This is not a free speech issue - the posters made threatening and offensive comments, inlcuding suggesting that they would assault/rape the female students.
These comments would not be tolerated in any other setting so why should they be tolerated online?
There is a name for this - it is called the agent-principle problem. The principles of the company are the shareholders, or if it is in financial distress, the debt holders. They own the company. The managers of the company are the agents and they are supposed to act in the best interests of the principles. This means that they should be returning maximum value to the share holders, either through paying out cash or investing it to create value (growth is not the same thing as value, with a negative ROIC it can lose money).
You may not like this but it is the deal the Yang made when he IPO'd Yahoo! If he wanted to remain in control he should have kept the company private. This is management hubris pure and simple. If I was a shareholder of Yahoo! then I would sue as well.
Aparently the UK government selected a subsidiary of Lockheed-Martin to provide the IT for the next UK census. This will be on servers located in the UK, however I believe the Patriot Act still allows the US government to access the data collected because LM is an American company.
So, and rightly so, many MPs are trying to get the contract awarded to a EU company instead to avoid privacy implications and possibly because it brings the UK goverment into conflict with EU and UK privacy laws.
Not at all true. I have a 1080p TV (only 37") and a PS3 and the difference in picture quality between a standard PAL or NTSC signal and Blue Ray is incredible.
For me it's as big a leap in picture quality as was Dolby 5.1 in sound. It takes the experience of watching a movie up another notch. Try watching the first scenes of Casino Royal on Blue Ray on a true 1080p TV and you will be stunned - the depth of the picture is amazing, the colours are stunning and the level of detail is astounding.
I think one of the problems is that many TVs that claim to be be true HD are not and simulate higher pixel numbers, I mean how can TVs with 1600 by 850 pixels claim to be 1080p?
Not quite correct - gambling over the phone is legal in US provided both the location where the bet is place and taken are in jurisdictions where gambling is legal. For example it is perfectly legal to place to place a bet in Atlantic City with a bookie in Vegas.
For some reason this does not apply if the place where the bet is taken is in a location where gambling is legal if it is outside the US. This is one of the key points on which the US has screwed itself - it is blatantly anti-competitive behaviour favouring US gambling companies over those that are based elsewhere, for example gambling companies listed in London or based in Antigua.
I am slightly stunned by your choice of examples - I mean look how over stated the danger of AIDs was, there are only 10s of millions of sufferers globally, it has only ravaged half of Africa. And what about smoking - possibly the single most dangerous lifestyle choice in terms of it's impact on your health - which part of it causing lung cancer and heart disease do you not understand? Do you know how many children die globally each second from starvation?
You have just given us a great example of Republican logic - if it doesn't directly impact you it cannot be happening. Just keep your head in the sand about climate change as you obviously have about every other problem...
Gambing online s already illegal in the US under the Wire Act. The exception to this though is if both the person placing the bet and the person taking the bet are in areas where betting is legal. So for example you could place a bet from Atlantic City to Vegas on the phone or the internet.
The US, however, ignores it's own laws when it comes to these people placing bets in areas where it is legal if it is outside the US, e.g. Britain, Antigua etc. This is a blatant protectionism and it is why the WTO has ruled against the US on this repeatedly. Of course being the leading proponent of free trade in the world today the US has ignored all of these rulings because somewhere like Antigua (or Britain) has no option but to take it up the a*se so that US interests can profit.
And Americans wonder why their country has become so unpopular...
Except that, while abroad, they did business with US citizens in the US who were breaking US law. It's the difference between smoking hash in the Netherlands and mailing hash from the Netherlands to the US. Then why not arrest the American citizens who were gambling online - i.e. doing something that their own government has defined as illegal and doing it in said government's jurisdiction?
Maybe because it is less of PR problem to go after evil foreigners, who are committing no crime in their own country, rather than those honest, but simply misguided, American citizens?
With your analogy I would expect the recipient of the hash in the US to also be prosecuted.
Far be it for me to suggest any kind of conspiracy in this - but what do people think will happen to the execs and shareholders in the large American gambling corps that are snapping up the AIM listed online gambling companies at bargain basement prices? Will these upstanding American go-getters be prosecuted for the same reasons? Will the law be changed so that they are no longer breaking it or will they just be ignored? What about the Wall Street bankers who have made millions from these companies? Will they be prosecuted?
And how will America go after the next industry in which it is not dominant?
Not quite true - internet gambling from the US results in no taxes, regulation or oversight in the US.
Being a company listed on on of the London markets means that there is plenty of oversight. Just because it is not American does not mean it is not any good - after all, how many Enron sized scandals have there been on the LSE?
Good point about the mob running gambling in the US, in the UK there is a long history of reputable companies running casinos, betting on horses etc. Ladbrookes, William Hill etc. are fully audited, fully regulated companies that have to meet very tight legislation.
This is the US protecting it's own industry yet again at the expense of a country that is supposed to be one of their key allies.
Now does that mean that execs at the US mega-casino corps that are snapping up British online gaming companies (at knock down prices) will be subject to the same treatment? br>One might suspect not.
How about those Wall Street investors who have invested in these same companies?
I doubt it.
Again this is an example of the good ol' US of A throwing it's weight around to increase the bank balances of a few of it's blessed citizens. The fact that the US is goin after companies that trade (legally) in one of the few countries on earth that actually supports them is particularly shameful.
A Nintendo fan boy or somebody who is taking the title way too seriously.
The woman died in a Wii related competition, this is correct as she died because of entering a competition to win a Wii, therefore a Wii related competition. The title is a pun on the word Wii, which sounds like the word wee (i.e. to urinate).
The thing to be angry about here is the reckless behaviour of the radio station - they killed that woman and that should be corporate manslaughter. The DJ was even warned by a medical professional so he really is in the sh*t.
Both Nokia and Sony-Ericsson do some really nice phones. The E61 has a great browser, the k800i (I think) has 8GB of memory and a touch screen - in addition both of these are quad-band (including 3G) which is a requisite for reasonable web surfing.
Other phones like the QTEK (HTC) Titan are also HSDPA for really good connection speeds, so can be used to stream video, these are also fully functional Windows devices.
There are tons of applications for Symbian and Microsoft phones, everyone from gaming companies to TomTom is making software to make the phone the one portable device you need to carry.
So to summarise - two problems with the iPhone. No 3G capability (and who wants to surf the internet at 16kbps) and no third party development allowed. If they sort these two things out they could have a cracking device.
One other point about the comparison with the iPod - the iPod had very little competition, very few people had an MP3 player and those that were available were clunky and hard to use. In this market they are up against the like of Nokia, LG, Sumsung and Sony Ericcson who actually make some decent and usable products.
Many countries' steel industries were forced to modernise over the last 30 years of cut throat competetion - the US industry was compartively protected. As a consequence it is 20 years behind in efficiency and cost - the safety standards, environmental standards and salaries are no higher in the US than in the UK, Germany or Japan, yet American steel is more expensive and worse quality. This is why the WTO had no issues in finding the US steel tariffs illegal.
I have it on my Nokia N73. The software is supplied by an Isreali company called iSkoot, a real pain to get up and running (on the nwteork) but it is now live and working well. There is an interesting video cast of the CEO if Skype talking about the mobile future - can be found through the Three site.
Of course it is still vapour ware if it is not available in the good ol' US of A.
The big problem, as I understand it, is that it will make internet providers, ISPs, content providers etc. responsible for ensuring that content they deliver does not breach any laws applied to broadcast companies. For example it is easy for Channel 4 (in the UK) to ensure that any programme broadcast before the watershed is suitable for children or for a Scandanvian TV channel to ensure that no adverts targetted at kids are shown during hours when they may be watching TV.
When you make content available over the internet accross multiple time zones it becomes much more difficult to implement this, you need to start making sure that only certain content is available in certain countries.
Maybe someone is still struggling after a few too many beers?
I'm not sure I would call this a time honoured tradition either - I'd never even heard of green beer until I went to the US. I'd never seen it either in Ireland or any of the Irish (and I mean real Irish pubs in Kilburn owned by Irish landlords full of first generation Irish people or Irish people working temporarily in London) pubs in the UK I've been to on St Patricks day.
Personally I think this is a sad reflection on a lot of the readers of slashdot.
If it hadn't been for Islamic societies during the 8th to 13th centuries the world would not be anywhere near as advanced as it is today. During the dark ages it was Muslim societies that kept the libraries of Greek texts, advanced maths and science and developed building and architecture.
Visit southern Spain and see the only part of Europe that was remotely civilised between the fall of the Romans and the 14th century and marvel at the fantastic Islamic arcitecture.
Why every time Islam is mentioned do you ingrates have to drag the discussion down to a level of name calling and arguing about how the Judea-Christian (i.e. American) history is superior? This is about technology and science NOT you trying to feel superior.
No offense but if you can't estimate CAPEX (not things you buy but things that directly add to the value of the organisation and have to be amortized, e.g. servers, plant, property) you shouldn't be putting budgets together. For many companies CAPEX is the biggest single cost and it is critical to manage this as CAPEX to maximise the value of your organisation.
Where do you get this stuff from - do you just pull it out of your arse?
Just to address a couple of your "points".
Everyone knew that Saddam had built or bought WMD - I mean the US military had a list of weapons they themselves had sold him. However the UN inspectors went on record before the invasion of Iraq stating that they believed that virtually all WMD had been destroyed as was required by the UN.
Saddam was not a nice man, in fact it is really easy to find evidence of all the terible acts that he had committed, genocide against marsh Arabs and againt the Kurds are just two examples. However, there is not, and never was, any evidence of Saddam Hussein collaborating with Al Queda - that was completely manufactured by the arseholes running the US government to attempt to justify the invasion of Iraq. Note that they have stopped claiming that link now.
On the anti-war marches - again you show your ignorance. The march in London was the biggest single protest march in the UK's history. Many people, from many backgrounds marched - including Jews. In fact London's chief rabbi has said he was proud to be part of the anti-war movement. I don't know how that comes accross as anti-semetic but obviously I don't quite have your handle on (un)reality. Nice to see how you fall back to the old neo-con arguments of accusing things you don't like as being communist.
I can't believe that I took the time to read through your links.
Th first one talks about how they believe that 1.8 tonnes of yellow cake was thought to have gone missing - note the speculation. It hasn't turned up since then has it and the article is almost three years old.
The 1500 gallons of chemical weapons are in fact pre-cursors to chemical weapons - many chemicals are precursors to chemical weapons, my old chemistry department would be full of some generic chemicals that could be considered chemical weapon pre-cursors such as organic solvents, e.g. benzine.
For the CNN story see the response to the Washington Post story - the only thing to add is that it appears to be a far smaller "cache" of possible pre-cursors to potential chemical weapons.
The last story - this was later shown to be at least a decade old and probably dated from the Iran Iraq war. I don't think one degraded shell counts as WMD.
If that is the best evidence you can find it really shows how the PsyOps guys in the other story posted today have got to you, your friends and any other idiot that believes that George W. Bush is fighting a righteous war against WMD.
We always had very restrictive laws on fire arms, we banned certain weapons after Michael Ryan went mental in Hungerford and killed a large number of people.
I mean how stupid are we? Somebody shoots a whole load of people with a semi-automatic rifle and we ban semi-automatic rifles. In Columbine, or many other places in the US, somebody shoots a whole load of people and there is outcry against computer games, rock music and everything but the one thing that allowed them to kill a large number of people. Doh!
Maybe that's why our murder rate is so much lower than it is in the US?
Logic? No - you're gonna have to drag that out of my cold, dead hands...
Typical Tory - Labour come up with some sound suggestions and you attempt to play it as them playing politics. It actually means a lot more than the shadow cabinet changing their electricity supplier to one that uses some renewable power generation - that was pointless posturing.
It actually adds up to two power stations of wasted power a year and would considerably help in Britain meeting it's Kyoto targets - reducing our CO2 production by 3.5 million tonnes certainly helps...
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Offence is one thing but comments like "I think I will sodomize her. Repeatedly" are in a different league.
What about the womens' rights to not feel threatened?
This is not a free speech issue - the posters made threatening and offensive comments, inlcuding suggesting that they would assault/rape the female students.
These comments would not be tolerated in any other setting so why should they be tolerated online?
There is a name for this - it is called the agent-principle problem. The principles of the company are the shareholders, or if it is in financial distress, the debt holders. They own the company. The managers of the company are the agents and they are supposed to act in the best interests of the principles. This means that they should be returning maximum value to the share holders, either through paying out cash or investing it to create value (growth is not the same thing as value, with a negative ROIC it can lose money).
You may not like this but it is the deal the Yang made when he IPO'd Yahoo! If he wanted to remain in control he should have kept the company private. This is management hubris pure and simple. If I was a shareholder of Yahoo! then I would sue as well.
Aparently the UK government selected a subsidiary of Lockheed-Martin to provide the IT for the next UK census. This will be on servers located in the UK, however I believe the Patriot Act still allows the US government to access the data collected because LM is an American company.
So, and rightly so, many MPs are trying to get the contract awarded to a EU company instead to avoid privacy implications and possibly because it brings the UK goverment into conflict with EU and UK privacy laws.
Not at all true. I have a 1080p TV (only 37") and a PS3 and the difference in picture quality between a standard PAL or NTSC signal and Blue Ray is incredible.
For me it's as big a leap in picture quality as was Dolby 5.1 in sound. It takes the experience of watching a movie up another notch. Try watching the first scenes of Casino Royal on Blue Ray on a true 1080p TV and you will be stunned - the depth of the picture is amazing, the colours are stunning and the level of detail is astounding.
I think one of the problems is that many TVs that claim to be be true HD are not and simulate higher pixel numbers, I mean how can TVs with 1600 by 850 pixels claim to be 1080p?
Not quite correct - gambling over the phone is legal in US provided both the location where the bet is place and taken are in jurisdictions where gambling is legal. For example it is perfectly legal to place to place a bet in Atlantic City with a bookie in Vegas.
For some reason this does not apply if the place where the bet is taken is in a location where gambling is legal if it is outside the US. This is one of the key points on which the US has screwed itself - it is blatantly anti-competitive behaviour favouring US gambling companies over those that are based elsewhere, for example gambling companies listed in London or based in Antigua.
I am slightly stunned by your choice of examples - I mean look how over stated the danger of AIDs was, there are only 10s of millions of sufferers globally, it has only ravaged half of Africa. And what about smoking - possibly the single most dangerous lifestyle choice in terms of it's impact on your health - which part of it causing lung cancer and heart disease do you not understand? Do you know how many children die globally each second from starvation?
You have just given us a great example of Republican logic - if it doesn't directly impact you it cannot be happening. Just keep your head in the sand about climate change as you obviously have about every other problem...
Gambing online s already illegal in the US under the Wire Act. The exception to this though is if both the person placing the bet and the person taking the bet are in areas where betting is legal. So for example you could place a bet from Atlantic City to Vegas on the phone or the internet.
The US, however, ignores it's own laws when it comes to these people placing bets in areas where it is legal if it is outside the US, e.g. Britain, Antigua etc. This is a blatant protectionism and it is why the WTO has ruled against the US on this repeatedly. Of course being the leading proponent of free trade in the world today the US has ignored all of these rulings because somewhere like Antigua (or Britain) has no option but to take it up the a*se so that US interests can profit.
And Americans wonder why their country has become so unpopular...
Maybe because it is less of PR problem to go after evil foreigners, who are committing no crime in their own country, rather than those honest, but simply misguided, American citizens?
With your analogy I would expect the recipient of the hash in the US to also be prosecuted.
Far be it for me to suggest any kind of conspiracy in this - but what do people think will happen to the execs and shareholders in the large American gambling corps that are snapping up the AIM listed online gambling companies at bargain basement prices? Will these upstanding American go-getters be prosecuted for the same reasons? Will the law be changed so that they are no longer breaking it or will they just be ignored? What about the Wall Street bankers who have made millions from these companies? Will they be prosecuted?
And how will America go after the next industry in which it is not dominant?
Not quite true - internet gambling from the US results in no taxes, regulation or oversight in the US.
Being a company listed on on of the London markets means that there is plenty of oversight. Just because it is not American does not mean it is not any good - after all, how many Enron sized scandals have there been on the LSE?
Good point about the mob running gambling in the US, in the UK there is a long history of reputable companies running casinos, betting on horses etc. Ladbrookes, William Hill etc. are fully audited, fully regulated companies that have to meet very tight legislation.
This is the US protecting it's own industry yet again at the expense of a country that is supposed to be one of their key allies.
Now does that mean that execs at the US mega-casino corps that are snapping up British online gaming companies (at knock down prices) will be subject to the same treatment?
br>One might suspect not.
How about those Wall Street investors who have invested in these same companies?
I doubt it.
Again this is an example of the good ol' US of A throwing it's weight around to increase the bank balances of a few of it's blessed citizens. The fact that the US is goin after companies that trade (legally) in one of the few countries on earth that actually supports them is particularly shameful.
A Nintendo fan boy or somebody who is taking the title way too seriously.
The woman died in a Wii related competition, this is correct as she died because of entering a competition to win a Wii, therefore a Wii related competition. The title is a pun on the word Wii, which sounds like the word wee (i.e. to urinate).
The thing to be angry about here is the reckless behaviour of the radio station - they killed that woman and that should be corporate manslaughter. The DJ was even warned by a medical professional so he really is in the sh*t.
Both Nokia and Sony-Ericsson do some really nice phones. The E61 has a great browser, the k800i (I think) has 8GB of memory and a touch screen - in addition both of these are quad-band (including 3G) which is a requisite for reasonable web surfing.
Other phones like the QTEK (HTC) Titan are also HSDPA for really good connection speeds, so can be used to stream video, these are also fully functional Windows devices.
There are tons of applications for Symbian and Microsoft phones, everyone from gaming companies to TomTom is making software to make the phone the one portable device you need to carry.
So to summarise - two problems with the iPhone. No 3G capability (and who wants to surf the internet at 16kbps) and no third party development allowed. If they sort these two things out they could have a cracking device.
One other point about the comparison with the iPod - the iPod had very little competition, very few people had an MP3 player and those that were available were clunky and hard to use. In this market they are up against the like of Nokia, LG, Sumsung and Sony Ericcson who actually make some decent and usable products.
Sorry - that is complete rubbish.
Many countries' steel industries were forced to modernise over the last 30 years of cut throat competetion - the US industry was compartively protected. As a consequence it is 20 years behind in efficiency and cost - the safety standards, environmental standards and salaries are no higher in the US than in the UK, Germany or Japan, yet American steel is more expensive and worse quality. This is why the WTO had no issues in finding the US steel tariffs illegal.
I have it on my Nokia N73. The software is supplied by an Isreali company called iSkoot, a real pain to get up and running (on the nwteork) but it is now live and working well. There is an interesting video cast of the CEO if Skype talking about the mobile future - can be found through the Three site.
Of course it is still vapour ware if it is not available in the good ol' US of A.
Your argument is not valid - there were no dissenting reports written by scientists working in that field.
This is a typical bit of twisted logic from those who have an agenda to push - it goes like this:
Science is not based on consensus (true)
An opposing but minority theory could be correct (true)
There are no credible opposing theories (true)
Therefore by stating that consensus does not equal proof I have invalidated the claim made by all who disagree with my view (er....)
The big problem, as I understand it, is that it will make internet providers, ISPs, content providers etc. responsible for ensuring that content they deliver does not breach any laws applied to broadcast companies. For example it is easy for Channel 4 (in the UK) to ensure that any programme broadcast before the watershed is suitable for children or for a Scandanvian TV channel to ensure that no adverts targetted at kids are shown during hours when they may be watching TV.
When you make content available over the internet accross multiple time zones it becomes much more difficult to implement this, you need to start making sure that only certain content is available in certain countries.
It is great though to see companies looking to minimise their environmental impact.
St Patty?
Maybe someone is still struggling after a few too many beers?
I'm not sure I would call this a time honoured tradition either - I'd never even heard of green beer until I went to the US. I'd never seen it either in Ireland or any of the Irish (and I mean real Irish pubs in Kilburn owned by Irish landlords full of first generation Irish people or Irish people working temporarily in London) pubs in the UK I've been to on St Patricks day.
Personally I think this is a sad reflection on a lot of the readers of slashdot.
If it hadn't been for Islamic societies during the 8th to 13th centuries the world would not be anywhere near as advanced as it is today. During the dark ages it was Muslim societies that kept the libraries of Greek texts, advanced maths and science and developed building and architecture.
Visit southern Spain and see the only part of Europe that was remotely civilised between the fall of the Romans and the 14th century and marvel at the fantastic Islamic arcitecture.
Why every time Islam is mentioned do you ingrates have to drag the discussion down to a level of name calling and arguing about how the Judea-Christian (i.e. American) history is superior? This is about technology and science NOT you trying to feel superior.
No offense but if you can't estimate CAPEX (not things you buy but things that directly add to the value of the organisation and have to be amortized, e.g. servers, plant, property) you shouldn't be putting budgets together. For many companies CAPEX is the biggest single cost and it is critical to manage this as CAPEX to maximise the value of your organisation.
Where do you get this stuff from - do you just pull it out of your arse?
Just to address a couple of your "points".
Everyone knew that Saddam had built or bought WMD - I mean the US military had a list of weapons they themselves had sold him. However the UN inspectors went on record before the invasion of Iraq stating that they believed that virtually all WMD had been destroyed as was required by the UN.
Saddam was not a nice man, in fact it is really easy to find evidence of all the terible acts that he had committed, genocide against marsh Arabs and againt the Kurds are just two examples. However, there is not, and never was, any evidence of Saddam Hussein collaborating with Al Queda - that was completely manufactured by the arseholes running the US government to attempt to justify the invasion of Iraq. Note that they have stopped claiming that link now.
On the anti-war marches - again you show your ignorance. The march in London was the biggest single protest march in the UK's history. Many people, from many backgrounds marched - including Jews. In fact London's chief rabbi has said he was proud to be part of the anti-war movement. I don't know how that comes accross as anti-semetic but obviously I don't quite have your handle on (un)reality. Nice to see how you fall back to the old neo-con arguments of accusing things you don't like as being communist.
I can't believe that I took the time to read through your links.
Th first one talks about how they believe that 1.8 tonnes of yellow cake was thought to have gone missing - note the speculation. It hasn't turned up since then has it and the article is almost three years old.
The 1500 gallons of chemical weapons are in fact pre-cursors to chemical weapons - many chemicals are precursors to chemical weapons, my old chemistry department would be full of some generic chemicals that could be considered chemical weapon pre-cursors such as organic solvents, e.g. benzine.
For the CNN story see the response to the Washington Post story - the only thing to add is that it appears to be a far smaller "cache" of possible pre-cursors to potential chemical weapons.
The last story - this was later shown to be at least a decade old and probably dated from the Iran Iraq war. I don't think one degraded shell counts as WMD.
If that is the best evidence you can find it really shows how the PsyOps guys in the other story posted today have got to you, your friends and any other idiot that believes that George W. Bush is fighting a righteous war against WMD.
What a load of b*llocks
We always had very restrictive laws on fire arms, we banned certain weapons after Michael Ryan went mental in Hungerford and killed a large number of people.
I mean how stupid are we? Somebody shoots a whole load of people with a semi-automatic rifle and we ban semi-automatic rifles. In Columbine, or many other places in the US, somebody shoots a whole load of people and there is outcry against computer games, rock music and everything but the one thing that allowed them to kill a large number of people. Doh!
Maybe that's why our murder rate is so much lower than it is in the US?
Logic? No - you're gonna have to drag that out of my cold, dead hands...
Typical Tory - Labour come up with some sound suggestions and you attempt to play it as them playing politics. It actually means a lot more than the shadow cabinet changing their electricity supplier to one that uses some renewable power generation - that was pointless posturing.
It actually adds up to two power stations of wasted power a year and would considerably help in Britain meeting it's Kyoto targets - reducing our CO2 production by 3.5 million tonnes certainly helps...