Right. But they do know that they can share their printed books but not their e-books. They, however, blame the publishers and not the governments....
That would imply that e-books are popular, which really aren't. Besides, the government didn't tell the publishers to use non-shareable format.
These are strongly connected to the issues of DRM and copyright protections.
And how does terrorism, social security, medicare, and recent bust got to due with DRM and copyright protections? Did the government raid social security and medicare becuase of DRM? Did the terroriorists attack US because they were protesting the copyright laws?
You're right. Why stand up to corporations in this case? Well, the larger issue now is that corporations are on both sides of the issue and we will see a major war brewing. This may not be seen as much in the public eye but it is still going on nonetheless.
I never said you shouldn't stand up to the corporations, I'm saying that you shouldn't always run to the government to solve all yhour problems. As long as people buy crap with DRM and other restrictive measures built in, the corporations will keep on dishing them out.
Remember when Intuit added the activation feature to TurboTax? Its customers started to boycott their product and Intuit promptly removed that feature on their next version. Heck, even coporations like MS backs off a bit if you threaten to switch to Linux.
Even the bleach for my laundry says it's a felony to use the product inconsistent with its labeling. So, if rather than measuring the one-cup recommended amount I pour it in guessing, they could put me in jail.
Did you ever think that use of the product inconsistent with its labeling means using it to make poison gas, not pouring in an extra cut?
Here in Atlanta a man was put in jail because a Viagra pill fell from his wallet when he retrieved his license for a police officer.
Care to post a link to that article? Because this is a land of the lawyers so he shouldn't have problems suing the police department.
I cannot speak words strong enough to convey my conviction of the need for a totally un-traceable, encrypted form of P2P. This is not the United States I learned about in school. Maybe it never existed. But I know today is doesn't.
The reason why there's a crack down on P2P networks is that people abuse them by trading pirated movies and music. I still don't see how bootlegging a movie and sharing them would be considered a fair use.
Like as if an average citizen knows what DMCA, DRM, software patent, FOSS, etc. are. Don't to notice that the magic words now are terrorism, social security, medicare, economy, and job market? If you are a politician, whould you concentrate your efforts to a small group of geeks with crappy voting records?
I hate to break this news to you but the population in large doesn't really give a damn about what the geeks think and they don't act on any of the issues until it starts to hurt their bottom line.
1. Format your hard drive. 2. Reinstall Windows. 3. Call MS and swear that you are not a pirate to reactivate Windows/Office (for versions XP and higher).
I'm not sure but I have patents on tinfoil hats. For a mere payment of $699.00, you can wear as many tinfoil hats as you want without the worry of lawsuit.
I also sell alien abduction insurance to go along with the Linux insurance for a well arounded protection.
I personally don't trust that Sun will do good things if they purchase Novell. Sun has more to gain from Linux market crashing and buring as it hurts them more than it hurts MS.
It's laughable that Sun believes that it can compete with IBM in the Linux market by using Suse. IBM can always use another distro or make an IBM Linux since it has the resources to do so. Not to mention that your average PHB wouldn't know what a Suse Linux is while he/she will notice the branding on the IBM Linux.
And BTW, most of the corporations out there are actually small businesses as small business owners often incorporate for the propose of limited liability.
Furthermore the shareholders should be tried for the crimes of their corporations just like dog owners are.
And passing a law like that will prompt most people to sell off their stock in panic and cause a stock market crash. I guess that's one way to solve the problem.
"I will be wealthy in six months, unless VA [Software] or the U.S. economy craters before then. I'll bet on VA; I'm not so sure about the U.S. economy:-)." -- Eric S. Raymond, December 10, 1999.
Most slashdotters think that great computer skills somehow equals great financial skills and that they can learn all about accounting and economics in CS classes (I only learn about computer stuff in my CS classes, so I guess I got ripped off).
I guess we all know there MS gets it's sales force from!
Used car saleman: This is the best deal we can give you. Buyer: OK, that's fine, I'm going to look around some more at the other dealerships. Used car salesman: walks over to the sales manager's "office"....."uh-hu"..."other dealerships"..."uh-hu"....comes back. "Ok how about this "some made up discound bullshit" deal? We can knock another 20% off.
But I do not think that they will find value in business suggestions on/. even from an editor.
What do you mean? There are plenty of good business/financial suggestions on/. Here are some of the gems I found over the years.
"High income = being rich, no matter what."
"You shouldn't invest because you'll have to pay capital gains tax when the value goes up (and is realized)."
"Government should take over the health care becasue they did such a good job with Medicare and Social Security" "You shouldn't have to put away money for the retirement because Medicare and Social Security is all you need" "Buying an overpowered computer is a good investment. It's even better if you buy it using a credit card and make only the minimun payments on it." "If your credit card company raises its rates, bitch on/. instead of calling the company to find out why." "Businesses shouldn't lay people off no matter what because it's a bad thing." "For-profit businesses should exist to serve the mankind, not for-profit." "The due date on the credit card bill is only a suggestion." "Pay your bills at the last moment because the postal service always delivers and the online payment system never fails." "The financal experts recommend that you have 3-6 months worth of living expeses as an emergency fund only because those experts get paid alot." "Don't budget for the emergency fund because it will cut into your cool gadets (and gaming computer) fund. Use the credit cards instead. And if you do use those credit cards, you'll somehow magically budget to pay off the cards AND the interest over time." "Don't listen to the doctors who says you should eat healty and exercise. They work for the greedy health food stores and gyms (like you shouldn't listen to the economists because they work for the rich)." "Don't wear seatbelts. The greedy cops work for the insurace companies (less injuries mean less payouts)." "Put all your investments into the Linux companies because they'll crush MS, UNIX, and Apple. Don't invest in diverse stock funds, such as S&P 500 based index funds, because they are likely to contain shares of MS and owning shares of it will make you evil, no matter how small." "It's easier to lobby the government to spread the wealth of the people who actually saved millions for their retirement instead of actually saving for yourselves" "Best thing to do in a recession is to tax the hell out of those evil corporations to stimulate the job market." "The rich are evil because majority of their wealth are in form of unrealized gains, which is not yet taxed. They should sell all their investment to buy usless things that they don't need in order to pay the fair share of taxes." "Even though higher income usually means higher taxes, there's a cutoff point where you don't pay any taxes once you reach the 'rich' status"
#2 doesn't exist in the US and even it did, good luck linking software patent with human rights issue. And as for the rest, you are still suing the government as the staff is the legal agent of the government. Beside, lawyers aren't going to go after the lowly clerks because there's no money to be made.
While I agree that lobbying the senators and/or comgreemen can be helpful, this is USA, where you sue first and ask questions later.
I didn't think you could sue the Federal Government or something like that. (since they are a part of the Feds anyways)
The funny thing is that you can sue the federal government but the government must give you permission first. While there are cases where the government has given permission to sue, I'd imagine that suing the patent office may be more diffcult than suing a business.
I stuck to my convictions and I eventually found the job I was looking for.
It's refreshing to know that there are people who value their convictions more than a paycheck.
The research stated that the hot areas include the defense and financial services industries which many slashdotters' believe are evil, so I guess that still means that many Linux loving slashdotters will still be out of work.
There's only one company that's making Windows and the demand for the support for Windows is still great. Even for some unlikely reason that only Linux distro you can buy is IBM Linux, as long as enough companies are using them, there will be a demand for the Linux support.
It seems that most of the IT jobs that are outsourced are of programming or very-low end tech support. Imagine what would happen if sys admin jobs get outsourced to India (which is still possible).
Indian Tech Support Guy (ITSG): How are you gentlemen!!
Office Manager (OM): I need some tech support.
ITSG: What Happen?
OM: I'm calling because our E-mail's broken and the Exchange server has a blue screen with weird charactors on it.
ITSG: Somebody set up you the bomb?
OM: That doesn't sound good. I'm sending you a picture I've taken of the screen via my Yahoo E-mail.
ITSG: We get attachment.
OM: And???
ITSG: It say all your E-mails are belong to MS.
OM: Huh?
ITSG: You have no chance to E-mail make your time.
ITSG: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
OM: You Indian tech support suck! Hire systems admins!
HR Guy: You know what you are doing?
OM: Hire them! For great justice!
I do believe that it will create more jobs since it will force people who attended one of those paper mills and got into the IT fields during the boom for the live of money out of the IT job market. This will create more jobs for the people who are in the IT market for the love of IT.
OSS non-supported software, it may require you to hire additional devs to maintain your kernel.
Are you on crack? That statement doesn't even make sense.
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Right. But they do know that they can share their printed books but not their e-books. They, however, blame the publishers and not the governments....
That would imply that e-books are popular, which really aren't. Besides, the government didn't tell the publishers to use non-shareable format.
These are strongly connected to the issues of DRM and copyright protections.
And how does terrorism, social security, medicare, and recent bust got to due with DRM and copyright protections? Did the government raid social security and medicare becuase of DRM? Did the terroriorists attack US because they were protesting the copyright laws?
You're right. Why stand up to corporations in this case? Well, the larger issue now is that corporations are on both sides of the issue and we will see a major war brewing. This may not be seen as much in the public eye but it is still going on nonetheless.
I never said you shouldn't stand up to the corporations, I'm saying that you shouldn't always run to the government to solve all yhour problems. As long as people buy crap with DRM and other restrictive measures built in, the corporations will keep on dishing them out.
Remember when Intuit added the activation feature to TurboTax? Its customers started to boycott their product and Intuit promptly removed that feature on their next version. Heck, even coporations like MS backs off a bit if you threaten to switch to Linux.
Even the bleach for my laundry says it's a felony to use the product inconsistent with its labeling. So, if rather than measuring the one-cup recommended amount I pour it in guessing, they could put me in jail.
Did you ever think that use of the product inconsistent with its labeling means using it to make poison gas, not pouring in an extra cut?
Here in Atlanta a man was put in jail because a Viagra pill fell from his wallet when he retrieved his license for a police officer.
Care to post a link to that article? Because this is a land of the lawyers so he shouldn't have problems suing the police department.
I cannot speak words strong enough to convey my conviction of the need for a totally un-traceable, encrypted form of P2P. This is not the United States I learned about in school. Maybe it never existed. But I know today is doesn't.
The reason why there's a crack down on P2P networks is that people abuse them by trading pirated movies and music. I still don't see how bootlegging a movie and sharing them would be considered a fair use.
Like as if an average citizen knows what DMCA, DRM, software patent, FOSS, etc. are. Don't to notice that the magic words now are terrorism, social security, medicare, economy, and job market? If you are a politician, whould you concentrate your efforts to a small group of geeks with crappy voting records?
I hate to break this news to you but the population in large doesn't really give a damn about what the geeks think and they don't act on any of the issues until it starts to hurt their bottom line.
But the question is, how well will Doom 3 look on it?
Here's a proven way to accerate Windows.
1. Format your hard drive.
2. Reinstall Windows.
3. Call MS and swear that you are not a pirate to reactivate Windows/Office (for versions XP and higher).
That would imply that people actually learned something from the last boom/bust cycle.
I'm not sure but I have patents on tinfoil hats. For a mere payment of $699.00, you can wear as many tinfoil hats as you want without the worry of lawsuit.
I also sell alien abduction insurance to go along with the Linux insurance for a well arounded protection.
You are an arrogant condescending low-life prick.
That's pretty much the norm here. I guess you missed the article where experienced Linux users bash the newbies that doesn't know any better.
Anarchy forever. Wait till we burn your place down and take all your stuff.
But that would require you putting your games down and doing something active for your cause... That'll be quite a change.
I personally don't trust that Sun will do good things if they purchase Novell. Sun has more to gain from Linux market crashing and buring as it hurts them more than it hurts MS.
It's laughable that Sun believes that it can compete with IBM in the Linux market by using Suse. IBM can always use another distro or make an IBM Linux since it has the resources to do so. Not to mention that your average PHB wouldn't know what a Suse Linux is while he/she will notice the branding on the IBM Linux.
And BTW, most of the corporations out there are actually small businesses as small business owners often incorporate for the propose of limited liability.
Furthermore the shareholders should be tried for the crimes of their corporations just like dog owners are.
And passing a law like that will prompt most people to sell off their stock in panic and cause a stock market crash. I guess that's one way to solve the problem.
"I will be wealthy in six months, unless VA [Software] or the U.S. economy craters before then. I'll bet on VA; I'm not so sure about the U.S. economy :-)." -- Eric S. Raymond, December 10, 1999.
Most slashdotters think that great computer skills somehow equals great financial skills and that they can learn all about accounting and economics in CS classes (I only learn about computer stuff in my CS classes, so I guess I got ripped off).
I guess we all know there MS gets it's sales force from!
Used car saleman: This is the best deal we can give you.
Buyer: OK, that's fine, I'm going to look around some more at the other dealerships.
Used car salesman: walks over to the sales manager's "office"....."uh-hu"..."other dealerships"..."uh-hu"....comes back. "Ok how about this "some made up discound bullshit" deal? We can knock another 20% off.
But I do not think that they will find value in business suggestions on /. even from an editor.
/. Here are some of the gems I found over the years.
/. instead of calling the company to find out why."
What do you mean? There are plenty of good business/financial suggestions on
"High income = being rich, no matter what."
"You shouldn't invest because you'll have to pay capital gains tax when the value goes up (and is realized)."
"Government should take over the health care becasue they did such a good job with Medicare and Social Security"
"You shouldn't have to put away money for the retirement because Medicare and Social Security is all you need"
"Buying an overpowered computer is a good investment. It's even better if you buy it using a credit card and make only the minimun payments on it."
"If your credit card company raises its rates, bitch on
"Businesses shouldn't lay people off no matter what because it's a bad thing."
"For-profit businesses should exist to serve the mankind, not for-profit."
"The due date on the credit card bill is only a suggestion."
"Pay your bills at the last moment because the postal service always delivers and the online payment system never fails."
"The financal experts recommend that you have 3-6 months worth of living expeses as an emergency fund only because those experts get paid alot."
"Don't budget for the emergency fund because it will cut into your cool gadets (and gaming computer) fund. Use the credit cards instead. And if you do use those credit cards, you'll somehow magically budget to pay off the cards AND the interest over time."
"Don't listen to the doctors who says you should eat healty and exercise. They work for the greedy health food stores and gyms (like you shouldn't listen to the economists because they work for the rich)."
"Don't wear seatbelts. The greedy cops work for the insurace companies (less injuries mean less payouts)."
"Put all your investments into the Linux companies because they'll crush MS, UNIX, and Apple. Don't invest in diverse stock funds, such as S&P 500 based index funds, because they are likely to contain shares of MS and owning shares of it will make you evil, no matter how small."
"It's easier to lobby the government to spread the wealth of the people who actually saved millions for their retirement instead of actually saving for yourselves"
"Best thing to do in a recession is to tax the hell out of those evil corporations to stimulate the job market."
"The rich are evil because majority of their wealth are in form of unrealized gains, which is not yet taxed. They should sell all their investment to buy usless things that they don't need in order to pay the fair share of taxes."
"Even though higher income usually means higher taxes, there's a cutoff point where you don't pay any taxes once you reach the 'rich' status"
#2 doesn't exist in the US and even it did, good luck linking software patent with human rights issue. And as for the rest, you are still suing the government as the staff is the legal agent of the government. Beside, lawyers aren't going to go after the lowly clerks because there's no money to be made.
While I agree that lobbying the senators and/or comgreemen can be helpful, this is USA, where you sue first and ask questions later.
Don't forget that for every evil businessman/woman, there's a team of staff (including IT) to do his/her evil bidding.
I didn't think you could sue the Federal Government or something like that. (since they are a part of the Feds anyways)
The funny thing is that you can sue the federal government but the government must give you permission first. While there are cases where the government has given permission to sue, I'd imagine that suing the patent office may be more diffcult than suing a business.
So I guess it's more like.
"Military is evil, greedy corporations are evil, but I LOVE working for them!"
There are many self-rightous people in here but their true form appears when money's involved...
Congrats on the baby and finding some work!
I stuck to my convictions and I eventually found the job I was looking for.
It's refreshing to know that there are people who value their convictions more than a paycheck.
The research stated that the hot areas include the defense and financial services industries which many slashdotters' believe are evil, so I guess that still means that many Linux loving slashdotters will still be out of work.
BTW, these jobs where the least experienced of you makes 85k, where are they located? Are these figures in US dollars?
An AC said it so it must be true.
Outlook destroys any of the other Email clients I have used.
I'll agree with this statement because most E-mail clients can't keep up with all the viral E-mails sent out by Outlook.
There's only one company that's making Windows and the demand for the support for Windows is still great. Even for some unlikely reason that only Linux distro you can buy is IBM Linux, as long as enough companies are using them, there will be a demand for the Linux support.
It seems that most of the IT jobs that are outsourced are of programming or very-low end tech support. Imagine what would happen if sys admin jobs get outsourced to India (which is still possible).
Indian Tech Support Guy (ITSG): How are you gentlemen!!
Office Manager (OM): I need some tech support.
ITSG: What Happen?
OM: I'm calling because our E-mail's broken and the Exchange server has a blue screen with weird charactors on it.
ITSG: Somebody set up you the bomb?
OM: That doesn't sound good. I'm sending you a picture I've taken of the screen via my Yahoo E-mail.
ITSG: We get attachment.
OM: And???
ITSG: It say all your E-mails are belong to MS.
OM: Huh?
ITSG: You have no chance to E-mail make your time.
ITSG: Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
OM: You Indian tech support suck! Hire systems admins!
HR Guy: You know what you are doing?
OM: Hire them! For great justice!
I do believe that it will create more jobs since it will force people who attended one of those paper mills and got into the IT fields during the boom for the live of money out of the IT job market. This will create more jobs for the people who are in the IT market for the love of IT.
OSS non-supported software, it may require you to hire additional devs to maintain your kernel.
Are you on crack? That statement doesn't even make sense.