This is really a matter for public education rather than the heavy hand of the law to solve.
I'd like to start a consumer movement where each consumer can generate a set of private and public encryption keys. The consumer can publish the public key and it will be used by credit card issuers to issue new credit card numbers to the consumer. Then, only the consumer can decrypt and use those numbers. If consumers use this as the only means of transferring critical personal information then the phishers will be defeated.
I love Wikipedia because it is a free alternative to the traditional profit driven, elitist, and biased encyclopedia publishers. All information publishing is biased. I'd rather, as a reader, take my chances with a self policed large community than an annointed elite set of encyclopedia writers.
The web, in general, is great for breaking up monopolistic control of information. This is why the web has been so successful at tearing down the old travel industry system of information brokers. The next to go will be car purchasing, real estate, and tyrannical governments like China and Iran.
Microsoft is a business that is exercising it's freedom of choice. Likewise, consumers are free to continue using MS products or not. What's wrong with that? Does anyone really want to force anything else?
I agree. I have never heard of Orkut. The social network that will win is the one that has enough people in it to be interesting. If I want enough people to read my blog and a large enough group to social network with then I will use the new Yahoo service. Yahoo's strong brand already gives it the advantage.
Your hysterical straw man world of unmoderated capitalism does not exist today. Ken Lay's criminal trial starts this year. There is more transparency in corporate accounting now, by law, as a reaction to Enron and WorldCom.
Does that work for you? What would do differently today if we handed the keys of power over to you? You've proved your ability to find fault in today's world. Now, describe the utopia you would create if we wipe the slate clean and let you dictate the new order.
Does this really help? What's to stop AOL from reading your transmission of your public key to your friends? AOL could store your public key and the still have the ability to read your outbound messages.
I agree with you that the CIA laid down with some bums. They were following the old edict of 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'. In all of the examples you cite, the enemy was the communist Sovient Union. Don't forget that the cold war was a world wide fight to the death. I, for one, am glad that the USA and our allies beat and crumbled the USSR.
Now, you are right, we are dealing with the messy aftermath. Still, here we are. Where do you think appeasing the Islamic Fascists will get us?
Do you think that the USA has dangerous external enemies or not? We have the CIA and the NSA because we do have enemies abroad. Look at Iran. I agree that the CIA and NSA have gone overboard in the past but we should work to vigilantly curb their abuses and improve them rather than to pretend that we are not threatened by dangerous enemy states and organizations.
Your arguments are strong if measured by volume and emotion. Your arguments are weak as measured by logical argument.
Please describe what you mean by 'moderated capitalism' that America had and how America lost it. If you were given absolute authority, how would you remake America's systems of laws to prevent con men like Jain from being successful? Please be specific. The strength of your arguments will be found in well considered detail rather than emotional attack.
Ken Lay's criminal trial is scheduled for 2005. In 2004, every publicly traded company in the US was held to higher accounting standard practices than in the past. This is known as the Sarbanes Oxely process, federal legislation passed in the wake of the Enron scandal.
Are you still ready to put an end to capitalism? Describe a better alternative.
Jain slipped through the cracks of our justice system and now you are ready to toss the whole idea of capitalism aside? What's your preferred alternative?
I see a common thread among the dot com's that thrived during both the bubble and crash. They are all innovative B to C companies that provide great value direct to consumers. Examples include Ebay, Netflix, and Amazon.
The Sklyarov case may be injust but why did he freely choose to place himself at risk by entering the US?
This is an example of why we have countries with borders. If I post something on the web that breaks a law in a country whose laws are unjust then I am safe unless I am dumb enough to enter that country. If I get in trouble in Iran for saying that Muhammad eats bacon then I'll be OK if I just stay out of Iran.
Deep down this is really about one world government and it illustrates its dangers.
You only offer one alternative. The other alternative is to enlist the help of people who have the technical skill to create and deploy an alternative to ITunes.
We already live in a world today where any artist can distribute their music on the internet for free. That is a voluntary and free choice that some musicians have made. There are other musicians who have freely made the choice to require payment for distributing their music. Like the free musicians, these pay musicians made a voluntary choice.
Likewise you, as a music consumer, are free to choose to only listen to free music or to voluntarily pay for paid music.
All of these choices, for both the producers and consumers, are voluntary. The current system is perfect.
This frightens me. This is government picking and choosing who is granted the right of free speech rather than recognizing it as an inherent right that we all share.
What if someone violated Apple's NDA and reported on Apple employing slave labor to clean floors at company headquarters? In your world, karmaflux, the NDA violator would be in the wrong, get punished, and the slaves would still be slaves.
This could be useful for websites wishing to get another means of counting unique visitors to a website. Today there are 2 ways and both are error prone. The first is cookies. The server hands the client a cookie and depends on the client to cooperate and give it back. The problem is that clients are increasingly not cooperating through routine use of things like cookie scrubbers. The second way is through representative sampling from a cooperative and statistically significant sample population. Stats gather from the sample are used to predict real visitor numbers. This is how rating services like Nielsen Net Ratings work.
Clock skew finger printing has the potential to out perform both methods that are in common use today.
I think the proportion of tax paid by individuals to fund the BBC should be made by voluntary choice by the individuals. How can you say the BBC is independent when it depends on the compulsive weight of government force for funding?
Yes it is. All of these employee to employer associations are voluntary for both parties. An employer can offer someone a job and that person is totally free to accept it or not based on whatever criteria they want.
Symantec deserves to profit from their hard won intellectual property. The investors and employees of Symantec have taken enormous financial risks by investing in this business. There was a high probability of failure when they started. Now the public has benefitted from having their anti-virus tools protecting their computers and the Symantec investors have been rewarded for investing in a long shot.
It is very interesting that you admire China for providing specialized vocational training and avoiding educating people to be thoughtful and contemplative. China may have better training in mathematics for a larger number of people. These same mathematicians are willing to lay down for an oppressive central government that does not respect their individual right to self government. These mathematicians would be better off if they also had some background in understanding the rights of man.
I agree somewhat but we must tread carefully if we are going to overhaul things. Your main point seems to be an objection to any classes that were not 'relevant' to your area of specialization. I'll admit that there were classes that I hated because I was not interested in the topic and I objected to surrendering my time and energy to some idiot professor who could demand work from a captive audience. However, some of my fondest memories are of general education classes in literature, philosophy, and history.
There is a danger that people will miss these useful general ed classes if we track kids into a specialty too early. I have a friend who was tracked into math and computer science in the British education system. From age 16 onwards he never took any class that was not 'relavant' to specialized match and computer science. He missed all of those experiences I loved in taking some general ed as a more mature 21 or 22 year old. I also think it is limiting and mistaken to track kids too early because a lot of kids simply are not mature enough to choose a track when they are still teenagers. I was a late bloomer. I did not choose computer science until I was 20. If I was too deeply tracked at 16 I would have been wrong and miserable.
Our education system must produce thoughtful and contemplative adults. I think there are a lot of people that just want universities to crank out trained worker bees at age 22.
I'd like to explore the sentiment behind the troll I am replying to. I think this comes from a natural and warranted level of suspicion about the utopian vision of RSM. Doesn't RSM realize that he already lives in a world where he is free to distribute software according to the GNU manifesto? Likewise, I am free to require payment from users of the software that I create. Isn't that enough for you RSM fans out there? I get nervous that you won't rest easy until you can take my rights to require payment away.
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This is really a matter for public education rather than the heavy hand of the law to solve.
I'd like to start a consumer movement where each consumer can generate a set of private and public encryption keys. The consumer can publish the public key and it will be used by credit card issuers to issue new credit card numbers to the consumer. Then, only the consumer can decrypt and use those numbers. If consumers use this as the only means of transferring critical personal information then the phishers will be defeated.
I love Wikipedia because it is a free alternative to the traditional profit driven, elitist, and biased encyclopedia publishers. All information publishing is biased. I'd rather, as a reader, take my chances with a self policed large community than an annointed elite set of encyclopedia writers.
The web, in general, is great for breaking up monopolistic control of information. This is why the web has been so successful at tearing down the old travel industry system of information brokers. The next to go will be car purchasing, real estate, and tyrannical governments like China and Iran.
Microsoft is a business that is exercising it's freedom of choice. Likewise, consumers are free to continue using MS products or not. What's wrong with that? Does anyone really want to force anything else?
I agree. I have never heard of Orkut. The social network that will win is the one that has enough people in it to be interesting. If I want enough people to read my blog and a large enough group to social network with then I will use the new Yahoo service. Yahoo's strong brand already gives it the advantage.
Your hysterical straw man world of unmoderated capitalism does not exist today. Ken Lay's criminal trial starts this year. There is more transparency in corporate accounting now, by law, as a reaction to Enron and WorldCom.
Does that work for you? What would do differently today if we handed the keys of power over to you? You've proved your ability to find fault in today's world. Now, describe the utopia you would create if we wipe the slate clean and let you dictate the new order.
Does this really help? What's to stop AOL from reading your transmission of your public key to your friends? AOL could store your public key and the still have the ability to read your outbound messages.
I agree with you that the CIA laid down with some bums. They were following the old edict of 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'. In all of the examples you cite, the enemy was the communist Sovient Union. Don't forget that the cold war was a world wide fight to the death. I, for one, am glad that the USA and our allies beat and crumbled the USSR.
Now, you are right, we are dealing with the messy aftermath. Still, here we are. Where do you think appeasing the Islamic Fascists will get us?
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Do you think that the USA has dangerous external enemies or not? We have the CIA and the NSA because we do have enemies abroad. Look at Iran. I agree that the CIA and NSA have gone overboard in the past but we should work to vigilantly curb their abuses and improve them rather than to pretend that we are not threatened by dangerous enemy states and organizations.
Your arguments are strong if measured by volume and emotion. Your arguments are weak as measured by logical argument.
Please describe what you mean by 'moderated capitalism' that America had and how America lost it. If you were given absolute authority, how would you remake America's systems of laws to prevent con men like Jain from being successful? Please be specific. The strength of your arguments will be found in well considered detail rather than emotional attack.
Ken Lay's criminal trial is scheduled for 2005. In 2004, every publicly traded company in the US was held to higher accounting standard practices than in the past. This is known as the Sarbanes Oxely process, federal legislation passed in the wake of the Enron scandal.
Are you still ready to put an end to capitalism? Describe a better alternative.
Tell me how to stop allowing CEOs to loot companies. Be specific and be sure to point out things that are not already part of current law.
Jain slipped through the cracks of our justice system and now you are ready to toss the whole idea of capitalism aside? What's your preferred alternative?
I see a common thread among the dot com's that thrived during both the bubble and crash. They are all innovative B to C companies that provide great value direct to consumers. Examples include Ebay, Netflix, and Amazon.
The Sklyarov case may be injust but why did he freely choose to place himself at risk by entering the US?
This is an example of why we have countries with borders. If I post something on the web that breaks a law in a country whose laws are unjust then I am safe unless I am dumb enough to enter that country. If I get in trouble in Iran for saying that Muhammad eats bacon then I'll be OK if I just stay out of Iran.
Deep down this is really about one world government and it illustrates its dangers.
You only offer one alternative. The other alternative is to enlist the help of people who have the technical skill to create and deploy an alternative to ITunes.
What's stopping them (or you) from doing that?
We already live in a world today where any artist can distribute their music on the internet for free. That is a voluntary and free choice that some musicians have made. There are other musicians who have freely made the choice to require payment for distributing their music. Like the free musicians, these pay musicians made a voluntary choice.
Likewise you, as a music consumer, are free to choose to only listen to free music or to voluntarily pay for paid music.
All of these choices, for both the producers and consumers, are voluntary. The current system is perfect.
This frightens me. This is government picking and choosing who is granted the right of free speech rather than recognizing it as an inherent right that we all share.
What if someone violated Apple's NDA and reported on Apple employing slave labor to clean floors at company headquarters? In your world, karmaflux, the NDA violator would be in the wrong, get punished, and the slaves would still be slaves.
This could be useful for websites wishing to get another means of counting unique visitors to a website. Today there are 2 ways and both are error prone. The first is cookies. The server hands the client a cookie and depends on the client to cooperate and give it back. The problem is that clients are increasingly not cooperating through routine use of things like cookie scrubbers. The second way is through representative sampling from a cooperative and statistically significant sample population. Stats gather from the sample are used to predict real visitor numbers. This is how rating services like Nielsen Net Ratings work.
Clock skew finger printing has the potential to out perform both methods that are in common use today.
I think the proportion of tax paid by individuals to fund the BBC should be made by voluntary choice by the individuals. How can you say the BBC is independent when it depends on the compulsive weight of government force for funding?
Yes it is. All of these employee to employer associations are voluntary for both parties. An employer can offer someone a job and that person is totally free to accept it or not based on whatever criteria they want.
Does anyone think it should be any other way?
Symantec deserves to profit from their hard won intellectual property. The investors and employees of Symantec have taken enormous financial risks by investing in this business. There was a high probability of failure when they started. Now the public has benefitted from having their anti-virus tools protecting their computers and the Symantec investors have been rewarded for investing in a long shot.
It is very interesting that you admire China for providing specialized vocational training and avoiding educating people to be thoughtful and contemplative. China may have better training in mathematics for a larger number of people. These same mathematicians are willing to lay down for an oppressive central government that does not respect their individual right to self government. These mathematicians would be better off if they also had some background in understanding the rights of man.
I agree somewhat but we must tread carefully if we are going to overhaul things. Your main point seems to be an objection to any classes that were not 'relevant' to your area of specialization. I'll admit that there were classes that I hated because I was not interested in the topic and I objected to surrendering my time and energy to some idiot professor who could demand work from a captive audience. However, some of my fondest memories are of general education classes in literature, philosophy, and history.
There is a danger that people will miss these useful general ed classes if we track kids into a specialty too early. I have a friend who was tracked into math and computer science in the British education system. From age 16 onwards he never took any class that was not 'relavant' to specialized match and computer science. He missed all of those experiences I loved in taking some general ed as a more mature 21 or 22 year old. I also think it is limiting and mistaken to track kids too early because a lot of kids simply are not mature enough to choose a track when they are still teenagers. I was a late bloomer. I did not choose computer science until I was 20. If I was too deeply tracked at 16 I would have been wrong and miserable.
Our education system must produce thoughtful and contemplative adults. I think there are a lot of people that just want universities to crank out trained worker bees at age 22.
I'd like to explore the sentiment behind the troll I am replying to. I think this comes from a natural and warranted level of suspicion about the utopian vision of RSM. Doesn't RSM realize that he already lives in a world where he is free to distribute software according to the GNU manifesto? Likewise, I am free to require payment from users of the software that I create. Isn't that enough for you RSM fans out there? I get nervous that you won't rest easy until you can take my rights to require payment away.