Don't kid yourself about developing nations. I live in one. We have one of the most sophisticated cell phone networks in the world. Almost everyone here has a cell phone because landlines are unfordable for the majority of our citizens. Most phones here can at least run Java. The social network of choice here is called Mxit has been developed using Java for mobiles. Its cheap to communicate via Mxit (much cheaper than SMS) so a large portion of our nation does. Symbian will probably end up dominating this market segment for Nokia, while their smartphone segment runs Windows 7 for the meantime until they find a better strategy.
Julian Assange has released a highly encrypted 2GB file out on the torrents as insurance (its pretty easy to find as well) . The decryption information will be released if anything happens to him. There are enough people scared of that package to keep him alive.
The part of the story about the rape that has been conveniently left out, is that the woman was a journalist with an online rag. The online rag (I forget which one offhand - but google it if you are curious enough) subsequently was the publication to break the story and get all of the publicity.
The Godaddy registered Wikileaks domains (wikileaks.com wikileaks.net wikileaks.biz, wikileaks.mobi, wikileaks.us) are no longer pointing at anything meaninful - just Godaddy blurb pages. It seems that Godaddy has decided to stop serving DNS for Wikileaks
Half the problem is that fast foods are engineered to inhibit the signals that tell us that we have had enough of a specific nutrient. With natural foods, we stop feeling like the food when we have had enough (see how many bananas you can eat before they lose their appeal) . This level of bio-engineering should be made illegal. The reason people are getting fat is because we do not get that natural response when eating fast food. Going after the toys is simply going after they symptom of the problem,
Talk about emulating reality. The diamonds and emeralds are an ASCII relic, while the blue hedgehog is a CGA relic. We inherited these game artefacts because of our limitations in emulating reality. Give it time - the creativity will return, and when it does, it will probably be mind blowingly beautiful.
Murdoch is a prime example of the type of scumbag that is strangling mankind. He and his ilk deserve the firing squad for all of the lives that they have ruined because of their personal greed.
In all honesty, why would anyone be stupid enough to look for trouble with a policeman. I get the whole freedom of speech thing, but the average copper has the power to make your life pretty uncomfortable and inconvenienced just to prove a point
While I don't agree with this abuse of power, it does remain a reality. The average cop does not have your best interests at heart. They have an arrest target to meet.
I'm willing to bet money on the fact that our sophisticated DRM of today will seem like a stone age toy on a few years time. Its only purpose is to control the market right now. Frankly the DRM thing in terms of preserving culture is a red herring. How many movies to you have in an unencumbered format like DivX? or songs in MP3 format? These are the artifacts that future archeologists are most likely to examine.
The solution to this is to have different types of voting. At the most basic level, where most of the participation will happen, need to be aligned to ones special interests where one has the most life experience and education.
Another protection measure in an open society at this level is to have open voting so that votes can be openly verified, especially within the special interest groups.
Importantly voting is loaded (with a maximum threshold) according to ones experience and eduction. The reality is, that all people do not contribute equally to society. Some peoples contributions are greater, and this needs to be respected (and even revered in a system like this) This would also encourage people to become more proficient in their areas of expertise.
My experience is that people have become sheeple because they have been deprived of this right, and social responsibility. I predict that if it was returned to them, after a short phase of upheaval, this system would stabilize and an unprecedented new level of social responsibility would emerge among citizens.
I expect there would be challenges, because democracy is inherently designed to side with the majority no matter how slim the majority may be.
I'm talking even more granular than that. Every issue should be voted on in an electronic open forum. The real problem is the lack of social responsibility within society. The real sense that we are the actual owners of our country has been diminished. We have handed over our decision making to self interested strangers. and then we have the audacity to complain when they put suppressive and draconian laws into place.
We are actually complicit in this by giving them the authority to do this.
I disagree. This is the result of the lack of democracy. When you vote, you hand over your veto power to your local congressman and hope that he has your best interests at heart, which he invariably does not. Our failure to participate democratically at all levels within our societies world wide has caused this problem.
Until we properly restore our participation we will continue to be be screwed over time and time again, with the screws getting tighter each time, as your local friendly congressman signs off on bills designed to extract more tax dollars from your pocket.
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Don't kid yourself about developing nations. I live in one. We have one of the most sophisticated cell phone networks in the world. Almost everyone here has a cell phone because landlines are unfordable for the majority of our citizens. Most phones here can at least run Java. The social network of choice here is called Mxit has been developed using Java for mobiles. Its cheap to communicate via Mxit (much cheaper than SMS) so a large portion of our nation does. Symbian will probably end up dominating this market segment for Nokia, while their smartphone segment runs Windows 7 for the meantime until they find a better strategy.
You know of course that American companies continued to supply the NAZI's with throughout WW2..
Well, that even more reason to keep him alive.
Julian Assange has released a highly encrypted 2GB file out on the torrents as insurance (its pretty easy to find as well) . The decryption information will be released if anything happens to him. There are enough people scared of that package to keep him alive.
The part of the story about the rape that has been conveniently left out, is that the woman was a journalist with an online rag. The online rag (I forget which one offhand - but google it if you are curious enough) subsequently was the publication to break the story and get all of the publicity.
The Godaddy registered Wikileaks domains (wikileaks.com wikileaks.net wikileaks.biz, wikileaks.mobi, wikileaks.us) are no longer pointing at anything meaninful - just Godaddy blurb pages. It seems that Godaddy has decided to stop serving DNS for Wikileaks
Yes. An ecstatic meal generally contains mushrooms..
Half the problem is that fast foods are engineered to inhibit the signals that tell us that we have had enough of a specific nutrient. With natural foods, we stop feeling like the food when we have had enough (see how many bananas you can eat before they lose their appeal) . This level of bio-engineering should be made illegal. The reason people are getting fat is because we do not get that natural response when eating fast food. Going after the toys is simply going after they symptom of the problem,
Skype Open SDK for Linux = a free market for innovative Skype handsets.
The Wii is dead. Long live the Nintendo Wii!!
Supply and demand baby. Supply and demand. We sure taught those commies well.
As far as I remember the first color game consoles were 16 colour? - So sure, it was not CGA in the true sense, but it was the same graphics ceiling.
Talk about emulating reality. The diamonds and emeralds are an ASCII relic, while the blue hedgehog is a CGA relic. We inherited these game artefacts because of our limitations in emulating reality. Give it time - the creativity will return, and when it does, it will probably be mind blowingly beautiful.
Murdoch is a prime example of the type of scumbag that is strangling mankind. He and his ilk deserve the firing squad for all of the lives that they have ruined because of their personal greed.
No - It just means that people have woken up the fact that they cannot afford more children.
Do yourself a favor and watch the video the parent linked to.
Send me your email address. I'm sure I could arrange something..
In all honesty, why would anyone be stupid enough to look for trouble with a policeman. I get the whole freedom of speech thing, but the average copper has the power to make your life pretty uncomfortable and inconvenienced just to prove a point
While I don't agree with this abuse of power, it does remain a reality. The average cop does not have your best interests at heart. They have an arrest target to meet.
I'm willing to bet money on the fact that our sophisticated DRM of today will seem like a stone age toy on a few years time. Its only purpose is to control the market right now. Frankly the DRM thing in terms of preserving culture is a red herring. How many movies to you have in an unencumbered format like DivX? or songs in MP3 format? These are the artifacts that future archeologists are most likely to examine.
The solution to this is to have different types of voting. At the most basic level, where most of the participation will happen, need to be aligned to ones special interests where one has the most life experience and education.
Another protection measure in an open society at this level is to have open voting so that votes can be openly verified, especially within the special interest groups.
Importantly voting is loaded (with a maximum threshold) according to ones experience and eduction. The reality is, that all people do not contribute equally to society. Some peoples contributions are greater, and this needs to be respected (and even revered in a system like this) This would also encourage people to become more proficient in their areas of expertise.
My experience is that people have become sheeple because they have been deprived of this right, and social responsibility. I predict that if it was returned to them, after a short phase of upheaval, this system would stabilize and an unprecedented new level of social responsibility would emerge among citizens.
I expect there would be challenges, because democracy is inherently designed to side with the majority no matter how slim the majority may be.
I'm talking even more granular than that. Every issue should be voted on in an electronic open forum. The real problem is the lack of social responsibility within society.
The real sense that we are the actual owners of our country has been diminished. We have handed over our decision making to self interested strangers. and then we have the audacity to complain when they put suppressive and draconian laws into place.
We are actually complicit in this by giving them the authority to do this.
If Steve jobs had his way, having an Apple appliance would be a mandatory requirement to access the internet.
These days you need a Billion dollars in the bank to be considered rich..
I disagree. This is the result of the lack of democracy. When you vote, you hand over your veto power to your local congressman and hope that he has your best interests at heart, which he invariably does not. Our failure to participate democratically at all levels within our societies world wide has caused this problem.
Until we properly restore our participation we will continue to be be screwed over time and time again, with the screws getting tighter each time, as your local friendly congressman signs off on bills designed to extract more tax dollars from your pocket.
so Pornorama never quite made it to the market?