Easy. The Obama administration has been bought off by Hollywood Democrats. From his cabinet having *FIVE* former top RIAA attorneys, to a whole bunch of pro-Hollywood $$$$ senators like Boxer & Feinstein. Joe Biden consistently got failing grades when it came to tech privacy issues.
But America was clouded by the "hope & change" and "yes we can" crap. Geeks were shoved to the back of the room, and this is what we're getting.
*Five* former RIAA lawyers in high positions in the Obama administration, and dozens more Democrat senators clearly bought & paid for by their buddies in Hollywood.:/
They are trying to get BT to use this s00per s33cret anti child pornography blacklist to do their dirty work. The blacklist that wasn't supposed to ever be used for commercial interests and was supposed to be 'to protect the children.' Now the MPA is saying to use it.. to protect their commercial interests.
Newzbin doesn't host the files either. They're an indexer, and even these days I'd still say that there is a lot more perfectly legal content on usenet than not. There are still thousands of very active discussion boards, hobby boards, and more homemade copyright free amateur porn than you can shake a boner at.
I'd be happy if we had a solar charger that worked well enough to charge my iPhone.:/ Tried a couple different brands and they were all awful.
One day...
and it's my opinion that the biggest barrier to solar panel adoption in the United States right now are homeowner associations. My worthless HOA forbids solar panels. (Sadly, it is legal for them to do so under state law.. for now, Texas is trying to strip HOAs of that power)
This is why I think the Lulzsec antics are just going to cause more problems. We already have enough problems with our geriatric members of Congress trying to pass restrictive tech laws to protect their Hollywood friends and their "digital property" and the last thing we need is the same folks writing laws making "hacking" (such a vague term now) a 10+ year in prison felony.
When I had an Android device, I was wanting to blame the cheap Chinese developers. Seriously. Some of the "apps" are just stupid soundboard apps and crap that shows you a picture when you finish a call. Completely worthless shit, but Chinese developers were just flooding the Android Market with stuff like that.
The iTunes app store has a similar problem. Look at all the Chinese shit in the Medical category.
Stock Android that came with your phone? Or did you follow the most common path to fixing Android issues, which is "root your phone/install 3rd party mod?";-)
yeah, all of that "hope & change" bullshit sure worked. It got us *five* former RIAA lawyers in high cabinet positions, and a big government bought off by the RIAA/MPAA. The other choice were abortion hating Bible believing nuts.
"Because it runs the flash sites my daughter goes to"
Pretty much every single review I've seen of Flash on devices like the Xoom had the same conclusion - the Flash ads work great, but everything else sucks. Tried it myself on the Galaxy Tab less than a month ago. The entire Flash experience was horrible.
So you're basically saying that because the iPad doesn't work on a few sites for little kids, it's inferior to the Xoom, which you consider a 'real computer' because it has Flash.
The local IT department still gets blamed, because many users view them as the ones responsible for anything that has anything at all to do with the typeytypey boxes that make wizzbang things happen.:/
I wonder if this case would have gotten as much press if Righthaven didn't rile up Democrats & bloggers by suing Democratic Underground. They had sued several other bloggers before this, but the DU lawsuit is what really riled people up and got this in the news.
They also went after emtcity.com, a forum run by a retired EMT. He has limited resources and this has been financially (and emotionally) draining. All because ONE forum user posted a few paragraphs from an article and linked to the article.
Righthaven is the worst kind of troll. And I hope the Las Vegas Review Journal staff are utterly disgusted with themselves.
This is why the thousands of illegal immigrants marching in the streets saying "Yes we can" piss me off sometimes. Millions of illegal immigrants clogging up our already overloaded immigration system. We have the same problem that Australia does - immigration is great, but we need more engineers & scientists, not roofers and hair stylists from Guatemala, regardless of how entitled they feel to be in the US.
I hate shitsites like Spokeo because they decided to opt you in to their "service" first, and you have to specifically go opt *out* - which I did. At the time, their process sucked, and they pretty much required you sign up for their site in order to opt out of their shit.
Aroo? The property tax might be higher (and it isn't 3 x the rate in California - at least mine sure isn't) but 2% of $140,000 is a hell of a lot less than the 1% of $500,000 that my Californian friends are paying on their underwater houses.
Since nearly all of the reports came from people that were doing Google image searches, I'm wondering what steps Google is taking to help ensure their own results aren't feeding malware directly to end users. Especially since they offer a "Safe Browsing" API - http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/
"Then everyone would know the professional in question has something to hide." Or like many other people on Yelp, you're a douchebag with an axe to grind because something wouldn't go your way.
The OB/GYN my wife worked for had this very same problem with yelp. After much legal wrangling and detective work, shw as able to track down the Yelper to a patient that was a drug seeking painkiller addict that she had refused to prescribe more narcotics for. The junkie took to Yelp and started sock puppet accounts and posted negative (and completely false) reviews.
Really. LOOK at Yelp reviews. So many of them are based on stuff that is completely subjective and not grounded in reality. Look at the places that have been flooded with negative reviews by people that never went to the place but read about some perceived slight on some website. It's a joke but unfortunately it's one that can cause serious harm.
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" I have to be carted into "free speech zones" that are far away and hidden from view."
Thank those shitbags at the Westboro Baptist Church for most of that crap. :/
Easy. The Obama administration has been bought off by Hollywood Democrats. From his cabinet having *FIVE* former top RIAA attorneys, to a whole bunch of pro-Hollywood $$$$ senators like Boxer & Feinstein. Joe Biden consistently got failing grades when it came to tech privacy issues.
But America was clouded by the "hope & change" and "yes we can" crap. Geeks were shoved to the back of the room, and this is what we're getting.
*Five* former RIAA lawyers in high positions in the Obama administration, and dozens more Democrat senators clearly bought & paid for by their buddies in Hollywood. :/
end of November/early December, I noticed a significant decrease in the number of emails that were blasted to invalid email addresses.
Still getting spam, of course.. and more of it is professional stuff hawking products from American companies like Gevalia, Shari's Berries, etc...
They are trying to get BT to use this s00per s33cret anti child pornography blacklist to do their dirty work. The blacklist that wasn't supposed to ever be used for commercial interests and was supposed to be 'to protect the children.' Now the MPA is saying to use it .. to protect their commercial interests.
Newzbin doesn't host the files either. They're an indexer, and even these days I'd still say that there is a lot more perfectly legal content on usenet than not. There are still thousands of very active discussion boards, hobby boards, and more homemade copyright free amateur porn than you can shake a boner at.
The MPA is pissing into the wind. Again.
From the article:
"The company Pythagoras Solar is based in San Mateo, California, "
It's the same company.
I'd be happy if we had a solar charger that worked well enough to charge my iPhone. :/ Tried a couple different brands and they were all awful.
One day...
and it's my opinion that the biggest barrier to solar panel adoption in the United States right now are homeowner associations. My worthless HOA forbids solar panels. (Sadly, it is legal for them to do so under state law.. for now, Texas is trying to strip HOAs of that power)
I need a storage medium that is fast enough to write all the massive amounts of HD pornography that i'll be downloading...
This is why I think the Lulzsec antics are just going to cause more problems. We already have enough problems with our geriatric members of Congress trying to pass restrictive tech laws to protect their Hollywood friends and their "digital property" and the last thing we need is the same folks writing laws making "hacking" (such a vague term now) a 10+ year in prison felony.
When I had an Android device, I was wanting to blame the cheap Chinese developers. Seriously. Some of the "apps" are just stupid soundboard apps and crap that shows you a picture when you finish a call. Completely worthless shit, but Chinese developers were just flooding the Android Market with stuff like that.
The iTunes app store has a similar problem. Look at all the Chinese shit in the Medical category.
Stock Android that came with your phone? Or did you follow the most common path to fixing Android issues, which is "root your phone/install 3rd party mod?" ;-)
that we're all wrong, and iTunes Match is finally the bitchslap into modern times that the recording industry tools finally get...
Google already claimed they'd delete "unauthorized" tracks, didn't they?
Ah, yes...
divorce rate in the US: about 48% (depending on what stats you use)
Number of lawyers that advise clients to delete their Facebook accounts the second they file for divorce: rising significantly.
Or hey, maybe everyone is quitting and installing their own Diaspora node. Yup, that HAS to be it!
yeah, all of that "hope & change" bullshit sure worked. It got us *five* former RIAA lawyers in high cabinet positions, and a big government bought off by the RIAA/MPAA. The other choice were abortion hating Bible believing nuts.
Lovely. :/
"Because it runs the flash sites my daughter goes to"
Pretty much every single review I've seen of Flash on devices like the Xoom had the same conclusion - the Flash ads work great, but everything else sucks. Tried it myself on the Galaxy Tab less than a month ago. The entire Flash experience was horrible.
So you're basically saying that because the iPad doesn't work on a few sites for little kids, it's inferior to the Xoom, which you consider a 'real computer' because it has Flash.
Yeah. Got it.. *eyeroll*
The local IT department still gets blamed, because many users view them as the ones responsible for anything that has anything at all to do with the typeytypey boxes that make wizzbang things happen. :/
Or a soldier. Many of whom enjoy working with firearms. They're all now thugs too?
Ah. Stop feeding the troll, folks.
I wonder if this case would have gotten as much press if Righthaven didn't rile up Democrats & bloggers by suing Democratic Underground. They had sued several other bloggers before this, but the DU lawsuit is what really riled people up and got this in the news.
They also went after emtcity.com, a forum run by a retired EMT. He has limited resources and this has been financially (and emotionally) draining. All because ONE forum user posted a few paragraphs from an article and linked to the article.
Righthaven is the worst kind of troll. And I hope the Las Vegas Review Journal staff are utterly disgusted with themselves.
This is why the thousands of illegal immigrants marching in the streets saying "Yes we can" piss me off sometimes. Millions of illegal immigrants clogging up our already overloaded immigration system. We have the same problem that Australia does - immigration is great, but we need more engineers & scientists, not roofers and hair stylists from Guatemala, regardless of how entitled they feel to be in the US.
Basically, we need Tech TV back, with way fewer advertisements, far fewer video game related shows or Adult Swim re-runs. Aw yeah.
LOVED that channel when it was on, and I considered it to be pretty educational most of the time.
(hey, a guy can dream, right?)
I hate shitsites like Spokeo because they decided to opt you in to their "service" first, and you have to specifically go opt *out* - which I did. At the time, their process sucked, and they pretty much required you sign up for their site in order to opt out of their shit.
Aroo? The property tax might be higher (and it isn't 3 x the rate in California - at least mine sure isn't) but 2% of $140,000 is a hell of a lot less than the 1% of $500,000 that my Californian friends are paying on their underwater houses.
California's property taxes are also restricted by Prop 13 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_(1978) ...and while it's a political landmine, I wouldn't be surprised to see it finally go away.
Since nearly all of the reports came from people that were doing Google image searches, I'm wondering what steps Google is taking to help ensure their own results aren't feeding malware directly to end users. Especially since they offer a "Safe Browsing" API - http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/
"Then everyone would know the professional in question has something to hide." Or like many other people on Yelp, you're a douchebag with an axe to grind because something wouldn't go your way.
The OB/GYN my wife worked for had this very same problem with yelp. After much legal wrangling and detective work, shw as able to track down the Yelper to a patient that was a drug seeking painkiller addict that she had refused to prescribe more narcotics for. The junkie took to Yelp and started sock puppet accounts and posted negative (and completely false) reviews.
Really. LOOK at Yelp reviews. So many of them are based on stuff that is completely subjective and not grounded in reality. Look at the places that have been flooded with negative reviews by people that never went to the place but read about some perceived slight on some website. It's a joke but unfortunately it's one that can cause serious harm.
tl; dr = fuck yelp.