And it's nice and all, but I don't see how it compares to Adblocking (in the sense that those that make money off of ads get upset). It's just something that's on top of your site, after it's done loading. Anyone can do that by extracting the text somehow. Safari implements a tool for it. I still see the rest of the site. There wasn't any obvious full screen option to it that would cover the stuff on the sides, but somehow Ctrl+mouse wheel makes it wider (or thinner) while Ctrl++ doesn't.
I'll be sticking with using NoScript, Adblock and blocking third party cookies in Firefox, though.
So having never used twitter before; Are these apps for cellphones? Do they intend to replace or force developers to replace all links t.co/wtf? Sounds like an icredible blow to security, not knowing where the links are going to send you.
But if it's just a rule, what's keeping everyone from breaking it?
The stricter the DRM, the more reason to get a pirated version than a legit one, because it will be more user friendly.
DRM only prevents large scale piracy until someone cracks it. Heavy DRM doesn't make more people buy something. Those that wouldn't buy in any case, wait. Maybe even some that would buy also wait, because they might prefer to buy it but use the cracked version for reduced hassle.
With the DRM, the criminalization of their customers, and the big fat lies like this one, I don't see why I would want to give these people money at all.
I'd rather play my old games that I actually own than feed this devolution of the business.
(NB: dupe comment because I posted the previous one "Anonymously", and it's apparently invisible without a parent)
The lives of those civilians are just as valuable as those of the soldiers. As not an American citizen, I get disgusted every time someone wants to put a soldier's life over a civilian's life. Or an American's life over any other person's life. They're all people.
In fact, soldiers put themselves in harms way voluntarily. They have a choice. Civilians caught in the middle don't, and they need to be protected as much as possible. Soldiers of an occupation force that want to protect themselves, can go home.
If the coverage wasn't fair, then someone needs to release the unedited, full context videos.
There were elves, dwarves, trolls and ogres before Tolkien. And "fantasy" has been around since man thought about more than where to get his next meal.
Well, this article is apparently about immigrants from India doing better at spelling bees than other people living in the states, recent immigrants or not.
You're definitely right about the most nobel prizes going to US residents, but if you look closer at who actually won them, you'll see that a large number of those again are first generation immigrants. I haven't checked how many of them are second generation.
My guess is that it has more to do with the number of high level education facilities and the availability of financing than anything else. They're soaking up bright minds from around the world. If India could support them, they might go there instead.
That's pretty much what I do. I downloaded a lot more games before (when I had more free time), but I've been buying a game every now and then since I've had my own money (I'm not buying more games now than before, because as I've gotten more money, I've also gotten more mandatory expenses). It averages out on a game every year or two.
The second last game I bought, I regret not pirating first to try it out, because it was crap compared to its predecessor (Unreal Tournament 3 vs Unreal Tournament 2004). The last game I bought haven't actually played since I bought it (Oblivion), but I had played it lots before because I downloaded it as soon as it was released. I bought it at a discount since it was years after its release, but I bought it because the price was right for what I felt I'd gotten out of it.
That's true, filesharing will often preserve much more than the industry itself will. But not always in a high quality or original format. And even if we have it all uncompressed, we're likely only preserving the product, without the methods (designs, blueprints, etc.) of how it was produced (for music, all the instruments or tracks, etc. For games only the binaries, and we won't be able to read those on just any system. As time passes and hardware and software changes, it'll become more and more difficult to use at all).
I'd figure it be a series of data centers blown up by some event, but in the summary it hints at identity theft. I'm not sure if any data that can be taken that easily in so large amounts can qualify as a disaster.
I don't think I even own or have any data that could undergo a disaster. The worst that could happen is that my work computer gets misplaced or destroyed somehow, but it's almost all backed up somewhere else, so no disaster, not even a personal one.
My private data, well, what I haven't backed up, I can recreate. And I haven't willingly leaked any personal info online, despite the trend. Even so, is losing your Facebook page, or even millions of people losing their social webpages really a disaster?
I honestly don't care about stocks, btw. It seems they're all in it to squeeze the most out of the system, not to benefit the general economy. If they crash and burn, meh.
I was always under the impression that the ads are what pays for the newspapers, not the minimal fee we purchase them for.
Considering that, it would be ridiciolous to charge for online articles, rather than have them be ad-supported. The costs of running a website are insignificant compared to distributing tons of paper around the world.
Think before you post online, whichever site or mailing list. Too many people post without thinking.
Seriously, should I have to do this ? And when I make a joke in public to one of my friends should I first glance over my shoulder to see if there's some HR loon or middle manager stalking me who could use a joke as an excuse to fire me ? That's not the kind of society I want to live in. (It's also in fact NOT the society I live in because luckily I happen to live in a country with decent social protections and unions.) This is the sort of thing we used reproach the USSR for : peoples lives being destroyed because they get reported for saying the "wrong things" without recourse.
But it apparently *is* the society you live in, or at least almost everyone else does. So we either change society this instant, or better watch what we post online, because on the Internet everything is public. Even with artificial limits to prevent it from being accessible to all, those who you specifially give access to can still make it public. Including those who control those artificial limits (like the owners of Facebook).
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He's probably hinting at the police state that the UK is turning in to, with the tons of surveillance etc.
Whether it's the royal family that's the excuse for it doesn't really change things.
And it's nice and all, but I don't see how it compares to Adblocking (in the sense that those that make money off of ads get upset). It's just something that's on top of your site, after it's done loading. Anyone can do that by extracting the text somehow. Safari implements a tool for it. I still see the rest of the site. There wasn't any obvious full screen option to it that would cover the stuff on the sides, but somehow Ctrl+mouse wheel makes it wider (or thinner) while Ctrl++ doesn't.
I'll be sticking with using NoScript, Adblock and blocking third party cookies in Firefox, though.
Well, if it's not a commercial site, and you're not an organization, what's left?
Parent isn't a troll. You disagreeing with someone doesn't make them a troll.
With the last decade of torture and other war crimes, I wouldn't trust the Pentagon further than I could throw it.
So having never used twitter before; Are these apps for cellphones? Do they intend to replace or force developers to replace all links t.co/wtf? Sounds like an icredible blow to security, not knowing where the links are going to send you.
But if it's just a rule, what's keeping everyone from breaking it?
The first thing I think of when I see that is; spyware. The enhancement is probably only to their benefit, not yours.
Has the Internet really been around long enough to have bigger leaks than this before its "recent history"?
That's one of the things I miss in Windows 7, classic menus and themes. I just need this thing to run my programs, not put them on a parade.
The stricter the DRM, the more reason to get a pirated version than a legit one, because it will be more user friendly.
DRM only prevents large scale piracy until someone cracks it. Heavy DRM doesn't make more people buy something. Those that wouldn't buy in any case, wait. Maybe even some that would buy also wait, because they might prefer to buy it but use the cracked version for reduced hassle.
With the DRM, the criminalization of their customers, and the big fat lies like this one, I don't see why I would want to give these people money at all.
I'd rather play my old games that I actually own than feed this devolution of the business.
(NB: dupe comment because I posted the previous one "Anonymously", and it's apparently invisible without a parent)
The lives of those civilians are just as valuable as those of the soldiers. As not an American citizen, I get disgusted every time someone wants to put a soldier's life over a civilian's life. Or an American's life over any other person's life. They're all people.
In fact, soldiers put themselves in harms way voluntarily. They have a choice. Civilians caught in the middle don't, and they need to be protected as much as possible. Soldiers of an occupation force that want to protect themselves, can go home.
If the coverage wasn't fair, then someone needs to release the unedited, full context videos.
An outright ban on lobbying would be nice in any case.
What type of crimes to they believe happen (often) on Facebook? And whatever other websites they might have contacted.
I don't see how this would result in anything but meaningless spamming of that "button".
There were elves, dwarves, trolls and ogres before Tolkien. And "fantasy" has been around since man thought about more than where to get his next meal.
Well, this article is apparently about immigrants from India doing better at spelling bees than other people living in the states, recent immigrants or not.
You're definitely right about the most nobel prizes going to US residents, but if you look closer at who actually won them, you'll see that a large number of those again are first generation immigrants. I haven't checked how many of them are second generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_country
My guess is that it has more to do with the number of high level education facilities and the availability of financing than anything else. They're soaking up bright minds from around the world. If India could support them, they might go there instead.
Did they see it as too big a risk to lock up mixed genders in there?
Empathetic emo? I thought emos were mostly concerned with themselves.
Dickheads would be the ones charging for, or even (unlikely) freely releasing data about me without my consent.
Time to get more cell phones to use as decoys?
That's pretty much what I do. I downloaded a lot more games before (when I had more free time), but I've been buying a game every now and then since I've had my own money (I'm not buying more games now than before, because as I've gotten more money, I've also gotten more mandatory expenses). It averages out on a game every year or two.
The second last game I bought, I regret not pirating first to try it out, because it was crap compared to its predecessor (Unreal Tournament 3 vs Unreal Tournament 2004). The last game I bought haven't actually played since I bought it (Oblivion), but I had played it lots before because I downloaded it as soon as it was released. I bought it at a discount since it was years after its release, but I bought it because the price was right for what I felt I'd gotten out of it.
That's true, filesharing will often preserve much more than the industry itself will. But not always in a high quality or original format. And even if we have it all uncompressed, we're likely only preserving the product, without the methods (designs, blueprints, etc.) of how it was produced (for music, all the instruments or tracks, etc. For games only the binaries, and we won't be able to read those on just any system. As time passes and hardware and software changes, it'll become more and more difficult to use at all).
I'd figure it be a series of data centers blown up by some event, but in the summary it hints at identity theft. I'm not sure if any data that can be taken that easily in so large amounts can qualify as a disaster.
I don't think I even own or have any data that could undergo a disaster. The worst that could happen is that my work computer gets misplaced or destroyed somehow, but it's almost all backed up somewhere else, so no disaster, not even a personal one.
My private data, well, what I haven't backed up, I can recreate. And I haven't willingly leaked any personal info online, despite the trend. Even so, is losing your Facebook page, or even millions of people losing their social webpages really a disaster?
I honestly don't care about stocks, btw. It seems they're all in it to squeeze the most out of the system, not to benefit the general economy. If they crash and burn, meh.
I was always under the impression that the ads are what pays for the newspapers, not the minimal fee we purchase them for.
Considering that, it would be ridiciolous to charge for online articles, rather than have them be ad-supported. The costs of running a website are insignificant compared to distributing tons of paper around the world.
Think before you post online, whichever site or mailing list. Too many people post without thinking.
Seriously, should I have to do this ? And when I make a joke in public to one of my friends should I first glance over my shoulder to see if there's some HR loon or middle manager stalking me who could use a joke as an excuse to fire me ? That's not the kind of society I want to live in. (It's also in fact NOT the society I live in because luckily I happen to live in a country with decent social protections and unions.) This is the sort of thing we used reproach the USSR for : peoples lives being destroyed because they get reported for saying the "wrong things" without recourse.
But it apparently *is* the society you live in, or at least almost everyone else does. So we either change society this instant, or better watch what we post online, because on the Internet everything is public. Even with artificial limits to prevent it from being accessible to all, those who you specifially give access to can still make it public. Including those who control those artificial limits (like the owners of Facebook).