But what about the next level up? What about charging ISPs for their bandwidth usage? Many are also bandwidth providers themselves. If the rates for one router get too high, just route around it.
I work for an ISP, we already do this. We tend to route to those with whom we have a costless peering agreement.
Jesus, what philosophical poverty... You do realise that attempting to determine a basis for any kind of "rights", let alone describing what those rights are, has been the main problem vexing political philosophers since the Greeks? Now you want to brush that away with some culturally specific "common sense"? As for the the U.S. Constition, its a resonable stab at defining some rights (not explaining why are are valid mind you), but stop treating it like its god given for fuck's sake. The rest of the world is sick of it.
Yes its all very nice, and a bit of a personal relief to hear of open source being specifically excluded from the software patent process like this (at least by one corporate), but lets pause for a moment to be a bit cynical. Many of the posts so far, have decided that IBM's game plan is to assist with the process of making software a commodity and making hardware and support vending a bigger share of the cake of IT industry. Sounds reasonable.
Thinking a bit further, it occurs to me that this is a very nice and effective way of taking the wind out of the sails of the anti-software patent movement, the open source community being the most vocal member of this movement. Could this be part of the plan? Throw a bone to FOSS to shut them up and help them push out some proprietary software, as discussed, but also hope the software patent process will quietly crush small software companies that want to develop and sell software of their own, while no body takes any notice any more...?
This has to be a wind up!! East Timor! The Australian Government of Gough Whitlam stood by in 1974 whilst the Indonesian Government invaded East Timor then condoned Indonesia's control of the country. Until 1999 the Australian governments from both parties were happy to keep diplomatic ties with Jarkarta and sell weapons, and military training to the TNI (indonesian miliary). Weapons and training they had been made plainly aware was being used to suppress civilan dissent in East Timor, including torture and murder.
The brief intervention in East Timor was aberrant, rather than standard behaviour for Australia and was a tiny step back towards reasonable and respectable treatment of a loyal wartime (WWII) ally, East Timor.
Perhaps while you take the time to "condemn India, China and Mexico" you might read an international news paper... this is all in the public record.
You get taxed MORE for being a contractor in the states. Jesus, well IR35 (UK tax law aimed to make contractors pay the same as permies) aside, the whole point of contracting in the UK is to pay less tax.
Also, don't be fooled about the whole permies are harder to get rid of than contractors thing. If they need to lose people, they will, permie or contractor...
I mean, how high do you have to be to think that copying your legal CD to your iPod or watching a movie on your TV (God forbid!) is "terrorism"
Not that high... I was quite amazed last time I went to the movies here in London and saw an advert produced by http://www.fact-uk.org.uk/FACT both equating piracy to theft AND trying to convince me that dvd piracy funds terrorism!! It was gratifying that quite a few audience members laughed out loud at that one.
Muscians (and associated labels, publishers etc) have only been making money from sales of recorded media for about 100 years or so - since the introduction of media on which to record and sell their music. This does not coincide with the commencement of music. Before this period muscians made their living by performing live in front of people paying to attend.
What's wrong with this model? I actually believe this would breath some much needed life into our musical culture. Live performance might be something worth attending, rather than an extended advert for the latest album.
By chance over the last few weeks I've been to see two acoustic live performances, not a regular thing for me, and they were fantastic! Relatively unknown artists performing their own work in small venues - beautiful. This is what I feel we need to get back to.
Wow, that's a lot of firepower. Have you ever been attacked or even confronted by someone you thought was dangerous enough to warrant shooting?
That's alot of fear, why are you so afraid someone will attack you? I mean I've never even been in a fight, let alone a situation that serious. I've gotta say I don't think that attitude makes for a very civil society. Doesn't carrying all those guns alter the way you treat people, even in your mind and make you more afraid? What if I was a bit lost out walking and happened to wander down the drive of your country house to ask for directions, just as you were "unloading the luggage", a likely time for a bad guy to come at you as you say (has a "bad guy" ever done this to you?). I'm not for a second saying you'd shoot me, I just wonder if you would be thinking "who is this guy", checking to make sure your shooter is handy. I wouldn't like to think like that myself.
Credentials - I work in a test and type approval lab for GSM equipment.
The issue at Gas stations is all about percived interference by cell phones with the billing and measurement equipment of the filling station, a revenue protection exercise.
Too bad that's also a completely bullshit concern!
Oh well, it gives people something else to worry about I spose...
On what basis do you claim that right?
My membership in Society, and subsequent contribution.
Ok, I can see how you feel you deserve that right, that doesn't mean that right exists. You can claim any right you please but without a philisophical argument that leads to a consensus that the right is claimable (if thats a word) it means nothing. So I believe that you, in fact, are not able to claim this right as there is no consensual basis for it. I can take your ideas, process them and do with them what I please.
Hmmm, that's not exactly true though. Any time you put your ideas out there in any form, they will be digested and if they are interesting, informative or disagreeable enough they will be passed on, in a changed and mutated form. What we call knowlege and culture is that which is sifted out as quality from the soup of ideas and opinions available.
Where do you believe your right to have your writings left unchanged comes from? On what basis do you claim that right? That's close to wanting to control the thoughts of those you talk to, I'm not trying to be melodramatic here btw. I think you've touched on an interesting point. I just don't believe in this right you are talking about actually exists.
Excuse me, but why the fuck does someone who has "never taken hallucinagens" feel like they NEED to contribute to this discussion? It really bothers me that you sooooo much want to be part of this that the best you can do is reference someone else talking about something that is at best distantly connected. If you sooooo much want to participate why don't you try HALLUCINAGENS? WHY?
Try, then talk.
Once again Mil Procurement fucks it up. Just read the cnn article. VELCRO fucking pockets!! I'm ex military (australia) and the last thing you want or need is velcro on your uniform. Waiting quietly in an ambush, just need to carefully and slowly remove a pen from my pocket RRRRIIIIPPPPPPPPP - you're dead...
Perhaps its not such a problem for US forces, with all that technology maybe there's no need for Fieldcraft anymore - but I doubt it...
State owned media in the two countries I've lived in (Aust and UK) are often the most balanced and most probing of the news services. You acknowlege this in the case of BBC.
Matt
Minix didn't have the same explosive growth because Andrew Tanenbaum wouldn't let others contribute to the codebase. He wanted to keep it clean and clear for educational purposes and therefore refused to add new features.
This is very big in London right now
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Fake ATM Fraud Expose
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I'd never heard of this kind of fraud until about 2 months ago. In that time my flatmate had 500 taken withdrawn from her account, a good friend had 1500 pounds taken from a number of ATMs and a work mate has just been done for about 800 pounds. That's just the people I know personally!
I've also heard second hand of two other incidents, girlfriends cousin being one of them. According to the cops crooks are using "skimmers" on the card slots of ATMs and camera's or "shoulder surfing" to get the pins.
So watch out in London right now is the message I guess.
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I work for an ISP, we already do this. We tend to route to those with whom we have a costless peering agreement.
Jesus, what philosophical poverty... You do realise that attempting to determine a basis for any kind of "rights", let alone describing what those rights are, has been the main problem vexing political philosophers since the Greeks? Now you want to brush that away with some culturally specific "common sense"? As for the the U.S. Constition, its a resonable stab at defining some rights (not explaining why are are valid mind you), but stop treating it like its god given for fuck's sake. The rest of the world is sick of it.
You've made a grave error of understanding, there are no citizens of the UK. We are subjects of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second.
Mate, do it! People other than coders are as important in oss projects. Anything to keep the wheel turning...
Cheers
Yes its all very nice, and a bit of a personal relief to hear of open source being specifically excluded from the software patent process like this (at least by one corporate), but lets pause for a moment to be a bit cynical. Many of the posts so far, have decided that IBM's game plan is to assist with the process of making software a commodity and making hardware and support vending a bigger share of the cake of IT industry. Sounds reasonable.
Thinking a bit further, it occurs to me that this is a very nice and effective way of taking the wind out of the sails of the anti-software patent movement, the open source community being the most vocal member of this movement. Could this be part of the plan? Throw a bone to FOSS to shut them up and help them push out some proprietary software, as discussed, but also hope the software patent process will quietly crush small software companies that want to develop and sell software of their own, while no body takes any notice any more...?
This has to be a wind up!! East Timor! The Australian Government of Gough Whitlam stood by in 1974 whilst the Indonesian Government invaded East Timor then condoned Indonesia's control of the country. Until 1999 the Australian governments from both parties were happy to keep diplomatic ties with Jarkarta and sell weapons, and military training to the TNI (indonesian miliary). Weapons and training they had been made plainly aware was being used to suppress civilan dissent in East Timor, including torture and murder.
The brief intervention in East Timor was aberrant, rather than standard behaviour for Australia and was a tiny step back towards reasonable and respectable treatment of a loyal wartime (WWII) ally, East Timor.
Perhaps while you take the time to "condemn India, China and Mexico" you might read an international news paper... this is all in the public record.
a wo, a wo, a wo wo what!!!
You get taxed MORE for being a contractor in the states. Jesus, well IR35 (UK tax law aimed to make contractors pay the same as permies) aside, the whole point of contracting in the UK is to pay less tax.
Also, don't be fooled about the whole permies are harder to get rid of than contractors thing. If they need to lose people, they will, permie or contractor...
Good luck!
Not that high... I was quite amazed last time I went to the movies here in London and saw an advert produced by http://www.fact-uk.org.uk/FACT both equating piracy to theft AND trying to convince me that dvd piracy funds terrorism!! It was gratifying that quite a few audience members laughed out loud at that one.
There's also a nice little article in the http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/
It really is getting fucking shameless...
Muscians (and associated labels, publishers etc) have only been making money from sales of recorded media for about 100 years or so - since the introduction of media on which to record and sell their music. This does not coincide with the commencement of music. Before this period muscians made their living by performing live in front of people paying to attend.
What's wrong with this model? I actually believe this would breath some much needed life into our musical culture. Live performance might be something worth attending, rather than an extended advert for the latest album.
By chance over the last few weeks I've been to see two acoustic live performances, not a regular thing for me, and they were fantastic! Relatively unknown artists performing their own work in small venues - beautiful. This is what I feel we need to get back to.
Comments..?
that's funny, my college professor said the same thing about masturbation...
the big question is - "is there a link?"
Wow, that's a lot of firepower. Have you ever been attacked or even confronted by someone you thought was dangerous enough to warrant shooting?
That's alot of fear, why are you so afraid someone will attack you? I mean I've never even been in a fight, let alone a situation that serious. I've gotta say I don't think that attitude makes for a very civil society. Doesn't carrying all those guns alter the way you treat people, even in your mind and make you more afraid? What if I was a bit lost out walking and happened to wander down the drive of your country house to ask for directions, just as you were "unloading the luggage", a likely time for a bad guy to come at you as you say (has a "bad guy" ever done this to you?). I'm not for a second saying you'd shoot me, I just wonder if you would be thinking "who is this guy", checking to make sure your shooter is handy. I wouldn't like to think like that myself.
Not flaming, just interested...
Credentials - I work in a test and type approval lab for GSM equipment.
The issue at Gas stations is all about percived interference by cell phones with the billing and measurement equipment of the filling station, a revenue protection exercise.
Too bad that's also a completely bullshit concern!
Oh well, it gives people something else to worry about I spose...
Hmmm, that's not exactly true though. Any time you put your ideas out there in any form, they will be digested and if they are interesting, informative or disagreeable enough they will be passed on, in a changed and mutated form. What we call knowlege and culture is that which is sifted out as quality from the soup of ideas and opinions available.
Where do you believe your right to have your writings left unchanged comes from? On what basis do you claim that right? That's close to wanting to control the thoughts of those you talk to, I'm not trying to be melodramatic here btw. I think you've touched on an interesting point. I just don't believe in this right you are talking about actually exists.
matt
Excuse me, but why the fuck does someone who has "never taken hallucinagens" feel like they NEED to contribute to this discussion? It really bothers me that you sooooo much want to be part of this that the best you can do is reference someone else talking about something that is at best distantly connected. If you sooooo much want to participate why don't you try HALLUCINAGENS? WHY? Try, then talk.
I've got one good reason. At some places of work IM clients are banned and its easier to pretend a text based client is real work...
Once again Mil Procurement fucks it up. Just read the cnn article. VELCRO fucking pockets!! I'm ex military (australia) and the last thing you want or need is velcro on your uniform. Waiting quietly in an ambush, just need to carefully and slowly remove a pen from my pocket RRRRIIIIPPPPPPPPP - you're dead... Perhaps its not such a problem for US forces, with all that technology maybe there's no need for Fieldcraft anymore - but I doubt it...
State owned media in the two countries I've lived in (Aust and UK) are often the most balanced and most probing of the news services. You acknowlege this in the case of BBC. Matt
Minix didn't have the same explosive growth because Andrew Tanenbaum wouldn't let others contribute to the codebase. He wanted to keep it clean and clear for educational purposes and therefore refused to add new features.
I'd never heard of this kind of fraud until about 2 months ago. In that time my flatmate had 500 taken withdrawn from her account, a good friend had 1500 pounds taken from a number of ATMs and a work mate has just been done for about 800 pounds. That's just the people I know personally!
I've also heard second hand of two other incidents, girlfriends cousin being one of them. According to the cops crooks are using "skimmers" on the card slots of ATMs and camera's or "shoulder surfing" to get the pins.
So watch out in London right now is the message I guess.