What do you sell someone who can't afford a computer and has to get a computer laced with horrible ads? You sell them a computer without horrible ads, of course.
"WANT TO HAVE A COMPUTER WITHOUT ADS? CLICK HERE!"
Even worse (for the low income people) is that it will quickly (d)evolve into them paying per day/week/month for "ad-less" computing, and over a very short period of time, they will have paid more for ad-less computing.
On the possible plus side, it may get computers into homes where there wouldn't traditionally be a computer.
The mere act of not explaining or not being transparent about what content is permitted and which is not permitted based on arbitrary rules is enough for intelligent consumers to make a very informed choice.
Those that want to make the choice should add "youtube.com 127.0.0.1" to their operating system's "host" or DNS files.
You're obviously not thinking of the Children and Elderly and the Poor who will surely die a horrible, painful, useless death due to this strain of Flu.
The media ran out of missing attractive white women and immigrant children and you can only cover so many mountain climber deaths per year.
They have incentive to police spammers that use gmail accounts -- volume reduction. If every spammer that uses a gmail account sends enough e-mail to fill a full 2GB (in the Sent folder), that also nets 2 GB on the receiving end -- removing the spammer's account can reduce storage requirements by up to 4GB per spammer removed.
They also will get a very nice benefit to closing spammer accounts -- their sent folders are 100% spam. What better way to see what tricks spammers are using than have 2GB of sent spam in one easy location? They can easily see what percentage of that spam folder was then in turn delivered as non-spam and how many users read it and marked it as not-spam.
Do you trust non-beta free e-mail services anymore than you trust "beta" Gmail? Obviously if you have e-mail of great importance you won't keep it in your (any) webmail account.
An even higher bar to pass is the fact that Wikipedia comes up in the top search results for almost every major search engine for (likely) thousands or hundreds of thousands of topics, both popular and obscure. Hell, "George Bush" (both of them!) outrank whitehouse.gov on Google.
Ecma 376 section 2.8.2.16 (page 1541) "sig (Supported Unicode Subranges and Code Pages)" describes the <w:sig> element whose attributes are all bitmasks. For example, take the attribute csb1:
"Specifies a four digit hexadecimal encoding of the upper 32 bits of the 64-bit code-page bit field that identifies which specific character sets or code pages are supported by the parent font"
Also, do you want attributes in your "open" format to be "useWord2002TableStyleRules" or "truncateFontHeightsLikeWP6" "footnoteLayoutLikeWW8" or "autoSpaceLikeWord95"? Yes, their format wants to support the buggy spacing methods from Word 95.
Of most concern is that if OOXML were the standard, Microsoft will maintain its complete control over government documents. Why? Because it will probably be illegal to switch products to a product that doesn't support the spec 100%.
While I do like the Microsoft Office products more than the other suites (close race now, but Outlook seals it for me), this is just going to screw everyone over.
If by convenient you mean bogging down systems with ridiculous number of startup files, bloated non-standard GUIs, non-standard and unstable USB drivers, and an uninstallation process that can fry other drivers, you're right.
Of course, that's on Windows. On Macs, iTunes looks in place and generally works fine.
iTunes on Windows has some nice features, sure, but in general it's a piece of crap. It's only successful because (a) there are limited alternatives and (b) people think you need iTunes for iPods (and vice versa).
Depends. If you're faced with something like a TrueCrypt volume, even knowing a single file will get you pretty much nowhere. The entire volume is full of random bits, in fact, written data looks just like random data. So even if you knew there was a file.txt with contents "HELLO WORLD", you have a lot of data space to comb through. Throw into that mix that the entire file system is encrypted -- hell, you may not even know what file system you're looking for.
You forgot one. We have replaced the Holy Trinity (of Christianity, replace with any other set from any other religion if you wish) with Terrorism, Religion, and Children.
Alas, Paris Hilton, that you didn't put Paris Hilton in your post subject, thus dooming your post to the eternity of never coming up in a search again, Parison Hilton.
I don't understand, Paris Hilton, why you would connect simple news headlines to mass censorship, that seems like a pretty far leap that only you, Paris Hilton, would make.
Your age may be a benefit, actually, if you play your cards right. You may not have the knowledge that someone fresh out of graduate school would have, but you have maturity and (hopefully) stability.
Have you considered keeping your job but getting into teaching? Your company may like it and let you do both--it's good PR and a great opportunity to get quality employees. From their perspective you're basically giving your students a 4 month interview process. Teaching can be a great challenge and may be more fulfilling than trying to advance yourself enough to do research. Good teaching will also advance your own skillsets, too.
The problem will only get worse as (a) YouTube starts paying users to upload content (b) users keep uploading unauthorized copies of shows and (c) YouTube starts needing to generate profits and adds more advertisements such as pre- and post-stream ads.
Why is this a problem? Now, instead of simply a DMCA takedown notice, YouTube is far more liable for damages because they made a direct profit off of the usage of unauthorized content. The users are more liable, too, since they will make a profit from YouTube.
Actually, before you rail on Crist, he's a good guy. He pissed a lot of Republicans off by getting elected -- he's far more a centrist and fiscally conservative than most "right wing" Republican. I'm actually quite surprised he got the support he did. He's unmarried, no children, and doesn't even own a home. Hardly the "family man" platform that most Republicans run on.
Much of the problems can be fixed with tinting the glass. There are some that are tinted out there, but they are few and far between. Hopefully, with increased demand, manufacturers will be able to justify the expense of developing more natural colors, through tinting, gas composition changes, or any other method.
The thing is, it won't necessarily be your local cable company that is forcing the charge. What if it's your peering points? What if it's the local government that gets greedy? What if it's the FCC? Or a "tax" on pornographic websites to help cover "filtering costs"?
As well as the "entire Internet" will attract customers, you could have 100,000 local customers but if you can't get anyone to peer with you, you basically have a city-wide Intranet.
I'm not saying those would happen or even could happen, but a non-neutral net is a very dangerous tool in the hands of legislators. I'm happy to see legislators willing to legislate power away from themselves for once.
True, although moving to easy, more natural crops like Switchgrass will alleviate some of our problems.
Much of our soil erosion and depletion is due to the way we grow crops: in strict rows, with chemicals to kill weeds and grass. While killing weeds makes picking corn easier by keeping the rows clean, there is a lot of exposed soil under the plants.
Grasses don't have this problem and actually help to maintain or even expand soil over time, and most have the added benefit of being perennial and self-propagating.
I'm curious, though... this article only outlines crops that work in the US. What will other countries do? Will rice or other water crops work for coastal countries?
For small-time sellers, yeah. But if you're, say, frequently buying Product X from Seller Y, and you always see Buyer Z bidding on the products you buy but never, ever winning, you can at least deduce that you're being scammed.
Without seeing the identity of the bidder, you have no chance.
The good days of eBay are long gone -- eBay is filled with crap from "sell it now!" type rip-off stores, "wholesale" sellers that aren't really selling wholesale, defective merchandise, and scams... all topped off with horrible customer service and tied in with a crooked payment processor.
Hint: wholesale auction + shipping > buying locally + supporting local jobs
Wrong way of thinking, but a good start
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No, a strong stance on the right to privacy won't sway my vote. All politicians of all levels of government should respect this, regardless of party.
However, a stance against personal privacy will strongly sway me against you. Fortunately for Hillary and other pro-privacy advocates, many candidates are easy to admit they'd spy, loot, and plunder in the name of "the children".
Why would you ever move to.xxx? Prestige or not, it's just too easy to block.xxx. Access is everything to the porn industry.
While a few of the large-profile sites can afford to move (the subscription-based ones), the smaller sites that are based on the shared subscription model (you pay $XX/year for access to all member sites, those member sites take a portion of profit) will just multiply, compounding any filtering problems.
Has anyone actually investigated whether the XXX industry actually WANTS the tld? The only thing I've seen personally is the company that is pushing.xxx, and they obviously only want to make a big shiny penny (just like every other stupid specialized domain, e.g.,.mobi).
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What do you sell someone who can't afford a computer and has to get a computer laced with horrible ads? You sell them a computer without horrible ads, of course.
"WANT TO HAVE A COMPUTER WITHOUT ADS? CLICK HERE!"
Even worse (for the low income people) is that it will quickly (d)evolve into them paying per day/week/month for "ad-less" computing, and over a very short period of time, they will have paid more for ad-less computing.
On the possible plus side, it may get computers into homes where there wouldn't traditionally be a computer.
The mere act of not explaining or not being transparent about what content is permitted and which is not permitted based on arbitrary rules is enough for intelligent consumers to make a very informed choice.
Those that want to make the choice should add "youtube.com 127.0.0.1" to their operating system's "host" or DNS files.
You're not missing much.
Eggs in one basket is better than eggs in no baskets.
One step at a time.
Please cite where Tor is only used for child porn.
You're obviously not thinking of the Children and Elderly and the Poor who will surely die a horrible, painful, useless death due to this strain of Flu.
The media ran out of missing attractive white women and immigrant children and you can only cover so many mountain climber deaths per year.
They have incentive to police spammers that use gmail accounts -- volume reduction. If every spammer that uses a gmail account sends enough e-mail to fill a full 2GB (in the Sent folder), that also nets 2 GB on the receiving end -- removing the spammer's account can reduce storage requirements by up to 4GB per spammer removed.
They also will get a very nice benefit to closing spammer accounts -- their sent folders are 100% spam. What better way to see what tricks spammers are using than have 2GB of sent spam in one easy location? They can easily see what percentage of that spam folder was then in turn delivered as non-spam and how many users read it and marked it as not-spam.
Only someone on the verge of committing such acts would even think of them. Just what are you planning, Hal_Porter?
Do you trust non-beta free e-mail services anymore than you trust "beta" Gmail? Obviously if you have e-mail of great importance you won't keep it in your (any) webmail account.
There's no clear language that limits the rules he can enact, either, though.
The AG should have no right to enact rules and regulations himself. Since when has the AG been able to create laws?!
An even higher bar to pass is the fact that Wikipedia comes up in the top search results for almost every major search engine for (likely) thousands or hundreds of thousands of topics, both popular and obscure. Hell, "George Bush" (both of them!) outrank whitehouse.gov on Google.
Of most concern is that if OOXML were the standard, Microsoft will maintain its complete control over government documents. Why? Because it will probably be illegal to switch products to a product that doesn't support the spec 100%.
While I do like the Microsoft Office products more than the other suites (close race now, but Outlook seals it for me), this is just going to screw everyone over.
If by convenient you mean bogging down systems with ridiculous number of startup files, bloated non-standard GUIs, non-standard and unstable USB drivers, and an uninstallation process that can fry other drivers, you're right.
Of course, that's on Windows. On Macs, iTunes looks in place and generally works fine.
iTunes on Windows has some nice features, sure, but in general it's a piece of crap. It's only successful because (a) there are limited alternatives and (b) people think you need iTunes for iPods (and vice versa).
Depends. If you're faced with something like a TrueCrypt volume, even knowing a single file will get you pretty much nowhere. The entire volume is full of random bits, in fact, written data looks just like random data. So even if you knew there was a file.txt with contents "HELLO WORLD", you have a lot of data space to comb through. Throw into that mix that the entire file system is encrypted -- hell, you may not even know what file system you're looking for.
You forgot one. We have replaced the Holy Trinity (of Christianity, replace with any other set from any other religion if you wish) with Terrorism, Religion, and Children.
Your post reads like a badly written Perl script, albeit with less punctuation.
Alas, Paris Hilton, that you didn't put Paris Hilton in your post subject, thus dooming your post to the eternity of never coming up in a search again, Parison Hilton.
I don't understand, Paris Hilton, why you would connect simple news headlines to mass censorship, that seems like a pretty far leap that only you, Paris Hilton, would make.
Your age may be a benefit, actually, if you play your cards right. You may not have the knowledge that someone fresh out of graduate school would have, but you have maturity and (hopefully) stability.
Have you considered keeping your job but getting into teaching? Your company may like it and let you do both--it's good PR and a great opportunity to get quality employees. From their perspective you're basically giving your students a 4 month interview process. Teaching can be a great challenge and may be more fulfilling than trying to advance yourself enough to do research. Good teaching will also advance your own skillsets, too.
The problem will only get worse as (a) YouTube starts paying users to upload content (b) users keep uploading unauthorized copies of shows and (c) YouTube starts needing to generate profits and adds more advertisements such as pre- and post-stream ads.
Why is this a problem? Now, instead of simply a DMCA takedown notice, YouTube is far more liable for damages because they made a direct profit off of the usage of unauthorized content. The users are more liable, too, since they will make a profit from YouTube.
Actually, before you rail on Crist, he's a good guy. He pissed a lot of Republicans off by getting elected -- he's far more a centrist and fiscally conservative than most "right wing" Republican. I'm actually quite surprised he got the support he did. He's unmarried, no children, and doesn't even own a home. Hardly the "family man" platform that most Republicans run on.
Much of the problems can be fixed with tinting the glass. There are some that are tinted out there, but they are few and far between. Hopefully, with increased demand, manufacturers will be able to justify the expense of developing more natural colors, through tinting, gas composition changes, or any other method.
The thing is, it won't necessarily be your local cable company that is forcing the charge. What if it's your peering points? What if it's the local government that gets greedy? What if it's the FCC? Or a "tax" on pornographic websites to help cover "filtering costs"?
As well as the "entire Internet" will attract customers, you could have 100,000 local customers but if you can't get anyone to peer with you, you basically have a city-wide Intranet.
I'm not saying those would happen or even could happen, but a non-neutral net is a very dangerous tool in the hands of legislators. I'm happy to see legislators willing to legislate power away from themselves for once.
True, although moving to easy, more natural crops like Switchgrass will alleviate some of our problems.
Much of our soil erosion and depletion is due to the way we grow crops: in strict rows, with chemicals to kill weeds and grass. While killing weeds makes picking corn easier by keeping the rows clean, there is a lot of exposed soil under the plants.
Grasses don't have this problem and actually help to maintain or even expand soil over time, and most have the added benefit of being perennial and self-propagating.
I'm curious, though... this article only outlines crops that work in the US. What will other countries do? Will rice or other water crops work for coastal countries?
For small-time sellers, yeah. But if you're, say, frequently buying Product X from Seller Y, and you always see Buyer Z bidding on the products you buy but never, ever winning, you can at least deduce that you're being scammed.
Without seeing the identity of the bidder, you have no chance.
The good days of eBay are long gone -- eBay is filled with crap from "sell it now!" type rip-off stores, "wholesale" sellers that aren't really selling wholesale, defective merchandise, and scams... all topped off with horrible customer service and tied in with a crooked payment processor.
Hint: wholesale auction + shipping > buying locally + supporting local jobs
No, a strong stance on the right to privacy won't sway my vote. All politicians of all levels of government should respect this, regardless of party.
However, a stance against personal privacy will strongly sway me against you. Fortunately for Hillary and other pro-privacy advocates, many candidates are easy to admit they'd spy, loot, and plunder in the name of "the children".
Why would you ever move to .xxx? Prestige or not, it's just too easy to block .xxx. Access is everything to the porn industry.
.xxx, and they obviously only want to make a big shiny penny (just like every other stupid specialized domain, e.g., .mobi).
While a few of the large-profile sites can afford to move (the subscription-based ones), the smaller sites that are based on the shared subscription model (you pay $XX/year for access to all member sites, those member sites take a portion of profit) will just multiply, compounding any filtering problems.
Has anyone actually investigated whether the XXX industry actually WANTS the tld? The only thing I've seen personally is the company that is pushing