Actually, the software sector is the only one that is consistently going up AFAICT (I am not a stock broker, don't rely on this). Google is leading the pack.
Which I use and have had Google blocked for years. It's not setup that way by default (or at least wasn't when I originally set up those filters, it might be in the subscriptions by now though)
There is an advantage to the clicking that Adblock doesn't have though - it makes it obvious to Google that people don't want it. The not loading won't be seen unless Google goes looking for it, with help from each hosting site. That's unlikely to happen.
Why should Google ever go looking for it, unless its popularity rises absurdly? It hurts the host site primarily, not Google, so Google won't waste time and resources looking for it. By contrast, the clicking goes straight to Google's servers. OTOH I don't think clickfraud is a good idea; it seems unethical whereas adblock is just choosing to ignore certain <img> and <iframe> tags.
Actually, it's more like dumping them right into the store's trashcan. The store loses, nobody (including the perpetrator) gains.
That's only true if there are an infinite number of cookies, since throwing away all of the free samples deprives other customers. In this case, only the store (or the company providing the samples) loses.
So block the clicks coming from the ~2% of users who use Tor. Since Tor usage and cluefulness tend to go hand-in-hand, you'd only be dropping.002% of clicks anyway.
People play multiple times because they lose, not because they win. But I'd agree that being unable to win would be pretty depressing; you would need to advertise this, at which point the user gets annoyed and yells at you.
Either way I think it completely sucks. As a Java developer who tries to maintain a professional image, I don't like having to ask my clients to install software that comes bundled with crapware.
I wouldn't worry this early in the game. Java is an industry standard. But if things do get ugly, try IcedTea/OpenJDK.
Okay, so deliberately behave in a way that will force their hand, that is, make a huge website containing all sorts of aids for exercising fair use (read:DeCSS etc), along with a warning to visitors to only use it under fair use (perhaps with a link to Wikipedia). IANAL, but I would love to see a case like that go to trial, if only because we might get a clearer (more favorable) ruling on Universal v. Reimerdes (the DeCSS case in which the defendant asserted the unconstitutionality of the DMCA; the judge sidestepped the arguement)
Of course, IANAL, this is not legal advice, you might get yourself sued into the ground by doing this, etc.
IANAL, but if congress doesn't give you a copyright in the first place, the IP doesn't exist in a legal sense and cannot be said to have been "seized".
You can enable the backports (read:semi-stable betas and new releases) repository in Ubuntu through the GUI, though it is admittedly non-obvious. This won't get you the bleeding-edge-version-that-doesn't-have-this-one-annoying-bug-and-is-on-svn-only, but IMHO if you don't know how to do that, you shouldn't be trying to install pre-alphas in the first place.
The file browser in GNOME is called nautilus (it's a pun on the notion of a "shell"). Not that you need to know that in order to use the system, given GNOME always refers to it as the "file browser".
No, don't do that. The bits have a minuscule but nonzero probability of smashing together into a validly partitioned volume containing a virus or something nasty (or an invalid one that crashes Windows). It's very improbable (I think), but possible. Besides, who cares if they can tell you wiped it? A regular pattern doesn't mean they can reverse the overwrite operation (probably; we don't know what the NSA can do).
If the NSA knew how to do that, would they really give the technique away for $500? Moreover, would they reveal that they could do it for $500?
OTOH, no matter what, you'll never be 100% sure they can't get a given piece of data (unless you use a one time pad, which has its own problems. I am not an cryptographer, don't sue me if I'm wrong.).
The Sun is the reason for adding the solar panel to make ISS brighter in the first place. Removing the Sun would cause a time paradox and would undo (all of|local) reality. Or else it might just make the Earth freeze over...
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That is an accident
as far as I'm concerned.
No it's not. It's some stupid company sending you messages you did not ask for. Once might be an accident, but "all the time" isn't.
If you had to choose between this and what you now use, which would you pick?
Actually, the software sector is the only one that is consistently going up AFAICT (I am not a stock broker, don't rely on this). Google is leading the pack.
Which I use and have had Google blocked for years. It's not setup that way by default (or at least wasn't when I originally set up those filters, it might be in the subscriptions by now though)
There is an advantage to the clicking that Adblock doesn't have though - it makes it obvious to Google that people don't want it. The not loading won't be seen unless Google goes looking for it, with help from each hosting site. That's unlikely to happen.
Why should Google ever go looking for it, unless its popularity rises absurdly? It hurts the host site primarily, not Google, so Google won't waste time and resources looking for it. By contrast, the clicking goes straight to Google's servers. OTOH I don't think clickfraud is a good idea; it seems unethical whereas adblock is just choosing to ignore certain <img> and <iframe> tags.
IP address != individual person
The RIAA may not understand the above inequality, but I would think Google is smarter than that.
Actually, it's more like dumping them right into the store's trashcan. The store loses, nobody (including the perpetrator) gains.
That's only true if there are an infinite number of cookies, since throwing away all of the free samples deprives other customers. In this case, only the store (or the company providing the samples) loses.
Since when do people want ads?
So block the clicks coming from the ~2% of users who use Tor. Since Tor usage and cluefulness tend to go hand-in-hand, you'd only be dropping .002% of clicks anyway.
Do tell us when such an improved and hacked up Gnash comes into existance.
People play multiple times because they lose, not because they win. But I'd agree that being unable to win would be pretty depressing; you would need to advertise this, at which point the user gets annoyed and yells at you.
Either way I think it completely sucks. As a Java developer who tries to maintain a professional image, I don't like having to ask my clients to install software that comes bundled with crapware.
I wouldn't worry this early in the game. Java is an industry standard. But if things do get ugly, try IcedTea/OpenJDK.
Then the apocalypse happens.
[snip]Windows ME.
Yes, that would fall under the general category of "something nasty".
That would be fair use, which the RIAA seems to believe is nonexistent in the age of information.
IANAL.
Okay, so deliberately behave in a way that will force their hand, that is, make a huge website containing all sorts of aids for exercising fair use (read:DeCSS etc), along with a warning to visitors to only use it under fair use (perhaps with a link to Wikipedia). IANAL, but I would love to see a case like that go to trial, if only because we might get a clearer (more favorable) ruling on Universal v. Reimerdes (the DeCSS case in which the defendant asserted the unconstitutionality of the DMCA; the judge sidestepped the arguement)
Of course, IANAL, this is not legal advice, you might get yourself sued into the ground by doing this, etc.
Also he should not have allowed them to join 16 separate John Does; that was a flagrant violation of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Didn't some federal judge tell them not to do that?
IANAL, but if congress doesn't give you a copyright in the first place, the IP doesn't exist in a legal sense and cannot be said to have been "seized".
Again, IANAL.
IIRC aptitude is a TUI and synaptic is a GUI.
If you used a particular command in some ancient form of DOS ~once a year, would you have it memorized?
You can enable the backports (read:semi-stable betas and new releases) repository in Ubuntu through the GUI, though it is admittedly non-obvious. This won't get you the bleeding-edge-version-that-doesn't-have-this-one-annoying-bug-and-is-on-svn-only, but IMHO if you don't know how to do that, you shouldn't be trying to install pre-alphas in the first place.
The file browser in GNOME is called nautilus (it's a pun on the notion of a "shell"). Not that you need to know that in order to use the system, given GNOME always refers to it as the "file browser".
please apt-get install foo
too many verbs.
s/([a-z])([A-Z])/\1_\2/g
Real geeks don't strip spaces - they use underscores :P
(Unless you're a JavaScript programmer in which case I'm terribly sorry...)
There, fixed that for you.
Wtf are "${1}" and "$2" supposed to be?
No, don't do that. The bits have a minuscule but nonzero probability of smashing together into a validly partitioned volume containing a virus or something nasty (or an invalid one that crashes Windows). It's very improbable (I think), but possible.
Besides, who cares if they can tell you wiped it? A regular pattern doesn't mean they can reverse the overwrite operation (probably; we don't know what the NSA can do).
If the NSA knew how to do that, would they really give the technique away for $500? Moreover, would they reveal that they could do it for $500?
OTOH, no matter what, you'll never be 100% sure they can't get a given piece of data (unless you use a one time pad, which has its own problems. I am not an cryptographer, don't sue me if I'm wrong.).
The Sun is the reason for adding the solar panel to make ISS brighter in the first place. Removing the Sun would cause a time paradox and would undo (all of|local) reality. Or else it might just make the Earth freeze over...