The list does not appear to be a child porn list. There are a few things which might be child porn, or might be barely legal style sites (I'm not willing to load them and find out). Some others appear, from the URL, to have animated porn involving drawings of youngsters, I can't say if thats legal in Australia or Germany, but I would guess not.
The majority of the sites appear to be either adult porn sites, individual files from user upload sites, or troll sites (2girls1cup, meatspin) two of the blocked sites are online poker. This is particularly notable for A) Not being against any law in Australia that I can find, and B) Being a potential violation of international treaties (a similar action got the US sanctioned by the WTO.)
Wikipedia, wikimedia, wikileaks and the zombie survival wiki* are also on the list, though only for individual pages.
At least two anti abortion sites are on the list. I despise these people, but they have a right to free speech, and this is just as bad as my state attempting to censor pro choice sites. The site I loaded was extremely disgusting, a video of an abortion loading after a warning and short waiting period. There may be some merit to the site being blocked (I just added it to my adblock filter), but it is still political speech, and there are no hate speech or other invitations to crime that might truly justify it.
The most bizarre thing on the list, has to be that the listing of videos starting with a B is blocked for a site called xtube, the rest of the site is apparently fine (though other youtube knockoffs are blocked entirely).
shoddy screen, shoddy keyboard, less reliable. If you want any real power, its far cheaper to buy a 1500 dollar gaming rig and 400 dollar notebook than a 2500 dollar notebook that weighs ten pounds, still only has half the power of the cheaper desktop, and can't be upgraded.
The smaller netbooks qualify as ultraportable as well, and a 7 inch device fits into purse or large jacket pocket quite nicely. (sadly, the really small netbooks are disappearing along with the Linux ones from what I've seen).
I've never really seen the privacy thing as an issue.
Just encrypt the data on its way out the door, keep a backup of the decryption keys in a safe deposit box or with your lawyers (if you can trust your lawyer, or your bank, that is.)
Intel actually tried to build a different leaner, instruction set. IA64, the market rejected it.
Via and AMD don't have much trouble implementing these instruction sets either, or adding their own, so this doesn't much represent a stranglehold move on Intel's part.
If you really want cheap small processors with no extra instruction sets, Intel does still make Celerons, I dare you to run Vista on one.
Or... and I posit this entirely theoretically, it might be best if we take the approach that both the liberal and conservative viewpoints are exactly the same.
Fixd that for you, both sides would sell you down the river for a suitcase full of cash.
I couldn't even begin to imagine how much of a nightmare that would be if they outsourced the writing of any of Encarta, and didn't think ahead for that kind of thing. It would be awesome if they did it, but no matter what their intentions, it may just not be possible.
I deeply question that. UV light creates ozone in the first place. The only reason a hole was able to form over Antarctica is that the light there is very weak, and just not present for months at a time. The holes spreading beyond the poles would be difficult without significantly more CRCs going into the air than we would likely have done, the damage repairs too quickly when there is more direct sunlight.
While I partly agree, i would point out that nobody is suing to have TCP/IP shut down either, even though a significant portion of it is used for piracy. I'd rather not lose access to the vast body of public domain work i download and distribute over bit torrent, even if they do block me from the (mostly) non public domain movies.
There are sometimes compatibility issues with moving to something new.
I've spoken to one company who uses windows 98 machines, because their inventory system is on legacy software that requires windows 98, and the company who made that software went tits up. Since the software uses a proprietary binary format, its beyond the means of the company to switch to something new, even though there are affordable, and better, options.
This incidentally, is my biggest reason to push for FOSS, or at the least open standards, in the workplace, if you don't control the code, you can get royally screwed, either from a company going under, or declaring that your updates now cost 3 grand a license, even MS has dropped support for a format they created a time or two.
Um... how many grandmas do you know who set up their own windows machine? Plugging it in doesn't count, they have to actually install windows.
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thought so. Windows is just as much of a PitA as Linux, and the same people who need help setting up one need help setting up the other.
Where Linux fails is the power users, who have learned how to do things beyond email (that someone else set up) in windows, and who have to re learn a sometimes less intuitive way in Linux. (that and peripheral hardware)
Morse v. Frederick does not allow administrators to restrict student's free speech rights in any significant way. Scalia* and Kennedy both ruled that he could only be punished because he did not have anything to say, and by his own admission, was trying to be disruptive.
Had he been punished for a 'legalize weed' sign, the ruling would have been 5 to 4 in his favor.
*I can't believe I just admitted to agreeing with Scalia, I need a shower.
Actually, I can see one big way that there may not be causation, namely that places with a lot of pollution (big cities) tend to be higher in crime and traffic accidents.
I didn't read the study, so I can't say if they accounter for this or not.
There is a difference between being pro IP and being pro RIAA. A true pro IP stance would ibvolve the DOJ getting involved when independent artists with no money get their crap stolen by a big magazine or the like. The current setup of IP law favors only those with big money, and the DOJ is helping those who can already help themselves, instead of small fish.
Where is the DOJ action over Ebaum's World stealing things from Newegg artists? This is pure industry subsidy, not any attempt to enforce copyright.
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So driving is a religion? Most people don't understand how their car works either. They definatley don't get how the voting machine works.
How about both, if it was intended we off them for treason, if it was an accident for the sake of humanity. Everybody wins.
Well, almost everyone.
zombiesurvivalwiki.com does not actually exist, which brings into question if they ever actually checked any of these sites.
Online poker is apparently illegal in Australia after all.
The list does not appear to be a child porn list. There are a few things which might be child porn, or might be barely legal style sites (I'm not willing to load them and find out). Some others appear, from the URL, to have animated porn involving drawings of youngsters, I can't say if thats legal in Australia or Germany, but I would guess not.
The majority of the sites appear to be either adult porn sites, individual files from user upload sites, or troll sites (2girls1cup, meatspin) two of the blocked sites are online poker. This is particularly notable for A) Not being against any law in Australia that I can find, and B) Being a potential violation of international treaties (a similar action got the US sanctioned by the WTO.)
Wikipedia, wikimedia, wikileaks and the zombie survival wiki* are also on the list, though only for individual pages.
At least two anti abortion sites are on the list. I despise these people, but they have a right to free speech, and this is just as bad as my state attempting to censor pro choice sites. The site I loaded was extremely disgusting, a video of an abortion loading after a warning and short waiting period. There may be some merit to the site being blocked (I just added it to my adblock filter), but it is still political speech, and there are no hate speech or other invitations to crime that might truly justify it.
The most bizarre thing on the list, has to be that the listing of videos starting with a B is blocked for a site called xtube, the rest of the site is apparently fine (though other youtube knockoffs are blocked entirely).
*This one I'm going to have to visit.
What are you using to estimate the damages?
Multiple computers is supposed to be a disadvantage?
If one breaks still being able to write your papers on the second helps.
Because notebooks suck
shoddy screen, shoddy keyboard, less reliable. If you want any real power, its far cheaper to buy a 1500 dollar gaming rig and 400 dollar notebook than a 2500 dollar notebook that weighs ten pounds, still only has half the power of the cheaper desktop, and can't be upgraded.
The smaller netbooks qualify as ultraportable as well, and a 7 inch device fits into purse or large jacket pocket quite nicely. (sadly, the really small netbooks are disappearing along with the Linux ones from what I've seen).
I've never really seen the privacy thing as an issue.
Just encrypt the data on its way out the door, keep a backup of the decryption keys in a safe deposit box or with your lawyers (if you can trust your lawyer, or your bank, that is.)
Intel actually tried to build a different leaner, instruction set. IA64, the market rejected it.
Via and AMD don't have much trouble implementing these instruction sets either, or adding their own, so this doesn't much represent a stranglehold move on Intel's part.
If you really want cheap small processors with no extra instruction sets, Intel does still make Celerons, I dare you to run Vista on one.
Or... and I posit this entirely theoretically, it might be best if we take the approach that both the liberal and conservative viewpoints are exactly the same.
Fixd that for you, both sides would sell you down the river for a suitcase full of cash.
In fact, both sides already did.
I couldn't even begin to imagine how much of a nightmare that would be if they outsourced the writing of any of Encarta, and didn't think ahead for that kind of thing. It would be awesome if they did it, but no matter what their intentions, it may just not be possible.
I deeply question that. UV light creates ozone in the first place. The only reason a hole was able to form over Antarctica is that the light there is very weak, and just not present for months at a time. The holes spreading beyond the poles would be difficult without significantly more CRCs going into the air than we would likely have done, the damage repairs too quickly when there is more direct sunlight.
You can't, as far as I know, trademark purely artistic work, there has to be a business purpose to the trademark beyond enforcing IP.
While I partly agree, i would point out that nobody is suing to have TCP/IP shut down either, even though a significant portion of it is used for piracy. I'd rather not lose access to the vast body of public domain work i download and distribute over bit torrent, even if they do block me from the (mostly) non public domain movies.
Open formats are the key, not open source, open source just means open formats are the default position.
Well yes, and I hate using windows for exactly that reason.
What if somebody is using a non US keyboard?
There are sometimes compatibility issues with moving to something new.
I've spoken to one company who uses windows 98 machines, because their inventory system is on legacy software that requires windows 98, and the company who made that software went tits up. Since the software uses a proprietary binary format, its beyond the means of the company to switch to something new, even though there are affordable, and better, options.
This incidentally, is my biggest reason to push for FOSS, or at the least open standards, in the workplace, if you don't control the code, you can get royally screwed, either from a company going under, or declaring that your updates now cost 3 grand a license, even MS has dropped support for a format they created a time or two.
Um... how many grandmas do you know who set up their own windows machine? Plugging it in doesn't count, they have to actually install windows.
0?
thought so. Windows is just as much of a PitA as Linux, and the same people who need help setting up one need help setting up the other.
Where Linux fails is the power users, who have learned how to do things beyond email (that someone else set up) in windows, and who have to re learn a sometimes less intuitive way in Linux. (that and peripheral hardware)
Morse v. Frederick does not allow administrators to restrict student's free speech rights in any significant way. Scalia* and Kennedy both ruled that he could only be punished because he did not have anything to say, and by his own admission, was trying to be disruptive.
Had he been punished for a 'legalize weed' sign, the ruling would have been 5 to 4 in his favor.
*I can't believe I just admitted to agreeing with Scalia, I need a shower.
Huh, I thought it said that in the first place.
Buying Microsoft's second rate hardware for gaming keeps me from having to use their second rate software to do real work with.
I'd call this a fair trade.
Actually, I can see one big way that there may not be causation, namely that places with a lot of pollution (big cities) tend to be higher in crime and traffic accidents.
I didn't read the study, so I can't say if they accounter for this or not.
There is a difference between being pro IP and being pro RIAA. A true pro IP stance would ibvolve the DOJ getting involved when independent artists with no money get their crap stolen by a big magazine or the like. The current setup of IP law favors only those with big money, and the DOJ is helping those who can already help themselves, instead of small fish.
Where is the DOJ action over Ebaum's World stealing things from Newegg artists? This is pure industry subsidy, not any attempt to enforce copyright.