I don't consider myself an expert, by any means, when it comes to code. But I do think it's my responsibility to perform do diligence and understand what I'm doing. If not, I do feel I should shut up.
Between FF's own features and add-ons things like this are fairly easy to resolve. Personally I do find it invasive as all hell to have companies tracking me. And I try to avoid it at all costs. My reasoning is very simple; they're not paying me for my data, they don't get it for free.
So I fall back to my earlier statements. I do think that if we get things for free (without $ or effort) than we have no right to complain.
My user experience is, no doubt, less robust than yours. But I willingly give that up for a wee bit of piece of mind.
That mother deserves a Zappos stalker. When done with a site LOG OUT. Flush cookies and cache (set limits on them). And stop being a sheep. In the end, it's a (relatively) free experience being online. If she's not happy and not responsible with it, go back to VHS tapes, you'll have far few worries.
... where the hippies and lawless build homes. Or something like that. Seriously, the entire state is almost without building codes of any kind. Buy at your own risk, certainly, but build however you feel like it. Lacking his ability to move, why not just build a "green" mobile home. As long as it's not permanent, you can camp on your land and have little to worry about.
I blame the net for increasing the number of perverts too! Certainly it's created more pedophiles than there ever were before. I know it's made more criminals, just look at all the people getting ripped off now!
...world's gone to hell with all this technology. It wasn't like this back in the good ol' day.
Don't get all sciency with your zombie explanations. I was perfectly happy having an anomalous radiation spike inextricably raise the dead to a lumbering state. Explanations, plausible ones at that, are just unacceptable.
I've barely grown this to a full blown fantasy and now it's crushed (or its head has been blown off). Why can't I have one deeply warped narcissistic apocalyptic fantasy that is not ruined by science and logic? Damn you science, damn you all to hell!
So the aristocratic pompous short sighted pricks who used to run the penal colony have ancestors who set the laws still? You'd think for such a drunken cavalier society (no offense just my observations whenever I was there) that the gov't would either wise up or get tossed on it's collective ass.
Equally fascinating and cool... a wasp that paralyzes a caterpillar only to lay larvae in it. The larvae attack the brain and control it forcing the caterpillar to protect them as they grow and eventually cocoon itself in a safe location so they can consume the host's body inside out.
I was rather close to my grandmother who died over a decade ago. The first year after she died I wrote to my entire family with several detailed stories of her that I had from childhood. Things I looked at which always brought a smile to my face. One of them was her sneaking a particular brand of cookie to me when no one was looking. As a child this was always the hidden fruit of the tree to me. We both were "being bad" by doing it but without ever speaking about it the stolen fruit event always happened. She'd even cover for me as I flitted away to eat the cookie. I blame my chocolate addiction on her. I sent a package of these cookies to each person who got the letter and told them to savor the taste. The very hint of smell of them still brought her back to me standing there stealing a cookie for me as I stole a moment of the past.
You have so little time left with your wife. I cannot agree more that yes you may want to preserve the end, but you're missing an opportunity to say good bye. Don't photograph or vid everything. Do it sparingly. Make those hard copies be monuments, not cliches. Have her write when no one is a around, a thing that she held and touched will mean so much more to the girls than an impartial observation. And have her, without you or them around, vid her advice and motherly pearls to be opened later. Don't soil the sanctity of that type of thing by making more of it. Honor her future advice by letting it stand alone.
She could also write a story that goes with say... 10 objects from her past. Perhaps 10 for each child? Let her pass on the evidence of her past with the memories that were held dear to those things. But most importantly spend each day enjoying the time you have left.
From the Gilgamesh epic we are told that when he reached the gods and woke them they scorned him not for waking him, but for abandoning his life. He wanted immortality and they denied him saying: "...what you seek you will not find. For when the gods created man they let death be his lot. Go and delight in the embrace of your wife when you return and hold your child to your heart, these alone will bring man happiness."
Why is the National Soccer League being used as a way to track people now? Did the FBI lose a bet or two on the World Cup and they're just pissing in everyone's pool now? What has this world come to? I dream of a place where young black boys and girls and young white boys and girls can play soccer together and go home and tweet about it and say to each other: Thank God Almighty our internet is free at last, Free AT LAST.
Or in this Obama world I'd like to think that his misdirections could be less obvious and we wouldn't see him shitting on the Constitution so openly.
Why is someone OTHER than BP paying for this? This is just like asking for volunteers to help clean the waterfowl etc. To clean this up the BP board should be hauled in (with a gun to their head if needed) and forced to clean it up with their own fucking money and their own hands. WHY tax payers and any other private source is putting one cent into this is beyond me.
They wanted the profit, they can accept the consequences.
If you are ANYWHERE near South Africa, New Zealand or Oz use a carrier pigeon it's faster than access here anyway and heaps cheaper. Plus you won't get nailed when going over your data cap!
Just don't license the images via Getty. There, the problem is fixed. Users can easily direct someone to their own site and negotiate sales completely outside flickr. Why is Getty's extortion a problem?
PLEASE never call these narcissistic twits journalists again. Journalism is based on research, fact finding, source checking and has a goal to keep a check and balance on the democratic process. Agreed, much of the media today fails this. But in a spectrum of "news" Gizmodo "stories" are on par with Bat Boy in the Enquirer. Their usage of the English language is barely a step above txt speak while their maturity is nowhere above that of a third grade child.
Yes I do think it's a perfectly acceptable solution.
If a corporation wishes to be treated as an entity then hold it responsible as such. If you or I went out drinking and slammed our car into a McD's we would be held criminally and civilly liable for those actions. The courts would imprison us, take the car and seize worldly assets to pay the damages.
I am tired of corporations (globally now, but clearly the US set the stage) completely raping local resources (labor, infrastructure, taxation abatement, natural resources) and being patted on the back when the well runs dry. Their upper echelon walks away with well lined coffers and the local area gets shit.
I do not care where this company is "located" they played in the Gulf, they fucked it up, they can pay for it (criminally and civilly). I highly doubt if you did something this egregious they'd (BP Execs) would want you to just walk away from it.
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"...18% of Americans, 16% of Germans, and 19% of Britons." 100% mouth breathing idiots.
Nice you hide behind AC. Pity you don't have the balls to let everyone see who you are.
I don't consider myself an expert, by any means, when it comes to code. But I do think it's my responsibility to perform do diligence and understand what I'm doing. If not, I do feel I should shut up.
Between FF's own features and add-ons things like this are fairly easy to resolve. Personally I do find it invasive as all hell to have companies tracking me. And I try to avoid it at all costs. My reasoning is very simple; they're not paying me for my data, they don't get it for free.
So I fall back to my earlier statements. I do think that if we get things for free (without $ or effort) than we have no right to complain.
My user experience is, no doubt, less robust than yours. But I willingly give that up for a wee bit of piece of mind.
That mother deserves a Zappos stalker. When done with a site LOG OUT. Flush cookies and cache (set limits on them). And stop being a sheep. In the end, it's a (relatively) free experience being online. If she's not happy and not responsible with it, go back to VHS tapes, you'll have far few worries.
Golf
Bowling
NASCAR
Pinball
Tennis
Bicycling
Sailing
Swimming
Gymnastic Ribbon (WTF is that)
Water Ballet
I'm waiting to form an opinion until Cory Doctorow posts some long winded treatise on Boing Boing.
... where the hippies and lawless build homes. Or something like that. Seriously, the entire state is almost without building codes of any kind. Buy at your own risk, certainly, but build however you feel like it. Lacking his ability to move, why not just build a "green" mobile home. As long as it's not permanent, you can camp on your land and have little to worry about.
Already had a book on this 3 decades ago. Everything old is new again.
And no, it had nothing to do with Ender.
I blame the net for increasing the number of perverts too! Certainly it's created more pedophiles than there ever were before. I know it's made more criminals, just look at all the people getting ripped off now!
...world's gone to hell with all this technology. It wasn't like this back in the good ol' day.
Don't get all sciency with your zombie explanations. I was perfectly happy having an anomalous radiation spike inextricably raise the dead to a lumbering state. Explanations, plausible ones at that, are just unacceptable.
I've barely grown this to a full blown fantasy and now it's crushed (or its head has been blown off). Why can't I have one deeply warped narcissistic apocalyptic fantasy that is not ruined by science and logic? Damn you science, damn you all to hell!
So the aristocratic pompous short sighted pricks who used to run the penal colony have ancestors who set the laws still? You'd think for such a drunken cavalier society (no offense just my observations whenever I was there) that the gov't would either wise up or get tossed on it's collective ass.
Equally fascinating and cool... a wasp that paralyzes a caterpillar only to lay larvae in it. The larvae attack the brain and control it forcing the caterpillar to protect them as they grow and eventually cocoon itself in a safe location so they can consume the host's body inside out.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/13/parasitic-wasps-got-their-poison-from-an-ancient-virus/
I was rather close to my grandmother who died over a decade ago. The first year after she died I wrote to my entire family with several detailed stories of her that I had from childhood. Things I looked at which always brought a smile to my face. One of them was her sneaking a particular brand of cookie to me when no one was looking. As a child this was always the hidden fruit of the tree to me. We both were "being bad" by doing it but without ever speaking about it the stolen fruit event always happened. She'd even cover for me as I flitted away to eat the cookie. I blame my chocolate addiction on her. I sent a package of these cookies to each person who got the letter and told them to savor the taste. The very hint of smell of them still brought her back to me standing there stealing a cookie for me as I stole a moment of the past.
You have so little time left with your wife. I cannot agree more that yes you may want to preserve the end, but you're missing an opportunity to say good bye. Don't photograph or vid everything. Do it sparingly. Make those hard copies be monuments, not cliches. Have her write when no one is a around, a thing that she held and touched will mean so much more to the girls than an impartial observation. And have her, without you or them around, vid her advice and motherly pearls to be opened later. Don't soil the sanctity of that type of thing by making more of it. Honor her future advice by letting it stand alone.
She could also write a story that goes with say... 10 objects from her past. Perhaps 10 for each child? Let her pass on the evidence of her past with the memories that were held dear to those things. But most importantly spend each day enjoying the time you have left.
From the Gilgamesh epic we are told that when he reached the gods and woke them they scorned him not for waking him, but for abandoning his life. He wanted immortality and they denied him saying: "...what you seek you will not find. For when the gods created man they let death be his lot. Go and delight in the embrace of your wife when you return and hold your child to your heart, these alone will bring man happiness."
So India is a communist block country now?
And in case you have not heard, people of been reporting their neighbors forever in the US.
Why is the National Soccer League being used as a way to track people now? Did the FBI lose a bet or two on the World Cup and they're just pissing in everyone's pool now? What has this world come to? I dream of a place where young black boys and girls and young white boys and girls can play soccer together and go home and tweet about it and say to each other: Thank God Almighty our internet is free at last, Free AT LAST.
Or in this Obama world I'd like to think that his misdirections could be less obvious and we wouldn't see him shitting on the Constitution so openly.
Why is someone OTHER than BP paying for this? This is just like asking for volunteers to help clean the waterfowl etc. To clean this up the BP board should be hauled in (with a gun to their head if needed) and forced to clean it up with their own fucking money and their own hands. WHY tax payers and any other private source is putting one cent into this is beyond me.
They wanted the profit, they can accept the consequences.
If you are ANYWHERE near South Africa, New Zealand or Oz use a carrier pigeon it's faster than access here anyway and heaps cheaper. Plus you won't get nailed when going over your data cap!
No doubt the FBI, CIA and DHS log far more hours in Farmville than just regular folk. It's a conspiracy I tell ya!
This is so NOT the story I was hoping it was going to be.
Like a baby Harp seal on the open ice, my dream has just been dashed.
Just don't license the images via Getty. There, the problem is fixed. Users can easily direct someone to their own site and negotiate sales completely outside flickr. Why is Getty's extortion a problem?
It had to be said.
I accidentally turned off my Doctorow filter. Now my internets are flooded with one gigantic ego.
PLEASE never call these narcissistic twits journalists again. Journalism is based on research, fact finding, source checking and has a goal to keep a check and balance on the democratic process. Agreed, much of the media today fails this. But in a spectrum of "news" Gizmodo "stories" are on par with Bat Boy in the Enquirer. Their usage of the English language is barely a step above txt speak while their maturity is nowhere above that of a third grade child.
Yes I do think it's a perfectly acceptable solution.
If a corporation wishes to be treated as an entity then hold it responsible as such. If you or I went out drinking and slammed our car into a McD's we would be held criminally and civilly liable for those actions. The courts would imprison us, take the car and seize worldly assets to pay the damages.
I am tired of corporations (globally now, but clearly the US set the stage) completely raping local resources (labor, infrastructure, taxation abatement, natural resources) and being patted on the back when the well runs dry. Their upper echelon walks away with well lined coffers and the local area gets shit.
I do not care where this company is "located" they played in the Gulf, they fucked it up, they can pay for it (criminally and civilly). I highly doubt if you did something this egregious they'd (BP Execs) would want you to just walk away from it.