That was not what he meant. The technology is tried and testes. Maybe half of the cars around me use it. It works, it's reliable, and it undeniably saves gas/emissions. The problem here is that it doesn't save so much gas on the EPA test track. As such, it's not worth it - no matter the environmental benefits in the real world.
Wikileaks wasn't born with Cablegate or the Iraq/Afghanistan war logs. And it's not an anti-US site; their first published leak was of an assassination order in Somalia. It's just that the US is fertile in material...
Plus, if you bother read the cables you'll see the obvious pressure, as pointed out by other posters.
I'm as trusting of politicians as the next Slashdotter but, given how the Brazilian president recently (and very publicly) voiced his strong support for Assange and Wikileaks (when there weren't that many world leaders doing the same), I'm not sure their intention is the one stated in the article. They may just want to reduce US control of the internet, which is clearly a good idea given both past and current events.
It's a research project, they always "want" to implement a demo. Judging from my experience with FP7 projects, either they won't, or they'll do it in one of the participating labs.
You, as many slashdot users, seem to be a bit confused on the meaning of the word democracy. The concept you seem to be referring to is that of direct democracy. Most democracies today are representative democracies, in which the "rule of the people" is carried out by their elected representatives. It is not at odds with the concept of republic: most western countries are republics (of varied kinds), and they're all (all that I can think of) democratic.
The iPhone, Blackberry's Storm and Bold lines, and many Symbian and Android handsets
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And many/most Windows Mobile smartphones had it too, before half of these even existed. And it's not like they're at a disadvantage for "GPS games", e.g. Geocaching Live is only available for Java/WinMo. I know this is Slashdot, but come on...
Not really so, not in all of Europe at least. Here you don't really have to present your criminal record unless you're applying for some security-related post. And aid programs would never ask for such information. So yeah, there are some thing you can't do, but you're not sentenced to an entire life of misery.
You are mostly right, but PB does have its flaws, and the "unlucky few" are sometimes more than a few. For an example, just go to the Battlefield Heroes forum.
In Canadian English, the word government is used to refer both to the whole set of institutions that govern the country, as well as the current political leadership, although with the latter usage the word is usually capitalized to make the distinction.[2] Thus, Canadians would say that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Government is currently administering the Canadian government. Contrasts can be drawn with the British usage, where the government is referred to as the state, and the American usage, where the Government is referred to as the administration.
That's not so unusual. Nowadays things probably aren't so shiny due to the extreme overselling and poor use of QoS techniques, but 5/6 years ago (when I still played) it was standard to have pings of 6-20 ms to national servers and 15-30 to those in some (well connected) countries in Western Europe (UK and Netherlands-based servers were popular). All this over, at the time, a 4 Mbps cable connection. So you can move to 5-years-ago Portugal too, in addition to the GP's "in the middle of Europe" country:P
And don't forget the first failure ocurred because of a design fault on one of the Fermilab-built magnets. I'm with you on this one, those sneaky physicists.
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That was not what he meant. The technology is tried and testes. Maybe half of the cars around me use it. It works, it's reliable, and it undeniably saves gas/emissions. The problem here is that it doesn't save so much gas on the EPA test track. As such, it's not worth it - no matter the environmental benefits in the real world.
Wikileaks wasn't born with Cablegate or the Iraq/Afghanistan war logs. And it's not an anti-US site; their first published leak was of an assassination order in Somalia. It's just that the US is fertile in material...
Plus, if you bother read the cables you'll see the obvious pressure, as pointed out by other posters.
I'm as trusting of politicians as the next Slashdotter but, given how the Brazilian president recently (and very publicly) voiced his strong support for Assange and Wikileaks (when there weren't that many world leaders doing the same), I'm not sure their intention is the one stated in the article. They may just want to reduce US control of the internet, which is clearly a good idea given both past and current events.
Thank you for sparing my the trouble of writing that.
I'll just add that the incredibly secret leaked documents are available at the project website.
It's a research project, they always "want" to implement a demo. Judging from my experience with FP7 projects, either they won't, or they'll do it in one of the participating labs.
That myth has been disproved so many times on /. that it's not even funny.
You, as many slashdot users, seem to be a bit confused on the meaning of the word democracy. The concept you seem to be referring to is that of direct democracy. Most democracies today are representative democracies, in which the "rule of the people" is carried out by their elected representatives. It is not at odds with the concept of republic: most western countries are republics (of varied kinds), and they're all (all that I can think of) democratic.
Which studies?
Because Sweden's health system is ranked much higher, life expectancy is much higher, and preventable deaths are much fewer.
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And many/most Windows Mobile smartphones had it too, before half of these even existed. And it's not like they're at a disadvantage for "GPS games", e.g. Geocaching Live is only available for Java/WinMo. I know this is Slashdot, but come on...
Not really so, not in all of Europe at least. Here you don't really have to present your criminal record unless you're applying for some security-related post. And aid programs would never ask for such information. So yeah, there are some thing you can't do, but you're not sentenced to an entire life of misery.
Not really, there's a little something called diplomatic immunity on the way.
You'll have met some new people by 2018, don't worry.
And games, you can just hear the publishers: "But games nowadays need so much content that we'll have to increase prices to 120â".
You are mostly right, but PB does have its flaws, and the "unlucky few" are sometimes more than a few. For an example, just go to the Battlefield Heroes forum.
And here we were, talking about freedom.
as nobody uses them.
Over here we have phone ads on TV that really emphasize the fact that they are Android-based. I guess it must be an European thing...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Canada
More credibility? Really? Sources?
No, it's the truth.
But still haven't mastered free money transfers to any account in the same country.
That's not so unusual. Nowadays things probably aren't so shiny due to the extreme overselling and poor use of QoS techniques, but 5/6 years ago (when I still played) it was standard to have pings of 6-20 ms to national servers and 15-30 to those in some (well connected) countries in Western Europe (UK and Netherlands-based servers were popular). All this over, at the time, a 4 Mbps cable connection. So you can move to 5-years-ago Portugal too, in addition to the GP's "in the middle of Europe" country :P
And don't forget the first failure ocurred because of a design fault on one of the Fermilab-built magnets. I'm with you on this one, those sneaky physicists.
Haha, you bought Sims 3 :P
J/K, but you apparently read Slashdot... How did you fall into that trap?
There comes jury nullification again... And people talk about the RIAA, now this is a lobby.