It doesn't matter if the cap is Eleventy zillion GB. All that matters is that customers accept the idea of a cap, or a tiered usage system, or additional costs for exceeding a cap. Comcast will eventually lower the cap to the point where profit is maximized and "problem" customers like it or lump it.
There's no legal solution to this problem. Sure, you could force an employer to keep an employee, but who would want to work with an accused child molester? It's not fair, but humans will behave like humans and not always give someone the benefit of a doubt. How effective can an employee be with this kind of cloud hanging over their head? Is the employer just supposed to have the accused employee sit in a room by himself until the trial is over?
Right on. The article is filled with demonstrably false assumptions and conclusions.
In criticizing the arguments for the warrantless surveillance program, the EFF lawyer claims the US is "far from the military theater". Well 9/11 was an attack on US soil, so where does the EFF think the "military theater" is? The warrantless surveillance program was specifically designed to prevent an attack on US soil by non-US citizens.
Regime change was the official policy of the Clinton Administration.
And ya might want to read this. Gore's statements about Iraq in the wake of 9/11. The money shot: "As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table".
I do think Gore would have been better at forming a broader coalition. Democrats are better at making back-room deals, knowing how the grease the wheels. It comes from their dedication to the culture of bureaucracy.
The Iraqis have an opportunity to join modern nations with a functioning democracy - they are moving closer to being a modern democracy like Turkey every day. Still a long way away, but clearly a better situation that having Saddam or one of his psychopathic sons in charge, likely for the next half-century.
But I guess all you care about is your own green grass.
Good. It's not the obligation of states to honor international law. That's the responsibility of the Feds. And the Feds responsibility to keep the states in line, provided the issue at hand is a legitimate area of federal jurisdiction.
That is, unless you want the states to be able to negotiate their own treaties with foreign governments, which is currently forbidden in the Constitution.
It's a result of our 2 party system. Each party has about 30% of the population that are party loyalists, the rest are moderates who vote based on which way they think the country is going.
However, moderates aren't inclined to protest anything because they lack the passion of a loyalist, someone with a viewpoint and a system to protect.
So the only people who protest are loyalists, and in the US it's only leftists who think protesting actually does any good.
And protests in Europe only cause new elections to be held because the smaller parties that make up ruling coalitions will remove their support from the govt if they believe they are losing support from their party members because they are aligned with an unpopular govt. So the collapse of govt's in Europe aren't caused by something as noble as popular outrage, they are caused by partisan party self-preservation.
Frankly, I prefer the US system to a system like Italy, where the govt collapses at the drop of a hat.
Given that so much of the current administration is involved in cover ups and lies to the American public
I just want you to know your post sounded interesting, but I didn't make it past this sentence. If you are actually trying to win minds over to your viewpoint, all these types of statements do is ruin your case up front and ensure that your post is only preaching to the choir. If that's what you want, fine for you, but seriously, why bother?
It's funny, because, the most pre-eminent security guy in the USA, Bruce Schneir, who wrote THE book on cryptography, actually leaves his home WAP open so that people can squat on it. He thinks that if we all had our own open WAPS, we could all sorta squat on each other's wans, be much more effective as a society overall. Really, what this law is is an attempt to criminalize a culture of sharing.
The "culture of sharing" would eventually turn into a "culture of snooping" and "culture of freeloaders", all of which is a shockingly good description of communism, except the communists take you out and shoot you or re-educate you when you get caught.
The fact that you've been modded 4, Insightful for your rude and insulting comments says much about the typical Slashdot reader.
Now, to address the problem of "what the fuck is up with the UK these days", it's nothing new. The leftist movement of placing the collective above the individual is bearing the fascist fruit we in the US always knew it would. Most people do not understand that fascism is neither left nor right, only the motivation in moving towards fascism is left or right.
True, the few wealthy Palestinians fled (the landowners), hoping Arab armies would be able to defeat the approaching Israeli army, but most Palestinians lived in slums and only fled when the Israeli forces approached their cities or drove them out. Both sides engaged in atrocities (and even more propaganda). Of course, this had been going on for centuries but most people just talk about the bad stuff the OTHER side did.
The Palestinian collaboration with Egypt in 1948 wasn't what pissed the Israelis off - it was the wider Arab collaboration with the Nazis during WWII. When WWII concluded and the Israelis were able to secure arms from Soviet sources (not to mention a huge influx of pissed off European Jews), it was payback time. The Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem was instrumental in banning the immigration of German Jews to the Palestinian Mandate during WWII, and so was directly responsible for the murder of thousands of German Jews during the Holocaust.
The fact that this information can be found via audits and released publicly signals that our system of government is working pretty well. An effective executive branch (one that can actually protect the innocent) requires some power to operate; that power will be mishandled because the people wielding it are human, meaning they are lazy, incompetent, unfocused. In some cases they may be malicious, but this is a worry for anyone wielding any power anywhere, from prosecutors to defense lawyers to legislators to judges to policemen to presidents.
There's another side to the Galileo debate - that he was the victim of a political persecution by fellow scientists who felt Galileo was making fools out of them. It was they, not the church, who put forward the idea that Heliocentrism would lead to sun worship. Galileo kept much of his research secret not because he feared the Church, but because he feared the rebuke of his fellow scientists.
Programmed cell death happens in cells that are ready to die because they have become damaged or non-functional in some way. If you stop this natural mechanism you won't get immortality, you get a body that dies much faster, probably within weeks.
This is great news. The federal courts shouldn't be used as a fishing hole for every citizen who imagines they've been spied on or desires to expose state secrets. Our enemies want to destroy our way of life, let's not hand them the knife and stretch our throats.
Firstly, the level of many of the posts here, the reflexive and snide referral to the principles of atmospheric science as religion indicate to me that an increasingly large group in society are hostile to science. Here is a New York Times article [nytimes.com] that argues just that, that there is a rising tide of anti-intellectualism building in America today.
You could make that case if society knew what scientists were saying. Unfortunately everything the public hears is filtered through politicians and journalists, both of who muck the issue up with fear-mongering and finger-pointing. Society just doesn't trust them - and they shouldn't.
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It doesn't matter if the cap is Eleventy zillion GB. All that matters is that customers accept the idea of a cap, or a tiered usage system, or additional costs for exceeding a cap. Comcast will eventually lower the cap to the point where profit is maximized and "problem" customers like it or lump it.
"Bolivian Oil Fields". Right.
I suspect they are there to assist with anti-terrorism activities in the the remote tri-border area in southern Brazil.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/pdf-files/TerrOrgCrime_TBA.pdf
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0PBZ/is_5_84/ai_n7069238
It must be press release Tuesday at Slashdot.
There's no legal solution to this problem. Sure, you could force an employer to keep an employee, but who would want to work with an accused child molester? It's not fair, but humans will behave like humans and not always give someone the benefit of a doubt. How effective can an employee be with this kind of cloud hanging over their head? Is the employer just supposed to have the accused employee sit in a room by himself until the trial is over?
Right on. The article is filled with demonstrably false assumptions and conclusions.
In criticizing the arguments for the warrantless surveillance program, the EFF lawyer claims the US is "far from the military theater". Well 9/11 was an attack on US soil, so where does the EFF think the "military theater" is? The warrantless surveillance program was specifically designed to prevent an attack on US soil by non-US citizens.
I'm not so sure.
Regime change was the official policy of the Clinton Administration.
And ya might want to read this. Gore's statements about Iraq in the wake of 9/11. The money shot: "As far as I am concerned, a final reckoning with that government should be on the table".
I do think Gore would have been better at forming a broader coalition. Democrats are better at making back-room deals, knowing how the grease the wheels. It comes from their dedication to the culture of bureaucracy.
The Iraqis have an opportunity to join modern nations with a functioning democracy - they are moving closer to being a modern democracy like Turkey every day. Still a long way away, but clearly a better situation that having Saddam or one of his psychopathic sons in charge, likely for the next half-century.
But I guess all you care about is your own green grass.
It's not anti-muslim, it's anti-Koran, particularly the anti-gay, anti-women, and pro-violence parts.
Good. It's not the obligation of states to honor international law. That's the responsibility of the Feds. And the Feds responsibility to keep the states in line, provided the issue at hand is a legitimate area of federal jurisdiction.
That is, unless you want the states to be able to negotiate their own treaties with foreign governments, which is currently forbidden in the Constitution.
The inventor of 2 cans and a string could not be reached for comment.
Network Solutions has no problem with Hizbollah
http://english.hizbollah.org/index.php
WHOIS:
https://my.mirahost.com/order/viewwhois.php?domain=hizbollah&ext=org
My opinion is much of this cowardliness is bought by Saudi oil money, which is everywhere in our universities and financial institutions.
So it's not just fear or reprisal from growing Muslim populations in Europe (no doubt that's a factor) - it's our governments and media being bought.
Are the other Abrahamic religions a threat to peace and stability in the Netherlands, or Europe and liberal democracy at large?
Maybe he wants to expose something he sees as a threat, rather than attack "problems" in a religious faith.
You're assuming he's an anti-religious bigot, which he is not - if you knew anything about him, you would know that.
He's not trying to make the type of film you accuse him of.
It's a result of our 2 party system. Each party has about 30% of the population that are party loyalists, the rest are moderates who vote based on which way they think the country is going.
However, moderates aren't inclined to protest anything because they lack the passion of a loyalist, someone with a viewpoint and a system to protect.
So the only people who protest are loyalists, and in the US it's only leftists who think protesting actually does any good.
And protests in Europe only cause new elections to be held because the smaller parties that make up ruling coalitions will remove their support from the govt if they believe they are losing support from their party members because they are aligned with an unpopular govt. So the collapse of govt's in Europe aren't caused by something as noble as popular outrage, they are caused by partisan party self-preservation.
Frankly, I prefer the US system to a system like Italy, where the govt collapses at the drop of a hat.
Given that so much of the current administration is involved in cover ups and lies to the American public
I just want you to know your post sounded interesting, but I didn't make it past this sentence. If you are actually trying to win minds over to your viewpoint, all these types of statements do is ruin your case up front and ensure that your post is only preaching to the choir. If that's what you want, fine for you, but seriously, why bother?
It's funny, because, the most pre-eminent security guy in the USA, Bruce Schneir, who wrote THE book on cryptography, actually leaves his home WAP open so that people can squat on it. He thinks that if we all had our own open WAPS, we could all sorta squat on each other's wans, be much more effective as a society overall. Really, what this law is is an attempt to criminalize a culture of sharing.
The "culture of sharing" would eventually turn into a "culture of snooping" and "culture of freeloaders", all of which is a shockingly good description of communism, except the communists take you out and shoot you or re-educate you when you get caught.
The fact that you've been modded 4, Insightful for your rude and insulting comments says much about the typical Slashdot reader.
Now, to address the problem of "what the fuck is up with the UK these days", it's nothing new. The leftist movement of placing the collective above the individual is bearing the fascist fruit we in the US always knew it would. Most people do not understand that fascism is neither left nor right, only the motivation in moving towards fascism is left or right.
True, the few wealthy Palestinians fled (the landowners), hoping Arab armies would be able to defeat the approaching Israeli army, but most Palestinians lived in slums and only fled when the Israeli forces approached their cities or drove them out. Both sides engaged in atrocities (and even more propaganda). Of course, this had been going on for centuries but most people just talk about the bad stuff the OTHER side did.
The Palestinian collaboration with Egypt in 1948 wasn't what pissed the Israelis off - it was the wider Arab collaboration with the Nazis during WWII. When WWII concluded and the Israelis were able to secure arms from Soviet sources (not to mention a huge influx of pissed off European Jews), it was payback time. The Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem was instrumental in banning the immigration of German Jews to the Palestinian Mandate during WWII, and so was directly responsible for the murder of thousands of German Jews during the Holocaust.
The fact that this information can be found via audits and released publicly signals that our system of government is working pretty well. An effective executive branch (one that can actually protect the innocent) requires some power to operate; that power will be mishandled because the people wielding it are human, meaning they are lazy, incompetent, unfocused. In some cases they may be malicious, but this is a worry for anyone wielding any power anywhere, from prosecutors to defense lawyers to legislators to judges to policemen to presidents.
There's another side to the Galileo debate - that he was the victim of a political persecution by fellow scientists who felt Galileo was making fools out of them. It was they, not the church, who put forward the idea that Heliocentrism would lead to sun worship. Galileo kept much of his research secret not because he feared the Church, but because he feared the rebuke of his fellow scientists.
Read here:
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/scheiner.html
Also read this excerpt from Columbia Humanities Professor Robert Nisbet:
http://www.bible-researcher.com/nisbet1.html
Ian Lamont doesn't seem to understand the law...of diminishing returns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns
It's applicable to all economies, capitalist or otherwise.
Programmed cell death happens in cells that are ready to die because they have become damaged or non-functional in some way. If you stop this natural mechanism you won't get immortality, you get a body that dies much faster, probably within weeks.
one of the most skilled active phreakers alive.
Has anyone seen an active phreaker who is also dead? That really would be impressive.
Mark Klein is not a hero and does not deserve an award.
He did not uncover any wrongdoing, but assumed the worst based on a very limited set of information.
He also did not divulge his knowledge of "secret rooms" at AT&T until after his retirement. Real brave!
And reading his statements on the matter reveal someone whose been grinding the Bush ax for a long time.
This is great news. The federal courts shouldn't be used as a fishing hole for every citizen who imagines they've been spied on or desires to expose state secrets. Our enemies want to destroy our way of life, let's not hand them the knife and stretch our throats.
Firstly, the level of many of the posts here, the reflexive and snide referral to the principles of atmospheric science as religion indicate to me that an increasingly large group in society are hostile to science. Here is a New York Times article [nytimes.com] that argues just that, that there is a rising tide of anti-intellectualism building in America today.
You could make that case if society knew what scientists were saying. Unfortunately everything the public hears is filtered through politicians and journalists, both of who muck the issue up with fear-mongering and finger-pointing. Society just doesn't trust them - and they shouldn't.