Maybe AMI should hawk some "trusted computing" products to Nintendo, to stop themselves from stealing The Legend of Zelda's Triforce as their corporate logo.
Of course, on the other hand, don't you think it's a bit silly to require companies overseas who use the internet as a vehicle for selling their products (i.e. countless businesses) to know and anticipate any legal restrictions (even more countless) in every country (slightly less countless)?
What really sucks is that I go to my job 35 hours a week, and get jack squat for it - no salary even - except the promise of a "diploma" and some BS about "training" and "education." And if I quit, my next of kin get jailtime.
Think about it. I know I have.
I don't mean just taking the thing personally as a real asshole thing to do - I mean, seriously consider the possibility that the people in charge of anti-leech are, literally, incompetent.
What really prompted me to think about it was this:
What about cookies?
What cookies have to do with all this might be hard to understand at first, but blocking cookies can also cause major problems for webmasters.
Yeah, problems like not being able to spy on innocent end users.
And then there's this stuff I'm reading from other people about Gator, and frankly, after seeing some adware in action for the first time a few months ago, I'll never look at alligators quite the same again.
Other indications of incompetence in Anti-Leech staff abound, such as the alt text for a particular banner ad being "ALT TEXT HERE."
It's not Slashdot's fault that Macs are more efficient, interesting, and attractive than Windoze machines.
But seriously, what other company makes both computer hardware and operating systems?
(I suppose you could say Microsoft if you count the Xbox as a computer... but that's another story)
Slashdot Mirror
Google: "One of these days Yahoo!, one of these days... bang, zoom, to the moon!"
"We're sorry, the page you're looking for could not be found. Perhaps you'd care to sign up for MSN 8?"
(on a side-note, the below link is another explanation of Palladium, likely less lucid, as it was written by myself)
Maybe AMI should hawk some "trusted computing" products to Nintendo, to stop themselves from stealing The Legend of Zelda's Triforce as their corporate logo.
"...garbage like this [post] that is little more than instruments of hate aimed at the moral community."
User: "What's this? My computer is too sl- AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!"
Doubleclick.net server: "Muhuhahaha..."
Of course, on the other hand, don't you think it's a bit silly to require companies overseas who use the internet as a vehicle for selling their products (i.e. countless businesses) to know and anticipate any legal restrictions (even more countless) in every country (slightly less countless)?
I'm still worried about the whole idea that the law applies in Russia, though...
What really sucks is that I go to my job 35 hours a week, and get jack squat for it - no salary even - except the promise of a "diploma" and some BS about "training" and "education." And if I quit, my next of kin get jailtime.
Talk about bad jobs.
I don't mean just taking the thing personally as a real asshole thing to do - I mean, seriously consider the possibility that the people in charge of anti-leech are, literally, incompetent.
What really prompted me to think about it was this:
What about cookies?
What cookies have to do with all this might be hard to understand at first, but blocking cookies can also cause major problems for webmasters.
Yeah, problems like not being able to spy on innocent end users.
And then there's this stuff I'm reading from other people about Gator, and frankly, after seeing some adware in action for the first time a few months ago, I'll never look at alligators quite the same again.
Other indications of incompetence in Anti-Leech staff abound, such as the alt text for a particular banner ad being "ALT TEXT HERE."
It's not Slashdot's fault that Macs are more efficient, interesting, and attractive than Windoze machines. But seriously, what other company makes both computer hardware and operating systems? (I suppose you could say Microsoft if you count the Xbox as a computer... but that's another story)