What is the best method of communication for them to alert you to offers like these? Their information channel... which I check regularly when I feel like it. And if I miss the occasional great offer that's entirely my problem. Getting a minimum amount of ads is to me worth more than all weekly 'bargains' combined anyway.
It could be a coincidence that four cables got cut. It could also be a coincidence that we see a clear increase in the propaganda from the "coalition" right now that the connectivity for the "enemy" is poor...
It's all well and good to protest in this fashion and I applaud you for it. The problem is your protest is a drop in the bucket. Boycotts always have been since it would take a mass boycott with everyone on the planet participating for a very long time to be effective. Even if you were able to achieve that, any loss would simply be blamed on the "big bad pirates". Not only that but everyone had to stop downloading too, only that way could we send the message "We don't want your product!" By keeping on downloading the message is the exact opposite: "We NEED your product!" And as long as people keeps acquiring their product, legally or otherwise, they have the consumer right where they want... under their heel.
Of course it's totally unrealistic but it's a nice thought...
The problem, to me anyway, is that I'm totally overloaded when it comes to ads. Everywhere, 24/7, someone is trying to sell me something. SMS ads on my cell phone, telemarketers on my landline, ads on my fax at work, ads on TV, radio, newspapers... people stopping me on the street pushing all kinds of products: phone companies, electric companies, vitamins, insurance, magazines. I'm just so fed up with ads that I protect my self in every way possible. I screen calls, answering only number I know, turn off my fax during the night, avoid ad supported TV channels and uses ad blocking software on my PC.
Ads makes me aggressive. I yell at the insurance salesman on the street, I send angry e-mails to the TV channels when they send ads with louder sound than the regular program and I return everything I get in the mail without putting a stamp on it. And I never ever click on a banner if it happens to sneak by my ad blocking measures.
I know some services are "ad supported" in order to keep the service "free". Well, good, but don't expect me to view the ads. Either charge me or kick me out but as long as a service is offered for free don't blame me for low income due to lack of banner clicking because my ad viewing circuits is already overloaded. Sorry...
Disclaimer: I'm not a US citizen. If I get something in the mail I have not asked for I can do what ever I bloody want with it. No one can send me a letter then claim some 'rights' to it? I have not accepted any license or whatever as I do when I actively acquire something like a book or a CD. Of course, if they put an EULA on the envelope saying "By opening this seal..." they give me the option to not read it and hence as a legal notice it would fail.
I guess this is one of those "Only in the USA" kind of things...
how many people who run linux do you think are stupid enough to buy vista then uninstall it? why does everyone pretend the white box market doesn't exist? I am. I bought two laptops with Vista preinstalled. Never booted it. The reason: I could not get the machine I wanted without it.
I find it both sad and amusing how the security guys here confiscate all this might-be-explosives and then just *drops* it into an ordinary garbage can. If they *really* expect this stuff to be bombs why don't they treat it as bombs? And if they don't expect it to be bombs, why the hell can't we take it on board?
So basically....don't use NSI for domain lookups. Use someone else. Maybe a company that won't try to screw you. When I'm shopping for a domain I always initially just do a simple whois lookup on the domain name I want: $ whois iwantthisname.com
When I have found a name that's not registered I go looking for best price/ service/ whatever is important. And only when I have decided where to register my domain I enter it into their search box. Finding good names is becoming increasingly hard. I sure as hell will not risk to be conned into a situation where I literary have to pay a ransom to get my domain name.
I like how a post about a woman's hair gets no moderation, but a reply about computer wires with exactly the same point gets +5.
Since this is Slashdot, all must be right with the universe. Wow! I AM a woman... with long hair, and I have modpoints. And it didn't occour to me to mod the post about hair but I wanted to mod the one about wires! (It was already at +5 though, which is good really since I'm kinda blond too and constantly mod first and post later throwing my points down the drain...)
they are always labeled a "test". what exactly were they testing?
that they can make a bloody big bang? The word 'test' in this context really means: "Look what we can do!" Nuclear deterrent in practice. The whole idea behind nuclear weapons is to discourage your enemy from attacking so you want them to see exactly what you can do to them. It's a scary tactic but it seem to have worked... so far...
As the legitimate owner of ~400 legally purchased CD's I hope you keep those CDs safely locked away in a safe or vault. If not you could find your self providing your guests (or a burglar) with the opportunity of an unlicensed listening experience.
I'd like to set up a sting to expose shitty journalists. I think modern journalism is the one area that seriously needs to be looked in to. There already is such an operation, it's called http:www.linux.com/;)
The advertisers just don't get it. We don't want the flashing, jumping, beeping stuff because it is annoying, not because it's an ad. I have never blocked a Google text ad in my life, I have even clicked on a lot of them because it looked interesting. They don't annoy me as they are just sitting quietly in the margin informing me of their presence. And that's what the advertisers need to understand: it's not the users that's defective, it's their strategy. Make the ads non intrusive, interesting and 'on topic' and people wont bother blocking them but start clicking them instead.
Making stuff people hates then blame the same people for not watching it is just stupid. Why is that so hard to understand for the advertisers?
5) Since then, Norway and the rest of EU has been forced to adopt the EUCD aka euro-DMCA
6) Nobody has really tested the current law after the EUCD, at least not here in Norway One 'problem' with the EUCD, atleast here in Norway, is Article6 tp 1 that states: 1. Member States shall provide adequate legal protection against the circumvention of any effective technological measures, which the person concerned carries out in the knowledge, or with reasonable grounds to know, that he or she is pursuing that objective.
What makes this the coolest paragraph is that as soon as a way to circumvent the protection is published it's no longer effective. Downloading a program that enables you to play something is not really "actively pursuing" to circumvent a DRM scheme.
However, even if circumventing DRM for personal use is not ruled illegal (still in Norway), normal copyright laws still applies so you can not distribute it even if the DRM is 'ineffective' of course.
visit http://tinyurl.com/preview.php and set this preference via cookie, i personally can't stand clicking on a link not knowing it's destination, thanks mainly to years at slashdot Since you already are modded +5 I can't do more than saying "Thank you!" I did not know about that feature:)
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/13jun_luna rsporadic.htm Except that the flash from such objects are too brief compared to the 'common' TLP it seems. From the above mentioned article:
"The duration of the fireball was only four-tenths of a second," says Cooke
What about cyber terrorism? You get enough of them together and you don't need more than a couple tech savvy individuals to lead the groups, the rest of the mindless automatons just execute the actions/code they're given... That could actually be a pretty nasty terrorist attack if you hit the right areas Oh my... you mean they can sort of log on to a server, create their own space (or 'room') where they can hang out, chat and learn to 'hack'? Yeah, this is surly a brand new thing!
Do people still really open attachments from people that do not know or were not expecting? Are people really executing unknown.exe files? A fun experiment: Write a small, harmless program that when executed send a single ping to your home machine/ server and an equally simple program to count the incoming pings on said system.
Write a short message saying something like "The well known virus 'YouAreTooStupid' is again spreading across the Internet. Please run the attached program to clean and/ or immunize your PC", attach your little program and send it to twenty people. Then sit back and watch your counter...
It will keep counting for days or even weeks. Your non-viral little program will spread like a virus as stupid people 'immunize' their system. Writing viral code is just a waste of time... just ask people to distribute your malware for you. They are more than happy to do so.
Kids are seeing boobies. Is that the world you want to live in! Sometimes I really wonder what's going on inside the heads of those deciding whats inappropriate or not. I watched an American program about an animal clinic on TV the other night and they blurred the dogs penis and anus???? Who, for the love of Jebus, will suffer any damage from seeing a dog's penis? Who would, unless he/ she already is greatly disturbed, even think there is a need to blur animal genitalia?
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It could be a coincidence that four cables got cut. It could also be a coincidence that we see a clear increase in the propaganda from the "coalition" right now that the connectivity for the "enemy" is poor...
Not only that but everyone had to stop downloading too, only that way could we send the message "We don't want your product!" By keeping on downloading the message is the exact opposite: "We NEED your product!" And as long as people keeps acquiring their product, legally or otherwise, they have the consumer right where they want... under their heel.
Of course it's totally unrealistic but it's a nice thought...
The problem, to me anyway, is that I'm totally overloaded when it comes to ads. Everywhere, 24/7, someone is trying to sell me something. SMS ads on my cell phone, telemarketers on my landline, ads on my fax at work, ads on TV, radio, newspapers... people stopping me on the street pushing all kinds of products: phone companies, electric companies, vitamins, insurance, magazines. I'm just so fed up with ads that I protect my self in every way possible. I screen calls, answering only number I know, turn off my fax during the night, avoid ad supported TV channels and uses ad blocking software on my PC.
Ads makes me aggressive. I yell at the insurance salesman on the street, I send angry e-mails to the TV channels when they send ads with louder sound than the regular program and I return everything I get in the mail without putting a stamp on it. And I never ever click on a banner if it happens to sneak by my ad blocking measures.
I know some services are "ad supported" in order to keep the service "free". Well, good, but don't expect me to view the ads. Either charge me or kick me out but as long as a service is offered for free don't blame me for low income due to lack of banner clicking because my ad viewing circuits is already overloaded. Sorry...
Disclaimer: I'm not a US citizen.
If I get something in the mail I have not asked for I can do what ever I bloody want with it. No one can send me a letter then claim some 'rights' to it? I have not accepted any license or whatever as I do when I actively acquire something like a book or a CD. Of course, if they put an EULA on the envelope saying "By opening this seal..." they give me the option to not read it and hence as a legal notice it would fail.
I guess this is one of those "Only in the USA" kind of things...
I find it both sad and amusing how the security guys here confiscate all this might-be-explosives and then just *drops* it into an ordinary garbage can. If they *really* expect this stuff to be bombs why don't they treat it as bombs? And if they don't expect it to be bombs, why the hell can't we take it on board?
$ whois iwantthisname.com
When I have found a name that's not registered I go looking for best price/ service/ whatever is important. And only when I have decided where to register my domain I enter it into their search box. Finding good names is becoming increasingly hard. I sure as hell will not risk to be conned into a situation where I literary have to pay a ransom to get my domain name.
Since this is Slashdot, all must be right with the universe. Wow! I AM a woman... with long hair, and I have modpoints. And it didn't occour to me to mod the post about hair but I wanted to mod the one about wires! (It was already at +5 though, which is good really since I'm kinda blond too and constantly mod first and post later throwing my points down the drain...)
Why not build a bigass wall around the entire country and not let anyone in. After all it worked of the Chinese for several hundred years...
that they can make a bloody big bang?
The word 'test' in this context really means: "Look what we can do!" Nuclear deterrent in practice. The whole idea behind nuclear weapons is to discourage your enemy from attacking so you want them to see exactly what you can do to them. It's a scary tactic but it seem to have worked... so far...
"Old geezer says everything was better before"
There already is such an operation, it's called http:www.linux.com/
The advertisers just don't get it. We don't want the flashing, jumping, beeping stuff because it is annoying, not because it's an ad. I have never blocked a Google text ad in my life, I have even clicked on a lot of them because it looked interesting. They don't annoy me as they are just sitting quietly in the margin informing me of their presence. And that's what the advertisers need to understand: it's not the users that's defective, it's their strategy. Make the ads non intrusive, interesting and 'on topic' and people wont bother blocking them but start clicking them instead.
Making stuff people hates then blame the same people for not watching it is just stupid. Why is that so hard to understand for the advertisers?
6) Nobody has really tested the current law after the EUCD, at least not here in Norway One 'problem' with the EUCD, atleast here in Norway, is Article6 tp 1 that states: 1. Member States shall provide adequate legal protection against the circumvention of any effective technological measures, which the person concerned carries out in the knowledge, or with reasonable grounds to know, that he or she is pursuing that objective.
What makes this the coolest paragraph is that as soon as a way to circumvent the protection is published it's no longer effective. Downloading a program that enables you to play something is not really "actively pursuing" to circumvent a DRM scheme.
However, even if circumventing DRM for personal use is not ruled illegal (still in Norway), normal copyright laws still applies so you can not distribute it even if the DRM is 'ineffective' of course.
The REAL question here is: How can we make this into a normal US bashing thread? Bashing a country on an entire different continent just feels odd...
Look up the victims car on the Internet, hit Delete ... and BOOM! That's how good hackers they are. I know because I've seen on the net.
A fun experiment: Write a small, harmless program that when executed send a single ping to your home machine/ server and an equally simple program to count the incoming pings on said system.
Write a short message saying something like "The well known virus 'YouAreTooStupid' is again spreading across the Internet. Please run the attached program to clean and/ or immunize your PC", attach your little program and send it to twenty people. Then sit back and watch your counter...
It will keep counting for days or even weeks. Your non-viral little program will spread like a virus as stupid people 'immunize' their system. Writing viral code is just a waste of time... just ask people to distribute your malware for you. They are more than happy to do so.