Oh yes, more closer to your job in societies where job permanence does not exit, so cost to sell your home, buy another and shift, 'er' zero cost every two to five years as for your partner well of course they just have to suck it up and quit their career to follow yours. So what can government do, well at a very minimum to support your argument, enforce significant penalties when companies do not offer jobs for life.
As for all those minimum wage jobs that offer absolutely no chance of telecommuting, no chance of ever owning your own home and very often living close to the place of work is so far out of their price bracket as to make the statement a demeaning insult. So you what realistic green solutions, you want them applied to the minority when they are beneficial and when the green solution means missing out you want them applied to those making the decisions first ie. green solution for air conditioning - no air conditioning.
So it is important that wealth is never considered a licence to pollute and destroy the environment.
The catch is always the money, so even $200, say 10 million PCs and you have 2 billion dollars. As for transport costs, so what you are saying is they a teleporting the new machines for free. So the cost to location remains the same, the only difference is the starting cost as for whether they are starving or not that has absolutely no difference between old and new.
More specifically training people to repair and rebuild used PC is part of the principle of the whole idea. The recycled components of broken machines still have value as long as the facilities are put in place to process and make use of it.
The fault really is not in the delivery of faulty machines but in the failure to establish process in the receiving countries to sort, test and rebuild computers. If methods are put in place to recover money from the broken down and recycled materials, then this money can be used in repairs.
The problem is, nothing has be put in place to accept anything other than pretty much brand new machines in their original boxes.
In on of the publicised China corruption cases, I seem to remember them punishing a public official for receiving the bribes but somehow failed to prosecute any one paying bribes, hmm, exactly how can some one get prosecuted for receiving a bribe when no one gets prosecuted for paying a bride, what did they pay them selves off;D.
Why not, it doesn't ban content, it simply means that the owners of 'er' non-Intellectual Property can not persecute minors when they copy it. For me the creative commons is cool, so the Christian Right, stomping all over the mindlessly greedy destroy society for a profit mass media publishers, doesn't stress me at all, in fact I see it as rather poetic justice;D.
It would seem like Geogia did ramp up the hostilities specifically during the Olympic period, expecting support from the US after Georgia supported the US war in Iraq. From the Russian point of view, it was likely taken as the US Administration/republican neocons, prompting Georgia to launch the attack with verbal promises of US support,(the neocons are the ones most concerned with media) all to gauge the Russian Government reaction, that thousands of people die for neocon games, don't expect the GOP to care.
What is important to the neocons is, can it be used for republican political traction in the US elections and, can it be used to pump up US corporate war profits. The over the top reaction from Russia is all about killing off any more neocon political games for profit in what the Russian government deem to be their region of control. Georgia now just looks foolish, after having been screwed over by the neocons with empty promises of support.
M$ or more specifically ballmer is forced to spend more money on advertising, else Vista will and is perceived as ballmer's failure
The really pitiful thing about it all, it is readily apparent why M$ can not make a profitable success out of MSN, it is not all about advertising on the internet it is about advertising versus the internet, M$ management really just can't get a handle on the internet.
The days are over of trying to convince the user that they are the only one with the problem or that the problem is their fault or that everybody else likes it and uses it without a problem. Sure in worked for M$ in the nineties but it is a failure now. As for windows XP versus earlier verions of windows, compared to NT4 and ME practically anything would be a significant improvement but if given the choice of win2kpro with the latest drivers or XP or Vista, just go away with the lie that most people would choose Vista or even XP.
It is really pathetic how M$ continues to put forward the lie that people get to choose which editions of windows they get to use, OEM discount versus full priced box and the reality as an OEM default install you are forced to buy, you would have to pay the cost of the full priced box in addition to the OEM install price.
The big thing about the danger of interception of your private traffic is the level of corruption in those intercepting that traffic. So in the US example you would likely worry a lot more about the CIA than the FBI, as FBI agents whilst they might not be using your data in your best interests they are very unlikely to strip mine your bank account, steal your identity, hack your place of work or blackmail you (as for the CIA that depends on whether your dealing with a full timer or a contractor).
So to extend that out as a comparisson between China and the US, the level of corruption in China is far greater since it has become a corporate fascist state. True the corruption between the Chinese Government leadership and the current US administration might not be all that different, but you certainly can't compare the qualities of FBI agents with the police produced by the Chinese Ministry of Public security (makes you kinda think of US Homeland Security though).
The other big thing of course, under both governments laws, as a foreigner you are fair game for intelligence services to use and abuse in any way they see fit. So with in your own country your police force protects you from an out of control spy agencies but in some else's country you most definitely do not have that same level of protection.
Another big point is that copyright should adhere to the defined principles upon which it is legislated. To further the arts and sciences and if a work does not further the arts and sciences than it should absolutely not be protected at the public expense.
So really there should be two types of copyright, one that purely protects the identity of it's creator but is free to copy, as it is only a minor work or due to it's content it demonstrably does not further the arts and sciences and the other that provides limited protection against copying where it demonstrably does further the arts and sciences.
So as per law, copyrights should be very much like patents, in terms of duration as well as quality control (of course excluding the corrupted US software patents system).
It really was a combination of factors.The slogan? So Mark Shuttleworth choices in establishing the principles of Ubuntu certainly had a lot to do with it. The logo, the slogan and the principles behind them had a lot to do with it. The friendliness of the support forums had a lot to do with it. The quality of the distribution had a lot to do with it. The variants possible within the distribution Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edbuntu, Xubuntu and now Gobuntu had a lot to do with it.
It all really points to the choice that open source provides and the principles of sharing the effort. Once any open source product gains a bit of a lead and of course adheres to the principles upon which it is founded, it gains additional users, which provides greater numbers for support, development and distribution, which gains additional users, which naturally enough creates greater numbers for support, development and distribution , etc. What tends to disrupt that cycle is a change in principles of the founders of that particular open source product and this happens because a variant can so readily be created which does adhere to the preferred principles of the majority of actual end users.
So redhat went a bit corporate, SuSe via Novell went a bit M$ ie. nucking futs, mandrake was struggling with finances, Sun was struggling to get a handle on it, IBM like a millipede is pretty smartly keeping a foot in every door possible and most of the others were not really seeking a broad Linux market, so Ubuntu, right principles at the right time and a very good job they done of it indeed.
Just to be clear on that point, in a lot of places across the globe the EULA is meaningless. In most places all conditions of contract must be available at the point of sale, prior to purchase, ie for software clearly printed on the outside of the box, clicky button post purchase means nothing.
The really silly thing about all of this as far as M$ should be concerned whether Vista or Xp is being sold should make no difference. Of course as far as ballmer is concerned, as vista is his disaster, he is trying desperately to protect himself from his self evident failure.
Now of course as far as the M$ shareholders are concerned, Vista is a multi billion dollar waste of money, with even more money being thrown away on pointless advertising, it is making M$ look arrogant in it's attempts to force customers to buy it in preference to XP, nobody believes any of the Vista sales figures any more because every knows by know that most of them are in reality XP downgrades and for Vista to be counted as successful the only sales figure that counts is upgrades, so Vista either makes or loses money based upon upgrades only, as OEMs sales would have occurred for XP at a similar rate with out the additional investment.
Well no, they are hidden because they only work if the people reading don't know they are not really people's actual opinion.
Publicly advertising that you are doing it and seeking as many, liars as possible to spread your brand of B$, is just plain stupid. It really does point to an extreme level of ignorance with regard to the internet and, that somehow, via some reality distortion field, that people will only read the bits you want them to read and the ignore the other stuff you don't want them to read, or that only the blind faithful will look at that bits on your web site that you don't want the general public to read.
This really points to the massive disconnect of the republicans and their ownership of mass media, where only the lies that they want to present as the truth get out to the public via adverting as news outlets and the real truth is buried (well at least within the US, it is of course spread embarrassingly across the rest of the globe).
Of course you could look at it another, the neocons have spent some much time telling some of the most flagrant lies, that for them it is now seen as normal everyday behaviour and just a regular part of corporate business, lie cheat and steal, it's what they do, everybody knows it, it's how they get rich.
To clarify that. It is not just the nature of the attack but the nature of the victim, a minor and the perpetrator an adult. It is clear that the adult did intend to cause harm to a minor with out any regard for the consequences or the pain and suffering caused to the minor. It is very important to make that distinction as it was not an act of social intercourse between two mature adults or an irresponsible and immature act between two minors. So it is likely better to try to penalise the act with in the laws that govern the interactions of adults and minors.
The problem is the idiot forgets he is a multi-millionaire and the people whose wages he is going to so blithely cut are not. A lot of people foolishly extend there credit to the limit based upon be able to repay it at their current salary levels. Cutting back their wage without warning will likely mean that somewhere between 25% and 50% will go bankrupt, unable to make house payments, credit card payments of finance payments and, any governor with half a brain will should realise this will make things far worse, all you need is another 50,000 bankruptcies to further destabilise the economy.
To all of the above correct. There is a contract between every customer and every restaurant , that the food is safe the restaurant is clean etc, and this is enforced by local government, they same applies to credit card use, every merchant who accepts your card is required to keep your details private by law and by contractual agreement with the credit card firms. So it is the same for this example, when the add was placed it made no claims of privacy and, when people replied they made no request to ensure privacy.
They might be able to claim fraud, as the the fellow who placed the add generated a valuable return based upon the responses as well as significant publicly, so either the fellow offers up his body for use as he agreed to in the add or he reimburses those individuals based upon his returns and their losses.
It actually also happened in Australia. The major Telco Telstra was sending SMS advertising to it's customers and charging them for receiving it. As you can image this was not well received and put before the consumer watch dog the ACCC, successful for the customer outcome, the charges had to be repaid and the adds ceased.
I would have thought there was a similar government department in Canada for tackling issues like these on behalf of the public, with out the public having to resort to class action law suits.
So the whole fun of one handed mouse gaming when you were a bit bored but still did not want the game to suck up all your attention missed you ie. while you were chatting with someone, watching a dvd or pretending to be working;D.
More simply put, getting past censorship when they are monitoring you connection is really a pretty silly thing to do. Censorship denies you knowledge, flouting it on monitored systems in autocracies can deny your life.
With modern tech, outside influences have to do more to support those trapped by autocratic systems and you certainly are not going to free people in forced labour when you purchase goods produced by that labour.
I would have thought the whole Novell agreement and press release was a really good example of M$ going out it's way to create as much disharmony as possible. The way M$ handled the press release certainly did a lot of harm to Novell's relationship with open source community.
Mostly all of this stuff, M$ cosying up to open source, is just a cynical exercise in marketing. As a lot of developers are finding open source tools cheaper for the medium and long term M$ is finding it much harder to attract them, for example silverfish is really just going nowhere. I certainly hope you wont ask me to cite developers, developers, developers, developers and the associated billy goat wild gesticulations;).
How long ago was it that M$ was doing exactly this same sort of thing, only to be followed up a month later with a 'all your patents belong to us claim' by ballmer. Of course M$ can change, just as soon as it tosses out the old management team and replaces it with a new team, one that is capable of successfully diversifying a company with billions of dollars of capital (you would have though that was a no brainer) and converting money losing divisions (after years and years of losses) into money making divisions, ballmer's boast of being able to lose a much money as necessary to gain market share eventually has to wear a bit thin, dare we say, threadbare.
The of course beggars the question as to why a well informed Linux user would buy a PC with Linux pre-installed erase it and then install windows. The truth is woth windows install most users are incapable of doing them which is why manufacturers had to supply discs with a copy the installed sate of the PC at delivery rather than just a disk ie. Linux (depending o the distribution) is easier to install than windows.
Beside with no access to report and the basis upon which statics were gathered it is hard to make sence of anything. I know the M$ only likes to count PCs with OSs pre-installed and a PC with out an OS just disappears off their statistics, all those non-existent Linux servers (especially low cost web servers).
There is no case for self publication, it is fraught with dangerous legal interpretation. Quality of bandwidth, whether all investors gain access at the same time, the site remaining accessible, let alone the issues of editing. Then the is the hacking of web sites and editing the now legal announcements, is the company then criminally negligent for failing to secure the data.
A central achieved copy for legal purposes is a requirement to ensure all investors gain equal access to all announcements, the cost in terms of the trillions of dollars invested in corporations is negligible.
Personally I would think it would make more sense to expand the service of the SEC so that they could handle all announcements and third parties could pick it up from there to redistribute or investors can go direct.
You really have no idea. They own you 24/7 everything you do and everything you say. They, when they want to play nice, allow you to work out of hours, whether for yourself or others, permission which they can withdraw any time they choose, in the military you don't get paid overtime because there is no such thing all your time belongs to them.
I would be surprised if the sergeant did not get charged for embedding that code obviously with out the knowledge of his superior officers, definitely 'actions unbecoming', clearly code intended to sabotage military functions.
As for the DMCA, standard patent and copyright exemptions apply for the military through out the world and they only pay them when they choose to. I mean really, do your think there would be some kind of payment to a foreign company when you are at dispute with their country, I mean what would they do if you refused to pay, like, declare war;D.
I think you will find it reflects a run around in privacy. Politicians and the rich are realising that the privacy invasive tactics they use to exploit others can also be readily used against them, hence, there is a major change in attitude developing towards privacy. While this change in attitude has been some what schizophrenic due to the RIAA and the MPAA, as well as, lobbyist paid for by privacy invasive companies, oddly enough while those self same lobbyist are desperately trying to keep their own activities hidden and private, just as those companies invading other peoples privacy want to keep their activities secret.
So private email is not a postcard and those googlites who believe so could find them selves at variance to future far stricter privacy laws and social sites will find them selves increasingly under scrutiny and when it comes to invading the privacy of minors who can not make legally binding contractual agreements.
With this is of course is the distinction between work email and private email, email received and sent on company equipment during company time is the property of the company and not the individual sending or receiving it, especially as the individual has been paid to create, send and receive said email.
So for those companies and individuals who generate a substantial portion of the income by invading the privacy of others, diversify or die;).
You post brings to mind the whole principal of creative capitalism, the line of B$ and PR that you feed poor people in order to convince them that rich people bleeding them dry is actually good for them. Just like your line of B$ that somehow rebuilding 'public' schools after flood and hurricane damage somehow equates with private school tuition fees which in reality are subsidised by government (you really think the rich and greedy would pay the full cost of educating their own children even when they can so readily afford it, nah)
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Oh yes, more closer to your job in societies where job permanence does not exit, so cost to sell your home, buy another and shift, 'er' zero cost every two to five years as for your partner well of course they just have to suck it up and quit their career to follow yours. So what can government do, well at a very minimum to support your argument, enforce significant penalties when companies do not offer jobs for life.
As for all those minimum wage jobs that offer absolutely no chance of telecommuting, no chance of ever owning your own home and very often living close to the place of work is so far out of their price bracket as to make the statement a demeaning insult. So you what realistic green solutions, you want them applied to the minority when they are beneficial and when the green solution means missing out you want them applied to those making the decisions first ie. green solution for air conditioning - no air conditioning.
So it is important that wealth is never considered a licence to pollute and destroy the environment.
The catch is always the money, so even $200, say 10 million PCs and you have 2 billion dollars. As for transport costs, so what you are saying is they a teleporting the new machines for free. So the cost to location remains the same, the only difference is the starting cost as for whether they are starving or not that has absolutely no difference between old and new.
So your only valid arguments are insults, let me guess which side of politics your from ;D.
More specifically training people to repair and rebuild used PC is part of the principle of the whole idea. The recycled components of broken machines still have value as long as the facilities are put in place to process and make use of it.
The fault really is not in the delivery of faulty machines but in the failure to establish process in the receiving countries to sort, test and rebuild computers. If methods are put in place to recover money from the broken down and recycled materials, then this money can be used in repairs.
The problem is, nothing has be put in place to accept anything other than pretty much brand new machines in their original boxes.
In on of the publicised China corruption cases, I seem to remember them punishing a public official for receiving the bribes but somehow failed to prosecute any one paying bribes, hmm, exactly how can some one get prosecuted for receiving a bribe when no one gets prosecuted for paying a bride, what did they pay them selves off ;D.
Why not, it doesn't ban content, it simply means that the owners of 'er' non-Intellectual Property can not persecute minors when they copy it. For me the creative commons is cool, so the Christian Right, stomping all over the mindlessly greedy destroy society for a profit mass media publishers, doesn't stress me at all, in fact I see it as rather poetic justice ;D.
It would seem like Geogia did ramp up the hostilities specifically during the Olympic period, expecting support from the US after Georgia supported the US war in Iraq. From the Russian point of view, it was likely taken as the US Administration/republican neocons, prompting Georgia to launch the attack with verbal promises of US support,(the neocons are the ones most concerned with media) all to gauge the Russian Government reaction, that thousands of people die for neocon games, don't expect the GOP to care.
What is important to the neocons is, can it be used for republican political traction in the US elections and, can it be used to pump up US corporate war profits. The over the top reaction from Russia is all about killing off any more neocon political games for profit in what the Russian government deem to be their region of control. Georgia now just looks foolish, after having been screwed over by the neocons with empty promises of support.
M$ or more specifically ballmer is forced to spend more money on advertising, else Vista will and is perceived as ballmer's failure
The really pitiful thing about it all, it is readily apparent why M$ can not make a profitable success out of MSN, it is not all about advertising on the internet it is about advertising versus the internet, M$ management really just can't get a handle on the internet.
The days are over of trying to convince the user that they are the only one with the problem or that the problem is their fault or that everybody else likes it and uses it without a problem. Sure in worked for M$ in the nineties but it is a failure now. As for windows XP versus earlier verions of windows, compared to NT4 and ME practically anything would be a significant improvement but if given the choice of win2kpro with the latest drivers or XP or Vista, just go away with the lie that most people would choose Vista or even XP.
It is really pathetic how M$ continues to put forward the lie that people get to choose which editions of windows they get to use, OEM discount versus full priced box and the reality as an OEM default install you are forced to buy, you would have to pay the cost of the full priced box in addition to the OEM install price.
The big thing about the danger of interception of your private traffic is the level of corruption in those intercepting that traffic. So in the US example you would likely worry a lot more about the CIA than the FBI, as FBI agents whilst they might not be using your data in your best interests they are very unlikely to strip mine your bank account, steal your identity, hack your place of work or blackmail you (as for the CIA that depends on whether your dealing with a full timer or a contractor).
So to extend that out as a comparisson between China and the US, the level of corruption in China is far greater since it has become a corporate fascist state. True the corruption between the Chinese Government leadership and the current US administration might not be all that different, but you certainly can't compare the qualities of FBI agents with the police produced by the Chinese Ministry of Public security (makes you kinda think of US Homeland Security though).
The other big thing of course, under both governments laws, as a foreigner you are fair game for intelligence services to use and abuse in any way they see fit. So with in your own country your police force protects you from an out of control spy agencies but in some else's country you most definitely do not have that same level of protection.
Another big point is that copyright should adhere to the defined principles upon which it is legislated. To further the arts and sciences and if a work does not further the arts and sciences than it should absolutely not be protected at the public expense.
So really there should be two types of copyright, one that purely protects the identity of it's creator but is free to copy, as it is only a minor work or due to it's content it demonstrably does not further the arts and sciences and the other that provides limited protection against copying where it demonstrably does further the arts and sciences.
So as per law, copyrights should be very much like patents, in terms of duration as well as quality control (of course excluding the corrupted US software patents system).
It all really points to the choice that open source provides and the principles of sharing the effort. Once any open source product gains a bit of a lead and of course adheres to the principles upon which it is founded, it gains additional users, which provides greater numbers for support, development and distribution, which gains additional users, which naturally enough creates greater numbers for support, development and distribution , etc. What tends to disrupt that cycle is a change in principles of the founders of that particular open source product and this happens because a variant can so readily be created which does adhere to the preferred principles of the majority of actual end users.
So redhat went a bit corporate, SuSe via Novell went a bit M$ ie. nucking futs, mandrake was struggling with finances, Sun was struggling to get a handle on it, IBM like a millipede is pretty smartly keeping a foot in every door possible and most of the others were not really seeking a broad Linux market, so Ubuntu, right principles at the right time and a very good job they done of it indeed.
Just to be clear on that point, in a lot of places across the globe the EULA is meaningless. In most places all conditions of contract must be available at the point of sale, prior to purchase, ie for software clearly printed on the outside of the box, clicky button post purchase means nothing.
The really silly thing about all of this as far as M$ should be concerned whether Vista or Xp is being sold should make no difference. Of course as far as ballmer is concerned, as vista is his disaster, he is trying desperately to protect himself from his self evident failure.
Now of course as far as the M$ shareholders are concerned, Vista is a multi billion dollar waste of money, with even more money being thrown away on pointless advertising, it is making M$ look arrogant in it's attempts to force customers to buy it in preference to XP, nobody believes any of the Vista sales figures any more because every knows by know that most of them are in reality XP downgrades and for Vista to be counted as successful the only sales figure that counts is upgrades, so Vista either makes or loses money based upon upgrades only, as OEMs sales would have occurred for XP at a similar rate with out the additional investment.
Well no, they are hidden because they only work if the people reading don't know they are not really people's actual opinion.
Publicly advertising that you are doing it and seeking as many, liars as possible to spread your brand of B$, is just plain stupid. It really does point to an extreme level of ignorance with regard to the internet and, that somehow, via some reality distortion field, that people will only read the bits you want them to read and the ignore the other stuff you don't want them to read, or that only the blind faithful will look at that bits on your web site that you don't want the general public to read.
This really points to the massive disconnect of the republicans and their ownership of mass media, where only the lies that they want to present as the truth get out to the public via adverting as news outlets and the real truth is buried (well at least within the US, it is of course spread embarrassingly across the rest of the globe).
Of course you could look at it another, the neocons have spent some much time telling some of the most flagrant lies, that for them it is now seen as normal everyday behaviour and just a regular part of corporate business, lie cheat and steal, it's what they do, everybody knows it, it's how they get rich.
To clarify that. It is not just the nature of the attack but the nature of the victim, a minor and the perpetrator an adult. It is clear that the adult did intend to cause harm to a minor with out any regard for the consequences or the pain and suffering caused to the minor. It is very important to make that distinction as it was not an act of social intercourse between two mature adults or an irresponsible and immature act between two minors. So it is likely better to try to penalise the act with in the laws that govern the interactions of adults and minors.
The problem is the idiot forgets he is a multi-millionaire and the people whose wages he is going to so blithely cut are not. A lot of people foolishly extend there credit to the limit based upon be able to repay it at their current salary levels. Cutting back their wage without warning will likely mean that somewhere between 25% and 50% will go bankrupt, unable to make house payments, credit card payments of finance payments and, any governor with half a brain will should realise this will make things far worse, all you need is another 50,000 bankruptcies to further destabilise the economy.
To all of the above correct. There is a contract between every customer and every restaurant , that the food is safe the restaurant is clean etc, and this is enforced by local government, they same applies to credit card use, every merchant who accepts your card is required to keep your details private by law and by contractual agreement with the credit card firms. So it is the same for this example, when the add was placed it made no claims of privacy and, when people replied they made no request to ensure privacy.
They might be able to claim fraud, as the the fellow who placed the add generated a valuable return based upon the responses as well as significant publicly, so either the fellow offers up his body for use as he agreed to in the add or he reimburses those individuals based upon his returns and their losses.
It actually also happened in Australia. The major Telco Telstra was sending SMS advertising to it's customers and charging them for receiving it. As you can image this was not well received and put before the consumer watch dog the ACCC, successful for the customer outcome, the charges had to be repaid and the adds ceased.
I would have thought there was a similar government department in Canada for tackling issues like these on behalf of the public, with out the public having to resort to class action law suits.
So the whole fun of one handed mouse gaming when you were a bit bored but still did not want the game to suck up all your attention missed you ie. while you were chatting with someone, watching a dvd or pretending to be working ;D.
With modern tech, outside influences have to do more to support those trapped by autocratic systems and you certainly are not going to free people in forced labour when you purchase goods produced by that labour.
Mostly all of this stuff, M$ cosying up to open source, is just a cynical exercise in marketing. As a lot of developers are finding open source tools cheaper for the medium and long term M$ is finding it much harder to attract them, for example silverfish is really just going nowhere. I certainly hope you wont ask me to cite developers, developers, developers, developers and the associated billy goat wild gesticulations ;).
How long ago was it that M$ was doing exactly this same sort of thing, only to be followed up a month later with a 'all your patents belong to us claim' by ballmer. Of course M$ can change, just as soon as it tosses out the old management team and replaces it with a new team, one that is capable of successfully diversifying a company with billions of dollars of capital (you would have though that was a no brainer) and converting money losing divisions (after years and years of losses) into money making divisions, ballmer's boast of being able to lose a much money as necessary to gain market share eventually has to wear a bit thin, dare we say, threadbare.
Beside with no access to report and the basis upon which statics were gathered it is hard to make sence of anything. I know the M$ only likes to count PCs with OSs pre-installed and a PC with out an OS just disappears off their statistics, all those non-existent Linux servers (especially low cost web servers).
A central achieved copy for legal purposes is a requirement to ensure all investors gain equal access to all announcements, the cost in terms of the trillions of dollars invested in corporations is negligible.
Personally I would think it would make more sense to expand the service of the SEC so that they could handle all announcements and third parties could pick it up from there to redistribute or investors can go direct.
You really have no idea. They own you 24/7 everything you do and everything you say. They, when they want to play nice, allow you to work out of hours, whether for yourself or others, permission which they can withdraw any time they choose, in the military you don't get paid overtime because there is no such thing all your time belongs to them.
I would be surprised if the sergeant did not get charged for embedding that code obviously with out the knowledge of his superior officers, definitely 'actions unbecoming', clearly code intended to sabotage military functions.
As for the DMCA, standard patent and copyright exemptions apply for the military through out the world and they only pay them when they choose to. I mean really, do your think there would be some kind of payment to a foreign company when you are at dispute with their country, I mean what would they do if you refused to pay, like, declare war ;D.
I think you will find it reflects a run around in privacy. Politicians and the rich are realising that the privacy invasive tactics they use to exploit others can also be readily used against them, hence, there is a major change in attitude developing towards privacy. While this change in attitude has been some what schizophrenic due to the RIAA and the MPAA, as well as, lobbyist paid for by privacy invasive companies, oddly enough while those self same lobbyist are desperately trying to keep their own activities hidden and private, just as those companies invading other peoples privacy want to keep their activities secret.
So private email is not a postcard and those googlites who believe so could find them selves at variance to future far stricter privacy laws and social sites will find them selves increasingly under scrutiny and when it comes to invading the privacy of minors who can not make legally binding contractual agreements.
With this is of course is the distinction between work email and private email, email received and sent on company equipment during company time is the property of the company and not the individual sending or receiving it, especially as the individual has been paid to create, send and receive said email.
So for those companies and individuals who generate a substantial portion of the income by invading the privacy of others, diversify or die ;).
You post brings to mind the whole principal of creative capitalism, the line of B$ and PR that you feed poor people in order to convince them that rich people bleeding them dry is actually good for them. Just like your line of B$ that somehow rebuilding 'public' schools after flood and hurricane damage somehow equates with private school tuition fees which in reality are subsidised by government (you really think the rich and greedy would pay the full cost of educating their own children even when they can so readily afford it, nah)