Am I the only person that wishes Rep. Boucher was in the Senate instead of Hollings? He's the one person I can think of in politics who is technologically informed and not in the pockets of big media conglomerates.
We can remember him as the person sending the letter to the RIAA questioning their practice of labelling copy protected CD's as normal CD's, and drafting up tech friendly legislation.
One problem- constant renaming of bills. A majority of Americans were against the "estate tax," until Republicans changed it to the "death tax" and a majority supported it. Same with abortion- you don't hear Republicans saying they are Anti-choice or Democrats saying they are Anti-life.
Not to mention all the money going through. I honestly don't know why these politicians aren't sued for bribery. It isn't a coincidence that Hollins supports this after all the cash Disney gave him. Same thing with Bush and Microsoft (and the DoJ essentially settling for 10 cents).
In all seriousness, there's already a project for an open BeOS, located at http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/. It was started shortly after Palm purchased BeOS to keep it alive.
Some may ask, why would I want internet access while in a movie theater?
Well you could:
-See Theater Schedules & Order Movie Tickets to coming shows. -Messaging to Fellow Movie goers adjacent in the crowd without talking. -Messaging to Fellow Movie goers in adjacent screens in multi-screen venues without talking. -Surfing to related or official websites for the current movie showing. -Surfing to the InternetMovieDataBase for related data to movie, actors and screen writers. -Connecting to promotions related to movie sponsor. -Driving the movie content in real-time via audience response in Digital Theaters. -Ordering Food and drinks from the kitchen and bar without talking. -Ordering the movie soundtrack online or video releases in advance. -Watching an alternate streaming movie if the one on the big screen doesn't make it for you.
I agree that child porn should be illegal (as it is) and sites with it should be taken down. However, the government should just take down the sites with it instead of passing it on to the ISPs. The ISPs have no power in this and with things like proxies constantly popping up, you can't regulate the vast amount of information on the Internet.
Also, one other BIG problem stopping technologically misinformed laws- the cause is noble- stopping child porn- even if the law hinders the technological sector. If you were a politician, would you rather be saying "I worked to stop child porn," or have your opponent smear you in an ad campaign saying "this politician voted AGAINST stopping child porn" ? Basically, the long story isn't heard in these things, so they will be oversimplified and politicians will thus vote for clueless measures, however noble the cause.
It's obviously not about the number of lines of code. It's about the number of lines of code you can generate. With a simple while loop or for loop, you can generate infinite numbers of lines of code. Then, it becomes more about how fast you can generate the lines of code. Plus, you want to set a slight variation so that your employer doesn't notice, and thus you can get paid the most. Cause that's what coding really is about, isn't it?
At first I thought this article was a JonKatz article about how the Internet was useful, and I was surprised to find it wasn't. His article would go:
Since 1912, the Internet has been very useful. What started as a way of putting together fishing nets in an "inter" way became a key method of transferring "data." Data is 1's and 0's. I'm not 1's and 0's. Internet useful because it lets you get your Slash for your dot. I'm the dot in dot com. No that's Intel. In concluision, what the "Intra-net" is no one knows, but one day scientists hope to figure it out. If that is, it doesn't violate the DMCA, because the DMCA says you can't use crack, and scientists want to "crack" the problem.
And to end with a Homer J. Simpson quote: "(Wow), they have the Internet on computers now?"
This will bring a whole new meaning to the word "floppies." Funny, you will be able to fit Mandrake on just a couple of floppies, rather than a few hundred.
Yup, the $4.3 million to people in both political parties, including President Bush, appears not to have gone far enough for them. With all those billions, you would figure they could at least afford a cool $20 million to put down the antitrust measure, that sure would do it.
Instead though, they put the same amount of pennies into political donations as they do for bug fixes...err wait...do they have a budget for bug fixes?
The stories are almost shockingly realistic and compelling. We get drawn into them, often forgetting that they aren't quite real. Or are they?
This reminds me of The Matrix. I watched the movie and often forgot that it wasn't quite real. Or is it??
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...and all it takes is a bit of activism. Write up a letter to your local representative, find ten friends, and have them all write a letter as well as finding one or two friends each. Then, they will pay more note to the issue and quite possibly change their opinion. They are supposed to represent their constituents and often will even if they don't believe in the cause.
I _would_ also recommend writing senators, but that might be a bit more ambitious since they usually represent much larger numbers of people and thus would be harder to coerce.
Oh, and recommend they join Rep. Boucher's informed technological reps bandwagon.
I think that this article is SNAILS baseless propoganda PANDA against the good old company of COMMUNIST microsoft. The only SMELLY reason that it is even CEILING listed is because of the INTERTIAL distaste people here have for Microsoft X-RAY.
Lol, you guys sure have a short memory. This article was posted two months ago, here.
If this was in fact news though, I'd mention that this will bring more linux developers to mono, thanks to there being a compiler for it that isn't just for.NET.
And how many people have a 65 mb/s connection? I have a cable modem capped at 2 megabits and most people on cable/dsl, who are on the fast end of consumer ISPs, it would take 32.5 times as long as it would take you.
Then again, according to my calculations, your 15 minutes for 1200 megabytes only gives you a total of 10.7 megabits/sec.
She won by a very small plurality, not a majority (she got less than 60%), and had it not been for third party candidates, she likely would have lost. See here for a Flash demo on the Green Party's proposal that would prevent spoiler candidates like the one in Washington and Nader from affecting these things (and an actual good use of Flash!).
I preferred her over Slade Gordon, who was "The Senator From Microsoft," but I would rather she had actually won by having more people want her in office than Gordon.
I'm surprised they aren't already playing this card. "We already tried to remove IE but it didn't work and as a result Windows has been crashing. It's all because of this lawsuit, end it or we won't be able to fix the bugs!"
It's not just this that they are getting charged extra for. According to this article (from a little while ago), there is a class action lawsuit against them for switching their users to long distance numbers when they are out of normal numbers, even when the users claim they didn't change anything. Either AOL has dumb users, dumb workers, or both, because stuff like this keeps happening and AOL and the users blame each other.
Thinking about this further- does he think of mail fraud as an innovative use of the postal system? Many spam laws aren't against the spam themselves but are against falsifying header info.
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Am I the only person that wishes Rep. Boucher was in the Senate instead of Hollings? He's the one person I can think of in politics who is technologically informed and not in the pockets of big media conglomerates.
We can remember him as the person sending the letter to the RIAA questioning their practice of labelling copy protected CD's as normal CD's, and drafting up tech friendly legislation.
One problem- constant renaming of bills. A majority of Americans were against the "estate tax," until Republicans changed it to the "death tax" and a majority supported it. Same with abortion- you don't hear Republicans saying they are Anti-choice or Democrats saying they are Anti-life.
Not to mention all the money going through. I honestly don't know why these politicians aren't sued for bribery. It isn't a coincidence that Hollins supports this after all the cash Disney gave him. Same thing with Bush and Microsoft (and the DoJ essentially settling for 10 cents).
Not quite. The Google toolbar is useful, but see this CNet article about privacy concerns it raised. It tracks all the sites you visit.
And here's a clickable link for the lazy: http://www.scumware.com :-)
In all seriousness, there's already a project for an open BeOS, located at http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/. It was started shortly after Palm purchased BeOS to keep it alive.
to quotith the site...
Some may ask, why would I want internet access while in a movie theater?
Well you could:
-See Theater Schedules & Order Movie Tickets to coming shows.
-Messaging to Fellow Movie goers adjacent in the crowd without talking.
-Messaging to Fellow Movie goers in adjacent screens in multi-screen venues without talking.
-Surfing to related or official websites for the current movie showing.
-Surfing to the InternetMovieDataBase for related data to movie, actors and screen writers.
-Connecting to promotions related to movie sponsor.
-Driving the movie content in real-time via audience response in Digital Theaters.
-Ordering Food and drinks from the kitchen and bar without talking.
-Ordering the movie soundtrack online or video releases in advance.
-Watching an alternate streaming movie if the one on the big screen doesn't make it for you.
I agree that child porn should be illegal (as it is) and sites with it should be taken down. However, the government should just take down the sites with it instead of passing it on to the ISPs. The ISPs have no power in this and with things like proxies constantly popping up, you can't regulate the vast amount of information on the Internet.
Also, one other BIG problem stopping technologically misinformed laws- the cause is noble- stopping child porn- even if the law hinders the technological sector. If you were a politician, would you rather be saying "I worked to stop child porn," or have your opponent smear you in an ad campaign saying "this politician voted AGAINST stopping child porn" ? Basically, the long story isn't heard in these things, so they will be oversimplified and politicians will thus vote for clueless measures, however noble the cause.
It's obviously not about the number of lines of code. It's about the number of lines of code you can generate. With a simple while loop or for loop, you can generate infinite numbers of lines of code. Then, it becomes more about how fast you can generate the lines of code. Plus, you want to set a slight variation so that your employer doesn't notice, and thus you can get paid the most. Cause that's what coding really is about, isn't it?
This will bring a whole new meaning to the word "floppies." Funny, you will be able to fit Mandrake on just a couple of floppies, rather than a few hundred.
Yup, the $4.3 million to people in both political parties, including President Bush, appears not to have gone far enough for them. With all those billions, you would figure they could at least afford a cool $20 million to put down the antitrust measure, that sure would do it.
Instead though, they put the same amount of pennies into political donations as they do for bug fixes...err wait...do they have a budget for bug fixes?
Darwin sounds really cool. Perhaps it will evolve to become #1? Survival of the fittest streaming servers definitely applies here.
...and all it takes is a bit of activism. Write up a letter to your local representative, find ten friends, and have them all write a letter as well as finding one or two friends each. Then, they will pay more note to the issue and quite possibly change their opinion. They are supposed to represent their constituents and often will even if they don't believe in the cause.
I _would_ also recommend writing senators, but that might be a bit more ambitious since they usually represent much larger numbers of people and thus would be harder to coerce.
Oh, and recommend they join Rep. Boucher's informed technological reps bandwagon.
I think that this article is SNAILS baseless propoganda PANDA against the good old company of COMMUNIST microsoft. The only SMELLY reason that it is even CEILING listed is because of the INTERTIAL distaste people here have for Microsoft X-RAY.
Lol, you guys sure have a short memory. This article was posted two months ago, here.
.NET.
If this was in fact news though, I'd mention that this will bring more linux developers to mono, thanks to there being a compiler for it that isn't just for
And how many people have a 65 mb/s connection? I have a cable modem capped at 2 megabits and most people on cable/dsl, who are on the fast end of consumer ISPs, it would take 32.5 times as long as it would take you.
Then again, according to my calculations, your 15 minutes for 1200 megabytes only gives you a total of 10.7 megabits/sec.
She won by a very small plurality, not a majority (she got less than 60%), and had it not been for third party candidates, she likely would have lost. See here for a Flash demo on the Green Party's proposal that would prevent spoiler candidates like the one in Washington and Nader from affecting these things (and an actual good use of Flash!).
I preferred her over Slade Gordon, who was "The Senator From Microsoft," but I would rather she had actually won by having more people want her in office than Gordon.
I'm surprised they aren't already playing this card. "We already tried to remove IE but it didn't work and as a result Windows has been crashing. It's all because of this lawsuit, end it or we won't be able to fix the bugs!"
It's not just this that they are getting charged extra for. According to this article (from a little while ago), there is a class action lawsuit against them for switching their users to long distance numbers when they are out of normal numbers, even when the users claim they didn't change anything. Either AOL has dumb users, dumb workers, or both, because stuff like this keeps happening and AOL and the users blame each other.
Ng's GNU! I think that was a typo though, should have been NNG, i.e. NNG's Not GNU!
Thinking about this further- does he think of mail fraud as an innovative use of the postal system? Many spam laws aren't against the spam themselves but are against falsifying header info.
He should make his campaign slogan "a spam in every mailbox." That will get him elected.