People downloading content off their site means they are visiting their site less often, which means lower ad revenue.
If I bother to extract the audio from a YouTube video to an MP3, I do so for exactly one reason - To listen to it in my car.
I don't have a live net connection in my car; and even if I did, I couldn't realistically (never mind "safely") surf over to YouTube to pick out the next track I want to hear.
So whether I forgo listening, or rip it to an offline MP3, Google sees exactly the same number of ad hits.
Why did this get modded down? I came in here to say pretty much exactly the same thing.
Personally, I use Video DownloadHelper because it applies more generally than just to YouTube; But search the FF addons for "YouTube" and you'll see at least a dozen plugins that will let you download whatever the hell you want. Some even transcode it for you on the fly, for those who can't bother with trying to figure out what to do with a FLV or MKV file.
Give it up, Google - If I can see (or hear) it, I already have a copy. I thought you understood that better than the Big Media morons.
Whether or not your politics line up with those of most Wikileaks supporters, you might wish for some of the features FoWL is designed to provide: "By design your details are encrypted, and hidden from everyone except your immediate contacts.
Does anyone seriously believe the founders of Wikileaks still have any control whatsoever of such a valuable source of information about leakers?
Nothing but a pure sweet grade-A honeypot. Oh bother.
Seriously, I don't give two squirts from a rat's ass about whether or not browser-X enables DNT by default. I can turn it on myself just fine.
If Markey and Barton want to actually do something, how about some legislation requiring companies to honor the DNT flag?
Oh, right - That would actually risk backlash from their corporate owners. Instead, they get to look like the good guys right before heading off to a night of hookers and blow sponsored by DoubleClick.
The system hasn't broken - The system simply never had any intention of working for us. For the next run, we need to do away with both "incorporation" and any private funding of elections.
You're just a full of shit conspiracy theorist unless you can prove your case.
He has conflated two different situations that apply here, but not even remotely "full of shit"
As the first situation applicable here, US (and other well-regulated "First World") pharmaceutical companies sell their drugs much, much cheaper to literally every other country in the world than they do in the US. Why? Because we have the single least dollar-for-dollar-effective healthcare system in the world, simple as that. You can buy cheaper drugs outside the US simply because they cost less outside the US.
Second, you have relabeled/expired/non-drug drugs sold fraudulently by unethical parties in some places outside the US. This doesn't differ in the least from buying your home theater kit off the back of some guy's box tuck on the side of the road; You may get it cheap, but you have no idea what you've really gotten.
The problem here comes from the FDA lumping all reimportation under the same banner. The first kind has absolutely no justification beyond protecting industry profits within the US. The second kind depends on the rigor of the applicable laws in the country from which you buy.
Some - I dare say most - of us believe that if you buy from a country with substantially similar drug safety laws to the US, the FDA should stay the hell out of the situation. If, however, you find a great deal from a Nicaraguan online pharmacy... Well... Personally I still say the FDA should butt out, but definitely more of a caveat emptor situation than nice safe we--regulated Canadian pharmacies.
Actually, you made a point of mentioning that you didn't mention it - "Not to mention the case expulsion / bullet replacement mechanism".
But even taking that as a "mention" in itself - Seriously? You want to call that one passing reference to the convenience of reloading, as some sort of argument-narrowing point that limit the discussion to Berettas and Uzis? In your response to someone only claiming that any moron could make a more-or-less functional projectile-accelerating explosive device in their garage? That the particular hill you want to defend, son?
Not much more to discuss here. You either realize the BS you spew and have become defensive, or you don't (and won't) realize it and simply waste bits in Slashdot's DB.
I remember reading long time ago in security 101 best practices to remove employee's network privileges a week before they receive the notice.
Great plan! Because the average Joe doesn't know half a dozen coworker's passwords (even if they don't normally share them openly, they will reveal them to whomever will cover them during a vacation without thinking twice - And of course, never change it later). Because the average Geek doesn't know half a dozen "service" account passwords that would take a herculean effort to go around and adjust on countless machines using them and you'd still miss a few. Because the average IT director or upper-level NetOps guy doesn't have more keys to the kingdom than even they know about and nothing short of wiping and reinstalling the entire corporate LAN would effectively deny them access.
Yes, you take the obvious precautions when someone leaves, but you want "Best Practices 101"? Treat people like humans for the duration of their employ, and let them keep their dignity when you no longer need them. Everything else just puts a band-aid on the severed artery of treating humans as disposable chattel so common in modern corporate culture.
Are you telling seriously than more than 50% of the population can build a gun that won't explode in their hands / fail to shot / shot when not intended to do so? Not to mention the case expulsion / bullet replacement mechanism
Google "zip gun".
Really... Go do it. Now.
You can fire a.22 with a Bic pen case, a rubber band, and a nail. And yes, you have a good chance of getting somewhat injured, but y'know what, 90% of the time, the damned thing will actually work.
If I am late on getting that pistol that sits in a locked box in the back of my closet and hasn't been opened in 2 years renewed... I can be charged with a LOT of crimes which carry VERY stiff penalties.
What the hell you talkin' about?
I realize this varies from state to state, but in mine, I can go to a gun show, buy just about anything I want with cash and no way to trace it back to me (or buy from a private seller via Craigslist or the classifieds or what-have-you, entirely legally), and... end of story. I own the gun, no questions asked, no laws broken. If I know that I won't have kids around my house who may hurt themselves, I can leave a loaded rifle propped up on the kitchen window to add a few grams of lead to Bambi's heart at 5am.
Funny, how our "inalienable" right to bear arms varies so drastically from place to place, yet one guy selling locally-grown medicinal marijuana to another resident of the same town, in that same town, commits a federal felony.
Hey pla, how is the internet out in the sticks these days? I haven't been in alt.ri in a dog's age.
Finally upgraded to a 3G cellular modem. Still sucks, but a whole lot better than satellite.:)
And yeah, I too haven't visited USENet in years. Just kinda lost interest.
If the money supply is hoarded then more and more economic power goes to the hoarders, who are doing nothing but sitting on it. If you wish to reward inactivity then be my guest. This is not a system I feel I can endorse.
Don't bother, you'll argue that one until you go blue in the face. For some reason, most people just can't grasp the concept that "can go down in value" and "early adopters benefit more" doesn't automatically mean "scam", much less the particular style of scam known as the pyramid/Ponzi scheme.
Ironically enough, I suspect these same people crying "Ponzi scheme" about Bitcoin would make excellent targets for a well-worded MLM system.;)
/ Wow, so early investors in pets.com made a fortune? And those who got in late or stayed in too long lost their shirts? The stock market must count as a Ponzi scheme, someone let the press know!
Until you can leave your bitcoins with a broker or bank and not worry about Boris or Bob breaking in from a continent away and stealing all your bitcoins over the Internet, then bitcoins will never become legitimate and accepted by society at large.
Gotta disagree with you here, on the basis that you don't need a broker or bank involved to participate in the Bitcoin economy.
If you want to convert them to Dollars or Euros, sure, you need a broker - Though you don't need to trust in their long term stability, just their sincerity in giving you a black box that turns BTC into USD. But you can certainly buy goods and services (legal ones, even!) staying purely within the domain of Bitcoin-only transactions.
The test is of-course nonsense, and notions of 'racial purity' have long been discredited." Just when you think the world is too modern for such things, modernity gets hijacked by flim-flam.
Sorry, but you either descended from Jacob (insert the comparabl\, or you did not. We currently have the technology to measure that with a high degree of confidence.
Now, if you want to talk about whether or not an adopted Jew, or a convert, count as "really" Jewish, that gets into matters of dogma, not genetics - And don't think this extends only to the "racists" - Just as some groups would hold such ancestry against someone, orthodox Judaism considers it (specifically, matrilineal descent) a requirement.
And for the record, I consider both stances equally stupid.
Huh, whodathunkit - The rest of the world has religious idiots too!
That said, at least in the US, we regularly put ours back in their place - The churches, not the schools or courts. I'd suggest doing the same if you don't want the rest of the planet to view you as a nation of 3rd-world savages going around burning witches for stealing your penises and such.
don't you think it's a little demeaning to dismiss the heartfelt beliefs of major segments of today's human population as "mythology"?
Welcome to Slashdot. Please check your cultural baggage at the door.
We only allow sacred cows with names like "Mac" and "PC" and "Emacs" and "VI" in here - And even those, we'll still butcher and barbecue if it suits our whims.
If the supernova was behind or near the Sun, earthlings around 775 wouldn't have been able to detect it.
Nearby supernovae appear as one of the brightest objects in the sky for a few days to a week. The remnants remain visible for months, and then have a habit of leaving a nebula behind.
The Earth travels slightly more than one degree of its orbit per day; The Sun, as seen from the Earth, subtends half a degree of arc. In the absolute worst case, the sun couldn't completely "hide" a supernova for more than a single day; and half a week later, the supernova remnant would dominate the dusk (or dawn) as the brightest thing in the sky except possibly the moon.
Mr. Stephenson? You have a call on the clue-phone from a Mr. Ric Romero. Will you take it?
Seriously? Expects? Within? I have a data-only cell plan today. Not just a phone-with-data plan that I only use for data, but I literally have no way* to even try to make a phone call with my plan.
And I count as something of a late adopter here - A friend suggested I grab a VzW MiFi over a year ago, and I regret waiting until recently to do so. Full disclaimer, though - I have no "real" broadband available, nor even 4G service, but plain ol' 3G beats the fuck out of Hughesnet seven ways to Tuesday.
* I have to admit, I kinda wonder what would happen if I put my SIM card in an unlocked phone, but I neither have such a phone, or any interest in getting one.
Can I buy a piece of tech that was not assembled by an Asian Worker making considerably less than his American Union Factory Worker counterpart?
Can I buy a piece of American tech guaranteed as "union free", such that no overpriced $30/hr loading dock workers or longshoremen or even office workers, had anything to do with it?
No? Okay then. Chinese children will suffice.
More seriously, TFA has a major failure in one of its assumptions - That most people care enough to feel bad. Yes, I would rather buy from someone making a living wage in my own country, and might pay a bit more for it; No, I won't pay 3x as much for it. And no, that doesn't really bother me.
While there's definitely a few red flags here, the summary presents this like it was some kind of undercover raid, and the comments like this kind of take that even further.
I will agree that the story reads as somewhat less inflammatory than the FP summary. That said, I still have a major problem with the MPAA gaining access to their home under fraudulent pretenses...
If you or I posed as a VC to take pictures of the inside of MPAA member's offices, they'd put us in jail for corporate espionage. Why does this count as any less of a crime?
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People downloading content off their site means they are visiting their site less often, which means lower ad revenue.
If I bother to extract the audio from a YouTube video to an MP3, I do so for exactly one reason - To listen to it in my car.
I don't have a live net connection in my car; and even if I did, I couldn't realistically (never mind "safely") surf over to YouTube to pick out the next track I want to hear.
So whether I forgo listening, or rip it to an offline MP3, Google sees exactly the same number of ad hits.
Why did this get modded down? I came in here to say pretty much exactly the same thing.
Personally, I use Video DownloadHelper because it applies more generally than just to YouTube; But search the FF addons for "YouTube" and you'll see at least a dozen plugins that will let you download whatever the hell you want. Some even transcode it for you on the fly, for those who can't bother with trying to figure out what to do with a FLV or MKV file.
Give it up, Google - If I can see (or hear) it, I already have a copy. I thought you understood that better than the Big Media morons.
Whether or not your politics line up with those of most Wikileaks supporters, you might wish for some of the features FoWL is designed to provide: "By design your details are encrypted, and hidden from everyone except your immediate contacts.
Does anyone seriously believe the founders of Wikileaks still have any control whatsoever of such a valuable source of information about leakers?
Nothing but a pure sweet grade-A honeypot. Oh bother.
Seriously, I don't give two squirts from a rat's ass about whether or not browser-X enables DNT by default. I can turn it on myself just fine.
If Markey and Barton want to actually do something, how about some legislation requiring companies to honor the DNT flag?
Oh, right - That would actually risk backlash from their corporate owners. Instead, they get to look like the good guys right before heading off to a night of hookers and blow sponsored by DoubleClick.
The system hasn't broken - The system simply never had any intention of working for us. For the next run, we need to do away with both "incorporation" and any private funding of elections.
You're just a full of shit conspiracy theorist unless you can prove your case.
He has conflated two different situations that apply here, but not even remotely "full of shit"
As the first situation applicable here, US (and other well-regulated "First World") pharmaceutical companies sell their drugs much, much cheaper to literally every other country in the world than they do in the US. Why? Because we have the single least dollar-for-dollar-effective healthcare system in the world, simple as that. You can buy cheaper drugs outside the US simply because they cost less outside the US.
Second, you have relabeled/expired/non-drug drugs sold fraudulently by unethical parties in some places outside the US. This doesn't differ in the least from buying your home theater kit off the back of some guy's box tuck on the side of the road; You may get it cheap, but you have no idea what you've really gotten.
The problem here comes from the FDA lumping all reimportation under the same banner. The first kind has absolutely no justification beyond protecting industry profits within the US. The second kind depends on the rigor of the applicable laws in the country from which you buy.
Some - I dare say most - of us believe that if you buy from a country with substantially similar drug safety laws to the US, the FDA should stay the hell out of the situation. If, however, you find a great deal from a Nicaraguan online pharmacy... Well... Personally I still say the FDA should butt out, but definitely more of a caveat emptor situation than nice safe we--regulated Canadian pharmacies.
I mentioned feeding mechanisms.
Actually, you made a point of mentioning that you didn't mention it - "Not to mention the case expulsion / bullet replacement mechanism".
But even taking that as a "mention" in itself - Seriously? You want to call that one passing reference to the convenience of reloading, as some sort of argument-narrowing point that limit the discussion to Berettas and Uzis? In your response to someone only claiming that any moron could make a more-or-less functional projectile-accelerating explosive device in their garage? That the particular hill you want to defend, son?
Not much more to discuss here. You either realize the BS you spew and have become defensive, or you don't (and won't) realize it and simply waste bits in Slashdot's DB.
I remember reading long time ago in security 101 best practices to remove employee's network privileges a week before they receive the notice.
Great plan! Because the average Joe doesn't know half a dozen coworker's passwords (even if they don't normally share them openly, they will reveal them to whomever will cover them during a vacation without thinking twice - And of course, never change it later). Because the average Geek doesn't know half a dozen "service" account passwords that would take a herculean effort to go around and adjust on countless machines using them and you'd still miss a few. Because the average IT director or upper-level NetOps guy doesn't have more keys to the kingdom than even they know about and nothing short of wiping and reinstalling the entire corporate LAN would effectively deny them access.
Yes, you take the obvious precautions when someone leaves, but you want "Best Practices 101"? Treat people like humans for the duration of their employ, and let them keep their dignity when you no longer need them. Everything else just puts a band-aid on the severed artery of treating humans as disposable chattel so common in modern corporate culture.
Yay... exactly the same than a Beretta or an Uzi.
You did not mention Berettas or Uzis. Put the damned goalposts back down, son, not playing that game.
Thanks for supporting my point.
That would have required you to, y'know, make one.
The problem here doesn't involve its failure rate, it involves its success rate.
Firing pins wear down with use. A few microns of etching will erode before the normal break-in period has even elapsed.
This would, in all seriousness, only catch people who buy a brand new gun explicitly for the purpose of committing a crime.
Are you telling seriously than more than 50% of the population can build a gun that won't explode in their hands / fail to shot / shot when not intended to do so? Not to mention the case expulsion / bullet replacement mechanism
.22 with a Bic pen case, a rubber band, and a nail. And yes, you have a good chance of getting somewhat injured, but y'know what, 90% of the time, the damned thing will actually work.
Google "zip gun".
Really... Go do it. Now.
You can fire a
If I am late on getting that pistol that sits in a locked box in the back of my closet and hasn't been opened in 2 years renewed... I can be charged with a LOT of crimes which carry VERY stiff penalties.
What the hell you talkin' about?
I realize this varies from state to state, but in mine, I can go to a gun show, buy just about anything I want with cash and no way to trace it back to me (or buy from a private seller via Craigslist or the classifieds or what-have-you, entirely legally), and... end of story. I own the gun, no questions asked, no laws broken. If I know that I won't have kids around my house who may hurt themselves, I can leave a loaded rifle propped up on the kitchen window to add a few grams of lead to Bambi's heart at 5am.
Funny, how our "inalienable" right to bear arms varies so drastically from place to place, yet one guy selling locally-grown medicinal marijuana to another resident of the same town, in that same town, commits a federal felony.
Hey pla, how is the internet out in the sticks these days? I haven't been in alt.ri in a dog's age. Finally upgraded to a 3G cellular modem. Still sucks, but a whole lot better than satellite. :)
And yeah, I too haven't visited USENet in years. Just kinda lost interest.
If the money supply is hoarded then more and more economic power goes to the hoarders, who are doing nothing but sitting on it. If you wish to reward inactivity then be my guest. This is not a system I feel I can endorse.
So, not voting for Romney this year?
40k? So what? 40k coins traded daily is irrelevant noise.
;)
No true Scotsman would only trade 40k coins a day...
especially if it's often the same coins going round and round and round.
Okay, I have to ask - Do you think that every time you go to an ATM, it prints you shiny new $20s?
Don't bother, you'll argue that one until you go blue in the face. For some reason, most people just can't grasp the concept that "can go down in value" and "early adopters benefit more" doesn't automatically mean "scam", much less the particular style of scam known as the pyramid/Ponzi scheme.
;)
Ironically enough, I suspect these same people crying "Ponzi scheme" about Bitcoin would make excellent targets for a well-worded MLM system.
/ Wow, so early investors in pets.com made a fortune? And those who got in late or stayed in too long lost their shirts? The stock market must count as a Ponzi scheme, someone let the press know!
Until you can leave your bitcoins with a broker or bank and not worry about Boris or Bob breaking in from a continent away and stealing all your bitcoins over the Internet, then bitcoins will never become legitimate and accepted by society at large.
Gotta disagree with you here, on the basis that you don't need a broker or bank involved to participate in the Bitcoin economy.
If you want to convert them to Dollars or Euros, sure, you need a broker - Though you don't need to trust in their long term stability, just their sincerity in giving you a black box that turns BTC into USD. But you can certainly buy goods and services (legal ones, even!) staying purely within the domain of Bitcoin-only transactions.
The test is of-course nonsense, and notions of 'racial purity' have long been discredited." Just when you think the world is too modern for such things, modernity gets hijacked by flim-flam.
Sorry, but you either descended from Jacob (insert the comparabl\, or you did not. We currently have the technology to measure that with a high degree of confidence.
Now, if you want to talk about whether or not an adopted Jew, or a convert, count as "really" Jewish, that gets into matters of dogma, not genetics - And don't think this extends only to the "racists" - Just as some groups would hold such ancestry against someone, orthodox Judaism considers it (specifically, matrilineal descent) a requirement.
And for the record, I consider both stances equally stupid.
"IT drone who forgot the laws of physics" still beats "AC troll".
Go away.
Huh, whodathunkit - The rest of the world has religious idiots too!
That said, at least in the US, we regularly put ours back in their place - The churches, not the schools or courts. I'd suggest doing the same if you don't want the rest of the planet to view you as a nation of 3rd-world savages going around burning witches for stealing your penises and such.
The Earth travels slightly more than one degree of its orbit per day
Mea culpa - make that slightly less than one degree per day.
don't you think it's a little demeaning to dismiss the heartfelt beliefs of major segments of today's human population as "mythology"?
Welcome to Slashdot. Please check your cultural baggage at the door.
We only allow sacred cows with names like "Mac" and "PC" and "Emacs" and "VI" in here - And even those, we'll still butcher and barbecue if it suits our whims.
If the supernova was behind or near the Sun, earthlings around 775 wouldn't have been able to detect it.
Nearby supernovae appear as one of the brightest objects in the sky for a few days to a week. The remnants remain visible for months, and then have a habit of leaving a nebula behind.
The Earth travels slightly more than one degree of its orbit per day; The Sun, as seen from the Earth, subtends half a degree of arc. In the absolute worst case, the sun couldn't completely "hide" a supernova for more than a single day; and half a week later, the supernova remnant would dominate the dusk (or dawn) as the brightest thing in the sky except possibly the moon.
Mr. Stephenson? You have a call on the clue-phone from a Mr. Ric Romero. Will you take it?
Seriously? Expects? Within? I have a data-only cell plan today. Not just a phone-with-data plan that I only use for data, but I literally have no way* to even try to make a phone call with my plan.
And I count as something of a late adopter here - A friend suggested I grab a VzW MiFi over a year ago, and I regret waiting until recently to do so. Full disclaimer, though - I have no "real" broadband available, nor even 4G service, but plain ol' 3G beats the fuck out of Hughesnet seven ways to Tuesday.
* I have to admit, I kinda wonder what would happen if I put my SIM card in an unlocked phone, but I neither have such a phone, or any interest in getting one.
Can I buy a piece of tech that was not assembled by an Asian Worker making considerably less than his American Union Factory Worker counterpart?
Can I buy a piece of American tech guaranteed as "union free", such that no overpriced $30/hr loading dock workers or longshoremen or even office workers, had anything to do with it?
No? Okay then. Chinese children will suffice.
More seriously, TFA has a major failure in one of its assumptions - That most people care enough to feel bad. Yes, I would rather buy from someone making a living wage in my own country, and might pay a bit more for it; No, I won't pay 3x as much for it. And no, that doesn't really bother me.
While there's definitely a few red flags here, the summary presents this like it was some kind of undercover raid, and the comments like this kind of take that even further.
I will agree that the story reads as somewhat less inflammatory than the FP summary. That said, I still have a major problem with the MPAA gaining access to their home under fraudulent pretenses...
If you or I posed as a VC to take pictures of the inside of MPAA member's offices, they'd put us in jail for corporate espionage. Why does this count as any less of a crime?