest standard for being placed into the public's "trust".
Loss of the public trust is a sure way to go directly to jail and lose those bennies you get.
Surveillance cameras shall also be placed in the headquarters of the surveillance "command" for compliance with the above laws and these cameras will have time-lapse recording of ALL persons entering and leaving the surveillance "command" center. The recordings shall be used against all persons violating the surveillance laws, plus all recordings shall be made public pending the outcome of any hearings brought before the court for prosecution so the public has full knowledge of the person/s involved with the violations of the law. Convictions places the involved parties on a federally protected list of every person forever barred from any public service for a period of 20 years, this includes political offices, financial institution offices, and all law enforcement positions(excluding any positions NOT requiring the use and carrying of a firearm) for the position of enforcing laws of the U.S., state and local jurisdictions.
THEN, and ONLY then, is it "okay" to have surveillance cameras placed in and around any city! I fully "subscribe" to monitoring the ones that monitor, and also ensure those in charge are above any and all persons in positions of any authority, that is the only true method to maintaining full and accountable control of all surveillance activities, bar none!
The reason officer "friendly"(yeah, right!) CAN'T buy MY information is that he is an employee of the STATE, with access to guns, weapons of murder and killing, not to mention the love of torture in the "news". This cop has the ability to use that information against you at ANY TIME he/she chooses due to the nature of the job he/she has. THAT'S why joe nazi cop CAN'T and SHOULDN'T have access to the information, plain and simple!
Okay then! Just leave every scrap of your personal information open to everybody, anytime. police would LOVE to know even more about YOU, your family, job/s and how much you make and save in the bank/s. Gee, "nothing to hide" should really mean nothing to worry about from the nazi police we now have? Does WWII nazi Germany and Hitler ring a bell? How about the Stalin purges? It IS coming HERE now, and sooner than we might expect as well!
Sure, "honest" folks have nothing to "fear" but their personal RIGHT to live FREE and PRIVATELY whenever and wherever you want, NOT who, what, when and where the police dictate, THAT is certainly NOT freedom!
I think it would be time to take baseball bats and wrist rocket slingshots to those cameras! How dare the police make policy!
Since when did the police have the authority to use public money without voting on the expenditures? That is THEFT and FRAUD!
I am so damn happy that I do NOT live anywhere near D.C., you fools will be under ever more tightened "security" of the nazi police, and if you go along with this, you DESERVE to be snooped upon every place you tread! Think of the money they will make off of you for jay-walking fines, and who knows what else "they" will think up next also.
We have a constitution that grants RIGHTS to privacy, freedom of travel and personal security(2nd Amendment), why accept this blatant form of infringement of rights such as monitoring your every move? I damn sure would be whacking those cameras right off the mounts! NO police department has the authority to bypass the voter when THEIR money is being used without their authority or approval!
DESTROY THE CAMERAS!
PAINT THE LENSES!
SMASH THE CAMERAS!
CUT THE WIRES!
Do nothing, live with a totalitarianistic "democracy" that YOU answer to the police for your "right" to travel.
BUY GUNS!
CARRY GUNS!
DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS...........OR ELSE!
1> EMPLOYEE: Any person whom is hired to perform work/duties on behalf of the employer, and who is PAID by that employer, and enjoying any insurance/s, 401K plans, retirement bennies and so on. The employer takes care of ALL taxes being taken out of your paycheck/s, which includes federal and state, if your state has income tax that is. This IS what an employee is.
2. CONTRACTOR: Any person who does work for a company or corporation, but is NOT hired by that company or corporation on a permanent/temporary job assignment(see roofing contractors here). The contractor is the person providing a "service" with his/her labor, thoughts and more. This person is never hired by the company or corporation at any time, and said businesses pay the contractor a higher rate of pay than regular employess due to the fact that the contractor is solely responsible for ALL taxes, unemployment payments, insurance and equipment(capital expenditures)as well as all advertisements, telephone calls and the list goes on....You are contracting your services to the business for work they either can't perform themselves, in-building, or do not have the expertise to do the work they are paying you for.
This always comes with a CONTRACT, stating terms of payment, work to be done(by you) with terms of service(duration of said contract) as well as your needs while performing the work. There is a lot more involved than what I am typing about, but the gist of the basic employer/contractor should be plainly visible and discernable between the two "types" of "employment".
Hmmmm, I saw a box labeled Turbo Pascal, it solely referred to the contents inside as software, it did have a price affixed to the outside of said box. And the price was $39.88(1984 dolarettes that is). I saw NO mention of ANY license, not on the box panels or back. There was an "agreement" INSIDE the box, but that was found AFTER I PAID FOR IT! My money PAID for the SOFTWARE, not a license, no matter what "they" tell you. I did not pay for a license to use my car, house or Piper Cherokee, why would I pay for a license to use some cheap software? When a price is affixed to ANY product, and you spend your money on that product, you OWN what you paid for in its entirety! Too bad the data is "captured" ona plastic disk; that's NOT my concern. If "they" SELL software, they SELL the DATA that is also on that disk, as well as ALL documentation that is packaged with that disk or disks. Since the data IS part and parcel, a part of the disk, then, that also BECOMES property of yours since you paid for it. Okay, if this license is simply for "use", then I want the software company to BUY BACK the software I paid for when I am finished using their "license". I might lease a car, but if I don't go over my "allotment" of miles, and return the car in the same condition I got it, I get money back, why can't I get money back after my "lease" for said software is over? If I can ONLY maintain physical control of software, but never own it, why am I "responsible" to the developer for its "safety"? There was never any contract signed, and I never agreed to become a "caretaker" for the developer, so how did my purchase(I did type PURCHASE) become a lease of sorts now?
One-sided "licensing" is NOT a legal nor binding contract by law, no matter WHAT some EULA states!
M$ does NOT have the authority to make laws! No matter what developer states in any EULA, it is not a legally binding contract/agreement. If ANY software is SOLD for a PRICE, then when it IS sold, it is SOLD in its entirety, and there can be NO license affixed to YOUR property that you legally paid for. Prove I do not "own" my copy of Turbo Pascal. The sales receipt is still taped to the box, and that in itself indicates OWNERSHIP, not a license. I can also sue for THEFT if MY copy of Turbo Pascal is stolen from my home, and since I can SUE for damages and criminal "intent", I can also assert OWNERSHIP of that which was taken from my property, including MY copy of Turbo Pascal!
So, you see, software really IS the physical property of those who paid for it, and not a licensed object of nondescript "value" or garbage strewn about the roadside. If it can be sold for a price and it is purchased for that price, then it becomes the property of the purchaser, and no other can assert ownership of that property, INCLUDING the developer of that software.
To SELL one's property to another, you LOSE control AND ownership of that property is full, and forever. You can not retain control after you set a price and DISPOSE of the property to another. The machine I am typing this on has both Linux and Windoze loaded, it came PREPAID with Windoze, so I OWN the copy that was installed when I PAID for it, it's now MINE and MINE alone!
Try taking it from my home and you can be thrown in jail for THEFT, so it MUST be MY property if it is a CRIME to take my copy of Windoze from me!
If you think my assertions are foolish rantings, PLEASE, by all means, attempt to breakl into my house and take my copies of software...I'd LOVE to see ANYBODY try it!
Oh wait, stealing is illegal, or is it now? I forget all too easily on this one for some reason!
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Just how is software "unlicensed", and how does it become illegal to use it?
First sale, yes, that's SALE of any product, software, cars, CDs and so on are SOLD first, THEN you get to read some arcane "license" packed deep inside MS boxes. Sorry, THAT is not legal either!
It is NOT a license simply because MS stated that it is, it MUST have YOUR signature and "his" signature on a CONTRACT OF LICENSE, THEN and ONLY then is it legally binding!
When you pays your money, you buys your goods, your goods are yours to do with as you see fit, and there is NOTHING MS can do or say about it!
Placing a pricetag on software ELIMINATES MS "ownership, right and title" to THAT package!
Look at your driver's "license"....does that also not require YOUR signature BEFORE it is valid?
Even the states REQUIRE your signature before anything is "validated", MS is NOT the law and can NOT enforce EULAs on you at their discretion.
Prior sale rules OUT any clauses MS might have included within their products. No matter what ANY attorney states, it is not legally binding upon the end user simply because he/she clicked OKAY to the agreement during installation of his/her software. It was paid for BEFORE the "agreement" was known or viewable, which makes such tactics ILLEGAL and NON BINDING in ANY court of law.
Show me even ONE binding license or contract that neither requires or needs any signatures from either party upon it to be legally enforceable, not one I dare say has ever been created nor upheld in any court proceeding!
*Same software CD, six machines...SAME "license".....ALL non binding*!
Software is "sold" NOT licensed, or it should be freely given away as a condition to such a license. Anything else is not legally binding.
Adding another revenue stream into the river, one sees that the total revenue has just been divided up into 1/4, 1/3 or less/more BECAUSE of MS adding X-box revenue, or lack of it now. The actual revenue is tallied, but with a losing product like X-box, that too must be included. All profit/loss(P&L) lowers the total capital gains overall when stretched across multiple product lines, one will see a lower income over cost because X-box has yet to entrench itself deep enough in the gaming "scene".
MS "could" give away copies, but even I will admit MS has lgitimacy to charge something for what they have. I for one would love to see MS being broken up into at least three sub groups, run by NOT BILL types, and NOT connected with IT in any fashion either. To allow NOT BILL to maintain a grip on the subs would, or should reinstate anti-trust charges against MS for violating court orders, and violations such as this, would also bring contempt of court charges for going counter to the judges order, and willfuly I might add as well.
What SHOULD be ordered is that MS can no longer supply their software pre-bundled on ANY machine sold in the U.S.. This should never have been allowed, and if it is allowed, then MS should be ORDERED to INVALIDATE any "license" agreements their software has, even more so that they all come UNSEEN and do not have a copy of a "license" YOU, the customer must sign, clicking is NOT a valid form of contract or licensing, since MS considered the "license" to be legal and binding, it MUST be SIGNED by the SELLER and PURCHASER to be valid. No contract in this(U.S.) is legal nor binding without signatures! Why do you think you must SIGN your driver's "license" folks, even if it has YOUR pic on it? Even the STATES REQUIRE your hand signed signature for validity, MS can not supercede ANY state's requirement/s, or can they now?
New PC? Sorry sir, none of our products are loaded with windows, it's illegal to sell a PC with the "system" pre-loaded.
We "can" load windoze for you, at the going rate of $99.00, plus $25.00 service charge for our tech's time if you want to go that route.
That is what SHOULD be the method to business, not the way it currently is.
If MS wants to give away software, that's their business, but it should not be forced upon them, or anybody for that matter.
Have a problem you would like resolved?t ate/corp_level_BSA.htm.
Can't locate your "party member"?
Look in the green pages under <Government services *see Microsoft* Contact your legal representative in the Microsoft alumni listings.
Or visit "us" on the web at: http/www.microsoft.gov/services/representatives/s
*Gotta love a company that just CAN'T let a day pass without trying to violate yet another anti-trust law*!
George B.: Yes Bill, that was a fine "donation" you made to the patriot act, but that was yesterday's anti-trust fines! What'll you buy for me TODAY Bill?
Sure!
I use Proxim's PC card 802.11b LAN cards for connection to my three desktops, two laptops; all linked to the iNET with an 802.11b "wireless" modem.
I restrict my file sharing and drive sharing, but multi-user modem sharing is easily configured under network neighborhood. Proxim "makes" you run a single password on ALL network connected systems for the reasons given, "security", of course.
Symphony cards are cheap to buy, give great range(over 150 feet here) and only sacked my billfold of $29.00 for each 802.11b PC LAN card!
Initial "fine tuning" is a bit rough, and the CD asks for windoze 98SE\options\cabs so it can copy drivers for the LAN card.
The only "problem" for these cards is that you CAN'T share a scanner, but you can share mapped drives, printers and selected files.
I have yet to try encrypted data from one to many/one transfers, but see no reason why this should not work.
One other thing I will try, is to set the network password to <blank> just to see if it will still function as a LAN, manual states no, but if all were set to <blank> as a password, then it should still work....I shall see.
I pray NOT to any man/deity, no matter who or what he/she is/was!
/. this morning while we conversed about world affairs*.
I do not need a "god" in my life to obtain hope, strength or wisdom, as religion is for the weak of mind and soul.
Science is the "art" of truth and knowledge through research, tests and trial/error/s, supported by facts and histories of a global scale, and not found obscured in texts of scripts written by many, condensed intot a single volume and diseminated to the hoards over millenia.
Truth and science proved that under no circumstance could or has a god or gods walked this planet, taken "huiman" form nor formulated laws to be obeyed.
Why would ANY god/deity NEED the "obedience" of humanity in the first place?
If such a god/deity "were" so powerful, it would simply MAKE humanity follow its rules and laws.
Prove there was/is a god/deity worth worshipping, and I'll show you a society made up of mindless idiots wandering aimlessly about muttering bilge of a "bible" written by man, offered to humanity as "the" word of god, but fabricated from lies and fables punctuated by half-truths and tall tales.
Read about the Ark...what IS a "cubit"?
It is written that the highest peaks and mountains were covered with water that rose upwards of 25 cubits.
Next; this Ark, was built with the very same measuring "standards", and its length/breadth was 35 X 15 cubits, and the height was also 15 cubits.
Let's take a peek at the facts: The Himalaya mountain range has the tallest peak, at 25,000 + feet tall, the construction of a vessel that large would NOT be possible in the era it was purported to be built in, nor is one of such magnitude even possible today, even with the highly advanced engineering and construction methods currently used!
Such a fable is just that; a fable, NOT fact, proof or otherwise, but the "bible" IS a book of stories, nothing more. Certainly not a volume of god's laws or rules on how "mankind" is to behave, such ideology is foolis in the extreme.
Being such that the Himalayan range was "only" 25 cubits/25,000 feet, that places the ark at over 25,000 feet in length....ASTOUNDING!
If such a vessel were built, surely there MUST be large parts of this "ship" easily viewd from many vantage points, even the shuttle flying overhead missed such gargantuan pieces of this structure, so by the very fact that "man" was too primitive in mind to build anything of such magnitude; one can only come to the conclusion that the ark is a hoax, nothing more.
Dare I type this; but PROVE this poster wrong!
Show photos, recon....ANYTHING to support the claim/s that this ark ever existed, or could have existed.
*God told me to post this message on
J.F.C
Act I, Sc.II
*I saw the light and I knew what I had to do...*
Agreed!
But no, he's an ASSHOLE!
George Bush IS an ASSHOLE, plain and simple!
N.W.O my ass!
Keep those who beleive in totalitarian "governments" to themselves and NOT spread such filth to REAL free people!
One can NOT be owned, but many governments think this way, hence kings and queens MUST be shot!
There can be only ONE monarch, and that one has wings and causes NO HARM to anybody!
I am so happy the UK "royalty" is only in the UK!
Freedom of speech in the U.S. IS a right, and shall be forever if "real" americans have anything to say about it.
Why do so many europeans "assume" that speech of any sort is not a "right", but granted by aristocracy? Did those people somehow gain total power over the masses without their knowing it?
Or does this power come from some form of god or the pope perhaps?
Sadly, the world is collapsing onto itself and those that think that no person has any right to say anything, regardless of what that might be should keep those primitive beliefs all to themselves and stop attempting to make others feel subservient to the "royals" that ARE the main cause of restrictions upon freedoms that ARE the right of EVERY person on this planet, no matter what some moron king or queen says!
Who the H**L do they think THEY are anyway, gods?
No government has any deity granted powers of total control, and those that try should be eliminated once and for all, to the betterment of society.
As was stated by some wise individual, as a by-line to a message; i quote: We shall all be free when the last king is strangled to death by the intestines of the last priest*, end quote.
Religion and royalty have been the MOST despotic forms of controlling the populace, anywhere, and maintaining this form of status-quo serves no good to those under such control, but continues allowing a minority to keep a tight grip around the people's throats for fear of imprisonment, fines and even death! Why are so many governments deathly afraid of outspoken citizens? Could it be that dissent and civil disobedience arises when those in power feel threatened by people speaking their minds openly about revolt, or reformation of a current form of government?
I don't know about the remainder of the world, but I was born FREE, to do, say and act any way I choose, as long as my actions do not trample another's rights, why should it matter what I say?
Maybe what I said sheds truth and fear in their minds about how badly those in power have abused their jobs and authority so horribly, that should it ever come to light just how horrendously that power was abused, they would find themselves without a job perhaps?
People rule governments, not the opposite, no matter where one lives on the planet, adn the sooner we force this idea into the minds of those elected, the better we shall all be for it as well.
The U.S. government governs with CONSENT of the governed, this is NOT a right of the government, but a granted, enumerated(limited) authority that WE THE PEOPLE have placed upon those we elect to do OUR bidding.
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Humanity has a RIGHT to do whatever it pleases!
No one person was given supreme power over anybody, "we" gave it to those chumps, by force or by vote. It's still a human right to do and say whatever we'd like!
The ONLY way to prevent my speaking out against ANYTHING would be to kill me, but then, you damn well better prepare to die yourself for the attempt!
I rule my life MY way and nobody else has a right to decide otherwise!
When was this planet ordained by to be "ruled" by dumb people?
The fact of this discussion is that China WILL fall to a free market economy, no matter how hard the ruling parties try to stifle it; it's inevitable and WILL become a FACT whether they like it or not!
Power and "royalty" are NOT granted or owed to anybody, but taken at the tip of a sword, point of a gun, or by the pen of an asshole!®(C)2002, EAE
Copyright by the Copyleft and left where it should be, in the garbage can of democracy and the New World Disorder!
Again, many FORGET that Itanium is NOT a 32 bit processor, so no compilers geared solely for 32 bits will work properly with a CPU MADE for 64 bits! The whole chip architecture is ABOVE the x86 world as we buy it now, dump your thoughts of how clock speeds alone tell the "story" of how good or bad a CPU is.
Intel and Itanium WILL give the royal BOOT to REAL workstations, no doubt about it! Many have posted this very same "story" on the DIFFERENCES in x86 and 64 bit processors, but NOBODY SEES the truth.
Stop falling for the speel about clock cycles and how "badly" the Itanium works with current compilers, of course it's bad, it's NOT designed for x86 platforms!
Try shoving a 6-cylinder, 300+ horsepower Lycoming into an ultralight and make it fly level, good luck!
Itanium has too much "horsepower" over ANY x86 architecture in production now.
I just gave away a Vectra! What a piece of SHIT that "machine" was! I hate the mfg. methods used by HP with the voltage regulator module in the upper left sied of the main board(off the backplane that is). It's held in by tabs you depress for module release. I'd HATE to have that pop out when the system was on, since THAT is the 3.1 Volt regulator for the P-II CPU. It did have the Intel chipset(forget which version though), but the sound card(that crazy diagonal goof-board) but they DID have a Matrox 3D card with 8 Mb of V-ram, which was okay for HP to include. You break the tabs on the cover when you attempt to flip the side latches and actually remove the face, so the front cover now does not fit snug and rattles with the fans running! I did like the ducting of the CPU fan, I saved that for a project I have, and fitted the CPU with two direct-blasting air movers bolted to the heat sink. Tha machine locked up a few times under WIN98SE, and even DOS, Pascal and C++ caused errors along with the ctrl/alt/del screen popping up telling me that Windows Explorer is "not" responding...HUH? I wasn't even running IE to start, so WHY did THAT message pop up in the first place? Anyway, HP is ranked right along side Packard Bell in the quality standings...JUNK(junque)!
I swapped out the Matrox vid card and left an SIS 1Mb video card in for somebody else to play with.
Since when is 640 X 480 resolution SVGA?
*Xerox and Wurlitzer have merged, they are now making reproductive organs*
I saved my "old" Rodime, 10Mb HD just for historical reference. It's a 5-1/4" full height drive. That, and the Seagate ST-225, 251Rs and so on WERE battleships compared to the fragile junk that's out today. WD used to be a good drive "name" to own and use, but after many crashes and having more bad sectors than good made me rethink my stand on their quality, like some mid '80s Fujitsu drives...GARBAGE! I also have a few ST-225s and such on my shelves for comparison with the thin, lightweight paper drives on the market today, what was worth buying then, surely does not hold up now. Raise the storage capacity, lower the weight, make the controller even more susceptible to static and have the audacity to make the hardware out of inferior materials makes me want to hurl!
Reminds me of U.S. auto makers of the 1970s all over again!
Living in a rust belt made me see just how BAD fords REALLY are and how fast they rust, over any GM/Chrysler products! A firend of mine has a 1999 Taurus, it's got perforations by the wheel wells on the driver's side, and the hatch is holed just under the center of the window. I told him he should shoot a few pics and begin a product liability suit against ford for producing faulty equipment that could be judged unsafe due to how rapidly their products rust here. I have a 1990 Chevy Corsica that is 100% rust FREE, even spending its whole life OUTSIDE, it's still clean, and there's no underbody rusting either. My 1990 Plymouth Acclaim is the same way, no rust and clean underbody. WHY can't ford make a car that lasts past 2-3 years before rust eats your money away? PCs are the same way, cheap products sold for super high prices.
I have my flame suit on, so light 'em up and let's get to it now!
Maybe one can take a multi-CD "player" and run it through their sound card and make up a rebuild for their system in that fashion.
Ever try it? I already have my 6-CD changer hacked for connection to my sound card here(it's a rat-shack changer, so no great loss).
Being an "output" device only, there should be no problems making it function easily afterall.
*Looking for a slot-1 P-II, 266 CPU...REALLY!*
I had my LTE5300s crash fully and had to swap the CD drive for the floppy drive and connect my PCMCIA CD drive, copy any CD driver to C: and THEN, swap the floppy for the 6X drive the LTE came with and run the OEM disk first then the upgrade disk second. My OEM disk is OLD and the upgrade of 98 has drivers I use and delete garbage video drivers, modem drivers(who the hell uses ANY 14.4 or 33.6 modems for dialup service since 1990 anyhow? Why does MS keep GARBAGE like this? I am happy to need only one machine with this bloated, goat-smelling maggot-ware! Delete what you don't need, run msconfig and uncheck what doesn't need to be noticed on startup, like registration, AOL instant mangler, ALL DOS, system tray and whatever more I can keep off my start group to "speed" initial loading.
Good morning Mrs. Gates; I am here to restore your version of WIN98SE on your system. Please be advised that the bill reflects my service only, and not the price of the software(which I am supplying freely), the big difference you must know about is that you can not call for tech support or updates from the MS website because the copy you now have is obviously registered to some other schmuck i don't know. Easy "method" of bypassing the "distribution" restrictions and receiveing payment for "pirated" copies...you never sold anything, but gave the copy freely to another. As far as "home" printers go; I have had great luck with Lexmark(IBM) printers. They might be slower(my Z-11 is), but they go forever! I recall my Panasonic KXP-1080 dot-matrix printer, what a durable machine that was! I dropped it on the floor several times while moving papers, and moving the desk so many times I wore out the pads on the feet. That was a solidly built printer for what we call now a junk pile!
*Running CP/M on a Vector S-100 bus machine since 1980*
My two Compaq LTE5300's and a Toshiba 4800CT run fine with no problems, but a Kingston memory card DID cause a system lockup on cold boot(32Mb) on both LTEs.
Since very few materials give near free-space resistance(Ohms) of 377 Ohms, we must separate the signal leads for the clock/s by at least 2-4 layers if the core speed is higher than 600 Mhz. Due to the shorter wavelengths of higher frequency CPUs, the crosstalk will negate the effort to increase FSB speeds and CPU clock rates while minimizing the latency built in with memory/CPU/FSB and controller speeds. Input and output signals will attenuate each other if they are not kept out of phase with each other constantly. In-phase signals cancel each other, but at the least, attenuate the integrity of those signals so that the data sent/received is garbled enough to make it useless for the CPU to use and transfer to the appropriate controller.
Rambus is a technology best left in the labs for the time being. Use what's best for your particular platform/s, use that if it functions well and causes no data loss or system lockups.
Board makers are too fast to accept anything that might grant a slight performance boost over a competitor's products. Choose the chipset/maker with extreme care and personal prejudice.
Bechmarks are tests that speak nothing of RAW power of the "system", but flaunt a CPU's core speed as the tell-all to total system throughput, which is NOT the real-world match to CAD, mathematica, or any pure processor hungry program that eats memory bandwidth and chews up CPU time performing several calculations and controlling functions in a split second. Heat is the "natural" by-product of clock speed/s, O/C'ing a CPU and then running a benchmark test to compare that against real world results is just a misleading application misused to amuse and confuse the actual processor's true capabilities.
The P-4 does NOT have any applications currently written that make full use of the high memory bandwidth it has, therefore, the current applications can't push the CPU to its MAXIMUM capabilities or speed/s.
The larger pipeline of the P-4 will slow the processor down if the data it handles is not written to make full use of that pipeline!
A quick perusal of the architecture will show you that the entire processor core is designed for programs and applications that CAN make full use of the pipeline, FSB speed, memory type and latency. Latency is both good and bad, if applied improperly, the CPU speed/FSB will become even more sluggish when the wrong memory specification is used with a chipset that over-allocates resources to the wrong areas; just as the right memory spec. used improperly will cause other failures with faster refresh rates, and memory dumps when the system is not "expecting" a memory dump. Limiting and eliminating board problems will become ever more problematic for main board designers with the ever increasing processor speeds as well as FSB speeds. A certain amount of "leveling" will be required for all component makers to play a little game of "catch up".
Stop designing CPUs with higher clock rates, and design a processor that USES the current speed EFFICIENTLY and PROPERLY, speed is NOT the do-all-end-all to the computer world. Show me even ONE application that suffers from NOT being run at 1 Ghz., nobody can I dare to bet!
Memory is now becoming the true bottleneck it once was when money was a factor, now it's compatibility between the "architectures" that has become the arch enemy. Rambus this, DDR that, SD there and so on...
ONE specification will rule Intel and another will rule AMD, you just have to sift through the B.S. spewed forth by those wanting your money.
Do a real test with your processor; UNDERCLOCK it, run it at the FSB speed if you can, or mod the BIOS to reflect that as close as you can. Does your application still run smoothly? Okay, slower, but stable, right? Now, return it to the normal speed, adjust the BIOS to reflect that as well, now run your application with different memory. Does the system still run stable? Time to swap to DDR next..same test, swap again; RD this time, and keep going. NOW, you have a base to judge what memory YOU can run stably, and without lockups.
Next, return the memory you have problems with to the store for a refund......YOU CHEAT!
I have a pair of 32 Mb. cards for my Compaq LTE5300, one is the correct speed, and one is slower, both cards work, but the slower memory caused the system to crash on cold boots, the "proper" speed card works no matter what. I have two LTE5300 notebooks, both do the very same thing when swapping these cards, so memory speed DOES make a difference, for me at least. I at least tested this in a real world application and based my findings from that. Your mileage may very.
I see a nation filled with "Bubba" towtruck owners! Now you have rich folk being FORCED to call "Bubba" for a tow to his favorite garage.
Bubba has a camera linked to several websites...he posted his towing schedule and names of those towed.......IE.. Donald Trump, Newt Gingrinch, Al (I invented the internet) Gore...the list gets bigger!
Even we "poor" folks DO have a way of interacting with "rich" folks...it just takes a bit of ingenuity to make this happen.
Gee, YOUR post appears to be geared solely towards/about the POLICE(NAZIS) of THIS nation(U.S.)!
.45, do YOU have body armor and a gas mask as well?....NO i'll bet!
.454 Casull round at point-blank range), and a gas mask that filters out current airborne NBC agents.
Who kills more...POLICE!
Who kidnaps more people...OUR GOVERNMENT!
Who shot Amadou Diallo...THE POLiCE!
For doing what....NOTHING!
I trust the FIREMEN!
I trust the EMTs!
I NEVER trust police...NEVER!!!
I now NEVER trust this government!!
I will NEVER take a commercial flight(don't have to, I'm a pilot)!
Care to "enlighten" the world with warm thoughts of our "gracious" government?
When the FBI raids a home, do they have FULL-AUTO weapons pointed at YOU....YES!!!!
When YOU fight back with your
Do the nazi police have ARMORED VEHICLES to ATTACK YOU?.......YES!
Do you have an armored vehicle to PROTECT yourself against INVASION?......NOPE!!
I made a decision many yeas ago, to have EVERY piece of "protection" that I can afford and implement..I HAVE full body armor(It WILL STOP a
I reload ALL my own ammo.!
I do my own gunsmithing(A MUST for consistent headshots!).
I shoot/train regularly for quick response, fast draws and accuracy of shot placement( another MUST).
Do I feel "safe" living with nazi police driving by my home?....NO WAY!
Invade me...I SHOOT!
Invade another...I'll assist!
Shoot at me...I RETURN FIRE!I don't give a damn WHO you are...you fired at me first!
I have every RIGHT to self preservation...police or not!
Do I look for a reason to go "gunning" for trouble...NO!
Will I back down if it comes to me...NO!!!
Commit a crime in my presence, I'll arrest YOU at gunpoint!(citizen's arrest powers)!
NO effort is too great for me to stop fighting for my rights!
Carry and READ/UNDERSTAND the BILL OF RIGHTS!
I carry a booklet in my car and have one in the home as well!
Limit the information you provide, falsify that which you can, and deny at all times, anything that restricts your ability to know what anybody knows about you.
While driving on the highway, always watch out for the vehicle that's directly behind the vehicle in front of you!
Live free, love free, live secure and safe....FOREVER!
I would rather HAVE a gun, and NOT need it, then to NEED a gun, and NOT have one available to me!
Join the NRA for FREEDOM FIRST!
Even IBM acknowledges Linux(shameless plug!).
*This message posted on a stolen computer loaded with pirated windows and Linux....my PGP keys are also forged out of solid billet steel for security!*
I will say right here and now, that if I EVER see a surveillance camera placed in ANY public are, I will climb up or use a bucket to reach it and SMASH the damn things, wherever they are located!
Who and what gives any government the "right" to invade every aspect of a nation of supposedly "free" people? Did the constitution and the bill of rights include some by-law indicating the right of government to snoop into OUR PRIVATE lives and use what information gained from that, AGAINST US for whatever reason/purpose? I think not.
Does anybody realize that the DMCA "law" is WORLDWIDE in scope according to Asscroft and company? Yep, that's right folks, the nazi states of DUHmerica has decided for itself that ANY U.S. law can and WILL be prosecuted against ANYBODY, ANYWHERE if the DMCA is "ciolated"(see Elcomsoft case here). Damn, that law must be airtight and legal in China too! If I were Elcomsoft, I would send letters to the U.S. worded carefully to indicate that the DMCA can go screw itself, and it does NOT apply in Russia, nor will it be allowed to be used against a Russian national(is there any sovereignty for nations anymore?).
Since when does the U.S. have the right or authority to enforce or act upon national laws OUTSIDE the territorial boundaries of the U.S.?
I trust THIS government as much as I "trust" a nest of aggravated hornets from ever attacking me for knocking down their nest!
I think the government(which I own) MUST be open to pubic reviews at any time deemed necessary, save for VALID security "issues" alone.
Not one bit of information that is NOT directly linked to national security can be kept from the public, and ANY attempt to circumvent(I love that word!) full disclosure to the public shall be fired from office and imprisoned for 20 years for TREASON against the citizens of the U.S.!
Damn, i want ALL the nasty "secrets" brought out into the open! MY money PAYS for their work, i NEED access to that work to ensure my money is spent the way it should be spent, and NEVER on golf outings and oval office blow jobs!
Clinton defrauded america by STEALING TIME FROM HIS DUTIES FOR A FRIGGIN' BLOW JOB! Hey! Can I charge "hooker time" to the county too?
The above statement is TRUE and is public knowledge, so Clinton has NO legal recourse to quash what I posted!(it's public record!), not to mention we ALL PAID for that BJ as well!
Monica, where are you...show me what Clinton paid for with MY money was worth stealing for.
Open/transparency for government will never work with what is currently in "power". We MUST destroy this by votes, and if that does not work, with guns next!
Want to eliminate financial crime? Make the government give everybody a million dollars when they reach 21 years of age, withthe understanding that this sum is ALL they will get from the government, what YOU do with it after you get it, is YOUR business, lose it, you get no more forever! Can't work you assume...HOW? If this "kid" were thinking of robbery to get money for food, then YES, it WILL work! We have big business stealing money from YOU right now, and you don't care, so why care if some 21 Yr. old gets "rich" for "free"...to build a life, business, home or...?
If we ALL had money, then the "need" for crime WILL be reduced to a single digit statistic.
Why steal a candy bar when you can buy 10 million of them? Same goes for cars, clothes and more...the money IS in your pockets, no more "need" to deny another of his/her money, right...YES!!!
Money in the hands of everybody will do nothing but GOOD, and the "ills" of a poor society will be relegated to paperback rags in some historical archive.....
If this is not the case, then WHY do poor people STEAL MONEY then? If everybody is rich, then there is NO NEED to steal money to buy/get what you want or need in life...crime is damn near eliminated!
STOP! This is NOT a (score 1) post!
I never met anybody from /., but maybe someday, I might!
Either way......CONGRATULATIONS is always in order for such a posting!
I wish you both a very long and rewarding life together!!
LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!
Spock, OUT!
73!
The only method of ensuring compliance and maintaining lawful activities with respect to surveillance cameras should include these:
1. Use of ALL surveillance cameras and equipment for personal use and/or personal gain is a FELONY, punishable by imprisonment of up to 10 years and a $20,000.00 fine. Mandatory imprisonment of 5 years will be required above all fines.
2. Use of the surveilllance equipment is limited to court ordered monitoring ONLY, and shall be monitored by a civilian compliance group with the authority to assess fines and penalties for abuse of the surveillance equipment. The civilian agency has sole authority and can not be suspended by any chief of police, sheriff or district attorney in any respect, nor at any time except by court order stipulating lawful suspension of surveillance activities for a specified time and purpose.
3. Penalties for illegal use of surveillance cameras and equipment for personal gain shall be the termination and loss of all pensions, benefits and medical payments, nor limited to the prior, but can be expanded to include any government plan or plans for the party or parties found guilty of said abuse/s.
4. Additional penalties shall include the MANDATORY FIVE YEAR(5 year) prison term in a federal penitentiary and loss of ALL government benefits as of date of first indictment, and shall be non-reversible and forever in force.
5. All public surveillance WILL be posted on the public internet at the same time the video is streamed into the headquarters for surveillance, and shall be forever made public barring ONLY that information that is to be used in a current court hearing/case to minimize the potential impact on jury tampering and intimidation. The civilian agency shall coordinate this effort with the courts and the district attorney on the strict compliance and application of any and all surveillance video used and stored for such action, but such "evidence" shall be fully destroyed upon closure of said court hearings/cases and no records shall be maintained, stored or archived for future action/s.
6. No officer, agent or public official shall be in a position of authority above the civilian agency at any time, and any person or persons attempting to coerce said agency personnel into actions not within the scope of their authority shall be guilty of a felony and fined a minimum penalty of $2,000.00.
7. Any officer of the court who, shall knowingly, or willingly involve him/herself in the actions stated above, and by doing so places these persons in a position of distrust of office and shall be suspended without pay for the duration of an investigation. Pending the outcome of said investigation/s, the involved officer/s shall either be fired, fined, jailed, imprisoned and fined, or both upon finding said persons guilty of any of the above illegal acts.
Checks and balances ARE needed, and when applied against those that do the surveillance, they too WILL be less likely of violating the law, with penalties four times harsher than you or I would receive, and rightly so. Those in positions of authority should be held to the highest standard for being placed into the public's "trust".
Loss of the public trust is a sure way to go directly to jail and lose those bennies you get.
Surveillance cameras shall also be placed in the headquarters of the surveillance "command" for compliance with the above laws and these cameras will have time-lapse recording of ALL persons entering and leaving the surveillance "command" center. The recordings shall be used against all persons violating the surveillance laws, plus all recordings shall be made public pending the outcome of any hearings brought before the court for prosecution so the public has full knowledge of the person/s involved with the violations of the law. Convictions places the involved parties on a federally protected list of every person forever barred from any public service for a period of 20 years, this includes political offices, financial institution offices, and all law enforcement positions(excluding any positions NOT requiring the use and carrying of a firearm) for the position of enforcing laws of the U.S., state and local jurisdictions.
THEN, and ONLY then, is it "okay" to have surveillance cameras placed in and around any city! I fully "subscribe" to monitoring the ones that monitor, and also ensure those in charge are above any and all persons in positions of any authority, that is the only true method to maintaining full and accountable control of all surveillance activities, bar none!
The reason officer "friendly"(yeah, right!) CAN'T buy MY information is that he is an employee of the STATE, with access to guns, weapons of murder and killing, not to mention the love of torture in the "news". This cop has the ability to use that information against you at ANY TIME he/she chooses due to the nature of the job he/she has. THAT'S why joe nazi cop CAN'T and SHOULDN'T have access to the information, plain and simple!
Okay then! Just leave every scrap of your personal information open to everybody, anytime. police would LOVE to know even more about YOU, your family, job/s and how much you make and save in the bank/s. Gee, "nothing to hide" should really mean nothing to worry about from the nazi police we now have? Does WWII nazi Germany and Hitler ring a bell? How about the Stalin purges? It IS coming HERE now, and sooner than we might expect as well!
Sure, "honest" folks have nothing to "fear" but their personal RIGHT to live FREE and PRIVATELY whenever and wherever you want, NOT who, what, when and where the police dictate, THAT is certainly NOT freedom!
I think it would be time to take baseball bats and wrist rocket slingshots to those cameras! How dare the police make policy!
Since when did the police have the authority to use public money without voting on the expenditures? That is THEFT and FRAUD!
I am so damn happy that I do NOT live anywhere near D.C., you fools will be under ever more tightened "security" of the nazi police, and if you go along with this, you DESERVE to be snooped upon every place you tread! Think of the money they will make off of you for jay-walking fines, and who knows what else "they" will think up next also.
We have a constitution that grants RIGHTS to privacy, freedom of travel and personal security(2nd Amendment), why accept this blatant form of infringement of rights such as monitoring your every move? I damn sure would be whacking those cameras right off the mounts! NO police department has the authority to bypass the voter when THEIR money is being used without their authority or approval!
DESTROY THE CAMERAS!
PAINT THE LENSES!
SMASH THE CAMERAS!
CUT THE WIRES!
Do nothing, live with a totalitarianistic "democracy" that YOU answer to the police for your "right" to travel.
BUY GUNS!
CARRY GUNS!
DEMAND YOUR RIGHTS...........OR ELSE!
FIGHT BACK!!!!!
YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT PEOPLE!!!
1> EMPLOYEE: Any person whom is hired to perform work/duties on behalf of the employer, and who is PAID by that employer, and enjoying any insurance/s, 401K plans, retirement bennies and so on. The employer takes care of ALL taxes being taken out of your paycheck/s, which includes federal and state, if your state has income tax that is. This IS what an employee is.
2. CONTRACTOR: Any person who does work for a company or corporation, but is NOT hired by that company or corporation on a permanent/temporary job assignment(see roofing contractors here). The contractor is the person providing a "service" with his/her labor, thoughts and more. This person is never hired by the company or corporation at any time, and said businesses pay the contractor a higher rate of pay than regular employess due to the fact that the contractor is solely responsible for ALL taxes, unemployment payments, insurance and equipment(capital expenditures)as well as all advertisements, telephone calls and the list goes on....You are contracting your services to the business for work they either can't perform themselves, in-building, or do not have the expertise to do the work they are paying you for.
This always comes with a CONTRACT, stating terms of payment, work to be done(by you) with terms of service(duration of said contract) as well as your needs while performing the work. There is a lot more involved than what I am typing about, but the gist of the basic employer/contractor should be plainly visible and discernable between the two "types" of "employment".
Hmmmm, I saw a box labeled Turbo Pascal, it solely referred to the contents inside as software, it did have a price affixed to the outside of said box. And the price was $39.88(1984 dolarettes that is). I saw NO mention of ANY license, not on the box panels or back. There was an "agreement" INSIDE the box, but that was found AFTER I PAID FOR IT! My money PAID for the SOFTWARE, not a license, no matter what "they" tell you. I did not pay for a license to use my car, house or Piper Cherokee, why would I pay for a license to use some cheap software? When a price is affixed to ANY product, and you spend your money on that product, you OWN what you paid for in its entirety! Too bad the data is "captured" ona plastic disk; that's NOT my concern. If "they" SELL software, they SELL the DATA that is also on that disk, as well as ALL documentation that is packaged with that disk or disks. Since the data IS part and parcel, a part of the disk, then, that also BECOMES property of yours since you paid for it. Okay, if this license is simply for "use", then I want the software company to BUY BACK the software I paid for when I am finished using their "license". I might lease a car, but if I don't go over my "allotment" of miles, and return the car in the same condition I got it, I get money back, why can't I get money back after my "lease" for said software is over? If I can ONLY maintain physical control of software, but never own it, why am I "responsible" to the developer for its "safety"? There was never any contract signed, and I never agreed to become a "caretaker" for the developer, so how did my purchase(I did type PURCHASE) become a lease of sorts now?
One-sided "licensing" is NOT a legal nor binding contract by law, no matter WHAT some EULA states!
M$ does NOT have the authority to make laws! No matter what developer states in any EULA, it is not a legally binding contract/agreement. If ANY software is SOLD for a PRICE, then when it IS sold, it is SOLD in its entirety, and there can be NO license affixed to YOUR property that you legally paid for. Prove I do not "own" my copy of Turbo Pascal. The sales receipt is still taped to the box, and that in itself indicates OWNERSHIP, not a license. I can also sue for THEFT if MY copy of Turbo Pascal is stolen from my home, and since I can SUE for damages and criminal "intent", I can also assert OWNERSHIP of that which was taken from my property, including MY copy of Turbo Pascal!
So, you see, software really IS the physical property of those who paid for it, and not a licensed object of nondescript "value" or garbage strewn about the roadside. If it can be sold for a price and it is purchased for that price, then it becomes the property of the purchaser, and no other can assert ownership of that property, INCLUDING the developer of that software.
To SELL one's property to another, you LOSE control AND ownership of that property is full, and forever. You can not retain control after you set a price and DISPOSE of the property to another. The machine I am typing this on has both Linux and Windoze loaded, it came PREPAID with Windoze, so I OWN the copy that was installed when I PAID for it, it's now MINE and MINE alone!
Try taking it from my home and you can be thrown in jail for THEFT, so it MUST be MY property if it is a CRIME to take my copy of Windoze from me!
If you think my assertions are foolish rantings, PLEASE, by all means, attempt to breakl into my house and take my copies of software...I'd LOVE to see ANYBODY try it!
Oh wait, stealing is illegal, or is it now? I forget all too easily on this one for some reason!