Considering NSA taps on the backbone for the gov't "Free" is a strawman.
What they are focusing on is "is it monitored?" and the answer is: yes. If the ISP doesn't that has no bearings on gov't decisions. Does that mean anything will come of it? Probably not.
Which sounds nice and all, except that this is New Zealand and the judge is not at all convinced by our government's antics here. If they declare sovereign immunity (which they might) we are going to have some serious issues in new zealand - rightly so for our government's overreach.
And in contrast, when police do investigations and presume you may be suspicious (for things such as damage to your house incurred while they falsely investigated something) they absolutely are required to pay that back - you can easily win in small claims court for those damages. This is no different, since megaupload has not been found guilty of anything.
The IP-> jobs thing has gone hilariously debunked in the way of the "america invents act" in the US - where the claims came from, and yet what happened? Less IP jobs than before, actually.
What makes you think any major manufacturer cares? Those people have individuals who do analytics for them so they know the real numbers. They give as much of a shit as the average android user aKA none.
umm, mobile devices don't need desktop experiences. You have docking stations for that. Additionally, why would people use desktops/laptops when they are choosing a mobile device in the first place? In truth of the matter, basically advertising is crap as a whole and nobody wants it. Nobody's denying that it works, but it's entirely wasteful and unwelcome. noads+ not watching tv + no hulu = fairly delightful lack of ads with most of what I do.
"cyber" claims are purely hype and designed to turn a profit about something that isn't even a real threat. May as well say "cyber epsionage" is some magic new threat as if you know, espionage had never existed before it went cyber.
Microsoft needs to learn that the "no single design" also applies to different devices. Trying to do almost the same design across devices is a horrible, horrible idea. Trying to install the same OS version across devices makes perfect sense. MS got 1/2 of the concept correct.
In comparison and I don't know if it's motherboard, video card, etc, but:
HDMI works flawless for me on my high end AMD card, but I remember having a nightmare with an Nvidia card. However, neither of them reflect on any form of reality - you could have the same problems with probably any graphics device period regardless of the manufacturer and more dependent on the quality of the individual chip binned and the driver/os combination, etc.
A school's need for relevant content is unlimited, explicitly. You have no idea what a school needs, unless you have a bunch of horrible teachers who teach from the book. Not all content is static, nor is this correct. Nor does it define whether a proxy is needed or not. Simply not relevant. Sorry, I disagree with you.
Don't think youtube/khan academy isn't/is useful, do think about how much bandwidth it would require for 1000 users simultaneously. Proxies should be in place anyway to make bandwidth more efficient, but that's not an answer, it's one step of a much larger solution: network compression would benefit just as much as a proxy would as well.
Other schools ask questions via facebook, g+, etc for example.
Yep. We're right back to the basic problem. add a domain = needs more domains. Keep this up endlessly and ICANN makes a shitload of money while nobody can figure out what the hell the website they're supposed to type in is without googling it first.
The victims of fraud sites are not going to know the difference between us.bank and usbank.bank and us.ba.nk, for example. Surely there aren't any kind of unintended consequences here, right?/sarcasm.
You'd be surprised what every single employee does on their computer. I can say with absolute certainly that google mail is heavily used at any employment location for personal mail anyway, unless it's explicitly blocked.
You'd be surprised how easily people learn google docs vs office. It's a matter of magnitudes difference in how easy it is to teach people google docs, not to mention that so many more people have gmail than hotmail it's just making life easier.
Actually, it's more like "promises of unicorns and apologies for a complete lack of delivery of anything positive for society including what was in campaign promises". Replace unicorns with anything from any major political party so far, including tea party, libertarians, etc.
Or you could, you know, start doing things that society benefits from instead of lobby and major corporations, but you wouldn't need to mine data to figure that out.
In this case 3 was: nobody wanted this shit ever, forever and ever. People warned and warned and warned it was horrible, and Miguel along with Florian were the only people pushing for "oh, this is great, and it's open source!" (while not mentioning it was like 2+ years behind the entire time and MS would deliberately only support the latest versions) 4 and 5 still occur.
Same thing with windows ME, windows 8, the Ribbon bar, games for windows live, DRM pushed by intel/MS, etc.
and remind people where they aren't available again:
everywhere else in the world.
While you have this music/movie plethora on the US, it does not exist outside of the US. Even services to share movies are blocked in a variety of countries, which just creates more incentive to create more torrent traffic.
Yes, that's what I hear all the time. It's not to help others, it's to make more sense of things for themselves.
Of course in that process they learn that it's harder to analyze yourself objectively than for others, which makes this basically not possible/not likely to be accurate in any analysis.
And? That doesn't mean they're legal, it just means our antitrust people are busy dealing with bigger fish to fry. In the meantime, we all lose by paying ridiculous prices. It's no different than any other big business collusion - the company gains, the customer loses.
Short for: these are the websites you clearly *could* go to in order to find what you want to download. I'm surprised scrapetorrent isn't at the top of the list since it's a decent aggregator.
Slashdot Mirror
doesn't exist, sorry.
Considering NSA taps on the backbone for the gov't "Free" is a strawman.
What they are focusing on is "is it monitored?" and the answer is: yes. If the ISP doesn't that has no bearings on gov't decisions. Does that mean anything will come of it? Probably not.
It's been documented on anandtech before - http://www.anandtech.com/show/5770/lava-xolo-x900-review-the-first-intel-medfield-phone - results were simply middle of the pack and down to "if the hardware is updated then whatever it is will do better".
The thing is, do we want/need intel on smartphones? I say please no. Let ARM compete and grow and remain a fairly new viable competitor.
You call BS?
might help to read some articles.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-b-ravicher/where-are-all-the-jobs-patent-reform-promised_b_1582357.html
Which sounds nice and all, except that this is New Zealand and the judge is not at all convinced by our government's antics here. If they declare sovereign immunity (which they might) we are going to have some serious issues in new zealand - rightly so for our government's overreach.
And in contrast, when police do investigations and presume you may be suspicious (for things such as damage to your house incurred while they falsely investigated something) they absolutely are required to pay that back - you can easily win in small claims court for those damages. This is no different, since megaupload has not been found guilty of anything.
The IP-> jobs thing has gone hilariously debunked in the way of the "america invents act" in the US - where the claims came from, and yet what happened? Less IP jobs than before, actually.
What makes you think any major manufacturer cares? Those people have individuals who do analytics for them so they know the real numbers. They give as much of a shit as the average android user aKA none.
umm, mobile devices don't need desktop experiences. You have docking stations for that. Additionally, why would people use desktops/laptops when they are choosing a mobile device in the first place? In truth of the matter, basically advertising is crap as a whole and nobody wants it. Nobody's denying that it works, but it's entirely wasteful and unwelcome.
noads+ not watching tv + no hulu = fairly delightful lack of ads with most of what I do.
This is exactly accurate.
"cyber" claims are purely hype and designed to turn a profit about something that isn't even a real threat. May as well say "cyber epsionage" is some magic new threat as if you know, espionage had never existed before it went cyber.
Microsoft needs to learn that the "no single design" also applies to different devices. Trying to do almost the same design across devices is a horrible, horrible idea. Trying to install the same OS version across devices makes perfect sense. MS got 1/2 of the concept correct.
It's failing to realize that if they give back to the community, they get back. It goes both ways.
You mean when Intel could (with MIT, BSD, Apache) just revoke everything and say "tough luck"?
Yes, your concept is nice, your reality is not.
In comparison and I don't know if it's motherboard, video card, etc, but:
HDMI works flawless for me on my high end AMD card, but I remember having a nightmare with an Nvidia card. However, neither of them reflect on any form of reality - you could have the same problems with probably any graphics device period regardless of the manufacturer and more dependent on the quality of the individual chip binned and the driver/os combination, etc.
How does the MPAA have any right to do that? Don't they have, you know, zero rights as it's Mega's TOS and their choice of how to enforce it?
A school's need for relevant content is unlimited, explicitly. You have no idea what a school needs, unless you have a bunch of horrible teachers who teach from the book. Not all content is static, nor is this correct. Nor does it define whether a proxy is needed or not. Simply not relevant. Sorry, I disagree with you.
Don't think youtube/khan academy isn't/is useful, do think about how much bandwidth it would require for 1000 users simultaneously.
Proxies should be in place anyway to make bandwidth more efficient, but that's not an answer, it's one step of a much larger solution: network compression would benefit just as much as a proxy would as well.
Other schools ask questions via facebook, g+, etc for example.
Yep. We're right back to the basic problem. add a domain = needs more domains. Keep this up endlessly and ICANN makes a shitload of money while nobody can figure out what the hell the website they're supposed to type in is without googling it first.
The victims of fraud sites are not going to know the difference between us.bank and usbank.bank and us.ba.nk, for example. Surely there aren't any kind of unintended consequences here, right? /sarcasm.
99% of workplaces don't use google gmail?
You'd be surprised what every single employee does on their computer. I can say with absolute certainly that google mail is heavily used at any employment location for personal mail anyway, unless it's explicitly blocked.
You'd be surprised how easily people learn google docs vs office. It's a matter of magnitudes difference in how easy it is to teach people google docs, not to mention that so many more people have gmail than hotmail it's just making life easier.
Actually, it's more like "promises of unicorns and apologies for a complete lack of delivery of anything positive for society including what was in campaign promises". Replace unicorns with anything from any major political party so far, including tea party, libertarians, etc.
Or you could, you know, start doing things that society benefits from instead of lobby and major corporations, but you wouldn't need to mine data to figure that out.
Actually, 3 is wrong.
In this case 3 was: nobody wanted this shit ever, forever and ever. People warned and warned and warned it was horrible, and Miguel along with Florian were the only people pushing for "oh, this is great, and it's open source!" (while not mentioning it was like 2+ years behind the entire time and MS would deliberately only support the latest versions) 4 and 5 still occur.
Same thing with windows ME, windows 8, the Ribbon bar, games for windows live, DRM pushed by intel/MS, etc.
What they don't use: silverlight. I don't know what they do, but it's explicitly not that.
I can only wonder how much money was under the table from MS to get netflix to do this, in the face of common sense.
and remind people where they aren't available again:
everywhere else in the world.
While you have this music/movie plethora on the US, it does not exist outside of the US. Even services to share movies are blocked in a variety of countries, which just creates more incentive to create more torrent traffic.
Yes, that's what I hear all the time. It's not to help others, it's to make more sense of things for themselves.
Of course in that process they learn that it's harder to analyze yourself objectively than for others, which makes this basically not possible/not likely to be accurate in any analysis.
And? That doesn't mean they're legal, it just means our antitrust people are busy dealing with bigger fish to fry. In the meantime, we all lose by paying ridiculous prices. It's no different than any other big business collusion - the company gains, the customer loses.
Short for: these are the websites you clearly *could* go to in order to find what you want to download. I'm surprised scrapetorrent isn't at the top of the list since it's a decent aggregator.