So what you're saying is that non net neutrality benefits those who can afford or are willing to pay for premium service? And from the masses I hear a resounding "DUH." In other news, slavery really should be acceptable because, hey, it benefits people who own cotton farms from not being short on labor for harvest!
Seriously, every time someone tries to exploit the masses it always benefits the people on top. Is this guy a professor of obviousness?
The smoking story - snubbed out - wrong moral?
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This story tells us: You shouldn't smoke with parafin all over you, because you could catch on fire. Shouldn't another darwin award go to everyone who smokes, gets cancer, and then dies because of it? It's the same situation: they were warned. It just took longer for the wax to catch on fire.
Quick, someone bring a flag! One thing they're not making anymore of these days is land - this is a rare opportunity to increase our land ownership without having to kill anyone!
Forget webshites - what makes my blood boil is operating systems. When I'm really working hard on something and get stopped up for a very long time trying to coerce the operating system into doing what I want I can get really frustrated. There is an obvious rise in blood pressure, my muscles tighten up, and if it's really bad I start to get light headed.
This is true across all things - they can make your frustrated. That's part of life. The amount of frustration something gives you is a good measurement of how crappy or good it is.
I'm not saying which operating system causes me so much aggravation on a regular basis - I don't want to be marked down as a troll, you know. But I will say that it rhymes with Bicrosoft Mindoze.
The term is not "Dean Hunt" as the writer of the email said your blog has nothing to do with "X." This probably means it's not a lawyer - it's just some crazy dude. And since we don't know what the term is, his optimization on that term isn't being helped by all the linking.
You logic is that conservatives never change, and you imply this is different from liberals. So if liberals change, but conservatives do change, then given sufficient time everyone will be conservative. Liberals are soooo open minded they change all the time! As long as by change you mean "stay exactly the same."
How many idiots does it take to change a lightbulb? Why don't you go give it a try and let us know...
Wow - a story on something that has been around for 30 years and commercially available for at least the last ten. When it doesn't make you look like Jordi from Star Trek (or the borg), I might consider dropping some cash on it, or gracing it with the presence of my head.
Here is a handy printable page on photographer's rights. There seems to be some disagreement about what is allowed and what is not. This should set the record straight. This guy is an attorney and went to all the trouble of making this document, so I'm going to say there's a good chance he knows what he is talking about.
DRM: Wrap a product in a package that makes it nearly impossible to use said product. Treat your customers like criminals.
The DRM of physical reality: Wrap a product in a package that makes it nearly impossible to use said product. Treat your customers like criminals. They get frustrated and potentially injured as a result.
I'm pretty sure the whole thing is really a conspiracy by the hospitals to keep their ERs busy and profitable. Damn doctors.
This must be some kind of pay-per-download thing? I wasn't aware of this particular incarnation of bit torrent. The thing is - bit torrent isn't the best for commercial applications in my mind. Stealing software and movies, or downloading legitimate open source projects or whatever - sure. But if I'm paying for something, I want a fast connection to your server dammit. It's like selling products online and then offering only 23rd-class USPS shipping.
Yes, we could be feeding villages with the money. But with increased education that comes from computers, villages could be feeding themselves. Tools that enable people to rise out of their situation and change it for themselves and those around them are vastly more important than continued handouts. That's what this project is about. I'd rather see one fly-on-the-face African kid start a website, or write an app, or just learn something useful that generates enough money for his village then see that same village get a bunch of food but still not know how to get it themselves.
It will be really interesting to see the reaction from cell phone companies as people begin to move to only having a cheap data connection and using Skype. They'll probably shoot data rates up for a while then get wise and start their own VoIP service that comes "discounted" with a data plan. This is the wave of the future, but like most companies cell carriers will fight tooth and nail for the next 10 years trying to keep us all in the past.
Oh please oh please can we have Adobe Firefox? I'm just thinking of some awesome features:
* Loads in just a few minutes!
* One year Universal Binary Delay for Macs
* Opening multiple windows brings computer to a crawl
* Free (with a google search for "F1r3f0x s3rialz")
* Various Features cause other Adobe applications to load for no reason. Think: Imageready for everything.
* Memory Resident version updater that bugs you every time you boot up
I'm excited for adobe's entry into the browser market.
Oh really? Let me guess - this was predicted using the same computer models that predict a huge rise in "global warming," no ice caps in 20 years, the singularity also in 20 years, and that in 2014 we'll have razors with an infinite number of blades.
I predict that we are forcing evolution on the fish. We will extinct species after species until we force nature to breed a huge army of fish-humans who are unable to be caught in a net and kill us with their mind rays. Survival of the fitest. It took us a billion years to get on top, and man it's nive to be on top. Enjoy it while you can.
A survey indicates that iPod owners may not be as loyal to their devices as Mac owners are to their computers, thus opening the possibility for Microsoft's Zune to enter the market.
So by this logic, since mac owners are so loyal to their computers, there's no way that PC's will ever enter that market. No no... that makes perfect sense.
Microsoft, Apple, HP, Dell, and Gateway all announced their products are going to be free from now on. No charges at all! They hope to make up for this by "each new reference" (whatever the hell that means).
Oh, and the catch is that it's not actually free, but still costs the same amount of money or maybe even more, but it's set up as a subscription.
How did this make it up on slashdot? For anyone who believes this nonsense - I have some "free" products I would like to "give" to you for $99.95/mo.
Whether or not you pass WGA, you still get critical security updates. It's not in Microsoft's best interest to have a few million illegal Windows installs out there being compromised because it harms the user base as a whole.
The real problem here is that Dvorak might die old, alone, and invalid. He must come up with this crap to feel like he's important. What if a hacker did this or that? I don't really care unless a hacker actually does it. People have been talking about someone pointing auto-updates to a 3rd party that would be able to install anything, but I've yet to see any widespread auto-update hack.
Nobody really denies that Alexa is a bit crap anymore. It's so easy to manipulate you'll wake up one morning and Joe-Bob's myspace page will appear to be the most visited site on the Internets. The problem is, that nobody has really offered a competing solution.
A solution that allows you to track visits to any given website must be something on the user end. You can't expect every website to install some piece of tracking code. It might be possible if a service like Alexa was standardized and put into all browsers from the get-go, but this brings up privacy implications and would never happen in any version of reality.
Google has it's own system for determining the importance of a page - and while it's still flawed, and only really geared towards their own goals, it does a good job of showing the importance of a website. Rather than ranked #1-infinity, though, every page is ranked from 0 to 10. Not as specific, but about as useful a ranking as you're ever going to need.
This will be really interesting to watch. I mean, AOL has dirt on everyone - I can imagine it will be hard to have a court case against them when AOL can come back and say "Oh here you are searching for child porn, illegal song downloads, etc." Unless they don't have anything to be ashamed of I can see it being a very difficult case for the plaintiffs.
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So what you're saying is that non net neutrality benefits those who can afford or are willing to pay for premium service? And from the masses I hear a resounding "DUH." In other news, slavery really should be acceptable because, hey, it benefits people who own cotton farms from not being short on labor for harvest!
Seriously, every time someone tries to exploit the masses it always benefits the people on top. Is this guy a professor of obviousness?
This story tells us: You shouldn't smoke with parafin all over you, because you could catch on fire. Shouldn't another darwin award go to everyone who smokes, gets cancer, and then dies because of it? It's the same situation: they were warned. It just took longer for the wax to catch on fire.
Quick, someone bring a flag! One thing they're not making anymore of these days is land - this is a rare opportunity to increase our land ownership without having to kill anyone!
Forget webshites - what makes my blood boil is operating systems. When I'm really working hard on something and get stopped up for a very long time trying to coerce the operating system into doing what I want I can get really frustrated. There is an obvious rise in blood pressure, my muscles tighten up, and if it's really bad I start to get light headed.
This is true across all things - they can make your frustrated. That's part of life. The amount of frustration something gives you is a good measurement of how crappy or good it is.
I'm not saying which operating system causes me so much aggravation on a regular basis - I don't want to be marked down as a troll, you know. But I will say that it rhymes with Bicrosoft Mindoze.
The term is not "Dean Hunt" as the writer of the email said your blog has nothing to do with "X." This probably means it's not a lawyer - it's just some crazy dude. And since we don't know what the term is, his optimization on that term isn't being helped by all the linking.
You logic is that conservatives never change, and you imply this is different from liberals. So if liberals change, but conservatives do change, then given sufficient time everyone will be conservative. Liberals are soooo open minded they change all the time! As long as by change you mean "stay exactly the same."
How many idiots does it take to change a lightbulb? Why don't you go give it a try and let us know...
Wow - a story on something that has been around for 30 years and commercially available for at least the last ten. When it doesn't make you look like Jordi from Star Trek (or the borg), I might consider dropping some cash on it, or gracing it with the presence of my head.
Here is a handy printable page on photographer's rights. There seems to be some disagreement about what is allowed and what is not. This should set the record straight. This guy is an attorney and went to all the trouble of making this document, so I'm going to say there's a good chance he knows what he is talking about.
http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm
As a side note - I am also on a mac, using firefox (Actually the Mac optimized "bon echo" build) and it works just fine.
DRM: Wrap a product in a package that makes it nearly impossible to use said product. Treat your customers like criminals.
The DRM of physical reality: Wrap a product in a package that makes it nearly impossible to use said product. Treat your customers like criminals. They get frustrated and potentially injured as a result.
I'm pretty sure the whole thing is really a conspiracy by the hospitals to keep their ERs busy and profitable. Damn doctors.
Well the "one" will end up smelling like a stripper's ass crack anyway. Problem solved.
This must be some kind of pay-per-download thing? I wasn't aware of this particular incarnation of bit torrent. The thing is - bit torrent isn't the best for commercial applications in my mind. Stealing software and movies, or downloading legitimate open source projects or whatever - sure. But if I'm paying for something, I want a fast connection to your server dammit. It's like selling products online and then offering only 23rd-class USPS shipping.
I like Slashdot sometime because the news that is so old I've already forgotten about it is brought back up the next week. It's like "week in review!"
Yes, we could be feeding villages with the money. But with increased education that comes from computers, villages could be feeding themselves. Tools that enable people to rise out of their situation and change it for themselves and those around them are vastly more important than continued handouts. That's what this project is about. I'd rather see one fly-on-the-face African kid start a website, or write an app, or just learn something useful that generates enough money for his village then see that same village get a bunch of food but still not know how to get it themselves.
It will be really interesting to see the reaction from cell phone companies as people begin to move to only having a cheap data connection and using Skype. They'll probably shoot data rates up for a while then get wise and start their own VoIP service that comes "discounted" with a data plan. This is the wave of the future, but like most companies cell carriers will fight tooth and nail for the next 10 years trying to keep us all in the past.
This is an obvious hoax - I didn't see Al Gore ANYWHERE on the people involved list.
Come on guys, I don't see the problem at all. If arrested, LA cops will treat you like a King!
Oh please oh please can we have Adobe Firefox? I'm just thinking of some awesome features:
* Loads in just a few minutes!
* One year Universal Binary Delay for Macs
* Opening multiple windows brings computer to a crawl
* Free (with a google search for "F1r3f0x s3rialz")
* Various Features cause other Adobe applications to load for no reason. Think: Imageready for everything.
* Memory Resident version updater that bugs you every time you boot up
I'm excited for adobe's entry into the browser market.
Oh really? Let me guess - this was predicted using the same computer models that predict a huge rise in "global warming," no ice caps in 20 years, the singularity also in 20 years, and that in 2014 we'll have razors with an infinite number of blades.
I predict that we are forcing evolution on the fish. We will extinct species after species until we force nature to breed a huge army of fish-humans who are unable to be caught in a net and kill us with their mind rays. Survival of the fitest. It took us a billion years to get on top, and man it's nive to be on top. Enjoy it while you can.
A survey indicates that iPod owners may not be as loyal to their devices as Mac owners are to their computers, thus opening the possibility for Microsoft's Zune to enter the market.
... that makes perfect sense.
So by this logic, since mac owners are so loyal to their computers, there's no way that PC's will ever enter that market. No no
Microsoft, Apple, HP, Dell, and Gateway all announced their products are going to be free from now on. No charges at all! They hope to make up for this by "each new reference" (whatever the hell that means).
Oh, and the catch is that it's not actually free, but still costs the same amount of money or maybe even more, but it's set up as a subscription.
How did this make it up on slashdot? For anyone who believes this nonsense - I have some "free" products I would like to "give" to you for $99.95/mo.
Your comparison of Bush to HItler is interesting in that the people in Germany actually like Hitler, for the most part.
Whether or not you pass WGA, you still get critical security updates. It's not in Microsoft's best interest to have a few million illegal Windows installs out there being compromised because it harms the user base as a whole.
The real problem here is that Dvorak might die old, alone, and invalid. He must come up with this crap to feel like he's important. What if a hacker did this or that? I don't really care unless a hacker actually does it. People have been talking about someone pointing auto-updates to a 3rd party that would be able to install anything, but I've yet to see any widespread auto-update hack.
Nobody really denies that Alexa is a bit crap anymore. It's so easy to manipulate you'll wake up one morning and Joe-Bob's myspace page will appear to be the most visited site on the Internets. The problem is, that nobody has really offered a competing solution.
A solution that allows you to track visits to any given website must be something on the user end. You can't expect every website to install some piece of tracking code. It might be possible if a service like Alexa was standardized and put into all browsers from the get-go, but this brings up privacy implications and would never happen in any version of reality.
Google has it's own system for determining the importance of a page - and while it's still flawed, and only really geared towards their own goals, it does a good job of showing the importance of a website. Rather than ranked #1-infinity, though, every page is ranked from 0 to 10. Not as specific, but about as useful a ranking as you're ever going to need.
Cool, let's never let our kids get hurt. At all. Ever. This will ensure that they grow up to be well-rounded, responsible, and experienced adults.
This will be really interesting to watch. I mean, AOL has dirt on everyone - I can imagine it will be hard to have a court case against them when AOL can come back and say "Oh here you are searching for child porn, illegal song downloads, etc." Unless they don't have anything to be ashamed of I can see it being a very difficult case for the plaintiffs.