"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation - but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "It's very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."
- Sucking up to the wealthy IP industry?
Check!
- sticking your tongue up two asses at the same time?
Check!
- Good usage of semantics that will convince the sheeple that you had a change of heart without offending future political donors?
Check!
A. Really. I wasn't aware of that thanks for the enlightenment. B. Don't have that many of those were I live. Sorry to disappoint you with me not being British. C. I am glad for you. Really. I Am.
For your information, what triggered my reply were the editors phrasing of the posting "This is great news for all the Star Trek fans out there." Now who is the git?
As for that narcolepsy link: If it's on the Huffington Post, it's automatically wrong. They are setting themselves up as the internet epicentre of pseudoscientific crap.
I won't claim he was a great President (though perhaps history is harsher on him than it should be) but the moment you claim he was this clever, lying mastermind that took part in a conspiracy to murder thousands of innocent American civilians, you've dived off the deep end.
And if one were to suggest that he may have been an useful idiot for the real powers to be?
Except that your browser doesn't show the full URL, just a snippet.
Except that my browser doesn't show the full url, just a snippet.
There fixed that for you.
In the case you wonder, I am using Opera with the default setting "Show tooltips" which neatly displays the full url next to my cursor whenever hovering over a link. Yes, that can be a minor nuisance but one which is well compensated at times like this.
3. Internet Explorer and Windows are still terminally broken out-of-the-box.
Having cleaned Antivirus 2010/2009/2008 and more of the same ilk from countless XP machines running IE6 with no admin rights for the user I could not agree more. Yep, the majority of the users where I work do not have any admin rights yet these scam AV's cause me more annoyance than I can describe in words, an annoyance exponentially increased by the fact that the none of the tools I have at hand by the company are capable of dealing with them, leaving me to manually having to deal with the infection. I do have to say the latest iterations of this crap have really evolved in regards of making manual removal increasingly difficult, start task manager just to watch it choke and die a fraction of a second later, run a portable version of Ccleaner (non-approved), no luck it is reported as malware (by the real malware) and killed, msconfig nope that'l get killed too.
This is just another reason for me to not want to buy Chinese made goods.
And why do you percieve the threat of backdoors in Chinese products being a bigger threat to you than backdoors in products manufactured elsewhere? Surely you do not believe that there aren't forces in your country that would love to have their own backdoors in hardware. Of course I can only speak for myself but, on a personal level the thought of backdoors in hardware put in place by my own government is significantly more disturbing than Chinese ones.
Let's not judge either way before all the facts are in and public, okay?
Most people don't have the patience to wait (understandably so) for all the facts to get de-classified, quite a few of us won't probably even live long enough to see that happen. Statistically, will you?
I mean people have burnt themselves on hot coffee and won lawsuits because they weren't notified.
Coffee very rarely comes with a EULA explicitly removing responsibility from the vendor in case the coffee is too hot, or at least it used to. Most software come with EULA's covering exactly the points you've brought forward.
Here in Belgium we have a very handy solution, park your car then simply send a text message from your mobile phone with your license plate number to a four digit number. When you leave the parking send a new message and the amount for the period you have parked will be automatically debited from your account. No running back and forth between the machine and your car. No risk of exceeding the time, unless you forget to send the end parking message of course.
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Where oh where I are my mod points when I need them for the by far funniest AC reply I have seen in quite some time, possibly ever.
In what parallel universe were the RnB exclusive blog activities Serious Organized Crime? Okay, modern RnB could be considered a crime, but still...
reply to remove accidental troll mod
With anti-Talibanism on the rise, expect them to start detaining anyone with a beard or mustache, women who wear scarves, men who wear hats, etc.
Would not that be poetic justice?
FTA
"Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, which is why Go Daddy has been working to help craft revisions to this legislation - but we can clearly do better," Warren Adelman, Go Daddy's newly appointed CEO, said. "It's very important that all Internet stakeholders work together on this. Getting it right is worth the wait. Go Daddy will support it when and if the Internet community supports it."
- Sucking up to the wealthy IP industry?
Check!
- sticking your tongue up two asses at the same time?
Check!
- Good usage of semantics that will convince the sheeple that you had a change of heart without offending future political donors? Check!
...nothing of value were lost.
A. Really. I wasn't aware of that thanks for the enlightenment.
B. Don't have that many of those were I live. Sorry to disappoint you with me not being British.
C. I am glad for you. Really. I Am.
For your information, what triggered my reply were the editors phrasing of the posting "This is great news for all the Star Trek fans out there." Now who is the git?
Great news if you live in a part of the world where netflix is available. Attention /. editors, the tubes are global and so are your readers.
Or proves that /. readers don't read the article which were published on 22nd March. ;-)
RTFA then read this
As for that narcolepsy link: If it's on the Huffington Post, it's automatically wrong. They are setting themselves up as the internet epicentre of pseudoscientific crap.
How about a link from the Finnish National Institute For Health And Welfare? Link is to the English version of their pressrelease.
Or...World Health Organisation?
I won't claim he was a great President (though perhaps history is harsher on him than it should be) but the moment you claim he was this clever, lying mastermind that took part in a conspiracy to murder thousands of innocent American civilians, you've dived off the deep end.
And if one were to suggest that he may have been an useful idiot for the real powers to be?
Troll or not, Anomynous Coward do have a valid point.
Except that your browser doesn't show the full URL, just a snippet.
Except that my browser doesn't show the full url, just a snippet. There fixed that for you.
In the case you wonder, I am using Opera with the default setting "Show tooltips" which neatly displays the full url next to my cursor whenever hovering over a link. Yes, that can be a minor nuisance but one which is well compensated at times like this.
3. Internet Explorer and Windows are still terminally broken out-of-the-box.
Having cleaned Antivirus 2010/2009/2008 and more of the same ilk from countless XP machines running IE6 with no admin rights for the user I could not agree more. Yep, the majority of the users where I work do not have any admin rights yet these scam AV's cause me more annoyance than I can describe in words, an annoyance exponentially increased by the fact that the none of the tools I have at hand by the company are capable of dealing with them, leaving me to manually having to deal with the infection. I do have to say the latest iterations of this crap have really evolved in regards of making manual removal increasingly difficult, start task manager just to watch it choke and die a fraction of a second later, run a portable version of Ccleaner (non-approved), no luck it is reported as malware (by the real malware) and killed, msconfig nope that'l get killed too.
Despite having excellent karma I haven't had any mod points in a very long time, and haven't really cared. But, seeing Jawn's comment getting modded Troll together with http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1555240&cid=31188392 and http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1555240&cid=31188348 [i]do[/i] make me wish I had them now.
This is just another reason for me to not want to buy Chinese made goods.
And why do you percieve the threat of backdoors in Chinese products being a bigger threat to you than backdoors in products manufactured elsewhere? Surely you do not believe that there aren't forces in your country that would love to have their own backdoors in hardware. Of course I can only speak for myself but, on a personal level the thought of backdoors in hardware put in place by my own government is significantly more disturbing than Chinese ones.
Use it for therapeutic purposes
They misspelled "Please" on the cake.
Or... they made a point by peering the über delicious e via IPv6 ;-)
Let's not judge either way before all the facts are in and public, okay?
Most people don't have the patience to wait (understandably so) for all the facts to get de-classified, quite a few of us won't probably even live long enough to see that happen. Statistically, will you?
Neither is bandwidth.
Sounds quite a lot like quiz games over IRC to me.
I mean people have burnt themselves on hot coffee and won lawsuits because they weren't notified.
Coffee very rarely comes with a EULA explicitly removing responsibility from the vendor in case the coffee is too hot, or at least it used to. Most software come with EULA's covering exactly the points you've brought forward.
Here in Belgium we have a very handy solution, park your car then simply send a text message from your mobile phone with your license plate number to a four digit number. When you leave the parking send a new message and the amount for the period you have parked will be automatically debited from your account. No running back and forth between the machine and your car. No risk of exceeding the time, unless you forget to send the end parking message of course.
Bad press maybe. Bad marketing, I'm not so sure.