>"They" told us that over time CD-audio media >would level towards vinyl record prices. This >NEVER happened!
But it did happen. Today's CD prices are just about what LP prices were at the End of the Age. We were paying $8-12 for a typical album, $18-30 for a typical double or triple album, and anywhere from $2-10 for a cut-out rack or for offerings from a less popular label.
"No, you just can't play copyrighted music on them. Feel free to make your own music and listen over and over and over."
Are you suggesting I can't copyright my music? Or are you saying that the copyright I put on my music is somehow a different kind of copyright than the one some media corporation puts on its music?
>Ahh.. but there's no Samba in a Windows-free >environment!
Why not? It's better than NFS in some ways. Coda isn't quite ready. The others are pretty difficult to setup. What's wrong with samba? Why do you think we aren't using it, regardless of whether we use Windows?
>Chess is just more important to us for >historical reasons.
Who are "us?" Aren't there a LOT of Asian computer programmers? I think it may even be possible that there are millions, if not billions, of people who know the game of Go who have perhaps scarcely seen Chess.
"Mask" was a poor choice of word, but I still believe it is the case that even *with* public interest in Go, there would remain enormous difficulties in programming a computer to play it well. In other words, the lack of interest isn't the barrier that the limitations of technology are. I hope I'm wrong, and I would really like for someone to show me I'm wrong.
I didn't know the question was about Australia, sorry.
I used to think that Australia was a possible utopia, until I started meeting people who had come to America seeking an escape from there, and who had nothing kind at all to say about Australia.
You can file a suit against anybody for anything. Whether the state will choose to acknowledge your position as having sufficient merit to proceed, is entirely a question of law and process. If you are sued, you either get your day in court to testify, or the plaintiff will piss off. I'm not sure I see the problem, really.
>So, the industry is saying "give us information >or get sued." Sounds like intimidation and >coercion to me.
It may seem that way to you, but use of the civil legal system and its guarantees of due process of law will not be regarded as improper by any reasonable person. If They were doing something plainly illegal, it would be different, but properly using the legal system to ask the state to settle their grievance with you, is hardly "extortion."
"If you see someone get mugged, are you legally bound to report it to the police?"
No. There are very few crimes which a citizen is compelled to report, and the only one I know for certain is child abuse. This is true even if a police officer asks. You can't lie directly, but you aren't under any obligation to speak. 18 USC 1001.
Now, if someone knows you witnessed a crime, then you can be compelled to testify. This is where a good understanding of the 5th Amendment and witness rights and responsibilities in your jurisdiction is important.
If you find yourself in the position of a witness giving testimony, you want to understand the concept of misprision. Generally, that is only an issue if you are an accomplice or otherwise materially involved in the crime.
It's possible that actively and intentionally concealing knowledge of a felony can make you an accomplice to the felony, but 5th amendment protections are pretty strong. When it comes down to it, it's actually going to be a direct yes-or-know question where the person asking the question already has a pretty good idea of the answer:
"Did you see Joe strike John on the face with his open hand, at 12:30 am on October 17th, 2003? Please answer yes or no."
"I must have missed that, I'm sorry. I must have been looking the other way." (Assuming you haven't said anything to the contrary to anyone else on the matter, ever.)
You had also better hope there is no evidence that you did witness the crime and have accepted compensation in return for not reporting it.
If you actually do find yourself in any situation like that, (ANY time a Federal law enforcement agent is asking you questions about ANYTHING), remember these magic words:
"I would like to talk to my attorney prior to any discussions with you."
Repeat this for any and every question you are asked, until you are either arrested or the questions stop.
It doesn't matter that I Am Not A Lawyer. This is Good Advice.
It's just one data point of the much larger "deal" with Brazil and sex.
Natives with strong fertility cults merged forcefully with European Catholicism, and that creates a certain mix of sexual obligation and sexual repression. The result is extremely weird, and it has plenty of fringes. You only seem to have noticed one of them...
>Who cares if people know what the exact items on >sale are gonna be?
The retailers care, because this means their competitors can simply price the items down a percent or ten less.
In practice, it doesn't really matter, because the prices are not as important as the products the buyers chose, and all that was done up to a year ago.
"Any opensource driver would allow users to adjust the chipset into frequencies not allowed by the FCC, for which Broadcom could be held responsible."
So, when someone in the Netherlands or New Guinea writes a driver, can they still be held responsible? If not, then the argument holds no water. If so, well, they should have thought about that before releasing the dangerous product to consumers.
Most of the replies to my queries have been from people who don't realize how bad the situation really is. People who already have wireless cards that work, don't understand that it is impossible to go to a retailer today, and purchase a card that is known to be compatible. I was one of them. Linksys was Prism2, the usb device was wonderful, so what's the problem? Well, my 3rd one wasn't Prism2, despite having the same packaging and model number. So much for my relationship with Linksys.
There might be 802.11g cards that work with linux, but I don't see them in any retail store I know about, and I don't see any way to know for sure, BEFORE buying one.
>This is just another example of how dissent in >this country is somehow viewed as "undemocratic" >or "unpatriotic".
But it's been this way for a long, long time. And mostly, the people running the government, get nothing but support for the status quo. Regardless of "which" party. This isn't new, but a whole lot of people are just now starting to notice.
"Generation X" has been old enough to vote for a couple of decades now, but they are just now starting to realize that they were blowing it off.
"Her election board selected Diebold to build the system. She is the head of that election oard. In her mind, she is not incomeptent. She does not hire clueless people."
That too, is a better example of what "Begging The Question" actually refers to.
"This system is the most appropriate one for our state."
"How do you know that?"
"Because I chose it."
"Why did you choose it?"
"Because it is the most appropriate one for our state."
THAT is "begging the question."
Don't they teach reasoning and critical thinking in college anymore? Even math majors get this in Analysis.
Uneducated people finding themselves in positions of authority, while intelligent, educated people are getting laid off in huge numbers in every industry.
"How much influence do you think you and I have when we send our handy little emails to our elected officials?"
Letters. You should be sending letters. On good paper. Well-reasoned, with appropriate grammar and mood as befits any correspondence to an honored representative of the State. A "handy little email" ought to be treated as the insult that it is.
And don't just write a letter after a situation has already come to pass, and you're upset about it. The time to ask for legislative action is before it becomes a problem, not after.
Regardless of where you stand on the issue of election debacle, what should really concern you is the fact that enough people legitimately voted for Bush to make it a close race.
It should scare you that *millions* of people *adamantly* support the current administration, the status quo, the whole nine yards. Election fraud is the least of our worries -- the enemy is us.
Actually, "begging the question" is a method of fallacious argument by which one presents premises which must be accepted in order to accept the conclusion, which merely restates one those same premises.
I think what they meant was "this raises a concern that...", not "this begs the question."
Okay, I understand what they mean, but, it's just like when someone uses a big word that they don't understand, and can't bother to lookup in a dictionary. Anyone who does know that word won't be impressed, and clearly sees the speaker for the clown he or she is. It's the same here. Someone uses a term from a freshman critical thinking course, one that he or she obviously failed.
I have a Qube that just sits on a shelf, because it's such a drag to install an OS on it.
I can't get it to recognize any drive other than the one that it came with.
It has no IO other than the network and the drive controller.
Even if I could get the thing to boot, it apparently won't work with any kernel besides the 2.0.36 custom kernel that it came with.
There is a restore CD that you could get at one time, but you have to get the thing to boot via TFTP before you can even think about using the restore CD. Or else you have to format the drive a certain way with a certain version of ext2fs, and then un-rpm the restore stuff, which does not appear to be complete. I'm not even sure you can still get the restore cd ISO's anywhere. The Qube archive has always looked like a patched-together, incomplete effort.
What's the "Special Sauce" RPM anyway?
You can hardly us any PCI devices at all. Most PCI ethernet cards won't even work. PCI video isn't possible either. Even if the bus could support it, there are power issues.
The MIPS chip on a Qube2 doesn't outperform a P-75. You are severely limited in your choice of RAM chips.
There is supposedly a BSD port for the box, but nobody on the cobalt list has ever reported much success with it. It's certainly not something you can do with a cookbook example.
So the Qube is enough of a pain, that I just keep it on a shelf. I'd maybe consider fitting an ITX board into it, but I don't want to mess up the toy value by cutting up the case.
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I see a guy selling crack cocaine on the street.
I walk up to a random person and point to the guy and say "He's selling crack cocaine."
I get arrested for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and get a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years.
>"They" told us that over time CD-audio media
>would level towards vinyl record prices. This
>NEVER happened!
But it did happen. Today's CD prices are just about what LP prices were at the End of the Age.
We were paying $8-12 for a typical album, $18-30 for a typical double or triple album, and anywhere from $2-10 for a cut-out rack or for offerings from a less popular label.
"No, you just can't play copyrighted music on them. Feel free to make your own music and listen over and over and over."
Are you suggesting I can't copyright my music? Or are you saying that the copyright I put on my music is somehow a different kind of copyright than the one some media corporation puts on its music?
One law for the king, one law for the peasant.
>Ahh.. but there's no Samba in a Windows-free
>environment!
Why not? It's better than NFS in some ways. Coda isn't quite ready. The others are pretty difficult to setup. What's wrong with samba? Why do you think we aren't using it, regardless of whether we use Windows?
>Chess is just more important to us for
>historical reasons.
Who are "us?" Aren't there a LOT of Asian computer programmers? I think it may even be possible that there are millions, if not billions, of people who know the game of Go who have perhaps scarcely seen Chess.
"Mask" was a poor choice of word, but I still believe it is the case that even *with* public interest in Go, there would remain enormous difficulties in programming a computer to play it well. In other words, the lack of interest isn't the barrier that the limitations of technology are. I hope I'm wrong, and I would really like for someone to show me I'm wrong.
I didn't know the question was about Australia, sorry.
I used to think that Australia was a possible utopia, until I started meeting people who had come to America seeking an escape from there, and who had nothing kind at all to say about Australia.
You can file a suit against anybody for anything. Whether the state will choose to acknowledge your position as having sufficient merit to proceed, is entirely a question of law and process. If you are sued, you either get your day in court to testify, or the plaintiff will piss off. I'm not sure I see the problem, really.
>So, the industry is saying "give us information
>or get sued." Sounds like intimidation and
>coercion to me.
It may seem that way to you, but use of the civil legal system and its guarantees of due process of law will not be regarded as improper by any reasonable person. If They were doing something plainly illegal, it would be different, but properly using the legal system to ask the state to settle their grievance with you, is hardly "extortion."
"If you see someone get mugged, are you legally bound to report it to the police?"
No. There are very few crimes which a citizen is compelled to report, and the only one I know for certain is child abuse. This is true even if a police officer asks. You can't lie directly, but you aren't under any obligation to speak. 18 USC 1001.
Now, if someone knows you witnessed a crime, then you can be compelled to testify. This is where a good understanding of the 5th Amendment and witness rights and responsibilities in your jurisdiction is important.
If you find yourself in the position of a witness giving testimony, you want to understand the concept of misprision. Generally, that is only an issue if you are an accomplice or otherwise materially involved in the crime.
It's possible that actively and intentionally concealing knowledge of a felony can make you an accomplice to the felony, but 5th amendment protections are pretty strong. When it comes down to it, it's actually going to be a direct yes-or-know question where the person asking the question already has a pretty good idea of the answer:
"Did you see Joe strike John on the face with his open hand, at 12:30 am on October 17th, 2003? Please answer yes or no."
"I must have missed that, I'm sorry. I must have been looking the other way." (Assuming you haven't said anything to the contrary to anyone else on the matter, ever.)
You had also better hope there is no evidence that you did witness the crime and have accepted compensation in return for not reporting it.
If you actually do find yourself in any situation like that, (ANY time a Federal law enforcement agent is asking you questions about ANYTHING), remember these magic words:
"I would like to talk to my attorney prior to any discussions with you."
Repeat this for any and every question you are asked, until you are either arrested or the questions stop.
It doesn't matter that I Am Not A Lawyer. This is Good Advice.
Computer chess is just a mask for the fact that they can't make machines play Go.
> What is it with Brazil and transexuals anyways?
It's just one data point of the much larger "deal" with Brazil and sex.
Natives with strong fertility cults merged forcefully with European Catholicism, and that creates a certain mix of sexual obligation and sexual repression. The result is extremely weird, and it has plenty of fringes. You only seem to have noticed one of them...
>Who cares if people know what the exact items on
>sale are gonna be?
The retailers care, because this means their competitors can simply price the items down a percent or ten less.
In practice, it doesn't really matter, because the prices are not as important as the products the buyers chose, and all that was done up to a year ago.
Looking at my inbox, they appear to be mainly in Korea. I don't think AT&T has much litigation influence there, but I could be wrong.
"Any opensource driver would allow users to adjust the chipset into frequencies not allowed by the FCC, for which Broadcom could be held responsible."
So, when someone in the Netherlands or New Guinea writes a driver, can they still be held responsible? If not, then the argument holds no water. If so, well, they should have thought about that before releasing the dangerous product to consumers.
>As for 11g, all of them I've seen are Broadcoms.
Most of the replies to my queries have been from people who don't realize how bad the situation really is. People who already have wireless cards that work, don't understand that it is impossible to go to a retailer today, and purchase a card that is known to be compatible. I was one of them. Linksys was Prism2, the usb device was wonderful, so what's the problem? Well, my 3rd one wasn't Prism2, despite having the same packaging and model number. So much for my relationship with Linksys.
There might be 802.11g cards that work with linux, but I don't see them in any retail store I know about, and I don't see any way to know for sure, BEFORE buying one.
>Buy Intersil PrismGT
That's easily said. Exactly which cards are those? We need to know BEFORE we buy the card,
and we need to be assured of it.
>This is just another example of how dissent in
>this country is somehow viewed as "undemocratic"
>or "unpatriotic".
But it's been this way for a long, long time. And mostly, the people running the government, get nothing but support for the status quo. Regardless of "which" party. This isn't new, but a whole lot of people are just now starting to notice.
"Generation X" has been old enough to vote for a couple of decades now, but they are just now starting to realize that they were blowing it off.
"Would it be ethical to publish voting machine exploits?"
It would be treasonous to keep silent, if you knew of any such thing.
"Her election board selected Diebold to build the system. She is the head of that election oard. In her mind, she is not incomeptent. She does not hire clueless people."
That too, is a better example of what "Begging The Question" actually refers to.
"This system is the most appropriate one for our state."
"How do you know that?"
"Because I chose it."
"Why did you choose it?"
"Because it is the most appropriate one for our state."
THAT is "begging the question."
Don't they teach reasoning and critical thinking in college anymore? Even math majors get this in Analysis.
Uneducated people finding themselves in positions of authority, while intelligent, educated people are getting laid off in huge numbers in every industry.
"How much influence do you think you and I have when we send our handy little emails to our elected officials?"
Letters. You should be sending letters. On good paper. Well-reasoned, with appropriate grammar and mood as befits any correspondence to an honored representative of the State. A "handy little email" ought to be treated as the insult that it is.
And don't just write a letter after a situation has already come to pass, and you're upset about it. The time to ask for legislative action is before it becomes a problem, not after.
"I thought he was far more credible than I thought"
This is a better example of "Begging the Question", than the incorrect usage in the article.
>How do you think Bush won?...
Regardless of where you stand on the issue of election debacle, what should really concern you is the fact that enough people legitimately voted for Bush to make it a close race.
It should scare you that *millions* of people *adamantly* support the current administration, the status quo, the whole nine yards. Election fraud is the least of our worries -- the enemy is us.
Actually, "begging the question" is a method of fallacious argument by which one presents premises which must be accepted in order to accept the conclusion, which merely restates one those same premises.
I think what they meant was "this raises a concern that...", not "this begs the question."
Okay, I understand what they mean, but, it's just like when someone uses a big word that they don't understand, and can't bother to lookup in a dictionary. Anyone who does know that word won't be impressed, and clearly sees the speaker for the clown he or she is. It's the same here. Someone uses a term from a freshman critical thinking course, one that he or she obviously failed.
I have a Qube that just sits on a shelf, because it's such a drag to install an OS on it.
I can't get it to recognize any drive other than the one that it came with.
It has no IO other than the network and the drive controller.
Even if I could get the thing to boot, it apparently won't work with any kernel besides the 2.0.36 custom kernel that it came with.
There is a restore CD that you could get at one time, but you have to get the thing to boot via TFTP before you can even think about using the restore CD. Or else you have to format the drive a certain way with a certain version of ext2fs, and then un-rpm the restore stuff, which does not
appear to be complete. I'm not even sure you can still get the restore cd ISO's anywhere. The Qube archive has always looked like a patched-together, incomplete effort.
What's the "Special Sauce" RPM anyway?
You can hardly us any PCI devices at all. Most PCI ethernet cards won't even work. PCI video isn't possible either. Even if the bus could support it, there are power issues.
The MIPS chip on a Qube2 doesn't outperform a P-75. You are severely limited in your choice of RAM chips.
There is supposedly a BSD port for the box, but nobody on the cobalt list has ever reported much success with it. It's certainly not something you can do with a cookbook example.
So the Qube is enough of a pain, that I just keep it on a shelf. I'd maybe consider fitting an ITX board into it, but I don't want to mess up the toy value by cutting up the case.