Fine, but even if you think it's annoying, it's not scary by any definition of the word. It's not that "they" think anything. It's an automated system, based on the perfectly reasonable assumptions that people buy things similar to what they've already bought, and that people are more likely to buy things if they know they exist (!)
But so what? In 1984, the characters who aren't "willing slaves" are nonetheless trapped into the system because of everyone else's conformity. No chance of that here. It's completely different.
But the new technology offers some frightening prospects. With machines telling us what to drink how long until we are told what to eat and what to wear? The idea of a 1984-style Big Brother state fronted by the double-headed hydra that is a computerised Trinny and Susanna is almost too scary.
Even for a joke, seriously, what? How is personalised advertisement anything close to what you just said?
I think it wouldn't be too difficult to do one for/. either. All it would have to do is post immediately after the article hits the front page, and say:
"The analysis here is hugely flawed. Sure, they say [something from the summary], but clearly haven't taken into account [something taken into account halfway through the article], so it can hardly be confirmed that [title]."
The scheme requires website operators to contribute a reduction in the price of the music, an extension of the duration of the subscription or a contribution to the cost of advertising the card. However as it caps the benefit each operator may draw from the scheme at €5 million there are concerns that the largest operators such as iTunes, FNAC and Amazon may not participate.
Doesn't sound like government enforcement, ownership or monopoly. However, I would have a problem with any of my taxes going to Apple or Amazon or whoever, which seems to be the idea here.
I've got excellent karma, thanks! Probably improves my real-life karma if someone liked it, though. I can strongly recommend all of Mitchell & Webb's work, especially Peep Show, if you haven't already seen it.
Like hiding valuables out of sight when locking your car.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that intended to not let the potential burglar know that there's any reason to break into the car? I think the analogy you need is something like developing an alternative to keys, rather than just improving the current designs as much as you can...
It's all just a big misunderstanding. The person with the issue here is another (completely unrelated) man named Andrew, who crossly told them they were stealing from him.
I think it's important to point out the two sides of the two sides of "it's just an article" here:
1) There may be more information about how the planet "could sustain life" that is omitted on grounds of being too technical.
but
2) Journalists are paid to bring revenue in to the publication, not to report the news, so maybe this is a lot of hype over something less spectacular.
It's important to note that the govt is extremely unpopular right now, so they tend to sensationalise pretty much everything they do. Apart from that, Ireland is a country of people who don't expect much, so if there's something coming in that's, say, almost as good as London, we go mad for it.
The revelation that P!=NP is provable would be fairly damn significant. I mean, it would be a lot more significant than the things people are (mostly jokingly) suggesting about web standards and software and stuff like that.
Slashdot Mirror
Fine, but even if you think it's annoying, it's not scary by any definition of the word. It's not that "they" think anything. It's an automated system, based on the perfectly reasonable assumptions that people buy things similar to what they've already bought, and that people are more likely to buy things if they know they exist (!)
But so what? In 1984, the characters who aren't "willing slaves" are nonetheless trapped into the system because of everyone else's conformity. No chance of that here. It's completely different.
But the new technology offers some frightening prospects. With machines telling us what to drink how long until we are told what to eat and what to wear? The idea of a 1984-style Big Brother state fronted by the double-headed hydra that is a computerised Trinny and Susanna is almost too scary.
Even for a joke, seriously, what? How is personalised advertisement anything close to what you just said?
OK, fine, but if you read the article, the position of your legs is the main problem.
Cue Apple fans saying how it doesn't apply to Macbooks...
"29 young men"
I'm guessing they were students, and thought it would be a funny story.
I think it wouldn't be too difficult to do one for /. either. All it would have to do is post immediately after the article hits the front page, and say:
"The analysis here is hugely flawed. Sure, they say [something from the summary], but clearly haven't taken into account [something taken into account halfway through the article], so it can hardly be confirmed that [title]."
That's a Score:5, Insightful comment right there.
The writer expected the first number to be higher, and the second to be lower. What exactly is the problem?
RTFA:
The scheme requires website operators to contribute a reduction in the price of the music, an extension of the duration of the subscription or a contribution to the cost of advertising the card. However as it caps the benefit each operator may draw from the scheme at €5 million there are concerns that the largest operators such as iTunes, FNAC and Amazon may not participate.
Doesn't sound like government enforcement, ownership or monopoly. However, I would have a problem with any of my taxes going to Apple or Amazon or whoever, which seems to be the idea here.
I've got excellent karma, thanks! Probably improves my real-life karma if someone liked it, though. I can strongly recommend all of Mitchell & Webb's work, especially Peep Show, if you haven't already seen it.
Like hiding valuables out of sight when locking your car.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that intended to not let the potential burglar know that there's any reason to break into the car? I think the analogy you need is something like developing an alternative to keys, rather than just improving the current designs as much as you can...
I would have great interest in an OS that can run windows binaries without all the windows-shit.
Then maybe you can join the ReactOS team. If you're really interested, you might be allowed to become the project leader.
Banks have an out, though:
Identity theft
I know slashdot probably hates youtube for some reason, but this is very funny.
It's all just a big misunderstanding. The person with the issue here is another (completely unrelated) man named Andrew, who crossly told them they were stealing from him.
Hey, I got first post above, up in the middle there!
In my defense, the comment system broke completely and this appeared to be the first post when I posted it.
...but this is just part of the shady machinery of high-profile congressional campaigns
I think it's important to point out the two sides of the two sides of "it's just an article" here:
1) There may be more information about how the planet "could sustain life" that is omitted on grounds of being too technical.
but
2) Journalists are paid to bring revenue in to the publication, not to report the news, so maybe this is a lot of hype over something less spectacular.
I can't understand why they're not giving people what they want: ray traced Nethack.
Oh fuck it. That was a troll by my roommate on my computer while I was AFK. Goodbye, karma :-(
Clearly, one of the two of us doesn't understand irony, because I can't find anything ironic about that. This has nothing to do with speed.
It's important to note that the govt is extremely unpopular right now, so they tend to sensationalise pretty much everything they do. Apart from that, Ireland is a country of people who don't expect much, so if there's something coming in that's, say, almost as good as London, we go mad for it.
That's my experience, anyway.
The revelation that P!=NP is provable would be fairly damn significant. I mean, it would be a lot more significant than the things people are (mostly jokingly) suggesting about web standards and software and stuff like that.
"This" = "Flock using a Chromium codebase"
Sorry for the lack of clarity.
Sorry for the double-post. I just want to clarify that, where I come from, "grand" means "OK", not "of high quality".