The issue was that UltraViolet is buggy. It provides downloads in theory. I think there was some region restriction also with the service.
Oh, how I hate those streaming services and the assumption that such delivery is convenient for the user.
It's hard to find a downloadable movie trailer nowdays (and you'd think this is something movie studios WANT me to have, because it is an advert for their product).
This plan doesn't fund replacing the power from those plants with anything, just some hand waving about "renewable energy" being expanded in parallel.
Indeed - this money would be better invested in these "renewable energy" alternatives. As soon as something renewable and cheaper is invented, coal industry will be phased out naturally
Assholes accusing scumbags of torturing people, but in the meantime it was the assholes who defended the scumbags when they violated the Constitutions, ignoring the Bill of Rights, invading the privacy of Hundreds of Millions of the American Citizens, and billions more people outside of America.
No, I think it is far simpler than that.
We have a bunch of people who think anything goes "for the good of the country" (in the name of War on [*Something*]), until the second it affects them directly. Then, they suddenly remember laws/Constitution/human rights/etc. This is not new, for example Video Privacy Protection Act.
I don't understand how businesses are allowed to tack on fees to bills without disclosing these fees in their prices. Somehow they can't quote these fees when you are booking the service, but they can calculate them when billing for the services.
That's right, this should definitely be illegal. Airlines played those games for years and years ($50 ticket fee, but with taxes it works out to $100 or maybe even $300). A rather recent regulation had ended that crap
In the US jurors can acquit for any reason and aren't required to say what it was.
Yes, but I hear if you utter the words "jury nullification" during selection, you won't make it into the jury. Might actually be a good strategy if you want out.
Apparently you might even be accused of jury tampering for spreading the word http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02...
Steam has for me drastically lowered the value of a game, because while it is ONE thing to see game slowly decrease in price over a number of years, it is another to find prices slashed to 1/4 of the price seemingly at random.
What difference does it make what the price of the game is? The re-sale value of the game is zero because (as far as I know?) one cannot sell or even give away Steam games after purchase.
As an owner of a bunch of used games (both PC and console), I think that's too bad.
Actually, since EA is publicly traded, couldn't this count as a material misrepresentation to the stock market?
Well, it is still possible to leave a lower rating (hence the average is below 5), you just need to edit the initial 5-star rating. So I imagine they have a defense even if someone tries to pursue that issue
Why can the rating be hijacked, anyway? I am surprised it took so long for someone entrepreneurial to notice that bad ratings can be intercepted to skew the results.
I can say with authority that they're the WORST computer brand EVER when it comes to the repair business.
That may very much be, but I can say that Sony VAIO laptops (Z series) were the only viable competition to macbook air that I was able to find. Most of the PC laptops insist on using low-resolution displays (good luck finding 1600x900 display!) and are heavy. Granted, this was 2 years ago, but I do not think market has improved much.
I have been advising anyone who will listen to keep their personal information the hell away from that site.
Fortunately, it plugs into the Federal databases for all sorts of information to verify account info (from what I understand). So the website has access to your information by default.
Techdirt is honest reporting at its finest, rivaling even Slashdot's journalistic integrity. They're both very upfront and clear about their biases.
...his reasoning is as stupid as it is unbelievable.
Sometimes that isn't bias, as much as an accurate and objective assessment. It is a bad idea to seriously consider every ridiculous statement instead of dismissing it outright.
That's why politicians start from ridiculous propositions -- so that any "compromise" is well in their favor.
Republicans have discovered another way to shut down the government: just prevent it from collecting any data required to do its job.
Regulatory agency needs to collect data on credit cards to determine whether credit card providers are up to illegal shenanigans, or what kind of regulations are too little, just right, or overkill?
I don't think so.
They (CFPB) should anonymize the damn data, unless they are required to have trace-able unique identifiers and exact amounts to do their job. Is their job to survey the credit card provider performance or to collect enough data to later send individualized (get out of debt) offers to cardholders?
That this appears to state every person in the US, regardless of age, has on average three credit cards.
The data is surely skewed by "financing" offers. I bought some furniture a couple of years ago and in order to get my discount they effectively opened a credit card account (basically same as Macy's cards and their ilk). Of course I never used it beyond paying off my balance, because the rates were atrocious. But I believe it would count as an extra account.
In order to regulate credit card companies and banks, the CFPB needs to know what is happening with these financial products.
You would think that perhaps "unique card-account identification reference number" could be omitted to try to anonymize the data? Possibly even convert the data values into sub-ranges (income 60K-70K, 70K-80K, etc.), if all you need is to find out "what is happening" with financial products.
I will raise you with:
My 14 year old nephew recently closed his Facebook account after many years because "nothing is going on" there anymore. Possibly too many adults on Facebook now?
Never mind that none of these programs have stopped any attack or plot.
That you know of. And, for the record, I'm not a fan of collecting against citizens w/o a warrant.
I am certain that should one of those programs (NSA or TSA) ever stop a terrorist plot, even by accident, such success would be trumpeted for years to come. The vague and general references to hundreds of terrorist plots is an indication that there is nothing real to talk about.
They are, but this is besides the point. We are not even "more safe" in any way. I think the best they could actually show is one guy convicted for sending $8.5K to some terrorist organization (that's after years and years of surveillance). Other dozens (or is it hundreds?) of terrorist operations are stopped by regular police work or are made up.
Can someone please explain that connection? Really seems like a long stretch to get the topic back on the table. Maybe tiered pricing is caused by global warming and GMO crops?
If that provider stays and faces no competition it will not take long until they start establishing "partnerships" to make this connection usable again.
For example, Netflix or Amazon for streaming video that does not count towards the cap. It's not so far away -- if the connection is completely unusable, it will eventually be modified by "oh, this partner does not count towards the cap" or "this partner only counts @30% towards your cap"
And because people who drink decaf are statistically less alert and therefore more likely to get into car accidents than coffee drinkers, they're going to raise your car insurance rates, too.
Yeah, so that would be the difference. There isn't a problem with Starbucks collecting the data and even doing analysis anonymously to build better marketing campaigns that may take further action.
There is a problem if they are going to sell (or give away) my identified information to anyone else, such as an insurance company.
And then there are credit reporting agencies that seem to make money from data that is automatically reported to them by credit cards/collection agencies/etc. Where do I sign up to receive reports about everyone's late payments?
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The issue was that UltraViolet is buggy. It provides downloads in theory. I think there was some region restriction also with the service.
Oh, how I hate those streaming services and the assumption that such delivery is convenient for the user.
It's hard to find a downloadable movie trailer nowdays (and you'd think this is something movie studios WANT me to have, because it is an advert for their product).
We need to stop big tax dodgers useing loop holes to pay no taxes.
No, no, no!
We need to force politicians to eliminate the loopholes, which are all legal and often intentional
To create legal loopholes and then to expect people to voluntarily pay more (than they have to) taxes is a losing and pointless battle.
This plan doesn't fund replacing the power from those plants with anything, just some hand waving about "renewable energy" being expanded in parallel.
Indeed - this money would be better invested in these "renewable energy" alternatives.
As soon as something renewable and cheaper is invented, coal industry will be phased out naturally
Assholes accusing scumbags of torturing people, but in the meantime it was the assholes who defended the scumbags when they violated the Constitutions, ignoring the Bill of Rights, invading the privacy of Hundreds of Millions of the American Citizens, and billions more people outside of America.
No, I think it is far simpler than that.
We have a bunch of people who think anything goes "for the good of the country" (in the name of War on [*Something*]), until the second it affects them directly. Then, they suddenly remember laws/Constitution/human rights/etc.
This is not new, for example Video Privacy Protection Act.
I don't understand how businesses are allowed to tack on fees to bills without disclosing these fees in their prices. Somehow they can't quote these fees when you are booking the service, but they can calculate them when billing for the services.
That's right, this should definitely be illegal. Airlines played those games for years and years ($50 ticket fee, but with taxes it works out to $100 or maybe even $300). A rather recent regulation had ended that crap
In the US jurors can acquit for any reason and aren't required to say what it was.
Yes, but I hear if you utter the words "jury nullification" during selection, you won't make it into the jury. Might actually be a good strategy if you want out.
Apparently you might even be accused of jury tampering for spreading the word http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02...
I think it was an inside job. Some employee of Dice absconded with all the mod points!
So where did you buy yours? :)
And how much is "+1 Interesting" worth in Bitcoins now, anyway?
Steam has for me drastically lowered the value of a game, because while it is ONE thing to see game slowly decrease in price over a number of years, it is another to find prices slashed to 1/4 of the price seemingly at random.
What difference does it make what the price of the game is? The re-sale value of the game is zero because (as far as I know?) one cannot sell or even give away Steam games after purchase.
As an owner of a bunch of used games (both PC and console), I think that's too bad.
Stanislaw Lem's The Futurological Congress
What could possibly go wrong...
Exactly. I wonder how much of that $7.2M has been earmarked to pay off damages/compensation, should anything go wrong?
You're 82, Leonard. ... Refusing to accept death at 82 is illogical. Go with grace.
Let's see if you feel the same way if and when you reach the age of 82.
Actually, since EA is publicly traded, couldn't this count as a material misrepresentation to the stock market?
Well, it is still possible to leave a lower rating (hence the average is below 5), you just need to edit the initial 5-star rating. So I imagine they have a defense even if someone tries to pursue that issue
Why can the rating be hijacked, anyway? I am surprised it took so long for someone entrepreneurial to notice that bad ratings can be intercepted to skew the results.
Join the boycott Feb 10-17.
If Beta is still here on the 18th I will not return.
Exactly. Let's do that /. alternatives.
I have been here for well over 10 years, and I am now investigating possible
We should have a discussion titled "Where would you go should Beta become permanent?"
I can say with authority that they're the WORST computer brand EVER when it comes to the repair business.
That may very much be, but I can say that Sony VAIO laptops (Z series) were the only viable competition to macbook air that I was able to find. Most of the PC laptops insist on using low-resolution displays (good luck finding 1600x900 display!) and are heavy. Granted, this was 2 years ago, but I do not think market has improved much.
I have been advising anyone who will listen to keep their personal information the hell away from that site.
Fortunately, it plugs into the Federal databases for all sorts of information to verify account info (from what I understand). So the website has access to your information by default.
Techdirt is honest reporting at its finest, rivaling even Slashdot's journalistic integrity. They're both very upfront and clear about their biases.
...his reasoning is as stupid as it is unbelievable.
Sometimes that isn't bias, as much as an accurate and objective assessment. It is a bad idea to seriously consider every ridiculous statement instead of dismissing it outright.
That's why politicians start from ridiculous propositions -- so that any "compromise" is well in their favor.
Republicans have discovered another way to shut down the government: just prevent it from collecting any data required to do its job.
Regulatory agency needs to collect data on credit cards to determine whether credit card providers are up to illegal shenanigans, or what kind of regulations are too little, just right, or overkill?
I don't think so.
They (CFPB) should anonymize the damn data, unless they are required to have trace-able unique identifiers and exact amounts to do their job. Is their job to survey the credit card provider performance or to collect enough data to later send individualized (get out of debt) offers to cardholders?
That this appears to state every person in the US, regardless of age, has on average three credit cards.
The data is surely skewed by "financing" offers. I bought some furniture a couple of years ago and in order to get my discount they effectively opened a credit card account (basically same as Macy's cards and their ilk). Of course I never used it beyond paying off my balance, because the rates were atrocious. But I believe it would count as an extra account.
In order to regulate credit card companies and banks, the CFPB needs to know what is happening with these financial products.
You would think that perhaps "unique card-account identification reference number" could be omitted to try to anonymize the data?
Possibly even convert the data values into sub-ranges (income 60K-70K, 70K-80K, etc.), if all you need is to find out "what is happening" with financial products.
My 70 year old mother uses Facebook.
I will raise you with:
My 14 year old nephew recently closed his Facebook account after many years because "nothing is going on" there anymore. Possibly too many adults on Facebook now?
Never mind that none of these programs have stopped any attack or plot.
That you know of. And, for the record, I'm not a fan of collecting against citizens w/o a warrant.
I am certain that should one of those programs (NSA or TSA) ever stop a terrorist plot, even by accident, such success would be trumpeted for years to come. The vague and general references to hundreds of terrorist plots is an indication that there is nothing real to talk about.
civil liberties are worth being "less safe" for!
They are, but this is besides the point. We are not even "more safe" in any way. I think the best they could actually show is one guy convicted for sending $8.5K to some terrorist organization (that's after years and years of surveillance).
Other dozens (or is it hundreds?) of terrorist operations are stopped by regular police work or are made up.
Adblock will become a necessity. I am pretty sure 90-99.999% data content in a web page is advertisement. Some pages play multiple video ads at once.
Can someone please explain that connection? Really seems like a long stretch to get the topic back on the table. Maybe tiered pricing is caused by global warming and GMO crops?
If that provider stays and faces no competition it will not take long until they start establishing "partnerships" to make this connection usable again.
For example, Netflix or Amazon for streaming video that does not count towards the cap. It's not so far away -- if the connection is completely unusable, it will eventually be modified by "oh, this partner does not count towards the cap" or "this partner only counts @30% towards your cap"
And because people who drink decaf are statistically less alert and therefore more likely to get into car accidents than coffee drinkers, they're going to raise your car insurance rates, too.
Yeah, so that would be the difference. There isn't a problem with Starbucks collecting the data and even doing analysis anonymously to build better marketing campaigns that may take further action. There is a problem if they are going to sell (or give away) my identified information to anyone else, such as an insurance company.
And then there are credit reporting agencies that seem to make money from data that is automatically reported to them by credit cards/collection agencies/etc. Where do I sign up to receive reports about everyone's late payments?