Or be the first to make that hamburger for the masses so no one knows the difference. Microsoft products just work on microsoft's operating system, what an observation. Just like Apple's products just work on MacOS. That's their business, if their products didn't work, they would be out of business. Pointing out their quality is irrelevant to an argument on innovation.
"You forget you're on Slashdot. The Windozers will race to post XKCD 619 on every Linux-related story, and it gets neck and neck for the karma boost that "+5 Insightful" offers."
There's a good reason to ban all windozers from a linux users board.
You left out the real risk is that any group can change the books text in the servers to reflect their bias. Paper books have the advantage of being unalterable once they are out. Ebooks, like wikipedia, can be altered at will by anyone, for any reason, at any time.
Actually publicly funded research goes on everyday, much of it basic research. Now if the corporate swine would stop raping our research groups(non-profits, public colleges/universities and their student bodies, etc) maybe there would be more incentive to do research. Want proof, just look at any college/university and count the corporate logos plastered all over. I won't get too far into students paying for an education with their own funds and doing research that will end up in corporate hands. So much for public paid for development. The last forty years has been an example of what short sighted self-serving behavior at the individual level can do. Let's hear it for the last couple of generations of spoiled brats!
"total story output will in the end average the same amount but higher quality. This "err on the side of speed over truth" attitude is exactly what's wrong with the media today, and any thinking person should do everything in their power to discourage it. If you're going to miss your deadline because it takes too long to get the truth, then the deadline is wrong."
How about reporting the truth that you couldn't get anything. Damn reporters are getting as bad as advertisers. Tell the public the truth and face you couldn't get anything. This isn't a give and take deal. If you weren't requested to report by the project or aren't willing to placate to those you are getting free info from to better your career then buzz off!
You do realize that SF has to get Childs on something don't you. Otherwise Childs could sue SF farther into bankruptcy than the entire state of CA currently is for wrongful prosecution, imprisonment, etc. Not to mention possible criminal prosecution for the SF officials involved if they lose. This whole thing smells.
Actually he already is paying for it. NASA pays for building and operating their toys with his and our tax money. So why doesn't he have 100Mb/s to his house again?
Except many of these colleges are paid for by the public directly and receive state money and federal grants. Very few colleges are really private. So what's this bullshit about what the public can't do on property they paid, and in many ways, are still paying for. They should ban big money from colleges so college sports or just any sport can be fun again instead of a paycheck or a step up. It'll also take away the drive to create these kinds of idiotic rules by even more idiotic organizations.
"Listen, can't we all just recognize that all parties are completely inept? I mean the NDP would be happy taxing us to death for the poor, the downtrodden, whatever, I can't vote for the Bloc out here in BC (even though I would -- just to see what happened) and the green party is nothing but conservatives dressed in green - I like none of their policies. The liberals are a bunch of wankers who can't seem to get any sort of cohesion, and the conservatives are fucking nuts."
Could someone please translate this to the american political system, it's awesome. Don't forget to send it to every member of both governments and hack it onto the front page of every newspaper and background of every news program. Spreading it's honest bluntness on the net is obvious.
"Remember though that you'll never leave your home country for travel, live in ~300 sq/person house, share a household immediately after college, and you would probably only own 3-4 suits of clothes."
Forget bias, how about history. Microsoft had befriended and then backstabbed various companies that were potential competitors -- apple(windows, mac/os), ibm(os2), etc.. and lets not forget lying to the courts(public) during the monopoly trial or buying off the ISO standards vote. Linux is a competitor whether you believe it or not and I'm sure Microsoft does believe it. Taking history into consideration, I'd say the linux world better be careful around this behemoth or the linux people might get their gnads fed to them.
P.S. Those who don't learn from history are destined to repeat it. We've learned, how about you?
Send whoever did this to jail on 4th amendment grounds. No one has said this but is does violate the intent of the 4th amendment. What goes on in their private lives has nothing to do with their potential job. As for the city claiming ownership of the passwords, a public investigation of what idiot set this up and a run to the courts should correct it. If not, how about a public flogging in the middle of a nationally televised football game.
Depending on the how the password criteria is decided, we may end up with idiots in city services. Oops, idiots put the invasion of privacy requests on the job forms, guess the city is already screwed.
Maybe if they had some OLPCs(one laptop per child). They were designed to be portable, tough, independently powered, and have mesh networking built in. They were aimed at education but here's another use for them. The laptops shape(kid sized) and coloration(green) does kind of stand out though. This seems like a perfect application for them otherwise. They're also cheap ($150?).
But some IT departments and university admins like to think their the NSA and often behave like it. Remember these are students with few resources to fight overbearing departments.
You missed something. The university has the right to protect their network on their hardware not your hardware. They can watch the behavior from their servers, what is on or passes through your machine is none of their business until it reaches their hardware.
"I would prefer mandatory registration similar to the way the domain name system works. Thus:"
You are kidding right?!! Let's look at the recent history of the dns registration system. Various forms of cybersquatting, registration stealing, improper registar behavior (ex. registering dns names from independent queries(intellectual theft)), questionable registar regulation (ex.registerfly finally lost accreditation after years of misbehavior, finally cracking down on registars preregistering domains from independent lookups), etc. It may work but I wouldn't want to depend something as long ranging and real life/physical as copyright on it. We're talking about registering a record in a computer database somewhere, the cost to register should be minimal if not free as a service and done by the government as an independent/regulatory entity its supposed to be.
The term should be no longer that 20 years (or less, definitely not more) after publishing, death irrelevant, and afterwards its public domain. You know like the founding fathers intended, the primary goal of copyright is to enrich society by giving creators a monopoly for a limited period to make a profit at the expense of immediate disclosure to the public for reuse. The key words are limited period, even in the life of this country (233yrs) the 80 or so years of a current lifetime isn't all that limited a period.
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Or be the first to make that hamburger for the masses so no one knows the difference. Microsoft products just work on microsoft's operating system, what an observation. Just like Apple's products just work on MacOS. That's their business, if their products didn't work, they would be out of business. Pointing out their quality is irrelevant to an argument on innovation.
"You forget you're on Slashdot. The Windozers will race to post XKCD 619 on every Linux-related story, and it gets neck and neck for the karma boost that "+5 Insightful" offers."
There's a good reason to ban all windozers from a linux users board.
You left out the real risk is that any group can change the books text in the servers to reflect their bias. Paper books have the advantage of being unalterable once they are out. Ebooks, like wikipedia, can be altered at will by anyone, for any reason, at any time.
So your saying, opposites attract.
Actually publicly funded research goes on everyday, much of it basic research. Now if the corporate swine would stop raping our research groups(non-profits, public colleges/universities and their student bodies, etc) maybe there would be more incentive to do research. Want proof, just look at any college/university and count the corporate logos plastered all over. I won't get too far into students paying for an education with their own funds and doing research that will end up in corporate hands. So much for public paid for development. The last forty years has been an example of what short sighted self-serving behavior at the individual level can do. Let's hear it for the last couple of generations of spoiled brats!
Carlin said it all, baby boomers.
"total story output will in the end average the same amount but higher quality. This "err on the side of speed over truth" attitude is exactly what's wrong with the media today, and any thinking person should do everything in their power to discourage it. If you're going to miss your deadline because it takes too long to get the truth, then the deadline is wrong."
Here, here, author, author!!
How about reporting the truth that you couldn't get anything. Damn reporters are getting as bad as advertisers. Tell the public the truth and face you couldn't get anything. This isn't a give and take deal. If you weren't requested to report by the project or aren't willing to placate to those you are getting free info from to better your career then buzz off!
You do realize that SF has to get Childs on something don't you. Otherwise Childs could sue SF farther into bankruptcy than the entire state of CA currently is for wrongful prosecution, imprisonment, etc. Not to mention possible criminal prosecution for the SF officials involved if they lose. This whole thing smells.
Actually he already is paying for it. NASA pays for building and operating their toys with his and our tax money. So why doesn't he have 100Mb/s to his house again?
And from microsofts past commercial != quality code either.
Except many of these colleges are paid for by the public directly and receive state money and federal grants. Very few colleges are really private. So what's this bullshit about what the public can't do on property they paid, and in many ways, are still paying for. They should ban big money from colleges so college sports or just any sport can be fun again instead of a paycheck or a step up. It'll also take away the drive to create these kinds of idiotic rules by even more idiotic organizations.
Just remember that "commercial data" is just public data with a percentage of self-serving spin on it, so the public is getting robbed first.
"Listen, can't we all just recognize that all parties are completely inept? I mean the NDP would be happy taxing us to death for the poor, the downtrodden, whatever, I can't vote for the Bloc out here in BC (even though I would -- just to see what happened) and the green party is nothing but conservatives dressed in green - I like none of their policies. The liberals are a bunch of wankers who can't seem to get any sort of cohesion, and the conservatives are fucking nuts."
Could someone please translate this to the american political system, it's awesome. Don't forget to send it to every member of both governments and hack it onto the front page of every newspaper and background of every news program. Spreading it's honest bluntness on the net is obvious.
There's also freebsd which has kde4.3 in ports as of yesterday.
"Remember though that you'll never leave your home country for travel, live in ~300 sq/person house, share a household immediately after college, and you would probably only own 3-4 suits of clothes."
And what's the downside?
Then "string'em up"!!
Forget bias, how about history. Microsoft had befriended and then backstabbed various companies that were potential competitors -- apple(windows, mac/os), ibm(os2), etc.. and lets not forget lying to the courts(public) during the monopoly trial or buying off the ISO standards vote. Linux is a competitor whether you believe it or not and I'm sure Microsoft does believe it. Taking history into consideration, I'd say the linux world better be careful around this behemoth or the linux people might get their gnads fed to them.
P.S. Those who don't learn from history are destined to repeat it. We've learned, how about you?
Which is why we need tests and laws to keep the unethical -- translates to power hungry control freaks -- out of such positions.
Send whoever did this to jail on 4th amendment grounds. No one has said this but is does violate the intent of the 4th amendment. What goes on in their private lives has nothing to do with their potential job. As for the city claiming ownership of the passwords, a public investigation of what idiot set this up and a run to the courts should correct it.
If not, how about a public flogging in the middle of a nationally televised football game.
Depending on the how the password criteria is decided, we may end up with idiots in city services. Oops, idiots put the invasion of privacy requests on the job forms, guess the city is already screwed.
Maybe if they had some OLPCs(one laptop per child). They were designed to be portable, tough, independently powered, and have mesh networking built in. They were aimed at education but here's another use for them. The laptops shape(kid sized) and coloration(green) does kind of stand out though. This seems like a perfect application for them otherwise. They're also cheap ($150?).
Then tell them I'm paying for this university so fix your network.
But some IT departments and university admins like to think their the NSA and often behave like it. Remember these are students with few resources to fight overbearing departments.
You missed something. The university has the right to protect their network on their hardware not your hardware. They can watch the behavior from their servers, what is on or passes through your machine is none of their business until it reaches their hardware.
"I would prefer mandatory registration similar to the way the domain name system works. Thus:"
You are kidding right?!! Let's look at the recent history of the dns registration system. Various forms of cybersquatting, registration stealing, improper registar behavior (ex. registering dns names from independent queries(intellectual theft)), questionable registar regulation (ex.registerfly finally lost accreditation after years of misbehavior, finally cracking down on registars preregistering domains from independent lookups), etc. It may work but I wouldn't want to depend something as long ranging and real life/physical as copyright on it. We're talking about registering a record in a computer database somewhere, the cost to register should be minimal if not free as a service and done by the government as an independent/regulatory entity its supposed to be.
The term should be no longer that 20 years (or less, definitely not more) after publishing, death irrelevant, and afterwards its public domain. You know like the founding fathers intended, the primary goal of copyright is to enrich society by giving creators a monopoly for a limited period to make a profit at the expense of immediate disclosure to the public for reuse. The key words are limited period, even in the life of this country (233yrs) the 80 or so years of a current lifetime isn't all that limited a period.