I love fancy new stuff like this, but as with all tools which render law enforcement work easier, there is an inherit danger that these tools are abused.
Everytime law enforcement is made easier, you must ask yourself if that improvement comes at the cost of making our society more like a police state.
Other recent examples are Scavenger, Total Information Awareness, and the PATRIOT act. Sure, on the surface they will make your everyday life safer, but at what cost? What liberties will you have to surrender?
Prison rape jokes on Slashdot, or in the pub, is perfectly acceptable, and maybe even funny...
What's not funny, is that prison rape jokes are considered great material for prime time family entertainment in the US. That's not only disgusting, but fucking scary.
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I'm not making any point for you. Please refrain from slandering me like this in the future.
If you would look at the percentages, you would see a different picture.
35% of the population of the US is illiterate
50 million Americans (25%) live under the Indian poverty line (with 5% under the American).
Infant mortality is just 10/100, but cholesterol related deaths involving teenagers, pull the average lifetime way below that of the Indians.
annual government revenue last year was $1.946 trillion while spending was $2.520 trillion. A net deficit of $574 billions, financed by high interest loans. The deficit amounts to roughly 2 billion per million American, while the Indian deficit amounts to less than a $100 per inhabitant.
It's not the technology that prevents thousands of google clones to pop up. It's the simple fact that to initially succeed, you need either a lot of cash or heavy backers.
It't not like Google's pagerank is so unique that it's impossible to do better any other way. It's just that 1) you have to do better or equal, 2) people have to know about you.
Somebody with a clueless ISP, host an ftp site sporting empty files with names like pacman.zip, archon.zip, loderunner.zip, etc.
When the ISP gets the DMCA notice and shuts you down, you sue the sender for disrupting your business. Of course you'll need some kind of front business on the same server.
Heard some roumors that the routers belonging to the biggest ISP over here, which got pipes going out of the country, are all blocking port 135 by now. Maybe they should block 4444 when they're at it.
I don't see how Qt's "business like homepage" should have anything to do with how good a toolkit Qt is. The "free for linux not for w32" is of course a valid point, but it's the only one.
The parent is an obvious troll, but for the clueless: power consumption is the big difference between 802.11 and Bluetooth. Low power 802.11 has been promised, but not yet delivered.
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Exactly how are first aid kits making law enforcement easier?
If anything it makes it harder.
Just because your imagination limits the use for this technology, it doesn't mean that it can't be abused at all.
What if they applied it in reverse for example? They could ruin the livelihood of frenologists all over the US.
I love fancy new stuff like this, but as with all tools which render law enforcement work easier, there is an inherit danger that these tools are abused.
Everytime law enforcement is made easier, you must ask yourself if that improvement comes at the cost of making our society more like a police state.
Other recent examples are Scavenger, Total Information Awareness, and the PATRIOT act. Sure, on the surface they will make your everyday life safer, but at what cost? What liberties will you have to surrender?
Real men use SMS (because real girls don't use IM).
Newspapers are trollish in nature. The Guardian doubly so.
This wasn't meant for you guys, it's movie exec leet speak.
Prison rape jokes on Slashdot, or in the pub, is perfectly acceptable, and maybe even funny...
What's not funny, is that prison rape jokes are considered great material for prime time family entertainment in the US. That's not only disgusting, but fucking scary.
I'm not making any point for you. Please refrain from slandering me like this in the future.
Besides, I'm not THAT gay.
I don't think that's very funny. More frightening. Only silly eurotrash like yourself, would find something like this funny.
Why on earth do you provide this link? I clicked it in anticipation of something remotely interesting, but it's just a stupid desk.
Dork. If you want to brag about your ghey desk, please go to kuro5hin.
If you would look at the percentages, you would see a different picture.
to GOD if I kill an American or two?
I certainly hope not, after all GOD is supposed to be good and just.
And of course, the American monsters are my chosen ones, right after the fucking jew monsters..
Fuck you America, and fuck you americans. We will get you, and your families..
It's not the technology that prevents thousands of google clones to pop up. It's the simple fact that to initially succeed, you need either a lot of cash or heavy backers.
It't not like Google's pagerank is so unique that it's impossible to do better any other way. It's just that 1) you have to do better or equal, 2) people have to know about you.
Point 2 equals lot of cash.
Accepting article submissions from a pretty obvious (and known) troll, now are we?
How long till the link redirects to goatse?
Don't perpetuate the myth that LSD burns out your brian.
Tryptamines are good for you.
Somebody with a clueless ISP, host an ftp site sporting empty files with names like pacman.zip, archon.zip, loderunner.zip, etc.
When the ISP gets the DMCA notice and shuts you down, you sue the sender for disrupting your business. Of course you'll need some kind of front business on the same server.
But this got to be bad.
Heard some roumors that the routers belonging to the biggest ISP over here, which got pipes going out of the country, are all blocking port 135 by now. Maybe they should block 4444 when they're at it.
This article reads like a Qt flamefest.
I don't see how Qt's "business like homepage" should have anything to do with how good a toolkit Qt is. The "free for linux not for w32" is of course a valid point, but it's the only one.
Is it just me, or has Slashdot become very California centric lately?
Nobody else in the US cares about either the californian governor elections nor earthquakes.
So, it's more like selling non addictive, non physical harmful drugs to adults?
That can still be illegal.
You're the one bringing children and harmful drugs into the equation.
And there's also a difference in speed by a factor greater than 10 (depending on what 802.11 you go with).
I obviously good enough for you, but I think 200 kbit/s is a tad slow for a lan.
The parent is an obvious troll, but for the clueless: power consumption is the big difference between 802.11 and Bluetooth. Low power 802.11 has been promised, but not yet delivered.
What about the poor sods that are so addicted to an online RPG that they buy virtual items for real money?
It's almost as bad as dealing drugs to kids.
It's the American dream!
It only proves that are our politicians are as worthless as yours.
Our general opinion of the average American still holds.