Just like the meat in the supermarket is made of dead animals. The problem is that a lot of people don't want to know that and wilfully ignore that fact. Also, there are complete systems that help the ignoring, like the stock exchange.
A simple hack may be sufficient to be free from *insert personal enemy here* in all pubs. And, following Australia a bit, soon in a lot of other places as well.
Probably because Microsoft is strong in the corporate environment. And just because the iPad is largely a consumer thingy. Only I don't think it works this way anymore. In the past, expensive machines were bought by companies and the employees wanted those machines for home use also, so corporate use was some kind of advertisement. But now, most people who would want such a thing already own an iPad.
Indeed. And foreign "not so smart" people are cheaper (for the right value of "foreign"). That this causes unemployment and therefore poverty and places a large burden on society is apparently somebody elses problem.
I suspect there once was a time that economy was merely a tool to run society, instead of society being merely a tool to run the economy.
You must be old here. Yes there was a time when an OS vendor was proud that its MS-DOS was the most pirated software in the world. Times have changed. The companies grew up, saw that "everybody" was dependent on them, and suddenly yelled that piracy was bad. Off course you are right that the easy copying made them big. That is why the worse programs on the PC survived. Not because the programs were good, but because they were easily copied.
The next step was even more brilliant: making copying even more easy (e.g., pre-instaled on a new PC; you now have to go through trouble not wanting a copy) while still making it illegal to use it.
Sort of. If it's a public / private key pair, you already have the public key so you can use the device, but I think it is the private key that is discovered. So you could install a copy protection circumvention application on it. Nobody says you will do so, however.
In the USA, office employees are kept in a sort of shoe-box with a size that, for understandable reasons, is measured in feet. Those boxes have shrunk.
On the contrary. The competition makes sure that prices are lowest where people do have a choice and highest where people don't. When you "remain" with your supplier, your supplier will try to attract you with low prices. When another supplier is forced to use its services, the price is as high as possible. If only so the customer price can be more attractive. This is a result of competition. Competition means customers want freedom and suppliers want lock-ins. And guess who has the advantage? No customer is big enough to build his own alternative network.
Why two panes? I want ONE pane slightly tilted. Just like the ancient book stands, writing tables, etc. People were ergonomic in the middle ages, but apparently this knowledge is long lost, so we type down, look front and point somewhere right nowadays. Why? I want to look where I type and where I point. There, that wasn't hard, was it? That is an ergonomic solution. Not a digital reproduction of the torture apparatus that is still basically a 60's teletype terminal with a rodent attached.
Yes, but up to a point. That point is that you want to cooperate. If you really are a crook, you would not. In your analogy, a telephone provider can cut off people who use their phone for sexual harassment, for example. Not that this is not something automatic, but (thank goodness) requires a serious procedure and complaint from the victim before such a thing is done. Also, this is done in cooperation with the police and the culprit has to face the law instead of just an automatic switch off.
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I feel sorry for the pony.
This must surely come from the Department of Inadvisably Applied Magic!
Just like the meat in the supermarket is made of dead animals. The problem is that a lot of people don't want to know that and wilfully ignore that fact. Also, there are complete systems that help the ignoring, like the stock exchange.
when can they learn to clean my toilet?
After you've shown them. But first the robots have learned that it is more energy-efficient to force you to do it...
A simple hack may be sufficient to be free from *insert personal enemy here* in all pubs. And, following Australia a bit, soon in a lot of other places as well.
I am from before the first browser war.
Probably because Microsoft is strong in the corporate environment. And just because the iPad is largely a consumer thingy. Only I don't think it works this way anymore. In the past, expensive machines were bought by companies and the employees wanted those machines for home use also, so corporate use was some kind of advertisement. But now, most people who would want such a thing already own an iPad.
Indeed. And foreign "not so smart" people are cheaper (for the right value of "foreign"). That this causes unemployment and therefore poverty and places a large burden on society is apparently somebody elses problem.
I suspect there once was a time that economy was merely a tool to run society, instead of society being merely a tool to run the economy.
I'm afraid that when you say "fly height" you don't know whether its your fly or the the device you are talking about.
Indeed. Judges in the USA have already ruled that nobody ever has a legal expectation of privacy.
can anyone provide any actual logic for this proposition ?
They found the server because a document on wikileaks said it would be there?
I am feeling that "higher" trustworthiness means "lower" integrity. That is an awful foul definition of trust, especially in an "open" government.
You must be old here. Yes there was a time when an OS vendor was proud that its MS-DOS was the most pirated software in the world. Times have changed. The companies grew up, saw that "everybody" was dependent on them, and suddenly yelled that piracy was bad. Off course you are right that the easy copying made them big. That is why the worse programs on the PC survived. Not because the programs were good, but because they were easily copied.
The next step was even more brilliant: making copying even more easy (e.g., pre-instaled on a new PC; you now have to go through trouble not wanting a copy) while still making it illegal to use it.
Sort of. If it's a public / private key pair, you already have the public key so you can use the device, but I think it is the private key that is discovered. So you could install a copy protection circumvention application on it. Nobody says you will do so, however.
Maybe I'm missing something, but last I knew "We don't like him" wasn't a valid reason for shipping to Gitmo or executions
Well, given that they declared war on a NATO partner for housing the international court of justice, I think you did miss something.
Just the War on Freedom.
Either that, or the Swedish were made of silicon and their brains stopped superconducting as they heated their houses.
Indeed. What's the difference between one burglar breaking into your house or having your house officially opened as a public space for everyone?
In the USA, office employees are kept in a sort of shoe-box with a size that, for understandable reasons, is measured in feet. Those boxes have shrunk.
In fact, a whole cloud of them.
On the contrary. The competition makes sure that prices are lowest where people do have a choice and highest where people don't. When you "remain" with your supplier, your supplier will try to attract you with low prices. When another supplier is forced to use its services, the price is as high as possible. If only so the customer price can be more attractive. This is a result of competition. Competition means customers want freedom and suppliers want lock-ins. And guess who has the advantage? No customer is big enough to build his own alternative network.
Not really. VB grew up (it is now just java with syntactic sugar). PHP, on the other hand, is going back to the 80s of the previous century.
Why two panes? I want ONE pane slightly tilted. Just like the ancient book stands, writing tables, etc. People were ergonomic in the middle ages, but apparently this knowledge is long lost, so we type down, look front and point somewhere right nowadays. Why? I want to look where I type and where I point. There, that wasn't hard, was it? That is an ergonomic solution. Not a digital reproduction of the torture apparatus that is still basically a 60's teletype terminal with a rodent attached.
Yes, but up to a point. That point is that you want to cooperate. If you really are a crook, you would not. In your analogy, a telephone provider can cut off people who use their phone for sexual harassment, for example. Not that this is not something automatic, but (thank goodness) requires a serious procedure and complaint from the victim before such a thing is done. Also, this is done in cooperation with the police and the culprit has to face the law instead of just an automatic switch off.
How dare you make fun of the Humorous and Organized Crimes Agency?