By your logic, were I to acquire your credit card and purchase items, I am not committing theft because i never actually
took anything from you and never intended to permanently deprive you of the use of any property.
There's another word for that called fraud, a crime. Different words have different meanings. Welcome to the English language!
Microsoft has had no role the charges against Ponosov and had even turned down the opportunity of joining the lawsuit, company spokeswoman Olga Dergunova said in a statement.
"In general, we do not believe that a case of this kind warrants criminal prosecution, given the very small number of computers involved, and the fact that the computers were purchased for use by students," she said in the company's latest statement Monday.
That is if everything goes perfectly. But its not that simple. You forgot issues like fraud, refunds, chargebacks, disputes, user errors, etc. You need need humans to handle such issues (especially when money is changing hands).
Google sucks at anything that requires some amount of human interaction. They are good at putting things on auto-pilot but that doesn't work everywhere.
Read the blog again. The audience wasn't rude. Maybe they asked stupid questions but weren't rude. RMS was rude (quoting comments on the blog):
The man kept telling Kallu to "pro-nounce your con-sooooo-nants" when he tried to speak. It was embarrassing and degrading.
He is in India and he cannot scream at people for how they talk in their country. A polite "I'm sorry I did not get that" would be very nice.. considering the people whom RMS is screaming at are old experienced folks from various communities.
Reminds me of a science project a guy made back in school. He used falling water to run a turbine that would generate electricity which would drive a pump to push the water back to the top. The surplus electricity from the turbine could be used elsewhere. At least that was the "concept" (needless to say it didn't work, the guy believed it would work on a larger scale). The really sad part was that the physics teachers were impressed and wondered why no one had thought of it before.
Are you Indian? If so, I guess you are trying to be patriotic by defending your government. I you are really patriotic, don't trust your government blindly.
The blogs in question were inciting violence against India's muslim population in response to the train attacks.
Do you know that for a fact? Why didn't government inform about thiTill now the government has not even given an explanation on why each of the sites were banned. Couldn't have said it better than this guy (read carefully why this is wrong):
the whole point
is that the government has denied us the information we need to arrive
at an 'informed opinion' - and that per se is undemocratic. In a
democratic nation we don't blindly assume that the government is right.
We expect that the government will be transparent and accountable in
its actions, especially those that it claims are taken for our benefit.
When that doesn't happen, when they lie to the people and to the press,
obfuscate the issue and refuse, after days of protest, to provide the
information the citizens of the country are demanding, that in itself
comprises a blow to democracy.
Let me quote another article, maybe you'll see the light:
None of the sites seem to possess any direct security threat to India, or have any connection with the recent Mumbai blasts. Even more bizarre are the blogs sought to be blocked. 'Princess Kimberley' is a defunct blog with just two postings in 2004 about an American teenager's depressing life. 'Commonfolk Commonsense' is a Chinese language blog, while 'Exposing the Left' is written by someone in Southern Illinois! DoT has not explained why these sites need to be restricted from viewing by Indians.
I oppose any form of censorship on the Internet. Even in case of national security (ok, there might be very rare exceptions). Remember, Internet is not confined to India, it is International. It was designed for free flow of information. It was designed to route around damage. If you are banning some sites you are effectively closing your eyes and burrying your head in the sand. It doesn't make any difference, the information you want banned is still there for the world to see. Those who want to access it, can and will access it one way or the other. Such blocking actually brings them more attention.
My point is banning sites on the Internet is stupid. And not only it is stupid, it interferes with our fundamental rights. This may be one of the steps towards what China is doing. I don't want that to happen to India.
Are you Indian? If so, I guess you are trying to be patriotic by defending your government. I you are really patriotic, don't trust your government blindly.
The blogs in question were inciting violence against India's muslim population in response to the train attacks.
Do you know that for a fact? Till now the government has not even given an explanation on why each of the sites were banned. I quote from an article, maybe you'll see the light:
None of the sites seem to possess any direct security threat to India, or have any connection with the recent Mumbai blasts. Even more bizarre are the blogs sought to be blocked. 'Princess Kimberley' is a defunct blog with just two postings in 2004 about an American teenager's depressing life. 'Commonfolk Commonsense' is a Chinese language blog, while 'Exposing the Left' is written by someone in Southern Illinois!
DoT has not explained why these sites need to be restricted from viewing by Indians. Amitabh Singhal said the ISPs were not in favour of Internet censorship, but were bound by terms and conditions of the license granted to them by the government.
LIST OF BLOCKED SITES
1. www.hinduunity.org
2. mypetjawa.mu.nu
3. pajamaeditors.blogspot.com
4. exposingtheleft.blogspot.com
5. thepiratescove.us
6. commonfolkcommonsense.blogspo t.com
7. bamapachyderm.com
8. princesskimberley.blogspot.com
9. merrimusings.typepad.com
10. mackers-world.com
11. www.dalistan.org
12. www.hinduhumanrights.org/hindufocus.html
13. www.nndh.com
14. bloodroyaltriped.com
15. imagesearchyahoo.com
16. www.imamali8.com
17. www.rahulyadav.com
I oppose any form of censorship on the Internet. Even in case of
national security (ok, there might be very rare exceptions). Remember,
Internet is not confined to India, it is International. It was designed
for free flow of information. It was designed to route around damage.
If you are banning some sites you are effectively closing your eyes and
burrying your head in the sand. It doesn't make any difference, the
information you want banned is still there for the world to see. Those
who want to access it, can and will access it one way or the other.
My point is banning sites on the Internet is stupid. And not only it is
stupid, it interferes with our fundamental rights. This may be one of
the steps towards what China is doing. I don't want that to happen to
India.
If you think this was just about getting some blogs unblocked? This is about government censorship of the Internet (and media in general). It's about freedom to speech.
Do you really think overlooking this issue would make India's other problems go away?
July
20, 2006
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has instructed all the
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country to block only the
specified website/webpages on the parent website. The DoT, in its letter
issued to all the ISPs has mentioned that it had come to notice that in
some cases the parent website had been blocked in contravention to what
was stated in its earlier order dated 13th July 2006 whereby it
ordered the ISPs to block certain websites/webpages.
As such the DoT has now directed all
the ISPs to strictly comply with the order dated 13th July 2006
and provide unhindered access to Internet except for the websites/webpages
which have been specifically mentioned in its orders issued from time to
time.
The DoT has further sought explanation from the erring ISPs as to why action
be not taken against them for blocking unintended
websites/webpages.
This is basically the same as American cops raiding Bell because the Yellow Pages lists the phone number of a paper mill, and paper can potentially be used to write harassing letters.
Not quite! The correct analogy would be cops raiding Bell because the Yellow pages lists the phone number of a paper mill under the section "For help writing harassing letters". Its about the *intent*.
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There's another word for that called fraud, a crime. Different words have different meanings. Welcome to the English language!
You should be able to if something goes wrong, yes. I don't want canned responses spit out by a bot (or a human equivalent).
That is if everything goes perfectly. But its not that simple. You forgot issues like fraud, refunds, chargebacks, disputes, user errors, etc. You need need humans to handle such issues (especially when money is changing hands).
You interact with Google employees when you use Google Earth?
Google sucks at anything that requires some amount of human interaction. They are good at putting things on auto-pilot but that doesn't work everywhere.
Actually -u stands for unregister. :)
That was the funniest Uranus joke I have heard in a while.
You could do all that or just stop playing WoW. Really you can!
Reminds me of a science project a guy made back in school. He used falling water to run a turbine that would generate electricity which would drive a pump to push the water back to the top. The surplus electricity from the turbine could be used elsewhere. At least that was the "concept" (needless to say it didn't work, the guy believed it would work on a larger scale). The really sad part was that the physics teachers were impressed and wondered why no one had thought of it before.
The way the banning was carried out was still wrong on government's part. You should read my other post.
Oops, wrong parent!
Do you know that for a fact? Why didn't government inform about thiTill now the government has not even given an explanation on why each of the sites were banned. Couldn't have said it better than this guy (read carefully why this is wrong):
Let me quote another article, maybe you'll see the light:
I oppose any form of censorship on the Internet. Even in case of national security (ok, there might be very rare exceptions). Remember, Internet is not confined to India, it is International. It was designed for free flow of information. It was designed to route around damage. If you are banning some sites you are effectively closing your eyes and burrying your head in the sand. It doesn't make any difference, the information you want banned is still there for the world to see. Those who want to access it, can and will access it one way or the other. Such blocking actually brings them more attention. My point is banning sites on the Internet is stupid. And not only it is stupid, it interferes with our fundamental rights. This may be one of the steps towards what China is doing. I don't want that to happen to India.
Do you know that for a fact? Till now the government has not even given an explanation on why each of the sites were banned. I quote from an article, maybe you'll see the light: I oppose any form of censorship on the Internet. Even in case of national security (ok, there might be very rare exceptions). Remember, Internet is not confined to India, it is International. It was designed for free flow of information. It was designed to route around damage. If you are banning some sites you are effectively closing your eyes and burrying your head in the sand. It doesn't make any difference, the information you want banned is still there for the world to see. Those who want to access it, can and will access it one way or the other.
My point is banning sites on the Internet is stupid. And not only it is stupid, it interferes with our fundamental rights. This may be one of the steps towards what China is doing. I don't want that to happen to India.
If you think this was just about getting some blogs unblocked? This is about government censorship of the Internet (and media in general). It's about freedom to speech. Do you really think overlooking this issue would make India's other problems go away?
All things cannot be set right at the same time. Any progress is good.
nuff said...
I can assure your it isn't Google. They woudn't miss a nice PR opportunity.
Says "INAUTHENTIC" for the text on this page: http://www.lipsum.com/ BTW, shoudn't it be "Unauthentic".