Sermons to a congregation with text: no one ever made money from free.
Lyon and his employers hold as faith that only owners of private property can improve the wealth of the world, and only through the acquisition, expansion, protection, improvement and exploitation of property. Joe Forbes Reader may very well be going, "Yes, I'm of the elect and I'm doing good," and feels the warm glow as the reverend Lyon extols the producers and demonizes those (tragically, sadly) misguided people who just don't get that a useful computer operating system cannot be built through a community trust, and, even if it could, that operating system should not and can not and must not bring down the folks sitting in the forward pew.
Brother Lyons has had a rough few months as two of the flock are grappling for death grips. Brother SCO deceived him earlier this year, and he's struggling to reconcile why, as a true believer, it is his role to be alienated from the Crusaders. And, as I interpret his prediction, he believes Brother IBM will rediscover the faith, settle, and, as pennance for straying, be left to weather the short-term braying of the misguided.
Because if it's been revealed to him once, it's been revealed a couple of times, no one makes money from free.
Seems to me the writers and protectors of the Catholic faith once had a similar problem wiith those who sought to understand planetary motion in a non-Biblical manner.
If a company hires folks to build upon open source projects, then the costs of writing the code (salaries) are already fully deducted, and as there's no additional material cost for releasing their code, there would be no additional deductions.
IIRC, an individual's labor donated to non-profit causes are not deductible for the individual. And keep in mind that in the US if your individual enterprises don't turn a profit in three years, it's a hobby and expenses are deductible only to the extent of income received.
This is all getting so theoretical. No, reading a magazine in the dentist's office is not a "rip-off." Advertising rates are set on a calculation that magazines are read by some multiple of the official circulation.
The production assistant two buildings over, the set dresser who lives in Larchmont, the special effects director over there in Encino has much more to be worried about from the competition by Orlando, Wilmington, Toronto, and Vancouver, and New York City than the guy with a camera in his lap at the cineplex over in Stockton. Shoot, the movie industry may have a bigger problem with cell phone texting spreading bad word of mouth on Friday night because the millions in advertising that used to buy a good weekend can only buy a good Friday.
Meanwhile, about this law, isn't it just a feel-good thing? Some legislator stands up and says "I did something about piracy." All right, congratulations. You still need someone in the audience to go tell management about the person in the next row who is taping the movie, because, if this is happening to any significant amount, it's because management cannot catch the behavior. But, if it is happening a lot, why aren't audience members getting those people ejected today? (And if telling management will shortly mean the local constabulary is called, doesn't that escalate the episode into something more dangerous for the audience, the theatre management, and the police?)
"Well, Carey, we hear the person in the Toyota Accura -- just ran a red light there -- is alleged to have taped a movie in the theater.""Thanks, Larry, when will people learn, you can't run away from the police and you can't tape movies in the theatre." When I hear that exchange while watching a televised medium-speed chase, then I'll know this law meant something.
By releasing the bifurcated sessions CD format, they now have a quick way to identify bootlegged cd's that make their way into the retail chain. They play on consumer equipment without a hint of hassle.
But seriously now, why do they test more of these things outside of the US? And more importantly, how do they measure success? Isn't this scheme by Sony slipping across an anti-trust line? Or that Sony has 4, oops, check that, 3, competitors allows it to not sweat that one?
Went over to Guild and registered "I Was a File Sharer for the FBI". I think this would make a good B budget film starring JT. Warners will LOVE this!
With a tenative Production schedule of June 1/04 - July 15, maybe we can pick up American Idol winners at heat height for cameo/support (depending on acting ability, of course.)
How about this as directing opp for Friends actor looking first feature. I've cc'ed Lou on this.
We could go comedy or action drama -- let's focus group it.
Do need a love interest -- Britney S's people have passed, but not sure if that's a firm pass.
Let's get a penner online for a treatment with script to be delivered in mid Feb.
I Panthered a PowerBook 667, an iMac 800, and a G5. Java was fine on the first two and trashed on the G5 (in exactly the same way you described). Being a new machine, I thought I'd repartition the G5 and install Panther from scratch. That solved my problem. All machines were 10.2.8 at the time of upgrade. Other than architecture, maybe the Developer tools packages differed among the machines.
I really didn't read it as Windows users are stupider. I think the suggestion was we are all succeptible to social engineering, but having standard minimally privileged accounts mitigates the issue for Linux and Unix and OS X users. A finer granularity of permissions, such as Access Control Lists, and a well-administered box will always provide more security, regardless of platform. Still administration will always be a complex pita and a lot of home users will not put in enough time or take harmful shortcuts; this too is not a function of the platform. Some distributors of Linux are playing with fire (or relying on being no more than a niche provider) whey they install many packages that a newbie user wouldn't use, understand, or know how to administer. When RedHat started turning up2date into a subscription service, I wrote a letter expressing my worries that a large number of poorly administered boxes may embarrass that company the way Microsoft gets embarrassed. Granted, I wanted free updates with minimal effort, and maybe there's no economy for that, but they have all but lost me as a customer over the issue.
I digress. The commentary was a discussion of generalized cases and you could very well be right, that was the weakest argument of the few he made.
We all understand that one's choice of platform does not guarantee security. As said over and over again, security is a process.
At the risk of overthinking this, maybe the bottom-line motivation (or the gentleman's agreement) is to not waste the marketing potential of an Oscar (there's a trademark there folks) on movies that have played out in theatres. Movies released in the spring (as if a good movie comes out then) or summer are almost uniformly out of the theatres by Christmas. It is also a poorly kept secret that big studios are resentful of the consistent award winning ways of people like Miramax (who are owned by a big studio -- there's got to be some reason they call this La-La Land), so there's another feint within a feint for others to consider.
It's all so weird this year any way, Oscars (there's that TM again) are at the end of February to get into sweeps or to dilute the attention paid to the Golden Globes or to shorten the self-aggrandizing "for your consideration" promotional period or maybe to see if we can watch the celebs dash through the rain and make a muddy red carpet. See you at Hollywood and Highland!
The first thing I'd suggest is that the RIAA and its members are not concerned with selling more units per se, they want to sell more units of their hit recordings. These recordings have paid back their costs and each new unit, minus its notably small manufacturing costs, is pure profit.
As for the speculation about why the sturm and drang over p2p and not so much noise about http, I would note that, as LawMeme states, http sites are easier to take down. And so, let me propose that the point is to go after the unsolvable problem, p2p. After all, they can claim "we killed Napster, we subponeaed isp's, we even sued the 12 year olds and millions are still 'stealing' from us -- we cannot kill the beast.
So, Congress, let's just tax hard drives, blank cd's, isp accounts, etc., and let the government, as proxy for the thieves, reimburse us for our losses." Because revenues from taxes are really pure profit. And would they split the reimbursements with their artists? Well, of course, I can't imagine why I would even ask the question!
Please note, the above analysis in no way endorses the RIAA viewpoint that the primary cause of their troubles is from filesharing. In fact, didn't we see that filesharing has decreased and, looking at their album sales, they are still selling fewer units.
The answer is to limit liability to the purchase price. Take a look at the warrantees you have at home. No manufacturer (unless compelled by the infrequent legal jurisdiction) will extend the value of the warrantees to coverage of consequential damages, i.e., the costs of bathroom floor when the washing machine hose breaks, or the costs of that family reunion when the video tape breaks.
Now the comparison to consumer goods is not perfect, as software problems are rarely caused by manufacturing defects. So are we really talking about ascertaining liability based on a theory of "software engineering" malpractice? Yikes. If that isn't in the category of be careful what you wish for... Still, the place to start for assessing damages for any such malpractice should be the cost (purchase price, contract amount) paid by the consumer. Give that system a few years and see how it works out before we consider extending the basis for claims.
As my subject line indicates, access is a different concept than ownership. Any beginning Learning Unix text will illustrate the differences and basic administrative control. If (hard to believe) you are running a unix-like system, try the following commands "man chown" "man chgrp" "man chmod" and you can research what it all means.
I don't know if this applies to the point, but John Fogerty was sued by the publisher of his compositions from the Credence Clearwater Revival era (it was a VERY acrimonious split between Fogerty and Fantasy Records) for a song he wrote for his solo record 13 years and another record company later. (The CCR record label was also owned by the same person who owned the publisher.) The song was Fogerty's "Old Man Down the Road" which was litigated on the basis of copyright infringement of Fogerty's Green River (IIRC). Went to trial. Jury didn't agree with the publisher.
I'm not in the lecture halls right now, but your description would seem to be a fair one for my fellow college students back in the mid 70s. Not me, I like the digressions. I just recalled my favorite history lecture which went into the details of the assassination of Archduke Prince Ferdinand, the event that precipitates World War I. While 99% of the material had no bearing on the final exam (this was undergraduate beginning History of Western Civilization), it was a brilliantly developed narrative and had an underlying point about the imprecise nature of understanding history as chain of events, each of which "had to happen".
As for the niece issue, that is, an easier way five pages later -- I believe this is a writing technique used to validate the later approach. I suppose the student is to learn that, while other approaches are possible, we've saved the best for last. Maybe by seeing alternate approaches, it fosters an underlying understanding of the concepts. That makes some sense to me, but, shoot, I'm a product of New Math 1.0 and I liked it.
But the big picture battle isn't about those who've never used a computer before, it's about those who are using something and think it's too difficult and too much learning curve to switch. The article could be summed up as "it was closer than you'd think." And yes, this was even though, it is implied, all the people in the sample had some Windows (if not XP) experience.
Now, if it was me performing the survey, I'd worry that my group of XP users were unanimous (100%) in liking its design. But, maybe not enough to spend money to test a new sample.
Show business is lousy with folks who will "represent" a "client" for a fee. Really folks. How much forbearance do you think Apple or any other digital download store will have for a distributor who offers music with the solitary merit that the check cleared.
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You are correct. He's on track for Gov of California and has accelerated his timetable by 3 years due to the recall of Gov. Davis. If he succeeds there, the Senate would be the next step and that would be the limit (excepting Cabinet positions).
A new medium has appeared. It's called (approximately) a hard-drive. More efficient in storage space, it continues the clear progression of convenience that began when the LP replaced the 78.
The full implications of this new medium are still being worked out with many approaches being tested. Perhaps the most successful approach for exploitation and profit has not been precisely conceived yet. My point of view is that using litigation to lawyer it away misses the meaning of the sea change, and looks like an expensive way to sell less product. I also think that recording artists and/or their management and lawyers who insist on a buy it all or nothing approach are also likely to be left behind.
The more I've thought about this over the past few weeks, the more I feel we could be on the verge of a pop explosion centered around, as the great pop explosions of the past, the single. It is so much easier to be brilliant for 3:35 than for 65:13.
Maybe my imagination and experience about how children learn is limited, but it seems to me there should be a minimal lag time between idea and result. Python on a console seems like an excellent start because its statement style is reasonably clear and it has an interactive mode.
The trouble with learning to program in a gui context is that for every 1 minute of problem solving there's 5 or more minutes of (tedious) gui polishing. Now the polishing is very important for real applications development, but at the outset: type a command, see a result seems to me more fun. I first programmed with BASIC (so I guess I'm an element of the class Dijkstra-doomed) on a teletype connected to a time share at age 14 in 1971.
One sees this all the time. Imagine you're a bank. You tell your advertising agency that you want more business. They engage in focus groups. Finding number one is that the group members think banks are unfriendly. The ad agency comes back and gives you a plan how you can brand yourself as the friendly bank. The ads are produced and scheduled. Millions of dollars later people still think that banks are unfriendly, because banks are unfriendly. (It has to do with implementation of policies designed to reduce costs of fraud as much as possible.) Other examples of the phenomenon: Airlines and "on time" and Supermarkets and "farm-fresh produce."
Don't I remember something about the cart and horse that may apply here?
This administration has a pattern of attempting to outsource responsibility. Schools are bad - need more private schools. Need more security at the airport, let private enterprise answer the need. Now some will argue that's a good thing; I'll just say that I think there has to be a balance of private and publc sectors so I may get to my real point.
How this administration will play the cybersecurity thing is to: first, contract out a study of how to have cybersecurity; second, contract out the implementation of cybersecurity; and three, mandate everyone buy into the system or get off. Penalty for not being a customer -- how about jail, massive fines, and confiscation of equipment (sort of like if the RIAA finds you trading "illegal" music files). The head of cybersecurity will be the rfq writer and purser for the whole deal, not the architect of the secure net.
Even if it doesn't go down quite that way, how much do you want to bet that taxpayer dollars will end up in Microsoft's pocket so that they can develop the secure ms-net?
Because, some companies would look at resumes and guess about gender, ethnicity, age, creed, etc. and toss them without interviews. Or, the resume looks good, they have an interview, see the person (who wasn't the desired demographic) and then toss the resume (after saying, gee whiz, the position just got filled). Later on, when someone notes that the company is 99.999% white male, the company responds that the people hired were the best qualified or only applicants and there's no pesky resume file to check that against.
That's what was being addressed when those laws (and regulations) were placed on the books, probably during the 70s.
Maybe more like the 10 or 101. I remember hearing, after the Northridge quake in '94, that a fault runs under Wilshire near the Miracle Mile / La Brea tar pits area. This is a new (kinda parallel) one? Los Angeles calling (and I, I live near the fautline.)
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Sermons to a congregation with text: no one ever made money from free.
Lyon and his employers hold as faith that only owners of private property can improve the wealth of the world, and only through the acquisition, expansion, protection, improvement and exploitation of property. Joe Forbes Reader may very well be going, "Yes, I'm of the elect and I'm doing good," and feels the warm glow as the reverend Lyon extols the producers and demonizes those (tragically, sadly) misguided people who just don't get that a useful computer operating system cannot be built through a community trust, and, even if it could, that operating system should not and can not and must not bring down the folks sitting in the forward pew.
Brother Lyons has had a rough few months as two of the flock are grappling for death grips. Brother SCO deceived him earlier this year, and he's struggling to reconcile why, as a true believer, it is his role to be alienated from the Crusaders. And, as I interpret his prediction, he believes Brother IBM will rediscover the faith, settle, and, as pennance for straying, be left to weather the short-term braying of the misguided.
Because if it's been revealed to him once, it's been revealed a couple of times, no one makes money from free.
Seems to me the writers and protectors of the Catholic faith once had a similar problem wiith those who sought to understand planetary motion in a non-Biblical manner.
If a company hires folks to build upon open source projects, then the costs of writing the code (salaries) are already fully deducted, and as there's no additional material cost for releasing their code, there would be no additional deductions.
IIRC, an individual's labor donated to non-profit causes are not deductible for the individual. And keep in mind that in the US if your individual enterprises don't turn a profit in three years, it's a hobby and expenses are deductible only to the extent of income received.
I disclaim here, I am not an accountant.
This is all getting so theoretical. No, reading a magazine in the dentist's office is not a "rip-off." Advertising rates are set on a calculation that magazines are read by some multiple of the official circulation.
The production assistant two buildings over, the set dresser who lives in Larchmont, the special effects director over there in Encino has much more to be worried about from the competition by Orlando, Wilmington, Toronto, and Vancouver, and New York City than the guy with a camera in his lap at the cineplex over in Stockton. Shoot, the movie industry may have a bigger problem with cell phone texting spreading bad word of mouth on Friday night because the millions in advertising that used to buy a good weekend can only buy a good Friday.
Meanwhile, about this law, isn't it just a feel-good thing? Some legislator stands up and says "I did something about piracy." All right, congratulations. You still need someone in the audience to go tell management about the person in the next row who is taping the movie, because, if this is happening to any significant amount, it's because management cannot catch the behavior. But, if it is happening a lot, why aren't audience members getting those people ejected today? (And if telling management will shortly mean the local constabulary is called, doesn't that escalate the episode into something more dangerous for the audience, the theatre management, and the police?)
"Well, Carey, we hear the person in the Toyota Accura -- just ran a red light there -- is alleged to have taped a movie in the theater.""Thanks, Larry, when will people learn, you can't run away from the police and you can't tape movies in the theatre." When I hear that exchange while watching a televised medium-speed chase, then I'll know this law meant something.
By releasing the bifurcated sessions CD format, they now have a quick way to identify bootlegged cd's that make their way into the retail chain. They play on consumer equipment without a hint of hassle.
But seriously now, why do they test more of these things outside of the US? And more importantly, how do they measure success? Isn't this scheme by Sony slipping across an anti-trust line? Or that Sony has 4, oops, check that, 3, competitors allows it to not sweat that one?
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Went over to Guild and registered "I Was a File Sharer for the FBI". I think this would make a good B budget film starring JT. Warners will LOVE this!
With a tenative Production schedule of June 1/04 - July 15, maybe we can pick up American Idol winners at heat height for cameo/support (depending on acting ability, of course.)
How about this as directing opp for Friends actor looking first feature. I've cc'ed Lou on this.
We could go comedy or action drama -- let's focus group it.
Do need a love interest -- Britney S's people have passed, but not sure if that's a firm pass.
Let's get a penner online for a treatment with script to be delivered in mid Feb.
CU at Morton's!
I Panthered a PowerBook 667, an iMac 800, and a G5. Java was fine on the first two and trashed on the G5 (in exactly the same way you described). Being a new machine, I thought I'd repartition the G5 and install Panther from scratch. That solved my problem. All machines were 10.2.8 at the time of upgrade. Other than architecture, maybe the Developer tools packages differed among the machines.
I really didn't read it as Windows users are stupider. I think the suggestion was we are all succeptible to social engineering, but having standard minimally privileged accounts mitigates the issue for Linux and Unix and OS X users. A finer granularity of permissions, such as Access Control Lists, and a well-administered box will always provide more security, regardless of platform. Still administration will always be a complex pita and a lot of home users will not put in enough time or take harmful shortcuts; this too is not a function of the platform. Some distributors of Linux are playing with fire (or relying on being no more than a niche provider) whey they install many packages that a newbie user wouldn't use, understand, or know how to administer. When RedHat started turning up2date into a subscription service, I wrote a letter expressing my worries that a large number of poorly administered boxes may embarrass that company the way Microsoft gets embarrassed. Granted, I wanted free updates with minimal effort, and maybe there's no economy for that, but they have all but lost me as a customer over the issue.
I digress. The commentary was a discussion of generalized cases and you could very well be right, that was the weakest argument of the few he made.
We all understand that one's choice of platform does not guarantee security. As said over and over again, security is a process.
The Revolution will not be televised....
It will be slashdotted.
[Apologies to Gil Scott-Heron]
At the risk of overthinking this, maybe the bottom-line motivation (or the gentleman's agreement) is to not waste the marketing potential of an Oscar (there's a trademark there folks) on movies that have played out in theatres. Movies released in the spring (as if a good movie comes out then) or summer are almost uniformly out of the theatres by Christmas. It is also a poorly kept secret that big studios are resentful of the consistent award winning ways of people like Miramax (who are owned by a big studio -- there's got to be some reason they call this La-La Land), so there's another feint within a feint for others to consider.
It's all so weird this year any way, Oscars (there's that TM again) are at the end of February to get into sweeps or to dilute the attention paid to the Golden Globes or to shorten the self-aggrandizing "for your consideration" promotional period or maybe to see if we can watch the celebs dash through the rain and make a muddy red carpet. See you at Hollywood and Highland!
The first thing I'd suggest is that the RIAA and its members are not concerned with selling more units per se, they want to sell more units of their hit recordings. These recordings have paid back their costs and each new unit, minus its notably small manufacturing costs, is pure profit.
As for the speculation about why the sturm and drang over p2p and not so much noise about http, I would note that, as LawMeme states, http sites are easier to take down. And so, let me propose that the point is to go after the unsolvable problem, p2p. After all, they can claim "we killed Napster, we subponeaed isp's, we even sued the 12 year olds and millions are still 'stealing' from us -- we cannot kill the beast. So, Congress, let's just tax hard drives, blank cd's, isp accounts, etc., and let the government, as proxy for the thieves, reimburse us for our losses." Because revenues from taxes are really pure profit. And would they split the reimbursements with their artists? Well, of course, I can't imagine why I would even ask the question!
Please note, the above analysis in no way endorses the RIAA viewpoint that the primary cause of their troubles is from filesharing. In fact, didn't we see that filesharing has decreased and, looking at their album sales, they are still selling fewer units.
The answer is to limit liability to the purchase price. Take a look at the warrantees you have at home. No manufacturer (unless compelled by the infrequent legal jurisdiction) will extend the value of the warrantees to coverage of consequential damages, i.e., the costs of bathroom floor when the washing machine hose breaks, or the costs of that family reunion when the video tape breaks.
Now the comparison to consumer goods is not perfect, as software problems are rarely caused by manufacturing defects. So are we really talking about ascertaining liability based on a theory of "software engineering" malpractice? Yikes. If that isn't in the category of be careful what you wish for... Still, the place to start for assessing damages for any such malpractice should be the cost (purchase price, contract amount) paid by the consumer. Give that system a few years and see how it works out before we consider extending the basis for claims.
As my subject line indicates, access is a different concept than ownership. Any beginning Learning Unix text will illustrate the differences and basic administrative control. If (hard to believe) you are running a unix-like system, try the following commands "man chown" "man chgrp" "man chmod" and you can research what it all means.
I don't know if this applies to the point, but John Fogerty was sued by the publisher of his compositions from the Credence Clearwater Revival era (it was a VERY acrimonious split between Fogerty and Fantasy Records) for a song he wrote for his solo record 13 years and another record company later. (The CCR record label was also owned by the same person who owned the publisher.) The song was Fogerty's "Old Man Down the Road" which was litigated on the basis of copyright infringement of Fogerty's Green River (IIRC). Went to trial. Jury didn't agree with the publisher.
I'm not in the lecture halls right now, but your description would seem to be a fair one for my fellow college students back in the mid 70s. Not me, I like the digressions. I just recalled my favorite history lecture which went into the details of the assassination of Archduke Prince Ferdinand, the event that precipitates World War I. While 99% of the material had no bearing on the final exam (this was undergraduate beginning History of Western Civilization), it was a brilliantly developed narrative and had an underlying point about the imprecise nature of understanding history as chain of events, each of which "had to happen".
As for the niece issue, that is, an easier way five pages later -- I believe this is a writing technique used to validate the later approach. I suppose the student is to learn that, while other approaches are possible, we've saved the best for last. Maybe by seeing alternate approaches, it fosters an underlying understanding of the concepts. That makes some sense to me, but, shoot, I'm a product of New Math 1.0 and I liked it.
But the big picture battle isn't about those who've never used a computer before, it's about those who are using something and think it's too difficult and too much learning curve to switch. The article could be summed up as "it was closer than you'd think." And yes, this was even though, it is implied, all the people in the sample had some Windows (if not XP) experience.
Now, if it was me performing the survey, I'd worry that my group of XP users were unanimous (100%) in liking its design. But, maybe not enough to spend money to test a new sample.
Show business is lousy with folks who will "represent" a "client" for a fee. Really folks. How much forbearance do you think Apple or any other digital download store will have for a distributor who offers music with the solitary merit that the check cleared.
You are correct. He's on track for Gov of California and has accelerated his timetable by 3 years due to the recall of Gov. Davis. If he succeeds there, the Senate would be the next step and that would be the limit (excepting Cabinet positions).
A new medium has appeared. It's called (approximately) a hard-drive. More efficient in storage space, it continues the clear progression of convenience that began when the LP replaced the 78.
The full implications of this new medium are still being worked out with many approaches being tested. Perhaps the most successful approach for exploitation and profit has not been precisely conceived yet. My point of view is that using litigation to lawyer it away misses the meaning of the sea change, and looks like an expensive way to sell less product. I also think that recording artists and/or their management and lawyers who insist on a buy it all or nothing approach are also likely to be left behind.
The more I've thought about this over the past few weeks, the more I feel we could be on the verge of a pop explosion centered around, as the great pop explosions of the past, the single. It is so much easier to be brilliant for 3:35 than for 65:13.
And, better put an altimeter on line, because water boils slower at higher altitudes.
Maybe my imagination and experience about how children learn is limited, but it seems to me there should be a minimal lag time between idea and result. Python on a console seems like an excellent start because its statement style is reasonably clear and it has an interactive mode.
The trouble with learning to program in a gui context is that for every 1 minute of problem solving there's 5 or more minutes of (tedious) gui polishing. Now the polishing is very important for real applications development, but at the outset: type a command, see a result seems to me more fun. I first programmed with BASIC (so I guess I'm an element of the class Dijkstra-doomed) on a teletype connected to a time share at age 14 in 1971.
One sees this all the time. Imagine you're a bank. You tell your advertising agency that you want more business. They engage in focus groups. Finding number one is that the group members think banks are unfriendly. The ad agency comes back and gives you a plan how you can brand yourself as the friendly bank. The ads are produced and scheduled. Millions of dollars later people still think that banks are unfriendly, because banks are unfriendly. (It has to do with implementation of policies designed to reduce costs of fraud as much as possible.) Other examples of the phenomenon: Airlines and "on time" and Supermarkets and "farm-fresh produce."
Don't I remember something about the cart and horse that may apply here?
This administration has a pattern of attempting to outsource responsibility. Schools are bad - need more private schools. Need more security at the airport, let private enterprise answer the need. Now some will argue that's a good thing; I'll just say that I think there has to be a balance of private and publc sectors so I may get to my real point.
How this administration will play the cybersecurity thing is to: first, contract out a study of how to have cybersecurity; second, contract out the implementation of cybersecurity; and three, mandate everyone buy into the system or get off. Penalty for not being a customer -- how about jail, massive fines, and confiscation of equipment (sort of like if the RIAA finds you trading "illegal" music files). The head of cybersecurity will be the rfq writer and purser for the whole deal, not the architect of the secure net.
Even if it doesn't go down quite that way, how much do you want to bet that taxpayer dollars will end up in Microsoft's pocket so that they can develop the secure ms-net?
Because, some companies would look at resumes and guess about gender, ethnicity, age, creed, etc. and toss them without interviews. Or, the resume looks good, they have an interview, see the person (who wasn't the desired demographic) and then toss the resume (after saying, gee whiz, the position just got filled). Later on, when someone notes that the company is 99.999% white male, the company responds that the people hired were the best qualified or only applicants and there's no pesky resume file to check that against.
That's what was being addressed when those laws (and regulations) were placed on the books, probably during the 70s.
Maybe even also sued by the spammers as an attractive nusiance?
Maybe more like the 10 or 101. I remember hearing, after the Northridge quake in '94, that a fault runs under Wilshire near the Miracle Mile / La Brea tar pits area. This is a new (kinda parallel) one? Los Angeles calling (and I, I live near the fautline.)