There are lots of them, this is not a Google issue, they don't need to provide, but you can google for a SIP clients and pick one of six/seven. So this is all nonsense and FUD.
To make it clearer, there is NO lock in, you pick your Client, then use any SIP server of your choice.
Getting a platform CPU, peripherals, support chips into the kernel is HARD at first, once the architecture is in, ressusitating it in later kernels is much easier, since functional abstractions got done on the way in, and Intel paid for the IA64 in the first place and have many good kernel developers.
If, and I doubt it, the Itanic is ever competitive, it will not be hard to bring it back in unless it is a complete re-design. The real, sadly orphaned good architectures eg the Alpha will probably never make it back, thank you NOT Carey.
The arm has a place as does a well designed runner against 86_X.
In the early 70's I had the pleasure of working with both Prof. Tony Brooker and I.R, MacCallum, both of whom had made major contributions to the Atlas timesharing system, Brooker had designed and MacCallum implemented most of the Compiler-Compiler, a meta system that included a parser generator and an MDL with interpreter to walk the parse tree and generate code. I bring these guys up to make a simple point, both were skilled technologists in their own areas, but as many University academics, they were narrow; an could not understand the need for maintenance, incomprehensible looks, the software will ROT... etc etc.
They just could NOT get their minds around changing external circumstances, working in tiny groups, version control, V2... was easy as was getting their all 3 systems updated. Pre/Post/Co - requisites, SCM, package management, bug-tracking were all to come as the world started to really use this stuff and they also had no communication disconnect, because there were less than 1000 and they all knew each other,
Yes its a HUGE problem, but unfortunately does need real understanding!
1. I really tire of this nonsense, Nixon had all of 1/4 hour to play for power, and with what had happened he flunked it, once he was assured of a Pardon and resigned game over.
2. I am sorry, I don't read or follow conspiracy theories, it is not a fashion, I observe history and am usually right.
3. 10% of the GDP is a huge underestimate, but if I allow that it is still HUGE. 10% is a moving, if not controlling share.
4. The treasuries are hedged off, you still don't understand Financials 101, see September 2008.
Look at USD v Basket 1.2009 - 11.2009 in Yahoo Money or something, then come back and tell me I am wrong
If they can't be Bothered to READ the legislation they need the POWER to pass it taken away, when all the current folderoll is done, Congress Senate and President send the legislation to a direct Vote, 50+ % UP OR DOWN WITH THE LEGISLATION PUBLISHED, IN ITS FINAL SIGNED form for 3 months, say 4 times a year, like we do here in Switzerland,
That will diminish corruption, give time to expose the warts, and KEEP THEM HONEST.
It is too late now, but you can always design a protocol to avoid, or negate replay attacks!
An interesting problem occurs in secure near real time system where avoidance is iffy but you still have time to negate, think laptop plugged into an aircraft FBW, once remote piloting comes to Civil Aviation
As computers/algorithms get faster quick hacks fail ever sooner.
Ther is little wrong with the design of DNSSEC except it allows --- FOR MONEY --- trust vendors a completely unrequired role in the system, DNSSEC could have easliy avoided this but this is a political question, you should provide your public key, self signed or not, and that needs basically to be the end of it. I can now advertise the fingerprint of my public key on my business card or signature.
This is typical Marketeer speak and crap. The existing DNS is data driven, via the Zone files for each (group) of Domains, the basic problem is that contrary to the small, simple friendly days of the arpa net, the distributed nature of the existing network of DNS servers is easily subverted by servers who deliberately lie in answer to DNS queries.
The solution is well understood, use cryptographic signing, with a known Public Key, so that clients can verify that the answer they get is Genuine Signed. This would be simple if we only had a few zones, and the root could sign all of them, we don't we have zillions so, to prevent changes becomming an impossible bottleneck we need a heirachy of keys so that, when I the admin of a zone, edit the zone I can sign the changed entries with the private key for that zone. The way DNSSEC is designed this turns the problem into one of private key authentication, management and distribution. A bit trickey, but really not that hard.
What Verisign are setting you up for is this is a HUGE problem so signed zones are going to cost a lot of MONEY.
The greed and averice if the potential Certificate issuers (yes I am looking at Verisign) and its interaction with OS and Browser vendors is the main reason the internet is not secure, and this way of working dosn't scale and isn't agile.
Certificates need to be nearly free 1 CHF, 1 USD, 1 GBP, 1 EUR each, and you need to be able to generate your own and have it signed, semi automatically, by your government, and everyone should be issued with a personal certificate, at birth, free. On a CD or something. All the Bolony of investigating who you are before issuing the Certificate is self serving and expensive Crap. It only benefits the technical registrars and needs to go away.
Verisign are telling us that they need a year, at least to convert a 50m row database... absolute nonsense.
Finally, given all the nonsense on the other side let me tell you about Self Signed certificates; I deal with maybe 20 organizations where I really care about the risks of a MITM attack or being able to Digitally Sign things, and if there was a Public Registrar, that would be the 21st, and I have a complex, multi national digital life, so most people need less but I cannot see anybody needing > 100. You can manage this manually.
If I do business with you all I need to do is give you a copy of my Public key, and a printed paper with the key-signature, when I sign something you check my public key signature, decrypt the document and verify the hash, if it is all OK you can trust it. If you want to look pretty you can use smart cards, but you can also use paper and the telephone. Even with an MD5 digest you have about three times the domestic security for a Swiss Bank.
When I was a young, 13 year kid, I fought for 6 months to get a British Museum (Copyright Library) Readers Ticket, not normally granted under 18; Why did I want it, for the Catelog, the Index, once I had found what I wanted to read, 16 c theology, in Spanish, and Science Fiction by specific authors, I could order it through the Inter-library Lending System at my Local Library. I quickly became famous for obscure ILS requests. It took me a while to find out that, in Essex, they took the ILS form and sent it to U L Cambridge, to look it up in their catalog, to check the citation before going into the ILS card database to locate a copy... later, when I could drive, I was invited to read books at the Cambridge UL by the kind Librarian there. This was 1957-1963. I used to make about 3 day trips per year to the BM and spent about 8 hours in the Library. It got better as I got older and could buy a Steak & Kidney pie and 1/2 bitter in a Bloomsbury pub at lunch time.
Indexing and wide availability of the index is important! Google does it for me for free, yeh I hve to ignore the adds, but maybe I am not so entitled, but it is better than a two hour train ride.
Professional, for pay indexes, like LexisNexis, OCLC, meet a need, but they have no right to exclusivity, and have to add real value to earn a right of exclusivity, some service like Pacer are simply immoral and just use a "use a computer to..." excuse cheat the public and marginalize students and the public. This is a useless begger the children and my neighbor policy so enamored by US corporations. It is silly, knowledge and learning wants to be free for the benefit of all humanity, it is THE RIGHT THING TO DO (TM). I ought to be understood that, if you create a work, and get to monopoly sell it for 12 years you have been given enough and got a GOOD DEAL(TM) then you need to move on and not continue to try to squeeze the fruit for the rest of eternity.
The reason the C-officers of the content-industry feel like they do is (a) Natural, but mis-guided sense of entitlement, (b) the law has been perverted to make innovation un-necessary, and (c) they have starved, and killed their own golden-goose, the creative artists, who now despise them, their Holleywood accounting and mis-treatment. Thus these IDIOTS are between the rock and the hard place, and the internet, which Google understands, provides the creative with a cheap, and un-obstructed route to market. The MainStream media and the ContentIndustry is dead, there is literally nothing they can do to rescue their revenue streams and continue to monetize their horded content.
Independent artists and writers will sell their new work outside traditional distribution, almost all the Music I buy, c $200 per year I now buy direct, with PayPal, on the German Market. I still buy print books, both fiction and professional from Amazon, B&N and FatBrain but I buy as much direct.
The old way is over, and it isn't comming back, Content-Industry not withstanding.
I am sorry, I just don't understand how anyone can be so stupid, First Nixon, he was a crook, the Congress was set up to SUCESSFULLY impeach him, this was not farcical like Clinton, Impeachment, conviction in the Senate, then the Courts and jail time, he had two choices (a) stay in office by force, or (b) resign and negotiate, he didn't do (b) for love, the Judges and the Generals made it clear to him he had to go, and as a quid pro quo, they would not oppose a pardon.
So Ford pardoned Nixon.
Bush did commit misprison of office while president, but he was also intensely unpopular leader,... you can bet the thought of staying on, BUT was told he would have NO support for an extended run and went quietly, GOOD NEWS, bad news. The next guy might be more popular or have weaker advisors. You dont have to "take over America militarily" you just need to declare a state of emergency, delay elections... exactly as you persuaded Musharef to do in Pakistan.
These guys are really dangerous, and if you don't understand that YOU are very naive. Your other problem is this is about politics, not logic, and politics runs on power and influence, not reason. That, and old fashioned social networking, is what the Business Schools teach their MBAs and why they become Bosses not workers.
I am sorry, I am not at all sanguine that standards in public life are being maintained in your country, which given its great history, is very, vey sad.
You have had you shot as the single superpower and dropped the ball, your time has been less than 40 years and China owns most of your country. Your currency is toilet paper and your institutions are held up as a worked example of "how not to do it".
But please, keep up your lazy-boi logic, continue to defend corrupt lying thugs in your legislature, and pretend your huge deficit isn't a problem. When, not if, the Chinese stop buying treasury bonds, and some exporters, oil and otherwise set their prices in Gold or a Currency basket, the USD is in the toilet. Game over, Third and final Depression, but only in the US.
No, it is always almost impossible to gather detailed, timely inside evidence about the innermost workings of any Affair of State, but years later the truth tends to out; so I am amazed (maybe not) at your factual ignorance... as General Haigh, Nixon's Chief of Staff, made sure that what happened was leaked... pour discouage un autre.
If Nixon could have got away with it... he would have, he was much more immoral that Bush. So, with respect STFU.
This is dumb meme, to run an honest country you need enforced standards that prevent legislative and executive corruption, a knowledgeable electorate helps, but public servants with their hand in the till still need to goto jail --- which means that you need an independent commission to investigate and prosecute that.
Basically the ethicality of the Judges of SC and the Joint Chiefs, politicised as thing have become you must think Bush thought of it, but was told the Military would not obey. This is the real fourth arm of government, not the press, and works in other places eg the UK, USSR and France, but not everywhere eg Germany in World War II.
The real question is how long this will last. You do need the "Right to bear Arms".
Doing this should be cause for banning the member Aids for two years, let him do some WORK.
You Americans are getting just the corrupt lying conniving government you claim to object to in the third world, and nothing seems to change it. You need to get rid of PACs and Soft money and have rigid two term limits.
The sense of entitlemeent from these guys is worse the the Wall St CEO.
No, what is appalling is that the UK's state schools and now through Universities, courtesy of Ms Shirly Williams, so dumbed down in persuit of a cultural experiment that able children do not lean enough enough, quickly enough and the average child vegetates.
Most, but not all Teachers have willingly gone along with this and some, and all Teacher Unions have persistently lied to the public.
Schools and Universities should teach each child to the best of their ability, as quickly as possible both vocational and if possible academic skills.
They are not for left wing cultural change, nor to massage the Governments employment statistics, BUT that is what they have been used for for over 50 years.
Politicians and Educationalists, aided and abetted by a few arrogant Industrialists, have all but decimated British scholarship, especially in Mathematics and the Hard Sciences while Polish economic migrants do the manual work. A disaster which will be very hard to correct since there are very few real Teachers any more.
The Quality is poor across the board. To teach something, you need to know how to do it first, then how to teach. The idea of a professional teacher is absurd, and leads to the lunacy you can see every day in the Rue Faidherbe in Boulogne, kids who can't even order coffee and cake in French, and teachers who are no better. Here the kids are bi-lingual in German and French and many speak Italian or English too. The Math/Science teachers have degrees in those subjects, no just a B.Ed.
As a result kids get educated and the Teachers are respected.
M$ has one grip left on the real word, the Office monopoly, and its grip is paper thin there,
the general (electing) populace is becoming ever more sophisticated, and after the financial melt-down, in which many Normal people lost lots of money, in 401K or UBS-N equity, have much more active and working BS detectors, more in 2012, so:
1. The OOXML scandal is well understood
2. HTML5 video subversion won't hold, Flash & Silverlight flop, and will continue, too closed, too few developers. Unless Adobe fully open PDF, all non static PDF goes the same way
3. Vista and W7 don't matter, and if M$ try to force adoption it just means that CFO s will run IT, no sane CIO can push an OS upgrade
4. That leaves the Office+Outlook+AD francise, and the EU has fixed that, the next major Samba will be an impecable Domain * Kerberos controller, but unlike AD servers will be reliable. once AD is down someone with some sense will spend some money on the Exchange.Outlook,Calandar franchise, maybe Oracle, and finally someone, maybe ein Hess Arschloch will politely ask M$ if Office XXX is ISO complient, and die prufung
Yes, now, 12 years is FAR too soon. He certainly has Bern Convention copyright, in the rest of the world but may need to REGISTER the copyright in the USA but that can be done retrospectively.
I would like a 12 year world copyright period, without registration. Registration was a daft idea invented in the US, as is "The author XYZ... asserts..." now seen in the preface of UK books. Copyright persists in the publication and edition, but derived works protects from rip off but not fair-use or scholarly review.
IAAIL and what your friend needs to do is to write to Google, at its registered office (in your country), as follows...
"Dear Google, I am the Copyright owner of XXXX written by me XXXX and published in YYYYYY, please feel free to scan and index this work in your database, however please make sure that all requests to purchase any copies of this work are forwarded to me at AAAAAA. For the avoidance of doubt, this work was copyrighted (registered) by me in ZZZZZZ and I reserve all rights of supply (in any form)."
This is LEGAL ADVICE, and is worth what you PAID FOR IT.
So it is not that hard, and certainly bot a "Bär" (has Slashdot got unlauts right yet?)
1. I am the very reverse of trusting of corporations be it Google or AIG. I one case Google tries to be effective, profitable, equitable and fair. NO I don't work for them but I admire most of what they do! AIG, are on the other hand, along with Moody and most of the rest of Wall St., crooks.
2. The Mickey Mouse example says that the man who wrote that sarcasm is invisible here on Slashdot, a 12 year copyright on Mickey would make Disney do some good new work, which they mightily fear, and would be good for the kids. I am sure they would like a change.
3. If I was a novalist or muscician or programmer and it took me 10 years to get anywhere I would listen to the market. And, I said nothing about payment.
4. If you want Privacy, get privacy laws passed by your Congress. ALL YOU IDIOTS in the US need to get off your fat backsides and control your Government, deal with privacy, copyright, tort-reform and foi. We already have ours, in place in Schweiz, and Google is complying with them, and the Bundesrat cant shaft us the way your Executive/Congress does you, daily.
5. Your AIDS shot is particularly dumb, you are addressing exactly the wrong end of the issue, Googling AIDS, or for that matter YOU BOY ANAL SEX says nothing about you, your AIDS status, or for that matter, anything else, and if you object to anything it can only be to publication. The example is not contrived since a Nationalrat in Mitteland was arrested in Thailand for sexuell misbraucht recently. His name was not in Blick.
Basically, get off your high horse, stop blaming others for STUPID US laws an legal process, fix YOUR government
and let the rest of us, our students and universities get on while poeple like you continue to force the USA into economic decline.
I am sorry, I thing this anti Google stuff is the veriest nonsense, while what Google is doing is very much in the Public Interest.
It goes like this, with GPS the jinn of mapping was out of the bottle, you no longer needed spot-highs, theodolites and thousands of hours work. digital cameras, GPS and drone-aircraft have made wide area mapping cheap, and obsoleted most uses of spy satalites. Streetview is little different, I know that if I dont want people looking into my garden or house I have to build a wall or close the curtains/shutters.
I am fed to the back teeth with Luddites railing against Google for doing, systematically, what is legal, and what anyone could do. As for the vested interests of the MPAA, RIAA, Book & Journal publishers. Librarians and the rest of the so called 'content-industry' the more Google steamroller them the better.
The problem here is not Google, it is silly, ineffective or knowingly corrupt laws: in the US, Congress, strictly following the Constitution, needs to enact sensible Personal Privacy laws (vide France, Switzerland) and to enact and define a short commercial Copyright period of say 12 years.
Then Google can re-open the Library of Alexandria,
Disney will need to make some new films,
and progress and education may trump commercial greed.
For example, Fairchild Camera & Instrument, TI and a nascent Intel stopped the semi-conductor industry by preventing Universities teaching the technology, that is the way to make the USA into a third world country quickly.
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There are lots of them, this is not a Google issue, they don't need to provide, but you can google for a SIP clients and pick one of six/seven. So this is all nonsense and FUD.
To make it clearer, there is NO lock in, you pick your Client, then use any SIP server of your choice.
Windoze
After a VERY few searches it is Obvious that Bing is a very poor search engine, Not even on a par with what Altavista was.
Now, M$ EVIL (TM),
implemented cluelessly. As soon as their grip in American Corporates is broken they are in for a very hard time.
Who will hopefully be out of office before he can do much more damage
Getting a platform CPU, peripherals, support chips into the kernel is HARD at first, once the architecture is in, ressusitating it in later kernels is much easier, since functional abstractions got done on the way in, and Intel paid for the IA64 in the first place and have many good kernel developers.
If, and I doubt it, the Itanic is ever competitive, it will not be hard to bring it back in unless it is a complete re-design. The real, sadly orphaned good architectures eg the Alpha will probably never make it back, thank you NOT Carey.
The arm has a place as does a well designed runner against 86_X.
In the early 70's I had the pleasure of working with both Prof. Tony Brooker and I.R, MacCallum, both of whom had made major contributions to the Atlas timesharing system, Brooker had designed and MacCallum implemented most of the Compiler-Compiler, a meta system that included a parser generator and an MDL with interpreter to walk the parse tree and generate code. I bring these guys up to make a simple point, both were skilled technologists in their own areas, but as many University academics, they were narrow; an could not understand the need for maintenance, incomprehensible looks, the software will ROT ... etc etc.
They just could NOT get their minds around changing external circumstances, working in tiny groups, version control, V2... was easy as was getting their all 3 systems updated. Pre/Post/Co - requisites, SCM, package management, bug-tracking were all to come as the world started to really use this stuff and they also had no communication disconnect, because there were less than 1000 and they all knew each other,
Yes its a HUGE problem, but unfortunately does need real understanding!
1. I really tire of this nonsense, Nixon had all of 1/4 hour to play for power, and with what had happened he flunked it, once he was assured of a Pardon and resigned game over.
2. I am sorry, I don't read or follow conspiracy theories, it is not a fashion, I observe history and am usually right.
3. 10% of the GDP is a huge underestimate, but if I allow that it is still HUGE. 10% is a moving, if not controlling share.
4. The treasuries are hedged off, you still don't understand Financials 101, see September 2008.
Look at USD v Basket 1.2009 - 11.2009 in Yahoo Money or something, then come back and tell me I am wrong
If they can't be Bothered to READ the legislation they need the POWER to pass it taken away, when all the current folderoll is done, Congress Senate and President send the legislation to a direct Vote, 50+ % UP OR DOWN WITH THE LEGISLATION PUBLISHED, IN ITS FINAL SIGNED form for 3 months, say 4 times a year, like we do here in Switzerland,
That will diminish corruption, give time to expose the warts, and KEEP THEM HONEST.
It is too late now, but you can always design a protocol to avoid, or negate replay attacks!
An interesting problem occurs in secure near real time system where avoidance is iffy but you still have time to negate,
think laptop plugged into an aircraft FBW, once remote piloting comes to Civil Aviation
As computers/algorithms get faster quick hacks fail ever sooner.
Ther is little wrong with the design of DNSSEC except it allows --- FOR MONEY --- trust vendors a completely unrequired role in the system, DNSSEC could have easliy avoided this but this is a political question, you should provide your public key, self signed or not, and that needs basically to be the end of it. I can now advertise the fingerprint of my public key on my business card or signature.
This is typical Marketeer speak and crap. The existing DNS is data driven, via the Zone files for each (group) of Domains, the basic problem is that contrary to the small, simple friendly days of the arpa net, the distributed nature of the existing network of DNS servers is easily subverted by servers who deliberately lie in answer to DNS queries.
... absolute nonsense.
The solution is well understood, use cryptographic signing, with a known Public Key, so that clients can verify that the answer they get is Genuine Signed. This would be simple if we only had a few zones, and the root could sign all of them, we don't we have zillions so, to prevent changes becomming an impossible bottleneck we need a heirachy of keys so that, when I the admin of a zone, edit the zone I can sign the changed entries with the private key for that zone. The way DNSSEC is designed this turns the problem into one of private key authentication, management and distribution. A bit trickey, but really not that hard.
What Verisign are setting you up for is this is a HUGE problem so signed zones are going to cost a lot of MONEY.
The greed and averice if the potential Certificate issuers (yes I am looking at Verisign) and its interaction with OS and Browser vendors is the main reason the internet is not secure, and this way of working dosn't scale and isn't agile.
Certificates need to be nearly free 1 CHF, 1 USD, 1 GBP, 1 EUR each, and you need to be able to generate your own and have it signed, semi automatically, by your government, and everyone should be issued with a personal certificate, at birth, free. On a CD or something. All the Bolony of investigating who you are before issuing the Certificate is self serving and expensive Crap. It only benefits the technical registrars and needs to go away.
Verisign are telling us that they need a year, at least to convert a 50m row database
Finally, given all the nonsense on the other side let me tell you about Self Signed certificates; I deal with maybe 20 organizations where I really care about the risks of a MITM attack or being able to Digitally Sign things, and if there was a Public Registrar, that would be the 21st, and I have a complex, multi national digital life, so most people need less but I cannot see anybody needing > 100. You can manage this manually.
If I do business with you all I need to do is give you a copy of my Public key, and a printed paper with the key-signature, when I sign something you check my public key signature, decrypt the document and verify the hash, if it is all OK you can trust it. If you want to look pretty you can use smart cards, but you can also use paper and the telephone. Even with an MD5 digest you have about three times the domestic security for a Swiss Bank.
When I was a young, 13 year kid, I fought for 6 months to get a British Museum (Copyright Library) Readers Ticket, not normally granted under 18; Why did I want it, for the Catelog, the Index, once I had found what I wanted to read, 16 c theology, in Spanish, and Science Fiction by specific authors, I could order it through the Inter-library Lending System at my Local Library. I quickly became famous for obscure ILS requests. It took me a while to find out that, in Essex, they took the ILS form and sent it to U L Cambridge, to look it up in their catalog, to check the citation before going into the ILS card database to locate a copy ... later, when I could drive, I was invited to read books at the Cambridge UL by the kind Librarian there. This was 1957-1963. I used to make about 3 day trips per year to the BM and spent about 8 hours in the Library. It got better as I got older and could buy a Steak & Kidney pie and 1/2 bitter in a Bloomsbury pub at lunch time.
..." excuse cheat the public and marginalize students and the public. This is a useless begger the children and my neighbor policy so enamored by US corporations. It is silly, knowledge and learning wants to be free for the benefit of all humanity, it is THE RIGHT THING TO DO (TM). I ought to be understood that, if you create a work, and get to monopoly sell it for 12 years you have been given enough and got a GOOD DEAL(TM) then you need to move on and not continue to try to squeeze the fruit for the rest of eternity.
Indexing and wide availability of the index is important! Google does it for me for free, yeh I hve to ignore the adds, but maybe I am not so entitled, but it is better than a two hour train ride.
Professional, for pay indexes, like LexisNexis, OCLC, meet a need, but they have no right to exclusivity, and have to add real value to earn a right of exclusivity, some service like Pacer are simply immoral and just use a "use a computer to
The reason the C-officers of the content-industry feel like they do is (a) Natural, but mis-guided sense of entitlement, (b) the law has been perverted to make innovation un-necessary, and (c) they have starved, and killed their own golden-goose, the creative artists, who now despise them, their Holleywood accounting and mis-treatment. Thus these IDIOTS are between the rock and the hard place, and the internet, which Google understands, provides the creative with a cheap, and un-obstructed route to market. The MainStream media and the ContentIndustry is dead, there is literally nothing they can do to rescue their revenue streams and continue to monetize their horded content.
Independent artists and writers will sell their new work outside traditional distribution, almost all the Music I buy, c $200 per year I now buy direct, with PayPal, on the German Market. I still buy print books, both fiction and professional from Amazon, B&N and FatBrain but I buy as much direct.
The old way is over, and it isn't comming back, Content-Industry not withstanding.
I am sorry, I just don't understand how anyone can be so stupid, First Nixon, he was a crook, the Congress was set up to SUCESSFULLY impeach him, this was not farcical like Clinton, Impeachment, conviction in the Senate, then the Courts and jail time, he had two choices (a) stay in office by force, or (b) resign and negotiate, he didn't do (b) for love, the Judges and the Generals made it clear to him he had to go, and as a quid pro quo, they would not oppose a pardon.
... you can bet the thought of staying on, BUT was told he would have NO support for an extended run and went quietly, GOOD NEWS, bad news. The next guy might be more popular or have weaker advisors. You dont have to "take over America militarily" you just need to declare a state of emergency, delay elections ... exactly as you persuaded Musharef to do in Pakistan.
So Ford pardoned Nixon.
Bush did commit misprison of office while president, but he was also intensely unpopular leader,
These guys are really dangerous, and if you don't understand that YOU are very naive. Your other problem is this is about politics, not logic, and politics runs on power and influence, not reason. That, and old fashioned social networking, is what the Business Schools teach their MBAs and why they become Bosses not workers.
I am sorry, I am not at all sanguine that standards in public life are being maintained in your country, which given its great history, is very, vey sad.
You have had you shot as the single superpower and dropped the ball, your time has been less than 40 years and China owns most of your country. Your currency is toilet paper and your institutions are held up as a worked example of "how not to do it".
But please, keep up your lazy-boi logic, continue to defend corrupt lying thugs in your legislature, and pretend your huge deficit isn't a problem. When, not if, the Chinese stop buying treasury bonds, and some exporters, oil and otherwise set their prices in Gold or a Currency basket, the USD is in the toilet. Game over, Third and final Depression, but only in the US.
No, it is always almost impossible to gather detailed, timely inside evidence about the innermost workings of any Affair of State, but years later the truth tends to out; so I am amazed (maybe not) at your factual ignorance ... as General Haigh, Nixon's Chief of Staff, made sure that what happened was leaked ... pour discouage un autre.
... he would have, he was much more immoral that Bush. So, with respect STFU.
If Nixon could have got away with it
Because the Corporations corrupt the Democratic process with hidden bribary, which is illegal but poorly enforced.
It will if the pressure gets strong enough, the jaded attitude is more than half of the problem,
... who all had it much worse than you lot do
you have all become lazy defeatists, learn from the Poles, East Germans, Hungarians
This is dumb meme, to run an honest country you need enforced standards that prevent legislative and executive corruption, a knowledgeable electorate helps, but public servants with their hand in the till still need to goto jail --- which means that you need an independent commission to investigate and prosecute that.
Otherwise Zimbabwe here you come.
Read the story about how you got rid of Nixon.
Basically the ethicality of the Judges of SC and the Joint Chiefs, politicised as thing have become you must think Bush thought of it, but was told the Military would not obey. This is the real fourth arm of government, not the press, and works in other places eg the UK, USSR and France, but not everywhere eg Germany in World War II.
The real question is how long this will last. You do need the "Right to bear Arms".
Doing this should be cause for banning the member Aids for two years, let him do some WORK.
You Americans are getting just the corrupt lying conniving government you claim to object to in the third world,
and nothing seems to change it. You need to get rid of PACs and Soft money and have rigid two term limits.
The sense of entitlemeent from these guys is worse the the Wall St CEO.
No, what is appalling is that the UK's state schools and now through Universities, courtesy of Ms Shirly Williams, so dumbed down in persuit of a cultural experiment that able children do not lean enough enough, quickly enough and the average child vegetates.
Most, but not all Teachers have willingly gone along with this and some, and all Teacher Unions have persistently lied to the public.
Schools and Universities should teach each child to the best of their ability, as quickly as possible both vocational and if possible academic skills.
They are not for left wing cultural change, nor to massage the Governments employment statistics, BUT that is what they have been used for for over 50 years.
Politicians and Educationalists, aided and abetted by a few arrogant Industrialists, have all but decimated British scholarship, especially in Mathematics and the Hard Sciences while Polish economic migrants do the manual work. A disaster which will be very hard to correct since there are very few real Teachers any more.
The Quality is poor across the board. To teach something, you need to know how to do it first, then how to teach. The idea of a professional teacher is absurd, and leads to the lunacy you can see every day in the Rue Faidherbe in Boulogne, kids who can't even order coffee and cake in French, and teachers who are no better. Here the kids are bi-lingual in German and French and many speak Italian or English too. The Math/Science teachers have degrees in those subjects, no just a B.Ed.
As a result kids get educated and the Teachers are respected.
Sorry Guy,
in each and every way you are a LATE adopter.
M$ has one grip left on the real word, the Office monopoly, and its grip is paper thin there,
the general (electing) populace is becoming ever more sophisticated, and after the financial melt-down, in which many Normal people lost lots of money, in 401K or UBS-N equity, have much more active and working BS detectors, more in 2012, so:
1. The OOXML scandal is well understood
2. HTML5 video subversion won't hold, Flash & Silverlight flop, and will continue, too closed, too few developers. Unless Adobe fully open PDF, all non static PDF goes the same way
3. Vista and W7 don't matter, and if M$ try to force adoption it just means that CFO s will run IT, no sane CIO can push an OS upgrade
4. That leaves the Office+Outlook+AD francise, and the EU has fixed that, the next major Samba will be an impecable Domain * Kerberos controller, but unlike AD servers will be reliable. once AD is down someone with some sense will spend some money on the Exchange.Outlook,Calandar franchise, maybe Oracle, and finally someone, maybe ein Hess Arschloch will politely ask M$ if Office XXX is ISO complient, and die prufung
Game over
Yes, now, 12 years is FAR too soon. He certainly has Bern Convention copyright, in the rest of the world but may need to REGISTER the copyright in the USA but that can be done retrospectively.
..." now seen in the preface of UK books. Copyright persists in the publication and edition, but derived works protects from rip off but not fair-use or scholarly review.
...
I would like a 12 year world copyright period, without registration. Registration was a daft idea invented in the US, as is "The author XYZ... asserts
IAAIL and what your friend needs to do is to write to Google, at its registered office (in your country), as follows
"Dear Google, I am the Copyright owner of XXXX written by me XXXX and published in YYYYYY, please feel free to scan and index this work in your database, however please make sure that all requests to purchase any copies of this work are forwarded to me at AAAAAA. For the avoidance of doubt, this work was copyrighted (registered) by me in ZZZZZZ and I reserve all rights of supply (in any form)."
This is LEGAL ADVICE, and is worth what you PAID FOR IT.
So it is not that hard, and certainly bot a "Bär" (has Slashdot got unlauts right yet?)
1. I am the very reverse of trusting of corporations be it Google or AIG. I one case Google tries to be effective, profitable, equitable and fair. NO I don't work for them but I admire most of what they do! AIG, are on the other hand, along with Moody and most of the rest of Wall St., crooks.
2. The Mickey Mouse example says that the man who wrote that sarcasm is invisible here on Slashdot, a 12 year copyright on Mickey would make Disney do some good new work, which they mightily fear, and would be good for the kids. I am sure they would like a change.
3. If I was a novalist or muscician or programmer and it took me 10 years to get anywhere I would listen to the market. And, I said nothing about payment.
4. If you want Privacy, get privacy laws passed by your Congress. ALL YOU IDIOTS in the US need to get off your fat backsides and control your Government, deal with privacy, copyright, tort-reform and foi. We already have ours, in place in Schweiz, and Google is complying with them, and the Bundesrat cant shaft us the way your Executive/Congress does you, daily.
5. Your AIDS shot is particularly dumb, you are addressing exactly the wrong end of the issue, Googling AIDS, or for that matter YOU BOY ANAL SEX says nothing about you, your AIDS status, or for that matter, anything else, and if you object to anything it can only be to publication. The example is not contrived since a Nationalrat in Mitteland was arrested in Thailand for sexuell misbraucht recently. His name was not in Blick.
Basically, get off your high horse, stop blaming others for STUPID US laws an legal process, fix YOUR government
and let the rest of us, our students and universities get on while poeple like you continue to force the USA into economic decline.
I am sorry, I thing this anti Google stuff is the veriest nonsense, while what Google is doing is very much in the Public Interest.
It goes like this, with GPS the jinn of mapping was out of the bottle, you no longer needed spot-highs, theodolites and thousands of hours work. digital cameras, GPS and drone-aircraft have made wide area mapping cheap, and obsoleted most uses of spy satalites. Streetview is little different, I know that if I dont want people looking into my garden or house I have to build a wall or close the curtains/shutters.
I am fed to the back teeth with Luddites railing against Google for doing, systematically, what is legal, and what anyone could do. As for the vested interests of the MPAA, RIAA, Book & Journal publishers. Librarians and the rest of the so called 'content-industry' the more Google steamroller them the better.
The problem here is not Google, it is silly, ineffective or knowingly corrupt laws: in the US, Congress, strictly following the Constitution, needs to enact sensible Personal Privacy laws (vide France, Switzerland) and to enact and define a short commercial Copyright period of say 12 years.
Then Google can re-open the Library of Alexandria,
Disney will need to make some new films,
and progress and education may trump commercial greed.
For example, Fairchild Camera & Instrument, TI and a nascent Intel stopped the semi-conductor industry by preventing Universities teaching the technology, that is the way to make the USA into a third world country quickly.
Are the best TV produced, and Yes Minister should be compulsory viewing for all Commanders in Chief