I'll never forgive you for turning your magazine from a great resource for Mac developers into yet another consumer Mac mag. You shouldn't be reviewing VoIP: you should be writing about how to develop VoIP apps or something.
Smokers are a net gain for the NHS. Quite apart from the taxes paid, which in theirselves would cover the health costs, smokers die younger. This means they're not a burden on the NHS in their long old age: no hip replacements and nursing care.
I've actually lived in the Alto Minho in the past, so know situation of the subsidy farmers well. However it is France that takes the bulk of CAP money, and it is France that has been most vocal in its complaints about the "ultra-liberal" stance of the Barroso commission.
You really think that the European Council cares about domestic portuguese politics? Barroso was chosen through long and painful negotiation between the member states, mostly made difficult by France's strange idea that somehow most presidents of the commission should be ENA-educated Frenchmen. As for Rocco Buttiglioni: you realise the commissioners are chosen by their home countries, not by the president of the commission? He just decides which portfolio they get. Buttiglioni wasn't unpopular for "ultra-conservatism" (whatever that means). It was for plain and simple homophobia. The crisis was only resolved when Berlusconi was persuaded to nominate a new candidate.
Barroso is unpopular with the French because he doesn't pander to the absurd protectionist model of the EU that is popular in that country. God forbid that there is some reform to the common agricultural policy, which takes up half the EU's budget and costs consumers even more in increased prices, not to mention perpetuating poverty in third world countries through dumping and trade distorting policies. And all for the benefit of a few farmers, mostly in France, who just happen to be more vocal than other industries. For having a view of europe that differs slightly from this bloated, corrupt (I'm looking at you, Santer) behemoth, Barroso is branded an "ultra-liberal" (Or is it "ultra-conservative" - both seem to be bandied about to mean the same). This appears to mean "not an extention of the French civil service".
I've never known the cashier to handle the card when I've used chip and pin. Sure they'll handle it if you give the card to them, but you;re suppoed to put it into the reader yourself. That's why it's right in front of you. It's also easy enough to shield your pin with your hand as you enter it, to stop shoulder-surfing. As for beating your PIN out of you: they've never needed to do that, and don't now. If they have you they can do what they've always done: take you to an ATM and force you to withdraw cash. Chip and PIN vs signature is only an issue when they just have the card, not the owner.
I have had Adsense running on my site for over a year now. Initially I didn't get many clicks at all. In fact I hadn't yet made the $100 minimum to get paid. However last week I redesigned my site and read through Google tips on ads optimisation. I changed the format, moved the ads around and generally tidied them up.
Sure enough, my clickthroughs jumped considerably. So much so, in fact, that I earned another $100 in about a week. This morning I got an email from Google stating that they'd disabled my account due to "Invalid clicks". I had not violated any of the terms: I hadn't clicked my own ads, I hadn't used bots, I hadn't offered incentives to anyone else to click them. All I'd done is follow their own optimisation tips.
I sent an email saying this and got another automated response, stating that their "proprietary algorithm" mean that they couldn't elaborate as to what these invalid clicks were, but they were nevertheless disabling my account and witholding all payment.
I spoke to a few of the users of my site, who said that yes, many of them had been clicking ads more. Some said that they'd gone on to buy things through these clicks. None had used bots or anything: they'd just clicked on the ads as any user might, because they were more noticable now and many of the targetted ads were amusing or interesting.
My reply to their second canned email has gone unanswered, and I'm left down the $200-$250 that was remaining in my account, and it seems I have been hosting Google's ads for over a year for free. It seems that I'm far from the only person to experience this arbitrary account cancellation:
Gaining unauthorised access to a computer is an offence covered by the Computer Misuse Act. In Straszkiewcz's case, he was prosecuted under the Communications Act and found guilty of dishonestly obtaining an electronic communications service.
"I guess, and it is a guess, that they couldn't prove he accessed the actual computer and that is why they used another legal avenue," said Mr Janes.
Perhaps because it's unlikely that he did access the computer? Why would he need to, if he's just leeching the bandwidth?
The important thing to consider when the Economist picks up issues like this, is that its readers include a great number of those in power around the world.
Well Nokia's press release says Apple is involved. "A key component of this development has been Nokia's cooperation with Apple". Phil Schiller also says otherwise: "Apple is pleased to assist Nokia in creating their new Series 60 browser based on the same KHTML open source technology that powers Apple's Safari".
Nokia also has the market share for everyone else: they're the biggest phone company.
This has very little to do with "style". Nokia wanted their own browser. Apple had developed an excellent version of khtml. So Nokia approaches Apple to help them develop a mobile version.
You do realise that phones have had browsers for years? It's not the fact that they're adding a browser that's news. It's the fact that they're using WebCore.
Get a clue. MPEG-4 video *is* QuickTime. It's not a codec, however. It's a container format. There are codecs included in the MPEG-4 standard, and QuickTime supports these. DixX/XviD/3viX are not among them, because they don't obey the MPEG-4 standard.
Retailers have only been liable for fraud since chip and pin was brought in.
Why would anyone need to go to the trouble of going into the store and using the stolen card and pin if they can just take the victim to the atm like they've always done?
You do realise that most people don't have prepay electricity and gas, right? They pay the bills at the end of the month.
Alternatively, I can pay for my shopping by cheque {which, requiring a signature, is more secure than chip and PIN}
You what? How many cashiers actually look at the signature? A cheque may be marginally more secure than a signed debit or credit transaction, as at least that gets seen by the bank. Nevertheless, you can still get away with signing any scrawl. Signatures, are absurdly insecure. When I lost my Switch card a few years ago, it only took minutes before the person who'd nicked it to manage to make several large purchases with £50 cashback each time. With chip and pin he couldn't do that unless he'd managed to shoulder-surf for my pin, in which case there's worse things to worry about.
As for your ability to mentally calculate your balance: you obviously have no direct debits, and don't make many other transactions. You may like to go through the palaver of carrying banknotes between bank and post office to pay bills. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing? Most people, however, prefer to not have to waste all of that time every month. It all seems a lot of hassle to avoid spending 5 minutes checking your transactions online, and either looking at the automated DD payments or doing them manually through BACS.
I'm sure Forbes are truly grateful to you for saving them from from a slashdotting. I hope you mirror articles from the BBC and NYT too. Wouldn't want to hurt their servers.
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Well you learnt wrong.
"Fortnight" is an extremely common word. Just not in the US.
There is no "P". Dear god. After all those years of that fucking hampsterdance crap, people would've learnt that that's the wrong way to spell it.
I'll never forgive you for turning your magazine from a great resource for Mac developers into yet another consumer Mac mag. You shouldn't be reviewing VoIP: you should be writing about how to develop VoIP apps or something.
Smokers are a net gain for the NHS. Quite apart from the taxes paid, which in theirselves would cover the health costs, smokers die younger. This means they're not a burden on the NHS in their long old age: no hip replacements and nursing care.
I've actually lived in the Alto Minho in the past, so know situation of the subsidy farmers well. However it is France that takes the bulk of CAP money, and it is France that has been most vocal in its complaints about the "ultra-liberal" stance of the Barroso commission.
Barroso is unpopular with the French because he doesn't pander to the absurd protectionist model of the EU that is popular in that country. God forbid that there is some reform to the common agricultural policy, which takes up half the EU's budget and costs consumers even more in increased prices, not to mention perpetuating poverty in third world countries through dumping and trade distorting policies. And all for the benefit of a few farmers, mostly in France, who just happen to be more vocal than other industries. For having a view of europe that differs slightly from this bloated, corrupt (I'm looking at you, Santer) behemoth, Barroso is branded an "ultra-liberal" (Or is it "ultra-conservative" - both seem to be bandied about to mean the same). This appears to mean "not an extention of the French civil service".
I've never known the cashier to handle the card when I've used chip and pin. Sure they'll handle it if you give the card to them, but you;re suppoed to put it into the reader yourself. That's why it's right in front of you. It's also easy enough to shield your pin with your hand as you enter it, to stop shoulder-surfing. As for beating your PIN out of you: they've never needed to do that, and don't now. If they have you they can do what they've always done: take you to an ATM and force you to withdraw cash. Chip and PIN vs signature is only an issue when they just have the card, not the owner.
Wow..a wing that can wrap around and grasp objects?
Sure enough, my clickthroughs jumped considerably. So much so, in fact, that I earned another $100 in about a week. This morning I got an email from Google stating that they'd disabled my account due to "Invalid clicks". I had not violated any of the terms: I hadn't clicked my own ads, I hadn't used bots, I hadn't offered incentives to anyone else to click them. All I'd done is follow their own optimisation tips.
I sent an email saying this and got another automated response, stating that their "proprietary algorithm" mean that they couldn't elaborate as to what these invalid clicks were, but they were nevertheless disabling my account and witholding all payment.
I spoke to a few of the users of my site, who said that yes, many of them had been clicking ads more. Some said that they'd gone on to buy things through these clicks. None had used bots or anything: they'd just clicked on the ads as any user might, because they were more noticable now and many of the targetted ads were amusing or interesting.
My reply to their second canned email has gone unanswered, and I'm left down the $200-$250 that was remaining in my account, and it seems I have been hosting Google's ads for over a year for free. It seems that I'm far from the only person to experience this arbitrary account cancellation:
Perhaps because it's unlikely that he did access the computer? Why would he need to, if he's just leeching the bandwidth?
The important thing to consider when the Economist picks up issues like this, is that its readers include a great number of those in power around the world.
Sorry, but you really have not got a clue. MySQL is GPL.
I have seen the episode, and while it may have been an accurate portrayal, it's not really the most compelling form of evidence.
Erm..you're really citing a sitcom as evidence?
Well Nokia's press release says Apple is involved. "A key component of this development has been Nokia's cooperation with Apple". Phil Schiller also says otherwise: "Apple is pleased to assist Nokia in creating their new Series 60 browser based on the same KHTML open source technology that powers Apple's Safari".
This has very little to do with "style". Nokia wanted their own browser. Apple had developed an excellent version of khtml. So Nokia approaches Apple to help them develop a mobile version.
Competition is good. FWIW, I believe Nokia has also given support to the Mozilla foundation.
You do realise that phones have had browsers for years? It's not the fact that they're adding a browser that's news. It's the fact that they're using WebCore.
Get a clue. MPEG-4 video *is* QuickTime. It's not a codec, however. It's a container format. There are codecs included in the MPEG-4 standard, and QuickTime supports these. DixX/XviD/3viX are not among them, because they don't obey the MPEG-4 standard.
Why would anyone need to go to the trouble of going into the store and using the stolen card and pin if they can just take the victim to the atm like they've always done?
You do realise that most people don't have prepay electricity and gas, right? They pay the bills at the end of the month.
As for your ability to mentally calculate your balance: you obviously have no direct debits, and don't make many other transactions. You may like to go through the palaver of carrying banknotes between bank and post office to pay bills. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing? Most people, however, prefer to not have to waste all of that time every month. It all seems a lot of hassle to avoid spending 5 minutes checking your transactions online, and either looking at the automated DD payments or doing them manually through BACS.
I'm sure Forbes are truly grateful to you for saving them from from a slashdotting. I hope you mirror articles from the BBC and NYT too. Wouldn't want to hurt their servers.
If you'd seen the BBC Election spoof version, you'd know that "Portillo" is the best rhyme.
And the BBC, which doesn't even have ads. There's no way they could get away with charging for that, as it's already paid for by the license fee.