And I have had plenty of systems where Windows won't install properly either. Try installing XP on a recent laptop or even an older one. Unless you have searched the net for hours and procured all the drivers from the OEM or the various component manufacturers you are going to be SOL.
Nothing is perfect on recent hardware. Most Linux distros that ship a kernel with a full set of modules can be expected to install on most older hardware at least. Windows no so much.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that correlation will start to imply causation for some large set of data. I think the author is a fool and does not understand what the Google guy is saying. What is being said is that it might soon be that we can compile such large sets of facts in one place and then automatically search for correlations with no rhyme nor reason.
This might allow us to produce some information form the correlative relationships that are discovered. Lack of "paradigm" means that unlike in the past where someone had to ask a specific question like "Does eating to much cheese make you fat?" we might find out such things by accident.
Old Scientific Method: 1.Observe nature 2.Get curious about something you thing you see 3.Pose a question (Is there a relationship between cheese consumption and obesity?) 4.Collect Data that you can measure and identify as being possibly related to your query 5.Create hypothesis based on question and patterns in collected data 6.Attempt to test hypothesis 7 Return to step 4 --Looping as needed;
Possible new method: 1.Wait for the computer to discover some pattern in data (pre-existing vast pool of indexed facts) 2.Spot something interesting, (Does wearing orange polo-style shirts improve erections?)(This might well be something nobody ever though to study before.) 3.Create hypothesis (propose some reason for the correlation) 4.Attempt to test 7. Return to 3;
The advantage here is we might discover some truly surprising relationships we never could have imagined, the risk is we wast a great deal of time studying completely accidental and meaningless relationships.
Well this could be used to exonorate people. I mean you can make a reasonable doubt argument that.
Hey if I shoot him then you should be able to find a finger print on the gun, given the whitness says I did not ware gloves. Since you can't its resonable the whitness is lying or mistaken as they often are.
True, but you should be keeping some idea of how much beer is being used. If you start to notice that your saftey stock is beeing almost completely consumed, or hell you have even run out on multiple ocasions; you would start ordering more beer. Maybe people are drinking more in the economic down turn or whatever but you would start ordering more beer. If you had to order a great deal more beer you would probably start charging higher rates for beer subscriptions too.
The ISPs on the otherhand have been ridding the maxiums of their infrustructure for years now in many cases. They continue to add customers and continue to charge the same rates but don't invest in more network. Its bad business all around and the only think that lets them do it is that in lots of localites their are only one or two players in the general consumer space and they both behaive badly.
If your all the beer you can drink bar was consistantly out of beer when customers show up people would cease subscribing and would start frequenting other bars. You would lose the business.
There is nothing wrong with overselling, I agree with you on that but you have to manage the degree to which you are oversold. There is not enough competition in the general consumer ISP space. The big telcos were allowed to kill all the mom and pops and we are not better for it. There are botique porviders like SpeakEasy which I use. They treat you great, their terms are premissive and you get what the contract says you get (at least I do). You pay more for the bandwidth though. Now I need it for work and do a great deal of VPN which has to perform well. My company pays for my line. I don't get as much "badwidth" as the local cable CO or DSL provider offers dollar for dollar, but after the problems I had with them SpeakEasy is a bargin. My connection never drops and I always have enough throughput even if I am not setting records. I don't think my friends and family would find their offer exactly competitive for their, web, e-mail, and youtube needs; unfortunitly.
SpeakEasy does a great job if you need a home line for anything important I can't speak highly enough of them.
The GPL does not require you make the source availible to everyone. It requires you make the source availible to anyone to whom you provide the software. Since you said you have one of these boxes you must have the software on it and are thefore entitled to the source code from the provider of the box, where as say I am not.
There is no need at all for them to host the source on the web. They just have to make the source availible to you in the cononical form (not exactly the words in the license) if you request it. They can't print it out and say here you go in most cases because that is not a useful way to obtain a lot of source. They could do any number of things such E-mail to you, burn it to a CD and mail it to you, send you the infromation need to fetch it from their CVS etc etc. They would be even permitted to charge you for the costs of such efforts. If they wanted to mail it they could ask you to pay for the CD and postage.
Well see the problem is some of us are afflicted with ethics. We know civilians and otherwise innocent individuals are always harmed in wars. Still with an army, aircraft carriers, jet fighters, and other conventional wepons we can by and larger restrict or killing to other military and offensive targets. That is difficult to do with a nuke! Spending what we spend on defense means that we won't find ourselves "under threat" it means we won't have to use a neuclear device against an enemy, and all the unfortunity people that happen to be anywhere near them. That is a good thing.
You can argue that we have miss used are other forces as of late. I don't think any of our middle east efforts were wrong personally. I think Rumy's tactics were bad. We should have gone to Iraq with a decent size force to begin with and gotten control quickly and never allow this insurgency time to develop. That would have been difficult though because the privous administration so weakened or forces. It allowed us to ballance or budget without cutting our domestic pork it made the economy look real good until oops we needed our forces; drat!
The Bush docterine has in fact, been highly successful. We have not been attacked at home again since 911. There is no getting around that fact. The best you can say is other methods might also have worked. The truth is that even though its been expensive in terms of millitary assets ( inclusive of people ) it has kept the Islamafacists busy over there such that they have not been able to plan or execute a successful attack here, or at the very least attacking us at home has not been a priority for them.
Not EM, but I let me take a crack at the audio/air biz.
Are you looking to recreat the concert experience at home? Have you already asembled the stero system proffessionals dream of but can't understand why it still just won't sound like its live? The problem is the air in your home. Sound waves propogate through air from the speaker to your air differently depending on the exact chemical make up of the air. If you really want your live recordings to have that same special POP you heard at the concert you need to recreate the air. For only $500 our company can have a air delivered to your home form all major us cities representive of almost any time of day! You can finally recreate that perfect sonic experience you enjoyed at the club last year. Once our custom built to preserve, air canister arrives all you need to do is open the easily turn valve and you can immediatly start enjoying more prefect reporductions of live concerts! Its that easy!
Still need that little extra? Well we also have special modifier canisters availible, that can be added to your order for only a small additional cost. These include botique air qualites such as smoke, and stale beer, which can also subtly change the way sound waves porogate and may be requried for the ideal experince. Stop trying to play your recorded sound into a medium it was never ment to be played in, start enjoying your recordings in the air they were ment for today!
That is a dangerous attitute to take. I mean that whole physics justice system is pretty messed up.
I mean when you get busted trying to break the laws of physics
1.You get no appeals 2.No body has even been allowed to face their accuser 3.Pentalties are widely varied and often inconsistent; often its nothing, but sometimes its KABOOM! 4.The system of laws is STILL not entirelly codified!
Really the only good thing about physics justice is that it really does seem perfectly egalitarian, no matter what color you are or what economic class you might fall in, if its nothing its nothing and if its KABOOM well its KABOOM!
I don't think it was about going for second. I really think Microsoft really wanted Yahoo as a way to compete with Google. Yahoo does in fact have lots of interesting tech, like pipes, as well as an entire suite of superior web portal offerings with a decent advertizing and anyalitics business to go with it. MSN is at the bottom of the heap from a tech prespective, but at the top as far as resources its parent company could put into it; that is if they had some direction to go in. Yahoo technology and its brand could have given that to Microsoft, and they might have been real competition for Google in its core spaces had they aquired Yahoo. Yahoo on the other hand does not have the capital or market position to keep on pace with Google and will continue to faulter without something to save them. Sure it could be something amazingly inovative and market shifting; or it could be a large pool of Microsoft Money(pun entended) that would enable them to take what they have and make it substantially better.
Microsoft tried as they always do to manipulate the market place and get themselves a sweatheart deal rather then playing a more "fair game" as fair as large cap market stock deals get anyway. They ended up souring the deal. I think it was bad business on their part. They should have made a fair offer and done the deal. Sure Yahoo got hurt more then Microsoft did but thats not what it was about. Microsoft really lost an oppertunity they wanted, no matter how the outsiders and small investors see it, the Microhoo fiasco was a failure of Microsoft's.
I don't know what Google gets outa Yahoo other then sheer mass. I don't think Yahoo represents the top drawer tech when compared with Google. Yes there is some good Yahoo technology that Google can assimilate easily, but its probably not worth what Google has to pay. The brand and portal offerings are of little value to Google becase theirs are already better. To Google's credit though they have gotten quite big and demonstrated from a leadership standpoint they can manage the mass. If you are going to tangle with an 800lb gorrilla like Microsoft, being a 600lb gorilla rather then the 500lb you already are might give you that little bit of extra inertia needed to prevent Microsoft from steam rolling you by tring to take the web proprietary again with dotNet, still more activeX, and silverlight.
Well, see that depends. I mean do we live some place were their is legal recourse and honest can capable police? If not they yes I would probably drive a Ford, in that situation. The mob uses tactics like that all over the world. Look at the current situation in Southern Mexico. Its safer to do what the drug lords say, because the police can't or won't protect you.
The legal system here can't or won't protect you from bogus piracy charges, so yea I would rent and rip rather then download.
I don;t think it is so much that faxes have been codified as legally binding, and scan + print and or e-mail have not been, its that faxes have been tested. Court cases where faxed documents were disputed, have been found to be a valid method in court. Chances are pretty good an E-mailed PDF or similar would be as well. Its just that there is a risk it might not be, however small nobody wants to take the chance.
Well I did not explain myself adequately. It is civial disobedience if we all do it. If 200 people go down there an each pain their own tag on that building it makes a statement. It says very clearly that if the laws don't apply equally then they don't apply at all. If MediaDefender an goverment recognized entiry (a corporation) is allowed to engage in vandalism then so are the people.
Maybe the authorites would get the message that if they want to maintain the rule of any law then they had better respect it with its application!
The Slashdot effect is not an attach though! Its legitimate traffic, it so happens that sites often can't handle that but it does not make it an attack. There is a difference both of control (slashdot does force anyone's computer to download those URLs) and intent (Slashdot is saying hey readers this is interesting go check this out). Most people who put something on the web do so because they want it to be seen.
Even if the FBI is investigating its still untter bullshit in terms of double standard. With this much evidence, and the seriousness other DOS attacks have been treated their should be imediate consequences. If Joe Slashdoter had done this s/he would get to wait in jail for up to 180 days while the FBI investigated her/him. Where are the responsible parties at Mediadefender tonight?
Assuming for a brief moment that copyright infringement is theft, just for the purpose of this analogy... If I broke into your house and put someone else's stuff in your room, then phoned the police that you have stolen property in your room... how nice would that be? Its not like that though! Its more like: If I broke into your house and put someone else's stuff in your room, then waited until you came home and then smashed all your car windows with baseball bat while sceaming "theif" and your stood by in confused amazement, and then after I got done with that called the cops on you about the stolen property in your room... how nice would that be?
No very nice, and if anyone else tried it, even if you had really stolen the property and put it in your room my actions would still be a crime of their own. MediaDefender are criminals and the people operating those servers can't be so ignorant of the actions not be accountable for them. We might not be able to get the kingpins but at the very least the doers should be arrested and charged. I know slashdot does not like to go after the little guy but MediaDefenders developers, network, and server admins deserve jail time! If my boss asks me to do something illegal I am still obligated to refuse otherwise the law will hold me responsible. Its imporatant that even these little guys get PUNISHED. The only way you stop getting organizations like MediaDefender from being above the law is to make sure nobody will work for them, because no salary they can offer will be worth doing time for!
If they law does not apply to MediaDefender then surely it can't apply to anyone else either!
If MediaDefender is allowed to 1. use Revision3's tracker in an unauthorized mannor 2. DOS them
Then I say we are free to ignore any laws we don't like with regaurd to MediaDefender. Dose anyone know where their offices are? Since they seem so fond of vandalism I say some local Slashdot'ers drop by and do a little painting.
I agree with your comment, a person should be able to use what ever type of transmission they want to but in what universe does having a machine do something for you (change gears) give you more control?
The most irritating thing with IE for me these days is the select or "dropbox" bug. Watch give IE a select with not options and it will crash hard, just closes out on the user. This means that when your developing a dynamic form and there is any possibility of no selctions you have to write code for to custom handle the endcase. Which means you also have to consider they layout and appearace of your form when that control is absent, or do something tacky like make "nothing" an option.
On the back side its not such a big deal basic input validation your doing anyway right? when you handle the get or post result from the form you have to not just check for null and deal with that appropriately but also check for the lack of value entirely and interprert that as you would null.
You can dissmiss the people who won't vote for Obama as biggots if you want to be biggoted about it yourself but lots of people just see him for what he is. Obama is nothing but a clueless flim-flam man who has not idea what he is doing now or will be getting into down the road. He is only where he is because the bankers (namely those involved with the FED) think they can control him. They are willing to buy his electorate with a few token issues and distractions like oil prices.
Not really OODB, while I agree with you is a fad in that they are more interesting then useful (so far anyway) but they are not what Codd was aiming to fix.
I am way to young to have been their but I do recall the history portions of my computer science education. Hey even in engineering like disiplines those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. What existed before RDBs at least in the saleable world were table systems based on flat files with no integrity checking and implemented without the formalism and normalization Codd developed. The more stuctured systems used hierarcal databases or navigational databases. These were useful in lots of situations but were either slow to search or imposed heavy restrictions on the types of relationships entities could have with each other(so you could make some assumptions about where to find things when searching).
I agree the terms of the contracts might suck, but the market aparently is willing the to accept them in exchange for the service. A cell phone is not a requirement for basic health/surviaval and I don't think can justifiably be regulated the way watter and power often are.
No one cellular carrier has a monopoly either I one though they could make more money by offering contract terms the demand side of the market would view more favorable they would leverage the advantage and do it. They don't so the people with the most information at the carriers in market terms don't feel it would be an advantage. In my personal experience I have never felt a cellular carrier tried in any way to mislead me or missrepresent the agreement I was makeing with them. I hear allot of bitching about celluar contract but I hardly ever hear people telling me they were hornswaggled. I don't the government particlarly the FCC(which is supposed to be regulating use of the air waves and this seems to be a matter of contract disputes) has any business here.
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And I have had plenty of systems where Windows won't install properly either. Try installing XP on a recent laptop or even an older one. Unless you have searched the net for hours and procured all the drivers from the OEM or the various component manufacturers you are going to be SOL.
Nothing is perfect on recent hardware. Most Linux distros that ship a kernel with a full set of modules can be expected to install on most older hardware at least. Windows no so much.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that correlation will start to imply causation for some large set of data. I think the author is a fool and does not understand what the Google guy is saying. What is being said is that it might soon be that we can compile such large sets of facts in one place and then automatically search for correlations with no rhyme nor reason.
This might allow us to produce some information form the correlative relationships that are discovered. Lack of "paradigm" means that unlike in the past where someone had to ask a specific question like "Does eating to much cheese make you fat?" we might find out such things by accident.
Old Scientific Method:
1.Observe nature
2.Get curious about something you thing you see
3.Pose a question (Is there a relationship between cheese consumption and obesity?)
4.Collect Data that you can measure and identify as being possibly related to your query
5.Create hypothesis based on question and patterns in collected data
6.Attempt to test hypothesis
7 Return to step 4 --Looping as needed;
Possible new method:
1.Wait for the computer to discover some pattern in data (pre-existing vast pool of indexed facts)
2.Spot something interesting, (Does wearing orange polo-style shirts improve erections?)(This might well be something nobody ever though to study before.)
3.Create hypothesis (propose some reason for the correlation)
4.Attempt to test
7. Return to 3;
The advantage here is we might discover some truly surprising relationships we never could have imagined, the risk is we wast a great deal of time studying completely accidental and meaningless relationships.
Well this could be used to exonorate people. I mean you can make a reasonable doubt argument that.
Hey if I shoot him then you should be able to find a finger print on the gun, given the whitness says I did not ware gloves. Since you can't its resonable the whitness is lying or mistaken as they often are.
This could be a big help to the falsely accused.
True, but you should be keeping some idea of how much beer is being used. If you start to notice that your saftey stock is beeing almost completely consumed, or hell you have even run out on multiple ocasions; you would start ordering more beer. Maybe people are drinking more in the economic down turn or whatever but you would start ordering more beer. If you had to order a great deal more beer you would probably start charging higher rates for beer subscriptions too.
The ISPs on the otherhand have been ridding the maxiums of their infrustructure for years now in many cases. They continue to add customers and continue to charge the same rates but don't invest in more network. Its bad business all around and the only think that lets them do it is that in lots of localites their are only one or two players in the general consumer space and they both behaive badly.
If your all the beer you can drink bar was consistantly out of beer when customers show up people would cease subscribing and would start frequenting other bars. You would lose the business.
There is nothing wrong with overselling, I agree with you on that but you have to manage the degree to which you are oversold. There is not enough competition in the general consumer ISP space. The big telcos were allowed to kill all the mom and pops and we are not better for it. There are botique porviders like SpeakEasy which I use. They treat you great, their terms are premissive and you get what the contract says you get (at least I do). You pay more for the bandwidth though. Now I need it for work and do a great deal of VPN which has to perform well. My company pays for my line. I don't get as much "badwidth" as the local cable CO or DSL provider offers dollar for dollar, but after the problems I had with them SpeakEasy is a bargin. My connection never drops and I always have enough throughput even if I am not setting records. I don't think my friends and family would find their offer exactly competitive for their, web, e-mail, and youtube needs; unfortunitly.
SpeakEasy does a great job if you need a home line for anything important I can't speak highly enough of them.
The GPL does not require you make the source availible to everyone. It requires you make the source availible to anyone to whom you provide the software. Since you said you have one of these boxes you must have the software on it and are thefore entitled to the source code from the provider of the box, where as say I am not.
There is no need at all for them to host the source on the web. They just have to make the source availible to you in the cononical form (not exactly the words in the license) if you request it. They can't print it out and say here you go in most cases because that is not a useful way to obtain a lot of source. They could do any number of things such E-mail to you, burn it to a CD and mail it to you, send you the infromation need to fetch it from their CVS etc etc. They would be even permitted to charge you for the costs of such efforts. If they wanted to mail it they could ask you to pay for the CD and postage.
Well see the problem is some of us are afflicted with ethics. We know civilians and otherwise innocent individuals are always harmed in wars. Still with an army, aircraft carriers, jet fighters, and other conventional wepons we can by and larger restrict or killing to other military and offensive targets. That is difficult to do with a nuke! Spending what we spend on defense means that we won't find ourselves "under threat" it means we won't have to use a neuclear device against an enemy, and all the unfortunity people that happen to be anywhere near them. That is a good thing.
You can argue that we have miss used are other forces as of late. I don't think any of our middle east efforts were wrong personally. I think Rumy's tactics were bad. We should have gone to Iraq with a decent size force to begin with and gotten control quickly and never allow this insurgency time to develop. That would have been difficult though because the privous administration so weakened or forces. It allowed us to ballance or budget without cutting our domestic pork it made the economy look real good until oops we needed our forces; drat!
The Bush docterine has in fact, been highly successful. We have not been attacked at home again since 911. There is no getting around that fact. The best you can say is other methods might also have worked. The truth is that even though its been expensive in terms of millitary assets ( inclusive of people ) it has kept the Islamafacists busy over there such that they have not been able to plan or execute a successful attack here, or at the very least attacking us at home has not been a priority for them.
Not EM, but I let me take a crack at the audio/air biz.
Are you looking to recreat the concert experience at home? Have you already asembled the stero system proffessionals dream of but can't understand why it still just won't sound like its live? The problem is the air in your home. Sound waves propogate through air from the speaker to your air differently depending on the exact chemical make up of the air. If you really want your live recordings to have that same special POP you heard at the concert you need to recreate the air. For only $500 our company can have a air delivered to your home form all major us cities representive of almost any time of day! You can finally recreate that perfect sonic experience you enjoyed at the club last year. Once our custom built to preserve, air canister arrives all you need to do is open the easily turn valve and you can immediatly start enjoying more prefect reporductions of live concerts! Its that easy!
Still need that little extra? Well we also have special modifier canisters availible, that can be added to your order for only a small additional cost. These include botique air qualites such as smoke, and stale beer, which can also subtly change the way sound waves porogate and may be requried for the ideal experince. Stop trying to play your recorded sound into a medium it was never ment to be played in, start enjoying your recordings in the air they were ment for today!
That is a dangerous attitute to take. I mean that whole physics justice system is pretty messed up.
I mean when you get busted trying to break the laws of physics
1.You get no appeals
2.No body has even been allowed to face their accuser
3.Pentalties are widely varied and often inconsistent; often its nothing, but sometimes its KABOOM!
4.The system of laws is STILL not entirelly codified!
Really the only good thing about physics justice is that it really does seem perfectly egalitarian, no matter what color you are or what economic class you might fall in, if its nothing its nothing and if its KABOOM well its KABOOM!
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
would be a little better and on most machines not take any more time.
I would like to second that!
I don't think it was about going for second. I really think Microsoft really wanted Yahoo as a way to compete with Google. Yahoo does in fact have lots of interesting tech, like pipes, as well as an entire suite of superior web portal offerings with a decent advertizing and anyalitics business to go with it. MSN is at the bottom of the heap from a tech prespective, but at the top as far as resources its parent company could put into it; that is if they had some direction to go in. Yahoo technology and its brand could have given that to Microsoft, and they might have been real competition for Google in its core spaces had they aquired Yahoo. Yahoo on the other hand does not have the capital or market position to keep on pace with Google and will continue to faulter without something to save them. Sure it could be something amazingly inovative and market shifting; or it could be a large pool of Microsoft Money(pun entended) that would enable them to take what they have and make it substantially better.
Microsoft tried as they always do to manipulate the market place and get themselves a sweatheart deal rather then playing a more "fair game" as fair as large cap market stock deals get anyway. They ended up souring the deal. I think it was bad business on their part. They should have made a fair offer and done the deal. Sure Yahoo got hurt more then Microsoft did but thats not what it was about. Microsoft really lost an oppertunity they wanted, no matter how the outsiders and small investors see it, the Microhoo fiasco was a failure of Microsoft's.
I don't know what Google gets outa Yahoo other then sheer mass. I don't think Yahoo represents the top drawer tech when compared with Google. Yes there is some good Yahoo technology that Google can assimilate easily, but its probably not worth what Google has to pay. The brand and portal offerings are of little value to Google becase theirs are already better. To Google's credit though they have gotten quite big and demonstrated from a leadership standpoint they can manage the mass. If you are going to tangle with an 800lb gorrilla like Microsoft, being a 600lb gorilla rather then the 500lb you already are might give you that little bit of extra inertia needed to prevent Microsoft from steam rolling you by tring to take the web proprietary again with dotNet, still more activeX, and silverlight.
Well, see that depends. I mean do we live some place were their is legal recourse and honest can capable police? If not they yes I would probably drive a Ford, in that situation. The mob uses tactics like that all over the world. Look at the current situation in Southern Mexico. Its safer to do what the drug lords say, because the police can't or won't protect you.
The legal system here can't or won't protect you from bogus piracy charges, so yea I would rent and rip rather then download.
I just can't wait to watch ppl by these things and then drive them home in their prius.
I don;t think it is so much that faxes have been codified as legally binding, and scan + print and or e-mail have not been, its that faxes have been tested. Court cases where faxed documents were disputed, have been found to be a valid method in court. Chances are pretty good an E-mailed PDF or similar would be as well. Its just that there is a risk it might not be, however small nobody wants to take the chance.
Well I did not explain myself adequately. It is civial disobedience if we all do it. If 200 people go down there an each pain their own tag on that building it makes a statement. It says very clearly that if the laws don't apply equally then they don't apply at all. If MediaDefender an goverment recognized entiry (a corporation) is allowed to engage in vandalism then so are the people.
Maybe the authorites would get the message that if they want to maintain the rule of any law then they had better respect it with its application!
The Slashdot effect is not an attach though! Its legitimate traffic, it so happens that sites often can't handle that but it does not make it an attack. There is a difference both of control (slashdot does force anyone's computer to download those URLs) and intent (Slashdot is saying hey readers this is interesting go check this out). Most people who put something on the web do so because they want it to be seen.
Even if the FBI is investigating its still untter bullshit in terms of double standard. With this much evidence, and the seriousness other DOS attacks have been treated their should be imediate consequences. If Joe Slashdoter had done this s/he would get to wait in jail for up to 180 days while the FBI investigated her/him. Where are the responsible parties at Mediadefender tonight?
If I broke into your house and put someone else's stuff in your room, then phoned the police that you have stolen property in your room... how nice would that be? Its not like that though! Its more like:
If I broke into your house and put someone else's stuff in your room, then waited until you came home and then smashed all your car windows with baseball bat while sceaming "theif" and your stood by in confused amazement, and then after I got done with that called the cops on you about the stolen property in your room... how nice would that be?
No very nice, and if anyone else tried it, even if you had really stolen the property and put it in your room my actions would still be a crime of their own. MediaDefender are criminals and the people operating those servers can't be so ignorant of the actions not be accountable for them. We might not be able to get the kingpins but at the very least the doers should be arrested and charged. I know slashdot does not like to go after the little guy but MediaDefenders developers, network, and server admins deserve jail time! If my boss asks me to do something illegal I am still obligated to refuse otherwise the law will hold me responsible. Its imporatant that even these little guys get PUNISHED. The only way you stop getting organizations like MediaDefender from being above the law is to make sure nobody will work for them, because no salary they can offer will be worth doing time for!
If they law does not apply to MediaDefender then surely it can't apply to anyone else either!
If MediaDefender is allowed to
1. use Revision3's tracker in an unauthorized mannor
2. DOS them
Then I say we are free to ignore any laws we don't like with regaurd to MediaDefender. Dose anyone know where their offices are? Since they seem so fond of vandalism I say some local Slashdot'ers drop by and do a little painting.
I agree with your comment, a person should be able to use what ever type of transmission they want to but in what universe does having a machine do something for you (change gears) give you more control?
The most irritating thing with IE for me these days is the select or "dropbox" bug. Watch give IE a select with not options and it will crash hard, just closes out on the user. This means that when your developing a dynamic form and there is any possibility of no selctions you have to write code for to custom handle the endcase. Which means you also have to consider they layout and appearace of your form when that control is absent, or do something tacky like make "nothing" an option.
On the back side its not such a big deal basic input validation your doing anyway right? when you handle the get or post result from the form you have to not just check for null and deal with that appropriately but also check for the lack of value entirely and interprert that as you would null.
How do you know he was burried in it rather then outside it?
You can dissmiss the people who won't vote for Obama as biggots if you want to be biggoted about it yourself but lots of people just see him for what he is. Obama is nothing but a clueless flim-flam man who has not idea what he is doing now or will be getting into down the road. He is only where he is because the bankers (namely those involved with the FED) think they can control him. They are willing to buy his electorate with a few token issues and distractions like oil prices.
Not really OODB, while I agree with you is a fad in that they are more interesting then useful (so far anyway) but they are not what Codd was aiming to fix.
I am way to young to have been their but I do recall the history portions of my computer science education. Hey even in engineering like disiplines those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. What existed before RDBs at least in the saleable world were table systems based on flat files with no integrity checking and implemented without the formalism and normalization Codd developed. The more stuctured systems used hierarcal databases or navigational databases. These were useful in lots of situations but were either slow to search or imposed heavy restrictions on the types of relationships entities could have with each other(so you could make some assumptions about where to find things when searching).
I agree the terms of the contracts might suck, but the market aparently is willing the to accept them in exchange for the service. A cell phone is not a requirement for basic health/surviaval and I don't think can justifiably be regulated the way watter and power often are.
No one cellular carrier has a monopoly either I one though they could make more money by offering contract terms the demand side of the market would view more favorable they would leverage the advantage and do it. They don't so the people with the most information at the carriers in market terms don't feel it would be an advantage. In my personal experience I have never felt a cellular carrier tried in any way to mislead me or missrepresent the agreement I was makeing with them. I hear allot of bitching about celluar contract but I hardly ever hear people telling me they were hornswaggled. I don't the government particlarly the FCC(which is supposed to be regulating use of the air waves and this seems to be a matter of contract disputes) has any business here.