It is not about declining the cookie. There are many other ways to do that. It is about sites explaining what they use the cookies for. So if the site is using doubleclick, it will need to explain that some cookie is used to offer specialized advertisement, while another might be used for color preferences.
Where I live (Communist Belgium) many laws trump whatever contract I sign. Especially as an employee I can sign almost anything and then get back by saying "well, the law says this and I only signed, because I would otherwise won't get the job."
That is what people said when Home Security started their shit. Now I am wondering how I must explain my children NOT to scream if an uniformed guy touches their funny bits.
Some more cases like that? You have no idea how much worse it can get. 1984 will sound like a fairytale once everything is done and in place.
No, there is no plan to get anywhere. Just a little bit more each time as long as you let them. Give a finger. Take an arm.
remind me why they need to keep persistent credit card data anyway? That should be an opt in only type of thing, with a required expiration date otherwise.
The only reason is so they can easily charge you without you having the need to click OK. Because that could mean that you won't click OK the next time.
Opt in? That would mean trying to transfer the blame to the customer.
There is absolutely no need to keep the credit card number and in some countries it is even forbidden.
How things should work: 1) Customer types in credit card stuff. 2) Company asks CC Company if payment for XY amount is autorized. 3) CC Company says yes and gives a reference number 4) Company forgets the number, except the last four and combines this with the name of the customer, time it was done, IP adress, email adress and reference number.
That will be enough to identify the customer if he complains. If the card was not called in as stolen he has to pay. If he didn't, he is responsible for it.
But then in Europe it is pretty common NEVER to give your card to anybody else, including waiters. They will come with the machine, put it in the machine that reads the chip card. In the US often the magnetic strip is the one that is used.
I think he is doing the right thing by not going after anybody. Sometimes you should just file things under "Shit happens" and then get on with your life.
I never use the self check line. Never. The reason is that it is a small contribution of me keeping people at work and not have them replaced by machines.
Look at copyright and patenting lawsuits and you will realize that he is not alone. We used to stand on the shoulders of giants. Nowadays these giants ask so much rent you can't stand on their shoulders. Even if standing on their shoulders would mean you could drag them out of the pit, they rather get money then be saved.
Indeed the voters, because they do not believe in a multi-party system. They have been trained that there is only win or loose, black or white, right or wrong.
People would laugh at the idea of mandatory age-ratings on books, so why do they accept it on movies and games?
Reminds me when I wanted to see a movie and was not allowed in. I then just bought the book and that had WAY MORE explicit sex and violence then the movie.
Why do people always look for OR/OR and not for AND/AND. Most of the times AND/AND is the answer to a question not OR/OR, especially when the question contains the 'or'.
"Do you want to run open source OR closed source software on your PC?" "I want to run open source AND closed source on my PC." "Do you love your fist kid OR your second kid?" "..."
This is how providers will sell it. Artificial scarcity is possible to sell at a higher price. Current users will become unreachable from the outside. Others will need to pay through their nose and then some.
And let it be controlled by the market?That is nice for in class to explain how economics SHOULD work. In reality it doesn't.
The 'choice' people will have is pay the same price as now and get less or keep what they have now and pay more. They will do their absolute best to NOT implement IPv6 as it does not server THEIR purpose.
is so generic it really can't be claimed as a patent
You must be new here. And by 'here' I mean this world. Companies would sue their own children for copyright infringement if they were able to do so. Oh and will will get much worse. Much, much worse. In a few years there will be only two companies left. A company that sues everybody and everything and own all of it and the law firm that represents them.
And then they set up a joint venture...
And there is nobody to stop them. Well, at east 2 generation was able to pretend to live somewhat free. The ones before them and the ones after us will be slaves or at least serves to the happy few.
All they want is a login and not even root access AND they allow you to run your own server? Wow.
I would give them an account and also ask them why they want it. Perhaps they just were thinking to put something like that up themselves.
Or they want it so they can verify where the problem is if somebody complains that it doesn't work and you are on a holiday.
So ask them why they need it. That way you could either deny it or give them MORE access, depending on their answer and not on guessing. If security is an issue, don't run anything over their network.
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This partly used to exist in Belgium at Citibank where I could make a virtual CC card and put e.g. 50USD on it. That I use to pay 50USD to Sony.
If somebody would steal the number, code and what not, they can only steal the rest of the money, which is 0USD.
So what is needed is a DIFFERENT virtual number for Internet payment, not the SAME one that is used in real life.
Bills I will trow away once they are payed. Payslips I keep one year and then trow them away as I get an annual one.
If I need proof, I ask for a copy from where it came.
It is not about declining the cookie. There are many other ways to do that. It is about sites explaining what they use the cookies for. So if the site is using doubleclick, it will need to explain that some cookie is used to offer specialized advertisement, while another might be used for color preferences.
That way people are informed at what goes on.
Where I live (Communist Belgium) many laws trump whatever contract I sign. Especially as an employee I can sign almost anything and then get back by saying "well, the law says this and I only signed, because I would otherwise won't get the job."
As my GPS is not calibrated as required by law, it would take about 2 seconds for a drunk first year student to kill this in court.
OTOH it shows that companies do not care about your data and who gets it.
That is what people said when Home Security started their shit. Now I am wondering how I must explain my children NOT to scream if an uniformed guy touches their funny bits.
Some more cases like that? You have no idea how much worse it can get. 1984 will sound like a fairytale once everything is done and in place.
No, there is no plan to get anywhere. Just a little bit more each time as long as you let them. Give a finger. Take an arm.
The only reason is so they can easily charge you without you having the need to click OK. Because that could mean that you won't click OK the next time.
Opt in? That would mean trying to transfer the blame to the customer.
There is absolutely no need to keep the credit card number and in some countries it is even forbidden.
How things should work:
1) Customer types in credit card stuff.
2) Company asks CC Company if payment for XY amount is autorized.
3) CC Company says yes and gives a reference number
4) Company forgets the number, except the last four and combines this with the name of the customer, time it was done, IP adress, email adress and reference number.
That will be enough to identify the customer if he complains. If the card was not called in as stolen he has to pay. If he didn't, he is responsible for it.
But then in Europe it is pretty common NEVER to give your card to anybody else, including waiters. They will come with the machine, put it in the machine that reads the chip card. In the US often the magnetic strip is the one that is used.
I think he is doing the right thing by not going after anybody. Sometimes you should just file things under "Shit happens" and then get on with your life.
I never use the self check line. Never. The reason is that it is a small contribution of me keeping people at work and not have them replaced by machines.
I gladly pay with the few minutes it costs me.
So you know what is wrong. What are you doing to make it right? What is the rest doing?
Wait till they figure out that people in India can be managers as well for a much lower wage.
Who manages the managers? Why would they NOT also outsource the managers?
Look at copyright and patenting lawsuits and you will realize that he is not alone. We used to stand on the shoulders of giants. Nowadays these giants ask so much rent you can't stand on their shoulders.
Even if standing on their shoulders would mean you could drag them out of the pit, they rather get money then be saved.
Indeed the voters, because they do not believe in a multi-party system. They have been trained that there is only win or loose, black or white, right or wrong.
What is even more distasteful is that somehow some political views are viewed automagically as "bad". Having different options should be a GOOD thing.
Full ack. Next we will see "Movier are not real"
Do you have some official numbers to back this up?
With a bit of a lawyer that would be indeed my ticket out.
Reminds me when I wanted to see a movie and was not allowed in. I then just bought the book and that had WAY MORE explicit sex and violence then the movie.
Also see what Zappa said way back:
http://downlode.org/Etext/zappa.html and for those too lazy to read: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc
Talking about songs and not video games, but same difference.
Why do people always look for OR/OR and not for AND/AND.
Most of the times AND/AND is the answer to a question not OR/OR, especially when the question contains the 'or'.
"Do you want to run open source OR closed source software on your PC?" "I want to run open source AND closed source on my PC."
"Do you love your fist kid OR your second kid?" "..."
This is how providers will sell it. Artificial scarcity is possible to sell at a higher price. Current users will become unreachable from the outside. Others will need to pay through their nose and then some.
And let it be controlled by the market?That is nice for in class to explain how economics SHOULD work. In reality it doesn't.
The 'choice' people will have is pay the same price as now and get less or keep what they have now and pay more. They will do their absolute best to NOT implement IPv6 as it does not server THEIR purpose.
That is why I disliked LotR. I had read the book already so I knew that they would trow the ring in mount Doom in the end.
Oh, sorry: Spoiler alert above.
(And yes, this was sarcasm)
You must be new here. And by 'here' I mean this world.
Companies would sue their own children for copyright infringement if they were able to do so. Oh and will will get much worse. Much, much worse. In a few years there will be only two companies left. A company that sues everybody and everything and own all of it and the law firm that represents them.
And then they set up a joint venture ...
And there is nobody to stop them. Well, at east 2 generation was able to pretend to live somewhat free. The ones before them and the ones after us will be slaves or at least serves to the happy few.
All they want is a login and not even root access AND they allow you to run your own server? Wow.
I would give them an account and also ask them why they want it. Perhaps they just were thinking to put something like that up themselves.
Or they want it so they can verify where the problem is if somebody complains that it doesn't work and you are on a holiday.
So ask them why they need it. That way you could either deny it or give them MORE access, depending on their answer and not on guessing. If security is an issue, don't run anything over their network.
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Make each image 25x25 pixels and see if it works,