I think that people are looking at the wrong privacy laws. In this case the issues is that after a judge orders someone to undergo mental treatment, the mental health facilities cannot report back to the court or to law enforcement whether or not the treatment ever occurred. The entire problem is that patient confidentiality has gotten to the point of crippling the system. Not government invasion of privacy.
Are you sure thats the first. I think that the College of William and Mary will start requiring next year. Virginia Tech already requires for most of the majors.
Everyone remembers when the "Homeland Security Agents" showed up at someone's door for requesting a copy of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book. It turned up that there is no such thing as a Homeland Security Agent. It had to be from another agency. The incident with the little red book turned up to be a hoax anyway. Just be wary of these things. Doesn't mean its 100% accurate, just like the last library Homeland Security incident.
If M$ is able to push out updates to consoles via the web as I read the story, how long 'till hackers put the XBox 360 onto their own network and simply reprogram it?
I know I'm going to come across as the bad guy, but look at it this way. What would have happend if no monitoring ever took place? What would have happend if we hadn't have gone into Iraq? Everyone gets upset because of precautions, well, people would be much more upset if a second major attack happend. You just have to pick, which is the greater evil, without good intelligence, you can't stop terrorism.
These are all what-ifs, but had we have done nothing, we would all be saying what if we had have done things the other way. Rather than complaining about how things are being done, I charge everyone here to come up with a solution to the problems. They're not easily solved, and complaining about them never fixed anything. Come up with a solution that would work to suit you and fight terrorism.
Why should anyone blame Firefox? They simply created a fully compatible browser. The blame should be on the sites that use this tag for bad reasons. This tag used properly could be used within companies to make more usable sites among other personalized things. It all comes down to how it is implemented.
Gaim is currently going to a 2.0 release. 2.0cvs/beta shows some major changes to the UI, for the better if you ask me, but major changes none the less. I would guess that Google is waiting to bundle it until the major changes are complete. Just a place filler I guess, I would hope that Google will make the change when 2.0 is complete.
As much as I want to agree with you, the Cell companies are the ones that own the records, you don't own the record, and if the cell company chooses to distribute them, theres not much any one of us can do about it, assuming that the contract we signed didn't say otherwise. Also can go back to Google's approach: if you don't want your records available, don't use the service, you have no right to use a cell phone and have your records private, just a cost of service
I'm not saying I agree with any of it, its just sad that by us not owning our own records they're for the world to buy
There is already a similar system in place. The congestion tax monitors license plates, and if you don't pay the tax to be in some of London's busiest areas in a car of your own they mail you a ticket.
With this relase MS also stated that only half of the computing power will be available. Half will be needed simply to run the Operating System itslef, one processor will be needed for every processor managed.
Patents can be a good thing in the right hands. If google allows anyone to use the technology it could be a good thing, because if they control it companies like Microsoft can't charge us for it. Google could get the patent, use it against microsoft, but allow open source not for profit groups to do with the technology as they please.
Under most law it is illegal to put software on a computer without first letting you know what it is going to do to your computer, unless they state that the EULA that the "rootkit" will be placed on your computer, then placing it there is the falls in the same category as a virus, deceiving the user to place software on your computer, therefore giving you every right to remove it.
The FCC remains very much needed, without the coordination of frequencies, you may not be able to listen to the radio in your car, whether it be Satellite radio or local broadcast. Also, if frequencies were not managed then everyone would be constantly interferring with each other, police etc. There is actually a larger demand for spectrum space now than ever, and therefore the FCC is needed more than ever. There are intelligent radios, one just developed at Virginia Tech, however when there is a huge spectrum, there needs to be some managment, and in this case managment is a good thing.
Maybe I'm confused, but How different is OpenOffice from StarOffice? OpenOffice will run on OS X, and everyone I know has had no trouble installing 2RC1.
I've found that 2.0 Beta has very few bugs, from what I've seen, almost the same beta that gmail is still beta. But anyways, OOo 2.0 Beta seems to handle the microsoft documents extremly well. Well worth the download.
There have been huge problems with that in the deployments, its even messed up local emergency radios.
On top of that, it has been shown that BPL is messed up by radio transmitters (to the point where its unusable), and because radio operators have rights to that part of the spectrum, and BPL bleeds over, that interference is not going anywhere.
Its not all about the code. I rarely look at open source sourcecode, however the OSS community is much more inviting and helpful than commercial groups. The reason: Commercial groups just want your money, while OSS groups are already giving the software away.
OSS also lacks the restrictions that Microsoft places on the consumer such as product activation, automatic-updates that don't always work, etc. etc.
OSS isn't all about the soucecode, its about the community behind it.
Perhaps the DRM is only on the test boxes to track and find out if anyone violates the NDA, maybe they're coming off in the final release. Just some thoughts.
Nearly all traffic, especially e-mail, is logged at some point along its travels across the internet. The end point can't remove every trace, they don't control each point along the chain.
You're right, but firefox is working on it, Microsoft announced that they won't even try to pass the Acid Test. Neither one may be able to meet the standards yet, but at least the Mozilla group is working on it. Which would you rather use, the group that tries, or the group that knowingly blows it off.
Apple says that safari has already passed in their test builds, and Opera is said to be "very close". Rather than the market telling the users what they want, perhaps by boycotting IE the users can tell the market what they want.
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I think that people are looking at the wrong privacy laws. In this case the issues is that after a judge orders someone to undergo mental treatment, the mental health facilities cannot report back to the court or to law enforcement whether or not the treatment ever occurred. The entire problem is that patient confidentiality has gotten to the point of crippling the system. Not government invasion of privacy.
Are you sure thats the first. I think that the College of William and Mary will start requiring next year. Virginia Tech already requires for most of the majors.
Everyone remembers when the "Homeland Security Agents" showed up at someone's door for requesting a copy of Mao Zedong's Little Red Book. It turned up that there is no such thing as a Homeland Security Agent. It had to be from another agency. The incident with the little red book turned up to be a hoax anyway. Just be wary of these things. Doesn't mean its 100% accurate, just like the last library Homeland Security incident.
They're not forcing you to buy the game. If you don't agree with it, don't buy it. Let the profits speak rather than worrying over it here.
If M$ is able to push out updates to consoles via the web as I read the story, how long 'till hackers put the XBox 360 onto their own network and simply reprogram it?
These are all what-ifs, but had we have done nothing, we would all be saying what if we had have done things the other way. Rather than complaining about how things are being done, I charge everyone here to come up with a solution to the problems. They're not easily solved, and complaining about them never fixed anything. Come up with a solution that would work to suit you and fight terrorism.
Why should anyone blame Firefox? They simply created a fully compatible browser. The blame should be on the sites that use this tag for bad reasons. This tag used properly could be used within companies to make more usable sites among other personalized things. It all comes down to how it is implemented.
Focusing on the exploits or not, 46 days is a long time to wait for a critical fix.
Gaim is currently going to a 2.0 release. 2.0cvs/beta shows some major changes to the UI, for the better if you ask me, but major changes none the less. I would guess that Google is waiting to bundle it until the major changes are complete. Just a place filler I guess, I would hope that Google will make the change when 2.0 is complete.
I just updated my system and it seems that the new version has been released. At least through their apt repository that wine hosts themselves anyway.
I'm not saying I agree with any of it, its just sad that by us not owning our own records they're for the world to buy
They don't remove IE, because you can't. IE is actually a part of Windows.
There is already a similar system in place. The congestion tax monitors license plates, and if you don't pay the tax to be in some of London's busiest areas in a car of your own they mail you a ticket.
With this relase MS also stated that only half of the computing power will be available. Half will be needed simply to run the Operating System itslef, one processor will be needed for every processor managed.
Patents can be a good thing in the right hands. If google allows anyone to use the technology it could be a good thing, because if they control it companies like Microsoft can't charge us for it. Google could get the patent, use it against microsoft, but allow open source not for profit groups to do with the technology as they please.
Under most law it is illegal to put software on a computer without first letting you know what it is going to do to your computer, unless they state that the EULA that the "rootkit" will be placed on your computer, then placing it there is the falls in the same category as a virus, deceiving the user to place software on your computer, therefore giving you every right to remove it.
The FCC remains very much needed, without the coordination of frequencies, you may not be able to listen to the radio in your car, whether it be Satellite radio or local broadcast. Also, if frequencies were not managed then everyone would be constantly interferring with each other, police etc. There is actually a larger demand for spectrum space now than ever, and therefore the FCC is needed more than ever. There are intelligent radios, one just developed at Virginia Tech, however when there is a huge spectrum, there needs to be some managment, and in this case managment is a good thing.
Maybe I'm confused, but How different is OpenOffice from StarOffice? OpenOffice will run on OS X, and everyone I know has had no trouble installing 2RC1.
I've found that 2.0 Beta has very few bugs, from what I've seen, almost the same beta that gmail is still beta. But anyways, OOo 2.0 Beta seems to handle the microsoft documents extremly well. Well worth the download.
On top of that, it has been shown that BPL is messed up by radio transmitters (to the point where its unusable), and because radio operators have rights to that part of the spectrum, and BPL bleeds over, that interference is not going anywhere.
OSS also lacks the restrictions that Microsoft places on the consumer such as product activation, automatic-updates that don't always work, etc. etc.
OSS isn't all about the soucecode, its about the community behind it.Perhaps the DRM is only on the test boxes to track and find out if anyone violates the NDA, maybe they're coming off in the final release. Just some thoughts.
Nearly all traffic, especially e-mail, is logged at some point along its travels across the internet. The end point can't remove every trace, they don't control each point along the chain.
You're right, but firefox is working on it, Microsoft announced that they won't even try to pass the Acid Test. Neither one may be able to meet the standards yet, but at least the Mozilla group is working on it. Which would you rather use, the group that tries, or the group that knowingly blows it off.
Apple says that safari has already passed in their test builds, and Opera is said to be "very close". Rather than the market telling the users what they want, perhaps by boycotting IE the users can tell the market what they want.
Does this mean that groups like Vista Windows, AltaVista, WorldVista, Vista, and Friends of Vista are all going to sue Microsoft on the same grounds that Microsoft sued Lindows a while back?