YouTube still loses money hand over fist, where as Hulu is growing in revenue and popularity.
There are limits to how much Hulu can grow. Unless they get their international issues sorted they'll never reach the size of audience that youtube has.
Having said that, spreading a few servers around the world or buying content distribution service isn't exactly difficult.
There doesn't seem to be much of an article behind this summary. Just some fluff about malicious input and the fact that XML is widely used. Would be interesting to see examples of the malicious XML and an explanation of how the vulnerabilities work.
I was trying to suggest laws that ban actions that have no effect on anyone else (I admit that phrasing it as harm rather than effect was probably a mistake). I thought it would be uncontroversial because people can't really have too many objections to things that don't harm (or affect to use the better phrasing) them.
Unless, of course, the re-wiring job resulted in overheat and a fire killing people. But, that is just crazy talk, right?
Failure to do things safely can affect others and wouldn't fit into the suggested criteria for shit laws.
Can an NXDOMAIN response include additional info? If so could this be used to send a message such as "No such domain, use this search page"? If not would adding this be a problem?
It seems that a solution that could return a correct NXDOMAIN response and suggest an alternative action would satisfy everyone's requirements.
As a starting point I would suggest that "shit laws" would include any law making actions that are not harmful to others (or their property) illegal. I would think that this isn't a controversial choice. Preventing people from rewiring a computer that they own (or paying someone else to do it) would fit this definition nicely.
In addition to the above. I've found that there is also a frustrating trend (in the UK at least) where no one from the current generation is allowed to achieve anything. If you get good marks then the marking was sloppy or the figures were massaged to meet a government target or some other form of interference happened. The idea that you might have worked your arse off is somehow too unlikely to be worth contemplating. To make matters worse, any failure is usually treated as a failure of the teaching staff so none of us is even allowed to achieve a failure on our own.
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that employing lawyers indicated not caring about the consumer. I just meant that the conditions that were put on the refund could indicate both statements.
The Times has learnt that the company would offer the family a full refund only if they were willing to sign a settlement form. The proposed agreement left them open to legal action if they ever disclosed the terms of the settlement.
I don't see where it says they can't say the iPod exploded.
I do see where it says they can't disclose the terms of the settlement, which is absolutely normal and common as far as settlement language goes.
Was there something newsworthy here that I missed?
Even if a gag order is a normal part of a settlement, it is an unwanted part and an indication of a business which does not value its consumers. A business to asking someone to keep quiet in order to have a problem resolved is pretty arrogant.
This legacy means that ancient tribal beliefs and superstitions are still prevalent because it was easier to pacify the natives with animism than with modern religion.
First, there is a certain amount of "modern" (ie European) religion in Africa, enough for people to get concerned when the pope gives bad sex advice.
Second, what benefits would a wider introduction of European religion have? Religions usually seem to build their values around the concerns of the time and place where they form so it's likely that say European Christianity would be a bad fit in Africa.
The opportunity to bring Africa into the modern age was thrown away and now we are faced with a backwards, superstitious continent without education, reason, law and order.
Treating Africa as a single entity makes it difficult to have any meaningful discussion here. Africa has a large number of countries and there are tribal groups within some of those countries. These countries range from relatively healthy economies with legal systems and education through to war torn or poverty stricken non-functional states. Beliefs and religions obviously vary as well. Could you be more specific about which parts of Africa you are referring to?
You seem to be mixing up analog vs digital with SD vs HD. You correctly said that digital transmission allows several channels to be put into the same bandwidth as an analog channel because of the compression used. However, no matter what kind of transmission you use, a more detailed HD channel is going to use more bandwidth than an SD channel would use in the same transmission method.
"When they discovered their mistake, they took it back"
Under what consumer law can a seller suddenly decide to take stuff back without getting the permission of the buyer? Surely, it becomes the buyers property once sold (as much as data can be considered property, that's another discussion). It would still be news if this had been some other book simply because it doesn't fit with what people expect when buying things.
So it's a stupid name for my generation invented by people who like to moan. Btw, newspaper articles about the current set of youngish people being irritating have been around since the big bag, I don't worry about them too much.
If I assume there is a designer, then I don't think that this tree is a bad design. It lives and grows and generally seems to work as a tree. Unfortunately, any more specific evaluation would require more information about what kind of designer is being proposed. Traditionally, ideas about designers seem to state the intentions of the designer in terms of how they relate to humans, this isn't very useful for evaluating the design of a tree.
it is interesting to me that so many atheists ( Not All ) seem threatened by the idea that the universe was created by someONE, as opposed to someTHING.
I hope I didn't come across like that. I think this is largely down to some atheists being ex-religious and going a bit far in rejecting gods.
Although, I must add that there is also quite a lot of resistance to any theory (not necessarily scientific) that requires some external being to influence the universe. These theories open up many questions about the origins of such a being and the mechanisms it could use to interact with our universe.
If we are to have a scientific discussion, and some how have ID involved, we would all have to first agree on a uniform idea on ID, and all agree that for the topic on hand, it is true.
I'm not sure how to read this. Did you mean something like "It is true that we would have to agree on a uniform idea of ID", in which case I agree with you. Or, did you mean "We would have to agree on a uniform idea of ID and agree that it is true", in which case I would say that whichever form of ID we agree on, we should treat it as a theory for consideration and come up with ways to test it.
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YouTube still loses money hand over fist, where as Hulu is growing in revenue and popularity.
There are limits to how much Hulu can grow. Unless they get their international issues sorted they'll never reach the size of audience that youtube has.
Having said that, spreading a few servers around the world or buying content distribution service isn't exactly difficult.
There doesn't seem to be much of an article behind this summary. Just some fluff about malicious input and the fact that XML is widely used. Would be interesting to see examples of the malicious XML and an explanation of how the vulnerabilities work.
Jail is too expensive. Use the chair (or the rope if you're feeling green).
I was trying to suggest laws that ban actions that have no effect on anyone else (I admit that phrasing it as harm rather than effect was probably a mistake). I thought it would be uncontroversial because people can't really have too many objections to things that don't harm (or affect to use the better phrasing) them.
Unless, of course, the re-wiring job resulted in overheat and a fire killing people. But, that is just crazy talk, right?
Failure to do things safely can affect others and wouldn't fit into the suggested criteria for shit laws.
self-serving asshole.
Who else would I serve?
A small question.
Can an NXDOMAIN response include additional info? If so could this be used to send a message such as "No such domain, use this search page"? If not would adding this be a problem?
It seems that a solution that could return a correct NXDOMAIN response and suggest an alternative action would satisfy everyone's requirements.
As a starting point I would suggest that "shit laws" would include any law making actions that are not harmful to others (or their property) illegal. I would think that this isn't a controversial choice. Preventing people from rewiring a computer that they own (or paying someone else to do it) would fit this definition nicely.
You don't want to go to jail? Don't break criminal laws.
You don't want people to break criminal laws? Don't write shit laws.
in all likelihood they were stealing software.
Ignoring the choice of words, why are these people not looking at 10 years?
this is far less of a moral grey area than downloading is.
Correct. The idea that people can use (and modify) hardware that they own in any way they like (short of harming others) is not a moral grey area.
In addition to the above. I've found that there is also a frustrating trend (in the UK at least) where no one from the current generation is allowed to achieve anything. If you get good marks then the marking was sloppy or the figures were massaged to meet a government target or some other form of interference happened. The idea that you might have worked your arse off is somehow too unlikely to be worth contemplating. To make matters worse, any failure is usually treated as a failure of the teaching staff so none of us is even allowed to achieve a failure on our own.
Getting bitter is hardly a surprising response
Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that employing lawyers indicated not caring about the consumer. I just meant that the conditions that were put on the refund could indicate both statements.
an indication of a business which does not value its consumers
an indication that they hired lawyers.
These are not mutually exclusive.
Newspapers are not a reliable source of information, they just all happen to write roughly the same fiction.
It's an attempt to look older and it's hardly surprising when looking like a teenager means that you're threatening and therefore deserve an ASBO.
The Times has learnt that the company would offer the family a full refund only if they were willing to sign a settlement form. The proposed agreement left them open to legal action if they ever disclosed the terms of the settlement.
I don't see where it says they can't say the iPod exploded.
I do see where it says they can't disclose the terms of the settlement, which is absolutely normal and common as far as settlement language goes.
Was there something newsworthy here that I missed?
Even if a gag order is a normal part of a settlement, it is an unwanted part and an indication of a business which does not value its consumers. A business to asking someone to keep quiet in order to have a problem resolved is pretty arrogant.
This legacy means that ancient tribal beliefs and superstitions are still prevalent because it was easier to pacify the natives with animism than with modern religion.
First, there is a certain amount of "modern" (ie European) religion in Africa, enough for people to get concerned when the pope gives bad sex advice.
Second, what benefits would a wider introduction of European religion have? Religions usually seem to build their values around the concerns of the time and place where they form so it's likely that say European Christianity would be a bad fit in Africa.
The opportunity to bring Africa into the modern age was thrown away and now we are faced with a backwards, superstitious continent without education, reason, law and order.
Treating Africa as a single entity makes it difficult to have any meaningful discussion here. Africa has a large number of countries and there are tribal groups within some of those countries. These countries range from relatively healthy economies with legal systems and education through to war torn or poverty stricken non-functional states. Beliefs and religions obviously vary as well. Could you be more specific about which parts of Africa you are referring to?
It doesn't vary that much round here. Nickelback means 4:30 or 6:30 or 8:30 or ... You must have good stations.
Why not leave a message supporting Tenenbaum at 202-775-0101 (stick 001 in front of that to dial from the UK). The RIAA probably don't read slashdot.
You seem to be mixing up analog vs digital with SD vs HD. You correctly said that digital transmission allows several channels to be put into the same bandwidth as an analog channel because of the compression used. However, no matter what kind of transmission you use, a more detailed HD channel is going to use more bandwidth than an SD channel would use in the same transmission method.
"When they discovered their mistake, they took it back"
Under what consumer law can a seller suddenly decide to take stuff back without getting the permission of the buyer? Surely, it becomes the buyers property once sold (as much as data can be considered property, that's another discussion). It would still be news if this had been some other book simply because it doesn't fit with what people expect when buying things.
So what does this have to do with HD?
"It is like you are questioning the validity of the court."
If the court does stuff like this then what's wrong with questioning its validity?
So it's a stupid name for my generation invented by people who like to moan. Btw, newspaper articles about the current set of youngish people being irritating have been around since the big bag, I don't worry about them too much.
As a brit, this was actually my reaction, it's called handwriting over here. I'm still trying to figure out what gen y is supposed to mean.
If I assume there is a designer, then I don't think that this tree is a bad design. It lives and grows and generally seems to work as a tree. Unfortunately, any more specific evaluation would require more information about what kind of designer is being proposed. Traditionally, ideas about designers seem to state the intentions of the designer in terms of how they relate to humans, this isn't very useful for evaluating the design of a tree.
it is interesting to me that so many atheists ( Not All ) seem threatened by the idea that the universe was created by someONE, as opposed to someTHING.
I hope I didn't come across like that. I think this is largely down to some atheists being ex-religious and going a bit far in rejecting gods.
Although, I must add that there is also quite a lot of resistance to any theory (not necessarily scientific) that requires some external being to influence the universe. These theories open up many questions about the origins of such a being and the mechanisms it could use to interact with our universe.
If we are to have a scientific discussion, and some how have ID involved, we would all have to first agree on a uniform idea on ID, and all agree that for the topic on hand, it is true.
I'm not sure how to read this. Did you mean something like "It is true that we would have to agree on a uniform idea of ID", in which case I agree with you. Or, did you mean "We would have to agree on a uniform idea of ID and agree that it is true", in which case I would say that whichever form of ID we agree on, we should treat it as a theory for consideration and come up with ways to test it.
Now back to this interesting tree...
What's wrong with amateur theology?