The real press is just that--paper, ink, subscriptions, ads, circulation. Websites are not the press. Now that the dot bombs are going belly-up, Apple and others have figured out that there's nothing to gain by assisting the unfettered electronic publishing of rumors and innuendo that happens here and at other Mac rumor sites.
If someone got my website pulled that way, I'd make sure the email addresses were all over the place: on Usenet, on Freenet, in.NFO files, on bumper stickers, you get the idea.
And, as many have said here, how do we know this "media company" isn't just getting what's coming to it?
So I assume you're talking about the smaller players here, who we hope would keep the big boys in check. But they probably don't have nationwide reservation systems and we know they don't have airport counters. But they get business by undercutting the biggies--maybe they'll compete by not monitoring.
If only that were true. I think if you look into areas where comprehensive rates are set high, you'd find a high correlation between the rates and relative minority population. I think that's called a "proxy for race," and they can and do get away with it right now.
If the business is so risky and unprofitable, kind of make you wonder why they don't all just close up shop and put their money into money market CDs or something, doesn't it. This is a grab at some extra profit, pure and simple.
That's a thoughtful reply, but I'd respectfully submit that an airport franchise is a pretty damn big financial barrier to entry, lending itself to collusion for business travelers, who constitute the bulk of the rental car market.
This got you pissed off? I give it ten years before U.S. insurance companies start providing generous "discounts" on your (state mandated) insurance in return for you allowing similar black-box technology. (Cynics like me would call this a surcharge for not allowing it.)
Only the very wealthy and self-insured will be able to drive cars without GPS logging and remotely storing your position, velocity, and the time. Rates will be adjusted for forays into "unsafe" neighborhoods, parking outside of bars, etc.
Knowing this, fewer customers will speed or drive out of area, reducing rental rates (rental agencies would like to simply pocket the profits from safer driving, but since so much competition exists in the industry prices in most mid-sized or larger areas will probably fall).
Umm, yeah. Because there's no collusion at all in industry, and the stiff competition among rental car companies will result in rock bottom airline counter rates. And the Slashdot fairy is going to leave some karma under my bed tonight.
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This is a mass market device with a low price point and decent capabilities, which would normally mean that we should hack it to run Linux. But it already runs Linux.
Does this mean we must r00t it and install Windows?
Think about how long MP3's were popular in universities before they clogged up corporate servers.
I don't think that was so much the young 'uns playing Prometheus as the publicity the recording industry generated trying to stamp them out making everyone who wasn't partying atop Mt. Everest at the time aware of them.
But you still get screwed if you get pushed closer to your maximum by that shill--you wouldn't have had to pay the maximum price in the absence of the shill. You shouldn't have to pay at or near your maximum unless there was another (real) bidder willing to pay just under that--that's how eBay's structured.
and people will find other ways to amuse themselves if DVDs and CDs become more hassle than they're worth
And, in the fine tradition of colonial capitalism, the entertainment industry is trying to find out empirically exactly what that maximum amount of hassle is for 90% of people. Once they know that, they don't care that people like you and me walk away.
Absolutely. I didn't think of that. However, each of Linux and Win32 cannot boot fully off an encrypted volume--they'll need enough of the operating system running to access the encrypted volume. Of course, if the encryption driver is in the kernel or at a very low level, that's still a big improvement.
Wouldn't have to be the MBR--maybe USER.EXE, or an application DLL. Lots of possiblities! You're right, though, that a Windows anti-virus program should notice an MBR change between boots.
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I always told my friends to "wait till Hell freezes over"to buy Macs. But my tune has changed since the unholy Intel/Amd/MSFT alliace
The real press is just that--paper, ink, subscriptions, ads, circulation. Websites are not the press. Now that the dot bombs are going belly-up, Apple and others have figured out that there's nothing to gain by assisting the unfettered electronic publishing of rumors and innuendo that happens here and at other Mac rumor sites.
That and the little iLamp monitor spinning around like the girl's head from The Exorcist probably didn't help any.
... BSOD
No, I didn't get "shot down," I successfully pointed out that what the majors do is what most people will be subject to. Now go read something new.
And, as many have said here, how do we know this "media company" isn't just getting what's coming to it?
So I assume you're talking about the smaller players here, who we hope would keep the big boys in check. But they probably don't have nationwide reservation systems and we know they don't have airport counters. But they get business by undercutting the biggies--maybe they'll compete by not monitoring.
Except for the fact that they'll likely collude.
Grow up, you cock-monkey.
If only that were true. I think if you look into areas where comprehensive rates are set high, you'd find a high correlation between the rates and relative minority population. I think that's called a "proxy for race," and they can and do get away with it right now.
If the business is so risky and unprofitable, kind of make you wonder why they don't all just close up shop and put their money into money market CDs or something, doesn't it. This is a grab at some extra profit, pure and simple.
Rental Rates Today
w/ monitoring $100/day, midsize
no monitoring $975/day, subcompact
If one's allowed to get away with it, they'll all do it. Then there won't be another company to go to.
That's a thoughtful reply, but I'd respectfully submit that an airport franchise is a pretty damn big financial barrier to entry, lending itself to collusion for business travelers, who constitute the bulk of the rental car market.
Only the very wealthy and self-insured will be able to drive cars without GPS logging and remotely storing your position, velocity, and the time. Rates will be adjusted for forays into "unsafe" neighborhoods, parking outside of bars, etc.
Umm, yeah. Because there's no collusion at all in industry, and the stiff competition among rental car companies will result in rock bottom airline counter rates. And the Slashdot fairy is going to leave some karma under my bed tonight.
Beautiful troll, though--props for that.
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So we plan to save money on Cat-6 by using two Cat-3 cables in parallel.
Does this mean we must r00t it and install Windows?
Yup. You look at seven, eight or more total eclipses, you might go blind!
I don't think that was so much the young 'uns playing Prometheus as the publicity the recording industry generated trying to stamp them out making everyone who wasn't partying atop Mt. Everest at the time aware of them.
But you still get screwed if you get pushed closer to your maximum by that shill--you wouldn't have had to pay the maximum price in the absence of the shill. You shouldn't have to pay at or near your maximum unless there was another (real) bidder willing to pay just under that--that's how eBay's structured.
And, in the fine tradition of colonial capitalism, the entertainment industry is trying to find out empirically exactly what that maximum amount of hassle is for 90% of people. Once they know that, they don't care that people like you and me walk away.
Absolutely. I didn't think of that. However, each of Linux and Win32 cannot boot fully off an encrypted volume--they'll need enough of the operating system running to access the encrypted volume. Of course, if the encryption driver is in the kernel or at a very low level, that's still a big improvement.
Wouldn't have to be the MBR--maybe USER.EXE, or an application DLL. Lots of possiblities! You're right, though, that a Windows anti-virus program should notice an MBR change between boots.