Slashdot hypes article as "bright teenage coder does something TEH AWESOMEZ!!1", coders who like to think they were bright teenagers lap it up, ad impressions ensue.
Expecting a bunch of Americans to rationally discuss scientific measurements is like asking a bunch of religious nuts to rationally discuss the origins of life. They're just not intellectually equipped to do it.
Now I know you're just teasing, no-one uses Android tablets. Seriously, I've never even SEEN one anywhere other than in a store display. In the real world they don't exist.
Colony collapse disorder? Failure of crop pollenation worldwide? The possible end of agriculture and mass starvations and food riots worldwide? None of that was important enough to save the bees.
But now, shit, the bees might be able to keep aging Baby Boomers looking young! Nothing can compete with that, the bees are SAVED!
Allow me to paraphrase Instagram's position on this issue: the USFTC can eat a dick.
From Instagram's new Terms of Service:
(Y)ou agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you. If you are under the age of eighteen (18), or under any other applicable age of majority, you represent that at least one of your parents or legal guardians has also agreed to this provision (and the use of your name, likeness, username, and/or photos (along with any associated metadata)) on your behalf.
Get that? "If you're using this service and you're under 18 we will act as if we have parental consent to share every bit of data we have about you with anyone we want."
Team member Chris Tinney, an astronomer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, acknowledges the problem. "It's certainly very tantalizing evidence for potentially a very exciting planetary system," Tinney says, but he adds that verifying the discovery may take 10 years, and the scientists didn't want to wait that long. "We felt that the best thing to do was to put the result out there and see if somebody can either independently confirm it or shoot it down."
Subtext: we don't care if we're proven wrong, so long as we learn something.
Actually the new bits in the Terms of Use that offend me the most aren't really even related to photos and what Facebookstagram will do with them. It's shit like this:
- We can share not just your photos but anything we know about you with Facebook and then Facebook can share that info with any company it is in a relationship with. Things we know about you include but are not limited to where you are.
- We can show you ads without telling you they're ads. And because we're part of one of the most aggressive tech-savvy ad companies that has ever existed, you won't even know they're ads. You'll just click "like" because we'll use awesome photos that we know you'll like and then we'll sell what we've learned about what you and your friends like, and how easily we got you to like it.
- If you're under 18: by using this service we will treat you as if you have your parents' consent for everything in these terms. You're not legally able to enter a contract but by default we will act as if you have.
I don't care how much backtracking and spin Instagram tries to put on it, I'm out. Photos backed up, account deleted.
Google+ is awesome. It's fantastic to have a social network that is 99% populated by Google employees, all in one place. Talking about Google. And Android. And Motorola.
Everyone one of his posts is like a little time capsule. "Hey, remember back when that was news? Yeah man, good times. Can't believe we ever cared about that shit."
Slashdot Mirror
A show about Consumer Electronics that is not attended by Apple is a fail right from the word go.
Slashdot hypes article as "bright teenage coder does something TEH AWESOMEZ!!1", coders who like to think they were bright teenagers lap it up, ad impressions ensue.
wait... they're serious?
You're welcome.
you to buy Sony toys? No? then STFU AND STOP BUYING THEM.
Compare the revenues received by the estate of Elvis Presley in 2012 with those of any year while he was alive.
In other words, STFU.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=xuKMtLOKG8k#t=122s
Seems to me that the point has been proven: when irresponsible unstable people are allowed to own guns, bad shit happens.
One cubic metre of fresh water at sea level has a mass of one thousand kilograms, i.e. one tonne.
Yours, the rest of the world, using sensible measurements.
Best troll of 2013 so far, A+++ timothy.
Expecting a bunch of Americans to rationally discuss scientific measurements is like asking a bunch of religious nuts to rationally discuss the origins of life. They're just not intellectually equipped to do it.
Something something Titanic.
Seriously. This post is like a snapshot of an alternate universe where the iPad never happened.
They feel a lot of affection for "Lucky Goldstar" too.
Hell that's a company name that only a Korean could love.
Now I know you're just teasing, no-one uses Android tablets. Seriously, I've never even SEEN one anywhere other than in a store display. In the real world they don't exist.
You're confusing intellect with education.
Colony collapse disorder? Failure of crop pollenation worldwide? The possible end of agriculture and mass starvations and food riots worldwide? None of that was important enough to save the bees.
But now, shit, the bees might be able to keep aging Baby Boomers looking young! Nothing can compete with that, the bees are SAVED!
about pages like this, is that the jokes are all so ORIGINAL!
This is "cracking PGP" in the same sense that finding a passphrase on a post-it note stuck to the monitor is "cracking PGP".
Says it all really, doesn't it?
Didn't stop them putting that in the Terms though, did it?
Allow me to paraphrase Instagram's position on this issue: the USFTC can eat a dick.
From Instagram's new Terms of Service:
Get that? "If you're using this service and you're under 18 we will act as if we have parental consent to share every bit of data we have about you with anyone we want."
Subtext: we don't care if we're proven wrong, so long as we learn something.
BECAUSE SCIENCE, BITCHES.
Actually the new bits in the Terms of Use that offend me the most aren't really even related to photos and what Facebookstagram will do with them. It's shit like this:
- We can share not just your photos but anything we know about you with Facebook and then Facebook can share that info with any company it is in a relationship with. Things we know about you include but are not limited to where you are.
- We can show you ads without telling you they're ads. And because we're part of one of the most aggressive tech-savvy ad companies that has ever existed, you won't even know they're ads. You'll just click "like" because we'll use awesome photos that we know you'll like and then we'll sell what we've learned about what you and your friends like, and how easily we got you to like it.
- If you're under 18: by using this service we will treat you as if you have your parents' consent for everything in these terms. You're not legally able to enter a contract but by default we will act as if you have.
I don't care how much backtracking and spin Instagram tries to put on it, I'm out. Photos backed up, account deleted.
Google+ is awesome. It's fantastic to have a social network that is 99% populated by Google employees, all in one place. Talking about Google. And Android. And Motorola.
Everyone one of his posts is like a little time capsule. "Hey, remember back when that was news? Yeah man, good times. Can't believe we ever cared about that shit."