One wonders how such a long-established blogging company can be so ignorant about the nature of the world wide web. Simple answer: They went from being owned by a fairly clued in individual (Brad Fitz) to being owned by a group of individuals who have no clue (Six Apart). I predicted this on my LJ way back when the buyout was first announced. So you could imagine my shock over this stupidity.
'[P]rivacy concerns around RFID tags are a little like concerns about supermarket scanners years ago. When the laser scanners were coming out, everybody was saying, retailers are going to collect information about what you buy. And none of that happened.'
Then according to him, my Marketing text book is wrong! Marketing Information Systems don't exist! Oh No!/sarcasm
It amazes me that a book such as this could be banned, yet car service manuals can be sold in most bookstores.
Of course they'll sell you service manuals. They want you to work on your own car, so when you fuck it up, they can charge you mo' money to fix it!
I don't know if this has been mentioned, but another thing to keep in mind is that only the UPS can deliver to P.O. Boxes, and some federal agencies, such as the Federal Student Aid Programs, use the USPS for important mail.
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Best idea yet. I'd rate it up if it wasn't 5 already.
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Skynet became self-aware at 12:00am UTC, April 1st, 2009...
In Ubuntu, there are more than two releases per year.
Considering every release is either a .04 (April) or a .10 (October) release, how do you figure? Are you counting Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, etc?
The review by mildsiete said they hadn't even downloaded it yet and were going to wait and see. How can that be a review, if they haven't used it yet?
Ars Technica had this first. They should get the credit. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080805-high-tech-peeping-tom-rigged-laptop-webcam-to-snap-nude-pics.html
Has anyone started a pool to see how long before we see a article showing it's been circumvented? Put me down for $5 on 18 hours.
'[P]rivacy concerns around RFID tags are a little like concerns about supermarket scanners years ago. When the laser scanners were coming out, everybody was saying, retailers are going to collect information about what you buy. And none of that happened.' /sarcasm
Then according to him, my Marketing text book is wrong! Marketing Information Systems don't exist! Oh No!
It amazes me that a book such as this could be banned, yet car service manuals can be sold in most bookstores. Of course they'll sell you service manuals. They want you to work on your own car, so when you fuck it up, they can charge you mo' money to fix it!
How is this any different then from what Salon and the Planet * (Planet Half-Life, Planet Quake, Planet Unreal) have been doing?
So why don't they add a clause to the contract that removes the 'defense of infancy'?
Go to FujiTV's web site and post an opinion... It can't hurt.
I don't know if this has been mentioned, but another thing to keep in mind is that only the UPS can deliver to P.O. Boxes, and some federal agencies, such as the Federal Student Aid Programs, use the USPS for important mail.
It takes a really big man to post something like that anonymously.
*Sarcasm mode off*