Now that is just plain wrong. What you should have said is the reason you would risk a new merchant is because of the add, it made you do it, it 'engaged' you, it was entrancing and mesmerised you. You must look at it, you must buy, you must buy it now, even if you don't need it or ever thought you needed it;).
Google add words are targeted at sellers not buyers. I got sick of the low end merchants, interstate/overseas merchants that it always seemed to spew up and used http://noscript.net/ to permanently kill the google anal-ytics script (not to forget doubleclick).
With reported crime rates falling, does this mean people are reporting less crime like minor assaults and petty robberies because they want to avoid the police and it's rather pointless as the crimes are not really pursued because the police are too busy pursuing harmless drug users, attacking political demonstrations and breaking up labour strikes.
Ignoring worsening trends because other countries are still worse, is not very wise and most people would say is really wrong headed, waiting till your country is the very worst is insanity. It would seem that the increasing violence and abuse by US law enforcement is resulting from officer who have served in the national guard returning from Iraq and bringing home some of the worst criminal abuses that they perpetrated on Iraqi civilians.
Perhaps US law enforcement might consider it appropriate to give those officers some extended time off and retraining them in the proper respect for the law and citizens.
Actually that is not true. Corporations merge in order to eliminate competition and inflate prices by controlling ever greater numbers of patents, trademarks and copyrights. Just look at the building industry and the huge number of independent contractors that survive and thrive because there aren't global corporations that claim monopolies on ideas like how to nail two bits of wood together, how to lay bricks or how to make and pour concrete.
Just look at bakeries and eateries and think how a patent on bread would be like and how it would be exploited, or lets say copyrights on a pizza designs and PMAA (pizza manufacturers association of america) suing anybody who copied those designs at home (of course eat the pizza and the would charge you with destroying evidence).
So the reality is, the exact opposite is true. People would tend to by from local manufacturers (where all the conditions of manufacture are competitively fair and equal, like wages, environmental protections, working conditions etc.) because of warranty repairs and product access and people generally prefer to deal with people the know and can get hold of.
Quite simply the problem with it, it is political marketing hammering home the message of fear. This person could be pursuing you, you or a family member could end up missing, be afraid security alert eg. vote repuglican or die.
Secondly, it is one law enforcement agency telling people to ignore another law enforcements agency rules ie. don't watch the road and where you are going read this stupid sign instead, if you don't people might die. The reality is of course reading the sign and not paying attention to traffic means people will have accidents.
This excludes trading whilst insolvent. All Novell needs to prove is SCO did or should have been aware of it's fiscal liabilities to Novell which SCO failed to pay with in the appropriate time whilst SCO used those monies to fund a civil suit against IBM, which based upon the information released to the press to pump up the stock price compared to the actual evidence submitted in court reasonably stood no chance in hell of ever being successful.
So it would be up to the SEC to pursue SCO and based upon that case Novell could the pursue SCO's executive team and other parties.
Funny I thought the whole purpose of Windows Homeless Server was to be able to distribute Windows Vista (FU)DRM across your whole family network as well as in a future secret/security/patch update to monitor all the families computers connected to the network.
So WH(less)S wasn't corrupting files, the users has simply forgotten to register and pay M$ a content licence for shared access to their own content, you never know who in your own family might be pirating the content you have created.
The reality is a home server is a dirt cheap appliance running Linux in a suitably configured set up for around the 300 dollar mark (cheap hardware with free software), the M$ variant is a dud designed to pretend to compete against it.
The catch with that is of course there is no such thing as US copyright. Copyright is held by the owner of the copyright and the right is recognised via treaty by all signatory countries. A US performer has copyright in all member countries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Organization_Copyright_Treaty. So basically either WTO is attempting theft against uninvolved third parties (the copyright holders) or Antigua can pirate 21 millions dollars worth of copyright content actually owned by the US government.
Perhaps Antigua can wait for every other signatory of the copyright treaty to also ban online gambling (very likely as the social damage caused by it increases) and then they can finally legally pirate copyrighted content.
So what your simply talking about is a mirroring sales chain. Where the seller creates a sales portal for content and then arranges an extensive non exclusive range of partnerships with ISP's who store and deliver the content for a fee. Everybody wins, less traffic across networks, more direct ISP to member traffic with good 'actual' bandwidth, and no data cost for the user (data transmission not necessarily content).
A similar thing can be done with MMOG with game servers located at ISP's and then just remote administered.
Of course content corporations can be wildly greedy and revenue sharing often doesn't come into the picture, as a result nepotistic ineffectual corporate executives and visions of unlimited greed.
The ultimate anti-greed problem of course is too much legal content from around the world would have to compete, killing inflated prices while simultaneously offering content direct from the artists (including the majority who enjoy creating it, sharing it and giving it away for free) and skipping the parasitical publishers. Bit torrent 'is evil', not because of piracy but because it eliminates the need for publishers, bit torrent is basically a peer to peer publishing network.
The complaint states that it was a $50.00 radio shack unit (pen light flash light very funny). Your post looks to be as much of a gross exaggeration as the police making the complaint. It blinded then some much they could spot people in an unilluminated driveway from an illuminated helicopter cockpit.
It just sound like another bullshit ego trip ttp://sacramento.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel07/sc121707.pdf the whole press release stinks of autocratic attempt to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I surprised they don't try to pump up the BS level to a potential terrorist threat.
Take for example the 'green laser light illuminated the cockpit' well either it was a focused laser light ie a dot an eighth of an inch across, hardly capable of illuminating an entire helicopter cockpit, or the light had diffused to a couple of yards across and illuminated the entire cockpit but been so weak as to be barely visible. Most of the press release waffles on about the power of laser in general and does not even talk about the laser in question, it's output or it's brightness at 500 feet.
You are paying for the connection and set data download limit, hence paying for the infrastructure and a fairly generous profit margin, so no sense for the senseless but then since when did greed make any sense at all.
That of course is a lie. For an ISP any direct downloads from ISP to customer are saving money. Downloads that have to come from different sites from different networks cost money not only for the ISP but also naturally enough for the customer. As Open Office would be a really regular download it would be served by a proxy server any how, so basically Telstra are selling Open Office by charging for downloads that are basically costing them nothing.
This from a company that at one stage were disconnecting people from mobile phone service who had terminal illnesses because it was to hard to collect the final bill from the deceased estate, no joke, they are really that low, petty and a truly disgusting company (the real interesting part of that story was how they were able to find out that customers had terminal illnesses).
In Australia friends don't let friends get used by PigPuddle. They instead send them here http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/ and give them every opportunity to become an informed customer.
Here's a tricky web based app for you. Say a few more years down the track, you have a cheap home web server appliance (no keyboard/screen/graphics/sound) connected to the net via an IPv6 address, which you can now connect into via your smart phone/pda from any remote location. You can access and use you data and applications anywhere and any time and via your mobile device transfer the data to other networks local at your current location.
Of course this still leaves google and M$ stuck out on a lurch, because although it would be a web based app, you would be serving it to yourself and it would be your locally based app when you are at home, all this free of adds and privacy invasion.
The thing that will kill add served web based apps is free open source software and peoples basic desire for at least some control over their digital environment. Regardless of what the M$ trolls say about innovation, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, 100 years of software development and upgrades is just unrealistic either people will accept you are completely incompetent as a software developer and be willing to continually pay for upgrades or as is the reality most people where happy with M$ office 97/98 and only changed due to document compatibility and availability and the real reason to switch to open office is simply just to escape the forced upgrade cycle.
So stable free apps and locally hosted becomes web hosted, with out an app serving company. As for off site, best done with your local ISP direct, with them hosting you cheap app server appliance for you in a specialist facility (they of course will only monitor it for functionality and not attempt to turn your data into theirs).
That actually was quite an interesting demonstration of choking the chicken. At that time they were hoping to charge an annual fee to access the star trek web site, hence they needed to kill of any site that could possibly compete with it and all they did was kill off a lot of fan interest (free advertising) in star trek. A very good demonstration of greed, producing stupid decisions by incompetent corporate executives.
In did create an interesting marketing period where some popular game title web sites started actively promoting fan sites in order to create popularity using the marketing counter point to paramounts unpopular move, it worked quite well (I seem to remember star craft as one of those sites).
Actually the law enforcement officer is a different case altogether. They should be nothing stopping governments from fitting officers with helmet video cameras which they have to activate prior to making an arrest, and as a minimum would automatically activate when an officer removed their taser/handgun/batton from their holster. Especially considering it would be no more expensive than a taser torture/punishment/control device
The other principal of watching all government employees and politicians all of the time should of course be considered satirical unless they attempt to force that concept on private citizens in which case the effort should be trialled on them for a few years first.
You really are weird in your world view. The most 'productive' societies are the ones that use slave labour, low labour cost ratio, so what exactly is your point.
The war on the poor is to ensure that there are always under privileged people imprisoned in poverty to provide labour for those people to lazy to get up and get their own food, to lazy to make their own beds, to lazy to wash their own toilets, to lazy to form meaningful human relationships instead preferring body servants and generally to lazy to be of any real value to society beyond their incessant greed which is of course a burden for every one else but in their eyes and the eyes of their public relations BS artists something to be celebrated.
The only question to be asked is whether the most highly socialised 'democratic' societies have the healthiest and happiest populations and ignore the BS socialism as a marketing term societies. Rich people to not produce and never have produced, they just occupy a position that they have created within society, where they can earn a parasitical living off those that do produce and who in tern need to produce far more than they need to in order to feed the parasites, and of course the more they are feed the larger they grow and the more they demand.
So where is the 6 hour per day 4 day working week that all the increases in labour productivity, automation and computerisation should have produced, what happened to that, instead we have longing working hours for less money and having to pay for more bloated luxury yachts, mansions and private island tax havens and the reward for us 'fear terrorists', obey and do not question, worship corporate profits, and the most ludicrous of all 'the rich have been blessed with profits' by God.
IPv6 vs IPv4 has less to do with supply and demand more to do with one having to be paid for and the other will be virtually free. Not to mention once the RIAA and the MPAA wake up and realise that every Internet enabled device can be manufactured with a unique regionalised IPv6 address, then their lobbyists will be going overtime to get governments to adopt it and enforce its use;).
In a lot of countries there are strong planning restrictions on signs, in terms of size, motion and illumination. Signs may identify and advertise but they specifically must not distract motorists. It requires a full building and planing application to get a sign approved, and even then the signs are restricted to advertising the business at the location of the sign and it is forbidden to advertise other companies (no billboards).
Although the ruling is from an odd perspective it still enforces an important distinction in law, whilst you can give an opinion that someone is lying when they say they can't remember their password/phrase there is no way that you can prove it. Of course if they could prove it, one would assume that it would need to be done telepathically, then there is no need to ask for the password/phrase.
Don't ever confuse availability with desirability. Make no mistake given a choice most people when forced to buy the windows (P)OS a lot would choose win2kpro over stale piss, let alone vista. Wind2kpro is still more stable than stale piss and excluding restore it the service that's a band-aid for the defunct stupid idea of a central registry, it is more reliable, it took two service packs to get stale piss nearly as stable as win2kpro especially after the changes to stale piss for backwards game compatibility, of course WGdisA and activation punched a hole right in the reliability statistics.
Of course there are the various security toys in stale piss absent from win2kpro, but if any one is silly enough to use those instead of the more reliable security software produced by everyone apart from M$, then the deserve what the get or more precisely what they don't get. So let's test you theory and get M$ to produce win2kpro with the latest drivers as an OEM and see which people would actually choose;).
More likely google is feeling threatened by people starting to use wikepedia as a search engine. Not only does it often give you exactly the answers you want but it also provides useful links to more detailed information when you need it.
So in the future rather the wikpedia constantly coming up on the first page of google search results, google will just simply point back to itself and it's own adds.
I think more to the point geeks prefer creating their own independent web site, rather than just having a tiny chunk of a corporate controlled and monitored web site (a social network). So the more accurate comparison is those who can roll their own or those that lack imagination, creativity and skill but still desire to create what they have been sold is ideal web impression of themselves.
So on a tech site, yeah expect the majority to look down on social network sites, where the jock straps and cheerleaders congregate, the sub 100s, eww;).
So who said,/. wasn't a place where geeks could go to 'satisfy their ego and validate their existence' by fencing with words and the active exchange of thoughts and ideas, but let's be rational, it certainly does not compare with the mindless palp that is exchanged on the typical corporate marketdroid social network.
Back on topic, as for google winning, shit if they were at all capable of winning beyond search, why the hell would they keep buying companies in market segments that they are basically failing in. So orkut is losing, and now google wants to jump in and be the privacy invasive, add spewing, middle man connecting other social networks.
Of course you forget the better bit. Under the US three strikes your out, three time copyright offenders can be sent to prison for life. So will the US build special prisons for the early teens lifers, or will they just hand them to the prison population gift wrapped.
Perhaps they are balking at that idea and possibly considering the repercussions of the members of the RIAA and the MPAA gleefully sending Americas children to prison for copyright infringement.
Don't forget the traders are not the NYSE, they work for other people and are just connecting to NYSE systems. So all you post implies is that a lot of other brokerage houses are switching mission critical desktops away from windows to Linux, interesting;).
Oh just go away with the no more BSOD's on windows XP ec. bullshit. Yeah, like random reboots are all that much better. Yes, we all know, there is now a windows service that initiates at boot and monitors the system for a crash that would initiate a BSOD, so instead this service reboots the system, like really fucking cool and useful that, a genuine marketdroid M$=B$ exercise in marketing (same number of crashes you only choose whether you BSOD by disabling the service or random reboot).
Now of course if they had thermonuclear weapons or chemical/biological (with total lethality) weapons with long range delivery systems, I sure we wouldn't even be discussing it;).
Instead of course we have a US weasel in chief with his finger on the button of total destruction who carries on conversations with the surpreme being of the universe. Now I wonder, is he, in his delusional state, talking to an imaginary being or is he just talking to himself?
Now as the end of his term approaches and the possibility of an extended jail term becomes a reality what will he do? When it comes to romans does Nero come to mind.
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Google add words are targeted at sellers not buyers. I got sick of the low end merchants, interstate/overseas merchants that it always seemed to spew up and used http://noscript.net/ to permanently kill the google anal-ytics script (not to forget doubleclick).
Ignoring worsening trends because other countries are still worse, is not very wise and most people would say is really wrong headed, waiting till your country is the very worst is insanity. It would seem that the increasing violence and abuse by US law enforcement is resulting from officer who have served in the national guard returning from Iraq and bringing home some of the worst criminal abuses that they perpetrated on Iraqi civilians.
Perhaps US law enforcement might consider it appropriate to give those officers some extended time off and retraining them in the proper respect for the law and citizens.
Just look at bakeries and eateries and think how a patent on bread would be like and how it would be exploited, or lets say copyrights on a pizza designs and PMAA (pizza manufacturers association of america) suing anybody who copied those designs at home (of course eat the pizza and the would charge you with destroying evidence).
So the reality is, the exact opposite is true. People would tend to by from local manufacturers (where all the conditions of manufacture are competitively fair and equal, like wages, environmental protections, working conditions etc.) because of warranty repairs and product access and people generally prefer to deal with people the know and can get hold of.
Secondly, it is one law enforcement agency telling people to ignore another law enforcements agency rules ie. don't watch the road and where you are going read this stupid sign instead, if you don't people might die. The reality is of course reading the sign and not paying attention to traffic means people will have accidents.
So it would be up to the SEC to pursue SCO and based upon that case Novell could the pursue SCO's executive team and other parties.
So WH(less)S wasn't corrupting files, the users has simply forgotten to register and pay M$ a content licence for shared access to their own content, you never know who in your own family might be pirating the content you have created.
The reality is a home server is a dirt cheap appliance running Linux in a suitably configured set up for around the 300 dollar mark (cheap hardware with free software), the M$ variant is a dud designed to pretend to compete against it.
Perhaps Antigua can wait for every other signatory of the copyright treaty to also ban online gambling (very likely as the social damage caused by it increases) and then they can finally legally pirate copyrighted content.
A similar thing can be done with MMOG with game servers located at ISP's and then just remote administered.
Of course content corporations can be wildly greedy and revenue sharing often doesn't come into the picture, as a result nepotistic ineffectual corporate executives and visions of unlimited greed.
The ultimate anti-greed problem of course is too much legal content from around the world would have to compete, killing inflated prices while simultaneously offering content direct from the artists (including the majority who enjoy creating it, sharing it and giving it away for free) and skipping the parasitical publishers. Bit torrent 'is evil', not because of piracy but because it eliminates the need for publishers, bit torrent is basically a peer to peer publishing network.
It just sound like another bullshit ego trip ttp://sacramento.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel07/sc121707.pdf the whole press release stinks of autocratic attempt to make a mountain out of a mole hill. I surprised they don't try to pump up the BS level to a potential terrorist threat.
Take for example the 'green laser light illuminated the cockpit' well either it was a focused laser light ie a dot an eighth of an inch across, hardly capable of illuminating an entire helicopter cockpit, or the light had diffused to a couple of yards across and illuminated the entire cockpit but been so weak as to be barely visible. Most of the press release waffles on about the power of laser in general and does not even talk about the laser in question, it's output or it's brightness at 500 feet.
You are paying for the connection and set data download limit, hence paying for the infrastructure and a fairly generous profit margin, so no sense for the senseless but then since when did greed make any sense at all.
This from a company that at one stage were disconnecting people from mobile phone service who had terminal illnesses because it was to hard to collect the final bill from the deceased estate, no joke, they are really that low, petty and a truly disgusting company (the real interesting part of that story was how they were able to find out that customers had terminal illnesses).
In Australia friends don't let friends get used by PigPuddle. They instead send them here http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/ and give them every opportunity to become an informed customer.
Of course this still leaves google and M$ stuck out on a lurch, because although it would be a web based app, you would be serving it to yourself and it would be your locally based app when you are at home, all this free of adds and privacy invasion.
The thing that will kill add served web based apps is free open source software and peoples basic desire for at least some control over their digital environment. Regardless of what the M$ trolls say about innovation, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, 100 years of software development and upgrades is just unrealistic either people will accept you are completely incompetent as a software developer and be willing to continually pay for upgrades or as is the reality most people where happy with M$ office 97/98 and only changed due to document compatibility and availability and the real reason to switch to open office is simply just to escape the forced upgrade cycle.
So stable free apps and locally hosted becomes web hosted, with out an app serving company. As for off site, best done with your local ISP direct, with them hosting you cheap app server appliance for you in a specialist facility (they of course will only monitor it for functionality and not attempt to turn your data into theirs).
In did create an interesting marketing period where some popular game title web sites started actively promoting fan sites in order to create popularity using the marketing counter point to paramounts unpopular move, it worked quite well (I seem to remember star craft as one of those sites).
The other principal of watching all government employees and politicians all of the time should of course be considered satirical unless they attempt to force that concept on private citizens in which case the effort should be trialled on them for a few years first.
The war on the poor is to ensure that there are always under privileged people imprisoned in poverty to provide labour for those people to lazy to get up and get their own food, to lazy to make their own beds, to lazy to wash their own toilets, to lazy to form meaningful human relationships instead preferring body servants and generally to lazy to be of any real value to society beyond their incessant greed which is of course a burden for every one else but in their eyes and the eyes of their public relations BS artists something to be celebrated.
The only question to be asked is whether the most highly socialised 'democratic' societies have the healthiest and happiest populations and ignore the BS socialism as a marketing term societies. Rich people to not produce and never have produced, they just occupy a position that they have created within society, where they can earn a parasitical living off those that do produce and who in tern need to produce far more than they need to in order to feed the parasites, and of course the more they are feed the larger they grow and the more they demand.
So where is the 6 hour per day 4 day working week that all the increases in labour productivity, automation and computerisation should have produced, what happened to that, instead we have longing working hours for less money and having to pay for more bloated luxury yachts, mansions and private island tax havens and the reward for us 'fear terrorists', obey and do not question, worship corporate profits, and the most ludicrous of all 'the rich have been blessed with profits' by God.
IPv6 vs IPv4 has less to do with supply and demand more to do with one having to be paid for and the other will be virtually free. Not to mention once the RIAA and the MPAA wake up and realise that every Internet enabled device can be manufactured with a unique regionalised IPv6 address, then their lobbyists will be going overtime to get governments to adopt it and enforce its use ;).
In a lot of countries there are strong planning restrictions on signs, in terms of size, motion and illumination. Signs may identify and advertise but they specifically must not distract motorists. It requires a full building and planing application to get a sign approved, and even then the signs are restricted to advertising the business at the location of the sign and it is forbidden to advertise other companies (no billboards).
Although the ruling is from an odd perspective it still enforces an important distinction in law, whilst you can give an opinion that someone is lying when they say they can't remember their password/phrase there is no way that you can prove it. Of course if they could prove it, one would assume that it would need to be done telepathically, then there is no need to ask for the password/phrase.
Of course there are the various security toys in stale piss absent from win2kpro, but if any one is silly enough to use those instead of the more reliable security software produced by everyone apart from M$, then the deserve what the get or more precisely what they don't get. So let's test you theory and get M$ to produce win2kpro with the latest drivers as an OEM and see which people would actually choose ;).
So in the future rather the wikpedia constantly coming up on the first page of google search results, google will just simply point back to itself and it's own adds.
So on a tech site, yeah expect the majority to look down on social network sites, where the jock straps and cheerleaders congregate, the sub 100s, eww ;).
So who said, /. wasn't a place where geeks could go to 'satisfy their ego and validate their existence' by fencing with words and the active exchange of thoughts and ideas, but let's be rational, it certainly does not compare with the mindless palp that is exchanged on the typical corporate marketdroid social network.
Back on topic, as for google winning, shit if they were at all capable of winning beyond search, why the hell would they keep buying companies in market segments that they are basically failing in. So orkut is losing, and now google wants to jump in and be the privacy invasive, add spewing, middle man connecting other social networks.
Perhaps they are balking at that idea and possibly considering the repercussions of the members of the RIAA and the MPAA gleefully sending Americas children to prison for copyright infringement.
Don't forget the traders are not the NYSE, they work for other people and are just connecting to NYSE systems. So all you post implies is that a lot of other brokerage houses are switching mission critical desktops away from windows to Linux, interesting ;).
Oh just go away with the no more BSOD's on windows XP ec. bullshit. Yeah, like random reboots are all that much better. Yes, we all know, there is now a windows service that initiates at boot and monitors the system for a crash that would initiate a BSOD, so instead this service reboots the system, like really fucking cool and useful that, a genuine marketdroid M$=B$ exercise in marketing (same number of crashes you only choose whether you BSOD by disabling the service or random reboot).
Instead of course we have a US weasel in chief with his finger on the button of total destruction who carries on conversations with the surpreme being of the universe. Now I wonder, is he, in his delusional state, talking to an imaginary being or is he just talking to himself?
Now as the end of his term approaches and the possibility of an extended jail term becomes a reality what will he do? When it comes to romans does Nero come to mind.