That's hit the spot. Some of the insight I was hoping for. Why are people so annoyed about an investigation? It may find that nothing has been done wrong. All the "the EU is attacking our beloved movie studios" posts didn't seem to understand that a barrier to entry is anti-competitive. If a small (in this case European) company wants to come along and start to produce content for the media (lets say the BBC). How easy will it be to do? If the HD/Blu-Ray groups make it too prohibitive by acting together as an effective monopoly on the media (a cartel?) - then the commission has a case, the EU is acting now BEFORE the formats become standard, but all they are doing at the moment is asking the question.
Point taken I meant no offence, I knew the US has small conurbations where the shop is one of the main social centers, the grandparent didn't seem to be aware of this. The mocking nature of my post was just joking about the fact that even a place of only double figure inhabitants is still referred to as a "town".
Thanks for the post, I saw "the daily mail is reporting" and didn't even think of reading the article. It turned out to be quite interesting despite me spending the whole time reading it thinking - how are they going to make this a "Thousands of Chinese immigrants ready wash onto UK shores - Labour to blame" story
And if your source of interaction and human contact is the local grocery store... maybe you should be ordering your groceries over the internet and use those hours you'll save every week or month to actually go get a life and have real interactions with real people I assume you live in America where Villages dont exist?
Environmental movements are not about ensuring that the moon has something to spin around it is about preserving nature on the planet (I hope). WE (humans) are part of nature, our strength which makes us 'fit to survive' is our intelligence, if we don't use that intelligence to ensure that we have an environment fit for us to survive on then we won't have actually been strong enough to survive. Darwin's test will have passed but no one will be around to appreciate that fact. After all our job, like everything, is to survive.
Saving animals is often just sentimental - "wont it be a shame if they die out" but it does have an important application in our own survival (which *is* our responsibility) we don't know what the loss of one species might do to the ecosystem which we need to support our diet, produce oxygen, etc. So (being as we know that the current environment is pretty good for human existence), we should try and maintain the status quo.
That said I do think that sometimes (think the Panda) ecologists forget that evolution is at work now as it was before. Many species existed in the Galapagos because land based predators hadn't got there yet. Well now they have and some animals will die out just as they did throughout Pacific island history - humans find island, humans colonise island, some animals and plants die out on island, humans perish on some islands/thrive on others.
How is this insightful? he clearly hasn't RTFA. If he had RTFA he would have known that
a router-based peer-to-peer system - HAsn't this been done, it's called the internet? - is just plain wrong.
Beta testing has lost all meaning thanks to Google, how long before we see companies using 'Gamma' testing, for products that they want the consumer to have more faith in than a beta product but still have the excuse of "it's in gamma testing at the moment" when anything goes wrong.
That and the fact that the second one they used in the three year Bond film deal was crap and was only in production for 3 years. The Z8 didn't get much of a sales boost by the films so BMW weren't going to bother paying too much for another placement deal. That and the poor results of the last couple of Brosnan editions prompted the producers to go for more 'British' models of Jaguar and now Aston (and a big pile of money from Ford helped the decision of course) Incidentally I remember watching Casino Royale in the cinema and everyone laughed at the obvious product placement of the Ford badge and other quality products (some watch), so I don't think that the public are clueless to (at least) film product placement.
There is a theory that various 'rebrandings' is exactly what The Sphinx was believed to have gone through (possibly 7 times) several rulers had the statute altered to match themselves and then, of course, the inscriptions also. Which is why attributing it to a single original builder is so difficult.
Why is it so bad that the US is going to require fingerprints to gain access to our country? I'm a firm believer that in order to "defeat" terrorism, we need to prevent any attacks on US soil first and foremost. If that means limiting access to the US, then so be it.
Simple - if it isn't wrong for some people to be fingerprinted to gain access to the USA then it isn't wrong for all people IN the USA to be fingerprinted.
I expect that given your opinion you will be standing first in line to have your unique biological information stored on criminal databases for eternity.
What's more, is that they are choosing to support and enrich a convicted monopolist who is STILL arguing with the EU over remedies. Should a government funded outfit really be allowed to encourage this behaviour?
It suprises me too and you have hit the main abuse that the BBC is making - even the OSC didn't say that the beeb was wrong for using DRM they said that it was wrong for the BBC to effectively support one company's product (Microsoft) over another one (Apple and everyone else). They did argue that DRM was not ideal and said that no DRM was better value but weren't objecting to DRM itself. This being/. most people either haven't understood this or (more likely) haven't RTA.
The BBC has very strict limits on endorsing or even mentioning the work of any private businesses, their products or political groups. For instance, DJs on BBC radio cannot refer to "iPods" they must say "mp3 player", this prevents the beeb taking a side (with Apple) in the mp3 player market and yet they are taking a side by using a product that cannot be used with Apple computers (they may be intending to support Apple but that is *at least* 2 years from now, if ever.
Calm down. I meant that the wiki page was probably too detailed for more novice web types like myself. There is nothing wrong with detail, the wiki is fine. I would just have liked a laymans outline of the technique and its prevention. Which is why I asked for one here, thanks for the reply.
I am not a web dev but I am casually learning web development and not only do I not know what XSS is (other than people mentioning it), the article doesn't actually explain what it is or how to stop such attacks. Fortunately the wikipedia page for XSS gives a (probably too) detailed description and preventative measures.
But it would be helpful for me if someone could give a brief outline.
Yeah, to avoid confusion I don't think McCartney has done anything good since the 70's either it's just that Freedom, which is quite recent, is literally the worst song I have ever heard. Honestly worse than any boy band crap. Lennon it seems did some good songs, Harrison funded The Life of Brian and Ringo did Thomas the Tank Engine. So for me after the Beatles, Ringo did the best, followed by George, John and then lastly Paul. - Unsurprisingly Paul has made the most noise (although I am aware John stopped competing in that respect a long time ago!)
Wake me up when he actually makes some good music again. Remember 'Freedom' his post-911 song, one of the worst songs I have ever heard. In fact has he done anything good since the Beatles? Other than that Simpsons episode.
Because many people have pointed out that sound engineers get paid by the session and not on a royalty basis, I concede that they are a bad example. But I am sure there are plenty of people who are paid royalties for recorded music who might not get anything for live performances, producers (quite important I believe) for instance.
No of course DRM will not stop even if piracy disappeared but the argument against DRM seems childish while one also justifies pirating. "DRM is so wrong, which is why I download my music from bitTorrent".
your "wonderful" solution involves artists [who are at the bottom of the money foodchain] not getting paid.
Artists actually have a revenue stream the record companies don't tend to decimate; it's called the "gig". That seems fair, fuck the sound engineers, recording studios and EVERYONE ELSE who actually works in the recording of music
Look at the credits for an album (if you actually own any) and you will see how many artists work on a CD who aren't the band or the label. People constantly use the "well artists have the gigs" defence when pirating their music, I can't think of a better (and more frequently used) example of 'convenient ignorance', your argument works only if you forget how music is actually made.
If you don't want DRM then stop pirating, you can't have it both ways.
No software patents and you dont have this nonsense. I hope the EU sticks to its guns on software patents. . . . we still no have software patents, don't we?
It was a well written article but it wasn't funny, it certainly wasn't 'hilarious', unless you are the kind of nerds that tried to teach Homer nuclear physics.
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That's hit the spot. Some of the insight I was hoping for. Why are people so annoyed about an investigation? It may find that nothing has been done wrong.
All the "the EU is attacking our beloved movie studios" posts didn't seem to understand that a barrier to entry is anti-competitive. If a small (in this case European) company wants to come along and start to produce content for the media (lets say the BBC). How easy will it be to do? If the HD/Blu-Ray groups make it too prohibitive by acting together as an effective monopoly on the media (a cartel?) - then the commission has a case, the EU is acting now BEFORE the formats become standard, but all they are doing at the moment is asking the question.
This is a race where coming second or third (or even a hundred and third) is still winning.
Point taken I meant no offence, I knew the US has small conurbations where the shop is one of the main social centers, the grandparent didn't seem to be aware of this. The mocking nature of my post was just joking about the fact that even a place of only double figure inhabitants is still referred to as a "town".
. . . that no two of my signatures are the same.
Thanks for the post, I saw "the daily mail is reporting" and didn't even think of reading the article. It turned out to be quite interesting despite me spending the whole time reading it thinking - how are they going to make this a "Thousands of Chinese immigrants ready wash onto UK shores - Labour to blame" story
Environmental movements are not about ensuring that the moon has something to spin around it is about preserving nature on the planet (I hope).
WE (humans) are part of nature, our strength which makes us 'fit to survive' is our intelligence, if we don't use that intelligence to ensure that we have an environment fit for us to survive on then we won't have actually been strong enough to survive. Darwin's test will have passed but no one will be around to appreciate that fact. After all our job, like everything, is to survive.
Saving animals is often just sentimental - "wont it be a shame if they die out" but it does have an important application in our own survival (which *is* our responsibility) we don't know what the loss of one species might do to the ecosystem which we need to support our diet, produce oxygen, etc. So (being as we know that the current environment is pretty good for human existence), we should try and maintain the status quo.
That said I do think that sometimes (think the Panda) ecologists forget that evolution is at work now as it was before. Many species existed in the Galapagos because land based predators hadn't got there yet. Well now they have and some animals will die out just as they did throughout Pacific island history - humans find island, humans colonise island, some animals and plants die out on island, humans perish on some islands/thrive on others.
If he had RTFA he would have known that a router-based peer-to-peer system - HAsn't this been done, it's called the internet? - is just plain wrong.
What JoeSmoe950 said.
Your (lack of) global knowledge, reinforces both the American and military stereotypes in one masterstroke.
Beta testing has lost all meaning thanks to Google, how long before we see companies using 'Gamma' testing, for products that they want the consumer to have more faith in than a beta product but still have the excuse of "it's in gamma testing at the moment" when anything goes wrong.
That sounded too 'marketing', I feel sick.
That and the fact that the second one they used in the three year Bond film deal was crap and was only in production for 3 years. The Z8 didn't get much of a sales boost by the films so BMW weren't going to bother paying too much for another placement deal. That and the poor results of the last couple of Brosnan editions prompted the producers to go for more 'British' models of Jaguar and now Aston (and a big pile of money from Ford helped the decision of course)
Incidentally I remember watching Casino Royale in the cinema and everyone laughed at the obvious product placement of the Ford badge and other quality products (some watch), so I don't think that the public are clueless to (at least) film product placement.
There is a theory that various 'rebrandings' is exactly what The Sphinx was believed to have gone through (possibly 7 times) several rulers had the statute altered to match themselves and then, of course, the inscriptions also. Which is why attributing it to a single original builder is so difficult.
Simple - if it isn't wrong for some people to be fingerprinted to gain access to the USA then it isn't wrong for all people IN the USA to be fingerprinted.
I expect that given your opinion you will be standing first in line to have your unique biological information stored on criminal databases for eternity.
No thought not.
This being
The BBC has very strict limits on endorsing or even mentioning the work of any private businesses, their products or political groups. For instance, DJs on BBC radio cannot refer to "iPods" they must say "mp3 player", this prevents the beeb taking a side (with Apple) in the mp3 player market and yet they are taking a side by using a product that cannot be used with Apple computers (they may be intending to support Apple but that is *at least* 2 years from now, if ever.
Some of us are stuck with old IE6 at work and that seems to have problems with the AC postings.
And anyway, blocking AC postings by choice probably raises the average quality of the discussions.
Calm down.
I meant that the wiki page was probably too detailed for more novice web types like myself. There is nothing wrong with detail, the wiki is fine. I would just have liked a laymans outline of the technique and its prevention. Which is why I asked for one here, thanks for the reply.
I am not a web dev but I am casually learning web development and not only do I not know what XSS is (other than people mentioning it), the article doesn't actually explain what it is or how to stop such attacks. Fortunately the wikipedia page for XSS gives a (probably too) detailed description and preventative measures.
But it would be helpful for me if someone could give a brief outline.
There probably was a nomination but Prince Philip had it killed. Or at least that is what Mohammed Al-Fayed will claim.
Yeah, to avoid confusion I don't think McCartney has done anything good since the 70's either it's just that Freedom, which is quite recent, is literally the worst song I have ever heard. Honestly worse than any boy band crap.
Lennon it seems did some good songs, Harrison funded The Life of Brian and Ringo did Thomas the Tank Engine.
So for me after the Beatles, Ringo did the best, followed by George, John and then lastly Paul. - Unsurprisingly Paul has made the most noise (although I am aware John stopped competing in that respect a long time ago!)
Wake me up when he actually makes some good music again. Remember 'Freedom' his post-911 song, one of the worst songs I have ever heard. In fact has he done anything good since the Beatles? Other than that Simpsons episode.
Because many people have pointed out that sound engineers get paid by the session and not on a royalty basis, I concede that they are a bad example. But I am sure there are plenty of people who are paid royalties for recorded music who might not get anything for live performances, producers (quite important I believe) for instance.
Perhaps I should quantify that DRM statement.
No of course DRM will not stop even if piracy disappeared but the argument against DRM seems childish while one also justifies pirating. "DRM is so wrong, which is why I download my music from bitTorrent".
Artists actually have a revenue stream the record companies don't tend to decimate; it's called the "gig". That seems fair, fuck the sound engineers, recording studios and EVERYONE ELSE who actually works in the recording of music
Look at the credits for an album (if you actually own any) and you will see how many artists work on a CD who aren't the band or the label.
People constantly use the "well artists have the gigs" defence when pirating their music, I can't think of a better (and more frequently used) example of 'convenient ignorance', your argument works only if you forget how music is actually made.
If you don't want DRM then stop pirating, you can't have it both ways.
No software patents and you dont have this nonsense. I hope the EU sticks to its guns on software patents. . . . we still no have software patents, don't we?
It was a well written article but it wasn't funny, it certainly wasn't 'hilarious', unless you are the kind of nerds that tried to teach Homer nuclear physics.