most of the fuckwits concerned use windows and have absolutley no idea what dd is, they would probably imagine it is something related a.d.d.
That doesn't excuse large banking institutions who are definately not called 'MORGAN STANLEY' and use Solaris, because they should know better than to throw out all their old SS20s without cleaning those disks.
I bought a bunch of SS20s which once belonged to a major bank, I won't name names so Morgan Stanley don't need to worry that I have tons of data belonging to their customers, which they left incompetantly left on these machines.
Lucky for this un-named bank that I am an honest kind of guy and llfed the drives without looking.
Pure Capitalism would also see the removal of all aide-monopoly laws and statutes including copyright and Patents which are used by corporations in a mercantilistic manner to exclude competitors from markets.
Pure capitalism would result in the lowest price to the consumer every time as all companies would price to the 'margin'
The GPL seems to offer a pure capitalist opportunity for anybody who wants to take it, I can download Debian images and compete with the largest of Linux vendors like Redhat, just like Lindows is doing. My sales and standing in the market would be based soley on my reputation and speed to market of new innovations.
The main argument against this market is that companies would hold 'trade secrets' which would possibly thwart the progress of science and learning in society so we have a patent system.
However patents and copyrights allow companies to force competitors to enter the market on their terms or not enter at all.
Rather like the old Navigation and Corn Laws of England these are Mercantilist protections of existing interests. I think it could fairly be called Neo Mercantilism or Corporate Mercantilism. This does not truly benefit the consumer except arguably in some circumstances.
I think patents on drugs, whilst devisive do have a purpose, the research nessasary to produce a working 'safe' drug can easily reach billions of dollars, and there would be no incentive to invest that money if there was no chance of a return on it.
There are examples of other industries where patent protection is arguably justifiable to encourage investment. In most industries patents are used as bargaining tools to get access to the latest technologies and remain competitive.
Serious problems arise when non-innovative companies buy up existing patents and use them to extract money from industries, which harms innovation in every way as money will almost always be cut from R & D operations first as any potential gain they will make is always a) uncertain and b) years away.
This problem strikes in every patent protected industy following a recession and always results in higher costs being passed onto consumers.
It does in fact represent a private tax extracted from companies by groups who's interests represent no common good.
These private tax collection agencies are almost universally made up of Lawyers and see a removal of useful capital from industy to benefit an already wealthy few.
> Pure capitalism would be NO government aid. No major tax cuts, no negative net taxes paid back to corporations.
I would also argue that pure capitalism can exist with Govenment aid and tax cuts/rises as long as such are applied equally throughout the industries concerned.
>No corporations being handed publically funded projects (aka the phone lines, the railways etc).
>Today's capitalist system thrives because of the socialist controls imposed on it...
I would certainly say that a section of todays capitalism thrives based on government contracts, I would even say that the companies involved are worse than the the Patent Hoover companies as they are stealing money directly from taxpayers pockets.
In the UK we had a recent example where a government directive to purchase Generic medicines in place of Brand names, a contract was given to a major Labour party contributor and friend of the Prime Minister. At this point generic medicines averaged at 10-15% the cost of Brand name products. It should have been a huge saving for the NHS and tax payer. Instead the cost of Generic drugs sourced exclusively through this one agent rose month on month until they represented a cost 90% of the brand name products. This problem wasn't noticed for over 2 years and refered to as an 'oversight' by the chancellors office.
This isn't the only example by any stretch of the imagination.
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The point is her restored versions of these films are copyrightable in and of themselves and represent some effort and work of her own.
Not simply relying on dead uncle edison to feed you for the rest of your life.
I would tend to agree with that, the crux is in the way to define active, how about:
Companies should have to actively make and market a minimum of 1000 retail sale copies of any given item they wish to retain copyright on beyond 20 years from its original creation or public release
Commercial sale restrictions on released items part of a still active collection, so Disney can require royalties on Steamboat Willy, RAND style, but cannot prevent others from re-releasing it.
Any given years production cannot count towards next years if unsold
The cost of items has to be reasonable and comprable to similar items in the current marketplace
Companies cannot sell Copyright to items over 20 years old, they must hold them or release them to the public domain, excepting takeovers and spin off's(gotta toss the lawyers a bone in here somewhere)
I imagine that under such rules coroprations would initialy re-release their whole back catalogs, and I think for many items such as old Jazz recordings and cult 20s/30s/40s movies there would be reasonable demand, they would be able to sustain continued release of these items. Over a couple of years though, almost all of the corporations would dump the large amounts of unprofitable items into the public domain.
IIRC the WTO has the legal mandate to force countries to change their laws in respect of barriers to trade.
A European record label which sells PD Music in Europe might want to expand its trade to the USA, where due to to extended copyrights it would be faced with an effective barrier to trade. This company can through its national government file a complaint with the WTO, and the artificial barrier can be ordered to be removed and vast damages paid to the company for loss of potential earnings, also huge daily fines can be laid against the government in question until the laws are changed to match the European laws. IIRC the WTO allows for protective tarriffs to protect from and prepare industries for severe change to their marketplaces, IIRC these tarriffs can last a maximum of 3 years...
You can use this handy wealthclock kindly provided by Philip Greenspun to see just how much that might be, or just to stare in disgusted silence as you realise that Bill Gates is worth more than most countries on earth
'They that can give up essential Liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.'
Benjamin franklin.
I admire and respect the US founding fathers, something not many Englishmen will admit to, they stood for something above the petty power politics and bowing down before powerful men.
Looks like your current President and his administration have forgotten if indeed they ever understood how important those principals are.
Not really, imho its a justified punishment, MS deliberately built an incompatible Java substitute and shipped it with windows, which discouraged users from downloading the multi-platform Sun offering, thereby stifling it's potential to unite various OSes (however dubious that potential may have been). It also didn't help that it gained a reputation for being highly buggy and causing browser crashes ad infinatum.
Then when Java was considered an dying backwater they decided to remove support altogether, no doubt in favour of VBscript and those awful Active X insecurity applets, yuk:(~
lmao, yes that would work very well indeed, esp. on FTS searches for common words where hundreds of pages would need to be dynamically generated, then discarded, or held to choke up the webservers cache:~#
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Sadly that wouldn't work at all, except on the very oldest of httpd's, in the modern age of multiplexing web servers many hundreds of thousands of simultaneous connections can be served in a second.
I am sure it would be trivial to write a shell script to make wget recursively websuck the offending domain using 20% of your bandwidth and delete the files after every cycle, thus providing a permanent and hardly noticable to yourself annoyance for the company concerned.
There is plenty of truth in that, however with Silvio Burlusconi in Italy pushing through 'thatcherite' reforms, Chirac in France looking to put some meaning into his largely meaningless role and the current right wing leanings of some Dutch people, things are begining to shift.
One of my dutch friends, who I expected to be one of the most tolerant people you could find, he is white , gay, lives in Amsterdam with a Black Senegalese man. Was a supporter of the Assasinated Pym Fortyn, he felt that it was time to cut back on welfare and immigration and instead concentrate on the 'Economy.'
In Socialist Europe, government owns companies. In Capitalist America, COMPANIES own GOVERNMENT! Despite how it may look across the pond, the situation in Europe comes closer to the situation in the USA every day. From January we will have our own DCMA, and some time in te next year or so we will also make ideas patentable. Already our governments are colonised with company stooges, who give impartial advice on their areas of expertise.
Lord Sainsbury for example, who's family owned one of Britain's largest supermarket chains years ago put all his stockholdings into a blind trust and has heroicaly advised the government on... building supermarkets. During his tenure as advisor, planning permission laws have changed to favour companies wishing to build, they exclude a public right of appeal whilst guaranteeing one for corporations, and councilors are personaly liable for costs if appeals are successful.
The net result is a huge number of large edge of town supermarkets across the whole UK, draining away well paying town centre retail jobs and resulting in a serious decline in the number of independant local stores. I wouldn't dare to suggest that M'lord is soley or even partialy responsible for such marvelous occurances, but he is a high profile example of a huge sea change in the way the UK is run.
Does anybody have any maps of the layouts? as I am sure some intrepid/.ers could produce a very nice (if technically illegal) fiber network to play with.
Hey, hey I'm not that dumb;) honest, I was thinking about X servers not X protocols, that the current Xfree release may not support that type of terminal but maybe X11 does. All the info I could find on google to do with that term mentioned X11.
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Which version of X are you using X11 or Xfree86?
I have a sneaking suspicion that X11 might be needed. However...
the 200 series can use terminal emulation for X Windows: DEC VT, IBM TN3270e, IBM TN5250, Wyse 50/60, Tandem 6530.
Hope that helps:)
Thats why they should set it to max request 1 page per minute from any one site, but check out many thousands of sites during that one minute.
Robots have been around since the web started and it suprises me that the designers of this robot havent looked at previous design and good practice.
If any of you Alexia numbskulls happen to be reading this perhaps you could buy yourself a copy of HTTP the def. guide from O'Reilly, which has a tremendously clear explanation of what to think about to prevent your robots from destroying every site they visit that isn't sat on a T3 and Sun Fire w/ 64 CPUs and 64 GB ram.
I'll be honest this shit about Intuit worries me. I started a new business earlier this year and bought QB 2002 having heard a lot of good things about it, and not knowing of any really good OSS replacements that didn't require an Oracle license(hurry up and support Postgres, Compiere!). Now the more I read the more convinced I am that I have made a bad decision. Still, I have only had 18 customers so far so it won't be such a massive hassle to switch over to something else:) In the mean time Intuit, along with Microsoft are helping me to see the wisdom in Richard Stallman's message.
Forget GoZilla, Leach get etc etc. Use Wget, a truly excellent command line unix/linux program, it has so many options for resuming downloads and mirroring sites etc. that it really does put just about every other download manager to shame for being crap. Like you I use Windows for business purposes, having recently started my own business after working in a windows only shop. However I infected my computer with cygwin:) learned about all the real power tools and now I am in the process of switching over to Linux permanantly.
Lets be fair to the guys at Compiere, they are working on a PostgreSQL version, and Postgres is probably one of the very best pieces of free software out there. I know from using the Open ACS project that it is, (at least for low to medium volume use) as stable and reliable as Oracle. Also the.org database is now held on Postgres. Just think how much of a hammering that gets.
Ok so Linux might be new to banks, but Unix isn't. I bought 15 ex Morgan Stanley SparcStations.
Banks tend to be the most conservative users of technology, when I worked for Bank of Scotland, in 1999 they were still using win 3.11 on their desktops.
Now one of them has taken the dramatic step of looking at Linux, where they may previously looked at Solaris, you can bet all the rest will be watching with a great deal of 'interest.':) If there are no major fuck ups, I would imagine that the day windows disapears up its own backside in the banking world is not too far away.
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most of the fuckwits concerned use windows and have absolutley no idea what dd is, they would probably imagine it is something related a.d.d.
That doesn't excuse large banking institutions who are definately not called 'MORGAN STANLEY' and use Solaris, because they should know better than to throw out all their old SS20s without cleaning those disks.
I bought a bunch of SS20s which once belonged to a major bank, I won't name names so Morgan Stanley don't need to worry that I have tons of data belonging to their customers, which they left incompetantly left on these machines.
Lucky for this un-named bank that I am an honest kind of guy and llfed the drives without looking.
Pure capitalism would result in the lowest price to the consumer every time as all companies would price to the 'margin'
The GPL seems to offer a pure capitalist opportunity for anybody who wants to take it, I can download Debian images and compete with the largest of Linux vendors like Redhat, just like Lindows is doing. My sales and standing in the market would be based soley on my reputation and speed to market of new innovations.
The main argument against this market is that companies would hold 'trade secrets' which would possibly thwart the progress of science and learning in society so we have a patent system.
However patents and copyrights allow companies to force competitors to enter the market on their terms or not enter at all. Rather like the old Navigation and Corn Laws of England these are Mercantilist protections of existing interests. I think it could fairly be called Neo Mercantilism or Corporate Mercantilism. This does not truly benefit the consumer except arguably in some circumstances.
I think patents on drugs, whilst devisive do have a purpose, the research nessasary to produce a working 'safe' drug can easily reach billions of dollars, and there would be no incentive to invest that money if there was no chance of a return on it.
There are examples of other industries where patent protection is arguably justifiable to encourage investment. In most industries patents are used as bargaining tools to get access to the latest technologies and remain competitive.
Serious problems arise when non-innovative companies buy up existing patents and use them to extract money from industries, which harms innovation in every way as money will almost always be cut from R & D operations first as any potential gain they will make is always a) uncertain and b) years away.
This problem strikes in every patent protected industy following a recession and always results in higher costs being passed onto consumers.
It does in fact represent a private tax extracted from companies by groups who's interests represent no common good.
These private tax collection agencies are almost universally made up of Lawyers and see a removal of useful capital from industy to benefit an already wealthy few.
> Pure capitalism would be NO government aid. No major tax cuts, no negative net taxes paid back to corporations.
I would also argue that pure capitalism can exist with Govenment aid and tax cuts/rises as long as such are applied equally throughout the industries concerned.
>No corporations being handed publically funded projects (aka the phone lines, the railways etc).
>Today's capitalist system thrives because of the socialist controls imposed on it...
I would certainly say that a section of todays capitalism thrives based on government contracts, I would even say that the companies involved are worse than the the Patent Hoover companies as they are stealing money directly from taxpayers pockets.
In the UK we had a recent example where a government directive to purchase Generic medicines in place of Brand names, a contract was given to a major Labour party contributor and friend of the Prime Minister. At this point generic medicines averaged at 10-15% the cost of Brand name products. It should have been a huge saving for the NHS and tax payer. Instead the cost of Generic drugs sourced exclusively through this one agent rose month on month until they represented a cost 90% of the brand name products.
This problem wasn't noticed for over 2 years and refered to as an 'oversight' by the chancellors office.
This isn't the only example by any stretch of the imagination.
John H.
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The point is her restored versions of these films are copyrightable in and of themselves and represent some effort and work of her own.
Not simply relying on dead uncle edison to feed you for the rest of your life.
I imagine that under such rules coroprations would initialy re-release their whole back catalogs, and I think for many items such as old Jazz recordings and cult 20s/30s/40s movies there would be reasonable demand, they would be able to sustain continued release of these items. Over a couple of years though, almost all of the corporations would dump the large amounts of unprofitable items into the public domain.
I'm not sure about that, but it is the reason why RMS insists upon the word free not open to refer to the whole shebang.
That is simply not so, even Mercury spins in the same manner as Earth, though early observers thought it would have its pole facing the sun.
IIRC the WTO has the legal mandate to force countries to change their laws in respect of barriers to trade.
A European record label which sells PD Music in Europe might want to expand its trade to the USA, where due to to extended copyrights it would be faced with an effective barrier to trade.
This company can through its national government file a complaint with the WTO, and the artificial barrier can be ordered to be removed and vast damages paid to the company for loss of potential earnings, also huge daily fines can be laid against the government in question until the laws are changed to match the European laws. IIRC the WTO allows for protective tarriffs to protect from and prepare industries for severe change to their marketplaces, IIRC these tarriffs can last a maximum of 3 years...
You can use this handy wealthclock kindly provided by Philip Greenspun to see just how much that might be, or just to stare in disgusted silence as you realise that Bill Gates is worth more than most countries on earth
Benjamin franklin.
I admire and respect the US founding fathers, something not many Englishmen will admit to, they stood for something above the petty power politics and bowing down before powerful men.
Looks like your current President and his administration have forgotten if indeed they ever understood how important those principals are.
lmao, yes that would work very well indeed, esp. on FTS searches for common words where hundreds of pages would need to be dynamically generated, then discarded, or held to choke up the webservers cache :~#
I am sure it would be trivial to write a shell script to make wget recursively websuck the offending domain using 20% of your bandwidth and delete the files after every cycle, thus providing a permanent and hardly noticable to yourself annoyance for the company concerned.
'I'o innocento' 0:)
There is plenty of truth in that, however with Silvio Burlusconi in Italy pushing through 'thatcherite' reforms, Chirac in France looking to put some meaning into his largely meaningless role and the current right wing leanings of some Dutch people, things are begining to shift.
One of my dutch friends, who I expected to be one of the most tolerant people you could find, he is white , gay, lives in Amsterdam with a Black Senegalese man. Was a supporter of the Assasinated Pym Fortyn, he felt that it was time to cut back on welfare and immigration and instead concentrate on the 'Economy.'
In Socialist Europe, government owns companies. In Capitalist America, COMPANIES own GOVERNMENT! ... building supermarkets.
Despite how it may look across the pond, the situation in Europe comes closer to the situation in the USA every day.
From January we will have our own DCMA, and some time in te next year or so we will also make ideas patentable.
Already our governments are colonised with company stooges, who give impartial advice on their areas of expertise.
Lord Sainsbury for example, who's family owned one of Britain's largest supermarket chains years ago put all his stockholdings into a blind trust and has heroicaly advised the government on
During his tenure as advisor, planning permission laws have changed to favour companies wishing to build, they exclude a public right of appeal whilst guaranteeing one for corporations, and councilors are personaly liable for costs if appeals are successful.
The net result is a huge number of large edge of town supermarkets across the whole UK, draining away well paying town centre retail jobs and resulting in a serious decline in the number of independant local stores.
I wouldn't dare to suggest that M'lord is soley or even partialy responsible for such marvelous occurances, but he is a high profile example of a huge sea change in the way the UK is run.
Does anybody have any maps of the layouts? as I am sure some intrepid /.ers could produce a very nice (if technically illegal) fiber network to play with.
Hey, hey I'm not that dumb ;) honest, I was thinking about X servers not X protocols, that the current Xfree release may not support that type of terminal but maybe X11 does. All the info I could find on google to do with that term mentioned X11.
Which version of X are you using X11 or Xfree86? I have a sneaking suspicion that X11 might be needed. However... the 200 series can use terminal emulation for X Windows: DEC VT, IBM TN3270e, IBM TN5250, Wyse 50/60, Tandem 6530. :)
Hope that helps
Yeah all true, but they cost more than the NCD clients and dont last as long, a nasty side effect of the least cost manufacturing process.
Thats why they should set it to max request 1 page per minute from any one site, but check out many thousands of sites during that one minute.
Robots have been around since the web started and it suprises me that the designers of this robot havent looked at previous design and good practice.
If any of you Alexia numbskulls happen to be reading this perhaps you could buy yourself a copy of HTTP the def. guide from O'Reilly, which has a tremendously clear explanation of what to think about to prevent your robots from destroying every site they visit that isn't sat on a T3 and Sun Fire w/ 64 CPUs and 64 GB ram.
I'll be honest this shit about Intuit worries me. I started a new business earlier this year and bought QB 2002 having heard a lot of good things about it, and not knowing of any really good OSS replacements that didn't require an Oracle license(hurry up and support Postgres, Compiere!). :)
Now the more I read the more convinced I am that I have made a bad decision.
Still, I have only had 18 customers so far so it won't be such a massive hassle to switch over to something else
In the mean time Intuit, along with Microsoft are helping me to see the wisdom in Richard Stallman's message.
Forget GoZilla, Leach get etc etc. Use Wget, a truly excellent command line unix/linux program, it has so many options for resuming downloads and mirroring sites etc. that it really does put just about every other download manager to shame for being crap. Like you I use Windows for business purposes, having recently started my own business after working in a windows only shop. However I infected my computer with cygwin :) learned about all the real power tools and now I am in the process of switching over to Linux permanantly.
Lets be fair to the guys at Compiere, they are working on a PostgreSQL version, and Postgres is probably one of the very best pieces of free software out there. I know from using the Open ACS project that it is, (at least for low to medium volume use) as stable and reliable as Oracle. Also the .org database is now held on Postgres. Just think how much of a hammering that gets.
Ok so Linux might be new to banks, but Unix isn't. I bought 15 ex Morgan Stanley SparcStations. Banks tend to be the most conservative users of technology, when I worked for Bank of Scotland, in 1999 they were still using win 3.11 on their desktops. :)
Now one of them has taken the dramatic step of looking at Linux, where they may previously looked at Solaris, you can bet all the rest will be watching with a great deal of 'interest.'
If there are no major fuck ups, I would imagine that the day windows disapears up its own backside in the banking world is not too far away.
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