my username predates WoW. It was originally a reference to some long-forgotten Larry Niven book, and I don't feel like changing it and losing my precious six-digits.
This is competing with water cooling; we're hardly talking about "every computer on earth". We're talking about a handful of high-performance neckbeard gaming/overclocking rigs. And maybe some supercomputers, but they've been using similar setups for quite some time now already.
The FISA amendments also clarified that warrants need to go through the FISA court, clarifying the supposed ambiguity that Bush used in the first place. Yes, Verizon, BellSouth, and AT&T aren't going to get punished for being complicit in breaking the law, which would probably have been a better deterrent in the long run, but this isn't the end of the world.
If anything, George W. Bush and William H. Black should get punished for the whole mess. That would be "rule of law". But we all know that's never going to fucking happen.
Again, the FISA amendments, while shitty, aren't anything close to "turning our government into a totalitarian state". Also, they did more than just grant telecom immunity, and Obama's position was that the other provisions shouldn't be thrown out just because of the immunity garbage. I personally disagree and think it was one of the worst decisions he's made, but fuck, man, don't turn it into something bigger than it really is.
I mean, I'd make a tinfoil hat joke, but they're getting tired. Just try and, yknow, use some fucking reason.
Obama and McCain have clearly shown us that you're just voting for the same guy, with a different name.
Really? Really? I've been listening to this tired meme for the past three elections. "Oh, Bush and Gore are just the same guy with a different name. Vote Nader." "Oh, Bush and Kerry are the same guy with a different name. Vote Badnarik." It wasn't true then and it isn't now. Really, if you can't see that there actually are substantative differences between the two front-runners, you're not paying any attention.
In Qwest's case, they said "no" and got fucked out of government contracts worth millions. Classified government contracts, too, so they couldn't directly tell their stockholders where all the fucking money went.
It's not a conspiracy, it's that some people, while fine with legitimate criticsm of Microsoft and Windows, are getting a little sick of the frantic tinfoil-hat bullshit that gets thrown around instead of rational cricism around here. For instance, if you routinely use words like "Windoze" or replace the letter "S" with a dollar sign, you might be part of the problem.
Not really; if a site has no AUP, you can assume that the AUP is "whatever the owners/administrators feel like doing at the moment." This is how it has always been.
You're operating under this strange belief that if someone has some "good" (or at least internally consistent) reason for doing some horrible action, then that exonerates (or at least mitigates) them from guilt. This belief has become popular lately, which I can't understand, because it's fantastically stupid.
you may have noticed that every House member from Illinois voted against Fisa the other week. Even the Republican, Johnson. He was, in fact, the only Republican to vote against.
Oh, there's a way out: the network itself needs to be upgraded to make bandwidth cheaper. With internet streaming video at 1920x1080 it's going to have to happen sooner or later anyway. If bandwidth is cheap enough that P2P doesn't cost significant money to the ISPs anymore, they won't bother to throttle. Some countries are already there; we aren't.
Like some other poster said, they will undoubtedly not throttle their hilariously overpriced "business class" accounts, and direct home VPN users to sign up for them.
What we have here is a technical solution to a legal problem. Every time a story pops up on Slashdot with a legal solution to a technical problem, we laugh at it. Well, the other way around doesn't work either, folks.
Please. Maybe one percent of your average ISP's customer base has ever used sftp. They don't give a shit if they throttle a tiny but legitimate chunk of the userbase while hitting P2P users.
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my username predates WoW. It was originally a reference to some long-forgotten Larry Niven book, and I don't feel like changing it and losing my precious six-digits.
I don't want a vocal minority of whiny assholes taking away the new bar.
This is competing with water cooling; we're hardly talking about "every computer on earth". We're talking about a handful of high-performance neckbeard gaming/overclocking rigs. And maybe some supercomputers, but they've been using similar setups for quite some time now already.
The FISA amendments also clarified that warrants need to go through the FISA court, clarifying the supposed ambiguity that Bush used in the first place. Yes, Verizon, BellSouth, and AT&T aren't going to get punished for being complicit in breaking the law, which would probably have been a better deterrent in the long run, but this isn't the end of the world.
If anything, George W. Bush and William H. Black should get punished for the whole mess. That would be "rule of law". But we all know that's never going to fucking happen.
Again, the FISA amendments, while shitty, aren't anything close to "turning our government into a totalitarian state". Also, they did more than just grant telecom immunity, and Obama's position was that the other provisions shouldn't be thrown out just because of the immunity garbage. I personally disagree and think it was one of the worst decisions he's made, but fuck, man, don't turn it into something bigger than it really is.
I mean, I'd make a tinfoil hat joke, but they're getting tired. Just try and, yknow, use some fucking reason.
I'm glad to see that two candidates eventually agreeing on a single bill makes them practically the same person.
Man, I agree that the FISA thing was a bad decision, but don't turn into a one-issue voter.
Obama and McCain have clearly shown us that you're just voting for the same guy, with a different name.
Really? Really? I've been listening to this tired meme for the past three elections. "Oh, Bush and Gore are just the same guy with a different name. Vote Nader." "Oh, Bush and Kerry are the same guy with a different name. Vote Badnarik." It wasn't true then and it isn't now. Really, if you can't see that there actually are substantative differences between the two front-runners, you're not paying any attention.
In Qwest's case, they said "no" and got fucked out of government contracts worth millions. Classified government contracts, too, so they couldn't directly tell their stockholders where all the fucking money went.
No wonder the other three went along.
oh noes, the numbering scheme isn't the way you want it?
Seriously, if I could pick a least important part of the kernel development to complain about...
About goddamn time; GTK has had the equivalent feature (drawing using native QT widgets for integration) for years.
It's not a conspiracy, it's that some people, while fine with legitimate criticsm of Microsoft and Windows, are getting a little sick of the frantic tinfoil-hat bullshit that gets thrown around instead of rational cricism around here. For instance, if you routinely use words like "Windoze" or replace the letter "S" with a dollar sign, you might be part of the problem.
and that's why Ron Paul isn't going to be President.
Not really; if a site has no AUP, you can assume that the AUP is "whatever the owners/administrators feel like doing at the moment." This is how it has always been.
doesn't Windows Mobile run on architectures other than x86?
You're operating under this strange belief that if someone has some "good" (or at least internally consistent) reason for doing some horrible action, then that exonerates (or at least mitigates) them from guilt. This belief has become popular lately, which I can't understand, because it's fantastically stupid.
planning to make death illegal after you make taxes illegal?
Man, I don't know when a 1.6 GHz Intel and a gig of RAM became "lacking", but you must have had trouble using computers before about two years ago.
you may have noticed that every House member from Illinois voted against Fisa the other week. Even the Republican, Johnson. He was, in fact, the only Republican to vote against.
It's called the Optimus Keyboard, and it costs eleventy bajillion dollars. But yes, it exists.
Oh, there's a way out: the network itself needs to be upgraded to make bandwidth cheaper. With internet streaming video at 1920x1080 it's going to have to happen sooner or later anyway. If bandwidth is cheap enough that P2P doesn't cost significant money to the ISPs anymore, they won't bother to throttle. Some countries are already there; we aren't.
Like some other poster said, they will undoubtedly not throttle their hilariously overpriced "business class" accounts, and direct home VPN users to sign up for them.
SSH generally doesn't look too different from, say, an https connection to an online banking website, though. SFTP does, that's all.
All I'm saying is "but this would cut off [legitimate uses with small userbase]" is not a defense to these people.
What we have here is a technical solution to a legal problem. Every time a story pops up on Slashdot with a legal solution to a technical problem, we laugh at it. Well, the other way around doesn't work either, folks.
Please. Maybe one percent of your average ISP's customer base has ever used sftp. They don't give a shit if they throttle a tiny but legitimate chunk of the userbase while hitting P2P users.
Windows 95/98/ME ran in unprotected memory where one app could crash the whole system. I don't think it forced app developers to write decent code.