Australia is hardly the benchmark for retarded legislation and litigation, we're still not taking grandmothers to court over copyright infractions, but I'm sure with enough lobbying we'll catch up.
Whenever Google looses a court ruling the kneejerk reaction is, well Google can just stop indexing Geico and AFP and whoever else speaks against their hegemony. Fortunately Google has more intelligent people behind the wheel who recognise the disasterousness of such a precedent.
Governments will continue to attempt to impose their controls, trying to clench their legislative fist around the internet, in the end they're doomed and our children will learn in history class with amazement that slavery used to exist and people couldn't always vote and fools used to try to cage the internet.
Hardly, the only time you'll think a corporation as large as Apple is cool is when you succumbed to their marketing spin.
It seems that if they hadn't started this, things would have gotten worse for them in the future, especially as the amount collected grows.
It may take some obscene repression like you've described to help people wake up and take notice.
In Australia the federal government has been elected to such a position of power that they won't be able to help themselves and push through whatever the hell legislation they want. Subsequently people will realise (hopefully) that vesting absolute power in our elected monarch is a bad thing and if they can't stomach voting for the incompetant opposition party, they will likely be attracted to one of the smaller parties to 'keep the bastards honest'.
SMSs can make it over a patchy network when voice calls will not. It also allows easier cataloging and management of multiple nodes. Instead of having a person to speak to every remote outpost a computer can aggregate status reports, help requests and so on.
Wasn't Dune2 the first RTS? In any case the inability to select multiple units made the latter stages tedious when massed forces were required. Still a great game, but not as good as TA. Pity TA:Kingdoms sucked so hard.
Because they're massive Nerds.
Also if the vagina theory is true, then maybe they're the people who've been keeping the spammers in business and have such large amounts of ex-Nigerian money and gianormous penises that they can afford this and require it.
A much as a two-bit spammer in the South Pacific would love to think that he has such an impact upon the industry, let's be realistic.
What about the South Canadian power outage? The various worms and virii that have been circulating? I'd say that maybe some of the filth spewing nodes of our beloved internet have been infected. Also likely is that the recent profusion has probably made some people take a closer look at their PCs and network, eliminating some spam-zombies, or spombies and other sploitz
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Whenever Google looses a court ruling the kneejerk reaction is, well Google can just stop indexing Geico and AFP and whoever else speaks against their hegemony. Fortunately Google has more intelligent people behind the wheel who recognise the disasterousness of such a precedent.
Governments will continue to attempt to impose their controls, trying to clench their legislative fist around the internet, in the end they're doomed and our children will learn in history class with amazement that slavery used to exist and people couldn't always vote and fools used to try to cage the internet.
Hardly, the only time you'll think a corporation as large as Apple is cool is when you succumbed to their marketing spin. It seems that if they hadn't started this, things would have gotten worse for them in the future, especially as the amount collected grows.
It may take some obscene repression like you've described to help people wake up and take notice.
In Australia the federal government has been elected to such a position of power that they won't be able to help themselves and push through whatever the hell legislation they want. Subsequently people will realise (hopefully) that vesting absolute power in our elected monarch is a bad thing and if they can't stomach voting for the incompetant opposition party, they will likely be attracted to one of the smaller parties to 'keep the bastards honest'.
Neo dies? Maybe the third movie is worth seeing afterall.
So when Google gains sentience will it's policy of doing no evil protect us in a similar fashion to the three laws?
I'm sure that's how long it will take this case to get through the court system. If it manages to survive it's conception.
Because the manufacturers need another reason to charge you two hundred dollars for five cents worth of plastic?
That'll just bring down the MPAA and their legion of lawyers around again and the suprnova will have to shut down.
SMSs can make it over a patchy network when voice calls will not. It also allows easier cataloging and management of multiple nodes. Instead of having a person to speak to every remote outpost a computer can aggregate status reports, help requests and so on.
Back in the day a math co-processor was a big deal. This seems to be more a case of feature pruning to expedite shipment.
If only it had been 401k, then it would have been much funnier. Maybe even ironic in an Alanissy kinda way.
Seems there may be a discrepacy between the damages you can plausibly put before a court and those you can tell the media.
Wasn't Dune2 the first RTS? In any case the inability to select multiple units made the latter stages tedious when massed forces were required. Still a great game, but not as good as TA. Pity TA:Kingdoms sucked so hard.
Because they're massive Nerds. Also if the vagina theory is true, then maybe they're the people who've been keeping the spammers in business and have such large amounts of ex-Nigerian money and gianormous penises that they can afford this and require it.
What /.ers consider "Tech" is a small subset of "Consumer Electronics"
Can't we just kick these cretins off the net? What sort of punitive action can the international community take against organisations such as this.
I have to agree, even if it's just a late spiteful gesture - 'If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine'
Surely it must be Al Gore
Theres only so much money they can throw at a problem.
But this is ridiculous!
"Hello we're from the Moron church, and we'd like to talk to you about God"
"erm...I'm, ah, not here?"
"Okely dokely, we'll try again later"
"Bloody Morons"
Doesn't mean that they should have to suffer further for his inadequacies.
i.e. "My schlong is soooooo huge I tell other people how to make my pindick bigger...I mean theirs, really I'm huge. Really. *sob*"
A much as a two-bit spammer in the South Pacific would love to think that he has such an impact upon the industry, let's be realistic. What about the South Canadian power outage? The various worms and virii that have been circulating? I'd say that maybe some of the filth spewing nodes of our beloved internet have been infected. Also likely is that the recent profusion has probably made some people take a closer look at their PCs and network, eliminating some spam-zombies, or spombies and other sploitz
Does that mean we can only look forward to baked-beans?
Given the current state of autogenerated/Over-templated/Flash-ridden crappiness?