Its not necessary, its purely political. The world hates the US, and what better way to tell the world that the US "does not run the internet" by making non-latin character sets valid.
But if you live in the developing world, a UNCTAD report paints your picture pretty grim. Ridiculously high bandwidth costs are inhibiting developing nations from enjoying productive use of the internet — like online banking and market tools."
I don't want to sound like a meanie, but by definition, that is a developing nation. We all had to start somewhere and develop into what we are today.
Someone needs to stop thinking broadband is a right. Its not. TV isn't. Radio isn't. You aren't born with a right to broadband internet access.
You're going to mod me as a troll, when you can google for "John Holdren sterilze" and you'll find exactly what I'm talking about. The green movement and the environmental movement are dangerous because there are powerful people there that firmly believe people are the problem, and there should be less of them on this planet.
there's more Chinese pollution in LA now than the local stuff. Which highlights the NEXT phase of the problem... but we're not done here, yet.
Perhaps John Holdren is right, and we just need to sterilize the drinking water. Lets start with California, because obviously people = pollution, therefore we should just get rid of people.
But, Obama somehow changed that. The US is regaining trust and respect in the world at a rate that I would not have thought possible.
Seriously? I mean, really? We've turned our back on Britain, Poland, and Israel. Hugo Chavez laughs at us. N. Korea laughs at us.
We go out of our way to be friendly with evil men in this world, and they think we're weak. In the meantime, we alienate our trusted allies with gifts of iPods and DVDs.
The US's image is changing quite drastically on the world stage, but the words to describe that change are not trust and respect.
You make it sound like athletics dooms a person to depressive mediocrity.
It does. A minute number of high school athletes make professional careers out of it and are successful, the rest end up working in construction or a similar career and spending the rest of their life thinking about how great high school was.
I think this is the opposite with geeks. School got in the way of my learning, and I resent it very much for the wasted time I endured because of it.
In 7th grade, I started reading "The Sword of Shannara". My teacher saw me reading that and told me, and my mother that I should be reading books at my own age level.
In 1994, I released some shareware software, and had this distributed on two continents by using the MagicFiles distribution method offered by front-end mailers. Word got out about my application through EchoMail (yeah, this is old stuff).
When highschool rolled around, we had a mandatory typing class, on IBM PS/2s which were already ancient by that timeframe. Our programming class offered at my high school was BASIC, and was only available to Juniors or Seniors. I had already been writing code for a number of years.
Sure, I learned a lot of history, math, and other stuff in my school, but I didn't retain much of what wasn't interesting. I can't tell you today how to do synthetic division, or work with imaginary numbers. That stuff didn't matter to me, and even though I had 3 years of honors math in HS, I remember very little of it.
So more school will not make smarter kids. Motivation and curiosity makes smarter kids.
They passed a law to specifically cover sending text messages, and generally touching your phone at all (i.e. a bluetooth headset is OK, but hand-dialling isn't)
That's another example of government interference, trying to make our lives safer by making them more difficult.
How many people have said "Dial Bob", only to have the damn phone call "Rob", and then you end up cussing, getting mad, and before you know it, you've taken your phone, rolled down the window, and just threw it at an oncoming car, only to cause a major crash behind you as that car swerved to avoid your phone.
I mean, damn, if only that stupid voice recognition was up to par with what the government thought it should be, huh?:)
As you should do it in all cases - park your car, enter the destination, wait for the route calculation, go on driving.
This is another example of big-city thinking, screwing up country for the rest of us.
I'm sorry, but when all I can see if the road, and the horizon in front of me, because I'm driving somewhere rural, there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON I should have to abide by a no-cell-phone rule like bumper to bumper traffic dwellers have to. Thats just asinine.
Government needs to stop making laws that make this country suck. You want a change for this, fine: Make it so if you get in an accident while on your phone, the insurance company doesn't cover it, period. Life is full of risks - you need to look out for yourself - the government shouldn't be the one looking out for you.
What I hate, is when my bills come VIA EMAIL. That is highly insecure. I'm not naming any names on this, but a few businesses I've done business with will charge a fee if you don't go paperless, and then they send all your transactions to you via plain text email.
That is bad. Very bad. I much prefer the "Your statement is ready, click here" and you have to login.
I think it'd be awesome if some of these companies would send this stuff to you via PGP, but alas too much of the population sucks for them to ever care to use that.
Boyden warns that a very clever AI without a sense of purpose might very well 'realize the impermanence of everything, calculate that the sun will burn out in a few billion years, and decide to play video games for the remainder of its existence.
I think the opposite is true. Only humans are dumb enough to waste their days playing video games like that. Machines would realize that there's a chance to extend their lives, make themselves better "creatures", and avoid wasting their time.
A large part of the failure of school is because the parents don't get involved. Studies have consistently shown that schools with high parent involvement produce better-educated children, and parents who engage their children outside of school produce better-educated children.
Here's the problem: It takes ALL parents to be involved. If one or two families get involved in a class of 75 students, the rest of the students will bring down the students who have caring and involved parents. And all too often, most of the parents just don't care, and thus those two kids out of 75 are brought down.
'Under the proposed laws, Ofcom, the industry regulator, would be given powers to require Internet service providers to collect information on those who downloaded pirate material.
I want to propose a law that states that the burden of expense should be placed on the phone companies every time a drug dealer makes a phone call that results in illegal trafficing of drugs.
I want a law that says the burden of expense should be placed on the tire manufacturers for failing to know if they're selling tires to drug smugglers who use their tires to commit their crimes.
This guy is a real tool. He was a multi-millionaire ultra-tightwad. He made his wife do all the landscaping on their mansion. She left him when he started rationing her toilet paper usage.
Then when she sued for divorce he hid all his money in some offshore company and pretended it was lost in a "bad investment". It was a blatant lie. This guy deserves to rot in prison until he decides to come clean. He held the keys to his release the entire 14 years. He was just a stubborn liar.
You're completely wrong.
I think this country still believes in innocent until proven guilty.
You're no better than the judge if you feel that way. You need to use the law to make judgements, not your feelings, empathy, biasness, or your strong latina back ground.
I'm quite happy living in Texas 10 months out of the year. July and August can go to hell. I doubt it's about where you live more than it's about how you live. I'd rather live in a mansion with everything I've ever wanted in north Alaska than be a minimum wage cubicle jockey in Hawaii or Southern California.
You may find out that money doesn't buy happiness if you ended up with that mansion in northern Alaska. And for now, living in Texas, you'll find that you're not happy while you dream of that mansion in Alaska.
Are you serious? "Offloading the environmental footprint to the electric generation station" is a *HUGE* step forward for automobiles.
How? Most of the electricity in this country comes from coal. Coal is dirty. Clean coal is a joke. Really, you want to just pump CO2 into the ground so it doesn't get into the atmosphere? What a load of crap.
We can't make an efficient electric car in this country till we do something about our power generation. Otherwise, you just get smug assholes who bought an electric because its fashionable, not practical. God forbid you want to drive across the country to visit family. Good luck with that on batteries alone.
You want to help innovation? Get rid of the politicans in Washington, so the free markets can innovate.
The demand for tech jobs may rise further thanks to the Obama Administration's stimulus package, which could create nearly 1 million new tech jobs."
You want to create tech jobs, Mr. Government? Send back the H1B Visas to their home countries, and stop letting more in here for big corporations to hire cheaper than Americans.
This guy at the Mozilla foundation is an idiot. It is because of Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows that we have poorly designed websites that aren't standards compliant, and the reason web designers target IE and don't bother to make their site work with other browsers. Because "everyone has IE".
Maybe someone smarter than me can explain how this is a 'good' idea?
Welcome to socialism... Unfortunately you've asked too many questions about this plan, and have shown a genuine interest in how it'll work. You should have just accepted the bribe^H^H^H^H^H voucher and been happy... Don't mind the black helicopter in your lawn in 5 minutes.
What's wrong with a yearly mandatory test? Fail the test either fix it and get a certificate of compliance or your heap of junk will be taken off the road, as is the case in parts of Europe.
Would improve road safety too.
When a household makes less than $18,000 a year, do you think they'll have the money to fix their car? You forget, not all of America is like NY City. We all can't take the bus or subway to our jobs. Most of America is very spread out, and getting to work absolutely requires a vehicle. When you're only making $18K a year, you need every penny you have just to survive. When you put more BS legislation on people, now you have a government dependant, because they can't afford that crap, and you're stuck supporting them on welfare and food-stamps. Not everyone out there is a slashdot geek who makes a decent salary; you'd do well to remember that when talking broadly about America.
And as far as road safety. When's the last time you've taken a driver test by the BMV? Its a joke. Couple that with the fact that everyone in American is in a hurry, everywhere they're going, and that is why our roads are dangerous. We had far less road accidents per capita in the 30s and 40s than we do now. Sure, we had more deaths, because the cars were of less quality, but we had less accidents too. We have more frequent accidents because we're slaves to the clock, and everyone has a me-first attitude.
I don't understand why manufacturer's keep insisting on writing the apps for Windows or DOS, with the growing trend to use these drives in other systems.
I use Supermicro systems in my datacenter, and the coolest thing is, all of their flash utils, and CDROM discs boot FreeDOS. This alleviates the problem that you just might not be running Windows on your server. I wish all manufacturers would get the hint.
Here's a more sane proposal: when you apply for your tags, make one line on the form be the current odometer reading.....
Why is it that every time someone proposes some new legislation, or new tax, that we have to have "a more sane proposal", or a compromise? Why can't we simply say how much this idea sucks, and have no part of it. When a horrible idea comes out, there is no reason to compromise and make it less horrible. Its still horrible, just less so!
Back to the topic at hand though. I want to see a budget from the state showing their waste. There is no reason a state can't trim back services that are being abused, useless, mismanged, or not desired by the public. There is no reason the state cannot do what most American's do every month - pay their bills, and look at their income. What is so hard about spending no more than you make?
Figures from Analysis International said China's net firms reported total revenues of $5.9bn (£2.96bn) in 2007. By contrast net advertising revenue alone for US firms in 2007 stood at $21.2bn (£10.6bn)."
Not as much profit to be made when you're in China, buying products made in China.
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Its not necessary, its purely political. The world hates the US, and what better way to tell the world that the US "does not run the internet" by making non-latin character sets valid.
But if you live in the developing world, a UNCTAD report paints your picture pretty grim. Ridiculously high bandwidth costs are inhibiting developing nations from enjoying productive use of the internet — like online banking and market tools."
I don't want to sound like a meanie, but by definition, that is a developing nation. We all had to start somewhere and develop into what we are today.
Someone needs to stop thinking broadband is a right. Its not. TV isn't. Radio isn't. You aren't born with a right to broadband internet access.
You're going to mod me as a troll, when you can google for "John Holdren sterilze" and you'll find exactly what I'm talking about. The green movement and the environmental movement are dangerous because there are powerful people there that firmly believe people are the problem, and there should be less of them on this planet.
there's more Chinese pollution in LA now than the local stuff. Which highlights the NEXT phase of the problem... but we're not done here, yet.
Perhaps John Holdren is right, and we just need to sterilize the drinking water. Lets start with California, because obviously people = pollution, therefore we should just get rid of people.
But, Obama somehow changed that. The US is regaining trust and respect in the world at a rate that I would not have thought possible.
Seriously? I mean, really? We've turned our back on Britain, Poland, and Israel. Hugo Chavez laughs at us. N. Korea laughs at us.
We go out of our way to be friendly with evil men in this world, and they think we're weak. In the meantime, we alienate our trusted allies with gifts of iPods and DVDs.
The US's image is changing quite drastically on the world stage, but the words to describe that change are not trust and respect.
You make it sound like athletics dooms a person to depressive mediocrity.
It does. A minute number of high school athletes make professional careers out of it and are successful, the rest end up working in construction or a similar career and spending the rest of their life thinking about how great high school was.
I think this is the opposite with geeks. School got in the way of my learning, and I resent it very much for the wasted time I endured because of it.
In 7th grade, I started reading "The Sword of Shannara". My teacher saw me reading that and told me, and my mother that I should be reading books at my own age level.
In 1994, I released some shareware software, and had this distributed on two continents by using the MagicFiles distribution method offered by front-end mailers. Word got out about my application through EchoMail (yeah, this is old stuff).
When highschool rolled around, we had a mandatory typing class, on IBM PS/2s which were already ancient by that timeframe. Our programming class offered at my high school was BASIC, and was only available to Juniors or Seniors. I had already been writing code for a number of years.
Sure, I learned a lot of history, math, and other stuff in my school, but I didn't retain much of what wasn't interesting. I can't tell you today how to do synthetic division, or work with imaginary numbers. That stuff didn't matter to me, and even though I had 3 years of honors math in HS, I remember very little of it.
So more school will not make smarter kids. Motivation and curiosity makes smarter kids.
They passed a law to specifically cover sending text messages, and generally touching your phone at all (i.e. a bluetooth headset is OK, but hand-dialling isn't)
:)
That's another example of government interference, trying to make our lives safer by making them more difficult.
How many people have said "Dial Bob", only to have the damn phone call "Rob", and then you end up cussing, getting mad, and before you know it, you've taken your phone, rolled down the window, and just threw it at an oncoming car, only to cause a major crash behind you as that car swerved to avoid your phone.
I mean, damn, if only that stupid voice recognition was up to par with what the government thought it should be, huh?
As you should do it in all cases - park your car, enter the destination, wait for the route calculation, go on driving.
This is another example of big-city thinking, screwing up country for the rest of us.
I'm sorry, but when all I can see if the road, and the horizon in front of me, because I'm driving somewhere rural, there is ABSOLUTELY NO REASON I should have to abide by a no-cell-phone rule like bumper to bumper traffic dwellers have to. Thats just asinine.
Government needs to stop making laws that make this country suck. You want a change for this, fine: Make it so if you get in an accident while on your phone, the insurance company doesn't cover it, period. Life is full of risks - you need to look out for yourself - the government shouldn't be the one looking out for you.
I feel old.
Well, your UID makes you older than me.
I SAID, YOUR UID MAKES YOU OLDER THAN ME.
Also, my name is NOT "sonny boy", and this is my lawn, not yours. Where do you think you are, old timer?
Well, my UID makes me older than both of you. Now get off my lawn. :)
What I hate, is when my bills come VIA EMAIL. That is highly insecure. I'm not naming any names on this, but a few businesses I've done business with will charge a fee if you don't go paperless, and then they send all your transactions to you via plain text email.
That is bad. Very bad. I much prefer the "Your statement is ready, click here" and you have to login.
I think it'd be awesome if some of these companies would send this stuff to you via PGP, but alas too much of the population sucks for them to ever care to use that.
Boyden warns that a very clever AI without a sense of purpose might very well 'realize the impermanence of everything, calculate that the sun will burn out in a few billion years, and decide to play video games for the remainder of its existence.
I think the opposite is true. Only humans are dumb enough to waste their days playing video games like that. Machines would realize that there's a chance to extend their lives, make themselves better "creatures", and avoid wasting their time.
A large part of the failure of school is because the parents don't get involved. Studies have consistently shown that schools with high parent involvement produce better-educated children, and parents who engage their children outside of school produce better-educated children.
Here's the problem: It takes ALL parents to be involved. If one or two families get involved in a class of 75 students, the rest of the students will bring down the students who have caring and involved parents. And all too often, most of the parents just don't care, and thus those two kids out of 75 are brought down.
'Under the proposed laws, Ofcom, the industry regulator, would be given powers to require Internet service providers to collect information on those who downloaded pirate material.
I want to propose a law that states that the burden of expense should be placed on the phone companies every time a drug dealer makes a phone call that results in illegal trafficing of drugs.
I want a law that says the burden of expense should be placed on the tire manufacturers for failing to know if they're selling tires to drug smugglers who use their tires to commit their crimes.
Who else sees the crapshoot here?
I saw this story on TV a few years ago.
This guy is a real tool. He was a multi-millionaire ultra-tightwad. He made his wife do all the landscaping on their mansion. She left him when he started rationing her toilet paper usage.
Then when she sued for divorce he hid all his money in some offshore company and pretended it was lost in a "bad investment". It was a blatant lie. This guy deserves to rot in prison until he decides to come clean. He held the keys to his release the entire 14 years. He was just a stubborn liar.
You're completely wrong.
I think this country still believes in innocent until proven guilty.
You're no better than the judge if you feel that way. You need to use the law to make judgements, not your feelings, empathy, biasness, or your strong latina back ground.
I'm quite happy living in Texas 10 months out of the year. July and August can go to hell. I doubt it's about where you live more than it's about how you live. I'd rather live in a mansion with everything I've ever wanted in north Alaska than be a minimum wage cubicle jockey in Hawaii or Southern California.
You may find out that money doesn't buy happiness if you ended up with that mansion in northern Alaska. And for now, living in Texas, you'll find that you're not happy while you dream of that mansion in Alaska.
Just disable HAVE_WEAPON_SUPPORT flag in configure.in before building the sw for the space power station.
/proc/sys/weapons/vaporizer_state'
No, that won't work. Its exported as an ioctl, and is settable by:
'echo 1 >
Are you serious? "Offloading the environmental footprint to the electric generation station" is a *HUGE* step forward for automobiles.
How? Most of the electricity in this country comes from coal. Coal is dirty. Clean coal is a joke. Really, you want to just pump CO2 into the ground so it doesn't get into the atmosphere? What a load of crap.
We can't make an efficient electric car in this country till we do something about our power generation. Otherwise, you just get smug assholes who bought an electric because its fashionable, not practical. God forbid you want to drive across the country to visit family. Good luck with that on batteries alone.
You want to help innovation? Get rid of the politicans in Washington, so the free markets can innovate.
The demand for tech jobs may rise further thanks to the Obama Administration's stimulus package, which could create nearly 1 million new tech jobs."
You want to create tech jobs, Mr. Government? Send back the H1B Visas to their home countries, and stop letting more in here for big corporations to hire cheaper than Americans.
This guy at the Mozilla foundation is an idiot. It is because of Microsoft's bundling of IE with Windows that we have poorly designed websites that aren't standards compliant, and the reason web designers target IE and don't bother to make their site work with other browsers. Because "everyone has IE".
Maybe someone smarter than me can explain how this is a 'good' idea?
Welcome to socialism... Unfortunately you've asked too many questions about this plan, and have shown a genuine interest in how it'll work. You should have just accepted the bribe^H^H^H^H^H voucher and been happy... Don't mind the black helicopter in your lawn in 5 minutes.
What's wrong with a yearly mandatory test? Fail the test either fix it and get a certificate of compliance or your heap of junk will be taken off the road, as is the case in parts of Europe.
Would improve road safety too.
When a household makes less than $18,000 a year, do you think they'll have the money to fix their car? You forget, not all of America is like NY City. We all can't take the bus or subway to our jobs. Most of America is very spread out, and getting to work absolutely requires a vehicle. When you're only making $18K a year, you need every penny you have just to survive. When you put more BS legislation on people, now you have a government dependant, because they can't afford that crap, and you're stuck supporting them on welfare and food-stamps. Not everyone out there is a slashdot geek who makes a decent salary; you'd do well to remember that when talking broadly about America.
And as far as road safety. When's the last time you've taken a driver test by the BMV? Its a joke. Couple that with the fact that everyone in American is in a hurry, everywhere they're going, and that is why our roads are dangerous. We had far less road accidents per capita in the 30s and 40s than we do now. Sure, we had more deaths, because the cars were of less quality, but we had less accidents too. We have more frequent accidents because we're slaves to the clock, and everyone has a me-first attitude.
Frankly, I think the 'ism supported here is consumerism, not environmentalism. Let old cars die their natural death.
Actually, the 'ism here is more like socialism than consumerism.
I don't understand why manufacturer's keep insisting on writing the apps for Windows or DOS, with the growing trend to use these drives in other systems.
I use Supermicro systems in my datacenter, and the coolest thing is, all of their flash utils, and CDROM discs boot FreeDOS. This alleviates the problem that you just might not be running Windows on your server. I wish all manufacturers would get the hint.
Here's a more sane proposal: when you apply for your tags, make one line on the form be the current odometer reading.....
Why is it that every time someone proposes some new legislation, or new tax, that we have to have "a more sane proposal", or a compromise? Why can't we simply say how much this idea sucks, and have no part of it. When a horrible idea comes out, there is no reason to compromise and make it less horrible. Its still horrible, just less so!
Back to the topic at hand though. I want to see a budget from the state showing their waste. There is no reason a state can't trim back services that are being abused, useless, mismanged, or not desired by the public. There is no reason the state cannot do what most American's do every month - pay their bills, and look at their income. What is so hard about spending no more than you make?
Figures from Analysis International said China's net firms reported total revenues of $5.9bn (£2.96bn) in 2007. By contrast net advertising revenue alone for US firms in 2007 stood at $21.2bn (£10.6bn)."
Not as much profit to be made when you're in China, buying products made in China.