Been there, had that happen to me. In my instance, I even provided a link to the transcript of the TV show to justify what I had written. At that point, the editor rejected it because of a grammatical error (i.e., wrong tense on a verb). Why couldn't the editor just fix the verb's tense? Geesh.....
...Can anyone remember when laws were made by elected officials?...
Laws still are made by elected officials. Those elected officials made the laws that gave the power to the Federal agencies to issue rulings such as the one under discussion here.
That doesn't seem to mesh with what we were taught in school.
My manager used to have his Windows notebook recording all the conversations in his office, and some conversations in meetings. He said it was better than taking notes....
I am aware of both PHP and JavaScript. I said nothing about PHP. My opinion about Javascript is my opinion about Javascript, not PHP. I do not confuse the two.
...The law establishes basic principles for counter-terrorism work and strengthens measures of prevention, handling, punishment as well as international cooperation, he said.
Under the new bill, telecom operators and internet service providers are required to provide technical support and assistance, including decryption, to police and national security authorities in prevention and investigation of terrorist activities.
They should also prevent dissemination of information on terrorism and extremism.
Li Shouwei of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee legislative affairs commission, said the rule accorded with the actual work needed to fight terrorism and was basically the same as other major countries.
"The clause reflects lessons China has learned from other countries and is a result of wide solicitation of public opinion," he added.
"(It) will not affect companies' normal business nor install backdoors to infringe intellectual property rights, or... citizens freedom of speech on the internet and their religious freedom," Li said.
China's national security law adopted in July also requires Internet and information technology, infrastructure, information systems and data in key sectors to be "secure and controllable"....
The answer to that question is the answer to the larger issue here.
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If Apple wants to continue selling devices in China (which is a needed market for Apple, as the US market is becoming saturated), then Apple will comply with the laws of China.
it would be child's play to setup a site where every citizen could vote for (or against) proposed laws themselves, and could even change their vote at all times
Something should not be done for the sole reason that it is capable of being done.
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What problem is needs to be solved by the implementation of this? What other ways are there to solve that problem? Is one of the solutions better than the others?
To me it looks as if someone just discovered a hammer and now wants to invent nails.
There's an age old word to describe what happens in social media, it's "gossip".
Those who want change, act, Those who want to talk about change, post.
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What happens on social media is the current equivalent of talking among your friends, co-workers and acquaintances, i.e., gossip or water-cooler talk.
Those who want to do something more than just flap figuratively their lips will always do more, as they will know that social media is a pacifier and not a tool for change.
That's the one I have. I used it just last week. Sometimes taking a book off the shelf is more convenient than wading through the flood of information the Internet throws at you.
... I would suggest that there are many more examples of "successful" open source projects that have poorly designed interfaces than successful commercial closed source projects....
Maybe because there are fewer open source than proprietary projects.
The UI/UX experience is weak in many software projects, not just open source software projects.
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The premise looks at the worst of the open source software projects and compares it to the best of the proprietary software projects. That's typically how these types of comparisons are done, with a huge anti-open source bias.
If you ask the wrong questions, you're going to get the wrong answers.
. Calling them out on it is not political crap. Calling it political crap is a diversionary tactic used in an attempt to change the topic of conversation.
A plug-in architecture is good when/if the plug-ins are of similar quality to the software they are plugging in to. I've run in to some seriously buggy Thunderbird plugins.
Slashdot Mirror
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FTFY...
Been there, had that happen to me. In my instance, I even provided a link to the transcript of the TV show to justify what I had written. At that point, the editor rejected it because of a grammatical error (i.e., wrong tense on a verb). Why couldn't the editor just fix the verb's tense? Geesh.....
...suggests that a sharp decline in the retention of newcomers is the cause....
That's the symptom.
In order to solve the problem, go after the causes, not the symptoms.
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The reason for the sharp decline in retention of newcomers is the way their edits are treated. Fix that and you'll have more contributors.
...Can anyone remember when laws were made by elected officials?...
Laws still are made by elected officials. Those elected officials made the laws that gave the power to the Federal agencies to issue rulings such as the one under discussion here.
That doesn't seem to mesh with what we were taught in school.
Your should have paid more attention.
My manager used to have his Windows notebook recording all the conversations in his office, and some conversations in meetings. He said it was better than taking notes....
You are confusing PHP with Javascript.
I am aware of both PHP and JavaScript. I said nothing about PHP. My opinion about Javascript is my opinion about Javascript, not PHP. I do not confuse the two.
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JavaScript happened, it was not designed.
JavaScript was not designed by any regular use of that word. JavaScript happened.
...The law establishes basic principles for counter-terrorism work and strengthens measures of prevention, handling, punishment as well as international cooperation, he said.
Under the new bill, telecom operators and internet service providers are required to provide technical support and assistance, including decryption, to police and national security authorities in prevention and investigation of terrorist activities.
They should also prevent dissemination of information on terrorism and extremism.
Li Shouwei of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee legislative affairs commission, said the rule accorded with the actual work needed to fight terrorism and was basically the same as other major countries.
"The clause reflects lessons China has learned from other countries and is a result of wide solicitation of public opinion," he added.
"(It) will not affect companies' normal business nor install backdoors to infringe intellectual property rights, or ... citizens freedom of speech on the internet and their religious freedom," Li said.
China's national security law adopted in July also requires Internet and information technology, infrastructure, information systems and data in key sectors to be "secure and controllable"....
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If Apple wants to continue selling devices in China (which is a needed market for Apple, as the US market is becoming saturated), then Apple will comply with the laws of China.
It's as simple as that.
it would be child's play to setup a site where every citizen could vote for (or against) proposed laws themselves, and could even change their vote at all times
Something should not be done for the sole reason that it is capable of being done.
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What problem is needs to be solved by the implementation of this? What other ways are there to solve that problem? Is one of the solutions better than the others?
To me it looks as if someone just discovered a hammer and now wants to invent nails.
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I'm not sure applying such a concept to anything important is a good thing.
There's an age old word to describe what happens in social media, it's "gossip".
Those who want change, act, Those who want to talk about change, post.
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What happens on social media is the current equivalent of talking among your friends, co-workers and acquaintances, i.e., gossip or water-cooler talk.
Those who want to do something more than just flap figuratively their lips will always do more, as they will know that social media is a pacifier and not a tool for change.
The refutation of a proposition by demonstrating the inevitably absurd conclusion to which it would logically lead.
..."Man, I'd watch a lot more winter sports if this was a standard part of the game," tweeted Marc Andreessen.
Netscape or not, he sounds like an idiot with that comment. He wants more possible accidents and injury in winter sports?
That's the one I have. I used it just last week. Sometimes taking a book off the shelf is more convenient than wading through the flood of information the Internet throws at you.
... I would suggest that there are many more examples of "successful" open source projects that have poorly designed interfaces than successful commercial closed source projects. ...
Maybe because there are fewer open source than proprietary projects.
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Once again, the premise is wrong.
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The premise looks at the worst of the open source software projects and compares it to the best of the proprietary software projects. That's typically how these types of comparisons are done, with a huge anti-open source bias.
If you ask the wrong questions, you're going to get the wrong answers.
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Governments are accustomed to taking control of things. Authoritative governments even more so.
The Internet is now in a proxy war for ownership according to the "land-grab" rules of authoritative regimes --- if you can grab it, it is yours.
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Calling them out on it is not political crap. Calling it political crap is a diversionary tactic used in an attempt to change the topic of conversation.
...a plugin architecture...
A plug-in architecture is good when/if the plug-ins are of similar quality to the software they are plugging in to. I've run in to some seriously buggy Thunderbird plugins.
Facebook would expect me to upload my birth certificate and/or passport to be used in their people catalog?
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The things that the townspeople said were correctly quoted and, imo, properly ridiculed.
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But the Internet was laughing so hard, that it was not able to get the entire story.
Each Do Not Track cookie will have a serial number that cannot be used for tracking purposes. /sarcasm
I don't believe that this action by Phillips is arbitrary.
imo, it is definitely not arbitrary. Whether it is just a bad tactic or part of a misguided strategy is unknown to me.
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Regardless, Philips is now an ex-company for me.
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My first CD player (purchased in 1985) was a Philps (with a Magnavox nameplate). I've also purchased other Philips products since then.
I will no longer buy Philips products so long as they are aggressively DRM-happy.