You are trying to defend Apple by saying "Microsoft does it too"? Yeah, we all know Microsoft and Apple have a lot in common... that's part of the problem, but you are trying to say Stalin (godwin dodged!) can be forgiven because the devil is worse.
I didn't think of PDA-scanning, thanks for pointing that out.
But I DID say they don't index the images all the time. Google Images is always much behind in index updates than Google Search, therefore I would guess they send the image-gathering bots out less. I would like to experiment sometime by logging where bots go on my website... that would be interesting to see. Then I would be able to certainly point out to people percents downloading images.:)
Nationalizing it like the UK's health care, where they recently discovered that doctors were letting old people die rather than get treated because the doctors did better financially treating younger, healthier patients?
Don't even try. I have seen a whole lot of disterbing things out of the "free" health care here in the US.
Nationalizing it like South American dictators are taking over their oil industries and watching the prices skyrockets?
You mean more than companies in Saudi Arabia and such locations?
I have to go, sorry. I'd like to fully reply but food is done. I think your one sided argument and the link in your sig shows your bias, though.
The solution isn't just more bandwidth. We're not talking about more users accessing the same sites, we're talking about more users accessing more sites -- significantly more. The "long tail" of the web is exploding in access; all the blogs, vlogs, MP3 downloads and videos are across a huge incongruent group of sites.
Say what? Up and down connections are technically the same load to process in most cases. I don't know how you think that somehow use != bandwidth, unless you want to talk about IPs.
The solution is to nix net-neutrality legislation and allow the consumer and the producer to come to terms on need versus price.
Whooh, it is? As I said above I don't think you understand the "problem", how can you know the magic fix to it?
At home, I'd be more than happy for a Port80/Port110 prioritized connection, with other ports reduced in speed or performance. Sure, videos come over Port80, but the vast majority of cable users in my neighborhood are downloading torrentz and other similar protocols.
That's the most idiotic thing I ever heard. Do you realize if such was done torrents would just start using port 80/110?
but that is why the FCC needs to back off on over-regulating the opportunity for competitors to enter the market.
That may be a great idea for cars, pop and beans, but not on something that is inherently a monopoly/near monopoly. Having such comes with responsibility. No matter what your pseudo-free market ideals say, it's not a monopoly because of those responsibilities.
The Internet doesn't really have "bandwidth" limitations, because all it takes is more ISPs and more backbones to come into being. If the pro-Net Neutrality parties have their way, though, we may see significant restrictions in investment on both those fronts.
Where did you get that one, other than a dark spot?
Sidenote: That damned GoogleBot sometimes hits my sites 5000 times a day -- maybe Google is doing a little more to aggravate the problem than they want to admit? Thankfully I use server-side compression and caching, so things aren't hammered too bad by the bot, but there have been times when things on my end were running slow and I had 100 "Guests" all registered at Google's IPs.
Google index bots only read text, not images or video. 5000 google views are probably the same as 1 normal view. I am not sure about image bots, but I noticed that they are normally far behind the main index.
If we need any major internet change, it's nationalizing it. I don't see what's wrong with it right now other than some people crying they will not make enough money (like all companies), people stating that somehow it is making it hard for new companies to be started or people saying that there is a big dark technical problem looming over it waiting to kill us all. None of these are news.
Threatening another person, in my opinion, infringes on their rights and would not be protected under the First Amendment.... even if it's done on a myspace page.
What 'right' are they losing by being "threatened" on myspace? Uhh the right to not be threatened on myspace? Sorry, no.
Slander is something left over from a bygone era and is now being used to suppress legitimate speech. It existed in a time when saying something about someone could have a massive effect because there few comparatively few people who could reach the masses and the fact those people were normally trusted.
We live in the information age, not the medieval age. Anyone can say anything and have it reach millions. Most reasonable people don't believe everything they read on the internet. The real "slander" gets by using legalese and the little guy gets tossed in jail for saying "mayor bob is a crook!".
Any suppression of communication belongs in the dark ages where it was invented. We are better than that. Not by much, but we ARE.
Traditional law enforcement is powerless against this kinda stuff.
For good reason. In fact, it's insane for this to be legal for ANYONE. I mean, some not-so-legit group of people may go and hire some kids to get some dirt on people they don't like (or plant it, if so needed) and then submit it as proof when it shouldn't have been legal to take in the first place.
I know it's hard for the thinofthechildren masses to comprehend it, but there is a reason there are limitations to what the police can do, and they are not "those commies hate kids!"
btw, i just laugh when people claim the birthplace of communism isn't really communist. what useful idiots.
I just laugh when people claim the USSR invented "Communism". The idea has been around for a very long time, just not politically or ideologically.
Religious communism has been around in places like India since before recorded history. Probably the first real description of communism is from More's Utopia, from 1535 AD. France played a major part in the creation of communism and socialism as a political party. Karl Marx was German and probably had never been to Russia.
Here's an interesting fact taken from the movie: if the producers of a movie ask for the aid and equipment of the US armed forces, military commanders require their personal screening of the movie before it is allowed to be distributed. If they find any objectionable content which they determine sheds the military in a bad light, they'll demand the content be pulled or edited, less the movie never sees the light of day.
I have nothing against wikis. Stop making generalized statments. I DO have something against the way wikipedia is run, it's content is (mostly) fine as far as I care. It's the first place I go when I want to know something, but I quit as an editor there long ago.
For examples, I am a bit short seeing as I left months ago, but after a few google searches I was able to find some complaints/acknowledgments.
Lest we forget how one admin deleted all user templates because of a hissy fit or how it's very common for an admin to delete a page/speedy it out of process because he doesn't like it. I am sure there is a lot more because I have a high tolerance for getting pissed off at places, but the whole experience is kind of blanked out seeing as it was a while ago. I can't imagine it got much better.
I agree. Wikipedia is a good example of the failing of populism and bureaucracy. How many wikipedia users are admins? I don't know, but it seems like every other one is, and they all have an agenda. Those who have greater power than normal admins seem to never use it, or maybe are just so awfully out-numbered that they can't do anything.
Wikipedia is like the wild west, except that the good guys and bad guys both have machine guns that they like to shoot at the citizens in their free time.
The software monkeys of the FSF have no right to impose hardware restrictions on a manufacturer.
Did you miss the memo? They own the code for the core parts of Linux, except the kernel. If they want to make it so all computers that use GPL code have to have a purple llama on the case, it's fully within their legal right to do that. So far as moral right, I would say it is their duty, not right, to keep the code from being made useless.
rms's "freedom" is just another kind of chains.
The GPL* is chains, to keep companies from using the code in a way that hurts the overall community. Same with the BSD. Same with most anything not public domain. Yet I am sure YOU don't public domain your code, right? So stop with the appeals to emotion.
If TiVo's business model is so abhorrent, then someone ought to build a better TiVo-esque device and market it.
I don't see how that relates to this at all. It's STILL not their right (moral and soon legal) to use Linux as they are using it, market share or not.
Don't like it? Take your own advice and make a new OS.
On Fedora and SUSE you will never get such a message. On suse you just had to run sax2 (I can see someone not knowing how to operate a package manager from the command line, but I really don't think that 1 command will give any reasonable person a problem) and go through and fix it. On fedora it will ask you to automatically restore the defaults. I donno about Ubuntu, I never had it's X server fail, but I would guess it does something similar.
As for visually impaired, I will agree with that. There is another similar problem relating to that: tablet computers or other such devices that don't have a keyboard that is easy to get to. In this case, you could make scripts to reconfigure X and restart it on fail, but most distros don't have this (fully automated).
As a furry.. I can safely say that they have not been sold out to. ANOTHER hedgehog? A stupid FF + BTTF rip-off story? Strange GFX (something is comically wrong with a large, fur-less, talking hedgehog walking around in an otherwise realistic environment)? Sucky gameplay (I haven't played the new game, but from what I hear it sucks)?
Nah. They haven't sold out to us. If they did, they did it very, VERY poorly. If you think any game sold out to furries, that would be Starfox, but you can't blame SFA's awful gameplay on us, ether. There's also the fact you can't sell out if you already are sold out.
What it comes down to is you cannot tax illegal behaviour. Our courts would never accept it.
I don't know about there, but in the US theft, fraud, extortion money, bribes and other illicit gain IS taxed, income taxed. Yes it's strange, but it's how it is. I am willing to bet it's the same in Canada as well.
Clippy: It looks like you are ready to run for president of the United States. There are just a feel more things that you have to do before this can be done:
* Promise things you will never deliver,
* Side with devil A or devil B,
* Take over a massive company or many companies.
And no, this post is not offtopic, you insensitive clod(s)!
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It IS going inside it. It's just at a very, very slow rate, like many other things.
You are trying to defend Apple by saying "Microsoft does it too"? Yeah, we all know Microsoft and Apple have a lot in common... that's part of the problem, but you are trying to say Stalin (godwin dodged!) can be forgiven because the devil is worse.
In *SPACE* you need very little. Ion drives work fine.
I didn't think of PDA-scanning, thanks for pointing that out.
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But I DID say they don't index the images all the time. Google Images is always much behind in index updates than Google Search, therefore I would guess they send the image-gathering bots out less. I would like to experiment sometime by logging where bots go on my website... that would be interesting to see. Then I would be able to certainly point out to people percents downloading images.
I have to go, sorry. I'd like to fully reply but food is done. I think your one sided argument and the link in your sig shows your bias, though.
If we need any major internet change, it's nationalizing it. I don't see what's wrong with it right now other than some people crying they will not make enough money (like all companies), people stating that somehow it is making it hard for new companies to be started or people saying that there is a big dark technical problem looming over it waiting to kill us all. None of these are news.
Slander is something left over from a bygone era and is now being used to suppress legitimate speech. It existed in a time when saying something about someone could have a massive effect because there few comparatively few people who could reach the masses and the fact those people were normally trusted.
We live in the information age, not the medieval age. Anyone can say anything and have it reach millions. Most reasonable people don't believe everything they read on the internet. The real "slander" gets by using legalese and the little guy gets tossed in jail for saying "mayor bob is a crook!".
Any suppression of communication belongs in the dark ages where it was invented. We are better than that. Not by much, but we ARE.
I know it's hard for the thinofthechildren masses to comprehend it, but there is a reason there are limitations to what the police can do, and they are not "those commies hate kids!"
Religious communism has been around in places like India since before recorded history. Probably the first real description of communism is from More's Utopia, from 1535 AD. France played a major part in the creation of communism and socialism as a political party. Karl Marx was German and probably had never been to Russia.
I have nothing against wikis. Stop making generalized statments. I DO have something against the way wikipedia is run, it's content is (mostly) fine as far as I care. It's the first place I go when I want to know something, but I quit as an editor there long ago.
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For examples, I am a bit short seeing as I left months ago, but after a few google searches I was able to find some complaints/acknowledgments.
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/200
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Friday/Admin_ab
Lest we forget how one admin deleted all user templates because of a hissy fit or how it's very common for an admin to delete a page/speedy it out of process because he doesn't like it. I am sure there is a lot more because I have a high tolerance for getting pissed off at places, but the whole experience is kind of blanked out seeing as it was a while ago. I can't imagine it got much better.
I agree. Wikipedia is a good example of the failing of populism and bureaucracy. How many wikipedia users are admins? I don't know, but it seems like every other one is, and they all have an agenda. Those who have greater power than normal admins seem to never use it, or maybe are just so awfully out-numbered that they can't do anything.
Wikipedia is like the wild west, except that the good guys and bad guys both have machine guns that they like to shoot at the citizens in their free time.
Don't like it? Take your own advice and make a new OS.
Unless that law is in China...
I hate this line, but it fits. Buy a mac. Or BeOS.
Linux is what it is not to spite that it is open/free but BECAUSE it is open/free. If you don't like that, go somewhere else.
On Fedora and SUSE you will never get such a message. On suse you just had to run sax2 (I can see someone not knowing how to operate a package manager from the command line, but I really don't think that 1 command will give any reasonable person a problem) and go through and fix it. On fedora it will ask you to automatically restore the defaults. I donno about Ubuntu, I never had it's X server fail, but I would guess it does something similar.
As for visually impaired, I will agree with that. There is another similar problem relating to that: tablet computers or other such devices that don't have a keyboard that is easy to get to. In this case, you could make scripts to reconfigure X and restart it on fail, but most distros don't have this (fully automated).
As a furry.. I can safely say that they have not been sold out to. ANOTHER hedgehog? A stupid FF + BTTF rip-off story? Strange GFX (something is comically wrong with a large, fur-less, talking hedgehog walking around in an otherwise realistic environment)? Sucky gameplay (I haven't played the new game, but from what I hear it sucks)?
Nah. They haven't sold out to us. If they did, they did it very, VERY poorly. If you think any game sold out to furries, that would be Starfox, but you can't blame SFA's awful gameplay on us, ether. There's also the fact you can't sell out if you already are sold out.
He had the power to grab IPs from torrents send baseless cease and desists to your ISP, then again, so does everyone else.
Come on, you know you wanna. ;)
Well, I guess that means they would have to bite the bullet, or make good shows, eh?
Clippy: It looks like you are ready to run for president of the United States. There are just a feel more things that you have to do before this can be done:
* Promise things you will never deliver,
* Side with devil A or devil B,
* Take over a massive company or many companies.
And no, this post is not offtopic, you insensitive clod(s)!
You know he will not. The Anonymous Coward never forgives.