This is truly bizarre. Sounds like it's a law that's designed to be accidentally broken.
I don't think it'll stand up in any court. It's just wrong on too many levels.
You might want to remove that reefer from your mouth. Laws are put in place so that people who transgress against them can be jailed or fined. It's the courts' job to do that, not judge whether or not the laws are wrong. There is rarely a shortage of unjust legislation in any system, but court systems still have to enforce it. "My mother, drunk or sober."
You anchor down if it's stormy and you can't escape it.
That's pretty much it. The last thing a skipper enjoys is to be pinned against a lee shore by a gale. If he can't get into the safety of deep water, dropping the hook is sometimes the only option. Sometimes, if his hook is too small or if its chain is too short for the wind/current load, it'll drag. It's not a fun situation to be in; I've been there.
Apple will never sacrifice usability just to throw the latest gizmo in a device.
I'm not so sure I would describe such basic things as the ability to find a network signal or having functional bluetooth as the latest gizmo. Apple's computers, whatever else we may think about them, fill their niche so well at least partly because they are a fully functional product. Seems to me there are just too many things they couldn't be bothered implementing on their phone in their haste to get it on the market.
The next offering is going to have to be more carefully thought through if Apple wants to maintain any kind of edge. People were prepared to forgive the iPhone's quirks when it was new. Now it's had time to mature and is no longer so new and shiny, people will expect a more mature product.
The music industry as a whole (90% of recordings) doesn't give a shit about quality
You're probably right, but for those of us who live on the remote fringes of civilised society and listen to classical or jazz music, the difference in quality between so-so and good equipment becomes quite noticeable. I wouldn't say it's worth mortgaging your home for a decent sound system, since the law of diminishing returns (to say nothing of snake-oil) is nowhere more evident than in the hi-fi industry, but unless you're tone or stone deaf, there is definitely a distinction to be made between the usual equipment you find on retail shelves and the kind of gear that you might pay a few grand for.
Some of the Sennheiser cans have a little jack plug that pulls put if you inadvertently walk too far. My mahogany Alessandro (re-badged Grado) phones unfortunately don't, but the music sounds so great through them, I stay put.
Maybe I'm being picky here, but why does Slashdot's icon for this story depict a caterpillar? Don't the editors know the difference between a caterpillar and a worm?
Just so long as it doesn't insist on verification to check that nobody is using an unauthorised copy. After all, we wouldn't want to encourage piracy...;-)
Lots of countries don't actually have a law against trespassing. Under British law, for instance, it is a civil matter, and in Scotland it is not recognised at all. I'm sure there are other examples, so I believe my analogy (FWIW) does hold. But I have no argument with your take on the Google matter. What seems a bit strange to me is Google's opening up their bandwidth to SMS in the first place, if they didn't want to wear the cost.
I guess the moderator who decided the parent post was flamebait hadn't saddled up his brains before charging off with his mod points.
The issue of wardriving is a grey area, in the sense that if you leave your front door open, intruders might not be considered to be committing a crime if they walk through it. I'm not going to bother arguing the semantics of this, but the Google thing seems fairly straightforward: they were running a testing version of a service that they hadn't allocated the resources to run as a full-scale project. One might see this as a blessing, in so far as this is one less way for a spammer to flood SMS inboxes.
Not having actually, personally encountered a merkin ("counterfeit hair for women's privy parts" [Dr. Johnson]) before, I was unaware that these accoutrements utilised any vernacular at all...;-)
Because hormones triumph over brains. Some of the smartest women I have known have become completely irrational when it comes to dropping sprog. From my own molecular biology background, I have a highly technical term for this: "stupidity hormones".
Note: I'm not being totally sexist here; after all, I am prepared to admit that an erect penis has little conscience...
I never said I disabled them. I actually allow most cookies to be set, but of course as soon as I close my browser session (which I do quite frequently), they disappear. Sure, there is (now) an option to make cookies session-only in Firefox, but old habits and paranoia die hard. The bit bucket is hard to defeat.
It's supposed to take care of Doubleclick as it is...
Since Doubleclick provides absolutely no useful service to the user, the best way to deal with them is to simply block their servers at the hosts-file level. End of story.
Indeed. If we were to pick Amazon (again) and do a search for music by (say) Miles Davis, chances are that at some point it would come up with links for Tomasz Stanko as a popular alternative.
This is entirely legitimate, useful and informative. Sure, Amazon gets to make a few bucks out of selling the customer more stuff, but the customer also gets to expand his areas of interest. I would call this a damn good model, since everybody wins.
I would rather have tech and sci-fi books marketed to me when I go to Amazon.
Well, if you have an account with Amazon, pretty much the first thing that should show up when you log on is a list of selections based on your actual purchasing history. Works for me. I don't mind that sort of advertising (in fact that is nearly the only kind I don't block), as it really *is* an opt-in form of advertising.
In general terms, the parent poster is right. Everybody has things s/he doesn't care to be made public, no matter how trivial.
For my part, I've never allowed cookies to be retained; even with Netscape on Windows 3.x you used to be able to force this by deleting cookies.txt and replacing the file with a directory of the same name. Nowadays with Linux or OS X I do much the same thing by symlinking my cookies files to/dev/null.
Sure, I might miss out on the dubious goodness of tailored search results, but I'm happy to live with that. Similarly, I figure that if I can do without my browsing history, then so can everybody else. So I clear it frequently.
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This is truly bizarre. Sounds like it's a law that's designed to be accidentally broken.
I don't think it'll stand up in any court. It's just wrong on too many levels.
You might want to remove that reefer from your mouth. Laws are put in place so that people who transgress against them can be jailed or fined. It's the courts' job to do that, not judge whether or not the laws are wrong. There is rarely a shortage of unjust legislation in any system, but court systems still have to enforce it. "My mother, drunk or sober."
A previously successful third party (the Australian Democrats) had an unofficial slogan, "Keeping the bastards honest."
...and failed utterly at keeping the so-called Liberals honest. Which effectively spelt out their death-warrant.
You anchor down if it's stormy and you can't escape it.
That's pretty much it. The last thing a skipper enjoys is to be pinned against a lee shore by a gale. If he can't get into the safety of deep water, dropping the hook is sometimes the only option. Sometimes, if his hook is too small or if its chain is too short for the wind/current load, it'll drag. It's not a fun situation to be in; I've been there.
Apple will never sacrifice usability just to throw the latest gizmo in a device.
I'm not so sure I would describe such basic things as the ability to find a network signal or having functional bluetooth as the latest gizmo. Apple's computers, whatever else we may think about them, fill their niche so well at least partly because they are a fully functional product. Seems to me there are just too many things they couldn't be bothered implementing on their phone in their haste to get it on the market.
The next offering is going to have to be more carefully thought through if Apple wants to maintain any kind of edge. People were prepared to forgive the iPhone's quirks when it was new. Now it's had time to mature and is no longer so new and shiny, people will expect a more mature product.
Yeah. As they used to say: "No highs, no lows, you know it's Bose".
The music industry as a whole (90% of recordings) doesn't give a shit about quality
You're probably right, but for those of us who live on the remote fringes of civilised society and listen to classical or jazz music, the difference in quality between so-so and good equipment becomes quite noticeable. I wouldn't say it's worth mortgaging your home for a decent sound system, since the law of diminishing returns (to say nothing of snake-oil) is nowhere more evident than in the hi-fi industry, but unless you're tone or stone deaf, there is definitely a distinction to be made between the usual equipment you find on retail shelves and the kind of gear that you might pay a few grand for.
Some of the Sennheiser cans have a little jack plug that pulls put if you inadvertently walk too far. My mahogany Alessandro (re-badged Grado) phones unfortunately don't, but the music sounds so great through them, I stay put.
Do you want my gf at less than $1,500? She could scream your ears to flat and yank things off your apartment.
;-D
No thanks. I have a wife for that. That's why you'll probably find the biggest buyers for headphones are married men.
Maybe I'm being picky here, but why does Slashdot's icon for this story depict a caterpillar? Don't the editors know the difference between a caterpillar and a worm?
Just so long as it doesn't insist on verification to check that nobody is using an unauthorised copy. After all, we wouldn't want to encourage piracy... ;-)
Lots of countries don't actually have a law against trespassing. Under British law, for instance, it is a civil matter, and in Scotland it is not recognised at all. I'm sure there are other examples, so I believe my analogy (FWIW) does hold. But I have no argument with your take on the Google matter. What seems a bit strange to me is Google's opening up their bandwidth to SMS in the first place, if they didn't want to wear the cost.
I guess the moderator who decided the parent post was flamebait hadn't saddled up his brains before charging off with his mod points.
The issue of wardriving is a grey area, in the sense that if you leave your front door open, intruders might not be considered to be committing a crime if they walk through it. I'm not going to bother arguing the semantics of this, but the Google thing seems fairly straightforward: they were running a testing version of a service that they hadn't allocated the resources to run as a full-scale project. One might see this as a blessing, in so far as this is one less way for a spammer to flood SMS inboxes.
Well I, the undesigned, refuse to take part in this procreation nonsense... ;-)
On the other hand, my dad's got a nice term for his approach: "SKIiNg" ( ski'n' ): Spending the Kids' Inheritance Now.
Which is fine by me; I have no problem with that whatsoever.
As a Merkin...
;-)
Not having actually, personally encountered a merkin ("counterfeit hair for women's privy parts" [Dr. Johnson]) before, I was unaware that these accoutrements utilised any vernacular at all...
Why do women have babies?
Because hormones triumph over brains. Some of the smartest women I have known have become completely irrational when it comes to dropping sprog. From my own molecular biology background, I have a highly technical term for this: "stupidity hormones".
Note: I'm not being totally sexist here; after all, I am prepared to admit that an erect penis has little conscience...
"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
Exactly. people have been touching up portraits long before PhotoShop was invented.
it's the best-sounding particle ever!
I don't think so. After all, the saying goes: "no highs, no lows, you know it's Bose".
I bet there'll be a few red faces if some people are forced to admit they got their sums wrong... :-)
No, they just don't know that the Higgs boson is hidden in Saddam Hussein's wife's burqa.
I never said I disabled them. I actually allow most cookies to be set, but of course as soon as I close my browser session (which I do quite frequently), they disappear. Sure, there is (now) an option to make cookies session-only in Firefox, but old habits and paranoia die hard. The bit bucket is hard to defeat.
It's supposed to take care of Doubleclick as it is...
Since Doubleclick provides absolutely no useful service to the user, the best way to deal with them is to simply block their servers at the hosts-file level. End of story.
Not all advertising is manipulation.
Indeed. If we were to pick Amazon (again) and do a search for music by (say) Miles Davis, chances are that at some point it would come up with links for Tomasz Stanko as a popular alternative.
This is entirely legitimate, useful and informative. Sure, Amazon gets to make a few bucks out of selling the customer more stuff, but the customer also gets to expand his areas of interest. I would call this a damn good model, since everybody wins.
I would rather have tech and sci-fi books marketed to me when I go to Amazon.
Well, if you have an account with Amazon, pretty much the first thing that should show up when you log on is a list of selections based on your actual purchasing history. Works for me. I don't mind that sort of advertising (in fact that is nearly the only kind I don't block), as it really *is* an opt-in form of advertising.
In general terms, the parent poster is right. Everybody has things s/he doesn't care to be made public, no matter how trivial.
/dev/null.
For my part, I've never allowed cookies to be retained; even with Netscape on Windows 3.x you used to be able to force this by deleting cookies.txt and replacing the file with a directory of the same name. Nowadays with Linux or OS X I do much the same thing by symlinking my cookies files to
Sure, I might miss out on the dubious goodness of tailored search results, but I'm happy to live with that. Similarly, I figure that if I can do without my browsing history, then so can everybody else. So I clear it frequently.