Try visiting Germany and watching dubbed movies. At least with cartoons you don't get a headache from the voices not being synced to the lip movements.
Unless you have a very, very unique name (like M. Zuckerberg, probably) your Facebook profile can't easily be linked to your appearance in a phone book. No one will know if the Billy Smith they see on Facebook living "somewhere in Oregon" is B. Smith #36 in the phone book. If they can actually get that information off your profile the game changes completely.
Disclaimer: Whenever I state something in this reply to sound like absolute truth, please read it as "In an ideal world, they would do it like this".
Wikipedia has a big advantage over Google when looking for information on a given subject: The articles have been written to summarize all the important bits for quick and easy absorption. If you want to get a basic grasp of something you can use Wikipedia for a summary, and then the citations, references, footnotes etc. for deeper investigation.
Not very long ago I needed the population numbers of a series of countries. Rather than finding miles of census reports from each individual country, trying to find an English version, trying to find the one number I need, I just checked each country's Wikipedia page.
Was the number accurate? Maybe not to the most current census in some cases, but I didn't need to-the-minute accuracy, just a rough idea of how many people lived in each country, and that's not a number that normally fluctuates wildly from year to year.
Wikipedia has its uses over Google when it comes to quick facts.
Have you ever compared the meat bought at a random supermarket to the meat bought straight from a small farm where the animal has lived a really good life until it was taken to the butcher? Believe me, there is a MASSIVE difference - without wanting to mimic the vegan "meat tastes of fear!" line, you really can taste if the animal had a good life.
That's called practice. Same way a person who drives around for 8 to 10 hours a day as part of his job drives better than someone who's only behind the wheel once every couple of weeks.
Were the cavemen allowed to look up words in a dictionary to check how they were spelled? There's your answer to that question.
Of course, I remember when I finished high school and the exam meant solely to see how well we spelled had been changed to give you twenty minutes with a dictionary after the test. I placed the dictionary at the corner of my table, leaned back and stared down the teacher for twenty minutes. And got an A. Good times.
There's money in hijacking typo domains. A few years ago I meant to go to www.gamefaqs.com, accidentally typed www.gamefaws.com and ended up on a gay porn site, so I'm pretty sure variants such as www.disnye.com etc. are possible suspects. I have the integrity of my computer too dear to check where that leads.
My perception of it, and to be fair I'm not Russian nor do I know a lot about the mentality of Russian farmers, is this:
When your neighbors' animals are making noises that are completely natural to them, this be cows mooing or dogs barking, you don't really pay attention to it. The sound is just there. But if it's your own making the noise you start trying to make them keep quiet through a strange perception that it will reflect badly on you that your animals are noisy.
So make a minimal amount 'legal' to hold and ONLY if you contact the police about it, not the other way around. Make it small enough to be a useless defense for the real perps, but large enough that the average guy who stumbled across it can safely contact the police.
That could get annoying fast. I've disabled the 'smart keys' in Windows because I have a stupid tendency to either hold down Shift while thinking of how to open a new line, or tap it several times if I can't decide between multiple choices. To finally start writing and then have to backspace, double-tap and start over would be a very, very annoying 'feature'.
Trying to make a new Caps Lock is reinventing the wheel to see if a 100-sided polygon would get better friction. There's no need, the wheel works the way it does and it's second nature to the vast majority of anyone who uses it already.
And how exactly do you suggest doing that on, say, a consumer forum using very limited BBcode? The moment you don't have control over the code generated on the page you may as well give up on being fancy.
As someone who used to live in an area of my country where a lot of Muslim refugees were housed I can say that yes, a LOT of Muslims consider dogs something to avoid like the plague, to the point of quite literally screaming and running across the street to the opposite sidewalk if they saw someone approach with a dog on a leash.
And as we all know, screaming like a maniac and running away is the best way of having a dog not notice you.
It must really suck for their male kids to have to go to the bathroom blindfolded.
Imagine being in the shower and you have to fumble around for the thermostat, the soap, the shampoo.
Having to change underwear with your eyes shut.
By extension of the sensibilities of some of the most prudish people even male animals would need to have their genitals covered. I recall one famous episode some years ago of a horse statue that was demanded to be covered up because it was anatomically correct.
We live in a Disney world where anything that can even remotely hint at any kind of sexuality makes people panic, and here's a newsflash for you: We are the only species on this planet with such a strange take on all things sexual, and it's not because we're smarter than the animals.
Does the term 'vendor lock-in' mean anything to you? How about contracts you can't get out of for six or twelve months? Walking away isn't as easy as you make it out to be.
and the related data necessary to identify the subscriber or user
And what better way to identify beyond reasonable doubt who the user is than to save all emails to check for signatures, record all calls to compare voices, and so on. Right?
The first two have no inherent interest in shaping the internet into a pure 'consume, consume, consume' form. Not familiar with Steve Burke so not going to comment on him.
That would work if this was just being done by some out-in-the-sticks local newspaper.
Murdoch is rich and has influence. He has the political power to set a precedent for how to do things. Simply ignoring him is not going to change that one bit.
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Try visiting Germany and watching dubbed movies. At least with cartoons you don't get a headache from the voices not being synced to the lip movements.
Or Danish, as the case is for me.
Depends on the language of the magazine. In my language it really is 'syndrom' with no e at the end.
No. Just ... No.
Unless you have a very, very unique name (like M. Zuckerberg, probably) your Facebook profile can't easily be linked to your appearance in a phone book. No one will know if the Billy Smith they see on Facebook living "somewhere in Oregon" is B. Smith #36 in the phone book. If they can actually get that information off your profile the game changes completely.
EMO Software? Seriously? Please go back to Marketing 101, you skipped the classes on checking if acronyms might have multiple meanings.
Disclaimer: Whenever I state something in this reply to sound like absolute truth, please read it as "In an ideal world, they would do it like this".
Wikipedia has a big advantage over Google when looking for information on a given subject: The articles have been written to summarize all the important bits for quick and easy absorption. If you want to get a basic grasp of something you can use Wikipedia for a summary, and then the citations, references, footnotes etc. for deeper investigation.
Not very long ago I needed the population numbers of a series of countries. Rather than finding miles of census reports from each individual country, trying to find an English version, trying to find the one number I need, I just checked each country's Wikipedia page.
Was the number accurate? Maybe not to the most current census in some cases, but I didn't need to-the-minute accuracy, just a rough idea of how many people lived in each country, and that's not a number that normally fluctuates wildly from year to year.
Wikipedia has its uses over Google when it comes to quick facts.
Have you ever compared the meat bought at a random supermarket to the meat bought straight from a small farm where the animal has lived a really good life until it was taken to the butcher? Believe me, there is a MASSIVE difference - without wanting to mimic the vegan "meat tastes of fear!" line, you really can taste if the animal had a good life.
That's called practice. Same way a person who drives around for 8 to 10 hours a day as part of his job drives better than someone who's only behind the wheel once every couple of weeks.
Were the cavemen allowed to look up words in a dictionary to check how they were spelled? There's your answer to that question.
Of course, I remember when I finished high school and the exam meant solely to see how well we spelled had been changed to give you twenty minutes with a dictionary after the test. I placed the dictionary at the corner of my table, leaned back and stared down the teacher for twenty minutes. And got an A. Good times.
There's money in hijacking typo domains. A few years ago I meant to go to www.gamefaqs.com, accidentally typed www.gamefaws.com and ended up on a gay porn site, so I'm pretty sure variants such as www.disnye.com etc. are possible suspects. I have the integrity of my computer too dear to check where that leads.
Oh, so that's why all homes in California have 1GB fiber straight to the door, right?
My perception of it, and to be fair I'm not Russian nor do I know a lot about the mentality of Russian farmers, is this:
When your neighbors' animals are making noises that are completely natural to them, this be cows mooing or dogs barking, you don't really pay attention to it. The sound is just there. But if it's your own making the noise you start trying to make them keep quiet through a strange perception that it will reflect badly on you that your animals are noisy.
So make a minimal amount 'legal' to hold and ONLY if you contact the police about it, not the other way around. Make it small enough to be a useless defense for the real perps, but large enough that the average guy who stumbled across it can safely contact the police.
That's not glue.
That could get annoying fast. I've disabled the 'smart keys' in Windows because I have a stupid tendency to either hold down Shift while thinking of how to open a new line, or tap it several times if I can't decide between multiple choices. To finally start writing and then have to backspace, double-tap and start over would be a very, very annoying 'feature'.
Trying to make a new Caps Lock is reinventing the wheel to see if a 100-sided polygon would get better friction. There's no need, the wheel works the way it does and it's second nature to the vast majority of anyone who uses it already.
And how exactly do you suggest doing that on, say, a consumer forum using very limited BBcode? The moment you don't have control over the code generated on the page you may as well give up on being fancy.
As someone who used to live in an area of my country where a lot of Muslim refugees were housed I can say that yes, a LOT of Muslims consider dogs something to avoid like the plague, to the point of quite literally screaming and running across the street to the opposite sidewalk if they saw someone approach with a dog on a leash.
And as we all know, screaming like a maniac and running away is the best way of having a dog not notice you.
"Get your free illegal torrents here!"
It must really suck for their male kids to have to go to the bathroom blindfolded.
Imagine being in the shower and you have to fumble around for the thermostat, the soap, the shampoo.
Having to change underwear with your eyes shut.
By extension of the sensibilities of some of the most prudish people even male animals would need to have their genitals covered. I recall one famous episode some years ago of a horse statue that was demanded to be covered up because it was anatomically correct.
We live in a Disney world where anything that can even remotely hint at any kind of sexuality makes people panic, and here's a newsflash for you: We are the only species on this planet with such a strange take on all things sexual, and it's not because we're smarter than the animals.
See, that's the problem - CALLIBM can also be CALLIAN. I like living in a country where a phone number consists of NUMBERS for this very reason.
Obligatory Simpsons reference: Burns trying to call Smithers by dialing, yes, SMITHERS on the phone.
Does the term 'vendor lock-in' mean anything to you? How about contracts you can't get out of for six or twelve months? Walking away isn't as easy as you make it out to be.
and the related data necessary to identify the subscriber or user
And what better way to identify beyond reasonable doubt who the user is than to save all emails to check for signatures, record all calls to compare voices, and so on. Right?
For all the flaws Spore had, it got this one right.
It detected the use of cheats and gave you a very special achievement that blocked out getting any other achievements on that save. Ever.
The first two have no inherent interest in shaping the internet into a pure 'consume, consume, consume' form. Not familiar with Steve Burke so not going to comment on him.
That would work if this was just being done by some out-in-the-sticks local newspaper.
Murdoch is rich and has influence. He has the political power to set a precedent for how to do things. Simply ignoring him is not going to change that one bit.