I really failed to see a problem worthy of all the drama. If someone doesn't want to do business with me for whatever reason, I'll just accept it and find someone else to do the work. If you force someone to do work for you against their will, you're probably not going to get a spectacularly good result for your money, so it's best to find someone that actually wants your business.
Again, we see the two-edged sword of tolerance at work. Those who engage in any given lifestyle while harming no one else should be free to do so, and those who oppose that lifestyle according to their own personal moral compass while harming no one should also be free to do so.
Part of the basis for these laws is that every landlord accrues benefit to their property from the public till: the national defense, public utilities, the roadways.
Hmm, I thought that's what the whole concept of "taxes" was about, and public utilities are generally paid for on a demand basis.
But if he wants to engage in commerce and earn a profit, he does so with society's help in terms of market regulation and authority to enforce contracts.
And he pays for society's help in the form of taxes.
In short, keep your bigoted acts private and you're fine. Air them in public and fuck you.
Tolerance is a two-way street. You're always free not to associate with those you disagree with. It's remarkable how so many of those who scream the loudest about "tolerance" are unwilling to actually practice it.
I vote that the white supremacist not get to rent out his housing at all.
Or, put another way, "I vote that those whose views I find reprehensible be denied those civil rights that I believe appropriate, such as the right to use their property as they see fit or the right to engage in business."
Freedom also means having to put up with those you disagree with or dislike. I don't like racism either, but you combat that with education and encouragement of critical thinking, not with misguided laws that overstep the bounds of what the government is allowed to do. In the end, you're still going to end up with some people that are going to be prejudiced no matter what, and when you come across people like that it's best to just learn to deal with it.
Such is how the "free market" works in the US. When you have to deal with unacceptable labor costs in the free market, you just bribe the government to change the rules of the game for you, knowing that the most response said labor will get from their government is a letter from their congressman telling them, "you just don't understand how the market works, so be a good little wage slave, be quiet, and let the adults talk."
Cresanti's background and experience by themselves are enough to discount just about anything that might come out of his mouth.
I'm tired of people whining that they can't get a decent tech that knows everything for the median salary locally.
I'm tired of those same ignorant people asking for such ridiculous qualifications as 10 years of C# experience and then telling Washington there is a problem because they can't find someone that fits that profile. The policymakers in DC like this Cresanti fool don't have any real practical knowledge about the areas in which they exert power, but are quite content to do whatever the loudest voice (i.e. the ITAA and their ilk) tells them without the first inkling of the consequences of their actions on the American people.
On the doctor's side, don't forget the quarter-million dollar debt he's got right out of school, the ridiculous amount of insurance he has to carry, and the ridiculous number of laws and state regulations that he has to know and comply with.
It was actually a different product, but just the same it's good to have even more evidence that this was hardly a novel idea worthy of patent protection in 2000.
NetPhone was around 10 years ago, and although it didn't provide a POTS gateway, it did allow you to talk to other NetPhone-equipped parties using a telephone-like interface remarkably similar to the softphones of today.
Humans use a lot more than a face to determine who a person is
Big time. I and lots of other people can often identify someone without seeing them just from hearing them walk. Video would be a big step forward, as people tend to be very distinctive in their movements, but I doubt there will ever be a computer than can people-watch as well as people themselves can.
If the system is used fairly, and police understand that people the system fingers are fairly likely to be law abiding citizens and should therefore be treated with courtesy and respect, I think it will work fine.
Well, there's your problem right there. Sometimes it's not about justice, it's about the police arresting someone and the DA getting a conviction for political gain, or just so that they don't look like a bunch of fools. The justice system in the US is supposed to operate on a presumption of innocence, but it doesn't always work that way in real life.
Right, because they've managed to get the system into such a state that you can't get justice in cases like this unless you've got a *big* checkbook to throw at it, have made the entire system so convoluted that the average person can't effectively represent himself in court, and hold enough positions of power in the government such that they can ensure the gravy train continues perpetually.
Of course there are decent lawyers out there too. I know several that are wonderful people, and do their best to abide by their conscience when doing their work. They're not the ones that you see on TV though, and they're not the ones that Congressmen and Senators listen to.
In your quoted comment it says, "If, however, a license is limited in scope and the licensee acts
outside the scope, the licensor can bring an action for copyright infringement." The situation here isn't the same as it was in the Sun vs. Microsoft action. In that case, Microsoft altered Java so as to be incompatible with the standard, in violation of their license agreement. That was clearly a contract issue. Microsoft never attempted to represent Java as being of their own creation except to the extent that it was Microsoft's version of the Sun product, and MS's version was clearly a "derivative work" as provided for in their contract with Sun.
Here however, we're dealing with a company that is blatantly misrepresenting others' work as their own and profiting from it without any attribution to the original authors, which is *way* outside the scope of the GPL and seems to me to be a textbook case of copyright (and possibly trademark) infringement. It doesn't appear that there was even the slightest intent to abide by the licensing terms that the software was offered under, so I'd think one could even argue that no licensing agreement existed between the parties involved.
One very basic thing about law that everyone should learn is that it is not enough to simply make a law. You also have to back it up with enforcement.
I might also point out that the same is true of citizens' rights, and our current administration seems to show about as much respect for those as for international law.
The U.S. Constitution just a "goddamned piece of paper" in a very real sense. It's up to the citizenry to ensure that the government submits to the will of the people, and not the other way around.
Same here, except I'm still getting decent battery life out of mine. My iPod is a little scuffed up and definitely shows its age, but it still works perfectly and it's not often that I need more than the 5 gigs it gives me so I don't really feel a need to replace it yet, even after 5 years. Replacement batteries are only about $15 or so, so there's no need to put up with only an hour of battery life.
That was Randy Weaver and his family at Ruby Ridge, not someone named Reeves.
As far as I'm concerned, there's been almost nothing remotely resembling justice that's come out of all that. This whole thing started because a damn judge let stand an arrest warrant for Weaver's failure to appear in court on a bogus weapons charge after being informed the summons sent to Weaver had the wrong date on it.
The only positive thing to come out of that was that US Marshal William Degan paid with his life for his part in the murder of Sam Weaver, so at least that's one jack-booted thug that is no longer a danger to the American people.
How completely trite and naive. People who intend to break the law should absolutely be afraid of their government.
I think you're missing the point. Certainly those who break the law should constantly be aware of the potential consequences, but the problem today is that people fear the government for what it *might* do, regardless of whether it has a legal basis for arrest and detention of anyone.
Jose Padilla spent three years in prison without being charged, and the Bush Administration pulled a fast legal maneuver to prevent Supreme Court review of the case because they KNEW they'd get hammered for it. The government can arrest anyone they want and hold them as a "material witness" for as long as they want, again without any charges. The US government has shown a propensity to bend the law as far as it possibly can, and on occasion to completely disregard it. Frankly, this concerns me, and it shouldn't have to. I should expect that the government will act in accordance with the powers it has been granted instead of attempting to grab more power with the flimsiest of excuses, but that's not the way things are today.
Most people who make a difference in this world do things without caring what it means for themselves
I will agree that there are those who are altruistic, but sacrificing oneself when the same effect can be had at a lesser cost just isn't using common sense. His actions will likely force changes in the way the airlines and TSA do things, with the most probably result being that flying will become even more of a pain in the ass than it already is, but with very limited benefits as regards real security. As for Chris - well, he's pretty much at the mercy of the federal government now, and no law enforcement official that I know of takes very kindly to attempts at public embarrassment. Unfortunately they have an almost unlimited budget with which to mete out their vengeance. I don't think that it's right that they can do that, but that's a practical reality.
I appreciate the guy's motives, but I seriously question his judgement.
Even then, I've experienced problems with it. On the Intel box at home, Workstation runs absolutely perfectly and keeps flawless time. At work on the AMD X2 box, you can feel a vacuum from the temporal displacement going on there - it will gain at least six hours per day, and I've tried everything I could find, including the link you offered. I eventually ended up just working around it by re-syncing anytime I did a build at work, and practically it's more of an annoyance than a real problem.
From what I understand, at least part of the problem is that a lot of the AMD X2 chips don't keep the individual TSCs for each core synced very well which ends up confusing the hell out of VMware. I hear that this is usually not a problem with dual-core Opterons, and I've not run into it on any Intels although I have read that their dual-cores can sometimes be subject to the same problem.
I just get a bit sick and tired of people who think they don't need to spend time explaining their work to others
You and me both - frankly, I'm not usually interested enough in other peoples' work to want to go spelunking through it to figure out how it works. If it was within my power, people that write code without taking the time to properly document it would immediately spend the next six months doing the lowliest maintenance coding possible, adding full and informative comments the entire time.:-)
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I really failed to see a problem worthy of all the drama. If someone doesn't want to do business with me for whatever reason, I'll just accept it and find someone else to do the work. If you force someone to do work for you against their will, you're probably not going to get a spectacularly good result for your money, so it's best to find someone that actually wants your business.
Again, we see the two-edged sword of tolerance at work. Those who engage in any given lifestyle while harming no one else should be free to do so, and those who oppose that lifestyle according to their own personal moral compass while harming no one should also be free to do so.
Part of the basis for these laws is that every landlord accrues benefit to their property from the public till: the national defense, public utilities, the roadways.
Hmm, I thought that's what the whole concept of "taxes" was about, and public utilities are generally paid for on a demand basis.
And if someone is that much of a bigot, let him wallow around and miss out on opportunities because of it: his loss.
You'd think it'd be the case that they'd lose business, but not always.
But if he wants to engage in commerce and earn a profit, he does so with society's help in terms of market regulation and authority to enforce contracts.
And he pays for society's help in the form of taxes.
In short, keep your bigoted acts private and you're fine. Air them in public and fuck you.
Tolerance is a two-way street. You're always free not to associate with those you disagree with. It's remarkable how so many of those who scream the loudest about "tolerance" are unwilling to actually practice it.
I vote that the white supremacist not get to rent out his housing at all.
Or, put another way, "I vote that those whose views I find reprehensible be denied those civil rights that I believe appropriate, such as the right to use their property as they see fit or the right to engage in business."
Freedom also means having to put up with those you disagree with or dislike. I don't like racism either, but you combat that with education and encouragement of critical thinking, not with misguided laws that overstep the bounds of what the government is allowed to do. In the end, you're still going to end up with some people that are going to be prejudiced no matter what, and when you come across people like that it's best to just learn to deal with it.
Such is how the "free market" works in the US. When you have to deal with unacceptable labor costs in the free market, you just bribe the government to change the rules of the game for you, knowing that the most response said labor will get from their government is a letter from their congressman telling them, "you just don't understand how the market works, so be a good little wage slave, be quiet, and let the adults talk."
Cresanti's background and experience by themselves are enough to discount just about anything that might come out of his mouth.
I'm tired of people whining that they can't get a decent tech that knows everything for the median salary locally.
I'm tired of those same ignorant people asking for such ridiculous qualifications as 10 years of C# experience and then telling Washington there is a problem because they can't find someone that fits that profile. The policymakers in DC like this Cresanti fool don't have any real practical knowledge about the areas in which they exert power, but are quite content to do whatever the loudest voice (i.e. the ITAA and their ilk) tells them without the first inkling of the consequences of their actions on the American people.
On the doctor's side, don't forget the quarter-million dollar debt he's got right out of school, the ridiculous amount of insurance he has to carry, and the ridiculous number of laws and state regulations that he has to know and comply with.
And now you can really put Prince Albert in a can.
It was actually a different product, but just the same it's good to have even more evidence that this was hardly a novel idea worthy of patent protection in 2000.
NetPhone was around 10 years ago, and although it didn't provide a POTS gateway, it did allow you to talk to other NetPhone-equipped parties using a telephone-like interface remarkably similar to the softphones of today.
I think someone at the USPTO needs a cockpunch.
Humans use a lot more than a face to determine who a person is
Big time. I and lots of other people can often identify someone without seeing them just from hearing them walk. Video would be a big step forward, as people tend to be very distinctive in their movements, but I doubt there will ever be a computer than can people-watch as well as people themselves can.
If the system is used fairly, and police understand that people the system fingers are fairly likely to be law abiding citizens and should therefore be treated with courtesy and respect, I think it will work fine.
Well, there's your problem right there. Sometimes it's not about justice, it's about the police arresting someone and the DA getting a conviction for political gain, or just so that they don't look like a bunch of fools. The justice system in the US is supposed to operate on a presumption of innocence, but it doesn't always work that way in real life.
All I can say is give the lawyers a break
Right, because they've managed to get the system into such a state that you can't get justice in cases like this unless you've got a *big* checkbook to throw at it, have made the entire system so convoluted that the average person can't effectively represent himself in court, and hold enough positions of power in the government such that they can ensure the gravy train continues perpetually.
Of course there are decent lawyers out there too. I know several that are wonderful people, and do their best to abide by their conscience when doing their work. They're not the ones that you see on TV though, and they're not the ones that Congressmen and Senators listen to.
In your quoted comment it says, "If, however, a license is limited in scope and the licensee acts outside the scope, the licensor can bring an action for copyright infringement." The situation here isn't the same as it was in the Sun vs. Microsoft action. In that case, Microsoft altered Java so as to be incompatible with the standard, in violation of their license agreement. That was clearly a contract issue. Microsoft never attempted to represent Java as being of their own creation except to the extent that it was Microsoft's version of the Sun product, and MS's version was clearly a "derivative work" as provided for in their contract with Sun.
Here however, we're dealing with a company that is blatantly misrepresenting others' work as their own and profiting from it without any attribution to the original authors, which is *way* outside the scope of the GPL and seems to me to be a textbook case of copyright (and possibly trademark) infringement. It doesn't appear that there was even the slightest intent to abide by the licensing terms that the software was offered under, so I'd think one could even argue that no licensing agreement existed between the parties involved.
I know it's offtopic, but that's one of the funniest exchanges on film:
Axel: Get the f*** outta here!
Serge: No, I cannot!!
All because of a few words in the title, I went from criminal suspect to a functional member of the IT staff
:-)
With management like that, I think I'd still have turned in the notice.
One very basic thing about law that everyone should learn is that it is not enough to simply make a law. You also have to back it up with enforcement.
I might also point out that the same is true of citizens' rights, and our current administration seems to show about as much respect for those as for international law.
The U.S. Constitution just a "goddamned piece of paper" in a very real sense. It's up to the citizenry to ensure that the government submits to the will of the people, and not the other way around.
Same here, except I'm still getting decent battery life out of mine. My iPod is a little scuffed up and definitely shows its age, but it still works perfectly and it's not often that I need more than the 5 gigs it gives me so I don't really feel a need to replace it yet, even after 5 years. Replacement batteries are only about $15 or so, so there's no need to put up with only an hour of battery life.
That was Randy Weaver and his family at Ruby Ridge, not someone named Reeves.
As far as I'm concerned, there's been almost nothing remotely resembling justice that's come out of all that. This whole thing started because a damn judge let stand an arrest warrant for Weaver's failure to appear in court on a bogus weapons charge after being informed the summons sent to Weaver had the wrong date on it.
The only positive thing to come out of that was that US Marshal William Degan paid with his life for his part in the murder of Sam Weaver, so at least that's one jack-booted thug that is no longer a danger to the American people.
How completely trite and naive. People who intend to break the law should absolutely be afraid of their government.
I think you're missing the point. Certainly those who break the law should constantly be aware of the potential consequences, but the problem today is that people fear the government for what it *might* do, regardless of whether it has a legal basis for arrest and detention of anyone.
Jose Padilla spent three years in prison without being charged, and the Bush Administration pulled a fast legal maneuver to prevent Supreme Court review of the case because they KNEW they'd get hammered for it. The government can arrest anyone they want and hold them as a "material witness" for as long as they want, again without any charges. The US government has shown a propensity to bend the law as far as it possibly can, and on occasion to completely disregard it. Frankly, this concerns me, and it shouldn't have to. I should expect that the government will act in accordance with the powers it has been granted instead of attempting to grab more power with the flimsiest of excuses, but that's not the way things are today.
Most people who make a difference in this world do things without caring what it means for themselves
I will agree that there are those who are altruistic, but sacrificing oneself when the same effect can be had at a lesser cost just isn't using common sense. His actions will likely force changes in the way the airlines and TSA do things, with the most probably result being that flying will become even more of a pain in the ass than it already is, but with very limited benefits as regards real security. As for Chris - well, he's pretty much at the mercy of the federal government now, and no law enforcement official that I know of takes very kindly to attempts at public embarrassment. Unfortunately they have an almost unlimited budget with which to mete out their vengeance. I don't think that it's right that they can do that, but that's a practical reality.
I appreciate the guy's motives, but I seriously question his judgement.
Even then, I've experienced problems with it. On the Intel box at home, Workstation runs absolutely perfectly and keeps flawless time. At work on the AMD X2 box, you can feel a vacuum from the temporal displacement going on there - it will gain at least six hours per day, and I've tried everything I could find, including the link you offered. I eventually ended up just working around it by re-syncing anytime I did a build at work, and practically it's more of an annoyance than a real problem.
From what I understand, at least part of the problem is that a lot of the AMD X2 chips don't keep the individual TSCs for each core synced very well which ends up confusing the hell out of VMware. I hear that this is usually not a problem with dual-core Opterons, and I've not run into it on any Intels although I have read that their dual-cores can sometimes be subject to the same problem.
I use the phone a lot.
RTP streams are quite sniffable should you have a VoIP system and a nosy admin...
I just get a bit sick and tired of people who think they don't need to spend time explaining their work to others
:-)
You and me both - frankly, I'm not usually interested enough in other peoples' work to want to go spelunking through it to figure out how it works. If it was within my power, people that write code without taking the time to properly document it would immediately spend the next six months doing the lowliest maintenance coding possible, adding full and informative comments the entire time.