It's actually amusing playing "spot the parent" when reading these posts. You can clearly see a lot of the respondents don't have kids of their own - it shines through loud and clear in the idealistic liberalism of their posts.
I'm pretty new at parenting (my kids are 3 and 1.5 years old) but I can tell you it's one of those life-altering events that swings your politics violently to the right!
No matter how hard you try as a parent, you still have very little "face time" compared with friends, television, and popular media like the internet. And I believe a responsible parent will practice a certain amount of censorship to swing the balance in their favour at least until they know their children are ready to be exposed to the real world.
Soon, the development of our ultimate wireless accessory will be complete!
The new Wireless Mate (tm), patent pending, a compact brick-sized device with a 10-pound battery and 1-foot antenna, will support Zigbee, WiFi (a, b and g), Bluetooth and Accessory wireless. Eight expansion slots will enable future wireless standards to be added for seamless integration.
Enable your cellphone, PC and PDA to communicate seamlessly with Wireless Mate (tm), patent pending!
Imagine the possibilities!
Visit to www.products-you-never-knew-you'd-want.com and order now!
Also, yet another standard before we've got the last one working properly. What's wrong with a low-power version of Bluetooth, compatible with what's already out there? Why do we need yet another standard, with yet another USB-dongle, PC Card, or weird proprietary add-on accessory device to try and get working on a variety of operating systems?
To make things worse - the chance's you'll get your ZigBee working with your WiFi and your Bluetooth all on the same PC are practically zero.
And last of all, what good is "low power" when you've got your notebook trying to power WiFi, Bluetooth and ZigBee off your lightweight battery just so that you can talk to your phone, your PDA, and your LAN...
Shouldn't the Iraqis get to decide on how their country gets rebuilt, and what technologies get implemented?
They are, after all, supposed to be "liberated" when this war is over!
Furthermore, given that the US and UK invaded a sovereign country, they should foot the bill for the reconstruction, but (here's the kicker) they should be forced to use Iraqi contractors! Why should contractors in the foreign invaders' economy get to benefit?
Ultimately, this looks like it's going to be another "liberated on our terms" deal where the only people who really benefit are first world countries...
Issues of power conservation and security aside, this sounds like a way to build free (beer) telephone networks in densely populated areas - why we should we be paying the phone company per minute charges when "the phone is the network"? Why should we even be paying a monthly subscription?
One cannot lawfully gain access to the keys except by entering into a license with the DVD CCA under authority granted by the copyright owners or by purchasing a DVD player or drive containing the keys pursuant to such a license
So, if I buy a DVD player, I have the right to use that key. Does it mean I have to use it on that DVD player, or can I use it elsewhere, like, say, in a piece of software that rips DVDs to my hard disk drive?
So, one could say that by bundling DeCSS with a licensed software DVD player (the nice folks at Xing could perhaps oblige), it suddenly becomes legal...?
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I'm pretty new at parenting (my kids are 3 and 1.5 years old) but I can tell you it's one of those life-altering events that swings your politics violently to the right!
No matter how hard you try as a parent, you still have very little "face time" compared with friends, television, and popular media like the internet. And I believe a responsible parent will practice a certain amount of censorship to swing the balance in their favour at least until they know their children are ready to be exposed to the real world.
Soon, the development of our ultimate wireless accessory will be complete!
The new Wireless Mate (tm), patent pending, a compact brick-sized device with a 10-pound battery and 1-foot antenna, will support Zigbee, WiFi (a, b and g), Bluetooth and Accessory wireless. Eight expansion slots will enable future wireless standards to be added for seamless integration.
Enable your cellphone, PC and PDA to communicate seamlessly with Wireless Mate (tm), patent pending!
Imagine the possibilities!
Visit to www.products-you-never-knew-you'd-want.com and order now!
To make things worse - the chance's you'll get your ZigBee working with your WiFi and your Bluetooth all on the same PC are practically zero.
And last of all, what good is "low power" when you've got your notebook trying to power WiFi, Bluetooth and ZigBee off your lightweight battery just so that you can talk to your phone, your PDA, and your LAN...
Furthermore, given that the US and UK invaded a sovereign country, they should foot the bill for the reconstruction, but (here's the kicker) they should be forced to use Iraqi contractors! Why should contractors in the foreign invaders' economy get to benefit?
Ultimately, this looks like it's going to be another "liberated on our terms" deal where the only people who really benefit are first world countries...
Issues of power conservation and security aside, this sounds like a way to build free (beer) telephone networks in densely populated areas - why we should we be paying the phone company per minute charges when "the phone is the network"? Why should we even be paying a monthly subscription?
So, if I buy a DVD player, I have the right to use that key. Does it mean I have to use it on that DVD player, or can I use it elsewhere, like, say, in a piece of software that rips DVDs to my hard disk drive?
So, one could say that by bundling DeCSS with a licensed software DVD player (the nice folks at Xing could perhaps oblige), it suddenly becomes legal...?