As to the topic at hand, I find it interesting that the question isn't "Should google be targeting non-subscriber email ads", but whether or not they should be looking at ANY email content.
At what point does it become ok for any personal email regardless of 'sender' to be used for targeted ads based on content?
How far is the open source community willing to go (sell themselves) in support of a company that has no interest in protecting any privacy?
Thanks. I kept getting results on the initial placement of Monsanto rep to the FDA.
Curious that they essentially admit that it's inconsistent with previous rulings but suggest that since the ruling was unrelated they shouldn't hear the case. Is this a common scenario if the issue at question that SCOTUS is deciding on wasn't actually part of the original suit?
I agree with the farmer. If the seeds grow crops capable of producing more seeds, it sounds like a defective product from Monsanto.
You misunderstand. I definitely agree that patents and copyright are out of control, but the parent seems to make a point that because someone can pick up a smartphone and make a movie, that the problem will somehow lessen and go away. I disagree. It will take the force of law to fix this. Someone making a movie with a phone may be easy, but it's also unlikely to threaten the status quo or major studio profits.
I don't follow the logic. New technology making it easier to create content isn't really related to patent and copyright law directly unless studios start copyrighting movie 'themes'. Content creation isn't the issue (yet). Content creation technology, however, is. Right now it's still owned by huge companies. I found the main premise of the article kind of 'duh' moment, while the last link about how it got there in the first place to be excellent reading.
We've all seen opinions about how Patent and Copyright Law has gotten out of control and this one isn't much different. The last link, however, was a very nice breakdown as to the 'breakdown' in the process.
Intersting that you should raise 'while I'm driving' as a concern. Prior to Apple ditching Google Maps, you were forced to look and manually step through-each-step in the directions...while driving.
Now you can just listen to the directions as you drive.
Spoken like someone who's probably never picked up an iPhone in his life. Select contact. Click-Hold address. Select Copy. go to whatever maps app or webisite you like and click paste.
It's really that simple. The whole maps 'disaster' is so overblown it's hilarious. If you live in any larger city, chances are you will never notice an issue that impacts you in any meaningful way. About the only useful info that's lacking are bus routes/times.
The rest of the issues are cosmetic. Is it perfect? No. Am I getting 'fucked' because of it? No. Hell, even Motorola's own commercial had to fake a bad address to do their commercial.
Very much this. Trying to give a technical reason to a non-technical person who doesn't understand the benefit is futile. Take a lesson from Apple. They explain technical benefits in a 'what it will do for you' way.
Give a scenario where the lack of version control does something suitably bad, and then explain what it does when properly implemented.
One caveat. Keep the benefit a bit more watered down than above. When dealing with management, keep it simple, and meaningful to them, not to you. Talking about validating a form field or whatnot isn't a good way to go about it. Talk about the lost time and productivity, potential impact while troubleshooting and finding root cause, etc.
I can second this. I've taken to using the MSE offering for family that are on Windows. Two simple reasons. I can flat out tell them to ignore any web prompts for 'free virus scans' and whatnot. Ignore any prompts to purchase virus scan 'updates', etc,
It also removes the irritating ad-ware that Avast and AVG are pushing out lately. They are doing more and more prompts to 'upgrade' which is confusing to older family members. Considering you're a techy this is probably a non-issue, but I do find comfort in the fact that the MS offering isn't likely to quarantine key OS files as Avast and AVG have done multiple times over the last few years.
You are what you eat. This sums up/. perfectly. It's for the community, by the community, and of the community. Pluses and minuses, it makes for interesting reading most of the time.
True to some extent. It depends a bit on the hardware you're using, spindle speed, seek times, and a lot on the type of disk queues you're working with.
As in all things, the value is in the eye of the buyer. What matters to you may be unimportant to someone else.
SSD offers speed, lower power requirements, and low heat but can't match spindle capacities and has a higher cost.
Spindle drives have large capacity and low cost but high heat, and higher power requirements and poor performance by comparison to SSD.
Hybrids have capacity and low cost, good performance, higher power requirements, and high heat.
SSD's are an easy choice for laptops (in general) unless the laptop has a large storage capacity requirement.
If portability isn't a concern, you can easily stripe 3 standard HDD's and get near the same performance as an SSD for the same cost but with higher capacity.
There are simply too many variations and 'solutions' to use a cookie cutter approach, but if you break it down into the major categories above, and grade on which is most important (Price, Power, Speed, Capacity, Heat), it becomes easier to judge which is a better fit.
Although I'm sure this was a little toungue in cheek, if you follow minor precautions, I've never really had a need for these plans for the last 3 phones.
A decent case for drop protection, leave your keys in a separate pocket so they don't scratch the touchscreen, etc.
Unless you're typically clumsy, the cost of the protection plan is probably not worth it (other than piece of mind). If you are clumsy and constantly dropping your phone though, I would probably just go with the AppleCare plan.
Exactly. The right has demonized unions while ignoring that they level the playing field between an employee and an employer. Without them, you get abuses like this. That doesn't mean that a union needs to drive a business into the ground. Typically they both understand that a strong business means a strong profit means a strong workforce. If things get unbalanced too much to one side, you end up with either corrupt management, or a company that goes out of business.
It was disabled by default on iOS. In order to enable it you had to go into your debugging settings (General - About - Diagnostic and Usage Data), and turn it on. You also had to allow to upload the data to Apple. Unless both of those were on, it wasn't able to do anything.
It was removed completely in iOS 5 meaning you can't even turn it on (the option is grayed out).
I would have to agree that you are putting way too much faith in us. I used to work at Mobile before it merged with Exxon, and it was right off the interstate. It was fairly common for bullets to hit the glass as high as the 14th floor.
People love to shoot at things that irritate them, and these cameras are nothing more than revenue machines.
"It costs us $30,000 to $100,000 to replace a camera. That's a significant loss in the program. Plus it also takes a camera off the street that operates and slows people down. So there's a loss of safety for the community," says Liberati
Considering far too many of these speed cameras and the associated street lights they monitor, have been caught shortening yellow light times beyond federal standards to 'catch' people running the light, I would question their motives.
I don't believe so. The issue with Android is that currently selling hardware sells with old versions of Android. Sometimes VERY old versions. Developers can't target specific API's since there is no commonality between devices.
With the iOS infrastructure, all currently selling devices can all use the current OS. It's a valid point.
If we follow your process through to the logical conclusion, then it would imply that the person linking to the content intended to download every linked object, which is patently ridiculous. The person creating the links doesn't necessarily intend to do anything with the links other than to profit from site visits via ads or whatnot.
Note that in both of your examples, you are the one linking to and accessing the IP in question.
This is a dangerous judgement, make no mistake. It opens up any search engine which frankly is an algorithm and not self aware. These just scrape sites and produce the links. There is no 'intent' there.
Can't agree more. These links could sit out there for 50 years, and if no one knew about them or no one used them, not a single case of infringement would happen. Simply pointing to 'stolen goods' (I use that term with tongue in cheek) doesn't make the finger pointer guilty of infringement.
It's kind of ridiculous as to the power the media companies are employing in the courts and in the political system.
The original iPad is excluded from the navigation piece due to it's lack of GPS, and from all of the FaceTime pieces due to lack of a front facing camera, from iPhoto and Panorama due to lack of memory, and from airplay due to lack of hardware H.264 encoding. It does have primitive GPS quasi-capabilities but only in the weakest sense. It has to rely on a more primitive cell tower triangulation rather than containing a true GPS chip.
They marked you as troll but I have to agree here. Every device listed can run the most recent iOS version with the exception of the original iPad which has only 256MB DDR Ram. Simply showing some hardware that doesn't support a feature isn't quite the same as the API fragmentation in Android where developers are limited by OS adoption (artificially so in most cases as there is no cost incentive from the handset vendors to update existing hardware to the latest OS).
All of the limitations listed there are hardware related (lack of additional noise cancellation mic's for Siri, lack of memory for things like iPhoto or the latest OS, real-time video stabilization, lack of memory for panorama shots which could be up to 28 megapixel in size, lack of GPU horsepower for 3D flyover, etc). Some items on the list are a no brainer (iPods that lack wireless cell radio's wouldn't be very useful as navigation tools).
Although it might seem easy to compare this hardware to a PC where upgrading memory or a CPU was a simple swap out, you have to remember that these smartphones were the first of their kind and pushing the limits as to what could be crammed into a phone's dimensions. Expecting upgradability on first generation hardware isn't realistic.
Fragmentation on Android is somewhat hardware related with various resolutions, graphics chipsets, etc, but a large piece of it is due to OS fragmentation. The author points this out with a fragmentation chart, but then ignores the OS in the Apple chart. Not very insightful.
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I believe a *Whoosh* is in order...
As to the topic at hand, I find it interesting that the question isn't "Should google be targeting non-subscriber email ads", but whether or not they should be looking at ANY email content.
At what point does it become ok for any personal email regardless of 'sender' to be used for targeted ads based on content?
How far is the open source community willing to go (sell themselves) in support of a company that has no interest in protecting any privacy?
Thanks. I kept getting results on the initial placement of Monsanto rep to the FDA.
Curious that they essentially admit that it's inconsistent with previous rulings but suggest that since the ruling was unrelated they shouldn't hear the case. Is this a common scenario if the issue at question that SCOTUS is deciding on wasn't actually part of the original suit?
I agree with the farmer. If the seeds grow crops capable of producing more seeds, it sounds like a defective product from Monsanto.
I also can't find any information that the Obama administration objected to SCOTUS hearing this case? Can someone dig up some info?
Am I really reading this correctly? WTF?
"No Free Speech For You!" - Speech Natzi
(apologies for the Seinfeld reference...)
Except for the fact that he's running unopposed? In his case it doesn't matter that it's an election year.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/06/arkansas-republican-slavery-was-blessing-in-disguise-that-rewarded-blacks-with-u-s-citizenship/
You misunderstand. I definitely agree that patents and copyright are out of control, but the parent seems to make a point that because someone can pick up a smartphone and make a movie, that the problem will somehow lessen and go away. I disagree. It will take the force of law to fix this. Someone making a movie with a phone may be easy, but it's also unlikely to threaten the status quo or major studio profits.
I don't follow the logic. New technology making it easier to create content isn't really related to patent and copyright law directly unless studios start copyrighting movie 'themes'. Content creation isn't the issue (yet). Content creation technology, however, is. Right now it's still owned by huge companies. I found the main premise of the article kind of 'duh' moment, while the last link about how it got there in the first place to be excellent reading.
We've all seen opinions about how Patent and Copyright Law has gotten out of control and this one isn't much different. The last link, however, was a very nice breakdown as to the 'breakdown' in the process.
GOOD stuff...
Intersting that you should raise 'while I'm driving' as a concern. Prior to Apple ditching Google Maps, you were forced to look and manually step through-each-step in the directions...while driving.
Now you can just listen to the directions as you drive.
Spoken like someone who's probably never picked up an iPhone in his life. Select contact. Click-Hold address. Select Copy. go to whatever maps app or webisite you like and click paste.
It's really that simple. The whole maps 'disaster' is so overblown it's hilarious. If you live in any larger city, chances are you will never notice an issue that impacts you in any meaningful way. About the only useful info that's lacking are bus routes/times.
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/gadgetbox/apple-maps-furor-overblown-1B6071011
The rest of the issues are cosmetic. Is it perfect? No. Am I getting 'fucked' because of it? No. Hell, even Motorola's own commercial had to fake a bad address to do their commercial.
http://www.bgr.com/2012/09/27/apple-maps-motorola-criticism-fail/
The first link breaks it down into a little more 'sane' dialog.
A) There are flaws in Apple's Maps database.
B) These flaws very likely do not affect you in any way.
C) These flaws will be fixed and served up without you updating any software.
D) There is a lack of public transit information, which may or may not affect you, but is partially remedied by apps.
E) You now get free turn-by-turn navigation and instant links to Yelp pages â" and no ads.
F) GPS-enabled Google Maps are still available on iPhones and iPads for free, through the Safari browser.
G) A Google Maps app for iOS will likely be here soon, too.
Very much this. Trying to give a technical reason to a non-technical person who doesn't understand the benefit is futile. Take a lesson from Apple. They explain technical benefits in a 'what it will do for you' way.
Give a scenario where the lack of version control does something suitably bad, and then explain what it does when properly implemented.
One caveat. Keep the benefit a bit more watered down than above. When dealing with management, keep it simple, and meaningful to them, not to you. Talking about validating a form field or whatnot isn't a good way to go about it. Talk about the lost time and productivity, potential impact while troubleshooting and finding root cause, etc.
I can second this. I've taken to using the MSE offering for family that are on Windows. Two simple reasons. I can flat out tell them to ignore any web prompts for 'free virus scans' and whatnot. Ignore any prompts to purchase virus scan 'updates', etc,
It also removes the irritating ad-ware that Avast and AVG are pushing out lately. They are doing more and more prompts to 'upgrade' which is confusing to older family members. Considering you're a techy this is probably a non-issue, but I do find comfort in the fact that the MS offering isn't likely to quarantine key OS files as Avast and AVG have done multiple times over the last few years.
You are what you eat. This sums up /. perfectly. It's for the community, by the community, and of the community. Pluses and minuses, it makes for interesting reading most of the time.
Your mileage may vary... ;)
True to some extent. It depends a bit on the hardware you're using, spindle speed, seek times, and a lot on the type of disk queues you're working with.
A pretty good breakdown can be read here: http://submesa.com/data/raid/geom_stripe
As in all things, the value is in the eye of the buyer. What matters to you may be unimportant to someone else.
SSD offers speed, lower power requirements, and low heat but can't match spindle capacities and has a higher cost.
Spindle drives have large capacity and low cost but high heat, and higher power requirements and poor performance by comparison to SSD.
Hybrids have capacity and low cost, good performance, higher power requirements, and high heat.
SSD's are an easy choice for laptops (in general) unless the laptop has a large storage capacity requirement.
If portability isn't a concern, you can easily stripe 3 standard HDD's and get near the same performance as an SSD for the same cost but with higher capacity.
There are simply too many variations and 'solutions' to use a cookie cutter approach, but if you break it down into the major categories above, and grade on which is most important (Price, Power, Speed, Capacity, Heat), it becomes easier to judge which is a better fit.
Although I'm sure this was a little toungue in cheek, if you follow minor precautions, I've never really had a need for these plans for the last 3 phones.
A decent case for drop protection, leave your keys in a separate pocket so they don't scratch the touchscreen, etc.
Unless you're typically clumsy, the cost of the protection plan is probably not worth it (other than piece of mind). If you are clumsy and constantly dropping your phone though, I would probably just go with the AppleCare plan.
Exactly. The right has demonized unions while ignoring that they level the playing field between an employee and an employer. Without them, you get abuses like this. That doesn't mean that a union needs to drive a business into the ground. Typically they both understand that a strong business means a strong profit means a strong workforce. If things get unbalanced too much to one side, you end up with either corrupt management, or a company that goes out of business.
http://blog.motorists.org/6-cities-that-were-caught-shortening-yellow-light-times-for-profit/
It was disabled by default on iOS. In order to enable it you had to go into your debugging settings (General - About - Diagnostic and Usage Data), and turn it on. You also had to allow to upload the data to Apple. Unless both of those were on, it wasn't able to do anything.
It was removed completely in iOS 5 meaning you can't even turn it on (the option is grayed out).
I would have to agree that you are putting way too much faith in us. I used to work at Mobile before it merged with Exxon, and it was right off the interstate. It was fairly common for bullets to hit the glass as high as the 14th floor.
People love to shoot at things that irritate them, and these cameras are nothing more than revenue machines.
Considering far too many of these speed cameras and the associated street lights they monitor, have been caught shortening yellow light times beyond federal standards to 'catch' people running the light, I would question their motives.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6he1M5wexic
I don't believe so. The issue with Android is that currently selling hardware sells with old versions of Android. Sometimes VERY old versions. Developers can't target specific API's since there is no commonality between devices.
With the iOS infrastructure, all currently selling devices can all use the current OS. It's a valid point.
If we follow your process through to the logical conclusion, then it would imply that the person linking to the content intended to download every linked object, which is patently ridiculous. The person creating the links doesn't necessarily intend to do anything with the links other than to profit from site visits via ads or whatnot.
Note that in both of your examples, you are the one linking to and accessing the IP in question.
This is a dangerous judgement, make no mistake. It opens up any search engine which frankly is an algorithm and not self aware. These just scrape sites and produce the links. There is no 'intent' there.
Can't agree more. These links could sit out there for 50 years, and if no one knew about them or no one used them, not a single case of infringement would happen. Simply pointing to 'stolen goods' (I use that term with tongue in cheek) doesn't make the finger pointer guilty of infringement.
It's kind of ridiculous as to the power the media companies are employing in the courts and in the political system.
Please enlighten us with this 'fragmentation'. Kindly list some apps that don't run on currently selling hardware.
iPhone 4, 4S, 5
iPad 2, New iPad
Replying to my own post...
The original iPad is excluded from the navigation piece due to it's lack of GPS, and from all of the FaceTime pieces due to lack of a front facing camera, from iPhoto and Panorama due to lack of memory, and from airplay due to lack of hardware H.264 encoding. It does have primitive GPS quasi-capabilities but only in the weakest sense. It has to rely on a more primitive cell tower triangulation rather than containing a true GPS chip.
It was pretty hardware poor as far as features.
They marked you as troll but I have to agree here. Every device listed can run the most recent iOS version with the exception of the original iPad which has only 256MB DDR Ram. Simply showing some hardware that doesn't support a feature isn't quite the same as the API fragmentation in Android where developers are limited by OS adoption (artificially so in most cases as there is no cost incentive from the handset vendors to update existing hardware to the latest OS).
All of the limitations listed there are hardware related (lack of additional noise cancellation mic's for Siri, lack of memory for things like iPhoto or the latest OS, real-time video stabilization, lack of memory for panorama shots which could be up to 28 megapixel in size, lack of GPU horsepower for 3D flyover, etc). Some items on the list are a no brainer (iPods that lack wireless cell radio's wouldn't be very useful as navigation tools).
Although it might seem easy to compare this hardware to a PC where upgrading memory or a CPU was a simple swap out, you have to remember that these smartphones were the first of their kind and pushing the limits as to what could be crammed into a phone's dimensions. Expecting upgradability on first generation hardware isn't realistic.
Fragmentation on Android is somewhat hardware related with various resolutions, graphics chipsets, etc, but a large piece of it is due to OS fragmentation. The author points this out with a fragmentation chart, but then ignores the OS in the Apple chart. Not very insightful.