The BBC is reporting that Adobe is releasing new player software which will allow websites that use their Flash video player (such as YouTube) to force viewers to watch ads [CC] before the video they selected will play.
Did you happen to miss the anti-trust trial, US Govt vs. Microsoft?
You mean the one where the Government said Microsoft was guilty of being a monopoly and gave them a slap on the wrist. Yeah, they really showed them who's boss...
But there will always be people and countries which don't care about the RIAAs agenda and file sharing will continue. The RIAA wants you to think you get sued for downloading to scare naive people into buying their worthless crap.
Why are so many of these court cases about someone getting sued for downloading music then, if it's only uploading you're not supposed to do?
That's why I want a source for this statement, is makes no sense given what it actually happening.
What are we going to do when our robots autonomously decide to kill us???
We'll send wave after wave of our own men after them and once the robots have reached their pre-determined kill limit they'll shut down, and we'll return victorious. I see medals in our future.
If you don't like being locked in to Windows, buy a Mac the next time you need a new system. Same works in reverse.
Or you could just buy a Mac to start with and a Windows License, and not have to buy new hardware if you want to switch, since you can run either OS on the Apple machine.
Wouldn't it be something akin to entrapment if they uploaded music to me and then accused me of infringing?
If they uploaded the music to you they would only be entrapping themselves. The parent stated that downloading was okay, it was uploading that was wrong, and you aren't the one uploading if you're the destination.
I was interested to read today that the ABC (that's the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) has a policy that allows for it's content to be used on other platforms by operators.
Not to be flamebait or say it's right, but maybe this explains the issues Aussies seem to have getting television shows imported from the States in less than two years. They don't want to show the current season and have someone legally be able to stick it up on YouTube while they're trying to sell the DVD box set still.
The police think they should be above the law, and the law is in the interest of public safety.
When police get involved in traffic accidents and they have their lights going, they often don't pay for the damage they cause. So if you get in a wreck and your car gets totaled, if you don't have full insurance (read as: you're poor) you get screwed. You now have no vehicle to get to your job and a bunch of medical bills.
It happened a couple years ago in Kansas City. The city pretty much let the PD off the hook for the whole thing. A local body shop took pity on the woman and fixed her minivan for free in the end. Now I doubt the policy will be any different if the city gives them license to do it without the lights and sirens.
I've watched cops flip on their lights and immediately do U-turns in major streets, "blip" their sirens as they run red lights, drive way over the speed limit. I know the excuse for that last one is this is the lazy way to find speeders. Drive at whatever threshold over the speed limit where you start actually giving tickets and then anyone going faster than you gets one. But that doesn't change that it is dangerous in some areas.
The whole idea of it being legal with the lights/siren on is
the assumption the cop is on his way to an emergency call, not just cruising around.
That they are driving towards a destination and so have had them on for awhile, so you see the lights/siren and have time to get out of their way.
Flipping them on six feet before you pull a maneuver is not fair warning. It's called CYA if you get in a wreck so you can just lie and say you were answering a call.
Ah yes, except instead of "blowjob," we instead are dealing with the rigging of elections via bogus "voter fraud" cases and U.S. attorneys more loyal to the GOP than they are to the country.
So instead of the President getting a blow job, we all get fucked by him.
And then they'll get rid of Vista and eventually release a service pack for XP that adds the Vista DRM.
Microsoft will continue to say that what they are selling is the same Windows XP from before despite the ingredients not being quite the same. New users wont be able to tell the difference, but old times will complain about the bad taste XP's new "features" leave in their mouths now and how the original XP interface ran much smoother down their gullets.
Exactly, taxes aren't that complicated. I even did my taxes on paper like I usually do before I went online, and doing them online didn't make a bit of difference in my refund amount, just as I knew it wouldn't.
The problem is everyone treats taxes like a lottery, they think if they let a "professional" do them they'll get some big windfall. Two flaws in this thinking:
Tax preparers don't use a separate set of tax laws, nor do they make up records out of midair. Everything they do you can do yourself with the same materials, all it takes is a little reading. Most of those special deductions are explained in the standard 1040 instruction book or through the PDF's available on the IRS site.
It's a tax refund. You aren't getting anything back you didn't pay to start with. If you're getting humongous refunds, maybe you should adjust your withholding. Then open a savings account and have the difference funneled automatically to it every month. That way the money you used to overpay the government will be sitting in your account and earn you interest, not Uncle Sam.
If H&R Block or any of the other tax preparers can make that large a difference in a refund, using methods I can't spot going through the form myself, I would question the legality of whatever it was they were doing. The fact they recently had issues doing their own taxes only strengthens this opinion in me.
I'll gladly take a couple hours of my own time and not give $50 of my refund to them. And with the Fill-in PDF forms the IRS makes available, even sloppy handwriting can't goof my return up now!
The Turbotax.com offering really does sound like a good idea, for the taxpayer, but I still bought the boxed version and won't E-File. These guys are taking perhaps millions of people's sensitive data online, into a database that's Internet accessible. Even if their admins have done the best possible job (let's assume they have) their software has undiscovered vulnerabilities, at least as far as the whitehat community is concerned.
Yup, I filed online for the first time this year (using TurboTax Online, sadly) and I don't think I'll be doing it again. I'll be back to using the paper forms next year.
I've been doing my own taxes on paper since I was 16 (and back then I was having to file self-employments taxes and commercial schedules). This year, in the interest of getting my refund sooner (not that I really needed it fast) and avoiding transcription typos at data entry, I files electronically online, using the free TurboTax Online.
Considering SEDs are closer to CRTs in terms of technology, I would expect them to be far superior in terms of usable life. The rest of you can keep up with the Joneses and by a new plasma every few years when the old one fades. I'd like my TV's usable life to be measured in decades, not years.
BTW, do you use Filterset.G or a regular ABP subscription? Someone here recently let me know tht Filterset.G isn't recommended with ABP. I just switched to EasyList and EasyElement filter lists. They seem to handle Slashdot better. And I was able to remove my Remove It Permanently rules on some sites as well.
I use EasyList. And the Slashdot ad gap was gone, permanently at one point. Then, about three weeks ago, it suddenly reappeared. I think webmasters are getting smarter about how they code things. The same thing happens on eBay with the banner ad at the top. The ad is gone but the blank area remains, and no matter how many times I remove it, a later visit causes it to reappear. And when I look up the XPath queries it shows the exact same Xpath a dozen times. If I refresh it the ad goes away then. It's almost like they have it set up so the ad is timed so it doesn't appear until after the entire page has been loaded and RIP has already gone through to remove the elements.
After all, one can purchase 200mph speed-rated tires for a Toyota Prius®. Expectations of a real performance improvement based on such an investment will likely go unfulfilled,
One shouldn't have expectations that buying a high-speed rated tire will improve performance of the car itself. That makes no sense! The point of the speed rating is the tire is designed to withstand driving at those speeds, whereas if you put a S-speed rated tire on your exotic sports car and drive 200mph, your tire may very well "fail" in same same way Firestone SUV tires of a few years ago did.
Getting back on topic, a TV's resolution support will have a direct impact on what you can see. To reverse the bad car analogy here, the poster just said that one shouldn't buy a 1080p monitor and expect all their 1080i and 720p content to look better. No kidding.
The reason for buying the 1080p monitor is so when 1080p content starts appearing, you have the monitor to view it already. Just like buying 200mph tires for a Prius would be worthwhile if you were going to be adding a jet engine to your Prius next month.
Adblock Plus is just so effective, I'm often shocked if for some reason I have to browse without it. Like I am actually overwhelmed. You just don't realize how in prevelent advertising is until you've shielded youself from it for a while. Mass ad blocking is like a drug. A sweet, sweet drug that I never want to come off.;-)
I totally have the same experience. This list of "horrible" extensions is sad. Adblock+, TabBrowser Prefs, and RemoveItPermanently are "must have extensions" for me, the web is almost a hassle to use without them.
I've actaully been annoyed lately because for some reason AdBlock+ is not working completely on Slashdot like it used to (the ad is gone, but the blank space is still there reminding me of its existance) and I've been having trouble getting the Intel "Opinion Center" to stay gone on all pages even though I'm blocking elements by the entire domain.
Slashdot Mirror
[makes mental note not to update Flash anymore]
You mean the one where the Government said Microsoft was guilty of being a monopoly and gave them a slap on the wrist. Yeah, they really showed them who's boss...
Except this isn't a technical issue, it's a license one. It's not like versions of Vista below business class will not run under a virtual machine.
So it's really more like "defectivebylegality".
Why are so many of these court cases about someone getting sued for downloading music then, if it's only uploading you're not supposed to do?
That's why I want a source for this statement, is makes no sense given what it actually happening.
We'll send wave after wave of our own men after them and once the robots have reached their pre-determined kill limit they'll shut down, and we'll return victorious. I see medals in our future.
Or you could just buy a Mac to start with and a Windows License, and not have to buy new hardware if you want to switch, since you can run either OS on the Apple machine.
If they uploaded the music to you they would only be entrapping themselves. The parent stated that downloading was okay, it was uploading that was wrong, and you aren't the one uploading if you're the destination.
But, yeah, I'd like to see a source, too.
Not to be flamebait or say it's right, but maybe this explains the issues Aussies seem to have getting television shows imported from the States in less than two years. They don't want to show the current season and have someone legally be able to stick it up on YouTube while they're trying to sell the DVD box set still.
Once scientists code the DNA of Arachis hypogaea and Theobroma cacao then we can begin our genetic experiments and give birth to the Reeses Monkey!
Yum!
It happened a couple years ago in Kansas City. The city pretty much let the PD off the hook for the whole thing. A local body shop took pity on the woman and fixed her minivan for free in the end. Now I doubt the policy will be any different if the city gives them license to do it without the lights and sirens.
I've watched cops flip on their lights and immediately do U-turns in major streets, "blip" their sirens as they run red lights, drive way over the speed limit. I know the excuse for that last one is this is the lazy way to find speeders. Drive at whatever threshold over the speed limit where you start actually giving tickets and then anyone going faster than you gets one. But that doesn't change that it is dangerous in some areas.
The whole idea of it being legal with the lights/siren on is
Flipping them on six feet before you pull a maneuver is not fair warning. It's called CYA if you get in a wreck so you can just lie and say you were answering a call.
So instead of the President getting a blow job, we all get fucked by him.
Like socks in the dryer.
How lazy. They could at least show some flair and take a blunt object to it.
And then they'll get rid of Vista and eventually release a service pack for XP that adds the Vista DRM.
Microsoft will continue to say that what they are selling is the same Windows XP from before despite the ingredients not being quite the same. New users wont be able to tell the difference, but old times will complain about the bad taste XP's new "features" leave in their mouths now and how the original XP interface ran much smoother down their gullets.
The problem is everyone treats taxes like a lottery, they think if they let a "professional" do them they'll get some big windfall. Two flaws in this thinking:
If H&R Block or any of the other tax preparers can make that large a difference in a refund, using methods I can't spot going through the form myself, I would question the legality of whatever it was they were doing. The fact they recently had issues doing their own taxes only strengthens this opinion in me.
I'll gladly take a couple hours of my own time and not give $50 of my refund to them. And with the Fill-in PDF forms the IRS makes available, even sloppy handwriting can't goof my return up now!
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who's the coolest one o-- AAAAAAAH! MY EYES!
Yup, I filed online for the first time this year (using TurboTax Online, sadly) and I don't think I'll be doing it again. I'll be back to using the paper forms next year.
I've been doing my own taxes on paper since I was 16 (and back then I was having to file self-employments taxes and commercial schedules). This year, in the interest of getting my refund sooner (not that I really needed it fast) and avoiding transcription typos at data entry, I files electronically online, using the free TurboTax Online.
This is what I get.
Considering SEDs are closer to CRTs in terms of technology, I would expect them to be far superior in terms of usable life. The rest of you can keep up with the Joneses and by a new plasma every few years when the old one fades. I'd like my TV's usable life to be measured in decades, not years.
So, about 2.28 years now.
I use EasyList. And the Slashdot ad gap was gone, permanently at one point. Then, about three weeks ago, it suddenly reappeared. I think webmasters are getting smarter about how they code things. The same thing happens on eBay with the banner ad at the top. The ad is gone but the blank area remains, and no matter how many times I remove it, a later visit causes it to reappear. And when I look up the XPath queries it shows the exact same Xpath a dozen times. If I refresh it the ad goes away then. It's almost like they have it set up so the ad is timed so it doesn't appear until after the entire page has been loaded and RIP has already gone through to remove the elements.
You can use your honed technique of one-handed computing to allow your laptop battery to recharge while you use it!
Look at the bright side. With the restrained supply, demand for my Wii should be much higher among female gamers!
One shouldn't have expectations that buying a high-speed rated tire will improve performance of the car itself. That makes no sense! The point of the speed rating is the tire is designed to withstand driving at those speeds, whereas if you put a S-speed rated tire on your exotic sports car and drive 200mph, your tire may very well "fail" in same same way Firestone SUV tires of a few years ago did.
Getting back on topic, a TV's resolution support will have a direct impact on what you can see. To reverse the bad car analogy here, the poster just said that one shouldn't buy a 1080p monitor and expect all their 1080i and 720p content to look better. No kidding.
The reason for buying the 1080p monitor is so when 1080p content starts appearing, you have the monitor to view it already. Just like buying 200mph tires for a Prius would be worthwhile if you were going to be adding a jet engine to your Prius next month.
I totally have the same experience. This list of "horrible" extensions is sad. Adblock+, TabBrowser Prefs, and RemoveItPermanently are "must have extensions" for me, the web is almost a hassle to use without them.
I've actaully been annoyed lately because for some reason AdBlock+ is not working completely on Slashdot like it used to (the ad is gone, but the blank space is still there reminding me of its existance) and I've been having trouble getting the Intel "Opinion Center" to stay gone on all pages even though I'm blocking elements by the entire domain.