C'mon, how seriously do you think anyone takes that lie, I would rather have adds targeted at my personal interests. If you know want you want you don't need adds, and targeted is only post date, not what you are interested in but what you were interested in. They are not selling you knowledge they are selling you product. When you do searches to buy product, the current, by the time they align you have already decided and that would have been based on the content your sought which is where the adds should have been.
The reality is it cost more to align adds with web content than in does to spread the marketing deceit of targeting people with adds for things they were interested in buying yesterday and already purchased.
To really aligned adds personally, they are not talking about your interests but you psychological weakness, what adds styles (not content bur form) are you a sucker for, what add style can manipulate the choices you think you make and that is disgusting.
Align adds with content is far more logical, catch is someone, in fact two people the add buyer and the add seller, need to review the add and content to make sure that they align, continuously day in and day out and that costs a lot of money, especially reviewing quality of content and add placement price. The big reason to align add to content is because it is the product purchasers current interest. There is no point in targeted people with adds for a new car the day after they buy one just because the data mining says they 'were' interested in buying a car.
There are tricky adds placements like news but then they are obvious add placements for insurance for bad news and for good news entertainment.
So the new add agency, people that continually reviewing web content and place adds live, people reviewing placements, add placement bidding for hot content, add placement history and substantiation and add agency track record for returns on add placements. Some automation, some regular space buy in, and quite of bit of live active placement for the best returns, all based on content value (a value at competition to how much content space has been taken away for add space.
As for invasion of privacy, psychological profiling, choice manipulation through subconscious targeting, that will come to a legally enforced end. The extra money will have to be spent are accurately aligned adds with time critical content (when the content is at it's best sales value), globally. A whole bunch of webheads monitoring the pulse of the web putting their customers adds at the best web locations at the best time and content producers working to attract those webheads eyes and add placement dollars charging top dollar for current hot content. People watching web click counters like stock brokers watch stock tickers.
The retail chains are simply taking the attitude, if they are gullible enough to buy an I-Pad, they are gullible enough to buy the "you must purchase an accessories" yarn. Suck it up guys, baaaaa;).
You kind of ignore the fact that the best security exploits are the ones that have not been publicly declared. From any government's point of view when foreign powers have access to windows source and can search for exploitable faults and not declare the ones found but simply use them, it has to be a worry.
Whilst the same can be said of Linux source code, there is nothing stopping governments from securing Linux code for the own use whilst windows is being used by other governments in an unfixable state.
From a Linux point of view it is fairly difficult for someone to fix undeclared bugs and distribute the fixes without everyone else finding out about it and also making use of that fix. There is also nothing stopping them from finding all the bugs in windows and then using Linux to secure their own system. Especially non-US governments, as everyone knows due to lobbyists corruption and the M$ bank balance the US will continue to be forced to use it out into the foreseeable future.
Hell, the Republicans were even going to put Steve "Uncle Fester" Ballmer in charge of US government IT and let's guess what software he would have chosen and what price the US would have paid for it, how about the pharmaceuticals no discount for the feds option full tote retail (those guys don't even try to pretend about corrupt corporate political placements).
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FYI MS I reserve for http://www.msaustralia.org.au/ suck it up, M$ is what I use and have used for near on a decade and I do use MSN (really M$ apologist marketdroid GFY it is really annoying that you keep pushing that peer pressure B$).
Now that is the interesting challenge, who will win, the inherent douche bagginess of privacy invasive corporate executives and their marketdroid public relations armed with unlimited astroturf or the internet are actual public opinion currently based around legions of bloggers and public forums like/..
The great mass media public relations B$ (lies for profit) seems to have come to a grinding halt, along with the honesty of Bill Gates, the genius of Steve Ballmer, the magnanimity of Steve Jobs, the generosity of Bono, the sanity of Dick Cheney and, the reliability of Rupert Murdoch (amongst many others). No wonder the corporate hero types are trying to hide in the background more and more as the golden B$ era of the eighties, nineties early tens is well and truly over and net neutrality will ensure it never comes back.
I admit I signed up to Facebook, but it was a one time thing because I was interested in a particular political website and Facebook leveraged that to force registration (otherwise who could have been bothered). Disconnecting was a lot more complex than connecting and really annoying to go through the hassle seeing as I never really used it but I was forced to do it rather than come off as rude for unreturned friend requests. Really pissed me off when I had to do go through it twice because of an accidental log it from a link on another site and that was after a bunch of other failed attempts to free myself from that site.
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Which is basically the reality. When is it time to upgrade XP, well, never. When you upgrade the hardware and are forced to buy a new OS anyhow, why be a fool, just wait to upgrade the hardware.
Now if a software company makes it impossible or very difficult to hold to the principle of updating the OS only when you update the hardware ie. they also attempt to force software upgrades on you outside of hardware upgrade cycles then "f"them it is time for a software cross grade.
The reality is M$ does owe everyone stuck with Vista a free upgrade to the "more"(M$'s favourite word much preferred to "actually" stable,secure and reliable) debugged version of Vista, after all the time and money they spent providing pay for the privilege beta testing for M$.
Sometimes the best propagandists can really shoot themselves in the foot and then shove that foot in their mouth. "Someone breaks into your house but doesn't take anything of value", so tell me what should be the appropriate punishment for that, a fine and a good behaviour bond, can you say "whoops".
So is it really appropriate for both governments to waste all this time and all that money on what realistically be punished as a misdemeanour, what the US could have "tried In absentia" applied a fine and demanded a good behaviour bond. Instead they had to wacko, go for ludicrous terrorism inspired charges, pretend the costs of establishing proper security where the hackers fault rather than something they were obligated to do anyhow.
A public spectacle of trying to create a public example, the ludicrous supposition that somehow it is much worse when the general public gets hold of secret information than when foreign intelligence agencies get hold of the same secrets. The blatant insecurity of those networks is pretty damning evidence that foreign intelligence agencies had a free for all on what supposedly were meant to be secure networks and computer systems.
From a external point of view, the major difference between the Democrats and Republicans, is that where there is sufficient will and numbers demonstrated by the public the Democrats will listen and act based according to that demonstrated will of the public (real number millions not faked upped thousands). The Republicans will just turn around pretend it doesn't exist and lie about it (basically ask permission from corporations whether they can protect their voter base and be told no).
So what will be the repercussions for BP, Halliburton and, Transocean, it purely depends upon how many people protest the lack of criminal proceedings against those companies and at least this one time against the corporate executives making the decisions. Voting republican, eg. it's safe like mousse 'er' it's been weathered and the toxins have 'disappeared', can you personally see the underwater plumes, well, that's the choice of not only letting those corporations off the hook but rewarding them for it with more drilling licence experiments.
If you can not get more independents into government to break up the duopoly, they you are going to have to do the greater leg work (with the placards) and vote for the party that will at least obey the will of the majority when the majority display that will. Don't forget which party supports fenced off compounds for the public expressing their will so the will of the public is "not" publicly expressed.
Isn't that what the ruling points at. There are just too many unknowns in not for profit file sharing as such the judges logically err on the side of the majority rather than the minority.
Say you own the viewing licence to a large collection of copyrighted content, you are allowed to let any one watch any content at one time, at one location in a private setting. As long as the content is not being streamed to more than one location at the same time, including your own use, you are sharing access to unused parts of your collection. Of course it should be a stream and not a download.
Technically you should be able to create a business where people share the creation of a content library upon condition that only one person at a time can stream any particular piece of content at one time, technically even a single piece of content can be broken down into it component digital elements and only one person at a time is able to access that particular digital element. So a neighbourhood digital streaming only club as a future broadband only non-profit business model (it doesn't really need to cover much territory to effectively fund it's purchases, management and digital upload).
Thin edge of the wedge. You not doing anything wrong, so why can't they look into your yard, well then why can't they look into your lounge room, kitchen, bedroom. Well if you never do anything wrong and the government never does anything wrong, why cant they also not only monitor you 24/7 but also tell you exactly what to do and when to do it, as you were going to do it anyway as it was the right thing to do.
Freedom of choice, free will, we either own our own lives or we do not. Privacy is something that did did force upon their governments and, privacy is one of the main differences between slaves and masters.
I thought kanji served the same purpose as qwerty on a keyboard, there are better easier choices that make more sense but everyone has been doing that way for ages. As current generations want to make future generations suffer in the same way, current generations force it upon future generations.
The Apple panic advertising, where they are making extremely exaggerated claims, some claims so ludicrous as to come off really lame has nothing to do with hardware specifications.
It is all about open platform versus closed platform, one choice of hardware versus hundreds of choices, restricted limited phone plans versus unrestricted choice of phone plans, it is all about squeezing as much as possible out of a product that everyone knows is going to suffer from diminished market share.
Personally I think the latest adds and claims will do more harm than good as it seems everyone is already mocking them. Major fubar by the apple marketdroid team.
What a load of crap. The last great gusher disaster was in in the gulf in Mexican waters and was in much shallower water. Biggest problem, in shallow water even minor oil spills will immediately end up on shore.
The biggest load is that environmentalist forced the oil companies, put guns to their heads, enslaved the drilling crews and forced them to drill. The only thing driving the drilling companies was greed. The failures were also driven by greed driven shortcuts not by depth of water, purely by depth of B$.
Mining of resources can be summed up in one statement "robbing the next generation to feed the greed of this generation". There should be a clamp down on non renewable resource exploitation, of rationing out resources to last over the long term and of ensuring not only that we don't leave future generations with no non-renewable resources but that we also don't leave them with excessive pollution resulting of disgusting work practices motivated by unadulterated greed.
Truth is if environmentalists had their way, most of the exploitative corporate executives would spend the rest of their lives in mental asylums, and based upon what is happening in the world today they would be right.
The truth is the old news model is dead. Years ago I used to get my news from the same three sources with only slight channel variation, the local newspaper, the local radio station and TV news. That is now gone forever. I have very little interest in only getting my news via those locked in sources any more.
Generally I prefer to get the news from localised sources for international news, or news sources that align more closely with my interests at the time, or emailed updates from reputable sources, or even random stumbles. When it comes to getting more detail I much prefer to get a blog from a semi-professional journalists who is focusing in on a particular story.
I very rarely go to a news site to read general news to see what is going on, in fact I haven't done it for years. Emailed news alerts, email news subscription and news as part of a internet portal are the becoming becoming the norm for access to the news.
Oddly enough my only news lock in is a news lock out, an anti subscription to anything News Corp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation and Fox News, they would have to be one most corrupted multinational news source in the world and I specifically avoid them.
You forgot to mention the whole article stemmed from a meeting convened by the US Department of Justice "to discuss concerns that content service providers did not sufficiently co-operate with international law enforcement". So it is more the US sticky breaking into other countries, rather than the Australian Federal police over reaching within Australia.
The US has a major problem with regards to laws that allow it's law enforcement to break laws in other countries, with laws that do not provide legal rights to foreigners, which severely limits legal cooperation and access in foreign countries as based upon those laws, they cannot be trusted.
The whole meeting makes absolutely no sense at all. No countries law enforcement should have direct access across international boundaries, all interaction should be indirect and be via local law, end of story. The US justice department needs to get it act together in the US before it can start poking into other countries policing systems.
The war was over, the US military were in charge (so claimed their president). The US military were now the law and the government. The US military declared, killing innocent people is a whoops. Well that isn't the way it works. Once the US military had control they were bound by honour and justice to apply the law as it would be done within the US, not just shooting people because they maybe possibly could be a threat.
The US military were operating amongst civilians, they had no right to choose to sacrifice civilians in order to make it easier and safer for their operations in region, that makes them dishonourable cowards. That the choose to hide their errors, to destroy evidence of their crimes and failed to gather evidence when required to do so, demonstrate the guilt of the officers in charge, who were far more concerned about the careers and hiding their incompetence than adhering to the rule of law.
That they arrested the person who served justice, who freed the truth, just further demonstrate the corruption within the US military, the abandonment of honour, the loss of integrity, the absence of courage and the loss of mercy for anyone not even the innocent. The public accepted use of torture has stained and corrupted the US military, the politicisation of senior ranks is turning it into a work of evil and a threat to democracy.
Troop movements, secret nuclear bombs, who gives a rats about cyber warfare, you just set the world up for global thermo nuclear warfare and your worried about PC security, too late already.
Cyber warfare is just the new money black hole to make up for the loss of the cold war.
Oh my, pull the plug, the war is over, is that really so hard. It is is mission critical and absolutely doesn't need to be connected to the internet, than don't connect it to the internet. If you running a system that lives depend on and you connect it insecurely to the internet when it wasn't necessary to do so, then you should be charged with criminal negligence for doing so.
Easiest solution is to start penalising countries for network attacks that originate out of that country. No need to prove the individual responsible simply fine plus costs for damages the country and leave it up them to track down the individuals responsible and to prosecute them. It all can be arranged via digital treaty, and penalties can be applied via the WTO. So gather the evidence, present it in court and if it is sufficient apply the penalty to the country and give them the evidence to further pursue the case. If they choose not too, them the fine has been paid and the cost of damages has been recovered.
As for infrastructure weakpoints, what the hell does major power transmission lines, dams, bridges etc. etc. have to do with computer security, what your going to keep their location secret on the internet, talk about professional tin foil hatters.
No point. From a consumer perspective, they buy the gambling round and they pay for the machine to produce the results. How the machine produces the result and what it displays is the responsibility of the service provider not the customer. The machine produce a error result, from the customer perspective the contractual result is they are owed the result displayed.
The casino is of course not at fault, their recourse is to sue the manufacturer for the faulty product, end of story. They are obligated to pay what they sold, place a bet, for a gaming chance and win the displayed result. If the casino made the machine, well, they are screwed, if they didn't make the machine than the manufacturer is screwed unless they had contractual conditions that excused them from gambling losses including losses resulting from negligent work.
You really don't get it do you. Just like all the other B$ (lies for profit) marketing tools, everyone except the youngest or the most foolish have become accustomed to them. Any time I see cashback, my immediate thought is, yeah yeah, charge me extra and give some of it back, eventually 'er' maybe and, more often than not the product is going be crappy because they "need" gimmicks to sell it. So immediate reaction to product is negative, just put the offer out of consideration and when comparing it to competitors ignore the cash back .
Marketing is now down to factual product claims and warranty conditions, as well a consumer reported background on the companies actual ability to fulfil claims about their products and to provide real warranty services. Then I check the price and see often I will have to pay that price again, upgrade B$, end of warranty auto breakdown features, missing buts and pieces actually required to make use of the product and of course cost of using the product normal cost as well as bugs and defects costs.
It is commonly accepted corporate marketing tactics to lie about the product, to lie about it faults when the occur and, to blame customers for faulty products. In turn in is now commonly accepted consumer practice to accept most marketdroids are lying ass hats, just give me the technical details and urinate on your company board not me. Truth in advertising what a joke, it is about time a law was enacted to force companies to only make claims about provable product qualities and to institute random audits of the claims with full consumer refunds plus costs when those claims are proved false.
The game is not the US government the game is a corrupted version the Lobbyist US Government, a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations (well at least the corporate executives, the investors quite often get it in the neck at golden parachute time). Of course the lobbyists can get kicked out on any issue or all together, the public just has to demonstrate the collective will to do so.
Criminal negligence should never be allowed, prosecution for the crimes committed by BP, Halliburton and Transocean should be pursued. The executives responsible for those decisions should have their assets seized and spend the rest of their lives in jail. Can't find a way to do it, well, simply claim that some components of the oil are drugs and the companies involved are illegally distributing and dealing it (so seized under drug dealer laws).
A for proof of their criminal negligence, well hey, you would have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to be aware of the evidence of it or a Republican politician to be able to shamelessly publicly lie about what is blatantly obvious or a Fox News presenter/reporter for whom the truth is nothing but a tool by which to extort advertising dollars and lies are what they really sell.
Is raiding with others the feature that makes MMO enjoyable or is it bound to personalities. I've tried DDO but I have to tell you, that playing the same game over and over again just drives me around the twist and seems more like work rather than play.
I do enjoy computer games but the most fun I get is from learning new ones, new game styles and, new game formats. Sport was much the same, interesting to learn but no way in hell was I going to repeat the same activity over and over and over again.
So am I legally responsible for profile distorting random searches or not. This addon makes searches at rates from 1 per hour to ten per minute and of course once installed no one can prove what searches you made versus what random searches it made.
Of course with it making searches at hundreds even thousands of time the rate a typical person does, the wider it's the substantially bigger and more pointless those record of searches become. Technically as it currently stands my search profile would indicate that I use AOL, BING, GOOGLE and YAHOO (alphabetical list, google is actually my equal default along with wikipedia) equally. Based upon this , you'd think that M$ would be bending over backwards to recommend this plug in and get it installed on as many computers as humanly possible;D.
Well that has to be the silliest statement, The Tea Party was a fabrication of News Corp via Fox News. It was nothing more that a short term publicity show to create an illusion of a grass roots movement that was intended to be folded back into the lobbyist controlled Republican party. It was a Rupert Murdoch response to the power of the internet to alter the political status quo and to drive actual real publicly motivated policies.
The Tea Party is a mass media sham, well at least that was the intention, oh my. Fox News of course lost control of the Tea Party as in fractured into three groups. Group 1 was of course the News Corp lobbyists grass roots sham, same old same old, of less government for the poor and more government for the rich and, deregulation to grease corruption powered by mass media. Group 2 were actual conservatives who wanted to reform the Republican party more than they want to win the next election ie. no point winning with corrupt corporate losers. Group 3, radical and all over the place, from racists to angry tax cheats to religious fundamentalists. Now of course News Corp is trying to reign in the Tea Party but driving out the non lobbyists controlled elements, which eliminates the bulk of the real grass root elements, rendering the Tea Party largely to insignificance, except in a few hold out areas that a fending off Fox News control.
Government funded research is often far more cost efficient for the public, in fact no comparison a the patent inflated prices of corporate research. Never forget, from a public perspective lower costs for the public are of far more benefit than inflated corporate profits for the minority.
Now you a mixing genetics and evolution with philosophy. Intellectuals are just those with plus 125 IQ, they are not a foreign race and they high end ones are plus 140. Their ability is substantially higher than the opposite end the sub 75s and sub 60s and the world is a totally different space for both groups, for the high IQ group there is a glimpse of understanding (let's not start over rating the short haired crested cranky rock throwing monkeys) for the lower group the world is a complete mystery.
For the average around the 100, they are closer to the lower level than the higher level and, that is driven by the desire to extend their knowledge and understanding. Of course not to over inflate the importance of that desire to gather knowledge, that is just driven by brain chemicals, being in the zone (high endorphins etc. count) for an intellectual is gather new and interesting knowledge just like being in the zone for a jock strap is the public demonstration of their ball handling skills (heh, heh).
For most intellectuals there is no problem with the principles of education, a crutch for those that lack understanding to cope with the vagaries of a complex world and a means of establishing broadly accepted public mores. However the application of religion in reality proves to be often a whole lot less desirable. Mainly because it tends to be taken over by two clinically mentally deranged groups psychopaths and narcissists in order to forward their own desires and ego (most notably when politicians claim god chose them a lie every time it happens) and, this takeover always results in vindictive and bloody violence over a massive scale.
For intellectuals the knowledgeable awareness of the bloody and violent history of most religions makes the discussion of the desirability religion a worrisome topic. Even today most religions (not the writings but definitely the adherents following the lead of corrupt politicians) still wallow in hate for those outside of that religion and like it or lump it, any adherent of a religion gates tied to the most offensive and public expressions of that religion (again far more often than not driven by corrupt politicians). The distrust of intellectuals is basically driven by corrupt politicians because intellectuals will always seek to undermine the lies and deceits of those corrupt politicians.
Evolution versus philosophy, the tyranny of intellectuals over commoners (by the way, never ever happened in history, not once, not ever, not even close, it is just a fictional movie or novel plot). The advance of intellectuals is simply an evolutionary advance as those at the bottom end of the scale are pruned off the evolutionary tree. Interestingly those at the top tend to go the same way, funny that. Evolution is really about raising the average, the so called "commoner". Now as we are a societal mammalian species and not a individual reptilian type, it is evolution of the intellectually capacity of that whole society that is more important and more specifically the weeding out the antisocial types (those that destroy societies), for example the psychopathic and narcissistic politicians who claim god as their sock puppet and the corrupt corporate executives who fund them.
That is the lie. Imposing caps is like limiting how far a car can drive in a month, now what the flock will that have to do with rush hour traffic, it is rush hour because it is rush "HOUR" not month, not total mileage over a month, not how many pixies you have at the bottom of the garden. So ISPs are simply lying and saying here you go we will sell you your own private 60kph traffic lane and the reality is they are selling you a 5kph during rush hour traffic lane and they know this.
Caps have absolutely nothing to do with easing congestion during peak load times and I bet you wish you never introduced that car analogy, huh, good idea though, just better for the truth rather than for lie. Caps have everything to do with digital content distribution and being the middle man charging a tax on all transactions and nothing to do with congestion and those ass hats are solidly locked in on creating content distribution monopolies on their networks.
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C'mon, how seriously do you think anyone takes that lie, I would rather have adds targeted at my personal interests. If you know want you want you don't need adds, and targeted is only post date, not what you are interested in but what you were interested in. They are not selling you knowledge they are selling you product. When you do searches to buy product, the current, by the time they align you have already decided and that would have been based on the content your sought which is where the adds should have been.
The reality is it cost more to align adds with web content than in does to spread the marketing deceit of targeting people with adds for things they were interested in buying yesterday and already purchased.
To really aligned adds personally, they are not talking about your interests but you psychological weakness, what adds styles (not content bur form) are you a sucker for, what add style can manipulate the choices you think you make and that is disgusting.
Align adds with content is far more logical, catch is someone, in fact two people the add buyer and the add seller, need to review the add and content to make sure that they align, continuously day in and day out and that costs a lot of money, especially reviewing quality of content and add placement price. The big reason to align add to content is because it is the product purchasers current interest. There is no point in targeted people with adds for a new car the day after they buy one just because the data mining says they 'were' interested in buying a car.
There are tricky adds placements like news but then they are obvious add placements for insurance for bad news and for good news entertainment.
So the new add agency, people that continually reviewing web content and place adds live, people reviewing placements, add placement bidding for hot content, add placement history and substantiation and add agency track record for returns on add placements. Some automation, some regular space buy in, and quite of bit of live active placement for the best returns, all based on content value (a value at competition to how much content space has been taken away for add space.
As for invasion of privacy, psychological profiling, choice manipulation through subconscious targeting, that will come to a legally enforced end. The extra money will have to be spent are accurately aligned adds with time critical content (when the content is at it's best sales value), globally. A whole bunch of webheads monitoring the pulse of the web putting their customers adds at the best web locations at the best time and content producers working to attract those webheads eyes and add placement dollars charging top dollar for current hot content. People watching web click counters like stock brokers watch stock tickers.
The retail chains are simply taking the attitude, if they are gullible enough to buy an I-Pad, they are gullible enough to buy the "you must purchase an accessories" yarn. Suck it up guys, baaaaa ;).
You kind of ignore the fact that the best security exploits are the ones that have not been publicly declared. From any government's point of view when foreign powers have access to windows source and can search for exploitable faults and not declare the ones found but simply use them, it has to be a worry.
Whilst the same can be said of Linux source code, there is nothing stopping governments from securing Linux code for the own use whilst windows is being used by other governments in an unfixable state.
From a Linux point of view it is fairly difficult for someone to fix undeclared bugs and distribute the fixes without everyone else finding out about it and also making use of that fix. There is also nothing stopping them from finding all the bugs in windows and then using Linux to secure their own system. Especially non-US governments, as everyone knows due to lobbyists corruption and the M$ bank balance the US will continue to be forced to use it out into the foreseeable future.
Hell, the Republicans were even going to put Steve "Uncle Fester" Ballmer in charge of US government IT and let's guess what software he would have chosen and what price the US would have paid for it, how about the pharmaceuticals no discount for the feds option full tote retail (those guys don't even try to pretend about corrupt corporate political placements).
FYI MS I reserve for http://www.msaustralia.org.au/ suck it up, M$ is what I use and have used for near on a decade and I do use MSN (really M$ apologist marketdroid GFY it is really annoying that you keep pushing that peer pressure B$).
Now that is the interesting challenge, who will win, the inherent douche bagginess of privacy invasive corporate executives and their marketdroid public relations armed with unlimited astroturf or the internet are actual public opinion currently based around legions of bloggers and public forums like /..
The great mass media public relations B$ (lies for profit) seems to have come to a grinding halt, along with the honesty of Bill Gates, the genius of Steve Ballmer, the magnanimity of Steve Jobs, the generosity of Bono, the sanity of Dick Cheney and, the reliability of Rupert Murdoch (amongst many others). No wonder the corporate hero types are trying to hide in the background more and more as the golden B$ era of the eighties, nineties early tens is well and truly over and net neutrality will ensure it never comes back.
I admit I signed up to Facebook, but it was a one time thing because I was interested in a particular political website and Facebook leveraged that to force registration (otherwise who could have been bothered). Disconnecting was a lot more complex than connecting and really annoying to go through the hassle seeing as I never really used it but I was forced to do it rather than come off as rude for unreturned friend requests. Really pissed me off when I had to do go through it twice because of an accidental log it from a link on another site and that was after a bunch of other failed attempts to free myself from that site.
Which is basically the reality. When is it time to upgrade XP, well, never. When you upgrade the hardware and are forced to buy a new OS anyhow, why be a fool, just wait to upgrade the hardware.
Now if a software company makes it impossible or very difficult to hold to the principle of updating the OS only when you update the hardware ie. they also attempt to force software upgrades on you outside of hardware upgrade cycles then "f"them it is time for a software cross grade.
The reality is M$ does owe everyone stuck with Vista a free upgrade to the "more"(M$'s favourite word much preferred to "actually" stable,secure and reliable) debugged version of Vista, after all the time and money they spent providing pay for the privilege beta testing for M$.
Sometimes the best propagandists can really shoot themselves in the foot and then shove that foot in their mouth. "Someone breaks into your house but doesn't take anything of value", so tell me what should be the appropriate punishment for that, a fine and a good behaviour bond, can you say "whoops".
So is it really appropriate for both governments to waste all this time and all that money on what realistically be punished as a misdemeanour, what the US could have "tried In absentia" applied a fine and demanded a good behaviour bond. Instead they had to wacko, go for ludicrous terrorism inspired charges, pretend the costs of establishing proper security where the hackers fault rather than something they were obligated to do anyhow.
A public spectacle of trying to create a public example, the ludicrous supposition that somehow it is much worse when the general public gets hold of secret information than when foreign intelligence agencies get hold of the same secrets. The blatant insecurity of those networks is pretty damning evidence that foreign intelligence agencies had a free for all on what supposedly were meant to be secure networks and computer systems.
From a external point of view, the major difference between the Democrats and Republicans, is that where there is sufficient will and numbers demonstrated by the public the Democrats will listen and act based according to that demonstrated will of the public (real number millions not faked upped thousands). The Republicans will just turn around pretend it doesn't exist and lie about it (basically ask permission from corporations whether they can protect their voter base and be told no).
So what will be the repercussions for BP, Halliburton and, Transocean, it purely depends upon how many people protest the lack of criminal proceedings against those companies and at least this one time against the corporate executives making the decisions. Voting republican, eg. it's safe like mousse 'er' it's been weathered and the toxins have 'disappeared', can you personally see the underwater plumes, well, that's the choice of not only letting those corporations off the hook but rewarding them for it with more drilling licence experiments.
If you can not get more independents into government to break up the duopoly, they you are going to have to do the greater leg work (with the placards) and vote for the party that will at least obey the will of the majority when the majority display that will. Don't forget which party supports fenced off compounds for the public expressing their will so the will of the public is "not" publicly expressed.
Isn't that what the ruling points at. There are just too many unknowns in not for profit file sharing as such the judges logically err on the side of the majority rather than the minority.
Say you own the viewing licence to a large collection of copyrighted content, you are allowed to let any one watch any content at one time, at one location in a private setting. As long as the content is not being streamed to more than one location at the same time, including your own use, you are sharing access to unused parts of your collection. Of course it should be a stream and not a download.
Technically you should be able to create a business where people share the creation of a content library upon condition that only one person at a time can stream any particular piece of content at one time, technically even a single piece of content can be broken down into it component digital elements and only one person at a time is able to access that particular digital element. So a neighbourhood digital streaming only club as a future broadband only non-profit business model (it doesn't really need to cover much territory to effectively fund it's purchases, management and digital upload).
Thin edge of the wedge. You not doing anything wrong, so why can't they look into your yard, well then why can't they look into your lounge room, kitchen, bedroom. Well if you never do anything wrong and the government never does anything wrong, why cant they also not only monitor you 24/7 but also tell you exactly what to do and when to do it, as you were going to do it anyway as it was the right thing to do.
Freedom of choice, free will, we either own our own lives or we do not. Privacy is something that did did force upon their governments and, privacy is one of the main differences between slaves and masters.
I thought kanji served the same purpose as qwerty on a keyboard, there are better easier choices that make more sense but everyone has been doing that way for ages. As current generations want to make future generations suffer in the same way, current generations force it upon future generations.
The Apple panic advertising, where they are making extremely exaggerated claims, some claims so ludicrous as to come off really lame has nothing to do with hardware specifications.
It is all about open platform versus closed platform, one choice of hardware versus hundreds of choices, restricted limited phone plans versus unrestricted choice of phone plans, it is all about squeezing as much as possible out of a product that everyone knows is going to suffer from diminished market share.
Personally I think the latest adds and claims will do more harm than good as it seems everyone is already mocking them. Major fubar by the apple marketdroid team.
What a load of crap. The last great gusher disaster was in in the gulf in Mexican waters and was in much shallower water. Biggest problem, in shallow water even minor oil spills will immediately end up on shore.
The biggest load is that environmentalist forced the oil companies, put guns to their heads, enslaved the drilling crews and forced them to drill. The only thing driving the drilling companies was greed. The failures were also driven by greed driven shortcuts not by depth of water, purely by depth of B$.
Mining of resources can be summed up in one statement "robbing the next generation to feed the greed of this generation". There should be a clamp down on non renewable resource exploitation, of rationing out resources to last over the long term and of ensuring not only that we don't leave future generations with no non-renewable resources but that we also don't leave them with excessive pollution resulting of disgusting work practices motivated by unadulterated greed.
Truth is if environmentalists had their way, most of the exploitative corporate executives would spend the rest of their lives in mental asylums, and based upon what is happening in the world today they would be right.
The truth is the old news model is dead. Years ago I used to get my news from the same three sources with only slight channel variation, the local newspaper, the local radio station and TV news. That is now gone forever. I have very little interest in only getting my news via those locked in sources any more.
Generally I prefer to get the news from localised sources for international news, or news sources that align more closely with my interests at the time, or emailed updates from reputable sources, or even random stumbles. When it comes to getting more detail I much prefer to get a blog from a semi-professional journalists who is focusing in on a particular story.
I very rarely go to a news site to read general news to see what is going on, in fact I haven't done it for years. Emailed news alerts, email news subscription and news as part of a internet portal are the becoming becoming the norm for access to the news.
Oddly enough my only news lock in is a news lock out, an anti subscription to anything News Corp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation and Fox News, they would have to be one most corrupted multinational news source in the world and I specifically avoid them.
You forgot to mention the whole article stemmed from a meeting convened by the US Department of Justice "to discuss concerns that content service providers did not sufficiently co-operate with international law enforcement". So it is more the US sticky breaking into other countries, rather than the Australian Federal police over reaching within Australia.
The US has a major problem with regards to laws that allow it's law enforcement to break laws in other countries, with laws that do not provide legal rights to foreigners, which severely limits legal cooperation and access in foreign countries as based upon those laws, they cannot be trusted.
The whole meeting makes absolutely no sense at all. No countries law enforcement should have direct access across international boundaries, all interaction should be indirect and be via local law, end of story. The US justice department needs to get it act together in the US before it can start poking into other countries policing systems.
The war was over, the US military were in charge (so claimed their president). The US military were now the law and the government. The US military declared, killing innocent people is a whoops. Well that isn't the way it works. Once the US military had control they were bound by honour and justice to apply the law as it would be done within the US, not just shooting people because they maybe possibly could be a threat.
The US military were operating amongst civilians, they had no right to choose to sacrifice civilians in order to make it easier and safer for their operations in region, that makes them dishonourable cowards. That the choose to hide their errors, to destroy evidence of their crimes and failed to gather evidence when required to do so, demonstrate the guilt of the officers in charge, who were far more concerned about the careers and hiding their incompetence than adhering to the rule of law.
That they arrested the person who served justice, who freed the truth, just further demonstrate the corruption within the US military, the abandonment of honour, the loss of integrity, the absence of courage and the loss of mercy for anyone not even the innocent. The public accepted use of torture has stained and corrupted the US military, the politicisation of senior ranks is turning it into a work of evil and a threat to democracy.
Troop movements, secret nuclear bombs, who gives a rats about cyber warfare, you just set the world up for global thermo nuclear warfare and your worried about PC security, too late already.
Cyber warfare is just the new money black hole to make up for the loss of the cold war.
Oh my, pull the plug, the war is over, is that really so hard. It is is mission critical and absolutely doesn't need to be connected to the internet, than don't connect it to the internet. If you running a system that lives depend on and you connect it insecurely to the internet when it wasn't necessary to do so, then you should be charged with criminal negligence for doing so.
Easiest solution is to start penalising countries for network attacks that originate out of that country. No need to prove the individual responsible simply fine plus costs for damages the country and leave it up them to track down the individuals responsible and to prosecute them. It all can be arranged via digital treaty, and penalties can be applied via the WTO. So gather the evidence, present it in court and if it is sufficient apply the penalty to the country and give them the evidence to further pursue the case. If they choose not too, them the fine has been paid and the cost of damages has been recovered.
As for infrastructure weakpoints, what the hell does major power transmission lines, dams, bridges etc. etc. have to do with computer security, what your going to keep their location secret on the internet, talk about professional tin foil hatters.
No point. From a consumer perspective, they buy the gambling round and they pay for the machine to produce the results. How the machine produces the result and what it displays is the responsibility of the service provider not the customer. The machine produce a error result, from the customer perspective the contractual result is they are owed the result displayed.
The casino is of course not at fault, their recourse is to sue the manufacturer for the faulty product, end of story. They are obligated to pay what they sold, place a bet, for a gaming chance and win the displayed result. If the casino made the machine, well, they are screwed, if they didn't make the machine than the manufacturer is screwed unless they had contractual conditions that excused them from gambling losses including losses resulting from negligent work.
You really don't get it do you. Just like all the other B$ (lies for profit) marketing tools, everyone except the youngest or the most foolish have become accustomed to them. Any time I see cashback, my immediate thought is, yeah yeah, charge me extra and give some of it back, eventually 'er' maybe and, more often than not the product is going be crappy because they "need" gimmicks to sell it. So immediate reaction to product is negative, just put the offer out of consideration and when comparing it to competitors ignore the cash back .
Marketing is now down to factual product claims and warranty conditions, as well a consumer reported background on the companies actual ability to fulfil claims about their products and to provide real warranty services. Then I check the price and see often I will have to pay that price again, upgrade B$, end of warranty auto breakdown features, missing buts and pieces actually required to make use of the product and of course cost of using the product normal cost as well as bugs and defects costs.
It is commonly accepted corporate marketing tactics to lie about the product, to lie about it faults when the occur and, to blame customers for faulty products. In turn in is now commonly accepted consumer practice to accept most marketdroids are lying ass hats, just give me the technical details and urinate on your company board not me. Truth in advertising what a joke, it is about time a law was enacted to force companies to only make claims about provable product qualities and to institute random audits of the claims with full consumer refunds plus costs when those claims are proved false.
The game is not the US government the game is a corrupted version the Lobbyist US Government, a government of the corporations, by the corporations and for the corporations (well at least the corporate executives, the investors quite often get it in the neck at golden parachute time). Of course the lobbyists can get kicked out on any issue or all together, the public just has to demonstrate the collective will to do so.
Criminal negligence should never be allowed, prosecution for the crimes committed by BP, Halliburton and Transocean should be pursued. The executives responsible for those decisions should have their assets seized and spend the rest of their lives in jail. Can't find a way to do it, well, simply claim that some components of the oil are drugs and the companies involved are illegally distributing and dealing it (so seized under drug dealer laws).
A for proof of their criminal negligence, well hey, you would have to be blind, deaf and dumb not to be aware of the evidence of it or a Republican politician to be able to shamelessly publicly lie about what is blatantly obvious or a Fox News presenter/reporter for whom the truth is nothing but a tool by which to extort advertising dollars and lies are what they really sell.
Is raiding with others the feature that makes MMO enjoyable or is it bound to personalities. I've tried DDO but I have to tell you, that playing the same game over and over again just drives me around the twist and seems more like work rather than play.
I do enjoy computer games but the most fun I get is from learning new ones, new game styles and, new game formats. Sport was much the same, interesting to learn but no way in hell was I going to repeat the same activity over and over and over again.
So are MMOs bound to certain personality types.
Another solution is simply to bury real searches under a mountain of fake pretend searches with tools like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3173/.
So am I legally responsible for profile distorting random searches or not. This addon makes searches at rates from 1 per hour to ten per minute and of course once installed no one can prove what searches you made versus what random searches it made.
Of course with it making searches at hundreds even thousands of time the rate a typical person does, the wider it's the substantially bigger and more pointless those record of searches become. Technically as it currently stands my search profile would indicate that I use AOL, BING, GOOGLE and YAHOO (alphabetical list, google is actually my equal default along with wikipedia) equally. Based upon this , you'd think that M$ would be bending over backwards to recommend this plug in and get it installed on as many computers as humanly possible ;D.
Well that has to be the silliest statement, The Tea Party was a fabrication of News Corp via Fox News. It was nothing more that a short term publicity show to create an illusion of a grass roots movement that was intended to be folded back into the lobbyist controlled Republican party. It was a Rupert Murdoch response to the power of the internet to alter the political status quo and to drive actual real publicly motivated policies.
The Tea Party is a mass media sham, well at least that was the intention, oh my. Fox News of course lost control of the Tea Party as in fractured into three groups. Group 1 was of course the News Corp lobbyists grass roots sham, same old same old, of less government for the poor and more government for the rich and, deregulation to grease corruption powered by mass media. Group 2 were actual conservatives who wanted to reform the Republican party more than they want to win the next election ie. no point winning with corrupt corporate losers. Group 3, radical and all over the place, from racists to angry tax cheats to religious fundamentalists. Now of course News Corp is trying to reign in the Tea Party but driving out the non lobbyists controlled elements, which eliminates the bulk of the real grass root elements, rendering the Tea Party largely to insignificance, except in a few hold out areas that a fending off Fox News control.
Government funded research is often far more cost efficient for the public, in fact no comparison a the patent inflated prices of corporate research. Never forget, from a public perspective lower costs for the public are of far more benefit than inflated corporate profits for the minority.
Now you a mixing genetics and evolution with philosophy. Intellectuals are just those with plus 125 IQ, they are not a foreign race and they high end ones are plus 140. Their ability is substantially higher than the opposite end the sub 75s and sub 60s and the world is a totally different space for both groups, for the high IQ group there is a glimpse of understanding (let's not start over rating the short haired crested cranky rock throwing monkeys) for the lower group the world is a complete mystery.
For the average around the 100, they are closer to the lower level than the higher level and, that is driven by the desire to extend their knowledge and understanding. Of course not to over inflate the importance of that desire to gather knowledge, that is just driven by brain chemicals, being in the zone (high endorphins etc. count) for an intellectual is gather new and interesting knowledge just like being in the zone for a jock strap is the public demonstration of their ball handling skills (heh, heh).
For most intellectuals there is no problem with the principles of education, a crutch for those that lack understanding to cope with the vagaries of a complex world and a means of establishing broadly accepted public mores. However the application of religion in reality proves to be often a whole lot less desirable. Mainly because it tends to be taken over by two clinically mentally deranged groups psychopaths and narcissists in order to forward their own desires and ego (most notably when politicians claim god chose them a lie every time it happens) and, this takeover always results in vindictive and bloody violence over a massive scale.
For intellectuals the knowledgeable awareness of the bloody and violent history of most religions makes the discussion of the desirability religion a worrisome topic. Even today most religions (not the writings but definitely the adherents following the lead of corrupt politicians) still wallow in hate for those outside of that religion and like it or lump it, any adherent of a religion gates tied to the most offensive and public expressions of that religion (again far more often than not driven by corrupt politicians). The distrust of intellectuals is basically driven by corrupt politicians because intellectuals will always seek to undermine the lies and deceits of those corrupt politicians.
Evolution versus philosophy, the tyranny of intellectuals over commoners (by the way, never ever happened in history, not once, not ever, not even close, it is just a fictional movie or novel plot). The advance of intellectuals is simply an evolutionary advance as those at the bottom end of the scale are pruned off the evolutionary tree. Interestingly those at the top tend to go the same way, funny that. Evolution is really about raising the average, the so called "commoner". Now as we are a societal mammalian species and not a individual reptilian type, it is evolution of the intellectually capacity of that whole society that is more important and more specifically the weeding out the antisocial types (those that destroy societies), for example the psychopathic and narcissistic politicians who claim god as their sock puppet and the corrupt corporate executives who fund them.
That is the lie. Imposing caps is like limiting how far a car can drive in a month, now what the flock will that have to do with rush hour traffic, it is rush hour because it is rush "HOUR" not month, not total mileage over a month, not how many pixies you have at the bottom of the garden. So ISPs are simply lying and saying here you go we will sell you your own private 60kph traffic lane and the reality is they are selling you a 5kph during rush hour traffic lane and they know this.
Caps have absolutely nothing to do with easing congestion during peak load times and I bet you wish you never introduced that car analogy, huh, good idea though, just better for the truth rather than for lie. Caps have everything to do with digital content distribution and being the middle man charging a tax on all transactions and nothing to do with congestion and those ass hats are solidly locked in on creating content distribution monopolies on their networks.