That would work well if only the Federal Government didn't have the power to remove funding elsewhere. "Oh, you want to legalize marijuana? Sweet, well now you don't get any federal school funding or federal highway funding because we feel that marijuana smokers are dangerous on the roads and do poorly in school."
I say that the federal government shouldn't be allowed to decide how to punish based on the desire of the states' residents.
You said it yourself. Clearchannel's lock on the airwaves is something that some people are fed up with, and those people are looking to XM as a means of getting other types of content.
What? No, most people wouldn't know that their "local" radio station is owned by ClearChannel unless someone told them and even then they'd shrug and say, "so what?" What people do care about are advertisements, poor playlist rotation and selection, and the fact that the latest Black Friday sales are on relatively inexpensive devices that are offset in cost by monthly subscription.
Personally I never cared for XM other than Lucy. When we were DirecTV subscribers I would only listen to that XM station as none of the others were even remotely tolerable and even then after a couple hours the playlist would begin to repeat. Boring.
The reason these business models aren't working anymore are the proliferation of portable music players (I can play whatever I want whenever I want), worsening economic conditions (I can't afford to feed my dog let alone pay $15/month for music), and the simple fact that the market is now saturated with people who were interested in that idea.
Those reasons definitely contribute to the downfall of XM/Sirius but it's certainly not because the majority of people are fed up with ClearChannel.
Why? Why does it matter if the screen is color or not? Are that many of the books you normally read "in color"? While I enjoy the smell and feel of a yellowing used book, I don't think an eBook reader is going to mimic that.
Personally, while I see the fucking thing Slashvertised here frequently and I hear about the grand sales that Amazon vaguely reports, I have yet to see one in action. Even though I see a good portion of bus riders every single day with normal old books, magazines, newspapers, laptops, and mobile devices (mostly Blackberries and iPhones), I have yet to see a single Kindle. I guess everyone else, very much like me, cannot justify the price of the device on top of the price of the reading material when there are better options available (the $1 rack at Half Price Books or the local library).
The economics for me are simple: Slashdot gets paid per plug and no one else is really going to care about the device until libraries start loaning out the materials. Until then, if I really want to read an eBook, I'll use what's available to me from my local library system via the web and read it on my already purchased mobile device.
So the few times I've had someone ask me to do this sort of scraping, my response is usually that sure, fine, it works, but it's very easy to spot on the logs, and the information is very likely to become unavailable at unpredictable intervals.
Depends on how you do it. I tend to use tor and a random wait time between gets to bring down the data over a few hours (up to a few days) and in one instance, because the URLs were easily guessed, I randomized the list to make it seem as if the hits were going to pages all over the place. I was never banned for any scraping activity that I have done.
In the long run, it's usually pretty futile to scrape in the first place. When you're stealing content just to drive traffic, you tend to have a crappy site. The only time I ever did a professional scraping app that was "justified" and "legal", the victim was another business unit within the same corporation, and we had every right to the data that they "couldn't" compile for us.
It's not futile. Scraping provides a plethora of information in a useful format from places that aren't willing (or unable) to provide data in the necessary format. I used scraped data of course schedule information from MnSCU to develop a weekly report that showed data about how many courses were filled at other area institutions. It was to our competitive advantage to have this information and while it was publicly available, the system wouldn't provide it to us in the DW. I used that data for a variety of different reports than I originally intended and it would not have been possible otherwise.
While I wish that the data had been provided in a better format for my use, it wasn't and that's what made scraping necessary. Plus *I* was the one who got to determine what information I was allowed to glean from the data rather than whatever the system decided was appropriate for our needs.
I recently switched from T-mobile's Sidekick data plan (with unlimited SMS) to AT&T Wireless for the iPhone's data plan which does not include any SMS. After receiving my first SMS spam within 7 days of having the phone, I called and had the charges removed and then told them to disable all SMS.
I really want those carriers to explain to regulators how they feel that they can get away with charging.20/SMS or $5 for 200.
Who, aside from people using GMail as some sort of enterprise mail application, gives a shit what they call it? I don't, it's something I'm using for "free" and it works.
Or you could just continue to use your current TV and ignore the whole unnecessary and unneeded HD signal bullshit. I refuse to buy a new TV that supports HD and I plan on running the three I have into the ground before I upgrade. If at some time in the future I can no longer watch any TV (I have DirecTV currently) I'll just stop watching it all together but I have a feeling that different options will be available (as they are now -- such as torrents, streaming, etc).
WorstBuy, TV manufacturers and the government are drooling over the added revenue. Remember that money that the FCC got for selling off the spectrum? Yeah, I do too. Can someone explain to me why the set top boxes that we will need to get OTA HD for standard definition TVs cost anything more than $0? You can't because it doesn't make any fucking sense what-so-ever. The spectrum belongs to the people and thus *all* of the money gained from any sale goes back to us.
They're not in better shape, they've just starving a bit more than the average US citizen.
When I considered myself a "gamer" (Q1CTF) I was a Division I athlete attending a state university with ready access to tons of junk food and recreational enhancements that I readily consumed in greater amounts than I could even again. But because I was in college, and working out twice a day 5.5x a week, I was in great shape. I have a feeling that while the age range for those that consider themselves "gamers" is widening, the majority of people are still HS and college aged kids who have a bit more of an active lifestyle than the rest of us that work in some boring office tower all day and then retire home for an evening of various PC or console games.
but the Napster brand is, at least last I knew, pretty much useless as a brand. If I am wrong, someone please correct me.
Well, give them a chance, maybe they'll start giving out free music again, just like Napster was when the brand actually meant something more than stocks and dollars changing hands.
The Google-owned portal will ban footage that advertises terrorism or extremist causes and supporters of the change hope it will blunt al-Qaeda's strong media online campaign.
So who makes the determination what constitutes "extremist"? Would this guy be an extremist because he stands up for what he believes in while fighting what he believes are the US' illegal search and seizures on US soil?
I'm sure the government thinks he's an extremist -- will Google?
I checked LinkedIn for everyone doing my interview and I made sure that I started following any blogs or other online information those people had that offered an RSS feed (pownce, blog, etc).
In addition, I wanted to see what the hours were like. Using Last.fm I was able to look at one of the interviewers and see, on average, how many hours he had his music playing. With several weeks of data I was able to determine that he was there for about 8 hours, on the dot, daily. There was one or two days that it was 8.5 to 9 hours but it all seemed to even out in the end.
I also knew where people lived, what they liked and didn't like and was able to do much of what the parent poster did w/the violin. While I was certain I wasn't going to end up with the job, I did.
Funny thing is, I have a fairly unique name and a wide web presence. They did do a Google search for me and hit the root URL of my website only. You would think that they would have dug a bit deeper if they were really interested...
I don't agree that racial bias is a natural part of anything. If you dropped two people without any knowledge of how the world currently works in a room together and let them do whatever it is they're going to do, the last thing on their minds would be their skin color.
I think it has to do with the simple fact that people don't realize just how much money they need to live on when they retire. People sock away $x and realize that when they aren't spending 10 hours of their day doing work related items (to/from work, work, winding down on the couch afterward) they are going to need to do SOMETHING.
As people have said before, people at age 65 are more active than they were in the past and thus they have the energy and desire to do something other than sit at home and play solitaire and gin, play Bingo at the senior center, or whatever the hell else my grandparents did all day.
Doing "stuff" costs money and people seem to forget that.
I doubt he ever made blueprints for the project. He used an old water heater for the tank and a pump to bring the water back up. Once the toilet was filled a switch was triggered to turn the pump off. The problem was that when the tank was empty (too many people visiting the house and going above the capacity of the tank) it would flush the soap scum from the bottle of the tank. You had to fill the tub back up, we used cold water for this, and thus fill the tank to flush the toilet.
They took along *anything* and *everything* that might be related to possible riots. When they raided a home that wasn't actually the correct home, they still detained people for over and hour while they obtained the correct warrant. When I read that I posted that I was concerned that when I arrived at home that I too would find cops on my doorstep because after all, that was the point of all of this horseshit.
When you finally hear from the other side you learn that the "buckets of urine" was actually gray water used to flush the toilet (my father developed a tank system in the 1980s that used shower/tub water to flush the toilet which saved us so much money that the water company came out 3 or 4 different times to replace the meter because they thought it was defective).
I am disgusted to be a Minnesota and United States resident. This is fucking shameful and horrifying. There is absolutely no excuse for this type of free speech violation. This is a stupid political rally, not a fucking war on our soil. Personally I'd love to join the protests but I seriously fear for my freedom and my life. I am not against the RNC but I am definitely against the manner in which protesting is being handled.
FUCK YOU AMERICA.
For live footage of raids and other First Amendment violations, check out The UpTake on Qik.com.
Those of us that use sites that are built with it. While I don't need it for most mobile browsing, there are some sites where it is required. If the device can play YouTube flash videos, why can't it load the flash sites too?
I will be purchasing an iPhone shortly and know of its shortcomings but to blindly support their decision not to include something that is so very popular on the web is a bit ridiculous IMO.
I'm beginning to wonder if Google is deliberately promoting tools to kill Craigslist.
They're deliberately promoting advertisements that make them money. If you notice, if you search for something like AdSense and you'll find links to such treasures as Google Massacre. Whatever pays the bills I guess.
IM and bluetooth are not minor things for a smartphone.
Apple thought otherwise about IM as it wasn't included until recently and it's still not viable being that it doesn't run in the background -- yet. Seems like it's working for them although I am preparing to buy an iPhone and w/o notification/background support for applications, I'm not 100% sure at this point.
I was waiting for Android devices to come out a few months ago but with their release pushed back into October or later and with news like this, I'm not sure they are ready to compete either. Bah.
You can have only so much useful information about anything.
If you have the space available and the tools to utilize the stored data, why not? The more data you keep, the more information you will have available when techniques or routines become available to you to utilize this data.
Oh yes, I forgot, the all famous Second Amendment which stopped being relevant once we had a standing army with huge guns. Rise up people, rise up and die for your cause that will be largely ignored by the rest of the world and your countrymen because they just don't care.
I'd point people to take it up with their representatives and other relevant politicians or even picketing to bring attention their cause. Unfortunately the politicians are in on it and the picketing is now only permitted in "Free Speech Zones" and may end you up in jail after crooked judges who still sit on the bench after multiple infractions eliminating due process agree with the government that you are a terrorist.
So, just suck it up and let the assholes win while we all fucking suffer. Global Warming is a fucking threat? Please.
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We have a Novell backend, and use Groupwise and Zenworks.
I'm sorry.
After all that digging at least he's now a woman's best friend! He deserves it.
That would work well if only the Federal Government didn't have the power to remove funding elsewhere. "Oh, you want to legalize marijuana? Sweet, well now you don't get any federal school funding or federal highway funding because we feel that marijuana smokers are dangerous on the roads and do poorly in school."
I say that the federal government shouldn't be allowed to decide how to punish based on the desire of the states' residents.
You said it yourself. Clearchannel's lock on the airwaves is something that some people are fed up with, and those people are looking to XM as a means of getting other types of content.
What? No, most people wouldn't know that their "local" radio station is owned by ClearChannel unless someone told them and even then they'd shrug and say, "so what?" What people do care about are advertisements, poor playlist rotation and selection, and the fact that the latest Black Friday sales are on relatively inexpensive devices that are offset in cost by monthly subscription.
Personally I never cared for XM other than Lucy. When we were DirecTV subscribers I would only listen to that XM station as none of the others were even remotely tolerable and even then after a couple hours the playlist would begin to repeat. Boring.
The reason these business models aren't working anymore are the proliferation of portable music players (I can play whatever I want whenever I want), worsening economic conditions (I can't afford to feed my dog let alone pay $15/month for music), and the simple fact that the market is now saturated with people who were interested in that idea.
Those reasons definitely contribute to the downfall of XM/Sirius but it's certainly not because the majority of people are fed up with ClearChannel.
Why? Why does it matter if the screen is color or not? Are that many of the books you normally read "in color"? While I enjoy the smell and feel of a yellowing used book, I don't think an eBook reader is going to mimic that.
Personally, while I see the fucking thing Slashvertised here frequently and I hear about the grand sales that Amazon vaguely reports, I have yet to see one in action. Even though I see a good portion of bus riders every single day with normal old books, magazines, newspapers, laptops, and mobile devices (mostly Blackberries and iPhones), I have yet to see a single Kindle. I guess everyone else, very much like me, cannot justify the price of the device on top of the price of the reading material when there are better options available (the $1 rack at Half Price Books or the local library).
The economics for me are simple: Slashdot gets paid per plug and no one else is really going to care about the device until libraries start loaning out the materials. Until then, if I really want to read an eBook, I'll use what's available to me from my local library system via the web and read it on my already purchased mobile device.
So the few times I've had someone ask me to do this sort of scraping, my response is usually that sure, fine, it works, but it's very easy to spot on the logs, and the information is very likely to become unavailable at unpredictable intervals.
Depends on how you do it. I tend to use tor and a random wait time between gets to bring down the data over a few hours (up to a few days) and in one instance, because the URLs were easily guessed, I randomized the list to make it seem as if the hits were going to pages all over the place. I was never banned for any scraping activity that I have done.
In the long run, it's usually pretty futile to scrape in the first place. When you're stealing content just to drive traffic, you tend to have a crappy site. The only time I ever did a professional scraping app that was "justified" and "legal", the victim was another business unit within the same corporation, and we had every right to the data that they "couldn't" compile for us.
It's not futile. Scraping provides a plethora of information in a useful format from places that aren't willing (or unable) to provide data in the necessary format. I used scraped data of course schedule information from MnSCU to develop a weekly report that showed data about how many courses were filled at other area institutions. It was to our competitive advantage to have this information and while it was publicly available, the system wouldn't provide it to us in the DW. I used that data for a variety of different reports than I originally intended and it would not have been possible otherwise.
While I wish that the data had been provided in a better format for my use, it wasn't and that's what made scraping necessary. Plus *I* was the one who got to determine what information I was allowed to glean from the data rather than whatever the system decided was appropriate for our needs.
I recently switched from T-mobile's Sidekick data plan (with unlimited SMS) to AT&T Wireless for the iPhone's data plan which does not include any SMS. After receiving my first SMS spam within 7 days of having the phone, I called and had the charges removed and then told them to disable all SMS.
I really want those carriers to explain to regulators how they feel that they can get away with charging .20/SMS or $5 for 200.
Who, aside from people using GMail as some sort of enterprise mail application, gives a shit what they call it? I don't, it's something I'm using for "free" and it works.
YMMV.
Or you could just continue to use your current TV and ignore the whole unnecessary and unneeded HD signal bullshit. I refuse to buy a new TV that supports HD and I plan on running the three I have into the ground before I upgrade. If at some time in the future I can no longer watch any TV (I have DirecTV currently) I'll just stop watching it all together but I have a feeling that different options will be available (as they are now -- such as torrents, streaming, etc).
WorstBuy, TV manufacturers and the government are drooling over the added revenue. Remember that money that the FCC got for selling off the spectrum? Yeah, I do too. Can someone explain to me why the set top boxes that we will need to get OTA HD for standard definition TVs cost anything more than $0? You can't because it doesn't make any fucking sense what-so-ever. The spectrum belongs to the people and thus *all* of the money gained from any sale goes back to us.
Hey FCC, I'm still waiting for my check.
They're not in better shape, they've just starving a bit more than the average US citizen.
When I considered myself a "gamer" (Q1CTF) I was a Division I athlete attending a state university with ready access to tons of junk food and recreational enhancements that I readily consumed in greater amounts than I could even again. But because I was in college, and working out twice a day 5.5x a week, I was in great shape. I have a feeling that while the age range for those that consider themselves "gamers" is widening, the majority of people are still HS and college aged kids who have a bit more of an active lifestyle than the rest of us that work in some boring office tower all day and then retire home for an evening of various PC or console games.
but the Napster brand is, at least last I knew, pretty much useless as a brand. If I am wrong, someone please correct me.
Well, give them a chance, maybe they'll start giving out free music again, just like Napster was when the brand actually meant something more than stocks and dollars changing hands.
The Google-owned portal will ban footage that advertises terrorism or extremist causes and supporters of the change hope it will blunt al-Qaeda's strong media online campaign.
So who makes the determination what constitutes "extremist"? Would this guy be an extremist because he stands up for what he believes in while fighting what he believes are the US' illegal search and seizures on US soil?
I'm sure the government thinks he's an extremist -- will Google?
I checked LinkedIn for everyone doing my interview and I made sure that I started following any blogs or other online information those people had that offered an RSS feed (pownce, blog, etc).
In addition, I wanted to see what the hours were like. Using Last.fm I was able to look at one of the interviewers and see, on average, how many hours he had his music playing. With several weeks of data I was able to determine that he was there for about 8 hours, on the dot, daily. There was one or two days that it was 8.5 to 9 hours but it all seemed to even out in the end.
I also knew where people lived, what they liked and didn't like and was able to do much of what the parent poster did w/the violin. While I was certain I wasn't going to end up with the job, I did.
Funny thing is, I have a fairly unique name and a wide web presence. They did do a Google search for me and hit the root URL of my website only. You would think that they would have dug a bit deeper if they were really interested...
I don't agree that racial bias is a natural part of anything. If you dropped two people without any knowledge of how the world currently works in a room together and let them do whatever it is they're going to do, the last thing on their minds would be their skin color.
I think it has to do with the simple fact that people don't realize just how much money they need to live on when they retire. People sock away $x and realize that when they aren't spending 10 hours of their day doing work related items (to/from work, work, winding down on the couch afterward) they are going to need to do SOMETHING.
As people have said before, people at age 65 are more active than they were in the past and thus they have the energy and desire to do something other than sit at home and play solitaire and gin, play Bingo at the senior center, or whatever the hell else my grandparents did all day.
Doing "stuff" costs money and people seem to forget that.
I doubt he ever made blueprints for the project. He used an old water heater for the tank and a pump to bring the water back up. Once the toilet was filled a switch was triggered to turn the pump off. The problem was that when the tank was empty (too many people visiting the house and going above the capacity of the tank) it would flush the soap scum from the bottle of the tank. You had to fill the tub back up, we used cold water for this, and thus fill the tank to flush the toilet.
Thank you for marking this troll and proving that Americans just don't care about the atrocities being committed against our fellow citizens.
They took along *anything* and *everything* that might be related to possible riots. When they raided a home that wasn't actually the correct home, they still detained people for over and hour while they obtained the correct warrant. When I read that I posted that I was concerned that when I arrived at home that I too would find cops on my doorstep because after all, that was the point of all of this horseshit.
When you finally hear from the other side you learn that the "buckets of urine" was actually gray water used to flush the toilet (my father developed a tank system in the 1980s that used shower/tub water to flush the toilet which saved us so much money that the water company came out 3 or 4 different times to replace the meter because they thought it was defective).
I have been ashamed to be an American for a long ass time but between the Ramsey County Sheriff's response to this event, the confiscation of camera equipment in the name of Homeland Security for the RNC, and using Blackwater mercenaries in New Orleans in preparation for Gustav I am not quite sure I am actually living in the United States of America anymore.
I am disgusted to be a Minnesota and United States resident. This is fucking shameful and horrifying. There is absolutely no excuse for this type of free speech violation. This is a stupid political rally, not a fucking war on our soil. Personally I'd love to join the protests but I seriously fear for my freedom and my life. I am not against the RNC but I am definitely against the manner in which protesting is being handled.
FUCK YOU AMERICA.
For live footage of raids and other First Amendment violations, check out The UpTake on Qik.com.
Thanks, I appreciate the correction. I will go and crawl in my corner now :)
Who misses flash?
Those of us that use sites that are built with it. While I don't need it for most mobile browsing, there are some sites where it is required. If the device can play YouTube flash videos, why can't it load the flash sites too?
I will be purchasing an iPhone shortly and know of its shortcomings but to blindly support their decision not to include something that is so very popular on the web is a bit ridiculous IMO.
I'm beginning to wonder if Google is deliberately promoting tools to kill Craigslist.
They're deliberately promoting advertisements that make them money. If you notice, if you search for something like AdSense and you'll find links to such treasures as Google Massacre. Whatever pays the bills I guess.
IM and bluetooth are not minor things for a smartphone.
Apple thought otherwise about IM as it wasn't included until recently and it's still not viable being that it doesn't run in the background -- yet. Seems like it's working for them although I am preparing to buy an iPhone and w/o notification/background support for applications, I'm not 100% sure at this point.
I was waiting for Android devices to come out a few months ago but with their release pushed back into October or later and with news like this, I'm not sure they are ready to compete either. Bah.
You can have only so much useful information about anything.
If you have the space available and the tools to utilize the stored data, why not? The more data you keep, the more information you will have available when techniques or routines become available to you to utilize this data.
Oh yes, I forgot, the all famous Second Amendment which stopped being relevant once we had a standing army with huge guns. Rise up people, rise up and die for your cause that will be largely ignored by the rest of the world and your countrymen because they just don't care.
I'd point people to take it up with their representatives and other relevant politicians or even picketing to bring attention their cause. Unfortunately the politicians are in on it and the picketing is now only permitted in "Free Speech Zones" and may end you up in jail after crooked judges who still sit on the bench after multiple infractions eliminating due process agree with the government that you are a terrorist.
So, just suck it up and let the assholes win while we all fucking suffer. Global Warming is a fucking threat? Please.