The idea is to decrease demand for child porn. Without demand there will be no supply. At least that's the idea. Really it doesn't work that way. People will look for kiddie porn even though they know it's illegal. Just like busting pot smokers won't really decrease the demand for pot.
And if you're wondering how this would protect American children, the answer is it won't--at least not much. I suppose every American pedophile who's arrested is less likely to molest children in the future, but that's not the primary goal. Despite the fact that the majority of Americans are entirely willing to exploit foreign kids in sweat shops so they can buy Nikes the FBI really does want to prevent sexual exploitation of all children, at least as caused by american citizens. This is also why the U.S. has laws against "sex tourism".
Stupid question. Most Americans put money first by buying from companies that use sweatshop labor (Nike), disregard animal rights (Proctor and Gamble), perpetuate armed conflict (DeBeers Diamonds), and pollute on a massive scale.
Sure there are the few who worry about conflict diamonds and sweatshops (like my aunt) and refuse to buy Pringles and Tide (like an online friend of mine). But the extremely vast majority go ahead and buy whatever it is they want.
In my opinion: If a student is choosing between Harvard and Duke, and they see the free iPod and think "ooh, shiny!" then they should never have gotten accepted into Harvard in the first place.
I have to agree with this. I had an unfortunately deprived childhood because we didn't get cable TV. To this day people look at me strange and say "you've never heard of $CELEBRITY before!?"
Thanks to Wikipedia, I can seem to not be quite as out-of-it, at least over Instant Messenger.
That may be true but if the stuff sucks, noone will use it.
You are forgetting that Microsoft has virtually dominated the browser market by including their arguably inferior browser with Windows. Mozilla FireFox has to be downloaded, and therefore it has a market share in the single digits.
I am also tempted to argue that Windows itself is an inferior product that millions of people use without considering any of the alternatives, because it comes pre-installed. But I know full well Macs and Linux aren't perfect either, so I won't.
If google can get an app out for the desktop that *integrates* with the desktop, it will be able to battle with the longhorn search feature on it's own playing field.
Very nifty integrated search tool. I loved it (back when I actually used Windows). The only issue here (of course) is that Longhorn will come with the MSN search agent, but people will have to install Google's deskbar app.
Heck, a hospital could try saving a buck by watering it's potted plants less, and that'll be fine by me.
That's fine with me too. The potted plants aren't human lives.
If you kill the plants through your cost-saving measures nobody is left without a mother, father, sister, brother, friend, or spouse. Nobody cares about the plants all that much. But human lives are different. So to hell with the plants, fine with me--but I sure as hell care about the patients.
By comparing the two, you are implying that human lives are no more valuable than the life of a few lobby plants. Perhaps a few nuts would agree with that, but personally I am disgusted by the thought.
I couldn't care less how often my local hospital cuts the grass. That doesn't affect my healthcare. But when they start cutting too many corners in the X-ray department I will look elsewhere.
Instead of making lots of different ranges of chips, make one chip type for each architecture. With normal manufacture there are a lot of failed chips. But with this you can sell most of those chips at a lower price. You could then have a much improved success rate, the reduced function chips sold at a discount instead of tossed away.
Depending on the numbers, this could reduce the overall price of chips.
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You may laugh, but my brother checked out the contents of an old hard disk that he had gotten at a salvage yard. It had a resume on it complete with e-mail, and he gave in to temptation and sent a very formal and friendly and polite and (for the poor woman in question) very creepy e-mail to her. He then found a marriage vow, written out in Word.
He never got a response. I can only assume the poor woman was so creeped out she deleted it immediately.
Although I've entirely switched over to Linux by now, I have to agree that although MS's software bites the big one, their peripherals are pretty good. Not the best perhaps, but good.
Right now I'm using an MS wireless/optical mouse and an MS natural keyboard, and I am for the most part able to ignore the fact that they're both made by the same company that wants your soul.
Blacklisting is not a feasible long-term solution. Sure, it'll stem the tide of fraud and spam and all that but it just hides the real problem (insecure SMTP in this case) and hurts those who didn't do anything.
That said, I'd be unlikely to ship products to, say, Nigeria for obvious reasons. The web is a bit of a mess as far as security is concerned. And part of the issue is that countries don't enforce their own laws very stringently (e.g. sect 409 of the nigerian criminal code).
I'm sure they'll distribute their own music... unless they don't own the copyrights to it!
Sadly this is more often than not the case. Recording contracts are generally "contractual work" and due to recent changes that were snuck into U.S. copyright law this definition is now binding. If the artists did this for a record label they'll never own it, and have to pay to sell their own music. Which would be such a horrible shame.
I don't know what sort of label TMBG played under, so this may not be the case. They may be free to sell their music whenever they want, and are just starting slowly. I sure hope so.
Tiny little bits of a conductive material are rarely good news for electronics.
I am wondering if they will have some sort of sheilding system for this in the future, if it becomes more of a problem. That could be as simple as a small layer of some nonconductive resin on the surface of the circuits. But will it ever be economically feasible?
I suppose in the mean time we'll have to do our own safeguarding if we are in a risky area.
Acutally, yes there is. See, I'm not an obnoxious prick who blasts my stereo at full volume. I keep my stereo at a reasonable volume, except every once in a while on country roads when nobody is around for miles...
I really have no use for low-bitrate music. I have a nice 1.5Mbit connection. Really, there's no point in listening to a low bitrate music stream because no matter how good the codecs are, 32kb/s music just doesn't cut it.
BUT...
Although it wouldn't help for internet music, better low-bitrate codecs could make internet talk radio more feasible. It lets companies save bandwidth on the server side and still maintain quality that at worst is a bit better than the phone connections of people calling in (VoIP notwithstanding).
The idea of indemnification just puts more emphasis on the claims of SCO and any other company who might feel like claiming they've been wronged by Open Source. What we really need to do is prove SCO wrong, and this will likely fade into the woodwork.
I know, I know. It's awfully hard to prove them wrong when they won't say exactly what they claim. So sue me. err, no... Sue them! That's what IBM, RedHat, and a few others are doing right now.
One man patented the wheel. I'm quite serious. He got a patent on a "circular device for transportation" and he added something about rotational friction being far less than sliding friction and they granted it. This was a year or so ago, I believe. The patent system has yet to be overhauled. There isn't any hind of a movement in the mainstream media yet.
I'm starting to fear that this mess is hopeless.
Even though it will probably eventually be overturned, will the damage it has done to OSS and competition in general ever be repaired? It might take decades. Think about the damage Microsoft has done to competition and internet standards. Are we going to let it get to that point before anything happens? I sure as hell hope not.
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And if you're wondering how this would protect American children, the answer is it won't--at least not much. I suppose every American pedophile who's arrested is less likely to molest children in the future, but that's not the primary goal. Despite the fact that the majority of Americans are entirely willing to exploit foreign kids in sweat shops so they can buy Nikes the FBI really does want to prevent sexual exploitation of all children, at least as caused by american citizens. This is also why the U.S. has laws against "sex tourism".
Stupid question. Most Americans put money first by buying from companies that use sweatshop labor (Nike), disregard animal rights (Proctor and Gamble), perpetuate armed conflict (DeBeers Diamonds), and pollute on a massive scale.
Sure there are the few who worry about conflict diamonds and sweatshops (like my aunt) and refuse to buy Pringles and Tide (like an online friend of mine). But the extremely vast majority go ahead and buy whatever it is they want.
In my opinion: If a student is choosing between Harvard and Duke, and they see the free iPod and think "ooh, shiny!" then they should never have gotten accepted into Harvard in the first place.
Thanks to Wikipedia, I can seem to not be quite as out-of-it, at least over Instant Messenger.
You are forgetting that Microsoft has virtually dominated the browser market by including their arguably inferior browser with Windows. Mozilla FireFox has to be downloaded, and therefore it has a market share in the single digits.
I am also tempted to argue that Windows itself is an inferior product that millions of people use without considering any of the alternatives, because it comes pre-installed. But I know full well Macs and Linux aren't perfect either, so I won't.
I am psychic! I predict this entire topic will turn immediately into a flamewar.
How about the Google Deskbar?
Very nifty integrated search tool. I loved it (back when I actually used Windows). The only issue here (of course) is that Longhorn will come with the MSN search agent, but people will have to install Google's deskbar app.
coughmonopolycough
If you kill the plants through your cost-saving measures nobody is left without a mother, father, sister, brother, friend, or spouse. Nobody cares about the plants all that much. But human lives are different. So to hell with the plants, fine with me--but I sure as hell care about the patients.
By comparing the two, you are implying that human lives are no more valuable than the life of a few lobby plants. Perhaps a few nuts would agree with that, but personally I am disgusted by the thought.
I couldn't care less how often my local hospital cuts the grass. That doesn't affect my healthcare. But when they start cutting too many corners in the X-ray department I will look elsewhere.
Wait a sec...
Instead of making lots of different ranges of chips, make one chip type for each architecture. With normal manufacture there are a lot of failed chips. But with this you can sell most of those chips at a lower price. You could then have a much improved success rate, the reduced function chips sold at a discount instead of tossed away.
Depending on the numbers, this could reduce the overall price of chips.
You may laugh, but my brother checked out the contents of an old hard disk that he had gotten at a salvage yard. It had a resume on it complete with e-mail, and he gave in to temptation and sent a very formal and friendly and polite and (for the poor woman in question) very creepy e-mail to her. He then found a marriage vow, written out in Word. He never got a response. I can only assume the poor woman was so creeped out she deleted it immediately.
Cue "Lindevous" jokes.
Right now I'm using an MS wireless/optical mouse and an MS natural keyboard, and I am for the most part able to ignore the fact that they're both made by the same company that wants your soul.
"Do not pour liquids into the computer."
You can't say they didn't warn you!
Talk about manuals written on drool-proof paper.
That said, I'd be unlikely to ship products to, say, Nigeria for obvious reasons. The web is a bit of a mess as far as security is concerned. And part of the issue is that countries don't enforce their own laws very stringently (e.g. sect 409 of the nigerian criminal code).
Sadly this is more often than not the case. Recording contracts are generally "contractual work" and due to recent changes that were snuck into U.S. copyright law this definition is now binding. If the artists did this for a record label they'll never own it, and have to pay to sell their own music. Which would be such a horrible shame.
I don't know what sort of label TMBG played under, so this may not be the case. They may be free to sell their music whenever they want, and are just starting slowly. I sure hope so.
Sparkly stuff!!!
I am wondering if they will have some sort of sheilding system for this in the future, if it becomes more of a problem. That could be as simple as a small layer of some nonconductive resin on the surface of the circuits. But will it ever be economically feasible?
I suppose in the mean time we'll have to do our own safeguarding if we are in a risky area.
Acutally, yes there is. See, I'm not an obnoxious prick who blasts my stereo at full volume. I keep my stereo at a reasonable volume, except every once in a while on country roads when nobody is around for miles...
BUT...
Although it wouldn't help for internet music, better low-bitrate codecs could make internet talk radio more feasible. It lets companies save bandwidth on the server side and still maintain quality that at worst is a bit better than the phone connections of people calling in (VoIP notwithstanding).
It's a shame that this doesn't work to silence CD players and tape decks. Or sattelite radio, for that matter.
I know, I know. It's awfully hard to prove them wrong when they won't say exactly what they claim. So sue me. err, no... Sue them! That's what IBM, RedHat, and a few others are doing right now.
The BFM is written in Java. I think it actually uses this library, and it's nice to have it available and open.
I'm starting to fear that this mess is hopeless.
Even though it will probably eventually be overturned, will the damage it has done to OSS and competition in general ever be repaired? It might take decades. Think about the damage Microsoft has done to competition and internet standards. Are we going to let it get to that point before anything happens? I sure as hell hope not.