Apparently you're new here too; like I replied to the other person, this means nothing. All distractions are dangerous; but how dangerous are they? The GP asked about "Risk Change", not "Is this 'dangerous'?"; since that has such an obvious answer.
Simply remembering that I replied this way to your message may be a distraction to your driving tomorrow. Does that mean I'm a danger to your driving, and that you should be fined £50 for thinking of me?
Or should this only apply to smoking? Or to eating? Or for having passengers? Or singing to yourself? Do you see my point?
It's not like MegaUpload was some kind of charity... CEO seemed to be making money hand-over-fist.
All that proves is that MegaUpload was providing value to people.
Making money hand over fist doesn't always mean you're providing value to people. The RIAA still makes money hand over fist. Do you think they provide a lot of value to people? You can make tons of money off of the Stock Market as a day trader, are you providing value to people? I'm not saying MegaUpload WASN'T providing a valuable service. I'm just saying MegaUpload making money is not an indicator they are providing value to anyone.
While I see what you're saying, people were choosing to pay Megaupload - no-one chose to pay the MPAA for their services.
Check your own government. The media cartels are trying to pass similar laws around the world. I know of the UK, Spain, and Australia off the top of my head, and probably other places.
The UK tried to pass similar laws in 2010, but it thankfully failed. Since then, there has been some ISP forced to block some sites. I assume to bring this back, the UK Government are waiting to see what the US does; hence the question of how to help.
Yeah this is kind of pointless, and frankly I'm kind of pissed off the wikipedia actually blocked their site outside the US. What's the point? I'm already aware of it, and I can't really contact my congressman. A clickthrough would have been fine and would have spread the word just as well.
I see www.google.co.uk is also still standard as is www.google.co.za
What a bunch of idiots - this WILL affect EVERYONE eventually.
Makes me wonder if behind the facade, Google is more interested in commercial interests than actually taking a stand!
It is, but many people are already aware of it - especially because we've had the Digital Economy Act already tried to be thrust upon us.
While I completely agree with you, I can see why google.co.uk haven't affected people in the UK - as my original question said; what can we do about it? I've signed the petition, and can write to a foreign affairs department, but it's not going to have the same impact as it would from US citizens.
It's clear if the USA passes this law, it will be very difficult to stop it coming here too. But what can we do to help?
How about for the rest of us who aren't in America?
I'd really like to help, since if this passes it's only a matter of time before it's in the UK too.
Doesnt magnet require clients to communicate with each other using DHT?
Whats stopping the ISP's from blocking DHT itself, atleast this way they have to block individual sites
If everything went magnet they can wipe it all out by just blocking DHT
Simply put - no it doesn't need DHT.
Magnet URI scheme on Wikipedia explains that a magnet link can contain anything from a standard URL, to P2P (DirectConnect, Gnutella, eDonkey), a list of keywords to search for, or a BitTorrent tracker (with DHT or with tracker URLs). They can contain a list of one - or many of these different sources too, and even include CRC and MD5.
Not likely, that company has serious corruption issues and they don't provide copies for the employees. All logs are on the same sheet making it difficult to get a copy.
Never thought I'd see on Slashdot someone complaining that it's difficult to get a copy of something...
Yeah advance tickets can be cheap if you are prepared to book a long way in advance and spend a lot of time waiting arround to ensure you don't miss your booked train.
So you're prepared to pay more than 1666% extra for convenience? 'Tis your call.
Hey! That's not spamming to use an affiliate code.
No, fuck off and just provide the main company website link. I neither know nor care how "affiliate codes" work, but they must be doing something to your advantage. Ergo, you are a spammer.
Actually, every user on Giffgaff gets a custom affiliate link. It's nothing special or secret. They make it very public. If someone signs up through that link; they pay the affiliate a five pounds. Its so you can give it to your mates and make some easy money for passing on that it's a decent company.
It makes no difference to the person signing up. Without it - instead of the affiliate getting the cash, Giffgaff get it instead. It serves no purpose not to use that link. With referrer tracking, Giffgaff still know where it came from, so there's no privacy risk, and it would be hard to draw an association between the affiliate and the new customer.
Knowing this, do you still really expect anyone to link to GiffGaff's site instead of using the affiliate link - that all their customers get given?
Hey! That's not spamming to use an affiliate code. Sure; clear your cookies if you want - but you won't get anything extra or lose anything for it; so why are you so offended?
I was just providing a link to a company I've been impressed with. Whatever happened to paying it forward?
O2 is one of the better UK providers in that respect. My iPhone was locked originally, but I went with O2 because at the time (mid-2010) they said they would unlock it properly at the end of the contract period. No jailbreaks, no risk of bricking after software updates, etc.
Now it turns out that they will unlock it even before the end of the contract (though I'm still on the hook for the monthly fee till the end, of course). Just have to ask them.
O2 are great for their signal, but their pricing does take the piss.
When you've finished your contract; maybe try Giffgaff. There's no phone support (it all online), so they're a lot cheaper (£10/mo for unlimited data and text, and 250 mins) - and they still use the O2 network. The support you get from the community is astounding, and they do pay people back quite a lot for helping out.
They've even got a wiki to help you unlock your phone. Definitely worth a look.
Last time I recall MS putting BASIC on a PC was with Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS. It's not a GUI friendly programming language. It's also a terrible language.
I do however wish they would put a programming language on Windows for creating Windows apps (and other platforms). Trouble is MS makes money from selling languages - as do other providers - so there's no real incentive to give something away for free.
As for a simple language which can be used to do basic things - PERL is one solution. Love it or hate it, it's free, it's as easy to learn as BASIC was, and it has real world uses. Not sure about other platforms though
This. Though I disagree on the 'terrible' bit.
BASIC is a great language to learn in, it's simple and *can* teach some good concepts. But without a decent GUI, most won't be interested. Having BASIC on a phone seems an odd idea; it's not the most ideal platform to type on - or research on. Why the author thinks a phone is a good development platform; I have no idea.
I think it'd be of limited use - but I like the idea of re-introducing BASIC as a good educational tool.
The studies really don't say much... first of all, it's the child's activity level by their parents' measure that matters; that the child is not becoming "clinically hyperactive"; does not mean sugar has not had an effect on the situation.
Of course not, but sugar is energy. Children with lots of energy are annoying. Annoying children are called hyperactive.
It's simple Correlation!=Causation. It doesn't mean that sugar causes hyperactivity.
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Yeah and the side effect of it blocking the person trying to make a wireless 911 call. Who cares about the innocents caught in this, right?
Why would anyone be making a private 911 call on a bus? Especially without any of the other passengers knowing?
I mean, I'm not agreeing with this; but that's a ridiculous claim under this scenario.
Apparently you're new here too; like I replied to the other person, this means nothing. All distractions are dangerous; but how dangerous are they? The GP asked about "Risk Change", not "Is this 'dangerous'?"; since that has such an obvious answer.
Simply remembering that I replied this way to your message may be a distraction to your driving tomorrow. Does that mean I'm a danger to your driving, and that you should be fined £50 for thinking of me?
Or should this only apply to smoking? Or to eating? Or for having passengers? Or singing to yourself? Do you see my point?
Everything is a distraction at some degree, even thinking about this message tomorrow while you're driving could distract you.
Yes or no is meaningless, and 100% is concentration is almost certainly unachievable. Stop being silly and give me numbers, dammit.
How about for non-smart phone users?
Does it help if you don't have to hold the phone with both hands to type?
Those who lie, cheat, steal, and ignore any law they can get away with are more likely to strike it rich. Also, prius drivers are douchebags.
It's not wealth or having a Prius. It's smugness.
use those lungs and get your liver in fighting trim
My Doctor said this too; that I should do something once a day that makes me out of breath, so I've taken up smoking.
(with thanks to Jo Brand)
I prefer crushing them up and having them with some sugar.
Ice cream does sound a bit more delicious though.
It's not like MegaUpload was some kind of charity ... CEO seemed to be making money hand-over-fist.
All that proves is that MegaUpload was providing value to people.
Making money hand over fist doesn't always mean you're providing value to people. The RIAA still makes money hand over fist. Do you think they provide a lot of value to people? You can make tons of money off of the Stock Market as a day trader, are you providing value to people? I'm not saying MegaUpload WASN'T providing a valuable service. I'm just saying MegaUpload making money is not an indicator they are providing value to anyone.
While I see what you're saying, people were choosing to pay Megaupload - no-one chose to pay the MPAA for their services.
Check your own government. The media cartels are trying to pass similar laws around the world. I know of the UK, Spain, and Australia off the top of my head, and probably other places.
The UK tried to pass similar laws in 2010, but it thankfully failed. Since then, there has been some ISP forced to block some sites. I assume to bring this back, the UK Government are waiting to see what the US does; hence the question of how to help.
I think we can start working on an world which isn't controlled by the US.
This is a US law that'll affect the rest of the world; so I FTFY.
Yeah this is kind of pointless, and frankly I'm kind of pissed off the wikipedia actually blocked their site outside the US. What's the point? I'm already aware of it, and I can't really contact my congressman. A clickthrough would have been fine and would have spread the word just as well.
Fortunately they didn't truely block the site. You can get around it with the bookmarklet on this page: http://concentriclivers.com/?p=I%20don't%20live%20in%20America%20and%20can't%20do%20anything%20about%20SOPA%20Wikipedia
Very handy! Thank you! =D
I see www.google.co.uk is also still standard as is www.google.co.za What a bunch of idiots - this WILL affect EVERYONE eventually. Makes me wonder if behind the facade, Google is more interested in commercial interests than actually taking a stand!
It is, but many people are already aware of it - especially because we've had the Digital Economy Act already tried to be thrust upon us.
While I completely agree with you, I can see why google.co.uk haven't affected people in the UK - as my original question said; what can we do about it? I've signed the petition, and can write to a foreign affairs department, but it's not going to have the same impact as it would from US citizens.
It's clear if the USA passes this law, it will be very difficult to stop it coming here too. But what can we do to help?
How about for the rest of us who aren't in America?
I'd really like to help, since if this passes it's only a matter of time before it's in the UK too.
What can we non-US citizens do to help?
Steal a phone! Now you can get instaCash (tm) for it!
Yeah, this does seem a very easy for criminals to get rid of stolen phones easily. Still, there's plenty of other ways I suppose.
Doesnt magnet require clients to communicate with each other using DHT? Whats stopping the ISP's from blocking DHT itself, atleast this way they have to block individual sites If everything went magnet they can wipe it all out by just blocking DHT
Simply put - no it doesn't need DHT.
Magnet URI scheme on Wikipedia explains that a magnet link can contain anything from a standard URL, to P2P (DirectConnect, Gnutella, eDonkey), a list of keywords to search for, or a BitTorrent tracker (with DHT or with tracker URLs). They can contain a list of one - or many of these different sources too, and even include CRC and MD5.
Not likely, that company has serious corruption issues and they don't provide copies for the employees. All logs are on the same sheet making it difficult to get a copy.
Never thought I'd see on Slashdot someone complaining that it's difficult to get a copy of something...
Yeah advance tickets can be cheap if you are prepared to book a long way in advance and spend a lot of time waiting arround to ensure you don't miss your booked train.
So you're prepared to pay more than 1666% extra for convenience? 'Tis your call.
FTFY
Hey! That's not spamming to use an affiliate code.
No, fuck off and just provide the main company website link. I neither know nor care how "affiliate codes" work, but they must be doing something to your advantage. Ergo, you are a spammer.
Actually, every user on Giffgaff gets a custom affiliate link. It's nothing special or secret. They make it very public. If someone signs up through that link; they pay the affiliate a five pounds. Its so you can give it to your mates and make some easy money for passing on that it's a decent company.
It makes no difference to the person signing up. Without it - instead of the affiliate getting the cash, Giffgaff get it instead. It serves no purpose not to use that link. With referrer tracking, Giffgaff still know where it came from, so there's no privacy risk, and it would be hard to draw an association between the affiliate and the new customer.
Knowing this, do you still really expect anyone to link to GiffGaff's site instead of using the affiliate link - that all their customers get given?
Are you sure that your endorsement is not a result of being able to slip your referral code into the order URL? Clear your cookies and click here to order without giving kickbacks to spammers. Mod spammer parent down.
Hey! That's not spamming to use an affiliate code. Sure; clear your cookies if you want - but you won't get anything extra or lose anything for it; so why are you so offended?
I was just providing a link to a company I've been impressed with. Whatever happened to paying it forward?
O2 is one of the better UK providers in that respect. My iPhone was locked originally, but I went with O2 because at the time (mid-2010) they said they would unlock it properly at the end of the contract period. No jailbreaks, no risk of bricking after software updates, etc.
Now it turns out that they will unlock it even before the end of the contract (though I'm still on the hook for the monthly fee till the end, of course). Just have to ask them.
O2 are great for their signal, but their pricing does take the piss.
When you've finished your contract; maybe try Giffgaff. There's no phone support (it all online), so they're a lot cheaper (£10/mo for unlimited data and text, and 250 mins) - and they still use the O2 network. The support you get from the community is astounding, and they do pay people back quite a lot for helping out.
They've even got a wiki to help you unlock your phone. Definitely worth a look.
All it needs is one domino to fall.
Too late; they already gave in.
Website Blocking Law Implemented By New Spanish Government
Can I flag the MoD? What about the Queen?
I'll be flagging GoDaddy, Sony, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs right away.
Who comes up with these ideas and do they have any foresight at all?
Last time I recall MS putting BASIC on a PC was with Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS. It's not a GUI friendly programming language. It's also a terrible language.
I do however wish they would put a programming language on Windows for creating Windows apps (and other platforms). Trouble is MS makes money from selling languages - as do other providers - so there's no real incentive to give something away for free.
As for a simple language which can be used to do basic things - PERL is one solution. Love it or hate it, it's free, it's as easy to learn as BASIC was, and it has real world uses. Not sure about other platforms though
This. Though I disagree on the 'terrible' bit.
BASIC is a great language to learn in, it's simple and *can* teach some good concepts. But without a decent GUI, most won't be interested. Having BASIC on a phone seems an odd idea; it's not the most ideal platform to type on - or research on. Why the author thinks a phone is a good development platform; I have no idea.
I think it'd be of limited use - but I like the idea of re-introducing BASIC as a good educational tool.
Should I be asking you that question? Maybe, once you stop beating your wife, you can figure out what a leading question is.
I'd explain it to you, but have you stopped sniffing your mum's underwear yet?
The studies really don't say much... first of all, it's the child's activity level by their parents' measure that matters; that the child is not becoming "clinically hyperactive"; does not mean sugar has not had an effect on the situation.
Of course not, but sugar is energy. Children with lots of energy are annoying. Annoying children are called hyperactive.
It's simple Correlation!=Causation. It doesn't mean that sugar causes hyperactivity.