Corporations were only to be formed in this country to serve the public good. The founding fathers of this country spelled that out very clearly.
"In the early 1800's corporations were required to "serve the public good." It was illegal for their object to be "merely private or selfish." For-profit corporations now have the legal obligation to maximize profits for their shareholders and managers. Even if the individual directors or stockholders wanted to serve the public good, they could not."
Charters were only established for a short time, and could be revoked instantly. The 1886 ruling that corporations were "persons" and could enjoy rights guaranteed by the 14th ammendment is insane. Lawyers, Judges and Justices from then to now have spoke out against the ruling, yet nothing has been done.
That said, I believe that the RIAA does not serve the public or has any value in our society. They are operating illeagaly as far as I am concerned.
Additionally, the copyright law is unfair to the citizens as well. If something can be copied and reproduced and not sold again, then sorry folks, it can go from person to person freely. Copyright is rediculous when money is not involved, becuase there is no value attached to something given freely. The sooner we wake up and not let corporations determine what we can and cant do with thnigs we wish to share the better.
And as for artists, wouldnt it be nice if I could just work on a Monday, and then copy and sell that work over and over for the rest of the week? A song is just an ad, performing that song over and over is work. And thats when the paycheck should come in.
"Most people seem to forget that if you want to keep the movies as long as you want, they have an unlimited rental plan just like Netlfix. This is only for people who sometimes keep their movies over a few days. The only people bitching are the same people who think they can keep a library book for 6 months."
Oh yeah? My library doesnt have late fees. Keep it six months? OK. So whats your point?
Glad you saw that. More people should be pissed off. This has been going on a LONG time and it aint just blockbuster.
Thats why I use Linux to play DVD's (not really that would be illeagle.........)
In any case MORE people should get fed up and have enough of this bullshit. No wonder we dont shed a tear for the MPAA. Pretty soon though, the next generation will expect that there are unskippable trailers, non skippable tv ads, and they wont know the difference unless we get pissed off now.
What is the point of this? I thought browser speed just didnt matter anymore, at least it doesnt to me. Does anyone even notice rendering anymore? I dont use a computer slow enough, nor have internet fast enough (only a T1) to notice any damn difference. This might have been interesting in the ancient slow days but anymore? come on?
And just how do you test a cold boot of IE? reboot the computer? And if your not using windows why would you ever shut off your browser?
Interesting article sure. Not very well written or researched, but then again they never are.
Take this quote for example:
"Not surprisingly, the repercussions - particularly the rapidly growing number of shows available for the plucking online - terrify industry executives, who remember only too well what Napster and other file-sharing programs did to the music industry "
Yeah, you wouldnt want to suddenly have RECORD PROFITS!
I was listening to a rip of a cd of some old "roaring 20's" music. It sounded perfect. And so it sucked. Nothing gives ambience to the sound period then the sounds of hiss and pop that I would have heard from that period.
I am not into that music, but I could tell that it had lost something, simular to listening to really old blues or jazz records, they just dont sound right on cd.
There is no reason other then lazyness????
Are you using MS products??
The only thing to do now is shut off all web browsing and remove all JPEGS from emails. Thats what big corporations like the one I work for do. We cant afford to play around with Micosofts patches and risk serious downtime if something goes wrong. Deployment will take weeks at least.
Damn I wish we were running Linux with thin clients, this wouldnt be an issue, and it isnt because linux is safer, its just easier to test against, particularly with one machine.
From the article: " I'd like to especially commend Hewlett-Packard for including LinDVD playback software with this machine. It, too, works right out of the box. When I install Linux on my personal laptops I usually have to buy software to watch a movie."
Ok i thought he was going to say, isnt this a good thing for linux, and a necesity for the seller to include a "legal" way of playing dvds.
But then he says he has to buy software with other linux distros. WTF?
Does this guy really use linux??? Apt-get install libcss.
Nope. Nothing about wireless should be considered secure. WEP doesnt guarantee security, the tools are already out there to crack that (although it takes time). Additionally, copied from Jim Geier's article at wi-fi planet.com:
"You can view the frames sent back and forth between a user's radio NIC and access point during the association process. As a result, you'll learn information about the radio card and access point, such as IP address of both devices, association ID for the radio NIC, and SSID of the network.
With this information, someone can setup a rogue access point (on a different radio channel) closer to a particular user to force the user's radio NIC to reassociate with the rogue access point. Because 802.11 doesn't provide access point authentication, the radio NIC will happily reassoicate with the rogue access point. Once reassociation occurs, the rogue access point will capture traffic from unsuspected users attempting to login to their services. Of course this exposes sensitive user names and passwords to a hacker who has an interface with the rogue access point.
Someone can also use man-in-the-middle techniques using a rogue radio NIC. After gleaning information about a particular wireless LAN by monitoring frame transmissions, a hacker can program a rogue radio NIC to mimic a valid one. This enables the hacker to deceive the access point by disassociating the valid radio NIC and reassociating again as a rogue radio NIC with the same parameters as the valid radio NIC. As a result, the hacker can use the rogue radio NIC to steal the session and carryon with a particular network-based service, one that the valid user had logged into."
Wireless was pushed along by a need to get it out. READ COMPANY PROFITS. I have attended lectures where this is described on and on. Little to no attention was paid to security. WEP? Yeah good luck. It is fairly easy to exploit any wireless connection. It just wasnt done right. But this is the best part. Become the middle man.
Thanks for saying that. I mean that. The crops and the harvest we get from a corporation that buys into these kind of genetics are after 1 thing only: Looks. This tomato is big, that strawberry ripens right... on and on. I am glad someone sees the point in why the organic farmer is working their ass off trying to go against the corporations view. My wife is a nutritionist (Masters in biology, minor in endocrinology and nutrition) and is amazed at how chemical analysis of food SHOWS without a doubt that organically grown food has a higher nutrition content, a higher metabalizing factor and has less potential side effects then other foods mostly found on the market. Why are we playing with a food supply?
Again remind me why I pay to watch Ad's on TV? Wasnt there a time when advertisements paid for TV? Shouldnt I be paying someone to NOT have ads? TV is dead folks, at least the I invision it. This stand is good, but it doesnt go far enough.
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Corporations were only to be formed in this country to serve the public good. The founding fathers of this country spelled that out very clearly.
"In the early 1800's corporations were required to "serve the public good." It was illegal for their object to be "merely private or selfish." For-profit corporations now have the legal obligation to maximize profits for their shareholders and managers. Even if the individual directors or stockholders wanted to serve the public good, they could not."
Charters were only established for a short time, and could be revoked instantly. The 1886 ruling that corporations were "persons" and could enjoy rights guaranteed by the 14th ammendment is insane. Lawyers, Judges and Justices from then to now have spoke out against the ruling, yet nothing has been done.
That said, I believe that the RIAA does not serve the public or has any value in our society. They are operating illeagaly as far as I am concerned.
Additionally, the copyright law is unfair to the citizens as well. If something can be copied and reproduced and not sold again, then sorry folks, it can go from person to person freely. Copyright is rediculous when money is not involved, becuase there is no value attached to something given freely. The sooner we wake up and not let corporations determine what we can and cant do with thnigs we wish to share the better.
And as for artists, wouldnt it be nice if I could just work on a Monday, and then copy and sell that work over and over for the rest of the week? A song is just an ad, performing that song over and over is work. And thats when the paycheck should come in.
"Most people seem to forget that if you want to keep the movies as long as you want, they have an unlimited rental plan just like Netlfix. This is only for people who sometimes keep their movies over a few days. The only people bitching are the same people who think they can keep a library book for 6 months."
Oh yeah? My library doesnt have late fees. Keep it six months? OK. So whats your point?
Glad you saw that. More people should be pissed off. This has been going on a LONG time and it aint just blockbuster.
Thats why I use Linux to play DVD's (not really that would be illeagle.........)
In any case MORE people should get fed up and have enough of this bullshit. No wonder we dont shed a tear for the MPAA. Pretty soon though, the next generation will expect that there are unskippable trailers, non skippable tv ads, and they wont know the difference unless we get pissed off now.
What is the point of this? I thought browser speed just didnt matter anymore, at least it doesnt to me. Does anyone even notice rendering anymore? I dont use a computer slow enough, nor have internet fast enough (only a T1) to notice any damn difference. This might have been interesting in the ancient slow days but anymore? come on?
And just how do you test a cold boot of IE? reboot the computer? And if your not using windows why would you ever shut off your browser?
Interesting article sure. Not very well written or researched, but then again they never are.
Take this quote for example:
"Not surprisingly, the repercussions - particularly the rapidly growing number of shows available for the plucking online - terrify industry executives, who remember only too well what Napster and other file-sharing programs did to the music industry
"
Yeah, you wouldnt want to suddenly have RECORD PROFITS!
Yeah, we should huh? Well I wouldnt. My work wont. No problems here. Oh yeah, windows isnt allowed on the internet. Duh.
There are flourescent spotlights. Heck they are for sale just a few blocks from here, and they are about $5-7.
What keeps me from considering them are 2 things:
1. They are affected by cold. The colder it gets the longer they take to get bright
2. No thanks for the mercury. Damn shame about flourescent lights, they are a chemical mess.
It would be nice if Acrobat would just dissapear althother.
I was listening to a rip of a cd of some old "roaring 20's" music. It sounded perfect. And so it sucked. Nothing gives ambience to the sound period then the sounds of hiss and pop that I would have heard from that period.
I am not into that music, but I could tell that it had lost something, simular to listening to really old blues or jazz records, they just dont sound right on cd.
Strange isnt it?
I appreciate the comments, but in large orginazations this is not an option. It just cant be done.
There is no reason other then lazyness???? Are you using MS products?? The only thing to do now is shut off all web browsing and remove all JPEGS from emails. Thats what big corporations like the one I work for do. We cant afford to play around with Micosofts patches and risk serious downtime if something goes wrong. Deployment will take weeks at least. Damn I wish we were running Linux with thin clients, this wouldnt be an issue, and it isnt because linux is safer, its just easier to test against, particularly with one machine.
Yeah anlyze some of that traffic on that damn thing. Pisses me off. Sure it works, but damnit where is all the traffic going!
Mepis is a great distro, runs off cd and has a very easy to use install. Many features built in, try it!
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From the article: " I'd like to especially commend Hewlett-Packard for including LinDVD playback software with this machine. It, too, works right out of the box. When I install Linux on my personal laptops I usually have to buy software to watch a movie."
Ok i thought he was going to say, isnt this a good thing for linux, and a necesity for the seller to include a "legal" way of playing dvds.
But then he says he has to buy software with other linux distros. WTF?
Does this guy really use linux???
Apt-get install libcss.
Nope. Nothing about wireless should be considered secure. WEP doesnt guarantee security, the tools are already out there to crack that (although it takes time).
Additionally, copied from Jim Geier's article at wi-fi planet.com:
"You can view the frames sent back and forth between a user's radio NIC and access point during the association process. As a result, you'll learn information about the radio card and access point, such as IP address of both devices, association ID for the radio NIC, and SSID of the network.
With this information, someone can setup a rogue access point (on a different radio channel) closer to a particular user to force the user's radio NIC to reassociate with the rogue access point. Because 802.11 doesn't provide access point authentication, the radio NIC will happily reassoicate with the rogue access point. Once reassociation occurs, the rogue access point will capture traffic from unsuspected users attempting to login to their services. Of course this exposes sensitive user names and passwords to a hacker who has an interface with the rogue access point.
Someone can also use man-in-the-middle techniques using a rogue radio NIC. After gleaning information about a particular wireless LAN by monitoring frame transmissions, a hacker can program a rogue radio NIC to mimic a valid one. This enables the hacker to deceive the access point by disassociating the valid radio NIC and reassociating again as a rogue radio NIC with the same parameters as the valid radio NIC. As a result, the hacker can use the rogue radio NIC to steal the session and carryon with a particular network-based service, one that the valid user had logged into."
Wireless was pushed along by a need to get it out. READ COMPANY PROFITS. I have attended lectures where this is described on and on. Little to no attention was paid to security. WEP? Yeah good luck. It is fairly easy to exploit any wireless connection. It just wasnt done right.
But this is the best part. Become the middle man.
Games might go away? SO WHAT?!!?!?
We all would find better things to do wouldnt we?
Lets see how long this takes to fix.
IE months.
Mozilla 2 days tops.
HA you IE fools!
Dumbass: Recognized. Nuff Said.
Thanks for saying that.
I mean that. The crops and the harvest we get from
a corporation that buys into these kind of genetics are after 1 thing only: Looks.
This tomato is big, that strawberry ripens right... on and on.
I am glad someone sees the point in why the organic farmer is working their ass off trying to go against the corporations view.
My wife is a nutritionist (Masters in biology, minor in endocrinology and nutrition) and is amazed at how chemical analysis of food SHOWS without a doubt that organically grown food has a higher nutrition content, a higher metabalizing factor and has less potential side effects then other foods mostly found on the market. Why are we playing with a food supply?
Dey tuk meh Joob tu!
I believe that an hour worked is an hour worked.
Its that easy. If a person in the US or India works an hour its worth an HOUR. How does this work?
I get paid for an hour. You get paid for an hour. I work an hour on the server, you work an hour on my ditch.
Simple and easy:
See:
http://www.ithacahours.org/allabouthours.html
Makes more sense.
Well these guys are looking at:
Single-image viewing mode in ACDSee.
And the band ACDC doesnt sue?
Again remind me why I pay to watch Ad's on TV?
Wasnt there a time when advertisements paid for TV?
Shouldnt I be paying someone to NOT have ads?
TV is dead folks, at least the I invision it. This stand is good, but it doesnt go far enough.