It's totally reasonable for a company to have every employee in a management position within a few years, while unpaid interns do all the actual work. What could possibly go wrong with this model?
How many users would really able to use this? Running your own server seems kind of extreme for the average user, and setting up maildir seems like a non-starter.
Alexander's defense seems to amount to "See? We stopped terrorist plots using these programs!"
That's not really much of a defense, since it doesn't claim that these programs are the ONLY way to stop the terrorist plots in question. At least FTA, it seems he did not make any attempt to argue that a less invasive program would have been unsuccessful.
There are a lot of things that if source code was available, other people could build on it and make higher quality products. In the absence of source code, people need to start from scratch often rebuilding the wheel.
That doesn't seem true for the most part.
All open source does with regard to code reuse is that it makes it painfully obvious how much redundancy there is. The spat between the different Linux display managers is one recent example, but I'm sure you can think of many others.
As for why this is, there's many reasons: incompatible licenses, NIH syndrome, incompatible technologies/versions, copyright assignment, etc. Getting people to work together towards a common goal over the long term is a lot harder than slapping the right license on your code.
The issue here isn't exactly net neutrality, it's that Google has to have some way of stopping users from sucking up all the bandwidth.
If the ISPs quit insisting on these fake "unlimited" bandwidth plans, there wouldn't be a need to have weird rules to stop people from running high-bandwidth servers.
And you're missing MY point. Who is going to pilot a plane when you can make far more than that driving a bus or working in coffe shop?
You can blame people for being "entitled" or whatever this year's buzzword is, but frankly do you want people who are so bad at math they can't even make reasonable decisions about their own salary to be flying you around? Does that make you feel safe?
The companies in this story were renamed "Atari" somewhat recently:
Atari Inc. was formerly GT Interactive Atari SA and Atari Europe were formerly Infogrames Entertainment
The French company Infogrames purchased GT Interactive and Hasbro Interactive. In the late 90's/early 2000's Hasbro bought the rights to the old Atari games and naming rights, which is what allowed Infogrames to rebrand the main company and their various divisions as "Atari."
Seriously? Now, private, for-profit companies are just asking people for cash? What kind of balls does it take to do that? And, somewhat related, what kind of idiot would give them money?
Private, for-profit companies have been doing pre-orders for years. There's nothing new here.
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Could it simply be that there's fewer accidents after 9 PM, regardless as to whether people are on the phone or not?
Call me crazy, but I always assumed more accidents took place during rush hour than after.
Gee, you mean companies don't really spend $80,000 on unproven hardware, sight unseen?
How many other phones double as a desktop computer?
It's totally reasonable for a company to have every employee in a management position within a few years, while unpaid interns do all the actual work. What could possibly go wrong with this model?
How many users would really able to use this? Running your own server seems kind of extreme for the average user, and setting up maildir seems like a non-starter.
You mean a link to the paper, like the one in the third paragraph of the article?
Alexander's defense seems to amount to "See? We stopped terrorist plots using these programs!"
That's not really much of a defense, since it doesn't claim that these programs are the ONLY way to stop the terrorist plots in question. At least FTA, it seems he did not make any attempt to argue that a less invasive program would have been unsuccessful.
Anyone else immediately think of the remote control car from Tomorrow Never Dies?
These days you could run the remote app on just about any smartphone...
That doesn't seem true for the most part.
All open source does with regard to code reuse is that it makes it painfully obvious how much redundancy there is. The spat between the different Linux display managers is one recent example, but I'm sure you can think of many others.
As for why this is, there's many reasons: incompatible licenses, NIH syndrome, incompatible technologies/versions, copyright assignment, etc. Getting people to work together towards a common goal over the long term is a lot harder than slapping the right license on your code.
The issue here isn't exactly net neutrality, it's that Google has to have some way of stopping users from sucking up all the bandwidth.
If the ISPs quit insisting on these fake "unlimited" bandwidth plans, there wouldn't be a need to have weird rules to stop people from running high-bandwidth servers.
And you're missing MY point. Who is going to pilot a plane when you can make far more than that driving a bus or working in coffe shop?
You can blame people for being "entitled" or whatever this year's buzzword is, but frankly do you want people who are so bad at math they can't even make reasonable decisions about their own salary to be flying you around? Does that make you feel safe?
$20k is enough to live in your parents basement, I guess. That's about as much as you could make working part time at a cafe.
Just because the airlines can get away with paying so little doesn't mean they should.
* Put CCTV cameras up near common targets
* Restrict sales of spraypaint to adults
* Beat patrols
See? Tagging isn't so hard to solve.
Two of the researchers who wrote this work at NASA. Seems questionable at best to charge for research that was conducted with public funds.
I spent a lot of time reading free news online, and I have to say you get what you pay for (present company excluded, of course.)
Much online news seems like it was written by unpaid interns at media companies who are on tight deadlines. There's a reason for that.
Nah, I'm sure DARPA considered this possibility before deciding to fund Tor.
That isn't very comforting without knowing the hacker's intentions. For all we know, maybe your password was the only one they wanted.
Qt is perfectly themeable, but if you want a more modern look you should really be using QML at this point.
Not if your commercial plans involve getting in to certain app stores.
The companies in this story were renamed "Atari" somewhat recently:
Atari Inc. was formerly GT Interactive
Atari SA and Atari Europe were formerly Infogrames Entertainment
The French company Infogrames purchased GT Interactive and Hasbro Interactive. In the late 90's/early 2000's Hasbro bought the rights to the old Atari games and naming rights, which is what allowed Infogrames to rebrand the main company and their various divisions as "Atari."
Did you actually look at the IndieGoGo page? A few people are throwing free cash at a millionare's company, sure. But most of them are pre-orders.
Private, for-profit companies have been doing pre-orders for years. There's nothing new here.
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Try to fix a bug in Firefox and get back to me.
Headline says gigabyte network, then the summary says gigabit. Finally, it turns out it's 100mbps.
By the time you finish reading this comment it will be 56k.