How can the US government control what a web site in Christmas Island does? Aren't they out of their juristiction? Each nation has different laws that cover different things. What is against the law in the USA, might not be against the law in another nation, so why force that nation to follow US law?
It would be better to have people who are easily offended have a "baby sitter" program installed on their computer that can filter out bad web sites, and block messages from people using obscene words, etc. That way they get the Internet the way they want it, censored to fit their tastes of what they consider to be harmful or obscene filtered out, and the rest of the users can have uncensored access if they so wish it. In fact, I think some ISPs offer a web proxy that filters out the bad web sites for parents, etc.
Why censor it for the rest of us, just because a few object?
Casette Tapes have no security lockout feature that prevents them from being copied. Of course the media companies are trying to phase them out. I got a lot of friends who still have just the cassette player in their car radios. Some of them still have 8-Track players in their car radios.
It should be noted that any boom box that can have a casette recorder and CD player in it, can easily copy from CD to cassette tape.
On average cassette tapes are cheaper to buy, because while the CD media costs less, the media companies mark the CDs up higher than cassette tapes to boost their profits. It costs media companies about 50 cents for a blank cassette tape and 25 cents for a blank CD. Since they are paying a lot of money to protect that CD, the markup ends up higher. Cassette tapes do not have a protection, and thus there is no need to add in the cost of a protection system. This begs the question, why protect CDs at all, when it just adds to the cost of them, and forces more people into piracy to listen to their favorite music? If CDs cost less, perhaps there would be fewer people who find the need to pirate music?
The same goes with software and eBooks, the better protection they put on them, the higher the retail price ends up being. Thus, it makes it unaffordable to more people, who end up pirating it instead of buying it. There is always going to be someone to find a way to break copy protection, so why bother with it in the first place? Customers don't need or want it, so why do it?
You should have told me where and when you were going honey. I'd go with you then. How come you never email or IM? I haven't communicated with you in ten years now. Write me back please. I miss you.
Microsoft overloads people with hype, that is the sort of information that is more noise than content. Stick with the facts, Bill, stick with the facts. Screen out all the BS and hype, and stick with the facts. Then there will not be any information overload.
I tend to screen out noise and hype and BS, and stick with the facts. This avoids information overload.
It just gets annoying after a while to see all the adds in your favorite RSS feed. Won't this just make people unsubscribe or use a RSS reader than filters out the ads?
my psycho ex-boyfriend is out of work, and nobody wants to hire him due to a surplus of IT workers. There seems to be no shortage of IT workers from India. Why get into IT when all the good IT jobs are being offshored?
for those who don't want to be tracked and want privacy. The BSA is a bunch of whiners anyway. Piracy helps promote the software, and if people like it, they can buy a real copy.
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How can the US government control what a web site in Christmas Island does? Aren't they out of their juristiction? Each nation has different laws that cover different things. What is against the law in the USA, might not be against the law in another nation, so why force that nation to follow US law?
It would be better to have people who are easily offended have a "baby sitter" program installed on their computer that can filter out bad web sites, and block messages from people using obscene words, etc. That way they get the Internet the way they want it, censored to fit their tastes of what they consider to be harmful or obscene filtered out, and the rest of the users can have uncensored access if they so wish it. In fact, I think some ISPs offer a web proxy that filters out the bad web sites for parents, etc.
Why censor it for the rest of us, just because a few object?
Casette Tapes have no security lockout feature that prevents them from being copied. Of course the media companies are trying to phase them out. I got a lot of friends who still have just the cassette player in their car radios. Some of them still have 8-Track players in their car radios.
It should be noted that any boom box that can have a casette recorder and CD player in it, can easily copy from CD to cassette tape.
On average cassette tapes are cheaper to buy, because while the CD media costs less, the media companies mark the CDs up higher than cassette tapes to boost their profits. It costs media companies about 50 cents for a blank cassette tape and 25 cents for a blank CD. Since they are paying a lot of money to protect that CD, the markup ends up higher. Cassette tapes do not have a protection, and thus there is no need to add in the cost of a protection system. This begs the question, why protect CDs at all, when it just adds to the cost of them, and forces more people into piracy to listen to their favorite music? If CDs cost less, perhaps there would be fewer people who find the need to pirate music?
The same goes with software and eBooks, the better protection they put on them, the higher the retail price ends up being. Thus, it makes it unaffordable to more people, who end up pirating it instead of buying it. There is always going to be someone to find a way to break copy protection, so why bother with it in the first place? Customers don't need or want it, so why do it?
You should have told me where and when you were going honey. I'd go with you then. How come you never email or IM? I haven't communicated with you in ten years now. Write me back please. I miss you.
Microsoft overloads people with hype, that is the sort of information that is more noise than content. Stick with the facts, Bill, stick with the facts. Screen out all the BS and hype, and stick with the facts. Then there will not be any information overload.
I tend to screen out noise and hype and BS, and stick with the facts. This avoids information overload.
If you are smart, you'd use a different browser in Windows than Internet Explorer and avoid this. Like my psycho ex-boyfriend, he uses Firefox.
It just gets annoying after a while to see all the adds in your favorite RSS feed. Won't this just make people unsubscribe or use a RSS reader than filters out the ads?
my psycho ex-boyfriend is out of work, and nobody wants to hire him due to a surplus of IT workers. There seems to be no shortage of IT workers from India. Why get into IT when all the good IT jobs are being offshored?
for those who don't want to be tracked and want privacy. The BSA is a bunch of whiners anyway. Piracy helps promote the software, and if people like it, they can buy a real copy.
and needs more patches. But Microsoft releases them so slow, and each patch causes more bugs.