The legal stuff you do doesn't. I happen to subscribe to a lot of Podcasts, including some video ones. So far this month, I've downloaded:
25.8 mb - Buzz Out Loud
30.4 mb - Buzz Out Loud
25.0 mb - Loaded
19.0 mb - Penn Says
25.4 mb - Penn Says
31.2 mb - Penn Says
130.2 mb - Diggnation
12.8 mb - Geek Brief
74.6 mb - Leo Laporte
55.1 mb - Leo Laporte
55.2 mb - Leo Laporte
201.3 mb - Systm
490.5 mb -Tekzilla
10.3 mb - Tekzilla
11.6 mb - Tekzilla
38.7 mb - WebbAlert
46.4 mb - WebbAlert
That's 1.2835 gigs in just five days, all perfectly legal.
And then there's music purchases. Now you say that iTunes doesn't count against your allowance, but it happens that I don't like DRM and crappy bitrates, so I use Amazon instead. A typical song from them is about 8 megs, so a 12 song album is close to a hundred megs. But then I use Microsoft's FolderShare to sync the music folders on my laptop and desktop, which means if I buy an album on my laptop, the computer immediately turns around and zaps it to the FolderShare server, which in turn sends it to my desktop machine. If I'm at home when I do this, I've effectively tripled how much bandwidth I'm using -- a single album is about 300 megs in data transfer. Again, this is perfectly legal.
Just because you don't fully utilize your Internet connection doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't.
If this is Geopolitics 101, you flunk. China and India are rivals not friends, and they aren't going to get in bed with any country that would side with Pakistan if it got taken over by an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship.
Being a church is not a free pass to just do whatever you want. It might be a free pass to not pay taxes, but it doesn't mean you get to take someone else's show or movie and charge admission to watch it,
Who said anything about charging admission?
I fail to see how a large group sitting together to watch the Super Bowl is taking money away from the NFL -- they're no less likely to sit through the commercials in a group of 200 than by themselves in their home. The only problem would be if one of them's from a Nielsen house, which is statistically unlikely.
Want to know why Google is beating MS, I mean besides the fact their search engine rocks?
Because Sergei Brin looked at the way MS got pilloried in the mid-90s and decided that Google should have a propaganda arm devoted to convincing people that the company isn't evil. Thankfully for Brin, people are gullible and will believe simple assertions of Google's goodness even after Google reaches the point where they have more information aggregated about every person on Earth than the NSA could ever dream about.
Will the regulators let this happen? If MS buys Yahoo, the top 5 search engines will becomes the top 4.
Considering that one of them is so far ahead of the others that people use its name as a verb for "Internet search," I don't see why the FEC would object to two competitors merging to become a stronger alternative.
They decided to tell me that they could as a ONE TIME courtesy re-open the port, but 'it will probably be blocked again because the problem that caused it to be blocked probably wasn't fixed' (even after I told them that I had found the problem and fixed it, in addition to monitored all transmissions over port 25 for an hour)...
Which is exactly what a spammer would say. I would say that Comcast is justified in their actions -- spammers deserve no quarter, and if a few innocents must fall in the war against them, I can live with it.
Domain tasting is for companies, so the marketing department can pick out a dozen potential domains and present them to the high muckety-mucks without worrying that someone else might come along and buy one.
What a laugh! Are you somehow required to hire overpriced union workers at whatever amount of money they decide to extort from you in order to show how much you really care?
Of course not. But it is rather hypocritical for them to advocate for progressive and liberal causes but not support unions when it can save them a buck.
A few days ago I posted a joking comment along the lines of, "What, Slashdot has ads? One of these days I need to browse without Adblock," and some jerk flamed me for being a freeloader. Well this is exactly why I go overkill with anti-adware programs.
Because $0.005 per page is too much to pay I guess. Seriously, just fucking subscribe if you don't want to see the ads. It's cheap, the layout works better and you're not freeloading.
I have nothing against sites having ads. What I object to is:
Flash
Javascript
Third party cookies
Animation
Sounds
Doubleclick
After taking a closer look at Slashdot, it appears that that final point is the reason I'm not seeing ads. I do not trust Doubleclick. I do not trust them to send even one bit to my computer. I block them with Privoxy. I block them with AdBlock. I block them with Firefox cookies manager. I block them with my Hosts file. Any site that does business with them will not get money from me.
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The legal stuff you do doesn't. I happen to subscribe to a lot of Podcasts, including some video ones. So far this month, I've downloaded:
25.8 mb - Buzz Out Loud
30.4 mb - Buzz Out Loud
25.0 mb - Loaded
19.0 mb - Penn Says
25.4 mb - Penn Says
31.2 mb - Penn Says
130.2 mb - Diggnation
12.8 mb - Geek Brief
74.6 mb - Leo Laporte
55.1 mb - Leo Laporte
55.2 mb - Leo Laporte
201.3 mb - Systm
490.5 mb -Tekzilla
10.3 mb - Tekzilla
11.6 mb - Tekzilla
38.7 mb - WebbAlert
46.4 mb - WebbAlert
That's 1.2835 gigs in just five days, all perfectly legal.
And then there's music purchases. Now you say that iTunes doesn't count against your allowance, but it happens that I don't like DRM and crappy bitrates, so I use Amazon instead. A typical song from them is about 8 megs, so a 12 song album is close to a hundred megs. But then I use Microsoft's FolderShare to sync the music folders on my laptop and desktop, which means if I buy an album on my laptop, the computer immediately turns around and zaps it to the FolderShare server, which in turn sends it to my desktop machine. If I'm at home when I do this, I've effectively tripled how much bandwidth I'm using -- a single album is about 300 megs in data transfer. Again, this is perfectly legal.
Just because you don't fully utilize your Internet connection doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't.
Or to phrase it another way, if you use a different mail provider than your ISP, it counts towards your limit.
In other words, they have a deal to lock you into iTunes by charging more if you use a competitor.
Sounds like a right awful deal.
If this is Geopolitics 101, you flunk. China and India are rivals not friends, and they aren't going to get in bed with any country that would side with Pakistan if it got taken over by an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship.
Oil is a fungible resource. If Iran won't sell to them, someone else will.
Any company that wants to buy Doubleclick for any purpose other than dismantling it is, ipso facto, pure evil from the 8th Dimension.
Considering that one of them is so far ahead of the others that people use its name as a verb for "Internet search," I don't see why the FEC would object to two competitors merging to become a stronger alternative.
Communications disruption can mean only one thing -- invasion.
A communications disruption can mean only one thing -- invasion.
Not can't. Don't want to. No company wants to spend one dollar more than necessary, which is why domain tasting was created.
Domain tasting is for companies, so the marketing department can pick out a dozen potential domains and present them to the high muckety-mucks without worrying that someone else might come along and buy one.
And then there was the Mythbusters episode where they compared driving drunk to talking on a cellphone and found no considerable difference.
A few days ago I posted a joking comment along the lines of, "What, Slashdot has ads? One of these days I need to browse without Adblock," and some jerk flamed me for being a freeloader. Well this is exactly why I go overkill with anti-adware programs.
Return to the Google Side of the Web, Snopes.
You're just jealous that they didn't have computerized robots that you could program in BASIC when you were a kid.
- Flash
- Javascript
- Third party cookies
- Animation
- Sounds
- Doubleclick
After taking a closer look at Slashdot, it appears that that final point is the reason I'm not seeing ads. I do not trust Doubleclick. I do not trust them to send even one bit to my computer. I block them with Privoxy. I block them with AdBlock. I block them with Firefox cookies manager. I block them with my Hosts file. Any site that does business with them will not get money from me.