Sorry,but the only reason you need invisible-to-the-user cookies is so you can monetize them without them realizing just how much privacy/anonymity they're giving up
Without cookies to keep track of who I am, everything either needs to be POST or GET, resulting in a URL that gives him/her access to my settings and my info.
Cookies aren't only about nefariously tracking your users. Granted, you work in the ad-industry, so I think you're suffering from that influence.
Do you wear make-up? Your face don't look like that! Have you fixed your hair? That's not what it looks like in the mornings! Have you brushed your teeth? That's not what your breath smells like later that night! Have you used deodorant/perfume? That's not what you smell like! Are you wearing the same clothes you would wear at any other time? That's not what you look like! Are you ordering expensive drinks, because you rarely go out? You're not that rich! Do you keep quiet about her bad habits? You're engaging in subterfuge!
Go see The Invention of Lying to get an idea of just how bad things would be, if we didn't lie.
One of the reasons I stopped going to theaters to watch movies was that after I paid to get in, I was sitting through commercials
As far as I can tell, the only thing you're paying to use Voddler is the bandwith and the time to watch the adverts.
Why is it bad to have your movies paid by watching ads? Yes, on paid cable and theatres ads are fucking annoying as I've already paid for admission. Here, the ads ARE my payment of admission.
Should the day come though I won't be cowering under a desk waiting to be murdered by some mental case or Mumbai copy-cat.
But you might be shot by someone else carrying a concealed weapon who thinks you look a bit too suspicious and figures it's better to shoot first and ask questions later. After all, you had a gun;)
You know, one of the best mice I own was hooked up to a parallel port. When that went away I had to get a parallel to serial port adapter. Then that became uncommon, and I had to get a serial port to DIN adapter. Then a DIN to PS/2 connector. Then a PS/2 to USB connector.
Granted, I have hook it up to four adapters, but gosh darn it, I'm too stubborn to buy one of those newfangled mice.
It's time for the hackers/crackers of the world to unite and give Murdoch what he wants: A robots.txt that stops googlebot from indexing anything on News Corps servers.
There are several advantages to this: 1) Murdoch gets what he says he wants, free of charge 2) Google gets to show the world, just how effective they are at driving traffic 3) We, the people, get to pull a Nelson on Murdoch 4) The crackers/hackers who pull it off, get to show that they're doing good work
Having that dome come down on top of a whole town?
Build the dome on an empty lot first. See how it fares for a few winters and summers.
That'd give you some better ideas of how to ventilate the whole thing and how the environment would fare inside the dome. Maybe you could build it in such a way that you can open some of the faces in the dome to vent the air.
It could possibly end up as a pretty big tourist attraction. Come see the worlds largest building, and wonder in amazement as you can see trees living inside it.
Both are scary. Having kids who are legally allowed to have sex face child pornography charges because one of them wrote about it explicitly in his/her diary is scary.
Being allowed to do something completely legal (32-year-old fucking a 17-year-old) and have it not only become illegal without your knowledge (and even with you being misled) but have it become something that will ruin your life is scary.
All-right, you're probably from somewhere with a higher AoC, so let's change the age difference a bit.
The girl turns 18 that day, the guy being 1 day younger. They have sex, like they have for the last two years. Now, today the guy decides to surprise her by filming them both - but doesn't tell her. That's still child pornography by this crazy law. And since she's an adult (by one day) she's supposed to get punished even more. How much were you brain washed as a kid to think that this isn't scary?
Imagine, for a moment, something similar was applied to other circumstances. You're allowed to have a cellphone. You're allowed to make calls from your cellphone. You're allowed to bring your cellphone with you to the airport. But, if you happen to be seated in one of the areas that are deemed 'top secret danger zones', and these zones are unmarked, you will be facing charges for being a terrorist, plotting to commit mass murder as well as treason.
The fact of the matter is, Denmark has had 15 as the age of consent for more than 20 years, have refused to put in legislation restricting the age of whom AoC-minors can have sex with, but have then added a clause so fucked up that it's going to ruin your life.
there is a clear path towards avoiding any question of having broken the law.
Sure, don't have sex with people who are minors. Even if you are a minor yourself. And you're past the age of consent.
God forbid that 15-year-old kids who have sex as they are legally entitled to actually have sex, because if someone depicts it they're not purveyors of child pornography.
So no, it's not "irritatingly contradictory" it's fucking scary.
possession of kiddie porn is just another thought crime and prosecuting it is complete hypocrisy.
The act of possession means it is no longer a thought crime. It is a crime in the United States to even view an image of Child Pornography.
Actually thought crime is often used to refer to something where all you're doing is sitting around not harming anyone (as opposed to victimless crimes).
Here's a fun thing from Denmark (age of consent is 15).
If I (32) have sex with a 17-year-old girl, that is perfectly legal. If anyone takes a photo of it, draws it, writes about it in detail or films it - it is child pornography. And as I'm am the only 'adult' in this, I will bear the full brunt of the law's punishment. Even if she were to set up hidden cameras without me knowing it, I'd still be charged with manufacturing. It's classified as child pornography and not pornography with a minor (under 18).
And why should your ability to produce enough for society be measured by how much money you have?
Because that's how society works.
Are you one of the investment bankers who caused stockmarkets to crash, housing costs to soar and then crash and burn leaving people homeless and cause huge ripple effects in the world wide economic markets leading to millions and millions of people losing their jobs, money and homes?
Congratulations, you have had such an impact on society, that you will be rewarded with insane bonuses. You are worth saving.
Not for the reasons you state. Well, maybe also for those.
But, the biggest issue is this:
1) 10% of consumers decide to outright boycott the purchase of dvds, and even refuse to rent or download the movies. 2) Movie companies complain to the politicians that now movie piracy is such a big problem, that they can show a 10% decline in purchases despite a much improving economy 3) Movie companies are given government bail out 4) Copyright laws are screwed up even more in favour of the content producers.
Boycotting digital products from large producers has no useful effect for the consumers. Compare to what happens if this was done to a store like Walmart. They'd respond really really quickly to right whatever was causing them to lose 10% of their customers, as they can't pull out some boogyman that'll make the politicians mandate "Buy Walmart".
Considering that the cheapest Kingston 80 GB edition is 267 and the cheapest Intel X25-M G2 80 GB is 259, I don't see why you would prefer Kingston's version.
Anandtech's article clearly shows that it is severely lacking compared to the other drives, primarily because it is limited to a 5-way internal raid vs 10-way for Intel's own.
Now, if the Kingston was significantly cheaper or offered better performance, it would make sense, but here you're paying more for a much worse product. That makes no sense to me.
I actually did a minor experiment, assuming they meant 10x10 cms.
It's not something you will be reading a novel off of, but compared to my 17" wide screen 1440x900 pixel screen, you could read quite a lot of text off of it. But you can get almost 50 cha- racters wide and 20 high just judging by the standard Slashdot textarea.
And in case you're wondering, I'm trying to emu- late what that looks like in this post. It's sur- prisingly much.
And it's easily readable at that distance. Keep in mind that at 800x600 on a 100cm^2 area, you have 200 pixels per inch wide and 150 high. That's a very high quality for any kind of dis- play.
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It would be better, if these billions of dollars were pulled from bank executives who were responsible for the economic collapse.
Maybe we can drop by their houses with pitchforks and torches and ask them to kindly donate their bonuses.
The URL to this story is http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/11/13/1348222. Now, if I send that to a friend, he'll get his own version of it (with his settings).
Without cookies to keep track of who I am, everything either needs to be POST or GET, resulting in a URL that gives him/her access to my settings and my info.
Cookies aren't only about nefariously tracking your users. Granted, you work in the ad-industry, so I think you're suffering from that influence.
Oh, come on!
It's only the Bible, it's not ... what's the word ... gospel.
Well, if they start with Dick Cheney, I think a lot of people will give them the benefit of the doubt on that one
Fine, just don't masticate with your mouth open ...
Maybe he's Catholic
You NEVER lie when you want to pick up men/women?
Do you wear make-up? Your face don't look like that!
Have you fixed your hair? That's not what it looks like in the mornings!
Have you brushed your teeth? That's not what your breath smells like later that night!
Have you used deodorant/perfume? That's not what you smell like!
Are you wearing the same clothes you would wear at any other time? That's not what you look like!
Are you ordering expensive drinks, because you rarely go out? You're not that rich!
Do you keep quiet about her bad habits? You're engaging in subterfuge!
Go see The Invention of Lying to get an idea of just how bad things would be, if we didn't lie.
They haven't implemented Age/Sex/Location-Restrictions yet? The bastards!
Go watch The Daily Shows with Jon Stewart. You'd be surprised just how well they actually cover the news in 20 minutes.
As far as I can tell, the only thing you're paying to use Voddler is the bandwith and the time to watch the adverts.
Why is it bad to have your movies paid by watching ads? Yes, on paid cable and theatres ads are fucking annoying as I've already paid for admission. Here, the ads ARE my payment of admission.
But you might be shot by someone else carrying a concealed weapon who thinks you look a bit too suspicious and figures it's better to shoot first and ask questions later. After all, you had a gun ;)
You know, one of the best mice I own was hooked up to a parallel port. When that went away I had to get a parallel to serial port adapter. Then that became uncommon, and I had to get a serial port to DIN adapter. Then a DIN to PS/2 connector. Then a PS/2 to USB connector.
Granted, I have hook it up to four adapters, but gosh darn it, I'm too stubborn to buy one of those newfangled mice.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
It's time for the hackers/crackers of the world to unite and give Murdoch what he wants: A robots.txt that stops googlebot from indexing anything on News Corps servers.
There are several advantages to this:
1) Murdoch gets what he says he wants, free of charge
2) Google gets to show the world, just how effective they are at driving traffic
3) We, the people, get to pull a Nelson on Murdoch
4) The crackers/hackers who pull it off, get to show that they're doing good work
Build the dome on an empty lot first. See how it fares for a few winters and summers.
That'd give you some better ideas of how to ventilate the whole thing and how the environment would fare inside the dome. Maybe you could build it in such a way that you can open some of the faces in the dome to vent the air.
It could possibly end up as a pretty big tourist attraction. Come see the worlds largest building, and wonder in amazement as you can see trees living inside it.
They'll do what everybody growing flowers in green houses do: Rely on the insects that find their way in or pollinate the flowers by hand.
Yes, because there are sooo many farms being run inside the city limits of a town of 7,000.
Both are scary. Having kids who are legally allowed to have sex face child pornography charges because one of them wrote about it explicitly in his/her diary is scary.
Being allowed to do something completely legal (32-year-old fucking a 17-year-old) and have it not only become illegal without your knowledge (and even with you being misled) but have it become something that will ruin your life is scary.
All-right, you're probably from somewhere with a higher AoC, so let's change the age difference a bit.
The girl turns 18 that day, the guy being 1 day younger. They have sex, like they have for the last two years. Now, today the guy decides to surprise her by filming them both - but doesn't tell her. That's still child pornography by this crazy law. And since she's an adult (by one day) she's supposed to get punished even more. How much were you brain washed as a kid to think that this isn't scary?
Imagine, for a moment, something similar was applied to other circumstances. You're allowed to have a cellphone. You're allowed to make calls from your cellphone. You're allowed to bring your cellphone with you to the airport. But, if you happen to be seated in one of the areas that are deemed 'top secret danger zones', and these zones are unmarked, you will be facing charges for being a terrorist, plotting to commit mass murder as well as treason.
The fact of the matter is, Denmark has had 15 as the age of consent for more than 20 years, have refused to put in legislation restricting the age of whom AoC-minors can have sex with, but have then added a clause so fucked up that it's going to ruin your life.
Sure, don't have sex with people who are minors. Even if you are a minor yourself. And you're past the age of consent.
God forbid that 15-year-old kids who have sex as they are legally entitled to actually have sex, because if someone depicts it they're not purveyors of child pornography.
So no, it's not "irritatingly contradictory" it's fucking scary.
Actually thought crime is often used to refer to something where all you're doing is sitting around not harming anyone (as opposed to victimless crimes).
Here's a fun thing from Denmark (age of consent is 15).
If I (32) have sex with a 17-year-old girl, that is perfectly legal.
If anyone takes a photo of it, draws it, writes about it in detail or films it - it is child pornography. And as I'm am the only 'adult' in this, I will bear the full brunt of the law's punishment. Even if she were to set up hidden cameras without me knowing it, I'd still be charged with manufacturing. It's classified as child pornography and not pornography with a minor (under 18).
But if no-one watches, it's perfectly legal.
That is fucking scary.
Because that's how society works.
Are you one of the investment bankers who caused stockmarkets to crash, housing costs to soar and then crash and burn leaving people homeless and cause huge ripple effects in the world wide economic markets leading to millions and millions of people losing their jobs, money and homes?
Congratulations, you have had such an impact on society, that you will be rewarded with insane bonuses. You are worth saving.
What happens when the base station dies and needs to be sent in for service? Do you have an option of exporting and importing the stored information?
I think I'm less impressed by your ability to see the future than your ability to somehow daisy-chain SATA-drives.
Waiting for disk access.
Not for the reasons you state. Well, maybe also for those.
But, the biggest issue is this:
1) 10% of consumers decide to outright boycott the purchase of dvds, and even refuse to rent or download the movies.
2) Movie companies complain to the politicians that now movie piracy is such a big problem, that they can show a 10% decline in purchases despite a much improving economy
3) Movie companies are given government bail out
4) Copyright laws are screwed up even more in favour of the content producers.
Boycotting digital products from large producers has no useful effect for the consumers. Compare to what happens if this was done to a store like Walmart. They'd respond really really quickly to right whatever was causing them to lose 10% of their customers, as they can't pull out some boogyman that'll make the politicians mandate "Buy Walmart".
Considering that the cheapest Kingston 80 GB edition is 267 and the cheapest Intel X25-M G2 80 GB is 259, I don't see why you would prefer Kingston's version.
Anandtech's article clearly shows that it is severely lacking compared to the other drives, primarily because it is limited to a 5-way internal raid vs 10-way for Intel's own.
Now, if the Kingston was significantly cheaper or offered better performance, it would make sense, but here you're paying more for a much worse product. That makes no sense to me.
I actually did a minor experiment, assuming they
meant 10x10 cms.
It's not something you will be reading a novel
off of, but compared to my 17" wide screen
1440x900 pixel screen, you could read quite a lot
of text off of it. But you can get almost 50 cha-
racters wide and 20 high just judging by the
standard Slashdot textarea.
And in case you're wondering, I'm trying to emu-
late what that looks like in this post. It's sur-
prisingly much.
And it's easily readable at that distance. Keep
in mind that at 800x600 on a 100cm^2 area, you
have 200 pixels per inch wide and 150 high.
That's a very high quality for any kind of dis-
play.