Excuse me? 88% of the parliament used to be for the amendment in its previous form (at least in a preliminary way). The amendment was changed, no doubt because of political compromises that the EP is famous of, and it still passed. Your interpretation is just wrong: these are the same people voting, the original amendment just never ended into a vote.
The story has a similarly biased interpretation: The new update has completely removed this, meaning that governments now have legal grounds to force UK ISPs into disconnecting their customers from the Internet. This is not true at all: The original amendment would have made sure ISPs could not do that without a ruling, but the current text doesn't give any legal ground for governments because it doesn't really change anything.
There may be some fishy deals behind this, but let's stick to the facts.
Since the article only mentions that the amendment was approved twice by the plenary assembly and makes no mention whether the rewritten version was even voted on or not by all the members. It seems extremely dubious to me that it was done in that way.
I'm sorry if something is adopted by 88% of the people then it should not be allowed to be removed by a smaller subset of people. If older prestige European countries are able to railroad the EU this way then what is the point for other less-prestigious members to stay?
Looking at my add/remove programs list I have 4 different versions of the.Net framework installed, I wish all the programs that relied on them would be able to use the latest one, but unfortunately they do not.
The WHR-G54S + DD-WRT + a 500 mW amp + 15 dBi sector antenna will outperform 75%+ of 802.11n routers at almost any range.
Out of Curiosity you wouldn't happen to have a link to where to buy those parts and also instruct/inform if there are compatible parts for the Linksys WRT54G series of routers?
People with "12345" or similar passwords should get their own internet, where they would be allowed to share lolcatz and powerpoint chains, play with their purple internet buddy, and zap those cute webmonkeys on banners without hurting themselves.
Alternatively, maybe the webmail providers should set more strict rules for the passwords.
Hey I play with my purple internet buddy each time I go on the computer and have never hurt myself or anyone else!
I say go further, try and do a majority of the reading as short stories, or novellas. There are a lot of hidden gems in the SF short story collections, many by major authors too. Phillip K. Dick comes to mind with "The Wub" and "Roog".
We haven't had an explicit nobility in the U.S. since we became a nation, but we've never become a truly classless society, http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/class/. As people with more wealth have tried to accrue more wealth, which is fine there is nothing wrong with wanting more money, it has to be taken from elsewhere. Unfortunately not everyone starts on a level playing field or plays by the rules, this only hurts everyone who does and eventually they realize that it doesn't benefit them to play by the rules and it leads to nothing but backroom deals and shady business practices.
While this "loophole" seems bad on the surface, maybe it isn't. If corporations are considered people, perhaps we can start locking them up/shutting them down when they are breaking the law... you know... just like everyone else.
I agree with you, but you and the mods are being a little too idealistic; that would never, ever happen.
Not that I don't agree with you, I don't have cable, but most people are still locked in due to things like sports, others live in apartments and can't get OTA TV. Out of curiosity how do you record the OTA channels? I've been looking into doing so but most DVRs are explicitly marked as supporting QAM and don't indicate whether they have expandable HDDs or can burn to disc.
Cookies are also hard to even browse without, most sites don't load if the cookie is rejected. After I read the EFF article about web privacy, http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/online-trackers-and-social-networks I tried setting FF to ask me for cookies, it was such a hassle I had to just set it to delete them after I close out.
I think a couple of police officers getting paid to goof off is the least of our problems with the police in general here in the U.S. Things like corruption, abuse of power, illegal searches, etc. are of more concern to me. Personally I think that when you become a police officer you agree to be monitored 24/7 and have all the video/ transcripts made publicly available.
I share the same thoughts about what UK Health Services is doing with telling schoolchildren "masturbation is good", but few seems to agree with me. For some reason if corporations do it, then it's bad, but if governments do it, then everyone thinks it's okay. Odd.
I haven't heard of this, are you sure that they're just not telling children masturbation isn't "evil" for you like some people would have everyone believe?
A cursory look at openstreetmap shows that it lacks the ability to plan a route, pretty much the onyl reason I stop by Google maps. Is there a viable alternative for that?
I understand why it is a big deal to share videos across the local network, but songs? Songs are already DRM free, what prevents people from simply copying the song and adding it to their nth machine when they hit the 5 computer limit? Also, a separate store for ringtones that cost as much as the songs themselves, lame, should be bundled in with the song for like.01 cent.
Maybe some sort of mixed service would be nice. Pay $10 a month or whatever, listen to any music you want, every month you get to permanently keep so many songs. It'd be kind of a rent-to-own situation. I dunno if I'd go for it but it's better than paying to own nothing.
Why is this post marked as a Troll? It's a legitimate viewpoint and one I agree with. I'll take function over form every time. Give me a good, fast, stable browser with a UI that isn't flashy, cluttered or distracting.
Perhaps mods took the view that Firefox was being called unstable and thus regarded the post as a troll?
I hope they make integrating the search box in the URL box optional. One of the things I really like about FF is the ability to use keyboard shortcuts to select specific search engines or sites. Of course with Ubiquity http://labs.mozilla.com/ubiquity/ progressing nicely I may be in the minority.
I am a netflix subscriber, and have recently begun watching Netflix on Mozilla! This makes me wonder, with the "Instal other OS" option of the PS3 would I be able to watch Netflix on a GUN/linux Mozilla browser? This certantly would not be a selling point for the average person, but a fun project for current owners. This would put the PS3 further up as the hardcore gaming council king over the 360, to include games.
Do you mean Mozilla or Firefox? I have tried using FF to watch Netflix and it says my browser is not supported, and yes I refuse to install silverlight. Audi over HDMI works, there is just a bu preventing it from working across the board.
The only reason I don't have a DVR is because I cannot find one with the features I want: ability to burn shows to disc, ability to add my own HDD, not allowing content to be erased by the networks or expire and my choice of subscription services for listings. For now I just watch everything "online" since no one wants to manufacture a device like that.
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Excuse me? 88% of the parliament used to be for the amendment in its previous form (at least in a preliminary way). The amendment was changed, no doubt because of political compromises that the EP is famous of, and it still passed. Your interpretation is just wrong: these are the same people voting, the original amendment just never ended into a vote.
The story has a similarly biased interpretation: The new update has completely removed this, meaning that governments now have legal grounds to force UK ISPs into disconnecting their customers from the Internet. This is not true at all: The original amendment would have made sure ISPs could not do that without a ruling, but the current text doesn't give any legal ground for governments because it doesn't really change anything.
There may be some fishy deals behind this, but let's stick to the facts.
Since the article only mentions that the amendment was approved twice by the plenary assembly and makes no mention whether the rewritten version was even voted on or not by all the members. It seems extremely dubious to me that it was done in that way.
I'm sorry if something is adopted by 88% of the people then it should not be allowed to be removed by a smaller subset of people. If older prestige European countries are able to railroad the EU this way then what is the point for other less-prestigious members to stay?
Looking at my add/remove programs list I have 4 different versions of the .Net framework installed, I wish all the programs that relied on them would be able to use the latest one, but unfortunately they do not.
Eh, let's let the singularity first, then we'll let the robots take care of the problem.
You mean us?
Would I be a bad person if I were to suggest that this would be a perfect time to upsell Time Capsules to worried Snow Leopard customers?
Only if you were an Apple genius doing so.
The WHR-G54S + DD-WRT + a 500 mW amp + 15 dBi sector antenna will outperform 75%+ of 802.11n routers at almost any range.
Out of Curiosity you wouldn't happen to have a link to where to buy those parts and also instruct/inform if there are compatible parts for the Linksys WRT54G series of routers?
People with "12345" or similar passwords should get their own internet, where they would be allowed to share lolcatz and powerpoint chains, play with their purple internet buddy, and zap those cute webmonkeys on banners without hurting themselves. Alternatively, maybe the webmail providers should set more strict rules for the passwords.
Hey I play with my purple internet buddy each time I go on the computer and have never hurt myself or anyone else!
I say go further, try and do a majority of the reading as short stories, or novellas. There are a lot of hidden gems in the SF short story collections, many by major authors too. Phillip K. Dick comes to mind with "The Wub" and "Roog".
We haven't had an explicit nobility in the U.S. since we became a nation, but we've never become a truly classless society, http://www.nytimes.com/pages/national/class/. As people with more wealth have tried to accrue more wealth, which is fine there is nothing wrong with wanting more money, it has to be taken from elsewhere. Unfortunately not everyone starts on a level playing field or plays by the rules, this only hurts everyone who does and eventually they realize that it doesn't benefit them to play by the rules and it leads to nothing but backroom deals and shady business practices.
While this "loophole" seems bad on the surface, maybe it isn't. If corporations are considered people, perhaps we can start locking them up/shutting them down when they are breaking the law... you know... just like everyone else.
I agree with you, but you and the mods are being a little too idealistic; that would never, ever happen.
Not that I don't agree with you, I don't have cable, but most people are still locked in due to things like sports, others live in apartments and can't get OTA TV. Out of curiosity how do you record the OTA channels? I've been looking into doing so but most DVRs are explicitly marked as supporting QAM and don't indicate whether they have expandable HDDs or can burn to disc.
Cookies are also hard to even browse without, most sites don't load if the cookie is rejected. After I read the EFF article about web privacy, http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/online-trackers-and-social-networks I tried setting FF to ask me for cookies, it was such a hassle I had to just set it to delete them after I close out.
Google a giant company, not your BFF.
That's ok, I already have Facebook as my BFF.
I believe you are confusing organic, food grown without pesticides http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_food, with genetically un-modified foods.
I think a couple of police officers getting paid to goof off is the least of our problems with the police in general here in the U.S. Things like corruption, abuse of power, illegal searches, etc. are of more concern to me. Personally I think that when you become a police officer you agree to be monitored 24/7 and have all the video/ transcripts made publicly available.
I share the same thoughts about what UK Health Services is doing with telling schoolchildren "masturbation is good", but few seems to agree with me. For some reason if corporations do it, then it's bad, but if governments do it, then everyone thinks it's okay. Odd.
I haven't heard of this, are you sure that they're just not telling children masturbation isn't "evil" for you like some people would have everyone believe?
A cursory look at openstreetmap shows that it lacks the ability to plan a route, pretty much the onyl reason I stop by Google maps. Is there a viable alternative for that?
I understand why it is a big deal to share videos across the local network, but songs? Songs are already DRM free, what prevents people from simply copying the song and adding it to their nth machine when they hit the 5 computer limit? Also, a separate store for ringtones that cost as much as the songs themselves, lame, should be bundled in with the song for like .01 cent.
Even though the encrypted shared file is freely copyable, the key file to unlock it is "tamper-proof" so it has it's own DRM to make it "un-copyable".
Maybe some sort of mixed service would be nice. Pay $10 a month or whatever, listen to any music you want, every month you get to permanently keep so many songs. It'd be kind of a rent-to-own situation. I dunno if I'd go for it but it's better than paying to own nothing.
Hmm, sounds familiar http://www.zune.net/en-us/software/zunepass/default.htm
Why is this post marked as a Troll? It's a legitimate viewpoint and one I agree with. I'll take function over form every time. Give me a good, fast, stable browser with a UI that isn't flashy, cluttered or distracting.
Perhaps mods took the view that Firefox was being called unstable and thus regarded the post as a troll?
I hope they make integrating the search box in the URL box optional. One of the things I really like about FF is the ability to use keyboard shortcuts to select specific search engines or sites. Of course with Ubiquity http://labs.mozilla.com/ubiquity/ progressing nicely I may be in the minority.
I am a netflix subscriber, and have recently begun watching Netflix on Mozilla! This makes me wonder, with the "Instal other OS" option of the PS3 would I be able to watch Netflix on a GUN/linux Mozilla browser? This certantly would not be a selling point for the average person, but a fun project for current owners. This would put the PS3 further up as the hardcore gaming council king over the 360, to include games.
Do you mean Mozilla or Firefox? I have tried using FF to watch Netflix and it says my browser is not supported, and yes I refuse to install silverlight. Audi over HDMI works, there is just a bu preventing it from working across the board.
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Bookmarked.
The only reason I don't have a DVR is because I cannot find one with the features I want: ability to burn shows to disc, ability to add my own HDD, not allowing content to be erased by the networks or expire and my choice of subscription services for listings. For now I just watch everything "online" since no one wants to manufacture a device like that.