I'd think the fear is what I mentioned before. The TSA being used by other agencies to gather intelligence rather than just protect the plane. We hear "turn it on" to prove it works, now it's let them root around for "objectionable" material... and they've been taking whole laptops they have "under suspicion" to document the entire drive. I'd guess Lawyers finally caught up that trend and don't like it one bit. Your travel plans are submitted and checked against a database 24 hours before flight so they know when you're flying... Imagine the DA tipping off TSA that they want to inspect a lawyer's data by "searching" his laptop and they take it in the back room and allow a prosecutor to dig for whatever they want... totally legal, and highly unethical.
otherwise Lincon would have had no recourse to lock up captured southern military soldiers as individual rebels (there was no concept of "enemy combatant" and high treason would have been a bad political charge against line troops). They would have legally had to have trials for every single confederate soldier in a "reasonable" time which would have been a huge blood letting or catch and release to fight again.
As far as the south being "rebellion" or "succeeding"... they LOST and they're part of the USA again, so guess which side gets to pick?
You do realize Bush Sr. was just like Cheney, dealing out secret, illegal agendas like Iran-Contra for Reagan. Instead of Scooter Libby he had Ollie North to "take one for the team" and everybody cheered a the American Heros.
there was no Republican party that you want back since Eisenhower at least. Even then, he was more honest that the other party members at the time. Nixon was not a failure, he was operating per party procedure and got caught in his own lies. He was all about running outside the law to get at enemies since he was a lackey for McArthy hunting "commies". The current guys in the White House are just working in his shadow... nobody in the Republican party thought Nixon was WRONG for lying to defend the party, just for getting caught. They managed to get Regan's lies to stick until he was senile so he couldn't be tried for selling guns to Iranian terrorists to help other Latin American terrorists.
Before the 1950's the Republicans were anti-union, anti-labor, anti-worker safety, pro-abolition and getting into your life. But they were the party of "right is might" and "the richne$$ of God's rewards for the good". Even in the time of freeing the slaves after Lincoln they wouldn't pass a law to make the freed slaves citizens and "all men equal" and left minorities as second class citizens for 100 years... because it might have been bad for business.
The military and CIA demanded more attacks and and as soon as Clinton's military staff was out of office they flamed him publicly for not being "aggressive" enough, not issuing enough military attacks. Republicans were all over Clinton for being "soft" and going on "illegal" peacekeeping missions... then we had Bush.
exactly the problem. They're getting to the point they "contrive" reasons to pull your DNA. It's still seen as a "silver bullet" in many courts that the tests can't be close or wrong. Minorities should worry because next time they get a "D.W.B" it may get them in the database. Combine with biased, loose-lipped detectives just being in the database is enough to damage a reputation or in some places pre-convict you in the newspapers.
HTML 5 could actually get away with it though. People that use the internet regularly gave up on IE7 a long time ago. At this point it's a nuisance more because IT managers won't put something else on there so people have to support it "forever". You know MS will push silverlight with IE8 when it's released just because they can and Adobe will push AIR. I think brining HTML5 to the party well implemented and supported by designers might actually have a chance at winning an round for real.
The browser makers and web designers really pushed for WHATAG standards and were about to push HTML5 over top of the W3C. It's a standard made of what people that WRITE web pages and people that WRITE web browsers want to see changed/fixed versus the last 8 years that nothing much has changed. Web designers need to have ALL the parts there, and browser makers need everybody to develop at the same time so people USE the specs.
I'd like to see a rollout schedule more than anything else. Release each module 3-6 months apart and allow no other non-spec addons until the whole thing is out. That would let Safari, Opera, Firefox keep up and let designers build the new sites organically rather than trying to use any random piece of a large spec all at once.
It probably does make sense, but who the suggestion is coming from is the problem. Of course the MS guy on the committee vs the actual developers is probably totally separate departments.
I agree with you that HTML 5 should be a clean break. Put all the eggs in the basket, require them ALL to be there and leave behind anybody that can't keep up. We're still bickering about CSS2 specs that came out BEFORE IE6 and are still incorrectly implemented. A fresh reboot with the latest specs is a very good thing.. certain large companies should be pushed aside in the process and let the little guys working hard develop something wonderful.
RMS views software as "cookbooks" not a product. He's from the day when code was really written down in books and typed in to run. His goal is that software should still be like books and you should check it out from the public library like any other cookbook...
Copyright got way more powerful in the 1970's when some court called "reading to ram" vs. "executing" vs. "hard drive" storage as separate acts of "copying". That gave media providers all sorts of extra rights they really should have over things like books, simply because you have to "copy" the media electronically to use it.
That's RMS added the "0th" right, to type programs into the computer, store them and execute them, as the first thing in the GPL. He saw these legal tricks coming almost 20 years ago!!! It's like they use his warning as an instruction manual.
exactly, you OWN the shiny piece of plastic. You may keep it, watch it, and sell that EXACT piece of plastic to somebody else like any other property. What Copyright prohibits is for you to make a copy of the material on that shiny plastic to any other piece of shiny plastic, or the internet and reproduce a copy that is transfered to another person, the Govt has given somebody an exclusive right to do that thing.
DRM exists at this point primarily to keep you from exercising the "sale" rights... time shifting, spaceshifting (to places in your ownership, just like a CD) and to resell the material to another person without asking permission, often not at all.
In particular, iTunes is very particular that you "own" and are responsible for the tracks. They do not generally provide backup copies just like a store does not provide replacements for broken music CDs. For iTunes, they've pretty much sealed up that you get to keep the track if they tried revoking they would have big trouble. The rentals are VERY specific that they will be erased, and the ownership issue is very much the heart of the super strict viewing and deleting requirements so there is no confusion for the customer.
Microsoft has kept the issue ambiguous and allowed people to do whatever, relying on the ever changing TOS you automatically agree to every time you get any kind of software upgrade. So even if you might have "owned" the tracks before, they'll just give you the backup "fix" next week, update the DRM, and allow themselves whatever contract terms they need to make this legal. I'd be really fun to see the "ever-changing-TOS" actually challenged in court.
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spend a fortune in legal fees and have the suits collect a big bonus? Like Bill, Larry, or Stevie B....
this is more like "cutting in" somebody that does good work for your group. Say you find somebody that has little money up front, but they have a closet full of old games, and they visit auctions and flea markets every week to bring in rare games for cheap. Are they worth the Dollar value of their time (not much if they have all that free time) or the dollar value of the games they found, or some other additional value because of the increase in the importance of your collection? You're giving them "shares" in the value not actual money to compensate their contribution to the collection. As the collection is worth more now the previous group has not lost money. As they now own a percent of a bigger pie!
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but Craig's list was BUILT by the owners not bought. Their value of labor has no set dollar value just a rough percentage of what they have now. In your case, Imagine somebody brings in a very old, rare system from their closet and Your CEO cuts them in. That person didn't add "money" but they added immense value to the sum of your collection. That's what a good programmer would be to Craig's List. It's perfectly legal as the new buy brought value to the company even if you can't put dollars on it.
Ebay is trying to play the "money" card when they really bought in to a "sharing" club of running the company that happens to make a little money to pay some bills.
id needs to jump on this. They don't have anything interesting right now and their founders are highly into the space program. Maybe even take some nice jabs at the stodginess of NASA in the process. They'd reap benefits of keeping their name out there and could probably sell enough advertising on the servers to make a go of it with the big name.
this just progress. Much how somebody invented Robots to do repetitious welding tasks all day instead of Union workers that get tired and hurt. I'm sure the Robot makers don't get paid for the robot nearly what the 5 workers + OT + benifits + insurances the company would be spending. That's called Productivity in normal circles. Closed source is not as productive as open source. Look at it another way, MySQL is generating $10B in VALUE for $3B in COSTS... see it sounds way better that way!
I think the capacity for good is there. Google has programmers that are very good at cause-effect relationships in web page data... applying that to human DNA would be relatively easy if they had a handful of very good data and medical history.
It would be neat to see medical charts from 100 year olds compared to infants, that would get you 3 generations of good data. You could work out the genetics into the past and predict the future pretty well. Imagine dating by emotional and Genetic compatibility. To know that the optimal choice for a mate to have very healthy offspring, or perhaps even weed out a defect from your line could be determined. I think relationships work outside those limits and people would have a hard time mating for genetic reasons over romance.
On the other hand, then does it become some kind of crime for "bad mating", ending a world where people are more than the sum of their parents and pasts.
That's the ULTIMATE product placement show... the "game" is guessing the suggested retail price (how cute) of graciously supplied products for constants to win. How long has that been on the air?
Somebody (slashdot friendly) figured that a show is about $1.50 in revenue to the broadcasters & producers thru the pipe. Once you "own" the show, that continued revenue stream diminishes quickly. $2.00 is about right per show. If you figure how many shows you actually watch for your $100 subscription to cable that's a lot of iTunes per month.
Via's new C5 is pretty good. At least as good as the low end dreck Celeron D's intel is still selling. That's good enough to put a very good motherboard GPU with and get a well balanced system. That's where Intel's strategy falls down right now. I'm sitting on a T7300 that's worthless for gaming because it's tied to "extreme" graphics... i have a 3 year old Sempron with good graphics that runs games better... that's very sad. It looks more like their design might be for small integrated devices maybe a little bigger than eeePC.
because Apple is a big enough name to break the mental hold Microsoft has. When Developers start paying attention to Mac, Linux and others will hopefully get some attention too.
somebody could make a GPU with Hyper-transport connections instead of the standard PCI-E. HT is designed for just that purpose. Perhaps AMD/ATI will try it out.
exactly, I think AMD should have gotten Nvidia from the start as ATI was always an Intel fanclub, but the bucks landed and Intel cut the leading integrated chipset vendor (ATI was always ahead of Nvidia in low-end installs that did just what intel told them to) out with their integrated graphics push. Nvidia was much more in line with AMD in terms of chipsets that properly complimented AMDs Hyper-transport tech. The GPU/CPU is what AMD made Hyper-transport for, it will be neat to see it implemented. Theoretically, those quad socket opteron boards with dedicated memory paths could hold a combination CPUs or GPUs if AMD fancied it... that's a level of tech Intel specifically works against in their "master-slave" CPU approach.
The one thing AMD fans miss is that AMD had a huge jump in multi-processor, multi-core technology 4 years ago with opteron... and Microsoft backed up intel with late products and underutilized systems that made the Opterons less of a benefit.. until Intel caught up... now multi-core is cool. AMD should have pushed Linux and other OSes a lot harder with Opteron instead of thinking MS would "innovate" with their new technology. The real problem is that MS is holding back the markets (look at XP for eeePC) trying to hang on. It has to get slightly worse before it gets better.
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they found non-trivial amounts of her blood in his car... they haven't needed a body for 20 years.
I'd think the fear is what I mentioned before. The TSA being used by other agencies to gather intelligence rather than just protect the plane. We hear "turn it on" to prove it works, now it's let them root around for "objectionable" material... and they've been taking whole laptops they have "under suspicion" to document the entire drive. I'd guess Lawyers finally caught up that trend and don't like it one bit. Your travel plans are submitted and checked against a database 24 hours before flight so they know when you're flying... Imagine the DA tipping off TSA that they want to inspect a lawyer's data by "searching" his laptop and they take it in the back room and allow a prosecutor to dig for whatever they want... totally legal, and highly unethical.
otherwise Lincon would have had no recourse to lock up captured southern military soldiers as individual rebels (there was no concept of "enemy combatant" and high treason would have been a bad political charge against line troops). They would have legally had to have trials for every single confederate soldier in a "reasonable" time which would have been a huge blood letting or catch and release to fight again.
... they LOST and they're part of the USA again, so guess which side gets to pick?
As far as the south being "rebellion" or "succeeding"
You do realize Bush Sr. was just like Cheney, dealing out secret, illegal agendas like Iran-Contra for Reagan. Instead of Scooter Libby he had Ollie North to "take one for the team" and everybody cheered a the American Heros.
there was no Republican party that you want back since Eisenhower at least. Even then, he was more honest that the other party members at the time. Nixon was not a failure, he was operating per party procedure and got caught in his own lies. He was all about running outside the law to get at enemies since he was a lackey for McArthy hunting "commies". The current guys in the White House are just working in his shadow... nobody in the Republican party thought Nixon was WRONG for lying to defend the party, just for getting caught. They managed to get Regan's lies to stick until he was senile so he couldn't be tried for selling guns to Iranian terrorists to help other Latin American terrorists.
Before the 1950's the Republicans were anti-union, anti-labor, anti-worker safety, pro-abolition and getting into your life. But they were the party of "right is might" and "the richne$$ of God's rewards for the good". Even in the time of freeing the slaves after Lincoln they wouldn't pass a law to make the freed slaves citizens and "all men equal" and left minorities as second class citizens for 100 years... because it might have been bad for business.
Which great republican party are you thinking of?
The military and CIA demanded more attacks and and as soon as Clinton's military staff was out of office they flamed him publicly for not being "aggressive" enough, not issuing enough military attacks. Republicans were all over Clinton for being "soft" and going on "illegal" peacekeeping missions... then we had Bush.
exactly the problem. They're getting to the point they "contrive" reasons to pull your DNA. It's still seen as a "silver bullet" in many courts that the tests can't be close or wrong. Minorities should worry because next time they get a "D.W.B" it may get them in the database. Combine with biased, loose-lipped detectives just being in the database is enough to damage a reputation or in some places pre-convict you in the newspapers.
HTML 5 could actually get away with it though. People that use the internet regularly gave up on IE7 a long time ago. At this point it's a nuisance more because IT managers won't put something else on there so people have to support it "forever". You know MS will push silverlight with IE8 when it's released just because they can and Adobe will push AIR. I think brining HTML5 to the party well implemented and supported by designers might actually have a chance at winning an round for real.
The browser makers and web designers really pushed for WHATAG standards and were about to push HTML5 over top of the W3C. It's a standard made of what people that WRITE web pages and people that WRITE web browsers want to see changed/fixed versus the last 8 years that nothing much has changed. Web designers need to have ALL the parts there, and browser makers need everybody to develop at the same time so people USE the specs.
I'd like to see a rollout schedule more than anything else. Release each module 3-6 months apart and allow no other non-spec addons until the whole thing is out. That would let Safari, Opera, Firefox keep up and let designers build the new sites organically rather than trying to use any random piece of a large spec all at once.
It probably does make sense, but who the suggestion is coming from is the problem. Of course the MS guy on the committee vs the actual developers is probably totally separate departments.
.. certain large companies should be pushed aside in the process and let the little guys working hard develop something wonderful.
I agree with you that HTML 5 should be a clean break. Put all the eggs in the basket, require them ALL to be there and leave behind anybody that can't keep up. We're still bickering about CSS2 specs that came out BEFORE IE6 and are still incorrectly implemented. A fresh reboot with the latest specs is a very good thing
RMS views software as "cookbooks" not a product. He's from the day when code was really written down in books and typed in to run. His goal is that software should still be like books and you should check it out from the public library like any other cookbook...
Copyright got way more powerful in the 1970's when some court called "reading to ram" vs. "executing" vs. "hard drive" storage as separate acts of "copying". That gave media providers all sorts of extra rights they really should have over things like books, simply because you have to "copy" the media electronically to use it.
That's RMS added the "0th" right, to type programs into the computer, store them and execute them, as the first thing in the GPL. He saw these legal tricks coming almost 20 years ago!!! It's like they use his warning as an instruction manual.
exactly, you OWN the shiny piece of plastic. You may keep it, watch it, and sell that EXACT piece of plastic to somebody else like any other property. What Copyright prohibits is for you to make a copy of the material on that shiny plastic to any other piece of shiny plastic, or the internet and reproduce a copy that is transfered to another person, the Govt has given somebody an exclusive right to do that thing.
DRM exists at this point primarily to keep you from exercising the "sale" rights... time shifting, spaceshifting (to places in your ownership, just like a CD) and to resell the material to another person without asking permission, often not at all.
In particular, iTunes is very particular that you "own" and are responsible for the tracks. They do not generally provide backup copies just like a store does not provide replacements for broken music CDs. For iTunes, they've pretty much sealed up that you get to keep the track if they tried revoking they would have big trouble. The rentals are VERY specific that they will be erased, and the ownership issue is very much the heart of the super strict viewing and deleting requirements so there is no confusion for the customer.
Microsoft has kept the issue ambiguous and allowed people to do whatever, relying on the ever changing TOS you automatically agree to every time you get any kind of software upgrade. So even if you might have "owned" the tracks before, they'll just give you the backup "fix" next week, update the DRM, and allow themselves whatever contract terms they need to make this legal. I'd be really fun to see the "ever-changing-TOS" actually challenged in court.
spend a fortune in legal fees and have the suits collect a big bonus? Like Bill, Larry, or Stevie B....
I'm sure that's what you've meant.
this is more like "cutting in" somebody that does good work for your group. Say you find somebody that has little money up front, but they have a closet full of old games, and they visit auctions and flea markets every week to bring in rare games for cheap. Are they worth the Dollar value of their time (not much if they have all that free time) or the dollar value of the games they found, or some other additional value because of the increase in the importance of your collection? You're giving them "shares" in the value not actual money to compensate their contribution to the collection. As the collection is worth more now the previous group has not lost money. As they now own a percent of a bigger pie!
but Craig's list was BUILT by the owners not bought. Their value of labor has no set dollar value just a rough percentage of what they have now. In your case, Imagine somebody brings in a very old, rare system from their closet and Your CEO cuts them in. That person didn't add "money" but they added immense value to the sum of your collection. That's what a good programmer would be to Craig's List. It's perfectly legal as the new buy brought value to the company even if you can't put dollars on it.
Ebay is trying to play the "money" card when they really bought in to a "sharing" club of running the company that happens to make a little money to pay some bills.
id needs to jump on this. They don't have anything interesting right now and their founders are highly into the space program. Maybe even take some nice jabs at the stodginess of NASA in the process. They'd reap benefits of keeping their name out there and could probably sell enough advertising on the servers to make a go of it with the big name.
this just progress. Much how somebody invented Robots to do repetitious welding tasks all day instead of Union workers that get tired and hurt. I'm sure the Robot makers don't get paid for the robot nearly what the 5 workers + OT + benifits + insurances the company would be spending. That's called Productivity in normal circles. Closed source is not as productive as open source. Look at it another way, MySQL is generating $10B in VALUE for $3B in COSTS... see it sounds way better that way!
I think the capacity for good is there. Google has programmers that are very good at cause-effect relationships in web page data... applying that to human DNA would be relatively easy if they had a handful of very good data and medical history.
It would be neat to see medical charts from 100 year olds compared to infants, that would get you 3 generations of good data. You could work out the genetics into the past and predict the future pretty well. Imagine dating by emotional and Genetic compatibility. To know that the optimal choice for a mate to have very healthy offspring, or perhaps even weed out a defect from your line could be determined. I think relationships work outside those limits and people would have a hard time mating for genetic reasons over romance.
On the other hand, then does it become some kind of crime for "bad mating", ending a world where people are more than the sum of their parents and pasts.
That's the ULTIMATE product placement show... the "game" is guessing the suggested retail price (how cute) of graciously supplied products for constants to win. How long has that been on the air?
Somebody (slashdot friendly) figured that a show is about $1.50 in revenue to the broadcasters & producers thru the pipe. Once you "own" the show, that continued revenue stream diminishes quickly. $2.00 is about right per show. If you figure how many shows you actually watch for your $100 subscription to cable that's a lot of iTunes per month.
Via's new C5 is pretty good. At least as good as the low end dreck Celeron D's intel is still selling. That's good enough to put a very good motherboard GPU with and get a well balanced system. That's where Intel's strategy falls down right now. I'm sitting on a T7300 that's worthless for gaming because it's tied to "extreme" graphics... i have a 3 year old Sempron with good graphics that runs games better... that's very sad.
It looks more like their design might be for small integrated devices maybe a little bigger than eeePC.
because Apple is a big enough name to break the mental hold Microsoft has. When Developers start paying attention to Mac, Linux and others will hopefully get some attention too.
somebody could make a GPU with Hyper-transport connections instead of the standard PCI-E. HT is designed for just that purpose. Perhaps AMD/ATI will try it out.
exactly, I think AMD should have gotten Nvidia from the start as ATI was always an Intel fanclub, but the bucks landed and Intel cut the leading integrated chipset vendor (ATI was always ahead of Nvidia in low-end installs that did just what intel told them to) out with their integrated graphics push. Nvidia was much more in line with AMD in terms of chipsets that properly complimented AMDs Hyper-transport tech. The GPU/CPU is what AMD made Hyper-transport for, it will be neat to see it implemented. Theoretically, those quad socket opteron boards with dedicated memory paths could hold a combination CPUs or GPUs if AMD fancied it... that's a level of tech Intel specifically works against in their "master-slave" CPU approach.
The one thing AMD fans miss is that AMD had a huge jump in multi-processor, multi-core technology 4 years ago with opteron... and Microsoft backed up intel with late products and underutilized systems that made the Opterons less of a benefit.. until Intel caught up... now multi-core is cool. AMD should have pushed Linux and other OSes a lot harder with Opteron instead of thinking MS would "innovate" with their new technology. The real problem is that MS is holding back the markets (look at XP for eeePC) trying to hang on. It has to get slightly worse before it gets better.