For me, it's about quality vs price. If all you care about price, you get what you pay for. My MacBook has lasted 10 years and is still going although it is now quite outdated. I don't think any PC laptop every lasted more than 3 years for me. So even at 3X the price, it paid for itself.
Agreed. I only recently got a new Macbook pro when my last one started having trouble running certain programs. I had to check to see when I purchased it, and was surprised that it had lasted me eight years.
It's like a good pair of shoes - if you pay for quality, they'll last and probably save you money in the long run. However, if you try to skimp out, then don't be surprised when you have to replace something early and often.
French MEP Constance Le Grip - "We have also set out very precisely and clearly set out the exemptions for both journalists and whistleblowers."
Yes, maybe that's what we're afraid of. That you have decided on precisely where and when journalists and whistleblowers are allowed to act. Our fear is therefore that you might have decided to curtail their activities, to keep in line with your agenda, and away from ours, the public.
I think the proper term for the US is "social conservative" to describe a desire to use the law to stick to traditional moral codes.
Traditional moral codes? So, polygyny is back on the table? Including to under-aged girls who are given no choice in the matter?
"Traditional" does not mean what most people think. Most people only want to use the last hundred years or so as "traditional" and ignore that fact that if we use a larger time frame then we end up with a lot of things that modern people don't like.
The problem is that if Apple knows what they are doing, they can try and push for a legal precedent to use against the government in the future. Apple certainly has the money to push for it, as well as the PR team to make it look good. After all, what other phone company is fighting the big bad government for your right to security?
So, now the question becomes - What does Apple do?
Do they risk trying to get the case dismissed with prejudice, as to prevent it from coming up again (or at least giving them precedent to have it thrown out?)
Obviously they will try and find the way it was done (if they don't already know). Will they try and claim the problem is fixed?
Does the FBI have the ability to do this continually now? Or is it a case by case basis using an outside firm that has ongoing costs? What about all the phones the police departments had lined up?
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Wired produces good content, so I'd hate for them to go under. I see other comments saying that you'll just get your content elsewhere, but that's just kicking the can down the road instead of solving the problem. The same problems apply to your new news source, which is probably going to ban ad blockers sooner or later too unless a long-term solution is found.
(Moreover, what exactly does "abusing ads for profit" mean? Are you faulting them for trying to make a profit using advertising? Is the complaint not the ads per se, but the ads that track your every move? If so, that's not at all clear from your writing.)
Other news sources may ban ad blockers sooner or later. It does seem to be a trend.
Which will shortly be followed by new, better ad blockers.
The problem isn't that we want ads to go away. We got along fine for years with ads. The problem is that content providers got lazy/greedy and went to third party ad providers. Instead of vetting the ads and putting them directly onto the page, they now allow the ad providers to just run whatever they want, which can include targetted/tracking/ridiculously annoying content (giant flashing lights, hidden/pop-up/deceptive button ads).
Go back to vetting ads and putting them directly into your site, take care to make sure that people aren't immediately driven away by the type of ads that you run, and this will be less of a problem.
Or, my other response - ad space was a result of the market seeing an opportunity. Ad blockers are also the result of the market seeing an opportunity. You can't want to capitalise on webspace, then get upset when someone else tries to capitalise as well.
No. Natural selection would be reducing population to match available resources.
Well, less jobs and money should naturally thin the herd. If they can't get jobs to eat well, or afford the best health care, etc..they naturally don't live and long and the hope would be, they'd not reproduce as much if they knew they'd not be able to support them....this would happen more today, but we interfere with nature by supporting the lower lifestyle artificially.
You realize there is an inverse correlation between income and number of offspring, right? Shown over multiple continents?
The problem very quickly becomes "what is disrespectful" and "what is protected speech, despite being distasteful".
Free speech, and freedom in general, is accepting that the people around you may say and do things that you dislike. Because, in return, you may say and do things that others dislike. For instance, I disagree with you, but I'm not calling for you to be unable to continue speaking. I'm simply disagreeing with you.
When we silence the voice of dissent, we end up with sad conformity, which benefits very few.
In the library system I work for, which serves roughly 240k patrons, we keep almost no information about a patron's activity, so that we can't hand it over. Their checkout history only keeps information on the last item they borrowed, and item records only keep anonymous information, i.e. how many times it has been checked out.
We also offer computer usage. We do not record any information regarding what websites patrons go to, and once a session is ended, the computer is reset to a previous save state (we use a program called Deep Freeze to manage it all). In fact, on a few occasions we have had relevant police requests for search history on patron usage (things like child porn do get searched for), and we've been unable to comply, because we don't have the information in order to give it to them. Sometimes they'll take the hard drive to try and recover information, but so far I haven't heard of them managing to do anything with it.
With all that in place, we certainly aren't selling information to advertisers.
(If we are, our budget certainly isn't reflecting it. Trust me, you don't go into the library system to make money.)
You can't put christian values under the same umbrella as Islam! This is a Christian nation, founded on non-violent principles, by men who certainly never attacked others or destroyed property!
If they had, then they certainly wouldn't have been REAL Christians, now would they?
Public libraries aren't, mostly because there really isn't anything about running a public library that could conceivably be screwed up.
Many counties around the country would like to know your secrets to running a successful library. Just off the top of your head, what is the best way to: weed a collection, figure out correct pre-order quotas for topics, manage rotations between branches and deal with processing of damaged materials?
Failing to see the difficulty in running something, and it actually not being difficult, are wildly different things.
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For me, it's about quality vs price. If all you care about price, you get what you pay for. My MacBook has lasted 10 years and is still going although it is now quite outdated. I don't think any PC laptop every lasted more than 3 years for me. So even at 3X the price, it paid for itself.
Agreed. I only recently got a new Macbook pro when my last one started having trouble running certain programs. I had to check to see when I purchased it, and was surprised that it had lasted me eight years.
It's like a good pair of shoes - if you pay for quality, they'll last and probably save you money in the long run. However, if you try to skimp out, then don't be surprised when you have to replace something early and often.
French MEP Constance Le Grip - "We have also set out very precisely and clearly set out the exemptions for both journalists and whistleblowers."
Yes, maybe that's what we're afraid of. That you have decided on precisely where and when journalists and whistleblowers are allowed to act. Our fear is therefore that you might have decided to curtail their activities, to keep in line with your agenda, and away from ours, the public.
I think the proper term for the US is "social conservative" to describe a desire to use the law to stick to traditional moral codes.
Traditional moral codes? So, polygyny is back on the table? Including to under-aged girls who are given no choice in the matter?
"Traditional" does not mean what most people think. Most people only want to use the last hundred years or so as "traditional" and ignore that fact that if we use a larger time frame then we end up with a lot of things that modern people don't like.
The problem is that if Apple knows what they are doing, they can try and push for a legal precedent to use against the government in the future. Apple certainly has the money to push for it, as well as the PR team to make it look good. After all, what other phone company is fighting the big bad government for your right to security?
So, now the question becomes - What does Apple do?
Do they risk trying to get the case dismissed with prejudice, as to prevent it from coming up again (or at least giving them precedent to have it thrown out?)
Obviously they will try and find the way it was done (if they don't already know). Will they try and claim the problem is fixed?
Does the FBI have the ability to do this continually now? Or is it a case by case basis using an outside firm that has ongoing costs? What about all the phones the police departments had lined up?
Quite a few unanswered questions.
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Wired produces good content, so I'd hate for them to go under. I see other comments saying that you'll just get your content elsewhere, but that's just kicking the can down the road instead of solving the problem. The same problems apply to your new news source, which is probably going to ban ad blockers sooner or later too unless a long-term solution is found.
(Moreover, what exactly does "abusing ads for profit" mean? Are you faulting them for trying to make a profit using advertising? Is the complaint not the ads per se, but the ads that track your every move? If so, that's not at all clear from your writing.)
Other news sources may ban ad blockers sooner or later. It does seem to be a trend.
Which will shortly be followed by new, better ad blockers.
The problem isn't that we want ads to go away. We got along fine for years with ads. The problem is that content providers got lazy/greedy and went to third party ad providers. Instead of vetting the ads and putting them directly onto the page, they now allow the ad providers to just run whatever they want, which can include targetted/tracking/ridiculously annoying content (giant flashing lights, hidden/pop-up/deceptive button ads).
Go back to vetting ads and putting them directly into your site, take care to make sure that people aren't immediately driven away by the type of ads that you run, and this will be less of a problem.
Or, my other response - ad space was a result of the market seeing an opportunity. Ad blockers are also the result of the market seeing an opportunity. You can't want to capitalise on webspace, then get upset when someone else tries to capitalise as well.
Well, less jobs and money should naturally thin the herd. If they can't get jobs to eat well, or afford the best health care, etc..they naturally don't live and long and the hope would be, they'd not reproduce as much if they knew they'd not be able to support them....this would happen more today, but we interfere with nature by supporting the lower lifestyle artificially.
You realize there is an inverse correlation between income and number of offspring, right? Shown over multiple continents?
Hey, how did you know the password to my luggage?
The problem very quickly becomes "what is disrespectful" and "what is protected speech, despite being distasteful".
Free speech, and freedom in general, is accepting that the people around you may say and do things that you dislike. Because, in return, you may say and do things that others dislike. For instance, I disagree with you, but I'm not calling for you to be unable to continue speaking. I'm simply disagreeing with you.
When we silence the voice of dissent, we end up with sad conformity, which benefits very few.
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In the library system I work for, which serves roughly 240k patrons, we keep almost no information about a patron's activity, so that we can't hand it over. Their checkout history only keeps information on the last item they borrowed, and item records only keep anonymous information, i.e. how many times it has been checked out.
We also offer computer usage. We do not record any information regarding what websites patrons go to, and once a session is ended, the computer is reset to a previous save state (we use a program called Deep Freeze to manage it all). In fact, on a few occasions we have had relevant police requests for search history on patron usage (things like child porn do get searched for), and we've been unable to comply, because we don't have the information in order to give it to them. Sometimes they'll take the hard drive to try and recover information, but so far I haven't heard of them managing to do anything with it.
With all that in place, we certainly aren't selling information to advertisers.
(If we are, our budget certainly isn't reflecting it. Trust me, you don't go into the library system to make money.)
So, what did you want to bet?
You can't put christian values under the same umbrella as Islam! This is a Christian nation, founded on non-violent principles, by men who certainly never attacked others or destroyed property!
If they had, then they certainly wouldn't have been REAL Christians, now would they?
Public libraries aren't, mostly because there really isn't anything about running a public library that could conceivably be screwed up.
Many counties around the country would like to know your secrets to running a successful library. Just off the top of your head, what is the best way to: weed a collection, figure out correct pre-order quotas for topics, manage rotations between branches and deal with processing of damaged materials?
Failing to see the difficulty in running something, and it actually not being difficult, are wildly different things.