Anyone working for Verizon able to confirm any of the rollout plans for the Northern VA area?
Seems that they are hyping FiOS all over the place (events, mailings, etc) but I still get the "We're sorry, but that service isn't quite yet available in your area -- please leave us your email for a notice when it is". This has been going on for close to a year now.
Hook us up! Let us know when we can get the service:)
If it was in fact a bomb, it was already on the plane. If it was a ruse that he came up with to get them to call the TSA back, more likely than not, if the trigger worked, the plane would have been downed.
I thought we spent all that time in line before bording a flight, having our belongings rifled through, and going through metal detectors to make sure that items that go boom didn't get on planes.
Or is that just a nice bit of security theater to make us feel safer, provide jobs for govenment employees, and to generally take our minds off the fact that regardless of how much of our tax dollar is spent on "security" that it won't stop someone who is determined?
The rep was not "following procedure as AOL told him to". He was fired for being a general jackass on the phone to a customer. Did AOL's service centers have some suspect processes? Most certainly. However, the rep went far and beyond those on the call with Vincent Ferrari.
If you don't agree with the rules that the non-governmental organization has made for your use of their non-governmental servers, then don't play in their sandbox.
Not like AOL holds all the cards in the search business. So type another address into Firefox, and go somewhere else.
You are making the assumption that people that use AOL are inherently different than people that don't use AOL. I make the assumption that they aren't, and it was just the luck of the dice that they started up with Earthlink, or NetZero, or MCN, JPS.net, TheGrid, or any of the 100s of rural ISPs available.
If Google released the same data, I believe you would find some very similar statistics and search-meta data results.
People like porn, shopping, and looking up other people, I don't consider that exclusive to the AOL-subset.
While you were speaking partially in jest I assume, the idea has considerable merit. However, the purchase of one media company, albiet a company as large as Sony, won't influence anything.
What would work though is if people took that $30B and invested it in organizations like the EFF (if you don't like their politics, it could be any other consumer interest group, or a new one) to buy back political influence in Congress. Play the same game as the **AAs.
Too easy, and I was trying to dance around the actual legal issue of what you just described. For Congress to pass something like this, can you imagine what the list would have to look like? And history has shown that inuendo is typically derived from mundane and juvenile things.
Using your example, why *shouldn't* an adult site webmaster be allowed to use the term "barbie" to describe "a site full of fake blondes with fake breasts that look 100% american?"
I would have guessed that more bloggers were female than male. That has been my experience, as a good number of my female friends have blogs, post on other blogs, or generally surf blogs, outnumbering my male friends.
However, it could be that they are classifying blogs differently, ie. tech journals as blogs, or personal blogs, when they do their study.
The original headline is correct. Apple ceased it's appeal strategy in the case by their own volition. The previous Slashdot article that referenced the original court case decision would have had the headline Apple Loses Anti-Blogger Effort.
Apple already lost, and was down the same path when their lawyers realized there was no way to turn the appeal. All your post came off as is a whiny anti-Apple poster looking for ways to taunt the same fanboys you mention.
Few people realize that when they buy software or music or movies, they are actually buying a license to use, watch or listen. That's why it violates copyright laws for people to sell copies of their music collection.
Perhaps it is time to rethink the current legal method of digital ownership. Copyright laws, even the most current ones that lawyers attempt to enforce still are based on earlier, non-digital cases.
While precedent has its place, maybe it isn't the best method of deriving new laws.
What? remove the one diversion that those poor coders of Vista have?:)
And I agree with you completely, I can't imagine the outcry if Solitare went away. Thousands upon thousands of angry housewives, corporate drones and senior citizens with pitchforks and torches outside the Microsoft offices, demanding Ballmer's head.
That 80% chance is figuring in the inclusion of a new Microsoft folder game, Duke Nukem Forever. They are taking out minesweeper for it, so they are being extra careful that it will be ready for primetime -- some January.
It doesn't even sound like The Googleguys are even involved in the lein issue. It just has to do with a company they have doing the work, and a subcontracting designer.
This article isn't even remotely relevant, it's like posting an article where Adrianna Huffington's hairdresser won't pay a bill to Vidal Sasson Inc. because the last batch of hair bleach didn't work as intended.
Com'on mods, at least do some research into an article beyond reading the short by-line and seeing "Google".
You wouldn't architect a tool shed, nor would you architect a system. You might be involved in the design of the building architecture or system architecture for a project however. No dictionary that I looked through has "architect" used as a verb, only a noun. Using it as a verb is just awkward, and could just as easily be replaced with the design.
Engineer on the other hand, can be used both as a noun and a verb, so you can engineer a rubber band gun or a shell script.
I do agree with your use of Architect as applied to IT though -- you can be a System Architect or a Software Integration Architect just as you can be a Building Architect or a Landscape Architect. And the above wasn't to be a grammar nazi, as much as to hopefully save someone from using the term during a business proposal:)
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Ok, good. Means it must be right around the corner, because we have power outages and DSL service outages weekly now ;)
Anyone working for Verizon able to confirm any of the rollout plans for the Northern VA area? Seems that they are hyping FiOS all over the place (events, mailings, etc) but I still get the "We're sorry, but that service isn't quite yet available in your area -- please leave us your email for a notice when it is". This has been going on for close to a year now. Hook us up! Let us know when we can get the service :)
AOL 9.0 Security Edition was released 11/18/04. This is relevant for today how? Everything in retrospect is bad for you.
If it was in fact a bomb, it was already on the plane. If it was a ruse that he came up with to get them to call the TSA back, more likely than not, if the trigger worked, the plane would have been downed.
I thought we spent all that time in line before bording a flight, having our belongings rifled through, and going through metal detectors to make sure that items that go boom didn't get on planes.
Or is that just a nice bit of security theater to make us feel safer, provide jobs for govenment employees, and to generally take our minds off the fact that regardless of how much of our tax dollar is spent on "security" that it won't stop someone who is determined?
The rep was not "following procedure as AOL told him to". He was fired for being a general jackass on the phone to a customer. Did AOL's service centers have some suspect processes? Most certainly. However, the rep went far and beyond those on the call with Vincent Ferrari.
If you don't agree with the rules that the non-governmental organization has made for your use of their non-governmental servers, then don't play in their sandbox.
Not like AOL holds all the cards in the search business. So type another address into Firefox, and go somewhere else.
YT has been down longer than the article has been up.
And if the latest video of EmoGirl15 doesn't pull down YouTube, Slashdot has no chance.
You are making the assumption that people that use AOL are inherently different than people that don't use AOL. I make the assumption that they aren't, and it was just the luck of the dice that they started up with Earthlink, or NetZero, or MCN, JPS.net, TheGrid, or any of the 100s of rural ISPs available.
If Google released the same data, I believe you would find some very similar statistics and search-meta data results.
People like porn, shopping, and looking up other people, I don't consider that exclusive to the AOL-subset.
I wish your example would happen, and maybe someday we would have someone strong enough to make it happen :)
While you were speaking partially in jest I assume, the idea has considerable merit. However, the purchase of one media company, albiet a company as large as Sony, won't influence anything.
What would work though is if people took that $30B and invested it in organizations like the EFF (if you don't like their politics, it could be any other consumer interest group, or a new one) to buy back political influence in Congress. Play the same game as the **AAs.
And this is different from any executive, at any company, how?
Too easy, and I was trying to dance around the actual legal issue of what you just described. For Congress to pass something like this, can you imagine what the list would have to look like? And history has shown that inuendo is typically derived from mundane and juvenile things.
Using your example, why *shouldn't* an adult site webmaster be allowed to use the term "barbie" to describe "a site full of fake blondes with fake breasts that look 100% american?"
Barney and Barbie are a tough call, but I can see at least 100 applications of the term "Pokeman" in the sites you are describing. :)
They have to answer to News Corp. And that is a meeting I wouldn't want to be in with Rupert.
I would have guessed that more bloggers were female than male. That has been my experience, as a good number of my female friends have blogs, post on other blogs, or generally surf blogs, outnumbering my male friends.
However, it could be that they are classifying blogs differently, ie. tech journals as blogs, or personal blogs, when they do their study.
Theoretically you can, but I would imagine you would still need signal boosters every so often to keep the signal strength high enough.
The original headline is correct. Apple ceased it's appeal strategy in the case by their own volition. The previous Slashdot article that referenced the original court case decision would have had the headline Apple Loses Anti-Blogger Effort.
Apple already lost, and was down the same path when their lawyers realized there was no way to turn the appeal. All your post came off as is a whiny anti-Apple poster looking for ways to taunt the same fanboys you mention.
Excellent adaptation.
Perhaps it is time to rethink the current legal method of digital ownership. Copyright laws, even the most current ones that lawyers attempt to enforce still are based on earlier, non-digital cases.
While precedent has its place, maybe it isn't the best method of deriving new laws.
If not a job, at least the business card to hand out at bars. How's that for a great start to a conversation?
What? remove the one diversion that those poor coders of Vista have? :)
And I agree with you completely, I can't imagine the outcry if Solitare went away. Thousands upon thousands of angry housewives, corporate drones and senior citizens with pitchforks and torches outside the Microsoft offices, demanding Ballmer's head.
That 80% chance is figuring in the inclusion of a new Microsoft folder game, Duke Nukem Forever. They are taking out minesweeper for it, so they are being extra careful that it will be ready for primetime -- some January.
It doesn't even sound like The Googleguys are even involved in the lein issue. It just has to do with a company they have doing the work, and a subcontracting designer.
This article isn't even remotely relevant, it's like posting an article where Adrianna Huffington's hairdresser won't pay a bill to Vidal Sasson Inc. because the last batch of hair bleach didn't work as intended.
Com'on mods, at least do some research into an article beyond reading the short by-line and seeing "Google".
Excellent young one -- The Lord Xenu will have a place for you when his reign once again extends to the small planet "Earth".
Please await the DC-10s in a cornfield near Topeka.
Engineer on the other hand, can be used both as a noun and a verb, so you can engineer a rubber band gun or a shell script.
I do agree with your use of Architect as applied to IT though -- you can be a System Architect or a Software Integration Architect just as you can be a Building Architect or a Landscape Architect. And the above wasn't to be a grammar nazi, as much as to hopefully save someone from using the term during a business proposal :)