Risk-free money my ass. I have a house I'm renting out that I will gladly give you for no more than just taking over the mortgage payment. The furnace has already been replaced twice this year, and the tree in the front yard has already fallen on someone's uninsured car during a bad storm, so the only thing you need to worry about now is the air conditioner and the roof that needs to be replaced.
Judging by the fact he quoted the entire list, I think he actually meant MI5 and not paedo fear. Communicating with random people around the globe being suspicious behaviour.
I'm pretty sure that's either here already or is on the way. Anyone with $100,000 that can prove they have the infrastructure to support a TLD can create just about anything they want.
Yeah, just like a guy who takes a plea bargain for 5 years when facing life in prison isn't -forced- to take it. It's just, if he doesn't, he's going to lose anyway, and his life is going to be much more shitty.
You can use it efficiently by just installing it with the 500+ scripts it knows about blocked, and allowing auto-updates to block the rest as they're discovered.
If it were actually true, it would be serious and major, albeit hilariously twisted sci-fi-esque, news. There are several large corporations that could actually afford 22 billion dollars, although they'd have to be privately-owned to pull a stunt like this, which narrows the field considerably. Being the first to build a real structure on the moon would be a huge advance for science and employ hundreds of scientists and engineers.
Not that this is true, there's no way in hell any corporation would drop several years worth of profits on a PR exercise that would return an insignificant fraction of the investment. But if it were, they could make their advertisement visible from Earth and I wouldn't really mind.
You aren't even allowed to carry the bottle of lube everywhere you go, as it's a liquid and is generally only sold in sizes over 3 ounces. You'd have to buy the lube at the airport (assuming there are still any shops left outside the security area) and then throw it away as you enter the secure area.
You took liberties with science in your first reply, but he isn't allowed a much smaller liberty in his? Chill out. When someone says science killed natural selection in humans, they don't mean it literally (not all words people say are literal), they're referring to exactly what you pointed out. Increased intelligence is no longer selected for. If natural selection is no longer causing any change in intelligence over time, in English it's not too out of line to use the word 'dead' or 'killed' even though we know it's still there.
I buy and pay for music and games all the times, sometimes even just donating directly, but only when it's essentially direct from the artist (not via an *IAA) and free of DRM. I wish everyone would just put up a donation link. As it is, I feel more guilt in giving money to the RIAA than I do in pirating from artists, but I'd love to remove the guilt from that and then I'd feel proud to pirate things.
Ruin him financially, sure, but to put him in prison for 15 years for handing over some information on the company he worked for is ridiculous. If I had to choose, I'd rather see him walk away scot-free (and be reunited with his family) than to serve any time in prison for this.
I agree, and I actually think that the stronger the grip on MS/Apple systems, the more technical people will be drawn to a Linux OS, which will lead to more contributions. I've been spending a good deal of time in Ubuntu lately just because I know XP will not be feasible to continue using in a couple of years and I don't want to be thrown out of my element when that happens. Windows 7 is okay for the most part, but I imagine Windows 8 (and 9 after it) will have so many things locked down it will drive me insane.
It would be quite easy for Facebook to have an option to make you untaggable, and also require all tagging to point to an actual account (no text-only tagging).
Yeah. I wouldn't go so far as to say they deserve it, since nobody really deserves to have stuff stolen from them, but if that's how they were set up, someone had to have know this would happen.
Except Apple didn't in any way improve them (maybe the user interface if you're going by the average device on the market, but even that surely wasn't the best). The iPod has been one of the most overpriced player on the market, with the fewest features, ever since the first one was released. I remember at the time (around 2001-2002) that you could get a competing mp3 player with the same features for literally less than half the price of an ipod. A player that also let you copy your files OFF OF the device, or copy your friends files ONTO the device, without wiping the entire thing.
The only thing Apple/Jobs did was see that it was the right time for selling overpriced technology as a fashion statement and status symbol, which I just can't see as a really visionary thing. To compare them to Ford is ridiculous, Ford was about as far away from that as you can get.
"Our little idea wasn't designed to make iMoney, hell we would have made maybe 3% profit after BOM and throwing some back to the DOSBox guys, we were doing it because we loved classic gaming and wanted to make it easy for the younger generations to try the games."
We're not talking about open source, we're talking about access to your own data.
A toaster comparison would be that your toaster makes toast that's edible only by you, while you're inside your house, and if someone else does manage to make it toast something edible for them, it immediately burns every piece of bread in your house.
Except that he tried to remove all of the mysticism from it and just write about the morals. At that point you're just arguing over the semantics of the word "religious."
From the summary, it sounds like the right decision was made for the wrong reasons, which, in our justice system, is quite scary and could lead to exactly that situation... a bunch of southern teachers teaching whatever the hell they want with no repercussions.
Teachers should not be immune to the first amendment. They should, however, be immune to litigation stemming from the teaching of factual, scientific statements.
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Risk-free money my ass. I have a house I'm renting out that I will gladly give you for no more than just taking over the mortgage payment. The furnace has already been replaced twice this year, and the tree in the front yard has already fallen on someone's uninsured car during a bad storm, so the only thing you need to worry about now is the air conditioner and the roof that needs to be replaced.
And as adults they are beholden to fixing AMD's fuck up?
I wish there were some moving around. Instead it's just a guy leaning back and forth slowly.
Judging by the fact he quoted the entire list, I think he actually meant MI5 and not paedo fear. Communicating with random people around the globe being suspicious behaviour.
I'm pretty sure that's either here already or is on the way. Anyone with $100,000 that can prove they have the infrastructure to support a TLD can create just about anything they want.
Yeah, just like a guy who takes a plea bargain for 5 years when facing life in prison isn't -forced- to take it. It's just, if he doesn't, he's going to lose anyway, and his life is going to be much more shitty.
To be fair, that may sometimes be from dictionary spamming on your domain, especially if it's as basic as amazon@yourdomain.com
You can use it efficiently by just installing it with the 500+ scripts it knows about blocked, and allowing auto-updates to block the rest as they're discovered.
The "if other countries do it, it's ok for us to do it too" argument? Really?
If it were actually true, it would be serious and major, albeit hilariously twisted sci-fi-esque, news. There are several large corporations that could actually afford 22 billion dollars, although they'd have to be privately-owned to pull a stunt like this, which narrows the field considerably. Being the first to build a real structure on the moon would be a huge advance for science and employ hundreds of scientists and engineers.
Not that this is true, there's no way in hell any corporation would drop several years worth of profits on a PR exercise that would return an insignificant fraction of the investment. But if it were, they could make their advertisement visible from Earth and I wouldn't really mind.
You aren't even allowed to carry the bottle of lube everywhere you go, as it's a liquid and is generally only sold in sizes over 3 ounces. You'd have to buy the lube at the airport (assuming there are still any shops left outside the security area) and then throw it away as you enter the secure area.
You took liberties with science in your first reply, but he isn't allowed a much smaller liberty in his? Chill out. When someone says science killed natural selection in humans, they don't mean it literally (not all words people say are literal), they're referring to exactly what you pointed out. Increased intelligence is no longer selected for. If natural selection is no longer causing any change in intelligence over time, in English it's not too out of line to use the word 'dead' or 'killed' even though we know it's still there.
I buy and pay for music and games all the times, sometimes even just donating directly, but only when it's essentially direct from the artist (not via an *IAA) and free of DRM. I wish everyone would just put up a donation link. As it is, I feel more guilt in giving money to the RIAA than I do in pirating from artists, but I'd love to remove the guilt from that and then I'd feel proud to pirate things.
Seriously, this is scary and fucked up.
Ruin him financially, sure, but to put him in prison for 15 years for handing over some information on the company he worked for is ridiculous. If I had to choose, I'd rather see him walk away scot-free (and be reunited with his family) than to serve any time in prison for this.
I agree, and I actually think that the stronger the grip on MS/Apple systems, the more technical people will be drawn to a Linux OS, which will lead to more contributions. I've been spending a good deal of time in Ubuntu lately just because I know XP will not be feasible to continue using in a couple of years and I don't want to be thrown out of my element when that happens. Windows 7 is okay for the most part, but I imagine Windows 8 (and 9 after it) will have so many things locked down it will drive me insane.
Yeah, I'm amazed at how quickly our perception of "suck" has changed. I've even heard it on shows intended for young children lately.
It would be quite easy for Facebook to have an option to make you untaggable, and also require all tagging to point to an actual account (no text-only tagging).
Yeah. I wouldn't go so far as to say they deserve it, since nobody really deserves to have stuff stolen from them, but if that's how they were set up, someone had to have know this would happen.
Except Apple didn't in any way improve them (maybe the user interface if you're going by the average device on the market, but even that surely wasn't the best). The iPod has been one of the most overpriced player on the market, with the fewest features, ever since the first one was released. I remember at the time (around 2001-2002) that you could get a competing mp3 player with the same features for literally less than half the price of an ipod. A player that also let you copy your files OFF OF the device, or copy your friends files ONTO the device, without wiping the entire thing.
The only thing Apple/Jobs did was see that it was the right time for selling overpriced technology as a fashion statement and status symbol, which I just can't see as a really visionary thing. To compare them to Ford is ridiculous, Ford was about as far away from that as you can get.
Wait, in what way is a man's anus morally wrong?
"Our little idea wasn't designed to make iMoney, hell we would have made maybe 3% profit after BOM and throwing some back to the DOSBox guys, we were doing it because we loved classic gaming and wanted to make it easy for the younger generations to try the games."
We're not talking about open source, we're talking about access to your own data.
A toaster comparison would be that your toaster makes toast that's edible only by you, while you're inside your house, and if someone else does manage to make it toast something edible for them, it immediately burns every piece of bread in your house.
Most people in developing countries skipped landlines altogether and went straight to cell phones.
I'm hoping the same thing can happen with forms of government and they can bypass democracy altogether and find something better ;)
Except that he tried to remove all of the mysticism from it and just write about the morals. At that point you're just arguing over the semantics of the word "religious."
From the summary, it sounds like the right decision was made for the wrong reasons, which, in our justice system, is quite scary and could lead to exactly that situation... a bunch of southern teachers teaching whatever the hell they want with no repercussions.
Teachers should not be immune to the first amendment. They should, however, be immune to litigation stemming from the teaching of factual, scientific statements.