That doesn't make any sense. Since what he said has been reported on it could BE a citation in Wikipedia. But you're saying that Wikipedia citing it would be more reliable in your mind than his original comment. That's just daft.
Let's take the example of Bill Clinton saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Such a claim can be reported and cited on Wikipedia, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be taken at face value (especially when faced with so many contradictory citations).
Even if you don't believe a word of what Wikipedia says, it's probably a good idea to study Wikipedia just in case you need to rebuke any of its "facts".
Interesting is: this peace of mallware does not directly (perceivably) damage the user of the infected machine, but it generates revenue through (semi fake) Google ad clicks. I wonder how they (Google) will react.. would guess that big corporations get quite pissed by this kind of stuff. Let's wait and see..
Finally, a piece of malware I'm not super-annoyed by.
and worst of all, all the trackers. Which means pretty much the end of BitTorrent as we know it, since most of the pirated content in the world is tracked TPB.
I don't think the mods got your joke. There are tens of thousands of trackers, Pirate Bay is just one of them. And there are also so many tracker aggregators out there, there isn't a single file that's tracked by Pirate Bay that's not already tracked by several other trackers at the same time.
You're getting off-topic.
What you should be asking yourself is: is it ethical to withhold information to the public, when the release of said information will cause more harm than good?
Your question contains an embedded assertion, and that is "the release of said information will cause more harm than good". That has certainly not been proven. In the case of the Italian journalist for instance, it is clear now that if there hadn't been a major public Italian outcry pushing for her release, the Italian government would never have gotten her back.
And if any of you believe that the US is really in it to protect the life of the individual journalist of the moment who gets kidnapped, then ask yourself why they shot at the convoy that was bringing her back, killing the Italian official who was lying on top of her body trying to protect her from getting shot.
No, both the government and the media company may not want the story of a kidnapped journalist coming out, that's certainly true, but that's only because they want to avoid future kidnappings, and the life of the current individual journalist who is already kidnapped is just not that important in the grander scheme of things.
Let me make this as clear as I can make it: Neil McAllister is an idiot. Stop posting his "stories".
He is an idiot. Confusing "HTL Technologies" with "HTC" is a serious mistake (here is the original article he misquoted). It's cowboyish and sloppy. Such a blatant mistake couldn't have survived the watchful eyes of a fact-checker/editor. That being said, it speaks volume about Infoworld, and the kind of process it has for reviewing articles submitted to it.
This article is an unfair characterization of what's happening. It's not that Europeans will pay twice as much as Americans (well it is, but that's not the point). It is that in America, we're having a huge sale, everything must go, and everything is half off (for our rich European friends).
And if any of you Europeans think this is unfair, do not despair, we can certainly make it up to you. Now that George W. Bush is out of office, I'm pretty sure that he would be willing to go to Old Europe on a consultative basis, and for about half the price, do to you, what he did to us, to devalue your currency in half.
They do, at least after 1967 and/or 1980, the Supreme Court allowed it. And even before that, many babies born from an American parent would keep their US citizenship, even if they had a second, third, or fourth citizenship from elsewhere.
And if after those dates, you felt pressured to give up your US citizenship by the State Department (or by an oath you took), you should be able to get it back now if you fight for it back.
That being said, I'd like to point out that according to your link, the American student must have already found a job before arriving in the UK, and once in the country, he's not allowed to work for a different employer than the one listed on his Visa application. And this makes working abroad possible, but still somewhat cumbersome.
At least with an EU citizenship, or an Australian citizenship, you can go the UK on a whim, job or no job, and just look for a job once you get there (all still within the law).
In addition to that, the UK still has agreements with the current members of the commonwealth countries. For instance, if you're Australian, it's trivial to just pick up your bags and go work legally in the UK (and I would expect it to be the same the other way around as well). However, the same can't be said for Americans going to the UK (or Australia) to work, now don't get me wrong, it's still trivial for an American to go to either of those places on vacation, it's still probably fine if he has an employer backing him up/sponsoring his work visa application, but you're just not going to find many American teenagers going to the UK and getting summer jobs there (while you will find many Australians doing that, it's just that easy for them).
Cant afford to send a legal team to Sweden? Then you lose. Company I work for had their domain (and thus their company name) taken away, not because it was being misused or anything like that, but because we couldn't afford to go defend ourselves.
Why would you even send a legal team to Sweden? Wouldn't it be kind of expensive and kind of long to have your lawyers learn a new language and be retrained in a new set of laws. Hiring a lawyer in the jurisdiction that you're being sued in, without going there yourself, is not that hard. The language barrier may be difficult, but since this is Sweden, I would expect that many lawyers you find over there -- would write and speak English fluently.
Now if you go to the domain there's just a diatribe against us full of false claims and BS.
[citation needed, the name of the domain would be nice]
No, Buzz nailed it before parent did. Buzz doesn't want to go back to the moon. However, no one (including him) has the balls to cancel this project.
Therefore, Buzz is suggesting that we instead sandbag the project, cut our losses, and give it to other countries. That can be our contribution to the consortium. If those other countries fail, who the hell cares? If they make it there, that's fine also. Either way, we've been there, and we've done that. There isn't much to gain for us, but there may be something to gain for the countries that want to go to the moon -- but that haven't gone yet.
now you get in the territory of _maybe_ getting to a more intimate search.
Absolutely not, what starts as a strip search can easily turn into sexual humiliation, sexual molestation, and/or an actual rape. At least, that's what used to routinely happen with Irish nuns and Irish priests. And it's what did happen with the recent McDonald case in the US, where the actual sodomy of the sixteen year old girl employee (who was accused of stealing a non-existent wallet) was all caught on video tape.
If a rapist is in a position of authority, it's just too easy for him/her to manufacture allegations/accusations/plant evidence/testify against the child (or even against the adult). At least, with the police, their track record may not be perfect, but at least they have a process and some safeguards for handling such searches.
Who do you think we are? Agents of the State? We have no such obligations. This is America, we can still make serious accusations about a public figure, as long as we're not intentionally lying about him. And in this case, I'm pretty sure that everyone who believes he was a child molester -- believes this sincerely -- even if they don't have absolute proof -- beyond a reasonable doubt.
And as long as no one tries to take the law into his own hands, we're still entitled to our opinions -- I would hope.
Can't you give him a break in death?
Yes, we could, but I do not care either way. He can't defend himself right now, but it's not like these accusations didn't come out before his death and it's not like if he was still alive right now -- he would respond to our accusations on this bulletin board anyway.
I agree that he was a weirdo, but that is not a crime.
And by the way, I'm not a doctor, nor am I qualified to make such a judgment, but I'd also say he was probably mentally ill. Make of this what you will.
That may be true of his first paintings as a kid, his father didn't want him to paint, but after a friend of the family purchased one of his paintings (a dragon on a shield he had given his dad). His father enrolled him as an apprentice under a Master painter, and there I'm pretty sure he was told to paint.
Never underestimate the structure of a class, a workplace, the pressure of your peers, and/or the structure of a pair programming partner. I know I may be a flawed programmer in that respect, but I do my best work when I have *some* structure at least.
Why do you need a list of everyone's salary or 45,000 people's social security numbers???
Those lists become handy when you need to fire someone. You start with the highest salaried people, and then you slowly work yourself down the list until you recognize someone you dislike, or until you simply don't recognize a name.
When talking about computers, the proper term is "default configuration", which means you have not changed it (or failed to change it) from its factory settings.
For real estate mortgages, the default configuration is that the bank owns "your" house, and it probably always did own it. It's just that they were willing to play make-believe, and go along with the pretense that you did own it -- at least in theory.
Simple formula- right before the warranty expires, load in a very cheap off-brand battery that you have intentionally over-stressed, and use it until it pops and ruins the camera. Voila, for the price of a battery + shipping you can have a brand new $1,000 camera.
It doesn't sound like this new system will prevent this. Making a battery explode/leak is not a problem if you're really dealing with a malicious customer.
If the batteries are really that problematic, then may be, they should just try to make their battery chambers more liquid-resistant and/or explosion-resistant.
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That's it. See you in four years. I hope the Karma was worth it.
Let's take the example of Bill Clinton saying "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". Such a claim can be reported and cited on Wikipedia, but it doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be taken at face value (especially when faced with so many contradictory citations).
Personally, I'll take lower quality before DRM any day.
Even if you don't believe a word of what Wikipedia says, it's probably a good idea to study Wikipedia just in case you need to rebuke any of its "facts".
Finally, a piece of malware I'm not super-annoyed by.
I don't think the mods got your joke. There are tens of thousands of trackers, Pirate Bay is just one of them. And there are also so many tracker aggregators out there, there isn't a single file that's tracked by Pirate Bay that's not already tracked by several other trackers at the same time.
Your question contains an embedded assertion, and that is "the release of said information will cause more harm than good". That has certainly not been proven. In the case of the Italian journalist for instance, it is clear now that if there hadn't been a major public Italian outcry pushing for her release, the Italian government would never have gotten her back.
And if any of you believe that the US is really in it to protect the life of the individual journalist of the moment who gets kidnapped, then ask yourself why they shot at the convoy that was bringing her back, killing the Italian official who was lying on top of her body trying to protect her from getting shot.
No, both the government and the media company may not want the story of a kidnapped journalist coming out, that's certainly true, but that's only because they want to avoid future kidnappings, and the life of the current individual journalist who is already kidnapped is just not that important in the grander scheme of things.
He is an idiot. Confusing "HTL Technologies" with "HTC" is a serious mistake (here is the original article he misquoted). It's cowboyish and sloppy. Such a blatant mistake couldn't have survived the watchful eyes of a fact-checker/editor. That being said, it speaks volume about Infoworld, and the kind of process it has for reviewing articles submitted to it.
This article is an unfair characterization of what's happening. It's not that Europeans will pay twice as much as Americans (well it is, but that's not the point). It is that in America, we're having a huge sale, everything must go, and everything is half off (for our rich European friends).
And if any of you Europeans think this is unfair, do not despair, we can certainly make it up to you. Now that George W. Bush is out of office, I'm pretty sure that he would be willing to go to Old Europe on a consultative basis, and for about half the price, do to you, what he did to us, to devalue your currency in half.
Ooops, here is the link again. It was missing the "l" at the end of "htm".
http://www.richw.org/dualcit/faq.html
They do, at least after 1967 and/or 1980, the Supreme Court allowed it. And even before that, many babies born from an American parent would keep their US citizenship, even if they had a second, third, or fourth citizenship from elsewhere.
And if after those dates, you felt pressured to give up your US citizenship by the State Department (or by an oath you took), you should be able to get it back now if you fight for it back.
I stand myself corrected.
That being said, I'd like to point out that according to your link, the American student must have already found a job before arriving in the UK, and once in the country, he's not allowed to work for a different employer than the one listed on his Visa application. And this makes working abroad possible, but still somewhat cumbersome.
At least with an EU citizenship, or an Australian citizenship, you can go the UK on a whim, job or no job, and just look for a job once you get there (all still within the law).
I'm going to try that. I'm wasting so much time browsing the web, instead of doing real work. This might help.
In addition to that, the UK still has agreements with the current members of the commonwealth countries. For instance, if you're Australian, it's trivial to just pick up your bags and go work legally in the UK (and I would expect it to be the same the other way around as well). However, the same can't be said for Americans going to the UK (or Australia) to work, now don't get me wrong, it's still trivial for an American to go to either of those places on vacation, it's still probably fine if he has an employer backing him up/sponsoring his work visa application, but you're just not going to find many American teenagers going to the UK and getting summer jobs there (while you will find many Australians doing that, it's just that easy for them).
Why would you even send a legal team to Sweden? Wouldn't it be kind of expensive and kind of long to have your lawyers learn a new language and be retrained in a new set of laws. Hiring a lawyer in the jurisdiction that you're being sued in, without going there yourself, is not that hard. The language barrier may be difficult, but since this is Sweden, I would expect that many lawyers you find over there -- would write and speak English fluently.
[citation needed, the name of the domain would be nice]
Why not? [link not safe for work]
Make sure to keep your old copy of "Foxit Reader". Foxit has also gone the way of the lenovo. Old Foxit. RIP. :(
No, Buzz nailed it before parent did. Buzz doesn't want to go back to the moon. However, no one (including him) has the balls to cancel this project.
Therefore, Buzz is suggesting that we instead sandbag the project, cut our losses, and give it to other countries. That can be our contribution to the consortium. If those other countries fail, who the hell cares? If they make it there, that's fine also. Either way, we've been there, and we've done that. There isn't much to gain for us, but there may be something to gain for the countries that want to go to the moon -- but that haven't gone yet.
Absolutely not, what starts as a strip search can easily turn into sexual humiliation, sexual molestation, and/or an actual rape. At least, that's what used to routinely happen with Irish nuns and Irish priests. And it's what did happen with the recent McDonald case in the US, where the actual sodomy of the sixteen year old girl employee (who was accused of stealing a non-existent wallet) was all caught on video tape.
If a rapist is in a position of authority, it's just too easy for him/her to manufacture allegations/accusations/plant evidence/testify against the child (or even against the adult). At least, with the police, their track record may not be perfect, but at least they have a process and some safeguards for handling such searches.
Who do you think we are? Agents of the State? We have no such obligations. This is America, we can still make serious accusations about a public figure, as long as we're not intentionally lying about him. And in this case, I'm pretty sure that everyone who believes he was a child molester -- believes this sincerely -- even if they don't have absolute proof -- beyond a reasonable doubt.
And as long as no one tries to take the law into his own hands, we're still entitled to our opinions -- I would hope.
Yes, we could, but I do not care either way. He can't defend himself right now, but it's not like these accusations didn't come out before his death and it's not like if he was still alive right now -- he would respond to our accusations on this bulletin board anyway.
And by the way, I'm not a doctor, nor am I qualified to make such a judgment, but I'd also say he was probably mentally ill. Make of this what you will.
That may be true of his first paintings as a kid, his father didn't want him to paint, but after a friend of the family purchased one of his paintings (a dragon on a shield he had given his dad). His father enrolled him as an apprentice under a Master painter, and there I'm pretty sure he was told to paint.
Never underestimate the structure of a class, a workplace, the pressure of your peers, and/or the structure of a pair programming partner. I know I may be a flawed programmer in that respect, but I do my best work when I have *some* structure at least.
Hopefully soon, they'll ban breastfeeding in public.
There is nothing like the wrath of pregnant outraged hormonal women.
Those lists become handy when you need to fire someone. You start with the highest salaried people, and then you slowly work yourself down the list until you recognize someone you dislike, or until you simply don't recognize a name.
For real estate mortgages, the default configuration is that the bank owns "your" house, and it probably always did own it. It's just that they were willing to play make-believe, and go along with the pretense that you did own it -- at least in theory.
It doesn't sound like this new system will prevent this. Making a battery explode/leak is not a problem if you're really dealing with a malicious customer.
If the batteries are really that problematic, then may be, they should just try to make their battery chambers more liquid-resistant and/or explosion-resistant.