That's mostly true. However... Yahoo's another thing altogether.
The products you mention there were innovative. They were from small companies that were light enough to be easily assimilated. Yahoo is neither of these things. The company itself is as bloated and dysfunctional as its products. It was dying, not innovating. They've been in steady decline for at least 3 years.
If MS doesn't buy them they would go the way of AOL within 5 years. The pool on the original article got it spot on this is two dinosaurs mating. One has a chance of survival. Yahoo was already in terminal decline.
Surprising really, that the UK isn't the first -- since it is already leading the World in surveillance technology and legislation that violates both privacy and basic human rights.
No evidence for that in the book. Oceania encompassed North America too, Airstrip one may have been its capital, it may not. However, Big Brother -- if he actually existed -- could just as easily have been Canadian or American.
Comrade Brown, however, most surely is British. (sadly)
Essentially you are correct. All politicians are corrupt ultimately, and not one of them can ever be trusted. However, revolutions do buy time. There are short term gains.
And what about eGroups? Utterly destroyed by Yahoo.
Not sure many original Flickr users would concur with your position.
And Yahoo mail? It's slow, bloated, has intrusive ads, and the spam filtering does NOT work at all.
And then, there's the whole China thing...
Sorry, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Yahoo is far more evil than Microsoft. In, fact Yahoo is far more evil than most companies. Their demise is very, very welcome. The fact that MS will be the buyer makes it easier. Not it's easier to direct venom directly at one source.
Now if they could only add eBay into the dotcomglomofdarkness.
Maybe, but the possibility of there only being two main search engines out there, with the next largest competitor Ask.com at a paltry 4.1%, is fairly scary.
What you say makes sense if Google had any true competitors. Niehter MSN nor Yahoo are superior products to Google's search. In fact they are vastly inferior, and have been for 11 years without any significant improvement. Combining them, won't change that in any way.
Google really needs competition. We as Internet users really need Google to have competition. Search does not meet our needs as a product. But that competition is NOT coming from Microyahoo. It's coming -- just as Google did -- from a couple of guys in a basement somewhere with the next big idea.
It's not a bad idea, but really the best solution for everyone (including Google) is for Google to have serious competition. The rest will all take care of itself.
11 years after Google appears on the scene and yet NO challengers? Lame. Search is far, far from perfect, there is room for competition.
I think it's because the Paultards are shooting themselves in the foot.
I am not American. I do not live in America. And yet... I see Paultard spam every single day all over the Internet. It is everywhere. Mercifully Slashdot is one of the few places where it is effectively controlled (nota bene, by consensus).
I do not care what his policies are, nor if Ron Paul is personally guaranteeing making me a millionaire, I not only would never vote for him, I want him in prison for the spam. Paultard spam is worse than fake rolex, v1@gra, and all the rest.
He's done. It's over. He's never getting elected. Stop with the spam already. And please someone, bring a lawsuit against him for the violation of everyone's space.
"Doolittle: Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: Well, of course I exist.
Doolittle: But how do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: It is intuitively obvious.
Doolittle: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
Bomb #20: Hmmmm... well... I think, therefore I am.
Doolittle: That's good. That's very good. But how do you know that anything else exists?
Bomb #20: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun."
I'm not understanding why you have been modded "informative" that's incorrect. I assume you are a sock puppet for TPB.
Yes, private trackers are: 1. overrated for the reasons you state, and 2.elitist and annoying.
However, let this not detract from the parent's original complaints, ones which you failed to deal with. Namely, that TPB has a terrible search engine that almost never pulls up the same results twice. Finding something is a lucky dip - or best undertaken by an external search engine (most of which prove how bad TPB's engine really is).
TPB is full of viruses, trojans, fake files etc etc etc. So are other sites - true. However, some other sites make an effort to remove these files - TPB doesn't. TPB also doesn't (seem) to have a strong community that posts comments on dodgy files - others do.
Demonoid was the best site out there. Not only because of the range of stuff on it, but because they actually cared about taking the crap off the site. TPB doesn't - which is a shame because it could be a great site if it made these changes. At the moment, it's just a famous site.
Though, it does admittedly serve a useful role as a scapegoat and focus of *IAA attention in the way that it baits them.
I'm no fan of Scientology or any other cult/religion. While they may prey on the weaker-minded, their followers do have an element of free will. This, in my mind, doesn't make then the number one priority in terms of protest -- especially where censorship is concerned. In fact, this is a distraction from true censorship issues, and some serious privacy abuses.
In the western world where privacy hangs by a thread, there are much more important things to deal with. The increasing Stalinism of the UK government or the abandonment of the Constitution of the USA are FAR, FAR, more important than greedy cults.
Note also, that the German government is much more concerned about dealing with the 20,000 or so Scientologists there, rather than the 2 million or so neo-Nazis.
Stop caring so much about religion, and start caring about what your government is up to -- before it is too late. Nothing else matters.
...in many cases at least. These seem to me to valid art - or at least as valid as Duchamp or Warhol. Certainly, they are considerably more entertaining, exhibit more social commentary, and are more thought provoking than many of the originals do today -- although they were once thought provoking themselves.
The wikipedia one is masterful. It's occurred to me for a few years that Gallileo is the perfect example of why wikipedia is flawed. (among many other potential examples of free individual thought)
I would assume that this is the accepted standard in journalism, science textbooks etc. But as some who is in late middle-age in the UK I was taught million million in school -- and in fact, this is the first I'm hearing of it being officially anything else here. (I don't work with numbers and I've no reason to keep up to date with such things). I suspect that many of us have been misinterpreting and misusing the term in its modern form for many years.
I guarantee you that, for certain, it is not always used in the modern form correctly, and won't be fully reliably so for at least another 30 years.
.. I never realised until recently with the whole NHS thing on the news that we even had laws that tried to silence people.
Yes. It's true, and this isn't new. In the UK you categorically DO NOT have the right to freedom of speech. You have never had the right to free speech.
(actually in most of the EU it's the same - e.g. in Germany, Nazi related things are illegal -- um, ironically...) In the UK this has most often been used in relation to the IRA, e.g. internment in the early 70's, or the forbidding of Sinn Fein to speak publicly in the early eighties -- which resulted in the BBC using actors to relay their words. Actually, it's very, very interesting that the BBC were keen on free speech in the Eighties, but are no longer so bothered about it.
Nor, incidentally, do you truly have the right to remain silent. That was removed a few years ago as well. You silence can be construed as admission of guilt -- no pleading the fifth.
It really is time that the UK people realised that Big Brother is here, today, right now. The UK is not as free as some dictatorships in the World. Democracy is smoke and mirrors here, nothing more. It probably is already too late. Americans, you need to ensure you have a change in your Government. Do not repeat the UK's mistakes.
Pilots have to be 100% sober, have no criminal records, good sight (without the use of glasses), and pass a billion other tests. Flying around in mid-air is not quite like driving on the road. You have to keep track of wind, other flying vehicles, obstacles - and you have virtually no guidance (like roads). And when you make a mistake, you loose hard. Not only you, in fact, but everyone around you, too.
You're right. But... during my entire private pilot's license test I was thinking, "why isn't this the same for car drivers?" If the conditions you stated also applied to car drivers -- and there is no reason why they don't -- think how much safer roads would be.
I care if they disappear. I don't want them to disappear. I want them to be destroyed spectacularly. I want their grandchildren to remember their shame.
fairplay yahoo, their webmail is already alot more user friendly than gmail
Are there two Yahoos and two Gmails? Or are you writing to us from a parallel universe where Yahoo isn't an evil company whose bloated, slow, flashing ad, spam filled, privacy disrespecting email system actually works well?
Slashdot Mirror
That's mostly true. However... Yahoo's another thing altogether.
The products you mention there were innovative. They were from small companies that were light enough to be easily assimilated. Yahoo is neither of these things. The company itself is as bloated and dysfunctional as its products. It was dying, not innovating. They've been in steady decline for at least 3 years.
If MS doesn't buy them they would go the way of AOL within 5 years. The pool on the original article got it spot on this is two dinosaurs mating. One has a chance of survival. Yahoo was already in terminal decline.
Now we are outsourcing NASA?
Comrade Brown, however, most surely is British. (sadly)
Essentially you are correct. All politicians are corrupt ultimately, and not one of them can ever be trusted. However, revolutions do buy time. There are short term gains.
Americans take careful note, don't allow things to get this far in the US.
And what about eGroups? Utterly destroyed by Yahoo.
Not sure many original Flickr users would concur with your position.
And Yahoo mail? It's slow, bloated, has intrusive ads, and the spam filtering does NOT work at all.
And then, there's the whole China thing...
Sorry, this is only the tip of the iceberg. Yahoo is far more evil than Microsoft. In, fact Yahoo is far more evil than most companies. Their demise is very, very welcome. The fact that MS will be the buyer makes it easier. Not it's easier to direct venom directly at one source.
Now if they could only add eBay into the dotcomglomofdarkness.
Google really needs competition. We as Internet users really need Google to have competition. Search does not meet our needs as a product. But that competition is NOT coming from Microyahoo. It's coming -- just as Google did -- from a couple of guys in a basement somewhere with the next big idea.
evil + evil = evil raised to the power of evil
It's not a bad idea, but really the best solution for everyone (including Google) is for Google to have serious competition. The rest will all take care of itself.
11 years after Google appears on the scene and yet NO challengers? Lame. Search is far, far from perfect, there is room for competition.
I think it's because the Paultards are shooting themselves in the foot.
I am not American. I do not live in America. And yet... I see Paultard spam every single day all over the Internet. It is everywhere. Mercifully Slashdot is one of the few places where it is effectively controlled (nota bene, by consensus).
I do not care what his policies are, nor if Ron Paul is personally guaranteeing making me a millionaire, I not only would never vote for him, I want him in prison for the spam. Paultard spam is worse than fake rolex, v1@gra, and all the rest.
He's done. It's over. He's never getting elected. Stop with the spam already. And please someone, bring a lawsuit against him for the violation of everyone's space.
"Doolittle: Fine. Think about this then. How do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: Well, of course I exist.
Doolittle: But how do you know you exist?
Bomb #20: It is intuitively obvious.
Doolittle: Intuition is no proof. What concrete evidence do you have that you exist?
Bomb #20: Hmmmm... well... I think, therefore I am.
Doolittle: That's good. That's very good. But how do you know that anything else exists?
Bomb #20: My sensory apparatus reveals it to me. This is fun."
In Skynet Russia, Roomba vacuums you.
I'm not understanding why you have been modded "informative" that's incorrect. I assume you are a sock puppet for TPB.
Yes, private trackers are: 1. overrated for the reasons you state, and 2.elitist and annoying.
However, let this not detract from the parent's original complaints, ones which you failed to deal with. Namely, that TPB has a terrible search engine that almost never pulls up the same results twice. Finding something is a lucky dip - or best undertaken by an external search engine (most of which prove how bad TPB's engine really is).
TPB is full of viruses, trojans, fake files etc etc etc. So are other sites - true. However, some other sites make an effort to remove these files - TPB doesn't. TPB also doesn't (seem) to have a strong community that posts comments on dodgy files - others do.
Demonoid was the best site out there. Not only because of the range of stuff on it, but because they actually cared about taking the crap off the site. TPB doesn't - which is a shame because it could be a great site if it made these changes. At the moment, it's just a famous site.
Though, it does admittedly serve a useful role as a scapegoat and focus of *IAA attention in the way that it baits them.
Actually the RIAA should be one of the first.
I'm no fan of Scientology or any other cult/religion. While they may prey on the weaker-minded, their followers do have an element of free will. This, in my mind, doesn't make then the number one priority in terms of protest -- especially where censorship is concerned. In fact, this is a distraction from true censorship issues, and some serious privacy abuses.
In the western world where privacy hangs by a thread, there are much more important things to deal with. The increasing Stalinism of the UK government or the abandonment of the Constitution of the USA are FAR, FAR, more important than greedy cults.
Note also, that the German government is much more concerned about dealing with the 20,000 or so Scientologists there, rather than the 2 million or so neo-Nazis.
Stop caring so much about religion, and start caring about what your government is up to -- before it is too late. Nothing else matters.
...in many cases at least. These seem to me to valid art - or at least as valid as Duchamp or Warhol. Certainly, they are considerably more entertaining, exhibit more social commentary, and are more thought provoking than many of the originals do today -- although they were once thought provoking themselves.
The wikipedia one is masterful. It's occurred to me for a few years that Gallileo is the perfect example of why wikipedia is flawed. (among many other potential examples of free individual thought)
um... No. not exactly...
I would assume that this is the accepted standard in journalism, science textbooks etc. But as some who is in late middle-age in the UK I was taught million million in school -- and in fact, this is the first I'm hearing of it being officially anything else here. (I don't work with numbers and I've no reason to keep up to date with such things). I suspect that many of us have been misinterpreting and misusing the term in its modern form for many years.
I guarantee you that, for certain, it is not always used in the modern form correctly, and won't be fully reliably so for at least another 30 years.
(actually in most of the EU it's the same - e.g. in Germany, Nazi related things are illegal -- um, ironically...) In the UK this has most often been used in relation to the IRA, e.g. internment in the early 70's, or the forbidding of Sinn Fein to speak publicly in the early eighties -- which resulted in the BBC using actors to relay their words. Actually, it's very, very interesting that the BBC were keen on free speech in the Eighties, but are no longer so bothered about it.
Nor, incidentally, do you truly have the right to remain silent. That was removed a few years ago as well. You silence can be construed as admission of guilt -- no pleading the fifth.
It really is time that the UK people realised that Big Brother is here, today, right now. The UK is not as free as some dictatorships in the World. Democracy is smoke and mirrors here, nothing more. It probably is already too late. Americans, you need to ensure you have a change in your Government. Do not repeat the UK's mistakes.
"O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is!
O brave new world
That has such people in't!"
Praise Ford!
...it's pronounced "Fronkensteen".
I care if they disappear. I don't want them to disappear. I want them to be destroyed spectacularly. I want their grandchildren to remember their shame.
Disappearing is not nearly painful enough.
mode parent up! Very interesting article.