Would have been better if you'd actually used his slashdot ID instead of the message number, but you get a few points for at least trying to make the obvious joke.
Allow me copy-and-paste a bit more from the summary:
"Tynt provides no opt outs. Not cookie-based, not IP-based, but stop-it-you-creeps-angry-phone-call-based. "
1 - Tynt does not provide any way to opt-out of this "service." 2 - There is no cookie-based opt out. 3 - There is no IP-based opt out.
Thus, the submitter feels that an angry phone call (to either Tynt or Wired, it's not clear), during which he shouts "Stop it, you creeps" is his only available method for dealing with this tracking script.
Sadly, said phone call will probably not result in an opt-out.
OK, this is a wacky idea, I know, but next time, how about READING THE FORTY-FIVE MINUTES WORTH of posts that are sitting in front of you. The script reports what's been highlighted, not just what's been copied. And it's not just Wired. And even if I do copy the text, it's MY clipboard.
Part of the problem is that the script seems to want to communicate to the server even when you've only highlighted text. As mentioned in another post (that the mods on acid seem to have gotten to), I highlight when I read. I don't know why, but it's what I do. I'm NOT copying, but tynt is still tracking me; the "cite your references" argument doesn't apply.
As far as just not using Wired.com, that completely ignores the fact that many other sites have this POS JS running; I first noticed it at the New Yorker magazine site.
I'm a "highlight while reading" guy too. That's what first made me notice Tynt, and that's what made me swich back to Firefox (w/ NoScript) from Chrome.
> And this from the man who openly admitted to pushing malware in some interview not so long ago to get his company off the ground.
Actually that was Mark Pincus, the dickwad heading up Zynga, the company responsible for many of the games on facebook (e.g. Mafia Wars). But I'm sure the two Marks love their symbiotic relationship.
Yes, there are two of them. They landed on opposite sides of the planet, so it's not like Spirit can just yell across the canyon to his buddy. In fact, Opportunity has travelled less than 12 miles in the six years it's been there.
Further, why do you think somebody would choose to be gay? Just to enjoy the intolerance of a bunch of religious wackos, be unable to marry the person they love, be able to be fired from their job just because of their homosexuality, be beaten to within an inch of one's life (Google 'Jack Price Queens NY')?
> The discussion is over the legal recognition of said marriage
As somebody else stated, the real discussion is about disclosure of names. But if you want to talk about the referendum itself, it has nothing to do with "marriage", it's about domestic partnerships. Some people are never going to be satisfied - they say "oh you can't be married, that's against our holy sacrament" so Washington state says "OK, let's leave marriage (and religion) out of this and create a CIVIL recognition of partnerships" and these people still can't leave it be.
Evidently these people's grasp on heterosexuality is quite frail, and even the slightest suggestion or perhaps a Kylie Minogue song is going to make them switch to the other team.
But Johnny SidekickUser can't contract directly with Danger, he has to deal with T-Mobile. T-Mobile has some responsibility for making sure the service they're reselling operates as advertised. This shouldn't be a "best-effort" service.
Slashdot Mirror
Would have been better if you'd actually used his slashdot ID instead of the message number, but you get a few points for at least trying to make the obvious joke.
Just call me uh, Clem.
Apparently you don't want to do so. So don't.
Let me Google that for you - http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=%22comes+up+trumps%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
Granted 38,500 is not an overwhelming number of results, but the phrase is certainly not unknown. Surprise, your idiom isn't somebody else's!
+5 Insightful for a Forth joke? I love this place.
Allow me copy-and-paste a bit more from the summary:
"Tynt provides no opt outs. Not cookie-based, not IP-based, but stop-it-you-creeps-angry-phone-call-based. "
1 - Tynt does not provide any way to opt-out of this "service."
2 - There is no cookie-based opt out.
3 - There is no IP-based opt out.
Thus, the submitter feels that an angry phone call (to either Tynt or Wired, it's not clear), during which he shouts "Stop it, you creeps" is his only available method for dealing with this tracking script.
Sadly, said phone call will probably not result in an opt-out.
"We don't know much"
"Let us assume"
DIATRIBE!!
Why it's the Slashdot posting methodology in a nutshell! Maybe I should patent it?
OK, this is a wacky idea, I know, but next time, how about READING THE FORTY-FIVE MINUTES WORTH of posts that are sitting in front of you. The script reports what's been highlighted, not just what's been copied. And it's not just Wired. And even if I do copy the text, it's MY clipboard.
Dick.
Part of the problem is that the script seems to want to communicate to the server even when you've only highlighted text. As mentioned in another post (that the mods on acid seem to have gotten to), I highlight when I read. I don't know why, but it's what I do. I'm NOT copying, but tynt is still tracking me; the "cite your references" argument doesn't apply.
As far as just not using Wired.com, that completely ignores the fact that many other sites have this POS JS running; I first noticed it at the New Yorker magazine site.
I wonder if they tracked me copying the URL for their page - Why Tynt Insight?
I'm a "highlight while reading" guy too. That's what first made me notice Tynt, and that's what made me swich back to Firefox (w/ NoScript) from Chrome.
Photosynth is pretty cool, but of course it didn't come from "in-house," nor is it a commercial product.
I notice you switched units in your surface area calculation. Do you, by any chance, work on spacecraft going to Mars?
> And this from the man who openly admitted to pushing malware in some interview not so long ago to get his company off the ground.
Actually that was Mark Pincus, the dickwad heading up Zynga, the company responsible for many of the games on facebook (e.g. Mafia Wars). But I'm sure the two Marks love their symbiotic relationship.
A Time Lord's heartbeat?
Yes, there are two of them. They landed on opposite sides of the planet, so it's not like Spirit can just yell across the canyon to his buddy. In fact, Opportunity has travelled less than 12 miles in the six years it's been there.
So you're saying that the scope of the pronoun was ambiguous?
No, bananas (non-organic) are 4011 from California to the New York island, From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters.
There were NO zombies in 28 Days Later.
. . . pets peeve, tries to calm down, wonder why he brought his goat anyway . . .
Nobody should ever release anything that doesn't instantly work worldwide! Especially when it's free!!
A while back I tried to start a trend by tagging such stories with "pimpmyblog", but it never really caught on.
I know just the man to work on this -- Archebald 'Harry' Tuttle.
So when did you choose to be a heterosexual?
Further, why do you think somebody would choose to be gay? Just to enjoy the intolerance of a bunch of religious wackos, be unable to marry the person they love, be able to be fired from their job just because of their homosexuality, be beaten to within an inch of one's life (Google 'Jack Price Queens NY')?
Yeah, it's a choice.
Moron.
> The discussion is over the legal recognition of said marriage
As somebody else stated, the real discussion is about disclosure of names. But if you want to talk about the referendum itself, it has nothing to do with "marriage", it's about domestic partnerships. Some people are never going to be satisfied - they say "oh you can't be married, that's against our holy sacrament" so Washington state says "OK, let's leave marriage (and religion) out of this and create a CIVIL recognition of partnerships" and these people still can't leave it be.
Evidently these people's grasp on heterosexuality is quite frail, and even the slightest suggestion or perhaps a Kylie Minogue song is going to make them switch to the other team.
But Johnny SidekickUser can't contract directly with Danger, he has to deal with T-Mobile. T-Mobile has some responsibility for making sure the service they're reselling operates as advertised. This shouldn't be a "best-effort" service.
"My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"
hey, it was either this or a Sideshow Bob riff on the "die, electric car, die" guy .....