Misled is the past participle or past tense. Not to be confused with the noun lead. So you cannot say "they were mislead", it's "they were misled". Some people are having difficulties here.
Actually you're wrong - it's the ISPs in this case (especially TalkTalk) who have been pushing the agenda of network based filtering. It's only now that they think they have a vague idea about how they can do this (using Huawei equipment that is somewhat suspect anyway) that the British government has trumpeted that it was all their own idea in the first place.
Right, so Thor being described as "the god of strength" is about as accurate as Zeus being described as "the god of swans" since he was known to manifest himself as a swan.
What would be enormously more beneficial, and cost virtually nothing, is if sensors were installed on all the light bulb circuits in cars to notify the driver when one of their bulbs is out.
The number of people that drive around with non functioning brake/tail/headlights/indicators completely unaware of the fact is frightening.
And the technology to solve this is about as simple as it gets.
Humans are not programmed to be intelligent. Intelligence is just an aspect of how the brain (specifically the cortex) works.
Even very stupid children or other mammals can learn to do things like catch a ball, walk, remember someone's face or voice or that they had spaghetti for dinner. AI is concentrating on trying to duplicate the wrong types of behavior, starting from the wrong end. It doesn't tell us anything useful about humans or intelligence.
You think that rent-a-book (and we'll track you and force feed you targeted advertising) is better than rent-a-movie (and we'll track you and force feed you targeted advertising)?
the word that typically ended brief telegraphic phrases rather than periods
It is a period. This is like saying that people used a dash instead of a hyphen.
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The no-DRM system:
you pay nothing to whatever you want for the song depending on whether someone else shared it with you, you got it from the library, you recorded it from the radio or a live performance, or you wanted to remunerate and support the artist. It plays on any standards compliant player.
you don't lose it because you have a backup strategy. If you don't have a backup strategy then a lot more than your song is going to go missing.
if you want to listen to it on your second device you can just copy it onto the second device.
you can browse all the songs you've ever bought in milliseconds whether or not you're connected to the internet.
This is a much better deal. It's more convenient than your "new" DRM system and when Apple disappears it still works fine.
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If that's true, why can't I get my hands on a digital copy of Hawk the Slayer?
It would be better if HTTP as such were deprecated in favour of HTTPS. Efficiency is not a big problem and becomes less and less of an issue as there will always be bigger, faster systems (and besides the bloat of HTTP traffic is nothing to do with the HTTP protocol and the proportion of protocol to payload is going down not up). However, confidentiality and trust is becoming more and more of an issue.
If your employer pays you directly into your bank account or gives you a check that you can pay directly into that account, then whatever the various fees your bank may charge you for transactions, you can presumably offset them against the interest that you earn by having the funds in your account.
When they are on these cards, presumably they are in someone else's account. And that person is earning interest on your money.
If someone ever tried to do this to me, there's no way I would let the money stay in the card account. I would take it all out immediately and put it in my own account. One transaction, which adds up to a lot of interest that I get to keep.
DRMd HTML extensions and an all out global attack on torrent/file sharing sites will tilt the balance in favour of media companies.
What do you base this statement on? In the history of the internet, no move towards preventative measures has ever gained any traction, quite the opposite.
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Trying to sell something that can be got for free is unlikely to be highly profitable.
If his coding skills are of similar quality then this game must be extraordinary indeed.
Unless you play football.
is the infinitive or present tense.
Misled is the past participle or past tense. Not to be confused with the noun lead. So you cannot say "they were mislead", it's "they were misled". Some people are having difficulties here.
Fewer.
Actually you're wrong - it's the ISPs in this case (especially TalkTalk) who have been pushing the agenda of network based filtering. It's only now that they think they have a vague idea about how they can do this (using Huawei equipment that is somewhat suspect anyway) that the British government has trumpeted that it was all their own idea in the first place.
Right, so Thor being described as "the god of strength" is about as accurate as Zeus being described as "the god of swans" since he was known to manifest himself as a swan.
i.e. not very accurate at all.
What would be enormously more beneficial, and cost virtually nothing, is if sensors were installed on all the light bulb circuits in cars to notify the driver when one of their bulbs is out.
The number of people that drive around with non functioning brake/tail/headlights/indicators completely unaware of the fact is frightening.
And the technology to solve this is about as simple as it gets.
Fuck yeah.
Humans are not programmed to be intelligent. Intelligence is just an aspect of how the brain (specifically the cortex) works.
Even very stupid children or other mammals can learn to do things like catch a ball, walk, remember someone's face or voice or that they had spaghetti for dinner. AI is concentrating on trying to duplicate the wrong types of behavior, starting from the wrong end. It doesn't tell us anything useful about humans or intelligence.
PDF pdf = new PDF(new PDFReader(<input file or stream>));
pdf.setJavaScript(null);
pdf.render(<output stream>);
If you know a bit of Java you can do it in a few lines of code with the BFO PDF Library.
This reminds me eerily of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.S._Meteors:_Mortimer_in_Paris
The Kindle itself doesn't advertise. The Kindle is just a(nother) tracker.
These two statements may be related.
Cluck, cluck.
You think that rent-a-book (and we'll track you and force feed you targeted advertising) is better than rent-a-movie (and we'll track you and force feed you targeted advertising)?
Why not, you know, buy them a book token?
It is a period. This is like saying that people used a dash instead of a hyphen.
The no-DRM system:
This is a much better deal. It's more convenient than your "new" DRM system and when Apple disappears it still works fine.
If that's true, why can't I get my hands on a digital copy of Hawk the Slayer?
It would be better if HTTP as such were deprecated in favour of HTTPS. Efficiency is not a big problem and becomes less and less of an issue as there will always be bigger, faster systems (and besides the bloat of HTTP traffic is nothing to do with the HTTP protocol and the proportion of protocol to payload is going down not up). However, confidentiality and trust is becoming more and more of an issue.
If your employer pays you directly into your bank account or gives you a check that you can pay directly into that account, then whatever the various fees your bank may charge you for transactions, you can presumably offset them against the interest that you earn by having the funds in your account.
When they are on these cards, presumably they are in someone else's account. And that person is earning interest on your money.
If someone ever tried to do this to me, there's no way I would let the money stay in the card account. I would take it all out immediately and put it in my own account. One transaction, which adds up to a lot of interest that I get to keep.
I'll see your misfeasance and raise you a deliberate disentendu on the part of all those who equate an entire nation with a tiny minority in power.
What do you base this statement on? In the history of the internet, no move towards preventative measures has ever gained any traction, quite the opposite.
Because hypocrisy.