Lets see, congress drags the big search engine executives in and reprimands them for cow-towing to the Chinese in their censorship efforts. Then when the tel-cos decide they want to censor not with regard to politics but in the name of The Dollar, congress is all for it. This is a perfect example of the ridiculous state of our affairs.
Censorship for a political gain = bad Censorship for a financial gain = good
..exaggerate the impact of mundane, victimless crimes
You need to STFU. Obviously, you just have never *been* a victim of it. I have had an entire year of my life terrorized by some jackass in England. The banks, credit reporting Bureaus and card issuers couldn't have given less of a shit. Even though in my case, it was entirely and collectively their fault. The credit industry and Paypal's insecurity creates real, seriously injured VICTIMS all of the time.
Bill Gates is the hardest core nerd there ever was in the corporate world. He used to write the code...even lambast his own employees for not writing good code. He got started writing programs for traffic managment systems. He invented and wrote the BASIC operating system for the Altair. He got a near perfect score on his SAT's.
What ever one thinks about Bill gates now, there is no doubt that he is one of the biggest nerds of all time.
Your post made me think about the fact that now the providers will also be able to cut off the web sites of the politicians and consumer groups that don't fall in line with the provider's agendas. "Consumer groups not supporting our bid to push everyone out of the market in a particular state you say?" Fuck em, they are cut off. "Oh, and the senator we don't agree with has an on line petition to find out what his constituency feels about a particular telco legislation?" Fuck him too, he is cut off. Ya, this is going to be fun all right....
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The most definite line that would be crossed is going from discounts, to give-aways, to actually offering money or gifts to potential customers. At my place of employment, it is made very clear to everyone that exchanging anything but the most nominal gift with potential customers--even if it doesn't involve luring them from a competitor--is an offence punishable by immediate dismissal even on the first offence.
This isn't coming in and bribing a sys admin into switching by offering money to that person directly. This is buying off the whole company, which if Microsoft wants to do it, is perfectly legal.
Respectfully, I disagree. In a world without monopolies, if Microsoft purchased the license then we as consumers keep the feature. We do no more work and this issue costs us nothing. However, Microsoft may have to pass the costs on to the consumer on subsequent sales of its product, reducing Microsoft's market share. That is the way it should work.
An analogy would be that Ford sells me a car, but infringes on the patent for windshield wipers. Ford then issues a recall which subsequently disables your wipers. It is no different.
In this monopoly environment, where (apparently) Microsoft can do anything it wants, there is nothing the consumer can do but eat the cost entirely and directly.
I have just been dealing with the ramifications "fix" for several thousand users.
I BLOWS ME AWAY that Microsoft gets hammered on a stupid patent and then who has to pay? Not Microsoft, not Eolas, but ME! How can they justify taking features away that we bought fully funtioning a long time ago? They have also buried this patch in a Cumulative Internet Explorer Security Update, which to me, amounts to puting a "rider" on a bill that you know won't pass on its own.
Microsoft's smug spin on it is even more infuriating, their tech docs mention "we will give you time to test this patch out, then after your code is fixed..blah blah". WHAT? My code was fine until you broke it...arrrg...
I for one would welcome an insert "imagine a beowolf cluster" or "welcome our evil overlords" or "netcraft confirms" or "all your base are" or "in soviet russia" button. That would be great.
Let us not forget that they spend more on marketing. Eli Lilly, 4 bln marketing, 3 bln R+D. In addition, truly new breakthroughs, like AIDS or gene therapy drugs, come through NIH grants. That's right, our tax dollars. We pay up front for the research, and then we pay again through the drug company retailing our research back to us.
I'm 37, and I associate the words "Apple" and "Music" when used together with this very company, Apple Records. I very much identify with the logo. Just because today's youth can't remember it doesn't mean that they don't have a very strong brand name and a right to protect it. I do, however, think that this is just a money grab because I don't think Apple Computer is causing any confusion or dilution of Apple Record's name. It doesn't in my mind at all, and who better to evaluate that than someone who knows both brands well?
I haver never understood why there isn't an XXX html tag. I mean, I understand the issues with a TLD, but what porno site in their right mind wouldn't want to tag their pages as XXX? They could even not tag stuff that wasn't porn. Seems like a win for everyone...
What is the probability that a backup will be done in an 1/2 hour window? not much.
Wrong. High availablity systems are often attached to SANS, and SANS have quarum drives that snapshot incrementally, or when things are deleted. If they happen to have some of the newest email archiving solutions, there will be no emails ever lost. Time to rethink your solution there cowboy...
Xanax is an anti-anxiety drug, not an anti-depressent. Anti-depressants do not make you "high". Also, used appropriatly, I would much rather have someone driving my bus on Xanax than on cocain or even pot.
You are so right. Back before Ebay even had a "Buy it Now" I would look at an auction and think, "Damn, I wish I could just buy that now".
Maybe there should be a clause in the patent code that says, "if it is so stupendously obvious that any fucktard would have eventually thought of it you can't patent it."
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Lets see, congress drags the big search engine executives in and reprimands them for cow-towing to the Chinese in their censorship efforts. Then when the tel-cos decide they want to censor not with regard to politics but in the name of The Dollar, congress is all for it. This is a perfect example of the ridiculous state of our affairs.
Censorship for a political gain = bad
Censorship for a financial gain = good
It makes me sick to my stomach.
You need to STFU. Obviously, you just have never *been* a victim of it. I have had an entire year of my life terrorized by some jackass in England. The banks, credit reporting Bureaus and card issuers couldn't have given less of a shit. Even though in my case, it was entirely and collectively their fault. The credit industry and Paypal's insecurity creates real, seriously injured VICTIMS all of the time.
Looks like their tactics have worked on you....Paypal=evil
Bill Gates is the hardest core nerd there ever was in the corporate world. He used to write the code...even lambast his own employees for not writing good code. He got started writing programs for traffic managment systems. He invented and wrote the BASIC operating system for the Altair. He got a near perfect score on his SAT's.
What ever one thinks about Bill gates now, there is no doubt that he is one of the biggest nerds of all time.
I just chucked my lunch.
Your post made me think about the fact that now the providers will also be able to cut off the web sites of the politicians and consumer groups that don't fall in line with the provider's agendas. "Consumer groups not supporting our bid to push everyone out of the market in a particular state you say?" Fuck em, they are cut off. "Oh, and the senator we don't agree with has an on line petition to find out what his constituency feels about a particular telco legislation?" Fuck him too, he is cut off. Ya, this is going to be fun all right....
The most definite line that would be crossed is going from discounts, to give-aways, to actually offering money or gifts to potential customers. At my place of employment, it is made very clear to everyone that exchanging anything but the most nominal gift with potential customers--even if it doesn't involve luring them from a competitor--is an offence punishable by immediate dismissal even on the first offence.
This isn't coming in and bribing a sys admin into switching by offering money to that person directly. This is buying off the whole company, which if Microsoft wants to do it, is perfectly legal.
A *dynamic* DNS system. RFC2136, April 1997.
The drives in Tri-West's case was inside a locked building, not on a laptop.
Respectfully, I disagree. In a world without monopolies, if Microsoft purchased the license then we as consumers keep the feature. We do no more work and this issue costs us nothing. However, Microsoft may have to pass the costs on to the consumer on subsequent sales of its product, reducing Microsoft's market share. That is the way it should work.
An analogy would be that Ford sells me a car, but infringes on the patent for windshield wipers. Ford then issues a recall which subsequently disables your wipers. It is no different.
In this monopoly environment, where (apparently) Microsoft can do anything it wants, there is nothing the consumer can do but eat the cost entirely and directly.
I have just been dealing with the ramifications "fix" for several thousand users.
I BLOWS ME AWAY that Microsoft gets hammered on a stupid patent and then who has to pay? Not Microsoft, not Eolas, but ME! How can they justify taking features away that we bought fully funtioning a long time ago? They have also buried this patch in a Cumulative Internet Explorer Security Update, which to me, amounts to puting a "rider" on a bill that you know won't pass on its own.
Microsoft's smug spin on it is even more infuriating, their tech docs mention "we will give you time to test this patch out, then after your code is fixed..blah blah". WHAT? My code was fine until you broke it...arrrg...
I for one would welcome an insert "imagine a beowolf cluster" or "welcome our evil overlords" or "netcraft confirms" or "all your base are" or "in soviet russia" button. That would be great.
Let us not forget that they spend more on marketing. Eli Lilly, 4 bln marketing, 3 bln R+D. In addition, truly new breakthroughs, like AIDS or gene therapy drugs, come through NIH grants. That's right, our tax dollars. We pay up front for the research, and then we pay again through the drug company retailing our research back to us.
To be fair, the city of tuttle has already fried it, that's how this got started...
Is this a first? A website that actually states it has been /.'d and to come back later. Whoa..
I'm 37, and I associate the words "Apple" and "Music" when used together with this very company, Apple Records. I very much identify with the logo. Just because today's youth can't remember it doesn't mean that they don't have a very strong brand name and a right to protect it. I do, however, think that this is just a money grab because I don't think Apple Computer is causing any confusion or dilution of Apple Record's name. It doesn't in my mind at all, and who better to evaluate that than someone who knows both brands well?
By your standards (and mine), I present the ugliest site evar...
http://www.acura.com/
I haver never understood why there isn't an XXX html tag. I mean, I understand the issues with a TLD, but what porno site in their right mind wouldn't want to tag their pages as XXX? They could even not tag stuff that wasn't porn. Seems like a win for everyone...
What is the probability that a backup will be done in an 1/2 hour window? not much.
Wrong. High availablity systems are often attached to SANS, and SANS have quarum drives that snapshot incrementally, or when things are deleted. If they happen to have some of the newest email archiving solutions, there will be no emails ever lost. Time to rethink your solution there cowboy...
DVD drm was thoroughly raped, and whatever measures they include in Blu-Ray will be equally ravaged. DRM is irrelevant.
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That is the most insightful comment I have seen on
Not new, Gillette owns the patent on a vibrating razor.
http://www.gillettem3power.com/us/home_f.asp
Xanax is an anti-anxiety drug, not an anti-depressent. Anti-depressants do not make you "high". Also, used appropriatly, I would much rather have someone driving my bus on Xanax than on cocain or even pot.
You are so right. Back before Ebay even had a "Buy it Now" I would look at an auction and think, "Damn, I wish I could just buy that now".
Maybe there should be a clause in the patent code that says, "if it is so stupendously obvious that any fucktard would have eventually thought of it you can't patent it."