What the BSA wants is a bit absurd. They'd love to be able to do 3rd degree price discrimination - to charge one price in Zimbabwe and one in the US, maximizing their profit, unless, of course, you believe Windows would sell for 300 USD a copy in Zimbabwe. This is a monopolist tactic. It deprives consumers of benefit, and no global regime against it exists. Copyright violation acts as an illegal solution.
The same situation exists in region-coded DVDs - it's not piracy-preventing, it's profit-maximizing.
I could care less about moderation points - I'm an M2 and have karma to burn. What I do care about is not discouraging a point of view just because you disagree with it. While it may start a flamewar to go against the grain and post a controversial opinion, isn't that sort of independent thinking what slashdot is supposed to be about? As is often said, democracy starts at home, and if we aren't checking to be sure that we aren't failing to consider opposing viewpoints today, then we can be as bad as any ideologue we despise tomorrow.
Frankly, I thought he was doing a horrible job 2 years ago. But now, as his presidency seems to have hit rock bottom, his policies are beginning to improve. I think he was doing a horrible job, I don't think he is now.
See! See that moderation above- flamebait! That's a liberal bias! The exact converse opinion - that it was a great slash at Bush and hysterical sits at the top of this page with +5 Insightful. Disagreement is a cheap reason to mod someone down, and because there are more liberals than conservatives on/., we need to be especially careful, because driving away divergent opinions will turn slashdot into a lousy political blog whose readers take the author's words as gospel.
I hate to use this terrible phrase, but slashdot has a liberal bias - it draws a multinational, technological crowd, all of whom are more liberal than the mainstream American. And now it's becoming more common to attempt to inject noise into every facet of our lives - how many times have you seen political popups (which you promptly adjusted your adblock filters for) or banner ads?
This is just another invasion, one that happened to get past the slashdot editors, one that was inevitable but had little to do with slashdot or what its readership cares about when reading slashdot. Now the readership may agree with what is said, but that doesn't mean this is the right venue. The submitter is disrespecting slashdot and its audience by being extratopical.
Or maybe it was a completely inapproprate speech that made everyone there uncomfortable and the media has chosen to ignore it and pretend it never happened, since they chose Colbert anyway.
Yeah, but he didn't get the point of the lecture. The point isn't to rip into serious policies, but the daily gaffes of the administration. Ripping into serious policies makes it seem mean-spirited. E.G: Dick Cheney shoots someone - good! Iraq war - bad.
Basically, the whole audience should be able to laugh, not just half.
The fact is child porn is such a heinous violation of basic human decency that severe abridgment of constitutional rights is justified, even required, to prevent it.
What a stupid law. Why put enforcement on the ISP's? There aren't that many spammers, the key is to go after them with harsh penalties. The rest will wake up after a few test cases.
Yeah, right. It's where they're getting their highest margins, have a kick-ass marketshare (why don't we see phrasing like that in yearly reports? They'd be so much more interesting), AND it carries a halo effect, causing people to buy other apple stuff. Fun fact about business: Don't spin off your cash cow. Woz is out of his mind if he thinks Apple will spin off the ipod; however, he is an engineer, not an exec.
they could start by disabling by default LM hashes... I'm not sure who in MS thought it was a good idea to leave a old security hole open because it was being used for reverse compatibility, usually you close security holes.
"He calls Craigslist the Walmart of classified ads because it siphons money out of the local economy since Craigslist doesn't employ people locally in the markets in which it operates." -- Are you fucking kidding? Craigslist is fair competition -- if you can offer a product for cheaper and better, then you get the business. It's called efficiency, it's the key to economic growth, and this stupid logic of preserving outdated jobs is killing American productivity. Not only that, walmart is a product of the global supply chain, Craigslist is domestically owned and operated.
Yes, I've said it before and I am saying it again, it is shameful how cheaply our public officials can be bought. When people are selling them things that the people they serve don't need, they should say no. These guys have caught on to a dream: give everyone a laptop and all will be well. The sheer folly of this argument is clear. In some areas, people work for less than a dollar a day. Which do you think will have a better chance of lifting them out of poverty: $100 to buy farmland, or a $100 laptop? Which would you choose?
Frankly, only from the UN would we get the idea that the solution to poverty in the developing world is free laptops.
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Or, if you don't want to live in a wind tunnel, shell out 110 for a Lian-Li aluminum case.
Will destructable terrain and HDR be included as well?
What the BSA wants is a bit absurd. They'd love to be able to do 3rd degree price discrimination - to charge one price in Zimbabwe and one in the US, maximizing their profit, unless, of course, you believe Windows would sell for 300 USD a copy in Zimbabwe. This is a monopolist tactic. It deprives consumers of benefit, and no global regime against it exists. Copyright violation acts as an illegal solution.
The same situation exists in region-coded DVDs - it's not piracy-preventing, it's profit-maximizing.
We should put that in the internet's annual report.
I could care less about moderation points - I'm an M2 and have karma to burn. What I do care about is not discouraging a point of view just because you disagree with it. While it may start a flamewar to go against the grain and post a controversial opinion, isn't that sort of independent thinking what slashdot is supposed to be about? As is often said, democracy starts at home, and if we aren't checking to be sure that we aren't failing to consider opposing viewpoints today, then we can be as bad as any ideologue we despise tomorrow.
Frankly, I thought he was doing a horrible job 2 years ago. But now, as his presidency seems to have hit rock bottom, his policies are beginning to improve. I think he was doing a horrible job, I don't think he is now.
See! See that moderation above- flamebait! That's a liberal bias! The exact converse opinion - that it was a great slash at Bush and hysterical sits at the top of this page with +5 Insightful. Disagreement is a cheap reason to mod someone down, and because there are more liberals than conservatives on /., we need to be especially careful, because driving away divergent opinions will turn slashdot into a lousy political blog whose readers take the author's words as gospel.
I hate to use this terrible phrase, but slashdot has a liberal bias - it draws a multinational, technological crowd, all of whom are more liberal than the mainstream American. And now it's becoming more common to attempt to inject noise into every facet of our lives - how many times have you seen political popups (which you promptly adjusted your adblock filters for) or banner ads? This is just another invasion, one that happened to get past the slashdot editors, one that was inevitable but had little to do with slashdot or what its readership cares about when reading slashdot. Now the readership may agree with what is said, but that doesn't mean this is the right venue. The submitter is disrespecting slashdot and its audience by being extratopical.
Yeah, but why can't we take a break, relax, and go to a nice dinner without a protest speech? I mean, the protests will resume today, anyway.
Or maybe it was a completely inapproprate speech that made everyone there uncomfortable and the media has chosen to ignore it and pretend it never happened, since they chose Colbert anyway.
Yeah, but he didn't get the point of the lecture. The point isn't to rip into serious policies, but the daily gaffes of the administration. Ripping into serious policies makes it seem mean-spirited. E.G: Dick Cheney shoots someone - good! Iraq war - bad.
Basically, the whole audience should be able to laugh, not just half.
The fact is child porn is such a heinous violation of basic human decency that severe abridgment of constitutional rights is justified, even required, to prevent it.
I've always found that reading slashdot on april fools is a good reminder that there are better things to do than read slashdot on april fools.
What a stupid law. Why put enforcement on the ISP's? There aren't that many spammers, the key is to go after them with harsh penalties. The rest will wake up after a few test cases.
I dunno if a stock market is the best way to model this, it feels more like a futures market to me.
Imagine the uproar if this was already implemented, the US Gov gave source with the feature removed, and the checksums didn't match.
When asked if the device could register false positives, the researchers responded, "She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie; cocaine."
Are they sure they're not just bad data? Wouldn't it be a good idea to send crap through the lines every so often to throw people off the trail?
can we get an {{NPOV}} on that?
Yeah, right. It's where they're getting their highest margins, have a kick-ass marketshare (why don't we see phrasing like that in yearly reports? They'd be so much more interesting), AND it carries a halo effect, causing people to buy other apple stuff. Fun fact about business: Don't spin off your cash cow. Woz is out of his mind if he thinks Apple will spin off the ipod; however, he is an engineer, not an exec.
they could start by disabling by default LM hashes... I'm not sure who in MS thought it was a good idea to leave a old security hole open because it was being used for reverse compatibility, usually you close security holes.
I can see it now : "youre downsized lol"
"He calls Craigslist the Walmart of classified ads because it siphons money out of the local economy since Craigslist doesn't employ people locally in the markets in which it operates." -- Are you fucking kidding? Craigslist is fair competition -- if you can offer a product for cheaper and better, then you get the business. It's called efficiency, it's the key to economic growth, and this stupid logic of preserving outdated jobs is killing American productivity. Not only that, walmart is a product of the global supply chain, Craigslist is domestically owned and operated.
ha, more like Duke Nukem Whenever...
Yes, I've said it before and I am saying it again, it is shameful how cheaply our public officials can be bought. When people are selling them things that the people they serve don't need, they should say no. These guys have caught on to a dream: give everyone a laptop and all will be well. The sheer folly of this argument is clear. In some areas, people work for less than a dollar a day. Which do you think will have a better chance of lifting them out of poverty: $100 to buy farmland, or a $100 laptop? Which would you choose? Frankly, only from the UN would we get the idea that the solution to poverty in the developing world is free laptops.