General welfare clause was a mistake. But that would be the cop out for a lot of those tests you suggest, wouldn't it? You can argue that using it is too broad of an interpretation (and I agree), but isn't that argument subject to your own interpretation? The Supreme Court is supposed to be the final interpretation on these things. That's all well and good, I can't think of a better system wrt that. But, if the Constitution was much more explicit, they wouldn't need to rule on those things in the first place.
Our Constitution is a great thing, but very far from acceptable. We need a new one that explicitly authorizes all governments (fed, state, local) to act, and explicitly prohibits anything outside of that scope. The price to pay, which no doubt people will whine about, is that it has to have lots of amendments. BFD. It's worth it.
Add optical drive,(and vid card and sound obviously) then use a live cd or dvd OS and set of apps, the latest Knoppix or whatever, run the whole shebang from RAM
I don't know what your opinion on slackware is, but if you really want to make a custom live cd, you may want to check out slax.
Knoppix is nice because it has many more people behind it and thus has much broader driver support. But, to fit it on the media (and optimize as well), they use tricks on the iso. This isn't necessarily bad, it's just done for a targeted purpose.
On the other hand slax has a rootcopy directory that makes it easy. This was information I picked up about a year ago when I was looking into it, so things may have changed since then.
Lately, if they don't have the css working, it may not be respected on the front page and on user profile pages, but it usually works for me in the comments.
Artists should pay to be on Pandora, and cut out their damn middlemen. I've bought 3 cds and 1 download as a direct consequence of Pandora, that I wouldn't have bought otherwise. That I couldn't have bought or even pirated otherwise, because I didn't know it existed. And I really don't buy that much music.
and suggests that just as the interstate system needs guardrails, so too does the information superhighway.
But what has happened online is that if it is 'beyond store hours' and the shop is closed, a lot of people just smash the window and steal what they want.
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Oh, sorry, gotta go now. My local internets are closing for the day.
It's not the javascript so much in my experience. When I'm using FF on linux, the performance on/. is horrible. So I turned off JS completely and the problem persisted.
But then I turned on the simple ui option in my/. prefs, and got a huge speed boost.
FF on linux has had generally worse performance for me across the board, but/. was especially bad. I'm not a css/dom guru, so I don't have the time or the experience diagnose it.
You and I can't go spelunking in the sewers with a spool of cable to wire up our own alternative network. And if the phone companies had to negotiate for every pole, every sewer, every punch-down, every junction box, every road they get to tear up, they'd go broke. All the money in the world couldn't pay for the access they get for free every day.
I've said this in the past, and it's nice to see it being said by in something more mainstream. A while back I wrote a journal about this (earliest one in my list), where I said that a redeeming thing about the data infrastructure being run by a private monopoly is that a company will probably have less motive to filter than a government.
Seeing everything we've seen over the past few months, I now recant that. The monopolies have shown little to no resistance to filtering, mucking about with connections when the RIAA comes calling. Then they're looking for the nebulous "infringing materials" which coincidentally helps their own video offerings. If these crappy decisions are going to be made, I'd prefer they be made within a bureaucracy, where they at least have to pretend to be accountable. The cable/telco duopoly will never be accountable because they can easily work together for things that they both want.
How about a Constitutional amendment here in the US, prohibiting any government within the US from granting any monopoly, intellectual or otherwise? It shifts the monopoly from legislation to bidding for contracts. Hmm. An amendment prohibiting any contracting to the government. Now that I could get behind.
But the real problem of per-usage billing is that no one - not even the most experienced internet user - can determine in advance how much bandwidth they're about to consume before they consume it. Before you clicked on this article, you had no way of knowing how many bytes your computer would consume before clicking on it. And now that you've clicked on it, chances are that you still don't know how many bytes you've consumed.
To be fair, ATT currently offers, at least to my area, a bandwidth meter. I haven't measured my own usage to verify their meter, but their numbers seem reasonable.
increasing the amount of rows from 64k to over 1 million, and from 256 columns to over 10k among other notable changes.
Are you using this? If so, what for? I mean, this is pretty well into DB territory isn't it? MS even makes Access for more low-to-midrange things like this, but I never understood why people would want this in XL.
256 --> 10K I can barely understand, but >64K rows?
Have fun, and laugh at it. I got this at my door, and 18 hours later (I like to stop and think) I was 18 hours further down the death march of life. Didn't agree with every little thing the dude wrote, but a good read none the less.
Btw, ISTR from his stories that he was either a dev or sysad, so it should be familiar territory for a lot of people here.
Lastly people, after you buy one, don't forget to format them with truecrypt, before you dump any files on them.
This could only work (in the sense of ubiquitous and accessible like 3.5 floppies) if all mainstream server and desktop OSes supported mounting of a common encrypted filesystem. If anything other than a key input has to execute when you put in the flash drive, then it doesn't really clear that ubiquitous and accessible bar.
So the design would have to be publicly available and gratis, and the standards would have to implemented correctly rather than screwed up or intentionally screwed up. Don't hold your breath.
Thank you. I've always been amazed by theories that posit that a cabal of people are so sophisticated that they are completely fooling everybody in the world - EXCEPT those with such clarity of vision and acute mental powers so as to see and understand the conspiracy completely.
Exhibit A: Christianity Islam Judaism Hinduism Buddhism Hard Atheism
Are we that much more advanced than people who subscribed to Zoroastrianism or who believed in Thor and Loki? So >90% of people being confused is not without precedent.
Regardless of your position on copyright infringement, the content lobby, and IP in general, there is a growing merger of the content lobby with those opposed to freedom of speech and communication. And not just the bs apolitical kind of speech (that should still be free, courts be damned), but now political speech. Sure, at first just anyone who's allegedly infringing. Then, people showing you how to infringe (doom9) will be cut off. Then people just expressing opinions on IP. Then, after people's attention has been diverted from the scandal, people who are opposed to sex offender registries, or no fly lists, or whatever will be denied net access.
The same tech that lets you post relatively anonymously and organize with your countrymen will also allow you to post the AACS key. The same tech that allows you to upload origins.avi also allows you to share video of the Tiannamen square standoff or the assault on the Branch Davidian compound.
So either speech and communication are free for both infringement and for politics, or they are not free for either.
Btw, in tfa, the head of the film council uses the argument that infringement is costing jobs. If this is used as an argument to society (that whole social contract thing?) then it's bs. Any money theoretically lost is retained and starts chasing other goods, resulting in other economic activity. Now, if you argue that the money is going to domestic industry rather than China*, that's at least a valid argument, although I would argue that the real problem is with trade policy, and it shouldn't be covered up by a band aid to the content lobby.
* I use China as an example because I'm American. I have no idea what the UK's trade situation is.
7. Based on this inspection of the mirror-image, the Expert shall produce a report
which describes the music files found on the computer and any file-sharing
information associated with each one, as well as any other records of file-sharing
activity. The report may also address any evidence that the hard-drive has been
"wiped" or erased since the initiation of this litigation.
Apparently the defendant still has the machine, and the forensics guy is supposed to check for evidence of wiping. Also, read those others in the list, he's only supposed to look at "music files."
So what exactly is this evidence of wiping? If it was my HD, there'd be none. It would be a nice, innocent looking windows install with some bs word files, and maybe pirated software. Pirated material not relevant to the case, but not looking like I've removed everything either. So basically, you can't prove what bits someone did or did not have without a panopticon.
Nice, then this is just another exercise in witch hunt asshatery with evidence quality rivaling the Inquisition. At least with a robbery you have a surveillance video, which is not exactly trivial to forge. In something like a real estate dispute, even though paper is easy to forge, you can cross check claimed documents with what's on file at a government office somewhere. This calls in people to testify who, barring some massive, convoluted, ridiculously circuitous conspiracy, have no reason to lie, and who are circumstantially independent. So that scrap of paper sitting in the county filing cabinet is still much better evidence that what some random dude who knows nix claims is on a HD, because of the different context of the situation.
But this? There's no way of reliably accounting in a court of law of what those bits were at time t, never mind what they represented. Even if you were to get 2 independent experts to rule out outright forgery, it still doesn't cover meaning of the files. You either have to have blind faith in the defendant, the plaintiff, or the Expert.
But if top40song.mp3 is found on this drive, well whatever. If not, well, they're already asking for something as impossible as evidence of having been wiped in the past. How long until a fuzzy jpeg of you and your family MUST mean that it's steganographic? People talk about how trueCrypt's hidden volumes can give you plausible deniability, as if this is better than just an obvious single level encryption. If, in that situation, they forced you to decrypt it, or else, then what makes you think that in a situation where you truly had nothing on there that they would ever be satisfied?
Expert: It's clean sir, the only music is chord.wav and such. Plaintiff: No, these kids today are using that steno stuff, it's gotta be on there somewhere.
Replace Expert with delusional-CSI-wannabe, Plaintiff with Prosecutor, and music with kiddie porn, and it doesn't look pretty. This arms race is going to lead these types of cases into assumption-of-guilt-land.
Oh, and btw, assuming somehow you could find evidence of previous wiping, well bfd. I'm about to reinstall windows on one of my disks (games), and I'll wipe and zero it first. Wtf is that supposed to show anyway? I can see certain elements within the establishment considering all this with only one thought: Prolem-Reaction-Solution, Trusted Computing to the rescue.
Agreed, the pace seems to be slowing. If you just look at the number of things we know now that we didn't know before, that still doesn't account for quantity vs quality issues.
The period 1850-1950 will have brought us much more progress than 1950-2050. Probably because we've been running off steam from the Rennaissance (sp?), yet now it looks like we're going into a new dark age (relatively dark technologically, very dark politically and socially).
CDs and DVDs (including CD emulation), where the IHV specified AutoRun task authored during manufacturing, will continue to provide the AutoRun choice allowing customers to run the specified software.
Don't get me wrong, I have a sansa fuze and love it. (FYI, it has native vorbis and flac support, albeit with taking a hit on battery life.) But U3 pissed me off to no end.
I still have my Ron Paul sticker proudly displayed and can proudly say I did not vote one democrat or republican the last election.
Paul is republican remember? I know what you meant, an establishment democrat/republican, or maybe a nominated democrat/republican. But let statements like that slip, and you'll end up making a fool of yourself.
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If lawyers wrote software, the clock on your desktop that's supposed to give you the date and time would just say TODAY and NOW.
General welfare clause was a mistake. But that would be the cop out for a lot of those tests you suggest, wouldn't it? You can argue that using it is too broad of an interpretation (and I agree), but isn't that argument subject to your own interpretation? The Supreme Court is supposed to be the final interpretation on these things. That's all well and good, I can't think of a better system wrt that. But, if the Constitution was much more explicit, they wouldn't need to rule on those things in the first place.
Our Constitution is a great thing, but very far from acceptable. We need a new one that explicitly authorizes all governments (fed, state, local) to act, and explicitly prohibits anything outside of that scope. The price to pay, which no doubt people will whine about, is that it has to have lots of amendments. BFD. It's worth it.
I don't know what your opinion on slackware is, but if you really want to make a custom live cd, you may want to check out slax.
Knoppix is nice because it has many more people behind it and thus has much broader driver support. But, to fit it on the media (and optimize as well), they use tricks on the iso. This isn't necessarily bad, it's just done for a targeted purpose.
On the other hand slax has a rootcopy directory that makes it easy. This was information I picked up about a year ago when I was looking into it, so things may have changed since then.
Option is here, the simple design option.
Lately, if they don't have the css working, it may not be respected on the front page and on user profile pages, but it usually works for me in the comments.
Are you using BSD?
I kid, really, please don't crack my xp box.
Artists should pay to be on Pandora, and cut out their damn middlemen. I've bought 3 cds and 1 download as a direct consequence of Pandora, that I wouldn't have bought otherwise. That I couldn't have bought or even pirated otherwise, because I didn't know it existed. And I really don't buy that much music.
Pandora + Allofmp3 = gold farm
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Oh, sorry, gotta go now. My local internets are closing for the day.
It's not the javascript so much in my experience. When I'm using FF on linux, the performance on /. is horrible. So I turned off JS completely and the problem persisted.
But then I turned on the simple ui option in my /. prefs, and got a huge speed boost.
FF on linux has had generally worse performance for me across the board, but /. was especially bad. I'm not a css/dom guru, so I don't have the time or the experience diagnose it.
I've said this in the past, and it's nice to see it being said by in something more mainstream. A while back I wrote a journal about this (earliest one in my list), where I said that a redeeming thing about the data infrastructure being run by a private monopoly is that a company will probably have less motive to filter than a government.
Seeing everything we've seen over the past few months, I now recant that. The monopolies have shown little to no resistance to filtering, mucking about with connections when the RIAA comes calling. Then they're looking for the nebulous "infringing materials" which coincidentally helps their own video offerings. If these crappy decisions are going to be made, I'd prefer they be made within a bureaucracy, where they at least have to pretend to be accountable. The cable/telco duopoly will never be accountable because they can easily work together for things that they both want.
How about a Constitutional amendment here in the US, prohibiting any government within the US from granting any monopoly, intellectual or otherwise? It shifts the monopoly from legislation to bidding for contracts. Hmm. An amendment prohibiting any contracting to the government. Now that I could get behind.
To be fair, ATT currently offers, at least to my area, a bandwidth meter. I haven't measured my own usage to verify their meter, but their numbers seem reasonable.
Well thought I posted earlier that I should have just read one comment down and I would have seen your answer. Guess it didn't go through. nm
Are you using this? If so, what for? I mean, this is pretty well into DB territory isn't it? MS even makes Access for more low-to-midrange things like this, but I never understood why people would want this in XL.
256 --> 10K I can barely understand, but >64K rows?
Hey now, remember, THAT WAS NOT AN ASSAULT.
And the women and children? They were always shifty-eyed anyway, they must have been hiding something.
Wait, sorry, I'm exhibiting masculine protective urges in a feminist story, I'll stop now.
Bill Hicks, drink coke
This is as good a place as any:
http://www.amazon.com/Rantings-Single-Male-Correctness-Everything/dp/0976261316/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1242451652&sr=8-1
Have fun, and laugh at it. I got this at my door, and 18 hours later (I like to stop and think) I was 18 hours further down the death march of life. Didn't agree with every little thing the dude wrote, but a good read none the less.
Btw, ISTR from his stories that he was either a dev or sysad, so it should be familiar territory for a lot of people here.
This could only work (in the sense of ubiquitous and accessible like 3.5 floppies) if all mainstream server and desktop OSes supported mounting of a common encrypted filesystem. If anything other than a key input has to execute when you put in the flash drive, then it doesn't really clear that ubiquitous and accessible bar.
So the design would have to be publicly available and gratis, and the standards would have to implemented correctly rather than screwed up or intentionally screwed up. Don't hold your breath.
That's an easy one.
Makes their patents and any copyrights public domain. Probably a good idea for all IP as well.
Exhibit A:
Christianity
Islam
Judaism
Hinduism
Buddhism
Hard Atheism
Are we that much more advanced than people who subscribed to Zoroastrianism or who believed in Thor and Loki? So >90% of people being confused is not without precedent.
Republicans/Democrats, rinse and repeat.
Editors?
Reading the comments? Oh, I see, 1.2M. You're new.
Regardless of your position on copyright infringement, the content lobby, and IP in general, there is a growing merger of the content lobby with those opposed to freedom of speech and communication. And not just the bs apolitical kind of speech (that should still be free, courts be damned), but now political speech. Sure, at first just anyone who's allegedly infringing. Then, people showing you how to infringe (doom9) will be cut off. Then people just expressing opinions on IP. Then, after people's attention has been diverted from the scandal, people who are opposed to sex offender registries, or no fly lists, or whatever will be denied net access.
The same tech that lets you post relatively anonymously and organize with your countrymen will also allow you to post the AACS key. The same tech that allows you to upload origins.avi also allows you to share video of the Tiannamen square standoff or the assault on the Branch Davidian compound.
So either speech and communication are free for both infringement and for politics, or they are not free for either.
Btw, in tfa, the head of the film council uses the argument that infringement is costing jobs. If this is used as an argument to society (that whole social contract thing?) then it's bs. Any money theoretically lost is retained and starts chasing other goods, resulting in other economic activity. Now, if you argue that the money is going to domestic industry rather than China*, that's at least a valid argument, although I would argue that the real problem is with trade policy, and it shouldn't be covered up by a band aid to the content lobby.
* I use China as an example because I'm American. I have no idea what the UK's trade situation is.
Apparently the defendant still has the machine, and the forensics guy is supposed to check for evidence of wiping. Also, read those others in the list, he's only supposed to look at "music files."
So what exactly is this evidence of wiping? If it was my HD, there'd be none. It would be a nice, innocent looking windows install with some bs word files, and maybe pirated software. Pirated material not relevant to the case, but not looking like I've removed everything either. So basically, you can't prove what bits someone did or did not have without a panopticon.
Nice, then this is just another exercise in witch hunt asshatery with evidence quality rivaling the Inquisition. At least with a robbery you have a surveillance video, which is not exactly trivial to forge. In something like a real estate dispute, even though paper is easy to forge, you can cross check claimed documents with what's on file at a government office somewhere. This calls in people to testify who, barring some massive, convoluted, ridiculously circuitous conspiracy, have no reason to lie, and who are circumstantially independent. So that scrap of paper sitting in the county filing cabinet is still much better evidence that what some random dude who knows nix claims is on a HD, because of the different context of the situation.
But this? There's no way of reliably accounting in a court of law of what those bits were at time t, never mind what they represented. Even if you were to get 2 independent experts to rule out outright forgery, it still doesn't cover meaning of the files. You either have to have blind faith in the defendant, the plaintiff, or the Expert.
But if top40song.mp3 is found on this drive, well whatever. If not, well, they're already asking for something as impossible as evidence of having been wiped in the past. How long until a fuzzy jpeg of you and your family MUST mean that it's steganographic? People talk about how trueCrypt's hidden volumes can give you plausible deniability, as if this is better than just an obvious single level encryption. If, in that situation, they forced you to decrypt it, or else, then what makes you think that in a situation where you truly had nothing on there that they would ever be satisfied?
Expert: It's clean sir, the only music is chord.wav and such.
Plaintiff: No, these kids today are using that steno stuff, it's gotta be on there somewhere.
Replace Expert with delusional-CSI-wannabe, Plaintiff with Prosecutor, and music with kiddie porn, and it doesn't look pretty. This arms race is going to lead these types of cases into assumption-of-guilt-land.
Oh, and btw, assuming somehow you could find evidence of previous wiping, well bfd. I'm about to reinstall windows on one of my disks (games), and I'll wipe and zero it first. Wtf is that supposed to show anyway? I can see certain elements within the establishment considering all this with only one thought: Prolem-Reaction-Solution, Trusted Computing to the rescue.
Agreed, the pace seems to be slowing. If you just look at the number of things we know now that we didn't know before, that still doesn't account for quantity vs quality issues.
The period 1850-1950 will have brought us much more progress than 1950-2050. Probably because we've been running off steam from the Rennaissance (sp?), yet now it looks like we're going into a new dark age (relatively dark technologically, very dark politically and socially).
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/04/27/improvements-to-autoplay.aspx
Although, afaict, that says it will still give you a dialog rather than just silently running.
Wonder how sandisk will take this? (U3)
Don't get me wrong, I have a sansa fuze and love it. (FYI, it has native vorbis and flac support, albeit with taking a hit on battery life.) But U3 pissed me off to no end.
Oh, didn't know that's how you meant it. I meant no offense, we just don't need to give people ammo, you know.
Paul is republican remember? I know what you meant, an establishment democrat/republican, or maybe a nominated democrat/republican. But let statements like that slip, and you'll end up making a fool of yourself.