I think many people (though probably not enough) already worry about what Google and Facebook separately know and track about their online and private lives. Putting them both together under the control of just one of those companies? No thanks. A million times no.
It's trivial to spoof a MAC address. Those networks are "truly open".
No, "truly open" means my device can connect without any subterfuge being involved on my part. Your definition suggests that if a door's lock can be picked then it's it's the same as being left open. That involves you both having the skill in picking a lock, and being intent on entering despite it being clear you're not invited.
Of course it was the paying for every game that was half the fun! I can't tell you how many times I've finished playing a game on my Xbox with an empty feeling of disappointment, simply because I still have cash in my pocket. Now I won't have to immediately run out into the street and force coins on strangers in order to get that true arcade experience. Thank you Microsoft!
Of course, you'll will still be lacking the frisson of implied threat that you got from the shady character that stood in the dark corner of most arcades. Is he going to knife you, offer you drugs, or steal your cash? Either way, it added to the sense of heightened awarenesses necessary for a true arcade experience. Surely Microsoft can manage to replicate this?
I suggest that all slashdotters join me in ignoring this article, since the first paragraph makes if clear it was written by a fool who knows nothing of what he speaks.
Anyone who actually worked in a Y2K project knows that if the problem had been ignored then the consequences would have been disastrous.
I'm bemused that people think that Cowell is in the least bit concern about this. He's delighted. Bottom line is that the whole campaign simply acted as yet another bonus round of XFactor. "Vote now for who you want to have the Christmas No. 1!" "It doesn't matter really, either way Simon wins!" They even had the XFactor style looooong pause before announcing the Christmas number 1. Now cue the banal interview with the "winner".
It made absolutely no difference to Cowell, it was just more free publicity and "controversy" that ultimately generates more sales, number 1 or not. And all without him lifting a finger. I bet he's wishing for more of the same next year please!
Hear that noise? That's the sound of Simon Cowell laughing all the way to the bank.
If this is old news then someone needs to tell the manufacturers of household cleaners, disinfectants and other related chemical crap.
If you ever watch the TV adverts, you can see why people might be confused. The message they give is that your CHILD is SURROUNDED by LETHAL GERMS putting them in MORTAL DANGER. The only solution to this, if you care at all about your child, is to have a house awash with antibacterial cleaners, so that every room is a bacterial killing field. Sterilise your living environment, repeatedly lest anything escapes. Douse the hard surfaces and spray the soft. The natural smell of any truly loving household is one of bleach and a cloying mixture of "pine-fresh" and "meadow-flowers". Otherwise you are an unfit parent and are complicit in your children's probable death in the most horrible of ways.
Manufacturer's want to sell their cleaners, and to do so they prey on people's ignorance and fear.
"a worrying preponderance" "if slightly disturbing"
I'm more intrigued why the submitter considers this worrying and disturbing. If people are happy with the quality of sound produced by an MP3, why should it be a concern? Surely this is more an indication that MP3s of a certain bitrate are doing what they were designed to do. Should we be implementing a law to force FLACs on people? After all, they clearly don't know what's best for them and need to be told.
But why you would find it a worry is beyond me. Does the submitter often have sleepless nights over the absolutely dreadful tastes of those less discerning than themselves?
Wow, you can't be looking too hard. Or maybe you are exceptionally rough on your CDs. You do know you're not really suppose to use them as coasters or to scrape ice off your windscreen?
Do you not see that by distorting their words to advance your own agenda, and attributing to them malicious intent without any basis in fact, you undermine the very cause which you pretend to champion?
This is slashdot. People submit stories for many reasons, but high in the list for many is a desire to create a stir and draw attention. So the very cause being championed here is "Look at me! Outrage! Look at me! Horror!"
Accuracy, fairness and the cause of the greater good don't get much of a look in after that.
I now know I won't need to pack a jacket while visiting this planet.
Please yourself. But I'll be taking my tungsten jacket (melting point 3422 Celcius, 6192 Fahrenheit).
You know, the one my grandmother bought me..... with the hood and the double pleated asbestos lining? I don't care if you've never liked it and it doesn't match my shoes, I'm wearing it.
Ye Gods, never mind the spelling, the entire passage is a travesty. Three sentences. The first sentence sets off without bothering with the formality of a capital letter. The second sentence is an unstructured marathon stream of information, randomly sprinkled with commas. And the third sentence switches from third person to second half way through for no apparent reason.
Half of what concerns people now (or should concern them) is what goes into making the light bulb. It's all very well it lasting 19 years, but if it's full of toxic materials that need special treatment on disposal, then no thanks.
If you are translating into English, you use an English word your readers will understand.
What a depressing pandering to ignorance. What's wrong finding out who is involved and what they are? You know, actually stepping outside your insular little bubble and learning something new? Pinning this on the usual boogeyman is just lazy and dishonest.
By your logic, when the Japanese Prime Minister does something Slashdot readers should be told in translation what "Barack Obama" is up to in Japan. After all, who knows or recognises Taro Aso? Who cares they are completely different people?
Why stop there? I'm not sure about this "Japan", best translate it as "Hawaii".
Yes, you're right, no one elected Gordon Brown to power...
The Labour Party voted him into power. The Labour Party was voted into power by the electorate. This is how it works. This is always how it has worked. This is how every PM from the year dot has been voted in.
Those whining about it are acting like it has come as a surprise. All they're really complaining about is it's only now a big problem because it doesn't suit their personal politics.
If you don't like it, vote for a party who want to overhaul the electoral system.
Coming to Saturday Morning TV on a channel near you soon;
Baby Superheroes!
All your favourite superheroes portrayed as squeaky voiced, gooey eyed, 4 year-olds. Enjoy their warm hearted adventures as The Baby Fantastic Four encounter a mean-ol' cat in Grandpa's back yard. Thrill as Spiderbaby gets into high jinx on the nursery ceiling! Be dumbfounded as Baby Hulk throws a tantrum!
That's not what makes this news. The fact it is competing with iTunes is simply a side issue.
What's significant is that this makes the iPhone a mobile streaming device, with access to a massive library of music. It is not an online radio station. It is having a practically unlimited choice of music available to you, anywhere. For free.
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I think many people (though probably not enough) already worry about what Google and Facebook separately know and track about their online and private lives. Putting them both together under the control of just one of those companies? No thanks. A million times no.
pack up and leave like Google did
Except Google haven't. At least as yet.
Don't see it myself.
It's trivial to spoof a MAC address. Those networks are "truly open".
No, "truly open" means my device can connect without any subterfuge being involved on my part. Your definition suggests that if a door's lock can be picked then it's it's the same as being left open. That involves you both having the skill in picking a lock, and being intent on entering despite it being clear you're not invited.
Of course it was the paying for every game that was half the fun! I can't tell you how many times I've finished playing a game on my Xbox with an empty feeling of disappointment, simply because I still have cash in my pocket. Now I won't have to immediately run out into the street and force coins on strangers in order to get that true arcade experience. Thank you Microsoft!
Of course, you'll will still be lacking the frisson of implied threat that you got from the shady character that stood in the dark corner of most arcades. Is he going to knife you, offer you drugs, or steal your cash? Either way, it added to the sense of heightened awarenesses necessary for a true arcade experience. Surely Microsoft can manage to replicate this?
I suggest that all slashdotters join me in ignoring this article, since the first paragraph makes if clear it was written by a fool who knows nothing of what he speaks.
Anyone who actually worked in a Y2K project knows that if the problem had been ignored then the consequences would have been disastrous.
I'm bemused that people think that Cowell is in the least bit concern about this. He's delighted. Bottom line is that the whole campaign simply acted as yet another bonus round of XFactor. "Vote now for who you want to have the Christmas No. 1!" "It doesn't matter really, either way Simon wins!" They even had the XFactor style looooong pause before announcing the Christmas number 1. Now cue the banal interview with the "winner".
It made absolutely no difference to Cowell, it was just more free publicity and "controversy" that ultimately generates more sales, number 1 or not. And all without him lifting a finger. I bet he's wishing for more of the same next year please!
Hear that noise? That's the sound of Simon Cowell laughing all the way to the bank.
Where is the RIAA involved in this story? See, if you can't point out for me I might end up thinking your post was a mindless knee jerk recital.
If this is old news then someone needs to tell the manufacturers of household cleaners, disinfectants and other related chemical crap.
If you ever watch the TV adverts, you can see why people might be confused. The message they give is that your CHILD is SURROUNDED by LETHAL GERMS putting them in MORTAL DANGER. The only solution to this, if you care at all about your child, is to have a house awash with antibacterial cleaners, so that every room is a bacterial killing field. Sterilise your living environment, repeatedly lest anything escapes. Douse the hard surfaces and spray the soft. The natural smell of any truly loving household is one of bleach and a cloying mixture of "pine-fresh" and "meadow-flowers". Otherwise you are an unfit parent and are complicit in your children's probable death in the most horrible of ways.
Manufacturer's want to sell their cleaners, and to do so they prey on people's ignorance and fear.
"a worrying preponderance" "if slightly disturbing"
I'm more intrigued why the submitter considers this worrying and disturbing. If people are happy with the quality of sound produced by an MP3, why should it be a concern? Surely this is more an indication that MP3s of a certain bitrate are doing what they were designed to do. Should we be implementing a law to force FLACs on people? After all, they clearly don't know what's best for them and need to be told.
But why you would find it a worry is beyond me. Does the submitter often have sleepless nights over the absolutely dreadful tastes of those less discerning than themselves?
I have yet to find one that lasts longer than 5.
Wow, you can't be looking too hard. Or maybe you are exceptionally rough on your CDs. You do know you're not really suppose to use them as coasters or to scrape ice off your windscreen?
I have CDs that play just fine after 25 years.
Do you not see that by distorting their words to advance your own agenda, and attributing to them malicious intent without any basis in fact, you undermine the very cause which you pretend to champion?
This is slashdot. People submit stories for many reasons, but high in the list for many is a desire to create a stir and draw attention. So the very cause being championed here is "Look at me! Outrage! Look at me! Horror!"
Accuracy, fairness and the cause of the greater good don't get much of a look in after that.
Time for me to delete my social networking accounts methinks
too many of my friends now use it to grandly announce every mundane detail of their life to the world
Mmmmmm, delicious irony.
I now know I won't need to pack a jacket while visiting this planet.
Please yourself. But I'll be taking my tungsten jacket (melting point 3422 Celcius, 6192 Fahrenheit).
You know, the one my grandmother bought me..... with the hood and the double pleated asbestos lining? I don't care if you've never liked it and it doesn't match my shoes, I'm wearing it.
Nope. It was three sentences when I posted. Someone has made an effort to tidy it up.
Ye Gods, never mind the spelling, the entire passage is a travesty. Three sentences. The first sentence sets off without bothering with the formality of a capital letter. The second sentence is an unstructured marathon stream of information, randomly sprinkled with commas. And the third sentence switches from third person to second half way through for no apparent reason.
Half of what concerns people now (or should concern them) is what goes into making the light bulb. It's all very well it lasting 19 years, but if it's full of toxic materials that need special treatment on disposal, then no thanks.
I am talking specifically about mercury.
Fair point, but not quite. Translating titles is not the same as substituting names.
If you are translating into English, you use an English word your readers will understand.
What a depressing pandering to ignorance. What's wrong finding out who is involved and what they are? You know, actually stepping outside your insular little bubble and learning something new? Pinning this on the usual boogeyman is just lazy and dishonest.
By your logic, when the Japanese Prime Minister does something Slashdot readers should be told in translation what "Barack Obama" is up to in Japan. After all, who knows or recognises Taro Aso? Who cares they are completely different people?
Why stop there? I'm not sure about this "Japan", best translate it as "Hawaii".
Early results indicate that kids are pre-occupied with gayness (in an unfocussed and confused way), wedgies, noogies and the smell of poo.
Further analysis reveals that Disney actors are hot, teachers aren't and swimming pools are responsible for most diseases.
Any company data-mining this further are welcome to try. There are great truths to be found within, I'm sure.
Yes, you're right, no one elected Gordon Brown to power...
The Labour Party voted him into power. The Labour Party was voted into power by the electorate. This is how it works. This is always how it has worked. This is how every PM from the year dot has been voted in.
Those whining about it are acting like it has come as a surprise. All they're really complaining about is it's only now a big problem because it doesn't suit their personal politics.
If you don't like it, vote for a party who want to overhaul the electoral system.
Coming to Saturday Morning TV on a channel near you soon;
Baby Superheroes!
All your favourite superheroes portrayed as squeaky voiced, gooey eyed, 4 year-olds. Enjoy their warm hearted adventures as The Baby Fantastic Four encounter a mean-ol' cat in Grandpa's back yard. Thrill as Spiderbaby gets into high jinx on the nursery ceiling! Be dumbfounded as Baby Hulk throws a tantrum!
Oh yes. Can't wait.
It is indeed GBP. In the UK.
Yeah, so it appears. Doesn't say this on original article. However, still fair value. Remember you can use this same account on your home system.
However, 10 GBP is not ~$10. More like $16.
That's not what makes this news. The fact it is competing with iTunes is simply a side issue.
What's significant is that this makes the iPhone a mobile streaming device, with access to a massive library of music. It is not an online radio station. It is having a practically unlimited choice of music available to you, anywhere. For free.