It's not my country you're talking about, but I'd like to chip in anyway. The people are not disinterested. Oh, they may not be interested in the issues being raised in the existing political system. Any relevant issue, when submitted to public debate, would quickly polarize the nation, just like in the 1770's with the tax thing. There were some, then, who sided with England, some to the last. However, after the Boston Tea Party, there probably wasn't anyone in the colonies who hadn't a very clear idea of what should be done about the issue. There's an insistence in the US, on both sides of the aisle, that the nation needs "unity". That's newspeak for "let's keep them disinterested" because if they do start to take notice of the man behind the curtain, then... oh boy.
Well, for one thing, the _rest_ of society is made up of simpletons whose mantra is "I want to believe." Everyone in the US (and a few other places such as France and the UK) wanted to believe that they could buy expensive houses and flip them in a month or three, that the price of housing outside of big towns will continue to grow indefinitely (which is idiotic, in a world where there is a finite amount of oil), that everyone will keep paying their loans... All this, because the alternative is believing in a resource-limited world which gets poorer in real terms (available energy, available raw materials, arable land) by the minute - a world not conducive to peace of mind.
Because you'd be throwing money to the (solar) winds. Most of that "waste" is actually fuel which can't be "burned" because of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Yucca Mountain is the price of nuclear "peace" - but once nukes proliferate in spite of the NPT, as they will, the place will cease to serve a purpose.
There's a law in the UK that says you can get up to four years in prison for failing to hand over your keys to the police when they ask for them - and the standards for asking are pretty damn low. Fail.
Oh they'll care allright - give'em a generation or two. The tree of liberty must indeed be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants - unfortunately, Jefferson even got the sequence right - it's the patriots who must bleed first and only then the tyrants.
You can hide that shit inside your belt buckle, shoe, watch, zipper, underwear, keyboard, seams of your jeans, label of your shirt, mobile phone, binding of a book. Hell, you could hide it physically inside your innocent thumb drive. X-ray machines, backscatter x-ray detectors, magnetometers, passive millimeter-wave&/neutron scanners, radar... are you feeling lucky, punk?
Oh, and remember that if you fail to conceal the device, your attempt at concealment is grounds for further detainment and investigations (and rightly so).
Yes, it does! And here's to many other hardware vendors becoming as lazy in the future! Hardware people have no business writing (or supporting) software anyway. The more of them realize this and take the obvious steps (i.e. give up developing drivers in-house for microsoft's benefit), the better.
You just might be right - the next-generation workforce needs to be computer-literate (whatever that means), but there aren't enough kids to go around in the first world - the second and third will need to pick up some of the slack. That's how mass education started in the first place!
Here are some relevant paragraphs from Cox AUP (after the stuff about no illegal activities or harm to minors, etc):
User Content. You are solely responsible for any information that is transmitted from your IP address or your account on the web or other Internet services. You must ensure that the recipient of the content is appropriate and must take appropriate precautions to prevent minors from receiving inappropriate content. So if some predator uses my unsecured Wifi, I have problems. Hogwash.
You'll have problems with Comcast, to the extent covered by your contract (i.e. the internet service itself).
Not, however, with the criminal law, at least not automatically. You do not sign over your presumption of innocence or your right to a fair trial when you sign with Comcast. In fact, the laws of your country (as of most others) specifically state that state law trumps contracts and that you cannot legally give away some of your rights.
Comcast officials do not get hauled to criminal court when a pedo with a Comcast contract is arrested. Neither should you be, if some schmuck abuses a service you offer.
Methinks you're a troll, and a smart one at that. A rare thing these days so my hat is off to you, sir or madam. To show my appreciation I am going to shove a morsel your way: it cannot ever be illegal to re-sell something you bought legally.
Well, the argument goes that if no-one cared, the world would be all a big Darfur (or a Bioshock-type place, if you will, which is about the same). It's in your self-interest that this doesn't happen.
You are conflating legal theory with reality and "free" doesn't mean the same thing in both. By your reasoning, citizens of the former USSR had freedom of speech - their constitution granted incredibly comprehensive individual rights and freedom of expression so, _in theory_ nothing prevented you from speaking ill of the government or the ruling party. Of course, if you did, the consequences would be dire beyond belief.
Indeed, by your reasoning, no government could ever violate human rights - as long as their Constitution (which is just a piece of paper, as your president taught us) is liberal enough.
Someone who cannot break into a monopoly/monopsony market _however hard he/she tries_ is only free to starve - his/her right to work for a living has been trampled all over _de facto_ even if it's still there _de jure_.
You can get at least working VESA mode with a Radeon 9200 (I should know, I used to have one - and a crappy third-party board, at that). You're SOL because ATI are bastards - they've stopped supporting the R400 and R500 chipsets a while ago, but didn't release any info. There was (is?) a decent free driver in-kernel that could get accelerated 2d on that card. I was able to get 3d accel running with ati's linux driver (can't remember the version though), but it's buggy as hell, again, probably because the card itself is crap. You can get accelerated video and cloned display too - pretty sweet for building a budget linux media centre.
Let me try to expound on his point. What he said (that the rich get richer) ultimately means that monopolies or monopsonies are the natural outcomes of free markets. A monopolized/monopsonized market is anything but free, hence the contradiction.
Yes, yes... he invested in the oil&transportation infrastructure and started engineering education programmes so that relatively cheap Iranian engineers could be employed instead of expensive western expats.
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It's not my country you're talking about, but I'd like to chip in anyway. The people are not disinterested. Oh, they may not be interested in the issues being raised in the existing political system.
Any relevant issue, when submitted to public debate, would quickly polarize the nation, just like in the 1770's with the tax thing. There were some, then, who sided with England, some to the last. However, after the Boston Tea Party, there probably wasn't anyone in the colonies who hadn't a very clear idea of what should be done about the issue.
There's an insistence in the US, on both sides of the aisle, that the nation needs "unity". That's newspeak for "let's keep them disinterested" because if they do start to take notice of the man behind the curtain, then... oh boy.
Bollocks, mate.
Oh, they have? So I can get 3d acceleration and HD output on any ATI card, in Linux, without using a proprietary blob? Do tell.
Well, for one thing, the _rest_ of society is made up of simpletons whose mantra is "I want to believe."
Everyone in the US (and a few other places such as France and the UK) wanted to believe that they could buy expensive houses and flip them in a month or three, that the price of housing outside of big towns will continue to grow indefinitely (which is idiotic, in a world where there is a finite amount of oil), that everyone will keep paying their loans...
All this, because the alternative is believing in a resource-limited world which gets poorer in real terms (available energy, available raw materials, arable land) by the minute - a world not conducive to peace of mind.
Because you'd be throwing money to the (solar) winds. Most of that "waste" is actually fuel which can't be "burned" because of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
Yucca Mountain is the price of nuclear "peace" - but once nukes proliferate in spite of the NPT, as they will, the place will cease to serve a purpose.
There's a law in the UK that says you can get up to four years in prison for failing to hand over your keys to the police when they ask for them - and the standards for asking are pretty damn low. Fail.
Oh they'll care allright - give'em a generation or two. The tree of liberty must indeed be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants - unfortunately, Jefferson even got the sequence right - it's the patriots who must bleed first and only then the tyrants.
Oh, and remember that if you fail to conceal the device, your attempt at concealment is grounds for further detainment and investigations (and rightly so).
Yes, it does! And here's to many other hardware vendors becoming as lazy in the future! Hardware people have no business writing (or supporting) software anyway. The more of them realize this and take the obvious steps (i.e. give up developing drivers in-house for microsoft's benefit), the better.
That's because they were working for the military, on a then-cutting-edge project... dig a bit deeper.
You just might be right - the next-generation workforce needs to be computer-literate (whatever that means), but there aren't enough kids to go around in the first world - the second and third will need to pick up some of the slack. That's how mass education started in the first place!
The US, more likely. Bible Belt or similar.
No, it wouldn't. It would MAYBE give you a lower "radar cross-section", but you wouldn't disappear.
You'll have problems with Comcast, to the extent covered by your contract (i.e. the internet service itself).
Not, however, with the criminal law, at least not automatically. You do not sign over your presumption of innocence or your right to a fair trial when you sign with Comcast. In fact, the laws of your country (as of most others) specifically state that state law trumps contracts and that you cannot legally give away some of your rights.
Comcast officials do not get hauled to criminal court when a pedo with a Comcast contract is arrested. Neither should you be, if some schmuck abuses a service you offer.
Methinks you're a troll, and a smart one at that. A rare thing these days so my hat is off to you, sir or madam. To show my appreciation I am going to shove a morsel your way: it cannot ever be illegal to re-sell something you bought legally.
FON.
Oh, yes it will. As soon as we start getting really oppressed by some other race.
Oh so that's where they got the tech. I was wondering.
I hope you're joking. If not, you're a bad shot and an even worse hunter. Learn to shoot, but first learn to get close.
Well, the argument goes that if no-one cared, the world would be all a big Darfur (or a Bioshock-type place, if you will, which is about the same). It's in your self-interest that this doesn't happen.
Unless the story of flight 93 is a lie, that is.
You are conflating legal theory with reality and "free" doesn't mean the same thing in both. By your reasoning, citizens of the former USSR had freedom of speech - their constitution granted incredibly comprehensive individual rights and freedom of expression so, _in theory_ nothing prevented you from speaking ill of the government or the ruling party. Of course, if you did, the consequences would be dire beyond belief.
Indeed, by your reasoning, no government could ever violate human rights - as long as their Constitution (which is just a piece of paper, as your president taught us) is liberal enough.
Someone who cannot break into a monopoly/monopsony market _however hard he/she tries_ is only free to starve - his/her right to work for a living has been trampled all over _de facto_ even if it's still there _de jure_.
You can get at least working VESA mode with a Radeon 9200 (I should know, I used to have one - and a crappy third-party board, at that). You're SOL because ATI are bastards - they've stopped supporting the R400 and R500 chipsets a while ago, but didn't release any info. There was (is?) a decent free driver in-kernel that could get accelerated 2d on that card. I was able to get 3d accel running with ati's linux driver (can't remember the version though), but it's buggy as hell, again, probably because the card itself is crap. You can get accelerated video and cloned display too - pretty sweet for building a budget linux media centre.
Let me try to expound on his point. What he said (that the rich get richer) ultimately means that monopolies or monopsonies are the natural outcomes of free markets. A monopolized/monopsonized market is anything but free, hence the contradiction.
Yes, yes... he invested in the oil&transportation infrastructure and started engineering education programmes so that relatively cheap Iranian engineers could be employed instead of expensive western expats.