when I built my house in 2002 i bought my parts from http://www.homesecuritystore.com./ They even suggested best place for motion detectors, door switches, etc after i sent them a basic floor plan.
IT'S OVER 1.21 GIGAWAT!! (yeah i know, i got my meme's mixed)
Im sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by. I'm sorry. But the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning. Unfortunately, you never know when or where it's ever gonna strike.
we use vtiger and while the community could use a little help with release cycles and getting smaller fixes implemented faster, its better than the free version of sugarCRM. I am not sure if you have used 5.10 but they've added the ability to place calls to asterisk and include some pop-up notifications of incoming calls showing what accounts/contacts match that callerid number. The code, by default is setup for a Thirdlane PBX Manager implementation but the modifications to use another variant are as simple as context declaration in a config file. People need to realize they are not going to get the sugarcrm group to change their stripes. The most they'll be able to achieve is to get them to stop using the phrase open source. If people want a true open source CRM they should join the vtiger community and start adding modules.
Well its clearly their license agreement. If you really want to screw them trademark the phrase Open Source and then file legal notices for them to stop using the word. THAT would be the right thing to do.
It really depends on the license. Open Source has lost any true concrete definition and carries no legal obligation and binding should someone throw the word around. At the end of the day the only thing legally binding is the License Agreement that they license the software under. If its GPL then yes, if you make a modification and distribute it you are required to include the source code of the original product in addition to your modifications. If its a BSD license then you aren't even required to distribute the source code. Calling something Open Source has evolved into something subjective the way people in Atlanta call all soda's 'Coke' even if they're drinking Mountain Dew. This sort of generalization that tends to occur is why Linus Torvalds trademarked Linux in order to prevent misuse; specifically deliberate misuse by micro$oft funded FUD websites. If the Open Source Initiative wants to protect the word Open Source and its meaning they need to trademark before it becomes the next 'Aspirin'.
The shift was dramatized Sunday, when Foxconn, the maker of the iPhone and everything else, said that within three months it would double the salaries (rather than the rumored 20% increase) of many of its assembly line workers."
what makes you think someone under the age of 18 has any rights what so ever? The second amendment is just as high on the food chain as the first amendment yet that right is not bestowed upon you till your 18th birthday. As far as I can tell, the constitution is written so that all men and women are granted certain inalienable rights. Nothing is said about those who are not emancipated by 'age of majority' statute. Technically minors are 2nd class citizens who are not even protected by due process. I gave one example in another post... which I will re-cap.
as an adult you can imprison me against my will, without cause, for up to 72 hours in a mental health facility by declaring me a danger to myself and/or others. Any length longer than this must be reviewed and approved by a judge. Otherwise you could violate a man's due process via end-run simply declaring them insane and locking them away forever. This would have been abused politically a long time ago without such protections.
as a minor your parents and medical professions can have you imprisoned in a mental health facility without your consent until you reach the 'agent of majority'. They only need your parents permission. You have no due process to violate.
I agree that there is a line between libel/slander and using free speech to mock someone. I also would like to know exactly what constitutional rights children do and do not have. Everyone loves to rush to first amendment, yet every state (understandably) has a minimum age to own a rifle (2nd amendment) which no one rushes to overturn. There's also an ambiguous term called emancipation. This term is often used in conjunction with the 'age of majority' which removes parental control. It is my understanding that before this age, one is still a minor and therefore not entitled to the same protections under the constitution as someone who is. Example: a minors parents could have their child committed against their will in a mental health facility without court order. This action, to an adult, would constitute imprisonment without due process.
my question is this... Do they really have rights under the constitution and if so which rights do they have and which ones do they not have? Without rights the whole concept of standing comes in play here.
apology? How about a court ordered Steve Jobs having to kiss his naked ass in the middle of Time Square NYC? I would settle for nothing less if it were me =)
and I am as an internet service provider? Yet that is exactly the legislation before congress right now. They want to require ME, someone selling internet access (nothing more than gasoline, or running a toll road if you preferr that metaphor) to be the police that make sure someone isn't downloading movies mosic etc. This amounts to deep packet inspection which is an enormous financial burden that only the major telecoms can afford. This, of course, is supported by the huge cable providers because it amounts to legislating yet another monopoly. Is the MPAA going around making sure noone is stealing wimax service from me as payment for this mandatory policing? I resent the fact that I am forced to protect their intellectual property rights while the rest of the inventors and entrepreneurs do not have anyone but themselves to keep their software from being stolen.
As a comparable analogy how about this.. another/. article talks about 54 BILLION dollars lost every year in software piracy. Should you, as an IT company for a private consulting firm be LEGALLY required (punishable by heavy fines and jail time for non-compliance) go around to every computer of every customer you manage and perform an invasive software audit for pirated software? Not only must you do this, but you must do this weekly.
no, this is like requiring GAS STATIONS to make sure that car owners arent stealing fucking car stereo's from WalMart. Its not the gas station's fucking job to make sure WalMart isnt fucking infringed upon just because they buy gasoline for their cars and their cars happen to play stereos. Its WalMarx fucking job to police their own theft.
it would put too big a burden on networks to police their own material.
awww.. poor fucking babies. So instead its MY responsibility as an ISP to police YOUR fucking material? Who the fuck at your network do I send my invoices for my labor to do your fucking job for you? Either police your shit or dont prosecute for infringement. Anywhere else in society the financially harmed has to take civil suit action against those that do the harm for a tort claim
even if this were true it takes the burden of liability off you. Just think about how things work in the WinSuck world... they have countless issues all the time. Sometimes they dont fix critical shit for months. Yet employers just accept the 'i opened a ticket with microsoft' answer even if its been 6 months. There's always someone further down the food chain that you can pass the blame off to which preserves your job.
With having a support contract with an OS vendor like Sun or RedHat, you once again have a faceless organization you can pass the blame off to. Sure, sometimes you can find the answer faster than they can and solve the problem yourself. The same can be said about M$ or a few others. IMHO the real advantage is when you can't figure it out, and the vendor also can't figure it out.. you're completely dumbfounded as to why something is happening. Going it alone leaves you catching all the shit from the top down with all the pressures of resolving a potentially unresolvable issue. Stating you have a ticket open with redhat and that they are at a loss right now as to why its happening suddenly carries more weight than just you saying the same thing. Its not about competency or credibility. Its simply human psychology that 'oh, the guys that wrote the OS cant figure this out it must be seriously difficult' passes through the minds of those not-in-the-know.
why is everyone talking about bitlocker and EFS as a solution? It seems that only protects you should your hardware find its way out of your control.. but if you're running an SQL on top of that and someone can get a plain-text dump of all your data you'd still be screwed in full accordance with the law right? There would have to be encryption in the database with a key pair on the web applications (.net, php etc) in order to execute searches etc.
Question... what about call detail records generated by phone companies? Many of these are on aging DMS100's and 5ESS switches that are not encryption capable. Would they also be required to encrypt CDR data if the callerid name is also stored in their call records?
Who is going to carry around 100 of their original, expensive dvd's in their car?
this was my thought too. My wife has a dodge grand caravan with a dvd system in it with a 5 disc changer. Personally I think it was worth every penny and has kept our road trips less stressful. Having the controls up front lets us manage playback which was great when my daughter was too young to operate the controls and once my son gets old enough to face forward in a vehicle I am sure I will re-appreciate the parent operated controls.
The system in the minivan uses a 5-disc changer. Usually thats the maximum number of movies we have at any given time unless we're going on vacation and the kids want to pack a few extra. Aside from the fact that 5 kid movies is approximately 7hrs anyway... I cant express the fact enough the replay value a single movie seems to have with children. Watching a show 2, 3, even 4 times in a row has and will likely happen again. I can quote, in sync, just about every line to shrek (1 and 2), madagascar 1 and 2, all the pixar movies, and shark tales.
I couldnt fathom a selection of 100 movies, I think the kids would still watch the same one 3 times in a row.
this makes the most sense to me. From all the stories of counterfeit goods coming out of china, I'd say someone at D&H thought they were getting something too good to be true, and really was. Its not always hi-tech that gets counterfeit. I saw a show where friggen TOOTHPASTE was being counterfeit. How much more could it possibly cost to make something that actually cleans your teeth as opposed to what ever was in the tubes. Another story involved a death of an infant because the parents thought they were feeding the baby real formula and the baby died because it received no nutrition from the formula being sold. The irony of the whole situation is that the old time communist are sitting back saying 'see i told you so' with regards to how capitalism has brought about the worst in behavior there.
hey those banker bastards that created the sub-prime mortage hedge funds that threw the whole world into an enconomic tailspin did the whole thing with 'stuff on computers' . Im sure a good lawyer can illustrated just how bad 'stuff on computers' can affect the common person who doesnt even log onto one. Were at, realistically, what? 19% unemployment now? And that wasnt even an illegal scam, even if it did sound like a ponzi scheme.
dont forget the financial cost of bandwidth. As an ISP we have OC-3 connections and we pay 95th percentile based on how much bandwidth we consume each month. I can tell you that email consumes 40% of our total bandwidth and that spam accounts for nearly 80% of all email. This means that if our bandwidth bill for the month is $11,000 then spammers directly cost us 11000 *.4 *.8 = $3520 in damages every month. If I were to cause $3000 in damages to any other facet of your property, your job, or even running up 3k in LD charges from abuse of toll-free services, you would have cause for a lawsuit against me. Why are they not liable for the costs they incur?
Thats fine that they dont get jail time, as long as they are turned over to the victims of their crime to do as they see fit. I say tie the bastards to a tree in the wilderness and say 'I hope to hell you have a lot of good friends looking for you, because you can only live 3 days without water'. Then just leave them there to contemplate life, death, the afterlife and/or make peace with their god. It will be a very long 3 - 5 days.
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when I built my house in 2002 i bought my parts from http://www.homesecuritystore.com./ They even suggested best place for motion detectors, door switches, etc after i sent them a basic floor plan.
IT'S OVER 1.21 GIGAWAT!! (yeah i know, i got my meme's mixed)
Im sure that in 1985 plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by. I'm sorry. But the only power source capable of generating 1.21 gigawatts of electricity is a bolt of lightning. Unfortunately, you never know when or where it's ever gonna strike.
Who would have thought that William Shatner's scifi stories TekWar had any merit with their digital drug 'Tek'.
If I could mod you up for humor I would. The obvious answer is "Of course it runs NetBSD"
you forgot the classic RMS qualifier of "Free as in speech not Free as in beer".
we use vtiger and while the community could use a little help with release cycles and getting smaller fixes implemented faster, its better than the free version of sugarCRM. I am not sure if you have used 5.10 but they've added the ability to place calls to asterisk and include some pop-up notifications of incoming calls showing what accounts/contacts match that callerid number. The code, by default is setup for a Thirdlane PBX Manager implementation but the modifications to use another variant are as simple as context declaration in a config file. People need to realize they are not going to get the sugarcrm group to change their stripes. The most they'll be able to achieve is to get them to stop using the phrase open source. If people want a true open source CRM they should join the vtiger community and start adding modules.
Well its clearly their license agreement. If you really want to screw them trademark the phrase Open Source and then file legal notices for them to stop using the word. THAT would be the right thing to do.
It really depends on the license. Open Source has lost any true concrete definition and carries no legal obligation and binding should someone throw the word around. At the end of the day the only thing legally binding is the License Agreement that they license the software under. If its GPL then yes, if you make a modification and distribute it you are required to include the source code of the original product in addition to your modifications. If its a BSD license then you aren't even required to distribute the source code. Calling something Open Source has evolved into something subjective the way people in Atlanta call all soda's 'Coke' even if they're drinking Mountain Dew. This sort of generalization that tends to occur is why Linus Torvalds trademarked Linux in order to prevent misuse; specifically deliberate misuse by micro$oft funded FUD websites. If the Open Source Initiative wants to protect the word Open Source and its meaning they need to trademark before it becomes the next 'Aspirin'.
callerid is not the same as the ANI number on the call. The ANI is what is used to bill.
callerid spoofing is about to be illegal. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1258
The shift was dramatized Sunday, when Foxconn, the maker of the iPhone and everything else, said that within three months it would double the salaries (rather than the rumored 20% increase) of many of its assembly line workers."
So thats what? $2 a day now?
what makes you think someone under the age of 18 has any rights what so ever? The second amendment is just as high on the food chain as the first amendment yet that right is not bestowed upon you till your 18th birthday. As far as I can tell, the constitution is written so that all men and women are granted certain inalienable rights. Nothing is said about those who are not emancipated by 'age of majority' statute. Technically minors are 2nd class citizens who are not even protected by due process. I gave one example in another post... which I will re-cap.
as an adult you can imprison me against my will, without cause, for up to 72 hours in a mental health facility by declaring me a danger to myself and/or others. Any length longer than this must be reviewed and approved by a judge. Otherwise you could violate a man's due process via end-run simply declaring them insane and locking them away forever. This would have been abused politically a long time ago without such protections.
as a minor your parents and medical professions can have you imprisoned in a mental health facility without your consent until you reach the 'agent of majority'. They only need your parents permission. You have no due process to violate.
I agree that there is a line between libel/slander and using free speech to mock someone. I also would like to know exactly what constitutional rights children do and do not have. Everyone loves to rush to first amendment, yet every state (understandably) has a minimum age to own a rifle (2nd amendment) which no one rushes to overturn. There's also an ambiguous term called emancipation. This term is often used in conjunction with the 'age of majority' which removes parental control. It is my understanding that before this age, one is still a minor and therefore not entitled to the same protections under the constitution as someone who is. Example: a minors parents could have their child committed against their will in a mental health facility without court order. This action, to an adult, would constitute imprisonment without due process.
my question is this... Do they really have rights under the constitution and if so which rights do they have and which ones do they not have? Without rights the whole concept of standing comes in play here.
apology? How about a court ordered Steve Jobs having to kiss his naked ass in the middle of Time Square NYC? I would settle for nothing less if it were me =)
and I am as an internet service provider? Yet that is exactly the legislation before congress right now. They want to require ME, someone selling internet access (nothing more than gasoline, or running a toll road if you preferr that metaphor) to be the police that make sure someone isn't downloading movies mosic etc. This amounts to deep packet inspection which is an enormous financial burden that only the major telecoms can afford. This, of course, is supported by the huge cable providers because it amounts to legislating yet another monopoly. Is the MPAA going around making sure noone is stealing wimax service from me as payment for this mandatory policing? I resent the fact that I am forced to protect their intellectual property rights while the rest of the inventors and entrepreneurs do not have anyone but themselves to keep their software from being stolen.
/. article talks about 54 BILLION dollars lost every year in software piracy. Should you, as an IT company for a private consulting firm be LEGALLY required (punishable by heavy fines and jail time for non-compliance) go around to every computer of every customer you manage and perform an invasive software audit for pirated software? Not only must you do this, but you must do this weekly.
As a comparable analogy how about this.. another
no, this is like requiring GAS STATIONS to make sure that car owners arent stealing fucking car stereo's from WalMart. Its not the gas station's fucking job to make sure WalMart isnt fucking infringed upon just because they buy gasoline for their cars and their cars happen to play stereos. Its WalMarx fucking job to police their own theft.
it would put too big a burden on networks to police their own material.
awww.. poor fucking babies. So instead its MY responsibility as an ISP to police YOUR fucking material? Who the fuck at your network do I send my invoices for my labor to do your fucking job for you? Either police your shit or dont prosecute for infringement. Anywhere else in society the financially harmed has to take civil suit action against those that do the harm for a tort claim
even if this were true it takes the burden of liability off you. Just think about how things work in the WinSuck world... they have countless issues all the time. Sometimes they dont fix critical shit for months. Yet employers just accept the 'i opened a ticket with microsoft' answer even if its been 6 months. There's always someone further down the food chain that you can pass the blame off to which preserves your job.
With having a support contract with an OS vendor like Sun or RedHat, you once again have a faceless organization you can pass the blame off to. Sure, sometimes you can find the answer faster than they can and solve the problem yourself. The same can be said about M$ or a few others. IMHO the real advantage is when you can't figure it out, and the vendor also can't figure it out.. you're completely dumbfounded as to why something is happening. Going it alone leaves you catching all the shit from the top down with all the pressures of resolving a potentially unresolvable issue. Stating you have a ticket open with redhat and that they are at a loss right now as to why its happening suddenly carries more weight than just you saying the same thing. Its not about competency or credibility. Its simply human psychology that 'oh, the guys that wrote the OS cant figure this out it must be seriously difficult' passes through the minds of those not-in-the-know.
why is everyone talking about bitlocker and EFS as a solution? It seems that only protects you should your hardware find its way out of your control.. but if you're running an SQL on top of that and someone can get a plain-text dump of all your data you'd still be screwed in full accordance with the law right? There would have to be encryption in the database with a key pair on the web applications (.net, php etc) in order to execute searches etc. Question... what about call detail records generated by phone companies? Many of these are on aging DMS100's and 5ESS switches that are not encryption capable. Would they also be required to encrypt CDR data if the callerid name is also stored in their call records?
Who is going to carry around 100 of their original, expensive dvd's in their car?
this was my thought too. My wife has a dodge grand caravan with a dvd system in it with a 5 disc changer. Personally I think it was worth every penny and has kept our road trips less stressful. Having the controls up front lets us manage playback which was great when my daughter was too young to operate the controls and once my son gets old enough to face forward in a vehicle I am sure I will re-appreciate the parent operated controls.
The system in the minivan uses a 5-disc changer. Usually thats the maximum number of movies we have at any given time unless we're going on vacation and the kids want to pack a few extra. Aside from the fact that 5 kid movies is approximately 7hrs anyway... I cant express the fact enough the replay value a single movie seems to have with children. Watching a show 2, 3, even 4 times in a row has and will likely happen again. I can quote, in sync, just about every line to shrek (1 and 2), madagascar 1 and 2, all the pixar movies, and shark tales.
I couldnt fathom a selection of 100 movies, I think the kids would still watch the same one 3 times in a row.
this makes the most sense to me. From all the stories of counterfeit goods coming out of china, I'd say someone at D&H thought they were getting something too good to be true, and really was. Its not always hi-tech that gets counterfeit. I saw a show where friggen TOOTHPASTE was being counterfeit. How much more could it possibly cost to make something that actually cleans your teeth as opposed to what ever was in the tubes. Another story involved a death of an infant because the parents thought they were feeding the baby real formula and the baby died because it received no nutrition from the formula being sold. The irony of the whole situation is that the old time communist are sitting back saying 'see i told you so' with regards to how capitalism has brought about the worst in behavior there.
for that matter don't phone and mail fraud laws read in a way that can be applied to any manner of wire fraud?
hey those banker bastards that created the sub-prime mortage hedge funds that threw the whole world into an enconomic tailspin did the whole thing with 'stuff on computers' . Im sure a good lawyer can illustrated just how bad 'stuff on computers' can affect the common person who doesnt even log onto one. Were at, realistically, what? 19% unemployment now? And that wasnt even an illegal scam, even if it did sound like a ponzi scheme.
dont forget the financial cost of bandwidth. As an ISP we have OC-3 connections and we pay 95th percentile based on how much bandwidth we consume each month. I can tell you that email consumes 40% of our total bandwidth and that spam accounts for nearly 80% of all email. This means that if our bandwidth bill for the month is $11,000 then spammers directly cost us 11000 * .4 * .8 = $3520 in damages every month. If I were to cause $3000 in damages to any other facet of your property, your job, or even running up 3k in LD charges from abuse of toll-free services, you would have cause for a lawsuit against me. Why are they not liable for the costs they incur?
Thats fine that they dont get jail time, as long as they are turned over to the victims of their crime to do as they see fit. I say tie the bastards to a tree in the wilderness and say 'I hope to hell you have a lot of good friends looking for you, because you can only live 3 days without water'. Then just leave them there to contemplate life, death, the afterlife and/or make peace with their god. It will be a very long 3 - 5 days.