But if someone in the US puts up a picture of two ladies kissing on a Saudi Arabian web site, they should be extradited with the possibility of being stoned to death?
Extradition only happens if the action in question is illegal in both jurisdictions.
When they know what you like and create an heuristic 'other people that liked X also like Y' kinda system you can actually get useful *new* recommendations you will probably also like... But with an image system like this you can imagine all the stupid fuck-ups and jokes that will ensue... "Yo momma is so fat that the ad Picasa shows next to all her photo's is: 'save the whales'"
I doubt screensavers will integrate correctly with all three of xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver, and kde-screensaver, even with Wine.
ObTopic: I wonder which is more "secure" w.r.t. probability of being successfully cracked by some random black hat: OS X or DVL (given that in any case said random black hat will be distracted by Windows)?
Currently, we know that piracy has a minimal impact on just about everything. The average pirate consumes a lot more music than the average consumer. We know this from the law of demand (economics 101: if something is cheap or free, people buy/get more of it than if it is expensive). Thus, the effect of piracy on the market can only be measured in terms of the fraction of the market that pirates, and then you need to take into account that many people will go ahead and buy the music they like. Arguably, piracy increases the total amount of music people buy through the following scenario: I'm unfamiliar with an artist, haven't heard them on the radio, but, without my realizing it, I would probably buy their music if I had heard it. If I pirate their music, I find out that I like it, and then buy it. Plenty of people do this every day.
If ASCAP gets CC illegal, EFF will get SCOTUS to overturn it based on various amendments and aspects of the Constitution (1st, 14th, and the Copyright Clause come to mind). Is that enough abbrev.s for you?
But most of them don't vote, and even those who can vote often don't bother. The main group of people who do vote are the elderly. Can you see elderly people listening to teenagers?
Does anyone have any idea how GP got modded Insightful? Did the mod actually read it or did he just say "long post, so it must be Insightful". Seriously, that guy sounds like the liberal version of Glenn Beck!
The Economist is pretty interesting and may have more original content than, say, the NY Times (any AP member paper has pretty much the same news content, with some exceptions, mostly in the "too dull to bother" department). I've never heard of the Financial Times, so I can't comment. There are many people who "need" the content in the WSJ in real time.
It's true you couldn't use the full game before the code, but you hadn't paid for it yet.
Uhhh, WTF?
If I go into a store and see a product hanging on the wall saying "Game X, $10" and I buy it, I PAID FOR IT. If I get home and find out I need to buy a "code" to play this game, I'm pissed.
I'm sick and tired of these exaggerated claims regarding the temperature of the sun. We have sent three manned probes to try and confirm the alleged surface temperature, and I can categorically state that we have received no (that is, zero) reports to indicate any abnormally high temperature...
...so you're saying the sun's surface temperature is greatly exaggerated?
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But if someone in the US puts up a picture of two ladies kissing on a Saudi Arabian web site, they should be extradited with the possibility of being stoned to death?
Extradition only happens if the action in question is illegal in both jurisdictions.
When they know what you like and create an heuristic 'other people that liked X also like Y' kinda system you can actually get useful *new* recommendations you will probably also like... But with an image system like this you can imagine all the stupid fuck-ups and jokes that will ensue... "Yo momma is so fat that the ad Picasa shows next to all her photo's is: 'save the whales'"
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No, that's techno, not disco.
Didn't Activision also merge with Infocom a long time ago and destroy the Zork series? What is with those guys?
Why is anyone interested in Office 2010 when OOo doesn't have a ribbon?
When you're talking about airline flights there is no "real" price (thanks to rampant price discrimination).
You're the only one who got modded up for your reply, and that's probably because of your user name.
What are you smoking? They squashed that bug umpteen years ago!
I read that as suggesting the "people" are in comas or worse, but whatever.
Typically, the term "permissive" implies a BSD-like license, i.e. no copyleft. I'm just saying.
Data isn't property, you insensitive clod!
He meant to type < which looks like < (see other replies).
Isn't MOTD daemonized (which provides some possibility of e.g. a DOS attack of some kind)?
I doubt screensavers will integrate correctly with all three of xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver, and kde-screensaver, even with Wine.
ObTopic: I wonder which is more "secure" w.r.t. probability of being successfully cracked by some random black hat: OS X or DVL (given that in any case said random black hat will be distracted by Windows)?
Currently, we know that piracy has a minimal impact on just about everything. The average pirate consumes a lot more music than the average consumer. We know this from the law of demand (economics 101: if something is cheap or free, people buy/get more of it than if it is expensive). Thus, the effect of piracy on the market can only be measured in terms of the fraction of the market that pirates, and then you need to take into account that many people will go ahead and buy the music they like. Arguably, piracy increases the total amount of music people buy through the following scenario: I'm unfamiliar with an artist, haven't heard them on the radio, but, without my realizing it, I would probably buy their music if I had heard it. If I pirate their music, I find out that I like it, and then buy it. Plenty of people do this every day.
If ASCAP gets CC illegal, EFF will get SCOTUS to overturn it based on various amendments and aspects of the Constitution (1st, 14th, and the Copyright Clause come to mind). Is that enough abbrev.s for you?
But most of them don't vote, and even those who can vote often don't bother. The main group of people who do vote are the elderly. Can you see elderly people listening to teenagers?
We're not going to have Brave New World as long as the war on drugs lives.
That's it, time to call the Mythbusters!
Does anyone have any idea how GP got modded Insightful? Did the mod actually read it or did he just say "long post, so it must be Insightful". Seriously, that guy sounds like the liberal version of Glenn Beck!
The Economist is pretty interesting and may have more original content than, say, the NY Times (any AP member paper has pretty much the same news content, with some exceptions, mostly in the "too dull to bother" department). I've never heard of the Financial Times, so I can't comment. There are many people who "need" the content in the WSJ in real time.
There's this grand new invention, it's called humor.
It's true you couldn't use the full game before the code, but you hadn't paid for it yet.
Uhhh, WTF?
If I go into a store and see a product hanging on the wall saying "Game X, $10" and I buy it, I PAID FOR IT. If I get home and find out I need to buy a "code" to play this game, I'm pissed.
What store? We're talking about shareware here.
Combo breaker!
I'm sick and tired of these exaggerated claims regarding the temperature of the sun. We have sent three manned probes to try and confirm the alleged surface temperature, and I can categorically state that we have received no (that is, zero) reports to indicate any abnormally high temperature...
...so you're saying the sun's surface temperature is greatly exaggerated?