They just as well make the 20-second message say "Please rip this disc!" - it's the first thing *I'm* going to do with any disc with this crap on it...
> Even if it was 'no' security, I'd still pick that line. If the plane goes down, at least I can say I died without getting felt up by a bunch of thugs.
More to the point, one would be a *true* patriot, giving his life to retain the principles for which America is supposed to stand. With less risk of doing so than the risk of dying driving to the airport...
I'm just about to give up on Chrome. It used to be stable and fast, and every recent update has made it slower and less stable. I could care less about making it a "platform" - give me a simple, fast, stable browser. *PLEASE!*
We left IPv6 enabled on our web site, and I've been slowly adding it to servers as I touch them. Our primary nameservers added ipv6 a couple months ago (well, one of them, the offsite one is waiting for rackspace to *finally* get off their duff and support it on their hosted vms), and I'm planning on working towards having our internal core network be ipv6 only (though realize that's only a holy grail - too many apps don't yet support it).
I had a Prius, and regularly got 48mpg with it. I now have had a Leaf for about 9 months, with about 5400 miles on it, or about 600 miles/month. Compared with my 48mpg Prius, with gas at $3.50/gal (a little high at the moment, but low for much of that 9 months, and it'll be there again by late spring), that's a savings of about $30/month in fuel costs ($44 for gas vs $15 for electricity at 4mpk and $0.10/kWh). With the difference in payments on the Prius (which was $450 vs $400 for the Leaf), I'm saving $80/month with the Leaf...
I use enigmail for those peers who use pgp, which is maybe one person now, however:
1. few, if any, mail clients support pgp out of the box, whereas most standalone clients do support S/MIME now, so signing with S/MIME is a good default
2.. It adds the problem of conflicting with S/MIME - there's no way to say "use which ever encryption I have a key for". The encryption plug in system needs to have a way to say "try them in this order"
...the one or two people who also use encryption. It would be easier if Thunderbird would ever implement the "encrypt when possible" option that's been in the buglist for years. "Always encrypt" is a completely useless option unless you're in an extremely restricted environment.
I do always sign my mail, which occasionally gets me "I can't open your attachment" (usually from webmail users these days, as at least most clients can handle them now) and, fortunately rare now, "I can't reply" (because Outlook would default to signing replies if the incoming message was signed, even if the user had no certificate and then complain because they didn't).
The few people implementing encryption in mail clients have *never* given any thought to usability, and unfortunately, I haven't had time to dive into the code and fix it myself, though I've started trying to get the build environment set up a couple of times.
If you think the setting is all there is to a story...well, that explains a number of popular movies that wouldn't know a story if a transformer turned into one right in front of them.
1. Statistically, if cell phones were that dangerous, accident rates would have skyrocketed over the last 20 years, along with cell phone usage.
2. Practically, there is an attention threshold: it takes a certain amount of attention to drive safely. For most people, there is some "computing capacity" head room for distractions before it interferes with safe driving. People who are bad at managing those distractions are going to be bad drivers all around, not just with cell phones. If someone can't handle driving and talking, they shouldn't be driving at all.
3. Eating and driving is bigger distraction - if you're going to ban cell phones, you'd better ban drive-thru windows also.
4. Personally, I've been driving and talking (and eating [not at the same time;-) ]) accident free since the days of the Motorola brick.
Texting, on the other hand, is another matter, as the distraction level is vastly higher, and is far more likely to cross that threshold.
I don't have a problem with this, even if Adblock is getting revenue from it. I want them to be able to continue to support the product, and I want the sites I go to to be able to afford to continue to exist, and I am happy if they are able to make a profit even. We all win. The only reason I started using adblock is because of all the disruptive, distracting, ads that interfere with the actual reason I came to a website in the first place. As long as they're able to keep blocking those, and sites that do tracking, I'm happy...
Someone moderated this a troll, but I'm actually serious: exclusivity deals are highly anticompetitive. As it turns out, in this case, the exclusivity is pretty short term, so it's not that big a deal, but in general, a truly free market will not permit restrictions on trade like this. Once you lose the ability to buy from who you want, you no longer have a free market.
My primary platform is a mac, so I didn't know about the plug in, but my process is to look for the book on baen.com or in a "multiformat" (non-drm'd) at fictionwise.com, and if it's not there, then I get it from amazon (if it's not available as an ebook, then I don't get it - I'm tired of moving boxes of paper around) and the first thing I do is strip the drm in a windoze vm. I'm not going to be locked into a proprietary format or have the book "disappear" on me. If the rumored new kindle format can't be unswindled, then I'll stop buying books from amazon. Oh, and if the ebook costs more than the paperback version, then I won't buy it either - that's just a ripoff.
I've found myself more open and honest in email, I think partly because I'm typing at the computer and not actually in the presence of the person - it's more like I'm talking to myself.
I will only be buying books for the kindle as long as they can be converted to epub so I know they'll be readable on future and alternative devices. If the new format successfully blocks that ability, then I'll stop buying them. Even now, I look for non-drm'd versions first, making baen books my primary source of reading material. Simple as that...
The reason is those people build a fan base and market for dvds and collateral material, and all it costs them is a little bandwidth, which is dirt cheap at that level. If they don't have servers in the countries that are restrictive, there's little they can do about it - they have no standing, and if they want to "protect" their citizens, they can do what China does and put up firewalls. Which can be gotten around the same way.
That's exactly what I did: goscomb technologies (http://www.goscomb.net/hosting/vps-vds) vm in london for about $20/mo and squid, voila! bbc. Mostly as proof of concept as there are better ways to get content that through web page s..tr..ea..m...i.ng, but regional restrictions are idiotic: "let's limit our market, why should we want more customers?" If you only want access to US available content and don't need ipv6 (the real reason I went to goscomb), rackspace is cheaper (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/)
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They just as well make the 20-second message say "Please rip this disc!" - it's the first thing *I'm* going to do with any disc with this crap on it...
> Even if it was 'no' security, I'd still pick that line. If the plane goes down, at least I can say I died without getting felt up by a bunch of thugs.
More to the point, one would be a *true* patriot, giving his life to retain the principles for which America is supposed to stand. With less risk of doing so than the risk of dying driving to the airport...
Rolling Stone explained it a few years ago, and it actually is: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405
The mainstream media has finally started talking, barely, about the speculation that is the actual source of the problem.
...one could wave a magic wand and make it impossible to copy "illegally" for a month. And then watch the revenues go *down*...
I'm just about to give up on Chrome. It used to be stable and fast, and every recent update has made it slower and less stable. I could care less about making it a "platform" - give me a simple, fast, stable browser. *PLEASE!*
We left IPv6 enabled on our web site, and I've been slowly adding it to servers as I touch them. Our primary nameservers added ipv6 a couple months ago (well, one of them, the offsite one is waiting for rackspace to *finally* get off their duff and support it on their hosted vms), and I'm planning on working towards having our internal core network be ipv6 only (though realize that's only a holy grail - too many apps don't yet support it).
Or for their customers to switch to juniper, and get the ability to modify configurations without taking your life in your hands to boot...
I had a Prius, and regularly got 48mpg with it. I now have had a Leaf for about 9 months, with about 5400 miles on it, or about 600 miles/month. Compared with my 48mpg Prius, with gas at $3.50/gal (a little high at the moment, but low for much of that 9 months, and it'll be there again by late spring), that's a savings of about $30/month in fuel costs ($44 for gas vs $15 for electricity at 4mpk and $0.10/kWh). With the difference in payments on the Prius (which was $450 vs $400 for the Leaf), I'm saving $80/month with the Leaf...
I use enigmail for those peers who use pgp, which is maybe one person now, however:
1. few, if any, mail clients support pgp out of the box, whereas most standalone clients do support S/MIME now, so signing with S/MIME is a good default
2.. It adds the problem of conflicting with S/MIME - there's no way to say "use which ever encryption I have a key for". The encryption plug in system needs to have a way to say "try them in this order"
...the one or two people who also use encryption. It would be easier if Thunderbird would ever implement the "encrypt when possible" option that's been in the buglist for years. "Always encrypt" is a completely useless option unless you're in an extremely restricted environment.
I do always sign my mail, which occasionally gets me "I can't open your attachment" (usually from webmail users these days, as at least most clients can handle them now) and, fortunately rare now, "I can't reply" (because Outlook would default to signing replies if the incoming message was signed, even if the user had no certificate and then complain because they didn't).
The few people implementing encryption in mail clients have *never* given any thought to usability, and unfortunately, I haven't had time to dive into the code and fix it myself, though I've started trying to get the build environment set up a couple of times.
If you think the setting is all there is to a story...well, that explains a number of popular movies that wouldn't know a story if a transformer turned into one right in front of them.
That is just plain bullshit, for two reasons:
1. Statistically, if cell phones were that dangerous, accident rates would have skyrocketed over the last 20 years, along with cell phone usage.
2. Practically, there is an attention threshold: it takes a certain amount of attention to drive safely. For most people, there is some "computing capacity" head room for distractions before it interferes with safe driving. People who are bad at managing those distractions are going to be bad drivers all around, not just with cell phones. If someone can't handle driving and talking, they shouldn't be driving at all.
3. Eating and driving is bigger distraction - if you're going to ban cell phones, you'd better ban drive-thru windows also.
4. Personally, I've been driving and talking (and eating [not at the same time ;-) ]) accident free since the days of the Motorola brick.
Texting, on the other hand, is another matter, as the distraction level is vastly higher, and is far more likely to cross that threshold.
I don't have a problem with this, even if Adblock is getting revenue from it. I want them to be able to continue to support the product, and I want the sites I go to to be able to afford to continue to exist, and I am happy if they are able to make a profit even. We all win. The only reason I started using adblock is because of all the disruptive, distracting, ads that interfere with the actual reason I came to a website in the first place. As long as they're able to keep blocking those, and sites that do tracking, I'm happy...
Someone moderated this a troll, but I'm actually serious: exclusivity deals are highly anticompetitive. As it turns out, in this case, the exclusivity is pretty short term, so it's not that big a deal, but in general, a truly free market will not permit restrictions on trade like this. Once you lose the ability to buy from who you want, you no longer have a free market.
As far as I'm concerned, any exclusivity deal should be considered an antitrust violation.
My primary platform is a mac, so I didn't know about the plug in, but my process is to look for the book on baen.com or in a "multiformat" (non-drm'd) at fictionwise.com, and if it's not there, then I get it from amazon (if it's not available as an ebook, then I don't get it - I'm tired of moving boxes of paper around) and the first thing I do is strip the drm in a windoze vm. I'm not going to be locked into a proprietary format or have the book "disappear" on me. If the rumored new kindle format can't be unswindled, then I'll stop buying books from amazon. Oh, and if the ebook costs more than the paperback version, then I won't buy it either - that's just a ripoff.
I've found myself more open and honest in email, I think partly because I'm typing at the computer and not actually in the presence of the person - it's more like I'm talking to myself.
I will only be buying books for the kindle as long as they can be converted to epub so I know they'll be readable on future and alternative devices. If the new format successfully blocks that ability, then I'll stop buying them. Even now, I look for non-drm'd versions first, making baen books my primary source of reading material. Simple as that...
...wait until people start talking *to* them...
The reason is those people build a fan base and market for dvds and collateral material, and all it costs them is a little bandwidth, which is dirt cheap at that level. If they don't have servers in the countries that are restrictive, there's little they can do about it - they have no standing, and if they want to "protect" their citizens, they can do what China does and put up firewalls. Which can be gotten around the same way.
That's exactly what I did: goscomb technologies (http://www.goscomb.net/hosting/vps-vds) vm in london for about $20/mo and squid, voila! bbc. Mostly as proof of concept as there are better ways to get content that through web page s..tr..ea..m...i.ng, but regional restrictions are idiotic: "let's limit our market, why should we want more customers?" If you only want access to US available content and don't need ipv6 (the real reason I went to goscomb), rackspace is cheaper (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/servers/pricing/)
Amen to that - one of the plusses of working at home is not having to put clothes on...
It's simple, easy to use and works. That *is* a good thing...
I'll believe it when they manage to get even 20% of the vote...
I cancelled netflix last winter after the prices went up 50% in a year...