Well, the Dune mostly took place on two planets, not in space. Beyond that, the producer makes people question his IQ/EQ by trying to make things exciting just by stating that they are in one sentence. Especially when it comes to love stories, the Dune is about as boring/unimaginative as Harry Potter (which, unlike Dune, has books 1 and 3 which are exciting to read in other aspects).
On the other hand, Star Wars is kind of exciting to watch. Since then, a lot of good science fiction stories were made, but if it was the first of a kind, of course it left quite a jolt.
Actually I didn't feel it was in any way related to Star Wars. Luke is well aware of spaceships and interplanet stuggle, he just has troubles with his family tree.
When it comes to a story of a geek suddenly plunged into a video game world, Tron is a much closer match than Star Wars. Watch Space Balls some time if you are into ripoffs/parodies of the later.
Here is a link that will give their server some grief without running the trojan. Then again, they might put it there later, so I still wouldn't run it from IE. Maybe do "Save as" instead of open?
Easy - companies want a right to hire anywhere, take advantage of other countries' weak labor laws and not pay high import duties. In this case, I have a full right to buy my stuff everywhere, take advantage of other countries' weak IP laws and not pay high income taxes. And if I were to hire some illegal immigrants to get services for 3rd world prices just like my employees do, who is to say no to freedom of labor?
Kick out croonies of big business and rich people from your government and you will either get protection from globalization or start enjoying its benefits. Either way, better then the current one-sided "freedom".
I registered oleg.ws and now I am in a world of pain. Thanks for those yahoo filters. I think there should be an option for non-commercial (non-.com?) users to hide the info but disclose it to people who make a personal application with a legitamate concern.
As for seven year prison sentence, that's awfully harsh for someone who merely causes an annoyance. Make them do something to compensate the society - like secure public school/library computers - 8hr/day each weekend for a couple of years and most of them will get the message. If they don't and screw up, then put them in jail.
I don't know - the casino I work for uses names like fraud_is_felony.jpg, federal_prison.jpg, pound_in_the_ass.jpg and smart_people_can_find_an_honest_job.jpg. Works like a charm on hackers, although we have a problem with our own programmers quiting once they realize online gambling is legally dubious.
...referring to Basham's co-defendant, who plead guilty and was sentenced to death
A lot of murderers go free or get convicted of lesser crimes on some technicality. Don't prosecutors realize that a greater overall justice will be served if criminals are encouraged to confess in exchange for a small favor, like no death penalty and a 30 year maximum sentence unless there is an evidence and maybe let the see the sunshine as old men/women?
ask.com started out as a pretty useful service where many questions had a human-prepared answer and if not you got aggregated top results of other engines. Ads had to come in and would be fine if they did it a normal way like Yahoo or Google. But now if you ask a question like "What to visit in Paris" you get no hosted answers and suspicious web links that mostly promote hotels, airline fares and so on. How hard is it to just say Louvre and Notre Dame?
Was there a specific new CEO who did it or did they just gradually went down the tubes?
Wow, thanks for clarification! My final hope is that the risks are really evaluated professionally rather than "screw your liver or lose your job" as the original poster suggests.
The purpose of punishment is the hope that it will cause the individual to repent.
If the society already punished me, we are even. No sense for me to further punish myself by feeling regret or contemplating if I committed any wrong-doings. On the other hand, if society treats me well and at the same time educates me about real and potential consequences of what I did... wow!
As it is, people might be deterred from crime by fear of repeated/increased punishment. But most just learn not to get caught or at least think they did. Radar detectors, here I come!
Wait a second, you didn't have TB but were put on a liver-destroying and probably resistance-breeding drug? Also, I would assume a bug in cyst-like structure eventually dies. Can it really survive forever without food in a warm human body?
As long as Microsoft has >90% of the market, its natural that Windows will work with new hardware standards first and Linux developers have to beg manufacturers for documentation or reverse-engineer the interfaces. I don't think any specific explanation is required beyond market forces. Would the author prevent Microsoft from taking initiative in developing any new technology?
The good news is that IBM will probably want to sell Linux servers with working USB for external storage and contribute the drivers for the rest of us to leech. Also, Longhorn home users will not bother with security, so there will be some mode where no device signatures are enforced. Linux just needs to support that mode, which will not need any secret keys ala CSS to function.
Even spammers deserve a wife who will not turn them in for some quick cash. Then think about all the people who will be framed by clever hackers. That will create Stalin's Soviet Union of people who are encouraged to spy on each other, only for capitalist greed rather than communist fevor.
A modest reward of $100 or so will encourage IT people and geeks to try and trace a real spam to the source rather than just deleting it. At the same time, that's not enough to betray a relative or frame someone and risk going to jail yourself.
I will do no such thing. If I am bothered by their restrictions, I am not buying. I am sure local musicians in my area will gladly sell me unprotected CDs for $5/pop. Why they added DRM is strictly their bussiness and doesn't figure into my buying decisions.
This article implies that Microsoft needs $60B AND the value of their own stock to work on an OS and a Word Processor. Some companies are managing to create great things with more than 10 times less money.
I bet Bill can easily give out $30B by selling stock and donating very slowly to avoid market panic. A surgeon shouldn't sell his scalpel, but he doesn't really need a thousand of them. If he donated to oranizations that promote world peace and are capable to achieve results (which he may be able to judge better than the rest of us, with his indisputable business talent), wonderful things could happen.
Every time I tried that I ended up with mystereous lockups, screen-streaking deaths, random failures to power on properly and so on. I suspect parts from different vendors are just slightly out of spec and PC makers know not to use a particular memory chip with a particular motherboard. Also, they might run some kind of test on assembled PCs and if you discover a problem you can just return the whole thing in one place.
With a homemade PC, the source of the trouble may not be obvious and you may have to return parts to all the different web stores and possibly pay for return shipping.
Faster sorting is not worth $10M to a single small software company. However, it's well worth $100K a pop to a hundred of them. There are other ways to pool resources like consortiums and taxes, but a patent is unique in the sense that the invention is already made and you only pay for it if you need to use it.
The problem comes when people don't do serious research and just patent an obvious or only way to do something. Perhaps courts should award large fines when someone demands a patent license for something which is not a groundbreaking invention.
I would gladly stand in line in a crowded government institution and pay a $100 processing fee to add myself to "don't call", "don't e-mail" and "don't harass in airports" lists that have some teeth - enforcement/punishment strong enough that I no longer get much junk e-mail. I would prefer that for me it was the default, but maybe some people are really bargin hunting for solutions for enlarging misspelled portions of their bodies. Who am I to presume?
when was the last time you took a single antibiotic? oh, that's right, it's more like 3 times a day for a week isn't it?
When was the last time you jailed a single criminal and then pulled all the policeman out of the street so that the remaining ones can remain at large and learn how to conceal their misdeeds better? I would rather think you want to stick it out until the crime in question is no longer a big concern and natural vigilence of citizens is enough to stop the few remaining instances. Letting antibiotic-resistant bicteria breed would be most unwise.
Imagine that you can just type an easily readable word to view some free, high-quality pr0n. Ok, you are in 10% who can refuse now, how about when you were 16? Uh-uh. I read before these schemes are quite popular and the economics is right. The pr0n only needs to be produced once and even if by some miricle the star is well paid rather than exploited, if you didn't yet see the photo/clip, well it's nude to you. Imagine a beowulf cluster of slashdotters helping spammers because they can't get the real thing.
pharmaceutical companies hate cures, they much prefer treatments
Do you also think funeral parlors are happy when people die? I rather suspect every non-nutcase company would gladly disolve if that's the price of curing AIDS. You are talking about ethics of software companies, but humans dying because their body rots out is a bit more important than the format of your word processor files.
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No toilets mean they get where they are going quicker.
Especially if they properly use the resulting reactive mass.
Would you still mind if the liability was simply refund of the purchase price if the product didn't work as advertised?
Do you have a link to back this statement? I recall seeing version updates in the store.
Well, the Dune mostly took place on two planets, not in space. Beyond that, the producer makes people question his IQ/EQ by trying to make things exciting just by stating that they are in one sentence. Especially when it comes to love stories, the Dune is about as boring/unimaginative as Harry Potter (which, unlike Dune, has books 1 and 3 which are exciting to read in other aspects).
On the other hand, Star Wars is kind of exciting to watch. Since then, a lot of good science fiction stories were made, but if it was the first of a kind, of course it left quite a jolt.
Actually I didn't feel it was in any way related to Star Wars. Luke is well aware of spaceships and interplanet stuggle, he just has troubles with his family tree.
When it comes to a story of a geek suddenly plunged into a video game world, Tron is a much closer match than Star Wars. Watch Space Balls some time if you are into ripoffs/parodies of the later.
Here is a link that will give their server some grief without running the trojan. Then again, they might put it there later, so I still wouldn't run it from IE. Maybe do "Save as" instead of open?
Easy - companies want a right to hire anywhere, take advantage of other countries' weak labor laws and not pay high import duties. In this case, I have a full right to buy my stuff everywhere, take advantage of other countries' weak IP laws and not pay high income taxes. And if I were to hire some illegal immigrants to get services for 3rd world prices just like my employees do, who is to say no to freedom of labor?
Kick out croonies of big business and rich people from your government and you will either get protection from globalization or start enjoying its benefits. Either way, better then the current one-sided "freedom".
I registered oleg.ws and now I am in a world of pain. Thanks for those yahoo filters. I think there should be an option for non-commercial (non-.com?) users to hide the info but disclose it to people who make a personal application with a legitamate concern.
As for seven year prison sentence, that's awfully harsh for someone who merely causes an annoyance. Make them do something to compensate the society - like secure public school/library computers - 8hr/day each weekend for a couple of years and most of them will get the message. If they don't and screw up, then put them in jail.
I don't know - the casino I work for uses names like fraud_is_felony.jpg, federal_prison.jpg, pound_in_the_ass.jpg and smart_people_can_find_an_honest_job.jpg. Works like a charm on hackers, although we have a problem with our own programmers quiting once they realize online gambling is legally dubious.
...referring to Basham's co-defendant, who plead guilty and was sentenced to death
A lot of murderers go free or get convicted of lesser crimes on some technicality. Don't prosecutors realize that a greater overall justice will be served if criminals are encouraged to confess in exchange for a small favor, like no death penalty and a 30 year maximum sentence unless there is an evidence and maybe let the see the sunshine as old men/women?
ask.com started out as a pretty useful service where many questions had a human-prepared answer and if not you got aggregated top results of other engines. Ads had to come in and would be fine if they did it a normal way like Yahoo or Google. But now if you ask a question like "What to visit in Paris" you get no hosted answers and suspicious web links that mostly promote hotels, airline fares and so on. How hard is it to just say Louvre and Notre Dame?
Was there a specific new CEO who did it or did they just gradually went down the tubes?
Wow, thanks for clarification! My final hope is that the risks are really evaluated professionally rather than "screw your liver or lose your job" as the original poster suggests.
The purpose of punishment is the hope that it will cause the individual to repent.
If the society already punished me, we are even. No sense for me to further punish myself by feeling regret or contemplating if I committed any wrong-doings. On the other hand, if society treats me well and at the same time educates me about real and potential consequences of what I did... wow!
As it is, people might be deterred from crime by fear of repeated/increased punishment. But most just learn not to get caught or at least think they did. Radar detectors, here I come!
Wait a second, you didn't have TB but were put on a liver-destroying and probably resistance-breeding drug? Also, I would assume a bug in cyst-like structure eventually dies. Can it really survive forever without food in a warm human body?
Nah, use a tool Sun intended for the job
As long as Microsoft has >90% of the market, its natural that Windows will work with new hardware standards first and Linux developers have to beg manufacturers for documentation or reverse-engineer the interfaces. I don't think any specific explanation is required beyond market forces. Would the author prevent Microsoft from taking initiative in developing any new technology?
The good news is that IBM will probably want to sell Linux servers with working USB for external storage and contribute the drivers for the rest of us to leech. Also, Longhorn home users will not bother with security, so there will be some mode where no device signatures are enforced. Linux just needs to support that mode, which will not need any secret keys ala CSS to function.
Even spammers deserve a wife who will not turn them in for some quick cash. Then think about all the people who will be framed by clever hackers. That will create Stalin's Soviet Union of people who are encouraged to spy on each other, only for capitalist greed rather than communist fevor.
A modest reward of $100 or so will encourage IT people and geeks to try and trace a real spam to the source rather than just deleting it. At the same time, that's not enough to betray a relative or frame someone and risk going to jail yourself.
Now we all have to pay for the sins of the few.
I will do no such thing. If I am bothered by their restrictions, I am not buying. I am sure local musicians in my area will gladly sell me unprotected CDs for $5/pop. Why they added DRM is strictly their bussiness and doesn't figure into my buying decisions.
This article implies that Microsoft needs $60B AND the value of their own stock to work on an OS and a Word Processor. Some companies are managing to create great things with more than 10 times less money.
I bet Bill can easily give out $30B by selling stock and donating very slowly to avoid market panic. A surgeon shouldn't sell his scalpel, but he doesn't really need a thousand of them. If he donated to oranizations that promote world peace and are capable to achieve results (which he may be able to judge better than the rest of us, with his indisputable business talent), wonderful things could happen.
Seriously, assemble your own computer
Every time I tried that I ended up with mystereous lockups, screen-streaking deaths, random failures to power on properly and so on. I suspect parts from different vendors are just slightly out of spec and PC makers know not to use a particular memory chip with a particular motherboard. Also, they might run some kind of test on assembled PCs and if you discover a problem you can just return the whole thing in one place.
With a homemade PC, the source of the trouble may not be obvious and you may have to return parts to all the different web stores and possibly pay for return shipping.
Faster sorting is not worth $10M to a single small software company. However, it's well worth $100K a pop to a hundred of them. There are other ways to pool resources like consortiums and taxes, but a patent is unique in the sense that the invention is already made and you only pay for it if you need to use it.
The problem comes when people don't do serious research and just patent an obvious or only way to do something. Perhaps courts should award large fines when someone demands a patent license for something which is not a groundbreaking invention.
I would gladly stand in line in a crowded government institution and pay a $100 processing fee to add myself to "don't call", "don't e-mail" and "don't harass in airports" lists that have some teeth - enforcement/punishment strong enough that I no longer get much junk e-mail. I would prefer that for me it was the default, but maybe some people are really bargin hunting for solutions for enlarging misspelled portions of their bodies. Who am I to presume?
when was the last time you took a single antibiotic? oh, that's right, it's more like 3 times a day for a week isn't it?
When was the last time you jailed a single criminal and then pulled all the policeman out of the street so that the remaining ones can remain at large and learn how to conceal their misdeeds better? I would rather think you want to stick it out until the crime in question is no longer a big concern and natural vigilence of citizens is enough to stop the few remaining instances. Letting antibiotic-resistant bicteria breed would be most unwise.
Imagine that you can just type an easily readable word to view some free, high-quality pr0n. Ok, you are in 10% who can refuse now, how about when you were 16? Uh-uh. I read before these schemes are quite popular and the economics is right. The pr0n only needs to be produced once and even if by some miricle the star is well paid rather than exploited, if you didn't yet see the photo/clip, well it's nude to you. Imagine a beowulf cluster of slashdotters helping spammers because they can't get the real thing.
pharmaceutical companies hate cures, they much prefer treatments
Do you also think funeral parlors are happy when people die? I rather suspect every non-nutcase company would gladly disolve if that's the price of curing AIDS. You are talking about ethics of software companies, but humans dying because their body rots out is a bit more important than the format of your word processor files.