Their business model is not selling web access to the news though. Their business model is selling eyeballs. And they can tell advertisers that everyone who subscribes to the local cable monopoly (which is 75% of the local population) also reads the web site - ergo, lots of eyeballs to sell. That's why this article is so disingenuous - it is implying that the only revenue stream (or the only business model) of Newsday is to sell subscriptions to the web site. When that is in fact not true at all.
If you read the article (I know, I know) you'll discover that 75% of the people in the region already have access to the site via package deals:
"Of course, there are a few caveats. Anyone who has a newspaper subscription is allowed free access; anyone who has Optimum Cable, which is owned by the Dolans and Cablevision, also gets it free. Newsday representatives claim that 75 percent of Long Island either has a subscription or Optimum Cable."
So it's actually surprising that 35 people did sign up for it. I'm guessing they are people that moved from Long Island to other places and, for whatever reason, miss reading Newsday. I know it's popular to scream that newspapers are dying, but this is not really a story that supports that supposition.
If you believe that any substantial difference exists between the two parties with respect to corporate profits you are nothing more than a useful idiot.
There, fixed that for you. There are many differences between the parties as long as you're not discussing corporate profits. On topics like like abortion, support for gay rights, foreign policy, gun control, etc the parties do differ. But they are both the same when talking about the campaign finance and the corporations that line thier pockets. Both Sarah Palin and Barack Obama supported the first round of bank bailouts. That should tell you something.
I feel fairly confident that if I buy a book from them, I can access it in the future.
Don't be too sure about that. In a supremely ironic move, Amazon recently deleted Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles even though the books had been legally purchased. It's as if Amazon walked into your house and took books from your shelves, leaving a few bucks in their place. Being backed by a huge retailer makes me less confident that I'll be able t read the ebooks I purchase in the future.
I know you're making a joke, but ginko is far from exotic and nor is it a weed (it's a tree). It is widely grown in cities as it is very hardy. If you live in NYC, you see them all over the place and come fall can't help but smell the foul odor of the pods as they fall to the ground and are crushed underfoot.
Netflix automatically keeps track of your "favorite genres". There is a top level genre "Gay & Lesbian", not to mention a pack of sub-genres with similar names. If you found out your mother's or sister's NetFlix account had those at the top of the list, wouldn't you at least wonder? Imagine if those were your "favorite genres" and your worst enemy/boss/husband/wife saw that. Wouldn't they wonder about you? While they may not know you're gay, they would wonder...
Why would anyone expect that posting something on the Internet, quite possibly the most public space in the world, would be private?
Because it can be. It's software - not the laws of physics. I can't stop someone from seeing me if there is light and they have eyes that work, but I can stop them accessing my "eyes only" data using software. Just because something is accessible by some people on the Internet does not mean that is has to be accessible by all.
you're going travelling, to experience new cultures, people and ideas put down the computer; the world won't end if you can't access slashdot and your email for a few months
why on earth you feel a need to access your investment account from the depths of south america, i'm not sure.
Why on Earth you feel the need to tell a perfect stranger how to travel, I'm not sure. Why not just trust the guy and answer the question instead of responding in a smug condescending manner?
I'd suggest booting a security-oriented "live" linux distro from a CD/DVD/thumb drive when accessing untrusted networks. This means caches are gone when the power is turned off - no passwords/account numbers/etc floating around on the hard drive. If the distro boots with sane firewall settings, has ssh installed, etc, the poster should be fine.
Remember that Noonan comes with a strong point of view in all her writing. She was a speechwriter for Reagan and currently has a weekly column for the Wall Street Journal and appears on the news talk shows. She far from an unbiased observer. I personally think her columns are usaully vapid and logic-free, including this one.
You're assuming this is only for private citizen's computers. In that case you're right. But I could see this being useful in large "non-civilian" deployments like military, school, or corporate environments where the machines don't belong to an individual, but to an entity - where the machine's user does not have an expectation of privacy.
The Rose Center for Earth and Space (attached to the Natural History museum) has an awesome collection of photos and a really great "Scales of the Universe" exhibit. It starts with subatomic particles and, 400 feet later, jumping an order of magnitude every 10 or so feet, ends with the size of the known universe. It uses the sphere of the planetarium itself as a reference point, Check it out: http://www.amnh.org/rose/scales-moreinfo.html
Once you've figured out where and when, don't forget to check for lectures and special events at the places you're visiting. They may not be as heavily publicized as the "normal" exhibitions. I live in Manhattan and regularly attend evening events and lectures and the Natural History museum here. A few months ago I saw the Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) there. Last week I went to a digital universe presentation in the on motion of bodies in space. Who knows, you may get lucky and see something great.
As for the "one way hash" argument: while it's certainly true that laymen can be duped by impressive credentials (pretty much anyone can be duped under the right circumstances, layman or not), the whole argument reeks of a peculiar variety of arrogant elitism...
I don't think the "one way hash" argument argument references authority at all. I understood the "one way hash" is a point or line of reasoning which sounds solid and pithy when stated, but under the surface is deeply flawed. This forces the counter argument to have to explain a more complicated line of reasoning - which doesn't convince as easily as the 'one way hash' line of reasoning.
A simple example is "it was very cold last winter, therefore global warming is false". On the surface this makes sense - "yeah, it was really cold last winter, this argument must be correct." The counter argument to this involves graphs and things like "yeah, it was cold last winter - but look at this graph based on ice samples from Greenland for the last thousand years. You'll see that it means that blah blah blah...". Many anti-science arguments are 'one way hashes'.
"flipping files" in Vim: :Sex - explore current directory in other window, hit 'return' on filename to edit in the new buffer :e[file] - open file for editing in another buffer :ls - lists files open in other buffers. :bN - where 'N' is the number of the open buffer you want top flip to :b[file] - where [file] is a portion of the filename open in a buffer you want to flip to :bd - close current buffer
Or they are remembering one of the uses Poloroids had back in their heyday was taking pics in the bedroom.
Many a kid in the 70-80's was introduced to a world of nightmares and a desire to bleach their eyes by discovering their folks' "hidden" shoebox of memories...
Does anyone have a good list of tech sites that actually discusses tech issues? Most/. stories these days seem to devolve into partisan crap like this - people talking out their ass about things they don't understand. I'd filter the stories, but it doens't seem to matter. This story is under "Technology", posted by CmdrTaco for christ's sake.
There's gotta be something out there better than this. Do people still use usenet? Have all the trolls left there? Please advise.
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I make no claim as to the intelligence of advertisers. Even less so for marketers. :) Maybe they bundle ads with the cable co?
Their business model is not selling web access to the news though. Their business model is selling eyeballs. And they can tell advertisers that everyone who subscribes to the local cable monopoly (which is 75% of the local population) also reads the web site - ergo, lots of eyeballs to sell. That's why this article is so disingenuous - it is implying that the only revenue stream (or the only business model) of Newsday is to sell subscriptions to the web site. When that is in fact not true at all.
If you read the article (I know, I know) you'll discover that 75% of the people in the region already have access to the site via package deals:
So it's actually surprising that 35 people did sign up for it. I'm guessing they are people that moved from Long Island to other places and, for whatever reason, miss reading Newsday. I know it's popular to scream that newspapers are dying, but this is not really a story that supports that supposition.
My search engine went from 1 user month year to 2 users this month. My %100 growth rate smashes the piddling growth of all others!
If you believe that any substantial difference exists between the two parties with respect to corporate profits you are nothing more than a useful idiot.
There, fixed that for you. There are many differences between the parties as long as you're not discussing corporate profits. On topics like like abortion, support for gay rights, foreign policy, gun control, etc the parties do differ. But they are both the same when talking about the campaign finance and the corporations that line thier pockets. Both Sarah Palin and Barack Obama supported the first round of bank bailouts. That should tell you something.
Don't be too sure about that. In a supremely ironic move, Amazon recently deleted Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles even though the books had been legally purchased. It's as if Amazon walked into your house and took books from your shelves, leaving a few bucks in their place. Being backed by a huge retailer makes me less confident that I'll be able t read the ebooks I purchase in the future.
I know you're making a joke, but ginko is far from exotic and nor is it a weed (it's a tree). It is widely grown in cities as it is very hardy. If you live in NYC, you see them all over the place and come fall can't help but smell the foul odor of the pods as they fall to the ground and are crushed underfoot.
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=200005235
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo_Biloba
&c, &c
Netflix automatically keeps track of your "favorite genres". There is a top level genre "Gay & Lesbian", not to mention a pack of sub-genres with similar names. If you found out your mother's or sister's NetFlix account had those at the top of the list, wouldn't you at least wonder? Imagine if those were your "favorite genres" and your worst enemy/boss/husband/wife saw that. Wouldn't they wonder about you? While they may not know you're gay, they would wonder...
Golden Book Of Chemistry Experiments. The wikipedia page has links for PDFs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Book_of_Chemistry_Experiments
Because it can be. It's software - not the laws of physics. I can't stop someone from seeing me if there is light and they have eyes that work, but I can stop them accessing my "eyes only" data using software. Just because something is accessible by some people on the Internet does not mean that is has to be accessible by all.
Or put another way: just because I want my friends to have my phone number doesn't mean I want Joe's Telemarketing Emporium to have it.
ObBash:
http://bash.org/?4278
Why on Earth you feel the need to tell a perfect stranger how to travel, I'm not sure. Why not just trust the guy and answer the question instead of responding in a smug condescending manner?
I'd suggest booting a security-oriented "live" linux distro from a CD/DVD/thumb drive when accessing untrusted networks. This means caches are gone when the power is turned off - no passwords/account numbers/etc floating around on the hard drive. If the distro boots with sane firewall settings, has ssh installed, etc, the poster should be fine.
And it's 20.01x faster when you remove unneeded apostrophe's. :)
Remember that Noonan comes with a strong point of view in all her writing. She was a speechwriter for Reagan and currently has a weekly column for the Wall Street Journal and appears on the news talk shows. She far from an unbiased observer. I personally think her columns are usaully vapid and logic-free, including this one.
Apples and copyrighted oranges. GNU policy enforces freedom. Copyright enforces greed and selfishness.
The truth is we are all individuals.
I'm not.
You're assuming this is only for private citizen's computers. In that case you're right. But I could see this being useful in large "non-civilian" deployments like military, school, or corporate environments where the machines don't belong to an individual, but to an entity - where the machine's user does not have an expectation of privacy.
*sigh*
The Rose Center for Earth and Space (attached to the Natural History museum) has an awesome collection of photos and a really great "Scales of the Universe" exhibit. It starts with subatomic particles and, 400 feet later, jumping an order of magnitude every 10 or so feet, ends with the size of the known universe. It uses the sphere of the planetarium itself as a reference point, Check it out: http://www.amnh.org/rose/scales-moreinfo.html
Once you've figured out where and when, don't forget to check for lectures and special events at the places you're visiting. They may not be as heavily publicized as the "normal" exhibitions. I live in Manhattan and regularly attend evening events and lectures and the Natural History museum here. A few months ago I saw the Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) there. Last week I went to a digital universe presentation in the on motion of bodies in space. Who knows, you may get lucky and see something great.
As for the "one way hash" argument: while it's certainly true that laymen can be duped by impressive credentials (pretty much anyone can be duped under the right circumstances, layman or not), the whole argument reeks of a peculiar variety of arrogant elitism...
I don't think the "one way hash" argument argument references authority at all. I understood the "one way hash" is a point or line of reasoning which sounds solid and pithy when stated, but under the surface is deeply flawed. This forces the counter argument to have to explain a more complicated line of reasoning - which doesn't convince as easily as the 'one way hash' line of reasoning.
A simple example is "it was very cold last winter, therefore global warming is false". On the surface this makes sense - "yeah, it was really cold last winter, this argument must be correct." The counter argument to this involves graphs and things like "yeah, it was cold last winter - but look at this graph based on ice samples from Greenland for the last thousand years. You'll see that it means that blah blah blah...". Many anti-science arguments are 'one way hashes'.
"flipping files" in Vim:
:Sex - explore current directory in other window, hit 'return' on filename to edit in the new buffer
:e[file] - open file for editing in another buffer
:ls - lists files open in other buffers.
:bN - where 'N' is the number of the open buffer you want top flip to
:b[file] - where [file] is a portion of the filename open in a buffer you want to flip to
:bd - close current buffer
etc.
Or they are remembering one of the uses Poloroids had back in their heyday was taking pics in the bedroom.
Many a kid in the 70-80's was introduced to a world of nightmares and a desire to bleach their eyes by discovering their folks' "hidden" shoebox of memories...
[citation not needed]
Does anyone have a good list of tech sites that actually discusses tech issues? Most /. stories these days seem to devolve into partisan crap like this - people talking out their ass about things they don't understand. I'd filter the stories, but it doens't seem to matter. This story is under "Technology", posted by CmdrTaco for christ's sake.
There's gotta be something out there better than this. Do people still use usenet? Have all the trolls left there? Please advise.