That is the final piece of the puzzle for total control.
Frankly, considering how the US government is yanking internet domain names from individuals and companies who are not even in the US without due process (think MegaUpload), a UN body couldn't act much worse than that. Of course, I'd rather see ICANN controlled by Iceland rather than the US or the UN, but that will remain a pipe dream.
If the Bible was copyrighted, the copyright owner would require you to pay to read it, and would prosecute you if you taught it to others. Same for other scriptures. They are free only because they ain't copyrighted.
Well, Huston didn't attack the US, nor were they infiltrated by foreign fighters; or did they? At least use an analogy that is a little bit more accurate. Hmmm... let's say: the world wants to take down the US government, because it dared to attack the loonies in Waco. But even then, that's a poor analogy, because they too weren't a threat to the US, and the US didn't bomb them in the ground.
And a lot worse? Yes, if all those Al Qaeda fighters that infiltrated the opposition got their way and managed to hijack that rebellion. Things could indeed get worse in Syria. The Syrian people are right now caught between a rock and a hard place: both alternatives are bad. Let's at least not intervene there nor support those who do, making things even worse. IMHO. You're free to disagree, of course.
Why should it? OPEC are exporting their oil while China is withholding its Rare Earths from being exported. WTO could complain about OPEC if OPEC refused to export oil (which it doesn't), and if it had a near monopoly on it (which it doesn't either).
countries didn't 'publicly' intervene in other countries' civil wars.
Well, the Prime Directive wasn't invented yet in this time and age. It is exactly this current kind of overzealous interventionism with all those painful unintended consequences that will eventually lead the world to adopt it sometime in the future.
It looks like Julian Assange is seeking to endear himself with the US government in joining the Western-led anti-Syrian bashing train. But somehow, I doubt this will help him redeem himself in the eyes of the Empire. And no, don't get me started about how evil the Assad regime is, considering that the only realistic alternative could be a lot worse. Quo vadis, Wikileaks?
I'm managing a cluster of 2,400 nodes running FreeBSD, and AFAICS, none was tripped off by leap second NTP adjustments. On the other hand, 4 out of 180 Linux nodes crashed simultaneously at that very moment. All this is exceedingly weird, but may indeed point to a subtle bug in the Linux kernel (only?). I've never witnessed this behavior in the past.
In all likelihood, this will prove to be a false positive generated by some poorly engineered classification algorithm at Microsoft. I dislike Microsoft as much as everyone else, but c'mon guys, this is so obviously bogus that it can't be malice. Even if it is Microsoft we're talking about here. IMHO, it's a clear case of MSAU (MS Artificial Unintelligence) at work.
Using NVIDIA's FreeBSD driver on FreeBSD/amd64 9.0-STABLE. Works okay, most of the time. Better than on Linux. Thanks for that, guys. My only real gripe with NVIDIA is their lack of FreeBSD CUDA/OpenCL support. That's REALLY holding FreeBSD back in the HPC domain.
To me, Peter Norvig's fame stems from his excellent book "Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp", rather than working currently for Google. Just as Vint Cerf is to me a pioneer of TCP/IP and the Internet, rather than Google's Chief Evangelist. Can't we please define people by their real merits, rather than their current corporate affiliation?
You propose to introduce a voter's license, just like a driver's license? But what kind of objective criteria would you apply to test the ability to cast an educated vote?
... can be saved at the same time. It's only a matter of using the right client software. Everything else, I don't see its significance. If young people think that they don't need to save what they stream, let'em experience streams being pulled or closed. They'll quickly come to their senses. Or what they've been streaming wasn't worth saving in the first place. In which case, nothing of value (to them) was lost. All this is a non-issue, IMHO.
What I think? $2250 per file is still WAY too much, as is the whole idea of sky high statutory damages as applied to a petty case of non-commercial file sharing. Seen from outside the US, this whole case looks extremely weird and outright crazy, not to say totally out of touch with reality. Sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone here.
Reading this kind of news is pretty shocking IMHO. First we have anti-ROMA racism in France, then anti-ROMA and antisemitic racism in Hungary. I really hope history doesn't repeat itself, though I'm not overly optimistic.
I guess he really meant piracy, even though privacy is correct as well. Because let's face it: in the eyes of the US government, there ain't not crime more heinous as sharing a couple of files with your friends. They'll abolish all basic freedoms in the blink of an eye to stop piracy... if they could get away with it.
Maybe the problem is astronomical tuition fees in the US? In some countries with more reasonable fees, people usually gravitate towards their natural inclinations, and if that be usually poorly paid science positions at universities and research institutions, so be it. But in the US, you can't afford the luxury to leave college with $100,000 or $120,000 debt and THEN take a measly paid job in science.
Different countries, different crimes. In the eyes of the US government, the most heinous crime is not criticism, it's uploading the latest Lady Gaga MP3 file to your friends. Try that while the Feds are watching, and come back later to report how it went.
Religion and science have always been at odds. And there's no reason to be surprised: the former is basically the anti-thesis of the latter, one relaying on blind faith, the other on systematical skepticism and verification. That both ways of thinking are able to coexist most of the time is only due to the fact that both seldom collide. But when they do, its bound to get ugly.
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Frankly, considering how the US government is yanking internet domain names from individuals and companies who are not even in the US without due process (think MegaUpload), a UN body couldn't act much worse than that. Of course, I'd rather see ICANN controlled by Iceland rather than the US or the UN, but that will remain a pipe dream.
Large parts of the economy actually need the Internet to survive, and so do all those employed in and fed by said economy.
If the Bible was copyrighted, the copyright owner would require you to pay to read it, and would prosecute you if you taught it to others. Same for other scriptures. They are free only because they ain't copyrighted.
And a lot worse? Yes, if all those Al Qaeda fighters that infiltrated the opposition got their way and managed to hijack that rebellion. Things could indeed get worse in Syria. The Syrian people are right now caught between a rock and a hard place: both alternatives are bad. Let's at least not intervene there nor support those who do, making things even worse. IMHO. You're free to disagree, of course.
If he's a German citizen, he can't be extradited to the US. At least not by Germany. If he travels abroad, that's another question.
Why should it? OPEC are exporting their oil while China is withholding its Rare Earths from being exported. WTO could complain about OPEC if OPEC refused to export oil (which it doesn't), and if it had a near monopoly on it (which it doesn't either).
Well, the Prime Directive wasn't invented yet in this time and age. It is exactly this current kind of overzealous interventionism with all those painful unintended consequences that will eventually lead the world to adopt it sometime in the future.
It looks like Julian Assange is seeking to endear himself with the US government in joining the Western-led anti-Syrian bashing train. But somehow, I doubt this will help him redeem himself in the eyes of the Empire. And no, don't get me started about how evil the Assad regime is, considering that the only realistic alternative could be a lot worse. Quo vadis, Wikileaks?
I'm managing a cluster of 2,400 nodes running FreeBSD, and AFAICS, none was tripped off by leap second NTP adjustments. On the other hand, 4 out of 180 Linux nodes crashed simultaneously at that very moment. All this is exceedingly weird, but may indeed point to a subtle bug in the Linux kernel (only?). I've never witnessed this behavior in the past.
You can't be sure. But even if there are, something like the reverse of elftoaout could probably be written relatively easily.
These influential guys will be added to a whitelist of allowed copyright infringers. Do you really expect anything else?
But by then, we'd have lost the hardware to that software answer (unless someone still has a C64 in the attic)
In all likelihood, this will prove to be a false positive generated by some poorly engineered classification algorithm at Microsoft. I dislike Microsoft as much as everyone else, but c'mon guys, this is so obviously bogus that it can't be malice. Even if it is Microsoft we're talking about here. IMHO, it's a clear case of MSAU (MS Artificial Unintelligence) at work.
Using NVIDIA's FreeBSD driver on FreeBSD/amd64 9.0-STABLE. Works okay, most of the time. Better than on Linux. Thanks for that, guys. My only real gripe with NVIDIA is their lack of FreeBSD CUDA/OpenCL support. That's REALLY holding FreeBSD back in the HPC domain.
To me, Peter Norvig's fame stems from his excellent book "Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp", rather than working currently for Google. Just as Vint Cerf is to me a pioneer of TCP/IP and the Internet, rather than Google's Chief Evangelist. Can't we please define people by their real merits, rather than their current corporate affiliation?
Deja vu, all over again. Kind of. Remember when SUN removed their compilers from Solaris?
You propose to introduce a voter's license, just like a driver's license? But what kind of objective criteria would you apply to test the ability to cast an educated vote?
... can be saved at the same time. It's only a matter of using the right client software. Everything else, I don't see its significance. If young people think that they don't need to save what they stream, let'em experience streams being pulled or closed. They'll quickly come to their senses. Or what they've been streaming wasn't worth saving in the first place. In which case, nothing of value (to them) was lost. All this is a non-issue, IMHO.
What I think? $2250 per file is still WAY too much, as is the whole idea of sky high statutory damages as applied to a petty case of non-commercial file sharing. Seen from outside the US, this whole case looks extremely weird and outright crazy, not to say totally out of touch with reality. Sorry, I don't mean to offend anyone here.
Reading this kind of news is pretty shocking IMHO. First we have anti-ROMA racism in France, then anti-ROMA and antisemitic racism in Hungary. I really hope history doesn't repeat itself, though I'm not overly optimistic.
I guess he really meant piracy, even though privacy is correct as well. Because let's face it: in the eyes of the US government, there ain't not crime more heinous as sharing a couple of files with your friends. They'll abolish all basic freedoms in the blink of an eye to stop piracy... if they could get away with it.
If you don't mean text-based games, how about a nice game of chess?
Maybe the problem is astronomical tuition fees in the US? In some countries with more reasonable fees, people usually gravitate towards their natural inclinations, and if that be usually poorly paid science positions at universities and research institutions, so be it. But in the US, you can't afford the luxury to leave college with $100,000 or $120,000 debt and THEN take a measly paid job in science.
Different countries, different crimes. In the eyes of the US government, the most heinous crime is not criticism, it's uploading the latest Lady Gaga MP3 file to your friends. Try that while the Feds are watching, and come back later to report how it went.
Religion and science have always been at odds. And there's no reason to be surprised: the former is basically the anti-thesis of the latter, one relaying on blind faith, the other on systematical skepticism and verification. That both ways of thinking are able to coexist most of the time is only due to the fact that both seldom collide. But when they do, its bound to get ugly.