Also China called, and as one of the world's largest economies and one of the fastest growing over recent decades, they would like to know how you justify saying Communism hasn't "worked" anywhere in the world.
I personally wouldn't want to see communism implemented in my country, but I don't see how you can say Communism (of any description) hasn't worked anywhere in the world unless your definition of worked means something like "fits inside my personal current paradigm / comfort zone".
"I'm pretty confident it's covered by the EULA..."
I'm afraid that's no excuse for deleting someone's property.
EULA should never be sufficient to bind someone to this kind of agreement in practice. Explicit consent to this specific provision should be required, or better yet deletion should require end-user authorisation at time of deletion (so the user knows what is being deleted).
It freaks me out when real life starts heading towards parody to this extent:
https://youtu.be/sglZGSwK6ow
Just to back up CanHasDIY:
"In recent years we have seen a variety of measures introduced that undermine the right to protest and freedom of speech.
Laws intended to combat anti-social behaviour, terrorism and serious crime are routinely used against legitimate protesters.
Broadly drafted anti-terrorism offences of 'encouragement' and 'glorification' of terrorism threaten to make careless talk a crime.
Membership of certain organisations can be banned under anti-terror laws even if the organisation is non-violent and political.
Hate speech laws have been extended in a piecemeal way to ban ever-expanding categories of speech.
Broad anti-terrorism powers of stop and search have been used to harass and stifle peaceful protesters.
Protest around Parliament has been severely restricted by laws limiting and overly regulating the right to assemble and protest around Parliament."
Source: http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/free-speech/
I'm not saying I don't think it is a serious violation of human rights, only that it probably has limited practical implications for me.
There always differences, also in healthcare, but given that I'm not poor or ill, it'll probably have few implications for me.
In the UK, it is illegal to share internet without mandatory log in (registration can be free, but it *must* be required for the operator to stay out of trouble).
If registration were not required by law, I would be sharing my access already. Given that registration is "required to be required", and given that it is complex for a part-time geek such as myself to set up a registration system, I don't make the extra effort to share.
I do think, though, that there are plenty of people like myself who would be happy to share without setting up registration if they weren't then subject to prosecution.
90% of tablets not having features isn't trying to imply that they will have 90% market share
Aside from that, it could well end up with 10% share if they get it right. Business users. Microsoft office won't run on any other OS, and the tablet alternatives suck (I know, it's probably MS's fault they suck due to ever-changing standards, but that doesn't change the fact that for a business user, they suck).
Like your kids, I almost exclusively use cheap or very old PSUs. Sure, sometimes they blow up or cause instability, but when they work it's beautifully cheap. Same with RAM. Sometimes you get unlucky, but a lot of the time you don't need to spend a fortune. As long as you don't go *rock* bottom, they tend to work fine.
Like hard drives though, they should be viewed as a "consumable" item.
"Up to 150 Mbps download speed available in select areas
Up to 10 Mbps upload speed available in select areas
250 GB monthly usage allowance
9 Emails and a suite of options
$122.99 per month"
(Note: this indeed appears to be for regular (wired) internet access, not mobile broadband)
So yes, it would probably take longer than 24 hours to use this up, but a 250gb limit is ridiculous for your fastest and most expensive package. In the UK, ISPs such as Sky or BT provide unthrottled access for c. £25 + £15 line rental per month; you can easily download more than 250gb using one of those puny 20Mbit ADSL connections (which in reality probably means
It's not water or oxygen, but it does enable a lot of cool things, and there's no reason for it to be so expensive compared to other Western nations.
There's trouble (a parking ticket with a $100 fine) and then there's trouble
The burden of proof for the latter (or any other life-ruining penalty) should be much higher. This is not proportionate, even if it is proven that she did it herself.
Blaming her for negligence doesn't make sense. IANAL, but poor / no security (e.g. a failure to encrypt an internet connection or encrypting it with WEP, leaving a car unlocked that is subsequently used to commit a crime etc.) is not an act of negligence that should result in penalties such as these in any rational legal system.
If anyone disagrees, can they please represent me against Sony for exposing my credit card details (as part of the PSN hack)?
In case you're interested (I was) -
"The most valuable banknotes in current circulation are:
10,000 Singapore Dollar note (US$7,900)
1,000 Swiss Franc note (US$1,000)
1,000 Singapore Dollar note (US$790)
500 Euro note (US$610)"
I'm not shocked or disgusted, but I am rather excited. I have the Transformer, and its one big shortcoming for me is the lack of 3G. A high-end LTE version sounds awesome. Number of cores be damned.
Next on my wishlist: better support for Office documents and shared calendars
Does this mean I don't get to be classified as a "bleeding-edge technophile"?
The poster specifically mentions that it is the first time it has been captured with respect to *a wild fish*, so your experience isn't really a counter-example.
Having said that, if it is observed independently (as opposed to being trained behavior) in captive animals, I guess it is not a huge surprise that it occurs in the wild too.
That would be an interesting way for a single party to take down bitcoin - not through a technical issue / via the peer-to-peer infrastructure, but rather by creating a run on the currency by stealing a large chunk (from compromised miners' computers) and selling it on the open market.
This is a threat that will always be there, and it will mean that things that are sold for bitcoin will likely always be priced in dollars (or some other benchmark currency) to sidestep the volatility of a market that can be cornered so easily by a single party.
I would have thought that calling corporations "pseudo-government" was a bit of paranoia showing through what is (whether correct or not) an otherwise relatively rational argument, but with the Wikileaks fiasco (and in particular, the "voluntary" embargoes enforced by Amazon, Paypal/eBay, Visa, Mastercard and others) perhaps it is me being naive rather than you being paranoid...
Mea culpa - I had thought that the AC parent was referring to the rate of GDP growth as being GDP, but in fact of course you are right and he/she could well have been referring to the fact that GDP itself is an increase year-over-year
You are referring to the rate of growth of GDP, which is often quoted in news reports, but is not the same thing as GDP itself (which is, as per the usage of the person posting above, an absolute amount rather than a rate).
Also, if I read the above correctly, 10% is the percentage of the value of all assets, rather than just cash.
" I see this as adequate “backup” for stuff that is replaceable (the large portion of my media is rips of DVDs I own... so although it would be a huge pain in the ass to re-rip them all... it’s not impossible)"
RAID is NOT a backup solution. Ever. I have twice (once on RAID 6 and once on RAID 5) had logical device filesystem issues that were completely unrelated to any particular physical drive, and could not therefore be fixed by replacing one or more drives.
You think that your media rips are replaceable, but with "about 6TB of data" (most of which is likely to be video content I assume) I assure you that when your drive fails and you're faced with re-ripping them, you'll find that "theoretically replaceable" is not the same as "feasibly replaceable".
Oh, and BTW if you do decide to continue without backups (or even if you do create backups) I recommend running a torrent client (even if not connected to the internet) as a way of creating and managing checksums for files - torrents are a great way to identify file corruption. I had a RAID failure where about 30% of my files lost random parts of their data, and having torrents for those files really would have helped! (no way of knowing what video file is corrupt and what's not otherwise except by watching it all).
Yes, there are other ways to calculate checksums, but torrents are easy, visual etc. In fact, torrents in general would probably have been a better solution than ripping (provided you own the DVDs!!) because then the torrent client would have just identified any inconsistencies and re-downloaded those parts of those files where corruption had occurred, thereby avoiding having to go through the soul-destroying process of trying to manually check and identify what had been corrupted and re-ripping / converting the entire file in each case.
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Mod up parent - excellent point
Also China called, and as one of the world's largest economies and one of the fastest growing over recent decades, they would like to know how you justify saying Communism hasn't "worked" anywhere in the world.
I personally wouldn't want to see communism implemented in my country, but I don't see how you can say Communism (of any description) hasn't worked anywhere in the world unless your definition of worked means something like "fits inside my personal current paradigm / comfort zone".
"Warns in the ToS..."
That's no excuse - deleting my stuff should require explicit permission at time of deletion for the specific files it wants to delete.
Otherwise we're heading for the era of the HumaniCentiPad:
htps://youtu.be/sglZGSwK6ow
"I'm pretty confident it's covered by the EULA..." I'm afraid that's no excuse for deleting someone's property. EULA should never be sufficient to bind someone to this kind of agreement in practice. Explicit consent to this specific provision should be required, or better yet deletion should require end-user authorisation at time of deletion (so the user knows what is being deleted). It freaks me out when real life starts heading towards parody to this extent: https://youtu.be/sglZGSwK6ow
If that is true, mod parent up!
Just to back up CanHasDIY:
"In recent years we have seen a variety of measures introduced that undermine the right to protest and freedom of speech.
Laws intended to combat anti-social behaviour, terrorism and serious crime are routinely used against legitimate protesters.
Broadly drafted anti-terrorism offences of 'encouragement' and 'glorification' of terrorism threaten to make careless talk a crime.
Membership of certain organisations can be banned under anti-terror laws even if the organisation is non-violent and political.
Hate speech laws have been extended in a piecemeal way to ban ever-expanding categories of speech.
Broad anti-terrorism powers of stop and search have been used to harass and stifle peaceful protesters.
Protest around Parliament has been severely restricted by laws limiting and overly regulating the right to assemble and protest around Parliament."
Source: http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/free-speech/
It's really quite scary...
I'm not saying I don't think it is a serious violation of human rights, only that it probably has limited practical implications for me. There always differences, also in healthcare, but given that I'm not poor or ill, it'll probably have few implications for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
I suspect the (very valid) reason they have withdrawal limits on exchanges is to provide some level of security; with withdrawal limits, they can limit the damage that a nefarious user can inflict upon the rest of the exchange's users by rolling back transactions. See https://support.mtgox.com/entries/20224998-Huge-Bitcoin-sell-off-due-to-a-compromised-account-rollback
I disagree.
In the UK, it is illegal to share internet without mandatory log in (registration can be free, but it *must* be required for the operator to stay out of trouble).
If registration were not required by law, I would be sharing my access already. Given that registration is "required to be required", and given that it is complex for a part-time geek such as myself to set up a registration system, I don't make the extra effort to share.
I do think, though, that there are plenty of people like myself who would be happy to share without setting up registration if they weren't then subject to prosecution.
90% of tablets not having features isn't trying to imply that they will have 90% market share
Aside from that, it could well end up with 10% share if they get it right. Business users. Microsoft office won't run on any other OS, and the tablet alternatives suck (I know, it's probably MS's fault they suck due to ever-changing standards, but that doesn't change the fact that for a business user, they suck).
Like your kids, I almost exclusively use cheap or very old PSUs. Sure, sometimes they blow up or cause instability, but when they work it's beautifully cheap. Same with RAM. Sometimes you get unlucky, but a lot of the time you don't need to spend a fortune. As long as you don't go *rock* bottom, they tend to work fine.
Like hard drives though, they should be viewed as a "consumable" item.
http://www.rogers.com/web/link/hispeedBrowseFlowDefaultPlans
"Up to 150 Mbps download speed available in select areas
Up to 10 Mbps upload speed available in select areas
250 GB monthly usage allowance
9 Emails and a suite of options
$122.99 per month"
(Note: this indeed appears to be for regular (wired) internet access, not mobile broadband)
So yes, it would probably take longer than 24 hours to use this up, but a 250gb limit is ridiculous for your fastest and most expensive package. In the UK, ISPs such as Sky or BT provide unthrottled access for c. £25 + £15 line rental per month; you can easily download more than 250gb using one of those puny 20Mbit ADSL connections (which in reality probably means
It's not water or oxygen, but it does enable a lot of cool things, and there's no reason for it to be so expensive compared to other Western nations.
There's trouble (a parking ticket with a $100 fine) and then there's trouble
The burden of proof for the latter (or any other life-ruining penalty) should be much higher. This is not proportionate, even if it is proven that she did it herself.
Blaming her for negligence doesn't make sense. IANAL, but poor / no security (e.g. a failure to encrypt an internet connection or encrypting it with WEP, leaving a car unlocked that is subsequently used to commit a crime etc.) is not an act of negligence that should result in penalties such as these in any rational legal system.
If anyone disagrees, can they please represent me against Sony for exposing my credit card details (as part of the PSN hack)?
Companies should just do kickstarter drives for linux ports of their games!
Jeeze - 500 Euro note then...
In case you're interested (I was) - "The most valuable banknotes in current circulation are:
10,000 Singapore Dollar note (US$7,900)
1,000 Swiss Franc note (US$1,000)
1,000 Singapore Dollar note (US$790)
500 Euro note (US$610)"
Source - http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_Highest_value_banknote_in_current_general_circulation_in_the_world#ixzz20txaZw4t
Note: figures are re-converted at today's rates, rounded to 2 significant figures
iTunes Store and DRM-free music: What you need to know
I'm not shocked or disgusted, but I am rather excited. I have the Transformer, and its one big shortcoming for me is the lack of 3G. A high-end LTE version sounds awesome. Number of cores be damned.
Next on my wishlist: better support for Office documents and shared calendars
Does this mean I don't get to be classified as a "bleeding-edge technophile"?
"technology transfer without payment of licenses or such. We like free as in freedom, thank you very much..."
Sounds as if you like free as in beer too...
mmmm... sandwich in little triangles
The poster specifically mentions that it is the first time it has been captured with respect to *a wild fish*, so your experience isn't really a counter-example. Having said that, if it is observed independently (as opposed to being trained behavior) in captive animals, I guess it is not a huge surprise that it occurs in the wild too.
That would be an interesting way for a single party to take down bitcoin - not through a technical issue / via the peer-to-peer infrastructure, but rather by creating a run on the currency by stealing a large chunk (from compromised miners' computers) and selling it on the open market. This is a threat that will always be there, and it will mean that things that are sold for bitcoin will likely always be priced in dollars (or some other benchmark currency) to sidestep the volatility of a market that can be cornered so easily by a single party.
I would have thought that calling corporations "pseudo-government" was a bit of paranoia showing through what is (whether correct or not) an otherwise relatively rational argument, but with the Wikileaks fiasco (and in particular, the "voluntary" embargoes enforced by Amazon, Paypal/eBay, Visa, Mastercard and others) perhaps it is me being naive rather than you being paranoid...
Mea culpa - I had thought that the AC parent was referring to the rate of GDP growth as being GDP, but in fact of course you are right and he/she could well have been referring to the fact that GDP itself is an increase year-over-year
"Gross domestic product (GDP) refers to the market value of all goods and services produced within a country in a given period." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
You are referring to the rate of growth of GDP, which is often quoted in news reports, but is not the same thing as GDP itself (which is, as per the usage of the person posting above, an absolute amount rather than a rate).
Also, if I read the above correctly, 10% is the percentage of the value of all assets, rather than just cash.
" I see this as adequate “backup” for stuff that is replaceable (the large portion of my media is rips of DVDs I own... so although it would be a huge pain in the ass to re-rip them all... it’s not impossible)"
RAID is NOT a backup solution. Ever. I have twice (once on RAID 6 and once on RAID 5) had logical device filesystem issues that were completely unrelated to any particular physical drive, and could not therefore be fixed by replacing one or more drives.
You think that your media rips are replaceable, but with "about 6TB of data" (most of which is likely to be video content I assume) I assure you that when your drive fails and you're faced with re-ripping them, you'll find that "theoretically replaceable" is not the same as "feasibly replaceable".
Oh, and BTW if you do decide to continue without backups (or even if you do create backups) I recommend running a torrent client (even if not connected to the internet) as a way of creating and managing checksums for files - torrents are a great way to identify file corruption. I had a RAID failure where about 30% of my files lost random parts of their data, and having torrents for those files really would have helped! (no way of knowing what video file is corrupt and what's not otherwise except by watching it all).
Yes, there are other ways to calculate checksums, but torrents are easy, visual etc. In fact, torrents in general would probably have been a better solution than ripping (provided you own the DVDs!!) because then the torrent client would have just identified any inconsistencies and re-downloaded those parts of those files where corruption had occurred, thereby avoiding having to go through the soul-destroying process of trying to manually check and identify what had been corrupted and re-ripping / converting the entire file in each case.