He also offsets the flights he takes by paying for tree planting for every flight. But then again why be informed when you can bitch about people whilst totally ignorant of the facts.
Its not about taking or not. Its about size. A company worth billions suing 100,000s of people isn't cool. A mother getting charged 200k+$ to give to some rich guy with a porsche. On the other hand big companies turning around and breaking the rules, a company with deeper pockets. Being deceitful, dodging the guy then forging evidence. Them getting charge 20k$ is a victory even if a minor one./. is NOT particularly anti-IP. But we are pro-reasonable and anti-'non contributing corporations who leach off other peoples hardwork'. The reason most people have a problem with copyright laws is very much in line with supporting this guy.
Feel free to mod up parent insightful though, he made me honestly think about my reasoning on the two issues.
I can't buy coca cola in toooons of places including my school. Pepsi paid all the retailers to stock only pepsi not coke. Very much the same but pepsi hasn't got taken down over it yet so i figure neither will MS.
New to the latest round of OS wars? The fight is mainly about making nothing work with anything else, think diverging. Lets go with file formats.... mac has 'real' media garbage and their slew of drmed crap. Microsoft is forcing its own 'standards' onto the market to the detriment of everyone else... hey it was MS that hated/hates png files. My ipod gets updates that break the thing on purpose forcing people to reverse engineer all over again or me to use itunes (similar to if windows crashed for me using FF instead of IE, i'm sure theres something illegal there).. Oh yeah and MS is doing just that! vista sp1 breaks programs left and right even when they are actually compatible. Theres zune... hell all DRM is is to break compatibility with something that would normally work fine. Sad that you need to expend so much effort just to make products NOT work. My phone with windows mobile on it will only sync properly with windows, hell if i updated the thing itd probably break xp and only sync with vista. I'd say linux and more standards is the answer but since hardware companies try so hard to not sell their products they don't release any docs so OSS can't use them (graphics cards anyone?).
Whew that was refreshing. On a related note does anyone know of any standardization initiatives I can get involved in? The 8 different power cords by my ankles which could ALL be mini-USB is getting to me.
"You have to meet certain minimum requirements to serve on any jury: age, citizenship, residency, language skills, mental competency and so on."
Yeah, basically the requirements you mentioned are a warm adult body. Another requirement however is that you have to be NOT legally competent. I'm exempt from jury duty because my father is a lawyer. Because i might be better equipped to pass judgment or at least explain things to other jury members i am not allowed to do so. As well people with big careers will dodge jury duty. And people generally busier will dodge jury duty (University students, professionals so on...) plus these people are more likely to come up with an excuse to get out of it. What this means is you are left with the bottom of the barrel in a country where the average voted in GW Bush twice. Thats kind of a scary thought. (the last note reserved for the states however i wouldn't trust the bottom of the barrel of any country making important decisions like that).
No, Its more like saying it canny be done capn i'll need at least 3months at dock to repair the damage to the front... *insert mumbo jumbo*. Then doing it in 3hours while piss drunk.
WTH kind of nerd are you? I'm disappointed to hear people on slashdot of all places dismissing injecting electronics. I get enough of that at home. Its always 'omg why are you bleeding this' or 'why would you want to install linux in your arm anyways' or 'how do you change the batteries on that'. God damn naysayers.
Disclaimer: This post became more negative and runon than originally intended
...They are shooting it to prove they can shoot it. If they just wanted it gone they could tell the thrusters to crash it into the middle of the ocean. Aside from that, having a self destruct in it is crazy. Explosion = millions of bits of metal. These bits of metal are traveling at speeds measured in Km/s... Spacecraft are shockingly fragile, hell i could probably take out a sattelite with a regular hammer, one that i can't swing at 12km/s. Blowing up things in space is stupid and could leave the whole of mankind earth locked. Without the option of expanding upwards people tend to look to expanding left and right so we end up trapping ourself on a rock then blowing ourself up. Yay....
My Cogeco connection slides from 10Mb to 2.5Mb between the hours of 1pm and 5pm on weekdays. Only sad because when i first got the connection the slide was about 6Mb~5.5Mb. Something i can definitely live with. If ISPs gave:
A minimum, a maximum and an average speed.
Statement of how they are prioritize ie. (VOIP->html->torrents) and how they do it. As well no amount of prioritization shall drop you below said minimum.
Zero, i mean ZERO throttling based on destination.
They should also show their uptime (99.5% or w/e).
It would also be nice if they had you pick settings when you sign up. If you are unlikely to send more than 10 emails a day, a cap should be enforced based on that. (This would be to kill spam/botnets). Or if you don't intend to ever torrent they could block that from you and maybe bump up your minimum speed in exchange. But what am i thinking, easy flexible systems can't happen in this business environment.
We have access to WMDs... but we basically just have to call the US up and tell them what to shoot at so i dunno how well thatd work. Maybe if we said california they'd shoot anyways.
If 1 vote was worth 0. Then 100million votes would be worth nothing. Which is obviously untrue since 100million votes is more than the federal election even receives. Shockingly 1 vote averages out to be worth around 1... You know there are near 7billion people on earth, mannn you really don't make much of a difference, nobody does. Infact since no humans make any difference at all nothing would change if we all died. If you are feeling insignificant why post? There are like 1million/. readers. Your post obviously made no difference. Suck it up emokid.
Thats the only chance you get to use 99% of math. In made up scenarios where you fill all the blanks. Hell my math prof could only think of 1 actual use for sequences and it was a calculus aproximation method you don't actually use anyways. The mathies need to get it out somehow:(.... Also have you seen CSI before.... 'hey this smudge is yellow'... 'i know who did it that yellow smudge could only mean one thing...'
By stupid you mean awesome. The flight tech coming out in that period was amazing and basically no advances have been made since then. Waste of time/money/resource? Maybe so BUT undeniably cool toys
Nonono. The idea is to pit them against one another in a huge legal battle royale. If the studio wins they set legal precedent for shorter copyright terms and screw themselves. If they loose its not as dramatic but they have to dish out tons of cash for laws they built. The bigger the fight, the more blood the better it will turn out for everyone else.
Data of this type is normally sent twice a year (trend data). In a 6month period google is visited by billions of people and deals with over 18BILLION searches. Google is more likely to harm your employment by finding someones facebook than selling a company around 10TB of data to sift through every 6months.
Employers should not be allowed to hire PIs or specialistst to learn about you. It would likely take that since google doesnt have your name they have your IP which they wont give out. A PI would be needed to get your IP. If they were willing to go so far they could just hire a PI to follow you around or put cameras in your house.
Banks have too much oversight to be able to do it and they likely don't care.
If you were really concerned about your privacy you would falsify your IP address and use the internet through it at all times, never use your real anything setting up a completely fake identity.
Anytime you access the internet normally you send your IP with that a PI can get your home address, name, phone number, anything on public record, w/e google can find, credit record and more i'm sure. Also all data you send is sent to about 12 companies before it gets anywhere (ISPs). Atleast 4 governments will be spying on you.
Or maybe, they don't care what british tabloids say and worry more about bad press in their own country. Setting aside the morality of crushing someone into silence becuase you have more money than them. It makes perfectly good sense to go after local media. And, this happens in the states all the time. Money is power, it has been since medieval times where Kings could order money delivered to them and have detractors killed. In such a strongly Capitalist country such as the states I find it reprehensable that you would lash out at China. Perhaps you feel the squeeze and realize that China will pass everyone and become the world power. Then lets see what happens. I can guarantee, the US will change any laws necessary to keep up with China, after being top dog for so long it makes sense that you don't want to lose your position. China has no pollution controls giving it an advantage, US has some, those will disapear as China gets closer to taking the spot. Bash China if you want, lets see what is happening in 10 years.
From personal experience, patent laws favour the rich. The little guy can't uphold their patents becuase the lawsuit costs on average $600,000. So unless you have a sure thing with huge financial backing (if this happens you are probably dead or asleep). The little guy is screwed where the big guy "buys" the patent for 600k >.>p good job patent system.
Most universities allow contact through e-mail, chat or forum/BBS. So you can easily as questions if you miss something. Also, wheres the rewind button in a real class. How about when you are studying and need a refresh? This is a very viable alternative to first and second year courses. Most questions are asked during tutorial anyways. In high grades however class sizes drop alot and being in person is more effective even if isn't as cost effective.
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He also offsets the flights he takes by paying for tree planting for every flight. But then again why be informed when you can bitch about people whilst totally ignorant of the facts.
George bush?
Its not about taking or not. Its about size. A company worth billions suing 100,000s of people isn't cool. A mother getting charged 200k+$ to give to some rich guy with a porsche. On the other hand big companies turning around and breaking the rules, a company with deeper pockets. Being deceitful, dodging the guy then forging evidence. Them getting charge 20k$ is a victory even if a minor one. /. is NOT particularly anti-IP. But we are pro-reasonable and anti-'non contributing corporations who leach off other peoples hardwork'. The reason most people have a problem with copyright laws is very much in line with supporting this guy.
Feel free to mod up parent insightful though, he made me honestly think about my reasoning on the two issues.
I can't buy coca cola in toooons of places including my school. Pepsi paid all the retailers to stock only pepsi not coke. Very much the same but pepsi hasn't got taken down over it yet so i figure neither will MS.
New to the latest round of OS wars? The fight is mainly about making nothing work with anything else, think diverging. Lets go with file formats.... mac has 'real' media garbage and their slew of drmed crap. Microsoft is forcing its own 'standards' onto the market to the detriment of everyone else... hey it was MS that hated/hates png files. My ipod gets updates that break the thing on purpose forcing people to reverse engineer all over again or me to use itunes (similar to if windows crashed for me using FF instead of IE, i'm sure theres something illegal there).. Oh yeah and MS is doing just that! vista sp1 breaks programs left and right even when they are actually compatible. Theres zune... hell all DRM is is to break compatibility with something that would normally work fine. Sad that you need to expend so much effort just to make products NOT work. My phone with windows mobile on it will only sync properly with windows, hell if i updated the thing itd probably break xp and only sync with vista. I'd say linux and more standards is the answer but since hardware companies try so hard to not sell their products they don't release any docs so OSS can't use them (graphics cards anyone?).
Whew that was refreshing. On a related note does anyone know of any standardization initiatives I can get involved in? The 8 different power cords by my ankles which could ALL be mini-USB is getting to me.
"You have to meet certain minimum requirements to serve on any jury: age, citizenship, residency, language skills, mental competency and so on."
Yeah, basically the requirements you mentioned are a warm adult body. Another requirement however is that you have to be NOT legally competent. I'm exempt from jury duty because my father is a lawyer. Because i might be better equipped to pass judgment or at least explain things to other jury members i am not allowed to do so. As well people with big careers will dodge jury duty. And people generally busier will dodge jury duty (University students, professionals so on...) plus these people are more likely to come up with an excuse to get out of it. What this means is you are left with the bottom of the barrel in a country where the average voted in GW Bush twice. Thats kind of a scary thought. (the last note reserved for the states however i wouldn't trust the bottom of the barrel of any country making important decisions like that).
No, Its more like saying it canny be done capn i'll need at least 3months at dock to repair the damage to the front ... *insert mumbo jumbo*. Then doing it in 3hours while piss drunk.
'stuff that matters' ???
WTH kind of nerd are you? I'm disappointed to hear people on slashdot of all places dismissing injecting electronics. I get enough of that at home. Its always 'omg why are you bleeding this' or 'why would you want to install linux in your arm anyways' or 'how do you change the batteries on that'. God damn naysayers.
Offtopic but the current canadian government used to be called "Conservative Reform Alliance Party".
Disclaimer: This post became more negative and runon than originally intended
... Spacecraft are shockingly fragile, hell i could probably take out a sattelite with a regular hammer, one that i can't swing at 12km/s. Blowing up things in space is stupid and could leave the whole of mankind earth locked. Without the option of expanding upwards people tend to look to expanding left and right so we end up trapping ourself on a rock then blowing ourself up. Yay....
...They are shooting it to prove they can shoot it. If they just wanted it gone they could tell the thrusters to crash it into the middle of the ocean. Aside from that, having a self destruct in it is crazy. Explosion = millions of bits of metal. These bits of metal are traveling at speeds measured in Km/s
My Cogeco connection slides from 10Mb to 2.5Mb between the hours of 1pm and 5pm on weekdays. Only sad because when i first got the connection the slide was about 6Mb~5.5Mb. Something i can definitely live with. If ISPs gave:
A minimum, a maximum and an average speed.
Statement of how they are prioritize ie. (VOIP->html->torrents) and how they do it. As well no amount of prioritization shall drop you below said minimum.
Zero, i mean ZERO throttling based on destination.
They should also show their uptime (99.5% or w/e).
It would also be nice if they had you pick settings when you sign up. If you are unlikely to send more than 10 emails a day, a cap should be enforced based on that. (This would be to kill spam/botnets). Or if you don't intend to ever torrent they could block that from you and maybe bump up your minimum speed in exchange. But what am i thinking, easy flexible systems can't happen in this business environment.
We have access to WMDs ... but we basically just have to call the US up and tell them what to shoot at so i dunno how well thatd work. Maybe if we said california they'd shoot anyways.
This is a pretty DAMN stupid fallacy.
/. readers. Your post obviously made no difference. Suck it up emokid.
If 1 vote was worth 0. Then 100million votes would be worth nothing. Which is obviously untrue since 100million votes is more than the federal election even receives. Shockingly 1 vote averages out to be worth around 1... You know there are near 7billion people on earth, mannn you really don't make much of a difference, nobody does. Infact since no humans make any difference at all nothing would change if we all died. If you are feeling insignificant why post? There are like 1million
Thats the only chance you get to use 99% of math. In made up scenarios where you fill all the blanks. Hell my math prof could only think of 1 actual use for sequences and it was a calculus aproximation method you don't actually use anyways. The mathies need to get it out somehow :( .... Also have you seen CSI before .... 'hey this smudge is yellow' ... 'i know who did it that yellow smudge could only mean one thing...'
By stupid you mean awesome. The flight tech coming out in that period was amazing and basically no advances have been made since then. Waste of time/money/resource? Maybe so BUT undeniably cool toys
Nonono. The idea is to pit them against one another in a huge legal battle royale. If the studio wins they set legal precedent for shorter copyright terms and screw themselves. If they loose its not as dramatic but they have to dish out tons of cash for laws they built. The bigger the fight, the more blood the better it will turn out for everyone else.
That one has been solved since 30,000BC. That a big pointy rock and drop it on the piece of plastic. Remember CD drives that didn't let you rip CDs?
Alot of socialists like ron paul too. Love is simply not rational.
Honestly i am curious how effective a sniper rifle would be on a plane.
Data of this type is normally sent twice a year (trend data). In a 6month period google is visited by billions of people and deals with over 18BILLION searches. Google is more likely to harm your employment by finding someones facebook than selling a company around 10TB of data to sift through every 6months.
Employers should not be allowed to hire PIs or specialistst to learn about you. It would likely take that since google doesnt have your name they have your IP which they wont give out. A PI would be needed to get your IP. If they were willing to go so far they could just hire a PI to follow you around or put cameras in your house.
Banks have too much oversight to be able to do it and they likely don't care.
If you were really concerned about your privacy you would falsify your IP address and use the internet through it at all times, never use your real anything setting up a completely fake identity.
Anytime you access the internet normally you send your IP with that a PI can get your home address, name, phone number, anything on public record, w/e google can find, credit record and more i'm sure. Also all data you send is sent to about 12 companies before it gets anywhere (ISPs). Atleast 4 governments will be spying on you.
Or maybe, they don't care what british tabloids say and worry more about bad press in their own country. Setting aside the morality of crushing someone into silence becuase you have more money than them. It makes perfectly good sense to go after local media. And, this happens in the states all the time. Money is power, it has been since medieval times where Kings could order money delivered to them and have detractors killed. In such a strongly Capitalist country such as the states I find it reprehensable that you would lash out at China. Perhaps you feel the squeeze and realize that China will pass everyone and become the world power. Then lets see what happens. I can guarantee, the US will change any laws necessary to keep up with China, after being top dog for so long it makes sense that you don't want to lose your position. China has no pollution controls giving it an advantage, US has some, those will disapear as China gets closer to taking the spot. Bash China if you want, lets see what is happening in 10 years.
something like this: http://ed-thelen.org/ifc_comp.jpg
PARTY!
From personal experience, patent laws favour the rich. The little guy can't uphold their patents becuase the lawsuit costs on average $600,000. So unless you have a sure thing with huge financial backing (if this happens you are probably dead or asleep). The little guy is screwed where the big guy "buys" the patent for 600k >.>p good job patent system.
Most universities allow contact through e-mail, chat or forum/BBS. So you can easily as questions if you miss something. Also, wheres the rewind button in a real class. How about when you are studying and need a refresh? This is a very viable alternative to first and second year courses. Most questions are asked during tutorial anyways. In high grades however class sizes drop alot and being in person is more effective even if isn't as cost effective.