Look at the bright side! "appropriate private sector entities" must mean Google can now use your suspicious anti-American activities to tailor ads to your liking!
Just another way the summary failed to convey that this is about influencing elections. Come on, the name, "Online Freedom of Speech Act" should get the warning bells ringing. It's clearly picked to pre-emptively smear anyone opposing it as "against freedom of speech".
The fact that average IQ is standardized at 100 does not mean average IQ cannot change. It just means the scale has to be reset to give the 100 average. The Flynn effect is quite real.
And another, a phone that costs as much as a mid-range laptop (laptops start at $500 now) but smaller and easier to steal or lose doesn't seem to be a good idea.
Oh come on! A phone is bad because it's "easier to steal or lose" than a laptop?
The American idea of dividing the powers up and setting them at each other's throats was really clever. Unfortunately, no one knows the future, and things have evolved in a way where the powers are bigger and more concentrated than any English king's powers ever were.
Power tends to concentrate unless there are working checks and balances. The US political system has IMO ignored many of these in the wake of September 11th, in favor of giving the executive branch the freedom to do whatever it wants. The opposition's role should be to prevent this from happening by complaining loudly in public, but they've failed to do so.
Period. If you have problems with that and think they should be able to be younger than 18, or that porn sites shouldn't be able to produce records that indicate that they ARE over 18, then we probably won't see eye to eye on this.
The previous law required that producers of content keep proof of age; the current one requires that all distributors do. This causes problems for legitimate businesses since not all performers want photocopies of their ID made available to potentially thousands of distributors. European producers cannot legally provide this info to US distibutors because of privacy laws. Here's some discussion. Here's some more.
Never say never, but I'll have to agree with you. My last processor (+ mobo + memory + box...) upgrade was because my 433mhz Celeron choked on DivX-encoded DVDrips. Since then I've only swapped out stuff that stopped working and added HD space.
I don't foresee any need to upgrade unless I start editing video or something completely new appears.
What makes it all the more weird is that a fold-in-half or roll-up keyboard is really easy to make, but electronic paper is still in its infancy. Will we get full size keyboards for mobile phones before we get them for laptops?
Publishers don't like it because they want a cut of whatever it is Google get out of it.
No. Google gets paid for advertising, which advertisers pay for because they get more sales, meaning the publishers get cash. If the publishers get nothing, there are no sales, meaning advertisers pay Google nothing.
From Wikipedia: "[A] reviewer may fairly cite largely from the original work, if his design be really and truly to use the passages for the purposes of fair and reasonable criticism. On the other hand, it is as clear, that if he thus cites the most important parts of the work, with a view, not to criticise, but to supersede the use of the original work, and substitute the review for it, such a use will be deemed in law a piracy..."
This is obviously US law only, but if the test is supersede the original work vs. refer to it, Google should be fine. Obviously "fair" as in fair use has been legally defined beyond (quoth parent) "sensible people can tell what is and isn't".
What do you mean, "You are mistaken"? Google has decided how to protect the copyrights; there's nothing in your quote mentioning actual laws or the opinions of the copyright holders. The GP does have a valid point.
All in all, the US letting the U.N. manage the Internet won't change what we love in the Internet, but it will prevent bad political choices (e.g VeriSign having gTLDs that are supposedly ran as Public Service), and it is just the way it should be.
It will prevent unilateral political choices, but as every Slashdotter should know by now "managing" the Internet is not possible. Only the DNS system can be controlled by a central authority. Censorship only works if every single country in the world agrees to crack down on ISPs hosting the stuff to censor. This will only work with child porn and (hopefully) spam.
Remember that the UN is the global organization that allows Libya to be a key voting member of the UN Human Rights Commission. The US is far more tolerant of dissent and free expression of ideas than most of the nations that make up the UN.
You see no contradiction here whatsoever? Yeah, fine, mod me down. But do it in a tolerant way.
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On the other hand, downloading it is not an option for those who want it now. Face it guys, the MPAA won this one.
Look at the bright side! "appropriate private sector entities" must mean Google can now use your suspicious anti-American activities to tailor ads to your liking!
Just another way the summary failed to convey that this is about influencing elections. Come on, the name, "Online Freedom of Speech Act" should get the warning bells ringing. It's clearly picked to pre-emptively smear anyone opposing it as "against freedom of speech".
Although it's not a Star Wars fan film, Star Wreck is a good example of IT nerds meeting film geeks.
The fact that average IQ is standardized at 100 does not mean average IQ cannot change. It just means the scale has to be reset to give the 100 average. The Flynn effect is quite real.
So you would say they penetrate a market, do a bit of push-pull to get the customers excited, but never pull out entirely?
It sounds like CNN looked up the orbital distance from Mars and assumed that it orbits the Earth...
This controversy should be taught in schools. Gravity is a theory, not a fact.
The speed of electricity in a wire is not really the issue (it's about half the speed of light, I think. I'm sure someone will correct me).
Both the speed of electricity in a wire and the speed of light in fiber are about two thirds of the speed of light in vacuum. No, not an issue.
And another, a phone that costs as much as a mid-range laptop (laptops start at $500 now) but smaller and easier to steal or lose doesn't seem to be a good idea.
Oh come on! A phone is bad because it's "easier to steal or lose" than a laptop?
Care to enlighten us as to which country has more freedom of speech?
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, New Zealand, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Austria, Latvia, Belgium, Germany, Greece, Canada, Lithuania, Portugal, United Kingdom, Benin, Cyprus, Namibia, El Salvador, Cape Verde, France, Australia, South Africa, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Korea, Japan, Mali, Hong-Kong, Spain, Costa Rica, Italy and Macedonia.
Here's the list.
You do have a point. Trust in your government has no place in a working democracy.
The American idea of dividing the powers up and setting them at each other's throats was really clever. Unfortunately, no one knows the future, and things have evolved in a way where the powers are bigger and more concentrated than any English king's powers ever were.
Power tends to concentrate unless there are working checks and balances. The US political system has IMO ignored many of these in the wake of September 11th, in favor of giving the executive branch the freedom to do whatever it wants. The opposition's role should be to prevent this from happening by complaining loudly in public, but they've failed to do so.
Period. If you have problems with that and think they should be able to be younger than 18, or that porn sites shouldn't be able to produce records that indicate that they ARE over 18, then we probably won't see eye to eye on this.
The previous law required that producers of content keep proof of age; the current one requires that all distributors do. This causes problems for legitimate businesses since not all performers want photocopies of their ID made available to potentially thousands of distributors. European producers cannot legally provide this info to US distibutors because of privacy laws. Here's some discussion. Here's some more.
1. JDI - Migrate everyone's desktop to Linux overnight!
Pros: It's fr33 s0ftw4r3, d4mm1t!
Cons: Everyone's happy with this idea, right?
Don't even joke about that on Slashdot... The year of Linux on the desktop will be brought on by geek ninjas!
Miles Per Gallon... the analog to kilometers per liters
Actually, "mileage" is usually given as liters per 100 km.
Never say never, but I'll have to agree with you. My last processor (+ mobo + memory + box...) upgrade was because my 433mhz Celeron choked on DivX-encoded DVDrips. Since then I've only swapped out stuff that stopped working and added HD space.
I don't foresee any need to upgrade unless I start editing video or something completely new appears.
What makes it all the more weird is that a fold-in-half or roll-up keyboard is really easy to make, but electronic paper is still in its infancy. Will we get full size keyboards for mobile phones before we get them for laptops?
Which makes it more like what it really is, hosting your file on someone else's web server. "Compression" my ass.
It does sound a bit condescending. "Good boy, you've done a very respectable job. Have a lollipop."
Publishers don't like it because they want a cut of whatever it is Google get out of it.
No. Google gets paid for advertising, which advertisers pay for because they get more sales, meaning the publishers get cash. If the publishers get nothing, there are no sales, meaning advertisers pay Google nothing.
From Wikipedia: "[A] reviewer may fairly cite largely from the original work, if his design be really and truly to use the passages for the purposes of fair and reasonable criticism. On the other hand, it is as clear, that if he thus cites the most important parts of the work, with a view, not to criticise, but to supersede the use of the original work, and substitute the review for it, such a use will be deemed in law a piracy..."
This is obviously US law only, but if the test is supersede the original work vs. refer to it, Google should be fine. Obviously "fair" as in fair use has been legally defined beyond (quoth parent) "sensible people can tell what is and isn't".
What do you mean, "You are mistaken"? Google has decided how to protect the copyrights; there's nothing in your quote mentioning actual laws or the opinions of the copyright holders. The GP does have a valid point.
Absurdly as it might seem, this is the most insightful post on US politics I've seen in a while.
All in all, the US letting the U.N. manage the Internet won't change what we love in the Internet, but it will prevent bad political choices (e.g VeriSign having gTLDs that are supposedly ran as Public Service), and it is just the way it should be.
It will prevent unilateral political choices, but as every Slashdotter should know by now "managing" the Internet is not possible. Only the DNS system can be controlled by a central authority. Censorship only works if every single country in the world agrees to crack down on ISPs hosting the stuff to censor. This will only work with child porn and (hopefully) spam.
Remember that the UN is the global organization that allows Libya to be a key voting member of the UN Human Rights Commission. The US is far more tolerant of dissent and free expression of ideas than most of the nations that make up the UN.
You see no contradiction here whatsoever? Yeah, fine, mod me down. But do it in a tolerant way.