Maybe this is just the natural backlash to the US government's rabid endorsement of any and all "free market" solutions. Low taxes in third-world countries are good for first-world business, and not necessarily good for the third-world citizenry. High-tax countries are probably worried (rightly so) that their systems are threatened by relentless free-marketeering.
Reality of the UN aside, may I ask, what is exactly so problematic with the so-called "one world mentality"? Do you see the need for government at the county level? At the state level? At the federal level? What defines the line that says, "don't cross this, lest ye enter world government"? Just a general distrust of organizations?
The root servers are run by a US corporation that is subject to US law. So in a very real international sense the US does run the root servers. Just because our method of governance on the issue is private rather than public does not change the ultimate authority in the matter.
Why do we need beurocracy [sic] to get involved here? The internet works fine.
This is like asking why ecologists need to get involved in ecology... the world works fine. Remember, large parts of the world take a longer view than America, and in that long view they've realized that a serious possible point of failure in the Internet is America's power to unilaterally affect the root servers.
Remember, although you may personally have views on the superiority of private enterprise, plenty of people in the world expect representation through government, not corporations. Those people should not be subject to the whims of a US corporation when it comes to managing their local slice of communication infrastructure.
Hmm. Except plenty of the states that are interested in this issue are not, in fact, fascist states. Come to think of it, most of Europe is decidedly less fascist than the US.
It's just a matter of principle. The internet as a whole can't be governed, but the TLDs corresponding to countries can (and I would assert, should) be managed by those respective countries. And as long as the US (or a U.S. corporation) holds all the keys, I'm guessing Europe is worried, in principle, of unilateral action. Seriously, taking the point of view of most of the rest of the world, the US is not exactly the most trustworthy, dependable, ethical state you could be dealing with.
Two points. One, the current administration doesn't believe in international law (the same way the mafia doesn't believe in federal law). Two, not all countries, given any measure of control over what goes on within their borders, are going to agree to an arbitrary set of "American-style" freedoms. It just will not happen. China is going to go on being a repressive totalitarian regime, no-name tropical countries will go on ignoring intellectual property laws (hurray!), and so on. There would be no enforcement of such a bill, and the US would have to engage in precedented levels of hypocrisy to accuse others of international law violations.
Giving [sic] their track record with the Oil for food program and peace keepers raping innocent Africans, I don't want the UN anywhere near the net.
Hey, given the US track record with wartime no-bid contracts for corporations with incestuous ties to government, and the US track record with prisoner abuse, I don't want the US anywhere near the net.
Your argument falls apart under its own idiocy. But Americans hate the UN (maybe they see the reflection of their own breathtaking abuses of power?), so by all means, +5, Insightful!
Is that so? I keep hearing this parroted, but I haven't really seen a decent breakdown of what constitutes our incredible free speech lead. We have obscenity laws on the books, right now, that are being used to prosecute citizens of the U.S. for exercising their dear 1st amendment rights. We have "free speech zones" outside of which protest is illegal.
By comparison, some of the EU member states have laws against hate speech.
I think maths is beggining to get in the road of true understanding in phsyics, so many people are deterred by the maths, that would otherwise be perfectly good at understanding the entire universe's workings (not just the models) through imagination/builiding a 3d moving picture in one's mind.
Well, what you said there is true, in the Fairy Tale Universe. But unfortunately, the real one appears to be bit too complex to completely grasp intuitively. But hey, if building a 3d moving picture in your head ever results in an advance like the computer or atomic power, sign me up for Imagination Physics 101.
Yeah, I came down too hard there, and the satire was on the mark, facts aside (it's not like I'm sticking up for China here).
Anyway, thanks for the link to remind me of the lunatics holding office right now (even if ole' Eagle-boy is gone now). If there was ever a great rationale for needing drugs...
Suppress your higher brain functions? You maybe need to re-examine your propaganda-based beliefs. Suppressing your desire to do anything but get more alcohol and drugs? What are you smoking? That's just addictive behavior, and the only reasons drugs are so correlated with it is because they're the lowest common "feel-good" denominator (well, along with sex). Boy, people sure waste a lot of time having sex, I guess we'd better outlaw it before it becomes an epidemic.
You are the screaming stereotype of the ignorant, judgmental, anti-drug zealot with no more education or experience on the subject than the D.A.R.E. tripe you were fed in high school.
Anyway, go back to living your non-addictive, drug-free lifestyle (which I'm sure doesn't include caffeine, because anything that addictive and destructive must be a tool of a state).
Ask American Express. They provide zero-liability credit card coverage, so what incentive is there for people not to give out their credit card number? The answer: it's still a hassle. That's all the incentive you need. People don't want to be the victims of these attacks, even if it doesn't cost them any actual money.
KDE actually does have something of a registry, Sycoca. The main difference being, Sycoca is a centralized read-only search database built out of various config files. The performance benefits of the Windows approach, without the nightmarish possibilities of fatal registry corruption (and yes, I've hand-edited these files before).
And of course, your system is still usable even if your WM is not.
I work in the anti-phishing industry, and suggestions like the article makes are pie in the sky "corporations have magic powers" crap. Make banks pay for phishing and you'll create a cottage industry of phishing victims, of the sort that plagues the insurance industry today.
Sorry to be blunt, but so what? I'm really supposed to be concerned because rich banks take more of a hit from phishing than the innocent dupes do now? Corporations have a lot more power than individuals, especially when the only thing people can do is "just be smarter". Get real.
There's a scene in a great movie called Network that you should see. The scene (you'll know it when you see it) is a bit over-the-top, but gets the point across that people have been saying this for over thirty years.
The US was sold to us as a democratic union. Then we were told we needed a constitution. That the US would guard our basic rights.
Well, thanks a lot you bastards. Thanks a lot for the corruption and injustice you've brought with you. Seems like old Native American legislation was doing a better job until your directives forced it to change. I weep for the future.
The US as an economic powerhouse could be a great thing. The US as a source of bad legislation is a recipe for disaster.
What matters even more to me than the speed of the drivers is the compatibility. I waited, and waited, for GLSL support in Linux from ATI. I finally get it and... the GLSL support is crummy. And I don't mean slow, I mean buggy. Some correct programs don't compile (at least then I know what the problem is). Others simply didn't run correctly (in Windows or on an nVidia card, no problem). Why bother to enable features in your driver that don't work?
I remember reading a while back about a lens that lases an image onto your retina, giving you a "live" HUD (there was much talk of surgeons and mechanics in the article). It seems that something like that would be fantastic for soldiers, coupled with the tech in this robot. A shot is fired from somewhere, and suddenly every soldier has a big ole' red outline around the shooter? Three cheers for highly speculative military technology!
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Maybe this is just the natural backlash to the US government's rabid endorsement of any and all "free market" solutions. Low taxes in third-world countries are good for first-world business, and not necessarily good for the third-world citizenry. High-tax countries are probably worried (rightly so) that their systems are threatened by relentless free-marketeering.
Reality of the UN aside, may I ask, what is exactly so problematic with the so-called "one world mentality"? Do you see the need for government at the county level? At the state level? At the federal level? What defines the line that says, "don't cross this, lest ye enter world government"? Just a general distrust of organizations?
The root servers are run by a US corporation that is subject to US law. So in a very real international sense the US does run the root servers. Just because our method of governance on the issue is private rather than public does not change the ultimate authority in the matter.
Why do we need beurocracy [sic] to get involved here? The internet works fine.
This is like asking why ecologists need to get involved in ecology... the world works fine. Remember, large parts of the world take a longer view than America, and in that long view they've realized that a serious possible point of failure in the Internet is America's power to unilaterally affect the root servers.
Remember, although you may personally have views on the superiority of private enterprise, plenty of people in the world expect representation through government, not corporations. Those people should not be subject to the whims of a US corporation when it comes to managing their local slice of communication infrastructure.
Where to begin? Tongue in cheek? The Register? You have no sense of context.
Hmm. Except plenty of the states that are interested in this issue are not, in fact, fascist states. Come to think of it, most of Europe is decidedly less fascist than the US.
It's just a matter of principle. The internet as a whole can't be governed, but the TLDs corresponding to countries can (and I would assert, should) be managed by those respective countries. And as long as the US (or a U.S. corporation) holds all the keys, I'm guessing Europe is worried, in principle, of unilateral action. Seriously, taking the point of view of most of the rest of the world, the US is not exactly the most trustworthy, dependable, ethical state you could be dealing with.
Two points. One, the current administration doesn't believe in international law (the same way the mafia doesn't believe in federal law). Two, not all countries, given any measure of control over what goes on within their borders, are going to agree to an arbitrary set of "American-style" freedoms. It just will not happen. China is going to go on being a repressive totalitarian regime, no-name tropical countries will go on ignoring intellectual property laws (hurray!), and so on. There would be no enforcement of such a bill, and the US would have to engage in precedented levels of hypocrisy to accuse others of international law violations.
Giving [sic] their track record with the Oil for food program and peace keepers raping innocent Africans, I don't want the UN anywhere near the net.
Hey, given the US track record with wartime no-bid contracts for corporations with incestuous ties to government, and the US track record with prisoner abuse, I don't want the US anywhere near the net.
Your argument falls apart under its own idiocy. But Americans hate the UN (maybe they see the reflection of their own breathtaking abuses of power?), so by all means, +5, Insightful!
Even the EU is more restrictive than the US.
Is that so? I keep hearing this parroted, but I haven't really seen a decent breakdown of what constitutes our incredible free speech lead. We have obscenity laws on the books, right now, that are being used to prosecute citizens of the U.S. for exercising their dear 1st amendment rights. We have "free speech zones" outside of which protest is illegal.
By comparison, some of the EU member states have laws against hate speech.
According to Reporters Without Borders, much of Europe kicks our ass at press freedom as well.
I think maths is beggining to get in the road of true understanding in phsyics, so many people are deterred by the maths, that would otherwise be perfectly good at understanding the entire universe's workings (not just the models) through imagination/builiding a 3d moving picture in one's mind.
Well, what you said there is true, in the Fairy Tale Universe. But unfortunately, the real one appears to be bit too complex to completely grasp intuitively. But hey, if building a 3d moving picture in your head ever results in an advance like the computer or atomic power, sign me up for Imagination Physics 101.
Not a programmer or a coder, huh? What else could you possibly be?
Yeah, I came down too hard there, and the satire was on the mark, facts aside (it's not like I'm sticking up for China here).
Anyway, thanks for the link to remind me of the lunatics holding office right now (even if ole' Eagle-boy is gone now). If there was ever a great rationale for needing drugs...
Suppress your higher brain functions? You maybe need to re-examine your propaganda-based beliefs. Suppressing your desire to do anything but get more alcohol and drugs? What are you smoking? That's just addictive behavior, and the only reasons drugs are so correlated with it is because they're the lowest common "feel-good" denominator (well, along with sex). Boy, people sure waste a lot of time having sex, I guess we'd better outlaw it before it becomes an epidemic.
You are the screaming stereotype of the ignorant, judgmental, anti-drug zealot with no more education or experience on the subject than the D.A.R.E. tripe you were fed in high school.
Anyway, go back to living your non-addictive, drug-free lifestyle (which I'm sure doesn't include caffeine, because anything that addictive and destructive must be a tool of a state).
Ask American Express. They provide zero-liability credit card coverage, so what incentive is there for people not to give out their credit card number? The answer: it's still a hassle. That's all the incentive you need. People don't want to be the victims of these attacks, even if it doesn't cost them any actual money.
KDE actually does have something of a registry, Sycoca. The main difference being, Sycoca is a centralized read-only search database built out of various config files. The performance benefits of the Windows approach, without the nightmarish possibilities of fatal registry corruption (and yes, I've hand-edited these files before).
And of course, your system is still usable even if your WM is not.
I work in the anti-phishing industry, and suggestions like the article makes are pie in the sky "corporations have magic powers" crap. Make banks pay for phishing and you'll create a cottage industry of phishing victims, of the sort that plagues the insurance industry today.
Sorry to be blunt, but so what? I'm really supposed to be concerned because rich banks take more of a hit from phishing than the innocent dupes do now? Corporations have a lot more power than individuals, especially when the only thing people can do is "just be smarter". Get real.
America is the country we are today because of War, and because of the spoils that war has brought to us.
I actually mostly agree with this statement but, just to clarify... this still doesn't justify war. So what is your point?
Awesome. Awesome to the max.
There's a scene in a great movie called Network that you should see. The scene (you'll know it when you see it) is a bit over-the-top, but gets the point across that people have been saying this for over thirty years.
More like you can't trust the US.
/tongue-in-cheek
The US was sold to us as a democratic union. Then we were told we needed a constitution. That the US would guard our basic rights.
Well, thanks a lot you bastards. Thanks a lot for the corruption and injustice you've brought with you. Seems like old Native American legislation was doing a better job until your directives forced it to change. I weep for the future.
The US as an economic powerhouse could be a great thing. The US as a source of bad legislation is a recipe for disaster.
What matters even more to me than the speed of the drivers is the compatibility. I waited, and waited, for GLSL support in Linux from ATI. I finally get it and... the GLSL support is crummy. And I don't mean slow, I mean buggy. Some correct programs don't compile (at least then I know what the problem is). Others simply didn't run correctly (in Windows or on an nVidia card, no problem). Why bother to enable features in your driver that don't work?
and its has embraced .NET--meaning that you can write stored procs and functions in any .NET language
Someone please tell me that this doesn't make Microsoft the first DB vendor to make it easy to extend database functionality in Python?
A perfect example is the Windows NT/XP TCP/IP stack -- stolen straight from BSD
How many times do we have to go over this? Non-copyright-infringement is not theft.
3. Transference of ancillary foreign objects (Infectious disease; fecal matter; Leprosy; Acid; Alkalinity)
This is basically true of PIN pads as well.
I remember reading a while back about a lens that lases an image onto your retina, giving you a "live" HUD (there was much talk of surgeons and mechanics in the article). It seems that something like that would be fantastic for soldiers, coupled with the tech in this robot. A shot is fired from somewhere, and suddenly every soldier has a big ole' red outline around the shooter? Three cheers for highly speculative military technology!
Just beware of that scheming alcohol.
Incase you were wondering if CS was indeed a "real" science or not.