I'm afraid you're correct. Geocities was leaps and bounds above the blogs that dominate today's internet. You know, back when people mostly made their websites with either crappy drag and drop tools that came free with your free space and when people used to used to make the extra-cool sites by tweaking them in Notepad.
That this article suggests GeoCities was a blogging network tells me this was written by someone who never visited sites hosted by GeoCities.
Really though, Y! has a horrible track record. The question is, will enough users stay to keep it viable? Will they trust Y! enough to keep putting their efforts as users into the site?
Be that as it may, the problem isn't the lawsuits themselves but the culture that fear has created in the medical community. I've worked in the field, and am now in IT support in that field. I can tell you right now that a lot of what goes on in the American medical system is people covering their arses in one way or another.
Does it really matter? Much like MRSA, I think a lot of times the inevitable Darwinian result happens when a vaccine or medication is ineffective against certain strains of a virus, bacteria, or other pathogen, which results in that version which resists the treatment being refined into what they like to call a "superbug" and having less of the vulnerable ones to blend into. I suspect it could be the case that what we're doing is turning a recessive gene in the bug into one that is standard for basic survival.
Vaccines have a great reputation, largely resulting from the highly successful campaigns with smallpox and polio. However, these were done in a less litigious era, and unlike today's medical practice, they could operate without the fear of gigantic lawsuits if something went wrong.
These reduced-effectiveness vaccines are like many "safer", "greener", or otherwise "less harmful" solutions; they have their drawbacks, but only a fool would try to push their solution by advertising those drawbacks. Now we're seeing two effects. A re-emergence of pertussis, and decreased public confidence in vaccines.
Yahoo! seems to have a business model that somehow thrives on buying sites, driving away all the users, and then shutting down the service. If this goes through, Tumblr will die like countless other sites bought by Y!
Not to mention Tumblr thriving specifically on photos that people don't actually own. Y! lawyers will destroy it if the executives don't.
The biggest issue at hand here is that these agencies and the government see it as law enforcement's "right" to be able to tap your communications, when in fact, the only reason tapping was ever used in the first place was because the technology was inherently insecure. I see no reason to enable their power trip by prohibiting one from intentionally protecting one's data and information use (the kind of thing the Fourth Amendment is specifically designed to protect) from the start.
You are assuming Service-X is proprietary and that nobody else can/does provide the services people want. What would get me to quit scratching my head is an open standard.
As we know, Blackberry's products are doing poorly in the marketplace as it stands right now, and rightly so given their failure to meet the demands of today's mobile device users. Create an open standard and you force everyone to step it up rather than giving the impression that they can rest on their laurels (in whatever quantity they may exist) as RIM has.
If RIM can't hack it on those terms, they can and should exit the market.
Email is the most broken, least secure communication system out there. It's also the slowest and the most filtered (primarily due to the lack of security, as there's no other way to deal with spam effectively). I only use it when I have to.
When I worked at a managed IT company in California, I found that the biggest recurring problem clients had was email. Much blame can be counted to either problems inherent in the system since the 70s or solutions to said problems.
I long since stopped using it for real communication. If I need to talk to someone, I drop a dime. I can't guarantee it got there, and I just don't frequently get anything important enough to justify digging through all the garbage. If I need to send them a file, I send it direct rather than hoping it gets through various filters, limits, and other problems with sending files via email. For anything else, instant messenger does the job infinitely better than email.
a slight problem with this: I'm not aware of any right that the City of Corona has to take away a license administered by the State DMV for a violation that doesn't, under state law or regulation, qualify as a license-taking offense.
Clearly you didn't understand my post. I was saying that until it's industry standard to include USB 3.0 on new computers the way 2.0 is now (and it was far from an overnight transition), we will continue seeing USB 2.0 as the highest speed USB ports on most new machines.
Until USB 3.0 ports are all over computers everywhere, USB 2.0 will be alive and kicking. I just hope they avoid the pitfall some manufacturers did, with some ports in the past having been 1.1 and only some being 2.0 on the same machine. That was a pain. I hope any new computer sold will have either all 2.0 or all 3.0 capable ports, I don't want that stupid design to repeat itself.
but the idiocy of the application makes me wish for an electromagnetic pulse to turn the application interesting too. I already want to see Segway users faceplant (I saw a video once and loved it), and this isn't helping the situation.
I think the fact that Wii was selling so well early on and has dropped off at this point just indicates that a large portion of the people who actually wanted the Wii have already acquired it by now.
No, they're professional astronauts with a hobby. I was a professional fireman for years, and sometimes at night I played Pokemon. That doesn't make me a professional Pokemon Trainer.
The eggshell rule fails here. The security cleanup was spurred by his actions, yes, but the mess was no larger than it already was. They simply came to be aware of it as a result of his actions. This is like saying that because he came in a door with no lock, he's now responsible for the fact that there is no lock because it's his fault people have become aware of it. That takes care of the first bullet you have posted. Just because they fixed it after his actions made them aware of it doesn't mean the problem shouldn't have been taken care of without his actions ever having occurred.
The second bullet is always the responsibility of the fixer. Quality control is what any responsible repairman does on any job.
The third bullet is irrelevant, since the amount of fuss is not his fault nor his responsibility.
The fourth bullet is just patently false. In no way were the costs his burden to bear, no matter how much he was responsible for them being aware of a hole in their, not his, system.
The fifth ignores justice entirely, so it fails all on its own.
The holes aren't his "damage". The holes were already there. I don't care if a whole wall was missing, if an individual walks into a building and does damage or steals, the damage or stealing is what they are responsible for. Building the wall or replacing the lock is not their responsibility at all.
wow, congratulations on being a fucking idiot. Perhaps you're ignoring the fact that not everyone lives in your happy little Windows-based corporate world, where an "intended use" itanium box that sucks faster than a decent PPC processor while costing exponentially more. Maybe some of us would like to see prices on new technologies come down before we die off due to old age. And how will this happen? you guessed it, mass production! How do we get mass production? by creating a demand that makes the chips we want to have become predominant in the industry! let's hear it for supply and demand. Fuck you.
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I'm afraid you're correct. Geocities was leaps and bounds above the blogs that dominate today's internet. You know, back when people mostly made their websites with either crappy drag and drop tools that came free with your free space and when people used to used to make the extra-cool sites by tweaking them in Notepad.
That this article suggests GeoCities was a blogging network tells me this was written by someone who never visited sites hosted by GeoCities.
Really though, Y! has a horrible track record. The question is, will enough users stay to keep it viable? Will they trust Y! enough to keep putting their efforts as users into the site?
Be that as it may, the problem isn't the lawsuits themselves but the culture that fear has created in the medical community. I've worked in the field, and am now in IT support in that field. I can tell you right now that a lot of what goes on in the American medical system is people covering their arses in one way or another.
Does it really matter? Much like MRSA, I think a lot of times the inevitable Darwinian result happens when a vaccine or medication is ineffective against certain strains of a virus, bacteria, or other pathogen, which results in that version which resists the treatment being refined into what they like to call a "superbug" and having less of the vulnerable ones to blend into. I suspect it could be the case that what we're doing is turning a recessive gene in the bug into one that is standard for basic survival.
Vaccines have a great reputation, largely resulting from the highly successful campaigns with smallpox and polio. However, these were done in a less litigious era, and unlike today's medical practice, they could operate without the fear of gigantic lawsuits if something went wrong.
These reduced-effectiveness vaccines are like many "safer", "greener", or otherwise "less harmful" solutions; they have their drawbacks, but only a fool would try to push their solution by advertising those drawbacks. Now we're seeing two effects. A re-emergence of pertussis, and decreased public confidence in vaccines.
Yahoo! seems to have a business model that somehow thrives on buying sites, driving away all the users, and then shutting down the service. If this goes through, Tumblr will die like countless other sites bought by Y!
Not to mention Tumblr thriving specifically on photos that people don't actually own. Y! lawyers will destroy it if the executives don't.
The biggest issue at hand here is that these agencies and the government see it as law enforcement's "right" to be able to tap your communications, when in fact, the only reason tapping was ever used in the first place was because the technology was inherently insecure. I see no reason to enable their power trip by prohibiting one from intentionally protecting one's data and information use (the kind of thing the Fourth Amendment is specifically designed to protect) from the start.
Yes, you're right. You are getting that confused.
You are assuming Service-X is proprietary and that nobody else can/does provide the services people want. What would get me to quit scratching my head is an open standard.
As we know, Blackberry's products are doing poorly in the marketplace as it stands right now, and rightly so given their failure to meet the demands of today's mobile device users. Create an open standard and you force everyone to step it up rather than giving the impression that they can rest on their laurels (in whatever quantity they may exist) as RIM has.
If RIM can't hack it on those terms, they can and should exit the market.
Email is the most broken, least secure communication system out there. It's also the slowest and the most filtered (primarily due to the lack of security, as there's no other way to deal with spam effectively). I only use it when I have to.
When I worked at a managed IT company in California, I found that the biggest recurring problem clients had was email. Much blame can be counted to either problems inherent in the system since the 70s or solutions to said problems.
I long since stopped using it for real communication. If I need to talk to someone, I drop a dime. I can't guarantee it got there, and I just don't frequently get anything important enough to justify digging through all the garbage. If I need to send them a file, I send it direct rather than hoping it gets through various filters, limits, and other problems with sending files via email. For anything else, instant messenger does the job infinitely better than email.
a slight problem with this: I'm not aware of any right that the City of Corona has to take away a license administered by the State DMV for a violation that doesn't, under state law or regulation, qualify as a license-taking offense.
The Constitution was the highest authority, but then the politicians went in and fixed that.
You're missing a fundamental point here. The Wii has a different target market than the PS and Xbox.
Clearly you didn't understand my post. I was saying that until it's industry standard to include USB 3.0 on new computers the way 2.0 is now (and it was far from an overnight transition), we will continue seeing USB 2.0 as the highest speed USB ports on most new machines.
Until USB 3.0 ports are all over computers everywhere, USB 2.0 will be alive and kicking. I just hope they avoid the pitfall some manufacturers did, with some ports in the past having been 1.1 and only some being 2.0 on the same machine. That was a pain. I hope any new computer sold will have either all 2.0 or all 3.0 capable ports, I don't want that stupid design to repeat itself.
but the idiocy of the application makes me wish for an electromagnetic pulse to turn the application interesting too. I already want to see Segway users faceplant (I saw a video once and loved it), and this isn't helping the situation.
I think the fact that Wii was selling so well early on and has dropped off at this point just indicates that a large portion of the people who actually wanted the Wii have already acquired it by now.
That would make me a professional multitasker!
Actually, judging from the videos of a spacewalk, they do weigh less than a duck.
No, they're professional astronauts with a hobby. I was a professional fireman for years, and sometimes at night I played Pokemon. That doesn't make me a professional Pokemon Trainer.
That's not the first amateur video from that height, I've seen the quality of the video astronauts shoot. If they're not amateur cameramen, who is?
The eggshell rule fails here. The security cleanup was spurred by his actions, yes, but the mess was no larger than it already was. They simply came to be aware of it as a result of his actions. This is like saying that because he came in a door with no lock, he's now responsible for the fact that there is no lock because it's his fault people have become aware of it. That takes care of the first bullet you have posted. Just because they fixed it after his actions made them aware of it doesn't mean the problem shouldn't have been taken care of without his actions ever having occurred.
The second bullet is always the responsibility of the fixer. Quality control is what any responsible repairman does on any job.
The third bullet is irrelevant, since the amount of fuss is not his fault nor his responsibility.
The fourth bullet is just patently false. In no way were the costs his burden to bear, no matter how much he was responsible for them being aware of a hole in their, not his, system.
The fifth ignores justice entirely, so it fails all on its own.
I already covered that under "damage". The holes themselves aren't his damage at all.
The holes aren't his "damage". The holes were already there. I don't care if a whole wall was missing, if an individual walks into a building and does damage or steals, the damage or stealing is what they are responsible for. Building the wall or replacing the lock is not their responsibility at all.
looks pretty nice. I particularly like the widescreen model.
wow, congratulations on being a fucking idiot. Perhaps you're ignoring the fact that not everyone lives in your happy little Windows-based corporate world, where an "intended use" itanium box that sucks faster than a decent PPC processor while costing exponentially more. Maybe some of us would like to see prices on new technologies come down before we die off due to old age. And how will this happen? you guessed it, mass production! How do we get mass production? by creating a demand that makes the chips we want to have become predominant in the industry! let's hear it for supply and demand. Fuck you.