That's not the point, what I am saying is that police forces are starting to pursue copyright enforcement disproportionately to violent crime, that could be gun related or other murders, rapes, assaults etc. When victims are complaining that the police wont take their cases seriously enough (especially for 'smaller' crimes like mugging) you have to wonder where all that police time is going. Sure I don't expect them to ignore copyright infringement until every murder is solved but there do need to be more checks and balances to make sure certain crimes are not being pursued with more priority because they have lobby groups behind them. Don't forget that the 2,000 figure counts fire-arm injuries only, just carrying a gun around illegally in public as a gang is very serious even if that gang doesn't get into a fight every day or the retards miss their target and don't get a mention in the statistics year-book. Gangs with guns need the kind of blitzing and harassment that copyright infringers are getting,
Wow that's really great police work, you gotta put it to those German police with their efficiency - Apparently next week they're planning to do a big raid of about 10 major street gangs and they're planing to take 5000 guns off the streets! Oh wait whats that? they're not planning a raid to take guns off the streets? they're going to instead concentrate solely on copyright infringement? oh, well, im sure that's pretty important too, I mean a few people getting shot doesn't really hurt the economy!
No, when fly-by-wire was new people were saying "oh look now we can fly planes without brute force". Fly by wireless adds absolutely nothing useful to the plane.
Saves weight? - no, since the wireless units would probably take up about the same weight as the control cables.
Allows remote control? - stupid since these are low-range transmitters you would have a single high-range system for remote control.
Serves as a back-up? - yes, now we're talking, if control cables failed a wireless system could be used to reach that part of the plane, this is hardly a revolution though and you would still want to use cables.
Wow so in the future if you turn your cell phone on in flight the plane really will crash! Great idea, im totally with them on being able to move things around easily because planes are always needing to have the wings moved somewhere completely different like on the nose, or in Mexico. It just makes the system much more flexible. I know aircraft manufacturers have been screaming for something like this, they've just never come up with the idea of whacking a transmitter/receiver in to an aileron before! They really must be kicking themselves!
This is retarded, what do they need blood for they can get DNA without blood and besides what has he done or what do they suspect him of doing that would have anything to do with matching his DNA, is he a rapist now? No, this is basically a punishment, they want to show him who's boss, they know he'll have a problem with it so they're doing it to piss him off - cruel and unusual punishment is unconstitutional and they are fucking morons who should go and find some murders instead of eating donuts.
What they have done is blasphemy and of course they should take it down and apologise. To insult Apple believers in this way is not acceptable, religious insults are not acceptable and only serve to fuel hatred.
Im all for these things, phones are definitely going to replace iPods and digital cameras - the killer app is that you always always leave the house with your phone even if you're going out for 5 minutes, you always keep it charged and just about everyone has a mobile even in poor countries where they are struggling to have homes. Phones are more 'normal' to use in public - you cant pull out your PDA in a restaurant or bar. Phones are becoming worthless to thieves because of contract deals and it being harder to tell if someone is using a cheap phone or an expensive phone from a distance. Nothing else comes close to this and that's the real reason why phones will take over.
I predict that the iPod will be dead in a couple of years and Apple will have moved onto the phone market. iPod video might stick around as a larger 'travel VCR' and iPod nano might survive because its so small but im putting my money on the phone. An MP3 player that cant even check your email or take a picture? thats a dead concept.
Ok and now how about a car that actually looks normal? Seriously when will car manufacturers grow up and stop producing these ridiculously shaped cars that only green freaks will drive. If I wanted to drive a 3 wheeled buggy I would have bought a 3 wheeled buggy a LONG time ago. All people really want is a car that looks like a car, feels like a car, drives like a car and just has an electric engine, that's why Hybrids work so fucking well - they just look like cars.
Essentially you can have a few dozen windmills or a massive power station with smoke stacks or cooling towers. You can have the remote chance that the occasional bird will hit a fan, or a leaflet through your door advising you which pills to take if you hear a fallout siren. Ugly, overpowering, rotating fans or soot stains on anything white within 10 miles. Devalued property or devalued property and lung cancer? Ruined landscape or Saudi rule when the oil runs out.
Most people would rather have neither power station or wind farm but as they say, some poor schmuck is gonna have to take one for the team. Thats if they want their TV to turn on.
For fucks sake when can these idiots stop chasing some so called 'moral vote' and get back to reality and practicality: It is 1000 times more obvious that websites which aresafe for kids or don't otherwise contain offensive material should be offered the chance to carry marks or certificates claiming so and filtering software can simply block the rest. This is most importantly, implementable today by private 'certification companies' without adding a single law and whats more it would work internationally without forcing countries to do anything, to top it off it would follow the philosophy of the internet entirely. But no, they want a mandatory X rating - whos going to make sure that absolutely every site out there follows this? whos going to enforce that across the world? Why the fuck would you risk letting your child see something that just happened to slip past a non-100% effective filter when the alternative is to create a massive allowed list that you can make absolutely sure is ok and even charge for the privileged! This is essentially harassing legitimate groups just because they dare to offend.
This doesn't make sense legally, it doesn't make sense logically, it doesn't make sense economically, the only person it can possibly make sense to is someone who is shit-high on crack cocaine. Now someone please tell me what im missing.
When are they going to catch all the dirty little script kiddies who mass-defaced Danish websites with death threats? These people are most likely the suicide-bomber wannabes who were told to stay home by their big brother because they were too young.
I expect its not so much about catching them, more about using them as keys into cells. Every-time they do something online they are providing an opportunity to be traced and hopefully this will lead to some big busts. Trading a few weapons manuals and videos online is no big deal really - if you want to see the beheading videos go to one of the countless 'hardcore-gore' sites out there or watch Al Jazeera. Weapons manuals have been traded ever since school kids put the anarchists cook book on school network shares.
I hope our governments are actually getting off their asses and using this intelligence to catch daka-dakas.
Perhaps this 'technology' is better off not existing. Our Saviour didn't need the internet to spread is word and 3 billion Christians can't be wrong! However I understand that there are some limited uses for the Internet.
Because you don't have the right to tell others what they can an can not do. As long as they are not hurting someone else, everyone should be able to go about their business.
This is a common way people are led astray, they believe in their own 'morals' rather than our Lord's. Satan has infested you with these beliefs, he has told you to do what feels good to you, he has said to you "fear not for what does not harm others cannot be wrong!" - it sounds right doesn't it? It seems to make sense in your mind that you should live and let live. This is absolutely a sign of Satan's work and if you allow yourself to be saved - if you commit to our Lord then he will repay you by guiding you on the right path, suddenly you will ask yourself why you believed in Satan's work, how you did not see the truth and what you can do to make absolutely sure that everyone listens to you whether they like it or not.
I see you points about separation of church and state and yes its very unfortunate. America was hi-jacked by liberal wimpy founding fathers who decided to omit the most important thing, i.e our Lord, from the constitution. There was never any 'separation' of church and state it was simply a case of the first few laws being laid down by liberals. America was founded in order to get away from liberals in Europe! its such a shame that some of them clearly forced their mandate. Just take a look at Europe for all the proof you need. Now that place is a collection of some of the most despicable cities of Sodom in the world. London - a cultural 'mish-mash' of confused homos and foreigners with their harlot clothes and their whorish ways, their 'anything goes' attitude! the establishment has been in struggle ever since half the decent Christians left! Amsterdam, I don't think I even need to go into detail here, porn sodomy capital of the world. Paris - the city of premarital sex and sodomy, to name but a few. These countries tried to hold on to Christianity but the virus of secularism overtook them. Did you know that in many European countries they have either repealed blasphemy laws or they have been struck down by the courts years ago? Did you know they legalise drugs, prostitutes and gays? Did you know they repealed the death penalty? If you don't want to see America turn into this then we better start making some changes and my faith is in our glorious leader George W Bush to push for that change. He will lead us into sanctity as our Lord leads him not astray. Praise Jesus, praise Bush.
Why does Google hate children? Its not just that, The DoJ is trying to protect everyone from pornography why would anyone want to stop them? People this is one of the most morally destabilizing sins since attacking Americans and we should be adopting the approaches used in the Middle East particularly: Monitoring of all internet access by faith-based guides, gouging of eyes, and strict dress codes that stop the urge in the first place. Google I hope you're happy for all the lives you've destroyed through facilitating this evil.
Both MS and OO have scripting support and this is the most likely thing you'll be using for customisation. Im not sure how many huge firms will fit that description I have a feeling you would be able to count the number of firms that have significant custom written OO code on one hand. The problem is really that MS has better marketing, if you're a small - medium sized company MS will be on your case telling you why you need to give them your money, OO will be somewhere on some website and advocated only by the IT guy who has the respect level of photocopy-repair-guy (otherwise they wouldn't constantly call him asking why their unplugged computer wont work)
Fair enough, I think it will take the perspective of hindsight to fully realise how good or bad he was as a president.
I can't say its looking good at the moment though: the budget is lower than it has been in over 20 years, military recruitment is lower than it has been in over 20 years, the military may have to lower its entry standards further meaning the least intelligent, least emotionally developed soldiers will be sent to war to handle the general public of Iraq - this will of course lead to more brutality, oh and on that, under Bush's watch the world has witnessed conduct by US troops that you would only expect from the Taliban, Guantanamo bay is a fact, not a conspiracy theory, we have all seen it on TV, we have all witnessed numerous releases of detainees held under no recognised legal status and send home without any charges.
We all know what the Bill of Rights, the Geneva convention and the UN says about these things and yet its happening by the very country that is, aside from some European countries, the only viable model of civilised society to date (well unless anyone thinks the Taliban can do a better job).
The pictures from Abu Ghraib have been seen around the world, again not a conspiracy theory and any way you look at it its a bad light on America, either troops are not disciplined, not trained, not read on international law, not even read on basic US military law, or lack basic professionalism. The only other explanation is that they were ordered from above, it doesn't really matter, the fact is there was a gross failure and there have been similar failures all over the board.
So to conclude: - Bush is doing fuck all for the US economy, for normal Americans - Bush has no regard for the founding principles of America - Bush claims he's fighting a war against people who want to take over the world and change our way of life and yet he walks around holding hands with one of them!
I don't know about Blair but Bush doesn't strike me as much of a Christian, he could be but the evidence available would better support the theory that he only started 'taking Christianity seriously' because his public appearance became an important election winning factor. Maybe him and his friends could donate half their profits to charity or something?
How can anyone trust the word of a man who has his fingers in so much oil business he walks around with a man known for having people buried up to their wastes and pelted with stones until their sculls collapse!? George W Bush has allot of friends and family in the business of selling oil, this isn't fiction, conspiracy, or liberal BS, someone try and tell me the president of the united states of America sells sun flower seeds? While you're at it tell me that the Saudi royal family has adulterers tickled with pink feather dusters. I don't blame GWB, if it was me I would be out for what I could get too. The question is, when will the history books conclude that he is the worst president ever to run the USA.
I really wonder how my prime minister manages to get along with Bush, what do they have in common? Why would Blair want to cut emissions when Bush clearly thinks its not a problem? Why is Blair's government scared of finding out that it may have allowed CIA 'torture flights' to use our airspace and that the public may be pissed off about this, when the White house is so brazenly non-committed to completely denouncing torture and is running a prison which goes against every single founding ideology of the United States?
I don't see this as evil per-se, keeping the masses in China under rule is needed for much of the world to run. Who will build your products for next to nothing? Who will provide the cheap labour if they have the freedom to explore other options? This isn't a troll, its a serious question: If China and many other countries became 'free' who would do the dirty work?
Perhaps the power stations weren't buying enough oil - if this had been cars it would be a different story.
There must be so much fuel wasted by idling cars, sitting in traffic, waiting outside etc. Then there's wasted energy from grinding a clutch. The electronics industry has made so many incredible space and power reducing advancements over the years, the automobile industry has done very little except for some engine management systems and improved manufacturing, mileage hasn't changed that much, or if it has, people are just buying bigger cars to make up for it.
Can someone calculate the energy loss of sitting in traffic for an hour vs leaving your phone charger plugged in for a day?
Firstly Opera is not a major browser in my book, even though I used to use it all the time. Web browsers change depending on the site so try and use browser statistics from your own site, any currently running sites for that company/business etc, anything that shows the sort of people that will be browsing your new site, then tweak things to work with whatever percentage of those browsers you feel is necessary. Next don't forget that just because the site won't look good in an old browser doesn't mean it shouldn't work on some basic level. You should have a text/unstyled/mobile etc version of the site, it should be set up so that this can be generated from the real site totally automatically in whatever way you choose so you always have at least one absolutely up-to-date second version of the site for 'crap' browsers. There's not really much excuse not to do this, modern websites should be encapsulating pretty much everything and that means storing things in XML and damn well using XSLT or at least storing things in a way that allows flexibility.
Don't forget that commercial sites are run on the premise of profits, your boss will understand that in order to have a complex website with lots of design and interactivity, some people just won't be able to access it. People will tell you that its blasphemy to break any of the web standards, they are hippies who have never worked on a commercial website in their lives. There's no one way to do it as long as you understand and accept the consequences and plan the site in a way that maximises support for the target audience that you personally plan for, the plan will be different for different websites but as long as you think things through you will have a good time.
I think people also get the wrong impression when they see the same story on digg a week before. Perhaps we need some kind of site that merges/. and digg and removes dupes?
Thanks for the test, where can I send the cheque?:P
I know the tag just stores a number for a database ID but there's still potential - you can tell for sure if you read the same tag twice, it doesn't matter what the tag is it could be anything that happens to be on a person, you could even use multiple tags just in-case they dropped one. You just need receivers in the right places or access to other peoples receivers either through collaboration or other means. We also know how securely most databases are kept...
Slashdot Mirror
Is it relevent that I actually found this slashdot thread on google news?
That's not the point, what I am saying is that police forces are starting to pursue copyright enforcement disproportionately to violent crime, that could be gun related or other murders, rapes, assaults etc. When victims are complaining that the police wont take their cases seriously enough (especially for 'smaller' crimes like mugging) you have to wonder where all that police time is going. Sure I don't expect them to ignore copyright infringement until every murder is solved but there do need to be more checks and balances to make sure certain crimes are not being pursued with more priority because they have lobby groups behind them. Don't forget that the 2,000 figure counts fire-arm injuries only, just carrying a gun around illegally in public as a gang is very serious even if that gang doesn't get into a fight every day or the retards miss their target and don't get a mention in the statistics year-book. Gangs with guns need the kind of blitzing and harassment that copyright infringers are getting,
Wow that's really great police work, you gotta put it to those German police with their efficiency - Apparently next week they're planning to do a big raid of about 10 major street gangs and they're planing to take 5000 guns off the streets! Oh wait whats that? they're not planning a raid to take guns off the streets? they're going to instead concentrate solely on copyright infringement? oh, well, im sure that's pretty important too, I mean a few people getting shot doesn't really hurt the economy!
No, when fly-by-wire was new people were saying "oh look now we can fly planes without brute force". Fly by wireless adds absolutely nothing useful to the plane.
Saves weight? - no, since the wireless units would probably take up about the same weight as the control cables.
Allows remote control? - stupid since these are low-range transmitters you would have a single high-range system for remote control.
Serves as a back-up? - yes, now we're talking, if control cables failed a wireless system could be used to reach that part of the plane, this is hardly a revolution though and you would still want to use cables.
Wow so in the future if you turn your cell phone on in flight the plane really will crash! Great idea, im totally with them on being able to move things around easily because planes are always needing to have the wings moved somewhere completely different like on the nose, or in Mexico. It just makes the system much more flexible. I know aircraft manufacturers have been screaming for something like this, they've just never come up with the idea of whacking a transmitter/receiver in to an aileron before! They really must be kicking themselves!
This is retarded, what do they need blood for they can get DNA without blood and besides what has he done or what do they suspect him of doing that would have anything to do with matching his DNA, is he a rapist now? No, this is basically a punishment, they want to show him who's boss, they know he'll have a problem with it so they're doing it to piss him off - cruel and unusual punishment is unconstitutional and they are fucking morons who should go and find some murders instead of eating donuts.
What they have done is blasphemy and of course they should take it down and apologise. To insult Apple believers in this way is not acceptable, religious insults are not acceptable and only serve to fuel hatred.
Praise Jobs the Enlightener, the Finder,
Im all for these things, phones are definitely going to replace iPods and digital cameras - the killer app is that you always always leave the house with your phone even if you're going out for 5 minutes, you always keep it charged and just about everyone has a mobile even in poor countries where they are struggling to have homes. Phones are more 'normal' to use in public - you cant pull out your PDA in a restaurant or bar. Phones are becoming worthless to thieves because of contract deals and it being harder to tell if someone is using a cheap phone or an expensive phone from a distance. Nothing else comes close to this and that's the real reason why phones will take over.
I predict that the iPod will be dead in a couple of years and Apple will have moved onto the phone market. iPod video might stick around as a larger 'travel VCR' and iPod nano might survive because its so small but im putting my money on the phone. An MP3 player that cant even check your email or take a picture? thats a dead concept.
Ok and now how about a car that actually looks normal? Seriously when will car manufacturers grow up and stop producing these ridiculously shaped cars that only green freaks will drive. If I wanted to drive a 3 wheeled buggy I would have bought a 3 wheeled buggy a LONG time ago. All people really want is a car that looks like a car, feels like a car, drives like a car and just has an electric engine, that's why Hybrids work so fucking well - they just look like cars.
Essentially you can have a few dozen windmills or a massive power station with smoke stacks or cooling towers. You can have the remote chance that the occasional bird will hit a fan, or a leaflet through your door advising you which pills to take if you hear a fallout siren. Ugly, overpowering, rotating fans or soot stains on anything white within 10 miles. Devalued property or devalued property and lung cancer? Ruined landscape or Saudi rule when the oil runs out.
Most people would rather have neither power station or wind farm but as they say, some poor schmuck is gonna have to take one for the team. Thats if they want their TV to turn on.
For fucks sake when can these idiots stop chasing some so called 'moral vote' and get back to reality and practicality: It is 1000 times more obvious that websites which aresafe for kids or don't otherwise contain offensive material should be offered the chance to carry marks or certificates claiming so and filtering software can simply block the rest. This is most importantly, implementable today by private 'certification companies' without adding a single law and whats more it would work internationally without forcing countries to do anything, to top it off it would follow the philosophy of the internet entirely. But no, they want a mandatory X rating - whos going to make sure that absolutely every site out there follows this? whos going to enforce that across the world? Why the fuck would you risk letting your child see something that just happened to slip past a non-100% effective filter when the alternative is to create a massive allowed list that you can make absolutely sure is ok and even charge for the privileged! This is essentially harassing legitimate groups just because they dare to offend.
This doesn't make sense legally, it doesn't make sense logically, it doesn't make sense economically, the only person it can possibly make sense to is someone who is shit-high on crack cocaine. Now someone please tell me what im missing.
It really is time we 'liberate' India. Either that or destroy their society with Starbucks and SUV's - operation potato couch.
When are they going to catch all the dirty little script kiddies who mass-defaced Danish websites with death threats? These people are most likely the suicide-bomber wannabes who were told to stay home by their big brother because they were too young.
I expect its not so much about catching them, more about using them as keys into cells. Every-time they do something online they are providing an opportunity to be traced and hopefully this will lead to some big busts. Trading a few weapons manuals and videos online is no big deal really - if you want to see the beheading videos go to one of the countless 'hardcore-gore' sites out there or watch Al Jazeera. Weapons manuals have been traded ever since school kids put the anarchists cook book on school network shares.
I hope our governments are actually getting off their asses and using this intelligence to catch daka-dakas.
Perhaps this 'technology' is better off not existing. Our Saviour didn't need the internet to spread is word and 3 billion Christians can't be wrong! However I understand that there are some limited uses for the Internet.
Because you don't have the right to tell others what they can an can not do. As long as they are not hurting someone else, everyone should be able to go about their business.
This is a common way people are led astray, they believe in their own 'morals' rather than our Lord's. Satan has infested you with these beliefs, he has told you to do what feels good to you, he has said to you "fear not for what does not harm others cannot be wrong!" - it sounds right doesn't it? It seems to make sense in your mind that you should live and let live. This is absolutely a sign of Satan's work and if you allow yourself to be saved - if you commit to our Lord then he will repay you by guiding you on the right path, suddenly you will ask yourself why you believed in Satan's work, how you did not see the truth and what you can do to make absolutely sure that everyone listens to you whether they like it or not.
I see you points about separation of church and state and yes its very unfortunate. America was hi-jacked by liberal wimpy founding fathers who decided to omit the most important thing, i.e our Lord, from the constitution. There was never any 'separation' of church and state it was simply a case of the first few laws being laid down by liberals. America was founded in order to get away from liberals in Europe! its such a shame that some of them clearly forced their mandate. Just take a look at Europe for all the proof you need. Now that place is a collection of some of the most despicable cities of Sodom in the world. London - a cultural 'mish-mash' of confused homos and foreigners with their harlot clothes and their whorish ways, their 'anything goes' attitude! the establishment has been in struggle ever since half the decent Christians left! Amsterdam, I don't think I even need to go into detail here, porn sodomy capital of the world. Paris - the city of premarital sex and sodomy, to name but a few. These countries tried to hold on to Christianity but the virus of secularism overtook them. Did you know that in many European countries they have either repealed blasphemy laws or they have been struck down by the courts years ago? Did you know they legalise drugs, prostitutes and gays? Did you know they repealed the death penalty? If you don't want to see America turn into this then we better start making some changes and my faith is in our glorious leader George W Bush to push for that change. He will lead us into sanctity as our Lord leads him not astray. Praise Jesus, praise Bush.
Why does Google hate children? Its not just that, The DoJ is trying to protect everyone from pornography why would anyone want to stop them? People this is one of the most morally destabilizing sins since attacking Americans and we should be adopting the approaches used in the Middle East particularly: Monitoring of all internet access by faith-based guides, gouging of eyes, and strict dress codes that stop the urge in the first place. Google I hope you're happy for all the lives you've destroyed through facilitating this evil.
Both MS and OO have scripting support and this is the most likely thing you'll be using for customisation. Im not sure how many huge firms will fit that description I have a feeling you would be able to count the number of firms that have significant custom written OO code on one hand. The problem is really that MS has better marketing, if you're a small - medium sized company MS will be on your case telling you why you need to give them your money, OO will be somewhere on some website and advocated only by the IT guy who has the respect level of photocopy-repair-guy (otherwise they wouldn't constantly call him asking why their unplugged computer wont work)
Fair enough, I think it will take the perspective of hindsight to fully realise how good or bad he was as a president.
I can't say its looking good at the moment though: the budget is lower than it has been in over 20 years, military recruitment is lower than it has been in over 20 years, the military may have to lower its entry standards further meaning the least intelligent, least emotionally developed soldiers will be sent to war to handle the general public of Iraq - this will of course lead to more brutality, oh and on that, under Bush's watch the world has witnessed conduct by US troops that you would only expect from the Taliban, Guantanamo bay is a fact, not a conspiracy theory, we have all seen it on TV, we have all witnessed numerous releases of detainees held under no recognised legal status and send home without any charges.
We all know what the Bill of Rights, the Geneva convention and the UN says about these things and yet its happening by the very country that is, aside from some European countries, the only viable model of civilised society to date (well unless anyone thinks the Taliban can do a better job).
The pictures from Abu Ghraib have been seen around the world, again not a conspiracy theory and any way you look at it its a bad light on America, either troops are not disciplined, not trained, not read on international law, not even read on basic US military law, or lack basic professionalism. The only other explanation is that they were ordered from above, it doesn't really matter, the fact is there was a gross failure and there have been similar failures all over the board.
So to conclude:
- Bush is doing fuck all for the US economy, for normal Americans
- Bush has no regard for the founding principles of America
- Bush claims he's fighting a war against people who want to take over the world and change our way of life and yet he walks around holding hands with one of them!
I don't know about Blair but Bush doesn't strike me as much of a Christian, he could be but the evidence available would better support the theory that he only started 'taking Christianity seriously' because his public appearance became an important election winning factor. Maybe him and his friends could donate half their profits to charity or something?
How can anyone trust the word of a man who has his fingers in so much oil business he walks around with a man known for having people buried up to their wastes and pelted with stones until their sculls collapse!? George W Bush has allot of friends and family in the business of selling oil, this isn't fiction, conspiracy, or liberal BS, someone try and tell me the president of the united states of America sells sun flower seeds? While you're at it tell me that the Saudi royal family has adulterers tickled with pink feather dusters. I don't blame GWB, if it was me I would be out for what I could get too. The question is, when will the history books conclude that he is the worst president ever to run the USA.
I really wonder how my prime minister manages to get along with Bush, what do they have in common? Why would Blair want to cut emissions when Bush clearly thinks its not a problem? Why is Blair's government scared of finding out that it may have allowed CIA 'torture flights' to use our airspace and that the public may be pissed off about this, when the White house is so brazenly non-committed to completely denouncing torture and is running a prison which goes against every single founding ideology of the United States?
I don't see this as evil per-se, keeping the masses in China under rule is needed for much of the world to run. Who will build your products for next to nothing? Who will provide the cheap labour if they have the freedom to explore other options? This isn't a troll, its a serious question: If China and many other countries became 'free' who would do the dirty work?
Perhaps the power stations weren't buying enough oil - if this had been cars it would be a different story.
There must be so much fuel wasted by idling cars, sitting in traffic, waiting outside etc. Then there's wasted energy from grinding a clutch. The electronics industry has made so many incredible space and power reducing advancements over the years, the automobile industry has done very little except for some engine management systems and improved manufacturing, mileage hasn't changed that much, or if it has, people are just buying bigger cars to make up for it.
Can someone calculate the energy loss of sitting in traffic for an hour vs leaving your phone charger plugged in for a day?
Firstly Opera is not a major browser in my book, even though I used to use it all the time. Web browsers change depending on the site so try and use browser statistics from your own site, any currently running sites for that company/business etc, anything that shows the sort of people that will be browsing your new site, then tweak things to work with whatever percentage of those browsers you feel is necessary. Next don't forget that just because the site won't look good in an old browser doesn't mean it shouldn't work on some basic level. You should have a text/unstyled/mobile etc version of the site, it should be set up so that this can be generated from the real site totally automatically in whatever way you choose so you always have at least one absolutely up-to-date second version of the site for 'crap' browsers. There's not really much excuse not to do this, modern websites should be encapsulating pretty much everything and that means storing things in XML and damn well using XSLT or at least storing things in a way that allows flexibility.
Don't forget that commercial sites are run on the premise of profits, your boss will understand that in order to have a complex website with lots of design and interactivity, some people just won't be able to access it. People will tell you that its blasphemy to break any of the web standards, they are hippies who have never worked on a commercial website in their lives. There's no one way to do it as long as you understand and accept the consequences and plan the site in a way that maximises support for the target audience that you personally plan for, the plan will be different for different websites but as long as you think things through you will have a good time.
I think people also get the wrong impression when they see the same story on digg a week before. Perhaps we need some kind of site that merges /. and digg and removes dupes?
Thanks for the test, where can I send the cheque? :P
I know the tag just stores a number for a database ID but there's still potential - you can tell for sure if you read the same tag twice, it doesn't matter what the tag is it could be anything that happens to be on a person, you could even use multiple tags just in-case they dropped one. You just need receivers in the right places or access to other peoples receivers either through collaboration or other means. We also know how securely most databases are kept...