While that may be true, but here in Mexico digital piracy is actually illegal, police do show up in places with high traffic of pirated software/music/games (here in Guadalajara, biggest place is "San Juan de Dios", I was actually once there when the police showed up), they do show in television how they burned down X tons of pirated material... and all those actions are pretty much worthless.
What's the problem with piracy here? I think that the prices are freaking high, legal nintendo games/consoles/accesories can get priced around twice it's price in USA, also a single Wii game usually cost more than what you get on minimal wage in a month.
Conroy expanded the list to block Adult R18+ and X18+ web sites, and this week said it would also block sites depicting drug use, crime, sex, cruelty, violence or "revolting and abhorrent phenomena" that "offend against the standards of morality".
So the filter would block the Internet?
If they applied the same filter to television, most channels would only display white noise.
Maybe so, but we could discuss what is the difference between free will and mental disorder. Where do we draw the line?
That's a pretty good point. Is having an auto-destructive personality a disease or just free will is something I don't have the information/training to determine, I think it could be something a profesional have to determine in a person basis. Determining what actually is a "normal and healthy" psique is seems to be heavily debated.
Take me as an example. I'm mildly overweight and absolutely don't care about being fit. Should I be given psychological help at somebody else's expense?
Well, if being mildly overweigth brings you aditional problems like self-steem issues, hearth problems, etc. (just heavy smokers have respirational problems, heavy drinkers have liber problems, junkies have... well health problems. That being the original scope 5 posts ago) then yes, go ahead and get psychological help with your medical insurance. If not, then being mildy overweigth is not being a problem, just like using drugs in a truly recreational way.
If you set your own house on fire deliberately and try to cash the insurance money, you're commiting a fraud.
However, if you are a notorius substance abuser, you most likely have a psychological problem behind it. You need medical help both for the consecuences of said substance abuse _and_ your mind problems, that's why I said that they need it more.
Im really interested in hearing your alternative to mandatory school, seriusly, no sarcasm (no personal attack eigther).
I live in what most people call a 3rd world country (but we are delusional about it and call it "In ways of development"), I'm currently aspiring for a master degree, have 10+ years of work experience, and I think that the biggest problem in this nation is not drug cartels, is the lack of education for the general public.
While the elementary education is mandatory by law, the reality is that just a tiny fraction of the population here actually learns to read and write. I agree that 10 years of education makes your mind work in a very "deterministic" way, but I can't imagine a worse way.
I use both Firefox and Opera, I actually prefer Opera, on every clean install the first thing I run is a FTP to ftp.opera.com to download a good browser without even having to launch IE.
Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig manage to sell Little Brother and Creative Commons despite the fact that you can download these books freely under a Creative Commons license.
Well, I agree on the "newspeak" view, however this is not new, just instead of direct censorship, it was in the form of "politically correct" word and phrases.
There are no bad words, just sometimes the _speaker_ intention is to offend, denigrate, attack, etc. the intended target,. It's not the word's fault, it's the speaker.
15 seconds samples aren't good enought to evaluate if a song is good or not. Nor all the free 15 samples for every song in the album can.
Downloading songs not only stopped me from not buying an album that is not good, it also incented me to buy the album if I liked them, I actually like the cd booklets, the stamped CD, etc. (i.e. the stuff I can actually touch) but I don't buy CDs because of that, I buy them because theres music I like there. I see that as a very good promotional tactic, more the song is heard, more CD/DVD/Concert tickets will be sold. If your content is good enought, the problem is not piratery, is obscurity.
Anyway, thats me, but I don't beleive in Imaginary Property, I cannot own a number, even if that number is 24 million bits long. (I code for living btw)
I usually go buy CDs of the stuff I like, however some times:
1) CD is never brought to the music stores (I don't live in the USA btw)
2) Importation prices are way much higher than the actual product.
3) I actually like to hear the music before buying it, downloading whole albums have prevented from buying albums that would been a waste of money. If an artist wants my money (whoa... artist do get money from their CDs? tought most of them went to the recording label) he/she better make a good album.
I think last year I downloaded around 2 or 3 CDs, while I bought around 10 or 12.
TFA mentions that the disks were erased sector by sector, not just a rm -rf / or a DELETE FROM users CASCADE; or something to that effect.
I remember a slashdot story about a guy sending hard disks to data recovery services, which were pretty much dealt with a dd if=/dev/zero of/dev/hda, and nobody claimed the "king of recovery" title yet.
[...] It was pictures of nursing that showed a nipple or areola. While this may not be obscene to an adult, it could be "obscene" for a kid-friendly website.
Did you know that most kids have sucked milk out of a nipple for quite some time?
You can't go anything more kid-friendly than that!
Level sync was introduced a couple updates ago, it basicly makes you able to sync down all your party (2 to 6 members, I never tried on alliance) to a level of one of them, even sync you down your weapon and equipment to fit the options for that level (which is great in rpinciple, but in reallitty is not that good, correct level equipment is usually better). You can basicly make a party from people with any level and just go level sync to the lowest member and have a good exp party.
Anyway, I havnet played in a month, work schedule and a new Wii may have something to do with it.
No, it's their fault to do bussiness with an untrustworthy CA, they should be the first ones asking for more security in the registration process or move their certificates to another CA who do things right.
Considering that they used the same registration method, they should had noticed that the process did not protect them from forgery.
I was going to coment that as well (and with pretty much the same wording), but after rereading TFA, I noticed that the coffins are more like "Green coffins WITH Peta messages and donation included" rather than just "PETA coffins"
Still, it makes no sence since metal is recyclable. Yet it's not very fast at biodegradation (sp?).
Well... mines do kill millions of canaries [citation needed] every year for just the trivial problem of just giving miners a better chance to survive. =P
Someone should start the PETP (People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants), those guys at PETA think that animals are superior beings than plants (and for that matter to humans as well) and they are freaking wrong, murdering innocent trees so they could bury their dead bodies is just plain stupid.
* No wood for coffins! cremate your body after you no longer need it (remember to do this in a facility where you can store the energy, a AA battery is more useful than a dead tree and a dead human decomposing in a soil that will never been planted with other than decorative grass)
* No dead trees for storing knowledge! eInk devices and public keys for all.
* Ban christmas trees!
* Ban vegetarianism! Plants are higher beeings and should not be consumend, they been in the earth for more time than vertebrate animals and they deserve to live fully.
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[...] so why do anti-abortion campaigners have to basically troll shock pictures to get their point across?
It's called Appealling to emotion.
While that may be true, but here in Mexico digital piracy is actually illegal, police do show up in places with high traffic of pirated software/music/games (here in Guadalajara, biggest place is "San Juan de Dios", I was actually once there when the police showed up), they do show in television how they burned down X tons of pirated material... and all those actions are pretty much worthless.
What's the problem with piracy here? I think that the prices are freaking high, legal nintendo games/consoles/accesories can get priced around twice it's price in USA, also a single Wii game usually cost more than what you get on minimal wage in a month.
So the filter would block the Internet?
If they applied the same filter to television, most channels would only display white noise.
Maybe so, but we could discuss what is the difference between free will and mental disorder. Where do we draw the line?
That's a pretty good point. Is having an auto-destructive personality a disease or just free will is something I don't have the information/training to determine, I think it could be something a profesional have to determine in a person basis. Determining what actually is a "normal and healthy" psique is seems to be heavily debated.
Take me as an example. I'm mildly overweight and absolutely don't care about being fit. Should I be given psychological help at somebody else's expense?
Well, if being mildly overweigth brings you aditional problems like self-steem issues, hearth problems, etc. (just heavy smokers have respirational problems, heavy drinkers have liber problems, junkies have... well health problems. That being the original scope 5 posts ago) then yes, go ahead and get psychological help with your medical insurance. If not, then being mildy overweigth is not being a problem, just like using drugs in a truly recreational way.
If you set your own house on fire deliberately and try to cash the insurance money, you're commiting a fraud.
However, if you are a notorius substance abuser, you most likely have a psychological problem behind it. You need medical help both for the consecuences of said substance abuse _and_ your mind problems, that's why I said that they need it more.
I may be wrong.
I do find it acceptable for the government to revoke health insurance of notorious substance abusers (including smokers and alcoholics), however.
You kidding? those are the guys who actually need it more. The onlyproblem is that only the consecuences are usually treated, not the root problems.
Im really interested in hearing your alternative to mandatory school, seriusly, no sarcasm (no personal attack eigther).
I live in what most people call a 3rd world country (but we are delusional about it and call it "In ways of development"), I'm currently aspiring for a master degree, have 10+ years of work experience, and I think that the biggest problem in this nation is not drug cartels, is the lack of education for the general public.
While the elementary education is mandatory by law, the reality is that just a tiny fraction of the population here actually learns to read and write. I agree that 10 years of education makes your mind work in a very "deterministic" way, but I can't imagine a worse way.
Maybe I'm wrong.
ftp, like in the good ol'days?
I use both Firefox and Opera, I actually prefer Opera, on every clean install the first thing I run is a FTP to ftp.opera.com to download a good browser without even having to launch IE.
Same can be done with Firefox: ftp.mozilla.org
Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig manage to sell Little Brother and Creative Commons despite the fact that you can download these books freely under a Creative Commons license.
FTFY
Well, I agree on the "newspeak" view, however this is not new, just instead of direct censorship, it was in the form of "politically correct" word and phrases.
There are no bad words, just sometimes the _speaker_ intention is to offend, denigrate, attack, etc. the intended target,. It's not the word's fault, it's the speaker.
15 seconds samples aren't good enought to evaluate if a song is good or not. Nor all the free 15 samples for every song in the album can.
Downloading songs not only stopped me from not buying an album that is not good, it also incented me to buy the album if I liked them, I actually like the cd booklets, the stamped CD, etc. (i.e. the stuff I can actually touch) but I don't buy CDs because of that, I buy them because theres music I like there. I see that as a very good promotional tactic, more the song is heard, more CD/DVD/Concert tickets will be sold. If your content is good enought, the problem is not piratery, is obscurity.
Anyway, thats me, but I don't beleive in Imaginary Property, I cannot own a number, even if that number is 24 million bits long. (I code for living btw)
I usually go buy CDs of the stuff I like, however some times:
1) CD is never brought to the music stores (I don't live in the USA btw)
2) Importation prices are way much higher than the actual product.
3) I actually like to hear the music before buying it, downloading whole albums have prevented from buying albums that would been a waste of money. If an artist wants my money (whoa... artist do get money from their CDs? tought most of them went to the recording label) he/she better make a good album.
I think last year I downloaded around 2 or 3 CDs, while I bought around 10 or 12.
[...] A thousand monkeys cannot duplicate the work created by a single author.
But an infinite number of monkeys can!
TFA mentions that the disks were erased sector by sector, not just a rm -rf / or a DELETE FROM users CASCADE; or something to that effect.
I remember a slashdot story about a guy sending hard disks to data recovery services, which were pretty much dealt with a dd if=/dev/zero of/dev/hda, and nobody claimed the "king of recovery" title yet.
Sorry for that >.>;;;
[...] It was pictures of nursing that showed a nipple or areola. While this may not be obscene to an adult, it could be "obscene" for a kid-friendly website.
Did you know that most kids have sucked milk out of a nipple for quite some time?
You can't go anything more kid-friendly than that!
Well, unless the 8000 leechers have just the same chucks of incomplete data it won't be a problem.
Even 8000 leechers and 0 seeders woundn't be a problem if you can complete the whole file with the chunks.
If enought people is downloading or seeding stuff, the bottleneck becomes your own bandwidth.
Level sync was introduced a couple updates ago, it basicly makes you able to sync down all your party (2 to 6 members, I never tried on alliance) to a level of one of them, even sync you down your weapon and equipment to fit the options for that level (which is great in rpinciple, but in reallitty is not that good, correct level equipment is usually better). You can basicly make a party from people with any level and just go level sync to the lowest member and have a good exp party.
Anyway, I havnet played in a month, work schedule and a new Wii may have something to do with it.
People define the language, the language doesn't define the people.
So, I take you haven't heard of the new edition of the newspeak dictionary?
Actually, according Google trends, thats a real treat in Norway and San Francisco, CA, USA.
No, it's their fault to do bussiness with an untrustworthy CA, they should be the first ones asking for more security in the registration process or move their certificates to another CA who do things right.
Considering that they used the same registration method, they should had noticed that the process did not protect them from forgery.
light blue pencil of death?
Well, the canary comment was tongle in cheek.
I was going to coment that as well (and with pretty much the same wording), but after rereading TFA, I noticed that the coffins are more like "Green coffins WITH Peta messages and donation included" rather than just "PETA coffins"
Still, it makes no sence since metal is recyclable. Yet it's not very fast at biodegradation (sp?).
Well... mines do kill millions of canaries [citation needed] every year for just the trivial problem of just giving miners a better chance to survive. =P
Someone should start the PETP (People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants), those guys at PETA think that animals are superior beings than plants (and for that matter to humans as well) and they are freaking wrong, murdering innocent trees so they could bury their dead bodies is just plain stupid.
* No wood for coffins! cremate your body after you no longer need it (remember to do this in a facility where you can store the energy, a AA battery is more useful than a dead tree and a dead human decomposing in a soil that will never been planted with other than decorative grass)
* No dead trees for storing knowledge! eInk devices and public keys for all.
* Ban christmas trees!
* Ban vegetarianism! Plants are higher beeings and should not be consumend, they been in the earth for more time than vertebrate animals and they deserve to live fully.
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