Very true. Changing the format to, say, BMP, before doing the shopping, however, has a certain potential. Plus, TFA says this only applies if you change the compression level. So don't change the compression level. (Plus, I suspect it will be about ten minutes before somebody comes up with a Photoshop script that will strip this out, assuming existing watermark removing scripts won't already.)
If you go to http://www.gothamdatingpartners.com/, you'll find it is a portal site to various, more specialized, dating sites. Like, for instance, PrisonHookup.com, UglyPeopleDate.com, and, I shit you not, WhitePeopleDate.com
Slashdot is promoting fraud so blatant it'd be obvious to a blind seeing eye dog on crack now?
Depending on what state you are in, there may be meaningful differences between salaried and salaried exempt. Differences that matter a lot, if someone complains about unpaid overtime. In California, for instance, if one assumes that programmers are computer professionals (and the courts haven't, by and large), they can be salaried exempt, but only if they make over $40/hour, or about $80k/year. Less than that, or if they're not computer professionals, they can be salaried, but not salaried exempt, which means they still get overtime.
A lawsuit like that can put even a successful company out of business very quickly.
Your case that was settled did not, by definition, go to the Supreme Court. Ergo, it's not relevant.
If you don't participate, you deserve whatever you get. Enjoy your slave based utopia. You'll be the slave. You'll deserve to be the slave, because you choose to be the slave.
People like you are the reason things are the way they are. What incentive is there for public servants to refrain from evil when people like you tell them they can get away with it?
If enough people don't care, then we live in a slave society.
And trust me, corrupt prosecutors will care when the Supreme Court also rules correctly on the lawsuits against them personally, as will their political masters when the government agency they work for is up for millions in damages.
It takes a long time, but it really only takes one person who won't quit until they win.
If you can't be troubled to stand up for your rights, you have none, and deserve none. People like you are the reason politicians (and corrupt cops and prosecutors) know they can get away with, literally, murder. Enjoy your utopia.
Generally speaking, prosecutorial immunity is a) applied to civil, not criminal, offenses, and b) does not cover acts that prosecutor knows or should know are illegal.
What's needed is somebody, like Allison, to dig in their heels and push it and push it, until it gets to the Supreme Court, where he will win.
And if you want prosecutors put in prison for abusing their power, vote for people who will do so. Make it your only issue, and get your neighbors involved, too. If you won't, because "it won't do any good," you're part of the problem.
It's not open in the sense you mean, but take a look at Barnes & Noble's Nook (either version). B&N seems to be as greedy and evil as anybody, but so far, the's at least smarter about it.
Companies have the right to offer their goods and services on the internet. They do not, however, have the right to force me to help them sell it to their customers (the customers here are the advertisers, not the users of Firefox or any other software). It is not my responsibility to help them prop up a broken, evil business model that can only succeed by taking away my choice to be tracked or not.
When advertisers pay me to watch their crap, I might consider it, if the pay is high enough. Until then, it is up to me what I watch and who tracks me watching it.
I own a Nook and, as of yesterday, a Nook Color. When you buy from B&N through the device, it downloads automatically, and I believe that copy is tied to that device. However, you can deregister that device, and download to another one whenever you want. More important, however, you can log in to your B&N account with any web browser, and download the.epub file, and "side load" it on to any device any time, or read it in any program that can read.epub files.
So I'm not sure what your complaint it.
As for having "to engage in the war of the lockouts," any argument you make for B&N applies doubly to Baen, which sells their ebooks in multiple, un-locked out formats from the day of release, as well as selling paper books with dozens of previous releases on a CD with permission to freely distribute those files. And they've done very, very well with that business model.
And that's to turn off Javascript, which returns it to the original, clean, doesn't-suck-donkey-dick home page with a box to type in the search term and a couple of buttons to click.
What kind of dope are these people smoking? Raise the compression and you need a higher octane to prevent pings (which will destroy the engine). At 14:1 compression, they've created a car that requires gasoline that isn't available in the US (at least, not legally for road use). I helped a guy build a mud racing truck that ended up about 13:1, and we had to buy av-gas at an airport to get 100 octane (and sign wavers that we wouldn't be using it on any public roads because no road tax was charged on it).
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Who is going to buy a vehicle they can't buy fuel for?
They're a tiny segment of the market, and where desktops are concerned, don't lead the market and haven't for years. Applehead will literally buy Steve Jobs' feces in a can, if that's what Apple offered for sale.
If Comcast is redirecting all web traffic to the "you've been infected" page, it's going to be a bit more difficult to spoof. And sending the spoof to someone who isn't infected will just end up with the user at the redirect page anyway.
Unfortunately, it is not a question of punishing the user or punishing the criminal, because it is beyond the ability of anyone with the power to act to track down and punish the criminals (and those with the power won't bother).
No, the choice is to punish the (utterly clueless) user (who has let his machine be compromised) or punish the victims of the spam and malware distribution network built from compromised machines. You would punish millions (literally) of people who cannot do anything to stop the spam rather than one who should have done something, but didn't.
How am I supposed to get my computer fixed if I get completely cut off from the Internet?
Since you have proven yourself incapable of keeping your computer secure without supervision, you call tech support, and follow their detailed instructions to the letter. They're probably idiots, too, of course, but you (the generic you, whose account has been cut off) have proven to be so.
This forces the infected (and probably clueless) user to do something instead of just letting their compromised machine spew spam and malware relentlessly.
Revolution/mass movement/polictical action and social media aren't particularly related. Social media is a tool, not a goal, and not a method. There's nothing inherent to Twitter that prevents it from being used by well organized groups as another (and easier to use) tool to get the word out.
The internet has the effect of lowering the bar to entry in to a lot of things. It is cheaper and easier to start up a company with a world wide market, it is cheaper and easier to rant incoherently on your pet peeve to lots of people, and it's easier to communicate political ideas to people who share them.
That means that more people will do all those things. One can self-publish a book through Amazon without a real publisher. One can get one's fifteen minutes (or even more) with a free blog. And one can start a political movement. And most of the people doing all those things because the internet makes it so easy will do it poorly. That is the nature of lowering the bar.
However, none of that will interfere with the efforts of those who know what they're doing in the first place. Those who would have succeeded in the pre-internet age will succeed now, not because the new tools exist, but because they're smart enough to figure out how to use them. And those who were too incompetent and clueless in the pre-internet world to get in to the game at all will fail now, not because the new tools are flawed, but because they don't know what to do with them.
Having a paint brush doesn't make you Michaelangelo, even if it's a computer controlled pneumatic hammer, and having a ball point pen, or even a word processor and printer, doesn't make you Shakespeare. But if you are Michaelangelo or Shakespeare, having that pneumatic hammer or word processer won't make you any less a genius.
So far as I can tell, it's actually more like 10%, or a little less.
What's the percentage of home users who use Mac? Roughly comprable, I suspect, and it's usually not profitable to court that segment of the market, either.
If I were to ever find out that you, personally, were arrested for a crime you did not commit, and this woman was on your jury, I'd laugh until I peed myself.
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Very true. Changing the format to, say, BMP, before doing the shopping, however, has a certain potential. Plus, TFA says this only applies if you change the compression level. So don't change the compression level. (Plus, I suspect it will be about ten minutes before somebody comes up with a Photoshop script that will strip this out, assuming existing watermark removing scripts won't already.)
If you go to http://www.gothamdatingpartners.com/, you'll find it is a portal site to various, more specialized, dating sites. Like, for instance, PrisonHookup.com, UglyPeopleDate.com, and, I shit you not, WhitePeopleDate.com
Slashdot is promoting fraud so blatant it'd be obvious to a blind seeing eye dog on crack now?
Depending on what state you are in, there may be meaningful differences between salaried and salaried exempt. Differences that matter a lot, if someone complains about unpaid overtime. In California, for instance, if one assumes that programmers are computer professionals (and the courts haven't, by and large), they can be salaried exempt, but only if they make over $40/hour, or about $80k/year. Less than that, or if they're not computer professionals, they can be salaried, but not salaried exempt, which means they still get overtime.
A lawsuit like that can put even a successful company out of business very quickly.
Write your congressman. Run for congress. So something more that sitting on your mother's basement whining on the internet about how useless you are.
Or be part of the problem.
Your case that was settled did not, by definition, go to the Supreme Court. Ergo, it's not relevant.
If you don't participate, you deserve whatever you get. Enjoy your slave based utopia. You'll be the slave. You'll deserve to be the slave, because you choose to be the slave.
People like you are the reason things are the way they are. What incentive is there for public servants to refrain from evil when people like you tell them they can get away with it?
If enough people don't care, then we live in a slave society.
And trust me, corrupt prosecutors will care when the Supreme Court also rules correctly on the lawsuits against them personally, as will their political masters when the government agency they work for is up for millions in damages.
It takes a long time, but it really only takes one person who won't quit until they win.
If you can't be troubled to stand up for your rights, you have none, and deserve none. People like you are the reason politicians (and corrupt cops and prosecutors) know they can get away with, literally, murder. Enjoy your utopia.
Generally speaking, prosecutorial immunity is a) applied to civil, not criminal, offenses, and b) does not cover acts that prosecutor knows or should know are illegal.
What's needed is somebody, like Allison, to dig in their heels and push it and push it, until it gets to the Supreme Court, where he will win.
And if you want prosecutors put in prison for abusing their power, vote for people who will do so. Make it your only issue, and get your neighbors involved, too. If you won't, because "it won't do any good," you're part of the problem.
It's not open in the sense you mean, but take a look at Barnes & Noble's Nook (either version). B&N seems to be as greedy and evil as anybody, but so far, the's at least smarter about it.
Companies have the right to offer their goods and services on the internet. They do not, however, have the right to force me to help them sell it to their customers (the customers here are the advertisers, not the users of Firefox or any other software). It is not my responsibility to help them prop up a broken, evil business model that can only succeed by taking away my choice to be tracked or not.
When advertisers pay me to watch their crap, I might consider it, if the pay is high enough. Until then, it is up to me what I watch and who tracks me watching it.
I own a Nook and, as of yesterday, a Nook Color. When you buy from B&N through the device, it downloads automatically, and I believe that copy is tied to that device. However, you can deregister that device, and download to another one whenever you want. More important, however, you can log in to your B&N account with any web browser, and download the .epub file, and "side load" it on to any device any time, or read it in any program that can read .epub files.
So I'm not sure what your complaint it.
As for having "to engage in the war of the lockouts," any argument you make for B&N applies doubly to Baen, which sells their ebooks in multiple, un-locked out formats from the day of release, as well as selling paper books with dozens of previous releases on a CD with permission to freely distribute those files. And they've done very, very well with that business model.
So I think your argument fails.
And that's to turn off Javascript, which returns it to the original, clean, doesn't-suck-donkey-dick home page with a box to type in the search term and a couple of buttons to click.
What kind of dope are these people smoking? Raise the compression and you need a higher octane to prevent pings (which will destroy the engine). At 14:1 compression, they've created a car that requires gasoline that isn't available in the US (at least, not legally for road use). I helped a guy build a mud racing truck that ended up about 13:1, and we had to buy av-gas at an airport to get 100 octane (and sign wavers that we wouldn't be using it on any public roads because no road tax was charged on it).
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Who is going to buy a vehicle they can't buy fuel for?
They're a tiny segment of the market, and where desktops are concerned, don't lead the market and haven't for years. Applehead will literally buy Steve Jobs' feces in a can, if that's what Apple offered for sale.
If Comcast is redirecting all web traffic to the "you've been infected" page, it's going to be a bit more difficult to spoof. And sending the spoof to someone who isn't infected will just end up with the user at the redirect page anyway.
Unfortunately, it is not a question of punishing the user or punishing the criminal, because it is beyond the ability of anyone with the power to act to track down and punish the criminals (and those with the power won't bother).
No, the choice is to punish the (utterly clueless) user (who has let his machine be compromised) or punish the victims of the spam and malware distribution network built from compromised machines. You would punish millions (literally) of people who cannot do anything to stop the spam rather than one who should have done something, but didn't.
How am I supposed to get my computer fixed if I get completely cut off from the Internet?
Since you have proven yourself incapable of keeping your computer secure without supervision, you call tech support, and follow their detailed instructions to the letter. They're probably idiots, too, of course, but you (the generic you, whose account has been cut off) have proven to be so.
This forces the infected (and probably clueless) user to do something instead of just letting their compromised machine spew spam and malware relentlessly.
Revolution/mass movement/polictical action and social media aren't particularly related. Social media is a tool, not a goal, and not a method. There's nothing inherent to Twitter that prevents it from being used by well organized groups as another (and easier to use) tool to get the word out.
The internet has the effect of lowering the bar to entry in to a lot of things. It is cheaper and easier to start up a company with a world wide market, it is cheaper and easier to rant incoherently on your pet peeve to lots of people, and it's easier to communicate political ideas to people who share them.
That means that more people will do all those things. One can self-publish a book through Amazon without a real publisher. One can get one's fifteen minutes (or even more) with a free blog. And one can start a political movement. And most of the people doing all those things because the internet makes it so easy will do it poorly. That is the nature of lowering the bar.
However, none of that will interfere with the efforts of those who know what they're doing in the first place. Those who would have succeeded in the pre-internet age will succeed now, not because the new tools exist, but because they're smart enough to figure out how to use them. And those who were too incompetent and clueless in the pre-internet world to get in to the game at all will fail now, not because the new tools are flawed, but because they don't know what to do with them.
Having a paint brush doesn't make you Michaelangelo, even if it's a computer controlled pneumatic hammer, and having a ball point pen, or even a word processor and printer, doesn't make you Shakespeare. But if you are Michaelangelo or Shakespeare, having that pneumatic hammer or word processer won't make you any less a genius.
So far as I can tell, it's actually more like 10%, or a little less.
What's the percentage of home users who use Mac? Roughly comprable, I suspect, and it's usually not profitable to court that segment of the market, either.
If I were to ever find out that you, personally, were arrested for a crime you did not commit, and this woman was on your jury, I'd laugh until I peed myself.
I find it entirely appropriate that at the center of "newstainment" is "stain".
It would be more useful to master basic spelling first.
Most of the freeways in southern California have had traffic jams that have lasted for 30 years, so far. That I know of. Possibly longer.
Zombies are made up. Fictional. They're not real.
Get over it.
IIRC, the only difference is that the "Music CDs" have a tax added on, that is paid to the RIAA or somebody, to offeset "piracy." Yes, really.