You said "Globalization was not meant to benefit peons like us," when in fact it does benefit a lot of "peons". It just doesn't benefit you.
But none of this explains why Australians can't buy a DVD or a game from US at US prices
Games cost more because you buy them at those prices, hence retailers and distributors have no incentive to lower them. Companies are like children, you can't complain they are lazy and don't do their homework if you reward such behavior.
Whether Galician is or not a Portuguese dialet is debatable. The Academia Galega da Lingua Portuguesa (Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language) claims it is.
Globalization has enabled hundreds of millions to people to rise from poverty and many into middle-class, but since those are Chinese and Indonesians and not privileged Americans, they don't count, right?
The hypocrisy and selfishness disguised as anti-corporativism is disgusting.
Slashdot is upvoting the Communist Manifesto? That's unexpected.
(funnily enough, the marxists.org page, which hosts the Manifesto, claims copyright over the document! It's probably over the translation, but still hilariously hypocrite)
The SSN system is stupid, but the CC system isn't any better.
You have to give a single set of numbers to a merchant (or other) and hope that not a single one fucks up, or you have to cancel the whole card and all the stuff (e.g. recurring payments) associated with it. It's fucking braindead, especially nowadays.
Here we like to complain about our banks, but at least we have decent payment system where the payer and not the payee initiates the transaction, as it should. Not to mention free virtual CCs for when we have to interact with foreign merchants.
Even where there were no schools people still mostly learnt to read and write. Literacy rates have not changed much in the last 100 years in England.
Considering that compulsory schooling was introduced in England more than 100 years ago, I don't see how the latter statement tells anything about the former. Not to mention that there were schools many years before that, including some created by the church.
But in 1839, man illiteracy rates were 33% and women rates were 50%. And by illiterate, I mean they had to register at their weddings with a cross because they couldn't sign their own name.
So yes, I'd say there's a decent correlation between available schooling and literacy. Which may just be a coincidence, of course.
Sigh. That's not true. First-to-file doesn't eliminate prior art as a eliminating rule for patent applications.
The only difference between first-to-file and first-to-invent is when you have two patent applications for the same underlying invention, and the USPTO needs to decide who to attribute it to. Before, you could submit unpublished evidence of the date of your invention (e.g. dated documents), but not it decides based on who files first.
Read the USPTO new rules, they explain clearly that AIA will actually expand, not eliminate, prior art as as excluding factor.
OT, but why did the not work? There should be an upside down question mark before the question, and it won't render.
Ha, are you expecting Slashdot to handle weird stuff like the full set of HTML entities? We're lucky to get accents and not be restricted to pure ASCII.
It was reasonable when it started; nowadays when everyone supports unicode, it's pitiful.
Hmm, then get an Arduino? Because that's essentially its build process. Run avr-gcc to compile and build, avr-objcopy to convert the binary to an hex file, then avrdude to flash the uC. Done!
The fact that they don't comply with your expectations doesn't make them hypocrites. If DivX Finland doesn't copy the films for commercial purposes, using a non-commercial license is not inconsistent.
That's because it's weak and leaves you vulnerable to snooping by Microsoft (either for their own purposes or for someone else's, like law enforcement), since there's no way for you to verify that you're communicating directly with the other party's instance, and that the network doesn't have a copy of its key. This is the reason why people using PGP/GPG publish their fingerprints.
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You said "Globalization was not meant to benefit peons like us," when in fact it does benefit a lot of "peons". It just doesn't benefit you.
But none of this explains why Australians can't buy a DVD or a game from US at US prices
Games cost more because you buy them at those prices, hence retailers and distributors have no incentive to lower them.
Companies are like children, you can't complain they are lazy and don't do their homework if you reward such behavior.
Stop paying and they'll drop.
Never said it was. But many (not most, unfortunately) have already moved up from that level.
For the majority that hasn't, it still beats the alternative, which is all they would have if it wasn't for the "big bad" globalization.
Whooosh!
normal computer users will go "Well that was rude!" and "What is Linux?"
Getting people to ask the latter question is already a goal achieved.
Portuguese.
Whether Galician is or not a Portuguese dialet is debatable. The Academia Galega da Lingua Portuguesa (Galician Academy of the Portuguese Language) claims it is.
While we Portuguese do have hipsters, Galicia is not in Portugal, it's in Spain.
Globalization has enabled hundreds of millions to people to rise from poverty and many into middle-class, but since those are Chinese and Indonesians and not privileged Americans, they don't count, right?
The hypocrisy and selfishness disguised as anti-corporativism is disgusting.
Slashdot is upvoting the Communist Manifesto? That's unexpected.
(funnily enough, the marxists.org page, which hosts the Manifesto, claims copyright over the document! It's probably over the translation, but still hilariously hypocrite)
If you're using HTTPS, the ISP can't track what you're searching, just that you are accessing DDG.
The SSN system is stupid, but the CC system isn't any better.
You have to give a single set of numbers to a merchant (or other) and hope that not a single one fucks up, or you have to cancel the whole card and all the stuff (e.g. recurring payments) associated with it. It's fucking braindead, especially nowadays.
Here we like to complain about our banks, but at least we have decent payment system where the payer and not the payee initiates the transaction, as it should. Not to mention free virtual CCs for when we have to interact with foreign merchants.
Even where there were no schools people still mostly learnt to read and write. Literacy rates have not changed much in the last 100 years in England.
Considering that compulsory schooling was introduced in England more than 100 years ago, I don't see how the latter statement tells anything about the former. Not to mention that there were schools many years before that, including some created by the church.
But in 1839, man illiteracy rates were 33% and women rates were 50%. And by illiterate, I mean they had to register at their weddings with a cross because they couldn't sign their own name.
So yes, I'd say there's a decent correlation between available schooling and literacy. Which may just be a coincidence, of course.
We're talking about the EC here, there are no "elected representatives". The 27 members of the College are appointed by the member states.
Sigh. That's not true . First-to-file doesn't eliminate prior art as a eliminating rule for patent applications.
The only difference between first-to-file and first-to-invent is when you have two patent applications for the same underlying invention, and the USPTO needs to decide who to attribute it to. Before, you could submit unpublished evidence of the date of your invention (e.g. dated documents), but not it decides based on who files first.
Read the USPTO new rules, they explain clearly that AIA will actually expand, not eliminate, prior art as as excluding factor.
[Citation needed]
There's nothing in the moderating FAQ that says it's against the rules to downmod for being wrong, just for disagreeing, which is not the same thing.
There's a native kernel port of ZFS for Linux: http://zfsonlinux.org/
People would just leave them on 24/7, wasting massive amounts of electricity.
Either that, or they'd use their smartphones to input them into Wolfram Alpha.
*Una cerveza.
OT, but why did the not work? There should be an upside down question mark before the question, and it won't render.
Ha, are you expecting Slashdot to handle weird stuff like the full set of HTML entities? We're lucky to get accents and not be restricted to pure ASCII.
It was reasonable when it started; nowadays when everyone supports unicode, it's pitiful.
Hmm, then get an Arduino? Because that's essentially its build process. Run avr-gcc to compile and build, avr-objcopy to convert the binary to an hex file, then avrdude to flash the uC. Done!
https://balau82.wordpress.com/2011/03/29/programming-arduino-uno-in-pure-c/
The DMCA still doesn't apply in Finland.
No, the translators own copyright over the subtitles too; Netflix would need a license from them as well.
Millions of people copy stuff and don't end up in jail or pay fines. You have to be sued for that, and nobody sued Netflix.
The fact that they don't comply with your expectations doesn't make them hypocrites. If DivX Finland doesn't copy the films for commercial purposes, using a non-commercial license is not inconsistent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec
That's because it's weak and leaves you vulnerable to snooping by Microsoft (either for their own purposes or for someone else's, like law enforcement), since there's no way for you to verify that you're communicating directly with the other party's instance, and that the network doesn't have a copy of its key. This is the reason why people using PGP/GPG publish their fingerprints.
They do. See e.g. Luigi Zingales and his books "Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists" and "A Capitalism for the People".