The UN is a corrupt organization where the inmates run the asylum.
The US doesn't need to ask for permission to defend itself or take actions where it is in its own best interests. The Kyoto Protocol was a joke and was never ratified here anyways. You can't withdraw something you don't formally enter in.
Bottom line, we can do it because we have the power and the might. We don't need to play well with others, others need to play well with us.
I think the hysteria on slashdot over RFID is so overblown. This technology is just another technology that has good uses and bad uses.
Most people don't particularly care that they can potentially be tracked with their purchases. It's already happening now, and the world hasn't come to an end. Bar codes and their scanners hasn't made life worse for anybody.
It's funny to see slashdot, home of tech geeks turn into luddites over some things.
Boo fucking hoo, the President makes jokes about WMD at a washington insider dinner. How come you don't go rail on those there that laughed at the jokes?
It's not funny anymore how slashdot has turned into such a rabid America-hating echo chamber.
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Man the barricades for your right to swipe The Simpsons! According to Stanford law professor and media darling Lawrence Lessig, a "movement must begin in the streets" to fight a corrupt Congress, overconcentrated media and an overpriced legal system conspiring to develop "a 'get permission to cut and paste' world that is a creator's nightmare."
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That's the gist of Lessig's inflammatory new screed, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity ({(C1)}Penguin Press{(T1)}, $25; free online starting Mar. 25). A more honest title? Freeloader Culture: A Manifesto for Stealing Intellectual Property.
"There has never been a time in our history when more of our 'culture' was as 'owned' as it is now," Lessig huffs. Huh? In the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s a handful of companies exerted ironclad control over the movie, radio and record businesses; Xeroxes and tape recorders were nonexistent. Though "cut and paste" was limited to scrapbooks, creators of all stripes somehow managed to flourish.
Contrary to Lessig's rants, today's technology has made creators freer than ever to devise and distribute original works. But technology has also given consumers powerful weapons of mass reproduction with strong potential for abuse. The intellectual property issue of our time is how to balance the rights of creators and consumers.
Don't look to Lessig for that balance. First he reasonably extols "'Walt Disney creativity'--a form of expression and genius that builds upon the culture around us and makes it something different." But then, in a rhetorical bait-and-switch, he spends most of the book making the case that a free pass should be given to the specific kind of "creativity" that directly reuses existing work, up to and including wholesale sampling and so-called sharing.
That's nuts. Disney reworked public-domain material like "Snow White" gratis, but paid to use copyrighted works like Peter Pan. In a footnote, Lessig observes that "Disney paid royalties to use the music for five songs" in his first sound short. Like most responsible creators, Disney understood the crux of copyright: The owner of a work has the exclusive right to authorize how it may be used. Adapt someone's material, and you generally have to ask permission; you may even have to pay.
Yet often you don't, which is where Lessig's argument dissolves. "Fair use" exceptions in existing copyright law--like the ones that let me quote Lessig here--are so expansive that just about the only thing cut-and-pasters clearly can't do legally with a copyrighted work is directly copy a sizable portion of it. Even then, there are many exemptions for classroom, library, archive and personal use. And the Web lets you legally link to copyrighted material.
That's not nearly enough for Lessig, who once proposed a laughable ten-year maximum term for software copyrights and later suffered a 7-to-2 Supreme Court whupping over his claim that the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act was unconstitutional. The book proposes a slew of sweeping copyright law changes that would consistently screw creators, reward infringers and put the U.S. at odds with international law. Some of Lessig's proposals might well help the big media he claims to detest by offering them the chance to poach material they once would have had to pay for. And he endorses a bizarre, unworkable system of regulating file-sharing in which owners would be paid out of the proceeds from unspecified taxes, "to the extent that harm could be shown"--a sort of federal insurance pool for stol
Here's a guy who started a company from scratch, and worked his way up to being the richest man in the world.
And to top if off, he's now the most generous philanthropist too. His foundation, focused on fighting disease and promoting education will leave a bigger and longer lasting legacy than his business accomplishments.
Having some buildings names after him is a small token of apprecation in comparison to his generosity.
The FCC has the power only to regulate the public airwaves. It can't regulate 'Profane' speech on cable, satellite or other pay mediums.
Since the broadcasters get free use of these valuable airwaves, it's not too much to ask that they not broadcast indecent material. There should be some level of decency that they can't go below.
I think the broadcasters have had too long to go below this, and it's about time they crack down.
If they don't like it, they can put it on cable or satellite radio. Free Public airwaves can and should be regulated.
More proof that open-source is a religion here. No evidence of whether this repository will be any good or contain anything of value, just that's its OSS, hip hip hooray.
I've seen the light on sourceforge, and it ain't pretty.
As U.S. jobs move abroad, more Americans are willing to work overseas like in India as per a CNN.com story.
Right off the bat, this is wrong. The number of jobs being currently outsourced is fairly miniscule in comparison to the total number of jobs in the US. Somehwere less than a million jobs have gone overseas in a workforce of 130 million.
It's weird how slashdot is so pro-freedom, yet so against free markets and free trade when it can potentially affect them negatively. In the end, this outsourcing will only make the US a more efficient workforce and benefit all consumers.
Listening to O'keefe on a press conference about a month ago, when he addressed the Hubble issue in detail, it all became clear to me: It's pure politics.
After the CAIB, he was blasted, questioned and doubted to no end, so what does a skilled polititian do? cut your losses and move on. Well, he did just that. So now he's gonna follow the CAIB like it's the road to salvation. To the letter.
The CAIB puts forward a number of requirements for shuttle flights, including the ability to service the Shuttle via ISS if something goes wrong...among a host of other "inconvenient" requirements.
O'keefe decided to follow the CAIB to the letter so that means that going to the hubble will "break the laws" of the CAIB (Hubble is in an entirely different, incompatible orbit...still you'd think that being the thing called SHUTTLE it shouldn't be an issue, but it is)
So servicing the Hubble will violate his mandate to play it safest and thus it won't happen because it's "too risky" according to the CAIB mantra.
The only nation in the world with the resources, know-how, and drive to create the most superior space exploration and research program on Earth.
The Russian, Europeans, and Japanese aren't even close to us. We have escaped the solar system, rendevoused with comets, and reached on far off planets and moons.
This has benefited science everywhere. But let's give credit where credit is due, the United States of America, land of the Free.
Only such a free, rich, and strong country like America could have conquered Space like this.
This is another reason why I'm proud to be an American. While the Russian, European, and Japanese space agencies languish far behind (where's the Beagle???), the US with NASA has continually been leading the way in exploring our solar system and contributing to the fields of astronomy and science. Whether its collecting comet dust or searching for life on Mars, we will continue to lead. This just adds another successful feather in our cap.
There are some idiots around who hate the US with a mad passion and feel the world would be a better place if the US didn't exist. This remarkable mission shows that there are some good things the USA does that no other country can match.
I'll say it because no one else will. Tom is an ass.
But more importantly his reviews suck! I haven't even looked at this one but i venture to guess it's at least 15 pages, milk that advertising cash cow, tom!
If brevity is the soul of wit, then you are one dumb mother fucker Tom.
Now for the informative part of by rant:
try www.hardocp.com or www.anandtech.com or www.ac eshardware.com
Here's a clue. Not everybody has the same high-minded ethical principles as you. Out in the real world and out of your parents basement, SCO's actions aren't judged to be pure evil. There are some that can disagree with their actions without becoming apologists, enablers or lackeys in your eyes.
You must be proud up in that safe perch of yours to automatically call others unethical for taking actions which they feel is best for them. Telling someone else they can feed their children on welfare and unemployment shows how little you understand the real world.
I don't know if you go around in real life telling people they're unethical or greedy, but I'd smack you upside your fucking head if you did. Take your holier-than-thou attitude and shove it up your asshole.
"EFF supports the IEEE in taking on the issue of setting standards for electronic voting machines. We also support the idea of modernizing our election processes using digital technology, as long as we maintain, or better yet, increase the trustworthiness of the election processes along the way. But this standard does not do this, and it must be reworked."
just look at yesterday's slashdot story for proof.
What is the point of offering this service for free? To get more people in the door and buy more coffee?
All this hardware and maintenance costs money and it has to come from somewhere. I've seen tip jars in coffeee houses, it barely pays for more than a few more cups of coffee. Thinking this will cover the cost of this expensive service is lunacy.
I wonder why a lot of the geek crowd has such disdain for Rice Rocket cars (Type-R stickers, graphics, super-high spoilers, rims), but case-modding is cool.
Both are just about equally worthless. Both cost ridiculous sums of money for products eventually become worthless. It looks good, but is mostly a makeup for the user's own inadequacies. These modders just love to tell you about their mods and show it off, as if everybody else should care.
There are plenty of Republicans that are opposed to the spending and budget policies, but they're in the minority right now. I am not attached to the hip on all the platforms.
It's true that right now the party isn't being fiscally conservative, that's how they plan on keeping power.
Sorry, but you aren't going to win over the Slashdot crowd by telling them to go with Microsoft instead of an open source alternative.
Then that's an indictment of the slashdot crowd, not me.
Unlike the majority here, I don't think Microsoft are babykillers out to take away your rights, and every product they make is horrible. Not surprisingly I get tagged 'flamebait' for daring to step outside the party line.
Encarta is a decent solution for the price. 'Free' is not always better. Some things are worth paying for.
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The US doesn't need to ask for permission to defend itself or take actions where it is in its own best interests. The Kyoto Protocol was a joke and was never ratified here anyways. You can't withdraw something you don't formally enter in.
Bottom line, we can do it because we have the power and the might. We don't need to play well with others, others need to play well with us.
This country isn't in the UN member list.
What kind of government does this Palestine have? Who is its head of state?
Maybe if you think drones are their enemy deploying young children as suicide bombers.
This is what kind of war Israel is facing.
Most people don't particularly care that they can potentially be tracked with their purchases. It's already happening now, and the world hasn't come to an end. Bar codes and their scanners hasn't made life worse for anybody.
It's funny to see slashdot, home of tech geeks turn into luddites over some things.
There's no other country that comes close to our Air, land, and sea superiority.
And then we'd just bomb the shit out of their land. Simple as that.
It's not funny anymore how slashdot has turned into such a rabid America-hating echo chamber.
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Man the barricades for your right to swipe The Simpsons! According to Stanford law professor and media darling Lawrence Lessig, a "movement must begin in the streets" to fight a corrupt Congress, overconcentrated media and an overpriced legal system conspiring to develop "a 'get permission to cut and paste' world that is a creator's nightmare."
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That's the gist of Lessig's inflammatory new screed, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity ({(C1)}Penguin Press{(T1)}, $25; free online starting Mar. 25). A more honest title? Freeloader Culture: A Manifesto for Stealing Intellectual Property.
"There has never been a time in our history when more of our 'culture' was as 'owned' as it is now," Lessig huffs. Huh? In the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s a handful of companies exerted ironclad control over the movie, radio and record businesses; Xeroxes and tape recorders were nonexistent. Though "cut and paste" was limited to scrapbooks, creators of all stripes somehow managed to flourish.
Contrary to Lessig's rants, today's technology has made creators freer than ever to devise and distribute original works. But technology has also given consumers powerful weapons of mass reproduction with strong potential for abuse. The intellectual property issue of our time is how to balance the rights of creators and consumers.
Don't look to Lessig for that balance. First he reasonably extols "'Walt Disney creativity'--a form of expression and genius that builds upon the culture around us and makes it something different." But then, in a rhetorical bait-and-switch, he spends most of the book making the case that a free pass should be given to the specific kind of "creativity" that directly reuses existing work, up to and including wholesale sampling and so-called sharing.
That's nuts. Disney reworked public-domain material like "Snow White" gratis, but paid to use copyrighted works like Peter Pan. In a footnote, Lessig observes that "Disney paid royalties to use the music for five songs" in his first sound short. Like most responsible creators, Disney understood the crux of copyright: The owner of a work has the exclusive right to authorize how it may be used. Adapt someone's material, and you generally have to ask permission; you may even have to pay.
Yet often you don't, which is where Lessig's argument dissolves. "Fair use" exceptions in existing copyright law--like the ones that let me quote Lessig here--are so expansive that just about the only thing cut-and-pasters clearly can't do legally with a copyrighted work is directly copy a sizable portion of it. Even then, there are many exemptions for classroom, library, archive and personal use. And the Web lets you legally link to copyrighted material.
That's not nearly enough for Lessig, who once proposed a laughable ten-year maximum term for software copyrights and later suffered a 7-to-2 Supreme Court whupping over his claim that the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act was unconstitutional. The book proposes a slew of sweeping copyright law changes that would consistently screw creators, reward infringers and put the U.S. at odds with international law. Some of Lessig's proposals might well help the big media he claims to detest by offering them the chance to poach material they once would have had to pay for. And he endorses a bizarre, unworkable system of regulating file-sharing in which owners would be paid out of the proceeds from unspecified taxes, "to the extent that harm could be shown"--a sort of federal insurance pool for stol
And that diniminishes my point, how?
The fact is that before Bill Gates, there was no Microsoft, no employees, no product, no sales.
There were plenty of other people richer than him 20+ years ago, but they didn't or couldn't do what he did.
Whatever personal wealth he used to build his company (I doubt it was much), doesn't take away what an incredibly successful accomplishment it is.
And to top if off, he's now the most generous philanthropist too. His foundation, focused on fighting disease and promoting education will leave a bigger and longer lasting legacy than his business accomplishments.
Having some buildings names after him is a small token of apprecation in comparison to his generosity.
Since the broadcasters get free use of these valuable airwaves, it's not too much to ask that they not broadcast indecent material. There should be some level of decency that they can't go below.
I think the broadcasters have had too long to go below this, and it's about time they crack down.
If they don't like it, they can put it on cable or satellite radio. Free Public airwaves can and should be regulated.
More proof that open-source is a religion here. No evidence of whether this repository will be any good or contain anything of value, just that's its OSS, hip hip hooray.
I've seen the light on sourceforge, and it ain't pretty.
Right off the bat, this is wrong. The number of jobs being currently outsourced is fairly miniscule in comparison to the total number of jobs in the US. Somehwere less than a million jobs have gone overseas in a workforce of 130 million.
It's weird how slashdot is so pro-freedom, yet so against free markets and free trade when it can potentially affect them negatively. In the end, this outsourcing will only make the US a more efficient workforce and benefit all consumers.
Listening to O'keefe on a press conference about a month ago, when he addressed the Hubble issue in detail, it all became clear to me: It's pure politics.
After the CAIB, he was blasted, questioned and doubted to no end, so what does a skilled polititian do? cut your losses and move on. Well, he did just that. So now he's gonna follow the CAIB like it's the road to salvation. To the letter.
The CAIB puts forward a number of requirements for shuttle flights, including the ability to service the Shuttle via ISS if something goes wrong...among a host of other "inconvenient" requirements.
O'keefe decided to follow the CAIB to the letter so that means that going to the hubble will "break the laws" of the CAIB (Hubble is in an entirely different, incompatible orbit...still you'd think that being the thing called SHUTTLE it shouldn't be an issue, but it is)
So servicing the Hubble will violate his mandate to play it safest and thus it won't happen because it's "too risky" according to the CAIB mantra.
It only refers to their respective rank-and-file, I guess these people have signed up on some list to receive them.
Once again, Slashdot hypes and puffs something up to be more than it really is. No need to get worked up over "Your Rights".
The Russian, Europeans, and Japanese aren't even close to us. We have escaped the solar system, rendevoused with comets, and reached on far off planets and moons.
This has benefited science everywhere. But let's give credit where credit is due, the United States of America, land of the Free.
Only such a free, rich, and strong country like America could have conquered Space like this.
I am Truly Proud to be an American.
Considering the huge Anti-US sentiment on this site, I thought this would be a good occasion to tweak that crowd a little.
Apparently by the moderation, they can dish it, but can't take it.
This is another reason why I'm proud to be an American. While the Russian, European, and Japanese space agencies languish far behind (where's the Beagle???), the US with NASA has continually been leading the way in exploring our solar system and contributing to the fields of astronomy and science. Whether its collecting comet dust or searching for life on Mars, we will continue to lead. This just adds another successful feather in our cap.
There are some idiots around who hate the US with a mad passion and feel the world would be a better place if the US didn't exist. This
remarkable mission shows that there are some good things the USA does that no other country can match.
This is a great day for science and humanity.
I'll say it because no one else will. Tom is an ass.
c eshardware.com
But more importantly his reviews suck! I haven't even looked at this one but i venture to guess it's at least 15 pages, milk that advertising cash cow, tom!
If brevity is the soul of wit, then you are one dumb mother fucker Tom.
Now for the informative part of by rant:
try www.hardocp.com
or
www.anandtech.com
or
www.a
all 100% better than tom's
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Here's a clue. Not everybody has the same high-minded ethical principles as you. Out in the real world and out of your parents basement, SCO's actions aren't judged to be pure evil. There are some that can disagree with their actions without becoming apologists, enablers or lackeys in your eyes.
You must be proud up in that safe perch of yours to automatically call others unethical for taking actions which they feel is best for them. Telling someone else they can feed their children on welfare and unemployment shows how little you understand the real world.
I don't know if you go around in real life telling people they're unethical or greedy, but I'd smack you upside your fucking head if you did. Take your holier-than-thou attitude and shove it up your asshole.
The EFF is organizing a petition to encourage IEEE to set trustworthy standards for electronic voting. Read about it and join the petition here:
http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/IEEE/
"EFF supports the IEEE in taking on the issue of setting standards for electronic voting machines. We also support the idea of modernizing our election processes using digital technology, as long as we maintain, or better yet, increase the trustworthiness of the election processes along the way. But this standard does not do this, and it must be reworked."
just look at yesterday's slashdot story for proof.
What is the point of offering this service for free? To get more people in the door and buy more coffee?
All this hardware and maintenance costs money and it has to come from somewhere. I've seen tip jars in coffeee houses, it barely pays for more than a few more cups of coffee. Thinking this will cover the cost of this expensive service is lunacy.
Both are just about equally worthless. Both cost ridiculous sums of money for products eventually become worthless. It looks good, but is mostly a makeup for the user's own inadequacies. These modders just love to tell you about their mods and show it off, as if everybody else should care.
It's true that right now the party isn't being fiscally conservative, that's how they plan on keeping power.
Then that's an indictment of the slashdot crowd, not me.
Unlike the majority here, I don't think Microsoft are babykillers out to take away your rights, and every product they make is horrible. Not surprisingly I get tagged 'flamebait' for daring to step outside the party line.
Encarta is a decent solution for the price. 'Free' is not always better. Some things are worth paying for.