They have to frequent luxury hotels sometimes! They have a budget to spend, and you just can't waste millions in a place like Ghana. Harrods on the other hand...
The corporate matters more, and has more rights, than the individual.
Huge amounts of military spending. An economy based on a military/Industrial complex.
Military backed imperialism
Silencing of dissent at home.
Socialism for the rich, Capitalism for the poor.
...and then you wonder why the rest of the world hates the hypocisy! ha ha
It's kinda strange and slightly amusing that out of 260 million Americans the Bush's are probably more connected to Bin Laden than any others via OIL and the CIA. Ironic!
...this kid couldn't afford the hundreds of dollars to buy OFFICE legit? Perhaps he really wanted/needed to write an essay for school? It isn't as if he was stealing a game?
Well it seems the Judges and lawyers waste valuable time and a huge amount of money while the judge grapples with understanding the technology involved in each case. Even then there is a risk that judges are making decisions an unsound technological understanding. A speciality court could assume a great deal of knowledge on behalf of judges resulting in quicker, cheaper and more informed decsions.
How many small time companies can afford to pay lawyers while a judge spends day after day trying to get his or her head around the basics of the technology?
How open to FUD is the system while judges don't know what they are really dealing with?
The Supreme Court is a speciality court dealing with constitutional law. The Family Court specialises in family law. This is because they are very complicated areas. In other areas of society we employ specialist professionals (an aeronautical engineer handles different work to a naval engineer or civil engineer), why should the law necessarily be different?
I'd rather have a judge who knows that Word Perfect and MS Word are different products making decsisions whihc have big ramifications on the Net and technological sector!
Stuart Lynn, CEO of ICANN, announced today that the board has appointed a new member - Mr William Gates. Lynn said: "Mr Gates will help ICANN function as a strong organisation, dedicated to core values and open participation".
Mr Lynn also announced that the Internet will now be officially renamed.NET and all domain names which do not include ".msn" will be banned.
Jon Katz, infamous/. reporter, asked whether "all our domains are belong to Microsoft?" which Mr Lynn dismissed by stating: "You are either with us or against us".
It seems to me that Movies are getting longer, not shorter. Take Lord of the Rings for instance! MOst of the movies I've seen lately could have finished in half the time to no ill effect on the story line. If anything the marketroids seem to be adding on time to make everything damn obvious or get in more product placements. Wrapping up an ending neatly sucks, it takes something away from the viewer. Sometimes more is said by not saying it.
For example - Star Wars should never have had that stupid medal presentation scene at the end. It was completely unecessary.
Didn't Google get a [new] CEO recently? Coincidence?
It seems that when anything cool gets a CEO or gets bought up by some big company run by CEOs, it degenerates into some useless quasi-portal/online shop:(
Fingers crossed Google doesn't go this way - without Google the Internet would be half as good.
Is that people think that the human species will be wiped out only when the Sun dies billions of years from now.
Personally I think we will kill ourselves much much much sooner, through either warfare, environmental destruction, or some fool will engineer a virus that will kill EVERYONE...
The death of the sun should be the least of our worries.
I just installed Mandrake 8.1 and the install went beautifully. I had to reinstall a version of windows as well at around the same time and it was a pain in the butt. Mandrake took around 40 minutes from pushing the on button to browsing/. Windows took in total about 4-6 hours of stuffing around - with a dozen reboots:( I've gone in to the Windows partition once since I put linux on.
I did take a while to work out the./configure Make make install business...and some programs which come with Mandrake don't seem to work. But that will come with time!
until someone unleashes a virus that does some serious damage. If I was a "terrorist" hell bent on punishing the Western world for whatever percieved sins, I'd be learning how to make, or hiring programmers, to unleash a truely destructive virus.
It's been said many times before, but I'll say it again, any monoculture is far more vulnerable to attack than a diverse system. Relying on one system, be it Microsoft or even Linux, is foolish.
The destruction of the Microsoft monopoly is not just a matter of helping improve competition, it is a serious security matter. No amount of campaign donations or legal semantics should distract the government from its task of providing security.
Great, all we need now is the Bokanovsky's Process and we have reached the Brave New World. Exactly why are they doing this?
"A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.
"And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room."[...]
"Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!" The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm. "You really know where you are. For the first time in history." He quoted the planetary motto. "Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved."
Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology.
Slashdot Mirror
They have to frequent luxury hotels sometimes! They have a budget to spend, and you just can't waste millions in a place like Ghana. Harrods on the other hand...
Imagine how long it would take to defrag the whole Internet!
(Goodbye precious Karma)
The corporate matters more, and has more rights, than the individual.
Huge amounts of military spending. An economy based on a military/Industrial complex.
Military backed imperialism
Silencing of dissent at home.
Socialism for the rich, Capitalism for the poor.
...and then you wonder why the rest of the world hates the hypocisy! ha ha
It's kinda strange and slightly amusing that out of 260 million Americans the Bush's are probably more connected to Bin Laden than any others via OIL and the CIA. Ironic!
...this kid couldn't afford the hundreds of dollars to buy OFFICE legit? Perhaps he really wanted/needed to write an essay for school? It isn't as if he was stealing a game?
I say good one for using his initiative!
If your Karma is 50, why do you post at only 1?
Well it seems the Judges and lawyers waste valuable time and a huge amount of money while the judge grapples with understanding the technology involved in each case. Even then there is a risk that judges are making decisions an unsound technological understanding. A speciality court could assume a great deal of knowledge on behalf of judges resulting in quicker, cheaper and more informed decsions.
How many small time companies can afford to pay lawyers while a judge spends day after day trying to get his or her head around the basics of the technology?
How open to FUD is the system while judges don't know what they are really dealing with?
The Supreme Court is a speciality court dealing with constitutional law. The Family Court specialises in family law. This is because they are very complicated areas. In other areas of society we employ specialist professionals (an aeronautical engineer handles different work to a naval engineer or civil engineer), why should the law necessarily be different?
I'd rather have a judge who knows that Word Perfect and MS Word are different products making decsisions whihc have big ramifications on the Net and technological sector!
It seems there is a desperate need for some tech savvy judges. Perhaps a "Court of Technology" should be established.
The current system seems kinda like slashdotters passing judgement on the latest fashions from Paris.
That looks awsome. I wonder how much these cases would cost if they were mass manufactured? I'd buy one for sure!
or its GUI will continue to stagnate.
will be trapped in stasis?
will keeps on sucking?
Stuart Lynn, CEO of ICANN, announced today that the board has appointed a new member - Mr William Gates. Lynn said: "Mr Gates will help ICANN function as a strong organisation, dedicated to core values and open participation".
.NET and all domain names which do not include ".msn" will be banned.
/. reporter, asked whether "all our domains are belong to Microsoft?" which Mr Lynn dismissed by stating: "You are either with us or against us".
Mr Lynn also announced that the Internet will now be officially renamed
Jon Katz, infamous
It seems to me that Movies are getting longer, not shorter. Take Lord of the Rings for instance! MOst of the movies I've seen lately could have finished in half the time to no ill effect on the story line. If anything the marketroids seem to be adding on time to make everything damn obvious or get in more product placements. Wrapping up an ending neatly sucks, it takes something away from the viewer. Sometimes more is said by not saying it.
For example - Star Wars should never have had that stupid medal presentation scene at the end. It was completely unecessary.
Begin the Long March to Microsoft's destruction
Didn't Google get a [new] CEO recently? Coincidence?
:(
It seems that when anything cool gets a CEO or gets bought up by some big company run by CEOs, it degenerates into some useless quasi-portal/online shop
Fingers crossed Google doesn't go this way - without Google the Internet would be half as good.
hehehe tody work
Good point. The Chinese are a peacful as much as George W Bush is fighting for freedom.
Afterall, Communist China has had wars with Vietnam, Tibet, India, exchanged fire with the USSR, is constantly threatening Taiwan.
The Chinese Communist elite are just as much an elite as the American "freedom loving" corporate elite.
Same thing, just a different excuse for abuse
yeah, the government's responsible for those voices in my head too! They keep telling me about some "Axis of Evil". Sheeesh, as if I'd believe that!
These bandwidth problems aren't technical, they're political. We're getting too close, so they're shutting us down.
Yeah, but can I afford to buy XP? I think not.
Is that people think that the human species will be wiped out only when the Sun dies billions of years from now.
Personally I think we will kill ourselves much much much sooner, through either warfare, environmental destruction, or some fool will engineer a virus that will kill EVERYONE...
The death of the sun should be the least of our worries.
please
I just installed Mandrake 8.1 and the install went beautifully. I had to reinstall a version of windows as well at around the same time and it was a pain in the butt. Mandrake took around 40 minutes from pushing the on button to browsing /. Windows took in total about 4-6 hours of stuffing around - with a dozen reboots :( I've gone in to the Windows partition once since I put linux on.
./configure Make make install business...and some programs which come with Mandrake don't seem to work. But that will come with time!
I did take a while to work out the
Mandrake makes windows (98/Me) look clunky
Does this giant scorpian have 5 asses?
until someone unleashes a virus that does some serious damage. If I was a "terrorist" hell bent on punishing the Western world for whatever percieved sins, I'd be learning how to make, or hiring programmers, to unleash a truely destructive virus.
It's been said many times before, but I'll say it again, any monoculture is far more vulnerable to attack than a diverse system. Relying on one system, be it Microsoft or even Linux, is foolish.
The destruction of the Microsoft monopoly is not just a matter of helping improve competition, it is a serious security matter. No amount of campaign donations or legal semantics should distract the government from its task of providing security.
Great, all we need now is the Bokanovsky's Process and we have reached the Brave New World. Exactly why are they doing this?
"A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.
"And this," said the Director opening the door, "is the Fertilizing Room."[...]
"Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!" The voice was almost tremulous with enthusiasm. "You really know where you are. For the first time in history." He quoted the planetary motto. "Community, Identity, Stability." Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved."
Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The principle of mass production at last applied to biology.
for more: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Without such supporting evidence, I have to assume they are the figments of someone's inagination.
I'd say exactly the same thing about the Bible and the so called "word of Jesus"... but I suppose you'd consider this a profanity.
Your hypocracy wreaks a foul odour