My objection to "nuanced" has nothing to do with the media, unless you count John Kerry's abuse of the term during the 2004 presidential campaign as "media." For him, it was merely a weasel-word for defending the indefensible, with an attitude of "you just don't understand." I'd expect the same from a self-absorbed teenager, which it turned out Kerry is anyway.
Words have meaning. "Don't steal," "don't lie," and the like, have meaning. There is no "nuance" to them. Only a lawyer or a paid shill (like the MafiAA) would claim otherwise.
When your ISP gives you DNS server addresses in your paperwork...
When your ISP gives you name(s) for POP3 service (and maybe NNTP also), rather than addresses, and those names are within the ISP's domain...
Then a working DNS, administered by the ISP, is part of the service. Without it, the ISP is unable to offer the services stated to their customers in their paperwork.
Yes, maybe it's contracted out. But that doesn't change the ISP's responsibility to its customers, or its liability when service fails.
Running your own server doesn't get around the ISP's DNS, when the ISP is routing all customers' DNS requests to their own servers regardless of destination address. Before you ask, the same technique is already being done with transparent web cache/proxying.
TFA says the mouse was designed by Theodore Beale. Is this the same Theodore Beale who pens his outrageous columns on Weird Nut Dully under the pseudonym "Vox Day"?
Someone gets a new Windows system, and starts downloading the latest security updates from Microsoft.
God help the owner of that system, if the Internet connection is from Comcast. Instead of taking 15 minutes, will it take 45 to get those updates? Will that be triple the window of opportunity for a worm to find the new, unprotected system, and take it over before the patches are applied?
If sensible input creates wonky output, it doesn't matter how well we understand the physical components. A screwy program will screw with the components in ways the operator doesn't expect or want. Google "breathalyzer source code" or "therac-25" for simple proof. More examples abound.
She was doing it on company time, with the company's permission (perhaps tacit, perhaps not). That makes the company liable, not her. When the reality of that hit the accusers, they had to re-think fast.
if you value something at $1000, its value and benefit to you is $1000; there is no "objective" value to anything.
Not quite. If both buyer and seller agree that the value of some "thing" is $1000, enough to exchange "thing" for cash, then that is its objective value. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks the value of the "thing" should be.
We're very sorry we made a big mistake. We hear you have a lovely singing voice and we wish you good luck.
Which is lawyer-speak for "Our next target will be someone with a lot less public exposure, and much less ability to defend against our accusations in court."
Most gay people are no more promiscuous than most straight people.
That's precisely my point; I am affirming what your grandparent post said. Sexual orientation whether straight, bi, gay, is not a choice.
What we can choose, we do, and that includes the expression of our sexualities. Whether that includes living a heterosexual lifestyle, a gay lifestyle, or an asexual lifestyle, it's still by and large a choice (barring any deep-seated Freudian issues).
How difficult will it be to find a judge and jury whose sole access to the Internet is through dial-up, and whose workplace involves no computer networking whatsoever?
Point of semantics: The Communists "proved" God wasn't out there.
Of course, the only concurring "proof" also came from Communists. Even Carl Sagan wasn't so foolish as to admit a negative observation as positive proof.
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So is Jessi "My Powers are Awesome" Reid.
No need to RTFA for that, did you even bother with the summary?
They were paid to deliver a program, not to write the entire thing from scratch.
If I knew who it was, I'd be starting a fund to send flowers and champagne to their HQ.
Only in part.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
Are you saying we should still abide by the Dred Scott decision?
My objection to "nuanced" has nothing to do with the media, unless you count John Kerry's abuse of the term during the 2004 presidential campaign as "media." For him, it was merely a weasel-word for defending the indefensible, with an attitude of "you just don't understand." I'd expect the same from a self-absorbed teenager, which it turned out Kerry is anyway.
Words have meaning. "Don't steal," "don't lie," and the like, have meaning. There is no "nuance" to them. Only a lawyer or a paid shill (like the MafiAA) would claim otherwise.
Different meanings of "nuanced":
--we're elitist snobs, and of course we know better than you what's good for you.
--whatever shade of meaning applies is the one we want at any given moment.
--dictatorships and Communist nations will get a pass.
--a person's freedom to create, innovate, and distribute must be hindered at all turns.
I defy this bogus organization to prove me wrong.
When your ISP gives you DNS server addresses in your paperwork...
When your ISP gives you name(s) for POP3 service (and maybe NNTP also), rather than addresses, and those names are within the ISP's domain...
Then a working DNS, administered by the ISP, is part of the service. Without it, the ISP is unable to offer the services stated to their customers in their paperwork.
Yes, maybe it's contracted out. But that doesn't change the ISP's responsibility to its customers, or its liability when service fails.
Running your own server doesn't get around the ISP's DNS, when the ISP is routing all customers' DNS requests to their own servers regardless of destination address. Before you ask, the same technique is already being done with transparent web cache/proxying.
TFA says the mouse was designed by Theodore Beale. Is this the same Theodore Beale who pens his outrageous columns on Weird Nut Dully under the pseudonym "Vox Day"?
Microsoft proves it can be done with every release of Windows.
Someone gets a new Windows system, and starts downloading the latest security updates from Microsoft.
God help the owner of that system, if the Internet connection is from Comcast. Instead of taking 15 minutes, will it take 45 to get those updates? Will that be triple the window of opportunity for a worm to find the new, unprotected system, and take it over before the patches are applied?
If sensible input creates wonky output, it doesn't matter how well we understand the physical components. A screwy program will screw with the components in ways the operator doesn't expect or want. Google "breathalyzer source code" or "therac-25" for simple proof. More examples abound.
...who used their own news wire to send out a pre-emptive takedown notice to basically the entire Internet.
Is Lady Chatterly's Lover in that list?
She was doing it on company time, with the company's permission (perhaps tacit, perhaps not). That makes the company liable, not her. When the reality of that hit the accusers, they had to re-think fast.
if you value something at $1000, its value and benefit to you is $1000; there is no "objective" value to anything.
Not quite. If both buyer and seller agree that the value of some "thing" is $1000, enough to exchange "thing" for cash, then that is its objective value. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks the value of the "thing" should be.
We're very sorry we made a big mistake. We hear you have a lovely singing voice and we wish you good luck.
Which is lawyer-speak for "Our next target will be someone with a lot less public exposure, and much less ability to defend against our accusations in court."
Most gay people are no more promiscuous than most straight people.
That's precisely my point; I am affirming what your grandparent post said. Sexual orientation whether straight, bi, gay, is not a choice.
What we can choose, we do, and that includes the expression of our sexualities. Whether that includes living a heterosexual lifestyle, a gay lifestyle, or an asexual lifestyle, it's still by and large a choice (barring any deep-seated Freudian issues).
So relax, okay? I'm on your side.
A tip of my hat to you, for pulling out a pertinent (to the parent) cartoon from 10 years and 2 days ago.
I do not choose to be heterosexual. But I do choose not to indulge my sexuality with every attractive other-gender person I encounter.
How difficult will it be to find a judge and jury whose sole access to the Internet is through dial-up, and whose workplace involves no computer networking whatsoever?
Maybe he's working for a graphic design studio, or an advertising agency.
Point of semantics: The Communists "proved" God wasn't out there.
Of course, the only concurring "proof" also came from Communists. Even Carl Sagan wasn't so foolish as to admit a negative observation as positive proof.