0% of any country's news must be proven factually accurate from what I can tell. Can we get some journalistic standards in the house? Anybody? You mean you want the government to be able to decide that only what they consider to be factual news is shown? Why aren't you living in China or Russia or any dictatorship already then?
Then you get to spend the next 2 days straight fixing what the incompetent night shift who rarely have to actually work and likely can't get a day job fucked up in trying to fix the problem.
Or Europeans don't want to have to live in a 5'x5' room their whole lives due to overcrowding. Of course Europeans also get 2+ months of vacation time a year, have very good job protection (if they can get a job that is), work 35- hour weeks and spend their lives looking forward to retirement.
I guess you may have meant American's in your post but we bread rather well Granted US "culture" is such a shit hole right now that I wish more Americans wouldn't do that for the world's sake if nothing else.
Well the question is better stated: Is your website worth enough to those users for them to open up IE every single time they wish to look at it. Most of the time the question is "no." In the end most people would just say "fuck it" after a while and use another website that provides the same service (welcome to capitalism).
Eh? http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions has exactly 4 english language lists. 2 of them are essentially one entity. One is not recommended and one is stated to be a minimal block list. In other words there is one recommended english list. Sicne when is "one" considered "many, many." That list in turn is both hosted on the adblock plus domain, you can find the timestamp of the last update (2 days ago) and find the activity level of the forum (frequent replies by list owner). I think that pretty much disproves everything you've said.
Adblock Plus and Filterset.G. That's not recommended to quote the Adblock Plus webpage:
Do I need to install Filterset.G Updater?
No. Actually, it is recommended not to use Filterset.G with Adblock Plus. There are several reasons for this:
* Filterset.G has been intentionally made incompatible with the built-in subscriptions feature in Adblock Plus, updating Filterset.G requires a separate extension which basically duplicates existing functionality.
* Filterset.G is not optimized for use with Adblock Plus, it will slow down your browsing considerably more than any other filter list.
* Filterset.G makes heavy use of very complicated regular expressions with the consequence that finding the source of problems is difficult and fixing those problems is even more so. In fact, Filterset.G is fixing most problems with exception rules which creates a problem on its own (see next point).
* Filterset.G contains a considerable number of exception rules. This is a big problem because exception rules cannot be overridden. It happened on several occasions that exception rules from Filterset.G whitelisted actual ads making these ads unblockable -- something users usually blamed Adblock Plus for.
While Filterset.G has had its uses in the past, nowadays other filter lists are certainly a better choice. If you already have Filterset.G Updater installed, you can uninstall the extension and remove the Filterset.G subscription in the Adblock Plus Preferences dialog. Feel free to choose any subscription from the list then.
Except that there is NO prohibitive pricing, it's anti-MS FUD and you Mac users just eat it up. If this was windows XP you'd need to buy TWO copies instead of just a business version. Why do you expert MS to for free give you two licenses when you buy their cheapest version? Fuck, have you even read any of the other comments about this or are you just rambling based on a flawed summary like all the other apple sheep?
The most obviosu one would be some form of general political restrictions on TV akin to those imposed in parts of the US on candidate's TV time. Second of all would be, as someone mentioned, that parts of this group or the groups advocate positions or perform actions that are "illegal" (ie: akin to the German block of anything Nazi related or the anti-hate speech laws of other nations). In relation to the last part it needs to be noted that many Europeans would probably find US tv bans on nudity to be beyond absurd.
The story only says they are "virtually banned" and doesn't explain further which either means there are valid reasons (but telling them wouldn't get you a slashdot link) or this isn't an official ban (ie: no one wants to air this group for fear of pissing of someone in power).
As someone else pointed out in another comment (I totally forgot about this myself given how little of a damn I give about this topic) you are perfectly free to run any version in any VM. You simpyl can't run it both in a VM and as a standalone install. So if all you need is a few programs then you are perfectly free to run any version you want. If you also want to run it under say boot camp then you need to buy either two copies or a more expensive version.
At least unlike OS X I can actually run windows under any system be it in a VM or natively without breaking the license (and having to jump through hoops).
First of all this story is weeks if not months old, and a dupe to boot. Second of all this applies only if you run vista in/as a virtual machine not if you install on a mac that also has virtulization (for another OS say). In other words you can use boot camp to boot to your heart's content but can't run the cheaper Vista version in a VM under OS X just like everyone else in the fucking world who wants to run vista under a VM.
I mean what the hell is up with Apple users and their inferiority/persecution complexes? This applies to all VMs and likely the number of non-mac users running windows under a VM (developers, linux users, etc.) is far larger than the number of Mac users who'd be doing it.
I actually recruit trustworthy students to test my security in my presence and try to break it..I've found and fixed lots of loopholes that way.
From personal experience "trustworthy students" aren't always "trustworthy" no matter what it may seem like. When I was in high school one "trusted student" grabbed a few pairs of master keys to various things, another grabbed the master student database (classes, addresses, default passwords, etc.) and the passwd file for the school (and promptly cracked half of it) while a few others kept putting quake 2 on various servers. Granted other students who weren't trusted also managed to do all of these but in more complicated ways.
My school district does not block wikipedia but the teachers do not allow it as a legitimate source on research papers....they also don't allow paper encyclopedias in most schools.
And for centuries people have successfully lived without electricity and used horses for transportation. It's called progress, just because things used to be done one way doesn't mean there aren't better methods now. Heck we used to find slavery, torture and monarchies to be the order of the day so do you want those back as well since they worked (successfully even) for so long?
Sure they have libraries, where do you think they keep those computers to use for research? Libraries are very limited in terms of physical assets due to funding for example, they cannot keep things like scientific journals and articles on hand. The information they have is likewise out of date as current events or methods may be lacking. I don't expect a HS library to for example have books on the newest version of Linux, Unix, Python, MySQL, Perl, Ruby or even C++ (if the application or libraries are new or updated).
Older information is hard to access due to begin stored on mcirofilm with a limited index (if any) and most likely is no longer updated anyway (due to costs for example). My HS library for example had access through subscriptions (donated I think) to the last 100 years worth of articles from dozens if not hundreds of indexed newspapers and journals.
I'm sure they could have done this in the old days, they'd simply need to have spend an extra dozen hours at is they went to the city library, the local college (and trying to get access), contacted people who may have access to the information (and first finding them, remember no email or internet searching allowed), etc.
Or like my HS, IT doesn't have enough manpower or money to deal with such things (they're too busy doing things like fixing broken computers, running essentials services, etc.) nor do they give a damn as long as it doesn't cause problems to the rest of the network.
And you know what? They're right, the work required to combat dozens of students 24/7 is simply not worth it in the end.
Uhhhm, research? The internet is THE tool for a lot of things now and even more so if the school has subscriptions to online resources. This holds even more true for anything CS related (please see comments on the previous slashdot regarding new MySQL reference book).
He's a school principal, from my experience 75% of school administrators are morons and ego/control freaks. The ones that aren't in public schools quickly learn that they can get 4 times as much in a private school and when they get fed up enough they do just that.
On the other hand the low intelligence of the bad ones means that anyone with even average intelligence and determination can run circles around them.
What pushed me to adblock isn't ads, it's ANNOYING ads. Exactly, hell I don't even block all ads. My method is very simple: if I see an annoying ad I block the whole ad provider network, plain and simple. Seems to work rather well for me.
Then someone should tell that to the people who've been printing phone books for the last few decades. Or have you never actually opened up a nice thick paper phone book with its orgy of keyword based advertisements?
Thats assuming I'm running the app at that time. Too bad if I say turn on my computer in the morning and suddenly find that I can't do jack shit for the next three months (no, three months is not an exaggeration given past experience) cause someone jackhammered the fiber line.
This is about an ADVERTISER optimizing their own website to maximize their OWN profits. Specifically by maximizing how many people actually perform a desired action (conversion) such as buying something.
How long does it take you to move your webapp+db to a clean machine? I can just rsync. How often do you move your small web blog across machines? I can technically rsync a MySQL database (MyISAM at least) as well and it will work fine on the other end.
You arn't going to have multiple accesses from seperate machines, simultaneous updates, or any other possibly reason for justifying a remote DB. Unless slashdot links you for example.
It's very simple really: Do you pay an income tax? If you do then your WoW sales (to RL money that is) are income and are taxed as such. Thats all. Possibly if you're a company doing such sales than whatever sales tax would apply for other purchases would also apply.
Sales tax is NOT income tax, I sincerely hope you realize this. Also why the FUCK does no one RTFA or even other comments, the point is to not tax in-game activities (it even states WHY that doesn't make economical much less practical sense) but to tax them when they get sold (thus converted into income).
I mean in the time you wrote that damn reply you could have read the three paragraphs that make up the article.
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Then you get to spend the next 2 days straight fixing what the incompetent night shift who rarely have to actually work and likely can't get a day job fucked up in trying to fix the problem.
Or Europeans don't want to have to live in a 5'x5' room their whole lives due to overcrowding. Of course Europeans also get 2+ months of vacation time a year, have very good job protection (if they can get a job that is), work 35- hour weeks and spend their lives looking forward to retirement.
I guess you may have meant American's in your post but we bread rather well Granted US "culture" is such a shit hole right now that I wish more Americans wouldn't do that for the world's sake if nothing else.
In which case an epia really isn't right for you now is it? I mean you do realize that it's only going to use 350W if its under load, right?
and after I answer them the 20th time I'd say "fuck you" and either disable the system or use a service that doesn't have it.
Well the question is better stated: Is your website worth enough to those users for them to open up IE every single time they wish to look at it. Most of the time the question is "no." In the end most people would just say "fuck it" after a while and use another website that provides the same service (welcome to capitalism).
Eh?
http://adblockplus.org/en/subscriptions has exactly 4 english language lists. 2 of them are essentially one entity. One is not recommended and one is stated to be a minimal block list. In other words there is one recommended english list. Sicne when is "one" considered "many, many." That list in turn is both hosted on the adblock plus domain, you can find the timestamp of the last update (2 days ago) and find the activity level of the forum (frequent replies by list owner). I think that pretty much disproves everything you've said.
No. Actually, it is recommended not to use Filterset.G with Adblock Plus. There are several reasons for this:
* Filterset.G has been intentionally made incompatible with the built-in subscriptions feature in Adblock Plus, updating Filterset.G requires a separate extension which basically duplicates existing functionality.
* Filterset.G is not optimized for use with Adblock Plus, it will slow down your browsing considerably more than any other filter list.
* Filterset.G makes heavy use of very complicated regular expressions with the consequence that finding the source of problems is difficult and fixing those problems is even more so. In fact, Filterset.G is fixing most problems with exception rules which creates a problem on its own (see next point).
* Filterset.G contains a considerable number of exception rules. This is a big problem because exception rules cannot be overridden. It happened on several occasions that exception rules from Filterset.G whitelisted actual ads making these ads unblockable -- something users usually blamed Adblock Plus for.
While Filterset.G has had its uses in the past, nowadays other filter lists are certainly a better choice. If you already have Filterset.G Updater installed, you can uninstall the extension and remove the Filterset.G subscription in the Adblock Plus Preferences dialog. Feel free to choose any subscription from the list then.
Except that there is NO prohibitive pricing, it's anti-MS FUD and you Mac users just eat it up. If this was windows XP you'd need to buy TWO copies instead of just a business version. Why do you expert MS to for free give you two licenses when you buy their cheapest version? Fuck, have you even read any of the other comments about this or are you just rambling based on a flawed summary like all the other apple sheep?
In other words, thank you for proving my point.
The most obviosu one would be some form of general political restrictions on TV akin to those imposed in parts of the US on candidate's TV time. Second of all would be, as someone mentioned, that parts of this group or the groups advocate positions or perform actions that are "illegal" (ie: akin to the German block of anything Nazi related or the anti-hate speech laws of other nations). In relation to the last part it needs to be noted that many Europeans would probably find US tv bans on nudity to be beyond absurd.
The story only says they are "virtually banned" and doesn't explain further which either means there are valid reasons (but telling them wouldn't get you a slashdot link) or this isn't an official ban (ie: no one wants to air this group for fear of pissing of someone in power).
Is there another side to this story? IS there a valid reason for the TV ban? Is it even a TV ban? And so on.
I have long ago learned that slashdot stories and summaries have enough bias in them to drown half the world in so thats why I'm asking.
As someone else pointed out in another comment (I totally forgot about this myself given how little of a damn I give about this topic) you are perfectly free to run any version in any VM. You simpyl can't run it both in a VM and as a standalone install. So if all you need is a few programs then you are perfectly free to run any version you want. If you also want to run it under say boot camp then you need to buy either two copies or a more expensive version.
At least unlike OS X I can actually run windows under any system be it in a VM or natively without breaking the license (and having to jump through hoops).
First of all this story is weeks if not months old, and a dupe to boot. Second of all this applies only if you run vista in/as a virtual machine not if you install on a mac that also has virtulization (for another OS say). In other words you can use boot camp to boot to your heart's content but can't run the cheaper Vista version in a VM under OS X just like everyone else in the fucking world who wants to run vista under a VM.
I mean what the hell is up with Apple users and their inferiority/persecution complexes? This applies to all VMs and likely the number of non-mac users running windows under a VM (developers, linux users, etc.) is far larger than the number of Mac users who'd be doing it.
I actually recruit trustworthy students to test my security in my presence and try to break it..I've found and fixed lots of loopholes that way.
...they also don't allow paper encyclopedias in most schools.
From personal experience "trustworthy students" aren't always "trustworthy" no matter what it may seem like. When I was in high school one "trusted student" grabbed a few pairs of master keys to various things, another grabbed the master student database (classes, addresses, default passwords, etc.) and the passwd file for the school (and promptly cracked half of it) while a few others kept putting quake 2 on various servers. Granted other students who weren't trusted also managed to do all of these but in more complicated ways.
My school district does not block wikipedia but the teachers do not allow it as a legitimate source on research papers.
And for centuries people have successfully lived without electricity and used horses for transportation. It's called progress, just because things used to be done one way doesn't mean there aren't better methods now. Heck we used to find slavery, torture and monarchies to be the order of the day so do you want those back as well since they worked (successfully even) for so long?
Sure they have libraries, where do you think they keep those computers to use for research? Libraries are very limited in terms of physical assets due to funding for example, they cannot keep things like scientific journals and articles on hand. The information they have is likewise out of date as current events or methods may be lacking. I don't expect a HS library to for example have books on the newest version of Linux, Unix, Python, MySQL, Perl, Ruby or even C++ (if the application or libraries are new or updated).
Older information is hard to access due to begin stored on mcirofilm with a limited index (if any) and most likely is no longer updated anyway (due to costs for example). My HS library for example had access through subscriptions (donated I think) to the last 100 years worth of articles from dozens if not hundreds of indexed newspapers and journals.
I'm sure they could have done this in the old days, they'd simply need to have spend an extra dozen hours at is they went to the city library, the local college (and trying to get access), contacted people who may have access to the information (and first finding them, remember no email or internet searching allowed), etc.
Or like my HS, IT doesn't have enough manpower or money to deal with such things (they're too busy doing things like fixing broken computers, running essentials services, etc.) nor do they give a damn as long as it doesn't cause problems to the rest of the network.
And you know what? They're right, the work required to combat dozens of students 24/7 is simply not worth it in the end.
Uhhhm, research? The internet is THE tool for a lot of things now and even more so if the school has subscriptions to online resources. This holds even more true for anything CS related (please see comments on the previous slashdot regarding new MySQL reference book).
He's a school principal, from my experience 75% of school administrators are morons and ego/control freaks. The ones that aren't in public schools quickly learn that they can get 4 times as much in a private school and when they get fed up enough they do just that.
On the other hand the low intelligence of the bad ones means that anyone with even average intelligence and determination can run circles around them.
Then someone should tell that to the people who've been printing phone books for the last few decades. Or have you never actually opened up a nice thick paper phone book with its orgy of keyword based advertisements?
Thats assuming I'm running the app at that time. Too bad if I say turn on my computer in the morning and suddenly find that I can't do jack shit for the next three months (no, three months is not an exaggeration given past experience) cause someone jackhammered the fiber line.
RTFA or even the summary for god's sake.
This is about an ADVERTISER optimizing their own website to maximize their OWN profits. Specifically by maximizing how many people actually perform a desired action (conversion) such as buying something.
It's very simple really: Do you pay an income tax? If you do then your WoW sales (to RL money that is) are income and are taxed as such. Thats all. Possibly if you're a company doing such sales than whatever sales tax would apply for other purchases would also apply.
Sales tax is NOT income tax, I sincerely hope you realize this. Also why the FUCK does no one RTFA or even other comments, the point is to not tax in-game activities (it even states WHY that doesn't make economical much less practical sense) but to tax them when they get sold (thus converted into income).
I mean in the time you wrote that damn reply you could have read the three paragraphs that make up the article.
That didn't stop Google from becoming successful now did it?