This will not do anything ot stop trolling or any other sort of abuse. People that do so are adept at creating bogus IDS with which to have their fun.
In fact, having real names publically available, you will certainly see cases of trolls chasing real people through the game servers harassing them wherever they play.
Character stats are already publically available via their Armoury portal.
I'm sure the biggest benenfit to doing this has nothing to do with protecting people from flame baiting
...So, the summary for those of you who are a little slow (Vista users), they screw over people who give them money to help people who don't give them money... this explains why "Vista: Piracy Edition" works best.
There is only one side here in the end.
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Net Neutrality or Not?
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There is absolutely nothing stopping the telecoms from charging google and the like for their "Free" Bandwidth, meaning, if they feel that they are getting too smoking a deal, then by all means jack up their pricing on badnwidth to google and yahoo etc.
this is allowed. Nobody is stopping them. If you believe that its a free market out there, then you must accept that the market will charge what the market will bear.
Not enough money to upgrade the internet? RAISE THE RATES.
Google Yahoo and other content providers getting a "Free ride"? RAISE THEIR RATES.
Prioritising packets has nothign to do with protecting the bottom line. its totally uneccessary for the reasons they give. It is about being able to finely control every little packet you get, so you can be billed accordingly.
Why give up the incredibly profitable Long Distance business model for the "flat rate" model of the internet, when you can convert the internet into another "long distance" service?
The article states that the jumper can jump with over 100kg of gear stowed inside the wing itself, without affecting the performance.
Though i agree with you that they probably won't be used much, if at all in real world applications, I disagree totally with your reasons.
The article disgrees with your reasons as well, maybe you should have read it.
Even if the show is good, it will cheapen the works ROn Moore et al have done.
The series works because it is well written, with great actors playing characters that act and react believably in the context of their situation, and the storyline is tightly woven with little distracton from that story.
The series works because it has been distilled down to its core, no scene is wasted, no character redundant, and except for two episodes, no episode extraneous to the greater story.
Any new series will only serve to distract and dilute the original show's strengths.
Less is more when it comes to storytelling. Starwars eps 1-3 and Star Trek:yourseriesormovienamehere has proven that out.
SO if I bounce a cheque, I have to pay an NSF fee to my bank, the payee's bank, and sometimes the payee as well.
So will the DHS not only monitor the large cheque i just wrote, and bounced, would they charge me NSF too?
"...has effectively given the Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python (LAMP) stack a healthy rating.
LAMP "showed significantly better software quality" above the report's baseline with an average of.32 defects per 1,000 lines of code, according to Coverity. The average for open source projects analyzed is.42 per 1,000 lines."
What would be interesting to know is how they determined a baseline of.32 defects per 1000 lines of code as their baseline, and how so called commerical products, like Oracle, Windows, MSSQL, etc. fared against the same baseline.
thats really the question isn't it? is Open Source more or less secure than any of the closed systems?
Because you know when the gov't gets involved... It can't get screwed up...
We're looking at the possibility of tiered internet access, at paying for email on a per message basis, and having every packet sent and received scanned and then prioritised based on whatever payment plan you're on, because the "gov't" deregulated the Telecommunications industry.
Without regulation, the Telcos will ultimately reshape the Internet into a business model they understand, and prefer.
That being net access would be billed on a per minute basis, or a per page view, and on either the popularity of the site, or the geographical distance of the server from your connection.
Long Distance plans are where the money is, and they have hated the internet using the same infrastructure as their voice networks but with tighter margins since it started. Keeping the "gov't" out will help them best provide customers an Internet that they can understand, and profit by, best.
At first glance, the obvious implication is that any search of an image, movie, or other sort of file is gutted, making Google (and any other search engine) useless for this kind of search.
Other people can speculate on what that sort of Google would look like, but I see the possibility of the opposite effect:
Imagine Google is where say everyone on the internet goes to search for data, like images etc., but Google cannot display every image that may exist because it would be a copyright infringment. Users, when searching for copyrighted material would first search google, then have to search up countless individual sites, and then search each of those sites individually in order to find whatever image they need.
Given people are generally lazy, they will first peruse the results that Google returned directly, then failing that, would then go on to look at site after site in turn. Whoever's images are returned directly by Google as a result of a search will have a competative advantage over those sites that do not have their images returned by Google.
Site owners would obviously want their images to be at the top of Googles results. But now beacuse of this ruling, each site would have to grant Google access to their images to be included. With enough Sites "asking" Google to be included in what was before a free service, Google would make the obvious business decision and charge for that service, whatever the market would bare.
Google would morph from being a sort of "white pages", where everyone is included automatically, to a "yellow pages" where access is charged for.
Instead of harming Google, a judgement like this would simply give them a new revenue stream, and a method of locking out competing search engines by locking in sites into exclusive contracts with Google.
Just speculation, but neither outcome is appealing.
Should we as professionals expect to be attacked for our decisions, even though Linux has prooven itself (time and time again), for over 5 years in our company? How do you deal with all of the baseless claims, that your superiors may read in the mainstream media?"
One of the easiest ways to defend the value of Linux in the enterprise is to just show how much Microsoft licensing for the same implementation would have been had you been using it instead of Linux.
I would be interested if my assumption is true, and that is the more you automate the car into preventing the driver from losing control the more likely that driver will eventually pay so little attention to their driving that when they do ultimately push the car too far the result will be catastrophic.
The less drivers need to think about the fact they are in control of a couple of tonnes of metal adhering to the whims of inertia the less attention they'll pay to that fact. When this innatentive Michael Schumacher finally does push his vehicle past its ability to correct for driver stupidity, the speed at which the car leaves the road is therefore higher, making a bigger crash and increasing the chances of making driver/passenger/pedestrian into shoe custard.
SO, if that is the case, adding more stupidification features into automobiles may reduce the number of collisions, but increase the odds of the collision causing death.
Something for the grant hungry amongst you to draft a study proposal over.
This Very Cogent Argument reminds me of a famous quote:
"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!"
- Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbuster
Just to point out that there has not been one cridble study released that has shown that "piracy" of music online has had any detrimental effect to the music industry as a whole.
By piracy i am referring to filetrading via BiTorrent or Kazaa like networks.
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This will not do anything ot stop trolling or any other sort of abuse. People that do so are adept at creating bogus IDS with which to have their fun. In fact, having real names publically available, you will certainly see cases of trolls chasing real people through the game servers harassing them wherever they play. Character stats are already publically available via their Armoury portal. I'm sure the biggest benenfit to doing this has nothing to do with protecting people from flame baiting
...So, the summary for those of you who are a little slow (Vista users), they screw over people who give them money to help people who don't give them money... this explains why "Vista: Piracy Edition" works best.this is allowed. Nobody is stopping them. If you believe that its a free market out there, then you must accept that the market will charge what the market will bear.
Not enough money to upgrade the internet? RAISE THE RATES. Google Yahoo and other content providers getting a "Free ride"? RAISE THEIR RATES.
Prioritising packets has nothign to do with protecting the bottom line. its totally uneccessary for the reasons they give. It is about being able to finely control every little packet you get, so you can be billed accordingly.
Why give up the incredibly profitable Long Distance business model for the "flat rate" model of the internet, when you can convert the internet into another "long distance" service?
The article states that the jumper can jump with over 100kg of gear stowed inside the wing itself, without affecting the performance.
Though i agree with you that they probably won't be used much, if at all in real world applications, I disagree totally with your reasons.
The article disgrees with your reasons as well, maybe you should have read it.
Even if the show is good, it will cheapen the works ROn Moore et al have done. The series works because it is well written, with great actors playing characters that act and react believably in the context of their situation, and the storyline is tightly woven with little distracton from that story. The series works because it has been distilled down to its core, no scene is wasted, no character redundant, and except for two episodes, no episode extraneous to the greater story. Any new series will only serve to distract and dilute the original show's strengths. Less is more when it comes to storytelling. Starwars eps 1-3 and Star Trek:yourseriesormovienamehere has proven that out.
SO if I bounce a cheque, I have to pay an NSF fee to my bank, the payee's bank, and sometimes the payee as well.
So will the DHS not only monitor the large cheque i just wrote, and bounced, would they charge me NSF too?
"...has effectively given the Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP/Python (LAMP) stack a healthy rating. LAMP "showed significantly better software quality" above the report's baseline with an average of .32 defects per 1,000 lines of code, according to Coverity. The average for open source projects analyzed is .42 per 1,000 lines."
What would be interesting to know is how they determined a baseline of .32 defects per 1000 lines of code as their baseline, and how so called commerical products, like Oracle, Windows, MSSQL, etc. fared against the same baseline.
thats really the question isn't it? is Open Source more or less secure than any of the closed systems?
THe upside to this is of course all those massive lenses and mirrors will be coming on the market.
Evil Geniuses planning to build a super laser and extort the world for billions of dollars on a budget rejoice!
Because you know when the gov't gets involved... It can't get screwed up...
We're looking at the possibility of tiered internet access, at paying for email on a per message basis, and having every packet sent and received scanned and then prioritised based on whatever payment plan you're on, because the "gov't" deregulated the Telecommunications industry.
Without regulation, the Telcos will ultimately reshape the Internet into a business model they understand, and prefer.
That being net access would be billed on a per minute basis, or a per page view, and on either the popularity of the site, or the geographical distance of the server from your connection.
Long Distance plans are where the money is, and they have hated the internet using the same infrastructure as their voice networks but with tighter margins since it started. Keeping the "gov't" out will help them best provide customers an Internet that they can understand, and profit by, best.
Compulsory Licensing.
Sorry, forgot formatting.
At first glance, the obvious implication is that any search of an image, movie, or other sort of file is gutted, making Google (and any other search engine) useless for this kind of search. Other people can speculate on what that sort of Google would look like, but I see the possibility of the opposite effect: Imagine Google is where say everyone on the internet goes to search for data, like images etc., but Google cannot display every image that may exist because it would be a copyright infringment. Users, when searching for copyrighted material would first search google, then have to search up countless individual sites, and then search each of those sites individually in order to find whatever image they need. Given people are generally lazy, they will first peruse the results that Google returned directly, then failing that, would then go on to look at site after site in turn. Whoever's images are returned directly by Google as a result of a search will have a competative advantage over those sites that do not have their images returned by Google. Site owners would obviously want their images to be at the top of Googles results. But now beacuse of this ruling, each site would have to grant Google access to their images to be included. With enough Sites "asking" Google to be included in what was before a free service, Google would make the obvious business decision and charge for that service, whatever the market would bare. Google would morph from being a sort of "white pages", where everyone is included automatically, to a "yellow pages" where access is charged for. Instead of harming Google, a judgement like this would simply give them a new revenue stream, and a method of locking out competing search engines by locking in sites into exclusive contracts with Google. Just speculation, but neither outcome is appealing.
Should we as professionals expect to be attacked for our decisions, even though Linux has prooven itself (time and time again), for over 5 years in our company? How do you deal with all of the baseless claims, that your superiors may read in the mainstream media?"
One of the easiest ways to defend the value of Linux in the enterprise is to just show how much Microsoft licensing for the same implementation would have been had you been using it instead of Linux.
I would be interested if my assumption is true, and that is the more you automate the car into preventing the driver from losing control the more likely that driver will eventually pay so little attention to their driving that when they do ultimately push the car too far the result will be catastrophic.
The less drivers need to think about the fact they are in control of a couple of tonnes of metal adhering to the whims of inertia the less attention they'll pay to that fact. When this innatentive Michael Schumacher finally does push his vehicle past its ability to correct for driver stupidity, the speed at which the car leaves the road is therefore higher, making a bigger crash and increasing the chances of making driver/passenger/pedestrian into shoe custard.
SO, if that is the case, adding more stupidification features into automobiles may reduce the number of collisions, but increase the odds of the collision causing death.
Something for the grant hungry amongst you to draft a study proposal over.
This Very Cogent Argument reminds me of a famous quote: "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!" - Dr. Peter Venkman, Ghostbuster
Just to point out that there has not been one cridble study released that has shown that "piracy" of music online has had any detrimental effect to the music industry as a whole. By piracy i am referring to filetrading via BiTorrent or Kazaa like networks.