I think it's plausible that the MPAA/RIAA or their local cutouts simply gave some of Berlusconi's cronies some big brown envelopes to introduce and fast-track this legislation. Given what we've seen of Mr Bunga Bunga in the past, nothing is surprising anymore.
There's no keeping a good old corrupt rent-seeker down, is there?
Given the dire state of technical and scientific journalism these days, nothing surprises me, although for technical journalism, this is hitting a new low.
So basically, he's describing a compiler which generates an annotated AST of the program being compiled? Actually, I've got no idea, because of shoddy, slipshod, lazy journalism.
Even for modern journalism, this is a piss poor effort. Whoever wrote this should be ashamed of themselves.
There's no comparison at all. If this was China, there would have been no riots, because the ringleaders would all be down at the police station getting the shit beaten out of them. The UK isn't China, and we have due process.
Indeed, the police have shown enormous restraint, because here they have a model of 'policing by consent', and the police don't normally carry guns. Even a short distance away in Northern Ireland or over the Channel, these losers would be getting clobbered with water cannons, plastic bullets and tear gas.
The hyperbole is silly. And it's suggestive of a gross lack of maturity and perspective on your part.
Living in London, and seeing the chaos first hand, I find the millions of ignorant teenage American basement dwellers posting here, with their stupid, teenage libertarian logic highly offensive. Britain is a different country, with different traditions, and different laws to the US.
IF these gangs of hoodlums were all packing.45s, then hundreds of innocent people would likely be dead. There is NO government conspiracy to start riots as a pretext to limit our civil liberties CCTV does work -- ask all the homie-g gangbangers being busted right now, where the evidence that put them behind bars came from
Grow up, and kindly refrain from commenting on things you obviously know nothing about. Ignoramuses.
Why don't we just summarily shoot these people for espionage? Or do they get a free pass because they're from big, bad, scary China?
There's a very simple way to deal with China's aggressive, abusive 'Thousand Grains of Salt' campaign: brutally crack down on Chinese spies, and deal with perpetrators mercilessly.
Facebook count on the social network being 'sticky' enough to retain their users and make it hard to move. Obviously, with competitors which don't suck, they need to play dirty.
I was keen to see if their backup feature exported email addresses. Sure enough, it doesn't. So there goes my idea of writing a script to extract my contacts out of Facebook backups suitable for import into Google+.
About the only way this state of affairs will change, is if the bad publicity gets bad enough for Facebook to be shamed into doing the right thing.
Smart move by Facebook -- pissing off their hardcore techie users. Very classy.
... makes the rules. America is set up purely so that the strong can prey on the weak. It's as American as guns and apple pie.
How better to demonstrate that (on the 4th of July), by showing that powerful moneyed corporate interests can reach out and grab you from the other side of the world, even on the flimsiest of pretexts, merely because their outdated and broken business models are threatened.
It's breathtaking how short-termist and self-interested this thinking is. Of course, Russia, China and Iran won't be allowed to extradite Westerners who 'injure' them in imaginary ways -- only US Big Media can, because they bribe and lobby US lawmakers and have good access to the Obama administration.
You're an idiot, because low taxes are no good if you're starving to death.
You right wing morons are so incredibly stupid, you can't see the blindingly obvious staring you in the face. Like why the US military is actively planning for the disruption and chaos.that climate change will bring. NEWSFLASH: all of the Navy's facilities are at sea level. Convinced yet??
No, you aren't because you're a brainwashed retard. And you don't care if the world burns, so long as your already rock-bottom taxes aren't increased by even a single cent.
There is an excellent reason why climate scientists are being targeted personally. This is -- and has been -- the deniers' game plan all along.
The evidence for AGW is scientifically fairly certain, but powerful vested interests have attempted to derail regulation and legislation, firstly by lobbying, then by paying shady PR outfits to do "doubt mongering" and whip up the unhinged elements of the political Right.
Now that governments are paralyzed, the vested interests hope of tackling climate change have been foiled, by the climate action lobby appealing to the public directly.
The logical counter? Vilify climate action activists and climatologists, depict it as yet another battle of the Culture Wars, and whip up the lunatic Right into an even greater frenzy -- and make it has hazardous and dangerous as possible to advocate action on climate change.
The WORST thing we can do right now is back down in the face of abuse, vilification and threats, because if we do, then the oil majors and Koch Industries wins.
The moral pygmy pissants running China now know that if enough people get upset, they're history, and nothing under heaven and earth will save them. I bet they see their property bubble bursting, and I bet (and hope) they're shit scared. This stupid propaganda just shows they see the handwriting on the wall.
are a fucking disgrace, and should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
These rather stupid and outlandish statements will get them nowhere. Nobody is going to believe what they're saying.
They must be on drugs to think that the US supporting people in exercising their natural human impulses to be free, is a "war against China". That's some seriously demented shit.
China's constant spying and aggression can't go unpunished. We cannot continually let the CCP thieves and tyrants steal our technology and oppress their own people. There MUST be serious consequences for China, otherwise they'll get more bold and aggressive -- the worse for us. I would go as far as to say that military force can be justified -- China cannot be allowed to believe that they can get away with what they're doing.
Hey, if China want to turn a blind eye to their 'patriotic hackers' and let them run riot, rather than doing the sensible thing, like keeping their powder dry, then let them. The West will ultimately benefit. We benefit from hardened systems and security practices, and push comes to shove, we'll be in much better shape. As it is, amateur Western hackers are learning Mandarin and running riot through Chinese systems. They are as vulnerable as hell.
I think the threat from China is overhyped. It's typically Chinese, all show -- no substance.
If you want to see what a REAL cyberattack looks like, then consider Stuxnet -- a threat orders of magnitude more sophisticated than anything out of China, and a glimpse of what a real 'cyberweapon' looks like.
Let's forget the myth of the Chinese being so ancient, wise and mighty -- because it's just that, a myth. The reality is that they're really just a bunch of amateur blowhards who are very, very wet behind the ears. The Chinese are cunning (as they always have), but they're not always so smart.
China is a paper tiger, and will be for the foreseeable future.
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Probably because the Chinese were the ones handing out the fattest brown envelopes.
I think it's plausible that the MPAA/RIAA or their local cutouts simply gave some of Berlusconi's cronies some big brown envelopes to introduce and fast-track this legislation. Given what we've seen of Mr Bunga Bunga in the past, nothing is surprising anymore.
There's no keeping a good old corrupt rent-seeker down, is there?
There's an awful lot of teenage libertarian basement-dweller logic here. It's an American disease, but particularly bad on Slashdot.
If you libertarian dumbasses could see yourselves in the mirror, you'd soon STFU.
As the saying goes though, a dog cannot smell his own bad breath.
Given the dire state of technical and scientific journalism these days, nothing surprises me, although for technical journalism, this is hitting a new low.
So basically, he's describing a compiler which generates an annotated AST of the program being compiled? Actually, I've got no idea, because of shoddy, slipshod, lazy journalism.
Even for modern journalism, this is a piss poor effort. Whoever wrote this should be ashamed of themselves.
You're having a laugh.
There's no comparison at all. If this was China, there would have been no riots, because the ringleaders would all be down at the police station getting the shit beaten out of them. The UK isn't China, and we have due process.
Indeed, the police have shown enormous restraint, because here they have a model of 'policing by consent', and the police don't normally carry guns. Even a short distance away in Northern Ireland or over the Channel, these losers would be getting clobbered with water cannons, plastic bullets and tear gas.
The hyperbole is silly. And it's suggestive of a gross lack of maturity and perspective on your part.
Living in London, and seeing the chaos first hand, I find the millions of ignorant teenage American basement dwellers posting here, with their stupid, teenage libertarian logic highly offensive. Britain is a different country, with different traditions, and different laws to the US.
IF these gangs of hoodlums were all packing .45s, then hundreds of innocent people would likely be dead.
There is NO government conspiracy to start riots as a pretext to limit our civil liberties
CCTV does work -- ask all the homie-g gangbangers being busted right now, where the evidence that put them behind bars came from
Grow up, and kindly refrain from commenting on things you obviously know nothing about. Ignoramuses.
NOT IRRESPONSIBLE AT ALL.
Why don't we just summarily shoot these people for espionage? Or do they get a free pass because they're from big, bad, scary China?
There's a very simple way to deal with China's aggressive, abusive 'Thousand Grains of Salt' campaign: brutally crack down on Chinese spies, and deal with perpetrators mercilessly.
Facebook count on the social network being 'sticky' enough to retain their users and make it hard to move. Obviously, with competitors which don't suck, they need to play dirty.
I was keen to see if their backup feature exported email addresses. Sure enough, it doesn't. So there goes my idea of writing a script to extract my contacts out of Facebook backups suitable for import into Google+.
About the only way this state of affairs will change, is if the bad publicity gets bad enough for Facebook to be shamed into doing the right thing.
Smart move by Facebook -- pissing off their hardcore techie users. Very classy.
... makes the rules. America is set up purely so that the strong can prey on the weak. It's as American as guns and apple pie.
How better to demonstrate that (on the 4th of July), by showing that powerful moneyed corporate interests can reach out and grab you from the other side of the world, even on the flimsiest of pretexts, merely because their outdated and broken business models are threatened.
It's breathtaking how short-termist and self-interested this thinking is. Of course, Russia, China and Iran won't be allowed to extradite Westerners who 'injure' them in imaginary ways -- only US Big Media can, because they bribe and lobby US lawmakers and have good access to the Obama administration.
The Chinese Communist Party and the Falun Gong movement aren't exactly best buddies.
So I'm not quite sure why this is news, even if I'm broadly in favour of anything that riles up loathsome communist dictators.
Finally, I can have my Windows reboot pedal. That could be a real timesaver.
Whoosh.
You're an idiot, because low taxes are no good if you're starving to death.
You right wing morons are so incredibly stupid, you can't see the blindingly obvious staring you in the face. Like why the US military is actively planning for the disruption and chaos.that climate change will bring. NEWSFLASH: all of the Navy's facilities are at sea level. Convinced yet??
No, you aren't because you're a brainwashed retard. And you don't care if the world burns, so long as your already rock-bottom taxes aren't increased by even a single cent.
Like I said. You're an idiot.
You're an idiot.
The solution is very tractable if you have no morals. There are many ways to get rid of lots of people -- especially people you don't care about.
There is an excellent reason why climate scientists are being targeted personally. This is -- and has been -- the deniers' game plan all along.
The evidence for AGW is scientifically fairly certain, but powerful vested interests have attempted to derail regulation and legislation, firstly by lobbying, then by paying shady PR outfits to do "doubt mongering" and whip up the unhinged elements of the political Right.
Now that governments are paralyzed, the vested interests hope of tackling climate change have been foiled, by the climate action lobby appealing to the public directly.
The logical counter? Vilify climate action activists and climatologists, depict it as yet another battle of the Culture Wars, and whip up the lunatic Right into an even greater frenzy -- and make it has hazardous and dangerous as possible to advocate action on climate change.
The WORST thing we can do right now is back down in the face of abuse, vilification and threats, because if we do, then the oil majors and Koch Industries wins.
These comments are stupid. A lot of redundant, and quite a few are quite ignorant.
Pro tip: don't comment on something you obviously know nothing about.
The moral pygmy pissants running China now know that if enough people get upset, they're history, and nothing under heaven and earth will save them. I bet they see their property bubble bursting, and I bet (and hope) they're shit scared. This stupid propaganda just shows they see the handwriting on the wall.
The world will be as prejudiced as it likes against tyrants, thieves and murderers.
are a fucking disgrace, and should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.
These rather stupid and outlandish statements will get them nowhere. Nobody is going to believe what they're saying.
They must be on drugs to think that the US supporting people in exercising their natural human impulses to be free, is a "war against China". That's some seriously demented shit.
China's constant spying and aggression can't go unpunished. We cannot continually let the CCP thieves and tyrants steal our technology and oppress their own people. There MUST be serious consequences for China, otherwise they'll get more bold and aggressive -- the worse for us. I would go as far as to say that military force can be justified -- China cannot be allowed to believe that they can get away with what they're doing.
Get your hand off it, dude. Public onanism is embarassing.
Android is /free/, man!
I can just see it now. What'll they do over there after they have their squeaky-clean halal Internet? What'll they do for entertainment?
Imagine that -- Iranian camwhores, scandalizing the nation by lifting their burkas a whole inch above their ankles, to the shock and amusement of all.
Hey, if China want to turn a blind eye to their 'patriotic hackers' and let them run riot, rather than doing the sensible thing, like keeping their powder dry, then let them. The West will ultimately benefit. We benefit from hardened systems and security practices, and push comes to shove, we'll be in much better shape. As it is, amateur Western hackers are learning Mandarin and running riot through Chinese systems. They are as vulnerable as hell.
I think the threat from China is overhyped. It's typically Chinese, all show -- no substance.
If you want to see what a REAL cyberattack looks like, then consider Stuxnet -- a threat orders of magnitude more sophisticated than anything out of China, and a glimpse of what a real 'cyberweapon' looks like.
Let's forget the myth of the Chinese being so ancient, wise and mighty -- because it's just that, a myth. The reality is that they're really just a bunch of amateur blowhards who are very, very wet behind the ears. The Chinese are cunning (as they always have), but they're not always so smart.
China is a paper tiger, and will be for the foreseeable future.