Its still looked at as prevention, but instead of preventing the actual abuse, they want to prevent the thoughts that may lead to the abuse.
Now they need to ban violent films to prevent the thoughts that lead to murder. Then ban mention of the banning of violent films to prevent the thoughts that lead to thoughts that lead to murder. Then create the system from Minority Report where they catch criminals before the crime is committed. Then borrow from 1984 and arrest based on thought crimes.
Oh, hang on, that last one is what they're already doing!
I don't know how well it has been tested in court, but I think these days you pay for a CD/DVD in a box that contains some software that you have been sold a limited license to use. The license generally tends to try and disclaim any level of specific quality in any area.
Not that I agree with it, but software companies do have a bit more of a "you get a license on it as-is" angle than companies that sell physical objects.
Popular is a subjective term, though. Anyone with a sufficient knowledge of English to know that "popular" means "well liked" or "favoured" will also have a sufficient grasp of the language to see that those words are obviously true for the registration aspect - large numbers of spammers like and favour.cn domains as a cheap, easy and probably uncontrolled way to get a disposable domain.
Which leads to revision 1a1) Old person is in house, criminal comes in, old person has weapon but is old and incapable and therefore not a real threat, therefore they're going to be assaulted and/or killed because they are a witness and the gun did nothing other than increase the risk of injury before the incident.
Come on, it's not even as if you can argue that that thing can be waved at someone in a threatening manner to say "stop or I'll shoot" to scare them off. They wouldn't take it serious as a gun, or they wouldn't notice it was in the person's hand.
This is medical care. It will help stop the old person's medical complaints...when they either accidentally shoot themselves or when they have a cardiac arrest while getting stressed taking on the criminal.
Well, that's about the only way I can interpret it.
The only possibility I see is a machine used for sustaining life (obviously for the user of the gun, not the recipient of the bullet).
And even then I'd say that's a dubious argument (i.e. only one that a gun lover would support).
Two scenarios:
1) Old person is in house, criminal comes in, old person has no weapon therefore not a threat, generally going to be left alone.
2) Old person is in house, criminal comes in, old person has "palm pistol", old person becomes threat to self as much as criminal, criminal may run but depending on the situation then injury through accidental firing or not having gun with them or cardiac incident due to stress of taking on criminal likely to cause more threat to old person's life.
Ahhhhh, America. How we love to stare in amazement at you!
"Morons" depends on whether it has been reported correctly. It looks like the/. title is (unsurprisingly) incorrect and the question was "is what you're watching HD?" not the implied "here is SD and HD, can you tell the difference?".
As for HD, TBH I don't care. HD might be better quality, but on our new TV (26" HD Ready Goodmans) an SD DVD looks more than adequate. Some TV channels look a bit off at times, but that appears to be a combination of poor compression from Sky and a cheap up-scaler. The extra money for a fuller HD setup would just be a waste, IMO.
I've got a six month old, and I wish he only saw his grandparents a couple of times a year. The Mother-in-law has moved from ~200 miles and a ~3-hour drive away (not much in America, but enough to make it more likely to be a "go one day back the next" trip in the UK because of potential traffic delays) to the same town as us. We're now struggling to keep it down to seeing her twice a week.
Having my son see the mother-in-law only a few times a year would be a blessing!
As much as I hate Phorm (luckily I'm not with a Phorm ISP), that's not entirely accurate. As mentioned by an AC (but likely to get lost) Phorm only modifies the ad selection for the Phorm advertising network. It does not strip out other ads and replace them with their own (although it wouldn't surprise me if someone had suggested that), it just tries to target ads from a select network of advertisers.
That said, it does still piggy-back any content that I put up on my website by reading it and gaining marketting data from it. I sure as hell didn't agree to that, so I'm investigating methods of stopping them profiting from my content when I don't get a cut and when I purposefully don't put adverts on my sites.
If this is the "NXE" system (the New XBox Experience) then what will it be when they re-engineer it again? The NNXE (the New NXE)? While NXE might look "cool" to some people, putting "New" in the branding of something isn't a great idea for the future!
I already did a quick comparison for a "Mac Tax" article and it didn't come out well for the Apple. It was more on the Mac Mini because integrated monitors are something I would avoid like the plague, but it was still "Apple versus other brands".
Not that I've got anything specific against Apple - my wife's old iBook would be quite a nice laptop to work on, just as soon as I fix the backlight - but given the choice then I'd rather spec what I want at what ends up being a more reasonable price.
I guess it might be better in some ways for trials than for full games, but it still works on the assumption that a) the user has a net connection on their machine (because no-one with a laptop ever bought a game while they were on a business trip or anything) b) the net connection is working and c) the server is alive and active.
The other problem is that once "dial-home" is accepted for demos, then companies would start saying "well, you didn't mind it when we put it in the demo" and would put it in the final game anyway.
Time-limited trials are always going to be an awkward one to enforce, but there's still acceptable ways to try and do it and less acceptable ones.
And then they phone home with a hash of your hardware specs and log your IP. Then they phone home with a hash of your hardware specs, log your IP and bill you for each additional install. Then they...
Phone-home is one of the worst ideas (from a customer's point of view) for protection. If I'm playing a game that is purely off-line then why should I require an Internet connection to install? And if I'm playing an online game then what's wrong with just using the serial number to identify duplicates?
What's with the assumption that the Net is everywhere? Yes it's becoming more prevalent, but not everyone's machine is hooked up, and even if it is then a) their ISP can crap out, b) they can be without Net access because of moving house (ISPs take a couple of weeks in the UK to reconnect you), c) the server can go down (as happened with one of the big blockbusters on BluRay, where the disks lagged on start because they were trying to get film data from a downed web server), d) they can be behind a restrictive firewall...and that's just my initial thoughts.
That's not the UK price, it's the US price converted to GBP at the current exchange rate. It's entirely conceivable - and, in fact, likely - that the laptop will retail for an identical figure but with a pound sign instead of a dollar sign, because the US gets its tech really cheap.
That depends on your definition. I'd say my manual optimisation of my sites (making sure the content is at the top of the page, making sure images have alt tags, making sure abbreviations are tagged with the full version, linking between relevant content etc) is real SEO and is legitimate. It also has the advantage of being VUAO (Visiting User Agent Optimisation because it helps users and user agents when they visit my site))
What is scum and spam is what I call SEM (Search Engine Manipulation), which is the classic fake pages/links/content and terrible mass of over-used keywords that's there for no reason other than to try to look tempting for search engines while looking dreadful to most visitors or taking people to contentless pages.
It depends where the court falls on the legal definition. The dictionary definition is unclear, but half of them state publication (which a single letter isn't)
a written or oral defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression b (1): a statement or representation published without just cause and tending to expose another to public contempt (2): defamation of a person by written or representational means (3): the publication of blasphemous, treasonable, seditious, or obscene writings or pictures (4): the act, tort, or crime of publishing such a libel
Defamation is the generic term for libel and slander, one of which is written and one of which is spoken. Also, while it wouldn't be applicable in the UK, the US courts apparently think that it must be published (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation#cite_ref-5). There is a similar statement about the English law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation#England) but there's not citation to back it up.
As for it going to a shared flat/house, that's your fault for letting someone else open your mail. If it goes to the wrong address entirely then they are (I believe) breaking the law by opening your mail as it is not addressed to them, so again it isn't the ISP's fault.
Doubtful, because they almost certainly won't publish the list of who they sent letters to and so they won't have done anything to impact your reputation. I'd imagine that'd be one thing that Legal were keeping a close eye on (as well as how to do it to reduce their bandwidth while not getting caught in any other legal issues).
Hang-on, aren't at least half of those also the ISPs who want to spy on their users with Phorm? I've seen BT and Virgin mentioned, I'm not sure about Orange and Tiscali, and I'm fairly sure I've seen Carphone Warehouse mentioned but I can't remember whether they were saying "we won't do it" or "it'll always be opt-in".
I think you'll find eat.me is already possible if you sign up for a domain with Montenegro, the former Yugoslavian nation;) All you need to do is be a legal entity (because otherwise it would be something like eat.co.me or eat.its.me)
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Now they need to ban violent films to prevent the thoughts that lead to murder. Then ban mention of the banning of violent films to prevent the thoughts that lead to thoughts that lead to murder. Then create the system from Minority Report where they catch criminals before the crime is committed. Then borrow from 1984 and arrest based on thought crimes.
Oh, hang on, that last one is what they're already doing!
I don't know how well it has been tested in court, but I think these days you pay for a CD/DVD in a box that contains some software that you have been sold a limited license to use. The license generally tends to try and disclaim any level of specific quality in any area.
Not that I agree with it, but software companies do have a bit more of a "you get a license on it as-is" angle than companies that sell physical objects.
Popular is a subjective term, though. Anyone with a sufficient knowledge of English to know that "popular" means "well liked" or "favoured" will also have a sufficient grasp of the language to see that those words are obviously true for the registration aspect - large numbers of spammers like and favour .cn domains as a cheap, easy and probably uncontrolled way to get a disposable domain.
Don't tell the Americans, they'll never believe you that .us is their ccTLD ;)
That would be "consumers demanding faster and better, even if they don't need it, or buying it if the companies make it".
That would be the second part of the above - they made it, so he bought it.
Which leads to revision 1a1) Old person is in house, criminal comes in, old person has weapon but is old and incapable and therefore not a real threat, therefore they're going to be assaulted and/or killed because they are a witness and the gun did nothing other than increase the risk of injury before the incident.
Come on, it's not even as if you can argue that that thing can be waved at someone in a threatening manner to say "stop or I'll shoot" to scare them off. They wouldn't take it serious as a gun, or they wouldn't notice it was in the person's hand.
This is medical care. It will help stop the old person's medical complaints...when they either accidentally shoot themselves or when they have a cardiac arrest while getting stressed taking on the criminal.
Well, that's about the only way I can interpret it.
Have you not heard of the "Holy Painkiller of Antioch"?
"First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin, then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less..." ;)
And even then I'd say that's a dubious argument (i.e. only one that a gun lover would support).
Two scenarios:
1) Old person is in house, criminal comes in, old person has no weapon therefore not a threat, generally going to be left alone.
2) Old person is in house, criminal comes in, old person has "palm pistol", old person becomes threat to self as much as criminal, criminal may run but depending on the situation then injury through accidental firing or not having gun with them or cardiac incident due to stress of taking on criminal likely to cause more threat to old person's life.
Ahhhhh, America. How we love to stare in amazement at you!
"Morons" depends on whether it has been reported correctly. It looks like the /. title is (unsurprisingly) incorrect and the question was "is what you're watching HD?" not the implied "here is SD and HD, can you tell the difference?".
As for HD, TBH I don't care. HD might be better quality, but on our new TV (26" HD Ready Goodmans) an SD DVD looks more than adequate. Some TV channels look a bit off at times, but that appears to be a combination of poor compression from Sky and a cheap up-scaler. The extra money for a fuller HD setup would just be a waste, IMO.
I've got a six month old, and I wish he only saw his grandparents a couple of times a year. The Mother-in-law has moved from ~200 miles and a ~3-hour drive away (not much in America, but enough to make it more likely to be a "go one day back the next" trip in the UK because of potential traffic delays) to the same town as us. We're now struggling to keep it down to seeing her twice a week.
Having my son see the mother-in-law only a few times a year would be a blessing!
Gah, I meant the GP's "modifying content without permission" isn't accurate. The AC's comments are accurate (complete with a reference!)
Mod parent (insightful and informed AC) up.
As much as I hate Phorm (luckily I'm not with a Phorm ISP), that's not entirely accurate. As mentioned by an AC (but likely to get lost) Phorm only modifies the ad selection for the Phorm advertising network. It does not strip out other ads and replace them with their own (although it wouldn't surprise me if someone had suggested that), it just tries to target ads from a select network of advertisers.
That said, it does still piggy-back any content that I put up on my website by reading it and gaining marketting data from it. I sure as hell didn't agree to that, so I'm investigating methods of stopping them profiting from my content when I don't get a cut and when I purposefully don't put adverts on my sites.
There's a "New New Coke" and a "New New York" (other than Futurama)?
If this is the "NXE" system (the New XBox Experience) then what will it be when they re-engineer it again? The NNXE (the New NXE)? While NXE might look "cool" to some people, putting "New" in the branding of something isn't a great idea for the future!
I already did a quick comparison for a "Mac Tax" article and it didn't come out well for the Apple. It was more on the Mac Mini because integrated monitors are something I would avoid like the plague, but it was still "Apple versus other brands".
Not that I've got anything specific against Apple - my wife's old iBook would be quite a nice laptop to work on, just as soon as I fix the backlight - but given the choice then I'd rather spec what I want at what ends up being a more reasonable price.
I guess it might be better in some ways for trials than for full games, but it still works on the assumption that a) the user has a net connection on their machine (because no-one with a laptop ever bought a game while they were on a business trip or anything) b) the net connection is working and c) the server is alive and active.
The other problem is that once "dial-home" is accepted for demos, then companies would start saying "well, you didn't mind it when we put it in the demo" and would put it in the final game anyway.
Time-limited trials are always going to be an awkward one to enforce, but there's still acceptable ways to try and do it and less acceptable ones.
And then they phone home with a hash of your hardware specs and log your IP. Then they phone home with a hash of your hardware specs, log your IP and bill you for each additional install. Then they ...
Phone-home is one of the worst ideas (from a customer's point of view) for protection. If I'm playing a game that is purely off-line then why should I require an Internet connection to install? And if I'm playing an online game then what's wrong with just using the serial number to identify duplicates?
What's with the assumption that the Net is everywhere? Yes it's becoming more prevalent, but not everyone's machine is hooked up, and even if it is then a) their ISP can crap out, b) they can be without Net access because of moving house (ISPs take a couple of weeks in the UK to reconnect you), c) the server can go down (as happened with one of the big blockbusters on BluRay, where the disks lagged on start because they were trying to get film data from a downed web server), d) they can be behind a restrictive firewall...and that's just my initial thoughts.
There, fixed that for you.
That depends on your definition. I'd say my manual optimisation of my sites (making sure the content is at the top of the page, making sure images have alt tags, making sure abbreviations are tagged with the full version, linking between relevant content etc) is real SEO and is legitimate. It also has the advantage of being VUAO (Visiting User Agent Optimisation because it helps users and user agents when they visit my site))
What is scum and spam is what I call SEM (Search Engine Manipulation), which is the classic fake pages/links/content and terrible mass of over-used keywords that's there for no reason other than to try to look tempting for search engines while looking dreadful to most visitors or taking people to contentless pages.
It depends where the court falls on the legal definition. The dictionary definition is unclear, but half of them state publication (which a single letter isn't)
(From http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/libel with my emphasis)
Defamation is the generic term for libel and slander, one of which is written and one of which is spoken. Also, while it wouldn't be applicable in the UK, the US courts apparently think that it must be published (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation#cite_ref-5). There is a similar statement about the English law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation#England) but there's not citation to back it up.
As for it going to a shared flat/house, that's your fault for letting someone else open your mail. If it goes to the wrong address entirely then they are (I believe) breaking the law by opening your mail as it is not addressed to them, so again it isn't the ISP's fault.
Doubtful, because they almost certainly won't publish the list of who they sent letters to and so they won't have done anything to impact your reputation. I'd imagine that'd be one thing that Legal were keeping a close eye on (as well as how to do it to reduce their bandwidth while not getting caught in any other legal issues).
Hang-on, aren't at least half of those also the ISPs who want to spy on their users with Phorm? I've seen BT and Virgin mentioned, I'm not sure about Orange and Tiscali, and I'm fairly sure I've seen Carphone Warehouse mentioned but I can't remember whether they were saying "we won't do it" or "it'll always be opt-in".
I think you'll find eat.me is already possible if you sign up for a domain with Montenegro, the former Yugoslavian nation ;) All you need to do is be a legal entity (because otherwise it would be something like eat.co.me or eat.its.me)
Same here - Firefox tries looking both of them up as subdomains of the corporate domain.