The problem here is that you're putting all the focus on BeOS, and not really looking at Haiku.
The goal for R1, which is getting pretty close, was to simply re-create the core BeOS R5. At that point, it will officially have recreated a stunning technology from 2000. I will assume you remember the state of Linux in 2000, right?
Post R1, that's when the work can really begin on addressing all those features you feel were lacking. Multi-user was probably the biggest one, but that is a known, and work can start on it.
Parts of BeOS are really dated now. And you are right, X is better now than it was 8 years ago. Let's see what they're able to come up with for R2 before saying it's too dated. Some improvements have already been worked in as discussed in the summary. The vector icons system is really sweet. Especially when tied with the metadata attributes of the FS, it's positively amazing.
Yes, any modern Linux distro is much better than BeOS WAS.
Give Haiku a bit of time, and I think those guys will surprise you.
I just wanted to clarify a small thing. The Congress is responsible for the passage of laws, the Executive (President) is responsible for enacting those laws. While in theory, the two are equal, the power of law is based in Congress, which has the most direct connection to the people, and is most directly accountable.
The President is not subject to Congress, however he can also not really act without their support. Were he truly to be a separate entity and not beholden to the laws passed to him by Congress, he would be an elected King, which your message appeared to support. Direct accountability to the people, whom both the Congress and President serve is more important than secret communications. These people are our employees, and I know I get cranky when my staff spend too much time on the clock dealing with non-work issues.
From the look of the system, there wouldn't appear to be too much slow down. Probably about on par with tossing a reasonably sized rock into a stream.
Of course, it's a matter of scale. One rock? not much impact, but throw to many in, and you have a dam. So I think the impact this system would have depends most on how much power it generates and how many can be fit on a given body of water before having a damming effect.
I hate to tell you this, but killing 20 people is already illegal. I know it's a shocker, but it's true.
Now if that same idiot decided to get up to 60 in his car and swerve onto the sidewalk, he could also kill those 20 people. Or if he decided to grab *insert any tool here* and go on a rampage, well, it might not be 20, or it might be more.
In no instance will any new laws keep someone who wishes to cause harm from doing so. Perhaps it may impact the scale, but there is as great a chance that it would result in a creative burst (i.e. thinking out side the box) and result in more harm. With the car example, said idiot may in fact kill 30 by doing something different.
The long and the short of it is this: You can't regulate crazy.
Any attempt at balance is limiting those who never would cause harm in order to *possibly* halt the few who would. As I stated above, murder is already a crime, yet it is not onerous because it does not limit us, rather it punishes those who choose to break from societal bounds. Chemicals, alcohol, drugs, and firearms, while potentially dangerous, do not in and of them selves provide the impetus for causing harm. Any harm that comes from such items is the result of choice, and no law can make people make good decisions.
Why not do the work yourself, and run an ad-driven site about the process.
When in the hotels, write up the step-by-steps of your projects. You'll save on the work cost, learn a new skill, and maybe make some cash from the people like me who are constantly surfing for tips and tricks on doing work around my house.
I won't do plumbing, that I'll always contract out for, but most improvements around the house are done by me. I've learned a lot by hitting the web before I undertake any project, when I've hit stumbling blocks, and on how I could have improved my finished project. If your site provides good info (and renovating a full house can be huge) you'll attract a fair bit of attention.
If you go this route, include scans of all your sketches, plans, etc. it's useful for folks to be able to see how someone went about doing a task they want to do on their own.
Not being able to tell the subject of the investigation is one thing, but the gag order in the NSL mean that recipients can't even speak to anyone about the letters. The only people they can speak to are people necessary to enforce the letter, who then become bound by the gag, and lawyers, who are (I believe) exempt. It's one of the reasons why these are so hard to fight.
Unfortunately, these gag orders also make it difficult to get any sort of feel for how they are being abused. From internal investigations, it is known that many of these letters overstep the Law, as they lack any judicial approval in their requests for information. But as people can't speak out about them, determining the impact these have had is almost impossible.
Finally, I am not okay with the concept of our Law Enforcement Officers being 'shady and sleazy'; even if it's within the letter of the law. If instead of sending letters, the FBI were to pull people from the street, interrogate them, and then threaten with jail to and keep them from speaking about it, would that be okay?
Please recall that the only powers which the Federal Government has are those granted to it by the Constitution. Anything not explicitly stated within the Constitution, and the associated Amendments to it is by definition, Unconstitutional.
Pretty simple really. Some would argue that that is a fairly simplistic reading, especially in regards to the 9th and 10th Amendments, and the gateway phases 'common good' and the famous 'commerce' clause, but which seems to be a more likely scenario. Our founding fathers drafted a document that was to be understood by the average man, specifically limiting the power of the federal government, OR, they drafted a document and intentionally hid 'back door' vague terms for those who wanted to exploit their positions of power?
Now, you are correct about the 'Ex Post Facto', but please review Article 1 once more and refer me to the point where it grants Congress the ability to nullify civil suits.
Please tell me where in Article 2 it grants the Executive branch the powers of 'Executive privilege', 'State Secrets', or enjoining companies to break the law.
As soon as you come back with those exact references, as they appear in the Constitution, I'll verify them, and if you are correct, I'll agree that the actions of both the Legislative and Executive branches were Constitutional.
I found a bunch old old disks from my first computer (the boot floppy, WordStar, Zork, etc) and didn't know what to do with them, but didn't want to chuck 'em.
So I found some nice long narrow picture frame (one of those with space for a bunch of photos in a row) and mounted them in there. I managed to get two of them, and they look really good hanging over my desk and flanking the monitor. You might be able to do something similar with your box art. Visitors might get a kick out of seeing the old titles again.
You know, I didn't think I could answer your questions, and I know I don't have all the details, but I was surprised at how much I have gleaned from this ongoing frakas...
1: AT&T is the one that gets all the Press, Qwest I think is out of it, with a boned CEO, but I'm sketchy on who all the players are. 2: Again, sketchy on this, but I believe it goes along the lines of: copying the communications of innocent, law abiding American citizens too government agencies for their perusal/review, with no clearly defined limits on retention or use (see 4th amendment in the bill of rights). 3: I know the EFF is big on this, pretty sure the ACLU is also participating. Probably others. 4: To hold those who have broken the law accountable via fiscal penalty? Yeah, I think that sounds about right.
Oddly enough, the only questions you asked that matter are 2 and 4. Who the players are is moot really.
Speaking as a well-meaning (or mean spirited, can never remember) libritarian, I can tell you that no one who has any interest in the goings on of government is 'ignorant of the real dangers in the world'. We all accept danger ever day in real life, from driving to work, to soap in the shower, to fat in our diets. All of those have killed a lot more of us than any enemy of the US ever has, or will. Especially if the government does not serve the will of the people, because at that point, there really is no US. There will just be a body of people living on the same land mass in a state of fear; and those real threats will have won.
Remember, terrorism only works if your fear keeps you from living life. So get out of your bubble, use your spine, and accept the risk and knowledge that bad things will happen.
What do you think is more interesting for a police officer to talk to his buddies about, murder, or a theft? Why if this gets wide spread, we might have so many cops dealing with assaults and murders that they'll finally stop patrolling the interstates. It's Win-Win!
While I'd agree with you in general, I think that more and more of the Joe 6 pack crowd are starting to run into this. Since almost every device now offers the ability to play media formats (i.e. phones) you'll start to run into music format lock ins. Today and a lot of people have more than one computer (home, office, laptop, kid's computer, spouse's computer, etc.) people are probably running into the interoperability issues or will at some point soon.
Last month I authorized my 5th computer to work with iTunes, so me and mine can keep playing music I've bought. Now I can't listen to it at the office. That doesn't really make any sense to me, because I could if I'd bought a CD instead, I'd just have to carry around a binder of music the size of a desk.
The convenience of digital music is that it can be moved around and taken with you easily. DRM stops that and we'll just keep running into it.
So far, from what little I've seen, Sun has this one pretty well covered. I'll admit that I haven't checked out the competition, but Sun has been promoting the BlackBox for a while now (check out this video of it in 6.7 magnitude earthquake conditions: http://sunfeedroom.sun.com/?skin=twoclip&fr_story=FEEDROOM198997&rf=ev&autoplay=trueProject Blackbox Test)
With everything else they are doing, I think they are cornering this market. Intel getting into it is just solidifying that it's a desirable market.
This video is also neat because of the Sun SPOTs used to monitor the conditions throughout the testing.
P.S. Can anyone tell me how to get URL's to be on just the link text instead of showing the full url? The notes on posting don't really help.
As this is a lawsuit, I don't believe that precedence can be set by it. Then again, IANAL, but that seems to crop up here in a fair number of posts about RIAA cases, so I'd guess the same rules apply.
Second, I'd guess that universities have a lot more leeway on what they consider appropriate traffic, much like my office does. You may want to talk to the tech folks there and see if you can sort something out with them. Try clarifying exactly why you need that access. Sometimes I've had to fight the network folks to allow things to run, but if you can prove it has merit, chances are an exception can be made.
I'll second that. I've yet to try SQL Developer with MySQL but I think I saw it being listed in an update a while ago.
I really like it as a tool. The one issue I have is my company only uses TOAD and keeps shelling out money they don't need to. For any TOAD users out there, I'm not saying it's not worth the money, but most of what my co-workers do can be done in SQL Developer for free.
One of the best things about SQL Developer in my opinion is the simple lightweight and clean interface. I'd say my one complaint is not being able to determine the size of the dataset it returns on queries. Seems to max out at 50, then slowly load in groups of 100 or so.
I'm sad to say you're right, Paul has little to no chance of winning. Of even showing up on the ballots. Then again, neither do you or I, so I guess that's a moot point. I'm not sure how you got to nut cases and fascists, but I'd like to learn more of how you came to associate those with Dr. Paul, who from all I can tell wants to tare down centralized government. I guess it is insane to want what we were promised and grew up believing we have.
As for the Roe v Wade issue, I'm not a fan of him on that point. But, and it's a big BUT, his belief (as I understand it) is that should be a personal / community, or state issue, and not federal. Abortions would still be legal with out a doubt in pretty much every blue state, and most likely a fair number of red states. Why is the federal government, which exists for disputes between states involved? This isn't the place to argue that tired old fight (As a bachelor, I'm in favor if it), but I believe that we exist within the laws of our community, and with 250M people some aren't going to like some laws. Find a community which has similar values and laws and live there. You can do that in a state driven country, but not in a federal one.
Heck, all of us tinfoil hat fascist types can have our own state and leave you alone. You can have your like minded state and think we're all insane, and we'll be America, the big dysfunctional family.
How to fight them is a difficult issue. Most people can not because, as you have pointed out there are only the two choices, on the Federal level. The problem is that what was supposed to be a minor almost Administrative group has become much too large and powerful. From your post I'm assuming that you are European, probably from the UK. Imagine if the EU started trumping the local laws in any of it's member nations. Those member nations would go ballistic. Until it has been around for a long enough time that everyone starts to think of themselves as 'I'm European, from Germany'. That's pretty much what's happened here, and is both the cause and solution for how to fight that.
The states need to reclaim their power from the federal government, but it's a huge battle to do so. People no longer see as much value in state elections as they do in the federal, and that level of apathy allows for the status quo to continue or even deteriorate. I expect that over time, we'll see more efforts like the 'Free State Project' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project; like minded people trying to change the local, then state governments to constrain the federal.
But onto the topic of this post; the ramifications of this are truly sickening. On the bright side, with employers only accepting people with a college degree, we might start to see more manufacturing start up in the US again. And that means of course their will be even more people eligible for joining the military. Might as well make that part of the bill, 'Get caught downloading music, go and fight'.
I'd love to say this would ruin all the RIAA's future lawyers and politicians, but the money will come from their families, so it doesn't really matter. I'd bet that more people (at least middle class or so) will do what my father did for me; sent me overseas for university, with federal financial aid. Not that that will count for much with the dollar in it's state, but at least it'll be some help. Until that loop hole gets closed down and financial aid is only good in the US.
I don't really have any conclusions to draw from this, but people need to get more involved in their states politics, and not just for their federal representatives. Research places with a state political climate you like. This legislation needs to be fought, so call your reps in D.C.. If you have kids, start them learning another language, it's educational and FUN! If you have kids, ask if you need a plasma TV, or can you sock more of it away for their educations.
When trying to convince people of the dangers of government control, hyperbole like this doesn't help. A US citizen still has considerably more rights than a Chinese citizen.
Also, you can't reasonably expect any privacy in email unless you encrypt its contents. As you didn't provide any more information regarding those rights for the U.S. Citizen, you are doing the same thing as the Parent Poster. I believe the original post was making the argument that the US Citizen, by actions like this is losing those rights. Or at least in danger of doing so.
On privacy, while it is possible to read an unencrypted e-mail, that is not the same as an invitation to do so. It is possible to read my documents in my locked file cabinet, it just requires access and a pull hammer. Does that mean that those can be reviewed by the government? My phone line can be tapped by pretty much anyone, but does that mean it is okay for everyone to do so?
I don't disagree, I think that encryption is a fine thing, and should be used more often. However, I do not believe that my right to privacy exists regardless of the technological possibilities to interfere with it.
Seriously though, for most people, unless they know there's a risk of being fired if they don't comply, chances are that they're not going to care about corporate IT policies. Most companies don't actual police them, so what benefit do they have in following them?
I've seen a couple of people let go over their use of corporate resources. From talking with the network guys, it's always been a matter of management wanting to get rid of someone for whatever reason, and using the IT side of things as the stick. Most often it's folks keeping bankers hours, talking on the phone all day, not meeting deadlines, etc. Then it's a fairly simple matter to make a case of inappropriate use of resources.
I guess where I'm going with this is that most management knows staff is gonna slack online/over the phone. So they'll always give you some rope, but hanging yourself is up to you and your other performance. Do well, no problems. Milk them for money, and they'll have a stack of violations against ya so fast.
I'll vote for him, And I'll do so despite knowing that he won't win. The issue is that he won't be on the majority of the ballots because most people aren't hearing about him, so the only votes he gets will be write in.
So while my write in vote (which most of them tend to be) will be for him, it'll be just me voicing my opinion and being drowned out. I'm a Republican, always have been, but I don't like where the party is going. I've always voted for the person who I believe has spoken best for the concept of small federal government. Ron Paul actually comes closest to how I was raised to view America. The fact that he is considered a 'Dark Horse' is a problem to me. Why are the Republican 'Front Runners':
a) An unknown with no message, but a lantern jaw (Romney) b) A solid veteran with good intentions but a shifting history (McCain, and I adored him in 2000) c) The guy from Law and Order (If it requires no work, he'll okay it) d) a Democrat (Don't tell me the Gulianni is a republican).
The one guy with a solid Republican message has been cast to the winds. Oddly enough, I'm rather glad Ron Paul is going to fail. In future years, the Libritarian party will have more followers, and might impact on the two party system. The thing it will need, and what new parties have needed is good leadership / figure head. But with any luck, there will be a true 'Republican' party, and a 'Family Values, Christian First' Party. If there is that split, then a bunch of the closet Republican might be able to hold their heads up.
There are many other options out there, both reasonable and attractive. The question is are they both more reasonable AND more attractive than Solaris. Sun is addressing the reasonable market by going open source with Solaris. As their support prices are dirt cheap, I'm using it on my home boxen.
Now attractive is a tough one to argue against, but I'd say that Sun is topping out on the attractiveness scale with the lack of drivers being the big limiter. I'd ask what technologies RedHat/Novell/Conical/IBM/HP are bringing to the table? Sun is rolling out ZFS, dtrace, Zones, and (this one have become my personal favorite) Services. Couple that with their history of Trusted Extensions and who else is as pretty? Who?
For the server market, I'd say that Solaris might be a bit homely compared to Linux, but she can cook a better dinner.
According to the webcast Sun had about this chip today, the T2 has dramatic electrical savings for what it provides, I think I saw at one point something along the lines of 97 watts as opposed to 160 for the cloverleaf from intel. While priced at "Under $1000"*, that's for orders of over a 1,000 units. They did say they were planning on working on less powerful and more affordable solutions for the embedded market in the next year and that this was more of a flag ship for inclusion in the server market. I'm not sure if this is ever being designed for use in the Desktop market, but there was a lot of interest about ubuntu running on it soon (already runs on the T1). One developer was asking for laptops running these, and the EVP of Sun Systems also was interested, so who knows what they'll do with this.
I'd have to agree with MikeRT on this one for the most part. I'm an American who went to Scotland for my University; I was returning to education after a long break in the office world. My Uni only had CS or IT (and some cross-overs with EE). I really wish they would have had a SE course as that is what most people there seemed interested in. I really doubt that most people who get CS degrees stay in Academia doing research, so SE would be a better fit for most.
The following is all my personal take on the differences between the two we had available, so take it with a grain of salt. It seemed like most of the students on the IT side of the department were taking it because they figured 'IT makes decent money, and I know how to use a computer'. With courses on both light weight technology and people-person skills, the IT course seemed to be for cranking out office managers, with people who really shouldn't be in that role.
There was a very high attrition rate from CS to IT during my First and Second years. After that the courses suddenly got a lot more interesting. This is my personal feeling, but I really think the professors pretty much wrote off the IT students.
I would favor CS (in case you haven't guessed), at least for undergrad. If you're plan is to go into Management, I believe you would stand a much better chance getting your BSc in CS and then getting an MBA than trying to rely on an IT education for your career.
I have few qualms with this. The state of the RAM at any given point is there. Some atomic elements only exist for a microsecond, but are still known to exist.
But, I do have to wonder what would happen if someone were to hit the courts with that much data.
For a moment assume that every change in RAM is logged to a file. And follow that assumption that roughly 1MB of text ~= a book (Okay, say Ivanhoe instead of War and Peace). Now if the server has (let's guess a conservative) 4 GB of RAM, and changes are happening at some nanosecond rate, that's the Library of Congress in well under a minute (okay, I'm making that up, I have no idea how large the LoC is). I'd say print it. Give it to the judge. Give it to the *IAA. Let them build a house out of the endless pages of dump that you'd get. It may be a document, but that does not mean it's a document anyone can read. Is the onus upon the defendant to translate it into another language more understandable by their attacker? If so, that's a bit of a problem for everyone who says 'Encrypt your communications'. Doesn't that then get into 5th amendment issues as well?
Actually, another use of the BeIA is the Aura stero thing. Really impressive sounding. And if you've never seen the BFS queries for building a playlist, get a copy of PE and try it out. Be's handeling of MP3's is what finally got me to convert. Anyway, the Aura system and the HARP system are both fantastic network music systems for the home environment.
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Socialism can only work because it thrives on and deprives the productive.
We wouldn't have half the advancements of the last hundred years with it.
Until we come up with some more universal measure of success than money, most people will chase profit.
The problem here is that you're putting all the focus on BeOS, and not really looking at Haiku.
The goal for R1, which is getting pretty close, was to simply re-create the core BeOS R5. At that point, it will officially have recreated a stunning technology from 2000. I will assume you remember the state of Linux in 2000, right?
Post R1, that's when the work can really begin on addressing all those features you feel were lacking. Multi-user was probably the biggest one, but that is a known, and work can start on it.
Parts of BeOS are really dated now. And you are right, X is better now than it was 8 years ago. Let's see what they're able to come up with for R2 before saying it's too dated. Some improvements have already been worked in as discussed in the summary. The vector icons system is really sweet. Especially when tied with the metadata attributes of the FS, it's positively amazing.
Yes, any modern Linux distro is much better than BeOS WAS .
Give Haiku a bit of time, and I think those guys will surprise you.
I just wanted to clarify a small thing. The Congress is responsible for the passage of laws, the Executive (President) is responsible for enacting those laws. While in theory, the two are equal, the power of law is based in Congress, which has the most direct connection to the people, and is most directly accountable.
The President is not subject to Congress, however he can also not really act without their support. Were he truly to be a separate entity and not beholden to the laws passed to him by Congress, he would be an elected King, which your message appeared to support. Direct accountability to the people, whom both the Congress and President serve is more important than secret communications. These people are our employees, and I know I get cranky when my staff spend too much time on the clock dealing with non-work issues.
From the look of the system, there wouldn't appear to be too much slow down. Probably about on par with tossing a reasonably sized rock into a stream.
Of course, it's a matter of scale. One rock? not much impact, but throw to many in, and you have a dam. So I think the impact this system would have depends most on how much power it generates and how many can be fit on a given body of water before having a damming effect.
I hate to tell you this, but killing 20 people is already illegal. I know it's a shocker, but it's true.
Now if that same idiot decided to get up to 60 in his car and swerve onto the sidewalk, he could also kill those 20 people. Or if he decided to grab *insert any tool here* and go on a rampage, well, it might not be 20, or it might be more.
In no instance will any new laws keep someone who wishes to cause harm from doing so. Perhaps it may impact the scale, but there is as great a chance that it would result in a creative burst (i.e. thinking out side the box) and result in more harm. With the car example, said idiot may in fact kill 30 by doing something different.
The long and the short of it is this: You can't regulate crazy.
Any attempt at balance is limiting those who never would cause harm in order to *possibly* halt the few who would. As I stated above, murder is already a crime, yet it is not onerous because it does not limit us, rather it punishes those who choose to break from societal bounds. Chemicals, alcohol, drugs, and firearms, while potentially dangerous, do not in and of them selves provide the impetus for causing harm. Any harm that comes from such items is the result of choice, and no law can make people make good decisions.
Why not do the work yourself, and run an ad-driven site about the process.
When in the hotels, write up the step-by-steps of your projects. You'll save on the work cost, learn a new skill, and maybe make some cash from the people like me who are constantly surfing for tips and tricks on doing work around my house.
I won't do plumbing, that I'll always contract out for, but most improvements around the house are done by me. I've learned a lot by hitting the web before I undertake any project, when I've hit stumbling blocks, and on how I could have improved my finished project. If your site provides good info (and renovating a full house can be huge) you'll attract a fair bit of attention.
If you go this route, include scans of all your sketches, plans, etc. it's useful for folks to be able to see how someone went about doing a task they want to do on their own.
Not being able to tell the subject of the investigation is one thing, but the gag order in the NSL mean that recipients can't even speak to anyone about the letters. The only people they can speak to are people necessary to enforce the letter, who then become bound by the gag, and lawyers, who are (I believe) exempt. It's one of the reasons why these are so hard to fight.
Unfortunately, these gag orders also make it difficult to get any sort of feel for how they are being abused. From internal investigations, it is known that many of these letters overstep the Law, as they lack any judicial approval in their requests for information. But as people can't speak out about them, determining the impact these have had is almost impossible.
Finally, I am not okay with the concept of our Law Enforcement Officers being 'shady and sleazy'; even if it's within the letter of the law. If instead of sending letters, the FBI were to pull people from the street, interrogate them, and then threaten with jail to and keep them from speaking about it, would that be okay?
I would disagree.
Please recall that the only powers which the Federal Government has are those granted to it by the Constitution. Anything not explicitly stated within the Constitution, and the associated Amendments to it is by definition, Unconstitutional.
Pretty simple really. Some would argue that that is a fairly simplistic reading, especially in regards to the 9th and 10th Amendments, and the gateway phases 'common good' and the famous 'commerce' clause, but which seems to be a more likely scenario. Our founding fathers drafted a document that was to be understood by the average man, specifically limiting the power of the federal government, OR, they drafted a document and intentionally hid 'back door' vague terms for those who wanted to exploit their positions of power?
Now, you are correct about the 'Ex Post Facto', but please review Article 1 once more and refer me to the point where it grants Congress the ability to nullify civil suits.
Please tell me where in Article 2 it grants the Executive branch the powers of 'Executive privilege', 'State Secrets', or enjoining companies to break the law.
As soon as you come back with those exact references, as they appear in the Constitution, I'll verify them, and if you are correct, I'll agree that the actions of both the Legislative and Executive branches were Constitutional.
I found a bunch old old disks from my first computer (the boot floppy, WordStar, Zork, etc) and didn't know what to do with them, but didn't want to chuck 'em.
So I found some nice long narrow picture frame (one of those with space for a bunch of photos in a row) and mounted them in there. I managed to get two of them, and they look really good hanging over my desk and flanking the monitor. You might be able to do something similar with your box art. Visitors might get a kick out of seeing the old titles again.
You know, I didn't think I could answer your questions, and I know I don't have all the details, but I was surprised at how much I have gleaned from this ongoing frakas...
1: AT&T is the one that gets all the Press, Qwest I think is out of it, with a boned CEO, but I'm sketchy on who all the players are.
2: Again, sketchy on this, but I believe it goes along the lines of: copying the communications of innocent, law abiding American citizens too government agencies for their perusal/review, with no clearly defined limits on retention or use (see 4th amendment in the bill of rights).
3: I know the EFF is big on this, pretty sure the ACLU is also participating. Probably others.
4: To hold those who have broken the law accountable via fiscal penalty? Yeah, I think that sounds about right.
Oddly enough, the only questions you asked that matter are 2 and 4. Who the players are is moot really.
Speaking as a well-meaning (or mean spirited, can never remember) libritarian, I can tell you that no one who has any interest in the goings on of government is 'ignorant of the real dangers in the world'. We all accept danger ever day in real life, from driving to work, to soap in the shower, to fat in our diets. All of those have killed a lot more of us than any enemy of the US ever has, or will. Especially if the government does not serve the will of the people, because at that point, there really is no US. There will just be a body of people living on the same land mass in a state of fear; and those real threats will have won.
Remember, terrorism only works if your fear keeps you from living life. So get out of your bubble, use your spine, and accept the risk and knowledge that bad things will happen.
You're looking at it wrong.
What do you think is more interesting for a police officer to talk to his buddies about, murder, or a theft? Why if this gets wide spread, we might have so many cops dealing with assaults and murders that they'll finally stop patrolling the interstates. It's Win-Win!
While I'd agree with you in general, I think that more and more of the Joe 6 pack crowd are starting to run into this. Since almost every device now offers the ability to play media formats (i.e. phones) you'll start to run into music format lock ins. Today and a lot of people have more than one computer (home, office, laptop, kid's computer, spouse's computer, etc.) people are probably running into the interoperability issues or will at some point soon.
Last month I authorized my 5th computer to work with iTunes, so me and mine can keep playing music I've bought. Now I can't listen to it at the office. That doesn't really make any sense to me, because I could if I'd bought a CD instead, I'd just have to carry around a binder of music the size of a desk.
The convenience of digital music is that it can be moved around and taken with you easily. DRM stops that and we'll just keep running into it.
So far, from what little I've seen, Sun has this one pretty well covered. I'll admit that I haven't checked out the competition, but Sun has been promoting the BlackBox for a while now (check out this video of it in 6.7 magnitude earthquake conditions: http://sunfeedroom.sun.com/?skin=twoclip&fr_story=FEEDROOM198997&rf=ev&autoplay=trueProject Blackbox Test)
With everything else they are doing, I think they are cornering this market. Intel getting into it is just solidifying that it's a desirable market.
This video is also neat because of the Sun SPOTs used to monitor the conditions throughout the testing.
P.S. Can anyone tell me how to get URL's to be on just the link text instead of showing the full url? The notes on posting don't really help.
Just a couple of quick thoughts.
As this is a lawsuit, I don't believe that precedence can be set by it. Then again, IANAL, but that seems to crop up here in a fair number of posts about RIAA cases, so I'd guess the same rules apply.
Second, I'd guess that universities have a lot more leeway on what they consider appropriate traffic, much like my office does. You may want to talk to the tech folks there and see if you can sort something out with them. Try clarifying exactly why you need that access. Sometimes I've had to fight the network folks to allow things to run, but if you can prove it has merit, chances are an exception can be made.
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I'll second that. I've yet to try SQL Developer with MySQL but I think I saw it being listed in an update a while ago.
I really like it as a tool. The one issue I have is my company only uses TOAD and keeps shelling out money they don't need to. For any TOAD users out there, I'm not saying it's not worth the money, but most of what my co-workers do can be done in SQL Developer for free.
One of the best things about SQL Developer in my opinion is the simple lightweight and clean interface. I'd say my one complaint is not being able to determine the size of the dataset it returns on queries. Seems to max out at 50, then slowly load in groups of 100 or so.
I'm sad to say you're right, Paul has little to no chance of winning. Of even showing up on the ballots. Then again, neither do you or I, so I guess that's a moot point. I'm not sure how you got to nut cases and fascists, but I'd like to learn more of how you came to associate those with Dr. Paul, who from all I can tell wants to tare down centralized government. I guess it is insane to want what we were promised and grew up believing we have.
As for the Roe v Wade issue, I'm not a fan of him on that point. But, and it's a big BUT, his belief (as I understand it) is that should be a personal / community, or state issue, and not federal. Abortions would still be legal with out a doubt in pretty much every blue state, and most likely a fair number of red states. Why is the federal government, which exists for disputes between states involved? This isn't the place to argue that tired old fight (As a bachelor, I'm in favor if it), but I believe that we exist within the laws of our community, and with 250M people some aren't going to like some laws. Find a community which has similar values and laws and live there. You can do that in a state driven country, but not in a federal one.
Heck, all of us tinfoil hat fascist types can have our own state and leave you alone. You can have your like minded state and think we're all insane, and we'll be America, the big dysfunctional family.
How to fight them is a difficult issue. Most people can not because, as you have pointed out there are only the two choices, on the Federal level. The problem is that what was supposed to be a minor almost Administrative group has become much too large and powerful. From your post I'm assuming that you are European, probably from the UK. Imagine if the EU started trumping the local laws in any of it's member nations. Those member nations would go ballistic. Until it has been around for a long enough time that everyone starts to think of themselves as 'I'm European, from Germany'. That's pretty much what's happened here, and is both the cause and solution for how to fight that.
The states need to reclaim their power from the federal government, but it's a huge battle to do so. People no longer see as much value in state elections as they do in the federal, and that level of apathy allows for the status quo to continue or even deteriorate. I expect that over time, we'll see more efforts like the 'Free State Project' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project; like minded people trying to change the local, then state governments to constrain the federal.
But onto the topic of this post; the ramifications of this are truly sickening. On the bright side, with employers only accepting people with a college degree, we might start to see more manufacturing start up in the US again. And that means of course their will be even more people eligible for joining the military. Might as well make that part of the bill, 'Get caught downloading music, go and fight'.
I'd love to say this would ruin all the RIAA's future lawyers and politicians, but the money will come from their families, so it doesn't really matter. I'd bet that more people (at least middle class or so) will do what my father did for me; sent me overseas for university, with federal financial aid. Not that that will count for much with the dollar in it's state, but at least it'll be some help. Until that loop hole gets closed down and financial aid is only good in the US.
I don't really have any conclusions to draw from this, but people need to get more involved in their states politics, and not just for their federal representatives. Research places with a state political climate you like. This legislation needs to be fought, so call your reps in D.C.. If you have kids, start them learning another language, it's educational and FUN! If you have kids, ask if you need a plasma TV, or can you sock more of it away for their educations.
Also, you can't reasonably expect any privacy in email unless you encrypt its contents. As you didn't provide any more information regarding those rights for the U.S. Citizen, you are doing the same thing as the Parent Poster. I believe the original post was making the argument that the US Citizen, by actions like this is losing those rights. Or at least in danger of doing so.
On privacy, while it is possible to read an unencrypted e-mail, that is not the same as an invitation to do so. It is possible to read my documents in my locked file cabinet, it just requires access and a pull hammer. Does that mean that those can be reviewed by the government? My phone line can be tapped by pretty much anyone, but does that mean it is okay for everyone to do so?
I don't disagree, I think that encryption is a fine thing, and should be used more often. However, I do not believe that my right to privacy exists regardless of the technological possibilities to interfere with it.
I've seen a couple of people let go over their use of corporate resources. From talking with the network guys, it's always been a matter of management wanting to get rid of someone for whatever reason, and using the IT side of things as the stick. Most often it's folks keeping bankers hours, talking on the phone all day, not meeting deadlines, etc. Then it's a fairly simple matter to make a case of inappropriate use of resources.
I guess where I'm going with this is that most management knows staff is gonna slack online/over the phone. So they'll always give you some rope, but hanging yourself is up to you and your other performance. Do well, no problems. Milk them for money, and they'll have a stack of violations against ya so fast.
I'll vote for him, And I'll do so despite knowing that he won't win. The issue is that he won't be on the majority of the ballots because most people aren't hearing about him, so the only votes he gets will be write in.
So while my write in vote (which most of them tend to be) will be for him, it'll be just me voicing my opinion and being drowned out. I'm a Republican, always have been, but I don't like where the party is going. I've always voted for the person who I believe has spoken best for the concept of small federal government. Ron Paul actually comes closest to how I was raised to view America. The fact that he is considered a 'Dark Horse' is a problem to me. Why are the Republican 'Front Runners':
a) An unknown with no message, but a lantern jaw (Romney)
b) A solid veteran with good intentions but a shifting history (McCain, and I adored him in 2000)
c) The guy from Law and Order (If it requires no work, he'll okay it)
d) a Democrat (Don't tell me the Gulianni is a republican).
The one guy with a solid Republican message has been cast to the winds. Oddly enough, I'm rather glad Ron Paul is going to fail. In future years, the Libritarian party will have more followers, and might impact on the two party system. The thing it will need, and what new parties have needed is good leadership / figure head. But with any luck, there will be a true 'Republican' party, and a 'Family Values, Christian First' Party. If there is that split, then a bunch of the closet Republican might be able to hold their heads up.
There are many other options out there, both reasonable and attractive. The question is are they both more reasonable AND more attractive than Solaris. Sun is addressing the reasonable market by going open source with Solaris. As their support prices are dirt cheap, I'm using it on my home boxen.
Now attractive is a tough one to argue against, but I'd say that Sun is topping out on the attractiveness scale with the lack of drivers being the big limiter. I'd ask what technologies RedHat/Novell/Conical/IBM/HP are bringing to the table? Sun is rolling out ZFS, dtrace, Zones, and (this one have become my personal favorite) Services. Couple that with their history of Trusted Extensions and who else is as pretty? Who?
For the server market, I'd say that Solaris might be a bit homely compared to Linux, but she can cook a better dinner.
According to the webcast Sun had about this chip today, the T2 has dramatic electrical savings for what it provides, I think I saw at one point something along the lines of 97 watts as opposed to 160 for the cloverleaf from intel. While priced at "Under $1000"*, that's for orders of over a 1,000 units. They did say they were planning on working on less powerful and more affordable solutions for the embedded market in the next year and that this was more of a flag ship for inclusion in the server market. I'm not sure if this is ever being designed for use in the Desktop market, but there was a lot of interest about ubuntu running on it soon (already runs on the T1). One developer was asking for laptops running these, and the EVP of Sun Systems also was interested, so who knows what they'll do with this.
a ture/index.jsp?intcmp=hp2007aug07_ultrasparct2_web cast and requires RealPlayer and is roughly 1:17:17 or so.
Very exciting news in general, I think the built in crypto co-processors for each core will make this a deal breaker for most government agencies and a lot of financial institutions. If you're interested the full webcast is here: http://www.sun.com/featured-articles/2007-0807/fe
I'd have to agree with MikeRT on this one for the most part. I'm an American who went to Scotland for my University; I was returning to education after a long break in the office world. My Uni only had CS or IT (and some cross-overs with EE). I really wish they would have had a SE course as that is what most people there seemed interested in. I really doubt that most people who get CS degrees stay in Academia doing research, so SE would be a better fit for most.
The following is all my personal take on the differences between the two we had available, so take it with a grain of salt. It seemed like most of the students on the IT side of the department were taking it because they figured 'IT makes decent money, and I know how to use a computer'. With courses on both light weight technology and people-person skills, the IT course seemed to be for cranking out office managers, with people who really shouldn't be in that role.
There was a very high attrition rate from CS to IT during my First and Second years. After that the courses suddenly got a lot more interesting. This is my personal feeling, but I really think the professors pretty much wrote off the IT students.
I would favor CS (in case you haven't guessed), at least for undergrad. If you're plan is to go into Management, I believe you would stand a much better chance getting your BSc in CS and then getting an MBA than trying to rely on an IT education for your career.
I have few qualms with this. The state of the RAM at any given point is there. Some atomic elements only exist for a microsecond, but are still known to exist.
But, I do have to wonder what would happen if someone were to hit the courts with that much data.
For a moment assume that every change in RAM is logged to a file. And follow that assumption that roughly 1MB of text ~= a book (Okay, say Ivanhoe instead of War and Peace). Now if the server has (let's guess a conservative) 4 GB of RAM, and changes are happening at some nanosecond rate, that's the Library of Congress in well under a minute (okay, I'm making that up, I have no idea how large the LoC is). I'd say print it. Give it to the judge. Give it to the *IAA. Let them build a house out of the endless pages of dump that you'd get. It may be a document, but that does not mean it's a document anyone can read. Is the onus upon the defendant to translate it into another language more understandable by their attacker? If so, that's a bit of a problem for everyone who says 'Encrypt your communications'. Doesn't that then get into 5th amendment issues as well?
So give it to them. Give it to them on dead tree.
FDR.
Actually, another use of the BeIA is the Aura stero thing. Really impressive sounding. And if you've never seen the BFS queries for building a playlist, get a copy of PE and try it out. Be's handeling of MP3's is what finally got me to convert. Anyway, the Aura system and the HARP system are both fantastic network music systems for the home environment.