Bah. That's asinine. Car company Foo can afford a car that doesn't meet the safety standards 100%. Let's say they know they can save $500 per car by omitting a certain part that, without which, will result in 5 per 100,000 failures. As long as they aren't fined more than $10,000,000 per incident, they're good to go. However, if I am an open-source car developer and I have some magical machine that creates cars at next-to-free (all I have to do is put in the time to create the design) and I give these cars away, if even one is found to not meet the safety standard and I'm found liable for it, I'm done. So what regulation does is shut down the open source developers.
or for the truly unlucky, intermittently glitchy hardware.
That reminds me of my college days; I had written a program to collect data from the field, with a 'thumper truck' creating the seismic waves. When we looked at the data, we were missing a good portion of it, seemingly random. We blamed the program, wasted countless hours searching for a bug that we couldn't reproduce in the lab. We blamed the late 80's laptop, and found a new one. We did everything *but* blame the serial cable we (being undergrads on an undergrad budget) had soldered together ourselves. Anyhow, turns out the vibrations in the field were causing a bad connection on this shitty serial cable (probably the *first* place we should have looked), so after a couple-hundred man-hours we invested $9 in a real serial cable -- presto, problem solved. Frustrating as hell, but on the upside - the program was bulletproof after all the modifying we did to catch the error.
It is a single executable package which installs the application in the proper place (under Program Files if the application is half-ass decent)
No. If the application is "half-ass decent", it allows me to specify where I want it installed in, and *defaults* to Program Files. There are some programs that I do not want installed under the program files directory (fortunately, most 'half-ass decent' programs do allow me to specify where I want it installed). The other thing I would like to see an end to is the spewing of dll's all over the place; they should, unless absolutely necessary, be contained within the application's directory...
It is *not* spying. In both your bathroom example and neighbor-shrub example, the bathroom wall and shrub are erected to prevent viewing; thus, circumventing that could be 'spying'. Walking or driving around picking up unencrypted, broadcasted video signals is not circumventing anything. If they had been doing decryption, then it could be spying; the way it is, they're merely sightseeing. Don't want people admiring the architecture of your house, or your landscaping skills? Erect a wall/shrubbery. Don't want people viewing your nanny-cam? Encrypt the signal. Otherwise, you're putting that signal out there for sightseers.
Hi! I find it interesting that googling for "Atwood deliberately mutilates words" comes up with a result in Google! In fact, those couple of sentences are ripped directly from this much more complete review. Nice try though!
Why, exactly, is hydrogen a pipe dream? My father works for the DOE on hydrogen, and while there certainly are challenges with the technology, I'm not sure it's wise to write it off as a "pipe dream"... ??
...and money. If he want's to throw away money he should give it to a charity.
I know you're trolling, but if he wants to throw away his money, then he can do it however he wants. Just because you don't want to put up 100k lights for Christmas, doesn't mean no one else can. Obviously, he gets a lot of enjoyment out of doing this - and so do other people, including lots of kids (think of the children!) who drive or walk by the place. I think it's pretty cool that by spending a chunk of money, he brings a smile to so many faces. Perhaps instead of being grumpy about someone bringing Christmas cheer to his neighborhood, you should start a crusade for public transit -- then everyone can donate the money they spend on cars to charity!
I can only guess that everyone is talking about stored procedures because they assume a database as 'talked about' as MySQL is *has* stored procedures (which it doesn't, until v5 is released -- last I saw, it was in alpha). From what I can see, I agree - this has little to do with stored procedures.
Impractical fantasy? Japan, Germany, Britain and many others all have them... Certainly not impractical nor a fantasy; more likely mismanagement of funds?
I completely agree - in my *opinion*, it doesn't sound like they have any nuclear capabilities - the evidence against it is huge, and the little evidence for it that I have found comes from sources that I would expect to have a vested interest in claiming Taiwan has nuclear capabilities. I was merely trying to present both sides without coloring the information with my opinion...
The only thing that has kept Taiwan independent thus far is the fact that it would be prohibitively expenses economically and militarily for Tiawan to retake China by force
Ok... was that a mistake? An intentional +1 Funny? Or are you really postulating that Taiwan will, at some point, gain the economic (and thus military) ability to, err, "take" China?
If you believe the Federation of American Scientists (note: link to support page, but just because they don't have a seperate "who we are" page), then as of 2000-04-04, Taiwan does not have nuclear weapons. However, if you prefer to get your information from FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum" then yes, Taiwan has acquired two nuclear warheads (this isn't Free Republic's research - this allegation comes from one "Jason Blatt" who appears to work/worked for the South China Morning Post - but I couldn't find the original article there...). Brought to you by google and the words 'taiwan', 'nuclear', and 'warhead'.
They don't have enough boats. China's saber-rattling is just bluster.
Although I can't find it now, I would swear I just read something regarding China's efforts to modernize and expand their naval ability in World Press Review. Anyhow, this article by the 'Navy League of the United States' seems to take a pretty middle-road look at China's navy, coming to the conclusion:
" In the coming de-cades, the Chinese Navy presents the real likelihood of expanding its capabilities significantly. As it does so, it also is likely that Beijing will increasingly view the Navy as a mechanism to exert pressure on China's neighbors and to assert its influence regionally."
I am not as convinced today as I was several years ago that 'China's saber-rattling is just bluster' -- they seem to be making progress towards modernizing and expanding their naval fleet...
If you actually read the article instead of seeing "Microsoft" and pouncing on that like a frothing, rabid hamster, you would have understood that Microsoft was the example Groklaw used to explain why the quoted sentence "Commercial software is built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers working to build proprietary, secure software." isn't a very strong argument.
How will it be enforced? When I get hit with spam that violates this law, who do I complain to? Who will investigate my complaint and then pursue and punish the spammers?
I shouldn't *have* to complain to someone, or rely on someone else to protect me - if I'm spammed, I want the ability to file a lawsuit - which this legislation prevents. The SEC is supposed to protect me from fraud, too - but they haven't been doing too good a job recently. If you call the FBI about fraud, they won't do anything unless your losses are above xyz amount. The point is, the government should be enabling the individual to protect himself, not forcing the individual to rely on an underfunded, overworked, special-interest-and-politically-compromised body.
This "change" addresses the public concern about 9/11 intelligence like Bush's Clear Skies Act addresses the public concern about pollution. Of COURSE a knowledgable public is going to kick and scream about a law that doesn't remotely address what the concern is!
I don't think everyone is looking to blame India... Mostly, they're blaming the managers/CEO's/Board Members who think (rightly or wrongly) that moving jobs offshore (India happens to be the opportunity of the moment) is the smart thing to do...
For this report, we collected original data from two sources. The first was a national telephone survey of 2,200 adults, including 1,380
Internet users that we conducted during June 2003. The second was a compilation of more than 4,000 first-person narratives about
spam that were solicited since September 2002 by the Telecommunications Research & Action Center (TRAC), a national consumer
group.
It's been a while since college statistics, but I thought that in general, once you got to a sample size of 400, your results weren't going to get much better...??
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Does other more established and related lobby groups know this, who can possibly help with PR? How about EFF?
MoveOn.Org has, in the past, had a significant impact - maybe we can get them behind this?
Bah. That's asinine. Car company Foo can afford a car that doesn't meet the safety standards 100%. Let's say they know they can save $500 per car by omitting a certain part that, without which, will result in 5 per 100,000 failures. As long as they aren't fined more than $10,000,000 per incident, they're good to go. However, if I am an open-source car developer and I have some magical machine that creates cars at next-to-free (all I have to do is put in the time to create the design) and I give these cars away, if even one is found to not meet the safety standard and I'm found liable for it, I'm done. So what regulation does is shut down the open source developers.
or for the truly unlucky, intermittently glitchy hardware.
That reminds me of my college days; I had written a program to collect data from the field, with a 'thumper truck' creating the seismic waves. When we looked at the data, we were missing a good portion of it, seemingly random. We blamed the program, wasted countless hours searching for a bug that we couldn't reproduce in the lab. We blamed the late 80's laptop, and found a new one. We did everything *but* blame the serial cable we (being undergrads on an undergrad budget) had soldered together ourselves. Anyhow, turns out the vibrations in the field were causing a bad connection on this shitty serial cable (probably the *first* place we should have looked), so after a couple-hundred man-hours we invested $9 in a real serial cable -- presto, problem solved. Frustrating as hell, but on the upside - the program was bulletproof after all the modifying we did to catch the error.
It is a single executable package which installs the application in the proper place (under Program Files if the application is half-ass decent)
No. If the application is "half-ass decent", it allows me to specify where I want it installed in, and *defaults* to Program Files. There are some programs that I do not want installed under the program files directory (fortunately, most 'half-ass decent' programs do allow me to specify where I want it installed). The other thing I would like to see an end to is the spewing of dll's all over the place; they should, unless absolutely necessary, be contained within the application's directory...
It is *not* spying. In both your bathroom example and neighbor-shrub example, the bathroom wall and shrub are erected to prevent viewing; thus, circumventing that could be 'spying'. Walking or driving around picking up unencrypted, broadcasted video signals is not circumventing anything. If they had been doing decryption, then it could be spying; the way it is, they're merely sightseeing. Don't want people admiring the architecture of your house, or your landscaping skills? Erect a wall/shrubbery. Don't want people viewing your nanny-cam? Encrypt the signal. Otherwise, you're putting that signal out there for sightseers.
Based on grandparent's sig, perhapst Longing Over Resting Dynaheir : Return of the Hampster?
40 hour week at the monkey lab, standing in a puddle of monkey poo, while shooting hot water through the empty cages.
Interestingly, this metaphorically describes my current project with VBA and MSOffice applications to a t. How depressing.
Hi! I find it interesting that googling for "Atwood deliberately mutilates words" comes up with a result in Google! In fact, those couple of sentences are ripped directly from this much more complete review. Nice try though!
Why, exactly, is hydrogen a pipe dream? My father works for the DOE on hydrogen, and while there certainly are challenges with the technology, I'm not sure it's wise to write it off as a "pipe dream"... ??
...and money. If he want's to throw away money he should give it to a charity.
I know you're trolling, but if he wants to throw away his money, then he can do it however he wants. Just because you don't want to put up 100k lights for Christmas, doesn't mean no one else can. Obviously, he gets a lot of enjoyment out of doing this - and so do other people, including lots of kids (think of the children!) who drive or walk by the place. I think it's pretty cool that by spending a chunk of money, he brings a smile to so many faces. Perhaps instead of being grumpy about someone bringing Christmas cheer to his neighborhood, you should start a crusade for public transit -- then everyone can donate the money they spend on cars to charity!
I can only guess that everyone is talking about stored procedures because they assume a database as 'talked about' as MySQL is *has* stored procedures (which it doesn't, until v5 is released -- last I saw, it was in alpha). From what I can see, I agree - this has little to do with stored procedures.
Impractical fantasy? Japan, Germany, Britain and many others all have them... Certainly not impractical nor a fantasy; more likely mismanagement of funds?
I completely agree - in my *opinion*, it doesn't sound like they have any nuclear capabilities - the evidence against it is huge, and the little evidence for it that I have found comes from sources that I would expect to have a vested interest in claiming Taiwan has nuclear capabilities. I was merely trying to present both sides without coloring the information with my opinion...
Ok... was that a mistake? An intentional +1 Funny? Or are you really postulating that Taiwan will, at some point, gain the economic (and thus military) ability to, err, "take" China?
The commentary in that thread on FreeRepublic is mildly interesting, too...
If you believe the Federation of American Scientists (note: link to support page, but just because they don't have a seperate "who we are" page), then as of 2000-04-04, Taiwan does not have nuclear weapons. However, if you prefer to get your information from FreeRepublic.com "A Conservative News Forum" then yes, Taiwan has acquired two nuclear warheads (this isn't Free Republic's research - this allegation comes from one "Jason Blatt" who appears to work/worked for the South China Morning Post - but I couldn't find the original article there...). Brought to you by google and the words 'taiwan', 'nuclear', and 'warhead'.
Although I can't find it now, I would swear I just read something regarding China's efforts to modernize and expand their naval ability in World Press Review. Anyhow, this article by the 'Navy League of the United States' seems to take a pretty middle-road look at China's navy, coming to the conclusion:
" In the coming de-cades, the Chinese Navy presents the real likelihood of expanding its capabilities significantly. As it does so, it also is likely that Beijing will increasingly view the Navy as a mechanism to exert pressure on China's neighbors and to assert its influence regionally."
I am not as convinced today as I was several years ago that 'China's saber-rattling is just bluster' -- they seem to be making progress towards modernizing and expanding their naval fleet...
If you actually read the article instead of seeing "Microsoft" and pouncing on that like a frothing, rabid hamster, you would have understood that Microsoft was the example Groklaw used to explain why the quoted sentence "Commercial software is built by carefully selected and screened teams of programmers working to build proprietary, secure software." isn't a very strong argument.
kthxbye.
How will it be enforced? When I get hit with spam that violates this law, who do I complain to? Who will investigate my complaint and then pursue and punish the spammers?
I shouldn't *have* to complain to someone, or rely on someone else to protect me - if I'm spammed, I want the ability to file a lawsuit - which this legislation prevents. The SEC is supposed to protect me from fraud, too - but they haven't been doing too good a job recently. If you call the FBI about fraud, they won't do anything unless your losses are above xyz amount. The point is, the government should be enabling the individual to protect himself, not forcing the individual to rely on an underfunded, overworked, special-interest-and-politically-compromised body.
This "change" addresses the public concern about 9/11 intelligence like Bush's Clear Skies Act addresses the public concern about pollution. Of COURSE a knowledgable public is going to kick and scream about a law that doesn't remotely address what the concern is!
Fortunately, the people get at the primaries to pick a candidate, no matter what 'the party' wants...
*double eyeroll* Do you think we're such tools that we'll believe what you're implying, thus hiding the Conspiracy? ;-)
I don't think everyone is looking to blame India... Mostly, they're blaming the managers/CEO's/Board Members who think (rightly or wrongly) that moving jobs offshore (India happens to be the opportunity of the moment) is the smart thing to do...
I think an open source software model where the software is not free is ideal.
...I just don't see why open source software should be paid for.
Maybe you need to ask yourself and resolve it one way or the other? If you're going to troll, at least try to be consistent...Am I reading the same report?
For this report, we collected original data from two sources. The first was a national telephone survey of 2,200 adults, including 1,380 Internet users that we conducted during June 2003. The second was a compilation of more than 4,000 first-person narratives about spam that were solicited since September 2002 by the Telecommunications Research & Action Center (TRAC), a national consumer group.
It's been a while since college statistics, but I thought that in general, once you got to a sample size of 400, your results weren't going to get much better...??