By saying "just deal with it" when refereing to cultural genocide, I am pretty sure you are are insulting your God, Thor. I hope you aren't one of those racists that are using some flavour of Asatru as a cover!
My Goddess carries a hammer as well. She also writes poetry and heals.
In Canada, we use what I think is a more respectful name...we call the The First Nations. We invaded their land, killed them, attempted cultural genocide, and even today in the 21st century, we still disrespect them. And thus many of us disrespect ourselves, for a large portion of the North American population has some First Nation ancestory. Show the First Nation's people the respect they deserve, for you might otherwise be disrespecting *your* ancestors.
From the little research I have done, that is true for just about anything *but* patents. If you are thinking of WIPO, Canada is not a signatory of that.
It is the USPO granting of a patent that has caused this problem. If hadn't, we would not be having this conversation.
And the patent's in question have not been filed for anywhere else but the US, as far as I can tell. Furthermore, currently all of NTP's patents but one have been rejected by the US Patent office.
I don't know much about the software infrastructure that RIM uses, but I would think that if the USPO gets them shut down in the US...just relocate their servers in Canada. It probably all goes out via TCP/IP and Cellphone systems, I would think. Probably add a few seconds of lag...
I was able to get a a Trendnet TEW-423PI working fine with a Slackware, and custom kernels I built. I was able to get both the native drives and ndiswrapper working. Then my roomate ran a cable down to my room, and and made the Wireless connection unneeded. My only problem was lack of support for dual-cpu systems.
Actually, a big problem with Charlotte is that you have a hard time attracting high-tech people to the place. The company I worked for had been looking for two years for a Linux guru who could build them a Distro, and they had to go all the way down to Florida to get my replacement. I came down from Canada...having dual citizenship is nice! And he didn't last more than about 6 months...last I heard, they are still looking for someone...as of last I had heard, when a person I know got a call from a headhunter. The description of the company sounded familar to him, and when asked, the headhunter admitted who it was. My friend then went on to describe the "joys" of working for that company, which he heard from both me, and a friend who also worked for the company. I would guess that headhunter doesn't accept jobs from that company anymore.
But I probably shouldn't have mentioned my former employers, as they are very litigious...they threatened to sue Newsforge when they published my article. Oh, well, they would have sued me by now if they could.
I know of a number of people who have either lost jobs, never recieved promotions, or been given sh*t jobs due to being non-white, non-christian, or non-straight. That includes smaller companies, up to some large companies there. Admittedly, it is more endemic in smaller companies, as larger ones have to answer to a Higher Authority (the Federal Government!).
The company I worked for would not hire Blacks...or Hispanics...or non-Christians! They justified it by not going public, and remaining a family run business. And supposedly, because they were under 15 employees, they could get away with it. I had to go to the Fundie Church with the Mother and Father owners before they hired me...I guess to make sure I wasn't some Satan Spawn that would melt in the prescence of God...Oh, yes, it was a Church of God.
I also dated a Black lady, and I believe that is part of why I lost my job.:-(
Thankfully, I am no longer in Charlotte, North Carolina!!!!! It's still segregated, even if not by law...Blacks live on the West side of Interstate 77, and Whites East of it.
Linux is *Only The Kernel*, everything is the distro!
By saying everything in a distro that has a reported bug is a flaw in Linux is like saying every piece of Freeware, Shareware, Commercial software for Windows that has a reported bug is a bug with Windows.
Remember as well: "There are Lies, Damn Lies, and then Statistics!"
How about "Chilldent", blue=cold=chilled, teeth are replaced with dentures...there for "Chilldent", and the first part also has a double meaning refering to "chilling" of free speech...
Over at the Ottawa Canada LUG, (OCLUG), most of the discussion is about the politics of the upcomming election...but not about technology, or Linux, or anything like that. Some people try and make a go of it, but unless it get's an overhaul soon, I will be writing it off.:-(
The foundation of our country *is* upon those rights. It's that which made the US different from almost every other country in the world.
I am willing to let some rigths be temporally suspended in certain circumstances, through due process of law. But I am not willing to allow a government to violate those rights without due process of law. And there has been no due process.
If it is a new technology issue, then you explain that to Congress and the Senate, and tell them the details are secret. They already do that with many top secret programs, with oversight by the various committees.
And really, the technology seems to be just a Super Sniffer. The technology is almost a no-brainer to figure out when you realize that most traffic, including voice, is moved as data. Build a sniffer that can interpret many data streams, throw a few Crays at it, and you now have Total Information Awareness. Computer Security types like myself have been able to do this with the current generation of sniffers on smallish networks for many years, and so can stateful firewalls. But it's simply a matter of writing the software, and having the horsepower to run it.
And those terrorists have probably been away of the possiblity of this type of technology for a long time, as it is just a logical extension of what has been commonly available for the past 5 to 10 years.
So really, all TIA will catch are the those who are stupid. Not a bad thing...but not at the sacrifice of my rights.
"Now let's take a look a statement of former senator Bob Graham (D-FL), who was one of the few senators to be briefed on the program. From a new Washington Post article:
"I came out of the room with the full sense that we were dealing with a change in technology but not policy," Graham said, with new opportunities to intercept overseas calls that passed through U.S. switches."
and
" This system's [TIA] purpose would be to monitor communications and detect would-be terrorists and plots before they happen... This project is not interested in funding "evolutionary" changes in technology, e.g., bit-step improvements to current data mining and storage techniques. Rather, the amount of data that the directors are anticipating (petabytes!) would require massive leaps in technology (and perhaps also some massive leaps in surveillance laws). According to DARPA, such data collection "increases information coverage by an order of magnitude," and ultimately "requires keeping track of individuals and understanding how they fit into models.""
I would hope that the FBI, NSA & co *do* employ people who are paranoid, as sometimes, this is the type of thinking you need to solve a problem. But they most be overseen by those who know moderation, and when to moderate their moderation.
That said, Bush 41 and Bush 43's admnistrations are filled with followers of the philosophies of a guy named Leo Strauss. It is upon his ideas that the Neo-Con movement is based. And they are scary. At their base is the idea that The Electorate is too stupid to manage a country, and a group of elites must do so for them...and the elites must do everything to stay in power, including telling lies to the electorate.
Rampant distrust of the electorate is a road to dictatorship, which is very, very scary. And the US is more than a few steps on that road under Bush 43.
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If your company only does one, narrow thing, then yes, you can get by with just one language.
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Farrell
By saying "just deal with it" when refereing to cultural genocide, I am pretty sure you are are insulting your God, Thor. I hope you aren't one of those racists that are using some flavour of Asatru as a cover!
My Goddess carries a hammer as well. She also writes poetry and heals.
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Farrell
Sadly, here are bigots in any group of people.
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Farrell
Because governments move slower than a speeding oak!
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Farrell
If I am refering to a specific tribe, of course, but if I am talking about the aboriginal people's of North America, then I will use First Nations.
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In Canada, we use what I think is a more respectful name...we call the The First Nations. We invaded their land, killed them, attempted cultural genocide, and even today in the 21st century, we still disrespect them. And thus many of us disrespect ourselves, for a large portion of the North American population has some First Nation ancestory. Show the First Nation's people the respect they deserve, for you might otherwise be disrespecting *your* ancestors.
ttyl
Farrell
From the little research I have done, that is true for just about anything *but* patents. If you are thinking of WIPO, Canada is not a signatory of that.
ttyl
Farrell
It is the USPO granting of a patent that has caused this problem. If hadn't, we would not be having this conversation.
And the patent's in question have not been filed for anywhere else but the US, as far as I can tell. Furthermore, currently all of NTP's patents but one have been rejected by the US Patent office.
RIM has good reason to stonewall NTP.
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Farrell
I don't know much about the software infrastructure that RIM uses, but I would think that if the USPO gets them shut down in the US...just relocate their servers in Canada. It probably all goes out via TCP/IP and Cellphone systems, I would think. Probably add a few seconds of lag...
ttyl
I was able to get a a Trendnet TEW-423PI working fine with a Slackware, and custom kernels I built. I was able to get both the native drives and ndiswrapper working. Then my roomate ran a cable down to my room, and and made the Wireless connection unneeded. My only problem was lack of support for dual-cpu systems.
ttyl
Actually, a big problem with Charlotte is that you have a hard time attracting high-tech people to the place. The company I worked for had been looking for two years for a Linux guru who could build them a Distro, and they had to go all the way down to Florida to get my replacement. I came down from Canada...having dual citizenship is nice! And he didn't last more than about 6 months...last I heard, they are still looking for someone...as of last I had heard, when a person I know got a call from a headhunter. The description of the company sounded familar to him, and when asked, the headhunter admitted who it was. My friend then went on to describe the "joys" of working for that company, which he heard from both me, and a friend who also worked for the company. I would guess that headhunter doesn't accept jobs from that company anymore.
But I probably shouldn't have mentioned my former employers, as they are very litigious...they threatened to sue Newsforge when they published my article. Oh, well, they would have sued me by now if they could.
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Farrell
I wish it was!
I know of a number of people who have either lost jobs, never recieved promotions, or been given sh*t jobs due to being non-white, non-christian, or non-straight. That includes smaller companies, up to some large companies there. Admittedly, it is more endemic in smaller companies, as larger ones have to answer to a Higher Authority (the Federal Government!).
ttyl
Farrell
The company I worked for would not hire Blacks...or Hispanics...or non-Christians! They justified it by not going public, and remaining a family run business. And supposedly, because they were under 15 employees, they could get away with it. I had to go to the Fundie Church with the Mother and Father owners before they hired me...I guess to make sure I wasn't some Satan Spawn that would melt in the prescence of God...Oh, yes, it was a Church of God.
:-(
I also dated a Black lady, and I believe that is part of why I lost my job.
Thankfully, I am no longer in Charlotte, North Carolina!!!!! It's still segregated, even if not by law...Blacks live on the West side of Interstate 77, and Whites East of it.
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Farrell
See:
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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/04/ac
From June of last year...
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Farrell
Wow, memories...
I remember playing Jingle Bells on an old Epson MX-80...and a pr0n program for the Apple ][+ that used the floppy drive for sound effects!
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Farrell
Linux is *Only The Kernel*, everything is the distro!
By saying everything in a distro that has a reported bug is a flaw in Linux is like saying every piece of Freeware, Shareware, Commercial software for Windows that has a reported bug is a bug with Windows.
Remember as well: "There are Lies, Damn Lies, and then Statistics!"
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Farrell
Stuff like this has been around for a while...I remember the iGlasses, then Sony, and the snazzy monicle used by 0Cool in the movie Hackers...
You would think that they would have gotten the price down in a decade or more...
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Farrell
Answer: As many as we need.
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Farrell
How about "Chilldent", blue=cold=chilled, teeth are replaced with dentures...there for "Chilldent", and the first part also has a double meaning refering to "chilling" of free speech...
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Farrell
"Watch out for that T*R*E*E!"
- George J.
Over at the Ottawa Canada LUG, (OCLUG), most of the discussion is about the politics of the upcomming election...but not about technology, or Linux, or anything like that. Some people try and make a go of it, but unless it get's an overhaul soon, I will be writing it off. :-(
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Farrell
But, here's the rub.
The foundation of our country *is* upon those rights. It's that which made the US different from almost every other country in the world.
I am willing to let some rigths be temporally suspended in certain circumstances, through due process of law. But I am not willing to allow a government to violate those rights without due process of law. And there has been no due process.
If it is a new technology issue, then you explain that to Congress and the Senate, and tell them the details are secret. They already do that with many top secret programs, with oversight by the various committees.
And really, the technology seems to be just a Super Sniffer. The technology is almost a no-brainer to figure out when you realize that most traffic, including voice, is moved as data. Build a sniffer that can interpret many data streams, throw a few Crays at it, and you now have Total Information Awareness. Computer Security types like myself have been able to do this with the current generation of sniffers on smallish networks for many years, and so can stateful firewalls. But it's simply a matter of writing the software, and having the horsepower to run it.
And those terrorists have probably been away of the possiblity of this type of technology for a long time, as it is just a logical extension of what has been commonly available for the past 5 to 10 years.
So really, all TIA will catch are the those who are stupid. Not a bad thing...but not at the sacrifice of my rights.
ttyl
Farrell
The people over at Ars Technica have a great little article about this whole fiasco concerning the wiretapping of US citizens without a warrent...
8 .html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051220-580
From the article:
"Now let's take a look a statement of former senator Bob Graham (D-FL), who was one of the few senators to be briefed on the program. From a new Washington Post article:
"I came out of the room with the full sense that we were dealing with a change in technology but not policy," Graham said, with new opportunities to intercept overseas calls that passed through U.S. switches."
and
" This system's [TIA] purpose would be to monitor communications and detect would-be terrorists and plots before they happen... This project is not interested in funding "evolutionary" changes in technology, e.g., bit-step improvements to current data mining and storage techniques. Rather, the amount of data that the directors are anticipating (petabytes!) would require massive leaps in technology (and perhaps also some massive leaps in surveillance laws). According to DARPA, such data collection "increases information coverage by an order of magnitude," and ultimately "requires keeping track of individuals and understanding how they fit into models.""
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Farrell
DOH! (More DOHs so that the stupid lameness filter will not kick in!)
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Farrell
I would hope that the FBI, NSA & co *do* employ people who are paranoid, as sometimes, this is the type of thinking you need to solve a problem. But they most be overseen by those who know moderation, and when to moderate their moderation.
That said, Bush 41 and Bush 43's admnistrations are filled with followers of the philosophies of a guy named Leo Strauss. It is upon his ideas that the Neo-Con movement is based. And they are scary. At their base is the idea that The Electorate is too stupid to manage a country, and a group of elites must do so for them...and the elites must do everything to stay in power, including telling lies to the electorate.
Rampant distrust of the electorate is a road to dictatorship, which is very, very scary. And the US is more than a few steps on that road under Bush 43.
ttyl
Farrell