hey.... Up until you mentioned that, I was nominally in favor of a regionalized 'net. The whole 'Great Firewall of China' and the recent ICANN mess had me throw my arms up in disgust.
But then I realized that it seems most of the open-source stuff comes from Sweden or germany, or wherever outside the U.S.
For each obstacle, technology has a way to circumvent it; The media conglomerates wanted to make money off of physical media distribution, so customers went to software P2P. The RIAA started sueing people for swapping music, so their customers turn to anonymous services and encrypted links. The telcos' greed wants to rape their customers by triple-dipping, their customers go to wireless meshes.
There's always a way around this stuff, it's just a matter of finding the proper technology. Onion Routing, Port Forwarding, Encrypted links, wireless hotspots across several neighborhoods. It rapidly becomes a matter of the telcos providing only the link between cities; and even that can change to their detriment if they whipsaw people long enough.
"I for one, hopes he gets a good lawyer. Given that this is far from the first time I've heard these complaints, a class action suit against Blizzard may just be what's needed to shake things up."
Why is it that everyone seems to want to sue Blizzard? For that matter, why is the first response to anything is to sue?
Let's vote with our wallets and our feet. Articles like this provide the kind of bad PR for [fill in bad company of the month] that leads customers away. And THAT should be the first step: stop giving them money.
It's free to us and it hurts them. Tell me again, why do we have to sue them?
I started in 7th grade with a VIC20. By high school I had two of them.
But I had made it a habit of collecting old computers by the time I graduated high school; I had two VIC20s, a TRS-80, an atari 6200, an 8088, and a 286SX.
If that last one didn't date me; when I graduated, 486's were just starting to be replaced by pentiums.
Ok. Ok. It only seems like it was ages ago..
How about the possibilities of using Genetically Engineered plants in this situation? It's not that we're looking for plants that might make more ethenol, but plants that need even less care and effort from farmers, thus further reducing the energy required when considering the whole energy balance.
It's not at all a matter of you coding in the features you want. It's entitrely a matter of providing a giant step forward when you pay someone to give you a certain feature. If you hand the developer a check and say "Please give me this feature", you can bet your socks that they will hop-to. Try doing that to Microsquash. If you decide you want a new feature in your office word-processer; say, [off the top of my head] you want on-the-fly translations to/from english. If you go to the open office team and wave a $10,000 check, what are the chances they will get you your feature in the next few months? Compare to what you would hear if you tried to ply Microsquash with a $10,000 check.
It's not at all about what you, yourself, can code. it's that much of the work has already been done for when you pay someone to do the work that you can't.
Realistically, there is an "assumption of privacy" regarding certain vital social functions. For example, doctors (the client-patient relationship), religions (think confessions), and defense attorneys.
Nobody in the press should share in this benifit. For doing so, and drawing a line between "the press" and "common folk", creates a state-sponsored media outlet. This leads to such abuses as protection from classified materials felonies [law.cornell.edu]. It's not that bloggers are not exempt from the shield law provision, but that other forms of press are.
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hey.... Up until you mentioned that, I was nominally in favor of a regionalized 'net. The whole 'Great Firewall of China' and the recent ICANN mess had me throw my arms up in disgust.
But then I realized that it seems most of the open-source stuff comes from Sweden or germany, or wherever outside the U.S.
Now I'm not so sure...
For each obstacle, technology has a way to circumvent it; The media conglomerates wanted to make money off of physical media distribution, so customers went to software P2P. The RIAA started sueing people for swapping music, so their customers turn to anonymous services and encrypted links. The telcos' greed wants to rape their customers by triple-dipping, their customers go to wireless meshes.
There's always a way around this stuff, it's just a matter of finding the proper technology. Onion Routing, Port Forwarding, Encrypted links, wireless hotspots across several neighborhoods. It rapidly becomes a matter of the telcos providing only the link between cities; and even that can change to their detriment if they whipsaw people long enough.
"I for one, hopes he gets a good lawyer. Given that this is far from the first time I've heard these complaints, a class action suit against Blizzard may just be what's needed to shake things up." Why is it that everyone seems to want to sue Blizzard? For that matter, why is the first response to anything is to sue? Let's vote with our wallets and our feet. Articles like this provide the kind of bad PR for [fill in bad company of the month] that leads customers away. And THAT should be the first step: stop giving them money. It's free to us and it hurts them. Tell me again, why do we have to sue them?
I started in 7th grade with a VIC20. By high school I had two of them. But I had made it a habit of collecting old computers by the time I graduated high school; I had two VIC20s, a TRS-80, an atari 6200, an 8088, and a 286SX. If that last one didn't date me; when I graduated, 486's were just starting to be replaced by pentiums. Ok. Ok. It only seems like it was ages ago..
How about the possibilities of using Genetically Engineered plants in this situation? It's not that we're looking for plants that might make more ethenol, but plants that need even less care and effort from farmers, thus further reducing the energy required when considering the whole energy balance.
Soda Green is people too!
"Oh. No mister lawyer. I wouldn't dream of fixing my browser and make my computer work better. That would be a violation of the DMCA."
It's not at all a matter of you coding in the features you want. It's entitrely a matter of providing a giant step forward when you pay someone to give you a certain feature. If you hand the developer a check and say "Please give me this feature", you can bet your socks that they will hop-to. Try doing that to Microsquash.
If you decide you want a new feature in your office word-processer; say, [off the top of my head] you want on-the-fly translations to/from english. If you go to the open office team and wave a $10,000 check, what are the chances they will get you your feature in the next few months? Compare to what you would hear if you tried to ply Microsquash with a $10,000 check.
It's not at all about what you, yourself, can code. it's that much of the work has already been done for when you pay someone to do the work that you can't.
Funny this comes up. My attention was draw to this earlier this evening. Talk about adaptations... :>
Realistically, there is an "assumption of privacy" regarding certain vital social functions. For example, doctors (the client-patient relationship), religions (think confessions), and defense attorneys. Nobody in the press should share in this benifit. For doing so, and drawing a line between "the press" and "common folk", creates a state-sponsored media outlet. This leads to such abuses as protection from classified materials felonies [law.cornell.edu]. It's not that bloggers are not exempt from the shield law provision, but that other forms of press are.