They refuse to say, have been asked to spell it out, and continue to threaten without making any specific claim.
Which is exactly why they are, by now, UNENFORCEABLE.
The IP laws require that when an IP owner notices an infringement they have an obligation to notify the infringer of the exact nature of the infringement in order to allow them to mitigate the damages by removing the infringement. Failure to do that will render any subsequent claims for damage moot.
Usually they only realize it is when they get an email complaining about attacks originating from their machine or a notice from their ISP.
Interesting you should mention notices from ISPs. They are a new source of phishing attacks. I've received a couple "notices" in the last six months purporting to be from my ISP saying that my box was the source of spam or viruses. The emails gave me a URL to click on in order to log into my ISP account and "clean it up". I can see novices/newbies/joe and sally sixpack complying with that email and thus give away their password.
Linux is their choice for control consoles for a network of Windows zombies BECAUSE it is more stable and secure than using Windows for that purpose, making it more difficult for other crackers to steal their control box. Since most Linux boxes have to be broken into manually I have no doubt that crackers INCREASE the security of their Linux control boxes to protect their investment. And, they only need one Linux box to control several thousand Windows zombies. They need a LARGE number of zombies to mount effective attacks and Windows' lack of effective security makes them the popular choice. Unlike Linux, which usually has to be broken into manually, a simple virus or malware website is sufficient to capture a LARGE number of Windows box. In fact, it is not uncommon for a Windows box to be a zombie in more than one network.
If I were a cracker I'd use Linux boxes for control consoles BECAUSE they usually have to be broken into manually. They are rarely, if every, cracked by a simple email virus because the virus would have to be saved, given execute permission and then deliberately run... all steps that require the active participation of the user. As control consoles for zombie farms they'd be more reliable and less likely to be hijacked by rival crackers. In fact, a "benevolent" cracker might increase or maximize the security of the box for his/her own benefit.
Windows bots, on the other hand, are a dime a dozen. So, what's the ratio? One Linux console per 5,000 or 10,000 Windows bots?
Don't forget the reason why that censorship exists; HE WHO OWNS THE GUNS MAKES THE RULES.
You who want to "feel" secure in your country so you vote to outlaw the civilian ownership of guns and depend on the benevolence of your government take notice. You will end up with NEITHER security OR freedom. Without the 2nd Amendment the 1st Amendment isn't worth the paper its written on.
the next OS,which "7" is supposed to be: something new, something improved (one hopes:cross fingers:).
When driving down a hiway at night Deer are sometimes caught in your headlights. They stand, transfixed, as you approach. You have to honk your horn and slow down to give them a chance to get out of their trance and leave the road.
So is it with some folks who, when MS releases PR memos about vaporware, fix their vision on this "future" OS, freezing themselves out of any current improvements. Just what MS wants.
Those results are in improvement. The March results had them finding only 82%. Meanwhile, much more viable commercial products are around 99+%. Still, even for them, letting 50 out of every thousand bugs in doesn't say much about their security, even if OneCare is so much worse.
It is how much code that is executed EACH TIME the mouse is polled (asynchronous, synchronous interrupts, etc.). If the code that is called is funneled through DRM then things could get slow. That's the same mistake Botts made in ridiculing Gutmann.
Put "Vista Slow" in a Google search and your find millions of reports of users complaining about VISTA's speed. Some are sys admins who are Windows fanbois. Are they all stupid or lying? Doubtful. At work we put up a DELL Latitude D620 dual core laptop with 2GB RAM and VISTA Enterprise installed. Besides repeatedly crashing and after three reinstalls, the couldn't get it fast enough to be useful in production. They tell me they are waiting for "Windows 7", what ever that is.
`Abstract: This video examines the troubling question of scientific fraud: How prevalent is it? Who commits it? And what happens when the perpetrators are caught? Factors contributing to "bad science" include sloppy research, personal bias, lack of objectivity, "cooking and trimming", "publish or perish" pressure, and outright fraud. The limits of peer review and other quality control systems are discussed.'
The results of the study determined that 48% of all published data was fraudulent. The data was trimmed, cooked or outright falsified. Some cases made famous by public exposure were analyzed.
While recieving a lot of lip service from the establishment science, the two government researchers who made the report were reassigned to worthless tasks in isolated areas. One was sent to shuffle papers in Alaska, IIRC. So much for whistle blowers, even government whistle blowers.
In the last 19 years it seems nothing has changed. Besides this latest report how can I tell? Simple. The news is filled with stories of drugs being recalled because they are more dangerous that the problems they are supposed to treat. How would they ever have gotten on the market in the first place if their FDA "studies" weren't rigged? And you don't wonder about the revolving door policy between Pharmaceutical employees and FDA employees? Corporate influence in research is as corrupting as Microsoft influence in ISO standards voting.
What really burns me is that MUCH of our basic research is done at academic institutions by professors funded by government grants, i.e., tax payers. But, thanks to the best congress that money can buy (because most of them have been bought off) OUR research is "monetized" (sold to special interests) for pennies on the dollar. These interests then reap HUGE license profits for decades. To make matters worse, many of the "special interests" are the very academic researchers who were paid to do their work. Having discovered key facts, without reporting them, they resign academia and begin a corporation to capitalize on what we paid them to learn.
IF we had a congress worth what they are paid there would be a law which prohibits recipients of gov grants, or their families relatives, or former business associates to personally benefit from what they learned using that grant money for a period of 15 years. Secondly, the ONLY corporations which should be allowed to receive IP licenses from the gov should be NON-PROFITS, whose board, management or employees cannot include the professor or his family or relatives.
Another thing that this recent study shows is what the NOVA film revealed: Peer-review is worthless for vetting research. Replication is worthless for vetting research. Obviously, personal integrity is also a worthless indicator of research quality.
"Former submarine commander Gavin Menzies in his book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World claims that several parts of Zheng's fleet explored virtually the entire globe, discovering West Africa, North and South America, Greenland, Iceland, Antarctica and Australia (except visiting Europe). Menzies also claimed that Zheng's wooden fleet passed the Arctic Ocean. However none of the citations in 1421 are from Chinese sources and scholars in China do not share Menzies's assertions."
Yeah, I always find this debate pointless on its face.
Exactly.
It's only a wedge issue when ZNet attempts to make it so. Wonder why they act as a surrogate for Microsoft? Consider where ZDNet's ad money comes from.
For the last 100 years it never occurred to advertisers on radio stations that users who turn down the sound during commercials were "stealing" from them. They knew better. They were given a license to use a portion of the PUBLIC'S electromagnetic spectrum as long as they operated in the public good. The public still has the opportunity to visit radio stations and read their license stipulations and leave comments about the radio station's performance.
Then, corporate greed took over when TV stations (licensed to use other portions of the PUBLIC's electromagnetic spectrum) started claiming it was THEIR medium and that if you didn't watch the commercials but only the content they were broadcasting YOU were a THIEF. Absurd. They can transmit content and commercials but no one, absolutely NO ONE, has to watch every photon they transmit during any particular time period. That's the risk they take, especially if their ad content is so trivial or dishonest or begins consuming too large a segment of the time period.
There was a time when commercials took only about 6 to 10 minutes of every hour. Now they take 20 minutes or more, and in the case of Infomercials the full 60 minutes. It's NOT uncommon now for 6 or more commercials to run during every commercial break, with some breaks exceeding 10 minutes in length with only 2 or 3 minutes of show in between.
Infomercials should be outlawed. The cable companies are double dipping. They charge the advertiser for channel, and they bill the cable customer for "offering" the infomercial channel as part of the cable lineup. Are we stealing if we don't watch the Infomercial?
To make matters worse, the TV shows deliberately focus cameras on brand name advertisements and include product hype within the script of the show itself. And they not stealing time from us?
Long story short: It was the caffeine. I was drinking 3 liters of sugar-loaded coke/pepsi a day. That's a lot of caffeine. And I reached the point where I could no longer function without a continuous caffeine IV.
I could appreciate that conclusion except it flies in the face of the facts.
After I resigned and took time off I switched to Tea as the source of my caffeine, and drank an average of about 3-4 cups per day. I was drinking Tea as the symptoms as the systems subsided and went away.
I drank only ONE can of diet Dr. Pepper and it brought the symptoms back within 30 minutes. I can and have repeated that "test" to see if the sensitivity remains. After 15 years it sill does.
Currently I drink about 4-5 cups of Green Tea each day and never experience the symptoms.
Searle was being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice for attempting to defraud the FDA into approving artificial aspartame as a safe artificial sweetener when lab tests proved it was a neurotoxic, carcinogenic drug. He was able to pull political strings to get Searle out of legal trouble and influenced President Reagan's appointment of Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner to politically approve the sale of aspartame in 1981--over the objections of FDA scientists, independent researchers and consumer safety advocates. Monsanto bought Searle for $2.7 billion in 1985, and the Searle family walked away with about $1 billion. Rumsfeld's take was about $12 million.
OR http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/15/sit room.01.html When he was CEO of a company, he took a company over, G.D. Serle, a pharmaceutical company, that was -- it was dying. And he fired people, he reorganized it, he turned it around, he brought synergies in...
Now we know what the "synergies" were... his own people planted at the FDA to push approval of Aspartame through.
Several soft drink companies and Nutrasweet were taken to court in April of 2004 but I haven't heard how the case is going.
IF by "you" you are refering to me, then the answer is no. I've never heard of her.
My knowledge is personal. I am one of at least 10% of the population with a sensitivity to Aspartame.
Within 30 minutes after drinking a can of soda sweetened with Nutrasweet I get a severe headache, the skin on my face and upper body turns beet red and gets oily because of excessive sebaceous gland activity. Several people have tested this response (some deliberately, some by accident) by giving me candy sweetened with Nutrasweet.
I discovered the link between these symptoms and Aspartame by accident. I had my own computer consulting business between 1980 and 1997. In 1987 I was asked by an old college acquaintances who had been hired as academic dean at a small private college in the central part of this state to come and teach science and math. I agreed as long as I could continue with my consulting business on the side. Later in that year the college pres heard about my consulting after I consulted with the city that the college was in and asked me to computerize the college. I agreed but the load rose to about 70-80 hours per week. In addition commuted 55 miles a day from my home. To avoid getting sleepy during classes and programming sessions I began drinking Dr Pepper. To avoid gaining weight due to the sugar content in a can of Dr. Pepper I decided to drink diet Dr. Pepper. Even though I hold a Master's Degree in Biochemistry, with major hours in Chemistry, Physics, Math and Biology (I was a "professional student":-), I never gave artificial sweeteners a second thought. As I continued teaching and writing registration, recruiting, accounting, grading and payroll packages for the college, and installing and setting up hardware, networking, etc., In 1989 I was voted runner up Teacher of the Year by the student body. I gradually increased the quantity of diet Dr. Pepper I was drinking in order to combat the fatigue and sleepiness. Within three years I was consuming about 6-8 liters per day. I don't remember exactly when the headaches began but by 1990 they were constant, as was the red and oily skin. I never related it to the diet soda. I also noticed other problems, which I associated with the work load and pressure - lose of memory and depression. By 1992 I finished the computer work, was an emotional wreak, and totally exhausted. I had trouble remembering elements in the Periodic Table, the names of students in my classes, and even the names of my two children! One other problem gradually appeared. Even though I was drinking diet soda to avoid putting on sugar weight, I began experiencing a craze for popcorn and other carbohydrates. By 1992 my weight had ballooned from 215 lbs to 265 lbs.
I resigned from the college and decided to take six months off. I also started drinking tea instead of diet sodas. Within a few weeks the headaches vanished, the red and oily skin disappeared and my mood improved considerable. My memory, however, never came back to its former level, which was semi-photographic. One day about three months later my wife came home from shopping with a carton of diet Dr Pepper because she thought I'd like a can once in a while. I drank a can and within 30 minutes the symptoms I had been having for several years reappeared. Within 24 hours they were gone. A few days later I tried another can and the symptoms appeared again. I set up double blind tests with regular and diet sodas and established to my satisfaction that it was indeed the diet sodas causing the problems. Since then I have avoided anything with Aspartame in it and the symptoms have never reappeared.
In 1992, IIRC, I was on Compuserve and began searching the web to find out Aspartame. The articles and research I found then settled the issue in my mind. I met on line a lady by the name of Mary Stoddard, IIRC, who had experienced problems similar to mine was was running a website on Compuserve where she posted lots of stories like mine of people who had problems with
In the early 1980s RG Serle was in trouble. Their animal studies showed that Aspartame caused brain cancer. A Researcher for the company blew the whistle and Congress was investigating. RG Serle brought in a problem solver who began by throwing having the rats with brain cancers removed from the studies. The whistle blower, for some reason, reversed his statements. The acting head of the FDA approved Aspartame for human consumption, then resigned. A few weeks later he was announced as the head of the legal department of the new Nutrasweet corporation. His two assistants were the lawyers Congress assigned to investigate the RG Serle problem.
Shortly after that stories linking Saccharine with cancer flooded the media while the Nutrasweet corp flooded the media with stories about Nutrasweet and its safety. Within months the use of Saccharine plummeted to single digit figures and Nutrasweet took over the artificial sweetener market.
For his leadership RG Serle gave Donald Rumsfeldt a $6M retiring bonus.
I am waiting to hear of a competitive RFID chip entering the market. One that is "cancer free". Then I'll know who planted this story.
A good analogy would be "should I have the option of paying UPS more to get my package to its destination faster". The answer is an obvious yes - there's nothing wrong with priority traffic. If you want to pay to have your data moved faster, why shouldn't you be able to?
This is a little problem with your example. It doesn't fit the situation.
Say UPS has to move its product through a tunnel built with public funds through which every truck has to move but every truck has opportunity for access. Further more, the trucks have to move slow because the roadbed wasn't made to take heavy traffic. But, if traffic slows down for one it slows down for all. All trucks are equal.
Then, with the appropriate "campaign contributions" by RICHER trucks, laws and/or regulations are passed which make RICH trucks MORE EQUAL than others. Everyone else stands in line why THEY are given priority to use the tunnel. Everyone else, including poorer competitors, have to wait our use other means of transportation. Poorer competitors go out of business and their employees become unemployed. The RICH truckers began enjoying their "monopoly" on fast access to the tunnel.
Those denied access decided to build another tunnel, one which was a LOT wider and through which EVERYONE could travel at very HIGH speed. It would make all TRUCKS equal again and require that they compete on something else other than access privileges. Using their tried and true methods of "campaign contributions" the RICH truckers lobbied the politicians to get laws passed which made it illegal for communities of trucks to build better tunnels. The RICH trucks told the politicians that if they were reimbursed in advance they'd build the bigger tunnel. The politicians agreed and paid them $200B, which the RICH truckers took. But they never built the bigger tunnel. They had no intent on building the bigger tunnel. They know that price is based on rarity, and a making bigger tunnel was going to lower the profits.
Traffic continued to increase to the point that in order to keep the RICH trucks moving as fast as possible they needed to slice the access time to the tunnel up so that RICH truckers could take larger amounts of time when ever they needed it, irrespective of the amount of traffic in the tunnel. In addition they want to charge the poor trucks a fee for entering the tunnel and a fee for leaving the tunnel. That's what they are now lobbying the politicians for. http://www.newnetworks.com/scandalquotes.html
We have the best Congress money can buy, because most of them are payed off. It doesn't matter which party the politicians belongs to. They are all out to get their own nests feathered. Why else would they give themselves independent retirement plans instead of eating the Social Security dog food they've forced us to eat? Their retirement plan includes benefits at the FULL salary they were earning when they retired, plus 10% annual "cost of living" raises, FULL health care insurance with NO deductibles and NO exclusions or restrictions. And, their spouse get the FULL package when they die. They increased the copay on Medicare and created a Medicade swamp that forces retirees to buy health insurance to cover the donut gap. A couple can be forced to enter partial poverty to pay 1/4th of their Social security to avoid total poverty if the get sick during retirement.
Show me a presidential candidate who will get laws pass that guarantee FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE FOR ALL passed and I will vote for him or her. It's time to take the profit out of the health care industry. Profits made on the misfortunes of others.
Back to the original post: Could someone point out to the people in the judicial system that the same corporations that want to squash Net Neutrality are the same greedy, self centered, money grubbing entities that have strangled the bandwidth marketplace so that the US is now a second class country in terms of broadband market penetration and speed?
Little good that will do.
Fifteen years ago the cable and telcos lobbied Congress to make towns across America STOP laying their on fiber optic cable so they could create PUBLIC internet connections. Claiming "unfair competition" and "socialist actions", they promised Congress that if it outlawed towns from laying their own cable the cable and telecos would lay it themselves, PROVIDED that they could get reimbursed upfront for their troubles. Congress agreed and over the course of the next few years $200B was handed out to them. The fiber optic, how ever, was NEVER laid. The laws which handcuffed the towns and gave carte blanc to the cable and telecos did not have any enforcement teeth. So the cable and telecos took the money and gave the towns the finger. Congress didn't mind, however, because cable and telecos gave them "campaign contributions".
here's not much we can do about it." (emphasis supplied)
Sure there is. 70% of the worlds websites use FOSS. 30% use Windows. Yet essentially ALL of the bots run off of infected computers in the 30% group.
Simply outlaw the use of Windows as an internet server and the problem will go away. Linux cannot be compromised by a simple email and it takes too much effort to create a harem of zombies by adding them one at a time via cracking.
Cell-based storage!!! Best of both worlds!!! Mix of both Row and Column based storage, how can we go wrong!
You are years late. The PICK operating system/db already does that. Back in 1985 I used the DOS based Advanced Revelation to write GAP accounting packages. It used the ASCI 253 character to separate "columns" of data in a cell. Reading and writing was parsed automatically. Invoice information, for example, was stored in a Customer's info table, not in a invoice table, and doing a query on accounts receivable produced very fast results. Symbolic dictionary definitions containing formulas allowed for easy column and row totals.
In fact KDB/K looks a lot like a PICK system that uses FORTH as the language.
corporations and against the interests of citizens.
The previous and most notable occurance was when they took defeat out of the jaws of two convictions and created a toothless settlement with Microsoft that enabled them to continue their monopoly. Citizens of all countries have been paying through the nose every since.
Na. If it were Microsoft they'd move the decimal one to the RIGHT, instantly creating a version 2.0 release out of a 0.2 beta. Then they'd have their PR dept flood the world with claims of how much better it is than version 1.0, even though version 1.0 never existed. Windows fanbois would make comparisons between 1.0 and 2.0, showing how 2.0 is a vast improvement over 1.0, and would post uptimes of 10 years, proving how stable v 1.0 was and claiming v2.0 will be much better.
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They refuse to say, have been asked to spell it out, and continue to threaten without making any specific claim.
Which is exactly why they are, by now, UNENFORCEABLE.
The IP laws require that when an IP owner notices an infringement they have an obligation to notify the infringer of the exact nature of the infringement in order to allow them to mitigate the damages by removing the infringement. Failure to do that will render any subsequent claims for damage moot.
Interesting you should mention notices from ISPs. They are a new source of phishing attacks. I've received a couple "notices" in the last six months purporting to be from my ISP saying that my box was the source of spam or viruses. The emails gave me a URL to click on in order to log into my ISP account and "clean it up". I can see novices/newbies/joe and sally sixpack complying with that email and thus give away their password.
Precisely!
Linux is their choice for control consoles for a network of Windows zombies BECAUSE it is more stable and secure than using Windows for that purpose, making it more difficult for other crackers to steal their control box. Since most Linux boxes have to be broken into manually I have no doubt that crackers INCREASE the security of their Linux control boxes to protect their investment. And, they only need one Linux box to control several thousand Windows zombies. They need a LARGE number of zombies to mount effective attacks and Windows' lack of effective security makes them the popular choice. Unlike Linux, which usually has to be broken into manually, a simple virus or malware website is sufficient to capture a LARGE number of Windows box. In fact, it is not uncommon for a Windows box to be a zombie in more than one network.
Me neither.
If I were a cracker I'd use Linux boxes for control consoles BECAUSE they usually have to be broken into manually. They are rarely, if every, cracked by a simple email virus because the virus would have to be saved, given execute permission and then deliberately run... all steps that require the active participation of the user. As control consoles for zombie farms they'd be more reliable and less likely to be hijacked by rival crackers. In fact, a "benevolent" cracker might increase or maximize the security of the box for his/her own benefit.
Windows bots, on the other hand, are a dime a dozen. So, what's the ratio? One Linux console per 5,000 or 10,000 Windows bots?
Jumping from one company that's in bed with Microsoft to another company that's in bed with Microsoft?
OpenOffice wasn't under Sun's umbrella of lawsuit protection from Microsoft. It won't be under Novell's umbrella of lawsuit protection from Microsoft.
Why didn't they just put in on servers that aren't supported controlled by either company?
Don't forget the reason why that censorship exists; HE WHO OWNS THE GUNS MAKES THE RULES.
You who want to "feel" secure in your country so you vote to outlaw the civilian ownership of guns and depend on the benevolence of your government take notice. You will end up with NEITHER security OR freedom. Without the 2nd Amendment the 1st Amendment isn't worth the paper its written on.
When driving down a hiway at night Deer are sometimes caught in your headlights. They stand, transfixed, as you approach. You have to honk your horn and slow down to give them a chance to get out of their trance and leave the road.
So is it with some folks who, when MS releases PR memos about vaporware, fix their vision on this "future" OS, freezing themselves out of any current improvements. Just what MS wants.
Especially in view of these results, where Microsoft's "OneCare" detected only 90% of new malware thrown at it:
http://www.av-comparatives.org/seiten/ergebnisse_2007_08.php
Those results are in improvement. The March results had them finding only 82%. Meanwhile, much more viable commercial products are around 99+%. Still, even for them, letting 50 out of every thousand bugs in doesn't say much about their security, even if OneCare is so much worse.
It is not how many times your mouse is polled.
It is how much code that is executed EACH TIME the mouse is polled (asynchronous, synchronous interrupts, etc.). If the code that is called is funneled through DRM then things could get slow. That's the same mistake Botts made in ridiculing Gutmann.
Put "Vista Slow" in a Google search and your find millions of reports of users complaining about VISTA's speed. Some are sys admins who are Windows fanbois. Are they all stupid or lying? Doubtful. At work we put up a DELL Latitude D620 dual core laptop with 2GB RAM and VISTA Enterprise installed. Besides repeatedly crashing and after three reinstalls, the couldn't get it fast enough to be useful in production. They tell me they are waiting for "Windows 7", what ever that is.
That was the title of a NOVA film in 1998.
`Abstract: This video examines the troubling question of scientific fraud: How prevalent is it? Who
commits it? And what happens when the perpetrators are caught? Factors contributing to "bad science"
include sloppy research, personal bias, lack of objectivity, "cooking and trimming", "publish or perish"
pressure, and outright fraud. The limits of peer review and other quality control systems are discussed.'
The results of the study determined that 48% of all published data was fraudulent. The data was trimmed, cooked or outright falsified. Some cases made famous by public exposure were analyzed.
While recieving a lot of lip service from the establishment science, the two government researchers who made the report were reassigned to worthless tasks in isolated areas. One was sent to shuffle papers in Alaska, IIRC. So much for whistle blowers, even government whistle blowers.
In the last 19 years it seems nothing has changed. Besides this latest report how can I tell? Simple. The news is filled with stories of drugs being recalled because they are more dangerous that the problems they are supposed to treat. How would they ever have gotten on the market in the first place if their FDA "studies" weren't rigged? And you don't wonder about the revolving door policy between Pharmaceutical employees and FDA employees? Corporate influence in research is as corrupting as Microsoft influence in ISO standards voting.
What really burns me is that MUCH of our basic research is done at academic institutions by professors funded by government grants, i.e., tax payers. But, thanks to the best congress that money can buy (because most of them have been bought off) OUR research is "monetized" (sold to special interests) for pennies on the dollar. These interests then reap HUGE license profits for decades. To make matters worse, many of the "special interests" are the very academic researchers who were paid to do their work. Having discovered key facts, without reporting them, they resign academia and begin a corporation to capitalize on what we paid them to learn.
IF we had a congress worth what they are paid there would be a law which prohibits recipients of gov grants, or their families relatives, or former business associates to personally benefit from what they learned using that grant money for a period of 15 years. Secondly, the ONLY corporations which should be allowed to receive IP licenses from the gov should be NON-PROFITS, whose board, management or employees cannot include the professor or his family or relatives.
Another thing that this recent study shows is what the NOVA film revealed: Peer-review is worthless for vetting research. Replication is worthless for vetting research. Obviously, personal integrity is also a worthless indicator of research quality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He
"Former submarine commander Gavin Menzies in his book 1421: The Year China Discovered the World claims that several parts of Zheng's fleet explored virtually the entire globe, discovering West Africa, North and South America, Greenland, Iceland, Antarctica and Australia (except visiting Europe). Menzies also claimed that Zheng's wooden fleet passed the Arctic Ocean. However none of the citations in 1421 are from Chinese sources and scholars in China do not share Menzies's assertions."
Exactly.
It's only a wedge issue when ZNet attempts to make it so. Wonder why they act as a surrogate for Microsoft? Consider where ZDNet's ad money comes from.
For the last 100 years it never occurred to advertisers on radio stations that users who turn down the sound during commercials were "stealing" from them. They knew better. They were given a license to use a portion of the PUBLIC'S electromagnetic spectrum as long as they operated in the public good. The public still has the opportunity to visit radio stations and read their license stipulations and leave comments about the radio station's performance.
Then, corporate greed took over when TV stations (licensed to use other portions of the PUBLIC's electromagnetic spectrum) started claiming it was THEIR medium and that if you didn't watch the commercials but only the content they were broadcasting YOU were a THIEF. Absurd. They can transmit content and commercials but no one, absolutely NO ONE, has to watch every photon they transmit during any particular time period. That's the risk they take, especially if their ad content is so trivial or dishonest or begins consuming too large a segment of the time period.
There was a time when commercials took only about 6 to 10 minutes of every hour. Now they take 20 minutes or more, and in the case of Infomercials the full 60 minutes. It's NOT uncommon now for 6 or more commercials to run during every commercial break, with some breaks exceeding 10 minutes in length with only 2 or 3 minutes of show in between.
Infomercials should be outlawed. The cable companies are double dipping. They charge the advertiser for channel, and they bill the cable customer for "offering" the infomercial channel as part of the cable lineup. Are we stealing if we don't watch the Infomercial?
To make matters worse, the TV shows deliberately focus cameras on brand name advertisements and include product hype within the script of the show itself. And they not stealing time from us?
rolling my mouse wheel.
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If Google had access to realtime satellite images that would display in their view then the FAA could
I could appreciate that conclusion except it flies in the face of the facts.
After I resigned and took time off I switched to Tea as the source of my caffeine, and drank an average of about 3-4 cups per day. I was drinking Tea as the symptoms as the systems subsided and went away.
I drank only ONE can of diet Dr. Pepper and it brought the symptoms back within 30 minutes. I can and have repeated that "test" to see if the sensitivity remains. After 15 years it sill does.
Currently I drink about 4-5 cups of Green Tea each day and never experience the symptoms.
Concerning the claim that Rumsfeld was never at R.G.Serle I offer these URLs, which says otherwise:
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript
and this one which states he was the HEAD of the company...
He even took out a few years from 1977 to 1985 to make a living, and a very good living I might add, as the very successful head of G.D. Serle & Company
http://www.cfr.org/publication/6001/meeting_with_
and the 1985 Congressional Record: https://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp
Searle was being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice for attempting to defraud the FDA into approving artificial aspartame as a safe artificial sweetener when lab tests proved it was a neurotoxic, carcinogenic drug. He was able to pull political strings to get Searle out of legal trouble and influenced President Reagan's appointment of Arthur Hull Hayes as FDA Commissioner to politically approve the sale of aspartame in 1981--over the objections of FDA scientists, independent researchers and consumer safety advocates. Monsanto bought Searle for $2.7 billion in 1985, and the Searle family walked away with about $1 billion. Rumsfeld's take was about $12 million.
OR
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/15/si
When he was CEO of a company, he took a company over, G.D. Serle, a pharmaceutical company, that was -- it was dying. And he fired people, he reorganized it, he turned it around, he brought synergies in
Now we know what the "synergies" were... his own people planted at the FDA to push approval of Aspartame through.
Several soft drink companies and Nutrasweet were taken to court in April of 2004 but I haven't heard how the case is going.
Then, there is this little bit of info about bird flu and Rumsfeld
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0312-06.h
IF by "you" you are refering to me, then the answer is no. I've never heard of her.
:-), I never gave artificial sweeteners a second thought. As I continued teaching and writing registration, recruiting, accounting, grading and payroll packages for the college, and installing and setting up hardware, networking, etc., In 1989 I was voted runner up Teacher of the Year by the student body. I gradually increased the quantity of diet Dr. Pepper I was drinking in order to combat the fatigue and sleepiness. Within three years I was consuming about 6-8 liters per day. I don't remember exactly when the headaches began but by 1990 they were constant, as was the red and oily skin. I never related it to the diet soda. I also noticed other problems, which I associated with the work load and pressure - lose of memory and depression. By 1992 I finished the computer work, was an emotional wreak, and totally exhausted. I had trouble remembering elements in the Periodic Table, the names of students in my classes, and even the names of my two children! One other problem gradually appeared. Even though I was drinking diet soda to avoid putting on sugar weight, I began experiencing a craze for popcorn and other carbohydrates. By 1992 my weight had ballooned from 215 lbs to 265 lbs.
My knowledge is personal. I am one of at least 10% of the population with a sensitivity to Aspartame.
Within 30 minutes after drinking a can of soda sweetened with Nutrasweet I get a severe headache, the skin on my face and upper body turns beet red and gets oily because of excessive sebaceous gland activity. Several people have tested this response (some deliberately, some by accident) by giving me candy sweetened with Nutrasweet.
I discovered the link between these symptoms and Aspartame by accident. I had my own computer consulting business between 1980 and 1997. In 1987 I was asked by an old college acquaintances who had been hired as academic dean at a small private college in the central part of this state to come and teach science and math. I agreed as long as I could continue with my consulting business on the side. Later in that year the college pres heard about my consulting after I consulted with the city that the college was in and asked me to computerize the college. I agreed but the load rose to about 70-80 hours per week. In addition commuted 55 miles a day from my home. To avoid getting sleepy during classes and programming sessions I began drinking Dr Pepper. To avoid gaining weight due to the sugar content in a can of Dr. Pepper I decided to drink diet Dr. Pepper. Even though I hold a Master's Degree in Biochemistry, with major hours in Chemistry, Physics, Math and Biology (I was a "professional student"
I resigned from the college and decided to take six months off. I also started drinking tea instead of diet sodas. Within a few weeks the headaches vanished, the red and oily skin disappeared and my mood improved considerable. My memory, however, never came back to its former level, which was semi-photographic. One day about three months later my wife came home from shopping with a carton of diet Dr Pepper because she thought I'd like a can once in a while. I drank a can and within 30 minutes the symptoms I had been having for several years reappeared. Within 24 hours they were gone. A few days later I tried another can and the symptoms appeared again. I set up double blind tests with regular and diet sodas and established to my satisfaction that it was indeed the diet sodas causing the problems. Since then I have avoided anything with Aspartame in it and the symptoms have never reappeared.
In 1992, IIRC, I was on Compuserve and began searching the web to find out Aspartame. The articles and research I found then settled the issue in my mind. I met on line a lady by the name of Mary Stoddard, IIRC, who had experienced problems similar to mine was was running a website on Compuserve where she posted lots of stories like mine of people who had problems with
In the early 1980s RG Serle was in trouble. Their animal studies showed that Aspartame caused brain cancer. A Researcher for the company blew the whistle and Congress was investigating. RG Serle brought in a problem solver who began by throwing having the rats with brain cancers removed from the studies. The whistle blower, for some reason, reversed his statements. The acting head of the FDA approved Aspartame for human consumption, then resigned. A few weeks later he was announced as the head of the legal department of the new Nutrasweet corporation. His two assistants were the lawyers Congress assigned to investigate the RG Serle problem.
Shortly after that stories linking Saccharine with cancer flooded the media while the Nutrasweet corp flooded the media with stories about Nutrasweet and its safety. Within months the use of Saccharine plummeted to single digit figures and Nutrasweet took over the artificial sweetener market.
For his leadership RG Serle gave Donald Rumsfeldt a $6M retiring bonus.
I am waiting to hear of a competitive RFID chip entering the market. One that is "cancer free". Then I'll know who planted this story.
This is a little problem with your example. It doesn't fit the situation.
Say UPS has to move its product through a tunnel built with public funds through which every truck has to move but every truck has opportunity for access. Further more, the trucks have to move slow because the roadbed wasn't made to take heavy traffic. But, if traffic slows down for one it slows down for all. All trucks are equal.
Then, with the appropriate "campaign contributions" by RICHER trucks, laws and/or regulations are passed which make RICH trucks MORE EQUAL than others. Everyone else stands in line why THEY are given priority to use the tunnel. Everyone else, including poorer competitors, have to wait our use other means of transportation. Poorer competitors go out of business and their employees become unemployed. The RICH truckers began enjoying their "monopoly" on fast access to the tunnel.
Those denied access decided to build another tunnel, one which was a LOT wider and through which EVERYONE could travel at very HIGH speed. It would make all TRUCKS equal again and require that they compete on something else other than access privileges. Using their tried and true methods of "campaign contributions" the RICH truckers lobbied the politicians to get laws passed which made it illegal for communities of trucks to build better tunnels. The RICH trucks told the politicians that if they were reimbursed in advance they'd build the bigger tunnel. The politicians agreed and paid them $200B, which the RICH truckers took. But they never built the bigger tunnel. They had no intent on building the bigger tunnel. They know that price is based on rarity, and a making bigger tunnel was going to lower the profits.
Traffic continued to increase to the point that in order to keep the RICH trucks moving as fast as possible they needed to slice the access time to the tunnel up so that RICH truckers could take larger amounts of time when ever they needed it, irrespective of the amount of traffic in the tunnel. In addition they want to charge the poor trucks a fee for entering the tunnel and a fee for leaving the tunnel. That's what they are now lobbying the politicians for.
http://www.newnetworks.com/scandalquotes.html
We have the best Congress money can buy, because most of them are payed off. It doesn't matter which party the politicians belongs to. They are all out to get their own nests feathered. Why else would they give themselves independent retirement plans instead of eating the Social Security dog food they've forced us to eat? Their retirement plan includes benefits at the FULL salary they were earning when they retired, plus 10% annual "cost of living" raises, FULL health care insurance with NO deductibles and NO exclusions or restrictions. And, their spouse get the FULL package when they die. They increased the copay on Medicare and created a Medicade swamp that forces retirees to buy health insurance to cover the donut gap. A couple can be forced to enter partial poverty to pay 1/4th of their Social security to avoid total poverty if the get sick during retirement.
Show me a presidential candidate who will get laws pass that guarantee FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE FOR ALL passed and I will vote for him or her. It's time to take the profit out of the health care industry. Profits made on the misfortunes of others.
Little good that will do.
Fifteen years ago the cable and telcos lobbied Congress to make towns across America STOP laying their on fiber optic cable so they could create PUBLIC internet connections. Claiming "unfair competition" and "socialist actions", they promised Congress that if it outlawed towns from laying their own cable the cable and telecos would lay it themselves, PROVIDED that they could get reimbursed upfront for their troubles. Congress agreed and over the course of the next few years $200B was handed out to them. The fiber optic, how ever, was NEVER laid. The laws which handcuffed the towns and gave carte blanc to the cable and telecos did not have any enforcement teeth. So the cable and telecos took the money and gave the towns the finger. Congress didn't mind, however, because cable and telecos gave them "campaign contributions".
here's not much we can do about it." (emphasis supplied)
Sure there is. 70% of the worlds websites use FOSS. 30% use Windows. Yet essentially ALL of the bots run off of infected computers in the 30% group.
Simply outlaw the use of Windows as an internet server and the problem will go away. Linux cannot be compromised by a simple email and it takes too much effort to create a harem of zombies by adding them one at a time via cracking.
Wow!
What did you get for drinking the MS Koolaid?
You are years late. The PICK operating system/db already does that. Back in 1985 I used the DOS based Advanced Revelation to write GAP accounting packages. It used the ASCI 253 character to separate "columns" of data in a cell. Reading and writing was parsed automatically. Invoice information, for example, was stored in a Customer's info table, not in a invoice table, and doing a query on accounts receivable produced very fast results. Symbolic dictionary definitions containing formulas allowed for easy column and row totals.
In fact KDB/K looks a lot like a PICK system that uses FORTH as the language.
corporations and against the interests of citizens.
The previous and most notable occurance was when they took defeat out of the jaws of two convictions and created a toothless settlement with Microsoft that enabled them to continue their monopoly. Citizens of all countries have been paying through the nose every since.
Na. If it were Microsoft they'd move the decimal one to the RIGHT, instantly creating a version 2.0 release out of a 0.2 beta. Then they'd have their PR dept flood the world with claims of how much better it is than version 1.0, even though version 1.0 never existed. Windows fanbois would make comparisons between 1.0 and 2.0, showing how 2.0 is a vast improvement over 1.0, and would post uptimes of 10 years, proving how stable v 1.0 was and claiming v2.0 will be much better.
And the Sheeple will buy it.
Maybe it's time for another DOJ action.
But, probably not for another year, as long as Bush is pres.