The parking meters are there to prevent the same people from parking there forever, not to eliminate drivers parking there altogether. If they were just trying to reduce the number of parking spaces they could have easily made no-parking zones. Apples solution in the end provides the city with money, but less parking spaces for the roads, which causes more problems.
What's really needed is a system of legal mechanisms to encourage and protect leakers in the real world, as well as allow a system of accountability. The incidents described [msn.com] by leakers who stepped forward regarding corruption in Iraq indicates that there are simply not enough legal avenues open to help and protect whistle-blowers. Ok, you go create the "system of legal mechanisms", and we'll work on the best next thing wikileaks. When your done that, and wikileaks indeed is not needed, then I'm sure the creators won't mind closing it up.
At my school, the internet connection goes through the Board servers, and they are able to block anything they want. At first, the sites that were blocked were mainly sites requested by teachers and administrators through a form that explained why the site was not appropriate for school use. However, they started to block sites that had certain keywords in them, and this is where I think they cross the limit.
Now, almost half the news sites I go too are blocked because they have keywords such as "Pornography" in them. So news articles such as "Tactics in the Porn Industry's Fight Against Piracy" would cause the entire site to be blocked and inaccessible. And there was actually a class project I had, that involved researching "Pornography and the Internet", which due to the censorship I was only able to do from home. This is where I see using a proxy (obviously encrypted due to keywords) seems reasonable.
I don't think these kids should be punished for merely using a proxy, but it should depend on the actual sites that they visit. I can see the reasoning behind punishing kids for visiting myspace on the basis that its against school rules, but just for using a proxy is ridiculous (Although I'm not sure whats the case with these kids). However, I'd also think the maximum punishment for this should be merely restriction of computer use.
But I also must admit, that theres a certain joy in circumventing the pathetic attempts of the board in trying to censor the internet. One of the most hilarious discoveries that me and my friend discovered was when a site was blocked due to the crappy keyword checker, the sites that also had ssl enabled could work if you simply changed the address to https:). Also, the board attempted to disable to command prompt on the windows XP machines (the cmd.exe), but uh... sorta forgot command.exe:).
Best Buy sales reps do not get commission (atleast in Canada, where I've seen them advertise that fact hundreds of times). So exactly what is the motive of the sales rep to keep this secret? Its not like their making more money by cheating their customers.
Will we now have to worry about laptop use on the Interstate? Seems more likely that the people using laptops in the cars will be PASSENGERS, not DRIVERS. Its just like the T.V's they have in cars, their only used by the passengers (in fact, positioned so that drivers can't look at them anyway. At least in most cars).
So it doesn't seem like a big issue.
Apparently, the increasing scarcity of water is going to make hydrogen too costly and just as politicized as oil. How is water scarce? Maybe fresh water is scarce, but its not like thats the only type of water that can be used to create hydrogen. We can still use seawater, and there is a LOT of seawater, and we won't be low on that in a very long time.
North Korea does not plan to use its nukes. Using their nukes would be the same thing as killing themselves. If they used a nuke on us, for example, us would retaliate, and they would both blow each other up. Whats the point to that? Like I said, its just power. Knowing the other countries have the same ability to destroy as you, theres a little more equal respect.
North Korea does not plan to use its nuclear weapons for attacking, its merely just used for power. Countries like the US and other powerful nations have nuclear weapons as well, I don't see why North Korea should not get a piece of it.
I absolutely despise it when other countries police others for crimes that their guilty themselves of. Its either NO ONE has nuclear weapons, or EVERYONE has them. Choose.
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The parking meters are there to prevent the same people from parking there forever, not to eliminate drivers parking there altogether. If they were just trying to reduce the number of parking spaces they could have easily made no-parking zones. Apples solution in the end provides the city with money, but less parking spaces for the roads, which causes more problems.
Umm, why is this 5-Interesting?
Its not interesting at all, no information is provided, and it just seems pretty random and pointless.
At my school, the internet connection goes through the Board servers, and they are able to block anything they want. At first, the sites that were blocked were mainly sites requested by teachers and administrators through a form that explained why the site was not appropriate for school use. However, they started to block sites that had certain keywords in them, and this is where I think they cross the limit.
:). Also, the board attempted to disable to command prompt on the windows XP machines (the cmd.exe), but uh... sorta forgot command.exe :).
Now, almost half the news sites I go too are blocked because they have keywords such as "Pornography" in them. So news articles such as "Tactics in the Porn Industry's Fight Against Piracy" would cause the entire site to be blocked and inaccessible. And there was actually a class project I had, that involved researching "Pornography and the Internet", which due to the censorship I was only able to do from home. This is where I see using a proxy (obviously encrypted due to keywords) seems reasonable.
I don't think these kids should be punished for merely using a proxy, but it should depend on the actual sites that they visit. I can see the reasoning behind punishing kids for visiting myspace on the basis that its against school rules, but just for using a proxy is ridiculous (Although I'm not sure whats the case with these kids). However, I'd also think the maximum punishment for this should be merely restriction of computer use.
But I also must admit, that theres a certain joy in circumventing the pathetic attempts of the board in trying to censor the internet. One of the most hilarious discoveries that me and my friend discovered was when a site was blocked due to the crappy keyword checker, the sites that also had ssl enabled could work if you simply changed the address to https
So what happens if the remote control station gets hijacked?
Best Buy sales reps do not get commission (atleast in Canada, where I've seen them advertise that fact hundreds of times). So exactly what is the motive of the sales rep to keep this secret? Its not like their making more money by cheating their customers.
What about the radiation that comes from the network cables?
North Korea does not plan to use its nukes. Using their nukes would be the same thing as killing themselves. If they used a nuke on us, for example, us would retaliate, and they would both blow each other up. Whats the point to that? Like I said, its just power. Knowing the other countries have the same ability to destroy as you, theres a little more equal respect.
North Korea does not plan to use its nuclear weapons for attacking, its merely just used for power. Countries like the US and other powerful nations have nuclear weapons as well, I don't see why North Korea should not get a piece of it.
I absolutely despise it when other countries police others for crimes that their guilty themselves of. Its either NO ONE has nuclear weapons, or EVERYONE has them. Choose.
Yeah, removing a "Fundraising Scandal" website is very morally wrong.