Google is pretty compelling. Yahoo! is essentially a spam magnet. I'd setup an account there just to collect spam. Microsoft? They're probably going to either sue you for choosing one of the other two or find someone at the University sympathetic to their cause (read: in need of an endowment!)!
It's shitloads of fun when it doesn't effect you. Since you'll spend the rest of your days bundling fries in kids' meals, the sort of precedent this sets will likely never effect you. No wait, one day James Blunt may stop in on a tour and catch you humming "Beautiful" and slap you with a lawsuit for posting a Youtube of you singing it to your girlfriend. How far do you think your McDonald's wages will get you in a lawsuit? Ass!
I wondered how long it would take before someone got a dig in about the film and insinuated that it deserved it. Congrats! Within 5 posts too boot! We should really have a drinking game designed around shit like this.
While no police powers or state powers were used I contend having at least one local sheriff and apparently some local prosecutors involved in a campaign where they were explicitly asked to counter and engage those who were saying some thing the Obama campaign felt were at least anti-Obama leaves open the context of intimidation. I don't know about you but if my sheriff came over and said, "Sir, I think you're wrong about Obama and you should stop saying the things you're saying" official capacity or no, I'd be intimidated. It's a semantic argument and a convenient one to say "Hey, this was on their own time" but the opportunity for intimidation is ripe and they likely knew this.
I don't care who you vote for but put these kinds of volunteers on the phones where their very presence and stature in the community is completely unknown to whoever they are talking to.
The bigger point is that BOTH parties do this. There's a tendency to think Obama's people are pure in this but I doubt McCain stole his own campaign's laptop. Not to mention Obama supporters going to the police to have dissenting voices intimidated in Missouri. This is politics. It's dirty.
Singing? I can see it now: iTunes for cows! Or worse, ""Are you losing cows due to dropped calls to your bovine herd? Download your cattle's favorite ringtones from the Mozy Network! Mozy: Less deadspots than the other cattle network!"
Seems like the recent royalty changes might come into play here. Is MySpace going to pay royalties to the industry based on who listens to what? How does listening on MySpace really differ from Pandora? I hope Pandora is paying attention. They may have a case here.
The last 4 or so have been the worse. Elections are bringing out the worst in Americans, in my opinion. Gone are the days of agreeing to disagree, understanding compromise, accepting the fact that your friend might just vote the other way. Now it's war. It's getting to the point where you just don't bring it up in polite conversation. Yes, to an extent it's always been thus but peruse Slashdot and any other discussion board and you'll see people nearly advocating the death of the other side. We have a long way to go before we're united.
Just simply deciding that without apps there's no app marketplace. It'd be different if there were a framework in place that clearly outlined what is and isn't acceptable. That wasn't there and now appears to be sort of back-filled.
It's not as simple as parroting back party line. They buy into the explanations and the rebuke to promote their side. Essentially, they become teammates and fans so absorbed in the collective they can't see any good in the other side. This wasn't always so dogmatic but the current political state is virtually beyond repair. We will likely never come together as a people simply by debate because few are intellectually honest enough for self-examination.
Look the number of developers for Apple apps has to be finite. Pretty damn finite relative to other markets. Yes some of them are making some bank but these developers should just stop updating their apps. Or better yet, all agree to place a notice in their next update in protest. This could be stopped if they worked together.
True. But when you resort to this type of leveraging don't come on Slashdot and rant about "oh, they're just anti-Microsoft!" Yeah, just like we're anti-kicking-puppies, anti-smacking women around, and anti-many things that technically people can get away with but shouldn't.
I'd rather get my MBA from someone who gives me the tools to actually compete in the market place. Not teach me ways to circumvent competition and leverage market share through these tactics. There's already a university for this. It's called the street. I'm surprised these guys aren't named Guido and Mugsy.
Actually it does compute. The difference is he didn't pluck the "postcard" out of the air nor did he intercept it. He reset her password. Essentially, he didn't capture anything in transit, he broke into her account.
As for your political rant, OT.
The important thing is that prosecution comes. Regardless of the politics involved, if there's no charges then any online email service is essentially useless for private communication. Not to mention the law on such matters doesn't "matter."
Kinda surprised I was modded "Flamebait." As someone who has supported non-switch/router related apps from Cisco I can tell you that things like this can be problematic. They simply don't compare to their core offerings.
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Google is pretty compelling. Yahoo! is essentially a spam magnet. I'd setup an account there just to collect spam. Microsoft? They're probably going to either sue you for choosing one of the other two or find someone at the University sympathetic to their cause (read: in need of an endowment!)!
Exactly. Now they're saying, "Well now the town will have 2 networks!" Yeah, you have to COMPETE now Asshat! WTF do these people come from?
uh-huh...you're silly!
It's shitloads of fun when it doesn't effect you. Since you'll spend the rest of your days bundling fries in kids' meals, the sort of precedent this sets will likely never effect you. No wait, one day James Blunt may stop in on a tour and catch you humming "Beautiful" and slap you with a lawsuit for posting a Youtube of you singing it to your girlfriend. How far do you think your McDonald's wages will get you in a lawsuit? Ass!
I wondered how long it would take before someone got a dig in about the film and insinuated that it deserved it. Congrats! Within 5 posts too boot! We should really have a drinking game designed around shit like this.
While no police powers or state powers were used I contend having at least one local sheriff and apparently some local prosecutors involved in a campaign where they were explicitly asked to counter and engage those who were saying some thing the Obama campaign felt were at least anti-Obama leaves open the context of intimidation. I don't know about you but if my sheriff came over and said, "Sir, I think you're wrong about Obama and you should stop saying the things you're saying" official capacity or no, I'd be intimidated. It's a semantic argument and a convenient one to say "Hey, this was on their own time" but the opportunity for intimidation is ripe and they likely knew this.
I don't care who you vote for but put these kinds of volunteers on the phones where their very presence and stature in the community is completely unknown to whoever they are talking to.
The bigger point is that BOTH parties do this. There's a tendency to think Obama's people are pure in this but I doubt McCain stole his own campaign's laptop. Not to mention Obama supporters going to the police to have dissenting voices intimidated in Missouri. This is politics. It's dirty.
Singing? I can see it now: iTunes for cows! Or worse,
""Are you losing cows due to dropped calls to your bovine herd? Download your cattle's favorite ringtones from the Mozy Network! Mozy: Less deadspots than the other cattle network!"
Dude, if you're that hung up you need a date.
Or a beer...
What is going on with news these days? Go to Google's News page and you get blogs and editorials on the page, unnoted!
"See the Internet is a series of tubes! And you have to understand that those tubes can get clogged up!"
OH SHIT that's funny!
Seems like the recent royalty changes might come into play here. Is MySpace going to pay royalties to the industry based on who listens to what? How does listening on MySpace really differ from Pandora? I hope Pandora is paying attention. They may have a case here.
At least we may get a hot VP!
The last 4 or so have been the worse. Elections are bringing out the worst in Americans, in my opinion. Gone are the days of agreeing to disagree, understanding compromise, accepting the fact that your friend might just vote the other way. Now it's war. It's getting to the point where you just don't bring it up in polite conversation. Yes, to an extent it's always been thus but peruse Slashdot and any other discussion board and you'll see people nearly advocating the death of the other side. We have a long way to go before we're united.
Just simply deciding that without apps there's no app marketplace. It'd be different if there were a framework in place that clearly outlined what is and isn't acceptable. That wasn't there and now appears to be sort of back-filled.
It's not as simple as parroting back party line. They buy into the explanations and the rebuke to promote their side. Essentially, they become teammates and fans so absorbed in the collective they can't see any good in the other side. This wasn't always so dogmatic but the current political state is virtually beyond repair. We will likely never come together as a people simply by debate because few are intellectually honest enough for self-examination.
Look the number of developers for Apple apps has to be finite. Pretty damn finite relative to other markets. Yes some of them are making some bank but these developers should just stop updating their apps. Or better yet, all agree to place a notice in their next update in protest. This could be stopped if they worked together.
True. But when you resort to this type of leveraging don't come on Slashdot and rant about "oh, they're just anti-Microsoft!" Yeah, just like we're anti-kicking-puppies, anti-smacking women around, and anti-many things that technically people can get away with but shouldn't.
I'd rather get my MBA from someone who gives me the tools to actually compete in the market place. Not teach me ways to circumvent competition and leverage market share through these tactics. There's already a university for this. It's called the street. I'm surprised these guys aren't named Guido and Mugsy.
Just in time for the rumored layoffs at eBay. Not a good time to be cutting services. I can understand why but OTOH, PP has it's share of problems.
Actually it does compute. The difference is he didn't pluck the "postcard" out of the air nor did he intercept it. He reset her password. Essentially, he didn't capture anything in transit, he broke into her account.
As for your political rant, OT.
The important thing is that prosecution comes. Regardless of the politics involved, if there's no charges then any online email service is essentially useless for private communication. Not to mention the law on such matters doesn't "matter."
Kinda surprised I was modded "Flamebait." As someone who has supported non-switch/router related apps from Cisco I can tell you that things like this can be problematic. They simply don't compare to their core offerings.