"You read that rightthe Christian Coalition has joined everyone from Google to MoveOn to the Gun Owners of America in the fight for Internet freedom."
MoveOn lists the Gun Owners of America as a supporter of the Net Neutrality initive, Andy Carvin may have mixed up the two but that doesn't mean that they're the same group
...how this is good for France, since the businesses will just pack up and leave.
Other businesses will be happy to take their place. It's not like no one will EVERY do business in France because the law protects consumers more than businesses.
It's like the drug companies saying that if the US imposes price controls on medicines that they won't have a profit motive to sell the drugs here. Well, Canada has price controls and they're quite happy to sell their wares there.
would have a really good chance to reproduce a lot of what's going on in Silicon Valley if it weren't for the bullshit politics that go on in the city.
Pittsburgh has CMU, Pitt, Duquesne, Robert Morris, Chatham and a few smaller tech schools withing a 15 minutes of each other. There are all kinds of former industrial sites where manufacturing (Chip Fabbing/circuit board assemble) could go on. Housing is extremely affordable. A house in an upscale suburb that would go for $150k in Pittsburg would easily be a $700k house in many other cities. Since there aren't many tech jobs in the city, people leave after they get their degrees. If people could get jobs in their field, they'd stay in town.
A couple of billion dollars of VC would do wonders for the town.
This is nothing new. Most schools, even in areas that are highly "liberal," try to control their students' thoughts and actions to the point of extreme.
I think you meant ESPECIALLY in areas that are highly "liberal".
Evan Coyne Maloney details a case where a student on a liberal campus was theatened with expulsion for "hate speech" because they didn't like the "Ellen" series finale.
If the officers of a company gave their official endorsement of criminal activity, they can and should be held criminally liable.
The thing is that I don't hear anything about the company that created the thing, and what has been done to them, and what kind of precedent has been set if some other company tries to do the same thing.
The third party didn't put the software onto the discs and then distribute them. Same as how Smith & Wesson may have made the pistol but it was the criminal who used it to shoot someone.
I'll start to suspect that JVC & Hitachi have successfully planted sleeper operatives within Sony to bring it to its knees.
"Let's refuse to license our VCR technology, no one is ever going to buy that VHS crap."
"Let's install software to fuck up the computers of our customers, no one will ever know."
"Let's take away the one incentive people have to buy expensive titles for our consoles, I know some people plan to sell games after they've beaten them but they'll keep paying $69.95 for titles that they're stuck with."
Assuming we could fully repair braindeath (ie, restore the brain when higher functions have been lost), what would remain of the original person? Would we have an adult with infantile brain capabilities, a blank slate? How much of a person's identity is hardcoded?
Starting over with a blank slate is better than starving to death.
Another question is would this enable a person to feel pain that they wouldn't have otherwise.
Last time I checked, (2 mins ago), Avast! Home doesn't have a commandline interface, that function is provided by a separate program in the Professional edition.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that the ashQuick.exe allows you to launch a scan from commandline, it is included in the free Home version of Avast.
If a 15 year old script kiddie had done the kind of damage that Sony did with its rootkit, he'd be spending a couple of years in a "Federal PMITA prison" why does Sony get off this lightly?
No one has ever been able to explain to my satisfaction why ticket scalping is illegal. Ticket "brokering" is legal, but scalping is a crime?
Scalping is a short term investment. If someone takes the time and money to buy 20 seats to an event, why shouldn't they be able to sell those tickets to people who want them? Why shouldn't they be able to charge whatever people are willing to pay for them?
It's not like concert tickets are a life and death matter. People don't NEED them. In the days of $3.40 gallons of gasoline it's idiotic to tell people what they can and can't charge for tickets to concerts and sporting events.
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The only slight drawback to this method is that quick reports only get sent for the source of the spam, but not for the web sites advertised in them.
That isn't necessarily a bad thing, it makes Joe Jobs harder.
LK
They will always sell drugs, the question is do they invest lots of money on development if the path to a return is hindered substantially?
This might be true if it hadn't already been shown that drug companies spend more money on advertising than research, in some cases nearly three times more.
LK
If the GP lost, then who won the debate? The null user? Zonk, the article poster?
Michael Bloomberg.
LK
MoveOn lists the Gun Owners of America as a supporter of the Net Neutrality initive, Andy Carvin may have mixed up the two but that doesn't mean that they're the same group
LK
...how this is good for France, since the businesses will just pack up and leave.
Other businesses will be happy to take their place. It's not like no one will EVERY do business in France because the law protects consumers more than businesses.
It's like the drug companies saying that if the US imposes price controls on medicines that they won't have a profit motive to sell the drugs here. Well, Canada has price controls and they're quite happy to sell their wares there.
LK
Romulan, Klingon, Dominion or the Federation cloak?
If it's the Federation cloak, I want nothing to do with it.
LK
would have a really good chance to reproduce a lot of what's going on in Silicon Valley if it weren't for the bullshit politics that go on in the city.
Pittsburgh has CMU, Pitt, Duquesne, Robert Morris, Chatham and a few smaller tech schools withing a 15 minutes of each other. There are all kinds of former industrial sites where manufacturing (Chip Fabbing/circuit board assemble) could go on. Housing is extremely affordable. A house in an upscale suburb that would go for $150k in Pittsburg would easily be a $700k house in many other cities. Since there aren't many tech jobs in the city, people leave after they get their degrees. If people could get jobs in their field, they'd stay in town.
A couple of billion dollars of VC would do wonders for the town.
LK
It's like the firebrigade trying to save your house with flamethrowers.
Or it's like politicians destroying the rights of the citizenry to protect them from terrorists.
LK
Your link is long on snipets but very short on details and context. And thus, worthless.
Look you lazy bastard. He has the video hosted there. If you can't find it, http://www.torrentz.com/torrent_70924.html
Long on context and long on details.
LK
This is nothing new. Most schools, even in areas that are highly "liberal," try to control their students' thoughts and actions to the point of extreme.
I think you meant ESPECIALLY in areas that are highly "liberal".
Evan Coyne Maloney details a case where a student on a liberal campus was theatened with expulsion for "hate speech" because they didn't like the "Ellen" series finale.
LK
I'm curious. Are school districts bound by the first amendment in the United States?
If the district accepts ANY money from the federal government, yes.
LK
The problem is that a _company_ did the bad thing, not a "person". Can't put a company in prison, now can you?
You can put executives in jail, look at Enron.
If the officers of a company gave their official endorsement of criminal activity, they can and should be held criminally liable.
The thing is that I don't hear anything about the company that created the thing, and what has been done to them, and what kind of precedent has been set if some other company tries to do the same thing.
The third party didn't put the software onto the discs and then distribute them. Same as how Smith & Wesson may have made the pistol but it was the criminal who used it to shoot someone.
LK
I'll start to suspect that JVC & Hitachi have successfully planted sleeper operatives within Sony to bring it to its knees.
"Let's refuse to license our VCR technology, no one is ever going to buy that VHS crap."
"Let's install software to fuck up the computers of our customers, no one will ever know."
"Let's take away the one incentive people have to buy expensive titles for our consoles, I know some people plan to sell games after they've beaten them but they'll keep paying $69.95 for titles that they're stuck with."
LK
Why can't you just leave the asses of the world alone?
If you have to ask, I can't explain.
LK
It should be noted that the 'horns' are for directional wireless (and also cover USB ports when not in use) - remember that if you want to mock them!
I was thinking that *BSD would be a great choice as an OS, it would be a backdoor attempt to keep the Daemon's image out there.
LK
Assuming we could fully repair braindeath (ie, restore the brain when higher functions have been lost), what would remain of the original person? Would we have an adult with infantile brain capabilities, a blank slate? How much of a person's identity is hardcoded?
Starting over with a blank slate is better than starving to death.
Another question is would this enable a person to feel pain that they wouldn't have otherwise.
LK
That's why German police always introduce themselve with "May we come in?" :-)
If they don't have a warrant, American police do as well. When the BATF came knocking at my door, they asked to be let in as well.
LK
That milestone saw Germany lose Asprin and all sorts of intellectual property,
You mean synthetic Aspirin? Aspirin was extracted from Willow trees, how in the fuck can that be IP?
LK
Sorry, I forgot to mention that the ashQuick.exe allows you to launch a scan from commandline, it is included in the free Home version of Avast.
Check again.
I have a batch file that executes...
Now I can be sure that my Windows directory is virus free on a regular basis without taking any additional action.
LK
I found my girlfriend through Slashdot
/. journal. She has no friends, foes, fans or freaks.
Oh yeah, how is that possible when she has never made a single post on Slashdot?
She's never used her
Could she be imaginary?
LK
If a 15 year old script kiddie had done the kind of damage that Sony did with its rootkit, he'd be spending a couple of years in a "Federal PMITA prison" why does Sony get off this lightly?
Someone should be incarcerated over this.
LK
No one has ever been able to explain to my satisfaction why ticket scalping is illegal. Ticket "brokering" is legal, but scalping is a crime?
Scalping is a short term investment. If someone takes the time and money to buy 20 seats to an event, why shouldn't they be able to sell those tickets to people who want them? Why shouldn't they be able to charge whatever people are willing to pay for them?
It's not like concert tickets are a life and death matter. People don't NEED them. In the days of $3.40 gallons of gasoline it's idiotic to tell people what they can and can't charge for tickets to concerts and sporting events.
LK
Linux for Dummies. The rest I learned from man pages and the PDFs that came bundled with me early distros.
LK
sched.exe allows you to use the command prompt to schedule a scan.
LK
That would work, but software is supposed to fit into the way I do things I'm not supposed to fit the way I do things into the way software works.
LK