The doctor himself said:
"Fair question."
During a public hearing.
Whether the story is worthy of slashdot or not, I wouldn't judge. But the "news reporting" itself is actually exemplary.
So I take it that those users who do NOT "provide their official government-issued identification numbers... and link to a cellphone account..." will suffer greatly by having to sign up for another fake account every single time they run out of points... Gosh, that's harsh.
I don't detect any fear, uncertainty or doubt about the facts of this particular case. Apple had its day in court. The facts seem quite clear.
There is nothing, including the negative reaction of practically everyone other than Apple Kool-Aid (tm) drinkers, that they should not have seen coming.
It's a terrifically interesting and newsworthy story. The only thing missing is Tim Cook's answer to the question, "Why?"
... has done just an excellent job in separating out, among all my friends and acquaintances, those who want me to spend my life looking at their photographs or mouse-clicking through Zynga games. And it largely segregates them.
... more likely, tens of millions of fake profiles. People have multiple profiles to play games, for work and for play, for doing things on facebook or on the web that they don't want anyone who knows them to know about.
All it takes to get a Facebook account going is an email address.
If you think that a couple of dozen Facebook police are able to enforce using "real" information on 500 million accounts...
"ARM envisages a time when the only computer you'll ever need is your smartphone."
I'll keep my keyboard and ginormous monitors, thanks. Maybe in a generation or two, when humankind fingers have evolved and are short and pointy... but not now,
... As a wacko leftist libertarian crypto-anarcho peacenik Commie, the oldest son of a right-wing fringe element religo millennialist rapturizing nut job, I have to tell you:
Net Neutrality is the one thing dad and I can safely talk about, and agree on.
That, and maybe there are some foods we both like.
We can't be very far away from having ads on cable TV that greet you by name and act like they know you.
Hi Bob,
As a 47-year-old married guy with two teen-agers who is having trouble paying his bills, we don't want to make you feel worse by showing you ads for products you can't afford, like new cars. We show those ads to Dave, next door. What you need is... Pepto-Bismol, and maybe some antidepressants, right?
Oh, hell. Maybe they are doing that and I haven't caught on yet.
... for New York City dog owners before it's even tested in Africa.
How could the inventor not have realized that the most lucrative market for this is dog owners in cities?
Similarly... back when AT&T was SBC, during the Texas roundup of telecomm companies... we knew it was a very sign when the customer service department was put underneath the VP of billing. The inside joke was that customer service could be reduced to a very simple script: "Do you need help paying your bill?"
Sure enough... the joke became reality.
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I rarely rant... but he just missed the mark so very badly. There was plenty to do online... remember how much effort went into trying to save people from using AOL?
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Farhad is usually smarter than this... but I see he graduated from Cornell in 2000, which puts him at the tail end of high school in '96.
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I wonder if that has ever happened here before?
... that if climate change were legitimate, the Earth would "shut down" and prevent any bad consequences.
The doctor himself said: "Fair question." During a public hearing. Whether the story is worthy of slashdot or not, I wouldn't judge. But the "news reporting" itself is actually exemplary.
... and probably the more likely it is that they're posted somewhere that no one needs a password to see them.
So I take it that those users who do NOT "provide their official government-issued identification numbers ... and link to a cellphone account ..." will suffer greatly by having to sign up for another fake account every single time they run out of points ... Gosh, that's harsh.
... the more likely it is that you actually have an identity worth stealing.
It was heck, fighting those Javanese Androids, nothing to eat buy Apples.
I don't detect any fear, uncertainty or doubt about the facts of this particular case. Apple had its day in court. The facts seem quite clear.
There is nothing, including the negative reaction of practically everyone other than Apple Kool-Aid (tm) drinkers, that they should not have seen coming.
It's a terrifically interesting and newsworthy story. The only thing missing is Tim Cook's answer to the question, "Why?"
... has done just an excellent job in separating out, among all my friends and acquaintances, those who want me to spend my life looking at their photographs or mouse-clicking through Zynga games. And it largely segregates them.
Works for me.
All it takes to get a Facebook account going is an email address.
If you think that a couple of dozen Facebook police are able to enforce using "real" information on 500 million accounts ...
Okay, good. Now you don't think that.
I thought it was spelled nietzsche. But that was from only one of my perspectives.
... At roughly $60 per capita annually, I think the cost of the space program is justified by its entertainment value alone.
... gave people an easy way to stay in touch, too. And that darned AOL IM client ... it was a monopoly! I remember!
Linux has been doing that for years. Microsoft rips off open source, yet again ...
Do you call your USB memory drive a lipstick?
I saw you steal one of my socks.
"ARM envisages a time when the only computer you'll ever need is your smartphone." I'll keep my keyboard and ginormous monitors, thanks. Maybe in a generation or two, when humankind fingers have evolved and are short and pointy ... but not now,
... As a wacko leftist libertarian crypto-anarcho peacenik Commie, the oldest son of a right-wing fringe element religo millennialist rapturizing nut job, I have to tell you: Net Neutrality is the one thing dad and I can safely talk about, and agree on. That, and maybe there are some foods we both like.
Hi Bob,
As a 47-year-old married guy with two teen-agers who is having trouble paying his bills, we don't want to make you feel worse by showing you ads for products you can't afford, like new cars. We show those ads to Dave, next door. What you need is ... Pepto-Bismol, and maybe some antidepressants, right?
Oh, hell. Maybe they are doing that and I haven't caught on yet.
Apple's next product announcement will be for special color-matching paperclips ($9.99) and tin cans ($49.99) as antenna boosters.
It's *failure* has significance for general acceptance of Google's model.
It's *existence* does a lot for the notion that Windows is not the only choice out there.
Open Source does well in a marketplace where there is the perception of choice.
... for New York City dog owners before it's even tested in Africa. How could the inventor not have realized that the most lucrative market for this is dog owners in cities?
Sure enough ... the joke became reality.
I rarely rant ... but he just missed the mark so very badly. There was plenty to do online ... remember how much effort went into trying to save people from using AOL?
http://www.intotemptation.net/2009/02/25/idiotic-article-in-slate/
He asked the wrong people and Slate looks d-u-m-b.