This whole internet song-swapping debacle reminds me of the old pirate radio stations of Britain, like Radio Caroline, Radio London and Radio City.
Whilst publicly denouncing the broadcasters as pirates, stealing money from the musician's union by playing songs and not paying the needletime; the industry were actually sending free copies of their latest releases in order to benefit from the coverage. Eventually, the marine offences bill was drafted and although some stations like Radio City opted to keep paying the ever-increasing fines, and continue broadcasting, they all eventually shut down. It did make way for modern commercial radio stations, and saw the launch of Radio One (which is the UK's 8-24yrs radio station), playing 'popular' music. I think a similar thing is going to happen in the end with file-sharing. The industry will have to acknowledge that they do, in fact benefit from having people able to easily download music, but they will want some sort of payment. Start buying shares in Napster-type services now. As ever, it'll take the music industry a while to figure out what's going on and to stop making fools of themselves, but they'll get there eventually and yesterday's truth will no longer exist. Double-plus good, I say.
I only heard that Enterprise might not be renewed a few days ago, and it really wouldn't surprise me if it had been cancelled. With the likes of Crusade, Futurama and Legend of The Rangers, it often seems like only 'lowest common denominator' shows can keep the interest of the big networks. If you like a show which requires an attention span longer than 12 minutes, or - god forbid - 12 IQ points, it's going to have an uncertain future. Don't get too attached to the characters.
Is Microsoft Software actually certified for safety critical systems? Depends on what version of Windows they were running. Windows NT 4 (SP3) is the only version of Windows to have been evaluated against ITSEC criteria. It's unlikely they'd be running a certified product, however, as the second you apply a new Service Pack to the machine, it's no longer certified. Every evaluation I've been part of has been where a vendor has wanted to sell something to the Ministry Of Defence, and have needed to obtain certification under ITSEC or Common Criteria in order to do that.
Notice the person making this claim never actually buys tickets or t-shirts themselves. It's always "someone else."
Perhaps in your blind community it is, but personally, if I like the tune, I'll buy it. I've even had albums specially ordered in, based on what I've heard from Napster/Morheus/WinMX/etc.
And I have no scruples with making a copy of a CD, or ripping tracks to MP3, arranging to the order I want to listen to them in the car/at home, whatever - because I've paid to listen to the music. As for the comment about radio stations, free advertising, etc - what about non-needletime records? Presumably, by your argument - these are fair game? And the bit about what price CDs retail at? I haven't seen them drop in years (I'm in the UK, btw). And weren't they supposed to be near-indestructible when they were introduced? Now you just need to leave one out of the case for half an hour and it skips all over the place. Cost-cutting on the protective material, was it? My heart bleeds.
And let's get this straight - when you talk about stealing from recording artists - what you really mean is theft from ponytail record execs. So don't say people are taking food from an artist's mouth, instead - say people are taking cocaine from a suit's nostrils. It's far more accurate. Song of the RIAA apologist: Gimme more, gimme more, gimme it now, I need my next fix of cocaine and my latest manufactured boyband is flopping and I need to blame it on something or I get fired. Oooooh, what's this Kazaa thingy? Methinks I spy a scapegoat...
Didn't know that AOL's IP stack was drastically different to those of the rest of the world. Presumably they've overcome this if they're opening up their core content to users of other ISPs via their Bring-Your-Own-Access scheme.
I was thinking 'yay, go ahead and patent pop-up ads, I hate them and want them all to die a horrible death, the less people that can use them, the better'.
And then I re-read it and noticed it said 'pop-up windows'. Which doesn't limit itself to adverts.
Okay, I'm going to spend a little while looking over this site, but given that I'm UK-based, it might take some time for me to 'translate' things into terms I understand.
In Britain, we have a system called legal aid which provides lawyers for those who can't afford them. If I get sued by SCO for running linux, I may be eligible for legal aid.
If I have to be re-imbursed for expenses, and I need to take SCO to court for such costs, well, there's always legal aid, and if I can't get that, there's plenty of No Win, No Fee legal beagles out there.
Depends if you mean sued as in 'successfully sued', or just the initiation of the process, and if you believe your nation's legal system is just and fair. Personally, I have a hard time believing the latter about any nation's judicial system, but I worry that SCO and friends will use this as an argument to support their case. I was hoping there would be some brilliant retort to silence such a question once and for all, but I guess I'll just have to hope that 'open-sourcing' this thought hasn't given malicious types any advantage;-)
The bit I would be interested in is if I was, say, running an IT services company, providing and managing several Linux servers for clients, would I be able to take out the insurance if I was distributing the disputed code?
This might be a cheap way for the smalltime business to mirror the indemnity offered by the likes of HP/Compaq.
now here comes OSRM, and before long they made more money essentially by betting that Darl's got nuthin!
Remind me to invite McBride to the next poker evening.
I had thought that the differing effects of substances on people of different ethnicities and genetic backgrounds was a fairly widely-acknowledged phenomenon, the most commonly-cited example being the lack of alcohol tolerance amongst Oriental people.
Asking me to back this up is fair enough, albeit somewhat crudely-phrased when STFU is appended. I didn't want to start the post with 'this guy I know told me...'
Further to the original links, better examples to back up what I've said are
The bit that I found interesting whilst trawling through the FDA page, is their quotation of section 115(b) of the Food And Drug Administration Modernization Act (1997): ...review and
develop guidance, as appropriate, on the inclusion of women and
minorities in clinical trials...
I also found a memo on their guidance for the inclusion of Women and Minorites here (in PDF format). In it, they quote existing guidelines from 1993: In general, drugs should be studied prior to approval in subjects representinga full range of patients likely to receive the drug once it is marketed. Although in most cases, drugs behave qualitatively similarly in demographic(age, gender, race) and other (concomitant illness, concomitant drugs)subsets of the population, there are many quantitative differences, forexample, in dose-response, maximum size of effect, or in the risk of anadverse effect.
It would seem that the biotech industry will have to take this into account if outsourcing clinical trials to countries with a lesser degree of ethnic diversity. How they will do this, I am not sure.
I've often employed the 'once it stops being constructive, I stop listening' technique, but I'm new around here and decided that sulking would be about as constructive as 'STFU', and so I went looking for something to back it up with. You never know, the guy *might* have some constructive criticism from which I can learn, once he's been supplied with the sources. But thanks for making me feel less clueless.
In one of Asimov's books (think it was Robots of Dawn), a robot had been constructed which still had all three laws, but their definition of what was or was not human had been altered. Therefore, they were able to harm/kill people who didn't have a certain accent, as without the local twang, people didn't count as being 'human'.
Okay, firstly I'd like to point to an article stating that Japanese are more prone to alcohol poisoning than Westerners because they lack or are deficient in an enzyme required for to break the substance down. Ergo, people from different parts of the world have different reactions when exposed to the same substances.
There's a similar case here.
What got me thinking about this was that a friend of mine often does clinical trials, and he mentioned one 'live-in' trial, in which 50% of the people were British/caucasian, and 50% were of cantonese origin. The trial was for a drug which was already on sale in the US/Europe, but the corp wanted to open the Japanese market, and so it had to be tested all over again.
Apparently there were no side-effects for the western subjects, but their oriental counterparts were in need of diapers fairly soon.
If you are a medical expert, then you might like to read Geographical/interracial differences in polymorphic drug oxidation, and Prostate Cancer Test Works Well for Black Men, in which it is stated that Black males have more of a certain enzyme than white males.
Would it be so easy to find a mixture of 773 asians, orientals, afro-americans, latinos and caucasians in Delhi?
the really sinister bit, is where you touched upon the test subjects being 'non-caucasian'. I'm no medical expert, but I was given to understand that medicines and drugs work differently on genetically different people. For example - a drug which works fine on caucasians may cause many unpleasant side-effects when oriental people use it. If you only test a drug on, say, Indian subjects, how can you determine that it won't cause nasty things like vomitting, rashes, dizziness, diarrhea, plagues of locusts, etc, etc? Or does this pale in comparison to the expected profits? "Hi, Doc, I seem to have lost the use of the left hand side of my face and body" "Oh, yeah sorry about that. We're still tweaking the pills for the US market, at least the migraines have stopped, eh?"
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I wonder if the term 'holy ground' will be modified to include web addresses? Will a priest have to personally visit each URL and bless it?
Will immortals no longer be able to kill the Highlander whilst one of his mozilla tabs has the simchurch open?
From the SCO press release: "received a letter on April 15, 2004 from BayStar Capital II, L.P."
I *knew* something good would have to happen on my birthday!
'also ran task for those who couldn't hack it as developers...' Kinda says it all about how much you value documentation within the open source community. I wouldn't mind doing some documentation for OSS projects, but most projects require documentation people to have several years of technical authoring experience, which I don't have. I might view myself as an okay sort of writer, and have some journalism experience and some user hand-holding experience, but it wouldn't be enough. And in any case, would I really want to do this in order to claim the huge prestige of being labelled as 'couldn't hack it as a developer'?
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This whole internet song-swapping debacle reminds me of the old pirate radio stations of Britain, like Radio Caroline, Radio London and Radio City.
Whilst publicly denouncing the broadcasters as pirates, stealing money from the musician's union by playing songs and not paying the needletime; the industry were actually sending free copies of their latest releases in order to benefit from the coverage. Eventually, the marine offences bill was drafted and although some stations like Radio City opted to keep paying the ever-increasing fines, and continue broadcasting, they all eventually shut down. It did make way for modern commercial radio stations, and saw the launch of Radio One (which is the UK's 8-24yrs radio station), playing 'popular' music. I think a similar thing is going to happen in the end with file-sharing. The industry will have to acknowledge that they do, in fact benefit from having people able to easily download music, but they will want some sort of payment. Start buying shares in Napster-type services now. As ever, it'll take the music industry a while to figure out what's going on and to stop making fools of themselves, but they'll get there eventually and yesterday's truth will no longer exist. Double-plus good, I say.
I only heard that Enterprise might not be renewed a few days ago, and it really wouldn't surprise me if it had been cancelled. With the likes of Crusade, Futurama and Legend of The Rangers, it often seems like only 'lowest common denominator' shows can keep the interest of the big networks. If you like a show which requires an attention span longer than 12 minutes, or - god forbid - 12 IQ points, it's going to have an uncertain future. Don't get too attached to the characters.
Is Microsoft Software actually certified for safety critical systems?
Depends on what version of Windows they were running. Windows NT 4 (SP3) is the only version of Windows to have been evaluated against ITSEC criteria. It's unlikely they'd be running a certified product, however, as the second you apply a new Service Pack to the machine, it's no longer certified. Every evaluation I've been part of has been where a vendor has wanted to sell something to the Ministry Of Defence, and have needed to obtain certification under ITSEC or Common Criteria in order to do that.
Notice the person making this claim never actually buys tickets or t-shirts themselves. It's always "someone else."
Perhaps in your blind community it is, but personally, if I like the tune, I'll buy it. I've even had albums specially ordered in, based on what I've heard from Napster/Morheus/WinMX/etc. And I have no scruples with making a copy of a CD, or ripping tracks to MP3, arranging to the order I want to listen to them in the car/at home, whatever - because I've paid to listen to the music. As for the comment about radio stations, free advertising, etc - what about non-needletime records? Presumably, by your argument - these are fair game? And the bit about what price CDs retail at? I haven't seen them drop in years (I'm in the UK, btw). And weren't they supposed to be near-indestructible when they were introduced? Now you just need to leave one out of the case for half an hour and it skips all over the place. Cost-cutting on the protective material, was it? My heart bleeds.
And let's get this straight - when you talk about stealing from recording artists - what you really mean is theft from ponytail record execs. So don't say people are taking food from an artist's mouth, instead - say people are taking cocaine from a suit's nostrils. It's far more accurate.
Song of the RIAA apologist: Gimme more, gimme more, gimme it now, I need my next fix of cocaine and my latest manufactured boyband is flopping and I need to blame it on something or I get fired. Oooooh, what's this Kazaa thingy? Methinks I spy a scapegoat...
I guess holdthebutton.com will be closing soon.
Didn't know that AOL's IP stack was drastically different to those of the rest of the world.
Presumably they've overcome this if they're opening up their core content to users of other ISPs via their Bring-Your-Own-Access scheme.
I was thinking 'yay, go ahead and patent pop-up ads, I hate them and want them all to die a horrible death, the less people that can use them, the better'.
And then I re-read it and noticed it said 'pop-up windows'. Which doesn't limit itself to adverts.
Okay, I'm going to spend a little while looking over this site, but given that I'm UK-based, it might take some time for me to 'translate' things into terms I understand.
In Britain, we have a system called legal aid which provides lawyers for those who can't afford them. If I get sued by SCO for running linux, I may be eligible for legal aid.
If I have to be re-imbursed for expenses, and I need to take SCO to court for such costs, well, there's always legal aid, and if I can't get that, there's plenty of No Win, No Fee legal beagles out there.
Depends if you mean sued as in 'successfully sued', or just the initiation of the process, and if you believe your nation's legal system is just and fair. Personally, I have a hard time believing the latter about any nation's judicial system, but I worry that SCO and friends will use this as an argument to support their case. I was hoping there would be some brilliant retort to silence such a question once and for all, but I guess I'll just have to hope that 'open-sourcing' this thought hasn't given malicious types any advantage ;-)
Lucky me!
The bit I would be interested in is if I was, say, running an IT services company, providing and managing several Linux servers for clients, would I be able to take out the insurance if I was distributing the disputed code?
This might be a cheap way for the smalltime business to mirror the indemnity offered by the likes of HP/Compaq.
now here comes OSRM, and before long they made more money essentially by betting that Darl's got nuthin!
Remind me to invite McBride to the next poker evening.
If it's so free of any copyright infringement, why do we need any kind of liability insurance?
Asking me to back this up is fair enough, albeit somewhat crudely-phrased when STFU is appended. I didn't want to start the post with 'this guy I know told me...'
Further to the original links, better examples to back up what I've said are
- Participation of Racial/Ethnic Groups in Clinical Trials
and Race-Related Labeling
- Gender, Ethnicity, and Clinical Trials.
The bit that I found interesting whilst trawling through the FDA page, is their quotation of section 115(b) of the Food And Drug Administration Modernization Act (1997):I also found a memo on their guidance for the inclusion of Women and Minorites here (in PDF format). In it, they quote existing guidelines from 1993:
In general, drugs should be studied prior to approval in subjects representinga full range of patients likely to receive the drug once it is marketed. Although in most cases, drugs behave qualitatively similarly in demographic(age, gender, race) and other (concomitant illness, concomitant drugs)subsets of the population, there are many quantitative differences, forexample, in dose-response, maximum size of effect, or in the risk of anadverse effect.
It would seem that the biotech industry will have to take this into account if outsourcing clinical trials to countries with a lesser degree of ethnic diversity. How they will do this, I am not sure.
I've often employed the 'once it stops being constructive, I stop listening' technique, but I'm new around here and decided that sulking would be about as constructive as 'STFU', and so I went looking for something to back it up with. You never know, the guy *might* have some constructive criticism from which I can learn, once he's been supplied with the sources. But thanks for making me feel less clueless.
In one of Asimov's books (think it was Robots of Dawn), a robot had been constructed which still had all three laws, but their definition of what was or was not human had been altered. Therefore, they were able to harm/kill people who didn't have a certain accent, as without the local twang, people didn't count as being 'human'.
Okay, firstly I'd like to point to an article stating that Japanese are more prone to alcohol poisoning than Westerners because they lack or are deficient in an enzyme required for to break the substance down. Ergo, people from different parts of the world have different reactions when exposed to the same substances.
There's a similar case here.
What got me thinking about this was that a friend of mine often does clinical trials, and he mentioned one 'live-in' trial, in which 50% of the people were British/caucasian, and 50% were of cantonese origin. The trial was for a drug which was already on sale in the US/Europe, but the corp wanted to open the Japanese market, and so it had to be tested all over again.
Apparently there were no side-effects for the western subjects, but their oriental counterparts were in need of diapers fairly soon.
If you are a medical expert, then you might like to read Geographical/interracial differences in polymorphic drug oxidation, and Prostate Cancer Test Works Well for Black Men, in which it is stated that Black males have more of a certain enzyme than white males.
Would it be so easy to find a mixture of 773 asians, orientals, afro-americans, latinos and caucasians in Delhi?
the really sinister bit, is where you touched upon the test subjects being 'non-caucasian'. I'm no medical expert, but I was given to understand that medicines and drugs work differently on genetically different people.
For example - a drug which works fine on caucasians may cause many unpleasant side-effects when oriental people use it.
If you only test a drug on, say, Indian subjects, how can you determine that it won't cause nasty things like vomitting, rashes, dizziness, diarrhea, plagues of locusts, etc, etc?
Or does this pale in comparison to the expected profits?
"Hi, Doc, I seem to have lost the use of the left hand side of my face and body"
"Oh, yeah sorry about that. We're still tweaking the pills for the US market, at least the migraines have stopped, eh?"
I wonder if the term 'holy ground' will be modified to include web addresses? Will a priest have to personally visit each URL and bless it?
Will immortals no longer be able to kill the Highlander whilst one of his mozilla tabs has the simchurch open?
From the SCO press release: "received a letter on April 15, 2004 from BayStar Capital II, L.P."
I *knew* something good would have to happen on my birthday!
'also ran task for those who couldn't hack it as developers...'
Kinda says it all about how much you value documentation within the open source community.
I wouldn't mind doing some documentation for OSS projects, but most projects require documentation people to have several years of technical authoring experience, which I don't have. I might view myself as an okay sort of writer, and have some journalism experience and some user hand-holding experience, but it wouldn't be enough. And in any case, would I really want to do this in order to claim the huge prestige of being labelled as 'couldn't hack it as a developer'?