The Tuskegee study was a prime example of ethical blunders of the early to mid 20th century. You could no doubt point out a dozen others involving minorities, children, and the disabled. However, I don't think that the denial of medication to 300 people over 40 years is quite worthy of Megele. Nor do I think that one could so easily make a leap to saying that "they" invented HIV to destroy the blacks based on that incident. The man has a right to be a tinfoil hat wearing "nutjob" if he would like. I, in turn, have the right to question the judgement of a presidential candidate that would sit in his church for 20 years.
Perhaps the civil rebellion against ever increasing intellectual properties restrictions is rooted in our disappointment in seeing the products of our labor torn from us and sold on our behalf. Our world has become a wasteland of middlemen. Those who produce and create are robbed and their products sold back to them, while the managers, producers, distributors, marketers, executives, and corporations profit at our expense. Copyright protections were designed to ensure that the artist or inventor profited from his labor, not so that his profit could be concentrated by a monopolistic world spanning trust. I applaud all who would decrease the profits of this industry. Not because they are selfishly gaining product by stealing the livelihood of others, but because the actively work to reconstruct the machine that attempts to own our very culture. Software is a service, not a license. Music is a service, not a license. Film is a SERVICE. A license is only a writ of slavery. When was the last time you paid a programmer, musician, or director for their work?
Actually, in my experience, there tends to be more malware, spyware, junkware, and overall spam in consumer level retail packaged software than in pirated software. I don't think I've ever seen a virus or rootkit in a cracked iso for a pirated program. On the other hand I have spent many hours of my life cleaning spam out of grandma's computer that wal-mart software installed!
1) rushed into production I cannot see how these systems were rushed to production. ES&S has been making and supporting voting machines for decades. The counties and states are approaching the ADA compliance transition like it was a coiled snake, most areas are NOT even attempting to use the paperless ballots. 2) the victim of mainstaying I haven't really seen this either. The county that I was supporting in the August primary seemed to be doing their best in making the necessary changes to their procedures. 3) the company was completely ill-equipped to handle support in cruch-time. This is true, The support system relied almost entirely upon poorly trained, and underqualified field technicians relying on well trained, but understaffed phone support. This is normal for the (IT support) industry as far as I have seen. Nothing new.
The truth of it I think lies more in the architecture of the software than anything else. The interface software for tabulation is user unfriendly proprietary junk. It's been coded in a language that is not compatible with windowsXP and was designed as if it were a windows 3.1 app. No wizards, no help files, no contextual help, no tooltips. Just a VERY ambiguous toolbar with some very esoteric menus. Documentation is plentiful (although customization options are dreadfully lacking), but with aged users whose experience is more to the Microsoft BOB persuasion than Windows for workgroups, You can assume that a novella sized script document is NOT the way to go.
Unfortunately it looks just like something you would expect to find in a federal office or medical facility. Go figure.
-Anonymous Coward who worked supporting that election (in a state that didn't have a hissy fit)
I'm not attempting to justify anything. Simply stating a truth. If a person who downloads a song, would, in actuality, not have purchased that song anyhow, then nothing is lost. There was never an opportunity, so there is no cost. The industry simply refuses to update it's obviously obsolete methods.
Between 18 and 35 million people (somewhere around there depending on what survey you believe) use the internet to share copyrighted material. This is not an insignificant number. Crime is relative to culture, and it's quite obvious that culture does not believe this to be wrong (at least a few tens of millions of them).
At this point in our economic development, certain forces in our society have found an interesting method for massing unrealistic quantities of money through market control, media, and lobbying. The people will be heard one way or another. Perhaps not through representation, But through economics. It certainly wouldn't be the first time.
Some day we will sort this "intellectual properties" mess out. Let's just hope it doesn't end up with EULA's on our breakfast cereal.
Hey there, Mr. I happen to be one of those freeloaders. I wouldn't suggest doing any of those unpleasant things you mentioned. It's just not the civilized sort of thing to do. The industry loses nothing from my copying of their precious data, because I would not have purchased that data anyhow.
Oh, and By the way, violently abusing women is likely to get you killed. But then again, maybe petty "justice" is worth more than your life?
I've been running dual monitors with Xinerama for 2 years on debian Sid. With the Nvidia binary drivers and a little config tweaking, it works great. I can't fullscreen across both monitors with a glx window, but I can fullscreen to either one.
This works very well, with DEBIAN, I'm not even using X.org yet.
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So that means that we should never build anything great again? We should let them drag us into the 12th century with them? NO! We protect ourselves, and we educate the people. Whether they like it or not. They need to be brought into the 21st century. If not for their own, but for our well being.
There are some people who sacrificed their lives so you could do all of the above.
And those people who fight and die for our country overseas are not even allowed to vote in our elections anymore! How many US Military absentee ballots have been thrown out or screwed up in the last 2 elections? Internet voting would allow them to register their votes at the same time as the rest of us. That way when New Jersey f*cks up the election by unconstitutionally rotating candidates we can still have a meaningful vote!
You'd think that after x number of years seeing that sort of form that filling the bubble would be natural.
I have 3 systems running Debian Woody on custom compiled kernels (2.4.20-Final).
#1. AMD Thunderbird 850Mhz, FIC AZ11, NVidia Geforce2 MX, 512MB PC133, 11.5Gb IDE HD, 32X CDROM, 4X4X24 CDRW, 56K Dial up w/ 10baseT local ethernet.
#2. IBM Thinkpad 360CSE, 486DX2 50Mhz, 20MB DRAM, 340MB IDE HD, DockII w/ 4X SCSI CDROM, 10baseT Ethernet.
#3. IBM Thinkpad 360CS, 486SL 33Mhz, 20MB DRAM, 340MB IDE HD, Same networked Dock II.
I have no problem with any of these systems. I use the AMD system with diald and ipmasq/dnsmasq as a gateway for the networked dock. (YES! I really share a 56K connection. The laptops don't have X, so text only web doesn't need much bandwidth.)
You're right of course, I wasn't thinking that far ahead! (Yes, I was lucky to get the math right on the second try yesterday).
I saw about 200 meteorites in an hour this morning. I don't remember any of them going of with a force more than a megaton or so ; ).. I guess we're ok for the next 33 years!
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Jesus! Who modded this informative? This is the biggest load of crap I've ever seen. Where did YOU take Physics 101??! If these meteors were traveling fast enough to blueshift:
That's why I buy the production CD set. I run Debian Linux. 7 CD's is plenty. I never have any problems with failed dependencies using aptitude. The cd's are only ~ $15US.
This is a disturbing trend IMO. My (former) university gave two options for a beginning language. Both CIS and CSE had the same choice. VB or Java. I already knew some java so I chose VB. It was a good lesson. Now I exactly why I hate VB!
Maybe they should offer C or Perl as a beginners language?
SSSH!!! Don't give them idea's! That's all we need is more federal level taxes! Even the UN wants to tax us!
On the bright side, I've seen a sharp decline in the number of new taxes that are being approved in my local (midwestern) area. Last year it seemed the people passed every levy that was introduced, but this year not one has passed. We just saw a proposition to increase cigarette tax by.50 a pack get stomped. I think that the people are just about saturated. Maybe the congress will reflect the local trend. (Or so we hope).
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The Tuskegee study was a prime example of ethical blunders of the early to mid 20th century. You could no doubt point out a dozen others involving minorities, children, and the disabled. However, I don't think that the denial of medication to 300 people over 40 years is quite worthy of Megele. Nor do I think that one could so easily make a leap to saying that "they" invented HIV to destroy the blacks based on that incident. The man has a right to be a tinfoil hat wearing "nutjob" if he would like. I, in turn, have the right to question the judgement of a presidential candidate that would sit in his church for 20 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ38N8OUg3Q
I think that this should give you plenty of context.
I especially like the part about the government inventing HIV in order to commit genocide against blacks.
C'mon, the guy is a nutjob.
Book I, lines 261-263 of Paradise Lost.
"Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition though in hell:
Better to reign in hell, that serve in heav'n."
Have you ever read Milton, Captain?
typos are ugly. I should proofread better!
Perhaps the civil rebellion against ever increasing intellectual properties restrictions is rooted in our disappointment in seeing the products of our labor torn from us and sold on our behalf. Our world has become a wasteland of middlemen. Those who produce and create are robbed and their products sold back to them, while the managers, producers, distributors, marketers, executives, and corporations profit at our expense. Copyright protections were designed to ensure that the artist or inventor profited from his labor, not so that his profit could be concentrated by a monopolistic world spanning trust. I applaud all who would decrease the profits of this industry. Not because they are selfishly gaining product by stealing the livelihood of others, but because the actively work to reconstruct the machine that attempts to own our very culture. Software is a service, not a license. Music is a service, not a license. Film is a SERVICE. A license is only a writ of slavery. When was the last time you paid a programmer, musician, or director for their work?
Actually, in my experience, there tends to be more malware, spyware, junkware, and overall spam in consumer level retail packaged software than in pirated software. I don't think I've ever seen a virus or rootkit in a cracked iso for a pirated program. On the other hand I have spent many hours of my life cleaning spam out of grandma's computer that wal-mart software installed!
1) rushed into production
I cannot see how these systems were rushed to production. ES&S has been making and supporting voting machines for decades. The counties and states are approaching the ADA compliance transition like it was a coiled snake, most areas are NOT even attempting to use the paperless ballots.
2) the victim of mainstaying
I haven't really seen this either. The county that I was supporting in the August primary seemed to be doing their best in making the necessary changes to their procedures.
3) the company was completely ill-equipped to handle support in cruch-time.
This is true, The support system relied almost entirely upon poorly trained, and underqualified field technicians relying on well trained, but understaffed phone support. This is normal for the (IT support) industry as far as I have seen. Nothing new.
The truth of it I think lies more in the architecture of the software than anything else. The interface software for tabulation is user unfriendly proprietary junk. It's been coded in a language that is not compatible with windowsXP and was designed as if it were a windows 3.1 app. No wizards, no help files, no contextual help, no tooltips. Just a VERY ambiguous toolbar with some very esoteric menus. Documentation is plentiful (although customization options are dreadfully lacking), but with aged users whose experience is more to the Microsoft BOB persuasion than Windows for workgroups, You can assume that a novella sized script document is NOT the way to go.
Unfortunately it looks just like something you would expect to find in a federal office or medical facility. Go figure.
-Anonymous Coward who worked supporting that election (in a state that didn't have a hissy fit)
I hardly think that this is the correct place for putting out hits on IP's. Someone mod this OT. Take it elsewhere.
I'm not attempting to justify anything. Simply stating a truth. If a person who downloads a song, would, in actuality, not have purchased that song anyhow, then nothing is lost. There was never an opportunity, so there is no cost. The industry simply refuses to update it's obviously obsolete methods.
Between 18 and 35 million people (somewhere around there depending on what survey you believe) use the internet to share copyrighted material. This is not an insignificant number. Crime is relative to culture, and it's quite obvious that culture does not believe this to be wrong (at least a few tens of millions of them).
At this point in our economic development, certain forces in our society have found an interesting method for massing unrealistic quantities of money through market control, media, and lobbying. The people will be heard one way or another. Perhaps not through representation, But through economics. It certainly wouldn't be the first time.
Some day we will sort this "intellectual properties" mess out. Let's just hope it doesn't end up with EULA's on our breakfast cereal.
Hey there, Mr. I happen to be one of those freeloaders. I wouldn't suggest doing any of those unpleasant things you mentioned. It's just not the civilized sort of thing to do. The industry loses nothing from my copying of their precious data, because I would not have purchased that data anyhow.
Oh, and By the way, violently abusing women is likely to get you killed. But then again, maybe petty "justice" is worth more than your life?
-Cronus
I've been running dual monitors with Xinerama for 2 years on debian Sid. With the Nvidia binary drivers and a little config tweaking, it works great. I can't fullscreen across both monitors with a glx window, but I can fullscreen to either one.
This works very well, with DEBIAN, I'm not even using X.org yet.
DIE, DIE, DIE, DIE!
So that means that we should never build anything great again? We should let them drag us into the 12th century with them? NO! We protect ourselves, and we educate the people. Whether they like it or not. They need to be brought into the 21st century. If not for their own, but for our well being.
Voting is a privelege in the US
Voting is a RIGHT. Not a privilege!
There are some people who sacrificed their lives so you could do all of the above.
And those people who fight and die for our country overseas are not even allowed to vote in our elections anymore! How many US Military absentee ballots have been thrown out or screwed up in the last 2 elections? Internet voting would allow them to register their votes at the same time as the rest of us. That way when New Jersey f*cks up the election by unconstitutionally rotating candidates we can still have a meaningful vote!
You'd think that after x number of years seeing that sort of form that filling the bubble would be natural.
There is only one way to mark a radio button.
I have 3 systems running Debian Woody on custom compiled kernels (2.4.20-Final).
#1. AMD Thunderbird 850Mhz, FIC AZ11, NVidia Geforce2 MX, 512MB PC133, 11.5Gb IDE HD, 32X CDROM, 4X4X24 CDRW, 56K Dial up w/ 10baseT local ethernet.
#2. IBM Thinkpad 360CSE, 486DX2 50Mhz, 20MB DRAM, 340MB IDE HD, DockII w/ 4X SCSI CDROM, 10baseT Ethernet.
#3. IBM Thinkpad 360CS, 486SL 33Mhz, 20MB DRAM, 340MB IDE HD, Same networked Dock II.
I have no problem with any of these systems. I use the AMD system with diald and ipmasq/dnsmasq as a gateway for the networked dock. (YES! I really share a 56K connection. The laptops don't have X, so text only web doesn't need much bandwidth.)
You're right of course, I wasn't thinking that far ahead! (Yes, I was lucky to get the math right on the second try yesterday).
I saw about 200 meteorites in an hour this morning. I don't remember any of them going of with a force more than a megaton or so ; )
Sorry, that should read:
say, 400,000,000 Kph, and massed 1kg each:
KE=1/2MV^2
1/2(1000)(1.2e10)^2 = 7.2e22 ergs = 7,200,000,000,000,000 joules = about 1.72 megatons EACH!
I don't know what I was thinking... ; P
Jesus! Who modded this informative? This is the biggest load of crap I've ever seen. Where did YOU take Physics 101??! If these meteors were traveling fast enough to blueshift:
say, 400,000 Kph, and massed 1kg each:
KE=1/2MV^2
1/2(1000)(4e10)^2 = 8e23 ergs = 80,000,000,000,000,000 joules = about 19 megatons EACH!
RUN FOR COVER!!!!
That's why I buy the production CD set. I run Debian Linux. 7 CD's is plenty. I never have any problems with failed dependencies using aptitude. The cd's are only ~ $15US.
This is a disturbing trend IMO. My (former) university gave two options for a beginning language. Both CIS and CSE had the same choice. VB or Java. I already knew some java so I chose VB. It was a good lesson. Now I exactly why I hate VB!
Maybe they should offer C or Perl as a beginners language?
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SSSH!!! Don't give them idea's! That's all we need is more federal level taxes! Even the UN wants to tax us!
.50 a pack get stomped. I think that the people are just about saturated. Maybe the congress will reflect the local trend. (Or so we hope).
On the bright side, I've seen a sharp decline in the number of new taxes that are being approved in my local (midwestern) area. Last year it seemed the people passed every levy that was introduced, but this year not one has passed. We just saw a proposition to increase cigarette tax by
*GASP* That's Blasphemy!!! He's a witch!! BURN HIM!!
So the world's going to end, huh? In six years? Have you been talking to "God"? Have you been listening to Art Bell? Or is it just the crack?
THE SKY IS FALLING!
I'm not sure I can put together a valid response to this.....