I've heard this stuff a thousand times before, and I'm still curious: why should I give a crap? The 'personal information' they gather is hardly personal.
There is no privacy on Facebook. For that matter, there is no privacy on the internet. This is not because anyone is violating our rights. It is because the internet is a public space, just like the mall and Main Street.
While Gawker has thus far avoided accepting any real responsibility for the incident (not so much as an apology yet), they haven't actually been blaming users. Lifehacker has run a succession of posts on good password practices, but they haven't been criticizing anyone. And they certainly haven't reprimanded their users for 'weak' passwords. The truth of the matter is that users who had passwords that were unique to their Gawker account (a practice we all know is the smart way to go, right?) only had to fear for their Gawker account. Which means that all someone could do with their data would be to post comments on Gawker sites. Hardly a big problem.
What Gawker users have learned here (and Lifehacker, at least, has been driving home) is the inadvisability of having a global password (a frighteningly common practice).
If you plan to stay in the academy (i.e., your career goal is tenure as a professor at the university of your choice), then the answer is an emphatic "yes". The academy really cares which school you went to. If you don't plan to stay in the academy (i.e., you plan to work in the real world), then the answer is an equally emphatic "no". The real world cares about what you know, not where you learned it.
And no school - of any sort - will make you smarter.
The problem isn't that Gawker got hacked, although that's bad enough (serious loss of geek cred there, kiddies). The real issue is Gawker's slow and ineffectual reaction to it. Why did we hear about the hack on Slashdot before we heard about it from Gawker? And has Gawker taken any real responsibility for the incident? Have they even apologized?
Where's the -1 misinformed rating. People see "cloud" and they think OMG! Internet connection required! When in fact it's more of a background synchronization process.
So what you're saying is that in this case synchronization can occur without a connection.
This happened to me about a month ago on a 32-bit Windows 7 box. Woke up to a BSOD caused by a wee hours AVG update. Used system restore to fix the box, got rid of AVG, installed Microsoft Security Essentials and haven't looked back.
Of course. Unless you have some magical way of getting those images to us or us to the black hole faster than the speed of light, for all intents and purposes it is 30 years old, as viewed from our frame of reference.
What a typically anthropocentric way of looking at the universe.
I thought a 'home run' was something else entirely. Involving a girl. A naked girl. I didn't know running in a circle was part of the process. Or running at all, for that matter.
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Where you gonna get windows 7 from?
In my case, it would be the second drawer down on the left. Will most people go straight from XP or Vista to Windows 8? Am I unusual in this?
So I've got my shiny new app store on my shiny new Windows 8 machine. And I'm going to use said app store to purchase Windows 7?
As an anachronism, I didn't stand a chance. Luckily, by late-nineteenth century standards I'm really quite wealthy and can afford to buy my way in.
Any film or show in which someone tells a computer to "zoom and enhance" an area of an image.
I've heard this stuff a thousand times before, and I'm still curious: why should I give a crap? The 'personal information' they gather is hardly personal.
Umm.. that's what 'viral' means.
Is it really a problem with open licensing, or is it a problem with viral licensing?
There is no privacy on Facebook. For that matter, there is no privacy on the internet. This is not because anyone is violating our rights. It is because the internet is a public space, just like the mall and Main Street.
Like retrocognition - the ability to perceive that something has already happened.
it is a bleak landscape of conformity and despair.
Can anyone tell me how Net Neutrality would fix this?
This is the only question that is meaningful.
"letters, meetings, hearings" - If that doesn't scare the bejesus out of Google, I don't know what will.
What Gawker users have learned here (and Lifehacker, at least, has been driving home) is the inadvisability of having a global password (a frighteningly common practice).
And no school - of any sort - will make you smarter.
The problem isn't that Gawker got hacked, although that's bad enough (serious loss of geek cred there, kiddies). The real issue is Gawker's slow and ineffectual reaction to it. Why did we hear about the hack on Slashdot before we heard about it from Gawker? And has Gawker taken any real responsibility for the incident? Have they even apologized?
Where's the -1 misinformed rating. People see "cloud" and they think OMG! Internet connection required! When in fact it's more of a background synchronization process.
So what you're saying is that in this case synchronization can occur without a connection.
This happened to me about a month ago on a 32-bit Windows 7 box. Woke up to a BSOD caused by a wee hours AVG update. Used system restore to fix the box, got rid of AVG, installed Microsoft Security Essentials and haven't looked back.
Why do you need so many more words to say the same thing I said?
Let's just face it. Indiana Jones isn't heroic because he an archaeologist. He heroic despite it.
Of course. Unless you have some magical way of getting those images to us or us to the black hole faster than the speed of light, for all intents and purposes it is 30 years old, as viewed from our frame of reference.
What a typically anthropocentric way of looking at the universe.
Just what we need - a browser built of smoke and mirrors.
It's an e-book. If you're not willing to abide by the rules of the vendor, just go to a real live book store and buy an actual book. End of problem.
Headline = 1,000,000 points. Copy = I don't know - about a dozen points. Maybe.
I thought a 'home run' was something else entirely. Involving a girl. A naked girl. I didn't know running in a circle was part of the process. Or running at all, for that matter.