The government sales of the free spectrum to the highest bidder is one of the biggest scams ever. Carrier-less mesh networking technology has been a viable alternative for a long time ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking ) but the government persists in licensing the most useful spectrum frequencies to the highest bidder for billions of dollars ( http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/default.htm?job=about_auctions ) while restricting the unlicensed spectrum like 802.11 to limited frequencies with severe power restrictions.
Mod parent up. Making laws against cookies is nothing more than government self-promotional propaganda. Governments do this all the time to justify their power. One of the biggest cons ever is the government convincing you that you need them to protect you because you're not smart enough to look after yourself. And without the government protecting you people will do bad things to you -- with cookies. What the government does all the time is look for the slightest issue, create a law for it, and then try to take credit for preventing a problem that would never have happened anyway. The CANSPAM Act was an example of this. The reason you don't get spam in your inbox is because of filters, not because of government laws. Yet the politicians who pushed CANSPAM through the US Congress are convinced they have solved a problem. Folks, you don't need the government to make cookie laws, it's ridiculous.
It seems like anything that even remotely challenges today's established copyright dogma is the modern day equivalent of blasphemy that deserves absolute censorship so the old fashioned doctrine of intellectual property can be allowed to continue, unchallenged by more futuristic ideas.
You cannot block the piratebay because it's an idea. You can take away its domain and block its IP addresses but those are things that can be changed. The piratebay will live on because it's an idea. It cannot be suppressed by the authorities. It will always resurface.
20% and 40% seem like suspiciously rounded figures. I wish people wouldn't make claims without publishing the actual data including the control data and standard deviation. Have the rates ever varied as much during other 3-day periods when there was no phone outage? The story about the soccer player is anecdotal and establishes neither correlation nor causation as it's not even conclusive he was texting and a sample space of 'one' is meaningless.
Once you start letting the government regulate what words mean they'll have ultimate power over you because you've already confessed your ignorance and signaled you need help.
The point at which google goes too far with fixing its search results is not only when people will start looking for other search engines but also a time when the competition will step up to meet demand.
I suggest the Australian government get into the search business. There's obviously an opportunity here.
How do we know the researcher couldn't get the same results picking people at random? The article doesn't describe the method or contain a statement of the problem. What's the null hypothesis, sample space, control group?
Government attempts at censorship only make those sites more popular in accordance with the Streisand Effect.
I suggest using the MafiaaFire Redirector Addon for Firefox.
Since the US Government starting seizing domains I've found some excellent torrents sites I never before knew existed.
Roja Directa is still up. You can access it here http://www.rojadirecta.es
I for one am thankful my government is clueless as to how the Internet works.
Everything is genetically modified. It's called evolution.
Large scale production of GM crops has been around for about 30 years and there's no evidence of any adverse affects in any of the data. This is like when Copernicus and Galileo said the Earth goes around the Sun, every body got freaked out. The irrational fear of science and discovery lives on in spite of facts.
It's called safety paranoia. And the most paranoid people always win the argument. There are lots of examples. According to Timothy Taylor (Economist at Standford) the law requiring child proof containers for drugs cost ~$30 million to implement yet had no affect on the number of emergency room admissions for child overdoses. The safety lobbyists are a formidable group who make a living from sitting around all day coming up with what-if scenarios and they especially love airline safety because it plays to people's fear of flying. You don't really need a demonstration on how to fasten your seat belt or a verbal warning about smoking when you fly but safety paranoia always wins.
The bill would create a list of blocked Internet sites, added Ed Black, president and CEO of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, a tech trade group.
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Users who want content will find a way around this. There's already a firefox add-on to circumvent Department of Homeland Security seized domains like torrent-finder.com.
Thanks to Streisand effect of government domain seizures I found some great torrent sites I never before knew existed.
I suggest reading Jay Feinman's excellent book Law 101 - Everything You Need To Know About The American Legal System
which covers, among other things, the McDonald's Hot Coffee case and explains how you can sue anyone for just about anything in the US under civil law even if it didn't happened here.
I'm reading Newton and the Counterfeiter at the moment and people seem as confused about this as they were about paper money when it was introduced in England in the 1690s because the idea of paper having value instead of precious metals like gold and silver just seemed absurd. But virtual money, like paper, is built on trust (I'll write you 100 lines of code if you give me 100 virtual coins as long as I trust there's someone else out there that will redeem those coins).
We already use use a system like this. My wages go into my bank account electronically and I use my debit card at the grocery store. I never actually see paper or coins for those transactions. I know most banks are government insured but people still had faith in banks even when they weren't (pre FDIC days in the US).
Remember the CAN-SPAM ACT 2003 in the US? That was another pointless law. Spam is at an all time high. You only stop spam with a spam filter. Governments only gets bigger, never smaller.
The US has a habit of propping up dictators of the likes we've seen in Central and South America. From Pinochet to The Shah it's not apparent you can easily know in foresight what's gonna be good for the people in hindsight. The Founding Fathers made it a law that only Congress can declare war. Enforcing a no fly zone is an act of war and the reason at least one person in the House is considering a resolution to find the President in violation of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 which underscores the Constitution by prohibiting the president from going to war without the authorization of congress unless the US is attacked first. Libya has not attacked the US.
How could a science experiment be CRAP? It's a science experiment after all. We know some experiments can be simplistic but still there is an esoteric beauty in any demonstration of how the rules of the universe work even if beauty's benefit is only to invoke further discussion.
The U.S. is already a third world country by ideological and cultural standards. The population is lazy, self-entitled, undereducated, science-illiterate, unversed in either informal or formal logic, and completely averse to quality standards, quality control, or doing quality work.
Then how come America has won more Noble Prizes than any other country?
At one point or another, the common man needs to set up a state that works for his interests. Eventually working Americans will grow tired of working to enrich others while they suffer from illiteracy and treatable diseases. They will seize control of the state and industrial structures and finally determine their own future.
What you're talking about is redistribution of the wealth by force. Historically the American economy has outperformed all others because it embraces laissez faire capitalism that allows people to accumulate wealth. Having failed in the old Soviet Union, been abandoned by the Chinese, and having caused stagnation throughout Central and South America, the idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor still persists among those who choose to ignore history. Redistribution of the wealth has _never_ worked as an economic policy. It prohibits economic growth which means the poor just get poorer. This is the kind of thing Hugo Chavez does. You're all gonna end up like Venezuela if you're not careful.
Google for Geni Coefficient before you assume that wealth disparity is historically more disproportionate today than it's ever been or that the gap is any wider in the US than it is anywhere else.
There are already plenty of laws for false advertising and laws don't stop spam, filters do. This is another example of lawmakers choosing easy targets to convince voters they're actually doing something. Having failed repeatedly year after year to pass a budget they somehow find enough resources to waste time writing Section 17529.5.
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It seems like Verizon and AT&T spend millions that they collect from their monopoly of the spectrum and give it to politicians to who then make laws in their favor. http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B08&year=a
The government sales of the free spectrum to the highest bidder is one of the biggest scams ever. Carrier-less mesh networking technology has been a viable alternative for a long time ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking ) but the government persists in licensing the most useful spectrum frequencies to the highest bidder for billions of dollars ( http://wireless.fcc.gov/auctions/default.htm?job=about_auctions ) while restricting the unlicensed spectrum like 802.11 to limited frequencies with severe power restrictions.
Mod parent up. Making laws against cookies is nothing more than government self-promotional propaganda. Governments do this all the time to justify their power. One of the biggest cons ever is the government convincing you that you need them to protect you because you're not smart enough to look after yourself. And without the government protecting you people will do bad things to you -- with cookies. What the government does all the time is look for the slightest issue, create a law for it, and then try to take credit for preventing a problem that would never have happened anyway. The CANSPAM Act was an example of this. The reason you don't get spam in your inbox is because of filters, not because of government laws. Yet the politicians who pushed CANSPAM through the US Congress are convinced they have solved a problem. Folks, you don't need the government to make cookie laws, it's ridiculous.
GNU Octave is a very handy program to know: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
It seems like anything that even remotely challenges today's established copyright dogma is the modern day equivalent of blasphemy that deserves absolute censorship so the old fashioned doctrine of intellectual property can be allowed to continue, unchallenged by more futuristic ideas.
The reason the internet revolution did not originate in Australia.
Next will be the War on Violence.
You cannot block the piratebay because it's an idea. You can take away its domain and block its IP addresses but those are things that can be changed. The piratebay will live on because it's an idea. It cannot be suppressed by the authorities. It will always resurface.
20% and 40% seem like suspiciously rounded figures. I wish people wouldn't make claims without publishing the actual data including the control data and standard deviation. Have the rates ever varied as much during other 3-day periods when there was no phone outage? The story about the soccer player is anecdotal and establishes neither correlation nor causation as it's not even conclusive he was texting and a sample space of 'one' is meaningless.
Once you start letting the government regulate what words mean they'll have ultimate power over you because you've already confessed your ignorance and signaled you need help.
The point at which google goes too far with fixing its search results is not only when people will start looking for other search engines but also a time when the competition will step up to meet demand.
I suggest the Australian government get into the search business. There's obviously an opportunity here.
How do we know the researcher couldn't get the same results picking people at random? The article doesn't describe the method or contain a statement of the problem. What's the null hypothesis, sample space, control group?
Government attempts at censorship only make those sites more popular in accordance with the Streisand Effect. I suggest using the MafiaaFire Redirector Addon for Firefox. Since the US Government starting seizing domains I've found some excellent torrents sites I never before knew existed. Roja Directa is still up. You can access it here http://www.rojadirecta.es I for one am thankful my government is clueless as to how the Internet works.
Everything is genetically modified. It's called evolution. Large scale production of GM crops has been around for about 30 years and there's no evidence of any adverse affects in any of the data. This is like when Copernicus and Galileo said the Earth goes around the Sun, every body got freaked out. The irrational fear of science and discovery lives on in spite of facts.
I thought California had banned British libel cases so I wonder why the a California court is ruling against twitter in a Tyneside libel case?
It's called safety paranoia. And the most paranoid people always win the argument. There are lots of examples. According to Timothy Taylor (Economist at Standford) the law requiring child proof containers for drugs cost ~$30 million to implement yet had no affect on the number of emergency room admissions for child overdoses. The safety lobbyists are a formidable group who make a living from sitting around all day coming up with what-if scenarios and they especially love airline safety because it plays to people's fear of flying. You don't really need a demonstration on how to fasten your seat belt or a verbal warning about smoking when you fly but safety paranoia always wins.
This law is an example of what happens when overly zealous do-gooders try to protect people from themselves. If you don't want cookies, turn them off.
The bill would create a list of blocked Internet sites, added Ed Black, president and CEO of the Computer and Communications Industry Association, a tech trade group.
. Users who want content will find a way around this. There's already a firefox add-on to circumvent Department of Homeland Security seized domains like torrent-finder.com. Thanks to Streisand effect of government domain seizures I found some great torrent sites I never before knew existed.
I suggest reading Jay Feinman's excellent book Law 101 - Everything You Need To Know About The American Legal System which covers, among other things, the McDonald's Hot Coffee case and explains how you can sue anyone for just about anything in the US under civil law even if it didn't happened here.
I'm reading Newton and the Counterfeiter at the moment and people seem as confused about this as they were about paper money when it was introduced in England in the 1690s because the idea of paper having value instead of precious metals like gold and silver just seemed absurd. But virtual money, like paper, is built on trust (I'll write you 100 lines of code if you give me 100 virtual coins as long as I trust there's someone else out there that will redeem those coins).
We already use use a system like this. My wages go into my bank account electronically and I use my debit card at the grocery store. I never actually see paper or coins for those transactions. I know most banks are government insured but people still had faith in banks even when they weren't (pre FDIC days in the US).
Remember the CAN-SPAM ACT 2003 in the US? That was another pointless law. Spam is at an all time high. You only stop spam with a spam filter. Governments only gets bigger, never smaller.
The US has a habit of propping up dictators of the likes we've seen in Central and South America. From Pinochet to The Shah it's not apparent you can easily know in foresight what's gonna be good for the people in hindsight. The Founding Fathers made it a law that only Congress can declare war. Enforcing a no fly zone is an act of war and the reason at least one person in the House is considering a resolution to find the President in violation of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 which underscores the Constitution by prohibiting the president from going to war without the authorization of congress unless the US is attacked first. Libya has not attacked the US.
This could be useful: http://upsetgeek.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63%3Awireless-router-on-laptop&Itemid=78
How could a science experiment be CRAP? It's a science experiment after all. We know some experiments can be simplistic but still there is an esoteric beauty in any demonstration of how the rules of the universe work even if beauty's benefit is only to invoke further discussion.
The U.S. is already a third world country by ideological and cultural standards. The population is lazy, self-entitled, undereducated, science-illiterate, unversed in either informal or formal logic, and completely averse to quality standards, quality control, or doing quality work.
Then how come America has won more Noble Prizes than any other country?
At one point or another, the common man needs to set up a state that works for his interests. Eventually working Americans will grow tired of working to enrich others while they suffer from illiteracy and treatable diseases. They will seize control of the state and industrial structures and finally determine their own future.
What you're talking about is redistribution of the wealth by force. Historically the American economy has outperformed all others because it embraces laissez faire capitalism that allows people to accumulate wealth. Having failed in the old Soviet Union, been abandoned by the Chinese, and having caused stagnation throughout Central and South America, the idea of taking from the rich and giving to the poor still persists among those who choose to ignore history. Redistribution of the wealth has _never_ worked as an economic policy. It prohibits economic growth which means the poor just get poorer. This is the kind of thing Hugo Chavez does. You're all gonna end up like Venezuela if you're not careful.
Google for Geni Coefficient before you assume that wealth disparity is historically more disproportionate today than it's ever been or that the gap is any wider in the US than it is anywhere else.
There are already plenty of laws for false advertising and laws don't stop spam, filters do. This is another example of lawmakers choosing easy targets to convince voters they're actually doing something. Having failed repeatedly year after year to pass a budget they somehow find enough resources to waste time writing Section 17529.5.