Another related point here is the overall cost of tuition and how it affects the supply & demand of educated workers. As tuition fees are rising (much faster than inflation ), there's going to be less and less people deciding to go to school at all. From the link, "Cost of living increased roughly 2.5-fold during this time (1978 - 2080); medical costs inflated roughly 6-fold; but college tuition and fees inflation approached 10-fold". This isn't just the states either - every year I went to University in Canada they raises the tuition by about 7 or 8% per year. And wasn't it just tripled in the UK?
Well, it comes as no surprise then that less people decide to get a bachelor's degree, the demand for these workers goes up. No higher eduction or taking a trade just seems like a better option to most people than spending tens of thousands of dollars on education (and risk not finding a job after that). They see a bachelor's degree as the new sucker's game.
Well for starters, it's great for combining with just about everything else that's fun. Unless you're working at something that requires extremely high levels of concentration, music pretty much combines with almost any other activity you can think of. Maybe because the music is integrated so well into all the other fun things we do, we automatically associate it with a happy feeling more than a lot of other activities.
I guess makes a corporation seem more human when they can pretend to express a mood, after all they are technically people!
In other news today, Playstation felt irritated and exasperated because of PS3 pirates, Linux feels disappointed and neglected for another year, Facebook feels cheerful and optimistic about the coming year, and Apple was full of rage and jealousy because Google looked so damn cheerful and content.
You make some good points there - I doubt it may even be possible to have kids at all on Mars. Even if we had all the necessary education & physical requirements, we haven't done any test to see what kind of long term effects there are on development in zero-G or lower 0.4 mars gravity. Maybe their bones don't develop right and they all grow abnormally fast and die before they're 12? Their immune system (or lack thereof) means they're basically doomed to live on mars forever, I can't see how they would ever be able to return to earth without dying from the first germ that came along.
And the psychological effects? Kids need some space to play & roam around, to 'get in trouble' once in a while. Can't have any of that on a space or mars station ("Hey Timmy, lets play 'depressurize the cargo bay door' again!) Ever have 'quiet time' as a kid when you were forced to sit in your room for a while? It's a prison sentence if you're under 15. Unless you bring a shit load of ritalin, you're going to have some messed up teenagers.
These are the new censored / altered versions of the films. In lieu of other recent events, Lucasfilms decided to rewrite some of the scenes because some people were uncomfortable with the terminology in the earlier versions. With these new versions, teachers will be able to show these movies without feeling awkward.
Some of the changes include:
- The word "slave" will be replaced with "indentured servant"
- Princess Leia no longer in metal bikini in episode VI, wearing a Victorian dress
- All ewoks, wookies and other humanoid-looking aliens will now be wearing a loincloth (at the very least), even if they don't appear to have genetalia
- Darth Vader will now don a racially sensitive multi-colored rainbow suit, so we don't infer or suggest that black is the color of evil
- Any offensive phrases or insults will be modified as to not insult nerf herders, or anyone else. For example, the phrase : "Why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder!" - will be replaced with : "Why you highly self esteemed, intellectually challenged, unkempt appearing person that moves large animals with a cane!"
Your last couple of paragraphs are a little bit contradictory - you're aware that it was a free service, and that you should have been backing up your precious emails - so don't flame Microsoft for deleting your account information! 30 days probably seemed like a reasonable time frame to disable an account - there are plenty of inactive and spammy accounts that need to get purged every once in a while. Maybe if it was 60 or 90 days you'd still be using the account.
I doubt the incentive was to just use hotmail more regularly, but to get a few paying subscribers. You always had the option to "update to hotmail plus" for I dunno, 30 bucks a year or something like that. I'm not sure if your account is still deleted if inactive for 30 days, but back then the paid upgrade would guarantee your info wasn't deleted (plus give some other seemingly worthless benefits). I lost my emails like that too once back in 2002, and I was a little irritated at the time but I didn't switch to another email address out of spite - I was using a free service!
Well gamers might use their connection to the fullest capacity. And those using netflix. But neither of us are in the gaming industry so yea, we're not in any hurry to support the broadband speeds we advertise. Also, we'll need a few years to establish a more dominant streaming video share of the market... maybe when netflix goes bankrupt (because we throttled them to death) and Hulu has 90% of the market..
We'll get right on the architecture upgrade when that happens!
Sabotage by Comcast and AT&T. It's clear that they're scared that net neutrality bill is a big threat to business in the land line department... so the new plan is to make skype totally unreliable by sabotage. Eventually all the skype users will realize that VOIP is a bunch of crap and they'll go back to using land lines. It's so obvious!!
Exactly.. People aren't going to type in "bankofamericasucks.com" or "BOA-blows.com" into their URL..
Ok... so I just realized that bankofamericasucks.com actually goes to a gripe site for the bank... so uh, I guess if people still type this in, they'll still go to a gripe site by typing in the most obvious URL anyway!! Makes this whole venture seem even more ridiculous!
Exactly.. People aren't going to type in "bankofamericasucks.com" or "BOA-blows.com" into their URL. They're going to google for scam related information, making this domain buying completely useless. The exact URL is completely meaningless.
Go google "scientology" as an example. The 3rd result is "xenu.net" - a site who's sole purpose is to bring down the COS. Didn't need the word "scientology" anywhere in that URL.
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If the software you're developing only works in IE, someone somewhere made a bad decision.
Ah if only it was that simple.. The company I originally developed software like this years ago when it was basically just IE or Netscape. They made it support both, thinking that those two would be used and supported forever. Well netscape died, and all that work going into supporting it was all for naught 5-10 years later. Because there are going to be bugs you see in one browser and not the other, and fully supporting additional browsers will require a lot of additional overhead.
Two years ago we started developed a similar version of the main site, and there was some debate over whether the site should just suppport IE, or IE and firefox. We started with both, then quickly dropped it because of the large number of firefox-only bugs. I look back at this and I think that was a good decision, because for all we know in 5 years firefox will be dead, and chrome will be the big #2 (or #1).
This might be a poor business model if you're looking to attract single customers from a site, but this stuff we develop is generally bought by larger corporations that have all their employees use it. We can dictate the terms & requirements a little easier and not risk losing customers by not supporting a browser. And unfortunately, we'll have to deal with any IE issues they have that get blamed on us because of some IE exploit...
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Maybe the majority of slashdotters are on firefox, chrome, opera right now, but the software we're developing may only work on IE. The Network admins will need to deal with their users using IE. And a lot of our relatives are still using IE
When your aunt Bertha calls on christmas and goes "MY INTERNET IS BROKEN", i'll be able to go "ah yea, I remember reading about that on slashdot".
If I am a big business, I would be extremely cautious about adopting Skype for business, especially in the light of this current outage
Really? Based on a single outage? Cmon now, do you base a decision on whether to use a service on a single outage? How often is that compared to any other utilities (power, internet, land lines) going down periodically - when was the last major skype outage, if ever? I can't seem to find much, just a reference to a login issue back in August 2007. That's a pretty good track record for not crashing if that's the case - wish I could say the same about the local electricity or high speed internet.
There was no discussion at my office today about switching the plan because it was down for a day. Skype is still considerably cheaper so it's still the first choice for long distance or conference calls. Most offices still have phones and land lines for each person for internal communication - just use those as a backup should it go down.
That reminds me of a story I heard from a relative that worked in Africa a while ago. I might not be reciting this story entirely accurate - but it was something on the lines of this:
In one of a villages there was a witch doctor that would periodically perform some sort of ritual to heal people, using some sort of trinket. I forget what the trinket was - maybe a rock or a bone or whatever, but the villagers (and maybe the witch doctor) truly believed this trinket combined with the ritual would heal them from whatever they would go to the doctor for.
Well one day this trinket got lost and word got out to the villagers that it was missing. However, the healing sessions didn't stop - the witch doctor continued with the ritual when required but simply pretended to hold that trinket in his hand (or perhaps used a substitute object) - but the people still claimed to feel better after the ritual! It didn't surprise me that the people claimed to feel better after the ritual before he lost the trinket - that's the placebo effect and I was already aware of that - but it amazed me that the villagers continued to go, and still claimed to be healed, despite knowing that he didn't have the trinket! That part really just kind of baffled me - like they all knew it was a ruse and wouldn't work - maybe they thought it was better than simply doing nothing at all? Who knows.
Note that I can't I can't actually verify if the villagers actually got better or simply claimed to - but either way this still relates to this article.
if they have gold in them now this little bit of otherwise worthless paper actually has a minuscule bit of value
I’ve heard they already contain measurable levels of cocaine.
Gold and cocaine on the same bill? Well then all the US government has to do is just print nothing but $1 bills for the next 10 years or so. If the actual value of the bill is worth more than US $1 currently is now, they'll be out of that recession in no time!
- To give money to a friend or family member
- To leave a tip
- Purchase off of someone who doesn't have interac - i.e. a vendor at a sporting event, a street peddler at a farmers market etc..
- Drugs, Casinos, Stippers
- Its just faster
Regarding the last point, I've been to a few fast food places and bars where they have a sign specifically telling people that interac is not accepted at that location. One of the reasons might be that the retailer doesn't want to pay for transaction fees (for credit cards), or they own the bank machine in the location and want to make a profit off of it. But the main reason in a fast paced environment is to just avoid long line-ups. Interac is somewhat faster now, but 5 years ago you might have to wait 30-45 seconds for the damn dial-up connection to process the payment. Even now, cash transactions are still faster, a cashier getting change is almost always done faster than a customer swiping the card, punching in the key code and waiting for it to process.
I'm going to add to that and say not just because of some other entity approving, but also so that said approving entity does not make any profit off the the transaction (seller pays a % for CC transactions, buyer pays a monthly fee and/or change per interac transaction
Also, those transactions may be used in some cross referencing - advertising - purchasing trend that's being sold somewhere, which I generally don't want to be a part of.
Can't tell if you're being trollish or funny here...
I generally prefer anonyminity when paying for things because I know that if I use my interac card my information's being tracked by someone. They may not necessarily be directly looking at my spending habits and affecting me (i.e. sending me more flyers, because the bank released my home address to a company where I made an interac or visa purchase). But data like this is probably being collected (maybe illegally?) and being cross referenced and sold to advertisers or something. Again, maybe i'm not directly affected, but some other corporations may be benefiting by using or selling this knowledge and I'm not too content on helping them out.
Yet President Obama, long and ardent backer of net neutrality, is ignoring both Congress and adverse court rulings,
especially by a federal appeals court in April... He is seeking to impose his will through the executive branch
You know, this might be a bit off-topic, and I don't mean to sound trollish, but where the hell was this attitude when it was needed for so many other things, like the war(s), healthcare, Guantanamo bay etc?? Why couldn't Obama have this GWB-like attitude of "fuck it, Ima gonna do what I wanna do" for all those other important topics? I follow US politics to some extent, but I'm still a little confused here - I.e. can he override a decision in congress if it doesn't have a 2/3 majority vote, but not in the senate? I'm gonna look this up now, but any elaboration would be helpful.
I think you're right there. Microsoft may not be happy that people are pirating they're products and would probably rather have every copy paid for. But they'd also rather have people using a pirated version of their competition instead of a competitor's product. That reduces the chances of another competitor rising up because they have such a stronghold on the marketplace.
Also, it's probably not worth the time and hassle to harass personal users of the software (medium-large sized corporations maybe). Take note RIAA!
The difference here is that the stuff wikileaks releases directly affects people - it's their family members getting killed, their tax dollars at work, a corporation in their country buying off a government & polluting their environment etc..
The information in this police report doesn't directly affect anyone except Julian & the two women making the claim. Wikileaks is not in the celebrity gossip business
So yea, technically they're both "government dealings" I guess in that sense. But no other significant similarity
The point was that there's no hypocrisy in this situation because wikileaks isn't in the business of releasing
this type of information, hence the Tiger sexting analogy. The purpose of the site is to release documents and
information related to political and corporate dealings, not a repository of celebrity sex videos and "personal
information" of individuals.
Perhaps your definition of "personal private information" needs some clarification. To me, personal private information
would be an SSN, birth information, personal address, mother's maiden name, bank account number, credit card numbers etc...
Wikileaks goes out of it's way to redact this information, and your whole "informants could get killed" argument is the same
bullshit reasoning that the diplomats are trying to say to cover their asses. If I recall from the whole afghan war logs
information, a whopping 3 informant names were released - one of who which was dead, another which was a double agent, and I've yet
to hear about a directly related death.
Besides that, wikileaks doesn't seem to be in the business of releasing information that's already out there on the interwebs.
The police report here has already been released - so unless you can somehow prove that wikileaks originally received this document
and deliberatly didn't post it, then you might have a smidgen of a point. Even then, the point here is that this police report
doesn't directly affect anyone except for Julian and the two women who filed the report - which is why they wouldn't post it. The war logs & other information posted actually affect people - because it's their tax dollars supporting that war, or their back yard where some corporation is secretly dumping toxic chemicals.
Wikileaks doesn't divulge personal private information of an individual's sex affairs. Dealings between government and corporations and whatnot.
This would be hypocritical if wikileaks leaked something like Tiger Woods' sex messages to his mistress or something along the lines of that. Plenty of sites posted that information, and possibly lots of trashy tabloids and gossip magazines - but wikileaks did not.
Speaking of wikileaks, I can't help but recall that article where the Air Force banned access to the media sites containing the wikileaks documents. Why is one branch of the military blocking access to the sites, yet they're contemplating giving a smart phone to everyone in the US army? I'm sure that if this falls through, the smart phones will be locked down to some extent, but they certainly won't be able to block every mirror that springs up.
Slashdot Mirror
Even foxnews.com has this as the top story! Quite surprised actually
Another related point here is the overall cost of tuition and how it affects the supply & demand of educated workers. As tuition fees are rising (much faster than inflation ), there's going to be less and less people deciding to go to school at all. From the link, "Cost of living increased roughly 2.5-fold during this time (1978 - 2080); medical costs inflated roughly 6-fold; but college tuition and fees inflation approached 10-fold". This isn't just the states either - every year I went to University in Canada they raises the tuition by about 7 or 8% per year. And wasn't it just tripled in the UK?
Well, it comes as no surprise then that less people decide to get a bachelor's degree, the demand for these workers goes up. No higher eduction or taking a trade just seems like a better option to most people than spending tens of thousands of dollars on education (and risk not finding a job after that). They see a bachelor's degree as the new sucker's game.
Well for starters, it's great for combining with just about everything else that's fun. Unless you're working at something that requires extremely high levels of concentration, music pretty much combines with almost any other activity you can think of. Maybe because the music is integrated so well into all the other fun things we do, we automatically associate it with a happy feeling more than a lot of other activities.
I guess makes a corporation seem more human when they can pretend to express a mood, after all they are technically people!
In other news today, Playstation felt irritated and exasperated because of PS3 pirates, Linux feels disappointed and neglected for another year, Facebook feels cheerful and optimistic about the coming year, and Apple was full of rage and jealousy because Google looked so damn cheerful and content.
You make some good points there - I doubt it may even be possible to have kids at all on Mars. Even if we had all the necessary education & physical requirements, we haven't done any test to see what kind of long term effects there are on development in zero-G or lower 0.4 mars gravity. Maybe their bones don't develop right and they all grow abnormally fast and die before they're 12? Their immune system (or lack thereof) means they're basically doomed to live on mars forever, I can't see how they would ever be able to return to earth without dying from the first germ that came along.
And the psychological effects? Kids need some space to play & roam around, to 'get in trouble' once in a while. Can't have any of that on a space or mars station ("Hey Timmy, lets play 'depressurize the cargo bay door' again!) Ever have 'quiet time' as a kid when you were forced to sit in your room for a while? It's a prison sentence if you're under 15. Unless you bring a shit load of ritalin, you're going to have some messed up teenagers.
These are the new censored / altered versions of the films. In lieu of other recent events, Lucasfilms decided to rewrite some of the scenes because some people were uncomfortable with the terminology in the earlier versions. With these new versions, teachers will be able to show these movies without feeling awkward.
:
Some of the changes include
- The word "slave" will be replaced with "indentured servant"
- Princess Leia no longer in metal bikini in episode VI, wearing a Victorian dress
- All ewoks, wookies and other humanoid-looking aliens will now be wearing a loincloth (at the very least), even if they don't appear to have genetalia
- Darth Vader will now don a racially sensitive multi-colored rainbow suit, so we don't infer or suggest that black is the color of evil
- Any offensive phrases or insults will be modified as to not insult nerf herders, or anyone else. For example, the phrase : "Why you stuck-up, half-witted, scruffy-looking nerf-herder!" - will be replaced with : "Why you highly self esteemed, intellectually challenged, unkempt appearing person that moves large animals with a cane!"
Your last couple of paragraphs are a little bit contradictory - you're aware that it was a free service, and that you should have been backing up your precious emails - so don't flame Microsoft for deleting your account information! 30 days probably seemed like a reasonable time frame to disable an account - there are plenty of inactive and spammy accounts that need to get purged every once in a while. Maybe if it was 60 or 90 days you'd still be using the account.
I doubt the incentive was to just use hotmail more regularly, but to get a few paying subscribers. You always had the option to "update to hotmail plus" for I dunno, 30 bucks a year or something like that. I'm not sure if your account is still deleted if inactive for 30 days, but back then the paid upgrade would guarantee your info wasn't deleted (plus give some other seemingly worthless benefits). I lost my emails like that too once back in 2002, and I was a little irritated at the time but I didn't switch to another email address out of spite - I was using a free service!
Well gamers might use their connection to the fullest capacity. And those using netflix. But neither of us are in the gaming industry so yea, we're not in any hurry to support the broadband speeds we advertise. Also, we'll need a few years to establish a more dominant streaming video share of the market... maybe when netflix goes bankrupt (because we throttled them to death) and Hulu has 90% of the market..
We'll get right on the architecture upgrade when that happens!
Sincerely,
Comcast & NBC
Sabotage by Comcast and AT&T. It's clear that they're scared that net neutrality bill is a big threat to business in the land line department... so the new plan is to make skype totally unreliable by sabotage. Eventually all the skype users will realize that VOIP is a bunch of crap and they'll go back to using land lines. It's so obvious!!
/tinfoilhat
Exactly.. People aren't going to type in "bankofamericasucks.com" or "BOA-blows.com" into their URL. .
Ok... so I just realized that bankofamericasucks.com actually goes to a gripe site for the bank... so uh, I guess if people still type this in, they'll still go to a gripe site by typing in the most obvious URL anyway!! Makes this whole venture seem even more ridiculous!
Exactly.. People aren't going to type in "bankofamericasucks.com" or "BOA-blows.com" into their URL. They're going to google for scam related information, making this domain buying completely useless. The exact URL is completely meaningless.
Go google "scientology" as an example. The 3rd result is "xenu.net" - a site who's sole purpose is to bring down the COS. Didn't need the word "scientology" anywhere in that URL.
If the software you're developing only works in IE, someone somewhere made a bad decision.
Ah if only it was that simple.. The company I originally developed software like this years ago when it was basically just IE or Netscape. They made it support both, thinking that those two would be used and supported forever. Well netscape died, and all that work going into supporting it was all for naught 5-10 years later. Because there are going to be bugs you see in one browser and not the other, and fully supporting additional browsers will require a lot of additional overhead.
Two years ago we started developed a similar version of the main site, and there was some debate over whether the site should just suppport IE, or IE and firefox. We started with both, then quickly dropped it because of the large number of firefox-only bugs. I look back at this and I think that was a good decision, because for all we know in 5 years firefox will be dead, and chrome will be the big #2 (or #1).
This might be a poor business model if you're looking to attract single customers from a site, but this stuff we develop is generally bought by larger corporations that have all their employees use it. We can dictate the terms & requirements a little easier and not risk losing customers by not supporting a browser. And unfortunately, we'll have to deal with any IE issues they have that get blamed on us because of some IE exploit...
Maybe the majority of slashdotters are on firefox, chrome, opera right now, but the software we're developing may only work on IE. The Network admins will need to deal with their users using IE. And a lot of our relatives are still using IE
When your aunt Bertha calls on christmas and goes "MY INTERNET IS BROKEN", i'll be able to go "ah yea, I remember reading about that on slashdot".
If I am a big business, I would be extremely cautious about adopting Skype for business, especially in the light of this current outage
Really? Based on a single outage? Cmon now, do you base a decision on whether to use a service on a single outage? How often is that compared to any other utilities (power, internet, land lines) going down periodically - when was the last major skype outage, if ever? I can't seem to find much, just a reference to a login issue back in August 2007. That's a pretty good track record for not crashing if that's the case - wish I could say the same about the local electricity or high speed internet.
There was no discussion at my office today about switching the plan because it was down for a day. Skype is still considerably cheaper so it's still the first choice for long distance or conference calls. Most offices still have phones and land lines for each person for internal communication - just use those as a backup should it go down.
That reminds me of a story I heard from a relative that worked in Africa a while ago. I might not be reciting this story entirely accurate - but it was something on the lines of this:
In one of a villages there was a witch doctor that would periodically perform some sort of ritual to heal people, using some sort of trinket. I forget what the trinket was - maybe a rock or a bone or whatever, but the villagers (and maybe the witch doctor) truly believed this trinket combined with the ritual would heal them from whatever they would go to the doctor for.
Well one day this trinket got lost and word got out to the villagers that it was missing. However, the healing sessions didn't stop - the witch doctor continued with the ritual when required but simply pretended to hold that trinket in his hand (or perhaps used a substitute object) - but the people still claimed to feel better after the ritual! It didn't surprise me that the people claimed to feel better after the ritual before he lost the trinket - that's the placebo effect and I was already aware of that - but it amazed me that the villagers continued to go, and still claimed to be healed, despite knowing that he didn't have the trinket! That part really just kind of baffled me - like they all knew it was a ruse and wouldn't work - maybe they thought it was better than simply doing nothing at all? Who knows.
Note that I can't I can't actually verify if the villagers actually got better or simply claimed to - but either way this still relates to this article.
if they have gold in them now this little bit of otherwise worthless paper actually has a minuscule bit of value
I’ve heard they already contain measurable levels of cocaine.
Gold and cocaine on the same bill? Well then all the US government has to do is just print nothing but $1 bills for the next 10 years or so. If the actual value of the bill is worth more than US $1 currently is now, they'll be out of that recession in no time!
- To give money to a friend or family member
- To leave a tip
- Purchase off of someone who doesn't have interac - i.e. a vendor at a sporting event, a street peddler at a farmers market etc..
- Drugs, Casinos, Stippers
- Its just faster
Regarding the last point, I've been to a few fast food places and bars where they have a sign specifically telling people that interac is not accepted at that location. One of the reasons might be that the retailer doesn't want to pay for transaction fees (for credit cards), or they own the bank machine in the location and want to make a profit off of it. But the main reason in a fast paced environment is to just avoid long line-ups. Interac is somewhat faster now, but 5 years ago you might have to wait 30-45 seconds for the damn dial-up connection to process the payment. Even now, cash transactions are still faster, a cashier getting change is almost always done faster than a customer swiping the card, punching in the key code and waiting for it to process.
Great answer sir.
/or change per interac transaction
I'm going to add to that and say not just because of some other entity approving, but also so that said approving entity does not make any profit off the the transaction (seller pays a % for CC transactions, buyer pays a monthly fee and
Also, those transactions may be used in some cross referencing - advertising - purchasing trend that's being sold somewhere, which I generally don't want to be a part of.
Can't tell if you're being trollish or funny here...
I generally prefer anonyminity when paying for things because I know that if I use my interac card my information's being tracked by someone. They may not necessarily be directly looking at my spending habits and affecting me (i.e. sending me more flyers, because the bank released my home address to a company where I made an interac or visa purchase). But data like this is probably being collected (maybe illegally?) and being cross referenced and sold to advertisers or something. Again, maybe i'm not directly affected, but some other corporations may be benefiting by using or selling this knowledge and I'm not too content on helping them out.
Yet President Obama, long and ardent backer of net neutrality, is ignoring both Congress and adverse court rulings, especially by a federal appeals court in April... He is seeking to impose his will through the executive branch
You know, this might be a bit off-topic, and I don't mean to sound trollish, but where the hell was this attitude when it was needed for so many other things, like the war(s), healthcare, Guantanamo bay etc?? Why couldn't Obama have this GWB-like attitude of "fuck it, Ima gonna do what I wanna do" for all those other important topics? I follow US politics to some extent, but I'm still a little confused here - I.e. can he override a decision in congress if it doesn't have a 2/3 majority vote, but not in the senate? I'm gonna look this up now, but any elaboration would be helpful.
I think you're right there. Microsoft may not be happy that people are pirating they're products and would probably rather have every copy paid for. But they'd also rather have people using a pirated version of their competition instead of a competitor's product. That reduces the chances of another competitor rising up because they have such a stronghold on the marketplace.
Also, it's probably not worth the time and hassle to harass personal users of the software (medium-large sized corporations maybe). Take note RIAA!
The difference here is that the stuff wikileaks releases directly affects people - it's their family members getting killed, their tax dollars at work, a corporation in their country buying off a government & polluting their environment etc..
The information in this police report doesn't directly affect anyone except Julian & the two women making the claim. Wikileaks is not in the celebrity gossip business
So yea, technically they're both "government dealings" I guess in that sense. But no other significant similarity
The point was that there's no hypocrisy in this situation because wikileaks isn't in the business of releasing this type of information, hence the Tiger sexting analogy. The purpose of the site is to release documents and information related to political and corporate dealings, not a repository of celebrity sex videos and "personal information" of individuals.
Perhaps your definition of "personal private information" needs some clarification. To me, personal private information would be an SSN, birth information, personal address, mother's maiden name, bank account number, credit card numbers etc... Wikileaks goes out of it's way to redact this information, and your whole "informants could get killed" argument is the same bullshit reasoning that the diplomats are trying to say to cover their asses. If I recall from the whole afghan war logs information, a whopping 3 informant names were released - one of who which was dead, another which was a double agent, and I've yet to hear about a directly related death.
Besides that, wikileaks doesn't seem to be in the business of releasing information that's already out there on the interwebs. The police report here has already been released - so unless you can somehow prove that wikileaks originally received this document and deliberatly didn't post it, then you might have a smidgen of a point. Even then, the point here is that this police report doesn't directly affect anyone except for Julian and the two women who filed the report - which is why they wouldn't post it. The war logs & other information posted actually affect people - because it's their tax dollars supporting that war, or their back yard where some corporation is secretly dumping toxic chemicals.
Wikileaks doesn't divulge personal private information of an individual's sex affairs. Dealings between government and corporations and whatnot.
This would be hypocritical if wikileaks leaked something like Tiger Woods' sex messages to his mistress or something along the lines of that. Plenty of sites posted that information, and possibly lots of trashy tabloids and gossip magazines - but wikileaks did not.
Speaking of wikileaks, I can't help but recall that article where the Air Force banned access to the media sites containing the wikileaks documents. Why is one branch of the military blocking access to the sites, yet they're contemplating giving a smart phone to everyone in the US army? I'm sure that if this falls through, the smart phones will be locked down to some extent, but they certainly won't be able to block every mirror that springs up.