I care nothing for his feelings of historical impact. Bush acts the same way. I want transparency and accountability in government. This is the problem here. State secrets will never see the light of day until FOIA requests unearth them from under the rocks of secrecy. Who is protected here? They better catch some terrorists soon with this outrageous nonsense.
You hit the nail on the head! Transparency in government is what has been lacking in the US for a long time. If the Congress and other branches couldn't claim those extra-legal secrecy right, then we would feel more comfortable giving away the other rights that they want to take from us. Gonzales wants all of our and none of the accountability or oversight involved. The FISA court is a perfect example - created ONLY for oversight purposes, but still purposefully skipped by the current Admin so they were not scrutinized.
That, to me, is the big problem.
I still don't get why everyone keeps harping on and on and on about this alleged Free Market that exists out there in the ether. Any sort of regulatory body that exists is a barrier to the Free Market. Any sort of conglomeration or monopoly that exists is a barrier to the Free Market. DRM is another form of monopoly on th e content market.
Znork has it right - Legislation on either side of the coin, pro-regulation to protect consumers, or pro-monopoly to protect content owners - either of those is not conducive for a free market economy. Just as steel tarriffs and encouraging dvd piracy are no way to run a free market, neither is the intellectual headlock of DRM a way to encourage competition.
When people bitch about the market, they bitch b/c the current market doesn't have their own particular preferred melange of tarriff, protections, and monopolies that THEY like. Just like the jerks who knee-jerk about Judicial Activists or Power-Made Executives - they aren't getting judges and Presidents that are Active for their pet projects, and if they were, then the legislators would shut up and smile and count their filthy money.
How would a fusion plant and stem cell decrease my standard of living. We support scientic endeavors precisely because they purport to increase our standard of living. The scientific method and schools of research have already worked wonders in my short lifespan. I am okay with funding the research. Am I okay with funding DARPA research? Not so much. You work on cutting their funding first, and then you and I can have an intelligent discussion about funding on the federal and state level for "science worship".
The Mars trip is a straw man for Bush to increase his possible historical influence for future generations. But it is still less distastefull than funding for unmanned combat vehicles that would turn a LAN party into a squad of killer machine operators. Get your priorities in order. If you don't like the taxes, move somewhere 3rd world, where you can turn those saved tax dollars into real money to bribe your elected officials. Here in the US you need to have a K street office for that.
Nature is not an idiot, but maybe we are unable to read all the important details of our bodies. What about all that brain potential that we allegedly don't "use". Why did Nature gift us with that? Don't ask me, ask a researcher. Nature won't answer if you ask her directly. Or maybe you can take the tax savings and build a medieval castle complete with miserable serfs to finalize your view of scientific funding from the public pocket. And your children might die from cholera.
At any rate, they aren't hurting - that's for sure. Mergers are the natural conclusion in the business world. Majority of the fortune 500's I deal with are ALL the result of some sort of merger. Sometimes they combine the names, sometimes they don't. Bank of America, AT&T, Pfizer, etc.
Norton Commander ruled! Loved that little nugget. Worked so well! So did norton for 3.1, fixed lots of problems. Now symantec can't get out of its own way. This is the single problem of conglomeration with hardware/software. All the exploits are pointed straight at it and very little else. These companies end up becoming the Maignot Line for hacker nazis - they see it a mile away and roll right around it with their zombiebot panzer divisions..:-(
If we treated computers more like cars then we could better define the concept of computer literacy.
Both need constant maintenance and protection from the outside world trying to get in (rust & stereo stealers vs. dust & spammers).
Both require a special skill set that is not always intuitive to learn in order to operate it effectively.
Both are expensive and die in a matter of years.
People treat computers like a toaster and not like a car. They turn it on and just expect it to work. And there is much money to be made from the ignorant ones who don't change the oil or install a firewall. The culture needs to change around computers. Less toaster, more roadster.
I am a puny little user and I did up firefox quite nicely. Also behind a proxy firewall, and the firefox auto-detect for proxy settings is flawless. I can't even plug in a USB device or install any plugins due to my user access, but no problem for firefox...
Just remember that the US carrier seem to despise the other markets (UK, Japan) and the fancy phones that everyone else gets. I can certainly believe the telecoms are more than willing to not offer support or connectability to the US services for their closed-market biz models. I hate seeing all the clever implementations of phone tech that more likely than not never get to land on our shores...
Bloated? Handy to have an encrypted data transmission of the picture, don't you think? (Not sure if the encrypt would do the data as well as voice though).
It brings back to light the whole refined fuels vs simple fuels concepts. Gasoline vs. Diesel fuel back when both were very very new - two vastly different business models with different intentions for the endusers.
Diesel didn't need much refining, and so companies wouldn't didn't get the same sort of revenue hammerlock that refined gasoline offers as a business model, and it ended up not getting as much market share and development until later.
Mr. Diesel's wonderful invention was intended to make the compression engine and its fuel available for as many people as possible. Henry Ford helped to enable gasoline cars for everyone, but he sure didn't fix the problem that gasoline itself presents...
Hydrogen is the next step in the refined fuel group. You are very right. Beyond Petroleum, indeed. Dangerous, expensive, complicated to create. Bring on the solar grease car!!
Uh, that was the Declaration of Independence. Closely related to the Constitution written up in Philadelphia, but we were a sovereign nation at that point. Nice try though!
Much like there are people who just drive a car and never change the oil. And wonder why they get flat tires and pay 800.00 for a brake job after stripping the pads dry.
There are those who maintain a relationship with their car, and those who just drive it like an appliance. It takes a lot of work to change people's user/operator mindset, and in the meantime the proverbial stereo gets stolen out of your hooptie by the spammers and worm writers.
Most people aren't "dumb", they just have no interest in changing their relationship to the machine. Simple education of proper computer etiquette is not a simple thing at all - lot of time and effort must go into learning it.
Computers still aren't at that simple appliance level of security & usability yet, like a toaster oven or something. Unfortunately, the marketing animals have sold it to us as an appliance-level of usage. That is the disconnect, and most people believe what they are sold and told.
Remember, the RIAA is a bunch of jerks, but don't confuse dick-headedness with superfluous-ness.
They promote music with all that money, create tours and organize them, they pay bands, pay for producers when the bands suck at writing songs, get them on the air, create the music video, etc. They are certainly very predatory, but don't think they just sit there and do nothing. Most of the bands we listen to (unless you are a hardcore independent fan) would get zero exposure without the recording industry.
The RIAA needs to be regulated, not abolished. The money is there, and it won't ever just go away.
I didn't RTFA, but what if the Trojan just checks the bitpath for downloads in your P2P settings. Then it would know to delete the stuff in the user-defined directories vs the defaults.
It's also nice to see the diesel invention, which was originally created by Mr. Diesel to help the entire world have internal combustion with simple diesel fuel vs. complex refined gasoline, now being at the forefront of the fuel crisis solutions.
Also, most of the conversion kits I see advertised include an electric heater for the oil resevoir as well as a backflush system to keep the oil out of the engine when you turn it off to prevent congealing. Most of the dual-use systems have the engine start on real diesel, and switch over once started.
I had a great conversation with a friend about that concept of a legal solution to a social problem... It just don't work. Just like all the Civil Rights laws didn't end racism - all it did was affirm that two groups couldn't get along and discuss their problems. Only dialogue will heal a rift like that. Same thing with our current abortion laws. The two main opposing groups won't ever agree as long as they refuse to sit down and discuss their differences.
An impressive display I've seen is on bioethics and religion. The Catholic and Jesuit bishops that sit down with scientists and learn the language of science - that is a beautiful thing to see. And you know that those issue will be worked out and properly discussed socially as well as legally.
Such a far cry from a Jerry Falwell yelling about gay people - that's what the Microsoft lawsuits and this security lawsuit looks like to everyone. Nobody is sitting down and figuring out the proper compromise of security vs. the flow of information.
Well put, Opportunist.
In addition, I got my own IPO email in a mailbox behind all sorts of firewalls and spam blockers. vonage is on my whitelist and it got through, like the other legit emails from my banking,etc.
I've also never gotten a single piece of spam or otherwise at this inbox, and I get about 150 emails a day for 2 years now. A very elaborate scam, eh?:-(
Frying, it is legit. They won't post a presale of IPO common stock on thier website because new customer aren't eligible. You had to be a member since 2005. I work for one of the brokerage companies they partnered with to control the shares. It is the real deal.
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Ahhh, reaction in action. After the finance guys eat it first, then the govt follows. What, we don't enjoy a progressive, proactive democrazy? Oh.
Word to that. It is less than a product, more like a biz model. Ask your cellphone provider how much your phone cost them from the manufacturer.
I care nothing for his feelings of historical impact. Bush acts the same way. I want transparency and accountability in government. This is the problem here. State secrets will never see the light of day until FOIA requests unearth them from under the rocks of secrecy. Who is protected here? They better catch some terrorists soon with this outrageous nonsense.
You hit the nail on the head! Transparency in government is what has been lacking in the US for a long time. If the Congress and other branches couldn't claim those extra-legal secrecy right, then we would feel more comfortable giving away the other rights that they want to take from us. Gonzales wants all of our and none of the accountability or oversight involved. The FISA court is a perfect example - created ONLY for oversight purposes, but still purposefully skipped by the current Admin so they were not scrutinized. That, to me, is the big problem.
Uhhh, I would say a search engine facilitates the distribution of the works. That seems like a nobrainer to me.
I still don't get why everyone keeps harping on and on and on about this alleged Free Market that exists out there in the ether. Any sort of regulatory body that exists is a barrier to the Free Market. Any sort of conglomeration or monopoly that exists is a barrier to the Free Market. DRM is another form of monopoly on th e content market. Znork has it right - Legislation on either side of the coin, pro-regulation to protect consumers, or pro-monopoly to protect content owners - either of those is not conducive for a free market economy. Just as steel tarriffs and encouraging dvd piracy are no way to run a free market, neither is the intellectual headlock of DRM a way to encourage competition. When people bitch about the market, they bitch b/c the current market doesn't have their own particular preferred melange of tarriff, protections, and monopolies that THEY like. Just like the jerks who knee-jerk about Judicial Activists or Power-Made Executives - they aren't getting judges and Presidents that are Active for their pet projects, and if they were, then the legislators would shut up and smile and count their filthy money.
Ghandi quote - Be the change you want to see in the world.
How would a fusion plant and stem cell decrease my standard of living. We support scientic endeavors precisely because they purport to increase our standard of living. The scientific method and schools of research have already worked wonders in my short lifespan. I am okay with funding the research. Am I okay with funding DARPA research? Not so much. You work on cutting their funding first, and then you and I can have an intelligent discussion about funding on the federal and state level for "science worship". The Mars trip is a straw man for Bush to increase his possible historical influence for future generations. But it is still less distastefull than funding for unmanned combat vehicles that would turn a LAN party into a squad of killer machine operators. Get your priorities in order. If you don't like the taxes, move somewhere 3rd world, where you can turn those saved tax dollars into real money to bribe your elected officials. Here in the US you need to have a K street office for that. Nature is not an idiot, but maybe we are unable to read all the important details of our bodies. What about all that brain potential that we allegedly don't "use". Why did Nature gift us with that? Don't ask me, ask a researcher. Nature won't answer if you ask her directly. Or maybe you can take the tax savings and build a medieval castle complete with miserable serfs to finalize your view of scientific funding from the public pocket. And your children might die from cholera.
At any rate, they aren't hurting - that's for sure. Mergers are the natural conclusion in the business world. Majority of the fortune 500's I deal with are ALL the result of some sort of merger. Sometimes they combine the names, sometimes they don't. Bank of America, AT&T, Pfizer, etc.
Norton Commander ruled! Loved that little nugget. Worked so well! So did norton for 3.1, fixed lots of problems. Now symantec can't get out of its own way. This is the single problem of conglomeration with hardware/software. All the exploits are pointed straight at it and very little else. These companies end up becoming the Maignot Line for hacker nazis - they see it a mile away and roll right around it with their zombiebot panzer divisions.. :-(
Is this like the Power Rangers? Is global conglomeration the equivalent of Megatron?
If we treated computers more like cars then we could better define the concept of computer literacy. Both need constant maintenance and protection from the outside world trying to get in (rust & stereo stealers vs. dust & spammers). Both require a special skill set that is not always intuitive to learn in order to operate it effectively. Both are expensive and die in a matter of years. People treat computers like a toaster and not like a car. They turn it on and just expect it to work. And there is much money to be made from the ignorant ones who don't change the oil or install a firewall. The culture needs to change around computers. Less toaster, more roadster.
I am a puny little user and I did up firefox quite nicely. Also behind a proxy firewall, and the firefox auto-detect for proxy settings is flawless. I can't even plug in a USB device or install any plugins due to my user access, but no problem for firefox...
Just remember that the US carrier seem to despise the other markets (UK, Japan) and the fancy phones that everyone else gets. I can certainly believe the telecoms are more than willing to not offer support or connectability to the US services for their closed-market biz models. I hate seeing all the clever implementations of phone tech that more likely than not never get to land on our shores...
Bloated? Handy to have an encrypted data transmission of the picture, don't you think? (Not sure if the encrypt would do the data as well as voice though).
It brings back to light the whole refined fuels vs simple fuels concepts. Gasoline vs. Diesel fuel back when both were very very new - two vastly different business models with different intentions for the endusers. Diesel didn't need much refining, and so companies wouldn't didn't get the same sort of revenue hammerlock that refined gasoline offers as a business model, and it ended up not getting as much market share and development until later. Mr. Diesel's wonderful invention was intended to make the compression engine and its fuel available for as many people as possible. Henry Ford helped to enable gasoline cars for everyone, but he sure didn't fix the problem that gasoline itself presents... Hydrogen is the next step in the refined fuel group. You are very right. Beyond Petroleum, indeed. Dangerous, expensive, complicated to create. Bring on the solar grease car!!
Uh, that was the Declaration of Independence. Closely related to the Constitution written up in Philadelphia, but we were a sovereign nation at that point. Nice try though!
Much like there are people who just drive a car and never change the oil. And wonder why they get flat tires and pay 800.00 for a brake job after stripping the pads dry. There are those who maintain a relationship with their car, and those who just drive it like an appliance. It takes a lot of work to change people's user/operator mindset, and in the meantime the proverbial stereo gets stolen out of your hooptie by the spammers and worm writers. Most people aren't "dumb", they just have no interest in changing their relationship to the machine. Simple education of proper computer etiquette is not a simple thing at all - lot of time and effort must go into learning it. Computers still aren't at that simple appliance level of security & usability yet, like a toaster oven or something. Unfortunately, the marketing animals have sold it to us as an appliance-level of usage. That is the disconnect, and most people believe what they are sold and told.
Remember, the RIAA is a bunch of jerks, but don't confuse dick-headedness with superfluous-ness. They promote music with all that money, create tours and organize them, they pay bands, pay for producers when the bands suck at writing songs, get them on the air, create the music video, etc. They are certainly very predatory, but don't think they just sit there and do nothing. Most of the bands we listen to (unless you are a hardcore independent fan) would get zero exposure without the recording industry. The RIAA needs to be regulated, not abolished. The money is there, and it won't ever just go away.
I didn't RTFA, but what if the Trojan just checks the bitpath for downloads in your P2P settings. Then it would know to delete the stuff in the user-defined directories vs the defaults.
It's also nice to see the diesel invention, which was originally created by Mr. Diesel to help the entire world have internal combustion with simple diesel fuel vs. complex refined gasoline, now being at the forefront of the fuel crisis solutions.
Also, most of the conversion kits I see advertised include an electric heater for the oil resevoir as well as a backflush system to keep the oil out of the engine when you turn it off to prevent congealing. Most of the dual-use systems have the engine start on real diesel, and switch over once started.
I had a great conversation with a friend about that concept of a legal solution to a social problem... It just don't work. Just like all the Civil Rights laws didn't end racism - all it did was affirm that two groups couldn't get along and discuss their problems. Only dialogue will heal a rift like that. Same thing with our current abortion laws. The two main opposing groups won't ever agree as long as they refuse to sit down and discuss their differences. An impressive display I've seen is on bioethics and religion. The Catholic and Jesuit bishops that sit down with scientists and learn the language of science - that is a beautiful thing to see. And you know that those issue will be worked out and properly discussed socially as well as legally. Such a far cry from a Jerry Falwell yelling about gay people - that's what the Microsoft lawsuits and this security lawsuit looks like to everyone. Nobody is sitting down and figuring out the proper compromise of security vs. the flow of information. Well put, Opportunist.
In addition, I got my own IPO email in a mailbox behind all sorts of firewalls and spam blockers. vonage is on my whitelist and it got through, like the other legit emails from my banking ,etc.
I've also never gotten a single piece of spam or otherwise at this inbox, and I get about 150 emails a day for 2 years now. A very elaborate scam, eh? :-(
Frying, it is legit. They won't post a presale of IPO common stock on thier website because new customer aren't eligible. You had to be a member since 2005. I work for one of the brokerage companies they partnered with to control the shares. It is the real deal.