Agreed. I'm in the Scottish Highlands and we get anything from 15 to 128Kb/s. Ironically that's fine, because I work in web programming so it's mostly just text files and low res images, but for a "normal" person expecting to watch videos and read your average Flash-filled website it's going to be frustrating at best. (And before anyone suggests tethering a mobile, there's no mobile reception at all)
Nope. I've got the cheapest prepaid nokia, it doesn't even have "data capability" according to nokia, if you want to use it to connect to the internet you need an old microphone/speaker based modem and a computer with a serial port.
Good luck with that - it doesn't get deleted, it just gets "de-publicified". And if you were silly enough to share it with anyone there's no chance.
For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos (IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
When you delete IP content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others).
Not a technical explanation, but a good one I heard: if you look at a Feynman diagram (they're pretty easy to understand for a layman) you'll find that you can read them in any direction - if you go "against the time arrows" you're just looking at the antiparticle versions interacting instead, it's still a valid diagram. However, the photons don't have arrows as they don't experience time, so they're identical in either time direction, and therefore their own antiparticles.
The interesting thing here is that it's a massive particle with that property, rather than a massless one.
The sensible thing to do would be to allow retrospective permission from a judge within 24 hours. The officers concerned should have to be able to explain to the judge what their very important reasons were, and if the judge doesn't think they were justified then a hefty sum should be payable to the tapee or other punitive actions should apply.
There's plenty of similar applications with other laws - eg here in the UK I can commit a crime, explain to the judge that it was the only way to prevent a greater crime and then walk free if s/he agrees.
That's the nub - if you're enthusiastic about the product and talk about it in a non-spammy way, in context, then it's not astroturfing, and it's arguably better advertising. I used to work as a science book buyer and wrote a blog reviewing the coolest ones I read, with due disclosure of the job I did. It gave a lot of publicity to the product I was selling.
Go posting spam on boards and twitter or whatever and it's not only annoying, it's just plain unimaginative on your bosses' part.
If you friend somebody you make that information public, it's how social networks, you know, network socially. They're presenting that information in an unpleasant context, yes, but it's still public.
I believe it may be the work of one of Pratchett's Gonagle's, a Pictish battle poet. Not that they do poems about battles as such, they're usually to busy killing the enemy with doggerel. I can't wonder if it isn't abstract insults from another language translated into English. I'm surprised to see the absence of Butthole and Levopoda at Tenagra.
There's a simpler solution - if I write a web page and somebody copies all of my text and graphics as part of an advert (without my permission) then it's a fairly clear copyright infringement. So if you find a hotspot doing this just navigate to one of your own web pages and then sue the operator for copying your work and serving it up as an advert.
It could be that I'm quite active in blocking spam, and Twitter has an algorithm that's picked up on that and is filtering. I'm sure I'll get one or two eventually. I wouldn't like to see bots blocked entirely, I've actively enjoyed one which picks up on the word "Cripes" (a Dangermouse quoter for the UK cognoscenti).
It's the same as the rest of the internet really. Quick explanation for those who don't use it:
You don't see "all the tweets" - that's impossible, both in terms of computers and eyeball 1.0. You pick ("follow") the people you want to hear from, and if anybody puts your name in a tweet you see that too, regardless of whether you follow them. You also see tweets that people you follow have "retweeted".
Therefore, the only real route from the spammer to you is one of the following:
You follow the spammer. (Why?!)
Someone you follow retweets the spammer (so you unfollow them if they persist)
The spammer has included your name in a tweet.
This last one is how it normally works - Twitter have, by design, included a good and easy to use API. It's led to a lot of innovative things, and makes integration very easy. It also makes automating "@PersonX" spam very easy.
It's also very easy to click "report spam", which blocks the account immediately and may well lead to it being deleted. To be honest, the signal/spam ratio on Twitter is fairly low in my experience, and spam can be spotted in the same way as normal - links without much content, an attractive lady in the picture, and a name like "iLovePorn28483".
After a year of bitching about it, Egypt realises they can still get it without too much hard work, and are getting a bunch more done these days. Plus, real naked people rock!
KISS: Keep it simple, stupid (quoting, not insulting!)
Email. A private forum if applicable. (I'm trying to nudge my main client in that direction, they have multiple outlets who don't communicate with each other much)
Twitter/Facebook if your customers are into social media (mine are, Twitter is very handy for very quick support jobs).
Phone. Android if you want to vaguely stick with the Linux thing in every way.
If you're trying to remote into a company LAN or VNC things then your main block is company IT policy rather than Linux capabilities, but if you're looking at standard communication tools then browser choice is sometimes more important than OS choice.
Totally agreed. Geeks don't like to feel they're having adverts slipped under their noses and usually react badly. I certainly do, Slashdot has losing credibility in my eyes due to the number of (what appear to me to be) thinly veiled adverts.
The video idea isn't an instant turn-off, but I'd rather it was in keeping with the original ethos of the site - allow people to submit thier own videos (or link to others) and let the mod process promote/delete them, that's what it's there for. Saves the/. staffers a bunch of time, and you end up with videos the community actually think are important/interesting/funny.
Ban? They should bring criminal prosecution for "unauthorised access to computer equipment" or whatever the US equivalent is. This is hacking via social engineering, pure and simple, case closed.
Damn it. I was going to complain about the hard SF / Star Trek thing myself, and it only takes two posts to realise I'm an idiot. (Mind you, knowing the way Notch works, even if this is a gag it'll probably end up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.)
That's what I meant by "high stress situation" - I wouldn't be surprised if there's already been a few close calls of this nature already. My point was the mefloquine certainly isn't going to help.
I took mefloquine for around three months while in Nepal. It does, without any doubt, have some strange psychological effects. In my case it took the form of strange "waking dreams", I could close my eyes and start dreaming without having to fall asleep. Add effects of this nature to a high-stress situation and you've got a person who probably shouldn't be allowed to wander around with a loaded rifle. Given the high praise that's been heaped on this soldier for his previous conduct and it wouldn't surprise me at all if mefloquine was an aggravating factor. Of course, there's no information on whether he was taking it or not, but if he was it's an urgent issue that needs to be dealt with ASAP.
It isn't - it's just that the additional cost is minor, and there are extra costs to producing an eBook, like paying somebody to do the layout - most publishers have people who specialise in print media, they either have to retrain or hire extra staff to deal with reformatting the text for eBooks. It's not a trivial issue, you can't (yet) just click on "export as eBooks in various formats, with different DRM at the distributor's request".
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Agreed. I'm in the Scottish Highlands and we get anything from 15 to 128Kb/s. Ironically that's fine, because I work in web programming so it's mostly just text files and low res images, but for a "normal" person expecting to watch videos and read your average Flash-filled website it's going to be frustrating at best. (And before anyone suggests tethering a mobile, there's no mobile reception at all)
Nope. I've got the cheapest prepaid nokia, it doesn't even have "data capability" according to nokia, if you want to use it to connect to the internet you need an old microphone/speaker based modem and a computer with a serial port.
Not a technical explanation, but a good one I heard: if you look at a Feynman diagram (they're pretty easy to understand for a layman) you'll find that you can read them in any direction - if you go "against the time arrows" you're just looking at the antiparticle versions interacting instead, it's still a valid diagram. However, the photons don't have arrows as they don't experience time, so they're identical in either time direction, and therefore their own antiparticles.
The interesting thing here is that it's a massive particle with that property, rather than a massless one.
The sensible thing to do would be to allow retrospective permission from a judge within 24 hours. The officers concerned should have to be able to explain to the judge what their very important reasons were, and if the judge doesn't think they were justified then a hefty sum should be payable to the tapee or other punitive actions should apply.
There's plenty of similar applications with other laws - eg here in the UK I can commit a crime, explain to the judge that it was the only way to prevent a greater crime and then walk free if s/he agrees.
Unless you've got a browser, image editor and code editor open at the same time of course.
That's the nub - if you're enthusiastic about the product and talk about it in a non-spammy way, in context, then it's not astroturfing, and it's arguably better advertising. I used to work as a science book buyer and wrote a blog reviewing the coolest ones I read, with due disclosure of the job I did. It gave a lot of publicity to the product I was selling.
Go posting spam on boards and twitter or whatever and it's not only annoying, it's just plain unimaginative on your bosses' part.
Plus Virgin & TescoMobile, unless they're subsidiaries of the others?
If you friend somebody you make that information public, it's how social networks, you know, network socially. They're presenting that information in an unpleasant context, yes, but it's still public.
I believe it may be the work of one of Pratchett's Gonagle's, a Pictish battle poet. Not that they do poems about battles as such, they're usually to busy killing the enemy with doggerel. I can't wonder if it isn't abstract insults from another language translated into English. I'm surprised to see the absence of Butthole and Levopoda at Tenagra.
"Sinophobic" is the term.
Good idea - might as well CC the hotspot provider in too :)
There's a simpler solution - if I write a web page and somebody copies all of my text and graphics as part of an advert (without my permission) then it's a fairly clear copyright infringement. So if you find a hotspot doing this just navigate to one of your own web pages and then sue the operator for copying your work and serving it up as an advert.
Several hours later: 1 link to an Amazon page from a mate who worked out what I was up to and is taking the piss.
OK, just tried it (a mention of an iPad in an otherwise normal tweet):
10s - Nothing
1min - Nothing
2min - Nothing
5min - Nothing
It could be that I'm quite active in blocking spam, and Twitter has an algorithm that's picked up on that and is filtering. I'm sure I'll get one or two eventually. I wouldn't like to see bots blocked entirely, I've actively enjoyed one which picks up on the word "Cripes" (a Dangermouse quoter for the UK cognoscenti).
You don't see "all the tweets" - that's impossible, both in terms of computers and eyeball 1.0. You pick ("follow") the people you want to hear from, and if anybody puts your name in a tweet you see that too, regardless of whether you follow them. You also see tweets that people you follow have "retweeted".
Therefore, the only real route from the spammer to you is one of the following:
This last one is how it normally works - Twitter have, by design, included a good and easy to use API. It's led to a lot of innovative things, and makes integration very easy. It also makes automating "@PersonX" spam very easy.
It's also very easy to click "report spam", which blocks the account immediately and may well lead to it being deleted. To be honest, the signal/spam ratio on Twitter is fairly low in my experience, and spam can be spotted in the same way as normal - links without much content, an attractive lady in the picture, and a name like "iLovePorn28483".
After a year of bitching about it, Egypt realises they can still get it without too much hard work, and are getting a bunch more done these days. Plus, real naked people rock!
A private forum if applicable. (I'm trying to nudge my main client in that direction, they have multiple outlets who don't communicate with each other much)
If you're trying to remote into a company LAN or VNC things then your main block is company IT policy rather than Linux capabilities, but if you're looking at standard communication tools then browser choice is sometimes more important than OS choice.
Totally agreed. Geeks don't like to feel they're having adverts slipped under their noses and usually react badly. I certainly do, Slashdot has losing credibility in my eyes due to the number of (what appear to me to be) thinly veiled adverts.
/. staffers a bunch of time, and you end up with videos the community actually think are important/interesting/funny.
The video idea isn't an instant turn-off, but I'd rather it was in keeping with the original ethos of the site - allow people to submit thier own videos (or link to others) and let the mod process promote/delete them, that's what it's there for. Saves the
Ban? They should bring criminal prosecution for "unauthorised access to computer equipment" or whatever the US equivalent is. This is hacking via social engineering, pure and simple, case closed.
Damn it. I was going to complain about the hard SF / Star Trek thing myself, and it only takes two posts to realise I'm an idiot. (Mind you, knowing the way Notch works, even if this is a gag it'll probably end up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.)
Null results are still important.
That's what I meant by "high stress situation" - I wouldn't be surprised if there's already been a few close calls of this nature already. My point was the mefloquine certainly isn't going to help.
I took mefloquine for around three months while in Nepal. It does, without any doubt, have some strange psychological effects. In my case it took the form of strange "waking dreams", I could close my eyes and start dreaming without having to fall asleep. Add effects of this nature to a high-stress situation and you've got a person who probably shouldn't be allowed to wander around with a loaded rifle. Given the high praise that's been heaped on this soldier for his previous conduct and it wouldn't surprise me at all if mefloquine was an aggravating factor. Of course, there's no information on whether he was taking it or not, but if he was it's an urgent issue that needs to be dealt with ASAP.
It isn't - it's just that the additional cost is minor, and there are extra costs to producing an eBook, like paying somebody to do the layout - most publishers have people who specialise in print media, they either have to retrain or hire extra staff to deal with reformatting the text for eBooks. It's not a trivial issue, you can't (yet) just click on "export as eBooks in various formats, with different DRM at the distributor's request".