Calling for commercial organisations to stop profiling their customers is about as worthwhile as asking a four year old not to eat that marshmallow you just placed in front of them.
The problem is Joe Average is just too willing to give up their information for the smallest of perks, be it filling out a personal survey to win an iProduct, or swiping their supermarket member card at every transaction to save a few percent.
I'd be almost certain that HDD manufacturers are "holding back" on new technologies to milk their current product line as long as possible, but this is not pricefixing nor is it abnormal behaviour unless the different manufactures are colluding.
Your cat is not "listening", it is simply tolerating that annoying racket that you call "music" in exchange for food, body heat, clean kitty litter, etc.
Megaupload is being taken for a ride in the Party Van and Filesonic has chosen self obliteration, though there is no shortage of competing services. On first glance Wikipedia lists 70+ of the most popular file hosting services.
I recall the Adobe loading screens on older Acrobat versions. One time while waiting for Acrobat to load its bloated carcass into memory I actually paid attention to the loading messages and noticed "movie.api" among others being loaded. That was the nail in the coffin.
While switching to non-Adobe PDF software may not be in the power of everyone, you can blacklist the Adobe PDF plugin from running in your web-browser. Apart from improving your internet experience it may also help prevent some drive-by PDF exploits.
But the point is banks could have access to see if a number was recently ported. If they detected a number was ported they could take further action or require additional authentication. The banks choose not to use this information, and customers are defrauded.
A Hardware Token (such as RSA Securid) would have prevented TFA's fraud. SMS is clearly not a good replacement for real Two-Factor authentication, though it is cheap for the banks to implement compared to other options.
So the banks say it's not their problem, it's the fault of mobile operators for making numbers portable. Yet the banks were offered access to the national mobile database so they could check if a number was recently ported, but declined to use the information. Meanwhile the fraudsters are getting away with their winnings...
I think SMB or FTP would choke, both in terms of bandwidth and in terms of concurrent user limitations if your server became even remotely popular in that situation. Also it's hard to play games while your server is being thrashed.
Subsidising.xxx domain names to protect Americans from the foreign porn invasion terrorists. I'd love to see the President announce this with a straight face.
Jobs didn't have the "regular" adenocarcinoma that has a 5% five-year survival rate, he had a rare form that has an estimated 80%-90% ten-year survival rate when detected and acted upon early.
Alternative medicines on the whole are snake-oil treatments that sucker the desperate and ill-informed. Anecdotes do not make science. Unsurprisingly some hold the opinion that there is a greater than zero chance that Jobs would be alive today had he not attempted to treat his cancer with alternative therapies.
So the coalition wants to give an electronic "pigeon hole" to every citizen which will allow communication from "government agencies and other related organizations". This sounds to me like a reboot of the National Identity system that the same government tried to create in 2006.
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I could've sworn Avengers was another Michael Bay film.
Forward Error Correction makes IPTV streams watchable over congested networks or fragile wireless connections.
Calling for commercial organisations to stop profiling their customers is about as worthwhile as asking a four year old not to eat that marshmallow you just placed in front of them.
The problem is Joe Average is just too willing to give up their information for the smallest of perks, be it filling out a personal survey to win an iProduct, or swiping their supermarket member card at every transaction to save a few percent.
Redundant, Customs and Border Protection already does Deep Packet Inspection.
I'd be almost certain that HDD manufacturers are "holding back" on new technologies to milk their current product line as long as possible, but this is not pricefixing nor is it abnormal behaviour unless the different manufactures are colluding.
I would assume when apple releases a IOS that does everything that an android phone did long ago, it'll be announced as magical and revolutionary.
FTFY
The full horror of the GP's post was only revealed to me after you mentioned Primer.
Car accidents and suicides? Last I heard the Daylight Savings haters biggest complaint was that the extra hour of sunlight would fade their curtains.
according to researchers who injected capsicum, the active ingredient in chilies
TFS is wrong, as specified in TFA the ingredient is capsaicin
Cue the obligatory "you must be new here" for expecting editors to edit...
Your cat is not "listening", it is simply tolerating that annoying racket that you call "music" in exchange for food, body heat, clean kitty litter, etc.
Next up, China sues Google to stop showing 'negative' links for Tiananmen Square. Ad infinitum.
Wouldn't it be cheaper, easier, and more effective to simply rename the campground?
Sounds like Zuckerberg forgot to change the default privacy settings from public to private.
Megaupload is being taken for a ride in the Party Van and Filesonic has chosen self obliteration, though there is no shortage of competing services. On first glance Wikipedia lists 70+ of the most popular file hosting services.
I recall the Adobe loading screens on older Acrobat versions. One time while waiting for Acrobat to load its bloated carcass into memory I actually paid attention to the loading messages and noticed "movie.api" among others being loaded. That was the nail in the coffin.
While switching to non-Adobe PDF software may not be in the power of everyone, you can blacklist the Adobe PDF plugin from running in your web-browser. Apart from improving your internet experience it may also help prevent some drive-by PDF exploits.
But the point is banks could have access to see if a number was recently ported. If they detected a number was ported they could take further action or require additional authentication. The banks choose not to use this information, and customers are defrauded.
A Hardware Token (such as RSA Securid) would have prevented TFA's fraud. SMS is clearly not a good replacement for real Two-Factor authentication, though it is cheap for the banks to implement compared to other options.
So the banks say it's not their problem, it's the fault of mobile operators for making numbers portable. Yet the banks were offered access to the national mobile database so they could check if a number was recently ported, but declined to use the information. Meanwhile the fraudsters are getting away with their winnings...
I think SMB or FTP would choke, both in terms of bandwidth and in terms of concurrent user limitations if your server became even remotely popular in that situation. Also it's hard to play games while your server is being thrashed.
Yahoo's search engine IS Bing.
And Bing's search engine is Google.
Subsidising .xxx domain names to protect Americans from the foreign porn invasion terrorists. I'd love to see the President announce this with a straight face.
The solution to protecting a trademark is to register domains in every possible TLD. This message brought to you by GoD*ddy.
If you don't defend a trademark, you lose it - even if you're not aware of it being used by someone else.
I'm still interested to know how you defend your trademark when you're not aware of it being used?
Jobs didn't have the "regular" adenocarcinoma that has a 5% five-year survival rate, he had a rare form that has an estimated 80%-90% ten-year survival rate when detected and acted upon early.
Alternative medicines on the whole are snake-oil treatments that sucker the desperate and ill-informed. Anecdotes do not make science. Unsurprisingly some hold the opinion that there is a greater than zero chance that Jobs would be alive today had he not attempted to treat his cancer with alternative therapies.
Not sure if you are sarcastic or ignorant.
Apple sued to try and prevent other software companies from using similar GUI elements including the Trash can, and were partially successful.
So the coalition wants to give an electronic "pigeon hole" to every citizen which will allow communication from "government agencies and other related organizations". This sounds to me like a reboot of the National Identity system that the same government tried to create in 2006.