I call bad example. The only thing that Bill Gates ever truely accomplished with a computer was to write BASIC. Using anything in BASIC as an example of prior art against microsoft is probably not going to fly.
Ummm... We've had thundersorms for billions of years, and presumably these lightning strikes as well. They are completely natural phenomena. If they could negatively affect us, we would have either evolved a method for coping millions of years ago, or we wouldn't even exit today.
Sorry about being a bit to sarcastic, but I couldn't resist.
Natural selection works more on what is slightly harmful to an entire species, not what is extremely harmful to a few random individuals. Even if the gamma rays did point strait down, we would be wondering why there was an occasional case of natural combustion, not the extiction of the human race.
That is just a common saying that a lot of people spout off without thinking about it. Think of any form of punishment. Would it be "right" to put someone in jail that did not commit a crime, but the minute they do something "wrong" it now becomes okay. Ground the kids for a week when they are behaving most would consider the "wring" thing to do, but if they do something "wrong" it becomes okay. I find it particularly funny that this phrase always comes up when people are discussing punishing someone for doing something wrong in retaliation for something done to them. You are essentially saying that you are going to do something that would be considered "wrong" to someone, but it is now "right" because the did something "wrong" that wasn't "right" even though the person they did it to did something "wrong"
If two wrongs don't make a right you can not punish someone for doing something wrong.
If two wrongs do make a right, then you have nothing to punish them for.
Same here!
Brother in law with a PH.D. in law just can not understand why he should not open the email with the subject line "Your Virus protection program has detected a virus in this email" if he has a fire wall to protect him from things like that.
The last straw was when I spent several hours after work installing a wireless network, with the fun of installing networkcards, fighting with drivers for three different versions of windows, getting the firewall setup, and the WEP configured. He came home at 10 and asked if my nephews computer got a virus could it affect his computer. When I told him yes he said I needed to install software to make sure that couldn't happen. I told him that if he was worried pull the wireless card. He told me that was unacceptable, and that I needed to get the software installed tonight. This is 10:30 at night, I have to be at work at 6 and this is a gratis job for my sister so that my nephew didn't have to get on my brother-in-laws work computer to look stuff up on the net.
My lease was up two weeks later. I moved and refuse to tell my family what my phone number is and what town I live in so that they can not call me up in the middle of the night when they do something stupid with there computer.
No good deed will go unpunished!
There was a big debate by our forefathers about putting the Bill of Rights in the Constitution because they were afraid that if they listed some rights, then people would assume that those were the only rights they have. The goverment does not have any rights specifically listed in the constitution, the people of this country have any right that was not taken away by the goverment under the goverments rights as written in the constitution.
That said, google has the right to do what they want with their server. Access their server by any means they do not agree with violates their rights. As long as they are not a monopoly, then they can choose whatever terms they would like to access their equipment. If they provided the only means to receive email, then it would be considered a comminication utility and the rules would change.
I agree with your view about google, but please do not dillute my constitutional rights just to make a point.
In all honesty, it is a Very Bad idea to send an email the says you made a hack that allowed you to browse there entire networ^^^^^^^ site. With the current laws, do not assume that they will understand!
How do they know what the speed limit is. If there is not some kind of GPS tracking, and your doing 55 in a school zone, what tells them you are not on a free way. Now if you are doing 80 and they make the assumption that you don't go to a legal drag strip to break in an engine.
I still think this is a bad idea, and they will eventually do something like add GPS so they know the speed limit. I can only see this ending in them raising rates for everyone that does not install it.
The problem is not about people breaking the laws, it is about corporations making them. Yes, I think the RIAA should go after the people DISTRIBUTING, there copyrighted material. When they talk to the media it is people downloading or "stealing", but it is actually the people that have material available for other people to download. I don't think it is smart business move, and I go to www.riaaradar.com before I will buy anything because of it, but they are within their legal rights.
What I have a problem with, is them pushing congress to make copyright violation a federal offense, extend copyrights to longer than a lifetime, or laws like the DMCA wich make it illegal to be capable of breaking the law. Lets just break everyones legs so that no one will be allowed to Jay walk. Show me a precise reason where it is different. Most people will agree that breaking everyones legs is just somehow wrong. Taking away the right to use my computer for legitimate purposes is also just plain wrong. America was designed to be a capitolistic society. If they need a monopoly to make money, they do not need to control our goverment.
I am not sure about the exact figures, but actually stealing a CD from a store is a misdomeaner with around a $250 fine, maybe a few months on probation. "Download" the CD and it becomes a $15,000 per song violation with an average of 13 songs per CD. The law is obviosly biased towards to corporation./rant
Most of the new cell phones (I don't know if they passed the regulations requiring it for all yet) have GPS that gives your exact location when you dial 911. I just wish that since the receiver is already built in, they would let you pull up the coordinates yourself instead of just using it for emergency service.
And that is why they passed the DMCA, to make it a federal offense to crack any kind of encryption, even if you have every other right to view the encrypted material.
I remember doing the electrical work for a methane generator when I was fresh out of high school. I was in southern Arizona, and it was required by law that the power comapany buy any "extra" power generated. Once they got through with all the "suggestions" about keeping the meter feeding power to the farm and the meter feeding the power lines seperate, they ended up wiring the system so that they bought all power form the generator at $.05 per KWH and then sold the power right back to the guy for $0.08 per KWH.(It has been a few years, so don't quote me on the figures, but I remember laughing because he was almost paying twice as much as getting paid for the same power.) They talked him out of putting in the bypass switch so that he could feed his own power. If you decide to backfeed into the grid, do some research and/or get a lawyer involved. The power company is there to make money, and they know that they can usually make up rules and regulations as they need them and not be questioned.
Based on what? In Houston, TX there is an ongoing problem that the city keeps anexing (sp?) smaller towns that did not incorperate. That in itself not many people have a problem with, the problem is that they only anex places that have install there own utilities so they don't have to. There is a hole on the north side of town that is not within city limits because the city does not want to install utilities, but the city skipped over it and anexed all the land on the other side because the tax income verses cost was better. Cities are already being run like a business.
The second problem I have with this decision is that it is the courts job to INTERPRET LAW, NOT!!! MAKE IT! The law clearly states that the state can not forbid "Any Enity." What about a local goverment is not an enity. If the goverment does not agree with this, then the legislative branch can amend it. Our checks and balance system is eroding way to quickly as is. A judge can make a decision base on the case or the law. If the law is unconstitutional then the Judge can throw the law out. Otherwise the Judge must decide the case based on the laws that are in place. A judge can not and should not overide a law for one particular case on the basis that he/she feels it will be better.
Doesn't anyone else remeber a few years back when AOL decided that anyone running a mailserver program through a cable or DSL modem must either be a spammer or somone infected with a spambot, so they just blocked all mail revieved from any broadband user. I took me weeks to figure out how to get around that, and now I no longer can run my own mail server. I have to route it through roadrunners mail service where they get to filter whatever they like. This created a big hassle for a lot of people, for what. Show of hands; How many people still get spam? This is censorship, and AOL has already proven that they don't care who it creates problems for or if it works.
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I call bad example. The only thing that Bill Gates ever truely accomplished with a computer was to write BASIC. Using anything in BASIC as an example of prior art against microsoft is probably not going to fly.
Ummm ... We've had thundersorms for billions of years, and presumably these lightning strikes as well. They are completely natural phenomena. If they could negatively affect us, we would have either evolved a method for coping millions of years ago, or we wouldn't even exit today.
Sorry about being a bit to sarcastic, but I couldn't resist.
Natural selection works more on what is slightly harmful to an entire species, not what is extremely harmful to a few random individuals. Even if the gamma rays did point strait down, we would be wondering why there was an occasional case of natural combustion, not the extiction of the human race.
That is just a common saying that a lot of people spout off without thinking about it. Think of any form of punishment. Would it be "right" to put someone in jail that did not commit a crime, but the minute they do something "wrong" it now becomes okay. Ground the kids for a week when they are behaving most would consider the "wring" thing to do, but if they do something "wrong" it becomes okay. I find it particularly funny that this phrase always comes up when people are discussing punishing someone for doing something wrong in retaliation for something done to them. You are essentially saying that you are going to do something that would be considered "wrong" to someone, but it is now "right" because the did something "wrong" that wasn't "right" even though the person they did it to did something "wrong" If two wrongs don't make a right you can not punish someone for doing something wrong. If two wrongs do make a right, then you have nothing to punish them for.
Just stack them up and stand on top of them. At least you can get high enough to reach the stach box on top of the cabnets.
Same here! Brother in law with a PH.D. in law just can not understand why he should not open the email with the subject line "Your Virus protection program has detected a virus in this email" if he has a fire wall to protect him from things like that. The last straw was when I spent several hours after work installing a wireless network, with the fun of installing networkcards, fighting with drivers for three different versions of windows, getting the firewall setup, and the WEP configured. He came home at 10 and asked if my nephews computer got a virus could it affect his computer. When I told him yes he said I needed to install software to make sure that couldn't happen. I told him that if he was worried pull the wireless card. He told me that was unacceptable, and that I needed to get the software installed tonight. This is 10:30 at night, I have to be at work at 6 and this is a gratis job for my sister so that my nephew didn't have to get on my brother-in-laws work computer to look stuff up on the net. My lease was up two weeks later. I moved and refuse to tell my family what my phone number is and what town I live in so that they can not call me up in the middle of the night when they do something stupid with there computer. No good deed will go unpunished!
Typing too fast: The goverment does not have any rights except those specifically listed in the constitution.
There was a big debate by our forefathers about putting the Bill of Rights in the Constitution because they were afraid that if they listed some rights, then people would assume that those were the only rights they have. The goverment does not have any rights specifically listed in the constitution, the people of this country have any right that was not taken away by the goverment under the goverments rights as written in the constitution.
That said, google has the right to do what they want with their server. Access their server by any means they do not agree with violates their rights. As long as they are not a monopoly, then they can choose whatever terms they would like to access their equipment. If they provided the only means to receive email, then it would be considered a comminication utility and the rules would change.
I agree with your view about google, but please do not dillute my constitutional rights just to make a point.
In all honesty, it is a Very Bad idea to send an email the says you made a hack that allowed you to browse there entire networ^^^^^^^ site. With the current laws, do not assume that they will understand!
How do they know what the speed limit is. If there is not some kind of GPS tracking, and your doing 55 in a school zone, what tells them you are not on a free way. Now if you are doing 80 and they make the assumption that you don't go to a legal drag strip to break in an engine. I still think this is a bad idea, and they will eventually do something like add GPS so they know the speed limit. I can only see this ending in them raising rates for everyone that does not install it.
No one should ever have to prove they are innocent in this country to anyone.
The problem is not about people breaking the laws, it is about corporations making them. Yes, I think the RIAA should go after the people DISTRIBUTING, there copyrighted material. When they talk to the media it is people downloading or "stealing", but it is actually the people that have material available for other people to download. I don't think it is smart business move, and I go to www.riaaradar.com before I will buy anything because of it, but they are within their legal rights. What I have a problem with, is them pushing congress to make copyright violation a federal offense, extend copyrights to longer than a lifetime, or laws like the DMCA wich make it illegal to be capable of breaking the law. Lets just break everyones legs so that no one will be allowed to Jay walk. Show me a precise reason where it is different. Most people will agree that breaking everyones legs is just somehow wrong. Taking away the right to use my computer for legitimate purposes is also just plain wrong. America was designed to be a capitolistic society. If they need a monopoly to make money, they do not need to control our goverment. I am not sure about the exact figures, but actually stealing a CD from a store is a misdomeaner with around a $250 fine, maybe a few months on probation. "Download" the CD and it becomes a $15,000 per song violation with an average of 13 songs per CD. The law is obviosly biased towards to corporation. /rant
Most of the new cell phones (I don't know if they passed the regulations requiring it for all yet) have GPS that gives your exact location when you dial 911. I just wish that since the receiver is already built in, they would let you pull up the coordinates yourself instead of just using it for emergency service.
And that is why they passed the DMCA, to make it a federal offense to crack any kind of encryption, even if you have every other right to view the encrypted material.
I remember doing the electrical work for a methane generator when I was fresh out of high school. I was in southern Arizona, and it was required by law that the power comapany buy any "extra" power generated. Once they got through with all the "suggestions" about keeping the meter feeding power to the farm and the meter feeding the power lines seperate, they ended up wiring the system so that they bought all power form the generator at $.05 per KWH and then sold the power right back to the guy for $0.08 per KWH.(It has been a few years, so don't quote me on the figures, but I remember laughing because he was almost paying twice as much as getting paid for the same power.) They talked him out of putting in the bypass switch so that he could feed his own power. If you decide to backfeed into the grid, do some research and/or get a lawyer involved. The power company is there to make money, and they know that they can usually make up rules and regulations as they need them and not be questioned.
Based on what? In Houston, TX there is an ongoing problem that the city keeps anexing (sp?) smaller towns that did not incorperate. That in itself not many people have a problem with, the problem is that they only anex places that have install there own utilities so they don't have to. There is a hole on the north side of town that is not within city limits because the city does not want to install utilities, but the city skipped over it and anexed all the land on the other side because the tax income verses cost was better. Cities are already being run like a business. The second problem I have with this decision is that it is the courts job to INTERPRET LAW, NOT!!! MAKE IT! The law clearly states that the state can not forbid "Any Enity." What about a local goverment is not an enity. If the goverment does not agree with this, then the legislative branch can amend it. Our checks and balance system is eroding way to quickly as is. A judge can make a decision base on the case or the law. If the law is unconstitutional then the Judge can throw the law out. Otherwise the Judge must decide the case based on the laws that are in place. A judge can not and should not overide a law for one particular case on the basis that he/she feels it will be better.
Doesn't anyone else remeber a few years back when AOL decided that anyone running a mailserver program through a cable or DSL modem must either be a spammer or somone infected with a spambot, so they just blocked all mail revieved from any broadband user. I took me weeks to figure out how to get around that, and now I no longer can run my own mail server. I have to route it through roadrunners mail service where they get to filter whatever they like. This created a big hassle for a lot of people, for what. Show of hands; How many people still get spam? This is censorship, and AOL has already proven that they don't care who it creates problems for or if it works.