"However, in yet another blow to those who believe that genuine consumers and pirates are completely different and separate animals"
Who has ever said that?
"In line with 2015, 43% of infringers said that better pricing would be the factor that would be most likely to reduce their consumption of illicit content."
Well there's an amazing conclusion. Is anyone surprised that if stuff was cheaper, people are less likely to take it for nothing?
In the United Kingdom, a civic society is a voluntary body or society which aims to represent the needs of a local community.
Why would an American be using a term in the context of a UK society that 99.99% of Americans would have never heard of?
This is a plain and simple code word as used by a racist. I don't know if it's a common one, but expect to be seeing more of it. Basically is means "a mono-culture dominated by christian white folk, that it is so fragile that anything outside that norm is a threat to its very existence".
If surveillance is peace, then Trump could build new relations with Russia by giving them access to all the domestic surveillance data to show we have nothing to hide.
I just choked on my sandwich. Is this a comedy routine you're putting together? Because that's hilarious. You should suggest that to Trump immediately, it is stupid enough for his next speech.
Obviously people dislike the guy for falsely claiming to have invented email
I think you'll find the 99.9% of people have a complete indifference of vast proportions. It's not as if he's levying a fee on every email. No one cares. When the history books a written they'll say, like the do for so many other inventions, that there are competing claims to being the inventor and they all built upon existing inventions. Which claim you believe makes very little difference to anything.
It's your third point that would, you'd think, be the most telling. Governments generally do not collect taxes through prepaid stored value cards from retail stores.
I'm sure these scammers can be very convincing, but the moment they ask victims to go buy some iTunes gift cards, does that not raise just the slightest suspicion?
If you are producing something at a price that your unemployed population can't afford, you will either stop producing it or utilise technology to make it cheaper.
If there is a demand, or indeed need, for what you produce then it will get produced one way or another. If there are people unemployed who could produce it, they will be employed to produce it. If robots can do it cheaper, then it will be done cheaper and people can go do other things.
Your great-great grandfather worked on a farm and spent his days ploughing behind two horses. Modern agricultural mass-production means you don't have to do that. Does that make you unemployed and the farmers no longer have anyone to sell their corn to? No, it means you work instead in a job in IT producing web-sites for companies selling fitbits that people buy to wear in their leisure time. An unimaginable way to earn a living to your great-great grandfather.
It it ridiculous to imagine that the changes brought on by automation and robots will be unique and something never seen before. Like previous automation, industrialisation and mass production, all that will happen is change. What was previously labour intensive to produce will become easy to produce. What was once exclusive and expensive will become common-place and cheap. Jobs that were previously impossible, impractical or uneconomical will become viable. Products for which there was once no demand, will come into demand. So people will go produce other things in other jobs that no-one ever imagined could be a job previously.
"Defendant": "I admit I run www.microsoft.com and posted horrible things on it, but I refuse to shut down www.microsoft.com!"
This statement contains three falsehoods. Are you saying it's not the court's job to check or notice that? It's not much different from;
Plaintiff: "Your honor! 'Bob' here represents Microsoft and they owe me $1 Billion!"
"Defendant": "I admit it all. I represent Microsoft and we owe him $1 Billion, but I refuse to pay!"
Judge: "Oh yeah? We'll see about that. I hereby order Microsoft to pay $1 Billion."
Plaintiff: "Cool. I can now go to debt collection agencies, show them this order and collect my money from Microsoft. Kaching!"
The point of leaving Yahoo is to stop your email going to Yahoo (and by proxy the US government and any passing hacker that would like a look). If I had a Yahoo account, the last thing I'd choose to do is set up another email account elsewhere, and continue to forward it to Yahoo. I'd set up another email account, and immediately start switching to it ASAP. Starting with the important and sensitive stuff.
The only reason to have the Yahoo account still active, and forwarding, is to catch the stragglers and any other email you don't really care about or have forgotten to switch.
You don't have to enter your email address. You have to fill in three edit boxes with text, one containing an @ symbol. If you chose to use your name and email address, that's your choice.
They could have just said "We have never engaged in the secret scanning of email traffic." Period. End of statement. But they decided to qualify it further. Draw your own conclusions.
"She" is a member of the BBC staff who was there to do the recording for the "Children's Hour" radio programme. Mostly likely a professional broadcaster with a trained voice and an easy familiarity with the process.
You're falling into the trap of assuming that broadcasting of the time was like modern day. 1951 did not put microphones under the noses of common people, who then responded naturally to such an alien object. The microphone was the property of the broadcaster, and she did the talking. You didn't speak until you were addressed, and then, petrified at the very idea and no idea how one addressed the nation , you sounded like a stilted idiot.
The one thing it won't be "Lite" on is the permissions it requires, and the harvesting of all the personal data within the phone that it can lay its grubby hands on. You can be assured that it'll be just as thorough as the full-size app.
I like it how Elon's opinion of his passengers is so low that he assumes the fact they are going to Mars won't be enough of an attraction for people. He has to make sure that the trip is "really fun" as well.
I was thinking of booking myself on this. But even though I'll be getting the chance to stand on another planet, the trip sounds really boring. 80 days without access to a good restaurant and the latest Hollywood blockbuster? Who's going to put themselves through that kind of hardship?
The Earth is going to be just fine with it being hotter. I don't think anyone is worried about that.
However, your life, and that of your children, and your children's children may be one of increasing water shortages, mass population movement, famine and wars over resources. All due to warming and drought. All in all, a pretty shitty next 100 years coming up for everyone.
But good for you for looking at the bigger picture and not worrying about the minor personal details.
That's strange. I can recall off the top of my head at least half a dozen websites that do exactly that.
You are being given what you want, so what exactly is stopping you from paying? It wouldn't be the fact that you are a tight-ass and will cling to any excuse available for getting stuff for free, even when that excuse is long invalid?
Which is as good as a suggestion as any that this guy had nothing to do with Clinton. He's either just some clueless sys admin getting grief from his CEO, or someone making a very subtle joke that no-one got at the time. Are we to believe he's working for Clinton, is clueless, doesn't even know where to start looking for the right advice, and when he does go looking for help he almost purposely draws attention to what he's doing, when it's all supposed to be top secret? It doesn't add up.
Seriously, what evidence is there that this post has anything to do with Clinton? None. It's all total conjecture.
How many comedy series from Britain can you name that made it past their second season?
'Allo 'Allo! - 9
2point4 Children - 8
Absolutely Fabulous - 5
Are You Being Served? - 10
Birds Of A Feather - 12
A Time Goes By - 10
Blackadder - 4
Bottom - 3
Bread - 7
Butterflies - 4
Dad's Army - 9
Father Ted - 3
Goodnight Sweetheart - 6
Hancock's Half Hour - 7
Hi-De-Hi - 8
It Ain't Half Hot Mum - 8
Just Good Friends - 3
Keeping Up Appearances - 5
Last Of The Summer Wine - 31. Yes, Thirty One
Men Behaving Badly - 6
One Foot In The Grave - 6
Only Fools And Horses - 7
Open All Hours - 4
The Good Life - 4
Yes Minister - 3
I could go on...
The big difference between UK and US situation comedies is that US sitcoms are written by teams of writers, and go on for as long as money can be wrung out for them. UK sitcoms are usually written by one or two writers, and end when the situation has wrung out all the comedy to be had. That's bound to mean shorter series and fewer of them.
"Last Of The Summer Wine" is, of course, the exception that proves the case. It avoided ending by repeating the exact same plots ad nauseum.
Never fails on Slashdot. People simply do not understand trademark is not just another word for copyright, yet are happy to flaunt their total lack of understanding.
Following recent security breaches at Dropbox we are resetting your password. Do not worry, you haven't been hacked. This is just for your security. I'm sure you've read about it in all the news, so you know this is all true, above board and nothing to be suspicious about.
Please follow this link to confirm your user name, old password, and new password.
Your company is just ripe for this kind of scam, then.
This is why companies with any sense, and decent financial auditing, has a non-negotiable, set procedure for moving money around. Especially when dealing with large sums like 40 million Euro. All that tedious form filling, signing and authorising is not done just to give the admin staff additional work, and a sense of power. It's to prevent the company being scammed.
But they did get away with it. The anthropologists have swallowed the "she fell" story completely. And no-one even had to produce their alibis. It's the perfect murder!
Ah, the universal excuse for stealing other people's work; "free advertising".
What you are over looking is that a crappy "not as good as the paid version" game actually dilutes and damages the brand. It may advertise it, possibly, but not necessarily in a good way.
Why don't you come put a couple of weeks' work in for me? For free. But it will be excellent free advertising for your other work. The jobs where you actually get paid. I get your work for nothing, and I'll tell everyone what a great job you did and you might get paid work. Everyone wins! Then again, all you might get is more requests from tight-asses who think they can get your work for free, and the reputation you get is as "the guy who works for free". But those are the breaks.
Exclusivity only works as a marketing tool if you are offering something that people can't get elsewhere. So they come banging at your door asking for an invite. Google+ essentially didn't do much that Facebook didn't already do, making it invite only meant that people just got on with using Facebook and ignored it.
And by the time it went open to all comers it was too complicated and too late.
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"However, in yet another blow to those who believe that genuine consumers and pirates are completely different and separate animals"
Who has ever said that?
"In line with 2015, 43% of infringers said that better pricing would be the factor that would be most likely to reduce their consumption of illicit content."
Well there's an amazing conclusion. Is anyone surprised that if stuff was cheaper, people are less likely to take it for nothing?
In the United Kingdom, a civic society is a voluntary body or society which aims to represent the needs of a local community.
Why would an American be using a term in the context of a UK society that 99.99% of Americans would have never heard of?
This is a plain and simple code word as used by a racist. I don't know if it's a common one, but expect to be seeing more of it. Basically is means "a mono-culture dominated by christian white folk, that it is so fragile that anything outside that norm is a threat to its very existence".
If surveillance is peace, then Trump could build new relations with Russia by giving them access to all the domestic surveillance data to show we have nothing to hide.
I just choked on my sandwich. Is this a comedy routine you're putting together? Because that's hilarious. You should suggest that to Trump immediately, it is stupid enough for his next speech.
Obviously people dislike the guy for falsely claiming to have invented email
I think you'll find the 99.9% of people have a complete indifference of vast proportions. It's not as if he's levying a fee on every email. No one cares. When the history books a written they'll say, like the do for so many other inventions, that there are competing claims to being the inventor and they all built upon existing inventions. Which claim you believe makes very little difference to anything.
It's your third point that would, you'd think, be the most telling. Governments generally do not collect taxes through prepaid stored value cards from retail stores. I'm sure these scammers can be very convincing, but the moment they ask victims to go buy some iTunes gift cards, does that not raise just the slightest suspicion?
If there is a demand, or indeed need, for what you produce then it will get produced one way or another. If there are people unemployed who could produce it, they will be employed to produce it. If robots can do it cheaper, then it will be done cheaper and people can go do other things.
Your great-great grandfather worked on a farm and spent his days ploughing behind two horses. Modern agricultural mass-production means you don't have to do that. Does that make you unemployed and the farmers no longer have anyone to sell their corn to? No, it means you work instead in a job in IT producing web-sites for companies selling fitbits that people buy to wear in their leisure time. An unimaginable way to earn a living to your great-great grandfather.
It it ridiculous to imagine that the changes brought on by automation and robots will be unique and something never seen before. Like previous automation, industrialisation and mass production, all that will happen is change. What was previously labour intensive to produce will become easy to produce. What was once exclusive and expensive will become common-place and cheap. Jobs that were previously impossible, impractical or uneconomical will become viable. Products for which there was once no demand, will come into demand. So people will go produce other things in other jobs that no-one ever imagined could be a job previously.
"Defendant": "I admit I run www.microsoft.com and posted horrible things on it, but I refuse to shut down www.microsoft.com!"
This statement contains three falsehoods. Are you saying it's not the court's job to check or notice that? It's not much different from;
Plaintiff: "Your honor! 'Bob' here represents Microsoft and they owe me $1 Billion!"
"Defendant": "I admit it all. I represent Microsoft and we owe him $1 Billion, but I refuse to pay!"
Judge: "Oh yeah? We'll see about that. I hereby order Microsoft to pay $1 Billion."
Plaintiff: "Cool. I can now go to debt collection agencies, show them this order and collect my money from Microsoft. Kaching!"
Crazy shitty musicians
The only reason to have the Yahoo account still active, and forwarding, is to catch the stragglers and any other email you don't really care about or have forgotten to switch.
You don't have to enter your email address. You have to fill in three edit boxes with text, one containing an @ symbol. If you chose to use your name and email address, that's your choice.
They could have just said "We have never engaged in the secret scanning of email traffic." Period. End of statement. But they decided to qualify it further. Draw your own conclusions.
You're falling into the trap of assuming that broadcasting of the time was like modern day. 1951 did not put microphones under the noses of common people, who then responded naturally to such an alien object. The microphone was the property of the broadcaster, and she did the talking. You didn't speak until you were addressed, and then, petrified at the very idea and no idea how one addressed the nation , you sounded like a stilted idiot.
Hush now with your blatantly obvious facts. You're interrupting the flow of the irrelevant argument.
The one thing it won't be "Lite" on is the permissions it requires, and the harvesting of all the personal data within the phone that it can lay its grubby hands on. You can be assured that it'll be just as thorough as the full-size app.
I was thinking of booking myself on this. But even though I'll be getting the chance to stand on another planet, the trip sounds really boring. 80 days without access to a good restaurant and the latest Hollywood blockbuster? Who's going to put themselves through that kind of hardship?
some negative effects in the short term
The Earth is going to be just fine with it being hotter. I don't think anyone is worried about that.
However, your life, and that of your children, and your children's children may be one of increasing water shortages, mass population movement, famine and wars over resources. All due to warming and drought. All in all, a pretty shitty next 100 years coming up for everyone.
But good for you for looking at the bigger picture and not worrying about the minor personal details.
That's strange. I can recall off the top of my head at least half a dozen websites that do exactly that. You are being given what you want, so what exactly is stopping you from paying? It wouldn't be the fact that you are a tight-ass and will cling to any excuse available for getting stuff for free, even when that excuse is long invalid?
Which is as good as a suggestion as any that this guy had nothing to do with Clinton. He's either just some clueless sys admin getting grief from his CEO, or someone making a very subtle joke that no-one got at the time. Are we to believe he's working for Clinton, is clueless, doesn't even know where to start looking for the right advice, and when he does go looking for help he almost purposely draws attention to what he's doing, when it's all supposed to be top secret? It doesn't add up. Seriously, what evidence is there that this post has anything to do with Clinton? None. It's all total conjecture.
How many comedy series from Britain can you name that made it past their second season?
'Allo 'Allo! - 9
2point4 Children - 8
Absolutely Fabulous - 5
Are You Being Served? - 10
Birds Of A Feather - 12
A Time Goes By - 10
Blackadder - 4
Bottom - 3
Bread - 7
Butterflies - 4
Dad's Army - 9
Father Ted - 3
Goodnight Sweetheart - 6
Hancock's Half Hour - 7
Hi-De-Hi - 8
It Ain't Half Hot Mum - 8
Just Good Friends - 3
Keeping Up Appearances - 5
Last Of The Summer Wine - 31. Yes, Thirty One
Men Behaving Badly - 6
One Foot In The Grave - 6
Only Fools And Horses - 7
Open All Hours - 4
The Good Life - 4
Yes Minister - 3
I could go on...
The big difference between UK and US situation comedies is that US sitcoms are written by teams of writers, and go on for as long as money can be wrung out for them. UK sitcoms are usually written by one or two writers, and end when the situation has wrung out all the comedy to be had. That's bound to mean shorter series and fewer of them.
"Last Of The Summer Wine" is, of course, the exception that proves the case. It avoided ending by repeating the exact same plots ad nauseum.
Never fails on Slashdot. People simply do not understand trademark is not just another word for copyright, yet are happy to flaunt their total lack of understanding.
Following recent security breaches at Dropbox we are resetting your password. Do not worry, you haven't been hacked. This is just for your security. I'm sure you've read about it in all the news, so you know this is all true, above board and nothing to be suspicious about.
Please follow this link to confirm your user name, old password, and new password.
Yours, Drop box security team.
Your company is just ripe for this kind of scam, then.
This is why companies with any sense, and decent financial auditing, has a non-negotiable, set procedure for moving money around. Especially when dealing with large sums like 40 million Euro. All that tedious form filling, signing and authorising is not done just to give the admin staff additional work, and a sense of power. It's to prevent the company being scammed.
But they did get away with it. The anthropologists have swallowed the "she fell" story completely. And no-one even had to produce their alibis. It's the perfect murder!
Ah, the universal excuse for stealing other people's work; "free advertising".
What you are over looking is that a crappy "not as good as the paid version" game actually dilutes and damages the brand. It may advertise it, possibly, but not necessarily in a good way.
Why don't you come put a couple of weeks' work in for me? For free. But it will be excellent free advertising for your other work. The jobs where you actually get paid. I get your work for nothing, and I'll tell everyone what a great job you did and you might get paid work. Everyone wins! Then again, all you might get is more requests from tight-asses who think they can get your work for free, and the reputation you get is as "the guy who works for free". But those are the breaks.
Exclusivity only works as a marketing tool if you are offering something that people can't get elsewhere. So they come banging at your door asking for an invite. Google+ essentially didn't do much that Facebook didn't already do, making it invite only meant that people just got on with using Facebook and ignored it.
And by the time it went open to all comers it was too complicated and too late.