Today they want to protect "net neutrality",
Tomorrow THEY will tell you what to surf and what not to surf, all the while charging YOU insane FCC surcharge for using the internets. We know this will happen, because FCC is a branch of government, and the latter has been corrupted by Big Media money. Oh, and don't you dare to surf pr0n on FCC-net while the CommunicAtions DecencY Act is in force.
Those guys are lawyers. You are practically guaranteed they are on Windows. On the other hand, your windows gallery shows the typical Apple crowd, 30 years back.
Now this is more like it!
17+ hour trans-Atlantic flight? You better not get distracted on that NC-4 of yours, a collision with a seagull could be fatal.
The first aircraft to fly the Atlantic...The flight began at Trepassey, New Foundland on May 16, 1919 and after 17 hours the NC-4 arrived at Horta, Azores.
Hate to float a turd but... there has been a cruse missile with these capabilities for sometime now. The military won't generally acknowledge this fact because doing so would kill the budget for big carriers.
Yeah that is a turd because the second sentence seems to be something you pulled out of your ass.
Those might be able to sink a carrier but to even attempt to do so you're going to have launch them from extreme range because if it is wartime and you're hostile you're going to have a hell of a time getting even that close to a carrier battle group before they get twitchy and decide to sink you. You might manage to pull it off in peace time but you'd still probably wind up getting sunk yourself, if not by the carrier then by the escorts.
...the second paragraph seems to be something you pulled out of your ass. Lots of interesting stuff is happening during the "peacetime".
Except one little detail: Russia has very little access to important international waterways (and very small fleet where it does have access). Arctic ocean is only useful for launching nuclear submarines. So if every container ship in the world is turned into a destroyer, they could not care less. Of course, they also don't think twice before selling anti-aircraft, ballistic missiles and such to "close" neighbors like Turkey, Iran, North Korea, etc. I guess they have a kill switch somewhere:P
Actually it was a SWAT team with M16 and full camouflage bulletproof armor that boarded the plane and politely offered him a refund and an inflatable boat to paddle home.
They did a similar stunt about 10 years ago: engraved IBM with single molecules. I think there is no practical application -- they just roll the machine out of a closet every 10 years for publicity.
Oh, wait, here's their patent... from 1971 !?
There is a difference. Apple installs THEIR software on THEIR hardware. MS, on the other hand, uses it's monopoly to COERCE hardware manufacturers to install Windows and nothing but. Examples are forcing BEOS into bankruptcy, or when they required that comp. manufacturers pay MS per computer, regardless of OS installed. Another mean trend was stealing business from every more or less successful software companies: Lotus, Borland, World Perfect, Netscape -- not sure what the exact mechanisms were used, but having a monopoly was definitely a part of it. That's what's called anti-competitive practices that hurt free market and consumers, and that is why we have laws against that in US. But installing your software on your hardware? Make an alarm clock, program it any way you please and sell. Nobody cares.
You cannot have "prior case" to every possible idiotic claim. Today you debunk the scanner story, tomorrow I sue an elevator company for making me fat.
Majority of web services store passwords unencrypted, and email them to me when i forget password (!). Not to mention if someone hacks them they will be quiet about it.
I'd say Apache foundation is still top notch compared to most.
Un-explained (some of them gotta be, or else we would not need scientists, would we?)
They can also be classified as
Flying
Floating
Standing still.... etc
So, the Un-explained Flying phenOmena are the UFO, and once some specimen are identified, they need to be studied, explained and reclassified as EFO. Who said aliens need to be involved?
PS: Ahh, this does not prove they exist, but Nothern Lights were a UFO once, and now they are explained, sort of.
Here is a possible test: Civil engineers are personally responsible for errors in their work. If they design a structure and it falls down because of their errors, they are personally responsible. Do coders accept this level of responsibility for the bugs in their code? If so, maybe they are engineers.
Here is another spin: what if the structure falls down because of errors in the computer design software, which was used to design the structure, who will take the blame? Hint: it's the corporation, not the little guy. There are supposed to be reviews and tests, both in computer and civil engineering.
True, today US has Patriot Act, which permits govt to see anything and everything. Here's my take on the difference:
While the threat of persecution by US authorities is only possible, the reason China was hacking accounts of dissidents is very concrete and the fate of those with disclosed names is sealed.
It just happens that Sergey Brin comes from a dissident family himself, who abandoned Soviet Russia while it was still under communist rule. It was a very big deal to leave the country back then, as even short trips abroad needed special govt permission at the time. I find it logical that he would balk at China using his brainchild to execute like-minded people.
And this what one of the commenters had to say:
"I process sonar data and if that is an image based on real soundings I will eat a school of Atlantic Cod. I think someone had too much time on his hands and a fancy computer on April 1."
Your IP laws already mirror those in the US, because go ahead and try to say nay to us, and you will be left to trade with polar bears. I mean look, you cannot even legalize marijuana, because the precious neighbor will disapprove.
I would seriously consider hopping on EU wagon, because it's either them or US!
I do not believe that Bing's privacy policy is any better than Google's. The reason: they both have to follow US Patriot Act:keep the search data for a few months and serve your butt to govt upon request.
As for business in China, Microsoft believes that China can execute all their dissidents overnight, it's their internal problem, MS could not care less. Obey the law - get paid. Need bricks and fuel for gas chambers -- no problem, we deliver! List of names and addresses of all the jews/dissidents? Here you are! Sorry, gotta obey the law, don't want to piss off the shareholders!
So you are saying that if we have a cataclysm similar to glaciers melting 20,000 years ago, it's okay because it happened before? Extinction of humanity sounds scary, except when you put it in context, species extinction is not a new phenomenon
A one-eyed person does not see objects in 3-D, by definition. Now, if they managed to successfully market and sell 3D TVs to one-eyed customers, that would be a completely different perspective!
Everyone should be able to have access to art and education free from any restrictions and independent of their social and economical status
I always thought that if I earn, say $1000/month, and can afford to spend $50 on music-film, then nobody is profiting by withholding the other 99% of media from me. The copyright system that we have in US is designed to make the nation culturally poor to benefit a few schmucks in the industry. Let's face it: only a small percentage from a CD sale makes to the artists.
Never though that a European government would hold the same point of view!
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Today they want to protect "net neutrality",
Tomorrow THEY will tell you what to surf and what not to surf, all the while charging YOU insane FCC surcharge for using the internets. We know this will happen, because FCC is a branch of government, and the latter has been corrupted by Big Media money. Oh, and don't you dare to surf pr0n on FCC-net while the CommunicAtions DecencY Act is in force.
Those guys are lawyers. You are practically guaranteed they are on Windows. On the other hand, your windows gallery shows the typical Apple crowd, 30 years back.
Now this is more like it!
A regulation banning cockpit sleep is next in the FAA pipeline.
It's hard to come by better retro high-tech coasters these days
Except one little detail: Russia has very little access to important international waterways (and very small fleet where it does have access). Arctic ocean is only useful for launching nuclear submarines. So if every container ship in the world is turned into a destroyer, they could not care less. Of course, they also don't think twice before selling anti-aircraft, ballistic missiles and such to "close" neighbors like Turkey, Iran, North Korea, etc. I guess they have a kill switch somewhere :P
Actually it was a SWAT team with M16 and full camouflage bulletproof armor that boarded the plane and politely offered him a refund and an inflatable boat to paddle home.
They did a similar stunt about 10 years ago: engraved IBM with single molecules. I think there is no practical application -- they just roll the machine out of a closet every 10 years for publicity.
Oh, wait, here's their patent... from 1971 !?
Can we use the same methods? Fight terror with terror. Say, someone assassinating those who call for murder?
http://europenews.dk/en/node/14505
There is a difference. Apple installs THEIR software on THEIR hardware. MS, on the other hand, uses it's monopoly to COERCE hardware manufacturers to install Windows and nothing but.
Examples are forcing BEOS into bankruptcy, or when they required that comp. manufacturers pay MS per computer, regardless of OS installed. Another mean trend was stealing business from every more or less successful software companies: Lotus, Borland, World Perfect, Netscape -- not sure what the exact mechanisms were used, but having a monopoly was definitely a part of it.
That's what's called anti-competitive practices that hurt free market and consumers, and that is why we have laws against that in US. But installing your software on your hardware? Make an alarm clock, program it any way you please and sell. Nobody cares.
(*) Disclaimer - or i can not buy jailed device in the first place and save myself some trouble.
You cannot have "prior case" to every possible idiotic claim. Today you debunk the scanner story, tomorrow I sue an elevator company for making me fat.
Majority of web services store passwords unencrypted, and email them to me when i forget password (!). Not to mention if someone hacks them they will be quiet about it. I'd say Apache foundation is still top notch compared to most.
They can also be classified as
So, the Un-explained Flying phenOmena are the UFO, and once some specimen are identified, they need to be studied, explained and reclassified as EFO. Who said aliens need to be involved?
PS: Ahh, this does not prove they exist, but Nothern Lights were a UFO once, and now they are explained, sort of.
Here is another spin: what if the structure falls down because of errors in the computer design software, which was used to design the structure, who will take the blame?
Hint: it's the corporation, not the little guy. There are supposed to be reviews and tests, both in computer and civil engineering.
True, today US has Patriot Act, which permits govt to see anything and everything. Here's my take on the difference:
While the threat of persecution by US authorities is only possible, the reason China was hacking accounts of dissidents is very concrete and the fate of those with disclosed names is sealed.
It just happens that Sergey Brin comes from a dissident family himself, who abandoned Soviet Russia while it was still under communist rule. It was a very big deal to leave the country back then, as even short trips abroad needed special govt permission at the time. I find it logical that he would balk at China using his brainchild to execute like-minded people.
And this what one of the commenters had to say:
"I process sonar data and if that is an image based on real soundings I will eat a school of Atlantic Cod. I think someone had too much time on his hands and a fancy computer on April 1."
Your IP laws already mirror those in the US, because go ahead and try to say nay to us, and you will be left to trade with polar bears. I mean look, you cannot even legalize marijuana, because the precious neighbor will disapprove.
I would seriously consider hopping on EU wagon, because it's either them or US!
It's like sex, you cannot punish someone by not giving any until they tried it and started craving.
I do not believe that Bing's privacy policy is any better than Google's. The reason: they both have to follow US Patriot Act:keep the search data for a few months and serve your butt to govt upon request.
As for business in China, Microsoft believes that China can execute all their dissidents overnight, it's their internal problem, MS could not care less. Obey the law - get paid. Need bricks and fuel for gas chambers -- no problem, we deliver! List of names and addresses of all the jews/dissidents? Here you are! Sorry, gotta obey the law, don't want to piss off the shareholders!
So you are saying that if we have a cataclysm similar to glaciers melting 20,000 years ago, it's okay because it happened before?
Extinction of humanity sounds scary, except when you put it in context, species extinction is not a new phenomenon
A one-eyed person does not see objects in 3-D, by definition. Now, if they managed to successfully market and sell 3D TVs to one-eyed customers, that would be a completely different perspective!
I always thought that if I earn, say $1000/month, and can afford to spend $50 on music-film, then nobody is profiting by withholding the other 99% of media from me. The copyright system that we have in US is designed to make the nation culturally poor to benefit a few schmucks in the industry. Let's face it: only a small percentage from a CD sale makes to the artists. Never though that a European government would hold the same point of view!