If I tell all my friends that I'm faking my injury, and the person or company I'm suing hears of it, they can put my friend on the stand and my friend has to tell the court what I said, or risk being charged for perjury.
What? No! Your friend has the right to not answer! Yeesh, hasn't anyone here ever heard of the Fifth Amendment?
I wish there was a way to put your money where your mouth is and have a "Buy At $X", so you could refuse the song at $1.29 but make a binding offer to buy it at $0.99 that month (there would need to be some kind of time limit to the offer). That would create realistic metrics of what people are willing to pay and give the seller the opportunity to accept the offers. You could calculate pricing elasticity a lot more accurately that way and maximize profit (you CAN make more money by selling for less, especially when you have infinite supply.. for some reason the music industry doesn't get this).
Wow, that's incredibly smart. If I ever build an e-commerce system, I'm putting that in as a mod.
Why would SOP stop Google from posting to Google from inside Google? It's not like the target page would be the one posting; Google would, before the onClick finished.
So we have jQuery, and we have AJAX. Why don’t they just attach an onClick to their links that sends a quick POST to Google before sending the user on their way, directly to the site in question? It won’t work for people without Javascript on, but that’s such a small percentage that I doubt it matters to them much. The important thing is that they could get their statistics, while still avoiding a redirect. The service providers could argue that they need the tracking even if Javascript is off, but that just seems extreme.
Can someone tell me if there are any issues I'm not seeing with this approach?
This was a resolution. They were only banning their own dial telephones.
Oh Slashdot, you incite such anger over nothing.
Censorship, they cry! Well, I guess I would too, if I was a senator and liked my dial phone. I mean, really, can't people use this newfangled thing called self-restraint and just don't use something you don't like?
Vandalism is a crime. Protest is not. If the latter turns into the former, then by all means, prosecute, but we can't just make the assumption that it will.
Go fuck yourself. I was commenting on the vastly more posts stating some sort of negative to granting a blanket license to NGOs. I don't say this often, but if this was Apple, everyone would be sunshine and kittens. Humor's great, and the GP was pretty funny (I've seen that meme in a few forms here), but if we just bitch at everything they do without appreciating the positive, we just look like children.
Jesus, guys, can't we give them a break just once? I mean, they're solving the problem for everyone here, except maybe corrupt members of the Russian government. Do we have to make everything Microsoft does evil?
I'm of about the same opinion as yourself. Everyone here seems to be talking a lot of shit about GoDaddy but they've been cheap and they've worked for me for at least five years now. Their web interface isn't great, but it does the job. I've never needed to call them.
Western Union actually bought an internet bank account transfer company called Custom House recently, which is really good if you want to transfer money between bank accounts in different countries. So they're at least dipping their toes in "this newfangled interweb thing".
Team Twiizers discovered a vulnerability in one of the low-level boot files of the Wii, which Nintendo couldn't fix since it was in ROM. They've since started shipping new units with an updated boot ROM that patches the hole, but all older Wiis are basically permanently vulnerable. Something similar will likely happen with iOS devices.
You'll have to recolor your skin and completely fuck up your face and bone structure as well, thanks to computer vision technology and gait recognition. Eric knows this, he's just trolling us. You can't escape it.
B) I'm sorry, who the fuck are you again, and how do you know me? What I said is the reality. I'm sure you have some brilliant advice that would just make this cease and desist go away with no monetary output at all, right? Well, let's hear it! Spare us your genius no longer!
An interesting discussion has been going on about this on Guru.com, a freelance networking site. At least with sites like Guru, you can do well (I've gotten multiple returning clients at a reasonable rate), but you do end up with idiots posting projects who believe they can get work for free.
Easy solution to the man's issue (stolen from John Q): He could walk into a hospital, get on a bed, and shoot himself in the head.
Nicely sidesteps all law issues, since the doctors would be obligated by their Hippocratic Oath to take his organs, since doing otherwise would be causing unnecessary suffering.
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If I tell all my friends that I'm faking my injury, and the person or company I'm suing hears of it, they can put my friend on the stand and my friend has to tell the court what I said, or risk being charged for perjury.
What? No! Your friend has the right to not answer! Yeesh, hasn't anyone here ever heard of the Fifth Amendment?
Uh, the fact that it's not a criminal investigation is pretty significant, since there's likely no other justification for this action on the books.
I wish there was a way to put your money where your mouth is and have a "Buy At $X", so you could refuse the song at $1.29 but make a binding offer to buy it at $0.99 that month (there would need to be some kind of time limit to the offer). That would create realistic metrics of what people are willing to pay and give the seller the opportunity to accept the offers. You could calculate pricing elasticity a lot more accurately that way and maximize profit (you CAN make more money by selling for less, especially when you have infinite supply.. for some reason the music industry doesn't get this).
Wow, that's incredibly smart. If I ever build an e-commerce system, I'm putting that in as a mod.
That is the entire point of having an open source project is that the developers don't have to be experts.
But for a site of this reach with such a high concept, the head developers had better damn well be experts.
Yes, Linus was a wizard back then. He wrote an OS kernel. That shows a certain amount of skill.
Why would SOP stop Google from posting to Google from inside Google? It's not like the target page would be the one posting; Google would, before the onClick finished.
Nice. Firefox would catch the redirect loop though, as would most modern browsers.
As I commented on TFA:
So we have jQuery, and we have AJAX. Why don’t they just attach an onClick to their links that sends a quick POST to Google before sending the user on their way, directly to the site in question? It won’t work for people without Javascript on, but that’s such a small percentage that I doubt it matters to them much. The important thing is that they could get their statistics, while still avoiding a redirect. The service providers could argue that they need the tracking even if Javascript is off, but that just seems extreme.
Can someone tell me if there are any issues I'm not seeing with this approach?
This was a resolution. They were only banning their own dial telephones.
Oh Slashdot, you incite such anger over nothing.
Censorship, they cry! Well, I guess I would too, if I was a senator and liked my dial phone. I mean, really, can't people use this newfangled thing called self-restraint and just don't use something you don't like?
Apple Tech: "You don't understand, sir, you can't replace the battery because the iPod is the battery!"
Why is filtering this stuff out not part of standard input sanitization practices by now?
It is, I'd just guess that whoever is behind Twitter is not as competent as you might think.
Vandalism is a crime. Protest is not. If the latter turns into the former, then by all means, prosecute, but we can't just make the assumption that it will.
Lesson over.
Go fuck yourself. I was commenting on the vastly more posts stating some sort of negative to granting a blanket license to NGOs. I don't say this often, but if this was Apple, everyone would be sunshine and kittens. Humor's great, and the GP was pretty funny (I've seen that meme in a few forms here), but if we just bitch at everything they do without appreciating the positive, we just look like children.
I trust only the ABACUS I WHITTLED from a tree I GREW MYSELF!
Jesus, guys, can't we give them a break just once? I mean, they're solving the problem for everyone here, except maybe corrupt members of the Russian government. Do we have to make everything Microsoft does evil?
I'm of about the same opinion as yourself. Everyone here seems to be talking a lot of shit about GoDaddy but they've been cheap and they've worked for me for at least five years now. Their web interface isn't great, but it does the job. I've never needed to call them.
Western Union actually bought an internet bank account transfer company called Custom House recently, which is really good if you want to transfer money between bank accounts in different countries. So they're at least dipping their toes in "this newfangled interweb thing".
Team Twiizers discovered a vulnerability in one of the low-level boot files of the Wii, which Nintendo couldn't fix since it was in ROM. They've since started shipping new units with an updated boot ROM that patches the hole, but all older Wiis are basically permanently vulnerable. Something similar will likely happen with iOS devices.
You'll have to recolor your skin and completely fuck up your face and bone structure as well, thanks to computer vision technology and gait recognition. Eric knows this, he's just trolling us. You can't escape it.
He wanted to drive a competitor out of the marketplace, which is easy, when you control the marketplace.
You can't silence it, but you don't have to listen.
A) I am not American.
B) I'm sorry, who the fuck are you again, and how do you know me? What I said is the reality. I'm sure you have some brilliant advice that would just make this cease and desist go away with no monetary output at all, right? Well, let's hear it! Spare us your genius no longer!
An interesting discussion has been going on about this on Guru.com, a freelance networking site. At least with sites like Guru, you can do well (I've gotten multiple returning clients at a reasonable rate), but you do end up with idiots posting projects who believe they can get work for free.
Inevitably they get the quality they pay for.
Have you ever read a cease and desist notice?
They all but say that if you don't do exactly what the lawyer wants in X amount of time (usually 48 hours to a week), they will initiate legal action.
Having a copyright suit even initiated against you will likely cost several thousand dollars before you're out.
You get a cease and desist and you aren't rich, you do what they say. Welcome to the real world.
By making extensions like that items, EVE has made it possible that people could literally pay for nothing.
Easy solution to the man's issue (stolen from John Q): He could walk into a hospital, get on a bed, and shoot himself in the head.
Nicely sidesteps all law issues, since the doctors would be obligated by their Hippocratic Oath to take his organs, since doing otherwise would be causing unnecessary suffering.