Let's face it, he's going up against the most powerful organizations on the planet. Odds are, he's not going to win forever. That's not a threat, that's a sad truth.
I know some very smart women, yet when it comes to these products, they'll happily pay insane prices for any kind of product that even hints at buzzwords & Latin-named ingredients that 'rejuvenates' or 'invigorates', even when a brief examination reveals that its primarily water & D vitamin...
change "Places I check in" to "only me"
and uncheck "enable" in "Include me in "People Here Now" after I check in"
and set "Friends can check me in to Places" to "disabled"
and you're back to good ol' privacy-invading facebook as you know it.
because *IAA has bullied the s* out of the FM stations & regulators, their royalties from the FM transmissions are on par with the ludicrous %s they steal from their artists.
Their inability to embrace the digital age has left them with a pittance (compaired to FM) on the digital rights. They're lobbying for the piece of equipment that'll make them the most money, not the most sense.
It brings to mind another 'organization' who dabbled in the 'protection business'... I believe they had this funny European accent, and a fondness for Mediterranean food? of course, they were somewhat less subtle about why you'd need their protection, but the racket's the same?
Just 'cause something has the potential to be abused you can't assume it will.
Just because something has the potential to be abused you can't assume it won't be.
It seems to me that any measure the US takes in order to fix this or that is seen by slashdoters as evil incarnated trying to destroy our god-given free speech.
well, to be fair, a lot of it is, and if not, then it's just aimed at lining the pockets of shareholders, over the rights of the people.
Just for a second get the free-speech crap out of your head
Let's not... It's pretty important to most of us in here...
Then ask yourselves: will this work?
No. Do you honestly believe f.eks. China gives a s... about this?
until then keep all your "evil US is censoring me!" crap to yourselves or at least accept the fact that you're just ranting because it comes from the makers of the RIAA.
...because *AA has such a good trackrecord of respecting peoples rights, sure...
yeah... right... Working for a European ISP, we REALLY want ACTA... not.
We don't have DMCA, we don't want it, but it's being proposed in ACTA. We don't want forced deep packet inspection, but... We don't want to be forced to police our own network, but... We don't want to lose common carrier status (at least, the EU equivalent of it), but... We don't want to be forced to shut customers out of our net, but...
Can you see where I'm going with this?
We DO spend time and money on optimizing & routing, to minimize the cost & impact of various high bandwith technologies, but if the customers start to believe we throttle or police our net, they WILL leave asap, and unlike the US, there's lots of choices of ISP's here.
Rather than fostering a system that will allow users to benefit from the best solution available in the market, irrespective of the development model, it encourages a mindset that does not give due consideration to the value to intellectual creations.
Right!
FOSS is not an intellectual creation, nor does it have value!
We need to gouge the eyes out of people going to the free museums, since they clearly did NOT pay for the original work of art, they're experiencing!
Somewhere, someone is NOT being payed for that, and that's a crime!
Slashdot Mirror
and Mel Gibson...
He'll go all Mad Mel on the Jewish judge he gets...
precisely.
My dad's 72 and clicks on every. frakking. thing. in. sight.
I'm gonna try this out on him when I get the chance.
it could be to ease the transition from windows to *nix for those that are unaccustomed to the rapid OS changes we /. users are.
Let's face it, he's going up against the most powerful organizations on the planet. Odds are, he's not going to win forever. That's not a threat, that's a sad truth.
OMG! He's going up against RIAA & MPAA?
It does have a certain pong of 'Eau de smearcampaign', I'd say.
Women in regards to beauty-products.
I know some very smart women, yet when it comes to these products, they'll happily pay insane prices for any kind of product that even hints at buzzwords & Latin-named ingredients that 'rejuvenates' or 'invigorates', even when a brief examination reveals that its primarily water & D vitamin...
Eat a fruit, drink a glass of water. save 50$.
change "Places I check in" to "only me"
and uncheck "enable" in "Include me in "People Here Now" after I check in"
and set "Friends can check me in to Places" to "disabled"
and you're back to good ol' privacy-invading facebook as you know it.
because *IAA has bullied the s* out of the FM stations & regulators, their royalties from the FM transmissions are on par with the ludicrous %s they steal from their artists.
Their inability to embrace the digital age has left them with a pittance (compaired to FM) on the digital rights.
They're lobbying for the piece of equipment that'll make them the most money, not the most sense.
this would be the wrong movie to enjoy a vanilla shake to.
The subscription fee sucks, all I have time for is goldfarming, and there's too many bugs...
Security through obscurity, we all know how well that works... *sigh
...not to mention the lobbying of the Ursus arctos horribilis communities, what with all the homo sapiens hunting them for their forelimbs and such...
Nerd rage, like no other...
It brings to mind another 'organization' who dabbled in the 'protection business'...
I believe they had this funny European accent, and a fondness for Mediterranean food?
of course, they were somewhat less subtle about why you'd need their protection, but the racket's the same?
And let me be the first to welcome our new bovine AI robot overlords... ...It's true, I read it on Slashdot!
A few days ago, one of the phone companies admitted they had at least 12,000 cell phones registered to the president's name...
screw that, i wanna know if I can get one under the name of McLovin...
Land of the free, indeed...
One of the very few games i break out once a year and get lost in for a few weeks.
that and fallout.
Just 'cause something has the potential to be abused you can't assume it will.
Just because something has the potential to be abused you can't assume it won't be.
It seems to me that any measure the US takes in order to fix this or that is seen by slashdoters as evil incarnated trying to destroy our god-given free speech.
well, to be fair, a lot of it is, and if not, then it's just aimed at lining the pockets of shareholders, over the rights of the people.
Just for a second get the free-speech crap out of your head
Let's not... It's pretty important to most of us in here...
Then ask yourselves: will this work?
No. Do you honestly believe f.eks. China gives a s... about this?
until then keep all your "evil US is censoring me!" crap to yourselves or at least accept the fact that you're just ranting because it comes from the makers of the RIAA.
...because *AA has such a good trackrecord of respecting peoples rights, sure...
Sounds an awful lot like you're talking about China there except for the last gasp and dying empire parts.
Sounds more like someone has taken lessons from *AA?
...penalize foreign countries that fail to crack down on cyber criminals operating within their borders.
And by whose laws are these persons criminals?
This would be a job for UN, not US, if I'm not mistaken?
yeah... right...
Working for a European ISP, we REALLY want ACTA... not.
We don't have DMCA, we don't want it, but it's being proposed in ACTA.
We don't want forced deep packet inspection, but...
We don't want to be forced to police our own network, but...
We don't want to lose common carrier status (at least, the EU equivalent of it), but...
We don't want to be forced to shut customers out of our net, but...
Can you see where I'm going with this?
We DO spend time and money on optimizing & routing, to minimize the cost & impact of various high bandwith technologies, but if the customers start to believe we throttle or police our net, they WILL leave asap, and unlike the US, there's lots of choices of ISP's here.
Oh, and as a Canadian, I'd like to apologize to the rest of the world for Nickleback. We're not happy about them either. Sorry.
We forgive you for Nickleback...
But for Celine Dion you will be burning in a geek version of hell, debugging MS-code for eternity...
Rather than fostering a system that will allow users to benefit from the best solution available in the market, irrespective of the development model, it encourages a mindset that does not give due consideration to the value to intellectual creations.
Right!
FOSS is not an intellectual creation, nor does it have value!
We need to gouge the eyes out of people going to the free museums, since they clearly did NOT pay for the original work of art, they're experiencing!
Somewhere, someone is NOT being payed for that, and that's a crime!
...darn Communist-socialist-pirate-Che-fanboy-FOSS-developer/users!