Have you considered a hosts file edit? Servers that dish out the most annoying stuff simply get added to a hosts file and null routed.
Even if the web host begged permission to display advertisements, the worst offenders that float over the article preventing viewing is simply fail to load. Non-obnoxious banners and stuff from more civil advertisers are not blocked, just the annoying ones.
Often not mentioned is many of these small electronics items can be powered by a small pocket inverter in the car. You don't need 12 volt appliances for mobile use. I use a $20 inverter instead of a $100 mobile laptop power supply.
The Y Delta is in use in some of the BPA substations. In some places the Delta end is compromised by the use of reactors to compensate for power factor.
The Lugo line at the ElDorado with the viral video of the 500 KV jacobs ladder is one of the locations using PF correction inductors. The ~ 100A arc is to the reactor. To prevent DC flow, the reactors can be taken offline, but the power factor would by itself cause voltage regulation problems on lines with a high power factor.
Spam is only about 5% of my email. So someone out there must be getting about 185% of their email as spam to average us out.
I have had even less. Real old email addresses appear to be expired to many spammers. Most spam I get is from software registration. i get the most from Turbo Tax promoting their Quicken product.
I rarely use my mail anymore, so it is on very few distribution lists. Others know to get in touch with me by sending messages in some forums I am on. To send a message, you have to be a member. Abusers don't last long.
Spam noise percentage may be up because the signal email is way down as people have dropped it for SMS, voice mail, IM, chat, Skype, ICQ, etc.
You know, the one that says "I agree to pay this account as per my merchant agreement" or words to that effect.
When he changed cards and canceled service, the unauthorized billing was the problem.
Ever cancel a service and still get billed for it? I had this problem with the dead tree edition of the news a while back. They threatened collections. I mentioned for them to provide collections with a copy of the current contract that was established after the cancellation. I never heard from collections, but I did still continue to receive a bill for 6 months. Maybe they hoped I would slip and pay it.
If he doesn't want Google playing his music without paying him, then that's fine: he's got what he wants. Google are not playing his music. What's his beef?
I have posted a couple videos on youtube. Because it is almost impossible for an individual to use a music sound clip because of the difficulty in obtaining a license, all my clips have NO music in the sound track. I have one silent clip that I took youtube's offer to use one of their tracks. The cost is an advertisement placement. I take that cost as way too expensive. I don't provide free promotion of others commercial works for sale, as my video is a hobby video, not a commercial enterprise. I am working up a voice commentary to replace the overpriced soundtrack.
Here is the video in question; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLJzwO2DNAg The video is being exploited to sell other people's stuff. I'll leave this up as an example. There is no option to buy the track in question for use in publishing online. So far almost all licenses for music sold to consumers is for private home use only. Someday someone will get smart and sell music consumers can use in other ways. In the meantime, I'll wait and use nothing.
2. The lawsuit/settlement program stops being profitable. that they will stop the lawsuits.
This is already happened. The bean counters are having a hard time with it. The publicity from the case is causing a public backlash so sales are down. It's hard to count these beans as they don't come out of the pot, but are never put in. How do you count lost sales due to a bad company image? This is the primary reason I no longer buy CDs for this reason and the price, terms of use, and DRM (defective by design) are the remaining reasons.
They need to correct these 4 things wrong to get the market back.
My favorite line was the part where you are forbidden to:
Ouch!. I just submitted a post of a forum on building air cannons. If they are illegal anywhere, I just violated my TOS.
If anyone is interested. I posted to www.crazybuilders.com. I have a geek project of opening soda cans with marshmallows. This may be illegal somewhere.
I stopped buying CD's based on the attitudes of the record companies and their affiliates. I don't care who it harms; I'm not supporting that method of business, and anyone with links to it deserves to fail.
The word isn't spoken much, but the term is boycott. Many times a boycott is called for publicity. This one is because people are not needing the the product and find it not worth the money as well as not liking their business association.
Odd. The usual example for judicial notice involves a defense attorney using a Farmer's Almanac to put the phase of moon into evidence, and discredit a witness.
Actually in this case, it was the prosecution attorney who failed. The defendant was guilty. It would have done their case damage if the defense brought that up. It would have discredited the defendant.
The one thing myself and several members of the jury noticed, is the defense attorney. His ears grew red when he really stretched the truth. The jury quickly picked up on this stress indicator as a good lie detector. We didn't let the attorney know about his built in BS stress indicator.;-)
I was on jury duty a while back and ran into the same problem. How much external reference material is to be disregarded? We had a case where the action was at 2 AM. It was very dark. I geocache. I used a GPS to check the sunrise and sunset as well as the moon rise and moon set on the night in question. (a feature of the GPS for sportsmen) Since it was an outside source of information, the state of the moon could not be considered, so I did not share my knowledge after asking if the data was admissible. We tried the case without the information I did not share.
The case is not specified in this post; so for those wondering, there was a full moon that night. I may have been influenced as I knew which party was lying, but I couldn't share my reason for disbelieving one party. We used the other evidence and it was sufficient enough to reach the right conclusion.
I could see a jury avoiding the bias in press and other things that may poorly sway a jury, but unrelated public data? Should that be allowed? Tide tables, weather, and other verifiable conditions not presented at the trial, why shouldn't the jury be able to investigate a little?
We stuck to the rules to prevent a mistrial, but it made the case more difficult to properly decide.
It's actually a sliding scale. The first 2-4 weeks a film is out the studios will keep upwards of 70% of all ticket sales. In the case of a hotly-anticipated film such as a new Batman or Bond, the percentage will go even higher to 80% or above.
What country does this? When I worked in a theater, we had to bid on films. The bid was a combination of percent of ticket sales (often over 100% for smaller houses) and the number of seats. This is why multiplexes get first run and single screen and twin cinemas get older films. They can't bid enough to get first run because they don't attract enough to fill the seats. Maybe the way films are bid on has changed in the last 15 years, but bidding over 100% of the ticket sales to fill the seats and sell popcorn happened quite often for popular films.
but in reality they were simply training people to hold the handle up when they closed the door.
Actually it trained some to always lock the door with the key. Myself being one. It saved me several times. Those who bypass safety features are often surprised when they get hurt.
It's like the chime that made noise when the seat belt wasn't fastened. Older cars with just a lap belt (old fart) instead of a shoulder harness didn't have a sensor switch in the buckle, but in the retractor. Many people simply pulled out the belt and sat on it instead of fastening it. Later seat belts were upgraded to require the buckle to be fastened.
MS is in the learning stages in designing security. I wonder how long they will take to require an administrator login to perform administrator tasks.
I have 2 logins on my Linux box. One is for everyday use. There are no software install privileges. The other is the administrator account which is used just for software install and configuration, not surfing.
I laugh at malware sites. When the picture loads, I often get asked where to save the.exe file. Windows users are sitting ducks.
American jobs should be going to AMERICANS, not foreigners.
What it means is that American jobs are going away. Follow the money. With the new administration and redistribution of wealth, the tax and fees on evil corporations simply means they expand in profitable markets and shrink in places expensive to do business. In summary, flipping burgers will be the American jobs. Manufacturing & R & D in aerospace, robotics, transportation, semiconductors, etc are all moving overseas. Intel is closing Fab 20 in the US. They are outsourcing the manufacture of the Atom processor. Care to guess why?
As long as we have a socialist president who taxes the health care of the "rich" the industry "who need to pay their fair share" and other stupid job exporting burdens, then all that will be left is the service industry of government run health care, fast food, and transportation repair industries. High tech well paying engineering and manufacturing is shutting down in the US.
Let me know where you find a good paying job at Mc Dee's or wally mart with full bennifits and a retirement package.
This is one of the first things I noticed when my SO was looking at sewing machines. We looked into the extra costs in doing embrodary and was appalled at the total lockdown of the artwork for any of the machines. It resulted in a simple no sale as the machines were unusable for any hobby applications as everything was tied up in royalties and legal risk.
This is a field that could have had lots of interest, but due to greed and closed formats, etc, it appeals to very few.
No, they were intertwined from the beginning, because they were the "safest" "surest" bets, and that's where all the wealth was going.
For those who fail to learn from history and are banking on Gold, keep an eye on this overpriced security when it is time to sell. When the silver market was cornered about 25 years ago, it happened once again. If you have Gold, now is a great time to sell to greedy investors.
Remember in any market, Buy LOW and Sell HIGH. If it is already high, don't buy. If it is already low, don't sell. Too many investors are not concerned about price, only the direction it is going. Late buyers are almost always stuck holding the bag on the way down.
If you follow Christianity at all, there is a prediction that a bag of gold will buy a loaf of bread.
If I were to record garage rock album i would throw everyone in the same room and just play the songs. However to leverage much of the flexibility and power of a digital recording you need a click.
I record garage bands. You don't need a click track for multi-track recording. Take a demo tape and use it to get the drummer to play his track. Use the drummer as the click track for the rest of the sessions. A click track is not needed for multi-track digital recording. I add the wet tracks last after recording all the dry tracks for final mixdown.
The only click track used for this is just a tempo 1 measure lead in to get the drummer started on a new tempo.
1. Have a task to do 2. Use the tool they know to do the task
The very idea that there are more word processors than MS Word still blows the mind of people like, say, my grandmother.
The problem for MS is when there is another option out there in use, the chances of someone spending hundreds of dollars to switch from the tool that does the task to another high priced tool is pretty much nil. Those who switched are unlikely to switch back. Those who switched are likely to share the knowledge with friends. This erosion is one way.
My dad has a Mac laptop, one MS box (old XP laptop) and 2 Linux boxes (SUSE and Ubuntu). MS knows that the next purchase of a MS office suite is unlikely in that mix. The younger market is much more likely to be in this camp than my dad who is a great grandfather. He is unlikely to buy Vista or Windows 7 or an office suite for it ever. The tools he already has works fine for his video editing and cameras.
This is what scares Microsoft. They are still somewhat clueless in regards to fighting piracy. Many copies are unlikely to convert to sales as the user is opportunistic. If they have to pay, they will use an affordable alternative.
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Probably the difference is the same as having a photo of a bank vault and "casing a bank" by learning the guard schedule, aromord car schedule, etc.
A little paranoia by the guards is to be expected. After all, they have a big easy money target painted on their back in a big bullseye.
Have you considered a hosts file edit? Servers that dish out the most annoying stuff simply get added to a hosts file and null routed.
Even if the web host begged permission to display advertisements, the worst offenders that float over the article preventing viewing is simply fail to load. Non-obnoxious banners and stuff from more civil advertisers are not blocked, just the annoying ones.
Often not mentioned is many of these small electronics items can be powered by a small pocket inverter in the car. You don't need 12 volt appliances for mobile use. I use a $20 inverter instead of a $100 mobile laptop power supply.
And what do you do when you no longer want to let them have access?
Either hit the power button on it or surf to 192.168.1.1 and change the SSID and password.
Did you read the article?
What I found interesting with Google being the biggest search engine is why didn't they rent prime irrigated pasture instead of hireing goats?
The Y Delta is in use in some of the BPA substations. In some places the Delta end is compromised by the use of reactors to compensate for power factor.
The Lugo line at the ElDorado with the viral video of the 500 KV jacobs ladder is one of the locations using PF correction inductors. The ~ 100A arc is to the reactor. To prevent DC flow, the reactors can be taken offline, but the power factor would by itself cause voltage regulation problems on lines with a high power factor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GiIVze2Tac
Spam is only about 5% of my email. So someone out there must be getting about 185% of their email as spam to average us out.
I have had even less. Real old email addresses appear to be expired to many spammers. Most spam I get is from software registration. i get the most from Turbo Tax promoting their Quicken product.
I rarely use my mail anymore, so it is on very few distribution lists. Others know to get in touch with me by sending messages in some forums I am on. To send a message, you have to be a member. Abusers don't last long.
Spam noise percentage may be up because the signal email is way down as people have dropped it for SMS, voice mail, IM, chat, Skype, ICQ, etc.
You know, the one that says "I agree to pay this account as per my merchant agreement" or words to that effect.
When he changed cards and canceled service, the unauthorized billing was the problem.
Ever cancel a service and still get billed for it? I had this problem with the dead tree edition of the news a while back. They threatened collections. I mentioned for them to provide collections with a copy of the current contract that was established after the cancellation. I never heard from collections, but I did still continue to receive a bill for 6 months. Maybe they hoped I would slip and pay it.
There is a simple word over this type of behavior. Corporation bulling.
We know how well this worked for SCO and Compuserve. In the long term, it isn't good for business.
Speed holes are a start. Geek engraving is the way to go.
One of these designs should help
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm89tfprStE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ABDKPZtNg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZCqNBpEVc0
If none of the above will make it manly, try this;
http://hackedgadgets.com/2009/03/10/steampunk-frankenstein-computer/
If he doesn't want Google playing his music without paying him, then that's fine: he's got what he wants. Google are not playing his music. What's his beef?
I have posted a couple videos on youtube. Because it is almost impossible for an individual to use a music sound clip because of the difficulty in obtaining a license, all my clips have NO music in the sound track. I have one silent clip that I took youtube's offer to use one of their tracks. The cost is an advertisement placement. I take that cost as way too expensive. I don't provide free promotion of others commercial works for sale, as my video is a hobby video, not a commercial enterprise. I am working up a voice commentary to replace the overpriced soundtrack.
Here is the video in question;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLJzwO2DNAg The video is being exploited to sell other people's stuff. I'll leave this up as an example. There is no option to buy the track in question for use in publishing online. So far almost all licenses for music sold to consumers is for private home use only. Someday someone will get smart and sell music consumers can use in other ways. In the meantime, I'll wait and use nothing.
2. The lawsuit/settlement program stops being profitable.
that they will stop the lawsuits.
This is already happened. The bean counters are having a hard time with it. The publicity from the case is causing a public backlash so sales are down. It's hard to count these beans as they don't come out of the pot, but are never put in. How do you count lost sales due to a bad company image? This is the primary reason I no longer buy CDs for this reason and the price, terms of use, and DRM (defective by design) are the remaining reasons.
They need to correct these 4 things wrong to get the market back.
My favorite line was the part where you are forbidden to:
Ouch!. I just submitted a post of a forum on building air cannons. If they are illegal anywhere, I just violated my TOS.
If anyone is interested. I posted to www.crazybuilders.com. I have a geek project of opening soda cans with marshmallows. This may be illegal somewhere.
I stopped buying CD's based on the attitudes of the record companies and their affiliates. I don't care who it harms; I'm not supporting that method of business, and anyone with links to it deserves to fail.
The word isn't spoken much, but the term is boycott. Many times a boycott is called for publicity. This one is because people are not needing the the product and find it not worth the money as well as not liking their business association.
Odd. The usual example for judicial notice involves a defense attorney using a Farmer's Almanac to put the phase of moon into evidence, and discredit a witness.
Actually in this case, it was the prosecution attorney who failed. The defendant was guilty. It would have done their case damage if the defense brought that up. It would have discredited the defendant.
The one thing myself and several members of the jury noticed, is the defense attorney. His ears grew red when he really stretched the truth. The jury quickly picked up on this stress indicator as a good lie detector. We didn't let the attorney know about his built in BS stress indicator. ;-)
I was on jury duty a while back and ran into the same problem. How much external reference material is to be disregarded? We had a case where the action was at 2 AM. It was very dark. I geocache. I used a GPS to check the sunrise and sunset as well as the moon rise and moon set on the night in question. (a feature of the GPS for sportsmen) Since it was an outside source of information, the state of the moon could not be considered, so I did not share my knowledge after asking if the data was admissible. We tried the case without the information I did not share.
The case is not specified in this post; so for those wondering, there was a full moon that night. I may have been influenced as I knew which party was lying, but I couldn't share my reason for disbelieving one party. We used the other evidence and it was sufficient enough to reach the right conclusion.
I could see a jury avoiding the bias in press and other things that may poorly sway a jury, but unrelated public data? Should that be allowed? Tide tables, weather, and other verifiable conditions not presented at the trial, why shouldn't the jury be able to investigate a little?
We stuck to the rules to prevent a mistrial, but it made the case more difficult to properly decide.
It's actually a sliding scale. The first 2-4 weeks a film is out the studios will keep upwards of 70% of all ticket sales. In the case of a hotly-anticipated film such as a new Batman or Bond, the percentage will go even higher to 80% or above.
What country does this? When I worked in a theater, we had to bid on films. The bid was a combination of percent of ticket sales (often over 100% for smaller houses) and the number of seats. This is why multiplexes get first run and single screen and twin cinemas get older films. They can't bid enough to get first run because they don't attract enough to fill the seats. Maybe the way films are bid on has changed in the last 15 years, but bidding over 100% of the ticket sales to fill the seats and sell popcorn happened quite often for popular films.
If something has changed, when did this happen?
but in reality they were simply training people to hold the handle up when they closed the door.
Actually it trained some to always lock the door with the key. Myself being one. It saved me several times. Those who bypass safety features are often surprised when they get hurt.
It's like the chime that made noise when the seat belt wasn't fastened. Older cars with just a lap belt (old fart) instead of a shoulder harness didn't have a sensor switch in the buckle, but in the retractor. Many people simply pulled out the belt and sat on it instead of fastening it. Later seat belts were upgraded to require the buckle to be fastened.
MS is in the learning stages in designing security. I wonder how long they will take to require an administrator login to perform administrator tasks.
I have 2 logins on my Linux box. One is for everyday use. There are no software install privileges. The other is the administrator account which is used just for software install and configuration, not surfing.
I laugh at malware sites. When the picture loads, I often get asked where to save the .exe file. Windows users are sitting ducks.
It's for those living on a fault line.
Worse, that American citizens start leaving for greener pastures. That day may be coming.
They simply follow the manufacturing and engineering jobs as they relocate to business friendly locations.
American jobs should be going to AMERICANS, not foreigners.
What it means is that American jobs are going away. Follow the money. With the new administration and redistribution of wealth, the tax and fees on evil corporations simply means they expand in profitable markets and shrink in places expensive to do business. In summary, flipping burgers will be the American jobs. Manufacturing & R & D in aerospace, robotics, transportation, semiconductors, etc are all moving overseas. Intel is closing Fab 20 in the US. They are outsourcing the manufacture of the Atom processor. Care to guess why?
As long as we have a socialist president who taxes the health care of the "rich" the industry "who need to pay their fair share" and other stupid job exporting burdens, then all that will be left is the service industry of government run health care, fast food, and transportation repair industries. High tech well paying engineering and manufacturing is shutting down in the US.
Let me know where you find a good paying job at Mc Dee's or wally mart with full bennifits and a retirement package.
This is one of the first things I noticed when my SO was looking at sewing machines. We looked into the extra costs in doing embrodary and was appalled at the total lockdown of the artwork for any of the machines. It resulted in a simple no sale as the machines were unusable for any hobby applications as everything was tied up in royalties and legal risk.
This is a field that could have had lots of interest, but due to greed and closed formats, etc, it appeals to very few.
No, they were intertwined from the beginning, because they were the "safest" "surest" bets, and that's where all the wealth was going.
For those who fail to learn from history and are banking on Gold, keep an eye on this overpriced security when it is time to sell. When the silver market was cornered about 25 years ago, it happened once again. If you have Gold, now is a great time to sell to greedy investors.
Remember in any market, Buy LOW and Sell HIGH. If it is already high, don't buy. If it is already low, don't sell. Too many investors are not concerned about price, only the direction it is going. Late buyers are almost always stuck holding the bag on the way down.
If you follow Christianity at all, there is a prediction that a bag of gold will buy a loaf of bread.
If I were to record garage rock album i would throw everyone in the same room and just play the songs. However to leverage much of the flexibility and power of a digital recording you need a click.
I record garage bands. You don't need a click track for multi-track recording. Take a demo tape and use it to get the drummer to play his track. Use the drummer as the click track for the rest of the sessions. A click track is not needed for multi-track digital recording. I add the wet tracks last after recording all the dry tracks for final mixdown.
The only click track used for this is just a tempo 1 measure lead in to get the drummer started on a new tempo.
They do the following:
1. Have a task to do
2. Use the tool they know to do the task
The very idea that there are more word processors than MS Word still blows the mind of people like, say, my grandmother.
The problem for MS is when there is another option out there in use, the chances of someone spending hundreds of dollars to switch from the tool that does the task to another high priced tool is pretty much nil. Those who switched are unlikely to switch back. Those who switched are likely to share the knowledge with friends. This erosion is one way.
My dad has a Mac laptop, one MS box (old XP laptop) and 2 Linux boxes (SUSE and Ubuntu). MS knows that the next purchase of a MS office suite is unlikely in that mix. The younger market is much more likely to be in this camp than my dad who is a great grandfather. He is unlikely to buy Vista or Windows 7 or an office suite for it ever. The tools he already has works fine for his video editing and cameras.
This is what scares Microsoft. They are still somewhat clueless in regards to fighting piracy. Many copies are unlikely to convert to sales as the user is opportunistic. If they have to pay, they will use an affordable alternative.