"The short article tells us how, under legislation to be introduced this week"
that says to me that it's just legislation that will be introduced and hasn't become a law yet.
not that i claim any familiarity with the australian system of government, but here in the states when new legislation is introduced it's not that amazing, it's if it passes in the house and senate and passes the president's veto power that it becomes law... can anyone shed further light?
first of all, ICANN is an 'internationally organized, non-profit corporation', not entirely one nation. May I remind you the Internet is an entirely American invention and if you think the US wouldn't get just as much push and shove over the internet via the U.N. you'd be dead wrong. Granted we may need something new/different other than ICANN, but in the end I doubt much will change.
you make a good point about community run services sometimes being a better way to go, especially with your small town scenario, but now i'll point out why.
for a buisness to roll out services to a small group of people (5000 is small to a large corporation), it has to be profitable. all those and all 5000 are not necessarily going to want or need said service, especially in a small town.
for example, the cell phone deal. those cell towers they will have to probably place multiple of cost ALOT of money. and they have to buy the land to put them on and run cable to them and upkeep them, etc. then maybe, 10%? of your town MIGHT decide to get service, well, 500 people is nothing. nothing. they make no profit there, they end up WAY in the hole.
but when it's community run, everyone in the community could add a local sales tax addition for example, then the town (on land it already owns) can roll out the services and everyone can receive them. maybe no the best quality, and definitely won't be fixed/repaired as fast or as good of customer service but it will be provided.
all in all i think it should be the local government/people's choice whether or not to go with community driven or corporate driven.
if they want corporate later on? that's fine, the cable is already laid and they can use that to bug the corporate people into just switching over their services.
school wise it's probably one of the biggest tech centers in Louisiana. Not great compared to some northern states, but they were one of the few to compete in that final robotics thing for the defense department.
there are other little spurts of growth that take care of us southern geeks as well, you just have to hunt harder =)
Dude, i loved that game. On my Apple IIe i'd play it for ages as a kid.
It had these little different scenes after a level. And yeah. It was just COOL.
actually now that i think about it, i probably learned more and had more fun with my Apple IIe then any other computer. It was just simple and all the games we interesting/fun but also tied in good skills.
man in the middle attacks...for firefox extensions?
isn't that a little bit of extreme paranoia?
oh wait, this is slashdot =)
agreed, domain trust is a poor solution, and GPG signing would be nice. but...the magic bullet is for the user to not be stupid and pay attention to what they are allowing their browser to install.
if the end user used common sense when installing software from the internet, you'd probably cut down 90% of all spyware/adware/etc; assuming they're using firefox. if they use IE they're just doomed.
the problem is people tend to get this 'oh look i'm stupid' syndrome when they use computers. they tend to become illiterate and not read what their screen says and just click buttons. they then also tend to not notice that something is way different that what they've done before. in addition tend to be utterly trusting of EVERYTHING involving a computer. i suppose windows could be to blame for spoonfeeding the user in the past. but yech! people need to use their brains!
i bet if i send said 'stupid' users something in the mail saying 'you could win $1,000,000! Just mail us back your credit card number and we'll automatically enter you!" they're going to throw it away or call someone. just computers make people stupid, it's plain SAD.
err Firefox doesn't really let you do that extremely easily
you'll click on the 'extensions' file firefox will pop up with a notice up top that you need to add that to the allowed list, you do.
then you have to click it again to let firefox install it.
if something is 'signed' it would just pop up once, be like "Do you trust this certificate (not do you trust this site)", average joe is stupid and just says yes always, and then it installs.
seems to me firefox's method for extensions is actually harder than using a 'secure' certificate.
agreed, I have little reason to see why the US government would care much about software patents in the EU
and the US world opinion is already so mucked up i'm not sure most EU countries would care what the US has to say about the EU's legislation in this case
i mostly agree with the parent...
but one thing i must add on, is if you're going to use linux for a multiple server setup in which you will have to apply and manage the OS yourself, you will want to go with a distro that is decently able to make custom livecd's with packages you want for all your servers or that can do local network installs (typically using an image on the network).
then installs are just a breeze and you won't need slowish internet-download installs, and can even use binaries for those distros that tend to just compile everything to speed up the install process really fast (for example: gentoo allows such things by hand or using catalyst, but the learning curve on making such things with catalyst is high)
i believe most other distros do too, as long as their package management method supports such a thing.
another bit on accuracy:
when you fill out these little paper surveys in high school, how many people just put crap as an answer or how many people typically put what they think is the silliest answer?
i'd say only 5 to 10% of high school students ever take such surveys serious
unless the university doing the study actually phone or personally interviewed more than 100,000 students...which i doubt
somewhere some company probably thinks at my high school, everyone got laid 5+ times a day and did every single drug known to man =)
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this law states that ISPs must provide parents pr0n-filtering/blocking software for free if requested?
damn, I can't flame that.
"The short article tells us how, under legislation to be introduced this week"
that says to me that it's just legislation that will be introduced and hasn't become a law yet.
not that i claim any familiarity with the australian system of government, but here in the states when new legislation is introduced it's not that amazing, it's if it passes in the house and senate and passes the president's veto power that it becomes law...
can anyone shed further light?
in a decent apartment in good old baton rouge, louisiana; birthplace of serial killers and rapists
errr, $200 would be exactly enough to pay my months rent...
now food, that would still be a small problem.
oh and the power and water bills.
why bother slapping him?
looks senseless enough as he is.
seems to me there is a high demand for talented and creative game designers with new ideas for gameplay then.
now where might the industry find people like that!
not just out of college, never.
would make for some nice additional (fast) swapfile space =)
first of all, ICANN is an 'internationally organized, non-profit corporation', not entirely one nation.
May I remind you the Internet is an entirely American invention and if you think the US wouldn't get just as much push and shove over the internet via the U.N. you'd be dead wrong.
Granted we may need something new/different other than ICANN, but in the end I doubt much will change.
you make a good point about community run services sometimes being a better way to go, especially with your small town scenario, but now i'll point out why.
for a buisness to roll out services to a small group of people (5000 is small to a large corporation), it has to be profitable. all those and all 5000 are not necessarily going to want or need said service, especially in a small town.
for example, the cell phone deal. those cell towers they will have to probably place multiple of cost ALOT of money. and they have to buy the land to put them on and run cable to them and upkeep them, etc. then maybe, 10%? of your town MIGHT decide to get service, well, 500 people is nothing. nothing. they make no profit there, they end up WAY in the hole.
but when it's community run, everyone in the community could add a local sales tax addition for example, then the town (on land it already owns) can roll out the services and everyone can receive them. maybe no the best quality, and definitely won't be fixed/repaired as fast or as good of customer service but it will be provided.
all in all i think it should be the local government/people's choice whether or not to go with community driven or corporate driven.
if they want corporate later on? that's fine, the cable is already laid and they can use that to bug the corporate people into just switching over their services.
yeah. that's cheap.
for $25 USD you can get AOL w/ unlimited time.
or even a cheaper alternative like $10/month dialup w/ unlimited time
and i personally (since cox has a deal with the local university) pay 25/month for cable, 5mbit down, 512kbit up, and virtually no low usage cap.
school wise it's probably one of the biggest tech centers in Louisiana. Not great compared to some northern states, but they were one of the few to compete in that final robotics thing for the defense department.
there are other little spurts of growth that take care of us southern geeks as well, you just have to hunt harder =)
rawr.
this is covered in like the first 5 comments.
"Will they still tabs from Firefox!"
"Opera had it first!"
"No, actually Galleon had it before Opera"
"Bars had it before computers existed"
indeed the Josie and the Pussycats moive has alot of cool themes that pertain to the RIAA and consumers of america....
Dude, i loved that game. On my Apple IIe i'd play it for ages as a kid.
It had these little different scenes after a level. And yeah. It was just COOL.
actually now that i think about it, i probably learned more and had more fun with my Apple IIe then any other computer. It was just simple and all the games we interesting/fun but also tied in good skills.
man in the middle attacks...for firefox extensions?
isn't that a little bit of extreme paranoia?
oh wait, this is slashdot =)
agreed, domain trust is a poor solution, and GPG signing would be nice. but...the magic bullet is for the user to not be stupid and pay attention to what they are allowing their browser to install.
if the end user used common sense when installing software from the internet, you'd probably cut down 90% of all spyware/adware/etc; assuming they're using firefox. if they use IE they're just doomed.
the problem is people tend to get this 'oh look i'm stupid' syndrome when they use computers. they tend to become illiterate and not read what their screen says and just click buttons. they then also tend to not notice that something is way different that what they've done before. in addition tend to be utterly trusting of EVERYTHING involving a computer. i suppose windows could be to blame for spoonfeeding the user in the past. but yech! people need to use their brains!
i bet if i send said 'stupid' users something in the mail saying 'you could win $1,000,000! Just mail us back your credit card number and we'll automatically enter you!" they're going to throw it away or call someone. just computers make people stupid, it's plain SAD.
I feel extremely sorry for you then.
Because it took me only 15 to 20 minutes (including compile time) to get my kernel 'just right'. =)
err Firefox doesn't really let you do that extremely easily
you'll click on the 'extensions' file
firefox will pop up with a notice up top that you need to add that to the allowed list, you do.
then you have to click it again to let firefox install it.
if something is 'signed' it would just pop up once, be like "Do you trust this certificate (not do you trust this site)", average joe is stupid and just says yes always, and then it installs.
seems to me firefox's method for extensions is actually harder than using a 'secure' certificate.
the point of a certificate is NOT to verify that the company/person is a trustworthy company/person
it's to verify that the software is FROM the person/company on the certificate
certificates verify identification/authentication -- they are NOT an indication of trustyworthy software, nor are they supposed to be.
the problem is literacy and common sense, something that many people seem to lose the minute they touch a computer.
agreed, I have little reason to see why the US government would care much about software patents in the EU
and the US world opinion is already so mucked up i'm not sure most EU countries would care what the US has to say about the EU's legislation in this case
couldn't we just also just make a small 'asteroid' with a fairly high rotation rate? (perhaps using a tiny piece of the moon)
are you not programed to do a set of behavior probabilities, based on horomones, genes, pheremones, etc?
is it that much different?
i suspect one day in the near future we will have a hard(er) time of defining what is 'having consciousness' and 'sentience'.
thanks bunches =D
bah, is there a way to make slashdot interpet \n as
? it makes me sad to have to type
all the time (and it makes my comments read wrong too)
i mostly agree with the parent... but one thing i must add on, is if you're going to use linux for a multiple server setup in which you will have to apply and manage the OS yourself, you will want to go with a distro that is decently able to make custom livecd's with packages you want for all your servers or that can do local network installs (typically using an image on the network). then installs are just a breeze and you won't need slowish internet-download installs, and can even use binaries for those distros that tend to just compile everything to speed up the install process really fast (for example: gentoo allows such things by hand or using catalyst, but the learning curve on making such things with catalyst is high) i believe most other distros do too, as long as their package management method supports such a thing.
another bit on accuracy: when you fill out these little paper surveys in high school, how many people just put crap as an answer or how many people typically put what they think is the silliest answer? i'd say only 5 to 10% of high school students ever take such surveys serious unless the university doing the study actually phone or personally interviewed more than 100,000 students...which i doubt somewhere some company probably thinks at my high school, everyone got laid 5+ times a day and did every single drug known to man =)