Yeah. We know that no American cares about using less of anything, the idea of life is to use as much as possible, but...
Comfort? Being able to get up and walk around? No luggage limit (within reason)? No standing in line for check-in. You can have a proper table of you want and a mains plug. Use a phone (but out in the corridor, please). When you arrive you're in the middle of the city, not ten miles out and you don't have to stand around for half an hour in the baggage area.
Train travel is a much nicer experience than flying.
Whenever you hear a girl say "I prefer big ones" she's really saying "I have a cavernous bucket of a vagina". Remember that and you won't go far wrong in life.
it will still succeed in its main task, of deterring would be bombers, because they will not take a 95% chance of detection.
Why exactly do terrorists need to make it past airport machines? Is getting a bomb on a 'plane really the only way they can attack us? Isn't blowing up the line of people waiting for the scanner just as effective? (Assuming they have to attack airports, which they don't...)
Even if it was the only possible attack they could still put C4 up their asses and the TSA wouldn't find it by groping/scanning. The bomb detector probably won't even beep so long as they don't fart on the way through.
Yes, but only 1000 of the magazines contain the electronic ad, and unfortunately they seem to be hard to come by. I've looked everywhere and have yet to find one.
Really? You think the people in the shop/delivery truck didn't grab them...?
But why would they want to sell you a movie for $2 that you can invite the whole neighbourhood over to watch as many times as you like when they currently charge $13 per person for a one-time viewing and then 6 months later charge you $20 for the DRM protected dvd/bluray full of advertisements?
Because cinemas cost money to run, DVDs cost money to distribute....downloads don't cost them anything.
The iPhone4 didn't do this. It took great photos, as good as most consumer-level cameras.
Apple told everybody the camera in the iPhone5 was better. Turns out they messed up and it isn't. They're being held responsible for their claims, why does that surprise you?
Not really. If he thinks the most serious problem with copyright law is the length of copyright protection then he's way off the mark. The most serious problem with copyright protection is that it's being used to subvert democracy and basic human rights.
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If he succeeds, NASA will have a cheap way to bring astronauts back from the space station without paying the Russians!
Small problem: The ISS has 17000 mph horizontal velocity...
The one with the olive oil in it?
Well... the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology thinks the Big Bang is lie from hell so why is this surprising?
DMCA, looking better with every passing day.
You're the only person in the whole world so I'm guessing it wasn't really Firefox...
Does this mean I can have a gene test to see how much neanderthal I have in me? Cool...
There should also be massive penalties for massacring the English language. "Becoming endemic", not "becoming epidemic".
Both are wrong in this context. If should be "commonplace".
You can't be bigoted against an idea.
All ideas and concepts are fair game for critique. The ones that fail are discarded.
...except in politics.
Yeah. We know that no American cares about using less of anything, the idea of life is to use as much as possible, but...
Comfort? Being able to get up and walk around? No luggage limit (within reason)? No standing in line for check-in. You can have a proper table of you want and a mains plug. Use a phone (but out in the corridor, please). When you arrive you're in the middle of the city, not ten miles out and you don't have to stand around for half an hour in the baggage area.
Train travel is a much nicer experience than flying.
(the first being "sometimes it just won't fit")
Hint: Girls come in different capacities.
Whenever you hear a girl say "I prefer big ones" she's really saying "I have a cavernous bucket of a vagina". Remember that and you won't go far wrong in life.
Here's the citations, I'm sure you left them out by accident...
Michael Chertoff, George Soros
it will still succeed in its main task, of deterring would be bombers, because they will not take a 95% chance of detection.
Why exactly do terrorists need to make it past airport machines? Is getting a bomb on a 'plane really the only way they can attack us? Isn't blowing up the line of people waiting for the scanner just as effective? (Assuming they have to attack airports, which they don't...)
Even if it was the only possible attack they could still put C4 up their asses and the TSA wouldn't find it by groping/scanning. The bomb detector probably won't even beep so long as they don't fart on the way through.
It was pure comedy.
What exact is an "old school USB port"? Looked like a normal mini-USB port to me (ya?)
Yes, but only 1000 of the magazines contain the electronic ad, and unfortunately they seem to be hard to come by. I've looked everywhere and have yet to find one.
Really? You think the people in the shop/delivery truck didn't grab them...?
The 'standard' is without teeth anyway because advertisers are low on morals.
As soon as the PHB reads that they can safely ignore DNT, they will. Anybody who acts all surprised afterwards is an idiot.
This is a voluntary thing - advertisers can simply ignore it if they want to.
So... what do you think will happen if it's on by default in the browsers of the most gullible sector of the market?
Ok riddle me this.....
Exactly how would this be a detriment to the users?
Simple: If browsers turn DNT on by default the advertisers will simply ignore it.
(They're going to ignore it anyway, so no big loss...)
Um, what "research" have they actually done?
But why would they want to sell you a movie for $2 that you can invite the whole neighbourhood over to watch as many times as you like when they currently charge $13 per person for a one-time viewing and then 6 months later charge you $20 for the DRM protected dvd/bluray full of advertisements?
Because cinemas cost money to run, DVDs cost money to distribute....downloads don't cost them anything.
Apple's calling it a 'feature' because everybody on Facebook can tell if you have an iPhone 5 or not.
The iPhone4 didn't do this. It took great photos, as good as most consumer-level cameras.
Apple told everybody the camera in the iPhone5 was better. Turns out they messed up and it isn't. They're being held responsible for their claims, why does that surprise you?
Sure, but paying somebody else to do it for you is like using Windows instead of Linux.
Not a good move. The Morlocks aren't going to like this at all...
Glad that my tax money is being spent on sending government employees to such an out-of-the-way place.
Your gasoline money paid for the place so what's a few airplane tickets?
Finally, a judge with any common sense?
Not really. If he thinks the most serious problem with copyright law is the length of copyright protection then he's way off the mark. The most serious problem with copyright protection is that it's being used to subvert democracy and basic human rights.