This article is missing the point. The naked pictures on the airport scanners are just a portion of the problem. There is also the issue of the amount of radiation that the skin is exposed in these machines is dangerous. And then the issue of why members of congress and other politicians get to skip the machines and the groping. The whole thing is so wrong at so many levels.
Try Lego bricks. But not the fancy ones, just a whole bunch of the basic shapes. Or an Erector Set. These can only be beat by taking them to play outside.
... looking for an nonexistent problem. Time will tell.
I personally look forward to the day while instead of keeping coming up with useless things like this someone comes up with a robust, open, secure standard for email that everybody uses. That, and a decent email client that can handle several thousand messages without choking itself to death..
So your political ideas on how to handle information should apply instead to the Internet, SeriouslyNoClue? Why not just let Internet alone, without trying to force anybody's view on how information has to be controlled, instead.
Honestly, people like you are scary. You are so angry and with so little perspective.
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.. and then use the one that is adequate for the task at hand. Seriously, do not get so worried about which language; knowing c++, you should be able to grasp any of these in a couple of weeks. If you have extra time, use it to learn more about algorithms, patterns, software architecture, etc instead.
No matter what she did with these songs, this is just bullying to scare people into a sheep-like state. Even if the verdict is according to the law, in my view it only means that the law applied is wrong, and no longer serving the people. The whole system is rigged to follow the interests of a few.
I do not do illegal sharing or downloading, and I do not support people who does it. But I do not do it out of the idea of supporting the artists, not out of being scared to be caught. What the record companies are doing is despicable. One would think that with the rise of the Internet artists will eventually find a way around this perverse system.
I disagree. What I observe is that Apple is rapidly moving away from cross-platform development by limiting the choice of languages.
On XCode 3.2, Apple removed all Carbon project templates. Why would they do that unless they plan on discontinuing Carbon on the future? The same XCode release removed the Cocoa projects that used Python and Ruby. And now Java is no longer supported directly by them. So if you want to use Cocoa, your only safe bet is Objective-C. Give it 5-10 more years, and you will have a very tightly controlled development environment that is not compatible with anything else. This may be convenient for Apple, but it is certainly not good for software developers.
I know that there are Objective-C compilers for other platforms, but I do not know a single cross-platform developer that prefers Objective-C over C++, when having available an equally well supported OS framework for both.
Maybe patents use to work 50 years ago. Now it is always the case that the company with deeper pockets always gets its way one way or the other. What really gets to me is the hypocrisy of people saying 'patents protect innovators'. They do not. Patents do anything but protecting innovation.
Our relentless pursuit of 'safety' will result in an entire generation of morons.
If one wants to learn, what is needed is proper instruction and access to materials, not new legislation.
I grew up outside the US. When I was little it was not uncommon to hear people making fun of safety label of products coming from the US. I used to wonder what kind of people need a warning saying 'do not chew the electric cord' on an electric heater, or a label saying 'do not place your hand inside while operating' on a food processor.
By limiting access to learning kits and putting more responsibility on the government than on the parents and teachers, we are shooting ourselves in the foot, and the upcoming generations in the head.
You cannot educate using fear. Let the little kids alone. Chances are they will not kill themselves using a ruler.
Both of them started as useful, free, little products. But then they bloated so much that grew largely irrelevant. On top of that, both have a pile of unusable features, and an user interface that appears to be designed by AOL. And Apple keeps pushing updates that are utterly irrelevant to 90% of their customers, be it to support some new device or add even more unwanted features.
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So I choose not to upgrade either of them anymore, and actively avoid to use them if I have an alternative. I used to like iTunes. And all my computers are Mac's. But Apple, you are killing a product out of greed here.
These people have a distorted, skewed view of how the world should operate. If you take that along with the fact that they are somewhat successful in managing to push their ideas into laws, it feels like they are dangerous for society at large.
I agree you should be allowed to check. But you should not be allowed to read an employee's personal email, under any circumstance. And expecting that people would not spend a single minute doing personal stuff at work is just stupid; it is not going to happen. Maybe the issue with American corporate culture is that too much of it is driven by metrics developed 80 years ago by control freaks. People are not machines.
Work performance should be measure by timely completion of goals, not by how much time an employee uses for writing a personal email. Any good manager knows this by heart.
The way to enforce that is to filter internet access, not to spy on the employees. People should be able to have a private life at work - they are your employees, not your own personal slaves.
I said "politicians", not "government". They are not the same thing, even when some people may believe so. And maybe lawyers are part of the problem too.
If we had more teachers, quirky artists, and better politicians, chances are we would need way less lawyers.
From TFA: "This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms," Maes said in comments that were first reported Wednesday by The Denver Post.
What threatens our freedom every day in America is short-witted and corrupted politicians, with a political agenda the size of a phone book. Not an organized bicycle ride. I do not understand why Slashdot gives voice to this kind of thing. Why not post articles about people that matters: nurses, engineers, quirky artists, scientists, teachers, writers, people who inspires and do some good for their community instead.
Yes, but that does not justify all the other behavior. There has to be healthy limits to what companies are allowed to do. People and the environment have to be taking into account. The system as it is right now is broken, has no ethics, and is morally wrong.
Thunderbird 3 hangs up regularly on my Macbook Pro (stays open, but does not respond to keyboard/mouse interaction). I rarely reboot my computer, and usually I have to kill the process 5 or 6 times per day to get my emails. One thing I've noticed is that if I do not quit Thunderbird before closing the lid of the notebook, when I open it is no longer responding.
I do not care much about all the new bells and whistles, but need a reliable mail program that uses some sort of standard storage format, and allows me to have multiple accounts and a large number of emails locally. A couple of years ago I moved from Apple Mail to Thunderbird because I could not stand the poor user interface of Mail.
But now Thunderbird sucks as well... previous versions were so much stable and responsive..
"Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to its source code released. This was simply unacceptable."
This sounds like FUD to me. I do not think the intent of your post is clean. Or maybe you have no clue and should consider getting better lawyers next time... then, if GPL still does not work for you, use some BSD flavor as OS for your next proyect.
Patents protect big companies, not the people who discover new things. And I believe that companies whose only assets are IP purchased from other parties are a degeneration. The way it is right now, only large companies can innovate; small companies often do not even have the resources to check what they are infringing, if any. So the cost of innovation becomes incredibly expensive for the small guy, and any legal disagreement gets resolved in favor of the ones with deepest pockets. The system as it is is flawed, and deeply skewed towards the party who has more money.
Half of the authors mentioned in the article are dead. The people receiving money are not the authors, but whoever holds the rights... I will be happy to see a scheme in which authors are the ones that actually receive the money while still alive. Still, happy to see some of the leeches in the middle out...
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This article is missing the point. The naked pictures on the airport scanners are just a portion of the problem. There is also the issue of the amount of radiation that the skin is exposed in these machines is dangerous. And then the issue of why members of congress and other politicians get to skip the machines and the groping. The whole thing is so wrong at so many levels.
Try Lego bricks. But not the fancy ones, just a whole bunch of the basic shapes. Or an Erector Set. These can only be beat by taking them to play outside.
I personally look forward to the day while instead of keeping coming up with useless things like this someone comes up with a robust, open, secure standard for email that everybody uses. That, and a decent email client that can handle several thousand messages without choking itself to death..
So your political ideas on how to handle information should apply instead to the Internet, SeriouslyNoClue? Why not just let Internet alone, without trying to force anybody's view on how information has to be controlled, instead.
Honestly, people like you are scary. You are so angry and with so little perspective.
I use dreamhost for both registrar and hosting. So far it has been excellent.
.. and then use the one that is adequate for the task at hand. Seriously, do not get so worried about which language; knowing c++, you should be able to grasp any of these in a couple of weeks. If you have extra time, use it to learn more about algorithms, patterns, software architecture, etc instead.
Maybe they can merge with Comcast, Time Warner, and the likes, and we all can have only one giant company that sucks, instead of many!
No matter what she did with these songs, this is just bullying to scare people into a sheep-like state. Even if the verdict is according to the law, in my view it only means that the law applied is wrong, and no longer serving the people. The whole system is rigged to follow the interests of a few.
I do not do illegal sharing or downloading, and I do not support people who does it. But I do not do it out of the idea of supporting the artists, not out of being scared to be caught. What the record companies are doing is despicable. One would think that with the rise of the Internet artists will eventually find a way around this perverse system.
I disagree. What I observe is that Apple is rapidly moving away from cross-platform development by limiting the choice of languages.
On XCode 3.2, Apple removed all Carbon project templates. Why would they do that unless they plan on discontinuing Carbon on the future? The same XCode release removed the Cocoa projects that used Python and Ruby. And now Java is no longer supported directly by them. So if you want to use Cocoa, your only safe bet is Objective-C. Give it 5-10 more years, and you will have a very tightly controlled development environment that is not compatible with anything else. This may be convenient for Apple, but it is certainly not good for software developers.
I know that there are Objective-C compilers for other platforms, but I do not know a single cross-platform developer that prefers Objective-C over C++, when having available an equally well supported OS framework for both.
Maybe patents use to work 50 years ago. Now it is always the case that the company with deeper pockets always gets its way one way or the other. What really gets to me is the hypocrisy of people saying 'patents protect innovators'. They do not. Patents do anything but protecting innovation.
Make your son a favor, and give him something to play outside instead of a gadget.
Maybe you can get the Kinect thing for yourself, as well...
Not to mention that for the same performance, you need three times the hardware to run Windows 7 vs Linux or BSD.
Our relentless pursuit of 'safety' will result in an entire generation of morons.
If one wants to learn, what is needed is proper instruction and access to materials, not new legislation.
I grew up outside the US. When I was little it was not uncommon to hear people making fun of safety label of products coming from the US. I used to wonder what kind of people need a warning saying 'do not chew the electric cord' on an electric heater, or a label saying 'do not place your hand inside while operating' on a food processor. By limiting access to learning kits and putting more responsibility on the government than on the parents and teachers, we are shooting ourselves in the foot, and the upcoming generations in the head. You cannot educate using fear. Let the little kids alone. Chances are they will not kill themselves using a ruler.
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So I choose not to upgrade either of them anymore, and actively avoid to use them if I have an alternative. I used to like iTunes. And all my computers are Mac's. But Apple, you are killing a product out of greed here.
These people have a distorted, skewed view of how the world should operate. If you take that along with the fact that they are somewhat successful in managing to push their ideas into laws, it feels like they are dangerous for society at large.
I agree you should be allowed to check. But you should not be allowed to read an employee's personal email, under any circumstance. And expecting that people would not spend a single minute doing personal stuff at work is just stupid; it is not going to happen. Maybe the issue with American corporate culture is that too much of it is driven by metrics developed 80 years ago by control freaks. People are not machines. Work performance should be measure by timely completion of goals, not by how much time an employee uses for writing a personal email. Any good manager knows this by heart.
The way to enforce that is to filter internet access, not to spy on the employees. People should be able to have a private life at work - they are your employees, not your own personal slaves.
I said "politicians", not "government". They are not the same thing, even when some people may believe so. And maybe lawyers are part of the problem too. If we had more teachers, quirky artists, and better politicians, chances are we would need way less lawyers.
From TFA: "This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms," Maes said in comments that were first reported Wednesday by The Denver Post.
What threatens our freedom every day in America is short-witted and corrupted politicians, with a political agenda the size of a phone book. Not an organized bicycle ride. I do not understand why Slashdot gives voice to this kind of thing. Why not post articles about people that matters: nurses, engineers, quirky artists, scientists, teachers, writers, people who inspires and do some good for their community instead.
Yes, but that does not justify all the other behavior. There has to be healthy limits to what companies are allowed to do. People and the environment have to be taking into account. The system as it is right now is broken, has no ethics, and is morally wrong.
Thunderbird 3 hangs up regularly on my Macbook Pro (stays open, but does not respond to keyboard/mouse interaction). I rarely reboot my computer, and usually I have to kill the process 5 or 6 times per day to get my emails. One thing I've noticed is that if I do not quit Thunderbird before closing the lid of the notebook, when I open it is no longer responding. I do not care much about all the new bells and whistles, but need a reliable mail program that uses some sort of standard storage format, and allows me to have multiple accounts and a large number of emails locally. A couple of years ago I moved from Apple Mail to Thunderbird because I could not stand the poor user interface of Mail. But now Thunderbird sucks as well... previous versions were so much stable and responsive..
This sounds like FUD to me. I do not think the intent of your post is clean. Or maybe you have no clue and should consider getting better lawyers next time... then, if GPL still does not work for you, use some BSD flavor as OS for your next proyect.
Yes, that is what I was thinking too.
Patents protect big companies, not the people who discover new things. And I believe that companies whose only assets are IP purchased from other parties are a degeneration. The way it is right now, only large companies can innovate; small companies often do not even have the resources to check what they are infringing, if any. So the cost of innovation becomes incredibly expensive for the small guy, and any legal disagreement gets resolved in favor of the ones with deepest pockets. The system as it is is flawed, and deeply skewed towards the party who has more money.
Half of the authors mentioned in the article are dead. The people receiving money are not the authors, but whoever holds the rights... I will be happy to see a scheme in which authors are the ones that actually receive the money while still alive. Still, happy to see some of the leeches in the middle out...