I am a little wary of Google Adwords. I read a post earlier on/. that foretold Google offering a gigabyte of storage on an e-mail service, and the post said that the reason it would be good business is because they could do adwords based on the content of the e-mail.
I find this to be an invasion of my privacy.
You can put your tinfoil away. An automated script matching keywords to ads isn't violating anything.
If you want to worry, ponder giving a company (though they've been benevolent thus far) access to your entire life's email. The real risk is that some rapid prosecutor could go after your email to help convict you of something. They're already going after everything else, and the courts seem happy to give it to them.
I can't wait to see what Google's anti-spam technology is going to look like. You can't do a webmail service these days without one...
Given their success in picking relevant web pages, I'm pretty optimistic about their ability to pick out relevant email from the spam.
What I don't understand is how they can justify this as a business. How will they recoup the cost of providing millions of gigs of storage and huge amounts of bandwidth indefinitely?
Basically if you do it just so you can be 1337, you are just vain
Yes, those people are annoying. I occasionally see emails from these people demanding to know how on earth to compile the project (it's java, and uses ant). The more amusing ones are along the lines of, "This project is the most awful thing I've ever seen. I've worked in IT for 15 years and can't even compile the stupid thing."
If you don't know how to compile, you don't need to
It's JAVA, the compiled version will work for everyone
Just use the prebuilt package, unless there's a *real* reason to compile it.
TV executives are so delusional that they can't even consider the possibility that a ratings drop could be due to their crappy shows. It MUST be a problem with nielson's measurements.
If companies bothered to check, MANY would find out that their 'backup' is in the same bundle of wires as their main connection, if not on the SAME strand of fiber. The BBB ought to get on this.
Secondly, the UN doesn't have any real power because, while everyone is willing to participate, no one is willing to really give up power of their nation to another ruling body. I doubt that will ever happen peacefully.
Allow me to introduce the European Union.
Perhaps the UN was too bold a step, since it clearly has little power now. Eventually, I think (hope) we will see more EU type alliances, as countries move toward similar notions of fundamental rights, and less developed nations catch up to the rest of the world. The U.S. will also have to give up its dellusions of grandeur before it can 'lower itself' to join such a union.
Who do you think is stirring the shit? That's right, Real.
Did you expect the people who *don't* care to speak up about this? Of course they're acting out of self interest. It may make them less noble, but not any less right.
For some reason that wasn't enough, and EC decided to screw the innocent consumer by robbing him of convenience of having
the best media player on the planet come for free with his Windows purchase, and go through the chores of installing it from the internet.
Really? Are you sure? Or was it just the first one you saw and was just good enough that you didn't want to "go through the chore" of trying any others? There could be incredible players out there that surpass anything you'd ever imagined, but you'd never know since you just went with the first thing that showed up. Multiply that by 90% of MS's customers, and you have one monopoly creating another.
That of course is the whole point. No one should get that advantage. I don't want them bundling 10 different players, and even then it would hurt everyone that didn't make the cut. Ship it without, and let OEMs or the user decide what to put on. Multimedia may be popular, but it's hardly critical functionality.
If they weren't using their current monopoly to create another, furthering customer lock-in, they'd be allowed to bundle it.
I certainly hope the courts remember about 'fair uses' like compatibility.
If not, I'm sure someone will come up with a better way to provide the same features. Perhaps instead of trying to interoperate with a windows protocol, we could make a package for windows that provides an integrated nfs client which works just like samba.
The way OSS is moving, it probably exists already. It's be nice to have windows coming to linux for a change anyway.
I think the geometry of the orbit should be considered. Pluto's orbit is tilted about 30 degrees relative to the rest of the planets, and is more elliptical, which I think is a stronger argument against it than being small. Sedna's orbit is so eliptical that calling it a planet just doesn't seem right.
First off, shut your mouth until you've actually thought about this at all.
Most of the technology we have today is the direct result of, or significantly improved by the space race. From things as simple as velcro and dehydrated food, to sophisticated electronics, there are huge benefits to everyone that are never mentioned when people bitch about the costs.
BTW, the costs aren't really that much. Defense spending in 2002 was $360 billion, while Nasa's new budget is $15.5 billion. Even spending a trillion dollars over the next decade wouldn't bring it close. Furthermore, we're spending nearly $4 billion in Iraq and nearly $1 billion in Afghanistan EVERY MONTH. For some reason, no one seems too interested in doing a cost/benefit analysis on that.
People don't realize how much our lives have been changed by the 'side effects' of trying to achieve huge goals. Bigger challenges lead to bigger innovations.
Space travel brings a whole different set of challenges than we face on Earth, inspiring different innovations. This is even more true with manned space flight.
Manned space travel will continue to be necessary if we wish to explore further out or in more detail. Robots can only do things you planned on, and going into the unexpected is the whole point of exploration. The communications lag will also increase. The 8 minute lag to mars limits the speed and manuvuerability of the rovers. While this is fine for now, eventually we will reach a point where further research requires closer to realtime action. The further out you go, the less feasible remote-control exploration becomes.
The public airwaves are for everyone. Not just you, EVERYONE. That means that Little Jonnie has just as much right to be able to listen to the radio as you do.
Yes, they are for everyone. That means I have as much right to hear what I want as little johnie does.
Either find a kid-friendly station, or *DO YOUR JOB AS A PARENT* and talk to your child when something explicit comes up. You are not entitled to having the rest of the world censored.
The reaction to the superbowl stunt shows that the folks are simply sick of it.
The ratings for the superbowl seem to show otherwise. A few oversensitive loudmouths are acting like the rest of us care what they think.
If people were really that upset, they would quit watching tv. (Go on, I dare you). Ultimately, it would seem that people find tv to be good enough that they'll put up with some titties and swearing. Not to mention all the violence, which no one ever seems to worry about.
It isn't censorship. It's regulating the use of a public resource, which is their job. You can't swear and flash your tits on a public station any more than you can in a public park.
Why not? (on both counts). If sex or swearing offend you, the only people you can complain to are your parents, as they have clearly failed you. You don't have to like it, but you don't need to start suing anyone. If it bothers you, that's fine. You can ask the people if they could go somewhere else, or take your kids somewhere else.
As long as you talk to your kids, these aren't things that will scar them. If you don't have kids, then you need to just deal with it. There are extremes in which the police may be needed to work things out, but there's still no need to start arresting or suing.
Too many people think they have the right to a cushy existance that caters to their every opinion. Shit happens. Fuck happens. Get over it.
People really need to distinguish between things they don't like, and things that offend them.
"No speech is truly free unless you protect speech you don't like."
It's overused, and it's not absolute, but it's a powerful idea to keep in mind. Fuck, it's not like keeping this shit off tv will prevent anyone from knowing about it. Teach your kids about the words, why they're used, when they're appropriate, and the effect they have.
Really, we don't need to censor *anything*. If we do a good job teaching children about the world, and in supervising them as they learn about it, there won't be any problems. In this situation, the free market will regulate itself, as either no one will watch 'profane' shows, or they will be able to put them in context.
Not that it matters, but I don't consider the perjury important at all. It's not my business, and it's not any of your business. I'm fine with him lying about something he shouldn't have to tell us at all. The question should never even been asked, except for by his family. Perhaps he could have found a better way to express that, but I don't think he owned us an answer.
Generally perjury would be extremely serious, but I think even a president should get to have a private life. I think many other people that weren't impressed by the accusation felt the same way. American culture is way too focused on the intimate details of celebrities lives. Go live your own!
If you're getting kicked by punkbuster, they're doing the rest of us a big favor by banning your smacktard ass. I think they're completely entitled to ban cheaters, in order to preserve the game for the other 90% of their customers who want to play the game.
Otherwise, you idiots would completely ruin the game for everyone else, people would stop buying it, the company makes no money, so no more online games.
The difference is that you can use any of those things just as well without know how they work.
People who *don't* understand computers also seem to have some misconceptions about their simplicity. They treat computers like a fancy TV, ignorant of the complexity and the risks. Not surprisingly, these people do nothing to maintain or protect their computer.
Perhaps a group of people working specifically on a game distro would spur development in the related areas, like sound, easy controller setup, and USB support that works without any setup.
Part of the anti-trust business required microsoft to open up their APIs to other software companies so they could compete on an even footing with microsoft's own software.
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Quit your crying. You're not one of those people anyway. You're just the asshole that talks in the movie theather, looking for some justification.
They SHOULD know their claims are crap. Ignorance is no excuse, right?
Might as well just take slashdot offline for the day, cause there's not a damn thing worth reading.
If you want to worry, ponder giving a company (though they've been benevolent thus far) access to your entire life's email. The real risk is that some rapid prosecutor could go after your email to help convict you of something. They're already going after everything else, and the courts seem happy to give it to them.
What I don't understand is how they can justify this as a business. How will they recoup the cost of providing millions of gigs of storage and huge amounts of bandwidth indefinitely?
- If you don't know how to compile, you don't need to
- It's JAVA, the compiled version will work for everyone
Just use the prebuilt package, unless there's a *real* reason to compile it.What a pathetic group of people
If companies bothered to check, MANY would find out that their 'backup' is in the same bundle of wires as their main connection, if not on the SAME strand of fiber. The BBB ought to get on this.
Perhaps the UN was too bold a step, since it clearly has little power now. Eventually, I think (hope) we will see more EU type alliances, as countries move toward similar notions of fundamental rights, and less developed nations catch up to the rest of the world. The U.S. will also have to give up its dellusions of grandeur before it can 'lower itself' to join such a union.
That of course is the whole point. No one should get that advantage. I don't want them bundling 10 different players, and even then it would hurt everyone that didn't make the cut. Ship it without, and let OEMs or the user decide what to put on. Multimedia may be popular, but it's hardly critical functionality.
If they weren't using their current monopoly to create another, furthering customer lock-in, they'd be allowed to bundle it.
If not, I'm sure someone will come up with a better way to provide the same features. Perhaps instead of trying to interoperate with a windows protocol, we could make a package for windows that provides an integrated nfs client which works just like samba.
The way OSS is moving, it probably exists already. It's be nice to have windows coming to linux for a change anyway.
Fine, have fun with this book instead.
I think the geometry of the orbit should be considered. Pluto's orbit is tilted about 30 degrees relative to the rest of the planets, and is more elliptical, which I think is a stronger argument against it than being small. Sedna's orbit is so eliptical that calling it a planet just doesn't seem right.
Most of the technology we have today is the direct result of, or significantly improved by the space race. From things as simple as velcro and dehydrated food, to sophisticated electronics, there are huge benefits to everyone that are never mentioned when people bitch about the costs.
BTW, the costs aren't really that much. Defense spending in 2002 was $360 billion, while Nasa's new budget is $15.5 billion. Even spending a trillion dollars over the next decade wouldn't bring it close. Furthermore, we're spending nearly $4 billion in Iraq and nearly $1 billion in Afghanistan EVERY MONTH. For some reason, no one seems too interested in doing a cost/benefit analysis on that.
People don't realize how much our lives have been changed by the 'side effects' of trying to achieve huge goals. Bigger challenges lead to bigger innovations.
Space travel brings a whole different set of challenges than we face on Earth, inspiring different innovations. This is even more true with manned space flight.
Manned space travel will continue to be necessary if we wish to explore further out or in more detail. Robots can only do things you planned on, and going into the unexpected is the whole point of exploration. The communications lag will also increase. The 8 minute lag to mars limits the speed and manuvuerability of the rovers. While this is fine for now, eventually we will reach a point where further research requires closer to realtime action. The further out you go, the less feasible remote-control exploration becomes.
Either find a kid-friendly station, or *DO YOUR JOB AS A PARENT* and talk to your child when something explicit comes up. You are not entitled to having the rest of the world censored.
If people were really that upset, they would quit watching tv. (Go on, I dare you). Ultimately, it would seem that people find tv to be good enough that they'll put up with some titties and swearing. Not to mention all the violence, which no one ever seems to worry about.
Why not? (on both counts). If sex or swearing offend you, the only people you can complain to are your parents, as they have clearly failed you. You don't have to like it, but you don't need to start suing anyone. If it bothers you, that's fine. You can ask the people if they could go somewhere else, or take your kids somewhere else.As long as you talk to your kids, these aren't things that will scar them. If you don't have kids, then you need to just deal with it. There are extremes in which the police may be needed to work things out, but there's still no need to start arresting or suing.
Too many people think they have the right to a cushy existance that caters to their every opinion. Shit happens. Fuck happens. Get over it.
People really need to distinguish between things they don't like, and things that offend them.
"No speech is truly free unless you protect speech you don't like."
It's overused, and it's not absolute, but it's a powerful idea to keep in mind. Fuck, it's not like keeping this shit off tv will prevent anyone from knowing about it. Teach your kids about the words, why they're used, when they're appropriate, and the effect they have.
Really, we don't need to censor *anything*. If we do a good job teaching children about the world, and in supervising them as they learn about it, there won't be any problems. In this situation, the free market will regulate itself, as either no one will watch 'profane' shows, or they will be able to put them in context.
Not that it matters, but I don't consider the perjury important at all. It's not my business, and it's not any of your business. I'm fine with him lying about something he shouldn't have to tell us at all. The question should never even been asked, except for by his family. Perhaps he could have found a better way to express that, but I don't think he owned us an answer.
Generally perjury would be extremely serious, but I think even a president should get to have a private life. I think many other people that weren't impressed by the accusation felt the same way. American culture is way too focused on the intimate details of celebrities lives. Go live your own!
If you're getting kicked by punkbuster, they're doing the rest of us a big favor by banning your smacktard ass. I think they're completely entitled to ban cheaters, in order to preserve the game for the other 90% of their customers who want to play the game.
Otherwise, you idiots would completely ruin the game for everyone else, people would stop buying it, the company makes no money, so no more online games.
The difference is that you can use any of those things just as well without know how they work.
People who *don't* understand computers also seem to have some misconceptions about their simplicity. They treat computers like a fancy TV, ignorant of the complexity and the risks. Not surprisingly, these people do nothing to maintain or protect their computer.
Perhaps a group of people working specifically on a game distro would spur development in the related areas, like sound, easy controller setup, and USB support that works without any setup.
Part of the anti-trust business required microsoft to open up their APIs to other software companies so they could compete on an even footing with microsoft's own software.
Money laundering: channeling money through an intermediary so as to conceal its source.
That's sounds mostly illegal, even if just giving money to SCO isn't.
We're not talking about going backwards. What's wrong with the current system that it needs fixing?
Automated voting means automated fraud. Is getting votes counted quicker really worth that?