The depth of a joke that EnergyStar is was put in stark relief when the GAO (through a fake company set up for this very purpose) managed to get an EnergyStar label for a gasoline-powered alarm clock.
Plus please remove the gentiles of the employees of BP
While I can understand your frustration, I'm not sure how reducing BP to nothing but Jews and Israelis will help.
Really? I got a sponsored link right off the bat on "oil spill"
1. Sponsored link
BP
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so obviously, we need a strong central authority to monitor and control the economy to keep it healthy.
Caaaaaareful there. While I understand the point you are trying to make, the words "strong central control" and "economy" is basically the approach of Soviet-type Communism, which is as bad than a purely capitalistic one.
The fact is that it has been shown time and time again that the answer to the "Libertarian myth" or "Socialism myth" is not to run to the other extreme, but to sit somewhere in the middle. Reasonable regulation, yes. Central control of the economy, absolutely not. The hard part is to find the definition of "reasonable regulation" as it means something different to everyone.
Published Thursday. Filed November 14, 2008. But still probably not examined.
Good catch... Published, not applied for.
pending
adj (postpositive)
1. not yet decided, confirmed, or finished
While it is true that the patent system is completely broken, you really should cut the USPTO some slack here. The patent was only applied for on Thursday. It hasn't even been looked at yet!
Why was the Google StreetView system collecting this data to begin with?
To build a database of open wifi hotspots for Wi-Fi Geolocation to add location-based services to Android, much like how the iPhone and iPod Touch use Skyhook to do the exact same thing.
Glad I could help.
WOOSH!!!
As of yet, the internet hasn't failed. How about we wait until it does before we start getting all paranoid
Point well taken, even if it conflicts with the rest of your post. You say that you want to wait here.. but then propose a bunch of changes, most of which would require new laws. You can't have it both ways.
Who says it has to be one centralized one?
You did: Have A regulated (even non-profit) independent company (can't be owned by an ISP) run and maintain the network. I can understand if that is not what you meant, but it is what you implied.
Look at the SEC and what good their regulation did. They totally ignored Bernie Madoff (under Bush) and Enron (under Clinton), giving regular folks a false sense of security in the market. If there was no SEC, people wouldn't have a default assumption that the market isn't rigged and they would invest more carefully.
I really don't like comments like this as they are completely unproductive. Why, Fred over there got robbed for all the good the laws and cops did! Guess we shouldn't have any laws or cops at all, giving the folks a false sense of security that they can leave their homes without being armed to the teeth.
*sigh* The idea is not to abolish something when it fails, the idea is to see where something failed and improve upon it.
The answer isn't to regulate the internet, it's to get rid of the whole monopoly provider system. Have a regulated (even non-profit) independent company (can't be owned by an ISP) run and maintain the network, deriving its revenue from the ISPs wishing to use it.
This fails in a number of ways. First of all, you are just replacing a bunch of local monopolies with one big centralized one. With your suggestion of just regulating THEM, you end up really regulating the Internet. Welcome back to square one. Worse yet, your "centralized non-profit" would likely be a Government Sponsored Enterprise. As you say about the Health Department, GSEs don't have a great track record of providing great service, because they have little motivation to do so.
Lastly, the end-point "provider" companies in your scheme would struggle to find some way to differentiate their product from others. Price can only go so far, so then you'll get into network segmentation, walled gardens, "premium content", etc.... Net Neutrality effectively done for.
So, with your scheme you get the worst of both worlds -- you get a huge centralized (and probably government run) monopoly AND no net neutrality to boot.
It'll languish for a few years
More like hours. Right after they were bought, the software was EOL'ed. The "Pro" version was pulled immediately and users were given a week to download the Free version.
Whatever Google plans to do with it, they don't want it available in its current form. This leads me to believe they want to kill it on Windows to use on ChromeOS.
No.. you aren't imagining things. It WAS on Slashdot for about 10 minutes on Monday, specifically talking about the fact that immediately after Google bought them, the software was no longer available for sale and you could only download the free version until... well.. today.
Then it suddenly disappeared, only to reappear just before the BumpTop download cutoff.
There are several ways to make online banking completely secure.
Sorry, but you just lost all credibility right here. Anyone who claims that anything can be "completely secure" is either a) trying to sell something or b) clueless. You can say something is "more secure" or that something provides better security, but nothing, ever, will be "completely secure".
How this trick works is I have someone - camera at the ready pointing at your laptop, filming... and then I email you a NSFW image. When your email client previews the image, ZOMG you are looking at porn. Guilty!
After seeing the video, I have to admit I was wondering why there was a camera zoomed in SOOOoooo close onto a senator's laptop computer.
I mean, it's not like this was a senator caught playing solitaire in a wider shot. Also, there was supposedly something more interesting going on, like a speech about an abortion bill. Why would a cameraman think to himself, "I know! Let's ignore the speech and zoom in on $randomSenator's laptop screen! That's interesting!" unless he knew something interesting was about to happen....
This guy is not paying attention, yet will be voting on bills that will affect our entire country.
Speaking of people not paying attention.....I realize that you might not have read the article, but you could have at least read the TITLE, which said he's a state senator -- meaning that he votes don't affect the entire country -- just Florida.
How many hardware guys does it take to change a light bulb? "Well the diagnostics say it's fine buddy, so it's a software problem."
