Strawman argument if ever I saw one. For a start, Google is gathering altogether too much information, and storing it for far too long. They go out of their way to acquire services with a huge userbase (i.e. craptons of peoples personal data) or pile of data (i.e. DoubleClick) so that they can build their "Total Information" strategy.
Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask.com, etc, do not at this time do this - in fact Google is the ONLY search engine going out of its way to associate every single user with enough information to be able to tell what you will do tomorrow, or who you're going out to meet for dinner and a lay.
You claim that MS knows far more about you than Google does. You know what, that's fucking bullshit. You conspiracy theorists constantly claim it, but the truth is that Windows does not report your name, address, telephone number, sexual history, blood type, health records, that visit to the Family Planning Clinic about your "rash", and the name of your First Born child to Microsoft.
Of course, you are welcome to enjoy your Google services - just think that one day you'll go search to be greeted with "Greetings! So how was your night with Dalilah? Her last 7 partners say she's an absolute beast in the sack! (And has syphillus)"
Google has done no evil, where MS has been nothing but. Bullshit. Google is the company that wants to build such a massive privacy-be-damned database that they can answer the question "What should I do tomorrow?" They even admitted this in a press conference (my reference is http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5 &objectid=10441661, however this was apparently syndicated by Independent News unless Independent actually means "not syndicated")
Any company that seeks to know so much about someone that they are able to dictate what they do is VERY MUCH EVIL. I dunno about you, but I read that and immediately changed my default search engine (and firewalled Googles and Doubleclicks ad servers, as well as Googles Analytics server)
Then the dotcom era came to an end, the money faucet stopped, and instead of 100M to the desktop like Japan, New Zealand, parts of the EU, etc., we still have the same (aging) infrastructure that we did in the mid-1990s Where can I get this 100M to the home that you claim my country has? Why, I'm paying $70/mo for 3Mb/1Mb ADSL with only 15GB transfer caps... again, 100Mb? Where is this?
Yes. IGN certainly sells lots of gold. Oh wait, no, they explicitly abhor the practice and have ads up all over the place saying they hate it and want it gone.
It depends on the circumstance. Normally, Windows drops up a dialog asking you to Reboot Now or Reboot Later. Under other (as yet unknown) circumstances, it drops up a dialog asking you to Reboot Now or Reboot Later, with a 5 minutes to automatic reboot timer. I think this is meant for cases where Windows hasn't seen any action in a while, and figures you're away (so it's obviously safe to reboot)
Jesus, shut the fuck up! I'd buy a Mac and would have done so several years ago (I have an old Powerbook which is still fun, but I'd like to upgrade and play around with OS X) but they're just so damned expensive. That, and the thought of being in a community with retarded egotistical fucktards like you is just too damn hard to bear.
"You have... two... new messages and... one... saved message. Message received... Thursday... September... Tenth... Two Thousand... and... Six... has passed it's expiry date. To listen to the message again, press 1. To save, press 2. To delete, press 3. To call back the caller, press 0.
(3)
Message Deleted.
To listen to your messages, press 1. For call forwarding options, press 3. To change your personal greeting or PIN number, or to configure optional PIN entry, press 4."
And of course when you hit 1 for listening to messages:
"First... new message. Message received... today... at... ten... thirty... AM... from... "insert random company name here"... (message goes here)"
All for the low price of 20 cents. Not 20 cents per minute, retrieving voicemail is 20 cents TOTAL.
Now leaving a message... personal greeting, then beep. Otherwise (if no personal greeting)... "You have reached the voice mailbox of TWO... SEVEN... FIVE... FIVE... FIVE... FIVE... FIVE... FIVE... FIVE. Please leave a message after the tone"
Except at work, where it's:
"This user is not subscribed to this service (hangs up)"
Department of Defense Network Information Center 21.0.0.0 - 22.255.255.255
That's a.../7? And check THIS out:
Department of Defense Network Information Center 6.0.0.0 - 7.255.255.255 Department of Defense Network Information Center 11.0.0.0 - 11.255.255.255 Department of Defense Network Information Center 21.0.0.0 - 22.255.255.255 Department of Defense Network Information Center 26.0.0.0 - 26.255.255.255 Department of Defense Network Information Center 28.0.0.0 - 30.255.255.255 Department of Defense Network Information Center 33.0.0.0 - 33.255.255.255 Department of Defense Network Information Center 55.0.0.0 - 55.255.255.255
So that's... about 330 MILLION IP addresses for the US DoD alone? And people bitch about MIT hoarding!
You know, I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think such an argument holds up - mostly because the GPL can only legally apply to an organisation that's actually agreed to it (like any other contract). Since Microsoft never actually agreed to the GPL (not even by the "clickwrap" manner that courts still refuse to decisively commit to the legality of), it doesn't apply to them.
As I said, Im not a lawyer - so any lawyers may feel free to pick holes in this statement based on their own knowledge.
Why is this moderated interesting? This is typical twitter flamebait. LAMP is not "obviously better than IIS" (in fact, IIS6 is an extremely good web server. Don't get me started on the crumbling pile of crap that is IIS5 though).
Ah yes, of course. Because he bashed MS, it's clearly "insightful" or "interesting".
Excuse me if this question is dumb but what exactly does feedburner do? I just don't get it. Do you get the Slashdot RSS feed? Feedburner does that. (In fact, the Slashdot RSS feed IS a Feedburner feed). I think it adds advertising to the RSS... or something. Never seen it though.
Except that SoundXChange would collect royalties on ALL music to hold in escrow for the copyright owner (less handling, less breakage, less fixage, less administration, less misadminstration, ad infinitium) - so your scenario does not work.
What the fuck are you talking about? Seriously, your entire post was just garbled crap. You know, you're not getting moderated down by "lurker moderators" because of your opinion of Oregon like you claim, you are getting moderated down because your posts make no fucking sense.
Does anyone enjoy paying USD ~170 each year for their World of Warcraft account? Yes, I'm sure they'd enjoy paying hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe even millions, per month to maintain the game because you think it shouldn't cost money. Demons you're an idiot.
Just imagine the high-stakes for Starcraft, and the new SECURITY FEATURES that would prevent the endless private servers that would spoil Blizzard's side of Battle.net. Quit bitching. Battle.net is free. Sane people don't complain about free.
It is interesting to see what that World of Warcraft has earned their keep over the non-profit private non-commercial side of the Copyright Act to stave someone from their unhindered full trial and use of the Record'd Code of Blizzard known as StarCraft. I'm not sure how many times you had to run your sentence through Babelfish to get that, but that isn't english.
They also came through on the bandwidth meter, as well as coming through to the network connection-less user, and the 'holics that re-invented a better engine to use the copyright content for non-commercial private non-profit purposes. Same deal.
Except that this isn't about tenants, it's about room mates. Yes, I should have the right to discriminate when deciding on a potential room mate or co-habitant.
On that note, our country allows you to decide to allow or deny whoever you like to live in your house whether you live in it or not. Our government doesn't think that aspect of peoples lives is anything to do with them.
A little off-topic here - but did you notice that if you click on the link that you posted, and then click "Other Formats", you can see that Fraunhofer/Thomson actually claim to own AAC patents as well? Oh yay! AAC isn't actually an open (defined as without legal encumbrance) standard after all!
Oh well, is FLAC or OGG still ok? And do they support DRM? I mean, it's not my fault if I don't include DRM in my player because the format doesn't support it, right?
If you though that was funny, check this out:
here are now over 250 different brands of Stream Rippers which support Vista. Microsoft has even built into the Vista OS a native ripper, called Sound Recorder, which will deaggregate performance-based streams of unlimited duration and convert them into unprotected WMA downloads Demons, Sound Recorder is older than they are!
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Dude, the question was "Is Godaddy better than a bunch of thieves"
The answer is no.
Strawman argument if ever I saw one. For a start, Google is gathering altogether too much information, and storing it for far too long. They go out of their way to acquire services with a huge userbase (i.e. craptons of peoples personal data) or pile of data (i.e. DoubleClick) so that they can build their "Total Information" strategy.
Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask.com, etc, do not at this time do this - in fact Google is the ONLY search engine going out of its way to associate every single user with enough information to be able to tell what you will do tomorrow, or who you're going out to meet for dinner and a lay.
You claim that MS knows far more about you than Google does. You know what, that's fucking bullshit. You conspiracy theorists constantly claim it, but the truth is that Windows does not report your name, address, telephone number, sexual history, blood type, health records, that visit to the Family Planning Clinic about your "rash", and the name of your First Born child to Microsoft.
Of course, you are welcome to enjoy your Google services - just think that one day you'll go search to be greeted with "Greetings! So how was your night with Dalilah? Her last 7 partners say she's an absolute beast in the sack! (And has syphillus)"
Any company that seeks to know so much about someone that they are able to dictate what they do is VERY MUCH EVIL. I dunno about you, but I read that and immediately changed my default search engine (and firewalled Googles and Doubleclicks ad servers, as well as Googles Analytics server)
No. That limit's just profit now.
Yes. IGN certainly sells lots of gold. Oh wait, no, they explicitly abhor the practice and have ads up all over the place saying they hate it and want it gone.
It depends on the circumstance. Normally, Windows drops up a dialog asking you to Reboot Now or Reboot Later. Under other (as yet unknown) circumstances, it drops up a dialog asking you to Reboot Now or Reboot Later, with a 5 minutes to automatic reboot timer. I think this is meant for cases where Windows hasn't seen any action in a while, and figures you're away (so it's obviously safe to reboot)
Jesus, shut the fuck up! I'd buy a Mac and would have done so several years ago (I have an old Powerbook which is still fun, but I'd like to upgrade and play around with OS X) but they're just so damned expensive. That, and the thought of being in a community with retarded egotistical fucktards like you is just too damn hard to bear.
"We're sorry, you have encountered a problem the modem troubleshooter cannot help you solve.
Click here to access the internet to look for more solutions to this problem"
Haha, that's not quite as evil as mine...
... two ... new messages and ... one ... saved message. Message received ... Thursday ... September ... Tenth ... Two Thousand ... and ... Six ... has passed it's expiry date. To listen to the message again, press 1. To save, press 2. To delete, press 3. To call back the caller, press 0.
... new message. Message received ... today ... at ... ten ... thirty ... AM ... from ... "insert random company name here" ... (message goes here)"
... SEVEN ... FIVE ... FIVE ... FIVE ... FIVE ... FIVE ... FIVE ... FIVE. Please leave a message after the tone"
"You have
(3)
Message Deleted.
To listen to your messages, press 1. For call forwarding options, press 3. To change your personal greeting or PIN number, or to configure optional PIN entry, press 4."
And of course when you hit 1 for listening to messages:
"First
All for the low price of 20 cents. Not 20 cents per minute, retrieving voicemail is 20 cents TOTAL.
Now leaving a message... personal greeting, then beep. Otherwise (if no personal greeting)... "You have reached the voice mailbox of TWO
Except at work, where it's:
"This user is not subscribed to this service (hangs up)"
"Overrated" is NOT a synonym for "Disagree"
You mean like the US Department of Defense third of a billion? If so, yes.
Oh really?
/7? And check THIS out:
Department of Defense Network Information Center 21.0.0.0 - 22.255.255.255
That's a...
Department of Defense Network Information Center 6.0.0.0 - 7.255.255.255
Department of Defense Network Information Center 11.0.0.0 - 11.255.255.255
Department of Defense Network Information Center 21.0.0.0 - 22.255.255.255
Department of Defense Network Information Center 26.0.0.0 - 26.255.255.255
Department of Defense Network Information Center 28.0.0.0 - 30.255.255.255
Department of Defense Network Information Center 33.0.0.0 - 33.255.255.255
Department of Defense Network Information Center 55.0.0.0 - 55.255.255.255
So that's... about 330 MILLION IP addresses for the US DoD alone? And people bitch about MIT hoarding!
You know, I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think such an argument holds up - mostly because the GPL can only legally apply to an organisation that's actually agreed to it (like any other contract). Since Microsoft never actually agreed to the GPL (not even by the "clickwrap" manner that courts still refuse to decisively commit to the legality of), it doesn't apply to them.
As I said, Im not a lawyer - so any lawyers may feel free to pick holes in this statement based on their own knowledge.
Why is this moderated interesting? This is typical twitter flamebait. LAMP is not "obviously better than IIS" (in fact, IIS6 is an extremely good web server. Don't get me started on the crumbling pile of crap that is IIS5 though).
Ah yes, of course. Because he bashed MS, it's clearly "insightful" or "interesting".
Bungie Software is a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation. In effect, that makes them both publisher and developer.
Except that SoundXChange would collect royalties on ALL music to hold in escrow for the copyright owner (less handling, less breakage, less fixage, less administration, less misadminstration, ad infinitium) - so your scenario does not work.
Malicious device driver? Oh yes, two offhand. Starforce, and Sony's rootkit.
That list sounds quite fine, really.
Brillant!
He could have been logged out at the time, on the anonymous post screen is a login form AND a CAPTCHA.
Except that this isn't about tenants, it's about room mates. Yes, I should have the right to discriminate when deciding on a potential room mate or co-habitant.
On that note, our country allows you to decide to allow or deny whoever you like to live in your house whether you live in it or not. Our government doesn't think that aspect of peoples lives is anything to do with them.
A little off-topic here - but did you notice that if you click on the link that you posted, and then click "Other Formats", you can see that Fraunhofer/Thomson actually claim to own AAC patents as well? Oh yay! AAC isn't actually an open (defined as without legal encumbrance) standard after all!
Oh well, is FLAC or OGG still ok? And do they support DRM? I mean, it's not my fault if I don't include DRM in my player because the format doesn't support it, right?