Unless you try to Dual-Boot with BeOS... for free.. then their OEM EULA prohibits them from putting non-windows OSes in the boot screen or even SHOWING the user an icon to set up dual booting. That's what Fujitsu and Toshiba found out when BeOS wanted to be put on systems for free... and why no major player will sell dual-boot systems with the Linux pre-installed.
"You're welcome to sell any computer you want that has Windows on it, as long as you hand over the Windows license with the computer."
Correction If you sell Windows, you're ONLY allowed to sell Windows or even advertise Windows on those machines. (see above) You can sell machines with other OSes, but Microsoft want's (wanted) license fees for EVERY computer you sold (until it was declared illegal). So Microsoft is much WORSE... After all, only Apple sells Macs, they are not compelling any other company to do their bidding.
so why is email suddenly different? Why should we "expect" it to be snooped just because they can? or because it might go to the wrong address and they might open it?
The issue is about the RIGHT NOT TO BE SNOOPED by the govenment! The government doesn't automatically have the power to research people for "the hell of it", what is a good reason to give it to them.. especially with relaxed FISA rules.
they're not "rabidy corrupt"... just casualy, trivially corrupt. Nobody will prosecute them for a "paperwork" error... they'll just send the records out NOW and say "oops!". This is the problem with our system. Casual, "clerical" errors are deemed the "defendant's" problem by the courts. It's why building inspectors and police can flood somebody in the neighborhood they don't like with "little" tickets and any investigation into them will get brushed aside for "real crime".
Judges have no power to enforce "fairness" during a trial other than disrupting the case with extreme measures, which is what was asked for... prosecution of any wrongdoing is left to a separate chain of events, and a new "trial" and the judge can't consider that in sentencing, etc. The prosecution "got their man" and will get a procedural "slap on the wrist" as they are short handed and won't even get a work suspension out of it. Like you proved in your example, they call them "activists" when judges really believe a crime was committed and the politicians won't punish it.
The system needs to increase strictness on prosecution's cases and start meaningful punishments like 30 days in jail for "trivial" mistakes like this when the oversight is made... to bad if that was the key lawyer. When the prosecution can just say they "believed" they were acting properly or their "interpretation" of the rules gets them off, they still need to do the jail time.
If I don't pay a 5 over speeding ticket in the requite 30 days, they arrest me next time I get pulled over for a night till I pay up. Why can a prosecutor get away with withholding evidence for longer than I can hold a speeding ticket and get no punishment!!!
the Mozilla Foundation Gecko-based browser distributed under the Trademarked name and dress "Firefox" can ONLY be distributed by them with that branding according to the license. You are more than free to download the exact same source code minus the little orange "fox" artwork and do whatever you want to under the 3 open source licenses they support. But most distros want to use the same firefox that is distributed from the Firefox website... that is not "free enough" software. This is where Debian renamed their source-based repositories "Ice Weasel" and there's a few other clever names for the non-branded "Firefox".
the FSF favorite child of the day is GNUSense based on Ubuntu. They liked the Free Software in the distro, but not the proprietary tools Canonical uses to manage the repos so they forked it.
it's just like sending a letter in the mail... you don't expect to "encrypt" it, just send it in a normal envelope and ask nicely not to read it. But you don't expect the post office to start a "letter reading" department either.
the other side BROKE THE LAW. How are THEY getting punished? The only remedy a defendant has is to try to get the case thrown out. The court has no remedy to sit the lawyers that chose to break the rules in jail next to him. The prosecution obviously won't arrest it's own people for breaking the law and this is where the legal system has broken down in the last 40 years or so. There is no court remedy for abuses unless the "prosecution" chooses to file the charges... that's highly unfair and not "justice".
I'm not saying this guy shouldn't go to jail, but according to the facts of the case there should be a lawyer in jail next to him.
this is why we need to get away from the adversarial system to something else that determines "truthfulness" and can meet binding punishments to BOTH sides if rules are broken. When the prosecution breaks the rules, the investigation of that rule breaking should also be under that trial's jurisdiction, not dependent on those same offices to file new charges. In cases like this on sentencing day both the defendant and possible officers will be going to jail at the same time!
In a famous case like the OJ case, under these terms he would have still been convicted... and the officers and lawyers that purged themselves to get him would also spend time in jail..all on the same case docket with sentencing considerations against both sides. We need more direct accountability in criminal cases for the prosecution, then letting them bend the rules would be more tolerable.
Essentially the prosecution broke the rules, but the defense attorney didn't quote exactly the right rule they broke, a the right time...so they got away with it. This "all or nothing" idea needs to end because it is allowing prosecution to bend/break more and more rules while holding court "hostage" with the only remedy being let the "bad guy go".
it is very ripe because prosecution did not perform the defense of ALL the evidence gathering options as required under the law and court procedures. On one hand it may not change the outcome of the case because the evidence was legally obtained. On the other hand, they cheated at the rules.. the defensed didn't get the proper, equal time to consider defense against the evidence.
There MUST be some sanction or we don't have the rule of law. That is the problem with so much of what's going on under the Bush administration.
except there is a "go to jail" law for NOT archiving their email. By not having provable record trails they are in violation of the law as much as if they hid evidence after the fact.
those might be buzz words, but they are real things companies use. I know my company uses change management and project management tools but the major open source CMS web technologies would not fit nicely into those schemes. Because too many things change too quickly.
Who decides we use "all PHP" from this point forward? Who decides PHPnuke over PostNuke or even Media Wiki. Who decides to use PEAR this week or CakePHP next week. What happens when we want to try Ruby on Rails? More important how do we document where all these pieces come from for security patches and update them when they are replaced with new technologies or forked for license reasons? Or do we roll our own?
MOST companies have very small, overworked IT staff. They get maybe 2 days a month to try "play" stuff out on Saturday. When projects come down they need results "yesterday" because typically IT is the last group to know a project needs computing resources... when the project is already late! Most IT managers are so busy they could care less about web technologies beyond the entrenched business ones. When you start throwing out ideas of mashups with current intra- and inter- net sites and allowing mobile users to phone in for plant data from the airport their heads explode... who knows all that stuff or even where to start? How would you even write a job description?
This is why we're stuck with Microsoft's awful tools because they do a better job of marketing to the bosses WHY they might need a project and offer a "canned" solution you can put in a job description. How do we make regular PHBs aware of what can be done.. and be able to find employees to deliver?
the main thing now would be to call the telco executives into congress. They CAN'T refuse to tell congress the truth now... they are immune from prosecution. This COULD be a good thing. The bill didn't give the PRESIDENT or DOJ immunity!!! Congress can compel telcos to turn over evidence and they can't hide behind national security or the 5th amendment.
They have up to 72 hours of "free" spying before they have to ASK permission of the court... that's only turned down 1 warrant of 4000+.... it's just ASKING so the citizens can know it's not abused, and the Prez can't even abide that much?
you mean the PUBLIC utilities that ALREADY accepted millions of dollars in tax credits (that's a subsidy!!!!) but didn't deliver the product? Telcos already had their chance, got it paid for with tax money and took the cash.. but didn't deliver when and where they promised Congress.
Exactly, the ONLY reason to not file FISA papers is if you would need to spy on so many people you can't justify it and don't want to keep any records because you KNOW it's wrong!!!
That's not a bug, it's a feature. That's the "chinese wall" FISA established. The CIA and NSA can break any rules they feel need to, spy on anybody... except they are illegal agencies if they spy in US citizens and it's illegal to use their results in domestic law enforcement. They can't even admit they take those actions or domestic law enforcement would have to lock them up! That allowed them to get whatever foreign agents may be here but normal citizens would not be looking over their shoulders. The CIA can't tell the FBI anything, or the FBI would start using them for illegally spying on regular people and just pass the info under the table.
The FBI already learned their lesson after J. Edger's secret spying on politicians nearly got them shut down... They learned the hard way to run a clean ship and not touch CIA info.
we're not at any more "war" now than we were when FISA was established. We were at perpetual war during WW2, Korea, Southeast Asia, eastern bloc... we did't stop being "at War" until into 1980 and they passed FISA because they were tired of the CIA pulling just this crap.
We are not at war with Iraq and Afghanistan any more than Vietnam was "War" and there's no reason for war powers to continue period. One attack is not "invasion" by any stretch. We conquered both countries vaguely responsible for the attack and won. Occupation is not war, it's over once the government is conquered... at least by normal definitions of war.
damn activist judges that don't interpret the letter of the law as written by congress.... oh wait, he was appointed by Bush... and he IS saying the letter of the law as written was broken... what half of slashdot has said all along!!!
To reward this resolve for freedom, they're going to simply pass a law around it. What a slap in the face to the judicial system!
there's no bribery here, just misrepresented court documents. These are judges used to corporate case language for "stolen" IP and contract violations. The RIAA lawyers are disguising these "common" violations in mountains of legal speak like they were running pirate manufacturing operations... Judges to date have been willing to overlook the legal hyperbole because both sides will get their day in court... at least that's how it's supposed to work.
now that there have been more than a few plainly misrepresented case at all the stages, before discovery and during trials, these cases are going to get extra scrutiny to their worthiness before allowing them to continue en masse. It's wasting the court's time and of questionable legality.
The RIAA is using false pretenses to gather the names though. The biggest problem so far is that they are "jumping" cases... filing one case against "jonh doe" at an ISP to get names, then taking discovery from that case to create new cases against individuals NOT in a group... not legal in many places as it is false pretense to the court as well as wastes time tracking down what a federal court would consider trivial cases.
The other problem is how they got the IP addresses in the first place... they've never allowed judges to look behind the veil at WHO was generating these and the paper trail...was it obtained legally? That question is getting very murky and deserves investigation. when challenged they drop cases instead of provide the evidence. Judges are getting tired of being systematically duped. These are Corporate national lawyers this behavior is not acceptable at that legal level. Not telling the "whole truth" is equivalent to lying, just harder to prove.
you are missing the time cost of money. How much do I need that $70 right now, what can I do with $200 spare dollars to keep in my pocket over 3 years? Yearly payments are about cash flow, ability to have liquid money, not overall cost... because in 3 years $70 isn't the same "economic" value as it is right now.
Also, there is no "salvage" value for upgrade copies. Unless you mean for the whole version which 50% is only $35 dollars lost...because you renew per year. Don't like it after 1 year and you save $210!
more to the point, why do we care now? It's not like Windows 7 will be multi-core aware.. not really. Development houses don't even properly use AMD64 chips that have been dual-core for longer than intel has making multi-core chips.... nobody will use it for at least 5 years.
All they're doing is blatantly trying to FUD and pre-announce "great new features" to keep people from simply low-balling their systems for what they can do NOW and going with AMD/Nvidia solutions NOW that do what people need.
that's a problem because "class" doesn't really give project meant to push you in the field to really love it. Most project I've had in class have been more business minded to "show you what it's like" with all sorts of extra requirements and about 1 hour of actual hard programming. As I already work in an IT field, it's like doing extra work.. at home... badly prepared by the leader.
If he like doing hands-on stuff, get into Robotics. It's about 50% fixing nuts and bolt and 50% interfacing robot software with PLCs, ERP systems, etc. Every job is different. Lots of travel required. Convert to a regular business degree to pick up skills showing how the robots make the company money. GOOD robot repair/setup people make more than the engineers that build them.
I totally agree with you. E-books just don't work for me either. When you are taught to read, you're taught to read with books. Younger kids might be using 100% computers now, but as somebody older, I never got into the whole "digital lifestyle" thing and I'm young enough to be part of that generation. I hate having information in flat lifeless files. Books have bookmarks that stick out, dog-eared pages that remind you what you were thinking then. The size and texture requires you to find a quite, spacious place to focus on reading.
I get computer PDFs all the time that are exact pre-press copies of printed manuals, and they just aren't the same. Computer PDFs are slow and they don't "behave" like books should, don't remember your place, don't store visually, etc. I work with 2-3 book open at a time... it's so much easier to simply pick one up than to "fidget" with the computer screen. I can't get into Project Gutenberg books for the same reason, they are in a format just too visually "busy" to read on a computer or electronic device. Printed PDF books aren't the same either. Bound Book paper behaves differently than a folder full of laserjet pages. I have a whole shelf full of printed computer manuals and I hate them compared to a good bound book.
The moral of the story would be why aren't e-Books BETTER than real books yet?
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Unless you try to Dual-Boot with BeOS... for free.. then their OEM EULA prohibits them from putting non-windows OSes in the boot screen or even SHOWING the user an icon to set up dual booting. That's what Fujitsu and Toshiba found out when BeOS wanted to be put on systems for free... and why no major player will sell dual-boot systems with the Linux pre-installed.
"You're welcome to sell any computer you want that has Windows on it, as long as you hand over the Windows license with the computer."
Correction If you sell Windows, you're ONLY allowed to sell Windows or even advertise Windows on those machines. (see above) You can sell machines with other OSes, but Microsoft want's (wanted) license fees for EVERY computer you sold (until it was declared illegal). So Microsoft is much WORSE... After all, only Apple sells Macs, they are not compelling any other company to do their bidding.
so why is email suddenly different? Why should we "expect" it to be snooped just because they can? or because it might go to the wrong address and they might open it?
The issue is about the RIGHT NOT TO BE SNOOPED by the govenment! The government doesn't automatically have the power to research people for "the hell of it", what is a good reason to give it to them.. especially with relaxed FISA rules.
they're not "rabidy corrupt"... just casualy, trivially corrupt. Nobody will prosecute them for a "paperwork" error... they'll just send the records out NOW and say "oops!". This is the problem with our system. Casual, "clerical" errors are deemed the "defendant's" problem by the courts. It's why building inspectors and police can flood somebody in the neighborhood they don't like with "little" tickets and any investigation into them will get brushed aside for "real crime".
Judges have no power to enforce "fairness" during a trial other than disrupting the case with extreme measures, which is what was asked for... prosecution of any wrongdoing is left to a separate chain of events, and a new "trial" and the judge can't consider that in sentencing, etc. The prosecution "got their man" and will get a procedural "slap on the wrist" as they are short handed and won't even get a work suspension out of it. Like you proved in your example, they call them "activists" when judges really believe a crime was committed and the politicians won't punish it.
The system needs to increase strictness on prosecution's cases and start meaningful punishments like 30 days in jail for "trivial" mistakes like this when the oversight is made... to bad if that was the key lawyer. When the prosecution can just say they "believed" they were acting properly or their "interpretation" of the rules gets them off, they still need to do the jail time.
If I don't pay a 5 over speeding ticket in the requite 30 days, they arrest me next time I get pulled over for a night till I pay up. Why can a prosecutor get away with withholding evidence for longer than I can hold a speeding ticket and get no punishment!!!
the Mozilla Foundation Gecko-based browser distributed under the Trademarked name and dress "Firefox" can ONLY be distributed by them with that branding according to the license. You are more than free to download the exact same source code minus the little orange "fox" artwork and do whatever you want to under the 3 open source licenses they support. But most distros want to use the same firefox that is distributed from the Firefox website... that is not "free enough" software. This is where Debian renamed their source-based repositories "Ice Weasel" and there's a few other clever names for the non-branded "Firefox".
the FSF favorite child of the day is GNUSense based on Ubuntu. They liked the Free Software in the distro, but not the proprietary tools Canonical uses to manage the repos so they forked it.
it's just like sending a letter in the mail... you don't expect to "encrypt" it, just send it in a normal envelope and ask nicely not to read it. But you don't expect the post office to start a "letter reading" department either.
the other side BROKE THE LAW. How are THEY getting punished? The only remedy a defendant has is to try to get the case thrown out. The court has no remedy to sit the lawyers that chose to break the rules in jail next to him. The prosecution obviously won't arrest it's own people for breaking the law and this is where the legal system has broken down in the last 40 years or so. There is no court remedy for abuses unless the "prosecution" chooses to file the charges... that's highly unfair and not "justice".
I'm not saying this guy shouldn't go to jail, but according to the facts of the case there should be a lawyer in jail next to him.
this is why we need to get away from the adversarial system to something else that determines "truthfulness" and can meet binding punishments to BOTH sides if rules are broken. When the prosecution breaks the rules, the investigation of that rule breaking should also be under that trial's jurisdiction, not dependent on those same offices to file new charges. In cases like this on sentencing day both the defendant and possible officers will be going to jail at the same time!
In a famous case like the OJ case, under these terms he would have still been convicted... and the officers and lawyers that purged themselves to get him would also spend time in jail..all on the same case docket with sentencing considerations against both sides. We need more direct accountability in criminal cases for the prosecution, then letting them bend the rules would be more tolerable.
Essentially the prosecution broke the rules, but the defense attorney didn't quote exactly the right rule they broke, a the right time...so they got away with it. This "all or nothing" idea needs to end because it is allowing prosecution to bend/break more and more rules while holding court "hostage" with the only remedy being let the "bad guy go".
it is very ripe because prosecution did not perform the defense of ALL the evidence gathering options as required under the law and court procedures. On one hand it may not change the outcome of the case because the evidence was legally obtained. On the other hand, they cheated at the rules.. the defensed didn't get the proper, equal time to consider defense against the evidence.
There MUST be some sanction or we don't have the rule of law. That is the problem with so much of what's going on under the Bush administration.
except there is a "go to jail" law for NOT archiving their email. By not having provable record trails they are in violation of the law as much as if they hid evidence after the fact.
those might be buzz words, but they are real things companies use. I know my company uses change management and project management tools but the major open source CMS web technologies would not fit nicely into those schemes. Because too many things change too quickly.
Who decides we use "all PHP" from this point forward? Who decides PHPnuke over PostNuke or even Media Wiki. Who decides to use PEAR this week or CakePHP next week. What happens when we want to try Ruby on Rails? More important how do we document where all these pieces come from for security patches and update them when they are replaced with new technologies or forked for license reasons? Or do we roll our own?
MOST companies have very small, overworked IT staff. They get maybe 2 days a month to try "play" stuff out on Saturday. When projects come down they need results "yesterday" because typically IT is the last group to know a project needs computing resources... when the project is already late! Most IT managers are so busy they could care less about web technologies beyond the entrenched business ones. When you start throwing out ideas of mashups with current intra- and inter- net sites and allowing mobile users to phone in for plant data from the airport their heads explode... who knows all that stuff or even where to start? How would you even write a job description?
This is why we're stuck with Microsoft's awful tools because they do a better job of marketing to the bosses WHY they might need a project and offer a "canned" solution you can put in a job description. How do we make regular PHBs aware of what can be done.. and be able to find employees to deliver?
the main thing now would be to call the telco executives into congress. They CAN'T refuse to tell congress the truth now... they are immune from prosecution. This COULD be a good thing. The bill didn't give the PRESIDENT or DOJ immunity!!! Congress can compel telcos to turn over evidence and they can't hide behind national security or the 5th amendment.
They have up to 72 hours of "free" spying before they have to ASK permission of the court... that's only turned down 1 warrant of 4000+.... it's just ASKING so the citizens can know it's not abused, and the Prez can't even abide that much?
you mean the PUBLIC utilities that ALREADY accepted millions of dollars in tax credits (that's a subsidy!!!!) but didn't deliver the product? Telcos already had their chance, got it paid for with tax money and took the cash.. but didn't deliver when and where they promised Congress.
Exactly, the ONLY reason to not file FISA papers is if you would need to spy on so many people you can't justify it and don't want to keep any records because you KNOW it's wrong!!!
That's not a bug, it's a feature. That's the "chinese wall" FISA established. The CIA and NSA can break any rules they feel need to, spy on anybody... except they are illegal agencies if they spy in US citizens and it's illegal to use their results in domestic law enforcement. They can't even admit they take those actions or domestic law enforcement would have to lock them up! That allowed them to get whatever foreign agents may be here but normal citizens would not be looking over their shoulders. The CIA can't tell the FBI anything, or the FBI would start using them for illegally spying on regular people and just pass the info under the table.
The FBI already learned their lesson after J. Edger's secret spying on politicians nearly got them shut down... They learned the hard way to run a clean ship and not touch CIA info.
we're not at any more "war" now than we were when FISA was established. We were at perpetual war during WW2, Korea, Southeast Asia, eastern bloc... we did't stop being "at War" until into 1980 and they passed FISA because they were tired of the CIA pulling just this crap.
We are not at war with Iraq and Afghanistan any more than Vietnam was "War" and there's no reason for war powers to continue period. One attack is not "invasion" by any stretch. We conquered both countries vaguely responsible for the attack and won. Occupation is not war, it's over once the government is conquered... at least by normal definitions of war.
damn activist judges that don't interpret the letter of the law as written by congress.... oh wait, he was appointed by Bush... and he IS saying the letter of the law as written was broken... what half of slashdot has said all along!!!
To reward this resolve for freedom, they're going to simply pass a law around it. What a slap in the face to the judicial system!
there's no bribery here, just misrepresented court documents. These are judges used to corporate case language for "stolen" IP and contract violations. The RIAA lawyers are disguising these "common" violations in mountains of legal speak like they were running pirate manufacturing operations... Judges to date have been willing to overlook the legal hyperbole because both sides will get their day in court... at least that's how it's supposed to work.
now that there have been more than a few plainly misrepresented case at all the stages, before discovery and during trials, these cases are going to get extra scrutiny to their worthiness before allowing them to continue en masse. It's wasting the court's time and of questionable legality.
The RIAA is using false pretenses to gather the names though. The biggest problem so far is that they are "jumping" cases... filing one case against "jonh doe" at an ISP to get names, then taking discovery from that case to create new cases against individuals NOT in a group... not legal in many places as it is false pretense to the court as well as wastes time tracking down what a federal court would consider trivial cases.
The other problem is how they got the IP addresses in the first place... they've never allowed judges to look behind the veil at WHO was generating these and the paper trail...was it obtained legally? That question is getting very murky and deserves investigation. when challenged they drop cases instead of provide the evidence. Judges are getting tired of being systematically duped. These are Corporate national lawyers this behavior is not acceptable at that legal level. Not telling the "whole truth" is equivalent to lying, just harder to prove.
you are missing the time cost of money. How much do I need that $70 right now, what can I do with $200 spare dollars to keep in my pocket over 3 years? Yearly payments are about cash flow, ability to have liquid money, not overall cost... because in 3 years $70 isn't the same "economic" value as it is right now.
Also, there is no "salvage" value for upgrade copies. Unless you mean for the whole version which 50% is only $35 dollars lost...because you renew per year. Don't like it after 1 year and you save $210!
more to the point, why do we care now? It's not like Windows 7 will be multi-core aware.. not really. Development houses don't even properly use AMD64 chips that have been dual-core for longer than intel has making multi-core chips.... nobody will use it for at least 5 years.
All they're doing is blatantly trying to FUD and pre-announce "great new features" to keep people from simply low-balling their systems for what they can do NOW and going with AMD/Nvidia solutions NOW that do what people need.
that's a problem because "class" doesn't really give project meant to push you in the field to really love it. Most project I've had in class have been more business minded to "show you what it's like" with all sorts of extra requirements and about 1 hour of actual hard programming. As I already work in an IT field, it's like doing extra work.. at home... badly prepared by the leader.
If he like doing hands-on stuff, get into Robotics. It's about 50% fixing nuts and bolt and 50% interfacing robot software with PLCs, ERP systems, etc. Every job is different. Lots of travel required. Convert to a regular business degree to pick up skills showing how the robots make the company money. GOOD robot repair/setup people make more than the engineers that build them.
I totally agree with you. E-books just don't work for me either. When you are taught to read, you're taught to read with books. Younger kids might be using 100% computers now, but as somebody older, I never got into the whole "digital lifestyle" thing and I'm young enough to be part of that generation. I hate having information in flat lifeless files. Books have bookmarks that stick out, dog-eared pages that remind you what you were thinking then. The size and texture requires you to find a quite, spacious place to focus on reading.
I get computer PDFs all the time that are exact pre-press copies of printed manuals, and they just aren't the same. Computer PDFs are slow and they don't "behave" like books should, don't remember your place, don't store visually, etc. I work with 2-3 book open at a time... it's so much easier to simply pick one up than to "fidget" with the computer screen. I can't get into Project Gutenberg books for the same reason, they are in a format just too visually "busy" to read on a computer or electronic device. Printed PDF books aren't the same either. Bound Book paper behaves differently than a folder full of laserjet pages. I have a whole shelf full of printed computer manuals and I hate them compared to a good bound book.
The moral of the story would be why aren't e-Books BETTER than real books yet?
you mean for something like Cider... running a AAA game from EA like Spore...
nope, nobody has tried anything like that. Sorry.