Canada has a ban on posting poll results and stats to social media sites during the election as well.
It's not censorship -- it's an attempt to prevent people who vote later in the day from basing their votes on the results so far in other jurisdictions, which would probably sway the vote rather seriously if that information was made public before polls closed.
Personally I think every country should have a similar rule in place, and if people can't abide by it, disable social media sites for the duration of polling.
The American movie industry has been trying to censor the entire world's internet, in case you hadn't noticed. It being the UK this time is nothing special.
How do you get that it's punishment before conviction? Is it not then punishment before conviction if someone has to sell their car or other property to post bail?
Read the article later. Had to get in a first post while the opportunity arose. At least I didn't post "frist post". *LOL*
But I stand by my statement -- the judge made a fitting decision. The kid will want his XBox back, so it's a far more fitting bail fee than cash would be.
I love it when a judge thinks and makes the punishment fit the crime. Having his parents pay a fine would have been pointless. Gotta make the punishment hurt for it to have any effect.
The problem is the "business" model of picking a piece of software, and then sticking with that particular release for years on end. Active development projects like Firefox require that you use an "install updates" model of software delivery, which flies in the face of the "standard corporate build."
Unless someone is willing to pony up literal millions to provide that long term support, business can go stuff themselves. No one said open source had to be free of charge.
How do you get the instant gratification we oldies got when sitting down in front of the early-80s home computers?"
Someone forgets trying to do things in BASIC, only to find it's too slow, and being forced to learn assembly/machine language.
Someone forgets the hours of pouring over hardware manuals trying to figure out the right registers and addresses to do anything so simple as getting keyboard input.
Someone forgets that in the '80s, computing was about anything but instant gratification.
Actually making use of technology to drive government.
I believe the only way a true democracy can be run is if individual citizens are allowed to vote on legislation proposed by their representatives, rather than having the representatives do the voting. It would encourage the reps to actually engage their voting populations, otherwise their legislation dies.
This "Silk Road" website seems to be the crux of the problem, but I can't even verify it's existence. No search engines turn up links for anything other than a Silk Road videogame, a forum, and a few other innocuous venues. As far as I can tell, the senators complaining about it must be smoking product from this mythological website.
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Serious lack of useful information in the linked articles. The summary is longer!
Canada has a ban on posting poll results and stats to social media sites during the election as well.
It's not censorship -- it's an attempt to prevent people who vote later in the day from basing their votes on the results so far in other jurisdictions, which would probably sway the vote rather seriously if that information was made public before polls closed.
Personally I think every country should have a similar rule in place, and if people can't abide by it, disable social media sites for the duration of polling.
The American movie industry has been trying to censor the entire world's internet, in case you hadn't noticed. It being the UK this time is nothing special.
How do you get that it's punishment before conviction? Is it not then punishment before conviction if someone has to sell their car or other property to post bail?
Read the article later. Had to get in a first post while the opportunity arose. At least I didn't post "frist post". *LOL*
But I stand by my statement -- the judge made a fitting decision. The kid will want his XBox back, so it's a far more fitting bail fee than cash would be.
I love it when a judge thinks and makes the punishment fit the crime. Having his parents pay a fine would have been pointless. Gotta make the punishment hurt for it to have any effect.
Collect botnet creators. Apply one bullet to head. In public.
Repeat.
Nothing else will stop the leeches.
The problem is the "business" model of picking a piece of software, and then sticking with that particular release for years on end. Active development projects like Firefox require that you use an "install updates" model of software delivery, which flies in the face of the "standard corporate build."
Unless someone is willing to pony up literal millions to provide that long term support, business can go stuff themselves. No one said open source had to be free of charge.
Another thieving thug with a badge. You're absolutely right -- no surprise.
Someone forgets trying to do things in BASIC, only to find it's too slow, and being forced to learn assembly/machine language.
Someone forgets the hours of pouring over hardware manuals trying to figure out the right registers and addresses to do anything so simple as getting keyboard input.
Someone forgets that in the '80s, computing was about anything but instant gratification.
Couldn't they achieve the same ends by simply admitting the obvious: Cannabis should be Schedule II because it has medical use?
It's good to see China taking IP seriously for a change.
Yeah, but this is gonna backfire on them -- those execs they let go probably have enough money for lawyers, while the peons don't.
I dunno what Oracle's people are smoking, popping, or injecting, but I want some!
As per usual, Canada is following along with the bad ideas... caps are in place for most ISPs here.
They invented a product that was trademarked "Personal Computer". Before that time, they were usually called "mini" or "micro" computers.
The hard part is finding the loose wire.
Proliferating the TLDs with all the .com domain names is just plain asinine.
Someone take these morons out back and have them shot, please.
People should be voting on the proposed legislation, not on a biased summary question.
Yes or No question -- do you support this bill?
Actually making use of technology to drive government.
I believe the only way a true democracy can be run is if individual citizens are allowed to vote on legislation proposed by their representatives, rather than having the representatives do the voting. It would encourage the reps to actually engage their voting populations, otherwise their legislation dies.
Power to the people!
Charge the NHL with inciting riot and civil disorder, with co-defendents Vancouver and Boston.
Or maybe we should outlaw sports completely, seeing as they seem to cause insanity. :p
My first thought was Frankenfood, Frankenstein, etc. Didn't realize until I RTFA that it's the guys name. *LOL*
$14/hr is all the dignity any retail employee deserves. That's $28K/year, with no investment in education and training to be paid off.
This "Silk Road" website seems to be the crux of the problem, but I can't even verify it's existence. No search engines turn up links for anything other than a Silk Road videogame, a forum, and a few other innocuous venues. As far as I can tell, the senators complaining about it must be smoking product from this mythological website.