Pornographic sites don't like to be filtered; they'll do whatever they can to bypass filters. Bypassing filters and reaching unsuspecting audiences is their main source of income.
They're not organized either; most are greedy individuals who lust after sex and money and take advantage of other people's weaknesses to drag them in. They wouldn't co-operate simply because it will generate less money.
What really annoys me though are these companies that buy up literally hundreds of thousands of domain names and sell them for outrageous prices. I would like to see TLDs such as.ego, which can only be used for personal use and not be sold on, and everyone can only register two or three at most.
TLD enforcing would imho be fantastic. But enforcing and limitations cost money, so no company in their right mind would go through with it.
Bold question: What if the TLDs were in hands of the UN?
Re:Please get some journalistic integrity...
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They're not server hacks; most if not all of those are simple forum hacks or other insecure script hacks, mostly home made scripts or adjustments.
Because most of these sites are hosted by professional companies, the servers are usually more than safe; otherwise they would likely turn into spam machines.
Unless I'm missing something, I don't believe there could be a better example of how patents are only useful in the hands of the large companies, and not the small ones. If anything, this will help the pro freedom from patents movement in Europe by providing great examples and arguments.
Supersymmetric? Superstrings?
Can we not make words up please, we're all adults here. How can supersymmetric be more symmetric than symmetric? !
one+one = supertwo!
"we wanted to integrate the shareware version of Linux"
Are you for real?
Seriously? You're a consultant? You're being overpayed, or you're just blagging it.
I have a pirated copy with an emulated version of Steam. I bought the game too, but I won't install it. The pirated version is faster (no decrypting of the content necessary), nocd included and no dependency on the steam servers.
Plus there's the added fear that installing a cd-crack with the properly bought half-life2 will disable all my other payed-for off-line games.
I can genuinely say that the paying, clueless-to-piracy customers drew the short straw while people with a pirated copy are getting the most out of it.
Yes, it is the all powerful VI editor that made me switch back from Dvorak because you just can't handle it on anything other than Qwerty. I also gained no speed increase on Dvorak, but typing was made easier.
I would definitely recommend Dvorak to people with RSI.
New features, when in testing, are only available to a small group of Google users (picked by Google, usually unbeknownst to the users themselves). This guy is probably one of those users.
No they weren't. They flat-out denied having used Firefox in the press release, despite the obvious screenshots.
If they now claim they were showcasing MSN search in different browsers (something they never do), it's a lame attempt to try and save some face.
Here's a link to the newsarticle that does work: http://www.nrg.co.il/online/10/ART/825/507.html
If you look at the success of the GC vs the XBOX and PS2, it falls way behind. Personally, I think this may have to do with the fact that GC makes it so hard to play copied games, and that piracy is actually helping sales and success of the other formats.
Wolves don't kill and eat rabbits when they're not hungry. That's the whole point. It would be very interesting if it did, however, but it wouldn't happen.
I think it's a feat to shoot yourself with a shotgun or a rifle, much more so than with a handgun, but it happens a lot apparently.
Hunting is about working alone, or in a group, to achieve a difficult goal.
What difficult goal is that?
Hunting is about the lengths you will go to keep your family fed and healthy.
That's ridicilous. I bet your wife has to ask you twice before you take the trash out and has to nag you to go to the supermarket (if at all you go).
Hunting is about understanding your place in nature:
Loaded with high powered guns, GPS systems, decoys, game feeders, camouflage, treestands, gamebirds, game calls and what not?
If you really want to put any truth into what you said, you should really (as someone else pointed out) hunt with just a knife or a spear.
Re:Isn't Murdoch Australian?
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Isn't Rupert Murdoch Australian?
Rupert may be, but his company might not. It's dificult to say. Rupert is now (since 1985) an American citizen, and gets most of his money from his American acquisitions, which in turn were the main revenue generators to finance the startup for his magazines and television channels in the UK. But now that he's moving his Australian based company (News Corp) to America, all his assets will find their roots in America.
Although the Sun is a UK registered company, Rupert still dictates what the Sun prints and how it prints it. The Sun is actually a great example of the Murdoch formula (crime, sex, political scandal).
Look at Europe again with its outrageous papers like the Sun or Pravda
For what it's worth, the Sun is American owned (Rupert Murdoch) and Pravda is Russian only. It's hard to specify "European" newspapers, because there are no international European newspapers, only national ones.
What is most disturbing is that in this day and age that there still exists repression of thought in some countries.
Not at all, we in the western world haven't had complete freedom of press and speech for a long time, but if it were up to Bush, this freedom would be taken away again ("There ought to be limits to freedom."):
Freedom of press and speech don't evolve gradually. People have fought and died so we can write the truth and speak our minds. This battle is still continuing in Asia where people are killed for releasing the wrong thoughts or turning against the government. Before freedom finds a home there, a lot of battles will be fought and a lot of people will still suffer. To say the realization of this is eye-opening is naive.
It is not to say that the freedom we now have is permanent. Our governments constantly test us to see how far they can go. We still have to fight to keep our freedom. It will never be a given as long as people are led by greed for money and hunger for power.
The arguments used by the two companies seem to be words taken directly from MS.
For one, they claim lack of support and give their own solution to it as well -- they don't have any technical linux staff. To switch over to linux without having anyone with the know-how to run linux seems naive, and is only asking for trouble.
Saying that there is only one available database for Linux shows they hardly did any research. This is further proven by a quote from them: "Even though [Linux] has moved into the realm of a production-level system and may become a competitor to Microsoft, that is just not the case where global support and robust development are required.". Please correct me if I'm wrong, but in all my years developing on Unix, Linux and Windows, I can honestly say there is not a more robust development system than Linux or Unix, and global support for the development tools on Linux far outrank those for Windows development tools, where internet development is concerned.
I would not be surprised if these companies were sponsored by Microsoft to switch to Windows and find to some reasons to support or justify that decision.
Furthermore, these are small, non-technical companies whose tech-deparments either consist solely of MSCE's or are hopelessly inept (or both). I don't believe their reasoning is worth serious consideration, and as such I find it strange that they made it to the slashdot frontpage.
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Pornographic sites don't like to be filtered; they'll do whatever they can to bypass filters. Bypassing filters and reaching unsuspecting audiences is their main source of income.
.ego, which can only be used for personal use and not be sold on, and everyone can only register two or three at most.
They're not organized either; most are greedy individuals who lust after sex and money and take advantage of other people's weaknesses to drag them in. They wouldn't co-operate simply because it will generate less money.
What really annoys me though are these companies that buy up literally hundreds of thousands of domain names and sell them for outrageous prices. I would like to see TLDs such as
TLD enforcing would imho be fantastic. But enforcing and limitations cost money, so no company in their right mind would go through with it.
Bold question: What if the TLDs were in hands of the UN?
Because most of these sites are hosted by professional companies, the servers are usually more than safe; otherwise they would likely turn into spam machines.
The problem here is that regular buyers don't receive the discount because they'll spend their money anyway.
2. People spend money.
3. Fascination!
I thought "and Rich Tong founded Ignition Partners" said Tong founded Ignorance Partners at first, that would have been interesting news.
welcome our starship patent destroyers.
Unless I'm missing something, I don't believe there could be a better example of how patents are only useful in the hands of the large companies, and not the small ones. If anything, this will help the pro freedom from patents movement in Europe by providing great examples and arguments.
Supersymmetric? Superstrings? Can we not make words up please, we're all adults here. How can supersymmetric be more symmetric than symmetric? ! one+one = supertwo!
I found this quote which summed it up nicely:
"To err is human... to really foul up requires the root password."
"we wanted to integrate the shareware version of Linux" Are you for real? Seriously? You're a consultant? You're being overpayed, or you're just blagging it.
I'd respond, but you're obviously flamebaiting here.
Plus there's the added fear that installing a cd-crack with the properly bought half-life2 will disable all my other payed-for off-line games.
I can genuinely say that the paying, clueless-to-piracy customers drew the short straw while people with a pirated copy are getting the most out of it.
Yes, it is the all powerful VI editor that made me switch back from Dvorak because you just can't handle it on anything other than Qwerty. I also gained no speed increase on Dvorak, but typing was made easier. I would definitely recommend Dvorak to people with RSI.
Read This Slashdot article and its link for more information.
In other news, redundant questions at the end of Slashdot articles have already grown mildly since 2004.
No they weren't. They flat-out denied having used Firefox in the press release, despite the obvious screenshots. If they now claim they were showcasing MSN search in different browsers (something they never do), it's a lame attempt to try and save some face. Here's a link to the newsarticle that does work: http://www.nrg.co.il/online/10/ART/825/507.html
I heard that if you issue any sentence longer than 1024 characters to the first guard, he'll obey any command you give after that.
For the second guard, keep shift pressed before he sees you and he won't notice you.
I don't suppose this would count as a quine?
test.c:1: error: syntax error before '.' token
Or what about:
I remember writing my first quine in basic on the commodore 64:
10 LIST
If you look at the success of the GC vs the XBOX and PS2, it falls way behind. Personally, I think this may have to do with the fact that GC makes it so hard to play copied games, and that piracy is actually helping sales and success of the other formats.
Wolves don't kill and eat rabbits when they're not hungry. That's the whole point. It would be very interesting if it did, however, but it wouldn't happen.
I think it's a feat to shoot yourself with a shotgun or a rifle, much more so than with a handgun, but it happens a lot apparently.
Hunting is about working alone, or in a group, to achieve a difficult goal.
What difficult goal is that?
Hunting is about the lengths you will go to keep your family fed and healthy.
That's ridicilous. I bet your wife has to ask you twice before you take the trash out and has to nag you to go to the supermarket (if at all you go).
Hunting is about understanding your place in nature:
Loaded with high powered guns, GPS systems, decoys, game feeders, camouflage, treestands, gamebirds, game calls and what not?
If you really want to put any truth into what you said, you should really (as someone else pointed out) hunt with just a knife or a spear.
Rupert may be, but his company might not. It's dificult to say. Rupert is now (since 1985) an American citizen, and gets most of his money from his American acquisitions, which in turn were the main revenue generators to finance the startup for his magazines and television channels in the UK. But now that he's moving his Australian based company (News Corp) to America, all his assets will find their roots in America.
Although the Sun is a UK registered company, Rupert still dictates what the Sun prints and how it prints it. The Sun is actually a great example of the Murdoch formula (crime, sex, political scandal).
For what it's worth, the Sun is American owned (Rupert Murdoch) and Pravda is Russian only. It's hard to specify "European" newspapers, because there are no international European newspapers, only national ones.
What is most disturbing is that in this day and age that there still exists repression of thought in some countries.
Not at all, we in the western world haven't had complete freedom of press and speech for a long time, but if it were up to Bush, this freedom would be taken away again ("There ought to be limits to freedom."):
http://kookaburra.typepad.com/weblog/2004/09/biker _against_b.html t m e .protest/
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1015-06.h
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/28/rnc.bik
http://wcbs880.com/rnc/rnc_story_244091236.html
Freedom of press and speech don't evolve gradually. People have fought and died so we can write the truth and speak our minds. This battle is still continuing in Asia where people are killed for releasing the wrong thoughts or turning against the government. Before freedom finds a home there, a lot of battles will be fought and a lot of people will still suffer. To say the realization of this is eye-opening is naive.
It is not to say that the freedom we now have is permanent. Our governments constantly test us to see how far they can go. We still have to fight to keep our freedom. It will never be a given as long as people are led by greed for money and hunger for power.
Unfortunately, I believe there's a 2GB size limit on nominations
The arguments used by the two companies seem to be words taken directly from MS.
For one, they claim lack of support and give their own solution to it as well -- they don't have any technical linux staff. To switch over to linux without having anyone with the know-how to run linux seems naive, and is only asking for trouble.
Saying that there is only one available database for Linux shows they hardly did any research. This is further proven by a quote from them: "Even though [Linux] has moved into the realm of a production-level system and may become a competitor to Microsoft, that is just not the case where global support and robust development are required.". Please correct me if I'm wrong, but in all my years developing on Unix, Linux and Windows, I can honestly say there is not a more robust development system than Linux or Unix, and global support for the development tools on Linux far outrank those for Windows development tools, where internet development is concerned.
I would not be surprised if these companies were sponsored by Microsoft to switch to Windows and find to some reasons to support or justify that decision.
Furthermore, these are small, non-technical companies whose tech-deparments either consist solely of MSCE's or are hopelessly inept (or both). I don't believe their reasoning is worth serious consideration, and as such I find it strange that they made it to the slashdot frontpage.