I disagree. I think when you take the whole of the bill of rights and the constitution, there is a right to privacy the courts have recognized in the past. I do not want to look it up, but wording in one case was somthing like: "the courts must defend against the long arm of the government peering into the circle of individual liberty". If anyone wants, I can look up the exact case. If we are really free, then we have a right to privacy as that is a product of freedom. There is no right at all for someone to invade another persons house, papers, posessions, or the like without a court approving it. We have the right to form private groups, as the right to associate. So I see it very different than those who will let government take away our rights. I know those rights exsist and am not willing to let go of them.
It is only when government overstepps its boundry does the right of privacy dissapear, and often it is like the frog telling of the ecological disaster to come. Remember Hoover and his FBI? They were the ones who tapped the phones of political groups. And remember Nixon?
Yeah, it ticks me off when companies do that. And they make it more and more difficult to send in the rebates. At first, they had the rebates in the stores. Then stores stopped carrying the rebates and they told you to go to the companies website to get the rebate. Then the rebate on the website got harder and harder to find. I have a friend who purchased a DELL computer, and they told him the rebate would come with the PC. Instead, when the computer came, a slip of paper told told him to go to www.dell.com and find the rebate and print it out, making sure to click on the right model. He looked for a good half hour before finding it. I bet there are some people who would have gave up right away. But the searching was all for nothing, he did not have a printer.
Then there are some of the odd requirements. I purchaed a laptop and they wanted the UPC bar code off the box the computer came in. If I rip the box, how can I return the laptop if I decide I do not like it? I want to keep the box in good condition. What if I want to ship the laptop?
The article says you get: $200 savings and an extra 512 megs of RAM over a normal G5.
Fine, I pointed out that was after a $99 dollar rebate for the RAM and a $40 installation fee. Then I was modded down. Hmmm.
What I would like to know is if the owners of this site get money for some of the stories they post. I wonder, because what I posted about the fee was vaild, yet it was marked off topic. If they get money based on some stories, then I would probably go elsewhere for my news.
You know what I HATE??? Those dang mail-in rebates. They say you get 512 megs for free. Uh-huh, after a $99 mail in rebate and $40 installation fee. What is so free now?
Arggggh! Let me rant a little more. Lend me your ears. Why do people alow for this? Why do people buy stuff that has false advertising? There were times I recieved an advertising in the mail for some computer part at a great price, and I run to the store to find the price in the advertising is after mail in rebates. In this case, it was a router for $49 after a $100 mail in rebate.. But you would have to search the small legal print to find the $100 dollar rebate in the advertising.
Why oh why do companies use mail in rebates? I HATE mail in rebates. I will not buy products that have mail in rebates. What is wrong with advertising the real price in BOLD, not the sale price, and listing the mail in rebates in smaller font under the real price?? Sometimes I think computer stores do things like this just to get people in the doors.
What is in a name? A rose by any other name is still a rose.
I think these cases boil down to confusing people about what they are buying. If you want windows, or red hat, you should be able to go to your computer store, walk to the isle with those products, and not be confused such as looking at three nearly identical boxes with different software. I doubt anyone would be confused if they went to a store and saw Windows next to Lindows.
Same thing with Red Hat. So what if I start a company called Blue Hat? Big deal. As long as I do not try and steal the other company's identity. Anyways, there is something called competition which I think is good. As long as there is no trickery to decieve customers.
Lindows and Windows are two different words. Why would Miscrosoft sue Lindows, unless all Microsoft wants to do is to force Lindows to use its money hiring lawyers instead of improving its product. I wonder if that is what Microsoft really wants to do?
Now if Lindows was made by Microsofter and had the same designs on the boxes that would confise people purchasing the software, MS would have some case. But just one word?
Our actions are based on two things. Genetics and experiance. So to those who say that violent games do not cause violence, then what does? Was that person born evil? I think the relationship between violent games and violence is like the relationship between carcinogens and cancer. Think of it another way.
Where the scanner will connect via the internet to some government site to tell them you scanned money. Who knows. Today they block printing a reproduction. Tommorow they turn you in. Innovation.
Police did not conduct the search?
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MIPI obtained an Anton Pilar order - which allows a copyright holder to enter a premises to search for and seize material that breaches copyright without alerting the target through court proceedings - yesterday from Justice Murray Wilcox, and began raiding premises in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria this morning searching for documents and electronic evidence to support its case against the peer-to-peer companies.
Since when can someone search another person's property? Who is to say they did not take data or information not related directly to finding violations of law? At least if it was the police searching, you could have a court determine what is related to the specific law, and what is not. Who is to say they will not use items found unrelated to the copywrite issue, but which can still cause embarrasment, and use that information against them? It would be the equivelant of person B searching the house of person A for "copywrite violation" but finding tax records, photos of your lover, your address book of friends, etc...
Indeed, such warnings might once have been dismissed as mere fear-mongering. But in today's post-9/11 world, in which the US government has already announced its plans to fingerprint and photograph foreign visitors to our country, RFID sounds like a technology that could easily be seized upon by the Homeland Security Department in the so-called "war on terrorism." But such a system wouldn't just track suspected Al Qaeda terrorists: it would necessarily track everybody--at least potentially.
What is that quote? Man is born free yet everywhere he is in chains
I do not like the idea of having every last bit of privacy removed. Between the new camera's my state is installing on highways, with radar guns, that send you a ticket in the mail, to having banks sell personal information to thrid parties so they can call me at dinner to offer me a great price on a satelite dish, this is getting out of control.
While some may say that government will never, ever use any technology in an illegal way, I would just say they have done it in the past. Nixon broke into the dem's headquarters. Other presidents have bugged the phones of political groups like the black panthers. And this current president has the "Patriot Act".
It scares me to think what government could do. 1984 is looking less like fiction and more like a prediction.
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McBride said that while Linux is the compilation of thousands of people donating their time and programming skills to improve kernel code created by Linus Torvalds, SCO deserves compensation for the improvements it made to Linux.
I thought that the whole point of open source is so nobody can take the software, change it, and then sell it as their own. I thought any changes made became the property of the project, for everyone to use.
For example, in the GPL it states:
You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
parties under the terms of this License.
I am so happy they both work and are well. Hopefully this will lay the groundwork for future missions and maybe a base on mars.
This is also good news as a precision check. If one did not work off the bat, we would not have anything to compare the results to.
From the artice:
Halfway around Mars from its twin, Opportunity already has discovered an iron-rich mineral called gray hematite. Preliminary measurements suggest the mineral is of a variety that forms in liquid water, providing the first hint that the now dry site once was wetter.
Spirit, in contrast, may have to drive hundreds of yards, to a nearby crater called Bonneville, to uncover similar geologic proof.
If there was water at one point and time on mars, I wonder if there are any x-rays these rovers can take deep into the ground to look for fossils or other proof of life. Then again, fossils would assume bones, but even so, I wonder how deep down they can look.
14 point font is going to take up more paper than 12 point font. Lots more. I remember doing this kind of crap in high school to make my papers X pages long.
Not suprising that Bush is the one making this change. LOL.
A UK teenager who hacked into a US Government laboratory's computer network has been ordered to serve 200 hours community service.
Joseph McElroy used the lab's computers for films and music taken from the net.
Southwark Crown Court waived a demand for 21,000 in damages as it ruled that McElroy could not pay the fine.
That is the fine by britian. I wonder what british law he broke??
But he obviously broke USA law. I wonder if the FBI can arrest him and force his export.
I do not understand the culture of people thinking that they own everything. What gave this guy the right to steal bandwith from someone else? What gave him the right to steal the storage space? What gave him the right to break into someone elses pc?
The anwser is tougher laws and more extradition treaties. And by comparison, what ever happened to that phillapino kid who was caught writing viruses? I thought they threw the book at him. Why will the british kid get an easier sentance?
Computers playing chess is not the same thing as two people playing the game.
With two people, there are some elements that can not be programmed into a chess game. I remember in high school playing chess, there was a differance between playing a math academy team and a school best known for its basketball program. Expectations were different, the pressure was different. I remember the pressure of the state finals. There is the look the other person has, almost like poker. Can I bluff this person? Can I trick this person? What about the clock, can I manipulate that to cause an emotion in the other person.
Maybe Spock can play a PC and have no differance in quality of play. But I prefer humans.
Cisco Systems, which has also been named in the Amnesty report, has in the past denied that it tailors products for the Chinese market and has said: 'If the government of China wants to monitor the internet, that's their business. We are politically neutral.' But Allison said: 'In terms of the internet the Chinese government is arresting people who are doing nothing more than expressing themselves.
What should the USA do? Ban the sale of any product which could be used to violate human rights? Or change the software so it opperates differently? I think this is a problem for the Chinese people, not USA companys.
If we were selling guns, then the solution would be to stop selling them. But software is not the same. The end user has to decide how to use the software. There are choices.
I also think soverign countries have a right to decide their own values. For change to occur, those who want change must vocalize it in the open, not wisper it in the dark. Then the rest of the country has a right to decide if they want change. Who are we to decide that for them, and treat them like a child? If the people of China want change bad enough, they will fight for it.
Or maybe we can just get Miscrosoft to tweak the EULA.;)
Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge. I think it is a great idea to get some of the most imaginative minds to offer ideas to scientists on how to send humans to mars. My only question is, if they will send some large cargo container/ship ahead of a manned mission, how will the manned mission be able to land near enough to the cargo/habitat ship?? Or will this just orbit Mars? I hope I get to see a manned station on Mars in my lifetime.
What matters is that we deal with these social problems by stamping out any joke or sarcasm that might throw some light onto that corner of society.
I could not agree more. But not only throwing light on those elements in society, but some soapy water too.
Seriously, people need to realize some words can cause an immediate and unavoidable encounter with violence. The trick is to leave the person confounded, not violent. Should not be too hard cause they have little punny weak minds.
You are an idiot. Privacy laws are absolute. What kind of society do we want? The one where a person with a wireless lan has no right to privacy? Where if the person decides to access their lan in their own home from a wireless pc to do banking, that you can steal that data? That if someone wants to have a wireless security camera that you can look in on their buisness?
I say you are the problem and full of shit. I will not allow an idiot like you to take away my rights.
This should be illegal. People have a right to privacy. Nobody has a right to sniff like that. We need stronger laws to lock up these peeping toms. It is no different than a voyer.
I wonder if there is any way to detect the sicko voyers when they are around. I would love to catch them in the act and introduce them to my louiville slugger.
I know a couple that lives in the neighborhood that drives a Yugo. They have had the car for 15 years, and it must have over 300,000 miles on it and it still runs. I think there should be a distinction between cars that look bad but runs good, and cars that are lemons. Just because a car looks like a box with wheels does not mean it is a bad car.
I know many people that could care less how good a car looks as long as it gets them where they want to go. Sometimes these cheaper cars are a great value considering how little gas they use.
This sounds to me like those psych games of "you can't have it" to make you want something you did not want. If I have to jump through a hoop to join something, then I do not want anything to do with it.
Also, did anyone read their privacy statement. Looks like they not only share your personal information with 3rd parties, but they also share whatever information you send in your messeges to other members and people you invite.
I did not even think of that. From my reading, it means the USA can not give out any titles, and no politician can use it. But I do not think it would stop a private citizen from accepting a title.
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It is only when government overstepps its boundry does the right of privacy dissapear, and often it is like the frog telling of the ecological disaster to come. Remember Hoover and his FBI? They were the ones who tapped the phones of political groups. And remember Nixon?
Defend your liberty or lose it.
Then there are some of the odd requirements. I purchaed a laptop and they wanted the UPC bar code off the box the computer came in. If I rip the box, how can I return the laptop if I decide I do not like it? I want to keep the box in good condition. What if I want to ship the laptop?
Fine, I pointed out that was after a $99 dollar rebate for the RAM and a $40 installation fee. Then I was modded down. Hmmm.
What I would like to know is if the owners of this site get money for some of the stories they post. I wonder, because what I posted about the fee was vaild, yet it was marked off topic. If they get money based on some stories, then I would probably go elsewhere for my news.
Arggggh! Let me rant a little more. Lend me your ears. Why do people alow for this? Why do people buy stuff that has false advertising? There were times I recieved an advertising in the mail for some computer part at a great price, and I run to the store to find the price in the advertising is after mail in rebates. In this case, it was a router for $49 after a $100 mail in rebate.. But you would have to search the small legal print to find the $100 dollar rebate in the advertising.
Why oh why do companies use mail in rebates? I HATE mail in rebates. I will not buy products that have mail in rebates. What is wrong with advertising the real price in BOLD, not the sale price, and listing the mail in rebates in smaller font under the real price?? Sometimes I think computer stores do things like this just to get people in the doors.
I think these cases boil down to confusing people about what they are buying. If you want windows, or red hat, you should be able to go to your computer store, walk to the isle with those products, and not be confused such as looking at three nearly identical boxes with different software. I doubt anyone would be confused if they went to a store and saw Windows next to Lindows.
Same thing with Red Hat. So what if I start a company called Blue Hat? Big deal. As long as I do not try and steal the other company's identity. Anyways, there is something called competition which I think is good. As long as there is no trickery to decieve customers.
Now if Lindows was made by Microsofter and had the same designs on the boxes that would confise people purchasing the software, MS would have some case. But just one word?
Our actions are based on two things. Genetics and experiance. So to those who say that violent games do not cause violence, then what does? Was that person born evil? I think the relationship between violent games and violence is like the relationship between carcinogens and cancer. Think of it another way.
Where the scanner will connect via the internet to some government site to tell them you scanned money. Who knows. Today they block printing a reproduction. Tommorow they turn you in. Innovation.
Since when can someone search another person's property? Who is to say they did not take data or information not related directly to finding violations of law? At least if it was the police searching, you could have a court determine what is related to the specific law, and what is not. Who is to say they will not use items found unrelated to the copywrite issue, but which can still cause embarrasment, and use that information against them? It would be the equivelant of person B searching the house of person A for "copywrite violation" but finding tax records, photos of your lover, your address book of friends, etc...
What is that quote? Man is born free yet everywhere he is in chains
I do not like the idea of having every last bit of privacy removed. Between the new camera's my state is installing on highways, with radar guns, that send you a ticket in the mail, to having banks sell personal information to thrid parties so they can call me at dinner to offer me a great price on a satelite dish, this is getting out of control.
While some may say that government will never, ever use any technology in an illegal way, I would just say they have done it in the past. Nixon broke into the dem's headquarters. Other presidents have bugged the phones of political groups like the black panthers. And this current president has the "Patriot Act".
It scares me to think what government could do. 1984 is looking less like fiction and more like a prediction.
I thought that the whole point of open source is so nobody can take the software, change it, and then sell it as their own. I thought any changes made became the property of the project, for everyone to use.
For example, in the GPL it states:
You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this License.
This is also good news as a precision check. If one did not work off the bat, we would not have anything to compare the results to.
From the artice:
Halfway around Mars from its twin, Opportunity already has discovered an iron-rich mineral called gray hematite. Preliminary measurements suggest the mineral is of a variety that forms in liquid water, providing the first hint that the now dry site once was wetter.
Spirit, in contrast, may have to drive hundreds of yards, to a nearby crater called Bonneville, to uncover similar geologic proof.
If there was water at one point and time on mars, I wonder if there are any x-rays these rovers can take deep into the ground to look for fossils or other proof of life. Then again, fossils would assume bones, but even so, I wonder how deep down they can look.
Not suprising that Bush is the one making this change. LOL.
Southwark Crown Court waived a demand for 21,000 in damages as it ruled that McElroy could not pay the fine.
That is the fine by britian. I wonder what british law he broke??
But he obviously broke USA law. I wonder if the FBI can arrest him and force his export.
I do not understand the culture of people thinking that they own everything. What gave this guy the right to steal bandwith from someone else? What gave him the right to steal the storage space? What gave him the right to break into someone elses pc?
The anwser is tougher laws and more extradition treaties. And by comparison, what ever happened to that phillapino kid who was caught writing viruses? I thought they threw the book at him. Why will the british kid get an easier sentance?
With two people, there are some elements that can not be programmed into a chess game. I remember in high school playing chess, there was a differance between playing a math academy team and a school best known for its basketball program. Expectations were different, the pressure was different. I remember the pressure of the state finals. There is the look the other person has, almost like poker. Can I bluff this person? Can I trick this person? What about the clock, can I manipulate that to cause an emotion in the other person.
Maybe Spock can play a PC and have no differance in quality of play. But I prefer humans.
What should the USA do? Ban the sale of any product which could be used to violate human rights? Or change the software so it opperates differently? I think this is a problem for the Chinese people, not USA companys.
If we were selling guns, then the solution would be to stop selling them. But software is not the same. The end user has to decide how to use the software. There are choices.
I also think soverign countries have a right to decide their own values. For change to occur, those who want change must vocalize it in the open, not wisper it in the dark. Then the rest of the country has a right to decide if they want change. Who are we to decide that for them, and treat them like a child? If the people of China want change bad enough, they will fight for it.
Or maybe we can just get Miscrosoft to tweak the EULA. ;)
Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge. I think it is a great idea to get some of the most imaginative minds to offer ideas to scientists on how to send humans to mars. My only question is, if they will send some large cargo container/ship ahead of a manned mission, how will the manned mission be able to land near enough to the cargo/habitat ship?? Or will this just orbit Mars? I hope I get to see a manned station on Mars in my lifetime.
I could not agree more. But not only throwing light on those elements in society, but some soapy water too.
Seriously, people need to realize some words can cause an immediate and unavoidable encounter with violence. The trick is to leave the person confounded, not violent. Should not be too hard cause they have little punny weak minds.
I say you are the problem and full of shit. I will not allow an idiot like you to take away my rights.
I wonder if there is any way to detect the sicko voyers when they are around. I would love to catch them in the act and introduce them to my louiville slugger.
If only Gates knew how many times I had to give it to his windows os.
I know many people that could care less how good a car looks as long as it gets them where they want to go. Sometimes these cheaper cars are a great value considering how little gas they use.
This sounds to me like those psych games of "you can't have it" to make you want something you did not want. If I have to jump through a hoop to join something, then I do not want anything to do with it.
Also, did anyone read their privacy statement. Looks like they not only share your personal information with 3rd parties, but they also share whatever information you send in your messeges to other members and people you invite.
Captin: Lock on guns on the incomming boat. Crewmember: I am rebooting, Sir.
I did not even think of that. From my reading, it means the USA can not give out any titles, and no politician can use it. But I do not think it would stop a private citizen from accepting a title.