I don't think it's a real problem at all. It will scare people off but I still want to go to Japan and would be more than happy to go now. The only reason I wouldn't is purely because I moved house and my bank / credit card statements are in a state that say going to Japan on a whim isn't a bright idea.
I still enjoy going to the library. If you like physical books then what in the world is wrong with a place where you can borrow them for free? It's also a nice quiet place to relax and concentrate on things
Video games are primarily aimed at kids whether they're rated mature or not. The publishers and developers are more concerned about profits and selling to as many people as possible and that means not doing something that will stop parents from buying games for their teenage sons.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
It originally only stated that only Congress could not do this. We have since then stated that it's the government that can't rather than just Congress. It only protect peaceful assembly and even if the government were claim speech against the government is hate speech they can't take your right to peacefully assemble or petition the government. Criticizing the government is clearly protected unlike actual hate speech. I suspect the reason for this is because their intentions were more to stop the government from silencing critics than to allow people to travel the country and stir shit at soldiers' funerals.
The supreme court has to take what is in the constitution and in law and interpret how that applies to the given case. I personally don't see anything in there that implies you can harass people or even the government.
They have played it safe and protected their speech because it's always going to be hard to argue which hateful speech should be free and which shouldn't be since it will almost ways cause offense and someone will almost certainly claim to feel harassed when listening to it.
But by saying they can't spew their hateful speech anywhere near a funeral neither limits their ability to speak it or assemble and you can easily argue that by banning them from being anywhere near the funeral you aren't stepping on their first amendment rights. You can argue they're not peaceful and not covered by the first amendment too.
I'm all for people having the right to say stupid things. I wouldn't ever ask for WBC or the KKK to be banned and yes it is an awkward decision to make because it could end up being a slippery slope leading to more rights being taken away but likewise you're allowing someone to infringe on someone else's rights to.
To be fair as well saying they can't be anywhere near the funeral won't give the government more rights to limit where you can protest. They already do that with things like freedom of speech zones at certain events. If that is acceptable then should it not be acceptable to do that in this scenario?
Well yes you're right. Control is needed to try and attempt to keep quality high both in content and coding and to help keep security high.
Mobiles are different from desktops and I think resorting to virus scanning on mobiles would be awful. While Apple's approach is by no means perfect it is actually looking like the best solution. I just don't bother with the app market for my Android. There is a lot of shit in the market to sift through and while being concerned with how many apps ask for all sorts of permissions we're now finding out that actually a lot of bad stuff is getting through and not being found straight away.
I do think my next phone will be an iPhone. The games are definitely better and until Google proves to at least be more proactive on filtering out the rubbish then I just can't trust the apps and what is the point of a smart phone without apps?
If Google can tell me what the app needs access too then surely there is some way they could come up with a system that flags apps ask having questionable requirements and requiring someone at Google to personally review it before it makes it onto the market.
When you want people to tie all their personal information and even payment methods (ie Google Checkout) to a device it needs to have some sort of security. It is not good enough to kill it after it's been downloaded a quater of a million times. Alternatively they can come up with some sort of mobile virus / malware scanner and risk complaints about battery life and performance.
They are spouting hate speech, slander and their speech is arguably threatening too so there is definitely room for arguing that it's not covered by freedom of speech.
Despite this I'm ok with them expressing their opinion but likewise I don't think they should be able to ruin a funeral which is a one-time event and upsetting as it is. I think calling them protests is completely incorrect. It's harassment and calling it a protest devalues valid protesting.
What also annoys me is I suspect they couldn't do this at George Bush's funeral or a funeral for some big celebrity and as usual their rights are only being protected when exercised against some people.
Yes, you have the right to be spied on and have your every movement and action monitored. You have the right to have your children arrested for climbing a tree (if you don't recall, it was on slashdot a year or two ago, where three 12 year olds were arrested for climbing a tree and inadvertently damaging the bark in the process).
We do have CCTV cameras but do you really think they're everywhere? I have to walk into the city centre and go near the "problem" pub before I see any cameras. You do realise any shop you go into (US or UK) is going to be loaded full of cameras and have been this way for ages so actually you've been having your life filmed for some time. Not that it really matters. I'm not sure how the US supposedly tracking people less with cameras makes them more free when the US can and has been freely listening into tons of phone conversations, requests all sorts of user information from web sites and basically tracks you in every way except with a camera.
You have the right to be forced to be financially responsible for other people.
As are Americans. There is no country where you're responsible for yourself and no one else. The difference in the UK is that, for example, we put that money towards healthcare and education and in the US it's pissed away on the military fighting questionable wars and in a very socialist way keeping unnecessary military bases open in the US sut to prop up local economies. You just don't get more socialist than the government creating a false economy to keep people happy. I'd even say that's communist thinking and I'd expect to find that only in China.;-)
I'm completely with you on the whole "The US is crap with a psychotic government" issue. The problem is, the rest of the world is worse. If there were a better country to move to, I'd gladly let the TSA fondle my balls before I say "Fuck off America, I'm free!" as I board the plane.
The reason you won't find a better is because most people are all the same and most countries within the same class (ie Canada, US, UK, France, etc) aren't all that different. They'll spend their money a little differently but really it's all the same for the average citizen on a day-to-day basis except of course if the person is an avid gun collector or needs a lot of medical attention.
I don't spend much time on it, I don't use my real name and in fact I post little to no personal information. Facebook is what you make of it. Sure no one can find me on facebook but I can find them if I want to.
Yeah because complaining to the council or disabling the camera yourself would just be stupid. Yes we lack some rights that the US has, like the ability to completely ruin someone's funeral in a Fred Phelps style but we also have a lot of rights and protection that the US lacks.
Having lived in both countries I can safely say I am proud to live in the UK no matter how damp and miserable people think it is and if my neighbours want to dream about moving to places like Spain then fine. That just makes it better for me whilst they go and ruin Spain.
I don't think that is the case and it's just an excuse. Seriously are you telling me that Viet Nam (at 10% IE6 usage) is a hub of corporations and in fact ones that developed a lot of their functionality in IE6 specific technology? I suspect it's more the case they have a lot of old computers and users that don't know to upgrade their browser.
You can't complain about seeing the web how others want you to see it and then moan that you can't do it yourself. All search engines will filter something out even if it is simply child pornography. If you want the full freedom of seeing it all then you need to do it yourself. Don't ask me for the best way to go about it because quite frankly I'm happy with Google but if you want it all then sort it out yourself. Hell, query a list of all the registered domains and then go from there. Maybe sell it on as the unfiltered web and make money.
Degrees are more common these days. Employers can be more picky in some cases and either offer a lower wage or demand more experience. This is the problem with the idea of ensuring more and more people have degrees. As more people have degrees there will be less value in their degree.
There has to be a better way of educating people than making them do yet another 2 or 4 years and become a slave to their job due to their university debt.
No degree here and promoted more than once within the same company. You're working for shitty companies if a degree stops you from moving up from the bottom rung.
There is nothing wrong with frameworks or a CMS but I think all developers should write their own at least once and tear apart any frameworks or CMSes they use so they fully understand what they're using.
PHP runs everywhere on the web but it certainly doesn't run everywhere like Java or even Python. There is no such thing as a language that can do everything well but Python, for example, is a damn sight closer to that idea than PHP. PHP really is only good at making web pages and not much else.
AFAIK you can convert PDFs to their format which allows you to have all the other stuff. Why not allow people to download a PDF version from your account when they want to use it on something else or something else? My concern is more that I could end up spending hundreds of pounds if not thousands over the years and then have nothing over night if they bin the Kindle or Amazon goes under or, more likely, they come up with a new and "improved" format.
The only reason this would matter is if they're only blocking pro-union and other left leaning sites. SO long as they're blocking politically motivated sites for both sides then who cares? You should be doing your work anyway. But if it is only left leaning sites then either unblock them or block right leaning political sites too.
Most laptops come with 3 USB ports. Two beside each other and one on the other side. I'd hardly call missing the one on the other side a big deal especially when you can use some mac devices and not lose a USB port like the keyboard which will actually give you an extra USB port.
Apple doesn't implement any hardware you can't get use (or buy) elsewhere. That is why Windows works perfectly fine on a Mac and all my mac hardware (keyboards, monitors, etc) work on a windows machine.
About the only thing Macs really lack in software is the vast gaming library Windows has but other than that you're just making yet another uninformed comment.
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I don't think it's a real problem at all. It will scare people off but I still want to go to Japan and would be more than happy to go now. The only reason I wouldn't is purely because I moved house and my bank / credit card statements are in a state that say going to Japan on a whim isn't a bright idea.
I still enjoy going to the library. If you like physical books then what in the world is wrong with a place where you can borrow them for free? It's also a nice quiet place to relax and concentrate on things
Video games are primarily aimed at kids whether they're rated mature or not. The publishers and developers are more concerned about profits and selling to as many people as possible and that means not doing something that will stop parents from buying games for their teenage sons.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
It originally only stated that only Congress could not do this. We have since then stated that it's the government that can't rather than just Congress. It only protect peaceful assembly and even if the government were claim speech against the government is hate speech they can't take your right to peacefully assemble or petition the government. Criticizing the government is clearly protected unlike actual hate speech. I suspect the reason for this is because their intentions were more to stop the government from silencing critics than to allow people to travel the country and stir shit at soldiers' funerals.
The supreme court has to take what is in the constitution and in law and interpret how that applies to the given case. I personally don't see anything in there that implies you can harass people or even the government.
They have played it safe and protected their speech because it's always going to be hard to argue which hateful speech should be free and which shouldn't be since it will almost ways cause offense and someone will almost certainly claim to feel harassed when listening to it.
But by saying they can't spew their hateful speech anywhere near a funeral neither limits their ability to speak it or assemble and you can easily argue that by banning them from being anywhere near the funeral you aren't stepping on their first amendment rights. You can argue they're not peaceful and not covered by the first amendment too.
I'm all for people having the right to say stupid things. I wouldn't ever ask for WBC or the KKK to be banned and yes it is an awkward decision to make because it could end up being a slippery slope leading to more rights being taken away but likewise you're allowing someone to infringe on someone else's rights to.
To be fair as well saying they can't be anywhere near the funeral won't give the government more rights to limit where you can protest. They already do that with things like freedom of speech zones at certain events. If that is acceptable then should it not be acceptable to do that in this scenario?
Well yes you're right. Control is needed to try and attempt to keep quality high both in content and coding and to help keep security high.
Mobiles are different from desktops and I think resorting to virus scanning on mobiles would be awful. While Apple's approach is by no means perfect it is actually looking like the best solution. I just don't bother with the app market for my Android. There is a lot of shit in the market to sift through and while being concerned with how many apps ask for all sorts of permissions we're now finding out that actually a lot of bad stuff is getting through and not being found straight away.
I do think my next phone will be an iPhone. The games are definitely better and until Google proves to at least be more proactive on filtering out the rubbish then I just can't trust the apps and what is the point of a smart phone without apps?
If Google can tell me what the app needs access too then surely there is some way they could come up with a system that flags apps ask having questionable requirements and requiring someone at Google to personally review it before it makes it onto the market.
When you want people to tie all their personal information and even payment methods (ie Google Checkout) to a device it needs to have some sort of security. It is not good enough to kill it after it's been downloaded a quater of a million times. Alternatively they can come up with some sort of mobile virus / malware scanner and risk complaints about battery life and performance.
They are spouting hate speech, slander and their speech is arguably threatening too so there is definitely room for arguing that it's not covered by freedom of speech.
Despite this I'm ok with them expressing their opinion but likewise I don't think they should be able to ruin a funeral which is a one-time event and upsetting as it is. I think calling them protests is completely incorrect. It's harassment and calling it a protest devalues valid protesting.
What also annoys me is I suspect they couldn't do this at George Bush's funeral or a funeral for some big celebrity and as usual their rights are only being protected when exercised against some people.
Yes, you have the right to be spied on and have your every movement and action monitored. You have the right to have your children arrested for climbing a tree (if you don't recall, it was on slashdot a year or two ago, where three 12 year olds were arrested for climbing a tree and inadvertently damaging the bark in the process).
We do have CCTV cameras but do you really think they're everywhere? I have to walk into the city centre and go near the "problem" pub before I see any cameras. You do realise any shop you go into (US or UK) is going to be loaded full of cameras and have been this way for ages so actually you've been having your life filmed for some time. Not that it really matters. I'm not sure how the US supposedly tracking people less with cameras makes them more free when the US can and has been freely listening into tons of phone conversations, requests all sorts of user information from web sites and basically tracks you in every way except with a camera.
You have the right to be forced to be financially responsible for other people.
As are Americans. There is no country where you're responsible for yourself and no one else. The difference in the UK is that, for example, we put that money towards healthcare and education and in the US it's pissed away on the military fighting questionable wars and in a very socialist way keeping unnecessary military bases open in the US sut to prop up local economies. You just don't get more socialist than the government creating a false economy to keep people happy. I'd even say that's communist thinking and I'd expect to find that only in China. ;-)
I'm completely with you on the whole "The US is crap with a psychotic government" issue. The problem is, the rest of the world is worse. If there were a better country to move to, I'd gladly let the TSA fondle my balls before I say "Fuck off America, I'm free!" as I board the plane.
The reason you won't find a better is because most people are all the same and most countries within the same class (ie Canada, US, UK, France, etc) aren't all that different. They'll spend their money a little differently but really it's all the same for the average citizen on a day-to-day basis except of course if the person is an avid gun collector or needs a lot of medical attention.
I don't spend much time on it, I don't use my real name and in fact I post little to no personal information. Facebook is what you make of it. Sure no one can find me on facebook but I can find them if I want to.
Yeah because complaining to the council or disabling the camera yourself would just be stupid. Yes we lack some rights that the US has, like the ability to completely ruin someone's funeral in a Fred Phelps style but we also have a lot of rights and protection that the US lacks.
Having lived in both countries I can safely say I am proud to live in the UK no matter how damp and miserable people think it is and if my neighbours want to dream about moving to places like Spain then fine. That just makes it better for me whilst they go and ruin Spain.
Except they will accept it as it will be sold as a way to fight terrorists and there is nothing Jesus hates more than Muslims.
Their music could always be burned to CD and is now DRM free. I'd post anonymous too if I was going to make totally uneducated comments about iTunes.
I don't think that is the case and it's just an excuse. Seriously are you telling me that Viet Nam (at 10% IE6 usage) is a hub of corporations and in fact ones that developed a lot of their functionality in IE6 specific technology? I suspect it's more the case they have a lot of old computers and users that don't know to upgrade their browser.
You can't complain about seeing the web how others want you to see it and then moan that you can't do it yourself. All search engines will filter something out even if it is simply child pornography. If you want the full freedom of seeing it all then you need to do it yourself. Don't ask me for the best way to go about it because quite frankly I'm happy with Google but if you want it all then sort it out yourself. Hell, query a list of all the registered domains and then go from there. Maybe sell it on as the unfiltered web and make money.
Aren't you getting tired of sucking MS penis by now?
Learn to use your computer then and don't rely on others.
Degrees are more common these days. Employers can be more picky in some cases and either offer a lower wage or demand more experience. This is the problem with the idea of ensuring more and more people have degrees. As more people have degrees there will be less value in their degree.
There has to be a better way of educating people than making them do yet another 2 or 4 years and become a slave to their job due to their university debt.
No degree here and promoted more than once within the same company. You're working for shitty companies if a degree stops you from moving up from the bottom rung.
If you're going to reference someone's cheese with quotes it should be American cheese.
There is nothing wrong with frameworks or a CMS but I think all developers should write their own at least once and tear apart any frameworks or CMSes they use so they fully understand what they're using.
PHP runs everywhere on the web but it certainly doesn't run everywhere like Java or even Python. There is no such thing as a language that can do everything well but Python, for example, is a damn sight closer to that idea than PHP. PHP really is only good at making web pages and not much else.
It's all because of the RAND corporation in conjunction with the saucer people.
AFAIK you can convert PDFs to their format which allows you to have all the other stuff. Why not allow people to download a PDF version from your account when they want to use it on something else or something else? My concern is more that I could end up spending hundreds of pounds if not thousands over the years and then have nothing over night if they bin the Kindle or Amazon goes under or, more likely, they come up with a new and "improved" format.
The only reason this would matter is if they're only blocking pro-union and other left leaning sites. SO long as they're blocking politically motivated sites for both sides then who cares? You should be doing your work anyway. But if it is only left leaning sites then either unblock them or block right leaning political sites too.
Most laptops come with 3 USB ports. Two beside each other and one on the other side. I'd hardly call missing the one on the other side a big deal especially when you can use some mac devices and not lose a USB port like the keyboard which will actually give you an extra USB port.
Apple doesn't implement any hardware you can't get use (or buy) elsewhere. That is why Windows works perfectly fine on a Mac and all my mac hardware (keyboards, monitors, etc) work on a windows machine.
About the only thing Macs really lack in software is the vast gaming library Windows has but other than that you're just making yet another uninformed comment.