I'm sorry for starting this. I apologize profusely for wanting multiple millions of people see improvements in their lives as the direct result of their standing up on their hind legs against their tyrannical dictator.
This was not trolling. It's just perspective.
Rock on George Hotz!
But I'd love to see all those people free from what's been suffocating them for decades.
Freeing PS3 users is good Karma, sure! Seeing millions begin to enjoy political & economic freedom, sweet!
This is important in a different way. Nobody's life is in the balance, but consumer freedoms are. Just because there are more important things in the world does not mean everything else is unimportant.
I never meant to trivialize this, just to add perspective. I don't own a PS-anything, but I applaud GeoHot for cracking the things open. Sony's stupid for removing Other OS, I agree, and they should have no right to remove it. They now get to essentially copy all his harddrives, why?!?
However, the fact that multiple tyrants are potentially making plans to relocate, and millions (whole countries) are potentially about to see political and economic reform (freedom?), possibly even non-corrupted officials, really does make cracking a ps3 a small thing in comparison.
Yes, one murdered by a church, the other hounded for all his days for disagreeing with doctrine. No Muslims necessary; every sect fsck's itself eventually.
So long as countries in the Middle East are controlled by Islam it will always be this way, Islam does not allow for freedom.
Yeah, yeah. I raise you Giordano Bruno and Galileo. And birth control.
Learn a sense of history! It was Arabs who saved Hellenic Greek writings for us to rediscover. Life is all ebb and flow! I'd rather they were with us. You, apparently, just want to make their lands glow. How enlightened of you.
It's actually a lot more complicated than this. China buys a TON of natural resources from Canada...
Which is pretty damned incredible when you stop to think about it. How the heck does Canada have a market in China when China's next door to Russia, the rest of the Orient, and Europe?!? Russia ought to be cleaning up, yet we ship across the Pacific?
Well, it's a language barrier thing. Canadian for "fuck off" is "would you please consider leaving at your convenience?":)
As a Canadian, this comment offends me. Sorry about that.
Well, as another Canadian, you're not allowed to feel offended at that. Canucks have kicked holy butt down through the years. Ask the Dutch what they think of us. Ask my dad what it was like to freeze your butt off in the tail of a B-17 bomber acting as targets to make the me-109s come up to try to kill you.
Besides, Const. Benton Fraser made one hell of a great gig out of exactly this (Due South). "Thank you kindly." No need for beligerence. I'll hold the door open for you to leave. Good day.
Where do I start? The banking system has a secure network backbone that's not connected to the Internet. Still, wire transfers across that secure network take 1-3 days, the transaction is often verified via Fax (!?!) transmissions. If it's not there when you expect it to be there, they'll look into it (you pay the fee).
Why do 21st Century banks not know about crypto-signed email in the 21st Century? Crypto-signed wired money transfers, ca. 5 seconds, done.
They don't have to know. Why should they care about esoterica like this?!?
Nokia failed to persuade themselves that they should completely invest in Linux and drop Symbian.
I've gotta wonder if this is yet another successful example of Microsoft's penchant for torpedoing $BLAH, by parachuting a former MS exec into Nokia. MS must have spies everywhere to be able to do this.
"Holy !@#$, Nokia's built a brilliant tablet phone that can be a Linux server in your pocket! *&^%"
"Well, get one of our guys in there to kill it fast. Simple."
No need to blame Nokia, except for accepting the bribe from MS. fsck.
82% of Egyptians dislike the U.S. " the highest unfavorable rating among the 18 Muslim nations Pew surveyed."
I too would dislike the country that supported my dictator. Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, Mubarak, Saudis, numerous south & central American dictators,... It seems the only one that avoids this opprobrium is Israel, perhaps because they have bigger and badder stuff to fear (annihilation) than mere tyrants, maybe? Yes, I do consider Zionism tyrannical; the new constitution just disenfranchised non-Jews, didn't it?
The US strip searches its own citizens, FFS, for the crime of wanting to travel.
Honestly, it sometimes seems miraculous that the US has any friends at all, including among its own citizens.
Did you know, if they STILL DON'T support it that means they NEVER DID support it?
Read much? He didn't ask whether it supported it. He asked if it was still going to work. I strongly suspect IPv4 is going to be supported for a long time to come, and IPv6 routers will handle IPv4 for him for just as long.
Why do you ACs come here? To insult people on purpose? Bullies beat you up in recess today, and you felt the need to lash out at something, anything?
I'm so sick of the greedy, selfish assholes the current generation of baby boomers has turned in to... Thank God they are on the way out and the younger generation is much more in tune with an enlightened society.
Good luck with that. Everyone I know dismiss them as shallow Facebookers, who can't even be bothered to use email, don't know any OS's other than Win* or Mac,...
Your future, with even dumber people than you knew previously!
... the younger generation is much more in tune with an enlightened society.
Who are "your own people?" I thought we were all in this together, against the Banksters, the Bernie Madoffs, the scammers & spammers, the regulatory capturers...
What side are you on? There is this thing called right vs. wrong, you know. Who cares where someone lives if they aspire to the same ideals you do?!?
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I'm sorry for starting this. I apologize profusely for wanting multiple millions of people see improvements in their lives as the direct result of their standing up on their hind legs against their tyrannical dictator.
This was not trolling. It's just perspective.
Rock on George Hotz!
But I'd love to see all those people free from what's been suffocating them for decades.
Freeing PS3 users is good Karma, sure! Seeing millions begin to enjoy political & economic freedom, sweet!
Guys, guys, Egypt holds 79 million population. Revolutions don't take all their participation, just their willing co-operation.
Ahmadinejad is a US planted double agent!?!
Whoa, good one!
I never meant to trivialize this, just to add perspective. I don't own a PS-anything, but I applaud GeoHot for cracking the things open. Sony's stupid for removing Other OS, I agree, and they should have no right to remove it. They now get to essentially copy all his harddrives, why?!?
However, the fact that multiple tyrants are potentially making plans to relocate, and millions (whole countries) are potentially about to see political and economic reform (freedom?), possibly even non-corrupted officials, really does make cracking a ps3 a small thing in comparison.
Good on George for doing it, but he's no Gandhi.
"During this period the Muslim world became an intellectual centre for science, philosophy, medicine and education as the Abbasids championed the cause of knowledge and established the "House of Wisdom" (Arabic: ØÙSØ ØÙØÙfÙ...Ø©) in Baghdad; where both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars sought to translate and gather all the world's knowledge into Arabic. Many classic works of antiquity that would otherwise have been forgotten were translated into Arabic and later in turn translated into Turkish, Persian, Hebrew and Latin." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_history#History
Yes, one murdered by a church, the other hounded for all his days for disagreeing with doctrine. No Muslims necessary; every sect fsck's itself eventually.
I hope.
Yeah, yeah. I raise you Giordano Bruno and Galileo. And birth control.
Learn a sense of history! It was Arabs who saved Hellenic Greek writings for us to rediscover. Life is all ebb and flow! I'd rather they were with us. You, apparently, just want to make their lands glow. How enlightened of you.
Really!?! Millions of people in previously authoritarian ruled countries social organize and tell their ruler(s), nope, not goin' along anymore.
It is never a small blip when a people/nation erupt together in indignation.
With respect, what's happening in Tunisia, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Bahrain, ...
Is important. This's just fun. Have some perspective. Carry on.
Isn't the whole point of FB to invade the users' lives?
Yeah, you refuted that argument real well. :-P
Er, what? China's promoting ethnic diversity? What're they doing that for? I thought they were into persecuting it or ignoring it exists.
Which is pretty damned incredible when you stop to think about it. How the heck does Canada have a market in China when China's next door to Russia, the rest of the Orient, and Europe?!? Russia ought to be cleaning up, yet we ship across the Pacific?
Weird.
Sorry, ignore that comment please & thanks.
Considering the vast majority of those males come by two naturally, you're off by a factor of fifty?
Well, as another Canadian, you're not allowed to feel offended at that. Canucks have kicked holy butt down through the years. Ask the Dutch what they think of us. Ask my dad what it was like to freeze your butt off in the tail of a B-17 bomber acting as targets to make the me-109s come up to try to kill you.
Besides, Const. Benton Fraser made one hell of a great gig out of exactly this (Due South). "Thank you kindly." No need for beligerence. I'll hold the door open for you to leave. Good day.
Elucidate, oh Genius/PolyMath/Insightful wizard, please!
Meh.
Where do I start? The banking system has a secure network backbone that's not connected to the Internet. Still, wire transfers across that secure network take 1-3 days, the transaction is often verified via Fax (!?!) transmissions. If it's not there when you expect it to be there, they'll look into it (you pay the fee).
Why do 21st Century banks not know about crypto-signed email in the 21st Century? Crypto-signed wired money transfers, ca. 5 seconds, done.
They don't have to know. Why should they care about esoterica like this?!?
Bloody hell.
I've gotta wonder if this is yet another successful example of Microsoft's penchant for torpedoing $BLAH, by parachuting a former MS exec into Nokia. MS must have spies everywhere to be able to do this.
"Holy !@#$, Nokia's built a brilliant tablet phone that can be a Linux server in your pocket! *&^%"
"Well, get one of our guys in there to kill it fast. Simple."
No need to blame Nokia, except for accepting the bribe from MS. fsck.
I too would dislike the country that supported my dictator. Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein, Mubarak, Saudis, numerous south & central American dictators, ... It seems the only one that avoids this opprobrium is Israel, perhaps because they have bigger and badder stuff to fear (annihilation) than mere tyrants, maybe? Yes, I do consider Zionism tyrannical; the new constitution just disenfranchised non-Jews, didn't it?
The US strip searches its own citizens, FFS, for the crime of wanting to travel.
Honestly, it sometimes seems miraculous that the US has any friends at all, including among its own citizens.
Nah, you got bullied in recess today. And using four letter cusswords excites you, dumbass.
Read much? He didn't ask whether it supported it. He asked if it was still going to work. I strongly suspect IPv4 is going to be supported for a long time to come, and IPv6 routers will handle IPv4 for him for just as long.
Why do you ACs come here? To insult people on purpose? Bullies beat you up in recess today, and you felt the need to lash out at something, anything?
I don't know the guy, but I know our job is separate the ethicists from the charlatans.
Good luck with that. Everyone I know dismiss them as shallow Facebookers, who can't even be bothered to use email, don't know any OS's other than Win* or Mac, ...
Your future, with even dumber people than you knew previously!
Now that's damned funny!
Who are "your own people?" I thought we were all in this together, against the Banksters, the Bernie Madoffs, the scammers & spammers, the regulatory capturers ...
What side are you on? There is this thing called right vs. wrong, you know. Who cares where someone lives if they aspire to the same ideals you do?!?