Maybe good fro qwerty layouts but in my case, lowercase é à è are just one keypress and are very common in French. I just need two more keypresses on the rarer occasions when I need a capital accentuated letter.
Well, it hurts their business doesn't it ? It is a payback operation. Turning down a legitimate client without any judgement for political reason was a stupid action. Apparently it is fair to do so. Therefore except more stupid actions, that is what you need to get a political voice nowadays. Politicians don't react to legitimate and rational arguments. They react to fear, to things they don't understand, and mostly to the most stupidly statements made in the most stupid way.
Anonymous will get more media coverage for that than outraged reactions of various moderate group. Do they desserve it ? No, sure. Do they have it ? Hell yes.
This may be a stupid action, but it is the most likely to have an impact.
I use the caps lock key a lot. On French keyboards, when a word begins with an accentuated letter, the only way to display it correctly is to hit caps-lock and press "é" or "à". Give me way to write easily É or À otherwise this is a (arguably minor) feature you remove from me.
Actually the idea is that you can always claim that a soldier disobeyed orders. You can always claim that one person was aggressive and trigger happy. It is a lot less credible claim to say that a robot that record everything did the same.
Also the fact that every year South Korean soldiers are injured in the DMZ probably plays a role in the decision, too.
Actually, there is the world of haute-couture where designs are not protected by copyright, trademarks, patent, etc... Therefore, they have to invent new things every year. Looking at how desesperatly innovating this industry is, I have no doubt that a world without copyright and intellectual property would go much much faster.
No one ever gets his organization's funds closed, his DNS entry removed, his organization's internet host break contract, because he is suspected of having a condom break. How come so many people don't realize that ? It sounds true that in US character assassination is very easy. Just shout "rapist !" (or anything that involves sex, really) and the person can have done the best things in the century, bringing him the most powerful enemies, he won't be given the benefits of doubt.
We know it is a big deal in US, but in Europe having sex is a kind of normal behavior.
He is not accused of rape btw. He is not accused of sexual assault. Believe it or not, he is accused of not stopping having sex after a condom broke. He quite intelligently believes he won't get a fair trial out of this if he quietly surrenders. Being researched by INTERPOL for that shows that he is probably right.
Now when we talk about Amazon, we immediately think about the wikileaks debacle. I wonder if this is only because we follow geek news or if the mainstream knows about it. In which case the call to boycott amazon for christmas maybe very effective.
If you are member in one, being invited in other ones is easy. The kind of system you are talking about have been discussed on the mailing list but we lack a definition of "hackerspace" to make it work. That would require a control authority and we don't want that.
What do you think is more valuable to a company : someone spending 3-5 years to get a diploma, basically proving that he has funds to waste for knowledge available on internet, or 3-5 years of relevant experience ?
If you want to sell fanfic based on my work, you have three options:
1. File off the serial numbers, rename the characters, and try to sell it as All Your Own Work. This is, believe it or not, neither illegal nor immoral and I have no problem with it as long as you don't try to market it on the back of my name and reputation. ...
But fear not, the generation that came before you already had the same feeling and begins to fill the HR positions and to influence decision-making process. Diploma is slowly becoming irrelevant.
Whoever has nuclear weapons (US, Russia, China, France, Pakistan, India, North Korea and presumably Israel, so not really a "white man club") I think it is a good idea to keep this club as small as possible. Not as a mean to dominate other nations, but because proliferation simply causes problems for which we have no solution. The current solution is not ideal but until we find a good way to prevent a nuke to explode in an inhabited area, fighting to keep the number of nukes low is a good thing to do.
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Maybe good fro qwerty layouts but in my case, lowercase é à è are just one keypress and are very common in French. I just need two more keypresses on the rarer occasions when I need a capital accentuated letter.
Well, it hurts their business doesn't it ? It is a payback operation. Turning down a legitimate client without any judgement for political reason was a stupid action. Apparently it is fair to do so. Therefore except more stupid actions, that is what you need to get a political voice nowadays. Politicians don't react to legitimate and rational arguments. They react to fear, to things they don't understand, and mostly to the most stupidly statements made in the most stupid way.
Anonymous will get more media coverage for that than outraged reactions of various moderate group. Do they desserve it ? No, sure. Do they have it ? Hell yes.
This may be a stupid action, but it is the most likely to have an impact.
I use the caps lock key a lot. On French keyboards, when a word begins with an accentuated letter, the only way to display it correctly is to hit caps-lock and press "é" or "à". Give me way to write easily É or À otherwise this is a (arguably minor) feature you remove from me.
Actually the idea is that you can always claim that a soldier disobeyed orders. You can always claim that one person was aggressive and trigger happy. It is a lot less credible claim to say that a robot that record everything did the same.
Also the fact that every year South Korean soldiers are injured in the DMZ probably plays a role in the decision, too.
And now they blame it on open-source and sharing.
More like saying that Christian thought is the basis of Western society.
"As predicted" ? I thought we were lacking a model to predict this kind of eruptions ?
Actually, there is the world of haute-couture where designs are not protected by copyright, trademarks, patent, etc... Therefore, they have to invent new things every year. Looking at how desesperatly innovating this industry is, I have no doubt that a world without copyright and intellectual property would go much much faster.
No one ever gets his organization's funds closed, his DNS entry removed, his organization's internet host break contract, because he is suspected of having a condom break. How come so many people don't realize that ? It sounds true that in US character assassination is very easy. Just shout "rapist !" (or anything that involves sex, really) and the person can have done the best things in the century, bringing him the most powerful enemies, he won't be given the benefits of doubt.
Try noScript.
We know it is a big deal in US, but in Europe having sex is a kind of normal behavior.
He is not accused of rape btw. He is not accused of sexual assault. Believe it or not, he is accused of not stopping having sex after a condom broke. He quite intelligently believes he won't get a fair trial out of this if he quietly surrenders. Being researched by INTERPOL for that shows that he is probably right.
I believe PR can hurt. Actually I believe enough in capitalism to believe boycotts can work.
Now when we talk about Amazon, we immediately think about the wikileaks debacle. I wonder if this is only because we follow geek news or if the mainstream knows about it. In which case the call to boycott amazon for christmas maybe very effective.
If you are member in one, being invited in other ones is easy. The kind of system you are talking about have been discussed on the mailing list but we lack a definition of "hackerspace" to make it work. That would require a control authority and we don't want that.
Yes.
Try "It thinks, therefore it is"
What do you think is more valuable to a company : someone spending 3-5 years to get a diploma, basically proving that he has funds to waste for knowledge available on internet, or 3-5 years of relevant experience ?
But if you make a story about Larry Potter and his trip to Gogworts from platform 8 and 3/4s, you should expect to get sued as a copyright infringer.
On which ground ? Plagiarism is not copyright infringement. I had this interesting read from Stross on fanfiction : http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/faq-fanfic.html :
And here is what this serious guy who has lawyers says
If you want to sell fanfic based on my work, you have three options:
...
1. File off the serial numbers, rename the characters, and try to sell it as All Your Own Work. This is, believe it or not, neither illegal nor immoral and I have no problem with it as long as you don't try to market it on the back of my name and reputation.
Believe it or not, clones are not illegal.
Actually the real surprise would be that these top-coders would be unemployed.
Why limit yourself to NYC ?
World list of hackerspaces
But fear not, the generation that came before you already had the same feeling and begins to fill the HR positions and to influence decision-making process. Diploma is slowly becoming irrelevant.
The more it goes, the harder it is to not see a declaration of war against free speech on internet.
Of if you are paranoid it is about data data data...
Whoever has nuclear weapons (US, Russia, China, France, Pakistan, India, North Korea and presumably Israel, so not really a "white man club") I think it is a good idea to keep this club as small as possible. Not as a mean to dominate other nations, but because proliferation simply causes problems for which we have no solution. The current solution is not ideal but until we find a good way to prevent a nuke to explode in an inhabited area, fighting to keep the number of nukes low is a good thing to do.