And I imagine the US banking system allows eletronic transfer between banks from and to private citizens's acounts, no?
You'd think so, but whenever I've tried to transfer money to US accounts, they are unable to provide me with an IBAN which many countries outside of the US use and require for international transfers.
That's because I'm sick of buying SHIT on dvd or cd, and then the producer of this schlock refusing to take it back. Every other industry allows returns for cash or store credit. Hell even candybar maker says "If for any reason you are dissatisfied, return the unused portion for full refund." Why should music and movie makers be the sole exception to this practice.
You're over complicating this, don't watch pirated or otherwise.
YOU can't install Linux on it. THIS is the point that the GPL3 is made for, the REASON why the FSF made the change and the POINT of telling Torvalds and the other narcissistic arseholes who value being important and recognised over the freedoms of the people who use the products that they are, in point of fact, COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY WRONG on their insistence that the Tivo clause isn't necessary and that what Tivo et al want to do is perfectly fine and cannot affect GPL freedoms.
Maybe you should spend your time creating your own GPLv3 OS instead of telling other people what to do with their works. It would be far more helpful.
Well I know a number of people who have 3 or more analogue only TVs in their houses including portables and let me tell you , they're NOT happy about having to buy a digital set top box for them all if they don't want a useless brick sitting in the corner.
They could just throw it out instead. I live in Britain and I don't own a TV - It's not hard.
once your phone company has your fb userid and password, why bother asking you for the data, they can just go get it themselves.
im sure they have security measures around this, but i am also quite sure that they are able to be bypassed for reasons of 'national security' or 'terrorism suspicion'
do you think this sort of thing doesn't happen? you haven't been paying attention is all.
Explain to me how this doesn't apply to ISPs, then go further and explain why the companies that are ISPs and telephone companies don't do this already.
I reboot only every 24 months or so, and it is scheduled far in advance. When you've got 24 hour uptime requirements, rebooting is not normally done unless you really have run out of other options.
I use redundant and failover systems, so rebooting is generally an option for me. Just not rebooting all systems at once.
The world has moved on, popular culture encourages that people hack everything from their toaster to the PS3.
Can you open me a portal to the universe you're in? I'm stuck in this shitty one where the most popular devices are totally locked-down and hacking is something only done by a tiny and shrinking community of uber-geeks.
except that 99% of the users never ever get near 500MB of data.
I disagree here. I've noticed many teenagers and young adults in the UK are watching loads of streaming videos on their phones and I'm fairly certain these people exceed 500MB of data month just from the amount they watch.
Traffic lights: I know not a single traffic light system in any city I have had the honor of working for that relies on the internet to connect their traffic light systems. Either, if they really need to adjust them in real time, they have their own cables (since they dictate who digs where and when, they can very easily and cheaply drop a cable here or there), or, like most, they have more or less clever sneakernet solutions that coordinate through synchronized times. I was quite amazed myself, but it works pretty well.
I know many traffic lights in the UK rely on mobile phone networks to relay messages using SMSes. However, much like you, I don't know of any that specifically use the Internet.
Companies like Microsoft pay for H.264 licensing because it is safer for them to do so. If a lawsuit arises then the MGEP LA steps in and takes care of it
Then why didn't they step in with the latest H.264 patent troll?
Not really, flash is the standard. Barely nothing uses the video tag out there and the places that do offer currently flash support over it. The biggest provider of video tag content (youtube), while not enabled by default provides the majority of that content in webm only for the video tag.
Thus, I wouldn't even say h.264 is the 'standard' for video tags either.
This particular placeholder seems highly vendor-dependent to me.
Maybe you've never heard of something called 'virtual hosting' which pretty much all 'vendors' support these days?
$ telnet tempuri.org 80 Trying 207.46.197.32... Connected to tempuri.org. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 HOST: tempuri.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Length: 4578 Content-Type: text/html Content-Location: http://tempuri.org/Default.htm Last-Modified: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 05:29:52 GMT Accept-Ranges: bytes ETag: "62d168a0e539c21:0" Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0 P3P: CP='ALL IND DSP COR ADM CONo CUR CUSo IVAo IVDo PSA PSD TAI TELo OUR SAMo CNT COM INT NAV ONL PHY PRE PUR UNI' X-UA-Compatible: IE=EmulateIE7 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:55:20 GMT Connection: close
They're not bloated, most of the software packages mentioned are designed for heavy usage on better hardware. Outside of Microsoft Exchange, they all scale very well.
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You'd think so, but whenever I've tried to transfer money to US accounts, they are unable to provide me with an IBAN which many countries outside of the US use and require for international transfers.
That's what cheaters want you to think!
You're over complicating this, don't watch pirated or otherwise.
Maybe you should spend your time creating your own GPLv3 OS instead of telling other people what to do with their works. It would be far more helpful.
They could just throw it out instead. I live in Britain and I don't own a TV - It's not hard.
Not really an "I" when you're an Anonymous Coward.
Explain to me how this doesn't apply to ISPs, then go further and explain why the companies that are ISPs and telephone companies don't do this already.
I use redundant and failover systems, so rebooting is generally an option for me. Just not rebooting all systems at once.
Make it big enough for two please.
They can do it near Wi-Fi I guess, just won't change much since pretty much all consumer routers come with encryption enabled out of the box.
I disagree here. I've noticed many teenagers and young adults in the UK are watching loads of streaming videos on their phones and I'm fairly certain these people exceed 500MB of data month just from the amount they watch.
I know many traffic lights in the UK rely on mobile phone networks to relay messages using SMSes. However, much like you, I don't know of any that specifically use the Internet.
Hows this one?
Then why didn't they step in with the latest H.264 patent troll?
Do online petitions really work? I don't think the people who 'need' to see them even see these to begin with.
They still suck just like Apple's. I don't see how this would change that.
Actually, you need flash for that, sorry.
Not really, flash is the standard. Barely nothing uses the video tag out there and the places that do offer currently flash support over it. The biggest provider of video tag content (youtube), while not enabled by default provides the majority of that content in webm only for the video tag.
Thus, I wouldn't even say h.264 is the 'standard' for video tags either.
They have whale women to satisfy, not time for socializing.
Cry some more, you're not getting any sympathy from me. You made your bed, now sleep in it.
Maybe you've never heard of something called 'virtual hosting' which pretty much all 'vendors' support these days?
Found one, do I get a cookie?
They're not bloated, most of the software packages mentioned are designed for heavy usage on better hardware. Outside of Microsoft Exchange, they all scale very well.
I'm not talking dual core, I'm talking about a single core 1GHz machine.
And how do you do that? I don't see any Git compatability on freenet and I'm an oldie of Freenet on top of that...