What What What! Now an anonymous troll is getting modderated insightful?
So murder in the third degree... isn't murder... because... at Slashdot every moron votes his special intrest fan-boy friends up, and insightful people down.
(4) The unlawful killing of a human being, when perpetrated without any design to effect death, by a person engaged in the perpetration of, or in the attempt to perpetrate, any felony other than any:
(a) Trafficking offense prohibited by s. 893.135(1),
(b) Arson,
(c) Sexual battery,
(d) Robbery,
(e) Burglary,
(f) Kidnapping,
(g) Escape,
(h) Aggravated child abuse,
(i) Aggravated abuse of an elderly person or disabled adult,
(j) Aircraft piracy,
(k) Unlawful throwing, placing, or discharging of a destructive device or bomb,
(l) Unlawful distribution of any substance controlled under s. 893.03(1), cocaine as described in s. 893.03(2)(a)4., or opium or any synthetic or natural salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium by a person 18 years of age or older, when such drug is proven to be the proximate cause of the death of the user,
(m) Carjacking,
(n) Home-invasion robbery,
(o) Aggravated stalking,
(p) Murder of another human being,
(q) Resisting an officer with violence to his or her person, or
(r) Felony that is an act of terrorism or is in furtherance of an act of terrorism,
is murder in the third degree and constitutes a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
Either intentional or reckless behavior that results in the death of many people is still murder.
I'm not surprised that some posters didn't read the article, but how did so many moderators (i see a 5 insightful rating) not RTFA or have any common sense? Even if Slashdot has an excellent moderation system, "garbage in" will still result in "garbage out".
Jeez, just spoon feed me drivel already: "Some Dude To Kick Monopoly's Ass In Court"
While some doodz may feel that way (who cares), I believe the grandparent comment was that the importantance of the story should be related to the targeted audience (Slashdot).
Perhaps if I was lawyer, or studing law, I would appreciate the play by play details of any particular case. But this is Slashdot, and the category is Your Rights Online, and I expect a story summary to relate an issue, that we consider important, in a concise manner.
Bah, it's probably just a slow newsday. (Occams' razor)
They really do need to hang on to their existing customers with their bare teeth...
The concepts of not putting all you eggs in one basket, and one size does not fit all apply here. I'm fairly confident that there is enough interest and use for technology that economies can't support more than one operating system. An each of those operating systems will do some thing well and some things poorly.
Windows, GNU/Linux, & Apple systems each serve a different set of needs, and therefore each will continue to exist as long as they continue to meet the demand. Which, not coincidently, is exactly what the companies listed in the article are doing, responding to a economic demand and opportunity.
-they never read Slashdot (the Bible)
-weren't interested in being converted by OS preachers (prostlytizing)
-and just wanted a tool that was reasonably priced and worked (secular bottom line)
I should add that cults are often obsessed with creating images of their sacred idols.
Not because they have a laptop, but instead because they have access to textbooks, communication, and unfiltered information.
I won't argue against a single point you made, because in reality those actions would only exasperate the current situation.
With World Health Day passing last month, a number of interesting statistics were reveled. For example, in Ethiopia there are only 1,936 practising doctors, while North America alone has over 500,000. Oh, that isn't 500,000 doctors total, that 500,000 Ethipian doctors. A laptop may help a child achieve the education level of doctor, but it won't get them the opportunity to be one.
While it may be better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish, is it equally worthwhile to teach him to build a fishing rod when he is hungry?
I see your point, but think we may be taking fish analogies too far. That or I missed the article describing the laptops as being edible. So, what is your favorite flavor of Linux?
As a geek I luv computers, don't we all? But my gut tells me that tossing devices that, let's face it, require many branches of support like a species at the top of a complex food chain, will be about as successful as tossing paper money on them, them being poor children.
Don't misundertand, this isn't the arguement that we shouldn't travel to space, or not do other things, because somewhere in the world is a child is starving. No, my concern is for accomplishing the goal of this project, which I assume is, to help them prosper. You know, teach a man to fish instead of just giving him one fish.
Computers are excellent at doing many types of tasks, but lousy at others. People aren't poor because they don't have a laptop. In fact, I think most studies have shown that laptops actually have little or a negative impact on helping children learn. No, people are poor, in our current world and time, are poor because they don't have opportunity. Opportunity to exchange their own effort, work, or goods with other people.
Why? Because either someone prevents them, by means of a gun and or a system that makes it impossible to be free to do such exchanges. Sometimes I think people toss that word around like it's some etheral ideal that everyone knows they are supposed to say they value, but then go right on and act in contray ways. No, freedom is a very very very important ideal, an ideal that cannot be replaced by a 100 dollar laptop.
That would be illegal because murder is illegal. If you were to dress up as Mickey Mouse and tell children to go out and kill for Allah, that would be bad because murder is bad, not Mickey Mouse. Though I could understand the confusion.:)
but if they somehow won, the precedent would be set
Hasn't that precedent already been set? In the DMCA, Macrovision was awarded a monopoly that requires every single video equipment manufacturer to include Macrovision DRM. This new company is simply calling for the same type of monopoly, but for their own field of DRM technology.
Right now times are tough at Google. Their profits aren't very high, and their position is so precarious they might go out of bussiness any day.
At this time they can't afford to refuse assisting the Chinese Communist Party with oppressing people. But one day, when they are doing better and profits are higher, then I'm absolutly positive they will stand up and Do No Evil.
Why does the title read "Hubble Space Telescope Detects Ring of Dark Matter" when - as the first line of the summary states -, the HST actually only " may have finally found dark matter".
Many news groups are filled with those that "believe" they are scientific, but don't actually follow the scientific method. Slashdot is no exception when it comes to pseudoscience.
Examples:
1) Those that believe Star Trek is science-fiction, and not fantasy in space.
2) Those that believe Global Warming because they personally experienced a hot day or observed an inconvienint movie, instead of comparing Earth climate history with current solar trends.
3) Those that believe I should be modded down for not parroting some political party line or pre-decided conclusion, instead of modded up for reccommending that we require observable evidence and logical reasoning in order to prosper.
The Slashdot FAQ should suggest moderating down the stupid, instead of all others that aren't blind followers of one's own faith. (operating system, political party, pseudoscience) I suspect many flame-wars could be avoided this way.
The article didn't state the upload speed, and it's doubtful it matches the 25x faster download.
In fact, if they were to decrease the upload speed instead, they just might be able to make the internet model act more like the Cable TV or Satelite TV models, where your box only decrypts/protects the content and uploads your viewing behaviors, while only downloading shows and advertisments.
$300 million for Photobucket doesn't really apply to either of these models; it's a stupid move no matter how you look at it.
Are you sure? Only a month ago MySpace was blocking images from Photobucket, and accusing them of violating their terms of service. Why? because MySpace wants a share of the advertising revenue Photobucket generates, then a month later they get bought up. Coincidence?
People should make their decisions based upon their own situation and ability and commitment. Inserting a middleman or politician, in order to decide which industry will be a winner and which will be a loser, means citizens will always be the losers.
Rebates are not free, solar equipment has a cost to manufacture. Playing a shell game with rebates, and then flucuating power company rates, only do one thing, and that's make the change to solar more complicated and less predictable to calculate the cost over time.
I suggest following the advice written in the preable to the US Consitution. For the government to promote the general welfare, not provide it. To fund studies and publish information on how their state citizens can best make use of alternate energy. Not to pick companies that contributed to their reelection campaign, and then pass out government rebates for that companies product or service.
Now the New Corp bubble. Or maybe it's the Gootube bubble. Or the Yahoo/MSN bubble?
I expect to see many more acquisitions and consolidations following either of these two routes.
1) Old-Media sits on vault of copyrighted material and established relationships, in order to...
2) Sue any New-Media company that's successful (copyright infringers!)
or
1) Old-Media only threatens to sue New-Media company out of existence, in order to...
2) Gain leverage in acquisition or consolidation agreements
Perhaps someone should design a game where the object is to successfully produce a game. You would have to manage artists, programmers, marketers, and get it finished before your stock price drops, your bussiness fails, and you become the next Duke Nuken Forever joke.
Spore seems fairly entertaining when you have a comedian play it. Robbin Willians
If research is or was funded by public money, there should always be public access.
It's a good thing that governments have never ever researched nuclear weapons, otherwise they would have to post bomb making instructions on the internet. For those hiding in caves without internet access, they could send a self-addressed stamped envolope requesting the exact plan they would like.
Dear America,
please send me instructions for one ICBM missle.
Allhu Akbar, Osama.
1) On multiple previous occasions, security has been found lacking.
2) A decision was made to contract out work to a more capable party.
3) Improved security procedures can be less convienient for some.
Security is a balancing act. Example, you could require all password lengths to be greater than one character in order to improve security, but longer passwords are more difficult to memorize. Upon implimentation of this new security requirement you can bet someone will complain. Wah!:)
These Internet pages, are they something I'd need an Internet browser to enjoy?
Yes, you may only read these pages while connected to the internet.
Other examples:
Single player games that require an internet connection to install or run. (Value Steam)
Operating systems that require an internet connection to activate or validate genuineness. (Microsoft Windows)
Music that requires an internet connection before authorizing a computer, up to 5 limit. (Apple Itunes)
6. What about Wikipedia?
Wikipedia inspired us. Wikipedia accumulated about 1.5 million entries in English in its first four years. That gave us confidence that our tasks are manageable with current technology and social behaviour, although the expert community in a lot of the subjects for pages in Encyclopedia of Life may be only a handful of people. Wikipedia has also created some species pages, as have other groups. Encyclopedia of Life will, we hope, unite all such efforts and increase their value. The Wikimedia Foundation is a member of the Encyclopedia's Institutional Council.
From the article
"I dream that in a few years wherever a reference to a species occurs on the Internet, there will be a hyperlink to its page in the Encyclopedia of Life," concluded Edwards.
I suppose anyone could try and duplicate any current effort, like a search engine, browser, video site, political site, movie site, music site, and then hope that with enough money and lawyers behind it to gain a large portion of the market.
Leave it to Republican run hellholes to think up this kind of crap. This is what you get when you have vending machines legislatures that sell laws for cash. God save us from these assholes eventually.
I AGREE COMPLETELY!!!
First those Republicans required those Parental Advisory stickers on CDs, then that Republican President signed the DMCA in law, now this. If those Republicans keep this up I'm moving to France!
Or "one world American"? Might be just me, but I have the distinct feeling that the USA are responsible for far more deaths in foreign nations than Muslims (as if they are even a homogenous group, much less one that generally supports terrorism!) are.
And communists? Come on, this isn't the 50s anymore, McCarthy.
Allow me to introduce you to a concept that appears to be missing from your incongruous assumptions and conclusions. It's called being civilized, and it's neccessary for a free and prosperous society.
Example, say a group of people need to decide together on a single plan of action. Most opinions come down to one of two different plans. They decide to hold a vote, and follow the plan of action that recieves the most votes. This is an example of civilized behavior.
For an example of behavior that lacks civility, simply continue the above example. One group decides that they will go along with the vote only if they win, and if they lose they will not honor the agreement. Instead they will use violence like assasination, riots, vandalization, etc...
While many might discount your post above as someone playing word games, or trolling, my experience leads me to believe that you really do believe America is the big evil, and that all the real evil in the world just isn't so bad, and can be justified one way or another.
If this is the case you clearly have a problem, some refer to it as "liberism is a mental disorder", but I haven't heard of any cures. All I can do is suggest is that you attempt to place more trust in those that are superior in knowledge to yourself. Example, when you go to the doctor, assuming you don't believe doctors are uncessary and that a god will heal you, then you trust his opinion and diagnosis don't you? Then simply apply this concept to other areas of your life like politics, automotive repair, financial advice, dental work, etc... Good Luck!
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So murder in the third degree... isn't murder... because... at Slashdot every moron votes his special intrest fan-boy friends up, and insightful people down.
Either intentional or reckless behavior that results in the death of many people is still murder.
I'm not surprised that some posters didn't read the article, but how did so many moderators (i see a 5 insightful rating) not RTFA or have any common sense? Even if Slashdot has an excellent moderation system, "garbage in" will still result in "garbage out".
Well, I hope you take that advice before you post next time, since it's obvious you're the only not following it.
I suppose if an article regarding Care Bears was to be posted, you would tell people to go the the Official Site before asking yourself how The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine relates to News for Nerds if for no greater reason than you submitted BakaHoushi's Care Bear Video to Youtube.
A little background reading is not asking all that much, IMHO.
While some doodz may feel that way (who cares), I believe the grandparent comment was that the importantance of the story should be related to the targeted audience (Slashdot).
Perhaps if I was lawyer, or studing law, I would appreciate the play by play details of any particular case. But this is Slashdot, and the category is Your Rights Online, and I expect a story summary to relate an issue, that we consider important, in a concise manner.
Bah, it's probably just a slow newsday. (Occams' razor)
The concepts of not putting all you eggs in one basket, and one size does not fit all apply here. I'm fairly confident that there is enough interest and use for technology that economies can't support more than one operating system. An each of those operating systems will do some thing well and some things poorly.
Windows, GNU/Linux, & Apple systems each serve a different set of needs, and therefore each will continue to exist as long as they continue to meet the demand. Which, not coincidently, is exactly what the companies listed in the article are doing, responding to a economic demand and opportunity.
Which OS would someone choose if...
-they never read Slashdot (the Bible)
-weren't interested in being converted by OS preachers (prostlytizing)
-and just wanted a tool that was reasonably priced and worked (secular bottom line)
I should add that cults are often obsessed with creating images of their sacred idols.
I won't argue against a single point you made, because in reality those actions would only exasperate the current situation.
With World Health Day passing last month, a number of interesting statistics were reveled. For example, in Ethiopia there are only 1,936 practising doctors, while North America alone has over 500,000. Oh, that isn't 500,000 doctors total, that 500,000 Ethipian doctors. A laptop may help a child achieve the education level of doctor, but it won't get them the opportunity to be one.
Reversing the trend of brain drain the case of the Ethiopain Diaporas
Why is Africa losing its best brains?
April 7th is World Health Day: an Ethiopian doctor has 37,000 patients
I see your point, but think we may be taking fish analogies too far. That or I missed the article describing the laptops as being edible. So, what is your favorite flavor of Linux?
As a geek I luv computers, don't we all? But my gut tells me that tossing devices that, let's face it, require many branches of support like a species at the top of a complex food chain, will be about as successful as tossing paper money on them, them being poor children.
Don't misundertand, this isn't the arguement that we shouldn't travel to space, or not do other things, because somewhere in the world is a child is starving. No, my concern is for accomplishing the goal of this project, which I assume is, to help them prosper. You know, teach a man to fish instead of just giving him one fish.
Computers are excellent at doing many types of tasks, but lousy at others. People aren't poor because they don't have a laptop. In fact, I think most studies have shown that laptops actually have little or a negative impact on helping children learn. No, people are poor, in our current world and time, are poor because they don't have opportunity. Opportunity to exchange their own effort, work, or goods with other people.
Why? Because either someone prevents them, by means of a gun and or a system that makes it impossible to be free to do such exchanges. Sometimes I think people toss that word around like it's some etheral ideal that everyone knows they are supposed to say they value, but then go right on and act in contray ways. No, freedom is a very very very important ideal, an ideal that cannot be replaced by a 100 dollar laptop.
That would be illegal because murder is illegal. If you were to dress up as Mickey Mouse and tell children to go out and kill for Allah, that would be bad because murder is bad, not Mickey Mouse. Though I could understand the confusion.
Right now times are tough at Google. Their profits aren't very high, and their position is so precarious they might go out of bussiness any day.
At this time they can't afford to refuse assisting the Chinese Communist Party with oppressing people. But one day, when they are doing better and profits are higher, then I'm absolutly positive they will stand up and Do No Evil.
Many news groups are filled with those that "believe" they are scientific, but don't actually follow the scientific method. Slashdot is no exception when it comes to pseudoscience.
Examples:
1) Those that believe Star Trek is science-fiction, and not fantasy in space.
2) Those that believe Global Warming because they personally experienced a hot day or observed an inconvienint movie, instead of comparing Earth climate history with current solar trends.
3) Those that believe I should be modded down for not parroting some political party line or pre-decided conclusion, instead of modded up for reccommending that we require observable evidence and logical reasoning in order to prosper.
The Slashdot FAQ should suggest moderating down the stupid, instead of all others that aren't blind followers of one's own faith. (operating system, political party, pseudoscience) I suspect many flame-wars could be avoided this way.
The article didn't state the upload speed, and it's doubtful it matches the 25x faster download.
In fact, if they were to decrease the upload speed instead, they just might be able to make the internet model act more like the Cable TV or Satelite TV models, where your box only decrypts/protects the content and uploads your viewing behaviors, while only downloading shows and advertisments.
Are you sure? Only a month ago MySpace was blocking images from Photobucket, and accusing them of violating their terms of service. Why? because MySpace wants a share of the advertising revenue Photobucket generates, then a month later they get bought up. Coincidence?
People should make their decisions based upon their own situation and ability and commitment. Inserting a middleman or politician, in order to decide which industry will be a winner and which will be a loser, means citizens will always be the losers.
Rebates are not free, solar equipment has a cost to manufacture. Playing a shell game with rebates, and then flucuating power company rates, only do one thing, and that's make the change to solar more complicated and less predictable to calculate the cost over time.
I suggest following the advice written in the preable to the US Consitution. For the government to promote the general welfare, not provide it. To fund studies and publish information on how their state citizens can best make use of alternate energy. Not to pick companies that contributed to their reelection campaign, and then pass out government rebates for that companies product or service.
I expect to see many more acquisitions and consolidations following either of these two routes.
1) Old-Media sits on vault of copyrighted material and established relationships, in order to...
2) Sue any New-Media company that's successful (copyright infringers!)
or
1) Old-Media only threatens to sue New-Media company out of existence, in order to...
2) Gain leverage in acquisition or consolidation agreements
Perhaps someone should design a game where the object is to successfully produce a game. You would have to manage artists, programmers, marketers, and get it finished before your stock price drops, your bussiness fails, and you become the next Duke Nuken Forever joke.
Spore seems fairly entertaining when you have a comedian play it. Robbin Willians
It's a good thing that governments have never ever researched nuclear weapons, otherwise they would have to post bomb making instructions on the internet. For those hiding in caves without internet access, they could send a self-addressed stamped envolope requesting the exact plan they would like.
Dear America,
please send me instructions for one ICBM missle.
Allhu Akbar, Osama.
1) On multiple previous occasions, security has been found lacking.
:)
2) A decision was made to contract out work to a more capable party.
3) Improved security procedures can be less convienient for some.
Security is a balancing act. Example, you could require all password lengths to be greater than one character in order to improve security, but longer passwords are more difficult to memorize. Upon implimentation of this new security requirement you can bet someone will complain. Wah!
Yes, you may only read these pages while connected to the internet.
Other examples:
Single player games that require an internet connection to install or run. (Value Steam)
Operating systems that require an internet connection to activate or validate genuineness. (Microsoft Windows)
Music that requires an internet connection before authorizing a computer, up to 5 limit. (Apple Itunes)
From the article
I suppose anyone could try and duplicate any current effort, like a search engine, browser, video site, political site, movie site, music site, and then hope that with enough money and lawyers behind it to gain a large portion of the market.
I AGREE COMPLETELY!!!
First those Republicans required those Parental Advisory stickers on CDs, then that Republican President signed the DMCA in law, now this. If those Republicans keep this up I'm moving to France!
Many countries will refuse extradition requests if the penalty could include death.
1) Pass new sentancing guildlines (all pirates must 'walk the plank')
2) Then countries will refuse to extradite all pirates
3) Profit!!!
Allow me to introduce you to a concept that appears to be missing from your incongruous assumptions and conclusions. It's called being civilized, and it's neccessary for a free and prosperous society.
Example, say a group of people need to decide together on a single plan of action. Most opinions come down to one of two different plans. They decide to hold a vote, and follow the plan of action that recieves the most votes. This is an example of civilized behavior.
For an example of behavior that lacks civility, simply continue the above example. One group decides that they will go along with the vote only if they win, and if they lose they will not honor the agreement. Instead they will use violence like assasination, riots, vandalization, etc...
While many might discount your post above as someone playing word games, or trolling, my experience leads me to believe that you really do believe America is the big evil, and that all the real evil in the world just isn't so bad, and can be justified one way or another.
If this is the case you clearly have a problem, some refer to it as "liberism is a mental disorder", but I haven't heard of any cures. All I can do is suggest is that you attempt to place more trust in those that are superior in knowledge to yourself. Example, when you go to the doctor, assuming you don't believe doctors are uncessary and that a god will heal you, then you trust his opinion and diagnosis don't you? Then simply apply this concept to other areas of your life like politics, automotive repair, financial advice, dental work, etc... Good Luck!