They work for a limited definition of work; that definition being they create more sales than they cost.
Hence they work because they cost next to nothing to make, and to an extent because they're rare (if they were all shouty ads people would have a remote that had a mute button as large as their fist).
Besides, if the Venn diagram of "stupid people" and "people that enjoy being shouted at" was a single circle, these people would have massive multinational conglomerates, not niche businesses that turn enough profit to keep those horrible ads on the air for a few years.
I was ok with web 1.0 ads, but dancing screaming flash ads and javascript are the equivalent of those shouty ads that stupid people think are effective because they're "memorable".
99% of my web browsing is now through a noscript filter, and even sites I go to regularly usually only get on the temporary whitelist, and nothing that doesn't enable local functionality I want gets approved, so there's no Google analytics from my brower.
The IAB are like small children that ask for more and more and more until you eventually crack and refuse to give them anything at all.
So for you it's the pill, tubal ligation, a vasectomy and condoms?
Having a real password on your login account and locking it before you walk away will stop all but the most determined attackers, on the other hand, walking away with your computer logged in and sharing your account with guests/family is an open door.
Besides, locking the computer is a lot more effective security than "not allowing the browser to remember passwords" given a LOT of websites will give you an multi-hour cookie and allow you to reopen a closed web browser and resume using a web site in a logged in fashion.
My family can use my login while I'm sitting there, but if I get up to pee I lock the computer, and strangely, I'm one of the few people I've met in online games that hasn't been "hacked" at some point, strange:P
Yeah, I eventually looped back around and saw that story too. However, as you say the recommendation is:
Adopting the same range of penalties for criminal streaming of copyrighted works to the public as now exists for criminal reproduction and distribution.
While the willfully infringing reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works can be punished as a felony, willful violations of the public performance right are punishable only as misdemeanors. This discrepancy is an increasingly significant impediment to the effective deterrence and criminal prosecution of unauthorized streaming. Since the most recent updates to the criminal copyright provisions, streaming (both audio and video) has become a significant if not dominant means for consumers to enjoy content online. The Administration and the Copyright Office have both called on Congress to amend the Copyright Act to ensure that illegal streaming to the public can be punished as a felony in the same manner as other types of criminal infringement.
Which is exactly the opposite of what the GP claims. Also, Obama Administration != Obama, but for a certain class of jackass that's a very fine point.
The trouble is "we stop plots all the time" is elephant repellant.
The Boston Bombing is the proof that the elephant repellant isn't effective if someone actually imports an elephant.
They're in a no-win situation, but the cure is still worse than the disease. Terrorism isn't a credible threat to your life and liberty, compared to driving a car it's about as likely to kill you as shark attack. The NSA solution for that is what, drain the oceans?
I think it's kinda hillarious that everyone so far has assumed they're all for their unused search service, instead of their unused cloud services (azure), or their unused cloud office 365 services.
I tend to think Apple made a poor choice given the pre-existence of lots of.local domains in use (default on Small Business Server 2000 from memory, and supported by http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296250)
I'm more familiar with.localdomain than.localnet, but it wasn't in wide use until long after.local became popular (though to be fair I can find at least one reference to it as far back as 1994)
Nope, you're wrong. In fact the whole thing reminded me of the way Americans in general tend to act like they think the British act when it comes to language and being priggish.
And no, I'd tell your sensitive man to have a spoonful of cement and harden the f**k up. Besides, if he's brilliant he won't be coping abuse from Linus.
How can you not be playing the victim card when you self-identify as a minority, join a community and demand that it change it's standards to match your own?
Fairly sure there's others that are "default metro" in 8.0 if my example is errant.
That said; does it say which is which? Does it give you a "just once" option to check if that's what you really want or does it just take that default and stuff it in a configuration setting that novices have trouble finding? Is there even *any reason at all* to offer you that choice on a laptop/desktop machine given the metro version is always a gimped up version of the desktop app?
But yeah, it's not worth the frustration of clicking on a photo and having a full screen metro application grind away for ages to open it while it faffs about doing something "in the cloud" that you didn't want.
Yes, if anything taught me to be skeptical it was my science courses; they teach you over and over again how every model you have is a shitty approximation that helps the level of understanding you need for that course. e.g. the model of the atom changes *drastically* between it's primary school introduction, to high school, to undergraduate, to post graduate courses.
The humanities course were full of people that were extremely confident that their morals were correct and universal, there was a much tighter focus on what to think rather than how to think.
I see a lot more people with humanities backgrounds being very confident that God is real and Climate Change is not, and for the same reasons.
{[changes channels to Sally Jesse Raphael]}
Woman: {[weeping] I don't know Homer Simpson, I -- I never met Homer
Simpson or had any contact with him, but -- [cries
uncontrollably] -- I'm sorry, I can't go on.}
Sally: {That's OK: your tears say more than real evidence _ever_
could.}
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They work for a limited definition of work; that definition being they create more sales than they cost.
Hence they work because they cost next to nothing to make, and to an extent because they're rare (if they were all shouty ads people would have a remote that had a mute button as large as their fist).
Besides, if the Venn diagram of "stupid people" and "people that enjoy being shouted at" was a single circle, these people would have massive multinational conglomerates, not niche businesses that turn enough profit to keep those horrible ads on the air for a few years.
Statistics my arse, you offer none.
No thanks, make it 10 pounds and you got a deal since it's just piece of plastic with printed out papers.
I have some plastic and paper I will sell you for 10 pounds. Or is what's on the plastic important?
Yeah, this.
I was ok with web 1.0 ads, but dancing screaming flash ads and javascript are the equivalent of those shouty ads that stupid people think are effective because they're "memorable".
99% of my web browsing is now through a noscript filter, and even sites I go to regularly usually only get on the temporary whitelist, and nothing that doesn't enable local functionality I want gets approved, so there's no Google analytics from my brower.
The IAB are like small children that ask for more and more and more until you eventually crack and refuse to give them anything at all.
Yeah, my computer has neither microphone nor webcam. Where's your misplaced rage now?
I expected it would be the Charlotte Dawson story ... because you know, "celebrity".
So for you it's the pill, tubal ligation, a vasectomy and condoms?
Having a real password on your login account and locking it before you walk away will stop all but the most determined attackers, on the other hand, walking away with your computer logged in and sharing your account with guests/family is an open door.
Besides, locking the computer is a lot more effective security than "not allowing the browser to remember passwords" given a LOT of websites will give you an multi-hour cookie and allow you to reopen a closed web browser and resume using a web site in a logged in fashion.
My family can use my login while I'm sitting there, but if I get up to pee I lock the computer, and strangely, I'm one of the few people I've met in online games that hasn't been "hacked" at some point, strange :P
Yeah, I eventually looped back around and saw that story too. However, as you say the recommendation is:
Adopting the same range of penalties for criminal streaming of copyrighted
works to the public as now exists for criminal reproduction and distribution.
While the willfully infringing reproduction and distribution of
copyrighted works can be punished as a felony, willful violations of the
public performance right are punishable only as misdemeanors. This
discrepancy is an increasingly significant impediment to the effective
deterrence and criminal prosecution of unauthorized streaming. Since
the most recent updates to the criminal copyright provisions, streaming
(both audio and video) has become a significant if not dominant means
for consumers to enjoy content online. The Administration and the
Copyright Office have both called on Congress to amend the Copyright
Act to ensure that illegal streaming to the public can be punished as a
felony in the same manner as other types of criminal infringement.
Which is exactly the opposite of what the GP claims. Also, Obama Administration != Obama, but for a certain class of jackass that's a very fine point.
[citation required]
The trouble is "we stop plots all the time" is elephant repellant.
The Boston Bombing is the proof that the elephant repellant isn't effective if someone actually imports an elephant.
They're in a no-win situation, but the cure is still worse than the disease. Terrorism isn't a credible threat to your life and liberty, compared to driving a car it's about as likely to kill you as shark attack. The NSA solution for that is what, drain the oceans?
As time marches on, people are becoming more IT literate
Hahahaha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Fifth?
I think it's kinda hillarious that everyone so far has assumed they're all for their unused search service, instead of their unused cloud services (azure), or their unused cloud office 365 services.
Agreed. To be fair, I was just defending the "supposidly qualified network engineers" [sic].
I just find Apple's move a little more douchy given .local would have been discovered by a google at that time, probably.
It (.local) was actually official MS advice for a long time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.local#Microsoft_recommendations
I tend to think Apple made a poor choice given the pre-existence of lots of .local domains in use (default on Small Business Server 2000 from memory, and supported by http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296250)
I'm more familiar with .localdomain than .localnet, but it wasn't in wide use until long after .local became popular (though to be fair I can find at least one reference to it as far back as 1994)
As a former resident alien, I agree with your objection to paying taxes without being able to vote ;)
If it's a state law though, guess they can move?
And? That's the ridiculous falacy that all arguments are equal or that all change is good.
Nope, you're wrong. In fact the whole thing reminded me of the way Americans in general tend to act like they think the British act when it comes to language and being priggish.
And no, I'd tell your sensitive man to have a spoonful of cement and harden the f**k up. Besides, if he's brilliant he won't be coping abuse from Linus.
-1 on Slashdot these days means, "I disagree and wish to mute you". Don't take it personally.
How can you not be playing the victim card when you self-identify as a minority, join a community and demand that it change it's standards to match your own?
That place looks fantastic.. You were expecting maybe Warehouse 13?
Fairly sure there's others that are "default metro" in 8.0 if my example is errant.
That said; does it say which is which? Does it give you a "just once" option to check if that's what you really want or does it just take that default and stuff it in a configuration setting that novices have trouble finding? Is there even *any reason at all* to offer you that choice on a laptop/desktop machine given the metro version is always a gimped up version of the desktop app?
Task Manager is greatly improved, imo.
But yeah, it's not worth the frustration of clicking on a photo and having a full screen metro application grind away for ages to open it while it faffs about doing something "in the cloud" that you didn't want.
Still passing.
Yes, if anything taught me to be skeptical it was my science courses; they teach you over and over again how every model you have is a shitty approximation that helps the level of understanding you need for that course. e.g. the model of the atom changes *drastically* between it's primary school introduction, to high school, to undergraduate, to post graduate courses.
The humanities course were full of people that were extremely confident that their morals were correct and universal, there was a much tighter focus on what to think rather than how to think.
I see a lot more people with humanities backgrounds being very confident that God is real and Climate Change is not, and for the same reasons.
It's skittish.
{[changes channels to Sally Jesse Raphael]}
Woman: {[weeping] I don't know Homer Simpson, I -- I never met Homer
Simpson or had any contact with him, but -- [cries
uncontrollably] -- I'm sorry, I can't go on.}
Sally: {That's OK: your tears say more than real evidence _ever_
could.}
Insightful, lawl.