He also accused ISPs, telcos, device makers, and numerous specifically named companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook of building 'multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it'
it's true, we all know that the first 2340896234578913465 searches to hit google's and yahoo's engines (interestingly it was exactly the same number of searches) were for "u2"...
and who hasn't stolen one of the new apple iBono's...?
i guess i don't have anything clever to say about oracle or facebook...
It's interesting to note that if the World of Warcraft were a nation, CIA's World Factbook says that out of 236 listed countries it would be the 90th most populated country on Earth above Haiti, but behind Sweden.
i pasted this to a friend who pointed out that while the taxes are much lower the death rate is significantly higher...
CNN is carrying a story about a school in Boston which has have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.
i cannot help but think that it should be the parents holding them liable that the school should fear. maybe it's my failing memory, but i can't seem to recall thinking frequently at the age of 10, "i could take someone wholly unresponsible for this to court and make truckloads of money!"
The researchers add that Live Surface might even been used for special-effects in movies or games by extracting an actor's performance from a video clip.
"Defendant is willing to accede to the demands of the Chinese autocrats to block the search term 'democracy,'" the complaint states, "but when it comes to the protection and well-being of our nation's innocent children, Defendant refuses to spend a dime's worth of resources to block child pornography from reaching children."
spurious and pointless as this lawsuit may be, i find it interesting that in the same sentence he faults google for blocking search terms and not blocking search terms. no, i'm not advocating child pornography or think that it shouldn't be blocked, i'm just saying people should really pick an agenda and stick with it. oh, but wait, this is america where politicians can say three things and do a fourth.
As long as some tin-horn dictator or other makes a law that makes it right, and we all need to bow before it, is that your position?
no, nor is that what i said. however, if you are pulled over for speeding, saying it was civil disobience will not get you out of a fine. disagreeing with a law is one thing, and trying to change it belongs alongside disagreement, but simply disobeying it is, in a word, illegal. my point was, and is, that to a large extent the position before yahoo!, and the rest of the crowd for that matter, is obey our laws or get out. now you may say, they should get out, all well and good if that's your position, i happen to disagree and think that, as long as that law is in place, they are bound to follow it. breaking a law just because you disagree with it will lead to anarchy. there are ways to change laws you disagree with and, as an above comment pointed out, maybe this story reaching people is not a mistake on yahoo's part, if that's the case they've already taken a step to, hopefully, instituting a change. being a law doesn't make something right, but it does make it legal, and while it remains legal disobeying it will carry penalties. that's how the world works. i'd suggest going somewhere without laws so you could live free of their unjust constraints but, frankly, there isn't anyplace like that anymore. sorry.
much as we may not like some, or all, of the chinese government's policies on free speech the fact remains that they have laws, as do we. if we can all take a quick step back from our outrage, and believe me i share it, and pretend yahoo! were a chinese company who were asked to follow one of our laws and turn over information to catch a "terrorist." now here on/. we would probably still disapprove given what seems to be the popular opinion of "anti-terror" laws, but let's not forget that our laws are not the only ones in the world. yes, i agree yahoo! "should have done something," the omnipresent argument that doesn't solve anything, but it's not always so easy to break laws and go against governments.
actually the eskimo language doesn't have more words for snow than any other. they have words for things like blizzard, flurry, drift, etc just the same as we do. this misconception stemmed from partially a misunderstanding early on between their language and english but mostly it was propegated because people thought it was funny, which admittedly it would be were it true.
If you want things more family-friendly, why not just apply the old anime-con cosplay standard of "30% coverage minimum, inlcuding all the obvious places", instead of applying an ambiguous rule that outfits can not be "too risque"?
it's simple politics: if you don't specify what you mean, when you have to justify actions later you can use your earlier ambiguity.
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They sound more like cows to me - prime for the milking.
Not to split hairs but strictly speaking I believe that one could in fact also milk a whale, being mammals.
He urged use of those techniques by investigators to help nab the most egregious offenders.
it is pronounced "egregious"
(sorry for the quality, best i could do on short notice)
...that the best way to ensure cooperation is via the threat of banishment:
1.) excommunicate
2.) ???
3.) cooperate!
caused when one driver brakes
a good driver doesn't need brakes.
paid services like LexusNexis
it's actually LexisNexis.
He also accused ISPs, telcos, device makers, and numerous specifically named companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook of building 'multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it'
it's true, we all know that the first 2340896234578913465 searches to hit google's and yahoo's engines (interestingly it was exactly the same number of searches) were for "u2"...
and who hasn't stolen one of the new apple iBono's...?
i guess i don't have anything clever to say about oracle or facebook...
i used to live in ohio, which leaves me confused as to why is the parent marked flamebait...
i kid, i kid, go bucks, oh - io, and so on.
welcome to king of the world, where the men are men, the women are men, and the 12 year old girls are fbi agents...
Jack is currently suing the mediator, Judge Dava Tunis, along with the Florida Supreme Court and the Florida Bar.
like he's a lawyer, alright...
of all these linux newbs. jeez, you guys, l2wine already! kthxbye.
(note how i resisted the urge to point out the wine-whine pun. wait...dammit!)
It's interesting to note that if the World of Warcraft were a nation, CIA's World Factbook says that out of 236 listed countries it would be the 90th most populated country on Earth above Haiti, but behind Sweden. i pasted this to a friend who pointed out that while the taxes are much lower the death rate is significantly higher...
CNN is carrying a story about a school in Boston which has have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable.
i cannot help but think that it should be the parents holding them liable that the school should fear. maybe it's my failing memory, but i can't seem to recall thinking frequently at the age of 10, "i could take someone wholly unresponsible for this to court and make truckloads of money!"
The researchers add that Live Surface might even been used for special-effects in movies or games by extracting an actor's performance from a video clip.
sure sounds like progress to me...
i'd love to mod the parent, but i can't decide whether it should be funny, inciteful, or horribly depressing because it's true.
that m$ avatar never seemed so appropriate...
"Defendant is willing to accede to the demands of the Chinese autocrats to block the search term 'democracy,'" the complaint states, "but when it comes to the protection and well-being of our nation's innocent children, Defendant refuses to spend a dime's worth of resources to block child pornography from reaching children."
spurious and pointless as this lawsuit may be, i find it interesting that in the same sentence he faults google for blocking search terms and not blocking search terms. no, i'm not advocating child pornography or think that it shouldn't be blocked, i'm just saying people should really pick an agenda and stick with it. oh, but wait, this is america where politicians can say three things and do a fourth.
if-we-throw-enough-money-at-a-problem-it-will-go-a way department.
"It opens up a new means of investigating general relativity and it consequences in the quantum world."
but i'm running scared
i wasn't sure whether to mod this funny or insightful.
then i noticed i don't have any mod points. problem solved!
As long as some tin-horn dictator or other makes a law that makes it right, and we all need to bow before it, is that your position?
no, nor is that what i said. however, if you are pulled over for speeding, saying it was civil disobience will not get you out of a fine.
disagreeing with a law is one thing, and trying to change it belongs alongside disagreement, but simply disobeying it is, in a word, illegal. my point was, and is, that to a large extent the position before yahoo!, and the rest of the crowd for that matter, is obey our laws or get out. now you may say, they should get out, all well and good if that's your position, i happen to disagree and think that, as long as that law is in place, they are bound to follow it. breaking a law just because you disagree with it will lead to anarchy. there are ways to change laws you disagree with and, as an above comment pointed out, maybe this story reaching people is not a mistake on yahoo's part, if that's the case they've already taken a step to, hopefully, instituting a change.
being a law doesn't make something right, but it does make it legal, and while it remains legal disobeying it will carry penalties. that's how the world works. i'd suggest going somewhere without laws so you could live free of their unjust constraints but, frankly, there isn't anyplace like that anymore. sorry.
much as we may not like some, or all, of the chinese government's policies on free speech the fact remains that they have laws, as do we. /. we would probably still disapprove given what seems to be the popular opinion of "anti-terror" laws, but let's not forget that our laws are not the only ones in the world.
if we can all take a quick step back from our outrage, and believe me i share it, and pretend yahoo! were a chinese company who were asked to follow one of our laws and turn over information to catch a "terrorist." now here on
yes, i agree yahoo! "should have done something," the omnipresent argument that doesn't solve anything, but it's not always so easy to break laws and go against governments.
actually the eskimo language doesn't have more words for snow than any other. they have words for things like blizzard, flurry, drift, etc just the same as we do. this misconception stemmed from partially a misunderstanding early on between their language and english but mostly it was propegated because people thought it was funny, which admittedly it would be were it true.
For those of you unwilling to RTFA, "BPI" is the British Phonographic Industry
wow, had to read that one twice...
but i have a hard time taking a guy named Edd Dumbill seriously.
If you want things more family-friendly, why not just apply the old anime-con cosplay standard of "30% coverage minimum, inlcuding all the obvious places", instead of applying an ambiguous rule that outfits can not be "too risque"?
it's simple politics: if you don't specify what you mean, when you have to justify actions later you can use your earlier ambiguity.