For a moment there I read this comment as "No one wants to see tall blue Elvis Ewoks", and I was about to argue most vehemently that that's exactly what I do want to see in a movie.
Thanks to recent efforts by the RIAA/MPAA, the threat now isn't just that ISP's will throttle P2P, it's that they will outright BLOCK it (and any sites related to it). Their counterpart in the UK has already succeeded in this effort with most of their ISP's...
Despite the article headline here, it appears that the plan is to filter certain items of "objectionable" content, rather than outright block peer-to-peer traffic.
Of course, this doesn't make the entire concept of filtering that is currently going on in Australia any less ridiculous (particular in terms of P2P and BitTorrent), but we might as well at least discuss what they're doing in the correct terms.
Is this really a big deal?
What's wrong with carrying an ID card?
I think the issue for many of us (living in the UK as I do) isn't so much that we don't want an ID card as it is that we don't trust the current government with using them (and the data they contain) properly. This is the government that has seen various agencies lose and fail to secure vast amounts of personal data on the one hand, and on the other increased exponentially the ways in which they can monitor and survey everything we do.
ID cards would certainly have their uses, but right now we don't have a government we can trust to deploy and use them properly.
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With all the stories of robots invented by Japanese over time, I am surprised they weren't doing this on day 2 after the event.
The problem wasn't a lack of robots, it was a lack of angsty teenagers to pilot them.
If the hookers all looked like a judge's wife, I'd want a refund.
For a moment there I read this comment as "No one wants to see tall blue Elvis Ewoks", and I was about to argue most vehemently that that's exactly what I do want to see in a movie.
In Soviet Russia, AOL patronises you.
For some reason I initially read the headline as "Alaksan Bob", and assumed it was going to be about Sarah Palin's replacement.
Mind you, she probably can see this blob from her house...
In space, no-one can hear you get Rickrolled...
Did he used to go to the watch repair shop and tell them "My time machine is broken"?
For a moment there I thought you were calling the grandparent fat...
Can Governor Sarah Palin see it happening from her house?
I'd always assumed that her lair was in the volcano...
Thanks to recent efforts by the RIAA/MPAA, the threat now isn't just that ISP's will throttle P2P, it's that they will outright BLOCK it (and any sites related to it). Their counterpart in the UK has already succeeded in this effort with most of their ISP's...
No they haven't. I don't know of a single UK ISP that blocks BitTorrent (although thottling is commonplace, and not just on P2P traffic): http://azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs#United_Kingdom
Didn't you get the letter?
Perhaps they could hire some kind of outside contractor - with an extensive botnet and lots of spam-sending experience - at some ridiculous fee!
I hear MediaSentry aren't very busy at the moment...
It'll either be that or the iMortal.
Despite the article headline here, it appears that the plan is to filter certain items of "objectionable" content, rather than outright block peer-to-peer traffic.
Of course, this doesn't make the entire concept of filtering that is currently going on in Australia any less ridiculous (particular in terms of P2P and BitTorrent), but we might as well at least discuss what they're doing in the correct terms.
Considering it's a customised Windows-based solution, I would hope that they've at least made it the Yellow Submarine of Death.
By making cars?
How about "humour"?
Oops, sorry, "humor".
You do realise how much trouble posting the Scientology creation story here is going to cause, don't you?
I'm sure this game will sell well
Err.... It's free. It isn't being released by Valve either.
It's not so bad once someone "loses" the alarm clock in space.
Vint Cerf hasn't read Obama's technology page.
Have you?
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/
Obama's page still mentions support for network neutrality (even if it isn't quite as cut and dried as we might like):
Barack Obama strongly supports the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet.
There's one really easy and completely legal way that RealNetworks can get around this restraining order, and tha Buffering...
Is this really a big deal? What's wrong with carrying an ID card?
I think the issue for many of us (living in the UK as I do) isn't so much that we don't want an ID card as it is that we don't trust the current government with using them (and the data they contain) properly. This is the government that has seen various agencies lose and fail to secure vast amounts of personal data on the one hand, and on the other increased exponentially the ways in which they can monitor and survey everything we do.
ID cards would certainly have their uses, but right now we don't have a government we can trust to deploy and use them properly.
"You can tell by the way I move and walk I'm a terrorist, no time to talk..."
I propose either the deletion of /., or the replacement of us all with bots endlessly spouting memes.
I'm a meme spouting bot, you insensitive clod!