Setting aside the psychological effects of a smaller fine, you're leaving out one very important detail: it is not profitable for the RIAA to sue everyone once the damages drop below a certain point. At $1000 per downloader, they would have to sue far more people, which would be extremely costly. Suing people simply wouldn't be profitable.
I have a dual monitor setup and on Ubuntu I get that behaviour out of the box. Each screen is treated as a seperate workspace, so it's simple enough to move windows between them. As a caveat I do use the NVidia propriety drivers, so I don't know if that makes a difference.
Just tell them the internet will stop working if they don't switch (sort of like the Y2K bug). It's a gross oversimplification, but it should do the trick.
So in other words, it can be done, but Mozilla refuses to do so. Given how big of a deal HTML5 is getting to be, I wouldn't be surprised if someone forks Firefox over this.
N900 might be an amazing phone, technically, but most people don't, and never have cared about that. They care about how nice it is to use. Most people here still don't seem to understand that.
Perhaps, but owning an N900 I can say that it is a pleasure to use. The interface is fairly close to the iPhone in terms of polish. I believe the main reason most people haven't adopted it is that it's fairly thick (2 cm), and also kind of heavy (181g). On a side note the submitter is wrong - the N900 has Ovi Maps built into the OS, and a new version was released today as part of a major update. The only downside is that it doesn't support outputting the directions as audio, which would be useful when driving. It's completely feasible too, since espeak has been ported to Maemo.
A 4 digit PIN is about as a secure as a 3 letter, all lowercase alphabetic password (i.e. not very). Still, the point about 3 factor authentication was a good one.
How often do you actually use MMS anyway? Given the choice of email, bluetooth, wifi, etc. it seems to me that MMS is only used for legacy purposes. The awesome thing about the N900 is if you really need MMS that badly, you can implement it yourself.
The answer to that is don't let them find it in the first place. Use TrueCrypt to create a hidden volume, and then setup a dummy OS (maybe just a Linux shell, if you want to use a little obscurity).
That is exactly my point. The VAST majority of people switching would go to Firefox, NOT Chrome.
Therein lies the pure GENIUS of this idea. Built-in anti-trust protection.
I'm not sure that's how the courts would see it. Even if the majority switch to Firefox, it still increases Chrome's share, and I'm pretty sure the method by which it does is illegal regardless of whether or not it's effective. Refusing to support IE6, on the other hand, would be defensible, although I don't know how much of a difference it would make.
I learnt the hard way - when I upgraded to 9.04 (and specifically selected ext4) I found that the system would crash when I emptied trash. Ever since then I've stuck to XFS.
If the GP was right about acidic environments being hostile to Y sperm, then maybe the reverse is true; that a basic environment is hostile to X sperm.
I think it's a shame that the submitter failed to notice that the 2nd most common response was with regard to the DMCA. Apparently a lot of uploaders are unhappy about that fact that their videos get taken down by false DMCA claims. It seems that DMCA and HTML5 form ~90% of suggestions/complaints.
As much as those ISPs suck (from what I've heard on slashdot - I live in Aus), I think that the existing usage is probably better for the heavier users. Because 250 GB is the de facto plan, it is one of the cheapest - if the default were lower you would have to pay more to use that much data. Not that I'm disagreeing that they're not in it for the money, I'm just saying that the lighter users subsidize the heavier users, which works rather well for them.
Many times they have a single story, they tell it, and it's over.
I agree completely. The longer a series is, the worse the filler gets. The only downside I've found is the tendency of directors to stray from the original manga when producing the anime (e.g. Full Metal Alchemist [although the new series is faithful to the original, apparently], Elfen Lied, Gantz [one of the worst offenders in this regard - even if you've never seen the manga you can still tell the difference]). Usually this happens because the manga can't keep up with the rate of production.
The key point here is when you consider the person's existence starting from. IMO, the unborn baby already exists and is not a potential person, in much the same way that a young child exists but is still developing. So it seems to me that their existence would start with conception. As for not knowing what they want, just wait until they can make the choice themselves. If they're still alive, they can choose. But if they're not, then they can't. It's that simple - let them have the choice (it is their life after all) and most of the ethical problems disapppear.
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Setting aside the psychological effects of a smaller fine, you're leaving out one very important detail: it is not profitable for the RIAA to sue everyone once the damages drop below a certain point. At $1000 per downloader, they would have to sue far more people, which would be extremely costly. Suing people simply wouldn't be profitable.
The plaques themselves must be destroyed, not just throw billions of new neurons at the problem.
I don't know, most problems could (probably) be solved id billions of new neurons were thrown at them.
I have a dual monitor setup and on Ubuntu I get that behaviour out of the box. Each screen is treated as a seperate workspace, so it's simple enough to move windows between them. As a caveat I do use the NVidia propriety drivers, so I don't know if that makes a difference.
Just tell them the internet will stop working if they don't switch (sort of like the Y2K bug). It's a gross oversimplification, but it should do the trick.
tl;dr - high taxes are worth paying if you get good services in return. Think of Sweden as the 'Apple' of nations, versus the 'Windows Me' of the USA.
So where's Linux?
So in other words, it can be done, but Mozilla refuses to do so. Given how big of a deal HTML5 is getting to be, I wouldn't be surprised if someone forks Firefox over this.
Someone mod this 'prophetic'.
Prophetic? I disagree. I think he's only stating what's already happened to us.
So, redundant then?
Ah, hate to break it to you but the Slashdot audience is getting older
Perhaps in your case (4 digit UID), but there is more than one generation of us after all.
Dude, these guys are *in space*. If anyone has anything interesting to tweet about, it would be them.
N900 might be an amazing phone, technically, but most people don't, and never have cared about that. They care about how nice it is to use. Most people here still don't seem to understand that.
Perhaps, but owning an N900 I can say that it is a pleasure to use. The interface is fairly close to the iPhone in terms of polish. I believe the main reason most people haven't adopted it is that it's fairly thick (2 cm), and also kind of heavy (181g).
On a side note the submitter is wrong - the N900 has Ovi Maps built into the OS, and a new version was released today as part of a major update. The only downside is that it doesn't support outputting the directions as audio, which would be useful when driving. It's completely feasible too, since espeak has been ported to Maemo.
That's nothing! At my company we have to use butterflies...
(oh come one, you knew it was coming)
A 4 digit PIN is about as a secure as a 3 letter, all lowercase alphabetic password (i.e. not very). Still, the point about 3 factor authentication was a good one.
So would I, but that's only cause the Qt libraries are superior. For C# I still prefer VS.
How often do you actually use MMS anyway? Given the choice of email, bluetooth, wifi, etc. it seems to me that MMS is only used for legacy purposes. The awesome thing about the N900 is if you really need MMS that badly, you can implement it yourself.
Nonsense. Differing widths of tab-stops only cause problems for people who mix tabs and spaces.
There, fixed that for you.
The answer to that is don't let them find it in the first place. Use TrueCrypt to create a hidden volume, and then setup a dummy OS (maybe just a Linux shell, if you want to use a little obscurity).
That is exactly my point. The VAST majority of people switching would go to Firefox, NOT Chrome.
Therein lies the pure GENIUS of this idea. Built-in anti-trust protection.
I'm not sure that's how the courts would see it. Even if the majority switch to Firefox, it still increases Chrome's share, and I'm pretty sure the method by which it does is illegal regardless of whether or not it's effective. Refusing to support IE6, on the other hand, would be defensible, although I don't know how much of a difference it would make.
I learnt the hard way - when I upgraded to 9.04 (and specifically selected ext4) I found that the system would crash when I emptied trash. Ever since then I've stuck to XFS.
If the GP was right about acidic environments being hostile to Y sperm, then maybe the reverse is true; that a basic environment is hostile to X sperm.
I think it's a shame that the submitter failed to notice that the 2nd most common response was with regard to the DMCA. Apparently a lot of uploaders are unhappy about that fact that their videos get taken down by false DMCA claims. It seems that DMCA and HTML5 form ~90% of suggestions/complaints.
It's called encryption. Personally, I recommend TrueCrypt.
What about going the other way? If you have not cleared customs, and you are leaving the US, then you are obviously still in the US.
As much as those ISPs suck (from what I've heard on slashdot - I live in Aus), I think that the existing usage is probably better for the heavier users. Because 250 GB is the de facto plan, it is one of the cheapest - if the default were lower you would have to pay more to use that much data.
Not that I'm disagreeing that they're not in it for the money, I'm just saying that the lighter users subsidize the heavier users, which works rather well for them.
Many times they have a single story, they tell it, and it's over.
I agree completely. The longer a series is, the worse the filler gets. The only downside I've found is the tendency of directors to stray from the original manga when producing the anime (e.g. Full Metal Alchemist [although the new series is faithful to the original, apparently], Elfen Lied, Gantz [one of the worst offenders in this regard - even if you've never seen the manga you can still tell the difference]). Usually this happens because the manga can't keep up with the rate of production.
The key point here is when you consider the person's existence starting from. IMO, the unborn baby already exists and is not a potential person, in much the same way that a young child exists but is still developing. So it seems to me that their existence would start with conception.
As for not knowing what they want, just wait until they can make the choice themselves. If they're still alive, they can choose. But if they're not, then they can't. It's that simple - let them have the choice (it is their life after all) and most of the ethical problems disapppear.