First, you can still book on short notice; this 72 hour lead time is just to get the bulk of the clearance out of the way (claim the TSA):
...unless the individual makes a reservation within 72 hours of the scheduled flight departure time, changes a flight within 72 hours of the scheduled flight departure time, or requests to enter a sterile area upon arrival at the airport.
In such cases, TSA would require covered aircraft operators to send the required information to TSA immediately. TSA, in coordination with the TSC where necessary, would compare the passenger and non-traveler information obtained from each covered aircraft operator to information contained in the watch list.
but they did manage to sneak in additional papers-please wording:
Not issue to an individual a boarding pass or authorization to enter a sterile area or permit an individual to board an aircraft or enter a sterile area if the individual does not provide a verifying identity document when requested under circumstances described above, unless otherwise authorized by TSA.
It's still bad, and hasslesome, and invasive of privacy, but not outright bullet-in-foot material.
To be fair, almost all countries are a bit wary about a US-controlled DNS system, and to a large extent that's why ICANN exists in the first place. China, Saudi Arabia, and a few others have specific interests in filtering what happens on their intra-country network, and having their own DNS system aids in that.
But you're right, on a different level, the language issue and the control issue are independent, they just happen to overlap in a lot of places.
Actually, if you RTFA, ICANN's failure to do this so far has caused increased fragmentation, as countries have implemented their own, only-works-here solutions:
At least a dozen countries, including China and Saudi Arabia, have created their own domains in different alphabets and their own Internets to support these domains. A Russian newspaper article last July reported that President Vladimir Putin was commissioning the creation of a Cyrillic Internet. Users of Russia's Internet, like current users of China's and Saudi Arabia's, could surf the Web without going through U.S.-controlled ICANN servers.
"We have been told so many times it will be next year and next year and next year that ICANN will make" multilingual domains work, said Alexei Sozonov, chief executive of Regtime, a Russian domain registrar. "So countries now have their own deployments."
Now, of course, most of these countries have their own issues about Internet connectivity and interoperability, but this at least is one less acceptable reason they behave that way.
We'll see what happens. Yahoo has enough clout and a big enough war chest to stay afloat where others (AudioGalaxy) have failed, even though they focused on independent labels and contracts with RIAA companies (but still ended up getting sued to pieces). Yahoo of course will have full control over the content they post, so while they have to foot the bandwidth bill, they'll be in the clean (unlike AG, despite its fingerprinting technology).
The long-term question will be if Yahoo can get through the iPod barrier to start attracting business of online music consumers who don't know/care about DRM, and show them the light.
I do wonder what a good consumer-education campaign would do for this?
Just a simple; RIAA is suing fans, grandmothers, and working moms for allegedly sharing music. Most settle out of court because they can't risk or afford a lengthy lawsuit against a huge corporation. Here's a list of the record companies who are part of the RIAA, and here are their popular artists.
You're right, of course; but until we get a class action lawsuit going, an administration that is interested in enforcing anti-trust and RICO statutes, an FCC or congress willing to bite the hand that funds them, there's not much we can do individually except boycott and educate others. My main point is that I'm tired of/.ers saying that it's *now* time to stop buying RIAA music, etc.
...You left out "Georgia[1]," Indy's new humorous "side kick" with obvious merchandising appeal to the kids who accidentally tips the computers over the edge and says "ooops-a, was dat me-ah?"
[1] Say it fast enough, it sounds a bit like... you know.
OK, I'm tired of this line. If you don't like RIAA's tactics, don't buy CDs from their record labels. It's easy. I've been using RIAARadar to not support RIAA labels since Napster went dark; and it's not like you miss much good music.
what I'm saying is that it's BEEN time to let the RIAA twist in the wind, and I really, really hope I'm preaching to the choir. Being a/. reader and continuing to buy RIAA-tainted CDs is basically inexcusable.
Actually, it's even more complex. The monopoly deal was; you get the monopoly, but you provide access even to places that won't generate profits. Ma Bell fiercely guarded their monopoly on the copper they laid, much like Verizon is doing with their fiber. Only later, after complaints from new businesses (Sprint, MCI, IIRC) did the guv decide to bust up the monopoly and allow others to use Ma Bell's wires.
I agree with the other poster, they have to tread very, very carefully or people will jump ship. Adding new pay-par features is a big win. MMS sending of photos to cell phones, using skype to send stupid ringtones, flickr/cell integration (photo of the day!) and so on.
The problem with skype is that their income is in inverse relation to their network size, making it a particularly poor "web 2.0" network-driven company. The more people who have skype (and a connection to support it), the fewer people will use skype(in|out) services. For example, my girlfriend lived in China over the summer. At first I called her using skypeout. When she finally got Internet, tho, we just used skype-to-skype, because of better call quality and video capabilities.
Skype has to find a way to increase their revenue as their network of users increases; probably through an ad-revenue stream to their in-calling services. Doing this the wrong way, though (pre-call audio ads, etc.) will just scare people off to IM services with voice chat capabilities, which is increasingly all of 'em.
Good luck to 'em. I like skype (except for the lack of "quit/exit" in their file menu!)
The cool thing here could be applications: could, say, windfarms, which have an unfortunate side effect of doing a blender on birds (especially if in their migratory path...), use big magnets to deflect birds around them?
Depends on how you count Taiwan; AsusTek and Quanta both manufacture laptops for Dell and Apple (among others) and are Taiwanese. Now, they may farm components out to the mainland. Quanta itself has something like 1/3rd of the mfg market for laptops.
I kinda doubt that no matter how bad Vista is, the MS ship ain't sinking. Server 2k3 is good, and XP is and will remain everywhere. Heck, Win98SecondEdition still probably has a decent install-base. I see Vista as a new "Me" - lots of bloat attached to nothing much new from previous code bases. At some point, M$ will have to suck it up and do another big code re-write. They moved things to the NT platform, which helped a lot, but even that's showing its limits now. It may be time for them to follow in Apple's steps and make the Windows equivalent of OS9->OSX change. We'll see if they have the gumption to do that, tho.
Is this any worse than IE7, which sends the same to M$? At least Google servers are likely to respond in a more chipper fashion than M$'s, which at times have been noticeably slow, such that I turned AntiPhishing off for some newbies I'd activated it for
I use firefox on my slow, memory-starved laptop. Opera is faster, but I just can't live without adblock in the modern web age of big flashy annoying ads.
That being said, I'd love a lighter main firefox branch that would run happily with less ram.
to balance the USA-OK jingoist crowd, I'll have to check out this Denmark place as a good long-term residence, now that the USA has forgotten some basic tenets of its constitution which made it such a nice idealistic place.
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Every day, I miss the concept of "rough consensus and running code" a bit more.
but they did manage to sneak in additional papers-please wording:
It's still bad, and hasslesome, and invasive of privacy, but not outright bullet-in-foot material.
To be fair, almost all countries are a bit wary about a US-controlled DNS system, and to a large extent that's why ICANN exists in the first place. China, Saudi Arabia, and a few others have specific interests in filtering what happens on their intra-country network, and having their own DNS system aids in that.
But you're right, on a different level, the language issue and the control issue are independent, they just happen to overlap in a lot of places.
Now, of course, most of these countries have their own issues about Internet connectivity and interoperability, but this at least is one less acceptable reason they behave that way.
You carefully place your monitor on its side. C'mon man, at least try to keep up!
User is complaining. Allow or Deny?
*click*
Just don't try to mussel into the joke just for the halibut, fishing for +1 Funny, or you'll end up get "dock"ed karma.
I hope she brings Fox the same integrity and good business sense that she brought to HP.
We'll see what happens. Yahoo has enough clout and a big enough war chest to stay afloat where others (AudioGalaxy) have failed, even though they focused on independent labels and contracts with RIAA companies (but still ended up getting sued to pieces). Yahoo of course will have full control over the content they post, so while they have to foot the bandwidth bill, they'll be in the clean (unlike AG, despite its fingerprinting technology).
The long-term question will be if Yahoo can get through the iPod barrier to start attracting business of online music consumers who don't know/care about DRM, and show them the light.
I do wonder what a good consumer-education campaign would do for this?
Just a simple; RIAA is suing fans, grandmothers, and working moms for allegedly sharing music. Most settle out of court because they can't risk or afford a lengthy lawsuit against a huge corporation. Here's a list of the record companies who are part of the RIAA, and here are their popular artists.
You're right, of course; but until we get a class action lawsuit going, an administration that is interested in enforcing anti-trust and RICO statutes, an FCC or congress willing to bite the hand that funds them, there's not much we can do individually except boycott and educate others. My main point is that I'm tired of /.ers saying that it's *now* time to stop buying RIAA music, etc.
...You left out "Georgia[1]," Indy's new humorous "side kick" with obvious merchandising appeal to the kids who accidentally tips the computers over the edge and says "ooops-a, was dat me-ah?"
... you know.
[1] Say it fast enough, it sounds a bit like
...and tell the entire RIAA to get bent.
/. reader and continuing to buy RIAA-tainted CDs is basically inexcusable.
OK, I'm tired of this line. If you don't like RIAA's tactics, don't buy CDs from their record labels. It's easy. I've been using RIAARadar to not support RIAA labels since Napster went dark; and it's not like you miss much good music.
what I'm saying is that it's BEEN time to let the RIAA twist in the wind, and I really, really hope I'm preaching to the choir. Being a
Actually, it's even more complex. The monopoly deal was; you get the monopoly, but you provide access even to places that won't generate profits. Ma Bell fiercely guarded their monopoly on the copper they laid, much like Verizon is doing with their fiber. Only later, after complaints from new businesses (Sprint, MCI, IIRC) did the guv decide to bust up the monopoly and allow others to use Ma Bell's wires.
I agree with the other poster, they have to tread very, very carefully or people will jump ship. Adding new pay-par features is a big win. MMS sending of photos to cell phones, using skype to send stupid ringtones, flickr/cell integration (photo of the day!) and so on.
The problem with skype is that their income is in inverse relation to their network size, making it a particularly poor "web 2.0" network-driven company. The more people who have skype (and a connection to support it), the fewer people will use skype(in|out) services. For example, my girlfriend lived in China over the summer. At first I called her using skypeout. When she finally got Internet, tho, we just used skype-to-skype, because of better call quality and video capabilities.
Skype has to find a way to increase their revenue as their network of users increases; probably through an ad-revenue stream to their in-calling services. Doing this the wrong way, though (pre-call audio ads, etc.) will just scare people off to IM services with voice chat capabilities, which is increasingly all of 'em.
Good luck to 'em. I like skype (except for the lack of "quit/exit" in their file menu!)
The cool thing here could be applications: could, say, windfarms, which have an unfortunate side effect of doing a blender on birds (especially if in their migratory path...), use big magnets to deflect birds around them?
Depends on how you count Taiwan; AsusTek and Quanta both manufacture laptops for Dell and Apple (among others) and are Taiwanese. Now, they may farm components out to the mainland. Quanta itself has something like 1/3rd of the mfg market for laptops.
I kinda doubt that no matter how bad Vista is, the MS ship ain't sinking. Server 2k3 is good, and XP is and will remain everywhere. Heck, Win98SecondEdition still probably has a decent install-base. I see Vista as a new "Me" - lots of bloat attached to nothing much new from previous code bases. At some point, M$ will have to suck it up and do another big code re-write. They moved things to the NT platform, which helped a lot, but even that's showing its limits now. It may be time for them to follow in Apple's steps and make the Windows equivalent of OS9->OSX change. We'll see if they have the gumption to do that, tho.
It failed because he directly ignored advice of previous failed online music CEOs:
"As long as you're not trying to deliver music to consumers, you should be fine"
--Joe Fleischer, former CEO of iCast.
Is this any worse than IE7, which sends the same to M$? At least Google servers are likely to respond in a more chipper fashion than M$'s, which at times have been noticeably slow, such that I turned AntiPhishing off for some newbies I'd activated it for
I zeroed out my MySpace account when Fox bought it, it'd be a shame to have to do the same with Fb.
But I'm using a first gen Pentium 1, I guess they cancel each other out?
(joking)
I use firefox on my slow, memory-starved laptop. Opera is faster, but I just can't live without adblock in the modern web age of big flashy annoying ads.
That being said, I'd love a lighter main firefox branch that would run happily with less ram.
to balance the USA-OK jingoist crowd, I'll have to check out this Denmark place as a good long-term residence, now that the USA has forgotten some basic tenets of its constitution which made it such a nice idealistic place.