So if China wants to base their software on Linux, more power to them - as long as they obey the GPL.
And if they don't, what recourse is there. Sue the People's Republic of China under Chinese law. Yah right. The state of China is in many ways like a large corporation, and I suspect that whatever they make will be proprietary because they believe it is in their interest to keep knowledge and power out of the hands of the people.
A large body of your work has focused on interpretations of traditional mythology. Does this reflect your own personal views of these myths? Are you just using them in the context of cultural archetypes? Or am I just an elitist academic who is over analyzing things.
I'm sure i've said it before. Just tax the damn line, not the virtual connection.
To be fair, let's include cable, dsl, satalight, and other forms of two way communication systems which can be used for 2-way communications . While that would suck, it would save a hell of alot of bother with VoIP services which are out either out of state, or perhaps out of country.
A tax on communication media, that sounds familiar. That's right, it was called the Stamp Act.
This reminds me of a report I did way back in the college days involving Roleplaying Games, but I think it applies here. When you're playing a game you willing suspend disbelief. You know when you're really into it, mashing buttons and trash talking the guy across from you on the LAN, you do believe it's real. But then the level ends, you get up and get a beer, and you know it's only a game, just 1's and 0's. There are some people who can't do that, they are insane, they have a physical abnormality in their brain that prevents them from being able to distinguish reality from fantasy. Provided that is the case here, and not just a cop out, then there is no way that the hardware or software manufacturers can be held liable. It would be akin to suing a company that makes woodmaking or other sharp tools because someone with depression used them to kill themselves.
Maybe it's time to start an open-source alternative to AIM, MSN Messenger, etc...
The problem is who are you going to talk to with an open source messenger other then other/. geeks. Most people are already using AIM or MSN because the people they want to talk to are. It has to also serve as a third party AIM/MSN/YAHOO/Etc Client, or no matter how good it is no body will use it to start with. Of course, as more and more people talk about their cool new program on other IM systems, more people will download it making it's abilities as a 3rd party client even more advantagouse.
The IP adress is being blocked. But using IE there is a simple way to see this in action. What you do is open IE, put in a bogus address and notice that it successfully finds it and then can't load it. To see what is -suppose- to happen, unplug your network/modem connection and then try to load a new bogus page (because of caching). See how it gets stuck on the "Finding Page" message, that's because it can't find the IP adress in the DNS. That's suppose to happen.
I think that choosing a software security and anti-virus expert, rather then someone with a law enforecement background is a good thing. It will hopefully keep the focus of off spying on citizens and might help reduce the number of worms going around right now.
Frankly, science fiction has always been about breaking barriers, exploring new ideas. Because of this fact true Sci-Fi either tends to be shades of gray, or challenge the status quo in which so many look for security. The problem is people don't want grey, people don't want their pre-packaged ideas about society to be challenged. Society is just begging to see what a dark and scary place the world still is, they want a world that is black and white, where good triumphs over evil, even when they're not really sure what either of those mean anymore.
Microsoft's Palladium (and its ilk) is going to be the champion platform for this, because the users can't control what is going on. The government can mandate anything they want, Microsoft complies, and the users don't get a choice.
It is obviouse that the poster has forgotten that even using Microsoft OS's, doesn't mean you have to go through them. It will always be possible to go around the OS. It just happens that most of the people who are comfortable doing so haven't had a reason to turn their skills against the OS 'security features' yet. However, if these 'features' become wide spread tools that prevent the free flow of information I think we will see more and more of them deciding it is in their intrest to do so.
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So if China wants to base their software on Linux, more power to them - as long as they obey the GPL.
And if they don't, what recourse is there. Sue the People's Republic of China under Chinese law. Yah right. The state of China is in many ways like a large corporation, and I suspect that whatever they make will be proprietary because they believe it is in their interest to keep knowledge and power out of the hands of the people.
A large body of your work has focused on interpretations of traditional mythology. Does this reflect your own personal views of these myths? Are you just using them in the context of cultural archetypes? Or am I just an elitist academic who is over analyzing things.
I'm sure i've said it before. Just tax the damn line, not the virtual connection. To be fair, let's include cable, dsl, satalight, and other forms of two way communication systems which can be used for 2-way communications . While that would suck, it would save a hell of alot of bother with VoIP services which are out either out of state, or perhaps out of country. A tax on communication media, that sounds familiar. That's right, it was called the Stamp Act.
This reminds me of a report I did way back in the college days involving Roleplaying Games, but I think it applies here. When you're playing a game you willing suspend disbelief. You know when you're really into it, mashing buttons and trash talking the guy across from you on the LAN, you do believe it's real. But then the level ends, you get up and get a beer, and you know it's only a game, just 1's and 0's. There are some people who can't do that, they are insane, they have a physical abnormality in their brain that prevents them from being able to distinguish reality from fantasy. Provided that is the case here, and not just a cop out, then there is no way that the hardware or software manufacturers can be held liable. It would be akin to suing a company that makes woodmaking or other sharp tools because someone with depression used them to kill themselves.
Maybe it's time to start an open-source alternative to AIM, MSN Messenger, etc... The problem is who are you going to talk to with an open source messenger other then other /. geeks. Most people are already using AIM or MSN because the people they want to talk to are. It has to also serve as a third party AIM/MSN/YAHOO/Etc Client, or no matter how good it is no body will use it to start with. Of course, as more and more people talk about their cool new program on other IM systems, more people will download it making it's abilities as a 3rd party client even more advantagouse.
The IP adress is being blocked. But using IE there is a simple way to see this in action. What you do is open IE, put in a bogus address and notice that it successfully finds it and then can't load it. To see what is -suppose- to happen, unplug your network/modem connection and then try to load a new bogus page (because of caching). See how it gets stuck on the "Finding Page" message, that's because it can't find the IP adress in the DNS. That's suppose to happen.
I think that choosing a software security and anti-virus expert, rather then someone with a law enforecement background is a good thing. It will hopefully keep the focus of off spying on citizens and might help reduce the number of worms going around right now.
Frankly, science fiction has always been about breaking barriers, exploring new ideas. Because of this fact true Sci-Fi either tends to be shades of gray, or challenge the status quo in which so many look for security. The problem is people don't want grey, people don't want their pre-packaged ideas about society to be challenged. Society is just begging to see what a dark and scary place the world still is, they want a world that is black and white, where good triumphs over evil, even when they're not really sure what either of those mean anymore.