The closest it comes to describing what happened is: Israel had tracked the activists on social media sites, compiled a blacklist of more than 300 names and asked airlines to keep those on the list off flights to Israel. and "These people announced on their Internet sites that they planned to come here and cause
disruptions, and told their friends."
Sounds like they bragged in public, using their own names. And nothing more.
Sure. I get the need to own music. I've personally never felt a sense of ownership for my mp3 collection in anything close to the way I felt ownership of my CD's.
My point related to downloading music. Digital 'won' over physical because of convenience; and streaming (with offline caching) is far more convenient than downloading. It's just 'there' with zero wait.
Also, Spotify premium streams at 320kbps. AFAIK FM is 96kbps?
The tone of the article suggests that the FCC's ability to maintain Net Neutrality is on life support. It appears as though Google have seen the writing on the wall and are trying to "stake ground" under what they probably see as a new business landscape.
""It's too slow. If you need a stylus you have already failed."
He notes that Microsoft's version of the Tablet PC had the battery life, weight, and expense of a PC. "But the minute you throw a stylus out, and you have the precision of a finger, you can't use a PC OS. You have to create it from scratch.""
You're assuming that the site's pages aren't served via a third party 'dumb' caching server, with the actual Drupal server locked down and disconnected from the internet.
Change your profile pic to a text image reading 'DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT!' Then set your privacy settings to be as accommodating to advertisers as possible:)
Those fingerprints are verified against what? They can take blood, semen and iris scans for all it matters. There is no way to verify who those biometrics really belong to.
I can walk into a Home Affairs office, slip someone a wad of cash and get an ID book under the name Wile E Coyote. Once that's through the system, I then go back and get a passport with my biometrics tied to that dodgy name.
Granted, you can't do it twice (they'll have your data from the first passport), but if you're fresh from Al Queada boot camp and looking to get into the USA, you're only going to do it once anyway.
The problem is not forgery. It's corrupt officials. I fail to see how making the passports 'high tech' is going to stop a bent official from issuing one with phoney details anyway.
No. Here's a story. Google releases a site that'll almost certainly show up IE8's substandard Javascript handling, the day before IE8 goes live.
Tinfoil hats... Go!
Good question...
Since we know that the virus checks 250 formula based URL's every day for 'updates,' what's to stop someone from registering one of the upcoming url's and hosting code there that'll cause the virus to uninstall or cripple itself?
Slashdot Mirror
...hopefully this will be exhibit A for how SOPA could be used to violate the first amendment.
Oh. Really? ;)
My point wasn't regarding the politics. It was that Slashdot blatantly distorted the article to manufacture a sensationalist headline.
disruptions, and told their friends."
Sounds like they bragged in public, using their own names. And nothing more.
It's shit like this, Slashdot...
Sure. I get the need to own music. I've personally never felt a sense of ownership for my mp3 collection in anything close to the way I felt ownership of my CD's.
My point related to downloading music. Digital 'won' over physical because of convenience; and streaming (with offline caching) is far more convenient than downloading. It's just 'there' with zero wait.
Also, Spotify premium streams at 320kbps. AFAIK FM is 96kbps?
Premium has local storage. Works on all the major mobile and desktop OS'es.
Thought it was bigger than that! Insensitive clod is insensitive :)
Ah well... My point is still that, based on the speed at which Spotify is growing (where available), the future is streaming.
Everyone I know (in the EU) has switched to Spotify.
(This isn't a sales pitch, just a statement of fact :-P)
After those legal threats from Verizon, instead of backing down, they went straight out and registered VerizonShouldSpendMoreTimeFixingItsNetworkAndLessMoneyOnLawyers .com
Thin end of the wedge was kiddie porn. They're just thrusting (sorry!) it in further...
Read Castro's writings before you mod this comment down... Much of his ramblings sound like run of the mill Prison Planet paranoia.
The tone of the article suggests that the FCC's ability to maintain Net Neutrality is on life support. It appears as though Google have seen the writing on the wall and are trying to "stake ground" under what they probably see as a new business landscape.
FTA: "Microsoft's partners would be focusing on delivering devices with detachable keyboards and stylus input."
We already know what Steve Jobs thinks of this:
""It's too slow. If you need a stylus you have already failed."
He notes that Microsoft's version of the Tablet PC had the battery life, weight, and expense of a PC. "But the minute you throw a stylus out, and you have the precision of a finger, you can't use a PC OS. You have to create it from scratch.""
If you haven't already seen it.
You're assuming that the site's pages aren't served via a third party 'dumb' caching server, with the actual Drupal server locked down and disconnected from the internet.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: "This is all much too little, much too late."
Between the lines:
much too little : Expect more from the next government.
much too late : Expect it soon.
Change your profile pic to a text image reading 'DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT!' Then set your privacy settings to be as accommodating to advertisers as possible :)
I can't wait until they start adding this feature to all those CCTV's...
Those fingerprints are verified against what? They can take blood, semen and iris scans for all it matters. There is no way to verify who those biometrics really belong to.
I can walk into a Home Affairs office, slip someone a wad of cash and get an ID book under the name Wile E Coyote. Once that's through the system, I then go back and get a passport with my biometrics tied to that dodgy name.
Granted, you can't do it twice (they'll have your data from the first passport), but if you're fresh from Al Queada boot camp and looking to get into the USA, you're only going to do it once anyway.
The UK has just revoked South Africa's short term 'no visa' entry rights because of the sheer number of dodgy passports being issued by the DHA.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=13&set_id=1&art_id=nw20090224132638974C233056
The problem is not forgery. It's corrupt officials. I fail to see how making the passports 'high tech' is going to stop a bent official from issuing one with phoney details anyway.
This is just (expensive) security theatre.
No. Here's a story. Google releases a site that'll almost certainly show up IE8's substandard Javascript handling, the day before IE8 goes live.
Tinfoil hats... Go!
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.playingwithwire.com%2F2009%2F03%2Fopen-source-and-usability-joomla-vs-wordpress%2F
Google cached version.
RTFA.
"The CRS, as a branch of Congress, is exempt from the Freedom of Information Act."
Good question... Since we know that the virus checks 250 formula based URL's every day for 'updates,' what's to stop someone from registering one of the upcoming url's and hosting code there that'll cause the virus to uninstall or cripple itself?
You don't have to use Microsoft products, just switch to ###########