Try stltoday.com, the website for the St Louis Post-Dispatch. They require a Facebook login to leave comments. Of course, there is very little there worth reading anymore, and even less worth commenting on.
Not as easy as it might sound. With Nebraska, Missouri, and Oklahoma on three sides, the only escape is westward. Unfortunately, the first 100 miles of Colorado is cleverly disguised as western Kansas
I guess that was a benefit of my business degree; no time wasted on ethics! Ditto for the legal and poli-science folks. Of course, things might have changed in the past 30 years.
What would the vehicles say to each other? I haven't heard of any attempts to define standards/APIs for intervehicle communications. Letting everyone "do their own thing" gave railroads major headaches in the 19th Century when they tried to interconnect.
It can't keep up. Timothy has posted every single article since early Thursday. He will have to sleep at some point. The new overlords must be holding his family hostage.
If they used this technology when The Sixth Sense came out, the promos would have shown the scene where Bruce Willis realized he was dead. I think that would have been the opposite of effective.
I was going to mod your post up as "insightful" until I realized you failed to provide any fact-based support for your assertion that unsupported assertions are what you love least about Slashdot.
Consider yourself lucky. When the Cardinals were here in St Louis the bastards broadcast damn near every one of their pathetic games. If you're not getting local broadcasts that's only because they are not selling out their home games. I commend you Arizonians for being way smarter, way quicker, than we were.
Here's a radical idea. Why don't web sites try to develop a profile of who their target visitors are and then sell advertising space to compatible products for small name-recognition ads? It's worked for over a century in real world publishing, why not web publishing? Why is advertising success determined by click-thru rates? Budweiser is quite happy that an ad in Playboy might be seen by a million people, a billboard by perhaps 250,000, a placard at a rodeo several thousand. Why don't we ever see something similar on the web - just a nonclickable, nonobtrusive "Hi - remember us when you get back to the real world" jpeg/gif? The only advertising going on at web sites now is for other web sites - break out of the circle jerk and a site could be profitable.
All it would take is for the US government to change its procurement policies and specify that henceforth they will only purchase software that has openly published file formats, published APIs, and meets specified interoperability requirements. As the largest software purchaser in the world, the US government is actually the 500 pound gorilla in this case, not Microsoft. If the government implemented such a policy, and then began returning correspondence as "unreadable", you better believe corporate America would quickly follow suit. Why? Because the government is also the largest purchaser of shoes, vehicles, food, and about everything else. In another Slashdot article today, it looks like France is thinking about going this way.
You're missing one essential remedy. I think that Microsoft should officially be renamed "The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation". Let's face it, they've made an art of consistently producing products that are almost, but not quite entirely, unlike the products we want. I'm sure Douglas Adams would be happy to release the rights to the name for such a worthy recipient.
IANAL, but it sure as hell seems to me there ought to be a big, juicy class-action lawsuit against Mattel waiting to happen. Most comments I've seen on this issue to date look at this as a matter of censorship. I see it as slander and restraint of trade. From what I've read about the site list, Mattel has applied a rather shotgun and poor approach to deciding what should be banned. If someone's web page was inappropriately banned as 'pornographic' seems to me their opportunity to earn money from banner ads/whatever would be unfairly restricted. No wonder Mattel wants to get rid of Cyber Patrol.
"Why are you so upset that they made IE free. Isn't that a success for the free-software movement that a commercial company offered its product for free because the free product, Netscape, was doing so well. " What the hell does this have to do with the free-software movement? Are you saying Microsoft released the source code to IE? Free software has nothing to do with price, but freedom, freedom to review, modify, do want you want with the code. It is about choice, the very antithesis of Microsoft's actions.
An area I haven't seen addressed yet is software retailers. The way I read UCITA, if I purchase software at Wal-Mart, take it home, start to install, and decide against clicking to accept the provisions of the agreement , I can then take the opened package back to Wal-Mart for a full refund. In the past, most retailers have only allowed exchanges on opened software as a prevention against piracy. Looks like now they'd have to accept the return. I imagine that they could get around the problem by providing a hard-copy of the agreement prior to sale, but that'd be an administartive headache for a place like Best buy that stocks several hundred software titles. If I was a retailer in Virginia I'd have nightmares of thousands of/.ers descending on Virginia outlets the first day UCITA took effect, buying stuff, and then all returning it the next day. (Of course a protest like that would never happen).
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Try stltoday.com, the website for the St Louis Post-Dispatch. They require a Facebook login to leave comments. Of course, there is very little there worth reading anymore, and even less worth commenting on.
Not as easy as it might sound. With Nebraska, Missouri, and Oklahoma on three sides, the only escape is westward. Unfortunately, the first 100 miles of Colorado is cleverly disguised as western Kansas
Call them Pornmobiles. After all, they'll be recording and transmitting backseat teenage sex, infant diaper changes, swinsuit changes, etc.
I guess that was a benefit of my business degree; no time wasted on ethics! Ditto for the legal and poli-science folks. Of course, things might have changed in the past 30 years.
What would the vehicles say to each other? I haven't heard of any attempts to define standards/APIs for intervehicle communications. Letting everyone "do their own thing" gave railroads major headaches in the 19th Century when they tried to interconnect.
She'd probably like to retire, but if Verizon was smart (I know, a real stretch) they included a "must compete" clause in her termination contrtact.
Dollar General, for when you don't quite need the quality of Walmart
Hi Jeff Fisher! I wondered where you went after the Rams fired you.
Why yes, indeed they do. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt20...
No, but it can make the team better, (Patty Mills,San Antonio Spurs)
Too far out. I guess it is better than the retreating future. Let me know when they can narrow it down to the present future.
Two words: explosive diarrhea. Works every time, never questioned.
I think this is the first non-Timothy post since shortly after the changeover from Dice.
It can't keep up. Timothy has posted every single article since early Thursday. He will have to sleep at some point. The new overlords must be holding his family hostage.
If they used this technology when The Sixth Sense came out, the promos would have shown the scene where Bruce Willis realized he was dead. I think that would have been the opposite of effective.
I was going to mod your post up as "insightful" until I realized you failed to provide any fact-based support for your assertion that unsupported assertions are what you love least about Slashdot.
Consider yourself lucky. When the Cardinals were here in St Louis the bastards broadcast damn near every one of their pathetic games. If you're not getting local broadcasts that's only because they are not selling out their home games. I commend you Arizonians for being way smarter, way quicker, than we were.
Here's a radical idea. Why don't web sites try to develop a profile of who their target visitors are and then sell advertising space to compatible products for small name-recognition ads? It's worked for over a century in real world publishing, why not web publishing? Why is advertising success determined by click-thru rates? Budweiser is quite happy that an ad in Playboy might be seen by a million people, a billboard by perhaps 250,000, a placard at a rodeo several thousand. Why don't we ever see something similar on the web - just a nonclickable, nonobtrusive "Hi - remember us when you get back to the real world" jpeg/gif? The only advertising going on at web sites now is for other web sites - break out of the circle jerk and a site could be profitable.
The choice has to be Gore. After eight years of Clinton does America really need another four years of Bush and Dick stories coming out of Washington?
All it would take is for the US government to change its procurement policies and specify that henceforth they will only purchase software that has openly published file formats, published APIs, and meets specified interoperability requirements. As the largest software purchaser in the world, the US government is actually the 500 pound gorilla in this case, not Microsoft. If the government implemented such a policy, and then began returning correspondence as "unreadable", you better believe corporate America would quickly follow suit. Why? Because the government is also the largest purchaser of shoes, vehicles, food, and about everything else. In another Slashdot article today, it looks like France is thinking about going this way.
You're missing one essential remedy. I think that Microsoft should officially be renamed "The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation". Let's face it, they've made an art of consistently producing products that are almost, but not quite entirely, unlike the products we want. I'm sure Douglas Adams would be happy to release the rights to the name for such a worthy recipient.
IANAL, but it sure as hell seems to me there ought to be a big, juicy class-action lawsuit against Mattel waiting to happen. Most comments I've seen on this issue to date look at this as a matter of censorship. I see it as slander and restraint of trade. From what I've read about the site list, Mattel has applied a rather shotgun and poor approach to deciding what should be banned. If someone's web page was inappropriately banned as 'pornographic' seems to me their opportunity to earn money from banner ads/whatever would be unfairly restricted. No wonder Mattel wants to get rid of Cyber Patrol.
"Why are you so upset that they made IE free. Isn't that a success for the free-software movement that a commercial company offered its product for free because the free product, Netscape, was doing so well. " What the hell does this have to do with the free-software movement? Are you saying Microsoft released the source code to IE? Free software has nothing to do with price, but freedom, freedom to review, modify, do want you want with the code. It is about choice, the very antithesis of Microsoft's actions.
A quick question. Instead of using 127.0.0.1, if I used 198.70.114.59 (mpaa.org) would all the junk mail load requests be sent to them?
An area I haven't seen addressed yet is software retailers. The way I read UCITA, if I purchase software at Wal-Mart, take it home, start to install, and decide against clicking to accept the provisions of the agreement , I can then take the opened package back to Wal-Mart for a full refund. In the past, most retailers have only allowed exchanges on opened software as a prevention against piracy. Looks like now they'd have to accept the return. I imagine that they could get around the problem by providing a hard-copy of the agreement prior to sale, but that'd be an administartive headache for a place like Best buy that stocks several hundred software titles. If I was a retailer in Virginia I'd have nightmares of thousands of /.ers descending on Virginia outlets the first day UCITA took effect, buying stuff, and then all returning it the next day. (Of course a protest like that would never happen).