It's pretty simple, really. Microsoft is letting itself be muscled because it doesn't want to jeapardize the "business" arrangement with the Chinese. China does not make-or-break the game-plan for Microsoft, so I believe that they are being needlessly timerous by backing down from the Chinese. Microsoft has just a couple of their smallest toes in China...
More ominous are thoughts about the kind of undue muscling one would be subjected to if one's whole leg were in China...
Hey, the "GM crops + Herbicide" people are just taking a cue from the big pharmaceutical companies. The patents are expiring on all of the old herbicides....
Hmmmm... "How do we make the farmer buy new, freshly patented chemicals from us?"
I am all for sovereignty, because even the worst tyrant will temper his behavior a little if the "good guys" that rule the country next door make him look too much like the tyrant that he is.
But....
I think the countries that were chosen as a "precedent" were poor examples and were meant to disparage the EU for complaining so much about U.S. control of the internet...
This is likely why we should have seen this coming from a mile away... err, I mean kilometer away.
Drat! Now I have to buy a Samsung printer to create all of my dead tree archives. I sure hope they have improved in the ten years since I used them....
I agree that the "computer-free" term is a little bogus. It seems that they are differentiating between "computer-free" and "microprocessor-free", which I'm sure it isn't. Of course, a real "computer" has many more things glommed onto the microprocessor...
Well, I think a large number of Europeans use ".com" and ".net" TLDs. They think that on a national level our ".us" is the same as their ".uk,.de, etc",... but they consider the ".com,.net, and.org" domains to have international implications.
They don't like the fact that the U.S. has complete physical control over those top level domains. Sure, Europeans have registrars who can make entries for those domains, but the entries are made by applying to the U.S. company that controls and maintains the physical database for those TLDs in Hearndon, Va. (and paying them a fee)
Even for their own national ".uk,.de, etc" domains, they don't have complete control, because a www user's client will nearly always resolve the address by first hitting on a U.S. controlled root server, which then hands off to the national registry for the country (Nominic in Brittain)
So, I see their beef with us. I just don't quite know what the solution is...
The problem is that the current "U.S. controlled root-server" addresses are "hard coded" into tens of millions of BIND dns server installations. (The default named.ca file shipped with BIND) Defaults are also hard-coded into various resolvers for DNS (for browsers, etc).
So, we have the issue of installed-base = current-root-servers. It would be like starting from zero to overtake the existing MPEG formats for music, video, etc. Could be done, but tough task....
Actually, since Windows 2000, the remedy for all of the Windows blue screen scenarios that I have witnessed was a driver replacement. I think the same is true of Linux, so the man probably has a driver and/or hardware problem.
Does my heart good to see the emotionally charged comments about this article. For years, the various pulpits have been preaching Science! Science! Science! so that we don't waste too much time worrying about pesky liberal-arts ideas like freedom (Or lack thereof).
Maybe the laid-off IT workers have had some extra quality-of-life contemplation time and have been putting it to good use!
I know now that when they come with guns to take our computers, you fellas aren't gonna give up easy!
BTW: On a side note, I imagine that the FCC's infamous seven dirty words rule applies now to slashdot! shhhhhhhhhh!
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Only problem is, the "hoops that they must jump through" are going away! How long before the patriot? act is used in combination with the FCC ruling and all it's attendant judicial secrecy?
ISP "walk-throughs", anyone?
Not such a good idea eh? I myself was just thinking about moving down south a few hundred miles to Seattle... cuz the King of Canada has authorized some of the same crap... It appears that involuntary compliance was in the fine print of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, eh?)
As is often the case, this law hurts the law-abiding citizen and (probably) fails to slow the illegal traffic that it purports to have the capability to stop.
The P2P client distributors are all likely to go completely underground anyway, which leaves the govt with the same old option (going after the individuals who trade pirated music).
Same old song and dance...
Speaking of "back doors", now that IBM has sold it's laptop business to the Chinese (Lenovo), where is the US govt going to purchase laptops? And what's gonna be in the hardware?
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Upon review of the Mail-Stop-24 code, we have found that Mail-Stop-24 is linked to FILE-13
It's pretty simple, really. Microsoft is letting itself be muscled because it doesn't want to jeapardize the "business" arrangement with the Chinese. China does not make-or-break the game-plan for Microsoft, so I believe that they are being needlessly timerous by backing down from the Chinese. Microsoft has just a couple of their smallest toes in China ...
More ominous are thoughts about the kind of undue muscling one would be subjected to if one's whole leg were in China ...
Examples:
1 - Walmart (80 billion)
2 - U.S. Treasury (300 billion)
Hmmmmm ...
Now wifey will never know.
Hey, the "GM crops + Herbicide" people are just taking a cue from the big pharmaceutical companies. The patents are expiring on all of the old herbicides ....
Hmmmm ... "How do we make the farmer buy new, freshly patented chemicals from us?"
I am all for sovereignty, because even the worst tyrant will temper his behavior a little if the "good guys" that rule the country next door make him look too much like the tyrant that he is.
But ....
I think the countries that were chosen as a "precedent" were poor examples and were meant to disparage the EU for complaining so much about U.S. control of the internet ...
This is likely why we should have seen this coming from a mile away ... err, I mean kilometer away.
I can't tell you how many times I cursed my Windose box yesterday trying to figure this one out
- Turn to the West
- Bow humbly
- Beg forgiveness
Drat! Now I have to buy a Samsung printer to create all of my dead tree archives. I sure hope they have improved in the ten years since I used them ....
I agree that the "computer-free" term is a little bogus. It seems that they are differentiating between "computer-free" and "microprocessor-free", which I'm sure it isn't. Of course, a real "computer" has many more things glommed onto the microprocessor ...
Well, I think a large number of Europeans use ".com" and ".net" TLDs. They think that on a national level our ".us" is the same as their ".uk, .de, etc", ... but they consider the ".com, .net, and .org" domains to have international implications.
They don't like the fact that the U.S. has complete physical control over those top level domains. Sure, Europeans have registrars who can make entries for those domains, but the entries are made by applying to the U.S. company that controls and maintains the physical database for those TLDs in Hearndon, Va. (and paying them a fee)
Even for their own national ".uk, .de, etc" domains, they don't have complete control, because a www user's client will nearly always resolve the address by first hitting on a U.S. controlled root server, which then hands off to the national registry for the country (Nominic in Brittain)
So, I see their beef with us. I just don't quite know what the solution is ...
The problem is that the current "U.S. controlled root-server" addresses are "hard coded" into tens of millions of BIND dns server installations. (The default named.ca file shipped with BIND) Defaults are also hard-coded into various resolvers for DNS (for browsers, etc).
So, we have the issue of installed-base = current-root-servers. It would be like starting from zero to overtake the existing MPEG formats for music, video, etc. Could be done, but tough task ....
Actually, since Windows 2000, the remedy for all of the Windows blue screen scenarios that I have witnessed was a driver replacement. I think the same is true of Linux, so the man probably has a driver and/or hardware problem.
Hmmmm
If neither one cuts it, get FreeBSD. (Hey, don't forget about us!)
Does my heart good to see the emotionally charged comments about this article. For years, the various pulpits have been preaching Science! Science! Science! so that we don't waste too much time worrying about pesky liberal-arts ideas like freedom (Or lack thereof). Maybe the laid-off IT workers have had some extra quality-of-life contemplation time and have been putting it to good use! I know now that when they come with guns to take our computers, you fellas aren't gonna give up easy! BTW: On a side note, I imagine that the FCC's infamous seven dirty words rule applies now to slashdot! shhhhhhhhhh!
- Only problem is, the "hoops that they must jump through" are going away! How long before the patriot? act is used in combination with the FCC ruling and all it's attendant judicial secrecy? ISP "walk-throughs", anyone?
Not such a good idea eh? I myself was just thinking about moving down south a few hundred miles to Seattle ... cuz the King of Canada has authorized some of the same crap ... It appears that involuntary compliance was in the fine print of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, eh?)
As is often the case, this law hurts the law-abiding citizen and (probably) fails to slow the illegal traffic that it purports to have the capability to stop. The P2P client distributors are all likely to go completely underground anyway, which leaves the govt with the same old option (going after the individuals who trade pirated music). Same old song and dance ...
Speaking of "back doors", now that IBM has sold it's laptop business to the Chinese (Lenovo), where is the US govt going to purchase laptops? And what's gonna be in the hardware?