The article is smoking crack on one point: It's not the *users* who are inertial. It's the Minesweeper Champion Solitaire Experts (MCSE) who run their IT operations, who are deeply invested in all the crap they had to learn to keep Domain Controllers and Exchange Servers running.
Well, while you're posturing about how superior and un-racist you are, you might want to drop your implicit assumption that there was danger of violence. Of course that wasn't condition by the racial spin. Was it?
"Americans have never accepted a radical political transformation that would change their future." Apparently Corn flunked American History in high school.
"The network protocol between federation gateways and proxies is called the Google Wave Federation Protocol. It is an open extension to the XMPP Internet Messaging protocol. Some of key useful features of XMPP that the wave federation protocol uses are the discovery of IP addresses and ports, using SRV records, and TLS authentication and encryption of connections." http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/google-wave-architecture
AP, April 22: "The Chicago Tribune cut 53 jobs on Wednesday as part of a newsroom reorganization designed to help it weather an economic downturn that has forced its parent company to seek Chapter 11 protection from creditors..."
LL should put up a splash screen saying "This is not the U.S. Its laws do not apply here, motherfucker". Then again, most Americans wouldn't understand it, and everyone else already knows.
Linden Labs is in the US. Its servers are in the US. I think most Americans would agree that that puts them under American law, even if you don't understand that. The rest of us realize that virtual worlds aren't real.
Virtual worlds aren't outside reality; they are contained within it. The content of the Second Life grid is digital like everything else on the internet...are you claiming the internet isn't "real"?
You really think an M-16 requires more training than a watercannon or LRAD?
I'd agree more than one 30-round magazine (not "clip", please) should be issued though.
The usual excuse offered as to why shipowners forbid their crews effective self-defense weapons is "liability fears"...but I'll bet there's just as much liability risk in the use of "less lethal" tech.
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It's the burn rate that'll kill ya...
Well, it could if it suggested that the government be put in charge of life-and-death healthcare decisions. But given TFA that might look silly.
The article is smoking crack on one point: It's not the *users* who are inertial. It's the Minesweeper Champion Solitaire Experts (MCSE) who run their IT operations, who are deeply invested in all the crap they had to learn to keep Domain Controllers and Exchange Servers running.
Good thing we have liberals like PopeRatzo to protect us from stereotypes, prejudice and hatred. :-)
*He's* not ready to swallow any old propaganda he hears on Air America, no sir.
People with Android phones often have friends who have Android phones.
"Buddy".
(-15 for assuming I'm male.)
(Posted from my Google Ion)
Sounds like a natural for http://www.android.com/
Dayum. If Google has a problem with HTML5 <video>, they did a really good job of hiding it at Google I/O.
Too bad it wasn't an Android phone. "Where's My Android" doesn't need a laptop to track a phone.
Well, while you're posturing about how superior and un-racist you are, you might want to drop your implicit assumption that there was danger of violence. Of course that wasn't condition by the racial spin. Was it?
You're interning at MSFT? Or internalizing? Both?
Maybe. Who will claim the win when Android tops iPhone in 2012? RMS?
"Americans have never accepted a radical political transformation that would change their future." Apparently Corn flunked American History in high school.
Since he claims to be able to shut up, maybe he should. :-)
"The network protocol between federation gateways and proxies is called the Google Wave Federation Protocol. It is an open extension to the XMPP Internet Messaging protocol. Some of key useful features of XMPP that the wave federation protocol uses are the discovery of IP addresses and ports, using SRV records, and TLS authentication and encryption of connections." http://www.waveprotocol.org/whitepapers/google-wave-architecture
If you don't see the difference between this and Facebook, you must not have watched the demo.
But it also mentions that Windows & Linux are vulnerable, but doesn't say those users should disable Java. I wonder why?
Because their JVMs already have patches for this problem. Apple, having embraced and extended Java on OSX, are now in the process of extinguishing it.
And the Java critics said total platform independence was impossible!
Well, the vuln doesn't run the same way on all platforms. It only works on OSX and other severely downlevel JVMs.
After all, the only purpose of a gun is to kill, and the only purpose of a blog is to troll.
If you think you don't need a license from the government to watch TV, you've never been to the UK.
There will be no plans to impose new taxes until just before they are imposed.
Don't be silly, why would someone tax a successful business to support an unprofitable one? That wouldn't make sense.
AP, April 22: "The Chicago Tribune cut 53 jobs on Wednesday as part of a newsroom reorganization designed to help it weather an economic downturn that has forced its parent company to seek Chapter 11 protection from creditors..."
You can often count on MSFT to sell you a partial solution to a problem they sold you.
LL should put up a splash screen saying "This is not the U.S. Its laws do not apply here, motherfucker". Then again, most Americans wouldn't understand it, and everyone else already knows.
Linden Labs is in the US. Its servers are in the US. I think most Americans would agree that that puts them under American law, even if you don't understand that. The rest of us realize that virtual worlds aren't real.
Virtual worlds aren't outside reality; they are contained within it. The content of the Second Life grid is digital like everything else on the internet...are you claiming the internet isn't "real"?
Possibly the important question here is...is a SL Taser a protected form of expression; is it "fair use"? If I write a story in which a Taser is a prop, must I call it something else? I don't think so. But a number of people have been shut-down in world for using characters and other elements from copyrighted works.
By the way, I've heard rumors that LL wants to locate a datacenter in the UK. There's currently a huge kerfluffle in-world about a recent move by LL to add an additional rating "adults-only" to the existing "PG" "Mature" scheme. (Under 18 users are already segregared to a completely separate virtual world.
Some folks believe (me included) that the recent "extreme pornography" provisions of the UK Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 is one reason for the tighter content controls. Certainly fear of procecution under the UK's draconian pedophilia laws was related to the similar kerfluffle a year ago about age play in-world.
Unlimited *connect time*? On an unswitched circuit?
Wow...how much connect time do you have on your water supply?
Or your electrical power?
That's unlimited too? What a paradise!
You really think an M-16 requires more training than a watercannon or LRAD?
I'd agree more than one 30-round magazine (not "clip", please) should be issued though.
The usual excuse offered as to why shipowners forbid their crews effective self-defense weapons is "liability fears"...but I'll bet there's just as much liability risk in the use of "less lethal" tech.