You're right; not on that scale. I was not talking about that scale. I was talking about what the parent was talking about-- being a parent, oddly enough, and wanting to know where your child is all the time. I was pointing out how easily the the legal invasion of a minor's privacy could accidentally and possibly feloniously turn into the invasion of the privacy of a full citizen (assuming that minors are 2nd- or 3rd-class citizens is not much of a stretch).
On the other hand, what about that time that Billy went to the doctor, for the government-mandated shots... all the other kids went to the doctor, too. Maybe Billy's shot had something special in it; maybe it didn't. He has the right to find out when he's 18.
tinfoil hat time!:
On the third hand of the matter, what about that time that you went to the doctor. Maybe at some point, all the shots will have something in it. You might have no way of knowing. Something to think about in a few decades' time.
This kind of idea needs to be severely restricted, for the childrens' rights. At the minimum, the children have a right to know by the time they are 18; these tags should only be available in such a way that the person is AUTOMATICALLY notified when they are 18, or that there be a database available so that they can freely verify that they aren't tag'd after they become legal adults, to avoid infringing on the rights of "citizens" in the legal sense. If you cannot agree with that, there's really no point discussing it; and if you can, that opens up bigger, harder to answer questions. Who will run the database? Who will insure all are informed? What about the parents that want to know, but don't want their children to know? Surely there will be some disreputable types willing to cater to these parents. What protections will there be against people other than those parents checking for these tags? Also, will these be freely available, or expensive? They may not end up helping protect against kidnappers, except I suppose ransom; but child molestors will simply target the poor, who they will know don't have these tags.
In my opinion, this is a pandora's box. There may be some benefits, but there will be too much ugliness to justify them.
On the other hand it makes searching for progeny really easy-- Google search for componentized yields progeny as the first result, since everyone's linking to them with the word they made up!
I did; at least, the links to the tips information were still active before I closed firefox down. Perhaps refreshing the page would have worked? Regardless, you should close all the active firefox windows just for thoroughness.
What you're forgetting is: it's not advertisers who put ads on the websites you view, it's content providers. They have to sell the advertisers on the idea that some number of people are viewing their ads; without controls such as these, the prices the content providers are paid will decline, and their profit/ability to pay the bandwidth bills will decline similarly. Your best option is to STOP VISITING SITES that have obtrusive/annoying ads-- I fear the internet, or what's left of it after you pass it through this filter, will be dreadfully boring.
Of course, once SP2 becomes mainstream and some critical x% of the market has these popup-blocking capabilities on by default, the advertisers will stop paying for popup space anyway, and banners will start occupying more of the body of the content, or "follow-through" pages subjecting you to full-screen ads. Unless you use any of the many decent adblockers (Agnitum Outpost firewall comes with a well-configured one, plus AdBlock is available for the mozilla browsers.), in which case you can sometimes bypass all the annoying ads without realizing they even existed. You'll be safe as long as microsoft doesn't implement one in their own browser, which they're unlikely to do, since it'll still be a fraction of a fraction of people who use these tools (this is true for anything that requires active knowledge and action on the part of the user).
Actually, valve didn't make Condition Zero. Well, they did, and they didn't, and then they did again-- this does a better job of explaining than I. The Condition Zero that's out now was co-produced by Valve and Turtle Rock Studios. Some of the missions were created by Ritual, with whom Valve had also worked. Before that, Gearbox and Rogue each had a go at making it.
At this point, it's probably a little difficult to determine how much work Valve specifically has been doing for the project, as opposed to how much they've paid other studios to do, or are just taking from the mod itself.
Plus, Valve isn't in the business of releasing new stuff, they're in the business of making money, so your last comment is a little bit awkward.
Brand preference is the basis of advertising-- likely you engage in it whether you know it (or like it) or not-- coke or pepsi? Are you a Tide person, or is Cheer more your style? You likely have rational bases for your biases (cheaper, tastes better, it's what you grew up drinking) but you still have the bias. Brand preference is actually a good thing, since it rewards companies that make good products by increasing their sales in other products, as long as quality is maintained. Brand loyalty is highly sought-after and with good reason.
Brand zealotry is a better word; your decision is made independent of rational reasons, although you probably seek them out (if you can recite the Hz and pipeline specifications for a video card you've never owned, you should probably be a little leery of your own advice when it comes to choosing cards to buy).
Both are prejudicial behaviors, but one of them has a greater potential for screwing you over, since if everyone became a brand zealot, there'd be no real reason to produce quality products.
Does she do the same thing with the television? (Let me guess, that is the babysitter.)
This is the problem-- parents now want to turn the PC into what the television is: something that you put the kids in front of and forget about, while they go out, or work, or whatever is more important to them than being with their kids. That's why they want these safety measures. The TV airwaves are tightly controlled and censored for language and nudity (unless you get the special channels).
The problem is, the internet doesn't have much similar with TV, despite advertisers' many attempts to the contrary. Content from millions of sources, and yes, some of them are going to be "bad" from your perspective. Parents should consider an internet-equipped computer likened to a full cable subscription, with all the 'extra' channels and no password: the only adequate solution is supervision. With TV we get around this (to some extent) by limiting the rights of content producers (can't say fuck, have to blurr the boobs, plus time restrictions), and this simply cannot effectively be done to the internet.
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And since I've always wondered, what is the impact on gas mileage of having those little flags and "decorative" patriotic tassels hanging off all your antennae andbike racks? Surely the cumulative load of all of them is further lining the oil barons' pocketses. Circles within circles, my friend.
I think that "further abuse" could easily be in the form of trolling, on blog entries and slashdot and forums. Imagine a seemingly-related link to, say, an auction listing on a site that has been revealed as infected, gets modded +5 awesome, and infects those amongst the slashdotters (or wherever) using IE with this malicious code...
I still think the names should be available, but there is another layer of complexity to the internet that your analogy doesn't take into account, e.g. random passersby yelling "FREE CANDY INSIDE THE BUILDINGthat'sonfiredowntown" to everyone whose attention they can get.
HLGuard is also responsible for weird bugs where people are made invisible. Try doing the tap-crouch-bug on like aztec watching the bridge-- if HLGuard is on, you don't see people on the far side, except sometimes they're still drawn when you fall.
It's a good try but for this and other reasons can't be used for competitive play.
Prevent the screen from being rendered correctly, or better yet, from being drawn at all. Either constant fade-to-black, or replace the battlefield with soothing images, or better yet, pornography.
In fact, forget the FPS and the mouse:)
I may be misunderstanding something, but I assumed the article was referring to a DNA-altering plant virus that caused "wheat" to gain the proprietary aspects of "I can't believe it's not Wheat 3.0" making it illegal for anyone to have so much as a pizza. In retrospect, neither interpretation is very sensible, and this story sucks.
who would dread receiving calls when I'm at "the good part" of my favorites songs... One more example where putting two functions in one device is unnecessary and even detracts from the usefulness of either application.
He's not making a distinction, he's equating them, or at least saying that google is going to be better than both of them (an inequality) so you could be sure that it's going to be better than find or grep.
Actually, unless our definitions of "doomsday" vary significantly, viruses are probably incapable of inflicting it upon us. They depend so heavily on our being alive in order to flourish that any virus successful enough to kill us all would be in its successes limited. Consider, if an entire town dies of a plague, then the plague will not be transmitted to surrounding towns efficiently. If it kills only half the town, why, then all the towns around it wil be half-dead too-- but that leaves half the world, which is probably twice as many as we need. I feel the need to mention that I like half of us half as well as I should, and know all of us twice as well as I'd like to.
Errr good luck getting this Opera plug-in to work through IE:( But maybe this'll inspire microsoft to make their own, to edge out the "disabled" market for web browsers:(
No, if the medium is the message, then more people go to the Harry Potter movies than have ever read the books, or see LotR in theatres rather than read it. I have no idea if either of these situations are factual-- but the point is that you are watching TV, you are not consuming any of the other, previously popular means of content distribution.
My point was that I'm unaware of any way to see who is downloading a thing from anyone else. With kazaa the file goes to the shared folder, with bittorrent you are broadcasting your ip to everyone on the tracker, and I'm sure most of the other networks have similar means.
I got two calls yesterday from my on-campus network administrator's office asking to speak to my room mate. This is odd because I believe he downloaded it through a DC++ connection, as he seems to avoid bittorrent for some reason. All they asked was that he removed the source from his computer, I don't think there were any other consequences. Anyone else have a similar experience?
Because Microsoft doesn't accept code updates from people who know better than they, so any bugs that are revealed are not going to be fixed through the increased visibility of the code. Having open code is only good if you have the will, the ability, and the infrastructure to make use of its openness. Microsoft is famous (infamous?) for lacking all three.
The short of it is: no "free" security updates a la linux, just more visible bugs to exploit.
This is probably one of the better ways to protest this sort of action. Still, try to find as good a price as you can, but if the price fixing is working help out the poor bastards...
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You're right; not on that scale. I was not talking about that scale. I was talking about what the parent was talking about-- being a parent, oddly enough, and wanting to know where your child is all the time. I was pointing out how easily the the legal invasion of a minor's privacy could accidentally and possibly feloniously turn into the invasion of the privacy of a full citizen (assuming that minors are 2nd- or 3rd-class citizens is not much of a stretch). On the other hand, what about that time that Billy went to the doctor, for the government-mandated shots... all the other kids went to the doctor, too. Maybe Billy's shot had something special in it; maybe it didn't. He has the right to find out when he's 18. tinfoil hat time!: On the third hand of the matter, what about that time that you went to the doctor. Maybe at some point, all the shots will have something in it. You might have no way of knowing. Something to think about in a few decades' time.
This kind of idea needs to be severely restricted, for the childrens' rights. At the minimum, the children have a right to know by the time they are 18; these tags should only be available in such a way that the person is AUTOMATICALLY notified when they are 18, or that there be a database available so that they can freely verify that they aren't tag'd after they become legal adults, to avoid infringing on the rights of "citizens" in the legal sense. If you cannot agree with that, there's really no point discussing it; and if you can, that opens up bigger, harder to answer questions. Who will run the database? Who will insure all are informed? What about the parents that want to know, but don't want their children to know? Surely there will be some disreputable types willing to cater to these parents. What protections will there be against people other than those parents checking for these tags? Also, will these be freely available, or expensive? They may not end up helping protect against kidnappers, except I suppose ransom; but child molestors will simply target the poor, who they will know don't have these tags. In my opinion, this is a pandora's box. There may be some benefits, but there will be too much ugliness to justify them.
On the other hand it makes searching for progeny really easy-- Google search for componentized yields progeny as the first result, since everyone's linking to them with the word they made up!
I did; at least, the links to the tips information were still active before I closed firefox down. Perhaps refreshing the page would have worked? Regardless, you should close all the active firefox windows just for thoroughness.
What you're forgetting is: it's not advertisers who put ads on the websites you view, it's content providers. They have to sell the advertisers on the idea that some number of people are viewing their ads; without controls such as these, the prices the content providers are paid will decline, and their profit/ability to pay the bandwidth bills will decline similarly. Your best option is to STOP VISITING SITES that have obtrusive/annoying ads-- I fear the internet, or what's left of it after you pass it through this filter, will be dreadfully boring. Of course, once SP2 becomes mainstream and some critical x% of the market has these popup-blocking capabilities on by default, the advertisers will stop paying for popup space anyway, and banners will start occupying more of the body of the content, or "follow-through" pages subjecting you to full-screen ads. Unless you use any of the many decent adblockers (Agnitum Outpost firewall comes with a well-configured one, plus AdBlock is available for the mozilla browsers.), in which case you can sometimes bypass all the annoying ads without realizing they even existed. You'll be safe as long as microsoft doesn't implement one in their own browser, which they're unlikely to do, since it'll still be a fraction of a fraction of people who use these tools (this is true for anything that requires active knowledge and action on the part of the user).
Actually, valve didn't make Condition Zero. Well, they did, and they didn't, and then they did again-- this does a better job of explaining than I. The Condition Zero that's out now was co-produced by Valve and Turtle Rock Studios. Some of the missions were created by Ritual, with whom Valve had also worked. Before that, Gearbox and Rogue each had a go at making it. At this point, it's probably a little difficult to determine how much work Valve specifically has been doing for the project, as opposed to how much they've paid other studios to do, or are just taking from the mod itself. Plus, Valve isn't in the business of releasing new stuff, they're in the business of making money, so your last comment is a little bit awkward.
Brand preference is the basis of advertising-- likely you engage in it whether you know it (or like it) or not-- coke or pepsi? Are you a Tide person, or is Cheer more your style? You likely have rational bases for your biases (cheaper, tastes better, it's what you grew up drinking) but you still have the bias. Brand preference is actually a good thing, since it rewards companies that make good products by increasing their sales in other products, as long as quality is maintained. Brand loyalty is highly sought-after and with good reason.
Brand zealotry is a better word; your decision is made independent of rational reasons, although you probably seek them out (if you can recite the Hz and pipeline specifications for a video card you've never owned, you should probably be a little leery of your own advice when it comes to choosing cards to buy).
Both are prejudicial behaviors, but one of them has a greater potential for screwing you over, since if everyone became a brand zealot, there'd be no real reason to produce quality products.
Great-- this is going to attract the anti-linux trolls AND the anti-microsoft trolls, each arguing over whom you're talking about.
The problem is, the internet doesn't have much similar with TV, despite advertisers' many attempts to the contrary. Content from millions of sources, and yes, some of them are going to be "bad" from your perspective. Parents should consider an internet-equipped computer likened to a full cable subscription, with all the 'extra' channels and no password: the only adequate solution is supervision. With TV we get around this (to some extent) by limiting the rights of content producers (can't say fuck, have to blurr the boobs, plus time restrictions), and this simply cannot effectively be done to the internet.
And since I've always wondered, what is the impact on gas mileage of having those little flags and "decorative" patriotic tassels hanging off all your antennae andbike racks? Surely the cumulative load of all of them is further lining the oil barons' pocketses. Circles within circles, my friend.
Why is living up to your expectations amazing you?
I think that "further abuse" could easily be in the form of trolling, on blog entries and slashdot and forums. Imagine a seemingly-related link to, say, an auction listing on a site that has been revealed as infected, gets modded +5 awesome, and infects those amongst the slashdotters (or wherever) using IE with this malicious code... I still think the names should be available, but there is another layer of complexity to the internet that your analogy doesn't take into account, e.g. random passersby yelling "FREE CANDY INSIDE THE BUILDINGthat'sonfiredowntown" to everyone whose attention they can get.
HLGuard is also responsible for weird bugs where people are made invisible. Try doing the tap-crouch-bug on like aztec watching the bridge-- if HLGuard is on, you don't see people on the far side, except sometimes they're still drawn when you fall. It's a good try but for this and other reasons can't be used for competitive play.
Prevent the screen from being rendered correctly, or better yet, from being drawn at all. Either constant fade-to-black, or replace the battlefield with soothing images, or better yet, pornography. In fact, forget the FPS and the mouse :)
I may be misunderstanding something, but I assumed the article was referring to a DNA-altering plant virus that caused "wheat" to gain the proprietary aspects of "I can't believe it's not Wheat 3.0" making it illegal for anyone to have so much as a pizza.
In retrospect, neither interpretation is very sensible, and this story sucks.
who would dread receiving calls when I'm at "the good part" of my favorites songs... One more example where putting two functions in one device is unnecessary and even detracts from the usefulness of either application.
Foobar 2000 for all your audio needs.
BSPlayer for all your video needs.
Koepi's codec pack for all your codec needs.
He's not making a distinction, he's equating them, or at least saying that google is going to be better than both of them (an inequality) so you could be sure that it's going to be better than find or grep.
Actually, unless our definitions of "doomsday" vary significantly, viruses are probably incapable of inflicting it upon us. They depend so heavily on our being alive in order to flourish that any virus successful enough to kill us all would be in its successes limited. Consider, if an entire town dies of a plague, then the plague will not be transmitted to surrounding towns efficiently. If it kills only half the town, why, then all the towns around it wil be half-dead too-- but that leaves half the world, which is probably twice as many as we need.
I feel the need to mention that I like half of us half as well as I should, and know all of us twice as well as I'd like to.
Errr good luck getting this Opera plug-in to work through IE :( But maybe this'll inspire microsoft to make their own, to edge out the "disabled" market for web browsers :(
No, if the medium is the message, then more people go to the Harry Potter movies than have ever read the books, or see LotR in theatres rather than read it. I have no idea if either of these situations are factual-- but the point is that you are watching TV, you are not consuming any of the other, previously popular means of content distribution.
My point was that I'm unaware of any way to see who is downloading a thing from anyone else. With kazaa the file goes to the shared folder, with bittorrent you are broadcasting your ip to everyone on the tracker, and I'm sure most of the other networks have similar means.
I got two calls yesterday from my on-campus network administrator's office asking to speak to my room mate. This is odd because I believe he downloaded it through a DC++ connection, as he seems to avoid bittorrent for some reason. All they asked was that he removed the source from his computer, I don't think there were any other consequences. Anyone else have a similar experience?
Because Microsoft doesn't accept code updates from people who know better than they, so any bugs that are revealed are not going to be fixed through the increased visibility of the code. Having open code is only good if you have the will, the ability, and the infrastructure to make use of its openness. Microsoft is famous (infamous?) for lacking all three.
The short of it is: no "free" security updates a la linux, just more visible bugs to exploit.
This is probably one of the better ways to protest this sort of action. Still, try to find as good a price as you can, but if the price fixing is working help out the poor bastards...