He's spouting the typical bleeding heart nonsense. Everyone knows that if you give a child a meal, he'll be dependent on you to feed him forever. Give him a computer however, and he can teach himself how to download pron. I mean teach himself how to grow his own food.
Seriously, the main thing keeping that place in the crapper is an insane refusal to work together to solve their problems. The crops are bad one year so they go to the next village and rape everything that used to be moving before they whacked it with a machete. Feeding them just enough to keep them hungry enough to be grumpy but not hungry enough to really attempt to solve their problems, makes as much sense as giving a society of of rapists aids medication (which is the other big africa "solution" right now).
Feeding them hasn't worked. Education DOES work. This is a fact. Name ONE African country that has been truly helped by throwing cheap rice at them. Name one. That's right, there isn't one. Not a single case where throwing free food has helped a culture take the step towards being a modern society. Education on the other hand... That's where the big payoff is, and it's about damn time someone gives it a shot instead of just trying to make everyone feel guilty for not continuing futile attempts at throwing food at the problem.
That's nothing new... Medical doctors have been required to sign those sorts of unlimited waivers to personal privacy and waive all rights against slander for quite a while now. The most recent waiver I saw essentially granted every single member of a hospital (including the janitor) to go through the doctor applicant's entire medical record, all past job records, and make any statement they wanted whether it was true or not, without any restrictions against slander. Basically every law protecting employees or job applicants passed in the last 200 years were explicitly waived, as a pre-condition to even being interviewed for the job.
To put a fine point on it, a contract lawyer who reviewed this waiver stated flatly that anyone who signed it was an idiot. Yet this was a "standard" waiver agreement for an entire medical staffing agency per the requirements of their clients (the hospitals).
I agree 100%. We should go back to cops having no options to deal with non-compliance except beating people with sticks or shooting them with real firearms. That was way better.
If they made a road that sounded like regular music when driven at the speed limit, and gangsta rap when driven above the speed limit, I guarantee you I'd never speed.
And the people who do like gangsta rap would all be driving fast, increasing the chance that they'd die in vehicle accidents. It's a win-win!
You prove my point. You bought a specific name-brand item sold pretty much everywhere. It probably has the exact same model number as your friend's one too. On the other hand, if you had been unlucky you might have found that the wal-mart version didn't include one accessory or another. Like a hookup cable or something. Wal-mart versions, even brand name ones, are often slightly different than the otherwise identical thing you buy elsewhere because that's how they can offer lower prices. They cut corners everywhere possible.
You can bet your ass if wal-mart could cut the price by $1 by having the manufacturer leave out something like the video cables, they'd do it. Most people wouldn't realize it until they got home and then they'd go right back to wal-mart to buy the necessary cables. I've been hit by that too, most recently with a $5 telephone I purchased at wal-mart that didn't include a phone cable. Who the heck sells phones without a cable? Of course I have a dozen in my spare cable container, but that's only because every other phone I've ever purchased has included a cable.
Come on... This is wal-mart we're talking about. Who goes to wal-mart to buy *good* stuff? wal-mart is all about large quantities of cheap stuff, end of story. It's a great place to buy cheap or bulk items... I shop there all the time for generic food items and anything disposable that I need in bulk (kleenex, cleaning supplies, etc). If you want to find something really good at wal-mart, you MUST look for the exact name brand and even then you have to carefully check model numbers to make sure you're not getting a cheaper wal-mart only version. You know, the wal-mart equivalent of those crappy dell soundblasters that don't work with anything but dell drivers and which had ultra-cheap and noisy components. I had a drill like that... My Dad had one from Sears and it had a metal body, durable rubberized, grips, etc. The same drill from wal-mart (same model number but with an "a" on the end) had a plastic body and the grip cracked within a week.
The point is, if you're going into wal-mart expecting to get high quality anything, you're either an optimist or a retard and deserve to get what you find there.
First, an approach to gaining new readership and bringing new web interfaces to slashdot. Another website I frequently view (www.hardocp.com) also grew to the point where they had to expand their offerings without alienating their old-time viewers. In the end, they essentially tabbed their website. Their homepage is pretty much the same old hardocp, but they have tabs at the top of the homepage that link to more specialized versions of their basic site. They can now offer much more content without alienating their long-time readers who habitually hit their front page looking for cutting edge hardware news.
Slashdot already has sections which focus news, but there could be some sort of tab selection at the top between the slashdot logo and the search box to select more focused, "modern" sites that might appeal to newer viewers without diluting slashdot.
Second, an approach to active marketing. You've already pegged who slashdot readers are, and the ad selection pretty much covers all the usual "push" marketing we'd expect to see for people marketing tech crap to the usual slashdot readership. But what about the various "pull" stuff the average slashdotter looks for on their own time? Two examples I can think of right off the top of my head are things like online universities or online degrees (I'm getting my MBA online now but had to google for a suitable program myself), and professional associations or services such as professional journals, legal databases, etc. My online degree program gives me access to proquest and a couple of other very nice virtual libraries, but my access to those resources ends when I finish my degree. Might those organizations or similiar professional associations be interested in advertising to the slashdot readership, who seem to be mostly tech oriented professionals who are also addicted to information?
My point is that going out and deliberately finding advertisers who offer services the readership might be interested in would be more productive than rejecting yet another ad offering from www.boobies.com. There are tons of professional resources that we are interested in both personally and professionally, but we seem to mostly get ads for microsoft's (or sun's) latest or whatever hardware knicknack is on sale this week.
What about military members? We are assigned all over the world for up to years at a time. What about the poor guy who buys a US license and is stationed in Korea or England? Or is in Korea, buys a copy in Korea, and then gets stationed back in the US?
What about guys who deploy elsewhere?
Region dependency is just as stupid as most other DRM restrictions. Maybe even worse, since they're explicitly disallowing people from using legit originals. That sucks. Bad move.
I was going to buy the orange box but I'm in the military and might have to move or deploy before Valve fixes their rectal-cranium inversion on this issue. No way in hell will I buy something that could be disabled just because I move.
In soviet russia... Wait. Now we're going to have to change that.
In the UK, knowledge owns you!
Sucks to be the kid who went to bed one night in a free country and woke up the next day under an oppressive thought-crime regime just as bad as the worst soviet-era oppression stereotypes...
If they think that text file was bad, wait until they catch some poor kid with the preamble to the US declaration of independence. THAT guy is going to be in for it.
Throw a shit fit and push over some display cases. Preferably some ones with really expensive gear on them, or a plasma tv or two. Then tell the jury that you were temporarily insane due to being unreasonably provoked to rage over how the warranty on a hinge was voided due to some software you installed on your computer.
A halfway decent lawyer will get you off no problemo. Let us know how it goes ok?
Well, your fat texas ass isn't going around recruiting young impressionable people to strap bombs on their bodies and tricking them into blowing up random people in the name of Jim Bowie. That's the difference between one group of haters, and that *other* group of haters.
I haven't seen a single report of a suicide bombing against civilians by radical methodists, athiests, wiccans, catholics, or jedis (the few who survived the Aussie purges). In fact, I don't even see drunk Irish on TV congregating in public places chanting death to anything, except maybe during the occasional football match and even then only a few really mean it for more than a minute or two.
Porn, music/movie sharing, copies of the anarchist cookbook, test cheat sheets, and other people's essays. It'll all be cleverly stored in compressed, encrypted, password protected zip files (or current equivalent) so snooping admins can't get at it. And if that's not enough, they'll hack the server or other student's accounts and store their stuff in places that will get someone else busted if they're caught.
At least, that's pretty much what I did with my 200k of high school provided server storage back in 1987.
Dr. Jerry Pournelle notes in his daybook (blog... whatever) that scribd has at least one of his works on the site, entirely without permission (and therefore illegally). The process to remove a work is lengthy and emails were apparently not returned. When this sort of abuse of copyright occurs, why is anyone suprised when people who rely on income from their efforts band together to attempt to halt the infringment?
Theoretical blathering on copyright aside, unauthorized posting of complete copyrighted works that ought to be a source of income to the writers who write books for a living is not right. There are no MPAA or RIAA strongarm tactics at work here. Rather, there are actual writers attempting to defend their copyrights.
Everyone rightly complains when the RIAA sues a grandmother for $10,000, but if an individual musician requests that a site illegally hosting an entire album stop unauthorized distribution of their work, isn't that a lot different?
I'll give $75 to anyone who can get me a PC / winXP version. I'd LIKE to give that money to the game developers, but MS doesn't want that to happen. And I'm not going to buy an xbox just to play Halo3. So I have $75 ready for whoever gets me Halo3 for the PC first.
Sometimes dynamic compression is a good thing all around.
I often am forced to listen to my music in either a loud environment or in an area where I must keep the music volume as low as possible. A wide dynamic range means that in order to hear the quiet parts, the louder parts are unacceptably loud.
Yes if all I ever did was listen to music inside a quiet, soundproof room all by myself, then I'd want the widest possible dynamic range. But since I am almost never in that situation, I find myself artificially compressing the dynamic range myself because I want to be able to hear the quiet parts without bugging everyone else or blowing out my ears during the loud sections.
Plus I'm not an adolescent gangsta wannabe so overall volume and the ability to irritate others by playing my music at full volume simply isn't an issue. And frankly I couldn't care less about the type of music where that sort of thing is an objective, so if that sort of music is "ruined" by dynamic compression it just doesn't bother me in the least. I'm not going to stand on principle to save from destruction something I find offensive, and it's silly to try to get people concerned about the destruction of an industry that they find offensive. I like classical music and rock, and as far as I can tell neither one is being ruined by dynamic compression. You still need a quiet environment to really experience good classical music, and somehow I don't find myself too concerned with not having to strain to hear the words in Holiday or September.
If you're offended by me listening to me listening to Mozart with my windows up and the system down, let me know and I'll see what I can do to be less irritating (heh).
I got it from TPB. DL speed was pretty bad for some reason. Not sure why exactly. By "legit" site, I mean the typical game sites that specialize in games and are specifically authorized by the game company to distribute the demos. Sometimes they're even authorized to customize the demo to highlight where it came from, as part of the promotion package. That's what I meant by "legit", as in an original distributer designated by the game company.
There is a diff between "legit" and "legal". I have nothing against getting legal stuff from TPB, and I use it on occasion for that very purpose. I just couldn't find the file the first time I searched there because I put a space between "bio" and "shock". I never could get the demo download to start from the "legit" site because their free public servers were slammed.
And yes, I still have the torrent open and my share ratio is over 2.0 on the demo. It's so large I may let it run another week or so instead of the few days or so I usually keep participating in BT swarms.
Thanks. I goofed and searched for "bio shock", instead of "bioshock". Whoops.
With 5800 seeds, I expect the DL will be fairly snappy. I'm in line at one of the legit DL sites with 80+ min remaining before I can even start that DL...
Don't worry about this... Market forces will balance it out. Universities compete for good students and students shop for the overall *best* university. If two universities offer good degree programs and one has a surcharge on the degree program they want, the students will go elsewhere.
For a good student, there are plenty of good programs out there. As far as that goes, if $40 per course is too much extra, go to a military service academy where they'll pay you to attend and guarantee you a good paying job when (if) you graduate. There are plusses and minuses to every option, and scoffing at letting students make their own choices is just ignoring reality.
That sounds similar to law enforcement agencies in the US claiming that citizens videotaping uniformed cops making routine traffic stops in highly public areas is a violation of homeland defense security laws.
I'll probably get modded down for speaking an unpleasant truth, but...
This is all great, until Apple and AT&T remotely shut off the phones due to violating the terms of service. How many console and other online accounts have been disabled due to cheating or other "legit" modding? It's just a matter of time before we hear the first reports of people having their iphones cut off, with no subscription fee refund.
If Apple is really smart, they'll figure out how to shut off the phone and continue to charge any subscription fees until the original service plan expires. Free money for them, and no legal recourse for anyone who willfully violated the TOS.
Yea it's not very nice but they have a business plan that probably doesn't include having customers bypassing the fee-based services they provide. Unlike the iopener fiasco, the iphone is cool enough that it'll keep selling no matter how many people lose their service after hacking/modding/whatever their iphone.
Every business (linux distro producers plus others) that rely on bittorrent as a primary means of distributing their product should join together and sue for anti-competitive practices. If MS can get sued and lose for including a media player in their OS bundle, then certainly a "watchdog group" that forces an ISP to block the primary distribution means of multiple companies can be held liable for lost business.
The music industry does not live in a digital vacuum and the sooner they (and lawmakers) figure out that they are just one medium-sized piece of the digital landscape, the better. Heck, any company that uses the internet should feel threatened that one industry can block use of the internet across the board, because it's only a matter of time before the precedent set here will be used by some other group to shut off, say, TCP-IP because that's how computers communicate to each other to do something or another that is illegal somewhere.
Moore's assault on the 2nd amendment makes him a threat to the US constitution. That doesn't make him a hero, it makes him an enemy of the US constitution. We have a legal method to change the constitution, and it isn't through media hype or public hysteria. It's called a constitutional convention, and it's done it's job many times over the last couple hundred years. If he wants to eliminate the 2nd amendment, he needs to buy some congressmen. Whipping up public hysteria that prevents law abiding citizens from exercising their 2nd amendment rights is an attack on the rights of every US citizen, whether they choose to exercise those rights or not.
Moore is a fat retard. He deliberately mis-represents a handful of facts telling far less than half the true story, to forward his own agenda. Opposing him is not evil, it's simply the other side of a disagreement.
Nobody I know or respect thinks Moore is anything but a clown. Google helping those companies, industries, and individuals that Moore craps all over only seems fair. Why shouldn't they get the chance to tell their side of the story too? Or is letting the accused tell their side of the story evil? In the US, fairness used to mean letting both sides tell their tale. Maybe Moore is now the only one allowed to say anything, and anyone who thinks he's wrong is evil? Ummm... Not.
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He's spouting the typical bleeding heart nonsense. Everyone knows that if you give a child a meal, he'll be dependent on you to feed him forever. Give him a computer however, and he can teach himself how to download pron. I mean teach himself how to grow his own food.
Seriously, the main thing keeping that place in the crapper is an insane refusal to work together to solve their problems. The crops are bad one year so they go to the next village and rape everything that used to be moving before they whacked it with a machete. Feeding them just enough to keep them hungry enough to be grumpy but not hungry enough to really attempt to solve their problems, makes as much sense as giving a society of of rapists aids medication (which is the other big africa "solution" right now).
Feeding them hasn't worked. Education DOES work. This is a fact. Name ONE African country that has been truly helped by throwing cheap rice at them. Name one. That's right, there isn't one. Not a single case where throwing free food has helped a culture take the step towards being a modern society. Education on the other hand... That's where the big payoff is, and it's about damn time someone gives it a shot instead of just trying to make everyone feel guilty for not continuing futile attempts at throwing food at the problem.
That's nothing new... Medical doctors have been required to sign those sorts of unlimited waivers to personal privacy and waive all rights against slander for quite a while now. The most recent waiver I saw essentially granted every single member of a hospital (including the janitor) to go through the doctor applicant's entire medical record, all past job records, and make any statement they wanted whether it was true or not, without any restrictions against slander. Basically every law protecting employees or job applicants passed in the last 200 years were explicitly waived, as a pre-condition to even being interviewed for the job.
To put a fine point on it, a contract lawyer who reviewed this waiver stated flatly that anyone who signed it was an idiot. Yet this was a "standard" waiver agreement for an entire medical staffing agency per the requirements of their clients (the hospitals).
I agree 100%. We should go back to cops having no options to deal with non-compliance except beating people with sticks or shooting them with real firearms. That was way better.
If they made a road that sounded like regular music when driven at the speed limit, and gangsta rap when driven above the speed limit, I guarantee you I'd never speed.
And the people who do like gangsta rap would all be driving fast, increasing the chance that they'd die in vehicle accidents. It's a win-win!
You prove my point. You bought a specific name-brand item sold pretty much everywhere. It probably has the exact same model number as your friend's one too. On the other hand, if you had been unlucky you might have found that the wal-mart version didn't include one accessory or another. Like a hookup cable or something. Wal-mart versions, even brand name ones, are often slightly different than the otherwise identical thing you buy elsewhere because that's how they can offer lower prices. They cut corners everywhere possible.
You can bet your ass if wal-mart could cut the price by $1 by having the manufacturer leave out something like the video cables, they'd do it. Most people wouldn't realize it until they got home and then they'd go right back to wal-mart to buy the necessary cables. I've been hit by that too, most recently with a $5 telephone I purchased at wal-mart that didn't include a phone cable. Who the heck sells phones without a cable? Of course I have a dozen in my spare cable container, but that's only because every other phone I've ever purchased has included a cable.
Buyer beware at wal-mart.
Come on... This is wal-mart we're talking about. Who goes to wal-mart to buy *good* stuff? wal-mart is all about large quantities of cheap stuff, end of story. It's a great place to buy cheap or bulk items... I shop there all the time for generic food items and anything disposable that I need in bulk (kleenex, cleaning supplies, etc). If you want to find something really good at wal-mart, you MUST look for the exact name brand and even then you have to carefully check model numbers to make sure you're not getting a cheaper wal-mart only version. You know, the wal-mart equivalent of those crappy dell soundblasters that don't work with anything but dell drivers and which had ultra-cheap and noisy components. I had a drill like that... My Dad had one from Sears and it had a metal body, durable rubberized, grips, etc. The same drill from wal-mart (same model number but with an "a" on the end) had a plastic body and the grip cracked within a week.
The point is, if you're going into wal-mart expecting to get high quality anything, you're either an optimist or a retard and deserve to get what you find there.
I have 2 ideas concerning the future of slashdot.
First, an approach to gaining new readership and bringing new web interfaces to slashdot. Another website I frequently view (www.hardocp.com) also grew to the point where they had to expand their offerings without alienating their old-time viewers. In the end, they essentially tabbed their website. Their homepage is pretty much the same old hardocp, but they have tabs at the top of the homepage that link to more specialized versions of their basic site. They can now offer much more content without alienating their long-time readers who habitually hit their front page looking for cutting edge hardware news.
Slashdot already has sections which focus news, but there could be some sort of tab selection at the top between the slashdot logo and the search box to select more focused, "modern" sites that might appeal to newer viewers without diluting slashdot.
Second, an approach to active marketing. You've already pegged who slashdot readers are, and the ad selection pretty much covers all the usual "push" marketing we'd expect to see for people marketing tech crap to the usual slashdot readership. But what about the various "pull" stuff the average slashdotter looks for on their own time? Two examples I can think of right off the top of my head are things like online universities or online degrees (I'm getting my MBA online now but had to google for a suitable program myself), and professional associations or services such as professional journals, legal databases, etc. My online degree program gives me access to proquest and a couple of other very nice virtual libraries, but my access to those resources ends when I finish my degree. Might those organizations or similiar professional associations be interested in advertising to the slashdot readership, who seem to be mostly tech oriented professionals who are also addicted to information?
My point is that going out and deliberately finding advertisers who offer services the readership might be interested in would be more productive than rejecting yet another ad offering from www.boobies.com. There are tons of professional resources that we are interested in both personally and professionally, but we seem to mostly get ads for microsoft's (or sun's) latest or whatever hardware knicknack is on sale this week.
What about military members? We are assigned all over the world for up to years at a time. What about the poor guy who buys a US license and is stationed in Korea or England? Or is in Korea, buys a copy in Korea, and then gets stationed back in the US?
What about guys who deploy elsewhere?
Region dependency is just as stupid as most other DRM restrictions. Maybe even worse, since they're explicitly disallowing people from using legit originals. That sucks. Bad move.
I was going to buy the orange box but I'm in the military and might have to move or deploy before Valve fixes their rectal-cranium inversion on this issue. No way in hell will I buy something that could be disabled just because I move.
In soviet russia... Wait. Now we're going to have to change that.
In the UK, knowledge owns you!
Sucks to be the kid who went to bed one night in a free country and woke up the next day under an oppressive thought-crime regime just as bad as the worst soviet-era oppression stereotypes...
If they think that text file was bad, wait until they catch some poor kid with the preamble to the US declaration of independence. THAT guy is going to be in for it.
Throw a shit fit and push over some display cases. Preferably some ones with really expensive gear on them, or a plasma tv or two. Then tell the jury that you were temporarily insane due to being unreasonably provoked to rage over how the warranty on a hinge was voided due to some software you installed on your computer.
A halfway decent lawyer will get you off no problemo. Let us know how it goes ok?
Well, your fat texas ass isn't going around recruiting young impressionable people to strap bombs on their bodies and tricking them into blowing up random people in the name of Jim Bowie. That's the difference between one group of haters, and that *other* group of haters.
I haven't seen a single report of a suicide bombing against civilians by radical methodists, athiests, wiccans, catholics, or jedis (the few who survived the Aussie purges). In fact, I don't even see drunk Irish on TV congregating in public places chanting death to anything, except maybe during the occasional football match and even then only a few really mean it for more than a minute or two.
You never did ascii animation? Complete with dumb terminal beep codes?
We'd make the printer terminal sing too. Fun times.
Porn, music/movie sharing, copies of the anarchist cookbook, test cheat sheets, and other people's essays. It'll all be cleverly stored in compressed, encrypted, password protected zip files (or current equivalent) so snooping admins can't get at it. And if that's not enough, they'll hack the server or other student's accounts and store their stuff in places that will get someone else busted if they're caught.
At least, that's pretty much what I did with my 200k of high school provided server storage back in 1987.
Dr. Jerry Pournelle notes in his daybook (blog... whatever) that scribd has at least one of his works on the site, entirely without permission (and therefore illegally). The process to remove a work is lengthy and emails were apparently not returned. When this sort of abuse of copyright occurs, why is anyone suprised when people who rely on income from their efforts band together to attempt to halt the infringment?
Theoretical blathering on copyright aside, unauthorized posting of complete copyrighted works that ought to be a source of income to the writers who write books for a living is not right. There are no MPAA or RIAA strongarm tactics at work here. Rather, there are actual writers attempting to defend their copyrights.
Everyone rightly complains when the RIAA sues a grandmother for $10,000, but if an individual musician requests that a site illegally hosting an entire album stop unauthorized distribution of their work, isn't that a lot different?
I'll give $75 to anyone who can get me a PC / winXP version. I'd LIKE to give that money to the game developers, but MS doesn't want that to happen. And I'm not going to buy an xbox just to play Halo3. So I have $75 ready for whoever gets me Halo3 for the PC first.
Sometimes dynamic compression is a good thing all around.
I often am forced to listen to my music in either a loud environment or in an area where I must keep the music volume as low as possible. A wide dynamic range means that in order to hear the quiet parts, the louder parts are unacceptably loud.
Yes if all I ever did was listen to music inside a quiet, soundproof room all by myself, then I'd want the widest possible dynamic range. But since I am almost never in that situation, I find myself artificially compressing the dynamic range myself because I want to be able to hear the quiet parts without bugging everyone else or blowing out my ears during the loud sections.
Plus I'm not an adolescent gangsta wannabe so overall volume and the ability to irritate others by playing my music at full volume simply isn't an issue. And frankly I couldn't care less about the type of music where that sort of thing is an objective, so if that sort of music is "ruined" by dynamic compression it just doesn't bother me in the least. I'm not going to stand on principle to save from destruction something I find offensive, and it's silly to try to get people concerned about the destruction of an industry that they find offensive. I like classical music and rock, and as far as I can tell neither one is being ruined by dynamic compression. You still need a quiet environment to really experience good classical music, and somehow I don't find myself too concerned with not having to strain to hear the words in Holiday or September.
If you're offended by me listening to me listening to Mozart with my windows up and the system down, let me know and I'll see what I can do to be less irritating (heh).
I got it from TPB. DL speed was pretty bad for some reason. Not sure why exactly. By "legit" site, I mean the typical game sites that specialize in games and are specifically authorized by the game company to distribute the demos. Sometimes they're even authorized to customize the demo to highlight where it came from, as part of the promotion package. That's what I meant by "legit", as in an original distributer designated by the game company.
There is a diff between "legit" and "legal". I have nothing against getting legal stuff from TPB, and I use it on occasion for that very purpose. I just couldn't find the file the first time I searched there because I put a space between "bio" and "shock". I never could get the demo download to start from the "legit" site because their free public servers were slammed.
And yes, I still have the torrent open and my share ratio is over 2.0 on the demo. It's so large I may let it run another week or so instead of the few days or so I usually keep participating in BT swarms.
Thanks. I goofed and searched for "bio shock", instead of "bioshock". Whoops.
With 5800 seeds, I expect the DL will be fairly snappy. I'm in line at one of the legit DL sites with 80+ min remaining before I can even start that DL...
Why isn't anyone hosting a torrent yet?
Don't worry about this... Market forces will balance it out. Universities compete for good students and students shop for the overall *best* university. If two universities offer good degree programs and one has a surcharge on the degree program they want, the students will go elsewhere.
For a good student, there are plenty of good programs out there. As far as that goes, if $40 per course is too much extra, go to a military service academy where they'll pay you to attend and guarantee you a good paying job when (if) you graduate. There are plusses and minuses to every option, and scoffing at letting students make their own choices is just ignoring reality.
That sounds similar to law enforcement agencies in the US claiming that citizens videotaping uniformed cops making routine traffic stops in highly public areas is a violation of homeland defense security laws.
I'll probably get modded down for speaking an unpleasant truth, but...
This is all great, until Apple and AT&T remotely shut off the phones due to violating the terms of service. How many console and other online accounts have been disabled due to cheating or other "legit" modding? It's just a matter of time before we hear the first reports of people having their iphones cut off, with no subscription fee refund.
If Apple is really smart, they'll figure out how to shut off the phone and continue to charge any subscription fees until the original service plan expires. Free money for them, and no legal recourse for anyone who willfully violated the TOS.
Yea it's not very nice but they have a business plan that probably doesn't include having customers bypassing the fee-based services they provide. Unlike the iopener fiasco, the iphone is cool enough that it'll keep selling no matter how many people lose their service after hacking/modding/whatever their iphone.
Every business (linux distro producers plus others) that rely on bittorrent as a primary means of distributing their product should join together and sue for anti-competitive practices. If MS can get sued and lose for including a media player in their OS bundle, then certainly a "watchdog group" that forces an ISP to block the primary distribution means of multiple companies can be held liable for lost business.
The music industry does not live in a digital vacuum and the sooner they (and lawmakers) figure out that they are just one medium-sized piece of the digital landscape, the better. Heck, any company that uses the internet should feel threatened that one industry can block use of the internet across the board, because it's only a matter of time before the precedent set here will be used by some other group to shut off, say, TCP-IP because that's how computers communicate to each other to do something or another that is illegal somewhere.
Moore's assault on the 2nd amendment makes him a threat to the US constitution. That doesn't make him a hero, it makes him an enemy of the US constitution. We have a legal method to change the constitution, and it isn't through media hype or public hysteria. It's called a constitutional convention, and it's done it's job many times over the last couple hundred years. If he wants to eliminate the 2nd amendment, he needs to buy some congressmen. Whipping up public hysteria that prevents law abiding citizens from exercising their 2nd amendment rights is an attack on the rights of every US citizen, whether they choose to exercise those rights or not.
Moore is a fat retard. He deliberately mis-represents a handful of facts telling far less than half the true story, to forward his own agenda. Opposing him is not evil, it's simply the other side of a disagreement.
Nobody I know or respect thinks Moore is anything but a clown. Google helping those companies, industries, and individuals that Moore craps all over only seems fair. Why shouldn't they get the chance to tell their side of the story too? Or is letting the accused tell their side of the story evil? In the US, fairness used to mean letting both sides tell their tale. Maybe Moore is now the only one allowed to say anything, and anyone who thinks he's wrong is evil? Ummm... Not.