It's not just because they can make money, it's because they can make so MUCH. The primary reason drugs are so expensive is *because* they are illegal. If drugs were illegal, there wouldn't be as much money it. Just look at how far the price of alcohol dropped after prohibition.
Like it or not, illegal things are usually the most profitable, unless you're a lawyer or a stock broker (you can make your own joke there if you like).
Fine, what do YOU propose? Don't knock a system unless you have an idea for a better one, or a reason you don't need it at all (the system being DNS, not TLD's).
Right, because there's nothing worse than drugs that they would start trading in if this happened. You seriously think these huge cartels, which have TONS of money and power would just go "Oh, well I guess they don't need us anymore, cya later!". They'll simply chose something ELSE to trade in like automatic rifles, explosives or just the usual kidnapping that is already a problem down there. Sure, they may stop trading for a couple months while they source out new suppliers, but then you are right back to square one.
Complex problems rarely have simple solutions that don't create more problems than they solve.
It's not poorly documented. It is poorly implemented by most hardware manufacturers. The OS is supposed to be able to query the system and ask if it supports the power saving features, but most hardware just ignores it (making it appear as though it doesn't). From what I understand, Microsoft no longer asks if it supports it, it simply asks "what are you" and then looks it up in an internal database to see if it's compatible. It's a *VERY* ugly hack, but unfortunately it appears to be the only way to fix it because hardware manufacturers are lazy.
Our family plays on PSN regularly and we have NEVER given Sony any CC numbers. We even bought a couple games later on, also without cc (7-11 gift certificate).
Nothing, as the US is *their* part of the internet. My point is that they are not controlling OTHER countries' internet (Canada, Europe, Asia, etc). Just clearing up a technicality is all.
Ah, I missed that "letters" and "first class mail" were separate things, I though you were talking about first class letters. Makes a lot more sense now.
As Anon below said, the linux vulnerabilities are of much lower severity than the windows ones. Also, I *never* stated (as you imply) that linux makes you magically protected, only that it is *better*. Well, I think I'm all out of troll food...
They are not, and cannot, controlling the internet. They are controlling their PIECE of the internet. The only leverage the US has on the internet is that ICANN is on their soil and most countries have the infrastructure already in place to replace ICANN within a week should the US pull a stunt with it.
That's a stupid analogy. First of all, the post office already DOES that. The more you pay, the faster it gets there. Second of all, ISP's also already do this. The more you pay, the faster your connection.
You make it sound like google has some kind of legal obligation to keep your g+ data alive. Had you PAID for their services you might have a leg to stand on, but at this point they're just being nice by NOT purging it!
Either you are bluffing, or those numbers aren't even, so go ahead and post the links. My guess is that linux may well have more open vulnerabilities, but the Microsoft ones will be more severe.
Fair enough, but that wasn't the *reason* for gnome3/whatever, just an unfortunate side-affect of monolithic libraries and people wanting "shining" (I do like the functionality of gnome-shell, the shiny I could do without).
How does Hollywood benefit (in their own eyes) from net neutrality? They have been trying their damnest to stop any merging of movies and the internet for years.
Believe it or not I actually got spamming spam once (spam advertising a spam-generating company). Their offer was something like 200,000 e-mails for $10-$20. That means if you only have a $1 profit from each sale, you only need 1 response out of every ten to twenty THOUSAND messages. Definitely profitable.
Yeah, I *almost* went that route, then I realized it was a waste of time to prove a negative in order to disprove his attempt at stating a negative and skipped a couple steps:D
I considered using the "mail link" button, but the pdf was generated dynamically from a secure website and the returned url contained a fair bit of garbage. Thus
A) There was no way of knowing if it would be available on a reload 5 minutes later
B) If the garbage in the url contained any session data (NEVER e-mail a link with session data!)
Unfortunately, most people don't know of either of those issues, and thus we have confusion and security breaches*.
*Yes, I am 100% aware that possible session data in the url is stupid and completely the website designers fault, but I prefer not the "amplify" the problem...
Ok, so you start up a small business, or even a personal site. Now how do you get enough "signers" to verify you that you can't be shut down by a 30 second 4chan raid?
The day SSL is decentralized is the day 4chan becomes the only trusted website on the internet.
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What the hell does this story have to do with the competence of the government? Or did you just copy/paste the wrong file into your comment...?
It's not just because they can make money, it's because they can make so MUCH. The primary reason drugs are so expensive is *because* they are illegal. If drugs were illegal, there wouldn't be as much money it. Just look at how far the price of alcohol dropped after prohibition.
Like it or not, illegal things are usually the most profitable, unless you're a lawyer or a stock broker (you can make your own joke there if you like).
Fine, what do YOU propose? Don't knock a system unless you have an idea for a better one, or a reason you don't need it at all (the system being DNS, not TLD's).
Right, because there's nothing worse than drugs that they would start trading in if this happened. You seriously think these huge cartels, which have TONS of money and power would just go "Oh, well I guess they don't need us anymore, cya later!". They'll simply chose something ELSE to trade in like automatic rifles, explosives or just the usual kidnapping that is already a problem down there. Sure, they may stop trading for a couple months while they source out new suppliers, but then you are right back to square one.
Complex problems rarely have simple solutions that don't create more problems than they solve.
It's not poorly documented. It is poorly implemented by most hardware manufacturers. The OS is supposed to be able to query the system and ask if it supports the power saving features, but most hardware just ignores it (making it appear as though it doesn't). From what I understand, Microsoft no longer asks if it supports it, it simply asks "what are you" and then looks it up in an internal database to see if it's compatible. It's a *VERY* ugly hack, but unfortunately it appears to be the only way to fix it because hardware manufacturers are lazy.
Our family plays on PSN regularly and we have NEVER given Sony any CC numbers. We even bought a couple games later on, also without cc (7-11 gift certificate).
Nothing, as the US is *their* part of the internet. My point is that they are not controlling OTHER countries' internet (Canada, Europe, Asia, etc). Just clearing up a technicality is all.
Ah, I missed that "letters" and "first class mail" were separate things, I though you were talking about first class letters. Makes a lot more sense now.
As Anon below said, the linux vulnerabilities are of much lower severity than the windows ones. Also, I *never* stated (as you imply) that linux makes you magically protected, only that it is *better*. Well, I think I'm all out of troll food...
They are not, and cannot, controlling the internet. They are controlling their PIECE of the internet. The only leverage the US has on the internet is that ICANN is on their soil and most countries have the infrastructure already in place to replace ICANN within a week should the US pull a stunt with it.
That's a stupid analogy. First of all, the post office already DOES that. The more you pay, the faster it gets there. Second of all, ISP's also already do this. The more you pay, the faster your connection.
You make it sound like google has some kind of legal obligation to keep your g+ data alive. Had you PAID for their services you might have a leg to stand on, but at this point they're just being nice by NOT purging it!
Either you are bluffing, or those numbers aren't even, so go ahead and post the links. My guess is that linux may well have more open vulnerabilities, but the Microsoft ones will be more severe.
Fair enough, but that wasn't the *reason* for gnome3/whatever, just an unfortunate side-affect of monolithic libraries and people wanting "shining" (I do like the functionality of gnome-shell, the shiny I could do without).
How does Hollywood benefit (in their own eyes) from net neutrality? They have been trying their damnest to stop any merging of movies and the internet for years.
What projects or products have these "good UI designers" worked on?
The Spacial Operating Environment of course!
Riiiight, unity and gnome-shell were designed so you would have to buy new hardware. Sorry, please try again.
Believe it or not I actually got spamming spam once (spam advertising a spam-generating company). Their offer was something like 200,000 e-mails for $10-$20. That means if you only have a $1 profit from each sale, you only need 1 response out of every ten to twenty THOUSAND messages. Definitely profitable.
Doesn't matter, as long as the spammer is that sure of it.
Hey, he put XP ahead of XFCE... Seriously, XP didn't even have proper multiple-desktop support! (powertools sucked btw).
That's probably about how long ago they were installed.
Hmm, I never considered judging the randomness on the assumption that there could be further values. Very clever.
* Not sarcasm, I seriously missed that line of thinking, congrats.
Yeah, I *almost* went that route, then I realized it was a waste of time to prove a negative in order to disprove his attempt at stating a negative and skipped a couple steps :D
I considered using the "mail link" button, but the pdf was generated dynamically from a secure website and the returned url contained a fair bit of garbage. Thus
A) There was no way of knowing if it would be available on a reload 5 minutes later
B) If the garbage in the url contained any session data (NEVER e-mail a link with session data!)
Unfortunately, most people don't know of either of those issues, and thus we have confusion and security breaches*.
*Yes, I am 100% aware that possible session data in the url is stupid and completely the website designers fault, but I prefer not the "amplify" the problem...
Ok, so you start up a small business, or even a personal site. Now how do you get enough "signers" to verify you that you can't be shut down by a 30 second 4chan raid?
The day SSL is decentralized is the day 4chan becomes the only trusted website on the internet.