Not being optical fiber (which would make it much more expensive) and lack of text channel are issues alright. The rest are neither "yep" nor "nope"; they are optional.
This is an awesome solution compared to most countries where you are a thief if you make a mixed tape for a friend.
It's a rather common "solution" in the EU. But it isn't that awesome: copyright levies are so wrong, for so many reasons - for one, they violate presumption of innocence. We shouldn't have to choose between criminalized copying and copyright levies. We should consider abolishing the levy, like the Netherlands' government is doing, and that doesn't mean unlicensed copies have to become a "crime".
Can anybody please provide a source for the claim that DPI is illegal? Not saying I don't believe it, I just haven't been able to find a source.
I don't know about KPN's contract terms (never dealt with them), but does it state anything about VoIP? Like I said I am not familiar with KPN but I did use mobile data with Vodafone Netherlands and they clearly stated you were not allowed to tether or do VoIP. I occasionally did both, and worked flawlessly - what they did once do, and that was evil, was to eat my prepaid credit after I'd gone over some download limit - a totally arbitrary amount, not specified in the terms (they are more clear now). I'm all for Net Neutrality but it should be enforced by legislation so that kind of stuff can't make it to the contracts.
The only defense is to make government as weak/small as possible on the national Federal Government scale to make it necessary for a would-be briber to have to bribe many, many politicians & officials across the entire nation instead of a handful or one to have national effect.
You're right, but if only it were that easy. Unfortunately that requires many, many politicians & officials across the entire nation with hefty salaries to be covered by taxpayers.
We should all be politicians; then, a potential briber would have to bribe all of us.
And feasibility aside, the EU directive is indeed mind-bogglingly stupid. How do you even enforce that? It's not meant only for EU websites, but also, and primarily, for any user browsing from the EU. How do you check that? Ridiculously inaccurate IP geolocation? What about Tor, proxies, etc?
Misfueling a gasoline car with diesel and attempting to start it is probably an even worse idea than the opposite, totally fucking up the engine. After all, diesel engines run on stuff like biodiesel, which is pretty different from regular diesel.
It's not an either/or, you can have a user-friendly phone with advanced features
Even AT&T, whose GSM system in theory lets subscribers bring their own phone, still forces each subscriber to take a "free" phone whose price is included in the monthly bill instead of giving a discount on the monthly bill for not providing a phone.
I didn't have a problem to do exactly that with T-Mobile last November when I was in the US, but without buying a phone. I bought a standalone SIM card and put it into an Android phone I brought with me. At EDGE speeds and with a data plan that wasn't exactly cheap, but it worked with no hassle.
These prizes are pretty much a joke, as credible as Time's "Person of the Year". To culminate the silliness, they should give the prize to "You", like Time once did.
I basically agree but... <pedantry> Music is physical - it's waves, and it comes from external, "foreign" sources. It just comes through your ears as opposed to your mouth/noise/other orifices. </pedantry>
had acquired a round-up resistance trait, as have any number of weed species growing wild alongside roads in many places where canola is grown.
For a moment I must admit I had my doubts about that, having seen how that thing can wither a plant to death very quickly with just a few drops accidentally sprinkled (as opposed to much weaker herbicides such as gramoxone) and the fact that farmers usually use Round-up only to completely clear patches of land (or more recently, on those "round-up ready crops"), but damn that's right.
Not arguing that. I avoid IE whenever possible but I just find it funny how we don't miss a chance to take a dig at MS.
Amusingly enough, the link to the specification points to a page with a big warning reading "This version of the specification has been superceded!". How wise is it to spend time making a browser to implement a spec that changes so often? And complex apps that rely on it, for that matter?
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I also miss the days of BASIC on ROM!
(TFA says "Cut off from the World Wide Web", not from the Internet)
Not being optical fiber (which would make it much more expensive) and lack of text channel are issues alright. The rest are neither "yep" nor "nope"; they are optional.
This is an awesome solution compared to most countries where you are a thief if you make a mixed tape for a friend.
It's a rather common "solution" in the EU. But it isn't that awesome: copyright levies are so wrong, for so many reasons - for one, they violate presumption of innocence. We shouldn't have to choose between criminalized copying and copyright levies. We should consider abolishing the levy, like the Netherlands' government is doing, and that doesn't mean unlicensed copies have to become a "crime".
I was enjoying the green-text-on-black-screen nostalgia when suddenly this broadcast transported me back to 2011:
operator: Slashdotted..367 users, holy shit
Can anybody please provide a source for the claim that DPI is illegal? Not saying I don't believe it, I just haven't been able to find a source.
I don't know about KPN's contract terms (never dealt with them), but does it state anything about VoIP? Like I said I am not familiar with KPN but I did use mobile data with Vodafone Netherlands and they clearly stated you were not allowed to tether or do VoIP. I occasionally did both, and worked flawlessly - what they did once do, and that was evil, was to eat my prepaid credit after I'd gone over some download limit - a totally arbitrary amount, not specified in the terms (they are more clear now). I'm all for Net Neutrality but it should be enforced by legislation so that kind of stuff can't make it to the contracts.
The only defense is to make government as weak/small as possible on the national Federal Government scale to make it necessary for a would-be briber to have to bribe many, many politicians & officials across the entire nation instead of a handful or one to have national effect.
You're right, but if only it were that easy. Unfortunately that requires many, many politicians & officials across the entire nation with hefty salaries to be covered by taxpayers.
We should all be politicians; then, a potential briber would have to bribe all of us.
Me, running a BSD licensed OS?
I run GNU Hurd, you insensitive clod.
- rms
No, just trying to trademark the circumflex marked 'a'.
I was going to reply something along these lines.
And feasibility aside, the EU directive is indeed mind-bogglingly stupid. How do you even enforce that? It's not meant only for EU websites, but also, and primarily, for any user browsing from the EU. How do you check that? Ridiculously inaccurate IP geolocation? What about Tor, proxies, etc?
would this system be able to tell that it means exactly what it says?
Well, it'll never know if it doesn't try.
And a slap doesn't hurt a machine.
Yes.
Misfueling a gasoline car with diesel and attempting to start it is probably an even worse idea than the opposite, totally fucking up the engine.
After all, diesel engines run on stuff like biodiesel, which is pretty different from regular diesel.
Start with the pints, then everything else will begin to make a little sense
Start with the pints, then everything else will begin to make a little sense.
It's not an either/or, you can have a user-friendly phone with advanced features
Even AT&T, whose GSM system in theory lets subscribers bring their own phone, still forces each subscriber to take a "free" phone whose price is included in the monthly bill instead of giving a discount on the monthly bill for not providing a phone.
I didn't have a problem to do exactly that with T-Mobile last November when I was in the US, but without buying a phone. I bought a standalone SIM card and put it into an Android phone I brought with me. At EDGE speeds and with a data plan that wasn't exactly cheap, but it worked with no hassle.
These prizes are pretty much a joke, as credible as Time's "Person of the Year". To culminate the silliness, they should give the prize to "You", like Time once did.
They eat not only nectar but also sap which is fundamental to the life of the plant.
Plants are alive as well.
While males do not suck blood they "drain the life out of their victims" as much as females do.
"noise"?
*nose, of course
*facepalm*
I basically agree but...
<pedantry>
Music is physical - it's waves, and it comes from external, "foreign" sources. It just comes through your ears as opposed to your mouth/noise/other orifices.
</pedantry>
Yeah, cause it would make so much sense to make an antivirus for Windows 3.0...
Yeah that's right. Just run it under DOS 6.22, which comes with its own antivirus msav.exe.
Semantic quibble, which comes down to people's ability to asses risk.
Spelling quibble. Just couldn't help but assess as laughable.
had acquired a round-up resistance trait, as have any number of weed species growing wild alongside roads in many places where canola is grown.
For a moment I must admit I had my doubts about that, having seen how that thing can wither a plant to death very quickly with just a few drops accidentally sprinkled (as opposed to much weaker herbicides such as gramoxone) and the fact that farmers usually use Round-up only to completely clear patches of land (or more recently, on those "round-up ready crops"), but damn that's right.
Not arguing that. I avoid IE whenever possible but I just find it funny how we don't miss a chance to take a dig at MS.
Amusingly enough, the link to the specification points to a page with a big warning reading "This version of the specification has been superceded!". How wise is it to spend time making a browser to implement a spec that changes so often? And complex apps that rely on it, for that matter?