If you send out an email with a link to a malware site, and you did, and google warns people that your email contains links to malware sites . . . . what exactly is your beef?
How this HARMS customers. They are given the price of the book, a suggestion is made that they purchase something else instead and then BEFORE the order is complete, they are told to expect long shipping times.
Maybe I'm blind but no where in there is the customer "Harmed".
Is any of this keeping the customer from say, going over to the Barnes and Noble website and buying the same book?
Nope.
Is it keeping them from going to a local bookstore and buying said book?
Nope.
Are they stating a price on the book web page and then charging a different price during check out?
Nope.
Are they letting the customer purchase the book first and THEN telling them of the shipping delay?
This is the President that promised to close down Guantanamo.
This is the President that promised to have the most open government in the history of the US.
And so on and so on and so on . . . .
Talk is CHEAP and all politicians are good for is cheap talk.
ACTIONS speak volumes and the actions of everyone in the government to date indicate that they are for every regressive from of IP protective legislation imaginable.
I've signed a number of petitions on the Whitehouse petition website and received a number of responses to my petitions from said website.
I can tell you that you are wasting your time going there to sign any of the petitions.
What you will get is a statement from the Whitehouse justifying the status quo. At no point in any of these communications is there even a HINT that things need to change.
It's purely a PR stunt meant to fool the sheeple into thinking that they care about your, my, or anyone's opinion.
From the response to the petition asking for a repeal of the PATRIOT Act:
"While these are important tools, we do not need to sacrifice the privacy and civil liberties of the American people for security. As noted above, all investigative techniques used by the government must be employed in a responsible manner that is consistent with our laws, including the U.S. Constitution, and our values. It is also important to note that many of these tools are subject to rigorous oversight by the different branches of government. For example, with respect to the three provisions of the PATRIOT Act that were recently extended, approval of the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court is needed before the government may use any of these authorities, robust substantive standards and procedural protections are in place within the executive branch, and the Congress continues to exercise its oversight responsibilities."
For me, the primary reason to REPEAL the PATRIOT act is that it's been shown time and time again that law enforcement agencies do NOT use investigative techniques in a responsible maner. Nor are they ever held accountable for transgressions against the law.
Congress is not providing oversight. If it were then the branches of the government that were acting in contravention to our laws would be held accountable for their actions. Where are the consequences to the FBI for warantless wiretaps, for goading the weak minded into terrorist plots of their own fabrication so that they can then "thwart" them. For the seizure of domains and property by ICE without due process, a RIGHT guaranteed by the Constitution?
We HAVE sacrificed our privacy and civil liberties, not for security, but for security THEATER.
I demand that all the Internet Service Providers pay each and every tax payer a royalty check for their use of the technologies that are the basis of all their businesses, without which none of them would be in business and all of which were developed with taxpayer money.
I also expect back payments all the way back to the founding of said companies along with interest on royalties and licenses fees that have not been paid to date.
If any of these companies are associated with the MPAA or RIAA then they should be subject to additional penalties for "stealing" the afore mentioned technology.
I think $750 per TCP/IP packet transmitted is fair based on the RIAA's own per infringement demands. http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCATRE7274O520110311
$100,000 per infringement is clearly ludicrous and we are all reasonable people, I think $750 per infringement is clearly fair.
So you don't use an iPad, iPhone, Laptop running OSX, Windows or Linux, Desktop running OSX, Windows or Linux, server running OSX, Windows or Linux.
How the hell do you expect to get anything done, including running this website without the hundreds of thousands of developers out there who have made themselves a "bitch" to one of the above mentioned systems in order to provide you with the tools you need to do your job.
Beyond stupid doesn't even begin to cover your statements.
Yes there are risks to being someone's bitch.
But striking out on your own to be your own bitch is risk free right?
I consider this particular post one of the piles of dung I have to wade through to find the diamonds that keep me coming back to BestNetTech.
Why should they bother with due process? That takes work filing all those briefs, issuing summons, assuring proper delivery of said summons, scheduling dates, dealing with responses.
By and large, the only reason that people subject themselves to jumping through hoops is because the alternative to jumping through those hoops is worse than the hoop jumping.
The FBI, TSA, NSA, DHS have been shown time and time again by Congress that there is NO downside for them to ignore proper channels or do things in a way that even vaguely conforms with due process.
So why should they bother? There will be no repercussions to their actions. Not so much as a slap on the wrist.
The have shown, by deeds and actions, that they feel that they know what is best for the rest of the citizens of this country and laws to the contrary be dammed. The are doing it for OUR good after all, so they feel that it gives them the right to engage in pretty much any illegal activity they choose.
Laws are for the ignorant masses, not for the people we charge with upholding and enforcing those laws. For them, they are merely suggestions to be ignored as needed in order to insure the common good.
The long term consequences of this sort of behavior are chilling. When you don't punish someone for stealing they don't steal less . . .they steal MORE. These people are not being punished for any of their actions. This will embolden them to increase both the frequency and the egregiousness of their transgressions against the laws of the country and the rights of it's citizens.
The cluelessness here is how you turn a rant by someone about infecting wikileaks with viruses so that the people visiting wikileaks get their computers "fried" into a rant about pundits not having a clue about distributed vs. centralized systems.
Clue me in please and connect those particular dots.
Want to rant about something, rant about how clueless it is to think that viruses will "fry" the computer of anyone downloading the documents.
"But digital goods is not actually becoming inferior in quality, so people passing that on is actually very challenging for us," he added.
Digital goods DO wear out because they are stored on media that is subject to wear and tear.
But beyond that digital media becomes OBSOLETE.
I have a 10 year old washer and dryer that work perfectly well and I use regularly 10 years after purchasing them.
There isn't a SINGLE game that I purchased 10 years ago that will still run on modern hardware. I would LOVE to still be able to play Master of Orion . . . not an option for me because the game became . . . OBSOLETE.
The levels to which these people are full of crap are beyond comprehension.
"If we can use Discover, Visa, or American Express why would we need a third party intermediary to handle a cash transfer that the credit card companies already provide!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
Because what got PayPal up and running and grew it to become the behemoth that it has become is that the average Dick and Jane didn't have a clue how to accept payments from Discover, VIsa, and Amex. To do all of those you had to sign up for merchant accounts with a bank, not a simple process, and most banks won't give merchant accounts to individuals.
What PayPal did was to provide an EASY way for Jane and Dick to accept payments for their goods and services electronically by making it an easy and guaranteed transaction for both the buyer and the seller.
No bad checks to worry about, no merchant accounts, no giant hurdles between you and the person on the other end of your transaction.
They became successful by doing what most successful tech companies have done: Fill a need, fill it well, be the first to do it or come in early and be the best to do it.
The Rural Electric Administration created in 1935 for the purpose of bringing electricity to rural areas of the US. It's still around and being used by the large Telcos as a source of funding for projects like providing Cell service in the Philippines. I'll hazard a wild guess that when congress created the REA they had Appalachia and not the Philippines in mind.
Realistically the job of the REA was done in (I'm guessing) about the 70s or so. So for the last 20+ years the REA has been a way for companies to base their "business model on out-of-date regulations".
I'm sure that when you studied in high school your teachers expounded on what a wonderful democracy we were living in without ever mentioning that the United States is not governed by a democracy.
But at some point, hopefully after you got a clue about Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny, you should have gotten clued in on systems of government.
We live in a REPUBLIC. Not a democracy.
So, next time you go visit your old high school, drop by and tell your social studies/government teacher that hey, it's a republic, and give them the bad news about Santa and the Easter Bunny.
But all this goes back to the basic problem, ignorance. If people don't even know how to properly categorize the government they live under, how can we expect them to know anything about how it's run?
And how it's run is very poorly.
Don't get me wrong, it's one of the best governments in the world. But that is a sad commentary on the rest of the world. Not a ringing endorsement of our self-aggrandizing band of do-nothing-productive legislators.
Politicians DO set an example. The example they set is of what happens when you give people power. It corrupts them.
The laws in the contry are not about what's good for the populace. They are about whats good for the politicians. Take a good look at the labor laws as a good example of this. Politicians have EXEMPTED themselves from a large number of the laws that they force on everyone else.
They exempted themselves from the Do Not Call laws. They exempted themselves from the Do Not Spam laws.
They will exempt themselves from spyware laws (assuming they have not already done so).
They set a CLEAR example: Me and my needs first, then we might consider you, maybe, if it get's me votes or publicity.
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DUH!
If you send out an email with a link to a malware site, and you did, and google warns people that your email contains links to malware sites . . . . what exactly is your beef?
Please Explain to me . . .
How this HARMS customers. They are given the price of the book, a suggestion is made that they purchase something else instead and then BEFORE the order is complete, they are told to expect long shipping times.
Maybe I'm blind but no where in there is the customer "Harmed".
Is any of this keeping the customer from say, going over to the Barnes and Noble website and buying the same book?
Nope.
Is it keeping them from going to a local bookstore and buying said book?
Nope.
Are they stating a price on the book web page and then charging a different price during check out?
Nope.
Are they letting the customer purchase the book first and THEN telling them of the shipping delay?
Nope.
Are they being a bit petulant?
Sure.
Violating anti-trust laws . . . .
Not so much.
Why should I give this plan any heed?
This is the President that promised to close down Guantanamo.
This is the President that promised to have the most open government in the history of the US.
And so on and so on and so on . . . .
Talk is CHEAP and all politicians are good for is cheap talk.
ACTIONS speak volumes and the actions of everyone in the government to date indicate that they are for every regressive from of IP protective legislation imaginable.
Why Bother
I've signed a number of petitions on the Whitehouse petition website and received a number of responses to my petitions from said website.
I can tell you that you are wasting your time going there to sign any of the petitions.
What you will get is a statement from the Whitehouse justifying the status quo. At no point in any of these communications is there even a HINT that things need to change.
It's purely a PR stunt meant to fool the sheeple into thinking that they care about your, my, or anyone's opinion.
From the response to the petition asking for a repeal of the PATRIOT Act:
"While these are important tools, we do not need to sacrifice the privacy and civil liberties of the American people for security. As noted above, all investigative techniques used by the government must be employed in a responsible manner that is consistent with our laws, including the U.S. Constitution, and our values. It is also important to note that many of these tools are subject to rigorous oversight by the different branches of government. For example, with respect to the three provisions of the PATRIOT Act that were recently extended, approval of the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Court is needed before the government may use any of these authorities, robust substantive standards and procedural protections are in place within the executive branch, and the Congress continues to exercise its oversight responsibilities."
For me, the primary reason to REPEAL the PATRIOT act is that it's been shown time and time again that law enforcement agencies do NOT use investigative techniques in a responsible maner. Nor are they ever held accountable for transgressions against the law.
Congress is not providing oversight. If it were then the branches of the government that were acting in contravention to our laws would be held accountable for their actions. Where are the consequences to the FBI for warantless wiretaps, for goading the weak minded into terrorist plots of their own fabrication so that they can then "thwart" them. For the seizure of domains and property by ICE without due process, a RIGHT guaranteed by the Constitution?
We HAVE sacrificed our privacy and civil liberties, not for security, but for security THEATER.
Petty Bureaucrats
I trust our petty and malicious Bureaucrats more than I trust the petty and malicious Bureaucrats that work for the UN.
Dividends
I demand that all the Internet Service Providers pay each and every tax payer a royalty check for their use of the technologies that are the basis of all their businesses, without which none of them would be in business and all of which were developed with taxpayer money.
I also expect back payments all the way back to the founding of said companies along with interest on royalties and licenses fees that have not been paid to date.
If any of these companies are associated with the MPAA or RIAA then they should be subject to additional penalties for "stealing" the afore mentioned technology.
I think $750 per TCP/IP packet transmitted is fair based on the RIAA's own per infringement demands. http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCATRE7274O520110311
$100,000 per infringement is clearly ludicrous and we are all reasonable people, I think $750 per infringement is clearly fair.
Re: Re: Seriously???
I could be a stupid troll . . .
Seriously???
So you don't use an iPad, iPhone, Laptop running OSX, Windows or Linux, Desktop running OSX, Windows or Linux, server running OSX, Windows or Linux.
How the hell do you expect to get anything done, including running this website without the hundreds of thousands of developers out there who have made themselves a "bitch" to one of the above mentioned systems in order to provide you with the tools you need to do your job.
Beyond stupid doesn't even begin to cover your statements.
Yes there are risks to being someone's bitch.
But striking out on your own to be your own bitch is risk free right?
I consider this particular post one of the piles of dung I have to wade through to find the diamonds that keep me coming back to BestNetTech.
Less dung please, more diamonds.
Path of least resistance
You are looking at this the wrong way.
Why should they bother with due process? That takes work filing all those briefs, issuing summons, assuring proper delivery of said summons, scheduling dates, dealing with responses.
By and large, the only reason that people subject themselves to jumping through hoops is because the alternative to jumping through those hoops is worse than the hoop jumping.
The FBI, TSA, NSA, DHS have been shown time and time again by Congress that there is NO downside for them to ignore proper channels or do things in a way that even vaguely conforms with due process.
So why should they bother? There will be no repercussions to their actions. Not so much as a slap on the wrist.
The have shown, by deeds and actions, that they feel that they know what is best for the rest of the citizens of this country and laws to the contrary be dammed. The are doing it for OUR good after all, so they feel that it gives them the right to engage in pretty much any illegal activity they choose.
Laws are for the ignorant masses, not for the people we charge with upholding and enforcing those laws. For them, they are merely suggestions to be ignored as needed in order to insure the common good.
The long term consequences of this sort of behavior are chilling. When you don't punish someone for stealing they don't steal less . . .they steal MORE. These people are not being punished for any of their actions. This will embolden them to increase both the frequency and the egregiousness of their transgressions against the laws of the country and the rights of it's citizens.
Fiddling
This is Nero Fiddling while Rome burns.
The clulessness here . .
The cluelessness here is how you turn a rant by someone about infecting wikileaks with viruses so that the people visiting wikileaks get their computers "fried" into a rant about pundits not having a clue about distributed vs. centralized systems.
Clue me in please and connect those particular dots.
Want to rant about something, rant about how clueless it is to think that viruses will "fry" the computer of anyone downloading the documents.
Games don't wear out?
From the article on EA and second hand sales:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ea-second-hand-sales-are-a-critical-situation
"But digital goods is not actually becoming inferior in quality, so people passing that on is actually very challenging for us," he added.
Digital goods DO wear out because they are stored on media that is subject to wear and tear.
But beyond that digital media becomes OBSOLETE.
I have a 10 year old washer and dryer that work perfectly well and I use regularly 10 years after purchasing them.
There isn't a SINGLE game that I purchased 10 years ago that will still run on modern hardware. I would LOVE to still be able to play Master of Orion . . . not an option for me because the game became . . . OBSOLETE.
The levels to which these people are full of crap are beyond comprehension.
Idiots?
For the same reason that people pay $5 for a cup of coffee. Because all the other lemmings are doing it.
PayPal Sucks?
"If we can use Discover, Visa, or American Express why would we need a third party intermediary to handle a cash transfer that the credit card companies already provide!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!"
Because what got PayPal up and running and grew it to become the behemoth that it has become is that the average Dick and Jane didn't have a clue how to accept payments from Discover, VIsa, and Amex. To do all of those you had to sign up for merchant accounts with a bank, not a simple process, and most banks won't give merchant accounts to individuals.
What PayPal did was to provide an EASY way for Jane and Dick to accept payments for their goods and services electronically by making it an easy and guaranteed transaction for both the buyer and the seller.
No bad checks to worry about, no merchant accounts, no giant hurdles between you and the person on the other end of your transaction.
They became successful by doing what most successful tech companies have done: Fill a need, fill it well, be the first to do it or come in early and be the best to do it.
REA
The Rural Electric Administration created in 1935 for the purpose of bringing electricity to rural areas of the US. It's still around and being used by the large Telcos as a source of funding for projects like providing Cell service in the Philippines. I'll hazard a wild guess that when congress created the REA they had Appalachia and not the Philippines in mind.
Realistically the job of the REA was done in (I'm guessing) about the 70s or so. So for the last 20+ years the REA has been a way for companies to base their "business model on out-of-date regulations".
So much cluelessness, so little time
I'm sure that when you studied in high school your teachers expounded on what a wonderful democracy we were living in without ever mentioning that the United States is not governed by a democracy.
But at some point, hopefully after you got a clue about Santa Clause and the Easter Bunny, you should have gotten clued in on systems of government.
We live in a REPUBLIC. Not a democracy.
So, next time you go visit your old high school, drop by and tell your social studies/government teacher that hey, it's a republic, and give them the bad news about Santa and the Easter Bunny.
But all this goes back to the basic problem, ignorance. If people don't even know how to properly categorize the government they live under, how can we expect them to know anything about how it's run?
And how it's run is very poorly.
Don't get me wrong, it's one of the best governments in the world. But that is a sad commentary on the rest of the world. Not a ringing endorsement of our self-aggrandizing band of do-nothing-productive legislators.
Take a good look at the laws in this country
Politicians DO set an example. The example they set is of what happens when you give people power. It corrupts them.
The laws in the contry are not about what's good for the populace. They are about whats good for the politicians. Take a good look at the labor laws as a good example of this. Politicians have EXEMPTED themselves from a large number of the laws that they force on everyone else.
They exempted themselves from the Do Not Call laws. They exempted themselves from the Do Not Spam laws.
They will exempt themselves from spyware laws (assuming they have not already done so).
They set a CLEAR example: Me and my needs first, then we might consider you, maybe, if it get's me votes or publicity.