A good piece of investigative journalism would be to go and fathom out what kind of process would lead a legislature to introduce such an ill-informed piece of law...
And what happens when they start to crack down on people? They gonna jail everyone? Will the police arrest people with earphones and check if they have a MP3 player?
Firefox sometimes renders Slashdot incorrectly, though it's still readable and usable. It has to do with Firefox rendering the page before it has the whole thing. It's pretty dependent on connection speed and the speed of the computer - some people never see it at all. And as for the problem, while partially Firefox's fault, most of the blame is on Slashcode.
Unless there's serious downtime and unused manpower, developing things inhouse can often be more expensive than buying something pre-packaged or contracting it out.
Feh. Even though I'm a programmer, at one time, the only job I found was a net/system admin. Not great, but again, being a 5 minute walk away from home helps a hell of a lot. Anyways, over there, while the powers that be were debating about buying a big timesheet management system, I managed to hack one out of PHP+MySQL during the time I was waiting for machines to fail.
Of course, when presented with the final product, some of the big shots totally could not get in their heads that I have managed to program something so fast that met so much of their needs... (When they outsourced me after two years, my boss was nice enough to let me use the code elsewhere).
Usually doesn't take much more than a quick trip to their browser cache either.
LOL! Some years ago, I made the Netscrape cache directory on one of the company owner's computer shareable. We had a lot of fun seeing what kind of pr0n he was surfing for...
Having recently repaired a 5 year old computer -- a K6-2/350 running windows 98, there's no damned way you could get any productive work done with that thing. Just browsing the web is horribly slow. God help you if you have to run any real office applications (word, outlook, access, etc.) 2-3 year old (1GHz+ processor speeds) machines might be passable if your company is flat broke, but those machines are costing the company some employee productivity.
This is yet again another proof that political institutions have been thoroughly subverted by the bourgeois. It would appear that a revolution is in order, but how could it be organized, now that media outlets are no longer the property of various States?
Democracy has met it's most important ennemy, and it is the bourgeois.
What percentage of Microsoft revenues is due to Windows sales?
Is it that profitable to leave Windows closed-source, and thus not benefit from the multiple angle approach that has done so much to boost the quality of OSS to the point that it is seen my Microsoft as a significant threat?
If Windows sales is only a small fraction (15-20%) of Microsoft revenues, why not open it and concentrate to develop applications for many other operating systems and thus ultimately broaden Microsoft's market position?
My young friend, you've the mentality of a common vandal. Just because you didn't pay for it, doesn't mean that it's OK, or that some other poor sod down the line didn't have to pay. It came out of the school district taxpayers' pockets (including your parents, most likely), and out of the computer manufacturer's bottom line (resulting in higher prices for everyone else).
What a goddammed fucking tightass that guy is.
What part of "the school just kept replacing them under warranty claims" didn't you understand?
I remeber when my employer had one computer that kept locking up (usually after several hours of unsaved editing). A similar technique was used to get it going again.
Office manager was cold, so she bought a 1500W electric space heater. She needed a place to plug it in and there just happened to be an empty outlet on the UPS that fed the server, which was conveniently located right across the hall from her office.
And for those web devs who are really stupid, "Print Screen" (yes, I actually saw a guy do this...).
It's not that stupid. I've seen people posting pictures of themselves having sex but cutted-up in tiny pieces pieced together in a table. So, instead of having to save 150 little bits and pieces (only one or two being naughty) and reassembling them, you just do a print screen, and voilà! instant embarrassing picture ready to laugh at...
If that was his rewrite rule, I wonder who might be interested in his deliberate exposure of children to that material. This thread is a public admission that he deliberately placed indecent material on a children's site.
Yes, I routinely replace often-linked pictures with TUBGIRL, and no, I don't have any problem risking to expose such pictures to children. The very least it can do is teach parents to teach their children to be smart.
And to those who say "please think of the children", I say that a lot of bad things are being justified "just because of the children", and children will only think that something is bad because their parents say so.
So, in other words, if you bring your children in a fucked-up way, don't blame me if they are shocked because I sunbathe naked on my balcony (yes, I routinely sunbathe naked on my balcony where neighbours can see me).
I went to my bank the other day to see if I could put a hold on all transfers of money coming out of my account with the exception of those going to two (and only two) credit card companies. Specifically I wanted to block all money going OUT to my paypal account (I only use the account to receive funds). They said they were not able to stop companies from transferring money out of my account if they had the proper information to do so.
Well, then you take your marbles and put your money somewhere else.
yes, and as americans, you are busy building up the list of things to atone for again. your children will the ones that ultimately have to pay retributions for what's happening now.
Those sleazebags make far more than a mere $5 million from spammers. Whenever each of their customers are getting spammed, they're only too happy to send them the bill for extra-bandwidth consumed (plenty of people have T-1 or above high-speed connections that are rated by used bandwidth).
Well if you think about it you'll see there are many television shows that aren't shown in my country so I want to watch them. Also, many movies shown overseas that are not released in my country immediately
And the non-availability of something in a country often means that getting it "illegally" is not illegal. For example, canadian courts have consistently ruled that decrypting US satellite TV signals is not stealing, nor illegal because the US satellite TV providers are prohibited from selling their subscriptions in Canada. So, US satellite TV providers have to use private investigators within Canada to track "illegal" subscribers and often use bounty hunters to kidnap them in Canada and drag them to the US where they get jailed for not committing a crime in the US...
Evolution calls for competing protagonists to adapt, to evolve, to change their characteristics to suit either the changing environment or their competition.
Google has a head-start, and are presently unencumbered by the bonehead marketers that have ensured that Microsoft produces such sloppy software.
In order to out-take Google, Microsoft would have to adopt it's strictly logical, scientific modus operandi.
A popular Canadian fallacy. The Canadian government gave Arar up to the US authorities, and there is an ongoing (Canadian) investigation into Canada's complicity in the matter.
Not a fallacy (only an A.C. would say that), but a fact. Arar was deported while in US custody after the RCMP furnished them with incomplete information. The inquest is about how the RCMP gave the bad information.
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And what happens when they start to crack down on people? They gonna jail everyone? Will the police arrest people with earphones and check if they have a MP3 player?
Of course, when presented with the final product, some of the big shots totally could not get in their heads that I have managed to program something so fast that met so much of their needs... (When they outsourced me after two years, my boss was nice enough to let me use the code elsewhere).
Pondichery, Bangalore, Bombay...
Democracy has met it's most important ennemy, and it is the bourgeois.
Is it that profitable to leave Windows closed-source, and thus not benefit from the multiple angle approach that has done so much to boost the quality of OSS to the point that it is seen my Microsoft as a significant threat?
If Windows sales is only a small fraction (15-20%) of Microsoft revenues, why not open it and concentrate to develop applications for many other operating systems and thus ultimately broaden Microsoft's market position?
All my three servers at home and my firewall come from the garbage...
What part of "the school just kept replacing them under warranty claims" didn't you understand?
And to those who say "please think of the children", I say that a lot of bad things are being justified "just because of the children", and children will only think that something is bad because their parents say so.
So, in other words, if you bring your children in a fucked-up way, don't blame me if they are shocked because I sunbathe naked on my balcony (yes, I routinely sunbathe naked on my balcony where neighbours can see me).
I can't believe I saw a story on TV before Slashdot talks about it!!!
Those sleazebags make far more than a mere $5 million from spammers. Whenever each of their customers are getting spammed, they're only too happy to send them the bill for extra-bandwidth consumed (plenty of people have T-1 or above high-speed connections that are rated by used bandwidth).
Google has a head-start, and are presently unencumbered by the bonehead marketers that have ensured that Microsoft produces such sloppy software.
In order to out-take Google, Microsoft would have to adopt it's strictly logical, scientific modus operandi.