May. Not will. However, it's a better than zero chance. If you ignore causes or even correlations related to crime, you will certainly not have any chance to find the causes.
If you don't find a cause, and you ignore all the correlations, you can't have a solution.
So, feel free to track all this stuff. Don't lock people up because of it. Learn from it. Find out where our shortcomings are, how some of our folks increase their odds of killing someone.
Please also note the careful difference between the words "homicide", "manslaughter", "murder", and "killing". They are NOT the same word, and have distinct meanings.
Are you joking? Have you not read every other discussion on these weak patents? Nothing was stolen. This was and is a commonplace idea, has been for years. I'm going to patent my left nut, and then sue everyone who uses their left nut. You obviously didn't steal your left nut from me, did you? Nope. It's yours. Same with tivo. They have a right to their name, and to make a cool ass product, and to sell it all over, because they are the best in class.
They don't have the right to whine about trivial functionality that they didn't invent.
The story seems to enumerate a number of criminal, or at least civilly-liable actions on the part of the 'horde'. Perhaps they are not criminal or civil violations yet, but perhaps they should be soon...
1. Ownership of my private information. The linkage between my identity and all of my private attributes, such as my name, my address, phone number, email address, where I work, type of car I drive, license plate number, drivers license number, social security number. That linkage should be between my identity and each of those attributes, or any linkage between multiple attributes which could be used for the purpose of uniquely identifying me, should be my property. It should be a crime to distribute any of those linkages. Obviously my address is just an address, and my phone number is just a set of numbers, but the linkage between them, or the uniqueness created by several of them linked together, is what should not be sent around willy-nilly.
This would slow-but-not-stop identity theft. However, we'd never pass such a think except through initiative process, or until we start seeing something that drives us to it.
2. Repeatedly calling a number without a legitimate business purpose, or continuing to dial the number after being asked by the answerer not to. This should be some sort of crime. You have the freedom of speech, but it stops when it hits my phone, in my house, and I have to make effort, take time (= money) to deal with you.
If these incidents in S Korea were already crimes, I hope these get prosecuted. I have a feeling it might balance itself out when the people realize how much wasted energy this is. Sure, the guy should be publicly shamed, but that should happen in the context of "his community". That could be his family, neighborhood, workplace, church. No reason to have every nutjob whiner in the country sign up to flame him.
And of course there are the usual other ways to avoid that.
1. Don't get drunk. What does it really benefit you? 2. Don't get an ex - choose your relationship carefully and don't treat it lightly. 3. Don't stay up late - there is no use for this, as it lowers your mental capacity further.
1. Any country that has nukes is morally equal. 2. Because one country used atomic weapons it is subject to contempt regarding it's moral justification in regulating other countries' development and promulgation of nuclear weapons. 3. When faced with many countries beginning to arm themselves with nuclear weapons, the reaction should be to destroy one's own nuclear weapons. 4. Decommissioning our armaments would provide moral superiority.
I would add a few points.
1. Absolute truth exists. 2. Evil therefore exists as a counter to truth. 3. The US used an atomic weapon to bring an overly proud and evil government to capitulation. 4. The US wields it's power in a generally circumspect and morally correct way. You may disagree, but it's okay to be wrong. God has granted us freedoms which our country recognizes.
Before you all go jumping mad, please stop to consider that:
1. If you believe there is no absolute truth, then you have no basis on which to attack me. My truth is just as good as yours.
2. If you have a problem with that statement, then maybe you are thinking I am wrong. If you are thinking I am wrong, you are referencing an absolute truth. Oops, can't do that.
3. If you are right and there is no absolute truth, then we're all okay, and I am no worse for believing what I believe.
4. If I am right, and there is absolute truth, then you are in trouble.
1. The outmoded up-down wheel controller (doesn't rotate continuously like the Blackberry wheel, it just goes up OR down like the Kyocera/Qualcomm smartphone wheel, and clicking it often confuses the unit into thinking you want up/down. Tactile feedback on the click is non-existent.) 2. Slow UI response impairs usability. 3. USB does not charge 4. No single-click to get to now-playing screen. 5. Cannot copy files OFF of the unit (they are my files, I should move them as I wish. I do not need my equipment supplier trying to help me be compliant with a law that I am not breaking. It is my choice to comply with or break the law.) 6. Slow transfer speed on USB.
The next great audio player needs to have: 1. 802.11g or better wireless OR bluetooth 2. FM digital transmitter built-in (frequency selectable, power selectable) 3. USB charging 4. two-way transfer capability (screw the content companies' idiotic lobby, they need to back off and let the consumers choose. This is not about legalism, this is about our liberty as individuals to use these devices as TOOLS. We must choose to use them the correct way in terms of law, but it must be our choice. Forced law-abiding is not real law-abiding.)
Just wanted to point out that pilots of commercial aircraft are granted a public trust. That trust is granted after they have proved themselves capable of piloting the aircraft well, proved themselves to be of good character. Our government then licenses them to command the plane -- and with it the lives of sometimes hundreds of passengers. Further, the passengers each put their lives in the hands of the pilots.
Pointing a laser and blinding a pilot on final approach is the same as having broken into the cockpit and putting your hands over his or her eyes. You should and would be right to be charged with as many counts of attempted murder as there are people on the plane.
25 years seems like a light sentence for that charge, to me. So he's getting quite a deal.
But, to use the ignorant line "I didn't know" betrays the mind that each of us has in our heads. We have the ability to think through our actions, and we have the responsibility to each other -- as a society -- to do so.
Intent has nothing to do with responsibility for actions. Perhaps intent can change the severity of the sentence, but should never invalidate the crime and the perpetrator's responsibility.
If we want to live in a society, peacefully, and get along with each other, it is incumbent on all of us to take responsibility for our own actions, and to demand that our fellow citizens do no less.
Does the same thing with mugs, hats, t-shirts, underwear. You send them artwork, they set it up and print it. The extra trick there is that they provide all the retail / payment services.
I found it after linking from http://www.rockpapersaddam.com/
Last time I checked, I was excited by the prospect of a 32 processor system. Perhaps they'll send me a free demo unit. I wish they marketed like AOL. I wouldn't mind getting a few of these in brightly colored mailers from time to time.
http://www-132.ibm.com/content/home/store_IBMPub li cUSA/en_US/eServer/pSeries/pSeries.html
And the first thing the prosecutor must do is prove that a murder has been committed, before going after the accomplice(s), if any.
And once that relation of murderer to accomplice has been made tentatively by the prosecutor, they still have the burden of proof, and must tie the accomplice to the act of assisting the murder with intent. This is important to note.
The linking here is with the clear intent that the linked files are both legal and ethical and with the permission of the author and/or other rights-holders.
Subtly seperate is the fact that the linking here is to files which currently have not been proven to be owned by others. This is also a burden of proof which lies with those bringing suit, that they have standing to represent, or are themselves the owners of, the music in question.
I'll still buy CD's to support the band, because I like the music, because there's something cool about the cover art and the packaging. Just don't threaten to sue me because I download music to see if I like it before I buy it.
If I feel threatened by doing something which in my case is essentially LEGAL -- sampling music on a short-term evaluation basis -- then I'm less likely to go buy the CD's, out of anger toward this ridiculous industry association.
I'm sure there are people who download gigs of music and never intend to pay for it. That's something different from what I am doing. It is not lost revenue, because economic demand, as we all learned in school, is DESIRE + MONEY + INTENT. Without INTENT or MONEY, it's not Demand, and therefore you have not sustained any economic damage.
Sell something people will buy, and they will buy it.
This document appears to come from a group of frustrated Solaris developers in Sun corporate, and "sounds like" it would be used in convincing upper management to put more pressure on "the Java group" to fix items that are real performance killers.
I think from the sound of it, it should turn heads within Sun and cause the Java to be improved on Solaris.
As someone else said, this isn't a move to another platform, this is a plea for improvement based on a well-stated set of concise problems.
If you're Panamanian and you are reading this, you might want to go and fire or execute a few legislators. You might also consider banning lobbying, which has ruined the USA.
You do understand that for there to be four lines which define everything else, something has to preexist the four lines, right?
Enter the concept of God, who exists outside of time and space and all dimensions, because God created all of that. If you keep thinking within the narrow terms inside which we think, you'll always be confused.
It could be broken out into many more lines, but it's pretty much just one line. Too bad science will always be just an approximation. It's like trying to define a curve using dots. Just note the parameters of the curve. Hell, just say: there's a curve. Don't bother with approximate measurements.
See that link that comes up. Now check Google's cached copy. Funny how the website which was raided by the FBI had a story about it before it went unavailable.
(As much as I don't like to point this out, since that was a pretty funny idea...)
Those were gross sales figures you quoted.
Microsoft has $26.9B in cash, $360.6B market cap.
IBM has $3.72B in cash, $190.5B market cap.
This makes them responsible for EVERYTHING!
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If they charge for one, they are claiming that they are an active participant. And they will not be able to shy away from the less desirable activities, or outright crimes, that their participants commit. No matter what the terms of service say.
Although upon reading some of the comments, this may be just a VERY badly worded article.
According to the MSN rebat e form, they may sue you under 18 USC 1341, which says...
Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations,... [and uses US Mail to do it]... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. If the violation affects a financial institution, such person shall be fined not more than $1,000,000 or imprisoned not more than 30 years, or both."
This sounds (like many US laws) very very flexible and open to the whims of the court. I wouldn't put it below M$ to try to $way the courts there in their favor. Are there lawyers out there that could comment on this (the cited code, not the joking allegation of bribery)?
They have real 10Mbit/s wireless. No drivers for linux, but if someone seriously wants to write them, let me know, and I'll see if I can hook you up with their developers. (Is Mr. Becker listening?)
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May. Not will. However, it's a better than zero chance. If you ignore causes or even correlations related to crime, you will certainly not have any chance to find the causes.
If you don't find a cause, and you ignore all the correlations, you can't have a solution.
So, feel free to track all this stuff. Don't lock people up because of it. Learn from it. Find out where our shortcomings are, how some of our folks increase their odds of killing someone.
Please also note the careful difference between the words "homicide", "manslaughter", "murder", and "killing". They are NOT the same word, and have distinct meanings.
Are you joking? Have you not read every other discussion on these weak patents? Nothing was stolen. This was and is a commonplace idea, has been for years. I'm going to patent my left nut, and then sue everyone who uses their left nut. You obviously didn't steal your left nut from me, did you? Nope. It's yours. Same with tivo. They have a right to their name, and to make a cool ass product, and to sell it all over, because they are the best in class.
They don't have the right to whine about trivial functionality that they didn't invent.
Our system has gone batshit.
The story seems to enumerate a number of criminal, or at least civilly-liable actions on the part of the 'horde'. Perhaps they are not criminal or civil violations yet, but perhaps they should be soon...
1. Ownership of my private information. The linkage between my identity and all of my private attributes, such as my name, my address, phone number, email address, where I work, type of car I drive, license plate number, drivers license number, social security number. That linkage should be between my identity and each of those attributes, or any linkage between multiple attributes which could be used for the purpose of uniquely identifying me, should be my property. It should be a crime to distribute any of those linkages. Obviously my address is just an address, and my phone number is just a set of numbers, but the linkage between them, or the uniqueness created by several of them linked together, is what should not be sent around willy-nilly.
This would slow-but-not-stop identity theft. However, we'd never pass such a think except through initiative process, or until we start seeing something that drives us to it.
2. Repeatedly calling a number without a legitimate business purpose, or continuing to dial the number after being asked by the answerer not to. This should be some sort of crime. You have the freedom of speech, but it stops when it hits my phone, in my house, and I have to make effort, take time (= money) to deal with you.
If these incidents in S Korea were already crimes, I hope these get prosecuted. I have a feeling it might balance itself out when the people realize how much wasted energy this is. Sure, the guy should be publicly shamed, but that should happen in the context of "his community". That could be his family, neighborhood, workplace, church. No reason to have every nutjob whiner in the country sign up to flame him.
I was going to comment something witty and stern in rebuke of your original post, but it was quite refreshing to see your reply later in the thread.
Rock on. I just wanted to complement your humility.
Remember to always examine your own most hidden and implicit assumptions, too.
School 1 is in a wealthy neighborhood.
School 1 has few transient recruiters
School 2 is in a poor neighborhood.
School 2 has few permanent recruiters
Therefore Bush is evil.
Someone, please hand me the logic wrench so I can go in for a tuneup.
www.fallacyfiles.org
Something about that full title just makes me visualize billg waving his lightsaber around and making whooshing noises with his voice.
And of course there are the usual other ways to avoid that.
1. Don't get drunk. What does it really benefit you?
2. Don't get an ex - choose your relationship carefully and don't treat it lightly.
3. Don't stay up late - there is no use for this, as it lowers your mental capacity further.
Peace,
-tooley-
Oh my. Please let me restate your point...
1. Any country that has nukes is morally equal.
2. Because one country used atomic weapons it is subject to contempt regarding it's moral justification in regulating other countries' development and promulgation of nuclear weapons.
3. When faced with many countries beginning to arm themselves with nuclear weapons, the reaction should be to destroy one's own nuclear weapons.
4. Decommissioning our armaments would provide moral superiority.
I would add a few points.
1. Absolute truth exists.
2. Evil therefore exists as a counter to truth.
3. The US used an atomic weapon to bring an overly proud and evil government to capitulation.
4. The US wields it's power in a generally circumspect and morally correct way. You may disagree, but it's okay to be wrong. God has granted us freedoms which our country recognizes.
Before you all go jumping mad, please stop to consider that:
1. If you believe there is no absolute truth, then you have no basis on which to attack me. My truth is just as good as yours.
2. If you have a problem with that statement, then maybe you are thinking I am wrong. If you are thinking I am wrong, you are referencing an absolute truth. Oops, can't do that.
3. If you are right and there is no absolute truth, then we're all okay, and I am no worse for believing what I believe.
4. If I am right, and there is absolute truth, then you are in trouble.
-tooley-
Are you joking? I just returned one...
1. The outmoded up-down wheel controller (doesn't rotate continuously like the Blackberry wheel, it just goes up OR down like the Kyocera/Qualcomm smartphone wheel, and clicking it often confuses the unit into thinking you want up/down. Tactile feedback on the click is non-existent.)
2. Slow UI response impairs usability.
3. USB does not charge
4. No single-click to get to now-playing screen.
5. Cannot copy files OFF of the unit (they are my files, I should move them as I wish. I do not need my equipment supplier trying to help me be compliant with a law that I am not breaking. It is my choice to comply with or break the law.)
6. Slow transfer speed on USB.
The next great audio player needs to have:
1. 802.11g or better wireless OR bluetooth
2. FM digital transmitter built-in (frequency selectable, power selectable)
3. USB charging
4. two-way transfer capability (screw the content companies' idiotic lobby, they need to back off and let the consumers choose. This is not about legalism, this is about our liberty as individuals to use these devices as TOOLS. We must choose to use them the correct way in terms of law, but it must be our choice. Forced law-abiding is not real law-abiding.)
-t-
Just wanted to point out that pilots of commercial aircraft are granted a public trust. That trust is granted after they have proved themselves capable of piloting the aircraft well, proved themselves to be of good character. Our government then licenses them to command the plane -- and with it the lives of sometimes hundreds of passengers. Further, the passengers each put their lives in the hands of the pilots.
Pointing a laser and blinding a pilot on final approach is the same as having broken into the cockpit and putting your hands over his or her eyes. You should and would be right to be charged with as many counts of attempted murder as there are people on the plane.
25 years seems like a light sentence for that charge, to me. So he's getting quite a deal.
But, to use the ignorant line "I didn't know" betrays the mind that each of us has in our heads. We have the ability to think through our actions, and we have the responsibility to each other -- as a society -- to do so.
Intent has nothing to do with responsibility for actions. Perhaps intent can change the severity of the sentence, but should never invalidate the crime and the perpetrator's responsibility.
If we want to live in a society, peacefully, and get along with each other, it is incumbent on all of us to take responsibility for our own actions, and to demand that our fellow citizens do no less.
-tooley-
Plug...
http://www.cafepress.com/
Does the same thing with mugs, hats, t-shirts, underwear. You send them artwork, they set it up and print it. The extra trick there is that they provide all the retail / payment services.
I found it after linking from http://www.rockpapersaddam.com/
-tooley-
Last time I checked, I was excited by the prospect of a 32 processor system. Perhaps they'll send me a free demo unit. I wish they marketed like AOL. I wouldn't mind getting a few of these in brightly colored mailers from time to time.
b li cUSA/en_US/eServer/pSeries/pSeries.html
http://www-132.ibm.com/content/home/store_IBMPu
And the first thing the prosecutor must do is prove that a murder has been committed, before going after the accomplice(s), if any.
And once that relation of murderer to accomplice has been made tentatively by the prosecutor, they still have the burden of proof, and must tie the accomplice to the act of assisting the murder with intent. This is important to note.
The linking here is with the clear intent that the linked files are both legal and ethical and with the permission of the author and/or other rights-holders.
Subtly seperate is the fact that the linking here is to files which currently have not been proven to be owned by others. This is also a burden of proof which lies with those bringing suit, that they have standing to represent, or are themselves the owners of, the music in question.
"AIFF seems to be the high-resolution ripping option"
AIFF == RIFF == WAVE == WAV == RAW CD Quality bit by bit, if pulled from a digital source of equal samplerate and bit depth and number of channels.
-Tooley-
I'll still buy CD's to support the band, because I like the music, because there's something cool about the cover art and the packaging. Just don't threaten to sue me because I download music to see if I like it before I buy it.
If I feel threatened by doing something which in my case is essentially LEGAL -- sampling music on a short-term evaluation basis -- then I'm less likely to go buy the CD's, out of anger toward this ridiculous industry association.
I'm sure there are people who download gigs of music and never intend to pay for it. That's something different from what I am doing. It is not lost revenue, because economic demand, as we all learned in school, is DESIRE + MONEY + INTENT. Without INTENT or MONEY, it's not Demand, and therefore you have not sustained any economic damage.
Sell something people will buy, and they will buy it.
This document appears to come from a group of frustrated Solaris developers in Sun corporate, and "sounds like" it would be used in convincing upper management to put more pressure on "the Java group" to fix items that are real performance killers.
I think from the sound of it, it should turn heads within Sun and cause the Java to be improved on Solaris.
As someone else said, this isn't a move to another platform, this is a plea for improvement based on a well-stated set of concise problems.
If you're Panamanian and you are reading this, you might want to go and fire or execute a few legislators. You might also consider banning lobbying, which has ruined the USA.
-Pete-
You do understand that for there to be four lines which define everything else, something has to preexist the four lines, right?
Enter the concept of God, who exists outside of time and space and all dimensions, because God created all of that. If you keep thinking within the narrow terms inside which we think, you'll always be confused.
for(1) { everything = God(creation); }
It could be broken out into many more lines, but it's pretty much just one line. Too bad science will always be just an approximation. It's like trying to define a curve using dots. Just note the parameters of the curve. Hell, just say: there's a curve. Don't bother with approximate measurements.
Check www.google.com. Type in raisethefist.com.
See that link that comes up. Now check Google's cached copy. Funny how the website which was raided by the FBI had a story about it before it went unavailable.
XML frontend to:
LDAP storage.
Voila.
(As much as I don't like to point this out, since that was a pretty funny idea...)
Those were gross sales figures you quoted.
Microsoft has $26.9B in cash, $360.6B market cap.
IBM has $3.72B in cash, $190.5B market cap.
If they charge for one, they are claiming that they are an active participant. And they will not be able to shy away from the less desirable activities, or outright crimes, that their participants commit. No matter what the terms of service say.
Although upon reading some of the comments, this may be just a VERY badly worded article.
Damn it's raining hard this morning.
This sounds (like many US laws) very very flexible and open to the whims of the court. I wouldn't put it below M$ to try to $way the courts there in their favor. Are there lawyers out there that could comment on this (the cited code, not the joking allegation of bribery)?
www.radiolan.com
They have real 10Mbit/s wireless. No drivers for linux, but if someone seriously wants to write them, let me know, and I'll see if I can hook you up with their developers. (Is Mr. Becker listening?)
-Pete-
petert@ncal.verio.com