The Russians have suggested a tested solution. I wonder how many of these concerned people would be even more upset of BP nuked the well to shut it off?
And then there is the possibility that the nuke would just REALLY open up the well full bore.
Neither do people who are um "mentally challenged", trying to think of the PC version of full retard. They have less rights due to their inability to take care of themselves on their own. Toss Koko back in the jungle and Koko will have all sorts of rights, toss her in human society and she is institutionalized because she would be a danger to herself and those around her.
I always thought it was pretty stupid to put all of your personal information online then complain about people being able to see all of your personal information.
Of course privacy is dead, when you give your privacy away.
The other comments are better, but I'll toss money into the equation.
You have money, you don't get convicted unless you rely on something other than money, such as true innocence. Money is more reliable than true innocence.
As opposed to leaving it in the hands of the publishers, or the XXAA?
Perhaps a non-profit? But how long would the non-profit last and whom would support the non-profit?
I would say relying on the government to be A central repository of all things cultural seems like a basic idea already enacted and doing well.
Having only one central repository may be best left unexplored, mainly because there is no way in hell there will only be a single repository, unless the author never released the title. Every country has their own national library, and then you have the individual local libraries for redundancy. There may be a few things not saved in that manner, but would they be saved in the hypothetical alternative that you haven't even thought up yet?
I do not believe that any US based three letter agency would be stupid enough to force all hardware vendors (most of which manufacture in China now) to include a backdoor.
Any backdoor for the three letter agencies is a potential backdoor for those the three letter agencies would like to stop. Yes, they are smart enough to realize that.
It is not like the three letter agency would be able to do this without the developers knowledge which would just be another avenue for the backdoor to be released.
Now China on the other hand, they may be more likely to try that.
When people post "Oh I'm posting as AC to preserve my karma." I usually think how idiotic it is because most of the time their post isn't nearly as much flaimbait as they think.
You sir have made a wise decision in going AC, your post is wrong in just about every detail.
I'm not well schooled in this, but I can't imagine a school purchasing laptops for students to take home without some form of anti-theft tracking software. Can you imagine the slashdot thread on that happening when half the laptops disappear?
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Is there a difference between shredded oil execs and oil itself? I guess there would be some pulp leftover kinda like a in a juicer.
The Russians have suggested a tested solution. I wonder how many of these concerned people would be even more upset of BP nuked the well to shut it off?
And then there is the possibility that the nuke would just REALLY open up the well full bore.
This does remind me of another failed drilling well though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidoarjo_mud_flow
Neither do people who are um "mentally challenged", trying to think of the PC version of full retard. They have less rights due to their inability to take care of themselves on their own.
Toss Koko back in the jungle and Koko will have all sorts of rights, toss her in human society and she is institutionalized because she would be a danger to herself and those around her.
Car analogy.
I want to test cars and I want to do my own benchmarks because it would be too easy to read reviews already made.
Or
I want to test cars so that I can be sure that the one we choose will be the fastest and I'm not too worried about other aspects of this purchase.
I always thought it was pretty stupid to put all of your personal information online then complain about people being able to see all of your personal information.
Of course privacy is dead, when you give your privacy away.
There are many people named Mohammed. It is an extremely common name, if its not labeled as the Prophet Mohamed I don't see how they can complain.
Windows 7 has been the first OS that I have purchased since Win 98 2nd edition.
Microsoft is getting a lot out of people like me coughing up the cash for Windows 7 because it is better than the versions I could pirate.
Can't pirate Linux so doesn't count.
Ok, so no to child porn and bestiality, but I can take it that you are into incest since you didn't include it in your second list?
If you want to write good and witty headlines head to Fark, perhaps point Fark out to your boss also.
Write the general headline, write the Fark headline, show your boss where the most hits came from.
They just get it coming and going don't they?
Microsoft is not releasing information about their bugs, they are trying to hide them.
Microsoft is releasing information about their bugs, why are they doing this, they should not tell us about this and just fix it.
I guess its true what they say, you can't please everyone.
The other comments are better, but I'll toss money into the equation.
You have money, you don't get convicted unless you rely on something other than money, such as true innocence. Money is more reliable than true innocence.
As opposed to leaving it in the hands of the publishers, or the XXAA?
Perhaps a non-profit? But how long would the non-profit last and whom would support the non-profit?
I would say relying on the government to be A central repository of all things cultural seems like a basic idea already enacted and doing well.
Having only one central repository may be best left unexplored, mainly because there is no way in hell there will only be a single repository, unless the author never released the title. Every country has their own national library, and then you have the individual local libraries for redundancy. There may be a few things not saved in that manner, but would they be saved in the hypothetical alternative that you haven't even thought up yet?
I do not believe that any US based three letter agency would be stupid enough to force all hardware vendors (most of which manufacture in China now) to include a backdoor.
Any backdoor for the three letter agencies is a potential backdoor for those the three letter agencies would like to stop. Yes, they are smart enough to realize that.
It is not like the three letter agency would be able to do this without the developers knowledge which would just be another avenue for the backdoor to be released.
Now China on the other hand, they may be more likely to try that.
I could swear that the Library of Congress is trying to preserve all the information that you say is being lost.
Isn't that part of their purpose? http://www.loc.gov/about
Doesn't the Library of Congress keep a copy?
Information is classified to help slow down the development of weapons by countries we are not happy with such as Iran and North Korea.
If you can think of a way around that I'm sure someone would like to listen to you about it.
When people post "Oh I'm posting as AC to preserve my karma." I usually think how idiotic it is because most of the time their post isn't nearly as much flaimbait as they think.
You sir have made a wise decision in going AC, your post is wrong in just about every detail.
It might not be important, but it is still news.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News
You seem to be imaging a whole lot more excitement in my post than what it contains.
And where did that "save ones place of work" qualifier come in? Only needed to be useful, and yes I read about the change on Slashdot first.
I ain't exaggerating jack shit, that's just you adding more to my post than what it contains.
Oh, wait nm, the "save ones place of work" qualifier came from a post from someone else, not mine, so get things straight and bitch at someone else.
One that has helped me at my work was the announcement of Microsoft dropping the requirement for hardware support of the XP mode in windows 7.
It doesn't have to be a how to or such, it just has to be informative.
It just has to be News for Nerds.
Goes against the teachings of Athena.
Because we disgust them.
http://baetzler.de/humor/meat_beings.html
Shuttle doesn't launch interplanetary missions.
We aren't launching robots to the ISS.
The common sense probably would have been to use an anti-theft tracking software that does not take pictures.
I'm not well schooled in this, but I can't imagine a school purchasing laptops for students to take home without some form of anti-theft tracking software. Can you imagine the slashdot thread on that happening when half the laptops disappear?