When I read news like this I get excited and think I could buy X to improve my life, only to find out soon thereafter that X is not available where I currently live (Portugal) and when X comes to my place about a year later (if at all), I realize that it costs around twice as much as in the US and additionally requires VAT and delivery fees.:(
This plan would perhaps make limited sense if companies would actually answer emails and snail mail. They often don't, especially not in the problematic cases when anonymity could also be a nuisance. No, you will not suddenly be able to contact the poker company on Malta registered by a strawman in order to tell them that they should kindly delete your credit card information. It's not going to happen.
The whole construction is useless. A de-anonymization will not give any advantage to customers of businesses, it will online increase online harassment, particularly of semi-commercial bloggers and media, and increase the amount of spurious legal letters sent to small businesses by copyright and patent trolls.
I think this device is a great step in the right direction. Hopefully, there will be a version with LED character display some day. I'm still looking for a device with the following features:
- small - LED display - battery powered and long battery life (like older calculators) - "instant" on (no long booting) - a little buzzer and built-in clock with wake up function for alarms - easy to program with a simple API (preferably in Ada, Scheme, Lisp or Basic, but on-board assembler would also be fine) - mini keyboard with control key - preassembled with case - cheap
Bonus points for being ruggedized. You'd think that since those devices existed in the 80s and 90s it should be possible to find new ones 30 years later, but apparently that's not the case. When I mourn about it people always suggest Android devices, even though they do not even remotely have those specs. They are expensive, have extremely low battery life, unnecessary color touch screens (drawing all the power), no instant on (but good sleep functions), and unnecessarily bloated programming APIs.
I hope that this BBC board will inspire people to develop such a device.
The way you are talking reveals that you have no fucking idea about what Amnesty International is actually doing, and this kind of ignorance is infuriating me, because a simple web search could have given you at least some clue.
I've been a member of AI for a decade now, and there is absolutely no doubt to anyone who actually reads their reports that they are one of the most impartial organizations on earth. Please stop this bullshit about "tearing down the west" and get a life!
Even better, go to the AI page to inform yourself and eventually become a member. You can even do some good without becoming a member, e.g. check out the Urgent Actions programme. You can literally safe lives and prevent people from 'disappearing' by writing simple letters.
In this case it won't work against trolls, though. They should have spent some time on Usenet to actually get a clue what trolling is.
There have been cases were people with existing mental illnesses have been driven to suicide. The people harassing them knew what they were doing.
If the law was motivated by this, then why do they not restrict the law to not allow knowingly trolling people with mental illnesses? A "do not drive mentally ill people into suicide" law might make sense, provided such cases are not yet covered by existing laws.
But that is not their motivation. The primary motivation is to get additional means for wealthy people (including, of course, politicians) to sue bloggers and critiques. Another motivation is to cover the politicians' asses under extremely rare circumstances when bullying creates some public outrage, which usually happens in the form of a witch hunt that blown out of proportions by the medias.
They are not innocent. Vice versa, the Uber managers knew perfectly well from the start that their company is breaking the laws. It's not as if these laws and regulations are secret, you know...
Argentina defaulted, and while it was hard for a few years they have come out of it pretty well.
No they haven't. They are still very bad off ten years after the default, they even would have gotten into bad troubles again recently if they had followed the law, only because some private (!) investor wanted his money back.
Unfortunately, Greece's economy is very import oriented. Exiting the Euro would be catastrophic for Greece, which also the reason why the other EU countries tried everything they could to prevent this from happening (short of being blackmailed by Greece's current lunatic government).
I don't know, Windows 10 looks rather 80s to me. It certainly doesn't look modern.
Also, Microsoft has not yet given us any guarantees that we will not have to pay for subscriptions in future, that all features will continue to work, and that they pay for any damages that result from an automatic upgrade going wrong. So it doesn't seem wise to upgrade, at least not immediately. I'd rather wait a year or two.
I'm afraid you're just a moron - but a rather lucky one! Because in your world you'd already have died by a plane, car or train crash, food poisoning or thousands of other causes of unnatural death due to lack of security regulations.
It's even more infuriating for non-expats who are not native speakers of English. Nobody except my long dead grandpa wants localized content, except perhaps for books, but even literary translations are getting less and less popular. Most literary translations suck, too, especially for genres like Science Fiction. Movies are the worst, their lip syncing is an abomination. And don't let me get started with video games, for some reason foreign voice actors are always worse than the original.
Almost everybody speaks English nowadays anyway, so at least they should give us a choice.
Just having a doctor say "there are no studies showing it's effective" won't cut it any more
That's good, because the statement you have put in quotes has zero implications regarding the effectiveness or non-effectiveness of the substance or treatment in question. Perhaps basic logic training would also be helpful.
All that coding was a waste of time, and has been shut down.
Right, why do some real work and create products if you can just blackmail other companies on the basis of vague schemata and a strong financial backing?
I find it hard to trust a company like Microsoft to give away an upgrade (that supposedly improves a thing or two) for free without some catch. Do they guarantee full service and support? Will there never be a subscription fee for any features? Will windows 10 never pester me with any advertisements or force software on me that I don't want? Will all the features remain active indefinitely in the future? Will the new rolling release upgrade schedule never send my PC into some infinite upgrade loop or blue screen of death?
If I had good faith that the answer is "yes" to all of these questions, then I'd upgrade. But I don't have this faith, so I'll rather pass this upgrade until I buy a new machine or until there is some compelling reason to upgrade.
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I do that all the time but with delivery fees it's still much more expensive as in the US (even when discounting VAT).
Trust me, I'm a certified doctor of philosophy.
When I read news like this I get excited and think I could buy X to improve my life, only to find out soon thereafter that X is not available where I currently live (Portugal) and when X comes to my place about a year later (if at all), I realize that it costs around twice as much as in the US and additionally requires VAT and delivery fees. :(
This plan would perhaps make limited sense if companies would actually answer emails and snail mail. They often don't, especially not in the problematic cases when anonymity could also be a nuisance. No, you will not suddenly be able to contact the poker company on Malta registered by a strawman in order to tell them that they should kindly delete your credit card information. It's not going to happen.
The whole construction is useless. A de-anonymization will not give any advantage to customers of businesses, it will online increase online harassment, particularly of semi-commercial bloggers and media, and increase the amount of spurious legal letters sent to small businesses by copyright and patent trolls.
I think this device is a great step in the right direction. Hopefully, there will be a version with LED character display some day. I'm still looking for a device with the following features:
- small
- LED display
- battery powered and long battery life (like older calculators)
- "instant" on (no long booting)
- a little buzzer and built-in clock with wake up function for alarms
- easy to program with a simple API (preferably in Ada, Scheme, Lisp or Basic, but on-board assembler would also be fine)
- mini keyboard with control key
- preassembled with case
- cheap
Bonus points for being ruggedized. You'd think that since those devices existed in the 80s and 90s it should be possible to find new ones 30 years later, but apparently that's not the case. When I mourn about it people always suggest Android devices, even though they do not even remotely have those specs. They are expensive, have extremely low battery life, unnecessary color touch screens (drawing all the power), no instant on (but good sleep functions), and unnecessarily bloated programming APIs.
I hope that this BBC board will inspire people to develop such a device.
Well, let's just say that acting like an asshole didn't particularly improve Greece's situation and standing in the world.
The joke's on you. "They" can do whatever they want. They can boycott reddit, for example, if they want to.
The way you are talking reveals that you have no fucking idea about what Amnesty International is actually doing, and this kind of ignorance is infuriating me, because a simple web search could have given you at least some clue.
I've been a member of AI for a decade now, and there is absolutely no doubt to anyone who actually reads their reports that they are one of the most impartial organizations on earth. Please stop this bullshit about "tearing down the west" and get a life!
Even better, go to the AI page to inform yourself and eventually become a member. You can even do some good without becoming a member, e.g. check out the Urgent Actions programme. You can literally safe lives and prevent people from 'disappearing' by writing simple letters.
In this case it won't work against trolls, though. They should have spent some time on Usenet to actually get a clue what trolling is.
There have been cases were people with existing mental illnesses have been driven to suicide. The people harassing them knew what they were doing.
If the law was motivated by this, then why do they not restrict the law to not allow knowingly trolling people with mental illnesses? A "do not drive mentally ill people into suicide" law might make sense, provided such cases are not yet covered by existing laws.
But that is not their motivation. The primary motivation is to get additional means for wealthy people (including, of course, politicians) to sue bloggers and critiques. Another motivation is to cover the politicians' asses under extremely rare circumstances when bullying creates some public outrage, which usually happens in the form of a witch hunt that blown out of proportions by the medias.
No to all of your questions. Better go skydiving or crocodile hunting instead.
They are not innocent. Vice versa, the Uber managers knew perfectly well from the start that their company is breaking the laws. It's not as if these laws and regulations are secret, you know...
Argentina defaulted, and while it was hard for a few years they have come out of it pretty well.
No they haven't. They are still very bad off ten years after the default, they even would have gotten into bad troubles again recently if they had followed the law, only because some private (!) investor wanted his money back.
Unfortunately, Greece's economy is very import oriented. Exiting the Euro would be catastrophic for Greece, which also the reason why the other EU countries tried everything they could to prevent this from happening (short of being blackmailed by Greece's current lunatic government).
I don't know, Windows 10 looks rather 80s to me. It certainly doesn't look modern.
Also, Microsoft has not yet given us any guarantees that we will not have to pay for subscriptions in future, that all features will continue to work, and that they pay for any damages that result from an automatic upgrade going wrong. So it doesn't seem wise to upgrade, at least not immediately. I'd rather wait a year or two.
LOL
I'm afraid you're just a moron - but a rather lucky one! Because in your world you'd already have died by a plane, car or train crash, food poisoning or thousands of other causes of unnatural death due to lack of security regulations.
Bah, these indie games really make me throw my guts out. And my girlfriend hates them as well.
Only Tad-like videos with "funny" Garageband background music are worse...
I guess I'm a bit cranky today. >:[
It's even more infuriating for non-expats who are not native speakers of English. Nobody except my long dead grandpa wants localized content, except perhaps for books, but even literary translations are getting less and less popular. Most literary translations suck, too, especially for genres like Science Fiction. Movies are the worst, their lip syncing is an abomination. And don't let me get started with video games, for some reason foreign voice actors are always worse than the original.
Almost everybody speaks English nowadays anyway, so at least they should give us a choice.
What's the problem? Nobody forces you to deal with a business you don't trust.
Unless you own a Seagate drive...
Just having a doctor say "there are no studies showing it's effective" won't cut it any more
That's good, because the statement you have put in quotes has zero implications regarding the effectiveness or non-effectiveness of the substance or treatment in question. Perhaps basic logic training would also be helpful.
All that coding was a waste of time, and has been shut down.
Right, why do some real work and create products if you can just blackmail other companies on the basis of vague schemata and a strong financial backing?
I find it hard to trust a company like Microsoft to give away an upgrade (that supposedly improves a thing or two) for free without some catch. Do they guarantee full service and support? Will there never be a subscription fee for any features? Will windows 10 never pester me with any advertisements or force software on me that I don't want? Will all the features remain active indefinitely in the future? Will the new rolling release upgrade schedule never send my PC into some infinite upgrade loop or blue screen of death?
If I had good faith that the answer is "yes" to all of these questions, then I'd upgrade. But I don't have this faith, so I'll rather pass this upgrade until I buy a new machine or until there is some compelling reason to upgrade.
I think they had to be ported from earlier lisp versions to common lisp, though.
For example, they invented Tor.