The notion that people have the right to privacy is only a modern approach to understanding our laws and right. The fact is that the constitution DO NOT specify privacy as a right.
Human rights is something entierly different, but focusing on that is on a somewhat didderent level. Complaining about lack of privacy when yor really think about human rights is like compalining about our legal system when you acually think about the death penalty.
Well, anyway, I did not see anything in the repport about the USA that looks frightening; as long as one belive in our court system and the constitution the USA, despite fears about turning into a surveilance state, will continue to be country that supports freedom of those that deserve it.
Why would RIAA put themself in such a bad situation? If they see a [in]"famous" name on the list they will remove that name. Problem solved. Dragging someone that might have the money to fight the case in court ain't that smart when there are *thousands* of normal people thats waiting to get cought. What I don't understand is that people that can't afford decent legal representation still commit these crimes. I guess that people that don't think about the consequences of their actions don't deserve better.
If they had known that this person was a 12 year old gilr they would have dropped the case against her. Not because she and her parents are innocent, because they are not, but because the case contains a lot bad publicity. PR is important to RIAA, they know they are the bad guy in this case, but they don't necessarily tries to strengthen this image.
But about these parents; why did they allow this to happen? They should have known about the risks involved in trading music online, and lack of knowledge about the legal ramifications is no proper excuse. Even if a person fails to understand the laws in the area, that don't make them innocent.
For large companies, the cost of making and deploying applications on Microsoft's.NET standard was $1.64 million over a three-year period, 28 percent less than the $2.29 million cost for running or J2EE/Linux, according to the study.
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Forrester said that the main difference in cost was not due to price of the basic software, but rather the price of developing the software, including labor costs.
So even if the TCO is mostly developing costs; if the system is operational more than three years, the cost of MS.NET will sooner or later exceed the cost of Linux/Sun-J2EE.
I must say that though I find the darlmcbride.com site very amusing its alsom very unmature and unprofessional to concentrate on the person (Mr. Darl Mcbride) instead of the case(SCO).
Whatever people feel about Darl Mcbride bashing him don't do the Linux community any good. And whatever people feel about SCO they have allways concentrated on the case on copyright infringment and not tried to take some easy shots on the Linux community. They could easily have made some comparison of the GPL and communism. Or they could have dragged out Linux-supporters like Richard M. Stallman and Eric S Raymond as some evil anti-bussiness people.
Instead they have choosen to concentrate on their main asset in the case, the claim used Ibm stolen sorce code from SCO in their AIX OS. So give them some credit for not taking the easy road, but instead building up a case for a fair legal battle.
Remeber developers; that this could have been you as a developer in this situation, having to go to court against a big company like IBM in order to secure your intellectual property rights.
I think the explanation behind Eli Lilly's bad track recor is that they deal with a lot of research data and patient information from their testing of drugs.
While it's esay for us to sit here and complain on them for invasive background checks of workers after Sept. 11 its not that easy for them to avoid getting decent workers that don't disclose their research to terrorists. For example if Bin-Laden got hold of all the research of Elly he might avoid getting diseases like osteoporosis, cancer, depression, schizophrenia and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. So actually its better that they check their future employees than Bin-Laden getting 120 yeras old.
These people, if it goes to court, will have the same rights afforded to them as in any other legal case.
Right on spot.
If they are guilty, I assume they are since RIAA would not want to risk anything like going to court without having a bulletproof case, they will get their penalty. If the are not guilty, the court will find out.
Too mee it looks like many people don't have any faith in our judicial system any more, which is pretty sad when you think about how important these things are.
if these teenagers are innocent they could choose to fight in court and don't bend over like some easy prey for a legitimate organization like RIAA.
If they can't afford decent legal protections against their crimes they should not have commitetd these acts that hurts legitimate bussiness and artist in such a way they end up broke on the streets.
..remeber that these people, however you feel about RIAA and their bussiness, have actually distributed music that they don't have the rights to.
If you do the crime; you should be willing to do the time.
A Google News search for "San Luis Obispo County election" only comes up with old stuff. Nothing about this story.
But I bet that others will cover this soon.
On the other side, this is important and shocking but not surprising. I wonder how this was allowed to happen. Probably some sloppy admin work again, because I doubt that any politican would allow this so conserned about security they are these days.
... to stop the mess that threatens to ruin Internet. If one look at history sooner or later all new ares or inustries have to become regulated and "followed up" by the government in order to succseed. Slavery, newspaper, broadcasting/television, weapon trade, biochemestry and drugs. When this happens to regulated place becomes more stable and a more bussiness friendly environment. This draws capital and investment in new ways to earn money. Restrictions like DRM, succesfull monitoring and surveilance are all signs of this.
IMHO this is a good thing as more and more people are able to exploit this and create their own bussiness based uppon standard that are specified by governments not by some standard group that stiffles innovation.
The only way it could have been poossible to hand out $25,000 without inflationthat would hurt our economy would be to give it as stock that could not be sold before for example ten years. That would give ordinary people with no experience with owning stocks insight into the difficaulties of beeing a stock owner.
But because many people would use the stocks as guaranti to take up new mortages the proposal is flawed anyway. On the the other side, from a Darwinistic angle the proposal sound insightful. The proposal would help those who deserves the money to keep them or get them by investing correctly. Those who would spend them in a year probably would have done so anyway. Many bussinesses would boom with such a give out and in the long perspective the give-out would help sustain economic growth by increasing consumer confidence.
Based on the article I will estimate that most people will consider a world where they only had to work (take) 15 hours a week a good thing.
The old wisdom that work is good for you is mostly bullshit; a mantra that the mostly socialised government constructed so they could controll the masses. The truth is that whats good for the economy are good for you. As long as we can have sustained economic growth over a long period of time (200 years+)that wil be good for the economy and then for most people.
So more robots will be A Good Thing(TM); they will make it possible to automate repitive work and increase productivity. That would be good for most bussiness whom can pass the savings down to the workers at the consumer level. Several industry surveys and economic teories supports this.
Let's face it most people would like to not work in such a boring job, and its only pure arrogance to be against such a development. I can allready hear the some wellmeaning well educated techies; "Save the Wal-Mart jobs help thhose people from getting sacked"
Truth is that most workers are lazy people who would could want nothing better than a year or to off before they get their next job.
Unless we want to go back into some socialist form of economy the only way to the increase wealth is to increase productivity and its pretty deterministic that sooner or later those people at Wal-Mart just need to get replaced.
Separating those that produce the good and those whom makes most of the money is a good thing. Not because we like it but because its the best for the economy; if you look at historic growth rates you will see that the fastest growth came when this happened. During the 19th century, the 1920's, 1940-65 and the 90's. Most bussinesse will benefit by this and this will help distribute the wealth in the right direction. But of course some worker unions will try too turn back time by issuing toll barriers that actually hurts bussiness and by supporting regulations that limits the flow of capital non-developed countries to the US.
Exactly my point. There is a limited amount of freedom avilable. If too many people get it in a short time things hang up.
Look for example how the history went after the second World War: We tried to export freedom to Iran in a gentle an genorous way, but they turned it down and choose a Evil tyranny instead.
In my organization we had similar problems with workesr sying stuff like this. The problem is that this attitude leads to pessimism and lack of belife in the project.
I guess its the pessimist side of engineers that floats up through their minds when they tries to do their work. We at management have started to see this as areal problem we have address by trying to innovate our management skills. In other words we have to convince them that nothing is impossible when developing software, its only old thinking and old views that holds you back.
The problem is that many engineers, as well as developers tries to find negative or limiting facts about a project and I belive that this limits growth and new thinking at many companies.
Why could he not demand a license from Dell. Since its a legal document they would have had to send it over if he had written a letter. Instead he tried to make life difficault for those innocent teenagers on the Dell suport callcenter.
And I still don't see why he just could not accept the license like everyone else does. He should trust a big company like Dell, they have nothing to win by screwing him.
Common, he could have required a license from Dell if he absolutly wanted one.
Since its a legal document they would have had to send him one if he had sent them a written response.
To me it looks like if he tried to make the instalation procedure difficault for himself by demanding this license. He should trust a big company like Dell, they have nothing to win by screwing him.
Actually the government just did this.
From the donotcall.gov registartion page:
Your email address MUST be correct to process your registration.
This list is The list to get their hands on for spammers. 41m real email-addresse!!
Wonder how long it takes before some enterprising governmental employee "accidentaly" copied the A part of the list and oooppps burnt it on a CD-ROM and ooopps put it in a shippment to Baton Rouge....
Actually, IMHO the government should forsee this and grabbing the oppurtunity. This list could bring in a lot of money if used or sold in the right way. This money could in turn be given back as tax cuts that boosts the economy or the money could be used in the fight aginst spam/terror and/or drugs.
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With close to zero demand compared to printed books it would have been stupid of them to continue.
Human rights is something entierly different, but focusing on that is on a somewhat didderent level. Complaining about lack of privacy when yor really think about human rights is like compalining about our legal system when you acually think about the death penalty.
Well, anyway, I did not see anything in the repport about the USA that looks frightening; as long as one belive in our court system and the constitution the USA, despite fears about turning into a surveilance state, will continue to be country that supports freedom of those that deserve it.
If they had known that this person was a 12 year old gilr they would have dropped the case against her. Not because she and her parents are innocent, because they are not, but because the case contains a lot bad publicity. PR is important to RIAA, they know they are the bad guy in this case, but they don't necessarily tries to strengthen this image.
But about these parents; why did they allow this to happen? They should have known about the risks involved in trading music online, and lack of knowledge about the legal ramifications is no proper excuse. Even if a person fails to understand the laws in the area, that don't make them innocent.
But he is guilty of fraud!!
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So even if the TCO is mostly developing costs; if the system is operational more than three years, the cost of MS
Whatever people feel about Darl Mcbride bashing him don't do the Linux community any good. And whatever people feel about SCO they have allways concentrated on the case on copyright infringment and not tried to take some easy shots on the Linux community. They could easily have made some comparison of the GPL and communism. Or they could have dragged out Linux-supporters like Richard M. Stallman and Eric S Raymond as some evil anti-bussiness people.
Instead they have choosen to concentrate on their main asset in the case, the claim used Ibm stolen sorce code from SCO in their AIX OS. So give them some credit for not taking the easy road, but instead building up a case for a fair legal battle.
Remeber developers; that this could have been you as a developer in this situation, having to go to court against a big company like IBM in order to secure your intellectual property rights.
While it's esay for us to sit here and complain on them for invasive background checks of workers after Sept. 11 its not that easy for them to avoid getting decent workers that don't disclose their research to terrorists. For example if Bin-Laden got hold of all the research of Elly he might avoid getting diseases like osteoporosis, cancer, depression, schizophrenia and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. So actually its better that they check their future employees than Bin-Laden getting 120 yeras old.
If they are guilty, I assume they are since RIAA would not want to risk anything like going to court without having a bulletproof case, they will get their penalty. If the are not guilty, the court will find out.
Too mee it looks like many people don't have any faith in our judicial system any more, which is pretty sad when you think about how important these things are.
if these teenagers are innocent they could choose to fight in court and don't bend over like some easy prey for a legitimate organization like RIAA.
If they can't afford decent legal protections against their crimes they should not have commitetd these acts that hurts legitimate bussiness and artist in such a way they end up broke on the streets.
If you do the crime; you should be willing to do the time.
But I bet that others will cover this soon.
On the other side, this is important and shocking but not surprising. I wonder how this was allowed to happen. Probably some sloppy admin work again, because I doubt that any politican would allow this so conserned about security they are these days.
I'm not joking it's actually true.
IMHO this is a good thing as more and more people are able to exploit this and create their own bussiness based uppon standard that are specified by governments not by some standard group that stiffles innovation.
But because many people would use the stocks as guaranti to take up new mortages the proposal is flawed anyway. On the the other side, from a Darwinistic angle the proposal sound insightful. The proposal would help those who deserves the money to keep them or get them by investing correctly. Those who would spend them in a year probably would have done so anyway. Many bussinesses would boom with such a give out and in the long perspective the give-out would help sustain economic growth by increasing consumer confidence.
The old wisdom that work is good for you is mostly bullshit; a mantra that the mostly socialised government constructed so they could controll the masses. The truth is that whats good for the economy are good for you. As long as we can have sustained economic growth over a long period of time (200 years+)that wil be good for the economy and then for most people.
So more robots will be A Good Thing(TM); they will make it possible to automate repitive work and increase productivity. That would be good for most bussiness whom can pass the savings down to the workers at the consumer level. Several industry surveys and economic teories supports this.
Let's face it most people would like to not work in such a boring job, and its only pure arrogance to be against such a development. I can allready hear the some wellmeaning well educated techies; "Save the Wal-Mart jobs help thhose people from getting sacked"
Truth is that most workers are lazy people who would could want nothing better than a year or to off before they get their next job.
Unless we want to go back into some socialist form of economy the only way to the increase wealth is to increase productivity and its pretty deterministic that sooner or later those people at Wal-Mart just need to get replaced.
Separating those that produce the good and those whom makes most of the money is a good thing. Not because we like it but because its the best for the economy; if you look at historic growth rates you will see that the fastest growth came when this happened. During the 19th century, the 1920's, 1940-65 and the 90's. Most bussinesse will benefit by this and this will help distribute the wealth in the right direction. But of course some worker unions will try too turn back time by issuing toll barriers that actually hurts bussiness and by supporting regulations that limits the flow of capital non-developed countries to the US.
Like one of those very uncommon and not ordinarily encountered CD-RW drives.
Look for example how the history went after the second World War: We tried to export freedom to Iran in a gentle an genorous way, but they turned it down and choose a Evil tyranny instead.
I guess its the pessimist side of engineers that floats up through their minds when they tries to do their work. We at management have started to see this as areal problem we have address by trying to innovate our management skills. In other words we have to convince them that nothing is impossible when developing software, its only old thinking and old views that holds you back.
The problem is that many engineers, as well as developers tries to find negative or limiting facts about a project and I belive that this limits growth and new thinking at many companies.
And I still don't see why he just could not accept the license like everyone else does. He should trust a big company like Dell, they have nothing to win by screwing him.
Since its a legal document they would have had to send him one if he had sent them a written response.
To me it looks like if he tried to make the instalation procedure difficault for himself by demanding this license. He should trust a big company like Dell, they have nothing to win by screwing him.
Do they force you to sign the license or click accept? NO
Can you return the laptop, get money back and buy another product? YES
And really, how problematic is this license really, to me it looks like a ordinary Windows EULA.
From the donotcall.gov registartion page:
This list is The list to get their hands on for spammers. 41m real email-addresse!!
Wonder how long it takes before some enterprising governmental employee "accidentaly" copied the A part of the list and oooppps burnt it on a CD-ROM and ooopps put it in a shippment to Baton Rouge....
Actually, IMHO the government should forsee this and grabbing the oppurtunity. This list could bring in a lot of money if used or sold in the right way. This money could in turn be given back as tax cuts that boosts the economy or the money could be used in the fight aginst spam/terror and/or drugs.