does anyone still open www.google.com and then commence to typing in search terms?
I know people who head to the Google front page and type in a site's URL. Then they find the site by clicking on the first result. These people are idiots!
It's harder to convince sponsors to pay for x-number of eyeballs when there's no guarantee past "the bits were delivered".
Interesting though that they can't offer that for standard TV-over-the-air. People could be doing the ironing, having sex or whatever. Yet the advertisers seem happy that x million homes were tuned into that channel, Doesn't matter if you weren't watching.
If we downloaded officially we'd spin the ads on anyway, just as we do with taped stuff/Tivo.
Excellent work. From my reading of the law, people (in the US at least) should simply provide a review with every item they upload. Since no profit is being made, I'd say that qualifies as "fair use". Let 'em take it to court!
Wonder what happens for anyone without any prints to offer? Amputees, thalidomide victims? Is this decision discriminatory? Do they make exceptions in these cases? If so, what is the point of the whole project? Maybe they think those with no hands and feet make bad terrorists.
Y'know, say what you like about that most 20th Century of ID systems, but everyone tends to have a face.
This is a case of the library using fingerprints for a second or so to create a unique ID that cannot be converted back into a fingerprint.
If that is the case, then why don't they just use some other unique number, akin to Mickeysoft's (or anybody else's) GUID? Why do they need your fingerprint?
This is how the collection of biometric data will happen. It will not be one big scheme, in with a bang. It will creep from the most innocuous places. So sure, first, the library won't record the actual print. Then they will. Then the authorities will come along (gov pays for libraries in the US, right?) and take a copy. By then we'll be used to the process, and we'll be too engrossed in the latest entertainment product to care.
Let's face it, he's hardly going to say "we're fscked, this company came from nowhere to overtake us, and now has better PR, more fans and oodles of servers to beat us with". This isn't a story - more like a press release.
Sure, and it doesn't take forever to go back or forward, yet mouse gestures seem to be fairly popular. What's your point? Will the extra option annoy you if you don't use it? Chill out, man.
...They need to provide a compelling alternative themselves. Mod Parent up! He truly has it in that statement.
Absolutely. Maybe the MPAA should be offering a second option when they sue a trading site
1. Close down now & pay us money....or...
2. Hand the site over to us, along with all technology, get everyone involved to agree to work for the network/content distributor for 6 months, here's masters of our programmes, get encoding, leave the adverts in, and keep the damn thing going, since it isn't depriving anyone of revenue. Quick $5 fee for users, and you suddenly have a revenue stream, without lifting a finger.
Durrrr! That's what I've been doing the last 2 years. I believe they call it 'BitTorrent' - not sure it's a service run by the networks though. If it isn't, they should be.
Let's be clear, you might not be seeing episodes of The Office any time soon via these sorts of initiatives. But this could all be an important step in unlocking the BBC's vast and fascinating archive.
What I'd like to see is the acknowledge of the wide BBC archive that's already out there, assuming they'd accept that any stuff they offer will appear in a free form at some stage. There's tons of it on p2p. It also raises the possibility of overseas users contributing just a little bit towards our licence fee for access to all this stuff. Wouldn't that be nice, pals? Whatt-o!
This goes out to all the pedants out there: grow the fuck up
Tell me, will you still be of that view wen ppl strt tiping lkethis allthetime becos thy cant be BOTHERED to type correctly, or use a dictionary, or learn basic grammar?
Where's the interview? Is ten lines exchanged on IRC now classed as an "interview"? Hey guys, I interviewed SpudMagic2001 on #teenchat yesterday, come and read it on my site.
Either a OTP token, a challenge response token or a USB Smart Card with a bank issued x.509v3 certificate on it.
I have experience of the USB smart card in the corporate world and I agree that it's the way forward. Pile into the card-reader manufacturers' stocks now, for surely they'll soon be selling a hell of a lot more of these. It's actually a fairly painless process - insert card, click to read, type password, click again. Can't see much resistance from consumers for that. The money saved by banks in closing branches with humans can be ploughed into card readers.
it does cost quite a bit for the newspapers to handle the archiving, storage, and sales of archives online.
Might I suggest then that you are paying too much for archiving, storage & sales. I simply cannot see how it could cost that much to serve up something that's already typed in. Using an engine that is already working for the daily news site. Just where are the costs?
If it costs you a lot to produce something, and if that cost is too high for me to consider, I view you as in possession of the problem, not me.
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Why would you buy a copy of a 'crippled' XP over a full-featured one
Why, some would question why anyone would pay for a fully-featured WXP. Hands up all those who have!
does anyone still open www.google.com and then commence to typing in search terms?
I know people who head to the Google front page and type in a site's URL. Then they find the site by clicking on the first result. These people are idiots!
It's harder to convince sponsors to pay for x-number of eyeballs when there's no guarantee past "the bits were delivered".
Interesting though that they can't offer that for standard TV-over-the-air. People could be doing the ironing, having sex or whatever. Yet the advertisers seem happy that x million homes were tuned into that channel, Doesn't matter if you weren't watching.
If we downloaded officially we'd spin the ads on anyway, just as we do with taped stuff/Tivo.
I, for one, wolcome pointless science like this story.
Excellent work. From my reading of the law, people (in the US at least) should simply provide a review with every item they upload. Since no profit is being made, I'd say that qualifies as "fair use". Let 'em take it to court!
Why, are you about to execute a file? In space?
Wonder what happens for anyone without any prints to offer? Amputees, thalidomide victims? Is this decision discriminatory? Do they make exceptions in these cases? If so, what is the point of the whole project? Maybe they think those with no hands and feet make bad terrorists. Y'know, say what you like about that most 20th Century of ID systems, but everyone tends to have a face.
This is a case of the library using fingerprints for a second or so to create a unique ID that cannot be converted back into a fingerprint.
If that is the case, then why don't they just use some other unique number, akin to Mickeysoft's (or anybody else's) GUID? Why do they need your fingerprint?
This is how the collection of biometric data will happen. It will not be one big scheme, in with a bang. It will creep from the most innocuous places. So sure, first, the library won't record the actual print. Then they will. Then the authorities will come along (gov pays for libraries in the US, right?) and take a copy. By then we'll be used to the process, and we'll be too engrossed in the latest entertainment product to care.
Let's face it, he's hardly going to say "we're fscked, this company came from nowhere to overtake us, and now has better PR, more fans and oodles of servers to beat us with". This isn't a story - more like a press release.
Sure, and it doesn't take forever to go back or forward, yet mouse gestures seem to be fairly popular. What's your point? Will the extra option annoy you if you don't use it? Chill out, man.
The choice of rendering engines sounds interesting, will that be a boon for web developers tired of having to flit between browsers?
able to have over 50 pages at the time
Damn, you need to close some windows.
If I were ur there, I'd make damn sure that I took fewer breaths, and that those breaths were less frequent. And no yawning, guys!
It is MY computer and it should only delete something when I tell it to.
Even if the thing you buy only entitles you to keep it for 7 days? Can we trust you to delete it in time?
FF: Get All-In-One Gestures extension, and use mouse wheel over tabs to flick through them.
Nice... you've /.ed some rubbish old joke web server!
...They need to provide a compelling alternative themselves. Mod Parent up! He truly has it in that statement.
Absolutely. Maybe the MPAA should be offering a second option when they sue a trading site
1. Close down now & pay us money....or...
2. Hand the site over to us, along with all technology, get everyone involved to agree to work for the network/content distributor for 6 months, here's masters of our programmes, get encoding, leave the adverts in, and keep the damn thing going, since it isn't depriving anyone of revenue. Quick $5 fee for users, and you suddenly have a revenue stream, without lifting a finger.
get on-demand TV.
Durrrr! That's what I've been doing the last 2 years. I believe they call it 'BitTorrent' - not sure it's a service run by the networks though. If it isn't, they should be.
THERE ARE NO COMMERCIALS in downloaded TV shows.
And if I was forced to download stuff with ads, you just KNOW that I'd spin on all the way through the break. So they needn't bother.
Let's be clear, you might not be seeing episodes of The Office any time soon via these sorts of initiatives. But this could all be an important step in unlocking the BBC's vast and fascinating archive.
What I'd like to see is the acknowledge of the wide BBC archive that's already out there, assuming they'd accept that any stuff they offer will appear in a free form at some stage. There's tons of it on p2p. It also raises the possibility of overseas users contributing just a little bit towards our licence fee for access to all this stuff. Wouldn't that be nice, pals? Whatt-o!
This goes out to all the pedants out there: grow the fuck up
Tell me, will you still be of that view wen ppl strt tiping lkethis allthetime becos thy cant be BOTHERED to type correctly, or use a dictionary, or learn basic grammar?
Where's the interview? Is ten lines exchanged on IRC now classed as an "interview"? Hey guys, I interviewed SpudMagic2001 on #teenchat yesterday, come and read it on my site.
Can they can start looking for Beagle 2, so we might have a chance of understanding what went wrong with that one?
I have experience of the USB smart card in the corporate world and I agree that it's the way forward. Pile into the card-reader manufacturers' stocks now, for surely they'll soon be selling a hell of a lot more of these. It's actually a fairly painless process - insert card, click to read, type password, click again. Can't see much resistance from consumers for that. The money saved by banks in closing branches with humans can be ploughed into card readers.
it does cost quite a bit for the newspapers to handle the archiving, storage, and sales of archives online.
Might I suggest then that you are paying too much for archiving, storage & sales. I simply cannot see how it could cost that much to serve up something that's already typed in. Using an engine that is already working for the daily news site. Just where are the costs? If it costs you a lot to produce something, and if that cost is too high for me to consider, I view you as in possession of the problem, not me.