An ISP should expect some liability for the services it runs on behalf of users (web hosting, non-blind proxies, stats gathering/profiling, etc), but an IAP shouldn't at all, and an ISP shouldn't on any packets that it doesn't mangle on the way though.
That's some incentive for those fuckers known as Optus to stop running that transparent proxy of theirs (and still capping us to 3GB/mo) - keep yer grubby mitts off it, or you're liable.
But I am not following this statement - how many people do you know under18 who live on their own and can afford monthly internet access? (I read this as basically, everyone gets mandatory filtering, but just about everyone is eligible to opt out - so why bother?)
Because those that want this filtering are just generally against ALL porn - they are merely allowing adults to opt out because they will be shot down and dismissed as ultra-conservative loonies otherwise. Having it opt-out is more effective for their cause than opt-in.
Don't ordinary filesystems ever get trashed? What about the next-gen database filesystems? The only concern with the registry is the reliability of the code that updates it - there is no logic in believing that the registry is inherently any less robust than an ordinary SQL database, or any more "all eggs in one basket" than putting everything on the one HDD no matter what the storage mechanism.
Not that it couldn't be made better.. like being able to regenerate the registry from both static information from CD and automatic detection. We're getting into tin-foil hat territory here though.. the backup registry files and 'rollback' features should be enough for most people without resorting to tape (if you have to go back to tape, your HDD probably died and you'd be just as fucked if it wasn't backed up as you would with your config files all over the HDD).
How fast Linux grows depends on how fast old school vendors drop their prices. People aren't going to pay a hefty premium for The Best when close enough is good enough for Free.
Such is life for illegal immigrants. They're all terrorists you know..:rolleyes:
If they stopped sewing their appendages together and burning the fucking place down they'd be just fine. It's not like they're being kept in a concrete cell.
Also I know POWER4 chips are made very conservativly so they don't fail as often, I'm assuming its the same for many of these other workstation chips.
WTF? I smell a maclot, and this is a pretty far reach even for the most RDF addicted one. CPUs rarely fail; it's more likely the fan will fail and take the CPU with it, so unless the CPU in question can run with a failed fan on the heatsink, you're toast regardless. And don't confuse consumer hardware with server hardware - there are almost always backup fans.
Now, what strikes me is that usually a government-owned venture is nowhere near as competitive as the private sector.
I suspect that's hardcore American capitalist brainwashing talking.. unless your government operations are seriously fucked up (pork problem?)
Governments, esp. smaller local ones, don't have so much of a problem with inefficiency as large ones do. They also don't have the burden of greedy bastards (shareholders and various Officers giving themselves million dollar salaries plus perks) sucking all the money out of it. It's a closed system - any profit goes into better services or cheaper prices, rather than leaking out to 3rd parties.
First of all, what is the cost of not producing the microchips?
In a few billion years the Sun will expire, and if we haven't developed the technology to get us the fuck out of here, we'll expire along with it. So saving the planet for our children {tm} was all for nothing.
Given that NTFS is journalled, and considering the much alleged instability of Windows with a decided lack of toasted filesystem stories, I would say you'd at worst lose whatever file you were working on at that particular moment.
And when the library has paid say 15/10 of the sale price during a certain time period, they automagically own the copy outright. The library then gets to buy popular books straight up, and less popular books on a rent/buy scheme.
the decision that taxpayer-funding will result in them getting more from the system than they have contributed, i.e. they want their personal luxuries to be subsidized by other people's work.
Crap. Having the Govt operate essential services means we're getting as close to 1:1 ratio between cash in and service out as possible (efficiency does suffer because there's no major incentive to make a profit; breaking even is sufficient). In the private sector, a small group of fuckwit executives and thousands of whining shareholders skim billions off the top and hoard it, benifiting nobody but themselves at the expense of a captive market.
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If you need a change in dress to remind yourself you aren't at work, you need to tell your boss to shove the pager, laptop and mobile phone up his arse.
What you are saying is either that your democracy isn't working
a) no such thing: we vote for representatives, b) doesn't matter if citizen involvement is direct or represented, people are stupid and bad laws will exist regardless.
I don't believe you should pick and choose laws
I believe it is my right to refuse to obey bad laws.
brazenly and intentionally break it and take the consequences (like laws sending Jews to the gas chambers)
Consequences my arse. If I was told to gas jews, that I had no right to fair trial, free speech, right to privacy, etc. I'd make a beeline for the nearest weapon(s) and deal as much damage to The Man as I possibly could. Senile old senators with stupid pet laws must consider what they prefer: their attempt to recapture the '50s, or their life.
Sly lawbreaking is morally wrong
Bullshit. Being a chickenshit and obeying bad laws because you might go to jail is morally repugnant.
because it is refusing to live by the standards of your community
If my community are against or indifferent to their right to privacy they can get fucked.
Could work too. If *everybody* who likes the occasional quiet reefer went to smoke one outside their locak polices station, the system would break down at once, because they couldn't possible arrest 10%-25% of the population. But of course, if only one in ten did, tehy could arrest those.
True, but: a) most people are wussies, b) there are too many people who want complete social control, c) bad laws just go unenforced in these cases, rarely revoked.
IDE did the same thing with multiple drives per port (master/slave). I'd be very suprised if a similar addon hack for AGP turns out any better than it did for IDE, esp. considering AGP was designed for max speed rather than min cost, of a single device.
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S = Service; A = Access.
An ISP should expect some liability for the services it runs on behalf of users (web hosting, non-blind proxies, stats gathering/profiling, etc), but an IAP shouldn't at all, and an ISP shouldn't on any packets that it doesn't mangle on the way though.
That's some incentive for those fuckers known as Optus to stop running that transparent proxy of theirs (and still capping us to 3GB/mo) - keep yer grubby mitts off it, or you're liable.
Because those that want this filtering are just generally against ALL porn - they are merely allowing adults to opt out because they will be shot down and dismissed as ultra-conservative loonies otherwise. Having it opt-out is more effective for their cause than opt-in.
Unless you have some sort of proof, I'm going to have to call you FULL OF SHIT (I work for Fairfax, BTW).
w00t! Astrodroids.
Don't ordinary filesystems ever get trashed? What about the next-gen database filesystems? The only concern with the registry is the reliability of the code that updates it - there is no logic in believing that the registry is inherently any less robust than an ordinary SQL database, or any more "all eggs in one basket" than putting everything on the one HDD no matter what the storage mechanism.
Not that it couldn't be made better.. like being able to regenerate the registry from both static information from CD and automatic detection. We're getting into tin-foil hat territory here though.. the backup registry files and 'rollback' features should be enough for most people without resorting to tape (if you have to go back to tape, your HDD probably died and you'd be just as fucked if it wasn't backed up as you would with your config files all over the HDD).
How fast Linux grows depends on how fast old school vendors drop their prices. People aren't going to pay a hefty premium for The Best when close enough is good enough for Free.
Such is life for illegal immigrants. They're all terrorists you know.. :rolleyes:
If they stopped sewing their appendages together and burning the fucking place down they'd be just fine. It's not like they're being kept in a concrete cell.
Governments, esp. smaller local ones, don't have so much of a problem with inefficiency as large ones do. They also don't have the burden of greedy bastards (shareholders and various Officers giving themselves million dollar salaries plus perks) sucking all the money out of it. It's a closed system - any profit goes into better services or cheaper prices, rather than leaking out to 3rd parties.
What about it?
Sounds like the HDD mfr's are collecting powerups...
Berserker magnetoresistence!
Users may need to beef up their cooling systems..
That thing you stick in your computer is a module which features multiple chips.
Given that NTFS is journalled, and considering the much alleged instability of Windows with a decided lack of toasted filesystem stories, I would say you'd at worst lose whatever file you were working on at that particular moment.
And when the library has paid say 15/10 of the sale price during a certain time period, they automagically own the copy outright. The library then gets to buy popular books straight up, and less popular books on a rent/buy scheme.
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If you need a change in dress to remind yourself you aren't at work, you need to tell your boss to shove the pager, laptop and mobile phone up his arse.
If blacklists stop getting sued everything will be fine.
Couldn't be stuffed reading the parent post, but...
how about: "Hi! I'm an ABC model XYZ LCD, widescreen, 30ms update, 1280x1024, 300:1 contrast"
And so on?
a) no such thing: we vote for representatives, b) doesn't matter if citizen involvement is direct or represented, people are stupid and bad laws will exist regardless.
I believe it is my right to refuse to obey bad laws.
Consequences my arse. If I was told to gas jews, that I had no right to fair trial, free speech, right to privacy, etc. I'd make a beeline for the nearest weapon(s) and deal as much damage to The Man as I possibly could. Senile old senators with stupid pet laws must consider what they prefer: their attempt to recapture the '50s, or their life.
Bullshit. Being a chickenshit and obeying bad laws because you might go to jail is morally repugnant.
If my community are against or indifferent to their right to privacy they can get fucked.
True, but: a) most people are wussies, b) there are too many people who want complete social control, c) bad laws just go unenforced in these cases, rarely revoked.
IDE did the same thing with multiple drives per port (master/slave). I'd be very suprised if a similar addon hack for AGP turns out any better than it did for IDE, esp. considering AGP was designed for max speed rather than min cost, of a single device.