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Comment Who is riding whom? (Score 1) 58

The consensus of opinion seems to be that the sharks in Hollywood etc are riding the lawmakers and the lawmakers are riding the feds.
But suppose it is the secret police who are riding the copyright laws.

It certainly seems an odd business practice that has gone on for far too long to be a case of sheer corporate stupidity.
Lala land has been a traditionally innovative force. And filled with people whose first idea is to make money.
Is it truly festooned with idiots and lawyers these days, so inept they are alienating a group of people that were once called fans?

 

Comment Re:Thank goodness! (Score 0) 178

I know very little about UN, other than it was supposed to be where all governments go to agree on how to be civil to each other.

It's quite easy to understand. It is based on a tenet implemented by the last legally elected Prime Minister of Britain before World War 2. It was called appeasement then. Today it is called world peace.

It's about how to let other countries and such type states commit genocide without having to step in and do anything about it. (Unless they have oil. In that case it is all about having a Veto (and allies with vetos.))

Comment Re:Absolutely amazed by this decision (Score 0) 385

Yup. The only people I know equating libertarians and corporate personhood are people who knee-jerk hate libertarians.

I don't know any who support corporate personhood, and many who either imply or explicitly state that, since corporations are a status created by the state they are liable to the state for all their actions.

After some accidents due to shoddy management a few years ago, Britain decided to hold corporations responsible at law as though persons. So in theory a company could be sent to gaol.
Since then of course no managers or directors have been sent to gaol for incompetence and negligence, not even bankers.

The managers of Barclays for example or RBS, won't even get a wrist slapping through the legal system.

> It should be noted that this was not the result of political (i.e., congressional, etc.) action
> but a Supreme Court decision in the mid-late 1800s (1870-something?)

Was the US law determined for such cases in the past, because of slavery and the KKK for example?

 

Comment Re:His work? (Score 0) 612

He has helped a lot of morons to realise, finally, that there is no difference between the USA and the USSR, that there never was a difference between the USA and the USSR and that there never will be a difference between the USA and the USSR.

Apart from that there isn't much difference between this case and all the other cases brought against whistle-blowers everywhere, including the Brit that got pulled out of Australia for writing a book about the Brits.

And it goes all the way back to the McCarthy witch hunts and further: United Fruit and the CIA and it touches on the exploits of Admiral Vanderbilt in central America. In fact you could blame the whole Colombian drugs cartel business on the way Central America was carved up by the USA.

All good clean fun for the family's enematainment.

 

Comment Re:This is a great patent... (Score 0) 298

I'd approach this: use their data of when commercials appear as hints for me to pause (literally or just marker id's in a file) and resume recording.

of course all your branded dvr's that do work digitally can be mucked with, but anything we have on (myth) can benefit from 'a commercial or must-watch thing comes..... NOW' markers.

Why not just subscribe to The Pirate Bay?

Comment As if it was confined to our browsing (Score 0) 88

I went for a job yesterday.

I needed a birth certificate, proof of my national insurance number and all my bank details.

I had to sign a waiver about my bank account and agreed to have some of my wages docked for this and that reason.

Then the interview began.

After we had to sit through all the advertising bullshit for Morrisons, the company employing the agency running the scam... (I wish I could get hold of some of the presentation videos. If you remember the deer in the headlights clip of Tony Blair visiting the USA after realising he'd just got rogered into a phoney war, it was like that) they wanted to know just how desperate we were and how reliable we'd be.

I wonder just how many of these sorts of scams people like the large supermarkets pull. Their in house "agency" only running the personnel office of that one branch not the whole chain.

And only offering a few days here and there as needed and no sick pay if you fail to meet their stringent quarantine laws. It's back to the Victorian era in time for the Jubilee.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/04/jubilee-pageant-unemployed?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038

What a pity it is illegal to enquire back. Anyone here know anyone from Anonymous, know what I mean, wink, nudge?

Comment Re:OP here.. (Score 0) 497

Openly bashing NVIDIA for doing things their way is wrong, because it's their product, and, therefore, their decision.

You are right they shouldn't ever be told that they are making a mistake.

How long have you been employed by AMD?

I'd really love to see NVIDIA open their specs, but if they don't want to, they're not going to because they don't need to.

Absolutely

And I completely agree with this from a business perspective. It's easy to rant or cheer from the sidelines when you don't have a culture to run.

Ah, hang on. I can remember when the railways were de-nationalised in this country. The morons who got the control suddenly decided that people who used bicycles were going to have to pay for their tickets and their bike's space on the train.

So the people who had bikes had a choice, use the bike or use the car.

NVIDIA produces some of the best GPU architectures on the market, arguably the best in their industry, and I can understand that they would like to do everything they can to not lose their trade secrets.

And that means their architecture will be the best?

How does that work when the people who need to know can't couple their expertise with their expertise?

Comment Re:Striking back at innocent bots (Score 0) 320

wouldn't striking back just be hurting some innocent grandma who visited the wrong website?

I imagine that most of the time they'll run straight into organised crime or a national government.

1. Grandma's zombie is dead so it isn't an offence to kill it. If she isn't stopped, she will remain a liability till death does her part.

2. Being afraid of governments makes fearsome governments. Being afraid of criminals makes powerful criminals.

Comment Re:Not true that fighting back doesn't work. (Score 0) 320

a more likely scenario, you leave your pencil on the table, another picks it up and tries to stab me;

If anyone reading this is considering such an attack, fetch a better weapon.

A broken pencil can do as much damage to the attacker as the victim. And the victim will be seriously annoyed. And your pen will no longer be mightier than a sword as it is now defunct.

If you are in a situation where a pencil or a biro is all you have, you need to get it behind the person you are defending yourself from and in a position you can pull it into soft flesh without it breaking and before he kills you.

That means his neck.

If you can get both hands on it, keep pulling until you can write the result on your shirt. If you can't, you may lose -badly.

Comment A link of a link (Score -1) 105

A friend of mine said that

Is this to do with the Great Game or just the stuff the rest of us don't play in real life?

Because the IBM advert in here:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_omap4460&num=1 just wouldn't go away.

And the results table wasn't designed to work properly on Ubuntu. Not on my Ubuntu at least.

Or maybe it doesn't like Opera. (Whose DDoSsing them by the way?

Not the Persians shirley?)

So what I was thinking is... that with a super-fast Ubuntu desktop, can Tetris work?

Or Pacman?

Anyway, now that you have scared everyone off Intel Chips and Microsoft Operating systems....

Besides nuclear bunkers, what's next to build?

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