hour with a bike? That's assuming I can ride it on the freeway, which is asking for death.
I don't know what your freeways are like, but in Australia bikes were allowed to use them, using the "safety lane" that cars could pull off into. Not quite as good as a purpose-built lane, but still very fast to get around and safer than most urban roads.
public transport to get to where i needed to go, and it took several hours to go where I could get in my car in a fraction of the time.
Of course it's bad NOW. But if instead of being a marginal service, used only by those too poor to afford cars, it was used by the majority, it would necessarily be much better in every way.
how hard would it be to build a simple spell checker into the the tool he uses to post articles?
There IS a spellchecker in slashcode; I submit articles to another site using it. When publishing an article you are presented with a list of words that "ispell doesn't recognize". If Taco et al simply looked at that on their screens, they'd reduce by 80% the number of stupid typos they publish.
for most Americans, what is the alternative to driving? Here is nothing. Distences are too far for foot/bike, and places to go are so spread out that public transport is near useless.
It's pretty easy to improve bus services on existing roads. Most rail transport is running below capacity. The average person could ride a bike 10 or 20 km withut any problem on relatively flat roads. Combine these and you can get a pretty good system. You can say that public transport in many places is crappy now, but with increased patronage it will get much better and more convenient.
But unfortunately, it's not going to happen. The car and oil industries are too powerful to allow it. They destroyed most of the public transport infrastructure 50 years ago and will fight to keep it weak.
I wonder how long we can track this object once it leaves the galaxy. Any perturbations of its path will tell us about the dark matter
Fast, for a star, but it's 1/300th of c. So it'll be at least 300,000 years to get 1000 ly out, getting to the edge of the galaxy. By then we'll either be extinct or know all about the dark matter.
I RTFA, and nowhere was the term "35 years" used. However, poking around the site I see this article was one of a batch on the themes of thngs happeneng over the last 35 years (since Foreign Policy magazine began), and the next 35. So Lessig didn't choose that figure for any real reason.
No they're not. See AusStats. Though the poulation did crash after colonisation, from maybe 300,000 to a minimum of about 60,000, it's now steadily growing and currently over 400,000 (depending on your definition of "Aboriginal"). However, Tasmanian Aboriginals (pureblooded) were wiped out, though some with partial Tasmaninan ancestry survived. They were racially distinct fomr mainland Australian Aboriginals.
There is actually good reason to believe that homo neandertalis is still very alive in some parts of the world.
Okay, where? I think Neanderthals lived in and near Europe; not Africa or Asia, so it'd have to be there. And, please, no Ireland/Poland etc type ethnic jokes.
If you lived in Hong Kong and needed to email me, though, you would have simply needed to use yahoo, hotmail,
I know, that's what I did, but using webmail is a pain; I've got all my mail for the last 12 years in MBX files on my PC so I have to BCC myself to keep things straight, it just complicates matters. But at least AOL bounces, some just accept the message and then fail to deliver.
Not that you or anyone else in Hong Kong had any reason to email me.
Maybe to point out you've duped some of your screenshots?
dangerous_netscape.png, netscape_trusts_itself.png, netscape_trusts_itself-full_screen.png
could-not-complete.png, error.png
(images are slightly different, but the same message).
No, blocking access to sites without asking or informing the site owner is not at all reasonable. That's web access, which is what TFA is about.
You seem to be talking about email. As for that; I live in Hong Kong and found myself unable, for instance, to send normal email to people on AOL for about two years because those assholes had apparently blocked my ISP and provide no whitelisting, no appeal, no way to find out what the supposed transgression was.
My philosophy is that you should get to decide who you want to talk to. If you don't want to talk to anyone in China (or Australia, or whatever), then no one says you have to.
However, TFA is about an ISP that is blocking large swathes of IPs, mostly in China, from accessing their clients' sites, WITHOUT TELLING THE CLIENTS, simply assuming that "no one in China would want to read these sites anyway". That's pretty reprehensible from several points of view.
No joke... The compensating argument is perhaps the most worn and contrite argument ever,
Nevertheless, it's true. How many billions of dollars have been spent on car ads with girls in bikinis, &/or macho men driving their vehicles through the wilderness? Hardly any ads focus on the reality of commututing to work, it's all status, and a large part of status is sexual.
The car was in an accident which caused the seatbelt latch to become jammed and also caused the car to catch on fire.
Well, it's just one anecdote, tragic as it was, doesn't prove anything. Though I wonder if the woman would have survived the impact at all without the seatbelt.
Likewise, most of the Chinese factory owners I've met are small, quiet men whom I could easily take in a fistfight.
If you do business in China, you have to make friends with the law, and the local triads. As part of the service of allowing you to do business, they will take care of any problems from outsiders, which often includes protecting local factory owners from interfering Beijing bureaucrats. (For enforcing labour and health laws, for instance.) Foreigners picking fistfights would end up beaten up and deported, or perhaps just in an unmarked grave. Don't try to take any of these quiet factory owners to court for breaking a contract, often foreigners (or Hongkongers) who do this find themselves jailed on trumped up charges instead.
I can't help but find it a bit ironic that people might be downloading movies which were in fact box office flops.
Actually, box office flop is not equivalent to crap movie. Lots of money-losing movies are critically recognised as being classics; conversely lots of blockbusters are crap that are forgotten in a couple of months. (Of course, lots of movies are crap and lose money too.)
Because they don't shut down DVD factories in China. Sometimes they close them in response to pressure, and reopen shortly after, perhaps under a diferent name. Most do legit work as well and are well-connected with local government.
do have another question though - Why don't consumers buying/wearing fake branded products get arrested?
Because they can plausibly claim that they didn't know they were fakes. Say you got it as a remainder, gift, from a thrift store, etc. And what would they charge them with anyway? How is it a crime to wear (as opposed to selling) a "fake" tee shirt? Some kind of trademark dilution, perhaps.
The Eurocrats recently forced them to release a version with no media player on it, which everybody viewed as silly and ignored.
There's nothing silly about this. The reason this was done was demonstrated by a recent story (covered yesterday Libraries Use DRM to Expire Audiobooks). Libraries provide a service to download audiobooks, time limited use. Only problem is that it uses DRM for Windows Media. It forces everyone who wants to use such media to use Windows, and gives Bill a cut from every track you listen to. Eventually this will compel every media player to licence WMP code from MS, even Apple will have to give in.
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I don't know what your freeways are like, but in Australia bikes were allowed to use them, using the "safety lane" that cars could pull off into. Not quite as good as a purpose-built lane, but still very fast to get around and safer than most urban roads.
Of course it's bad NOW. But if instead of being a marginal service, used only by those too poor to afford cars, it was used by the majority, it would necessarily be much better in every way.
There IS a spellchecker in slashcode; I submit articles to another site using it. When publishing an article you are presented with a list of words that "ispell doesn't recognize". If Taco et al simply looked at that on their screens, they'd reduce by 80% the number of stupid typos they publish.
But not with feathers, which is what this scientist says was the case.
It's pretty easy to improve bus services on existing roads. Most rail transport is running below capacity. The average person could ride a bike 10 or 20 km withut any problem on relatively flat roads. Combine these and you can get a pretty good system. You can say that public transport in many places is crappy now, but with increased patronage it will get much better and more convenient.
But unfortunately, it's not going to happen. The car and oil industries are too powerful to allow it. They destroyed most of the public transport infrastructure 50 years ago and will fight to keep it weak.
Fast, for a star, but it's 1/300th of c. So it'll be at least 300,000 years to get 1000 ly out, getting to the edge of the galaxy. By then we'll either be extinct or know all about the dark matter.
I RTFA, and nowhere was the term "35 years" used. However, poking around the site I see this article was one of a batch on the themes of thngs happeneng over the last 35 years (since Foreign Policy magazine began), and the next 35. So Lessig didn't choose that figure for any real reason.
No they're not. See AusStats. Though the poulation did crash after colonisation, from maybe 300,000 to a minimum of about 60,000, it's now steadily growing and currently over 400,000 (depending on your definition of "Aboriginal"). However, Tasmanian Aboriginals (pureblooded) were wiped out, though some with partial Tasmaninan ancestry survived. They were racially distinct fomr mainland Australian Aboriginals.
Okay, where? I think Neanderthals lived in and near Europe; not Africa or Asia, so it'd have to be there. And, please, no Ireland/Poland etc type ethnic jokes.
Yes, that's nonsense. RTFA if you want to know what they actually said, which is completely different.
Of course it is. If it's true and you don't believe in it you'll go to Hell. If it's not true you'll go to whatever limbo you athiests believe in.
I know, that's what I did, but using webmail is a pain; I've got all my mail for the last 12 years in MBX files on my PC so I have to BCC myself to keep things straight, it just complicates matters. But at least AOL bounces, some just accept the message and then fail to deliver.
Not that you or anyone else in Hong Kong had any reason to email me.
Maybe to point out you've duped some of your screenshots?
dangerous_netscape.png, netscape_trusts_itself.png, netscape_trusts_itself-full_screen.png
could-not-complete.png, error.png
(images are slightly different, but the same message).
See her lawyer's site, which has their responses. It looks like the evidence is so thin it will be thrown out.
Meanwhile, there is a Comprehensive collection of links on this case (Elektra v. Santangelo). Tells you much more than in the summary link, including her lawyer's rebuttals of the RIAA's claims.
No, blocking access to sites without asking or informing the site owner is not at all reasonable. That's web access, which is what TFA is about.
You seem to be talking about email. As for that; I live in Hong Kong and found myself unable, for instance, to send normal email to people on AOL for about two years because those assholes had apparently blocked my ISP and provide no whitelisting, no appeal, no way to find out what the supposed transgression was.
However, TFA is about an ISP that is blocking large swathes of IPs, mostly in China, from accessing their clients' sites, WITHOUT TELLING THE CLIENTS, simply assuming that "no one in China would want to read these sites anyway". That's pretty reprehensible from several points of view.
APNIC includes Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong ... fuck them then.
Nevertheless, it's true. How many billions of dollars have been spent on car ads with girls in bikinis, &/or macho men driving their vehicles through the wilderness? Hardly any ads focus on the reality of commututing to work, it's all status, and a large part of status is sexual.
Well, it's just one anecdote, tragic as it was, doesn't prove anything. Though I wonder if the woman would have survived the impact at all without the seatbelt.
If you do business in China, you have to make friends with the law, and the local triads. As part of the service of allowing you to do business, they will take care of any problems from outsiders, which often includes protecting local factory owners from interfering Beijing bureaucrats. (For enforcing labour and health laws, for instance.) Foreigners picking fistfights would end up beaten up and deported, or perhaps just in an unmarked grave. Don't try to take any of these quiet factory owners to court for breaking a contract, often foreigners (or Hongkongers) who do this find themselves jailed on trumped up charges instead.
Actually, box office flop is not equivalent to crap movie. Lots of money-losing movies are critically recognised as being classics; conversely lots of blockbusters are crap that are forgotten in a couple of months. (Of course, lots of movies are crap and lose money too.)
Because they don't shut down DVD factories in China. Sometimes they close them in response to pressure, and reopen shortly after, perhaps under a diferent name. Most do legit work as well and are well-connected with local government.
Because they can plausibly claim that they didn't know they were fakes. Say you got it as a remainder, gift, from a thrift store, etc. And what would they charge them with anyway? How is it a crime to wear (as opposed to selling) a "fake" tee shirt? Some kind of trademark dilution, perhaps.
There's nothing silly about this. The reason this was done was demonstrated by a recent story (covered yesterday Libraries Use DRM to Expire Audiobooks). Libraries provide a service to download audiobooks, time limited use. Only problem is that it uses DRM for Windows Media. It forces everyone who wants to use such media to use Windows, and gives Bill a cut from every track you listen to. Eventually this will compel every media player to licence WMP code from MS, even Apple will have to give in.
Obviously Linux is not immune to exploits.
You said Linux relied on "security through obscurity". That's what I disagree with. Open source code is the complete opposite.