Leaking gossip seems to me to be rather less likely to destabilise a region than unmanned drones killing women and children as by product of collateral damage.
It is my opinion that the present practices of selling something almost everyone with a computer must have are unfair and against the common welfare. Microsoft lost an anti-trust case, but there was never any penalty.
794 million dollar fine in a media player anti trust case is hardly no penalty
I agree with what you said about linux though. Its an operating system I have on dual boot that I cant make very much work in. I've tried 4 different media players but all are silent with mp3's (sound works in other things) and endless other little problems a new user like me had no idea to fix that finally drove me away from linux.
Its because of men like this that future jars of fruit may contain the warning '' please do not try to forcibly remove the lid with a screw driver while holding this jar next to your eyeball ''.
But what is wrong with just slapping the cell phone driver with a huge fine and more importantly a 2 year ban on owning a cellphone with the option of a prison sentence should they decide to get one anyway? Severely punish the fools who are endangering other peoples lives instead of mildly punishing everyone.
No one is forcing you to go through a scanner but yourself.
That's hardly true. If it was one specific Airline that had the scanners then I would agree with you, but it not, it is the actual airports meaning you have no choice.
For example: If I wanted to travel from London to New York the options are a 300 pound flight taking around 7 hours or a trans-Atlantic ferry which taking 8 days and costing 1500 for a shared cabin or 2000 pounds for a single cabin. Are you seriously going to tell me me this is a viable and competitive alternative transport arrangement?
I hole heartedly disagree with you, people are indeed being forced through these scanners.
There is no violation of privacy as far as laws are concerned. This has nothing to do with liberty, as any true Libertarian would tell you.
When ever I hear people spouting their gibberish reasons to protect these scanners, all I hear are terrorists laughing. It's strange that terrorists AND governments are sometimes in a win-win situation and make strange bedfellows. They both want to restrict your movement and slowly erode your freedoms. The real noodle shaker is being reminded who originally trained, funded and geared up many of these terrorists in the first place.
You know what would be a really easy target? That giant line right near the security checkpoint at the airport. A terrorist looking to kill a lot of people would probably choose that target over an airplane, we practically handed it over to them. Attacking security checkpoints is not exactly unheard of; it happens in the middle east fairly regularly.
Terrorists tried attacking the massive airport queues Glasgow. Unfortunately the car-bomb only set the terrorists on fire who then got beaten up by baggage handlers.
It is someone abusing their mod points to politely say 'I disagree' but lacking in a disagreement mod point they use the first -1 they can find which really shouldn't happen. Does not matter we think the comment is correct or incorrect, if one person thought it then likely many will and a polite reply to comment addressing the possible issue is far more mature.
Then again it seem the first few comments have to be one of three things to survive,
1) a screw the system and stick it to the man rally call, mention how evil x corporation is but say nothing bad about Apple or you will be buried faster than a (insert mildly humorous metaphor).
2) 3 pages of enlightening information, usually far more accurate and informative than the actual article.
3) A crap one liner pun sub par to the standards of the least reputable tabloid newspapers (this is all but guaranteed a 5 point mod 'Funny'.
Think they got a fair few bucks selling their UK venture to Carphone Warehouse back in the day when they were still fairly large and forcing their starter CD's on you when ever you bought anything larger than a penny sweet.
Try settings / about phone / system software updates and make sure the tick box is checked. There should also be an option to 'check now' (Not sure how different this method may be on other android phones but I'm hoping its just the same).
The problem is that the carriers sometimes lock out the updates until they can mess about with their own branding on it which can take months. One option is to remove the branding from your phone allowing you to update it yourself though this can be a somewhat technical process.
Apple is literally 3 times better at old software updates than everyone else who sells phones.
As I said before, please back up these claims. Without proof or some kind of source these could well just be figures plucked from thine own bunghole.
My partners android phone with Orange has been automatically updated to 2.2, why would carriers be supplying phones using android 1.5? Again back up your claims with evidence or a link to something other than ranting on a forum please.
When technology moves as fast as this, a 3 year cycle is still better than what many other manufacturers give us.
You say that 3 years before Apple technology is obsolete and basically abandoned by its manufacturer and pretend that its both acceptable and better than any other manufacturer? Please could you provide some kind of backup to this claim?
What is the point of this topic? Windows, Linux or any apple OS, none of these come with Flash pre-installed. So where is the news here? Is this another post by Steve trying to stir up the Adobe vs Mac debate in a desperate need for attention and more free publicity? Mr Jobs seems to be fast becoming the Paris Hilton of computing.
The documents reportedly also tell about incidents of torture by coalition forces, and of civilians being killed at checkpoints (for speeding to get their wife to the hospital). There is an incident described where a single terrorist on the roof of a building caused the military to obliterate the entire building and everyone in it (civilians).
Time to queue up the politicians whining about how evil it is releasing secrets about the torture and murder or civilians and at no time admitting the real evil was in the acts themselves.
Never put anything on Facebook that you would not tell your parents and your boss.
Being fired for content on my facebook account about my private life is just a labour saving service. It saves me the hassle of having of having to research if I'm working for snooping, big brother dickheads and then quitting.
The ban was 14 days for using 3rd party software that interfered with their product. They shouldn't have to waste manpower trying to figure out if they used the cheat in single player or multiplayer when they had their own cheat codes built in for single player anyway. Cheats have ruined a number of online experiences, I'm glad some companies actually take a stand against them.
Four letters you may hear around here that are rarely heeded, but RTFA!
The legal action was taken against 3 people selling cheats targeting the online version of the game, some of which were purely designed to 'destroy the Starcraft online experience.' Bearing in mind that these guys were making money selling these cheats. If this is not enough, exactly how far would these people need to go before you would actually feel legal action was justified?
The article and summary are alarmist, sensationalised and rather misleading. Firstly it seems that people caught cheating were actually only suspended for around 2 weeks and not actually 'banned'. The legal action was taken against people who were selling cheats designed to modify and in some cases actually destroy the online experience. Note the use of the word sell. So these kids are making money from screwing over honest players.
Personally I hope they nail these dorks to the wall, but in truth normally these cases end up in ever a fine for a company or a police caution at most for individuals, such as in November when a kid was arrested and cautioned for distributing malware designed to hijack Runescape accounts.
Some people enjoy competing with their friends and derive great satisfaction from winning games or hitting achievements that their friends cannot. It's just something optional that adds an extra dimension and re-playability to a game.
If cheaters can fraudulently devalue these achievements, why is this hard for so many here to grasp that some people might not be happy about that? Yes it may seem inane and pointless to you in much the same way that a local sports team comprised of people I have never met winning a league seems inane and pointless to me but at least I can try to understand why other people invest time and emotion in such things.
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Leaking gossip seems to me to be rather less likely to destabilise a region than unmanned drones killing women and children as by product of collateral damage.
how do you know lives haven't been put at risk? Are you privy to the vast intelligence network of people who keep you safe everyday?
Apparently anyone who reads wikileaks is privy to this information.
It is my opinion that the present practices of selling something almost everyone with a computer must have are unfair and against the common welfare. Microsoft lost an anti-trust case, but there was never any penalty.
794 million dollar fine in a media player anti trust case is hardly no penalty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_competition_case#Judgment
I agree with what you said about linux though. Its an operating system I have on dual boot that I cant make very much work in. I've tried 4 different media players but all are silent with mp3's (sound works in other things) and endless other little problems a new user like me had no idea to fix that finally drove me away from linux.
Probably 7 pages of rape allegations.
If something is on the internet, then doesn't that implicitly authorize access?
I hope not, my girlfriend is on the internet in the evenings.
Its because of men like this that future jars of fruit may contain the warning '' please do not try to forcibly remove the lid with a screw driver while holding this jar next to your eyeball ''.
But what is wrong with just slapping the cell phone driver with a huge fine and more importantly a 2 year ban on owning a cellphone with the option of a prison sentence should they decide to get one anyway? Severely punish the fools who are endangering other peoples lives instead of mildly punishing everyone.
No one is forcing you to go through a scanner but yourself.
That's hardly true. If it was one specific Airline that had the scanners then I would agree with you, but it not, it is the actual airports meaning you have no choice.
For example: If I wanted to travel from London to New York the options are a 300 pound flight taking around 7 hours or a trans-Atlantic ferry which taking 8 days and costing 1500 for a shared cabin or 2000 pounds for a single cabin. Are you seriously going to tell me me this is a viable and competitive alternative transport arrangement?
I hole heartedly disagree with you, people are indeed being forced through these scanners.
There is no violation of privacy as far as laws are concerned. This has nothing to do with liberty, as any true Libertarian would tell you.
When ever I hear people spouting their gibberish reasons to protect these scanners, all I hear are terrorists laughing. It's strange that terrorists AND governments are sometimes in a win-win situation and make strange bedfellows. They both want to restrict your movement and slowly erode your freedoms. The real noodle shaker is being reminded who originally trained, funded and geared up many of these terrorists in the first place.
You know what would be a really easy target? That giant line right near the security checkpoint at the airport. A terrorist looking to kill a lot of people would probably choose that target over an airplane, we practically handed it over to them. Attacking security checkpoints is not exactly unheard of; it happens in the middle east fairly regularly.
Terrorists tried attacking the massive airport queues Glasgow. Unfortunately the car-bomb only set the terrorists on fire who then got beaten up by baggage handlers.
Mods: How the hell is that offtopic?
It is someone abusing their mod points to politely say 'I disagree' but lacking in a disagreement mod point they use the first -1 they can find which really shouldn't happen. Does not matter we think the comment is correct or incorrect, if one person thought it then likely many will and a polite reply to comment addressing the possible issue is far more mature.
Then again it seem the first few comments have to be one of three things to survive,
1) a screw the system and stick it to the man rally call, mention how evil x corporation is but say nothing bad about Apple or you will be buried faster than a (insert mildly humorous metaphor).
2) 3 pages of enlightening information, usually far more accurate and informative than the actual article.
3) A crap one liner pun sub par to the standards of the least reputable tabloid newspapers (this is all but guaranteed a 5 point mod 'Funny'.
Think they got a fair few bucks selling their UK venture to Carphone Warehouse back in the day when they were still fairly large and forcing their starter CD's on you when ever you bought anything larger than a penny sweet.
Try settings / about phone / system software updates and make sure the tick box is checked. There should also be an option to 'check now' (Not sure how different this method may be on other android phones but I'm hoping its just the same).
The problem is that the carriers sometimes lock out the updates until they can mess about with their own branding on it which can take months. One option is to remove the branding from your phone allowing you to update it yourself though this can be a somewhat technical process.
Apple is literally 3 times better at old software updates than everyone else who sells phones.
As I said before, please back up these claims. Without proof or some kind of source these could well just be figures plucked from thine own bunghole.
My partners android phone with Orange has been automatically updated to 2.2, why would carriers be supplying phones using android 1.5? Again back up your claims with evidence or a link to something other than ranting on a forum please.
When technology moves as fast as this, a 3 year cycle is still better than what many other manufacturers give us.
You say that 3 years before Apple technology is obsolete and basically abandoned by its manufacturer and pretend that its both acceptable and better than any other manufacturer? Please could you provide some kind of backup to this claim?
What is the point of this topic? Windows, Linux or any apple OS, none of these come with Flash pre-installed. So where is the news here? Is this another post by Steve trying to stir up the Adobe vs Mac debate in a desperate need for attention and more free publicity? Mr Jobs seems to be fast becoming the Paris Hilton of computing.
HTML5 is coming
The end of the universe is also coming... eventually. But doesn't mean I'm going to start preparing for it just yet.
The documents reportedly also tell about incidents of torture by coalition forces, and of civilians being killed at checkpoints (for speeding to get their wife to the hospital). There is an incident described where a single terrorist on the roof of a building caused the military to obliterate the entire building and everyone in it (civilians).
Time to queue up the politicians whining about how evil it is releasing secrets about the torture and murder or civilians and at no time admitting the real evil was in the acts themselves.
Never put anything on Facebook that you would not tell your parents and your boss.
Being fired for content on my facebook account about my private life is just a labour saving service. It saves me the hassle of having of having to research if I'm working for snooping, big brother dickheads and then quitting.
The ban was 14 days for using 3rd party software that interfered with their product. They shouldn't have to waste manpower trying to figure out if they used the cheat in single player or multiplayer when they had their own cheat codes built in for single player anyway. Cheats have ruined a number of online experiences, I'm glad some companies actually take a stand against them.
Four letters you may hear around here that are rarely heeded, but RTFA!
The legal action was taken against 3 people selling cheats targeting the online version of the game, some of which were purely designed to 'destroy the Starcraft online experience.' Bearing in mind that these guys were making money selling these cheats. If this is not enough, exactly how far would these people need to go before you would actually feel legal action was justified?
The article and summary are alarmist, sensationalised and rather misleading. Firstly it seems that people caught cheating were actually only suspended for around 2 weeks and not actually 'banned'. The legal action was taken against people who were selling cheats designed to modify and in some cases actually destroy the online experience. Note the use of the word sell. So these kids are making money from screwing over honest players.
Personally I hope they nail these dorks to the wall, but in truth normally these cases end up in ever a fine for a company or a police caution at most for individuals, such as in November when a kid was arrested and cautioned for distributing malware designed to hijack Runescape accounts.
1) Don't allow imports from anyone who doesn't have a certain standard for environmental and labor laws.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/kyoto_protocol
Some people enjoy competing with their friends and derive great satisfaction from winning games or hitting achievements that their friends cannot. It's just something optional that adds an extra dimension and re-playability to a game.
If cheaters can fraudulently devalue these achievements, why is this hard for so many here to grasp that some people might not be happy about that? Yes it may seem inane and pointless to you in much the same way that a local sports team comprised of people I have never met winning a league seems inane and pointless to me but at least I can try to understand why other people invest time and emotion in such things.
Don't know how things work in the US but unless I am mistaken, in the UK WikiLeaks could sue them for libel.