So when folks talk about our need to implement CAFE or gas taxes etc in order to reduce CO2 emissions, I will continue to call it mis-direction and/or flat-out mindless drivel.
It is neither. It is a Liberal agenda that that feels that you shouldn't be driving cars in the first place because Cars = Individuality. And Bigger Cars = Outrageous Profiteering, so they get punished the most. Just join the Collective and Get On The Bus.
So how do they know if you're on Android listing through your browser? Change the ID string to Internet Explorer (or Firefox if you can't stomach Microsoft anything) and keep on listening.
The cost to deliver a byte over the Internet is dropping every year, some say by as much as 50%.
Yet the cost to the customer paying for that delivered byte is rising through increased rates, caps, UBB, and overage charges.
Anyone who has these two simple facts can see that the uninformed customer is royally being screwed.
And regarding Netflix, I pay to have Netflix delivered. It shouldn't be any different than any other byte delivered to my house. Suddenly, however, Netflix bytes have become golden bytes that somehow cost so much more to deliver that Netflix has to pay on their end as well. Hey, I've looked at those bytes and they look just like every other byte to me and shouldn't cost anything more to deliver. Heck, Netflix is even trying to make it easier to deliver their bytes by setting up mirrors close to ISP's, and STILL they're being told to pay more. Netflix is NOT getting a free ride on an Internet that I'm paying to connect to. Would someone in authority please tell Comcast that?
And while I'm in my rant, I am so fraking tired of being told that the top [name your single digit percentage] of the heavy users are destroying the experience for everybody else -- especially on the cable systems -- but if those heavy users only just pay more then those overburdened pipes are suddenly open and freely freely flowing again all with no hardware changes at all!
Why don't you quit beating up on Sarah Palin to make your point? Not only does it make you look like an idiot, but Sarah Palin is one of the more savvy Facebook users around - making you look like a double-idiot.
1: How can a judge force you to sign away your Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination to release this information? Just say no.
2: How is it so hard to argue that you have a reasonable expection of privacy in your comments rendering them inadmissible in court? After all, if they hadn't been private then the opposing lawyers wouldn't have needed court to force them to be revealed.
3: People lie in Facebook. Wow, that's news. People lie in real life too. It's all about keeping up appearances. Why isn't the case being made that what I said on FB was all lies intended towards keeping up appearances among my friends? Pictures? Yeah I can smile through the pain for a 1/60th of a second - so what?
The poster is correct that Amazon can't jack up prices for Apple's in-app store purchases. 30% is about what Amazon makes on Kindle books to start with, and Apple has a clause on book sales that you can't charge more in their bookstore than anywhere else that the books are sold. That required eBooks to be rounded up to the $x.99 cent mark because Apple apparently can't sell anything that doesn't end in.99 cents. Amazon would have no profit at all on sales through Apple under their contracts with publishers.
Just how many more reasons do we need to quit supporting this Apple walled garden garbage? When I buy a computer it is with the intent that I can load on it what I want to load on it -- not what Apple thinks I should be able to load on it.
Wait until some hacker figures out how to pry this door open and starts killing PS3's the moment they connect to the Internet. Then there will be a huge Sony PR problem.
The REAL CRIME here is that the Golden Gate bridge is still collecting tolls at all, let alone such high ones. The original mandate to collect tolls to pay off the bridge construction and maintenance expired long ago. However, this was such a lucrative pot of money to the San Francisco liberals that they felt the unquenchable need to Do Good with, that instead of reducing or eliminating the tolls once the need for them was met, they RAISED the tolls and dumped it into a shush fund of liberal activism. A sane society would have thrown the bums out long ago, but this is San Francisco that we're talking about.
The rental agency, who already had your credit card on file, sends you the bill. That's what happened to us in Sydney. There was no way to pay on the road at the time and Hertz sent us a bill several weeks later.
So all I need is a little shutter curtain that drops down over my plate that the instant of crossing and I'm home free. Or a James Bond style revolving license plate on my Lotus (ha).
Didn't HP and DEC each have a/8 allocation? Far more than either could ever have used. And didn't HP get DEC's/8 when they purchased them, giving HP 2*/8 allocations - doubly more than they could ever use?
Here's a real-world analogy to the world as Sony sees it:
Sony will sell you an automobile, however, you are only licensed to drive it on certain roads. In the future Sony will sell you new Road Packs at an additional charge. You may not purchase road non-Sony approved Road Packs. Also you are not allowed to modify the engine, tires, or any other aspect of your car except with Sony Authorized Replacement Parts at Sony Service Centers. Sony may, at its discretion, provide new engine firmware with proffered "improvements" along the way which you must accept or lose access to all Sony service. They may also download additional restrictions to disable your car if you attempt to drive on unapproved roads. Finally, although your car was originally certified for off-road driving and you may have purchased it in part based on that ability not offered by other cars, that ability has now suddenly been removed with no compensation for this loss by Sony. Now have nice day or we'll sue your pants off.
Would you buy that car? Would you feel bound to those terms after you "owned" that car?
As long as the original version also remains available under the same terms or better, and as long as the censored version has a large DISCLAIMER at the beginning explaining what changes were made and why they were made, then let the people choose. It is, after all (to the author's great regret) in the Public Domain.
It takes a PDF Reader to implement all of these tricky features. Hey, had I designed the PDF standard I might have put in all of these cute features as well once upon a time. Now we need either a Reader Lite that only renders the text, or an option to Disable All Cuteness.
Or a truly effective sandbox environment since this has proven itself very harmful.
Or a new Safe PDF format that eschews all of the cuteness. Take you pick.
Who can you enforce this against? A California resident using a California server? A California resident using an out of state server. A non-California resident using a California server? A non-California resident using a California server to defraud a California resident? The same with a non-California server? A non-everything? Will California become the East Texas of Internet Defrauding Tourism (well, hey, they need to do something to improve their economy)?
Clearly this is why politicians shouldn't be making laws regarding technology.
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It is neither. It is a Liberal agenda that that feels that you shouldn't be driving cars in the first place because Cars = Individuality. And Bigger Cars = Outrageous Profiteering, so they get punished the most. Just join the Collective and Get On The Bus.
The first thing this brings to mind is, how do you keep people from stealing them and holding them for ransom now that you've made them so portable?
So how do they know if you're on Android listing through your browser? Change the ID string to Internet Explorer (or Firefox if you can't stomach Microsoft anything) and keep on listening.
The cost to deliver a byte over the Internet is dropping every year, some say by as much as 50%.
Yet the cost to the customer paying for that delivered byte is rising through increased rates, caps, UBB, and overage charges.
Anyone who has these two simple facts can see that the uninformed customer is royally being screwed.
And regarding Netflix, I pay to have Netflix delivered. It shouldn't be any different than any other byte delivered to my house. Suddenly, however, Netflix bytes have become golden bytes that somehow cost so much more to deliver that Netflix has to pay on their end as well. Hey, I've looked at those bytes and they look just like every other byte to me and shouldn't cost anything more to deliver. Heck, Netflix is even trying to make it easier to deliver their bytes by setting up mirrors close to ISP's, and STILL they're being told to pay more. Netflix is NOT getting a free ride on an Internet that I'm paying to connect to. Would someone in authority please tell Comcast that?
And while I'm in my rant, I am so fraking tired of being told that the top [name your single digit percentage] of the heavy users are destroying the experience for everybody else -- especially on the cable systems -- but if those heavy users only just pay more then those overburdened pipes are suddenly open and freely freely flowing again all with no hardware changes at all!
Why don't you quit beating up on Sarah Palin to make your point? Not only does it make you look like an idiot, but Sarah Palin is one of the more savvy Facebook users around - making you look like a double-idiot.
1: How can a judge force you to sign away your Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination to release this information? Just say no.
2: How is it so hard to argue that you have a reasonable expection of privacy in your comments rendering them inadmissible in court? After all, if they hadn't been private then the opposing lawyers wouldn't have needed court to force them to be revealed.
3: People lie in Facebook. Wow, that's news. People lie in real life too. It's all about keeping up appearances. Why isn't the case being made that what I said on FB was all lies intended towards keeping up appearances among my friends? Pictures? Yeah I can smile through the pain for a 1/60th of a second - so what?
The poster is correct that Amazon can't jack up prices for Apple's in-app store purchases. 30% is about what Amazon makes on Kindle books to start with, and Apple has a clause on book sales that you can't charge more in their bookstore than anywhere else that the books are sold. That required eBooks to be rounded up to the $x.99 cent mark because Apple apparently can't sell anything that doesn't end in .99 cents. Amazon would have no profit at all on sales through Apple under their contracts with publishers.
Just how many more reasons do we need to quit supporting this Apple walled garden garbage? When I buy a computer it is with the intent that I can load on it what I want to load on it -- not what Apple thinks I should be able to load on it.
Wait until some hacker figures out how to pry this door open and starts killing PS3's the moment they connect to the Internet. Then there will be a huge Sony PR problem.
And for my next trick, making lead into gold.
You have now seen an Internet Kill Switch in action. Anyone at all still think that it's a good idea to give this president one too?
The REAL CRIME here is that the Golden Gate bridge is still collecting tolls at all, let alone such high ones. The original mandate to collect tolls to pay off the bridge construction and maintenance expired long ago. However, this was such a lucrative pot of money to the San Francisco liberals that they felt the unquenchable need to Do Good with, that instead of reducing or eliminating the tolls once the need for them was met, they RAISED the tolls and dumped it into a shush fund of liberal activism. A sane society would have thrown the bums out long ago, but this is San Francisco that we're talking about.
The rental agency, who already had your credit card on file, sends you the bill. That's what happened to us in Sydney. There was no way to pay on the road at the time and Hertz sent us a bill several weeks later.
So all I need is a little shutter curtain that drops down over my plate that the instant of crossing and I'm home free. Or a James Bond style revolving license plate on my Lotus (ha).
What can you say except welcome to Socialism at work? Trust us, we're the government, we know what's best.
Didn't HP and DEC each have a /8 allocation? Far more than either could ever have used. And didn't HP get DEC's /8 when they purchased them, giving HP 2*/8 allocations - doubly more than they could ever use?
How can you call "V" bad? It's got sexy women in it, usually in high-heels, occasionally revealing a lot of skin. What more do you need?
Now if only Excel would follow.
Here's a real-world analogy to the world as Sony sees it:
Sony will sell you an automobile, however, you are only licensed to drive it on certain roads. In the future Sony will sell you new Road Packs at an additional charge. You may not purchase road non-Sony approved Road Packs. Also you are not allowed to modify the engine, tires, or any other aspect of your car except with Sony Authorized Replacement Parts at Sony Service Centers. Sony may, at its discretion, provide new engine firmware with proffered "improvements" along the way which you must accept or lose access to all Sony service. They may also download additional restrictions to disable your car if you attempt to drive on unapproved roads. Finally, although your car was originally certified for off-road driving and you may have purchased it in part based on that ability not offered by other cars, that ability has now suddenly been removed with no compensation for this loss by Sony. Now have nice day or we'll sue your pants off.
Would you buy that car? Would you feel bound to those terms after you "owned" that car?
One must examine all possibilities before jumping to any conclusions. Maybe Baen Books doesn't publish anything worth pirating. :^)
Would it be Obvious to say that this patent is Obvious?
Science is only as Honest as the scientist researching it is Ethical.
As long as the original version also remains available under the same terms or better, and as long as the censored version has a large DISCLAIMER at the beginning explaining what changes were made and why they were made, then let the people choose. It is, after all (to the author's great regret) in the Public Domain.
Somebody had to file this. Now how long before somebody patents getting money for patent trolling?
Oops... Prior Art.
It takes a PDF Reader to implement all of these tricky features. Hey, had I designed the PDF standard I might have put in all of these cute features as well once upon a time. Now we need either a Reader Lite that only renders the text, or an option to Disable All Cuteness.
Or a truly effective sandbox environment since this has proven itself very harmful.
Or a new Safe PDF format that eschews all of the cuteness. Take you pick.
Who can you enforce this against? A California resident using a California server? A California resident using an out of state server. A non-California resident using a California server? A non-California resident using a California server to defraud a California resident? The same with a non-California server? A non-everything? Will California become the East Texas of Internet Defrauding Tourism (well, hey, they need to do something to improve their economy)?
Clearly this is why politicians shouldn't be making laws regarding technology.