It seems to me that a search engine like Google would be much more helpful than detrimental to most all sites.
It's hard to see anything worth arguing from the other side in my mind.
"So far, two images are all that exist. But they were enough to convince Nick Isaac from the Institute of Zoology in London that the animal may indeed be new.
"The photos look most like a lemur," he told the BBC News website. "But there certainly shouldn't be lemurs in Borneo." "
This all sounds incredibly ethereal to me. Thus I find it odd that they say "New Species Found..."
"What sort of civil matters can it be subponaed in?"
From TFA: "No rule prohibits that massive database of GPS trails from being subpoenaed by curious divorce attorneys..."
"But yes, it is in the constitution that they can't do that, so it shouldn't be allowed. But that's the only reason against it." Actually, it is not expressly protected, and courts have (in a round about way) ruled against citizens in related cases. However, if it was protected by the Constitution, it should not be reduced to "the only reason," because, in the US, that's a big reason.
"It's not like your wife can log into the satellites and find out you've got a gay lover."
Obviously not, but they did mention the information being subpoenaed, which is quite possible and would have similar results.
"The only bad thing about it is, it's against the constitution."
Again, it's not against the Constitution under its current interpretation, but if it is found to be in the courts, it won't be for some trivial reason. You say this as though if it was not in the Constitution, people would have no problem with it, but that is not the situation at all.
I really wonder if they even attempted or considered implementing the filter. Doing so would obviously bog-down development a bit, especially since there is no mention of exactly how updates to the filter list would come in. The article makes it sound as if the record companies could just send some list without any standard format to Kazaa. On top of that, more and more artists are sure to jump on the bandwagon, so updates will be numerous to say the least. Another question would be the window of time that they have to commit the updates. If they in fact did not attempt it, they must have fairly high hopes for their upcoming appeal.
I also question whether that what gets installed is also that what gets used by the pupils or schools later on. Once their infrastructure is getting better, people start to experiment (even pupils at home). That's how we all learned about Linux and I doubt that the 468 schools and some 182 computer labs continue staying with GNOME once they find themselves trap into many problems that they can not solve. I think from the 5000 Desktops that are planned - only half of them will remain with GNOME (in best). The other half will continue piracing Windows or switch to something else.
I found Linux because of experimentation yes, but I was only experimenting because of my disgust with Windows. My thought is that if these kids are introduced to Linux before they become acustomed to Windows, they will be much less inclined to switch to Windows after experiencing the (subjective) benefits of Linux. As for finding themselves trapped in problems, I do not agree. I have done my fair share of deploying Ubuntu for inexperienced Linux users, and it has always turned out well. I feel that both Gnome as a desktop environment and Ubuntu as a distribution are easily mature enough for this scenario.
I hope them the best in their endeavor, and that others follow suit.
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It seems to me that a search engine like Google would be much more helpful than detrimental to most all sites. It's hard to see anything worth arguing from the other side in my mind.
It seems that the title is a bit misleading.
"So far, two images are all that exist. But they were enough to convince Nick Isaac from the Institute of Zoology in London that the animal may indeed be new. "The photos look most like a lemur," he told the BBC News website. "But there certainly shouldn't be lemurs in Borneo." "
This all sounds incredibly ethereal to me. Thus I find it odd that they say "New Species Found..."
"Well yeah, that should be ammended..."
My thoughts exactly, it is not right in its current state.
"What sort of civil matters can it be subponaed in?"
From TFA: "No rule prohibits that massive database of GPS trails from being subpoenaed by curious divorce attorneys..."
Satisfied?
"But yes, it is in the constitution that they can't do that, so it shouldn't be allowed. But that's the only reason against it."
Actually, it is not expressly protected, and courts have (in a round about way) ruled against citizens in related cases. However, if it was protected by the Constitution, it should not be reduced to "the only reason," because, in the US, that's a big reason.
"It's not like your wife can log into the satellites and find out you've got a gay lover."
Obviously not, but they did mention the information being subpoenaed, which is quite possible and would have similar results.
"The only bad thing about it is, it's against the constitution."
Again, it's not against the Constitution under its current interpretation, but if it is found to be in the courts, it won't be for some trivial reason. You say this as though if it was not in the Constitution, people would have no problem with it, but that is not the situation at all.
I really wonder if they even attempted or considered implementing the filter. Doing so would obviously bog-down development a bit, especially since there is no mention of exactly how updates to the filter list would come in. The article makes it sound as if the record companies could just send some list without any standard format to Kazaa. On top of that, more and more artists are sure to jump on the bandwagon, so updates will be numerous to say the least. Another question would be the window of time that they have to commit the updates.
If they in fact did not attempt it, they must have fairly high hopes for their upcoming appeal.
I also question whether that what gets installed is also that what gets used by the pupils or schools later on. Once their infrastructure is getting better, people start to experiment (even pupils at home). That's how we all learned about Linux and I doubt that the 468 schools and some 182 computer labs continue staying with GNOME once they find themselves trap into many problems that they can not solve. I think from the 5000 Desktops that are planned - only half of them will remain with GNOME (in best). The other half will continue piracing Windows or switch to something else.
I found Linux because of experimentation yes, but I was only experimenting because of my disgust with Windows. My thought is that if these kids are introduced to Linux before they become acustomed to Windows, they will be much less inclined to switch to Windows after experiencing the (subjective) benefits of Linux.
As for finding themselves trapped in problems, I do not agree. I have done my fair share of deploying Ubuntu for inexperienced Linux users, and it has always turned out well. I feel that both Gnome as a desktop environment and Ubuntu as a distribution are easily mature enough for this scenario.
I hope them the best in their endeavor, and that others follow suit.