The problem is that English (at least as it's commonly spoken) doesn't have different words so as to distinguish between "libre" and "gratis". So while "gratis" does have English origins (IIRC), no one uses it.
Put more simply, it would be like expecting the French to have an equivalent for "entrepreneur".
So you've done a WHOIS and found it's an ISP. What did you expect to happen? If you had a telephone number, would you expect the telephone company to voluntarily give up the account holder's info, as in "Yeah, that's Bob's number. Here's where he lives."? Several years ago, ATT used to publish the account holder's name. If Fuse happened to be doing that, you would have been one step (out of many) ahead of where you are now. But that's not the case, is it?
And then, have you considered that the person in possession of the laptop may not be the one who stole it? It could be he bought off eBay and for whatever reason, is examing what's on the hard drive.
Quite frankly, I don't think you can do much, and the sooner you put this sorry episode behind you the better. Restore from backups and call it a day.
Indeed. I suspect my milk is getting fussy being surrounded Monsanto's genetically-engineered, artificially-flavoured soy products. Or as Lewis Black put it,
There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice. But they couldn't sell soy juice, so they called it soy milk. Because anytime you say soy juice, you actually... start to gag. Know how come I know there's no such thing as soy milk? Because there's no soy titty, is there?
The reason this is largely being treated as a joke by the British people is that most of the unpopular laws are coming from Brussels, not London.
I found another online survey the results of which reflects similar sentiments.
What should we call those [shakes fist in air] people in Brussels?
5. Let's not call them anything. Let's ignore them. 4. Belgians. Nothing is more derogatory. 3. The Sprouts. 2. The Phlegms. 1. Miserable Fat Belgian Bastards.
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the fault in your site, about Facebook users being saddos. Many of my best friends are saddos, and only a few of them have Facebook accounts.
Then try Hillbilly Greeking... Technobabble, Matrix, and pseudo-German...
You're trying too hard.
If this is a corporate site (most are), you can just use the Bullshit Generator. Your pointy-haired boss will nod approvingly, and you can call it a day.
Good. Buying online results in externalities which most people are simply too selfish to care about. I'm all in favor of closing this loophole.
If you live in California and routinely buy on-line, there are (quite often) no externalities. Just the tax that you end up paying. Probably the same for a lot of New Yorkers.
If the idea of wanting to avoid a sales tax (at least in the US) is "selfish", I'd suggest you try living in a state like California. To use a car analogy, we probably have the highest DMV and traffic violation fees in the nation. In return, our roads and freeways are among the worst.
And when they say that they want to use all PC resources - are they really providing anything useful with that or are they just going to hog the whole computer?
For me, a browser is mostly a clumsy way to find and read documentation, buy shit, or waste time on Slashdot. For an increasing majority, it seems, a web browser is everything.
By integrating and using a lot of features like GPUs and other stuff you will also limit which platforms the software can be used on...
For Microsoft, there can be only one platform. That's not to say they've "evolved" over the years, but any positive steps they've taken toward openness have been mostly the result of factors and developments they've not (yet) been able to control, and only begrudgingly accepted.
You do know that you can search using the "Address Bar"? And, believe it or not, you can use that same Address Bar to perform Wikipedia, Flickr, You Tube, Google Groups, dictionary, IMDB, etc. searches.;-)
new. You would think that US-grown rice would have a market in Japan and China - nope, it doesn't meet their standards.
U.S grown rice doesn't even meet my fucking standards.
Rice doesn't need to be grown in the US. The majority of what's produced here is grown in arid California fer chrissakes (you know, that state that's been fighting water wars for decades). And the rice that is grown invariably consists of the low-grade, generic varieties that appeal to folks accustomed to the Wonder-bread American-style cusine that grew out the 1950s, or people who otherwise don't know any better and don't care.
You can, of course, make the argument that a water-intensive crop like rice, if purchased exclusively from countries where it's traditionally grown and traditionally considered a staple, might raise the price for the locals. But that's a weak argument. Most of such countries have every incentive to restrict exports (populations are known to react badly when they can't eat), and the rest of the world should have no problem adapting to a higher-priced imported food and eating something else.
Indian tech support sucks, but Indian rice certainly doesn't. Same goes for Italian, Thai, Japanese, etc. rice. So if I can say that as an ordinary "white guy", do you really think someone who's Japanese, to use your example, wouldn't balk or laugh out loud at the idea of buying American rice?
As an origamist with an interest in nanotechnology...
Allow me to ask a possibly related, but less interesting question from those who are so wise in the ways of science:
How are corrugated boxes designed?
It's never ceased to amaze me how someone can create a box that maximises the number of items that can be packed, minimises wasted space (and, presumably, material used in construction), meets strength tests, and then conforms to dimensions (and/or weight) dictated by shipping requirements.
I'm trying to picture something other than a bunch of guys in labcoats standing around trying to pile clay replicas of the items to be packed, intermittently shouting "That won't work -- let me try!".
The term "monopoly" has an actual definition in economics... Microsoft most definitely has a monopoly under that condition- they can set a price higher than equilibrium because there is no true replacement good. That makes them a monopoly.
Small values of "definition". The relevant definition is a legal one.
Microsoft is a monopoly because that's what a court of law determined, not because of economic definitions, Slashdot "I know it when I see it" definitions, or variations on the Apple-inspired "You tread on me" definitions.
Put more generously, a lawyer may attempt to inform or otherwise pursuade a court with a car analogy, but at the end of the day, it's still a car analogy.
Last I checked, "Muslim" was recognised as neither an ethnicity, nor a nationality. But don't get that in the way of trying to make life simple for yourself or others.
Salman Khan, IIRC, was born in New Awlins, and his parents are from some province in India. Someone else can add to that if they're so inclined.
Either way, he's an amazing guy. The word would be a better place if there more "Muslims" like him around.;-)
Our chief weapons are fear, surprise and... oh, wait. Wrong skit. I'll come in again.
Our chief weapons are rum, sodomy, and the lash. They're Swedish? I'll come in again.
Our chief weapons are an unprouncable name, a role in giving a voice to millions of file-sharers who believed that copying is not a crime, and Ibi Kopimi Botani. He's dead? Fucking hell. I'll come in again.
Our chief weapons are culture, clusters and chaos. Ok, that sucks, but it was straight from the article. I'll come in again.
The actual monetary costs of web technology on the taxpayers is an interesting figure. The story is not necessarily saying that the money is wasted or that the government is evil for spending it on web2.0 twitter-enabled blogosphere enhancements to their local police station website.
The story does suggest, however, that the number of users per month is a valid enough metric. I'm not sure I agree with that. The Trade and Investment website certainly isn't geared toward Joe Public, so if it's used primarily by trade or business groups, popularity with anyone but a meaningful few (those who make deals) is meaningless. The same would apply to a site that provides detailed or complex economic data. If only a handful of researchers visit the website, but each provides summary analysis to thousands of people (the news media, for example), should the website be considered "unpopular"?
Transparency is generally a good thing when it comes to government. So the more websites the better. Compared to other government expenditures, I'd suggest the cost of website development is equivalent to a few red staplers. Besides, I think we'd all agree that the employment of developers and IT staff is preferrable to hiring more counter clerks.
We believe that this ruling by the lower court is fundamentally flawed and contrary to the language of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," Viacom said in a statement. "We intend to seek to have these issues before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as soon as possible."
In 10 minutes I can down load some porn, whack off, and be a sleep in 10 minutes. In those days it was hours just to get a 5 second clip.
Hmm. I could write that the above is an example of how user contributions on a site like Slashdot can offer recommendations to the average reader that are both informative and practical. On the other hand, I could write something to the effect that what you wrote provides more information than most of us asked for, or want.
I suspect both of those are too subtle, so I'll tailor my response to the wider Slashdot demographic:
I guess this would be a bad time to mention that Central Canada consists mostly of the area above Upper Canada?
In fairness to everyone who survived high school (and whose eyes crossed reading the above), the only thing more dull than American History is Canadian History.
Slashdot Mirror
The problem is that English (at least as it's commonly spoken) doesn't have different words so as to distinguish between "libre" and "gratis". So while "gratis" does have English origins (IIRC), no one uses it.
Put more simply, it would be like expecting the French to have an equivalent for "entrepreneur".
If someone started taking my picture every time I woke up or sat down to do work, I'd probably punch them in the face until they stopped. ;-)
Here's the IP: 208.102 (DOT) 223.137
So you've done a WHOIS and found it's an ISP. What did you expect to happen? If you had a telephone number, would you expect the telephone company to voluntarily give up the account holder's info, as in "Yeah, that's Bob's number. Here's where he lives."? Several years ago, ATT used to publish the account holder's name. If Fuse happened to be doing that, you would have been one step (out of many) ahead of where you are now. But that's not the case, is it?
And then, have you considered that the person in possession of the laptop may not be the one who stole it? It could be he bought off eBay and for whatever reason, is examing what's on the hard drive.
Quite frankly, I don't think you can do much, and the sooner you put this sorry episode behind you the better. Restore from backups and call it a day.
Here in the States, National Public Radio has an iPhone app, and my local station, the uber-cool KCRW, also has one.
Granted, neither of those apps provide motorcycle information, but NPR is, in part, publically funded.
I don't need "lactose free milk"
Indeed. I suspect my milk is getting fussy being surrounded Monsanto's genetically-engineered, artificially-flavoured soy products. Or as Lewis Black put it,
Milk. Straight from the tit.
The reason this is largely being treated as a joke by the British people is that most of the unpopular laws are coming from Brussels, not London.
I found another online survey the results of which reflects similar sentiments.
What the f is an "industrial designer"? and how is that different from any other kind of product designer?
What the f with the snarky response? The guy is trying to make a contribution (albeit in the form of a cheap laugh). You're contributing nothing.
But here, try educating yourself. And consider buying a black turtleneck, so you can get the jokes and keep up.
Dear Sir,
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the fault in your site, about Facebook users being saddos. Many of my best friends are saddos, and only a few of them have Facebook accounts.
Yours faithfully,
Brigadier Sir Charles Arthur Strong (Mrs.)
Then try Hillbilly Greeking ... Technobabble, Matrix, and pseudo-German ...
You're trying too hard.
If this is a corporate site (most are), you can just use the Bullshit Generator. Your pointy-haired boss will nod approvingly, and you can call it a day.
It's available for Windows, Mac and Linux."
No, it's available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
Good. Buying online results in externalities which most people are simply too selfish to care about. I'm all in favor of closing this loophole.
If you live in California and routinely buy on-line, there are (quite often) no externalities. Just the tax that you end up paying. Probably the same for a lot of New Yorkers.
If the idea of wanting to avoid a sales tax (at least in the US) is "selfish", I'd suggest you try living in a state like California. To use a car analogy, we probably have the highest DMV and traffic violation fees in the nation. In return, our roads and freeways are among the worst.
And when they say that they want to use all PC resources - are they really providing anything useful with that or are they just going to hog the whole computer?
For me, a browser is mostly a clumsy way to find and read documentation, buy shit, or waste time on Slashdot. For an increasing majority, it seems, a web browser is everything.
By integrating and using a lot of features like GPUs and other stuff you will also limit which platforms the software can be used on ...
For Microsoft, there can be only one platform. That's not to say they've "evolved" over the years, but any positive steps they've taken toward openness have been mostly the result of factors and developments they've not (yet) been able to control, and only begrudgingly accepted.
Hey amateur!
You do know that you can search using the "Address Bar"? And, believe it or not, you can use that same Address Bar to perform Wikipedia, Flickr, You Tube, Google Groups, dictionary, IMDB, etc. searches. ;-)
Google for "Firefox". Keyword "keywords"
new. You would think that US-grown rice would have a market in Japan and China - nope, it doesn't meet their standards.
U.S grown rice doesn't even meet my fucking standards.
Rice doesn't need to be grown in the US. The majority of what's produced here is grown in arid California fer chrissakes (you know, that state that's been fighting water wars for decades). And the rice that is grown invariably consists of the low-grade, generic varieties that appeal to folks accustomed to the Wonder-bread American-style cusine that grew out the 1950s, or people who otherwise don't know any better and don't care.
You can, of course, make the argument that a water-intensive crop like rice, if purchased exclusively from countries where it's traditionally grown and traditionally considered a staple, might raise the price for the locals. But that's a weak argument. Most of such countries have every incentive to restrict exports (populations are known to react badly when they can't eat), and the rest of the world should have no problem adapting to a higher-priced imported food and eating something else.
Indian tech support sucks, but Indian rice certainly doesn't. Same goes for Italian, Thai, Japanese, etc. rice. So if I can say that as an ordinary "white guy", do you really think someone who's Japanese, to use your example, wouldn't balk or laugh out loud at the idea of buying American rice?
I'm actually mildly impressed.
There's probably both a positive and negative side to the design.
As an origamist with an interest in nanotechnology ...
Allow me to ask a possibly related, but less interesting question from those who are so wise in the ways of science:
How are corrugated boxes designed?
It's never ceased to amaze me how someone can create a box that maximises the number of items that can be packed, minimises wasted space (and, presumably, material used in construction), meets strength tests, and then conforms to dimensions (and/or weight) dictated by shipping requirements.
I'm trying to picture something other than a bunch of guys in labcoats standing around trying to pile clay replicas of the items to be packed, intermittently shouting "That won't work -- let me try!".
The term "monopoly" has an actual definition in economics ... Microsoft most definitely has a monopoly under that condition- they can set a price higher than equilibrium because there is no true replacement good. That makes them a monopoly.
Small values of "definition". The relevant definition is a legal one.
Microsoft is a monopoly because that's what a court of law determined, not because of economic definitions, Slashdot "I know it when I see it" definitions, or variations on the Apple-inspired "You tread on me" definitions.
Put more generously, a lawyer may attempt to inform or otherwise pursuade a court with a car analogy, but at the end of the day, it's still a car analogy.
Kahn = Jewish
Khan = Muslim
Last I checked, "Muslim" was recognised as neither an ethnicity, nor a nationality. But don't get that in the way of trying to make life simple for yourself or others.
Salman Khan, IIRC, was born in New Awlins, and his parents are from some province in India. Someone else can add to that if they're so inclined.
Either way, he's an amazing guy. The word would be a better place if there more "Muslims" like him around. ;-)
Our chief weapons are fear, surprise and ... oh, wait. Wrong skit. I'll come in again.
Our chief weapons are rum, sodomy, and the lash. They're Swedish? I'll come in again.
Our chief weapons are an unprouncable name, a role in giving a voice to millions of file-sharers who believed that copying is not a crime, and Ibi Kopimi Botani. He's dead? Fucking hell. I'll come in again.
Our chief weapons are culture, clusters and chaos. Ok, that sucks, but it was straight from the article. I'll come in again.
Our chief weapons are torrents.
The actual monetary costs of web technology on the taxpayers is an interesting figure. The story is not necessarily saying that the money is wasted or that the government is evil for spending it on web2.0 twitter-enabled blogosphere enhancements to their local police station website.
The story does suggest, however, that the number of users per month is a valid enough metric. I'm not sure I agree with that. The Trade and Investment website certainly isn't geared toward Joe Public, so if it's used primarily by trade or business groups, popularity with anyone but a meaningful few (those who make deals) is meaningless. The same would apply to a site that provides detailed or complex economic data. If only a handful of researchers visit the website, but each provides summary analysis to thousands of people (the news media, for example), should the website be considered "unpopular"?
Transparency is generally a good thing when it comes to government. So the more websites the better. Compared to other government expenditures, I'd suggest the cost of website development is equivalent to a few red staplers. Besides, I think we'd all agree that the employment of developers and IT staff is preferrable to hiring more counter clerks.
Wow, and I thought people did crazy thinks to sneak over the border into the US.
I suspect that unless there's a special "stealth" mode, folks looking to cross the border would be flying in "pinata" mode.
Exactly. Who gets to define "porn"? Larry Flint? Fred Phelps? The Pope?
I believe it's defined in the context of "community standards", and then, presumably using a "I know it when I see it" test.
From a randomly selected article
In 10 minutes I can down load some porn, whack off, and be a sleep in 10 minutes. In those days it was hours just to get a 5 second clip.
Hmm. I could write that the above is an example of how user contributions on a site like Slashdot can offer recommendations to the average reader that are both informative and practical. On the other hand, I could write something to the effect that what you wrote provides more information than most of us asked for, or want.
I suspect both of those are too subtle, so I'll tailor my response to the wider Slashdot demographic:
"Ten minutes!??? You need to find better porn!"
I guess this would be a bad time to mention that Central Canada consists mostly of the area above Upper Canada?
In fairness to everyone who survived high school (and whose eyes crossed reading the above), the only thing more dull than American History is Canadian History.