The actual text is like this:
"In a speech made in the Netherlands on 1 September and put online by MI5, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller said 'Okay, people, we tried this whole guaranteeing-civil-rights thing but it's just not working out. We're ready to come back to the bargaining table and try and find a more solution-oriented solution that will add value for consumers while protecting the innovation of our industries.'"
I disagree. People have to call attention to this crap over and over again, all the time. Thank god there are lots of us to share the work.
Some well-funded players have an interest in just outright owning everything. I think they would very much like for us all to get tired of hearing about it.
hm. i always thought that usage was a confusion with "ensure", of which the only definition is "to make sure, certain, or safe". Is this one of those misuses that is just so common it started getting accepted?
okay as per the responses below i should say i was mostly kidding about spamming the poor guys; on the other hand, we all know it takes more than 1 or 2 complaints to get anything changed.
"I know it's 2005 and all but in that situation I'm still going to want to talk to a live person."
You and the other several hundred thousand people like you, in this case. Problem is there aren't 6-7 digits of FEMA employees to talk back to you.
That's what websites are for, isn't it? Hey what if I took my laptop and portable hotspot down to reunion center and volunteered a few hours to get people registered, etc.
Oh. can't. 'Cause I use fedora and firefox. Can't submit html forms.
Sounds like a weak excuse to me. The fact is that submitting forms and that sort of thing don't require an "application" at all. They require HTML and a bit of server-side technology that has only been active and stable for, say, 15 years now.
or maybe 25. I'm just a kid so I don't know.
Can I ask a follow-up question? When, if ever, did it first occur to FEMA that people registering/applying via the Web might be a Good Thing? This week?
You know how every few days/weeks some Microsoft executive is being interviewed and/or making a stump speech about how intensely devoted they are to interoperability?
Where the Hell is anyone who knows anything about anything? Why is it the only non-slashdot place I've seen them get called out is in the Opera guy's blog?
Seriously. This is a question about journalism, viz: Is there any (journalism)?
>WinBSD apps could be made to work on any kind of *NIX with little effort!
Except in the EXTREMELY unlikely event that Microsoft does the unthinkable: add stuff to the API and document it poorly so that it only works right on WinBSD, and it's a bitch to make the apps work on other *NIX
I know it's farfetched; I'm just practicing imagining all sorts of Really Off The Wall things. It's a mental exercise
As has been stated numerous times, the "open source community" wants to control their own computers. That's why they/we behave the way we do.
Having these people tackle a DRM project is like Having Adbusters run your marketing campaign (This, by the way, happens all the time, I think)
The danger of half measures is that they often convince people that the problem has been addressed, and it becomes almost impossible to get them to talk about a complete measure.
e.g. -The Patent Reform Act of 2005, a half-measure if I ever saw one, will be accounted "good enough" and no one will have to stomach to look into this issue again for years. -This patent pool could make developers complacent, as though they had bought some time, at a time when Very Intense Activity is what's needed.
I remember this book... it was terrible. It contained NOTHING specific to PHP5's features. Also it was terrible. It was full of
echo "TD> blah blah blah/td>";
echo "TD> and so on/td>";
echo "/TR";
echo "/TABLE";
ick.
And I remember somewhere it said PHP stands for "Pretty Home Pages"
wtf indeed.
1. Have someone (for free) demonstrate that your products are of really high quality and also very cool/hip.
2. Demonstrate (for about six figures paid to your lawyers) that you are a cranky imbecile.
3.... ?
4. Break Even!
Can't find it on USPTO's site, but I realized that Microsoft's strategy compels the office to review 8.2 applications a day, 365 days a year... and that's ONE company.
Slashdot Mirror
still funny, though.
The word "erode" doesn't appear in TFA, except in the subheadline. It does appear in http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/new s/news.html?in_article_id=361911&in_page_id=1770&i n_a_source=&ct=5
i.e. the Dame didn't say that, it just appears in the dailymail writeup (then, of course, in slashdot, as "Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller claims in the future some civil rights may have to 'erode'")
The actual text is like this:
"In a speech made in the Netherlands on 1 September and put online by MI5, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller said 'Okay, people, we tried this whole guaranteeing-civil-rights thing but it's just not working out. We're ready to come back to the bargaining table and try and find a more solution-oriented solution that will add value for consumers while protecting the innovation of our industries.'"
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damn
Some well-funded players have an interest in just outright owning everything. I think they would very much like for us all to get tired of hearing about it.
ooh: look! we're all sort of wrong: http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/en glish/data/d0081600.html
hm. i always thought that usage was a confusion with "ensure", of which the only definition is "to make sure, certain, or safe". Is this one of those misuses that is just so common it started getting accepted?
okay as per the responses below i should say i was mostly kidding about spamming the poor guys; on the other hand, we all know it takes more than 1 or 2 complaints to get anything changed.
You and the other several hundred thousand people like you, in this case. Problem is there aren't 6-7 digits of FEMA employees to talk back to you.
That's what websites are for, isn't it? Hey what if I took my laptop and portable hotspot down to reunion center and volunteered a few hours to get people registered, etc.
Oh. can't. 'Cause I use fedora and firefox. Can't submit html forms.
or maybe 25. I'm just a kid so I don't know.
Can I ask a follow-up question? When, if ever, did it first occur to FEMA that people registering/applying via the Web might be a Good Thing? This week?
I agree. I just sent them (femawebmaster@dhs.gov) this quote, and some other nasty thoughts. Please crush them with email. This is BS.
How much are the premiums?
Where the Hell is anyone who knows anything about anything? Why is it the only non-slashdot place I've seen them get called out is in the Opera guy's blog?
Seriously. This is a question about journalism, viz: Is there any (journalism)?
Also remember the mental transaction costs
Does it count as business if I refill one and give it to a friend? For free (as in cartridges)?
Dammit, I tried to patent that in January of 2001, too. Their application must've beaten mine by just a couple days.
What Unbelivably Bad Luck I Have!
Except in the EXTREMELY unlikely event that Microsoft does the unthinkable: add stuff to the API and document it poorly so that it only works right on WinBSD, and it's a bitch to make the apps work on other *NIX
I know it's farfetched; I'm just practicing imagining all sorts of Really Off The Wall things. It's a mental exercise
Legally downloaded audio/video file disclaimer - "Not Compatible with Freedom"
Windows Vista box sticker - "100% Freedom-free!"
*sigh...
As has been stated numerous times, the "open source community" wants to control their own computers. That's why they/we behave the way we do. Having these people tackle a DRM project is like Having Adbusters run your marketing campaign (This, by the way, happens all the time, I think)
But this is a half-measure. For which, see "Half Measures", above.
The danger of half measures is that they often convince people that the problem has been addressed, and it becomes almost impossible to get them to talk about a complete measure.
e.g.
-The Patent Reform Act of 2005, a half-measure if I ever saw one, will be accounted "good enough" and no one will have to stomach to look into this issue again for years.
-This patent pool could make developers complacent, as though they had bought some time, at a time when Very Intense Activity is what's needed.
>Perl 5? Um ... no, PHP5 ... as per TFA. Guess P5 is one of my own personal shorthands
(Presently hacking a PHP5 version of Maypole as it turns out)
It's fine with me if that eventually is RoR, but considering the much vaster PHP user base, wouldn't P5 be a better starting point?
echo "TD> blah blah blah
echo "TD> and so on
echo "/TR";
echo "/TABLE";
ick.
And I remember somewhere it said PHP stands for "Pretty Home Pages"
wtf indeed.
1. Have someone (for free) demonstrate that your products are of really high quality and also very cool/hip. 2. Demonstrate (for about six figures paid to your lawyers) that you are a cranky imbecile. 3. ... ?
4. Break Even!
Can't find it on USPTO's site, but I realized that Microsoft's strategy compels the office to review 8.2 applications a day, 365 days a year... and that's ONE company.