It would be nice to know if there was some evidence besides the accounts of the officer and Watts. If what the officers said is true then he is guilty and if Watts said is true then the officers assaulted him.
Everyone who bought Assassin's Creed 2 just got a wonderful lesson on the evils of DRM. Hopefully they will learn from it and refuse to buy anything else with this kind of awful DRM.
I can blame them for not doing what Adobe did and create a Silverlight plug-in for Linux themselves instead of farming it out to open source developers and Novell. Maybe they are afraid they will get "infected" if they create something for Linux.
I know Google is a big company and some people think they are trying to take over the world but I don't see how them trying to get better electricity rates for their datacenters is Slashdot worthy.
Any idea that Google is going to get into the electricity business is patently absurd.
If Google is trying to hide their H1B statistics then their search engine isn't doing a very good job of it. It took me all of 2 seconds to find this with a search for "google h1b".
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Company.aspx?ID=225093
This is Slashdot, the articles are just an excuse to argue about our pet issues. Just look at the article about the proposal to create a national climate service. It had absolutely nothing to do with whether anthropogenic global warming was valid or not yet the vast majority of comments were arguing for or against it.
Where is this backlash that CNET is talking about? I've never heard any express any worries about Google having too much information about them outside of Slashdot and certain technology blogs. That represents a tiny fraction of the Internet, most people are happily handing over the every detail of their lives to Facebook, their search queries to Google, etc.
Most people just don't really care that much about Google, Facebook or Yahoo having information about them no matter how many +5 comments on Slashdot tell you otherwise.
It doesn't appear as though India is pulling out of the IPCC at all. They are just sending a representative (or "minder" depending on how you look at it).
The title and summary are pretty misleading, it appears the only thing Obama did was exempt INTERPOL from certain taxes and provided them with immunity from search and seizure.
The article explicitly states that it is not the same thing as diplomatic immunity.
I see Google is rapidly replacing Microsoft in the minds of the tin foil hat crowd as their massive corporate oppressor. I can't wait to see Eric Schmidt as a borg. Maybe we can start using Googl€ too.
I feel the same way. It is very irritating to have to sit through an ad on Hulu just to realize that you need to jump to the next section of the video and then sit through another ad. They should have a system that only shows you an ad every 30/15 minutes of video regardless of how many different shows you watch.
IANAL but my understanding is that any developer that has code in a GPL licensed project has standing to sue for violations of the license provided that they didn't assign their copyright to someone else. I don't know if Busybox forces contributors to assign their copyrights to someone but it doesn't appear as though they do.
Perens's major complaints seems to be that the lawsuits are damaging his consulting business and that Andersen, Landrey, etc. removed the copyright statements of other developers. While I sympathize with him on both points, they are entirely unrelated to the merit of the SFLC's lawsuit.
I don't see any evidence that this is anything other than the fevered dream Kaspersky and DeWalt. Though I'm sure that won't stop the tin foil hat brigade from going into full on freak-out mode.
It seems to me you have two options. 1) Accept the trade off of having Google uses your information for targeted advertising in exchange for their service. 2) Stop using Google's services.
Use Bing instead of Google search. Switch to Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or use an email client. Use Bing's maps instead of Google Maps. etc. I don't think any of these options really ensure your privacy any better than using Google does but if your fear is of Google specifically (sort of irrational IMO) then these are options.
Personally I don't mind the first option because honestly I'm not that interesting. I don't do anything with Google services that would be very interesting to anyone at Google or an intelligence service. There seems to be very little risk for a decent reward.
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I can't even figure out how they got to 230 countries. The UN has 192 members, Wikipedia lists 203 de jure and de facto states.
It would be nice to know if there was some evidence besides the accounts of the officer and Watts. If what the officers said is true then he is guilty and if Watts said is true then the officers assaulted him.
Reddit also recently switched to Cassandra.
Everyone who bought Assassin's Creed 2 just got a wonderful lesson on the evils of DRM. Hopefully they will learn from it and refuse to buy anything else with this kind of awful DRM.
I can blame them for not doing what Adobe did and create a Silverlight plug-in for Linux themselves instead of farming it out to open source developers and Novell. Maybe they are afraid they will get "infected" if they create something for Linux.
I know Google is a big company and some people think they are trying to take over the world but I don't see how them trying to get better electricity rates for their datacenters is Slashdot worthy. Any idea that Google is going to get into the electricity business is patently absurd.
If Google is trying to hide their H1B statistics then their search engine isn't doing a very good job of it. It took me all of 2 seconds to find this with a search for "google h1b". http://www.myvisajobs.com/Company.aspx?ID=225093
This is Slashdot, the articles are just an excuse to argue about our pet issues. Just look at the article about the proposal to create a national climate service. It had absolutely nothing to do with whether anthropogenic global warming was valid or not yet the vast majority of comments were arguing for or against it.
Where is this backlash that CNET is talking about? I've never heard any express any worries about Google having too much information about them outside of Slashdot and certain technology blogs. That represents a tiny fraction of the Internet, most people are happily handing over the every detail of their lives to Facebook, their search queries to Google, etc.
Most people just don't really care that much about Google, Facebook or Yahoo having information about them no matter how many +5 comments on Slashdot tell you otherwise.
It doesn't appear as though India is pulling out of the IPCC at all. They are just sending a representative (or "minder" depending on how you look at it).
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/82542/India/India's+IPCC+'tracker'+soon.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/PM-expresses-confidence-in-IPCCs-work-lauds-Pachauris-leadership/articleshow/5540596.cms
Quit playing your Xbox and buy a Xbox 360 already dammit.
- Love Steve Ballmer
What does the Bank of Montreal have against Slashdot?
Its not obvious to all of us that BMO stands for bugzilla.mozilla.org
That is a false dichotomy. It is both very irresponsible and funny.
I know at least 289 people who would disagree.
The title and summary are pretty misleading, it appears the only thing Obama did was exempt INTERPOL from certain taxes and provided them with immunity from search and seizure. The article explicitly states that it is not the same thing as diplomatic immunity.
IRDLOL (I really did laugh out loud)
Why are the news publishers never up in arms about Yahoo News? Yahoo News is more popular than Google News by a significant amount.
I guess they realize there is more money in going after Google than there is in Yahoo.
I see Google is rapidly replacing Microsoft in the minds of the tin foil hat crowd as their massive corporate oppressor. I can't wait to see Eric Schmidt as a borg. Maybe we can start using Googl€ too.
I feel the same way. It is very irritating to have to sit through an ad on Hulu just to realize that you need to jump to the next section of the video and then sit through another ad. They should have a system that only shows you an ad every 30/15 minutes of video regardless of how many different shows you watch.
IANAL but my understanding is that any developer that has code in a GPL licensed project has standing to sue for violations of the license provided that they didn't assign their copyright to someone else. I don't know if Busybox forces contributors to assign their copyrights to someone but it doesn't appear as though they do.
Perens's major complaints seems to be that the lawsuits are damaging his consulting business and that Andersen, Landrey, etc. removed the copyright statements of other developers. While I sympathize with him on both points, they are entirely unrelated to the merit of the SFLC's lawsuit.
According to the Australian Election Commission there are a lot more than 2 parties.
http://aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registered_parties/index.htm
I fail to see what is so evil about socialist/communist ideas. They don't work in practice but that doesn't make them evil.
I don't see any evidence that this is anything other than the fevered dream Kaspersky and DeWalt. Though I'm sure that won't stop the tin foil hat brigade from going into full on freak-out mode.
It seems to me you have two options. 1) Accept the trade off of having Google uses your information for targeted advertising in exchange for their service. 2) Stop using Google's services.
Use Bing instead of Google search. Switch to Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or use an email client. Use Bing's maps instead of Google Maps. etc. I don't think any of these options really ensure your privacy any better than using Google does but if your fear is of Google specifically (sort of irrational IMO) then these are options.
Personally I don't mind the first option because honestly I'm not that interesting. I don't do anything with Google services that would be very interesting to anyone at Google or an intelligence service. There seems to be very little risk for a decent reward.
Being a criminal and being a hero aren't mutually exclusive things.