"I'm not saying the US is the shining example of what is right and good (torture, rendition, illegal wars, warrentless wiretapping)."
Hey, and bonus is...even in those respects you listed, we're still not as bad as other countries around the world.
And really...'illegal war'? What the hell is a LEGAL war? I do believe war is war, there is nothing legal or illegal about it. I'm sure a lot of people were (hell, still are) against WW2...was it illegal then, then over time decided it was justified, and hence..legal?
"If there's a world-wide organization that can impartially handle this..."
That right there is a mighty big if.
So far, if you're talking about bodies like the U.N....well, I don't know that we've seen them do ANYTHING they've done efficiently, and impartially...
"You seem to have built up this notion that you deserve to get free access to any content that you wish..."
Well, that's pretty much the intent of the web, considering how it and the protocols were developed.
Money and commercialism were secondary thoughts, they came along and tried to jump on afterwards. So, it isn't any surprise that it is an uphill battle for the paid content stuff. The WWW was never designed to be commercial. Money for content is a relatively new thing to be introduced to the medium.
"You can probably white wash a roof without impacting it's function and have it stay white. If you've seen concrete roads that haven't been blacktopped, they soon start to turn black on their own."
That (whitewash) wouldn't look that great on some of the old, beautiful red tile roofs we have down here in NOLA.
"We wouldn't allow another state into the union that's bigger than Texas (we already made that mistake once)."
Geez, what do you and so many other people have against Texas??
I don't live there, but, they don't seem to have it too bad. They don't have a state income tax I don't think....taxes aren't that bad at all from what I hear...and yet, they manage to be self supporting, unlike some other big states like California, which are going down the hole and will likely need a fscking bailout.
Aside from all that...what do you have against TX?
That is the nice thing about letting the states for the most part, make up their own rules. If you don't like the ones in one state, you don't have to live there, and can move to another state that works and thinks more along your lines.
"I know that doesn't sound like a big deal, but it means that rather than shifting the cost curve a bit for production the government has to use regulations to handle things which could more efficiently be handled via tax and rebate. So, if you want a business to cut down on carbon emissions for instance, you'd be stuck with requiring certain technologies and banning certain technologies. Rather than things like cap and trade or using the taxes to fix the damage."
You're going with the assumption that it IS the governments place to regulate and tell businesses what they can/cannot produce. I for one don't believe they should have hardly any say so in a businesses business plans. At least not the Federal Govt. Moreso with the state and local ones maybe.
""OTOH: some states look at escalation of conflict.... if said burglar shows up without weapons, or even a knife you can't escalate the conflict by shooting the asshat without being held liable."
But if you wake up, in the dark, hear someone has broken in...are you going to turn the light on to see if the asshat has a weapon or not?
No...you have seconds to react, and you have to act with the assumption that the perp is in the house with the intent to cause harm. That's my assumption, and I keep shooting till I'm out of ammo, and the invader is hopefully dead.
"The idea that there is "hacking training" or even college is hilarious! Hacking, by definition, means you do things that were not designed to be done. IOW, you hacked them to make them work together. It could be computers...or it could be stereo speakers. They only differ in form. "
To a large extent I agree with you, but, some courses to give you some of the real basics, history of exploits, tools currently used on both sides, and all, would go a long way in giving you a head start over someone that had to search, research and find out everything till they got to the stage of trying new things.
I'd think formal teaching of many things and basics could shortcut some of the early grind work,and get you on the productive path a bit quicker, no? At least unless you are one of the super elite that borders on genius and can learn everything VERy quickly, etc.
Well, that may be part of my anecdotal experience. I've never used ATI stuff...always went with NVIDIA...so, like I posted above, never really had many problems at all with graphics on linux, nor them taking the whole system down if there was a problem.
I wonder if they'd consider someone who hasn't really gathered the hacking skills yet, but, would be VERY interested in learning how. Especially, if said person had or was capable of getting a clearance, and had an extensive computer background with skills other than cracking into systems and security in general?
"And again, if the police show up alongside the FCC, you can tell the cops to come back with a warrant. They don't get access to search your house just because the FCC is inspecting your transmitter."
But what if you're not at home at that time?
From what I gathered, the FCC say they can come to 'inspect' at any time, regardless of if you are there or not?
"If your GUI is crashing, you should consider using a different OS entirely. GUI crashes seem to be an acceptable event among Linux users, but most other users would not tolerate such occurrences."
You seem to imply by your statement that GUI crashes on a Linux system are 'common place', and therefore acceptable amongst the Linux user crowd.
Where did you get that idea? I find that any GUI I happen to be running on a linux box rarely crashes. Anecdotally, I find it certainly crashes less often than many windows boxes I've used.
That being said...while linux boxes and their GUI/Windowing systems can crash like any program can, it usually doesn't rile up the Linux users as badly as the MS Windows user, since on Linux, the Windowing system is running on top of and separate from the OS really. On linux, if your Xwindows or windows managers crashes, no big deal, you usually don't have to bring the whole system down to get it back up and started.
The same can't be said for windows, where when the GUI is gone...the whole OS at that point is hosed and you gotta reboot.
If I remember correctly, I seem to recall some stories on slashdot I think awhile back...where the BSA guys coming in to check out properly licensed software, had REAL live cops in tow with them...
"Correction: $16,000 is above what someone making minimum wage earns for a years work at 40hrs a week. - So it is a years salary for one person."
LOl....minimum wage is not meant to be a living wage, these jobs are only meant for high school and college students to work at to get some spare cash during school.
If you are a grown adult, and your job involves wearing a name tag saying "Hi my name is..."
You've made some serious vocational errors along the way.
"Sure, but why bother with physical media at all ? I imagine the margins are even better on digital distribution as there are no costs for pressing the CD's and printing the covers."
I for one....have never bought a tune 'online'. I always buy the CD so I can rip it to lossy formats as needed, but, have the best format I can get for my home stereo listening. (Yes, I have that good of a stereo).
Now..if they ever start offering online digital purchases, in lossless formats...at CD (hopefully BETTER) fidelity, I for one will be the first in line for purchase. I wouild like to backup my copies of those purchases to CD/DVD for backups.
"Actually, such a kind of "automated" Internet radio with a large music catalog backing it could potentially have a near infinite number of channels: just give the listeners "personal radio streams" and a large number of variables they can individual adjust to tweak them (say, music genre, Amazon review stars, year of recording, number of user playlists it is on and more)."
Just curious...on laws/regulations passed in recent years. Don't you have to pay some place (Soundcheck or something) a great deal of money if you are streaming music EVEN IF these are indie artists that give you full permission to play their stuff?
Seems like if you could get past that...just about anybody with a server could play DJ with the indie tunes, and all point them to the Amazon store for purchases....
"Just because you put your independent band up on MySpace and SonicBids and your own website and sell your songs on iTunes and your CD on CDBaby doesn't magically make everyone in the world suddenly know you exist and want to buy your stuff. Somehow they still have to stumble across you in the first place, out of the trillions of other bands who have done the same as you."
Well,if you can perform live...get out and TOUR.
That's how bands like Led Zeppelin did it...they certainly didn't have a ton of worldwide promotion pushing them into the spotlight. They worked...concert tour after concert tour after concert tour.
They earned their reputation, and they were actually extremely media 'shy' (hence the lack of that much live recorded material on them).
I'd dare say they made it pretty big without the 'promotion' of a major label.
"You DATE to find out if it will work. The SEX is just a side benefit. Try thinking with your BRAIN for a change. If the sex is good, you'll think ANY woman would be a good wife, and that's just STUPID. I know. Been there. Done that."
Err...I think you have it backwards as far as how most men do it (and nothing wrong with that).
Most guys are not out looking for a relationship or 'brains' when they are on the 'hunt'. I mean, I've never heard a guy look across a bar, spot a woman and go "GOD, I gotta go over and talk to her, she has the best sense of humor and personality I've ever seen".
No, he goes over to talk to her at the onset, because she is physically attractive to him, and he'd potentially like to bang her.
If that keeps his interest long enough to get to know her, then the brains, personality and compatibility come into play, and yes, that's part of what you need if you are indeed looking for a long term relationship. No, you don't marry just for sex, but, like another poster said, marrying a girl that is a great girl, all around but isn't into sex (and if you ARE), is a recipe for disaster too. If she's not good and willing in bed, I don't care if she has the best personality in the world, I'm not keeping her around for a permanent relationship possibility.
But, everyone is different. I'm not meaning to slight you...but, I'm just saying that possibly your views and how it works in general for everyone (male) is an outlier. Hey, the world needs guys like you to give the rest of us a good name.
"On the other hand, in the early 80's, there was a teacher who didn't come into school one day. He was living in Washington DC, and had reported a burglary at his house. A cop, for whatever reason, tried to climb in an open window, and the teacher shot the cop. Bad judgment all around. "
If the cop didn't announce himself...and didn't have a warrant...I can't see how the teacher would get in trouble. How was she to know it wasn't the criminal?
"Have you read New York v. Burger? The NY police were conducting the search. They have police powers. The absence of the paper work established that a violation of the law was committed, and the statute requiring the paperwork gave the cops the right to look around. The stolen car parts discovered were something that particular law was supposed to be curbing. The ruling applies specifically to commercial property, and to industries that are specifically regulated. Yes it establishes that the police can charge you with a crime based on evidence discovered in an administrative inspection, but it doesn't say anything about the standing of evidence of a crime unrelated to the regulatory area of a federal agency discovered in an unrelated inspection and then reported to a local law enforcement agency, which is the only way that an FCC inspection could result in being charged with a crime other than violating FCC regs."
You know...I can't imagine these FCC guys are gonna even think about doing this type of search, without the cops in tow behind them. Cops with them...they could find something on premise while protecting the FCC guys. See? That works out nicely for them...no warrant needed.
"how the hell is this flamebait? drop the groupthink hero-worship for a minute and read the post on its merits."
I dunno. For some reason, starting shortly after Lincoln was assasinated, he was given almost god like status.
I'm torn in my feelings towards him. While I'm glad that the union was preserved for the present day, I do feel a lot of our problems and erosion of states rights, and the SERIOUS errors of that apparent today...are also to be attributed to Lincoln.
And he 'was' a lawyer...so, I do have a bit of inherit distrust for lawyers, as many of us in the US do.
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Hey, and bonus is...even in those respects you listed, we're still not as bad as other countries around the world.
And really...'illegal war'? What the hell is a LEGAL war? I do believe war is war, there is nothing legal or illegal about it. I'm sure a lot of people were (hell, still are) against WW2...was it illegal then, then over time decided it was justified, and hence..legal?
That right there is a mighty big if.
So far, if you're talking about bodies like the U.N....well, I don't know that we've seen them do ANYTHING they've done efficiently, and impartially...
Well, that's pretty much the intent of the web, considering how it and the protocols were developed.
Money and commercialism were secondary thoughts, they came along and tried to jump on afterwards. So, it isn't any surprise that it is an uphill battle for the paid content stuff. The WWW was never designed to be commercial. Money for content is a relatively new thing to be introduced to the medium.
That (whitewash) wouldn't look that great on some of the old, beautiful red tile roofs we have down here in NOLA.
Oops..I just skimmed it. I often don't read the very last line of most things...I usually assume the meat of the story is in the first part.
Geez, what do you and so many other people have against Texas??
I don't live there, but, they don't seem to have it too bad. They don't have a state income tax I don't think....taxes aren't that bad at all from what I hear...and yet, they manage to be self supporting, unlike some other big states like California, which are going down the hole and will likely need a fscking bailout.
Aside from all that...what do you have against TX?
That is the nice thing about letting the states for the most part, make up their own rules. If you don't like the ones in one state, you don't have to live there, and can move to another state that works and thinks more along your lines.
Is is any coincidence that this announcement is coming out so soon to what the new rumoured iPhone is to be announced (next month?)
You're going with the assumption that it IS the governments place to regulate and tell businesses what they can/cannot produce. I for one don't believe they should have hardly any say so in a businesses business plans. At least not the Federal Govt. Moreso with the state and local ones maybe.
Or, I suppose you could check your hole cards on EVERY hand...that would take care of the problem too.
But if you wake up, in the dark, hear someone has broken in...are you going to turn the light on to see if the asshat has a weapon or not?
No...you have seconds to react, and you have to act with the assumption that the perp is in the house with the intent to cause harm. That's my assumption, and I keep shooting till I'm out of ammo, and the invader is hopefully dead.
To a large extent I agree with you, but, some courses to give you some of the real basics, history of exploits, tools currently used on both sides, and all, would go a long way in giving you a head start over someone that had to search, research and find out everything till they got to the stage of trying new things.
I'd think formal teaching of many things and basics could shortcut some of the early grind work,and get you on the productive path a bit quicker, no? At least unless you are one of the super elite that borders on genius and can learn everything VERy quickly, etc.
Well, that may be part of my anecdotal experience. I've never used ATI stuff...always went with NVIDIA...so, like I posted above, never really had many problems at all with graphics on linux, nor them taking the whole system down if there was a problem.
I wonder if they'd consider someone who hasn't really gathered the hacking skills yet, but, would be VERY interested in learning how. Especially, if said person had or was capable of getting a clearance, and had an extensive computer background with skills other than cracking into systems and security in general?
But what if you're not at home at that time?
From what I gathered, the FCC say they can come to 'inspect' at any time, regardless of if you are there or not?
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You seem to imply by your statement that GUI crashes on a Linux system are 'common place', and therefore acceptable amongst the Linux user crowd.
Where did you get that idea? I find that any GUI I happen to be running on a linux box rarely crashes. Anecdotally, I find it certainly crashes less often than many windows boxes I've used.
That being said...while linux boxes and their GUI/Windowing systems can crash like any program can, it usually doesn't rile up the Linux users as badly as the MS Windows user, since on Linux, the Windowing system is running on top of and separate from the OS really. On linux, if your Xwindows or windows managers crashes, no big deal, you usually don't have to bring the whole system down to get it back up and started.
The same can't be said for windows, where when the GUI is gone...the whole OS at that point is hosed and you gotta reboot.
If I remember correctly, I seem to recall some stories on slashdot I think awhile back...where the BSA guys coming in to check out properly licensed software, had REAL live cops in tow with them...
LOl....minimum wage is not meant to be a living wage, these jobs are only meant for high school and college students to work at to get some spare cash during school.
If you are a grown adult, and your job involves wearing a name tag saying "Hi my name is..."
You've made some serious vocational errors along the way.
Go work hard and get a 'real' job.
I for one....have never bought a tune 'online'. I always buy the CD so I can rip it to lossy formats as needed, but, have the best format I can get for my home stereo listening. (Yes, I have that good of a stereo).
Now..if they ever start offering online digital purchases, in lossless formats...at CD (hopefully BETTER) fidelity, I for one will be the first in line for purchase. I wouild like to backup my copies of those purchases to CD/DVD for backups.
Just curious...on laws/regulations passed in recent years. Don't you have to pay some place (Soundcheck or something) a great deal of money if you are streaming music EVEN IF these are indie artists that give you full permission to play their stuff?
Seems like if you could get past that...just about anybody with a server could play DJ with the indie tunes, and all point them to the Amazon store for purchases....
Well,if you can perform live...get out and TOUR.
That's how bands like Led Zeppelin did it...they certainly didn't have a ton of worldwide promotion pushing them into the spotlight. They worked...concert tour after concert tour after concert tour.
They earned their reputation, and they were actually extremely media 'shy' (hence the lack of that much live recorded material on them).
I'd dare say they made it pretty big without the 'promotion' of a major label.
Err...I think you have it backwards as far as how most men do it (and nothing wrong with that).
Most guys are not out looking for a relationship or 'brains' when they are on the 'hunt'. I mean, I've never heard a guy look across a bar, spot a woman and go "GOD, I gotta go over and talk to her, she has the best sense of humor and personality I've ever seen".
No, he goes over to talk to her at the onset, because she is physically attractive to him, and he'd potentially like to bang her.
If that keeps his interest long enough to get to know her, then the brains, personality and compatibility come into play, and yes, that's part of what you need if you are indeed looking for a long term relationship. No, you don't marry just for sex, but, like another poster said, marrying a girl that is a great girl, all around but isn't into sex (and if you ARE), is a recipe for disaster too. If she's not good and willing in bed, I don't care if she has the best personality in the world, I'm not keeping her around for a permanent relationship possibility.
But, everyone is different. I'm not meaning to slight you...but, I'm just saying that possibly your views and how it works in general for everyone (male) is an outlier. Hey, the world needs guys like you to give the rest of us a good name.
If the cop didn't announce himself...and didn't have a warrant...I can't see how the teacher would get in trouble. How was she to know it wasn't the criminal?
You know...I can't imagine these FCC guys are gonna even think about doing this type of search, without the cops in tow behind them. Cops with them...they could find something on premise while protecting the FCC guys. See? That works out nicely for them...no warrant needed.
I dunno. For some reason, starting shortly after Lincoln was assasinated, he was given almost god like status.
I'm torn in my feelings towards him. While I'm glad that the union was preserved for the present day, I do feel a lot of our problems and erosion of states rights, and the SERIOUS errors of that apparent today...are also to be attributed to Lincoln.
And he 'was' a lawyer...so, I do have a bit of inherit distrust for lawyers, as many of us in the US do.