Dude, I posted a flamebait based on a half-baked article because of my prejudice against media. It doesn't matter if I was correct. I'd advise you to do enough research and collect enough evidence.
You don't need admin-privileges for firefox. Compile it and install it into your home directory and run it with your privileges. If your OS doesn't allow that, get a real OS.
Slashdot's code was written in perl probably before HTML4 came. Given perl's notoriously difficult maintainability, the coders would have been reluctant to adapt to HTML4.
to revisit with a real browser. If GMail, FaceBook, Twitter all give a "the browser you are using is not standards-compliant" message, then the browser-maker will change his stance.
Actually, no browser should be explicitly/directly supported. Only standards need to be supported. The browsers and their makers should be forced to comply.
Seriously, there's nothing negative at all in any of those links (well I'm sure there is in the comments on the link to another slashdot article, but that article itself isn't) or in the summary.
The article is about economic regulation in India. Any regulation, at first sight, appears as bad. Isn't it?
My, how our mental filters reveal who we really are! Frankly, I thought this was an article about how Paypal is a despicable scofflaw yet again, this time with the Indian government, who presumably are not bought and paid for like Western politicians and who are not putting up with Paypal's latest nonsense. But hey, you got a persecution complex, let it all hang out.
I don't quite get it. Are you concurring with me? or disagreeing?
Use words like 'colonialism', 'empire', and 'hegemony' for maximum effect and you'll have a crowd following you in no time.
All of the last 5 stories on Slashdot that portray India negatively have come from IDG news service. Sounds like the beginnings of another propaganda campaign.
The same people who said there were WMDs in Iraq are saying the attacks are from China. So the 'allegedly' adverb should be used. My personal opinion is that the whole China-Google episode is a desperate joint attempt by NSA, CIA and Google.
To what end?
To make Americans boycott Chinese products and go for local ones.
So how do I redirect the user to the server that is closest to them without knowing their ip?
Firstly, geographical proximity has nothing to do with quality of connectivity. (Some helpful fellow slashdotter pointed that to me, a few days back). So, redirecting user to nearest server doesn't help much. In fact, it could even slow down connectivity because of the computation involved in calculating proximities.
Secondly, the existing system works just fine for location-based DNS redirection.
This is crap. You don't need user's IP address for load balancing. The only motives behind this are propaganda and psyops. For instance, this move will allow US to block traffic to certain sites from certain countries and then claim that access failures are due to censorship imposed by that country's government.
but you have to connect it to a controlled infrastructure where the controller can make you do what ever they want...
Except, in this case the controller is not just making me do something on their network, but also intruding into my phone and modifying my software stack.
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No, that was an intentional symbolism.
Hey, I'm prejudiced against media and I made a mistake. Let's leave it at that.
Dude, I posted a flamebait based on a half-baked article because of my prejudice against media. It doesn't matter if I was correct. I'd advise you to do enough research and collect enough evidence.
I failed to do enough research. Is there a way I can delete the parent post?
Ah, I'm worng. Again.
Google is a propaganda partner of US. It has blocked users from Syria and Iran since 2008 - http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/10/google-blocks-chrome-browser-use-in-syria-iran287.html
The US media, however, is eager to twist the story. Why should I trust them to be any more honest in talking about China?
You don't need admin-privileges for firefox. Compile it and install it into your home directory and run it with your privileges. If your OS doesn't allow that, get a real OS.
Slashdot's code was written in perl probably before HTML4 came. Given perl's notoriously difficult maintainability, the coders would have been reluctant to adapt to HTML4.
They'll just quit the fray once enough number of people respect standards.
to revisit with a real browser. If GMail, FaceBook, Twitter all give a "the browser you are using is not standards-compliant" message, then the browser-maker will change his stance.
Actually, no browser should be explicitly/directly supported. Only standards need to be supported. The browsers and their makers should be forced to comply.
Tagged as 'India', tagged as 'government'. But not tagged as 'PayPal'. Why?
What negative portrayal of India is there here?
Seriously, there's nothing negative at all in any of those links (well I'm sure there is in the comments on the link to another slashdot article, but that article itself isn't) or in the summary.
The article is about economic regulation in India. Any regulation, at first sight, appears as bad. Isn't it?
PayPal is the one getting bad press here not India
Yes. But under that cover/ruse/whatever, there is a negativism. It gets reflected in the comments posted. For instance,
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1543706&cid=31082012
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1543706&cid=31082188
My, how our mental filters reveal who we really are! Frankly, I thought this was an article about how Paypal is a despicable scofflaw yet again, this time with the Indian government, who presumably are not bought and paid for like Western politicians and who are not putting up with Paypal's latest nonsense. But hey, you got a persecution complex, let it all hang out.
I don't quite get it. Are you concurring with me? or disagreeing?
Use words like 'colonialism', 'empire', and 'hegemony' for maximum effect and you'll have a crowd following you in no time.
No thanks, I wouldn't stoop to that level.
All of the last 5 stories on Slashdot that portray India negatively have come from IDG news service. Sounds like the beginnings of another propaganda campaign.
ALLEGEDLY Chinese?
The same people who said there were WMDs in Iraq are saying the attacks are from China. So the 'allegedly' adverb should be used. My personal opinion is that the whole China-Google episode is a desperate joint attempt by NSA, CIA and Google.
To what end?
To make Americans boycott Chinese products and go for local ones.
So, if a terrorist does a Google search for info about weapons, will Google be censored?
So how do I redirect the user to the server that is closest to them without knowing their ip?
Firstly, geographical proximity has nothing to do with quality of connectivity. (Some helpful fellow slashdotter pointed that to me, a few days back). So, redirecting user to nearest server doesn't help much. In fact, it could even slow down connectivity because of the computation involved in calculating proximities.
Secondly, the existing system works just fine for location-based DNS redirection.
Or it would send a user from Iran or Libya to a 'domain name doesn't exist' server.
And who would be the victims? The same people whom Google is claiming to be fighting for.
This is crap. You don't need user's IP address for load balancing. The only motives behind this are propaganda and psyops. For instance, this move will allow US to block traffic to certain sites from certain countries and then claim that access failures are due to censorship imposed by that country's government.
Name another successful platform for which most of the source code is freely available,whose bug database is publicly accessible and accepts patches?
Maemo? Openmoko?
but you have to connect it to a controlled infrastructure where the controller can make you do what ever they want...
Except, in this case the controller is not just making me do something on their network, but also intruding into my phone and modifying my software stack.