Anyone who has a 8 year old computer has probably lost the installation media for it. Many of them might be running POS systems that don't work past win95. We're not talking about office or home computers here, those have all been changed out long ago. These are mostly old computers in a back room that have been plugging away at a single task for years.
It was obviously merely a symbolic gesture. They aren't going to do anything real by blocking 800 sites and they know it, but now they can declare a victory and forget the whole business.
Man, I want to live in your world! Imagine if everyone legalized anything that was hilarious. I'd go around planting drugs on the police, and if I got caught my defense would be "sorry judge, it was just too hilarious to stop!"
This site is community moderated. Most of the article descriptions are given a quick read-though and then left verbatim the way the submitter wrote it. Anyone who tries to teach the internet at large about the finer points of grammar is swimming up stream.
I also reject your assertion that critics should be held to a lower standard than content creators.
It would be a conflict of interest if the government made a percentage of the profit that a private or corporate entity made from a particular ruling. This would lead eventually to the gov issuing trademarks to large business for practically everything. I do not want to live in that world.
I'm pretty sure your algorithm would be worse than 50%. It basically amounts to "which even comes first? A) site gets hacked or b) site gets taken down."
I think more sites get taken down every day than get hacked.
Unless the project is R&D or entirely new and unknown architecture should be the larger job. Building without planning really only works when you aren't working with a team.. so it hardly ever works in a corporate or government environment.. as demonstrated by the article.
They have created a maze that inevitably leads to rats regretting their decisions, no matter what logic they use to make them. Do you know what this means? We've given rats a taste of politics!
Unfortunately, I don't see simple car interfaces coming back.. not if Google gets "behind the wheel" of the next car revolution. Google Cruse is going to be the next app store for your smartcar, mark my words. Everyone is going to get WAYYY more features than they ever wanted and end up with a car that freezes for 5 - 10 seconds before pulling into drive (just like an android). They'll convince everyone they love it, though, by offering 100 different choices for the voice that naggs you when your gas (battery) gets low and offers you three EXCELLENT choices of stations (2 of which have paid for premium placement in the notification system).
That's like saying when aliens attack you'll be glad you bought UFO insurance. Just because you can imagine a scenario does not make it likely. I have seen no compelling evidence that terrorism is a battle worth giving up my privacy and freedom for.
This is just the start of something larger. Drones will get smaller and smaller until the technology will be there to release a cloud of gnat-like drones to monitor the entire world. What will the FCC say then if the gnat operators start suing people who have wind power generators for destroying their property? They need a policy that stretches back as far as possible. Without a defined line to draw it's just a long series of incremental advancements between RC planes and gnat drones.
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Anyone who has a 8 year old computer has probably lost the installation media for it. Many of them might be running POS systems that don't work past win95. We're not talking about office or home computers here, those have all been changed out long ago. These are mostly old computers in a back room that have been plugging away at a single task for years.
It was obviously merely a symbolic gesture. They aren't going to do anything real by blocking 800 sites and they know it, but now they can declare a victory and forget the whole business.
"there is a slippery slope when you start blocking porn" would make a good news headline.
Yeah, this is the worst idea since the pet rock!
owai...
Interesting.
Ok, so it's a small sample size, but every article I've submitted has appeared exactly as I typed it.
Man, I want to live in your world! Imagine if everyone legalized anything that was hilarious. I'd go around planting drugs on the police, and if I got caught my defense would be "sorry judge, it was just too hilarious to stop!"
the-rapist say: no think, just do.
This site is community moderated. Most of the article descriptions are given a quick read-though and then left verbatim the way the submitter wrote it. Anyone who tries to teach the internet at large about the finer points of grammar is swimming up stream.
I also reject your assertion that critics should be held to a lower standard than content creators.
Your first sentence there is awkward and could badly use a conjunction word after the quotes. Why do you grammar trolls never get your grammar right?
It would be a conflict of interest if the government made a percentage of the profit that a private or corporate entity made from a particular ruling. This would lead eventually to the gov issuing trademarks to large business for practically everything. I do not want to live in that world.
"If you can point me to ANYTHING whose worth hasn't changed over time, I'd love to see it."
Trolling. Still just as valuable today.
Clearly you have never heard of a rhetorical question.
Oh no! It's a holy war against the internet!
I wonder how well that will work out. Will the internet fight back?
When the human testing starts, should it be old people first? afftected-continent people first? family-receives-high-payment people first?
I think they should be volunteers at the very least.
If you RTFA you'll notice that human testing has already started.
I think the only problems with their implementation are political ones.
I'm pretty sure your algorithm would be worse than 50%. It basically amounts to "which even comes first? A) site gets hacked or b) site gets taken down."
I think more sites get taken down every day than get hacked.
Unless the project is R&D or entirely new and unknown architecture should be the larger job. Building without planning really only works when you aren't working with a team.. so it hardly ever works in a corporate or government environment.. as demonstrated by the article.
Not if they don't make any money. Punkspider has been available for over a year now, and it does much the same thing.
They have created a maze that inevitably leads to rats regretting their decisions, no matter what logic they use to make them. Do you know what this means? We've given rats a taste of politics!
Unfortunately, I don't see simple car interfaces coming back.. not if Google gets "behind the wheel" of the next car revolution. Google Cruse is going to be the next app store for your smartcar, mark my words. Everyone is going to get WAYYY more features than they ever wanted and end up with a car that freezes for 5 - 10 seconds before pulling into drive (just like an android). They'll convince everyone they love it, though, by offering 100 different choices for the voice that naggs you when your gas (battery) gets low and offers you three EXCELLENT choices of stations (2 of which have paid for premium placement in the notification system).
Hmm... I think I might know why
That's like saying when aliens attack you'll be glad you bought UFO insurance. Just because you can imagine a scenario does not make it likely. I have seen no compelling evidence that terrorism is a battle worth giving up my privacy and freedom for.
The worst company in the world? I thought that ignoble award still went to Wal-Mart.
Awesome. Looks like I'll be using old jet engines to keep drones off my property in the future. Suck them up and sell em for scrap.
This is just the start of something larger. Drones will get smaller and smaller until the technology will be there to release a cloud of gnat-like drones to monitor the entire world. What will the FCC say then if the gnat operators start suing people who have wind power generators for destroying their property? They need a policy that stretches back as far as possible. Without a defined line to draw it's just a long series of incremental advancements between RC planes and gnat drones.