The countries censoring the internet in this way don't want people to have free speech or those freedoms you speak of.
What makes you think that the people of other countries define freedom in the same terms as the Shashdot Geek? Not all forms of censorship are driven from the top down.
Let's get the guys that designed all those "wonderful" networks:
Morse Code. In general use 1844-1999. Trivially easy to adapt to almost any form of signaling, including assistive technology for the disabled.
TeleText 1970-to date.
In the U.S. most easily recognizable as Closed Captioning for the Hearing Impaired. But it's the root of the web page and any form of interactive television.
Telex ca 1935-to date.
Rugged, reliable and cheap. In Germany alone, more than 400,000 telex lines remain in daily operation. Over most of the world, more than three million telex lines remain in use.Telex
I could go on, but you should get the general idea.
I like the internet now as it is...kind of the 'wild west' of information.
The "Wild West" exists (and perhaps always has existed) mostly in fiction.
In history it begins with the discovery of gold in California in 1848 and ends in 1876 at the Little Big Horn. The Last Stand for the Plains Indians as well as for Custer.
It's a brief moment in time - and, in some ways, a pattern of settlement unique to the United States.
It shouldn't surprise anyone if the Internet frontier has it's own ending.
Now, I cannot recall a case yet, where the RIAA or MPAA have actually won in court. Most of them, as I recall, are settled out of court
almost all civil cases are settled out-of-court:
Tort trial cases terminated in U.S. district courts, 2002 - 2003
Total number tort cases concluded: 98,786
Jury and bench tort trials 1,647
Tort trials with plaintiff winners 704
Tort trials with monetary awards 590
Median damage awards $201,000
IANAL, so could someone explain to me how the heck something like this could be admitted as evidence?
it suggests the planning, the premeditation, that leads to a conviction for first-degree murder.
your late husband took digitalis. you were researching the lethal overdose, how easily it could be detected in autopsy. while studying other ways to successfully fake a natural death or a suicide.
Details of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 8600 series have been revealed, with the 8600 GT going for roughly $150 and the 8600 Ultra demanding a $180 price tag... The specs aren't anything to sneeze at, either, with both 8600 cards being built with an 80nm process and 300 million transistors. The GT runs at 350MHz, with 256MB of RAM to call its own, while the Ultra sports a 500MHz core, with 512MB of memory.
The Interstate Commerce Act has been stretched to give Congress power, but the Act was not intended to actually allow the government to regulate commerce but to prevent the Individual States from perverting commerce between them.
"The founders' understanding of the word "commerce" is unclear. Although commerce means economic activity today, it had non-economic meanings in late eighteenth century English. For example, in 18th century writing one finds expressions such as "the free and easy commerce of social life" and "our Lord's commerce with his disciples". Interpreting interstate commerce to mean "substantial interstate human relations" is consistent with much additional primary source evidence concerning the meaning of commerce at the time of the writing of the Constitution. This interpretation also makes sense for the foreign and Indian commerce clauses as one would expect Congress to be given authority to regulate non-economic relations with other nations and with Indian tribes. Commerce Clause
So basically they want to get people to work for free?
The more important question to ask is whether these reporters will have the same rights and expectations as the pros? If one of these volunteers is sued or arrested will "Wired" stand by them, organize - and pay for - an effective defense?
You are buying a TV that supports multichannel digital broadcast services, high-definition video and theatrical quality digital sound. You are buying access to programming that costs a great deal of money to produce and distribute.
Remove 16 million and 12 Million for satellite subscribers, and that still leaves you with around 20 million households that are just doing over the air.
There is also the non-trivial problem of portable and emergency reception. There are times when television can communicate more effectively than radio. There are times when the cable service will go down.
I don't think you can buy a video card without a 3D accelerator any more. MythTV uses OpenGL to do its channel info, volume, and menu overlays among other things.
If these features are what you need, ms is out in the cold
We are talking here about the bog-standard OEM Windows install.
The user who needs integration with Peachtree or QuickBooks accounting. The user for whom Solaris has no more relevance than the Amiga or the Commodore 64.
but why the Secret Service? This may just show my woefully inadequate knowledge of the US Government... I was under the impression that the primary duties of the Secret Service was the protection of high-ranking US officials and the prevention of counterfeiting US currency.
I think you answered your own question.
The Secret Service is one of the oldest (1865) and (by no coincidence) most technically sophisticated of federal law enforcement agencies.
Games are limited and lambasted in a way that other media would be shocked at. Far more depraved, gratuitously explicit stuff is shown every day on TV and in theaters than all but the most mature games, but games receive a lion's share of the blame for real-life violence and degeneracy.
The typical movie runs ninety minutes and is seen from both a physical and psychological distance.
The movies, like all theater, began as a social experience, not a solo viewing. That is not irrelevant when you are trying to assess the impact at "Psycho," "Silence of the Lambs" or a crudely exploitative, blood-soaked, teen slasher flick like "Friday The Thirteenth."
The immersive first-person shooter or RPG presents a very different set of problems. Gene Wolfe's "When I Was Ming The Merciless" Endangered Species is a must-read in this context.
The player with a copy of "Fallout" might begin by asking a deceptively simple question:
How do you respond to the presence of children in the game? Could you accept them being drawn more centrally into the story and action?
The question is, how does one surf anonymously at work when you're forced to use your employer's proxy to get through the firewall.
if you are attempting to surf anonymously at work - outside the scope of your employment - then you are an idiot.
your employer will assume - probably quite rightly - that whatever it is you are after, it is not good news.
I bet Sun would find a way to get the price pretty low in order to hurt Microsoft Office sales.
How many millions - hundreds of millions - has Sun dropped on Star Office and Open Office in an attempt to simply become competitive with Microsoft? How many billions in profit has Microsoft seen from Office in those same years?
At a local school we decided to have the teachers use OpenOffice.org, or if they wanted Microsoft Office - to have the teachers find the funding for it themselves
and at our district the Mac disappears from the labs and the classrooms and everyone runs Office. outside the school OpenOffice has zero visibility. in an environment where jobs are scarce, MS Office skills are marketable.
Maybe because Microsoft Office is a superior product
MS Office Home lists for $150 with a three-seat license.
The chances are good that a user will qualify for academic pricing or other discounts. If his needs are specialized or demanding, than OpenOffice isn't in the picture anyway.
That said, a user is likely spend as much or more on consumables in three months than he will spend on OEM Office in five years.
"Free-As-In-Beer" just isn't as compelling as the Geek likes to think
They handle it the same way they handle most technical questions about MS Office: go to the software vendor. Problem solved. No additional work required.
Problem not solved.
Take a look at the MS Office home pages. Tutorials. Case studies. Templates, clip art and tons of other resources. Easy on the eye, polished and professional.
Then mouse over to OpenOffice.org.
It isn't on there by default, because that would mean people might actually use it...and we can't have people just running around using free software, can we?
Corel worked damn hard to establish WordPerfect as the OEM default - and people still chose to upgrade to Microsoft Office. The "free" bundled office suite always comes across as just another throw-away.
Slashdot Mirror
What makes you think that the people of other countries define freedom in the same terms as the Shashdot Geek? Not all forms of censorship are driven from the top down.
Morse Code. In general use 1844-1999.
Trivially easy to adapt to almost any form of signaling, including assistive technology for the disabled.
TeleText 1970-to date.
In the U.S. most easily recognizable as Closed Captioning for the Hearing Impaired. But it's the root of the web page and any form of interactive television.
Telex ca 1935-to date.
Rugged, reliable and cheap. In Germany alone, more than 400,000 telex lines remain in daily operation. Over most of the world, more than three million telex lines remain in use. Telex
I could go on, but you should get the general idea.
The "Wild West" exists (and perhaps always has existed) mostly in fiction.
In history it begins with the discovery of gold in California in 1848 and ends in 1876 at the Little Big Horn. The Last Stand for the Plains Indians as well as for Custer.
It's a brief moment in time - and, in some ways, a pattern of settlement unique to the United States.
It shouldn't surprise anyone if the Internet frontier has it's own ending.
the Slashdot Geek doesn't want it - but the Slashdot Geek isn't Vista's market.
on Day 1 of Vista's release Walmart.com had thirty Vista systems ready for sale against one lone OEM Linux box.
almost all civil cases are settled out-of-court:
Tort trial cases terminated in U.S. district courts, 2002 - 2003
Total number tort cases concluded: 98,786
Jury and bench tort trials 1,647
Tort trials with plaintiff winners 704
Tort trials with monetary awards 590
Median damage awards $201,000
Civil Justice Statistics
remember that these are the cases that entered the system - not those settled before any papers were filed
it suggests the planning, the premeditation, that leads to a conviction for first-degree murder.
your late husband took digitalis. you were researching the lethal overdose, how easily it could be detected in autopsy. while studying other ways to successfully fake a natural death or a suicide.
while maintaining backwards compatibility with older versions of DX 10 and Windows is a good thing,
Vista and DX 10 aren't going away:
Intel's Crestline integrated graphics to run DirectX 10, NVIDIA's GeForce 8600 series brings DX10 without breaking the bank
Details of NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce 8600 series have been revealed, with the 8600 GT going for roughly $150 and the 8600 Ultra demanding a $180 price tag... The specs aren't anything to sneeze at, either, with both 8600 cards being built with an 80nm process and 300 million transistors. The GT runs at 350MHz, with 256MB of RAM to call its own, while the Ultra sports a 500MHz core, with 512MB of memory.
"The founders' understanding of the word "commerce" is unclear. Although commerce means economic activity today, it had non-economic meanings in late eighteenth century English. For example, in 18th century writing one finds expressions such as "the free and easy commerce of social life" and "our Lord's commerce with his disciples". Interpreting interstate commerce to mean "substantial interstate human relations" is consistent with much additional primary source evidence concerning the meaning of commerce at the time of the writing of the Constitution. This interpretation also makes sense for the foreign and Indian commerce clauses as one would expect Congress to be given authority to regulate non-economic relations with other nations and with Indian tribes. Commerce Clause
The more important question to ask is whether these reporters will have the same rights and expectations as the pros? If one of these volunteers is sued or arrested will "Wired" stand by them, organize - and pay for - an effective defense?
Bringing the system down counts as an "exploit" in my book.
You aren't buying a TV with fewer features.
You are buying a TV that supports multichannel digital broadcast services, high-definition video and theatrical quality digital sound. You are buying access to programming that costs a great deal of money to produce and distribute.
There is also the non-trivial problem of portable and emergency reception. There are times when television can communicate more effectively than radio. There are times when the cable service will go down.
I doubt you could find a new mass-market motherboard without integrated DX 9 and DX 10 is in the pipeline. Intel's Crestline integrated graphics to run DirectX 10
We are talking here about the bog-standard OEM Windows install.
The user who needs integration with Peachtree or QuickBooks accounting. The user for whom Solaris has no more relevance than the Amiga or the Commodore 64.
Because they will be so useful when broadcasting goes all-digital. Feds unveil digital-TV subsidy details, HD Radio rising
I think you answered your own question.
The Secret Service is one of the oldest (1865) and (by no coincidence) most technically sophisticated of federal law enforcement agencies.
The typical movie runs ninety minutes and is seen from both a physical and psychological distance.
The movies, like all theater, began as a social experience, not a solo viewing. That is not irrelevant when you are trying to assess the impact at "Psycho," "Silence of the Lambs" or a crudely exploitative, blood-soaked, teen slasher flick like "Friday The Thirteenth."
The immersive first-person shooter or RPG presents a very different set of problems. Gene Wolfe's "When I Was Ming The Merciless" Endangered Species is a must-read in this context.
The player with a copy of "Fallout" might begin by asking a deceptively simple question:
How do you respond to the presence of children in the game? Could you accept them being drawn more centrally into the story and action?
and when parenting fails, it becomes the responsibility of others to clean up the mess left behind.
the state has the right to intervene before someone gets killed.
You will excuse me, I trust, if I don't find "amazing" an adoption rate outside the server rooms that can still be measured in the single digit.
if you are attempting to surf anonymously at work - outside the scope of your employment - then you are an idiot. your employer will assume - probably quite rightly - that whatever it is you are after, it is not good news.
How many millions - hundreds of millions - has Sun dropped on Star Office and Open Office in an attempt to simply become competitive with Microsoft? How many billions in profit has Microsoft seen from Office in those same years?
and at our district the Mac disappears from the labs and the classrooms and everyone runs Office. outside the school OpenOffice has zero visibility. in an environment where jobs are scarce, MS Office skills are marketable.
MS Office Home lists for $150 with a three-seat license.
The chances are good that a user will qualify for academic pricing or other discounts. If his needs are specialized or demanding, than OpenOffice isn't in the picture anyway.
That said, a user is likely spend as much or more on consumables in three months than he will spend on OEM Office in five years.
"Free-As-In-Beer" just isn't as compelling as the Geek likes to think
Problem not solved.
Take a look at the MS Office home pages. Tutorials. Case studies. Templates, clip art and tons of other resources. Easy on the eye, polished and professional. Then mouse over to OpenOffice.org.
Back to the Future, circa 1993.
Corel worked damn hard to establish WordPerfect as the OEM default - and people still chose to upgrade to Microsoft Office. The "free" bundled office suite always comes across as just another throw-away.