For the most hypocritical church on earth they're surprisingly progressive with some matters. I don't think they're that keen on Intelligent design either.
The basic premise seems to me to be that Amazon will be able to offer huge discounts on apps because the developer nominally 'agrees' that their recommended sale price is offensively high - because the pricing strategy compels them to. But the developer gets decent money, so neither party loses. The only loser is the consumer who are being deceived into thinking they're getting a huge discount.
But what happens if stores have a requirement that your app price in their store is never lower than the price of the same app in a competing store?
The only lesson to learn from that is don't assume something like TrueCrypt is enough to protect you from the government. Of course that assumes Google was using serious encryption.
Shouldn't it include technology that warns you about all the people trying to see where the little red dots are on their screen listing all the cellphone users?
These 3D printers are for rapid prototyping, and they are far from new. They have been around for years.
They do NOT create durable goods. You will NOT be able to print working cars, bikes, computers, houses, women or whatever else you want. The output of these printers do not serve any real purpose other than a 3-dimensional prototype of an object. Even if this so-called flute is playable today, it likely won't be in a year's time if it's handled a lot.
I guess your username says it all, but how exactly do you think this will somehow magically be cheaper than printing in 2D on plain paper with standard ink?
Bottom line: You cannot "manufacture" durable goods using 3D printer technology. It's nice to dream, but dreams have their place.
I remember people saying photos printed with an inkjet aren't as good as developed film because it won't last 30 years. But when my photos get wet or something, I just print another one. In fact, that's something I can't do with film. Assuming the price of 3D printing comes down over time, how big of a problem is the material only lasting a few months if you can just print another one? In fact, maybe in that time you'll get tired of the current one and want to download and print the latest model anyway.
The interesting thing about that scenario is #3 is both (the argument for why you shouldn't complain about missing source code) and (the reason it would be good to have the source code).
Akamai, by paying attention to where the DNS request came from is doing it fundamentally WRONG, because they could actually deny service (for national licensing reasons) based on location of the DNS server when the actual user was in a totally different (and legal) location.
So if we find a DNS server in the right country then we might be able to download videos that are blocked in our own country?
Between the number of people I've heard complaining about the Kinect requiring too much movement, and the number of people jumping on the "motion gaming" bandwagon, it almost seems like Nintendo got it right. The sweet spot between making games more physical and not making them too physical. Even senior citizens can play Wii games.
I guess you can't just jump into full motion. Maybe go from using just your hands to involving your arms too. And maybe one day we'll be ready for games that involve the whole body.
In this particular case I wonder, if the wife had checked the husband's email and found out about an affair, would she have been charged with a felony too? This seems almost like an attempt to abuse the law for sexist purposes to me. Unless the prosecutor just needs attention.
He's scummy because he doesn't do a damn thing. He sets up honeypots, and then sues the spammers, hoping they settle. It's like the pigs buying up a crackhouse and busting everyone that comes in, but never finding the dealer. Legally right? Yes. Morally? No. Only scum go after the low-hanging fruit.
Any Joe Sixpack moron can go file a lawsuit at small claims court. If he was really interested in making a change, he wouldn't be taking the settlements, he'd be dragging them all through the coals. Instead, he's just a money grabbing slimeball.
I don't think anybody who matters is getting hurt here. It's not so much like buying a crack house and arresting the customers. It's more like yelling that you are in need of cocaine and arresting everybody who tries to sell it to you. This is a guy who knows there are people out there looking for victims, and makes himself look like a victim in order to take advantage of them. Only bad guys can be hurt by his scam.
Opera had a Filter feature. It would create "Filters" which looked like folders. Each folder had mail in it based on Bayesian filters that learned from the user dragging the mail into folders. I had all of my mail sorted this way. It looks like they suddenly removed the feature without warning. Now my thousands of mail messages are together, unsorted. It's the equivalent of your email program taking every folder you have for email and dumping all the contents into one big folder. I wish I hadn't trusted Opera enough to blindly upgrade.
If I was a sales manager, I would be offering some incentive to my customers to do all their shopping at my store at once. The more they spend, the greater their savings. I'm willing to bet it would keep people from playing the numbers game with you, and who want's to bounce around stores just to save a few bucks on a toy anyways?
Then all they have to do is update the app to calculate which store gives you the lowest price based on each stores discount after you've listed every item you want to buy. Also, you don't have to go to a different store for each item. If one store has 3 items at the lowest price and the other store has 4 other items at the lowest price, you just buy 3 items in one store, and buy 4 items in another.
AdBlock doesn't get rid of that stupid Jimmy Wales plea for money. I know I'm not paying for the articles, but they're not paying for the articles either. They were typed by people like me. So why make things annoying for me? I didn't make things annoying for them those times I fixed errors on their articles.
There was some guy on this forum a long time ago that made a good point too. He said when your company requires you to make a password include certain special characters or numbers, they make things easier on the person trying to steal the password. Because now she knows to not even try all of the password combinations that don't fit the rules for making a password. She knows not to try any password that doesn't contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, special characters and whatnot. So you give her a smaller list of passwords to try in a brute force attack. Combine that with the post-it note problem and you have a good argument for using, easy-to-remember passwords in the first place.
Interesting, but lame/tasteless things get "thumbed-up" in youtube, "liked" on facebook, or "found useful" as reviews on Amazon. We got multi-dimensional moderation here rather than "good/bad."
This part in particular was what I was focused on. The same thing is happening on Slashdot. The comments are being modded up and down based on how the moderators feel about the comments. If they actually are informative, interesting, or any of those other things, that is a coincidence. At the very least, Overrated and Underrated should be replaced with like and dislike. If one can't even think of a word to describe what's good or bad about the post, one should go ahead and admit they just like or don't like it.
The meaning of "your data" needs to be more clear. It should say something like "everything you see on our website may be sold to someone, including the things you put on our website".
I don't like the thought of them making software that interferes with javascript in other web browsers. That makes the performance of the web browsers dependent on this plugin.
This doesn't make sense to me. If you don't want somebody to read something, the last thing you do is tell them not to read it. I think something other than the obvious must be true.
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For the most hypocritical church on earth they're surprisingly progressive with some matters. I don't think they're that keen on Intelligent design either.
I'll bet they're not as hypocritical as Slashdot.
The basic premise seems to me to be that Amazon will be able to offer huge discounts on apps because the developer nominally 'agrees' that their recommended sale price is offensively high - because the pricing strategy compels them to. But the developer gets decent money, so neither party loses. The only loser is the consumer who are being deceived into thinking they're getting a huge discount.
But what happens if stores have a requirement that your app price in their store is never lower than the price of the same app in a competing store?
The only lesson to learn from that is don't assume something like TrueCrypt is enough to protect you from the government. Of course that assumes Google was using serious encryption.
Shouldn't it include technology that warns you about all the people trying to see where the little red dots are on their screen listing all the cellphone users?
These 3D printers are for rapid prototyping, and they are far from new. They have been around for years.
They do NOT create durable goods. You will NOT be able to print working cars, bikes, computers, houses, women or whatever else you want. The output of these printers do not serve any real purpose other than a 3-dimensional prototype of an object. Even if this so-called flute is playable today, it likely won't be in a year's time if it's handled a lot.
I guess your username says it all, but how exactly do you think this will somehow magically be cheaper than printing in 2D on plain paper with standard ink?
Bottom line: You cannot "manufacture" durable goods using 3D printer technology. It's nice to dream, but dreams have their place.
I remember people saying photos printed with an inkjet aren't as good as developed film because it won't last 30 years. But when my photos get wet or something, I just print another one. In fact, that's something I can't do with film. Assuming the price of 3D printing comes down over time, how big of a problem is the material only lasting a few months if you can just print another one? In fact, maybe in that time you'll get tired of the current one and want to download and print the latest model anyway.
I think the point is those people who say open source is so much better than closed source are full of it.
The interesting thing about that scenario is #3 is both (the argument for why you shouldn't complain about missing source code) and (the reason it would be good to have the source code).
Akamai, by paying attention to where the DNS request came from is doing it fundamentally WRONG, because they could actually deny service (for national licensing reasons) based on location of the DNS server when the actual user was in a totally different (and legal) location.
So if we find a DNS server in the right country then we might be able to download videos that are blocked in our own country?
Between the number of people I've heard complaining about the Kinect requiring too much movement, and the number of people jumping on the "motion gaming" bandwagon, it almost seems like Nintendo got it right. The sweet spot between making games more physical and not making them too physical. Even senior citizens can play Wii games. I guess you can't just jump into full motion. Maybe go from using just your hands to involving your arms too. And maybe one day we'll be ready for games that involve the whole body.
In this particular case I wonder, if the wife had checked the husband's email and found out about an affair, would she have been charged with a felony too? This seems almost like an attempt to abuse the law for sexist purposes to me. Unless the prosecutor just needs attention.
He's scummy because he doesn't do a damn thing. He sets up honeypots, and then sues the spammers, hoping they settle. It's like the pigs buying up a crackhouse and busting everyone that comes in, but never finding the dealer. Legally right? Yes. Morally? No. Only scum go after the low-hanging fruit.
Any Joe Sixpack moron can go file a lawsuit at small claims court. If he was really interested in making a change, he wouldn't be taking the settlements, he'd be dragging them all through the coals. Instead, he's just a money grabbing slimeball.
I don't think anybody who matters is getting hurt here. It's not so much like buying a crack house and arresting the customers. It's more like yelling that you are in need of cocaine and arresting everybody who tries to sell it to you. This is a guy who knows there are people out there looking for victims, and makes himself look like a victim in order to take advantage of them. Only bad guys can be hurt by his scam.
Never mind. It's still there. They just changed the name from Filters to Labels.
Opera had a Filter feature. It would create "Filters" which looked like folders. Each folder had mail in it based on Bayesian filters that learned from the user dragging the mail into folders. I had all of my mail sorted this way. It looks like they suddenly removed the feature without warning. Now my thousands of mail messages are together, unsorted. It's the equivalent of your email program taking every folder you have for email and dumping all the contents into one big folder. I wish I hadn't trusted Opera enough to blindly upgrade.
If I was a sales manager, I would be offering some incentive to my customers to do all their shopping at my store at once. The more they spend, the greater their savings. I'm willing to bet it would keep people from playing the numbers game with you, and who want's to bounce around stores just to save a few bucks on a toy anyways?
Then all they have to do is update the app to calculate which store gives you the lowest price based on each stores discount after you've listed every item you want to buy. Also, you don't have to go to a different store for each item. If one store has 3 items at the lowest price and the other store has 4 other items at the lowest price, you just buy 3 items in one store, and buy 4 items in another.
AdBlock doesn't get rid of that stupid Jimmy Wales plea for money. I know I'm not paying for the articles, but they're not paying for the articles either. They were typed by people like me. So why make things annoying for me? I didn't make things annoying for them those times I fixed errors on their articles.
There was some guy on this forum a long time ago that made a good point too. He said when your company requires you to make a password include certain special characters or numbers, they make things easier on the person trying to steal the password. Because now she knows to not even try all of the password combinations that don't fit the rules for making a password. She knows not to try any password that doesn't contain uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, special characters and whatnot. So you give her a smaller list of passwords to try in a brute force attack. Combine that with the post-it note problem and you have a good argument for using, easy-to-remember passwords in the first place.
Really? What about house builders, infrastructure?
Should the people who built a highway get money from every user for the rest of their lives?
Should the painter who did the exterior of my house get a say on allowing me to repaint it in a different color?
Better yet, if they put their logo on the house then are you no longer allowed to sell it?
If those DDOS guys hit the high frequency traders' computers, I would applaud it.
Interesting, but lame/tasteless things get "thumbed-up" in youtube, "liked" on facebook, or "found useful" as reviews on Amazon. We got multi-dimensional moderation here rather than "good/bad."
This part in particular was what I was focused on. The same thing is happening on Slashdot. The comments are being modded up and down based on how the moderators feel about the comments. If they actually are informative, interesting, or any of those other things, that is a coincidence. At the very least, Overrated and Underrated should be replaced with like and dislike. If one can't even think of a word to describe what's good or bad about the post, one should go ahead and admit they just like or don't like it.
The meaning of "your data" needs to be more clear. It should say something like "everything you see on our website may be sold to someone, including the things you put on our website".
You know, Slashdot would be a lot more honest with itself if it replaced all of the moderation with just "Like" and "Dislike".
Why aren't the women also getting charged with sex without a condom? Is there some kind of sexual discrimination in the law?
My first thought was it must involve high frequency trading.
I don't like the thought of them making software that interferes with javascript in other web browsers. That makes the performance of the web browsers dependent on this plugin.
This doesn't make sense to me. If you don't want somebody to read something, the last thing you do is tell them not to read it. I think something other than the obvious must be true.