Simulated sex should be our next challenge, sex has already helped us, and will continue to help us, in pushing the limits of what's technologically possible.
Nice Straw Man. Most consumers don't even care about Usenet. If they can find the information/porn they're looking for with Google, that's probably good enough for them.
That's what self-regulation is about. It's about alternatives. If you happened to be an AOL user of Usenet (which I doubt), depending on your reasons for using of it, I bet there are thousands of alternatives that are at your disposal that can achieve the same aim.
Can someone explain to me how MLB would make more money licensing ONE company to do games than it would licensing MANY companies to do games?
If you rent out a piece of property for seven years to ONE tenant instead of MANY different tenants. That one tenant will be much more likely to pay more money for that land and he'll be much more likely to build things on that land (especially if he knows he won't have to share those improvements with others).
That's the argument anyway. I don't how it will actually work out with MLB in practice.
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In related news, 99.9% of email traffic was found to be used for illegal purposes. This was found after I registered my email address with the largest 60 mailing lists on the World Wide Web.
It is reasonable to assume that smaller mailing lists and one-on-one email communications will not contain a significant number of users, so I did not bother to include them in my study.
While researchers views might be that depressing, the beliefs of medical doctors is quite encouraging. Take a look at this survey [businesswire.com].
By the way, businesswire.com is not a news wire service, it's a web site on which you pay to get your "news" published. HCD is not a traditional polling company, it's a DOT com company that only does online polls. And the survey was not meant to be balanced, it was taken during the holiday season and it was sponsored by a religious organization.
"I think Starbucks realized if you charge a lot of money for your product and call it better, yuppies will flock to it and become coffee snobs. "
That's part of it, but Starbucks is also a great place where you can get some work done, or meet with people.
Good lighthing. Clean bathrooms. Comfortable sitting areas. Reliable heating/air conditioning. A place to plug in your laptop and connect to the web. A coffee attendant that doesn't stare you down after you've been sitting there for more than two hours. And it's probably one of the only coffee shops I know where their employees get decent benefits.
If you're independent and on the go, you should try finding office space for a better deal.
"Once laptops start including onboard GPS,
--- /.ers will scream that the EvilGummint(tm) is trying to track everyone. "
Only if the government makes it mandatory to include onboard GPS. If the government doesn't mandate it, people will think of GPS onboard as a feature and not a government conspiracy. This GPS thing will become mainstream soon enough because people will want it, not because they're coerced into it.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Social engineering is a big threat for companies like Google. Anybody can get a police report. All you have to do is call up the police and lie to them.
All one can hope in this situation is to ask the police to do its job. Depending on where you live and how good your police department is, that will determine if this gets followed up, or not.
"The insistency of some companies to require a batchelors degree often leaves otherwise qualified applicants out in the cold. Google is one of these companies (from my experience browsing the job postings), which sucks for college students looking for a job. Oh well."
Hey great speller,
Google does have internships available for students and Google does have some full-time jobs that don't require College degrees (Those are usually advertised "University degree or equivalent"). It took me only five seconds to find this out. If you didn't persevere in your research "browsing the job postings", that's your problem. Who would want to hire someone who gives up that easily? I certainly wouldn't.
Isn't 100 miles out considered 'international waters' ? Why keep up this slow encroachment in the name of 'security' and just tag everyone/everything and get it over with? This is getting out of hand.
If you think this 100 mile thing is bad, then you must be against spy satellites too. This slow encroachment you speak of is well underway.
Venezuela is a country so mismanaged that its economy is in the crapper despite the fact that the country is practically floating on a sea of oil. Not exactly the Good Houskeeping seal of approval there.
If you agree that their oil revenue can be their economic salvation, don't look at Chavez. Chavez only made OPEC stronger since he was elected, that's the reason the US is so pissed off at him. And if the coup had succeeded, you can be sure the American pupet would have increased production and lowered oil prices.
True, his media law was an authoratarian move and an ugly one.
Do you even know what you're talking about? The Venezuelan private television channels all participated in the Coup. Chavez's reaction wasn't ugly if you consider what they did in the first place.
"Not sure I see how dictatorships issuing decrees regarding FOSS amounts to victory for Open Source."
Sorry bud, you've been listening to the CIA propaganda a little too much. Chavez defeated an incumbent in a democratically held election in a landslide victory.
It doesn't get more democratic than that. The real wannabe dictator is the President-select publicly endorsed by Dubbya who only managed to seize and hold to power for less than twenty four hours.
"It's a lot easier to give out a few hundred, or even thousand, PDAs than trying to get English signs up in 100 million shops (not to mention taxis, buses, trains, ferries). Even in recently-British Hong Kong, most small restaurants don't have any English signs or menus, for instance. "
In Japan, the restaurants are not the problem. Even the smallest restaurants in Japan have clearly labeled prices and plastic life-like models of the food they serve.
The real problem in Japan is street addresses and subway stations. It's such a problem that even native Japanese people from other cities get lost. Street numbers are sequential based on the date each building was put up. And subway station names are used for multiple stations because most subway lines are owned and operated by *different* private companies.
In any case, I suspect that the real reason those PDAs are coming to the surface is because it's free pork for the Japanese PDA industry. The Japanese government doesn't make money from foreign tourists, it has been subsidizing them so much, it loses money for each one it brings in.
Read your agreement with your ISP. You may be precluded by contract from reselling the service. If you are, you risk being sued for damages by the provider, or having your service outright suspended. If this is the case, don't risk it... just don't do it. If your agreement allows it, then carry on.
The original poster already said "Speakeasy even has a plan to allow this." He didn't provide a link for it, but apparently they will do the billing for him and surprisingly enough they will even allow him to set his own price. It seems to be a really good move on the part of Speakeasy to do this.
One example is meaningless. To get a realistic idea of how useful this system is, we'd like to see what it says if you ask several dozen questions. For all we know this was the one question out of 100 that it answered correctly.
And for all we know, the programmers were given the article(s) and the question(s) before they wrote the program. To get a realistic idea of its usefulness, they should really post it on the web as an experimental app. If it's any good, people will use it.
That's what I like about Google, they test their experiments on a segment of the population before they start hyping it.
If we're willing to share our emails unedited and untouched once we die, we should also be willing to share those same emails when we're still alive.
We can share passwords. Many people do that already. Some couples even have joint accounts like in Mike_and_Debbie@yahoo.com. And if you felt particularly close to your mom, you could even have a Mike_and_His_Mom@yahoo.com.
Or let's say you really liked an email in particular and you wanted your mom to read it, why wouldn't you simply forward those emails to her directly.
Or when you created your question for recovering your password, you could simply chose a personal question&answer that everyone in your family should know already. The questions that Yahoo suggest are pretty basic already. And should you chose a custom question that's too hard for your family to answer, may be it just means you didn't want your family to access your email in the first place.
Personally, I don't think someone's lack of foresight should trump everyone's right to privacy. Not everyone wants their emails read by their mom. In fact, I doubt that even half of the population would want that.
People who post on Yahoo from remote computers already assume that many hackers and many admins will have access to it. They don't assume that their mom will have access to it (unless it was addressed to/from her or it was posted from her computer or she is herself a hacker/admin=this being slashdot, I had to include that last one=).
Frankly, who the f____ cares what some random stranger thinks of you? As long as strangers don't have my credit card number or some of my financial information, I couldn't care less what they know about me.
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Simulated sex should be our next challenge, sex has already helped us, and will continue to help us, in pushing the limits of what's technologically possible.
Nice Straw Man. Most consumers don't even care about Usenet. If they can find the information/porn they're looking for with Google, that's probably good enough for them.
That's what self-regulation is about. It's about alternatives. If you happened to be an AOL user of Usenet (which I doubt), depending on your reasons for using of it, I bet there are thousands of alternatives that are at your disposal that can achieve the same aim.
If you rent out a piece of property for seven years to ONE tenant instead of MANY different tenants. That one tenant will be much more likely to pay more money for that land and he'll be much more likely to build things on that land (especially if he knows he won't have to share those improvements with others).
That's the argument anyway. I don't how it will actually work out with MLB in practice.
It is reasonable to assume that smaller mailing lists and one-on-one email communications will not contain a significant number of users, so I did not bother to include them in my study.
Desktop Google sets up a web server pretty painlessly. They could use something like that already.
By the way, businesswire.com is not a news wire service, it's a web site on which you pay to get your "news" published. HCD is not a traditional polling company, it's a DOT com company that only does online polls. And the survey was not meant to be balanced, it was taken during the holiday season and it was sponsored by a religious organization.
That's part of it, but Starbucks is also a great place where you can get some work done, or meet with people.
Good lighthing. Clean bathrooms. Comfortable sitting areas. Reliable heating/air conditioning. A place to plug in your laptop and connect to the web. A coffee attendant that doesn't stare you down after you've been sitting there for more than two hours. And it's probably one of the only coffee shops I know where their employees get decent benefits.
If you're independent and on the go, you should try finding office space for a better deal.
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Only if the government makes it mandatory to include onboard GPS. If the government doesn't mandate it, people will think of GPS onboard as a feature and not a government conspiracy. This GPS thing will become mainstream soon enough because people will want it, not because they're coerced into it.
All one can hope in this situation is to ask the police to do its job. Depending on where you live and how good your police department is, that will determine if this gets followed up, or not.
Adorned? Scored? From your description, Linus sounds like a really hot trophy porn star.
Hey great speller,
Google does have internships available for students and Google does have some full-time jobs that don't require College degrees (Those are usually advertised "University degree or equivalent"). It took me only five seconds to find this out. If you didn't persevere in your research "browsing the job postings", that's your problem. Who would want to hire someone who gives up that easily? I certainly wouldn't.
If you think this 100 mile thing is bad, then you must be against spy satellites too. This slow encroachment you speak of is well underway.
Yeah, because a blog is such a grounbreaking unusual idea, no one else would have done it.
If you agree that their oil revenue can be their economic salvation, don't look at Chavez. Chavez only made OPEC stronger since he was elected, that's the reason the US is so pissed off at him. And if the coup had succeeded, you can be sure the American pupet would have increased production and lowered oil prices.
I suppose you're part of the minority elite that would have been satisfied that the coup had succeeded.
Please give me a direct quote on this. Chavez has been smeared so many times by the media, I'd like to see your source.
Do you even know what you're talking about? The Venezuelan private television channels all participated in the Coup. Chavez's reaction wasn't ugly if you consider what they did in the first place.
Sorry bud, you've been listening to the CIA propaganda a little too much. Chavez defeated an incumbent in a democratically held election in a landslide victory.
It doesn't get more democratic than that. The real wannabe dictator is the President-select publicly endorsed by Dubbya who only managed to seize and hold to power for less than twenty four hours.
In Japan, the restaurants are not the problem. Even the smallest restaurants in Japan have clearly labeled prices and plastic life-like models of the food they serve.
The real problem in Japan is street addresses and subway stations. It's such a problem that even native Japanese people from other cities get lost. Street numbers are sequential based on the date each building was put up. And subway station names are used for multiple stations because most subway lines are owned and operated by *different* private companies.
In any case, I suspect that the real reason those PDAs are coming to the surface is because it's free pork for the Japanese PDA industry. The Japanese government doesn't make money from foreign tourists, it has been subsidizing them so much, it loses money for each one it brings in.
The original poster already said "Speakeasy even has a plan to allow this." He didn't provide a link for it, but apparently they will do the billing for him and surprisingly enough they will even allow him to set his own price. It seems to be a really good move on the part of Speakeasy to do this.
And for all we know, the programmers were given the article(s) and the question(s) before they wrote the program. To get a realistic idea of its usefulness, they should really post it on the web as an experimental app. If it's any good, people will use it.
That's what I like about Google, they test their experiments on a segment of the population before they start hyping it.
You could do it the same way employers censor employees. If soldiers know they're being watched, they can and they will censor themselves.
Yeah, we need an automated death message, but if I remember correctly, I think there is a service that provides this already.
If we're willing to share our emails unedited and untouched once we die, we should also be willing to share those same emails when we're still alive.
We can share passwords. Many people do that already. Some couples even have joint accounts like in Mike_and_Debbie@yahoo.com. And if you felt particularly close to your mom, you could even have a Mike_and_His_Mom@yahoo.com.
Or let's say you really liked an email in particular and you wanted your mom to read it, why wouldn't you simply forward those emails to her directly.
Or when you created your question for recovering your password, you could simply chose a personal question&answer that everyone in your family should know already. The questions that Yahoo suggest are pretty basic already. And should you chose a custom question that's too hard for your family to answer, may be it just means you didn't want your family to access your email in the first place.
Personally, I don't think someone's lack of foresight should trump everyone's right to privacy. Not everyone wants their emails read by their mom. In fact, I doubt that even half of the population would want that.
Frankly, who the f____ cares what some random stranger thinks of you? As long as strangers don't have my credit card number or some of my financial information, I couldn't care less what they know about me.