To be out done by a knockoff! Oh well, Intel never impressed me much. Didn't they start out by making Zenith knockoffs and build on that? And isn't that really what they are still selling? There some good chips out there, but IP law keeps then under lockdown. What a shame. Why do the worse ones get the biggest marketshare?
Yes, the politician is scum, but I'm not going to blame him for winning re-election. People that vote for and re-elect scummy politicians are scum themselves. They're only showing their own corruption. The corruption in Washington only reflects the corruption of the voters back home. They're telling him, "Bring home the bacon, we don't care how. We want a piece of the action."
In the lightning round, yes. But other candidates are available during the "pre-season". We had one or two good candidates on both sides. But they didn't win. Why? Simple. They failed to get a majority of votes. It's not because one candidate had more money than the other. If it is, then it is we who are influenced by it, not them. We vote for the guy who flashes the most. We are voting for bling instead of good governance. Why do you blame others for how you vote? If somebody is in office, no matter how corrupt, it's because he was voted in by us. Corrupt politicians are voted in by corrupt voters looking for a fast buck(or other advantage). With this being the case, how can you blame them for going with what works? And furthermore, don't you have a "write in" space on your ballots? I'm not saying that could win, but you do have an alternative. On another note, when the majority abuses the minority like this, then it's time to hit the streets. Recent events show that it can work, and we can get our freedoms back. So sharpen up the pitchforks.
What I wouldn't give for someone in Congress to represent the people...
They are representing the people that vote for and re-elect them. If they didn't, they wouldn't be in office. I do have a problem with a senator of California having so much power over the people of, say, New Hampshire. But that's the nature of the beast. It's what majority rule is all about. To them, the other 49% can die and rot.
is to not stream major label music. The RIAA would feel the pinch soon enough if ALL streamers were to refuse their content. Just stay away from their stuff. It's poison.
...Put down your laptops and pick up a gun we're gonna have a whole lotta fun And it's one, two, three, whadda we fightin' for don't ask me I don't give a damn we're goin' to Disneyland and it's five, six, seven, open up the golden gates aint no time to wonder why we're all gonna buy...
NO! It's the people that vote for them. Industry ownership means nothing without the votes. And those comes from...who exactly? Get it straight. If nobody votes for an owned candidate, he will not occupy the office. He will not be able to do anything for his owners. It's that simple. At least it should be. And besides, why do we continue to buy the products of a "slave" owner? The power is ours. It only becomes theirs when we give it up. And that we have done most willingly.
See? The Republican and the Democrats can work together. When it come to restricting our freedoms and increasing their own power, they will work as one. Oh, and it also shows that their similarities run much deeper than any differences they might have. In other words, they are the same. So let's not hear any of that garbage about how the Democrats respect your rights any better than the Republicans, ok?
Since the inception of the concept. IP rights have always been about restricting access to information. That was its intent since the very beginning. It was originally a tool to silence government and corporate critics. To restrict their access to a printing press, which is a very dangerous machine when it's in the "wrong" hands. Copyright was effectively a license to use a press.
What a perfect headine: In 'Alternative Freedom,' Balancing the Freedom of Innovation With Copyright Laws
In other words, copyright law is used to restrict the freedom to innovate. This is the same as those who say we must balance the right to privacy with national security. here again, using national security to restrict our rights. So, to those of you who insist that IP law promotes innovation, I say, 'You're full of it.' It promotes nothing of the kind.
It only a matter of degree. Simply showing her the door would have been sufficient, but evidently, the gov't now considers our freedoms to be an embarrassment. Today they let them go. Tomorrow, I doubt it. The fact that she was charged with anything and that we aren't upset about it, shows the degradation of permitted essential freedoms. I didn't say that we are as bad as China, but we are definitely headed in that direction.
The Chinese government probably decided to force fully-licensed OSs on manufacturers in hopes that it would force them into installing Linux...
I don't believe they care about low prices, operating systems, and such as much as they are just trying to cash in on some of that WTO bounty. If they want to be a member, they're going to have to "play ball". From the looks of things, the WTO will be writing a new Chinese constitution. The kind of operating system on the computer is irrelevent. They're trying to build a credit industry to acquire a large population of wage slaves to provide low cost labor for all those new investors coming in. However, I am very pleased to see that they don't use Intel's junk. Through this, we might actually real competition and innovation on the hardware side of things. Maybe, if they keep the IP carpetbaggers away(no chance of that with the WTO looking over their shoulders), they can revive the Alpha chip. As it is now, we are still using 1970's tech. Smaller yes, better no. And Linux might get a nice boost...at least until SCO opens an office over there.
The Chinese are getting fully licensed computers. I'll bet that's not what Microsoft was hoping for when the Chinese made that promise:-) And not only that, they're using a superior chip to the Intel/AMD kludge. Unlike a certain American company that switched. It looks like soon the Chinese will be setting the standards for tech and civil rights(that's not good).
Yes, I suppose it's biased, but they're just showing how the average baffoon sees the page. You're simply not in their demographic. I don't know too many people who use McAffe products. They know better. This isn't for them. McAffe is selling snake oil and this is pointed straight at the kind of people that will buy it. And 97% of those people are that...to put it nicely...dumb. It's not a quiz. It's an ad. Their product will make a computer as well as my elixer will treat cancer(?).
It's like blindfolding someone and then blaming them for not being able to catch a baseball pitch...
This is precisely how your average receptionist at the real estate office cruises around the net. Technology? What's that? They see smilies and emoicons for their IM, and they gotta have it. Hey, it's free! These people need to be able to trust their machine to a certain extent. They shouldn't have to sniff every packet going through the wire. It should be no different than being able to trust a car to function normally without having to know what makes it go. Computers are still more like a 1915 Ford Jalopy than a 2005 Toyota. They're still not ready for prime time. Keeping them healthy still takes some knowledge of the inner workings. However, I will grant that the malware writers are the computer equivelent of a guy throwing nails on the roadway or rocks from the overpass. So we need the eqivelent of puncture proof tires and good safety glass. As it is, we just make it too easy for the bad guy with our junk equipment.
The real way to combat this is to hold website owners responsible if they are hosting such malware.
No, the real way to combat this is to hold the OS(and hardware for that mattter) maker responsible for making the software so easily and provocatively exploitable for possibly more sinister reasons than they are letting on. Another way to combat this would be a prohibition against cheap commodity equipment(hardware and software) on critical(banking, hospital, military, air traffic control, etc.) systems. Aircraft parts have to be certified as airworthy. Critical systems operators should only use "networthy" computers. We need a form of UL(Underwriters Laboratories) to certify computers and networks.
And then we can look to recent events in Tibet to inspire us never to let that happen. It's time to put the corporate puppet masters and those who give them their authority on alert that we won't tolerate it. We have the power. Don't let it go to waste.
What is really needed is an education effort on IP reform. Not just for the politicians, but for the public at large, so they can elect forward thinking leaders.
Unless you can make education as exciting and titillating as propaganda, you won't see anything of the kind. Once we give up our freedoms, it always seems to take a lot of violence to get them back, as evidenced in Tibet and France, and possibly the states with their immigration issue. As it is, I'm convinced that things like this can only help to force a resolution. And that I consider a good thing. And it makes for great soap opera. I suspect that the people that are actually nervous are that way because the whole system could collapse before they can cash in... or out as the case may be.
You do realize that regular ol' DVD has DRM, right?
Yep, and it can die, too. It's so called "quality" or "durability" doesn't impress me either. It's just not there. Hell, a lot of them barely work when they're new. It was a great concept, but horrible execution. And, as it turned out, a big lie. I'll go for digital when we get a system designed by real engineers, not marketing drones and bean counters.
It's a fact of digital life. Get used to it.
No way! We should learn a little lesson from the Tibetans and take to the streets to have DRM, DMCA, the patriot act, etc. banned from existance. Of course, it's hardly worth getting shot at over something so stupid as IP law, but it seems to be the only way to get our essential freedoms back. In fact, the corpo-crats should be starting to get nervous. The backlash finally appears to be coming on nice and strong.
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Sure, they can be easily swayed by dumb slogans...
Not nearly as much as the adults who do vote.
To be out done by a knockoff! Oh well, Intel never impressed me much. Didn't they start out by making Zenith knockoffs and build on that? And isn't that really what they are still selling? There some good chips out there, but IP law keeps then under lockdown. What a shame. Why do the worse ones get the biggest marketshare?
Yes, the politician is scum, but I'm not going to blame him for winning re-election. People that vote for and re-elect scummy politicians are scum themselves. They're only showing their own corruption. The corruption in Washington only reflects the corruption of the voters back home. They're telling him, "Bring home the bacon, we don't care how. We want a piece of the action."
Since we only ever get two candidate choices...
In the lightning round, yes. But other candidates are available during the "pre-season". We had one or two good candidates on both sides. But they didn't win. Why? Simple. They failed to get a majority of votes. It's not because one candidate had more money than the other. If it is, then it is we who are influenced by it, not them. We vote for the guy who flashes the most. We are voting for bling instead of good governance. Why do you blame others for how you vote? If somebody is in office, no matter how corrupt, it's because he was voted in by us. Corrupt politicians are voted in by corrupt voters looking for a fast buck(or other advantage). With this being the case, how can you blame them for going with what works? And furthermore, don't you have a "write in" space on your ballots? I'm not saying that could win, but you do have an alternative. On another note, when the majority abuses the minority like this, then it's time to hit the streets. Recent events show that it can work, and we can get our freedoms back. So sharpen up the pitchforks.
This has nothing to do with the RIAA...
FTA: "Today, webcasters that want to transmit major label music are entitled to do so under a statutory license..." emphasis mine
Sounds like RIAA to me...
What I wouldn't give for someone in Congress to represent the people...
They are representing the people that vote for and re-elect them. If they didn't, they wouldn't be in office. I do have a problem with a senator of California having so much power over the people of, say, New Hampshire. But that's the nature of the beast. It's what majority rule is all about. To them, the other 49% can die and rot.
is to not stream major label music. The RIAA would feel the pinch soon enough if ALL streamers were to refuse their content. Just stay away from their stuff. It's poison.
...Put down your laptops
and pick up a gun
we're gonna have a whole lotta fun
And it's one, two, three, whadda we fightin' for
don't ask me I don't give a damn
we're goin' to Disneyland
and it's five, six, seven, open up the golden gates
aint no time to wonder why
we're all gonna buy...
NO! It's the people that vote for them. Industry ownership means nothing without the votes. And those comes from...who exactly? Get it straight. If nobody votes for an owned candidate, he will not occupy the office. He will not be able to do anything for his owners. It's that simple. At least it should be. And besides, why do we continue to buy the products of a "slave" owner? The power is ours. It only becomes theirs when we give it up. And that we have done most willingly.
See? The Republican and the Democrats can work together. When it come to restricting our freedoms and increasing their own power, they will work as one. Oh, and it also shows that their similarities run much deeper than any differences they might have. In other words, they are the same. So let's not hear any of that garbage about how the Democrats respect your rights any better than the Republicans, ok?
Since the inception of the concept. IP rights have always been about restricting access to information. That was its intent since the very beginning. It was originally a tool to silence government and corporate critics. To restrict their access to a printing press, which is a very dangerous machine when it's in the "wrong" hands. Copyright was effectively a license to use a press.
What a perfect headine: In 'Alternative Freedom,' Balancing the Freedom of Innovation With Copyright Laws
In other words, copyright law is used to restrict the freedom to innovate. This is the same as those who say we must balance the right to privacy with national security. here again, using national security to restrict our rights. So, to those of you who insist that IP law promotes innovation, I say, 'You're full of it.' It promotes nothing of the kind.
It only a matter of degree. Simply showing her the door would have been sufficient, but evidently, the gov't now considers our freedoms to be an embarrassment. Today they let them go. Tomorrow, I doubt it. The fact that she was charged with anything and that we aren't upset about it, shows the degradation of permitted essential freedoms. I didn't say that we are as bad as China, but we are definitely headed in that direction.
The Chinese government probably decided to force fully-licensed OSs on manufacturers in hopes that it would force them into installing Linux...
I don't believe they care about low prices, operating systems, and such as much as they are just trying to cash in on some of that WTO bounty. If they want to be a member, they're going to have to "play ball". From the looks of things, the WTO will be writing a new Chinese constitution. The kind of operating system on the computer is irrelevent. They're trying to build a credit industry to acquire a large population of wage slaves to provide low cost labor for all those new investors coming in. However, I am very pleased to see that they don't use Intel's junk. Through this, we might actually real competition and innovation on the hardware side of things. Maybe, if they keep the IP carpetbaggers away(no chance of that with the WTO looking over their shoulders), they can revive the Alpha chip. As it is now, we are still using 1970's tech. Smaller yes, better no. And Linux might get a nice boost...at least until SCO opens an office over there.
The Chinese are getting fully licensed computers. I'll bet that's not what Microsoft was hoping for when the Chinese made that promise :-) And not only that, they're using a superior chip to the Intel/AMD kludge. Unlike a certain American company that switched. It looks like soon the Chinese will be setting the standards for tech and civil rights(that's not good).
And considering BSG started with the near total destruction of an entire civilization that looked pretty darn cool in its own right...
:-)
See? There ya go. You already know how the prequel is going to end
Let me try that again...Their product will make a computer run as well as my elixer will treat cancer(?).
Yes, I suppose it's biased, but they're just showing how the average baffoon sees the page. You're simply not in their demographic. I don't know too many people who use McAffe products. They know better. This isn't for them. McAffe is selling snake oil and this is pointed straight at the kind of people that will buy it. And 97% of those people are that...to put it nicely...dumb. It's not a quiz. It's an ad. Their product will make a computer as well as my elixer will treat cancer(?).
Don't we write stories from the beginning anymore?
It's like blindfolding someone and then blaming them for not being able to catch a baseball pitch...
This is precisely how your average receptionist at the real estate office cruises around the net. Technology? What's that? They see smilies and emoicons for their IM, and they gotta have it. Hey, it's free! These people need to be able to trust their machine to a certain extent. They shouldn't have to sniff every packet going through the wire. It should be no different than being able to trust a car to function normally without having to know what makes it go. Computers are still more like a 1915 Ford Jalopy than a 2005 Toyota. They're still not ready for prime time. Keeping them healthy still takes some knowledge of the inner workings. However, I will grant that the malware writers are the computer equivelent of a guy throwing nails on the roadway or rocks from the overpass. So we need the eqivelent of puncture proof tires and good safety glass. As it is, we just make it too easy for the bad guy with our junk equipment.
The real way to combat this is to hold website owners responsible if they are hosting such malware.
No, the real way to combat this is to hold the OS(and hardware for that mattter) maker responsible for making the software so easily and provocatively exploitable for possibly more sinister reasons than they are letting on. Another way to combat this would be a prohibition against cheap commodity equipment(hardware and software) on critical(banking, hospital, military, air traffic control, etc.) systems. Aircraft parts have to be certified as airworthy. Critical systems operators should only use "networthy" computers. We need a form of UL(Underwriters Laboratories) to certify computers and networks.
And then we can look to recent events in Tibet to inspire us never to let that happen. It's time to put the corporate puppet masters and those who give them their authority on alert that we won't tolerate it. We have the power. Don't let it go to waste.
What is really needed is an education effort on IP reform. Not just for the politicians, but for the public at large, so they can elect forward thinking leaders.
Unless you can make education as exciting and titillating as propaganda, you won't see anything of the kind. Once we give up our freedoms, it always seems to take a lot of violence to get them back, as evidenced in Tibet and France, and possibly the states with their immigration issue. As it is, I'm convinced that things like this can only help to force a resolution. And that I consider a good thing. And it makes for great soap opera. I suspect that the people that are actually nervous are that way because the whole system could collapse before they can cash in... or out as the case may be.
Penn and Teller covered that issue as far as I'm concerned.
You do realize that regular ol' DVD has DRM, right?
Yep, and it can die, too. It's so called "quality" or "durability" doesn't impress me either. It's just not there. Hell, a lot of them barely work when they're new. It was a great concept, but horrible execution. And, as it turned out, a big lie. I'll go for digital when we get a system designed by real engineers, not marketing drones and bean counters.
It's a fact of digital life. Get used to it.
No way! We should learn a little lesson from the Tibetans and take to the streets to have DRM, DMCA, the patriot act, etc. banned from existance. Of course, it's hardly worth getting shot at over something so stupid as IP law, but it seems to be the only way to get our essential freedoms back. In fact, the corpo-crats should be starting to get nervous. The backlash finally appears to be coming on nice and strong.