Comment Re:Hilarious (Score 4, Insightful) 160
...and the users using AdBlock will see what exactly
...and the users using AdBlock will see what exactly
...multiple international companies... Like Nokia, Skype, Visio
It's not that they don't spy on them (USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) it's that they have agreed not to spy directly on them, just to spy on their links to other countries and terrorism
So they will not spy on you if :
you live in one of these countries,
and you have no links to any of the other countries
and you have no links to terrorism
and you have no links to anyone who has any links to terrorism
and you have no links to anyone who has any links to any one with links to terrorism
and you have no links to anyone who has any links to any one with links to any one with links to terrorism.....
The USA, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are all members of ECHELON and so already share mutual intercepted data, i.e. the NSA does not need to spy on these
Keep your lawn so it slows runoff and prevents flash flooding, but accept that it will look like natural grass and not astroturf
The restaurant does have a drive-thru, they charge you to use it, charge you for the food, charge you to park, and report you to the police if you drive away eating
The 3DS is outselling both of these
Smartphones out sell all of these and make more money and sell more games
The console market is now for gamers only, the Wii was the last console bought by non-gamer
A Tesla S is not a normal family car, it costs the about the same a Porsche 911, so it firmly in the luxury/sports car bracket, so expensive options are normal, and every car as a custom build is not unexpected, rolling changes are not that unusual (outside the USA)
You mean like the Euro
and the real problem is not the currency but the technology, I can pay with Dollars or Euros in a street market in Africa, but not with a device they don't have a reader for
They provide a single service, an internet connection, continually reclassifying this depending on if it is Copper, Cable, Broadband, DSL, Fios
They are already a common carrier, they just don't want the service they provide to be classified as this as it would introduce the possibility of competition into the market
"... we are optimistic that there will be a way to do this in Europe"
We are optimistic that with the DCMA or Canadian equivalent this is not as simple as you think
Iceland almost manages to be the same at 0.2, and be a democracy
The rates for the USA are 4.7, the same as Latvia (Semi stable, recently independent from USSR), Yemen (Terrorist training ground), Niger ( lowest-ranked in the United Nations' Human Development Index (HDI)
Why does the USA consistently have the same murder rate as semi stable, struggling economies
If this patent has not been used in a real product in all this time, then it should be thrown out as either unworkable, or just a patent troll
Most of the ebook industry uses either ePub or is an Amazon Kindle, many if not most DRM on ePub is from Adobe
Note this will also affect some unexpected devices - iPhone, iPad iPodTouch
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
