If I'm looking for "Torrential Rains in [Country]" at work or at a public location, I dont' want google to offer me
"Free Torrents for your favourite shows" or whatever in the instant search results. If I truly AM looking for torrents, I can easily type in "Torrents" and press that magic button on top of the right shift.
BAM. Torrents.
Just if you're not activly looking for them, you won't stumble upon any. Is this so hard?
Every single time Google removes certain words from Instant , its censorship.
No its not.
You can still type it in, hit enter and get your results. They just don't want to 'suggest' them for you - for various reasons.
So if you type 'tor' you won't get "Torrents! Download all your favourite stuff for free!" until you press enter. Big deal. Same happens for a bunch of adult terms.
That this research didn't involve taking a random sample, and working out that 1/3rd is fake.
The strength of Bittorrent is that if there are:
1. Low seeds 2. Bad comments
Then its fake.
If you have a file with a few thousand seeders, then you can be sure that its real. Nobody is going to continue to seed a fake/virus ridden file unless its on purpose - but that requires a ton of resources.
And most admins will take down any files reported in that manner.
But is that problem likely to be suffered from by more than 1/3rd of Americans? The general public doesn't need fat pipes to read their email, play ^*ville and look at pictures of cats with captions underneath them.
I understand the need for certain people to have uber-fast connections - but not everyone.
Think of the children! Think of all those children who will sleep hungry tonight because you downloaded a 99c mp3 file.
--->
Think of the children! Think of all those children who will be sleep scared tonight because you wouldn't let us squash the big bad evil person into Guantanamo.
You could have said it was "for the greater good" if you believed in Trickle-down economics (which also gives us the right to laugh at you) - so there is always a bit of blurriness. Always a small hopefully/naive voice in the back of the head which says "The Government cares for us".
And if I wanted such a line of factory-workers, I wouldn't be opening in America. I'd open it in a third world country, employ a bunch of children on slave wages and export the stuff to whichever country I want.
That's why the clever money is on improving education to improve a developed country's economy.
In 1991, computers were still relatively basic, the internet was very rare and you needed lots of unskilled workers if you wanted to do anything.
Nowadays the simple tasks are done by computers, machines or robots - and so the only people which are truly needed are those which can do jobs that technology can't.
So instead of having a line of factory-workers screwing in the top of toothpaste tubes, you have a robot doing that, and you just need the people who designed, maintain and upgrade it.
Given that companies like Zynga already have a bunch of user information - probably including email or whatever - I wonder if they'll leave Facebook and offer the same services on a different base - using facebook only for advertising?
What do you need more than 5 Mb/s for? Surely you can stream a video properly, or browse the internet, or download stuff with a slower connection?
Bit of a non-story isn't it? If they were all on dial up or something, then yes, time to panic. As it is, I have a 4Mb/s connection, and I don't feel left out of the internets at all.
Freedom of speech means that you have to accept all groups' peaceful demonstration - be it the KKK, Nazis, Environmental groups and the Hugging-People-Randomly-Association.
If being a nazi was illegal (which it is in some countries) - you could just go and arrest them - you wouldn't need a riot.
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There's nothing really open about openleaks. Its more a dropbox which is then piped to news agents.
Should have called it closed-except-to-journalistleaks , but I expect the domain was already taken.
Don't these people research or anything?
Oh right. Fox news. Carry on.
If I'm looking for "Torrential Rains in [Country]" at work or at a public location, I dont' want google to offer me
"Free Torrents for your favourite shows" or whatever in the instant search results. If I truly AM looking for torrents, I can easily type in "Torrents" and press that magic button on top of the right shift.
BAM. Torrents.
Just if you're not activly looking for them, you won't stumble upon any. Is this so hard?
Every single time Google removes certain words from Instant , its censorship.
No its not.
You can still type it in, hit enter and get your results. They just don't want to 'suggest' them for you - for various reasons.
So if you type 'tor' you won't get "Torrents! Download all your favourite stuff for free!" until you press enter. Big deal. Same happens for a bunch of adult terms.
I'm sure he'll be useful to remix some old technologies by adding some basic vocals to the front.
Someone had the 'brilliant' idea of everyone replacing their face with cartoon images from their childhood?
They pull that sort of thing now, and most people won't be able to log in...
They can hardly sell your personal information if a guy at starbucks can sniff it from you can they?
Stop information piracy! Buy facebook!
*insert "NY times raped me" joke here*
That this research didn't involve taking a random sample, and working out that 1/3rd is fake.
The strength of Bittorrent is that if there are:
1. Low seeds
2. Bad comments
Then its fake.
If you have a file with a few thousand seeders, then you can be sure that its real. Nobody is going to continue to seed a fake/virus ridden file unless its on purpose - but that requires a ton of resources.
And most admins will take down any files reported in that manner.
To be fair, when he said it was "Time for a Change" he didn't specify that it was for your betterment
But is that problem likely to be suffered from by more than 1/3rd of Americans? The general public doesn't need fat pipes to read their email, play ^*ville and look at pictures of cats with captions underneath them.
I understand the need for certain people to have uber-fast connections - but not everyone.
Think of the children! Think of all those children who will sleep hungry tonight because you downloaded a 99c mp3 file.
--->
Think of the children! Think of all those children who will be sleep scared tonight because you wouldn't let us squash the big bad evil person into Guantanamo.
Pattern match!
You could have said it was "for the greater good" if you believed in Trickle-down economics (which also gives us the right to laugh at you) - so there is always a bit of blurriness. Always a small hopefully/naive voice in the back of the head which says "The Government cares for us".
But a government "for the people" should have an office filled with people who work "for the people", instead of for corporate interests.
There was once a line between Government and Corporation. This line is so blurry now in certain countries, that I think we crossed it a while back.
Whoever said "Justice is Blind" was a real idiot.
"The office also determines which cases it would bring to the Supreme Court for review. "
This'll surely stop moneysharks from randomly suing people without enough evidence.
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And if I wanted such a line of factory-workers, I wouldn't be opening in America. I'd open it in a third world country, employ a bunch of children on slave wages and export the stuff to whichever country I want.
That's why the clever money is on improving education to improve a developed country's economy.
Isn't this obvious?
In 1991, computers were still relatively basic, the internet was very rare and you needed lots of unskilled workers if you wanted to do anything.
Nowadays the simple tasks are done by computers, machines or robots - and so the only people which are truly needed are those which can do jobs that technology can't.
So instead of having a line of factory-workers screwing in the top of toothpaste tubes, you have a robot doing that, and you just need the people who designed, maintain and upgrade it.
Given that companies like Zynga already have a bunch of user information - probably including email or whatever - I wonder if they'll leave Facebook and offer the same services on a different base - using facebook only for advertising?
Plausable?
Well, they violated the TOS - since its considered an "App Store".
I doubt any 'small fry' would have problems with that. Having your own app store/download hub requires a ton of resources.
What do you need more than 5 Mb/s for? Surely you can stream a video properly, or browse the internet, or download stuff with a slower connection?
Bit of a non-story isn't it? If they were all on dial up or something, then yes, time to panic. As it is, I have a 4Mb/s connection, and I don't feel left out of the internets at all.
Kongregate gets tons of visits every day. All they need to do (which they are) is advertise on the site - and you can just pick it up from there.
Big deal.
I learnt about this app from their website, and I picked it up from there - I didn't need to trawl the store either.
That's because the iPhone isn't a mobile device - its an Ipod, a phone, and an Internet Communications device.
Or at least that's what a guy in a turtleneck told me.
Also saves the cost of launching a pentalobular screwdriver into space
Freedom of speech means that you have to accept all groups' peaceful demonstration - be it the KKK, Nazis, Environmental groups and the Hugging-People-Randomly-Association.
If being a nazi was illegal (which it is in some countries) - you could just go and arrest them - you wouldn't need a riot.
The person who leaked this has raped me.
Please arrest him immediately. Thanks.