The problem is that no one is suing ISP's for libel, copyright infringement and trademark issues (for content they are transferring). If we were doing our jobs, ISP's would WANT to be common carrier.
I wish timothy would only publish articles like this so I could ban him and increase my slashdot SNR.
However, I can't ban him from my RSS and thus I will be stuck with his MS-spun articles for years to come...
I am going to consider this post a rant unless the author is willing to take initiative and find these subsidies and locate the section where these providers are liable if they fail to deliver.
If your state/province is losing jobs, why not prevent people in other states from coming in and seeking jobs?
... or if your family is losing jobs, why not completely remove yourself from society and live as subsistence farmers, in order to stop other people from getting the jobs your family members could have?
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1) Government regulation (and enforcement) setting minimum working conditions.
The market gets what the market wants. Like the internet, it routes around problems.
Since this behavior does not violate any actual laws, what moral axioms are you invoking to state this imperative?
And now the question of learning: who will you vote for next time?
Hey! Read this.
The problem is that no one is suing ISP's for libel, copyright infringement and trademark issues (for content they are transferring). If we were doing our jobs, ISP's would WANT to be common carrier.
Here is a call to action: enable https on all your sites and use the Firefox extension that uses https instead of http by default.
If by antithesis you mean canon, then yes it is the antithesis.
At first I agree - but then, how do you have a bid when someone already offers the requested service for $0?
+1 Gets a cookie ?
You know what's NOT an application? Google Docs, Gmail, YouTube, Lala, Napster website, AOL Radio
Are red light cameras helping society?
Take the cost to insurance companies for accidents before installation (T-bones) and compare to afterwards (rear-ending).
Externalities could include the cost of the system, cost of police attention to that intersection and public agony over more fines.
Without a discussion of these data points, any article on the subject will be moot.
I wish timothy would only publish articles like this so I could ban him and increase my slashdot SNR. However, I can't ban him from my RSS and thus I will be stuck with his MS-spun articles for years to come...
I am going to consider this post a rant unless the author is willing to take initiative and find these subsidies and locate the section where these providers are liable if they fail to deliver.
Make sure you hit minus on the Google Search Wiki link that took you to that site.
If you want results, try it in Washington DC.
Why stop there?
If your state/province is losing jobs, why not prevent people in other states from coming in and seeking jobs?
... or if your family is losing jobs, why not completely remove yourself from society and live as subsistence farmers, in order to stop other people from getting the jobs your family members could have?
Protectionism doesn't scale
And slashdot wont update the topic icon until KDE 7 is released
It doesn't matter. Google can put ads anywhere it wants on its web properties
Can my shell accept random, terse syntax to produce unexpected results? Yes! Just look for phroggy's sig.
Can anyone verify this?
I don't think fraud means what you think it means.
mods, please use funny for these posts so my (-5 funny) filter will work. we don't need to waste karma on these kinds of posts.
except that... banks have an incentive not to get hacked, their money is at stake. hospital do not have an incentive to prevent information leaks.
There shouldn't be a tax exempt status.
I'd say he walks.
Next question.