I'd say baffling is more appropriate...as huge as the website is, and with as much personal information being slung around, you'd think they would make it ONLY https at this point...
One country's "bad people" are another country's heroes. "Bad people" is very subjective. Granted, tyrannically ruling people is "bad", while allowing them freedom to do and say what they want is "good", but still...painting sides by using phrases like "us" and "them", or "good" and "bad" completely ignore something BOTH sides need to remember:
On an unrelated note, the PDF you linked to in your sig is pretty good! I myself have been using short(really short, lol) stories as practice for a larger story arc I'm writing. Each story focuses on a specific writing technique, just so I can tool around with it. I currently have one of them up on Scribd...free to read, free to download (although I still need to add the CC stuff to it.) Check it out, if you like.
"Well sir, our numbers indicate fourty-six million people out there are using the "do not track" header...we think that's a great base to start our 'Tired of Being Targeted?' ad campaign..."
All kidding aside, I'm sure something like this would work for a little while, but just like the do not call list, advertisers will find some way around it. By the way...advertisers? When you call me or spam me via email, I make sure to AVOID your products...and I'm confidant I'm not the only one.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but how could it possibly be illegal to "shift" a TV broadcast from one room to another? Are they pissed you aren't buying another TV Provider's box? Are they pissed about the possibility of the stream ending up online? What's going on here?
I see what they're saying, but it doesn't make any sense. Insert the sound of an adult talking in a Peanuts cartoon here.
True...in the case of DNF, they probably would have been better served just saying "buy nao!" Then again, since the public has knowledge that Gearbox is working on the game, NOT giving even a rough release estimate could cause the rumor mill to swirl more than it already is...
True, but it DOES give them the authority to dictate what equipment you use and how you use it, in the form of vehicle requirements, safety requirements, and manufacturing requirements based on the previously mentioned vehicle/safety stuff.
That's our point, CPU...they HAVEN'T told the ISPs no, and, at least in the USA, ISPs have received billions in direct and indirect subsidies. Arguing that the FCC has no authority here became meaningless the instant ISPs benefited at the expense of taxpayers.
If they're privately owned, why do they bitch at the government for money? Here's just one example.
I'm aware that article covers multiple countries, but it's rare nowadays for an ISP to be truly considered 100% privately owned...or at the very least, privately funded.
Verizon asked (nay, demanded!) they get their way. They didn't, so they're crying like little babies. Hmm...the rules are applauded by websites, and pissed on by ISPs. I am jack's complete lack of surprise.
Buy a larger internal hard drive for your laptop...that will solve your "immedeate access" needs.
If you're really serious about actual back up:
1. Buy a 1 TB external hard drive. Copy all of your pictures on there, then put the hard drive in a safe deposit box. This will be your "iron-clad" backup, one which you only update after major trips such as the one you came back from.
2. Buy a second 1 TB external hard drive that you keep at home. This will be your "primary" backup, one that gets updated every time you have new pictures.
3. For extra protection, buy a crap-ton of DVD-Rs, and burn all your photos on them.
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I'd say baffling is more appropriate...as huge as the website is, and with as much personal information being slung around, you'd think they would make it ONLY https at this point...
That was the inspiration for my post :)
and that is eliminating bad people.
One country's "bad people" are another country's heroes. "Bad people" is very subjective. Granted, tyrannically ruling people is "bad", while allowing them freedom to do and say what they want is "good", but still...painting sides by using phrases like "us" and "them", or "good" and "bad" completely ignore something BOTH sides need to remember:
Our blood is always red when it runs.
Pfft. If he was smoking good shit, he'd be saying something along the lines of "can't we all just get a bong...I mean along? Whoa."
On an unrelated note, the PDF you linked to in your sig is pretty good! I myself have been using short(really short, lol) stories as practice for a larger story arc I'm writing. Each story focuses on a specific writing technique, just so I can tool around with it. I currently have one of them up on Scribd...free to read, free to download (although I still need to add the CC stuff to it.) Check it out, if you like.
It's about a zombie slowly coming back to life. There's zero dialogue throughout all three pages (I needed to practice with descriptions of events and locales, from a god's eye view.)
I can hear the board meeting now.
"Well sir, our numbers indicate fourty-six million people out there are using the "do not track" header...we think that's a great base to start our 'Tired of Being Targeted?' ad campaign..."
Confident, even!
...because the do not call list totally works.
All kidding aside, I'm sure something like this would work for a little while, but just like the do not call list, advertisers will find some way around it. By the way...advertisers? When you call me or spam me via email, I make sure to AVOID your products...and I'm confidant I'm not the only one.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but how could it possibly be illegal to "shift" a TV broadcast from one room to another? Are they pissed you aren't buying another TV Provider's box? Are they pissed about the possibility of the stream ending up online? What's going on here?
I see what they're saying, but it doesn't make any sense. Insert the sound of an adult talking in a Peanuts cartoon here.
Are you talking about The Saint? Such an awesome 90's movie.
True...in the case of DNF, they probably would have been better served just saying "buy nao!" Then again, since the public has knowledge that Gearbox is working on the game, NOT giving even a rough release estimate could cause the rumor mill to swirl more than it already is...
I haven't, and this is yet another example of why.
Thanks, Apple! I love being told I'm a fucking idiot and shouldn't be allowed to open my PURCHASED device, should I choose to do so.
Yes, that goes for all companies that use screwy screws like this.
Piss off*. Not everything needs to be like Apple.
*no offense
...and boom goes the dynamite.
True, but it DOES give them the authority to dictate what equipment you use and how you use it, in the form of vehicle requirements, safety requirements, and manufacturing requirements based on the previously mentioned vehicle/safety stuff.
That's our point, CPU...they HAVEN'T told the ISPs no, and, at least in the USA, ISPs have received billions in direct and indirect subsidies. Arguing that the FCC has no authority here became meaningless the instant ISPs benefited at the expense of taxpayers.
The FCC is outside of its charter, one that needs to be revoked anyway and recast into something very limited, if at all.
So...you want to retcon the FCC's authority?
/signed
Actually, a better way to look at that article would be "spreading the wealth around"...only with private companies instead of private citizens.
SOCIALISM, OH NOES
If they're privately owned, why do they bitch at the government for money? Here's just one example.
I'm aware that article covers multiple countries, but it's rare nowadays for an ISP to be truly considered 100% privately owned...or at the very least, privately funded.
Verizon asked (nay, demanded!) they get their way. They didn't, so they're crying like little babies. Hmm...the rules are applauded by websites, and pissed on by ISPs. I am jack's complete lack of surprise.
Buy a larger internal hard drive for your laptop...that will solve your "immedeate access" needs.
If you're really serious about actual back up:
1. Buy a 1 TB external hard drive. Copy all of your pictures on there, then put the hard drive in a safe deposit box. This will be your "iron-clad" backup, one which you only update after major trips such as the one you came back from.
2. Buy a second 1 TB external hard drive that you keep at home. This will be your "primary" backup, one that gets updated every time you have new pictures.
3. For extra protection, buy a crap-ton of DVD-Rs, and burn all your photos on them.
"Under 'redundant' in the dictionary it says 'see: redundant'" :)
I was convinced you were kidding, until I got to this line:
Seriously: did you think about that at all before posting, or did you just click Submit and hope for the best?
That's what threw off the detector :/