Found Adblock Plus dev builds and attempted to install. FF3b5 returned an error saying the extension was incompatible. So, I guess I was justified in saying they were broken after all. Thanks anyway, these ads are turning my eyes to mush.
If Destruction by omission or commission, is destruction nonetheless. And Censorship equals the destruction of an idea. Then Just as the fire of the Library of Alexandria started out destroying only a few things when it started, so the demise of Net Neutrality will only result in the loss of a view things now.
It's the end result that hindsight will define as huge...or not.
The next morning, you walk in, grab the image, have them pulled in front of their manager, demand the return of the laptop, have them fired and press charges.
Nice in theory, too bad it won't necessarily work out that way.
True story:
Where I work (with offices), a female manager noticed when she'd come in in the morning that items on her desk were misplaced, the computer was on when she'd turned it off and did exactly what you suggested, bought a webcam and left it running.
Seems a member of the cleaning crew was accessing both her office and her computer, going to NSFW sites and having "personal moments" in her chair, on a regular basis.
Confronted, his supervisor notified, it looked like the spunk monkey was on his way out on a rail. Then Legal got involved.
The long and short of it, since he was not notified that he was on camera there was fear he'd find a good piranha to file an "invasion of privacy" suit and our outfit didn't want the negative publicity, he was not fired. Additionally, the manager was told she must pull the camera, even though everyone now knew it was there.
He kept his job, she bought hand sanitizer by the gallon, and tried not to think about what might have gone on in her chair in the dark of the night.
And make no mistake about it, viewers are being trained by what, and how, they watch from a very early age. News programming is only one facet of that.
If you're trained to only accept information in time units no larger than the average bowel movement, the chances that you will think critically about any given subject are reduced immmensely.
This works especially well for marketers and companies intent on your "consuming" their products, and for those who have the motives of a three card monte dealer.
Which points up the critical importance of your tax dollars being used to insure everyone has access to the "glassteat".
"I'm still laughing at how the Bush administration is out smarting the democrats in Congress at every turn."
Laugh while you can.
Your sorry assed demagogues have succeeded in squandering international goodwill towards the U.S., sold military technology to China in order to insure low prices at Wal-Mart and guaranteed that not only *you*, but your children (if you stop doing the hand dance long enough to have any), and their children's chidren will be paying the price for their stupidity.
The long and short of it laughing boy, is that *your* party attempted to impeach a sitting president over a stain on a blue dress and failed, but have sufficiently befuddled the nation with misdirection and divisiveness that we are failing to impeach a president and his cronies who have lied to us, lead us into a quagmire, are shredding the constitution at every turn, and who felt the need to put safeguards in place to prevent them from being charged as war criminals like his father was.
So, yeah, good ahead and laugh, I for one will shed a tear.
Unfortunately for them, there is no way to recoup money on the loss leader Zune as there is on the X Box (i.e. games sales and subscription play services).
This isn't the first time though, that Microsoft has gone with a one-size-fits-all strategy.
While the prospect of "shadow layoffs" has some validity, I suspect that what you are seeing is just another case of management cluelessness and an inability to let go of old business models.
Upper management in most organizations either misses the boat, spending time desperately trying to recover (witness MS and the internet, or the Bells and DSL), or just kills the golden goose out of greed and ignorance.
This prig exemplifies the legacy of 8 years of Republican paternalism, and the sooner the US is shed of them better off both it and the world will be.
In unrelated news: The Onion reports Kerr is wetting his pants about UN criticiam of the US "owning the internet", not because the US will keep information free, but because it wound render that neat little AT&T ["Your World Delivered®"] room obsolete.
Have you been out to www.whitehouse.com lately? They've turned into a clearinghouse for the '08 candidates, both Rep & Dem.
No, really, they have.
They're even running political polls. Granted the last one, from the 8th of October, was "Should George W. Bush be impeached?" and the current one is "Does The Media Favor One Party Over Another In It's Reporting?", but the days of being NSFW seem to be over.
At least until cadidates have been picked. : )
With the current judicial and executive branch....
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mstrchf07 asks...are business needs trumping consumer and technological interests?
Of *course*!
And it's not even a matter of business needs, it's business greeds.
If studios had addressed this in 2001 we, as "consumers", would be much better off.
As it is this is all coming about because of a tiff between studios and Apple, which will culminate in differing DRM models as more media sources decide to go online, greater likelihood of a "pay-to-play" internet (at least in the US), and the certainty that commercials will be inserted into the shows *real*soon*.
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Found Adblock Plus dev builds and attempted to install. FF3b5 returned an error saying the extension was incompatible. So, I guess I was justified in saying they were broken after all. Thanks anyway, these ads are turning my eyes to mush.
Dev builds, eh? Using the included update check, and the extensions site says otherwise. Guess I'll have to start hunting for those.
Adblock, all iterations, are broken ATM.
Grasping at straws much?
Maybe not.
If
Destruction by omission or commission, is destruction nonetheless.
And
Censorship equals the destruction of an idea.
Then
Just as the fire of the Library of Alexandria started out destroying only a few things when it started, so the demise of Net Neutrality will only result in the loss of a view things now.
It's the end result that hindsight will define as huge...or not.
The next morning, you walk in, grab the image, have them pulled in front of their manager, demand the return of the laptop, have them fired and press charges.
Nice in theory, too bad it won't necessarily work out that way.
True story:
Where I work (with offices), a female manager noticed when she'd come in in the morning that items on her desk were misplaced, the computer was on when she'd turned it off and did exactly what you suggested, bought a webcam and left it running.
Seems a member of the cleaning crew was accessing both her office and her computer, going to NSFW sites and having "personal moments" in her chair, on a regular basis.
Confronted, his supervisor notified, it looked like the spunk monkey was on his way out on a rail. Then Legal got involved.
The long and short of it, since he was not notified that he was on camera there was fear he'd find a good piranha to file an "invasion of privacy" suit and our outfit didn't want the negative publicity, he was not fired. Additionally, the manager was told she must pull the camera, even though everyone now knew it was there.
He kept his job, she bought hand sanitizer by the gallon, and tried not to think about what might have gone on in her chair in the dark of the night.
True story, swear to god.
they do the president.
Horsefeathers. That's a retread of the old American Idol/Presidential Election urban legend.
And make no mistake about it, viewers are being trained by what, and how, they watch from a very early age. News programming is only one facet of that.
If you're trained to only accept information in time units no larger than the average bowel movement, the chances that you will think critically about any given subject are reduced immmensely.
This works especially well for marketers and companies intent on your "consuming" their products, and for those who have the motives of a three card monte dealer.
Which points up the critical importance of your tax dollars being used to insure everyone has access to the "glass teat".
Bread and circuses anyone?
"Is the US government so clueless? Or did they do what they did on purpose?"
What do you expect from the Administration that basically gutted the Microsoft Anti-Trust case?
This is just another MS "feature", Plausible Deniability Ultimate© v.1.0.6.6.6.
As Americans don't even rate in the Top Ten Worldwide for frequency, according to the folks at Durex (and they should know!).
North Texas was introduced to this "feature" last year sometime.
Since I am relatively careful about how I type an address before hitting Enter I can't say how long it's been in place.
Host files work wonders tho'.
TYVM, and there's a word for this type of article, scurillous.
/. commenters to RTFA, but anyone with mod points is invited to spend a couple on the parent of this reply. : )
BTW, I know it's against the spirit of
Granted, it's one of those "free to read the whole article" ones, but a PITA that kept me from reading further nonetheless.
Copy paste from someone else maybe?
Time Warner, whose subsidiaries include numerous entertainment firms and content delivery companies, may at the very least look at a restraint of trade suit in the making.
I hear the saliva splatting on the floor from the lawyers dripping jaws already.
"I'm still laughing at how the Bush administration is out smarting the democrats in Congress at every turn."
Laugh while you can.
Your sorry assed demagogues have succeeded in squandering international goodwill towards the U.S., sold military technology to China in order to insure low prices at Wal-Mart and guaranteed that not only *you*, but your children (if you stop doing the hand dance long enough to have any), and their children's chidren will be paying the price for their stupidity.
The long and short of it laughing boy, is that *your* party attempted to impeach a sitting president over a stain on a blue dress and failed, but have sufficiently befuddled the nation with misdirection and divisiveness that we are failing to impeach a president and his cronies who have lied to us, lead us into a quagmire, are shredding the constitution at every turn, and who felt the need to put safeguards in place to prevent them from being charged as war criminals like his father was.
So, yeah, good ahead and laugh, I for one will shed a tear.
Lowest Common Denominator (tagging beta confirmed).
It's a programming mindset that's afflicted all forms of media for decades now, and which has confirmed Sturgeons Law to be correct:
"Ninety percent of everything is crud."
Unfortunately for them, there is no way to recoup money on the loss leader Zune as there is on the X Box (i.e. games sales and subscription play services).
This isn't the first time though, that Microsoft has gone with a one-size-fits-all strategy.
It won't be the last either.
While the prospect of "shadow layoffs" has some validity, I suspect that what you are seeing is just another case of management cluelessness and an inability to let go of old business models.
Upper management in most organizations either misses the boat, spending time desperately trying to recover (witness MS and the internet, or the Bells and DSL), or just kills the golden goose out of greed and ignorance.
wait 'til you see what M$ does with media.
Can't wait for my first BSOD on a 42 inch plasma.
This prig exemplifies the legacy of 8 years of Republican paternalism, and the sooner the US is shed of them better off both it and the world will be.
In unrelated news: The Onion reports Kerr is wetting his pants about UN criticiam of the US "owning the internet", not because the US will keep information free, but because it wound render that neat little AT&T ["Your World Delivered®"] room obsolete.
"Care to explain then how my local EB took several times more orders for the collectors edition of Burning Crusade then it was actually getting?"
Two words:
Unsecured loan
That's right Sparky, your hard earned pesastas can go into a floating fund for 30/60/90 days, during which time the company in question makes interest off it for nothing, pays down higher interest loans, funds a corporate fly by of Strippers'r'Us World Domination Tour©, or any other thing they f*cking well please.
What's a little gamer angst when stacked up against that, eh?
Have you been out to www.whitehouse.com lately? They've turned into a clearinghouse for the '08 candidates, both Rep & Dem.
No, really, they have.
They're even running political polls. Granted the last one, from the 8th of October, was "Should George W. Bush be impeached?" and the current one is "Does The Media Favor One Party Over Another In It's Reporting?", but the days of being NSFW seem to be over.
At least until cadidates have been picked. : )
mstrchf07 asks ...are business needs trumping consumer and technological interests?
Of *course*!
And it's not even a matter of business needs, it's business greeds.
If studios had addressed this in 2001 we, as "consumers", would be much better off.
As it is this is all coming about because of a tiff between studios and Apple, which will culminate in differing DRM models as more media sources decide to go online, greater likelihood of a "pay-to-play" internet (at least in the US), and the certainty that commercials will be inserted into the shows *real*soon*.
Thank god USENET remains an option, as does Miro.
BSD security, package managed software installation, rock solid kernel, and no kow-towing to Redmond.
Keep at it Steve, you'll convert the masses yet! '^)
Where's my flying car?
[p.s. CIO - worst-article-to-follow-across-multiple-pages award nominee]