That's not civil disobedience. That's just vandalism. Nothing is going to be accomplished by vandalizing specific scientific articles except hurting the state of that field and the people who study it. It does nothing to thwart the admins and abusive editors. Civil disobedience in this case would be more akin to continuously reposting pages that had been taken down for not being notable. As someone who uses the math articles fairly frequently, this pisses me off.
You aren't seriously calling the president a peacenik? He dodged the draft. He was a coward then and he still is now. He didn't make a stand and go to jail for 5 years for refusing the draft, he just used family connections to get a cushy job stateside. Then he went on to the oil business and politics. There's nothing hippyish about that.
They could just make it standard practice to have a portion of the box transparent so that you can see the product you're buying. They do this often enough anyway, so it can't be that hard to extend it to all electronics products. You see a hard drive, both you and the employee know exactly what's in the box.
Bullshit. Public investment doesn't have to come directly from congress http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2006/05/12/telcos-lay-billion-goose-egg. When congress allows the telecoms to charge more, to build on public easements, or to screw their competitors and offer more services than they should fairly be allowed to, it's the public paying the tab. We've let them have more than enough leeway with what is rightfully the public's infrastructure.
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And we're out of beta. We're releasing on time. So I'm GLad. I got burned. Think of all the things we learned for the people who are still alive.
Or you could teach them to use your work computer only for work, whether or not it's at home. My dad, a DoD employee, rarely lets me touch his work laptop even for as much as a google search, much less installing anything! That with me being in my 20's, and extremely well-versed in how-not-to-get-screwed when using a computer. If more people were so careful with their machines these problems wouldn't be so prevalent.
I have a girlfriend (no, really!) The thing is, being a good slashdotter I like porn, but it doesn't really do anything for her. How can I get my girlfriend to enjoy watching it with me?
PS: In Soviet Russia Natalie Portman imagines a beowulf cluster (does it run linux?) 2. ????? 3.profit you!
Lightweight wireless heads up see through monocles If they include an electrode-studded top hat neural interface with the monocle I think I'd have to personally blow their good-idea guy, whoever that is.
Nonsense to you. This isn't so much a punishment, as made clear by one of the Jurors, as a message to others. I.e. she's being made an example. Thus it's not the circumstances of her transgression that are deciding her punishment, but the general situation involving copyright infringement, which of course is that "everybody" does it and very few get caught.
The reason this is important is that the jury is trying to punish 10000 other people vicariously through her and crucify her as a warning to them, which is grossly unfair for her. Her punishment does not fit the crime.
That's the same attitude my ex had, that when someone has power over you you automatically have to respect them. I think that's a bad use of the word "respect". Respect isn't something that can be forced. It has to be earned. Someone can have enough power over you for you to be willing to obey them, but that doesn't mean you respect them. Respect entails holding someone in high esteem. I certainly wouldn't hold someone with a gun to my head in high esteem, even though I may obey his commands. I could see the storm creator(s) having earned a bit of respect for their skill, but not for their douchebaggery.
Frankly, if I were the second-richest person in the world, I'd be happy to cut and run too, even before the business started to tank. I suppose the fact that most of his money is tied up in MS stock gives him an interest in what happens to the company still. The only way I wouldn't retire after my first several billion is if I felt that it was truly important that that company succeed in whatever they're doing....I can't see that being the case with MS, unless it's an ego thing, which imho is stupid.
There are also people (like myself) who rarely get on the administrator account, and instead use a power user account. I have to remind myself to occasionally log onto administrator to get the updates. Maybe people who have automatic updates enabled don't have that problem, but I like to look at the updates before I let MS install them. This only seems to be able to be done on the admin account. So I could see people forgetting to check for updates, even if they have auto update enabled.
It depends on the wire, but I think it's around (2/3)c. So not as fast, but close. The problem with satellite is that the light has to travel very long distances to reach the satellite, for instance sats in GEO require a more than 100000km round trip, so you have at least 300ms latency from that. With wires the route is much more direct. Thus why satellite sucks.
All things being equal, you can assume that she shared one song for every song she downloaded. The chances of her sharing 1,000,000 songs are about the same chance that you're going to win $100,000 next time you play the lottery. Since she was more likely a leecher than someone who owned a dedicated upload server, we can reduce the expected value still more. I think a previous poster's estimate of 15 songs is probably a good guess. Thus I say about $13.86 damages would be appropriate.
So assume I'm a conniving bastard. I know about jury nullification. Could I lie to the prosecutor and say I didn't so he'd select me, and admit to the defendant I did, so he too would select me, thus ensuring I could get on the panel and carry out my moral duty? Or would that result in some sort of perjury case (i.e. do they question you under pain of punishment)?
Tell me, how did we solve the overpopulation problem? Oh yeah, we haven't yet. The third world just keeps exporting its excess population to the first world countries where the native growth rate is lower. Meanwhile we're already stressing our resources. Here's a thought: a problem's consequences don't have to be immediately apparent for it to be a problem. For instance, aquifers don't get depleted overnight, but once they are some people are going to be pretty fucked.
Here's what you do: make a bet with the guy. If you can get a copy of Windows XP installed on the computer, he'll sell it to you half off. If you can't (in, say, a day) then you'll buy it full price. Since it can't be done he should have no qualms about accepting, right?
Seems like they should put prisoners to work on the infrastructure. We have the highest prison population in the world (it's pretty big, anyway). And as an added benefit, prisons are basically grad school for criminals. As they say, idle hands do the devil's work; they wouldn't have as much opportunity to make connections and learn new tricks if they were busy.
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That's not civil disobedience. That's just vandalism. Nothing is going to be accomplished by vandalizing specific scientific articles except hurting the state of that field and the people who study it. It does nothing to thwart the admins and abusive editors. Civil disobedience in this case would be more akin to continuously reposting pages that had been taken down for not being notable. As someone who uses the math articles fairly frequently, this pisses me off.
You aren't seriously calling the president a peacenik? He dodged the draft. He was a coward then and he still is now. He didn't make a stand and go to jail for 5 years for refusing the draft, he just used family connections to get a cushy job stateside. Then he went on to the oil business and politics. There's nothing hippyish about that.
They could just make it standard practice to have a portion of the box transparent so that you can see the product you're buying. They do this often enough anyway, so it can't be that hard to extend it to all electronics products. You see a hard drive, both you and the employee know exactly what's in the box.
Bullshit. Public investment doesn't have to come directly from congress http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2006/05/12/telcos-lay-billion-goose-egg. When congress allows the telecoms to charge more, to build on public easements, or to screw their competitors and offer more services than they should fairly be allowed to, it's the public paying the tab. We've let them have more than enough leeway with what is rightfully the public's infrastructure.
And we're out of beta.
We're releasing on time.
So I'm GLad. I got burned.
Think of all the things we learned
for the people who are
still alive.
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Or you could teach them to use your work computer only for work, whether or not it's at home. My dad, a DoD employee, rarely lets me touch his work laptop even for as much as a google search, much less installing anything! That with me being in my 20's, and extremely well-versed in how-not-to-get-screwed when using a computer. If more people were so careful with their machines these problems wouldn't be so prevalent.
Hmm, I think I smell an Ask Slashdot:
Dear Slashdot,
I have a girlfriend (no, really!) The thing is, being a good slashdotter I like porn, but it doesn't really do anything for her. How can I get my girlfriend to enjoy watching it with me?
PS: In Soviet Russia Natalie Portman imagines a beowulf cluster (does it run linux?) 2. ????? 3.profit you!
Enjoy toting those 80,000 sheets of paper around with you.
Nonsense to you. This isn't so much a punishment, as made clear by one of the Jurors, as a message to others. I.e. she's being made an example. Thus it's not the circumstances of her transgression that are deciding her punishment, but the general situation involving copyright infringement, which of course is that "everybody" does it and very few get caught.
The reason this is important is that the jury is trying to punish 10000 other people vicariously through her and crucify her as a warning to them, which is grossly unfair for her. Her punishment does not fit the crime.
That's the same attitude my ex had, that when someone has power over you you automatically have to respect them. I think that's a bad use of the word "respect". Respect isn't something that can be forced. It has to be earned. Someone can have enough power over you for you to be willing to obey them, but that doesn't mean you respect them. Respect entails holding someone in high esteem. I certainly wouldn't hold someone with a gun to my head in high esteem, even though I may obey his commands. I could see the storm creator(s) having earned a bit of respect for their skill, but not for their douchebaggery.
Frankly, if I were the second-richest person in the world, I'd be happy to cut and run too, even before the business started to tank. I suppose the fact that most of his money is tied up in MS stock gives him an interest in what happens to the company still. The only way I wouldn't retire after my first several billion is if I felt that it was truly important that that company succeed in whatever they're doing....I can't see that being the case with MS, unless it's an ego thing, which imho is stupid.
That's the whole problem, is that they've done some stealth patching as well, which affects even people who have automatic updates turned off.
There are also people (like myself) who rarely get on the administrator account, and instead use a power user account. I have to remind myself to occasionally log onto administrator to get the updates. Maybe people who have automatic updates enabled don't have that problem, but I like to look at the updates before I let MS install them. This only seems to be able to be done on the admin account. So I could see people forgetting to check for updates, even if they have auto update enabled.
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There. See it on the right side there? I was at that rally and took that photo with my cellphone. o_o
It worked out great in California, too.
It depends on the wire, but I think it's around (2/3)c. So not as fast, but close. The problem with satellite is that the light has to travel very long distances to reach the satellite, for instance sats in GEO require a more than 100000km round trip, so you have at least 300ms latency from that. With wires the route is much more direct. Thus why satellite sucks.
All things being equal, you can assume that she shared one song for every song she downloaded. The chances of her sharing 1,000,000 songs are about the same chance that you're going to win $100,000 next time you play the lottery. Since she was more likely a leecher than someone who owned a dedicated upload server, we can reduce the expected value still more. I think a previous poster's estimate of 15 songs is probably a good guess. Thus I say about $13.86 damages would be appropriate.
So assume I'm a conniving bastard. I know about jury nullification. Could I lie to the prosecutor and say I didn't so he'd select me, and admit to the defendant I did, so he too would select me, thus ensuring I could get on the panel and carry out my moral duty? Or would that result in some sort of perjury case (i.e. do they question you under pain of punishment)?
I'm sure you could find a kid in your area who needs something like that. Donate it locally if you don't have a use for it.
What idiot modded this idiot insightful?
Tell me, how did we solve the overpopulation problem? Oh yeah, we haven't yet. The third world just keeps exporting its excess population to the first world countries where the native growth rate is lower. Meanwhile we're already stressing our resources. Here's a thought: a problem's consequences don't have to be immediately apparent for it to be a problem. For instance, aquifers don't get depleted overnight, but once they are some people are going to be pretty fucked.
Jesus, 45 seconds? My 2yo (2GB ram, single core athlon) box boots XP in under 30. I'd call 45 slow.
Here's what you do: make a bet with the guy. If you can get a copy of Windows XP installed on the computer, he'll sell it to you half off. If you can't (in, say, a day) then you'll buy it full price. Since it can't be done he should have no qualms about accepting, right?
Seems like they should put prisoners to work on the infrastructure. We have the highest prison population in the world (it's pretty big, anyway). And as an added benefit, prisons are basically grad school for criminals. As they say, idle hands do the devil's work; they wouldn't have as much opportunity to make connections and learn new tricks if they were busy.
Why do you say that medicare is fiscally insulable long term? Lumping it and social security together seems like a clumsy connection to make.