Re: Who the hell cares what a nameless, faceless idiot has to say?
Apparently some people do, and will expend considerable effort to seek them out.
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Racist remarks are not opinion, they're an offence. You shouldn't be allowed to get away with it online any more than your should in public.
That's the whole point. The internet is not "in public". You have to decide what to read, and you can turn it off. It is of course possible that the complainants were forced to use Twitter and follow specific people, in which case they should sue whomever is forcing them. In any case, this all has nothing to do with racism or Twitter, and everything to do with self-righteousness.
I was just thinking the same thing. My reasoning would be that the Chinese government would see westerners as not being of any particular consequence to their country's politics. This could actually be an advantage for us. I'm certainly going to watch that aspect when they launch.
I'm all for tech, but not even the bank I worked for required that sort of "security." Whatever the issues in this case, I'm not sure we should be accustomising children to this sort of thing.
I teaches the children to be submissive to authority. Some people think this is a good thing. I think it causes psychological harm. Respect and submission are not the same thing. Respect is earned - submission is enforced.
Fatman: There is another side to this - bullies stealing lunch money. At many schools this has been an ongoing problem; and by eliminating the need to carry coin, you thwart the bully.
This doesn't solve the bully problem - they are simply accommodating it. There will still be bullies, they just won't get other people's lunch money.
I was under the impression that "suddenly" only occurs when you're just walking along minding your own business and not paying attention. In this case however, we're talking science, so it will have a more strict definition - could we perhaps talk of multiple suddenlies, or even 1/2 suddenly?
Point is, the regime there needs to start being nice of its own accord.
As I suggested, that's an obvious situation. I just don't think that monopolist American companies are going to make any political inroads there at this point in time. Perhaps you think differently about that. Do you really think that Google hopes to effect North Korean politics? I think this has more to do with US politics since Bill Richardson appears well positioned to deal with relations here. I have no idea what his real agenda is, but suspect that it is the more significant part of this story.
Obviously some things aren't going to change and the situation as it stands is obvious. So what? If North Korea wants to move ahead with more internet adoption, regardless of under what terms, then talking with Schmidt is sensible. However, I doubt that Google expects to get a lot out of this just yet. It is nevertheless a good idea for any business to communicate with as wide a user base as possible.
To think that windows is the only vulnerable system is naive, in this Univeral Plug and Play world!
You might well be totally correct. I'm always into learning. Since I have a box here where it wouldn't matter, would you be so kind as to post a link that I could click on with a NIX system and get a virus? That would really help me learn about this situation and I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.
My feeling is that Canonical is, as the article says, desperately trying to find sources of revenue for Ubuntu.
The funny thing is that if they were to provide what lots of us want, they could probably make money by just charging for it. That's worked for other businesses in the past.
So seaworthiness really is't a prime consideration.
Obviously not here, but seaworthiness used to be one of the prime considerations of a yacht. Also, contemporary American usage tends to convey size and power rather than more traditional nautical ideals. I don't know much about Jobs, but I suspect he did not have much of a nautical background and probably didn't really understand the aesthetic in that field. With all due respect, it is entirely possible that he was actually out of his depth here.
The reason I'm asking is that the article quotes what is presumably the worst case they could find.
In 2011, a 19-year-old man in Monroe County, NY, was indicted on sexual abuse charges after allegedly meeting and abusing a 12-year-old . . .
This was certainly not good, but I question calling a 19 year old a man in this context. People do mature at different rates, but at 19 most have a lot of growing up to do, and most actually do. In other words the article is not talking about older, set in their ways, and perhaps downright evil, people. They're talking about stuff in their imagination - and having a hard time justifying their conclusions.
IMO this shouldn't be something the government is to be involved with. If consumers feel they're paying too much for their ISP's services then what's stopping them from going to another ?
The lack of regulation is what has caused the US internet infrastructure to fall so far behind. This may not be the most important piece of legislation, but more controls are definitely needed in order to bring back competition. As for going to another ISP, how would that solve the problem? Besides, many of us don't have another ISP to go to.
I have no idea what most of the previous comments are talking about, or why they came here to talk about it. Nevertheless, regarding this part of the article:
Americans are increasingly tethered to the Internet and connecting more devices to it, but they don't really have the tools to effectively manage data consumption across their networks
That actually makes sense. Most users are not that tech savvy and are not really aware of what their data usage is or how to find out for each of their devices and add them up. I personally don't see anything wrong with service providers helping with this. I've seen people get unexpected bills, and one of my neighbours has just been throttled so they can only check e-mail because they went over some limit they have no idea of how to monitor. This is a couple who normally only browse and have no interest in bandwidth consuming media. These things shouldn't happen.
Would you trust your important work to something written by a bunch of protesters who stormed our store?
You're probably right that many think like that, but these days there are likely some people who don't necessarily think that the protesters are the coders, and who could even understand the intended message.
Nearby workplace - yesterday. Young employee (new) asks co-worker for admin password. Installs messaging software, and changes password. Promptly forgets what it is. Now neither of them have e-mail until IT support gets back from holidays in 3 days. What's wrong with this picture?
“We would not like to name the state actors but D4 — destroy, disrupt, deny and degrade — process was initiated and counter offensive launched,” the NTRO official told the Express.
And what exactly is a "counter offensive" supposed to do? Prevent 10,000 email accounts belonging to top officials from being compromised? Perhaps too clever by half.
The US continues to press their anti-counterfeiting agenda. Referring to reproduction gold coins sold on eBay as "simply a unique form of domestic terrorism." the US Secret Service (who is pressing these charges) will continue plying their agenda without ACTA. They appear to be pretty good at pressuring other governments to see things their way too.
I certainly hope that the .apple TLD does not go to a computer company. That would be extremely objectionable considering that the name normally refers to a fruit. In fact there is considerable prior art to that effect. If a computer company gets that name it would make a sham out of this whole thing . . . oh wait ...
. . . including the FBI, Homeland Security, and NSA.
Pretty rough crowd that.
"I'll give you a prediction,” he said. "Now that we are having people look at bringing one of these cases, it's there to be brought, and you'll see a case brought."
And this guy is definitely looking for a fight.
Exclusion to counter rabid protectionism. Just might catch on ...
And I hope it does. The quicker this "rabid" behaviour becomes irrelevant, the better. I don't care about Dotcom's enterprise as such, but see it as beneficial to the current situation - particularly the one in the US.
And I don't blame him. That's how you get something big going. I do think his internet and PR skills are saving him money in this regard too. I personally have little use for his service at this time, but bringing encryption to the masses is indeed an interesting idea and we might see some surprises in his upcoming user base.