I don't think you understand the whole principle of slipping peoples names on the list and not bothering to differentiate between different people having the same name. Don't show the proper respect, fail to agree with the weasel in chief, join the wrong political party, write comments on forums that challenge the government approved view and you will just have to expect limitations being placed upon you, 'er', not you, your name, 'er', not your name, some bad person who has the same name but that they won't identify for security reasons.
The crazy principle is, by their logic you are not proving who you are, you are proving who you aren't. Now if that other person is such a threat that under no circumstance should they be allowed to board a plane etc. then why aren't they keeping track of their location sufficiently well to know that they are not at your current location attempting to board a plane.
So why is email any different from a phone answering machine, especially a voip answering machine? Think a home website more as an answering service for all the incoming communications (even while you where out with wireless and IP mobile), with a confirmation of who you are as well as of course the logical expression of social networking ie. why myspace or facebook, when you can roll and control your own, all you need is the linking infrastructure.
The harsh reality would seem to be the distinct gap between the execution and the cremation of the remains with no independent witnesses to the state of the body between the two. Organ reclamation vehicles, rather than mobile execution chambers.
How about you also compare what is printed in mass media to what is actually in the court records. When the content of court records is filtered to suit those with vested interests, than mass media has far greater opportunity to create it's own version of the truth.
From hiding the behaviour of the rich and greedy to crucifying those opposed corporatism. They are all public courts and all actions with in those courts should be and have to be a matter of public record, to ensure that justice is 'seen' to be administered.
The best alternative is simply to ban the republishing on court records on other sites and to prevent anonymous access to court records. This should limit abuse of the system and keep track of people who might not react appropriately to information presented in those court records. Education the public is of far greater value than creating a society with even more secrets in public administration.
And let mass media continue to create the impossible to reach illusion, if only you could 'spend' enough to achieve it.
The reality is, that those fraudulently created illusions do a great amount of damage to society and do get a lot of people to cause harm to themselves either by trying to achieve those illusions or in the aftermath when they fail to do so.
In the modern world, lies do kill and technology like this is certain to be abused. Believe nothing unless you see it with your own eyes live and even then question the logic of that visions. As for stuff on the digital feed, always, always, ponder the vested interests and the motivations behind them.
Brings to mind the really pitiful thing about the next version of windows, basically a dressed over rehash of Vista, which is forcing M$ to continue advertising Vista because they know it will be a major slap in the face for customers who don't want vista.
M$ should just bite the bullet, dump vista and it's creator ballmer, rework XP and fix the mess. Rather than trying to forcing unwanted crap onto customers who actually make a choice about their os. I prefer Linux so the more stupid decisions by M$ the better but, corporations doing really stupid things because of the egos of the executive team really irk me.
The delay in the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is greed by ISPs pure and simple. ISPs get the IPv4 address range basically for free and then charge customers for access to that address range, money for jam. They will simply resist IPv6 for as long as they can (the bad ISPs) because their profits from IPv4 will disappear as they have to give away IPv6 for free.
This of course is only as far as the greedy, traffic blocking, no server, ass hat ISP's. Their are plenty of regional good ISPs that believe in providing quality customers services at a reasonable price eg. http://ipv6.internode.on.net/, they of course will be the ones who end up crippling the IPv4 profits.
So home based server appliances, for email, voip, web serving, will kill IPv4 because they will want their IP address for free and, not to forget smart phone/PDAs and UMPCs all with their own IPv6 address, for instant global mesh networking, so yeah billions of adresses and the typical user will have at least three, home server, smart phone/PDA and UMPC.
What is interesting is how the thread was shifted to email rather than the complete range of office applications. Email is just one small area of office applications and sure when you ISP is down and you can't even get the hosted apps, it makes no difference as email is impossible but of course all you other local applications could still function.
For a start there is the whole accounting and bookkeeping range of software, and of those are considerably safer when locally hosted. So if you are already running sufficient hardware for those other applications why bother.
Also in calculating down time for hosted apps you have to add in all the possible faults, including loss of connection (the full route, from you to a host possibly thousands of kilometres away) and, power outages (laptops can still function) etc. rather than just the host servers going down.
Cheap hardware free software, it really does seem like they are fooling themselves trying to solve problems from the previous millennium that really no longer exist (very expensive hardware and software and server administration costs).
Apparently CGI is already being used to do exactly that for a lot of the latest movies. Making the actors look better and creating more active facial expressions to make up for all the drug abuse, botox overdoses and plastic surgery, all of which really shows up in high definition. The 'beautiful' people turn out to be pretty dang ugly in person, where true personalities and appearance combine to create quite a different picture from the on screen illusion.
With this kind of technology you will never want to leave home or look in a mirror lest you be exposed the ugly shock of reality;).
It could get better a whole lot faster if fair trade was implemented as a guiding principle of free trade. Trade is not free if the system is corrupted, by producing products and services in countries where the majority of people can not afford to buy them and then exporting those products to country where people can only afford to buy them until their ability to purchase those goods is crippled by the importation of those products. Stupidity driven by the greed of a minority who can not see beyond importing products produced and sold with massive profits.
There should be a basis of tariffs to ensure that products and services are produced upon a equal basis, where companies that employ locally are not discriminated against by adhering to sound laws that protect the environment and employment conditions. So rather than product based tariffs, country based tariffs. Those countries that find the products and services penalised by high tariffs will then have a true incentive to improve conditions in their own country as the products are subject to that cost anyhow.
As for the ass hats who make the claim that allowing those countries to produce products upon human exploitative and environmentally destructive conditions, will somehow allow them to improve over time based upon the income earned, we know exactly want kind of bullshit lie that really is. All it does is create autocratic governments who use extreme violence to suppress the work force to specifically prevent any change. Strangely enough those autocratic government often turn out to be puppet regimes, run by other countries at the behest of corporations who generate huge profits via that exploitation.
Profit does not necessitate a monetary return just that they have profit by minor copyright infringements. P2P. generally you must upload content to down load content, upload represents the major infringement and that in turn facilitates downloads at higher speeds, how the individual profits via the upload.
The will lie cheat and steal to maximise the profits, nothing more should be given to them in fact, some of the protections should be taken away or reduced.
Brains which produce honour and integrity is what makes real humans. Blind obedient thugs are just animals. The best soldiers are what they always have been, those with the courage to overcome their fear, those with the discipline to control their emotions and those who really do believe that honour and integrity is what you take with you onto the battlefield and keep with you afterwards, not just a empty motto to hide torture, murder and rape.
Drugs or other devices will achieve none of these, they will just create a military force they you can no longer trust at home, or with members of the opposite sex, or to interact with innocent citizens of another country. A military force to be ashamed of, ones that spends more time hiding it;s misdeeds than investigating them and prosecuting the offenders.
Then again compulsory mind control drugs for politicians so that can not tell a lie, might be just the thing, hell, administered the world over and the idiots wont be able to bull shit us into another war and we wont need a military, cool;).
The most wildly blatant contradiction, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and he doesn't know how to use a computer. Man, you guys can really pick them, now I know how you managed to have both shrubs running the CIA and why the CIA made such a hack job of collect evidence on all those so called terrorists in GITMO.
The really lamest part of course is 'Educate Its Workforce For The Innovation Age', all the lamest politicians the world over have been rabbiting on about exactly the same thing and then in the next breath, global marketplace and free trade, with the net result that all those job are outsourced to countries that pay one tenth the wage and you have a flood of people in the food services industry with tech degrees. Either that or cannon fodder for the military industrial complex.
Apple business desktops are appearing in the millions, what, they are not but, how could that be. Learn a lesson, what wins in the business environment wins at home, most people find it way to hard to learn two different systems. What wins in business, the most cost efficient system 'er' cheap that is.
Why the hell the apple wonks keep carrying out about Linux has me beat, feel threatened much. Gees, go focus on the big part of the market, as for which kernel the apple gui runs on, does it really make that much fucking difference. Apple technically competes with Gnome and KDE, not Linux. Linux is FOSS. use it, don't use, it's free, like, get over it already.
Apple is quite free to dump their GUI on top of Linux and sell it with the PCs, so what the hell is the issue already:/.
You missed a point, where it is not the most friendly of peacemaking stances to publicly plant missiles in neighbouring countries, sure it generates lots of profits for arms manufacturers, but really, aren't all of those nuclear submarines with thousands of nuclear warheads enough already.
If they want to play at the peace game then they should do the peaceful things and not be running around trying to fire up the cold war just because a bunch of ass wipe arms manufacturers and their lobbyists and profiting by it.
NATO should only expand to reduce the cost and wasted resources of each member country of maintaining a fully fledged defence force and not be about starting and waging world war three or about geriatric corrupt politicians trying to gain votes.
The US played a bit heavily on threatening Russia with economic sanctions when the Russian economy was struggling, which put their nose seriously out of joint. Added to that the US under Bush has been pretty well antagonising nearly every other major oil producing country except for some 'strange' reason Saudi Arabia (home of al Qaeda, zero democracy, religious fundamentalism and, rampant discrimination, seriously, WTF), which has pushed those other countries together.
population density is idiot logic. By that logic you wouldn't have paved road, water services, electrical power services, sewerage services, storm water services, gas services and even copper phone services, all of which, surprise surprise are more expensive than a modern fibre optic service.
The reason you don't have fibre optic is because the incumbents are desperately trying to preserve the inflated values of the existing copper service and are using their lobbyists at every opportunity to blow any government movement in that direction. Why no new FTH, because the investors know the copper incumbents will significantly drop their rates as soon as some starts laying fibre to the home, which will kill the revenue of the FTH company sending them broke, then the copper incumbent will raise rates back to their prior levels.
However they are wrong when they say it will take a hundred years for those suffering under incumbent copper telcos, it will take between 25 and 50 years, as the incumbents are running the copper networks into the ground with minimal maintenance, so eventually there will be a series of major land line infrastructure collapses forcing the government to take action.
Either that or non-geriatric non-incontinent politicians take over, ones who are at least some what aware that we are into the 21st century, and they will just flip the bird to the incumbents and force through FTH.
Up the ante, gladiator Olympics, culling the numbers will solve the problem. Five rings of death, tens of thousands go in only a hand full comes out, high school geeks and nerds the world over rejoice at the reduction of jockstrap breeding numbers;D.
Just to make it a bit trickier. The GPS is emitting a radio signal and EMR does represent a risk to human health and as such should be minimised. Technically the GPS is committing a minor assault upon the genetic structure of the occupants. Do the police have the right to subject you to increased levels of EMR with out your permissions, especially should you as an individual consider it a health threat and are already limiting the personal use of those devices, especially with regard to cumulative affects (many devices and continuous exposure to radiation). So the argument is active versus passive monitoring.
Well at least separate out the celebrities from the two basic types, the performing monkies and the ones that actually create content. Comedians who actually write the own content and pretty generally recognised as being head and shoulders and pretty well the whole rest of the torso above the performance artists when it comes to intellect.
So it is very likely that they would do a whole lot better job that the actors who have managed to 'act' their way into the job following the 'script' created by their campaign manager, all to fulfil their own bloated egos and who leave the actual running of their political office to the lobbyists.
The real shame of it is, most comedians are far to honest to put up with the B$ to force their way into public office. So, would some of the most well known and creative comedians make better politicians then the crap we got stuck with, most bloody likely.
The reality is, it is simply much harder to investigate and prosecute a fraud case. Your word against theirs, with no physical damage, apart from a empty bank account. Which could of course have been legitimately emptied and it is just a very disgruntled 'conned'sumer. So whilst it the transaction might very well have been completely amoral and even immoral and certainly have been a rip off, under today's modern 'screw the customer' corporate influenced laws, it might have very well have been dishonestly legal.
Generally it is a lot easier to prosecute when there have been many victims 'sic' to corroborate the fraudulent actions of the perpetrator. So it is not so much high profile, but easier prosecutions, hence higher numbers.
Honestly if they were really serious about fraudulent misrepresentation, how many politicians would be behind bars for the rest of the lives? Do you really see the implementing really tough fraud laws any time soon, especially laws that could readily tackle 'wildly' exaggerated marketing as well as streams of PR=B$, yeah, it would make for a far better world but, it ain't gonna happen any time soon:(!
Well as it turns out. It might never be Linux's year on the desk top. Fours years down the round, multimedia desknotes, UMPCs, smartphone/PDA, smartTVs and, maybe, just maybe, walk around virtual reality will be approaching. Now when it comes walk around virtual reality who seriously would want M$ DRMing your personal view of the world, talk about suck.
The real shift will be a hardware shift,with software supplied 'FREE' as in 'FREE' with the hardware, which combines compatibility across a broad range of different hardware platforms all free of licences. Typical family home, 4 phones, 2 Multimedia desknotes , 4 UMPCS, 2 smartTVs, 1 Family Server(email,VOIP messaging, streaming) yeah we are all stupid enough to pay for 12 OS licences every two years, or even every time we replace the hardware, then add to that another 12 office suite licences every two years now add the cost of fully functional unDRMed family server, plus additional user licences for guests. I am not even going to bother to calculate the cost, as it is obviously way out of the ballpark for the average family. Lets not of course forget some of the other content that still has to be paid for, games, movies and music.
So M$ is doomed, doomed I tell you;), when it comes to windows and office, why else would ballmer be so myopic is his bid for yahoo as a result of a failing MSN if he did not know the writing was on the wall for M$'s monopoly OS and office suite pricing rip off (that monopoly is slowly but surely being eaten away by millions of voracious piranha penguins);D.
More likely a violent minority sort control of the more readily edible food resources forcing the remainder to make use of the more inedible food resources as best they could ie. cook and process inedible or starve.
This principle would be reinforced during harsher environmental conditions, the coming on of an ice age, the ice age itself and the return to normal climatic conditions. Now as ice ages have consistently be repeated during the evolution of humanity, an adaptability to significantly altering climate conditions and food resource changes, gives intelligence a significant boost over simple physical capability.
However those contact lists do not target other companies so much as other employees with contact lists at other companies, possibly a pyrrhic victory as those employees might not wish to make any contact with a company that thinks that employee contact lists are the property of a company rather than the person who establish personal and direct contact with other human beings.
Contact lists by definition are human to human contact, not some IP that can be traded. A lot of times people are doing doing business with a company because of the people they are actually dealing with from that company. As such it is their choice whether they wish to follow the person to a new company, not the old companies nor a judge's choice. The reality is a contact list is the shared ownership of the persons on that list, they get to decide whether or not they are to be contacted.
Then again if you have some much 'fuel' available to you, your can at the very least use it all up to control the likely crash site to a very deep part of the ocean. Not to mention the very unlikely possibility that spy satellites do not have self destruct devices, I mean really, what half way nuts professional paranoid type would send up a spy satellite that the enemy might pilfer by targeting it with a capture satellite.
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The crazy principle is, by their logic you are not proving who you are, you are proving who you aren't. Now if that other person is such a threat that under no circumstance should they be allowed to board a plane etc. then why aren't they keeping track of their location sufficiently well to know that they are not at your current location attempting to board a plane.
So why is email any different from a phone answering machine, especially a voip answering machine? Think a home website more as an answering service for all the incoming communications (even while you where out with wireless and IP mobile), with a confirmation of who you are as well as of course the logical expression of social networking ie. why myspace or facebook, when you can roll and control your own, all you need is the linking infrastructure.
The harsh reality would seem to be the distinct gap between the execution and the cremation of the remains with no independent witnesses to the state of the body between the two. Organ reclamation vehicles, rather than mobile execution chambers.
How about you also compare what is printed in mass media to what is actually in the court records. When the content of court records is filtered to suit those with vested interests, than mass media has far greater opportunity to create it's own version of the truth.
From hiding the behaviour of the rich and greedy to crucifying those opposed corporatism. They are all public courts and all actions with in those courts should be and have to be a matter of public record, to ensure that justice is 'seen' to be administered.
The best alternative is simply to ban the republishing on court records on other sites and to prevent anonymous access to court records. This should limit abuse of the system and keep track of people who might not react appropriately to information presented in those court records. Education the public is of far greater value than creating a society with even more secrets in public administration.
And let mass media continue to create the impossible to reach illusion, if only you could 'spend' enough to achieve it.
The reality is, that those fraudulently created illusions do a great amount of damage to society and do get a lot of people to cause harm to themselves either by trying to achieve those illusions or in the aftermath when they fail to do so.
In the modern world, lies do kill and technology like this is certain to be abused. Believe nothing unless you see it with your own eyes live and even then question the logic of that visions. As for stuff on the digital feed, always, always, ponder the vested interests and the motivations behind them.
Brings to mind the really pitiful thing about the next version of windows, basically a dressed over rehash of Vista, which is forcing M$ to continue advertising Vista because they know it will be a major slap in the face for customers who don't want vista.
M$ should just bite the bullet, dump vista and it's creator ballmer, rework XP and fix the mess. Rather than trying to forcing unwanted crap onto customers who actually make a choice about their os. I prefer Linux so the more stupid decisions by M$ the better but, corporations doing really stupid things because of the egos of the executive team really irk me.
This of course is only as far as the greedy, traffic blocking, no server, ass hat ISP's. Their are plenty of regional good ISPs that believe in providing quality customers services at a reasonable price eg. http://ipv6.internode.on.net/, they of course will be the ones who end up crippling the IPv4 profits.
So home based server appliances, for email, voip, web serving, will kill IPv4 because they will want their IP address for free and, not to forget smart phone/PDAs and UMPCs all with their own IPv6 address, for instant global mesh networking, so yeah billions of adresses and the typical user will have at least three, home server, smart phone/PDA and UMPC.
What is interesting is how the thread was shifted to email rather than the complete range of office applications. Email is just one small area of office applications and sure when you ISP is down and you can't even get the hosted apps, it makes no difference as email is impossible but of course all you other local applications could still function.
For a start there is the whole accounting and bookkeeping range of software, and of those are considerably safer when locally hosted. So if you are already running sufficient hardware for those other applications why bother.
Also in calculating down time for hosted apps you have to add in all the possible faults, including loss of connection (the full route, from you to a host possibly thousands of kilometres away) and, power outages (laptops can still function) etc. rather than just the host servers going down.
Cheap hardware free software, it really does seem like they are fooling themselves trying to solve problems from the previous millennium that really no longer exist (very expensive hardware and software and server administration costs).
With this kind of technology you will never want to leave home or look in a mirror lest you be exposed the ugly shock of reality ;).
It could get better a whole lot faster if fair trade was implemented as a guiding principle of free trade. Trade is not free if the system is corrupted, by producing products and services in countries where the majority of people can not afford to buy them and then exporting those products to country where people can only afford to buy them until their ability to purchase those goods is crippled by the importation of those products. Stupidity driven by the greed of a minority who can not see beyond importing products produced and sold with massive profits.
There should be a basis of tariffs to ensure that products and services are produced upon a equal basis, where companies that employ locally are not discriminated against by adhering to sound laws that protect the environment and employment conditions. So rather than product based tariffs, country based tariffs. Those countries that find the products and services penalised by high tariffs will then have a true incentive to improve conditions in their own country as the products are subject to that cost anyhow.
As for the ass hats who make the claim that allowing those countries to produce products upon human exploitative and environmentally destructive conditions, will somehow allow them to improve over time based upon the income earned, we know exactly want kind of bullshit lie that really is. All it does is create autocratic governments who use extreme violence to suppress the work force to specifically prevent any change. Strangely enough those autocratic government often turn out to be puppet regimes, run by other countries at the behest of corporations who generate huge profits via that exploitation.
Profit does not necessitate a monetary return just that they have profit by minor copyright infringements. P2P. generally you must upload content to down load content, upload represents the major infringement and that in turn facilitates downloads at higher speeds, how the individual profits via the upload.
The will lie cheat and steal to maximise the profits, nothing more should be given to them in fact, some of the protections should be taken away or reduced.
Brains which produce honour and integrity is what makes real humans. Blind obedient thugs are just animals. The best soldiers are what they always have been, those with the courage to overcome their fear, those with the discipline to control their emotions and those who really do believe that honour and integrity is what you take with you onto the battlefield and keep with you afterwards, not just a empty motto to hide torture, murder and rape.
Drugs or other devices will achieve none of these, they will just create a military force they you can no longer trust at home, or with members of the opposite sex, or to interact with innocent citizens of another country. A military force to be ashamed of, ones that spends more time hiding it;s misdeeds than investigating them and prosecuting the offenders.
Then again compulsory mind control drugs for politicians so that can not tell a lie, might be just the thing, hell, administered the world over and the idiots wont be able to bull shit us into another war and we wont need a military, cool ;).
The really lamest part of course is 'Educate Its Workforce For The Innovation Age', all the lamest politicians the world over have been rabbiting on about exactly the same thing and then in the next breath, global marketplace and free trade, with the net result that all those job are outsourced to countries that pay one tenth the wage and you have a flood of people in the food services industry with tech degrees. Either that or cannon fodder for the military industrial complex.
Apple business desktops are appearing in the millions, what, they are not but, how could that be. Learn a lesson, what wins in the business environment wins at home, most people find it way to hard to learn two different systems. What wins in business, the most cost efficient system 'er' cheap that is.
Why the hell the apple wonks keep carrying out about Linux has me beat, feel threatened much. Gees, go focus on the big part of the market, as for which kernel the apple gui runs on, does it really make that much fucking difference. Apple technically competes with Gnome and KDE, not Linux. Linux is FOSS. use it, don't use, it's free, like, get over it already.
Apple is quite free to dump their GUI on top of Linux and sell it with the PCs, so what the hell is the issue already :/.
You missed a point, where it is not the most friendly of peacemaking stances to publicly plant missiles in neighbouring countries, sure it generates lots of profits for arms manufacturers, but really, aren't all of those nuclear submarines with thousands of nuclear warheads enough already.
If they want to play at the peace game then they should do the peaceful things and not be running around trying to fire up the cold war just because a bunch of ass wipe arms manufacturers and their lobbyists and profiting by it.
NATO should only expand to reduce the cost and wasted resources of each member country of maintaining a fully fledged defence force and not be about starting and waging world war three or about geriatric corrupt politicians trying to gain votes.
The US played a bit heavily on threatening Russia with economic sanctions when the Russian economy was struggling, which put their nose seriously out of joint. Added to that the US under Bush has been pretty well antagonising nearly every other major oil producing country except for some 'strange' reason Saudi Arabia (home of al Qaeda, zero democracy, religious fundamentalism and, rampant discrimination, seriously, WTF), which has pushed those other countries together.
The reason you don't have fibre optic is because the incumbents are desperately trying to preserve the inflated values of the existing copper service and are using their lobbyists at every opportunity to blow any government movement in that direction. Why no new FTH, because the investors know the copper incumbents will significantly drop their rates as soon as some starts laying fibre to the home, which will kill the revenue of the FTH company sending them broke, then the copper incumbent will raise rates back to their prior levels.
However they are wrong when they say it will take a hundred years for those suffering under incumbent copper telcos, it will take between 25 and 50 years, as the incumbents are running the copper networks into the ground with minimal maintenance, so eventually there will be a series of major land line infrastructure collapses forcing the government to take action.
Either that or non-geriatric non-incontinent politicians take over, ones who are at least some what aware that we are into the 21st century, and they will just flip the bird to the incumbents and force through FTH.
Up the ante, gladiator Olympics, culling the numbers will solve the problem. Five rings of death, tens of thousands go in only a hand full comes out, high school geeks and nerds the world over rejoice at the reduction of jockstrap breeding numbers ;D.
Just to make it a bit trickier. The GPS is emitting a radio signal and EMR does represent a risk to human health and as such should be minimised. Technically the GPS is committing a minor assault upon the genetic structure of the occupants. Do the police have the right to subject you to increased levels of EMR with out your permissions, especially should you as an individual consider it a health threat and are already limiting the personal use of those devices, especially with regard to cumulative affects (many devices and continuous exposure to radiation). So the argument is active versus passive monitoring.
Well at least separate out the celebrities from the two basic types, the performing monkies and the ones that actually create content. Comedians who actually write the own content and pretty generally recognised as being head and shoulders and pretty well the whole rest of the torso above the performance artists when it comes to intellect.
So it is very likely that they would do a whole lot better job that the actors who have managed to 'act' their way into the job following the 'script' created by their campaign manager, all to fulfil their own bloated egos and who leave the actual running of their political office to the lobbyists.
The real shame of it is, most comedians are far to honest to put up with the B$ to force their way into public office. So, would some of the most well known and creative comedians make better politicians then the crap we got stuck with, most bloody likely.
The reality is, it is simply much harder to investigate and prosecute a fraud case. Your word against theirs, with no physical damage, apart from a empty bank account. Which could of course have been legitimately emptied and it is just a very disgruntled 'conned'sumer. So whilst it the transaction might very well have been completely amoral and even immoral and certainly have been a rip off, under today's modern 'screw the customer' corporate influenced laws, it might have very well have been dishonestly legal.
Generally it is a lot easier to prosecute when there have been many victims 'sic' to corroborate the fraudulent actions of the perpetrator. So it is not so much high profile, but easier prosecutions, hence higher numbers.
Honestly if they were really serious about fraudulent misrepresentation, how many politicians would be behind bars for the rest of the lives? Do you really see the implementing really tough fraud laws any time soon, especially laws that could readily tackle 'wildly' exaggerated marketing as well as streams of PR=B$, yeah, it would make for a far better world but, it ain't gonna happen any time soon :(!
Well as it turns out. It might never be Linux's year on the desk top. Fours years down the round, multimedia desknotes, UMPCs, smartphone/PDA, smartTVs and, maybe, just maybe, walk around virtual reality will be approaching. Now when it comes walk around virtual reality who seriously would want M$ DRMing your personal view of the world, talk about suck.
The real shift will be a hardware shift,with software supplied 'FREE' as in 'FREE' with the hardware, which combines compatibility across a broad range of different hardware platforms all free of licences. Typical family home, 4 phones, 2 Multimedia desknotes , 4 UMPCS, 2 smartTVs, 1 Family Server(email,VOIP messaging, streaming) yeah we are all stupid enough to pay for 12 OS licences every two years, or even every time we replace the hardware, then add to that another 12 office suite licences every two years now add the cost of fully functional unDRMed family server, plus additional user licences for guests. I am not even going to bother to calculate the cost, as it is obviously way out of the ballpark for the average family. Lets not of course forget some of the other content that still has to be paid for, games, movies and music.
So M$ is doomed, doomed I tell you ;), when it comes to windows and office, why else would ballmer be so myopic is his bid for yahoo as a result of a failing MSN if he did not know the writing was on the wall for M$'s monopoly OS and office suite pricing rip off (that monopoly is slowly but surely being eaten away by millions of voracious piranha penguins) ;D.
More likely a violent minority sort control of the more readily edible food resources forcing the remainder to make use of the more inedible food resources as best they could ie. cook and process inedible or starve.
This principle would be reinforced during harsher environmental conditions, the coming on of an ice age, the ice age itself and the return to normal climatic conditions. Now as ice ages have consistently be repeated during the evolution of humanity, an adaptability to significantly altering climate conditions and food resource changes, gives intelligence a significant boost over simple physical capability.
Hmm, cooking frozen food anyone ;).
;D.
However those contact lists do not target other companies so much as other employees with contact lists at other companies, possibly a pyrrhic victory as those employees might not wish to make any contact with a company that thinks that employee contact lists are the property of a company rather than the person who establish personal and direct contact with other human beings.
Contact lists by definition are human to human contact, not some IP that can be traded. A lot of times people are doing doing business with a company because of the people they are actually dealing with from that company. As such it is their choice whether they wish to follow the person to a new company, not the old companies nor a judge's choice. The reality is a contact list is the shared ownership of the persons on that list, they get to decide whether or not they are to be contacted.
Then again if you have some much 'fuel' available to you, your can at the very least use it all up to control the likely crash site to a very deep part of the ocean. Not to mention the very unlikely possibility that spy satellites do not have self destruct devices, I mean really, what half way nuts professional paranoid type would send up a spy satellite that the enemy might pilfer by targeting it with a capture satellite.