I think the management will continue to stick to ethical behaviour
However things can and do change. There are many shareholders lawsuits against company management for behaviour which is inconsistent with the desires of the owners.
The purpose of the press is to investigate and communicate these concerns or potential problems to the population. Google has the potential to seriously erode personal privacy, they likely won't, but they COULD. I think it is quite reasonable to make people aware of the situation.
What did Cnet do that proved they had no scruples? They reported on the potential privacy risks of google, and for an example used basically harmless facts from someone who has the power to change the behaviour of google.
I think that is the most responsible way to do it.
Actually stock transactions by major shareholders or insiders is regularly published. Social behaviour and other details of influential people is also often reported on. I was shocked about the amount of detail released on Bush after his last medical exam.
Excellent Article, it explains clearly why we should care about what google is doing, and the privacy/legal risks to the users.
It is also clear about google following their own "do no evil" policy in the past. But now after their IPO they have a duty to maximize shareholder value. For the next few years I think the management will continue to stick to ethical behaviour, but there are no guarantees.
The actual content shouldn't be taxed because of what it is. Tax porn, mp3 downloads, mailing lists etc equally. I'd suggest a sales tax added onto the cost of all purchases, except perhaps basic necessities like unprocessed food.
I already pay tax on. My computer to buy it, and the disposal tax for when I eventaully dispose of it. The residence in which it resides. My electrcitty to run it. My internet access. When I access freely available content I expect to get it without any more taxes. When I pay to get pictures of a petrified Natalie Portman, sure tax me on that too. Just not all the free porn that I download for hotsexygrits.com
On the other hand, just think how nice it would be for the government to track everyone they view as a dissident, or an environmentalist, or a Democrat (oh wait, it hasn't reached that point...yet).
Yeah the FBI wasn't keeping files on protestors in the 60's either. Imagine how happy McCarthy would have been to have this in the 50's.
Which reminds me, what definition of 'yet' are you refering to?
If it is properly supported it could make a nice disk cache or swapfile. But you might just get better performance for that money from more main memory.
One possible use would be to make it faster to suspend and restore, that would be nice.
He doesn't split, but he did make BRK.B so the stock would be more accessible.
I think splits are a good idea when a stock gets expensive, consistently above $100/share is quite high. $7k is quite difficult for smaller investors to participate. Not that I care, but more investors makes it more liquid which is actually good for everyone.
I don't think there is anything wrong with forcing someone to turn over the keys, and searching electronic information as long as it has reasonable safeguards against abuse.
The problem is when it becomes a crime to not do the impossible.
If there is proper judicial oversight holding someone for 3 months might be reasonable.
I think a lot of these laws would be acceptable IF they had proper oversight and weren't abused. It isn't so much the power that bothers me (or most people) it's the potential for abuse. Power corrupts, lets make sure that nobody has absolute power.
You want to call people of that state, you buy the list, which costs more annually than the entire federal list, for what that's worth.
Cool, not only do they make it difficult to telemarket in their state, they're probably turning a profit on those that do call in their state. Looks win win for the citizens to me.
This is old news. The "widespread acceptance" is that it got trendy with some high school teachers.
I remember when our HS chemistry teacher (years ago) showed us a few alternate tables to remind us that there are relationships, and that the periodic table isn't just the 2d table at the back of the chemistry textbook.
First and foremost, the existance of a robots.txt does not constitute a contract between the client (a web surfer/browser agent) and the server (the site hosting the content proper). Ok
There is nothing stating that the existance of robots.txt on your server must be requested by my crawler or spider.
Copyright law, you have no permission to copy the work. The robots.txt may it clear that automated copying of the work is specifically not permitted. Since you do not have permission to make a copy, and there is a clear statement that you may not make a copy by a web spider you are in violation of copyright law.
If obtaining evidence illegally is acceptable, what ensures it was properly secured and documented? Why not just forge it? Part of legal evidence gathering is ensuring you have a trail to prove it is valid.
Secondly what rights are trampled in the cause of getting that evidence? By making illegally obtained evidence invalid you encourage proper behaviour. If the legal evidence is used to convict a killer the polic will get off with a slap on the wrists despite any crimes they may have committed. If illegally obtaining evidence could cause that same killer to get off, you can bet the police would be extremely careful to ensure that the evidence is collected properly.
Get rid of computers and calculators. Until you're doing trig and calculus you don't need a calculator at all anyway.
You're saying get rid of the GUI to appreciate technology. Have you ever done maintenence on your car? Made plastic or metal? Used a punch card or even a tape drive?
Funny how you dismiss music appreciion as it actually has demonstrated value.
Understanding and appreciating the past is important, forcing people to relive it as some sort of right of passage is dumb.
Give the kids the skills to succed. Demonstrate how education and knowledge will benefit them later in life.
Teach more life skills and reading comprehension. Many people can't follow directions and can't pull the meaning from simple news articles. It's embarassing to see people have trouble making a recipe because the directions are too complicated.
Motivate kids, give them something more interesting and appropriate.
And finally treat them like people. Until late in high school we couldn't have drinks, even bottled water at our desk, but I can only think of a handful of teachers who didn't drink from their coffee (or other) cup while teaching. Get rid of stupid rules for the point of having rules. No hats? No coloured hair? No trench coats, don't wear all black? What are they trying to accomplish?
Get the unions out of school so you can actually fire the bad teachers, and pay competative wages to the good ones.
Reward the non athletic students too, reward participation and not just winning. Have fun teams along with competative teams.
(this is less then half my rant, but I should get back to work)
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I agree and even said so in my post.
I think the management will continue to stick to ethical behaviour
However things can and do change. There are many shareholders lawsuits against company management for behaviour which is inconsistent with the desires of the owners.
The purpose of the press is to investigate and communicate these concerns or potential problems to the population.
Google has the potential to seriously erode personal privacy, they likely won't, but they COULD. I think it is quite reasonable to make people aware of the situation.
What did Cnet do that proved they had no scruples? They reported on the potential privacy risks of google, and for an example used basically harmless facts from someone who has the power to change the behaviour of google.
I think that is the most responsible way to do it.
Actually stock transactions by major shareholders or insiders is regularly published.
Social behaviour and other details of influential people is also often reported on. I was shocked about the amount of detail released on Bush after his last medical exam.
Excellent Article, it explains clearly why we should care about what google is doing, and the privacy/legal risks to the users.
It is also clear about google following their own "do no evil" policy in the past. But now after their IPO they have a duty to maximize shareholder value.
For the next few years I think the management will continue to stick to ethical behaviour, but there are no guarantees.
The actual content shouldn't be taxed because of what it is.
Tax porn, mp3 downloads, mailing lists etc equally.
I'd suggest a sales tax added onto the cost of all purchases, except perhaps basic necessities like unprocessed food.
I already pay tax on.
My computer to buy it, and the disposal tax for when I eventaully dispose of it.
The residence in which it resides.
My electrcitty to run it.
My internet access.
When I access freely available content I expect to get it without any more taxes.
When I pay to get pictures of a petrified Natalie Portman, sure tax me on that too. Just not all the free porn that I download for hotsexygrits.com
Just go south and drive through the US for a bit.
On the other hand, just think how nice it would be for the government to track everyone they view as a dissident, or an environmentalist, or a Democrat (oh wait, it hasn't reached that point...yet).
Yeah the FBI wasn't keeping files on protestors in the 60's either.
Imagine how happy McCarthy would have been to have this in the 50's.
Which reminds me, what definition of 'yet' are you refering to?
If it is properly supported it could make a nice disk cache or swapfile. But you might just get better performance for that money from more main memory.
One possible use would be to make it faster to suspend and restore, that would be nice.
BRK.A is at $84k.
A little unacceptable for most small investors interested in diversification.
BRK.B is quite a bit better at $2800, much more accessible. I think adding a new C series or splitting would benefit smaller investors.
1. This is old news, things been out for months. They've been advertising them at the Canadian Circuit City stores formerly branded Radioshack.
2. It isn't that small, others have similar volumes and arguably better shapes.
3. It isn't cool, or interesting. Why is it on the front page of slashdot?
He doesn't split, but he did make BRK.B so the stock would be more accessible.
I think splits are a good idea when a stock gets expensive, consistently above $100/share is quite high. $7k is quite difficult for smaller investors to participate. Not that I care, but more investors makes it more liquid which is actually good for everyone.
What if you are unable to provide the key?
I don't think there is anything wrong with forcing someone to turn over the keys, and searching electronic information as long as it has reasonable safeguards against abuse.
The problem is when it becomes a crime to not do the impossible.
If there is proper judicial oversight holding someone for 3 months might be reasonable.
I think a lot of these laws would be acceptable IF they had proper oversight and weren't abused.
It isn't so much the power that bothers me (or most people) it's the potential for abuse.
Power corrupts, lets make sure that nobody has absolute power.
No, only possessing DRM material makes you a criminal.
You want to call people of that state, you buy the list, which costs more annually than the entire federal list, for what that's worth.
Cool, not only do they make it difficult to telemarket in their state, they're probably turning a profit on those that do call in their state.
Looks win win for the citizens to me.
The periodic table in the books is a 2 dimensional representation of our atomic understanding.
It can make more sense as a 3D construct.
This is old news.
The "widespread acceptance" is that it got trendy with some high school teachers.
I remember when our HS chemistry teacher (years ago) showed us a few alternate tables to remind us that there are relationships, and that the periodic table isn't just the 2d table at the back of the chemistry textbook.
They will modify and censor CD's movies and magazines to make sure they fit their "family values".
You're not likely to intimidate Walmart with threats.
So frame someone as a spammer, send a few emails, get them shut down.
Sounds great.
The problem is that we have trouble properly identifying the spammers, and when they do the local jurisdiction may not impose a penalty.
But at least if we have their identity we can attack them.
First and foremost, the existance of a robots.txt does not constitute a contract between the client (a web surfer/browser agent) and the server (the site hosting the content proper).
Ok
There is nothing stating that the existance of robots.txt on your server must be requested by my crawler or spider.
Copyright law, you have no permission to copy the work. The robots.txt may it clear that automated copying of the work is specifically not permitted.
Since you do not have permission to make a copy, and there is a clear statement that you may not make a copy by a web spider you are in violation of copyright law.
robots.txt is a technical measure controlling access to a copyrighted work.
The technical measure is an open standard which explains rules for automated access to copyrighted works.
If there is a robots.txt, one could argue it is a valid measure.
If it was added afterwards, the content was posted without restriction.
If obtaining evidence illegally is acceptable, what ensures it was properly secured and documented? Why not just forge it?
Part of legal evidence gathering is ensuring you have a trail to prove it is valid.
Secondly what rights are trampled in the cause of getting that evidence?
By making illegally obtained evidence invalid you encourage proper behaviour. If the legal evidence is used to convict a killer the polic will get off with a slap on the wrists despite any crimes they may have committed.
If illegally obtaining evidence could cause that same killer to get off, you can bet the police would be extremely careful to ensure that the evidence is collected properly.
Get rid of computers and calculators.
Until you're doing trig and calculus you don't need a calculator at all anyway.
You're saying get rid of the GUI to appreciate technology. Have you ever done maintenence on your car? Made plastic or metal? Used a punch card or even a tape drive?
Funny how you dismiss music appreciion as it actually has demonstrated value.
Understanding and appreciating the past is important, forcing people to relive it as some sort of right of passage is dumb.
Give the kids the skills to succed.
Demonstrate how education and knowledge will benefit them later in life.
Teach more life skills and reading comprehension.
Many people can't follow directions and can't pull the meaning from simple news articles.
It's embarassing to see people have trouble making a recipe because the directions are too complicated.
Motivate kids, give them something more interesting and appropriate.
And finally treat them like people.
Until late in high school we couldn't have drinks, even bottled water at our desk, but I can only think of a handful of teachers who didn't drink from their coffee (or other) cup while teaching.
Get rid of stupid rules for the point of having rules.
No hats? No coloured hair? No trench coats, don't wear all black? What are they trying to accomplish?
Get the unions out of school so you can actually fire the bad teachers, and pay competative wages to the good ones.
Reward the non athletic students too, reward participation and not just winning. Have fun teams along with competative teams.
(this is less then half my rant, but I should get back to work)
Sorry I was refering to them being more violent and dangerous if they have nothing to lose, not that they should be executed.