Good point:) Of course it is one thing to realize you have faults, it is an entirely different story to come up with a fool-proof plan to correct each and every last one of them, and to have it work as well. That is far, far beyond my range of comprehension. I could take a stab, but any stab could easily be shot down.
Well if we are going to colonize anything and for all we know maybe meet other species someday far in the future, we have to become a more mature species ourselves. Currently we are still primitive - led by fear and superstition, dominated by hunger and war. Will benifits of space and hopefully increased maturity help out the human race, or does the human race have to be helped to mature first before we all set our sights on higher goals? What comes first?
I was refering to eariler articles where people were sued for things done on their computer they didn't even know about - grandma sued because grandkid comes over and downloads stuff.
Alright... well grab some popcorn, now we get to see the RIAA going after 70 year old grandmas and 13 year old girls who have all of 7 songs shared, while others continue to pump out mp3s by the thousand and never missed a beat during this whole fiasco.
Scaring the crap out of some poor little girl or old grandma might be some sort of sick pleasure for big wigs/artists up in the RIAA, but I'm sure the consumers will just love to watch theirselves getting bossed around with what they can and can not exactly do with something they bought.
The consumer has been scammed since the minute they bought the disk, overpriced and all. Hopefully they wake up soon.
Bigger and better weapons? Does anyone really have to have the worst bad weapon out there? At the rate we're going, we might as well just wire the entire planet up with explosives and when one country disagrees with another, one country can send the other into orbit.
For years, we've heard about semiconductors the size of human hairs and how it would revolutionize the computing world.
I still see an AMD chip in my computer, and nice, large visible chips in the stores.
So now it's diamonds? I'm not trying to troll, but when will mainstream applications (see: desktop computers, or at least universities) come around? Until we see anything, it's all theoretical, and all subject to just being vaporware.
If this insider selling continues as an IBM vs. SCO trial were to draw closer, that would mean that SCOs own top brass don't think they much of a chance. Of course of SCO winds up going under, those same top brass will probably have questions asked of them for why they sold before IBM destroyed them (if it happens that way).
Benifit of the doubt though, insider selling does happen in companies to take profit, and if you look at SCO's 1 year preformance going from 95 cents to 16 dollars at it's recent peak (an increase of nearly 1,700%), you would see why it would seem intelligent to sell.
Yeah, an early warning system for earthquakes sounds all well and good, but how exactly do you go about warning the public? If you go on TV and say "tomorrow there will be a 7.5 Earthquake under downtown Los Angeles", you run the risk of causing a panic in which people will die trying to get out of the city in what could only be described as the traffic jam from hell to get west or north.
If the earthquake occurs, you're a hero; you saved the lives of hundreds if not thousands. If the earthquake doesn't, or is much smaller than predicted, you caused lots of people to die for no apparent reason, and you've lessened the public?s readiness to believe you the next time you make an earthquake prediction like this.
This is nothing like trying to evacuate the shoreline of a major city for an approaching hurricane, because when those evacuations are issued they are in fact for the shoreline. You would be, in theory, proposing the evacuation of an entire metropolis, which no city in this country, or the world for that matter, has the proper infrastructure to handle such an evacuation unless you gave a lead time of a week or so.
...we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United State corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
Once again, the RIAA is going to make life hard for theirselves down the line as they continue to sue their own customer base. Not a good business pratice, never will be.
I vaguely remember that after the Afghanistan war had ended and people could buy things again, Satellite phones were a hugely hot item, for those who could afford it, since there wasn't much of a land-line network cross country, or cell network outside of major cities. Why hasn't this happened in Iraq yet? I would think it more likely there because they do have more $ in that country than in Afghanistan.
I use Opera7 and I don't see it.
Somehow I've been online since 1998 and I've never, ever seen a blink tag in action. I know it's probably annoying but just once... just once.
Sure, *you* can block whatever you want, but to do something on any larger of a scale wouldn't work (say for your network admins, etc) because legit mail does come from there as well.
It would be much harder to do that for spam, because it would not be national. The do-not-call list is a national registry protecting people in the U.S. Spam comes from anywhere and everywhere. A do-not-spam list would go as far as to prevent U.S.-based spam, but because a signifigant amount of spam comes from Asia, it would only cause a minor dent, and not a dam to the flow.
It really is too bad that there continues to be no legal recourse to fight spam though. An arms race of annoyance between spammers and spam-ees probably wouldn't be the best solution though, but something does have to be done eventually. It would be nice to go back to having one e-mail address instead of various "spam" addresses and then my personal e-mail... which of course still gets spam.
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Good point :) Of course it is one thing to realize you have faults, it is an entirely different story to come up with a fool-proof plan to correct each and every last one of them, and to have it work as well. That is far, far beyond my range of comprehension. I could take a stab, but any stab could easily be shot down.
Well if we are going to colonize anything and for all we know maybe meet other species someday far in the future, we have to become a more mature species ourselves. Currently we are still primitive - led by fear and superstition, dominated by hunger and war. Will benifits of space and hopefully increased maturity help out the human race, or does the human race have to be helped to mature first before we all set our sights on higher goals? What comes first?
I was refering to eariler articles where people were sued for things done on their computer they didn't even know about - grandma sued because grandkid comes over and downloads stuff.
So, is that the equivalent of 50 file swappers, downloading really fast?
Nahh, just one college student on a T1 that has a cd drive that rips at 32x.
Alright... well grab some popcorn, now we get to see the RIAA going after 70 year old grandmas and 13 year old girls who have all of 7 songs shared, while others continue to pump out mp3s by the thousand and never missed a beat during this whole fiasco.
Scaring the crap out of some poor little girl or old grandma might be some sort of sick pleasure for big wigs/artists up in the RIAA, but I'm sure the consumers will just love to watch theirselves getting bossed around with what they can and can not exactly do with something they bought.
The consumer has been scammed since the minute they bought the disk, overpriced and all. Hopefully they wake up soon.
That's the link that was giving me codec errors, and I have my QuickTime up-to-date. Even tried using IE to download it aside from Opera, to no avail.
Just incase the page won't resolve: here.
Bigger and better weapons? Does anyone really have to have the worst bad weapon out there? At the rate we're going, we might as well just wire the entire planet up with explosives and when one country disagrees with another, one country can send the other into orbit.
Those terrorists that throw rocks at tanks...
For years, we've heard about semiconductors the size of human hairs and how it would revolutionize the computing world.
I still see an AMD chip in my computer, and nice, large visible chips in the stores.
So now it's diamonds? I'm not trying to troll, but when will mainstream applications (see: desktop computers, or at least universities) come around? Until we see anything, it's all theoretical, and all subject to just being vaporware.
If this insider selling continues as an IBM vs. SCO trial were to draw closer, that would mean that SCOs own top brass don't think they much of a chance. Of course of SCO winds up going under, those same top brass will probably have questions asked of them for why they sold before IBM destroyed them (if it happens that way).
Benifit of the doubt though, insider selling does happen in companies to take profit, and if you look at SCO's 1 year preformance going from 95 cents to 16 dollars at it's recent peak (an increase of nearly 1,700%), you would see why it would seem intelligent to sell.
Yeah, an early warning system for earthquakes sounds all well and good, but how exactly do you go about warning the public? If you go on TV and say "tomorrow there will be a 7.5 Earthquake under downtown Los Angeles", you run the risk of causing a panic in which people will die trying to get out of the city in what could only be described as the traffic jam from hell to get west or north.
If the earthquake occurs, you're a hero; you saved the lives of hundreds if not thousands. If the earthquake doesn't, or is much smaller than predicted, you caused lots of people to die for no apparent reason, and you've lessened the public?s readiness to believe you the next time you make an earthquake prediction like this.
This is nothing like trying to evacuate the shoreline of a major city for an approaching hurricane, because when those evacuations are issued they are in fact for the shoreline. You would be, in theory, proposing the evacuation of an entire metropolis, which no city in this country, or the world for that matter, has the proper infrastructure to handle such an evacuation unless you gave a lead time of a week or so.
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Aren't lots of PC innovations? :)
Oh? But *you* said... They aren't going to sue people who are still purchasing their products, end of story.
Well it did scare off people who shared music that sucked...
I'm sharing 40 gigs of mp3s, and I have 175 CDs. What do you have to say to that?
Once again, the RIAA is going to make life hard for theirselves down the line as they continue to sue their own customer base. Not a good business pratice, never will be.
Bart: Cool...personalized plates! Barclay... Barry... Bert... Bort? Aw, come on. Bort?
...and later on...
some kid: Mommy, mommy! Buy me a license plate.
kid's mom: No. Come along, Bort.
random guy: Are you talking to me?
kid's mom: No, my son is also named Bort.
We need more "Bort" license plates in the gift shop. I repeat, we are sold out of "Bort" license plates.
So computer geeks have finally found a way to make the internet appeal to the older generations!
I vaguely remember that after the Afghanistan war had ended and people could buy things again, Satellite phones were a hugely hot item, for those who could afford it, since there wasn't much of a land-line network cross country, or cell network outside of major cities. Why hasn't this happened in Iraq yet? I would think it more likely there because they do have more $ in that country than in Afghanistan.
I use Opera7 and I don't see it. Somehow I've been online since 1998 and I've never, ever seen a blink tag in action. I know it's probably annoying but just once... just once.
Sure, *you* can block whatever you want, but to do something on any larger of a scale wouldn't work (say for your network admins, etc) because legit mail does come from there as well.
It would be much harder to do that for spam, because it would not be national. The do-not-call list is a national registry protecting people in the U.S. Spam comes from anywhere and everywhere. A do-not-spam list would go as far as to prevent U.S.-based spam, but because a signifigant amount of spam comes from Asia, it would only cause a minor dent, and not a dam to the flow.
It really is too bad that there continues to be no legal recourse to fight spam though. An arms race of annoyance between spammers and spam-ees probably wouldn't be the best solution though, but something does have to be done eventually. It would be nice to go back to having one e-mail address instead of various "spam" addresses and then my personal e-mail... which of course still gets spam.