Comment Re:nuisance fee (Score 1) 376
I'd rather pay this "fee" with a bullet in the head of the lawyer making the charging and send him back to their office ... Just the head.
Comment Re:"Hard redirect" (Score 3, Insightful) 376
And the correct way to handle this is to put Rightscorp staff in jail . And if that is not possible, then kill them at first sight with extreme prejudice.
Rightscorp's New Plan: Hijack Browsers Until Infingers Pay Up 376
A few weeks ago, Rightscorp announced plans to have ISPs disconnect repeat copyright infringers. mpicpp (3454017) wrote in with news that Rightscorp announced during their latest earnings call further plans to require ISPs to block all web access (using a proxy system similar to hotel / college campus wifi logins) until users admit guilt and pay a settlement fine (replacing the current system of ISPs merely forwarding notices to users). Quoting TorrentFreak: [Rightscorp] says 75,000 cases have been settled so far with copyright holders picking up $10 from each. ... What is clear is that Rightscorp is determined to go after "Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Cable Vision and one more" in order to "get all of them compliant" (i.e forwarding settlement demands). The company predicts that more details on the strategy will develop in the fall, but comments from COO & CTO Robert Steele hint on how that might be achieved. ...
"[What] we really want to do is move away from termination and move to what's called a hard redirect, like, when you go into a hotel and you have to put your room number in order to get past the browser and get on to browsing the web."
The idea that mere allegations from an anti-piracy company could bring a complete halt to an entire household or business Internet connection until a fine is paid is less like a "piracy speeding ticket" and more like a "piracy wheel clamp", one that costs $20 to have removed.
Comment Re:You have to understand (Score 1) 359
...they do not believe the explanation people give them, because they lack the obedience training...
Inability to accept a rational explanation is not inability to obey, is inability to reason.
Inability to accept a rational explanation is not inability to obey, is inability to reason.
Comment Re: Motive? (Score 1) 359
"Warlords" on Liberia are so, so stupid they may have had exactly this idea.
Comment Re:Stupidity (Score 1) 359
Welcome to the new world where - for good and for evil - a computer is now simple enough to be used by any ignorant.
Comment Re:Stupidity (Score 2) 359
You are more ignorant than you think. Usually these groups survive because diseases and stupid behaviors are usually not strong enough to kill all the members of the group. Think about, our furry ancestors were even more stupid, and yet some of then survived to continue the species.
Comment Re:Why the ridicule? (Score 1) 131
I understand the point of Facebook when I remember that most people are too stupid to understand any satire. That said, the problem with the idea is who will score the news as satires and with what objectives.
Comment Re:It isn't only Windows 8 (Score 1) 304
Maybe because do it in the kernel is much faster than doing it in user space, and being a function where performance is critical? Do not take hasty conclusions without knowing why the original decision was made.
Comment Re:It isn't only Windows 8 (Score 1) 304
Welcome to the new world where using a computer became so easy that any ignorant can use. But do not worry, someday - maybe - he will learn that problems can happen however much you try to avoid them.
Comment Re:Niggers. (Score 2, Interesting) 359
Yor idea is sound, but will be downmodded because people in the civilized world do not understand that civilized world solutions do not usually work in a country that culturally is still in the Stone Age.
Comment How will the future... (Score 3, Funny) 304
In the view of CEOs and super-richs:
The world will be populated by a hundred (or slightly less) of super-rich people, surrounded by thousands and thousands of robots. Around them you will see billions of bones of those who failed to buy private robotic armies to protect them.
But this will be temporary, because shortly after that hundred will turn against each other, after all greed has no limits . They will kill each other as greed commands, and when the last survivor die of old age will be left only the robots.
The world will be populated by a hundred (or slightly less) of super-rich people, surrounded by thousands and thousands of robots. Around them you will see billions of bones of those who failed to buy private robotic armies to protect them.
But this will be temporary, because shortly after that hundred will turn against each other, after all greed has no limits . They will kill each other as greed commands, and when the last survivor die of old age will be left only the robots.
Comment Re:Why is this better than simulation? (Score 1) 56
In a simulation you can only test know situations. A practical test shows the situations you missed.
Correcting Killer Architecture 98
minstrelmike writes In Leeds, England, architects are adding a plethora of baffles and other structures to prevent the channeling of winds from a skyscraper that have pushed baby carriages into the street and caused one pedestrian death by blowing over a truck. Other architectural mistakes listed in the article include death ray buildings that can melt car bumpers and landscape ponds that blind tenants.
A Thousand Kilobots Self-Assemble Into Complex Shapes 56
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at Harvard's Self-Organizing Systems Research Group—describe their thousand-robot swarm in a paper published today in Science (they actually built 1024 robots). In the past, researchers have only been able to program at most a couple hundred robots to work together. Now, these researchers have programmed the biggest robot swarm yet. Alone, the simple little robot can't do much, but working with 1,000 or more like-minded fellow bots, it becomes part of a swarm that can self-assemble into any two-dimensional shape. These are some of the first steps toward creating huge herds of tiny robots that form larger structures—including bigger robots."
