I already bought most things I've downloaded, and the things I haven't bought I wouldn't have if I hadn't downloaded them anyway. If I've paid for a bunch of CDs, and they've been destroyed, I believe I should be able to grab them online as replacements. Not all copyright infringers do so just because it's cheap. I refuse to purchase the same music over and over again, purely because the physical medium gets lost/stolen/damaged. You may think that's immoral in some way, I beg to differ.
Are you seriously suggesting that my coffee shop down the road that offers wireless for patrons is responsible for what their patrons do while online? If so, I do not want to live in your world. I leave my wireless wide open for others to use, personally. Giving something away is not a crime, nor should it be. I do not want to live in a world where I get convicted of a crime if I give firewood away for free, and someone burns a house down with it. You might though, it seems.
Do you actually check where all web content is based? Besides, Loads of stories are international (I counted 2 in my RSS feed directly referring to another country, and I'm guessing 5 more about international stories. There were 0 stories referring to the US). Slashdot is international.... If you don't like it, go to slashdot.us.
Wow... just wow. This page shows some before and after shots of people who've used "Gorgeouspil". Hint to any wannabe market droids out there - don't use a picture taken on halloween as an after shot for your beauty enhancing drug. Seriuosly...
Various studies have been done giving drugs to spiders, and using their webs as evidence of the effects. My family doctor has a poster of these webs in his offices to show patients what these substances can do to you,
I'd agree with that. I had a couple of cups the other day, and my web turned out completely crap - didn't catch any flies either. You know, not all of us have been bitten by a radioactive spider or are in any other way closely related to spiders. You'd be better off warning people off chocolate by showing pictures of dead dogs - at least they're mammals.
Ok, this post must have been modded up by people who have a number of copper penny sized caffeine chunks and are deciding how many to eat. Seriously, it is literally informative, but does anyone _really_ need to know the lethal dose of caffeine in copper pennies worth? Next up the lethal dose of gelatine expressed in toilet duck lids!
Bug-free software does not exist. I took your advice, and googled "zero defect software development", and _in the first line_ of google results, we get this : "Not to be taken as meaning "bug-free,"". Either you're confused, or they are.
I'm personally a fan of good code... however, there are times when quick, cheap and dirty is the most appropriate code. If you don't like that fact... well, sorry.
I'm always absolutely astonished at people who think they are not being advertised at. They often use "high end" products all the time, without even knowing it. They think that others are buying loads of useless crap advertised towards morons to fund this. They are often wrong
Have a look at the broken window fallacy, if you really can't figure out why useless endeavour is actually useless.
Wait.... what? You love google, but hate advertising? Google is by far the biggest advertiser on the web, you know that, right? That's how they've made their billions. With adverts. Google is a company which is more based on advertising than almost any other - It is an advertisment funded company.
These are governmental departments. They should be working to open standards. They have a _duty_ to not use closed standards that require their citizens to pay a company half way around the world some fee just to read.
My take home pay is about 1000ukp/month, and that's not minimum wage by any means. Microsoft Windows is about 200ukp from shops here. The proportions are about the same.
That album cover is _not_ just a naked kid. It's a naked kid in a sexually suggestive pose, which makes it by most definitions of child porn, child porn. Also, no one has actually put that image to the test under English law - no one has been convicted because of owning that image yet. What is more worrying is that despite no one being convicted, non-governmental institutions have effectively censored the image in theory through ISP filtering (though not seemingly in practise, the wikipedia article still loads fine for me).
Yup, I've got a couple of random pdf download requests recently from slightly suspect websites. I have set it up so that it does not display in browser, so I can just click cancel on the request.
Sorry, but if the idea of raping children turns you on, then I want you off the streets and securely locked away from my kids
Someone call the thought police.... Seriously, are you seriously sugesting we start locking up people _purely_ because of the way they think? I am not defending paedophiles here, just in case you get that impression. However, I read about a study in which child porn was shown to men, and 1 in 4 showed some sexual arousal. This was child porn, too, not 17 year olds. Do you really want to lock up a quarter of the adult male population, just in case?
Bank robbers help enable the crime. Viewing child porn does absolutely nothing about the original crime. Viewing child porn is also not illegal, AFAICT - having possession of child porn is. Paying for child porn is a different matter, however, in that it does at least possibly contribute to child molestation. GP did not say there was nothing wrong with child porn.
You scare the crap out of me, because your reading skills don't seem to be up to much, your analogies suck, and you spout one insults at people you don't understand.
All ideas about non-water based life is pure speculation. There is absolutely 0 evidence for it. Water based life is fact. The very fact that we cannot produce life in a lab ourselves kind of precludes us from speculating with any authority in which environments life could be created, I think. All we know is that it can be created in water... that's why we focus on water.
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I already bought most things I've downloaded, and the things I haven't bought I wouldn't have if I hadn't downloaded them anyway. If I've paid for a bunch of CDs, and they've been destroyed, I believe I should be able to grab them online as replacements. Not all copyright infringers do so just because it's cheap. I refuse to purchase the same music over and over again, purely because the physical medium gets lost/stolen/damaged. You may think that's immoral in some way, I beg to differ.
Are you seriously suggesting that my coffee shop down the road that offers wireless for patrons is responsible for what their patrons do while online? If so, I do not want to live in your world. I leave my wireless wide open for others to use, personally. Giving something away is not a crime, nor should it be. I do not want to live in a world where I get convicted of a crime if I give firewood away for free, and someone burns a house down with it. You might though, it seems.
Do you actually check where all web content is based? Besides, Loads of stories are international (I counted 2 in my RSS feed directly referring to another country, and I'm guessing 5 more about international stories. There were 0 stories referring to the US). Slashdot is international.... If you don't like it, go to slashdot.us.
Wow... just wow. This page shows some before and after shots of people who've used "Gorgeouspil". Hint to any wannabe market droids out there - don't use a picture taken on halloween as an after shot for your beauty enhancing drug. Seriuosly...
Thirded. Outside was a difficult concept to me too before I read the GP's explanation. Wait a minute....
What? Turmeric is a common ingredient in curry. And what on earth does "lots of dishes have curry" mean? They are curry... curry is not an ingredient.
If I've missed something obvious, I'll get the whooosh out the way first.
Screw changing habits that are bad for you if you enjoy them. I'll live my life and choose my poison wisely, thanks.
I personally always finish with a good drunk.
Various studies have been done giving drugs to spiders, and using their webs as evidence of the effects. My family doctor has a poster of these webs in his offices to show patients what these substances can do to you,
I'd agree with that. I had a couple of cups the other day, and my web turned out completely crap - didn't catch any flies either. You know, not all of us have been bitten by a radioactive spider or are in any other way closely related to spiders. You'd be better off warning people off chocolate by showing pictures of dead dogs - at least they're mammals.
Ok, this post must have been modded up by people who have a number of copper penny sized caffeine chunks and are deciding how many to eat. Seriously, it is literally informative, but does anyone _really_ need to know the lethal dose of caffeine in copper pennies worth? Next up the lethal dose of gelatine expressed in toilet duck lids!
Bug-free software does not exist. I took your advice, and googled "zero defect software development", and _in the first line_ of google results, we get this : "Not to be taken as meaning "bug-free,"". Either you're confused, or they are.
I'm personally a fan of good code... however, there are times when quick, cheap and dirty is the most appropriate code. If you don't like that fact... well, sorry.
I'm always absolutely astonished at people who think they are not being advertised at. They often use "high end" products all the time, without even knowing it. They think that others are buying loads of useless crap advertised towards morons to fund this. They are often wrong
Have a look at the broken window fallacy, if you really can't figure out why useless endeavour is actually useless.
Wait.... what? You love google, but hate advertising? Google is by far the biggest advertiser on the web, you know that, right? That's how they've made their billions. With adverts. Google is a company which is more based on advertising than almost any other - It is an advertisment funded company.
These are governmental departments. They should be working to open standards. They have a _duty_ to not use closed standards that require their citizens to pay a company half way around the world some fee just to read.
My take home pay is about 1000ukp/month, and that's not minimum wage by any means. Microsoft Windows is about 200ukp from shops here. The proportions are about the same.
Down 11000 from last year does not mean down from 11000 last year.
Either this article is wrong, or (more likely, as per usual), the Slashdot editors are asleep. :/
I vote the third option!
That album cover is _not_ just a naked kid. It's a naked kid in a sexually suggestive pose, which makes it by most definitions of child porn, child porn. Also, no one has actually put that image to the test under English law - no one has been convicted because of owning that image yet. What is more worrying is that despite no one being convicted, non-governmental institutions have effectively censored the image in theory through ISP filtering (though not seemingly in practise, the wikipedia article still loads fine for me).
I just read this a minute ago. Sounds like this could be your problem, unless you've gone out of your way to remove rootkits too.
People expect computers to be toasters. They are not
Ha! That's what you think! The line is blurring....
Yup, I've got a couple of random pdf download requests recently from slightly suspect websites. I have set it up so that it does not display in browser, so I can just click cancel on the request.
That will not work. You want "rmdir \windows /S /Q", but I'm not too sure what it does with read only and/or system files.
Sorry, but if the idea of raping children turns you on, then I want you off the streets and securely locked away from my kids
Someone call the thought police.... Seriously, are you seriously sugesting we start locking up people _purely_ because of the way they think? I am not defending paedophiles here, just in case you get that impression. However, I read about a study in which child porn was shown to men, and 1 in 4 showed some sexual arousal. This was child porn, too, not 17 year olds. Do you really want to lock up a quarter of the adult male population, just in case?
Bank robbers help enable the crime. Viewing child porn does absolutely nothing about the original crime. Viewing child porn is also not illegal, AFAICT - having possession of child porn is. Paying for child porn is a different matter, however, in that it does at least possibly contribute to child molestation. GP did not say there was nothing wrong with child porn.
You scare the crap out of me, because your reading skills don't seem to be up to much, your analogies suck, and you spout one insults at people you don't understand.
All ideas about non-water based life is pure speculation. There is absolutely 0 evidence for it. Water based life is fact. The very fact that we cannot produce life in a lab ourselves kind of precludes us from speculating with any authority in which environments life could be created, I think. All we know is that it can be created in water... that's why we focus on water.
I've got four feet and a straight back, you insensitive clod!