"I always find it funny that people who risk jail time for a drug claim they haven't got a problem. "No sirree, I am not a drunk. Yes I am drinking industrial alcohol laced with rat poison for flavor sold to me by outragous prices and I could go to jail for it, but really, I got it all under control."
Apparently we haha when someone offs them self doing something stupid like swimming with sharks with a bloody cut, but when someone does something Darwin like drinking poisoned alcohol, bust out the sympathy cards. Stupid is stupid and it's not going to get any smarter by justifying it.
"You can't have a technology destroy the business,' said the attorney representing the plaintiff. 'If you fire up a big fab plant with CRT tubes, and the next generation technology destroys it, then you have a big fab plant manufacturing buggy whips. So they have to make sure the price points for these [newer] technologies... don't destroy existing markets.'"
Point noted although I'm sure people have already noticed that the internet hasn't buggy whipped either TV or radio. Also change even new change doesn't happen overnight.
" Fortunately, the measure only for the first week of March, and compliance is voluntary — although, apparently, there will be a 'swear jar' in the Assembly and the Governor's mansion. No word yet on whether the Governator intends to comply.""
Governors office: Scene: Two aides about to get chewed out. Governor walks over to the swear jar and puts in a $100. Apparently it's going to be a long night.
"However, computer scientists note that this type of system can narrow the field of interest for each user the more it is used. Improved accuracy can result in a strong filtering based on a user's interests, until the system can only recommend a small subset of all the content it has to offer.""
Slashdot: "I see you've subscribed to certain opinions. Here are some more recommendations."
"The British Library declares that 'the average life expectancy of a website was just 44 to 75 days, and suggested that at least 10% of all UK websites were either lost or replaced by new material every six months,' with the material within them being amongst the most revealing regarding the state of contemporary culture.""
Twitter and facebook. If that doesn't say what the present state of contemporary culture is, then I don't know what does?
"And that creating a "guest" open network was limited only to the most expensive and corporate models that had multiple SSID and radio support (secure or nothing configuration)? "
We don't need to come out of the woodwork to acknowledge that in this given situation the twins of cheap transceivers and relatively cheap base antennas with back-haul the same, worked out. However if circumstances had been different (and they could) would you be proclaiming the demise of cellular? They both have their strong and weak points and neither was meant to supplant the other except for those betting on a particular horse.
"Nope. Sorry. This has nothing to do with sharing records for tax collection. This agreement allowed intelligence agencies in the U.S. to secretly access banking information for all customers, including non-U.S. citizens."
"The researchers used off-the-shelf components (PDF), and a laptop running a Python script, to undermine the two-factor authentication process on European credit and debit cards, which is called Chip and PIN."
Oh some Americans already have a similar system. It's called Ball and Chain. Courtesy of this system there's little fraud because all transactions are wife approved.
ACTA is basically saying "We got the DMCA in the USA, so why don't you write a similar law where you are... or we're going to raise the price of our content to the point we break your economy!"
Then that speaks more to the scarcity of talent than anything else. Or maybe the drug addict relationship people have with American content? We were trying for the sympathy angle, weren't we?
"That's how it is put down in the Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that every proposed law has to be published first and being discussed by the public. "
And the judicial branch is for deciding the constitutionality of said laws. They didn't have the technology we have for information dispersion, but the next best thing. Also a lot of decisions are left up to the states which is usually closer to the populace than say Washington D.C. And last it's the duty (not optional) for the governed population to be involved in all aspects of state, from local to national. Our busy lives and sometimes apathy may have caused us to forget that.
"It never ceases to amaze me how some people think that things like files and folders are too confusing for the novice."
It's not hierarchy that people don't understand. It's that files and folders don't scale well especially in this era of Terabyte drives. It takes an amount of disciple most don't want to invest to make the metaphor work at that level.
Fortunately for him he lives in a society where you can formulate political opinion from a variety of sources and not resort to a childish game of name calling and vague nonsensical grandstanding. In many parts of the world, you can call yourself a communist or a marxist or a socialist and then have a discussion about what that means.
Stateside, I bet many people would consider calling the police. But such is the state of our populace: hysterical cowards and uneducated drones, ready to plead fealty to whatever entity promises them the most convenience and security.
And yet for those who clicked on a Reuters story we didn't see this calling of the police by uneducated drones, and hysterical cowards. Of course we didn't have an intellectual discussion of what it means to be communist, but then the story was basically "we goofed" and an apology.
Sounds like some of you have too many axes to grind.
"As long as there are people like you around who persist in defending his grotesque legacy"
You have a curious notion of what "defending" consists of. Win many arguments, do you?
"If you think this has been an improvement, you're insane."
Only for those who take an overly simplistic view of the world. Like I said for some the deposition of Saddam was a good thing. For others a bad thing. You want a black and white world were the bad guys are the US and the good guys are "brown people"? Then lets hope the mods agree with your newsletter and mod you up to a five.
Hell yeah! The next time we need our military to go blow the shit out of a little nation of brown people that is no threat to us and has no WMDs, at least we don't have to put our own troops into harm's way.
Well some will never let the memory of GWB die. But I think if you ask the Kurds (Don't gas me, bro!) aka "brown people" getting rid of Saddam was a good thing even if the war was started under false pretenses. Not to mention the Kuwaitis and the "scorched earth" policy of a retreating Saddam.
Also the Iranians (who had a war with Iraq, remember) aren't above using the Iraqi people in a move reminiscent of the Soviets and Afghanistan.
That's why we have what's know as a "force multiplier". That's why one person with a P2P connection can cause so much strife. Compare to one person with a high-speed dubbing tape deck of old.
Politicians around the world have been so relaxed that the public accepted that they can get away with anything, like the French royalties and nobilities used to be. Eventually somewhere, somehow the threshold will be crossed and heads will roll.
Interesting how those who expect heads to roll don't include theirs.
"...regardless of the power and money of lobbyists trying to influence the outcome for commercial reasons."
As opposed to any of the other lobbyists out there? Would we feel ok with the process if we were seniors and it was the AARP, gun lovers and the NRA? How about woman's rights and NOW?
"I know it's craziness to think this way, but bear with me for a moment: we might be seeing genuine democracy in action!"
"Franken's staffers seemed particularly bothered by the fact that since ACTA is being negotiated as an executive agreement, they neither see negotiating texts (which are being done in secret) nor have any chance to review the agreement before it has the force of law."
"ACTA comes from utterly fraudulent governance, and not from the public's mandate."
And which public would that be? The one's that take their civic responsibility seriously, or the public that yells at their politician through the TV? Your complaints about "fraudulent governance" or "public mandate" would actually mean something if people were actually participating and the entire failure was they were simply being overpowered. But it's rather hard to be sympathetic over someone who simply lies there and takes it. Get back with me on "fraudulent governance" and "public mandate" once the global public grows a backbone and actually starts understanding that mandates don't come from silence, but faulty governance does.
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"I always find it funny that people who risk jail time for a drug claim they haven't got a problem. "No sirree, I am not a drunk. Yes I am drinking industrial alcohol laced with rat poison for flavor sold to me by outragous prices and I could go to jail for it, but really, I got it all under control."
Apparently we haha when someone offs them self doing something stupid like swimming with sharks with a bloody cut, but when someone does something Darwin like drinking poisoned alcohol, bust out the sympathy cards. Stupid is stupid and it's not going to get any smarter by justifying it.
"You can't have a technology destroy the business,' said the attorney representing the plaintiff. 'If you fire up a big fab plant with CRT tubes, and the next generation technology destroys it, then you have a big fab plant manufacturing buggy whips. So they have to make sure the price points for these [newer] technologies ... don't destroy existing markets.'"
Point noted although I'm sure people have already noticed that the internet hasn't buggy whipped either TV or radio. Also change even new change doesn't happen overnight.
"This got me wondering how much damage a cell phone can actually take. "
Stopping a bullet.
"How have other Slashdot users punished their phones without actually killing them completely?"
Does browsing Slashdot count?
" Fortunately, the measure only for the first week of March, and compliance is voluntary — although, apparently, there will be a 'swear jar' in the Assembly and the Governor's mansion. No word yet on whether the Governator intends to comply.""
Governors office:
Scene: Two aides about to get chewed out.
Governor walks over to the swear jar and puts in a $100. Apparently it's going to be a long night.
"However, computer scientists note that this type of system can narrow the field of interest for each user the more it is used. Improved accuracy can result in a strong filtering based on a user's interests, until the system can only recommend a small subset of all the content it has to offer.""
Slashdot: "I see you've subscribed to certain opinions. Here are some more recommendations."
"The British Library declares that 'the average life expectancy of a website was just 44 to 75 days, and suggested that at least 10% of all UK websites were either lost or replaced by new material every six months,' with the material within them being amongst the most revealing regarding the state of contemporary culture.""
Twitter and facebook. If that doesn't say what the present state of contemporary culture is, then I don't know what does?
"And that creating a "guest" open network was limited only to the most expensive and corporate models that had multiple SSID and radio support (secure or nothing configuration)? "
Multiple SSID
"If Im gonna hook my player up to a network to get firmware updates, I might as well just get a network
media player."
Any good suggestions?
We don't need to come out of the woodwork to acknowledge that in this given situation the twins of cheap transceivers and relatively cheap base antennas with back-haul the same, worked out. However if circumstances had been different (and they could) would you be proclaiming the demise of cellular? They both have their strong and weak points and neither was meant to supplant the other except for those betting on a particular horse.
Interesting name for a social service. An animal with a long nose that sticks it in crevices and laps up insects. How metaphorical.
"Nope. Sorry. This has nothing to do with sharing records for tax collection. This agreement allowed intelligence agencies in the U.S. to secretly access banking information for all customers, including non-U.S. citizens."
Al-Qaeda, Iran, North Korea...
"The researchers used off-the-shelf components (PDF), and a laptop running a Python script, to undermine the two-factor authentication process on European credit and debit cards, which is called Chip and PIN."
Oh some Americans already have a similar system. It's called Ball and Chain. Courtesy of this system there's little fraud because all transactions are wife approved.
"Bioshock is/was an amazing game, one of the few gays to truly elicit an emotional response from me while playing."
Alright admit it. You have a thing for guys in diving suits. :)
ACTA is basically saying "We got the DMCA in the USA, so why don't you write a similar law where you are... or we're going to raise the price of our content to the point we break your economy!"
Then that speaks more to the scarcity of talent than anything else. Or maybe the drug addict relationship people have with American content? We were trying for the sympathy angle, weren't we?
"That's how it is put down in the Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that every proposed law has to be published first and being discussed by the public. "
And the judicial branch is for deciding the constitutionality of said laws. They didn't have the technology we have for information dispersion, but the next best thing. Also a lot of decisions are left up to the states which is usually closer to the populace than say Washington D.C. And last it's the duty (not optional) for the governed population to be involved in all aspects of state, from local to national. Our busy lives and sometimes apathy may have caused us to forget that.
"Close off every possible method of counter except violence, and people will not hesitate to use what you left them."
When did apathy get outlawed?
"It never ceases to amaze me how some people think that things like files
and folders are too confusing for the novice."
It's not hierarchy that people don't understand. It's that files and folders don't scale well especially in this era of Terabyte drives. It takes an amount of disciple most don't want to invest to make the metaphor work at that level.
But, Señor Llamazares is a Commie
Fortunately for him he lives in a society where you can formulate political opinion from a variety of sources and not resort to a childish game of name calling and vague nonsensical grandstanding. In many parts of the world, you can call yourself a communist or a marxist or a socialist and then have a discussion about what that means.
Stateside, I bet many people would consider calling the police. But such is the state of our populace: hysterical cowards and uneducated drones, ready to plead fealty to whatever entity promises them the most convenience and security.
And yet for those who clicked on a Reuters story we didn't see this calling of the police by uneducated drones, and hysterical cowards. Of course we didn't have an intellectual discussion of what it means to be communist, but then the story was basically "we goofed" and an apology.
Sounds like some of you have too many axes to grind.
"As long as there are people like you around who persist in defending his grotesque legacy"
You have a curious notion of what "defending" consists of. Win many arguments, do you?
"If you think this has been an improvement, you're insane."
Only for those who take an overly simplistic view of the world. Like I said for some the deposition of Saddam was a good thing. For others a bad thing. You want a black and white world were the bad guys are the US and the good guys are "brown people"? Then lets hope the mods agree with your newsletter and mod you up to a five.
Hell yeah! The next time we need our military to go blow the shit out of a little nation of brown people that is no threat to us and has no WMDs, at least we don't have to put our own troops into harm's way.
Well some will never let the memory of GWB die. But I think if you ask the Kurds (Don't gas me, bro!) aka "brown people" getting rid of Saddam was a good thing even if the war was started under false pretenses. Not to mention the Kuwaitis and the "scorched earth" policy of a retreating Saddam.
Also the Iranians (who had a war with Iraq, remember) aren't above using the Iraqi people in a move reminiscent of the Soviets and Afghanistan.
That's why we have what's know as a "force multiplier". That's why one person with a P2P connection can cause so much strife. Compare to one person with a high-speed dubbing tape deck of old.
Politicians around the world have been so relaxed that the public accepted that they can get away with anything, like the French royalties and nobilities used to be.
Eventually somewhere, somehow the threshold will be crossed and heads will roll.
Interesting how those who expect heads to roll don't include theirs.
"...regardless of the power and money of lobbyists trying to influence the outcome for commercial reasons."
As opposed to any of the other lobbyists out there? Would we feel ok with the process if we were seniors and it was the AARP, gun lovers and the NRA? How about woman's rights and NOW?
"I know it's craziness to think this way, but bear with me for a moment: we might be seeing genuine democracy in action!"
Except not everyone's a democracy.
"Franken's staffers seemed particularly bothered by the fact that since ACTA is being negotiated as an executive agreement, they neither see negotiating texts (which are being done in secret) nor have any chance to review the agreement before it has the force of law."
Like the Kyoto Agreements?
"ACTA comes from utterly fraudulent governance, and not from the public's mandate."
And which public would that be? The one's that take their civic responsibility seriously, or the public that yells at their politician through the TV? Your complaints about "fraudulent governance" or "public mandate" would actually mean something if people were actually participating and the entire failure was they were simply being overpowered. But it's rather hard to be sympathetic over someone who simply lies there and takes it. Get back with me on "fraudulent governance" and "public mandate" once the global public grows a backbone and actually starts understanding that mandates don't come from silence, but faulty governance does.