Force all athletes to install PunkBuster. Any athletes who modded themseleves or are not running PunkBuster will be automatically kicked from the competition.
Looks like Senator Sununu is proposing an ammendment to strike the broadcast and radio flags from the bill. Call up your Senator and get them to support it!
It doesn't really prevent people from whistleblowing. It just says that a statement you make under the official capacity of your job is considered part of your job, not free speech, and is thus under the same restrictions/scrutiny of any other aspects of your work.
Does it make it a little harder to define something as legitimate "whisteblowing"? Probably. Is it the end of the world and the begining of an American police state? Probably not.
I mean to put "representative democracy" in quotes. The idea being that we pick people to go out and vote in the electoral college, and those people do actually vote for the President, in theory representing the views of those who picked them (although they are not required to do so)
Actually, the U.S.A. isn't a democracy. It's a Federalist Republic. The popular vote was never intended to elect the President. In fact, the framers of the Constitution designed it such that the popular vote wouldn't elect the President. We are a representative democracy where what we're actually voting for on Nov. 2 is memebers of the Electoral College who will, in theory, vote for the candidate that we put down on our ballots. Technically they are not bound to vote either way, but that's just the way the system has developed.
Those crazy guys back in the day didn't trust in the transient will of the populous or "tyranny of the majority." Do you?;-)
but what about poor GNOME? We're going to run out of g-based application names! Time to develop a new g-based naming system that expands the address space...
Sure, the web/ftp/e-mail/et al "serve up primarily" copyright-compliant information. Well, at least most of the sites I know of, but I really can't make blanket statements about the whole internet. But I digress.
Just because most P2P applications today are used heavily for the trade of "non-free works" does not mean that their sole purpose is the aquisition and distribution of such. The fact of the matter is that these applications came out in a time when people wanted to trade these things and they were an easy choice (and the bandwidth started to become more plentiful). Web/e-mail/etc. was started by government types and got itself mostly established before joe schmoe could be the majority user (or at least content supplier) of it. There's plenty of copyright-infringing web sites out there, but they're surrounded by legit sites as well. (If it were possible, it would be interesting to compare the number of Warez/Music/Movies FTP sites to legit FTP sites in the pre-napster days.)
The fact of the matter is that these programs exist to share files, and the files people want to share is music/movies/porn/whatever. That's a product of the audience not the creator. Killing the creator does not fix the underlying desires of the audience and they'll simply find another way until they've got a compelling reason to play by the rules (as well as a reasonable set of rules).
Uhm... maybe you posted the wrong link, but that's about bonds against Bowie's music revenue. It doesn't seem to say much of anything about buying the rights to his own music.
I just: 1. Hit Ctrl-L (this highlights the address bar w/o copying, since you didn't actually select it manually... a little counter-intuitive if you think of it as hightlight->copy rather than select->copy, but don't think of it that way;-)) 2. Hit Del (or Backspace, if you prefer) 3. Middle-click in the address bar to paste 4. ??? 5. Profit!
Seriously though, I've found selecting to copy and middle-clicking to paste more productive than the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V version. Maybe it's just the way I use the computer, but I don't run into the "paste over another selection" problem very often, and it saves unnecessary trips to the keyboard. (I mostly paste things into empty IM text boxes or empty terminal prompts.) When I do need to paste over something, I've gotten used to deleting it first before copying the new stuff. (For URLs I do as previously stated.) Frankly, I find it frustrating now when I use Windows and can't highlight & middle-click paste.
The fact of the matter is, it's not that either method is inherently evil, it's just that people are used to one or the other, and they tend to like the one they cut their teeth on. (I grew up with Windows and like the X method, but maybe I'm the exception.;-)) I think X has the edge here over Windows, though, in supporting both methods. Why please half the people when you can please everyone? (That is, if the other half will get over the fact that Method X also exists.;-))
We've got a race of super-rats living in the back alley. They're about 3-feet long, and heckle us with merciless honesty about our most sensitive insecurities...
Well, I'm a student who's slowly trying to get some credit (although I have next to none currently), buy tickets with my crappy credit cards, generally travel round trip, and often buy tickets pretty last minute, and I've gotten "selected for extra screening" every time I've passed through a "security checkpoint" since this summer.
I guess I better start paying off those credit cards, or just just gonna get worse...;-)
I'm not saying it's universally applicable. A horse is different enough from a tank, that the argument really doesn't hold.
I never said it was a matter of capability, just that people brought up around newer technologies tend to be more open to it. How hard is it to program a VCR? Not very hard at all, but a lot of people can't. Not because it's too hard for them, but because they never bother to learn.
I'm only 20, there's definately people more than 30 years older than me who are 100 times more capable of dealing with some of the stuff going on in technology. But I'm not talking about specific cases, just society in general. I'm also not talking about small children using computers, children can be taught to do a great many things without actually understanding it; that's a horse of a different color.
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Force all athletes to install PunkBuster. Any athletes who modded themseleves or are not running PunkBuster will be automatically kicked from the competition.
Looks like Senator Sununu is proposing an ammendment to strike the broadcast and radio flags from the bill. Call up your Senator and get them to support it!
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/479
It doesn't really prevent people from whistleblowing. It just says that a statement you make under the official capacity of your job is considered part of your job, not free speech, and is thus under the same restrictions/scrutiny of any other aspects of your work.
Does it make it a little harder to define something as legitimate "whisteblowing"? Probably. Is it the end of the world and the begining of an American police state? Probably not.
Or does Leonardo Da Vinci kind of sound like Jabba the Hut?
That would be sweet! It's pretty much my favorite animal...
More at 10...
Agreed. It's more a matter of using the right tool for the job. "Can" you fight in courts, "should" you fight with votes.
I mean to put "representative democracy" in quotes. The idea being that we pick people to go out and vote in the electoral college, and those people do actually vote for the President, in theory representing the views of those who picked them (although they are not required to do so)
Actually, the U.S.A. isn't a democracy. It's a Federalist Republic. The popular vote was never intended to elect the President. In fact, the framers of the Constitution designed it such that the popular vote wouldn't elect the President. We are a representative democracy where what we're actually voting for on Nov. 2 is memebers of the Electoral College who will, in theory, vote for the candidate that we put down on our ballots. Technically they are not bound to vote either way, but that's just the way the system has developed.
;-)
Those crazy guys back in the day didn't trust in the transient will of the populous or "tyranny of the majority." Do you?
Now I can drown my sorrows and stay up all night to finish my problem sets! Speaking of which...
but what about poor GNOME? We're going to run out of g-based application names! Time to develop a new g-based naming system that expands the address space...
Sure, the web/ftp/e-mail/et al "serve up primarily" copyright-compliant information. Well, at least most of the sites I know of, but I really can't make blanket statements about the whole internet. But I digress.
Just because most P2P applications today are used heavily for the trade of "non-free works" does not mean that their sole purpose is the aquisition and distribution of such. The fact of the matter is that these applications came out in a time when people wanted to trade these things and they were an easy choice (and the bandwidth started to become more plentiful). Web/e-mail/etc. was started by government types and got itself mostly established before joe schmoe could be the majority user (or at least content supplier) of it. There's plenty of copyright-infringing web sites out there, but they're surrounded by legit sites as well. (If it were possible, it would be interesting to compare the number of Warez/Music/Movies FTP sites to legit FTP sites in the pre-napster days.)
The fact of the matter is that these programs exist to share files, and the files people want to share is music/movies/porn/whatever. That's a product of the audience not the creator. Killing the creator does not fix the underlying desires of the audience and they'll simply find another way until they've got a compelling reason to play by the rules (as well as a reasonable set of rules).
Uhm... maybe you posted the wrong link, but that's about bonds against Bowie's music revenue. It doesn't seem to say much of anything about buying the rights to his own music.
I just: ;-))
;-)) I think X has the edge here over Windows, though, in supporting both methods. Why please half the people when you can please everyone? (That is, if the other half will get over the fact that Method X also exists. ;-))
1. Hit Ctrl-L (this highlights the address bar w/o copying, since you didn't actually select it manually... a little counter-intuitive if you think of it as hightlight->copy rather than select->copy, but don't think of it that way
2. Hit Del (or Backspace, if you prefer)
3. Middle-click in the address bar to paste
4. ???
5. Profit!
Seriously though, I've found selecting to copy and middle-clicking to paste more productive than the Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V version. Maybe it's just the way I use the computer, but I don't run into the "paste over another selection" problem very often, and it saves unnecessary trips to the keyboard. (I mostly paste things into empty IM text boxes or empty terminal prompts.) When I do need to paste over something, I've gotten used to deleting it first before copying the new stuff. (For URLs I do as previously stated.) Frankly, I find it frustrating now when I use Windows and can't highlight & middle-click paste.
The fact of the matter is, it's not that either method is inherently evil, it's just that people are used to one or the other, and they tend to like the one they cut their teeth on. (I grew up with Windows and like the X method, but maybe I'm the exception.
Can't we all just get along? 8-)
This has the added bonus of being able to close tabs w/ a middle-click on the tab. 8-)
To: bob@gmail.com
From: grammy@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Baby Pictures
Bob -
I got little Susie's pictures. She's a little darling, although you seemed to have attached the, uh, wrong image for susie_with_toys.jpg...
Disturbed,
Mom
It's quite possible that google's planning on launching a webmail service, just not w/ 1GB of space for each luser.
Just take whatever e-mails sandwich it. Collateral damage.... :'(
Qzzyizzywixis!
It's also a word not yet defined! Take that NASA!
What are you talking about? it's the KOOL DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT! How much better can you get than kool?!
We've got a race of super-rats living in the back alley. They're about 3-feet long, and heckle us with merciless honesty about our most sensitive insecurities...
Well, I'm a student who's slowly trying to get some credit (although I have next to none currently), buy tickets with my crappy credit cards, generally travel round trip, and often buy tickets pretty last minute, and I've gotten "selected for extra screening" every time I've passed through a "security checkpoint" since this summer.
;-)
I guess I better start paying off those credit cards, or just just gonna get worse...
Scores schmores. I'm not at the top of the numbers game, and I'm here. Personality can go a long way if you can show it in your apps. ;-)
I'm not saying it's universally applicable. A horse is different enough from a tank, that the argument really doesn't hold.
;-)
I never said it was a matter of capability, just that people brought up around newer technologies tend to be more open to it. How hard is it to program a VCR? Not very hard at all, but a lot of people can't. Not because it's too hard for them, but because they never bother to learn.
I'm only 20, there's definately people more than 30 years older than me who are 100 times more capable of dealing with some of the stuff going on in technology. But I'm not talking about specific cases, just society in general. I'm also not talking about small children using computers, children can be taught to do a great many things without actually understanding it; that's a horse of a different color.
Oh yeah, and emacs is better