BrightSilence

Oh, you’re one of them? Hi! :)

They have a team working on this. This team apparently had time to setup and maintain DNS servers. I’m sure they have time to make it forward them to a page that explains what’s going on. What you’re saying is like telling a traffic cop to catch thiefs instead of fine you. That’s not their job… The FBI made this their job by taking over the DNS servers. They should now clean up their mess.

Since they control the DNS, that’s as easy as pointing them to a site with an explanation on how to fix it whenever they visit ANY site.

One might say they would gain… you know… money…

Besides I don’t think he meant charge everyone, but simply offer people an option to reserve tickets in advance for a fee, then open it up for free on the day of the event to fill it up. It’s not a bad idea. But really, I just want them to come do a show in Amsterdam, so there may be a chance I can actually attend.

It still boggles my mind that Google is now jumping in to help these people while the FBI, who controls the DNS servers had every chance to notify people directly, but simply refused to. I really hope they are actually part of this and not just watching from the sidelines as people lose their connection.

You accidentilly hit the capslock button there.

Read on, it actually has some of the more interesting discussion a bit further down. It’s a shame the top threads are kind of tainted with negative comments, but it gets a lot better.

And photos too. It all combines to magazine+ quality content.

The danger there being that what is logical to one person isn’t logical to someone else. All religious things don’t sound logical to me at all, but that doesn’t mean I shouldn’t respect them.

Encouraging debate in a respectful manner, that’s what it’s all about. The question is, will difference of opinion be respected? I think it should always be, but probably isn’t always the case.

There is nothing wrong with people reading this and thinking that some of the things make sense. For a lot of people they do make sense. The whole reasoning behind Pauls experiment is that the internet does distract from more important things in life. Reading about different points of view can only help you make better decisions.

I do agree that there is some limitation in freedoms within an insular society and the freedom to leave is not as simple as it sounds, since that would be a very impactful decision, I just don’t share your concern about others thinking this makes sense.

You’re not wrong, but I do think that a much stricter way of life makes the seperation between following or leaving much bigger and it’ll be much harder to deal with. I do disagree on some of your examples though, if I only look at myself, I could completely disagree with my parents on political views and they would still respect it. Anything that limits your freedom of opinion is a danger if you ask me. Raising your children in an extreme religious manner is one thing that limits this freedom. But giving them no freedom to make their own political decisions is just as bad.

You pay attention, I’ll give you that. Yes there are issues within their community. Issues of freedom can be raised. But they’re based much more around shielding them from the information and knowledge of the world than filtering porn. Maybe your example was just poorly chosen. In general though, for an extreme group of religious people they are very respectful of other people and don’t meddle with their life and choices. Even this rally wasn’t meant to ban the internet, but to discuss how to use it. I’m pretty much the furthest from being religious myself, but I have to say, I respect that. It’s possible though that I mistake them just not bothering to think about anyone outside their community with respect for other points of views, but either way, it’s a hell of a lot better than the alternative.

Nothing in this article is encouraging you to get off the internet. At most it’s encouraging you to think about the influence of the internet. But more than either of those it’s taking you into the life of people who look at the world differently.

You may not like Paul’s writing style and that is ofcourse your right, but it’s nonsense to dismiss all the possitive feedback. I for one enjoyed every one of those 5000 words and I think a lot of people with me. In fact I think the majority loves his writing and for me personally these articles are a big reason of why I chose to read the verge over the alternatives.

Maybe, but I assume there will be fairly significant pressure from your parents or even abandonment by your family. I’m not a matter expert, but being allowed to leave and having an easy time leaving are often two completely different things.

Unlike Paul, I don’t think you’re being very respectful to their views of the world. I don’t see how you can read this article and not understand that they live in a completely different world with different values. And while I agree with Paul that there is a danger in filtering out information and preventing people to know about other points of view, I can’t see any harm at all in filtering porn. They are not trying to take YOUR porn away, they simply choose to avoid it themselves. The least you can do is offer them the same respect in their decision. And in response to Gandal, I think your question is irrelevent. That’s for anyone to decide for themselves, assuming it’s above the board like d0mth0ma5 mentioned.

Oh, ignore that…

"The GPL additionally states that a distributor may not impose “further restrictions on the rights granted by the GPL”. This forbids activities such as distributing of the software under a non-disclosure agreement or contract. Distributors under the GPL also grant a license for any of their patents practiced by the software, to practice those patents in GPL software."

Sure but you simply assume patent infringement. I will agree with you if you come up with the patents it infringes on. Google using WebKit only implies possible breach of copyright, which doesn’t apply. So bring me those patents it supposedly infringes on and we’ll talk more!

Yes, you are very right on both accounts. And I would if I weren’t too lazy to add just a single button. I just made the image because I liked how this phone looks and wondered if the design would scale to large screen devices and still look nice. Seems to me like that’s at least possible. I hope they make something like this using high grade materials.

Eehm, I do, it’s just not a point at all. While Apple heavily contributed to WebKit, they don’t own it and since it’s open source they can’t sue anyone for LEGALLY using it under the appropriate licenses.

Either way, the endless suing over meaningless details should stop anyway. I say nobody should sue anybody over meaningless patents anymore. It’s a waste of resources.

Wait, are you saying they use open source software!? How dare they!

Anyway, the omnibox isn’t part of WebKit, just the HTML renderer. So however irrelevent your comment was… it’s even more irrelevant.