Quite frequently, I see that my Google searches start with a sponsored link as the first link.
What does Google earn when a sponsored link is used? If the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button drives some searches to the sponsored links, does this make up for the revenue lost by not showing a search results page with individual ads? Maybe the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button encourages advertisers to buy sponsored links, making up for the lost ad revenue from the search results page.
If you're going to be counting the votes by hand, what's the point of the voting machine then? You can accomplish the exact same thing with pen and paper.
The idea is that the machine prints the mark on the ballot for you. There are no issues of two check marks, no check marks, circling names instead of marking boxes, etc. The ballots are marked in a uniform fashion so they are easier to count.
Heck, a printed ballot could even have only the name of the selection; in a race between candidates X and Y, a vote for Y only has Y's name on the ballot; likewise for candidate X. That way there's only one name to look at on a ballot--the candidate selected by the voter.
Well I erred on the numbers...if I mail one back on Monday, I'll have the next one Thursday...three days, not four. It may not matter much, since dropping one in the mail on Saturdays throws an extra day in the mix (Sunday).
In any event, the minor cost difference is trivial; I pick my movies online and they come to me. It's the convenience of online selection and not having to go to the store BUT paying a little vs. a really cheap rental rate BUT having to go get them and a 24 hour rental limit...it's what you value more in the end that tips the scale.
Yeah, I can't count correctly...if I drop a DVD in the mail Monday, Netflix gets it Tuesday (we have a Netflix PO Box here in town), the new one goes out Wednesday, I have it Thursday.
Can someone please explain to me why you are willing to pay astronomical monthly fees for Netflix on a recurring basis and you might not even get your #1 choices? I just don't understand how the business model survives.
Sure...because for $9/month (astronomical?? I think not), I can get a movie (have always been able to get my #1 picks so far) in my mailbox for an unlimited amount of time, drop it in the mail when I'm done, and four days later have another one in my mailbox. I don't have to stop anywhere, I can browse online, AND if I come across a movie I want to watch and it's available to stream, I can watch it instantly (assuming I have Windows; my Mac is thus far not supported). Nine hours (I think) of streaming per month is included in that $9 monthly fee.
On top of that, when my monthly fee dropped from $9.99 to $8.99, I had to do nothing; my monthly rate automatically went down.
The conspiracy theorist in me says G is first rolling it out to non-intensive GMail users (like my buddy who uses.MAC and has been laughing at me daily), not people like moi[endowhine-again]
The conspiracy theorist in you would be incorrect; I use GMail exclusively for my personal email (700 MB in use and counting) and I had IMAP right away (and works quite nicely with the iPhone). Go to the "Settings" area and look for the "IMAP/POP and Forwarding" option. You have to explicitly enable IMAP access for your account, much like explicitly enabling or diabling POP access.
BTW. I'm surprised so many of you in the US have plans around $60/month. I pay 14 euros/month for basic service, but it's plenty enough airtime.
For many of us (such as myself), the $60/month (45 Euros by my math) covers both the voice and data plan.
I pay $60 for the unlimited data, 450 anytime minutes, 5000 off-peak (nights and weekends) minutes, and 200 free text messages (I use maybe 5-10 per month). Any peak minutes that don't get used at the end of the month get added to the peak allocation the following month.
With the banking of minutes, I've never paid for extra minutes even though my cell phone is my only phone. Sometimes I may use 200 peak minutes, sometimes I use 600.
if AT&T is having to hand over $18 a month to Apple, they're going to make damn sure they're going to separate every iPhone user of at least $18 a month extra. Or alternatively keep iphone users attached to their phone for longer than they would for a conventional handset - which I assume means AT&T would not be happy to see an upgraded handset (e.g. a 3G one) launch any time soon as then they'd have to deal with users wanting to upgrade.
AT&T does charge that additional amount per month, in the form of the $19.99/month unlimited data package that is required with the iPhone.
Think of it this way: Apple has subcontracted AT&T to provide data service to the iPhone, where AT&T is paid a 10% commission ($2 of $20) for each plan. AT&T makes their money on the voice plans, and the iPhone brings new subscribers to those voice plans.
Oversimplified and making some gross assumptions (like the $18/phone number being accurate), but I think I get the basic idea across.
Recently my mailbox capacity was approaching 3 GB...it seems to have taken a big jump to 4.3 GB in the last week or two. ANybodty else notice a capacity jump?
They probably made more money because the method of distribution was so novel that they got far more press for doing this than they would have gotten if they just released an album the old fashioned way.
That is very possible; I'm tempted to buy a copy just for the novelty of it.
S/MIME is designed to work with centralized Certificate Authorities. If you roll your own CA and issue yourself a self-signed certificate, you'll be able to sign stuff, but people who receive your messages will get a big "BAD SIGNATURE" error or warning, because they won't have your CA in their trusted chain. In order to get it to work, you'd need to get them the CA certificate, and they'd need to import it into their trusted root database. (Which is a security risk -- you do not want to encourage clueless users to start importing certs from every idiot they want to talk to into their Trusted Root.)
Rather than having to install another root certificate, why not just manually verify the certificate with the sender and manually adjust the trust setting?
When I used PGP in Windows, there was an option to set the trust level of the sender's key. When I open up a certificate in Keychain Access in OS X, I can manually set the trust level of the certificate. If I get a certificate that isn't signed by a CA, why can't I contact the certificate owner through some trusted means and verify the certificate that way?
Perhaps I don't understand completely how certificates are issued/trusted, but that's how I see it; if I generate it and use it, recipients can contact me directly to verify it and manually set the trust level. I know that I, and only I, have a copy of the private key, since I generated it locally.
If they offer it free to people who recently bought Macs? I recently started a new job as did a fellow coworker and we both received new Mac Pro's within the last month. It sure would be nice to get a Leopard upgrade.
According to the Apple website the upgrade is $9.95 for qualifying Macs bought after October 1st.
When last we left off, Slashdot had grown beyond my ability to maintain it as a hobby, as well as beyond the simple DEC Alpha Multia 166 that had served it so well for the first week or two, and then immediately buckled under the traffic.
Even though it may not fit the definition, can we call this the first "slashdotting?"
The first server to get Slashdotted was...the Slashdot server. How tasty:)
Those aren't minor advantages, either. Paper ballots have been stolen more than a few times. E-voting machines make it harder for Joe Random to walk off with a bag of yet-to-be-counted paper.
If Joe Random makes off with a ballot box, there is physical evidence of the theft--namely, the missing ballot box sitting in the trunk of his car. He had to physically do something to grab the ballots, which can be witnessed.
If vote-tampering is done electronically, there is no physical evidence to prove it. When you cast your electronic vote, do you know it was recorded correctly? Did you see the counter in the voting machine increment the proper counter by one, or was the vote tallied differently? Did the program alter the count at some point? Who is witness to the proper electronic counting?
One may contend that paper ballots can be misread, and this is true; however, my understanding is that vote-counting is witnessed by a representative of each political party on the ballot, and may even be exposed to a public audience.
Why bother with all that when you can just look at the paper ballots that where printed when...oh wait...there AREN'T ANY!
This is a prime example of why a purely electronic record of the vote is a Bad Idea. If paper ballots had been printed, reviewed by the voter before being deposited in a secure ballot box, and retained for a recount, there would be no issue.
Against the cost of re-running a vote, those printers are starting to look pretty chap, I'd wager.
If AT&T starts policing content, then they have proven they have the ability and resources to police their network.
So, now the fun begins, since they have proven they can police their network, they now have to respond to any illegal activities or risk a lawsuit.
I don't think that is the idea here. What the statement in question appears to say is that "If you say anything bad about us, we'll cut you off."
Do I think AT&T will cut off service if you make a Slashdot post about crappy service? No--it's not worth the effort. I think this statement is geared more towards statements that aim to defame AT&T.
In other words: AT&T doesn't care what your opinion is, but if you start spreading outright lies designed to make AT&T look bad, we'll drop your service.
Uh Emusic? No DRM.. and the price is about half to a third of what the other stores charge.
If you max out your monthly download limit, yes, that would seem to be the way to go. If, OTOH, you only add to your collection periodically or can't find what you like, you may not use your full allotment.
It's like Netflix subscribers--$9 or so per month gets you as many movies as you can watch in a month (with a 3-4 day lag between return and receiving) but if you are like me and don't watch right away or just simply forget about that DVD sitting under the stack of magazines on the table, you might end up paying for a month of service to watch one DVD (or maybe even less).
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Quite frequently, I see that my Google searches start with a sponsored link as the first link.
What does Google earn when a sponsored link is used? If the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button drives some searches to the sponsored links, does this make up for the revenue lost by not showing a search results page with individual ads? Maybe the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button encourages advertisers to buy sponsored links, making up for the lost ad revenue from the search results page.
Just some thoughts...
It seems the answer to the headline is "no."
Heck, a printed ballot could even have only the name of the selection; in a race between candidates X and Y, a vote for Y only has Y's name on the ballot; likewise for candidate X. That way there's only one name to look at on a ballot--the candidate selected by the voter.
They are on a very strict diet of bullshit, you know.
Well I erred on the numbers...if I mail one back on Monday, I'll have the next one Thursday...three days, not four. It may not matter much, since dropping one in the mail on Saturdays throws an extra day in the mix (Sunday).
In any event, the minor cost difference is trivial; I pick my movies online and they come to me. It's the convenience of online selection and not having to go to the store BUT paying a little vs. a really cheap rental rate BUT having to go get them and a 24 hour rental limit...it's what you value more in the end that tips the scale.
Yeah, I can't count correctly...if I drop a DVD in the mail Monday, Netflix gets it Tuesday (we have a Netflix PO Box here in town), the new one goes out Wednesday, I have it Thursday.
So really, I only wait three days.
On top of that, when my monthly fee dropped from $9.99 to $8.99, I had to do nothing; my monthly rate automatically went down.
Seems pretty fair to me.
I pay $60 for the unlimited data, 450 anytime minutes, 5000 off-peak (nights and weekends) minutes, and 200 free text messages (I use maybe 5-10 per month). Any peak minutes that don't get used at the end of the month get added to the peak allocation the following month.
With the banking of minutes, I've never paid for extra minutes even though my cell phone is my only phone. Sometimes I may use 200 peak minutes, sometimes I use 600.
Think of it this way: Apple has subcontracted AT&T to provide data service to the iPhone, where AT&T is paid a 10% commission ($2 of $20) for each plan. AT&T makes their money on the voice plans, and the iPhone brings new subscribers to those voice plans.
Oversimplified and making some gross assumptions (like the $18/phone number being accurate), but I think I get the basic idea across.
700 bolts...and of course, the ONE tool missing from the toolbox is the wrench they need.
I thought the article was going to talk about this or this.
If you connect to a Windows machine, the icon for that machine in Leopard is a beige monitor with a BSOD!
Recently my mailbox capacity was approaching 3 GB...it seems to have taken a big jump to 4.3 GB in the last week or two. ANybodty else notice a capacity jump?
When I used PGP in Windows, there was an option to set the trust level of the sender's key. When I open up a certificate in Keychain Access in OS X, I can manually set the trust level of the certificate. If I get a certificate that isn't signed by a CA, why can't I contact the certificate owner through some trusted means and verify the certificate that way?
Perhaps I don't understand completely how certificates are issued/trusted, but that's how I see it; if I generate it and use it, recipients can contact me directly to verify it and manually set the trust level. I know that I, and only I, have a copy of the private key, since I generated it locally.
If you have OS X 10.4, you can make your own certificates.
The first server to get Slashdotted was...the Slashdot server. How tasty
If vote-tampering is done electronically, there is no physical evidence to prove it. When you cast your electronic vote, do you know it was recorded correctly? Did you see the counter in the voting machine increment the proper counter by one, or was the vote tallied differently? Did the program alter the count at some point? Who is witness to the proper electronic counting?
One may contend that paper ballots can be misread, and this is true; however, my understanding is that vote-counting is witnessed by a representative of each political party on the ballot, and may even be exposed to a public audience.
Why bother with all that when you can just look at the paper ballots that where printed when...oh wait...there AREN'T ANY!
This is a prime example of why a purely electronic record of the vote is a Bad Idea. If paper ballots had been printed, reviewed by the voter before being deposited in a secure ballot box, and retained for a recount, there would be no issue.
Against the cost of re-running a vote, those printers are starting to look pretty chap, I'd wager.
http://www.epa.gov/rpdweb00/students/types.html
Do I think AT&T will cut off service if you make a Slashdot post about crappy service? No--it's not worth the effort. I think this statement is geared more towards statements that aim to defame AT&T.
In other words: AT&T doesn't care what your opinion is, but if you start spreading outright lies designed to make AT&T look bad, we'll drop your service.
It's like Netflix subscribers--$9 or so per month gets you as many movies as you can watch in a month (with a 3-4 day lag between return and receiving) but if you are like me and don't watch right away or just simply forget about that DVD sitting under the stack of magazines on the table, you might end up paying for a month of service to watch one DVD (or maybe even less).
It's all a matter of taste and listening habits.