Locking in w/ one carrier doesn't match that goal, especially when you consider their interest in the 700mhz band.
If you don't believe that locking in with one carrier doesn't mesh with their goal, then T-mobile would be the best bet being that they are one of the few US wireless providers that allow you to use a SIM card while Verizon does not.
However, since the majority of Facebook's users couldn't care less if the apps they're using are open, I'm not really sure what the point is...
In the end, the users are what makes Google money but they aren't the ones that Google is really trying to market to here. Popular social networking sites are a marketers dream. Google wants an open API so that it can crawl and offer up data to those that want to advertise to this wide open market. Facebook is pretty closed when it comes to what they offer by API and while Google will follow that it doesn't meant that the other social networking sites will solidify their borders in the same way.
Please do note the two top items of the list: profile information and "friend" (links) information. I know of marketers trolling Facebook groups and collecting as much data as they can on the users of the site in order to find a way, in the future, to market to them. If they could do this with an API instead of screen scraping, it would make their lives a lot easier.
I honestly hope Colbert wins in SC. The only better guy for president would be Jon Stewart!. Either of them would spank those Dem/Rep around in a debate until they cried.
I was about to say that it would be sad watching anything get done in the government for four+ years while either of those two sat in office but then I remembered the last 7 and realized it wouldn't make much difference anyway.
The devices seized are used to copy and play Nintendo DS games offered unlawfully over the Internet, and the mod chips allow the play of pirated Wii discs or illegal copies of downloaded Nintendo games.
And personal backups of your own media so that you don't have to buy a new copy when your friend/pet/child/"significant other" scratches it.
I don't know what the laws are like in HK, but I feel that the continued erosion of this right in the media (and thus the public perception) is wrong.
First, the article saya the CEO of United "wants to pursue everything, from a merger to charging passengers who want their luggage to come first off the plane" (emphasis mine). That's a far cry from the article title which infers it's a done deal.
First, now that they are not only charging to feed you SOAP (snacks on a plane!) but also for choice seating (front of coach where you're more likely to die in a plane crash, exit row, or even aisle/window) does it really surprise you if the bastards would implement this type of horseshit?
I'm waiting for the FAA to pass regulations, paid for by the airlines, that says standing is safer for eliminating strokes during long flights and they will pack us in like cattle in coach and you'll pay 10x as much to sit down -- and you'll like it.
An industry wide copyright filter shouldn't affect small and independent websites unless its embedded into the OS or browser.
Oh no, it won't be in either. It'll be in the computer's hardware (BIOS?) and will be required to be active for the programs that the OS is able to run to function. I have mentioned before that we will come to a time where the Internet as we know it will no longer exist in the way we see it now. There will be the "Trusted Computing" Internet where these low-jacked computers will communicate and there will be the "Hacker/Hobbyist" Internet where custom built machines, not running the majority OS, will connect to.
Guess which one your banking, newspapers, search engines, most of your friends, jobs, etc will operate on?
Pay all of the back leasing costs and taxes that were handed to you so you could establish your geo-monopolies everywhere.
It's apparent to me that they have already paid the government back for all of that. If they hadn't, the government wouldn't be so happy to tear down the walls for them.
Oh, you meant pay it back so that it would somehow benefit the consumer? LOL.
Would it be akin to Quake's lag or to the later versions of Quake? I never cared for how lag was "felt" following Quake I. QW through Q3 (I haven't played any others) all would make you feel like you weren't lagged at all but then suddenly you would show up dead as you caught up to real time. At least with Quake I you could "feel" the lag and make the proper adjustments.
This is for one reason and one reason only, because GooTube exists. If there was no such thing available to so many people, the media companies wouldn't give a flying rats ass.
But because people are obviously interested in this medium and they are pissed that Viacom is being a bunch of fucking litigious bastards, they had to do something... We'll see just how it stacks up but based on the other networks' actions, I doubt it will be nearly as popular as the content available in one place - YouTube.
I realize they want to control the content they own and all, but seriously, isn't it just easier to have someone else foot the bandwidth bills and to have your viewership get it the way they want? They will never learn:(
I was at Wal-Mart yesterday, and they had Windows Vista notebooks for $300.
Then I still have to pay $125 for the EDGE wireless card to throw into the laptop to use it when there is no wifi. To me, EDGE/GPRS capabilities are the most important. That way I can do what I need to wherever I am. YMMV.
Our interests there were/are not as important as those domestically. I doubt that the same kind of pussy-foot action would occur if a full-scale war were to take place on American soil.
What is the threshold where people should start to take-up arms?
At no point will the vast majority of people be interested in taking up arms. Fuck, over half the population doesn't even vote and 50% of those that do voted for the fascists. Another 35% of the 50% that voted for him think that what he's doing is completely and utterly correct in every single way mostly because they agree with his "morals".
When the government shuts off TV and they can't watch Wayne Newton dance like a robot and sing like a drunken karaoke participant three times a week will they finally decide it might be time to pay attention to something other than what is force fed to them alongside advertisements for more products that's only purpose is to keep them further in debt to those that the government has colluded with.
So where do I recruit an army?
At this point, armed militias are worthless against the power of the US Army and its remaining allies. They have weapons that we may acquire, regardless of the numbers of individuals we have on our side, will be of no match to the powerful arsenal that the government has.
They've (all of the bastards, not just the blatant fascists) already shit on the Constitution, what the fuck does it matter now? And what are we going to do about it? Nothing. We did what we thought we could and put the opposite party in power to try and keep the dirty fuckers in check but for some reason the spineless little shits have done exactly the opposite of what we expected them to.
The only other option is to demonstrate, riot, and eventually overthrow the entire government and rollback all of Bush's "policies" to those that were in existence in 2000. But that won't work either because then he'll just declare yet another state of emergency and stay in office forever fulfilling my expectation that he will attempt to become Freedom Fighter (aka Dicktator -- yes, spelled corrected) for Life.
Why don't you let us have your health records too?
The operative word here is "let". It's not like they are indexing publicly available records and placing them out there in one easy to locate spot for everyone to see. People choose to use GMail, have their conversations logged in GTalk, catalog their daily schedules and sync their work calendaring to GCalendar, and search for ways to kill their lovers in the most secretive ways on Vanilla Google.
If someone wants to offer up their personal privacy to a company, so be it. While I'm not telling you to stop your personal crusade to educate the retarded general public, I'm just telling you that it's better than what other companies are probably doing behind closed doors. I guarantee that Google, even in its infinitely undetermined future evil ways will be less so than 99% of the rest of the companies out there.
BTW, go watch HD next to SD. There really is a difference. I think the DRM is bullshit, but that's a completely different issue. HD is definitely worth it.
I've seen the "difference" and in the end, it's still shitty TV just with better resolution. The only thing worth watching on it is football and I'm happy to spend that time at a friend's house anyway to leave my wive free to watch her shitty programs alone while I drink beer and eat chips.
It's funny, I'm holding out on buying a huge-display HDTV until prices drop due to the increased production/sales volume from the forced conversion to digital.
It's funny, I just bought two analog TV sets recently (last three years) and I have absolutely zero intention of switching to HD ever. I think that the HD switch was nothing more than a gigantic fleecing of America. In addition to the fact that the FCC is a bunch of assholes and have proven that they believe that they are the final say of what's appropriate rather than the people, the FCC will now make a metric fuckton of money from the sale of this extra bandwidth and aside from the money set off for those that cannot afford the broadcast converter boxes, the people (the rightful owners of the spectrum) will not see a dime from the billions in sales. I want that money split up evenly among the people in the form of a directly cashable check and not some federal tax rebate or other such horseshit.
Well, because none of that will ever happen I refuse to be a part of the HD craze and based on the longevity of my current 27" Sony TV set (it's now 24 years old), I have a feeling that the other two sets I own will continue putting me in touch with whatever media I want to view for the next 25 to 50 years.
If, for some reason, I am unable to view content with an analog set at that time, I will be happy to switch the fucking thing off completely and go read a book -- much like I do every night already as my wife, neighbors, co-workers and friends let the garbage on the airwaves wash over them.
Under the original terms of copyright in the USA, which I believe was 17 years + 17 more optional renewal if author was alive and wanted it, much of Led Zep's catalog would be in the public domain by now.
Well, when AllOfMp3.com was popular they were nearly free and that's why my wife has all their albums now.
More ways to trace you online, from the guys that brought online stalking to the mainstream.
Well, Social Networking and Web 2.0 is a huge recruiting tool for every marketer and especially post-secondary institutions. CRM solutions and colleges themselves are scrambling on how to embrace this technology and make a buck off of it. Unfortunately, these services don't have any real unique identifier (OpenID?) that people can track the success of their campaigns to market from the inside out.
If they are really looking to do some more serious online stalking and to make a buck, they should be less concerned with these mobile avatars and more concerned with creating an identifier (like the Google Account I guess) that is trackable throughout all systems on the web so that third parties can effectively market to the people that want to be marketed to via their communication channel of choice...
Um, no. The penalties are for illegally distributing. That's what copyright is about, not sales. By the way, they weren't hers to "share".
Sorry but the law wasn't written to handle the technology that is now creating this issue. It was written to combat the for-profit distribution of infringed items which the RIAA seem to be mostly ignoring.
Everyone already believes that sidewalk vendors with bootleg copies are doing something illegal. What the RIAA wants to do is make sure that fair-use is ended and the first step in doing that is continuing to attack their customer base via the court system.
"That is a compromise, yes," said Hegg, a 38-year-old steelworker from Duluth, Minnesota. "We wanted to send a message that you don't do this, that you have been warned."
Sorry, $9,250 is ridiculous and doesn't send a message about anything other than the fact that, contrary to the comment of your fellow juror that you do in fact know what's going on in Duluth, you really don't know what the fuck is going on. You awarded money that was originally meant for people who were *SELLING* copyrighted songs, not "sharing" for free.
On my website I have a lot of "reviews" of restaurants in my area. Many of these I write about before they even open their doors to obtain a good Google search ranking so that when they do open I can capture many of the first searchers for them. When I do visit the places (or someone else does and posts a negative comment) I get a flood of astroturfing from the owners or employees (or other interested parties) which I usually can pick out immediately by the tone and message of the e-mail (corporate-speak laced comments) or the fact that they have 6 posts with different names and e-mail addresses from the same IP.
So it's not just limited to major corporations paying people to do this kind of shit. It happens on a much smaller scale everywhere. Thankfully I am a local website operator that takes the time to moderate comments and pay attention to their games. Who knows what more professional sites have to deal with as far as astroturfing skew.
Then support your local music scene. Chances are there are more than a few great bands in your city, and the clubs they play at don't even sell tickets through TicketMaster (or if they do it's only for the really big acts/shows). If you don't want to support the RIAA, then that means not supporting the bands on the member labels. It's as simple as that.
Uhh, that's what I was talking about but thanks for allowing someone to waste their mod points on your post which is redundant.
Coming from the company that has, for the longest time, been ripping off customers and making a killing off unnecessary ticket processing fees which are likely a hold-over from when they were outlets in shopping malls and telephone sales. There is absolutely no reason why I should have to pay such astronomical rates to a third party in order to get tickets for a show to support bands that I want to see because they don't support the RIAA.
If anything, these companies are just paying you back for screwing over legitimate consumers for years by screwing you over more. The TicketMaster model is dead and everyone should really do their own ticketing in order to avoid this non-sense. I am much more likely to pay a band's direct ticketing agent than TicketMaster. Hell, I'm more likely to go to a show when I have to pay anyone other than TicketMaster to get the tickets for any event I attend whether it be sports, theater, or music.
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Locking in w/ one carrier doesn't match that goal, especially when you consider their interest in the 700mhz band.
If you don't believe that locking in with one carrier doesn't mesh with their goal, then T-mobile would be the best bet being that they are one of the few US wireless providers that allow you to use a SIM card while Verizon does not.
However, since the majority of Facebook's users couldn't care less if the apps they're using are open, I'm not really sure what the point is...
In the end, the users are what makes Google money but they aren't the ones that Google is really trying to market to here. Popular social networking sites are a marketers dream. Google wants an open API so that it can crawl and offer up data to those that want to advertise to this wide open market. Facebook is pretty closed when it comes to what they offer by API and while Google will follow that it doesn't meant that the other social networking sites will solidify their borders in the same way.
Please do note the two top items of the list: profile information and "friend" (links) information. I know of marketers trolling Facebook groups and collecting as much data as they can on the users of the site in order to find a way, in the future, to market to them. If they could do this with an API instead of screen scraping, it would make their lives a lot easier.
Scary? Yes.
I honestly hope Colbert wins in SC. The only better guy for president would be Jon Stewart!. Either of them would spank those Dem/Rep around in a debate until they cried.
I was about to say that it would be sad watching anything get done in the government for four+ years while either of those two sat in office but then I remembered the last 7 and realized it wouldn't make much difference anyway.
The devices seized are used to copy and play Nintendo DS games offered unlawfully over the Internet, and the mod chips allow the play of pirated Wii discs or illegal copies of downloaded Nintendo games.
And personal backups of your own media so that you don't have to buy a new copy when your friend/pet/child/"significant other" scratches it.
I don't know what the laws are like in HK, but I feel that the continued erosion of this right in the media (and thus the public perception) is wrong.
First, the article saya the CEO of United "wants to pursue everything, from a merger to charging passengers who want their luggage to come first off the plane" (emphasis mine). That's a far cry from the article title which infers it's a done deal.
First, now that they are not only charging to feed you SOAP (snacks on a plane!) but also for choice seating (front of coach where you're more likely to die in a plane crash, exit row, or even aisle/window) does it really surprise you if the bastards would implement this type of horseshit?
I'm waiting for the FAA to pass regulations, paid for by the airlines, that says standing is safer for eliminating strokes during long flights and they will pack us in like cattle in coach and you'll pay 10x as much to sit down -- and you'll like it.
An industry wide copyright filter shouldn't affect small and independent websites unless its embedded into the OS or browser.
Oh no, it won't be in either. It'll be in the computer's hardware (BIOS?) and will be required to be active for the programs that the OS is able to run to function. I have mentioned before that we will come to a time where the Internet as we know it will no longer exist in the way we see it now. There will be the "Trusted Computing" Internet where these low-jacked computers will communicate and there will be the "Hacker/Hobbyist" Internet where custom built machines, not running the majority OS, will connect to.
Guess which one your banking, newspapers, search engines, most of your friends, jobs, etc will operate on?
Pay all of the back leasing costs and taxes that were handed to you so you could establish your geo-monopolies everywhere.
It's apparent to me that they have already paid the government back for all of that. If they hadn't, the government wouldn't be so happy to tear down the walls for them.
Oh, you meant pay it back so that it would somehow benefit the consumer? LOL.
Would it be akin to Quake's lag or to the later versions of Quake? I never cared for how lag was "felt" following Quake I. QW through Q3 (I haven't played any others) all would make you feel like you weren't lagged at all but then suddenly you would show up dead as you caught up to real time. At least with Quake I you could "feel" the lag and make the proper adjustments.
This is for one reason and one reason only, because GooTube exists. If there was no such thing available to so many people, the media companies wouldn't give a flying rats ass.
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But because people are obviously interested in this medium and they are pissed that Viacom is being a bunch of fucking litigious bastards, they had to do something... We'll see just how it stacks up but based on the other networks' actions, I doubt it will be nearly as popular as the content available in one place - YouTube.
I realize they want to control the content they own and all, but seriously, isn't it just easier to have someone else foot the bandwidth bills and to have your viewership get it the way they want? They will never learn
I was at Wal-Mart yesterday, and they had Windows Vista notebooks for $300.
Then I still have to pay $125 for the EDGE wireless card to throw into the laptop to use it when there is no wifi. To me, EDGE/GPRS capabilities are the most important. That way I can do what I need to wherever I am. YMMV.
Tell that to the Vietnamese and the Iraqis.
Our interests there were/are not as important as those domestically. I doubt that the same kind of pussy-foot action would occur if a full-scale war were to take place on American soil.
What is the threshold where people should start to take-up arms?
At no point will the vast majority of people be interested in taking up arms. Fuck, over half the population doesn't even vote and 50% of those that do voted for the fascists. Another 35% of the 50% that voted for him think that what he's doing is completely and utterly correct in every single way mostly because they agree with his "morals".
When the government shuts off TV and they can't watch Wayne Newton dance like a robot and sing like a drunken karaoke participant three times a week will they finally decide it might be time to pay attention to something other than what is force fed to them alongside advertisements for more products that's only purpose is to keep them further in debt to those that the government has colluded with.
So where do I recruit an army?
At this point, armed militias are worthless against the power of the US Army and its remaining allies. They have weapons that we may acquire, regardless of the numbers of individuals we have on our side, will be of no match to the powerful arsenal that the government has.
2) The US constitution forbids ex-post-facto laws
They've (all of the bastards, not just the blatant fascists) already shit on the Constitution, what the fuck does it matter now? And what are we going to do about it? Nothing. We did what we thought we could and put the opposite party in power to try and keep the dirty fuckers in check but for some reason the spineless little shits have done exactly the opposite of what we expected them to.
The only other option is to demonstrate, riot, and eventually overthrow the entire government and rollback all of Bush's "policies" to those that were in existence in 2000. But that won't work either because then he'll just declare yet another state of emergency and stay in office forever fulfilling my expectation that he will attempt to become Freedom Fighter (aka Dicktator -- yes, spelled corrected) for Life.
Why don't you let us have your health records too?
;)
The operative word here is "let". It's not like they are indexing publicly available records and placing them out there in one easy to locate spot for everyone to see. People choose to use GMail, have their conversations logged in GTalk, catalog their daily schedules and sync their work calendaring to GCalendar, and search for ways to kill their lovers in the most secretive ways on Vanilla Google.
If someone wants to offer up their personal privacy to a company, so be it. While I'm not telling you to stop your personal crusade to educate the retarded general public, I'm just telling you that it's better than what other companies are probably doing behind closed doors. I guarantee that Google, even in its infinitely undetermined future evil ways will be less so than 99% of the rest of the companies out there.
I really hope that I don't get proven wrong
I can't believe I'm about to quote this movie, I really never thought it would happen... From Roadhouse:
Doc: Do you always carry your medical record around with you?
Dalton: Saves time.
Now, if only we could have a story that I could relate the sex scene in the back room of the bar to. "But I'm on my break!"
BTW, go watch HD next to SD. There really is a difference. I think the DRM is bullshit, but that's a completely different issue. HD is definitely worth it.
I've seen the "difference" and in the end, it's still shitty TV just with better resolution. The only thing worth watching on it is football and I'm happy to spend that time at a friend's house anyway to leave my wive free to watch her shitty programs alone while I drink beer and eat chips.
It's funny, I'm holding out on buying a huge-display HDTV until prices drop due to the increased production/sales volume from the forced conversion to digital.
It's funny, I just bought two analog TV sets recently (last three years) and I have absolutely zero intention of switching to HD ever. I think that the HD switch was nothing more than a gigantic fleecing of America. In addition to the fact that the FCC is a bunch of assholes and have proven that they believe that they are the final say of what's appropriate rather than the people, the FCC will now make a metric fuckton of money from the sale of this extra bandwidth and aside from the money set off for those that cannot afford the broadcast converter boxes, the people (the rightful owners of the spectrum) will not see a dime from the billions in sales. I want that money split up evenly among the people in the form of a directly cashable check and not some federal tax rebate or other such horseshit.
Well, because none of that will ever happen I refuse to be a part of the HD craze and based on the longevity of my current 27" Sony TV set (it's now 24 years old), I have a feeling that the other two sets I own will continue putting me in touch with whatever media I want to view for the next 25 to 50 years.
If, for some reason, I am unable to view content with an analog set at that time, I will be happy to switch the fucking thing off completely and go read a book -- much like I do every night already as my wife, neighbors, co-workers and friends let the garbage on the airwaves wash over them.
Under the original terms of copyright in the USA, which I believe was 17 years + 17 more optional renewal if author was alive and wanted it, much of Led Zep's catalog would be in the public domain by now.
Well, when AllOfMp3.com was popular they were nearly free and that's why my wife has all their albums now.
More ways to trace you online, from the guys that brought online stalking to the mainstream.
Well, Social Networking and Web 2.0 is a huge recruiting tool for every marketer and especially post-secondary institutions. CRM solutions and colleges themselves are scrambling on how to embrace this technology and make a buck off of it. Unfortunately, these services don't have any real unique identifier (OpenID?) that people can track the success of their campaigns to market from the inside out.
If they are really looking to do some more serious online stalking and to make a buck, they should be less concerned with these mobile avatars and more concerned with creating an identifier (like the Google Account I guess) that is trackable throughout all systems on the web so that third parties can effectively market to the people that want to be marketed to via their communication channel of choice...
Um, no. The penalties are for illegally distributing. That's what copyright is about, not sales. By the way, they weren't hers to "share".
Sorry but the law wasn't written to handle the technology that is now creating this issue. It was written to combat the for-profit distribution of infringed items which the RIAA seem to be mostly ignoring.
Everyone already believes that sidewalk vendors with bootleg copies are doing something illegal. What the RIAA wants to do is make sure that fair-use is ended and the first step in doing that is continuing to attack their customer base via the court system.
"That is a compromise, yes," said Hegg, a 38-year-old steelworker from Duluth, Minnesota. "We wanted to send a message that you don't do this, that you have been warned."
Sorry, $9,250 is ridiculous and doesn't send a message about anything other than the fact that, contrary to the comment of your fellow juror that you do in fact know what's going on in Duluth, you really don't know what the fuck is going on. You awarded money that was originally meant for people who were *SELLING* copyrighted songs, not "sharing" for free.
Really, did I? It's difficult to tell when someone is anonymous...
On my website I have a lot of "reviews" of restaurants in my area. Many of these I write about before they even open their doors to obtain a good Google search ranking so that when they do open I can capture many of the first searchers for them. When I do visit the places (or someone else does and posts a negative comment) I get a flood of astroturfing from the owners or employees (or other interested parties) which I usually can pick out immediately by the tone and message of the e-mail (corporate-speak laced comments) or the fact that they have 6 posts with different names and e-mail addresses from the same IP.
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers had an interested financial party posting about it near the beginning, Kami Japanese Steakhouse had several attempts at this and most recently I had several comments from the same IP with different names and fake e-mail addresses for Bucky's Soup Sandwiches and Salads.
So it's not just limited to major corporations paying people to do this kind of shit. It happens on a much smaller scale everywhere. Thankfully I am a local website operator that takes the time to moderate comments and pay attention to their games. Who knows what more professional sites have to deal with as far as astroturfing skew.
Then support your local music scene. Chances are there are more than a few great bands in your city, and the clubs they play at don't even sell tickets through TicketMaster (or if they do it's only for the really big acts/shows). If you don't want to support the RIAA, then that means not supporting the bands on the member labels. It's as simple as that.
Uhh, that's what I was talking about but thanks for allowing someone to waste their mod points on your post which is redundant.
Coming from the company that has, for the longest time, been ripping off customers and making a killing off unnecessary ticket processing fees which are likely a hold-over from when they were outlets in shopping malls and telephone sales. There is absolutely no reason why I should have to pay such astronomical rates to a third party in order to get tickets for a show to support bands that I want to see because they don't support the RIAA.
If anything, these companies are just paying you back for screwing over legitimate consumers for years by screwing you over more. The TicketMaster model is dead and everyone should really do their own ticketing in order to avoid this non-sense. I am much more likely to pay a band's direct ticketing agent than TicketMaster. Hell, I'm more likely to go to a show when I have to pay anyone other than TicketMaster to get the tickets for any event I attend whether it be sports, theater, or music.