Yeah, but there's a big difference in terms of scalability. Let me illustrate that by example:
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Apparently, Wal-Mart is doing just fine with these CDs on their shelves. It seems that theer is a large enough market for these censored CDs that they turn a profit on them.
Great! Finally the Justice department has all the ammunition it ever wanted.
I'm sure that Mr. Ashcroft will haul Mr. Ballmers ass in at once and the commander in chief will withdraw 10000 troups from Iraq, for the sole purpose of surrounding the Microsof campus and arrest everybody in sight!
All property including cash assets will be seized and distributed to education and social security, since Mr. Cheeney finally sees the wrongs of his fiduciary irresponsibilities quite drastically and sees the light.
Mr. Ashcroft will set all steps in motion right after finishing his doobie in a white house crapper stall.
Just wait and see; it oughta be mighty entertaining.
A third party organization is legally entitled to collect monthley fees of radio/tv owners on behalf of the state owned broadcasters.
The situation is a bit more complex since there are six state owned stations (two German, two in French and two in Italian, oh and a German info channel, which isn't very informational, though). Private TV stations, of which there are few, don't get a share of the pot, which provokes a lot of hollering. But then again they have less restrictions in terms of advertisement and sponsoring.
In addition there's the concept that government owned stations must produce a certain amount of shows for minorities (be it topical, i.e. cultural programs with few viewers or language wise, there's a fourth official language, Rumantsch, spoken by roughly 100000 people and the German speaking stations must broadcast some programs in that language. This is referred to as "Service Publique", which for example also complies Swisscom, the mostly government owned phone carrier, to lay a line for the city dweller as well as for the mountain farmer for the same cost. This is considered as largely fair by the population). A restriction that's not laid on private stations. So it's sort of fair.
I don't know if there are plans to extend this to internet capable PC's, but then again as the grand parent points out, it wouldn't matter much because the fee is per household and most households already own a TV set.
Yes I do. They're not quite there yet, but from their help center:
How do I import or access mail from another account in Gmail?
While Gmail doesn't currently offer the ability to import mail and/or directly access mail from another provider, such as through the POP3 protocol, Google believes in helping people access information whenever and however they want to do so. In the future you will be able to access Gmail messages from non-Gmail accounts for free or at a nominal fee.
Well, in times whhere you can get 1GB mail storage for free with a sleek interface and pop3 access (informally) announced Hotmail seems to make as much sense as, uh the Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition.
So, if one is found on your system, you get shiped of to jail? Good solution I must say.
You are free to install as many dialers as you want. The service provider however will not be able to collect when charges are racked up due to a dialer.
You know. Switzerland is a fairly civilized country, not like for example the US where they might put you for four years into the slammer for posessing 15 XTC tabletts or half an ounce of weed.
In Germany dialers must be registered with the respective authorities otherwise it's illegal and the scammers are not entitled to collect anything.
If premium charges are racked up the user must physically type OK into a box before the dialer gets operative. That doesn't help too much if in addition to the dialer a troyan is sneaked into the computer that OK's it in a for the user transparent fashion.
In this case the number was shut down and the scamee mustn't pay.
In Switzerland dialers to premium numbers are outright verboten, since this year. Period.
What is so bad about the idea of establishing criteria for high risk passengers?
Simple, that the true baddies will avoid to fall into this profile. Since more attention is directed towards those folks of which the computer believes fall into the category of baddies, less attention is dialed out to those that don't fall into this category and this will be exploited.
There's a difference between news (reporting the press release) and editorial (turning on critical thinking skills). There's a time and place for both, but most people fail to understand that.
In my not very humble opinion you have that wrong. A quality newspaper will never just take a press release (from whomever) at face value. A good journalist will ask hard questions and never trust the spin masters, no matter from which direction they come.
When the war in iraq started this was the major shortcoming of basically the entire US mainstream press to just buy Mr. Fleischers bullshit and just report it 1:1 as fact.
Well I don't believe that most people outside of the US are in a good position to understand US politics. The coverage the rest of the world get of the presidential candiates (to take an example) is slim.
So you assume that since US newspapers have crap international sections (except maybe for the New York Times and compared to some other international quality papers like the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung or El Pais its international section is less then stellar) all foreign papers must have incompetent dweebs writing about the US?
This is not only ignorant its also arrogant. Specifically when you are very obviously have no clue about what you're talking.
But then you're getting your news from a bunch of people who have absolutely no idea what's actually going on in the country.
You think so? Don't you think it's possible that reputable, foreign newspapers might invest heavily into a global network of local correspondants (PDF, page 6) instead of just re-blabbering the press releases straight out of the white house with all critical thinking skills shut down?
Yep; and in addition the "president" is not elected by the population.
This in fact applies to the entire federal executive branch, which is elected by the two houses.
That said however, it doesn't matter too much, since the populace can always apply corrective measures to whatever braindead laws the legislative and executive branch decide to grace the people with. And they do; judging on the outcome of the last referndums after a "right wing" shift in the executive branch.
BTW: "President" is in quotes, because its more a decorative description for representative duties and changes annually among the seven ministers of the executive branch.
Applicable for Nokia phones, but may apply for other brands too.
You can always save the $, Euro, YEN for ringtones by finding a free midi site (annoying banners warning) and convert them yourself with the included Nokia software (sorry, Windoze only).
In addition I get the bonus of not knowing anybody else to have Led Zeppelins "Kashmir" as a ringtone.
Works for me and makes me laugh every time when I see those fantastic 4EUR99 offers...
What's really sad is, when Dell did their tech support in house they had some awesome people on their staff, people who could walk you through taking a precision apart...
HP was the same, that was before they went "invent".
It might cost you but you had guys on the line who knew their shit. Sort of "oh, it's the 4711, well we know that problem, just bang it gently on the left side and it'll be gone forever (the problem, not the 4711)".
Now it just costs you...*)
*) Not true for parts of their ex-DEC service. It'll cost you an arm and a leg, but the support quality is awesome and the dedication unbelievable. Well, now for consumer products...
Sony's general manager of Vaio Service Operations, Steven Nickel, says the company has recently changed support partners who "weren't meeting stringent requirements." And managers who monitor live calls remotely from support headquarters in Fort Myers, Fla., can now intervene in a case as necessary, via instant messages.
Wow! Could it be that Mr. Nickel is speaking with a forked tongue? I can't speak
for Sony worldwide, but the domestic support organisation has an image which is
somewhere between SCO and Rambus.
Case in point: A friend of mine bought a VAIO, which never really worked. After
the third repair attempt he got it back with a hole in the case, requiring a nasty letter from his lawyer until they finally reimbursed him. That was after accusing him
of breaking it himself.
Does Mr. Nickel mean they changed their service model from driving a screwdriver
through the computer to let it splatter on concrete from the 5th floor or wot?
I strongly disagree. Screening those of Middle Eastern origin and/or appearance would be the most sensible thing that could be done. It won't be done because the race card turns it into something politicians can't hide from fast enough.
Most sensible thing? Well yeah, for the terrorists maybe.
The Carnival Booth algorithm provides quite an illustrative approach how to turn dumb, schematic security measures into your own advantage for nasty purposes.
Or to explain it to the dumber folks: You have a finite number of resources to screen passengers.
For example with the resources in Mobile, AL - Pascagoula, MS [MOB] airport they are able to screen 300 people per day intensively. Now based on Mr. Furious' brilliant insight Sheriff R. Neck (known as Red to his friends and foes) decides to do just that and screen every bloody, unshaved raghead daring to take a flight in MOB.
Let's say 296 gentlemen of middle eastern origin have the bad misfortune to board a plane in MOB on an average day and are thus taken special care off by Mr. Necks stormtrooper airport security goons. That leaves 4 more searches for other suspects.
Now here's the pop quiz for Mr. Furious:
If you are Baddy Evil Trrist what type of character do you chose to tape the Semtex to his body in order to blow up a plane departing from
Mobile, AL - Pascagoula, MS airport:
The middle eastern gentleman sporting a beard (first name Ahmed)?
The good looking white English chick?
The guy with the EDS clone haircut and the standard EDS 59.99$ cheap suit?
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UPDATE VoteTable SET Count=Count+22354617 WHERE CandidateLastName='Bush' UPDATE VoteTable SET Count=Count-22354617 WHERE CandidateLastName='Kerry' COMMIT TRANSACTIONPersonally this worries me a bit, specifically after Wally O'Dell, the Diebold CEO, stated that he is committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president. .
The recent referendum in Venezuela looks like rock solid democracy as compared to the current US banana republic touch screen voting charade.
Eat shit! 10 billion flies can't be wrong...
So what happens to people that don't drive and thus don't own a license for whatever reason?
A quick, truely unscientific check on WDR, which is part of ARD, reveals that they are streaming in Real.
I'm not sure that Ogg Theora is quite there yet, and the BBC format, which is supposed to be fully open is in development.
I totally agree though, that state run telly and radio oughta use open formats.
I'm sure that Mr. Ashcroft will haul Mr. Ballmers ass in at once and the commander in chief will withdraw 10000 troups from Iraq, for the sole purpose of surrounding the Microsof campus and arrest everybody in sight!
All property including cash assets will be seized and distributed to education and social security, since Mr. Cheeney finally sees the wrongs of his fiduciary irresponsibilities quite drastically and sees the light.
Mr. Ashcroft will set all steps in motion right after finishing his doobie in a white house crapper stall.
Just wait and see; it oughta be mighty entertaining.
A third party organization is legally entitled to collect monthley fees of radio/tv owners on behalf of the state owned broadcasters.
The situation is a bit more complex since there are six state owned stations (two German, two in French and two in Italian, oh and a German info channel, which isn't very informational, though). Private TV stations, of which there are few, don't get a share of the pot, which provokes a lot of hollering. But then again they have less restrictions in terms of advertisement and sponsoring.
In addition there's the concept that government owned stations must produce a certain amount of shows for minorities (be it topical, i.e. cultural programs with few viewers or language wise, there's a fourth official language, Rumantsch, spoken by roughly 100000 people and the German speaking stations must broadcast some programs in that language. This is referred to as "Service Publique", which for example also complies Swisscom, the mostly government owned phone carrier, to lay a line for the city dweller as well as for the mountain farmer for the same cost. This is considered as largely fair by the population). A restriction that's not laid on private stations. So it's sort of fair.
I don't know if there are plans to extend this to internet capable PC's, but then again as the grand parent points out, it wouldn't matter much because the fee is per household and most households already own a TV set.
Hope this helps.
Apple OSX afficionados.
Yes I do. They're not quite there yet, but from their help center:
How do I import or access mail from another account in Gmail?
While Gmail doesn't currently offer the ability to import mail and/or directly access mail from another provider, such as through the POP3 protocol, Google believes in helping people access information whenever and however they want to do so. In the future you will be able to access Gmail messages from non-Gmail accounts for free or at a nominal fee.
The page can be found here.
Well, in times whhere you can get 1GB mail storage for free with a sleek interface and pop3 access (informally) announced Hotmail seems to make as much sense as, uh the Microsoft Windows XP Starter Edition.
You are free to install as many dialers as you want. The service provider however will not be able to collect when charges are racked up due to a dialer.
You know. Switzerland is a fairly civilized country, not like for example the US where they might put you for four years into the slammer for posessing 15 XTC tabletts or half an ounce of weed.
If premium charges are racked up the user must physically type OK into a box before the dialer gets operative. That doesn't help too much if in addition to the dialer a troyan is sneaked into the computer that OK's it in a for the user transparent fashion.
In this case the number was shut down and the scamee mustn't pay.
In Switzerland dialers to premium numbers are outright verboten, since this year. Period.
Simple, that the true baddies will avoid to fall into this profile. Since more attention is directed towards those folks of which the computer believes fall into the category of baddies, less attention is dialed out to those that don't fall into this category and this will be exploited.
Read about the Carnival Booth Algorithm for more information.
In my not very humble opinion you have that wrong. A quality newspaper will never just take a press release (from whomever) at face value. A good journalist will ask hard questions and never trust the spin masters, no matter from which direction they come.
When the war in iraq started this was the major shortcoming of basically the entire US mainstream press to just buy Mr. Fleischers bullshit and just report it 1:1 as fact.
Even the Grand Old Lady admiited to their to their shortcomings (registration may be required) in that respect, alas a tad late.
So you assume that since US newspapers have crap international sections (except maybe for the New York Times and compared to some other international quality papers like the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Neue Zurcher Zeitung or El Pais its international section is less then stellar) all foreign papers must have incompetent dweebs writing about the US?
This is not only ignorant its also arrogant. Specifically when you are very obviously have no clue about what you're talking.
There is no need to thank me.
You think so? Don't you think it's possible that reputable, foreign newspapers might invest heavily into a global network of local correspondants (PDF, page 6) instead of just re-blabbering the press releases straight out of the white house with all critical thinking skills shut down?
Man, you're description sure reminds me of the current lot in the white house.
Now Zapp, you may ask: "What has that to do with anything?"
If you really don't know what staunch dfenders of free speech the Scientolgy[tm] "Church" is you might find some interesting reading at this link.
If you want to dig deeper then Xenu can guide you.
This in fact applies to the entire federal executive branch, which is elected by the two houses.
That said however, it doesn't matter too much, since the populace can always apply corrective measures to whatever braindead laws the legislative and executive branch decide to grace the people with. And they do; judging on the outcome of the last referndums after a "right wing" shift in the executive branch.
BTW: "President" is in quotes, because its more a decorative description for representative duties and changes annually among the seven ministers of the executive branch.
So I gather that Led Zeppelins Kashmir qualifies...
You can always save the $, Euro, YEN for ringtones by finding a free midi site (annoying banners warning) and convert them yourself with the included Nokia software (sorry, Windoze only).
In addition I get the bonus of not knowing anybody else to have Led Zeppelins "Kashmir" as a ringtone.
Works for me and makes me laugh every time when I see those fantastic 4EUR99 offers...
HP was the same, that was before they went "invent".
It might cost you but you had guys on the line who knew their shit. Sort of "oh, it's the 4711, well we know that problem, just bang it gently on the left side and it'll be gone forever (the problem, not the 4711)".
Now it just costs you...*)
*) Not true for parts of their ex-DEC service. It'll cost you an arm and a leg, but the support quality is awesome and the dedication unbelievable. Well, now for consumer products...
Wow! Could it be that Mr. Nickel is speaking with a forked tongue? I can't speak for Sony worldwide, but the domestic support organisation has an image which is somewhere between SCO and Rambus.
Case in point: A friend of mine bought a VAIO, which never really worked. After the third repair attempt he got it back with a hole in the case, requiring a nasty letter from his lawyer until they finally reimbursed him. That was after accusing him of breaking it himself.
Does Mr. Nickel mean they changed their service model from driving a screwdriver through the computer to let it splatter on concrete from the 5th floor or wot?
WINDOWS
really sucks, but if you need an operating system for grown ups then GNU/Linux
IS REALLY GREAT AND
as opposed to this proprietary redmond crap
SAVES YOU A SHITLOAD OF MONEY
Sigh, I miss Don Martin...
Most sensible thing? Well yeah, for the terrorists maybe.
The Carnival Booth algorithm provides quite an illustrative approach how to turn dumb, schematic security measures into your own advantage for nasty purposes.
Or to explain it to the dumber folks: You have a finite number of resources to screen passengers. For example with the resources in Mobile, AL - Pascagoula, MS [MOB] airport they are able to screen 300 people per day intensively. Now based on Mr. Furious' brilliant insight Sheriff R. Neck (known as Red to his friends and foes) decides to do just that and screen every bloody, unshaved raghead daring to take a flight in MOB.
Let's say 296 gentlemen of middle eastern origin have the bad misfortune to board a plane in MOB on an average day and are thus taken special care off by Mr. Necks stormtrooper airport security goons. That leaves 4 more searches for other suspects.
Now here's the pop quiz for Mr. Furious:
If you are Baddy Evil Trrist what type of character do you chose to tape the Semtex to his body in order to blow up a plane departing from Mobile, AL - Pascagoula, MS airport:
The middle eastern gentleman sporting a beard (first name Ahmed)?
The good looking white English chick?
The guy with the EDS clone haircut and the standard EDS 59.99$ cheap suit?
There is no need to thank me.
Don't Tell My Mother That I Work In Advertising, She Thinks That I'm The Piano Player in a Brothel ?