Social networks are just noise. It's just people all screaming in the net to have their uninformed two-bit opinions heard and their pathetic little lives recognized.
OK, so OJ Simpson was found not guilty of murdering his wife. If he asked for the record to be expunged, does that mean I can't blog about it? Tell jokes about white Broncos online? Does this Slashdot post become illegal?
Can Adnan Sayed wipe out the first season of Serial if his case is reviewed and he's found innocent?
And the statute says that the data can be retained "for historical, statistical and scientific purposes, for public health reasons or to exercise the right to freedom of expression." But that seems entirely too subjective for my tastes. We already have the overzealous copyright vultures shutting down parts of the Internet; now we have this?
If the fixes are small, then it sounds like *identifying* the bugs was the hard work? If so, maybe you could put together a list of all the bugs you fixed, mention where you made the fixes (which functions, etc), and then post that onlinewould that be enough to let someone else make the corrections? If the products are really in high circulation then someone is bound to be interested, maybe even your former competitors.
People who make death threats, when they are offended by something, suck. I am wholly in favor of their capture and incarceration/punishment, even if their political views overlap with my own. Let's focus on them, and let oversensitive college students have their protests.
But that sounds like "Why don't college students find me funny? There must be something wrong with kids today!" People have always complained about "kids today". I'm willing to bet there is a large audience on college campuses who would love to see John Cleese, and wouldn't give a damn if he's offensive. There may be a subset of people who take offense and make a big stink about it, but so what? If they disrupt the show, make fun of them, kick them out, whatever. If not, just ignore them.
OK, so maybe college students will be offended by his comedy. So what? Is he afraid of being viciously attacked, of someone taking a shot at him or something?
If he (and Seinfeld for that matter) are merely afraid that people will say mean things about them, then that seems ratheroversensitive.
It's going to be a problem, because of all the code that's already there. Merely republishing it under MIT will not negate the fact that tons of solutions were already available in the public domain, and cannot be removed from PD no matter what you do. Once PD, always PD.
And what if I add to my submission "//This code is released into the public domain"? Does that invalidate the requirement? Are they going to delete my submission because of it?
by allowing user-defined colors in CSS. Not only could they offload the unwanted old names into a single stylesheet (legacycolors.css?), but it would be so much easier to adjust the color scheme of a website by changing a couple of definitions.
But I'm just an amateur; maybe that IS a CSS feature and I've missed it?
The difference between the two is that Netflix has a dedicated userbase, who are willing to jump through hoops to get their service; it's the only reason I've installed Silverlight, for example. Youtube, on the other handbasically everyone has watched a Youtube video at one point or another, even if they didn't visit the Youtube site, thanks to embedded videos and such. If I'm a typical user, and Netflix stops working on Firefox, I'm probably going to blame Netflix. If embedded videos stop working in Firefox, I'm much more likely to blame Firefox.
I think we've got girls caught up pretty well; it's time to teach boys how to work with girls as equals. We can start by teaching them that being called a girl isn't a vile insult. Help them break free of their gender stereotypes just as feminism has helped women break free of theirs.
In my experience a company in these circumstances would pretend to have changed their policy on their own (coincidentally), or they were just "clarifying" their policy due to "misunderstanding". It looks like Apple is actually admitting that they messed up, which is good.
"We're not going to spy on Russia or China ANY MORE! It's JUST NOT SAFE! SO you don't have to worry, Russia and China, because we're not spying on you!"
I have a flip phone* with T-Mobile, no data plan, and I spend maybe $50/YEAR. Because I hardly ever call anyone on it, and I don't text. I have an iPod Touch which I use on WiFi.
Also, my flip phone is tiny, and I can drop it without worrying about the screen cracking.
*Mind you, I'm not a big fan of my current phone, which I got for cheap at Toys-R-Us, and I'm reading this topic with interest. My original flip phone was from Samsung and it lasted forever.
I know very little about windmills so this may sound naive, but it seems to me that this might be the sort of thing you could put in your backyard: it's tall, but with a fairly small footprint. On the other hand, if it's vibrating all the time it will create sound waves: I wonder how loud it gets?
And that's the problem: one buys an SUV or minivan for the few times a year they need one (or "just in case"), and then drive it around town the rest of the year when it's overkill. Maybe renting a minivan for vacation is the answer (though rentals can make people uncomfortable), or maybe there's some other solution we haven't figured out yet. (A Smart car that transforms into a minivan. Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch!:)
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Or just say you don't own a cellphone. Or is owning a cellphone a requirement to go to a show now?
Social networks are just noise. It's just people all screaming in the net to have their uninformed two-bit opinions heard and their pathetic little lives recognized.
Sounds kind of like Slashdot.
OK, so OJ Simpson was found not guilty of murdering his wife. If he asked for the record to be expunged, does that mean I can't blog about it? Tell jokes about white Broncos online? Does this Slashdot post become illegal?
Can Adnan Sayed wipe out the first season of Serial if his case is reviewed and he's found innocent?
And the statute says that the data can be retained "for historical, statistical and scientific purposes, for public health reasons or to exercise the right to freedom of expression." But that seems entirely too subjective for my tastes. We already have the overzealous copyright vultures shutting down parts of the Internet; now we have this?
It all comes down to how it is enforced.
Suppose a man came running into a hospital and said, "My wife needs help!" and the doctor replied, "All people need help."
If the fixes are small, then it sounds like *identifying* the bugs was the hard work? If so, maybe you could put together a list of all the bugs you fixed, mention where you made the fixes (which functions, etc), and then post that onlinewould that be enough to let someone else make the corrections? If the products are really in high circulation then someone is bound to be interested, maybe even your former competitors.
People who make death threats, when they are offended by something, suck. I am wholly in favor of their capture and incarceration/punishment, even if their political views overlap with my own. Let's focus on them, and let oversensitive college students have their protests.
But that sounds like "Why don't college students find me funny? There must be something wrong with kids today!" People have always complained about "kids today".
I'm willing to bet there is a large audience on college campuses who would love to see John Cleese, and wouldn't give a damn if he's offensive. There may be a subset of people who take offense and make a big stink about it, but so what? If they disrupt the show, make fun of them, kick them out, whatever. If not, just ignore them.
And if he's afraid of lawsuits, then the problem isn't with the students, it's with the courts.
OK, so maybe college students will be offended by his comedy. So what? Is he afraid of being viciously attacked, of someone taking a shot at him or something?
If he (and Seinfeld for that matter) are merely afraid that people will say mean things about them, then that seems ratheroversensitive.
Cupid?
or 15th if you want to count some of the other semi-small planets.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, Eris what's number 14? (Charon?)
It's going to be a problem, because of all the code that's already there. Merely republishing it under MIT will not negate the fact that tons of solutions were already available in the public domain, and cannot be removed from PD no matter what you do. Once PD, always PD.
And what if I add to my submission "//This code is released into the public domain"? Does that invalidate the requirement? Are they going to delete my submission because of it?
by allowing user-defined colors in CSS. Not only could they offload the unwanted old names into a single stylesheet (legacycolors.css?), but it would be so much easier to adjust the color scheme of a website by changing a couple of definitions.
But I'm just an amateur; maybe that IS a CSS feature and I've missed it?
The difference between the two is that Netflix has a dedicated userbase, who are willing to jump through hoops to get their service; it's the only reason I've installed Silverlight, for example. Youtube, on the other handbasically everyone has watched a Youtube video at one point or another, even if they didn't visit the Youtube site, thanks to embedded videos and such. If I'm a typical user, and Netflix stops working on Firefox, I'm probably going to blame Netflix. If embedded videos stop working in Firefox, I'm much more likely to blame Firefox.
Just a theory, anyway.
You'd think they'd switch to +8:43 or something, just to be different and annoy capitalist IT departments.
It's actually really easy to turn Caps Lock into Control (or Command) on OSX; it's in the Keyboard preference panel, under the button "Modifier Keys".
I think we've got girls caught up pretty well; it's time to teach boys how to work with girls as equals. We can start by teaching them that being called a girl isn't a vile insult. Help them break free of their gender stereotypes just as feminism has helped women break free of theirs.
In my experience a company in these circumstances would pretend to have changed their policy on their own (coincidentally), or they were just "clarifying" their policy due to "misunderstanding". It looks like Apple is actually admitting that they messed up, which is good.
"We're not going to spy on Russia or China ANY MORE! It's JUST NOT SAFE! SO you don't have to worry, Russia and China, because we're not spying on you!"
Yeah right.
You mean Xenium? I googled Phillips Nexium and got a bunch of links for allergy tablets. :)
I have a flip phone* with T-Mobile, no data plan, and I spend maybe $50/YEAR. Because I hardly ever call anyone on it, and I don't text. I have an iPod Touch which I use on WiFi.
Also, my flip phone is tiny, and I can drop it without worrying about the screen cracking.
*Mind you, I'm not a big fan of my current phone, which I got for cheap at Toys-R-Us, and I'm reading this topic with interest. My original flip phone was from Samsung and it lasted forever.
I know very little about windmills so this may sound naive, but it seems to me that this might be the sort of thing you could put in your backyard: it's tall, but with a fairly small footprint. On the other hand, if it's vibrating all the time it will create sound waves: I wonder how loud it gets?
Could an American emigrate to India, and then come back to America on a H1-B?
And that's the problem: one buys an SUV or minivan for the few times a year they need one (or "just in case"), and then drive it around town the rest of the year when it's overkill. Maybe renting a minivan for vacation is the answer (though rentals can make people uncomfortable), or maybe there's some other solution we haven't figured out yet. (A Smart car that transforms into a minivan. Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch! :)
I assumed this was coming from the Internet Radio stations saying "Hey, how is it fair that we have to pay royalties and those guys don't?"