Sounds to me like they want innovation to be controlled by what - maybe four or five major ISPs - instead of by the entire population of computer enthusiasts?
Sounds like a good way to send all the new innovation and internet creativity off to other countries.
I guess he learned the difference between what they say the United States of America is about and what it really is about. Fortunately, more and more people are beginning to understand the reality of things instead of the flag waving we see in John Wayne movies.
The reason for major bashing is that the US society rates it's citizens highly on what they do.
When introduced to someone, what is one of the first questions asked? "What do you do?" Then there is a bunch of pigeon holing done to assess whether we "fit" with this person or not.
There was a good book written by Max Depree (Leadership Is An Art) in which he tells about a worker who's funeral he went to. Turns out the worker was a very good poet as well a good wood worker. Then the question came - Was he a poet that worked in wood - or was he a wood worker who was a poet?
Another reason for major bashing is - we are a competitive society. And many see business and non-science majors as "taking the easy way out" on intellectual pursuits. It is said all the time on slashdot. I saw it myself when I was in school. These days I tell my younger family members - "Just remember than outside the university - you will be answering to the business majors so enjoy your four (or five) years on top while you have them."
In reality - we all should try to be more renaissance people who studied art AND science. The country would be far more better off.
Here is a little article I wrote about art and it's value to business:
At this point, the robots aren't going to be 100% autonomous, the amount of AI that would imply is staggering. The robots will have to be controlled by humans.
Oh, I don't know about that. "If people are charging the machine, zap. If people are running from the machine, don't zap. Job is done signaled from C&C, shut yourself down." The rules of operation seem pretty straightforward.
I was thinking about this too, but defending yourself against a police dog has been confirmed by the court as assaulting a police officer. I am sure they would do the same for the robots.
(I mean, we are talking about a country -- specifically Utah -- where recently a cop wrestled an elderly lady down and arrested her for what amounts to a dry lawn.)
the problem is corporate interests buying never-ending copyright and increasingly stricter punishments for doing anything that might possibly be used to violate said purchased perpetual copyright. The question becomes, what the bejesus can those of us who care (the nerdy minority) do?
This is not the problem. The problem is the American voter continuously re-elect the fools who do these things. The answer can be found in the technical roots that helped halt the amnesty bill.
Fourth option: The kids become adults who have no problem living in a world without privacy. Examples: Ass hanging out of your pants, personal "Girls Gone Wild!" videos on the internet, spilling your guts publicly on puke filled pages regarding the latest party, etc.
It also means kids who think that they deserve to know the deepest most intimate details of politicians leading to more cigar nonsense like that surrounding Clinton and will most likely chase away anyone worthy of office.
This whole selling of other people's domains without permission is BS.
Big corporations can protect their property through the courts via trademark etc. So obviously one cannot just arbitrarily use someone elses domain... if that someone else has the money and legal talent to protect it.
But many people and small companies can't. Obviously some people can protect their domains from being sold/ripped off to speculators and complete strangers.
What makes these internet registrars think they can sell off someone else's intellectual property?
Sure - I can understand turning off TLD DNS resolution for a domain that is not paying for the service, but selling it to someone else? Bullshit. Complete Bullshit.
If the owner wants to use it again with that registrar, then pay them to "light" it back up again.
Registrars have no business selling other people's domains.
The death penalty for pedophiles that Texas is considering is a worthy example. It falls within existing law, does not single out a group, only widens an existing group. And while I am no death penalty advocate, that solution would be effective in insuring that pedophile did no further harm. Perhaps a more "humane" route would be mandatory life imprisonment. More suiting, since no life was taken.
I can think of no other way to see more children killed than this law. Once they realize what they have done is up for the death penalty -- they will do whatever they can to hide the crime.
You are talking about a country with people on nationwide web based sex offender lists for leaving a drunken public piss or for yelling at 14 year old girls.
We are quickly creating a nation of criminals and when we finally achieve it -- we should not be surprised we are a nation of criminals. Then we will REALLY know what "chaos" looks like.
Hell yea women are less willing to put up with bullshit and we men should be too.
What the industry has been turning into is ridiculous. We have these young kids thinking all this is normal and they are turning into managers who think this is normal. Meanwhile I have seen software turn into bigger and bigger pieces of complex garbage whipped out in half the required time demanding more and more of people's lives. It is not right.
All this expiring of a domain and then selling it to another is BS.
Just ask those who bought trademarked domains and were greeted by a fat certified mail envelope from a law office.
Registrars should have no business reselling domains that have expired. That is not their trademark to sell, not their brand to sell, not even their idea or creativity in the name.
They should charge for resolution.
Maybe charge for extra services like a web site or email.
But for no reason should they think they can "own" a domain and sell it to the highest bidder. The courts have already established that one.
The person who originally came up with it owns the domain. If they want to let it sit - then so be it. If they want to re-awaken it - then so be it. If they want to sell it - then so be it.
It is BS one has to come up with one's own intellectual property only to have another entity decide to steal it and sell it to another.
Just think of what terrorists could do with this sort of reaction?
Key people could be coerced or exploited simply out of fear of what the American judicial system would do should they be reported about stuff they don't even know about. I will readily admit in the gigabytes and gigabytes of data on my hard drives(s) there are some directories I have never been in - and I am a friggin programmer.
Huge swaths of people could be put through the grinder by so many "save the children" politician prosecutors that finally it would reach a point where people either ignore child porn or become disillusioned with the judicial system distressing innocents. Either way it is hard to support and trust such a government.
The idea of "don't help the man, all he will do is fuck you over for some shit you didn't do" and "so much for good intentions" will build up year over year throughout the population. Already there is an incredible distrust in government regarding taxes and intelligence gathering. What happens to our society when we begin to distrust law enforcement and the judicial system - become like east L.A.?
This kind of nonsense with unfriendly people in other countries could in quite a quiet manner - damage the society and fabric of the United States.
Remember the days when one got word out on a web site based on sharing word of mouth, etc? Back to them.
Of course, the anti-spam crowd will say it is a good thing this disappeared because they weren't fast enough to do something about it. Kinda like Googles Real Time Black Hole.
Slashdot Mirror
Maryland is simply double dipping.
Lets hope it doesn't become an accepted idea.
But given the country's governments love to spend and are in hock up to their ears we really should expect more taxes to pop out of the woodwork.
Ah.
If life is not useful to you, it may be destroyed.
That is a text book definition of species-centristic.
I'll tell that the marvel of life and nature was richer before his was born. Be happy with the gorilla stuffed animal toy.
That's what airplanes and local offices full of L-1 visa holders are for.
US company makes gadgets ready for assembly.
They send gadgets over seas to be assembled
Gadget is sent back to US company for adding to another gadget.
US company claims entire sequence as increase in US productivity.
Is the productivity increase really said to belong to the US company?
Many economists calculating GDP are beginning to question it.
Sounds to me like they want innovation to be controlled by what - maybe four or five major ISPs - instead of by the entire population of computer enthusiasts?
Sounds like a good way to send all the new innovation and internet creativity off to other countries.
I guess he learned the difference between what they say the United States of America is about and what it really is about. Fortunately, more and more people are beginning to understand the reality of things instead of the flag waving we see in John Wayne movies.
The reason for major bashing is that the US society rates it's citizens highly on what they do.
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When introduced to someone, what is one of the first questions asked? "What do you do?" Then there is a bunch of pigeon holing done to assess whether we "fit" with this person or not.
There was a good book written by Max Depree (Leadership Is An Art) in which he tells about a worker who's funeral he went to. Turns out the worker was a very good poet as well a good wood worker. Then the question came - Was he a poet that worked in wood - or was he a wood worker who was a poet?
Another reason for major bashing is - we are a competitive society. And many see business and non-science majors as "taking the easy way out" on intellectual pursuits. It is said all the time on slashdot. I saw it myself when I was in school. These days I tell my younger family members - "Just remember than outside the university - you will be answering to the business majors so enjoy your four (or five) years on top while you have them."
In reality - we all should try to be more renaissance people who studied art AND science. The country would be far more better off.
Here is a little article I wrote about art and it's value to business:
http://interface2037.com/index.php/2007/07/18/val
At this point, the robots aren't going to be 100% autonomous, the amount of AI that would imply is staggering. The robots will have to be controlled by humans.
Oh, I don't know about that. "If people are charging the machine, zap. If people are running from the machine, don't zap. Job is done signaled from C&C, shut yourself down." The rules of operation seem pretty straightforward.
I was thinking about this too, but defending yourself against a police dog has been confirmed by the court as assaulting a police officer. I am sure they would do the same for the robots.
(I mean, we are talking about a country -- specifically Utah -- where recently a cop wrestled an elderly lady down and arrested her for what amounts to a dry lawn.)
If I have do not HAVE to pay by automatic bank withdrawals, I don't. (Burned by Paypal.)
If I do, I have a separate bank account set up to handle these fools so my other money is safely tucked away out of their reach.
One has to take precautions these days when interacting with powerful corporations.
Did you mean the Republicrats or the Demolicans?
Sir. The honorable names for these parties are repugnicans and demo-rats. :)
the problem is corporate interests buying never-ending copyright and increasingly stricter punishments for doing anything that might possibly be used to violate said purchased perpetual copyright. The question becomes, what the bejesus can those of us who care (the nerdy minority) do?
This is not the problem. The problem is the American voter continuously re-elect the fools who do these things. The answer can be found in the technical roots that helped halt the amnesty bill.
Fax it - snail mail is held for weeks for terrorism checks. Fax the D.C. office and the local office(s).
US market: 300 million people
Asian market: 2,000 million people
I postulate the US of the future will be a technological backwater in the coming years with it's trade policies and legal foolishness.
If it is to hard to sell in the US, so what... there is a whole new up and coming world out there (ironically fueled by US economic suicide.)
Fourth option: The kids become adults who have no problem living in a world without privacy. Examples: Ass hanging out of your pants, personal "Girls Gone Wild!" videos on the internet, spilling your guts publicly on puke filled pages regarding the latest party, etc.
It also means kids who think that they deserve to know the deepest most intimate details of politicians leading to more cigar nonsense like that surrounding Clinton and will most likely chase away anyone worthy of office.
You totally miss what I am saying.
Did the registrar come up with the name?
Or was it someone else's idea?
Someone else's research?
Someone else's check paid to the marketing company?
If they don't pay for it - yes - turn off the DNS until another check comes in.
No one is renting a name they came up with from the registrar.
Registrars are the worst squatters in the whole domain name system.
This whole selling of other people's domains without permission is BS.
Big corporations can protect their property through the courts via trademark etc. So obviously one cannot just arbitrarily use someone elses domain... if that someone else has the money and legal talent to protect it.
But many people and small companies can't. Obviously some people can protect their domains from being sold/ripped off to speculators and complete strangers.
What makes these internet registrars think they can sell off someone else's intellectual property?
Sure - I can understand turning off TLD DNS resolution for a domain that is not paying for the service, but selling it to someone else? Bullshit. Complete Bullshit.
If the owner wants to use it again with that registrar, then pay them to "light" it back up again.
Registrars have no business selling other people's domains.
The death penalty for pedophiles that Texas is considering is a worthy example. It falls within existing law, does not single out a group, only widens an existing group. And while I am no death penalty advocate, that solution would be effective in insuring that pedophile did no further harm. Perhaps a more "humane" route would be mandatory life imprisonment. More suiting, since no life was taken.
I can think of no other way to see more children killed than this law. Once they realize what they have done is up for the death penalty -- they will do whatever they can to hide the crime.
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You are talking about a country with people on nationwide web based sex offender lists for leaving a drunken public piss or for yelling at 14 year old girls.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan's_Law#Criticis
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2006/aug/27/critics_
http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/avery/sex_offe
We are quickly creating a nation of criminals and when we finally achieve it -- we should not be surprised we are a nation of criminals. Then we will REALLY know what "chaos" looks like.
Oh where are my mod points when I need them!
Hell yea women are less willing to put up with bullshit and we men should be too.
What the industry has been turning into is ridiculous. We have these young kids thinking all this is normal and they are turning into managers who think this is normal. Meanwhile I have seen software turn into bigger and bigger pieces of complex garbage whipped out in half the required time demanding more and more of people's lives. It is not right.
All this expiring of a domain and then selling it to another is BS.
Just ask those who bought trademarked domains and were greeted by a fat certified mail envelope from a law office.
Registrars should have no business reselling domains that have expired. That is not their trademark to sell, not their brand to sell, not even their idea or creativity in the name.
They should charge for resolution.
Maybe charge for extra services like a web site or email.
But for no reason should they think they can "own" a domain and sell it to the highest bidder. The courts have already established that one.
The person who originally came up with it owns the domain. If they want to let it sit - then so be it. If they want to re-awaken it - then so be it. If they want to sell it - then so be it.
It is BS one has to come up with one's own intellectual property only to have another entity decide to steal it and sell it to another.
Or some other linux based vendor?
Here we all cry for choice and then rush to centralization upon one of two or three vendors that supply the world.
What happened to the spirit of the open source movement? Of the multiple choice go-have-at-it crowd?
Prove linux works for hardware vendors (other than IBM which is more software these days anyhow) and Dell will come around.
You know.
Make it about as valuable as sugar.
Just think of what terrorists could do with this sort of reaction?
Key people could be coerced or exploited simply out of fear of what the American judicial system would do should they be reported about stuff they don't even know about. I will readily admit in the gigabytes and gigabytes of data on my hard drives(s) there are some directories I have never been in - and I am a friggin programmer.
Huge swaths of people could be put through the grinder by so many "save the children" politician prosecutors that finally it would reach a point where people either ignore child porn or become disillusioned with the judicial system distressing innocents. Either way it is hard to support and trust such a government.
The idea of "don't help the man, all he will do is fuck you over for some shit you didn't do" and "so much for good intentions" will build up year over year throughout the population. Already there is an incredible distrust in government regarding taxes and intelligence gathering. What happens to our society when we begin to distrust law enforcement and the judicial system - become like east L.A.?
This kind of nonsense with unfriendly people in other countries could in quite a quiet manner - damage the society and fabric of the United States.
Remember the days when one got word out on a web site based on sharing word of mouth, etc? Back to them.
Of course, the anti-spam crowd will say it is a good thing this disappeared because they weren't fast enough to do something about it. Kinda like Googles Real Time Black Hole.
(I don't share that opinion.)