If M$ did this there would be a huge uproar and several anti-trust lawsuits. Now that the iPod is working on a monopoly of the mp3 player market, why is what Apple did any different? The quality of the software doesn't matter here.
When the blacks rioted in LA in 1992, nobody thought that they were freedom fighters, everyone thought that they were thugs and gangsters. Hell, we aren't even the ones who once kept minorities in slavery. Yet nobody here seems to recognize the people raising hell in Tibet are the equivalent of thugs and gangsters.
You are extraordinarily naive if you don't think that this is a weapons test for the Americans, and the debris is a non-issue trumped up as anti-China propaganda by the US Defense Department and the American media.
When China does it, it means that we are evil and war-mongering.
Now what do you have to say about the Americans doing the same thing?
Just goes to show that the Cold War lives on.
Quite honestly, politicians in the US don't seem to understand that there exist sovereign countries outside of the USA. They think everyone has to play by their rules. Funny how even trusted allies like CANADA are now refusing to follow in lockstep.
To be honest, the 10th Amendment has been kind of worthless throughout history and has been superseded by the 14th Amendment and the Commerce Clause. Personally, I think that's a good thing, the states weren't doing the right thing anyway (slavery, anyone)?
Moron. Your American government has supported many brutal dictators over the years, and currently support an Iraqi regime which is actively killing Sunnis in cold blood.
What Myanmar does is their own business. We only trade with them. We don't practice imperialism like you American punks.
There's a good reason for that. It's because Taiwan is not a country. It is an inalienable part of China, and the UN, including the Secretary-General who made a direct statement, affirmed that for the umpteenth time just yesterday.
We never said that we'd wipe them off the map. In fact we don't want to destroy them at all. They are part of our territory. Why would we nuke part of our territory?
You can stay deluded if you'd like, but maybe you'd like to absorb a dose of reality.
Why this is modded insightful is beyond me. This is the reason why China needs such tests, because the Americans are threatening us.
Of course, the only thing Sony really listens to is its sales, and those 10%... make up say around 10% of the sales. The 90% are still happy, so Sony doesn't care.
What a loser. Taiwan is not an independent nation, has never been an independent nation, and will never be an independent nation. We will lay waste to it with nuclear weapons before we allow them to become independent, and subsequently act as American and Japanese bitches.
The fact that he is modded up shows how ridiculously uninformed the Slashdot community is on this issue.
Ronald Reagan back in the 1980's called the Mujihadeen in Afghanistan (and by association Mullah Omar and Osama himself) freedom fighters for fighting against the USSR.... I'm sure that's what the poster was referring to. Those then-freedom fighters are now the terrorists that are fighting the Americans in Afghanistan.
The Americans are occupying Iraq. They are clearly not welcome there. What does every occupying power need to try to do to keep themselves there? They need to make people happy with them, and one way to do it is by propaganda.
Sure it's promulgating misleading and/or false information, but the intent is to counter the effects of videos that Al-Qaeda and groups like the Mujahideen Shura Council release (remember the one that got on CNN with the snipers?) If you think Pentagon stuff is going to be biased... well I guess you haven't seen the stuff that the Pentagon is trying to shout down. Even Al-Jazeera is pretty biased, and they have to try to put up some level of objectivity.
In short, the fact that the Pentagon wants a propaganda machine is not news. It's standard operating procedure when invading and occupying a country. What is news is the fact that right now they're sort of being shouted down by the terrorists.
Problem with deep freeze is, if you want to prevent people from playing computer games or stuff like that, they can still do it, they just have to keep installing it each time. I remember at one school computer lab Deep Freeze was installed to prevent unauthorized use (including playing games), but the room was dominated by people playing computer games anyway.
They dropped to the level of trojan/spyware pushers. Not a good way to send a message. That isn't funny at all, and Apple made it worse by trying to blame Microsoft.
Except some of the complaints (excessive memory and CPU usage, adding bloat to what was once lean) are actually valid? The novelty will wear off sooner or later and because it does not hold a monopoly, Firefox will actually have to deal with these problems to survive. Sticking your head in the sand does no good for Firefox.
You're a MORON. Just because you disapprove of the law doesn't mean you have the right nor the moral obligation to violate it at will. The law was created by a legal government with which the people have agreed to a social contract for the past 230 years. You do NOT have the right to opt out, otherwise everyone would opt out in their own selfish interest and the world would revert to a state of war of all against all that Hobbes predicted.
Your libertarian garbage has been tried repeatedly in idealized communities with upper-class people (so you can't blame the masses for their failure) and has failed horribly each time. Locke would puke if he saw what you wrote. It's funny how far people have perverted his views.
Sure, violate the law in your own "moral judgement." Then go to jail, and suffer all the shit that goes on in the big house, and the vast majority will neither care nor empathize.
You realize that everyone blames iTunes and Apple for not working and not Windows/M$? If that is indeed the aim of Apple it is very ill-conceived and has failed horribly.
Their objective is to minimize the effect of security holes discovered as 0-days. Since the vast majority (90%+) of people use Windows and MSIE, they need to work on fixing that if they want to see an end to exploits of security bugs.
Haven't the arguments against the minimum wage been blurted out by right-wing ideologues been shouted down already? Sheesh, I thought they were gone already. I guess they aren't.
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If M$ did this there would be a huge uproar and several anti-trust lawsuits. Now that the iPod is working on a monopoly of the mp3 player market, why is what Apple did any different? The quality of the software doesn't matter here.
When the blacks rioted in LA in 1992, nobody thought that they were freedom fighters, everyone thought that they were thugs and gangsters. Hell, we aren't even the ones who once kept minorities in slavery. Yet nobody here seems to recognize the people raising hell in Tibet are the equivalent of thugs and gangsters.
American hypocrisy at its best, right here.
You are extraordinarily naive if you don't think that this is a weapons test for the Americans, and the debris is a non-issue trumped up as anti-China propaganda by the US Defense Department and the American media.
When China does it, it means that we are evil and war-mongering. Now what do you have to say about the Americans doing the same thing? Just goes to show that the Cold War lives on.
Quite honestly, politicians in the US don't seem to understand that there exist sovereign countries outside of the USA. They think everyone has to play by their rules. Funny how even trusted allies like CANADA are now refusing to follow in lockstep.
To be honest, the 10th Amendment has been kind of worthless throughout history and has been superseded by the 14th Amendment and the Commerce Clause. Personally, I think that's a good thing, the states weren't doing the right thing anyway (slavery, anyone)?
Peerguardian helps a bit, although obviously it isn't foolproof.
Moron. Your American government has supported many brutal dictators over the years, and currently support an Iraqi regime which is actively killing Sunnis in cold blood. What Myanmar does is their own business. We only trade with them. We don't practice imperialism like you American punks.
There's a good reason for that. It's because Taiwan is not a country. It is an inalienable part of China, and the UN, including the Secretary-General who made a direct statement, affirmed that for the umpteenth time just yesterday.
Seriously, what's with the ridiculous digg-style "The Government is coming after you, run!!!!" posts here lately?
You're a moron.
We never said that we'd wipe them off the map. In fact we don't want to destroy them at all. They are part of our territory. Why would we nuke part of our territory?
You can stay deluded if you'd like, but maybe you'd like to absorb a dose of reality.
Why this is modded insightful is beyond me. This is the reason why China needs such tests, because the Americans are threatening us.
Of course, the only thing Sony really listens to is its sales, and those 10%... make up say around 10% of the sales. The 90% are still happy, so Sony doesn't care.
What a loser. Taiwan is not an independent nation, has never been an independent nation, and will never be an independent nation. We will lay waste to it with nuclear weapons before we allow them to become independent, and subsequently act as American and Japanese bitches. The fact that he is modded up shows how ridiculously uninformed the Slashdot community is on this issue.
Ronald Reagan back in the 1980's called the Mujihadeen in Afghanistan (and by association Mullah Omar and Osama himself) freedom fighters for fighting against the USSR.... I'm sure that's what the poster was referring to. Those then-freedom fighters are now the terrorists that are fighting the Americans in Afghanistan.
The Americans are occupying Iraq. They are clearly not welcome there. What does every occupying power need to try to do to keep themselves there? They need to make people happy with them, and one way to do it is by propaganda.
Sure it's promulgating misleading and/or false information, but the intent is to counter the effects of videos that Al-Qaeda and groups like the Mujahideen Shura Council release (remember the one that got on CNN with the snipers?) If you think Pentagon stuff is going to be biased... well I guess you haven't seen the stuff that the Pentagon is trying to shout down. Even Al-Jazeera is pretty biased, and they have to try to put up some level of objectivity.
In short, the fact that the Pentagon wants a propaganda machine is not news. It's standard operating procedure when invading and occupying a country. What is news is the fact that right now they're sort of being shouted down by the terrorists.
Problem with deep freeze is, if you want to prevent people from playing computer games or stuff like that, they can still do it, they just have to keep installing it each time. I remember at one school computer lab Deep Freeze was installed to prevent unauthorized use (including playing games), but the room was dominated by people playing computer games anyway.
They dropped to the level of trojan/spyware pushers. Not a good way to send a message. That isn't funny at all, and Apple made it worse by trying to blame Microsoft.
Except some of the complaints (excessive memory and CPU usage, adding bloat to what was once lean) are actually valid? The novelty will wear off sooner or later and because it does not hold a monopoly, Firefox will actually have to deal with these problems to survive. Sticking your head in the sand does no good for Firefox.
You're a MORON. Just because you disapprove of the law doesn't mean you have the right nor the moral obligation to violate it at will. The law was created by a legal government with which the people have agreed to a social contract for the past 230 years. You do NOT have the right to opt out, otherwise everyone would opt out in their own selfish interest and the world would revert to a state of war of all against all that Hobbes predicted.
Your libertarian garbage has been tried repeatedly in idealized communities with upper-class people (so you can't blame the masses for their failure) and has failed horribly each time. Locke would puke if he saw what you wrote. It's funny how far people have perverted his views.
Sure, violate the law in your own "moral judgement." Then go to jail, and suffer all the shit that goes on in the big house, and the vast majority will neither care nor empathize.
You realize that everyone blames iTunes and Apple for not working and not Windows/M$? If that is indeed the aim of Apple it is very ill-conceived and has failed horribly.
Their objective is to minimize the effect of security holes discovered as 0-days. Since the vast majority (90%+) of people use Windows and MSIE, they need to work on fixing that if they want to see an end to exploits of security bugs.
Haven't the arguments against the minimum wage been blurted out by right-wing ideologues been shouted down already? Sheesh, I thought they were gone already. I guess they aren't.
Here you go: http://hymn-project.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=155 3
In a word, yes.
Oh no! You have wandered into the slavering fangs of a lurking grue!