I like how you try to make it sound saner to have stuck with the original plan to build another nuclear power plant in the middle of hurricane territory instead.
Yea, even better, when you try to look up a hostname and get no DNS response, the router forwards your HTTP request directly to itself. (this causes some very interesting conflicts with Slashdot's annoying auto-refresh redirects)
It was a stupid and obvious scam to me but then so are many other very successful products. Based on performance of past results, I'm actually surprised it didn't work. Maybe they failed to use the right buzzword formula in their marketing pitch. Maybe they failed to simply grease the right palms. Now I guess we'll never know. But I can tell you one thing for sure; much better thought out, more worthy ideas have completely failed to get any investment at all, but somehow this type of usurious crap keeps getting $millions dumped on it.
Just like Vinyl, Millennials will eventually get a clue about FM radio as soon as they realize it's exponentially cheaper to produce, doesn't count against their bandwidth cap, and has no conceivable way to build in copy protection.
Well, he pissed YOU off enough to de-anonymize yourself unwittingly, so I don't think it can be fairly said he's evidently done NOTHING today. Just food for thought.
I'm sure they all carried cellphones into a grocery store one day. You think those advertising partners aren't sharing back the same type of demographic data with Facebook that Facebook is sharing with them? You think they don't have AI munging these databases all day long looking for esoteric connections between records? You think they care about the privacy of people who don't even use the site any more than their own users?
I would have bought an OpenMoko phone too, if they'd you know, supported America. Another Euro-networks-only Linux phone isn't gonna help us at all over here though.
This is probably more on-point than conclusions that it's just outright brain damage. Lots of studies have shown there are tradeoffs for certain types of intellectual capacity. In one notable study they found that all chimpanzees have perfect photographic memories. The researchers hypothesized that human beings may have lost the ubiquity of this mental trait as a tradeoff for language processing capabilities.
Not in every US state, but in California, yes. Likewise in California you can quit without notice for any reason or no reason at your whim. That edge cuts both ways. California is fairly unique though in this level of freedom. In many states employers and employees aren't protected from this type of legal retaliation.
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I like how you try to make it sound saner to have stuck with the original plan to build another nuclear power plant in the middle of hurricane territory instead.
Yea, even better, when you try to look up a hostname and get no DNS response, the router forwards your HTTP request directly to itself. (this causes some very interesting conflicts with Slashdot's annoying auto-refresh redirects)
One problem; ATT U-Verse staff updates the modems remotely, automatically, and without notice or recourse.
Don't you lump Netflix in with the printer toner racket.
It was a stupid and obvious scam to me but then so are many other very successful products. Based on performance of past results, I'm actually surprised it didn't work. Maybe they failed to use the right buzzword formula in their marketing pitch. Maybe they failed to simply grease the right palms. Now I guess we'll never know. But I can tell you one thing for sure; much better thought out, more worthy ideas have completely failed to get any investment at all, but somehow this type of usurious crap keeps getting $millions dumped on it.
Just like Vinyl, Millennials will eventually get a clue about FM radio as soon as they realize it's exponentially cheaper to produce, doesn't count against their bandwidth cap, and has no conceivable way to build in copy protection.
Is there a punchline you forgot to add, or am I just missing the sarcasm?
Well, he pissed YOU off enough to de-anonymize yourself unwittingly, so I don't think it can be fairly said he's evidently done NOTHING today. Just food for thought.
World's fattiest vegetable, by a long shot. If you can't figure out why that's popular you're not eating them right.
I'm sure they all carried cellphones into a grocery store one day. You think those advertising partners aren't sharing back the same type of demographic data with Facebook that Facebook is sharing with them? You think they don't have AI munging these databases all day long looking for esoteric connections between records? You think they care about the privacy of people who don't even use the site any more than their own users?
Long before Winamp or mp3, midi composer software was already doing this.
+1 insightful. (squandered my mod points on another article this morning, sorry)
I would have bought an OpenMoko phone too, if they'd you know, supported America. Another Euro-networks-only Linux phone isn't gonna help us at all over here though.
No?
Fuck you, Blizzard.
What if you're afraid of quiet stuff?
It's actually the same 10% as the rest of the world. They've padded the stats out with bot traffic.
It shouldn't even be legal to deploy, let alone patent.
It's dangerous to say stuff like this sarcastically now. Some idiot will think it's a good idea and run with it.
You must live in Switzerland.
So sayeth The Lord.
What the fuck is wrong with you people!? Splice it into brewer's yeast, not the fucking plague.
This is probably more on-point than conclusions that it's just outright brain damage. Lots of studies have shown there are tradeoffs for certain types of intellectual capacity. In one notable study they found that all chimpanzees have perfect photographic memories. The researchers hypothesized that human beings may have lost the ubiquity of this mental trait as a tradeoff for language processing capabilities.
Yea, unless you make a national incident about it and the stock price takes a hit.
Not in every US state, but in California, yes. Likewise in California you can quit without notice for any reason or no reason at your whim. That edge cuts both ways. California is fairly unique though in this level of freedom. In many states employers and employees aren't protected from this type of legal retaliation.