Yup. Shortly before Thanksgiving the DA of New York was speaking at a press conference about those alleged terrorists they caught, and while I can't remember his exact works, it was something along the lines of stating that his job was to stop the bad guys with a minimal sacrifice of civil liberties. In other words, as soon as he believes protecting civil rights is getting in his way, he's going to stop protecting them.
Yup. Recently discovered this band MAYDAY! (maydayonline.com) and even though I could find all of their music on Youtube and rip it from there (and already had for dozens of theirs songs), as soon as I found them for sale on their website (bandcamp), I bought every one of them. Why? It's easier than ripping from youtube, they give you any format you could possibly want (FLAC, MP3, AAC, Ogg, even ALAC [wtf is ALAC?]) and you can download them instantly for only $5. Worth it. And I know I'm actually supporting the artist, unlike an RIAA label purchase.
I'll gladly pay if I know it's actually supporting the artist. But what I WON'T do is pay mony that I know will go towards suing their fans. Or pay the same price as a physical CD for an online download. Or pay $20 for a five track EP.
When you buy a PS3, it says support is only for a limited time. When you buy a PS3, it doesn't say it comes with PS Move, and when you buy those games they say they require PS Move. But when you bought a PS3 with the Other OS option, it never said that was for a limited time. It never said it only applied if you didn't want to use certain other features of the console. And it didn't say it could be removed if you sent your console in for service.
If only I had mod points. Gandi is by far and without a doubt the best domain registrar out there. Hell, if they were double or even triple the price of GoDaddy, I'd still be using them. (From what I've seen their prices are on par with everyone else.)
Not too bad. Though I don't usually make calls on it -- I have a regular cellphone I generally use for that. But it can run VOIP apps, and I've tried them out before and it worked pretty well.
Point is, having both that and a cellphone lets me do everything easily and is still FAR cheaper than a single smartphone...by a few hundred a year. And not much larger in overall device volume either, since my cellphone is a small generic flip phone.
Me too, and I'm in the age group where pretty much _everyone_ has a smartphone (I'm 21). But it's not worth the price. Especially when I can get Wifi everywhere. I've got an Archos internet tablet, I can do everything a smartphone can (it runs Android, and it's also easy to root, and I also have Angstrom Linux on it) but without the expensive data package. Sure, only works with wifi, but I can't remember the last time I wanted to use it and didn't have wifi.
Hell, I didn't even have unlimited texting until last month. Cell data prices are absurd.
So if the P2P search engine hits the size of Yahoo, it'll be safe from massive attacks of this sort (although even if you only get 1% or even 0.1%, that could still drive a lot of traffic) -- but will it even hit that? If even one small botnet decided to try to game the system right now (even if it had the protection of rechecking the work, which I don't think it does,) it would never reach even 3 million users because it would be flooded with spam. It's not worth their time right now, but if it starts getting big it definitely will be. People will pay a lot to be the top spot on a search engine, even if it isn't Google.
...And if 10% of your workers are all part of the same botnet deliberately trying to skew the results, then there's about a 10% chance that the person re-checking the results will be giving you the same "error".
Once upon a time these were supposed to be a Secret number that you only shared with the government and an employer.
No. SSNs were NEVER supposed to be private. It's a freakin account number. The problem isn't them being used publicly, the problem is them being assumed private.
Well, others have already responded to most of your post, but I wanted to respond to the pervasive myth that there's no clear goals. There are. But the media refuses to cover them. Just like you said they did to the Tea Party.
Go down to Wall Street or any of these other occupations and you will figure out the goals pretty quickly. Increase taxes on the wealthiest 1% and on major corporations (or at least close loopholes.) End the wars and bring our troops home. And end unlimited corporate campaign contributions (or possibly private campaign funding entirely.) Those are the goals. And they're extremely obvious if you set foot in any of the Occupy protests I've been to (Pittsburgh and NYC)
But then, I've sat there and watched the mainstream media -- I've watched cameramen literally walk up, ignore the hundred gathered around while someone is speaking about all these national issues, and instead spend ten or twenty minutes taking various shots of the five people playing drums and dancing, intentionally constructing their shots so that the people actually talking about these issues won't even appear in the background.
The movement has a clear message. But of course the media doesn't want you to see it.
Dennis Ritchie's work is in use all over the world....and beyond. I mean, I'd be absolutely shocked if there wasn't a single line of C code on the Mars rovers, satellites, ISS, or other NASA hardware. At the very least they're using it to control those things. Which means Dennis Ritchie didn't just change the world -- he changed the solar system...
The phone that I bought 6 years ago has an Li-Ion battery. I've been charging it nearly every night for 6 years (though it's almost never entirely dead at that point), and it'll still go a week on a single charge. I've never noticed any problems with Li-Ion capacity reducing with age except in laptops...which I've always heard was more a problem of heat than charge cycles.
What advertisements? I've got Google docs open right now, and I don't see a single ad.
But still, I'll even concede that they're getting revenue from non-existent ads and that that is somehow identical to paying for the service. So give me one similar product with a reasonable service fee.
Here's just one example: Show me a native word processor that can allow multiple people to edit a single file as easily as Google docs. No service fees, just a name or email address or link to share. I mean I always thought Google Docs was a stupid gimmick at first...then I used it in this class last semester, and it was absolutely astounding how smoothly things went. We worked better writing a single report collaboratively on Google docs than we did when we were all actually in the same room together.
Yea...average over here (at least at my school) is around $400/semester for textbooks. It's not unusual for a single book to cost over $200. We all know we're getting ripped off, but there's not a hell of a lot we can do about it. A lot of people have started buying the international editions online...but then it's hard to sell those once the semester's over. A lot rent, too, but I personally think you're better off buying online and selling back locally.
Wow. You're really getting annoyed by all the Firefox release cycle jokes, huh?:)
So, first, I said I WOULD be migrating to Chrome IF Firefox decided that corporate users were of more importance than home users. But I run Linux -- where else would I go? I suppose I could switch to Opera, but I dislike them for numerous more significant reasons. In my mind, Firefox and Chrome are by far the best browsers for Linux -- which one I use at this point is just a matter of which one has less minor annoyances. Right now it's definitely tipping towards Chrome, though not enough to get me to alter my habits and swap all my saved tabs. Besides, I use Chrome for development, where I really need a good browser; Firefox is just for checking my mail, news, etc.
The thing about Chrome is that it updates well. I've never had my download history corrupted causing a crash of Chrome every time I download a file (happens with EVERY Firefox update.) I don't get prompted if I want to kill the browser immediately to update with Chrome, it does it silently. I don't get a 'YOU JUST UPDATED CHECK OUT ALL THE COOL NEW FEATURES!!!!' tab popping open every time Chrome updates. I don't get a 'You just updated, gotta check your plugins -- oh no, none of them are compatible!' window with every Chrome update. Basically, it doesn't matter how often Chrome updates, because you don't notice that it even does it. With Firefox, it's extremely noticeable. Not that I really mind ALL of these things, it would be somewhat nice to get a single 'oh hey, BTW, I just updated myself' notice, but Firefox started doing short release cycles before they managed to make it easy and seamless to upgrade.
You can't joke about a short release cycle if you never notice there's even been a new release.
Firefox 6? C'mon! I'm already on Firefox 7! Oh wait, hang on, there's an update for Firefox 8 now. Or should I go with 9 beta? Eh, 10 should be released tomorrow, right?
I was actually going to say the same thing. I tend to pull out my cell and flip though the menus/old texts when I'm in one of those awkward situations where I'm waiting in uncomfortable places for uncomfortable lengths of time. I pull my phone out more because that's just what people do than I do because I'm actually using it. And I'm supposed to be part of the generation that does this crap all the time.
Can't say I've ever done it to avoid someone though. My phone is so old nobody would believe that -- anyone who was actually using their phone more than a couple times a week would have one that wasn't nearing a decade old.
Cheap? Here in the states, last time I looked at EoP gear (about two years ago), a single box was $60 USD, and you needed two, and in the house I was trying them at they couldn't connect to each other unless they were inside the same room (probably had something to do with the house having three circuit breakers...) But anyway, $60 per unit when you can get a cheap wireless router for $30 and a quality one for $50. Didn't make any sense to me.
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Yup. Shortly before Thanksgiving the DA of New York was speaking at a press conference about those alleged terrorists they caught, and while I can't remember his exact works, it was something along the lines of stating that his job was to stop the bad guys with a minimal sacrifice of civil liberties. In other words, as soon as he believes protecting civil rights is getting in his way, he's going to stop protecting them.
Yup. Recently discovered this band MAYDAY! (maydayonline.com) and even though I could find all of their music on Youtube and rip it from there (and already had for dozens of theirs songs), as soon as I found them for sale on their website (bandcamp), I bought every one of them. Why? It's easier than ripping from youtube, they give you any format you could possibly want (FLAC, MP3, AAC, Ogg, even ALAC [wtf is ALAC?]) and you can download them instantly for only $5. Worth it. And I know I'm actually supporting the artist, unlike an RIAA label purchase.
I'll gladly pay if I know it's actually supporting the artist. But what I WON'T do is pay mony that I know will go towards suing their fans. Or pay the same price as a physical CD for an online download. Or pay $20 for a five track EP.
When you buy a PS3, it says support is only for a limited time. When you buy a PS3, it doesn't say it comes with PS Move, and when you buy those games they say they require PS Move. But when you bought a PS3 with the Other OS option, it never said that was for a limited time. It never said it only applied if you didn't want to use certain other features of the console. And it didn't say it could be removed if you sent your console in for service.
You say this other nations haven't been doing the exact same thing for YEARS. Like the SIXTY+ granted by the US:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/15/news/economy/nuclear_plants_us/index.htm
So far the US has granted extensions like this to more than SIXTY reactors. How many has Russia given out so far?
http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/15/news/economy/nuclear_plants_us/index.htm
If only I had mod points. Gandi is by far and without a doubt the best domain registrar out there. Hell, if they were double or even triple the price of GoDaddy, I'd still be using them. (From what I've seen their prices are on par with everyone else.)
Not too bad. Though I don't usually make calls on it -- I have a regular cellphone I generally use for that. But it can run VOIP apps, and I've tried them out before and it worked pretty well.
Point is, having both that and a cellphone lets me do everything easily and is still FAR cheaper than a single smartphone...by a few hundred a year. And not much larger in overall device volume either, since my cellphone is a small generic flip phone.
Me too, and I'm in the age group where pretty much _everyone_ has a smartphone (I'm 21). But it's not worth the price. Especially when I can get Wifi everywhere. I've got an Archos internet tablet, I can do everything a smartphone can (it runs Android, and it's also easy to root, and I also have Angstrom Linux on it) but without the expensive data package. Sure, only works with wifi, but I can't remember the last time I wanted to use it and didn't have wifi.
Hell, I didn't even have unlimited texting until last month. Cell data prices are absurd.
So if the P2P search engine hits the size of Yahoo, it'll be safe from massive attacks of this sort (although even if you only get 1% or even 0.1%, that could still drive a lot of traffic) -- but will it even hit that? If even one small botnet decided to try to game the system right now (even if it had the protection of rechecking the work, which I don't think it does,) it would never reach even 3 million users because it would be flooded with spam. It's not worth their time right now, but if it starts getting big it definitely will be. People will pay a lot to be the top spot on a search engine, even if it isn't Google.
...And if 10% of your workers are all part of the same botnet deliberately trying to skew the results, then there's about a 10% chance that the person re-checking the results will be giving you the same "error".
Once upon a time these were supposed to be a Secret number that you only shared with the government and an employer.
No. SSNs were NEVER supposed to be private. It's a freakin account number. The problem isn't them being used publicly, the problem is them being assumed private.
Well, others have already responded to most of your post, but I wanted to respond to the pervasive myth that there's no clear goals. There are. But the media refuses to cover them. Just like you said they did to the Tea Party.
Go down to Wall Street or any of these other occupations and you will figure out the goals pretty quickly. Increase taxes on the wealthiest 1% and on major corporations (or at least close loopholes.) End the wars and bring our troops home. And end unlimited corporate campaign contributions (or possibly private campaign funding entirely.) Those are the goals. And they're extremely obvious if you set foot in any of the Occupy protests I've been to (Pittsburgh and NYC)
But then, I've sat there and watched the mainstream media -- I've watched cameramen literally walk up, ignore the hundred gathered around while someone is speaking about all these national issues, and instead spend ten or twenty minutes taking various shots of the five people playing drums and dancing, intentionally constructing their shots so that the people actually talking about these issues won't even appear in the background.
The movement has a clear message. But of course the media doesn't want you to see it.
Dennis Ritchie's work is in use all over the world....and beyond. I mean, I'd be absolutely shocked if there wasn't a single line of C code on the Mars rovers, satellites, ISS, or other NASA hardware. At the very least they're using it to control those things. Which means Dennis Ritchie didn't just change the world -- he changed the solar system...
The phone that I bought 6 years ago has an Li-Ion battery. I've been charging it nearly every night for 6 years (though it's almost never entirely dead at that point), and it'll still go a week on a single charge. I've never noticed any problems with Li-Ion capacity reducing with age except in laptops...which I've always heard was more a problem of heat than charge cycles.
What advertisements? I've got Google docs open right now, and I don't see a single ad.
But still, I'll even concede that they're getting revenue from non-existent ads and that that is somehow identical to paying for the service. So give me one similar product with a reasonable service fee.
Here's just one example: Show me a native word processor that can allow multiple people to edit a single file as easily as Google docs. No service fees, just a name or email address or link to share. I mean I always thought Google Docs was a stupid gimmick at first...then I used it in this class last semester, and it was absolutely astounding how smoothly things went. We worked better writing a single report collaboratively on Google docs than we did when we were all actually in the same room together.
Yea...average over here (at least at my school) is around $400/semester for textbooks. It's not unusual for a single book to cost over $200. We all know we're getting ripped off, but there's not a hell of a lot we can do about it. A lot of people have started buying the international editions online...but then it's hard to sell those once the semester's over. A lot rent, too, but I personally think you're better off buying online and selling back locally.
In related news, the US government's recently released report has proven that the mysterious UAV is, in fact, merely swamp gas.
Wow. You're really getting annoyed by all the Firefox release cycle jokes, huh? :)
So, first, I said I WOULD be migrating to Chrome IF Firefox decided that corporate users were of more importance than home users. But I run Linux -- where else would I go? I suppose I could switch to Opera, but I dislike them for numerous more significant reasons. In my mind, Firefox and Chrome are by far the best browsers for Linux -- which one I use at this point is just a matter of which one has less minor annoyances. Right now it's definitely tipping towards Chrome, though not enough to get me to alter my habits and swap all my saved tabs. Besides, I use Chrome for development, where I really need a good browser; Firefox is just for checking my mail, news, etc.
The thing about Chrome is that it updates well. I've never had my download history corrupted causing a crash of Chrome every time I download a file (happens with EVERY Firefox update.) I don't get prompted if I want to kill the browser immediately to update with Chrome, it does it silently. I don't get a 'YOU JUST UPDATED CHECK OUT ALL THE COOL NEW FEATURES!!!!' tab popping open every time Chrome updates. I don't get a 'You just updated, gotta check your plugins -- oh no, none of them are compatible!' window with every Chrome update. Basically, it doesn't matter how often Chrome updates, because you don't notice that it even does it. With Firefox, it's extremely noticeable. Not that I really mind ALL of these things, it would be somewhat nice to get a single 'oh hey, BTW, I just updated myself' notice, but Firefox started doing short release cycles before they managed to make it easy and seamless to upgrade.
You can't joke about a short release cycle if you never notice there's even been a new release.
Firefox 6? C'mon! I'm already on Firefox 7! Oh wait, hang on, there's an update for Firefox 8 now. Or should I go with 9 beta? Eh, 10 should be released tomorrow, right?
Yes; the teacher wasn't attacking religion, (s)he was merely illustrating a common logical fallacy using a very common example.
Teaching the kids basic logic with a very good and common example is out of line?
I was actually going to say the same thing. I tend to pull out my cell and flip though the menus/old texts when I'm in one of those awkward situations where I'm waiting in uncomfortable places for uncomfortable lengths of time. I pull my phone out more because that's just what people do than I do because I'm actually using it. And I'm supposed to be part of the generation that does this crap all the time.
Can't say I've ever done it to avoid someone though. My phone is so old nobody would believe that -- anyone who was actually using their phone more than a couple times a week would have one that wasn't nearing a decade old.
Cheap? Here in the states, last time I looked at EoP gear (about two years ago), a single box was $60 USD, and you needed two, and in the house I was trying them at they couldn't connect to each other unless they were inside the same room (probably had something to do with the house having three circuit breakers...) But anyway, $60 per unit when you can get a cheap wireless router for $30 and a quality one for $50. Didn't make any sense to me.
...but punishing a bunch of kids for something stupid like this is only going to make adults, like myself, more likely to take part next time.