... that those most eager to collect personal information and track everyone's activity would be eager to get everyone to adopt IPv6, which assigns a fixed prefix to each Internet user/access contract and a unique address to each device (i.e. those currently hidden behind routers and corporate NAT gateways). IPv6 is the worst privacy breach and danger to system security we're facing right now, go Lemmings go!
You mean the kind of coporate gateways which are called proxies, and will still exist after IPv6, and will still be the only gateway allowing acces to the WWW?
I read Protect IP and thought "someone's trying to save the Internet Protocol?". Obviously...
Can you really have well protected Intellectual Property keeping a fully free Internet? Can you really have a fully free Internet that protects people's Intellectual Property?
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You mean that fact that every time that Disney movies are about to fall into the public domain, we end up with an extension of copyright times? Does the Disney Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act) ring a bell?
Basically, Walt Disney is allowed to take the Grimm brothers work, but nobody is allowed to do the same to Walt Disney (until 2019 -- which is when the time will be extended again).
After living in a household that owned Chevys for decades, and seeing how poor workmanship was an almost guaranteed feature in all those vehicles, the Chevy left a bad mark on my mind.
Last I checked, Apple's patent lawyers were pretty active doing evil all over the world (which is what the patent lawyer job is about, whatever the company...)
Top Gear UK is funded by the BBC, so they don't give a rat's ass about making fun of or otherwise demeaning the car companies. It's what gives them their power.
Well... They're mostly funded by foreign broadcasters buying their show and dubbing it, or making their own version of it (Thanks Top Gear USA;-)
Sure the BBC pays for part of it, but it isn't the major part of their revenue anymore...
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He means the prosecutor, and the attorney general ;-)
So that makes them two bastard offsprings of two different forks. Sounds like there's a lot of in-breeding in the OS community ;-)
Ziss iss not the fideo you vere looking for!
... that those most eager to collect personal information and track everyone's activity would be eager to get everyone to adopt IPv6, which assigns a fixed prefix to each Internet user/access contract and a unique address to each device (i.e. those currently hidden behind routers and corporate NAT gateways). IPv6 is the worst privacy breach and danger to system security we're facing right now, go Lemmings go!
You mean the kind of coporate gateways which are called proxies, and will still exist after IPv6, and will still be the only gateway allowing acces to the WWW?
I read Protect IP and thought "someone's trying to save the Internet Protocol?". Obviously...
Can you really have well protected Intellectual Property keeping a fully free Internet?
Can you really have a fully free Internet that protects people's Intellectual Property?
* Be a subscriber (this is the key)
* Be signed in, see the summary early (before it is "posted")
* Visit the summary, write your comment
* Wait until the "posted" time on the summary
* Hit "Submit"
* Profit!
Well... you've replied already, so now you can't mod him anymore.
What were you thinking of when you did this, Grandad?
And try looking at a table based layout in a graphical browser that doesn't support tables.
Please, pay attention. We just told you, IE6 is dead.
Which is fine by them because then they will get someone else who will be willing to do it while watching for cheaper.
Weird, that just reminded me of an ex...
Grammar ? Up you'res !!
Judging by the Subject of the comment, we have a Mac user on our hands...
And what browser might you be using?
Guys, we've got him! The last Opera user in the world!
And he reads Slashdot!
November 23rd, 2011. This is the day xkcd replaced wikipedia as the central source of knowledge :-)
Judging by your encoding issues, you're using one of their products right now aren't you?
You mean that fact that every time that Disney movies are about to fall into the public domain, we end up with an extension of copyright times? Does the Disney Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act) ring a bell?
Basically, Walt Disney is allowed to take the Grimm brothers work, but nobody is allowed to do the same to Walt Disney (until 2019 -- which is when the time will be extended again).
Rule 34 does state "No Exceptions" at the end...
After living in a household that owned Chevys for decades, and seeing how poor workmanship was an almost guaranteed feature in all those vehicles, the Chevy left a bad mark on my mind.
Well... maybe you should have changed households!
Last I checked, Apple's patent lawyers were pretty active doing evil all over the world (which is what the patent lawyer job is about, whatever the company...)
(im not sure how one properly categorizes rapists)
People who do rap music?
Obviously, all members of Google's account management and support teams read Slashdot, and this is exactly the right place to ask for this...
In Soviet Russia, email centralise YOU!
What? Where? Who's the carrier offering this? I want what you are talking about!
I think it's just a placeholder, for when the news actually comes out, they can say "we were first to report it" !
Top Gear UK is funded by the BBC, so they don't give a rat's ass about making fun of or otherwise demeaning the car companies. It's what gives them their power.
Well... They're mostly funded by foreign broadcasters buying their show and dubbing it, or making their own version of it (Thanks Top Gear USA ;-)
Sure the BBC pays for part of it, but it isn't the major part of their revenue anymore...
Someone explain how we ended up in a geek troll about filesystems so fast off F-16 fighter jets?
Slashdot should have some sort of corollary to Godwin's law with
1- Apple bashing
2- Google bashing
3- File Systems
4- Emacs vs. vi
5- ???
6- profit !