That website is not about "free speech" in the slightest. It is about generating ad revenue for its owners: revenue which would decline if users who deliberately set out to act like cocks were not offered safe harbour.
Really, it just combines a few popular online subjects - law career discussion and outlandish bigotry/racism/general abuse. Go look at any extremist forum, for example. You'll see hundreds of thousands of posts, each one serving up Google adverts.
And the site owners aren't championing free speech in fear of what all those law students could do if they felt their rights were collectively infringed - they are worried about traffic leaving the site. Simple as that. Applying strict moderation isn't going to bring out Gary Bupkis from Moronica State University all aflame in anger about his constitutional right to call Sheila Labiastein from Jeronimo College a filthy cock-sucking kykecunt who couldn't get into a university as prestigious as his which he pretends is Harvard or something...he's going to toddle off to some other online forum and passively boost ad revenues there.
Don't attribute to nobility what is clearly just commercial greed.
The advantage here of course is this will be user contributed like Wikipedia.
No, the advantage here is that it will have the Wikipedia brand behind it and benefit from user creep and karma seep. Even if it is not profitable, it will simply do what Wikipedia did - blow the trumpet about how important it is that it stays free and open and blahblah, soliciting donations from the public and users in addition to giving corporate entities an opportunity to gane brownie points through "donation matching".
From my experience of the online Apple-using community, this entire thing will be used purely to predict when Apple will be releasing new shiny things to buy. Forget about global warming - good God, man! There could be a minor iPod update next Tuesday!
If they're really targeting contractors, $99 is a bit too cheap.
They should be targeting adult dating/hook-up websites like newbienudes.com. Let them install this software server-side, bolt it onto the picture uploading function and FINALLY all the problems regarding incorrect measurement will be solved! No more three hour drives just to get there and end up saying "Um...is that the WHOLE nine inches?".
Relying on Google Maps to plan a robbery is possibly one of the dumbest things you can do, especially if you live in a rural area with few map updates or flyovers.
It's all very well for these government types and their top secret kitten-killing factories or whatever, but what about individuals who don't want aerial pictures of their house and grounds online? Anyone looking on Google Maps over my area can see my house, garden and outbuildings in scary detail.
I'm not saying I am afraid of it happening (I'm not that hysterically moronic, yet.) but it seems to me that the premise of "Google must blur this building because terrorists could somehow benefit from already slightly blurred photos of the outline of the building." applies equally to my house - "Google must blur this area because burglars could use the pictures to plan an escape route along the back of the garden which is hidden from normal view."
The last thing I want to have to do is put an opaque roof over my greenhouse shrine to Peter Krause.
See, I don't think "articles" and "debates" like the one in TFA are even remotely targeted at you - the demographic is squarely those people who, for some reason or other, want to talk and fight (online) about a product. You are clearly too level-headed and sensible. Not once in your comment did you write "FFS MAC IS GAY" or "OMG XP SUCKS".
You probably shouldn't even be using a computer...
..but will it at least make breakfast for you in the morning?
Sony being what it is, you are more likely to wake up sticky, broke and confused, than to the delightful smell of cooking. And you'll probably be shitting crooked for a month afterwards, too.
Perhaps I am just a lightweight, but if I were drinking four drinks a day I would expect my chances of dying in a variety of ways to decrease, simply due to the fact that I was spending most of my time either singing "Brown Eyed Girl" or hugging people - both known to prolong life, generate vitality and fight discombobulation of the spleen.
The one surprise though is that the brown Zune is apparently not only being bought, but more popular than the white model.
Not really. Brown is a nice colour. And people who buy the Zune are probably trying to kid themselves into believing they are real and proper individuals, resisting all those clones and sheep who have iPods and iPod knock-offs. So why should they not go one further and get a wild and cool colour which nobody already has?
Proof indeed that people are dim. Bless their little hearts!
Apple attempts to plug license hole which was used to circumvent Apple's valid (even if unwelcome) desire to protect own commercial interests. Locals up in arms. Villagers outraged.
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So how many of these new adventurers at the thin end of the open source wedge have contributed source code?
Come on, children! THOSE LAPTOPS WERE FREE FOR A REASON! ~cracks whip~
Ixnay on the amenay angechay!
That website is not about "free speech" in the slightest. It is about generating ad revenue for its owners: revenue which would decline if users who deliberately set out to act like cocks were not offered safe harbour.
Really, it just combines a few popular online subjects - law career discussion and outlandish bigotry/racism/general abuse. Go look at any extremist forum, for example. You'll see hundreds of thousands of posts, each one serving up Google adverts.
And the site owners aren't championing free speech in fear of what all those law students could do if they felt their rights were collectively infringed - they are worried about traffic leaving the site. Simple as that. Applying strict moderation isn't going to bring out Gary Bupkis from Moronica State University all aflame in anger about his constitutional right to call Sheila Labiastein from Jeronimo College a filthy cock-sucking kykecunt who couldn't get into a university as prestigious as his which he pretends is Harvard or something...he's going to toddle off to some other online forum and passively boost ad revenues there.
Don't attribute to nobility what is clearly just commercial greed.
"My God...it's full of...nothing..."
Acunetix have just HACKED into Snyder's bank account and helped themselves to the $1000.
No, the advantage here is that it will have the Wikipedia brand behind it and benefit from user creep and karma seep. Even if it is not profitable, it will simply do what Wikipedia did - blow the trumpet about how important it is that it stays free and open and blahblah, soliciting donations from the public and users in addition to giving corporate entities an opportunity to gane brownie points through "donation matching".
Single page version.
/. doesn't just link to these where available, I will never know...
Why on earth
From my experience of the online Apple-using community, this entire thing will be used purely to predict when Apple will be releasing new shiny things to buy. Forget about global warming - good God, man! There could be a minor iPod update next Tuesday!
I am not too impressed by the name of "Vienna", especially since I happen to like the place.
I think something along the lines of Windows Hindenburg would be more appropriate. Or does anyone have a better name?
I'm not saying I am afraid of it happening (I'm not that hysterically moronic, yet.) but it seems to me that the premise of "Google must blur this building because terrorists could somehow benefit from already slightly blurred photos of the outline of the building." applies equally to my house - "Google must blur this area because burglars could use the pictures to plan an escape route along the back of the garden which is hidden from normal view."
The last thing I want to have to do is put an opaque roof over my greenhouse shrine to Peter Krause.
She actually says "Psych!", as if she is still 14. She may have well as ended a hilariously fallacious statement with "...NOT!".
Drive 100m up Trolley Loop. Now take a left. Honest, it's safe.
Embiggened is a perfectly cromulent word!
You probably shouldn't even be using a computer...
Oh God. I hope nobody sees this article and gets all worked up. That would be awful.
Perhaps I am just a lightweight, but if I were drinking four drinks a day I would expect my chances of dying in a variety of ways to decrease, simply due to the fact that I was spending most of my time either singing "Brown Eyed Girl" or hugging people - both known to prolong life, generate vitality and fight discombobulation of the spleen.
Proof indeed that people are dim. Bless their little hearts!
"There goes the last lingering thread of my heterosexuality."
Apple attempts to plug license hole which was used to circumvent Apple's valid (even if unwelcome) desire to protect own commercial interests. Locals up in arms. Villagers outraged.