Please take a minute to support free speech and Wikipedia!
Ah, if only I had mod points I'd mod you funny. Seriously though, free speech and Wikipedia are words that you often see together in the one place - unless there's the "wikinazi" or "censor" in between them.
Everyone's else's free speech is curtailed on Wikipedia, so it's only fair that the Muslim's get their piece of the pie.
Including, and most especially, those who work for it. For example. Just another scary example of the lack of ethics at the heart of wikiality.
Or you could chose this further example of its integrity.
Wikipedia is perfect for everyone with an axe to grind or an agenda to push. It's just the best site in the world for fundamentalists. Why should Muslims be exempt from that opportunity?
This is probably some lame marketing hype that implies that since they use a 30 bit number they have a billion id's. Probably 1,073,741,824 to be exact.
Yep. And the other poster is also quite correct. Numbers like this quoted by tech companies are meaningless raised to the power of meaningless. We've all seen eBay, Myspace, Facebook, etc boast about number of users using stats like these.
At best they are counting the number of times someone's registered, and since many people register more than one account, and/or try things out and then never use them again, the number is a fraudulent and manipulative misrepresentation of actual user numbers. Always is.
Always remember: come the revolution the marketing droids get it first. No mercy. Society does not need marketing droids.
No. You missed my point... and you need to read some history.
The mechanisms to control society are firmly in place. If you are evil, this has to be attractive. There WILL be evil people trying to get into power. Now, or soon.
Now these evil people are not going to base their campaign on "hello, I'm evil, vote for me". They will SEEM to be perfect candidates. Just as Hitler did, just as Mussolini did, just as many other examples did.
The difference is, right now, the infrastructure is already in place. Once in power you can be evil all you want and there's nothing to stop you, short of revolution -- which bearing in mind the obesity, alcohol dependency, and apathy of most US and UK citizens, won't be successful.
Again, there WILL be evil people trying to get into power. The temptation is too great, government has far too much power. Those people will not seem evil. One of them will eventually succeed in gaining that power.
Or foolishly, like the Germans in the 1930's you can assume everything will be fine and the ballot box is the voice of truth. The government is not the problem really, of course politicians are greedy and corrupt -- all of them. Always are, always have been, always will be. It is those who are accepting and trusting of them that are the real danger to society.
Presumably the prequel to 1984 would have shown Big Brother to be a charismatic politician preaching what a democratic majority wanted to hear. The need for security only reasonably matched the need to protect against Oceania's enemies... He was respected, and his election was a free choice. He then began to change little things slowly.
Or...
A prior honest President genuinely though the security measures were necessary. Then a corrupt Big Brother saw that the mechanisms created could be exploited and was attracted to power. He then said all the right things and got himself elected. The tools to control were already in place.
Well, today in the US, and especially the UK, those mechanisms are already firmly in place. Even if your current government is not evil, there's nothing stopping the next one so being. With the new powers one can wield what evil person wouldn't want to gain control? One eventually will come to power. It is inevitable.
The joy that is 2008 continues. First we'll lose Yahoo, then AOL gets some more nails in their coffin and NOW...
...eBay is committing corporate suicide!
While admittedly this is a change that has needed to happen for a very long time -- eBay is overrun by crooked sellers -- this is sure to drive away yet more honest sellers away from eBay. You have to be really determined to sell there. You have to really need to - it's far from fun already, and it's hard to make money if you're honest.
eBay is run by marketing droids, the majority of whom never use their product themselves -- and it shows. But maybe with this change at least we'll see the end of $1 item, $10 shipping -- something it would have been easy for eBay to deal with years ago if they cared.
Again, it shows how far search needs to come to be truly useful. If search met people's needs, companies like eBay would never need to exist.
Assuming Al Qaeda or a similar group does attempt to attack in the U.S. again, they will probably target mass transit, just as they have in Spain and Britain.
Smoke and mirrors. Sure they could. But if you block that route with heightened security measures then they can just take out a major road intersection or bridge, or many other possibilities -- essentially anywhere people gather is a security risk.
If you buy the paranoia that is...
If you believe that to be true, then the terrorists have won. Air travel is already a complete nightmare. After 6+ years of security threats you'd think that they would be able to come up with better ways of moving people through controlled spaces like airports, but no... they haven't. Lame really.
The "risks" not worth the security measures. That's not freedom. That's not a society worth defending. Try living in the UK for a while, it makes you look at China and envy its liberty.
Very true. But... If Fox News sells the risk of train hijacking the public will cheerfully remove their shoes... and in all probability also allow rectally inserted rfid chips.
Never let facts and reason get in the way of a nice heartwarming Riechstags fire.
This may be true. However, it's far too late. Real were far, far too evil to ever be fully redeemed. Microsoft look like the Pirate Bay compared to Real at the height of their Shadow.
I am surprised about this move in some ways. Mainly because I'd forgotten about Real. I assumed they went out of business, as I've not seen any reference to them for at least two years. Certainly, I'd like to think they went out of business. I, for one, will never use their player again. Once bitten...
I'd trust Real as far as I would the RIAA starting up their own bittorrent site. There's a dark evil lurking in there somewhere still.
A company, that is dying evermore quickly by the day it seems, is shedding some of its users to another company. One that is, to all intents and purposes, long dead after committing suicide a few years back by installing what was essentially a virus into people's computers.
I think that's pretty much it, isn't it? Yep, still makes no sense.
Quite correct. Likely the only outcome of this is that the ISP in question starts bleeding 1,000s of customers per day.
Proxies, alternative sites, usenet, etc. etc. Plenty of alternatives. They will never win with this approach. All they are doing in criminalizing the majority of their population. Which is foolish since politicians are supposed to represent their citizens and not the interests of overseas companies.
Not that any of them do truly represent the majority of citizens of course.
Ron Paul has a fanatical support base, at least they contribute money. And they are vocal all over the internet. However, this hasn't translated to him even breaking into the double digits, much less winning ANY of the primaries.
Yes. All over the Internet. All over it. In every country. On websites that are not hosted in the US, on websites that are not even in English.
And those of us who do not live in the United States, nor are United States citizens, are absolutely sick and tired of that spamming piece of trash Ron Paul. He should be in prison for spam.
layout change... disconcerted...confused... make. it. stop....
ok... trying to focus...
Top 10 lists. Is it just me? Or does everyone when they see any kind of "top 10" list they immediately think:
1. Lazy worthless journalists.
2. Product placement / viral marketing / ad by stealth
I need to work 10 list of things I'd like to do to journalists. But it'll have to wait until after I have recovered from the brain damage that is this new layout...
In a free market it is only right that there is a choice of carrier.
However, the mobile phone industry is one where to all intents and purposes the choices are "rock" and "hard place". Which makes me wonder if it really matters in this case.
Phone companies are not your friends. They are not out to give you a good, nor fair, deal. Not one of them. Every transaction with them is one of compromise. Regardless of whatever your contract says you'll be paying the same amount of money either way, with any provider. The contract serves only to confuse and confound you into believe you are getting what you are looking for.
I'm really not convinced it makes any difference whatsoever which one you sign up with. You will be screwed one way or the other.
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Everyone's else's free speech is curtailed on Wikipedia, so it's only fair that the Muslim's get their piece of the pie.
Scientology, Ayn Rand anyone?
after all everyone else does...
Including, and most especially, those who work for it. For example. Just another scary example of the lack of ethics at the heart of wikiality.
Or you could chose this further example of its integrity.
Wikipedia is perfect for everyone with an axe to grind or an agenda to push. It's just the best site in the world for fundamentalists. Why should Muslims be exempt from that opportunity?
As with all things fashionable and yet ultimately empty, Facebook seems to have matured. It's not the next big thing any more. It's so last year.
...cue mass Facebook protest in 5, 4, 3, ...
At best they are counting the number of times someone's registered, and since many people register more than one account, and/or try things out and then never use them again, the number is a fraudulent and manipulative misrepresentation of actual user numbers. Always is.
Always remember: come the revolution the marketing droids get it first. No mercy. Society does not need marketing droids.
No. You missed my point... and you need to read some history.
The mechanisms to control society are firmly in place. If you are evil, this has to be attractive. There WILL be evil people trying to get into power. Now, or soon.
Now these evil people are not going to base their campaign on "hello, I'm evil, vote for me". They will SEEM to be perfect candidates. Just as Hitler did, just as Mussolini did, just as many other examples did.
The difference is, right now, the infrastructure is already in place. Once in power you can be evil all you want and there's nothing to stop you, short of revolution -- which bearing in mind the obesity, alcohol dependency, and apathy of most US and UK citizens, won't be successful.
Again, there WILL be evil people trying to get into power. The temptation is too great, government has far too much power. Those people will not seem evil. One of them will eventually succeed in gaining that power.
Or foolishly, like the Germans in the 1930's you can assume everything will be fine and the ballot box is the voice of truth. The government is not the problem really, of course politicians are greedy and corrupt -- all of them. Always are, always have been, always will be. It is those who are accepting and trusting of them that are the real danger to society.
Presumably the prequel to 1984 would have shown Big Brother to be a charismatic politician preaching what a democratic majority wanted to hear. The need for security only reasonably matched the need to protect against Oceania's enemies... He was respected, and his election was a free choice. He then began to change little things slowly.
Or...
A prior honest President genuinely though the security measures were necessary. Then a corrupt Big Brother saw that the mechanisms created could be exploited and was attracted to power. He then said all the right things and got himself elected. The tools to control were already in place.
Well, today in the US, and especially the UK, those mechanisms are already firmly in place. Even if your current government is not evil, there's nothing stopping the next one so being. With the new powers one can wield what evil person wouldn't want to gain control? One eventually will come to power. It is inevitable.
It's probably already too late.
The joy that is 2008 continues. First we'll lose Yahoo, then AOL gets some more nails in their coffin and NOW...
...eBay is committing corporate suicide!
While admittedly this is a change that has needed to happen for a very long time -- eBay is overrun by crooked sellers -- this is sure to drive away yet more honest sellers away from eBay. You have to be really determined to sell there. You have to really need to - it's far from fun already, and it's hard to make money if you're honest.
eBay is run by marketing droids, the majority of whom never use their product themselves -- and it shows. But maybe with this change at least we'll see the end of $1 item, $10 shipping -- something it would have been easy for eBay to deal with years ago if they cared.
Again, it shows how far search needs to come to be truly useful. If search met people's needs, companies like eBay would never need to exist.
If you buy the paranoia that is...
If you believe that to be true, then the terrorists have won. Air travel is already a complete nightmare. After 6+ years of security threats you'd think that they would be able to come up with better ways of moving people through controlled spaces like airports, but no... they haven't. Lame really.
The "risks" not worth the security measures. That's not freedom. That's not a society worth defending. Try living in the UK for a while, it makes you look at China and envy its liberty.
Very true. But... If Fox News sells the risk of train hijacking the public will cheerfully remove their shoes... and in all probability also allow rectally inserted rfid chips.
Never let facts and reason get in the way of a nice heartwarming Riechstags fire.
It's wonderful! 2008 may be a great year! Both Yahoo and AOL may soon be no more.
Now if we can just find a way to rid ourselves of eBay, Real, Symantec and a few others...
Ron Paul is still the biggest spammer on the Internet today, and should be imprisoned for same.
I seem his name much more frequently than viägra, online degrees, and fake rolex. I am tired of it. I doubt I am alone.
Oh, joy. Paultards have taken to spamming in-comment now...
This may be true. However, it's far too late. Real were far, far too evil to ever be fully redeemed. Microsoft look like the Pirate Bay compared to Real at the height of their Shadow.
I am surprised about this move in some ways. Mainly because I'd forgotten about Real. I assumed they went out of business, as I've not seen any reference to them for at least two years. Certainly, I'd like to think they went out of business. I, for one, will never use their player again. Once bitten...
I'd trust Real as far as I would the RIAA starting up their own bittorrent site. There's a dark evil lurking in there somewhere still.
So, let me get this straight...
A company, that is dying evermore quickly by the day it seems, is shedding some of its users to another company. One that is, to all intents and purposes, long dead after committing suicide a few years back by installing what was essentially a virus into people's computers.
I think that's pretty much it, isn't it? Yep, still makes no sense.
It's time for one of Leif Ericson's descendants to claim North America as his ancestral land and send the *IAA back down to Hel.
Quite correct. Likely the only outcome of this is that the ISP in question starts bleeding 1,000s of customers per day.
Proxies, alternative sites, usenet, etc. etc. Plenty of alternatives. They will never win with this approach. All they are doing in criminalizing the majority of their population. Which is foolish since politicians are supposed to represent their citizens and not the interests of overseas companies.
Not that any of them do truly represent the majority of citizens of course.
And those of us who do not live in the United States, nor are United States citizens, are absolutely sick and tired of that spamming piece of trash Ron Paul. He should be in prison for spam.
I, for one, welcome our new penguin overlords.
All hail Tux!
So, the layout change was just for that one article? Please say yes...
I'm so happy to see things back to normal for this article -- you've no idea.
In Soviet Slashdot, page lays out you.
layout change... disconcerted...confused... make. it. stop. ...
ok... trying to focus...
Top 10 lists. Is it just me? Or does everyone when they see any kind of "top 10" list they immediately think:
1. Lazy worthless journalists.
2. Product placement / viral marketing / ad by stealth
I need to work 10 list of things I'd like to do to journalists. But it'll have to wait until after I have recovered from the brain damage that is this new layout...
I think it's why they're called cell phones. Cell as in "imprisoned".
In a free market it is only right that there is a choice of carrier.
However, the mobile phone industry is one where to all intents and purposes the choices are "rock" and "hard place". Which makes me wonder if it really matters in this case.
Phone companies are not your friends. They are not out to give you a good, nor fair, deal. Not one of them. Every transaction with them is one of compromise. Regardless of whatever your contract says you'll be paying the same amount of money either way, with any provider. The contract serves only to confuse and confound you into believe you are getting what you are looking for.
I'm really not convinced it makes any difference whatsoever which one you sign up with. You will be screwed one way or the other.