It's not like the people who've been pirating for the last ten years are just going to say to themselves "Hey, let's go back to the way it was in the 90's....
Since obviously you were too young or not born in the 90's, but getting pirated warez wasn't that hard then.
Sure, we didn't have Torrents, or P2P programs, 'cept IRC. I know using FTP (that's file transfer protocol, not fucking Free 2 Play, damn ass kids) to download warez off the internet wasn't as cool as using IRC, but then you had local BBS's that you could call up and download stuff also.
You might not believe this, but in the 80's, we pirated software also. BBS's and copying parties ruled those days.
Actually, if you read the piece, they bought the name off the company before they started marketing the iPad, but now the company is coming back and claiming that Apple only purchased the name for use outside China. So either they did a real dumb, or this company is trying to use local corruption to shake money out of a foreign company that they backstabed and are trying to double dip on the deal.
Sounds to me like China understands Capitalism better then we thought.
Let's just think about what a simple post on a social network can do with ones life. People have been murdered over a post on social networks by goverments. People have been held in custody (hi USA) over posting a qoute from family guy...
Those aren't problems with social networks; those are problems with governments. I doubt the British tourists cared if the world saw their tweets: in fact, they explicitly tweeted them publicly, so it doesn't matter that twitter was "in the middle". The problem was that the TSA reacted to them badly. Similarly, people being arrested over innocent public posts on social networks aren't (typically) being betrayed by the networks themselves; they're deliberately posting publicly.
Ya, Freedom of Speech is a marketing gimmick, not something anyone has. We use it to bring the tourist in...
Enough of the hyperbole. Facebook only has as much on you as you let them have. No one died in the transition from MySpace to Facebook and no one is going to die when Facebook goes the way of MySpace.
People just want to be lazy about their lives and blame others when things go wrong for doing so. Facebook can't share anything with anyone I don't let share myself to begin with.
Very true. Except:
Facebook has caused a large number of divorces, Employers use it to see how their apps are in life, and the government is using it now to spy on us.
With all of that, I'm going to say that within 2012, someone will die because of Facebook.
Probably suicide, but then, we can't rule out murder. Of course, we might get the parent who neglects their kid to death...
What would McCarthyism look like with the data available today?
You remember when your president had to publicly reaffirm he wasn't a muslim but a good god-fearing christian with good wholesome christian values ? McCarthyism never left.
You americans and your battles over symbols. You raise a big stink over irrelevancies like ID-cards and Facebook and meanwhile you've got the TSA, warrantless wiretaps, draconian copyright lawsuits, etc.
I don't know what your smug about, as megaupload shows, your not safe in other countries from us.
This is a more reasonable direction to take, but part of the reason laws are so complex is because not every situation is the same. And you could have laws with a very broad scope with a lot left to judges to decide, that would harm one of the underlying principles of common law many people agree with, the equal protection provision.
If person A commits a given action, and person B does the exact same, you don't want the judge to have leeway to execute A and give B a month's probation. This means that laws have to be specific about different cases and their distinctions. Complexity arises naturally from that.
Basically, I'd need to see any proposed plan of simplification before I could ever agree to it. It's a nice idea though.
Bullshit.
That's the lie they want you to believe.
You telling me you can't write up something clear, in small word english that can't cover whats needed? Yes, you can. But that would make it so lawyers (which, by the way, most the law makers were lawyers, not to mention judges usually practiced law) and everyone out of jobs.
Lawyers are tools of the rich, to stay above the law and keep the poor oppressed.
Verisign got hacked and didn't disclose it, so since they are hiding it, according to the new FBI flyer, then obviously, they are supporting terrorism.
... Unless you are of native American descent, you have no fucking right to complain about the immigrants anyway, seeing as how you are one...
I'm not an immigrant, i was born in the USA. No, i'm not a Native American, I'm about as white european mutt as you can get. But I'm not an immigrant.
Now if you want to bust out the past, then we all are fucking immigrants based on that they think man came from africa and moved around the world.
So, Native Americans aren't so native now, are they? Unless we are black and live in africa, we are all immigrants. Even the native americans.
But that has nothing to do with anything, does it? It's just a way of trying to say some people are better then others, when in reality, we are all the same.
Slashdot Mirror
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You can also read this article by Courtney Love explainin precisely how record contracts screw musicians very very badly.
Yes, if there was anyone who knew about screwing other people, Courtney Love is it.
It's not like the people who've been pirating for the last ten years are just going to say to themselves "Hey, let's go back to the way it was in the 90's....
Since obviously you were too young or not born in the 90's, but getting pirated warez wasn't that hard then.
Sure, we didn't have Torrents, or P2P programs, 'cept IRC. I know using FTP (that's file transfer protocol, not fucking Free 2 Play, damn ass kids) to download warez off the internet wasn't as cool as using IRC, but then you had local BBS's that you could call up and download stuff also.
You might not believe this, but in the 80's, we pirated software also. BBS's and copying parties ruled those days.
Actually, if you read the piece, they bought the name off the company before they started marketing the iPad, but now the company is coming back and claiming that Apple only purchased the name for use outside China. So either they did a real dumb, or this company is trying to use local corruption to shake money out of a foreign company that they backstabed and are trying to double dip on the deal.
Sounds to me like China understands Capitalism better then we thought.
... Who said war wasn't useful?
Family members of the dead.
What problem does Australia have that this is solving?
This is a test for using them in America, of course.
It's not an attack, if people are using it willingly.
No, that saying is it's not rape if the victim is willing.
You go to a Cafe, use their Wifi willingly.
What you don't know, is someone hacked their router, so everything you are sending out, they are getting, then forwarding to it's destination.
But that's okay, because you are willingly using their Wifi.
The best victims are the ones who don't know they are and keep coming back for more.
If you use FB, you know that your friends and family will post personal information about you as well.
Worse: If you do not use FB, you know that your friends and family will post personal information about you as well.
This is why I don't have any friends, and avoid family.
Those aren't problems with social networks; those are problems with governments. I doubt the British tourists cared if the world saw their tweets: in fact, they explicitly tweeted them publicly, so it doesn't matter that twitter was "in the middle". The problem was that the TSA reacted to them badly. Similarly, people being arrested over innocent public posts on social networks aren't (typically) being betrayed by the networks themselves; they're deliberately posting publicly.
Ya, Freedom of Speech is a marketing gimmick, not something anyone has. We use it to bring the tourist in...
Enough of the hyperbole. Facebook only has as much on you as you let them have. No one died in the transition from MySpace to Facebook and no one is going to die when Facebook goes the way of MySpace.
People just want to be lazy about their lives and blame others when things go wrong for doing so. Facebook can't share anything with anyone I don't let share myself to begin with.
Very true. Except:
Facebook has caused a large number of divorces, Employers use it to see how their apps are in life, and the government is using it now to spy on us.
With all of that, I'm going to say that within 2012, someone will die because of Facebook.
Probably suicide, but then, we can't rule out murder. Of course, we might get the parent who neglects their kid to death...
What would McCarthyism look like with the data available today?
You remember when your president had to publicly reaffirm he wasn't a muslim but a good god-fearing christian with good wholesome christian values ? McCarthyism never left.
You americans and your battles over symbols. You raise a big stink over irrelevancies like ID-cards and Facebook and meanwhile you've got the TSA, warrantless wiretaps, draconian copyright lawsuits, etc.
I don't know what your smug about, as megaupload shows, your not safe in other countries from us.
is why I don't plan on living past my 60's.
And that's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(gesture)
... I died of natural causes?
This is a more reasonable direction to take, but part of the reason laws are so complex is because not every situation is the same. And you could have laws with a very broad scope with a lot left to judges to decide, that would harm one of the underlying principles of common law many people agree with, the equal protection provision.
If person A commits a given action, and person B does the exact same, you don't want the judge to have leeway to execute A and give B a month's probation. This means that laws have to be specific about different cases and their distinctions. Complexity arises naturally from that.
Basically, I'd need to see any proposed plan of simplification before I could ever agree to it. It's a nice idea though.
Bullshit.
That's the lie they want you to believe.
You telling me you can't write up something clear, in small word english that can't cover whats needed? Yes, you can. But that would make it so lawyers (which, by the way, most the law makers were lawyers, not to mention judges usually practiced law) and everyone out of jobs.
Lawyers are tools of the rich, to stay above the law and keep the poor oppressed.
Except Clinton wasn't impeached for hooking up with an intern. He was impeached for lying to a grand jury about it.
We all lie about doing the fat chicks.
Verisign got hacked and didn't disclose it, so since they are hiding it, according to the new FBI flyer, then obviously, they are supporting terrorism.
I demand this company gets sent to Gitmo.
if you don't, then you are a terrorist also.
Does anyone pay attention to history?
Seriously?
I had a public school education, yet i know how this ends.
Our Government hides stuff from us, so obviously they are terrorist.
It's time we got rid of the terrorist in our government, which of course, is probably all of them, so lets start over.
Really surprised no one has thrown a Spider-man comment.
Here's how you test them.
You tell the heads of the TSA, all of them, they have to be scanned everyday.
Then lets see what sort of problems arise.
My guess is, the tops of TSA will leave and get new jobs.
I know whats up there, let the Chinese there first, trust me, it's better that way.
Okay, here's one example of how RFID would work.
All all the tools have a RFID tag on them, the tool box has a RFID reader. If a tool isn't there, it lets you know.
Change the toolbox to a tool truck, or whatever they use for doing routine maintenance during fuel ups.
Better use for them then tagging people, for sure.
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Unless you are of native American descent, you have no fucking right to complain about the immigrants anyway, seeing as how you are one...
I'm not an immigrant, i was born in the USA. No, i'm not a Native American, I'm about as white european mutt as you can get. But I'm not an immigrant.
Now if you want to bust out the past, then we all are fucking immigrants based on that they think man came from africa and moved around the world.
So, Native Americans aren't so native now, are they? Unless we are black and live in africa, we are all immigrants. Even the native americans.
But that has nothing to do with anything, does it? It's just a way of trying to say some people are better then others, when in reality, we are all the same.
Deep down inside they are suing because they don't like Gingrich. Just my guess though.
Isn't that case of most suing?
I mean, if i like someone, i'm probably not going to sue them in court, i'd figure some other way of getting a compromise.
just saying.
... and accidental bombing/drone filled with explosives crash into the "micronation".
USA apologizes for what they say is an accident.