Government might not be interested in those who lawfully use the internet. I suspect what government is trying to do is frustrate the terrorists/bad guys by taking away one more place they can do buisness.
Of course it is. Terrorists don't use the internet for tactical comms - they meet face to face in some mountain in Pakistan.
For terrorism to work, there needs to be enough of them motivated. And so far in the USA, there have not been any since 9/11.
Why fight after you've won? The Bush administration is tearing this country apart in binLaden's name (I even hear the military talking about leaving SA), so what's the gain?
you shouldn't try to talk about economics when there are adults who might be listening.
I know as much or more about economics as the average senator. Not saying much, I know.
Must be very enterprising of Israel to be able to build an economy with only 134,791,507,200 dollars of someone else's money in their pockets.
$134B (is that 2005 dollars?) over 60 years? That doesn't even pay for the military (which they wouldn't need if the arabs around them weren't trying to annihilate them). Israel has a first world economy and a decent standard of living. Not bad for living in the damn desert.
As to your other points, why should anyone else care? Perhaps you can tell me about your years activism in the face of loss of manufacturing jobs? Go ahead.
You should care because it will screw a lot of smart workers who want to work, are willing to retrain, and are having their livelihood devalued through legislation (H1-B caps combined with lax enforcement). A lot of manufacturing workers are poorly educated, expect to do the same damn thing for the same money, and had years of warning, by the way.
Most of the MS/PhD students in the US(at least in tech) are either Chinese or Indian anyway.
Well yeah. We have a surplus of PhDs as it is, and it's frequently a money-loser, so it makes sense. In 5 years, I expect to have one, perhaps two MSes, so I'm doing my part for the ratio.
You guys do have lots of a precious natural resource - arable land.
Yeah, we're building houses on them, but you can always knock them over.
If he was a mediocre coder then he wouldn't have resigned from a managerial position to become Chief Software Architect.
He's been CEO for over 20 years and stuck his nose into the technical details of most strategic MS software, but he (arguably) hasn't written a line of code in all that time. Why would you think he's any sort of decent coder? And yeah, architects don't write code, but they should know how to. How else do you make the necessary decisions?
Since geniuses generally avoid idiots, I'd gather Gates is worth more than a million of Slashdot cable-running fanbois combined.
And we get the ever so charming "If you're so smart, why aaren't you rich?" parting shot. Bravo, sir.
When did you guys lose your "Give me your poor, tired and huddled masses...' and 'if you work you can make it big' attitudes and get this entitlement attitude?
Back then, companies couldn't ship jobs to some backwater where the cost of living was cheaper while enjoying the comforts of the first world.
Now that you guys are on top, you'd like to keep a third of humanity down forever?
Why don't you go build your own economy instead of being the bottom ranks of some other country's corporation? Israel did it in about 60 years, why can't you?
And did you even consider in your pompousness that some of the software that MS does might be for the local market?
Yep. It doesn't take tens of thousands of developers to localize software.
Come to think of it there are/were many democracies doing quite well until some pompous pricks decided that they were not right-wing enough. Hmm, can you name the pricks?
Yeah, blame us because the CIA likes to topple hostile democracies and set up friendly dictatorships, because I personally oversaw those ops.
And for those who think we have no home-grown tech companies, wait and watch.
I don't care about your local industry, at least that's not my concern. Good luck and all that. My problem is that, by cutting costs at all costs, the local corps here seem to want to sabotage the US technology career - who's going to study CS if there aren't any jobs, or if they pay shit wages? Who's going to hire fresh grads if MS shifts most of its hiring to India? Yeah, we've got startups like crazy, but what happens when the business plan requires shifting all development to India after 5 years? Yeah, we cost more (we have higher rents), but we feed money back into the economy.
Ah, the wonderful closed source lie: sell me your effort and I will make you rich.
In all fairness, Microsoft has created a truly shocking number of millionaire workers. Myself, I'll not look to employment to make me rich - I'm trying to find a business plan that I can use to do it for myself.
Proof that right wingers claim that morality implies religion? That's one of their main planks for arguing that oour nation is based on christian principles. I've seen them claim it lots of times. What more do you need?
when you ring someone your phone negotiates with the network, establishes a voice channel to dial the number and *then* turns on your microphone so background noises don't interfere with dialing tones
Why the hell would a digital cell phone standard use dialing tones to dial a number in this day and age? please tell me that gsm can say "connect to: 234-5678".
What's up with the random star wars quotes? It isn't literature, and George Lucas doesn't have any special insight into the human condition. He's just a successful producer.
Their adware slips into her computer once the banner is loaded by exploiting a bug in IE and installing without any user notification whatsoever. So mom visits a tame site, gets infected, and has no idea anything has happened. How is that her fault?
Well, she used IE. As the saying goes, friends don't let friends use IE.
if they could drop him on a days notice was he really needed? He'll just have to be honest with himself about that but he will just have to get over that himself.
And also when he's asked to work overtime. If they can drop him in a moment, why are they so short that he must work till 10?
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Forth, the creation of new types of "crime". See the French proposal to outlaw free software, proposals to criminalise patent infringement, etc.
Isn't that the one that declares that free DRM-circumvention software is still illegal?
Government might not be interested in those who lawfully use the internet. I suspect what government is trying to do is frustrate the terrorists/bad guys by taking away one more place they can do buisness.
Of course it is. Terrorists don't use the internet for tactical comms - they meet face to face in some mountain in Pakistan.
For terrorism to work, there needs to be enough of them motivated. And so far in the USA, there have not been any since 9/11.
Why fight after you've won? The Bush administration is tearing this country apart in binLaden's name (I even hear the military talking about leaving SA), so what's the gain?
you shouldn't try to talk about economics when there are adults who might be listening.
I know as much or more about economics as the average senator. Not saying much, I know.
Must be very enterprising of Israel to be able to build an economy with only 134,791,507,200 dollars of someone else's money in their pockets.
$134B (is that 2005 dollars?) over 60 years? That doesn't even pay for the military (which they wouldn't need if the arabs around them weren't trying to annihilate them). Israel has a first world economy and a decent standard of living. Not bad for living in the damn desert.
As to your other points, why should anyone else care? Perhaps you can tell me about your years activism in the face of loss of manufacturing jobs? Go ahead.
You should care because it will screw a lot of smart workers who want to work, are willing to retrain, and are having their livelihood devalued through legislation (H1-B caps combined with lax enforcement). A lot of manufacturing workers are poorly educated, expect to do the same damn thing for the same money, and had years of warning, by the way.
Most of the MS/PhD students in the US(at least in tech) are either Chinese or Indian anyway.
Well yeah. We have a surplus of PhDs as it is, and it's frequently a money-loser, so it makes sense. In 5 years, I expect to have one, perhaps two MSes, so I'm doing my part for the ratio.
You guys do have lots of a precious natural resource - arable land.
Yeah, we're building houses on them, but you can always knock them over.
If he was a mediocre coder then he wouldn't have resigned from a managerial position to become Chief Software Architect.
He's been CEO for over 20 years and stuck his nose into the technical details of most strategic MS software, but he (arguably) hasn't written a line of code in all that time. Why would you think he's any sort of decent coder? And yeah, architects don't write code, but they should know how to. How else do you make the necessary decisions?
Since geniuses generally avoid idiots, I'd gather Gates is worth more than a million of Slashdot cable-running fanbois combined.
And we get the ever so charming "If you're so smart, why aaren't you rich?" parting shot. Bravo, sir.
When did you guys lose your "Give me your poor, tired and huddled masses ...' and 'if you work you can make it big' attitudes and get this entitlement attitude?
Back then, companies couldn't ship jobs to some backwater where the cost of living was cheaper while enjoying the comforts of the first world.
Now that you guys are on top, you'd like to keep a third of humanity down forever?
Why don't you go build your own economy instead of being the bottom ranks of some other country's corporation? Israel did it in about 60 years, why can't you?
And did you even consider in your pompousness that some of the software that MS does might be for the local market?
Yep. It doesn't take tens of thousands of developers to localize software.
Come to think of it there are/were many democracies doing quite well until some pompous pricks decided that they were not right-wing enough. Hmm, can you name the pricks?
Yeah, blame us because the CIA likes to topple hostile democracies and set up friendly dictatorships, because I personally oversaw those ops.
And for those who think we have no home-grown tech companies, wait and watch.
I don't care about your local industry, at least that's not my concern. Good luck and all that. My problem is that, by cutting costs at all costs, the local corps here seem to want to sabotage the US technology career - who's going to study CS if there aren't any jobs, or if they pay shit wages? Who's going to hire fresh grads if MS shifts most of its hiring to India? Yeah, we've got startups like crazy, but what happens when the business plan requires shifting all development to India after 5 years? Yeah, we cost more (we have higher rents), but we feed money back into the economy.
That didn't take long at all.
Are you actually shocked that some people like to gather power so they can fuck lots of women? It's always been so.
He's a helluva businessman with mediocre code skills, which was your point, I guess.
Ah, the wonderful closed source lie: sell me your effort and I will make you rich.
In all fairness, Microsoft has created a truly shocking number of millionaire workers. Myself, I'll not look to employment to make me rich - I'm trying to find a business plan that I can use to do it for myself.
I'm pretty sure Doug hasn't said why he left yet.
According to some other post, Doug is retired (!).
I've never seen proof of this.
Proof that right wingers claim that morality implies religion? That's one of their main planks for arguing that oour nation is based on christian principles. I've seen them claim it lots of times. What more do you need?
when you ring someone your phone negotiates with the network, establishes a voice channel to dial the number and *then* turns on your microphone so background noises don't interfere with dialing tones
Why the hell would a digital cell phone standard use dialing tones to dial a number in this day and age? please tell me that gsm can say "connect to: 234-5678".
The United State of Kansas.
U SOK?
7) 1st dude waits for 2nd dude to collect, then sues for damages (all revenue from podcast) and takes 2nd dude's house.
What's up with the random star wars quotes? It isn't literature, and George Lucas doesn't have any special insight into the human condition. He's just a successful producer.
If you're a spammer or a phisher, you can pretty easily use some of the many available plausible addresses to throw into your registration.
How many domains are registered to 1060 W. Addison, Chicago, Il?
Their adware slips into her computer once the banner is loaded by exploiting a bug in IE and installing without any user notification whatsoever. So mom visits a tame site, gets infected, and has no idea anything has happened. How is that her fault?
Well, she used IE. As the saying goes, friends don't let friends use IE.
if they could drop him on a days notice was he really needed? He'll just have to be honest with himself about that but he will just have to get over that himself.
And also when he's asked to work overtime. If they can drop him in a moment, why are they so short that he must work till 10?
All of your other examples are of things that have happened, only with a new level of damage. How do you underwrite an entirely new category of risk?
Clearly a firing offense for these two "cowboy coders"!!!
the thing is, you can get an internal IM client and use that.
It would be kind of stupid to get thrown in prison for escalating a case of mistaken identity into manslaughter.
If someone was pulling be out of my car bodily, the first thing on my mind would be carjacking, which is generally something that merits lethal force.
Someone punching through the drywall or a window will make it obvious that there was a breakin.
Missing laptops and footage of someone taking them would do that. How about real physical security that can't be circumvented with a saw?
*Definition: Hard: "requires work".
Fixed it for you.
Gee, I guess I should inform the medical community that viruses are now "living cells"? What kind of dreck is this?
They are living cells. More importantly, bacteria is what makes you really sick, and it's alive. Radiation kills it dead.Actually, you could only block a site if you were co-located with it, since they have to resolve to the same IP.
Assuming your simplified model of websites, you can still point your domain at someone else's site. you don't need to own the ip.