Why is it against the rules to take a cab to skip over the boring middle part of a marathon? Why is it against the rules to use a golf cart on the PGA tour? Why can't we use a snowmobile during cross-country skiing races?
If all you care about is getting the kill without any effort at all... go to a butcher's shop.
If not it would look like monopoly abuse, using their dominant position to cut margins to levels others couldn't sustain and paying for exclusive access to customers.
Response 1: What monopoly? Response 2: You mean how Google uses it's monopoly on search to fund Android and give it away for free - reducing the margin to 0?
It will be interesting to see if Apple are forced to charge a higher price because of this. If not it would look like monopoly abuse, using their dominant position to cut margins to levels others couldn't sustain and paying for exclusive access to customers.
It does seem rather un-Apple like though. Normally they just tell service providers they should be privileged to have Apple products on their network and must provide a minimum level of service to them, like the did with the iPhone. Maybe it's due to Jobs not being around any more, maybe Comcast learned from the mobile carrier's mistakes.
Apple already charges higher prices. The extra "ability to stream" will probably be easily absorbed into their fees. But the prices is miniscule compared to the ability to get google and microsoft devices locked out of the internet.
A class action lawsuit will get you a t-shirt, ball cap, and a bag of peanuts (airline size, which holds about three peanuts). The proper solution is to turn the pipes into public infrastructure, like water, lights, and sewage, and allow service managers, not providers to sell time share.
No, a class action lawsuit gets you coupons for 20% off your next purchase at the corporation you sued. And since you were suing a corporation, you were probably not going to patronize it; so they win.
Well, the lawyers get paid in cash, so they are the actual winners.
The only internet provider I have available to me is Comcast.
Available to you, or available where you happen to live at the moment? I know it's not a feasible option for everyone, but some people report having taken Internet access into account when choosing where to live.
So your response to a monopoly is to run away and not fight the abuse?
When they realized there was no way they would ever get away with stealing so many bitcoins and having a huge debt, MtGox "found" enough to cover their debts.
The account holders are still fucked, though. Why anyone would use bitcoin at this point is beyond me.
1. "Has Achieved Its Goals" == "on track to being fully realized" 2. "Mission Accomplished" Redefine goals to state what has already been done, declare victory, forget about the rest. (banner and photo-op on aircraft carrier optional)
And if turns out that the real reason is... "We are tired of fighting trolls and don't want to do it anymore." Fine. That is their right, nobody is forcing them to do it.
The only thing that makes sense here is they have already been served some legal gag order thing, but I would expect that to come out somehow.
Additional thought: responsible disclosure only works because of the threat of full disclosure.
No, often it works because if one person outside your organisation discovers something then when you get that issue raised with you it is pretty easy to take that to management and show them why the bug needs fixing. If one person can find it so can someone else who is less honest and hence might use it for fraud.
So responsible disclosure works because even if the threat is never disclosed fully by the person who found it, it might be discovered by some one else independently.
This just encourages management to cover it up. Only the thread of the vulnerability becoming public incentivises management to fix it.
If you go to a community college you can get an associates degree, and then you can typically find a 4 year that will accept you, even for online classes.
And an associate degree is just as vaulable from a community college as a major school, and costs 1/10 as much. In most areas, if you are a working adult that lives in the city the college is in, you go practically for free. Once there you can transfer to a 4-year school for a bachelors and effectively save half your cost on education.
Way ahead of you. I have my own list, everything is named after me. I'm working on a Firefox plugin to preface all nouns with the appropriate possessives, but I'm having a bit of work making it respond properly to the tangled mess of names people use.
Now, play nice on my Slashdot. and think of me when you look up at my moon and stars tonight.
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Failed link, that was supposed to be "There are bags of shit on the moon."
You are worried about cameras?
There are on the moon.
Mmm, breaded mussels.
From the bayesian avoidance text in your spam:
We can kill you if you try to run when we attack you
Spammers are getting serious these days.
Hunting for "sport".
Why is it against the rules to take a cab to skip over the boring middle part of a marathon?
Why is it against the rules to use a golf cart on the PGA tour?
Why can't we use a snowmobile during cross-country skiing races?
If all you care about is getting the kill without any effort at all... go to a butcher's shop.
Response 1: What monopoly?
Response 2: You mean how Google uses it's monopoly on search to fund Android and give it away for free - reducing the margin to 0?
Response 1: What monopoly?
It will be interesting to see if Apple are forced to charge a higher price because of this. If not it would look like monopoly abuse, using their dominant position to cut margins to levels others couldn't sustain and paying for exclusive access to customers.
It does seem rather un-Apple like though. Normally they just tell service providers they should be privileged to have Apple products on their network and must provide a minimum level of service to them, like the did with the iPhone. Maybe it's due to Jobs not being around any more, maybe Comcast learned from the mobile carrier's mistakes.
Apple already charges higher prices. The extra "ability to stream" will probably be easily absorbed into their fees. But the prices is miniscule compared to the ability to get google and microsoft devices locked out of the internet.
Mutants living below New New York? That is New Pittsburgh...
Actually that is the regular Pittsburgh. We call them "yinzers".
you have to pay me for the traffic you are giving to me to deliver to my customers
Your customers already paid you. If you don't deliver, they will be happy to pay someone else.
Of course the providers will either legislate themselves into a monopoly or oligarchy and the customers get screwed.
A class action lawsuit will get you a t-shirt, ball cap, and a bag of peanuts (airline size, which holds about three peanuts). The proper solution is to turn the pipes into public infrastructure, like water, lights, and sewage, and allow service managers, not providers to sell time share.
No, a class action lawsuit gets you coupons for 20% off your next purchase at the corporation you sued. And since you were suing a corporation, you were probably not going to patronize it; so they win.
Well, the lawyers get paid in cash, so they are the actual winners.
The only internet provider I have available to me is Comcast.
Available to you, or available where you happen to live at the moment? I know it's not a feasible option for everyone, but some people report having taken Internet access into account when choosing where to live.
So your response to a monopoly is to run away and not fight the abuse?
When they realized there was no way they would ever get away with stealing so many bitcoins and having a huge debt, MtGox "found" enough to cover their debts.
The account holders are still fucked, though. Why anyone would use bitcoin at this point is beyond me.
If JMS had control over it. Talk to Warner Bros if you don't want to see this stuff get buried.
It looks terrible either way.
1. "Has Achieved Its Goals" == "on track to being fully realized"
2. "Mission Accomplished" Redefine goals to state what has already been done, declare victory, forget about the rest. (banner and photo-op on aircraft carrier optional)
And if turns out that the real reason is... "We are tired of fighting trolls and don't want to do it anymore." Fine. That is their right, nobody is forcing them to do it.
The only thing that makes sense here is they have already been served some legal gag order thing, but I would expect that to come out somehow.
Additional thought: responsible disclosure only works because of the threat of full disclosure.
No, often it works because if one person outside your organisation discovers something then when you get that issue raised with you it is pretty easy to take that to management and show them why the bug needs fixing. If one person can find it so can someone else who is less honest and hence might use it for fraud.
So responsible disclosure works because even if the threat is never disclosed fully by the person who found it, it might be discovered by some one else independently.
This just encourages management to cover it up. Only the thread of the vulnerability becoming public incentivises management to fix it.
Additional thought: responsible disclosure only works because of the threat of full disclosure.
And completely fails if the definition of "responsible" is defined by the party that would have to suffer the consequences.
Come on then, let's have full disclosure. WHO made the threats?
Why would the World Health Organisation do this?
If you go to a community college you can get an associates degree, and then you can typically find a 4 year that will accept you, even for online classes.
And an associate degree is just as vaulable from a community college as a major school, and costs 1/10 as much. In most areas, if you are a working adult that lives in the city the college is in, you go practically for free. Once there you can transfer to a 4-year school for a bachelors and effectively save half your cost on education.
If only Slashdot's comment form allowed input of stick-figures, it might be the case that we wouldn't need Xkcd...
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Way ahead of you. I have my own list, everything is named after me. I'm working on a Firefox plugin to preface all nouns with the appropriate possessives, but I'm having a bit of work making it respond properly to the tangled mess of names people use.
Now, play nice on my Slashdot. and think of me when you look up at my moon and stars tonight.
Everything is named Anonymous?
Well, that is fitting...
Maybe both?
Why do you hate the Japanese? The A-bombs likely saved a million+ Japanese lives. Invasion or starving them out, would have cost much more.
No they weren't ready to surrender. That's pure bullshit.
He didn't say he didn't hate them.
He did say he hates Koreans a lot more.
One must not generalize.
Always? Or just in this specific case?