> Then require that the embodied person(s) is/are held accountable for the
> actions of the corporation.
Each employees, officer, or director is individually responsible for all of his actions. The fact that he may have been acting as the agent of a corporation is irrelevant and not a defense in any criminal and some civil cases.
This is true however it does nothing to get the "population" of the corporation to act in an ethical manner. The only thing that I can think would solve this is what I've already stated.
There needs to be a way to do two things:
1 - Make the employees of the corporation stand up to bad management at all levels and call people on the carpet for bad/evil decisions.
2 - Suitably punish corporations that behave badly with no appeals and no loopholes.
Unfortunately we're going to get neither while large corporations hold sway over the government.
1. It is not called racketeering it is called capitalism. The same things are happening in other places as well.
2. As long as people are frightened by terrorists, various diseases, house prices, jobs and each other, they will not have enough time or capacity to do that. Even more the TV is keeping their brains off. So they will not rise until we run out of oil.
3. When the oil runs out (same as 2)
I agree with number 2 and 3 but not number 1.
When what a corporation does would be called criminal under laws not within their control then they are criminals in everything but name. Sorry but calling it capitalism when the corporations are running the government just doesn't cut it with me.
As far as I'm concerned real capitalist make money within the system NOT change the system so they can keep making money.
Are you speaking of the media industry, ISP's, investment bankers, airlines, big pharma, or phone companies? Be clear, man!:-)
Heh. Good point.:-)
Here's a thought... Corporations have some of the rights of human beings so why not require that to have those rights they must be embodied by at least a single person within the company who has the ability to order anyone in the company to follow his instructions.
Then require that the embodied person(s) is/are held accountable for the actions of the corporation.
Not likely to get passed mind you but it would certainly motivate CEOs to clean up their company ethics. (Or install them if they aren't already installed.)
I don't recall hearing about this technique for producing energy before. I wonder how useful it would be to make a similar device to produce energy and send it back up...
I'm betting that if it isn't a simple stirling engine of some sort (maybe a miniature form of what's in the Kockums submarine) then it might be some form of OTEC which would explain the "per dive" referenced in the article as it has to pass from one thermal extreme to the other.
In which you'll be able to turn the flowers on and off or make it play a sound for a particular event but not be able to change the color, shape, or size of the monitoring lights because "those utilities are broken if they allow those features".
At which point you'll unsolder the lights and install your own set of open-source lights that aloow you to customize them any way you want.
My assumption is that this is intended to give the President the authority to shut down botnet controllers during DDoS attacks. Waiting for the courts in such a scenario is unreasonable.
Why is waiting for the courts unreasonable in such a scenario? We aren't talking about Jack Bauer standing over the nuclear weapon that's about to destroy New York City. We are talking about not being able to access a few portions of the internet for the duration of a DDoS attack.
We're becoming more and more interconnected and from a security standpoint it's not a good thing.
That said I am not in favor of the government being able to turn off a net connection or such at will even if they will "only" use it against cyber threats.
I'd rather have health care than a trip to the moon for 4 people.
Maybe if we hadn't squandered a trillion dollars on the unnecessary war in Iraq we could afford things like going to the moon again.
This.
A big portion of our bleeding economy is flowing out the giant bullet hole labeled "War against terror." and if we just stopped a _single_ _war_ that we're involved with we'd have a ton of money to put towards all sorts of stuff.
If you can inject enough energy into the process this could in theory be the replacement for batteries. This is provided you could make a giant transmitter that sends to the receiving devices. (Or possibly battery replacement modules?)
This is provided the technology isn't only "ten years away" or so.;-)
And then the gov't calls you and says "It sure would be a shame if that nice shiny new satillite of yours were to 'accidentally' get hit by some flying space debris."
While I can't argue against that I think it's not really all that likely in the short term. Especially since there's no easy way to forcibly de-orbit a satellite without either shooting it with something or bumping something into it.
And you'd really have to piss someone in the government off for them to waste an existing million dollar satellite to get rid of yours.
Though if we're discussing this in the framework of an existing cheap commercial space flight scenario you could easily put more than one up there.
...but this is one good reason why we need commercial space flight.
With commercial space flight you collect money to put a pre-built server into orbit and serve pages from there.
Now granted the bandwidth wouldn't be fast but for things like free speech related documents you really don't need speed just stable retention. You could still store video up there as well it would just be slow to get on and off the server obviously.
As long as the system had power and a good antenna the data could be available for anyone with a satellite dish to point at it. (Though you could probably find a comsat company that would accept money to rebroadcast the signal if you could afford that.)
Simple they are hoping that the people who mostly rent movies are not the technically savvy type. I too was surprised when Redbox became popular, I figured that once you kept a movies for more than 11 days a month it made more sense to get Netflix, plus the streaming dear god recent TV show streaming is great. It has still found its niche market though and turned a profit. The studios are hoping that if they can cartel up they can wield more power over outfits like Hollywood Video, Redbox, Blockbuster and Netflix while simultaneously increasing DVD sales.
The thing about this is that the more people find things unacceptable the more they're going to start asking questions about "Are there any better options?". Once they start asking those questions that leads them down the path to becoming more technical so they can do what they want to do without having to jump through ever increasing hoops.
An torrent clients are getting easier and easier to use as time goes by...
Cobalt Qube Software-wise, it has easily one of the best management interfaces.
I have several of these and the Cobalt Raq models running in my home and they do quite well electricity-wise. I'm running NetBSD on mine but there are several flavors of Linux you can run on them including their original older Linux OS.
I don't know! Auuugh! *flies off bridge into chasm*
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My father actually has it written that he wants bagpipe music and Admiral Kirk's speech about Spock from Wrath Of Khan at his funeral. If we can find a casket that looks like a photon torpedo, so much the better.
I think I should clarify with him whether he wants someone to recite Kirk's speech, or have that video played.
Fuck AT&T. I don't tether currently. I didn't cringe when I got charged $26 per line for "activation". I didn't cringe at signing a 2-year contract to get a phone for $300. I didn't even cringe at an "unlimited" data plan that limits downloads to 10MB files (which, coincidentally, is smaller than most of the apps on the "approved" app store).
Why is Apple sticking with these people. The overall user experience of an "approved" iPhone is significantly worse because of AT&T's behavior as greedy little fucktards.
If you read the article you'll see that it's not just AT&T that Apple did it for. It's across all providers even if they have a legally unlocked phone and approved tethering in their contracts. I can only hope Apple gets a ton of bad press and negative feedback on this one and puts tethering back.
What we need here is a game that stores its files in an encrypted format (including activation code and serial number) then has a utility for decrypting the games (minus serial number and activation code) for editing then encrypting them or any other files when finished.
The game developers would have to make sure there's no back door on their end of things but that shouldn't be too hard to do.
But then of course we're stuck with the problem of making a popular game....or maybe not.
You could in theory follow this pattern and make a lot of games that aren't really popular but are downloaded and installed on enough systems to promote a reasonable doubt in a court defense situation.
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> Then require that the embodied person(s) is/are held accountable for the > actions of the corporation.
Each employees, officer, or director is individually responsible for all of his actions. The fact that he may have been acting as the agent of a corporation is irrelevant and not a defense in any criminal and some civil cases.
This is true however it does nothing to get the "population" of the corporation to act in an ethical manner. The only thing that I can think would solve this is what I've already stated.
There needs to be a way to do two things:
1 - Make the employees of the corporation stand up to bad management at all levels and call people on the carpet for bad/evil decisions.
2 - Suitably punish corporations that behave badly with no appeals and no loopholes.
Unfortunately we're going to get neither while large corporations hold sway over the government.
Let me answer your questions:
1. It is not called racketeering it is called capitalism. The same things are happening in other places as well.
2. As long as people are frightened by terrorists, various diseases, house prices, jobs and each other, they will not have enough time or capacity to do that. Even more the TV is keeping their brains off. So they will not rise until we run out of oil.
3. When the oil runs out (same as 2)
I agree with number 2 and 3 but not number 1.
When what a corporation does would be called criminal under laws not within their control then they are criminals in everything but name. Sorry but calling it capitalism when the corporations are running the government just doesn't cut it with me.
As far as I'm concerned real capitalist make money within the system NOT change the system so they can keep making money.
Are you speaking of the media industry, ISP's, investment bankers, airlines, big pharma, or phone companies? Be clear, man! :-)
Heh. Good point. :-)
Here's a thought... Corporations have some of the rights of human beings so why not require that to have those rights they must be embodied by at least a single person within the company who has the ability to order anyone in the company to follow his instructions.
Then require that the embodied person(s) is/are held accountable for the actions of the corporation.
Not likely to get passed mind you but it would certainly motivate CEOs to clean up their company ethics. (Or install them if they aren't already installed.)
When are these bastards going to be prosecuted for racketeering?
When are people going to finally be fed up with being treated like criminals for the sake of a greedy cartel of Suits that have no morals to speak of?
When are people going to finally wise up and put these assholes in their place?
Yeah...I know. I'm delusional because they hold almost all the cards and have the gooberment in their pockets.
Or are you going to hire them as network engineers? They seem to have a lot in common... fear of sunlight, refusal to shave, grumpiness...
Dude. I live in Northwestern Illinois and I would gladly move to Quincy, IL to do admin stuff in a giant cave. :-)
Besides the obviousness of not having to seriously travel for support Quincy has fairly inexpensive real estate with actual space around it.
Now to figure out how to deal with being upside-down on that pesky mortgage....
I don't recall hearing about this technique for producing energy before. I wonder how useful it would be to make a similar device to produce energy and send it back up...
I'm betting that if it isn't a simple stirling engine of some sort (maybe a miniature form of what's in the Kockums submarine) then it might be some form of OTEC which would explain the "per dive" referenced in the article as it has to pass from one thermal extreme to the other.
There is nothing in Haggis that can't be found in a Big Mac.
A better argument for not eating McDonald's fast food I've never heard. :-)
Running GNOME, of course.
In which you'll be able to turn the flowers on and off or make it play a sound for a particular event but not be able to change the color, shape, or size of the monitoring lights because "those utilities are broken if they allow those features".
At which point you'll unsolder the lights and install your own set of open-source lights that aloow you to customize them any way you want.
My assumption is that this is intended to give the President the authority to shut down botnet controllers during DDoS attacks. Waiting for the courts in such a scenario is unreasonable.
Why is waiting for the courts unreasonable in such a scenario? We aren't talking about Jack Bauer standing over the nuclear weapon that's about to destroy New York City. We are talking about not being able to access a few portions of the internet for the duration of a DDoS attack.
Well how about the fact that we're slowly computerizing the electrical grid for remote shutoff? (And they're finding security flaws in the smart meters.)
How about those stupid management people who claim power plants unhackable but others prove them wrong.
We're becoming more and more interconnected and from a security standpoint it's not a good thing.
That said I am not in favor of the government being able to turn off a net connection or such at will even if they will "only" use it against cyber threats.
I'd rather have health care than a trip to the moon for 4 people. Maybe if we hadn't squandered a trillion dollars on the unnecessary war in Iraq we could afford things like going to the moon again.
This.
A big portion of our bleeding economy is flowing out the giant bullet hole labeled "War against terror." and if we just stopped a _single_ _war_ that we're involved with we'd have a ton of money to put towards all sorts of stuff.
...a fun time for Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May. :-)
If you can inject enough energy into the process this could in theory be the replacement for batteries. This is provided you could make a giant transmitter that sends to the receiving devices. (Or possibly battery replacement modules?)
;-)
This is provided the technology isn't only "ten years away" or so.
Did anybody else suddenly think of daleks? Anybody? There's also the shellpersons from the Anne McCaffery novels.
We've already pioneered vision implants, tactile implants, and now finally speech implants so we're again at the forefront of cyborg technology.
Wouldn't it be easier just to put the server deep underground? A satellite in orbit would be trivial for a government to take down.
And underground is always owned by some government when it comes down to it. By current policy space is owned by nobody.
And then the gov't calls you and says "It sure would be a shame if that nice shiny new satillite of yours were to 'accidentally' get hit by some flying space debris."
While I can't argue against that I think it's not really all that likely in the short term. Especially since there's no easy way to forcibly de-orbit a satellite without either shooting it with something or bumping something into it.
And you'd really have to piss someone in the government off for them to waste an existing million dollar satellite to get rid of yours.
Though if we're discussing this in the framework of an existing cheap commercial space flight scenario you could easily put more than one up there.
...but this is one good reason why we need commercial space flight.
With commercial space flight you collect money to put a pre-built server into orbit and serve pages from there.
Now granted the bandwidth wouldn't be fast but for things like free speech related documents you really don't need speed just stable retention. You could still store video up there as well it would just be slow to get on and off the server obviously.
As long as the system had power and a good antenna the data could be available for anyone with a satellite dish to point at it. (Though you could probably find a comsat company that would accept money to rebroadcast the signal if you could afford that.)
I looked through all the listings and I couldn't find one with any bids at all so I'm kind of wondering if the site is real or not.
;-)
I can't find anything to prove that it's parody but that doesn't mean it isn't.
Anybody got $2M in assets to find out if it's real?
Simple they are hoping that the people who mostly rent movies are not the technically savvy type. I too was surprised when Redbox became popular, I figured that once you kept a movies for more than 11 days a month it made more sense to get Netflix, plus the streaming dear god recent TV show streaming is great. It has still found its niche market though and turned a profit. The studios are hoping that if they can cartel up they can wield more power over outfits like Hollywood Video, Redbox, Blockbuster and Netflix while simultaneously increasing DVD sales.
The thing about this is that the more people find things unacceptable the more they're going to start asking questions about "Are there any better options?". Once they start asking those questions that leads them down the path to becoming more technical so they can do what they want to do without having to jump through ever increasing hoops.
An torrent clients are getting easier and easier to use as time goes by...
Cobalt Qube Software-wise, it has easily one of the best management interfaces.
I have several of these and the Cobalt Raq models running in my home and they do quite well electricity-wise. I'm running NetBSD on mine but there are several flavors of Linux you can run on them including their original older Linux OS.
They can be expanded quite a bit: http://www.tom-e.de/hypercube_eng.html
I've never measured mine but they supposedly draw less than 30W at idle.
What do you mean? African or european developers?
I don't know! Auuugh! *flies off bridge into chasm*
My father actually has it written that he wants bagpipe music and Admiral Kirk's speech about Spock from Wrath Of Khan at his funeral. If we can find a casket that looks like a photon torpedo, so much the better. I think I should clarify with him whether he wants someone to recite Kirk's speech, or have that video played.
What you want is this company's cocoon model coffin: http://www.uono.de/english/home.html
The telcos are way ahead in this field, they've had telephone sanitisers for years.
Note to self: Better get started on that B Ark... So when's the giant space goat coming to eat us again?
Fuck AT&T. I don't tether currently. I didn't cringe when I got charged $26 per line for "activation". I didn't cringe at signing a 2-year contract to get a phone for $300. I didn't even cringe at an "unlimited" data plan that limits downloads to 10MB files (which, coincidentally, is smaller than most of the apps on the "approved" app store).
Why is Apple sticking with these people. The overall user experience of an "approved" iPhone is significantly worse because of AT&T's behavior as greedy little fucktards.
If you read the article you'll see that it's not just AT&T that Apple did it for. It's across all providers even if they have a legally unlocked phone and approved tethering in their contracts. I can only hope Apple gets a ton of bad press and negative feedback on this one and puts tethering back.
Especially since they are now effectively committing fraud: http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/tethering.html
What we need here is a game that stores its files in an encrypted format (including activation code and serial number) then has a utility for decrypting the games (minus serial number and activation code) for editing then encrypting them or any other files when finished.
The game developers would have to make sure there's no back door on their end of things but that shouldn't be too hard to do.
But then of course we're stuck with the problem of making a popular game....or maybe not.
You could in theory follow this pattern and make a lot of games that aren't really popular but are downloaded and installed on enough systems to promote a reasonable doubt in a court defense situation.
think there is bound to be a bit of prior art here... like the teletext, sms, wordprocessors and even digital radiotransmissions.
At the very least the wall command comes to mind as prior art:
http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?wall