Obama didn't change his mind. He chose the most politically acceptable stance based on the climate at the time. Although I disagree with Eich, I trust him more than I do Obama. When Eichs views are unpopular and it may affect his job, he shuts his mouth. When Obamas views are unpopular and it may affect his job, he lies.
You're not the target demographic. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea. These kinds of phones will be bought by tech nerds in their 20s. The same guys that built Ham radios, maybe hotrods, later the first pcs, and after that the who modular IBMPC / overclocking crowd.
As a vendor, you can sell them an expensive phone, and then license the modules to other companies and rake in the cash as they make marginal improvements to a module yet charge double. There's always that guy that has the $3000 video card... why not take his money?
I'm not sure what your working environment is like, but that kind of behavior is NEVER acceptable. You're making excuses for it. He could have said the very same thing, and been professional at the same time.
"Unfortunately you seem to continue to focus on new features rather than fixing old bugs. As such I'll no longer accept your commits until you fix those bugs we deem critical. I apologize if this puts a kink in your development plans but I have the health of the entire Kernel to consider. Here is a bullet pointed list of bugs that need addressing before we can move forward."
A Brain IS a computer. So they're right. Just because in the past 50years or so we haven't figured out how to build one as good as nature did in several billion doesn't mean it's not going to happen eventually.
I don't care how much of a Guru Linus is. If he worked for me I'd have canned him for that statement. It's one thing to get angry about someone, or even reject their work. But there is no excuse for treating people like that. No-one is "too good" to let go. I suspect that at some point Linus will finally cross a line and he'll lose a lot of his cult status.
When you buy music from iTunes, Amazon, or Google Play you can download the content and store it locally without DRM.
No. If you download iTunes songs they have DRM unless you pay extra for the "iTunes Plus" service which makes each song more expensive. So there is an option to get the non-drmed version but I doubt very many of their customers understand the difference. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht...
Google does the following: Google Music will take control of playlists and hide any cloud-sync'd mp3s in a special folder with numbers for names (eg. 100.mp3, 101.mp3, 102.mp3, etc)
Amazon will only let you download the files to a single authorized device. There are ways around this, but again, most of their users wouldn't have a clue.
Long story short, if any of these companies drop their music service MOST of their customers would lose their songs. DRM or not.
This has nothing to do with Cookies or Ghostery. Marketing learned long ago not to rely on cookies. Try this site out: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Look at all of those data points... do you think they need your IP or cross site scripting to identify you? I bet the fonts section alone is enough to identify 90% of people. Mine came back as unique in the 4million people that have visited the page so far... think about that.
Because, you need to understand, there are already laws that make buisnesses protect YOUR date. If they don't know who you are yet, that's actually preferable. Once they do know who you are then all kinds of data retention regulations apply. So, to be frank, they don't identify you until right before they're ready to make their sales pitch. They have a block of data for someone unknown that meets the criteria of a "hot lead" and so then they search the database where they got people to identify themselves. Now the sales agent has your name, number, and your browsing history on thousands of sites over the past few months. But, they also have to flag your data as belonging to you and protect it, not misuse it, etc... Up until the account is linked with your name, the data belonged to the company that collected the data, not to you. Or at least, that's the legal argument they make.
Use noscript , disable cookies. If your tin foil hat is too thick , Tor it out.
With modern marketing software, none of that matters. Tor makes a little trouble for them, but you're still passing enough information to be uniquely identifiable. You have to understand that Tor hides your identity... but it doesn't hide your habits. The marketing people don't care WHO you are, they just need group the data they collect on you into sets. So they assign you an ID and every time you visit a site thats monitored with their software, they log it under that ID. Tor is protecting your identity, but again, your habits reveal that you're the same person that logged in 3hrs ago and looked at that vacuum cleaner ad. Then, they setup some contest or something, get you to fill out a form on a completely unrelated site, and viola your ID is linked to your name and number. The softwares offered to companies as a SASS, and as such, you plug it into your site to collect data... but the vendor has thousands of customers... and so the vendor collects data from all those customers and makes it available to all of those customers. As a result they know far more about you than any individual site does.
I administer some applications that interface with such software and yes, it's horrifically invasive. I think our only saving grace is that this is used for marketing and sales, and they haven't really found a way to monetize the ridiculous amount of detail they have on you. Basically I have access to the data, and have to display it for sales people. But what use is most of that data to the sales folks? It's just too much data to make a lot of sense of. So I rank sites and keywords by time spent viewing them based on products we have. So if you call in and talk to one of our sales people they will know you have a lot of interest in product X and maybe competitors product Y... so they know what to talk up and talk down. I could, if I wanted to, tell the sales guy your political leanings, if you're gay, what medical ailments you might have... but what would the point of that be? It's not really used for anything horrible on our end... and that's party because it's just not all that useful, and also because people like me at the controls of such things have a moral center and refuse to reveal creative ways to use the data to the marketing folks. But the time is coming... There are smart people out there that will figure this stuff out and have no moral objections to it. I think the really invasive stuff out there now is either used by the government and political parties (even scarier) and by companys that are keeping their methods as trade secrets. But eventually the advanced analytics used to make sense of the data will be offered as a SASS just like the collection software is now.
There is no way to stop this that I can think of, and federal laws will simply move the software out of the country. Even with the strictest laws you can think of, all that will happen is the corporate entities in the US will outsource their sales divisions to Asia to avoid the law.
Agreed, they are way over priced. It may be that something like this can't be done cheaply enough at low volume, but I don't see how anyone would pay this much for something that's basically already out of date.
I absolutely love the battery though. Seriously, can we be done with proprietary batteries now?
Because this one is hand built by 2 guys, rather than manufactured by a combination of robots and Chinese teenagers that get pushed off a roof if they're not productive enough? (only the teenagers, they'd never push a robot off the roof)
My kid still plays the Wii every weekend and it's actually one of the activities they do in his school for gym when it's raining out. My sister-in-law who's in a nursing home uses one as part of her physical therapy. Fad it is not.
You don't. You're not understand what they are doing. They don't care about terrorists. They think they have the right to go through all of our data, all of the time. The constitution and laws of this country are simply another obstacle in their way. They want to read your mail? Record your calls? They look at your metadata, find a link to something... Terrorists, drugs, whatever... viola, you're a target.
Ah no... the NSA needs far far less evidence than that. Basically, if they want to listen to your phone calls, they just use their vast trove of meta data, their "3 steps" rule and you're linked. I'm fairly certain the president could be considered linked to terror... actually that'd be way too easy... but you get my point.
I don't get it? If the person is is 'reasonably believed' to be a terrorist, then the FISA court would rubber-stamp a warrant so quick it would make heads spin. So why not get the warrant?
Warrants require evidence. The NSA usually doesn't have any.
Seller: Offers @ $99 on exchange A Buyer: sees offer and submits a buy order @ $99, this goes to all exchanges Exchanges: The buyers offer hits exchange B first, because it's closer. HF trader: An algorithm sees the buy order come in to Exchange B, then sends a buy order to Exchange A with their ultra fast network. Buyer: Their order fails. The order was bought out from under them. There is now an offer for the same stock for $100 HF Trader: Makes a $1 profit. Basically scalping the sale from the buyer.
This is classic insider trading. It's completely illegal. If you were a broker and the broker next to you was trying to place the same buy order, but then their wife called and they were stuck on the phone... and you bought the order out from under them and tried to sell it back to them at a higher price, you would go to jail. Plain and simple.
So it'd be alright if Firefox plastered over every page of sites that didn't support prop8 that they were supporting immoral and disgusting behavior? We have the right to free thought and expression in this country, even if you don't like it.
What's funny is the nagging only gets worse when you actually use Google+ It's so bad I don't even log into Google+ if I can help it. I follow some people on there, and I post stuff but the pop-up nagging for me to invite everyone I know constantly is very annoying. Now they have a "Selfie" popup encouraging me to take pictures of myself and post them... wtf?
No, they setup their own exchange so they could see your order come through, then they beat your order to the next exchange and buy it out from under you. Forcing you to re-order, from them, at a higher rate. It's flat out illegal and they're doing it anyway.
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Obama changed his mind, did Eich?
Obama didn't change his mind. He chose the most politically acceptable stance based on the climate at the time. Although I disagree with Eich, I trust him more than I do Obama. When Eichs views are unpopular and it may affect his job, he shuts his mouth. When Obamas views are unpopular and it may affect his job, he lies.
You're not the target demographic. That doesn't mean it's a bad idea. These kinds of phones will be bought by tech nerds in their 20s. The same guys that built Ham radios, maybe hotrods, later the first pcs, and after that the who modular IBMPC / overclocking crowd.
As a vendor, you can sell them an expensive phone, and then license the modules to other companies and rake in the cash as they make marginal improvements to a module yet charge double. There's always that guy that has the $3000 video card... why not take his money?
I'm not sure what your working environment is like, but that kind of behavior is NEVER acceptable. You're making excuses for it. He could have said the very same thing, and been professional at the same time.
"Unfortunately you seem to continue to focus on new features rather than fixing old bugs. As such I'll no longer accept your commits until you fix those bugs we deem critical. I apologize if this puts a kink in your development plans but I have the health of the entire Kernel to consider. Here is a bullet pointed list of bugs that need addressing before we can move forward."
Same message, but without being an ass.
A Brain IS a computer. So they're right. Just because in the past 50years or so we haven't figured out how to build one as good as nature did in several billion doesn't mean it's not going to happen eventually.
I don't care how much of a Guru Linus is. If he worked for me I'd have canned him for that statement. It's one thing to get angry about someone, or even reject their work. But there is no excuse for treating people like that. No-one is "too good" to let go. I suspect that at some point Linus will finally cross a line and he'll lose a lot of his cult status.
If you go to burning man, you're a tool and deserve to wait in line. :-p
If COBOL stopped working, you'd lose your back account immediately, and likely the entire worlds financial markets would collapse simultaneously.
This is different for a few reasons.
When you buy music from iTunes, Amazon, or Google Play you can download the content and store it locally without DRM.
No. If you download iTunes songs they have DRM unless you pay extra for the "iTunes Plus" service which makes each song more expensive. So there is an option to get the non-drmed version but I doubt very many of their customers understand the difference.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht...
Google does the following: Google Music will take control of playlists and hide any cloud-sync'd mp3s in a special folder with numbers for names (eg. 100.mp3, 101.mp3, 102.mp3, etc)
Amazon will only let you download the files to a single authorized device. There are ways around this, but again, most of their users wouldn't have a clue.
Long story short, if any of these companies drop their music service MOST of their customers would lose their songs. DRM or not.
This has nothing to do with Cookies or Ghostery. Marketing learned long ago not to rely on cookies.
Try this site out: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
Look at all of those data points... do you think they need your IP or cross site scripting to identify you?
I bet the fonts section alone is enough to identify 90% of people.
Mine came back as unique in the 4million people that have visited the page so far... think about that.
Because, you need to understand, there are already laws that make buisnesses protect YOUR date. If they don't know who you are yet, that's actually preferable. Once they do know who you are then all kinds of data retention regulations apply. So, to be frank, they don't identify you until right before they're ready to make their sales pitch. They have a block of data for someone unknown that meets the criteria of a "hot lead" and so then they search the database where they got people to identify themselves. Now the sales agent has your name, number, and your browsing history on thousands of sites over the past few months. But, they also have to flag your data as belonging to you and protect it, not misuse it, etc... Up until the account is linked with your name, the data belonged to the company that collected the data, not to you. Or at least, that's the legal argument they make.
“Bad ephemerides were uploaded to satellites. Those bad ephemerides became active at 1:00 am Moscow time,” reported one knowledgeable source.
It still could have be the US, who knows.
biting flies have an aversion to landing on striped surfaces.
Biting flies can't evolve?
I found the whole thing very unconvincing.
Not only that, but wouldn't it be easier to just grow longer hair?
Use noscript , disable cookies. If your tin foil hat is too thick , Tor it out.
With modern marketing software, none of that matters. Tor makes a little trouble for them, but you're still passing enough information to be uniquely identifiable. You have to understand that Tor hides your identity... but it doesn't hide your habits. The marketing people don't care WHO you are, they just need group the data they collect on you into sets. So they assign you an ID and every time you visit a site thats monitored with their software, they log it under that ID. Tor is protecting your identity, but again, your habits reveal that you're the same person that logged in 3hrs ago and looked at that vacuum cleaner ad. Then, they setup some contest or something, get you to fill out a form on a completely unrelated site, and viola your ID is linked to your name and number. The softwares offered to companies as a SASS, and as such, you plug it into your site to collect data... but the vendor has thousands of customers... and so the vendor collects data from all those customers and makes it available to all of those customers. As a result they know far more about you than any individual site does.
I administer some applications that interface with such software and yes, it's horrifically invasive. I think our only saving grace is that this is used for marketing and sales, and they haven't really found a way to monetize the ridiculous amount of detail they have on you. Basically I have access to the data, and have to display it for sales people. But what use is most of that data to the sales folks? It's just too much data to make a lot of sense of. So I rank sites and keywords by time spent viewing them based on products we have. So if you call in and talk to one of our sales people they will know you have a lot of interest in product X and maybe competitors product Y... so they know what to talk up and talk down. I could, if I wanted to, tell the sales guy your political leanings, if you're gay, what medical ailments you might have... but what would the point of that be? It's not really used for anything horrible on our end... and that's party because it's just not all that useful, and also because people like me at the controls of such things have a moral center and refuse to reveal creative ways to use the data to the marketing folks. But the time is coming... There are smart people out there that will figure this stuff out and have no moral objections to it. I think the really invasive stuff out there now is either used by the government and political parties (even scarier) and by companys that are keeping their methods as trade secrets. But eventually the advanced analytics used to make sense of the data will be offered as a SASS just like the collection software is now.
There is no way to stop this that I can think of, and federal laws will simply move the software out of the country. Even with the strictest laws you can think of, all that will happen is the corporate entities in the US will outsource their sales divisions to Asia to avoid the law.
Agreed, they are way over priced. It may be that something like this can't be done cheaply enough at low volume, but I don't see how anyone would pay this much for something that's basically already out of date.
I absolutely love the battery though. Seriously, can we be done with proprietary batteries now?
Because this one is hand built by 2 guys, rather than manufactured by a combination of robots and Chinese teenagers that get pushed off a roof if they're not productive enough? (only the teenagers, they'd never push a robot off the roof)
My kid still plays the Wii every weekend and it's actually one of the activities they do in his school for gym when it's raining out. My sister-in-law who's in a nursing home uses one as part of her physical therapy. Fad it is not.
You don't. You're not understand what they are doing. They don't care about terrorists. They think they have the right to go through all of our data, all of the time. The constitution and laws of this country are simply another obstacle in their way. They want to read your mail? Record your calls? They look at your metadata, find a link to something... Terrorists, drugs, whatever... viola, you're a target.
Ah no... the NSA needs far far less evidence than that. Basically, if they want to listen to your phone calls, they just use their vast trove of meta data, their "3 steps" rule and you're linked. I'm fairly certain the president could be considered linked to terror... actually that'd be way too easy... but you get my point.
I don't get it? If the person is is 'reasonably believed' to be a terrorist, then the FISA court would rubber-stamp a warrant so quick it would make heads spin. So why not get the warrant?
Warrants require evidence. The NSA usually doesn't have any.
Seller: Offers @ $99 on exchange A
Buyer: sees offer and submits a buy order @ $99, this goes to all exchanges
Exchanges: The buyers offer hits exchange B first, because it's closer.
HF trader: An algorithm sees the buy order come in to Exchange B, then sends a buy order to Exchange A with their ultra fast network.
Buyer: Their order fails. The order was bought out from under them. There is now an offer for the same stock for $100
HF Trader: Makes a $1 profit. Basically scalping the sale from the buyer.
This is classic insider trading. It's completely illegal.
If you were a broker and the broker next to you was trying to place the same buy order, but then their wife called and they were stuck on the phone... and you bought the order out from under them and tried to sell it back to them at a higher price, you would go to jail. Plain and simple.
Not a joke at all. GIANT window in the middle of the screen talking about how great "Selfies" are and I should upload some right away.
Googles ruining their social media platform. I don't want to go anywhere near it anymore. The selfie thing was the final straw.
So it'd be alright if Firefox plastered over every page of sites that didn't support prop8 that they were supporting immoral and disgusting behavior? We have the right to free thought and expression in this country, even if you don't like it.
Now Apple has invented the Camera to? Holy crap. Cannon's screwed!
What's funny is the nagging only gets worse when you actually use Google+
It's so bad I don't even log into Google+ if I can help it. I follow some people on there, and I post stuff but the pop-up nagging for me to invite everyone I know constantly is very annoying. Now they have a "Selfie" popup encouraging me to take pictures of myself and post them... wtf?
No, they setup their own exchange so they could see your order come through, then they beat your order to the next exchange and buy it out from under you. Forcing you to re-order, from them, at a higher rate. It's flat out illegal and they're doing it anyway.