Can any BT subscriber comment on weather your average deck-hand will have any trouble getting around the block? I know it's quite easy for the black-beards and peg-legs, but what will it mean for the average user? Do TPB crew have enough experience bypassing blocks that most wont even know it's been blocked?
I respectfully disagree, for a number of reasons.
1) The cold war taught us that the one-upmanship of weapons proliferation as a defence is a bad idea. (The more missile defense are built, the better the weapons become to counter that defense.)
2) The insane budget required for these systems could be used for {'homeless', 'healthcare', 'foreign aid', 'research',...}
3) Some long drawn-out & pointless argument about weather the US could sustain a war against China...
How does Australians making double their American counterparts justify an equivalent price increase on an identical product? It sounds like what you're implying is a secondary exchange rate available for game publishers.
The problem is quite simple. If I buy Skyrim on Steam, I get exactly the same product as my Canadian friend, but at double the cost.
Tell me where the justification for the increase comes from...
As long as our nationwide fiber network stays on track, I'm optimistic we'll be able to game at much lower latency's than now. I friend of mine lives in one of the test suburbs for the fiber network and he averages 40-70 ping to American servers (from Melbourne, AU) so if that's anything to go by, things are looking great. Although typically I wouldn't thought pings were as bad as 300-400, I know it depends on a lot of things, but I'd say around 200-250 is my average ping to the US on my ADSL connection.
Strongly agree. Greenpeace and Monsanto may appear at the opposite ends of a spectrum, but they're equally as biased when it comes to their own agenda.
If apple is a leader in worker exploitation (and I'm not saying they are), they should also lead in cleaning it up.
At any rate, which ever way the fanboys or haters spin this, I'm just stoked & hopeful that it will raise the quality of working conditions for the employees at Foxconn.
While we're at fantasising about Applies demise, imagine if the Chinese Govt. took control over the manufacturing of Apples products in China, effectively destroying Apple but allowing their products to continue to be sold in China and parts beyond. That would be hella funny.
It totally should, although until then I think that iiNet's court victory coupled with the un-earthing of the clandestine activities of the record company & US embassy will hamper any cases brought by the recording industry in the near future. Or is that just wishful thinking?
I thought so too at first, but most of the tasteless comments have been modded down pretty quickly by the rest of the community. The asshole group isn't representative of the rest of us, they just post quick.
My thoughts exactly! How the hell is flickr data useful unless you know what percentage of all photos taken are uploaded to flickr in the first place? If they actually *could* get that data, and it turned out to be something like 80%, well then that might be different.
FTA: "(Admittedly, the number of images on Flickr is about 5% of that on Facebook. It would be interesting to repeat this analysis using Facebook data, but there is no reason to believe the results would be substantially different.)"
BS article FTW!
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Not as fast as adblock apparently...
Can any BT subscriber comment on weather your average deck-hand will have any trouble getting around the block? I know it's quite easy for the black-beards and peg-legs, but what will it mean for the average user? Do TPB crew have enough experience bypassing blocks that most wont even know it's been blocked?
And four or five teams.
I'm wondering if we are witnessing the beginning of the end of Slashdot?
I respectfully disagree, for a number of reasons. 1) The cold war taught us that the one-upmanship of weapons proliferation as a defence is a bad idea. (The more missile defense are built, the better the weapons become to counter that defense.) 2) The insane budget required for these systems could be used for {'homeless', 'healthcare', 'foreign aid', 'research',...} 3) Some long drawn-out & pointless argument about weather the US could sustain a war against China...
How does Australians making double their American counterparts justify an equivalent price increase on an identical product? It sounds like what you're implying is a secondary exchange rate available for game publishers. The problem is quite simple. If I buy Skyrim on Steam, I get exactly the same product as my Canadian friend, but at double the cost. Tell me where the justification for the increase comes from...
Yep. We're getting ripped blind and as long as people don't force the publishing companies to explain themselves they will keep getting away with it.
As long as our nationwide fiber network stays on track, I'm optimistic we'll be able to game at much lower latency's than now. I friend of mine lives in one of the test suburbs for the fiber network and he averages 40-70 ping to American servers (from Melbourne, AU) so if that's anything to go by, things are looking great. Although typically I wouldn't thought pings were as bad as 300-400, I know it depends on a lot of things, but I'd say around 200-250 is my average ping to the US on my ADSL connection.
Strongly agree. Greenpeace and Monsanto may appear at the opposite ends of a spectrum, but they're equally as biased when it comes to their own agenda.
If apple is a leader in worker exploitation (and I'm not saying they are), they should also lead in cleaning it up. At any rate, which ever way the fanboys or haters spin this, I'm just stoked & hopeful that it will raise the quality of working conditions for the employees at Foxconn.
Hahahaha so true.
I wonder if this would set a precedent for those who wanted to sell games they owned on digital distribution services like Steam?
While we're at fantasising about Applies demise, imagine if the Chinese Govt. took control over the manufacturing of Apples products in China, effectively destroying Apple but allowing their products to continue to be sold in China and parts beyond. That would be hella funny.
Sheldon would be very happy with this ruling.
Shotgun!
It totally should, although until then I think that iiNet's court victory coupled with the un-earthing of the clandestine activities of the record company & US embassy will hamper any cases brought by the recording industry in the near future. Or is that just wishful thinking?
The workers committing suicide in their Chinese factories know what's going on there...
Hahahaha Classic.
I thought so too at first, but most of the tasteless comments have been modded down pretty quickly by the rest of the community. The asshole group isn't representative of the rest of us, they just post quick.
My thoughts exactly! How the hell is flickr data useful unless you know what percentage of all photos taken are uploaded to flickr in the first place? If they actually *could* get that data, and it turned out to be something like 80%, well then that might be different. FTA: "(Admittedly, the number of images on Flickr is about 5% of that on Facebook. It would be interesting to repeat this analysis using Facebook data, but there is no reason to believe the results would be substantially different.)" BS article FTW!
You misspelled mum.
It warms my heart to know I got so far under your skin :)
TL; DR :D
Doesn't your iPhone come with malware from the factory? Why re-invent the wheel? http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/04/20/1357248/apple-logging-locations-of-all-iphone-users
If you read TFA you'll see it's not actually a manned structure. Confusion understandable given the sloppy title.