... 660 million dollars is petty cash to the Vatican, so perhaps this amounts to the kind of thing you and I might do on a Friday night to blow off a little steam and empty our pockets of jingling coin.
If there's a hint of bitterness in that, perhaps it's because the Vatican takes in billions of dollars every year from addictive delusional suckers, just like lotteries and casinos... only worse: they then use those billions to control people's action and thought, unlike lotteries and casinos, not to mention cajoling them into donating further billions. It's not about saving souls, it's about funding a minority's desire to wear nice funky robes and feel ridiculously important.
I wanna use my huge bank of toasty little wall warts to charge my cell phone. If I can do that the lazy little power-sucking tribbles might finally justify their existence.
Open source is about transparency, not cost... at least not ever directly about cost: there are hidden costs associated with LACK of transparency. This is another attempt by Microsoft to spin and mis-frame the issue.
God, this is old news! Any so-called blocklist, where some faceless group of people you don't know - and who quite possibly have values contrary to yours - are making decisions what you should and should not be allowed to see, is intrinsically bad.
Given that, how exactly are blocklists any less of an infringement of personal rights than a heavy-handed government telling people what to do? Why is it that some government-hating reactionaries who are terrified of government intrusion into their lives will hypocritically endorse blocklists, which are similarly intruding?
Since Big Media already plays games with the news, is it a stretch to make the news itself into a game? Guess who the biggest loser is? Hint: not Big Media.
Both the USPS and our highway system perform a whole lot better than you would like to allow. You would do well to remember - or learn anew given your likely age - exactly what sort of transportation network existed before that highways system you hate so much. You also have legions of influential BICYCLISTS to largely thank for its inception, since it was they who first lobbied it into reality. Your gripe about postal rates is disingenuous: can you name me a single corporation - of a scale comparable to that of the USPS - that DOESN'T "keep jacking" prices every year? You're being gouged far more of your hard-earned dollars by other companies, including your telephone and Internet service provider, than you are by the USPS, yet you single it out for disproportionate criticism.
This is exactly what I've been saying - to anyone that would listen, including the California Public Utilities Commission - should have happened in the United States. What sets the described situation completely apart from anything here is that the "people" collectively own the telecom infrastructure: the companies that built it were paid ad CONTRACTORS and not allowed to retain ownership of that common infrastructure.
The sad thing is that there are other examples of that here in the U.S., like out public highway system; we paid the construction companies (through taxes) to build the roads, but the ownership remains in public hands.
That is what SHOULD have happened with our entire telecom infrastructure, but we screwed up way back in the Eighteen Hundreds; we allowed American Telephone & Telegraph - remember them? - to build telegraph and telephone systems but keep ownership of it. That misperception is perhaps solely responsible for getting us in the mess we're in now here in the U.S. We actually had a chance to rectify this during the anti-trust proceedings against AT&T in the 1970s: we could have reclaimed the wires or forced the monopoly to become "nonprofit" similar to the USPS. What we did instead was to slice and dice the beast but let all the parts keep control of the wires in their new little fiefdoms.
Forget all the breathless FUD about "socialism": common shared infrastructure SHOULD be publicly owned. The fact that Sweden is a nation with a marginally socialist economy is quite possibly irrelevent; what is relevant is that Sweden observed and learned a bit from our mistake.
Since I can use Google to find some really nasty anal porn and, what's even worse, those awful sinful bittorrents, why wouldn't the Family Safety Filter block it? Of course unless my parents lock me in the basement I can still find porn and all sorts of life-shortening stuff everywhere else. Since I'm so driven to get this mind-wrecking stuff, maybe they should lock me in the basement?
Unless this prohibits ALL the numerous creative means of achieving genetic "intermingling", this bill is pretty much useless except to satisfy one particular faction's pseudo-moral obsession.
I would eagerly use mass transit again, if the inefficiencies can be conquered. I gave up local mass transit finally at 25 and got a car, because of those inefficiencies. Of course those same inefficiencies also drove me to consider human-powered vehicular options and led to my rediscovery of one of the best activities I ever enjoyed, bicycle touring, so those inefficiencies had at least one positive outcome for me.
No: "everyone else" as in "majority", as in majority of average and below-average intelligence, not literally everyone else. The William Feather quote should have adequately explained my intent even if you misunderstood my own words. Did you not understand the meaning of his quote either?
Not possible: everyone else living here is blissfully ignorant and happy, but I'm not. Has nothing to do with geography, it has to do with intelligence, education, and degree of awareness.
I'd like to quote a certain William Feather:
"One of the indictments of civilization is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."
Didn't you get the memo? All colleges in California are now just adjunct campuses of USC, by order of the Governator himself. He said he'd be back if it wasn't done.
What's wrong with that scenario is that both the authority that orders the intrusion, and the individuals involved in ordering and implementing it, should all be held accountable for said intrusion if their judgement proves unsound. Confiscating a person's ENTIRE digital information toolkit, in this day and age, is an extreme intrusion indeed; there had better be damned good reason for it.
I really doubt there is, in this case. I hope he gets to counter-sue their collective asses off.
... and using the police to do it! That is entirely what this story is about. Did anyone bother to go to EFF's Web site and examine the "Exhibit-A" PDF document from the case? It happens to be an actual copy of the Application for Search Warrant. You really should read it.
The most enlightening part is the "Basis of Probable Cause" section, which states that the origin of the entire thing was "domestic issues" between Calixte and his (redacted) roommate. It then goes on to detail multiple allegations made by said roommate about Calixte and his criminal expertise with computers. The twit even blamed his own computer crashes on Calixte!
There's nothing to see here, folks. It's just one person getting back at another for real or perceived injustices, and the all-too-eager police being used as pawns (which of course they always are in every situation).
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... 660 million dollars is petty cash to the Vatican, so perhaps this amounts to the kind of thing you and I might do on a Friday night to blow off a little steam and empty our pockets of jingling coin.
If there's a hint of bitterness in that, perhaps it's because the Vatican takes in billions of dollars every year from addictive delusional suckers, just like lotteries and casinos... only worse: they then use those billions to control people's action and thought, unlike lotteries and casinos, not to mention cajoling them into donating further billions. It's not about saving souls, it's about funding a minority's desire to wear nice funky robes and feel ridiculously important.
I wanna use my huge bank of toasty little wall warts to charge my cell phone. If I can do that the lazy little power-sucking tribbles might finally justify their existence.
Open source is about transparency, not cost... at least not ever directly about cost: there are hidden costs associated with LACK of transparency. This is another attempt by Microsoft to spin and mis-frame the issue.
This doesn't bode well for people with skin-shedding fungal problems, does it?
God, this is old news! Any so-called blocklist, where some faceless group of people you don't know - and who quite possibly have values contrary to yours - are making decisions what you should and should not be allowed to see, is intrinsically bad.
Given that, how exactly are blocklists any less of an infringement of personal rights than a heavy-handed government telling people what to do? Why is it that some government-hating reactionaries who are terrified of government intrusion into their lives will hypocritically endorse blocklists, which are similarly intruding?
Since Big Media already plays games with the news, is it a stretch to make the news itself into a game? Guess who the biggest loser is? Hint: not Big Media.
... tilting at windmills again!
The Author is dead! Long live the Public Domain!
Both the USPS and our highway system perform a whole lot better than you would like to allow. You would do well to remember - or learn anew given your likely age - exactly what sort of transportation network existed before that highways system you hate so much. You also have legions of influential BICYCLISTS to largely thank for its inception, since it was they who first lobbied it into reality. Your gripe about postal rates is disingenuous: can you name me a single corporation - of a scale comparable to that of the USPS - that DOESN'T "keep jacking" prices every year? You're being gouged far more of your hard-earned dollars by other companies, including your telephone and Internet service provider, than you are by the USPS, yet you single it out for disproportionate criticism.
This is exactly what I've been saying - to anyone that would listen, including the California Public Utilities Commission - should have happened in the United States. What sets the described situation completely apart from anything here is that the "people" collectively own the telecom infrastructure: the companies that built it were paid ad CONTRACTORS and not allowed to retain ownership of that common infrastructure.
The sad thing is that there are other examples of that here in the U.S., like out public highway system; we paid the construction companies (through taxes) to build the roads, but the ownership remains in public hands.
That is what SHOULD have happened with our entire telecom infrastructure, but we screwed up way back in the Eighteen Hundreds; we allowed American Telephone & Telegraph - remember them? - to build telegraph and telephone systems but keep ownership of it. That misperception is perhaps solely responsible for getting us in the mess we're in now here in the U.S. We actually had a chance to rectify this during the anti-trust proceedings against AT&T in the 1970s: we could have reclaimed the wires or forced the monopoly to become "nonprofit" similar to the USPS. What we did instead was to slice and dice the beast but let all the parts keep control of the wires in their new little fiefdoms.
Forget all the breathless FUD about "socialism": common shared infrastructure SHOULD be publicly owned. The fact that Sweden is a nation with a marginally socialist economy is quite possibly irrelevent; what is relevant is that Sweden observed and learned a bit from our mistake.
I suggest a mix-and-match game with those words. Shall we begin?
Free Filter Foundation ...?
Free Family Safety
Safety Filter Foundation
Family Software Foundation
Well that was (in part) kinda my point....
Since I can use Google to find some really nasty anal porn and, what's even worse, those awful sinful bittorrents, why wouldn't the Family Safety Filter block it? Of course unless my parents lock me in the basement I can still find porn and all sorts of life-shortening stuff everywhere else. Since I'm so driven to get this mind-wrecking stuff, maybe they should lock me in the basement?
Unless this prohibits ALL the numerous creative means of achieving genetic "intermingling", this bill is pretty much useless except to satisfy one particular faction's pseudo-moral obsession.
I would eagerly use mass transit again, if the inefficiencies can be conquered. I gave up local mass transit finally at 25 and got a car, because of those inefficiencies. Of course those same inefficiencies also drove me to consider human-powered vehicular options and led to my rediscovery of one of the best activities I ever enjoyed, bicycle touring, so those inefficiencies had at least one positive outcome for me.
No: "everyone else" as in "majority", as in majority of average and below-average intelligence, not literally everyone else. The William Feather quote should have adequately explained my intent even if you misunderstood my own words. Did you not understand the meaning of his quote either?
Not possible: everyone else living here is blissfully ignorant and happy, but I'm not. Has nothing to do with geography, it has to do with intelligence, education, and degree of awareness.
I'd like to quote a certain William Feather:
"One of the indictments of civilization is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."
Didn't you get the memo? All colleges in California are now just adjunct campuses of USC, by order of the Governator himself. He said he'd be back if it wasn't done.
What's wrong with that scenario is that both the authority that orders the intrusion, and the individuals involved in ordering and implementing it, should all be held accountable for said intrusion if their judgement proves unsound. Confiscating a person's ENTIRE digital information toolkit, in this day and age, is an extreme intrusion indeed; there had better be damned good reason for it.
I really doubt there is, in this case. I hope he gets to counter-sue their collective asses off.
Certainly they were fishing, but clearly the roommate was also making shit up, so they're fishing based at least in part on falsified evidence.
I'm still wondering when my microwave can handle SLI....
So now WoW supports dual core specs, but what RAID modes, 0, 1, or 5? Can I buy this new WoW mobo at newegg.com?
... "God did it", don't you think?
... and using the police to do it! That is entirely what this story is about. Did anyone bother to go to EFF's Web site and examine the "Exhibit-A" PDF document from the case? It happens to be an actual copy of the Application for Search Warrant. You really should read it.
http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/inresearchBC/EXHIBIT-A.pdf
The most enlightening part is the "Basis of Probable Cause" section, which states that the origin of the entire thing was "domestic issues" between Calixte and his (redacted) roommate. It then goes on to detail multiple allegations made by said roommate about Calixte and his criminal expertise with computers. The twit even blamed his own computer crashes on Calixte!
There's nothing to see here, folks. It's just one person getting back at another for real or perceived injustices, and the all-too-eager police being used as pawns (which of course they always are in every situation).
As in secure for the content providers of the world?
Sorry, Microsoft... I'm not jumping that soiled bed.