A lot of libertarians should study these things, it goes to show that mankind needs lots of laws because without laws and enforcement of those laws, shit happens.
And don't forget a nice well-padded bureaucracy to administer all these laws!
Yeah, I'm with neuf/SFR and noticed that they enable the public hotspot by default. I'm a bit concerned as to how securely the public wifi is segregated from the local network, but otherwise it's a pretty good idea and it means in big cities there's free wifi everywhere
Anything by Beyerdynamic is good IMO. Personally I use some DT-231s which are now about 10 years old and still sounding good.
Windows isn't a monopoly, simple as that.
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Before we had the internet, ceefax (or teletext on other channels) was my main source of news. It was a great service, and one I'm slightly nostalgic about...
So, guys... how's that whole "Let the market decide" argument working out for you?
Ok I realise I'm replying to a troll, but here goes:
It's working out great, thanks. 4G is a new technology which has (at the moment) a very limited customer base. So, of course it's going to be expensive. When 3G first came out in the UK, there was a single network operator, 3. They didn't have great network coverage and prices were high. With time, new entrants came to the market and prices fell while service quality increased. The UK now has an excellent choice of cheap call and data plans.
The same will happen with 4G - of course it's going to be expensive to start with. Those new base stations are not free.
... when it gets its hands on something everybody needs, it's gonna take you to the cleaners. Every single time.
Everyone needs food. I don't see anyone (short of the real loony left) calling for state-owned farms and food distribution.
A woman in south-west France, who received a telephone bill of nearly 12 quadrillion euros, has had the real amount she owed waived — after the company admitted its mistake. Solenne San Jose, from Pessac outside Bordeaux, said she received a huge shock when she opened the bill for 11,721,000,000,000,000 euros (£9.4qn). This is nearly 6,000 times France's annual economic output.
If only she paid the bill Europe could have been out of recession and France the world's strongest economic power!
It's the most depressing article ever on Slashdot. It makes it sound like Slashdot is dying.
Let's not jump to conclusions - after all, Netcraft hasn't confirmed anything yet...
The source of this junk law is the European Union. It just so happens that the UK has implemented this directive. Others will follow suit if they haven't already!
"On 15 March 2006 the European Union adopted the Data Retention Directive, on "the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC".[1][2] The Directive requires Member States to ensure that communications providers retain, for a period of between 6 months and 2 years, necessary data as specified in the Directive"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retention#European_Union
I don't think it was the loudness of the ride that killed the Concorde...but rather the cost of the tickets (and the rising cost of fuel).
Nope. Concorde under British Airways at least was profitable, and would still have been at today's fuel prices. It was killed for entirely political reasons.
Gnome3 has killed the Linux Desktop. Thanks.
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein
