You laugh, but it's far from uncommon for parent's groups to protest schools teaching Shakespeare in general, and often R & J in particular. This mostly happens in ass backwards places like Texas and Alabaman, naturally. These are the same people who don't permit sex education, but aren't willing to teach thier kids themselves, and are confused about thier astronomically high teenage pregnancy rates.
Statutory rape, by definition, is not rape. And I'm pleased that Canada was able to stand up to it's principles that the death penalty is wrong, rather than just hand-waving and deciding it's okay because someone else is doing the killing. Note that Canada would have extradited if the US had ensured that he would not be executed. The US wasn't willing to make that assurance.
Actually, free DOES mean free and unrestricted - the idea that it doesn't is one of the most hideous social anomalies to ever occur in America. It's not illegal to yell fire in a crowded theater, either. It's not illegal to slander your neighbor, either. You are responsible for the results of your speech, but the speech itself is not prohibited. Thats an important distinction that more people need to remember.
A strict reading of the Constitution would, in fact, require that child pornography be permitted. We allow exceptions to the first amendment to be made because it strikes such an emotional chord in us, but I believe that it's a dangrous habit to get into - we make exceptions more and more often for things which "everyone knows are bad".
It probably has alot more to do with the fact that you have to pay money or have a support contract just to report a bug, much less get one fixed. And considering how slow the responsiveness is, most people I know don't even bother going to MS for bug support - they do a workaround, or get support in newsgroups or other informal places.
They put that in when Slashdot linked directly to Bugzilla in the hours before a milestone release, slashdotting the server while all the developers were trying to get thier bugs finalized. Guess they never removed it...
It's not that simple - the elitism comes from the fact that they get stuffed into lockers. It's a cycle, and I could really say where it started. In my case, it wasn't so much intellectual elitism so much as a refusal to participate in normal social circles - I preferred to sit in the library and read. Like anyone who doesn't fit the norm. In high school, I was more socially mature and fit in better, and I didn't really have any trouble.
There's no personal data (it's your IP address, thats all), and the toolbar page goes to ENORMOUS lengths to ensure that you know it will send data back to Google in order to contribute to PageRank and gives you the option to install it in basic mode which doesn't do that. Unless you willfully refuse to read the pages, you can't install it in advanced mode without knowing that it's sending data to Google. Thats hardly spyware, imo.
Publishing something on the internet, where it's publiclly available to anyone who looks at it, is fundamentally the same as leaving it in a pile by the roadside - google doesn't cache anything that you protect via access controls, it only caches publically available works. Providing a cache of publically available information is both perfectly legal and in the best interests of society, which is what copyright is for, after all. Now, if, at some future time you removed your poems/stories/whatever (I assume it's poems or stories, google doesn't cache images) from public access, then google will be more than happy to remove the cache, just contact them. On the other hand, I don't think they're legally obligated to do so, any more than I can't redistribute a flyer you handed me just because you decided to start charging for it.
The key thing to keep in mind here is that the Internet is, by default, a public space where all content is freely available. If you're going to publish content there, then you should be aware of that, and take measures to control access if that's not what you want. That means that, yes, it IS your responsibility to include no-cache directives or robots.txt files on your site.
In addition, if Google is breaking the law by caching your content, so is almost every major ISP as well as every modern browser.
Well, not the Oscars, but the MTV movie awards awarded Best Fight one year to the Craft, and the people who accepted it were the actors - not the stunt doubles or the special effects people. I thought that was kinda screwed up, personally, since the actual actors had probably the least involvment in the scene.
Well, there's very little reason for anyone to store the CC number for any length of time, and certainly not in an un-encrypted format, but they still do. It's a moronic policy and if the card issuers insisted on some sort of security auditing from anyone accepting credit cards, then we'd be alot safer too. Yes, we do it here too, and yes, it's still moronic.
Well, banks do it with ATM and debit cards, too, and thats certtainly not thier money, it's mine. That said, it doesn't bother me that much, although if I have to go through anything more complicated than calling a 1-800 number and providing verification to get my card unlocked I'll be really pissed off.
Statistically, the more credit they give you, the more likely you are to use it. You can look at it as the company rewarding you with more credit for being responsible with what you have, or you can look at it as an attempt to sucker you into spending more now that you have a larger limit. It depends on how cynical you are. The actual answer is probably both, depending on which executive you talk to.
I trust Google with the personal information they're able to pull from the cookie and from the toolbar I have installed. If you don't, then don't use the toolbar, and don't accept the cookie. That's taking responsibility for yourself, it has nothing to do with you opening your wallet. Google doesn't misrepresent it's use of the toolbar - when you go to download it, the fact that it phone homes in Advanced mode [and ONLY in that mode] is explained in large type and signifigant detail. It's use of the cookie is limited to storing your search prefrences. If you disable cookies from google, there's no downside, except that you'll be stuck with the default search options. All these things are spelled out in detail on the Google site. If it turns out that they aren't following thier published policy, then we've got news.
Back to the article, since number 8 is practically word for word pulled from that loser who's suing them for decreasing his page rank, I'm really skeptical about the motives of this site. Google has no obligations to web masters. They're responsible to people who do searches to return useful results. As long as they continue to do that, then they'll be on top.
Hrmph. I had an account do mine last year and didn't save a dime - I was out the hundred bucks for the cost, and that was it. I think it's because I work for the railroad and don't pay into social security and a couple other things that really confuse them.
The defragger runs as a native NT application, not a win32 application - it needs this because it needs to be able to run before the win32 layer is loaded up. You don't need to do that kind of thing to write to the boot track, you just need Admin privledges. Details on the difference between the NT API and the win32 wrapper API for it can be found at Sysinternals.com. You can do some nifty stuff with an NT-native application, like writing Registry entries that can only be removed or modified by other NT applications, and not by anything running in the win32 layer.
Redundancy with failover is another way to obtain reliablity. It's true that combining high end, very reliable hardware with redundant backups is best, but more backups with a higher failure rate works too. Of course, there are certain components in such a setup you can't afford to have fail - like your load balancing switches.
I'm not sure why pointing this out means I'm in the excuses buisness - it's a fact that in many cases it is cheaper to have redundant cheap hardware rather than single expensive hardware. Especially because the high end hardware moves you out of the commodity market.
Broken implementations of redundancy don't invalidate the idea - and for what it's worth, when I worked in retail and our cash registers went down, it was a failure in our very expensive central server connecting us to the corporate office, not a failure in the cheap dump terminals (It was a Sun machine of some kind, in fact, although I'm not sure which model).
Not everyone is stupid - people are aware of the failure rate on x86 hardware and it's STILL cheaper to just buy so much of it that you can fail over. That was the whole idea behind things like RAID - it turns out to actually be cheaper to get lots of cheap things and fail them over and replace them if they break, than it does to pay the premium for hardware that just always stays up. Look at mainframes - massively redundant, to the point of having backup CPUs double check every operation to make sure that the primary CPU is returning correct values. Massively expensive, with even more expensive support contracts. And people are moving away from them as fast as they can port thier applications. You can get a cluster of x86 boxes for half the price, and even with the high failure rate, the money you spend replacinf hardware is less than your old support contract was.
There's plenty of them on the web - look at the explosion of webcomics. The reason you don't see them in real life is, of course, because of the physical cost of distribution. That, and it's really hard to gain mindshare without the power of an advertising or publishing firm behind you - at least in the real world. On the web, word of mouth works much better - for example, I take any recommendation I read at Penny Arcade pretty seriously. I'm alot more likely to buy a game if they like it, and if they don't, I probably won't get it.
Patents should be on implementations, like in the old days. Particularly, WORKING implementations - no patents on nanobots until you've got one that works, please. Since algorithms, code, and buisness processes don't actually implement anything, you can't patent them. Or shouldn't be able to, anyway.
Budget freeze for a couple years would make plenty of money for broadband infrastructure without causing undue risk of invasion from Canada. Hell, 10 years even.
On the other hand, Israel refuses to move out of the occupied territories, so the Arab nations won't make peace. Lets face it, there's no angels on either side here. Part of the flack is because Israel is often painted as the oppressed nation surrounded by enemies (an image not without merit), and the Arabs as the warmongering renegade nations, but Israel isn't really doing alot to be pro-active about peace in the Middle East either.
I think you're a fuckwit because you believe that discrimination against Jews is somehow different than any other sort of discrimination. You're also a fuckwit because you'll call someone an anti-semite for critisizing Israel, which unless he's referring to you as Zionists or something, is nationalism, not discrimination.
The fact that you associate the word "racism" with discrimination against blacks, despite it obviously being incorrect, is even more telling. Tell you what. I won't give a shit that you're Jewish, if you're able to rationally and logically refute complaints about Israel without ever once using the word anti-semite.
It pisses me off when over-sensitive people leap to assumptions. In fact, never once in his admitedly flammitory post did he ever say ANYTHING about Jews, or Judaism or anything else. If anything, I'd guess that he's someone pissed off by Israel and US policy regarding it, which has not a damn fucking thing to do with anti-semitism. But you leaped at the chance to apply the word yourself.
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You laugh, but it's far from uncommon for parent's groups to protest schools teaching Shakespeare in general, and often R & J in particular. This mostly happens in ass backwards places like Texas and Alabaman, naturally. These are the same people who don't permit sex education, but aren't willing to teach thier kids themselves, and are confused about thier astronomically high teenage pregnancy rates.
Statutory rape, by definition, is not rape. And I'm pleased that Canada was able to stand up to it's principles that the death penalty is wrong, rather than just hand-waving and deciding it's okay because someone else is doing the killing. Note that Canada would have extradited if the US had ensured that he would not be executed. The US wasn't willing to make that assurance.
A strict reading of the Constitution would, in fact, require that child pornography be permitted. We allow exceptions to the first amendment to be made because it strikes such an emotional chord in us, but I believe that it's a dangrous habit to get into - we make exceptions more and more often for things which "everyone knows are bad".
So what? I'd rather pervs were able to find a little more porn than have a state agency maintaing a secret blacklist of internet sites.
It probably has alot more to do with the fact that you have to pay money or have a support contract just to report a bug, much less get one fixed. And considering how slow the responsiveness is, most people I know don't even bother going to MS for bug support - they do a workaround, or get support in newsgroups or other informal places.
They put that in when Slashdot linked directly to Bugzilla in the hours before a milestone release, slashdotting the server while all the developers were trying to get thier bugs finalized. Guess they never removed it...
It's not that simple - the elitism comes from the fact that they get stuffed into lockers. It's a cycle, and I could really say where it started. In my case, it wasn't so much intellectual elitism so much as a refusal to participate in normal social circles - I preferred to sit in the library and read. Like anyone who doesn't fit the norm. In high school, I was more socially mature and fit in better, and I didn't really have any trouble.
There's no personal data (it's your IP address, thats all), and the toolbar page goes to ENORMOUS lengths to ensure that you know it will send data back to Google in order to contribute to PageRank and gives you the option to install it in basic mode which doesn't do that. Unless you willfully refuse to read the pages, you can't install it in advanced mode without knowing that it's sending data to Google. Thats hardly spyware, imo.
The key thing to keep in mind here is that the Internet is, by default, a public space where all content is freely available. If you're going to publish content there, then you should be aware of that, and take measures to control access if that's not what you want. That means that, yes, it IS your responsibility to include no-cache directives or robots.txt files on your site.
In addition, if Google is breaking the law by caching your content, so is almost every major ISP as well as every modern browser.
Well, not the Oscars, but the MTV movie awards awarded Best Fight one year to the Craft, and the people who accepted it were the actors - not the stunt doubles or the special effects people. I thought that was kinda screwed up, personally, since the actual actors had probably the least involvment in the scene.
Well, there's very little reason for anyone to store the CC number for any length of time, and certainly not in an un-encrypted format, but they still do. It's a moronic policy and if the card issuers insisted on some sort of security auditing from anyone accepting credit cards, then we'd be alot safer too. Yes, we do it here too, and yes, it's still moronic.
Well, banks do it with ATM and debit cards, too, and thats certtainly not thier money, it's mine. That said, it doesn't bother me that much, although if I have to go through anything more complicated than calling a 1-800 number and providing verification to get my card unlocked I'll be really pissed off.
Statistically, the more credit they give you, the more likely you are to use it. You can look at it as the company rewarding you with more credit for being responsible with what you have, or you can look at it as an attempt to sucker you into spending more now that you have a larger limit. It depends on how cynical you are. The actual answer is probably both, depending on which executive you talk to.
Back to the article, since number 8 is practically word for word pulled from that loser who's suing them for decreasing his page rank, I'm really skeptical about the motives of this site. Google has no obligations to web masters. They're responsible to people who do searches to return useful results. As long as they continue to do that, then they'll be on top.
If you didn't agree to the license, then you can sell it regardless. If you DID agree, the point is moot as th license forbids resale.
Hrmph. I had an account do mine last year and didn't save a dime - I was out the hundred bucks for the cost, and that was it. I think it's because I work for the railroad and don't pay into social security and a couple other things that really confuse them.
The defragger runs as a native NT application, not a win32 application - it needs this because it needs to be able to run before the win32 layer is loaded up. You don't need to do that kind of thing to write to the boot track, you just need Admin privledges. Details on the difference between the NT API and the win32 wrapper API for it can be found at Sysinternals.com. You can do some nifty stuff with an NT-native application, like writing Registry entries that can only be removed or modified by other NT applications, and not by anything running in the win32 layer.
I'm not sure why pointing this out means I'm in the excuses buisness - it's a fact that in many cases it is cheaper to have redundant cheap hardware rather than single expensive hardware. Especially because the high end hardware moves you out of the commodity market.
Broken implementations of redundancy don't invalidate the idea - and for what it's worth, when I worked in retail and our cash registers went down, it was a failure in our very expensive central server connecting us to the corporate office, not a failure in the cheap dump terminals (It was a Sun machine of some kind, in fact, although I'm not sure which model).
Not everyone is stupid - people are aware of the failure rate on x86 hardware and it's STILL cheaper to just buy so much of it that you can fail over. That was the whole idea behind things like RAID - it turns out to actually be cheaper to get lots of cheap things and fail them over and replace them if they break, than it does to pay the premium for hardware that just always stays up. Look at mainframes - massively redundant, to the point of having backup CPUs double check every operation to make sure that the primary CPU is returning correct values. Massively expensive, with even more expensive support contracts. And people are moving away from them as fast as they can port thier applications. You can get a cluster of x86 boxes for half the price, and even with the high failure rate, the money you spend replacinf hardware is less than your old support contract was.
There's plenty of them on the web - look at the explosion of webcomics. The reason you don't see them in real life is, of course, because of the physical cost of distribution. That, and it's really hard to gain mindshare without the power of an advertising or publishing firm behind you - at least in the real world. On the web, word of mouth works much better - for example, I take any recommendation I read at Penny Arcade pretty seriously. I'm alot more likely to buy a game if they like it, and if they don't, I probably won't get it.
Thats because only the new version gets the broken CSS page. Read the stuff on the Opera website.
Patents should be on implementations, like in the old days. Particularly, WORKING implementations - no patents on nanobots until you've got one that works, please. Since algorithms, code, and buisness processes don't actually implement anything, you can't patent them. Or shouldn't be able to, anyway.
Budget freeze for a couple years would make plenty of money for broadband infrastructure without causing undue risk of invasion from Canada. Hell, 10 years even.
On the other hand, Israel refuses to move out of the occupied territories, so the Arab nations won't make peace. Lets face it, there's no angels on either side here. Part of the flack is because Israel is often painted as the oppressed nation surrounded by enemies (an image not without merit), and the Arabs as the warmongering renegade nations, but Israel isn't really doing alot to be pro-active about peace in the Middle East either.
The fact that you associate the word "racism" with discrimination against blacks, despite it obviously being incorrect, is even more telling. Tell you what. I won't give a shit that you're Jewish, if you're able to rationally and logically refute complaints about Israel without ever once using the word anti-semite.
It pisses me off when over-sensitive people leap to assumptions. In fact, never once in his admitedly flammitory post did he ever say ANYTHING about Jews, or Judaism or anything else. If anything, I'd guess that he's someone pissed off by Israel and US policy regarding it, which has not a damn fucking thing to do with anti-semitism. But you leaped at the chance to apply the word yourself.