People are already using the 403 redirect on services such as no-ip and dyndns so they can manage to gain multiple (even whole pages) of listings for the terms they want
This law will be bitch slapped so fast by the supreme court.. that gov won't know what hit him.
"The controversial legislation will create an official list of Web sites with publicly available material deemed "harmful to minors." Internet providers in Utah must provide their customers with a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges"
There is no possible way anyone could keep an updated list of all the adult websites on the internet. It is also a step towards enforced censorship, let the parents do their job instead of doing it for them
Although the DS got the jump on the market, Sony are at an advantage that so many people own and enjoy playing playstation/playstation2
The Gamecube does not sell in volume as well as the PS2 does, and the most common thought from gamers is that sony put more money into their games and will always have the better franchises, therefore people will be more likely to choose Sony when they come to pick one up, even if it isn't the superior choice
Sony have been in gaming for around 10 years now, and they have conquered the market, it will be interesting to see if they can replicate it in handhelds
Nokia are wasting money on trying to make the Ngage compete with the PSP and DS now, the redesign will also fail.
Diversification into an extremely competitive market like handheld gaming without any previous experience is not a great idea, espiecally just before the next gen on handhelds
Due to signatures being so easy to forge if you actually fraud people as a lifestyle, its worthless to check every single one to make sure they verify
Chip and pin is the best way to replace this, making the cashiers desk more like an atm system and therefore more secure, as only the user knows their pin
They are right about DRM, by limiting the amount of time a user can view the file, they are just increasing demand for a cracked one.
If you had downloaded something, and it had DRM on it limiting the number of times you could view it or how long it could be viewed - it would just be a hassle, and would cause most people to either go looking or just wait for a unlocked version of it.
There are services offering this already online for a monthly fee, some people see them as fun to manipulate caller ID's and prank friends, but because of the anonymity of the service they are already being abused
Here's a wikipedia article involving slashdot.
Karma_Whore
Some info on what Karma Whore's goals are. Karma Whore has three stated purposes: to post information about a topic that everyone already knows; to link to wikipedia, because wikipedia pwns
Microsoft are hoping that by taking leaves from Mozilla's book, such as Tabbed Browsing and putting them into IE7, the will stop the users who are not very tech savvy from changing to firefox, therefore still keeping the larger user base
Mozilla has an advantage with the fact that they can release a new version practically anytime, with updates nightly or anything. IE updates have to go out to everyone using it, and in general the people will not know as much, therefore creating more trouble.
the concept of freeipods is merely affiliate marketing rebranded, so that the end user does the promotion instead of the site having to.
By getting paid per lead they give the companies which you sign up to as "offers" the companies take the risk that the user will not cancel the trial, and therefore it will be profitable, while the company offering the ipods makes a profit from the leads while buying the ipods at wholesale prices
China have been addressing the "problem" of the internet for a while now, beginning with the block of adult sites and now the censorship of their own countries' sites.
I guess they are learning from the 80's, when the startings of the internet helped demolish stalinism from Eastern Europe. They know they need to control the content people view to avoid letting their control on power drop.
Good to see apple moving more towards open source software, but has anyone worked out what happened to GoogleX (http://labs.google.com/googlex/)
it now 404's, yet was working yesterday as a 'prototype' of what a google for mac and on other systems could look like. Obviously the labs are having a fun week.
I could see the people using it for illegal downloads just working on a version that isn't centralised around trackers and therefore is a more effective version of kazaa.
Exeem kind of did this when it was implemented, but did not provide encryption like Winny does.
One of the best bits is that in some stores they are using ipod shuffle wall ad posters and just sticking the logo of the Luxpro over the top.
if you want one, grab one while this company is still in business, which it won't be for much longer
"games cost too much" has been said since the invention of video games, yet everyone still buys them, this is why the game companies still overprice what they sell
It's unrealistic to tell people to boycott games, they will still be bought. Games prices will remain high as long as games are sold
Finally.. lycos realise that trying to police the web will not work. Its like trying to stop car thieves by stealing their cars, and they underestimated the amount of spammers who have the money and know how to bring them trouble.
a great idea, but thats how it should have stayed, an idea.
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VUG are just doing what they should as a business, it is not profitable to provide support for a game that doesn't get played by enough people.
It's a shame to see such a potentially great franchise go down in such a bad way
Awesome work, restoring the rights of the consumer which were taken away in a blitz of branding everyone a pirate.
People are already using the 403 redirect on services such as no-ip and dyndns so they can manage to gain multiple (even whole pages) of listings for the terms they want
This law will be bitch slapped so fast by the supreme court.. that gov won't know what hit him.
"The controversial legislation will create an official list of Web sites with publicly available material deemed "harmful to minors." Internet providers in Utah must provide their customers with a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges"
There is no possible way anyone could keep an updated list of all the adult websites on the internet. It is also a step towards enforced censorship, let the parents do their job instead of doing it for them
Although the DS got the jump on the market, Sony are at an advantage that so many people own and enjoy playing playstation/playstation2
The Gamecube does not sell in volume as well as the PS2 does, and the most common thought from gamers is that sony put more money into their games and will always have the better franchises, therefore people will be more likely to choose Sony when they come to pick one up, even if it isn't the superior choice
Sony have been in gaming for around 10 years now, and they have conquered the market, it will be interesting to see if they can replicate it in handhelds
Nokia are wasting money on trying to make the Ngage compete with the PSP and DS now, the redesign will also fail.
Diversification into an extremely competitive market like handheld gaming without any previous experience is not a great idea, espiecally just before the next gen on handhelds
Apple PowerBook G5: Mahogany Edition
comes bundled with iLumberjack
Due to signatures being so easy to forge if you actually fraud people as a lifestyle, its worthless to check every single one to make sure they verify
Chip and pin is the best way to replace this, making the cashiers desk more like an atm system and therefore more secure, as only the user knows their pin
The major search engines will pick up the majority of RSS/Blog based tools this year to intergrate or just to 'have'.
I predict FeedBurner will be one of the next to go
They are right about DRM, by limiting the amount of time a user can view the file, they are just increasing demand for a cracked one.
If you had downloaded something, and it had DRM on it limiting the number of times you could view it or how long it could be viewed - it would just be a hassle, and would cause most people to either go looking or just wait for a unlocked version of it.
There are services offering this already online for a monthly fee, some people see them as fun to manipulate caller ID's and prank friends, but because of the anonymity of the service they are already being abused
Here's a wikipedia article involving slashdot. Karma_Whore
Some info on what Karma Whore's goals are. Karma Whore has three stated purposes: to post information about a topic that everyone already knows; to link to wikipedia, because wikipedia pwns
Oh damn, now I'm in a loop
Microsoft are hoping that by taking leaves from Mozilla's book, such as Tabbed Browsing and putting them into IE7, the will stop the users who are not very tech savvy from changing to firefox, therefore still keeping the larger user base
Mozilla has an advantage with the fact that they can release a new version practically anytime, with updates nightly or anything. IE updates have to go out to everyone using it, and in general the people will not know as much, therefore creating more trouble.
I believe this is just new content and patches for online / multiplayer of Halo 2. New maps, skins, bug fixes and the like.
Halo3 will most likely be released with the Xbox2 or just afterwards
the concept of freeipods is merely affiliate marketing rebranded, so that the end user does the promotion instead of the site having to.
By getting paid per lead they give the companies which you sign up to as "offers" the companies take the risk that the user will not cancel the trial, and therefore it will be profitable, while the company offering the ipods makes a profit from the leads while buying the ipods at wholesale prices
China have been addressing the "problem" of the internet for a while now, beginning with the block of adult sites and now the censorship of their own countries' sites.
I guess they are learning from the 80's, when the startings of the internet helped demolish stalinism from Eastern Europe. They know they need to control the content people view to avoid letting their control on power drop.
Aren't there age ratings on games already, telling people what age they should be to play
how about letting the parents do their job instead of having offers suffer by doing it for them
Good to see apple moving more towards open source software, but has anyone worked out what happened to GoogleX (http://labs.google.com/googlex/)
it now 404's, yet was working yesterday as a 'prototype' of what a google for mac and on other systems could look like. Obviously the labs are having a fun week.
Registering the domain shouldn't stand up in the cybersquatting cause. They only got the trademark after him.
Although he could have done something better with the domain to avoid as much trouble.
I could see the people using it for illegal downloads just working on a version that isn't centralised around trackers and therefore is a more effective version of kazaa.
Exeem kind of did this when it was implemented, but did not provide encryption like Winny does.
I once read that if i player gets within 2 days distance of the edge of the game area, they begin work extending the area the way that player is going
is this true?, if so it must put extreme stress on the developers who already must be stressed continually producing original content and areas
how about instead of sniper rifles in a city, binoculars on a nudist beach ?
why do the best inventions always need to be modified to be better.
One of the best bits is that in some stores they are using ipod shuffle wall ad posters and just sticking the logo of the Luxpro over the top.
if you want one, grab one while this company is still in business, which it won't be for much longer
"games cost too much" has been said since the invention of video games, yet everyone still buys them, this is why the game companies still overprice what they sell
It's unrealistic to tell people to boycott games, they will still be bought. Games prices will remain high as long as games are sold
Finally.. lycos realise that trying to police the web will not work. Its like trying to stop car thieves by stealing their cars, and they underestimated the amount of spammers who have the money and know how to bring them trouble.
a great idea, but thats how it should have stayed, an idea.