I think the point is that ClearChannel is not the industry. They're one of the Big Fish, but there are other Big Fish out there, like Infinity Broadcasting. Jumping on just ClearChannel is like blaming just Disney for the MPAA's anti-piracy tactics.
I refuse to listen to ClearChannel radio at all, and point out that ClearChan has also been behind a lot of public radio stations being taken over and given to the christian networks.
Hey, it's not just ClearChannel, but all honky-owned radio networks. This Air America thing replaced a bunch of local ethnic stations so people could listen to Al Franken and Jeneanne Garofalo. No wonder they aren't doing so well -- if liberals want to compete with conservative talk radio, they need the Reverend Al.
If you've been on the internet more than 6 months and you don't have at least 3000 porn sites *bookmarked*, you should have your net privileges taken away.
I've been on the Internet for eleven years and I don't have a single pr0n site bookmarked. Why bother when people upload gigs of it to Usenet every day.
1. How long before someone writes an open-source google toolbar clone that will kill popups and allow you to search from the toolbar?
2. Does this exist already?
Would you be outraged if a brick-n-mortar bookstore slipped you an RFID chip when you went to their store and tracked your movements so their clerks could better recommend books the next time you came in. They could even tack a privacy policy on the wall somewhere that tells you you don't have to accept the chip.
All of you guys and your black web browsing helicopters make me laugh. If there is somewhere you dont want people to know you go... dont freakin go there. If you want people to think you are a fine upstanding moral member of the community then be one. Dont be some kind of closet perv and then go to church and preach about morals.
Hey, kiddies, the word of the day is "strawman". Say it with me now -- "strawman'.
Just because I don't want my pornographic tastes to be known to other people doesn't mean I'm an anti-porn crusader. I just consider my taste in fantasy to be, well, private.
One point the comments keep stepping over is the fact the Earth was measured from the surface. That is OUTSIDE of the planet.
Okay, let's imagine a race of intelligent moles that builds long, straight tunnels for highways. Sooner or later, they'll notice that the angles don't add up as they should, and deduce the real shape of the world from that without ever setting foot on the surface.
Gravity and walking around to only end up in the same spot as you started, well, you can not do that unless you are on the surface which relates back to the point of there being "nothing" beyond the Universe.
Um, do you think gravity is a surface phenomenon only? The Molemen in my example would be affected by gravity just like you and me -- in fact, gravity would be the best way to test the horizontal "straightness" of the tunnels.
Besides which, in cosmological topology we are on the surface (or at least in the surface)
From what I've read, the universe is in three dimensions what the earth is in two: It is finite in size but has no boundary.
Well, that's one theory. Scientists are still debating whether the universe is (more or less) flat and infinitely boundless or curved and finitely boundless. (I don't know, are there any scientists who think the universe might be bounded?) The funnel theory seems to combine the two so that the universe is closed in three directions but open in a fourth -- though strangely, the narrow end is the infinite one, while the wide mouth, which you'd think would keep expanding forever, warps in on itself in some way that the article doesn't explain.
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No, YOU missed the OBVIOUS:
they are SPAMMERS, they won't pay, EVER.
They can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or the caress of a woman. And they absolutely will not pay, ever, until you are dead.
$1/CPU hour? That's outrageous! Not only are spammers clogging servers, but they pay computers sweat-shop wages! Fight back. Demand they pay your computer minimum wage.
If you're a doctor with a 12 year old girl dying in the hospital, what in the world are you doing in the theater watching "Hellboy"?
Well, presumably the girl wasn't dying when the doctor left the hospital.
I've had movies interrupted probably 20-30 times in the last year or 2 and it has NEVER been a doctor.
So does that mean doctors never receive emergency phonecalls at the movies, or that they keep their phones on vibrate, talk quietly, and leave the theater if have an important call without you ever knowing?
LEAVE IT WITH THE HOUSE MANAGER AND/OR USHER, WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO GET YOU IF IT RINGS.
Yes, having an usher at the local Googolplex Theater try and find a doctor is so much less disruptive than allowing cellphones and hoping everyone puts them on vibrate.
Exactly the same way that on-call doctors worked prior to the advent of pagers and cellphones;
Let's revert back to primitive 20th Century behavior because a few people can't handle modern technology! Brilliant.
I forsee many nations, corporation, and individuals learning how to souce route their network traffic, and avoid US routers.
Don't you think other nations are doing the exact same thing to data passing through their countries? In fact, don't you think some countries like data from their citizens to pass through the US so we can look at it and report anything of note back to them?
If you believe the US is doing anything unique, you're way too naive for that tinfoil hat.
How dare a US spy agency actually spy on people? Dude, remove your head from your rectum. Every country that can afford to do this does it. It's what countries do.
At this point, using encrypted mail makes you stand out as somebody with something to hide.
And of course, most people think that there's no reason to use encryption if you have nothing to hide. Catch-22.
The problem is that too many encryption advocates come off as nutjobs. If they referred to PGP/GPG as a digital envelope to keep Evil Hackers from reading mail, instead of ranting about the NSA and Big Brother, a lot more people would be inclined to try it. (Making it easier for non-techy Windows users to install would be a help to.)
Well, unless they've discovered a hole that everyone else has missed, their only hope is to get quantum computers to speed up the factoring process. If they have them, I'll be pissed -- not because they'll've rendered all encryption useless, but because they're sitting on the most powerful computer imaginable.
Consider the number of known Al-Queda operatived who have the first name Mohammed. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the NSA, FBI, and CIA routinely monitored the communications of everyone in the western hemisphere who has an Arabic name.
They can't have that much spam to weed through.
Are you on dope? Half the 419 emails I get have Muslim (not Arabic, dammit!) names.
Besides which, limiting themselves to only Muslim names would be a major reduction in the NSA's powers. I mean, have you read The Puzzle Palace?
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I think the point is that ClearChannel is not the industry. They're one of the Big Fish, but there are other Big Fish out there, like Infinity Broadcasting. Jumping on just ClearChannel is like blaming just Disney for the MPAA's anti-piracy tactics.
I refuse to listen to ClearChannel radio at all, and point out that ClearChan has also been behind a lot of public radio stations being taken over and given to the christian networks.
Hey, it's not just ClearChannel, but all honky-owned radio networks. This Air America thing replaced a bunch of local ethnic stations so people could listen to Al Franken and Jeneanne Garofalo. No wonder they aren't doing so well -- if liberals want to compete with conservative talk radio, they need the Reverend Al.
Another brilliant JSP-driven site that borks out if you don't send the HTTP Referrer header.
Try returning the site's own URL as the referrer. It's just as private as not using any referrer at all.
If you've been on the internet more than 6 months and you don't have at least 3000 porn sites *bookmarked*, you should have your net privileges taken away.
I've been on the Internet for eleven years and I don't have a single pr0n site bookmarked. Why bother when people upload gigs of it to Usenet every day.
1. How long before someone writes an open-source google toolbar clone that will kill popups and allow you to search from the toolbar? 2. Does this exist already?
Yes, it's called Mozilla.
Or were you expecting programmers to waste time trying to salvage IE?
Would you be outraged if a brick-n-mortar bookstore slipped you an RFID chip when you went to their store and tracked your movements so their clerks could better recommend books the next time you came in. They could even tack a privacy policy on the wall somewhere that tells you you don't have to accept the chip.
All of you guys and your black web browsing helicopters make me laugh. If there is somewhere you dont want people to know you go... dont freakin go there. If you want people to think you are a fine upstanding moral member of the community then be one. Dont be some kind of closet perv and then go to church and preach about morals.
Hey, kiddies, the word of the day is "strawman". Say it with me now -- "strawman'.
Just because I don't want my pornographic tastes to be known to other people doesn't mean I'm an anti-porn crusader. I just consider my taste in fantasy to be, well, private.
There is no external view, since there is no outside the universe by definition.
You better let the government know so they stop wasting grant money on guys working on M-brane theory.
One point the comments keep stepping over is the fact the Earth was measured from the surface. That is OUTSIDE of the planet.
Okay, let's imagine a race of intelligent moles that builds long, straight tunnels for highways. Sooner or later, they'll notice that the angles don't add up as they should, and deduce the real shape of the world from that without ever setting foot on the surface.
Gravity and walking around to only end up in the same spot as you started, well, you can not do that unless you are on the surface which relates back to the point of there being "nothing" beyond the Universe.
Um, do you think gravity is a surface phenomenon only? The Molemen in my example would be affected by gravity just like you and me -- in fact, gravity would be the best way to test the horizontal "straightness" of the tunnels.
Besides which, in cosmological topology we are on the surface (or at least in the surface)
That would be Edwin Abbot's Flatland.
Actually, it's Edwin Abbott Abbott. It's very important to include both "Abbott"s so as to make him sound as silly as possible.
From what I've read, the universe is in three dimensions what the earth is in two: It is finite in size but has no boundary.
Well, that's one theory. Scientists are still debating whether the universe is (more or less) flat and infinitely boundless or curved and finitely boundless. (I don't know, are there any scientists who think the universe might be bounded?) The funnel theory seems to combine the two so that the universe is closed in three directions but open in a fourth -- though strangely, the narrow end is the infinite one, while the wide mouth, which you'd think would keep expanding forever, warps in on itself in some way that the article doesn't explain.
No, YOU missed the OBVIOUS: they are SPAMMERS, they won't pay, EVER.
They can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or the caress of a woman. And they absolutely will not pay, ever, until you are dead.
$1/CPU hour? That's outrageous! Not only are spammers clogging servers, but they pay computers sweat-shop wages! Fight back. Demand they pay your computer minimum wage.
If you're a doctor with a 12 year old girl dying in the hospital, what in the world are you doing in the theater watching "Hellboy"?
Well, presumably the girl wasn't dying when the doctor left the hospital.
I've had movies interrupted probably 20-30 times in the last year or 2 and it has NEVER been a doctor.
So does that mean doctors never receive emergency phonecalls at the movies, or that they keep their phones on vibrate, talk quietly, and leave the theater if have an important call without you ever knowing?
LEAVE IT WITH THE HOUSE MANAGER AND/OR USHER, WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO GET YOU IF IT RINGS.
Yes, having an usher at the local Googolplex Theater try and find a doctor is so much less disruptive than allowing cellphones and hoping everyone puts them on vibrate.
Exactly the same way that on-call doctors worked prior to the advent of pagers and cellphones;
Let's revert back to primitive 20th Century behavior because a few people can't handle modern technology! Brilliant.
Yes, I'm shocked, shocked to learn that the National Security Agency spies on other countries!
It's convenient that the first instance of e-mail "bugging" resulting in action is against a terrorist.
The first that you happened to see a news report about.
I believe it was the PATRIOT ACT.
You know, the PATRIOT Act isn't the source of all evil in this world. The NSA has been doing this for something like fifty years.
I forsee many nations, corporation, and individuals learning how to souce route their network traffic, and avoid US routers.
Don't you think other nations are doing the exact same thing to data passing through their countries? In fact, don't you think some countries like data from their citizens to pass through the US so we can look at it and report anything of note back to them?
If you believe the US is doing anything unique, you're way too naive for that tinfoil hat.
How dare a US spy agency actually spy on people? Dude, remove your head from your rectum. Every country that can afford to do this does it. It's what countries do.
At this point, using encrypted mail makes you stand out as somebody with something to hide.
And of course, most people think that there's no reason to use encryption if you have nothing to hide. Catch-22.
The problem is that too many encryption advocates come off as nutjobs. If they referred to PGP/GPG as a digital envelope to keep Evil Hackers from reading mail, instead of ranting about the NSA and Big Brother, a lot more people would be inclined to try it. (Making it easier for non-techy Windows users to install would be a help to.)
Well, unless they've discovered a hole that everyone else has missed, their only hope is to get quantum computers to speed up the factoring process. If they have them, I'll be pissed -- not because they'll've rendered all encryption useless, but because they're sitting on the most powerful computer imaginable.
But if they did, would they also have a backdoor in GPG?
Consider the number of known Al-Queda operatived who have the first name Mohammed. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if the NSA, FBI, and CIA routinely monitored the communications of everyone in the western hemisphere who has an Arabic name. They can't have that much spam to weed through.
Are you on dope? Half the 419 emails I get have Muslim (not Arabic, dammit!) names.
Besides which, limiting themselves to only Muslim names would be a major reduction in the NSA's powers. I mean, have you read The Puzzle Palace?
This is why I copy all my user files before upgrading. Then I delete the profile folder so I install the latest versions of all extensions.