Not just piracy, any invalid license could trigger this law: Not updated your business license? Moved it to another computer? Worked in a virtual environment without MS permission? Built a backup server by mirroring drive (and license number)?...
This would make the use of any MS product a huge possible legal liability. Why not minimize the risk and go opensource?
Companies that strive to sell complete workflow & service packages or servers might use that argument in the future. Good for Redhat, Oracle, IBM.
Okay, so belief in ghosts pretty much requires a belief in the supernatural, including various God concepts, right?
One would think so. At least that would be the logical consequence.
Oddly enough, many people belief in some sort of spirits but not in God. Ghosts, spirits, or some vaguely defined non-material-being-world have become a replacement for old fashioned religion. You will find people defining themselves as atheists, who still try to communicate with transcendent beings.
... no person who believes in God can possibly be fascinated by what this scientist has discovered, right?
No person who believes in God can be anything other than a raving lunatic fanatic because...
Some fundamentalist atheists might claim that. And they often do so on/. But this time you jumped the gun. The claim was only that some religious people refuse to listen to anything scientific unless they just made it up themselves.
Right, bad idea. Like the rate-your-pain scale at the hospital.
Through the pain I experienced I'd rate a fractured rib at a 5. Maybe 4 in a not so severe case. But to get any attention I'd better call it a 8 or 9.
While a pain scale could be calibrated by one extra question (compare this pain to a past experience), I can't see a practible calibration with this system. -Which won't prevent some moron from deploying it. People like numbers. They are good for funding and decision making. Whether the quantification process is accurate or not: if I can quantify it, it immediately seems to be much, much more objective.
The building is now and forever will be called the Sears Tower.
eh right.
Locals talk about the Palmer house. Visitors go to the Hilton, that for some reason is called "Palmer House Hilton"
Locals might still talk about "Marshall Field". But the times when they supplied the police with cars to shoot demonstrators are long gone. For tourists it is just "that giant old Macy's".
For locals it might stay the Sears tower. But soon, tourists will ask locals to show them the giant Willi.
The good old MIR had a much better shielding than the Internationale Space Station. The simple reason: It was so massive with so much junk around the module. Now they want to be fancy, light, and efficient.
Fools, I say!
Once the space elevator is finally running, we might be able to go back to nice and heavy, with a lead, paraffin, moon-rock mixture.- Who knows, the first interplanetary cruiser might look like Red Dwarf.
Physics major? - Tell your senator how atheist big bang theories are pushed on you.
Chemistry? - Why don't they let people teach intelligent design in the periodic table?
And how can a nursing program not talk about sickness as punishment, curses, and evil influences? If medical students don't learn about Satanic possession, how can they detect it in their patients?
Sounds bad?
Don't worry. People are already working on changing that.
This is happening in Japan. A highly developed and highly organized country with a educated civil society proud of their organizational skills, disaster plans, and government services.
A similar accident in a third world country would result in something much more harmful to the world as a whole. And third world countries are the place where nuclear power is growing massively.
Tens of thousands of people were probably killed by the quake and the resulting tsunami.
But anti-nuke activists will consider this the worse tragedy and use it at every chance to fight against the building of more modern and much, much safer designs.
Exactly. Your point being: When the house is shaking one shouldn't worry about the butcher knife stored on the shelf above your bed. Instead you recommend going on with that practice.
Telepolis assumes more is happening: if the reactor breaches, Tokyo is within the fallout radius. - Unless one encapsulates the reactor in concrete and sacrifices the workers doing that job:
"Willing to Divulge to" makes it sound like some complete stranger went on facebook and asked "Hey, give me your email address, blood type and shoe size" and got an answer.
Isn't that how it pretty much is? Or are you friends with Zuckerberg?
Hackers getting "in" to a computer by navigating "around" the firewall. - Both of course displayed on the screen with some 3d blocks.
Close second: Searching a database. - Pictures or texts (depending whether you look for a person or a document) flash on the screen in rapid succession, till the computer than "finds" the right one. For the computer to "look" at it, it must apparently appear on the screen.
I might not always be completely truthful in filling out web forms!
That doesn't help you much. If you are a real adult with a mortgage, credit card, a deed, and some other public records, they can sell all of that "real world" information about you.
Sure, I'm a 14 y.o. girl who likes ponies. But I'm also a guy with a house and a job that creates a public trail. It's just a matter of time till they can merge the two.
Give me the option to have the block-list be specific to certain searches or topics. Now I can block Yahoo answers on linux searches, but not in general.
Improve on the individual ranking feature so I can mod up / mod down: on some of my searches ExpertSexchange gets -2 on others +-0
Let me exchange lists with others.
And of course, Google may use my lists, but not track me.
If you disagree with group think in a polite way giving reasons, most people wouldn't call you a troll. The fact that some do, doesn't make you one.
If you disagree with group think in a very defensive way, that might come across as aggressive, or even in an outright aggressive or offensive way, you come pretty close to being a troll. But the proper term would probably be hosehead.
TFA helps with an angry rant by an otherwise normal person, not with an intentional troll.
I would add the opposite of the troll to the problem list, the bully:
You voice dissent in a fan boy environment, and two low ranking members will immediately attack you to gain social status. Sometimes a high ranking member with self confidence issue will pitch in to make an example.
Politeness doesn't really help you, it would only be seen as defensiveness. The only thing that works is if someone else actively intervenes.
I miss having a system, that had a decent documentation.
I miss the time when important parts all had man pages.
I miss being able to work my way through a script and not have everything hidden somewhere.
And I miss being able to talk to people about a linux problem and getting a decent answer.
In the good old days I could have a problem and someone would point in a direction, so I could find the answer and learn something in the process.
Now? you either get the old-school answer, which breaks the fancy stuff, because for example you shouldn't meddle with the permissions, fstab, links and mount points, but do some udev stuff...
Or, you get the "click-here-and-reboot", "just-upgrade", or "have--you-tried-reinstalling" kind of experts.
On top of it, documentation is just missing, gvfs writes files I can't read. Data is hidden in some formats only the application designer knows. And I can't modify any of it, because more and more you don't get the answer but a why-would-you-wanna-do-that or that's-against-the-design answer.
A vigilante, regardless of motivations, is a vigilante. And I'm pretty sure many of these poeple are doing it for the lulz rather than to do any sort of meaningful protest that will accomplish something.
And vigilantes are a lawless mob controlled by their hate, going after victims that probably haven't even done anything wrong.
So let's not call them vigilantes then.
Cyber protesters, cyber revolutionaries, cyber resistance ??
And my personal favorite: the secret order of the cyber knights.
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This would make the use of any MS product a huge possible legal liability. Why not minimize the risk and go opensource? Companies that strive to sell complete workflow & service packages or servers might use that argument in the future. Good for Redhat, Oracle, IBM.
Okay, so belief in ghosts pretty much requires a belief in the supernatural, including various God concepts, right?
One would think so. At least that would be the logical consequence.
Oddly enough, many people belief in some sort of spirits but not in God. Ghosts, spirits, or some vaguely defined non-material-being-world have become a replacement for old fashioned religion. You will find people defining themselves as atheists, who still try to communicate with transcendent beings.
(That just had to be said by someone.)
... no person who believes in God can possibly be fascinated by what this scientist has discovered, right?
No person who believes in God can be anything other than a raving lunatic fanatic because ...
Some fundamentalist atheists might claim that. And they often do so on /. But this time you jumped the gun. The claim was only that some religious people refuse to listen to anything scientific unless they just made it up themselves.
Right, bad idea. Like the rate-your-pain scale at the hospital.
Through the pain I experienced I'd rate a fractured rib at a 5. Maybe 4 in a not so severe case. But to get any attention I'd better call it a 8 or 9.
While a pain scale could be calibrated by one extra question (compare this pain to a past experience), I can't see a practible calibration with this system. -Which won't prevent some moron from deploying it. People like numbers. They are good for funding and decision making. Whether the quantification process is accurate or not: if I can quantify it, it immediately seems to be much, much more objective.
.. Kotex is suing apple for copyright infringements on the maxipad.
Come on, how blatant is that, the new ipad even bleeds through on the edges!
The building is now and forever will be called the Sears Tower.
eh right.
Locals talk about the Palmer house. Visitors go to the Hilton, that for some reason is called "Palmer House Hilton"
Locals might still talk about "Marshall Field". But the times when they supplied the police with cars to shoot demonstrators are long gone. For tourists it is just "that giant old Macy's".
For locals it might stay the Sears tower. But soon, tourists will ask locals to show them the giant Willi.
The good old MIR had a much better shielding than the Internationale Space Station. The simple reason: It was so massive with so much junk around the module. Now they want to be fancy, light, and efficient.
Fools, I say!
Once the space elevator is finally running, we might be able to go back to nice and heavy, with a lead, paraffin, moon-rock mixture.- Who knows, the first interplanetary cruiser might look like Red Dwarf.
This is wonderful news!
Physics major? - Tell your senator how atheist big bang theories are pushed on you.
Chemistry? - Why don't they let people teach intelligent design in the periodic table?
And how can a nursing program not talk about sickness as punishment, curses, and evil influences? If medical students don't learn about Satanic possession, how can they detect it in their patients?
Sounds bad?
Don't worry. People are already working on changing that.
If you outlaw evolution, only outlaws will evolve.
..as any trip through parts of Redneckistan will show you.
Obviously, OP should be modded insightful, not funny.
I always assume that someone who says they're 13 is either a cop or a fat guy in a basement. Real 13 year olds pretend they're older.
Good point!
- I'm 14 by the way.
oops- before I forget:
:) ;) 8P OMG LOL
- except for those cheaters.
A similar accident in a third world country would result in something much more harmful to the world as a whole. And third world countries are the place where nuclear power is growing massively.
Are sharks space worthy?
You are mistaken. NASA is planning to use laser cats.
- I hope they give credits to the two geniuses who developed them.
Tens of thousands of people were probably killed by the quake and the resulting tsunami.
But anti-nuke activists will consider this the worse tragedy and use it at every chance to fight against the building of more modern and much, much safer designs.
Exactly. Your point being: When the house is shaking one shouldn't worry about the butcher knife stored on the shelf above your bed. Instead you recommend going on with that practice.
Telepolis assumes more is happening: if the reactor breaches, Tokyo is within the fallout radius. - Unless one encapsulates the reactor in concrete and sacrifices the workers doing that job:
Heise Google translate
"Willing to Divulge to" makes it sound like some complete stranger went on facebook and asked "Hey, give me your email address, blood type and shoe size" and got an answer.
Isn't that how it pretty much is? Or are you friends with Zuckerberg?
Hackers getting "in" to a computer by navigating "around" the firewall. - Both of course displayed on the screen with some 3d blocks.
Close second: Searching a database. - Pictures or texts (depending whether you look for a person or a document) flash on the screen in rapid succession, till the computer than "finds" the right one. For the computer to "look" at it, it must apparently appear on the screen.
Just wear sis little yellow tagen, so ve know sat you optend out. Ja?
I might not always be completely truthful in filling out web forms!
That doesn't help you much. If you are a real adult with a mortgage, credit card, a deed, and some other public records, they can sell all of that "real world" information about you.
Sure, I'm a 14 y.o. girl who likes ponies. But I'm also a guy with a house and a job that creates a public trail. It's just a matter of time till they can merge the two.
If you disagree with group think in a very defensive way, that might come across as aggressive, or even in an outright aggressive or offensive way, you come pretty close to being a troll. But the proper term would probably be hosehead.
If you need examples, read youtube comments.
TFA helps with an angry rant by an otherwise normal person, not with an intentional troll.
I would add the opposite of the troll to the problem list, the bully:
You voice dissent in a fan boy environment, and two low ranking members will immediately attack you to gain social status. Sometimes a high ranking member with self confidence issue will pitch in to make an example.
Politeness doesn't really help you, it would only be seen as defensiveness. The only thing that works is if someone else actively intervenes.
I miss having a system, that had a decent documentation.
I miss the time when important parts all had man pages.
I miss being able to work my way through a script and not have everything hidden somewhere.
And I miss being able to talk to people about a linux problem and getting a decent answer.
In the good old days I could have a problem and someone would point in a direction, so I could find the answer and learn something in the process.
Now? you either get the old-school answer, which breaks the fancy stuff, because for example you shouldn't meddle with the permissions, fstab, links and mount points, but do some udev stuff...
Or, you get the "click-here-and-reboot", "just-upgrade", or "have--you-tried-reinstalling" kind of experts.
On top of it, documentation is just missing, gvfs writes files I can't read. Data is hidden in some formats only the application designer knows. And I can't modify any of it, because more and more you don't get the answer but a why-would-you-wanna-do-that or that's-against-the-design answer.
...better question is why the press is always so binary and void of grey areas.
I don' t know. But here in the studio we have our two experts, Dr. Good and Dr. Evil.
A vigilante, regardless of motivations, is a vigilante. And I'm pretty sure many of these poeple are doing it for the lulz rather than to do any sort of meaningful protest that will accomplish something.
And vigilantes are a lawless mob controlled by their hate, going after victims that probably haven't even done anything wrong.
So let's not call them vigilantes then.
Cyber protesters, cyber revolutionaries, cyber resistance ??
And my personal favorite: the secret order of the cyber knights.