People would complain that they didn't know it was happening, as they clicked through the dialog box the same way they clicked through the EULA the first time they ran iTunes after updating to the new version without reading it.
Does anyone here actually carefully read EULAs who's updated, who can confirm that the EULA didn't mention that this data was being sent? I can't seem to find the EULA for the iTunes software on Apple's website, just the one for the Music Store itself (which one could definitely argue only applies if you've bought nusic from Apple).
I will guarantee you that all the code written for the largest supercomputers is either C, C++, or assembler.
All of it? And is there some cash payment backing up this guarantee if I can show you one of the largest supercomputers running Fortran programs, genius?
Furthermore, it's his website, he can do whatever the hell he wants with it.
It's fine for you to believe that, as long as you're not also one of the people who belives that WP should be taken seriously as a source of unbiased research.
Personally, I don't care if he edits the article on oxygen to claim it has an atomic weight of 600, and then locks the entry from further editing. It's his website, and I don't use it for research. Those who do take it seriously should have second thoughts if he shares your attitude, though.
It was cancelled because the 60 year old former football players talking about nothing and 15 minutes of commercials they had sharing a timeslot with the last 5 minutes of each episode got, for some reason they couldn't figure out, really bad ratings.
Don't get me wrong, I love football. I'd rather see the end of a good football game then the start of Pollyanna. Or even Futurama. But almost every week, the late Fox game would end before Futurama was scheduled to begin on the East Coast, and they still insisted on doing a meaningless postgame show afterwards. CBS, on the other hand, has been showing games that ended after 7:00 for years, and have always begun 60 Minutes immediately after the end of the actual game, without even cutting any of the show.
I was actually shocked this week when Fox managed to show all of it's Sunday night programming despite the President's address. I really expected the local news to come on at 10:00, forcing me to wait for Cartoon Network to air the end of American Dad in 2 weeks. Some idiot at Fox must have gotten replaced with a trained monkey or something.
Reading Kant (in English) is a lot better than reading Locke or Hobbes. At least the translation was probably done by someone who speaks modern English. As a philosophy major, I always found it much easier to read the French and German guys, because you don't have to deal with 17th Century writing style on top of the complex ideas.
If humans are apes, shouldn't there be some intermediaries? SOMEWHERE
Umm, there are.
Chimpanzees and bonobos are a lot more closely related to us than gorillas are. Hell, they're more closely related to us than they are to gorillas, too. If both gorillas and chimps are "apes", then there's no biological reason to say that humans aren't apes.
If you look different in certain ways from your father, wouldn't you expect that you must have an inetrmediate family member who's more closely related to both you and your father who looks halfway between the two of you? If not, why not?
Intellectual property is an asset, even if the average slashdot reader thinks it shouldn't be.
Yes, a good website can generate ad revenue. The majority of businesses involved in the dot com bubble didn't generate ad revenue, or have any real business plan besides "you give us a lot of money, and we'll build a really cool website. The maybe we'll find a way to profit someday."
Wait, you're blaiming the dot-com bubble bursting on media people who pointed out that investing in companies with no assests were being really dumb, instead of blaming it on the really dumb people who were investing in companies with no assets in the first place?
Maybe they should have just repeated "you don't need assets in the New Economy and everything's going to be great" over and over instead, to reward stupid business practices.
Yes, but you're assuming that the rate of errors per article remains constant when the lengths of the articles vary.
Even if you ignore the obvious bias of the people (identified as "Wikipedians") refuting the Nature study, you have to admit their methodology is flawed. If the original study properly controlled for the lngth of articles, you can't refute it by showing that articles they didn't study might vary in length.
Tell that to the people GM is laying off because they're backpedalling from one of those.
They built up a huge capacity to make gas-guzzling SUVs, and then act surprised when demand goes down as gas prices go up. I don't know if we can say yet that they've gone broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people, but they have proved that it's not always a great idea to capitalize on a fad, especially when doing so requires a huge capital investment that's going to be practically worthless when the fad passes.
For more than 80 years, it was called the "General Accounting Office". Then they changed their name last year, because what they did wasn't primarily accounting.
However, their new name is even more misleading; someone might think they can actually hold anyone else in the government accountable for anything. What they actually do is produce nonpartisan reports on virtually any topic, many of which show pretty conclusively that what one branch or other of the government wants to do is a really bad idea, after which they're ignored completely.
If they were given the power to throw government officials in prison for wasting the taxpayers' money by requesting these reports and then ignoring their conclusions, they might be a worthwhile agency.
Of course, if you or the parent poster realized that Apple had absolutely nothing to do with creating the term (and that the people who did were a bunch of geeks who almost certainly have no background in marketing, and completely certainly weren't marketing iPods), maybe you'd be less sickened.
Umm, that's an Associated Press story that just happens to be carried on Yahoo (which, for some reason, you saw the need the link to through yet another source). Yahoo did not, in fact, report on anything.
Ok, fair enough, I shouldn't have used the term "urban county" if they're defined as such. There's still a hell of a lot of farmland around, even if less than half the population lives on it.
Please tell me you don't believe that there are 6 urban counties surrounding Cleveland.
Hell, I don't know about Cleveland, but driving to Columbus you enter the actual "corporate limits" of the city, then drive through 30 miles of cornfields before you see a building bigger than a barn.
But in your imaginary world, what's the definition of "published"? You point out yourself that websites I visit and email I receive would be covered under your scheme. Am I forced to license the email to everyone, or not?
If I write a business strategy report for someone and they pay me for it, do I have to share that?
How about if I write a song that I don't want in wide release, but I agree to sell it to one person. Do I then have to license it to everyone for free download? What about if I sell it to 10 people? 100? 100000? At what point is "forced licensing" actually forced?
And before you claim no one's being forced to license things under this plan, reread the thread. The objections you're replying to are to another posters' suggestion of forced licensing. If you're talking about something else, anything you've said is a non sequitur.
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That would be incredibly stupid, even by the standards that allow adding surcharges to media to cover copying unlicensed music to that media.
Yeah, but ASCAP would be coming after you for royalties.
Does anyone here actually carefully read EULAs who's updated, who can confirm that the EULA didn't mention that this data was being sent? I can't seem to find the EULA for the iTunes software on Apple's website, just the one for the Music Store itself (which one could definitely argue only applies if you've bought nusic from Apple).
Yeah, it would be a shame if someone "leaked" a shipping product.
All of it? And is there some cash payment backing up this guarantee if I can show you one of the largest supercomputers running Fortran programs, genius?
It's fine for you to believe that, as long as you're not also one of the people who belives that WP should be taken seriously as a source of unbiased research.
Personally, I don't care if he edits the article on oxygen to claim it has an atomic weight of 600, and then locks the entry from further editing. It's his website, and I don't use it for research. Those who do take it seriously should have second thoughts if he shares your attitude, though.
Don't get me wrong, I love football. I'd rather see the end of a good football game then the start of Pollyanna. Or even Futurama. But almost every week, the late Fox game would end before Futurama was scheduled to begin on the East Coast, and they still insisted on doing a meaningless postgame show afterwards. CBS, on the other hand, has been showing games that ended after 7:00 for years, and have always begun 60 Minutes immediately after the end of the actual game, without even cutting any of the show.
I was actually shocked this week when Fox managed to show all of it's Sunday night programming despite the President's address. I really expected the local news to come on at 10:00, forcing me to wait for Cartoon Network to air the end of American Dad in 2 weeks. Some idiot at Fox must have gotten replaced with a trained monkey or something.
I'm still waiting for someone to publish the largest known odd number. I plan to memorize it to impress women.
So was Aristotle, for that matter.
Reading Kant (in English) is a lot better than reading Locke or Hobbes. At least the translation was probably done by someone who speaks modern English. As a philosophy major, I always found it much easier to read the French and German guys, because you don't have to deal with 17th Century writing style on top of the complex ideas.
Umm, there are.
Chimpanzees and bonobos are a lot more closely related to us than gorillas are. Hell, they're more closely related to us than they are to gorillas, too. If both gorillas and chimps are "apes", then there's no biological reason to say that humans aren't apes.
If you look different in certain ways from your father, wouldn't you expect that you must have an inetrmediate family member who's more closely related to both you and your father who looks halfway between the two of you? If not, why not?
Yes, a good website can generate ad revenue. The majority of businesses involved in the dot com bubble didn't generate ad revenue, or have any real business plan besides "you give us a lot of money, and we'll build a really cool website. The maybe we'll find a way to profit someday."
Maybe they should have just repeated "you don't need assets in the New Economy and everything's going to be great" over and over instead, to reward stupid business practices.
Even if you ignore the obvious bias of the people (identified as "Wikipedians") refuting the Nature study, you have to admit their methodology is flawed. If the original study properly controlled for the lngth of articles, you can't refute it by showing that articles they didn't study might vary in length.
They built up a huge capacity to make gas-guzzling SUVs, and then act surprised when demand goes down as gas prices go up. I don't know if we can say yet that they've gone broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people, but they have proved that it's not always a great idea to capitalize on a fad, especially when doing so requires a huge capital investment that's going to be practically worthless when the fad passes.
God you're dumb.
However, their new name is even more misleading; someone might think they can actually hold anyone else in the government accountable for anything. What they actually do is produce nonpartisan reports on virtually any topic, many of which show pretty conclusively that what one branch or other of the government wants to do is a really bad idea, after which they're ignored completely.
If they were given the power to throw government officials in prison for wasting the taxpayers' money by requesting these reports and then ignoring their conclusions, they might be a worthwhile agency.
Of course, I must be too stupid to be posting on Slashdot if I bother to argue with a trolling Anonymous Coward whose tinfoil hat is a bit too tight.
And so can every other random person off the street, too. Right?
Of course, if you or the parent poster realized that Apple had absolutely nothing to do with creating the term (and that the people who did were a bunch of geeks who almost certainly have no background in marketing, and completely certainly weren't marketing iPods), maybe you'd be less sickened.
6 billion people this year will be affected by flurgamistophon, and none of them know what it means.
Umm, that's an Associated Press story that just happens to be carried on Yahoo (which, for some reason, you saw the need the link to through yet another source). Yahoo did not, in fact, report on anything.
Ok, fair enough, I shouldn't have used the term "urban county" if they're defined as such. There's still a hell of a lot of farmland around, even if less than half the population lives on it.
Hell, I don't know about Cleveland, but driving to Columbus you enter the actual "corporate limits" of the city, then drive through 30 miles of cornfields before you see a building bigger than a barn.
If I write a business strategy report for someone and they pay me for it, do I have to share that?
How about if I write a song that I don't want in wide release, but I agree to sell it to one person. Do I then have to license it to everyone for free download? What about if I sell it to 10 people? 100? 100000? At what point is "forced licensing" actually forced?
And before you claim no one's being forced to license things under this plan, reread the thread. The objections you're replying to are to another posters' suggestion of forced licensing. If you're talking about something else, anything you've said is a non sequitur.