No, this just means that if they catch anything on you when they're monitoring everything you do, then they need to:
a) Get a retroactive warrant, which the FISA Court will happily provide them with no questions asked, or b) Trump up some fake charges and detain you indefinitely, or c) Fuck it, the first two are too hard, just send in a drone strike.
At least it's not prefaced with Anderson Cooper feigning faux-outrage as he tells us that he's not going to show some video that his network has been showing all day.
Back in the late 90's they were one of the cheapest places you could host a small business site, and had very reliable up-time, a solid feature set (supporting scripting when that used to cost real money), and easy to use tools. It was only later that the sleaziness would turn them into the hosting equivalent of that skeevy part-time weed dealer whose official occupation involves handing out strip-club flyers outside of bars.
Because their target audiences are presumably small businesses, non-profits, and charities wanting to build small websites--not drunk teenagers. So yeah, if I were selling fast food, a sports betting site, a new sports car, a dick-lengthening pill, etc.; then having 20-year-olds in bikinis in my commercials might be perfectly understandable. But it's a pretty piss-poor way of saying "Hey, we're a great place to host the website for your church!"
I'm perfectly fine with sex. What I'm not perfectly fine with is recommending a host to a serious business client or charity only to have them call me back and ask me why I sent them to some sort of porn site.
And for the people who are moaning about SWAT teams and child porn and copyright infringement, do you REALLY think that Comcast won't be able to tell the difference between two subscribers on their own goddamn network?
Yeah, and I'm sure it won't be hacked in about 5 minutes. At least with my existing home network, I can set it up so that it requires a physical wired connection to access.
So does this mean that charges for copyright infringement (or other such activities) will no longer be brought against people based on IP Address evidence alone? Because this certainly gives a lot of people a lot of plausible deniability.
That's the first thing that occured to me too. Is Comcast going to provide legal aid when the FBI kicks my door down because some asshole on my street downloaded some bomb plans on my connection?
Queue the climate change deniers, who will try to skew this as meaning it's geothermal activity and not our CO2 contributions that are causing ice melt, not realizing that this really means curbing CO2 emissions is that much more important so we don't accelerate it.
Queue the anthropogenic climate change zealots who will claim that all climate change is the fault of us evil, evil humans who are a plague on the planet--who will attempt to discredit this study.
A lot of people were speculating that the whole SteamOS thing was just a stunt by Valve to discourage MS from launching their own service to compete with Steam on Windows (an implicit threat that they would launch a competitor to Windows for gaming). And it does seem like Valve are pretty lukewarm on SteamOS themselves, a pretty strange position for a company that's supposedly serious about making such a bold move.
Alienware is a business, not a fucking charity. They can't pay employee salaries on vague promises from Valve. When and *if* SteamOS is ready, I'm sure they'll make SteamOS machines. Until then, they still have to pay their rent.
Just in case your actually being serious (and if you are, please seek help).
I going to guess that it may have something to do with the fact that it's already sold 27 million copies on the PS3 and Xbox 360 and broke six world videogame sales records in its launch week alone--making it the best-selling videogame of 2013 by a WIDE margin.
Their sleazy advertising is what caused me to actually stop recommending them to clients. I used to recommend them to clients for cheap hosting. But after they started to run ads that looked more like Hooters commercials (or ads for a strip club) than ads for a reputable hosting company, I dropped them faster than a hot potato. I'm not sure what kind of dumbass CEO thought he would attract more businesses and charities looking to set up websites by running Superbowl ads featuring half-naked women boozing it up at frat parties, but he definitely misjudged his audience.
Even their homepage ended up being a fucking embarrassment. I've seen porn sites that were more modest.
Agreed, I think this is less a sign of progress and more a sign of texbook publishers cracking down on used books. School districts will initially think they're getting a great deal, until they realize that all the textbooks they thought they had "bought" will disappear the second they stop making their monthly licensing payments.
Privacy and free speech apply to government entities, not to ex girlfriends and basketball associations.
So I guess you'd be cool with it if the NBA choose to enact a "No Homosexual Players Allowed" policy? After all, they're a private organization and don't have to respect anyone's legal rights, right?
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No, this just means that if they catch anything on you when they're monitoring everything you do, then they need to:
a) Get a retroactive warrant, which the FISA Court will happily provide them with no questions asked, or
b) Trump up some fake charges and detain you indefinitely, or
c) Fuck it, the first two are too hard, just send in a drone strike.
Christ, no wonder NYC cabbies are always so pissed off.
Does Barnes and Noble give me free 2-day shipping and a huge library of free streaming movies and TV shows for $40 a year?
At least it's not prefaced with Anderson Cooper feigning faux-outrage as he tells us that he's not going to show some video that his network has been showing all day.
Back in the late 90's they were one of the cheapest places you could host a small business site, and had very reliable up-time, a solid feature set (supporting scripting when that used to cost real money), and easy to use tools. It was only later that the sleaziness would turn them into the hosting equivalent of that skeevy part-time weed dealer whose official occupation involves handing out strip-club flyers outside of bars.
Because their target audiences are presumably small businesses, non-profits, and charities wanting to build small websites--not drunk teenagers. So yeah, if I were selling fast food, a sports betting site, a new sports car, a dick-lengthening pill, etc.; then having 20-year-olds in bikinis in my commercials might be perfectly understandable. But it's a pretty piss-poor way of saying "Hey, we're a great place to host the website for your church!"
I'm perfectly fine with sex. What I'm not perfectly fine with is recommending a host to a serious business client or charity only to have them call me back and ask me why I sent them to some sort of porn site.
I'd be less pissed about the competition from Uber and MUCH MORE pissed about the ridiculous cost of those licenses. I mean, $270,000, REALLY???
And for the people who are moaning about SWAT teams and child porn and copyright infringement, do you REALLY think that Comcast won't be able to tell the difference between two subscribers on their own goddamn network?
Yeah, and I'm sure it won't be hacked in about 5 minutes. At least with my existing home network, I can set it up so that it requires a physical wired connection to access.
So does this mean that charges for copyright infringement (or other such activities) will no longer be brought against people based on IP Address evidence alone? Because this certainly gives a lot of people a lot of plausible deniability.
That's the first thing that occured to me too. Is Comcast going to provide legal aid when the FBI kicks my door down because some asshole on my street downloaded some bomb plans on my connection?
Queue the climate change deniers, who will try to skew this as meaning it's geothermal activity and not our CO2 contributions that are causing ice melt, not realizing that this really means curbing CO2 emissions is that much more important so we don't accelerate it.
Queue the anthropogenic climate change zealots who will claim that all climate change is the fault of us evil, evil humans who are a plague on the planet--who will attempt to discredit this study.
A lot of people were speculating that the whole SteamOS thing was just a stunt by Valve to discourage MS from launching their own service to compete with Steam on Windows (an implicit threat that they would launch a competitor to Windows for gaming). And it does seem like Valve are pretty lukewarm on SteamOS themselves, a pretty strange position for a company that's supposedly serious about making such a bold move.
If you think the OEM charge for Windows is high, you should try licensing OSX sometime.
Alienware is a business, not a fucking charity. They can't pay employee salaries on vague promises from Valve. When and *if* SteamOS is ready, I'm sure they'll make SteamOS machines. Until then, they still have to pay their rent.
You can't blame Alienware for being lukewarm on an OS which Valve itself seems pretty lukewarm on.
To quote Joshua, "What's the difference?"
Just in case your actually being serious (and if you are, please seek help).
I going to guess that it may have something to do with the fact that it's already sold 27 million copies on the PS3 and Xbox 360 and broke six world videogame sales records in its launch week alone--making it the best-selling videogame of 2013 by a WIDE margin.
Where's the Linux port, now that we have Steambox?
It's in Gabe Newell's dreams. Check there.
Apparently it's shoveling $100 bills into a furnace. I'm sure there's a market for that somewhere.
Government contractor.
Their sleazy advertising is what caused me to actually stop recommending them to clients. I used to recommend them to clients for cheap hosting. But after they started to run ads that looked more like Hooters commercials (or ads for a strip club) than ads for a reputable hosting company, I dropped them faster than a hot potato. I'm not sure what kind of dumbass CEO thought he would attract more businesses and charities looking to set up websites by running Superbowl ads featuring half-naked women boozing it up at frat parties, but he definitely misjudged his audience.
Even their homepage ended up being a fucking embarrassment. I've seen porn sites that were more modest.
Agreed, I think this is less a sign of progress and more a sign of texbook publishers cracking down on used books. School districts will initially think they're getting a great deal, until they realize that all the textbooks they thought they had "bought" will disappear the second they stop making their monthly licensing payments.
Okay, a lifetime of prison with the signs also in French.
Privacy and free speech apply to government entities, not to ex girlfriends and basketball associations.
So I guess you'd be cool with it if the NBA choose to enact a "No Homosexual Players Allowed" policy? After all, they're a private organization and don't have to respect anyone's legal rights, right?
Seriously, since when is somewhere in the filthy, dirty South a bastion of progress when it comes to broadband?
You obviously haven't been there since the 1860's.
I just pick up my remote and hit the power button. Works 100% of the time.