Who modded this troll insightful?
"mindset of the current US administration?" I dislike the current policies of the administrations, but these comments have more to do with a distrust of any government that would restrict free speech (Germany and Nazisim/Scientology for example) to the level that some of the people in charge of the UN or the EU have done. Do you really want CHINA having the ability to pull the plug on a section of the internet outside their soverign nation simply because they don't like the content?
A ruling council of the UN 'taking away' control of the internet (which is currently managed by a private company) is just silly - it's not that I don't like Europeans, it's that it's foolish to attempt to define 'control' of something like this in terms of nationalism. It's not as if anyone is stopping the folks anywhere else from establishing a second, third or fourth network - sure it'd be mind-bogglingly stupid, but it's possible. If the "EU" wants to -force- an issue like this when they cannot even take care of trouble in the real world in their own backyard, and/or the UN, they're simply showing how petty they truly are
Thanks for the explination - I missed that *slaps forhead*
And poo on the mod who modded that post flamebait - nothing about it was flamebait, unless you think the work jackass is flamebait;)
So, in other words, they've developed a chipset that will allow a router/WAP + WLAN card to use multiple channels at once...
Not only is that not -really- upping the bandwidth limit (they just got more signals, not a bigger throughput per signal), it seems to me that it'd blast out 1/3 - 1/2 of the avaialble spectrum within range for wireless.....which means if you buy one and are in an apartment/city/whatever, you could be a real jackass to your neighbors simply by using it...
Who modded this guy insightful? The RIAA, assuredly does SOMETHING. They sue people...they make press, publicity, bribe radio stations, hound indy labels to join them, put stupid adds up on the radio and internet about piracy.... etc. If it's useful or not, and to whom, is up for debate. But implying they don't do anything is simply foolish.
What article like this is complete without:
Sam and Max 2 I feel cheated looking through that article without seeing S&M there.
Wait... there was S&M in Sam and Max 2? That dosen't seem right......
...just compare yourself to Thomas Jefferson?!
Look, you may have taken up some of his ideals, but that dosen't make your thoughts on them correct, you insipid troll.
There is such a thing as intangable property, rights, etc. Read the Federalist Papers sometime, eh? Hell, just bother to know what you're talking about sometime.:)
Lint / dirt is worthless to most people. Just because some people like it enough ( MMORPG nerds ) to pay for it doesnt make it have a real actual value.
UHHHHH. OK. That is the very definition of financial value, genius. "Will people pay for it"?
Gold would be worthless if people didn't want it, weren't willing to trade real-world things for it. If people suddenly get a craze for collecting something stupid...say.... beanie babies and their street price goes up by $500 they are, de facto worth more. Just because you aren't willing to pay for them does not decrease their actual sale value. How do you think they value homes, cars, anything?
Don't confuse worth with usefulness.
(And take a basic economics and/or business course too...or at least read up on it a bit before you start posting about real world economic value, jackass.
But why stop there? I think it would be great if -everything- had DRM equivalents. For example:
*Gasoline Nanobots - If you want your car to work with OUR gas, you must pay us HOMAGE or our nano-bots will tear apart your precious engines! muwaa haaa haa
*Life Presevers - Pay us our monthly "life fee" or your preservers, rafts and other saftey gear will cease to function, courtesy of our "Rights Protection Satelite"
*Toilet Paper - Your rear will know fear if you don't pay our fees - talk about an UNSIGHTLY rash.
*gah*
I could understand that maybe for the first edition of a textbook. But when you've got Johnny Freshman buying his Calc I textbook that is in it's 800 millionth printing, at 125$ each, they're a bit overpriced. But at least you get to keep it as reference...... and the bookstore will GRACIOUSLY buyback the book at all of 30$ at 33% off for 82$ why would anyone buy the "e-pad"? Either you want the reference material, or...? Save 10$, I suppose it will buy a pizza (for the annoyance of needing batteries for your textbook).
Except the problem is it's not shafting the STORE- it's shafting the people who buy "Open Item" products. Do you honestly think that Best Buy or CompUSA actually bother testing returns that appear to be in good condition? Think again.
In all likelyhood you're the jackass who returned the router I bought recently. Yes, my fault for not buying new, but think again if you think that Best Buy gives a flying horse turd if this happens or no.
Erm.
No, it's not. Did you bother to READ the Foundation series? Psychohistory couldn't predict patterns of individuals across a small, finite timespace. It was about predicting the movements of humanity as a whole across millions of worlds, and the sub-eddies, etc of how humanity would change and react to events, NOTlocale-based individual stuff as this cell phone thing is.
Asimov just rolled over in his grave when you posted that;)
.... how is this very much different than human observation and analysis to figure out what someone's patterns are? If you watch anyone long enough you can get a good "feel" for where they will be, when they take lunch, who they hang out with, etc.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but it looks as if this is just location-level tracking with GPS thrown in....hardly predicting the future, much more likely analyzing the past.
WSJ: Let's turn to indecency. You're pretty young and you don't have kids. Why does broadcast indecency incense you so much?
Martin: I think there's been an increasing sense of the people who are filing complaints at the commission that they're incensed. My first year on the commission there were a couple hundred complaints. I think the next year there were over 10,000 and two years later there were over 100,000 and by the following year there were more than a million complaints. Its actually many of the consumers who are increasingly upset by what's on TV and radio and they're filing at the commission. There's a growing chorus of people complaining about what's on television and radio and that's what you're seeing the commission respond to.
WSJ: It's not personal, it's just that people are filing a lot of complaints?
Martin: I evaluate every complaint on the merits of the complaint but I think consumers have become increasingly frustrated on what's on television and radio. There was a lot of consumer outrage and Congress was upset and the commission has an obligation to enforce its rules that indecent material is prohibited during certain hours from being on television and radio. Its' incumbent that the FCC enforce its rules and we're going to.
WSJ: Do you think the government should be in the role to decide what's indecent?
Martin: You always have to be careful when you're talking about the government being involved in content issues. For anyone who expresses concern about what's on television or radio today the first line of defense always has to be the parents. The parents who are with their children and should be watching or supervising what they're watching on television or listen to on radio should be doing everything they can to make sure their children aren't being exposed to things they think are inappropriate. Fundamentally, the government should be trying to provide tools for parents to help them control what's coming into their living rooms and what their kids are exposed to.
Ok... now correct me if I'm wrong, but he's saying that the numerous complaints is about broadcast television and radio. . But not about Sattelite, etc, right? If there is, I must be blind.... So why is there a comment in the header about sattelite, etc, having anything to do with this?
More interestingly he says that they base their decisions (at least in part) on the number of complaints...... I find myself wondering what they'd do if a large section of the population copmlained there wasn't enough indecency on TV.
Mod Parent Up! - I wish I still had some mod points this morning.
Mwongozi's point is a good one - why would you buy an organizer just to play games? Sure, if you're a college student they're a nice bonus as a way to get out of a lecture - but I'm betting that most people won't drop 200+ dollars on a PIM-centered design when they -can- just pick up a PSP. Just like you don't buy a car because it has a nice heater in it:).
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I demand pictures of the groveling and/or debasement before i will go see this.
ha HA!
Then it's a really good thing that it's not really up to them, isn't it? :)
Who modded this troll insightful? "mindset of the current US administration?" I dislike the current policies of the administrations, but these comments have more to do with a distrust of any government that would restrict free speech (Germany and Nazisim/Scientology for example) to the level that some of the people in charge of the UN or the EU have done. Do you really want CHINA having the ability to pull the plug on a section of the internet outside their soverign nation simply because they don't like the content?
A ruling council of the UN 'taking away' control of the internet (which is currently managed by a private company) is just silly - it's not that I don't like Europeans, it's that it's foolish to attempt to define 'control' of something like this in terms of nationalism. It's not as if anyone is stopping the folks anywhere else from establishing a second, third or fourth network - sure it'd be mind-bogglingly stupid, but it's possible. If the "EU" wants to -force- an issue like this when they cannot even take care of trouble in the real world in their own backyard, and/or the UN, they're simply showing how petty they truly are
And...and....and just what are you doing (*cough* pr0n *cough*) in the bathroom with your laptop?
Free as in beer? What bars do YOU frequent? ;)
Thanks for the explination - I missed that *slaps forhead* And poo on the mod who modded that post flamebait - nothing about it was flamebait, unless you think the work jackass is flamebait ;)
So, in other words, they've developed a chipset that will allow a router/WAP + WLAN card to use multiple channels at once...
Not only is that not -really- upping the bandwidth limit (they just got more signals, not a bigger throughput per signal), it seems to me that it'd blast out 1/3 - 1/2 of the avaialble spectrum within range for wireless.....which means if you buy one and are in an apartment/city/whatever, you could be a real jackass to your neighbors simply by using it...
Who modded this guy insightful? The RIAA, assuredly does SOMETHING. They sue people...they make press, publicity, bribe radio stations, hound indy labels to join them, put stupid adds up on the radio and internet about piracy.... etc. If it's useful or not, and to whom, is up for debate. But implying they don't do anything is simply foolish.
What article like this is complete without: Sam and Max 2 I feel cheated looking through that article without seeing S&M there.
Wait... there was S&M in Sam and Max 2? That dosen't seem right......
...on cloud seeding computer models or some form of weather forcast?
:)
Or computer controlled levy pumps or something useful
Just seems as if moving to that area of the country _now_ isn't....safe.
In other news, LSU was seen floating in the direction of Mexico......
Now THAT is funny - The Honda UnCivil(tm)
...just compare yourself to Thomas Jefferson?! Look, you may have taken up some of his ideals, but that dosen't make your thoughts on them correct, you insipid troll. There is such a thing as intangable property, rights, etc. Read the Federalist Papers sometime, eh? Hell, just bother to know what you're talking about sometime. :)
Lint / dirt is worthless to most people. Just because some people like it enough ( MMORPG nerds ) to pay for it doesnt make it have a real actual value.
UHHHHH. OK. That is the very definition of financial value, genius. "Will people pay for it"?
Gold would be worthless if people didn't want it, weren't willing to trade real-world things for it. If people suddenly get a craze for collecting something stupid...say.... beanie babies and their street price goes up by $500 they are, de facto worth more. Just because you aren't willing to pay for them does not decrease their actual sale value. How do you think they value homes, cars, anything?
Don't confuse worth with usefulness.
(And take a basic economics and/or business course too...or at least read up on it a bit before you start posting about real world economic value, jackass.
... will it meet the min. specs for Duke Nukem Forever?
But why stop there? I think it would be great if -everything- had DRM equivalents. For example: *Gasoline Nanobots - If you want your car to work with OUR gas, you must pay us HOMAGE or our nano-bots will tear apart your precious engines! muwaa haaa haa *Life Presevers - Pay us our monthly "life fee" or your preservers, rafts and other saftey gear will cease to function, courtesy of our "Rights Protection Satelite" *Toilet Paper - Your rear will know fear if you don't pay our fees - talk about an UNSIGHTLY rash. *gah*
33% off?!?!?
...? Save 10$, I suppose it will buy a pizza (for the annoyance of needing batteries for your textbook).
I could understand that maybe for the first edition of a textbook. But when you've got Johnny Freshman buying his Calc I textbook that is in it's 800 millionth printing, at 125$ each, they're a bit overpriced. But at least you get to keep it as reference...... and the bookstore will GRACIOUSLY buyback the book at all of 30$ at 33% off for 82$ why would anyone buy the "e-pad"? Either you want the reference material, or
Sounds like a rip-off to me.
Except the problem is it's not shafting the STORE- it's shafting the people who buy "Open Item" products. Do you honestly think that Best Buy or CompUSA actually bother testing returns that appear to be in good condition? Think again.
In all likelyhood you're the jackass who returned the router I bought recently. Yes, my fault for not buying new, but think again if you think that Best Buy gives a flying horse turd if this happens or no.
.... when I first read this I thought Google was hiring "penetration testers".... they weren't very amused when I called them to apply :`(
Erm. ;)
No, it's not. Did you bother to READ the Foundation series?
Psychohistory couldn't predict patterns of individuals across a small, finite timespace. It was about predicting the movements of humanity as a whole across millions of worlds, and the sub-eddies, etc of how humanity would change and react to events, NOT locale-based individual stuff as this cell phone thing is.
Asimov just rolled over in his grave when you posted that
.... how is this very much different than human observation and analysis to figure out what someone's patterns are? If you watch anyone long enough you can get a good "feel" for where they will be, when they take lunch, who they hang out with, etc.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but it looks as if this is just location-level tracking with GPS thrown in....hardly predicting the future, much more likely analyzing the past.
WSJ: Let's turn to indecency. You're pretty young and you don't have kids. Why does broadcast indecency incense you so much?
Martin: I think there's been an increasing sense of the people who are filing complaints at the commission that they're incensed. My first year on the commission there were a couple hundred complaints. I think the next year there were over 10,000 and two years later there were over 100,000 and by the following year there were more than a million complaints. Its actually many of the consumers who are increasingly upset by what's on TV and radio and they're filing at the commission. There's a growing chorus of people complaining about what's on television and radio and that's what you're seeing the commission respond to.
WSJ: It's not personal, it's just that people are filing a lot of complaints?
Martin: I evaluate every complaint on the merits of the complaint but I think consumers have become increasingly frustrated on what's on television and radio. There was a lot of consumer outrage and Congress was upset and the commission has an obligation to enforce its rules that indecent material is prohibited during certain hours from being on television and radio. Its' incumbent that the FCC enforce its rules and we're going to.
WSJ: Do you think the government should be in the role to decide what's indecent?
Martin: You always have to be careful when you're talking about the government being involved in content issues. For anyone who expresses concern about what's on television or radio today the first line of defense always has to be the parents. The parents who are with their children and should be watching or supervising what they're watching on television or listen to on radio should be doing everything they can to make sure their children aren't being exposed to things they think are inappropriate. Fundamentally, the government should be trying to provide tools for parents to help them control what's coming into their living rooms and what their kids are exposed to.
Ok... now correct me if I'm wrong, but he's saying that the numerous complaints is about broadcast television and radio. . But not about Sattelite, etc, right? If there is, I must be blind.... So why is there a comment in the header about sattelite, etc, having anything to do with this?
More interestingly he says that they base their decisions (at least in part) on the number of complaints...... I find myself wondering what they'd do if a large section of the population copmlained there wasn't enough indecency on TV.
Erm.
====> 18 - rent a moving van, possibly the hardest and most worthless POS vehicle to drive on the road
The reason for that is it's WORTHLESS. As in, they don't care if it gets wrecked. Thanks, Mr. 19 year old driver for the NEW DELIVERY TRUCK.
.... who immediatly thought of the old "Sit on the Photocopier" trick?
Even better, only now it will be in 3D!
Mod Parent Up! - I wish I still had some mod points this morning. :).
Mwongozi's point is a good one - why would you buy an organizer just to play games? Sure, if you're a college student they're a nice bonus as a way to get out of a lecture - but I'm betting that most people won't drop 200+ dollars on a PIM-centered design when they -can- just pick up a PSP. Just like you don't buy a car because it has a nice heater in it
Impressive.... or at least it would be, if they had a site that could handle more views than it takes to make the first post.
And there isn't really that much to say based upon the header... could someone tell us what this is all about?