As someone mentioned two weeks ago in a post:
Those kids and their families are "white trash" in other words they have little or no money.
The relatives of the victims decided to go where they could get some cash in the unlikely event of victory.
He is still not convicted of anything though. The case is scheduled for December.
And AFAIK he has not payed a dime to MPAA or anyone else. His only economical loss is lost vallue from computers that the police "borrowed for 14(?) months. And some lost work income. (He worked for a dotcom so I'm not sure if he actually lost anything...)
And the state is paying for his lawyer.
The MPAA did not charge him or sued him. The Norwegian state did.
Yes. Immigrating to Canada
as a Skilled Worker
I don't know how diffiacult it is or about their acceptaince ratios, but if you got an education it should not be that hard.
Kind of strange that there are so few from US that emmigrate to Canada given that Canada is objectively a better place to live.
No.
Secutity through thinking independently instead of believing everything the government says whithout questioning it.
I was just making and observation that you can't necessarily belive DHS is trustworthy and honest when they say something in the line of "We are commited to the task of enhancing security in USA".
There are a lot of good intentions involved but don't trust good intentions when it comes to liberty.
Homeland security is a great idea, but there hasn't been much as far as actual results yet. We need some stats on how many threats they found/evaded, or is there this info available already?
This is a catch 22.
If someone ever where to make a in-depth study on wheter DHS works as intended this report would be classified and not avilable to the general public. If someone found out that DHS can't protect USA against a major terror attack DHS would not want the terrorist to know this.
So you will never know for sure if DHS works or not. That is until someone launch their major terrorist attack off course.
I do think that P2P will become synonymus with piracy, not because it's neccessarily righ but because thats the way the general public look at it. Most people don't give a shit about the differences of client-server modell and peer-to-peer. All they hear is that P2P is being used to "steal" from the companies.
The RIAA can actually win the definition game about what meaning you lay in copyright, property, stealing/piracy vs. copyright infringement. They can do this through media.
As late as today I read this column in Washingtonn Post from a Cynthia L. Webb, a person thats probably above average educated on the subject and a person working for a respected newspaper that presumptuously should not be completly lost.
She do has some critisism of the RIAA but fails to see why (in my opinion).
The Recording Industry Association of America's right to pursue a heavy handed legal attack on music pirates. Stealing is stealing, whether it's breaking into a home or downloading a file on the Internet.
I would have moderated this as Troll if someone wrote this on slashdot.
And from other newspapers, in the same article:
But Mike Langberg of The San Jose Mercury News writes today that the RIAA's legal moves are "absolutely necessary." Langberg: "Internet apologists, who seem to believe the most basic rules of right and wrong don't apply to online activity, are appalled. Not me. Property, whether it's your house or the copyright on a song, deserves to be protected by law. Anyone who takes someone else's property without permission must face the possibility of real punishment."
Please, get your definitions straight.
A Montana newspaper, The Missoulian, also sided with the RIAA in an editorial on Friday. "Do you think the neighbor kids should be able to waltz into your house and steal your stuff? Do you think shoplifters are entitled to take what they can carry out of a department store? Should your broker be able to skim money from your investment portfolio for his personal use? Well, of course not. So, what's all the uproar over the recording industry's filing lawsuits to stop thieves from pirating music over the Internet?," the paper wrote.
If many journalist and comentatorts continue like this most people will (continue) to believe that P2P as a concept is illegal.
I think that the "locking up the system problem" came from those times that mobile phone networks had reduced capacity.
For example if a Jumbojet with 40 passengers flew over a residentilal are before landing their phones could overwhelm the network.
I'm not sure about how CDMA handles this, but my (limited) knowledge about European GSM networks don't indicate that this is a problem.
They love it, but they don't get it. Makes me a little worried, sometimes, where they'll want to take it.
I have experienced the same things. Management initially did'nt belive in Linux, we (as in consulting) convinced them into testing it for some tasks like web servers, DNS, firewall, proxy.
Management love it because, quote: "Linux rocks". Its free (as in management-no-pay-free) and stable.
But some of them never got the concept behind Linux. GNU? Open source/free software? Freedom to change the code? Propretary? Lock-in? Security through open code?
Even when we tried to educate them about the not so clearly seen benefits with free software they could not see it. So when we said that Linux prob. would not work for all their applications(some old power management systems) they did not understand why. So when we told them that we could not replace their huge DB2 (yet) they did not understand why. So when they had to pay for Linux-support they did not understand why("I though Linux was free".
I think these things wil happen in a lot of companies when there are a significant distance between reality and expectations. Now that various business, executive and CIO magazines are hyping Linux they are all over it, but many of them will never understand why it's happening. I also fear that Linux might not be able to live up to some of the expectations some exec. will get from all the buzz.
And even the SOR dwarfs compared to what USA needs daily.
The last figures* mentioned that daily US consumption of oil/gas is larger than the SOR. So spending the SOR so aunt Jenny can tank cheap is _extremly_ stupid.
*I think its impossible to get accurate figures as they are prob. classified...
Agree the Prius is a very nice car. I don't own one but a friend of me does (2003 modell).
The range is very good. The design is ok. A bit expensive but the economy in owning one is good because of low costs. Toyota probably makes the most reliable cars of all, regardless of class and price.
I was especially surprised about the accelration, I thought it would ne very slow, but the car is very fun to drive.
I have also testet the Think el-car (previously owned by Ford). The car is very smal and with limited range but as a city car its cery good. Most decent city plans anout giving el-cars free parking downtown.
If you don't deperatly need a car right now I would have waited for the Prius 2004 modell. All car series gets better as they find small mistakes and parts that fail. And the Prius 2004 got some improvemets from the 2003. Chech out the Toyota website about this.
About security. Nothing to worry about, Toyota is top notch in security. Their latest Avensis got 5 stars out of five possiblein the EURO Ncap test program. Prius is built using the same principles and construction techniques.
And for some unknown reason most women really like the Prius..
...another thing to distract people while they're driving.
Horse manure.
Yet another person that belive in the myth that mobile phones distracts more than car-stereos or adjusting the air-condition.
Research show that stereos are responsible for twive the amount of distraction that leads to car accidents.
Accidents resulting partly from conversation with another person in the car is up to 7-8 times more likely than accidents because of mobile phones.
Beliving that mobile phones are particaulary bad is only technology fear.
(I probably shoud not reply to this, as its a troll modded Insighful but I just had to)
What's wrong about this unhireable practise is that they don't specify who they don't want but instead target all the SCo employees including help-desk, support, lower level people etc.
If they had specified who they don't want to hire like this ban would have made a lot more sense:
-Upper level management
-All the economy people
-Top level people
-Lawyers
-Public relations
And May is way to early, many people did not know what was going on by then. Now, a lot of the allegations from SCO seems like bullshit compared to what we knew then (Ok we knew that it was bullshit then to, but not at the point that we should ban someone of force someone to quit a saf job)
If crisd instead had specified the ban as:
"Any resumes which include work in the aboove position i the Santa Cruz Operation after September of 2003 will be immediately deleted as well." That would have made a lot more sense.
The people in the above positions know today whats going on and they are part of it. The economy is somewhat better now and these people could have quit and found decent jobs in other companies.
If someone continue to work for SCO in the above positions after Sept. they have made a choice to support the SCO FUD-machine and then why should anyone hire them?
But rest assured if some western democracy decided to take the bull by the horns and do exactly that by sending in troops they would accuse that democracy of interfering with the locals right of self determination.
Your whole post is based about the wrong assumption that the Congo conflict/war is a internal conflict inside Congo. It's not.
A large and substantial part of the problem is governmental funded guerilla groups from Rwanda and other countries that fight inside Congo for control of mineral/trade.
So sending troops to Congo would NOT have been interfering with internal affairs as the main task for such a force would have been cutting of these guerilla groups.
Read up on the conflict; the Economist had some exceellent coverage of the region some weeks ago.
List of US-sponsored/CIA involvment in coups/invations in Central America from 1975:
-Nicaragua 1979
-El SAlvador 1979-1989
-Grenada 1983
-Panama 1989
And CIA has been linked to paramilitary organizations, coups and secret operations in Puerto Rico, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela (as late as 2002).
The list is pulled from the back off my head and prob. not complete.
So did the act to stop CIA from doing this have any effect at all?
IMO, no.
Yes, but Volkswagen where not allowed to produce military-like vehicles until the early 60's.
I read something about Mercedes Benz not being able to start research and production of some categories of military equipment before as late as 1968.
Sorry, but the last thing I would want the general Joe Driver to have is a flying car.
Have you any idea how many cars that stops on freeways/highways?
Ever thought about the consequence of a car suddenly malfunctioning when you fly 1000ft above a residential neighborohood?
When something goes bad in car traffic the worst thing that happens is that the car (and driver) is destroyed by the speed. If you are lucky the car stops and you call for backup. If you are 1000ft above ground level the speed and height will kill you with almost no exceptions.
Do you realy want Old Aunt Jenny to crash into your house at 200mph just because she forgot to change the oil on her new Ford FreedomFlyer 2004?
The only cases where its sound and economical to fly today are long distances togeheter with a bunch of other people to cut cost.
The norwegian economical crime unit appealed the case. The case is scheduled to be raised again in a new court in December.
But they might decide to drop the whole case because the possibility for failure.
The case will anyway only (in Norway) be off historical interest since Norway anyway probably will addopt the new Infosoc directive from EU planned to take affect from January 2004.
But the way it is today, Johansen is not sentenced for anything and per se not guilty according to Norwegian laws.
Yeah, I know it's a bit overkill and you are probably correct about the graphic card and I will lokk into the Radeon 9200. Thanks for the tip. I allready thought about the 2*512MB RAM.
The reason I singled out the Opeteron is because its available now (she wanted to have the system ready for semester start two weeks ago, but I forgot about it) And she does some power hungry simulations, 4th year on med. school, "some bio-stuff" that they used Dual Pentium 3 at school for. Originaly I wanted to buy her a Dual AMD or a Dual Xeon, but she wanted "something silent that I can have for many years". But if AMD can release the Athlon64 soon I might select that instead. An I could get the Opteron at $550 from a friend that runs a computer shop. Ok, you are right still expensive but not that bad.
Total the system without monitor (she got a 19 CRT) will come at below $2200
Looked into finding a cool CPU yesterday because I'm doing some web-research on buying a silent and cool running system for my extremly demanding and sister. She will use it for music and school (medicine). Haven't decided on the components yet but this is what i found:
-CPU either 1. a AMD Barton clocked down to 1 GHz or 2. A AMD Opteron 1.8GHz (242) clocked down to 1 GHZ. Both these will run cool with only a heatsink and without a fan. Asus MB
A 1.8GHz Opteron use max 55W. At 1 or 1.2GHz it will use approx. 30-35W.
-Video; Sapphire Radeon 9600 Atlantis PRO 128MB
AGP, "Ultimate Ed.", DVI, TV-Out, Retail, no fan Acyually quite a overkill but maybe she will start gaming?
-A Antec PSU modded with a low noise fan (probably Papst)
-Two Seagate Barracuda V 80GB mounted indside an enclosure with low nois fans to reduce heat and noise.
The hard-disks will probably make most of the noise but I think I will get the noise down to about 20db.
Slashdot Mirror
I am only recieving wicked screensavers from my friends you insensitive clod!
After Bittorrent (do some googling) came a lot of webpages with direct links have popped up faster than RIAA manages to squash them.
suprnova.org is the biggest of them IIRC. Strange that RIAA haven't taken them down. Probably because they are hosted on xx number of computers.
Disclaimer: This post is provided as "as is". I don't have any connection to the above mentioned site.
As someone mentioned two weeks ago in a post:
Those kids and their families are "white trash" in other words they have little or no money.
The relatives of the victims decided to go where they could get some cash in the unlikely event of victory.
(and yes, english is my secondary language)
And AFAIK he has not payed a dime to MPAA or anyone else. His only economical loss is lost vallue from computers that the police "borrowed for 14(?) months. And some lost work income. (He worked for a dotcom so I'm not sure if he actually lost anything...)
And the state is paying for his lawyer.
The MPAA did not charge him or sued him. The Norwegian state did.
Yes.
Immigrating to Canada as a Skilled Worker
I don't know how diffiacult it is or about their acceptaince ratios, but if you got an education it should not be that hard.
Kind of strange that there are so few from US that emmigrate to Canada given that Canada is objectively a better place to live.
No.
Secutity through thinking independently instead of believing everything the government says whithout questioning it.
I was just making and observation that you can't necessarily belive DHS is trustworthy and honest when they say something in the line of "We are commited to the task of enhancing security in USA".
There are a lot of good intentions involved but don't trust good intentions when it comes to liberty.
This is a catch 22.
If someone ever where to make a in-depth study on wheter DHS works as intended this report would be classified and not avilable to the general public. If someone found out that DHS can't protect USA against a major terror attack DHS would not want the terrorist to know this.
So you will never know for sure if DHS works or not. That is until someone launch their major terrorist attack off course.
The RIAA can actually win the definition game about what meaning you lay in copyright, property, stealing/piracy vs. copyright infringement. They can do this through media.
As late as today I read this column in Washingtonn Post from a Cynthia L. Webb, a person thats probably above average educated on the subject and a person working for a respected newspaper that presumptuously should not be completly lost.
She do has some critisism of the RIAA but fails to see why (in my opinion).
I would have moderated this as Troll if someone wrote this on slashdot.
And from other newspapers, in the same article:
Please, get your definitions straight.
If many journalist and comentatorts continue like this most people will (continue) to believe that P2P as a concept is illegal.
For example if a Jumbojet with 40 passengers flew over a residentilal are before landing their phones could overwhelm the network.
I'm not sure about how CDMA handles this, but my (limited) knowledge about European GSM networks don't indicate that this is a problem.
Management love it because, quote: "Linux rocks". Its free (as in management-no-pay-free) and stable.
But some of them never got the concept behind Linux. GNU? Open source/free software? Freedom to change the code? Propretary? Lock-in? Security through open code?
Even when we tried to educate them about the not so clearly seen benefits with free software they could not see it. So when we said that Linux prob. would not work for all their applications(some old power management systems) they did not understand why. So when we told them that we could not replace their huge DB2 (yet) they did not understand why. So when they had to pay for Linux-support they did not understand why("I though Linux was free".
I think these things wil happen in a lot of companies when there are a significant distance between reality and expectations. Now that various business, executive and CIO magazines are hyping Linux they are all over it, but many of them will never understand why it's happening. I also fear that Linux might not be able to live up to some of the expectations some exec. will get from all the buzz.
The last figures* mentioned that daily US consumption of oil/gas is larger than the SOR. So spending the SOR so aunt Jenny can tank cheap is _extremly_ stupid.
*I think its impossible to get accurate figures as they are prob. classified...
Now _thats_ what I call expensive.
Even if one adjust for the fact that most norwegians have higher sallaries the gasoline is terrible expensive.
The range is very good. The design is ok. A bit expensive but the economy in owning one is good because of low costs. Toyota probably makes the most reliable cars of all, regardless of class and price.
I was especially surprised about the accelration, I thought it would ne very slow, but the car is very fun to drive.
I have also testet the Think el-car (previously owned by Ford). The car is very smal and with limited range but as a city car its cery good. Most decent city plans anout giving el-cars free parking downtown.
If you don't deperatly need a car right now I would have waited for the Prius 2004 modell. All car series gets better as they find small mistakes and parts that fail. And the Prius 2004 got some improvemets from the 2003. Chech out the Toyota website about this.
About security. Nothing to worry about, Toyota is top notch in security. Their latest Avensis got 5 stars out of five possiblein the EURO Ncap test program. Prius is built using the same principles and construction techniques.
And for some unknown reason most women really like the Prius..
Yet another person that belive in the myth that mobile phones distracts more than car-stereos or adjusting the air-condition.
Research show that stereos are responsible for twive the amount of distraction that leads to car accidents.
Accidents resulting partly from conversation with another person in the car is up to 7-8 times more likely than accidents because of mobile phones.
Beliving that mobile phones are particaulary bad is only technology fear.
(I probably shoud not reply to this, as its a troll modded Insighful but I just had to)
If they had specified who they don't want to hire like this ban would have made a lot more sense:
-Upper level management
-All the economy people
-Top level people
-Lawyers
-Public relations
And May is way to early, many people did not know what was going on by then. Now, a lot of the allegations from SCO seems like bullshit compared to what we knew then (Ok we knew that it was bullshit then to, but not at the point that we should ban someone of force someone to quit a saf job)
If crisd instead had specified the ban as:
"Any resumes which include work in the aboove position i the Santa Cruz Operation after September of 2003 will be immediately deleted as well." That would have made a lot more sense.
The people in the above positions know today whats going on and they are part of it. The economy is somewhat better now and these people could have quit and found decent jobs in other companies.
If someone continue to work for SCO in the above positions after Sept. they have made a choice to support the SCO FUD-machine and then why should anyone hire them?
A large and substantial part of the problem is governmental funded guerilla groups from Rwanda and other countries that fight inside Congo for control of mineral/trade.
So sending troops to Congo would NOT have been interfering with internal affairs as the main task for such a force would have been cutting of these guerilla groups.
Read up on the conflict; the Economist had some exceellent coverage of the region some weeks ago.
List of US-sponsored/CIA involvment in coups/invations in Central America from 1975:
-Nicaragua 1979
-El SAlvador 1979-1989
-Grenada 1983
-Panama 1989
And CIA has been linked to paramilitary organizations, coups and secret operations in Puerto Rico, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela (as late as 2002).
The list is pulled from the back off my head and prob. not complete.
So did the act to stop CIA from doing this have any effect at all?
IMO, no.
Yes, but Volkswagen where not allowed to produce military-like vehicles until the early 60's.
I read something about Mercedes Benz not being able to start research and production of some categories of military equipment before as late as 1968.
On the other hand, on the long term, the music industry needs iTunes, so if they shoukd accept that ITunes buyers cans sell the music they bought.
(Just because Apple is a "cool" company and iTunes is mighty cool service you should not give away your rights to sell the music.)
Have you any idea how many cars that stops on freeways/highways?
Ever thought about the consequence of a car suddenly malfunctioning when you fly 1000ft above a residential neighborohood?
When something goes bad in car traffic the worst thing that happens is that the car (and driver) is destroyed by the speed. If you are lucky the car stops and you call for backup. If you are 1000ft above ground level the speed and height will kill you with almost no exceptions.
Do you realy want Old Aunt Jenny to crash into your house at 200mph just because she forgot to change the oil on her new Ford FreedomFlyer 2004?
The only cases where its sound and economical to fly today are long distances togeheter with a bunch of other people to cut cost.
You forgot the can opener!!
But they might decide to drop the whole case because the possibility for failure.
The case will anyway only (in Norway) be off historical interest since Norway anyway probably will addopt the new Infosoc directive from EU planned to take affect from January 2004.
But the way it is today, Johansen is not sentenced for anything and per se not guilty according to Norwegian laws.
The reason I singled out the Opeteron is because its available now (she wanted to have the system ready for semester start two weeks ago, but I forgot about it) And she does some power hungry simulations, 4th year on med. school, "some bio-stuff" that they used Dual Pentium 3 at school for. Originaly I wanted to buy her a Dual AMD or a Dual Xeon, but she wanted "something silent that I can have for many years". But if AMD can release the Athlon64 soon I might select that instead. An I could get the Opteron at $550 from a friend that runs a computer shop. Ok, you are right still expensive but not that bad.
Total the system without monitor (she got a 19 CRT) will come at below $2200
-CPU either 1. a AMD Barton clocked down to 1 GHz or 2. A AMD Opteron 1.8GHz (242) clocked down to 1 GHZ. Both these will run cool with only a heatsink and without a fan. Asus MB
A 1.8GHz Opteron use max 55W. At 1 or 1.2GHz it will use approx. 30-35W.
-Video; Sapphire Radeon 9600 Atlantis PRO 128MB AGP, "Ultimate Ed.", DVI, TV-Out, Retail, no fan Acyually quite a overkill but maybe she will start gaming?
-A Antec PSU modded with a low noise fan (probably Papst)
-Two Seagate Barracuda V 80GB mounted indside an enclosure with low nois fans to reduce heat and noise.
The hard-disks will probably make most of the noise but I think I will get the noise down to about 20db.