The US has plenty of unsavory people over the years like Ferdinand Marcos, and refused to extradite him. Under your logic the Philippines had a right to attack the US into submission. Keep in mind in years coming that new powers on the rise might be tempted to use the same logic against the US.
Poorly Written Summary. Something not many people many if any will care about. Yesterday we the 'Language Translation Error' One-liner and now this? How did this story get picked?
Proof. So there you go. Slashdot runs an article announcing China has lifted the ban, Slasdotters swallow it and then...
"But the IOC warned that while these sites may be accessible to journalists in Beijing, the rest of the country would still be subject to China's filtered version of the Internet. Additionally, certain types of sites will remain blocked across all of China, including porn and those that are considered "subversive" or against national interests (such as sites related to the Falun Gong and many Tibetan organizations). Gosper attempted to justify this by adding, "That's normal in most countries in the world." Um, yeah... right."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080801-china-opens-crack-in-great-firewall-for-olympic-presschina-opens-internet-for-press-ioc-declares-issue-solved.html
If you haven't already noticed, China has a habit of promising not to do something, then going and doing it anyway. What makes you think this time is any different? It'd be just like them to turn it off anyway just before the games start.
It's amazing how easily Western politicians and bureaucrats are duped.
BTW note someone "moderated" my post as a troll and it went straight to zero. Presumably not over not copypasting Webb. I though Obama was great until he did the FISA backflip, but say anything back about him and get whacked down. Slashdot needs a way to moderate the "moderators"; moderator points are handed out far to freely.
The NOAA takes its licensing claims very seriously. It's far more lucrative that ocean and atmosphears stuff. No. paperwork is where the real future lies.
http://www.licensing.noaa.gov/
> NOAA can take its license requirement and stick it up its... er, NOAA doesn't even have one of those.
On the contrary, Doctor Ruby, this exercise has shown that the NOAA has *MANY* of those. Seriously. Both parties say government should "get out of people's lives", then let this stuff go on. Personally I'd tell any sniveling NOAA bureaucrat who als me up to do exactly what you suggested. They seem to forget they work for us, the taxpayer.
Looks that way to me too, but if you look at the replies to this story seems most people didn't both to (a) read yours, or (b) think about it before posting. Web 2.0 is a nice way of feeling like people are listening to you, when they don't and you don't listen to them either. Circlejerk is the term I'm thinking of.
Well RCADman. Nice PR work there. You suckered them good.
> The service is not expected to be particularly profitable; Amazon is most likely looking to the future.
It won't be particularly profitable because it won't be particularly successful. 'Streaming' is just a variation of DRM. Even if you 'retain ownership' of the movie, Streaming is a pain in the ass. Every time you watch it, deduct x Mb of your bandwidth, lag days, can't watch while not connected and one day they'll kill the servers just like Microsoft did with their DRM music. Take Lynda.com: a great idea but stuck in the we-stream-it-we-own-it mindset. If they got off their streaming high-horse, they'd sell more.
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To the humorless mod: This was a joke. Get a sense of humor and remod.
Yes. Invisibility will greatly aid us in the fight against Cancer...
The US has plenty of unsavory people over the years like Ferdinand Marcos, and refused to extradite him. Under your logic the Philippines had a right to attack the US into submission. Keep in mind in years coming that new powers on the rise might be tempted to use the same logic against the US.
For this to work you need to say why it's ludicrous.
Cool! Anyone know what they are they paying?
Well argued. If I could mod you up I would.
It says he learned programming on his own time (they refused his request for training) and programmed the system at home on his own time.
* If Movie Studios don't pay their artists, that's fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
* If Big Media (like News Limited) cons the public of of their IP that's fine too. http://www.bjphoto.co.uk/public/showPage.html?page=807947
* When I hire a DVD I have to sit through an FBI warning telling me copying is bad, but...
* If the Government hacks software to get around license restrictions, that's fine.
Wow.
Watch out! Anyone pointing out how a kdawson story isn't news gets moderated down as a troll. I can't even work out how this got out of the firehose.
Poorly Written Summary. Something not many people many if any will care about. Yesterday we the 'Language Translation Error' One-liner and now this? How did this story get picked?
If this name grab fails, they could always use 'Crippled Audio Computing' in honor of their secret deal with the RIAA. http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/11/0128203
Funny, but not news.
Proof. So there you go. Slashdot runs an article announcing China has lifted the ban, Slasdotters swallow it and then...
"But the IOC warned that while these sites may be accessible to journalists in Beijing, the rest of the country would still be subject to China's filtered version of the Internet. Additionally, certain types of sites will remain blocked across all of China, including porn and those that are considered "subversive" or against national interests (such as sites related to the Falun Gong and many Tibetan organizations). Gosper attempted to justify this by adding, "That's normal in most countries in the world." Um, yeah... right." http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080801-china-opens-crack-in-great-firewall-for-olympic-presschina-opens-internet-for-press-ioc-declares-issue-solved.html
If you haven't already noticed, China has a habit of promising not to do something, then going and doing it anyway. What makes you think this time is any different? It'd be just like them to turn it off anyway just before the games start.
It's amazing how easily Western politicians and bureaucrats are duped.
That was xp. I finally resolved my nv4_disp BSOD's by switching from nVidia to a beautiful ATI 1950Pro. Bless its little heart.
Thanks for your post. I got it from this web site: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4572001 They in turn copypasted it from this link: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=2&vote=00015 But as you not it was a bad copypaste. Apologies for that. Next time I'll do my own.
BTW note someone "moderated" my post as a troll and it went straight to zero. Presumably not over not copypasting Webb. I though Obama was great until he did the FISA backflip, but say anything back about him and get whacked down. Slashdot needs a way to moderate the "moderators"; moderator points are handed out far to freely.
Clinton to her credit abstained
> 8x9800gx2s donated by NVIDIA.
;)
I wonder how many BSODFLOPS (Blue screens of death per second) it can generate?
http://byronmiller.typepad.com/byronmiller/2005/10/stupid_windows_.html http://www.google.com.au/search?q=nvidia+'blue+screen+of+death'+nv4_disp
The NOAA takes its licensing claims very seriously. It's far more lucrative that ocean and atmosphears stuff. No. paperwork is where the real future lies. http://www.licensing.noaa.gov/
1. Don't.
Sweet, huh?
> NOAA can take its license requirement and stick it up its... er, NOAA doesn't even have one of those.
On the contrary, Doctor Ruby, this exercise has shown that the NOAA has *MANY* of those. Seriously. Both parties say government should "get out of people's lives", then let this stuff go on. Personally I'd tell any sniveling NOAA bureaucrat who als me up to do exactly what you suggested. They seem to forget they work for us, the taxpayer.
> "The New York Times (BugMeNot required) is reporting that NASA ...
Fixed!
Looks that way to me too, but if you look at the replies to this story seems most people didn't both to (a) read yours, or (b) think about it before posting. Web 2.0 is a nice way of feeling like people are listening to you, when they don't and you don't listen to them either. Circlejerk is the term I'm thinking of.
Well RCADman. Nice PR work there. You suckered them good.
> Just semantics, I know, but UBISoft didn't steal anything. They haven't deprived the originators of any use of their CD crack.
So if I copy a game I had no intention of buying, I am not stealing either?
> The service is not expected to be particularly profitable; Amazon is most likely looking to the future.
It won't be particularly profitable because it won't be particularly successful. 'Streaming' is just a variation of DRM. Even if you 'retain ownership' of the movie, Streaming is a pain in the ass. Every time you watch it, deduct x Mb of your bandwidth, lag days, can't watch while not connected and one day they'll kill the servers just like Microsoft did with their DRM music. Take Lynda.com: a great idea but stuck in the we-stream-it-we-own-it mindset. If they got off their streaming high-horse, they'd sell more.