I don't see how people can expect their privacy to be respected when the service is free.
Privacy? As in personal privacy? Would this not involve them actually knowing something about you other than your machine address? And would that not involve you actually giving them factual personal information?
Do people actually do that? Like tell them your real name, street address, and demographic info?
Then again, should ever there come a whiff of ISP's selling personal user data to these Big Brother wannabe's, then things might start to get interesting.
But until then, pish. It's only issue for those who voluntarily give themselves away. And we all know what those folks deserve, right?
The idea that the public can't use their own airwaves because a company wants to make money off of it just chaps my hide.
Concur.
But there's hope. We're now able to get all our weather data directly from the NWS office of our choosing, as opposed to having to get it from some bogus subscription service that just regurgitates our own data that we had already bought and paid for, back at us.
Maybe things will shake out alright with wireless?
I've heard from a few friends that the plugin that blocks Flash animations from playing until you hit the large button in the center will crash any pages that load flash under Firefox 1.0
No such thing has ever happened to ANY of the machines I've loaded with 1.0 (and there's been a bunch) along with flashblock (all of those machines).
The true retarded hilarity of the situation only becomes apparent when you stop to consider all the wonderful submitted material that was rejected in order to make space for yet another installment in the Endless Saga of the Duplicate Postings on Slashdot.
Sounds here like the lawyers beat down the programmers and the result is... about what you'd expect.
We can only hope that somebody on the inside (What? A programmer who reads slashdot?) will post AC with all the hilarious details regarding how this one came to pass.
What we have here is definitely potential Hall of Fame stuff. I'd love to see it.
why not make Mars a storage for our greenhouse gases?
The energy budget for such a scheme (even including the as yet unrealized technology of a space elevator) would be such that if you just spent that energy directly on mars, you'd wind up warming the place to a greater degree using nothing more than waste heat.
And do we even want to talk about how much waste heat would be released into the earth's atmosphere on this end?
You're suggesting that we collect and move gigatons of material across tens to hundreds of millions of miles. It's not pretty math when you finish adding things up.
Hell, I work barefoot in a pair of boardshorts and if they get a t-shirt, they're doing better than average. I do this deliberately, because I've found that the sorts of people who get sniffy over retarded dress code shit are also the sorts of people who will whinge endlessly later on about additional stuff that they think you should do for free 'cause you were the one who worked on their machine last time. I prefer for those people to autoselect themselves out, and bare feet seems to turn the trick successfully every time. Take it or leave it lady, but I'm NOT putting on so much as a pair of beat up sandals.
Concur. I've never quoted a price. Ever. When they ask what they owe, I just smile and advise them that they should give me whatever they think it's worth. I'm still waiting on the first chiseler to dog me with any kind of underpayment at all. People pay, and pay well, when approached this way.
can't understand how a product so utterly devoid of any pretense not simply of quality, but of product liability, continues to do well in a free market.
Seems as if the RIAA/MPAA mathematicians and accountants have become quite the in-demand item and are now offering their services to one and all. It's really quite gratifying to see this type of level-headed economic assessment spreading far and wide across this great land of ours.
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Unless, of course, you own the government.
From the looks of things, Applied Greed for the most part.
Privacy? As in personal privacy? Would this not involve them actually knowing something about you other than your machine address? And would that not involve you actually giving them factual personal information?
Do people actually do that? Like tell them your real name, street address, and demographic info?
Then again, should ever there come a whiff of ISP's selling personal user data to these Big Brother wannabe's, then things might start to get interesting.
But until then, pish. It's only issue for those who voluntarily give themselves away. And we all know what those folks deserve, right?
Absolutely. Go right ahead and plan on your average AOL user getting on board the clue train and encrypting their messages. Oh yeah. Really.
Which presumes there's a branch of advertising that's nonbogus?
Help me out here. Where can I find such a thing?
Concur.
But there's hope. We're now able to get all our weather data directly from the NWS office of our choosing, as opposed to having to get it from some bogus subscription service that just regurgitates our own data that we had already bought and paid for, back at us.
Maybe things will shake out alright with wireless?
Is my tinfoil hat on too tight?
Likely not. Adblock has been rock solid running version 1.0 in every machine (quite a bunch) I've ever loaded them into.
No such thing has ever happened to ANY of the machines I've loaded with 1.0 (and there's been a bunch) along with flashblock (all of those machines).
Just so you know, ok?
The true retarded hilarity of the situation only becomes apparent when you stop to consider all the wonderful submitted material that was rejected in order to make space for yet another installment in the Endless Saga of the Duplicate Postings on Slashdot.
Sigh.
Bullshit.
We can only hope that somebody on the inside (What? A programmer who reads slashdot?) will post AC with all the hilarious details regarding how this one came to pass.
What we have here is definitely potential Hall of Fame stuff. I'd love to see it.
Of course they can. But how in hell will they ever see another new customer via the internet again?
Too funny.
that some of the scariest 1984ish stuff would be coming out of the fricking entertainment industry fer chrissakes.
The energy budget for such a scheme (even including the as yet unrealized technology of a space elevator) would be such that if you just spent that energy directly on mars, you'd wind up warming the place to a greater degree using nothing more than waste heat.
And do we even want to talk about how much waste heat would be released into the earth's atmosphere on this end?
You're suggesting that we collect and move gigatons of material across tens to hundreds of millions of miles. It's not pretty math when you finish adding things up.
Do how?
Hell, I work barefoot in a pair of boardshorts and if they get a t-shirt, they're doing better than average. I do this deliberately, because I've found that the sorts of people who get sniffy over retarded dress code shit are also the sorts of people who will whinge endlessly later on about additional stuff that they think you should do for free 'cause you were the one who worked on their machine last time. I prefer for those people to autoselect themselves out, and bare feet seems to turn the trick successfully every time. Take it or leave it lady, but I'm NOT putting on so much as a pair of beat up sandals.
Concur. I've never quoted a price. Ever. When they ask what they owe, I just smile and advise them that they should give me whatever they think it's worth. I'm still waiting on the first chiseler to dog me with any kind of underpayment at all. People pay, and pay well, when approached this way.
Here's the plan: Don't fuck up.
We're all they've got, the poor things.
Hint: The market ain't really free, chief.
At least until the bank's server gets haX0r'd.
Call me a luddite if you will, but I NEVER do financial transactions on line. Just don't trust the shit.
Actually, it's a different Dora.
Seems as if the RIAA/MPAA mathematicians and accountants have become quite the in-demand item and are now offering their services to one and all. It's really quite gratifying to see this type of level-headed economic assessment spreading far and wide across this great land of ours.
Concur.
Heinlein took a look at this quite a while back, and while I'm quite sure he's got the details all wrong, the underlying concern remains quite valid.
Obey.