The basic idea is, that some political view points aren't based in any kind of reality whatsoever and more factually based observations are discredited as biased in some derogatory way.
So, if you are a NeoCon, you might claim that safety regulations like cars must be sold with seat belts are "ruining" the U.S. economy and our global competitiveness and the liberals are to blame for creating these troublesome rules. Objectively, seat belts mostly protect people and lower social costs.
Alright, I see where your misunderstandings begin.
Incorrect. The poor person in this case is obviously not working as hard.... She would argue differently. Not everyone is intellectually gifted. You doome the less intellectually gifted yet still valuable individual to a lifetime of menial labor with no reward. Who will dump your intellectually gifted wealth generated trash? This is equivalent to sharecropping and as a result individuals like this will get angry at you and others like you.
He has not learnt the most productive ways in which to direct his hard work. Again, missing the context to the question. Distribution of wealth suggests that there are avenues to generating wealth, that opportunity exists. It's one reason why this is such an important indicator and shouldn't be discarded as some liberal propaganda tool.
Let's not confuse physically hard work with actual hard work. It's intellectually easy to perform grunt work for 80 hours a week for 40 years. It doesn't require any thought, any planning, any ambition or any risk-taking. In fact it is the path of least resistance, i.e. the easy route. If it's so easy, then why aren't we all racing to the bottom of the economic ladder? Because you are propogating a political fiction used to consolidate wealth. It has been quite successfuly abused since the Reaganomics(sp?) days of "trickle-down" economics to legitimize eliminating the middle class through eliminating or minimizing paths to higher education, much less a basic education.
This is another example of the much-beloved Apple saying a firm no to interoperability. Now, it's probably the case that Cisco was asking for way too much. But this highlights Apple is only a little different than say, Microsoft when it comes down to pissing matches and interoperability.
At this point in history, both OS vendors will eat their babies. Beware brother, beeeware.
Mod me down for saying an unkind word about Apple, but there is at least a little truth to it.
You start with: The biggest problem facing the U.S. isn't the wage gap, but the surge of regulations that prevent the poor from becoming rich (and prevents small companies from becoming large one).
You end with: Sure, there wouldn't be an income gap with such a system, but I'd rather have the opportunity to work hard and become wealthy than coast through life with a lower-middle class income after taxes.
There's a numerous logical problems built into your quickie-mart economics.
1. Working hard == become wealthy (economic-level) There is no correlation between the two in the capitalist system. History shows again and again that most industries are non-competitive and devolve to monopolies if there are no regulations limiting their reach.
2. Working hard == become wealthy (individual-level) There is no correlation between the degree and intensity of your work and economic success. This is the core issue in "economic distribution" discussions. Work 40 years living in an apartment with one week off a year going nowhere because you can't afford it. Or, work 40 years with two weeks off a year, one spent in Aruba the other skiing in Breckenridge. Same hard work, two different outcomes.
3. Regulations... I believe you are relying on the politically expedient interpretation of economic thinking that makes regulations bad. Is having clean water bad? Is having 100's of thousands of houses that won't fall down in an earthquake bad? Is having clean air bad? How about a 40 hour work week. Would you prefer working 7-days a week?
I'd like Chinese workers to have the same amount of regulations so I know all Chinese citizens are deriving some benefit from their economic growth and maintain political stability so I don't have to worry about being nuked by the Chinese.
History shows again and again, a politically and socially stable country tends to have either a) large and stable "middle class." Another way to describe it is good income distribution and consumption by a large number of people in the country/empire in question. More recently, that also includes political participation by all citizens. b) Despots running the show.
In more recent times, Detroit as described in the part-documentary Roger & Me has excellent examples of the phenomena at a city-scale.
Is there a direct causal relationship that can be expressed in an equation that would satisfy a./er? No. In that way, reality definitely has a liberal bias. (to borrow a quote)
I've got a Nokia 9300 that pretty much rocks the party.
I've got ssh and rdp clients for admin work, mp3 player, removable flash media, email, sms, good back-up restore functionality and works in linux too. There's even an OSS gui toolkit on sourceforge.
No, it didn't come from the Jobs Reality Distortion Field, but it allows me to have a life when I'm on weekend support rotation.
The problems the stated will get non-win32 operating systems nowhere.
No one *wants* to change simply to substitute one OS for another. No one! They switch when there is a problem with their computer that they get so sick and tired of dealing with, they go to another platform.
My Dad (an aol user no less) switched when I told him I won't fix his Windows box any more. Switched to Linux, got AOHell working and never looked back. He wanted a new PC, so he got a mac mini. Why? Because I won't support windows.
In his case he was compelled to switch, as nearly every user that actually switches. There are many many people that talk, but few actually do. Copy-cat applications will never drive adoption. Apple is a visible example where the applications are driving adoption.
Today's lesson: It takes a compelling application, not one that already exists in the Windows world to make people switch. The variety of apps is the fertilizer out of which a killer app will come that will make people switch.
That's not how it works. AFIS systems, especially criminal ones, don't take -ANY- sort of decision by themselves, they just do some matching on the DB, and produce 'candidates' list (ie: the list of prints that look the most like the one(s) you searched.) then an expert looks at the results, and resumes the identification visually, as they've been doing since fingerprint identification was invented.
FYI: This is exactly how it works.
To give the average/.'er a bit more info, this works in conjunction with "watch lists." There will be fingerprints of individuals in a watch list DB whereby if the individual travels, after their fingerprints are recorded at the airport a hit against the watch list is reported. From there, depending on the level of interest the government(s) have in the individual lots of procedures could be fired off.
The burden for the individual begins when your identity ends up in a watch list. History tells us there are many rather harmless individuals that were on more primitive versions of watch lists like Martin Luther King along with some genuinely bad characters. So, it's a really mixed bag.
The time to be outraged was at least 25 years ago. The most immediate solution would be to put most of congress and the senate on a watch list as "bad people" and then there would probably be some (in)action.
Clearly, you and many like you **still** pretend that Microsoft is subject to market forces.
The conventional quickie-mart concept of "supply and demand" does not apply.
Microsoft is, in economic terms: 1. Monopoly 2. Price Maker
In plain english that means they set a price above a competitive market rate. That destroys the surplus value to consumers, and raises the price of hardware Windows runs on.
Third, support costs. If Dell is selling the software, and willing to be the first line of support, that means that they are willing to take on support costs and therefore lower Microsofts. There are so many false assumptions in that statement I don't know where to begin. I'll simply say the statement bears no resemblence to how "support" is managed inside the PC business.
Fourth, distribution costs. Shipping thousands of OEM copies to one customer Another statement that bears no resemblance to reality. You have no idea the *how* Dell gets its windows cd's. There are many ways that it is done in the industry most of which allow the parent (ex. microsoft) keeping no inventory whatsoever.
It takes a whole lot to piss off a customer. DRM and broken batteries certainly isn't close enough. This is why Marketeers get all hot and sweaty about being the first brand that people think of. You can abuse your customers and they keep coming back for more. Lesser brand consumers generally won't tollerate the abuse and switch to sony and still get abused, but since it's "sony" they take it.
This one reason why Apple's switching campaign while noble and a general good for all who switch from Windows is so slow. It's why consumers of all kinds who switch to Linux won't switch because windows has some problems. They'll switch because of an application they can't get on windows. Given the way Microsoft is tightening the DRM and market segmenting nooses, most consumers will simply tollerate the abuse.
I'll keep it brief. As other informative posts have explained, the virii potential of VOIP clients is unlikely.
Say I'm a bad guy and I want to simultaneously call 100,000 machines. I would have to spawn 100,000 connections to a voip server. Your voip server firewall has a threshold for dropping connections from a single IP address doesn't it? If the bad guy is using 100,000 zombies then the problem is not voip is it?
Let's say for a minute that I'm able to connect to a client. *The phone will ring* Now what?
I'm not saying VOIP is perfect or totally secure. Most of the issues that may come up will likely be Windows OS issues. Not specifically VOIP, but Microsoft's desktop OS. If you want to worry. Keep using windows.
"All DVD players come equipped with a key that fits the lock and allows for playback."
This is the equivalent of leaving your front door key underneath the mat. It won't be long at all until the crack is widely available.
Where this will get implemented is in blockbuster stores. The good news here is the kiosk will probably run windows, so I'm thinking the boxes should be owned pretty quickly too.
I think the point is there are a few bad people that really would look under the mat and go into the house. The rest of us wouldn't so it can be very useful/profitable to media owners.
Linux desktop is getting nowhere, despite it's technical excellence,
1. It's very easy to argue it's getting somewhere because of the variety of distros out there. Just because NetCraft or whatever research name you look to for credibility can't/won't measure or validate the progress means absolutely nothing.
2. Putting together a coherent desktop is difficult to say the least. Your average Linux desktop won't be competing directly with apple/microsoft, but you will find pragmatic IT people deploying them everywhere. No, none of those people have been the subjects in desktop market share research either.
because it lacks key apps (i.e., Office). Pull a few key apps from MacOS X (e.g., Office, Photoshop, etc.) and see what happens to adoption.
This is a well-worn and ultimately invalid opinion. History shows us repeatedly that the switch happens when one platform has something a consumer **really** needs. Making look-alike office and graphics apps is not the answer. The answer is a little deeper. Maybe openoffice.org might have something really great lawyers would switch for. Maybe gimp has features that animators want they can't get from Adobemedia. (filmgimp?)
We know it hasn't happened yet, but it's already begun. Proprietary software companies like Microsoft and Adobemedia will tighten the noose by raising prices and offer progressively less innovation. History shows this over and over again.
While this is unfortunate and *may* add to instability in the region, I smell a couple of rats.
1. Now that today's bad guy is doing it how is it different than say (insert former bad-country-now-fighting-the-war-on-terrr here) doing it?
2. What special inroad does popular mechanics have in NORTH korea? Most objective analysts would have a hard time verifying it and I'd like to hear it from them.
3. Does anyone recall the long and sordid history of planted stories, media contacts and testimony in the U.S. in order to achieve a political end?
I'm weary of propaganda posing as stories to the point of disbelief. This one is a perfect example.
I believe that changing licenses on users midstream is the greater threat to users
Depends on what you define as a threat. Changing licenses happens all of the time in the proprietary software world and with negligible effect. A perfect example is the WMP11 "upgrade" where the end-user gives away many rights.
Going from V2 to V3 is an administrative headache for big GPL projects with many contributors should they decide to go down that path and probably create a few issues for projects that switch to v3.
I don't see any end-users throwing up their hands and not installing GPLv3 software because they object to v3 terms and conditions. It's a given at this point that nearly every end-user simply clicks through most licenses with no consideration given.
The exact reason we are giving credibility to them is because they are credible and directly result in agency policies and procedures. In this case some spooky organization can open your mail and the president will go to court to preserve their ability to do so and that takes time. Lots of it.
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/signing.htm where you will find, "We believe that such statements may on appropriate occasions perform useful and legally significant functions.... directing subordinate officers within the Executive Branch how to interpret or administer the enactment...."
Is there any respect (or even understanding) of the process of law in this country anymore? Maybe, but the wheels of justice move so slowly that the Executive office can do as they please for quite a while. Along with the last decade or so of vast expansion of Executive power it makes it all the more relevant. Historically speaking, you will note the current supreme court calendar is relatively empty as well.
While sticking with V2 is the right thing to dor for Adium, you may be ignoring the critical loophole in V2 that they are attempting to close.
Tivo has abused V2 in a novel way that privatizes their software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization Tivo is just the beginning of V2 abuse. (novell/microsoft anyone?) What happens when Trusted Computing is fully implemented? Tivo on a massive scale.
I'm saying this agenda benefits everyone tomorrow rather than sticking with V2 where the public benefits will come to an end through clever manipulations of GPL V2.
More cleverly packaged propaganda from some of the best packagers in the world.
How do I know that?
1. Starbucks is not a philanthropic organization. 2. The complicated way they are dancing around the issue. All plausible reasons but no one wants to or cares to find out they are in fact clever propaganda. Note, I did not say lies. 3. "in fact, routinely pays well above commodity price" Let's look at some approximate facts from the cia world factbook. https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos /et.html
Median age: total: 17.8 years male: 17.7 years female: 17.9 years (2006 est.)
Population below poverty line: 50% (2004 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 3% highest 10%: 33.7% (1995)
"Above market" means lots of things, most of which don't make starbucks look very good once the general conditions in Ethiopia are added to the discussion.
All too often socially discouraged behavior is very hard to quantify in a questionairre.
In questionairres where the socially/morally disapproved behavior is put directly to the interviewee you get a really small number of truthful responses. ex. do you use heroin?
If they tested the behavior in a more indirect way. Ex. When I party with my friends I use A) alcohol, B) Pot, C)Heroin. And then a little later on a similar question. Ex. I prefer A) alcohol B) pot C) heroin. If the truth is being told, there's a correlation between certain questions.
So, that only 2 bosses admit this is suspect. Research on other non-approved behaviors suggests it's probably much higher. How high? Not sure.
Nevermind there are ANY alternatives open closed or whatever.
This is about the PHB's having a meeting with no technical people. Like most government agencies. PHB's make up nonsense claiming they can't because the sky will fall if they switch and senior PHB's who don't care just go along.
It's the PHB who will lose their job for going against Microsoft. Massachusetts' toying with ODF to get a better deal out of Microsoft is a perfect example. The MA IT PHB who had to quit his job for stating the obvious is exactly what would happen in the EU. The PHB that states the obvious (not even implement!) in the EU will lose his job too.
Technically, FOSS can do the heavy lifting and everyone knows it. This is an excellent example of how the patently obvious never gets implemented because the other pays better.
Because cops have guns, and can break into your house in the middle of the night and shoot you. Banks don't do that.
I would argue banks have similar powers though. For example, the bank can and will adjust your balance due to their claiming an accounting error. The burden is on me to prove their corrections are wrong. My wife photocopies the checks she deposits because she got burned by the bank on this one repeatedly. It's not literal life and death, but it's almost as important. Money is one of the very few things that everyone in the industrialized world measures out to the hundreth decimal point. How many things can you say the same about?
If the Feds say they want one criminal DB to rule them all then I get nervous. Why? Abuse is rampant despite whatever ethical standard or legal penalty present.
Except when a bad cop uses the database to further their own enterprise.
And we know there's never been cops that work for organized crime or, maybe perhaps running their own enterprise. Now, they will have the ability to expand operations in a massive way.
I agree with your general principal, that law enforcement agencies need to work together more easily, but this should be accomplished through IT standards and a legislative agenda. We've got NIST to do this kind of thing. Banks in the U.S. have done this with the guiding hand of the federal gov't behind them, why should law enforcement be any different?
Critically examine the ISP's software/logging. You can punch holes here big time because no one really knows how well most of the software works.
The information provided to the RIAA should have come with a disclaimer. Double check if there's a logging standard/best practices that the ISP follows. Chances are there isn't anything. That makes it pretty worthless.
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The basic idea is, that some political view points aren't based in any kind of reality whatsoever and more factually based observations are discredited as biased in some derogatory way.
So, if you are a NeoCon, you might claim that safety regulations like cars must be sold with seat belts are "ruining" the U.S. economy and our global competitiveness and the liberals are to blame for creating these troublesome rules. Objectively, seat belts mostly protect people and lower social costs.
Reality, in this example has a liberal bias.
Alright, I see where your misunderstandings begin.
Incorrect. The poor person in this case is obviously not working as hard....
She would argue differently. Not everyone is intellectually gifted. You doome the less intellectually gifted yet still valuable individual to a lifetime of menial labor with no reward. Who will dump your intellectually gifted wealth generated trash? This is equivalent to sharecropping and as a result individuals like this will get angry at you and others like you.
He has not learnt the most productive ways in which to direct his hard work.
Again, missing the context to the question. Distribution of wealth suggests that there are avenues to generating wealth, that opportunity exists. It's one reason why this is such an important indicator and shouldn't be discarded as some liberal propaganda tool.
Let's not confuse physically hard work with actual hard work. It's intellectually easy to perform grunt work for 80 hours a week for 40 years. It doesn't require any thought, any planning, any ambition or any risk-taking. In fact it is the path of least resistance, i.e. the easy route.
If it's so easy, then why aren't we all racing to the bottom of the economic ladder? Because you are propogating a political fiction used to consolidate wealth. It has been quite successfuly abused since the Reaganomics(sp?) days of "trickle-down" economics to legitimize eliminating the middle class through eliminating or minimizing paths to higher education, much less a basic education.
Reality has a liberal bias.
This is another example of the much-beloved Apple saying a firm no to interoperability. Now, it's probably the case that Cisco was asking for way too much. But this highlights Apple is only a little different than say, Microsoft when it comes down to pissing matches and interoperability.
At this point in history, both OS vendors will eat their babies. Beware brother, beeeware.
Mod me down for saying an unkind word about Apple, but there is at least a little truth to it.
You start with: The biggest problem facing the U.S. isn't the wage gap, but the surge of regulations that prevent the poor from becoming rich (and prevents small companies from becoming large one).
You end with: Sure, there wouldn't be an income gap with such a system, but I'd rather have the opportunity to work hard and become wealthy than coast through life with a lower-middle class income after taxes.
There's a numerous logical problems built into your quickie-mart economics.
1. Working hard == become wealthy (economic-level)
There is no correlation between the two in the capitalist system. History shows again and again that most industries are non-competitive and devolve to monopolies if there are no regulations limiting their reach.
2. Working hard == become wealthy (individual-level)
There is no correlation between the degree and intensity of your work and economic success. This is the core issue in "economic distribution" discussions. Work 40 years living in an apartment with one week off a year going nowhere because you can't afford it. Or, work 40 years with two weeks off a year, one spent in Aruba the other skiing in Breckenridge. Same hard work, two different outcomes.
3. Regulations...
I believe you are relying on the politically expedient interpretation of economic thinking that makes regulations bad. Is having clean water bad? Is having 100's of thousands of houses that won't fall down in an earthquake bad? Is having clean air bad? How about a 40 hour work week. Would you prefer working 7-days a week?
I'd like Chinese workers to have the same amount of regulations so I know all Chinese citizens are deriving some benefit from their economic growth and maintain political stability so I don't have to worry about being nuked by the Chinese.
History shows again and again, a politically and socially stable country tends to have either
./er? No. In that way, reality definitely has a liberal bias. (to borrow a quote)
a) large and stable "middle class." Another way to describe it is good income distribution and consumption by a large number of people in the country/empire in question. More recently, that also includes political participation by all citizens.
b) Despots running the show.
In more recent times, Detroit as described in the part-documentary Roger & Me has excellent examples of the phenomena at a city-scale.
Is there a direct causal relationship that can be expressed in an equation that would satisfy a
I've got a Nokia 9300 that pretty much rocks the party.
I've got ssh and rdp clients for admin work, mp3 player, removable flash media, email, sms, good back-up restore functionality and works in linux too. There's even an OSS gui toolkit on sourceforge.
No, it didn't come from the Jobs Reality Distortion Field, but it allows me to have a life when I'm on weekend support rotation.
FYI, it's available now.
The problems the stated will get non-win32 operating systems nowhere.
No one *wants* to change simply to substitute one OS for another. No one! They switch when there is a problem with their computer that they get so sick and tired of dealing with, they go to another platform.
My Dad (an aol user no less) switched when I told him I won't fix his Windows box any more. Switched to Linux, got AOHell working and never looked back. He wanted a new PC, so he got a mac mini. Why? Because I won't support windows.
In his case he was compelled to switch, as nearly every user that actually switches. There are many many people that talk, but few actually do. Copy-cat applications will never drive adoption. Apple is a visible example where the applications are driving adoption.
Today's lesson: It takes a compelling application, not one that already exists in the Windows world to make people switch. The variety of apps is the fertilizer out of which a killer app will come that will make people switch.
That's not how it works. AFIS systems, especially criminal ones, don't take -ANY- sort of decision by themselves, they just do some matching on the DB, and produce 'candidates' list (ie: the list of prints that look the most like the one(s) you searched.) then an expert looks at the results, and resumes the identification visually, as they've been doing since fingerprint identification was invented.
/.'er a bit more info, this works in conjunction with "watch lists." There will be fingerprints of individuals in a watch list DB whereby if the individual travels, after their fingerprints are recorded at the airport a hit against the watch list is reported. From there, depending on the level of interest the government(s) have in the individual lots of procedures could be fired off.
FYI: This is exactly how it works.
To give the average
The burden for the individual begins when your identity ends up in a watch list. History tells us there are many rather harmless individuals that were on more primitive versions of watch lists like Martin Luther King along with some genuinely bad characters. So, it's a really mixed bag.
The time to be outraged was at least 25 years ago. The most immediate solution would be to put most of congress and the senate on a watch list as "bad people" and then there would probably be some (in)action.
I am lead to the conclusion that this guy's views are being promoted by forces who feel the internet can be treated like a toll road.
Seems to me someone should examine how exactly these cleverly packaged misrepresentations got press-time.
Clearly, you and many like you **still** pretend that Microsoft is subject to market forces.
The conventional quickie-mart concept of "supply and demand" does not apply.
Microsoft is, in economic terms:
1. Monopoly
2. Price Maker
In plain english that means they set a price above a competitive market rate. That destroys the surplus value to consumers, and raises the price of hardware Windows runs on.
Third, support costs. If Dell is selling the software, and willing to be the first line of support, that means that they are willing to take on support costs and therefore lower Microsofts.
There are so many false assumptions in that statement I don't know where to begin. I'll simply say the statement bears no resemblence to how "support" is managed inside the PC business.
Fourth, distribution costs. Shipping thousands of OEM copies to one customer
Another statement that bears no resemblance to reality. You have no idea the *how* Dell gets its windows cd's. There are many ways that it is done in the industry most of which allow the parent (ex. microsoft) keeping no inventory whatsoever.
In action in this story.
It takes a whole lot to piss off a customer. DRM and broken batteries certainly isn't close enough. This is why Marketeers get all hot and sweaty about being the first brand that people think of. You can abuse your customers and they keep coming back for more. Lesser brand consumers generally won't tollerate the abuse and switch to sony and still get abused, but since it's "sony" they take it.
This one reason why Apple's switching campaign while noble and a general good for all who switch from Windows is so slow. It's why consumers of all kinds who switch to Linux won't switch because windows has some problems. They'll switch because of an application they can't get on windows. Given the way Microsoft is tightening the DRM and market segmenting nooses, most consumers will simply tollerate the abuse.
Lesson #1: Be #1 in the hearts and minds
I've got a bunch of good apps on kde.
Recent builds of Amarok + engine are great
Twinkle is an excellent sip phone. (there's kphone too, but I like twinkle more)
Eventually these apps will make it over to kde4. Why do they need new projects? How about promoting/assisting the ones that are already out there?
Ugggh.
I'll keep it brief. As other informative posts have explained, the virii potential of VOIP clients is unlikely.
Say I'm a bad guy and I want to simultaneously call 100,000 machines. I would have to spawn 100,000 connections to a voip server. Your voip server firewall has a threshold for dropping connections from a single IP address doesn't it? If the bad guy is using 100,000 zombies then the problem is not voip is it?
Let's say for a minute that I'm able to connect to a client. *The phone will ring* Now what?
I'm not saying VOIP is perfect or totally secure. Most of the issues that may come up will likely be Windows OS issues. Not specifically VOIP, but Microsoft's desktop OS. If you want to worry. Keep using windows.
"All DVD players come equipped with a key that fits the lock and allows for playback."
This is the equivalent of leaving your front door key underneath the mat. It won't be long at all until the crack is widely available.
Where this will get implemented is in blockbuster stores. The good news here is the kiosk will probably run windows, so I'm thinking the boxes should be owned pretty quickly too.
I think the point is there are a few bad people that really would look under the mat and go into the house. The rest of us wouldn't so it can be very useful/profitable to media owners.
Hopefully this is the opposite direction of most of the downloaded movie services like amazon who's EULA will make your hair curl. http://www.defectivebydesign.org/en/blog/670
Linux desktop is getting nowhere, despite it's technical excellence,
1. It's very easy to argue it's getting somewhere because of the variety of distros out there. Just because NetCraft or whatever research name you look to for credibility can't/won't measure or validate the progress means absolutely nothing.
2. Putting together a coherent desktop is difficult to say the least. Your average Linux desktop won't be competing directly with apple/microsoft, but you will find pragmatic IT people deploying them everywhere. No, none of those people have been the subjects in desktop market share research either.
because it lacks key apps (i.e., Office). Pull a few key apps from MacOS X (e.g., Office, Photoshop, etc.) and see what happens to adoption.
This is a well-worn and ultimately invalid opinion. History shows us repeatedly that the switch happens when one platform has something a consumer **really** needs. Making look-alike office and graphics apps is not the answer. The answer is a little deeper. Maybe openoffice.org might have something really great lawyers would switch for. Maybe gimp has features that animators want they can't get from Adobemedia. (filmgimp?)
We know it hasn't happened yet, but it's already begun. Proprietary software companies like Microsoft and Adobemedia will tighten the noose by raising prices and offer progressively less innovation. History shows this over and over again.
While this is unfortunate and *may* add to instability in the region, I smell a couple of rats.
1. Now that today's bad guy is doing it how is it different than say (insert former bad-country-now-fighting-the-war-on-terrr here) doing it?
2. What special inroad does popular mechanics have in NORTH korea? Most objective analysts would have a hard time verifying it and I'd like to hear it from them.
3. Does anyone recall the long and sordid history of planted stories, media contacts and testimony in the U.S. in order to achieve a political end?
I'm weary of propaganda posing as stories to the point of disbelief. This one is a perfect example.
I believe that changing licenses on users midstream is the greater threat to users
Depends on what you define as a threat. Changing licenses happens all of the time in the proprietary software world and with negligible effect. A perfect example is the WMP11 "upgrade" where the end-user gives away many rights.
Going from V2 to V3 is an administrative headache for big GPL projects with many contributors should they decide to go down that path and probably create a few issues for projects that switch to v3.
I don't see any end-users throwing up their hands and not installing GPLv3 software because they object to v3 terms and conditions. It's a given at this point that nearly every end-user simply clicks through most licenses with no consideration given.
The exact reason we are giving credibility to them is because they are credible and directly result in agency policies and procedures. In this case some spooky organization can open your mail and the president will go to court to preserve their ability to do so and that takes time. Lots of it.
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/signing.htm where you will find, "We believe that such statements may on appropriate occasions perform useful and legally significant functions.... directing subordinate officers within the Executive Branch how to interpret or administer the enactment...."
Is there any respect (or even understanding) of the process of law in this country anymore?
Maybe, but the wheels of justice move so slowly that the Executive office can do as they please for quite a while. Along with the last decade or so of vast expansion of Executive power it makes it all the more relevant. Historically speaking, you will note the current supreme court calendar is relatively empty as well.
Here's another one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signing_statement
While sticking with V2 is the right thing to dor for Adium, you may be ignoring the critical loophole in V2 that they are attempting to close.
Tivo has abused V2 in a novel way that privatizes their software. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoization Tivo is just the beginning of V2 abuse. (novell/microsoft anyone?) What happens when Trusted Computing is fully implemented? Tivo on a massive scale.
I'm saying this agenda benefits everyone tomorrow rather than sticking with V2 where the public benefits will come to an end through clever manipulations of GPL V2.
Bah.
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More cleverly packaged propaganda from some of the best packagers in the world.
How do I know that?
1. Starbucks is not a philanthropic organization.
2. The complicated way they are dancing around the issue. All plausible reasons but no one wants to or cares to find out they are in fact clever propaganda. Note, I did not say lies.
3. "in fact, routinely pays well above commodity price" Let's look at some approximate facts from the cia world factbook. https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geo
Median age:
total: 17.8 years
male: 17.7 years
female: 17.9 years (2006 est.)
Population below poverty line:
50% (2004 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3%
highest 10%: 33.7% (1995)
"Above market" means lots of things, most of which don't make starbucks look very good once the general conditions in Ethiopia are added to the discussion.
All too often socially discouraged behavior is very hard to quantify in a questionairre.
In questionairres where the socially/morally disapproved behavior is put directly to the interviewee you get a really small number of truthful responses. ex. do you use heroin?
If they tested the behavior in a more indirect way. Ex. When I party with my friends I use A) alcohol, B) Pot, C)Heroin. And then a little later on a similar question. Ex. I prefer A) alcohol B) pot C) heroin. If the truth is being told, there's a correlation between certain questions.
So, that only 2 bosses admit this is suspect. Research on other non-approved behaviors suggests it's probably much higher. How high? Not sure.
Nevermind there are ANY alternatives open closed or whatever.
This is about the PHB's having a meeting with no technical people. Like most government agencies. PHB's make up nonsense claiming they can't because the sky will fall if they switch and senior PHB's who don't care just go along.
It's the PHB who will lose their job for going against Microsoft. Massachusetts' toying with ODF to get a better deal out of Microsoft is a perfect example. The MA IT PHB who had to quit his job for stating the obvious is exactly what would happen in the EU. The PHB that states the obvious (not even implement!) in the EU will lose his job too.
Technically, FOSS can do the heavy lifting and everyone knows it. This is an excellent example of how the patently obvious never gets implemented because the other pays better.
Because cops have guns, and can break into your house in the middle of the night and shoot you. Banks don't do that.
I would argue banks have similar powers though. For example, the bank can and will adjust your balance due to their claiming an accounting error. The burden is on me to prove their corrections are wrong. My wife photocopies the checks she deposits because she got burned by the bank on this one repeatedly. It's not literal life and death, but it's almost as important. Money is one of the very few things that everyone in the industrialized world measures out to the hundreth decimal point. How many things can you say the same about?
If the Feds say they want one criminal DB to rule them all then I get nervous. Why? Abuse is rampant despite whatever ethical standard or legal penalty present.
Except when a bad cop uses the database to further their own enterprise.
And we know there's never been cops that work for organized crime or, maybe perhaps running their own enterprise. Now, they will have the ability to expand operations in a massive way.
I agree with your general principal, that law enforcement agencies need to work together more easily, but this should be accomplished through IT standards and a legislative agenda. We've got NIST to do this kind of thing. Banks in the U.S. have done this with the guiding hand of the federal gov't behind them, why should law enforcement be any different?
These are good ideas from the parent:
Critically examine the ISP's software/logging.
You can punch holes here big time because no one really knows how well most of the software works.
The information provided to the RIAA should have come with a disclaimer. Double check if there's a logging standard/best practices that the ISP follows. Chances are there isn't anything. That makes it pretty worthless.