It's even more perfect: there's no "town master key" to enable cops to search a building once they do have a warrant, why then should networks have such a backdoor?
You're confusing the delegation of one authority with impotence of all authority: if I call my local cop shop on Senator McDozer-Thee-States-Over's corruption, they'll point point me elsewhere. Doesn't mean nothing's being done nohow, just that jurisdictions apply.
Internet crime gets a lot of press, but receives little attention from crime prevention teams? Interesting. Do you have anything to support that claim?
My mother in law took a different approach. After previous bad experiences, she expected the "haven't received" excuse, so she scanned in the barcode, full receipt, and rebate form before sending them. When (surprise surprise) a phone call confirmed that they "hadn't received" her initial mailing, she said, "That's ok, I'll send in the copies I made with a note that you lost the first attempt."
It's interesting how many mail-in rebates fail to arrive...
but those "normal" businesses make the sheets that bind us.
I am not opposed to paying "fair share", but you're missing the parent writer's point: this is much more than fair share. One of America's founding ideals was "no taxation without representation" - conveniently dodging the "who" of representation. Why are our cell bills so expensive and our VoIP bills getting tax? Lobbying telcos.
Mac OSX may be wonderful technically, shares similiar adoption problems with linux, but it's small marketshare also stems from the fact that it's hardware is only sold by one provider. Linux does not have this problem.
Of course, Linux also has the problem of not having this advantage. So much work is put into porting Linux distros to different systems and adding driver support, attention is often diverted from the real factors in making PC converts: user interface and ease of use. I love Ubuntu (even with no K or X), but GNOME has problems no amount of theme-tweaking or big-friendly-icon-drawing can fix. Currently, KDE is actually easier for the average ex-Windows user to grasp (but lacks GNOME's wide language and accessibility support).
Not IBM PC compatible? Neither is Windows XP! Besides, PowerPC was based on an IBM architecture and IBM manufactured many of the chips used in Apple Personal Computers. Why, Apple has always made PCs, and OS X has always been IBM compatible! When it came to switching to Intel, Apple went out their way trying to make sure Intel hackers couldn't install Tiger.
Kyle MacDonald: "One Red Paperclip" - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
See! the hit comic action adventure drama, starring Will Smith as Kyle MacDonald, Uma Thurman as his long suffering girlfriend, and Lindsay Lohan as the paperclip.
Hear! Will Smith's amusing remarks as he trades pieces of junk for larger, more profitable junk!
Cry! when Will Smith unwittingly trades a van for a piece of paper, almos losing long-time girlfriend Uma Thurman.
Laugh! when it turns out the piece of paper was a recording contract!
Based on a true life story! (Some liberties taken; various items replaced by famous celebrities and the internet replaced by word-of-mouth of the quirky inhabitants of Will Smith's home town in Northern California).
Sample the from riveting novelization:
"CHAPTER 1. It started with this paperclip. Then he trades it in for a pen. Then, like, he trades it in again, but for a doorknob... Then he goes and trades it for a coleman stove. Then he trades the stove for James Woods. 'Hey, buddy.' Says James Woods, 'I'm James Woods.' 'Beleeve dat,' says Will Smith - his catchphrase for the film."
The whole list is fluff. Heck, the whole story is fluff! Some of these actually are products that were designed badly (the Kodak camera, for example), but mostly this is a list of products with poor marketing (Wii) or not-products (polo is an event, not a product, and the product in question is fine as far as technology goes).
The list should be renamed: Things this editor stumbled into 1Q 2006 that he doesn't like, all of which employ technology in some vague way.
You can read more about reasonable suspicion here. Disturbingly:
The Supreme Court held in Earls vs. Board of Education of Tecumseh Public School District (2002) that random drug testing was `reasonable' and did not violate the Fourth Amendment. The Court also held schools served as `guardian and tutor', could exercise `greater control than those for adults' and had `important interests' in the health and safety of students. The Court finally held that schools did not need to show an `individualized suspicion' nor a `demonstrated problem of drug abuse' and there was no `threshold level' of violation that needed to be satisfied.
Since it's been established that cell phones are fair game, could this ruling be used in defence of random cell phone checks?
Frankly, an unwarranted cavity search performed on a minor without the express permission of a legal de jure guardian is tantamount to child molestation.
Thanks for the reply - I'll try to take your advice when I finally get to see San Francisco! Funny you should mention Minneapolis, we spent last weekend there. I've never really thought of it as a major city before. Thanks again!
Just a curiosity: I have a friend in Union City who says she can tell when she's getting close to San Francisco because visibility decreases that much (natural fog, not pollution, I'm guessing). Is there a lot of beauty to be seen approaching San Francisco, or is it more, "I know you can't see it, but it sure is breathtaking!"
San Francisco is on my to do list. I've been in this country a couple of years now and still haven't visited any major cities.
That's an important point, but if protection from unproven services is the real reason for the ban it should be lifted in no time. It'll be interesting to see where eBay and PayPal stand with Google in a year.
AOL itself is spam. And I don't just mean their in-browser advertising. I've kept a 'spam this' Hotmail account for years. So far, the only spam I've received is from AOL and Hotmail telling me every month why I should pay them for their spam filters.
You've got it right. This approach makes mad at Microsoft - they are trying to sell this weaseling as a service to the OSS community. Not only will few people download the patch (few workers will even have the administrative authority to do so), those who do use it will probably use it to import ODF files only to unwittingly save them in Microsoft's proprietary format.
Microsoft has no valid reason for such opposition to ODF. (Their excuse so far has been that it's "slow" - sounds more like a problem with their software than ODF itself.)
Nothing has convinced me more to stay clear of Microsoft products than its abusive attitude toward a cross-compatible office suite file format. Not even Windows ME has done as much damage to my personal opinion of the company: they are inept sobbing slackers. They have good cause for their inferiority complex, but their attitude to their clients and consumers goes beyond unprofessional.
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It's even more perfect: there's no "town master key" to enable cops to search a building once they do have a warrant, why then should networks have such a backdoor?
You're confusing the delegation of one authority with impotence of all authority: if I call my local cop shop on Senator McDozer-Thee-States-Over's corruption, they'll point point me elsewhere. Doesn't mean nothing's being done nohow, just that jurisdictions apply.
You're confusing number with proportion.
Internet crime gets a lot of press, but receives little attention from crime prevention teams? Interesting. Do you have anything to support that claim?
My mother in law took a different approach. After previous bad experiences, she expected the "haven't received" excuse, so she scanned in the barcode, full receipt, and rebate form before sending them. When (surprise surprise) a phone call confirmed that they "hadn't received" her initial mailing, she said, "That's ok, I'll send in the copies I made with a note that you lost the first attempt."
It's interesting how many mail-in rebates fail to arrive...
but those "normal" businesses make the sheets that bind us.
I am not opposed to paying "fair share", but you're missing the parent writer's point: this is much more than fair share. One of America's founding ideals was "no taxation without representation" - conveniently dodging the "who" of representation. Why are our cell bills so expensive and our VoIP bills getting tax? Lobbying telcos.
Of course, Linux also has the problem of not having this advantage. So much work is put into porting Linux distros to different systems and adding driver support, attention is often diverted from the real factors in making PC converts: user interface and ease of use. I love Ubuntu (even with no K or X), but GNOME has problems no amount of theme-tweaking or big-friendly-icon-drawing can fix. Currently, KDE is actually easier for the average ex-Windows user to grasp (but lacks GNOME's wide language and accessibility support).
Not IBM PC compatible? Neither is Windows XP! Besides, PowerPC was based on an IBM architecture and IBM manufactured many of the chips used in Apple Personal Computers. Why, Apple has always made PCs, and OS X has always been IBM compatible! When it came to switching to Intel, Apple went out their way trying to make sure Intel hackers couldn't install Tiger.
Kyle MacDonald: "One Red Paperclip" - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
See! the hit comic action adventure drama, starring Will Smith as Kyle MacDonald, Uma Thurman as his long suffering girlfriend, and Lindsay Lohan as the paperclip.
Hear! Will Smith's amusing remarks as he trades pieces of junk for larger, more profitable junk!
Cry! when Will Smith unwittingly trades a van for a piece of paper, almos losing long-time girlfriend Uma Thurman.
Laugh! when it turns out the piece of paper was a recording contract!
Based on a true life story! (Some liberties taken; various items replaced by famous celebrities and the internet replaced by word-of-mouth of the quirky inhabitants of Will Smith's home town in Northern California).
Sample the from riveting novelization:
"CHAPTER 1. It started with this paperclip. Then he trades it in for a pen. Then, like, he trades it in again, but for a doorknob... Then he goes and trades it for a coleman stove. Then he trades the stove for James Woods. 'Hey, buddy.' Says James Woods, 'I'm James Woods.' 'Beleeve dat,' says Will Smith - his catchphrase for the film."
The whole list is fluff. Heck, the whole story is fluff! Some of these actually are products that were designed badly (the Kodak camera, for example), but mostly this is a list of products with poor marketing (Wii) or not-products (polo is an event, not a product, and the product in question is fine as far as technology goes).
The list should be renamed: Things this editor stumbled into 1Q 2006 that he doesn't like, all of which employ technology in some vague way.
You can read more about reasonable suspicion here. Disturbingly:
Since it's been established that cell phones are fair game, could this ruling be used in defence of random cell phone checks?
I'd ask what next, but I fear I already know.
Frankly, an unwarranted cavity search performed on a minor without the express permission of a legal de jure guardian is tantamount to child molestation.
Schools have few more "rights" than babysitters.
I for one welcome our infinitesimal Wolframium overlords.
Thanks for the reply - I'll try to take your advice when I finally get to see San Francisco! Funny you should mention Minneapolis, we spent last weekend there. I've never really thought of it as a major city before. Thanks again!
Just a curiosity: I have a friend in Union City who says she can tell when she's getting close to San Francisco because visibility decreases that much (natural fog, not pollution, I'm guessing). Is there a lot of beauty to be seen approaching San Francisco, or is it more, "I know you can't see it, but it sure is breathtaking!" San Francisco is on my to do list. I've been in this country a couple of years now and still haven't visited any major cities.
No, but if you like, you can go through all 10,600 Google results for "welcome our new * overlords":
g +%22welcome+our+new+*+overlords%22
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aslashdot.or
When they arrested me for actually breaking the law, though...
Well, you know... fair cop.
-Gary Mckinnon
And who could ever forget Spock's accident with a mechanical rice picker.
You beat me to my comment. For something a little less interesting, you could always go to Epcot:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_SPACE
Google denied working on an OS long, long ago.
I agree, this article is baloney. Phoney baloney.
YouOS is a waste. It should never be used as anything more than a toy.
That's an important point, but if protection from unproven services is the real reason for the ban it should be lifted in no time. It'll be interesting to see where eBay and PayPal stand with Google in a year.
AOL itself is spam. And I don't just mean their in-browser advertising. I've kept a 'spam this' Hotmail account for years. So far, the only spam I've received is from AOL and Hotmail telling me every month why I should pay them for their spam filters.
You've got it right. This approach makes mad at Microsoft - they are trying to sell this weaseling as a service to the OSS community. Not only will few people download the patch (few workers will even have the administrative authority to do so), those who do use it will probably use it to import ODF files only to unwittingly save them in Microsoft's proprietary format.
Microsoft has no valid reason for such opposition to ODF. (Their excuse so far has been that it's "slow" - sounds more like a problem with their software than ODF itself.)
Nothing has convinced me more to stay clear of Microsoft products than its abusive attitude toward a cross-compatible office suite file format. Not even Windows ME has done as much damage to my personal opinion of the company: they are inept sobbing slackers. They have good cause for their inferiority complex, but their attitude to their clients and consumers goes beyond unprofessional.
ODF or fight.
$499 will buy you a Mac Mini. That's a computer minus those unnecessary peripherals: display, mouse, keyboard...