Kiss a lot of ass and have the right connections. I anticipate your next question will be "how do I get contacts?". I do not have the answer to this question. Or you might ask "how do I kiss ass?", which is a question I am not prepared to answer.
"Some please tell the Jack ass the the internet wouldn't exist with out the government, please?"
The internet itself got its beginnings in the government, yes, but the majority of the cable was laid by private corporations (yes they WERE subsidized but that's not the point) and most of the protocols were developed by entities that are/were not government entities.
Give credit where credit is due.
I work for a small time ISP. I can tell you that even if we don't agree with this, if something actually becomes MANDATED (not just, oh, you CAN do this if you really want, but you MUST do this), then we will implement it, and myself and my fellow engineers will write the code to put it into place. I have no desire to lose my job (which is what will happen if I refuse to do something my boss gives me) and the company has no desire to be fined (which is likely what would happen if they refused a government regulation).
I may be wrong but I expect that the majority of other "geeks" would do the same.
"legislating the idea that science is witch-craft"
Do you have factual evidence of this? I'd be very worried if this is truly something going through our legislature.
Or from slashdot... It's a lot easier to tune a website to work better with a certain browser than to tune a browser to work better with a certain website.
Actually we are both right:)
"The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic" [Wikipedia]
Assuming that they haven't requested that telephone service providers shut off phone service as well. It seems likely that they have, aside from key lines in the government (and I imagine government still has access to outside internet).
As I understand these things (bear in mind I am no student of a law), a country (like the US) can ally with the government of another country. The leader of the established government of Zimbabwe is Robert Mugabe. We aren't the ally of the people of Zimbabwe, but rather the government that represents them. If they mistreat their people we can't just go in and destroy the government (well, we can but we shouldn't). We can sanction them, break our alliance, and so forth.
Sony would lose a lot of customers if they did this. Also quite a few game development companies. So, as your argument seems to suggest, this might not be bad for humanity as a whole, but it would be pretty bad for Sony.
Yeah, and it's a damn shame that a surgeon hit and killed someone on his way to a life-saving surgery
That is a damn shame. First of all why wasn't the surgeon at the hospital already? On-demand life saving surgeries are usually performed by the doctor who is currently on-call at the hospital in question. Second, killing someone just to save someone else is only a good thing in hollywood movies. Likely the surgeon in question would be charged with vehicular manslaughter as well as fleeing the scene.
But that's aside from the point. The soldiers who died in the Revolutionary War (I think you mean soldiers, anyway. Or were a ton of innocent civilians killed outright in that war?) made a choice to fight, and to die. It can be argued that some revolutionary under a dictatorship makes the same choice when they decide to stand up and act, but I liken it more to an informant who gives information only if their identity is protected. Wikileaks is ripping off that mask and exposing them.
This has a possible consequence. If Wikileaks becomes very good at exposing dirty secrets and such, intelligence informers may be less likely to come forward, for fear of being exposed and killed. Already I expect many of our diplomats have lost the "rep" they had with their counterparts in other countries, as foreign diplomats will be wary of saying something that now has a good chance of being published on the internet.
I think Wikileaks can serve a very good function-the function that the media is supposed to serve but has failed to serve for years. But I do think that they need to tone it down a bit.
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Kiss a lot of ass and have the right connections. I anticipate your next question will be "how do I get contacts?". I do not have the answer to this question. Or you might ask "how do I kiss ass?", which is a question I am not prepared to answer.
It's not amazingly difficult to block flash ads.
I can't figure out if this is sarcasm or not (it's been a long night) I believe he is talking about carbon MONoxide, as opposed to DIoxide.
"Some please tell the Jack ass the the internet wouldn't exist with out the government, please?"
The internet itself got its beginnings in the government, yes, but the majority of the cable was laid by private corporations (yes they WERE subsidized but that's not the point) and most of the protocols were developed by entities that are/were not government entities.
Give credit where credit is due.
I work for a small time ISP. I can tell you that even if we don't agree with this, if something actually becomes MANDATED (not just, oh, you CAN do this if you really want, but you MUST do this), then we will implement it, and myself and my fellow engineers will write the code to put it into place. I have no desire to lose my job (which is what will happen if I refuse to do something my boss gives me) and the company has no desire to be fined (which is likely what would happen if they refused a government regulation).
I may be wrong but I expect that the majority of other "geeks" would do the same.
"legislating the idea that science is witch-craft"
Do you have factual evidence of this? I'd be very worried if this is truly something going through our legislature.
"...this initial version of Wallaby offers no support for conversion of ActionScript, Movies and Sound."
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't those three things make up the majority of flash apps on the web today?
You do realize that IE is not supposed to run on Linux? (Which I assume you are using, given the inclusion of the kernel number in your post)
Forgive me if your post is meant as sarcasm-I've been dealing with a lot of dumb people lately.
Or from slashdot... It's a lot easier to tune a website to work better with a certain browser than to tune a browser to work better with a certain website.
You deserve mod mod points.
Are those like super mod points?
I think if it ever gets to that point the "internet police" will just give up, as they would have to charge most of the people on the internet.
Do gas pump keypads work the same way? I don't own a car so have never had the occasion to check.
Actually we are both right :)
"The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic" [Wikipedia]
You are correct. The US is a constitutional republic, not a democracy.
Pretty much... Except in the case of the US it will be only be used in a real emergency, right? Right?
Assuming that they haven't requested that telephone service providers shut off phone service as well. It seems likely that they have, aside from key lines in the government (and I imagine government still has access to outside internet).
I wonder if putting a fake torrent file on the internet can be considered entrapment?
That was last generation... This generation's teens are more likely to be reciting WoW stats.
That's one of the best descriptions of congress that I've ever heard.
Don't feed the troll... c'mon now.
Sadly you are correct, the proper term I should have used is "should not".
As I understand these things (bear in mind I am no student of a law), a country (like the US) can ally with the government of another country. The leader of the established government of Zimbabwe is Robert Mugabe. We aren't the ally of the people of Zimbabwe, but rather the government that represents them. If they mistreat their people we can't just go in and destroy the government (well, we can but we shouldn't). We can sanction them, break our alliance, and so forth.
the original DRM is rendered irrelevant.
Aside from the anarchy and chaos and such that sounds like a win to me... Unless it's replaced by something even worse, I suppose.
Sony would lose a lot of customers if they did this. Also quite a few game development companies. So, as your argument seems to suggest, this might not be bad for humanity as a whole, but it would be pretty bad for Sony.
Yeah, and it's a damn shame that a surgeon hit and killed someone on his way to a life-saving surgery
That is a damn shame. First of all why wasn't the surgeon at the hospital already? On-demand life saving surgeries are usually performed by the doctor who is currently on-call at the hospital in question. Second, killing someone just to save someone else is only a good thing in hollywood movies. Likely the surgeon in question would be charged with vehicular manslaughter as well as fleeing the scene.
But that's aside from the point. The soldiers who died in the Revolutionary War (I think you mean soldiers, anyway. Or were a ton of innocent civilians killed outright in that war?) made a choice to fight, and to die. It can be argued that some revolutionary under a dictatorship makes the same choice when they decide to stand up and act, but I liken it more to an informant who gives information only if their identity is protected. Wikileaks is ripping off that mask and exposing them.
This has a possible consequence. If Wikileaks becomes very good at exposing dirty secrets and such, intelligence informers may be less likely to come forward, for fear of being exposed and killed. Already I expect many of our diplomats have lost the "rep" they had with their counterparts in other countries, as foreign diplomats will be wary of saying something that now has a good chance of being published on the internet.
I think Wikileaks can serve a very good function-the function that the media is supposed to serve but has failed to serve for years. But I do think that they need to tone it down a bit.