And not broadband, if you consider this topic a few days ago, when it was rulled that a company cannot advertise a 128k capped cable modem as "broadband" in the UK.
The higher castes live pretty much like any first world country, the lower ones in some of the worst poverty in the world.
Most western cultures are the same. We just pretend it's different, and allow the token person through to the upper levels now and again. We also have a lot of poverty that is completely ignored, entire communities of homeless people. When was the last time you saw a poor family finance one of their children through higher education?
and tell me that the caste system doesnt exist anymore
While they're at it, maybe they should explain how the class system doesn't exist anymore.
That's not censorship. It gives the parent the option of making an informed choice.
Censorship is something that is forced apon you. No one is stopping you from saying/reading/hearing anything there. Would you say that efforts to keep animal pr0n out of pre-school text books as "censorship"?
Do a search for "banned" on one of the p2p networks. There you will find many shocking & racist cartoons that Disney et all would rather you didn't know about.
The mere fact that "banned" is in the file name guarantees it's high availability.
If they don't have Net access, they will continue to get their news from the likes of al-jazeera and Baghdad Bob.
You do know that Al-Jazeera are not an Iraqi news service? And that Saddam had their reporters expelled from the country shortly after the war began, because of what they were reporting about the Iraqi regime?
You see, they were only showing the truth, what war looks like from the ground. Very different to the sanitized news we receive, but if you believe in freedom and democracy, then you have to agree that having all sides of the story available is essential.
the only handsets available are ugly as sin and probably lack some of the key features that later phones will have.
This "drip-feeding" of features has a posibility of turning off the key users. Most early adopters are the enthusiasts, with out them, the product will flop. Right now, I've a 2.5G SmartPhone that does pretty much everything for me that a mobile could do, excepting maybe video phone, but what use is that on a mobile platform? If I were to move to 3G, I would actually have to downgrade my phone. That's not going to happen! Instead, I'll get an SDIO WiFi card that'll work in my present phone, which will give me speeds far in excess of what 3G is capable of.
Also, compare the large costs of 3G verses the near zero costs of WiFi. With WiFi, you get to use the device at home for free, yet you still have to pay 3G a fortune to use their technology at home?
This article gives some more reasons to why 3G could flop. The roaming mentioned in the submitted article is about the only thing that could maybe save it.
Particularly in an urban battlefield, it's a really rotten idea.
The Israeli's generally don't care about "collaterol damage" as much as we do. The urban battlefield is one where people they are brought up to hate live. Deaths caused by reactive armour would be considered a "bonus" by them.
Somebody above posted that it was an Israeli tank, which is indeed possible.
Therefore, it is an American tank. America built it and paid for it, and financed the training of the soldiers.
This book goes into the fact that TV news is entertainment, not journalism. Not the best written book in the world, but well worth a look if you are getting the seeds of doubt on if you are to trust TV news or not.
Why are you distingishing civilian to military deaths?
When you attack a country, you are responsible for all of the deaths. And that will pale with 9/11, the wars only been on a few days and it's in the thousands.
Just wait until the Vietnamesque guerilla warfare starts. Then the death tool will sky-rocket on both sides.
In every country, the telcos and the ISPs are making "exceptions" for the police. Or have you been asleep the past 10 years?;-) I don't see any opposition to this scheme in any country, not just "in communist china".
Obviously the phone networks won't be allowed to block these numbers, and they won't have caller ID on the DOS originator so local call blocking is useless. I doubt every phone network in China has caller ID, (hell, I can't think of anywhere with that), so blocking non-identifiable numbers is way out.
It's quite a good idea. Could we not implement a similar scheme on the net? Any links and reply-to addresses in tagged spam become DOS'ed by a volentary "zombie" that subscribers run. Putting the Slashdot effect to good use.
"Piece of fiction"? He concluded that that the US gun culture is largely to do with the fear-culture in the media, a fact that many of us have been aware of for quite some time. I have a book at home that observed this shift 10 years ago. It's not really a new concept. Take a look at your average evenings TV consumption. Where is the fiction?
When he compared it to the duct-take and orange-alert propaganda, he could have done it in a much better way though.
Excuse me? Since when did blind approval of the government become "the American way"? Free speach exists to critize the government, that's the point you idiot! Do you even know what democracy represents?
But he did make a fool of himself. I agree with his sentiments, but he could have said something a lot more constructive, without pissing everyone off. Dragging up the election is never going to achieve anything, there were far more relevant things he could have said.
Calling him "unAmerican" is about as "unAmerican" as you can get, imbecile.
It's not arrogance, it's providing the right thing for your users. 99% of people who ever see these screens are not interested in them. They don't understand them and just want their computer to start working again. Even those who do know what they are for don't get much info out of them, and personally I'd much rather my PC rebooted, especially if I'm working remotely on it.
if only they would make variant with a MMC/SD slot
Check out the SPV, which runs the same OS platform as the P800. I've got one, very cool toy. MSN Messenger on a mobile phone, great idea.
There's various software being put together for it, some emulators and divx players (had "Attack of the Clones" on my phone for a while) are already up and running, plus several decent games.
Discussion of these Smartphones mostly takes place at Modaco
Why not simply extend the Open Relay Database (or similar) to have an opt-in system for tracking domains notorius for spam?
Then, if a domain is sending lot's of spam, they get blacklisted and suddenly disappear from the SMTP network. I'd like to see how many ISPs cope with not being able to send e-mail at all because they have a reputation for turning a blind eye to spammers.
By making the system opt-in at the client end, ISPs can decide if they want to accept mail from these sources, in the exact same way we do it for open relays.
Actually, you only have to be very afraid if you are not American.
Well, in order to get around US law, we Brits spy on your citizens, then give the info back to you. And vice versa. So, you should be "even more afraid"!;-)
Slashdot Mirror
And not broadband, if you consider this topic a few days ago, when it was rulled that a company cannot advertise a 128k capped cable modem as "broadband" in the UK.
Most western cultures are the same. We just pretend it's different, and allow the token person through to the upper levels now and again. We also have a lot of poverty that is completely ignored, entire communities of homeless people. When was the last time you saw a poor family finance one of their children through higher education?
and tell me that the caste system doesnt exist anymore
While they're at it, maybe they should explain how the class system doesn't exist anymore.
Speaking of records, I can't believe the article links to the Daily Record, arguably Scotlands worst news "publication". That just scares me.
The car tailgate goes down, moving the centre of gravity forward. This tips the seesaw, no idea on the steering though.
Yeah! Let's ban the one thing that keeps ravers alive!
That's not censorship. It gives the parent the option of making an informed choice.
Censorship is something that is forced apon you. No one is stopping you from saying/reading/hearing anything there. Would you say that efforts to keep animal pr0n out of pre-school text books as "censorship"?
The mere fact that "banned" is in the file name guarantees it's high availability.
You do know that Al-Jazeera are not an Iraqi news service? And that Saddam had their reporters expelled from the country shortly after the war began, because of what they were reporting about the Iraqi regime?
You see, they were only showing the truth, what war looks like from the ground. Very different to the sanitized news we receive, but if you believe in freedom and democracy, then you have to agree that having all sides of the story available is essential.
This "drip-feeding" of features has a posibility of turning off the key users. Most early adopters are the enthusiasts, with out them, the product will flop. Right now, I've a 2.5G SmartPhone that does pretty much everything for me that a mobile could do, excepting maybe video phone, but what use is that on a mobile platform? If I were to move to 3G, I would actually have to downgrade my phone. That's not going to happen! Instead, I'll get an SDIO WiFi card that'll work in my present phone, which will give me speeds far in excess of what 3G is capable of.
Also, compare the large costs of 3G verses the near zero costs of WiFi. With WiFi, you get to use the device at home for free, yet you still have to pay 3G a fortune to use their technology at home?
This article gives some more reasons to why 3G could flop. The roaming mentioned in the submitted article is about the only thing that could maybe save it.
online version of "A Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
Nope, it's passed into the Public Domain. (remember that? enjoy it while you can ;-)
You can find it online here
A 1984-based charity is a fantastic idea.
The Israeli's generally don't care about "collaterol damage" as much as we do. The urban battlefield is one where people they are brought up to hate live. Deaths caused by reactive armour would be considered a "bonus" by them.
Somebody above posted that it was an Israeli tank, which is indeed possible.
Therefore, it is an American tank. America built it and paid for it, and financed the training of the soldiers.
This book goes into the fact that TV news is entertainment, not journalism. Not the best written book in the world, but well worth a look if you are getting the seeds of doubt on if you are to trust TV news or not.
They do that in soap operas already, and to a lesser degree in Hollywood. Generally, a smoker is a "bad guy".
When you attack a country, you are responsible for all of the deaths. And that will pale with 9/11, the wars only been on a few days and it's in the thousands.
Just wait until the Vietnamesque guerilla warfare starts. Then the death tool will sky-rocket on both sides.
Why would they invade Europe? Seriously? Where are you getting this belief from?
It doesn't stop them advertising it as a feature now though!
Obviously the phone networks won't be allowed to block these numbers, and they won't have caller ID on the DOS originator so local call blocking is useless. I doubt every phone network in China has caller ID, (hell, I can't think of anywhere with that), so blocking non-identifiable numbers is way out.
It's quite a good idea. Could we not implement a similar scheme on the net? Any links and reply-to addresses in tagged spam become DOS'ed by a volentary "zombie" that subscribers run. Putting the Slashdot effect to good use.
take a look here
When he compared it to the duct-take and orange-alert propaganda, he could have done it in a much better way though.
Excuse me? Since when did blind approval of the government become "the American way"? Free speach exists to critize the government, that's the point you idiot! Do you even know what democracy represents?
But he did make a fool of himself. I agree with his sentiments, but he could have said something a lot more constructive, without pissing everyone off. Dragging up the election is never going to achieve anything, there were far more relevant things he could have said.
Calling him "unAmerican" is about as "unAmerican" as you can get, imbecile.
It's not arrogance, it's providing the right thing for your users. 99% of people who ever see these screens are not interested in them. They don't understand them and just want their computer to start working again. Even those who do know what they are for don't get much info out of them, and personally I'd much rather my PC rebooted, especially if I'm working remotely on it.
Check out the SPV, which runs the same OS platform as the P800. I've got one, very cool toy. MSN Messenger on a mobile phone, great idea.
There's various software being put together for it, some emulators and divx players (had "Attack of the Clones" on my phone for a while) are already up and running, plus several decent games.
Discussion of these Smartphones mostly takes place at Modaco
Why not simply extend the Open Relay Database (or similar) to have an opt-in system for tracking domains notorius for spam?
Then, if a domain is sending lot's of spam, they get blacklisted and suddenly disappear from the SMTP network. I'd like to see how many ISPs cope with not being able to send e-mail at all because they have a reputation for turning a blind eye to spammers.
By making the system opt-in at the client end, ISPs can decide if they want to accept mail from these sources, in the exact same way we do it for open relays.
Problem solved.
Well, in order to get around US law, we Brits spy on your citizens, then give the info back to you. And vice versa. So, you should be "even more afraid"! ;-)