Wasn't there an article on how the massive London camera network doesn't actually do any good? And that one has real people monitoring it. Who really thinks a computer will be able to do a better job at something so nebulous as "suspicious behavior?"
Oh, that's right, nobody. However, that doesn't stop the company pushing this from trying to make a buck. It's sorta like the DRM companies. The DRM companies all know it doesn't work, but companies keep falling for the salesmen's lies.
They're filling your inbox with spam. They're spamming your blog. They're making up websites with your picture and filling it with false "confessions." They're making up IM accounts and messaging your friends with the same "confessions."
There's a dozen more ways kids can be cruel online. It doesn't have to be directed at you while you're logged in to harm you.
If I'm required to sit at work, and not allowed to go home, it's still using my time. It's not my fault if things are maintained and running properly, oh wait...:)
The store picked the time to wrongfully detain him. The police picked the time to ask him for his ID, etc... Exactly when are we supposed to stand up for our rights again? Oh, when it won't inconvenience others. Guess we'll always have to submit to unreasonable law enforcement actions if someone's with us.
Come on, "hardcore gamers" want Nintendo not to be "kiddy" and you can either saw someone's head off, choke them, or snap their neck on the Wii, or you can press A. Which would that crowd pick?
It was "Nintendo's too kiddy," now people bitch about the games being TOO graphic? They can't get a break from either side of the fence.
Either ISPs are a common carrier or they are not, the imposition of blocking techniques should carry along with it some responsibilities for its failures.
Repeat after me, ISPs are not common carriers. They are data services. They don't want to be common carriers. There are many reasons they don't want to be common carriers, but the most often stated is because they would have to share the lines with the competition. Cable companies don't want to share and neither do the telcos(but the telcos are stuck with it already).
Or the RIAA could just ignore them and keep up the status quo. Their suits are civil, not criminal; and unlike trademark law, they are not required to pursue every violator. Equating filesharing with enslavement of an entire nation is about as related as setting your glass on the table is to landing a rover on Mars.
Great, what's the number? It's toll free right? That can't be the right time. It's still daylight! And what's with the funny accent on that line? Oh, can we get Sean Connery to do the readings?:)
I would think the material would be used for whatever's at the top of the space elevator. In space, it would be safe from water. Of course, accidents happen and that's when you add protection where you need it.
Because everyone wants to see their brand win. Ostensibly it is because whichever one sells more will be the one to get the games, saving you money since you know which one to buy. In reality, it's just a way to stoke the fanboy ego.
Look at Ford vs. Chevy, etc... Very easy to understand why people care about this sort of thing.
Ah, but posting a portion of you reading that book because you had a review or other commentary of it would likely be fair use if you didn't go overboard with your excerpt. The question is whether the person exceeded such undefined boundaries. Some other comments seemed to think that it may have, which means that it's not very clear. While it may indeed have been appropriate to remove ones that were suspect, it seems overkill to remove everything that person had ever uploaded.
Yes, but you can't go ten years without your shareholders asking why you're pissing off billions of dollars. If you never make a profit it's not a loss leader, it's a failure.
People still think of it as a phone. People are shocked at $40 phone battery prices. Why are you shocked that people are shocked? People think of batteries as easily replaced like the rest of their batteries. Would you be shocked if you bought a TV remote and the battery was $40? The fact that it's soldered into the device and that it's so expensive isn't surprising to you or me because we visit Slashdot and other sites that reported the iPod battery fiasco. We knew this was coming. Millions of phone buyers did not see this coming.
I guarantee you it will slow them down. They'll either have to actually be sure they'll win, or they won't sue. It does affect the fiscal risk/reward ratio as well. I guarantee you the bean counters will start screaming about the money if things go south.
Of course, now the contracts and pricing are going to include terms and royalties for usage such as CDs and the like. However, those under old contracts are out of luck.
Thank God it felt "slow" at first. If it felt any faster when you were starting out you'd quit playing because you ran off the course or smashed yourself into bits at every turn. I think they did it perfectly and rewarded you with the fastest, hardest to control(and most fun IMHO) as a reward for completing the whole game. I plugged it in not two months ago and had fun for a few hours setting new records. Still fun for me. I just wish it was two player. I'd love an update in the same spirit for the Wii.
I'm not talking about services, I'm talking about people. None of my friends or coworkers use Jabber outside of the workplace. I don't use Gmail or Google Talk, or IM on my phone. I understand it's available, but I just don't need it.
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Wasn't there an article on how the massive London camera network doesn't actually do any good? And that one has real people monitoring it. Who really thinks a computer will be able to do a better job at something so nebulous as "suspicious behavior?"
Oh, that's right, nobody. However, that doesn't stop the company pushing this from trying to make a buck. It's sorta like the DRM companies. The DRM companies all know it doesn't work, but companies keep falling for the salesmen's lies.
Yes, it is called Vista.
Also, see: Sony's rootkit fiasco.
Video game copyprotection: Starforce, etc...
You must be new here. Nobody here has experience with girls. :)
It's not that easy. You can't just log off.
They're filling your inbox with spam.
They're spamming your blog.
They're making up websites with your picture and filling it with false "confessions."
They're making up IM accounts and messaging your friends with the same "confessions."
There's a dozen more ways kids can be cruel online. It doesn't have to be directed at you while you're logged in to harm you.
If I'm required to sit at work, and not allowed to go home, it's still using my time. It's not my fault if things are maintained and running properly, oh wait... :)
The store picked the time to wrongfully detain him. The police picked the time to ask him for his ID, etc... Exactly when are we supposed to stand up for our rights again? Oh, when it won't inconvenience others. Guess we'll always have to submit to unreasonable law enforcement actions if someone's with us.
Come on, "hardcore gamers" want Nintendo not to be "kiddy" and you can either saw someone's head off, choke them, or snap their neck on the Wii, or you can press A. Which would that crowd pick?
It was "Nintendo's too kiddy," now people bitch about the games being TOO graphic? They can't get a break from either side of the fence.
Repeat after me, ISPs are not common carriers. They are data services. They don't want to be common carriers.
There are many reasons they don't want to be common carriers, but the most often stated is because they would have to share the lines with the competition. Cable companies don't want to share and neither do the telcos(but the telcos are stuck with it already).
Or the RIAA could just ignore them and keep up the status quo. Their suits are civil, not criminal; and unlike trademark law, they are not required to pursue every violator.
Equating filesharing with enslavement of an entire nation is about as related as setting your glass on the table is to landing a rover on Mars.
Great, what's the number? It's toll free right? :)
That can't be the right time. It's still daylight!
And what's with the funny accent on that line? Oh, can we get Sean Connery to do the readings?
Just because a problem has been going on for a long time is no reason to ignore the problem.
I would think the material would be used for whatever's at the top of the space elevator. In space, it would be safe from water. Of course, accidents happen and that's when you add protection where you need it.
I suspect that they'll have the option to turn off custom models, just to save bandwidth if not everything else that goes with them.
Eh, it was an attempt to be funny about email since email has a header and a "body."
Yeah, but murder is hard to prove without a body.
Because everyone wants to see their brand win. Ostensibly it is because whichever one sells more will be the one to get the games, saving you money since you know which one to buy. In reality, it's just a way to stoke the fanboy ego.
Look at Ford vs. Chevy, etc... Very easy to understand why people care about this sort of thing.
Are you sure it would be short lived?
Would media outlets be told not to report it in the name of "national security?"
Ah, but posting a portion of you reading that book because you had a review or other commentary of it would likely be fair use if you didn't go overboard with your excerpt.
The question is whether the person exceeded such undefined boundaries. Some other comments seemed to think that it may have, which means that it's not very clear. While it may indeed have been appropriate to remove ones that were suspect, it seems overkill to remove everything that person had ever uploaded.
Yes, but you can't go ten years without your shareholders asking why you're pissing off billions of dollars. If you never make a profit it's not a loss leader, it's a failure.
People still think of it as a phone. People are shocked at $40 phone battery prices. Why are you shocked that people are shocked? People think of batteries as easily replaced like the rest of their batteries. Would you be shocked if you bought a TV remote and the battery was $40?
The fact that it's soldered into the device and that it's so expensive isn't surprising to you or me because we visit Slashdot and other sites that reported the iPod battery fiasco. We knew this was coming. Millions of phone buyers did not see this coming.
I guarantee you it will slow them down. They'll either have to actually be sure they'll win, or they won't sue. It does affect the fiscal risk/reward ratio as well. I guarantee you the bean counters will start screaming about the money if things go south.
:)
BTW, it's "losing" and "lose."
Of course, now the contracts and pricing are going to include terms and royalties for usage such as CDs and the like. However, those under old contracts are out of luck.
Thank God it felt "slow" at first. If it felt any faster when you were starting out you'd quit playing because you ran off the course or smashed yourself into bits at every turn.
I think they did it perfectly and rewarded you with the fastest, hardest to control(and most fun IMHO) as a reward for completing the whole game.
I plugged it in not two months ago and had fun for a few hours setting new records. Still fun for me. I just wish it was two player. I'd love an update in the same spirit for the Wii.
I'm not talking about services, I'm talking about people.
None of my friends or coworkers use Jabber outside of the workplace. I don't use Gmail or Google Talk, or IM on my phone. I understand it's available, but I just don't need it.
What about crushing the plants on the way into the forest? Better to go watch your step in a rocky or sandy area. :)