I use this feature all the time without ever hitting the button. When you type a search query in the Firefox location bar it does a very similar thing. I'm not sure if this is counted in this statistic, but I don't have a chance to click any ads when I use it. Which is all the time, because it's way easier to remember the site name or what it was about than remember the exact domain.
Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, and Myanmar (Burma) are due to export controls on countries the US doesn't play nice with. Quebec is because they have asinine rules about contests. Italy I have no idea, but it's probably similar to Quebec.
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Most anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and economists would disagree violently.
So the way to counter rising crime is to lock up all the anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, and economists?
One idea might be that in fact this isn't a replacement for biking, skateboarding, taking public transit, or whatever else have you. But instead that it could supplement someone whose primary means of transport is one of those. I'd sort of feel like I'd have to have a car for select situations, and once I'd have a car I'd feel like I'd need to justify the expense by using it. This and current car sharing schemes neatly sidestep that. You have a car when you need one, not when you don't. This is more efficient all around. It can save you money, it can reduce environmental impact, and it can reduce congestion.
Google Gears - Relatively recent release, definitely key to bridging online/offline divide. Google Video - Probably gets killed off or refocused at some point, YouTube is their main entry in that space now. Google Talk - Big shift away from the downloadable client toward web-based versions, which seem to attract more market share. Google Pack - Don't really need to do anything with this, except new versions of apps when they update. Google Accelerator - This I'm pretty sure they've orphaned, for the reasons you state. Google Product Search - Didn't take off like they thought, will continue to exist and get some improvements. Orkut - Big in Brazil, probably will get eclipsed by a serious entry/acquisition into social networks at some point. Picasa - Still around, still gets regular updates. Blogger - Ditto. Just got a big upgrade. SketchUp - Relatively recent acquisition, probably will be like Picasa or Earth. There, but not part of the central strategy.
If they are going to be this petty.. why not take it one step further.. start suing people for singing to/around another person.. start suing people for quoting/tattooing/anything meaningful stanzas to get their fair share.. start suing people for tattooing band names as those are copyrighted and/or trademarked.
It's probable that they're seeing a lot of automated traffic with these URLs. They know for sure that these are malicious networks and they're spreading on their IM client. Maybe they already patched the vulnerabilities, but these are people who have (apparently) not set auto update to work. Maybe they plan to fix it in the next roll-up but need a stopgap in the meantime. It's not hard to imagine an ethical scenario where you pretty much have to block that traffic. Now the question becomes how. I'm not sure I agree with the silent blocking or the indiscriminate targeting like.info, but the very fact that they're blocking known attack vectors I don't think is a bad idea.
It's a good idea to have a privacy czar, assuming the other half of his job description isn't to implement EU-style data retention policies. This Orwellian definition of privacy I wouldn't put past the government to invent.
What I really want is a dialogue with Intel engineers about this piece of Intel-themed news. Why can't you add something like that to the site? You could call it something like Opinions With Intel or Intel And Opinions or Center for Intel. No that's not quite right.
Speaking as someone who is heavily involved in the specifics of a 4-year-old 1-to-1 laptop program in a school, I can state that it is a matter of integration, planning, and infrastructure. If you sit down and you recognize that lots of laptops will break, that the curriculum must be modified, that students will attempt to get around restrictions you will have a much better experience. If you just dump the laptops on the schools and expect it to work you're going to be in a world of hurt. This is not to say the deployment at my school/employer is flawless, far from it. We have all those problems and more. But they have not been crippling, because we planned and we have the integration and infrastructure in place to mitigate them.
With both Digg and Slashdot in open revolt (well, Slashdot actually encouraged it) I say it's time to take this broader. Let's take this to the streets, the news media, and anyone who will listen. Subversive protest against an unjust law. I'm considering posting this number around my school, what will you do?
I'm going to try to pre-empt a whole bunch of comments here by saying that new technology and ways of thinking sometimes require new words. When that constitutes a buzzword, as opposed to a legitimate attempt to define something new, is sort of unclear. However, I'm staking out the position that the inter-relation and rapid spread of topics seen in blogs requires legitimate new terminology. Although I'm well aware that some people here still regard blog as buzzword, even though it's been almost entirely mainstreamed.
have the at least allowed for non-drm music to be shared indefinitely?
Just because they don't have DRM, doesn't mean copyright doesn't still apply. The songs are most likely meant for personal use only, but personal use on a wider array of devices and from a wider array of services without restriction against format shifting or fair use.
Have you considered providing the better imagery to Google? In at least some cases they've been relatively responsive to such requests, especially when they get better imagery out of the deal. You probably have and for some reason haven't been able to, but just in case I thought I'd mention it.
This is getting ridiculous. It's just one excuse to hate something you already hate after another. How on Earth does a 10% discount a month or so after product introduction somehow mean they're failing? On the planet I live on manufacturers offer discounts all the time, in graduated amounts as time goes on to get the maximum on all price points. Every single Microsoft story is spun to be negative and sometimes the stretch it takes to do that is much more obvious than others. This is one of those times. And no, I'm not new here, just really tired of this bullshit.
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I use this feature all the time without ever hitting the button. When you type a search query in the Firefox location bar it does a very similar thing. I'm not sure if this is counted in this statistic, but I don't have a chance to click any ads when I use it. Which is all the time, because it's way easier to remember the site name or what it was about than remember the exact domain.
These psychologists should just have read Penny Arcade.
Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, and Myanmar (Burma) are due to export controls on countries the US doesn't play nice with. Quebec is because they have asinine rules about contests. Italy I have no idea, but it's probably similar to Quebec.
One idea might be that in fact this isn't a replacement for biking, skateboarding, taking public transit, or whatever else have you. But instead that it could supplement someone whose primary means of transport is one of those. I'd sort of feel like I'd have to have a car for select situations, and once I'd have a car I'd feel like I'd need to justify the expense by using it. This and current car sharing schemes neatly sidestep that. You have a car when you need one, not when you don't. This is more efficient all around. It can save you money, it can reduce environmental impact, and it can reduce congestion.
Any reason I should believe stinkbomb (238228) more? My test is if the message is convincing, not if the guy has a PhD.
Google Gears - Relatively recent release, definitely key to bridging online/offline divide.
Google Video - Probably gets killed off or refocused at some point, YouTube is their main entry in that space now.
Google Talk - Big shift away from the downloadable client toward web-based versions, which seem to attract more market share.
Google Pack - Don't really need to do anything with this, except new versions of apps when they update.
Google Accelerator - This I'm pretty sure they've orphaned, for the reasons you state.
Google Product Search - Didn't take off like they thought, will continue to exist and get some improvements.
Orkut - Big in Brazil, probably will get eclipsed by a serious entry/acquisition into social networks at some point.
Picasa - Still around, still gets regular updates.
Blogger - Ditto. Just got a big upgrade.
SketchUp - Relatively recent acquisition, probably will be like Picasa or Earth. There, but not part of the central strategy.
It's probable that they're seeing a lot of automated traffic with these URLs. They know for sure that these are malicious networks and they're spreading on their IM client. Maybe they already patched the vulnerabilities, but these are people who have (apparently) not set auto update to work. Maybe they plan to fix it in the next roll-up but need a stopgap in the meantime. It's not hard to imagine an ethical scenario where you pretty much have to block that traffic. Now the question becomes how. I'm not sure I agree with the silent blocking or the indiscriminate targeting like .info, but the very fact that they're blocking known attack vectors I don't think is a bad idea.
It's a good idea to have a privacy czar, assuming the other half of his job description isn't to implement EU-style data retention policies. This Orwellian definition of privacy I wouldn't put past the government to invent.
What I really want is a dialogue with Intel engineers about this piece of Intel-themed news. Why can't you add something like that to the site? You could call it something like Opinions With Intel or Intel And Opinions or Center for Intel. No that's not quite right.
"It is enough for anybody. The problem is that it's not enough for everybody."
Or more precisely, for everybody and everything. The internet of things is commonly cited as a reason for IPv6.
And more pictures.
It should be pointed out that malicious code needs to already be running on the host machine to use this.
All but a very few posts on Slashdot fit that definition.
Speaking as someone who is heavily involved in the specifics of a 4-year-old 1-to-1 laptop program in a school, I can state that it is a matter of integration, planning, and infrastructure. If you sit down and you recognize that lots of laptops will break, that the curriculum must be modified, that students will attempt to get around restrictions you will have a much better experience. If you just dump the laptops on the schools and expect it to work you're going to be in a world of hurt. This is not to say the deployment at my school/employer is flawless, far from it. We have all those problems and more. But they have not been crippling, because we planned and we have the integration and infrastructure in place to mitigate them.
With both Digg and Slashdot in open revolt (well, Slashdot actually encouraged it) I say it's time to take this broader. Let's take this to the streets, the news media, and anyone who will listen. Subversive protest against an unjust law. I'm considering posting this number around my school, what will you do?
I'm going to try to pre-empt a whole bunch of comments here by saying that new technology and ways of thinking sometimes require new words. When that constitutes a buzzword, as opposed to a legitimate attempt to define something new, is sort of unclear. However, I'm staking out the position that the inter-relation and rapid spread of topics seen in blogs requires legitimate new terminology. Although I'm well aware that some people here still regard blog as buzzword, even though it's been almost entirely mainstreamed.
Have you considered providing the better imagery to Google? In at least some cases they've been relatively responsive to such requests, especially when they get better imagery out of the deal. You probably have and for some reason haven't been able to, but just in case I thought I'd mention it.
Oh god. It's April 1st again. On Slashdot. Prepare for a full day of agony.
This is getting ridiculous. It's just one excuse to hate something you already hate after another. How on Earth does a 10% discount a month or so after product introduction somehow mean they're failing? On the planet I live on manufacturers offer discounts all the time, in graduated amounts as time goes on to get the maximum on all price points. Every single Microsoft story is spun to be negative and sometimes the stretch it takes to do that is much more obvious than others. This is one of those times. And no, I'm not new here, just really tired of this bullshit.