It's easy for people to be nice and polite and generous in times of peace and plenty, but during these evil times we're living in, it seems you find out what people are really like.
Memo to China: You may have 1,000,000,000 people in your country, but you're still only about one-sixth of the total world population. If you're ever at least 51% of the world's population, then we'll discuss this so-called "decree" of yours seriously. Until then, enjoy your little walled garden.
Stop buying everything. Don't give them a single penny. You do not need these things anyway! Then write letters to them explaining WHY you're not buying from them.
I know, I know, "it's a nice idea, but most people are sheep and will buy anyway". Sad, sad, sad. That's the only solution I can think of, until someone whose voice actually means something can speak up for common sense and start bringing this shit to a halt. Anyone? Bueller?
Now, finally, I see the truth: Slashdot is just an expanded combination of/g/ and/sci/ on 4chan isn't it? It's all the same people, isn't it? Moot, you can fucking come out from behind the curtain now, game's over now, we know the truth: you're the fucker that's really been running Slashdot all this time, haven't you?
Hear, hear. I swear the pedestrians are taking lessons in common sense from the squirrels*: act suicidal and expect everyone to stop for you just because you're a pedestrian, and you can sue the fuck out of them if they hit you regardless of whether or not you were jaywalking.
*I ride a bicycle all the time. Squirrels are all insane and suicidal; they'll turn around and run across the road in front of you when they're on the side of the road rather than run in the safe direction. Every. Single. Time.
If this was you, would you have reacted this way? Or do you think this woman is just looking for attention and/or a payday? Does the dominant paradigm of her ethnicity have anything to do with this?
I think this is the first piece of good news I've heard on any number of subjects recently. Amidst a sea of clueless politicians in any number of countries that would destroy the internet for everyone, there are still a few voices of reason from out of the wilderness. It may come to nothing, but it's good to hear that not everyone wants to censor and regulate the internet as we know it out of existence, turning the clock backwards to before the 1990's.
There's one thing I'd like to see in MSE: Control over when it looks for updates. I'd prefer being able to schedule what time of the day it does this, or even have the ability to turn it off and do all updates manually like with all other updates for Windows and Microsoft products.
Knowing how overpriced internet access is over wireless providers, I don't use it at all. I don't own or need a smartphone, so I don't need a dataplan anyway. If they're going to start playing games like this with it, then I have no incentive to ever change that. I suggest everyone else follow suit, if shenanigans like this get implemented. You don't need a smartphone to live and conduct your lives, you got along fine without it before there were such things. You just need to be reminded of that.
It's because NBC owns SyFy, and just like the re-branding of the channel implies, NBC gave the once-decent SciFi Channel a case of syphillis, which has now gone to it's brain and is in the terminal stages of completely destroying and killing it off. NBC, for those of us who remember, has a long history of completly fucking up anything even scifi-related, and I've been waiting to see how long it would be before they fucked up the SciFi Channel; I now have my answer. Not only is there nothing of value on the channel anymore, there really isn't much of anything left on TV that's worthwhile to TiVo, either.
I don't think you get it: It all starts there. Once they have successfully exerted control, then it expands to include whatever they want, and don't sit there and tell me with a straight face that it isn't going to happen: Historically, power seeks more power, control seeks more control, and if something like this happens then it won't be too long before the internet resembles a swiss cheese for all the censorship that will be done to it.
As of this writing there are over 550 comments on this news story -- only 4 of which are moderated up to 5 -- and Slashdot's commenting system prevents the use of excessive caps, so I call shenanigans on the whole concept.
Video games, movies and television all have something in common: after a certain point, there really aren't any new ideas, just re-hashing of old ones. Given that it makes perfect sense that eventually they'd start recycling the people in them as well.
Not the same thing at all. In the example of telegraph, there was no "infrastructure" to speak of that it was paralleling, messages were hand-carried. The telephone isn't a good example either, because it built upon the infrastructure that the telegraph had already laid down all over the country. Same with the internet: how much of it, for how long, was carried over telephone lines? I'm not against progress or new ideas, but in my opinion this one sounds like a small group of researchers more interested in getting their names in the press than they are in promoting a viable new technology. Agree with my opinion or not, but don't moderate me down just because you disagree with my opinion.
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It's easy for people to be nice and polite and generous in times of peace and plenty, but during these evil times we're living in, it seems you find out what people are really like.
Prostitution has been around almost as long as humans have been around. Humans are wasting their time trying to stamp it out.
Prostitution has been around as long as humans has been around. Humans are wasting it's time trying to stamp it out.
There, that about cover it? Sheesh.
Pornography has been around as long as humans has been around. China is wasting it's time trying to stamp it out.
Go fuck yourself, asshole.
Then why read Slashdot? The Best Buy circular in the Sunday paper is what you are looking for.
"Years away" could mean as soon as 12 months.
Please avoid careless speculation.
Wow, apparently "sarcasm" isn't spoken here, or at least you bozos don't understand it. Work on that then get back to me, k?
Racetrack memory is still years away from hitting the consumer market..
In other words, maybe in the next 20 years, right?
Memo to China: You may have 1,000,000,000 people in your country, but you're still only about one-sixth of the total world population. If you're ever at least 51% of the world's population, then we'll discuss this so-called "decree" of yours seriously. Until then, enjoy your little walled garden.
Why not add a tax to all paper products and writing implements while you're at it? After all someone might COPY something from a book, newspaper or magazine, and OH NO we can't have that now can we? After all, if an MP3 file, which uses lossy compression and is therefore an inferior, degraded copy of sounds is an illegal copy for which you get the living fuck sued out of you, then something you write down on a piece of paper that someone else copyrighted is also a degraded but still illegal copy, right? Why not put a tax on the HUMAN BRAIN because it's got memory, too, and we can REMEMBER what a song sounds like, even though those memories degrade over time? Shouldn't they get some money for that, too? Hey, here's an idea: let's tax the air we breathe, because sound waves carry, and someone who didn't PAY for the content might actually hear it with their ears, connected to their brains, and they'd remember what it sounds like, therefore that's an illegal copy, too, isn't it? Quick! Someone copyright the MOON, backdated 10,000 years, and make every living person on the planet who has ever looked up into the night sky pay a fee because they looked at The Moon © 2010 MPAA!
There's only one real solution: we need to have technology that completely wipes people's memories of everything copyrighted they ever hear or see. It's the only way!
Higher transmit power, but also higher gain antenna and higher gain LNA on the receive side.
Stop buying everything. Don't give them a single penny. You do not need these things anyway! Then write letters to them explaining WHY you're not buying from them.
I know, I know, "it's a nice idea, but most people are sheep and will buy anyway". Sad, sad, sad. That's the only solution I can think of, until someone whose voice actually means something can speak up for common sense and start bringing this shit to a halt. Anyone? Bueller?
*facepalm*
/g/ and /sci/ on 4chan isn't it? It's all the same people, isn't it? Moot, you can fucking come out from behind the curtain now, game's over now, we know the truth: you're the fucker that's really been running Slashdot all this time, haven't you?
Now, finally, I see the truth: Slashdot is just an expanded combination of
Shit.
Hear, hear. I swear the pedestrians are taking lessons in common sense from the squirrels*: act suicidal and expect everyone to stop for you just because you're a pedestrian, and you can sue the fuck out of them if they hit you regardless of whether or not you were jaywalking.
*I ride a bicycle all the time. Squirrels are all insane and suicidal; they'll turn around and run across the road in front of you when they're on the side of the road rather than run in the safe direction. Every. Single. Time.
If this was you, would you have reacted this way? Or do you think this woman is just looking for attention and/or a payday? Does the dominant paradigm of her ethnicity have anything to do with this?
:-)
Also, first post!
I think this is the first piece of good news I've heard on any number of subjects recently. Amidst a sea of clueless politicians in any number of countries that would destroy the internet for everyone, there are still a few voices of reason from out of the wilderness. It may come to nothing, but it's good to hear that not everyone wants to censor and regulate the internet as we know it out of existence, turning the clock backwards to before the 1990's.
There's one thing I'd like to see in MSE: Control over when it looks for updates. I'd prefer being able to schedule what time of the day it does this, or even have the ability to turn it off and do all updates manually like with all other updates for Windows and Microsoft products.
Knowing how overpriced internet access is over wireless providers, I don't use it at all. I don't own or need a smartphone, so I don't need a dataplan anyway. If they're going to start playing games like this with it, then I have no incentive to ever change that. I suggest everyone else follow suit, if shenanigans like this get implemented. You don't need a smartphone to live and conduct your lives, you got along fine without it before there were such things. You just need to be reminded of that.
It's because NBC owns SyFy, and just like the re-branding of the channel implies, NBC gave the once-decent SciFi Channel a case of syphillis, which has now gone to it's brain and is in the terminal stages of completely destroying and killing it off. NBC, for those of us who remember, has a long history of completly fucking up anything even scifi-related, and I've been waiting to see how long it would be before they fucked up the SciFi Channel; I now have my answer.
Not only is there nothing of value on the channel anymore, there really isn't much of anything left on TV that's worthwhile to TiVo, either.
I don't think you get it: It all starts there. Once they have successfully exerted control, then it expands to include whatever they want, and don't sit there and tell me with a straight face that it isn't going to happen: Historically, power seeks more power, control seeks more control, and if something like this happens then it won't be too long before the internet resembles a swiss cheese for all the censorship that will be done to it.
No need to get so hot under the collar about this, Anon; you're getting up a full head of steam over nothing!
uTorrent has a Tetris game built in, you'll just have to be satisfied with that.
That was the very first thought that I had when I read this.
***Bracing for renewed anti-science and anti-gay religious shitstorm in 3.. 2.. 1..***
As of this writing there are over 550 comments on this news story -- only 4 of which are moderated up to 5 -- and Slashdot's commenting system prevents the use of excessive caps, so I call shenanigans on the whole concept.
Video games, movies and television all have something in common: after a certain point, there really aren't any new ideas, just re-hashing of old ones. Given that it makes perfect sense that eventually they'd start recycling the people in them as well.
Not the same thing at all. In the example of telegraph, there was no "infrastructure" to speak of that it was paralleling, messages were hand-carried. The telephone isn't a good example either, because it built upon the infrastructure that the telegraph had already laid down all over the country. Same with the internet: how much of it, for how long, was carried over telephone lines? I'm not against progress or new ideas, but in my opinion this one sounds like a small group of researchers more interested in getting their names in the press than they are in promoting a viable new technology.
Agree with my opinion or not, but don't moderate me down just because you disagree with my opinion.