This really should be a crime. It should be a crime, the laws against which are vigorously enforced. I do not exaggerate in the slightest when I say that this is the very sort of thing that, left unchecked, can eventually destroy the freedom and well-being that we currently enjoy.
More freedom comes from getting the government the fuck out of things it has no business in, not giving it more things to get involved in. Enforce physical property rights? Check. Do other things? Hell no.
I remember them a long time ago. Around 1992 I got a Tandy 102 portable computer which included a 300 baud modem and a free trial for CompuServe (you can probably see where this is going...). Being able to download programs very slowly (the screen scrolling reduced the effective speed to well under 100 characters per second) was cool. Having my parents question me about a $50 bill a couple of months later wasn't. Needless to say, I wasn't a member very long.
Just the fact that they are buying fake Tamiflu means they will put themselves at more risk. This is the situation anytime a fake solution is offered, since at best it diverts resources away from real solutions.
I never thought about it. I think $00 is BRK on the 6502 -- that part seemed logical enough to me. Dunno why NOP would be such an odd value. Anyone?
Perhaps so that accidental execution of a cleared area of memory would break rather than silently execute until it reached something non-zero. On the other hand, the 6502 didn't have any microcode, so opcodes were laid out based on the most efficient way to decode them. This $EA triggered the right combination of steps internally to do nothing. In other words, $EA probably gives them NOP for free. There are lots of unofficial opcodes which do strange things, including NOPs that use more than one byte (so-called double NOPs and triple NOPs).
Ads increase profit for companies, they never decrease the price of products
That's because people still buy the ad-infested products. Vote with your wallet. I personally pass over anything with ads, like TV, magazines, newspapers, or DVDs with unskippable ads. There are plenty of things not ad-infested.
Heh, reminds me when I used to break into the built-in monitor while a disk program was loading on the Apple II (which also uses a 6502 processor) and always saw a bunch of $EA bytes. I thought it was because it was an Electronic Arts game, that they used that hex value as some kind of signature. Only later did I learn that was the opcode for NOP. It's odd as on most other 8-bit processors $00 is NOP.
This is totally pointless. I mean, if you already paid for the book, why should there have to be ads?
I keep seeing this faulty argument involving the concept of "paying twice". It's not that you're being asked to pay again, it's that you didn't fully "pay" the first time. It'd be like buying a $10 product and paying $5 up-front, and having the other $5 paid by advertising it shows.
That aside, isn't this patent a good thing? It means that only Amazon's products will be crippled with advertising inserted in this manner.
Thank goodness that judges have the ability to overrule the jury (only in the favor of the defendant) when there is a serious miscarriage of justice being performed... Haven't had much occasion to do it recently, but chalk up a win for the American justice system.
Are you serious? The point of a jury is that it is the last recourse for unjust laws, that it can make its decision however it pleases, without the ability of a judge to intervene. Her jury may have used poor judgement, but did she not choose to have a trial by jury in the first place? Preserving a jury's ability to be the last word is more important than a single case.
Apparently in the 1960s he was less-corrupt, as displayed in his Gold and Economic Freedom, a strong argument for backing paper money with gold and having nothing like the corrupt Federal Reserve we have today. But ultimately we should not care who an argument comes from, merely that it stands up on its own merit.
This expands the "safe harbor" of the CDA to cover ad-blockers. Now, ISP's can offer ad removal as a service.
That'd be a sure-fire way to get a sort of reverse net-non-neutrality from the part of hosts. "You are attempting to visit adinfested.com. Your ISP filters ads, so we will not send any content. Choose a different ISP to view this site."
A few people think they can commit suicide by swallowing the whole prescription, but what happens is the codeine-based painkiller part wears off in hours and then the agonizing abdominal pain of liver failure begins until they're dead 3 days later.
The arms race with BD+ mirrors exactly what happened with sattv hacking 10 years ago. The encryption starts out simple and uses a minimal implementation of the BD spec. Once that is compromised the ip holders inevitably move to the more complex implementation of the spec.
Upgrading your customers' satellite receiving equipment when you find that current hardware can't be made secure is one thing, since you have an ongoing relationship and they are paying you tons every month, but at some point BD hardware is going to be found inadequate, and there's no way they're going to force all users to upgrade their hardware. Of course, BD will probably become irrelevant before then (assuming it hasn't already).
This is sort of like the situation with banning incandescent light bulbs rather than setting an efficiency requirement. Instead of making requirements for how things are done on the ranch, make requirements for the quality of the product they deliver. This way smaller ranches can use whatever techniques achieve that, which may differ from those necessary on larger ones.
Pretty soon we'll have GPS required for all packets to monitor the distance they travel so they can be taxed on it. The copper line manufacturers have been pushing for this while the fiber line manufacturers have been calling for government tax breaks to packets that use their lines.
Good luck monitoring a data packet with GPS, not that the politicians haven't probably already tried to.
I'm in Massachusetts. If I happen to visit the website of the Trinity Repertory Theater (www.trinityrep.com), a theater located in Providence, RI, then my internet traffic doesn't even pass through Rhode Island, much less end in Rhode Island. Their website is hosted by a low-cost provider out in California. The only tie to Rhode Island is that the website was created by an organization in Rhode Island. If I visit that website I don't "visit" Rhode Island. So why should Rhode Island have ANY claim on anything I might purchase from an affiliate program hosted on that site? I'm visiting a website hosted in California and if they were an Amazon affiliate then that would involve a company located in Washington. RI doesn't have any valid claim to tax such a transaction.
The logic: we need more money. Said affiliate resides here, thus we can force it to pay. End of story.
I click a button in Massachusetts, paid for the object with money from a Connecticut bank, the company hosting the web site is in New York, the headquarters of the company is in Arkansas, the shipment is made from New Hampshire, my mom receive the materials in Illinois (I dropped shipped her a gift). Where was the sale?
Why would I or Amazon have to pay taxes twice or more for something?
Do you know how much superhighways take to maintain? The Internet is the information superhighway, so the taxes go to pay for travel on it. When you drive to Amazon, you're putting wear on the superhighways of the state Amazon is based in, and then Amazon has to drive your order to the affiliate, which puts wear on the superhighways to the affiliate's state. That's a lot of virtual wear!
Making the "Delete" key larger isn't a bad idea. But since Windows is still the most widely used operating system out there, maybe they should make the "Control" and "Alt" keys larger as well...
Yes, yes! And the same for "whether". "The question of whether you're going to do this". The alternative needs to be mentioned only when it's not the opposite of what's mentioned.
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Bullshit. That's 300 characters per second, or more than three 80-column lines per second.
More freedom comes from getting the government the fuck out of things it has no business in, not giving it more things to get involved in. Enforce physical property rights? Check. Do other things? Hell no.
I remember them a long time ago. Around 1992 I got a Tandy 102 portable computer which included a 300 baud modem and a free trial for CompuServe (you can probably see where this is going...). Being able to download programs very slowly (the screen scrolling reduced the effective speed to well under 100 characters per second) was cool. Having my parents question me about a $50 bill a couple of months later wasn't. Needless to say, I wasn't a member very long.
Just the fact that they are buying fake Tamiflu means they will put themselves at more risk. This is the situation anytime a fake solution is offered, since at best it diverts resources away from real solutions.
Perhaps so that accidental execution of a cleared area of memory would break rather than silently execute until it reached something non-zero. On the other hand, the 6502 didn't have any microcode, so opcodes were laid out based on the most efficient way to decode them. This $EA triggered the right combination of steps internally to do nothing. In other words, $EA probably gives them NOP for free. There are lots of unofficial opcodes which do strange things, including NOPs that use more than one byte (so-called double NOPs and triple NOPs).
That's because people still buy the ad-infested products. Vote with your wallet. I personally pass over anything with ads, like TV, magazines, newspapers, or DVDs with unskippable ads. There are plenty of things not ad-infested.
Heh, reminds me when I used to break into the built-in monitor while a disk program was loading on the Apple II (which also uses a 6502 processor) and always saw a bunch of $EA bytes. I thought it was because it was an Electronic Arts game, that they used that hex value as some kind of signature. Only later did I learn that was the opcode for NOP. It's odd as on most other 8-bit processors $00 is NOP.
I keep seeing this faulty argument involving the concept of "paying twice". It's not that you're being asked to pay again, it's that you didn't fully "pay" the first time. It'd be like buying a $10 product and paying $5 up-front, and having the other $5 paid by advertising it shows.
That aside, isn't this patent a good thing? It means that only Amazon's products will be crippled with advertising inserted in this manner.
Are you serious? The point of a jury is that it is the last recourse for unjust laws, that it can make its decision however it pleases, without the ability of a judge to intervene. Her jury may have used poor judgement, but did she not choose to have a trial by jury in the first place? Preserving a jury's ability to be the last word is more important than a single case.
Apparently in the 1960s he was less-corrupt, as displayed in his Gold and Economic Freedom, a strong argument for backing paper money with gold and having nothing like the corrupt Federal Reserve we have today. But ultimately we should not care who an argument comes from, merely that it stands up on its own merit.
That'd be a sure-fire way to get a sort of reverse net-non-neutrality from the part of hosts. "You are attempting to visit adinfested.com. Your ISP filters ads, so we will not send any content. Choose a different ISP to view this site."
That'd sure ruin a good suicide.
Oh, thank you for reminding us that we need to make a bicycle version!
Fuel tax even takes vehicle weight into account; more weight, less efficient. That can vary based on what it's currently carrying, even.
Upgrading your customers' satellite receiving equipment when you find that current hardware can't be made secure is one thing, since you have an ongoing relationship and they are paying you tons every month, but at some point BD hardware is going to be found inadequate, and there's no way they're going to force all users to upgrade their hardware. Of course, BD will probably become irrelevant before then (assuming it hasn't already).
Isn't it simpler to just use a local file search to find your own files? To each his own I guess...
Maybe they could use a PIG.
This is sort of like the situation with banning incandescent light bulbs rather than setting an efficiency requirement. Instead of making requirements for how things are done on the ranch, make requirements for the quality of the product they deliver. This way smaller ranches can use whatever techniques achieve that, which may differ from those necessary on larger ones.
Good luck monitoring a data packet with GPS, not that the politicians haven't probably already tried to.
The logic: we need more money. Said affiliate resides here, thus we can force it to pay. End of story.
Simple: USA.
Do you know how much superhighways take to maintain? The Internet is the information superhighway, so the taxes go to pay for travel on it. When you drive to Amazon, you're putting wear on the superhighways of the state Amazon is based in, and then Amazon has to drive your order to the affiliate, which puts wear on the superhighways to the affiliate's state. That's a lot of virtual wear!
So convert your Euros into Dollars, then buy it from the US at half the effective price. Surely it's worth the effort to save that much.
Already been done.
Yes, yes! And the same for "whether". "The question of whether you're going to do this". The alternative needs to be mentioned only when it's not the opposite of what's mentioned.