Just one more reason why the continued control of ICANN over the internet is a wonderful thing. Just imagine if a world body got control and decided to put China, Iran, or apparently Australia on the board governing it.
This is just the opinion of one right-wing senator. It's not going to happen. You have a lot more neo-con nut jobs in your senate or lobbying it who propose the same or worse.
If you're insane you have backups of your email. If you take anything of the sort and there is a good chance you are in violation of multiple sections of company policy
Company policy isn't law. Would you refer to have selected correspondence presented as evidence against you in some dispute? Make email backups; actually paper prints are better, lawyers trust paper more than digital files. Don't announce it, just have them in reserve in case they try to bushwhack you. I presented some email in a wages dispute, the send timestamps showed I'd been at work (or at least doing work) when they claimed I had skipped out. (Yeah, sure they could have been faked easily, though they weren't.)
during your two last weeks.... Most people spend that time backing up code to personal computers or otherwise stealing IP belonging to the employer.
Bad idea; they'll be watching you. "Backup" all your files well in advance of giving notice. I put in a lot of late nights cleaning up my desk, filing stuff away, sanitising my email, making copies of interesting documents, before I left my resignation on the desk and walked out the door. Even in a less-hostile workplace where you might work out your notice, don't do anything at all questionable after you've given notice.
You can add non-iTMS purchased mp3s into your iTunes library.
Sure; but my point is that there is a substantial number of people who have bought the iTunes track, and thus might morally (if not legally) have a right to the lyrics as they'd probably get in vinyl, tape or CD formats. It's not necesary to lock down an app to be legitimate, just show that there is a real, legitimate use.
While I totally do not condone the activities of the RIAA and similar (to the contrary), you *can* usually read the lyrics when you actually buy the CD
This app was a plugin for iTunes, so it's meant to fill in the gap for those who, legally, bought the song online.
Any ISP that offers me a disc containing Real Player gets their office burnt down
That was Realplayer 5; back when it just played media. After MS started bundling WMP Real responded to the losss of income by turning their player into a Trojan horse for spyware; but before then it was simple and effective.
Yea, and it was hell to get it to work. Face it, computer are where they are because of Microsoft having the vision to make it an appliance, and not just some geek's toy.
Computers aren't appliances and MS pretending they are is the source of most of the problems we face online now. And MS did nothing except replicate and appropriate work done by others. Without MS we might all be using Macs, or BeOS, or Atari; any of which were much better at "just working" than Windows ever did.
This would make sense...except for the fact that Apple controls most of the DRM music market.
How many sites with streaming media now give you the choice of WMP, or nothing? With the player becoming ubiquitous, so does its proprietary format, and eveyone who wants to create or broadcast such will have to pay Bill.
version of Windows that contained absolutely no 'bundled' software... Imagine every OEM doing this, and choosing different products. Imagine sitting down infront of a computer and no longer having a guaranteed set of tools to work with - different browser, email client, file explorer etc.
That sounds rather like Win 3.1, and even Win95. (That was before Bill discovered the Internet.) You got a floppy with Trumpet Winsock, Eudora, Netscape, Real player from your ISP. Anyway, there was a free market and fast evolution of alternatives. And viruses couldn't assume you all had the same stack.
Unbundling media player helps no-one. It just hurts the user as they have to go out and download a media player rather than having it built in
By the time you get your OEM-installed Windows PC, everything, includung the media player, is a few revisions and security exploits behind and you have to spend a few hours updating everything, or get pwned. So actually the user is potentially harmed. It'd take no more and perhaps less time to download a non-MS player. Or more likely, you'd get a choice on CDR with your machine. However, the longer-term issue is that it makes Windows Media the default format. So media publishers can just supply WM files and ignore any alterantives. Anyone who wants to sell media has to pay MS. You want DRM with that? After a while, you won't have a choice.
The fuss is about the fact that the owners want Google to stop copying materials that were offered to their own customers for specific uses.
That's not "the fact". Google doesn't copy the materials (I'm talking about news.google.com), it just copies the headline and a line or two of text and perhaps a thumbnail of an image. If you actually want to read the article and see the pictures you have to go to the licenced customer's page. I fail to see any harm to the copyright owners. Only others who are making a news portal who fear Google directing people to other sources of the same news.
There's a separate issue with cached pages on the normal websearch; but Google will not cache that (or index it at all if you want) if you specify in robots.txt and you can't find much current news that way.
The way to get me to use public transport is to provide a service that is cost effective and actually *useful*.
The general idea is to make public transport more cost effective, by comparison, by making cars less so. Ideally, the response should be more people using public transport, and that (with more income and demand) eventually results in more frequent and convenient public transport. Unfortunately this doesn't happen overnight, even if it works there will be a period of some years when you both pay more to use cars and still have poor public transport. I personally ride a bike whenever possible and avoid both options.
We already have mileage based tracking without GPS. It's called an odometer.
Has no one read TFA? The idea is not simply mileage, you can achieve that just with taxing gasoline, and encourage fuel efficiency at the same time; but to charge different rates depending on congestion; e.g. if you go into othe city in rush hour, you pay more than if you go in at 3 am, or if you go on a trip on a rural backroad. At least then those who can reschedule their trips have an incentive to do so.
but it has gone unnoticed thus far. This [raises] the next question: has it really gone unnoticed for so long, or has the species only recently evolved?
TFA says that considering the long muscular tail, it may well be arboreal, not on the ground much, and is also probably nocturnal. So not that likely to bump into.
How about when your father is having a heart attack and there is no local ambulance? It happened. Having some government nanny controlling my accelerator is not welcome or appropriate
According to TFA, despite the stupid Slashdot heading, the device does not prevent you from speeing, it provides feedback, either increased pressure on the accelerator or an audible warning. So you can still drive as fast as you want. That being said I doubt that driving over 70mph in a panic to get someone to a hospital is a good idea. Count the seconds you may save vs the innocent people you may well kill in the process. Everyone thinks he is an above average driver. Half of you aren't, even less so when stressed.
Consider events from the viewpoint of the corporation you just maligned. Fairly or not, BellSouth offered a damaged building and in return, the government launched a taxpayer-funded program directly competing with BellSouth
It wasn't "in return", there was no linkage. If the only reason BS was offering their building (which was apparently damaged and useless to them anyway) was in expectation of preferential treatment, well screw them. It was a disaster, you don't offer aid and withdraw it if you don't get the kickback you expected. Well, you can but don't expect to get away without looking like a jerk.
As evidenced by the fact that it's capitalized, it's an official title. You don't "correct" the spelling of someone's title. That's be like "correcting" the spelling of their name.
Not quite, when it's a dictionary word you often see it converted. Eg, UK newspapers talk about the US Department of "Defence", Americans of the British Ministry of "Defense" . But if you're actually sending a letter to the organis[z]ation in question, it'd be polite to use their own spelling.
Out of curosity, since when would an American English user use the British English spelling? Also, would an "official diplomatic entity allow" a raw typo like: "growth and adaptation , based on" (extra space)
Either could be transcription errors; it was probably on paper when received. Possibly also if the letter was drafted in London they may use British spelling, at least for communication with the British govt. Diplomats are supposed ot be sensitive to nuances like that; though that level of cultural sensitivity seems unlikely with the current administration.
Is it just me, or is anyone else weirded out by the notion of carrying around a tin full of methanol to power up your gadgets? Can you really imagine being, say, on a plane or in a subway and whipping out a can of this stuff to "top off" your gadgets? Realistically, I think they'll have to develop some kind of disposable delivery system
And what about filling vehicles with inflammable liquid fuel? That'll never catch on. They need a sealed, disposable fuel unit to throw in the landfill.
Anyway, I'd rather not be juggling a laptop while trying to change its battery on the subway either. Though I'm sure there will be disposable containers, probably along the lines of inkjets, with 5 cents worth of alcohol in a package costing $10. And in two years we'll have articles here about people being arrested for bypassing the DRM chip that prevents you using a refill or another brand.
soap operas. They've just been arcing season after season since the 1950s
However, in most soap operas,(at least the ones I remember my mother watching) the arcs didn't have a higher function, and later arcs could walk all over their continuity (the Dallas shower revelation as a extreme). And most of all, soap operas never end, (though they might be cancelled, of course). Babylon 5 had an overall structure and the arcs converged to a conclusion.
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She was thrown out after two years when it was obvious what an idiot she was. You re-elected Bush. Who's dumb?
This is just the opinion of one right-wing senator. It's not going to happen. You have a lot more neo-con nut jobs in your senate or lobbying it who propose the same or worse.
Company policy isn't law. Would you refer to have selected correspondence presented as evidence against you in some dispute? Make email backups; actually paper prints are better, lawyers trust paper more than digital files. Don't announce it, just have them in reserve in case they try to bushwhack you. I presented some email in a wages dispute, the send timestamps showed I'd been at work (or at least doing work) when they claimed I had skipped out. (Yeah, sure they could have been faked easily, though they weren't.)
Bad idea; they'll be watching you. "Backup" all your files well in advance of giving notice. I put in a lot of late nights cleaning up my desk, filing stuff away, sanitising my email, making copies of interesting documents, before I left my resignation on the desk and walked out the door. Even in a less-hostile workplace where you might work out your notice, don't do anything at all questionable after you've given notice.
Sure; but my point is that there is a substantial number of people who have bought the iTunes track, and thus might morally (if not legally) have a right to the lyrics as they'd probably get in vinyl, tape or CD formats. It's not necesary to lock down an app to be legitimate, just show that there is a real, legitimate use.
This app was a plugin for iTunes, so it's meant to fill in the gap for those who, legally, bought the song online.
That was Realplayer 5; back when it just played media. After MS started bundling WMP Real responded to the losss of income by turning their player into a Trojan horse for spyware; but before then it was simple and effective.
Computers aren't appliances and MS pretending they are is the source of most of the problems we face online now. And MS did nothing except replicate and appropriate work done by others. Without MS we might all be using Macs, or BeOS, or Atari; any of which were much better at "just working" than Windows ever did.
How many sites with streaming media now give you the choice of WMP, or nothing? With the player becoming ubiquitous, so does its proprietary format, and eveyone who wants to create or broadcast such will have to pay Bill.
That sounds rather like Win 3.1, and even Win95. (That was before Bill discovered the Internet.) You got a floppy with Trumpet Winsock, Eudora, Netscape, Real player from your ISP. Anyway, there was a free market and fast evolution of alternatives. And viruses couldn't assume you all had the same stack.
By the time you get your OEM-installed Windows PC, everything, includung the media player, is a few revisions and security exploits behind and you have to spend a few hours updating everything, or get pwned. So actually the user is potentially harmed. It'd take no more and perhaps less time to download a non-MS player. Or more likely, you'd get a choice on CDR with your machine. However, the longer-term issue is that it makes Windows Media the default format. So media publishers can just supply WM files and ignore any alterantives. Anyone who wants to sell media has to pay MS. You want DRM with that? After a while, you won't have a choice.
Gimmick, yes; cheap, no.
That's not "the fact". Google doesn't copy the materials (I'm talking about news.google.com), it just copies the headline and a line or two of text and perhaps a thumbnail of an image. If you actually want to read the article and see the pictures you have to go to the licenced customer's page. I fail to see any harm to the copyright owners. Only others who are making a news portal who fear Google directing people to other sources of the same news.
There's a separate issue with cached pages on the normal websearch; but Google will not cache that (or index it at all if you want) if you specify in robots.txt and you can't find much current news that way.
The general idea is to make public transport more cost effective, by comparison, by making cars less so. Ideally, the response should be more people using public transport, and that (with more income and demand) eventually results in more frequent and convenient public transport. Unfortunately this doesn't happen overnight, even if it works there will be a period of some years when you both pay more to use cars and still have poor public transport. I personally ride a bike whenever possible and avoid both options.
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Bonhomie (French = good natured) Snout-in-troff [trough]
Has no one read TFA? The idea is not simply mileage, you can achieve that just with taxing gasoline, and encourage fuel efficiency at the same time; but to charge different rates depending on congestion; e.g. if you go into othe city in rush hour, you pay more than if you go in at 3 am, or if you go on a trip on a rural backroad. At least then those who can reschedule their trips have an incentive to do so.
For resale, perhaps. But if you're just buying it for yourself you should be okay.
TFA says that considering the long muscular tail, it may well be arboreal, not on the ground much, and is also probably nocturnal. So not that likely to bump into.
According to TFA, despite the stupid Slashdot heading, the device does not prevent you from speeing, it provides feedback, either increased pressure on the accelerator or an audible warning. So you can still drive as fast as you want. That being said I doubt that driving over 70mph in a panic to get someone to a hospital is a good idea. Count the seconds you may save vs the innocent people you may well kill in the process. Everyone thinks he is an above average driver. Half of you aren't, even less so when stressed.
It wasn't "in return", there was no linkage. If the only reason BS was offering their building (which was apparently damaged and useless to them anyway) was in expectation of preferential treatment, well screw them. It was a disaster, you don't offer aid and withdraw it if you don't get the kickback you expected. Well, you can but don't expect to get away without looking like a jerk.
Not quite, when it's a dictionary word you often see it converted. Eg, UK newspapers talk about the US Department of "Defence", Americans of the British Ministry of "Defense" . But if you're actually sending a letter to the organis[z]ation in question, it'd be polite to use their own spelling.
Either could be transcription errors; it was probably on paper when received. Possibly also if the letter was drafted in London they may use British spelling, at least for communication with the British govt. Diplomats are supposed ot be sensitive to nuances like that; though that level of cultural sensitivity seems unlikely with the current administration.
And what about filling vehicles with inflammable liquid fuel? That'll never catch on. They need a sealed, disposable fuel unit to throw in the landfill.
Anyway, I'd rather not be juggling a laptop while trying to change its battery on the subway either. Though I'm sure there will be disposable containers, probably along the lines of inkjets, with 5 cents worth of alcohol in a package costing $10. And in two years we'll have articles here about people being arrested for bypassing the DRM chip that prevents you using a refill or another brand.
However, in most soap operas,(at least the ones I remember my mother watching) the arcs didn't have a higher function, and later arcs could walk all over their continuity (the Dallas shower revelation as a extreme). And most of all, soap operas never end, (though they might be cancelled, of course). Babylon 5 had an overall structure and the arcs converged to a conclusion.
Well, first time they ran this two days ago they only mentioned Google: Google's New Click-to-Call Service.