Comment Re:sucks (Score 1) 218
If they are really that murderous, the right thing to do is to stop bankrolling their weaponry. Which is what the West is doing by imposing sanctions.
Comment Re:Trust no one (Score 1) 325
I can't quite shake the notion that a "web of trust" is inherently fragile.
That as they scale upward and are increasingly interwoven there will be a breach, a tear - that will unravel very quickly.
I think otherwise. Web of trust has a great self-healing potential. A breach? Yup, this can happen, but the web of trust can deal with that. A friend that abuses your trust, loses the trust.
Think cannabis distribution - the whole war on drugs machine is against it. There are raids, agents posing as dealers and whatnot. And yet, it's basically easy to get dope, as long as you have some friends
We're Just Not That Into You, iPhone Apps 205
maximus1 writes "A new report compiled by iPhone analytics firm Pinch Media finds the majority of people stop using apps the day after they download them, and only 1 percent develop a long-term relationship with any given app. Instead, most tend to lose interest after a few minutes, according to this article. Paid apps fare slightly better. 30% of the people downloading a paid app return the next day compared to 20% who download a free app. No surprises that the survey found that apps that focused on games and entertainment seem to outlast other categories when it comes to long-term love."
Comment Bring it on (Score 1) 449
Of course, perhaps a patent armageddon is just about due right now.
Bring it on. My big dream is a huge fucking armageddon where everyone sues everyone else over bogus IP, because that would effectively bring the end to the current IP mess. The alternative is much worse - a chilling effect that isn't seen by the general public.
Comment It _should_ be (Score 2, Interesting) 933
The (Just) reason that child pornography is illegal is to stop the harming of children through its production.
Yeah, partly because of that. Cartoon CP shows the other reason. It is illegal because it is immoral. Morality isn't rational and it is easy for the lawmakers to cater to emotions of voters.
Think of the (nonexistant) children!
Submission + - Java's Greatest Missed Opportunity?
jg21 writes: It looks like Bruce Eckel has hit the nail on the head again. No sooner did he finish stirring debate by writing about the "departure of the Java hyper-enthusiasts," previously discussed here on Slashdot, than he now rubs salt in the wound by highlighting in AJAXWorld Magazine how and why Java missed its golden opportunity to become the language undergirding Rich Internet Applications. [From the article: "We must ask why Java applets haven't become ubiquitous on the internet as the client-side standard for RIAs....This is an especially poignant question because Gosling and team justified rushing Java out the door (thus casting in stone many poorly-considered decisions) so that it could enable the internet revolution. That's why the AWT and Applets were thrown in at the last second, reportedly taking a month from conception to completion."]
Journal Journal: Microsoft getting taste of its own medicine.
Apple is claiming that Vista is corrupting iPods and advising people to wait for the new release of iTunes.
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