Intellectual Property template petition... I know someone can throw something together a hell of a lot better. Instead of critisizing it though, just do it. Sure it may sound lame, maybe banners should be posted, or something to signify that everyone can come together and have a voice against this type of bs. Yes I know sounds trollish to an extent, but hell an international group making noise is a lot more than a few people locally. Demographically this could affect everyone. Besides if thousands can come together under a free kevin like cause, certainly we all could come together for something more important.
The draft Directive is a result of pressure brought by Hollywood and the music industry to crack down on music copying, and by luxury brand owners such as Yves Saint Laurent to crack down on counterfeiting. However, it is now apparent that the main result will not be a reduction in music copying, so much as a reduction in competition and in traditional usage rights. They seem to answer their own questions regarding stemming counterfeiting, yet they still intend on bringing out the laws. Amazing.
There will be significant adverse effects on economic growth and innovation; the European Single Market will be undermined; and liberty will suffer in many ways. What I don't understand is, if they're seeing all of this in their own words (source for the italics), then why on earth would they bring down the house of cards.
Third, the winners are a small number of large organisations (AOLTimeWarner, Bertelsmann, Microsoft, Sony, Honda, Yves Saint Laurent...) who have been able to coordinate their activities and lobby internationally Personally I think someone/somegroup should ban together and create an international ban on those corporations who are threatening the liberties, and rights of others for their own gain. It would be nice to see the geekcommunity come together via some form of petition, but sadly I could see trollers messing things up/
Anyone care to draft up a legal go to hell for the overseers, I'll glady append the signature to it.
What gave you the impression that the guy you singled out was misrepresenting himself as some sort of uber-geek, as you make yourself out to be? That I make myself out to be? Where the hell in my post do you see any boasting of anything.
From what I can tell the only things you can ascertain from his email are that he works at a company (ok), and doesn't understand how some aspects of the system he's using work. You're right luckily I don't work with him if I did he'd be gone.
So? Shredding someone's resume because they got an MCSE is pretty ignorant I might add anyway. You say Toe May Toe I say Toe Mah Toe. For your information, companies (and the company I currently work for) screen their employees out beyond "what certifications do you have". It would seem by the amounts of posts like this most companies are falling for the okey doke "Hi I have my XYZ certification"
Why not shred it if they have a Mexican sounding name, after all.. are Mexicans known for their outstanding tech skills? Apples and oranges idiot. I'm hispanic
I know plenty of people who have MCSE's and countless other certs who did it just based on the thinking that "Hey, it's probably better than not having them." Good for you. I know plenty of people with jsut degrees who know their shit. Hell the entire upper crust IEEE guys don't run around touting MCSE, CCNA, CISSP bullshit. They just know their shit. Take a look at people like Steve Bellovin, I don't recall him adding uber certs to his signatures, and he is probably one of the top ten engineers on the planet without question.
This elitist attitude is pretty sickening. And it usually comes from people who themselves don't have any experience working in a large tech company. Elitist attitude? Again your perception means nothing here, nor does mine. As for experience it does mean something. As for working in a large tech environment you're right, I only work on a 2 server farm and have never worked elsewhere. You would know because what... You know me? Sure.
Sort of like the armchair quarterbacks shouting things like "Oh man, I could do that! Geez, this guy doesn't know anything." But not stepping up to do it themselves. Cry me a river there pal, it brings tears of sorrow to my heart.
And by the way, I don't have an MCSE, or any real certifications for that matter. I don't even have a high school diploma, and that's never kept me out of work. If you're looking for sympathy try checking between shit and syphillis in the dictionary. For the record I don't have any certs and it's never stopped me before. I've been a Senior Security Engineer, Senior Systems Engineer, Senior Systems Administrator, and now a Network Engineer at an ISP, all the way from starting as a junior linux admin. Spare me the chop-suey sympathy ploy. I've learned everything the hard way by doing it, and a hell of a lot of reading.
Oh wait... Did I mention I come from a broken home in the hood and my father used to beat me. I went to college dropped out? Wahh wahh... That's all true you know, maybe someone could mod me up or hire me on sympathy alone. Your post? Definitely most unimpressive. Welcome to reality guy where business and personal matters are like oil and water.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but certs mean little nowadays. People on the NANOG list, SF lists, IPSlists they all argue this. Companies who hire strictly on certs should be ashamed of themselves. Now I'm not saying all cert holders are stupid, hell many know their stuff inside out, but studying for an exam is not equivalent to knowing your stuff.
How many people have come across someone on a mailing list asking for help for typical stuff all the while their attachment has their proudly pimped status written on it... CCNA, CCDP, CISSP. I've seen them all, and I've seen one too many times big corporations with clueless rejects administrating their networks:
Thread-Topic: Help understaing startup scripts.
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Subject: Help understaing startup scripts.
Greetings Gurus,
I have a question.....
When I login to one of the UnixBoxes in the network,all my settings get
changed e.g home, aliases, and prompt etc.
This happens only in one machine not with all others.
This has started happening only after my loginID was included in new Unix
Group and Netgroup.
Does that mean there are scripts which run at unix group or Netgroup level?
How can I see which scripts are responsible for these setting changes?
Thanks,
Sanjay
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I don't mean to pick on this one person, I know too many times I see the same stuff over and over, and wonder how the hell could companies hire clueless people. I remember I worked for a company who if you sent a resume in with your newly acquired MSCE cert staus you met Mr. Shredder. I also remember meeting three people who supposedly had CCNA's only to find out they were forgeries and the company I was working for never checked them. So again, from my perspective certs mean you have the capability to read and grasp something, but admining something at 4:00am is a different story altogether.
Is it me or are companies jumping way too far ahead and losing sight of some really cool things. So we hear every other week about how XCompany just broke the terrahertz chip barrier for what? They're still only offering gigahertz chips. YCompany is making a terrabyte disk the size of a peanut... So why aren't they selling it.
Companies really make me laugh sometimes. LaCie recently announced that terrabyte 'affordable' drive for I think it was under a grand. Yet you could buy ten 100gig drives for about that price... What's the big deal?
It seems as the time goes on companies rush to bring out the latest hype to let it all fall down. As they invent new gizmos, and standards, they seem to kill it the minute it is actually being used to bring out (*drum roll please*) the newest gizmo and standard. So what's left after they run through every possible combination of ideas, and technologies? Makes me think of history and older civilizations that kind of imploded on advancements.
I didn't say everyone was innocent, I was pointing out stats for conviction rates. Now coming from "the hood" as some people would call it, I know offhand many people cop out rather than face a trial because a) their lawyers often advise it rather than go to trial b) don't understand or are fearful of the justice system. So while you can point out how many people are guilty, I would never dispute that, but there are unfortunately a lot of people who get caught up in a viscious cycle of junk justice.
Now without getting into all sorts of detail, let's just say my confidence in the justice system ranks along with my confidence that enron simply made a mistake... Again I guess there are many people who believe the justice system could do no wrong, and that method of thinking is foul. Now if you claim you worked at a public defender's office you would know, or perhaps have heard of the tricks prosecutors use to win cases... You know threatening to imprison an entire family if the accused doesn't cop out, making their lives a miserable hell, etc., I'm sure you have, and again this type of information does not come out, it's a perception problem... The government would never do such a thing... Bullshit. Let's just say I know they do, but coming from me it would be conspiratorial.
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It's not that the FBI isn't trying, there are a lot of good people with good intentions, you apparently don't understand the background of agencies who have thier hands tied by their bosses. Take for instance Case ID 199I-WF-213589... The feds were looking into ties between al Qaeda, UBL, WAMY and the Saudi's (pre 9/11) and were told to drop it. So what do you think they do?
Put yourself in their position, you're working for what you believe is the right cause, you do as your told, and you glide into a pension after service moving into the private sector afterwards. Bottom line.
As for the sticker... Means nothing and yes you can attribute piracy in some form to illegal activities. Although you see this from a downloading-does-no-evil perspective, fact is there are organizations that make money off of these things, and yes they can somehow can intertwined with terrorism. For example, out here in NYC where tax free bootleg cigarettes are the rage for those looking to make a quick buck, do you think Joe Blow average is bringing in truckloads to sell them to lower level sellers? Sure people run off to Indian reservations to buy and resell, but it's not an uncommon notion to think how easy it would be to make some mega black market cash to fund something more sinister.
So while the typical/.'er trolls along thinking about how evil this is, I personally think this was done to appease those with money making noise (RIAA), and as a means of saying "We're watching you", beyond that I doubt if the FBI is going to run around and arrest little Jack Horner for trading songs with Little Bo Peep, but rather would focus on factories who do this on a mass scale. Then again this is my perception of it all, and I am definitely not one to be an expert solely one who looks at things from a different angle. And in case anyone has forgotten, a law is a law is a law. Like it or not.
For anyone who truly believes you have a fighting chance... Sure you do, you're one of those 5% who has a shot in hell against winning a case against the government. Do your
research. Too many people I notice have this notion of a great justice system, a place where your interests and liberties are protected, and in some cases they are, but to the average joe, you're bound to lose, and what happens when you lose, you either appeal or deal with it. The stats on appeals are similar where the gov has more than a 90% win ratio. So keep dreaming if you think it's as clear cut as walking in with proof. Think about that deeply for a second. Firstly you're going up against a gorilla with unlimited financial resources, secondly for those who don't know and have never been to a trial, it is scripted. What can be asked, what can't be asked. And if you're high profile... Shit the gov is going to do everything they can to "perp walk" all over your liberties and identity to make the public feel all warm and woozy about justice being done... Justice? For whom? For those in office seeking more government cheese (aka budgetary funds), to support them.
I would continue on, but alas most people don't understand the politics behind the legal system. Just look at the Martha scam... In case you're too blind to know the truth, she's on trial for going on television and stating "I didn't do anything" nothing more. What does the media and DoJ do? They overhype it to look as if Martha is on the same level as the Enron, Tyco mobsters. Give me a break. Your best bet is to get over it, it happens (legal shaftings) much more than you think I know firsthand.
who ever said asscroft had anything to do with that particular law? Reading my prior post I did not mention that now did I? I'm thanking Asscroft for current laws trying to be passed into existance. You know those little inclusions like monitoring via library cards what someone is reading... I say what's on my mind without the blur of 'pseudo anonyminity' and can take flames, why would you post anonymously. Don't tell me you're scared of something. After all your identity can be revealed just as easily as mines can.
For the record regardless of whatever cigar toting Clinton did, can you change what you had for lunch yesterday? I think not. Fact remains Asscroft is the one in power now, and the one who is looking to pass all these kooked out laws, not Clinton. So put your petty political party to the side and shoot from the hip with facts, or at least with something worth substance.
The USA PATRIOT Act
The USA PATRIOT Act broadly expands law enforcement's surveillance and investigative powers and represents one of the most significant threats to civil liberties, privacy and democratic traditions in U.S. history.
What is PATRIOT?
The USA PATRIOT Act (officially the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act) was quickly developed as anti-terrorism legislation in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. The large and complex law received little Congressional oversight and debate, and was signed into law by President Bush Oct. 26, 2001. source
You're right maybe I should educate myself maybe I wouldn't make so many typos and remember to include links to sources of my information so trollers don't get all pissy in their underoos. Point well taken thank you.
Don't feel bad there's not much you as an individual can do unless you have a boatload of money to throw around...
In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act mandated 3 million non-citizens to carry ID cards and threatened 11 million naturalized citizens with deportation if they were charged with being communists. A bus drivers' union official was grabbed from the bargaining table where he was successfully negotiating a wage increase and shorter hours and held at Ellis Island, New York for deportation to Canada. Harry Bridges, for decades the leader of the San Francisco Longshoremen, was harassed with repeated deportation efforts.source
Don't worry though the USA PATRIOT ACT's will take care of all your problems.
As with the WOD (war on drugs) it's what's called pork barrel spending during prime time (around election time). Pork barrel being many will try to cash in either financially or politically one way or the other. The act although it sounds good on paper or coming from the mouth of some guy in a nice suit with the subliminally place red tie to convey trust. But taking a step back to look at it, and anyone can answer the question for themselves... Can the US dictate what should be law in another country such as Brazil, or China?
Aside from trying to set law in another country, to dare ask if the United States can 'force' (because that's the only means they can use to accomplish the act) countries to comply, if US politrixters think some war torn poor country is going to focus on cracking down on people who are actually making money for their country via taxes, or whatever the case, those politrixters must be on the Rush Limbaugh oxycodone bandwagon.
As for filtering, companies try and try, and the more they try, the more spammers adapt and find other means to send messages. Section 1(a)(b(d)c)) of subsection 2(4)a(v(z)) states no one can send text messages unsolicitied. Know what? The spammers will send jpegs and so on and so on. Nothing more than playing the psyche of the people for votes. Spam has been an issue for a while now, so why is it come crunch time, they're rushing to pass laws.
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I have to stop and wonder at their claims... They can bill you via identification, but not 'know' who you are?... Ok fine. So what happens when something similar to the RIAA comes out for TV, because after all unless you're blind you would see those annoying FBI warnings that come on when watching movies. Or did you think you didn't need permission to record that. So (of course a what if scenario) what happens when lawsuits start dropping on users of TiVo... "Hey we're you're friends, we would never monitor your habits for targeted advertising and sell millions of users' information for mmillions. We're honest because by golly we're TiVo, and although we monitor what you watch to target advertisers to you we would never give out your info."
Hrmm sure alright, you're right I am a troll. Corporations would never do the wrong thing like sell your information for millions. They all have morals.
cost factors... Think about that. A 7.99 DVD just to burn something you can BZIP into two.49 cd's. When you're free you're going to look to cut costs. *Nix distros unlike say VxWorks, Windows, Solaris (don't be a troll and answer with *its free to download*... I'm talking on a commercial level), QNX, etc, are making money SELLING as opposed to distros which charge to cover running costs.
Pretty nice list havent used Linux for a while though. Maybe I'll find a PPC version to play with for my laptop.
The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls at home.
Define telemarketing calls. What I think will happen is companies will adapt with something to obscure the dubious title of telemarketing companies. Think about it for a second... So company X cannot call you soliciting products, but a charity can still call you. So now using some lax LLC laws, a telemarketer can reinvent itself as some form of charity Company X charity... Sure they can pitch something honest sounding but let's take a look at namebranding for a second...
charity: "Good day sir, we're with the Microsoft Save the World foundation..."
Sure it sounds dumb, but I'm sure telemarketers will find a way around this. By the way no mention of how this includes those annoying companies calling you to do independent studies, surveys, etc. At least from what I saw on the page.
Oh well, it will be a matter of time (likely after November) where an anonymous plane mysteriously drops a bag of cash on someone politicians desk, and these laws are re-argued and reverse. Just like the Public Utility Holding Company Act, Federal Power Act, and Federal Communications Act. All down the tubes.
Did you notice on Sun's new Linux version they have a drive on the desktop labeled "This Computer" I wonder if you decided to spin out a *nix free based distribution and renamed that to my computer would MS take you to court... Now considering it's a free OS you're not making money off MS' so called labor so in theory you should be able to. Again however, money talks;)
it was likely done to reflect the domain name being they can't register Lin _ _ _ s.com. As for MS beating up on the competition, I wonder why they haven't gone after typohosting companies such as microspft.com, or microsift.com... They're pretty much riding the MS pompouslarity bandwagon. So the argument would either be... They would lose in court being neither microsift nor microspft have anything to do with computing, nor do they have anything to do with micro*anything. Nor does Lindows to an extent. Oh well money talks
A small team of developers in Rwanda was just beginning work on a project to produce a localized version of OpenOffice, an open-source alternative to Microsoft's market-leading productivity software, when they realized they had a problem.
A very good day to you.
I am Barrister Barry Dapo Smith, an attorney at law. I was the Personal Attorney to Mr. Jarold Freeman, who lived in PortHarcourt, Nigeria for
years, and whom hereinafter shall be referred to as my Client.
I have a very confidential business proposition for you. On 17th February, 2004, we started developing open source products valued at US$12,500,000.00 (Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand American Dollars) Upon maturity, I was notified by the bank and subsequently sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the OpenOffice that Mr. Jarold Freeman died along with is wife Mrs. Barbara Freeman in a plane crash.
When I receive those types of phone calls i generally troll with them as if I didn't have a clue... e.g:
Well sir, I switched from Kerry lotion to Vaseline sensitive because it made my feet softer. You know I used to have these huge bunions...
That'll make em think twice about randumbly calling me...
most of the times I would agree, although I must state I recently bought myself an older PowerBook which is pretty much nothing more than a word processor. Albeit a heavy one, it serves its purposes when I'm on Metro North doing something simple. As for the PDA's, I'm too clumsy/ignorant to mess with them too much I had a zion once upon an internet era ago and saw it as nothing more than a novelty
Try checking out the comparisons here. Why? Check out the links on the comparisons, as well as the owner of the domain via whois... At least you know this (unlike Computer Shopper magazine) site is not being whored out by some vendor. It's a pretty detailed site on specs, vendors, etc.
Half of all human languages will have disappeared by the end of the century, as smaller societies are assimilated into national and global cultures, scientists have warned. Losing this linguistic diversity will be a blow not only for cultural studies but also for cognitive science, they say.
I can't remember the name of the organization I read about but recall reading about some organization that was trying to archive many texts, etc., regarding diminishing languages. Anyway, I could see why one would want to preserve that, but as for programming languages, maybe for kicks and giggles... Too many programming languages were created with little documentation, and actual follow through. Ever take a look at some of the things on SourceForge or Freshmeat? Sure they don't post programming languages per-se but the same follows suit with the languages...
actually using something as simple as groups can achieve this in case you (obviously) didn't know. ACL's work fine and lsacl written in Ruby can be tweaked to run elsewhere. But just in case you don't feel like tweaking, or perhaps you just... don't know how... ACL Linux can be downloaded. Personally I prefer solaris over most flavors of *nix, and I've been through them all starting about 6 years ago with Linux. As an admin, for financial purposes... I would go with the following in this order... Sun* (including trusted sol), AIX, HPUX, BSD, Linux
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Intellectual Property template petition... I know someone can throw something together a hell of a lot better. Instead of critisizing it though, just do it. Sure it may sound lame, maybe banners should be posted, or something to signify that everyone can come together and have a voice against this type of bs. Yes I know sounds trollish to an extent, but hell an international group making noise is a lot more than a few people locally. Demographically this could affect everyone. Besides if thousands can come together under a free kevin like cause, certainly we all could come together for something more important.
The draft Directive is a result of pressure brought by Hollywood and the music industry to crack down on music copying, and by luxury brand owners such as Yves Saint Laurent to crack down on counterfeiting. However, it is now apparent that the main result will not be a reduction in music copying, so much as a reduction in competition and in traditional usage rights. They seem to answer their own questions regarding stemming counterfeiting, yet they still intend on bringing out the laws. Amazing.
There will be significant adverse effects on economic growth and innovation; the European Single Market will be undermined; and liberty will suffer in many ways. What I don't understand is, if they're seeing all of this in their own words (source for the italics ), then why on earth would they bring down the house of cards.
Third, the winners are a small number of large organisations (AOLTimeWarner, Bertelsmann, Microsoft, Sony, Honda, Yves Saint Laurent...) who have been able to coordinate their activities and lobby internationally Personally I think someone/somegroup should ban together and create an international ban on those corporations who are threatening the liberties, and rights of others for their own gain. It would be nice to see the geekcommunity come together via some form of petition, but sadly I could see trollers messing things up/
Anyone care to draft up a legal go to hell for the overseers, I'll glady append the signature to it.
From what I can tell the only things you can ascertain from his email are that he works at a company (ok), and doesn't understand how some aspects of the system he's using work. You're right luckily I don't work with him if I did he'd be gone.
So? Shredding someone's resume because they got an MCSE is pretty ignorant I might add anyway. You say Toe May Toe I say Toe Mah Toe. For your information, companies (and the company I currently work for) screen their employees out beyond "what certifications do you have". It would seem by the amounts of posts like this most companies are falling for the okey doke "Hi I have my XYZ certification"
Why not shred it if they have a Mexican sounding name, after all.. are Mexicans known for their outstanding tech skills? Apples and oranges idiot. I'm hispanic
I know plenty of people who have MCSE's and countless other certs who did it just based on the thinking that "Hey, it's probably better than not having them." Good for you. I know plenty of people with jsut degrees who know their shit. Hell the entire upper crust IEEE guys don't run around touting MCSE, CCNA, CISSP bullshit. They just know their shit. Take a look at people like Steve Bellovin, I don't recall him adding uber certs to his signatures, and he is probably one of the top ten engineers on the planet without question.
This elitist attitude is pretty sickening. And it usually comes from people who themselves don't have any experience working in a large tech company. Elitist attitude? Again your perception means nothing here, nor does mine. As for experience it does mean something. As for working in a large tech environment you're right, I only work on a 2 server farm and have never worked elsewhere. You would know because what... You know me? Sure.
Sort of like the armchair quarterbacks shouting things like "Oh man, I could do that! Geez, this guy doesn't know anything." But not stepping up to do it themselves. Cry me a river there pal, it brings tears of sorrow to my heart.
And by the way, I don't have an MCSE, or any real certifications for that matter. I don't even have a high school diploma, and that's never kept me out of work. If you're looking for sympathy try checking between shit and syphillis in the dictionary. For the record I don't have any certs and it's never stopped me before. I've been a Senior Security Engineer, Senior Systems Engineer, Senior Systems Administrator, and now a Network Engineer at an ISP, all the way from starting as a junior linux admin. Spare me the chop-suey sympathy ploy. I've learned everything the hard way by doing it, and a hell of a lot of reading.
Oh wait... Did I mention I come from a broken home in the hood and my father used to beat me. I went to college dropped out? Wahh wahh... That's all true you know, maybe someone could mod me up or hire me on sympathy alone. Your post? Definitely most unimpressive. Welcome to reality guy where business and personal matters are like oil and water.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but certs mean little nowadays. People on the NANOG list, SF lists, IPSlists they all argue this. Companies who hire strictly on certs should be ashamed of themselves. Now I'm not saying all cert holders are stupid, hell many know their stuff inside out, but studying for an exam is not equivalent to knowing your stuff.
How many people have come across someone on a mailing list asking for help for typical stuff all the while their attachment has their proudly pimped status written on it... CCNA, CCDP, CISSP. I've seen them all, and I've seen one too many times big corporations with clueless rejects administrating their networks:
I don't mean to pick on this one person, I know too many times I see the same stuff over and over, and wonder how the hell could companies hire clueless people. I remember I worked for a company who if you sent a resume in with your newly acquired MSCE cert staus you met Mr. Shredder. I also remember meeting three people who supposedly had CCNA's only to find out they were forgeries and the company I was working for never checked them. So again, from my perspective certs mean you have the capability to read and grasp something, but admining something at 4:00am is a different story altogether.Is it me or are companies jumping way too far ahead and losing sight of some really cool things. So we hear every other week about how XCompany just broke the terrahertz chip barrier for what? They're still only offering gigahertz chips. YCompany is making a terrabyte disk the size of a peanut... So why aren't they selling it.
Companies really make me laugh sometimes. LaCie recently announced that terrabyte 'affordable' drive for I think it was under a grand. Yet you could buy ten 100gig drives for about that price... What's the big deal?
It seems as the time goes on companies rush to bring out the latest hype to let it all fall down. As they invent new gizmos, and standards, they seem to kill it the minute it is actually being used to bring out (*drum roll please*) the newest gizmo and standard. So what's left after they run through every possible combination of ideas, and technologies? Makes me think of history and older civilizations that kind of imploded on advancements.
Now without getting into all sorts of detail, let's just say my confidence in the justice system ranks along with my confidence that enron simply made a mistake... Again I guess there are many people who believe the justice system could do no wrong, and that method of thinking is foul. Now if you claim you worked at a public defender's office you would know, or perhaps have heard of the tricks prosecutors use to win cases... You know threatening to imprison an entire family if the accused doesn't cop out, making their lives a miserable hell, etc., I'm sure you have, and again this type of information does not come out, it's a perception problem... The government would never do such a thing... Bullshit. Let's just say I know they do, but coming from me it would be conspiratorial.
Put yourself in their position, you're working for what you believe is the right cause, you do as your told, and you glide into a pension after service moving into the private sector afterwards. Bottom line.
As for the sticker... Means nothing and yes you can attribute piracy in some form to illegal activities. Although you see this from a downloading-does-no-evil perspective, fact is there are organizations that make money off of these things, and yes they can somehow can intertwined with terrorism. For example, out here in NYC where tax free bootleg cigarettes are the rage for those looking to make a quick buck, do you think Joe Blow average is bringing in truckloads to sell them to lower level sellers? Sure people run off to Indian reservations to buy and resell, but it's not an uncommon notion to think how easy it would be to make some mega black market cash to fund something more sinister.
So while the typical /.'er trolls along thinking about how evil this is, I personally think this was done to appease those with money making noise (RIAA), and as a means of saying "We're watching you", beyond that I doubt if the FBI is going to run around and arrest little Jack Horner for trading songs with Little Bo Peep, but rather would focus on factories who do this on a mass scale. Then again this is my perception of it all, and I am definitely not one to be an expert solely one who looks at things from a different angle. And in case anyone has forgotten, a law is a law is a law. Like it or not.
For anyone who truly believes you have a fighting chance
I would continue on, but alas most people don't understand the politics behind the legal system. Just look at the Martha scam... In case you're too blind to know the truth, she's on trial for going on television and stating "I didn't do anything" nothing more. What does the media and DoJ do? They overhype it to look as if Martha is on the same level as the Enron, Tyco mobsters. Give me a break. Your best bet is to get over it, it happens (legal shaftings) much more than you think I know firsthand.
For the record regardless of whatever cigar toting Clinton did, can you change what you had for lunch yesterday? I think not. Fact remains Asscroft is the one in power now, and the one who is looking to pass all these kooked out laws, not Clinton. So put your petty political party to the side and shoot from the hip with facts, or at least with something worth substance.
You're right maybe I should educate myself maybe I wouldn't make so many typos and remember to include links to sources of my information so trollers don't get all pissy in their underoos. Point well taken thank you.In 1952, the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act mandated 3 million non-citizens to carry ID cards and threatened 11 million naturalized citizens with deportation if they were charged with being communists. A bus drivers' union official was grabbed from the bargaining table where he was successfully negotiating a wage increase and shorter hours and held at Ellis Island, New York for deportation to Canada. Harry Bridges, for decades the leader of the San Francisco Longshoremen, was harassed with repeated deportation efforts. source
Don't worry though the USA PATRIOT ACT's will take care of all your problems.
Aside from trying to set law in another country, to dare ask if the United States can 'force' (because that's the only means they can use to accomplish the act) countries to comply, if US politrixters think some war torn poor country is going to focus on cracking down on people who are actually making money for their country via taxes, or whatever the case, those politrixters must be on the Rush Limbaugh oxycodone bandwagon.
As for filtering, companies try and try, and the more they try, the more spammers adapt and find other means to send messages. Section 1(a)(b(d)c)) of subsection 2(4)a(v(z)) states no one can send text messages unsolicitied. Know what? The spammers will send jpegs and so on and so on. Nothing more than playing the psyche of the people for votes. Spam has been an issue for a while now, so why is it come crunch time, they're rushing to pass laws.
sorry must have forgotten to close that annoying ass bold tag
I have to stop and wonder at their claims... They can bill you via identification, but not 'know' who you are?... Ok fine. So what happens when something similar to the RIAA comes out for TV, because after all unless you're blind you would see those annoying FBI warnings that come on when watching movies. Or did you think you didn't need permission to record that. So (of course a what if scenario) what happens when lawsuits start dropping on users of TiVo... "Hey we're you're friends, we would never monitor your habits for targeted advertising and sell millions of users' information for mmillions. We're honest because by golly we're TiVo, and although we monitor what you watch to target advertisers to you we would never give out your info."
Hrmm sure alright, you're right I am a troll. Corporations would never do the wrong thing like sell your information for millions. They all have morals.
After TiVo stuck their foot in their mouths when they subliminally announced they monitor what you're doing, why the heck would I even bother...
Kissing your privacy goodbye...
Pretty nice list havent used Linux for a while though. Maybe I'll find a PPC version to play with for my laptop.
Define telemarketing calls. What I think will happen is companies will adapt with something to obscure the dubious title of telemarketing companies. Think about it for a second... So company X cannot call you soliciting products, but a charity can still call you. So now using some lax LLC laws, a telemarketer can reinvent itself as some form of charity Company X charity... Sure they can pitch something honest sounding but let's take a look at namebranding for a second...
charity: "Good day sir, we're with the Microsoft Save the World foundation..."
Sure it sounds dumb, but I'm sure telemarketers will find a way around this. By the way no mention of how this includes those annoying companies calling you to do independent studies, surveys, etc. At least from what I saw on the page.
Oh well, it will be a matter of time (likely after November) where an anonymous plane mysteriously drops a bag of cash on someone politicians desk, and these laws are re-argued and reverse. Just like the Public Utility Holding Company Act, Federal Power Act, and Federal Communications Act. All down the tubes.
Did you notice on Sun's new Linux version they have a drive on the desktop labeled "This Computer" I wonder if you decided to spin out a *nix free based distribution and renamed that to my computer would MS take you to court... Now considering it's a free OS you're not making money off MS' so called labor so in theory you should be able to. Again however, money talks ;)
it was likely done to reflect the domain name being they can't register Lin _ _ _ s.com. As for MS beating up on the competition, I wonder why they haven't gone after typohosting companies such as microspft.com, or microsift.com ... They're pretty much riding the MS pompouslarity bandwagon. So the argument would either be... They would lose in court being neither microsift nor microspft have anything to do with computing, nor do they have anything to do with micro*anything. Nor does Lindows to an extent. Oh well money talks
A very good day to you.
I am Barrister Barry Dapo Smith, an attorney at law. I was the Personal Attorney to Mr. Jarold Freeman, who lived in PortHarcourt, Nigeria for years, and whom hereinafter shall be referred to as my Client.
I have a very confidential business proposition for you. On 17th February, 2004, we started developing open source products valued at US$12,500,000.00 (Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand American Dollars) Upon maturity, I was notified by the bank and subsequently sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, the OpenOffice that Mr. Jarold Freeman died along with is wife Mrs. Barbara Freeman in a plane crash.
That'll make em think twice about randumbly calling me...
kerry@shafted.us
kerry@bush.shafted.us
kerry@defrauded.us
bush@victimized.us
and finally...
bush@misunderestimated.net
most of the times I would agree, although I must state I recently bought myself an older PowerBook which is pretty much nothing more than a word processor. Albeit a heavy one, it serves its purposes when I'm on Metro North doing something simple. As for the PDA's, I'm too clumsy/ignorant to mess with them too much I had a zion once upon an internet era ago and saw it as nothing more than a novelty
Try checking out the comparisons here. Why? Check out the links on the comparisons, as well as the owner of the domain via whois... At least you know this (unlike Computer Shopper magazine) site is not being whored out by some vendor. It's a pretty detailed site on specs, vendors, etc.
I can't remember the name of the organization I read about but recall reading about some organization that was trying to archive many texts, etc., regarding diminishing languages. Anyway, I could see why one would want to preserve that, but as for programming languages, maybe for kicks and giggles... Too many programming languages were created with little documentation, and actual follow through. Ever take a look at some of the things on SourceForge or Freshmeat? Sure they don't post programming languages per-se but the same follows suit with the languages...
ACE, ADA, APL, Assembly/ASM, BASIC, BETA, C# / C Sharp, CECIL, CGI, CID, CILK, COBOL, , DELPHI, DYLAN, EIFFEL, FORTH, FORTRAN, FutureBasic, Haskell, ICON, IDL, J, Java, LISP, LOGO, ML, Modula, MPI, M[UMPS], Oberon, Pascal, POP, PowerBuilder, Prolog, PVM, QBASIC, REBOL, REXX, SAS, Sather, Scheme, ScriptX, SDL, SELF, Smalltalk, SQL, SR, TCLTK, TeX, Theta, Verilog, VHDL, VI Editor, VisualBasic, XML
actually using something as simple as groups can achieve this in case you (obviously) didn't know. ACL's work fine and lsacl written in Ruby can be tweaked to run elsewhere. But just in case you don't feel like tweaking, or perhaps you just