There's also nothing to keep them from having you locked up until you either cough up the passphrase to the hidden volume or it's been long enough for them to be convinced there isn't one.
I assumed (wrongly, it seems) that there would be ads for at least things related to WoW or for Blizzard/Vivendi upsells. I haven't played the game because I am not willing to help support a company that used the DMCA to (try to) shut down an open source hobbyist server project.
Saying "Apple has always had its platform, which has been the "Apple Platform" from top to bottom" ignores the very open Apple II series that existed prior to the Mac (and prior to Sculley and Jobs having the reins). The points you make are very salient. But Apple has to appear to be open in the ways you describe to survive as a minority player--it doesn't mean they don't seek domination by any means possible. Ask the people pursued by Apple legal for things like making third party DVD players work with software purchased from Apple or for daring to write about their upcoming products how kind and cuddly and dedicated to the good of humankind Apple really is.
Says the erudite scholar. Apple doesn't have the market share to pull off what Microsoft has done, and is too small to be considered a monopoly outside of their boutique niche. But if they did have MS' market share, they would be doing everything they can get away with. Oh, nice straw man with the file formats, which I didn't mention. But since you brought it up, Apple did mangle those MPEG standards with DRM, and (of course), gets a pass for it because they're Apple.
I've always said that Apple is just like Microsoft, only not as good at it. Of course, saying so is a ticked to -1 as Apple apologists empty their clips of mod points into any post that doesn't hail Steve Jobs as the savior of computing. But I've got the karma:).
I would much rather have a surveillance system like the one the article describes in place than an armed national guard member on every corner.
Ah, but the "armed national guard member" doesn't have a perfect memory and because of resource limitations, can't really exist on "every corner." But an "armed national guard member" can be dispatched to round people up either in real-time or after a review of the video. I'd rather that ubiquitous surveillance be as obvious as that, so that maybe the sheep get a little outraged and the "you don't have any right to privacy" and "if you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear" apologists don't end up getting the world they want.
. . . goes CR one better -- they collect subscription fees, and get the content (reviews of contractors and such) from the subscribers who are paying the fees.
is nice, but until they're hoisted on a gallows (or facing a firing squad, in a pinch), it's not quite good enough, but a step in the right general direction. Hang 'em high--after all, they can then say their penis pills caused them to he hung (yeah, hanged, I know, I know).
If they tried to actually charge that "investigation fee" to a card that was the subject of a chargeback, that would probably be the straw that would cost them their merchant account.
That, and other colleges charge "computing fees" of hundreds of dollars a semester. It's definitely reasonable for a student to expect a working infrastructure can be kept running for the price of a few hundred to a thousand smackeroonies per student per year.
It doesn't have to "suck" but it should be challenging. But that competitive "customer service" mentality, while great for the registration center and the bursar, doesn't exactly serve to strengthen standards when it inevitably leaks into evaluation and grading.
It's an invalid comparison--politicians are public figures. Even so, such an accusation, if unfounded, would die out on its own. Attempts at damage control would encourage the "where there's smoke, there's fire" perception, right or not.
I have no familiarity whatsoever with Israeli politics, but I know enough about human nature to believe that there must be something to the "slander" given that the targets are working so hard to suppress it.
You're obviously part of the old guard (as am I). Students are "customers" now, for whose tuition dollars there is tremendous competition, and the "college experience" is a product, along with the degree.
We were definitely using different meanings for call detail, I see, thanks. If indeed the retention were only of the connection to the ISP itself, that would be fairly innocuous. But this seems to indicate retention of much more detail than that (although they don't refer to it as call detail).
What use are "call detail records" of a session obfuscated through TOR? I stand by my point that the data retention act is reflective of a lack of "openness" in Europe, refuting the OP's assertion that Europe is particularly open with respect to encryption. Also, whether or not the communication is encrypted can often be inferred from the protocol used (the most trivial example being HTTPS). Never was "call detail" of what sites a person visited needed for billing purposes, so I don't know what relevance that has.
I haven't read the patent, but just like discount for X = surcharge for not(X), priority for X = degradation for not(X). No matter what cute lingual tricks it's couched in, it's still deliberately slowing shipment for some customers. This assumes a scarcity of resources such that no resources are idling -- if no such scarcity exists, then such deprioritization (or prioritization, depending on whose side of the argument one is on), then the idea is necessarily wasteful.
It's not. It's doing the same thing that's always been done except now "with a computer," "on the Internet." Of course, that won't stop the corrupt, incompetent USPTO from granting a patent.
If a HR manager even considers taking into account the search results from googling somebodies name - apart from maybe that news report of his conviction of mass-murder ten years ago - he isn't the kind of guy you want to work for. I hate to break it to you, but nearly everybody does this now. Most aren't stupid enough to admit it to candidates.
That probably stopped or at least slowed when the word got out to check prices with a fresh browser session with no cookies, and without logging in. They theoretically could track by IP address, but AOL and others aggregate web traffic into proxies, making this less practicable.
Guess it was pretty stupid of them to patent them and put themselves in the limelight for customer hostile practices, then, wasn't it? The good news for Amazon here is that people have amazingly short memories, but their timing might cost them a few bucks if this gets picked up on by someone like Walt Mossberg.
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There's also nothing to keep them from having you locked up until you either cough up the passphrase to the hidden volume or it's been long enough for them to be convinced there isn't one.
I assumed (wrongly, it seems) that there would be ads for at least things related to WoW or for Blizzard/Vivendi upsells. I haven't played the game because I am not willing to help support a company that used the DMCA to (try to) shut down an open source hobbyist server project.
If Iran ever really gets close, the facilities are going to be taken out by the IDF.
Saying "Apple has always had its platform, which has been the "Apple Platform" from top to bottom" ignores the very open Apple II series that existed prior to the Mac (and prior to Sculley and Jobs having the reins). The points you make are very salient. But Apple has to appear to be open in the ways you describe to survive as a minority player--it doesn't mean they don't seek domination by any means possible. Ask the people pursued by Apple legal for things like making third party DVD players work with software purchased from Apple or for daring to write about their upcoming products how kind and cuddly and dedicated to the good of humankind Apple really is.
Says the erudite scholar. Apple doesn't have the market share to pull off what Microsoft has done, and is too small to be considered a monopoly outside of their boutique niche. But if they did have MS' market share, they would be doing everything they can get away with. Oh, nice straw man with the file formats, which I didn't mention. But since you brought it up, Apple did mangle those MPEG standards with DRM, and (of course), gets a pass for it because they're Apple.
I've always said that Apple is just like Microsoft, only not as good at it. Of course, saying so is a ticked to -1 as Apple apologists empty their clips of mod points into any post that doesn't hail Steve Jobs as the savior of computing. But I've got the karma :).
Something about "limited times," but the Supreme Court "justices" effectively took that part out.
Doesn't WoW have in game ads?
. . . goes CR one better -- they collect subscription fees, and get the content (reviews of contractors and such) from the subscribers who are paying the fees.
Do those trigger the self-destruct feature or something? Who in the hell do they think they are?
is nice, but until they're hoisted on a gallows (or facing a firing squad, in a pinch), it's not quite good enough, but a step in the right general direction. Hang 'em high--after all, they can then say their penis pills caused them to he hung (yeah, hanged, I know, I know).
If they tried to actually charge that "investigation fee" to a card that was the subject of a chargeback, that would probably be the straw that would cost them their merchant account.
That, and other colleges charge "computing fees" of hundreds of dollars a semester. It's definitely reasonable for a student to expect a working infrastructure can be kept running for the price of a few hundred to a thousand smackeroonies per student per year.
It doesn't have to "suck" but it should be challenging. But that competitive "customer service" mentality, while great for the registration center and the bursar, doesn't exactly serve to strengthen standards when it inevitably leaks into evaluation and grading.
It's an invalid comparison--politicians are public figures. Even so, such an accusation, if unfounded, would die out on its own. Attempts at damage control would encourage the "where there's smoke, there's fire" perception, right or not.
I have no familiarity whatsoever with Israeli politics, but I know enough about human nature to believe that there must be something to the "slander" given that the targets are working so hard to suppress it.
You're obviously part of the old guard (as am I). Students are "customers" now, for whose tuition dollars there is tremendous competition, and the "college experience" is a product, along with the degree.
We were definitely using different meanings for call detail, I see, thanks. If indeed the retention were only of the connection to the ISP itself, that would be fairly innocuous. But this seems to indicate retention of much more detail than that (although they don't refer to it as call detail).
What use are "call detail records" of a session obfuscated through TOR? I stand by my point that the data retention act is reflective of a lack of "openness" in Europe, refuting the OP's assertion that Europe is particularly open with respect to encryption. Also, whether or not the communication is encrypted can often be inferred from the protocol used (the most trivial example being HTTPS). Never was "call detail" of what sites a person visited needed for billing purposes, so I don't know what relevance that has.
I haven't read the patent, but just like discount for X = surcharge for not(X), priority for X = degradation for not(X). No matter what cute lingual tricks it's couched in, it's still deliberately slowing shipment for some customers. This assumes a scarcity of resources such that no resources are idling -- if no such scarcity exists, then such deprioritization (or prioritization, depending on whose side of the argument one is on), then the idea is necessarily wasteful.
It's not. It's doing the same thing that's always been done except now "with a computer," "on the Internet." Of course, that won't stop the corrupt, incompetent USPTO from granting a patent.
That probably stopped or at least slowed when the word got out to check prices with a fresh browser session with no cookies, and without logging in. They theoretically could track by IP address, but AOL and others aggregate web traffic into proxies, making this less practicable.
Guess it was pretty stupid of them to patent them and put themselves in the limelight for customer hostile practices, then, wasn't it? The good news for Amazon here is that people have amazingly short memories, but their timing might cost them a few bucks if this gets picked up on by someone like Walt Mossberg.