There's nothing smug about it, if you want relevant links then type Eritrea into Google and you'll find the Wikipedia and CIA Factbook pages (which, by the way, are the first two results).
You don't need to wait for others to do this for you, this is something you can do yourself. That's the point of LMGTFY.
He stood mute while they violently crushed their own people a few months ago.
I'm thinking you're just out to bash Obama, but at the time I recall most people agreeing that the correct course of action was inaction. I still believe it was. Have you already forgotten what happens when the US throws its support behind any group in Iran? The Iranians are obviously a deeply divided people and that's something that they need to work out without outside interference on any side. Once a solution looks imminent, then that's the time to give support. Giving support to the students now will invalidate their claims in the eyes of many Iranians.
The US offering support will not help the students in Iran. What will help the students is if all of the companies selling technology to the Iranian government stop, and that has nothing to do with the US president.
I thought you may have had a point until you claimed that Foxit is just as bloated as Acrobat Reader. It's trivially obvious that Foxit is much more responsive and quicker than Acrobat.
I don't need a PDF reader anymore given that Google will take a PDF on the web, and rerender it as HTML for me automatically.
So if someone emails a PDF file to you, all you have to do is upload it to a web server and then have Google translate it? Sure beats Foxit reader, right?
Do you suppose that there is a database containing the physical locations of all objects? How exactly would you use a GPS and orientation information to figure out which object a person is taking a picture of, a car for example?
Right, so in a case where, for example, someone breaks into somebody's house and rapes their 8-year old daughter, you want to see the victim's name, the defendant's name, the family's name and address, the method the defendant used to enter the house, a description of the valuables that were stored in the hours, etc, all in the public record. You want to be able to look up a record online and see that an 8-year-old girl whose name and address are given was forced to undergo a series of described sexual acts, and then you want to see her address too, and a list of stuff her parents keep in the house.
There's a reason some things are confidential. When you're making your brilliant laws online, even though "think of the children" is a cliche, you need to consider the most vulnerable people.
Maybe so, but when all of the details are secret we just have to trust the judge who says that according to what he's seen the woman has probable cause to suspect blackmail. This is part of the reason why anonymous internet contributors like ourselves do not take the place of an actual judge in an actual courtroom, so it makes it seem sort of stupid to sit here and second-guess the judge.
OK, but would you go through the trouble of hacking your iPhone into identifying itself as a different version so that when you download and run an app and it reports the version back you can get a little laugh?
Dunno about you... I usually have my Konqueror's setting to something like No one here but us, squirrels - 3.0 VMS 19-bit. If a particular site breaks from that, I make an exception for them (and try to avoid them, for it annoys me, when sites have browser-specific rules/content.)
And how exactly do you install the iBart application using Konqueror so that it reports that it's running on iPhone 3.1?
how hard would it be for someone to fake this on either end, someone downloading it on something faking the "iphone 3.1" or someone at ibart playing a prank?
Here's a better question: why would anyone bother to do that?
If it weren't for illegal and deceptive business practices, they wouldn't have any business practices at all.
Who is that, the camera retailer who actually had the different prices, or Microsoft? What exactly did Microsoft do that was deceptive in this situation?
That must the similar to the premise that you're an expert on law because this is on the internet rather than in person. Sadly though, that doesn't really have an effect on reality or what actually happens in a courtroom.
I don't buy it. There are, what, 1.3 billion people living in China? If the people revolted against the government there's not a lot the government could do about it. The fact that the government is able to put down an uprising indicates to me that the uprising does not have popular support, which further indicates that the people who are not supporting the uprising support the government. That's probably a safer assumption to make than assuming that I know what's best for the Chinese people.
Don't start Opera, open the Unite panel, login to your Opera account, and enable the web server. When you install a new copy of Opera and start it up it doesn't magically start serving up all of your content.
The Chinese government is detrimental to their freedom.
If the Chinese people are content to live under that system without trying to affect change, who are you to say that they should have a different government? If the Chinese feel like their freedoms are being curtailed, isn't it their responsibility to do something about it, not the responsibility of Opera or Google or some random guy on Slashdot?
I mean, we can sit here and talk about things the Chinese government has done or is doing, but at the end of the day the Chinese people are still content to live under that government. No one but the Chinese has the authority to say which government China should be run by.
Linux doesn't go out of its way to please the Chinese government with its new update; Opera did.
1) Just out of curiosity, what demands could the Chinese government possibly have on an operating system? You don't need to censor an OS, it's the applications they're worried about.
2) I wasn't aware that "Linux" is an entity that the Chinese government can make demands on, but what's the point of demanding that "Linux" make changes when the Chinese can just make their own?
This is aside from the fact that the parent was comparing consistently low usage numbers instead of vague support for government ideologies.
To be fair, the vast majority of applications are relatively simple or useless. Looking at the top 10 list still shows things like "Flashlight" or "Bubblewrap", or a dedicated tip calculator for people who can't figure out how to use a normal calculator to calculate a tip. It's not an issue for simple cosmetic applications, but if you're trying to develop your own killer app it's probably going to run afoul of Apple just because it needs to do certain things that Apple may not want it to (like run in the background).
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There's nothing smug about it, if you want relevant links then type Eritrea into Google and you'll find the Wikipedia and CIA Factbook pages (which, by the way, are the first two results).
You don't need to wait for others to do this for you, this is something you can do yourself. That's the point of LMGTFY.
He stood mute while they violently crushed their own people a few months ago.
I'm thinking you're just out to bash Obama, but at the time I recall most people agreeing that the correct course of action was inaction. I still believe it was. Have you already forgotten what happens when the US throws its support behind any group in Iran? The Iranians are obviously a deeply divided people and that's something that they need to work out without outside interference on any side. Once a solution looks imminent, then that's the time to give support. Giving support to the students now will invalidate their claims in the eyes of many Iranians.
The US offering support will not help the students in Iran. What will help the students is if all of the companies selling technology to the Iranian government stop, and that has nothing to do with the US president.
It's an Atom, so it's probably a single core. The dual-core Atoms look to be targetted at desktops.
I thought you may have had a point until you claimed that Foxit is just as bloated as Acrobat Reader. It's trivially obvious that Foxit is much more responsive and quicker than Acrobat.
I don't need a PDF reader anymore given that Google will take a PDF on the web, and rerender it as HTML for me automatically.
So if someone emails a PDF file to you, all you have to do is upload it to a web server and then have Google translate it? Sure beats Foxit reader, right?
Do you suppose that there is a database containing the physical locations of all objects? How exactly would you use a GPS and orientation information to figure out which object a person is taking a picture of, a car for example?
The Level3 servers are actually at 4.2.2.1 through 4.2.2.6, not just those three.
Except that the circumstances you describe never actually happen....
Stranger attacks are rare.
"Never" and "rare" are not the same thing.
Why thank you, good sir.
Right, so in a case where, for example, someone breaks into somebody's house and rapes their 8-year old daughter, you want to see the victim's name, the defendant's name, the family's name and address, the method the defendant used to enter the house, a description of the valuables that were stored in the hours, etc, all in the public record. You want to be able to look up a record online and see that an 8-year-old girl whose name and address are given was forced to undergo a series of described sexual acts, and then you want to see her address too, and a list of stuff her parents keep in the house.
There's a reason some things are confidential. When you're making your brilliant laws online, even though "think of the children" is a cliche, you need to consider the most vulnerable people.
Maybe so, but when all of the details are secret we just have to trust the judge who says that according to what he's seen the woman has probable cause to suspect blackmail. This is part of the reason why anonymous internet contributors like ourselves do not take the place of an actual judge in an actual courtroom, so it makes it seem sort of stupid to sit here and second-guess the judge.
OK, but would you go through the trouble of hacking your iPhone into identifying itself as a different version so that when you download and run an app and it reports the version back you can get a little laugh?
Dunno about you... I usually have my Konqueror's setting to something like No one here but us, squirrels - 3.0 VMS 19-bit. If a particular site breaks from that, I make an exception for them (and try to avoid them, for it annoys me, when sites have browser-specific rules/content.)
And how exactly do you install the iBart application using Konqueror so that it reports that it's running on iPhone 3.1?
how hard would it be for someone to fake this on either end, someone downloading it on something faking the "iphone 3.1" or someone at ibart playing a prank?
Here's a better question: why would anyone bother to do that?
I was with that company I would sue Slashdot for slander in England
Well then you're part of the problem. If I was the CEO of CCP I would write to Slashdot and politely request a correction.
Yeah, even the algorithm saw that reply coming and wanted to avoid it.
If it weren't for illegal and deceptive business practices, they wouldn't have any business practices at all.
Who is that, the camera retailer who actually had the different prices, or Microsoft? What exactly did Microsoft do that was deceptive in this situation?
Microsoft is not doing anything deceptive with the Bing cashback program. If you think they are, give an example.
That must the similar to the premise that you're an expert on law because this is on the internet rather than in person. Sadly though, that doesn't really have an effect on reality or what actually happens in a courtroom.
Rule of thumb:
The quality of a presentation improves in direct proportion to the amount of content you remove while not changing the meaning.
In other words, simpler is better. You even said yourself that all great things are simple, which implies that anything not simple cannot be great.
I don't buy it. There are, what, 1.3 billion people living in China? If the people revolted against the government there's not a lot the government could do about it. The fact that the government is able to put down an uprising indicates to me that the uprising does not have popular support, which further indicates that the people who are not supporting the uprising support the government. That's probably a safer assumption to make than assuming that I know what's best for the Chinese people.
what then? Just... don't use Opera?
Don't start Opera, open the Unite panel, login to your Opera account, and enable the web server. When you install a new copy of Opera and start it up it doesn't magically start serving up all of your content.
The Chinese government is detrimental to their freedom.
If the Chinese people are content to live under that system without trying to affect change, who are you to say that they should have a different government? If the Chinese feel like their freedoms are being curtailed, isn't it their responsibility to do something about it, not the responsibility of Opera or Google or some random guy on Slashdot?
I mean, we can sit here and talk about things the Chinese government has done or is doing, but at the end of the day the Chinese people are still content to live under that government. No one but the Chinese has the authority to say which government China should be run by.
Linux doesn't go out of its way to please the Chinese government with its new update; Opera did.
1) Just out of curiosity, what demands could the Chinese government possibly have on an operating system? You don't need to censor an OS, it's the applications they're worried about.
2) I wasn't aware that "Linux" is an entity that the Chinese government can make demands on, but what's the point of demanding that "Linux" make changes when the Chinese can just make their own?
This is aside from the fact that the parent was comparing consistently low usage numbers instead of vague support for government ideologies.
To be fair, the vast majority of applications are relatively simple or useless. Looking at the top 10 list still shows things like "Flashlight" or "Bubblewrap", or a dedicated tip calculator for people who can't figure out how to use a normal calculator to calculate a tip. It's not an issue for simple cosmetic applications, but if you're trying to develop your own killer app it's probably going to run afoul of Apple just because it needs to do certain things that Apple may not want it to (like run in the background).