If I was still one, I'd keep the card for "really good stuff that deserve to be paid for" or "stuff I can't find for free" And 3 years later the card would probably still be left unused and also invalid;)
the article selection and election is mostly community driven. you see that +- on top of the story? Click -. Right now its a red story, so it means many clicked "+"
bottom line, i blame the slashdot community (and i clicked -.)
A simple question, what will voters vote for? Another president? it's the same, differences are slim. Refuse to vote, or vote blank? These votes are like "highest blank vote rate since like forever" news on tv for 2 days every 7 years. Aka peanuts.
In reality, laws being passed as usually to make lobbies richer. This is one of them. The law has nearly nothing to do with "protecting artists" as it claims. The law is a machine built to give control & power to the lobbies (they can *look at your traffic* and they can disable your internet on demand, as many as 10K users per day, all this "legally")
They also want to improve that process to have mandatory "boxes" installed at each customer internet access (usually we get boxes already so it's just a matter of adding the software), that does the filtering , access restriction, etc, directly at home.
Of course all these things won't stop the most technical of us, but if it touches 95% of the population, it just does not matter.
they have a fire dpt that they maintain already, since they came....so your argument is not relevant. the law is just totally retarded. you should be able to pay the full price if you're not paying the $75. even if full price is lets say $7500 (its probably quite lower) to save a house its well worth it
but then again, if that's not enough to let their dpt survive, the tax should be mandatory.. => retarded law
You should still be allowed to pay a premium to get the service in that case. It's quite fucked up when you are not forced to pay that tax, but when your house burn, you should be able to pay $1000 or whatever the cost is to get it fixed, instead of "sorry we let it burn". Or have a private company doing the same thing for a normal one time fee (which is more or less the same in the end, just costs more)
Otherwise.. what happens.. tax is optional.. why pay it? Maybe they can't even afford it. But when the sinister arrives, what do they do? who do they call ? It's not like they were condemned to see their house burn by fire cause they didn't pay the *optional* tax.
As for "good lesson", well, once ur house is burnt, considered you weren't rich enough to pay $75 a year, congratulation, you just destroyed a familly's life, they might as well be dead inside.
Not even talking about the pets which asked nothing but died in a fire for no real reason, we're not even making steaks of that.
Unfortunately if it wasn't like that I doubt we'd get any leaks and secrets would just stay secrets. That "agenda", whoring, whatever you wanna call it is the nerve that push them hard enough to actually do something about it.
Fully moral, ethical people cannot convey such tasks because they'll be blocked by their own ethics pretty quickly, and have only low scale events no one will get informed about.
Ideally, it takes a smart - bad - guy to convey the task in the best way possible. The bad guy has his agenda too, but successfully deceive people into thinking his ethics, moral, etc are perfect and untouchable. In the end, while he'd prolly have done a lot of bad, he'd have done a lot of good too, a lot of good that would stay as he would have gained a strong unbreakable trust.
there's only 3 or 4 ISPs which have their own lines in France. Other ISPs uses other's infrastructure. SFR has the music lobby behind, Orange has governement employes forced inside, we've Free and Numericable left. Free being the only one that might not bend to government corruption (which itself is corrupted by medias). And it's just " might ":)
and the ISP in question is FREE.FR I think it's worth mentioning their name as they regularly stand out to defend such causes. The competition is mostly owned by music/media lobbies therefore they mostly do what they're told.
It goes further. The person from the government who was first in charge of HADOPI has been forced into the biggest French ISP administration (Orange/France Telecom - a previously state owned company), to make them, sorry, force them to accept and play nice with HADOPI.
That's how far the corruption goes. Note that this person thinks OpenOffice is a firewall solution, just as a funny bonus.
they don't actually want a single private network, they want a network with all institutions etc in it so that they can control it. it means the power plant is linked to the traffic control, to the train station, etc, and also to banks and so on. At this stage it's so big that it's not just a private network. That's why they call it "another internet" even if it's a bit of an abuse of course (*stunt* *hint*)
it's actually nothing to do with "vitally important" to them, it's just about control.
What about "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." or for the less literate of us, the paraphrasing "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both" which can naturally just be interpreted as "People willing to trade their privacy and anonymity for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both".
I would also add that I very well imagine, on your dream network:
- a new bank comes around - new bank ping other bank and wants to trade - old bank denies access and kick them off the network, claiming pinging was forbidden (yeh big deal) - old bank keeps control, profit, power
In case you did not know, in the new world order we live in, banks already have the complete power over the world anyway. Anything, *anything* which they don't have complete control of (the Internet for example) is a threat to them, as you lose control you lose power.
It's called a private network. Simply remove them Internet access and network them together. Sure they won't have access to internet then. That's the point tho.
You did not understand anything of what I wrote, did you:(
Now you're changing your argument into something else. Let me tell you, some people appreciate being able to see flash videos on the go while they couldn't previously. The argument is that flash doesn't work well etc yada yada - the latest flash on latest android proves this to be quite wrong, flash works pretty well. It doesn't mean it's the best thing since sliced bread, but then again it's not like other apps on the phone were miraculous either.
For example, and this might shock you:
e-mail (as set of protocol) is FUBAR, that's why you see so much spam and there's so little good fix. If there was one company being "Email tm" everyone would be bashing it, but that's the not case, it's just a standard that wasn't though out for today's tasks and spam level.
yet it works rather smooth and everyone uses it for good reasons (which I hope I don't need to list..)
Maybe you should click the bold "UPDATE" link on their site? You know, with the newest Flash version.. that happens to be a stable release too.
"As our experience illustrates, Flash Player 10.1 for Android works really well on a fair number of sites. In these cases, you feel like you’re getting the full desktop experience on your phone, whether you’re watching video or playing games. And it all happens right in the browser window–no dedicated apps required."
That's my experience as well. There's few sites that don't work "that well" on mobile flash, then again they don't really work all that well on desktop either. In most cases it's a smooth experience now.
I'd just point out flash very damn smooth on my Android phone and doesn't seem to eat up battery or things like that more than playing a regular video.. in fact the video from flash is usually higher quality than the "mobile video version" (basically the video iOS users get, mind you), with few exceptions like youtube.
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Strange that you've been mod'ed troll.
It's closer to insightful unfortunately.
If I was still one, I'd keep the card for "really good stuff that deserve to be paid for" or "stuff I can't find for free" ;)
And 3 years later the card would probably still be left unused and also invalid
the article selection and election is mostly community driven.
you see that +- on top of the story? Click -.
Right now its a red story, so it means many clicked "+"
bottom line, i blame the slashdot community (and i clicked -.)
A simple question, what will voters vote for? Another president? it's the same, differences are slim.
Refuse to vote, or vote blank? These votes are like "highest blank vote rate since like forever" news on tv for 2 days every 7 years. Aka peanuts.
In theory, laws are made to protect citizens.
In reality, laws being passed as usually to make lobbies richer. This is one of them. The law has nearly nothing to do with "protecting artists" as it claims.
The law is a machine built to give control & power to the lobbies (they can *look at your traffic* and they can disable your internet on demand, as many as 10K users per day, all this "legally")
They also want to improve that process to have mandatory "boxes" installed at each customer internet access (usually we get boxes already so it's just a matter of adding the software), that does the filtering , access restriction, etc, directly at home.
Of course all these things won't stop the most technical of us, but if it touches 95% of the population, it just does not matter.
they have a fire dpt that they maintain already, since they came... .so your argument is not relevant.
the law is just totally retarded. you should be able to pay the full price if you're not paying the $75. even if full price is lets say $7500 (its probably quite lower) to save a house its well worth it
but then again, if that's not enough to let their dpt survive, the tax should be mandatory.. => retarded law
You should still be allowed to pay a premium to get the service in that case.
It's quite fucked up when you are not forced to pay that tax, but when your house burn, you should be able to pay $1000 or whatever the cost is to get it fixed, instead of "sorry we let it burn".
Or have a private company doing the same thing for a normal one time fee (which is more or less the same in the end, just costs more)
Otherwise.. what happens.. tax is optional.. why pay it? Maybe they can't even afford it. But when the sinister arrives, what do they do? who do they call ? It's not like they were condemned to see their house burn by fire cause they didn't pay the *optional* tax.
As for "good lesson", well, once ur house is burnt, considered you weren't rich enough to pay $75 a year, congratulation, you just destroyed a familly's life, they might as well be dead inside.
Not even talking about the pets which asked nothing but died in a fire for no real reason, we're not even making steaks of that.
Unfortunately if it wasn't like that I doubt we'd get any leaks and secrets would just stay secrets.
That "agenda", whoring, whatever you wanna call it is the nerve that push them hard enough to actually do something about it.
Fully moral, ethical people cannot convey such tasks because they'll be blocked by their own ethics pretty quickly, and have only low scale events no one will get informed about.
Ideally, it takes a smart - bad - guy to convey the task in the best way possible. The bad guy has his agenda too, but successfully deceive people into thinking his ethics, moral, etc are perfect and untouchable. In the end, while he'd prolly have done a lot of bad, he'd have done a lot of good too, a lot of good that would stay as he would have gained a strong unbreakable trust.
there's only 3 or 4 ISPs which have their own lines in France. Other ISPs uses other's infrastructure. :)
SFR has the music lobby behind, Orange has governement employes forced inside, we've Free and Numericable left. Free being the only one that might not bend to government corruption (which itself is corrupted by medias).
And it's just " might "
Hadopi is a law, and adds a special case:
You have to pay for the duration of the hadopi suspension of service, which can be from memory from 3 to 6 month.
If you don't know what it is like in France, why do you post it's wrong o.O you may NOT cancel when suspended by hadopi, it's that simple
When you get disconnected you are required to keep on paying the bill.
and the ISP in question is FREE.FR
I think it's worth mentioning their name as they regularly stand out to defend such causes. The competition is mostly owned by music/media lobbies therefore they mostly do what they're told.
It goes further. The person from the government who was first in charge of HADOPI has been forced into the biggest French ISP administration (Orange/France Telecom - a previously state owned company), to make them, sorry, force them to accept and play nice with HADOPI.
That's how far the corruption goes. Note that this person thinks OpenOffice is a firewall solution, just as a funny bonus.
they don't actually want a single private network, they want a network with all institutions etc in it so that they can control it.
it means the power plant is linked to the traffic control, to the train station, etc, and also to banks and so on.
At this stage it's so big that it's not just a private network. That's why they call it "another internet" even if it's a bit of an abuse of course (*stunt* *hint*)
it's actually nothing to do with "vitally important" to them, it's just about control.
Erm, I thought being anonymous WAS a security?
What about "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power." or for the less literate of us, the paraphrasing "People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both" which can naturally just be interpreted as "People willing to trade their privacy and anonymity for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both".
I would also add that I very well imagine, on your dream network:
- a new bank comes around
- new bank ping other bank and wants to trade
- old bank denies access and kick them off the network, claiming pinging was forbidden (yeh big deal)
- old bank keeps control, profit, power
In case you did not know, in the new world order we live in, banks already have the complete power over the world anyway.
Anything, *anything* which they don't have complete control of (the Internet for example) is a threat to them, as you lose control you lose power.
that's a pretty good sum up and quote
It's called a private network.
Simply remove them Internet access and network them together. Sure they won't have access to internet then. That's the point tho.
It's just a python script modding people, based on rand().
You did not understand anything of what I wrote, did you :(
Now you're changing your argument into something else.
Let me tell you, some people appreciate being able to see flash videos on the go while they couldn't previously.
The argument is that flash doesn't work well etc yada yada - the latest flash on latest android proves this to be quite wrong, flash works pretty well. It doesn't mean it's the best thing since sliced bread, but then again it's not like other apps on the phone were miraculous either.
For example, and this might shock you:
e-mail (as set of protocol) is FUBAR, that's why you see so much spam and there's so little good fix. If there was one company being "Email tm" everyone would be bashing it, but that's the not case, it's just a standard that wasn't though out for today's tasks and spam level.
yet it works rather smooth and everyone uses it for good reasons (which I hope I don't need to list..)
Given, I might take an iPhone after all, if Android and Ubuntu 10 turn out to be just as prissy as last years versions.
You non-fanboi stuff was all nice and well until you decided to let it out right at this sentence. Fairly obvious !
Let me guess: Flash for Blackberry is not yet ready. Quick! Enemies of my enemies are my friends!
Oh the Internet..
Maybe you should click the bold "UPDATE" link on their site? You know, with the newest Flash version.. that happens to be a stable release too.
"As our experience illustrates, Flash Player 10.1 for Android works really well on a fair number of sites. In these cases, you feel like you’re getting the full desktop experience on your phone, whether you’re watching video or playing games. And it all happens right in the browser window–no dedicated apps required."
That's my experience as well. There's few sites that don't work "that well" on mobile flash, then again they don't really work all that well on desktop either. In most cases it's a smooth experience now.
I'd just point out flash very damn smooth on my Android phone and doesn't seem to eat up battery or things like that more than playing a regular video.. in fact the video from flash is usually higher quality than the "mobile video version" (basically the video iOS users get, mind you), with few exceptions like youtube.
iFlash
flash done right!
if you don't do flash the way Apple does it, you blew it!
and so on..
Seem you already forgot that the reason for Apple to push HTML5 is not "open standard" but in fact pushing H264.
Funny how you've been modded informative:P
there's a +- next to the story actually for that sort of things :P