A few minutes of quiet reflection and the liberal application of common sense will result in the following:
Because a few minutes of your thinking are more valuable than the various workshops, meetings and discussions of the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group and all its associates and members?
You really think this wasn't discussed by a hundred people before the current draft was written? Really?
Nothing I've read has changed my conclusions one bit.
So what is it that you have read? Half-arsed magazine articles? Or have you read the actual papers of the actual W3C, the workgroup members, the various parties? Allow me to guess...
Strange how it did work for the do-not-call list, you know?
Even if DNT works only for 1% of sites - it still works better than your solution, which seems to involve throwing your hands into the air, running around and crying "the sky is falling, it is all hopeless".
I do wish, though, that NoScript were a little less aggressive.
I use javascript libraries pulled from CDNs on some of my sites, simply because it saves me the trouble of constantly keeping local copies up-to-date and the other usual CDN reasons.
And not for tracking or advertisement. I'm talking about stuff like jquery, OpenLayers, etc. - presentation stuff.
For reference, here are the 5 fundamental practices of Islam:
That's like quoting the 10 commandments and saying "that's christianity". You are missing vital parts of the whole picture, and you are missing the fact that religions are cultural phenomena that go beyond the written word and into practices, rituals and the like.
People always quote these three assholes and attribute them to atheism. And nothing could be further from the truth and everyone who modded parent up should go crawl in a corner.
First, Hitler was a christian. Some other Nazis toyed with pagan ideas and more nonsense, but none of them had an explicitly atheist agenda.
Second, Stalin exploited religion, even though he was an atheist himself. And while atheism was a part of communist dogma, there was very little explicitly anti-religious prosecution in communist russia. On the contrary, even Stalin himself maintained close ties with the orthodox church, and while its power was greatly reduced, it was never abolished.
If anyone of these can be accused of anti-religious actions, it is Mao, who indeed had religious sites ransacked during the cultural revolution. But again, to the best of my knowledge, there were no explicit anti-religious death camps or anything like that.
You, sir, are a fraud and a liar, a demagoge and manipulator. First, you attribute the total death count of world events to one person, and then to one feature (in one case, a falsely alleged feature) of their personality. That's like saying that Bill Gates is as rich as he is because he has a nose. Nevermind that lots of other people with noses aren't that rich, nor is it a general feature of people with noses to be rich - uh, sorry, lots of atheists never killed anyone, nor is it a general feature of atheism to kill people.
Your argument is entirely fraudulent in every step. You fail to establish causation, you don't even try. Your entire argument boils down to "look, here is three evil people, here is something they had in common, therefore that thing is really, really evil". Oh yes, and all that is graciously ignoring that you are dead wrong on one of them.
I despise cheap rhetorics like this. I hate it when it is false-to-facts.
Now here's the catch. A riot was asked what they didn't like about the video or what was so wrong, answer, I would not watch that rubbish. So what do you do with morons who riot about content they have never even bloody seen and like automatons they are rioting because the were told to be insulted and that they should riot.
Now here's a thought: Why not instead of thinking about what to do, think about what must have already been done to people who have so much hatred stored inside that they react violently to a rumour.
Automatons is exactly what they are not. Machines don't have emotional reactions.
They are the same kind of people as live in the US and kill abortion doctors. There are just more of them and the visibility is higher.
God's commandments in the Old Testament for the descendents of Israel to enter and occupy the Promised Land were to the Jews, not to Christians, and are therefore not part of how a Christian should spread Christianity.
The worst part about christians is how they pick & choose from their supposedly "holy book", ignore the stuff that's no longer considered acceptable and focus on the stuff that still is.
If there is stuff in the "holy book" that does not apply anymore - why has it not been removed? Don't tell me the crap about "word from god", because the bible has been reworked several times throughout history, so it isn't untouchable.
All religion is bad. That being said, some religions are worse than others and IMO Islam is the worst of the lot.
You are ignoring the time dimension.
At this point in time, islam is the worst. A couple hundred years in the past, if you had a choice, you'd have preferred living in an islamic country over living in a christian country - even as a christian.
Welcome to the 21st century. Want to be a part of it?...then grow up. Accept evolution. Stop considering yourself the world police. Learn some basic geography. Stop being assholes. Oh, an don't tell others to grow up when you're stuck in the middle ages yourself.
It's comments like this that make me hate myself for reading/. for half a year or so before finally signing up. I could've been a two-digit user, I think. Virgins would throw themselves at me... with any luck, there could be a female virgin among them.:-)
Thanks. Yes, that makes sense. However, as I understand it, this scam only works if they can cancel orders that someone else would accept - so why does that work?
Lol, you fell for the trolling so hard, it must hurt.
Advertisement revenue per-view is tiny. Fractions of cents. Even per-click we are talking about a few cents at best, and probably less.
Put your stuff on iTunes and you'll get 70% of the sales price, that is a lot more in revenue.
Oh, unless you are with a major label, but guess what, then they control the distribution rights and you can't put your stuff on Mega-nonsense anyways.
Plus, why the fuck is this news? It's not like this was new in any shape or form. If you google for relevant terms, you find startups like this going back to 2007.
It just was the easiest way to share larger files with people who normally don't use any kind of file-sharing technology.
There are many competitors in that area, and more convenient, too. Dropbox is my weapon of choice, and it integrates with the filesystem. How much more convenient than "cp MyFile.zip ~/Dropbox/public/" can you get? (or drag&drop for those who don't like consoles).
All of these already exist. The main challenges in these areas are not know-how or technology, but social and political. Basically: Getting these things to the people that need them.
And I've looked around their beta site for documentation showing me how to do it. Because, you know, CKEditor just might be most interesting to developers, who kind of like to see code and understand how the integration is going to work and all that.
But no. Lots of demos, no example of showing you how to do the AJAX calls. Uh... they DO have a built-in functionality for that, don't they? If I have to code all that up by hand, then please explain to me how this new feature makes it in any way better than using the current version and Jeditable ?
The difference is that the Germans self-police (in standard volunteer wiki-style), while the US and Sweden do not, to my knowledge.
Even in Germany, this is quite new, and only started when one infamous dazzler (who I'm not going to name because it would only improve his Google rankings) was uncovered, denied everything and went on the offensive as PR experts tell you to do in such cases - except that the Internet geeks banded together and ripped his PhD thesis apart page-by-page showing massive abuse so much that he not only lost his PhD but also had criminal investigations for copyright violations launched against him and public pressure forced him to give up all his political positions.
He's since twice tried a comeback, both times the public made it clear that we don't like liars and fraudsters.
That was a part of recent history that makes me proud, but it is very recent history.
Now for the real question: Anyone got an explanation that does not involve bribery to explain why this kind of crap is a) possible and b) legal?
I run an online game. There's a very simple trade market in it. If I found this to work on my trade market, I'd consider it a bug, the people abusing it cheaters and react accordingly.
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A few minutes of quiet reflection and the liberal application of common sense will result in the following:
Because a few minutes of your thinking are more valuable than the various workshops, meetings and discussions of the W3C Tracking Protection Working Group and all its associates and members?
You really think this wasn't discussed by a hundred people before the current draft was written? Really?
Nothing I've read has changed my conclusions one bit.
So what is it that you have read? Half-arsed magazine articles? Or have you read the actual papers of the actual W3C, the workgroup members, the various parties? Allow me to guess...
Exactly, DNT is useless and the whole concept may have been deliberately designed to be useless.
Really?
So, you've read all the W3C papers? You've been to the workshops? You are aware of the discussions inside the Tracking Protection Working Group?
No, wait, you just have an opinion based on reading a few badly researched online magazine articles.
No, it isn't. It is... fuck me sideways with a chainsaw... an advertisement company.
Is it the end of the universe ?
Where's a crowdfunding assassination site when you need one? Is hitstarter.com still available?
Strange how it did work for the do-not-call list, you know?
Even if DNT works only for 1% of sites - it still works better than your solution, which seems to involve throwing your hands into the air, running around and crying "the sky is falling, it is all hopeless".
I do wish, though, that NoScript were a little less aggressive.
I use javascript libraries pulled from CDNs on some of my sites, simply because it saves me the trouble of constantly keeping local copies up-to-date and the other usual CDN reasons.
And not for tracking or advertisement. I'm talking about stuff like jquery, OpenLayers, etc. - presentation stuff.
For reference, here are the 5 fundamental practices of Islam:
That's like quoting the 10 commandments and saying "that's christianity". You are missing vital parts of the whole picture, and you are missing the fact that religions are cultural phenomena that go beyond the written word and into practices, rituals and the like.
People always quote these three assholes and attribute them to atheism. And nothing could be further from the truth and everyone who modded parent up should go crawl in a corner.
First, Hitler was a christian. Some other Nazis toyed with pagan ideas and more nonsense, but none of them had an explicitly atheist agenda.
Second, Stalin exploited religion, even though he was an atheist himself. And while atheism was a part of communist dogma, there was very little explicitly anti-religious prosecution in communist russia. On the contrary, even Stalin himself maintained close ties with the orthodox church, and while its power was greatly reduced, it was never abolished.
If anyone of these can be accused of anti-religious actions, it is Mao, who indeed had religious sites ransacked during the cultural revolution. But again, to the best of my knowledge, there were no explicit anti-religious death camps or anything like that.
You, sir, are a fraud and a liar, a demagoge and manipulator. First, you attribute the total death count of world events to one person, and then to one feature (in one case, a falsely alleged feature) of their personality. That's like saying that Bill Gates is as rich as he is because he has a nose. Nevermind that lots of other people with noses aren't that rich, nor is it a general feature of people with noses to be rich - uh, sorry, lots of atheists never killed anyone, nor is it a general feature of atheism to kill people.
Your argument is entirely fraudulent in every step. You fail to establish causation, you don't even try. Your entire argument boils down to "look, here is three evil people, here is something they had in common, therefore that thing is really, really evil". Oh yes, and all that is graciously ignoring that you are dead wrong on one of them.
I despise cheap rhetorics like this. I hate it when it is false-to-facts.
Now here's the catch. A riot was asked what they didn't like about the video or what was so wrong, answer, I would not watch that rubbish. So what do you do with morons who riot about content they have never even bloody seen and like automatons they are rioting because the were told to be insulted and that they should riot.
Now here's a thought: Why not instead of thinking about what to do, think about what must have already been done to people who have so much hatred stored inside that they react violently to a rumour.
Automatons is exactly what they are not. Machines don't have emotional reactions.
They are the same kind of people as live in the US and kill abortion doctors. There are just more of them and the visibility is higher.
God's commandments in the Old Testament for the descendents of Israel to enter and occupy the Promised Land were to the Jews, not to Christians, and are therefore not part of how a Christian should spread Christianity.
The worst part about christians is how they pick & choose from their supposedly "holy book", ignore the stuff that's no longer considered acceptable and focus on the stuff that still is.
If there is stuff in the "holy book" that does not apply anymore - why has it not been removed? Don't tell me the crap about "word from god", because the bible has been reworked several times throughout history, so it isn't untouchable.
All religion is bad. That being said, some religions are worse than others and IMO Islam is the worst of the lot.
You are ignoring the time dimension.
At this point in time, islam is the worst. A couple hundred years in the past, if you had a choice, you'd have preferred living in an islamic country over living in a christian country - even as a christian.
Hello, USA.
Welcome to the 21st century. Want to be a part of it? ...then grow up. Accept evolution. Stop considering yourself the world police. Learn some basic geography. Stop being assholes. Oh, an don't tell others to grow up when you're stuck in the middle ages yourself.
You wish. But you can be sure that it will be worded in such a way that it can only be used for their purposes.
:-)
It's comments like this that make me hate myself for reading /. for half a year or so before finally signing up. I could've been a two-digit user, I think. Virgins would throw themselves at me... with any luck, there could be a female virgin among them. :-)
Thanks. Yes, that makes sense. However, as I understand it, this scam only works if they can cancel orders that someone else would accept - so why does that work?
So, you are a legal expert in german copyright laws?
No?
Thought so.
He is Kim.
He doesn't give a flying fuck about indie artists, he will go with whoever pays him money, because he likes showing off.
More likely, though, this is all vaporware and he was just pissed that his name wasn't in the headlines for a week.
Lol, you fell for the trolling so hard, it must hurt.
Advertisement revenue per-view is tiny. Fractions of cents. Even per-click we are talking about a few cents at best, and probably less.
Put your stuff on iTunes and you'll get 70% of the sales price, that is a lot more in revenue.
Oh, unless you are with a major label, but guess what, then they control the distribution rights and you can't put your stuff on Mega-nonsense anyways.
Plus, why the fuck is this news? It's not like this was new in any shape or form. If you google for relevant terms, you find startups like this going back to 2007.
It just was the easiest way to share larger files with people who normally don't use any kind of file-sharing technology.
There are many competitors in that area, and more convenient, too. Dropbox is my weapon of choice, and it integrates with the filesystem. How much more convenient than "cp MyFile.zip ~/Dropbox/public/" can you get? (or drag&drop for those who don't like consoles).
All of these already exist. The main challenges in these areas are not know-how or technology, but social and political. Basically: Getting these things to the people that need them.
Whatever kind of technology you give to them, it _will_ be used to kill people first, then maybe for other users.
Which is why they invented this thing a few people use every now and then. I think they call it the Internet or something.
And I've looked around their beta site for documentation showing me how to do it. Because, you know, CKEditor just might be most interesting to developers, who kind of like to see code and understand how the integration is going to work and all that.
But no. Lots of demos, no example of showing you how to do the AJAX calls. Uh... they DO have a built-in functionality for that, don't they? If I have to code all that up by hand, then please explain to me how this new feature makes it in any way better than using the current version and Jeditable ?
The difference is that the Germans self-police (in standard volunteer wiki-style), while the US and Sweden do not, to my knowledge.
Even in Germany, this is quite new, and only started when one infamous dazzler (who I'm not going to name because it would only improve his Google rankings) was uncovered, denied everything and went on the offensive as PR experts tell you to do in such cases - except that the Internet geeks banded together and ripped his PhD thesis apart page-by-page showing massive abuse so much that he not only lost his PhD but also had criminal investigations for copyright violations launched against him and public pressure forced him to give up all his political positions.
He's since twice tried a comeback, both times the public made it clear that we don't like liars and fraudsters.
That was a part of recent history that makes me proud, but it is very recent history.
Thanks for the explanation.
Now for the real question: Anyone got an explanation that does not involve bribery to explain why this kind of crap is a) possible and b) legal?
I run an online game. There's a very simple trade market in it. If I found this to work on my trade market, I'd consider it a bug, the people abusing it cheaters and react accordingly.
Ok, it's been a few years since I worked at the stock exchange, so someone please update me:
What is this bullshit with cancelling orders, in bulk? What is the reasoning, how could anyone ever think that would be a good idea to allow?