It's funny when the government behaves so childishly:
- You lost 25 million private records???? The data was encrypted, wasn't it??? - Hmmm... I cannot tell you... - WHY?? - Just in case the bad guys cannot read the plaintext data and think it is encrypted and discard it... or something... dunno... - That's plain stupid. - STOP BUGGERING ME!!
Yes, it's frustrating that everybody thinks they can do any job better than the person in charge. If the ESRB is there to rate video games, why is the government trying to do what they are not supposed to do. If they think Manhunt 2 is M rated, we can believe them. Actually, wasn't it AO rated and then reworked by Rockstar to keep it M rated?
Yes, it doesn't sound like a real bribe to me. 5000$? Real bribes are quite a bit higher than that, on that level of bureaucracy 5000$ is petty cash. Real bribes move more in the 50000-500000$ area.
I know, being from Spain, land of the fee and home of the bribe.
Totally agree. I've been using Firefox since my Windows days, and once I moved to OS X, tried Safari and Firefox, and found myself using Safari most of the time, just because Firefox 2 felt sluggish, yes, the plugins were a big plus, but not at the cost of feeling you are riding a fatty cow instead of a fire fox.
Nope, it's not exactly like that. The thing is that you should be able to buy the product from company B and then use it with the network of company A.
This concept is very clear right now in most of the things in EU policy. It's the same for most products, there should be a separation between manufacturer of a product and the service provider. Or at least have the option to choose service provider, no matter who you purchased the hardware from.
Another example, maybe a bit far fetched, but one I know well. In Europe, transport by train has two distict parts. One is the company who builds the tracks, and other is the company who runs the trains. And they cannot be the same company, and the company who builds the tracks must be open to ANY company running trains in their tracks, if they pay the stipulated track access charges.
The EU is pushing this idea in most areas of the economy. And I think it works.
Nope, it's not exactly like that. The thing is that you should be able to buy the product from company B and then use it with the network of company A.
This concept is very clear right now in most of the things in EU policy. It's the same for most products, there should be a separation between manufacturer of a product and the service provider. Or at least have the option to choose service provider, no matter who you purchased the hardware from.
Another example, maybe a bit far fetched, but one I know well. In Europe, transport by train has two distict parts. One is the company who builds the tracks, and other is the company who runs the trains. And they cannot be the same company, and the company who builds the tracks must be open to ANY company running trains in their tracks, if they pay the stipulated track access charges.
The EU is pushing this idea in most areas of the economy. And I think it works.
The smallest unit is the "Moment", and then the "While" (or, less used, the "Whilst"). A while is about 14.4 moments. Then you have the "long while", which is 13.8 whiles, then the "time", and "long time"...
For example, it took me a while and three moments to write this comment. I'm not a quick typer...
I feel all of these inventions to be good for the natural selection. I don't mind them being there. If you are so gullible and so stupid to think these artifacts work, then be my guest, and waste all your money. You had it coming. This way, with some luck, you will not be able to sustain a family, and/or die from starvation. Not my fault. Good for humankind.
But, c'mon! Who cared about who signed what? I just wanted the iPhone, it's so cool!! Who reads what they sign anyway?? Apple is supposed to be good, no matter what we agreed on!
It's different what IT proffessionals think to what will happen. Who makes choices? The guy with the money, and withouth the knowledge. It's important to see that distinction, as it will take a loooong time to convince the people with the money that microsoft is not the best option. But at least it feels good that almost unanimously the IT people feel Vista is crap.
Sorry, english is not my first language. Actually one of my aims when posting to slashdot is improve my english, and as there are a lot of spelling and grammar zealots around, it works.
PS: Yes, I had to look "zealot" in the dictionary.
I tend not to worry too much about my personal data, but I understand why some people do. If somebody is stupid enough to loose (or get stolen) a computer with other people's data in it, s/he should have to face the consecuences. I guess at some point anybody who is given other people's personal data should have signed something, taking responsibility of their acts.
I'm not saying the punishment should be high, but just as killing someone by not being careful enough is homicide, I think this same idea should be applied in this case.
In any case, if the loss of data has been purely accidental, with no lack of carefulness by the perpetrator, there should be no punishment at all.
I guess now that's the only way ahead. It is hard to support your business with only subscription revenues. First it was the NYT and now the WSJ. I think in the long run, the right business model is similar to what slashdot has right now. Offer plenty for free, get ad revenues, offer a premium for a small fee, for hardcore users.
You are wrong. I'm European, went to the states this summer, and it looked to me that you are far more pussified than europeans. Here we have not had any problem with Sesame Street, and have way less problems with broadcasting politically incorrect stuff.
Well, precisely I did feel the necessity of having a ñ in my domain. Actually, not in my domain, but my mom's.
She has a shop, you know? It's just a local shop, has nothing to do with nothing outside spain. Actually, my mother only speaks spanish, so she does not want to hear anything from people who cannot write in spanish.
Her shop (the local small shop) has an ñ in it's name. It was created before the net was there, so at the moment, the problem of getting her shop on the net didn't even cross her mind. Also, if you just change the ñ and put a n instead, the name sounds funny. It sounds like "lots of white hairs", literally. It's a fabric shop, the original name makes a lot of sense, but "lots of white hairs" is definately bad marketing.
So she had her shop's website with a totally different name, up until now, when people will finally find her shop. Only spanish people, of course, but that's what she wants.
Ok, ok, let me make myself a bit clearer. The big problem with this is that something as big as the government to the root DNS servers should not be on the hands of ANY country, as it is something that can have an effect on all economies worldwide. It's not a technical reason, it's an economic and strategic reason.
It's not that the EU does not trust the US as Shakrai says. Imagine it the other way round. Imagine that the French "ruled the web". I guess americans would not feel safe, knowing that if Mr. Sarkozi decides to tamper with it, they would have big economic losses. Therefore, this is a power that should be shared, I don't care if it's the UN or who, I just mean that it is wrong that a single country controls the thing.
About my citing of net neutrality, etc, that was just an example of the problems that the US has with technological-etical problems. Don't take it badly, but sometimes the US government is just not able to handle some things gracefully...
Well, I would say that the most vocal chorus comes mainly from other big powers of the world (like Europe, like China...) that think that it's a bit unfair the US is fully controlling a part of their economy as important as the net. Nowadays, the net is a hugely important asset of most of the developed economies in the world. It is hard to believe that the US ahs the keys to it.
Something similar happens with GPS. Now, at least in europe, there are many important things that rely on GPS signal to work. The truth is that the US has the power to turn that off, without previous notice. Obviously, at some point, the EU decides that enough is enough, so we are building our own GPS equivalent, Galileo, pouring billions into it, just so we don't depend on Mr. Bush not to do anything stupid.
Ok, maybe not the UN, maybe this deserves the creation of a truly new intenational organization, that was not my point. And why that animosity against the UN? I mean, I know they are not perfect, but it's hard to be perfect when there is such a big group of interests. Believe me, I know it's hard, I work for a EU institution, and many times trying your best is not enough by far...
As a European, I do feel there is a need to do something with this issue. Not to be disrespectful, but I don't think that USA are the best people for the job. Just look at all the problems they have now (packet shaping, net neutrality, etc...). And as a spanish speaker, I feel that it has taken faaar too long to get the "ñ" in domain names. And we only have one funny letter!
Why don't we give the governance of internet stuff to somebody like Switzerland? They look like they could do a good job, they have the money and good reasons to do a good job on worldwide internationalization of internet.
A bit more seriously, I think that something that has grown as important as this, should be in the hands of the UN, as any strange move can have significant effects worldwide.
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That would be stupid. I'm pretty sure we can trust the government to have a better password than that. Like "password", or "123". Something witty.
It's funny when the government behaves so childishly:
- You lost 25 million private records???? The data was encrypted, wasn't it???
- Hmmm... I cannot tell you...
- WHY??
- Just in case the bad guys cannot read the plaintext data and think it is encrypted and discard it... or something... dunno...
- That's plain stupid.
- STOP BUGGERING ME!!
Aiming for the World Record of record losing!
Yes, it's frustrating that everybody thinks they can do any job better than the person in charge. If the ESRB is there to rate video games, why is the government trying to do what they are not supposed to do. If they think Manhunt 2 is M rated, we can believe them. Actually, wasn't it AO rated and then reworked by Rockstar to keep it M rated?
Yes, it doesn't sound like a real bribe to me. 5000$? Real bribes are quite a bit higher than that, on that level of bureaucracy 5000$ is petty cash. Real bribes move more in the 50000-500000$ area.
I know, being from Spain, land of the fee and home of the bribe.
They say the have plugged more than 300 memory leaks in the release notes. I hope that's most of them...
Totally agree. I've been using Firefox since my Windows days, and once I moved to OS X, tried Safari and Firefox, and found myself using Safari most of the time, just because Firefox 2 felt sluggish, yes, the plugins were a big plus, but not at the cost of feeling you are riding a fatty cow instead of a fire fox.
Nope, it's not exactly like that. The thing is that you should be able to buy the product from company B and then use it with the network of company A.
This concept is very clear right now in most of the things in EU policy. It's the same for most products, there should be a separation between manufacturer of a product and the service provider. Or at least have the option to choose service provider, no matter who you purchased the hardware from.
Another example, maybe a bit far fetched, but one I know well. In Europe, transport by train has two distict parts. One is the company who builds the tracks, and other is the company who runs the trains. And they cannot be the same company, and the company who builds the tracks must be open to ANY company running trains in their tracks, if they pay the stipulated track access charges.
The EU is pushing this idea in most areas of the economy. And I think it works.
Nope. I spent about 5 seconds thinking if this would be like the GPL, but funkier...
Nope, it's not exactly like that. The thing is that you should be able to buy the product from company B and then use it with the network of company A.
This concept is very clear right now in most of the things in EU policy. It's the same for most products, there should be a separation between manufacturer of a product and the service provider. Or at least have the option to choose service provider, no matter who you purchased the hardware from.
Another example, maybe a bit far fetched, but one I know well. In Europe, transport by train has two distict parts. One is the company who builds the tracks, and other is the company who runs the trains. And they cannot be the same company, and the company who builds the tracks must be open to ANY company running trains in their tracks, if they pay the stipulated track access charges.
The EU is pushing this idea in most areas of the economy. And I think it works.
Yay, imperial time!
The smallest unit is the "Moment", and then the "While" (or, less used, the "Whilst"). A while is about 14.4 moments. Then you have the "long while", which is 13.8 whiles, then the "time", and "long time"...
For example, it took me a while and three moments to write this comment. I'm not a quick typer...
I feel all of these inventions to be good for the natural selection. I don't mind them being there. If you are so gullible and so stupid to think these artifacts work, then be my guest, and waste all your money. You had it coming. This way, with some luck, you will not be able to sustain a family, and/or die from starvation. Not my fault. Good for humankind.
But, c'mon! Who cared about who signed what? I just wanted the iPhone, it's so cool!! Who reads what they sign anyway?? Apple is supposed to be good, no matter what we agreed on!
It's different what IT proffessionals think to what will happen. Who makes choices? The guy with the money, and withouth the knowledge. It's important to see that distinction, as it will take a loooong time to convince the people with the money that microsoft is not the best option. But at least it feels good that almost unanimously the IT people feel Vista is crap.
Yes, that's what I call an in depth review... wow. Really, I don't think I've never read a 42-page article. I've seen shorter books.
Sorry, english is not my first language. Actually one of my aims when posting to slashdot is improve my english, and as there are a lot of spelling and grammar zealots around, it works.
PS: Yes, I had to look "zealot" in the dictionary.
I tend not to worry too much about my personal data, but I understand why some people do. If somebody is stupid enough to loose (or get stolen) a computer with other people's data in it, s/he should have to face the consecuences. I guess at some point anybody who is given other people's personal data should have signed something, taking responsibility of their acts.
I'm not saying the punishment should be high, but just as killing someone by not being careful enough is homicide, I think this same idea should be applied in this case.
In any case, if the loss of data has been purely accidental, with no lack of carefulness by the perpetrator, there should be no punishment at all.
I guess now that's the only way ahead. It is hard to support your business with only subscription revenues. First it was the NYT and now the WSJ. I think in the long run, the right business model is similar to what slashdot has right now. Offer plenty for free, get ad revenues, offer a premium for a small fee, for hardcore users.
You are wrong. I'm European, went to the states this summer, and it looked to me that you are far more pussified than europeans. Here we have not had any problem with Sesame Street, and have way less problems with broadcasting politically incorrect stuff.
Well, precisely I did feel the necessity of having a ñ in my domain. Actually, not in my domain, but my mom's.
She has a shop, you know? It's just a local shop, has nothing to do with nothing outside spain. Actually, my mother only speaks spanish, so she does not want to hear anything from people who cannot write in spanish.
Her shop (the local small shop) has an ñ in it's name. It was created before the net was there, so at the moment, the problem of getting her shop on the net didn't even cross her mind. Also, if you just change the ñ and put a n instead, the name sounds funny. It sounds like "lots of white hairs", literally. It's a fabric shop, the original name makes a lot of sense, but "lots of white hairs" is definately bad marketing.
So she had her shop's website with a totally different name, up until now, when people will finally find her shop. Only spanish people, of course, but that's what she wants.
Ok, ok, let me make myself a bit clearer. The big problem with this is that something as big as the government to the root DNS servers should not be on the hands of ANY country, as it is something that can have an effect on all economies worldwide. It's not a technical reason, it's an economic and strategic reason.
It's not that the EU does not trust the US as Shakrai says. Imagine it the other way round. Imagine that the French "ruled the web". I guess americans would not feel safe, knowing that if Mr. Sarkozi decides to tamper with it, they would have big economic losses. Therefore, this is a power that should be shared, I don't care if it's the UN or who, I just mean that it is wrong that a single country controls the thing.
About my citing of net neutrality, etc, that was just an example of the problems that the US has with technological-etical problems. Don't take it badly, but sometimes the US government is just not able to handle some things gracefully...
Well, I would say that the most vocal chorus comes mainly from other big powers of the world (like Europe, like China...) that think that it's a bit unfair the US is fully controlling a part of their economy as important as the net. Nowadays, the net is a hugely important asset of most of the developed economies in the world. It is hard to believe that the US ahs the keys to it.
Something similar happens with GPS. Now, at least in europe, there are many important things that rely on GPS signal to work. The truth is that the US has the power to turn that off, without previous notice. Obviously, at some point, the EU decides that enough is enough, so we are building our own GPS equivalent, Galileo, pouring billions into it, just so we don't depend on Mr. Bush not to do anything stupid.
Ok, maybe not the UN, maybe this deserves the creation of a truly new intenational organization, that was not my point. And why that animosity against the UN? I mean, I know they are not perfect, but it's hard to be perfect when there is such a big group of interests. Believe me, I know it's hard, I work for a EU institution, and many times trying your best is not enough by far...
As a European, I do feel there is a need to do something with this issue. Not to be disrespectful, but I don't think that USA are the best people for the job. Just look at all the problems they have now (packet shaping, net neutrality, etc...). And as a spanish speaker, I feel that it has taken faaar too long to get the "ñ" in domain names. And we only have one funny letter!
Why don't we give the governance of internet stuff to somebody like Switzerland? They look like they could do a good job, they have the money and good reasons to do a good job on worldwide internationalization of internet.
A bit more seriously, I think that something that has grown as important as this, should be in the hands of the UN, as any strange move can have significant effects worldwide.
Well, my sources indicate that Roombasaurus is being also considered...