There's a difference between a monopoly on search engine services and a monopoly in the OS space. Changing search engine providers is as simple as replacing a bookmark, changing operating systems requires some serious expeditures, especially at the enterprise level.
If Google has a monopoly on search engine services, it's a very fragile one.
Terrorists are not interested in the status quo, they want things to change.
Terrorists want things to change back to the way they were a thousand years ago. So while they're against the status quo, it's only because they're actually really, really against change. They're the ultimate reactionaries.
Explaining why reactionary fundamentalist terrorists and today's "progressives" both find themselves opposing the same things is left as an exercise to the reader.;)
I hate headlines that list some alphabet soup without explaining what the heck it is. I read about 2 years of RSS headlines before seeing an article that mentioned what RSS was.
There's this newfangled thing we techies call "Google" that can answer these kinds of questions. Maybe you've heard of it.
I was just pointing out some of the complexities of the issue that were being glossed over. It's not such a simple situation. Going to trial could lead to people's deaths, and so could letting him go. I don't agree with the government's actions in that case, but I can see why it's not a simple "Try him or let him go" issue. It's much simpler for those who view the US government in complete blacks and whites, they have decided who the bad guy is without needing to know any facts.
Yeah the US is oh so imperialist, we just wanted to collect Afghanistan and Iraq to go with our imperial subjects Germany and Japan. What's that you say? We don't own Japan and Germany? What the hell kind of empire are we running here? We're not going to amass much of an empire if we keep giving our conquered states back to their citizens..
If we really wanted an empire, you'd know it. The US is the first nation in the history of the world to have the ability to conquer the entire world, and choose not to.
Guess what? People opposed to the government lie all the time too. If you always blindly believe them and never believe anything the government says you're no better off than the guy who blindly believes everything the government says. I gave several reasons the government might not want to proceed to trial in this case earlier in the thread.
Presumption of innocence has nothing to do with assuming the government is lying. Take off your tinfoil hat and try looking at reality for about five minutes, it might be a shock to you..
Says the people whose job it is to know. What possible gain would there be to imprison him for no reason at all? His imprisonment has been media fodder against the administration for a while now, I doubt they'd williingly suffer the criticism unless they felt they had some reason for incarcerating him.
It's not that I automatically trust the government, that would be stupid. However, I don't automatically distrust the government either, which woul be just as stupid.
He's a citizen who has engaged in military training with an enemy of the US and returned to the country in order to wage war against it.
Technically under the Geneva Convention, as an unlawful combatant who wears no uniform, he could be summarily executed as a spy. The situation is far more complex than you make it out to be.
I don't know all the facts, but neither do you. I do know that the US is at war, something that a lot of people seem to want to willfully ignore.
Possibly they don't want to put him on trial because the information they have on him would have to be released in open court and possibly burn an existing intelligence operation.
In WWII England cracked Enigma, and *knew* when certain places were targeted for bombing. They did nothing to warn the occupants since this would have alerted the Nazis to the fact that their communications were no longer secure.
I don't know that this is the case with Padilla, but neither do you.
What about making an international call with the old telephone service within the first ten years of it's existence? That required quite a bit more than your tiny list of components.
My point is that VoIP is brand new technology, and can't be written off just because the reliability right out of the gate isn't very good.
How reliable do you think land line phone service was when it had been generally available for as long as VoIP has been generally available? I bet it was less than 99.4%.
I bought it the night it came out at the local Gamestop, and quite a few underage kids were standing in line with their parents, since they apparently couldn't buy it alone. So I guess it gets enforced at some places at least.
Wrong. He's a big *money* freak. If running a capitalist promoting station in China and a communist one in the US was the way to make the most money, then that's what he'd do.
It's not about ideology, it's about ratings, and it's only about ratings because ratings = profit. Have you seen FoxNews ratings vs. CNN lately? That Murdoch is a hell of a businessman.;)
They're not pro-status-quo. They're pro-making-money. If there weren't a ton of media outlets that slam the status quo they'd be doing that instead, because that would be the underserved market.
Don't you see that Fox *is* dissenting? They dissent from the prevailing media atmosphere, whatever that is. because that's where the money is. They have no ideology beyond making money. It's more than you can say for the BBC or CNN.
Are you new here too? It's also the slashdot way to wildly generalize about slashdot posters as though they are a single gigantic hive mind.:D
You're on target with the way you called me names and insulted my intelligence while posting as an AC though, that's definitely also the slashdot way.;)
I wasn't so much saying that slashdot users advocate downloading illegal copies of Win XP. There is a large contingent however, who would take issue with it being called "stealing" or "piracy" which is the point I was trying to make.
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There's a difference between a monopoly on search engine services and a monopoly in the OS space. Changing search engine providers is as simple as replacing a bookmark, changing operating systems requires some serious expeditures, especially at the enterprise level.
If Google has a monopoly on search engine services, it's a very fragile one.
Hah, thanks.. my .sig does drive the typical Slashdot leftist absolutely batshit.
:D
Check out this thread for a good example.. I know I shouldn't tease them, but it's just so much fun..
Capitalism and psychopathy go hand in hand. That's why it has survived today.
Definitely. No other ideology in history has produced so many psychopaths.
Terrorists are not interested in the status quo, they want things to change.
;)
Terrorists want things to change back to the way they were a thousand years ago. So while they're against the status quo, it's only because they're actually really, really against change. They're the ultimate reactionaries.
Explaining why reactionary fundamentalist terrorists and today's "progressives" both find themselves opposing the same things is left as an exercise to the reader.
I agree, Solaris is clearly the desktop operating system of tomorrow!
And it always will be.
I hate headlines that list some alphabet soup without explaining what the heck it is. I read about 2 years of RSS headlines before seeing an article that mentioned what RSS was.
There's this newfangled thing we techies call "Google" that can answer these kinds of questions. Maybe you've heard of it.
There are millions of human clones already, walking around among us. You've almost certainly met several during your lifetime.
As in, identical twins. They share the same DNA. Oooh scary!
I used to ask my mother why we had Mother's Day and Father's Day but no Children's Day.
She said "Every day is Children's Day, you little shit!" and smacked me upside the head.
In a rather sad attempt to spin this in a way that makes you feel good about your personal values, you've managed to leave out some things.
Liberals also invoke "Think of the children" on topics ranging from gun control to public schooling to the environment.
It's a bad argument used by lazy thinkers on both sides of the political spectrum, not just a conservative mantra.
I agree with you. He should get a trial.
I was just pointing out some of the complexities of the issue that were being glossed over. It's not such a simple situation. Going to trial could lead to people's deaths, and so could letting him go. I don't agree with the government's actions in that case, but I can see why it's not a simple "Try him or let him go" issue. It's much simpler for those who view the US government in complete blacks and whites, they have decided who the bad guy is without needing to know any facts.
You should lay off the coffee dude. :)
Yeah the US is oh so imperialist, we just wanted to collect Afghanistan and Iraq to go with our imperial subjects Germany and Japan. What's that you say? We don't own Japan and Germany? What the hell kind of empire are we running here? We're not going to amass much of an empire if we keep giving our conquered states back to their citizens..
If we really wanted an empire, you'd know it. The US is the first nation in the history of the world to have the ability to conquer the entire world, and choose not to.
Welcome to Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge. I am Carvallo. Now, choose a club.
You have chosen a three wood. May I suggest a putter?
Three wood. Now enter the force of your swing. I suggest feather touch.
You have entered "power drive". Now, push seven eight seven to swing.
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You have selected "No".
Guess what? People opposed to the government lie all the time too. If you always blindly believe them and never believe anything the government says you're no better off than the guy who blindly believes everything the government says. I gave several reasons the government might not want to proceed to trial in this case earlier in the thread.
Presumption of innocence has nothing to do with assuming the government is lying. Take off your tinfoil hat and try looking at reality for about five minutes, it might be a shock to you..
Says the people whose job it is to know. What possible gain would there be to imprison him for no reason at all? His imprisonment has been media fodder against the administration for a while now, I doubt they'd williingly suffer the criticism unless they felt they had some reason for incarcerating him. It's not that I automatically trust the government, that would be stupid. However, I don't automatically distrust the government either, which woul be just as stupid.
He's a citizen who has engaged in military training with an enemy of the US and returned to the country in order to wage war against it.
Technically under the Geneva Convention, as an unlawful combatant who wears no uniform, he could be summarily executed as a spy. The situation is far more complex than you make it out to be.
I don't know all the facts, but neither do you. I do know that the US is at war, something that a lot of people seem to want to willfully ignore.
Possibly they don't want to put him on trial because the information they have on him would have to be released in open court and possibly burn an existing intelligence operation.
In WWII England cracked Enigma, and *knew* when certain places were targeted for bombing. They did nothing to warn the occupants since this would have alerted the Nazis to the fact that their communications were no longer secure.
I don't know that this is the case with Padilla, but neither do you.
What about making an international call with the old telephone service within the first ten years of it's existence? That required quite a bit more than your tiny list of components.
My point is that VoIP is brand new technology, and can't be written off just because the reliability right out of the gate isn't very good.
How reliable do you think land line phone service was when it had been generally available for as long as VoIP has been generally available? I bet it was less than 99.4%.
I bought it the night it came out at the local Gamestop, and quite a few underage kids were standing in line with their parents, since they apparently couldn't buy it alone. So I guess it gets enforced at some places at least.
The intruder is probably hitting you from another box that he hacked somewhere, so all you'd be doing is attacking that poor slob's machine.
:)
The reason no network admins do what you propose isn't because it's illegal, it's because it's incredibly stupid.
Of course CNN doesn't seem liberal to you, Mr. EnronHalliburton2004, because you're probably to the left of Castro and Stalin. ;)
Wrong. He's a big *money* freak. If running a capitalist promoting station in China and a communist one in the US was the way to make the most money, then that's what he'd do.
;)
It's not about ideology, it's about ratings, and it's only about ratings because ratings = profit. Have you seen FoxNews ratings vs. CNN lately? That Murdoch is a hell of a businessman.
They're not pro-status-quo. They're pro-making-money. If there weren't a ton of media outlets that slam the status quo they'd be doing that instead, because that would be the underserved market.
Don't you see that Fox *is* dissenting? They dissent from the prevailing media atmosphere, whatever that is. because that's where the money is. They have no ideology beyond making money. It's more than you can say for the BBC or CNN.
Are you new here too? It's also the slashdot way to wildly generalize about slashdot posters as though they are a single gigantic hive mind. :D
;)
You're on target with the way you called me names and insulted my intelligence while posting as an AC though, that's definitely also the slashdot way.
I wasn't so much saying that slashdot users advocate downloading illegal copies of Win XP. There is a large contingent however, who would take issue with it being called "stealing" or "piracy" which is the point I was trying to make.