Anyways... If the content is already freely available, then the content is already available to the public, isn't it? in what way would a hyperlink constitute an illegal communication to the public when the content itself is, in fact, already public?
"Public" doesn't necessarily imply "legally public".
To me, the ruling says: "No matter about the legality of a freely available piece on the Internet, whoever links to it is not guilty of breaking any law".
I still felt ghost 'buzzing' and had muscle twitches in that area of my leg for 6 months.
It a very serious illness, it's called hypovibrochondria (aka ringxiety or fauxcellarm)...
I reckon not carrying you mobile in your pants will result in massive improvement on the life expectation... of your mobile.
... (unless he's in a go-kart or something.. Ariel atom maybe???)
Not necessarily: passing over the top of a hill, your headlight beam will be above the incoming traffic. Going down, there will be a moment when your beams will shine straight in the eyes of the drivers in the other lane.
If someone uses a telescope to spy on animals in a forest and suddenly such a car shines on him, much more power is collected by the large first telescope lens/mirror.
A well deserved punishment, I might say, for breaching privacy rights of the said animals.
It's insane to try to prosecute the downloader. My 6 year old loves to watch youtube videos.
Alot of the words she knows how to spell like 'dora' and 'mickey mouse' are copyrighted.
How is she (or her grandma or anyone else) suppose to know that video A is ok to watch
but video B (which youtube is still getting ad revenue from) is copywrited and illegal.
Ignorantia juris non excusat. Throw her and her granny in jail, they're criminals.
> You know that more than half of the students in your class have been told by their parents and their pastors, that when the subject of evolution comes up, they should just tune out.
For fucks sake don't mention the turns ratio, lenz's law, conjugate variables or titration to any Christians. They'll want to fuck that up their children's minds about that too, by inventing crackpot alternative 'theories'. Just keep quiet and let them fail their exams.
Until they'll start claiming that failing the exams is discrimination. After all, in their view, their ignorance is as good as anybody's science.
Kids train on video games now. If there's a war, they'll have a glut of drone pilots ready to go at a moment's notice.
Also, buck feta.
Possible solution: send some drones to eliminate the factors which - as per TFT - "Threaten Aviation Industry". Isn't this the the most tried solution in the last years?
BTW, don't make the mistake to think it cannot happen now because... you know?... "today/here" is different than "then/there" the communist states.
Consider "managed democracy" and... maybe, why not?... inverted totalitarism
You miss the point. It does not MATTER if you are "important" or not. Seriously consider the implications of a total surveillance state.
As someone that grew under a totalitarian regime in Eastern Europe, I can tell you it's ugly like hell.
It doesn't matter that:
* then, you wouldn't know if the other person would snitch on you; and...
* now you wouldn't know if the computer/phone of the other's person or the ones you own/use would snitch on you (might as well add the nowadays almost ubiquitous CCTV-es to equations, possibly all equipped tomorrow with microphones);
in time - quite quickly - the entire fabric of society evolves to "by default, don't trust anyone".
Can you imagine a life where, no matter what you do, you need to use "steganography" (even when talking face-to-face)? Well, this is how it is in a total surveillance state.
What are the consequences, you ask? The most immediate and with the highest impact:
* one is likely to spend enormous amount of effort in balancing between "getting a message across" and "flying under the radar" (expressing the message in an innocuous way).
* the sense of community is broken down (can't build meaningful relations while in a permanent "don't trust" state of mind)
Even letting aside the economy mismanagement, the two above alone would be just enough to explain why the former "communist" regimes failed: too much effort wasted in "being paranoid" by everybody and too less "organic social efficiency".
+1. I don't mind the beta, it's ok. What's not ok is all the comments about it that makes the actual comments hard to read.
That's the whole point of the comments. Disruption is the nature of picketing, and you play your part as a useful idiot who helps the protest by stating how disruptive it is.
Thank you for verifying the effectiveness of the protest.
Is your goal to disrupt or is disruption a mean towards "better/. community experience"? Because, lately, I start perceiving from you only the former, especially when mentioning "useful idiot" (implies a certain attitude towards members of the very community you claim to have your heart for)?
Hey, your post got modded up quick! Please reconsider posting at all, slashdot is about to die unless direct action by its users is taken, did you miss something?
And if everyone is rubishing beta, what do you think happens? Or, do you think geeks are like unionized blue-collars to go on a strike and return next week/month as if nothing happened?
Yes, I can express my olives and fetta, but if I'm limited to only/exclusively that for more than 2-3 days, suddenly it doesn't make sense to even come on/.
Also, this throws the precautionary principle out the window: until something is proven harmful, it can't be regulated.
"Proven harmful" is even mild in comparison with "reproducible harmful". There are lots of things one can never hope to reproduce empirically: can you really reproduce an earthquake (if you can't control it, how can you hope to reproduce it)? Or the effect of variating CO2 percentage on Earth's climate? (yes, you can observe it, but not reproduce it, there's only one Earth to stand as experimental subject)
In his last speech as Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer endorsed beta:
"There's nothing that beta.slashdot.org cannot do. beta.slashdot.org can simply do anything. Anything rendered in beta.slashdot.org is fantastic. I love beta.slashdot.org. I can't get enough of beta.slashdot.org. Return to betadom, you insolent insects! You're nothing without beta.slashdot.org! Why not use beta.slashdot.org? Linux is garbage; it wasn't made for beta.slashdot.org. Why do you cower? Because you're not using beta.slashdot.org. Use beta.slashdot.org already! Return, return, return, return, return to beta-dooooooooooooooom!"
Slashdot Mirror
(but as my wife would say.... what else is new?)
Anyways... If the content is already freely available, then the content is already available to the public, isn't it? in what way would a hyperlink constitute an illegal communication to the public when the content itself is, in fact, already public?
"Public" doesn't necessarily imply "legally public".
To me, the ruling says: "No matter about the legality of a freely available piece on the Internet, whoever links to it is not guilty of breaking any law".
I still felt ghost 'buzzing' and had muscle twitches in that area of my leg for 6 months.
It a very serious illness, it's called hypovibrochondria (aka ringxiety or fauxcellarm)...
I reckon not carrying you mobile in your pants will result in massive improvement on the life expectation... of your mobile.
It's a science of extracting money from gullible people.
Nope, it's an art.
... (unless he's in a go-kart or something.. Ariel atom maybe???)
Not necessarily: passing over the top of a hill, your headlight beam will be above the incoming traffic. Going down, there will be a moment when your beams will shine straight in the eyes of the drivers in the other lane.
If someone uses a telescope to spy on animals in a forest and suddenly such a car shines on him, much more power is collected by the large first telescope lens/mirror.
A well deserved punishment, I might say, for breaching privacy rights of the said animals.
There is a lights arms race on the streets. I wonder if we already passed the point of "more is safer".
Apropos fire the lasers: I think I'll wait until I'll be able to scream "fire the photon torpedoes".
While Audi introduced it on concept cars, BMW are busy with the series production
It's insane to try to prosecute the downloader. My 6 year old loves to watch youtube videos. Alot of the words she knows how to spell like 'dora' and 'mickey mouse' are copyrighted. How is she (or her grandma or anyone else) suppose to know that video A is ok to watch but video B (which youtube is still getting ad revenue from) is copywrited and illegal.
Ignorantia juris non excusat. Throw her and her granny in jail, they're criminals.
</sarcasm>
So, is there such a think as Xtreme eating (like extreme sports?)
If the people who ate them " described them as the most delicious mushrooms they've ever eaten.'"
In most of the cases, the expression would change to: "the most delicious mushrooms they'll ever eat".
You see, a human body has only one liver.
Men eat phalloides too, I guess.
They may, but in their majority they still show a preference to the muscaria type. (nothing wrong with this either)
> You know that more than half of the students in your class have been told by their parents and their pastors, that when the subject of evolution comes up, they should just tune out.
For fucks sake don't mention the turns ratio, lenz's law, conjugate variables or titration to any Christians. They'll want to fuck that up their children's minds about that too, by inventing crackpot alternative 'theories'. Just keep quiet and let them fail their exams.
Until they'll start claiming that failing the exams is discrimination. After all, in their view, their ignorance is as good as anybody's science.
And the government will wonder why?
The govt has other things to do than wonder, on the contrary
As with any authoritarian structure, the leaders don't need to be right, they only need to be (seen as) sure: take army for example
Why the hell has it taken y'all so long?
TFS with my emphasis:
Target CFO John Mulligan said the company is accelerating the $100 million effort to switch to the so-called "chip and pin" system
Until they didn't lose (or face a non-trivial risk of losing) more than that, it was cheaper to stay with signature.
Yeah the U.S. is relatively benign right now, butt, let the economy go south...
Well, let it indeed.... Australia and NZ economies could do with a bit of boost.
So, clicking on that 'learn more' link at the top of the page puts Trend Micro into an uproar that "yourbrowser.net" is:
What'ss trend micro, preciousss?
Kids train on video games now. If there's a war, they'll have a glut of drone pilots ready to go at a moment's notice.
Also, buck feta.
Possible solution: send some drones to eliminate the factors which - as per TFT - "Threaten Aviation Industry". Isn't this the the most tried solution in the last years?
(grin)
BTW, don't make the mistake to think it cannot happen now because... you know?... "today/here" is different than "then/there" the communist states.
Consider "managed democracy" and... maybe, why not?... inverted totalitarism
You miss the point. It does not MATTER if you are "important" or not.
Seriously consider the implications of a total surveillance state.
As someone that grew under a totalitarian regime in Eastern Europe, I can tell you it's ugly like hell.
It doesn't matter that:
* then, you wouldn't know if the other person would snitch on you; and...
* now you wouldn't know if the computer/phone of the other's person or the ones you own/use would snitch on you (might as well add the nowadays almost ubiquitous CCTV-es to equations, possibly all equipped tomorrow with microphones);
in time - quite quickly - the entire fabric of society evolves to "by default, don't trust anyone".
Can you imagine a life where, no matter what you do, you need to use "steganography" (even when talking face-to-face)? Well, this is how it is in a total surveillance state.
What are the consequences, you ask? The most immediate and with the highest impact:
* one is likely to spend enormous amount of effort in balancing between "getting a message across" and "flying under the radar" (expressing the message in an innocuous way).
* the sense of community is broken down (can't build meaningful relations while in a permanent "don't trust" state of mind)
Even letting aside the economy mismanagement, the two above alone would be just enough to explain why the former "communist" regimes failed: too much effort wasted in "being paranoid" by everybody and too less "organic social efficiency".
+1. I don't mind the beta, it's ok. What's not ok is all the comments about it that makes the actual comments hard to read.
That's the whole point of the comments. Disruption is the nature of picketing, and you play your part as a useful idiot who helps the protest by stating how disruptive it is. Thank you for verifying the effectiveness of the protest.
Is your goal to disrupt or is disruption a mean towards "better /. community experience"?
Because, lately, I start perceiving from you only the former, especially when mentioning "useful idiot" (implies a certain attitude towards members of the very community you claim to have your heart for)?
Hey, your post got modded up quick! Please reconsider posting at all, slashdot is about to die unless direct action by its users is taken, did you miss something?
And if everyone is rubishing beta, what do you think happens? Or, do you think geeks are like unionized blue-collars to go on a strike and return next week/month as if nothing happened? /.
Yes, I can express my olives and fetta, but if I'm limited to only/exclusively that for more than 2-3 days, suddenly it doesn't make sense to even come on
Also, this throws the precautionary principle out the window: until something is proven harmful, it can't be regulated.
"Proven harmful" is even mild in comparison with "reproducible harmful". There are lots of things one can never hope to reproduce empirically: can you really reproduce an earthquake (if you can't control it, how can you hope to reproduce it)? Or the effect of variating CO2 percentage on Earth's climate? (yes, you can observe it, but not reproduce it, there's only one Earth to stand as experimental subject)
Seriously - WHY?!
I don't know. I still think a naked petrified Natalie looks better on classic, even when covered in hot grits.
...sed in errare perseverare diabolicum.
Bis idem error numquam
"There's nothing that beta.slashdot.org cannot do. beta.slashdot.org can simply do anything. Anything rendered in beta.slashdot.org is fantastic. I love beta.slashdot.org. I can't get enough of beta.slashdot.org. Return to betadom, you insolent insects! You're nothing without beta.slashdot.org! Why not use beta.slashdot.org? Linux is garbage; it wasn't made for beta.slashdot.org. Why do you cower? Because you're not using beta.slashdot.org. Use beta.slashdot.org already! Return, return, return, return, return to beta-dooooooooooooooom!"
Steve Ballmer, on beta.slashdot.org.
as another wave of people decide the downsides of (say) Reddit
At this point, https://news.ycombinator.com/ starts to look appealing to me.