Heh, good luck with that. In an ideal world these laws would have been repealed the instant they ceased to be relevant. But the fact of the matter is, we don't live in an ideal world, and so these laws have built up into some sort of enormous unstoppable behemoth. We just have to keep pushing at it until it topples, I guess.
Is this supposed to be some sort of metaphor for what was missed in all those sex-ed classes? It's all ok so long as you disconnect before you start to upload...
So what you're effectively saying is that one non-pirate copy is not unequal to a lost sale? Or did you mean that the statement "a non-pirate non-copy is not unequal to a non-lost non-sale" is not untrue?
Yeah, we here may all know that the record industry has been lying through its teeth, but at least now we have some proper studies proving it. Now there isn't a single government in the world that has any excuse to cave into their outrageous demands. And if they do? Well, who's to say what might happen.
Yeah,.tv stands for Tuvalu. They were quite lucky that their ccTLD happened to be so useful. Many other small islands and developing nations tried to jump on the same bandwagon, and failed horribly.
Okay, so maybe it doesn't apply in this situation, but I'd say it's a clear indication, as is TFA, of how politics in the US has shot way over to the right wing. And that can't be a good thing.
This comment got me thinking. It seems that US currency has gone through many different changes over the years, and yet it's all still legal tender, resulting in a confusing mish-mash of coins and bills and whatnot. Is there any reason why all this currency is kept as legal tender? Here in the UK, when a new coin is introduced the old one is gradually phased out, with lots of public notices about the change. Then after a while the old coin ceases to be legal tender, although it can still be exchanged at banks. This seems to me to be a far more sensible solution, as it avoids the confusion that can occur when there are many different coins of the same denomination.
'Try not to confuse the poor cashier' is a nice sentiment, and it's all well and good if you're a patient person. But some people are just stubborn, and if they know they're in the right then they won't alter their habits. People should not ever get chucked in a cell just because they're stubborn.
So... it's a sad day today?
In this day and age science is not getting anywhere near the level of funding that it needs to keep the current rate of technological advancement. More and more companies are shutting down their R&D departments, because they can't be bothered to wait for the science to come to fruition. Science is all about long term benifits, but many companies can't be bothered to wait, even though in the long term it brings huge advantages. And the same is true of government funding as well. In many countries, science is not getting the level of governmental support that it requires. There are less people studying science subjects at university; some universities are closing down their science departments. This is a very serious problem that is endemic to the whole of society.
I'm wondering if this whole LUA thing is going to have any effect at all. I read somewhere that Longhorn is going to feature 'one click installation of executable email attatchments'. Erm, security risk?
Those are my thoughts exactly. The terminology has been around for years, most of it is self-explanatory... there's really no excuse for not knowing. All that TFA really does is confirm what I've always said: lusers are stupid.
The sad thing is that people do open strange file attatchments. I don't really expect this behavious to significantly change on phones. People who make software, whether for PC or mobile phone just have to account for the fact that users are stupid.
I'd say they'll be wanting to make these phones secure, and be sharp about it. Fair enough, these phones with sophisticated OSes are fairly new, and you might expect them to get hit by viruses to start with, but now that the first few viruses have struck the phone companies are going to want to get these phones as secure as possible, so that they can't get attacked so easily in future. Obviously, there's going to be a need to continued updates, as viruses continue to develop and evolve, but more basic levels of protection need to be introduced first.
As I am reading TFA now, I cannot conceive of how any rightly thinking person could possibly believe the sheer amount of tripe that this poor excuse for a newspaper provides. Do people actually pay for the dead tree version of this? I'm completely shocked as to how this can possibly be called journalism. That article is so wrong on so many levels that I just don't know where to begin.
The article says that the World will approved a highly controversial dam in Laos, noting that this dam will endanger the environment and the indigenous people's lifestyle. In the past projects similar to this have been shown to have caused irreperable damage to the environment. And how does the article justify this? Laos needs 'electricity and development'. A dam like this isn't going to improve the quality of life overnight. There are far more effective ways to help developing countries, both economically and environmentally. I really don't understand why the World Bank keeps on pushing dangerous projects like this without any recourse to common sense.
And then "People who care about this institution and its mission -- as many of Mr. Wolfowitz's detractors do -- should think carefully before they damage it by attacking its new boss." I think that statement is hugely inflated with hyperbole. I say that leaders should be criticised. No leader is going to do things in such a way as to satisfy everybody, and so if a leader exists that doesn't have their detractors, I'd say that's a fair indication that somebody is suppressing free speech. And by telling people not to criticise Wolfowitz, that's exactly what the Post is trying to do. Sure, it's a very minor attempt, and not entirely effective, but that's how these things always start out, with little insignificant things. And lets face it, Wolfowitz has done some bad things in the past, so there is no reason why he shouldn't be criticised.
This article also assumes that the people doing the 'attacking' do care about the institution. I certainly don't. I reckon we'd all me much better off if the World Bank had never existed. I read another comment saying how the World Bank shouldn't cancel the debts of developing countries, because their whole purpose is to give out loans. But this comment misses a very fundamental point. Banks don't give out loans to people who can't repay them. For a start it's not ethical. And yet the World Bank encourages the developing countries to take out huge loans, knowing that these countries would be indebted to them for ever. That's right, interest on these loans is piling up faster than the countries can repay, so the loans will never be paid off. If any normal bank tried a scam like this, they'd be in court faster than you can scream "Cancel the debt!" If developing countries had been allowed to develop at their own pace, without any meddling from oppurtunistic money grabbers like this, they would be far more developed than they are now.
I think it's a bit late for that now. Governments around the world are starting to realise that Linux is a viable alternative to Windows.
This reminds me of what's happening with the Computing Society at my university. The society is a strong supporter of Linux, so Microsoft has been offering us free software. They have yet to mention what the catch is, so we'll have to see how it all turns out.
That really depends on whether or not they'd make that 1.4 billion back in EUROPE.
No, it really doesn't. Sure there's still the USA, but 25 billion is 25 billion. You really think Microsoft is going to throw away that much profit every year, just to save face?
I think the point he was trying to make is that it costs more to put it there in the first place than it does to keep it there. The cost of continued funding is far outweighed by the benefits that Hubble brings.
Won't somebody think of the children!
Nice to see that they're still churning out complete screw-up policies like this. Oh wait, no it's not. Damn. It really saddens me how society seems to be going right down the drain, and the people who are supposed to be preventing this are usually the ones that end up causing it. This situation is a perfect example of why I really dislike the concept of politicians. Lets see, a group of people who desperately want lots of personal power. Uh, hello? Alarm bells ringing!
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Simple answer: Do exactly the same back to them. Might not acheive anything, but it'll be fun.
Heh, good luck with that. In an ideal world these laws would have been repealed the instant they ceased to be relevant. But the fact of the matter is, we don't live in an ideal world, and so these laws have built up into some sort of enormous unstoppable behemoth. We just have to keep pushing at it until it topples, I guess.
Is this supposed to be some sort of metaphor for what was missed in all those sex-ed classes? It's all ok so long as you disconnect before you start to upload...
*brainsneeze*
Yeah, we here may all know that the record industry has been lying through its teeth, but at least now we have some proper studies proving it. Now there isn't a single government in the world that has any excuse to cave into their outrageous demands. And if they do? Well, who's to say what might happen.
Evidently someone who got the joke.
Yeah, .tv stands for Tuvalu. They were quite lucky that their ccTLD happened to be so useful. Many other small islands and developing nations tried to jump on the same bandwagon, and failed horribly.
Hell, I found this three days ago. I'd almost given up hope that it would find its way to /.
Did you also miss the part of the story where he'd 'forgotten' to pay for the installation, because they told him that there was no installation fee.
I don't. There are plenty of places in the world that aren't actually part of the US, so $2 bills are kinda rare there.
Okay, so maybe it doesn't apply in this situation, but I'd say it's a clear indication, as is TFA, of how politics in the US has shot way over to the right wing. And that can't be a good thing.
This comment got me thinking. It seems that US currency has gone through many different changes over the years, and yet it's all still legal tender, resulting in a confusing mish-mash of coins and bills and whatnot. Is there any reason why all this currency is kept as legal tender? Here in the UK, when a new coin is introduced the old one is gradually phased out, with lots of public notices about the change. Then after a while the old coin ceases to be legal tender, although it can still be exchanged at banks. This seems to me to be a far more sensible solution, as it avoids the confusion that can occur when there are many different coins of the same denomination.
'Try not to confuse the poor cashier' is a nice sentiment, and it's all well and good if you're a patient person. But some people are just stubborn, and if they know they're in the right then they won't alter their habits. People should not ever get chucked in a cell just because they're stubborn.
Is it just me, or does this sound like Microsoft wants users to write their encyclopedia for them?
So... it's a sad day today?
In this day and age science is not getting anywhere near the level of funding that it needs to keep the current rate of technological advancement. More and more companies are shutting down their R&D departments, because they can't be bothered to wait for the science to come to fruition. Science is all about long term benifits, but many companies can't be bothered to wait, even though in the long term it brings huge advantages. And the same is true of government funding as well. In many countries, science is not getting the level of governmental support that it requires. There are less people studying science subjects at university; some universities are closing down their science departments. This is a very serious problem that is endemic to the whole of society.
I'm wondering if this whole LUA thing is going to have any effect at all. I read somewhere that Longhorn is going to feature 'one click installation of executable email attatchments'. Erm, security risk?
Those are my thoughts exactly. The terminology has been around for years, most of it is self-explanatory... there's really no excuse for not knowing. All that TFA really does is confirm what I've always said: lusers are stupid.
The sad thing is that people do open strange file attatchments. I don't really expect this behavious to significantly change on phones. People who make software, whether for PC or mobile phone just have to account for the fact that users are stupid.
I'd say they'll be wanting to make these phones secure, and be sharp about it. Fair enough, these phones with sophisticated OSes are fairly new, and you might expect them to get hit by viruses to start with, but now that the first few viruses have struck the phone companies are going to want to get these phones as secure as possible, so that they can't get attacked so easily in future. Obviously, there's going to be a need to continued updates, as viruses continue to develop and evolve, but more basic levels of protection need to be introduced first.
The article says that the World will approved a highly controversial dam in Laos, noting that this dam will endanger the environment and the indigenous people's lifestyle. In the past projects similar to this have been shown to have caused irreperable damage to the environment. And how does the article justify this? Laos needs 'electricity and development'. A dam like this isn't going to improve the quality of life overnight. There are far more effective ways to help developing countries, both economically and environmentally. I really don't understand why the World Bank keeps on pushing dangerous projects like this without any recourse to common sense.
And then "People who care about this institution and its mission -- as many of Mr. Wolfowitz's detractors do -- should think carefully before they damage it by attacking its new boss." I think that statement is hugely inflated with hyperbole. I say that leaders should be criticised. No leader is going to do things in such a way as to satisfy everybody, and so if a leader exists that doesn't have their detractors, I'd say that's a fair indication that somebody is suppressing free speech. And by telling people not to criticise Wolfowitz, that's exactly what the Post is trying to do. Sure, it's a very minor attempt, and not entirely effective, but that's how these things always start out, with little insignificant things. And lets face it, Wolfowitz has done some bad things in the past, so there is no reason why he shouldn't be criticised.
This article also assumes that the people doing the 'attacking' do care about the institution. I certainly don't. I reckon we'd all me much better off if the World Bank had never existed. I read another comment saying how the World Bank shouldn't cancel the debts of developing countries, because their whole purpose is to give out loans. But this comment misses a very fundamental point. Banks don't give out loans to people who can't repay them. For a start it's not ethical. And yet the World Bank encourages the developing countries to take out huge loans, knowing that these countries would be indebted to them for ever. That's right, interest on these loans is piling up faster than the countries can repay, so the loans will never be paid off. If any normal bank tried a scam like this, they'd be in court faster than you can scream "Cancel the debt!" If developing countries had been allowed to develop at their own pace, without any meddling from oppurtunistic money grabbers like this, they would be far more developed than they are now.
I think it's a bit late for that now. Governments around the world are starting to realise that Linux is a viable alternative to Windows.
This reminds me of what's happening with the Computing Society at my university. The society is a strong supporter of Linux, so Microsoft has been offering us free software. They have yet to mention what the catch is, so we'll have to see how it all turns out.
No, it really doesn't. Sure there's still the USA, but 25 billion is 25 billion. You really think Microsoft is going to throw away that much profit every year, just to save face?
I think the point he was trying to make is that it costs more to put it there in the first place than it does to keep it there. The cost of continued funding is far outweighed by the benefits that Hubble brings.
Hey, I'm opposed to all corporate interests. It's called 'anti-capitalism'. A lot of people believe in it.
Won't somebody think of the children!
Nice to see that they're still churning out complete screw-up policies like this. Oh wait, no it's not. Damn. It really saddens me how society seems to be going right down the drain, and the people who are supposed to be preventing this are usually the ones that end up causing it. This situation is a perfect example of why I really dislike the concept of politicians. Lets see, a group of people who desperately want lots of personal power. Uh, hello? Alarm bells ringing!