Don't look at the shit which offends you. If necessary don't use the internet at all. I myself manage to go my entire time on the internet without viewing stuff which does not interest me by the simple expedient of not searching for it. If by chance I find myself at looking at something does not interest me, I browse somewhere else which does.
I didn't check if Sky Atlantic was on cable. Wikipedia suggests cable companies are being held over a barrel on pricing and aren't showing it. That would mean a lot of people couldn't watch it even if they wanted to. And many more would simply refuse to sign up to Sky on principle. I'm sure there is a similar story around the world and so it's not surprising if its widely pirated.
This probably isn't all a bad thing for HBO who doubtless will sell a lot more boxed sets. It might be bad news for Sky and other providers though, depending on how much they paid for the rights.
In the UK if you wanted to watch it you'd be need Sky TV or cable. That's £20 per month for a minimum contract of 12 months or £240 just to watch a show which only runs for 10 weeks. It's not hard to understand why many people would wish to download it instead. I suspect even people with Sky / cable download it anyway just so they have a copy which they can watch without a using bunch of iffy Sky software with all the DRM and time restrictions that it imposes on viewing.
"2) Show the user a panorama of Metro for a minute and ask "do you want this or the traditional windows experience on start up?""
Asking questions for which there is no right answer and where many people have no clue which option is best for them is just confusing. It's better to pick a default behaviour and provide the means for those determined enough to change it to something else.
The thing I hate most in my dealings with Facebook is the cynical UI design that makes it easy to like / friend / unsubscribe but a pain to do the opposite. And that extends to the way they make you navigate a maze of privacy settings to lock it down to its maximum.
I haven't gotten that feeling from Google+ so in that regard it's much better. Of course Diaspora is better again given that you can permanently delete anything you like and can even run your own pod if you really paranoid about data leakage.
I'm not really into social networks but I'm subscribed to some things on Google+ related to development, games and other stuff and there is plenty of content. It may well be less than Facebook but it's certainly no "ghost town". I also think as far as social networks go, it has a nice user interface especially since it integrates into other Google services.
Well that's pretty much total bullshit. Google wins when it gets its services running on as many handsets as possible regardless of who manufactures them. They make money from monetizing users in terms of the data they gather and increasingly from selling apps and other content.
Microsoft have had years of infighting and its really hurt them especially in the mobile space. Look at all the duds they've cancelled or discontinued of late in that space - Windows Mobile 6.5, Zune, Kin, MS Reader, Courier. They're finally getting their act together somewhat now Windows Phone 7.5 is out, but nearly 3 years later than the competition which is an age in IT.
They appear to be betting the farm on people wanting a tablet which doubles up as a Windows device but I wonder if they're running the risk of screwing up that too. Windows on ARM already appears to be a lame duck and if Intel tablets are likely to have higher system and memory requirements and therefore cost more money. I think they will find it tough.
They probably have reams of chat logs many which may reveal info about the guy, dozens of coincident breaks in conversation, wiretaps, phone and internet records, computer forensic evidence and of course the guy's arrest interviews. Doesn't mean to say he will be convicted but prosecutors really don't like prosecuting unless they have sufficient evidence to secure a conviction.
That's because lulzsec got caught up in their own hype. They really thought they were anonymous super elite hackers. Most of them were nothing of the sort and it only took one slip up for the authorities to arrest someone. Then that was coerced into cooperating and bringing down the others.
Same will happen to anonymous. The idiots who run LOIC are easy enough to catch. I'm sure security and police agencies have already penetrated far deeper than that and have a few ringleaders in their sights.
Dawkin's opinion reduced down might to say nature is neither cruel nor kind, simply indifferent. And that evolution is blind with no more purpose than propagating genes from one generation to the next however that may be achieved. I can only surmise Empiric is a troll or a merely ignorant to throw out such a stupid straw man.
Neither Dawkins nor Hitchens has ever said any such thing, nothing even remotely like it, nothing that could be reduced to that. It was a straw man pure and simple. A particularly lame one but a straw man all the same.
Or buy AnyDVD which strips off stuff like unskippable so you can sail through it. AnyDVD also works a charm at ripping virtually all DVDs and the large majority of blu ray disks. Doesn't strip out Cinavia though.
Every developed country has speed limits and means to enforce them. Every developed country has no parking zones and will clamp / tow your car if you choose to ignore it. Every developed country has strict drink driving limits and the courts and police take an extremely dim view of people violating those limits. It doesn't stop you driving for fun assuming you obey the law and are heedful of traffic and conditions as you do so.
Are you saying that the US or any other developed country for that matter does not have laws regarding begging, drinking alcohol in the streets, making noise, driving for fun (by which I assume you mean in a manner which is unsafe or without regard to other road users), lighting fireworks? Not even a blanket catch-all law akin to disturbing the peace that a law enforcement officer could use at their discretion?
The UK just so happens to have codified what common practices it considers to be anti-social and to have laws in place to give police and the courts specific powers to deal with them.
It's a big deal for me because it means for 18 months I am stuck on a tariff with a single provider whether it suits my circumstances or not. A simple example, maybe I change jobs and discover reception is terrible in my new workplace, or I realise I'm not using the minutes in my tariff, or maybe some competitor changes their bandwidth limits and I'm better off switching. If I am locked into a tariff I find it harder to move and more expensive too if there are termination clauses.
For my usage patterns I'm better off to go PAYG. It costs me a whopping 10 euros more over the 18 months assuming I top up by some fixed amount each month but it means I can switch providers and my phone doesn't carry a bunch of useless crapware or restrictions baked into firmware.
I can't speak for the US, but in Europe you can buy a SIM free phone and use it on a PAYG network. I do that. If I top up by €20 per month I get free calls to other users on my network and I might spend €10-15 on other calls / texts and I spend €10 for 700MB data, I so it works out fine for me.
I only pay for the data because I moved jobs from a place which had wifi to one which didn't. A smart phone works quite well without 3G assuming you have data at home and work.
I just worked out how much I'd save if I took up an 18 month contract with the network supplying the same phone I'd save a whopping €10. And for that I'd be locked into a contract for 18 months, a plan which has only 150MB data and with a phone laden down with crapware and tied to one network. No thanks.
I really don't see why anyone gets a phone from a carrier any more. Even if you went on contract it would still be better to buy a SIM free phone to do it.
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Don't look at the shit which offends you. If necessary don't use the internet at all. I myself manage to go my entire time on the internet without viewing stuff which does not interest me by the simple expedient of not searching for it. If by chance I find myself at looking at something does not interest me, I browse somewhere else which does.
This probably isn't all a bad thing for HBO who doubtless will sell a lot more boxed sets. It might be bad news for Sky and other providers though, depending on how much they paid for the rights.
Australia is a pretty draconian place in its own right, e.g. heavy handed censorship of the web, TV and video games.
In the UK if you wanted to watch it you'd be need Sky TV or cable. That's £20 per month for a minimum contract of 12 months or £240 just to watch a show which only runs for 10 weeks. It's not hard to understand why many people would wish to download it instead. I suspect even people with Sky / cable download it anyway just so they have a copy which they can watch without a using bunch of iffy Sky software with all the DRM and time restrictions that it imposes on viewing.
Asking questions for which there is no right answer and where many people have no clue which option is best for them is just confusing. It's better to pick a default behaviour and provide the means for those determined enough to change it to something else.
Sorry unsubscribe == subscribe above
I haven't gotten that feeling from Google+ so in that regard it's much better. Of course Diaspora is better again given that you can permanently delete anything you like and can even run your own pod if you really paranoid about data leakage.
I'm not really into social networks but I'm subscribed to some things on Google+ related to development, games and other stuff and there is plenty of content. It may well be less than Facebook but it's certainly no "ghost town". I also think as far as social networks go, it has a nice user interface especially since it integrates into other Google services.
Well that's pretty much total bullshit. Google wins when it gets its services running on as many handsets as possible regardless of who manufactures them. They make money from monetizing users in terms of the data they gather and increasingly from selling apps and other content.
They appear to be betting the farm on people wanting a tablet which doubles up as a Windows device but I wonder if they're running the risk of screwing up that too. Windows on ARM already appears to be a lame duck and if Intel tablets are likely to have higher system and memory requirements and therefore cost more money. I think they will find it tough.
They probably have reams of chat logs many which may reveal info about the guy, dozens of coincident breaks in conversation, wiretaps, phone and internet records, computer forensic evidence and of course the guy's arrest interviews. Doesn't mean to say he will be convicted but prosecutors really don't like prosecuting unless they have sufficient evidence to secure a conviction.
I'm pretty certain that the prosecution's entire case will not be "he went out at a time coincident with a lull in a conversation".
Same will happen to anonymous. The idiots who run LOIC are easy enough to catch. I'm sure security and police agencies have already penetrated far deeper than that and have a few ringleaders in their sights.
Just be feet on the right side of the international date line when it starts and hop across when the rolling apocalypse has safely passed by.
It was plainly and clearly a straw man. Throwing a word salad of convoluted logic at me won't change that fact one iota.
Dawkin's opinion reduced down might to say nature is neither cruel nor kind, simply indifferent. And that evolution is blind with no more purpose than propagating genes from one generation to the next however that may be achieved. I can only surmise Empiric is a troll or a merely ignorant to throw out such a stupid straw man.
Neither Dawkins nor Hitchens has ever said any such thing, nothing even remotely like it, nothing that could be reduced to that. It was a straw man pure and simple. A particularly lame one but a straw man all the same.
Or buy AnyDVD which strips off stuff like unskippable so you can sail through it. AnyDVD also works a charm at ripping virtually all DVDs and the large majority of blu ray disks. Doesn't strip out Cinavia though.
I think your strawman is made of rainbows and lollypops.
Yeah and he got his balls cut off for his past displays of aggression. I bet he didn't plan on that happening.
Why single out Britain in this regard?
The UK just so happens to have codified what common practices it considers to be anti-social and to have laws in place to give police and the courts specific powers to deal with them.
For my usage patterns I'm better off to go PAYG. It costs me a whopping 10 euros more over the 18 months assuming I top up by some fixed amount each month but it means I can switch providers and my phone doesn't carry a bunch of useless crapware or restrictions baked into firmware.
I only pay for the data because I moved jobs from a place which had wifi to one which didn't. A smart phone works quite well without 3G assuming you have data at home and work.
I just worked out how much I'd save if I took up an 18 month contract with the network supplying the same phone I'd save a whopping €10. And for that I'd be locked into a contract for 18 months, a plan which has only 150MB data and with a phone laden down with crapware and tied to one network. No thanks.
I really don't see why anyone gets a phone from a carrier any more. Even if you went on contract it would still be better to buy a SIM free phone to do it.
Problem with Tor is you end up using an exit node's DNS settings, so your request could still be blocked.