I think the following phrase should sum up any police objection to her efforts: "If they aren't doing anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about"
RMCP: o hai! FBI: i can haz your citizens informazions? RMCP: here r ur recordz of bill mahr arar, many lulz FBI: free trip to syria courtesy of Club Fed. RMCP: o rly? FBI: rly! RMCP: kthxbye!
Um... is anyone aware that in Canada we send sensitive and CLASSIFIED information on our citizens to foreign goverments, and no that information does not get deleted on user request. I think if the policy is good enough for Facebook it's certainly good enough for the CIA/FBI/State Department. We also let foreign government's run experiments with illicit drugs on our citizens, but I'm sure it's far more important for the privacy commissioner to investigate voluntarily shared information with another company than to investigate that. Remember folks: corporations = bad, government = good.
Actually that is the best way to keep a secret, and it works for more than just Facebook too. Seriously though, if people don't like Facebook's policies just stop using Facebook.
It's funny that whenever linux or FreeBSD removes a Giant lock it's hailed as major news here, like the transition from 2.4 to 2.6 because they are actually huge leaps forward. However, when MS does it it is just regarded as a bug fix. Essentially, all code is just a bug fix then, as it's all written one line at a time and relies on the the years of work to the code base that preceded it.
There are huge improvements on Windows 7, like multitouch support, etc. It's a really nice OS akin to XP. The problem with the zealots is that they create a list of complaints about MS and then when they fix it, you guys complain even more. MS actually pays their devs salary so they have to charge for their OS. Suck it up, if you don't want to buy it don't.
IMHO, the RC is more stable than Vista. I've been using it as my primary dev platform since a few weeks after it was released, and have had no BSODs yet even running mostly Vista drivers with it. It's rock solid and FAST and the new features are definite improvements.
But the commitment to quality that is present in Win7 and was sorely lacking in Vista should be applauded by all.
If anyone in the dev community has seen further, it is because we stood on the shoulders of giants.
Politicians who won't cave to lobbyists....
Have you ever thought that the reason MS is being sued in the first place is because the other side had better lobbyists?
From wikipedia: An ex post facto law (from the Latin for "after the fact") or retroactive law, is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of acts committed or the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law.
I always thought that privatization and school vouchers were the way to quality education. Not throwing good money after bad. It's not the amount of money spent on education, it's the way the public education system wastes it.
So that is why Taxi's use a medallion system? Because the city regulators intimately know exactly how many trained cab drivers there are in a city? Surely, it is not for protectionism of those established business so that margins can remain high and wages can remain low.
We license cabs so that the owners of said operations will not face competition.
What is the point of ending unemployment if the point is to take money off those to work (producing useful goods) to pay those who don't to dig a whole and fill it again (create bubbles and lose client assets when they pop). All that needs to happen is for shitty institutions to fail and reallocate those people to useful enterprises (via market forces).
I'm interested in your market with exponential growth. I'd like to invest as it seems to give much higher returns than the NYSE, NASDAQ, FTSE, DAX, etc.
Given the amount of looting I would hardly say the situation in Somalia is a free market. Free markets should ideally be free from coercion by force. "Somalia" is a collection of small dictatorships that steal everything worth stealing.
That sounds a lot like the labor theory of value. The labor theory of value as an explanation of capitalism is the foundations of The Communist Manifesto.
What is "strict proof"? Many people are convicted purely on circumstantial evidence, think Hans Reiser where they really had no proof she was even dead. The standard in civil cases (which this is) is even lower. Criminal cases is "beyond a reasonable doubt" and in civil cases is "based on a preponderance of the evidence".
The alternative is 300 million US taxpayers get shafted most of which never dealt with AIG. People who made bad choices by dealing with a company with a poor business model should be the ones paying the bill, not people who avoided such a sham company.
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I guess they finally completed a GUI for GNU/RMS/Hurd so now RMS doesn't have to use netcat to view gnu.org
I think the following phrase should sum up any police objection to her efforts: "If they aren't doing anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about"
RMCP: o hai!
FBI: i can haz your citizens informazions?
RMCP: here r ur recordz of bill mahr arar, many lulz
FBI: free trip to syria courtesy of Club Fed.
RMCP: o rly?
FBI: rly!
RMCP: kthxbye!
Um... is anyone aware that in Canada we send sensitive and CLASSIFIED information on our citizens to foreign goverments, and no that information does not get deleted on user request. I think if the policy is good enough for Facebook it's certainly good enough for the CIA/FBI/State Department. We also let foreign government's run experiments with illicit drugs on our citizens, but I'm sure it's far more important for the privacy commissioner to investigate voluntarily shared information with another company than to investigate that. Remember folks: corporations = bad, government = good.
Actually that is the best way to keep a secret, and it works for more than just Facebook too. Seriously though, if people don't like Facebook's policies just stop using Facebook.
It's funny that whenever linux or FreeBSD removes a Giant lock it's hailed as major news here, like the transition from 2.4 to 2.6 because they are actually huge leaps forward. However, when MS does it it is just regarded as a bug fix. Essentially, all code is just a bug fix then, as it's all written one line at a time and relies on the the years of work to the code base that preceded it.
There are huge improvements on Windows 7, like multitouch support, etc. It's a really nice OS akin to XP. The problem with the zealots is that they create a list of complaints about MS and then when they fix it, you guys complain even more. MS actually pays their devs salary so they have to charge for their OS. Suck it up, if you don't want to buy it don't.
IMHO, the RC is more stable than Vista. I've been using it as my primary dev platform since a few weeks after it was released, and have had no BSODs yet even running mostly Vista drivers with it. It's rock solid and FAST and the new features are definite improvements.
But the commitment to quality that is present in Win7 and was sorely lacking in Vista should be applauded by all.
If anyone in the dev community has seen further, it is because we stood on the shoulders of giants.
Is there any other kind of government besides big government?
What a surprise that it's posted by kdawson. I wish you could filter slashdot by admin who posted.
Politicians who won't cave to lobbyists.... Have you ever thought that the reason MS is being sued in the first place is because the other side had better lobbyists?
Because its after the fact. Hence, ex post facto.
From wikipedia:
An ex post facto law (from the Latin for "after the fact") or retroactive law, is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of acts committed or the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the law.
You do know that the US penetrated the Soviet pipeline system and has caused industrial accidents with that right?
So a better use of the money would be to provide bridges to unprofitable companies?
Actually if you have a debt in Canada you ARE forced to accept Canadian dollars as repayment.
Recycle the fuel in a CANDU reactor then it's just fairly harmless depleted uranium.
Also, who says we can't just take the fuel out and put it into new containers in 100 years?
I always thought that privatization and school vouchers were the way to quality education. Not throwing good money after bad. It's not the amount of money spent on education, it's the way the public education system wastes it.
So that is why Taxi's use a medallion system? Because the city regulators intimately know exactly how many trained cab drivers there are in a city? Surely, it is not for protectionism of those established business so that margins can remain high and wages can remain low. We license cabs so that the owners of said operations will not face competition.
Please give me an example of a major policy that is going to change under the Obama Administration. Even on illegal wiretapping he agrees with Bush.
What I don't understand is why everyone has to sign up for the saftey net.
Why can't it be run on an insurance model where those that want it can band together and create their own?
What is the point of ending unemployment if the point is to take money off those to work (producing useful goods) to pay those who don't to dig a whole and fill it again (create bubbles and lose client assets when they pop). All that needs to happen is for shitty institutions to fail and reallocate those people to useful enterprises (via market forces).
I'm interested in your market with exponential growth. I'd like to invest as it seems to give much higher returns than the NYSE, NASDAQ, FTSE, DAX, etc.
Well, we don't really encounter the melting point of glass because even at room temp it is still a liquid, heating it just makes it less viscous.
Given the amount of looting I would hardly say the situation in Somalia is a free market. Free markets should ideally be free from coercion by force. "Somalia" is a collection of small dictatorships that steal everything worth stealing.
Please explain how having financial data could cause an economic collapse?
Is this similar to the Lehman Brothers theory that if no one knew they had no assets they would not have sold their stock?
Are you saying that not knowing which nations are bankrupt is a good thing?
That sounds a lot like the labor theory of value. The labor theory of value as an explanation of capitalism is the foundations of The Communist Manifesto.
What is "strict proof"? Many people are convicted purely on circumstantial evidence, think Hans Reiser where they really had no proof she was even dead. The standard in civil cases (which this is) is even lower. Criminal cases is "beyond a reasonable doubt" and in civil cases is "based on a preponderance of the evidence".
The alternative is 300 million US taxpayers get shafted most of which never dealt with AIG. People who made bad choices by dealing with a company with a poor business model should be the ones paying the bill, not people who avoided such a sham company.