Yes, it does work perfectly, because it works perfectly against the 99% of the population that the censors care about. The fact that you or I can get around it with trivial ease is irrelevant. Ask the Chinese.
> I often wonder how great it would be for new (or smaller, or hobbyist, or cash-starved, > or early in SDLC, or whatever) developers if more companies open-sourced these assets.
And, as someone upthread explained, that is exactly why companies like EA do not release code.
If you are a Fortune 1000 company, you send documents OpenOffice can't deal with back to the suppliers who submitted them and tell them to get it right next time or lose the contract, same as you did back when you were using Microsoft Office.
> If they had a culture that was mainly revenue-focused, I'd expect this idea to get shot > down, because some penny-pincher would argue that they'd make more money from people > uploading duplicates of these giant data sets over and over.
And a clever marketing man would counter that this is an opportunity to achieve lock-in by establishing exclusive access to a large number of datasets. Once people have built large, complex applications that use a number of these datasets in Amazon's environment and format it will very difficult for them to move elsewhere. To marketing people "community"=="locked-in customers".
How is there "no charge to the community" when the data is accessible only to paying Amazon customers? I have no objection to them doing this, but the hype is a bit much. I guess the only "community" that matters to Amazon is the one consisting of Amazon customers.
I expect that Berlusconi's definition of "regulate the Internet" is "make it stop competing with my television stations". Italians are to get their porn exclusively from him.
I've contacted CenturyTel twice over the years about problems with my line. Both times I got a prompt, courteous, and helpful response. I alsp had pretty good support from their predecessor, GTE North.
> Better still, a separate report issued yesterday by Ofcom revealed that the majority of > broadband users had no idea about the speed of their connection anyway.
Perhaps this indicates that it just doesn't matter much to them. Hard as it may be for Slashdotters to believe, there are many people who do not regularly download entire operating systems and unauthorized copies of full-length movies.
> The reality is, someone has a habit, which they feel is damaging their life in some way. > Why is it necessary to spend so much time "defining" addiction.
Because once you define an addiction you can build an industry around it.
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What trouble can fraud and scamming get them into?
Uhm, no. That is what almost nobody does in China.
Yes, it does work perfectly, because it works perfectly against the 99% of the population that the censors care about. The fact that you or I can get around it with trivial ease is irrelevant. Ask the Chinese.
> I can't help but wonder what blocking the image is supposed to accomplish.
It will protect the ISPs from accusations of failing to block the image.
Erlang and Haskell, of course. Just the other day here Intel told us all how only functional programming can save Moore's law.
> why do you think the project failed?
There are so many reasons...
> I often wonder how great it would be for new (or smaller, or hobbyist, or cash-starved,
> or early in SDLC, or whatever) developers if more companies open-sourced these assets.
And, as someone upthread explained, that is exactly why companies like EA do not release code.
Or you could just pick one at random...
> A communications authority could easly require that certain of the 128 bits addr
> contain UIDs.
The same authority could require that ISPs keep accurate, detailed logs and retain them forever.
If you are a Fortune 1000 company, you send documents OpenOffice can't deal with back to the suppliers who submitted them and tell them to get it right next time or lose the contract, same as you did back when you were using Microsoft Office.
> If they had a culture that was mainly revenue-focused, I'd expect this idea to get shot
> down, because some penny-pincher would argue that they'd make more money from people
> uploading duplicates of these giant data sets over and over.
And a clever marketing man would counter that this is an opportunity to achieve lock-in by establishing exclusive access to a large number of datasets. Once people have built large, complex applications that use a number of these datasets in Amazon's environment and format it will very difficult for them to move elsewhere. To marketing people "community"=="locked-in customers".
How is there "no charge to the community" when the data is accessible only to paying Amazon customers? I have no objection to them doing this, but the hype is a bit much. I guess the only "community" that matters to Amazon is the one consisting of Amazon customers.
I expect that Berlusconi's definition of "regulate the Internet" is "make it stop competing with my television stations". Italians are to get their porn exclusively from him.
> Hence, you can be fairly certain, but it is not the same thing as a proof.
Are you doing math or physics, though?
Where did you publish?
In the US you have a year to file after disclosure.
I would think that most of the people reading this are aware that the LHC is located in the Northern hemisphere.
Mod parent up. That looks like just the thing.
...each running 'tail -f' on a log file.
It just means changing form over time.
You confound elements with minerals.
I've contacted CenturyTel twice over the years about problems with my line. Both times I got a prompt, courteous, and helpful response. I alsp had pretty good support from their predecessor, GTE North.
> Better still, a separate report issued yesterday by Ofcom revealed that the majority of
> broadband users had no idea about the speed of their connection anyway.
Perhaps this indicates that it just doesn't matter much to them. Hard as it may be for Slashdotters to believe, there are many people who do not regularly download entire operating systems and unauthorized copies of full-length movies.
> The reality is, someone has a habit, which they feel is damaging their life in some way.
> Why is it necessary to spend so much time "defining" addiction.
Because once you define an addiction you can build an industry around it.
Right. You're just a drunkard.