VoIP was that other tool. I'll want more information about this before I become too concerned, but the whole notion that if you aren't doing anything illegal why worry is just complete apologist bullshit.
There's all sorts of legal activities which could ruin ones life if people in general found out. If you're gay and not out, having people listening in to communiques with a boyfriend or girlfriend could definitely ruin ones life.
To be honest, I don't get it either. Last I checked, Firefox had a healthy share of the market, and was rapidly heading towards the point of diminishing gains. It's really easy to keep everybody happy when you've got 1% of the market locked up, but when you start pushing 20%, 30% and more, then you have to start recognizing that not everybody is going to be happy with changes and consider not making ones that are going to alienate the core, or at least provide some sort of sane way of turning them off.
Because that's what got MS into so much trouble with IE. You can do that, but then you're stuck maintaining an obsolete browser for long past its useful date or you're allowing the browser to stagnate completely in order to keep enterprise users happy.
On top of that, Enterprise users want something that is fundamentally harmful in a home environment, they're the main reason why companies have patch Tuesdays and all that bullshit.
I'm not saying that it couldn't be done, but it's not really as straightforward as that, particularly now that HTML is going versionless and the work of finishing Firefox hasn't been completed.
Thomas isn't conservative, he's bought and paid for. If you don't believe me, just google Justice Clarence Thomas conflict of interest. He regularly behaves in a way which judges sitting on lower courts would get kicked off the bench for.
The fact that Scalia seems to think his views are extreme should be a pretty good indication of Thomas' fitness to sit be an associate justice.
Right, and the alternative is telling all parents what they can and can't allow their children to buy. Don't delude yourself, banning children from buying these materials isn't likely to result in any shortage of such materials getting into the hands of children. Which presumably this is all about.
And you're suggesting that the App store's software is that much better? Please, considering how fast the collection has been growing for both options, it's pretty clear that at least 90% of both stores are full of crap.
Shut up or they'll require screenings to go into the subway. I'm just waiting for them to realize what a terrorist target those security check points are. I'm guessing that rather than do something sane about it that the result will be a security check point before getting into the security line...
We shouldn't be granting exceptions we should be scrapping the program entirely. 9/11 would not have succeeded had the airline industry not been so cheap as to not pay for the kind of reinforced doors that had been in place in planes flown in other parts of the world. Additionally, had we not banned knives on planes, it's unlikely that the plot would have succeeded either as the terrorists would have been outnumbered.
It's astonishing to me how many people think that another 9/11 style kamikaze jet liner attack could happen that way given the awareness that the hijacker hostage deal has changed and that being quiet no longer guarantees that the situation ends in the inconvenience of being flown to Libya or Cuba. At this point, they're going to just bomb the security check points like they do in other parts of the world, much easier to succeed doing that and definitely enough bloodshed to keep people terrorized for years to come.
The plant was hit by a quake of that magnitude and survived the tremors. It wasn't until it was hit by a tsunami and the backup generator went down that there were serious problems. Considering that magnitude 9 quakes are pretty rare, I'd say that you're either ignorant or misinformed on the subject.
It's not a biased comment, he revealed a "hack" then refused to release it even as Sony locked down the console from legitimate uses. Then he took work done by others to finish releasing the key and finally when sued he folded like a house of cards, even after people had donated specifically for him to fight the suit. At bare minimum he should have personally repaid the donations.
Right, there was the original hack that he alleged to have succeeded at which he refused to release that led Sony to remove the OtherOS feature to batten down the hatches, then the most recent key that was 90% other people's work which helped to damage the homebrew scene. Then there was him giving up pretty much immediately when being sued, even after many people donated money to hopefully establish precedence.
Consequently he gets no sympathy from me and deserves to be treated like scum. FB is just the place for somebody with such shifty ethics.
All the work? You mean faking a hack and getting the OtherOS pulled or piggy backing on other's work to finally release the key that many other people could have done at the time?
I own a PS3 and I for one don't appreciate his antics, getting Sony pissed off and then failing to deliver the goods is pretty much just trolling.
I think it's been established for some time that the spam filter is heavily automated and that things like a person labeling a message as spam has a significant impact on how it's received. I've often suspected that if a message is labeled as spam in one account and it's in other accounts that it gets labeled as spam there as well.
They could be easier to use, but they're hardly difficult to use. I mostly wish they'd beef them up to make it easier to have long lists of things going to the same label and a more efficient way of collecting all my order confirmations under the same label. But, it's really not difficult to use as is.
I agree, unless more information comes to light that makes this some sort of nefarious plot, this just doesn't sound like it's a big deal. As it stands now, I'm not really sure why I as a gmail user should care. It's not like Google is preventing me from getting those messages or ensuring that they are brought to my attention. For emails of priority, they always got their own label anyways. Google hasn't taken away that option either.
That probe is fully legitimate, probing this as an antitrust violation would be absurdly silly.
They haven't the market share necessary for this to be an antitrust violation by themselves nor is there any reason to suspect collusion as it's all being done internally. It might suck for Groupon and the others, but this is hardly going to have much of an impact on them anyways, at least not anymore than getting caught up in overly zealous spam filters.
And a coal mine that catches on fire can burn for decades as well. Unlike the sort of doomsday scenarios that people predict for nuclear, the coal fire has already happened. New Straitsville, Ohio And that's not the only multi-decade coal mine fire either.
Indeed, it could be any sort of other thing, such as it could itself be infringing on somebody's code or it could have malware installed. Without more information it's really hard to know whether this was a justified move or not.
That's the thing, I'd be surprised if there was much impact at all, apart from the extremely lazy, I doubt very much that there are a lot of people suddenly pirating because they can get their phone to scan and download the whatever.
I was in BestBuy a couple weeks back for the first time in years, and I noticed that some of their pricetags had 3D codes on them, had I thought about it I should have scanned one to see what they were referring me to.
There's nothing unethical about scanning a bar code to see reviews or better prices, but scanning a code to begin torrenting it is definitely wrong by any objective standard. If you're going to pirate the materials, at least have the decency to manually look up the torrent you're looking for.
Indeed, I'd wager that most folks here would rather see copyright terms cut down to something more reasonable along with trademarks and patents. I see far more interest in reforming the system than in abolishing it.
True, there are a lot of libertarians here that would like to see the whole system burn, but as a whole, I don't think that most folks here really want the entire system demolished rather than reformed.
At that point, you just side load the application. Honestly, this is hardly the kind of big deal that it could be. Sure it sucks and I'd like to see an explanation, but it's not like the Appstore where removing an app pretty much kills it. People looking for torrent programs are probably savvy enough to download the app from elsewhere.
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VoIP was that other tool. I'll want more information about this before I become too concerned, but the whole notion that if you aren't doing anything illegal why worry is just complete apologist bullshit.
There's all sorts of legal activities which could ruin ones life if people in general found out. If you're gay and not out, having people listening in to communiques with a boyfriend or girlfriend could definitely ruin ones life.
To be honest, I don't get it either. Last I checked, Firefox had a healthy share of the market, and was rapidly heading towards the point of diminishing gains. It's really easy to keep everybody happy when you've got 1% of the market locked up, but when you start pushing 20%, 30% and more, then you have to start recognizing that not everybody is going to be happy with changes and consider not making ones that are going to alienate the core, or at least provide some sort of sane way of turning them off.
Because that's what got MS into so much trouble with IE. You can do that, but then you're stuck maintaining an obsolete browser for long past its useful date or you're allowing the browser to stagnate completely in order to keep enterprise users happy.
On top of that, Enterprise users want something that is fundamentally harmful in a home environment, they're the main reason why companies have patch Tuesdays and all that bullshit.
I'm not saying that it couldn't be done, but it's not really as straightforward as that, particularly now that HTML is going versionless and the work of finishing Firefox hasn't been completed.
Thomas isn't conservative, he's bought and paid for. If you don't believe me, just google Justice Clarence Thomas conflict of interest. He regularly behaves in a way which judges sitting on lower courts would get kicked off the bench for.
The fact that Scalia seems to think his views are extreme should be a pretty good indication of Thomas' fitness to sit be an associate justice.
Right, and the alternative is telling all parents what they can and can't allow their children to buy. Don't delude yourself, banning children from buying these materials isn't likely to result in any shortage of such materials getting into the hands of children. Which presumably this is all about.
And you're suggesting that the App store's software is that much better? Please, considering how fast the collection has been growing for both options, it's pretty clear that at least 90% of both stores are full of crap.
Shut up or they'll require screenings to go into the subway. I'm just waiting for them to realize what a terrorist target those security check points are. I'm guessing that rather than do something sane about it that the result will be a security check point before getting into the security line...
This.
We shouldn't be granting exceptions we should be scrapping the program entirely. 9/11 would not have succeeded had the airline industry not been so cheap as to not pay for the kind of reinforced doors that had been in place in planes flown in other parts of the world. Additionally, had we not banned knives on planes, it's unlikely that the plot would have succeeded either as the terrorists would have been outnumbered.
It's astonishing to me how many people think that another 9/11 style kamikaze jet liner attack could happen that way given the awareness that the hijacker hostage deal has changed and that being quiet no longer guarantees that the situation ends in the inconvenience of being flown to Libya or Cuba. At this point, they're going to just bomb the security check points like they do in other parts of the world, much easier to succeed doing that and definitely enough bloodshed to keep people terrorized for years to come.
The plant was hit by a quake of that magnitude and survived the tremors. It wasn't until it was hit by a tsunami and the backup generator went down that there were serious problems. Considering that magnitude 9 quakes are pretty rare, I'd say that you're either ignorant or misinformed on the subject.
It's not a biased comment, he revealed a "hack" then refused to release it even as Sony locked down the console from legitimate uses. Then he took work done by others to finish releasing the key and finally when sued he folded like a house of cards, even after people had donated specifically for him to fight the suit. At bare minimum he should have personally repaid the donations.
Right, there was the original hack that he alleged to have succeeded at which he refused to release that led Sony to remove the OtherOS feature to batten down the hatches, then the most recent key that was 90% other people's work which helped to damage the homebrew scene. Then there was him giving up pretty much immediately when being sued, even after many people donated money to hopefully establish precedence.
Consequently he gets no sympathy from me and deserves to be treated like scum. FB is just the place for somebody with such shifty ethics.
All the work? You mean faking a hack and getting the OtherOS pulled or piggy backing on other's work to finally release the key that many other people could have done at the time?
I own a PS3 and I for one don't appreciate his antics, getting Sony pissed off and then failing to deliver the goods is pretty much just trolling.
I'm pretty sure he's being paid to troll gamers. Geohot can pretty much rot in hell for all I care after the stunts he pulled with regards to the PS3.
I think it's been established for some time that the spam filter is heavily automated and that things like a person labeling a message as spam has a significant impact on how it's received. I've often suspected that if a message is labeled as spam in one account and it's in other accounts that it gets labeled as spam there as well.
They could be easier to use, but they're hardly difficult to use. I mostly wish they'd beef them up to make it easier to have long lists of things going to the same label and a more efficient way of collecting all my order confirmations under the same label. But, it's really not difficult to use as is.
Well, to be fair, the ones that represent account changes and service notifications could reasonably be assumed to be important.
I agree, unless more information comes to light that makes this some sort of nefarious plot, this just doesn't sound like it's a big deal. As it stands now, I'm not really sure why I as a gmail user should care. It's not like Google is preventing me from getting those messages or ensuring that they are brought to my attention. For emails of priority, they always got their own label anyways. Google hasn't taken away that option either.
That probe is fully legitimate, probing this as an antitrust violation would be absurdly silly.
They haven't the market share necessary for this to be an antitrust violation by themselves nor is there any reason to suspect collusion as it's all being done internally. It might suck for Groupon and the others, but this is hardly going to have much of an impact on them anyways, at least not anymore than getting caught up in overly zealous spam filters.
And a coal mine that catches on fire can burn for decades as well. Unlike the sort of doomsday scenarios that people predict for nuclear, the coal fire has already happened. New Straitsville, Ohio And that's not the only multi-decade coal mine fire either.
Indeed, it could be any sort of other thing, such as it could itself be infringing on somebody's code or it could have malware installed. Without more information it's really hard to know whether this was a justified move or not.
That's the thing, I'd be surprised if there was much impact at all, apart from the extremely lazy, I doubt very much that there are a lot of people suddenly pirating because they can get their phone to scan and download the whatever.
I was in BestBuy a couple weeks back for the first time in years, and I noticed that some of their pricetags had 3D codes on them, had I thought about it I should have scanned one to see what they were referring me to.
There's nothing unethical about scanning a bar code to see reviews or better prices, but scanning a code to begin torrenting it is definitely wrong by any objective standard. If you're going to pirate the materials, at least have the decency to manually look up the torrent you're looking for.
Indeed, I'd wager that most folks here would rather see copyright terms cut down to something more reasonable along with trademarks and patents. I see far more interest in reforming the system than in abolishing it.
True, there are a lot of libertarians here that would like to see the whole system burn, but as a whole, I don't think that most folks here really want the entire system demolished rather than reformed.
At that point, you just side load the application. Honestly, this is hardly the kind of big deal that it could be. Sure it sucks and I'd like to see an explanation, but it's not like the Appstore where removing an app pretty much kills it. People looking for torrent programs are probably savvy enough to download the app from elsewhere.