I rather just buy a different game from a more reasonable game publisher. There are just some many games out there that fussing over one or letting a publisher get away with stealing your rights to a game you have purchased, simply is not worth the hassle, limited installs, for me the game no longer exists but, I really do appreciate the gaming community keeping everyone informed of the hidden theft of purchase rights.
Brings to mind a rather memorable mass suicide, where a large number of gentleman remained upon a sinking ship so that the women and children could use the too few lifeboats and survive. Ones wonders whether that would happen any more in today's modern society or would they all behave like a pack of panicked wild animals attempting to survive for every possible moment.
It brings to mind the question, if a guilty conscious and the associated negative karma greatly increase the fear of death and distorts one's attitude towards it ie. those that really fear death and have good reason for doing so. For those who seem to be intrinsically aware of their positive life balance, death seems to hold far less fear.
He could also try being a forum troll for the viral marketing agencies and well, prostitute his mind instead. More nerdy, rather than geeky though and, your karma does really suffer as you are bringing pleasure to no one.
Exercise in futility, give away M$ Windows and M$ Office and M$ Server and M$ Exchange and all the M$ Services kits and M$ Manuals, which of course you don't with $5.00 XP not even in digital format. The customer is no longer gullible and has long ago woken up to all the endless costs post OS OEM purchase and repurchase and well, ad-nauseum, of not only the OS but also the rest of it and under M$ OEM rules to be repurchased over and over again with hardware failure.
It is always interesting how M$ always pretends the rest of those costs do not exist and where it makes a substantial portion of it's profits and the means by which it forces it's lock in. So a Linux based system, is a complete system not just the students notebook and, provides all of those for free, not as Linux of course but all as part of the greater global community effort that involves, individuals, governments and of course major corporations like HP, IBM, SUN etc. that work together to create the FOSS environment. Now this versus the one, just one, myopically focussed on monopoly and greed company M$, face M$ is the problem and FOSS is the solution.
They also, as it turns out, supply lawyers, cheap crappy off shore tech support, ever reducing services combined with ever increasing charges, very complex nearly impossible to define contracts to camouflage a swag of extra charges and a whole bunch of PR=B$ to, well, basically lie about the quality of their services;D.
It has far more to do with the expandind school notebook market, a notebook on every students desk. Globally tens of millions of units and for government to avoid spending billions of dollars to do it, notebooks will be required to be supplied with all necessary software, operating system as well as applications and even digital texts.
No PC manufacturer can ignore this market and open source software provides the only cost effective means by which to achieve a competitive solution. Linux as it turns out will win on the school desktop.
The reality is that internet 'searches' would not look much different from what they currently are when you use http://www.customizegoogle.com/ to filter out unwanted results. The only real problem is you would definitely have to register so no anonymous searching and your current IP address will be completely irrelevant. When it comes to blocking sites, when enough negative results come up for a site, a google staff member can do a quick review and make a simple judgement call as to how relevant the page is to searches that produce it, before sending it off into oblivion (whilst the algorithms are refined).
The catch for google, which is why they are resistant to the idea, is big advertisers are likely to find their pages blocked all over the place for example ebay and amazon. If I want to buy something from ebay or amazon, I'll go there myself, I don't want them flooding out my search results.
Personally I prefer completely localised control over search query refinements, blocked, demoted etc. with a local application making use of a local database to send an automated, detailed and refined query to the search engine site to deliver me more accurate results, after all it is very much a personal thing, as to which sites you are really after based upon your search query.
So search as a distinct separate applications making calls to a web browser to submit a query and display the results way in preference to a remote app divulging all my likes and dislikes to a privacy invasive sales person who goes way beyond jamming their foot in the door, to the point of trying be in your face every time you turn on any electronic web connected device.
Religion or superstition both do provide a direct logical benefit for some people. A lot of people have real difficulty dealing with the random occurrence of death and dismemberment, who is struck a lightning bolt, who gets a lethal infection, who trips and breaks their neck, cancers, an asteroid, an earthquake , a tornado etc. A lot of people have real difficulty dealing with those occurrences and with out a psychological crutch they would struggle to survive with the stress of impending random death and that stress would have a severe impact upon the mental and in turn the physical health.
Superstition and or religion (often both come into play) give them a outlet for that stress, it provides them with a means by which they believe they ' believe' they can gain control over their lives and protect themselves from what they see as all the random threats about them. Now the odd thing about that is, take for example with Christianity, where quite categorically the religion states that there are no rewards or blessings on earth and that only temptations and free will are provided and that all the rewards or blessings are in heaven and the punishments are in hell or specifically you a blessed with absolutely nothing and any who claims they are blessed, or that the were blessed with wealth is a blasphemer and perversely enough bound for hell.
So a lot of people pray for benefits upon this plane of existence and gain reassurance and a measure of mental stability by doing so even when their religion specifically denies any gain can be had by doing so. The ones preaching from pulpits tend to make all sorts of claims for their own benefit, so oddly enough being a blaspheming lying conman claiming to speak for god or working for god or knowing gods plan does provide a means by which lying politicians for example can prosper and spread their genes ie. evolutionary deceit (and oddly enough according to their religion fall victim to temptation and condemn themselves to hell which tends to prove a old saying, those the preach the loudest tend to believe the least, which is especially true for politicians).
What an odd thought, a person is evil because they don't drink alcohol, hmm, methinks that perhaps you have been exposed to an excess of advertising. What does the most damage with posting embarrassing stuff online about yourself, is not so much the content but that people were foolish enough to do it. The whole loose lips sink ships ie. what else can that person not be trusted with. So being a drunken idiot is bad enough but forgivable, everybody makes mistakes when they have had a few too many but, boasting about it online is just plain stupid as it really does demonstrate poor judgement when a person is 'sober'.
Older games continue to thrive because it always was and always will be about the game play. The older games defined and created each of the different styles of game play and became memorable for them. As they are updated with the latest graphics etc. but retained the original game play the are revisited by players who remember the original games and are often still playing them.
Level and campaign design are critical to a good game and crapping out on those can kill a game of regardless of it's history ala doom or game play.
The reality for modern game designs to be able to stand the test of time, is far more about whether that particular game studio or game publisher is be able to stand the test of time or whether they fail after a string of poor decisions and take their game library into obscurity with them.
Well how about the business of poltics. Universal high bandwidth broadband mean there is no reason why live transmission can be delivered from every major political house 24/7, even local government meetings could be streamed to the web. You want honest politicians then keep an eye on them.
Added to that, paid political advertisements on commercial services could be banned all together, killing off corporate funding of corrupt politicians via lobbyists, as all politicians can stream what ever messages they want via universal broad band.
Then you can add all the delivery of community services , giving 'community organisers' a bigger voice and greater reach (yeah I know there is no corporate profit in those community services which is why the rich and greedy like to deride them, but for the rest of us they save and assist millions of human beings every year).
Then there is the downloading and burning of legal content. Of course just a small reminder, that families represent a different use, typical family of four all sharing the same connection, four times as much bandwidth required.
Do you realise how pointless it is anonymising IP adresses after 18 months or even 9 months, via simple data base associations they can link access to a particular individual and no longer need the IP adress for longer term analysis. Based upon those records and intervening IP adress records any new access can be tied to existing database and the individual user.
In fact google clearly state they are only anonymising the users IP address and do not talk about any other long term user records. Even their privacy statement to the EU whilst it does state it is not 'necessary' for a user to divulge their identity when doing searches does not clearly state that those searches are tied to the use based upon past records via data mining their massive data bases. For google to indentify the user once the they have cookies in place and the data gathering scripts running all over the web, the IP address whilst convenient is hardly necessary. Of course their reasons for using private data are so broad they could mean virtually anything.
Providing our services to users, including the display of customized content and advertising
Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
Developing new services.
If google want to be truly genuine about respecting a persons desire for privacy why don't they contact every person they have records on to ask them whether they would like those records cleared and no further data to be stored against them, at least once a year or even perhaps based upon their own public statement every nine months or, was is it all just a bit of love and trust google viral marketing.
Perhaps you haven't read the typical M$ EULA, it is always the customer's configuration fault, when it is not the customer's configuration fault it is a hardware fault, when it was neither the customer or the hardware's fault, then some other software installed on the system is responsible for at least 50% of faults, naturally enough as most business PC have M$ Office installed in parallel to M$ Windows that kinda makes sense;D. So 5 '9's still intact and with the next rewrite of the M$ EULA 10 '9s' are guaranteed 'er' promised 'er' hinted at.
Now here is a simple one for you. I play computer games and people I know play computer games. When we have finished playing a game we pass the disc around, no copying not even for backup. They install the game and play it, get bored with it and then give it back. I own that game and I have they right to lend it to whom ever I want, anybody who attempts to steal my investment in that game is a thief, especially as it is only being played on one computer at a time with absolutely no piracy at all.
They are even daring to steal my right to sell the game when I or anybody else that I know no longer wants to play it. For me spore has no life it is simply dead end and there are just so many game titles and game publishers out there that it makes absolutely no difference regardless of the amount of viral marketing they invested in.
Unfortunately even floating data centre requires staff making for a very awkward commute and of course it's cable or even satellite connection would still be governed by laws from the originating country. As for shifting a floating data centre during storms, regular disconnections of service are not really all that popular even when they a permanently in beta.
If they really want an realistic energy neutral data centre that have to invest heavily in an algae based anaerobic digestion, aerobic digestion, photosynthesis and combustion cycles, quite complex but do able. Making effective use of cogeneration and absorbing the carbon produced is no simple idea of being adrift at sea but, google do realise that Captain Nemo and the Nautilus was a fiction;).
Youtube is a commercial company operating in what is becoming a more and more competitive environment, there are a huge number of video hosting sites, a lot of them operating outside of the US. In this case should youtube prove that it actually really does endeavour to adhere to the law by pursuing CoS for vindictively targeting them, when similar DMCA notices were not handed out to every other video hosting sites containing the same videos.
This unfairly targets youtube and damages their business as well as causing them significant cost in evaluating each of the DMCA notices, notifying users of the claimed infringement, altering the content of the hosting services, evaluating the counter notices and then having to reinstate the content, whilst the competitors suffered no comparable harm. The Corporation of Scientology seems to love picking on youtube and this peculiar focus is really starting to make it appear like the are some anti free speech, privacy invasive, scientologists insurgents skulking amongst the googlites, the cult of google might unfortunately be less of a joke than it should be.
Personally I prefer http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/scientology, now where exactly is that hosted again, something tells the DMCA takedown notices coming out of the US are going to have no affect with that host.
In this case of course the statistic presented relates not just to home users but also commercial, they are just sliding that association about people downloading movies, typical slippery reporting. As for slow downloads from a commercial site, very rarely would that be down to overall net traffic but most lost that the commercial site simply does not have enough bandwidth to supply the demand of it's users.
Data capping is nothing more than a blatant attempt by the internet cartel to justify a major increases in the profit margin, nothing more, nothing less. They are currently making substantial profits, increasing the bandwidth the have available to sell obviously would increase profits, however it is simply not as profitable as a B$ market campaign and a collusive agreement between major ISPs to simply strangle traffic, oversell bandwidth and inflate profits margins.
Somehow oddly appropriate when they through the whole principle of need to know out of the windows. For counter espionage a nightmare, now where did that information get leaked from. Of course for the, well, professionally paranoid, use and it and have your mistakes exposed, use it and obviously be tracked for when, what and why and, use it and be contaminated with bad intelligence from politically motivated sources.
The only thing it will end up being used for is tacking competing intelligence agencies, their mistakes and poor judgement as well as their motivation behind the intelligence they are willing to put up. The other thing of course will be to dump all those useless bits of intelligence in a cover your own arse fashion, we put in up but, no one else did anything about it.
What they are trying to mimic is the ability of the open community to put together accurate conclusions from 'bits' of information drawn from all over the world, the catch with that is the actual intelligence of those people versus the 'lack of intelligence' community as well as the inherent psychological nature of those who voluntarily choose a career in the intelligence services, how they like to keep their secrets while prying into everyone else's and the competition for promotion within an agency as well as the competition across agencies.
Which all points to the reality about EULA's they have nothing at all to do with legally binding contracts, they are simply all about giving corporate lawyers something to fend of consumers with in court, up until the consumer can no longer afford to continue with the civil action or is scare off before they can even get there.
The civil suits that shred EULA's with the worthless digital bit streams that they are, of course disappear in an out of court settlement before every end user can use the precedent to gain access to justice.
It is quite clear that China does fully understand the problem and know full well the consequences of their action. China has some of the highest standards in the world to limit the release of pollutants into the environment and well as providing healthy and save working environments for their workers. Unfortunately, well and truly unfourtunately, the level of corruption in China means that all those standards and completely and utterly ignored and all very sadly with government complicity. China's environmental and worker standards seem to be nothing but corporate marketing at it's worst.
Also in addition those pollutants brought in by environmental conditions, other countries are also directly importing pollutants, as you can not hope to produce clean and safe products in a heavily polluted environment. The most critical disaster is likely to be caused by the absence of effective controls on waste disposal facilities where highly toxic waste is mixed with regular waste. A fire at those kind of facilities could have a catastrophic impact on any nearby cities and, depending upon the nature of the exotic pollutants produced, possibly a global impact.
It is clear that the government of China is fully aware of the implications of the pollutants being produced as defined by their own legislated standards, they have simply allowed greed to overrule good judgement, something that they a clearly not unique in doing but, they have allowed corruption to take it to unprecedented levels.
You would have to consider that just a wee bit extreme. They are simply a corporation locked into one mind view and, they only see business opportunities from that viewpoint. Analyse every bodies personal characteristics and psychologically target those characteristics to make them into mindless junk buying machines, well at least that's what the google's doctorates in marketing psychology (they should be ashamed for that misuse of an education) attempt to convince those buying advertising space, all done with a broad range of very subtle marketing memes if you not paying attention you wont even really notice them popping up all over the place, google is very heavily into subconscious manipulation of their true target audience, the sellers' those that pay for the advertising, rather than any real sales efforts targeted at the buyers those getting free services.
An alternate viewpoint to take on those civilian satellites is that governments who are heavily into satellite spying technology might get involved with semi-privatised agencies to sell low res, averaged versions of the data they collect. They could even, if they are a bit cheeky, make available higher res-versions for the general public to analyse for free, creating many eyes to scan many images, so both making and saving money;).
It is amazing that those that resort to insults also resort to outright lies, lest no confuse accessory before or after the fact to the ACTUAL commitment of a crime, don't you even read what you quote, compared to conspiracy where no actual crime is committed but maybe might because someone says so. Interesting possession of legal items means you will commit crimes, so petrol, fabric wicks and empty bottles means molotov cocktails or is it just a lawn mower, expensive soft drinks and cleaning rags.
I could resort to the same level of pathetic insults that seems to drive your ego, but it is pointless and it is far more satisfying to simply be amused by it. Of course neocon english tends to differ to the rest of the worlds view so maybe I should give you the benefit of the doubt, nah. Perhaps your nickname is only unfourtunately all too apt, good luck with that;D.
Well, it makes much more sense to create a 'open' education program, where schools from around the globe and through the various levels, primary, high school and university create a series of open text books for 'free' use within the education system. Obviously students in university could gain credit for digital texts written and corroborated on for use in high school and primary school.
Doesn't solve the current problem but certainly makes sense for the future and to ensure that acceptable standards are achieved and graded against. Custom written tends to produce wildly variable results with often archaic out of date content or even just totally wrong information, not much point getting it marked right if it is wrong. An easy start is to do what most students do and start with wikipedia and go from there (follow the links they are generally pretty good), just don't reference it;).
The principle of neighbourhood watch is to report on non-neighbours causing harm to neighbours, rather than dobbing in your neighbour. Schemes like this inevitably fail due to abuse by a minority who do by far the majority of the reporting and end up doing so because of personal dislikes rather than any criminal activity.
For better law enforcement there is a real need to establish a greater rapport between the police and the general public. Establish the idea of your local police officer, some one you know who you can call. A personal 'friendly' emphasis on 'friendly non-hostile' visit by the police to every place of business and household to establish a more personal connection between the police and the general public. So the public are calling a person rather than a distant bureaucracy and, so that the police also are reminder of who they volunteered to protect and assist, it would also help with recruiting.
Yeah but, that is just keeping a foot in both camps should the google browser fail to take off. So Firefox.com has in affect been given three years notice to vacate the premises, if google browser can become successful. So for google better control of scripts, so ones they like can't be blocked or are built in, direct access to gmail, as google aren't all that hot on thunderbird as it competes, plus a default range of google specific shortcuts.
Custom browsers are sensible for large corporations to promote their own identity but, of course Firefox.com was likely hoping to generate additional income by creating custom branded browsers for other companies Who knows might might start seeing 'Undead' (that MSN/Live search rebranding was really lame) search popping up as the default in lieu of google at the initial Firefox install.
In terms of loosing the search market google's greatest worry is likely Yahoo's partnerships with local media outlets to create localised search, which is far more threatening the M$'s bumbling attempts. Then you can look at the other old world media networks who have extensive existing partnerships with local media outlets around the globe, who could do exactly the same. Open source browsers on open source operating systems really does open up that whole default browser, home page, webmail, portal, news, media distribution market, it's called fragmentation, everybody gets a share while the current market leader gets wiped out.
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I rather just buy a different game from a more reasonable game publisher. There are just some many games out there that fussing over one or letting a publisher get away with stealing your rights to a game you have purchased, simply is not worth the hassle, limited installs, for me the game no longer exists but, I really do appreciate the gaming community keeping everyone informed of the hidden theft of purchase rights.
Brings to mind a rather memorable mass suicide, where a large number of gentleman remained upon a sinking ship so that the women and children could use the too few lifeboats and survive. Ones wonders whether that would happen any more in today's modern society or would they all behave like a pack of panicked wild animals attempting to survive for every possible moment.
It brings to mind the question, if a guilty conscious and the associated negative karma greatly increase the fear of death and distorts one's attitude towards it ie. those that really fear death and have good reason for doing so. For those who seem to be intrinsically aware of their positive life balance, death seems to hold far less fear.
He could also try being a forum troll for the viral marketing agencies and well, prostitute his mind instead. More nerdy, rather than geeky though and, your karma does really suffer as you are bringing pleasure to no one.
Exercise in futility, give away M$ Windows and M$ Office and M$ Server and M$ Exchange and all the M$ Services kits and M$ Manuals, which of course you don't with $5.00 XP not even in digital format. The customer is no longer gullible and has long ago woken up to all the endless costs post OS OEM purchase and repurchase and well, ad-nauseum, of not only the OS but also the rest of it and under M$ OEM rules to be repurchased over and over again with hardware failure.
It is always interesting how M$ always pretends the rest of those costs do not exist and where it makes a substantial portion of it's profits and the means by which it forces it's lock in. So a Linux based system, is a complete system not just the students notebook and, provides all of those for free, not as Linux of course but all as part of the greater global community effort that involves, individuals, governments and of course major corporations like HP, IBM, SUN etc. that work together to create the FOSS environment. Now this versus the one, just one, myopically focussed on monopoly and greed company M$, face M$ is the problem and FOSS is the solution.
They also, as it turns out, supply lawyers, cheap crappy off shore tech support, ever reducing services combined with ever increasing charges, very complex nearly impossible to define contracts to camouflage a swag of extra charges and a whole bunch of PR=B$ to, well, basically lie about the quality of their services ;D.
It has far more to do with the expandind school notebook market, a notebook on every students desk. Globally tens of millions of units and for government to avoid spending billions of dollars to do it, notebooks will be required to be supplied with all necessary software, operating system as well as applications and even digital texts.
No PC manufacturer can ignore this market and open source software provides the only cost effective means by which to achieve a competitive solution. Linux as it turns out will win on the school desktop.
The reality is that internet 'searches' would not look much different from what they currently are when you use http://www.customizegoogle.com/ to filter out unwanted results. The only real problem is you would definitely have to register so no anonymous searching and your current IP address will be completely irrelevant. When it comes to blocking sites, when enough negative results come up for a site, a google staff member can do a quick review and make a simple judgement call as to how relevant the page is to searches that produce it, before sending it off into oblivion (whilst the algorithms are refined).
The catch for google, which is why they are resistant to the idea, is big advertisers are likely to find their pages blocked all over the place for example ebay and amazon. If I want to buy something from ebay or amazon, I'll go there myself, I don't want them flooding out my search results.
Personally I prefer completely localised control over search query refinements, blocked, demoted etc. with a local application making use of a local database to send an automated, detailed and refined query to the search engine site to deliver me more accurate results, after all it is very much a personal thing, as to which sites you are really after based upon your search query.
So search as a distinct separate applications making calls to a web browser to submit a query and display the results way in preference to a remote app divulging all my likes and dislikes to a privacy invasive sales person who goes way beyond jamming their foot in the door, to the point of trying be in your face every time you turn on any electronic web connected device.
Religion or superstition both do provide a direct logical benefit for some people. A lot of people have real difficulty dealing with the random occurrence of death and dismemberment, who is struck a lightning bolt, who gets a lethal infection, who trips and breaks their neck, cancers, an asteroid, an earthquake , a tornado etc. A lot of people have real difficulty dealing with those occurrences and with out a psychological crutch they would struggle to survive with the stress of impending random death and that stress would have a severe impact upon the mental and in turn the physical health.
Superstition and or religion (often both come into play) give them a outlet for that stress, it provides them with a means by which they believe they ' believe' they can gain control over their lives and protect themselves from what they see as all the random threats about them. Now the odd thing about that is, take for example with Christianity, where quite categorically the religion states that there are no rewards or blessings on earth and that only temptations and free will are provided and that all the rewards or blessings are in heaven and the punishments are in hell or specifically you a blessed with absolutely nothing and any who claims they are blessed, or that the were blessed with wealth is a blasphemer and perversely enough bound for hell.
So a lot of people pray for benefits upon this plane of existence and gain reassurance and a measure of mental stability by doing so even when their religion specifically denies any gain can be had by doing so. The ones preaching from pulpits tend to make all sorts of claims for their own benefit, so oddly enough being a blaspheming lying conman claiming to speak for god or working for god or knowing gods plan does provide a means by which lying politicians for example can prosper and spread their genes ie. evolutionary deceit (and oddly enough according to their religion fall victim to temptation and condemn themselves to hell which tends to prove a old saying, those the preach the loudest tend to believe the least, which is especially true for politicians).
What an odd thought, a person is evil because they don't drink alcohol, hmm, methinks that perhaps you have been exposed to an excess of advertising. What does the most damage with posting embarrassing stuff online about yourself, is not so much the content but that people were foolish enough to do it. The whole loose lips sink ships ie. what else can that person not be trusted with. So being a drunken idiot is bad enough but forgivable, everybody makes mistakes when they have had a few too many but, boasting about it online is just plain stupid as it really does demonstrate poor judgement when a person is 'sober'.
Older games continue to thrive because it always was and always will be about the game play. The older games defined and created each of the different styles of game play and became memorable for them. As they are updated with the latest graphics etc. but retained the original game play the are revisited by players who remember the original games and are often still playing them.
Level and campaign design are critical to a good game and crapping out on those can kill a game of regardless of it's history ala doom or game play.
The reality for modern game designs to be able to stand the test of time, is far more about whether that particular game studio or game publisher is be able to stand the test of time or whether they fail after a string of poor decisions and take their game library into obscurity with them.
Well how about the business of poltics. Universal high bandwidth broadband mean there is no reason why live transmission can be delivered from every major political house 24/7, even local government meetings could be streamed to the web. You want honest politicians then keep an eye on them.
Added to that, paid political advertisements on commercial services could be banned all together, killing off corporate funding of corrupt politicians via lobbyists, as all politicians can stream what ever messages they want via universal broad band.
Then you can add all the delivery of community services , giving 'community organisers' a bigger voice and greater reach (yeah I know there is no corporate profit in those community services which is why the rich and greedy like to deride them, but for the rest of us they save and assist millions of human beings every year).
Then there is the downloading and burning of legal content. Of course just a small reminder, that families represent a different use, typical family of four all sharing the same connection, four times as much bandwidth required.
In fact google clearly state they are only anonymising the users IP address and do not talk about any other long term user records. Even their privacy statement to the EU whilst it does state it is not 'necessary' for a user to divulge their identity when doing searches does not clearly state that those searches are tied to the use based upon past records via data mining their massive data bases. For google to indentify the user once the they have cookies in place and the data gathering scripts running all over the web, the IP address whilst convenient is hardly necessary. Of course their reasons for using private data are so broad they could mean virtually anything.
Providing our services to users, including the display of customized content and advertising
Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services;
Ensuring the technical functioning of our network; and
Developing new services.
If google want to be truly genuine about respecting a persons desire for privacy why don't they contact every person they have records on to ask them whether they would like those records cleared and no further data to be stored against them, at least once a year or even perhaps based upon their own public statement every nine months or, was is it all just a bit of love and trust google viral marketing.
Perhaps you haven't read the typical M$ EULA, it is always the customer's configuration fault, when it is not the customer's configuration fault it is a hardware fault, when it was neither the customer or the hardware's fault, then some other software installed on the system is responsible for at least 50% of faults, naturally enough as most business PC have M$ Office installed in parallel to M$ Windows that kinda makes sense ;D. So 5 '9's still intact and with the next rewrite of the M$ EULA 10 '9s' are guaranteed 'er' promised 'er' hinted at.
Now here is a simple one for you. I play computer games and people I know play computer games. When we have finished playing a game we pass the disc around, no copying not even for backup. They install the game and play it, get bored with it and then give it back. I own that game and I have they right to lend it to whom ever I want, anybody who attempts to steal my investment in that game is a thief, especially as it is only being played on one computer at a time with absolutely no piracy at all.
They are even daring to steal my right to sell the game when I or anybody else that I know no longer wants to play it. For me spore has no life it is simply dead end and there are just so many game titles and game publishers out there that it makes absolutely no difference regardless of the amount of viral marketing they invested in.
If they really want an realistic energy neutral data centre that have to invest heavily in an algae based anaerobic digestion, aerobic digestion, photosynthesis and combustion cycles, quite complex but do able. Making effective use of cogeneration and absorbing the carbon produced is no simple idea of being adrift at sea but, google do realise that Captain Nemo and the Nautilus was a fiction ;).
Youtube is a commercial company operating in what is becoming a more and more competitive environment, there are a huge number of video hosting sites, a lot of them operating outside of the US. In this case should youtube prove that it actually really does endeavour to adhere to the law by pursuing CoS for vindictively targeting them, when similar DMCA notices were not handed out to every other video hosting sites containing the same videos.
This unfairly targets youtube and damages their business as well as causing them significant cost in evaluating each of the DMCA notices, notifying users of the claimed infringement, altering the content of the hosting services, evaluating the counter notices and then having to reinstate the content, whilst the competitors suffered no comparable harm. The Corporation of Scientology seems to love picking on youtube and this peculiar focus is really starting to make it appear like the are some anti free speech, privacy invasive, scientologists insurgents skulking amongst the googlites, the cult of google might unfortunately be less of a joke than it should be.
Personally I prefer http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/scientology, now where exactly is that hosted again, something tells the DMCA takedown notices coming out of the US are going to have no affect with that host.
In this case of course the statistic presented relates not just to home users but also commercial, they are just sliding that association about people downloading movies, typical slippery reporting. As for slow downloads from a commercial site, very rarely would that be down to overall net traffic but most lost that the commercial site simply does not have enough bandwidth to supply the demand of it's users.
Data capping is nothing more than a blatant attempt by the internet cartel to justify a major increases in the profit margin, nothing more, nothing less. They are currently making substantial profits, increasing the bandwidth the have available to sell obviously would increase profits, however it is simply not as profitable as a B$ market campaign and a collusive agreement between major ISPs to simply strangle traffic, oversell bandwidth and inflate profits margins.
The only thing it will end up being used for is tacking competing intelligence agencies, their mistakes and poor judgement as well as their motivation behind the intelligence they are willing to put up. The other thing of course will be to dump all those useless bits of intelligence in a cover your own arse fashion, we put in up but, no one else did anything about it.
What they are trying to mimic is the ability of the open community to put together accurate conclusions from 'bits' of information drawn from all over the world, the catch with that is the actual intelligence of those people versus the 'lack of intelligence' community as well as the inherent psychological nature of those who voluntarily choose a career in the intelligence services, how they like to keep their secrets while prying into everyone else's and the competition for promotion within an agency as well as the competition across agencies.
Which all points to the reality about EULA's they have nothing at all to do with legally binding contracts, they are simply all about giving corporate lawyers something to fend of consumers with in court, up until the consumer can no longer afford to continue with the civil action or is scare off before they can even get there.
The civil suits that shred EULA's with the worthless digital bit streams that they are, of course disappear in an out of court settlement before every end user can use the precedent to gain access to justice.
It is quite clear that China does fully understand the problem and know full well the consequences of their action. China has some of the highest standards in the world to limit the release of pollutants into the environment and well as providing healthy and save working environments for their workers. Unfortunately, well and truly unfourtunately, the level of corruption in China means that all those standards and completely and utterly ignored and all very sadly with government complicity. China's environmental and worker standards seem to be nothing but corporate marketing at it's worst.
Also in addition those pollutants brought in by environmental conditions, other countries are also directly importing pollutants, as you can not hope to produce clean and safe products in a heavily polluted environment. The most critical disaster is likely to be caused by the absence of effective controls on waste disposal facilities where highly toxic waste is mixed with regular waste. A fire at those kind of facilities could have a catastrophic impact on any nearby cities and, depending upon the nature of the exotic pollutants produced, possibly a global impact.
It is clear that the government of China is fully aware of the implications of the pollutants being produced as defined by their own legislated standards, they have simply allowed greed to overrule good judgement, something that they a clearly not unique in doing but, they have allowed corruption to take it to unprecedented levels.
You would have to consider that just a wee bit extreme. They are simply a corporation locked into one mind view and, they only see business opportunities from that viewpoint. Analyse every bodies personal characteristics and psychologically target those characteristics to make them into mindless junk buying machines, well at least that's what the google's doctorates in marketing psychology (they should be ashamed for that misuse of an education) attempt to convince those buying advertising space, all done with a broad range of very subtle marketing memes if you not paying attention you wont even really notice them popping up all over the place, google is very heavily into subconscious manipulation of their true target audience, the sellers' those that pay for the advertising, rather than any real sales efforts targeted at the buyers those getting free services.
An alternate viewpoint to take on those civilian satellites is that governments who are heavily into satellite spying technology might get involved with semi-privatised agencies to sell low res, averaged versions of the data they collect. They could even, if they are a bit cheeky, make available higher res-versions for the general public to analyse for free, creating many eyes to scan many images, so both making and saving money ;).
It is amazing that those that resort to insults also resort to outright lies, lest no confuse accessory before or after the fact to the ACTUAL commitment of a crime, don't you even read what you quote, compared to conspiracy where no actual crime is committed but maybe might because someone says so. Interesting possession of legal items means you will commit crimes, so petrol, fabric wicks and empty bottles means molotov cocktails or is it just a lawn mower, expensive soft drinks and cleaning rags.
I could resort to the same level of pathetic insults that seems to drive your ego, but it is pointless and it is far more satisfying to simply be amused by it. Of course neocon english tends to differ to the rest of the worlds view so maybe I should give you the benefit of the doubt, nah. Perhaps your nickname is only unfourtunately all too apt, good luck with that ;D.
Well, it makes much more sense to create a 'open' education program, where schools from around the globe and through the various levels, primary, high school and university create a series of open text books for 'free' use within the education system. Obviously students in university could gain credit for digital texts written and corroborated on for use in high school and primary school.
Doesn't solve the current problem but certainly makes sense for the future and to ensure that acceptable standards are achieved and graded against. Custom written tends to produce wildly variable results with often archaic out of date content or even just totally wrong information, not much point getting it marked right if it is wrong. An easy start is to do what most students do and start with wikipedia and go from there (follow the links they are generally pretty good), just don't reference it ;).
For better law enforcement there is a real need to establish a greater rapport between the police and the general public. Establish the idea of your local police officer, some one you know who you can call. A personal 'friendly' emphasis on 'friendly non-hostile' visit by the police to every place of business and household to establish a more personal connection between the police and the general public. So the public are calling a person rather than a distant bureaucracy and, so that the police also are reminder of who they volunteered to protect and assist, it would also help with recruiting.
Yeah but, that is just keeping a foot in both camps should the google browser fail to take off. So Firefox.com has in affect been given three years notice to vacate the premises, if google browser can become successful. So for google better control of scripts, so ones they like can't be blocked or are built in, direct access to gmail, as google aren't all that hot on thunderbird as it competes, plus a default range of google specific shortcuts.
Custom browsers are sensible for large corporations to promote their own identity but, of course Firefox.com was likely hoping to generate additional income by creating custom branded browsers for other companies Who knows might might start seeing 'Undead' (that MSN/Live search rebranding was really lame) search popping up as the default in lieu of google at the initial Firefox install.
In terms of loosing the search market google's greatest worry is likely Yahoo's partnerships with local media outlets to create localised search, which is far more threatening the M$'s bumbling attempts. Then you can look at the other old world media networks who have extensive existing partnerships with local media outlets around the globe, who could do exactly the same. Open source browsers on open source operating systems really does open up that whole default browser, home page, webmail, portal, news, media distribution market, it's called fragmentation, everybody gets a share while the current market leader gets wiped out.