Over the past decades, they've already been adding a leap second about every one and a half years to the clock. An automated system would probably be better than adding a second whenever the time comes. This would also give more knowledge to the general populace regarding leap seconds (I myself didn't know until about 8 months ago).
Well, when you can sink no lower, and will do anything to push your product, I guess that this is a viable option. Doing this does a couple of things that will benefit Microsoft:
* They can claim that their consoles "sold out" on the launch date.
* They can keep the price high because, due to the above effect, it will remain in "great demand" for a long time.
Sadly, many people will fall for this, and Microsoft fanboys will gleefully use these "facts" to prove that Microsoft is "the best."
Terrorist organizations that can afford to recruit many people and train them to become suicide bombers would never need such a service.
I'm pretty sure that if Google Maps were discontinued, terrorists would be unable to find targets.
From Yahoo's side, I don't see why they didn't enact this policy sooner. An age restriction on chat rooms places the blame of anything that happens to minors squarely on the provider(s) of the chat room: The kid's parents. Now Yahoo can say "We don't allow minors into our chatrooms, so we can't have any responsibility about what happens to them there." Although that's a pretty weak argument, it's still something they could use.
On the other hand, this will do little to deter children under the age of 18 from entering chatrooms. They will either base it on the age recorded on their Yahoo accounts (which one can easily lie about), or a little button before entering the chatroom saying "I am at least 18 years of age." Both of these methods are far from foolproof.
The only way I see this working is if the parents intervene. Responsible parents would take steps like to register their child's account for them, so that no lying could take place, or to set guidelines regarding the Internet. Unfortunately, however, too many parents are relying on the government these days to do their work for them.
From what I'm seeing, it looks like every single available media that plays music will have to be specifically covered so that the RIAA can't jump up and get more money from them.
I'll be making a visit to your homepage soon. This is really useful information for someone like me who is going to start Calculus for the first time next week.
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Over the past decades, they've already been adding a leap second about every one and a half years to the clock. An automated system would probably be better than adding a second whenever the time comes. This would also give more knowledge to the general populace regarding leap seconds (I myself didn't know until about 8 months ago).
"...participating directly or indirectly in the theft of copyrighted files..."
What? You mean that they aren't allowed to steal copyrighted files?
Well, when you can sink no lower, and will do anything to push your product, I guess that this is a viable option. Doing this does a couple of things that will benefit Microsoft:
* They can claim that their consoles "sold out" on the launch date.
* They can keep the price high because, due to the above effect, it will remain in "great demand" for a long time.
Sadly, many people will fall for this, and Microsoft fanboys will gleefully use these "facts" to prove that Microsoft is "the best."
Terrorist organizations that can afford to recruit many people and train them to become suicide bombers would never need such a service. I'm pretty sure that if Google Maps were discontinued, terrorists would be unable to find targets.
From Yahoo's side, I don't see why they didn't enact this policy sooner. An age restriction on chat rooms places the blame of anything that happens to minors squarely on the provider(s) of the chat room: The kid's parents. Now Yahoo can say "We don't allow minors into our chatrooms, so we can't have any responsibility about what happens to them there." Although that's a pretty weak argument, it's still something they could use.
On the other hand, this will do little to deter children under the age of 18 from entering chatrooms. They will either base it on the age recorded on their Yahoo accounts (which one can easily lie about), or a little button before entering the chatroom saying "I am at least 18 years of age." Both of these methods are far from foolproof.
The only way I see this working is if the parents intervene. Responsible parents would take steps like to register their child's account for them, so that no lying could take place, or to set guidelines regarding the Internet. Unfortunately, however, too many parents are relying on the government these days to do their work for them.
From what I'm seeing, it looks like every single available media that plays music will have to be specifically covered so that the RIAA can't jump up and get more money from them.
Slight difference: Yahoo Messenger installs the toolbar, etc. without prior consent of the user.
I'll be making a visit to your homepage soon. This is really useful information for someone like me who is going to start Calculus for the first time next week.