Right now the CBC are trying to come to grasps with the international information community. It is a very large bureaucracy with lots of Government influences (weather they like to admit or now). Slow and steadily the policy will evolve and presto at some point it will be done and understandable to know one.
I given thought to paying for news. The only way I would do it is if the content was delivered wireless (via my local internet connection & Wifi OR some 3g data push) to a Amazon kindle type reader. My ultimate wish would be for the newspapers to offer a 10 inch screen e-reader for fee with a signed 3 year subscription. Add in the ability to add ebooks with a small kick back to the newspapers and would be sold on a subscription.
Ah the dream of waking up every money with the newspaper automatically pushed unto my newspaper provided e-reader. Much like what Amazon's Kindle offers right now with the only exception cost associated with the device.
Humm...so Google was never hacked... it was their fault there data and email accounts where compromised? It is there business so they should have protected it?
If a billion dollar tech company, Like Google, can not have 100% security what hope in hell does the average Joe have?
Given security holes in windows the ISP should just cut you off because you are running windows. After all you should protect yourself and not run such a inferior OS. Given that any OS may have unknown security hole they should just cut everyone off.
As part of my job, IT related, I have to use the internet to do my job. If even accused I would lose my source of income. The three strikes base upon accusation would essentially deprive me of my right to earn an income in my field of training. So in my case just the accusation would be a massive defamation of my character resulting in real financial lose.
I would even suggest that any accusation that results in punishment is a defamation of your character (as it is an An attack on the good reputation) that has real injury associated with it.
Great for the simple same old repeatable tax returns. This is a large percentage of people.
The other more complicated tax returns multiple jobs, marriage, children, etc would required some more expert care in preparation.
I would still like to see a major tax system change. A simple flat tax (say 20%) and short (restrictive) simple list of deductions (Government Registered Charities, Government Registered day cares, etc).
Our data center has a tradition of a very high turn over rate. They are always in the hirer mode... so right now they are up an extra few people. But right now I now several actively looking for other data center jobs.
#1 reason is the people - they spend lots of time together and if they do not like their co-workers they look else where.
#2 reason is Burn out - when short staffed they need to supply 24 hr coverage so they pull stupid shifts and crazy hours.
It is not about money for most. They get paid well enough and due to over time and on-call hours they can make some really good money. If they get another job else where it is typically for about the same money.
Back in high school we had a pranksters wrap a bunch of D batteries in Red table and added some lose wires and his old fashion ticking alarm clock and would periodically hide in the teachers desk. Great fun for the students when a substitute teacher came in.
I can hard imagine what would happen in this day and age.
Need to substitute the peanut butter part... It would kill my kid and thousand of others.
Yep... touching my kid with peanut butter residue on your hand will kill in about 15 minutes if no medical attention is given.
Major conflict of interest when the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi owns a lot of the mainstream media outlets in the country and proposes that HIS government will control internet content via the Communications Ministry.
What is next - no email or text or twitter will be allowed until it has past the Communications Ministry first?
At least in the US you just expect that all your communication and videos online is at least watch over by big brother - just in case you had any terrorist thoughts.
Just make the iPhone/iPod Touch with a large screen 8-10".
With a good e-read application and tying the ebooks into iTunes would be a good thing, financially.
A 8-10" iPhone/iPod (Wifi and 3G/4G access) with a bit beefier specs so it can easily support flash, GPS, and a dramatically increased video codex integration would be enough for me to drop some serious $ on it. And coming from the fine people at Mac I would expect not less then a top dollar price tag.
It is hard to compete when the government is allegially stealing your business code and potentially giving it to your biggest state run competition, Baidu, or selling it to Yahoo and/or Bing.
The only way for Google to gain market share away from Baidu is to give the users their actual desired search results rather than the state filtered results.
It will be an interest story to follow - Google the power house PR and Advertising company verses a the Chinese Government dictatorship in the guise a communist government.
A small group of people in France need to get together and officially register some copyrightable material. Then simply accuse every member of the Hadopi organization and Nicolas Sarkozy and every member of his political party of infringement. Repeat three time and presto they are all kicked off the internet!
The buskers (street performers) need to play their own original music or royalty free music.
If you are not using SOCAN's member's materials then you should not be obligated to pay them a dime.
SOCAN job is to collect the licensing fee for their member's copyrighted material. If the buskers do not use their material how can TransLink extort this fee from them?
I can see TransLink asking busker for a fee but there is no way TransLink should just automatically hand money over to SOCAN.
I had regular site I went to until they start some stupid ads that periodically appeared and took over the whole screen... always a chore to find the very small X box to close it.
Got Ad blocker and blocked most of those ads. But still that site seems to come up with new ones all the time. So now I do not even go to that site because of the ads it hosts.
I do click on small Google ads that appeal to me. Not often but it depend what I am searching for. Sometime the site I find will have an ad for exactly what I am looking for.
All things with in reason. Registrars should do a little more due diligence - signing up for (AND GETTING) a domain with totally false information is a problem. The Registrars are more interest in getting money than actually doing any confirmation of identity.
ISP on the other hand can have no clue to what your site is about. It could look totally legit and then between the hours 4AM-6AM is auto-updated to illegal online pharmacies and drug trafficking site to correspond with some bulk spam email. Difficult for an ISP to control unless they had to pass everything by a publisher - now that would add massive costs for your ISP not to mention the massive temptation for the ISP to also act as an editor for the content you want to post.
It has been a while since my contract law class...
The listed price is what the retailer is willing to entertain as fair offer for the item.
You, the buyer, then offer to buy the item at recommended price.
The seller then can accept or reject your offer (refuse to sell to you). The seller could counter offer and the buyer could counter offer again... etc etc.
It is you, the buyer, that is initiating to contract to purchase. It is up to the seller to accept or reject your offer. The price tag is just something the seller does to help the buyer start of the negotiations with what the sell is typically willing to accept.
In this case the guy offered $3 billion for the CD-ROM. Amazon, as the seller, has the right to reject his offer. If the CD-ROM was listed as 0.01 cents by mistake then Amazon also has the right to reject the offered price from the seller.
This should tell you that anything and everything for sale is up for negotiations. The printed price on an item is the minimum offer the sales clerk will accept. Take to a manager or higher and they maybe authorized to accept a lower offer to purchase.
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Ah the dream of waking up every money with the newspaper automatically pushed unto my newspaper provided e-reader. Much like what Amazon's Kindle offers right now with the only exception cost associated with the device.
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If a billion dollar tech company, Like Google, can not have 100% security what hope in hell does the average Joe have?
Given security holes in windows the ISP should just cut you off because you are running windows. After all you should protect yourself and not run such a inferior OS. Given that any OS may have unknown security hole they should just cut everyone off.
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Right to work & defamation of character
I would even suggest that any accusation that results in punishment is a defamation of your character (as it is an An attack on the good reputation) that has real injury associated with it.
On the post: IFPI Claims That Three Strikes Can Surgically Remove One Family Member From The Internet, But Not The Rest
If it passes I will simply create three Companies and place an accusations against member and employee of IFPI from each.
On the post: Intuit Lobbying The Government To Make It More Difficult To File Your Tax Returns
The other more complicated tax returns multiple jobs, marriage, children, etc would required some more expert care in preparation.
I would still like to see a major tax system change. A simple flat tax (say 20%) and short (restrictive) simple list of deductions (Government Registered Charities, Government Registered day cares, etc).
At least they are talking about change.
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#1 reason is the people - they spend lots of time together and if they do not like their co-workers they look else where.
#2 reason is Burn out - when short staffed they need to supply 24 hr coverage so they pull stupid shifts and crazy hours.
It is not about money for most. They get paid well enough and due to over time and on-call hours they can make some really good money. If they get another job else where it is typically for about the same money.
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I can hard imagine what would happen in this day and age.
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Yep... touching my kid with peanut butter residue on your hand will kill in about 15 minutes if no medical attention is given.
Just change peanut butter to some soy substitute.
On the post: Proposal In Italy Would Require Gov't Authorization To Upload Any Video
What is next - no email or text or twitter will be allowed until it has past the Communications Ministry first?
At least in the US you just expect that all your communication and videos online is at least watch over by big brother - just in case you had any terrorist thoughts.
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With a good e-read application and tying the ebooks into iTunes would be a good thing, financially.
A 8-10" iPhone/iPod (Wifi and 3G/4G access) with a bit beefier specs so it can easily support flash, GPS, and a dramatically increased video codex integration would be enough for me to drop some serious $ on it. And coming from the fine people at Mac I would expect not less then a top dollar price tag.
On the post: Will Google Pull Out Of India, Australia And Other Countries Over Internet Censorship?
The only way for Google to gain market share away from Baidu is to give the users their actual desired search results rather than the state filtered results.
It will be an interest story to follow - Google the power house PR and Advertising company verses a the Chinese Government dictatorship in the guise a communist government.
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Lessons learned & Teaching the hard way
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Hummm maybe I should patent the independent invention defense idea.
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On the post: Vancouver Train System To Charge Buskers Huge Fees To Play In Stations
If you are not using SOCAN's member's materials then you should not be obligated to pay them a dime.
SOCAN job is to collect the licensing fee for their member's copyrighted material. If the buskers do not use their material how can TransLink extort this fee from them?
I can see TransLink asking busker for a fee but there is no way TransLink should just automatically hand money over to SOCAN.
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On the post: Google Explains Why Ad Blockers Aren't A Problem
Got Ad blocker and blocked most of those ads. But still that site seems to come up with new ones all the time. So now I do not even go to that site because of the ads it hosts.
I do click on small Google ads that appeal to me. Not often but it depend what I am searching for. Sometime the site I find will have an ad for exactly what I am looking for.
On the post: Should ISPs And Registrars Be Responsible For Bogus Online Pharmaceutical Sites?
Registrars
ISP on the other hand can have no clue to what your site is about. It could look totally legit and then between the hours 4AM-6AM is auto-updated to illegal online pharmacies and drug trafficking site to correspond with some bulk spam email. Difficult for an ISP to control unless they had to pass everything by a publisher - now that would add massive costs for your ISP not to mention the massive temptation for the ISP to also act as an editor for the content you want to post.
On the post: Guy Buys $3 Billion CD-ROM
The listed price is what the retailer is willing to entertain as fair offer for the item.
You, the buyer, then offer to buy the item at recommended price.
The seller then can accept or reject your offer (refuse to sell to you). The seller could counter offer and the buyer could counter offer again... etc etc.
It is you, the buyer, that is initiating to contract to purchase. It is up to the seller to accept or reject your offer. The price tag is just something the seller does to help the buyer start of the negotiations with what the sell is typically willing to accept.
In this case the guy offered $3 billion for the CD-ROM. Amazon, as the seller, has the right to reject his offer. If the CD-ROM was listed as 0.01 cents by mistake then Amazon also has the right to reject the offered price from the seller.
This should tell you that anything and everything for sale is up for negotiations. The printed price on an item is the minimum offer the sales clerk will accept. Take to a manager or higher and they maybe authorized to accept a lower offer to purchase.
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