In Australia PayPal is classed as a financial institution, and is regulated under the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). When eBay tried to make PayPal the only payment method, and excluded things such as bank transfer, there was a huge uproar and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) stopped this from happening.
Personally, I'll never use eBay as they seem like a massive rip off and far too risky to actually get the goods you purchase.
When wiretapping is undertaken under the auspices of the ECPA and FISA, it does actually help protect citizens. When it is done outside of these Acts, then you have big problems. I was never a big fan of the lowering of the standard for electronic surveillance that the USA PATRIOT Act introduced, as I feel that it unbalanced the fine job that existing legislation was serving already.
DRM is there to allow big game studios, the entertainment industry and big business ultimate control over the content that the consumer pays for.
Instances of this:
1. Amazon.com yanks Big Brother copies off all Kindles. Only after a massive public uproar does it apologise. 2. Sony implements illegal malware to implement it's DRM, gets into massive trouble and then apologises. 3. Microsoft implements dial home license checking. Most people who pirate Windows get a crack to get around it, those who purchase the produce must use it before they can make hardware changes. No change there.
Tell me that DRM has been implement for the little guy again?
If you were a paranoid android you probably wouldn't do much more than play computer games. I mean, with a brain the size of a planet, but all you get asked to do is transport some morons to the bridge, it doesn't seem like there is much meaning in life at all.
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Yeah, I know! If we didn't have this study then we wouldn't know the best way to keep people miserable.
Similar to the situation in Australia.
In Australia PayPal is classed as a financial institution, and is regulated under the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). When eBay tried to make PayPal the only payment method, and excluded things such as bank transfer, there was a huge uproar and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) stopped this from happening.
Personally, I'll never use eBay as they seem like a massive rip off and far too risky to actually get the goods you purchase.
When wiretapping is undertaken under the auspices of the ECPA and FISA, it does actually help protect citizens. When it is done outside of these Acts, then you have big problems. I was never a big fan of the lowering of the standard for electronic surveillance that the USA PATRIOT Act introduced, as I feel that it unbalanced the fine job that existing legislation was serving already.
Seems to work OK for 2D Boy.
DRM is there to allow big game studios, the entertainment industry and big business ultimate control over the content that the consumer pays for.
Instances of this:
1. Amazon.com yanks Big Brother copies off all Kindles. Only after a massive public uproar does it apologise.
2. Sony implements illegal malware to implement it's DRM, gets into massive trouble and then apologises.
3. Microsoft implements dial home license checking. Most people who pirate Windows get a crack to get around it, those who purchase the produce must use it before they can make hardware changes. No change there.
Tell me that DRM has been implement for the little guy again?
Yup, yet another good reason not to purchase a Kindle.
As I said, that's fine for an advanced course on operating systems. But if you were learning the basics, best to stick to Minix or Linux.
Why would you even care what OS it is if you are learning the fundamentals of operating systems?
If you were a paranoid android you probably wouldn't do much more than play computer games. I mean, with a brain the size of a planet, but all you get asked to do is transport some morons to the bridge, it doesn't seem like there is much meaning in life at all.
Rule 33: ignore rule 34.
That's a fair point, but it still explains why they added the sic.
Yeah, which you have to sign an NDA to poke around with.
Why bother when you can use a better documented operating system, which has nothing obstructing the free dissemination of the source code?
If you think that not having insurance is a good thing, then may I suggest you don't go into business?
Well... no, it sucks for the reseller. Or if the reseller is smart, then it sucks for the insurance company.
I first noticed it in this article, comparing Gentoo users to ricers.
User perception IS the benchmark for responsiveness on the desktop. Sheesh.
What sort of benchmarks were you thinking of implementing? Genuinely curious.
No folks. It's not "orientated", it's "oriented". The sic is most definitely in the wrong place.
The sic is in the wrong spot.
It reads "it is a desktop orientated scheduler". Note the topic subject is "desktop oriented scheduler".
It should read "it is a desktop orientated (sic.) scheduler.
No, the lady needs to post a whole bunch of the officer's items as free to give away on Craigslist and any other classified website.
If the law says it's OK, then it would be interesting to see what happens when the shoe is on the other foot.
Indeed. This Science Experiment brought to you by Nintendo.
Either that, or stupidity.
Now that's not a bad way to go. Suicide through bash.org.
The irony is amazing.
Actually, that would be rats, which carried fleas, which carried the bacterium Yersinia pestis.
Well colour me impressed.
Truly, a cosmopolitan makeup you have there. *snicker*