The fact that they were originally allowed to just put a link; abused this and are now required to put the text on the homepage, is what is known as a 'punishment'.
Fanbois unfamiliar with the concept should think of it as being 'unfriended' by the court.
Viewers in Europe don't pay for it and are not the intended target audience.
BZZT: viewers in Europe absolutely do pay to see the BBC.
It is generally available on our cable/satellite services, and the cable and satellite providers pay a fee to the BBC for the right to rebroadcast.
Not as huge (per person) as UK licence payers fees; but as you say, we are not the intended audience (and of course, the vast majority of people getting it that way have little interest in watching it and/or cannot speak English anyway).
Judges really hate this sort of thing. Hopefully we'll get to read a transcript of what happens when Apple, and their counsel, are required to re-appear before the court..
It's important to understand that what is being discussed here is impossible; Correctly performed IQ testing cannot measure the overall intelligence of a society; just the relative performance of individuals within it.
The article author is either totally uninformed about IQ tests; or is trolling.
Awwww.. has society been being nice to people again, and delivering appropriate justice rather than the fantasies of right-wing bullies. That must really make assholes like you mad.
of course what you don't get is any useful information..
Cryptome make a big play of 'hosting things the gvmt tries to hide', but in reality it's mostly badly rendered maps of roads running through area51, unintelligible court transcripts about topics only total paranoiacs worry about, the occasional commercially sensitive dataset, etc.. Nothing of any global note, certainly nothing nearly as useful as the consular docs or stratfor stuff.
I watched how it reacted when Wikileaks got the real scoops, and it was obvious that cryptomes owner would never actually wobble the status-quo, and seemed indignant that anybody else would, especially if infringing on 'his' territory.
My sneaking suspicion is that cryptome was/is run with the full co-operation of your military-cia-fbi-industrial overlords to provide an outlet for paranoid and the tin-foil brigade, without actually doing anything that might hold them to public account.
So.. let me get this right. An object with no other purpose than killing things is NOT a weapon. Wow, you really set me straight there, we silly dizzy Europeans are just so dumb.
Fortunately, this is a geek forum and enough of us real engineers have turned up here to keep you modded up. We're too used to working with cause and effect to fall for this form of Greedism.
"unique name "AntiSec" will make it a lot easier to pattern match and track them down"
For instance, if (as I just did) you type it into google; you get taken straight to the homepage of their leader, complete with pictures of his monorail.
Someone really needs to kick the FBI's asses over this, I mean, why are they taking so long to arrest them all when it's so easy.
Humm, so the government (and therefore it's industrial masters) have now decided that patent trolls must go. I somehow doubt if this will benefit us one bit.
Most likely planned end scenario (still years of lobbying away) is that large tech firms will be allowed to 'take over' patents of anyone who lacks the resource to fight them.
A few of the bigger patent farmers might well survive this, but the wannabees will go under. Unfortunately, so will any real engineer with a genuinely good idea they have patented.
Anonymous targeted the FBI guy, he is moderately senior and very active + well known in white-hat circles; what goes around, comes around... or in your haste to fud did you skip the article, and all the articles yesterday, where it is made clear he was hacked and did not 'lose' his laptop.
The event happened in August 2010, the police issued a European arrest warrant in November that year. He fled the country and has done everything in his power to delay extradition procedures which is why it's still ongoing. Don't make things up.
Blimey, describe him leaving the country after being given formal, written, permission to do so as 'fleeing'..and then complain that people make things up..
I mostly support Assange since he is not a hypocritical manipulative little shit. Unlike you.
On the other hand, now they have found it, we all get to laugh.
What's the minimum clip length needed for a 'fair use: satire' exemption? I was thinking of putting a 14.59min rolling loop of this on someones tube, with the single comment 'LOL' and then claiming it was protected satirical speech if HBO objected.
While Google undoubtedly does some evil, the good they do outweighs it in my opinion.
I was reading their privacy/censorship report yesterday and thinking how nice it would be if Apple, FB, MS, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. all did the same.
Indeed, on the same day that Google was publicising and enumerating how much governments intrude on Privacy; the US government was refusing to say, even in broad numbers, how many US citizens enjoyed a NSA snoop session recently.
I've been doing this for 15 years now, ever since my first spam email lured me to my first spam site. I own several domains and give different emails; faked whenever I don't care if I never hear from the admen again. I invent (fictitious, but coherent) persona's for myself when answering marketeers dumb questions. I regularly complete 'Can we tediously interrupt you to gather marketing info' wonkery with entirely faked data. If I care about a website, or think a company is treating me properly, then I help them help me by being broadly honest, all others get systematically and deliberately misinformed.
My 2 point plan; which I heartily recommend: 1) Reward honesty with honesty, 2) Reward spin with spin.
And if any marketeers read this, hahaha, spin on it.
(PS: I know, from colleagues and friends, that I am not alone in doing this.)
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The fact that they were originally allowed to just put a link; abused this and are now required to put the text on the homepage, is what is known as a 'punishment'.
Fanbois unfamiliar with the concept should think of it as being 'unfriended' by the court.
Yeah; I think /. needs a 'Petard Hoisted' icon! ;-) )
(also note the byline on the article
Viewers in Europe don't pay for it and are not the intended target audience.
BZZT: viewers in Europe absolutely do pay to see the BBC.
It is generally available on our cable/satellite services, and the cable and satellite providers pay a fee to the BBC for the right to rebroadcast.
Not as huge (per person) as UK licence payers fees; but as you say, we are not the intended audience (and of course, the vast majority of people getting it that way have little interest in watching it and/or cannot speak English anyway).
"beware of the OS X Leopard".
Class!
- and come to think of it; Apple fanbois resemble Vogons in so many ways.
Judges really hate this sort of thing. Hopefully we'll get to read a transcript of what happens when Apple, and their counsel, are required to re-appear before the court..
Mod this up please!
It's important to understand that what is being discussed here is impossible; Correctly performed IQ testing cannot measure the overall intelligence of a society; just the relative performance of individuals within it.
The article author is either totally uninformed about IQ tests; or is trolling.
The better question is why are ebooks subjected to VAT in the first place when printed books are not.
Same for bookcases and comfy chairs to read books in.. ..It's utterly disgraceful that these are not sold tax-free too!
printing billions in quality counterfeit western currency
Actually; that's what our governments do too..
It's called 'quantitative easing'.
I think you accidentally ended up in an adult forum; BBC kids site is here; or try the daily mail.
Awwww.. has society been being nice to people again, and delivering appropriate justice rather than the fantasies of right-wing bullies.
That must really make assholes like you mad.
of course what you don't get is any useful information..
Cryptome make a big play of 'hosting things the gvmt tries to hide', but in reality it's mostly badly rendered maps of roads running through area51, unintelligible court transcripts about topics only total paranoiacs worry about, the occasional commercially sensitive dataset, etc.. Nothing of any global note, certainly nothing nearly as useful as the consular docs or stratfor stuff.
I watched how it reacted when Wikileaks got the real scoops, and it was obvious that cryptomes owner would never actually wobble the status-quo, and seemed indignant that anybody else would, especially if infringing on 'his' territory.
My sneaking suspicion is that cryptome was/is run with the full co-operation of your military-cia-fbi-industrial overlords to provide an outlet for paranoid and the tin-foil brigade, without actually doing anything that might hold them to public account.
So.. let me get this right. An object with no other purpose than killing things is NOT a weapon.
Wow, you really set me straight there, we silly dizzy Europeans are just so dumb.
So the the best example of something wholly made 'made in America' is a weapon.
Well done.
Fortunately, this is a geek forum and enough of us real engineers have turned up here to keep you modded up. We're too used to working with cause and effect to fall for this form of Greedism.
"unique name "AntiSec" will make it a lot easier to pattern match and track them down"
For instance, if (as I just did) you type it into google; you get taken straight to the homepage of their leader, complete with pictures of his monorail.
Someone really needs to kick the FBI's asses over this, I mean, why are they taking so long to arrest them all when it's so easy.
Humm, so the government (and therefore it's industrial masters) have now decided that patent trolls must go. I somehow doubt if this will benefit us one bit.
Most likely planned end scenario (still years of lobbying away) is that large tech firms will be allowed to 'take over' patents of anyone who lacks the resource to fight them.
A few of the bigger patent farmers might well survive this, but the wannabees will go under. Unfortunately, so will any real engineer with a genuinely good idea they have patented.
Actually it looks like this:
(1) * (1) * (odds anon target well known fbi man and hack into his laptop over the evil internet)
Anonymous targeted the FBI guy, he is moderately senior and very active + well known in white-hat circles; what goes around, comes around. .. or in your haste to fud did you skip the article, and all the articles yesterday, where it is made clear he was hacked and did not 'lose' his laptop.
I wonder what his lawyer told him about taking these notes and then releasing them.
I'm sure the lawyer told him what the law is.. So that he can then make his own decision as to whether to comply with a restriction on his freedom.
I, for one, am glad that he followed what the constitution, and the basic principles of any truly free society, tells him instead.
The event happened in August 2010, the police issued a European arrest warrant in November that year. He fled the country and has done everything in his power to delay extradition procedures which is why it's still ongoing. Don't make things up.
Blimey, describe him leaving the country after being given formal, written, permission to do so as 'fleeing' ..and then complain that people make things up..
I mostly support Assange since he is not a hypocritical manipulative little shit. Unlike you.
Yeah.. very true..
On the other hand, now they have found it, we all get to laugh.
What's the minimum clip length needed for a 'fair use: satire' exemption? I was thinking of putting a 14.59min rolling loop of this on someones tube, with the single comment 'LOL' and then claiming it was protected satirical speech if HBO objected.
Since when has Paypal been concerned about quality of service to ANYONE?
Only for us little people...
They gave Joe Lieberman fantastic service.
She has repeatedly stuck her tongue up News Internationals corporate arse and licked as hard as possible.
While Google undoubtedly does some evil, the good they do outweighs it in my opinion.
I was reading their privacy/censorship report yesterday and thinking how nice it would be if Apple, FB, MS, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. all did the same.
Indeed, on the same day that Google was publicising and enumerating how much governments intrude on Privacy; the US government was refusing to say, even in broad numbers, how many US citizens enjoyed a NSA snoop session recently.
I've been doing this for 15 years now, ever since my first spam email lured me to my first spam site.
I own several domains and give different emails; faked whenever I don't care if I never hear from the admen again.
I invent (fictitious, but coherent) persona's for myself when answering marketeers dumb questions. I regularly complete 'Can we tediously interrupt you to gather marketing info' wonkery with entirely faked data. If I care about a website, or think a company is treating me properly, then I help them help me by being broadly honest, all others get systematically and deliberately misinformed.
My 2 point plan; which I heartily recommend:
1) Reward honesty with honesty,
2) Reward spin with spin.
And if any marketeers read this, hahaha, spin on it.
(PS: I know, from colleagues and friends, that I am not alone in doing this.)