"Two other legislative employees (who must also remain anonymous) told Linux.com that the Microsoft lobbyists implied that elected representatives who voted against Microsoft's interests might have a little more trouble raising campaign funds than they would if they helped the IT giant achieve its Florida goals."
When you're done hooking up your home computers with free software, make sure you notify your elected representatives that you know what bribes look like
"It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming" -Jamie Kellner, CEO of Turner Broadcasting
"But will there be links to free songs from my favorite artists"
No, there won't. This is the most unfortunate thing about what the "content industry" has done -- and is trying to keep doing -- to our culture. They've appropriated "ownership" of great art by talented, hard working individuals, and now use that catalog as leverage to impose far-reaching technology control measures on *everyone.
When you buy their CDs, you're letting 'em know that's a-ok with you.
Many of my favorite artists were hoodwinked in this way. Maybe we could prevent that from happening to the next generation of greats...
"it harms... well.... the online ad market. Am I the only one who's not entirely scared by that?"
Do you own a business? If so, a monopoly controller of online advertising could fsck you just like any other business-critical service/material you buy.
Just don't buy RIAA music. It's not that hard. I'd put my usual links to a dozen sites where you can find great independent/free music, but you guys can probably find them yourselves.
Convention Hall: maybe. Stadium, no. At 2:1 aspect ratio this comes in right around 8' X 4'. Not for big events. (a 103" diagonal is *very different from a 180)
That mentality always puzzled me: "we don't want the machines sitting in someone else's building"
They're still sitting in *a *building, and that building has to be secured. Does your widget production company know more about security than people who make billions running data centers?
Also, what if there is a breach? If you were handling all that precious data, you're fscked. If you had a contract with another company, you might have recourse to get damages -- if there was negligence, of course.
Note: I'm not an expert in security but I hear this line a lot, and it never sounded well thought-out to me.
attacked seems a little strong. I haven't seen the video, but I read the transcript and was like, jeez. He prolly should apologize for the slip but getting *fired?!
Mrs. LeFou and I just had a conversation about this the other day. The public education system is badly broken, and I don't have much hope for private education for reasons that your post touches on: if an institution has -- as its priority -- market signals (read "profit"), it will not think of education as a critical-thinking incubator. It'll simply think of it as "training" to play whatever game nets you the most cash.
I'm not in total disagreement with you, my googlove notwithstanding. I don't get it; what's the hook. I haven't made an http request to doubleclick in years, on account of m4d hosts file management skillz.
Usually when google picks up a property, it's one with a bit of vision. Does DC have something technologically interesting under the hood somewhere?
"Um, read that again, and see if you can find the problem.;-)"
I found two: 1. No one reads TFA 2. There are plurality of TFAs...which means there's an error in your statement, which should read "Um, read that again, and see if you can find the problems.;-)"
There may be a plurality of errors in your statement, not sure...
I think it's dumb, too. But keep in mind the only reason RIAA won that tournament was because the current U.S. administration wasn't in it.
Talk about the lesser of two evils... we've got the actual *bottom *two evils competing for our votes;)
I agree sorta
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MS is a symptom as often as they are a cause of this problem, as here. The fundamental problem is the forced-upgrade/planned obsolescence cycle.
My point is simply that this cycle doesn't get as firm a foothold when the market is (relatively) free, i.e. when there is not a monopoly engaging in anticompetitive behavior and raising artificial barriers to entry.
I heard this guy on the radio complaining that this was characterized as them trying to get more power. He said they were just modernizing.
Reminds me of another pile of BS, the gist of which is that "modernizing the law" means surrendering quite a few more of your rights to the powers that be.
Vista: the cowtow starts now
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It's a pitiful state we've got in. Just this morning we learned about a product that users really want being prettymuch yanked out of the market. Now DRM -- a product that no user wants -- is being shoved down everyone's throats.
And I still hear *daily posturing about how the "free market" should decide things like net neutrality, document formats, etc.
"You aren't making any sort of choice based on the merits of the system, just on politics and the fact that you dislike microsoft"
I feel that purchasing *anything is inherently political. You could go mad with guilt hunting down all the ramifications of every purchase you make, so you pick your boycotts carefully. But software purchases are especially political because the very fact that code is treated as a *product results from the government-granted monopoly we call copyright.
Thought experiment: if Apple made a similar deal with -- say -- Mandriva, would we be pist?
is on whatever Gmail uses. I've not yet seen a spam message in my inbox, nor have I missed any mail, even from auto-mailing scripts at websites I'm building...
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"Two other legislative employees (who must also remain anonymous) told Linux.com that the Microsoft lobbyists implied that elected representatives who voted against Microsoft's interests might have a little more trouble raising campaign funds than they would if they helped the IT giant achieve its Florida goals."
When you're done hooking up your home computers with free software, make sure you notify your elected representatives that you know what bribes look like
"It's theft. Your contract with the network when you get the show is you're going to watch the spots. Otherwise you couldn't get the show on an ad-supported basis. Any time you skip a commercial or watch the button you're actually stealing the programming"
-Jamie Kellner, CEO of Turner Broadcasting
Sidenote: what does "watch the button" mean here?
Well, I can't argue with that logic.
In other news, a monopoly on meat is no problem, 'cause if you only eat meat you're not getting a balanced diet.
Substitute "enchilada" for "meat" if you want...
"But will there be links to free songs from my favorite artists"
No, there won't. This is the most unfortunate thing about what the "content industry" has done -- and is trying to keep doing -- to our culture. They've appropriated "ownership" of great art by talented, hard working individuals, and now use that catalog as leverage to impose far-reaching technology control measures on *everyone.
When you buy their CDs, you're letting 'em know that's a-ok with you.
Many of my favorite artists were hoodwinked in this way. Maybe we could prevent that from happening to the next generation of greats...
"it harms... well.... the online ad market. Am I the only one who's not entirely scared by that?"
Do you own a business? If so, a monopoly controller of online advertising could fsck you just like any other business-critical service/material you buy.
Just don't buy RIAA music. It's not that hard. I'd put my usual links to a dozen sites where you can find great independent/free music, but you guys can probably find them yourselves.
'Course I can never resist linking RIAA radar:
http://www.riaaradar.com/
Convention Hall: maybe. Stadium, no.
At 2:1 aspect ratio this comes in right around 8' X 4'. Not for big events.
(a 103" diagonal is *very different from a 180)
That mentality always puzzled me: "we don't want the machines sitting in someone else's building"
They're still sitting in *a *building, and that building has to be secured. Does your widget production company know more about security than people who make billions running data centers?
Also, what if there is a breach? If you were handling all that precious data, you're fscked. If you had a contract with another company, you might have recourse to get damages -- if there was negligence, of course.
Note: I'm not an expert in security but I hear this line a lot, and it never sounded well thought-out to me.
...when virtualization can be called a security problem.
This is like saying that having a chroot "jail" for BIND opens up a hole.
Or like saying black is white.
There aren't any immediately-practical uses for robotics laws, but if it gets people thinking about ethics & technology I'm all for 'em.
attacked seems a little strong. I haven't seen the video, but I read the transcript and was like, jeez. He prolly should apologize for the slip but getting *fired?!
You sound cool; mind if I hijack?
Mrs. LeFou and I just had a conversation about this the other day. The public education system is badly broken, and I don't have much hope for private education for reasons that your post touches on: if an institution has -- as its priority -- market signals (read "profit"), it will not think of education as a critical-thinking incubator. It'll simply think of it as "training" to play whatever game nets you the most cash.
Was that clear? Just thinking aloud...
I'm not in total disagreement with you, my googlove notwithstanding. I don't get it; what's the hook. I haven't made an http request to doubleclick in years, on account of m4d hosts file management skillz.
Usually when google picks up a property, it's one with a bit of vision. Does DC have something technologically interesting under the hood somewhere?
"Um, read that again, and see if you can find the problem. ;-)"
...which means there's an error in your statement, which should read ;-)"
...
I found two:
1. No one reads TFA
2. There are plurality of TFAs
"Um, read that again, and see if you can find the problems.
There may be a plurality of errors in your statement, not sure
*head explodes
The spokesthing actually contends that the crashes are "a by-design behavior that improves security and stability"
Um, it's defined in the twelve words after "fuzzer" in TFA
"a tool that probes an application for vulnerabilities by sending random input"
This is known as an appositive phrase.
I think it's dumb, too. But keep in mind the only reason RIAA won that tournament was because the current U.S. administration wasn't in it.
;)
Talk about the lesser of two evils... we've got the actual *bottom *two evils competing for our votes
MS is a symptom as often as they are a cause of this problem, as here. The fundamental problem is the forced-upgrade/planned obsolescence cycle.
My point is simply that this cycle doesn't get as firm a foothold when the market is (relatively) free, i.e. when there is not a monopoly engaging in anticompetitive behavior and raising artificial barriers to entry.
I heard this guy on the radio complaining that this was characterized as them trying to get more power. He said they were just modernizing.
Reminds me of another pile of BS, the gist of which is that "modernizing the law" means surrendering quite a few more of your rights to the powers that be.
It's a pitiful state we've got in. Just this morning we learned about a product that users really want being prettymuch yanked out of the market. Now DRM -- a product that no user wants -- is being shoved down everyone's throats.
And I still hear *daily posturing about how the "free market" should decide things like net neutrality, document formats, etc.
"You aren't making any sort of choice based on the merits of the system, just on politics and the fact that you dislike microsoft"
I feel that purchasing *anything is inherently political. You could go mad with guilt hunting down all the ramifications of every purchase you make, so you pick your boycotts carefully. But software purchases are especially political because the very fact that code is treated as a *product results from the government-granted monopoly we call copyright.
Thought experiment: if Apple made a similar deal with -- say -- Mandriva, would we be pist?
"I think it was meant for countries with a still-emerging PC market"
n s_and_pricing
No, that'd be Windows Vista Starter.
Incidentally, I'm confused by
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vista_editio
which indicates that Starter is limited to *max 256M of memory. Odd considering requirements for Home Basic are 512 *minimum.
How deliberately-crippled is Starter? It has the (lol) 3-simultaneous-applications limit, of course. But with max 256 is it even going to run?
"Organic Light Absorbing Diodes that will convert light into electricity"
...
1. Illuminate a plant
2. Put plant in biomass-powered generator
3.
4. Profit?
is on whatever Gmail uses. I've not yet seen a spam message in my inbox, nor have I missed any mail, even from auto-mailing scripts at websites I'm building...
"What is the competition doing and how can we do it halfassedly?"
FYP.