You're partly right here, but only partly. First of all, IE 2 was a very crappy browser, to the extent of being unusable. Also, at that point the web was full of "Netscape standard" quirks, that did not work well with IE.
After that IE got better, and Netscape got worse. But still, had it not been for IE bundling, it would never have gotten 90% market share. It might even have been that Opera would have won the battle, as for some time it was by far the best browser there was. But IE came with the PC you bought, at the time you just learnes that there was this thing called internets. And you could open the internets by clicking the "Internet" icon at your desktop.
There's just no way to compete with that, nor did that have anything to do with the quality of the browser.
The comissioner doesn't seem to be claiming anywhere that IP addresses should not be stored, or that regulators should check to see if they are not stored, or that any "implementation" of anything is or should be required. The only statement from him seems to boil down to "something which identifies a person should be considered personal data". And this would be the logical thing to say. Many posters have been wondering "how are they going to implement this?". Well, the thing is that laws like that are already in place (at least in Finland, but I'm assuming the rest of EU also), it's just the question of whether they apply to IP addresses as well as phone numbers, addresses, social security numbers etc. It's not illegal as such to store those, it's just regulated.
Well, I don't know about the same computer, but my 486 was running X windows just fine. It was beating the crap out of the win 3.11 I was using at the time. (When I still dual-booted).
And I was running with 16 megs of memory, being the poor student I was.
And your weak link is that the orginal vendors were not receiving their required due, regardless of the laws of the land. This would be the people that create the content.Why would it be due "regardless of the laws of the land"? If the law says you only have to pay your local organization royalties, then that's it. Why would an US law stating that the original vendors need to get their money be anything more than a local law?
It's just a local US law. It's not something that you can compare all the rest of world to, and then say that others are wrong just because their laws differ. Oh, sorry. Of course you can. You're from the USA. Anything that differs from your system is obviously wrong. Now, please excuse us, the rest of the world, for existing.
When people grow their own food, particularly using sustainable practices, production increases.
This is the biggest load of BS I've read for a while. You're saying that if everyone (even all the./ folk) would start growing their own food, and without fertilizers or machines, production would increase?
Maybe in your private universe, but not in the one were living in.
Then you just don't know how to use it, or haven't understood that you need to
install ALL of of your system using apt-get (or any other package managing system)
If you have.tgz stuff installed all around, of course the system is going to get messed up.
Last time I checked, CDs held ~700MB of data. In no possible way can you fit more songs on a 128MB flash drive than on a CD. And blank CDs are much cheaper than a flash drive.
And last time I checked, CD audio was in uncompressed format. Of course one can stuff a lot of mp3s on a data CD,
but I haven't seen those in record stores, have you?
Yes, stupidity will allways be a problem. (Why on earth would you give next three of your codes?)
Anyway, the system with the bank I use (in Finland) works like this:
I have a userId, 100 one-time passwords and then 20 re-used confirmation passwords.
The one-time passwords are used to get access (to see transactions and stuff), and the confirmation password is asked when a payment is made.
With this, it would be pretty hard to get enough codes from me to do any harm.
Basically, if they would get me to use their site for a month or so, and all the time use codes I supplied to get the information from the real bank, and then relay it to me, I might be fooled to give them the confirmation codes, which they could then use to transfer my money to them, but sure as hell, that wouldn't be easy, nor would it be fast enough.
I'm not surprised at the news.
Here in Europe this has been in the news for a couple of years, studies have been saying it causes cancer, others saying it won't.
The fact is, there ARE studies, already published and also ongoing.
So don't act like this is some big conspiracy to hush up then whole thing.
People have asked what's the difference between
SOT Office and Open Office.
Seems to me that the main difference is that there
is a FINNISH version ov SOT Office that they sell
for 99 EUR.
So the english vesion is free, but you'll have to pay for finnish spell-check helps etc.
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You're partly right here, but only partly. First of all, IE 2 was a very crappy browser, to the extent of being unusable. Also, at that point the web was full of "Netscape standard" quirks, that did not work well with IE.
After that IE got better, and Netscape got worse. But still, had it not been for IE bundling, it would never have gotten 90% market share. It might even have been that Opera would have won the battle, as for some time it was by far the best browser there was. But IE came with the PC you bought, at the time you just learnes that there was this thing called internets. And you could open the internets by clicking the "Internet" icon at your desktop.
There's just no way to compete with that, nor did that have anything to do with the quality of the browser.
Well, I don't know about the same computer, but my 486 was running X windows just fine. It was beating the crap out of the win 3.11 I was using at the time. (When I still dual-booted). And I was running with 16 megs of memory, being the poor student I was.
Quick answer: Who the fuck cares?
You just got to love the apple fanboy's logic and intelligence here. There just isn't any adequate any to answer a claim like that.
And your weak link is that the orginal vendors were not receiving their required due, regardless of the laws of the land. This would be the people that create the content.Why would it be due "regardless of the laws of the land"? If the law says you only have to pay your local organization royalties, then that's it. Why would an US law stating that the original vendors need to get their money be anything more than a local law? It's just a local US law. It's not something that you can compare all the rest of world to, and then say that others are wrong just because their laws differ. Oh, sorry. Of course you can. You're from the USA. Anything that differs from your system is obviously wrong. Now, please excuse us, the rest of the world, for existing.
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Especially in the U.S.
Then you just don't know how to use it, or haven't understood that you need to install ALL of of your system using apt-get (or any other package managing system) If you have .tgz stuff installed all around, of course the system is going to get messed up.
Yes, stupidity will allways be a problem. (Why on earth would you give next three of your codes?)
Anyway, the system with the bank I use (in Finland)
works like this:
I have a userId, 100 one-time passwords and then 20 re-used confirmation passwords.
The one-time passwords are used to get access (to see transactions and stuff), and the confirmation password is asked when a payment is made.
With this, it would be pretty hard to get enough codes from me to do any harm.
Basically, if they would get me to use their site for a month or so, and all the time use codes I supplied to get the information from the real bank, and then relay it to me, I might be fooled to give them the confirmation codes, which they could then use to transfer my money to them, but sure as hell, that wouldn't be easy, nor would it be fast enough.
Try Finland. Try Sweden, Iceland ,Denmark...
How many do you need ?
> We definitely are the free-est country.
Hah! You do actually believe that don't you?
Funny.
When you say "Behaviour is clearly influenced by environment" in that context, you are implying that you believe nature has no role.
You really think that's what he means?
He just said that environment influences, thus you shouldn't expect the same behaviour. What part of that was so hard to understand ?
Resolution has nothing to do with it. if you have a 16 bit display, every pixel can show 65000+ different colors, but of course not at the same time.
I'm not surprised at the news. Here in Europe this has been in the news for a couple of years, studies have been saying it causes cancer, others saying it won't. The fact is, there ARE studies, already published and also ongoing. So don't act like this is some big conspiracy to hush up then whole thing.
People have asked what's the difference between SOT Office and Open Office. Seems to me that the main difference is that there is a FINNISH version ov SOT Office that they sell for 99 EUR. So the english vesion is free, but you'll have to pay for finnish spell-check helps etc.