Right now, there is no such thing as legal online gambling in the US. Because of that, all online gambling businesses are breaking the law.
Bull shit. These online gambling companies are off shore in places like Costa Rica, Gibraltar, Malta, Bermuda, etc, and they adhere to the laws of the nations they are incorporated in.
What if these US people went to Costa Rica to gamble in a Casino there? Would the US government have a problem with that too?
Yes, there's a slight technicality... Where is the gambling occurring? The server is in Costa Rica, the PC is in the US. Are you playing in the US or are you playing in Costa Rica?
Truth is, the US government cannot go after the business in Costa Rica because it is a legal business in Costa Rica.
The guy that was arrested is up on some very unique charges for his activities in the US, not for operating an off shore gambling site.
By that logic, who would pay taxes for _anything_ since it should be easy as pie to sell Twinkies, screwdrivers, or anything else under the table? Also, why would a seller risk his neck avoiding some 5 or 10% tax (that his customers are paying)?
Ever know people who own a restaurant? Any business that receives cash in return for services rendered can easily tear up a bunch of receipts and pocket the cash to spend on personal effects.
As long as you show some profit the tax man leaves you alone (generally). Don't kid yourself how heavily these small business owners dig into the cash drawer for their personal spending.
But selling goods, like Twinkies and Screwdrivers are different. You can only show so much shrinkage in your inventory before the tax man gets annoyed and audits you. You have to buy the twinkies in order to sell them, and you probably cannot pay cash for those twinkies.
It's ultimately unfair, but mostly unavoidable if you care at all about people with poor self control (gamblers and other addicts). Social problems never have easy solutions.
Under that premise, we should outlaw:
Buffets -> ever seen the size of the fat bastards at a Buffet? Those poor fat bastards are doomed if they continue to eat at that rate. Candy -> sure it's okay once in a while, but causes tooth decay Alcohol -> it's the scourge of society - too much alcoholism Casino Gambling -> wtf is the difference between gambling online and gambling in a casino? Only difference I see is the greedy govt doesn't get a cut. Tough shit for them for not legalizing internet gambling IMO. Sex -> too many pervs out there that can't control themselves. We should sterlize everyone.
I realize that I'm drawing a slippery slope, but I'm just doing it to prove a point. Truth is, some people just can't control themselves with anything, and we shouldn't outlaw choice./me works for an internet gambling company in a round about way.
What's wrong with Ruby, as a replacement for a very ugly language called Perl?
Ruby is an elegant language, fully Object Oriented, and does just as well as Python and Perl...
Ruby On Rails OTOH is a different story and don't want to get into a flame war over it, but Ruby itself is pretty good for a lot of things you'd otherwise write in Perl but don't like the ugliness of Perl...
I've found some people don't get the distinction between Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
In the end, it won't really change anything. The UN Security Council will continue to do what they do best: nothing.
You can thank all the nations that have permanent Vetos for that one.
There is no doubt that a body overseeing decisions made by the UN is hugely important, but to give any country a permanent veto is just a recipe for dysfunction - China and the US are both guilty of that.
Schools place too much emphasis on obedience, without teaching kids anything about thinking for themselves.
Dude, kids are incapable of thinking for themselves, especially in the grade school years. They need to be taught the difference between right and wrong before they can be taught how to ascertain whether something is right or wrong.
The real problem is that parents have too many escapes nowadays from parenting. The TV and video game consoles offer more stimulation to children than anything else, so they are captivated by it. And parents need to get things done, so they don't mind dumping off their kids in front of the TV for a few hours while they do some house work. Seems to me people have the attitude that if my kid is in front of the TV, at least I know they are safe, right?
Few children will actually turn of the TV or the Video Games and open a book and do some reading. When a child reads, they become better spellers, and better writers. They learn good habits. The TV is a waste of time, even educational shows.
That is _good_ for consumers because NO business can sell for a loss forever -- the minute that they raise their prices after they've wiped the competition clean, new competition will turn up the beat them down again.
Not necessarily. It takes enourmous amounts of capital, and even more importantly, reputation to compete in the processor space. It's not like anyone can jump on that...
Recall the success of Cyrix, and consider the success of Transmeta and Via today. The processor space is currently about reputation. AMD started getting some respect around the time of the Athlon.
Surely that's what Trillian did ? One log-on, and contact with yahoo or msn (or AOL, or others that I never used)
The only thing Trillian doesn't have in the free version that leaves me annoyed is the lack of jabber support. If they opened it up to the free version it would be the cat's ass of IM clients. Currently it's just almost totally the cat's ass of email clients:)
What license? I did not sign a license the last time I bought a CD. (Which, admittedly, was a long time ago.)
Posted here time and time again, US courts have already found that shrink wrap licenses are legally binding. IIRC it was Mortenson v. Timberline Software Corporation, et al...
IIRC Timberline made a cd that had a database of phone directories or something like that...
That's a part of life. They need to take a queue from practically every other platform and just BREAK STUFF sometimes for the greater good.
You must be new around here. Every time a new Microsoft OS comes out, someone bitches endlessly about killer app from 1992 not working any more.
Honestly, Microsoft is damned either way around here. On the one hand they break compatibility and a bunch of sysadmins chime and and bich about some custom app not working any more and they will refuse to upgrade their LAN, and if they don't, well you are exactly correct... Some security holes are left open.
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This is not generally true. See foocompany.co.uk -> badone.co.uk
AFAIK, co.uk is not a domain... foocompany.co.uk is not a subdomain of co.uk...
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As you said, the javascript is valid, and I think Opera is tigher on the security than it needs. What happens with that redirect I suspect is that they've written their own load balancer instaed of using a transparent one. So you get readirected from server.domain.com to server33.domain.com for example. Opera shouldn't see that a security hole. You are being redirected within the same domain to a different subdomain. Hardly a security hole, considering your on a signed https site.
Yes I can work around it, but I can just use Firefox instead until Opera fixes that.
I like Opera a lot - I think it's really slick, and it's refreshing to see a browser that doesn't consume obscene resources unlike Firefox.
I know your post was sarcastic, but he wasn't doing his job because he didn't teach her that with her actions comes some responsibility. Sneaking out of the house and going on a date with a 19 year old she met on myspace is such an action. And instead of explaining to her that the result was a consequence of her action is what they should have done, not insisted she should sue myspace for 30M... Gimme a break; these parents are looking to cash in, and there's probably a combination of a dumb judge and a smart lawyer that might actually win the suit.
Truth is, the lawyer's likely just looking for a settlement.
And it still doesn't support my friggin' bank...
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My bank, once you log in, does a redirect within a frame of the top using "top.location.href=..." javascript.
Opera doesn't seem to like a redirect to a different domain from within a frame; when I load the inner frame as a top level page, the redirect works fine, it's only from within the frame the javascript doesn't fire.
It's shit like that that keeps me from switchin to it.
I've submitted the issue to them, but I'm sure they just blame the site developers, even though the site works in FF, IE, Safari, and KHTML...
Actually, I'm a big fan of demand based pricing more so than tiered pricing. I'm all for the most popular music costing the most.
It's only fair really. That way older music and indie music still gets purchased. The present system of a flat rate for every song isn't fair to many artists out there. Both current Top 40 artists suffer because they could make more money given that some might wish to pay $1.50 for the song instead of 99 cents, and older artists suffer because one might be able to buy the whole CD for $7.99 out of a bargain bin (bands like CCR for example, which still kick ass today).
Same goes for movies. Why should LOTR, Spider-Man, and X-Men be the same price as Glitter, From Justin To Kelly, and Crossroads? The latter three should really be borderline free because they were so crappy, and were made on the cheap side compard to the first three.
Betcha more people would have enjoyed Glitter if it was only $1... Expectations would have been MUCH lower.
I like how Ticketmaster is doing demand based pricing on some events (well an auction for them, but it's the same idea - they are maximizing the amount going to the artist instead of scalpers doing the same). I'm all for art being paid its worth. I recall listening to a sports radio show, and some people would phone in and bitch about the price of hocket tickets. The market doesn't owe the consumer any favours. If the sports franchise loses too many fans, that's the lesson they'll have to learn for over pricing their tickets.
On some other OS if you change video cards you have to uninstall the old driver, reboot, install new driver, reboot and almost done. I find this procedure more painful and more embarrasing.
What a load of crap.
1. You turn your computer off to remove video card anyway. Either way you have to reboot unless you've got hot plug pcix and a lot of luck. 2. You don't need to uninstall old drivers. If you replace an old video card, and your system finds a new one, it'll install the default drivers for the new one (same as Linux does), until you install the vendor's drivers. Linux doesn't include the nVidia drivers any more than "Some other OS" does. 3. That "Some other OS" will then need a reboot after installing the new grpahics card driver. On Linux, it's pretty damned close - you need to restart X server. I realize the difference is an important one, but it isn't that different - something needs to be restarted either way.
Not that I want to chime into the Linux vs. "Some other OS" debate, but c'mon... They just aren't as different as you are leading on....
(Written by me on my FC4 laptop btw - I'm just not a fanboi)
I agree, if Google wants to be superior they need to take measures to clip the useless link farms from the top results.
But the crappy thing is, Google has a vested interest in making you search longer. The more time you spend on their search engine, viewing more pages, the more ads you see. We are not Google's customers; we are Google's product.
Imagine, if they were to add your relevant results on page 3 instead of page 1, you've just viewed 200% more ads. 200% more ads show = more ad revenue for google. It might not seem that big of a deal, but given the amount of usage Google gets, the reality is that they aren't too motivated to get rid of link farms and google spammers.
However there's only so much tolerance for that behaviour that users have, so there's a tipping point. The only thing that keeps me tied to Google is usenet search. If yahoo were to have that I'd switch to search.yahoo.com in a heartbeat.
Watch Google's market share start to decline if another search engine gets it right and filters out that crap.
It seems more and more when I try to find something on google all I get are a bunch of link farms.
Totally agree. It isn't that Google is great; it is IMO quite far from it.
Personally I only stick to Google because of their usenet search. I honestly think their web search is crap thanks to google spammers, or those self titled Search Engine Optimizers.
I actually thing Yahoo's search engine is somewhat superior... I kinda like search.yahoo.com
Thing is, sometimes personal responsibility affects others, and unfortunately that's where we need regulation. Take for example drunk driving. If the only victim was the drunk person, we can be sure society wouldn't give a rat's ass. But the thing is, the innocent bystanders are the victims.
Unfortunately, this is also true with irresponsible parents - the ones that don't bother getting involved. They let their kids be exposed to all kinds of violence, and while true that jimmy and timmy might be raised right and know better and can distinguish between game and reallity, billy does not, and if billy shoots jimmy and timmy, it could have been prevented with a bit more regulation.
Sad but true, there's too many crappy parents out there.
Why not Daemon Tools, which is free (although I'm a bit disappointed to learn that the latest version is adware, although you can select to not install the adware portion).
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On the other hand, I'm not a lawyer. Maybe the Federal government has a law criminalizing online gambling.
That's not worked very well for Washington State. The amount of people gambling on line has not changed since they made that law.
Right now, there is no such thing as legal online gambling in the US. Because of that, all online gambling businesses are breaking the law.
Bull shit. These online gambling companies are off shore in places like Costa Rica, Gibraltar, Malta, Bermuda, etc, and they adhere to the laws of the nations they are incorporated in.
What if these US people went to Costa Rica to gamble in a Casino there? Would the US government have a problem with that too?
Yes, there's a slight technicality... Where is the gambling occurring? The server is in Costa Rica, the PC is in the US. Are you playing in the US or are you playing in Costa Rica?
Truth is, the US government cannot go after the business in Costa Rica because it is a legal business in Costa Rica.
The guy that was arrested is up on some very unique charges for his activities in the US, not for operating an off shore gambling site.
By that logic, who would pay taxes for _anything_ since it should be easy as pie to sell Twinkies, screwdrivers, or anything else under the table? Also, why would a seller risk his neck avoiding some 5 or 10% tax (that his customers are paying)?
Ever know people who own a restaurant? Any business that receives cash in return for services rendered can easily tear up a bunch of receipts and pocket the cash to spend on personal effects.
As long as you show some profit the tax man leaves you alone (generally). Don't kid yourself how heavily these small business owners dig into the cash drawer for their personal spending.
But selling goods, like Twinkies and Screwdrivers are different. You can only show so much shrinkage in your inventory before the tax man gets annoyed and audits you. You have to buy the twinkies in order to sell them, and you probably cannot pay cash for those twinkies.
It's ultimately unfair, but mostly unavoidable if you care at all about people with poor self control (gamblers and other addicts). Social problems never have easy solutions.
/me works for an internet gambling company in a round about way.
Under that premise, we should outlaw:
Buffets -> ever seen the size of the fat bastards at a Buffet? Those poor fat bastards are doomed if they continue to eat at that rate.
Candy -> sure it's okay once in a while, but causes tooth decay
Alcohol -> it's the scourge of society - too much alcoholism
Casino Gambling -> wtf is the difference between gambling online and gambling in a casino? Only difference I see is the greedy govt doesn't get a cut. Tough shit for them for not legalizing internet gambling IMO.
Sex -> too many pervs out there that can't control themselves. We should sterlize everyone.
I realize that I'm drawing a slippery slope, but I'm just doing it to prove a point. Truth is, some people just can't control themselves with anything, and we shouldn't outlaw choice.
he Bible does warn us, however, to stay away from the love of money (1 Timothy 6:10; Hebrews 13:5).
Then every bastard priest in the vatican ( the richest city-state in the world) should be subject to eternal damnation no?
Look out, here come the bible thumping troll mods to make sure that comment's never seen haha!
stay the fuck away from Ruby
What's wrong with Ruby, as a replacement for a very ugly language called Perl?
Ruby is an elegant language, fully Object Oriented, and does just as well as Python and Perl...
Ruby On Rails OTOH is a different story and don't want to get into a flame war over it, but Ruby itself is pretty good for a lot of things you'd otherwise write in Perl but don't like the ugliness of Perl...
I've found some people don't get the distinction between Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
In the end, it won't really change anything. The UN Security Council will continue to do what they do best: nothing.
You can thank all the nations that have permanent Vetos for that one.
There is no doubt that a body overseeing decisions made by the UN is hugely important, but to give any country a permanent veto is just a recipe for dysfunction - China and the US are both guilty of that.
Schools place too much emphasis on obedience, without teaching kids anything about thinking for themselves.
Dude, kids are incapable of thinking for themselves, especially in the grade school years. They need to be taught the difference between right and wrong before they can be taught how to ascertain whether something is right or wrong.
The real problem is that parents have too many escapes nowadays from parenting. The TV and video game consoles offer more stimulation to children than anything else, so they are captivated by it. And parents need to get things done, so they don't mind dumping off their kids in front of the TV for a few hours while they do some house work. Seems to me people have the attitude that if my kid is in front of the TV, at least I know they are safe, right?
Few children will actually turn of the TV or the Video Games and open a book and do some reading. When a child reads, they become better spellers, and better writers. They learn good habits. The TV is a waste of time, even educational shows.
That is _good_ for consumers because NO business can sell for a loss forever -- the minute that they raise their prices after they've wiped the competition clean, new competition will turn up the beat them down again.
Not necessarily. It takes enourmous amounts of capital, and even more importantly, reputation to compete in the processor space. It's not like anyone can jump on that...
Recall the success of Cyrix, and consider the success of Transmeta and Via today. The processor space is currently about reputation. AMD started getting some respect around the time of the Athlon.
Surely that's what Trillian did ? One log-on, and contact with yahoo or msn (or AOL, or others that I never used)
:)
The only thing Trillian doesn't have in the free version that leaves me annoyed is the lack of jabber support. If they opened it up to the free version it would be the cat's ass of IM clients. Currently it's just almost totally the cat's ass of email clients
What license? I did not sign a license the last time I bought a CD. (Which, admittedly, was a long time ago.)
Posted here time and time again, US courts have already found that shrink wrap licenses are legally binding. IIRC it was Mortenson v. Timberline Software Corporation, et al...
IIRC Timberline made a cd that had a database of phone directories or something like that...
I can't wait for the day ruby on rails loses it's buz and the infinite amount of Ruby on Rails has been derailed jokes.
I can't wait for the day all dumbasses learn the difference between its and it's
Hard-core geeks use Debian.
:)
Nay hardcore geeks probably still like Slackware =D
And you might find the oddball who likes Mandriva...
JMO of course... You might find the odd one who actually prefers Peanut Linux ( aka aLinux) or something goofy too
That's a part of life. They need to take a queue from practically every other platform and just BREAK STUFF sometimes for the greater good.
You must be new around here. Every time a new Microsoft OS comes out, someone bitches endlessly about killer app from 1992 not working any more.
Honestly, Microsoft is damned either way around here. On the one hand they break compatibility and a bunch of sysadmins chime and and bich about some custom app not working any more and they will refuse to upgrade their LAN, and if they don't, well you are exactly correct... Some security holes are left open.
This is not generally true. See foocompany.co.uk -> badone.co.uk
AFAIK, co.uk is not a domain... foocompany.co.uk is not a subdomain of co.uk...
As you said, the javascript is valid, and I think Opera is tigher on the security than it needs. What happens with that redirect I suspect is that they've written their own load balancer instaed of using a transparent one. So you get readirected from server.domain.com to server33.domain.com for example. Opera shouldn't see that a security hole. You are being redirected within the same domain to a different subdomain. Hardly a security hole, considering your on a signed https site.
Yes I can work around it, but I can just use Firefox instead until Opera fixes that.
I like Opera a lot - I think it's really slick, and it's refreshing to see a browser that doesn't consume obscene resources unlike Firefox.
Otherwise he's just not doing his job.
I know your post was sarcastic, but he wasn't doing his job because he didn't teach her that with her actions comes some responsibility. Sneaking out of the house and going on a date with a 19 year old she met on myspace is such an action. And instead of explaining to her that the result was a consequence of her action is what they should have done, not insisted she should sue myspace for 30M... Gimme a break; these parents are looking to cash in, and there's probably a combination of a dumb judge and a smart lawyer that might actually win the suit.
Truth is, the lawyer's likely just looking for a settlement.
My bank, once you log in, does a redirect within a frame of the top using "top.location.href=..." javascript.
Opera doesn't seem to like a redirect to a different domain from within a frame; when I load the inner frame as a top level page, the redirect works fine, it's only from within the frame the javascript doesn't fire.
It's shit like that that keeps me from switchin to it.
I've submitted the issue to them, but I'm sure they just blame the site developers, even though the site works in FF, IE, Safari, and KHTML...
Actually, I'm a big fan of demand based pricing more so than tiered pricing. I'm all for the most popular music costing the most.
It's only fair really. That way older music and indie music still gets purchased. The present system of a flat rate for every song isn't fair to many artists out there. Both current Top 40 artists suffer because they could make more money given that some might wish to pay $1.50 for the song instead of 99 cents, and older artists suffer because one might be able to buy the whole CD for $7.99 out of a bargain bin (bands like CCR for example, which still kick ass today).
Same goes for movies. Why should LOTR, Spider-Man, and X-Men be the same price as Glitter, From Justin To Kelly, and Crossroads? The latter three should really be borderline free because they were so crappy, and were made on the cheap side compard to the first three.
Betcha more people would have enjoyed Glitter if it was only $1... Expectations would have been MUCH lower.
I like how Ticketmaster is doing demand based pricing on some events (well an auction for them, but it's the same idea - they are maximizing the amount going to the artist instead of scalpers doing the same). I'm all for art being paid its worth. I recall listening to a sports radio show, and some people would phone in and bitch about the price of hocket tickets. The market doesn't owe the consumer any favours. If the sports franchise loses too many fans, that's the lesson they'll have to learn for over pricing their tickets.
On some other OS if you change video cards you have to uninstall the old driver, reboot, install new driver, reboot and almost done. I find this procedure more painful and more embarrasing.
What a load of crap.
1. You turn your computer off to remove video card anyway. Either way you have to reboot unless you've got hot plug pcix and a lot of luck.
2. You don't need to uninstall old drivers. If you replace an old video card, and your system finds a new one, it'll install the default drivers for the new one (same as Linux does), until you install the vendor's drivers. Linux doesn't include the nVidia drivers any more than "Some other OS" does.
3. That "Some other OS" will then need a reboot after installing the new grpahics card driver. On Linux, it's pretty damned close - you need to restart X server. I realize the difference is an important one, but it isn't that different - something needs to be restarted either way.
Not that I want to chime into the Linux vs. "Some other OS" debate, but c'mon... They just aren't as different as you are leading on....
(Written by me on my FC4 laptop btw - I'm just not a fanboi)
I agree, if Google wants to be superior they need to take measures to clip the useless link farms from the top results.
But the crappy thing is, Google has a vested interest in making you search longer. The more time you spend on their search engine, viewing more pages, the more ads you see. We are not Google's customers; we are Google's product.
Imagine, if they were to add your relevant results on page 3 instead of page 1, you've just viewed 200% more ads. 200% more ads show = more ad revenue for google. It might not seem that big of a deal, but given the amount of usage Google gets, the reality is that they aren't too motivated to get rid of link farms and google spammers.
However there's only so much tolerance for that behaviour that users have, so there's a tipping point. The only thing that keeps me tied to Google is usenet search. If yahoo were to have that I'd switch to search.yahoo.com in a heartbeat.
Watch Google's market share start to decline if another search engine gets it right and filters out that crap.
It's just us hardcore geeks who care more about utility than appearance.
What a load of crap.
It's hardcore geeks who put Cold Cathode tubes, LED fans, laser cut fan grills and windows in their PC cases.
It seems more and more when I try to find something on google all I get are a bunch of link farms.
Totally agree. It isn't that Google is great; it is IMO quite far from it.
Personally I only stick to Google because of their usenet search. I honestly think their web search is crap thanks to google spammers, or those self titled Search Engine Optimizers.
I actually thing Yahoo's search engine is somewhat superior... I kinda like search.yahoo.com
We certainly don't have enough
I figure you were being sarcastic.
Thing is, sometimes personal responsibility affects others, and unfortunately that's where we need regulation. Take for example drunk driving. If the only victim was the drunk person, we can be sure society wouldn't give a rat's ass. But the thing is, the innocent bystanders are the victims.
Unfortunately, this is also true with irresponsible parents - the ones that don't bother getting involved. They let their kids be exposed to all kinds of violence, and while true that jimmy and timmy might be raised right and know better and can distinguish between game and reallity, billy does not, and if billy shoots jimmy and timmy, it could have been prevented with a bit more regulation.
Sad but true, there's too many crappy parents out there.
Why not Daemon Tools, which is free (although I'm a bit disappointed to learn that the latest version is adware, although you can select to not install the adware portion).