Microsoft was punished for pumping a market with a free product, with its development supported by revenues from a monopoly product, so that they could afford to give it away where competitors could not.
Wrong. Microsoft was convicted of tying (among other things). Bundling two products in the same shrinkwrap is tying. Offering two services on two separate websites is not tying.
Ouch, with those penalties I might as well kidnap someone, implant a subdermal bomb into their cranium, and force them to operate the smartphone app for me.
Remember, this was back in 2004, when Google was just a search engine. Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Chrome, Google Earth, and Android did not exist yet.
Google's current market cap is 188.77 billion. Is Facebook half as valuable as Google? I guess the market will soon decide that...
The Al Qaeda operatives you're talking about came from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and UAE. The taliban and Iraqi insurgency GP was talking about came from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. Different people, different organizations, different nationalities, different motives; they are hardly the "same".
Nothing justifies murdering more than 3000 people by flying planes into skyscrapers. I was just stating Al Qaeda's twisted motives for their twisted attacks.
Al Qaeda didn't attack us because we brought middle eastern oil. Al Qaeda didn't attack us because they hated our freedom and democracy.
They attacked us because we stationed troops in their holy land. They attacked us because we supported despotic regimes in the middle east. They attacked us because we are Israel's biggest ally.
Because FAT is the lowest common denominator. If they went with EXT2/3/4 or ReiserFS then Windows computers, digital cameras, and most other SD card readers wouldn't recognize the filesystem. In hindsight it was a terrible decision and some custom roms already switched to EXT.
I'm shocked, shocked to find collisions going on in here!
There is the remote chance that several keys will have the same "short" Key ID. The "long" Key ID decreases the risk of a collision, but can be more unwieldy to use.
Considering that certain versions of the GnuPG man page actually explicitly cover this, I'd say this is a non-story. Just use the long key ID if you're worried.
This "shoot the drone" down idea has been mentioned twice in this thread already, but how feasible is it really? Can anyone familiar with maritime law comment on it?
Pragmatically speaking you'll need automatic weapons to take down a drone on the high seas, and those NFA firearms aren't cheap. Not to mention you'll need to sail out of US, intercept the drones, and then sail back to the US again.
You forgot the part where the 17 years old who run that site takes your money and spend it on hookers and blow. The hilarious part is, you don't even know his name or even which country he resides in.
What if I want to buy a car or a house with my bitcoins? I would need to go through one of the exchanges, where they have my real name and bank account number. So much for "meaningless, untraceable usernames".
It's only untraceable if I only brought ATI video cards, web hosting, and marijuana for the rest of my life.
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Microsoft was punished for pumping a market with a free product, with its development supported by revenues from a monopoly product, so that they could afford to give it away where competitors could not.
Wrong. Microsoft was convicted of tying (among other things). Bundling two products in the same shrinkwrap is tying. Offering two services on two separate websites is not tying.
Ouch, with those penalties I might as well kidnap someone, implant a subdermal bomb into their cranium, and force them to operate the smartphone app for me.
the summary inexplicably didn't link it
I'm pretty sure that was done on purpose to prevent slashdotting. Even just a link in the comments managed to take the site down (as of writing).
My bad, I should have said "not open to public yet".
But non-PRC internet users only account for 20% of the world's population.
What was google's market cap when it ipoed?
23 billion USD
Remember, this was back in 2004, when Google was just a search engine. Gmail, Google Docs, Google Maps, Google Chrome, Google Earth, and Android did not exist yet.
Google's current market cap is 188.77 billion. Is Facebook half as valuable as Google? I guess the market will soon decide that...
He said "sites", as in "websites", which all rely on the HTTP(S) protocol. IRC is a completely different protocol.
"The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots."
The same "they"
The Al Qaeda operatives you're talking about came from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and UAE. The taliban and Iraqi insurgency GP was talking about came from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. Different people, different organizations, different nationalities, different motives; they are hardly the "same".
Nothing justifies murdering more than 3000 people by flying planes into skyscrapers. I was just stating Al Qaeda's twisted motives for their twisted attacks.
Al Qaeda didn't attack us because we brought middle eastern oil. Al Qaeda didn't attack us because they hated our freedom and democracy.
They attacked us because we stationed troops in their holy land. They attacked us because we supported despotic regimes in the middle east. They attacked us because we are Israel's biggest ally.
Because FAT is the lowest common denominator. If they went with EXT2/3/4 or ReiserFS then Windows computers, digital cameras, and most other SD card readers wouldn't recognize the filesystem. In hindsight it was a terrible decision and some custom roms already switched to EXT.
There is the remote chance that several keys will have the same "short" Key ID. The "long" Key ID decreases the risk of a collision, but can be more unwieldy to use.
Considering that certain versions of the GnuPG man page actually explicitly cover this, I'd say this is a non-story. Just use the long key ID if you're worried.
Sucks for Linus I guess, getting kidnapped by a bunch of time traveling Victorian thugs.
Just think of all the possibilities...
This "shoot the drone" down idea has been mentioned twice in this thread already, but how feasible is it really? Can anyone familiar with maritime law comment on it?
Pragmatically speaking you'll need automatic weapons to take down a drone on the high seas, and those NFA firearms aren't cheap. Not to mention you'll need to sail out of US, intercept the drones, and then sail back to the US again.
Exactly. Human soles are eternal after all.
I think you meant titanium.
Two words: Stallman sword
You forgot the part where the 17 years old who run that site takes your money and spend it on hookers and blow. The hilarious part is, you don't even know his name or even which country he resides in.
Exactly. Like I said before, if I only buy "ATI video cards, web hosting, and marijuana", there's no problem at all.
Because my real estate agent and the car dealership won't accept bitcoins.
What if I want to buy a car or a house with my bitcoins? I would need to go through one of the exchanges, where they have my real name and bank account number. So much for "meaningless, untraceable usernames".
It's only untraceable if I only brought ATI video cards, web hosting, and marijuana for the rest of my life.
What's stopping it from doing both?
They received bailouts for the same reason GM and Chrysler received bailouts. "too big to fail" isn't just limited to banks.