So you are constructing justifications for killing. How is that any different from non-government-approved killers who also justify their killings? Should Mafia hitmen perhaps be treated as "privete enterprise executioners"?
ERROR: Too many variables, not enough equations. To solve a problem with three unknowns you usually need three equations, two if you want to reduce one of the variables (leading to one equation with two unknowns).
Anyway, if Chewbacca lives on Endor you must jam cellphones!
Well, as I understand it they had been invented by then, but monopolist AT&T saw no reason to cut into their established business model by selling a potentially competing technology. This is the same thinking that prevented IBM from being the first with a 80386 PC (leaving that honor to Compaq) because they would be as powerful as some of the expensive mini machines they were selling, yet cost far less...
There were car-based mobile (but clunky) systems in the 1960s in Scandinavia, but for hand-held devices (with a large battery attached by wire) first arrived in the 1970s.
What, you mean the cell phone would have the ability to turn off the (external to it) jammer? How do you propose that would work? And how many effing MICROSECONDS before any jailbroken phone would have software that exploited that hole?
The jammer is not a relay station, it does not receive the calls, it just prevents them.
OS/2 died because they added a Win16 compatibility layer, which meant developers took the opportunity to write Windows software while selling to both Windows and OS/2 customers, which meant the switch to Windows was easier than if IBM had required OS/2 software to be written to Presentation Manager and the rest of the "pure" OS/2 layers.
Well, that and all the "let us create a completely new set of hardware specs" mess that was PS/2.
Fear mongering much? Having an app store for desktop apps (like e.g. Steam already is) is not the same as "lock-down". Big applications will still be sold separately and from other sources.
And why would you be "unhappy" if you could not jailbreak the iPhone? Apart from nerdy root access, pirating paid apps or bypassing your operator contract by enabling tethering, what would you need jailbreaking for?
Well, if the ISPs start charging the content providers (i.e. the VERY REASON people got a broadband subscription from them in the first place), watch the paywalls go up faster than frontier towns, as the content providers try to earn back the protection money that Comcast et al are asking for.
Another approach could be that Google etc. start deducting the expenses they pay to these "extra" ISPs from the pay to their own internet connection partners so that they avoid paying twice, then those partners can go yell at the "protection racket" ISPs...
(Of course the REAL reason is that ISPs want to be content providers, e.g. content streamed from the ISP's own servers conveniently does not count against the monthly bandwidth cap etc.)
Indirectly they are: Google pays "ISP" A (rather the network companies they connect to) and the consumer pays ISP B, and then ISP A and ISP B are supposed to come together and divide the income based on that traffic.
Apparently that latter part has fallen apart somehow, since competing ISPs either price their service so low they do not actually cover costs, or they spend it all on other things, and now try to rewrite the rules.
*gasp* That means that if you do a complete sync once a day the card will last a mere two thousand seven hundred something years! I hope that by then they have found a way to replace it...
But what if the more-security plane does so? Anyone sitting on a plane are already "willing to die" in the sense that the plane is more likely to crash due to malfunction than the theoretical possibility of a hijacking.
You ARE aware of the insanely low chance that "one commercial airliner spiralling into the ocean" did so due to a terrorist rather than construction errors or skimped maintenance because of cost-cutting, yes?
If you want to save lives, install alco-locks in all American cars NOW. Enforce helmet and safety belt mandates and rip to shreds the driver license of repeat offenders to the traffic code or speed limit regulations. More people are killed in traffic each year than in ALL airplane accidents so far, whether by a terrorist or other (more likely) cause.
But the self-centered motorists would not accept that regime...
Or domestic; you haven't forgotten about U.S. backing og Contras in Nicaragua have you? Or the protections extended to IRA members who went to the U.S. and where British demands of extradition were denied?
Well, building and settling on occupied land is against the international conventions for warfare. At least until the occupied lands are merged into the occupying country (e.g. the areas lost by Mexico to the U.S. or the Anschluss which merged Austria and parts of Czhecoslovakia into Germany).
If they do NOT use the Java runtime, NOT the Java libraries, NOT the related frameworks,...
The why the f*ck did they need to pick the Java Language when there is a shed-load of other languages out there, including their own Go?
It appears they wanted to lure Java developers to their platform, but was it really worth the risk of angering Java's "owner", especially given the (already then) persistent rumors of a takeover of "weak" Sun by a much stronger company (IBM or Apple for instance - I don't think many thought at the time that Oracle was a suitor)?
Why do we need a "process" that decides that a popular technology should be "formalized" in a spec that more often than not is incompatible with the established framework in question.
Examples: * log4j established as a de facto standard? Let us add a different logging API to the standard library! * OSGi established as component architecture? Let us write a JCR instead of accept that the market has spoken! * Spring as IoC container? No, we need a spec for that sort of thing too!
The JCP has become irrelevant, Springsource + Apache + JBoss and a few others are the driving forces.
But the people posting on Slashdot are not part of that legal entity, nit-picker, any more than people writing letters to New York Times are part of that newspaper.
The makers of the anti-virus software that one day just decided that all.jar files are for applets and thus they instrumented them with confirmation crapola that meant Java developers getting their libraries and Maven components from an outside repository had to click a button whenever the poor build system wanted to write a file?
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So you are constructing justifications for killing. How is that any different from non-government-approved killers who also justify their killings? Should Mafia hitmen perhaps be treated as "privete enterprise executioners"?
ERROR: Too many variables, not enough equations. To solve a problem with three unknowns you usually need three equations, two if you want to reduce one of the variables (leading to one equation with two unknowns).
Anyway, if Chewbacca lives on Endor you must jam cellphones!
Well, as I understand it they had been invented by then, but monopolist AT&T saw no reason to cut into their established business model by selling a potentially competing technology. This is the same thinking that prevented IBM from being the first with a 80386 PC (leaving that honor to Compaq) because they would be as powerful as some of the expensive mini machines they were selling, yet cost far less...
There were car-based mobile (but clunky) systems in the 1960s in Scandinavia, but for hand-held devices (with a large battery attached by wire) first arrived in the 1970s.
What, you mean the cell phone would have the ability to turn off the (external to it) jammer? How do you propose that would work? And how many effing MICROSECONDS before any jailbroken phone would have software that exploited that hole?
The jammer is not a relay station, it does not receive the calls, it just prevents them.
OS/2 died because they added a Win16 compatibility layer, which meant developers took the opportunity to write Windows software while selling to both Windows and OS/2 customers, which meant the switch to Windows was easier than if IBM had required OS/2 software to be written to Presentation Manager and the rest of the "pure" OS/2 layers.
Well, that and all the "let us create a completely new set of hardware specs" mess that was PS/2.
Fear mongering much? Having an app store for desktop apps (like e.g. Steam already is) is not the same as "lock-down". Big applications will still be sold separately and from other sources.
And why would you be "unhappy" if you could not jailbreak the iPhone? Apart from nerdy root access, pirating paid apps or bypassing your operator contract by enabling tethering, what would you need jailbreaking for?
Well, if the ISPs start charging the content providers (i.e. the VERY REASON people got a broadband subscription from them in the first place), watch the paywalls go up faster than frontier towns, as the content providers try to earn back the protection money that Comcast et al are asking for.
Another approach could be that Google etc. start deducting the expenses they pay to these "extra" ISPs from the pay to their own internet connection partners so that they avoid paying twice, then those partners can go yell at the "protection racket" ISPs...
(Of course the REAL reason is that ISPs want to be content providers, e.g. content streamed from the ISP's own servers conveniently does not count against the monthly bandwidth cap etc.)
Indirectly they are: Google pays "ISP" A (rather the network companies they connect to) and the consumer pays ISP B, and then ISP A and ISP B are supposed to come together and divide the income based on that traffic.
Apparently that latter part has fallen apart somehow, since competing ISPs either price their service so low they do not actually cover costs, or they spend it all on other things, and now try to rewrite the rules.
But the time spent on the train can be used productively, unlike when driving a car which requires your attention.
So a four hour drive is a four hour drive, while a six hour train journey is a six hour work day.
*gasp* That means that if you do a complete sync once a day the card will last a mere two thousand seven hundred something years! I hope that by then they have found a way to replace it...
But what if the more-security plane does so? Anyone sitting on a plane are already "willing to die" in the sense that the plane is more likely to crash due to malfunction than the theoretical possibility of a hijacking.
You ARE aware of the insanely low chance that "one commercial airliner spiralling into the ocean" did so due to a terrorist rather than construction errors or skimped maintenance because of cost-cutting, yes?
If you want to save lives, install alco-locks in all American cars NOW. Enforce helmet and safety belt mandates and rip to shreds the driver license of repeat offenders to the traffic code or speed limit regulations. More people are killed in traffic each year than in ALL airplane accidents so far, whether by a terrorist or other (more likely) cause.
But the self-centered motorists would not accept that regime...
Amtrak? Greyhound?
Note that the English are not entirely European... so they tend to do things differently than the rest of Europe do.
Or domestic; you haven't forgotten about U.S. backing og Contras in Nicaragua have you? Or the protections extended to IRA members who went to the U.S. and where British demands of extradition were denied?
So you were lap-dog to the insurance industry lobby's lap-dog. Meanwhile, universal health care is working fine in Europe and Canada.
And of course the first thing the terrorist pilot will do in the air is to incapacitate the unaware real pilot...
Timothy McVeigh and the Unabomber say "hi".
Well, building and settling on occupied land is against the international conventions for warfare. At least until the occupied lands are merged into the occupying country (e.g. the areas lost by Mexico to the U.S. or the Anschluss which merged Austria and parts of Czhecoslovakia into Germany).
Which begs the question:
If they do NOT use the Java runtime, NOT the Java libraries, NOT the related frameworks, ...
The why the f*ck did they need to pick the Java Language when there is a shed-load of other languages out there, including their own Go?
It appears they wanted to lure Java developers to their platform, but was it really worth the risk of angering Java's "owner", especially given the (already then) persistent rumors of a takeover of "weak" Sun by a much stronger company (IBM or Apple for instance - I don't think many thought at the time that Oracle was a suitor)?
My guess: C# using Monodroid.
Why do we need a "process" that decides that a popular technology should be "formalized" in a spec that more often than not is incompatible with the established framework in question.
Examples:
* log4j established as a de facto standard? Let us add a different logging API to the standard library!
* OSGi established as component architecture? Let us write a JCR instead of accept that the market has spoken!
* Spring as IoC container? No, we need a spec for that sort of thing too!
The JCP has become irrelevant, Springsource + Apache + JBoss and a few others are the driving forces.
Awwww, so jealous. Here, have some candy.
But the people posting on Slashdot are not part of that legal entity, nit-picker, any more than people writing letters to New York Times are part of that newspaper.
You need to get better (and actual) arguments.
The makers of the anti-virus software that one day just decided that all .jar files are for applets and thus they instrumented them with confirmation crapola that meant Java developers getting their libraries and Maven components from an outside repository had to click a button whenever the poor build system wanted to write a file?
That Trend Micro?