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If corperations were treated as governments then many of these issues would go away. Corps [or at least these same arguments] were the reason for the American Revolution! The british hid their abusive practices behind the guise of "corperate ownership" That's what fueled the fires here when they were passing laws that were illegal in England!
Corporations are specificlly to have "isolated" leadership, Limited financial liability for the owners, and limited legal liability for the employees/directors. Those same things all apply to being a government! The owners give up their individual property rights to the corperation, we need to stop letting corps hid behind investors coat-tails.
Changing the status would fix a great many things. Eula's and TOS would have to be fair per constitutional grounds. Drug tests, lie detectors, and the like would finally be disallowed for good. The biggest problem of all is that the govt is hiding behind corps just as badly! Congresscritters use corps "property rights" to inflict all sorts of unconstitutional infringement on us by requiring the corps to do this for contracts.
It's all neat and pretty for those at the top -- just like it was for King George in 1776!
Did they get a normal corperate settlement like the RIAA got for price-fixing?
The one where they admit no wrong-doing, Can't be sued again, and give them lots of money. Then the details are sealed so other lawyers can't use the case in other courts.
I don't think they did, but maybe? After all, the court was leaning to throw the file sharing program out as it was legit. But, Each of the kids had large troves of MP3s on their personal machines set up to share [and actually sharing] on the network so they were fried anyway. The settlement was the best the RIAA could get away with. And probably cheaper than the legal fees for all involved.
90% of the time it's the BOSS that wants the stuff! Most workers are OK with personal stuff not working, but the bosses [it's a small business] want to bring stuff from home, etc and get upset when you tell them that "they don't need that at work".
Bosses are also the reason Admins hate downtime. No matter how well you schedule it, work weird hours around everyone else's schedules, the boss will always "need" to come in [or dial in] at 2:00 am saturday night while you're in the middle of an upgrade! Whether you tell um or not, they get upset about being "inconveninced"! It's outrageous and stupid, but that's IT.
They want a list of things to finish, not start!
Regular bugs and driver bugs are other people's departments. This list is for the Choosen Few who can actually write kernel code. I'm kinda surprised they even posted it here where all the idiots can harass those poor souls. Of course Wishlist items were out a while ago at feature freeze--again, don't waste their time-someone already decided what was in and what was out. They're looking for heavy duty programming that needs done. Systems to toss out and rewrite just because it won't work anymore. Bug fixes that have Fscked the system. Not petty requests from us!
It's a huge project. I mean they have to keep up with 2.4 patches, then adapt all the 2.4 things to 2.5 along the way, then add new features that break a bunch of stuff, then fix what they broke, then try to optimize things for stability and speed, then rewrite it because it's hosed, fix more stuff they broke...etc. It's a vicious cycle and few people in the world can do it!
If they had enough evidence to arrest the other six guys why mess with him weeks later? There's no valid legal reason-- except to mess with him!
according to their own affidavit they knew who he was with, when, and where he was when they arrested the others. That would mean that if they had the evidence to arrest him, they would have used it. Not using it is grasping at straws. Either they have had new evidence from the arrested guys [again, just arrest him!] or they didn't have enough evidence and wanted an "example" [horrifically bad and evil--boardering on treason!]
Holding him as material witness is a very grave thing, reserved only for National Security issues like you have said. By definition it is for people who are not at fault but need to be kept against their will. Now after six weeks they are changing their story just in the nick-of-time to keep a judge from actually hearing his argument!
If it looks like a rat... ...and smells like a rat... ...then we're calling it a rat!
The severity of the powers they are using demands that they be forthright with the public in these matters! Even the appereance of impropriety should be severely punished by public opinion.
Yeah, but with their proprietary network "everything" Even just sharing a network connection with at Linux box is a hack. Most of the proxy tools don't work with AOL and that's stupid if they want to grow their business into broadband. Also, this means that PS2 & XBOX online don't work without a hack either.
why they haven't spliced the AOL connector into Mozilla is beyond me. After all the Moz is theirs to play with! At least so I could use one of their routers for my linux box. That's not unreasonable.
That cool game with the monsters from starwars. Why didn't they create that as a demo.
Of course it's not "real" technology until Linux [check] and doom [comming soon?] are running on it! Oh, and it has to surf Pr0n too!
Then it will be "real" tech!
You only need the phone line for remote control PPV.
For most people, the phone line is a "bad thing" Mine's never been plugged in! I don't like anyone with the remote in their hand being able to change programming. (i.e. the babysitter ordering a zllion PPV Pr0n when I'm out!) You can go online or just phone call if you want to change/order something. It's really easy. The phone thing is way overrated.
If they download a song, can't they figure out the IP it came from? Then send said nasty letter to your ISP and kick you off? Most of the file sharers are kids anyway. If they got Mom & Dad kick off their ISP just once [and have to deal with finding another ISP to hook-up] a great deal of file trading would drop off in weeks.
On the flip side--if they set up downloads and people bite can't they also find you and send nasty letter?
I don't see that as a problem. Kazza is a publik network after all! No one really has any "protection" for their actions using their network. If they want to look you up they are more that right to do so. Try kiddy pr0n on Kazza and I'll guaranty you'll have someone at your door in a hurry! The only problem is that going after every music downloader is time consuming. Again, go after the kids at home-upset the parents and you'll get results. A little sabotage of the CDDB would be good too. If they embeded a tracker number in the database tags everyone would download them to their mp3's! You could track at least the stupid users back home with it.
As for college students, they need to offer a more reasonable alternative. If the college gets a kick-back for sharing the network they'd be more likely to keep the kids straight too! Funny how a little money in Deans hands fixes lots of things! [Take a page from the MS playbook here!]
To throw some more fuel on the flames I'll be a-getting [but that's OK, I've got marshmellows!]..I use AOL DSL and love it. They've got radio stations that play just about anything you'd want. [Music videos too] or you can go to the other legal music sites at decent bandwidth too. There's enough stuff on there you don't have to steal to get it! More ISPs need to follow that example. [and AOL needs to support Linux!]
That we have the bigger balls by letting someone go free because we stand for princials--even for those who wish to kill us. Because we can't prove in our court by our rules that they commited the crime.
Sure, they might come back an get us--even more so because they precive us as weak for showing to principle and not fear. Not instilling fear in OUR OWN PEOPLE is what makes us strong! not a big army with lots of smart bombs. Or big corps that can buy foreign dictators. Or a mouthy Prez.
Like the guy or not, the cops are cheating the system. They're lying too. The guy was home for months before they got him. They obviously weren't looking for him to start. Being held as a material witness means in general you can't be prosecuted for what you're witness for--or they would have just charged you. You also don't have the same rights as you are assumed by the court to be innocent [one of the rare cases] and can treated as a hostile witness. Changing the charges now is borderline illegal--in normal criminal cases a good lawyer would get you out right there. He was denied council and Habeous Corpus. Things he said w/o access to a lawyer will now be used against him--even though at the time he wasn't under arrest. Our President has been more than willing to bend the laws to get what he wants. In this case the guy is a US citizen who did or didn't do something abroad. He didn't ever actually fight with them, he was denied at the China border, and they didn't deem him enough of a threat to pick him up with the rest of the bunch [who were outright arrested].
Remember boys and girls, we're still at war with DRUGS! They've been more than willing to bend the laws for that sham too. How else would they have a list ready of what to ask for? Hope you don't know any pot dealers on campus guys--this could happen to you! That's why this is so wrong. Many of the early National Security laws of the 60's and 70's have been used in the drug war. The "patriot" act was written expressly to allow these "foriegn powers" provisions to be used in as many civilian criminal cases as they could get away with! I live in Michigan: There was a Detroit procecutor who wanted to try out the new spouse abuse law and spent 18+ month of taxpayer time and a family's lives on a case that didn't have any merit...just to get a score for being "baddest a$$" Don't think for a minute that a procecutor or police chief somewhere won't try to extend these crazy laws to everyone. It's not if, it's when!!!
This discussion is almost laughable. Realize that when the constitution was written most of the nation was still wild. People could be attacked by indians [no offence] at any time! The British answer was exactly yours--they demanded that troops accountable only to the Army be installed in everyone's house for protection. They couldn't be accountable or punished for much of anything [hope you didn't have lots of chickens or daughters!] The people that wrote the Constitution lived under constant threat of attack. They knew exactly what they were writing. They had lived under what you propose: a rights-for-saftey deal and found it to be undesireable enough to start a war over it. The american revolution was started over far less than what GW has done lately! Much less! They were taxed, abused by unaccountable officers, tariffed, told they didn't need representation because the corps in charge of the Colony represented them in London...History seems to be repeating itself. We even get a George! Maybe we should wake up and get a clue.
As far as preventing 9/11 it would have been & still is impossible! Those men went onto the planes like normal passangers. They would have passed any inspection--I'm sure they even left their carkeys and metal eyelet shoes at home. Even today's security wouldn't help because they carried no weapons onboard!! only hatred [they bribed the food crew to leave boxcutters!] there's still no body who watches the prep crew 100% of the time--we can't make a law about that.
The only reason they knew where he was was because his wife got the lawyers hunting for him right away! They "intended" to "disappear" him is just like he "intended" to help the taliban. The fact that the lawyers didn't allow it is of no significance.
Besides, who's to say that he wouldn't have been put with a violent murderer and attacked or killed? The net effect is the same.
If they now have charges, why weren't they presented 6 weeks ago? The latest of the info is better than a year old! They classified him wrongly as a "material witness". That could [and should] be considered purgery because now that they are called for it, they are presenting charges! Also you have different rights as a MW in that you can't incriminate yourself because you aren't charged with a crime. That's why they needed a seperate law to lock you up! They clearly have broken that rule also.
Like many other posters have said, this is the beginning of a bad thing! As you can see from "patriot", the "justice" department will rewrite the rules when everybody is doing it. So, yes, it's a big deal! Most of the executive branch [prez, fbi, cia, local cops] have no intention of following the Constitution as it applies to our rights. I have heard Law enforcement at all levels say that the Constitution "gets in the way" of enforcement. It needs to be stopped now!
If you search/. you can find many examples of properly worded and accepted DMCA letters! I wouldn't actually cut n paste, but you could examine several letters and take the best parts of each. Many have already been acted upon by eBay so they shouldn't have a problem with it. Actually, I'd put very clearly how you expect compliance--more so than in a normal DMCA letter. Explain how exactly the guy is breaking GPL and how it hurts his sources not to follow it. See if you can get him to do it right rather than stop completely! Done right, he's doing the writers a favor and making a dime too.
I do understand the poster's point though. As much as we hate the DMCA it provides the simplest approach to stoping the problem. The guy doesn't really care who's selling the stuff--he just wants it stopped or better yet, done properly. Being as places like eBay seem to blindly implement even the most vague DMCA notice, it seems like the thing to do. The *iaa's have inspired such fear in these buracracies that they act first, ask questions later--exactly the results he wants as there really isn't any money to recover, just the license to be followed properly. The work would fall on the guy violating to get the huge buracracy to let him sell again. Minimal out-of-pocket expense for him--seems like the best route even if it makes our skin crawl.
Why can't we as a civilized society get over the idea of passing our own corrupted genes on? We've learned over and over that nurture of children is much greater than the nature [dna].
Why can't there be a compromise. Use the Genome project to identify genetic flaws, and practice selective breeding to weed them out? Even with todays medical histories dating back about 3 generations, there's enough information to make basic assumptions. With the data most Doctors collect right now there's a good likelyhood of identifying potential mating problems--i.e. two people mating will produce a child with x% chance of defects. That could weed out many of our inherited diseases in a generation or two! That's been practiced on animals for centuries. Our current medical science while with nobel intent, tries to keep every genetic "flaw" alive as long as possible. For humans being sencient, that sets us above the animals, but it is evolutionarily foolish. Many people alive today have not pass the test of natural selection. We've already tampered with nature, we should assume some dicipline to fix ourselves. Why shouldn't smarter, more intellegent people [as a whole race, not individuals. Not being biased here.] at least be aware of it when "choosing" to mate and create children? Why shouldn't we be mating to create the best children we can--that's nature 101.
I'd prefer that approach of studying the genome and then acting thru selective mating much better than trying to "tinker" with the sauce and creating lots of "errors" that suffer horrible fates--that de-humanized all of us!
Also, in the Constitution is a prohibition against punishing children for parents crimes and against creating "titles of nobility" I'd venture that could be extended to "titles of Ignobility" as well [if the govt can't create "prefered" classes, they shouldn't be able to create "pariah" classes either. look at treatment of "felons" and "terrorists" for examples], and such a precedent would fix a lot of legal issue right now too.
I'd agree that the GPL isn't really viral in the sense MS wants you to think. installing and using a GPL program on a system cannot effect any other programs on the system! Only by a programmer specifically linking to something can the GPL effect your program.
On that note, I'd like to see more articles about how GPL and proprietary code can mix. Using Vi doesn't make all the files written with it GPL, but I'd like to see more clear rules about the whole linking thing. I know they use LGPL for libraries because it allows linking, but what about other software who's purpose is to generate code or scripts?
Much to the annoyance of RMS, people need to know in lots of plain english where the lines are so they can find a comfort level in knowing they are compliant. That seems to be MS key point of attack--there's still the "grey" area of writing an app to run on Linux. If I want to keep it all mine, what tools can I use & how? If you want to counter all the FUD, there needs to be a good solid legally supported answer to that with enough examples for an average programmer to build a solid course of action with!
Yes, "evil" is over rated, but our govt [Mr's Bush and Ashcroft] lately has been on a kick to stop anything harmful or "evil" to anyone here in the US. That's what they stand up and promise on CNN!
We aren't owed protection from all "evils" no where is that in the Constitution. Governments can only respond to evil actions. Not thoughts, woulda's or coulda's. That's why people have the right to bear arms to protect themselves and their posessions. The govt is not expected to handle everything.
For thought consider that people in the Netherlands and other more open places in Europe consider our prison systems just as "cruel and unusual" as Saddam's "torture" chambers in Iraq. Or, all the indians we killed to build our country? Should they bomb us? True, Saddam's regime was horrible, but was it our place to kick him out when other countries staunchly refused? For the reigon of the world he is just as "evil" as the other countries we're protecting--they refuse to change their ways to our sensibilities, but we can protect them?
We can't honestly stop another 9/11! It's a lie. If someone want to do it bad enough, they will. The people feeding this are after nothing but the power for themselves. All we are giving up in the name of "protection" is going to them and they are not proving to be "honorable" men!
They want to say they own the "idea" of Unix. The flowcharts, tech data, research papers--if any was based on unix and reimplemented elsewhere they think they should have a cut!
They're going after IBM because they have devoted a chunk of their AIX engineers to linux patches. Those engineers know Unix inside and out--but porting "their" (ibms) code outside the "club" is against some tradesecret rule in the contract.
They may have an infringment case against Red Hat and Suse as they distributed actual SCO files with linux for a while (pulled a while ago?) so their distros would have compatibility.
It would seem that the original Bell-Lab Unix patents would have ran out long ago. SCO may have it's own portfolio, but not really, unless there's a cross-license in all the Unix licenses that allows them to claim all the other Unix patents for redistribution. Messing with IBM is dangerous. They could pound SCO into the ground on patents alone! They could get the patent chain offically ended by the courts though-It's been long enough for the originals to expire--derivitive works should be allowed from the original Bell Labs work with no licensing at all, that's the point of patents to get into the public. Right now SCO is only holding a tradmark for "unix" that's of any legal value.
and they claim IBM's AIX group added those "Unix" features from AIX. Nevermind that IBM probably created most of them on it's own dime anyway. They want to say that the tech was created for Unix and IBM can't share it outside the "club" of paying licensees.
That dusty old 1789 paper gives to many freedoms too.
come on, where does it stop. the world is evil! It's a fundamental rule. Evil will always be with us. For anyone to say that they can stop evil is lunacy. you cannot stop evil without becomming evil yourself.
Americans need to wake up and realize that the world is not nice like on TV. Bad guys win usually! People are vice-ridden, mean-spirited, selfish souls in general. to put the bible-pounding hat on a minute, After the whole antichrist thing is over earth will have 1000 years of peace! Then evil will be allowed back into the world and a huge percent of the population will follow it after living under a perfect government!!
Bad things will happen, it is a fact. The question is: Do we live cowering in fear with an oppressive government saping our streangth like in Iraq, or do we live freely, in the open, allowing some enemies to knock us down, but with the streangth in the people to get back up again and again!!
This would be kinda cool if it flew. Imagine being able to Sue Dow Chemical investors for EPA violations & Nike's investors for child labor violations abroad. Wow! Let's open the floodgates, hey! The whole point of a Corperation is limited liability. Executives are responsible for following the law, investors just front the cash. These RIAA guys could be doing us all a favor by making such insane, crazy cases, then actually paying really expensive lawyers to argue them, that they destroy the messed up legal system once and for all and make the Govt rethink the whole thing!
Oh well, after the RIAA wins, the Artists can sue the RIAA investors for supporting their crooked business practices!! Oops!
1. siphon funds from PTO
2. PTO is overworked, big corps push bad apps thru.
3. increase fee for "better" service
4. Smaller fries can't afford anymore [oops that's a bad thing]
5. Profit from increased PTO fees, campaign contributions and corp taxes!
the problem is that to a corp like IBM $5K is peanuts! To you or I, it's a new car! Cheap patents are one of the key catalysts for our free market economy. Anyone can startup, get the feds protection to keep everyone playing fair. Without it, what's left of a free market will be carved up by corps that agree on standard contracts that force us to give them everything! You won't have a choice because they'll all be in on it, they'll have killed off all the new blood in the system!
On a side note, I've never understood why Corps aren't considered governments. They are created with charters, not actual property, and the people that run them don't own them usually [stockholders running by proxy CEO is a govt thing, not a property right] That could fix a lot of things if corps had to follow the constitutional provistions of our rights just like a govt!
The sims is probably closest to a Girl-friendly game that there is. Unfortunately, they tried to make an online "community" out of it--like a Everquest wannabe. My wife loves sims; she hates IM and chat! She plays it for hours each time I get a new expansion. But...They still aren't catering to what she likes which is the character interaction. There's not really a story to it, or any way to script multiple character interactions at once. [think Dennis the Menace--always tramping the flowers kinda stuff, and the reactions that go with it!] That's why girls like soaps so much--the complex, intertwined plots. [but mine likes good anime after she watches enough to get the story!] Sims is a party game too-like Mario Party. The point is the social interaction "off" the screen as much as on the screen!
My wife is a great example of what's needed to get girls into computers! She's younger than me, but went to mostly the same classes that I did, hung out with the same type people. She'll spend hours online searching for recipes, diet tips, etc, she'll spend hours in Illustrator getting a picture just right. But...Puttin a little HTML or PHP in front of her scares her off! Why? That's a millon dollar question. There's no doubt she can do it; she's more than smart enough, but what makes her think she can't do it, doesn't want to? She's dying for her own web page/ web page business so she really does want to.
Girls are somewhat scared of the tech. If a game hangs up, most aren't going driver hunting--it's just not their bag. They won't be playing again till someone fixes it. Too often & they just give up! Put girls in front of the 3Dmark 2001 nature demo, and they'll get going...of course there aren't any games like that yet... Again though, girls want gameplay, not just eyecandy. Girls approach problems differently than boys. Most games don't begin to offer alternate options for radically different gameplay, maybe even multiple interwined games! For instance, an RPG where the girl characters win the game thru some other means [magic, politics, healing, etc..] they'd rather collect potions, interact with NPCs than spend the whole game fighting monsters! That'd be a challange for game designers! Build a handful of characters that would rarely fight monsters. I'm thinking a "Charmed" or "buffy" kinda thing where who & what you know are just as deadly; they rarely win by outright fighting the monsters. Running from the combat is wise untill you find/learn/make the tool to win.
That said, there's need for new types of 3d games only recently creatable. Girls tend to like games that smaller kids would like as well. Designing a decent 3D game for the non-fps, PG crowd would probably sell tons--look at sims, but there's so much more you could do! It'd be a good challange for Carmmack! A non-horror 3d game! [Chronicals of Narnia or Mother Goose would be really cool done properly! Again, check why chicks dig Winne-the-Phoo!] Since Ramero went back to the "minors" the monkeystone games are quite interesting-quick, simple, and engaging. You can play for hours, but you can get up and leave any time you want with out loosing your place.
Will a crooked acountant [Enron] find another accounting job? Absolutely!
Will the CEO [enron again] find another job? Absolutely!
Will a crooked cop/ prosecutor find another legal job? Absolutely!
It happens all the time, particulary in business/ legal circles. It's either an "indescression" [oops! I won't do it/get caught again] or "enthusiastic" [...but I got the bad guy didn't I] There's far more crooked cops/ prosectors [and yes, speeding, jaywalking, b### j## is a crime! -they are criminals too!] working the streets locking people in jail against their will than there are computer consultants--probably 100-to-1!
That sounds like the thought at least. Yes, they're moochin on some one else -how many slashdotters knew about firebird until this? [I did, but only becase I was looking for OS databases and had to dig thru google and sourceforge to find it]
The DB isn't very big, maybe they could just roll the latest version into one download? Then you'd be sure to get the one you want! DB firebird could even port the DB management tools to browser firebird, I'm sure no one would mind!
Who reads slashdot so much that they take the time to tell some one else that they need to get a life!
akhumm, anybody? Yes, I do spend too much time here, and used to spend too much time on other GW like gaming--I think I'm obsesive/compulsive or something.
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Corporations are specificlly to have "isolated" leadership, Limited financial liability for the owners, and limited legal liability for the employees/directors. Those same things all apply to being a government! The owners give up their individual property rights to the corperation, we need to stop letting corps hid behind investors coat-tails.
Changing the status would fix a great many things. Eula's and TOS would have to be fair per constitutional grounds. Drug tests, lie detectors, and the like would finally be disallowed for good. The biggest problem of all is that the govt is hiding behind corps just as badly! Congresscritters use corps "property rights" to inflict all sorts of unconstitutional infringement on us by requiring the corps to do this for contracts.
It's all neat and pretty for those at the top -- just like it was for King George in 1776!
The one where they admit no wrong-doing, Can't be sued again, and give them lots of money. Then the details are sealed so other lawyers can't use the case in other courts.
I don't think they did, but maybe? After all, the court was leaning to throw the file sharing program out as it was legit. But, Each of the kids had large troves of MP3s on their personal machines set up to share [and actually sharing] on the network so they were fried anyway. The settlement was the best the RIAA could get away with. And probably cheaper than the legal fees for all involved.
90% of the time it's the BOSS that wants the stuff! Most workers are OK with personal stuff not working, but the bosses [it's a small business] want to bring stuff from home, etc and get upset when you tell them that "they don't need that at work".
Bosses are also the reason Admins hate downtime. No matter how well you schedule it, work weird hours around everyone else's schedules, the boss will always "need" to come in [or dial in] at 2:00 am saturday night while you're in the middle of an upgrade! Whether you tell um or not, they get upset about being "inconveninced"! It's outrageous and stupid, but that's IT.
How cool would that be?
Regular bugs and driver bugs are other people's departments. This list is for the Choosen Few who can actually write kernel code. I'm kinda surprised they even posted it here where all the idiots can harass those poor souls. Of course Wishlist items were out a while ago at feature freeze--again, don't waste their time-someone already decided what was in and what was out. They're looking for heavy duty programming that needs done. Systems to toss out and rewrite just because it won't work anymore. Bug fixes that have Fscked the system. Not petty requests from us!
It's a huge project. I mean they have to keep up with 2.4 patches, then adapt all the 2.4 things to 2.5 along the way, then add new features that break a bunch of stuff, then fix what they broke, then try to optimize things for stability and speed, then rewrite it because it's hosed, fix more stuff they broke...etc. It's a vicious cycle and few people in the world can do it!
So stop Whineing!
according to their own affidavit they knew who he was with, when, and where he was when they arrested the others. That would mean that if they had the evidence to arrest him, they would have used it. Not using it is grasping at straws. Either they have had new evidence from the arrested guys [again, just arrest him!] or they didn't have enough evidence and wanted an "example" [horrifically bad and evil--boardering on treason!]
Holding him as material witness is a very grave thing, reserved only for National Security issues like you have said. By definition it is for people who are not at fault but need to be kept against their will. Now after six weeks they are changing their story just in the nick-of-time to keep a judge from actually hearing his argument!
If it looks like a rat...
...and smells like a rat...
...then we're calling it a rat!
The severity of the powers they are using demands that they be forthright with the public in these matters! Even the appereance of impropriety should be severely punished by public opinion.
Yeah, but with their proprietary network "everything" Even just sharing a network connection with at Linux box is a hack. Most of the proxy tools don't work with AOL and that's stupid if they want to grow their business into broadband. Also, this means that PS2 & XBOX online don't work without a hack either.
why they haven't spliced the AOL connector into Mozilla is beyond me. After all the Moz is theirs to play with! At least so I could use one of their routers for my linux box. That's not unreasonable.
That cool game with the monsters from starwars. Why didn't they create that as a demo.
Of course it's not "real" technology until Linux [check] and doom [comming soon?] are running on it! Oh, and it has to surf Pr0n too!
Then it will be "real" tech!
You only need the phone line for remote control PPV.
For most people, the phone line is a "bad thing" Mine's never been plugged in! I don't like anyone with the remote in their hand being able to change programming. (i.e. the babysitter ordering a zllion PPV Pr0n when I'm out!) You can go online or just phone call if you want to change/order something. It's really easy. The phone thing is way overrated.
On the flip side--if they set up downloads and people bite can't they also find you and send nasty letter?
I don't see that as a problem. Kazza is a publik network after all! No one really has any "protection" for their actions using their network. If they want to look you up they are more that right to do so. Try kiddy pr0n on Kazza and I'll guaranty you'll have someone at your door in a hurry! The only problem is that going after every music downloader is time consuming. Again, go after the kids at home-upset the parents and you'll get results. A little sabotage of the CDDB would be good too. If they embeded a tracker number in the database tags everyone would download them to their mp3's! You could track at least the stupid users back home with it.
As for college students, they need to offer a more reasonable alternative. If the college gets a kick-back for sharing the network they'd be more likely to keep the kids straight too! Funny how a little money in Deans hands fixes lots of things! [Take a page from the MS playbook here!]
To throw some more fuel on the flames I'll be a-getting [but that's OK, I've got marshmellows!]..I use AOL DSL and love it. They've got radio stations that play just about anything you'd want. [Music videos too] or you can go to the other legal music sites at decent bandwidth too. There's enough stuff on there you don't have to steal to get it! More ISPs need to follow that example. [and AOL needs to support Linux!]
Sure, they might come back an get us--even more so because they precive us as weak for showing to principle and not fear. Not instilling fear in OUR OWN PEOPLE is what makes us strong! not a big army with lots of smart bombs. Or big corps that can buy foreign dictators. Or a mouthy Prez.
Like the guy or not, the cops are cheating the system. They're lying too. The guy was home for months before they got him. They obviously weren't looking for him to start. Being held as a material witness means in general you can't be prosecuted for what you're witness for--or they would have just charged you. You also don't have the same rights as you are assumed by the court to be innocent [one of the rare cases] and can treated as a hostile witness. Changing the charges now is borderline illegal--in normal criminal cases a good lawyer would get you out right there. He was denied council and Habeous Corpus. Things he said w/o access to a lawyer will now be used against him--even though at the time he wasn't under arrest. Our President has been more than willing to bend the laws to get what he wants. In this case the guy is a US citizen who did or didn't do something abroad. He didn't ever actually fight with them, he was denied at the China border, and they didn't deem him enough of a threat to pick him up with the rest of the bunch [who were outright arrested].
Remember boys and girls, we're still at war with DRUGS! They've been more than willing to bend the laws for that sham too. How else would they have a list ready of what to ask for? Hope you don't know any pot dealers on campus guys--this could happen to you! That's why this is so wrong. Many of the early National Security laws of the 60's and 70's have been used in the drug war. The "patriot" act was written expressly to allow these "foriegn powers" provisions to be used in as many civilian criminal cases as they could get away with! I live in Michigan: There was a Detroit procecutor who wanted to try out the new spouse abuse law and spent 18+ month of taxpayer time and a family's lives on a case that didn't have any merit...just to get a score for being "baddest a$$" Don't think for a minute that a procecutor or police chief somewhere won't try to extend these crazy laws to everyone. It's not if, it's when!!!
This discussion is almost laughable. Realize that when the constitution was written most of the nation was still wild. People could be attacked by indians [no offence] at any time! The British answer was exactly yours--they demanded that troops accountable only to the Army be installed in everyone's house for protection. They couldn't be accountable or punished for much of anything [hope you didn't have lots of chickens or daughters!] The people that wrote the Constitution lived under constant threat of attack. They knew exactly what they were writing. They had lived under what you propose: a rights-for-saftey deal and found it to be undesireable enough to start a war over it. The american revolution was started over far less than what GW has done lately! Much less! They were taxed, abused by unaccountable officers, tariffed, told they didn't need representation because the corps in charge of the Colony represented them in London...History seems to be repeating itself. We even get a George! Maybe we should wake up and get a clue.
As far as preventing 9/11 it would have been & still is impossible! Those men went onto the planes like normal passangers. They would have passed any inspection--I'm sure they even left their carkeys and metal eyelet shoes at home. Even today's security wouldn't help because they carried no weapons onboard!! only hatred [they bribed the food crew to leave boxcutters!] there's still no body who watches the prep crew 100% of the time--we can't make a law about that.
The only reason they knew where he was was because his wife got the lawyers hunting for him right away! They "intended" to "disappear" him is just like he "intended" to help the taliban. The fact that the lawyers didn't allow it is of no significance.
Besides, who's to say that he wouldn't have been put with a violent murderer and attacked or killed? The net effect is the same.
If they now have charges, why weren't they presented 6 weeks ago? The latest of the info is better than a year old! They classified him wrongly as a "material witness". That could [and should] be considered purgery because now that they are called for it, they are presenting charges! Also you have different rights as a MW in that you can't incriminate yourself because you aren't charged with a crime. That's why they needed a seperate law to lock you up! They clearly have broken that rule also.
Like many other posters have said, this is the beginning of a bad thing! As you can see from "patriot", the "justice" department will rewrite the rules when everybody is doing it. So, yes, it's a big deal! Most of the executive branch [prez, fbi, cia, local cops] have no intention of following the Constitution as it applies to our rights. I have heard Law enforcement at all levels say that the Constitution "gets in the way" of enforcement. It needs to be stopped now!
I wouldn't actually cut n paste, but you could examine several letters and take the best parts of each. Many have already been acted upon by eBay so they shouldn't have a problem with it. Actually, I'd put very clearly how you expect compliance--more so than in a normal DMCA letter. Explain how exactly the guy is breaking GPL and how it hurts his sources not to follow it. See if you can get him to do it right rather than stop completely! Done right, he's doing the writers a favor and making a dime too.
I do understand the poster's point though. As much as we hate the DMCA it provides the simplest approach to stoping the problem. The guy doesn't really care who's selling the stuff--he just wants it stopped or better yet, done properly. Being as places like eBay seem to blindly implement even the most vague DMCA notice, it seems like the thing to do. The *iaa's have inspired such fear in these buracracies that they act first, ask questions later--exactly the results he wants as there really isn't any money to recover, just the license to be followed properly. The work would fall on the guy violating to get the huge buracracy to let him sell again. Minimal out-of-pocket expense for him--seems like the best route even if it makes our skin crawl.
Why can't there be a compromise. Use the Genome project to identify genetic flaws, and practice selective breeding to weed them out? Even with todays medical histories dating back about 3 generations, there's enough information to make basic assumptions. With the data most Doctors collect right now there's a good likelyhood of identifying potential mating problems--i.e. two people mating will produce a child with x% chance of defects. That could weed out many of our inherited diseases in a generation or two! That's been practiced on animals for centuries. Our current medical science while with nobel intent, tries to keep every genetic "flaw" alive as long as possible. For humans being sencient, that sets us above the animals, but it is evolutionarily foolish. Many people alive today have not pass the test of natural selection. We've already tampered with nature, we should assume some dicipline to fix ourselves. Why shouldn't smarter, more intellegent people [as a whole race, not individuals. Not being biased here.] at least be aware of it when "choosing" to mate and create children? Why shouldn't we be mating to create the best children we can--that's nature 101.
I'd prefer that approach of studying the genome and then acting thru selective mating much better than trying to "tinker" with the sauce and creating lots of "errors" that suffer horrible fates--that de-humanized all of us!
Also, in the Constitution is a prohibition against punishing children for parents crimes and against creating "titles of nobility" I'd venture that could be extended to "titles of Ignobility" as well [if the govt can't create "prefered" classes, they shouldn't be able to create "pariah" classes either. look at treatment of "felons" and "terrorists" for examples], and such a precedent would fix a lot of legal issue right now too.
On that note, I'd like to see more articles about how GPL and proprietary code can mix. Using Vi doesn't make all the files written with it GPL, but I'd like to see more clear rules about the whole linking thing. I know they use LGPL for libraries because it allows linking, but what about other software who's purpose is to generate code or scripts?
Much to the annoyance of RMS, people need to know in lots of plain english where the lines are so they can find a comfort level in knowing they are compliant. That seems to be MS key point of attack--there's still the "grey" area of writing an app to run on Linux. If I want to keep it all mine, what tools can I use & how? If you want to counter all the FUD, there needs to be a good solid legally supported answer to that with enough examples for an average programmer to build a solid course of action with!
We aren't owed protection from all "evils" no where is that in the Constitution. Governments can only respond to evil actions. Not thoughts, woulda's or coulda's. That's why people have the right to bear arms to protect themselves and their posessions. The govt is not expected to handle everything.
For thought consider that people in the Netherlands and other more open places in Europe consider our prison systems just as "cruel and unusual" as Saddam's "torture" chambers in Iraq. Or, all the indians we killed to build our country? Should they bomb us? True, Saddam's regime was horrible, but was it our place to kick him out when other countries staunchly refused? For the reigon of the world he is just as "evil" as the other countries we're protecting--they refuse to change their ways to our sensibilities, but we can protect them?
We can't honestly stop another 9/11! It's a lie. If someone want to do it bad enough, they will. The people feeding this are after nothing but the power for themselves. All we are giving up in the name of "protection" is going to them and they are not proving to be "honorable" men!
They want to say they own the "idea" of Unix. The flowcharts, tech data, research papers--if any was based on unix and reimplemented elsewhere they think they should have a cut!
They're going after IBM because they have devoted a chunk of their AIX engineers to linux patches. Those engineers know Unix inside and out--but porting "their" (ibms) code outside the "club" is against some tradesecret rule in the contract.
They may have an infringment case against Red Hat and Suse as they distributed actual SCO files with linux for a while (pulled a while ago?) so their distros would have compatibility.
It would seem that the original Bell-Lab Unix patents would have ran out long ago. SCO may have it's own portfolio, but not really, unless there's a cross-license in all the Unix licenses that allows them to claim all the other Unix patents for redistribution. Messing with IBM is dangerous. They could pound SCO into the ground on patents alone! They could get the patent chain offically ended by the courts though-It's been long enough for the originals to expire--derivitive works should be allowed from the original Bell Labs work with no licensing at all, that's the point of patents to get into the public. Right now SCO is only holding a tradmark for "unix" that's of any legal value.
yep,
and they claim IBM's AIX group added those "Unix" features from AIX. Nevermind that IBM probably created most of them on it's own dime anyway. They want to say that the tech was created for Unix and IBM can't share it outside the "club" of paying licensees.
come on, where does it stop. the world is evil! It's a fundamental rule. Evil will always be with us. For anyone to say that they can stop evil is lunacy. you cannot stop evil without becomming evil yourself.
Americans need to wake up and realize that the world is not nice like on TV. Bad guys win usually! People are vice-ridden, mean-spirited, selfish souls in general. to put the bible-pounding hat on a minute, After the whole antichrist thing is over earth will have 1000 years of peace! Then evil will be allowed back into the world and a huge percent of the population will follow it after living under a perfect government!!
Bad things will happen, it is a fact. The question is: Do we live cowering in fear with an oppressive government saping our streangth like in Iraq, or do we live freely, in the open, allowing some enemies to knock us down, but with the streangth in the people to get back up again and again!!
Oh well, after the RIAA wins, the Artists can sue the RIAA investors for supporting their crooked business practices!! Oops!
1. siphon funds from PTO
2. PTO is overworked, big corps push bad apps thru.
3. increase fee for "better" service
4. Smaller fries can't afford anymore [oops that's a bad thing]
5. Profit from increased PTO fees, campaign contributions and corp taxes!
the problem is that to a corp like IBM $5K is peanuts! To you or I, it's a new car! Cheap patents are one of the key catalysts for our free market economy. Anyone can startup, get the feds protection to keep everyone playing fair. Without it, what's left of a free market will be carved up by corps that agree on standard contracts that force us to give them everything! You won't have a choice because they'll all be in on it, they'll have killed off all the new blood in the system!
On a side note, I've never understood why Corps aren't considered governments. They are created with charters, not actual property, and the people that run them don't own them usually [stockholders running by proxy CEO is a govt thing, not a property right] That could fix a lot of things if corps had to follow the constitutional provistions of our rights just like a govt!
My wife is a great example of what's needed to get girls into computers! She's younger than me, but went to mostly the same classes that I did, hung out with the same type people. She'll spend hours online searching for recipes, diet tips, etc, she'll spend hours in Illustrator getting a picture just right. But...Puttin a little HTML or PHP in front of her scares her off! Why? That's a millon dollar question. There's no doubt she can do it; she's more than smart enough, but what makes her think she can't do it, doesn't want to? She's dying for her own web page/ web page business so she really does want to.
Girls are somewhat scared of the tech. If a game hangs up, most aren't going driver hunting--it's just not their bag. They won't be playing again till someone fixes it. Too often & they just give up! Put girls in front of the 3Dmark 2001 nature demo, and they'll get going...of course there aren't any games like that yet... Again though, girls want gameplay, not just eyecandy. Girls approach problems differently than boys. Most games don't begin to offer alternate options for radically different gameplay, maybe even multiple interwined games! For instance, an RPG where the girl characters win the game thru some other means [magic, politics, healing, etc..] they'd rather collect potions, interact with NPCs than spend the whole game fighting monsters! That'd be a challange for game designers! Build a handful of characters that would rarely fight monsters. I'm thinking a "Charmed" or "buffy" kinda thing where who & what you know are just as deadly; they rarely win by outright fighting the monsters. Running from the combat is wise untill you find/learn/make the tool to win.
That said, there's need for new types of 3d games only recently creatable. Girls tend to like games that smaller kids would like as well. Designing a decent 3D game for the non-fps, PG crowd would probably sell tons--look at sims, but there's so much more you could do! It'd be a good challange for Carmmack! A non-horror 3d game! [Chronicals of Narnia or Mother Goose would be really cool done properly! Again, check why chicks dig Winne-the-Phoo!] Since Ramero went back to the "minors" the monkeystone games are quite interesting-quick, simple, and engaging. You can play for hours, but you can get up and leave any time you want with out loosing your place.
This is too long, gotta go!
Will a crooked acountant [Enron] find another accounting job? Absolutely!
Will the CEO [enron again] find another job? Absolutely!
Will a crooked cop/ prosecutor find another legal job? Absolutely!
It happens all the time, particulary in business/ legal circles. It's either an "indescression" [oops! I won't do it/get caught again] or "enthusiastic" [...but I got the bad guy didn't I] There's far more crooked cops/ prosectors [and yes, speeding, jaywalking, b### j## is a crime! -they are criminals too!] working the streets locking people in jail against their will than there are computer consultants--probably 100-to-1!
The DB isn't very big, maybe they could just roll the latest version into one download? Then you'd be sure to get the one you want! DB firebird could even port the DB management tools to browser firebird, I'm sure no one would mind!
akhumm, anybody? Yes, I do spend too much time here, and used to spend too much time on other GW like gaming--I think I'm obsesive/compulsive or something.