This would be the same hysteria that mandates that, when I take a photo of my daughter playing in the park, I have to be careful not to get any strangers' kids in the shots, lest the parents start looking at me askance and asking why I'm photographing their child (because he happened to be behind my child in line for the slippery-dip, right).
Shit, I've actually had people approach me during outings with my daughter and ask me what I was doing, taking photos of a little girl. I finally quit being nice about it, and started replying with "Maybe she keeps calling me 'Daddy' because I am? Yes, she is my kid. Yes, in addition to being a sticky-beak, you are also a complete mongchop. Now bugger off and mind your own before I feed you this camera."
My personal irritation aside, I find your theory interesting.
There was a similar wave of hysteria in the US back in the 80s and 90s (as I was working in the news media at the time, I got to read all the Associated Press feeds about the McMartin trial as they came in over the wire, and there were lots and lots of them.), BTW.
I suspect at least some of the effects are not unlike what you describe.
That being said, I've no trouble accessing the 2TB disk containing my video collection from a laptop that has a 32-bit CPU, so I'm still inclined to think you're full of baloney..
1. Find close matches in the dictionary, based on the first few letters...?
2. Find likely synonyms in a thesaurus, based on context...?
3. Fill in some garbage that means nothing but sounds good so people might not quite so easily cop to the fact that you're a functionally illiterate racist moron...?
Complete prevention is not the point, even complete prosecution isn't the point. Anybody can get away with speeding, or breaking in a locked door, or any number of crimes if the circumstances are right.
I'm not going to argue with your logic, but you need to bear in mind that the power requirements of desktop systems makes them unusable for the majority of the world's population. I just came back from a very isolated village in Vanuatu, where people still cook over open fires, where the houses still have mud floors... and where every household has at least one mobile phone.
And I won't argue with yours. I just want to know one thing: How do they charge those mobile phones?
Most people spend their lives working, finding a girlfriend, getting married, having children
Not in one of those countries they don't.
I saw plenty of children in China when I was there in January. What happened in the US -- you guys finally eat enough McDonald's to make you all sterile?
I'd really like to know where the 56% figure comes from, and who actually pays that much.
I've lived and worked in Sweden for nearly 5 years, I'm in the top income tax bracket, I don't take any significant deductions, and my rate's only about 40%.
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... that modified it's grammar and writing style just like it did to me.
Um, no. bmuon's grammar is correct.
Are you really so embarrassed at not knowing what "chutzpah" means?
"They say" is often proved a liar -- Daniel Boone.
Or in the modern vernacular: [citation needed], or you're just perpetuating the FUD.
Sounds to me like the problem's with the plan, then, and not with iamacat's comment.
That's the conditional mood, not subjunctive (which occurs only in dependent clauses).
Were (subjunctive) such a structure to be built, it would have (conditional) fittings on both ends.
My phone 'just works' in all of the 20-odd countries I've taken it to (scattered out over 4 continents).
As in, 'Plane lands, turn on phone, have service within 30 seconds or so'.
Except for...
Guess which one?
So you hacked circle's account, Florian? Naughty, naughty...
This would be the same hysteria that mandates that, when I take a photo of my daughter playing in the park, I have to be careful not to get any strangers' kids in the shots, lest the parents start looking at me askance and asking why I'm photographing their child (because he happened to be behind my child in line for the slippery-dip, right).
Shit, I've actually had people approach me during outings with my daughter and ask me what I was doing, taking photos of a little girl. I finally quit being nice about it, and started replying with "Maybe she keeps calling me 'Daddy' because I am? Yes, she is my kid. Yes, in addition to being a sticky-beak, you are also a complete mongchop. Now bugger off and mind your own before I feed you this camera."
My personal irritation aside, I find your theory interesting.
There was a similar wave of hysteria in the US back in the 80s and 90s (as I was working in the news media at the time, I got to read all the Associated Press feeds about the McMartin trial as they came in over the wire, and there were lots and lots of them.), BTW.
I suspect at least some of the effects are not unlike what you describe.
Oops, I read "disk" but saw "RAM".
That being said, I've no trouble accessing the 2TB disk containing my video collection from a laptop that has a 32-bit CPU, so I'm still inclined to think you're full of baloney..
Granted, given that the processor is just a 32-bit processor, the capacity of the HDD that could have been accessed would have been limited.
Hello, PAE would like a few words with you.
multiculturalism and tolerasty at its best.
Hi! :)
You seem to be trying to use a word that you don't really understand.
Would you like me to...
1. Find close matches in the dictionary, based on the first few letters...?
2. Find likely synonyms in a thesaurus, based on context...?
3. Fill in some garbage that means nothing but sounds good so people might not quite so easily cop to the fact that you're a functionally illiterate racist moron...?
Complete prevention is not the point, even complete prosecution isn't the point. Anybody can get away with speeding, or breaking in a locked door, or any number of crimes if the circumstances are right.
The goal is sufficient deterrence...
More simply: The goal is to make us afraid.
APK should be around here somewhere to tell us how to solve this one...
När man pratar om trollen, så står de i farstun...
You've been able to use JScript in place of VB/VBS in lots of places in Windows-land since forever.
This is new or unexpected in what way?
This is nothing more than oxygen tank makers claiming that free air is an unfair infringement on their profits.
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Except IE could be removed... and KDE entrenches Konqueror just as much, and nobody (even open source geeks) seems to take issue with that.
KDE isn't a standalone OS.
You were saying...?
IIRC correctly there was additionally the complaint that Microsoft designed Windows to crash Netscape.
Um, no. But perhaps you're thinking of "Windows ain't done till DR-DOS won't run"?
Man, its a sad day on Slashdot that PHK says something and noone says that BSD is dead! You wingnuts are losing your edge.
On the plus side, we've not seen any Candlejack posts latel
If you aren't from the US and, more specifically, from the San Francisco Bay Area, please don't use the term "hella". Thank you.
I've been using it for 15+ years, and I'm from the opposite end of the country.
You're welcome.
It also means that every single password for every single system in India will have to be plaintext.
What does India have to do with this?
We understand that you've drunk the Kool-Aid and are now offering to pass the jug around.
I'm not going to argue with your logic, but you need to bear in mind that the power requirements of desktop systems makes them unusable for the majority of the world's population. I just came back from a very isolated village in Vanuatu, where people still cook over open fires, where the houses still have mud floors... and where every household has at least one mobile phone.
And I won't argue with yours. I just want to know one thing: How do they charge those mobile phones?
Most people spend their lives working, finding a girlfriend, getting married, having children
Not in one of those countries they don't.
I saw plenty of children in China when I was there in January. What happened in the US -- you guys finally eat enough McDonald's to make you all sterile?
I wonder when Facebook will start disabling all users using a Gmail account for their email address.
At about the same time that they start offering free email accounts with Web, POP, and IMAP access and 7+ GB storage...?
I'd really like to know where the 56% figure comes from, and who actually pays that much.
I've lived and worked in Sweden for nearly 5 years, I'm in the top income tax bracket, I don't take any significant deductions, and my rate's only about 40%.