Not that I believe that servers and organizations based in the EU are 'safe' from our (US) recent tactics of policing the world, however, IF this were to be the case:
There goes another (small?) portion of jobs, to the overseas, never to be hiring or promoting here again!
Obviously, this is EXACTLY what we are looking for, so it makes perfect sense to keep pushing things this hard! *
Thank you for correcting some of my ignorance! I've read about a few Euro-based in the news, but came up rather lacking at home. I actually have already ordered the physical print copy from amazon the other day; It should be here Monday. (I figure it's worth actually purchasing).
Also, you're absolutely right about the time-frame of things -- Now is the time.
This is why we (the US) needs a far more established 'Pirate Party' (Yes, the name is terrible, but the ideas behind it, I'm sure many agree with) so a shown to others, able-bodied, pool of candidates would already be present.
True, the chances of hell of actually being voted in to such a position would be slim to none, however, it is a good catalyst for said party to bring ideas and ideals to attention to the general public.
Mass. and I believe another state has an officially registered party -- Where are all the other states? Let's GO people!
Also a valid viewpoint. But, I imagine, unless you are someone who ONLY buys apple products (we know who we mean); Or only google products, etc it's still going to leave someone hanging.
Decentralized storage isn't so much about the storage, as it the universal aspect of connectivity: From any device, to any device, with zero 'hacks' to make it work. The general consumer wants it to 'just work', regardless of device. (To be truthful, so do all people, geeks and hackers alike; we're just willing to do something about it as opposed to simply walk away and view something else to purchase).
If they can truly pull that off without a hitch, they could be in one very solid position. It seems like each 'new feature' from apple involves a forced upgrade of hardware: Ie, a SMALL example is upgrading to iCloud sync on a computer with an ipad2 no longer allows you to fully sync all things from a 2nd gen iPod touch. (Not my hardware, just a stupid example). Options are buy a new iPod touch, or disable iCloud. You can't tell me this isn't on purpose, and it's the stuff that, if provided another option, consumers will only deal with so much before the eventual 'screw it'.
They are all, somewhat, 'tied' to a company and a product line. Sure, many things are cross platform, but I'm sure to get complete smooth functionality, you should be using the respective product line.
A 3rd party that could make *everything* sync up, without any snafu's, and offer a solid consistent UI on any device, would easily be the best solution.
Storage and, more important, remote access, is at the tip of the ice-burg at the moment. I can't imagine where it will go from here, but it'll move and fast.
No.... they are simply trying to disguise the problem in order to suck in more users. Contrary to whatever bullshit they try to spread, Google+, Facebook and all the rest will NEVER implement any policy that actually respects the privacy of users. It will never happen, because their business model depends on selling their users to advertisers.
I've never fully understood this: Isn't creating an in-depth , extremely 'personal', profile of an actual 'individual' online with a 'fake name' exactly the same as with a 'real name' that is on a birth certificate and the tax bill?
What if I don't read the ads in the paper and only use the subscription to access online content? Blows that logic out of the water.
You're still increasing their physical 'circulation rate', of which their advertising policies, prices, and 'clout' are all based upon. No one can prove you read an ad in a paper; But they can prove that you're a subscriber that could POSSIBLY look at them.
This is how they make money; They've (artificially) inflated their physical circulation of the paper, thus trying to make more ad money. It's not rocket science.
It is, but AC is right that another way around the paywall is to just remove the &gwh=... from the URL. Works like a charm, and I think there are even automated tools to do that.
Interestingly, I can also browse freely at work without having either cookie issues or monkeying with URLs. I'm guessing that somebody with the same public IP has a subscription, so NYTimes just assumes everything's fine.
This is what I don't like about Google, above all else. This is utterly contemptible behaviour and quite often why I find myself swearing at them as I try to find a work-around.
Getting too big for their britches.
And this is why I am downloading Opera now. Why is it once a company gets more 'market-share' in whatever 'industry', they start being absolute dickheads?
Without the FBI getting involved, this guy wasn't a threat.
Unless, of course, he managed to contact actual terrorists and helped them or was able to obtain anything dangerous from them. Which he was much less likely to do with the FBI's involvement than without it.
There are are a lot of IF's in your statement. Personally, I'd hate to be arrested on a series of IF's.
In Canada at least, there has been a serious lack of news about this protest. It's mentioned in passing sometimes, but that's about it. I don't even really know what it's about. I heard "protesting corporate greed in America", but I mean that's a tough thing to protest.. you're basically protesting capitalism..
Anyways, my question is why is there such a media gap about this protest? Is it on purpose (tin foil hat), or is it just because it's vague and nobody really cares about it, so the media doesn't bother?
There is no doubt , in my mind, that it's 100% on purpose. As word would spread, it could only help add numbers to the protesters force. There is very very very little media coverage, even denouncing the protests. Out of sight, out of mind. Given enough time (if we have enough time), individuals will spread the word to the majority of the population; At least those who semi-frequently use the internet.
And when we do it to buy for $200,000 a house that could be built for $50,000, we are selling ourselves cheap (hoping, of course that someone will be willing to sell himself to us for even less in the future).
You've obviously never priced out materials that are required to 'build' a house. Or, for that matter, partaken in a decently large renovation project.
Just as a construction worker or other manual laborer may look at my job as a network administrator and say, "That's not working!", to someone outside of the industry, investing doesn't look like work...but I dare say that it's longer, harder work -- with more risk -- than you'd think.
Coming from a carpenter who is also quite 'tech', I will dare say it is just a different type of work. You're at least absent from many physical (short term and different long term) risks that come with the trades.
Thanks to Disney and the corrupt shills that have taken over the government, games made in the 1980s won't "expire copyright" and return to the public domain until sometime after 2100. If there isn't yet ANOTHER "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" copyright extension passed in the meantime.
Part of the problem is that copyright doesn't take into account the life of the medium any more. Imagine what happens when most books are only available on e-readers and most e-readers no longer read the format the book was put out in (not so hard to imagine: think of some of the books that only exist on B&N Nook format and imagine that B&N goes under and nobody bothers to code a translator because "well most of it is on Kindle anyways", followed by B&N's servers shutting down and nobody having a remaining copy of the book anywhere).
*this* is one, if not the major, reason I am hesitant about the entire ebook trend. I understand the concept of being able to read something *now*. I understand travelers being able to bring one of my entire bookshelves with them, wherever they go, without lots of heavy boxes. But paper doesn't expire (naturally, it decays, but lets face it, it will no doubt last a lot longer than many digital formats), cannot be 'revoked' without a typical BNE scene.
And trees are a renewable resource. So, with the exception of the shipping required to get books to bookstores (if they even exist in the future, at this rate) and/or personal houses, they are pretty green friendly.
Plus, who doesn't love a paper book? I just don't understand, I suppose.
And yet the world is still full of bad guys. Tell me oh wise one, if the CIA is so powerful and has ALWAYS worked this way with unparalleled success and competency, then why isn't our world a better place right now?
I'm sure that all depends on your qualifier 'our'.
It's no doubt a better place for certain people. Sadly, it doesn't sound you're part of that group.
In my concept of 'authority', they should be working for the 'greater good'. Instead it seems they are being reactionary without thinking of (m)any consequences of their reactionary tactics. The mindset doesn't bode well with me.
And then what happens when their is a medical, or otherwise, emergency that is not able to be 'dealt with' (in whatever way it needs dealing: Police, medical, etc).
Who shoulders the responsibilities when the phones go down on purpose?
While I commend them on their fight against comment spam, I do have to question the second 'addition' to the list: Flag as objectionable.
I thought that a blog was to post anything you wanted to post about. It's a personal entry that allows you to add your voice to the other thousands/millions of voices out there - without having to hire your own hosting or mooch off friends.
What is the use for 'flag as objectionable'? If you object to something, here's a hint: Don't read it. This reeks of censoirship.
I for one fully support anything people want to write: It just makes the internet the internet, and the press the press.
Like it or not, there IS still a (fading) difference.
"I could respond that not only am I a happily married uber-RPG geek (The "writes his own RPGs" type), or that not a single one of my players, past or present, remains a virgin, or that a suprising number of women play RPGs and, thus, make them actually a way to be MORE likely to get laid."
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Innovate? I think we're already past that with Facebook, no?
If you're looking for innovation, personally, I'd look elsewhere -- Way past the social-network situation that we see graying at a rapid rate.
Not that I believe that servers and organizations based in the EU are 'safe' from our (US) recent tactics of policing the world, however, IF this were to be the case:
There goes another (small?) portion of jobs, to the overseas, never to be hiring or promoting here again!
Obviously, this is EXACTLY what we are looking for, so it makes perfect sense to keep pushing things this hard! *
(*no)
Thank you for correcting some of my ignorance! I've read about a few Euro-based in the news, but came up rather lacking at home. I actually have already ordered the physical print copy from amazon the other day; It should be here Monday. (I figure it's worth actually purchasing).
Also, you're absolutely right about the time-frame of things -- Now is the time.
Honestly,
This is why we (the US) needs a far more established 'Pirate Party' (Yes, the name is terrible, but the ideas behind it, I'm sure many agree with) so a shown to others, able-bodied, pool of candidates would already be present.
True, the chances of hell of actually being voted in to such a position would be slim to none, however, it is a good catalyst for said party to bring ideas and ideals to attention to the general public.
Mass. and I believe another state has an officially registered party -- Where are all the other states? Let's GO people!
Also a valid viewpoint. But, I imagine, unless you are someone who ONLY buys apple products (we know who we mean); Or only google products, etc it's still going to leave someone hanging.
Decentralized storage isn't so much about the storage, as it the universal aspect of connectivity: From any device, to any device, with zero 'hacks' to make it work. The general consumer wants it to 'just work', regardless of device. (To be truthful, so do all people, geeks and hackers alike; we're just willing to do something about it as opposed to simply walk away and view something else to purchase).
If they can truly pull that off without a hitch, they could be in one very solid position. It seems like each 'new feature' from apple involves a forced upgrade of hardware: Ie, a SMALL example is upgrading to iCloud sync on a computer with an ipad2 no longer allows you to fully sync all things from a 2nd gen iPod touch. (Not my hardware, just a stupid example). Options are buy a new iPod touch, or disable iCloud. You can't tell me this isn't on purpose, and it's the stuff that, if provided another option, consumers will only deal with so much before the eventual 'screw it'.
They are all, somewhat, 'tied' to a company and a product line. Sure, many things are cross platform, but I'm sure to get complete smooth functionality, you should be using the respective product line.
A 3rd party that could make *everything* sync up, without any snafu's, and offer a solid consistent UI on any device, would easily be the best solution.
Storage and, more important, remote access, is at the tip of the ice-burg at the moment. I can't imagine where it will go from here, but it'll move and fast.
Anyone want to guess what the fortune inside says?
No .... they are simply trying to disguise the problem in order to suck in more users. Contrary to whatever bullshit they try to spread, Google+, Facebook and all the rest will NEVER implement any policy that actually respects the privacy of users. It will never happen, because their business model depends on selling their users to advertisers.
I've never fully understood this: Isn't creating an in-depth , extremely 'personal', profile of an actual 'individual' online with a 'fake name' exactly the same as with a 'real name' that is on a birth certificate and the tax bill?
What if I don't read the ads in the paper and only use the subscription to access online content? Blows that logic out of the water.
You're still increasing their physical 'circulation rate', of which their advertising policies, prices, and 'clout' are all based upon. No one can prove you read an ad in a paper; But they can prove that you're a subscriber that could POSSIBLY look at them.
This is how they make money; They've (artificially) inflated their physical circulation of the paper, thus trying to make more ad money. It's not rocket science.
It is, but AC is right that another way around the paywall is to just remove the &gwh=... from the URL. Works like a charm, and I think there are even automated tools to do that.
Interestingly, I can also browse freely at work without having either cookie issues or monkeying with URLs. I'm guessing that somebody with the same public IP has a subscription, so NYTimes just assumes everything's fine.
javascript:(function() {var s=document.createElement('script');s.setAttribute('src','http://toys.euri.ca/nyt.js');document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);})();
Add this as a bookmark on your bookmarks bar. Presto, go-away'o.
This is what I don't like about Google, above all else. This is utterly contemptible behaviour and quite often why I find myself swearing at them as I try to find a work-around.
Getting too big for their britches.
And this is why I am downloading Opera now. Why is it once a company gets more 'market-share' in whatever 'industry', they start being absolute dickheads?
Without the FBI getting involved, this guy wasn't a threat.
Unless, of course, he managed to contact actual terrorists and helped them or was able to obtain anything dangerous from them. Which he was much less likely to do with the FBI's involvement than without it.
There are are a lot of IF's in your statement. Personally, I'd hate to be arrested on a series of IF's.
In Canada at least, there has been a serious lack of news about this protest. It's mentioned in passing sometimes, but that's about it. I don't even really know what it's about. I heard "protesting corporate greed in America", but I mean that's a tough thing to protest.. you're basically protesting capitalism..
Anyways, my question is why is there such a media gap about this protest? Is it on purpose (tin foil hat), or is it just because it's vague and nobody really cares about it, so the media doesn't bother?
There is no doubt , in my mind, that it's 100% on purpose. As word would spread, it could only help add numbers to the protesters force. There is very very very little media coverage, even denouncing the protests. Out of sight, out of mind. Given enough time (if we have enough time), individuals will spread the word to the majority of the population; At least those who semi-frequently use the internet.
And when we do it to buy for $200,000 a house that could be built for $50,000, we are selling ourselves cheap (hoping, of course that someone will be willing to sell himself to us for even less in the future).
You've obviously never priced out materials that are required to 'build' a house. Or, for that matter, partaken in a decently large renovation project.
Just as a construction worker or other manual laborer may look at my job as a network administrator and say, "That's not working!", to someone outside of the industry, investing doesn't look like work...but I dare say that it's longer, harder work -- with more risk -- than you'd think.
Coming from a carpenter who is also quite 'tech', I will dare say it is just a different type of work. You're at least absent from many physical (short term and different long term) risks that come with the trades.
You should try it sometime.
Hey, remember when they banned metal lunchboxes?
HAHAHA.
Good call. Just waiting for the iPad assault charges news article to be linked.
Thanks to Disney and the corrupt shills that have taken over the government, games made in the 1980s won't "expire copyright" and return to the public domain until sometime after 2100. If there isn't yet ANOTHER "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" copyright extension passed in the meantime.
Part of the problem is that copyright doesn't take into account the life of the medium any more. Imagine what happens when most books are only available on e-readers and most e-readers no longer read the format the book was put out in (not so hard to imagine: think of some of the books that only exist on B&N Nook format and imagine that B&N goes under and nobody bothers to code a translator because "well most of it is on Kindle anyways", followed by B&N's servers shutting down and nobody having a remaining copy of the book anywhere).
*this* is one, if not the major, reason I am hesitant about the entire ebook trend. I understand the concept of being able to read something *now*. I understand travelers being able to bring one of my entire bookshelves with them, wherever they go, without lots of heavy boxes. But paper doesn't expire (naturally, it decays, but lets face it, it will no doubt last a lot longer than many digital formats), cannot be 'revoked' without a typical BNE scene.
And trees are a renewable resource. So, with the exception of the shipping required to get books to bookstores (if they even exist in the future, at this rate) and/or personal houses, they are pretty green friendly.
Plus, who doesn't love a paper book? I just don't understand, I suppose.
And yet the world is still full of bad guys. Tell me oh wise one, if the CIA is so powerful and has ALWAYS worked this way with unparalleled success and competency, then why isn't our world a better place right now?
I'm sure that all depends on your qualifier 'our'.
It's no doubt a better place for certain people. Sadly, it doesn't sound you're part of that group.
A shame.
Come December we will be celebrating Firefox 22. and sometime next year it will be Firefox 42 and we will be left looking for a question.
I liked this post quite a bit. It was very mildly relevant, but I'm happy I was geeky enough to chuckle.
Cheers,
Bny
Big brother moves to THE CLOUD!
(Hey, you, get off of my CLOUD)
In my concept of 'authority', they should be working for the 'greater good'. Instead it seems they are being reactionary without thinking of (m)any consequences of their reactionary tactics. The mindset doesn't bode well with me.
And then what happens when their is a medical, or otherwise, emergency that is not able to be 'dealt with' (in whatever way it needs dealing: Police, medical, etc).
Who shoulders the responsibilities when the phones go down on purpose?
Our society, as an entire world, is screwed.
I actually just did. It was a brief, sarcastic message, but it allowed them to see that at least ONE person knew they were paying (some) attention.
I actually just asked why they were at the meeting and what position they (she) planned to take on it. Fingers crossed.
While I commend them on their fight against comment spam, I do have to question the second 'addition' to the list: Flag as objectionable.
I thought that a blog was to post anything you wanted to post about. It's a personal entry that allows you to add your voice to the other thousands/millions of voices out there - without having to hire your own hosting or mooch off friends.
What is the use for 'flag as objectionable'? If you object to something, here's a hint: Don't read it. This reeks of censoirship.
I for one fully support anything people want to write: It just makes the internet the internet, and the press the press.
Like it or not, there IS still a (fading) difference.
peace,
bny
"I could respond that not only am I a happily married uber-RPG geek (The "writes his own RPGs" type), or that not a single one of my players, past or present, remains a virgin, or that a suprising number of women play RPGs and, thus, make them actually a way to be MORE likely to get laid."
Quality, not quantity buddy...