The Internet is a cheap and egalitarian medium. Without knowledge of Japanese politics, it is hard judge the effect. There is something useful about retail politics, so maybe politicians should be walking the streets. I don't know, for example, if there is an equivalent of Fox News acting as a division of a major Japanese party. The 3% leaflet rule seems like it might be hard to monitor. As far as young people not having good judgment, that depends on whether they agree with me.
With all due respect, there are very few issues that would lead to a successful appeal. The underlying crime, notwithstanding whether it could be proven is all its elements, was disclosing a CIA operation organized to track WMD, with emphasis on Iran. This was almost certainly directed from the Vice President's office, with the knowledge and approval of the President. The salient issue is not whether Libby is spared a sentence for something that was not a crime, the crimes of perjury and obstruction were proven in court. The purpose of keeping Libby out of prison is to protect the conspiracy. The purpose of the conviction was to force Libby to disclose the information that he lied to conceal.
He could have pardoned Libby. Then Libby could continue to practice law and wouldn't have to pay the fine. Well, I don't think anybody thinks the fine will come out of his own pocket. And look forward to a pardon when Bush leaves office, which should not be under honorable circumstances.
I won't upgrade to Vista. Too blind to enjoy the eye candy, and don't want a computer that draws as much juice as a toaster to run it. What personal data could it collect? That I, John Pocahontas Smith, who lives at 31416 Pi Blvd, and smokes Lucky Strikes and prefers Gordon's vodka and plays poker every Thursday night; what could M$ learn? That I am a socialist, who is into extreme right wing politics and believes the earth is locally flat. Google could probably learn that. Doesn't worry me, they will come and get me eventually anyway, whoever "they" are.
Open architecture, open source, public. There are ways to secure the verification of the vote, and more importantly, the counting of the vote. People are always going to try to cheat elections. An individual can steal a limited number of votes, but a dishonest supervisor of elections, or Secretary of State, can cheat in the tens of thousands. A consortium of universities should design and program the voting system in the open, with off the shelf parts. All of the elements are part of a very mature technology for which there is no justification for any proprietary claim. There is always pen and paper and a mix of human eyes. That is too damn simple, I guess.
There seems to be an attitude that government must never be defied, and any resistance must be crushed. A felony wiretapping charge? What wire? As has been suggested, what if there was not media coverage and he didn't have anybody with the assets to secure his bail? He would be in jail with the prospect of going to trial with public defender. The judge praised the cop. For what reason? The only reason the DA in the Duke case got disbarred is that he went out of his way to screw with rich kids. When have you heard of a DA getting thrown out of his profession for railroading a poor kid on some crappy drug charge. I believe the DA in the Tulia, TX case is still practicing law.
on his VCR must get on his nerves. Does anyone really believe that he is being honest about his lack of technical aptitude? I believe that about as much as I believe that George Bush didn't know the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni. Gates may or may not do email, but nobody will successfully subpoena any of it. He is jerking you off, folks.
I occasionally clean keyboards with a spray of distilled water. That is not going to disinfect, but it most likely will not hurt and get the spilled coke or whatever out of it. I doubt that a light spray of Lysol will hurt anything if you are worried about cooties. In a hospital situation, where keyboards can and do spread disease, membranes or touch screens are good and always disciplined hand washing is essential.
A stupid law that was never debated, that will line up people outside DMV offices is every state, should be killed. I have an aging notarized copy of my birth certificate, but I am not sure that it would be accepted. I dimly suspect that this is intended to screw a lot of people out of their right to vote.
Who might not be able to produce the needed proof of citizenship? Old folks and poor folks. It is like the voter picture ID law on steroids.
Problem is, is that it doesn't add much to security, since professional terrorists will have the document manipulation down pat.
using a Skilsaw to cut a piece of plywood. One-click is a trivial application of features built into a tool set that envisioned it in it's inception. It is worst of two stupid patent paradigms, the software patent and the business method patent. When will this sort of thing be recognized as the malignant lawyer-driven racket it is?
It's possible to imagine a circumstance where the originating company can neither continue producing the seeds nor indemnify the public for damage done by unintended consequences. It's much worse than DRM, in fact, it's probably immoral. The security of agriculture is more important in the long run than relatively short term profits for chemical companies.
I don't think the industry hands out awards to artists who don't sell a ton of records. They mostly offended people who were not their fans to begin with. Got some death threats from scumbags, and sold a ton of records.
I didn't notice that. I installed the restricted driver and got a blank screen restarting the X server. I did a lot searching and the problems I encountered are apparently not unusual. I finally found an article that described a process of patching an earlier driver from ATI. It worked, but fglrx is still apparently rendered by Mesa. I am not an expert, but I have enough experience to suspect that if it is hard for me it's going to be harder for a lot of people.
After two days of struggling to get a proprietary driver for an ATI X1300 card working with Feisty, I hope Dell can do some value added for driver installation. I am new to Debian based distributions, but not impressed by ATI drivers. I did get a crash course.
I agree that there is controlling legal authority. I was simply commenting on the difference in implication between "Digital Consumer Enablement" and "Digital Rights Management." Accepted doctrines such as Fair Use and First Sale are being chipped away. The DMCA and the tendency of Congress to sell laws like they were used furniture to whoever gives them the money to stay in office may mean that traditional copyright law for works distributed digitally may so corrupted that nothing will pass into the public domain.
The consumer has exactly no rights that are no extended by content provider. DRM was actually a more neutral term, since it doesn't assert that some rights do not intrinsically belong to the customer.
Other than cheese and the city of Madison, I don't know what Wisconsin is good for. They have elected Rep. James Senselessbrayer for how many years now? I guess he is finally going to take his toilet paper and go home. I suppose if there was a US Attorney who could do a better job of framing an innocent civil servant, Doyle could have been defeated in the last election.
Leave it to Republican run hellholes to think up this kind of crap. This is what you get when you have vending machines legislatures that sell laws for cash. God save us from these assholes eventually.
Correlation does not prove causality, it doesn't disprove it either. Enough anecdotal evidence can justify reasonable suspicion. E.g. brain cancer on the side of the head of people who heavily use cell phones, or children who become autistic within weeks of a vaccination. I don't think anybody with any sense believed the cell phone - bee dying association, since cell phones represent only a small slice of the EMR that is ubiquitous.
or there would be no need for the prior art to begin with. Patenting VoIP is patenting an idea, and a rather obvious one at that. There are some folks who moan about an ambulance chasing tort lawyer gaming the legal system on behalf of some loser just because a doctor removed the wrong kidney, but are oblivious to intellectual property lawyers playing a broken regime to share monopoly rents with huge corporations.
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The Internet is a cheap and egalitarian medium. Without knowledge of Japanese politics, it is hard judge the effect. There is something useful about retail politics, so maybe politicians should be walking the streets. I don't know, for example, if there is an equivalent of Fox News acting as a division of a major Japanese party. The 3% leaflet rule seems like it might be hard to monitor. As far as young people not having good judgment, that depends on whether they agree with me.
Sure everyone expects the clone expert to generate the best dinosaurs since Noah's ark.
With all due respect, there are very few issues that would lead to a successful appeal. The underlying crime, notwithstanding whether it could be proven is all its elements, was disclosing a CIA operation organized to track WMD, with emphasis on Iran. This was almost certainly directed from the Vice President's office, with the knowledge and approval of the President. The salient issue is not whether Libby is spared a sentence for something that was not a crime, the crimes of perjury and obstruction were proven in court. The purpose of keeping Libby out of prison is to protect the conspiracy. The purpose of the conviction was to force Libby to disclose the information that he lied to conceal.
He could have pardoned Libby. Then Libby could continue to practice law and wouldn't have to pay the fine. Well, I don't think anybody thinks the fine will come out of his own pocket. And look forward to a pardon when Bush leaves office, which should not be under honorable circumstances.
I won't upgrade to Vista. Too blind to enjoy the eye candy, and don't want a computer that draws as much juice as a toaster to run it. What personal data could it collect? That I, John Pocahontas Smith, who lives at 31416 Pi Blvd, and smokes Lucky Strikes and prefers Gordon's vodka and plays poker every Thursday night; what could M$ learn? That I am a socialist, who is into extreme right wing politics and believes the earth is locally flat. Google could probably learn that. Doesn't worry me, they will come and get me eventually anyway, whoever "they" are.
The more "secure" ID are, the more convincing counterfeits become.
Open architecture, open source, public. There are ways to secure the verification of the vote, and more importantly, the counting of the vote. People are always going to try to cheat elections. An individual can steal a limited number of votes, but a dishonest supervisor of elections, or Secretary of State, can cheat in the tens of thousands. A consortium of universities should design and program the voting system in the open, with off the shelf parts. All of the elements are part of a very mature technology for which there is no justification for any proprietary claim. There is always pen and paper and a mix of human eyes. That is too damn simple, I guess.
There seems to be an attitude that government must never be defied, and any resistance must be crushed. A felony wiretapping charge? What wire? As has been suggested, what if there was not media coverage and he didn't have anybody with the assets to secure his bail? He would be in jail with the prospect of going to trial with public defender. The judge praised the cop. For what reason? The only reason the DA in the Duke case got disbarred is that he went out of his way to screw with rich kids. When have you heard of a DA getting thrown out of his profession for railroading a poor kid on some crappy drug charge. I believe the DA in the Tulia, TX case is still practicing law.
on his VCR must get on his nerves. Does anyone really believe that he is being honest about his lack of technical aptitude? I believe that about as much as I believe that George Bush didn't know the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni. Gates may or may not do email, but nobody will successfully subpoena any of it. He is jerking you off, folks.
I occasionally clean keyboards with a spray of distilled water. That is not going to disinfect, but it most likely will not hurt and get the spilled coke or whatever out of it. I doubt that a light spray of Lysol will hurt anything if you are worried about cooties. In a hospital situation, where keyboards can and do spread disease, membranes or touch screens are good and always disciplined hand washing is essential.
A stupid law that was never debated, that will line up people outside DMV offices is every state, should be killed. I have an aging notarized copy of my birth certificate, but I am not sure that it would be accepted. I dimly suspect that this is intended to screw a lot of people out of their right to vote.
Who might not be able to produce the needed proof of citizenship? Old folks and poor folks. It is like the voter picture ID law on steroids.
Problem is, is that it doesn't add much to security, since professional terrorists will have the document manipulation down pat.
using a Skilsaw to cut a piece of plywood. One-click is a trivial application of features built into a tool set that envisioned it in it's inception. It is worst of two stupid patent paradigms, the software patent and the business method patent. When will this sort of thing be recognized as the malignant lawyer-driven racket it is?
It's also about time that some of these corrupt RIAA shysters start facing disbarment.
It's possible to imagine a circumstance where the originating company can neither continue producing the seeds nor indemnify the public for damage done by unintended consequences. It's much worse than DRM, in fact, it's probably immoral. The security of agriculture is more important in the long run than relatively short term profits for chemical companies.
I don't think the industry hands out awards to artists who don't sell a ton of records. They mostly offended people who were not their fans to begin with. Got some death threats from scumbags, and sold a ton of records.
I didn't notice that. I installed the restricted driver and got a blank screen restarting the X server. I did a lot searching and the problems I encountered are apparently not unusual. I finally found an article that described a process of patching an earlier driver from ATI. It worked, but fglrx is still apparently rendered by Mesa. I am not an expert, but I have enough experience to suspect that if it is hard for me it's going to be harder for a lot of people.
After two days of struggling to get a proprietary driver for an ATI X1300 card working with Feisty, I hope Dell can do some value added for driver installation. I am new to Debian based distributions, but not impressed by ATI drivers. I did get a crash course.
I agree that there is controlling legal authority. I was simply commenting on the difference in implication between "Digital Consumer Enablement" and "Digital Rights Management." Accepted doctrines such as Fair Use and First Sale are being chipped away. The DMCA and the tendency of Congress to sell laws like they were used furniture to whoever gives them the money to stay in office may mean that traditional copyright law for works distributed digitally may so corrupted that nothing will pass into the public domain.
The consumer has exactly no rights that are no extended by content provider. DRM was actually a more neutral term, since it doesn't assert that some rights do not intrinsically belong to the customer.
Other than cheese and the city of Madison, I don't know what Wisconsin is good for. They have elected Rep. James Senselessbrayer for how many years now? I guess he is finally going to take his toilet paper and go home. I suppose if there was a US Attorney who could do a better job of framing an innocent civil servant, Doyle could have been defeated in the last election.
I am a libertarian socialist myself. I am completely unrepresented.
Leave it to Republican run hellholes to think up this kind of crap. This is what you get when you have vending machines legislatures that sell laws for cash. God save us from these assholes eventually.
Correlation does not prove causality, it doesn't disprove it either. Enough anecdotal evidence can justify reasonable suspicion. E.g. brain cancer on the side of the head of people who heavily use cell phones, or children who become autistic within weeks of a vaccination. I don't think anybody with any sense believed the cell phone - bee dying association, since cell phones represent only a small slice of the EMR that is ubiquitous.
I wouldn't install any version of Vista on my computer if they paid me.
or there would be no need for the prior art to begin with. Patenting VoIP is patenting an idea, and a rather obvious one at that. There are some folks who moan about an ambulance chasing tort lawyer gaming the legal system on behalf of some loser just because a doctor removed the wrong kidney, but are oblivious to intellectual property lawyers playing a broken regime to share monopoly rents with huge corporations.