Within a given socioeconomic group, yes the laws are generally applied equally. Between disparate socioeconomic groups, however, this is simply not the case. Butthead.
If only the Mozilla Foundation had the balls to include an ad blocker which dealt with Google Adwords
I like Google AdWords. Well, perhaps it's better to say that I don't dislike them. They are unobtrusive, easy on my battery/processor temp, and occasionally useful. I see no reason to block them.
It won 6 academy awards, including best picture... Hard to say that it wasn't very good
Not hard to say at all. I watched it, and at the end wanted my 2 hours back. I'm not really sure how the academy selects best picture, but I'm certain that their standards and mine are not the same.
It is not unreasonable to restrict choices to things that only work at least as well 99% perfectly. Flash does not cross that threshold on my laptop, I do not expect it to even approach that threshold on my iPhone. Sure there are jackasses who will call me a fanboy (or 'fanboi' which is just a stupid spelling), but I _do not want_ flash on my iPhone. I allow it to run infrequently, and only when there is no other option on my laptop (frankly, I wish I had the same h.264 hardware decoder on my laptop that I do on my phone, and that all web video solutions used straight h264 in an MP4 container, my laptop's battery would certainly be grateful). When I'm browsing the internet on my phone, I certainly do not want to waste the precious little bandwith, and precious little processor time/battery capacity on an aggravatingly slow "cross platform" API.
I watch many programs on the local TV station's web site [abc.net.au] here and they all work smoothly and perfectly.
That's only because Flash performance is inversely related to the Northern latitude of the device performing it (multiplied by the displacement volume of the device). Down under there, the Northern latitude is negative so you're in good shape. Here in New York - flash is barely tolerable; for grannies in Florida, it works reasonably well. Just be thankful you live where you do.
The users want Flash that works the same way, and with the same level of performance and reliability that they have on their PCs. Turns out, they can't actually get that on their mobile phone. Yeah, Apple is kind of being a dick to Adobe, by not letting them play in their sandbox, but really - Flash is a load of crap on a desktop OS. It uses all available processor for whatever task it's trying to accomplish. I do not want something with those characteristics on a device that I don't keep plugged in all time.
The thing is with internet advertising that the rate of effective conversions of ads is generally measured in small (hundreths, thousandths) fractions of a percent. So while you may be annoyed, the marketing/advertising folks (who are _very_ good at measuring the effectiveness of online ad campaigns) undoubtedly see a larger rate of conversions from this type of ad (say 0.04% versus 0.01% (these numbers were generated rectally, and are purely for example)), and as a result are repeating the strategy. These folks are absolutely driven by the numbers that they measure. Even if they get more annoying for you, there is no doubt that it's working, at least as far as the advertisers are concerned.
Adderall is composed of Amphetamine and Dextroamphetamine. It's speed, plain and simple. Taken at a controlled dosage on a controlled schedule, it is not likely to cause particularly severe problems (as far as modern medicine knows, anyway). Taken in an uncontrolled fashion, without a schedule, it can easily lead to addiction and abuse, and I'm reasonably certain that it can cause other physiological issues (high doses of Adderall can't be good for your heart). A friend of mine abused this stuff, and he had all the signs of a speed freak (he'd go on binges of the stuff and stay up for days). When his monthly prescription ran out, he'd switch to other stimulants to deal with the withdrawal (cocaine and ecstasy). I suppose he's lucky that meth isn't as readily available here on the east coast as it is on the west, or he may have killed himself already. IANAD, TINMA.
I wouldn't really use the fatality rates of Formula 1 drivers as an example of zero- or near-zero-fatality car design. That fatality rate (of zero), while possibly helped a bit by safety features, is helped out quite a bit more by the removal of idiot drivers. The test to be allowed to race a Formula 1 is _much_ harder than the test to drive a normal car, and selects out the idiots quite effectively. I guarantee that if you put a sampling of non-professional drivers in Formula 1 cars and sent them to the tracks to drive at Formula 1 speeds (together), you could get a fatality in no time.
My question is whether they untag photos depicting violations by the police department. If they had this in NYC, I'd submit a photo of every cop I see driving while talking on a cell phone (without a hands-free) - I'd be able to submit at least 10 a day.
It seems reasonable to me to infer from those dozen routers that I've encountered (all with the same, Verizon branded firmware installed) that most Verizon ActionTec routers would come with the same Verizon branded firmware installed which came from the factory with the password set to "password" - Verizon techs were (I presume this has changed, given this article) trained to change it to "password1" when they installed the device on site (that's the only setting they change). The router also comes with WEP enabled on the WiFi, and the password set to the (wired, internal) mac address of the device (out of the box, not done by the tech). This was all true approximately 3 years ago, when I was doing tech support for small businesses in an area with good accessibility to FiOS. Feel free to question my credibility - I have very little interest in providing any proof for this, it was merely an anecdote from my experience with dealing with those (crappy) Verizon routers that I was relaying.
No argument there. The problem, however, is that censorship by a private company of something that doesn't belong isn't necessarily evil. A large portion of comments here seem to have such a black and white view of this situation that Apple is somehow trying to actually hide information published by Consumer Reports from the general population. That is simply a load of male bovine excrement. It's their support board, and Apple is removing the fucking flame wars that have been started about the report. They're not even that effective in their censorship (if you take a quick gander at the discussion boards, there are plenty of mentions and links to the Consumer Reports' findings, and a handful of flame wars that have no place on a support board and *should* be removed). Apple is not Big Brother - they can't be, they simply do not have the power. Folks need to stop crying wolf and keep their eyes peeled on those who *do* have the power (the federal government).
Aikido is about control - even if you don't know how to fall - unless the person sending you to the ground intends for you to land on your neck - the worst case is generally that you get the wind knocked out of you.
That right there is the difference. Apple did not invite people to write on their board freely. The board in question is a support board, intended for users and admins help other users solve problems. Talking about what Consumer Reports says or doesn't say about the iPhone 4 has absolutely _nothing_ to do with support; it's just whining, and doesn't belong on a support board. If it were a bulletin board that I used to provide support services to my customers, I'd remove stuff like that too.
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Within a given socioeconomic group, yes the laws are generally applied equally. Between disparate socioeconomic groups, however, this is simply not the case. Butthead.
In principal, the laws of the USA apply to everyone equally. In practice, the laws of the USA are not applied to everyone equally.
If only the Mozilla Foundation had the balls to include an ad blocker which dealt with Google Adwords
I like Google AdWords. Well, perhaps it's better to say that I don't dislike them. They are unobtrusive, easy on my battery/processor temp, and occasionally useful. I see no reason to block them.
It won 6 academy awards, including best picture... Hard to say that it wasn't very good
Not hard to say at all. I watched it, and at the end wanted my 2 hours back. I'm not really sure how the academy selects best picture, but I'm certain that their standards and mine are not the same.
It is not unreasonable to restrict choices to things that only work at least as well 99% perfectly. Flash does not cross that threshold on my laptop, I do not expect it to even approach that threshold on my iPhone. Sure there are jackasses who will call me a fanboy (or 'fanboi' which is just a stupid spelling), but I _do not want_ flash on my iPhone. I allow it to run infrequently, and only when there is no other option on my laptop (frankly, I wish I had the same h.264 hardware decoder on my laptop that I do on my phone, and that all web video solutions used straight h264 in an MP4 container, my laptop's battery would certainly be grateful). When I'm browsing the internet on my phone, I certainly do not want to waste the precious little bandwith, and precious little processor time/battery capacity on an aggravatingly slow "cross platform" API.
I watch many programs on the local TV station's web site [abc.net.au] here and they all work smoothly and perfectly.
That's only because Flash performance is inversely related to the Northern latitude of the device performing it (multiplied by the displacement volume of the device). Down under there, the Northern latitude is negative so you're in good shape. Here in New York - flash is barely tolerable; for grannies in Florida, it works reasonably well. Just be thankful you live where you do.
The users want Flash that works the same way, and with the same level of performance and reliability that they have on their PCs. Turns out, they can't actually get that on their mobile phone. Yeah, Apple is kind of being a dick to Adobe, by not letting them play in their sandbox, but really - Flash is a load of crap on a desktop OS. It uses all available processor for whatever task it's trying to accomplish. I do not want something with those characteristics on a device that I don't keep plugged in all time.
Voice communication, however, is case-insensitive.
Nonsense - I yell all my capital letters.
Quite a bit cheaper, though.
The thing is with internet advertising that the rate of effective conversions of ads is generally measured in small (hundreths, thousandths) fractions of a percent. So while you may be annoyed, the marketing/advertising folks (who are _very_ good at measuring the effectiveness of online ad campaigns) undoubtedly see a larger rate of conversions from this type of ad (say 0.04% versus 0.01% (these numbers were generated rectally, and are purely for example)), and as a result are repeating the strategy. These folks are absolutely driven by the numbers that they measure. Even if they get more annoying for you, there is no doubt that it's working, at least as far as the advertisers are concerned.
if you're reading a game review with a banner ad for that game across the top of it, it's probably not a real review
For once, an argument _against_ running AdBlock in Firefox.
I highly recommend The Vice Guide to North Korea for some insight into what their citizens can and can't do.
Adderall is composed of Amphetamine and Dextroamphetamine. It's speed, plain and simple. Taken at a controlled dosage on a controlled schedule, it is not likely to cause particularly severe problems (as far as modern medicine knows, anyway). Taken in an uncontrolled fashion, without a schedule, it can easily lead to addiction and abuse, and I'm reasonably certain that it can cause other physiological issues (high doses of Adderall can't be good for your heart). A friend of mine abused this stuff, and he had all the signs of a speed freak (he'd go on binges of the stuff and stay up for days). When his monthly prescription ran out, he'd switch to other stimulants to deal with the withdrawal (cocaine and ecstasy). I suppose he's lucky that meth isn't as readily available here on the east coast as it is on the west, or he may have killed himself already. IANAD, TINMA.
You're absolutely right. I'm sure they didn't think of that massive loophole before putting this site together...
But you do realize that if you had the key to a building, and were fired, and refused to hand those keys over, you wouldn't be going to prison, right?
You would go to prison if the set of keys you had was the only set of keys, and your refusal to hand them over prevented the business from operating.
I wouldn't really use the fatality rates of Formula 1 drivers as an example of zero- or near-zero-fatality car design. That fatality rate (of zero), while possibly helped a bit by safety features, is helped out quite a bit more by the removal of idiot drivers. The test to be allowed to race a Formula 1 is _much_ harder than the test to drive a normal car, and selects out the idiots quite effectively. I guarantee that if you put a sampling of non-professional drivers in Formula 1 cars and sent them to the tracks to drive at Formula 1 speeds (together), you could get a fatality in no time.
My question is whether they untag photos depicting violations by the police department. If they had this in NYC, I'd submit a photo of every cop I see driving while talking on a cell phone (without a hands-free) - I'd be able to submit at least 10 a day.
It seems reasonable to me to infer from those dozen routers that I've encountered (all with the same, Verizon branded firmware installed) that most Verizon ActionTec routers would come with the same Verizon branded firmware installed which came from the factory with the password set to "password" - Verizon techs were (I presume this has changed, given this article) trained to change it to "password1" when they installed the device on site (that's the only setting they change). The router also comes with WEP enabled on the WiFi, and the password set to the (wired, internal) mac address of the device (out of the box, not done by the tech). This was all true approximately 3 years ago, when I was doing tech support for small businesses in an area with good accessibility to FiOS. Feel free to question my credibility - I have very little interest in providing any proof for this, it was merely an anecdote from my experience with dealing with those (crappy) Verizon routers that I was relaying.
Every ActionTec router from Verizon that i've encountered (a dozen or so) had remote administrative access disabled by default.
BY DEFINITION, IT IS CENSORSHIP.
No argument there. The problem, however, is that censorship by a private company of something that doesn't belong isn't necessarily evil. A large portion of comments here seem to have such a black and white view of this situation that Apple is somehow trying to actually hide information published by Consumer Reports from the general population. That is simply a load of male bovine excrement. It's their support board, and Apple is removing the fucking flame wars that have been started about the report. They're not even that effective in their censorship (if you take a quick gander at the discussion boards, there are plenty of mentions and links to the Consumer Reports' findings, and a handful of flame wars that have no place on a support board and *should* be removed). Apple is not Big Brother - they can't be, they simply do not have the power. Folks need to stop crying wolf and keep their eyes peeled on those who *do* have the power (the federal government).
Aikido is about control - even if you don't know how to fall - unless the person sending you to the ground intends for you to land on your neck - the worst case is generally that you get the wind knocked out of you.
Krav Maga.
If I invite people to write on my car freely
That right there is the difference. Apple did not invite people to write on their board freely. The board in question is a support board, intended for users and admins help other users solve problems. Talking about what Consumer Reports says or doesn't say about the iPhone 4 has absolutely _nothing_ to do with support; it's just whining, and doesn't belong on a support board. If it were a bulletin board that I used to provide support services to my customers, I'd remove stuff like that too.
I'm sure weblog will support it.
Meant to say I'm sure weblog will support it, not weblog!
Yeah - that really clears it up...
they have their own technologies and agendas to promote, just like Apple has is pushing its tech and agenda with iOS ...
You mean just like Apple is pushing HTML 5?