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  1. with net neutrality, content publishers and distributors get to peer directly with an isp and flood their network with whatever data the content provider wants.

    Content publishers don't get settlement-free peering by default. Peering agreements are usually only settlement-free if the traffic is symmetrical or each party receives an equal benefit. Content publishers have to pay for their internet access the same as anybody else, albeit they generally have a little more negotiating power than you or I would.

  2. Re:You mean this? on Just Where Is The Lincoln Memorial, Anyhow? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, now click the button marked 'Search Maps' and see what all of the fuss is about.


    Hint: You will now be looking at 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial'

  3. Re:Nothing on Mac OS X on MacPaint Source Code Released to Museum · · Score: 1

    /Developer/Examples/Sketch/

    All of the files should be in there for you to build it.

  4. Re:Perversion of the law's intent on AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' · · Score: 1

    They can generate ongoing income because they created something of value to others. Artists most definitely can get royalties if they produce something that others license from them. More than likely if you buy a painting in a store it isn't an original but a licensed reproduction. Joe Taxi-driver is making money from providing a service, if he stops providing the service he stops making money.

  5. Re:e-Tickets in Switzerland and Germany on Paperless Tickets Flourish Despite 'Grandma Problem' · · Score: 1

    Presumably their ID would be tied the the legitimate ticket they purchased and after presenting it they would be allowed to enter.

  6. Re:Insufficient data for meaningful answer on More Evidence For Steam Games On Linux · · Score: 4, Informative
    the interesting bits from the script:

    UNAME=`uname`
    if [ "$UNAME" == "Darwin" ]; then
    PLATFORM=osx32 # prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
    elif [ "$UNAME" == "Linux" ]; then
    PLATFORM=linux32
    # prepend our lib path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${STEAMROOT}"/${PLATFORM}:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    fi

  7. Re:Can't write HTML.... on Serious Design Failure At USAspending.gov? · · Score: 2, Informative

    and this makes it ok to write sloppy code? amazon's site doesn't even declare a doctype.


    in case you were wondering its my second time on the internet

  8. Re:Can't write HTML.... on Serious Design Failure At USAspending.gov? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Not to mention the 253 errors from the W3C Validation site.

  9. Re:Commercial applications on Orbit Your Own Satellite For $8,000 · · Score: 1

    It would be nice for a company to be able to test satellite equipment (long term uses) in a short run, inexpensive, environment. 8000 is pretty reasonable compared to the cost of putting a full size satellite in orbit then realizing something doesn't work quite right.

  10. Re:He has no case on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 1

    I agree that the right to change the service would be found to be legal, however there are still stipulations to that clause. For some changes the provider has to provide a notice in advance to the changes. There also isn't anyway to know that courts would see the removal of the book as a change to the service. That being the case, this clause is irrelevant.

  11. Re:He has no case on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The question here is whether they can legally reserve that right. Just because it is in the EULA doesn't make it legal. If they can reserve that right, then is this particular action covered by that? This is definitely still debatable.

  12. Re:screenshots? on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 3, Funny

    hey, he could have made a really awesome animated gif, but nooooo

  13. Re:screenshots? on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Funny

    eh, that's just a pretty way of saying, "I'm lazy"

  14. screenshots? on Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X · · Score: 5, Insightful

    its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface

    and the link is to an article without a single screenshot....

  15. Re:the idiocies of religions are only matched on Hundreds of Thousands of Chinese Black-Hats · · Score: 5, Insightful

    nationalism and organized religion are forces in this world which must be defeated if we are all to live in peace

    I think that contains a subset of the real problem. The real problem is people thinking that, because they belong to a certain group (country, religion, secret club), they are somehow better than people not in the same group. Nations and religions are not the problem, it's the idea that "I'm better than you" because of some group.

  16. Re:Germany's cities are much closer together. on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    I was getting at the fact that the "short" routes in specific areas are still long compared to routes in other countries. The routes in the proposed system are 600-700 miles, that's wider than Germany.

    The routes may work for some people but it has a very targeted audience, and the only possible benefit would be cost.

  17. Re:Germany's cities are much closer together. on Obama Proposes High-Speed Rail System For the US · · Score: 1

    The argument still holds. The proposed rail connections are few and far between. The only place in the US that rail works well is in the North East where the population density is very high. In more rural parts of the country (Texas for example). There are a few large cities but they are very spread apart. Texas by itself is almost twice as large as Germany. There are two proposed rail lines in Texas, and they don't even intersect.

    For the US to have a rail network as interconnected as in France or Germany, we would have to build the largest rail network in the world. Similar to how we currently have the largest highway network of any country.

    When talking about mass transit for countries the size of the US most definitely applies.

  18. Re:Islam, eh? on UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google · · Score: 1

    The bible declares plenty of things to be sins, even in the new testament.

    What it doesn't do is prescribe earthly laws to deal with sins, which is the problem with islam (a "complete" system for life, rather than a personal religion).

    I wholeheartedly agree with you on that.

    If only everybody could agree on the One True interpretation of what is written that is so clear to you, right?

    The moral guidelines in the Bible are pretty simple to understand. The theological ideas are the tricky ones and I don't claim to have the "right" interpretation of the Bible.

  19. Re:Islam, eh? on UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google · · Score: 1

    You are right, but the bible is based of the old testament too, it was not decommissioned ?

    The Bible includes the Old Testament, but they have two distinctly different messages.

    But you are right that I cannot judge christians by the old testament only, that's the point what I wanted to say, just exchange bible with koran and christians with muslims.

    But while Christians still have and use the Old Testament, the laws within it do not apply to Christians, and therefore the comparison the the laws within the Koran for Muslims does not apply to the laws within the Bible for Christians (There are laws in the Bible for Christians, but the majority of the Old Testament ones do not apply. As they were fulfilled by Christ)

    I look at those christians with sorrow, whom for example love their (wo)man2(wo)man-loving fellow citizens so much that they are outcasting them, or violate their human rights - as you might expect I the human rights are my basis of judgement what's right and what's wrong.

    Unfortunately that is an example of extremist Christians who are adding onto the Bible, the Bible does declare certain actions to be sin, but it doesn't call for the out casting of the people who do those things (in the New Testament). Instead, it calls for Christians to love them, just as Christ did.

    I tried to put the attention to the difference between written words, thoughts and real actions.

    Once again, unfortunately there are those who claim to be Christian but don't follow what is actually written. The world would be a much better place if Christians actually did what was is written for them to do in the Bible.

  20. Re:Islam, eh? on UK To Train Pro-West Islamic Groups To Game Google · · Score: 1

    You see even if muslims say those words are divine, they tend not to follow the koran in word, they adapt and interpret it. Like what christians have done with the bible, ok anytime there are extremist people.

    I think if you were to read the Bible, New Testament in particular, you would find that the extremist Christians are the ones who add, take away or distort what the bible actually says, rather than extremist Muslims who follow the Koran to the letter.

    But yes I also think that there are muslims, which are a threat to western society but I also take extremist christianism into account to be such a threat.

    Christians who follow the Bible should be no threat, except to one's pride. Christianity is based on a God who loves his creation, and sent His Son to die for their sins. The New Testament doesn't instruct the killing of enemies, but loving them, as exampled by Christ.

  21. Re:Is this it? on Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx · · Score: 1

    Who knows, but we better reply to all of them to get the achievement.

  22. google news on The Guardian Shifts To Twitter After 188 Years of Ink · · Score: 2, Funny

    let's just hope this doesn't mean google will start aggregating tweets

  23. Re:I'm....stumped... on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    I think he gets an achievement for that...

  24. Re:The damndest thing with these stories today on Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In · · Score: 3, Informative

    according to google it did: http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/cadie/

  25. Re:"Unthinkable?" how about "obvious?" on Shouldn't Every Developer Understand English? · · Score: 1