"Amazon can now charge Barnes and Noble for bn.buy, or redirect it back to Amazon"
That nice, but no-one is going to type in bn.buy to get to Barnes and Noble. Only tech savvy people would bother typing a url into the url-bar. Most other people will type barnes into the google search box and hit down and enter.
If Amazon where to register or redirect urls with barnes to the amazon website, they would have a trademark lawsuit on their hands.
EBay has been compromised so that people who clicked on some of its links were automatically diverted to a site
Are you fucking kidding me, the BBC 'journalist' is a moron, links take people to other pages, what the fuck did you think they do mr "Leo Kelion Technology desk editor"?
I always thought they should stick a trackball on the gamepad, or laser-tracking against a thumb perhaps. And more back buttons - fingers are wasted. Really, I think gamepads have got a long way to go and the current creators of them are rather narrow-minded.
Am I the only person here who thinks MS are nuts for having paid so much for a product placement. Surely $400,000,000 could have been better spent through other advertising methods. $400m seems like at least 10x too much.
They expected that product placement would lead to millions of extra sales of an expensive item!!!
A week, come on, that is not a deterrent. Over 20% of drivers are texting etc but only a small few get caught so what are the chances of getting caught twice?
I read the articles and didn't see any such thing.
DA Riceâ(TM)s Five-Point Plan to Reduce Driving While Texting focuses on using smartphone operating systems, auto insurance rate structures, court discretion, enhanced enforcement and enhanced public awareness efforts in order to help end the distracted driving epidemic
In the UK it's all gone to the dogs, drivers get a slap on the wrist for driving without a license.. repeatedly.
If you get full points on your license there is a 'extreme hardship' loophole which means that there are over 10,000 drivers in the UK that have driven badly enough and been caught enough times that they shouldn't be driving, but the judge has said they can continue to drive FFS. For comparison, 13k people have been banned after hitting 12+ points on their license.
Oh but hey, don't even think about pootling along on an electric foot scooter on either the pavement or the road, not legal at all.
That's similar to the Dunningâ"Kruger effect, it reminds me of a taxi driver that I admonished for his shitty driving, which he though was OK because he had passed an advanced driving test!
I usually get car sick if I don't spend most of my time looking out of the window / I don't think this would work for phones.
And if the app is installed to one phone the driver can simply buy another phone. I don't know about the US but in the UK there is (was?) nothing stopping you buying a cheap phone with cash.
If a person can't drive safely, ban them from driving... I can't wait for autonomous cars (with caveats), they will make it much easier for judges to make the decision to ban bad drivers.
The containers ships have got to dock somewhere, the easy option is to tell heavily polluting ships they are not allowed any where near the dock - California and Denmark have already done this, If the EU, US and China followed suit then these ships would have nowhere to go.
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When's the last time you guessed at a domain name and ended it with anything other than .com, .org or the relevant country tld?
Big companies use .com nothing has changed.
"Amazon can now charge Barnes and Noble for bn.buy, or redirect it back to Amazon"
That nice, but no-one is going to type in bn.buy to get to Barnes and Noble. Only tech savvy people would bother typing a url into the url-bar. Most other people will type barnes into the google search box and hit down and enter.
If Amazon where to register or redirect urls with barnes to the amazon website, they would have a trademark lawsuit on their hands.
That's tactics, not psychology. During the 2nd world war most soldiers did not want to kill enemy soldiers because they saw them as fellow humans.
http://www.military-sf.com/Kil...
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Are you fucking kidding me, the BBC 'journalist' is a moron, links take people to other pages, what the fuck did you think they do mr "Leo Kelion Technology desk editor"?
Well I thought that was insightful, I see some complete cocksucker modded you down.
What promise? No-one promised me anything.
Technology in it's infancy fails to wipe the floor with technologies that have had literally $Trillions of investment. Not really surprising.
I always thought they should stick a trackball on the gamepad, or laser-tracking against a thumb perhaps. And more back buttons - fingers are wasted. Really, I think gamepads have got a long way to go and the current creators of them are rather narrow-minded.
Your a cynic.
PS it is 100% not carbon neutral that logic is utterly fallacious.
"So since it was going to be converted to CO2 anyway, converting it to hydrogen to be used in fuel cells is actually carbon neutral."
Either way - NOT carbon neutral.
What is done with the carbon when the methane (CH4) is converted to hydrogen, can it be captured and stored?
Because using the hydrogen itself wouldn't cause CO2 - there is no C or O in pure H.
Of course the bribes to all levels of politicians in the US are legal and are called donations, that and revolving door syndrome.
I would mod you up. I don't see why they can't simply test the hypothesis by feeding some animals or people more salt. Easiest thing to test ever.
Am I the only person here who thinks MS are nuts for having paid so much for a product placement. Surely $400,000,000 could have been better spent through other advertising methods. $400m seems like at least 10x too much.
They expected that product placement would lead to millions of extra sales of an expensive item!!!
But fuck it, I hate cars so wouldn't be too bothered if some mandatory car system caused phones to stop working.
Long train journeys are tedious enough, I'd rather my phone not be disabled when I'm on the train. Unfair on passengers too.
A week, come on, that is not a deterrent. Over 20% of drivers are texting etc but only a small few get caught so what are the chances of getting caught twice?
I read the articles and didn't see any such thing.
*Should* land you in jail.
In the UK it's all gone to the dogs, drivers get a slap on the wrist for driving without a license.. repeatedly.
If you get full points on your license there is a 'extreme hardship' loophole which means that there are over 10,000 drivers in the UK that have driven badly enough and been caught enough times that they shouldn't be driving, but the judge has said they can continue to drive FFS. For comparison, 13k people have been banned after hitting 12+ points on their license.
Oh but hey, don't even think about pootling along on an electric foot scooter on either the pavement or the road, not legal at all.
Apparently that doesn't apply to pre-paid sims and I doubt it is enforced or applies to 2nd hand phones.
What character set do I have to use in Firefox to stop "£ ÎνáÏfÎÏ gnÅsis, " from happening on my slashdot posts?
That's similar to the Dunningâ"Kruger effect, it reminds me of a taxi driver that I admonished for his shitty driving, which he though was OK because he had passed an advanced driving test!
Better trained so ok to act more dangerously.
I usually get car sick if I don't spend most of my time looking out of the window / I don't think this would work for phones.
And if the app is installed to one phone the driver can simply buy another phone. I don't know about the US but in the UK there is (was?) nothing stopping you buying a cheap phone with cash.
If a person can't drive safely, ban them from driving... I can't wait for autonomous cars (with caveats), they will make it much easier for judges to make the decision to ban bad drivers.
What's to stop them buying a cheap 2nd phone?
The containers ships have got to dock somewhere, the easy option is to tell heavily polluting ships they are not allowed any where near the dock - California and Denmark have already done this, If the EU, US and China followed suit then these ships would have nowhere to go.
High fuel taxes clearly aren't working in London. It was near gridlock here Yesterday.