Newton believed in alchemy. Should we be forced to search for the philosopher's stone or else reject his foundations of physics?
I had trouble writing that it was so staggeringly fallacious.
(It bears further noting that all of the proponents of spontaneous generation were creationists who argued that spontaneous generation was a phenomenon of creation itself. Pasteur was no more or less Christian or creationist than his opponents in that matter, he just followed where the evidence led him. You would do well to do the same. Pasteur didn't have Urey-Miller or its successor experiments. You do. Study some facts.)
Re:I like the concept, just not the application
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Wigle.net is the original, largest and best open database of wireless networks. People should check it out and ignore all the proprietary halfassed crap that gets dumped on topics like this all the time. WiFiFoFum? WiFiFoFuckOff. Wigle's Java client is open source, and they have an Android client too.
He mentioned both. I don't know shit about Blu-ray and never intend to buy one so it would have been foolish of me to speak to it. That said, I would wager abstractly that after Blu-ray has been around as long as DVD, region free players thereof will be as correspondingly cheap.
When something is copied, it is not "taken". A person uses their own resources to recreate something similar or identical to something another originally created. It does not deprive the originator of the thing itself, nothing is moved or removed, hence no "taking". You simply don't understand the meaning of that word anymore than you do "theft". I don't doubt this has been explained to you before, but you refuse to understand the difference.
Thanks for that load of ad hominem crap to cover up the fact that you can't meet the challenge and name a study not funded by industry that demonstrates any of your claims. You're just a gasbag who gets off on insults. Bring facts instead of baseless claims.
Actually, it's industry and busybody shills like yourself that is "insisting on broadening" the definition. Theft has meant one thing for centuries, and because it carries more negative weight in people's minds than 'copyright violation', it is being used incorrectly for emotional manipulation. That is in itself a shameful thing, which is why you post as AC when supporting such disingenuous behavior.
Yes that's why Amazon and iTunes failed. I mean, nobody wanted to buy anything... oh... wait.
I have a feeling that music piracy probably makes up less P2P traffic now than it has in years. Anecdotally, I have bought more music in the last year than the last half dozen.
And point me to one of these "invalidating" studies that wasn't commissioned directly or indirectly by the very industries that want to artificially inflate prices.
Dude, if you don't own a region free player (which are certainly not illegal to produce/sell/import/buy and all the big manufacturers make them), you're a n00b. Further it's not illegal to change your DVD player's region code.
Speaking of laws, reverse engineering is a breach of license terms for just about every closed source application. That's why they're closed in the first place. So your answer to the problem is "break laws". Good plan, AC.
Many, many other countries have various levels of censorship, filtering and tracking on the internet besides Iran. Perhaps you don't think China carries any weight at the UN? Pardon me while I laugh in your face. India, the second largest population in the world after China, has censored political minorities online. It would be no exaggeration to say that more than half of the world's population lives in an environment of internet censorship, and giving the UN power to control internet policy is clearly handing them the keys to bring it to the minority that is not yet censored. The US has clearly lost its moral authority with regard to internet policy, but the UN is not the answer.
Re:Better the int'l community, than strictly US.
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I have defended the United States' de facto control of internet policy for many years, but the unscrupulous and in fact unconstitutional and illegal actions by DHS/DOJ and other agencies in the last year or two has changed my perspective. We have lost the moral authority we once had to be impartial protectors of the internet, but the UN is not the answer. All the countries which already have filtering, censorship, tracking etc. will push that on an international level (which they already do, but the UN hasn't had any teeth to get it done), and even in a compromise between a free internet and a censored and tracked one, something still must necessarily be lost.
The internet needs to be decentralized to be protected. Distributed DNS solutions need to be pursued. Barring that, root servers should be controlled by each sovereign nation for each national TLD. This at least will give people choices.
Depends on how many can and do vote with their feet. If a lot of AT&T people leave, AT&T might rethink the policy. Likewise if a cable ISP or whoever else is getting a lot of people from AT&T because of the cap, they might think long and hard before putting in such a cap themselves, potentially losing all the new customers who have already demonstrated that they will move when caps are put in place.
Ultimately it depends on whether ISPs have been telling the truth about how users with the highest bandwidth needs are truly fringe or not. If there aren't enough people affected to care, there will be minimal financial impact either way even if they all act.
For all of your blather, you fail to recognize how this isn't endemic to America at all. Japan does the same thing in their animes, acting like Japan is the center of the universe and any global disaster is referenced in passing except where it affects Japan and is therefore meaningful.
Quite frankly I'm surprised that the developer is coming forward to complain that people are buying things, even if it is without their knowledge, unless of course there is some reversal process that is eating up their margins (probably is).
I know of companies that would hire BECAUSE of somebody's SCA membership (Penny Arcade, WOTC, etc.). Why do people try to fit in opposed molds? Find the place that wants you, and work at getting in there.
I've never hid my interests from girls I've dated. That's completely counterproductive and is likely to lead to a bad relationship later. (For the record, my wife likes anime more than I do, and that was never a secret either.)
As for socially embarrassing paraphilias, that's why there is already code for that sort of thing. I will not say straight up to people (other than extremely close friends) "I like ladyboys!" However, even with people I don't know all that well I might drop a reference to, say, "futanari" or "kathooeys" and if they get it, awesome, and if they don't, chances are you can just laugh it off as unimportant. It's really quite rare to find somebody who both knows what those are AND is a total jerk bigot.
Ultimately though if somebody is so closed-minded that such things bother them, I don't want to associate with them anyway. I'm not ashamed about being bi, or the things I like, I just don't want to make things awkward for other people. When the shit hits the fan, I am entirely ready to stand and be counted and face bigotry with unwavering pride, but it's not important for me to go around all the time like some LGBT warrior attacking everybody for the slightest insensitivity. That's not going to help society become more tolerant.
Yes, we should totally pay out the ass to unnecessarily create redundant massive and expensive logistical systems, and when there are life threatening disasters, some of those massive and expensive logistical systems should sit completely idle and not life a finger, because that's just not their role, fuck it if people die.
Heh, and I bet you won't hear one peep of appreciation from those in Japan who resent US military presence. Just another example of where after being maligned and diminished (especially by the DPJ), the US military still saves people's bacon, and in a matter of months some group in Japan will be back on the drum to get the US out. Ingrates.
So tell me, did you close your eyes halfway through reading? The evidence is against, not for, any census like that described in the New Testament, not just in terms of time, but procedure. (What the hell is "MS" supposed to stand for in this context? Being that this is Slashdot I read that as "thousands of Microsofts".)
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This is the funniest thing I have read this week. Sadly it is also true.
Newton believed in alchemy. Should we be forced to search for the philosopher's stone or else reject his foundations of physics?
I had trouble writing that it was so staggeringly fallacious.
(It bears further noting that all of the proponents of spontaneous generation were creationists who argued that spontaneous generation was a phenomenon of creation itself. Pasteur was no more or less Christian or creationist than his opponents in that matter, he just followed where the evidence led him. You would do well to do the same. Pasteur didn't have Urey-Miller or its successor experiments. You do. Study some facts.)
Wigle.net is the original, largest and best open database of wireless networks. People should check it out and ignore all the proprietary halfassed crap that gets dumped on topics like this all the time. WiFiFoFum? WiFiFoFuckOff. Wigle's Java client is open source, and they have an Android client too.
He mentioned both. I don't know shit about Blu-ray and never intend to buy one so it would have been foolish of me to speak to it. That said, I would wager abstractly that after Blu-ray has been around as long as DVD, region free players thereof will be as correspondingly cheap.
When something is copied, it is not "taken". A person uses their own resources to recreate something similar or identical to something another originally created. It does not deprive the originator of the thing itself, nothing is moved or removed, hence no "taking". You simply don't understand the meaning of that word anymore than you do "theft". I don't doubt this has been explained to you before, but you refuse to understand the difference.
100% US born and raised. You need to look online. It's not the 80s anymore.
Yes, I know how shady Amazon is. I can't imagine how much risk might be involved in having something shipped from one of their warehouses.
Seriously that was like the second result for "region free dvd" on Google shopping. You must not be looking very hard.
Thanks for that load of ad hominem crap to cover up the fact that you can't meet the challenge and name a study not funded by industry that demonstrates any of your claims. You're just a gasbag who gets off on insults. Bring facts instead of baseless claims.
Actually, it's industry and busybody shills like yourself that is "insisting on broadening" the definition. Theft has meant one thing for centuries, and because it carries more negative weight in people's minds than 'copyright violation', it is being used incorrectly for emotional manipulation. That is in itself a shameful thing, which is why you post as AC when supporting such disingenuous behavior.
Yes that's why Amazon and iTunes failed. I mean, nobody wanted to buy anything... oh... wait.
I have a feeling that music piracy probably makes up less P2P traffic now than it has in years. Anecdotally, I have bought more music in the last year than the last half dozen.
And point me to one of these "invalidating" studies that wasn't commissioned directly or indirectly by the very industries that want to artificially inflate prices.
Dude, if you don't own a region free player (which are certainly not illegal to produce/sell/import/buy and all the big manufacturers make them), you're a n00b. Further it's not illegal to change your DVD player's region code.
Speaking of laws, reverse engineering is a breach of license terms for just about every closed source application. That's why they're closed in the first place. So your answer to the problem is "break laws". Good plan, AC.
Many, many other countries have various levels of censorship, filtering and tracking on the internet besides Iran. Perhaps you don't think China carries any weight at the UN? Pardon me while I laugh in your face. India, the second largest population in the world after China, has censored political minorities online. It would be no exaggeration to say that more than half of the world's population lives in an environment of internet censorship, and giving the UN power to control internet policy is clearly handing them the keys to bring it to the minority that is not yet censored. The US has clearly lost its moral authority with regard to internet policy, but the UN is not the answer.
I have defended the United States' de facto control of internet policy for many years, but the unscrupulous and in fact unconstitutional and illegal actions by DHS/DOJ and other agencies in the last year or two has changed my perspective. We have lost the moral authority we once had to be impartial protectors of the internet, but the UN is not the answer. All the countries which already have filtering, censorship, tracking etc. will push that on an international level (which they already do, but the UN hasn't had any teeth to get it done), and even in a compromise between a free internet and a censored and tracked one, something still must necessarily be lost.
The internet needs to be decentralized to be protected. Distributed DNS solutions need to be pursued. Barring that, root servers should be controlled by each sovereign nation for each national TLD. This at least will give people choices.
Hate to disabuse you, but nothing will get cheaper or faster because of this.
Depends on how many can and do vote with their feet. If a lot of AT&T people leave, AT&T might rethink the policy. Likewise if a cable ISP or whoever else is getting a lot of people from AT&T because of the cap, they might think long and hard before putting in such a cap themselves, potentially losing all the new customers who have already demonstrated that they will move when caps are put in place.
Ultimately it depends on whether ISPs have been telling the truth about how users with the highest bandwidth needs are truly fringe or not. If there aren't enough people affected to care, there will be minimal financial impact either way even if they all act.
For all of your blather, you fail to recognize how this isn't endemic to America at all. Japan does the same thing in their animes, acting like Japan is the center of the universe and any global disaster is referenced in passing except where it affects Japan and is therefore meaningful.
Quite frankly I'm surprised that the developer is coming forward to complain that people are buying things, even if it is without their knowledge, unless of course there is some reversal process that is eating up their margins (probably is).
If you said you were 29, I would have confused you with my wife.
I know of companies that would hire BECAUSE of somebody's SCA membership (Penny Arcade, WOTC, etc.). Why do people try to fit in opposed molds? Find the place that wants you, and work at getting in there.
I've never hid my interests from girls I've dated. That's completely counterproductive and is likely to lead to a bad relationship later. (For the record, my wife likes anime more than I do, and that was never a secret either.)
As for socially embarrassing paraphilias, that's why there is already code for that sort of thing. I will not say straight up to people (other than extremely close friends) "I like ladyboys!" However, even with people I don't know all that well I might drop a reference to, say, "futanari" or "kathooeys" and if they get it, awesome, and if they don't, chances are you can just laugh it off as unimportant. It's really quite rare to find somebody who both knows what those are AND is a total jerk bigot.
Ultimately though if somebody is so closed-minded that such things bother them, I don't want to associate with them anyway. I'm not ashamed about being bi, or the things I like, I just don't want to make things awkward for other people. When the shit hits the fan, I am entirely ready to stand and be counted and face bigotry with unwavering pride, but it's not important for me to go around all the time like some LGBT warrior attacking everybody for the slightest insensitivity. That's not going to help society become more tolerant.
Yes, we should totally pay out the ass to unnecessarily create redundant massive and expensive logistical systems, and when there are life threatening disasters, some of those massive and expensive logistical systems should sit completely idle and not life a finger, because that's just not their role, fuck it if people die.
Is that sarcastic enough, or should I try harder?
Heh, and I bet you won't hear one peep of appreciation from those in Japan who resent US military presence. Just another example of where after being maligned and diminished (especially by the DPJ), the US military still saves people's bacon, and in a matter of months some group in Japan will be back on the drum to get the US out. Ingrates.
whoooooooosh!
So tell me, did you close your eyes halfway through reading? The evidence is against, not for, any census like that described in the New Testament, not just in terms of time, but procedure. (What the hell is "MS" supposed to stand for in this context? Being that this is Slashdot I read that as "thousands of Microsofts".)