I wonder what his IP rights are to his mods? Could he turn around and sue Creative if the issue a Vista patch that fixes the drivers in the same way that Daniel-K's mods did? But from the sounds of his response, he would never try to pursue that line.
So there will finally be propagando to counter the countless other bloggers who spew out nonsense about the war.
Bloggers spewing nonsense about the war should be nicely countered by the insight coming out of Blackfive and other milblogs. But PysOps is a part of the military, and so for the government to use what it recognizes as military techniques against the American people is a very different thing that having private citizens with strongly biased opinions.
why the RIAA members seem to have a disproportionate share of numbskull management.
Hookers and blow. Seriously, how much cocaine do you think Warren Buffet has done in his lifetime vs how much coke goes up the nose of the average music exec? Find anyone in a position of power that has done a lot of cocaine, and they will always have a disconnect from reality in which they always believe they are just and right in their ambitions, regardless of the facts presented to them.
Do even 10% of New York apartments have fiber-connection? Why not one might ask?
Speaking as someone who has lived in NYC for the past nine years and lived in five different apartments so far: You would not believe how poorly patched together New York City is unless you are reading this from a former soviet-block country. From the subway to apartment repairs to the roads to phone and cable infrastructure, NYC is a collection of barely good enough, cheapest, fastest repairs and hacks. NYC hasn't been able to even put in a new subway line since 1919 and you think we should be able to roll out fiber to any but the most expensive apartments? In Stockholm you may be able to convince landlords to actually do things like put in new pipes or electric wiring and to add fiber while they are at it. Here in Manhattan, my water comes out of the faucet rust brown and I only have electrical outlets on two walls of my apartment. Landlords do the least amount they can legally get away with, as there is always someone who will step in a rent the apartment as is. (The vacancy rate here is below 1%) I would expect fiber to be run to most of the surrounding commuter towns well before it becomes common in households actually in the city. Seriously the infrastructure here is FUBAR
How are small town papers losing so much market share if they're reporting mostly local news?
Could it be a reflection of what people think is important? Maybe a large percentages of the population doesn't care whats happening in their small town. I think that is sad, but frequently true. If someone isn't invested in their local community, then local news seems like pointless fluff. If you don't have kids, and don't go to the highschool football games, do you care if the highschool football team makes it the state championship? If you never look for culture in your small town, do you care about the new community theater production or the local band playing Friday night at the bar?
the weekly Newspaper is about the ONLY source for LOCAL news. That is really the trouble.
Why? Websites cost less than printing presses. Replacing your smalltown paper with a small town website would cost about $1000 How much does your current newspaper spend just on paper to print on?
Why is it necessary to count to 4.5 billion for a 500mhz clock? Every nine ticks of the 4.5ghz clock give one click to the 500mhz clock. Counting to nine is easy.
The only problem could be if the blogger was dealing with issues that concerned Cisco without listing his affiliation.
IANAL, so I'll ask those of you who are, is there anyway that whistle blower laws could protect Frenkel? He might not need protection from his employer, but he need protection because of who his employer is. He was in a good position to spot and point out foul play and he did just that. Now he is facing retaliation for doing so, isn't that what whistleblower laws are meant to protect?
Certain safety regulations are required for the functioning of an advanced society
A certain level of cultural awareness about what is and isn't safe might be required for a functioning society, but there is no inherent need for regulations. The modern world is no more dangerous that that of ancient agrarian societies, but the dangers have changed. Past cultures didn't need government regulations telling them not to eat all their seed stock, or not to confront a pack of wolves alone and unarmed. Nor do we now need government regulations to protect children from wandering off with strangers the meet on the internet, we just need awareness of the dangers and real parenting. The automatic replacement of parenting and awareness of the world around us with governing bodies and laws is the very lifeblood of the Nanny State.
When our policy-makers (who never admit to anything bad lately) say that we're "only a little ahead," you know that we're seriously lagging.
Speaking of policy makers not admitting anything bad, I'm not sure if I should be worried or encouraged that the policy-makers have admitted that the 1996 telecommunications act was a mess, and now they are unsure of how to make good policy. FTA:
. "People don't understand how hard it is to write legislation," he said, citing the 1996 Telecommunications Act as a prime example.
As originally passed by Congress, lawmakers envisioned the act creating competition by forcing telecoms and cable companies to share their lines at discounted prices with competitors.
"Look how that turned out. [Congress] decided to have everyone share the same line and the wire was copper," Russell said. "The administration has opposed any new legislation because you never know how it might turn out."
Does this opposition to new policy mean that there is actual concern for making truly effective policy or it it because there are a few big players who like the profitability of the current situation? I hate to be cynical all the time, but it goes hand in hand with talking about legislation. Is there a simple clear set of rules that could lead to real competition in broadband, or is it a utility that should be a well regulated quasi-government entity like water and electricity?
accurately understanding the quantum chromodynamics, or even quantized general relativity (which nobody can do yet)
Perhaps it is that lack of understanding that is the cause for concern. I understand that the point of LHC is to increase that understanding, but much of human knowledge is gained by making mistakes, then figuring out where we were wrong. When it comes to making a blackhole, the repercussions of a mistake could conceivably be the end of our entire solar system. I don't think it's wrong for there to be a public inquiry about the safety measures in place if something unplanned happens. What would they do if the LHC did make a blackhole that started growing? It is not wrong to stop and ask these questions when the cost of failure is potentially a global concern.
We just need to get "space vacations" down to the sub-million dollar mark.
Why? Could there be anything that is greater form of conspicuous consumption that space tourism? Do you really want to have to hear about bourgeois soccer moms in space? You do realize that that will eventually lead to Orbital Disneyland. No No No. It's too horrible to contemplate. I would much rather see the roads into space colonization carved out by industry. I must have missed Sir Richard Branson's phone call when he rang to ask me my opinion.
when a cop pulled up, lights flashing, and informed my friend he was about two second away from being shot before the cop realized it was a water gun.
That's just a sign that cops are trigger happy. He should have been about two seconds away from a cop yelling "This is the Police! Drop Your Weapon!". Seriously, when the biggest danger of using a toy isn't the toy itself but the possibility of being shot by the cops, is it the toy that is a danger or the cops?
What is so bad about having legislators or judges in the government who are sponsored by so-and-so?
If I have a book that I find to be offensive or a failure, I can burn it. Extend that to legislators and judges and I would have no problem with them being publicly sponsored by so-and-so.
If you had ever spent much time in the countryside, you would know how well you can see by moonlight. I've been out during a full moon on a clear night and been able to play soccer with my friends. Driving requires that we can see dozens to hundreds of yards ahead, so need brighter illumination. We can see just fine outside at night for walking speeds. During the vast majority of our evolution we didn't have artificial light, but we did just fine, we still can.
the reason Apple won't face any lawsuits for this is because they are breaking into the Windows browser market, not dominating it. If they ever gained control of that market, then lawsuits may crop up
They may not have a high market share in the windows browser market, but they have a near monopoly in the MP3 player and online music store market. Here it appears they are leveraging the monopolies they do have to force their way into the windows browser market by using the anti-competitive practice known as product tying.
OK, how would you suggest raising public awareness about this? I only heard about it because it was posted here in Slashdot.
Slashdot isn't really that big, and the audience is very self-selecting for certain points of view.
Says user number 1,243,248. If Slashdot were a city that population would make it the ninth largest city in the US, between San Diego and Dallas. Yes audience is self selecting, this is a site mostly made of nerds with a libertarian bent. There is, at least, an effort to stay informed and back up statements with facts.
If there's still a problem, then it's better to enforce the rules as perfectly as possible.
According to the series of tubes "The best way to repeal a bad law is to enforce it." was first said by Lincoln, Grant, and several other old dead guys. It might hold true for criminal laws which regulate behaviors, it doesn't work so well for thing that regulate the flow of money. Mostly because the laws which regulate the flow of money, make it flow into the pockets of the powerful. Secondly they people who are in a position to make the needed changes aren't actually effected by something like a $25 CD, because they have two or three orders of magnitude more disposable income than the rest of the society. The richest 10% own 89% of the stock. In a corporate world where everything is beholden to the shareholder, those 10% are the only ones who really count. That same 10% isn't effected by overpriced CDs or overpriced gas or overpriced pharmaceuticals, because they have plenty of cash to cover it without it effecting their quality of life.
I mean really why do people put up with this? It's almost as if people are too lazy to defend their privacy and too eager to whine about their problems or something.
In a way, whining about this in a widely read forum like Slashdot, is defending our privacy. Public awareness is the first step towards stopping things like this. Now the American public has an almost zero attention span, so awareness has to be loud and alarmist to even register on the social consciousness. To add to that problem, the evening news is alarmist about everything because it gains ratings, but further buries any real problems from getting the attention they need in order to be resolved.
we need a secure scheme that provides both authentication and anonymity as appropriate.
The question of when anonymity is going to have very different answers depending on who you ask. Most law abiding citizens would object to being ID'ed dozens of times a day as they go about their business, but for a "track the terrorist" system this is what would have to happen, and is what DHS would want. Right now it's too blatantly oppressive and logistically difficult to ID everyone who walks into the subway or drives through a toll booth, but with biometrics + cctv this becomes entirely possible. It has all the totalitarian control of "your papers, please" in an unobtrusive, easy to ignore package. There are plenty of times in daily life when it is appropriate to need to provide a secure ID, but they are always when the person being IDed is a willing active participant in the process. If simply being able to see a person is enough for them to be confirmed (and location updated) against a national database, then we all lose that bit of participation and choice. And is not the ability to be an active willing participant in the function of our government the very heart of our Democracy?
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daniel_k's naïveté.
I wonder what his IP rights are to his mods? Could he turn around and sue Creative if the issue a Vista patch that fixes the drivers in the same way that Daniel-K's mods did? But from the sounds of his response, he would never try to pursue that line.
So there will finally be propagando to counter the countless other bloggers who spew out nonsense about the war.
Bloggers spewing nonsense about the war should be nicely countered by the insight coming out of Blackfive and other milblogs. But PysOps is a part of the military, and so for the government to use what it recognizes as military techniques against the American people is a very different thing that having private citizens with strongly biased opinions.
why the RIAA members seem to have a disproportionate share of numbskull management.
Hookers and blow.
Seriously, how much cocaine do you think Warren Buffet has done in his lifetime vs how much coke goes up the nose of the average music exec? Find anyone in a position of power that has done a lot of cocaine, and they will always have a disconnect from reality in which they always believe they are just and right in their ambitions, regardless of the facts presented to them.
Do even 10% of New York apartments have fiber-connection? Why not one might ask?
Speaking as someone who has lived in NYC for the past nine years and lived in five different apartments so far: You would not believe how poorly patched together New York City is unless you are reading this from a former soviet-block country. From the subway to apartment repairs to the roads to phone and cable infrastructure, NYC is a collection of barely good enough, cheapest, fastest repairs and hacks. NYC hasn't been able to even put in a new subway line since 1919 and you think we should be able to roll out fiber to any but the most expensive apartments? In Stockholm you may be able to convince landlords to actually do things like put in new pipes or electric wiring and to add fiber while they are at it. Here in Manhattan, my water comes out of the faucet rust brown and I only have electrical outlets on two walls of my apartment. Landlords do the least amount they can legally get away with, as there is always someone who will step in a rent the apartment as is. (The vacancy rate here is below 1%) I would expect fiber to be run to most of the surrounding commuter towns well before it becomes common in households actually in the city. Seriously the infrastructure here is FUBAR
How are small town papers losing so much market share if they're reporting mostly local news?
Could it be a reflection of what people think is important? Maybe a large percentages of the population doesn't care whats happening in their small town. I think that is sad, but frequently true. If someone isn't invested in their local community, then local news seems like pointless fluff. If you don't have kids, and don't go to the highschool football games, do you care if the highschool football team makes it the state championship? If you never look for culture in your small town, do you care about the new community theater production or the local band playing Friday night at the bar?
Will PointDev get to hold Sony responsible for theorhetical lost sales in the same way the RIAA charges thousands of dollars per pirated song? I wonder what a 92000% markup on PointDev's software is?
the weekly Newspaper is about the ONLY source for LOCAL news. That is really the trouble.
Why? Websites cost less than printing presses. Replacing your smalltown paper with a small town website would cost about $1000 How much does your current newspaper spend just on paper to print on?
Why is it necessary to count to 4.5 billion for a 500mhz clock? Every nine ticks of the 4.5ghz clock give one click to the 500mhz clock. Counting to nine is easy.
How is it that the judge is not forced to step down after willingly trying cases where he has such an obvious conflict of interest?
Something about Texan father/son combinations that just makes America turn to shit.
The only problem could be if the blogger was dealing with issues that concerned Cisco without listing his affiliation.
IANAL, so I'll ask those of you who are, is there anyway that whistle blower laws could protect Frenkel? He might not need protection from his employer, but he need protection because of who his employer is. He was in a good position to spot and point out foul play and he did just that. Now he is facing retaliation for doing so, isn't that what whistleblower laws are meant to protect?
Certain safety regulations are required for the functioning of an advanced society
A certain level of cultural awareness about what is and isn't safe might be required for a functioning society, but there is no inherent need for regulations. The modern world is no more dangerous that that of ancient agrarian societies, but the dangers have changed. Past cultures didn't need government regulations telling them not to eat all their seed stock, or not to confront a pack of wolves alone and unarmed. Nor do we now need government regulations to protect children from wandering off with strangers the meet on the internet, we just need awareness of the dangers and real parenting. The automatic replacement of parenting and awareness of the world around us with governing bodies and laws is the very lifeblood of the Nanny State.
Speaking of policy makers not admitting anything bad, I'm not sure if I should be worried or encouraged that the policy-makers have admitted that the 1996 telecommunications act was a mess, and now they are unsure of how to make good policy. FTA: Does this opposition to new policy mean that there is actual concern for making truly effective policy or it it because there are a few big players who like the profitability of the current situation? I hate to be cynical all the time, but it goes hand in hand with talking about legislation. Is there a simple clear set of rules that could lead to real competition in broadband, or is it a utility that should be a well regulated quasi-government entity like water and electricity?
accurately understanding the quantum chromodynamics, or even quantized general relativity (which nobody can do yet)
Perhaps it is that lack of understanding that is the cause for concern. I understand that the point of LHC is to increase that understanding, but much of human knowledge is gained by making mistakes, then figuring out where we were wrong. When it comes to making a blackhole, the repercussions of a mistake could conceivably be the end of our entire solar system. I don't think it's wrong for there to be a public inquiry about the safety measures in place if something unplanned happens. What would they do if the LHC did make a blackhole that started growing? It is not wrong to stop and ask these questions when the cost of failure is potentially a global concern.
We just need to get "space vacations" down to the sub-million dollar mark.
Why? Could there be anything that is greater form of conspicuous consumption that space tourism? Do you really want to have to hear about bourgeois soccer moms in space? You do realize that that will eventually lead to Orbital Disneyland. No No No. It's too horrible to contemplate. I would much rather see the roads into space colonization carved out by industry. I must have missed Sir Richard Branson's phone call when he rang to ask me my opinion.
when a cop pulled up, lights flashing, and informed my friend he was about two second away from being shot before the cop realized it was a water gun.
That's just a sign that cops are trigger happy. He should have been about two seconds away from a cop yelling "This is the Police! Drop Your Weapon!". Seriously, when the biggest danger of using a toy isn't the toy itself but the possibility of being shot by the cops, is it the toy that is a danger or the cops?
What is so bad about having legislators or judges in the government who are sponsored by so-and-so?
If I have a book that I find to be offensive or a failure, I can burn it. Extend that to legislators and judges and I would have no problem with them being publicly sponsored by so-and-so.
So what happens if a probe is launched?
Judging by what has happened with past Congressional investigations, the subpoenas will be ignored and nothing will be done about it. It's a pattern that works for Bush again and again.
Sorry but the Rule of Law doesn't seem to apply when "National Security" is on the line.
If you had ever spent much time in the countryside, you would know how well you can see by moonlight. I've been out during a full moon on a clear night and been able to play soccer with my friends. Driving requires that we can see dozens to hundreds of yards ahead, so need brighter illumination. We can see just fine outside at night for walking speeds. During the vast majority of our evolution we didn't have artificial light, but we did just fine, we still can.
the reason Apple won't face any lawsuits for this is because they are breaking into the Windows browser market, not dominating it. If they ever gained control of that market, then lawsuits may crop up
They may not have a high market share in the windows browser market, but they have a near monopoly in the MP3 player and online music store market. Here it appears they are leveraging the monopolies they do have to force their way into the windows browser market by using the anti-competitive practice known as product tying.
As long as the computer doesn't think they are a cat. I wonder if PawSense would count as prior art in using typing patterns in determining the user?
you made seem to be operating on an assumption that people are ENTITLED to automatically receive profits for whatever work they choose to do.
That concept is at the very heart of IP. Protecting the profitability of some kinds of work.
First, no it isn't. It's whining.
OK, how would you suggest raising public awareness about this? I only heard about it because it was posted here in Slashdot.
Slashdot isn't really that big, and the audience is very self-selecting for certain points of view.
Says user number 1,243,248. If Slashdot were a city that population would make it the ninth largest city in the US, between San Diego and Dallas. Yes audience is self selecting, this is a site mostly made of nerds with a libertarian bent. There is, at least, an effort to stay informed and back up statements with facts.
If there's still a problem, then it's better to enforce the rules as perfectly as possible.
According to the series of tubes "The best way to repeal a bad law is to enforce it." was first said by Lincoln, Grant, and several other old dead guys. It might hold true for criminal laws which regulate behaviors, it doesn't work so well for thing that regulate the flow of money. Mostly because the laws which regulate the flow of money, make it flow into the pockets of the powerful. Secondly they people who are in a position to make the needed changes aren't actually effected by something like a $25 CD, because they have two or three orders of magnitude more disposable income than the rest of the society. The richest 10% own 89% of the stock. In a corporate world where everything is beholden to the shareholder, those 10% are the only ones who really count. That same 10% isn't effected by overpriced CDs or overpriced gas or overpriced pharmaceuticals, because they have plenty of cash to cover it without it effecting their quality of life.
I mean really why do people put up with this? It's almost as if people are too lazy to defend their privacy and too eager to whine about their problems or something.
In a way, whining about this in a widely read forum like Slashdot, is defending our privacy. Public awareness is the first step towards stopping things like this. Now the American public has an almost zero attention span, so awareness has to be loud and alarmist to even register on the social consciousness. To add to that problem, the evening news is alarmist about everything because it gains ratings, but further buries any real problems from getting the attention they need in order to be resolved.
we need a secure scheme that provides both authentication and anonymity as appropriate.
The question of when anonymity is going to have very different answers depending on who you ask. Most law abiding citizens would object to being ID'ed dozens of times a day as they go about their business, but for a "track the terrorist" system this is what would have to happen, and is what DHS would want. Right now it's too blatantly oppressive and logistically difficult to ID everyone who walks into the subway or drives through a toll booth, but with biometrics + cctv this becomes entirely possible. It has all the totalitarian control of "your papers, please" in an unobtrusive, easy to ignore package. There are plenty of times in daily life when it is appropriate to need to provide a secure ID, but they are always when the person being IDed is a willing active participant in the process. If simply being able to see a person is enough for them to be confirmed (and location updated) against a national database, then we all lose that bit of participation and choice. And is not the ability to be an active willing participant in the function of our government the very heart of our Democracy?