But where do you draw the line? Once people try an illegal drug and realise that most of what they were taught about drugs in school is bullshit, maybe they will want to try more but aren't sure what to believe anymore. You say weed and psychedelics are OK but H and C are bad.
I never said that any drugs were "OK". (The most lethal drugs are tobacco, which killed my mother, and alcohol, which causes untold deaths and discord.) I was just pointing out the claim made above, the old "gateway" myth, that once you take one drug you'll take anything, is not true. People make choices based on more than the stupid "this illegal drug is fine, therefore they all are", and it happens that the people I know draw the line as I said. You may draw it in a different place, which should be your privilege as an adult.
Once you've smoked a bit of weed and not gone psycho then suddenly you realize that the "all drugs are evil" line that school/govt/parents tried to tell you is lies. Then you can't trust *anything* they said. And then you'll try anything.
Speaking personally, and of several friends, bullshit. Weed, yes. Hallucinogens and E, possibly. H and coke, no way.
You should add a small snippet of code and insert it into the publication process; this snippet of code extracts all URLs from the href's in the proposed posting,
Wouldn't work. Many submitters like to link both the specific page and the top level domain, like:
However, you could make an exception list of popular referring sites, like New York Times, The Register, etc and ignore top level links in the analysis. Regardless, detecting dupes is relatively simple, the problem is Taco et al just don't give a fuck. Dupes are bad, even worse are the deliberate flamebait stories on "Intelligent Design" and such, guaranteed to draw 1000 posts from the advocates of both sides, repeating their arguments ad nauseaum, and hoaxes and pseudo science presented as fact. That along with the lack of any care with simple presentation like spelling or grammar show a total lack of professionalism -- and these are people collecting a cheque to "edit" and selling advertising and subscriptions. It's annoying because the hard parts -- the infrastructure to support the huge hit rates and nested discussions, the mod system that keeps trolls from overwhelming it, basically work. The readers supply the stories and comments. But the simple things a 12-year-old could do are the things that they screw up.
The worst offenders, not that I would know, are the companies that advertise on porn sites. They have nude pics come up of women in the "next town over" or your town (you get these if they know your ip and can tell where you are) and you just know that there aren't 50 nubile young 18-25 y/o women in these towns looking for no strings sex on the net.
"Adult Friend Finder" -- they must do an IP lookup to target the ads, so I, living in Hong Kong, see all these ads with the captions "Hot woman in Beijing/Shanghai/Urumqi wants to meet you". Strangely, all these Chinese women are skanky blondes (usually depicted naked with their legs spread).
OK, so that's understandable from a support perspective. The Microsoft support desk wouldn't want to deal with any random crap loaded up by the manufacturer,
Thye wouldn't anyway. OEM installs are supported by the OEM, not MS. You used to get whole Dell desktops on top of Win 3.1, for instance. Usually end up turning most of it off.
you aren't forced to use Windows Media Player, or Internet Explorer, or MS Office,
You are if people supplying or selling the data or entertainment media you want to access only supply it in these proprietary (I include IE here, we all know lots of sites only work in IE) formats. You can use various codecs etc, but when it comes to DRM you have no legal alternative. So this is handing MS a monopoly on downloadable media because they can tell all the vendors they only need to supply in one locked format, paying Bill his tithe for every download. Trying to forestall this is what the whole case is about, not the players per se.
Reportedly 42,643 people perished on our highways in 2003.
Nothing compared to the 418,690 killed by cigarettes each year. And while it's hard to live without risking your life in a car, cigarettes are entirely avoidable, except for the second hand smoke that only kills 3,000 a year (same source) -- coincidentally about the same number as died in the WTC. Where's the shock and awe against BAT? Why aren't tobacco executives in Gitmo? (Rhetorical questions, no need to reply.) They kill 100 times more every year than the relatively benign Mr bin Laden ever did.
but (legally) removing the underlying software would remove the ability to play the Sony CD.
No it doesn't. The audio tracks are there as on any old CD, the software is an extra to prevent you copying it. (I think it lets you create DRM'd files only.)
From TFA this gizmo detects those with something to hide.
"Liberman said around 12 percent of passengers tend to show stress even when they have nothing to hide." And that's from the guy selling the damn thing. So there is a huge false positive rate, and no guarantee of no false negatives.
I've seen gadgets advertised that are supposed to do this over the phone. Your terrorist cell gets one of these and test their guys till they find one or several that can pass.
let me get this straight: Massachusetts adopts a regulation designed to exclude current versions of Microsoft Office, leaving blind users without a working alternative.
MS was invited to support the format, they declined because it wouldn't allow the "rich user experience" of their proprietary format. And I don't think they were thinking of handicapped users somehow. Anyway, it would be trivial for MS ot support this format, and in fact they've paid someone to do so, but not "officially" and thus supported by them, they prefer it to be buggy and fucked up to discredit the format. Aside from that, third parties could easily make plugins and certainly will long before this goes live.
He didn't "get his due" for spamming. he wasn't even charged with any offences related to how he sent his messages, as far as I can see.
Francis-Macrae was found guilty of two counts of fraudulent trading, one of concealing criminal property, two of making threats to kill, one charge of threatening to destroy or damage property and one count of blackmail.
I severely doubt that the founding members of OLPC (AMD, Brightstar, Google, News Corporation, and Red Hat) would approve of the laptops running "Microsoft Windows XP Lite Developing World Edition".
They probably would not approve. So how would that make any difference? Are they going to ask people to sign a EULA to foreswear loading Windows? Especially if MS chipped in a billion to end-users to subsidise their purchase. From what I understand of the plan, the hardware platform would be a design that many manufacturers could adopt, and there is definitely a plan for a fully commercial variety.
I have more faith in the gentlemen at the MIT Media Lab
You keep saying that. Once the machines are out the door, the Media Lab has no control over how they're used.
I'm sorry.
No, you're not sorry you fucking hypocrite. I'll indulge myself with some of the some juvenile name-calling you preface your arguments with. You must be an American, only they can piss all over people, make a perfunctory apology, and get offended if they're not given a free pass.
However right you may be about Microsoft, is it really so hard to consider that you might be wrong about OLPC? Rather than react with pessimism and fear, why not express some optimism that this may well be the project that succeeds specifically because it is open source?
I di not say anythng about the laptop project itslef. I only gave my thoughts on how MS would react to it. If the laptop project gets the hardware made and out, it will be great. But MS (and Apple, and REdhat) will all be pushing their corporate barrows, and to assume they'll all work primarily for teh good of the children is foolish.
I still don't know why you see fit to make personal attacks on me instead of actually discussing the issue.
McMaster University did, in fact, recently announce the discovery of the remains of a gigantic ape. Not "the first" or "the only" giant ape, just of "a".
Really? I missed that. Maybe you could quote where they say that. I read only the announcement of a new dating of remains, no mention of remains discovered "recently".
This assertion spreads fear, uncertainty and doubt.
In the accepted use of the term, FUD refers to lies in the service of discrediting a competitor. So I do not accept your label.
This assertion is paranoid because it is not supported by the facts.
It's a prediction, so of course it can't be proven. (But see below.) Again, the terms you use, "paranoid" are insulting and inappropriate.
This assertion is baseless because it contradicts stated goals of One Laptop Per Child,
And why would MS be bound by these goals?
I simply gave a prediction, based on MS's actions in comparable situations, of what they might do if this project actually starts distributing hardware. Perhaps you've heard of the Thai govt scheme to distribute cheap PCs, bundled with Linux a year or two ago? A short time later, MS, which had strongly resisted a cheap "3rd world" version of their software, fearing grey market leakage, came up with an XP-lite and got this offered as an alternative to Linux on these systems. They also started offering software completely free to Thai universities. Similar actions in some Indian states more recently I recall. Against financial arguments they offer discounts, against philosophical arguments they offer "shared source". Who can doubt they'd fail to act to prevent the loss of a generation of students?
I never intended any disrespect, despite the occasional harsh word.
You can't have it both ways. You call me "paranoid", you say I use "misinformation to falsely characterize", i.e. lie. You are far beyond being just "insolent".
I never said that you disputed anything, what made you imagine that I did? I simply stated that your assertions regarding Microsoft are totally baseless considering the conditions by which Apple's offer was rejected.
Okay, so what then is the "off-base rant", the "paranoid FUD is totally offtopic" and so on all about? Did you imagine that I was saying that MS was behind the rejection of Apple's offer? I can't respond, except with generic abuse similar to yours, unless I know what I'm being accused of.
It's that current P2P attitudes also include an affinity for not compensating the creator.
True, but that's nothing particularly "current" about that attitude. Bill Gates got very steamed about people blithely passing around copies of his Basic software back in the 70s. P2P being person-to-person back then. As far as music goes, at that time you'd think nothing of taping music off the radio, or froma vinyl disc for a friend.
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According to the crack Slashdot editorial team: "McMaster University recently announced the discovery of the remains of a gigantic ape".
In fact, TFA says "Research into Gigantopithecus blackii began in 1935". (70 years ago, recent on the geological scale, perhaps.) The article is about a new dating method that determined that the ape "roamed southeast Asia for nearly a million years before the species died out 100,000 years ago", the same period humans were developing, and thus the possibility of interaction, or that we wiped them out.
You can bet your bottom dollar that Red Hat is seeing dollar signs out of this deal. Big dollar signs
Probably their payoff would be cohorts of students who were weaned on RH Linux moving into the business world, in countries where the IT infrastructure is minimal or based on pirated software. Instead of the usual dilemma of lock in to MS these countries face when they want to go legit, they'll be free to choose Linux if they want. MS will have to fight for the market instead of having it fall in their laps as it does now due to lack of support or familiarity with anything else.
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I never said that any drugs were "OK". (The most lethal drugs are tobacco, which killed my mother, and alcohol, which causes untold deaths and discord.) I was just pointing out the claim made above, the old "gateway" myth, that once you take one drug you'll take anything, is not true. People make choices based on more than the stupid "this illegal drug is fine, therefore they all are", and it happens that the people I know draw the line as I said. You may draw it in a different place, which should be your privilege as an adult.
Speaking personally, and of several friends, bullshit. Weed, yes. Hallucinogens and E, possibly. H and coke, no way.
Wouldn't work. Many submitters like to link both the specific page and the top level domain, like:
However, you could make an exception list of popular referring sites, like New York Times, The Register, etc and ignore top level links in the analysis. Regardless, detecting dupes is relatively simple, the problem is Taco et al just don't give a fuck. Dupes are bad, even worse are the deliberate flamebait stories on "Intelligent Design" and such, guaranteed to draw 1000 posts from the advocates of both sides, repeating their arguments ad nauseaum, and hoaxes and pseudo science presented as fact. That along with the lack of any care with simple presentation like spelling or grammar show a total lack of professionalism -- and these are people collecting a cheque to "edit" and selling advertising and subscriptions. It's annoying because the hard parts -- the infrastructure to support the huge hit rates and nested discussions, the mod system that keeps trolls from overwhelming it, basically work. The readers supply the stories and comments. But the simple things a 12-year-old could do are the things that they screw up."Adult Friend Finder" -- they must do an IP lookup to target the ads, so I, living in Hong Kong, see all these ads with the captions "Hot woman in Beijing/Shanghai/Urumqi wants to meet you". Strangely, all these Chinese women are skanky blondes (usually depicted naked with their legs spread).
I can think of some exceptions. For instance, All in the Family is often considered quite good, being a remake of Till Death Do Us Part.
In movies, The Magnificent Seven (from The Seven Samurai).
Sure, Jobs would be just as ruthless as Gates if he were top dog. (We'd have PCs that cost more, but worked better though.}
Yes, a lot like iTunes if Apple controlled 95% instead of 5% of the PC market.
Thye wouldn't anyway. OEM installs are supported by the OEM, not MS. You used to get whole Dell desktops on top of Win 3.1, for instance. Usually end up turning most of it off.
You are if people supplying or selling the data or entertainment media you want to access only supply it in these proprietary (I include IE here, we all know lots of sites only work in IE) formats. You can use various codecs etc, but when it comes to DRM you have no legal alternative. So this is handing MS a monopoly on downloadable media because they can tell all the vendors they only need to supply in one locked format, paying Bill his tithe for every download. Trying to forestall this is what the whole case is about, not the players per se.
Because the artists signed a contract and sold it to them.
Nothing compared to the 418,690 killed by cigarettes each year. And while it's hard to live without risking your life in a car, cigarettes are entirely avoidable, except for the second hand smoke that only kills 3,000 a year (same source) -- coincidentally about the same number as died in the WTC. Where's the shock and awe against BAT? Why aren't tobacco executives in Gitmo? (Rhetorical questions, no need to reply.) They kill 100 times more every year than the relatively benign Mr bin Laden ever did.
No it doesn't. The audio tracks are there as on any old CD, the software is an extra to prevent you copying it. (I think it lets you create DRM'd files only.)
"Liberman said around 12 percent of passengers tend to show stress even when they have nothing to hide." And that's from the guy selling the damn thing. So there is a huge false positive rate, and no guarantee of no false negatives.
I've seen gadgets advertised that are supposed to do this over the phone. Your terrorist cell gets one of these and test their guys till they find one or several that can pass.
Who's on first?
MS was invited to support the format, they declined because it wouldn't allow the "rich user experience" of their proprietary format. And I don't think they were thinking of handicapped users somehow. Anyway, it would be trivial for MS ot support this format, and in fact they've paid someone to do so, but not "officially" and thus supported by them, they prefer it to be buggy and fucked up to discredit the format. Aside from that, third parties could easily make plugins and certainly will long before this goes live.
They probably would not approve. So how would that make any difference? Are they going to ask people to sign a EULA to foreswear loading Windows? Especially if MS chipped in a billion to end-users to subsidise their purchase. From what I understand of the plan, the hardware platform would be a design that many manufacturers could adopt, and there is definitely a plan for a fully commercial variety.
I have more faith in the gentlemen at the MIT Media Lab
You keep saying that. Once the machines are out the door, the Media Lab has no control over how they're used.
I'm sorry.
No, you're not sorry you fucking hypocrite. I'll indulge myself with some of the some juvenile name-calling you preface your arguments with. You must be an American, only they can piss all over people, make a perfunctory apology, and get offended if they're not given a free pass.
I di not say anythng about the laptop project itslef. I only gave my thoughts on how MS would react to it. If the laptop project gets the hardware made and out, it will be great. But MS (and Apple, and REdhat) will all be pushing their corporate barrows, and to assume they'll all work primarily for teh good of the children is foolish.
I still don't know why you see fit to make personal attacks on me instead of actually discussing the issue.
Really? I missed that. Maybe you could quote where they say that. I read only the announcement of a new dating of remains, no mention of remains discovered "recently".
In the accepted use of the term, FUD refers to lies in the service of discrediting a competitor. So I do not accept your label.
This assertion is paranoid because it is not supported by the facts.
It's a prediction, so of course it can't be proven. (But see below.) Again, the terms you use, "paranoid" are insulting and inappropriate.
This assertion is baseless because it contradicts stated goals of One Laptop Per Child,
And why would MS be bound by these goals?
I simply gave a prediction, based on MS's actions in comparable situations, of what they might do if this project actually starts distributing hardware. Perhaps you've heard of the Thai govt scheme to distribute cheap PCs, bundled with Linux a year or two ago? A short time later, MS, which had strongly resisted a cheap "3rd world" version of their software, fearing grey market leakage, came up with an XP-lite and got this offered as an alternative to Linux on these systems. They also started offering software completely free to Thai universities. Similar actions in some Indian states more recently I recall. Against financial arguments they offer discounts, against philosophical arguments they offer "shared source". Who can doubt they'd fail to act to prevent the loss of a generation of students?
I never intended any disrespect, despite the occasional harsh word.
You can't have it both ways. You call me "paranoid", you say I use "misinformation to falsely characterize", i.e. lie. You are far beyond being just "insolent".
Okay, so what then is the "off-base rant", the "paranoid FUD is totally offtopic" and so on all about? Did you imagine that I was saying that MS was behind the rejection of Apple's offer? I can't respond, except with generic abuse similar to yours, unless I know what I'm being accused of.
True, but that's nothing particularly "current" about that attitude. Bill Gates got very steamed about people blithely passing around copies of his Basic software back in the 70s. P2P being person-to-person back then. As far as music goes, at that time you'd think nothing of taping music off the radio, or froma vinyl disc for a friend.
In fact, TFA says "Research into Gigantopithecus blackii began in 1935". (70 years ago, recent on the geological scale, perhaps.) The article is about a new dating method that determined that the ape "roamed southeast Asia for nearly a million years before the species died out 100,000 years ago", the same period humans were developing, and thus the possibility of interaction, or that we wiped them out.
Yes. I don't dispute that. What did I write that made you imagine that I did?
Sorry for sounding like a dick about all this
No you're not (sorry, that is).
Probably their payoff would be cohorts of students who were weaned on RH Linux moving into the business world, in countries where the IT infrastructure is minimal or based on pirated software. Instead of the usual dilemma of lock in to MS these countries face when they want to go legit, they'll be free to choose Linux if they want. MS will have to fight for the market instead of having it fall in their laps as it does now due to lack of support or familiarity with anything else.