But the higher percentage you get then the more likely you are to get 'dumb' users sneaking in and not knowing how to protect themselves.
Either the 19 countries with a higher penetration but lower deployment than America have generally more intelligent and tech-savvy users and hence are bot-netted less, or else America is really unlucky and its higher 'deployment' has managed to catch more dumb users than the law of averages allows for.
Yes, the large number of users can out-weigh the actual percentage, but I would have thought some of the other top 20 would have more potential botted machines based on the stats. Not that I actually worked out sums, just a rough approximation.
I thought the USA was comparatively far down the list, despite being big. It's only information but this article from 2006 shows America down at 20.
What's more likely is the country with the most users has more tech-unsavvy users who get infected. Either that or they're just more likely to believe the "get free [insert something here]" flashing adverts and so have a higher infection/takeover rate.
Which is exactly the reason why military aircraft full of soldiers normally have the seats facing the rear.
Rear-facing seats are much safer in a crash* but civilians feel uncomfortable that way round. Since comfort is most important to air passengers, seats normally face the front (except some of the posher 1st class ones where they have them paired and facing in opposite directions).
Squadies probably feel a bit uncomfortable and disorientated flying backwards as well, but at least you can just say "tough luck, soldier, you're going to have to bear it". That doesn't go down so well with customers!
Yargh, damnit, just like a previous poster I got caught out by the posting format.
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Because it has a required structure and is more XML-like, so people can't be lazy and miss closing tags etc?
Alternatively, it's because XHTML is semantic, where as HTML is either not semantic (<b>, <i>, <u> etc in HTML4 have no real meaning) or that it's buzzword-semantic (<article>, <video>, <progress> and the others mentioned are apparently possible parts of HTML5). Why make people think semantically when it doesn't involve buzzwords and 'oooo, leet blog'-ness?
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Addendum: See, this is why HTML is bad. I put in an unclosed tag and it parses it;) Addendum 2: Damned posting limit making my correction follow-up slow!
Because it has a required structure and is more XML-like, so people can't be lazy and miss closing tags etc?
Alternatively, it's because XHTML is semantic, where as HTML is either not semantic (, , etc in HTML4 have no real meaning) or that it's buzzword-semantic (, and the others mentioned are apparently possible parts of HTML5). Why make people think semantically when it doesn't involve buzzwords and 'oooo, leet blog'-ness?
Huh? What things? I found nothing in TFA (well, the first one, don't quite want to read an entire working draft;) ) that mentioned something that hadn't developed as expected.
The other thing they tend to do is allow fan-authored fiction more than other TV and related media groups. My fiancee is in the fanfic scene, and a lot of areas are *much* more restrictive than Anime. Some Anime even pays very small amounts to authors as they realise that it's almost-free advertising.
If only other companies could take similarly enlightened views.
I don't think people have a problem with "democracy", it's a problem with "Democracy". When it gets that capital letter it reminds people of the imposed 'democracy' that Bush is now (in)famous for forcing on other countries.
"We have free and fair elections, as long as you vote for the people we like";) It's almost like "anyone can vote as long as they're not disqualified for being: insane, poor, a member of a union, or female" (Pratchett reference?)
It's all well and good planning on making a quadrupedal robot with the potential for it being a personnel-carrying vehicle, but what about the ride itself? Especially when it has to run on water I can't imagine it being particularly smooth (like, for example, how the basilisk they're modelling twists its body).
I occasionally do, and it depends on the channel. Q Radio on the Internet in the UK is identical to Q Radio on Freeview (digital TV) so if you're on your computer and feel like listening to the radio then you can run it through your (already running) PC rather than having your TV on (and in a different room)
Somehow I suspect this legislation was written by legals with no idea of technology. Or even simple logic, come to that. "Well, it may come out as something you can hear, but make it so that you can't copy it, and lets just ignore the fact that if you can hear it you must be able to copy it in some way".
Drat, wasn't paying attention and my new account didn't work.
Basically, there's no way a BBC hour is 48 minutes unless it's an hour long programme from a commercial channel (at which point they fit it in a 45 minute slot).
The advertisements aren't adverts for products, they're "coming soon" and "one to watch tonight", which ITV and other commercial channels do. So yes, there is the occasional minute or to of non-program, but it's generally matched by a minute or to of similar non-program on commercial channels, only without the commercial breaks.
Incidentally, the Formula One was much better when it was on BBC, as you didn't get the situation of "welcome back, and you just completely missed something while we went to the break, and we can't show it again now because it's all under the control of the local race directory".
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But the higher percentage you get then the more likely you are to get 'dumb' users sneaking in and not knowing how to protect themselves.
Either the 19 countries with a higher penetration but lower deployment than America have generally more intelligent and tech-savvy users and hence are bot-netted less, or else America is really unlucky and its higher 'deployment' has managed to catch more dumb users than the law of averages allows for.
Yes, the large number of users can out-weigh the actual percentage, but I would have thought some of the other top 20 would have more potential botted machines based on the stats. Not that I actually worked out sums, just a rough approximation.
Country with more guns has more gunshot deaths.
Country with pro-euthanasia law has more assisted suicides.
Communist East and Capitalist West both support spamming as source of finance...
Hand on, maybe that last one is unusual.
I thought the USA was comparatively far down the list, despite being big. It's only information but this article from 2006 shows America down at 20.
What's more likely is the country with the most users has more tech-unsavvy users who get infected. Either that or they're just more likely to believe the "get free [insert something here]" flashing adverts and so have a higher infection/takeover rate.
Which is exactly the reason why military aircraft full of soldiers normally have the seats facing the rear.
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Rear-facing seats are much safer in a crash* but civilians feel uncomfortable that way round. Since comfort is most important to air passengers, seats normally face the front (except some of the posher 1st class ones where they have them paired and facing in opposite directions).
Squadies probably feel a bit uncomfortable and disorientated flying backwards as well, but at least you can just say "tough luck, soldier, you're going to have to bear it". That doesn't go down so well with customers!
* because as the vehicle decelerates then you're already pushed against the seat, rather than being suddenly thrown forwards and having your heart tear itself out, as mentioned at http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25356
Yargh, damnit, just like a previous poster I got caught out by the posting format.
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Because it has a required structure and is more XML-like, so people can't be lazy and miss closing tags etc?
Alternatively, it's because XHTML is semantic, where as HTML is either not semantic (<b>, <i>, <u> etc in HTML4 have no real meaning) or that it's buzzword-semantic (<article>, <video>, <progress> and the others mentioned are apparently possible parts of HTML5). Why make people think semantically when it doesn't involve buzzwords and 'oooo, leet blog'-ness?
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Addendum: See, this is why HTML is bad. I put in an unclosed tag and it parses it
Addendum 2: Damned posting limit making my correction follow-up slow!
Because it has a required structure and is more XML-like, so people can't be lazy and miss closing tags etc?
Alternatively, it's because XHTML is semantic, where as HTML is either not semantic (, , etc in HTML4 have no real meaning) or that it's buzzword-semantic (, and the others mentioned are apparently possible parts of HTML5). Why make people think semantically when it doesn't involve buzzwords and 'oooo, leet blog'-ness?
The other thing they tend to do is allow fan-authored fiction more than other TV and related media groups. My fiancee is in the fanfic scene, and a lot of areas are *much* more restrictive than Anime. Some Anime even pays very small amounts to authors as they realise that it's almost-free advertising.
If only other companies could take similarly enlightened views.
I don't think people have a problem with "democracy", it's a problem with "Democracy". When it gets that capital letter it reminds people of the imposed 'democracy' that Bush is now (in)famous for forcing on other countries.
;) It's almost like "anyone can vote as long as they're not disqualified for being: insane, poor, a member of a union, or female" (Pratchett reference?)
"We have free and fair elections, as long as you vote for the people we like"
It's all well and good planning on making a quadrupedal robot with the potential for it being a personnel-carrying vehicle, but what about the ride itself? Especially when it has to run on water I can't imagine it being particularly smooth (like, for example, how the basilisk they're modelling twists its body).
No, they just invented the entirely new "toner in liquid". There's no prior art and the patent is coming soon.
I occasionally do, and it depends on the channel. Q Radio on the Internet in the UK is identical to Q Radio on Freeview (digital TV) so if you're on your computer and feel like listening to the radio then you can run it through your (already running) PC rather than having your TV on (and in a different room)
Somehow I suspect this legislation was written by legals with no idea of technology. Or even simple logic, come to that. "Well, it may come out as something you can hear, but make it so that you can't copy it, and lets just ignore the fact that if you can hear it you must be able to copy it in some way".
Drat, wasn't paying attention and my new account didn't work. Basically, there's no way a BBC hour is 48 minutes unless it's an hour long programme from a commercial channel (at which point they fit it in a 45 minute slot). The advertisements aren't adverts for products, they're "coming soon" and "one to watch tonight", which ITV and other commercial channels do. So yes, there is the occasional minute or to of non-program, but it's generally matched by a minute or to of similar non-program on commercial channels, only without the commercial breaks. Incidentally, the Formula One was much better when it was on BBC, as you didn't get the situation of "welcome back, and you just completely missed something while we went to the break, and we can't show it again now because it's all under the control of the local race directory".