This chief actually made violating state law a departmental policy:
“My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we’ll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it.”
That's despite the fact that it is perfectly legal to open-carry in Wisconsin!
The police frequently think anything goes in enforcing the law, even violating "little laws" to enforce "big laws" is ok.
If only we went back to the old American model in which the police not only did not have a monopoly on enforcing the law (any private citizen could arrest you and bring you to a court), but anyone who broke the law while enforcing the law was civilly and criminally liable to their victim.
Even supposing that the US is spying on China's corporations to the same level as they do everyone else (unlikely, given how much worse China is for this than most developed countries), Chinese corporations would have recourse in the US against such actions if they discovered them. Try being an American company in the equivalent situation in China. The PRC would laugh itself silly at an American company's grievance.
If they're smart they'll either work on support for fat binaries for x86 and powerpc or powerpc and arm. If they couple that with a solid WebKit or Gecko-based browser and get Flash ported over, Amiga would be a very competitive platform for netbooks.
Considering the rates that companies like Lockheed charge, it'll burn through the $31M in no time. My guess is that what they'll do is take IPv6 and see if they can make it cooler for the military instead of reinventing the wheel.
Here's the text. Basically all it targets are people who harass others online assuming another person's identity. One girl creating a profile for another, where she claims to be a homosexual drug user who steals to support her habit would fall under this. Generic harassment doesn't. About the only thing that is far-reaching, and it's likely based on ignorance, is the "domain address" language which could be twisted by a prosecutor.
Perhaps the law goes too far on the punishment side, but it doesn't prohibit any behavior which is protected by the first amendment. Only a moron would say "there are first amendment issues" since this law is little more than a double whammy on libel and slander.
MP3 had a lot of crap, and by crap I don't mean "bad taste, but will sell reasonably well." It was the sort of stuff that is obscure because even with wide exposure it wouldn't get many fans.
My guess is that Apple wants to discourage said bands from participating so that most of the stuff that gets on there is of decent quality by serious artists not some fly-by-night garage band that cobbled together a CD using an Audacity tutorial.
Is that they run their businesses like they're not subject to all the norms of business. They don't budget properly, do cost or quality control well, don't cater to niche markets well, don't treat their customers very well and often don't even know really what their customers will probably want.
If they would start doing some quality and cost control, treat their customers well and provide them the content whenever and wherever they want it (for a modest fee), the public's attitude toward piracy would be markedly different.
Is there sexism? Of course. Same thing with racism. No group is beyond prejudice and bigotry, but the fact that is that most feminists cannot tell the difference between non-prejudiced opinions about innate sex differences and actual sexism. Why thinking people give them much currency is beyond me when they wax eloquent about the allegedly oppressed state of the modern Western woman is beyond me, in light of their aforementioned cognitive dissonance and general antipathy toward the state of women's rights in the rest of the world.
You know what the ugly truth is? Most women absolutely **wither** in the face of someone openly, but in any form, not approving of their behavior. It can be a sigh and a shaking of one's head, to outright denunciation. This is why so many women who are "sluts" are constantly kvetching about acceptance, where as absolutely rakish men who will use a girl and discard her like a tissue in the next minute feel no need to seek society's approval (there is a difference between "the stud" and "the cad" after all). By and large men don't give a damn what society thinks about their behavior unless it affects them or it is already in line with their own feelings.
That is a key part of why women fail in male-dominated fields like IT and FOSS development is no exception.
Lastly, it is mind-numbing idiocy like this which makes addressing actual problems difficult:
That brings up another point I've learned: people who are not consciously sexist themselves tend to be unable to see institutionalized sexism around them. They are not aware of any prejudice against women in themselves, so how could there be any sexism involved? They seem unaware that institutions and customs can be sexist simply by what they value or how they operate, that even something like a discourse developed by men talking to men can institutionalize sexism. Nor do they understand that, by simply accepting such institutions or ways of acting, they become supporters of sexism.
I know what some are thinking. They're thinking that a man might be supporting objectively sexist customs and rules without knowing it, but that's not how the feminists treat it. They make similar complaints about traditional marriage, even to the point of denouncing women like my mother-in-law who can do embedded, real-time systems design, but chose to stay home to homeschool her kids. How dare she support such tyranny against women! How dare my wife want to do the same?..
Yet, the thing is, to the average feminist these choices are ipso facto oppressive. It's a war mentality. No coexistence, no live-and-let-live. One side must win, the other must be obliterated.
Google and other self-interested indexers should blacklist News Corp. They need to make an example out of someone like Murdoch by not only delisting them from their indexes, but making it a permanent ban as in they cannot apologize, plead, etc. Their. Content. Will. Not. Ever. Be. Indexed. Again.
The DMCA needs to be updated to have two points in it: 1) Filing a claim that isn't supported by copyright law is fraudulent under the good faith premise of the filing process 2) No guilty intent on the part of the filer is necessary for it to be civilly or criminally actionable.
If you're some dumbass who files a report that is incompatible with the law, without knowing what the law says, no matter how right you thought you were, you should be guilty.
This is one of the few areas where my instinct says that a guilty mind should not be necessary at all to punish someone.
Be calling for legislation that makes banks responsible for identity theft and any subsequent damage to consumer credit ratings. That would make the FBI's job much easier since the banks would never send emails, among other things, to make sure that they are diligent about identity theft.
Parents who regularly give their kids candy usually are the sort of parents who aren't disciplining their kids. Candy is often used by such people as a replacement for parental authority in controlling their kids' behavior.
The lawsuit, if it succeeds, could force companies to give more thought to the risks of complying with mandates from foreign governments that violate US laws.
To paraphrase the Bible: pick your poison, you will end up serving a master (God, money, the devil, sex, the state), so you might as well make an informed decision.
Even in games where the co-operative element of co-op is less pronounced, the ideology is the same; you are not on your own anymore, you are part of a team
Hey Mr. Egghead Academic... I have a bit of a surprise for you. In real life, even the most elite commandos operate in squads because they're still just people. In real life and realistic games, a lone wolf soldier gets shot and doesn't easily heal. 20 guys can easily overpower him in a head-on fight. Only in a game like Halo where you play a genetically and cybernetically enhanced super soldier with a forcefield around his body armor would it even remotely make sense to have a lone wolf.
It has nothing to do with ideology; it has everything to do with the fact that most gamers aren't stupid and know that it is completely unrealistic to have a "realistic" FPS where a lone wolf can take down an entire battalion in a head-on fight.
Maybe I missed the part about what language and such is being used on the Linux side, but the complaints seemed to be entirely on the latency issues with Windows Server. Who is to say that when Mono is a bit more mature it wouldn't have been able to hold its own if used on a well-configured Linux box?
Congress could easily allocate enough money to make PACER a free service, maybe even get some contractors to write a solid web service API so government agencies and the public could easily access the service.
But they don't... because in so many cases they want the public to pay for services like this out of pocket so that they have revenue to spend on others.
It disgusts me that on the local level, there's money for welfare programs and all sorts of other crap, but no money to actually pay for a full-time fire fighting service in most communities.
The public really needs to demand that core services (defense, police, fire fighters, courts, transportation) be funded first and funded generously, and that the social services be funded with the scraps that are left over from the core budget and user fees.
even classified government documents have been found on these networks
If they're finding classified documents on the public internet, that means that they have a bigger problem like government employees disregarding security guidelines by putting them on unclassified networks.
Palm, get your act together. Apple is "good enough," and the only way you can differentiate yourselves is by being substantially better. Treat developers like gold and get your story 100% consistent, unlike Apple, if you want to succeed.
It should just give the Mono group carte blanche to reimplement all of their.NET APIs under any OSS license. A full, iron clad legal agreement with them would do more than enough.
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That's despite the fact that it is perfectly legal to open-carry in Wisconsin!
The police frequently think anything goes in enforcing the law, even violating "little laws" to enforce "big laws" is ok.
If only we went back to the old American model in which the police not only did not have a monopoly on enforcing the law (any private citizen could arrest you and bring you to a court), but anyone who broke the law while enforcing the law was civilly and criminally liable to their victim.
Even supposing that the US is spying on China's corporations to the same level as they do everyone else (unlikely, given how much worse China is for this than most developed countries), Chinese corporations would have recourse in the US against such actions if they discovered them. Try being an American company in the equivalent situation in China. The PRC would laugh itself silly at an American company's grievance.
Limp Bizkit doing a song... "I did all for the Nook[ie] so you can take that Kindle... and stick it up your ass!"
If they're smart they'll either work on support for fat binaries for x86 and powerpc or powerpc and arm. If they couple that with a solid WebKit or Gecko-based browser and get Flash ported over, Amiga would be a very competitive platform for netbooks.
Considering the rates that companies like Lockheed charge, it'll burn through the $31M in no time. My guess is that what they'll do is take IPv6 and see if they can make it cooler for the military instead of reinventing the wheel.
Here's the text. Basically all it targets are people who harass others online assuming another person's identity. One girl creating a profile for another, where she claims to be a homosexual drug user who steals to support her habit would fall under this. Generic harassment doesn't. About the only thing that is far-reaching, and it's likely based on ignorance, is the "domain address" language which could be twisted by a prosecutor.
Perhaps the law goes too far on the punishment side, but it doesn't prohibit any behavior which is protected by the first amendment. Only a moron would say "there are first amendment issues" since this law is little more than a double whammy on libel and slander.
MP3 had a lot of crap, and by crap I don't mean "bad taste, but will sell reasonably well." It was the sort of stuff that is obscure because even with wide exposure it wouldn't get many fans.
My guess is that Apple wants to discourage said bands from participating so that most of the stuff that gets on there is of decent quality by serious artists not some fly-by-night garage band that cobbled together a CD using an Audacity tutorial.
Is that they run their businesses like they're not subject to all the norms of business. They don't budget properly, do cost or quality control well, don't cater to niche markets well, don't treat their customers very well and often don't even know really what their customers will probably want.
If they would start doing some quality and cost control, treat their customers well and provide them the content whenever and wherever they want it (for a modest fee), the public's attitude toward piracy would be markedly different.
You know what the ugly truth is? Most women absolutely **wither** in the face of someone openly, but in any form, not approving of their behavior. It can be a sigh and a shaking of one's head, to outright denunciation. This is why so many women who are "sluts" are constantly kvetching about acceptance, where as absolutely rakish men who will use a girl and discard her like a tissue in the next minute feel no need to seek society's approval (there is a difference between "the stud" and "the cad" after all). By and large men don't give a damn what society thinks about their behavior unless it affects them or it is already in line with their own feelings.
That is a key part of why women fail in male-dominated fields like IT and FOSS development is no exception.
Lastly, it is mind-numbing idiocy like this which makes addressing actual problems difficult:
I know what some are thinking. They're thinking that a man might be supporting objectively sexist customs and rules without knowing it, but that's not how the feminists treat it. They make similar complaints about traditional marriage, even to the point of denouncing women like my mother-in-law who can do embedded, real-time systems design, but chose to stay home to homeschool her kids. How dare she support such tyranny against women! How dare my wife want to do the same?..
Yet, the thing is, to the average feminist these choices are ipso facto oppressive. It's a war mentality. No coexistence, no live-and-let-live. One side must win, the other must be obliterated.
Google and other self-interested indexers should blacklist News Corp. They need to make an example out of someone like Murdoch by not only delisting them from their indexes, but making it a permanent ban as in they cannot apologize, plead, etc. Their. Content. Will. Not. Ever. Be. Indexed. Again.
The DMCA needs to be updated to have two points in it:
1) Filing a claim that isn't supported by copyright law is fraudulent under the good faith premise of the filing process
2) No guilty intent on the part of the filer is necessary for it to be civilly or criminally actionable.
If you're some dumbass who files a report that is incompatible with the law, without knowing what the law says, no matter how right you thought you were, you should be guilty.
This is one of the few areas where my instinct says that a guilty mind should not be necessary at all to punish someone.
Be calling for legislation that makes banks responsible for identity theft and any subsequent damage to consumer credit ratings. That would make the FBI's job much easier since the banks would never send emails, among other things, to make sure that they are diligent about identity theft.
Parents who regularly give their kids candy usually are the sort of parents who aren't disciplining their kids. Candy is often used by such people as a replacement for parental authority in controlling their kids' behavior.
To paraphrase the Bible: pick your poison, you will end up serving a master (God, money, the devil, sex, the state), so you might as well make an informed decision.
Hey Mr. Egghead Academic... I have a bit of a surprise for you. In real life, even the most elite commandos operate in squads because they're still just people. In real life and realistic games, a lone wolf soldier gets shot and doesn't easily heal. 20 guys can easily overpower him in a head-on fight. Only in a game like Halo where you play a genetically and cybernetically enhanced super soldier with a forcefield around his body armor would it even remotely make sense to have a lone wolf.
It has nothing to do with ideology; it has everything to do with the fact that most gamers aren't stupid and know that it is completely unrealistic to have a "realistic" FPS where a lone wolf can take down an entire battalion in a head-on fight.
Maybe I missed the part about what language and such is being used on the Linux side, but the complaints seemed to be entirely on the latency issues with Windows Server. Who is to say that when Mono is a bit more mature it wouldn't have been able to hold its own if used on a well-configured Linux box?
Congress could easily allocate enough money to make PACER a free service, maybe even get some contractors to write a solid web service API so government agencies and the public could easily access the service.
But they don't... because in so many cases they want the public to pay for services like this out of pocket so that they have revenue to spend on others.
It disgusts me that on the local level, there's money for welfare programs and all sorts of other crap, but no money to actually pay for a full-time fire fighting service in most communities.
The public really needs to demand that core services (defense, police, fire fighters, courts, transportation) be funded first and funded generously, and that the social services be funded with the scraps that are left over from the core budget and user fees.
If they're finding classified documents on the public internet, that means that they have a bigger problem like government employees disregarding security guidelines by putting them on unclassified networks.
Laws have been struck down on the grounds that they were too vague to enforce.
Palm, get your act together. Apple is "good enough," and the only way you can differentiate yourselves is by being substantially better. Treat developers like gold and get your story 100% consistent, unlike Apple, if you want to succeed.
The areas where FreeBSD gets its ass kicked by Ubuntu start on page 7...
It seems to me like FreeBSD's real problem is incredibly bad I/O compared to Linux. The majority of the CPU-heavy tests were nearly neck-in-neck.
That the War on Drugs has done more to rape civil liberties than any other government initiative in modern times.
It'll look something like this...
In other words, they're terrified of the prospect that Google is extending the doctrine of squatters' rights to intellectual property.
It should just give the Mono group carte blanche to reimplement all of their .NET APIs under any OSS license. A full, iron clad legal agreement with them would do more than enough.