The stigma of being a "confidential informant" is quite hazardous. Why do you think there's a Witness Protection Program?
And yes, the only way to enforce laws effectively is for crimes to be reported effectively. It's unfortunate that so many people think that reporting a crime is cause for immediate public execution, but the attitude will be there so long as there is no effective punishment for violently repressing anyone willing to call 911.
My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Table? Of course the average laptop has more computing power than the average table. Have you even read the article yourself, CmdrTaco, or did you just look at the title like us Slashdotters?
What is this difference you speak of? They are the same for phones, for cable, for internet, for food, for everything. Major companies do not let other companies have a better price/product/quality of service if they can at all help it. This means that changes propagate throughout the market immediately, fast enough there is often no time to plan it out beforehand.
If company A and company B (and Company C, etc) produce the same product with the same quality for the same price, and any changes are mirrored immediately, as if they planned it out beforehand, they are de facto a price fixing consortium, a type of monopoly.
A company practicing what amounts to price fixing pays the government to ignore the fact it will become even more of a monopoly is our top story tonight. This story and more at 11.
You seem to think that Sony needs permission to harass people. That is hilarious, especially because at this rate they will sue for the identity of every person who has ever read an article critical of them so that they, too, may be harassed.
Protip: if Sony sues everyone even vaguely involved with a certain act, giving them a new list of people will result in more people being sued.
Being the largest search engine on the internet by the margin Google is means that it's the largest search engine for nearly EVERY category. Still, some engines were created for torrents, and Google wasn't.
When someone hacks CmdrTaco's account and posts something embarrassing using his name. I mean embarrassing enough we can tell it wasn't him, of course.
I'm fairly certain rooting your phone and installing a new OS removes most of those nice proprietary apps. That's part of why I rooted mine. The rest was to fix the bluetooth stack, but that hardly counts as spying.
The wheel of time turns, moving from one age to the next. History falls to myth, myth to legend, legend to half remembered tales spoken around the fire, and eventually, long after even that is forgotten, that age comes again.
If "an individual probably could produce one without prohibitive cost" what is stopping him from making the prototype and patenting it? Magic? The desire to use this argument to make your point? What?
No. I don't have to buy your inferior product. Neither does the rest of society. If your income depends on your skills at a certain task, like writing in this instance, you need to do a good job in order to make money. If you can't, that's what not being a writer is for.
What happens when the government mandates that the scarce yet valuable good is sold at an extreme loss as fast as possible? If the market were to decide how much helium cost, and not the government, a birthday balloon of helium would cost ~$200.
Surely, that is the way we are meant to use such scarce resources, right? Mandate they be sold at a 99% discount so we can empty our stockpile before 2012 and wonder why scientists can't get any?
Besides, you can probably use it to prove that coal plants emit more dangerous radiation than nuclear plants, and everyone knows that is a de facto illegal act. Just like being able to prove what the police actually did to you.
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Microsoft buys new laws to make it criminal to import parts from most of Asia, news at 11.
But can your iPhone survive the building it's in being blown up by an RPG? The original Gameboy has. It still plays Tetris to this day.
The stigma of being a "confidential informant" is quite hazardous. Why do you think there's a Witness Protection Program?
And yes, the only way to enforce laws effectively is for crimes to be reported effectively. It's unfortunate that so many people think that reporting a crime is cause for immediate public execution, but the attitude will be there so long as there is no effective punishment for violently repressing anyone willing to call 911.
ISPs and content providers compete to be paid for the same thing, news at 11. In other news, people still refuse to learn how to code effectively.
Tell that to the developers! Also the managers, so the developers can have a budget to do this!
Thanks for letting me know the Internet has been about to die since the year I was born. It's taking its sweet time, though.
You support my intranet worse than Firefox 3! Good work!
A blogger claims it's the end of the worl^H^H^H^Hinternet. More information and comparisons with similar claims dating back to 1995 at 11.
Our contributors never sully themselves with reading the article they are writing about, news at 11.
My $200 Laptop Can Beat Your $500 Table? Of course the average laptop has more computing power than the average table. Have you even read the article yourself, CmdrTaco, or did you just look at the title like us Slashdotters?
What is this difference you speak of? They are the same for phones, for cable, for internet, for food, for everything. Major companies do not let other companies have a better price/product/quality of service if they can at all help it. This means that changes propagate throughout the market immediately, fast enough there is often no time to plan it out beforehand.
If company A and company B (and Company C, etc) produce the same product with the same quality for the same price, and any changes are mirrored immediately, as if they planned it out beforehand, they are de facto a price fixing consortium, a type of monopoly.
A company practicing what amounts to price fixing pays the government to ignore the fact it will become even more of a monopoly is our top story tonight. This story and more at 11.
The PSP also has full-on 3D support for a number of games. You just need those stupid looking red and blue glasses and a modded PSP.
How is this company even worth $12 billion? Seriously, even first post at half off coupons aren't worth that.
You seem to think that Sony needs permission to harass people. That is hilarious, especially because at this rate they will sue for the identity of every person who has ever read an article critical of them so that they, too, may be harassed.
Protip: if Sony sues everyone even vaguely involved with a certain act, giving them a new list of people will result in more people being sued.
Because you want the latest DLC.
And you're an idiot.
Being the largest search engine on the internet by the margin Google is means that it's the largest search engine for nearly EVERY category. Still, some engines were created for torrents, and Google wasn't.
When someone hacks CmdrTaco's account and posts something embarrassing using his name. I mean embarrassing enough we can tell it wasn't him, of course.
This may be difficult, to be honest.
I'm fairly certain rooting your phone and installing a new OS removes most of those nice proprietary apps. That's part of why I rooted mine. The rest was to fix the bluetooth stack, but that hardly counts as spying.
The wheel of time turns, moving from one age to the next. History falls to myth, myth to legend, legend to half remembered tales spoken around the fire, and eventually, long after even that is forgotten, that age comes again.
Today the top story is things we've already reported on. In related news, movie theaters now want to get your cell number when you buy a movie ticket.
If "an individual probably could produce one without prohibitive cost" what is stopping him from making the prototype and patenting it? Magic? The desire to use this argument to make your point? What?
No. I don't have to buy your inferior product. Neither does the rest of society. If your income depends on your skills at a certain task, like writing in this instance, you need to do a good job in order to make money. If you can't, that's what not being a writer is for.
What happens when the government mandates that the scarce yet valuable good is sold at an extreme loss as fast as possible? If the market were to decide how much helium cost, and not the government, a birthday balloon of helium would cost ~$200.
Surely, that is the way we are meant to use such scarce resources, right? Mandate they be sold at a 99% discount so we can empty our stockpile before 2012 and wonder why scientists can't get any?
Besides, you can probably use it to prove that coal plants emit more dangerous radiation than nuclear plants, and everyone knows that is a de facto illegal act. Just like being able to prove what the police actually did to you.