Hasn't China, in the past, executed people who were convicted of intentionally bypassing the Great Firewall and proving the means to do so to others? Will the people who receive lists of proxy servers be punished for possessing them? If not, could China begin to use such punishment as a deterrent to those sending the lists out?
Right on. I block ads only if they annoy me. My personal annoying criteria includes the two things you mentioned, as well as text-covering flash ads. Those warrant an instant block, and I will usually leave any site that uses them immediately. Any ad with sound is instantly blocked. Any ad that says I just won something is instantly blocked. Any ad that tries to look like part of my GUI (and usually fails laughably) is blocked. Ads that tell me to "punch the monkey", "swat the bug" or in any other way encourage me to interact with them are blocked. Ads for low-interest mortgages that feature dancing green aliens are blocked (after being puzzled at for a moment). Are you listening, advertisers? Stick with simple images, text, slick animation if you -must-, but above all, do not try to TRICK me into clicking your ad.
You're right, I was. Fortunately, I don't have to do these kinds of reinstalls very often anymore, but I'll pass that info back to my former employer in case he hasn't figured it out yet. Thanks!
Doesn't work. Sorry. At least it didn't ~2 years ago. I agree with your last statement, and the company I worked for never charged anyone for a new copy of Windows when we had to reload their OEM copy. But if the customer had lost their copy of, say, Dell's WinXP SP2 OEM disc.. attempting to use the case code with HP's WinXP SP2 OEM disc would not allow the install.
Actually that doesn't always work. In fact, unless something has changed in the past couple of years, this -rarely- works. When I was doing this often, I found that the installed key would almost invariably fail to validate the OEM setup unless you had a copy of the XP OEM disc from that manufacturer. Same revision of XP, same everything except for the manufacturer. It got to the point that we had to make copies of the OEM discs for each manufacturer just to do re-installs.
You're not. Adams himself regretting writing it and said its grim tone reflected a grim period in his life. He said he wanted to end the series on a more upbeat note. Unfortunately, exercise killed him before he could finish it.
The moisture on your eyes would boil off within seconds and you'd probably be unable to blink. Your eyeballs would probably swell, too, making your vision even blurrier. And then as your brain lost oxygen, you'd start to see the green lights and tunnels that pilots see during high-G maneuvers.
Note that I just made all of that up, but it's probably not too far from reality.
Yeah. That right there is enough reason against biometrics for me. I'd much rather have someone beat me up and steal my keys than beat me up and cut off my finger. Or pop out an eyeball.
That's not the point, though. People -need- to use these apps in order to run their business. Should the application providers upgrade their crummy software? Sure they should. Are they? Maybe. But if that software doesn't run on Vista, that company is not going to upgrade to Vista. That creates problems for Microsoft, not the business, and not (so much) the application provider.
From TFA: "While filtering and monitoring technologies help parents to screen out offensive content and to monitor their child's online activities, the use of these technologies is far from universal and may not be fool-proof in keeping kids away from adult material," Sen. Inouye said. "In that context, we must evaluate our current efforts to combat child pornography and consider what further measures may be needed to stop the spread of such illegal material over high-speed broadband connections."
How does he jump from kids seeing pr0n to pr0n of kids? Is this a special type of logic you learn when you get into politics?
Larry Niven wrote a short-story (surprise!) about how the universe protects causality. A clever man discovers that every civilization that has ever undertaken the task of building a time machine has vanished before they can finish it. He puts forth the idea that if plans for a working time machine were leaked to their current enemies, they would try to build it and therefore disappear as well. Before the plan can be put into action, though, the clever man's own (presumably stable yellow) star inexplicably goes nova, thus preventing the time machine plans from being leaked and protecting the nature of causality.
Aside from treatments for shell-shocked war vets, I wonder if this could be used to treat more mundane fears as well such as phobias and social anxiety. That could be a boon to many, many people; social anxiety may sound wussy, but it is a misery-inducing and debilitating condition.
A better article headline might be "South Korea making sure sales tax applies to virtual goods sold for real money" but that wouldn't be as inflammatory and probably wouldn't fit anyway.
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Proving=providing. I should have previewed.
Hasn't China, in the past, executed people who were convicted of intentionally bypassing the Great Firewall and proving the means to do so to others? Will the people who receive lists of proxy servers be punished for possessing them? If not, could China begin to use such punishment as a deterrent to those sending the lists out?
Richard Dawkins? Is that you?
"Nothing for you to see here. Move along."
Must be 'cause I'm using Firefox...
Right on. I block ads only if they annoy me. My personal annoying criteria includes the two things you mentioned, as well as text-covering flash ads. Those warrant an instant block, and I will usually leave any site that uses them immediately. Any ad with sound is instantly blocked. Any ad that says I just won something is instantly blocked. Any ad that tries to look like part of my GUI (and usually fails laughably) is blocked. Ads that tell me to "punch the monkey", "swat the bug" or in any other way encourage me to interact with them are blocked. Ads for low-interest mortgages that feature dancing green aliens are blocked (after being puzzled at for a moment). Are you listening, advertisers? Stick with simple images, text, slick animation if you -must-, but above all, do not try to TRICK me into clicking your ad.
Information on how to break the light barrier has been around for ages.
You're right, I was. Fortunately, I don't have to do these kinds of reinstalls very often anymore, but I'll pass that info back to my former employer in case he hasn't figured it out yet. Thanks!
I'm 37.
What?
I'm 37, I'm not old.
Doesn't work. Sorry. At least it didn't ~2 years ago. I agree with your last statement, and the company I worked for never charged anyone for a new copy of Windows when we had to reload their OEM copy. But if the customer had lost their copy of, say, Dell's WinXP SP2 OEM disc.. attempting to use the case code with HP's WinXP SP2 OEM disc would not allow the install.
Actually that doesn't always work. In fact, unless something has changed in the past couple of years, this -rarely- works. When I was doing this often, I found that the installed key would almost invariably fail to validate the OEM setup unless you had a copy of the XP OEM disc from that manufacturer. Same revision of XP, same everything except for the manufacturer. It got to the point that we had to make copies of the OEM discs for each manufacturer just to do re-installs.
You're not. Adams himself regretting writing it and said its grim tone reflected a grim period in his life. He said he wanted to end the series on a more upbeat note. Unfortunately, exercise killed him before he could finish it.
Why? Are you saying they should have just saved the money and asked you?
The moisture on your eyes would boil off within seconds and you'd probably be unable to blink. Your eyeballs would probably swell, too, making your vision even blurrier. And then as your brain lost oxygen, you'd start to see the green lights and tunnels that pilots see during high-G maneuvers.
Note that I just made all of that up, but it's probably not too far from reality.
I found a hair on one of the images. The last one, just SE of the hill in the center of the crater. For some reason, this amuses me.
I'm sure HP will love to tell you so, regardless of whether or not its true.
Yeah. That right there is enough reason against biometrics for me. I'd much rather have someone beat me up and steal my keys than beat me up and cut off my finger. Or pop out an eyeball.
That's not the point, though. People -need- to use these apps in order to run their business. Should the application providers upgrade their crummy software? Sure they should. Are they? Maybe. But if that software doesn't run on Vista, that company is not going to upgrade to Vista. That creates problems for Microsoft, not the business, and not (so much) the application provider.
From TFA:
"While filtering and monitoring technologies help parents to screen out offensive content and to monitor their child's online activities, the use of these technologies is far from universal and may not be fool-proof in keeping kids away from adult material," Sen. Inouye said. "In that context, we must evaluate our current efforts to combat child pornography and consider what further measures may be needed to stop the spread of such illegal material over high-speed broadband connections."
How does he jump from kids seeing pr0n to pr0n of kids? Is this a special type of logic you learn when you get into politics?
Whichever one makes the larger campaign contribution.
Duh.
It's in his collection "Convergent Series" as "Rotating Cylinders and the Possibility of Global Causality Violation".
Larry Niven wrote a short-story (surprise!) about how the universe protects causality. A clever man discovers that every civilization that has ever undertaken the task of building a time machine has vanished before they can finish it. He puts forth the idea that if plans for a working time machine were leaked to their current enemies, they would try to build it and therefore disappear as well. Before the plan can be put into action, though, the clever man's own (presumably stable yellow) star inexplicably goes nova, thus preventing the time machine plans from being leaked and protecting the nature of causality.
I sure hope Niven's wrong about that.
Aside from treatments for shell-shocked war vets, I wonder if this could be used to treat more mundane fears as well such as phobias and social anxiety. That could be a boon to many, many people; social anxiety may sound wussy, but it is a misery-inducing and debilitating condition.
Right here.
Look for legislation that bans listening to non-US net radio stations in the near future. Or possibly an FCC ruling.
A better article headline might be "South Korea making sure sales tax applies to virtual goods sold for real money" but that wouldn't be as inflammatory and probably wouldn't fit anyway.