I thought it was because the UK doesn't have a Plea bargain agreement system, it would break UK law. So the US basically said accept our plea or end up in prison for life. I think thats where the human rights issue also comes in.
One of the biggest problems with US law is the plea bargain system, thats why the laws are so horrible, it makes people want to bargain instead of going to court. Its not to punish people, its to keep everyone out of jury trials.
Hell, if everyone went to a trial for everything, could you imagine the crippling effect it would have on the courts? Everyone citizen would have to pull multiple jury trails to keep up with it.
Many people at work have comcast, a few had comcast security call them for excessive usage. Seems, even though you buy the 12meg/768 service, you can really use it too much.
With multiple people (large family), xbox 360 services, downloading movies off itunes, work vpn, etc, you could use too much bandwidth for their services, and such people are being told dont use it too much or we will shut if off without notice.
Really a scam, they get you hooked with cheap combo package of tv/phone/internet then you use too much of it? Seems they should be limiting it if they have an issue, it shouldnt be the consumers to monitor, they are not given the tools, they dont have bandwidth usage reports.
Really, comcast is sleazy in its high speed internet usage policies.
ATT Wireless (before being bought by cingular) was rolling out UMTS nationwide. But cingular took over and changed its schedule, putting 4+ years delay in its launch.
Oh, and switched vendors, vendors with former ATTWS employees. I believe investors got soaked for millions. Lets not even go into the merge of the networks, what a fiasco that was.
Seems to me, with the depth of exploits coming in, you could learn so much from working that job, after a few years you could write your ticket to a good job in security at another company.
Not sure Id call a hardworking job like that a bad job, digging in a whale or crap would be allot worse....
I know the thread is old and nobody will see this but, the US Supreme court in the bonghits for jesus case ruled student protests about illegal acts is no longer protected speech.
So watch that protesting on campus, you no longer have first amendment rights about file sharing or any other activity that could be illegal.
Another thread removed from the constitution, another nail in democracy...
Money markets dont operate like this, you wouldnt be taxed every time you change currency. Change some euros to usd back to euros and get taxed twice? No it doesn't work that way.
I pay monthly to secondlife, after awhile I have virtual linden money built up, I cash it out, and I'm taxed AGAIN? Nonsense.
We pay way too much in taxes, and all this talk about how to get MORE/NEW taxes is absurd. How about some financial responsibility and a balanced budget before those fuckers in washington try to take anymore of our money.
If anyone wants some good history about the electric car and how it was killed in california, the documentary "Who killed the Electric Car" is worth watching. You can catch the trailer over at youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSBykAngDpY
Really, Sun is pulling a fast one, JavaFX competes with Flash and Silverlight, a graphical environment for devices, with web browsers as a bonus. Security concerns and downloadable plugins are just a smokescreen to make the product look bigger than it is. Compete against Ajax for the browser? Noway, but it is an attractive solution for hand held devices.
But when walmart, microsoft, netflix, etc allow downloadable movies/games, broadband is going to be much in demand that ISP's might start offering faster services for prefered providers.
I think that we will see people buying faster QoS for some services, and companies like google providing the infrastructure equipment/software to make it happen.
And most ISP's offer better QoS for the enterprise customers, nice big fat virtual pipes for companies needing speed for medical, industrial, (voip), etc.. Also the phone companies don't own that last mile to the base station, so if you need 3G, the ISP's are selling the bandwidth.
Plus with lawsuits, let a national ISP intentionally slowdown a competitor that doesn't pay some sort of net tax. I bet there are a dozen laws to cover that.
have Good Reason To Believe(tm) that there is already a shadow set of remote management commands that are not documented in standard user manuals for SOME comms equipment.
Actually LI (Lawful Intercept) ports are included on updated networking hardware for that reason. But they are limited on how many traces due to bandwidth limitations, for now.
Morale to do ones job, I hate it when IT security thinks they have to protect me from myself, that I cant even do my job and have to get special (aka normal) engineer access to our own laptops.
I was blocked from using altavista, and couldn't translate some emails, and couldn't get approval to buy the software. IT security tends to treat engineers as call centers, and lock them down. Those engineers tend to leave the company due to crappy office politics. Morale is important.
All I see are articles talking about how fun Wii is, the new way of interacting with games. But is this new game play interaction something that can keep the wii going in the longterm?
I have tried it, so I honestly don't if tilt controllers are something to build a console around.
Also, with PS/3 being a fully functional computer with a keyboard/mouse/blueray, its more than just a console. And Xbox live with internet access to media is more than a console. The Wii is a console and priced like it.
Sure, if you don't want to actually own your games.
Huh? On EA and Steam, you own the games, You can burn them to DVD/CD and play them anytime offline, and reinstall them.
Battlefield 2142 sells online and you dont have to use no-cd cracks. Thats a big plus. You just burn the install directory to DVD, and you can re-install anytime.
The only service you don't own is Gametap. But for a small price you can play unlimited games, might be older but with 100 or so games being released each month for the PC, thats alot of untouched games. Most people dont have time to play all the newest games, they stick with one for months, WoW is a good example.
Everyone loves to bash Phantom and I expect a bunch of funny posts about "wow an actual product!"..
But to be fair, the idea of a download service for games is a good idea, Steam, EA, Xbox360 use game download services. Cut out the middle man and you can make a nice profit. Microsoft is pushing this with the media center PC, its not a wierd jump of logic you need games on there.
The idea was pretty good, just real piss poor managment. They should of worked on the content download piece and made it a software only solution. Then offered beige boxes for sale to at least get money rolling. Cant see how 64 million dollars and 2 years and no delivery system was setup.
Of course, Gametap is doing older games now and making a profit, too late now.
More like, ask them to install a game they bought at the store. While Linux is a great desktop the only big area lacking in Linux is games. Now, yes, Wow has a linux client, but theres other games than WoW.
Yes, that hanging chat was poorly designed paper ballots. The best paper ballot I've seen is the big 1 inch boxes where you put a big blank X over the persons name. You cant mess that up. The ones with lines are messy IMHO.
Will the Amiga OS Programmers step and say "Hey, Its alive!"..
Someone other than a figurehead for Amiga should step up and make some comments that wont break NDA's....
Sad, Other than the Amiga OS was way ahead of its time, and very usable, if it was actively upgraded what would we have in our OS today? Vista and OSX wouldn't even be close to usability and eye-candy.
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When you have to call the Super Bowl "The Big Game" due to the NFL, I think thats poof enough.
I thought it was because the UK doesn't have a Plea bargain agreement system, it would break UK law.
So the US basically said accept our plea or end up in prison for life. I think thats where the human rights issue also comes in.
One of the biggest problems with US law is the plea bargain system, thats why the laws are so horrible, it makes people want to bargain instead of going to court. Its not to punish people, its to keep everyone out of jury trials.
Hell, if everyone went to a trial for everything, could you imagine the crippling effect it would have on the courts? Everyone citizen would have to pull multiple jury trails to keep up with it.
Please Please Please, let one of the FBI agents be working on request of the whitehouse staff.
I'd hate to see it be just average schmoes just stalking their ex-girl/boy friends.
Also, subpoenas first you lame ass telcos, checks and balances....
Many people at work have comcast, a few had comcast security call them for excessive usage. Seems, even though you buy the 12meg/768 service, you can really use it too much.
With multiple people (large family), xbox 360 services, downloading movies off itunes, work vpn, etc, you could use too much bandwidth for their services, and such people are being told dont use it too much or we will shut if off without notice.
Really a scam, they get you hooked with cheap combo package of tv/phone/internet then you use too much of it? Seems they should be limiting it if they have an issue, it shouldnt be the consumers to monitor, they are not given the tools, they dont have bandwidth usage reports.
Really, comcast is sleazy in its high speed internet usage policies.
ATT Wireless (before being bought by cingular) was rolling out UMTS nationwide. But cingular took over and changed its schedule, putting 4+ years delay in its launch.
Oh, and switched vendors, vendors with former ATTWS employees. I believe investors got soaked for millions. Lets not even go into the merge of the networks, what a fiasco that was.
Seems to me, with the depth of exploits coming in, you could learn so much from working that job, after a few years you could write your ticket to a good job in security at another company.
Not sure Id call a hardworking job like that a bad job, digging in a whale or crap would be allot worse....
I know the thread is old and nobody will see this but, the US Supreme court in the bonghits for jesus case ruled student protests about illegal acts is no longer protected speech.
So watch that protesting on campus, you no longer have first amendment rights about file sharing or any other activity that could be illegal.
Another thread removed from the constitution, another nail in democracy...
Money markets dont operate like this, you wouldnt be taxed every time you change currency.
Change some euros to usd back to euros and get taxed twice? No it doesn't work that way.
I pay monthly to secondlife, after awhile I have virtual linden money built up, I cash it out, and I'm taxed AGAIN? Nonsense.
We pay way too much in taxes, and all this talk about how to get MORE/NEW taxes is absurd. How about some financial responsibility and a balanced budget before those fuckers in washington try to take anymore of our money.
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BBC blocks parts of its content, from outside its country.
I hope google doesnt start that.
If anyone wants some good history about the electric car and how it was killed in california, the documentary "Who killed the Electric Car" is worth watching.
r ic_Car?
You can catch the trailer over at youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSBykAngDpY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Elect
The whole argument, Virtual pedophilia leads Real world pedophilia is fodder for moral legislation.
Seriously, do you buy that argument? Thats the same argument they use for war on drugs, war on terror..
Thoughtcrime indeed, 2 adults rollplaying is legal, rollplaying online isn't, its still 2 consenting adults.
The police need to get out of our sex lives. Linden labs isn't fooling anyone, Secondlife is for virtual sex...
Really, Sun is pulling a fast one, JavaFX competes with Flash and Silverlight, a graphical environment for devices, with web browsers as a bonus. Security concerns and downloadable plugins are just a smokescreen to make the product look bigger than it is. Compete against Ajax for the browser? Noway, but it is an attractive solution for hand held devices.
But when walmart, microsoft, netflix, etc allow downloadable movies/games, broadband is going to be much in demand that ISP's might start offering faster services for prefered providers.
I think that we will see people buying faster QoS for some services, and companies like google providing the infrastructure equipment/software to make it happen.
And most ISP's offer better QoS for the enterprise customers, nice big fat virtual pipes for companies needing speed for medical, industrial, (voip), etc.. Also the phone companies don't own that last mile to the base station, so if you need 3G, the ISP's are selling the bandwidth.
Plus with lawsuits, let a national ISP intentionally slowdown a competitor that doesn't pay some sort of net tax. I bet there are a dozen laws to cover that.
have Good Reason To Believe(tm) that there is already a shadow set of remote management commands that are not documented in standard user manuals for SOME comms equipment.
Actually LI (Lawful Intercept) ports are included on updated networking hardware for that reason. But they are limited on how many traces due to bandwidth limitations, for now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception
Morale to do ones job, I hate it when IT security thinks they have to protect me from myself, that I cant even do my job and have to get special (aka normal) engineer access to our own laptops.
I was blocked from using altavista, and couldn't translate some emails, and couldn't get approval to buy the software. IT security tends to treat engineers as call centers, and lock them down. Those engineers tend to leave the company due to crappy office politics. Morale is important.
UAC , Everyone is just going to click "Allow" anyway so why bother?
;)
First piece of shareware will just click allow for you.
All I see are articles talking about how fun Wii is, the new way of interacting with games.
But is this new game play interaction something that can keep the wii going in the longterm?
I have tried it, so I honestly don't if tilt controllers are something to build a console around.
Also, with PS/3 being a fully functional computer with a keyboard/mouse/blueray, its more than just a console. And Xbox live with internet access to media is more than a console. The Wii is a console and priced like it.
Sure, if you don't want to actually own your games.
Huh? On EA and Steam, you own the games, You can burn them to DVD/CD and play them anytime offline, and reinstall them.
Battlefield 2142 sells online and you dont have to use no-cd cracks. Thats a big plus. You just burn the install directory to DVD, and you can re-install anytime.
The only service you don't own is Gametap. But for a small price you can play unlimited games, might be older but with 100 or so games being released each month for the PC, thats alot of untouched games. Most people dont have time to play all the newest games, they stick with one for months, WoW is a good example.
Everyone loves to bash Phantom and I expect a bunch of funny posts about "wow an actual product!"..
But to be fair, the idea of a download service for games is a good idea, Steam, EA, Xbox360 use game download services. Cut out the middle man and you can make a nice profit. Microsoft is pushing this with the media center PC, its not a wierd jump of logic you need games on there.
The idea was pretty good, just real piss poor managment. They should of worked on the content download piece and made it a software only solution. Then offered beige boxes for sale to at least get money rolling. Cant see how 64 million dollars and 2 years and no delivery system was setup.
Of course, Gametap is doing older games now and making a profit, too late now.
More like, ask them to install a game they bought at the store. While Linux is a great desktop the only big area lacking in Linux is games. Now, yes, Wow has a linux client, but theres other games than WoW.
Yes, that hanging chat was poorly designed paper ballots. The best paper ballot I've seen is the big 1 inch boxes where you put a big blank X over the persons name. You cant mess that up. The ones with lines are messy IMHO.
Censor no, Libel yes. Calling someone a racist just because you don't agree with their immigration policy.
They are being sued for Libel calling them a hate speech site, which is well, kinda a black pot calling something something...
Dont forget QEMU and co-linux!
Wow, vista is seeming less user friendly day by day.
Will the Amiga OS Programmers step and say "Hey, Its alive!"..
Someone other than a figurehead for Amiga should step up and make some comments that wont break NDA's....
Sad, Other than the Amiga OS was way ahead of its time, and very usable, if it was actively upgraded what would we have in our OS today? Vista and OSX wouldn't even be close to usability and eye-candy.