The use of neo-GOP is deliberate. I suppose you can blame the neocons, though it's quite hard to understand why they created such a hypocritical label for themselves. Perhaps because it's an incredibly fitting label? Just look at the list of politicians in scandals and correlate with stated values, and then group by party. You'll see an interesting trend.
I believe Novell is shipping some homegrown components with OpenSuse that make it work better with MS. Those portions may (or may not) infringe upon (invalid?) MS patent(s) and MS tried to do a PR run with this offer. Novell would have been stupid to turn it down, as it's actually a major PR victory for them, and for FOSS in general (why? Because if it's safe under Suse, then it's safe for all based on the GPL). The fact that the FSF and the rest of the fanatics are too stupid to realize this, or probably more correctly, decided to throw as much scat as they could in an effort to promote their own pet project, GPL3, should say everything that needs to be said.
who said the explosive had to be hidden in the device?
All I said was that "innocent" device could easily have been a trigger. There is no way a layperson (and that includes 99.999% of the police/security people, even at airports) would be able to tell.
I think you are correct up until you reference the girl in the airport. In all honesty she invited lethal force. She was lucky they didnt use it. She is stupid and deserves to be punished severely.
Have you seen the device? It was a proto-board with 5 LEDs, resistors and a 9V battery. While I can understand the initial reaction to the device as being proper (it's wierd, check it out!) but when you start punishing people severely for something that was not intended to create a panic of any sort you are inviting punishment for all sorts of actions. Regarding the device, it's guaranteed that something very dangerous can be made to look just like it. Add in a capacitor and a switch/push button/simple wire and you have your trigger. There's all sorts of nastiness that can be done today.
According to the story, she was asked about it, she responded oddly, instead of just going "ooo, you like my art?" or anything like it. She ignored the security person and wandered off. That alone is suspicious. Had she expressed any sort of reaction that would have alleviated the concern that prompted the question, this would have been a non-story because it never would have happened.
But you still didn't address the issue that economists by and large as a group are a bunch of empty-headed sheep rapidly paddling counterclockwise in a clockwise whirlpool all the while loudly singing "Row Row Row your boat" off-key and off tempo.
Actually, that would be at least 3 patents, one for the sensing item, one for the wiper control, and one for the combined parts. And therein lies a problem, because the sensors have been around for a long time, so you can only patent a very very specific feature, same for the wiper control, and for the integration piece.
They used to be, go back and check the $5K+ price on Optical/WORM drives back in the late 80s early 90s, then adjust for inflation. Then realize that for $5K you got essentially a 1-off machine that could not interoperate with any other drive, even of it's own make. If you wrote enough disks, you couldn't even read the first disks, because of head alignment wear.
I know some folks who would have paid multiples of the initial $5K cost just to get back at their data, and some did. Others just burned 50 disks and bought another drive, so they'd at least have a chance at getting at their data at a later time.
I just searched for a selection of "movies" that are recent, including those listed by the NLPC. The longest clip I could find was 10 min long and didn't look like it was part of the movie. Most of the rest were under 4m, with many under 2m.
So, is that really a copyright violation or Fair Use?
First off, most acts before the labels toured, found other acts, and would tour with those they liked. In many cases, big well-known acts would occassionally select a small unknown act to tour with them for a bit, thus giving them big exposure.
That's how it used to be and still works in some cases.
Now, as for your comments about the payola system, while correct, have an incorrect basis. Payola and everything that makes it work needs to be tossed. Radio has been reduced to mere cloned trash across the US by the FCC/Clear Channel/Infinity collusion. The sooner that gets untangled, the better. Who would ever have thought that allowing a single company to buy 8 radio stations in a single market would not cause a collapse of programming selection for said market?
I think we'll still have superstars, except they'll be more realized than produced. There's been a number of underground acts that have surged forward in spite of resistance by the labels. Despite their current status, Metallica used to be the underground poster boy.
The FCC via Clear Channel/Infinity have pretty much seen to the end of radio as we used to know it. It's now one big payola advertising engine meant to maximize exposure for the manufactured chimp of the hour so it can be milked and discarded.
And this is where the music industry as it stands fails to see the logical end to their model: If it is more profitable for them to pull out of an aggregating portal site and run their own, then what's to prevent artists from doing the same? Why should artists remain with them in this scenario? Artists could, gasp, make their own deals with iTunes or the like. Odds are that artists will wind up with agents that manage that for them in return for a fee.
I would not be surprised to see this develop to their logical conclusion where there are distribution sites that offer a range of services to artists to distribute their work but do not "own" the distribution or copyrights to those works. This can only help artists in the long run, although the conversion to that environment will mostly likely have some short-term hiccups as marketing etc is worked out.
... god forbid that someone would buy something and then not expect the vendor to have complete and utter control over it! What is this world coming to?!?! Well, if you're going to not play the game, really don't play the game and don't give them access to it. That means: don't upgrade the firmware.
(I also saw that 612 several times so perhaps it is a magic driver timeout number for Vista?) Of course. 612 seconds ought to be enough for anyone. ought to be enough time to convince them to press the reboot button....
Well, ME, as bad as it was, could run for 44 or so days....
Vista is unstable even when bought pre-installed from at least 2 major vendors that I know of (that should cover the modern hardware argument). As bought, Vista BSODs under even simple tasks. 4 days of uninstalling/reinstalling/fiddling with an HP laptop got the bloatware off, and most devices working (a 1 year old HP scanner still doesn't work correctly, and that is most likely a driver issue, nor does the cell phone fully integrate either, for two problems) A Dell has more than 2 weeks of fiddling with it, and it still flakes out sporadically.
That's far worse than any issues I had with ME in comparison with the options available at that time.
Then you, or your sysadmin, don't know what you're doing. There's no reason for common tasks to require sudo privs, except for the fact that someone didn't know how to setup the system.
For truly common userland tasks, you should never have to see a sudo, or even a command line.
As for the DVD DRM nonsense, I believe that *new* code is illegal under the DMCA, but that existing DeCSS codecs are perfectly legal and part of fair use prior to the DMCA. (or at least that's my perception) I also recall vaguely that all attempts to squash DeCSS failed horribly, because it was such a lame implementation that its circumvention could be described in just a few lines, much like that AACS number....
If Vista doesn't have anything like Quick Silver then it's still in the dark ages.
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I believe Novell is shipping some homegrown components with OpenSuse that make it work better with MS. Those portions may (or may not) infringe upon (invalid?) MS patent(s) and MS tried to do a PR run with this offer. Novell would have been stupid to turn it down, as it's actually a major PR victory for them, and for FOSS in general (why? Because if it's safe under Suse, then it's safe for all based on the GPL). The fact that the FSF and the rest of the fanatics are too stupid to realize this, or probably more correctly, decided to throw as much scat as they could in an effort to promote their own pet project, GPL3, should say everything that needs to be said.
who said the explosive had to be hidden in the device?
All I said was that "innocent" device could easily have been a trigger. There is no way a layperson (and that includes 99.999% of the police/security people, even at airports) would be able to tell.
How about this situation with the Yorktown?
Personally, I'd rather sign up for a plan where the money I pay now goes into an account for me. Wait, I do that now and pay for others and pork.
Have you seen the device? It was a proto-board with 5 LEDs, resistors and a 9V battery. While I can understand the initial reaction to the device as being proper (it's wierd, check it out!) but when you start punishing people severely for something that was not intended to create a panic of any sort you are inviting punishment for all sorts of actions. Regarding the device, it's guaranteed that something very dangerous can be made to look just like it. Add in a capacitor and a switch/push button/simple wire and you have your trigger. There's all sorts of nastiness that can be done today.
According to the story, she was asked about it, she responded oddly, instead of just going "ooo, you like my art?" or anything like it. She ignored the security person and wandered off. That alone is suspicious. Had she expressed any sort of reaction that would have alleviated the concern that prompted the question, this would have been a non-story because it never would have happened.
But you still didn't address the issue that economists by and large as a group are a bunch of empty-headed sheep rapidly paddling counterclockwise in a clockwise whirlpool all the while loudly singing "Row Row Row your boat" off-key and off tempo.
Who is number one? ... You are number 6.
I am not a number - I am a free man.
- From TV series "The Prisoner", also used on IronMaiden's Number of the Beast.
Actually, that would be at least 3 patents, one for the sensing item, one for the wiper control, and one for the combined parts. And therein lies a problem, because the sensors have been around for a long time, so you can only patent a very very specific feature, same for the wiper control, and for the integration piece.
They used to be, go back and check the $5K+ price on Optical/WORM drives back in the late 80s early 90s, then adjust for inflation. Then realize that for $5K you got essentially a 1-off machine that could not interoperate with any other drive, even of it's own make. If you wrote enough disks, you couldn't even read the first disks, because of head alignment wear.
I know some folks who would have paid multiples of the initial $5K cost just to get back at their data, and some did. Others just burned 50 disks and bought another drive, so they'd at least have a chance at getting at their data at a later time.
I just searched for a selection of "movies" that are recent, including those listed by the NLPC. The longest clip I could find was 10 min long and didn't look like it was part of the movie. Most of the rest were under 4m, with many under 2m.
So, is that really a copyright violation or Fair Use?
First off, most acts before the labels toured, found other acts, and would tour with those they liked. In many cases, big well-known acts would occassionally select a small unknown act to tour with them for a bit, thus giving them big exposure.
That's how it used to be and still works in some cases.
Now, as for your comments about the payola system, while correct, have an incorrect basis. Payola and everything that makes it work needs to be tossed. Radio has been reduced to mere cloned trash across the US by the FCC/Clear Channel/Infinity collusion. The sooner that gets untangled, the better. Who would ever have thought that allowing a single company to buy 8 radio stations in a single market would not cause a collapse of programming selection for said market?
I think we'll still have superstars, except they'll be more realized than produced. There's been a number of underground acts that have surged forward in spite of resistance by the labels. Despite their current status, Metallica used to be the underground poster boy.
But if they create an essentially stand-alone subsidiary named, say, "iTunes", then Apple Comp doesn't have a leg to stand on.
The FCC via Clear Channel/Infinity have pretty much seen to the end of radio as we used to know it. It's now one big payola advertising engine meant to maximize exposure for the manufactured chimp of the hour so it can be milked and discarded.
Give me lossless compression please, although uncompressed is fine too.
and therein lies the problem. Neither received a Vista disk. Just the recovery disk which is identical to the original install.
The one guy that was "happy" with it for word processing etc installed it from his Technet distribution.
And this is where the music industry as it stands fails to see the logical end to their model: If it is more profitable for them to pull out of an aggregating portal site and run their own, then what's to prevent artists from doing the same? Why should artists remain with them in this scenario? Artists could, gasp, make their own deals with iTunes or the like. Odds are that artists will wind up with agents that manage that for them in return for a fee.
I would not be surprised to see this develop to their logical conclusion where there are distribution sites that offer a range of services to artists to distribute their work but do not "own" the distribution or copyrights to those works. This can only help artists in the long run, although the conversion to that environment will mostly likely have some short-term hiccups as marketing etc is worked out.
... god forbid that someone would buy something and then not expect the vendor to have complete and utter control over it! What is this world coming to?!?! Well, if you're going to not play the game, really don't play the game and don't give them access to it. That means: don't upgrade the firmware.The difference is that once you sudo, you're good for a little while, whereas UAC prompts, prompts, yet prompts again.
Of course. 612 seconds ought to be enough for anyone. ought to be enough time to convince them to press the reboot button....
Well, ME, as bad as it was, could run for 44 or so days....
Vista is unstable even when bought pre-installed from at least 2 major vendors that I know of (that should cover the modern hardware argument). As bought, Vista BSODs under even simple tasks. 4 days of uninstalling/reinstalling/fiddling with an HP laptop got the bloatware off, and most devices working (a 1 year old HP scanner still doesn't work correctly, and that is most likely a driver issue, nor does the cell phone fully integrate either, for two problems) A Dell has more than 2 weeks of fiddling with it, and it still flakes out sporadically.
That's far worse than any issues I had with ME in comparison with the options available at that time.
But I'm not correcting them, I'm ignoring them....
Then you, or your sysadmin, don't know what you're doing. There's no reason for common tasks to require sudo privs, except for the fact that someone didn't know how to setup the system.
For truly common userland tasks, you should never have to see a sudo, or even a command line.
As for the DVD DRM nonsense, I believe that *new* code is illegal under the DMCA, but that existing DeCSS codecs are perfectly legal and part of fair use prior to the DMCA. (or at least that's my perception) I also recall vaguely that all attempts to squash DeCSS failed horribly, because it was such a lame implementation that its circumvention could be described in just a few lines, much like that AACS number....
If Vista doesn't have anything like Quick Silver then it's still in the dark ages.
But there's not a "CD" made that has DRM nor anti-copying technologies on it. They only have "flaws", like scratches, that need correction.