While at first I thought ICANN screwed up by not approving.xxx, I got to thinking and realized that it was a good thing, for exactly the reasons the UN wants to admin TLDs....xxx is another TLD and whatever is allowed there would be based on US rules and morals, which are quite different than say what's allowed in Japan or Brazil.
It would be better to have a.xxx.us or.xxx.br or.xxx.jp so each country can set the appropriate standards.
From the summary: "This heralds a farewell to Cingular's Go Phone and Sprint-Nextel's Boost services, both powered by BCGI."
In regards to Cingular, not exactly.
Cingular has two forms of prepaid service (GoPhone).
One is 'Pick-Your-Plan'. You have a reoccuring monthly charge on your credit or debit card which gives you a monthly allowence for service.
The other is 'Pay-As-You-Go'. You buy a prepaid card off the rack, and use that to make your calls on your cell. As you use it up, you replace the card. That's the part that will be affected by this ruling.
Defendent > "It's not mine! I got from surfing the web, and accidently clicked a link"
State > "If it was an accident, why did you encrypt it and archive it, instead of erasing it? Hmm? Hmmm? HMMM?"
Defendent > "Damn"
The presence of an encryption program (in this case, PGP) merely contributes that the defendent KNOWNINGLY did somethin illegal (by trying to hid his trail), and it wasn't a mere accident.
I've been using BartPE for a year now. The inital basic setup is very easy. It's also easy to customize it to add in your applications. Well, it's easy to add it into BartPE (loadable.inf files) , but sometimes you have to do a LOT of digging into Windows and the specific application to determine WHAT you need to add to said.inf.
My BartPE disk has Ad-Aware SE, and I use SFX to make self-extracting executable of Spybot. For AV stuff, I use Mcafee GUI plugin for their command line scanner, and Sysclean (by the same folks that make pc-cillin). Also Mcafee's Stinger is loaded, too.
I put it on a CD-RW, and once a week d/l the updates, then use the Bart PEBuilder program to rebuild an ISO, and burn that to a CD-RW.
Virus scans, spyware files... all are gone without having to boot into the compromised OS. Registry cleaning requires you to boot into the OS, but once the files are gone, that makes it a lot easier to clean.
It's not 100%, but it vastly improves the chances of fixing the system, with minimal time (30 mins a week to get the updates, 20 mins of actual work running the Bart disk to clean a system)
Well, as much as I'd like to believe it, I think the state has an 'out' with the 2nd clause.
Keyword is Discriminatory.
If they charge you the tax whether you drive out of state and pick it up yourself, if you order it via the net, or order over the phone, then it's tough to call it discriminatory.
I didn't start getting BSG episodes until the Christmas weekend. I was easily able to get the previous 10 episodes (far from being hot). In fact, to date the only time a d/l has failed was when the original copy got corrupted and kept failing a hash check.
Even if there isn't a single seed, as long as the peer size is decent (40%+), I'll go for it. By the time I get past that 40% or some, someone starts seeding again.
Again, that's been my experience. Obviously, YMMV.
a) Supreme court telling a local school district (under control of the parents of the affected students) what to do say, effectively taking away local control of said school district
b) Parents of school children in this district are disturbed enough that they feel stickers are needed to clarify their position.
(disclaimer - I am a devout Christian. I see God as Perfection. The perfect Artist, the perfect Engineer. And in His creation I delight in the simple beauty of numbers, their relationship, and the way they effect and can describe the makeup of the universe)
If anyone wants a reasonable discussion of Creationism and Scientific Theory and how they work together, feel free to respond to this post.
Of course we do. There's a process for modifying the Constitution. All we need to do is repeal the 2nd Amendment, and then all the states can make whatever laws their representatives can pass.
But until we change the Constitution, we ABSOLUTELY should not try to shortcut it or second-guess the Founding Fathers.
(personally, I'd support the repeal of the 2nd Amendment. But I oppose all gun control legislation of any lesser degree)
In Asia, bigotry is a key value of the cultures. Note that Japan is not part of Asian society; Japan is a Western nation.
Are claiming the Japanese culture is not bigoted?
I would point to how Korean immigrants (2nd or 3rd generation even) are treated very much as second-class citizns, as well as the few remaining native islanders (Aihu? IIRC) are treated by contemporary Japanese.
There is also the well documented example of how Westerners are treated, even those who speak Japanese fluently.
Exactly. They researched biological weapons. They were never part of the inventory. At no point could the president of the US go and say "Hey, General so-and-so, you have authorization to use biological weapons. Go over and pick yourself up some, and have at it."
Weapons of Mass Destructions fall into the three categories:
Nuclear Biological Chemical
Of the three, the US only has large stockpiles of the first, nuclear. They have minimal quantities of chemical weapon and are in the process of disposing of them.
The US has never created or maintained any biological weapons.
You're confusing 'negligence' with 'criminal negligence'
The former is "failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances"
The latter is "recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences"
It's difference between getting fired, and going to prison.
Was Warren negligent? I think a case could be made. Was he criminally negligent? No.
There is a distinct qualitative difference between duplicating digital content for your own private use/entertainment and duplicating IP to create goods and services to sell
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"The fact that people complain means that it's broken. QED."
Un, no. That people complain means that they THINK it's broken. It's up to said people to explain how and why they think it's broken.
While at first I thought ICANN screwed up by not approving .xxx, I got to thinking and realized that it was a good thing, for exactly the reasons the UN wants to admin TLDs... .xxx is another TLD and whatever is allowed there would be based on US rules and morals, which are quite different than say what's allowed in Japan or Brazil.
.xxx.us or .xxx.br or .xxx.jp so each country can set the appropriate standards.
It would be better to have a
From the summary: "This heralds a farewell to Cingular's Go Phone and Sprint-Nextel's Boost services, both powered by BCGI."
In regards to Cingular, not exactly.
Cingular has two forms of prepaid service (GoPhone).
One is 'Pick-Your-Plan'. You have a reoccuring monthly charge on your credit or debit card which gives you a monthly allowence for service.
The other is 'Pay-As-You-Go'. You buy a prepaid card off the rack, and use that to make your calls on your cell. As you use it up, you replace the card. That's the part that will be affected by this ruling.
Yeah, that whole "reading" thing must be a bit beyond you, eh?
Flooding in eastern states leaves 10 dead has been on CNN.com's front page since Sunday.
Oy!
"[...]the Minister sent strong signals in the direction of Redmond to open up or become irrelevant to the Norwegian Government."
Umm... Off hand, I can't think of much that is more irrelevant than the Norwegian Government.
Now if the EU or the USA were to do this, then Redmond might get worried.
The argument is something like this...
State > "You have kiddie porn on your PC"
Defendent > "It's not mine! I got from surfing the web, and accidently clicked a link"
State > "If it was an accident, why did you encrypt it and archive it, instead of erasing it? Hmm? Hmmm? HMMM?"
Defendent > "Damn"
The presence of an encryption program (in this case, PGP) merely contributes that the defendent KNOWNINGLY did somethin illegal (by trying to hid his trail), and it wasn't a mere accident.
no one is suggesting that we don't pay for it.
But once I pay for it, i should be able to transfer the digital work to any format I require for me to use it.
Burn it to a CD, copy it to another PC i also own, etc...
This subject was hashed out at length over on the SciFi BBS when '33' first aired.
As I recall, the follwoing points were brought up.
a) It takes the humans a considerable amount of time to calculate an FTL jump, and dissemenate the accurate coordinates to the rest of the fleet.
b) Jumping has an entropical effect on the responsible systems and require maintainence and upkeep to be performed before the next one.
c) take the maximum available rest and recuperation for the human crew.
and a bunch of other things too, but I can't seem to locate the thread any longer.
I've been using BartPE for a year now. The inital basic setup is very easy. It's also easy to customize it to add in your applications. Well, it's easy to add it into BartPE (loadable .inf files) , but sometimes you have to do a LOT of digging into Windows and the specific application to determine WHAT you need to add to said .inf.
My BartPE disk has Ad-Aware SE, and I use SFX to make self-extracting executable of Spybot. For AV stuff, I use Mcafee GUI plugin for their command line scanner, and Sysclean (by the same folks that make pc-cillin). Also Mcafee's Stinger is loaded, too.
I put it on a CD-RW, and once a week d/l the updates, then use the Bart PEBuilder program to rebuild an ISO, and burn that to a CD-RW.
Virus scans, spyware files... all are gone without having to boot into the compromised OS. Registry cleaning requires you to boot into the OS, but once the files are gone, that makes it a lot easier to clean.
It's not 100%, but it vastly improves the chances of fixing the system, with minimal time (30 mins a week to get the updates, 20 mins of actual work running the Bart disk to clean a system)
Well, as much as I'd like to believe it, I think the state has an 'out' with the 2nd clause.
Keyword is Discriminatory.
If they charge you the tax whether you drive out of state and pick it up yourself, if you order it via the net, or order over the phone, then it's tough to call it discriminatory.
I didn't start getting BSG episodes until the Christmas weekend. I was easily able to get the previous 10 episodes (far from being hot). In fact, to date the only time a d/l has failed was when the original copy got corrupted and kept failing a hash check.
Even if there isn't a single seed, as long as the peer size is decent (40%+), I'll go for it. By the time I get past that 40% or some, someone starts seeding again.
Again, that's been my experience. Obviously, YMMV.
That matches my experience when I first started using bittorrent.
But then I figured out how to configure my router/NAT box to foward BT ports to my computer.
Battlestar Galactica takes me just over 24 hours to d/l. 350 Mb in size, about 5kb/s download speed.
I'm on a dial-up, so that's about as good as it gets.
I'm not sure which is more disturbing;
a) Supreme court telling a local school district (under control of the parents of the affected students) what to do say, effectively taking away local control of said school district
b) Parents of school children in this district are disturbed enough that they feel stickers are needed to clarify their position.
(disclaimer - I am a devout Christian. I see God as Perfection. The perfect Artist, the perfect Engineer. And in His creation I delight in the simple beauty of numbers, their relationship, and the way they effect and can describe the makeup of the universe)
If anyone wants a reasonable discussion of Creationism and Scientific Theory and how they work together, feel free to respond to this post.
Oh wait, this is Slashdot. My bad.
Of course we do. There's a process for modifying the Constitution. All we need to do is repeal the 2nd Amendment, and then all the states can make whatever laws their representatives can pass.
But until we change the Constitution, we ABSOLUTELY should not try to shortcut it or second-guess the Founding Fathers.
(personally, I'd support the repeal of the 2nd Amendment. But I oppose all gun control legislation of any lesser degree)
this has nothing to do about the legal state of their citzenship... I'm talking about how they are treated by the Japanese culture as a whole.
In Asia, bigotry is a key value of the cultures. Note that Japan is not part of Asian society; Japan is a Western nation.
Are claiming the Japanese culture is not bigoted?
I would point to how Korean immigrants (2nd or 3rd generation even) are treated very much as second-class citizns, as well as the few remaining native islanders (Aihu? IIRC) are treated by contemporary Japanese.
There is also the well documented example of how Westerners are treated, even those who speak Japanese fluently.
Exactly. They researched biological weapons. They were never part of the inventory. At no point could the president of the US go and say "Hey, General so-and-so, you have authorization to use biological weapons. Go over and pick yourself up some, and have at it."
Landmates, baby! All we're missing is the hot chick with gun and the massive cyborg with even bigger guns.
In the US inventory, there is no 'weaponized' anthrax. A small quantity is kept on hand at Fort Derrick, MD, to test and create vaccines.
Weapons of Mass Destructions fall into the three categories:
Nuclear
Biological
Chemical
Of the three, the US only has large stockpiles of the first, nuclear. They have minimal quantities of chemical weapon and are in the process of disposing of them.
The US has never created or maintained any biological weapons.
You're confusing 'negligence' with 'criminal negligence'
The former is "failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances"
The latter is "recklessly acting without reasonable caution and putting another person at risk of injury or death (or failing to do something with the same consequences"
It's difference between getting fired, and going to prison.
Was Warren negligent? I think a case could be made. Was he criminally negligent? No.
in case A, the benefit is the use of said digital property. In case B, the benefit is millions of dollars from reselling said IP
There is a distinct qualitative difference between duplicating digital content for your own private use/entertainment and duplicating IP to create goods and services to sell
Well, I would only want to point out that the US didn't put a known madmen / dictator in power... He kind of became that way after he was set up.
From that POV, the USA had every right to take him down, since he backstabbed them and turned to the 'dark side'.