Making it easy to install upgrades? Or to connect say, a proper keyboard, to do maintenance?
USB stick is better than over network as physical access is needed. And in this case, they indeed had to physically break the ATM to gain access to this USB port.
I wouldn't be surprised if the parents that campaign to have WiFi banned are the same parents that must stay in touch with their offspring on a near-constant basis. And where the mere thought of the kid not having a phone at hand would feel like an emergency situation.
It's just asking them to be consequent. If WiFi is a problem, then radiation from phones - which may be weaker on a per-device basis but when going on full blast is generally emitted much closer to a person's head - must be even more of a problem.
I more hope they'll also ban all other devices that emit radiation in similar wavelengths, such as mobile phones. And that would of course include the phone of the children of the parents that arranged for this ban.
I thought the same - until Facebook added a.7 to my name. Fairly unique - only the 7th apparently. And it doesn't negate the part where anyone else can also create an account in your name. It being fairly unique could only make your problem worse.
The trick is to make it spam-free, which probably means you have a friends list and only they, and maybe friends once removed, can reach you.
This is what would kill such a service from the get-go.
With the app you suggest, one would first have to contact the other party by calling them, or sending them a WhatsApp or Facebook message, or SMS message, that they want to use that app to contact you. Then why not use WhatsApp or that phone call right away to convey the actual message you want to convey?
As much as I hate spam, I'm very happy that anyone that wants to can reach me without me knowing them in advance. The good old telephone works like that, as do e-mail, WhatsApp, etc. This is what makes the services viable means of communication. For example I can give out my name card, and tell them "if anyone needs my services, call or e-mail me". That may be the person I give the card to, or someone whom I never met before.
And there are probably many more accounts that share your exact name. Names are not exactly unique, you know. Keeping it empty will not make it belong to you, as it could just as well belong to someone else with your name.
If someone wanted to spoof you, they'd just register another account in your name, fill it with some more or less correct information about you (school, university, current employer, date of birth, place of residence) and add your photo as profile photo. Now good luck proving that this populated account is not from you, while the empty one that happens to share your name is.
I have a G+ account mostly because I use other Google services.
Quite some people added me to their circles - I didn't add them back. I don't use the G+ thing.
What they did wrong? I don't know. Timing, maybe, by releasing when Facebook was still in its prime, with users not so interested in an alternative - now G+ is one of the "old" ones, not a "cool, new thing".
Never gained critical mass, I have no idea why it could be useful for me. As others mentioned, having it linked to so many other accounts of so many disparate services is also a drawback. At least for me, it is something that I do have in mind.
Totally agree, it's going to die. It's just the question of: what next? And it seems the options are getting more and more limited in real functionality.
Geocities allowed the building of an actual web site.
MySpace allowed the thorough customisation of your profile page, as if it was a web page.
Facebook allows you to upload a profile photo and cover photo.
I hear you:-) I'm one of those "old people" by now I guess. E-mail still rules for me.
I do use Facebook. However many of my friends, mostly in their 30s and 40s, some 20 and 50s/60s, are moving more and more of their communications to Whatsapp (usually as highly inefficient alternative to making a call). I heard about an app called Line, said to be a WhatsApp alternative, until recently never heard about Snapchat.
I'm one of the old guys still using Facebook - occasionally reading the (more and more useless) news feed, mostly for a single group where the local geocaching community talks to each other, and organises outings and so. That group is also the reason I use Facebook to begin with. Most of the messages I read in my e-mail; logging in when something interesting appears.
WhatsApp doesn't do it for me, nor do their direct competitors like SnapChat. It's limited to the mobile phone, so typing sucks - and that holds me back using it. I get maybe one message a week, and many of those are people sending me links that I ignore as I hate browsing on such a small screen. I got much better devices for that. Also I believe soon I'll have to start paying for it, after the one-year free trial, which is very likely going to be the moment it's leaving my phone. Also I'm not interested to receive messages all the time; I just look at my wife occasionally for a reminder of why I don't have a data account with my phone.
The proposed tax would raise an estimated €86 million annually that would be used to finance the 'cultural industries' digital transition,' France's Culture Ministry said at the time.
If they're now thinking of a tax (which probably takes years to implement) to fund (more time to implement) the digital transition of the cultural industry, those industries are really well behind the times.
They should be well on the way by now, if not finished already, with this digital transition.
Indeed that's exactly one of those "insights" your parents didn't have yet! Or maybe they didn't read enough "how to raise my child" type of web sites. Oh wait, make that watching Oprah. Oh, wait... they didn't have anything to scare them yet... what backwards times were that!
Something similar happens already around Wikipedia.
I recall a story about some historic US navy vessel. Some facts about it (size) ended up wrong in WP. Then other web sites took the info from WP in their own stories on the subject. Later when someone tried to correct WP, citing the original source, it was quickly edited back to the wrong number, citing other sites - sites that took the number from WP to begin with.
Old libraries had that problem even more so: they didn't have indexes, like we have now.
These days you still occasionally see some news report of some old work being discovered in a library. It had been sitting there on a shelf for possibly centuries without anyone noticing it - the library didn't know they have it - until someone runs into it and realises it's an important piece of history.
As if reporting about US politics isn't enough, Slashdot is now apparently even reporting political games played within the blackhat/exploit scene. Honestly I have no idea what they're talking about in that summary.
Oh well, at least there is some kind of a link to something technical. And Apple, of course.
And I'll just go back to trying to unlock that uncooperative HTC Evo 3D...
Mobile PC? What's that? A notebook, right? Or one of those ones with detachable keyboards? Maybe you mean the ones with blutooth keyboard sold separately and the smaller (or, egad!, tiny) screens?
Close. Mobile is here simply synonym for "small screen". And the absence of a proper device, such as a mouse.
Can't blame the editors for not being fully up-to-date with Belgium's telecom landscape. Especially not when some company decides to call themselves "Belgian Telecom", simply inviting confusion. It's quite normal to say "that company is a Belgian telecom company" as it is normal to call a company an "American telecom company" or so.
That said I was not for any second confused. Most of the world will not know about that company named "Belgian Telecom", and not be confused. Possibly a large part of Belgians is not even confused. With your confusion, you're almost certainly a tiny, tiny minority here - reflecting at least as much on you, as on the editors you so despise.
You always talk about Internet to be a one-time cost.
That's only true if there is no (high speed) uplink to the rest of the world to be paid for, for example. Those don't come for free. And if you're really sticking to your own mesh network, it's going to be unusably slow. And people wouldn't be able to access staples like Slashdot, or Google.
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Making it easy to install upgrades? Or to connect say, a proper keyboard, to do maintenance?
USB stick is better than over network as physical access is needed. And in this case, they indeed had to physically break the ATM to gain access to this USB port.
I wouldn't be surprised if the parents that campaign to have WiFi banned are the same parents that must stay in touch with their offspring on a near-constant basis. And where the mere thought of the kid not having a phone at hand would feel like an emergency situation.
It's just asking them to be consequent. If WiFi is a problem, then radiation from phones - which may be weaker on a per-device basis but when going on full blast is generally emitted much closer to a person's head - must be even more of a problem.
I more hope they'll also ban all other devices that emit radiation in similar wavelengths, such as mobile phones. And that would of course include the phone of the children of the parents that arranged for this ban.
It could have been part of a /. news posting. The biggest news here is that it isn't.
I thought the same - until Facebook added a .7 to my name. Fairly unique - only the 7th apparently. And it doesn't negate the part where anyone else can also create an account in your name. It being fairly unique could only make your problem worse.
The trick is to make it spam-free, which probably means you have a friends list and only they, and maybe friends once removed, can reach you.
This is what would kill such a service from the get-go.
With the app you suggest, one would first have to contact the other party by calling them, or sending them a WhatsApp or Facebook message, or SMS message, that they want to use that app to contact you. Then why not use WhatsApp or that phone call right away to convey the actual message you want to convey?
As much as I hate spam, I'm very happy that anyone that wants to can reach me without me knowing them in advance. The good old telephone works like that, as do e-mail, WhatsApp, etc. This is what makes the services viable means of communication. For example I can give out my name card, and tell them "if anyone needs my services, call or e-mail me". That may be the person I give the card to, or someone whom I never met before.
And that while GP is only just out of his teens! There is still hope for the next generation!
And there are probably many more accounts that share your exact name. Names are not exactly unique, you know. Keeping it empty will not make it belong to you, as it could just as well belong to someone else with your name.
If someone wanted to spoof you, they'd just register another account in your name, fill it with some more or less correct information about you (school, university, current employer, date of birth, place of residence) and add your photo as profile photo. Now good luck proving that this populated account is not from you, while the empty one that happens to share your name is.
I have a G+ account mostly because I use other Google services.
Quite some people added me to their circles - I didn't add them back. I don't use the G+ thing.
What they did wrong? I don't know. Timing, maybe, by releasing when Facebook was still in its prime, with users not so interested in an alternative - now G+ is one of the "old" ones, not a "cool, new thing".
Never gained critical mass, I have no idea why it could be useful for me. As others mentioned, having it linked to so many other accounts of so many disparate services is also a drawback. At least for me, it is something that I do have in mind.
Totally agree, it's going to die. It's just the question of: what next? And it seems the options are getting more and more limited in real functionality.
Geocities allowed the building of an actual web site.
MySpace allowed the thorough customisation of your profile page, as if it was a web page.
Facebook allows you to upload a profile photo and cover photo.
WhatsApp allows a tiny profile photo.
I hear you :-) I'm one of those "old people" by now I guess. E-mail still rules for me.
I do use Facebook. However many of my friends, mostly in their 30s and 40s, some 20 and 50s/60s, are moving more and more of their communications to Whatsapp (usually as highly inefficient alternative to making a call). I heard about an app called Line, said to be a WhatsApp alternative, until recently never heard about Snapchat.
I'm one of the old guys still using Facebook - occasionally reading the (more and more useless) news feed, mostly for a single group where the local geocaching community talks to each other, and organises outings and so. That group is also the reason I use Facebook to begin with. Most of the messages I read in my e-mail; logging in when something interesting appears.
WhatsApp doesn't do it for me, nor do their direct competitors like SnapChat. It's limited to the mobile phone, so typing sucks - and that holds me back using it. I get maybe one message a week, and many of those are people sending me links that I ignore as I hate browsing on such a small screen. I got much better devices for that. Also I believe soon I'll have to start paying for it, after the one-year free trial, which is very likely going to be the moment it's leaving my phone. Also I'm not interested to receive messages all the time; I just look at my wife occasionally for a reminder of why I don't have a data account with my phone.
FTS:
The proposed tax would raise an estimated €86 million annually that would be used to finance the 'cultural industries' digital transition,' France's Culture Ministry said at the time.
If they're now thinking of a tax (which probably takes years to implement) to fund (more time to implement) the digital transition of the cultural industry, those industries are really well behind the times.
They should be well on the way by now, if not finished already, with this digital transition.
Refuse to pay for the school bus?
Why don't the geniuses at NYPD just put a pair of cops on post at the location or is that just too easy for these idiots to figure out?
Pure economics. Cops cost money (salary etc), so having McD switch off the WiFi is cheaper.
McD unwilling to do this, has of course also to do with economics. Without the WiFi they'd lose many of their afternoon customers.
Indeed that's exactly one of those "insights" your parents didn't have yet! Or maybe they didn't read enough "how to raise my child" type of web sites. Oh wait, make that watching Oprah. Oh, wait... they didn't have anything to scare them yet... what backwards times were that!
Something similar happens already around Wikipedia.
I recall a story about some historic US navy vessel. Some facts about it (size) ended up wrong in WP. Then other web sites took the info from WP in their own stories on the subject. Later when someone tried to correct WP, citing the original source, it was quickly edited back to the wrong number, citing other sites - sites that took the number from WP to begin with.
And so a new truth comes to life.
Old libraries had that problem even more so: they didn't have indexes, like we have now.
These days you still occasionally see some news report of some old work being discovered in a library. It had been sitting there on a shelf for possibly centuries without anyone noticing it - the library didn't know they have it - until someone runs into it and realises it's an important piece of history.
As if reporting about US politics isn't enough, Slashdot is now apparently even reporting political games played within the blackhat/exploit scene. Honestly I have no idea what they're talking about in that summary.
Oh well, at least there is some kind of a link to something technical. And Apple, of course.
And I'll just go back to trying to unlock that uncooperative HTC Evo 3D...
Misedited that. Should be "absence of a pointing device".
Mobile PC? What's that? A notebook, right? Or one of those ones with detachable keyboards? Maybe you mean the ones with blutooth keyboard sold separately and the smaller (or, egad!, tiny) screens?
Close. Mobile is here simply synonym for "small screen". And the absence of a proper device, such as a mouse.
Headlines do normally not use articles. And that's not just in English.
Can't blame the editors for not being fully up-to-date with Belgium's telecom landscape. Especially not when some company decides to call themselves "Belgian Telecom", simply inviting confusion. It's quite normal to say "that company is a Belgian telecom company" as it is normal to call a company an "American telecom company" or so.
That said I was not for any second confused. Most of the world will not know about that company named "Belgian Telecom", and not be confused. Possibly a large part of Belgians is not even confused. With your confusion, you're almost certainly a tiny, tiny minority here - reflecting at least as much on you, as on the editors you so despise.
You always talk about Internet to be a one-time cost.
That's only true if there is no (high speed) uplink to the rest of the world to be paid for, for example. Those don't come for free. And if you're really sticking to your own mesh network, it's going to be unusably slow. And people wouldn't be able to access staples like Slashdot, or Google.
When it comes to trustworthy, it seems nowadays made-in-China is the way to go. At least no NSA involvement there.
The days of having a single job for life, raising through the ranks, to get more pay and better positions is long gone.
Don't mix up "job" with "employer". I hope I don't have to tell you the difference.