Who signed anything ? You clicked on a button saying "I agree" to a text full of non-enforceable clause. If I make you click a box saying "I agree to be shot at repeatedly in the action of liver harvesting" buried in a 54 clauses EULA it doesn't make you a fair target.
They broke a contract with a client with no valid reason and with the intent to hurt them. It is illegal, this is not a lawful way of doing business. Wikileaks will probably attack them.
Well, the idea is that you don't deserve freedoms you deny to others. Usually governments do this kind of balance and give fines or prison time. When the government fails, someone has to do something.
We were told some of those features might be in the next release or two in three - five years.
I may sound like a preacher, but that is exactly why you want to use open source software in as many aspects of your company as possible : to develop the features you lack at a given point without depending on a dozen of third parties who can't agree with each others. I know you probably aren't the one making the decision, but that is a point to regularly make : "if you had used the open alternative, we could have added this feature. Now we can't and need to wait for another company's goodwill".
And because of that policy, they got many trials in many countries because some silly judges consider that what the autocomplete algorithm spouts is what google thinks. As soon as they began to manually remove some terms, they opened the pandora box and became effectively responsible for what they left. Expect autocomplete to soon be very, very heavily censored.
Interestingly you could even use a trebuchet to attain the lunar escape velocity. However, the power of kinetic gravitational kinetic weapons has been considered and found to be too low to be interesting. A conventional "bunker-busting" bomb is more efficient at hitting a burried target than a big chunk of moon rocks. People make the parallel with the power seen in meteors a bit too hastily. Meteors have a very high speed compared to what can be attained cheaply from a moon base.
Also, a big chunk of rock making a big crater on earth is not the kind of weapons the militaries are looking for right now. They prefer something precise with a high penetration factor. Razing a whole town is soooooo 1945.
However, the moon could be a strategic target if only to prevent random bad guys from throwing rocks at us.
Worry not, us communist hobbyists are working on 3D-printing machines good enough to print wax molds that can be used to cast metal. Soon, your local hackerspace/fablab will be able to download these new screws when they come out and print them out.
Nuclear is too controversial to ever get the go-ahead,
Sure, but as someone who is writing on a computer powered by 78% of nuclear energy, I'll consider that it is plausible nonetheless.
especially since the power beam could easily be used as a weapon of sorts.
No it could probably not. We don't know how to make a focused-enough beam so that it would be lethal when arriving on earth. The reception area should probably be thousands of square meters covered with specifically designed antennas or rectennas
Helium-3 is the best option. Once shipped back to earth each country can buy it and use it for its own fusion reactors. I am actually somewhat surprised that no government has seriously proposed this yet.
Well I missed the announcement about a working fusion power plant...
I kinda agree. I am a bit tired of people considering we should fight to protect the privacy of people who are giving it away without a thought and refuse to spend 5 minutes to learn anything about how internet works. Or, as Randall puts it better : http://xkcd.com/743/
There is no known material worth the expense of mining it on the moon
It would be about time that the media talk a bit more loudly about the uranium deposits found on the moon.
Is it worth the expense vs. mining on earth ? Yes, because it allows a use that would otherwise need uranium to be lifted out of the earth's gravity well : build a refinery that produces fuel for Orion-style ships. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
Or even that beam power back to earth without having us manage nuclear wastes.
I agree with the sentiment but in the implementation, if one considers Elmer to be suceptible to lying and Assange to be a poor facts-checker, one could doubt of the released informations.
I would add that if your kids access pornography through google cache or translation services, it means they were actively looking for it, hence they are ready for it. The goal of parental control is to prevent kids from accidentally stumble on sexual content. But you will never manage to prevent them from getting it once they become a little bit tech-savvy.
And there are a few of us who get paid for coding open source software.
But you are right, we do not exist, we should never be brought up in any conversation...
If 99.99% of hacked consoles were used for piracy it wouldn't be silly to assume they are by default, but it would be illegal to prevent lawful users from accessing some services.
Note that if you hack a Xbox 360 to play pirated games, and then play a legal game online, you'll still be blocked/banned if discovered.
Which may not be legal everywhere. I mean, I doubt they can detect that you hacked your xbox for playing pirated games. They can detect you hacked it, but by itself this is not necessarily a problem.
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Who signed anything ? You clicked on a button saying "I agree" to a text full of non-enforceable clause. If I make you click a box saying "I agree to be shot at repeatedly in the action of liver harvesting" buried in a 54 clauses EULA it doesn't make you a fair target.
Bah, host them in a free country and be gone with it !
Well that kind of clause is abusive. In France that means that you can safely sign such a contract, the law protects you from it being applied, even if you signed the contract. Here is a link another poster gave : http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/mastercard-visa-licenses-revoked-iceland-wikileaks/
They very well be banned to operate in Iceland over this.
They broke a contract with a client with no valid reason and with the intent to hurt them. It is illegal, this is not a lawful way of doing business. Wikileaks will probably attack them.
Well, the idea is that you don't deserve freedoms you deny to others. Usually governments do this kind of balance and give fines or prison time. When the government fails, someone has to do something.
We were told some of those features might be in the next release or two in three - five years.
I may sound like a preacher, but that is exactly why you want to use open source software in as many aspects of your company as possible : to develop the features you lack at a given point without depending on a dozen of third parties who can't agree with each others. I know you probably aren't the one making the decision, but that is a point to regularly make : "if you had used the open alternative, we could have added this feature. Now we can't and need to wait for another company's goodwill".
And because of that policy, they got many trials in many countries because some silly judges consider that what the autocomplete algorithm spouts is what google thinks. As soon as they began to manually remove some terms, they opened the pandora box and became effectively responsible for what they left. Expect autocomplete to soon be very, very heavily censored.
Yep. On the other hand, programming for fun is a lot more sane.
Interestingly you could even use a trebuchet to attain the lunar escape velocity. However, the power of kinetic gravitational kinetic weapons has been considered and found to be too low to be interesting. A conventional "bunker-busting" bomb is more efficient at hitting a burried target than a big chunk of moon rocks. People make the parallel with the power seen in meteors a bit too hastily. Meteors have a very high speed compared to what can be attained cheaply from a moon base.
Also, a big chunk of rock making a big crater on earth is not the kind of weapons the militaries are looking for right now. They prefer something precise with a high penetration factor. Razing a whole town is soooooo 1945.
However, the moon could be a strategic target if only to prevent random bad guys from throwing rocks at us.
I dare say, they didn't threathen us to get it.
Worry not, us communist hobbyists are working on 3D-printing machines good enough to print wax molds that can be used to cast metal. Soon, your local hackerspace/fablab will be able to download these new screws when they come out and print them out.
Now we really have support amongst pedophiles. Great...
But, you know, P2P is evil pirate/terrorist/pedophile thing and it can't solve traffic issues because it clobbers the tubes internet is made of...
Or, without the irony : I wholeheartedly agree.
Contrary to popular belief, a power beam would not be lethal and would require a huge area of reception antennas.
Note that the moon could be the refinery for the ship that could be built on earth or in its orbit.
Of course if Orion ships prove doable, I expect that people will want to manufacture as much of them as possible outside of Earth's gravity well.
Nuclear is too controversial to ever get the go-ahead,
Sure, but as someone who is writing on a computer powered by 78% of nuclear energy, I'll consider that it is plausible nonetheless.
especially since the power beam could easily be used as a weapon of sorts.
No it could probably not. We don't know how to make a focused-enough beam so that it would be lethal when arriving on earth. The reception area should probably be thousands of square meters covered with specifically designed antennas or rectennas
Helium-3 is the best option. Once shipped back to earth each country can buy it and use it for its own fusion reactors. I am actually somewhat surprised that no government has seriously proposed this yet.
Well I missed the announcement about a working fusion power plant...
...in exchange of sexual favors.
The cycle is closed.
I kinda agree. I am a bit tired of people considering we should fight to protect the privacy of people who are giving it away without a thought and refuse to spend 5 minutes to learn anything about how internet works. Or, as Randall puts it better : http://xkcd.com/743/
There is no known material worth the expense of mining it on the moon
It would be about time that the media talk a bit more loudly about the uranium deposits found on the moon.
Is it worth the expense vs. mining on earth ? Yes, because it allows a use that would otherwise need uranium to be lifted out of the earth's gravity well : build a refinery that produces fuel for Orion-style ships.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)
Or even that beam power back to earth without having us manage nuclear wastes.
I agree with the sentiment but in the implementation, if one considers Elmer to be suceptible to lying and Assange to be a poor facts-checker, one could doubt of the released informations.
I would add that if your kids access pornography through google cache or translation services, it means they were actively looking for it, hence they are ready for it. The goal of parental control is to prevent kids from accidentally stumble on sexual content. But you will never manage to prevent them from getting it once they become a little bit tech-savvy.
And there are a few of us who get paid for coding open source software.
But you are right, we do not exist, we should never be brought up in any conversation...
Imagine what Facebook knows about random people instead.
I don't post anything that is not public on my facebook account
If 99.99% of hacked consoles were used for piracy it wouldn't be silly to assume they are by default, but it would be illegal to prevent lawful users from accessing some services.
He just reset a yahoo password without taking any precaution.
Note that if you hack a Xbox 360 to play pirated games, and then play a legal game online, you'll still be blocked/banned if discovered.
Which may not be legal everywhere. I mean, I doubt they can detect that you hacked your xbox for playing pirated games. They can detect you hacked it, but by itself this is not necessarily a problem.