I don't buy it that interpol can get out of it's part of this by saying that they "don't judge the merits of the warrants". They played a part in this and they need to be held to account. Turning a blind eye whilst helping such a cause holds as much water as "I was only following orders".
Apart from the self-indulgent ad-hominem attack which is is quite funny in its lack of perpective and whose vitriol seems to be drawn from another source, I'm curious to see if you can defend your accusation that what I said in that post demonstrates a binary black and white world-view.
To such an eloquent, intellectually capable, person such as yourself, I'm sure this will pose no real challenge.
>Anonymous aren't heroes. They're the worst type of vigilantes
Perspective, wherefore art thou? The worst type of vigilantes rip people apart, physically - body from limb, burn homes, kill families and innocent people; baying, pitch-fork-wielding, lynching, bloodthirsty mobs.
Personally, I see Anonymous as a cross between Robin Hood and Loki.
I'm not saying nobody's going to get hurt, but part of me really rather likes them.
I'm sorry but if you want a slashdot editor to do that, you ned to phrase it in a way that allows them to hit the right combination of buttons for the banana to drop.
I was going to try Rockbox on my old and battered Sandisk Fuze, but when I investigated the benefots in doing so, I saw that the Rockbox firmware actually knocks 10 hours off its battery life!
I'll react. I'll be quite pleased. Because it won't work.
Any censored Tweet will be retweeted, both through Twitter's atuto-retweet function and manually. If Twitter censor auto-re-tweets, then 'fine'. But they won't be able to censor manual re-tweets.
All it will take is for someone in a censored country to mention that they can't see a certain tweet, and someone in a non-censored country can manually re-tweet it.
The censoring country's courts would then have to apply for each re-tweet or subsequent Tweet mentioning the same information to be censored.
All this will do will raise the profile of the censorship taking place and raise awareness in the censorees that they are being controlled by those doing the censoring.
And that will influence those being controlled to become more active in the defense of the freedoms. All-in-all, a good outcome.
I watched all 6 programmes (including the follow-up Star Gazing Live: Down To Earth) and was thankful that the BBC hasn't yet been destroyed by the Tories and their cronyism with the Murdoch Empire.
Genuine public service broadcasting.
From Wikipedia:
[...] the mission of the Corporation is to "inform, educate and entertain". It states that the Corporation exists to serve the public interest and to promote its public purposes: sustaining citizenship and civil society, promoting education and learning, stimulating creativity and cultural excellence, representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities, bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK, helping to deliver to the public the benefit of emerging communications technologies and services [...]
Unlike Murdoch et al. whose sole purpose is to create profit.
I think you're partially right in that this is definitely A way to go, but as with all campaigns against an evil (percieved or otherwise) a multi-pronged approach is always best.
Lobby, raise awareness, campaign, write, make art, make jokes, converse, code. Do all these things and more.
The chances are this issue will re-surface. Even if SOPA and PIPA are killed stone dead, they're just the fruiting bodies of a root system that spreads far and wide and has much influence. That's also where we need to focus - the self-interested parties who will burn the earth so long as they have a fire with which to warm their hands. And the tame politicians who engage in mutual backscratching with these creatures.
SOPA/PIPA is a skirmish, and one which the opposing army will walk away from largely intact.
>Let's hope this will loosen the grip of the major publishing companies. Paying $150 for a textbook
Yeah. Apple is in the business of saving you money.:rollseyes:
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ALL politics is about maintaining hierarchies. The only difference is which hierarchy.
Most human interactions are about the same thing. Monkey tribes battling for dominance or position within the hierarchy. From family to religion to 'science' (as a human institution rather than the methodology) to anywhere else we get together.
It's what we are: a hierarchical-based social animal.
Un-uniquely.
Ho hum./Vonnegut.
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Depends whose spectrum. What the US calls the left, we would call the center in Europe.
Yeah, this seems reasonable, particularly if you know now that "Liking" a company's page will get their marketing served to you.
If someone doesn't like this, all they have to do is stop liking commercial organisation's web pages.
I don't, however, think that the one sponsored article per day limit will last very long. Facebook has a long and established track record for continually breaking self-imposed limits and boundaries.
>Not having to perform a marriage ceremony is not a violation of someone's rights.
Not having to = allowed to discriminate against. Have I got that right? Thought so.
Tell you what, I'll be prepared to have a serious discussion with you when you're prepared to defend the 'right' of others to discriminate against you in the same way as you wish to discriminate against others. That sounds fair, doesn't it? Quid pro quo and all that.
>I mean does anybody know how much money went through steam on the Xmas sale? i bet it was garbage trucks just full of money because its so simple and cheap,
I bought quite a few games on Steam during the sale, like many other people, no doubt.
I have both the means and knowledge to *easily* pirate any of the games I bought.
It would be trivial to pirate Crysis 2. I haven't and I haven't bought it because it isn't on Steam.
How many lost dollars and sales can EA put down to pulling their game from Steam as opposed to piracy? I doubt we'll ever hear about that.
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I don't buy it that interpol can get out of it's part of this by saying that they "don't judge the merits of the warrants". They played a part in this and they need to be held to account. Turning a blind eye whilst helping such a cause holds as much water as "I was only following orders".
Copyright is a poison.
In a limited dose, it may prove to confer great medicinal benefit. Once that dosage is exceeded, however, it causes great harm.
OH ... and "Theft".
Unlike "Piracy".
The "Troll" accusation was merely a theory. Thanks for confirming it.
I know I shouldn't feed a troll, but ...
Apart from the self-indulgent ad-hominem attack which is is quite funny in its lack of perpective and whose vitriol seems to be drawn from another source, I'm curious to see if you can defend your accusation that what I said in that post demonstrates a binary black and white world-view.
To such an eloquent, intellectually capable, person such as yourself, I'm sure this will pose no real challenge.
I await your response with interest.
>Anonymous aren't heroes. They're the worst type of vigilantes
Perspective, wherefore art thou? The worst type of vigilantes rip people apart, physically - body from limb, burn homes, kill families and innocent people; baying, pitch-fork-wielding, lynching, bloodthirsty mobs.
Personally, I see Anonymous as a cross between Robin Hood and Loki.
I'm not saying nobody's going to get hurt, but part of me really rather likes them.
I'm sorry but if you want a slashdot editor to do that, you ned to phrase it in a way that allows them to hit the right combination of buttons for the banana to drop.
Maybe there should be a rating system for apps (and the phones themselves) similar to the Energy Star Rating, but for data instead.
I was going to try Rockbox on my old and battered Sandisk Fuze, but when I investigated the benefots in doing so, I saw that the Rockbox firmware actually knocks 10 hours off its battery life!
The lesson being that YMMV.
I'll react. I'll be quite pleased. Because it won't work.
Any censored Tweet will be retweeted, both through Twitter's atuto-retweet function and manually. If Twitter censor auto-re-tweets, then 'fine'. But they won't be able to censor manual re-tweets.
All it will take is for someone in a censored country to mention that they can't see a certain tweet, and someone in a non-censored country can manually re-tweet it.
The censoring country's courts would then have to apply for each re-tweet or subsequent Tweet mentioning the same information to be censored.
All this will do will raise the profile of the censorship taking place and raise awareness in the censorees that they are being controlled by those doing the censoring.
And that will influence those being controlled to become more active in the defense of the freedoms. All-in-all, a good outcome.
>So I got this copy of the "Anarchist Cookbook", is this terrorism?
In order to answer this question, please stand next to this Dulux colour chart featuring the natural wood range.
Absolutely agree.
I watched all 6 programmes (including the follow-up Star Gazing Live: Down To Earth) and was thankful that the BBC hasn't yet been destroyed by the Tories and their cronyism with the Murdoch Empire.
Genuine public service broadcasting.
From Wikipedia:
Unlike Murdoch et al. whose sole purpose is to create profit.
I think you're partially right in that this is definitely A way to go, but as with all campaigns against an evil (percieved or otherwise) a multi-pronged approach is always best.
Lobby, raise awareness, campaign, write, make art, make jokes, converse, code. Do all these things and more.
The chances are this issue will re-surface. Even if SOPA and PIPA are killed stone dead, they're just the fruiting bodies of a root system that spreads far and wide and has much influence. That's also where we need to focus - the self-interested parties who will burn the earth so long as they have a fire with which to warm their hands. And the tame politicians who engage in mutual backscratching with these creatures.
SOPA/PIPA is a skirmish, and one which the opposing army will walk away from largely intact.
>Let's hope this will loosen the grip of the major publishing companies. Paying $150 for a textbook
Yeah. Apple is in the business of saving you money. :rollseyes:
Most human interactions are about the same thing. Monkey tribes battling for dominance or position within the hierarchy. From family to religion to 'science' (as a human institution rather than the methodology) to anywhere else we get together.
It's what we are: a hierarchical-based social animal.
Un-uniquely.
Ho hum. /Vonnegut.
No.
We'd call it the Moderate Right. :-/
I'm all out of mod points; have this virtual rep instead: +1 Informative.
Yeah, this seems reasonable, particularly if you know now that "Liking" a company's page will get their marketing served to you.
If someone doesn't like this, all they have to do is stop liking commercial organisation's web pages.
I don't, however, think that the one sponsored article per day limit will last very long. Facebook has a long and established track record for continually breaking self-imposed limits and boundaries.
Laws, like taxes, are for the little people.
>Not having to perform a marriage ceremony is not a violation of someone's rights.
Not having to = allowed to discriminate against. Have I got that right? Thought so.
Tell you what, I'll be prepared to have a serious discussion with you when you're prepared to defend the 'right' of others to discriminate against you in the same way as you wish to discriminate against others. That sounds fair, doesn't it? Quid pro quo and all that.
I dunno. Seems to me that religious institutions get plenty of opt-outs form the law when it comes to discrimination against gays.
The rule seeming to be that if you codify your prejudice, it's OK.
>I mean does anybody know how much money went through steam on the Xmas sale? i bet it was garbage trucks just full of money because its so simple and cheap,
I bought quite a few games on Steam during the sale, like many other people, no doubt.
I have both the means and knowledge to *easily* pirate any of the games I bought.
It would be trivial to pirate Crysis 2. I haven't and I haven't bought it because it isn't on Steam.
How many lost dollars and sales can EA put down to pulling their game from Steam as opposed to piracy? I doubt we'll ever hear about that.
Also, judging by these figures: DRM DOESN'T WORK.
I wonder if Samsung will sue Apple for producing a device that infringes on their large rectangular display used with a remote control.