Have you SEEN email spam lately? It's entirely non-sensical. Anyone who clicks on something in one (assuming it makes it past a spam blocker) is an idiot. Spam might as well be gone.
The HTTP download isn't that slow, actually. It's usually between half and almost all of my bandwidth. The P2P component, for me at least, just helps it stay high when the HTTP portion goes low. And this is actually from updating on/around patch days.
I can't attack the people who are the ONLY driving force bringing media prices lower. Every music service that comes out with a lower per-song cost takes at least some people away from torrenting and into a legal system. Most people don't even realize that 99 cents is, in today's world, really expensive for a single song. Similarly, selling most PC games at $60 has made me wonder if I really need my shiny new computer if I can almost never bring myself to buy a game that can use it. I'd probably be okay with paying 1/2 or 2/3 of the cost of what publishers are currently asking for just about any media, and I'm not alone.
Let's hope their quality of life increases further. If it does, I think I could set my issues with China aside. If it doesn't, I may start yelling at people who continue to do business with known sweatshops in China.
As bad as they say/. is getting lately, I find that most of us here won't intentionally say something unfair, whether it's a plug for our employers or a really stupid, unreasonable response. As little as that may seem to be, it's more than you usually get on the internet.
No, when they see some new thing in the sky, they work from "This could be anything" to "This is a Y with X temperature, Z mass, etc." Thus, constraining its attributes from guesses to accurate data.
I agree. I think we should pass a Constitutional amendment to specify Congress's powers. Admittedly, some of the things they've done with exaggerations of the Interstate Commerce clause has been helpful, and so we shouldn't entirely restrict their powers, just specify them.
I find that doubly funny. The president who is supposed to part of the party fighting against things like this is actually supporting it. Just about everyone is wrong. The lesson no one took from the spill is that the people who are supposed to check on oil rigs and make sure nothing bad happens are absolutely incompetent. Hilarious.
It definitely sucks that they want access to communication they can't get to right now. It's difficult, and it should be, to want to let them in. I think there are good arguments for giving them the power, and good arguments against. In favor of it, it would allow them to catch more criminals more easily. I think that's an easy positive most people would agree with. The drawback, however, is that the system could be abused (Anyone have research on wiretapping abuse? I think that'd be fairly relevant). We put a lot more of our personal information on the internet than we do on phone lines.
Here's what I think: restricting FBI access just because it's a different medium than phones is silly. If you're going to restrict their access, do it on the grounds that the access they get should be the same across all communication media. If they need a court order even to begin thinking about installing the tap, then they should need that court order for a phone line or tapping into a Skype account. But giving them full phone access and no internet access is only going to help criminals trying to avoid detection. Be consistent, that's all I'm saying.
I think the root idea here is that buying music on a song-by-song basis is no longer feasible at current costs. Everyone loved the 99 cent songs on iTunes, but now even that is way too much. Is a dollar really worth the average amount of time you listen to a song? I'd wager that's, at absolute most, an hour per month for most people, for an average song.
I also noticed a dozen references to hippies, bookstores that "cater to the hippies," etc. I mean really, they couldn't call them "extreme-left malcontents" or something halfway bureaucratic sounding?
Ya know, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, or if you understood my sarcasm (Darn you internet sarcasm wall!). That said, what you said made me think that security checks don't work. We need other, better methods. More proactive security, and any kind of checkpoint security should NOT be easily visible/understood. I think showing potential attackers exactly where the security check is in their path is a sure way to let them get around it.
Ya know, I agree with him. Grocery stores aren't an essential liberty either, and I think we should secure our food from people who might poison it, so let's have security checks at them too. In fact, everything not explicitly stated as a basic right in the Constitution should have a one-hour minimum security check, just to be safe.
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Have you SEEN email spam lately? It's entirely non-sensical. Anyone who clicks on something in one (assuming it makes it past a spam blocker) is an idiot. Spam might as well be gone.
The HTTP download isn't that slow, actually. It's usually between half and almost all of my bandwidth. The P2P component, for me at least, just helps it stay high when the HTTP portion goes low. And this is actually from updating on/around patch days.
Oh yes. If they do try to shut down WoW's traffic, ActiBlizz will get angry. Not harshly worded letters angry. Step-dad got home and he's drunk angry.
I can't attack the people who are the ONLY driving force bringing media prices lower. Every music service that comes out with a lower per-song cost takes at least some people away from torrenting and into a legal system. Most people don't even realize that 99 cents is, in today's world, really expensive for a single song. Similarly, selling most PC games at $60 has made me wonder if I really need my shiny new computer if I can almost never bring myself to buy a game that can use it. I'd probably be okay with paying 1/2 or 2/3 of the cost of what publishers are currently asking for just about any media, and I'm not alone.
I love firefly, but I admit it probably never had enough appeal to be a mainstream, high-budget show.
Let's hope their quality of life increases further. If it does, I think I could set my issues with China aside. If it doesn't, I may start yelling at people who continue to do business with known sweatshops in China.
+1 old school car analogy
As bad as they say /. is getting lately, I find that most of us here won't intentionally say something unfair, whether it's a plug for our employers or a really stupid, unreasonable response. As little as that may seem to be, it's more than you usually get on the internet.
No, when they see some new thing in the sky, they work from "This could be anything" to "This is a Y with X temperature, Z mass, etc." Thus, constraining its attributes from guesses to accurate data.
Pushing hard for a promotion, aren't you?
My bad, the Pre is a phone, not a PDA. Still, ditch that and replace it with an Android, Windows Phone 7, or iPhone and you're golden.
If you ditch the PDA, most of that does work together. Of course, if you still have a PDA you're a bit out of touch in today's world.
If everybody's making so much money with these high-speed stocks, who exactly is losing?
I agree. I think we should pass a Constitutional amendment to specify Congress's powers. Admittedly, some of the things they've done with exaggerations of the Interstate Commerce clause has been helpful, and so we shouldn't entirely restrict their powers, just specify them.
You've crushed me by making Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer essentially the same story. I'm a broken man now.
Mod parent up. It's not a commonly known grammar fact, but it is an important one. Of course, I may be biased with a last name that ends in "s."
I find that doubly funny. The president who is supposed to part of the party fighting against things like this is actually supporting it. Just about everyone is wrong. The lesson no one took from the spill is that the people who are supposed to check on oil rigs and make sure nothing bad happens are absolutely incompetent. Hilarious.
You missed the point. The government always reacts stupidly to things like this, so they'd ban regular helium just to "save" the helium-3.
It definitely sucks that they want access to communication they can't get to right now. It's difficult, and it should be, to want to let them in. I think there are good arguments for giving them the power, and good arguments against. In favor of it, it would allow them to catch more criminals more easily. I think that's an easy positive most people would agree with. The drawback, however, is that the system could be abused (Anyone have research on wiretapping abuse? I think that'd be fairly relevant). We put a lot more of our personal information on the internet than we do on phone lines. Here's what I think: restricting FBI access just because it's a different medium than phones is silly. If you're going to restrict their access, do it on the grounds that the access they get should be the same across all communication media. If they need a court order even to begin thinking about installing the tap, then they should need that court order for a phone line or tapping into a Skype account. But giving them full phone access and no internet access is only going to help criminals trying to avoid detection. Be consistent, that's all I'm saying.
I think the root idea here is that buying music on a song-by-song basis is no longer feasible at current costs. Everyone loved the 99 cent songs on iTunes, but now even that is way too much. Is a dollar really worth the average amount of time you listen to a song? I'd wager that's, at absolute most, an hour per month for most people, for an average song.
I also noticed a dozen references to hippies, bookstores that "cater to the hippies," etc. I mean really, they couldn't call them "extreme-left malcontents" or something halfway bureaucratic sounding?
I wonder if eventually Wikileaks will just post the news.
Hadn't thought about where the cost of the war was going. Does anyone have hard data on that? I'd be interested to see.
Ya know, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, or if you understood my sarcasm (Darn you internet sarcasm wall!). That said, what you said made me think that security checks don't work. We need other, better methods. More proactive security, and any kind of checkpoint security should NOT be easily visible/understood. I think showing potential attackers exactly where the security check is in their path is a sure way to let them get around it.
Ya know, I agree with him. Grocery stores aren't an essential liberty either, and I think we should secure our food from people who might poison it, so let's have security checks at them too. In fact, everything not explicitly stated as a basic right in the Constitution should have a one-hour minimum security check, just to be safe.