Yeah Palm killed off their old PalmOS ecosystem at precisely the same time as Blackberry is now- with the decline in full swing but still not a sure thing entirely. Killing legacy might be their only choice like it was for Palm, but it will kill them as well. Who will even consider writing for BB10 from scratch? In the case of both companies the time for salvation was open for a few years, and passed because they were stuck between the old way and the new one. In the end the new way won, but not before irrelevance was already insured. Sad too because WebOS, and BB10 as it is in on the PlayBook seem great. Just too damn late.
At that price considering duplicate accounts, one off use account/got sick of it after a week, I'd venture that it will end up with 500 also free competitors (possibly big company supplied ones from companies who have smartphone experience) and will be about as well off as spending a billion to buy into the flashlight or fart app market a few years back. But I'll admit it's hard to say one way or another. I can't imagine anybody on Slashdot couldn't off the top of their head list about 10 better companies or apps to spend a billion on.
True, but what kind of loyalty does a fairly shallow, easily clone-able app have especially if people might only be interested at the price of free. Not sure, but I bet if Google or even MS (assuming Android and iOS support) decided to they could steal all those users away quickly. It doesn't help that facebook isn't really known for their programming prowess.
I think you mean HP. Meg Whitman will try to buy anything no matter how poorly matched it is. Heck she's so hardcore she doesn't just try and buy lobbyists she tries to buy herself into the governorship's mansion itself. She's a card carrying member of Carly Fiorina club of how maintain the stereotype that women can't be good leaders or corporate decision-makers. That's pretty damn hard to look worse than the men they replaced. I guess no matter the gender shit will rise -assuming a proper diet of narcissism and backed by fake degrees from colleges looking to book a major female CEO and having no other unemployed blowhard choices on hand.
Sorry for the self reply, but disclaimer for the grammar. No I'm not drunk, but I haven't slept in about 48 hours, and despite previewing it I only just now realized how grammatically "different" and it reads. Sometimes you just have to think outside of the box, trail-blaze and fight conformity even in basic communication mediums defined over hundreds of years forming a basis for modern culture YKWIM? Kewl. That is if you want to lead us into web 10.0. Yup you read that right.
After learning that you can just randomly attach large numbers to vague incremental updates (thanks Chrome team!) I decided to embrace the system for my my internal brain synergies as a means of expanding the reach of my platforms of knowledge and enhancing the lives of my customers and clients. Basically every-time a new thought enters my mind I get to tack on another whole number. I plan to be at web 15.0 by tomorrow morning at this rate hopefully before those bastards at Mozilla. I know my though process is sound, because Adobe has been doing it for years. everybody knows bigger numbers suggest improvement and new features all within the shareholder friendly budget of a fresh splashscreen and drastically rearranged interface.Not sure but I think EA Sports may have been the first
Or.... maybe, just maybe I've just invented a new form of speech; and it's not my grammar that is broken but instead your narrow ability to comprehend this advanced shit. Yeah just like most of my ideas it was miraculously birthed from the fission powered synapses within my massive social media, web 10. (11.0 by now) , cloud based quantum computing design workshop powered brain.
Hmm... something to consider I never been wrong yet.
Too much progress all at once confuses the small minds and throws my chi levels dangerously off of their perfectly calibrated astrologically sound and total level-headed view of myself and instinctual leadership, intellegence, and physical aptitude qualities that form the basis of my aura.
But for now I might as well stick with my "Hello Welcome" mats before I branch out into defining linguistics and the rest of my many other (future ) contributions to society, culture, and the human condition. Don't worry- your welcome. I'm just not happy unless I'm inventing, creating, and changing the world for future generations
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BTW off topic, but I'm sick as hell of hearing about this Tesla guy... kinda overrated when you really think about how many iPhone apps he released, and did he even coin any 1337 memes? Probably died waiting for pron to load on dial-up. Bet he never even Rick Rolled anybody either...sad- nasty brutish and short must his allotted life and monthy AOL hours way back then. And named after a car? Must have been rough as a kid
Fuck... I didn't just read that according to my lawyer. The SEC says I have to disclaim any potential liabilities to my new bosses over at Yahoo who saw fit to buy my 1 man company and product sketches for a 25% share of their stock and board position. For their in touch management a shipping product demonstrated product means more overhead. And no employees or prototypes means they only have to spend a few billion to grab this puppy before Amazon, eBay or the ghost of MySpace swoops in.
So just for the record if something goes wrong lets just pretend I don't understand what this "3rd world" (Mars>) thing is, and who knows maybe I'm more of a moccassin kinda guy unfamiliar with these "boots" you speak of.
Basic sense and any concept of the market strategy haven't been considered assets to the friendly folks at Yahoo! in years.They are just glad they got out ahead on this one and didn't miss out like in they heyday of the 99c fart app. Never will a silly fad go past without a massive wasted investment that leads people to wonder "How the hell is Yahoo still around?"
The difference is that the work Google and Bing done and spent on algorithms, hardware streamlining for their facilities, somewhat locked-in userbases (work to transition over docs, email, presents, "train" the personlized servies) and all of the web of other products in their arsenals that funnel to the search. That ecosystem is simply out of reach without a drastic move on facebook's part, like only allowing editing of uploaded images in Instagram. But that carries it's own risk of exposing them to competitors who won't do similar.
As for the app Instagram. It works just fine, but does nothing new, or provide any really essential features or protected innovations. A medium competency company could clone using prior art from PC software apps in a couple of months and if they were really devious they could scoop the probable patents involved from Kodak and turn around and demand royalties from the profitless Instagram. All one would need is the will and the pocketbook. Expect Google to do it if they suspect any traction. Especially with Kodak trying to sell, and having just bought Motorola not for their junk phones, but for their patent warchest. Also unlike Bing and Google there is not lock-in for Instagram of any real significance, especially since there is no cost in trying free competing apps and they can live side by side. Just install it and go, no need for intensive migration either.
For all the smart people in this industry, they sure seem hell bent on creating another bust through billion dollar acquisitions and inflated market value for what amounts to at best well integrated existing designs, and at worst patently obvious products with just move something from the PC to the tablet of smartphone.
Facebook is one of the few sites with the resources and hit count to actually have a chance against Google. Not to say it would have worked, the implementation, combined with Bing's ahem "quirks" would make it an uphill battle.
But instead the sage Zuckerberg proved himself to not be the visionary the media paints him by buying a brain-dead obvious "innovative" flavor of the week app (apparently cheap filters and basic image processing + built in camera FTW) with no patents, innovations, or profits. Let me introduce you to the (richer) Shawn Fanning of our decade 2010's.
We used to call ideas like facebook and Napster clever uses of existing technology presented in a way that finally opened the door to normal people. A noble achievement worth a paycheck. Now we call them the basis for Fortune 500 companies and the pinnacle of tech innovations. NASA and real science is just too boring and no matter how many buttons I push my microwave can't make my food come out in sepia.
No offense to the people who work for Instagram the product is fine, just that it's overvalue raises serious concerns about the state of progress. There is not a single thing that is new or better about the product than PC software for decades other than it runs on a pocket computer. imagine telling the people at Bell Labs, Xerox, Honeywell, IBM, or one of the dozens of other real innovators in the 70's that shit like this was what drove our current technology economy. They would laugh, then cry, then ask about the flying cars
Oh but I forgot it runs on a smartphone! Meaning that according to the patent office these are whole new uncharted realms of innovation worthy of the legal protection akin to the lightbulp or the the CRT. Prior art? Now a days whats considred inventive is just shifting and existing idea wholesale from one screen or interface to another. To me in a sane marketplace Instagram is worth about a $1 plus whatever assets and minus whatever debts they have incurred.
Oh well then, off to design my new protected innovation the "Hello Welcome" door-mat based browser. And don't you dare libel it me by suggesting it is in any way similar to PC browsers since Mosaic in the 90's. Can you control your computer browser with your fucking foot? Yeah that's what I thought- invent something as revolutionary and lifechanging as browsing in the the elements from your doorstep 20 feet from your PC and maybe we will talk BTW.
You won't believe what I've got up my sleeve next (assuming you have been in a coma since the death of real R&D focus in the West).
Treaties should be honored above all. Even if in retrospect a population may not have wished them. It's a basic tenant of modern government and you raise a great point.
No matter whose fault it is, I think we can all agree that any program that has no domestic benefit should get re-evaluated. The semantics of if it has been Obama's failed leadership or Bush's massive overspending isn't really relevant to fixing some of these clear cut misappropriated programs.
In the scheme of things yes.I'm talking about priorities. Listen, any program that can't demonstrate real success should be reconsidered. However, I would rather the limited time spent on the billion dollar scams as opposed to the multimillion dollar ones. Doesn't mean either should exist, but lets be real.
Without knowing more than the very limited information in TFA it's hard to say for sure what the situation really is. That said, these programs are being misused if the allegations are true. But if true, it isn't exactly the worst fraud being perpetrated on US tax payers. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be addressed now that it has come to light.
Still strange that with all the big fish to fry government has focused on something relatively minor like this.
Not that the Dems are much better, but they aren't so brazen in their total disdain for informed voters. Pure evil vs the possibility of some hidden discarded and ignored goodwill is 2 two party choice. Today's voters are indeed offered options at the polls; between Vader or the Emperor himself. Maybe they will both destroy each other in the end. Or did George decide to fuck with that too?
Assuming Google did engage in this supposed act then I think the fine is legitimate, and quite small. At the same time if this is just a way for somebody to cover their ass at the FCC for launching a dead-end investigation then it is totally bogus. Hard to know for sure with the info we have.
But is this really a better investment that something that betters our society like charity, support for out of work family, or something else that isn't seemingly wasteful? Submitter has the right to do whatever he wants, and his hiking is a great and enviable hobby- it really is. But when things as extreme as a drone are proposed in a setting like this I can't help but wonder what the impact to the very environment he clearly loves will be from such an expensive and resource intensive solution. Do what you will sir, but consider the merits of other options as well. You might be surprised how much better you feel helping causes you never knew existed, or never considered before. But you are free to decide for yourself.
How does this not matter considering it refers to legislation dealing with the cost common experience humans have with a PC today, the internet? Yeah I was gonna say porn since it is referenced, and likely the only thing to cause more addiction than middleschools obsession with Facebook, both the same thing in this context.
Not sure what your beef is- perhaps it wasn't important enough for you? Fine, but I'm pretty sure this isn't anything as narrow-audience even here as half the book reviews for things like a minor Moodle version bump or some obscure database system tips and tricks that somehow made frontpage right after the article mocking the antiquity of old media writing and how the new version is dropping in the next week and going to fix all of the awfully missteps which incidentally formed a major focus for the book reviewed.
Remember this is a site that has "Cloud" listed as prominent topic category so just be glad we aren't talking about that vapid empty term which is inadvertently cynically descriptive of the concept itself in the modern era.
Selling drugs is P2P, but so is having sex (see wikipedia for more info fellow reader).
Criminalizing a group of loosely or totally unrelated individuals based on a particular form of sharing content (or speech) is just one step away from a thoughtcrime and is seen in the banning of the web, twitter, or similar by oppressive regimes, and shows a undeniable contempt for those basics terms and concepts that form the acronym P2P.
Person to person communication is inherent to all humans, and sought out even by those who are handicapped to the extreme. It is the basis of science, individual development, society, and anything else that didn't come from instict or perhaps indirect observation. If you live in a society that doesn't allow newpapers, a certain internet sharing site, or any other medium that allows honest expression then you need to run like hell and be glad that you did. This is testing the waters.
I remember when using P2P for legimitate uses during the late 90'- early 2000's being so disgusted that the judges at the time couldn't seem to fathom in their wildest dreams how this new means of exchange could possibly be anything other than 100% destructive "theft" oriented black-market oriented, when in reality a lot of early P2P really was centered around specialized information exchange that had a dynamic nature not offered by the web and only hinted at by services like Hotline and the others. Sure the smart people set up their own FTPs, but for many mediums and industries there was little to no expectation-especially at that time- that the person had the skills to do so. The PC was still not on every desktop, or even remotely required for many non-technologically inclined persons.
This dynamism was of course the same reason Napster and the rest were able to gain such rapid traction- it was so easy, and connective. Before web search got it right, and even still P2P allows personalization and selectivity of content that has never been matched. Those early days of fairly high penetration of modern-like P2P felt like having a personal mailing list but without the management, unlimited hosting, it has integrated search, didn't require much work, and didn't make you wanna move to antarctica in the way you felt after the first attempt to "share" via a dutifully built template based GeoCity's monstrosity.
But despite the damage done to legitimate P2P by the so-called Napster boom of early last decade I refuse to buy the "blame the tool" B.S. leveled at those site who tended toward unlicensed transfers. It was a shit argument than, and time has only proven even more how P2P really is the core of the internet even if it isn't always manifested purely at the protocol level. Love them or hate them, but sites that allow quick person to person communication like Flickr, Twitter, blogs, Facebook, and old stalwarts like email and various chat clients represent the biggest reason people are shifting time away from TV and DVD porn. Sure companies have perverted and manipulated this model- Facebook being perhaps the worst- But the spirit of sharing is so central to human communication and by extension the web that literal clusterfucking; as in clustering us by service or protocol, and then sending in the lawyers to fuck us based on that designation is just wrong. There is perhaps no force that threatens free speech more, than being grouped in and implicated by remote extension with an individual based on their theoretical possibility to commit a potential crime.
There is a new call center start-up coming right at you and it is staffed with lots of "Bobs" and "Toms" trained in selective desert "service camps" that are gonna be available this Afghan spring to graciously assist me with my terrorism or other electronics support related inquiries. Just press one to disconnect from competitive offshored call-center relevance suckers cuz the big boys are here and they NEVER give up. No way you would guess in a million years who it is serious, guess! Well I suppose Pakistan would have known for quite a while by now and helped get them on their feet... But thats just ya know, some splinter groups..blah blah.
Anyways sorry India we always liked you (wait scratch that), but it's a global economy now, and to the mighty nation of Afghanistan you are just one more empire between them and... oh fuck is it harvest season again?! Can we pick up advancing as a civilized in a few (months)? Open to talk about electricity but just forget about women going to school- that's just dumb. As a reminder time-out rules and all still apply ya know, I know I have that haddith laying around here somewhere- typical infidels trying to steal our ideas from our distant future minds- no wonder we will soon ascend to our rightful place and correct all the mistakes your disease of "free-thought" has done to plague our planet (yes OUR). You cheaters just won't accept it's really only the year 800 when you pull out the abacus and count out times we just wanted to chill and remove the poison of public education or hunt suspected homosexuals; which in Afghanistan it takes a long time to find anybody as many a lost martyr hunter has learned.
Really gotta check to see the harvest dates though but thanks for the nice chat/ burn in hell for hiding Richard Simons from us for all these years after his many videotaped crimes. Not cool dude, you guys suck more than those few guys in the ISI who won't let us put them on our mailing list. live another day. See you next Spring so we can do this again.
Hold that thought for a few or better yet smoke some opium, we are the masters of both and will never give into your many varied ideological debates spanning thousands of cultures and countries which all somehow secretly conspire to insult us by their mere existence. Now go snuggle with your filthy purebread dog, eat a BTL and let us know when our successful agenda to convert you to our "Crazy Mountain Brew" of Islam is complete. That title is trademarked and the patented formula will be pursued by our idelogical allies known to you as "lawyers". But BTW- remember that the next time you say we can't change with the times!
I believe the ads are downloaded as a batch every month or so. I've kept my wifi Kindle off the net for a month and now it displays a generic screensaver which at the bottom requests that I connect to wifi to get updated "offers". I assume 3G's work similarly. Using a recent model kindle with keyboard.
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Yeah Palm killed off their old PalmOS ecosystem at precisely the same time as Blackberry is now- with the decline in full swing but still not a sure thing entirely. Killing legacy might be their only choice like it was for Palm, but it will kill them as well. Who will even consider writing for BB10 from scratch? In the case of both companies the time for salvation was open for a few years, and passed because they were stuck between the old way and the new one. In the end the new way won, but not before irrelevance was already insured. Sad too because WebOS, and BB10 as it is in on the PlayBook seem great. Just too damn late.
At that price considering duplicate accounts, one off use account/got sick of it after a week, I'd venture that it will end up with 500 also free competitors (possibly big company supplied ones from companies who have smartphone experience) and will be about as well off as spending a billion to buy into the flashlight or fart app market a few years back. But I'll admit it's hard to say one way or another. I can't imagine anybody on Slashdot couldn't off the top of their head list about 10 better companies or apps to spend a billion on.
True, but what kind of loyalty does a fairly shallow, easily clone-able app have especially if people might only be interested at the price of free. Not sure, but I bet if Google or even MS (assuming Android and iOS support) decided to they could steal all those users away quickly. It doesn't help that facebook isn't really known for their programming prowess.
Can we use Game of Thrones? My parents won't buy me a car yet, and the comic book shop isn't hiring the bearded right now.
I think you mean HP. Meg Whitman will try to buy anything no matter how poorly matched it is. Heck she's so hardcore she doesn't just try and buy lobbyists she tries to buy herself into the governorship's mansion itself. She's a card carrying member of Carly Fiorina club of how maintain the stereotype that women can't be good leaders or corporate decision-makers. That's pretty damn hard to look worse than the men they replaced. I guess no matter the gender shit will rise -assuming a proper diet of narcissism and backed by fake degrees from colleges looking to book a major female CEO and having no other unemployed blowhard choices on hand.
Sorry for the self reply, but disclaimer for the grammar. No I'm not drunk, but I haven't slept in about 48 hours, and despite previewing it I only just now realized how grammatically "different" and it reads. Sometimes you just have to think outside of the box, trail-blaze and fight conformity even in basic communication mediums defined over hundreds of years forming a basis for modern culture YKWIM? Kewl. That is if you want to lead us into web 10.0. Yup you read that right.
After learning that you can just randomly attach large numbers to vague incremental updates (thanks Chrome team!) I decided to embrace the system for my my internal brain synergies as a means of expanding the reach of my platforms of knowledge and enhancing the lives of my customers and clients. Basically every-time a new thought enters my mind I get to tack on another whole number. I plan to be at web 15.0 by tomorrow morning at this rate hopefully before those bastards at Mozilla. I know my though process is sound, because Adobe has been doing it for years. everybody knows bigger numbers suggest improvement and new features all within the shareholder friendly budget of a fresh splashscreen and drastically rearranged interface.Not sure but I think EA Sports may have been the first
Or.... maybe, just maybe I've just invented a new form of speech; and it's not my grammar that is broken but instead your narrow ability to comprehend this advanced shit. Yeah just like most of my ideas it was miraculously birthed from the fission powered synapses within my massive social media, web 10. (11.0 by now) , cloud based quantum computing design workshop powered brain.
Hmm... something to consider I never been wrong yet.
Too much progress all at once confuses the small minds and throws my chi levels dangerously off of their perfectly calibrated astrologically sound and total level-headed view of myself and instinctual leadership, intellegence, and physical aptitude qualities that form the basis of my aura.
But for now I might as well stick with my "Hello Welcome" mats before I branch out into defining linguistics and the rest of my many other (future ) contributions to society, culture, and the human condition. Don't worry- your welcome. I'm just not happy unless I'm inventing, creating, and changing the world for future generations
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BTW off topic, but I'm sick as hell of hearing about this Tesla guy... kinda overrated when you really think about how many iPhone apps he released, and did he even coin any 1337 memes? Probably died waiting for pron to load on dial-up. Bet he never even Rick Rolled anybody either...sad- nasty brutish and short must his allotted life and monthy AOL hours way back then. And named after a car? Must have been rough as a kid
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Fuck... I didn't just read that according to my lawyer. The SEC says I have to disclaim any potential liabilities to my new bosses over at Yahoo who saw fit to buy my 1 man company and product sketches for a 25% share of their stock and board position. For their in touch management a shipping product demonstrated product means more overhead. And no employees or prototypes means they only have to spend a few billion to grab this puppy before Amazon, eBay or the ghost of MySpace swoops in.
So just for the record if something goes wrong lets just pretend I don't understand what this "3rd world" (Mars>) thing is, and who knows maybe I'm more of a moccassin kinda guy unfamiliar with these "boots" you speak of.
Basic sense and any concept of the market strategy haven't been considered assets to the friendly folks at Yahoo! in years.They are just glad they got out ahead on this one and didn't miss out like in they heyday of the 99c fart app. Never will a silly fad go past without a massive wasted investment that leads people to wonder "How the hell is Yahoo still around?"
The difference is that the work Google and Bing done and spent on algorithms, hardware streamlining for their facilities, somewhat locked-in userbases (work to transition over docs, email, presents, "train" the personlized servies) and all of the web of other products in their arsenals that funnel to the search. That ecosystem is simply out of reach without a drastic move on facebook's part, like only allowing editing of uploaded images in Instagram. But that carries it's own risk of exposing them to competitors who won't do similar.
As for the app Instagram. It works just fine, but does nothing new, or provide any really essential features or protected innovations. A medium competency company could clone using prior art from PC software apps in a couple of months and if they were really devious they could scoop the probable patents involved from Kodak and turn around and demand royalties from the profitless Instagram. All one would need is the will and the pocketbook. Expect Google to do it if they suspect any traction. Especially with Kodak trying to sell, and having just bought Motorola not for their junk phones, but for their patent warchest. Also unlike Bing and Google there is not lock-in for Instagram of any real significance, especially since there is no cost in trying free competing apps and they can live side by side. Just install it and go, no need for intensive migration either.
For all the smart people in this industry, they sure seem hell bent on creating another bust through billion dollar acquisitions and inflated market value for what amounts to at best well integrated existing designs, and at worst patently obvious products with just move something from the PC to the tablet of smartphone.
Facebook is one of the few sites with the resources and hit count to actually have a chance against Google. Not to say it would have worked, the implementation, combined with Bing's ahem "quirks" would make it an uphill battle.
But instead the sage Zuckerberg proved himself to not be the visionary the media paints him by buying a brain-dead obvious "innovative" flavor of the week app (apparently cheap filters and basic image processing + built in camera FTW) with no patents, innovations, or profits. Let me introduce you to the (richer) Shawn Fanning of our decade 2010's.
We used to call ideas like facebook and Napster clever uses of existing technology presented in a way that finally opened the door to normal people. A noble achievement worth a paycheck. Now we call them the basis for Fortune 500 companies and the pinnacle of tech innovations. NASA and real science is just too boring and no matter how many buttons I push my microwave can't make my food come out in sepia.
No offense to the people who work for Instagram the product is fine, just that it's overvalue raises serious concerns about the state of progress. There is not a single thing that is new or better about the product than PC software for decades other than it runs on a pocket computer. imagine telling the people at Bell Labs, Xerox, Honeywell, IBM, or one of the dozens of other real innovators in the 70's that shit like this was what drove our current technology economy. They would laugh, then cry, then ask about the flying cars
Oh but I forgot it runs on a smartphone! Meaning that according to the patent office these are whole new uncharted realms of innovation worthy of the legal protection akin to the lightbulp or the the CRT. Prior art? Now a days whats considred inventive is just shifting and existing idea wholesale from one screen or interface to another. To me in a sane marketplace Instagram is worth about a $1 plus whatever assets and minus whatever debts they have incurred.
Oh well then, off to design my new protected innovation the "Hello Welcome" door-mat based browser. And don't you dare libel it me by suggesting it is in any way similar to PC browsers since Mosaic in the 90's. Can you control your computer browser with your fucking foot? Yeah that's what I thought- invent something as revolutionary and lifechanging as browsing in the the elements from your doorstep 20 feet from your PC and maybe we will talk BTW.
You won't believe what I've got up my sleeve next (assuming you have been in a coma since the death of real R&D focus in the West).
I imagine the person who sent the email will be getting their own personalized copy very soon.
Treaties should be honored above all. Even if in retrospect a population may not have wished them. It's a basic tenant of modern government and you raise a great point.
No matter whose fault it is, I think we can all agree that any program that has no domestic benefit should get re-evaluated. The semantics of if it has been Obama's failed leadership or Bush's massive overspending isn't really relevant to fixing some of these clear cut misappropriated programs.
In the scheme of things yes.I'm talking about priorities. Listen, any program that can't demonstrate real success should be reconsidered. However, I would rather the limited time spent on the billion dollar scams as opposed to the multimillion dollar ones. Doesn't mean either should exist, but lets be real.
Without knowing more than the very limited information in TFA it's hard to say for sure what the situation really is. That said, these programs are being misused if the allegations are true. But if true, it isn't exactly the worst fraud being perpetrated on US tax payers. But that doesn't mean it shouldn't be addressed now that it has come to light.
Still strange that with all the big fish to fry government has focused on something relatively minor like this.
if you are dealing with folks who choose Bing? (Jokes the guy who uses Bing powered DuckDuckGo)
Not that the Dems are much better, but they aren't so brazen in their total disdain for informed voters. Pure evil vs the possibility of some hidden discarded and ignored goodwill is 2 two party choice. Today's voters are indeed offered options at the polls; between Vader or the Emperor himself. Maybe they will both destroy each other in the end. Or did George decide to fuck with that too?
Assuming Google did engage in this supposed act then I think the fine is legitimate, and quite small. At the same time if this is just a way for somebody to cover their ass at the FCC for launching a dead-end investigation then it is totally bogus. Hard to know for sure with the info we have.
But is this really a better investment that something that betters our society like charity, support for out of work family, or something else that isn't seemingly wasteful? Submitter has the right to do whatever he wants, and his hiking is a great and enviable hobby- it really is. But when things as extreme as a drone are proposed in a setting like this I can't help but wonder what the impact to the very environment he clearly loves will be from such an expensive and resource intensive solution. Do what you will sir, but consider the merits of other options as well. You might be surprised how much better you feel helping causes you never knew existed, or never considered before. But you are free to decide for yourself.
How does this not matter considering it refers to legislation dealing with the cost common experience humans have with a PC today, the internet? Yeah I was gonna say porn since it is referenced, and likely the only thing to cause more addiction than middleschools obsession with Facebook, both the same thing in this context.
Not sure what your beef is- perhaps it wasn't important enough for you? Fine, but I'm pretty sure this isn't anything as narrow-audience even here as half the book reviews for things like a minor Moodle version bump or some obscure database system tips and tricks that somehow made frontpage right after the article mocking the antiquity of old media writing and how the new version is dropping in the next week and going to fix all of the awfully missteps which incidentally formed a major focus for the book reviewed.
Remember this is a site that has "Cloud" listed as prominent topic category so just be glad we aren't talking about that vapid empty term which is inadvertently cynically descriptive of the concept itself in the modern era.
Selling drugs is P2P, but so is having sex (see wikipedia for more info fellow reader).
Criminalizing a group of loosely or totally unrelated individuals based on a particular form of sharing content (or speech) is just one step away from a thoughtcrime and is seen in the banning of the web, twitter, or similar by oppressive regimes, and shows a undeniable contempt for those basics terms and concepts that form the acronym P2P.
Person to person communication is inherent to all humans, and sought out even by those who are handicapped to the extreme. It is the basis of science, individual development, society, and anything else that didn't come from instict or perhaps indirect observation. If you live in a society that doesn't allow newpapers, a certain internet sharing site, or any other medium that allows honest expression then you need to run like hell and be glad that you did. This is testing the waters.
I remember when using P2P for legimitate uses during the late 90'- early 2000's being so disgusted that the judges at the time couldn't seem to fathom in their wildest dreams how this new means of exchange could possibly be anything other than 100% destructive "theft" oriented black-market oriented, when in reality a lot of early P2P really was centered around specialized information exchange that had a dynamic nature not offered by the web and only hinted at by services like Hotline and the others. Sure the smart people set up their own FTPs, but for many mediums and industries there was little to no expectation-especially at that time- that the person had the skills to do so. The PC was still not on every desktop, or even remotely required for many non-technologically inclined persons.
This dynamism was of course the same reason Napster and the rest were able to gain such rapid traction- it was so easy, and connective. Before web search got it right, and even still P2P allows personalization and selectivity of content that has never been matched. Those early days of fairly high penetration of modern-like P2P felt like having a personal mailing list but without the management, unlimited hosting, it has integrated search, didn't require much work, and didn't make you wanna move to antarctica in the way you felt after the first attempt to "share" via a dutifully built template based GeoCity's monstrosity.
But despite the damage done to legitimate P2P by the so-called Napster boom of early last decade I refuse to buy the "blame the tool" B.S. leveled at those site who tended toward unlicensed transfers. It was a shit argument than, and time has only proven even more how P2P really is the core of the internet even if it isn't always manifested purely at the protocol level. Love them or hate them, but sites that allow quick person to person communication like Flickr, Twitter, blogs, Facebook, and old stalwarts like email and various chat clients represent the biggest reason people are shifting time away from TV and DVD porn. Sure companies have perverted and manipulated this model- Facebook being perhaps the worst- But the spirit of sharing is so central to human communication and by extension the web that literal clusterfucking; as in clustering us by service or protocol, and then sending in the lawyers to fuck us based on that designation is just wrong. There is perhaps no force that threatens free speech more, than being grouped in and implicated by remote extension with an individual based on their theoretical possibility to commit a potential crime.
There is a new call center start-up coming right at you and it is staffed with lots of "Bobs" and "Toms" trained in selective desert "service camps" that are gonna be available this Afghan spring to graciously assist me with my terrorism or other electronics support related inquiries. Just press one to disconnect from competitive offshored call-center relevance suckers cuz the big boys are here and they NEVER give up. No way you would guess in a million years who it is serious, guess! Well I suppose Pakistan would have known for quite a while by now and helped get them on their feet... But thats just ya know, some splinter groups..blah blah.
Anyways sorry India we always liked you (wait scratch that), but it's a global economy now, and to the mighty nation of Afghanistan you are just one more empire between them and... oh fuck is it harvest season again?! Can we pick up advancing as a civilized in a few (months)? Open to talk about electricity but just forget about women going to school- that's just dumb. As a reminder time-out rules and all still apply ya know, I know I have that haddith laying around here somewhere- typical infidels trying to steal our ideas from our distant future minds- no wonder we will soon ascend to our rightful place and correct all the mistakes your disease of "free-thought" has done to plague our planet (yes OUR). You cheaters just won't accept it's really only the year 800 when you pull out the abacus and count out times we just wanted to chill and remove the poison of public education or hunt suspected homosexuals; which in Afghanistan it takes a long time to find anybody as many a lost martyr hunter has learned.
Really gotta check to see the harvest dates though but thanks for the nice chat/ burn in hell for hiding Richard Simons from us for all these years after his many videotaped crimes. Not cool dude, you guys suck more than those few guys in the ISI who won't let us put them on our mailing list. live another day. See you next Spring so we can do this again.
Hold that thought for a few or better yet smoke some opium, we are the masters of both and will never give into your many varied ideological debates spanning thousands of cultures and countries which all somehow secretly conspire to insult us by their mere existence. Now go snuggle with your filthy purebread dog, eat a BTL and let us know when our successful agenda to convert you to our "Crazy Mountain Brew" of Islam is complete. That title is trademarked and the patented formula will be pursued by our idelogical allies known to you as "lawyers". But BTW- remember that the next time you say we can't change with the times!
I believe the ads are downloaded as a batch every month or so. I've kept my wifi Kindle off the net for a month and now it displays a generic screensaver which at the bottom requests that I connect to wifi to get updated "offers". I assume 3G's work similarly. Using a recent model kindle with keyboard.
How fucking greedy can you get? You want OUR tax dollars to sell us what we payed for back at a profit. Fuck off Elsevier!
How insensitive! I don't have a lawn I still live in my mom's basement. In case you missed it your URL bar says slashdot.org right now.
that's true even for most dumbphone users.