Given the number of overall suggestions was around 170000 when I last looked at it this isn't such a popular poll in any case. Maybe 500 people voted for Colbert (I did) and that pushed it above the 400 "Anonymous" guys that wanted to call it "Xenu". No one knows.
This is flamebait? Nice... who wants to flame about that? Why didn't you mod parent flamebait? He started with the awesome "Don't bitch about what you can't get, make your own" statement knowing well that it is so much impossible as it is improbable.
Little aftertought, after reading the ars technica update I believe this is about money.
The Cook County Sheriff's Department is asking a federal judge to close the Erotic Services section of Craigslist, as well as reimburse the department $100,000 it has cost to pursue Craigslist-related prostitution investigations over the past year,
Someone needs some bail-out money reaal fast. Too bad the hookers and pimps didn't pay their protection money and now you've got to sue the interwebz for ruining your business.
Another dipshit that doesn't know how infrastructure is supposed to work and what the internet is. Child prostitution... according to American law that would include 20 y/o with 11 months and three weeks on the clock right?
When did this idea emerge that you can sue a infrastructure for what is happening on it? This concept is new to me and doesn't make any sense. Next they'll be suing the newspapers for ads that enable people to engage in casual sex. About time someone did something about this.
most likely it is because the organization which holds the rights to that is not interested.... often each country will have a company which has previously negotiated distribution rights for various content.
That's exactly the segmentation problem. Every country has it's own greedy branch of the same company. They basically hold the same rights but try to out-do each other on revenue. So they segment the global market into these chunks and try to make as much money as possible in individual places other than providing the best possible service. This is what I'm complaining about. I still have to wait months or certain TV shows never air at all. I still have to wait months for a shitty dubbed version of an English movie that I can understand natively. That's why I don't accept this system. I want to be able to pay for the same content that the American viewers get, at the same time. This is what I mean by "global". But the corporations want to benefit from the "global" perspective by evading taxes in certain countries but won't grant the consumers in those countries the same access. The system is severely flawed and needs to change... fast.
So right now we have open, public sharing infrastructure that can be arguably used for both purposes. Legal and illegal sharing. The people trying to sue users can't automatically assume that just because you're using the technology you must be a criminal. Darknets are satan's work and for terrorists only amirite? So you get caught using one of those and you're auto-screwed (interval 5sec).
This is of course adapted thinking from the way our authorities work atm.
Everything I want to listen to and watch can be streamed now. Thanks to Hulu and Netflix and iTunes I can get the latest movies and just about everything else! The costs for these activities are no longer prohibitive.
Lucky for you, Windows using American. I as a Linux using European can use none of the aforementioned services. Arrrhhh. Off to the bay where they don't geo-judge.
Segmenting the internet back into region specific chunks is probably the worst thing that happened since MySpace.
Everyone that wants to leave his house must file for permission online 48hours before the trip, leave all kinds of personal information. This way, when you see someone walking or driving around in the vicinity of a school or other highly endangered building you can ask for their specific permit, time of application, ID, specified goals and destinations and people they are going to meet with. If his papers don't state why he needs to be in the same suburb as the school arrest... better... shoot him. MUST be a terrorist anyway.
Sorry but this is getting really boring and ridiculous. Could America please pull it's head out of it's ass and start being a country again? This is REALLLY pathetic... terrorists won. If you have that kind of paranoia... you are being terrorized. Congrats Osama... didn't even have to attack them again... they did that shit all by themselves.
I'm still confident that there will be a better Linux support for gamers in the foreseeable future. If the announcements are to be believed somewhere this year will be Postal 3 and with it the Valve Source Engine for Linux and Mac. I think once people have the chance to play some of the very popular games like the Source titles on GNU/Linux systems there will be more and more people that ditch their dual-boot Windows gaming for Linux only. If a momentum builds out of that Linux could be a valid system for many gamers, I remember that UT2K3 already had a Linux Client on the disc which was years ago. Lobbying and bad prejudice have kept developers from investing in the platform, that and some hard to make decisions along the development process (e.g. what sound system to use mandatorily).
I am really astonished by what can call itself a "defense contractor" in the USA. Most other places probably have similar idiocy in place but this is just laughable at best. You entrust a company with the security of your files (let alone the nation) and they can't set up Kazaa so it won't share "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\National Secrets"? Wow... and I thought the credit crisis was a problem of epic proportions.
There's an untapped market for ya. World of Goo and the Penny Arcade games seem to have sold fairly well on the platform. 2DBoy says almost 5% of games sold through their website were Linux versions after just 2 days. I buy these "small Indie games" because they respect my platform.
I'd love to see a construction kit for SCUMM-type adventure games like the Monkey Island games. Perhaps open source to the rescue?
Something like this maybe? It was used to create "Zak McKracken 2"... Linux version is in the works and set to be released later this year. It's not exactly open source but it seems to work pretty well.
I'm no expert in the Japanese cell market but as far as I am informed they have a huge competitive market for mobile applications ranging from astrology calendars to serious navigation apps or multimedia functionality. Stepping onto that turf in a software NaziTunes/AppSStore uniform is probably not the very best argument to sell devices.
Just get some stable references from co-workers that you can trust. Gather all the positive reviews and notes that you are bound to get. Collect evidence for the attempted blackmail through your employer and directly confront HR with it. Then just go to your new job. When someone brings up a "negative" reference from your old job pull out the evidence collected and show them what a bunch of lying bastards they are. If the new company will still hire you after that you'll know you've done the right thing;) other than that I'd ask a lawyer if you can sue your current company.
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Oh how I wish someone would swing the banhammer on Facebook or Myspace sometimes. Good thing I don't read either:P
The Wii browser for example uses an rampantly outdated version of the Flash player and is incompatible with oh so many sites. I bet this is true for many other platforms as well.
the Pirate Bay is getting a relatively fair trial (the judge did defend their position on the surprise evidence
A fair trial would not allow any new evidence to be presented, not just handed over to the defense to review.
For a court that could be entirely on the prosecutors side and just blast them with new evidence and new witnesses and accusations I think that is pretty lenient already. It might not be entirely fair but probably the best situation in which they can be at their current position. The judge is of course interested in giving the prosecution as much possibility as possible to actually convict these guys. After all, what they do is very controversial to say the the least.
I bet they are. They receive a lot of money in advertising dollars. There have been stories about offshore accounts and unpaid taxes. They have never released detailed financial statements. Instead, they have made vague claims about operating expenses and how they aren't in it for the money. Perhaps an unbiased article in English will appear summarizing the key points as they appear in the trial.
Well, I've been wondering about that too to be quite honest. I expected them to come out during the early stages of the trials and slap some accounting data on the table what the actual server cost is and what the ad revenue brings them. I still don't think they can get rich by doing that. Even if it's run for profit gain that is a really shitty business model. They have an awful lot of hardware to maintain. Bandwidth can't be too hard since the torrent files all range from 10-50KBs each and even if you have to shove out millions of those you won't get anywhere near what file distributors have to pay for. It would certainly be interesting to get some more detailed info on what's actually going on. But hey, the trial is still young. Let's wait and see.
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Could whoever is writing the Conficker++ 2.0 right now please include an auto-deactivate all important MS apps please? Thanks.
I'm really looking forward to what that would do to economies and submarines.
> He explained that the files associated with those applications and features are not > actually deleted from the hard drive.
Why not?
So people who feel bullied in actually buying a license don't have to wait until they can re-install their shame.
Given the number of overall suggestions was around 170000 when I last looked at it this isn't such a popular poll in any case. Maybe 500 people voted for Colbert (I did) and that pushed it above the 400 "Anonymous" guys that wanted to call it "Xenu". No one knows.
This is flamebait? Nice ... who wants to flame about that? Why didn't you mod parent flamebait? He started with the awesome "Don't bitch about what you can't get, make your own" statement knowing well that it is so much impossible as it is improbable.
The Cook County Sheriff's Department is asking a federal judge to close the Erotic Services section of Craigslist, as well as reimburse the department $100,000 it has cost to pursue Craigslist-related prostitution investigations over the past year,
Someone needs some bail-out money reaal fast. Too bad the hookers and pimps didn't pay their protection money and now you've got to sue the interwebz for ruining your business.
Another dipshit that doesn't know how infrastructure is supposed to work and what the internet is. Child prostitution ... according to American law that would include 20 y/o with 11 months and three weeks on the clock right?
When did this idea emerge that you can sue a infrastructure for what is happening on it? This concept is new to me and doesn't make any sense. Next they'll be suing the newspapers for ads that enable people to engage in casual sex. About time someone did something about this.
He don't exist as far as they're concerned.
Fixed that for you.
Thank you, hear that Netflix? My money doesn't exist for you.
most likely it is because the organization which holds the rights to that is not interested.... often each country will have a company which has previously negotiated distribution rights for various content.
That's exactly the segmentation problem. Every country has it's own greedy branch of the same company. They basically hold the same rights but try to out-do each other on revenue. So they segment the global market into these chunks and try to make as much money as possible in individual places other than providing the best possible service. This is what I'm complaining about. I still have to wait months or certain TV shows never air at all. I still have to wait months for a shitty dubbed version of an English movie that I can understand natively. That's why I don't accept this system. I want to be able to pay for the same content that the American viewers get, at the same time. This is what I mean by "global". But the corporations want to benefit from the "global" perspective by evading taxes in certain countries but won't grant the consumers in those countries the same access. The system is severely flawed and needs to change ... fast.
Yeah that's exactly the perfect answer. Stop whining about how you love Swiss/French Cheese and make some orange industrial Cheddar instead. Right.
So right now we have open, public sharing infrastructure that can be arguably used for both purposes. Legal and illegal sharing. The people trying to sue users can't automatically assume that just because you're using the technology you must be a criminal. Darknets are satan's work and for terrorists only amirite? So you get caught using one of those and you're auto-screwed (interval 5sec).
This is of course adapted thinking from the way our authorities work atm.
Everything I want to listen to and watch can be streamed now. Thanks to Hulu and Netflix and iTunes I can get the latest movies and just about everything else! The costs for these activities are no longer prohibitive.
Lucky for you, Windows using American. I as a Linux using European can use none of the aforementioned services. Arrrhhh. Off to the bay where they don't geo-judge.
Segmenting the internet back into region specific chunks is probably the worst thing that happened since MySpace.
Everyone that wants to leave his house must file for permission online 48hours before the trip, leave all kinds of personal information. This way, when you see someone walking or driving around in the vicinity of a school or other highly endangered building you can ask for their specific permit, time of application, ID, specified goals and destinations and people they are going to meet with. If his papers don't state why he needs to be in the same suburb as the school arrest ... better ... shoot him. MUST be a terrorist anyway.
... terrorists won. If you have that kind of paranoia ... you are being terrorized. Congrats Osama ... didn't even have to attack them again ... they did that shit all by themselves.
Sorry but this is getting really boring and ridiculous. Could America please pull it's head out of it's ass and start being a country again? This is REALLLY pathetic
for one.
I'm still confident that there will be a better Linux support for gamers in the foreseeable future. If the announcements are to be believed somewhere this year will be Postal 3 and with it the Valve Source Engine for Linux and Mac. I think once people have the chance to play some of the very popular games like the Source titles on GNU/Linux systems there will be more and more people that ditch their dual-boot Windows gaming for Linux only. If a momentum builds out of that Linux could be a valid system for many gamers, I remember that UT2K3 already had a Linux Client on the disc which was years ago. Lobbying and bad prejudice have kept developers from investing in the platform, that and some hard to make decisions along the development process (e.g. what sound system to use mandatorily).
And suddenly your sources were out ...
... and I thought the credit crisis was a problem of epic proportions.
I am really astonished by what can call itself a "defense contractor" in the USA. Most other places probably have similar idiocy in place but this is just laughable at best. You entrust a company with the security of your files (let alone the nation) and they can't set up Kazaa so it won't share "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\National Secrets"? Wow
There's an untapped market for ya. World of Goo and the Penny Arcade games seem to have sold fairly well on the platform. 2DBoy says almost 5% of games sold through their website were Linux versions after just 2 days. I buy these "small Indie games" because they respect my platform.
I'd love to see a construction kit for SCUMM-type adventure games like the Monkey Island games. Perhaps open source to the rescue?
Something like this maybe? It was used to create "Zak McKracken 2" ... Linux version is in the works and set to be released later this year. It's not exactly open source but it seems to work pretty well.
I'm no expert in the Japanese cell market but as far as I am informed they have a huge competitive market for mobile applications ranging from astrology calendars to serious navigation apps or multimedia functionality. Stepping onto that turf in a software NaziTunes/AppSStore uniform is probably not the very best argument to sell devices.
Just get some stable references from co-workers that you can trust. Gather all the positive reviews and notes that you are bound to get. Collect evidence for the attempted blackmail through your employer and directly confront HR with it. Then just go to your new job. When someone brings up a "negative" reference from your old job pull out the evidence collected and show them what a bunch of lying bastards they are. If the new company will still hire you after that you'll know you've done the right thing ;) other than that I'd ask a lawyer if you can sue your current company.
Oh how I wish someone would swing the banhammer on Facebook or Myspace sometimes. Good thing I don't read either :P
I still say Linux has unknown issues.
But at least I can actually run a computer while trying to figure them out ...
Can't wait for the Win7 Upgrade Class Action Lawsuit (SP2)
The Wii browser for example uses an rampantly outdated version of the Flash player and is incompatible with oh so many sites. I bet this is true for many other platforms as well.
A fair trial would not allow any new evidence to be presented, not just handed over to the defense to review.
For a court that could be entirely on the prosecutors side and just blast them with new evidence and new witnesses and accusations I think that is pretty lenient already. It might not be entirely fair but probably the best situation in which they can be at their current position. The judge is of course interested in giving the prosecution as much possibility as possible to actually convict these guys. After all, what they do is very controversial to say the the least.
I bet they are. They receive a lot of money in advertising dollars. There have been stories about offshore accounts and unpaid taxes. They have never released detailed financial statements. Instead, they have made vague claims about operating expenses and how they aren't in it for the money. Perhaps an unbiased article in English will appear summarizing the key points as they appear in the trial.
Well, I've been wondering about that too to be quite honest. I expected them to come out during the early stages of the trials and slap some accounting data on the table what the actual server cost is and what the ad revenue brings them. I still don't think they can get rich by doing that. Even if it's run for profit gain that is a really shitty business model. They have an awful lot of hardware to maintain. Bandwidth can't be too hard since the torrent files all range from 10-50KBs each and even if you have to shove out millions of those you won't get anywhere near what file distributors have to pay for. It would certainly be interesting to get some more detailed info on what's actually going on. But hey, the trial is still young. Let's wait and see.