that habeas is a SPAM company, not an anti-SPAM company... they sell a means by which to defeat spam filters. That doesn't exactly make then an anti-spam company in my mind...
In the U.S., there are no "moral" rights. The US is a nationed governed by the rule of law, not the rule of morals. Just watch american TV for a while and you'll see that morals have completely gone out the window here...
"... You are more then welcome to cheat in my class. If you do cheat, I will probably catch you, but I am of the philosophy that if you want to fuck up your own life, you're more than welcome to do so. After all, what goes around comes around. You'll pay for it eventually, and the price will be much higher later than it is now...":)
"Also as a student I should not have to give rights of my work to anyone."
Did you read the fine print on your college application? Many colleges have a clause in the fine print that basically says they own the IP rights to anything you think of, create, or whatever, while you are a student, and I've seen one application that claims IP rights to anything you think of or create for 5 YEARS after you graduate or otherwise leave the school.
Kudos to you then. More and more I grow sick and tired of the University mentality that students are there just to generate revenue. I had way too many classes where the class was taught by a starving grad student, graded by computer, and the "professor" was nowhere to be found. It's a complete ripoff... I hope I can find a college for my kids that still uses the EyeBall Grading Technique(TM)...
I forget where I read it, but the 9th Circus is very frequently found to be completely incorrect by the Supreme Court. They are often ridiculed by legal scholars and other courts as being the biggest travesty to justice this country has ever seen.
"Computers are another form of printing press. Requiring a license for them would be a violation of the first amendment to the constitution and very unAmerican. P2P is as American as Ben Franklin."
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Computers were not built for the express purpose of disemanating information and expressing opinion. Computers were built as productivity tools.
What's really funny is that not only you realize I was just trolling, but then took the bait anyway with an equally ridiculous.....
Is more government oversight of the Internet, including licensure. We have laws, numerous laws, that cover all kinds of common societal tools. There are laws governing how we use cars, airplanes, how we build buildings, and so on. A license is required to do just about anything, and that system works. We have licensure for driving, operating a radio station, an airplane, and for holding professions like electician or even hair stylist.
When you attain a license to interact with the public, you demonstrate that you will do so responsibly and not to the detriment of society. If you do, you will lose your license. The time has come to start treating computers the same way. We use computers to interact with society, and therefore we should all be held to a minimum level of competency before we are allowed to do so. Just like a driver's license, if we break the law, we can get points or lose it altogether. Just like a restaurant has to demonstrate that they will act in a manner not to harm the public with tainted food to get a foodservice license, webservers would have to demonstrate that they would act in a manner not to harm the public by serving porn to kids and so on.
The technology already exists to support licensure of computer use. Smart cards would make this easy - just stick your license into the slot in order to use the computer. A periodic examination could be required to maintain proficiency and to renew our commitment to maintaining a safe and pleasurable Internet.
We, as Americans, have got to realize that the government is here for a reason, to make our lives better. More government oversight and regulation has always been the answer to cleaning up indistries that exploit the masses, and it has always worked. Government interventiion has made our environment clean, made our roads safe, made our food supply pure, made flying risk-free, and has generally improved the standard of living for everyone.
Regulating the use of computers just like any other licensed activity will undoubtedly fix all the problems that exist on the Internet today......
Oh crap, did I forget my sarcasm metatags? No wait, should have been troll hehe...
Let's just see who knee-jerk replies before reading down this far:)
Every company that runs Linux, in any capacity, immediately sues SCO for fraud, extortion, and for willful and malicious interference. There's no way they could survive that many lawsuits. They don't have enough money to even respond to them all.
Ignores standards bodies - that's the first good thing - get the politics out of spam control... especially since a lot of the spam I do get is from the people trying to sell their anti-spam wares...
I get about a dozen emails per week from McAfee... subject may as well read 'Tired of getting spam from us? Pay up and we'll stop!'
"One wonders why these literal rocket scientists didn't just get a software programmable Linux or PalmOS based wrist-computer and hack together a Mars-time display application into it?"
Duh, because they probably needed to waste some more taxpayer money to justify asking for a bigger budget next year...
Davey "Idaho" Boise, in response to the measure establised by Intel and IBM, was quoted as saying, in a very solemn tone, "Oh fuck..." without further comment.
Those prices aren't that bad considering the providers don't have good economy of scale out there... the infrastructure costs are enormous and unless you have 500k customers, it's almost not worth it...
What a naive argument you make. You think that your anecdotal experience of the last 17 years means ANYTHING in the grand scope of global climate change? Do you REALLY think that you can make such a confident statement about environmental dynamics with only 17 years of merely anecdotal data? You are very brave.
17 Years is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Even 200 or 2000 years would not be enough data to express any kind of reliable trend. Silly... just plain silly..
And here's another thing for you to consider. The climate does change. OH MY GOD! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! The weather patterns on this little speck of a planet we live on have varied WILDLY over the past thousands and millions of years. 12000 years ago, you could walk from Florida to France by way of the Bering Strait. Since then, the Earth has warmed dramatically, WITHOUT THE HELP OF HUMANS.
To think that we are solely responsible for every little climatic change is not only arrogant, but completely ludicrous. This has become the battle cry of various political groups who succeed only by misinforming their supporters and followers.
The cries from the left about global warming would be no different that the cries of a whale keeper about a kid dripping red food coloring into an 80-million gallon whale tank. Any effect we have on climate is probably NOTHING compared to the changes made by the natural process. Think logically for a second..
Look at how many tons of CO2 we put in the atmosphere annually... then look at how much mass the atmosphere has. I would be very surprised if the ratio were any larger than about 0.001%.
Here's a little exercise in critical thinking for you:
According to this page, fossil fuel consumption, which has been the meterstick of the left for human damage to the environment, has been 283 billion tons since 1751. In contrast, think of the CO2 emitted by 6 BILLION people. At an average lung capacity of 600cc per person, and an approximate %/v of 12% in exhaled air, that's 72cc of CO2 per breath. If everyone breathes an average of 10 times per minute, that's 14400 times per day, and 5256000 times per year. That gives us 378432000 cc CO2 per human per year, or 2.271E18 cc CO2 for all of humanity. At standard temperature and pressure, using PV=nRT, n = PV/RT or 2.271E18/(0.0821 * 273.15 * 1000) = 1.012E14 mols. CO2 weighs 44 grams per mol, which gives us 4.456E15 grams of CO2 annually, which is the same thing as 4.912E9 TONS of CO2, JUST FROM HUMANS.
4.9 BILLION TONS of CO2 just from people breathing.
Here's some more, think of it in terms of energy. If the average person needs to eat 1600 calories per day (which is 1.6 million energy calories), and the average lifespan of a human is about 50 years world wide (a conservative estimate, I believe), that's 29 BILLION calories of energy over the lifespan, which is 122 billion joules. Thought of differently, 6 billion people burning 1600 calories per day is 4E16 joules PER DAY, just for humans. In contrast, in one gallon of refined gasoline contains about 132 megajoules of energy, so the energy output from humans every day is equivalent to the burning of 300 MILLION GALLONS of gasoline.
And this is just HUMAN energy dissipation. Think, McFly, THINK...
Then again, there are hundreds of reasons that Explorer can crash every 10 minutes...
Yes, speed "binning" is a point, but it still doesn't justify the risk for customers who have critical applications running. I also question whether it even makes sense from a business standpoint. AMD would make more money by NOT downgrading processors because they would have more higher-end, expensive processors to sell. I guess it makes sense to take the loss if you're trying to eat up market share by offering as many cheap-ass CPUs as you can, but it hurts the people who need higher end chips by inflating their price...
You are also correct that I do not work for any of the chip makers, but the products I design are those that use their chips (embedded 603e cores mostly). We have to deal with margins and things of that nature all the time. Obviously, if we try to overclock to save money, things explode and we're liable:)
No, I'm not a hardware enthusiast.. I just design it for a living... There is a _reason_ specifications are written the way they are. You may not see the consequences of violating the specs, but they are there whether or not you want to admit it.
Granted, most people don't care if their game crashes more often or if they have to restart explorer every 10 minutes, but for people who use their computers to do useful things, taking chances is not the right thing to do...
There is no such thing as a thermal superconductor, at least not that I am aware of. There are electrical superconductors, but everything has a specific heat which limits the rate at which it can conduct heat. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Also, the best a heatsink can ever hope for is to cool to some temperature that is pretty far above ambient. You would need the capacity to dissipate energy to infinite space in infantessimal time in order to cool an energy dissipating device to ambient temperature, without getting active that is.
The best a heatsink can home for is the product of the energy being dissipated and the total thermal impedance of the package-to-heatsink-to-air interface... Increasing air velocity across the sink will only help so much as the energy added to the sink from compression of the air falling on it will eventually surpass the amount of energy taken away by it...
"Though Intel doesn't have to really worry about that title. At $164 the Pentium P4C smokes the pants off any AMD processor in its price range. At least, after overclocking it to 3 GHz, which is very doable even with standard cooling."
Will it really be cheaper and faster when you have to buy a new one every 6-12 months because you destroy it?
Don't let this troll get to you. Our great nation was founded on the rule of law, and the TCPA was passed by people who were elected by The People. The whole purpose of The Government is to represent The People, and The People have spoken. The People do not want to receive Junk Faxes, and The People have the right to tell businesses so, and businesses must abide by those wishes. The whole reason the TCPA was enacted was because businesses ignored the Will of The People for too long, so The People invoked their sovreign rights given by The Constitution to compel business to listen.
Anyone who actually WANTS to receive junk faxes may certainly do so, and there's nothing stopping fax.com from sending faxes to those people. The People are not putting anyone out of business here, they are simply compelling a business to play by the rules.
"Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules?!" --Walter Sobchak
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that habeas is a SPAM company, not an anti-SPAM company... they sell a means by which to defeat spam filters. That doesn't exactly make then an anti-spam company in my mind...
In the U.S., there are no "moral" rights. The US is a nationed governed by the rule of law, not the rule of morals. Just watch american TV for a while and you'll see that morals have completely gone out the window here...
After all, if you find a nugget of gold on the ground, and it's wrapped in dog shit, would you pick it up?
Tough call, isn't it?
On the first day, here's how my speech would go:
:)
"... You are more then welcome to cheat in my class. If you do cheat, I will probably catch you, but I am of the philosophy that if you want to fuck up your own life, you're more than welcome to do so. After all, what goes around comes around. You'll pay for it eventually, and the price will be much higher later than it is now..."
"Also as a student I should not have to give rights of my work to anyone."
Did you read the fine print on your college application? Many colleges have a clause in the fine print that basically says they own the IP rights to anything you think of, create, or whatever, while you are a student, and I've seen one application that claims IP rights to anything you think of or create for 5 YEARS after you graduate or otherwise leave the school.
The whole concept of IP is just ridiculous...
Kudos to you then. More and more I grow sick and tired of the University mentality that students are there just to generate revenue. I had way too many classes where the class was taught by a starving grad student, graded by computer, and the "professor" was nowhere to be found. It's a complete ripoff... I hope I can find a college for my kids that still uses the EyeBall Grading Technique(TM)...
Way to go, 9th Circus Court of Appeals...
I forget where I read it, but the 9th Circus is very frequently found to be completely incorrect by the Supreme Court. They are often ridiculed by legal scholars and other courts as being the biggest travesty to justice this country has ever seen.
*sigh*
"Computers are another form of printing press. Requiring a license for them would be a violation of the first amendment to the constitution and very unAmerican. P2P is as American as Ben Franklin."
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Computers were not built for the express purpose of disemanating information and expressing opinion. Computers were built as productivity tools.
What's really funny is that not only you realize I was just trolling, but then took the bait anyway with an equally ridiculous.....
FUCK! I was trolled-back...
Is more government oversight of the Internet, including licensure. We have laws, numerous laws, that cover all kinds of common societal tools. There are laws governing how we use cars, airplanes, how we build buildings, and so on. A license is required to do just about anything, and that system works. We have licensure for driving, operating a radio station, an airplane, and for holding professions like electician or even hair stylist.
...
:)
:)
When you attain a license to interact with the public, you demonstrate that you will do so responsibly and not to the detriment of society. If you do, you will lose your license. The time has come to start treating computers the same way. We use computers to interact with society, and therefore we should all be held to a minimum level of competency before we are allowed to do so. Just like a driver's license, if we break the law, we can get points or lose it altogether. Just like a restaurant has to demonstrate that they will act in a manner not to harm the public with tainted food to get a foodservice license, webservers would have to demonstrate that they would act in a manner not to harm the public by serving porn to kids and so on.
The technology already exists to support licensure of computer use. Smart cards would make this easy - just stick your license into the slot in order to use the computer. A periodic examination could be required to maintain proficiency and to renew our commitment to maintaining a safe and pleasurable Internet.
We, as Americans, have got to realize that the government is here for a reason, to make our lives better. More government oversight and regulation has always been the answer to cleaning up indistries that exploit the masses, and it has always worked. Government interventiion has made our environment clean, made our roads safe, made our food supply pure, made flying risk-free, and has generally improved the standard of living for everyone.
Regulating the use of computers just like any other licensed activity will undoubtedly fix all the problems that exist on the Internet today...
Oh crap, did I forget my sarcasm metatags? No wait, should have been troll hehe...
Let's just see who knee-jerk replies before reading down this far
My karma can afford it
Every company that runs Linux, in any capacity, immediately sues SCO for fraud, extortion, and for willful and malicious interference. There's no way they could survive that many lawsuits. They don't have enough money to even respond to them all.
Then again, IANAL...
Get the link right:
http://www.sco.com/?sco=litigious%20bastards
Ignores standards bodies - that's the first good thing - get the politics out of spam control... especially since a lot of the spam I do get is from the people trying to sell their anti-spam wares...
I get about a dozen emails per week from McAfee... subject may as well read 'Tired of getting spam from us? Pay up and we'll stop!'
Funny how the article fails to mention that. Where do you get your info?
"One wonders why these literal rocket scientists didn't just get a software programmable Linux or PalmOS based wrist-computer and hack together a Mars-time display application into it?"
Duh, because they probably needed to waste some more taxpayer money to justify asking for a bigger budget next year...
The article continues:
Davey "Idaho" Boise, in response to the measure establised by Intel and IBM, was quoted as saying, in a very solemn tone, "Oh fuck..." without further comment.
Those prices aren't that bad considering the providers don't have good economy of scale out there... the infrastructure costs are enormous and unless you have 500k customers, it's almost not worth it...
Zip Code: 19010
/28 routed subnet, $89.95/mo /29 routed subnet, $64.95/mo
Line 1: Covad: 384k/1.5M,
Line 2: Verizon: 384k/1.5M,
Line 3: Covad: 768k/1.5M, single static, $69.95/mo
Lines 1 and 2 provided by DCA.net, Line 3 by Speakeasy...
What a naive argument you make. You think that your anecdotal experience of the last 17 years means ANYTHING in the grand scope of global climate change? Do you REALLY think that you can make such a confident statement about environmental dynamics with only 17 years of merely anecdotal data? You are very brave.
17 Years is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Even 200 or 2000 years would not be enough data to express any kind of reliable trend. Silly... just plain silly..
And here's another thing for you to consider. The climate does change. OH MY GOD! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! The weather patterns on this little speck of a planet we live on have varied WILDLY over the past thousands and millions of years. 12000 years ago, you could walk from Florida to France by way of the Bering Strait. Since then, the Earth has warmed dramatically, WITHOUT THE HELP OF HUMANS.
To think that we are solely responsible for every little climatic change is not only arrogant, but completely ludicrous. This has become the battle cry of various political groups who succeed only by misinforming their supporters and followers.
The cries from the left about global warming would be no different that the cries of a whale keeper about a kid dripping red food coloring into an 80-million gallon whale tank. Any effect we have on climate is probably NOTHING compared to the changes made by the natural process. Think logically for a second..
Look at how many tons of CO2 we put in the atmosphere annually... then look at how much mass the atmosphere has. I would be very surprised if the ratio were any larger than about 0.001%.
Here's a little exercise in critical thinking for you:
According to this page, fossil fuel consumption, which has been the meterstick of the left for human damage to the environment, has been 283 billion tons since 1751. In contrast, think of the CO2 emitted by 6 BILLION people. At an average lung capacity of 600cc per person, and an approximate %/v of 12% in exhaled air, that's 72cc of CO2 per breath. If everyone breathes an average of 10 times per minute, that's 14400 times per day, and 5256000 times per year. That gives us 378432000 cc CO2 per human per year, or 2.271E18 cc CO2 for all of humanity. At standard temperature and pressure, using PV=nRT, n = PV/RT or 2.271E18/(0.0821 * 273.15 * 1000) = 1.012E14 mols. CO2 weighs 44 grams per mol, which gives us 4.456E15 grams of CO2 annually, which is the same thing as 4.912E9 TONS of CO2, JUST FROM HUMANS.
4.9 BILLION TONS of CO2 just from people breathing.
Here's some more, think of it in terms of energy. If the average person needs to eat 1600 calories per day (which is 1.6 million energy calories), and the average lifespan of a human is about 50 years world wide (a conservative estimate, I believe), that's 29 BILLION calories of energy over the lifespan, which is 122 billion joules. Thought of differently, 6 billion people burning 1600 calories per day is 4E16 joules PER DAY, just for humans. In contrast, in one gallon of refined gasoline contains about 132 megajoules of energy, so the energy output from humans every day is equivalent to the burning of 300 MILLION GALLONS of gasoline.
And this is just HUMAN energy dissipation. Think, McFly, THINK...
Then again, there are hundreds of reasons that Explorer can crash every 10 minutes...
:)
Yes, speed "binning" is a point, but it still doesn't justify the risk for customers who have critical applications running. I also question whether it even makes sense from a business standpoint. AMD would make more money by NOT downgrading processors because they would have more higher-end, expensive processors to sell. I guess it makes sense to take the loss if you're trying to eat up market share by offering as many cheap-ass CPUs as you can, but it hurts the people who need higher end chips by inflating their price...
You are also correct that I do not work for any of the chip makers, but the products I design are those that use their chips (embedded 603e cores mostly). We have to deal with margins and things of that nature all the time. Obviously, if we try to overclock to save money, things explode and we're liable
Shit, and how much energy are you going to expend keeping Helium4 that cold, along the entire length of the pipe? :)
No, I'm not a hardware enthusiast.. I just design it for a living... There is a _reason_ specifications are written the way they are. You may not see the consequences of violating the specs, but they are there whether or not you want to admit it.
Granted, most people don't care if their game crashes more often or if they have to restart explorer every 10 minutes, but for people who use their computers to do useful things, taking chances is not the right thing to do...
There is no such thing as a thermal superconductor, at least not that I am aware of. There are electrical superconductors, but everything has a specific heat which limits the rate at which it can conduct heat. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Also, the best a heatsink can ever hope for is to cool to some temperature that is pretty far above ambient. You would need the capacity to dissipate energy to infinite space in infantessimal time in order to cool an energy dissipating device to ambient temperature, without getting active that is.
The best a heatsink can home for is the product of the energy being dissipated and the total thermal impedance of the package-to-heatsink-to-air interface... Increasing air velocity across the sink will only help so much as the energy added to the sink from compression of the air falling on it will eventually surpass the amount of energy taken away by it...
"Though Intel doesn't have to really worry about that title. At $164 the Pentium P4C smokes the pants off any AMD processor in its price range. At least, after overclocking it to 3 GHz, which is very doable even with standard cooling."
Will it really be cheaper and faster when you have to buy a new one every 6-12 months because you destroy it?
If it's not against the law, why did they go after him in the first place?
Don't let this troll get to you. Our great nation was founded on the rule of law, and the TCPA was passed by people who were elected by The People. The whole purpose of The Government is to represent The People, and The People have spoken. The People do not want to receive Junk Faxes, and The People have the right to tell businesses so, and businesses must abide by those wishes. The whole reason the TCPA was enacted was because businesses ignored the Will of The People for too long, so The People invoked their sovreign rights given by The Constitution to compel business to listen.
Anyone who actually WANTS to receive junk faxes may certainly do so, and there's nothing stopping fax.com from sending faxes to those people. The People are not putting anyone out of business here, they are simply compelling a business to play by the rules.
"Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules?!" --Walter Sobchak