Shouldn't the games be about that stuff instead of selling out to the sponsors? Oh, wait, this is the real world, where even world politics is part of the games-one of the latest was the Iranian incident.
As another poster noted, if we start restricting domain names to those with previous widespread identity or companies with big bucks, you restrict access to smaller voices who can't afford lawyers. The whole idea of this thingy called the World-Wide Web is that it was the great equalizer. Everyone whether large or small had an equal voice. Suppose a gay advocate, possible world-renown or not, whose last name is Fallwell operated that website. Would you feel the decision was proper?
If the web is to be an equalizer, then neither decision would be proper-it would effectively allow the person with the most financial resources (this case Jerry Falwell and "Fallwell" in your hypothetical case) control domain names, and make opposing views harder to find.
Timothy was right to edit your submission, but not because he "clarified" it, but because he removed your bigoted conclusion.
If the domain in question were "muslum.org", would you be joking about how people trying to go to muslim.org are likely to be confused? Considering, you know, that they're poor illiterate Muslims? Or is it only funny because Christians are fair game for ridicule?
I target all things/persons I oppose equally, Jerry Falwell and Osama bin Laden get no religious preference from me. Fuck both of them.
I would certainly laugh about it, simply since people should be educated enough to find accurate information from reliable sources for information about topics that concern them. If they stumble upon an assualt or praise of that particular position because they looked at the wrong source, oh well, too damn bad. It might actually open their eyes to a larger perspective of that topic.
Also keep in mind that this Falwell character is just a sonofabitch who praised God and placed blame for 9/11 on liberals. He is not a Christian in the true sense (IMO).
The audience of this trash "minister" is generally made up of a large group of right-wingers with little education (or desire to become educated) that would likely make such spelling mistakes and then howl about the liberals abusing free speech to insult "a man of God". Fuck them too.
setzman writes "According to this article from CNN, conservative minister Jerry Falwell has succeeded in shutting down a web site run by a gay activist on the domain fallwell.com. The judge said it was "nearly identical" to the registered trademark "Jerry Falwell" name and was likely to be confusing to Web surfers. Considering Falwell's audience, the judge was probably right.
This ignorance is often displayed by many politicians, regardless of political orientation. Anything we can do to change it? I really don't think so. Politicians just want to do what they can to get (re)elected.
Your right to be "left alone" just doesn't exist. Just stop downloading software. It's not hard.
With the vast majority of users today running Windows and IE, combined with the fact that many of those are hapless users who know nothing about the dangers out there on the net, a large portion of the population does have difficulties in stopping spyware from being downloaded. Also, consider the fact that the PC is usually located in the home, a place where you *may* control entry. If I decide I don't want spyware on my box, I can block it. Most of those users I mentioned don't have the knowledge necessary to do that.
Well that's neat but I'm still not joining the army until they invent the respawn point.
According to the commander in chief and his advisors, there already are two respawn points: heaven and hell. Supposedly allies respawn in heaven, opfor respawn in hell.
A recent survey by the US internet provider Earthlink found that the average computer was packed with hidden software, such as cookies tracking online habits.
It uncovered an average of 28 spyware programs on each PC scanned during the first three months of the year.
How exactly was Earthlink able to detect the installed spyware? Tracking outgoing requests that were related to known spyware apps? Or did they allow users to run software that reported back to Earthlink for this survey?
I thank Ronald Reagan for this. Now that the freepers and other wingnuts are calling upon their god to revive Reagan's spirit, they may succeed in bringing back the trickle down model. We must stop them!
Does this release actually render slashdot correctly?
Not a troll, but theres nothing more sad than to read about people forced into using IE because of banking sites, yet i have to refresh 5 times just to keep the article text from bleeding into the left column.:(
This is a real issue with Mozilla and FireFox (based on Mozilla obviously), thus the parent has a legitimate concern as opposed to being a troll.
I was thinking 4 weeks a month (=28 days), but that misses 2-3 days X 12 months, roughly 4 weeks unaccounted for. Oops.
I will say that could be a decent amount to live on, depending on your local cost of living. It costs a lot less to live in Po-Dunk-Town, Alabama than Birmingham, Alabama, and obviously less than New York or Boston. Basically, the IT worker in Po-Dunk-Town commutting to B-ham would probably do well, with the others forced to do a better job with their budget. With the basic idea that you will see more IT people in the higher cost areas, that is where you run into problems with this.
If this figure isn't the take home pay amount, it looks like it would be a good idea (perhaps even a necessity) to get a second job. Ouch. Good luck to all you IT people.
Not surprised about that. We just now got wired lans in major spots at my university, will probably be another decade or two before wireless makes it here.
Alabama is one of them, though it doesn't apply it to only internet purchases. It applies to any thing that you bought out of state and brought back home.
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Like that will stop the US government from getting your ass extradited to the USA to face trial and prison.
Shouldn't the games be about that stuff instead of selling out to the sponsors? Oh, wait, this is the real world, where even world politics is part of the games-one of the latest was the Iranian incident.
If the web is to be an equalizer, then neither decision would be proper-it would effectively allow the person with the most financial resources (this case Jerry Falwell and "Fallwell" in your hypothetical case) control domain names, and make opposing views harder to find.
If the domain in question were "muslum.org", would you be joking about how people trying to go to muslim.org are likely to be confused? Considering, you know, that they're poor illiterate Muslims? Or is it only funny because Christians are fair game for ridicule?
I target all things/persons I oppose equally, Jerry Falwell and Osama bin Laden get no religious preference from me. Fuck both of them.
I would certainly laugh about it, simply since people should be educated enough to find accurate information from reliable sources for information about topics that concern them. If they stumble upon an assualt or praise of that particular position because they looked at the wrong source, oh well, too damn bad. It might actually open their eyes to a larger perspective of that topic.
Also keep in mind that this Falwell character is just a sonofabitch who praised God and placed blame for 9/11 on liberals. He is not a Christian in the true sense (IMO).
The audience of this trash "minister" is generally made up of a large group of right-wingers with little education (or desire to become educated) that would likely make such spelling mistakes and then howl about the liberals abusing free speech to insult "a man of God". Fuck them too.
setzman writes "According to this article from CNN, conservative minister Jerry Falwell has succeeded in shutting down a web site run by a gay activist on the domain fallwell.com. The judge said it was "nearly identical" to the registered trademark "Jerry Falwell" name and was likely to be confusing to Web surfers. Considering Falwell's audience, the judge was probably right.
http://shit.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/06/2 015257&tid=201&tid=128
Since this is /. and what else do you see here on MS stories?
This ignorance is often displayed by many politicians, regardless of political orientation. Anything we can do to change it? I really don't think so. Politicians just want to do what they can to get (re)elected.
Your right to be "left alone" just doesn't exist. Just stop downloading software. It's not hard.
With the vast majority of users today running Windows and IE, combined with the fact that many of those are hapless users who know nothing about the dangers out there on the net, a large portion of the population does have difficulties in stopping spyware from being downloaded. Also, consider the fact that the PC is usually located in the home, a place where you *may* control entry. If I decide I don't want spyware on my box, I can block it. Most of those users I mentioned don't have the knowledge necessary to do that.
According to the commander in chief and his advisors, there already are two respawn points: heaven and hell. Supposedly allies respawn in heaven, opfor respawn in hell.
Since when did blogs become a credible news (much less academic) source?
Stupid fucking editors don't even read the front page of their own site.
It uncovered an average of 28 spyware programs on each PC scanned during the first three months of the year.
How exactly was Earthlink able to detect the installed spyware? Tracking outgoing requests that were related to known spyware apps? Or did they allow users to run software that reported back to Earthlink for this survey?
Where do you apply for these jobs?
I thank Ronald Reagan for this. Now that the freepers and other wingnuts are calling upon their god to revive Reagan's spirit, they may succeed in bringing back the trickle down model. We must stop them!
Yeah, like the states and local governments would be able to do a better job. Grow up, dittohead.
This is a real issue with Mozilla and FireFox (based on Mozilla obviously), thus the parent has a legitimate concern as opposed to being a troll.
I believe Alabama has 1 semester dedicated to government at the high school level. That's probably going to be about the same nationwide.
They want him dead, regardless of what a jury says.
It must be the "undisclosed location" Cheney lives in.
I will say that could be a decent amount to live on, depending on your local cost of living. It costs a lot less to live in Po-Dunk-Town, Alabama than Birmingham, Alabama, and obviously less than New York or Boston. Basically, the IT worker in Po-Dunk-Town commutting to B-ham would probably do well, with the others forced to do a better job with their budget. With the basic idea that you will see more IT people in the higher cost areas, that is where you run into problems with this.
If this figure isn't the take home pay amount, it looks like it would be a good idea (perhaps even a necessity) to get a second job. Ouch. Good luck to all you IT people.
Not surprised about that. We just now got wired lans in major spots at my university, will probably be another decade or two before wireless makes it here.
Alabama is one of them, though it doesn't apply it to only internet purchases. It applies to any thing that you bought out of state and brought back home.