postal mail is sealed in an envelope. that is far different from plain text. a post card has your message in a similar format as email. it has the destination, the body, and the sender (though you don't have to put your name as the sender). if a mail man reads your post card, are you going to know about it? will you press charges?
phone conversation is different in that we do not have available to us a method for encrypting voice in real time, as far as i know. that is reason enough for me to have govenrment regulations regarding phone wiretapping. if we can eventually grow out of the need to have such a regulation, maybe that's good.
So now the loophole is telecomms carriers can store messages, and by storing messages they're allowed to listen to them.
also, an "in" for the government. they just need to be part of the line of transmission and happen to have the data go into some RAM and they can snoop on you without a court order.
though, they can do that with the PATRIOT Act as well I imagine.
let me append this with the statement, don't put the government in a position to legislate something when we have the ability fix the problem ourselves.
Email is plain text. clear text. not encrypted. Now if this covered IPS right to read their users mail if it were encrypted, then that would be something else.
i remember them. they used compressed water though, didn't they? compressed air... compressed water... for the most part, don't both follow the same laws of fluid dynamics?
still, how someone can patent compressed air as a propellant is beyond me. I was using compressed air as a propellant in ballons since i was 5. Blow up the ballon, let go and watch it fly.
the chaotic pathway that a balloon takes would be much more interesting if it did indeed carry an explosive.
Troll-like as you are, i'll respond. First of all, what you said is what they are doing. Replacing C with C++ (let the flames begin)
Second, if you can reduce security flaws in legacy C code by simply replacing the variable definition and recompiling with a C++ compiler, that is a good thing. it can probably be automated so you don't have to sift through millions of lines of code looking for C style string declarations.
While "minorities" (you're talking about black people, right?)
why is there a need for "minorities" with quotes? and why the need to assume i'm talking about a particular ethnicity, trying to weaken my point by making me sound racist? particular ethnicity is irrelevant here.
maybe it's not targeted at individual developers, but it's an artificial barrier to entry. it's like raising the rent of the building you own so minorities (statistically they make less per capita) can't rent an apartment from you.
Or like a hardware store raising the price of hammers so you would think twice about "doing it yourself" in favor of hiring a handyman.
analogies are fraud. take this with a grain of salt.
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sure he added something. he added contrast. now some crap is going to stick out at me. he added more light comming into my eyes, instead of that light being absorbed or scattered in the muck on the wall.
it's not public service! public service would be cleaning all the walls of all the dirt and graffiti.
it just so happened that he cleaned in a pattern and then stopped
phht. yeah! just so happened! randomly even! molecules just started organizing themselves and flew off elsewhere!
Songwriters are in a different situation than programmers. I can charge whatever I like for my time or my programs. Songwriters are beholden to federal law (in the US) regarding what they can charge which is $0.085 per song per album cut, and $0.015 per song per radio play. Songwriters cannot charge a salary and forego any rights to what they write legally.
You're kidding right? Please tell me your kidding. Kidding? At all? That $0.085 per song per album, explain that a little more, i don't understand the terminology. Say I write a song and Willie Nelson decides its cool so he records it. Does that mean I get $0.085? or do I get $0.085*number_of_albums_pressed? Would I get some other ammount as well, for example does Willie pay me $10,000 to buy the song rights?
What does one do to become a "Songwriter"? Sounds like slave labor almost.
Us people don't go to the doctor unless we're sick
Yeah, because health care is shit. A girl friend of mine went to the doctor for a check up. The doctor, before doing any sort of regular checks said, "Why are you here. You aren't sick." Girl said, "I havn't had health insurance for a while, i'd like a check up." The doctor, also female, said something to the effect of "You suffer from rich white girl syndrome" at which point my friend's jaw dropped to the floor and then she left.
exactly why patents for computer or software technologies need to be limited to fewer years. 10 maybe? 6? but 17 or 20, whatever it is these days? that's an eternity in technology time. 6 years would probably be too few, considering the patent is retroactive (if that's the word i want) from the date you submitted it. so say you submitted it, then it took the patent office 2 years to grant it, you only have 4 years of exclusive rights after you know it's been granted. that's pretty slim, if it's something you want to base a business on.
all of this wouldn't be much of a problem, the duration of a patents lifetime i mean, if the patent office was sane.
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postal mail is sealed in an envelope. that is far different from plain text. a post card has your message in a similar format as email. it has the destination, the body, and the sender (though you don't have to put your name as the sender). if a mail man reads your post card, are you going to know about it? will you press charges?
phone conversation is different in that we do not have available to us a method for encrypting voice in real time, as far as i know. that is reason enough for me to have govenrment regulations regarding phone wiretapping. if we can eventually grow out of the need to have such a regulation, maybe that's good.
So now the loophole is telecomms carriers can store messages, and by storing messages they're allowed to listen to them.
also, an "in" for the government. they just need to be part of the line of transmission and happen to have the data go into some RAM and they can snoop on you without a court order.
though, they can do that with the PATRIOT Act as well I imagine.
let me append this with the statement, don't put the government in a position to legislate something when we have the ability fix the problem ourselves.
Email is plain text. clear text. not encrypted. Now if this covered IPS right to read their users mail if it were encrypted, then that would be something else.
It's clear text though, what do you expect?
encrypt it
one less social networking app.
Me, I'm a LISP and Perl kinda guy. The guy sitting next to me likes C and PHP.
wow. THAT's tolerance! Doesn't he ever throw things at you, or vice versa?
that's like saying "the floppy i saved my homework on is corrupted", in other words, the dog ate my homework, or "I'm lying"
Hey, an AC bashing America... you must be American.
is there a line in the contract that they broke? would a small claims court threat change their behavior?
Hot diggity, it's a phone number, I'm going to get my name in some law books! HEeeeeeyawwww!"
as the first person to be legally tarred and feathered in 200 years.
i remember them. they used compressed water though, didn't they? compressed air... compressed water... for the most part, don't both follow the same laws of fluid dynamics?
still, how someone can patent compressed air as a propellant is beyond me. I was using compressed air as a propellant in ballons since i was 5. Blow up the ballon, let go and watch it fly.
the chaotic pathway that a balloon takes would be much more interesting if it did indeed carry an explosive.
Why not simply use a less retarded language?
Troll-like as you are, i'll respond. First of all, what you said is what they are doing. Replacing C with C++ (let the flames begin)
Second, if you can reduce security flaws in legacy C code by simply replacing the variable definition and recompiling with a C++ compiler, that is a good thing. it can probably be automated so you don't have to sift through millions of lines of code looking for C style string declarations.
i'll tell ya what: POV-Ray. i'm a renderwhore.
While "minorities" (you're talking about black people, right?)
why is there a need for "minorities" with quotes? and why the need to assume i'm talking about a particular ethnicity, trying to weaken my point by making me sound racist? particular ethnicity is irrelevant here.
very good. you win today's GPL quiz. i'd mod you up.
maybe it's not targeted at individual developers, but it's an artificial barrier to entry. it's like raising the rent of the building you own so minorities (statistically they make less per capita) can't rent an apartment from you.
Or like a hardware store raising the price of hammers so you would think twice about "doing it yourself" in favor of hiring a handyman.
analogies are fraud. take this with a grain of salt.
sure he added something. he added contrast. now some crap is going to stick out at me. he added more light comming into my eyes, instead of that light being absorbed or scattered in the muck on the wall.
it's not public service! public service would be cleaning all the walls of all the dirt and graffiti.
it just so happened that he cleaned in a pattern and then stopped
phht. yeah! just so happened! randomly even! molecules just started organizing themselves and flew off elsewhere!
give me a break.
It was a Filipino doctor, right? I swear to God I've heard the exact same thing from my mother-in-law.
not sure.
You know, that's pretty interesting...
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Songwriters are in a different situation than programmers. I can charge whatever I like for my time or my programs. Songwriters are beholden to federal law (in the US) regarding what they can charge which is $0.085 per song per album cut, and $0.015 per song per radio play. Songwriters cannot charge a salary and forego any rights to what they write legally.
You're kidding right? Please tell me your kidding. Kidding? At all? That $0.085 per song per album, explain that a little more, i don't understand the terminology. Say I write a song and Willie Nelson decides its cool so he records it. Does that mean I get $0.085? or do I get $0.085*number_of_albums_pressed? Would I get some other ammount as well, for example does Willie pay me $10,000 to buy the song rights?
What does one do to become a "Songwriter"? Sounds like slave labor almost.
Us people don't go to the doctor unless we're sick
Yeah, because health care is shit. A girl friend of mine went to the doctor for a check up. The doctor, before doing any sort of regular checks said, "Why are you here. You aren't sick." Girl said, "I havn't had health insurance for a while, i'd like a check up." The doctor, also female, said something to the effect of "You suffer from rich white girl syndrome" at which point my friend's jaw dropped to the floor and then she left.
exactly why patents for computer or software technologies need to be limited to fewer years. 10 maybe? 6? but 17 or 20, whatever it is these days? that's an eternity in technology time. 6 years would probably be too few, considering the patent is retroactive (if that's the word i want) from the date you submitted it. so say you submitted it, then it took the patent office 2 years to grant it, you only have 4 years of exclusive rights after you know it's been granted. that's pretty slim, if it's something you want to base a business on.
all of this wouldn't be much of a problem, the duration of a patents lifetime i mean, if the patent office was sane.
you're right. this is one of maybe 3 apps/technologies listed that is usefull. that comming from someone who uses emacs for a development environment
What's a portal DVD player? Is that like a Stargate?
Yes. It warps you to the bad part of the movie universe... Disney World.
Yeah, but if you walk into the SoHo Apple store in NYC and ask some Apple Grrl what Unix is, she'll have no clue what you are talking about.
It's a pretty store for pretty products. It has next to nothing to do with Unix regardless of what OS X is built on.