I'm surprised this hasn't received more mainstream coverage
you may have noticed the hurricanes, flooding, wars, earthquakes, epidemics and CIA leak investigations in the news. do you think that these topics matter a little bit more to the average american than who controls ICANN? probably. that is why there is non-mainstream media, like slashdot, to cover these stories. none of this should surprise you.
hmm do you know every weapon that is being used right now to protect your ass from people who want you dead? i dont think so. i dont think you really have any idea what weapons are being used against terrorists. Al Qaida dosent build rockets, they use suicide bombers, so we need things that are better, and probably more expensive, to counter them. just because something is expensive or too high-tech dosent make it a bad idea.
thats not really the point. no matter what reagan thought, bull was building weapons for saddam hussein. are you saying that just because reagan thought it was ok, bull's work is justified??
thanks ive looked up werner von braun and i really dont think he compares to gerald bull. you conviently ignore the fact that bull built weapons for saddam hussein. how exactly do you rationalize that?
do you seriously not care that he was building a cannon for saddam hussein, a man who has used chemical weapons against his own citizens, launched wars at the drop of a hat and sworn to eliminate several of his neighbors?
im not saying that the US or its current president are perfect, but thats not really a rationale for supporting a weapons scientist. if Bull chose to make wepons for saddam hussein, he should have know the consequenses of his actions, both for himself and millions of innocent civilians who would have been affected by his weapons.
i think the real moral of this story is dont become a weapons scientist for saddam hussein or any other insane dictator. what Bull did was irresponsible at best and, at worst, worthy of a war criminal. i wonder if you would feel the same way had a giant cannon been pointed at your house.
devalueing the us dollar would increase US exports and help the economy. the excuse that the US is running a current account defecit is ridiculous, as a percentage of GDP, it is much less than many other countries. so i dont really think that is a plausible reason for the US going to war against Iraq.
A company like Pixar, which needs a lot of computing power, should host a flashmob, and give people who come a free ticket to the movie they just helped render.
A manned moon base would encourage astronauts to practice In Situ Resource Utilization, making fuel and oxygen out of the moon, or mars' geological resources. This would be good practice for a future Mars mission, and would be useful in producing fuel for other missions in our solar system. Also, it would demonstrate whether or not there is commercial viability for a moon-based mining operation.
i agree with you. patents can harm incremental innovation a lot. I also agree that 20 years is a lot, especially in the software/computer arena, where, arguably, innovation occurs at an extremely rapid pace.
many people on slashdot only look at one side of the situation, however, that patents are bad, and ignore any benefits patents might provide.
The FTAA has been in development since 1998, and its not even supposed to be completed until 2005, there's still a lot of room for changes in it. Luckilly, Brazil has led the push for more reasonable IP rights including compulsory liscensing for drugs, allowing governments to produce pharmacuticals at lower prices. Also, the Brazilian govt. is pushing to leave out of the FTAA the more contentions parts of IP laws as well as restricitons on providing services and allowint the WTO to deal with that. Finally, the breakdown of the WTO talks in Cancun will hopefully lend credibility to the push for more fair and moderate regulations. So maybe the sky isnt quite falling yet, as the IP Justice people think. For a different take, check out the official website here
Your argument is that innovation in an environment with little respect for a patent system, and IP rights will be greater than in an environment with more respect for patent and IP rights. China and Russia were your examples of countries with low regards for patent and IP rights.
I argue that the US has, in the past 10 to 20 years, had one of the strictest, and broadest IP rights system in the world, yet it continues to lead the world in innovation and R&D. Linux aside, and whatever your political persuasion, most people would agree that the US has the largest amount of public and private R&D investment in the world.
Instead of summarily dismissing any new patent legislation or enforcement of IP rights, maybe people should consider the possibility that there can be some benefits to it.
What would make you think that Russia, which can barely pay its cops much less IT people, and China, which is too shortsighted to properly manage a health crisis, will be centers of IT innovation? In fact, the country with the strictest IP and patent laws (USA) has been the center for IT innovation for the past two decades. So I really dont buy the whole "strict IP laws will kill innovation" argument, empirical evidence shows that the opposite is true.
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haha looks like there were too many skittles in their server!
REAL moral of the story, you could have saved a lot of people from getting their money stolen and scammed if you had reported and/or followed up on this guy. If you are going to buy/sell on Ebay, you should act in a manner that will improve the experience of your peers or help them out. Thanks a lot from everyone who got ripped off.
The new powermac G5's have digital audio out over fibre optic cable using the S/PDIF protocal. [scroll to bottom of page] This eliminates any interference and would sound a hell of a lot better than any analog signal from computer to receiver. Surprising no one has mentioned this... I've never heard of a desktop that comes with digital audio standard before. Just one more reason steve jobs rules the universe.
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Especially when they didn't ask my permission first.
did you click 'accept' on the EULA? then Apple asked your permission and you agreed to it. dont blame your own carelessness on someone else.
woodwork. would it KILL you to check the idiom?
wow yeah, the words "United States of America" which are currently printed on US passports certainly don't give our nationality away.
I'm surprised this hasn't received more mainstream coverage
you may have noticed the hurricanes, flooding, wars, earthquakes, epidemics and CIA leak investigations in the news. do you think that these topics matter a little bit more to the average american than who controls ICANN? probably. that is why there is non-mainstream media, like slashdot, to cover these stories. none of this should surprise you.
Yes! now I can play minesweeper and solitare on my PSP running windows 95.
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plus the bonus underwater level, i've heard its all blue with some white text.
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hmm do you know every weapon that is being used right now to protect your ass from people who want you dead? i dont think so. i dont think you really have any idea what weapons are being used against terrorists. Al Qaida dosent build rockets, they use suicide bombers, so we need things that are better, and probably more expensive, to counter them. just because something is expensive or too high-tech dosent make it a bad idea.
also, i did not see any shots taken in the winter with snow on the ground. i guess they waited until the summer. weird.
Since washington DC is federal land, its a federal offence [im pretty sure the poster is talking about WMATA metrocards used in Wash DC]
thats not really the point. no matter what reagan thought, bull was building weapons for saddam hussein. are you saying that just because reagan thought it was ok, bull's work is justified??
fine, saddam used blood agent chemicals and yes, he did use them - how does that make my point less valid?
thanks ive looked up werner von braun and i really dont think he compares to gerald bull. you conviently ignore the fact that bull built weapons for saddam hussein. how exactly do you rationalize that?
do you seriously not care that he was building a cannon for saddam hussein, a man who has used chemical weapons against his own citizens, launched wars at the drop of a hat and sworn to eliminate several of his neighbors?
im not saying that the US or its current president are perfect, but thats not really a rationale for supporting a weapons scientist. if Bull chose to make wepons for saddam hussein, he should have know the consequenses of his actions, both for himself and millions of innocent civilians who would have been affected by his weapons.
i think the real moral of this story is dont become a weapons scientist for saddam hussein or any other insane dictator. what Bull did was irresponsible at best and, at worst, worthy of a war criminal. i wonder if you would feel the same way had a giant cannon been pointed at your house.
devalueing the us dollar would increase US exports and help the economy. the excuse that the US is running a current account defecit is ridiculous, as a percentage of GDP, it is much less than many other countries. so i dont really think that is a plausible reason for the US going to war against Iraq.
A company like Pixar, which needs a lot of computing power, should host a flashmob, and give people who come a free ticket to the movie they just helped render.
A manned moon base would encourage astronauts to practice In Situ Resource Utilization, making fuel and oxygen out of the moon, or mars' geological resources. This would be good practice for a future Mars mission, and would be useful in producing fuel for other missions in our solar system. Also, it would demonstrate whether or not there is commercial viability for a moon-based mining operation.
i agree with you. patents can harm incremental innovation a lot. I also agree that 20 years is a lot, especially in the software/computer arena, where, arguably, innovation occurs at an extremely rapid pace.
many people on slashdot only look at one side of the situation, however, that patents are bad, and ignore any benefits patents might provide.
The FTAA has been in development since 1998, and its not even supposed to be completed until 2005, there's still a lot of room for changes in it. Luckilly, Brazil has led the push for more reasonable IP rights including compulsory liscensing for drugs, allowing governments to produce pharmacuticals at lower prices. Also, the Brazilian govt. is pushing to leave out of the FTAA the more contentions parts of IP laws as well as restricitons on providing services and allowint the WTO to deal with that. Finally, the breakdown of the WTO talks in Cancun will hopefully lend credibility to the push for more fair and moderate regulations. So maybe the sky isnt quite falling yet, as the IP Justice people think. For a different take, check out the official website here
Your argument is that innovation in an environment with little respect for a patent system, and IP rights will be greater than in an environment with more respect for patent and IP rights. China and Russia were your examples of countries with low regards for patent and IP rights.
I argue that the US has, in the past 10 to 20 years, had one of the strictest, and broadest IP rights system in the world, yet it continues to lead the world in innovation and R&D. Linux aside, and whatever your political persuasion, most people would agree that the US has the largest amount of public and private R&D investment in the world.
Instead of summarily dismissing any new patent legislation or enforcement of IP rights, maybe people should consider the possibility that there can be some benefits to it.
What would make you think that Russia, which can barely pay its cops much less IT people, and China, which is too shortsighted to properly manage a health crisis, will be centers of IT innovation? In fact, the country with the strictest IP and patent laws (USA) has been the center for IT innovation for the past two decades. So I really dont buy the whole "strict IP laws will kill innovation" argument, empirical evidence shows that the opposite is true.
haha looks like there were too many skittles in their server!
REAL moral of the story, you could have saved a lot of people from getting their money stolen and scammed if you had reported and/or followed up on this guy. If you are going to buy/sell on Ebay, you should act in a manner that will improve the experience of your peers or help them out. Thanks a lot from everyone who got ripped off.
On a new mac it is
The new powermac G5's have digital audio out over fibre optic cable using the S/PDIF protocal. [scroll to bottom of page] This eliminates any interference and would sound a hell of a lot better than any analog signal from computer to receiver. Surprising no one has mentioned this... I've never heard of a desktop that comes with digital audio standard before. Just one more reason steve jobs rules the universe.
sweet!, an open source kid! where do I sign up?