I see your point, but I'd reply that if you don't want to "come out", you shouldn't declare yourself gay anywhere and most certainly not on facebook of all places.
Some people may be "out" to friends and family, but not to coworkers. Facebook may interfere sexual orientation from friends and from participation in certain events, even if you left the "prefers" choice blank in your profile. And theoretically they could interfere it from the photos at which you look the longest/most often, even if you're still completely closeted...
Pssht! I've got a secret for you: even if you leave the "prefers women or men" selector blank, Facebook can still figure it out. They just need to look at your friends, and if a sizable number of them did chose to come out of the closet, they can infer with a reasonable probability that you are gay too, even if you're still in the closet (as far as Facebook is concerned).
The effect is pretty obvious if you are gay, and live in a reasonably small town. Just click any person in the same town, look at the common friends. If almost all mutual friends are gay, chances are high that the target is gay too. Even without the "prefers men or women" box.
Of course there are exceptions. Some people just like to hang out with gay people without being so themselves. But in the majority of cases, it works out pretty well.
Also, participation in gay events is a pretty sure way to tell too, even if you're "just" invited and didn't admit you intend to join.
Or being tagged in photos at such events (but that's harder to find out automatically)
All these raspberry birds need to link to a base station somewhere (or how else would would customers communicate with them). And this station needs to be on firm ground, in some jurisdiction, and be connected via some backbone to the rest of the internet. Quite a number of potential points of failure to lean on without ever needing to take a single bird down.
... and really, this way, for an outsider both of the following situations are indistinguishable:
A number of strange sites apparently unconnected to a "reputable" shop link to him, pushing him up (in the short term at least). But in reality, it's the shopkeeper who set those "unconnected" domains up as a way to do SEO.
A number of strange sites apparently unconnected to a "reputable" shop link to him, pushing him up (in the short term at least). But in reality, it's one of the shopkeeper's competitors who set those "unconnected" domains up in order to get the target bitchslapped in the long run
Soon enough everybody will realize that "get SEO" is a synonym for "get your site removed from the first page of results for the next two years" and then finding methods of fooling the Googlebot in the short-term won't matter anymore because no one will be willing to attempt it if they can get slapped with a long-term penalty.
No one, except the spammers, that is. The spammers won't care, because they'll just open a new site under a new domain.
Hmmm, be careful about selection bias those. Like most "famous last quotes", these "passing fad" quotes will not be remembered if the fad is indeed passing.
Who would have remembered Bill Gate's 640K quote if he turned out to be right?
Something like that already exists (check the GunStock Shooter). If you use it in a war zone though there might be collateral damage.
Actually, this "GunStock" Shooter looks nothing like a gun. It's shoulder mounted... and that's about where the similarities stop... It's more like a steadycam for still cameras...
Perhaps the pub should be raising some hell with them. Specifically on why they don't seem to understand the concept of building web sites using only original and/or royalty free images.
That, and the cheessy horse blinkers!
So they can't even say that they are being sued by the narrowminded American movie industry...
GPS satellites already have to take into account the relativistic effects of their motion. This is not new.
Right now, they "only" meed to take into account relativistic effects due to the satellite's speed, or due to the lower gravity at their altitude. What is new is that this new clock is so sensitive that it would need to take into account the relativistic effects due to the small amount of gravity caused by passing trucks...
The former is easily modelizable (and can thus be compensated for), whereas the later isn't.
Corporations have figured out the public doesn't listen to the news any more. Their own greed is too high and self control too low, so Sony can pretty much piss in your face and demand you pay for it and the public will only see a shower and pay the price.
Sure, gold prices are sky hight currently, so what did you expect?
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I see your point, but I'd reply that if you don't want to "come out", you shouldn't declare yourself gay anywhere and most certainly not on facebook of all places.
Some people may be "out" to friends and family, but not to coworkers. Facebook may interfere sexual orientation from friends and from participation in certain events, even if you left the "prefers" choice blank in your profile. And theoretically they could interfere it from the photos at which you look the longest/most often, even if you're still completely closeted...
if I choose to declare that I'm gay
Pssht! I've got a secret for you: even if you leave the "prefers women or men" selector blank, Facebook can still figure it out. They just need to look at your friends, and if a sizable number of them did chose to come out of the closet, they can infer with a reasonable probability that you are gay too, even if you're still in the closet (as far as Facebook is concerned).
The effect is pretty obvious if you are gay, and live in a reasonably small town. Just click any person in the same town, look at the common friends. If almost all mutual friends are gay, chances are high that the target is gay too. Even without the "prefers men or women" box.
Of course there are exceptions. Some people just like to hang out with gay people without being so themselves. But in the majority of cases, it works out pretty well.
Also, participation in gay events is a pretty sure way to tell too, even if you're "just" invited and didn't admit you intend to join.
Or being tagged in photos at such events (but that's harder to find out automatically)
... December 21st, 2012 is approaching!
Grandparent is right - if "shit happens", it should be Apple's problem, not mine.
But whatever you do, don't use lube or you'll get Santorum, and that will be all USA's (... and the world's) problem!
I didn't attempt to present an argument to ban sales of iPhones.
Maybe a good compromise would be to only sell them from the top shelf...
You know, despite the jokes on slashdot, you really are NOT supposed to insert them into your anus. Now you know why.
As far as the phone not being merchantable? You got a couple of outliers. Shit happens.
Now you know why you should have an enema before "using" your iPhone... Shit won't "happen" if you rinse it out beforehand!
Well I was thinking an anchor with a length of rope
So the MAFIAA could just sail there, and reel them in...
But with 'loons the point is moot anyways: dart guns are much cheaper than cruise missiles with much less potential for collateral damage...
lots of problems with servers in the air... much easier to put servers on ships in int'l waters... like pirate radio...
Just be careful to not put them anywhere near Somalia...
All these raspberry birds need to link to a base station somewhere (or how else would would customers communicate with them). And this station needs to be on firm ground, in some jurisdiction, and be connected via some backbone to the rest of the internet. Quite a number of potential points of failure to lean on without ever needing to take a single bird down.
...all it takes is to sacrifice 10'000 Raspberry Pi ($250'000 worth)
...bbbbut, 10000 that's the entire production run! I don't think raspberry pies were intended to serve as cheap skeet shooting targets...
Without link-backs, it's only you who would get penalized, since what you're doing falls under the "dodgy SEO" criteria.
The perp would not do these links from a site that he cares about, but he'd set up a farm of throwaway domain spefically for the purpose.
Soon enough everybody will realize that "get SEO" is a synonym for "get your site removed from the first page of results for the next two years" and then finding methods of fooling the Googlebot in the short-term won't matter anymore because no one will be willing to attempt it if they can get slapped with a long-term penalty.
No one, except the spammers, that is. The spammers won't care, because they'll just open a new site under a new domain.
... and then he breaks the speed record?
Who would have remembered Bill Gate's 640K quote if he turned out to be right?
Something like that already exists (check the GunStock Shooter). If you use it in a war zone though there might be collateral damage.
Actually, this "GunStock" Shooter looks nothing like a gun. It's shoulder mounted... and that's about where the similarities stop... It's more like a steadycam for still cameras...
You'd not want to start much earlier.
Well, with a wait of 63 years, that takes a lot of self-control...
Perhaps the pub should be raising some hell with them. Specifically on why they don't seem to understand the concept of building web sites using only original and/or royalty free images.
That, and the cheessy horse blinkers!
So they can't even say that they are being sued by the narrowminded American movie industry...
There's the famous vacuum cleaner VAX for sale over in England. Did DEC sue them?
Not until they started their advertisement campaign "nothing sux like a Vax"...
or showing your age (er, lack thereof)
Lack thereof? For knowing about Terminate and Stay Resident programs?
Couldn't the pub countersue for racketeering? Or maybe they would have a better case if they started selling pizzaa?
you can be legally prevented from using your own name in branding if it covers an industry in which another has registered it as a trademark.
Exactly
GPS satellites already have to take into account the relativistic effects of their motion. This is not new.
Right now, they "only" meed to take into account relativistic effects due to the satellite's speed, or due to the lower gravity at their altitude. What is new is that this new clock is so sensitive that it would need to take into account the relativistic effects due to the small amount of gravity caused by passing trucks...
The former is easily modelizable (and can thus be compensated for), whereas the later isn't.
a man with three clocks knows if one of his clocks is not working correctly.
So does a man with two clocks. But a man with three clocks may know which one.
Corporations have figured out the public doesn't listen to the news any more. Their own greed is too high and self control too low, so Sony can pretty much piss in your face and demand you pay for it and the public will only see a shower and pay the price.
Sure, gold prices are sky hight currently, so what did you expect?