Processing a DMCA take down request wastes a lot of resources for the recipient. Is there any reason sites like Google at not already charging a processing fee? They could have one fee plus a deposit. They get to keep the deposit if the takedown was invalid.
That's 3% shipped, not sold. They'll often talk about shipped units to make the numbers bigger, but actual sold units is an even smaller number. It's a phone no one wants.
Isn't this the same company that somehow "accidentally" dropped the browser selection process for european installations of Windows 7 SP1?
Yes and it's also the one that is still bundling MSIE with each copy of Windows, despite the original complaint about bundling. The so-called remedy, the 'Browser Ballot' does nothing about the actual bundling and gives only the choice of MSIE+another browser. And because an increasing amount of the tech media is beholden to M$, the subject is not given the attention it deserves. So between the broken ballot and the continued bundling, it is business as usual for M$.
The so-called remedy, the 'Browser Ballot', does absolutely nothing about the original problem. The original complaint is that M$ is abusing its monopoly and bundling MSIE. So the 'Browser Ballot' even when it works does absolutely nothing about the presence of MSIE. Essentially it gives the users a choice of MSIE + another browser, but MSIE there like it or not and no choice. The press has completely dropped this issue. No surprise since so many are beholden to M$ in some way or another.
Yes. We (and Wikipedia) should be encrypting our communications from the start. A lot has been written about why we should use encryption, some of it from around 20 years ago. It's an uphill fight still these days and many won't become interested until it is too late. If you haven't already, consider throwing your own cryptoparty.
Actually it used to be quite common in parts of the US as well. It used to be called ague. I'm not sure of it's original range, but I think it was even as far north as Ohio. There are variants like avian malaria which have been a barrier to reintroducing eagles and other species.
The ISPs might also be part of the problem but I am thinking specifically those whose products are advertised via spam. Come down on them and the market for spam goes away. They are the ones that are financing the whole fiasco.
Shut down the spammers at the source go after the money. The companies that are advertised in the spam have real contact information in order for them to fleece customers. This contact information can be used to trace the spammers' clients. Cut out the clients and the spammers have to go into another business.
No one thing is going to take down the spam problem all by itself. But you can't continue to ignore the origin of the flow of money. Cut the money off at the source: the spammers' clients.
Next step is go after the source of the bot nets: the Windows hosts upon which they grow and thrive. Get rid of those, get everyone on Linux, BSD or OS X and the bot nets go away.
Will this mean that they will soon also migrate over to XHTML and CSS so that their site will work in more than one or two browsers? I give Diaspora a try every now and again but in most of the browsers I use daily, it flat out refuses to render. Seriously at this late day and age there is no excuse not to be using a foundation of valid, well-formed XHTML. Fancy AJAX bells and whistles can be added on top of that layer, but it should first work across browsers and across platforms to reach the largest possible audience.
Anything short of that is alienating potential users and making the technology look bad. If they are missing such a simple check box, what other problems are they neglecting? I want it to succeed but it will continue to not get anywhere until it can render in regular browsers.
Actually only a few will float to the top if you use explosives. The majority will sink to the bottom and go to waste. If you want to do it right, stun them with electricity, but not enough to kill them, and then they will float to the top. That way you can also release live the ones you won't eat. I've seen the DNR gather fish for their surveys using stunners and the equipment is rather simple.
If you're going to tell that story at least tell the whole thing. When the OpenDocument Format included OpenFormula with version 1.2, it became the very first format to have a standard for spreadsheet formulas. Prior to that, there were no standard or other formats with a standard way of defining formulas. ODF was the first.
A large portion of the trouble was/is caused by dioxin contamination. There was a lot of dioxin in the Agent Orange they were spraying and it's part of the legacy. There's no safe level for dioxin exposure.
An interesting point of view. Here's one to counter it. I've been following Robert Fripp's struggles to get UMG to give him a simple accounting of how many King Crimson and related releases have been sold, for several years now. What I'd more, in violation of contract, KC music has got on to online stores like iTunes. Will you support SWAT teams raiding UMG at gunpoint to seize those records, and if not, why not?
Kim Dotcom was on the way to launch Megabox which would flip the ratio of money the artists get versus what is held on to by the labels. Color my cynical but this upcoming service seems to be the only major difference between Mega Upload and the other file storage services. He claims to be planning on still going through with the launch. If so it will cut the labels out of the loop by allowing artists to sell more or less directly to the public. Good riddance I say.
Yes, it could backfire and shut Windows out of ARM. Right now, Windows has no presence on ARM, thankfully, and the Vista 8 'Secure' Boot requirements for ARM might well keep it that way -- if we are lucky.
Speaking of making things more difficult than they should be, the ISO images for installation are not readily available for download. There is a heinous registration form but no promise of the ISOs even if you fill in the form (with either fake data or real). If Oracle is going to be serious about establishing a distro, it has got to be available at all the usual download sites along site CentOS, Debian and the other established distros.
Not in ARM. While everyone is distracted about the atrociousness of what M$ is trying to pull on the x86 with UEFI, an attempt several order of magnitude worse is being made on ARM. The intent, if M$ is given its way by OEMs, is to prevent 'secure' boot from being disabled. ARM is not some fringe architecture, it is the architecture found on today's (and tomorrow's) tablets and phones.
Users don't want everything tied to a single identifier, particularly one controlled by Microsoft, Google, Facebook or some other company.
That's one point. For the case of Passport, there was a more fundamental problem.
Let's also remember that the example of M$ Passport was a failure. Even though it was marketed as a security service it failed at the basic security it claimed to supply.
This is a fairly clear case where Samba would be of use for LAN access. It's quite simple to set up and runs very reliably on top of your favorite distro.
For remote sharing, SFTP would be the way to go. SSHFS is a clever trick for very user-friendly remote access.
Speaking of manufacturing the numbers and Enron accounting, this would not be the first time that M$ has reported a loss. M$ went $18 billlion into the red before, if normal (non-Enron) accounting is used. That was back when times were good. Since then, sales of desktops has been slumped and, thus, the OEM sales of Windows upon which the whole beast lives.
The article is about Gmail taking the lead and one reason is that Gmail supports IMAP. IMAP can be used either to keep the mail on the server or download it locally. It is one of the reasons that Hotmail is losing. Hotmail was ok until M$ got a hold of it and it has been on a long slow decline since then. Now if you have a lot of mail stuck in Hotmail it is a bit of work to transfer from Hotmail to Gmail but it can be done.
It hurts some people to hear this but the reason they have so many failure is because they only hire the dregs. No one with any chops would go anywhere near the company. That leaves only the climbers and dregs to go into either engineering or management. It's been a vicious cycle going on for decades. There will be no end to it either before the company ends.
You are asking the wrong questions. It's a cultural thing but if you ask a question that can be answered with "yes", that's all you're going to hear. You need to ask open questions. Instead of "is it going to be done on time?, ask "how far have you gotten?" and so forth. Even then it's not guaranteed that you'll get all the info you were looking for.
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Processing a DMCA take down request wastes a lot of resources for the recipient. Is there any reason sites like Google at not already charging a processing fee? They could have one fee plus a deposit. They get to keep the deposit if the takedown was invalid.
Maybe that's the goal. Who said that Nokia was supposed to survive all this?
That's 3% shipped, not sold. They'll often talk about shipped units to make the numbers bigger, but actual sold units is an even smaller number. It's a phone no one wants.
Yes and it's also the one that is still bundling MSIE with each copy of Windows, despite the original complaint about bundling. The so-called remedy, the 'Browser Ballot' does nothing about the actual bundling and gives only the choice of MSIE+another browser. And because an increasing amount of the tech media is beholden to M$, the subject is not given the attention it deserves. So between the broken ballot and the continued bundling, it is business as usual for M$.
The so-called remedy, the 'Browser Ballot', does absolutely nothing about the original problem. The original complaint is that M$ is abusing its monopoly and bundling MSIE. So the 'Browser Ballot' even when it works does absolutely nothing about the presence of MSIE. Essentially it gives the users a choice of MSIE + another browser, but MSIE there like it or not and no choice. The press has completely dropped this issue. No surprise since so many are beholden to M$ in some way or another.
Yes. We (and Wikipedia) should be encrypting our communications from the start. A lot has been written about why we should use encryption, some of it from around 20 years ago. It's an uphill fight still these days and many won't become interested until it is too late. If you haven't already, consider throwing your own cryptoparty.
Actually it used to be quite common in parts of the US as well. It used to be called ague. I'm not sure of it's original range, but I think it was even as far north as Ohio. There are variants like avian malaria which have been a barrier to reintroducing eagles and other species.
The ISPs might also be part of the problem but I am thinking specifically those whose products are advertised via spam. Come down on them and the market for spam goes away. They are the ones that are financing the whole fiasco.
Shut down the spammers at the source go after the money. The companies that are advertised in the spam have real contact information in order for them to fleece customers. This contact information can be used to trace the spammers' clients. Cut out the clients and the spammers have to go into another business.
No one thing is going to take down the spam problem all by itself. But you can't continue to ignore the origin of the flow of money. Cut the money off at the source: the spammers' clients.
Next step is go after the source of the bot nets: the Windows hosts upon which they grow and thrive. Get rid of those, get everyone on Linux, BSD or OS X and the bot nets go away.
Will this mean that they will soon also migrate over to XHTML and CSS so that their site will work in more than one or two browsers? I give Diaspora a try every now and again but in most of the browsers I use daily, it flat out refuses to render. Seriously at this late day and age there is no excuse not to be using a foundation of valid, well-formed XHTML. Fancy AJAX bells and whistles can be added on top of that layer, but it should first work across browsers and across platforms to reach the largest possible audience.
Anything short of that is alienating potential users and making the technology look bad. If they are missing such a simple check box, what other problems are they neglecting? I want it to succeed but it will continue to not get anywhere until it can render in regular browsers.
Actually only a few will float to the top if you use explosives. The majority will sink to the bottom and go to waste. If you want to do it right, stun them with electricity, but not enough to kill them, and then they will float to the top. That way you can also release live the ones you won't eat. I've seen the DNR gather fish for their surveys using stunners and the equipment is rather simple.
If you're going to tell that story at least tell the whole thing. When the OpenDocument Format included OpenFormula with version 1.2, it became the very first format to have a standard for spreadsheet formulas. Prior to that, there were no standard or other formats with a standard way of defining formulas. ODF was the first.
A large portion of the trouble was/is caused by dioxin contamination. There was a lot of dioxin in the Agent Orange they were spraying and it's part of the legacy. There's no safe level for dioxin exposure.
Kim Dotcom was on the way to launch Megabox which would flip the ratio of money the artists get versus what is held on to by the labels. Color my cynical but this upcoming service seems to be the only major difference between Mega Upload and the other file storage services. He claims to be planning on still going through with the launch. If so it will cut the labels out of the loop by allowing artists to sell more or less directly to the public. Good riddance I say.
Yes, it could backfire and shut Windows out of ARM. Right now, Windows has no presence on ARM, thankfully, and the Vista 8 'Secure' Boot requirements for ARM might well keep it that way -- if we are lucky.
Speaking of making things more difficult than they should be, the ISO images for installation are not readily available for download. There is a heinous registration form but no promise of the ISOs even if you fill in the form (with either fake data or real). If Oracle is going to be serious about establishing a distro, it has got to be available at all the usual download sites along site CentOS, Debian and the other established distros.
Not in ARM. While everyone is distracted about the atrociousness of what M$ is trying to pull on the x86 with UEFI, an attempt several order of magnitude worse is being made on ARM. The intent, if M$ is given its way by OEMs, is to prevent 'secure' boot from being disabled. ARM is not some fringe architecture, it is the architecture found on today's (and tomorrow's) tablets and phones.
That's one point. For the case of Passport, there was a more fundamental problem. Let's also remember that the example of M$ Passport was a failure. Even though it was marketed as a security service it failed at the basic security it claimed to supply.
This is a fairly clear case where Samba would be of use for LAN access. It's quite simple to set up and runs very reliably on top of your favorite distro.
For remote sharing, SFTP would be the way to go. SSHFS is a clever trick for very user-friendly remote access.
Speaking of manufacturing the numbers and Enron accounting, this would not be the first time that M$ has reported a loss. M$ went $18 billlion into the red before, if normal (non-Enron) accounting is used. That was back when times were good. Since then, sales of desktops has been slumped and, thus, the OEM sales of Windows upon which the whole beast lives.
The article is about Gmail taking the lead and one reason is that Gmail supports IMAP. IMAP can be used either to keep the mail on the server or download it locally. It is one of the reasons that Hotmail is losing. Hotmail was ok until M$ got a hold of it and it has been on a long slow decline since then. Now if you have a lot of mail stuck in Hotmail it is a bit of work to transfer from Hotmail to Gmail but it can be done.
POP is a bit of a relic. You can use IMAP instead. If you really want your mail downloaded locally, IMAP can do that, too.
It hurts some people to hear this but the reason they have so many failure is because they only hire the dregs. No one with any chops would go anywhere near the company. That leaves only the climbers and dregs to go into either engineering or management. It's been a vicious cycle going on for decades. There will be no end to it either before the company ends.
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Apparently, "yes" ;)
You are asking the wrong questions. It's a cultural thing but if you ask a question that can be answered with "yes", that's all you're going to hear. You need to ask open questions. Instead of "is it going to be done on time?, ask "how far have you gotten?" and so forth. Even then it's not guaranteed that you'll get all the info you were looking for.