You fucking bastards!!! You sue the LIVING FUCK out of little old ladies because their granddaughter shared a few songs, and then you turn right around and fileshare your shit music for your own benefit? FUCK. YOU.
This "group of academics" sounds to me more like they're just trying to get some play in the press, or maybe get some government grant money. It's an absurb idea if you ask me. We already have a huge amount of infrastructure built in the form of highways and a rail system, and they want to build a completely different infrastructure to do the same thing? Maybe these big-brained "academics" should employ their considerable imaginations towards improving on the infrastructure we already have.
..because I find Google Autocomplete to be bloated and annoying. Many of the changes they've made to their basic search page are bloated and annoying, too. I shouldn't have to wait for some javascript crap to load up and run just to do a basic web search. The new image search is OK though.
I'm all for this, I think it would be wonderful and beautiful to just change a setting in my browser and never have to question whether I'm being surveiled or not. It'll never work though. Corporations want what they want, and they'll find a way to track you regardless. I don't even think that making it illegal to track people's online habits would really stop them. The federal "Do not call" list only works up to a point, if someone doesn't give a shit about the law and thinks they can get away with it, they'll ring you up anyway.
Yeah, I'm sure she's real proud of the high regard you hold her in, referring to her in such a manner. Do you fondly refer to her in casual conversation as "my slant-eyed sweetie"? Also, you're French, your whole country hates us, so I'm supposed to listen to you why? By the way, how are those rapant human rights violations sitting with you, friend? You're living there and married to someone of Chinese ancestry, you might just be as OK with those as you apparently are with every other crappy thing that the Chinese government and military keeps doing. I may not be as proud to be an American as I once used to be, but I don't see where you have a single leg to stand on so far as defending China against this or any other crimes against the rest of the world they've committed.
IN THIS COMMENT: Butthurt Anonymous Coward cries and whines over the fact that someone of single-digit age came up with a simple yet innovative idea that might just put him through college one day, while the AC OP sits lonely and fat in his stepmother's basement, unable to even hold down a job at the local Burger King. Stop being such a fucking whiner, AC. Go back to community college and actually learn some job skills (Protip: XBAWKS360 doesn't count as "job skills") and maybe you'll actually get a job someday.
If you were found to be tampering with DNS, at the very least you'd have your internet service cut off, at worst you'd be arrested. The equivalent of "arresting" China would be called "World War III" and that's not going to happen (yet). We can, however, cut them off from the rest of the internet, can't we? Why haven't we? They refuse to behave, they don't own the internet (nobody does and everybody does, really), they don't have the right to do this. Cut them off until they learn to behave. Besides, to hear them talk, they'd probably prefer being cut off from the rest of the world so they can literally force their citizens to use only the sites the State wants them to.
That's what this shit is. "Oh, we'll respect your privacy, give you opt-in". Bull. Fucking. Shit. The government is seizing websites en-masse as the tools of the MAFIAA that they are. Big telecoms are purchasing control of the internet. Advertising companies are datamining the living fuck out of us. So-called "social networking" sites suck in clueless people who don't have any clue that their privacy is precious and priceless, and these people willingly post their entire lives for all to see and for corporations to collect their data to use however they see fit. Meanwhile the dumbass masses are pacified by technological bread and circuses, oblivious to all that's going on around them until it's too late. Meanwhile our votes are meaningless, and our politicians don't really give a flying fuck about anything except sucking the cocks of the big corporations that keep them in office with their gigantic contributions. Am I the only one who feels powerless? I just hope I don't live long enough to see them kick MY door in.
1. Take responsibility for your own children, damnit. It is not, and should not be the responsibility of the government to raise children.
2. That having been said: if they want to see naked people having sex, they will find a way. You can't stop it from happening any more than you can stop them from having sex when they're ready to.
If these people had any imagination at all, they'd see the obvious: everything can be used as a weapon or part of a weapon. They'll just have to ban everything, including the kid's clothing, and put their arms and legs in shackles and ball-gags and march them around like they're Dr. Hannibal Lecter, just to be sure that nobody has any opportunity to harm themselves or others. Oh, and they might get to learn something.. so long as they don't get taught anything that could even remotely be used improperly. Seriously, is this what it's come down to? Between overpaid, underqualified administrators who are more interested in lining their own pockets, teachers who never should have been in the first place who now have tenure, low pay for teachers and crappy conditions for teachers who are good at it and who give a damn about the kids and who end up paying for supplies and books out of their own pockets, I'm amazed that any kid has any chance at all of learning anything!
It is my contention that this scientific breakthrough has been intentionally hushed-up by politicians from both sides of the aisle so that it wouldn't be released before elections just a few weeks ago. Why, even here in California, this remarkable bacteria, showing much more intelligence and logical-thought ability than anyone else on the ticket, would have been a write-in landslide victory for governor!
Since this story brings the subject up, I can't remember the last time I used the white pages for anything, and I use the Yellow Pages very seldom, using the internet instead. Furthermore I've thought that having them delivered every year has become a waste of paper, doubly so because of the competing phone directory in my area (the "Valley Yellow Pages"). Honestly, the only serious use I've had for phone books? They're the perfect footprint for setting up a PC motherboard onto so that the backplane brackets don't inadvertedly unplug expansion cards from their bus slots. Otherwise? I'd much rather use the internet, or have a searchable CDROM/DVD instead of having to page through a paper book. Another good idea? Phone book available for free download directly onto your eBook reader-of-choice. While I don't like eBook readers for books I want to keep, I think they're a wonderful idea for periodicals, newspapers, textbooks, phonebooks, or any other publication with an implied expiration date on them; it saves paper, printing costs, and physical space in our homes.
How does the tree feel about all this? Seriously, is this healthy for the tree? More to the point, can you get the tree to grow with this feature as a natural part of it's genetic makeup? Sorry to sound cynical but this sounds like another one of those "news" stories that exist solely to get attention, not because it's about anything really practical.
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You're missing the point. The mechanism isn't important, the point is that people will find a way to share files if that's what they want to do. There is no way to completely stop it from happening, not even if we were living in a police state. Look at Cuba, for instance: they have to resort to SneakerNet, and the bandwidth is very low, but they do it.
We end up paying even more rediculous amounts for access to the "free" internet, in addition to still paying the outrageous amounts we already pay now. It'd end up being some sort of tiered service. No. Fuck this. Net neutrality all the way, or NO internet at all.
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You can't stop the signal, Mal.
It seems they'll never get this simple concept through their antiquated-business-model brains: People will find a way, even if it means resorting to SneakerNet.
Theatres are already having a tough time competing with what you can put in your living room, and they're going to willingly do something to drive people away? I'll only speak for myself: If I find my local theatres are doing this, then that's the last time I go to the movies. Whatever it is, I'll just wait until I can get it on DVD and watch it at home.
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You fucking bastards!!! You sue the LIVING FUCK out of little old ladies because their granddaughter shared a few songs, and then you turn right around and fileshare your shit music for your own benefit? FUCK. YOU.
This "group of academics" sounds to me more like they're just trying to get some play in the press, or maybe get some government grant money. It's an absurb idea if you ask me. We already have a huge amount of infrastructure built in the form of highways and a rail system, and they want to build a completely different infrastructure to do the same thing? Maybe these big-brained "academics" should employ their considerable imaginations towards improving on the infrastructure we already have.
..because I find Google Autocomplete to be bloated and annoying. Many of the changes they've made to their basic search page are bloated and annoying, too. I shouldn't have to wait for some javascript crap to load up and run just to do a basic web search. The new image search is OK though.
Gee, except that according to this artice that isn't enough.
Of course there is prior art on a naming convention for clones. If there are 4 clones of Dolly, they're named 2Dolly, 3Dolly, 4Dolly, and 5Dolly.
I'm all for this, I think it would be wonderful and beautiful to just change a setting in my browser and never have to question whether I'm being surveiled or not. It'll never work though. Corporations want what they want, and they'll find a way to track you regardless. I don't even think that making it illegal to track people's online habits would really stop them. The federal "Do not call" list only works up to a point, if someone doesn't give a shit about the law and thinks they can get away with it, they'll ring you up anyway.
Simple. Your ISP says, "Well, for $$$ per month extra.."
Either a way to completely disable their ability to do this, or to get off the internet permanently. DO. NOT. WANT.
Don't click those buttons!
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Yeah, I'm sure she's real proud of the high regard you hold her in, referring to her in such a manner. Do you fondly refer to her in casual conversation as "my slant-eyed sweetie"?
Also, you're French, your whole country hates us, so I'm supposed to listen to you why?
By the way, how are those rapant human rights violations sitting with you, friend? You're living there and married to someone of Chinese ancestry, you might just be as OK with those as you apparently are with every other crappy thing that the Chinese government and military keeps doing. I may not be as proud to be an American as I once used to be, but I don't see where you have a single leg to stand on so far as defending China against this or any other crimes against the rest of the world they've committed.
IN THIS COMMENT: Butthurt Anonymous Coward cries and whines over the fact that someone of single-digit age came up with a simple yet innovative idea that might just put him through college one day, while the AC OP sits lonely and fat in his stepmother's basement, unable to even hold down a job at the local Burger King.
Stop being such a fucking whiner, AC. Go back to community college and actually learn some job skills (Protip: XBAWKS360 doesn't count as "job skills") and maybe you'll actually get a job someday.
If you were found to be tampering with DNS, at the very least you'd have your internet service cut off, at worst you'd be arrested. The equivalent of "arresting" China would be called "World War III" and that's not going to happen (yet). We can, however, cut them off from the rest of the internet, can't we? Why haven't we? They refuse to behave, they don't own the internet (nobody does and everybody does, really), they don't have the right to do this. Cut them off until they learn to behave. Besides, to hear them talk, they'd probably prefer being cut off from the rest of the world so they can literally force their citizens to use only the sites the State wants them to.
That's what this shit is. "Oh, we'll respect your privacy, give you opt-in". Bull. Fucking. Shit.
The government is seizing websites en-masse as the tools of the MAFIAA that they are. Big telecoms are purchasing control of the internet. Advertising companies are datamining the living fuck out of us. So-called "social networking" sites suck in clueless people who don't have any clue that their privacy is precious and priceless, and these people willingly post their entire lives for all to see and for corporations to collect their data to use however they see fit. Meanwhile the dumbass masses are pacified by technological bread and circuses, oblivious to all that's going on around them until it's too late. Meanwhile our votes are meaningless, and our politicians don't really give a flying fuck about anything except sucking the cocks of the big corporations that keep them in office with their gigantic contributions. Am I the only one who feels powerless? I just hope I don't live long enough to see them kick MY door in.
I don't know if they're "endless" or not, but I see one fatal flaw in it: It involves PayPal.
1. Take responsibility for your own children, damnit. It is not, and should not be the responsibility of the government to raise children. 2. That having been said: if they want to see naked people having sex, they will find a way. You can't stop it from happening any more than you can stop them from having sex when they're ready to.
If these people had any imagination at all, they'd see the obvious: everything can be used as a weapon or part of a weapon. They'll just have to ban everything, including the kid's clothing, and put their arms and legs in shackles and ball-gags and march them around like they're Dr. Hannibal Lecter, just to be sure that nobody has any opportunity to harm themselves or others. Oh, and they might get to learn something.. so long as they don't get taught anything that could even remotely be used improperly.
Seriously, is this what it's come down to? Between overpaid, underqualified administrators who are more interested in lining their own pockets, teachers who never should have been in the first place who now have tenure, low pay for teachers and crappy conditions for teachers who are good at it and who give a damn about the kids and who end up paying for supplies and books out of their own pockets, I'm amazed that any kid has any chance at all of learning anything!
I can't amplify this comment enough.
It is my contention that this scientific breakthrough has been intentionally hushed-up by politicians from both sides of the aisle so that it wouldn't be released before elections just a few weeks ago. Why, even here in California, this remarkable bacteria, showing much more intelligence and logical-thought ability than anyone else on the ticket, would have been a write-in landslide victory for governor!
..then does that mean it doesn't matter? :-)
Since this story brings the subject up, I can't remember the last time I used the white pages for anything, and I use the Yellow Pages very seldom, using the internet instead. Furthermore I've thought that having them delivered every year has become a waste of paper, doubly so because of the competing phone directory in my area (the "Valley Yellow Pages"). Honestly, the only serious use I've had for phone books? They're the perfect footprint for setting up a PC motherboard onto so that the backplane brackets don't inadvertedly unplug expansion cards from their bus slots. Otherwise? I'd much rather use the internet, or have a searchable CDROM/DVD instead of having to page through a paper book. Another good idea? Phone book available for free download directly onto your eBook reader-of-choice. While I don't like eBook readers for books I want to keep, I think they're a wonderful idea for periodicals, newspapers, textbooks, phonebooks, or any other publication with an implied expiration date on them; it saves paper, printing costs, and physical space in our homes.
How does the tree feel about all this?
Seriously, is this healthy for the tree? More to the point, can you get the tree to grow with this feature as a natural part of it's genetic makeup?
Sorry to sound cynical but this sounds like another one of those "news" stories that exist solely to get attention, not because it's about anything really practical.
You're missing the point. The mechanism isn't important, the point is that people will find a way to share files if that's what they want to do. There is no way to completely stop it from happening, not even if we were living in a police state. Look at Cuba, for instance: they have to resort to SneakerNet, and the bandwidth is very low, but they do it.
We end up paying even more rediculous amounts for access to the "free" internet, in addition to still paying the outrageous amounts we already pay now. It'd end up being some sort of tiered service. No. Fuck this. Net neutrality all the way, or NO internet at all.
You can't stop the signal, Mal.
It seems they'll never get this simple concept through their antiquated-business-model brains: People will find a way, even if it means resorting to SneakerNet.
Theatres are already having a tough time competing with what you can put in your living room, and they're going to willingly do something to drive people away? I'll only speak for myself: If I find my local theatres are doing this, then that's the last time I go to the movies. Whatever it is, I'll just wait until I can get it on DVD and watch it at home.