I should also note that while the Slashdot story says these routes were maliciously announced, there is no evidence of this. This type of thing has happened before by accident many times. That it was accidental makes more sense anyhow
Propagating the change to the rest of the world may have been accidental, but the purpose -- to block YouTube throughout Pakistan -- counts as malicious in my book.
To me this means that they are so short of cash that the alternative to getting the "donation" from Microsoft is no website at all.
They already have a website. They want a new, improved spiffy Web 2.0 site. Either Congress didn't budget enough for the project, or LoC looked at Microsoft's offer and realized that with the money they're saving, they can make the site even spiffier.
Look at it this way, if someone offers to buy a house for you, does accepting the offer mean that you don't have the money yourself?
Your comment suggests most people would rather have something else if they could afford other products or at least knew about them, but I doubt it. The iPod is still a very good product, very capable of selling on its own merits, not including popularity.
It's a freakin' music player. There are dozens of devices with the same capabilities -- in fact, many have more, including radio and a user-replaceable battery -- but the companies that make them don't spend as much on advertisements to convince everyone that the iPod is what the cool kids have.
However, don't presume that because the MacBook Air doesn't meet your specific needs that it doesn't perfectly fit the needs of people who are actually in that target market.
What, people who don't care that the computer sucks as long as there's a major marketing campaign that convinces them they'll be cool if they buy one? The Air is ideal for housewives who don't do anything but send email, write an occasional list, and surf the web -- but they can get a computer that does that for $1200 less.
What sort of geek can't produce absolute proof that they were in fact having dinner with Lindsay Lohan at the moment of the murder, with photos of the night posted on Perez Hilton, TMZ, and Defamer?
And since Apple's Ipod players are sealed-unit devices specifically designed to have a limited use life, hopefully the number of Ipod users will be a shrinking number
I wouldn't count on it. I'm pretty tired of the Cult of Mac myself -- the next person who tells me it doesn't matter that the Air has only one USB port and no user-replaceable battery, because -- look! -- it fits in an envelope, is going to have his heart ripped out and stuffed down his throat -- but the fact is the iPod is Good Enough for most people.
If the record companies did not want DRM-free music, then they would not have agreed to let Apple sell DRM-free music.
Only one record label's done that, last I checked. They've all let Amazon sell DRM-free music, but that's pretty clearly an attempt to undermine iTunes market dominance.
iTMS has many more songs than Amazon at this point.
Not only are you drinking Apple's Kool Aid, it's old Kool Aid. Amazon had deals with all the major labels now, and near as I can tell all the minors are on board too. I listen to lots of obscure bands, and while there are still a bunch that aren't available from Amazon or iTunes, it's been months since I've found anything that's exclusive to iTunes apart from the special live performances they offer.
Let's be realistic here -- the number of people who hate DRM is pretty small to begin with, and the number of them who continue to buy from iTunes (especially now that Amazon has just about everything DRM-free) is even smaller still.
Merely for curiosity's sake: can limited accounts in Vista do the Repair function?
Vista doesn't distinguish between limited and administrator accounts without some major tweaking. By default all accounts are limited, but if you do anything that requires elevated privileges, the screen greys and a dialogue box appears asking if you want to perform the action as administrator. This is the dreaded UAC.
That is a completely different discussion, and has more to do with people (and the legal system) being able/willing to use knowledge about you to harm you.
When people say "Information wants to be free" they often mean data that could harm businessmen. So what you mean is that information wants to be free -- as long as it's other people's information.
How about a Constitutional Amendment requiring all money raised for a campaign MUST be raised from registered voters in the District you intend to represent?
Okay, sure. But the candidate is presumably a resident of that district and can give money to himself. So what happens if Rupert Murdoch gives a candidate a million dollar book contract, or Comcast pays him $100,000 to speak at a shareholders meeting?
Then another that states that all monies budgeted must have a corresponding Constitutional Article that allows the agency of project funded to be paid for by the Federal Govt.?
That wouldn't accomplish anything unless you repeal the Interstate Commerce Clause first.
however, also consider the recent vote a few months back in venezuela. chavez, to his credit, asked the venezuelan people if they would let him alter the constitution to dramatically extend his powers.
I'm just going to Godwinize this discussion now -- Hitler was democratically elected. Getting popular support for something doesn't make it right.
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Things the USA has as well as Cuba:
warning to tourists to stay in designated tourist zones - check
desperate women offering their daughters as prostitutes - check
Because Cuban exiles make up a sizable portion of the voting population of Florida.
If we really wanted to hasten the demise of Communism in Cuba, we'd lift the embargo and encourage people to go on vacation there and spend vast amounts of money.
Second, it is fairly trivial to work around your correspondent not being a member of Yahoo! Personals so long as you are.
Neither one of you needs to be a paying member. Just use the information in her ad to track her down on Facebook and MySpace, then send her a message saying,
Hey baby, I saw your profile on Yahoo! and thought you were teh hawt, so I've spent every night this week sifting through the MySpace profiles of all the women in your age range in the area where you said you lived until I found you. Maybe we can go out to a movie sometime.
P.S. You should really put your own pic in your profile instead of one of your kitty. I had to search through your photo album to find a picture of you that matched the one on Yahoo.
P.P.S. I also found your Flikr album, and all I can say is, "Wow!" Though you really should put those shots of you in a teddy in a private album.
Now, I can't say this method has worked for me yet, but I feel confident it will eventually pay off.
Have a link that says, "Click here if you want women who'll put out on the first date." When they click that, they're taken to a directory of prostitutes in their area.
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And AIR is free (as in beer) so what's your problem?
Wow, the EFF and ACLU are supporting a website that's being censored. That's phenomenal! Completely unexpected. No one could've foreseen it.
Ooo, did you hear there's gambling at Ricks?
But it's Open, which means it can't be doing anything wrong.
Propagating the change to the rest of the world may have been accidental, but the purpose -- to block YouTube throughout Pakistan -- counts as malicious in my book.
They already have a website. They want a new, improved spiffy Web 2.0 site. Either Congress didn't budget enough for the project, or LoC looked at Microsoft's offer and realized that with the money they're saving, they can make the site even spiffier.
Look at it this way, if someone offers to buy a house for you, does accepting the offer mean that you don't have the money yourself?
There's a difference between being poor and having to meet a budget.
What sort of geek can't produce absolute proof that they were in fact having dinner with Lindsay Lohan at the moment of the murder, with photos of the night posted on Perez Hilton, TMZ, and Defamer?
Let's be realistic here -- the number of people who hate DRM is pretty small to begin with, and the number of them who continue to buy from iTunes (especially now that Amazon has just about everything DRM-free) is even smaller still.
But it's in a press release -- it must be true!
If my argument is flawed, tell me exactly what is the rule for determining what information wants to be free and what doesn't.
How come some information wants to be free, and some private?
Okay, sure. But the candidate is presumably a resident of that district and can give money to himself. So what happens if Rupert Murdoch gives a candidate a million dollar book contract, or Comcast pays him $100,000 to speak at a shareholders meeting?
That wouldn't accomplish anything unless you repeal the Interstate Commerce Clause first.
If we really wanted to hasten the demise of Communism in Cuba, we'd lift the embargo and encourage people to go on vacation there and spend vast amounts of money.
Have a link that says, "Click here if you want women who'll put out on the first date." When they click that, they're taken to a directory of prostitutes in their area.