At least in Finland the mobile phone operators each have their own area code, so that the "normal" area codes don't get used up by mobiles. Actually does not make much sense to have NY code for your MOBILE phone now, does it?:)
Longer prison sentences and/or implementation of the death penalty have not been shown to decrease the overall crime rate. Actually, according to certain
studies
the overall crime is increasing DUE to the increased prison population.
Furhtermore, the incarseration of large number of people has some
other adverse effects.
If criminal behavior would just be a inborn attribute in certain people, then just locking those "disfunctional" people up in prisons certainly would stop crime alltogether. However, criminal behavior is much more complicated issue which is affected by many internal and external factors and therefore imprisonment's effects on the crime rate are much more complex that you obviously would like to think.
I'm sorry, but one of the most conclusive findings in criminology is that stricter punishment have no diminishing effect on general crime rate. U.S has allready the biggest per capita prison population in the world and it's still growing. So, if the general idea is not to imprison the whole population alternatives for criminal politics should be found, quick.
Reporters Without Borders published a worldwide "press freedom index". Sadly, US was ranked 17th and was left behind by countries like Costa Rica and Slovenia.
The poor ranking of US was explained:
The poor ranking of the United States (17th) is mainly because of the number of journalists arrested or imprisoned there. Arrests are often because they refuse to reveal their sources in court.
I've been involved in different kinds of mobile services projects for 3 1/2 years and the whole time the hype about location based services has been going on. I've never ever seen anyone use any kind of location based service in "real life" yet.
Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Benefon has had a really cool phone, ESC that combines GPS location, GSM and a map application -- and the phone is just not selling...
I starts to seem that the whole location based service concept is going to be the next WAP: over hyped and under utilized.
Replacing the BIOS with an open source alternative is more a ideological victory than a practical one. But considering how large impact the first reverse engineered PC BIOS has had in the advance of personal computers, this is a important step for the whole OS movement.
.. and then to other news.
In a press statetement released to day, Bill Gates
announced that he will not shoot himself in the foot regardless of the opposing rumors in the IT industry circles.
There is ways to stop email and phone spamming, and that is legistlation that is set to protect the freedom of choice of the citizens. For example, in Finland, where I'm from I don't receive any spam phone calls since the law requires the marketers to reveal where they have accuired my phone number and I can demand that they remove me from their list.
The whole issues of spam boils down to the govermental regulation and weather it is set up to protect the freedom of choice of it's citizens or the economical intrests of few marketing companies.
But when people are interested in more than general vandalism, it becomes a different story. If I need to hack something that is open source, I check out the source, and look for buffer overruns and what not. It's hard for the very popular stuff, but for most programs, a bug is easy to find. And even for the more popular stuff, there are always holes to be found if you expend enough effort looking.
Very valid point. Has anyone in the OSS community ever considered, if creating intensional bugs in to the code is possible?
If I were a terrorist wanting to hack into some computer systems, I would try to introduce some hard to spot security holes into the code base allowing me to hack into the systems.
Well, even though your argument has some merit, there is some alarming signs (in MS's point of view) of desktop software migrating to OS based applications, e.g. in some European and Latin-American govermental institutions. I think MS is now trying to kill these tendensies before they grow in to a major threat to their income..
The list is completly biased toward American (Hollywood) movies. For example, Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpeaces: Stalker and Solaris are completely missing.
I've never understood this "christian" rightwing politics. Is there anything more disturbing than killing doctors and justifying it by preserving life.
Or supporting death penalty AND opposing abortion both at the same time "since life is sacred"..
I just don't understand why Americans get into such a snit over sex and pornography; and yes, it's mostly Americans. Most everywhere else in the world porn and sex aren't that big of a deal.
I guess this is a very prominent feature of the American culture, the country was, afterall, founded by puritans. The puritan attitude towards human sexuality can be seen e.g. in American entertainment industry where nudity is still a big taboo.
The people who find the comets probably do not calculate their orbital elements (atleast to the needed accuracy) to determine weather the comet is on a collision path or not. To determine the orbit one needs several observations spanning over a fairly long period of time.
Therefore even though you might find a ELE, you most probably would not know about it..
Has anyone considered that the reason the super heroes for "normal" social networks might be that the networks for the characters correlate with real life social networks of the cartoonists? (Assuming that they have social networks:)
Since cartoonist A enjoys working with caroonist B, it might be more likely that the character A works with might meet B's character more often..
Just an idea..
It just love the way suits seem to have the best of the consumers in their mind, especially when they are forbidden to do what ever they please.
Just like Microsoft had the best of Joe and Jane Doe inmind when it used monopolistic bullying to get their OS installed to every computer. Or how the oil companies (with president Bush as a spokes person)have the best of the consumers in mind when they dumped the Kioto agreement.
Most of animals are not very visually oriented in their search for possible mating partners. I guess Mr. FruitFly nor Ms. BrineShrimp don't even realize they are not exactly alike physiologically if the e.g. the pheromones or matinf calls etc match..
That's the whole point, the "mutant" is no more mutant than any other member of it's species, because the change occured in just one gene. All animals have odd mutations here and there which do not normally effect their reproduction. So in this case the body mutant would reproduce with it's own species (even though they look a little different).
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Does this also mean that advertising and public displays of US government is also banned?
At least in Finland the mobile phone operators each have their own area code, so that the "normal" area codes don't get used up by mobiles. Actually does not make much sense to have NY code for your MOBILE phone now, does it? :)
If criminal behavior would just be a inborn attribute in certain people, then just locking those "disfunctional" people up in prisons certainly would stop crime alltogether. However, criminal behavior is much more complicated issue which is affected by many internal and external factors and therefore imprisonment's effects on the crime rate are much more complex that you obviously would like to think.
The poor ranking of US was explained:
Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Benefon has had a really cool phone, ESC that combines GPS location, GSM and a map application -- and the phone is just not selling...
I starts to seem that the whole location based service concept is going to be the next WAP: over hyped and under utilized.
Replacing the BIOS with an open source alternative is more a ideological victory than a practical one. But considering how large impact the first reverse engineered PC BIOS has had in the advance of personal computers, this is a important step for the whole OS movement.
.. and then to other news.
In a press statetement released to day, Bill Gates announced that he will not shoot himself in the foot regardless of the opposing rumors in the IT industry circles.
The whole issues of spam boils down to the govermental regulation and weather it is set up to protect the freedom of choice of it's citizens or the economical intrests of few marketing companies.
If I were a terrorist wanting to hack into some computer systems, I would try to introduce some hard to spot security holes into the code base allowing me to hack into the systems.
Well, even though your argument has some merit, there is some alarming signs (in MS's point of view) of desktop software migrating to OS based applications, e.g. in some European and Latin-American govermental institutions. I think MS is now trying to kill these tendensies before they grow in to a major threat to their income..
The list is completly biased toward American (Hollywood) movies. For example, Andrei Tarkovsky's masterpeaces: Stalker and Solaris are completely missing.
Or supporting death penalty AND opposing abortion both at the same time "since life is sacred"..
The ignorance of these people is unbelivable...
Yeah, -1 troll, I know..
Celine Dion considered harmfull
The people who find the comets probably do not calculate their orbital elements (atleast to the needed accuracy) to determine weather the comet is on a collision path or not. To determine the orbit one needs several observations spanning over a fairly long period of time. Therefore even though you might find a ELE, you most probably would not know about it..
The hippocratic oath has not prevented doctors from doing harm (e.g. Mengele). Why should it stop coders from doing harm either?
Star Office contains a database (Adabas) which is not included in the open office.
Has anyone considered that the reason the super heroes for "normal" social networks might be that the networks for the characters correlate with real life social networks of the cartoonists? :)
(Assuming that they have social networks
Since cartoonist A enjoys working with caroonist B, it might be more likely that the character A works with might meet B's character more often..
Just an idea..
The writer is not refering to the Apache web server, but to Apache Sofware Foundation. Furthermore, J2EE is NOT a web server, but a aplication server.
And from a nordic perspective global warming might not be that bad either :)
Just like Microsoft had the best of Joe and Jane Doe inmind when it used monopolistic bullying to get their OS installed to every computer. Or how the oil companies (with president Bush as a spokes person)have the best of the consumers in mind when they dumped the Kioto agreement.
How nice..
Most of animals are not very visually oriented in their search for possible mating partners. I guess Mr. FruitFly nor Ms. BrineShrimp don't even realize they are not exactly alike physiologically if the e.g. the pheromones or matinf calls etc match..
That's the whole point, the "mutant" is no more mutant than any other member of it's species, because the change occured in just one gene. All animals have odd mutations here and there which do not normally effect their reproduction. So in this case the body mutant would reproduce with it's own species (even though they look a little different).
Yeah, The world is full of unstable, uncivilized governments such as EU countries. Poor bastards.