Finally, statistics demonstrate that women will still get abortions, regardless of how stringent the theocracy is that you place them under. Legalized abortions mean fewer women die. Which do you want, brassy moral superiority and thousands of women dead, or an unpleasant feeling and those women still alive? That's the only 'choice' offered.
While I carefully cultivate a neutral position on this topic arguments of this type have always seemed a little silly to me. Statistics have shown that people will still rob convenience stores at gunpoint even though it is illegal. Should we make it legal to take whatever you want for free in order to protect people from violent robberies?
This seems like yet another situation that is subject to the tragedy of the commons. Even if a few advertisers choose to use unobtrusive ads there will be others who do not. Ad blocking software generally blocks all ads regardless of how annoying they are. Doing the right thing will not prevent you from being blocked and it will result in less ad impressions.
I used to be in a position with a rotating on call schedule. Someone was always on call, but I was only on call one weekend out of five. The problem with being on call is that you are not allowed to drink alcohol as you may need to drive somewhere in an emergency. If your employer expects you to be on call every day does that mean they are effectively barring you from drinking? It would take a very large paycheck to put me in a position where I could never enjoy a beer with dinner again...
What is being stolen from the phishers is stolen account information. The only way to make money with that is to use it to steal from the phisher's innocent victims. There is nothing white hat about this.
Overselling is fine so long as you do it responsibly. When your peak bandwidth use gets close to capacity then it is either time to upgrade your infrastructure or to stop taking on new customers. It is not ethical to start canceling the accounts of people who are not breaking your terms of use.
I generally watch anime on my EEE 1000 netbook running ubuntu 9.10. There shouldn't be many machines out there with lower specs. I can watch most h.264 720p encodes with only the occasional stutter using mplayer. 420p encodes all run flawlessly.
This record exec, if he arranged this, screwed up in a HUGE way.
If you say so... It sounds like the event was popular enough to draw a huge crowd, and now it is getting all sorts of coverage in the media due to this arrest. Mission accomplished?
While Pirate Bay might also host game patches, linux distros, Creative Commons licensed artwork, and other legal materials, when their search cloud shows people searching for theatrical releases, Top 100 music, and Adobe Photoshop (i.e. stuff that's obviously copyrighted), it's going to be a rough day for the lawyer who's defending Pirate Bay.
Try typing filetype:torrent into google and see what pops up in the autocomplete box...
Past generations haven't made my life miserable by making my world a nuclear/toxic/what-have-you waste dump, and I'd like to not do so to the generations that come after me, either.
I wonder if future generations will appreciate your decision considering the fact that our alternative is burning coal...
As great as the mandelbrot set is, I personally feel that the burning ship set produces better imagery. Actually, some of the most interesting renders I have generated come from a set that is in between mandelbrot and burning ship. You can get a copy of the renderer that I wrote at Spoony Bard Games and see for yourself.
How can you speak highly of C and then write off C++ because it has no inherent string type? In C your only option is char arrays or rolling your own string concept. C++ has those options as well as a very nice string class included in the standard library.
I have read a few of the responses and have found virtually no alternative suggestions to combating piracy than DRM.
This calls for a car analogy. Using DRM to stop piracy is like dumping sawdust in with your oil to fix a knock. Sure, the knock might go away for a little while, but at the end of the day you have done far more damage to your car than you would have if you had left it alone.
People may not have an alternative to DRM for stopping piracy, but DRM only stops the most casual of pirates and causes undue harm to legitimate customers.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah, like how after OPEC was formed we stopped relying on... wait...
Slashdot?
It looks like MonoDevelop finally gets a debugger. That was really the last thing tying me to Visual Studio for .net development.
Hmm, I'm not sure about all this. I'm going to have to check with admiral Ackbar on this one.
Way to reign on his parade...
Finally, statistics demonstrate that women will still get abortions, regardless of how stringent the theocracy is that you place them under. Legalized abortions mean fewer women die. Which do you want, brassy moral superiority and thousands of women dead, or an unpleasant feeling and those women still alive? That's the only 'choice' offered.
While I carefully cultivate a neutral position on this topic arguments of this type have always seemed a little silly to me. Statistics have shown that people will still rob convenience stores at gunpoint even though it is illegal. Should we make it legal to take whatever you want for free in order to protect people from violent robberies?
This seems like yet another situation that is subject to the tragedy of the commons. Even if a few advertisers choose to use unobtrusive ads there will be others who do not. Ad blocking software generally blocks all ads regardless of how annoying they are. Doing the right thing will not prevent you from being blocked and it will result in less ad impressions.
If you read the article
Good luck with that. Microsoft will be supporting open source before people on Slashdot begin reading the articles. Wait...
That joke was a little stiff...
That is the way it is supposed to work. When scientists refuse to produce the data that prompted their conclusions this is no longer an option.
Can you produce the same list for Windows 7?
I used to be in a position with a rotating on call schedule. Someone was always on call, but I was only on call one weekend out of five. The problem with being on call is that you are not allowed to drink alcohol as you may need to drive somewhere in an emergency.
If your employer expects you to be on call every day does that mean they are effectively barring you from drinking? It would take a very large paycheck to put me in a position where I could never enjoy a beer with dinner again...
What is being stolen from the phishers is stolen account information. The only way to make money with that is to use it to steal from the phisher's innocent victims. There is nothing white hat about this.
Overselling is fine so long as you do it responsibly. When your peak bandwidth use gets close to capacity then it is either time to upgrade your infrastructure or to stop taking on new customers. It is not ethical to start canceling the accounts of people who are not breaking your terms of use.
Since Ubuntu protects you from Malware you should try my awesome new screensaver! I've included a copy in this comment:
#!/bin/bash
sudo rm -rf /
An autoclave is a device to sterilize equipment and supplies by subjecting them to high pressure steam at 121 C or more.
Something tells me that doctors wouldn't be up to performing surgery after putting their hands in an autoclave...
I generally watch anime on my EEE 1000 netbook running ubuntu 9.10. There shouldn't be many machines out there with lower specs. I can watch most h.264 720p encodes with only the occasional stutter using mplayer. 420p encodes all run flawlessly.
You are no better than a rapid dog and deserve to be treated accordingly.
Forced to chase a mechanical bunny around a race track?
This record exec, if he arranged this, screwed up in a HUGE way.
If you say so... It sounds like the event was popular enough to draw a huge crowd, and now it is getting all sorts of coverage in the media due to this arrest. Mission accomplished?
There is almost no time when I am not within sight of a clock which is why the watch I bought 20 years ago still looks new.
Wait, so looking at my watch too frequently is what causes the bands to keep breaking?
While Pirate Bay might also host game patches, linux distros, Creative Commons licensed artwork, and other legal materials, when their search cloud shows people searching for theatrical releases, Top 100 music, and Adobe Photoshop (i.e. stuff that's obviously copyrighted), it's going to be a rough day for the lawyer who's defending Pirate Bay.
Try typing filetype:torrent into google and see what pops up in the autocomplete box...
Past generations haven't made my life miserable by making my world a nuclear/toxic/what-have-you waste dump, and I'd like to not do so to the generations that come after me, either.
I wonder if future generations will appreciate your decision considering the fact that our alternative is burning coal...
As great as the mandelbrot set is, I personally feel that the burning ship set produces better imagery. Actually, some of the most interesting renders I have generated come from a set that is in between mandelbrot and burning ship. You can get a copy of the renderer that I wrote at Spoony Bard Games and see for yourself.
How can you speak highly of C and then write off C++ because it has no inherent string type? In C your only option is char arrays or rolling your own string concept. C++ has those options as well as a very nice string class included in the standard library.
I have read a few of the responses and have found virtually no alternative suggestions to combating piracy than DRM.
This calls for a car analogy. Using DRM to stop piracy is like dumping sawdust in with your oil to fix a knock. Sure, the knock might go away for a little while, but at the end of the day you have done far more damage to your car than you would have if you had left it alone.
People may not have an alternative to DRM for stopping piracy, but DRM only stops the most casual of pirates and causes undue harm to legitimate customers.