Have you looked at advertising? Have you looked at TV? Have you looked at ANY movie? The people in media are not usually very average looking and tend to act unrealistically too. (You see what I did there?) Media is fine for adults but making it a bit harder for teenagers to find might not be a bad thing. (See? I did it again.)
If watching porn is bad, then so it watching people get killed. Especially when it is shown unrealistic. e.g. without the blood and gore. Yet this is almost completely against how movies are rated.
And making it harder to get? Seriously? Security through obscurity. That will work well. Especially to kids. They will say "Hey, it is hard to get, lets go do something else, because this was not meant for us. Let us buy another version of a Disney movie. They show how the real world should be and how we must behave. They will show us that it does not matter if you are an ugly man, as long as you are a prince and rich. And if you are a good looking girl, you will be rewarded."
http://progx.ch/home-voip-prixbetamax-3-1-1.html The one I selected I use to call my family living in another country. I just phone a local number and there I form the number. I pay nothing for the local number with my plan and then 2 euro cents per minute. This however after a 90 days free calling after a top up. I always just pay 10EUR. Some even have a 120 freedays. So each tinme you pay 10EUR you get to call free for 10 days to many countries, including your own (If that is possible)
The proposal sounds like patent lawyers who add "on the Internet" and then have a new thing. Consumer rights and consumer protection should be the first priority of your government. Like in "By the people, for the people." That way it should also look at other things where the individual is up against a company.
Please explain why the MAFIAA can still do racketeering in the USofA if there is a law against it. As in "I assume that you share files: Either you pay a serious amount of money, or you pay a ridiculous amount of money. And if you want to fight us in court: may God have mercy on your children, because we will make you loose everything including things not even Don Corleone dares to take away."
Well, credit card companies are probably digging all the information.
In Belgium that would be illegal. Also there are very specific laws about who does and does not get a credit. In fact in Belgium it is more designed to NOT give people credit then it is to give people credit. And that is a good thing. Why give people credit who are unable to pay it back later? Not good for the company. Not good for the person.
What the companies look at is how many cards you already have. How many other credit you already have. How much your income is and other financial information. With that they either give or give not a card.
And if you want to buy a house, very often this means canceling your credit card(s).
So you do not get a better credit, you get a higher credit, depending on your situation. And if you use that to live from, you are an idiot. Borrow some money from the bank if you need it. Much cheaper.
Oh and in Europe, you need to pay back your card completely once in a while. That is the law. So no continuous credit and paying back of loans.
Amazon TLD? I do not think the Brazilians are happy about that.
Just get rid of all the TLDs except the country ones and let each country decide. "But what if I work in multiple countries?". Well, tough shit. You just get Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk next to amazon.us. "But what about debian.org?" Again, tough shit. At this moment they an address is the USofA, so debian.us would be the best option. And if you want to have domains in more countries, just see that you have the right to get that domain.
Just because it is harder does not mean it isn't the most logical option.
People want better ads? No. People do not want ads, But if they are forced to chooses between two evils, they will chooses the less evil one. In this case that is better ads. Sure, sometimes the ads are better then the content (Superbowl anybody?) but that does not mean I want to watch ads all the time. Soa Paulo in Brazil does not have any ads anymore. I would be happy if all cities in the world would follow their example.
Banksy has a nice idea about it: People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
As long as you have another way of creating revenue, this is an option. However very often ads are the only way of creating revenue. Just like with tv, the ads is what it is about and the shows are there so we watch the ads. Websites are no different. The articles are just an excuse to make you watch the ads.
How bad is the state of the country if you NEED such an app. And still you are not willing to use your second amendment?
I feel sorry for students from 500 years in the future who have to write a thesis on how the people allowed things to go so bad. I feel sorry for the teacher who has to answer the question "But wasn't there a democratic process?" And I wonder what the answer will be when it is asked why the rest of the world just looked on and watched.
Once a teacher I had asked a student each class to write down the names of the onces who disturbed class. Students on the list had to stay after class.
When I was the one who had to write the names down, I could not get myself to write down just some names. So I wrote down all the names. I then challenged here that she could either let everybody stay, let nobody stay or let just me stay. In any case the list would be useless from now on. (The next step would be that we would write down random names.)
So if they want all the IP addresses, why not write a small script that puts out all those addresses and mail them all at once from all over the planet.
I once saw a parking house with a female friendly part. This was intended for women only. When I talked to some women, they really liked it. There was more light and what not.
When I asked if they were ok with me being raped, killed and murdered, because I was a man, they were awkwardly quiet. It became even weirder when I asked them if I was allowed to rape women outside of the designated spot.
Just use Google with filetype:torrent as an extra parameter. metallica black album filetype:torrent is just a random example. the interesting part is not so much that it shows a lot of links. Interesting is also at the ende the part that talks about what is blocked: One of them reads:In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org. When you go to that site, you will see all the URLs neatly presented.
Well, all have answerd how you can do it, I have karma to burn so here is the not so obvious answer: You are an idiot and should not be programming. If you can not think outside the box (Get it? Box?) then you are obvious not able to do so when programming demands it. So the obvious answer would be to get a new job.
I needed to connect some PCs to network hardware, but it was not possible to just lay the cables because there was an emergency exit and passage. Cables were not an option. So all I wanted was to use the available wall ports. Cisco came up with a 3500EUR solution. For that there was no budget, so the hardware was standing there idle.
I just bought two hubs for the price of less then 100EUR. Hardware to hub on both sides, Hub to wallport on both sides. Patching by our IT guys (which took about 5 minutes, including the coffee break) so wallport 1 connects to wallport 2 directly as if it was a cable going from one side of the hallway to the other and we were done.
If Cisco would have offered a much cheaper solution for say 400EUR, I am sure the company would have bought it.
Seems a bit of 'If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.'
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers. For those who do not know it And that is only part of it. The whole thing can be found here.
I hope they also block this torrent site They seem to be collecting a lot AND it is a UK site.
The scanners are not the problem. The patdowns are not the problem. The fact that these things are there is the problem. Bullshit things like this airport logic are the problem. The fact that almost nobody complains is the problem. Another nice read from scientificamerican.com
The security theater and everything that comes with it is the real problem.
I really like it. If people want to ask me a question, they can come to me. This can be from my team or from another department. That way we can easily answer questions. Better then to send back and forth emails all day. And if people want to talk about sports and they have time, please let them. I do not care, so I do not listen. People who talk to each other about different things will get along better. This tends to increase the understanding of each other, which will help understand each other later when you have different opinions about a project and it will be easier to find a common ground for a solution.
You will be more open to ideas from others. A bit like how open source works.
And as it does not disturb me, I do not even hear them talking about some silly sports game or childbirth process if I do not want to.
One department where I work everybody is quiet there. No private talking. Nothing. That is how the manager wants it. To the majority of the people this feels extremely unhealthy. As if somebody just died. As a result we have problems finding people for that department. Internally nobody wants to go there. Externally people leave as fast as we can hire them.
Sitting on somebodies desk is not something we EVER do. We have enough chairs so it s easy to just pull up a chair. When you are on the phone and they are too loud, you just say so. There is no shame in saying thing like that to anybody, including the CEO, because we already know each other and have spoken to each other. SO I know how I must talk to him or her. Most of the time I just hold up my hand, point to my phone and they will stop. People who are with my back to me will be told to be quiet and either they stop the conversation or take a coffee or whatever.
All a non-issue, because we know how to communicate.
What you have is no communication. Due to this the small things start to bother you. This will grow and grow till it explodes. In the mean time your work will be going down, because you can not concentrate.
Bit like a mosquito in the room. You can not sleep from that, but you will not wake up from the traffic outside. This because you focus on it.
It depends on the manager. In the last few companies I have worked, managers were on the floor. Some did micromanagement. Some did not. The better ones did not. But then if you have a question, you can just go ask and have a conversation, not just dealing with the inefficiency of email. Due to these 'mini meetings' real meetings are kept to a minimum and I am sure we gain time in the end.
Some companies had mini-meetings once a week of 15 minutes to get everybody on the same page. Most of the time this was done standing in the kitchen. Or outside when the sun shines (and the smokers can get their fix)
I also have seen managers in their own office. Some of them micromanage. Some of them don't.
So it all depends on the manager and the company style. Where one will be tempted to micromanage when they sit near you, others might be so self absorbed when they are in an office that they do not manage at all. And I can assure you, that is NOT a pretty sight. Everybody doing their best, but nobody telling them what 'best' actually means. Cleaning up that mess is not a nice experience for everybody.
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Have you looked at advertising? Have you looked at TV? Have you looked at ANY movie? The people in media are not usually very average looking and tend to act unrealistically too. (You see what I did there?)
Media is fine for adults but making it a bit harder for teenagers to find might not be a bad thing. (See? I did it again.)
If watching porn is bad, then so it watching people get killed. Especially when it is shown unrealistic. e.g. without the blood and gore. Yet this is almost completely against how movies are rated.
An interesting movie about the whole rating process is This Film Is Not Yet Rated.
And making it harder to get? Seriously? Security through obscurity. That will work well. Especially to kids. They will say "Hey, it is hard to get, lets go do something else, because this was not meant for us. Let us buy another version of a Disney movie. They show how the real world should be and how we must behave. They will show us that it does not matter if you are an ugly man, as long as you are a prince and rich. And if you are a good looking girl, you will be rewarded."
You must be from Dakota or Carolina.
Or are you from Charleston, Virginia?
http://progx.ch/home-voip-prixbetamax-3-1-1.html
The one I selected I use to call my family living in another country. I just phone a local number and there I form the number. I pay nothing for the local number with my plan and then 2 euro cents per minute.
This however after a 90 days free calling after a top up. I always just pay 10EUR.
Some even have a 120 freedays. So each tinme you pay 10EUR you get to call free for 10 days to many countries, including your own (If that is possible)
+1 insightful.
The proposal sounds like patent lawyers who add "on the Internet" and then have a new thing.
Consumer rights and consumer protection should be the first priority of your government. Like in "By the people, for the people."
That way it should also look at other things where the individual is up against a company.
Please explain why the MAFIAA can still do racketeering in the USofA if there is a law against it.
As in "I assume that you share files: Either you pay a serious amount of money, or you pay a ridiculous amount of money. And if you want to fight us in court: may God have mercy on your children, because we will make you loose everything including things not even Don Corleone dares to take away."
What is weird and really, really fucked up is that I would not be scared of the guys with the guns, but of the guy with the cute cartoon mouse.
In Belgium that would be illegal. Also there are very specific laws about who does and does not get a credit.
In fact in Belgium it is more designed to NOT give people credit then it is to give people credit.
And that is a good thing. Why give people credit who are unable to pay it back later? Not good for the company. Not good for the person.
What the companies look at is how many cards you already have. How many other credit you already have. How much your income is and other financial information. With that they either give or give not a card.
And if you want to buy a house, very often this means canceling your credit card(s).
So you do not get a better credit, you get a higher credit, depending on your situation. And if you use that to live from, you are an idiot. Borrow some money from the bank if you need it. Much cheaper.
Oh and in Europe, you need to pay back your card completely once in a while. That is the law. So no continuous credit and paying back of loans.
Amazon TLD? I do not think the Brazilians are happy about that.
Just get rid of all the TLDs except the country ones and let each country decide. "But what if I work in multiple countries?". Well, tough shit. You just get Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk next to amazon.us.
"But what about debian.org?" Again, tough shit. At this moment they an address is the USofA, so debian.us would be the best option.
And if you want to have domains in more countries, just see that you have the right to get that domain.
Just because it is harder does not mean it isn't the most logical option.
So wherever they are, the decision makers go free.
People want better ads? No. People do not want ads, But if they are forced to chooses between two evils, they will chooses the less evil one.
In this case that is better ads.
Sure, sometimes the ads are better then the content (Superbowl anybody?) but that does not mean I want to watch ads all the time.
Soa Paulo in Brazil does not have any ads anymore.
I would be happy if all cities in the world would follow their example.
Banksy has a nice idea about it:
People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you're not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.
You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don't owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don't even start asking for theirs.
As long as you have another way of creating revenue, this is an option.
However very often ads are the only way of creating revenue. Just like with tv, the ads is what it is about and the shows are there so we watch the ads.
Websites are no different. The articles are just an excuse to make you watch the ads.
Defending your rights? There's an app for that!
How bad is the state of the country if you NEED such an app. And still you are not willing to use your second amendment?
I feel sorry for students from 500 years in the future who have to write a thesis on how the people allowed things to go so bad. I feel sorry for the teacher who has to answer the question "But wasn't there a democratic process?" And I wonder what the answer will be when it is asked why the rest of the world just looked on and watched.
Once a teacher I had asked a student each class to write down the names of the onces who disturbed class. Students on the list had to stay after class.
When I was the one who had to write the names down, I could not get myself to write down just some names. So I wrote down all the names.
I then challenged here that she could either let everybody stay, let nobody stay or let just me stay. In any case the list would be useless from now on. (The next step would be that we would write down random names.)
So if they want all the IP addresses, why not write a small script that puts out all those addresses and mail them all at once from all over the planet.
It means that there is no real political variation in the USofA.
I once saw a parking house with a female friendly part. This was intended for women only. When I talked to some women, they really liked it. There was more light and what not.
When I asked if they were ok with me being raped, killed and murdered, because I was a man, they were awkwardly quiet. It became even weirder when I asked them if I was allowed to rape women outside of the designated spot.
Just use Google with filetype:torrent as an extra parameter.
metallica black album filetype:torrent is just a random example.
the interesting part is not so much that it shows a lot of links. Interesting is also at the ende the part that talks about what is blocked:
One of them reads:In response to a complaint we received under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint that caused the removal(s) at ChillingEffects.org.
When you go to that site, you will see all the URLs neatly presented.
Well, all have answerd how you can do it, I have karma to burn so here is the not so obvious answer:
You are an idiot and should not be programming. If you can not think outside the box (Get it? Box?) then you are obvious not able to do so when programming demands it.
So the obvious answer would be to get a new job.
I needed to connect some PCs to network hardware, but it was not possible to just lay the cables because there was an emergency exit and passage. Cables were not an option.
So all I wanted was to use the available wall ports.
Cisco came up with a 3500EUR solution. For that there was no budget, so the hardware was standing there idle.
I just bought two hubs for the price of less then 100EUR. Hardware to hub on both sides, Hub to wallport on both sides. Patching by our IT guys (which took about 5 minutes, including the coffee break) so wallport 1 connects to wallport 2 directly as if it was a cable going from one side of the hallway to the other and we were done.
If Cisco would have offered a much cheaper solution for say 400EUR, I am sure the company would have bought it.
Seems a bit of 'If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.'
I do not buy CDs or DVDs. I download. But if I were unable to download, I would still not buy them. So I am not a lost sale either. I am a no sale.
The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.
For those who do not know it And that is only part of it. The whole thing can be found here.
I hope they also block this torrent site They seem to be collecting a lot AND it is a UK site.
The scanners are not the problem. The patdowns are not the problem. The fact that these things are there is the problem.
Bullshit things like this airport logic are the problem.
The fact that almost nobody complains is the problem.
Another nice read from scientificamerican.com
The security theater and everything that comes with it is the real problem.
SuSE is outdated. It is called SUSE since several years.
If you want to be nostalgic, call it S.u.S.E.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE
I really like it. If people want to ask me a question, they can come to me. This can be from my team or from another department. That way we can easily answer questions. Better then to send back and forth emails all day.
And if people want to talk about sports and they have time, please let them. I do not care, so I do not listen. People who talk to each other about different things will get along better. This tends to increase the understanding of each other, which will help understand each other later when you have different opinions about a project and it will be easier to find a common ground for a solution.
You will be more open to ideas from others. A bit like how open source works.
And as it does not disturb me, I do not even hear them talking about some silly sports game or childbirth process if I do not want to.
One department where I work everybody is quiet there. No private talking. Nothing. That is how the manager wants it. To the majority of the people this feels extremely unhealthy. As if somebody just died. As a result we have problems finding people for that department. Internally nobody wants to go there. Externally people leave as fast as we can hire them.
Sitting on somebodies desk is not something we EVER do. We have enough chairs so it s easy to just pull up a chair.
When you are on the phone and they are too loud, you just say so. There is no shame in saying thing like that to anybody, including the CEO, because we already know each other and have spoken to each other. SO I know how I must talk to him or her.
Most of the time I just hold up my hand, point to my phone and they will stop. People who are with my back to me will be told to be quiet and either they stop the conversation or take a coffee or whatever.
All a non-issue, because we know how to communicate.
What you have is no communication. Due to this the small things start to bother you. This will grow and grow till it explodes. In the mean time your work will be going down, because you can not concentrate.
Bit like a mosquito in the room. You can not sleep from that, but you will not wake up from the traffic outside. This because you focus on it.
It depends on the manager. In the last few companies I have worked, managers were on the floor. Some did micromanagement. Some did not.
The better ones did not. But then if you have a question, you can just go ask and have a conversation, not just dealing with the inefficiency of email.
Due to these 'mini meetings' real meetings are kept to a minimum and I am sure we gain time in the end.
Some companies had mini-meetings once a week of 15 minutes to get everybody on the same page. Most of the time this was done standing in the kitchen. Or outside when the sun shines (and the smokers can get their fix)
I also have seen managers in their own office. Some of them micromanage. Some of them don't.
So it all depends on the manager and the company style. Where one will be tempted to micromanage when they sit near you, others might be so self absorbed when they are in an office that they do not manage at all. And I can assure you, that is NOT a pretty sight. Everybody doing their best, but nobody telling them what 'best' actually means. Cleaning up that mess is not a nice experience for everybody.