This paper carefully doesn't discuss the ideological permissibility of control, i.e. whether the authority relationship is parent-child, employer-employee, or government-citizen. That's a social matter, a philosophical debate. The point here is that forbidding all privacy, anonymity, and even something as innocuous as language translation services, is a technical requirement of censorware. But people should be cautioned that there is no magic that says such control is technically effective in one context but not in another. Or, more concretely, maybe you can censor the net.
Twiggs said his minisatellites are a valuable tool, even if their utility is not yet clear.
"To me, it's kind of like the Internet. What could you do with the Internet five years ago?" he said. "And now look at all the applications they've got."
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The problem with windows is that it has no decent window manager. I simply cannot get anything done on windows. It is not possible for me to work multiple shells, browsers and compiles at once. And I cant configure it to do so. And its institutional ugly. All these UI advantages Windows or the Mac has over X are median advantages that mean dick in my particular case. I dont care how easy it is for computer illiterates to use windows or a mac. Their ease is my torture.
Have you tried Litestep and the various virtual desktop utils available for Windows? Maybe you did and found them lacking, but at least there is something like that out there. --
What about Scour the search engine?
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The title of the posting is "Scour is dead", the body says "Scour Exchange is dead" and the press release says:
We asked for and received the bankruptcy court's permission to shut down Scour Exchange to facilitate a resolution of the massive copyright infringement lawsuit pending against Scour.
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Scour's other services are still up and running and available at www.scour.com, so enjoy!
Does this mean that Scour is bankrupt and the search engine is dead, or is it somehow "partially bankrupt" and able to continue with the search engine? --
The ingredients in Bergeron's gel are dirt cheap; sodium
lauryl sulfate is used in ordinary shampoo. Tests- including
one that Bergeron conducted on himself- show it to be
non-toxic and non-irritating.
It was claimed in the *CD discussion that the scheme doesn't rely on direct access to the stations' playlist. Instead, their radio tuners monitor several stations and run something like Songprint to recognise the songs. Their FAQ backs that up. --
One way a first post can be redundant is if it just repeats information in the article. This post does a lot of that, but also provides other information so this moderation was uncalled for. Although not applicable to this case, another way for a first post to be redundant is in a larger context. If a statement has been repeated a lot in prior discussions, it may be considered redundant when posted first in a new discussion (e.g. Boewulf!).
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Why the hell don't the people of the USA just rename their country to "AAA American States United"? That way it would always be on top. Problem solved!:-)
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You say "suicide is wrong" like it's an absolute truth despite the fact that the issue has been debated over and over and no common conclusion has been reached. Since you're clearly open to that kind of argument, let me present you with a similar one: Telling people that they need to continue their lives, no matter how much mental anguish and physical agony they're in, no matter how certain they are that before they die of a debilitating disease their family will have to watch them slowly drained of their joy of living, their mental faculties, their dignity, their very humanity--because of some belief that you hold--is wrong. How can anyone who even pretends to support human dignity say that? --
Am I the only one disappointed by people's use of "kph" instead of "km/h"? I really think the m deserves to be included. Otherwise it's just kilos per hour.
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I imagine that just like in the my.mp3.com case, the fact that you can copy your own CD doesn't mean you can copy somebody else's CD, even if that CD is for all rational intents and purposes identical to yours (copies of it are totally indistinguishable from copies of your own).
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I'm running test8 as well. If I leave the machine alone for a a few hours I find it covered in dust and cobwebs when I return. As I switch desktops and cause windows to be repainted, I can actually see them being drawn piece by piece, accompanied by a barrage of disk access. Then all is well again. Test8 is not without problems. --
That's two times the US government has leaked information through this particular Acrobat feature. Don't these people ever learn? Don't they read Slashdot?! <g> --
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Oh yeah, I can totally see how the fact that an exec at this company was a chairman of the RIAA at one point constitutes a "catch".
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Does this mean that Scour is bankrupt and the search engine is dead, or is it somehow "partially bankrupt" and able to continue with the search engine?
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It was claimed in the *CD discussion that the scheme doesn't rely on direct access to the stations' playlist. Instead, their radio tuners monitor several stations and run something like Songprint to recognise the songs. Their FAQ backs that up.
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One way a first post can be redundant is if it just repeats information in the article. This post does a lot of that, but also provides other information so this moderation was uncalled for. Although not applicable to this case, another way for a first post to be redundant is in a larger context. If a statement has been repeated a lot in prior discussions, it may be considered redundant when posted first in a new discussion (e.g. Boewulf!).
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Surely your uptime is worth more than the price of an externam modem, no?
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BTW: Where do you go to have your country renamed? Is there a standard form?
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And regardless of whether it's legal or illegal, distributing the stolen Microsoft code is wrong.
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You say "suicide is wrong" like it's an absolute truth despite the fact that the issue has been debated over and over and no common conclusion has been reached. Since you're clearly open to that kind of argument, let me present you with a similar one: Telling people that they need to continue their lives, no matter how much mental anguish and physical agony they're in, no matter how certain they are that before they die of a debilitating disease their family will have to watch them slowly drained of their joy of living, their mental faculties, their dignity, their very humanity--because of some belief that you hold--is wrong. How can anyone who even pretends to support human dignity say that?
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Here's one explanation of what clean-room reverse engineering really is.
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Hehe. "WTF is up with my ping? Fucking packet loss! Shumacher: What kind of connection are you on?"
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I see. Yoda was just a burnt out FORTH programmer.
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Am I the only one disappointed by people's use of "kph" instead of "km/h"? I really think the m deserves to be included. Otherwise it's just kilos per hour.
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That should be "whoever", not "whomever".
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I propose that moderation privileges be withheld until the candidate has passed a multiple choice exam on the meaning of the moderation descriptions.
The grading script should probably be written by someone other than CmdrTaco.
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I imagine that just like in the my.mp3.com case, the fact that you can copy your own CD doesn't mean you can copy somebody else's CD, even if that CD is for all rational intents and purposes identical to yours (copies of it are totally indistinguishable from copies of your own).
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I'm running test8 as well. If I leave the machine alone for a a few hours I find it covered in dust and cobwebs when I return. As I switch desktops and cause windows to be repainted, I can actually see them being drawn piece by piece, accompanied by a barrage of disk access. Then all is well again. Test8 is not without problems.
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That's two times the US government has leaked information through this particular Acrobat feature. Don't these people ever learn? Don't they read Slashdot?! <g>
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