This one gets bonus points for spreading by appealing to the dark side of human nature with their offer of a new and exciting way to threadcrap. As if random popup ads don't snare enough people, now they are out there with an appealing product (at face value anyway) that users have to actively resist. Just when the idea of Facebook itself as a scam was gaining traction, now we have this shit-sandwich-deep-fried-in-vomit craze sweeping the 'tubes. The internet is doomed!
Unless you're getting spam from someone who's logging into the dead person's account to help their own Farmville game or whatnot, you shouldn't even be getting anything that would remind you it's still active.
NickJones08 is pushing up daisies in Farmville! Play Farmville now and help him out!
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Nobody is holding any of these folks accountable for their actions. It doesn't matter if there's a D or an R next to the name, they're all lying through their teeth and getting away with it.
To paraphrase:
Accountability? OH, oh I'm sorry, but this is abuse. Ah yes, you want country 12A, Just along the coast a bit.
Accountability is now defined as "complaining about the other party" instead of "complaining about what's bad for the country". The hunger for power runs so thoroughly through politics that someone on the way up will say/do whatever it takes, and bring anyone along for the ride that they need to get the job done. This is persisting even down to the local level, now that party affiliation is EVERYTHING when it comes to getting a message out. You could have an R next to your name, be pro gun-bans and pro-choice and pro taxes and supporters will line up praising you for not being a democrat.
Is it really "leftardism" if both sides are doing it? That would make the rights "leftards" and hell - that may very well tear the fabric of space-time apart!
Better known as "business as usual". It has simply moved on from "bury each others stories, deride anyone who says it's wrong" to "provide evidence of each other burying stories, deride anyone who says THATs wrong".
Pretty soon we will arrive at an exponential speedup of the great infinite loop where the right and left become entangled at the quantum level; their deep desire to be the opposite of each other will lead to them performing the exact same activities to counter each others strategies at a relativistic level. Heisenberg and Einstein will time travel from the past using a quantum relativity machine they invented in an alternate timeline to ours, apparently to put a stop to the breakdown but then reveal that they can only help us by letting history (of the future) take it's course.) After all, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
Then, when that two party system effectively is gone, we will invent some new polarized decision-making scheme to replace it.
Flexjobs.com you say. Interesting. Now, to set up an Amazon turk job offer to log into Flexjobs and perform some work (paying half of what flexjobs pays) and I can sit back and let the dough roll in! Arbitrage, where would we be without you!
If they don't have the will to obtain an International Standard Book Number for their Internationally published book, then why bother counting it at all? After all, I wrote a book in first grade, consisting of 16 pages of poorly drawn pictures and brutal (if accurate) grammar... Should this be counted too?
"The website allows voters to set their preferences beforehand, dragging and dropping Stephen Conroy at the bottom of the barrel and thrusting the Sex Party into pole position (as an utterly random example)."
Hah. Random. Right. Anyway, I LOLed. Thanks again, Australia!
So she took the pics and then "lost them"... but the support guy found them in her email. She obviously sent/received them at some point, and how she could just 'forget' they were in her email is hard to fathom. Then she sends the guy who WORKS FOR DELL a laptop? She may be the victim, but boy is she good at it.
Let's see: financial giants, capable of spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on the servers, all the coders, access to the markets, and not to mention *the assets they trade at a profit*... Vs the guys who made 150k a year and just quit to form a startup. Somehow I doubt they are too worried.
The only chance these guys stand is to basically create a "better" program they can then sell back to the banks. The problem is, the programs themselves are very simple (the simpler the better, speed is all-important) so it comes down to the equipment they use that dictates the revenue. Unless they come up with a more profitable model than "buy low, sell high" they are probably going to have to beg for their old jobs back before too long.
Accounting simply needs to know how to divide up IT costs and settled on this as a cost driver, possibly one of many, to determine what it takes to support each department.
Bingo. When they "split out" IT as a department, chances are they just said "Well so far we have been spending this much a year and providing exactly x in storage GB, y in support hours, z in application runtimes, etc. etc. etc. The number then gets tweaked based on inflation, changing requirements (more speed, more backups, more whatever per unit) but what it probably isn't changing based on is *competition* which is the only thing that will make it go down.
If it's practical, pay an internet based file host. Most likely it's not due to regulatory compliance, bandwidth issues, etc. You can try hosting the files yourself by taking your year's budget and buying a server, tape drive, etc. and running that direction, but this might be seen as infighting. How about a plan that gets your message across to all of the involved parties?
State your (generously estimated) storage plans for the year, deliver them to IT and await the budget numbers. Since it's done monthly, they need to ramp up capacity but can't just ramp it down even though you can cut back usage in a month's time. Next month, cut back as hard as you can: delete all old archives, switch to local storage for anything thats not 100% essential, switch to backups in the form of a USB disk on someone's desk if that's what it takes. When the payout to IT drops to 10% of what it was, let them squirm as you report to your boss how much money you are "saving the company" while IT is busy laying off support staff to meet their numbers.
Why not just buy the cheapest one you can, see if it works, and move up only if necessary? Marketing fog will always try to wring more money out of you (in ANY consumer product area), but it only will if you let it. HDMI is no different; if the plug fits then it will almost always work, if not there is probably a special case, and a Google search will resolve your problem in less than 5 minutes.
There isn't an intelligent person the planet who denies that global warming is real. The debate is all about causation.
Yes, it is now that the incontrovertible evidence is mounting. Of course, you will still find people eager to attack climate change scientists because they talked amongst themselves about the viability of certain data. Or perhaps news organizations (go ahead, guess which one) that go out of their way to announce "It's snowing" as evidence that Al Gore's book on climate change is pure fiction.
Other than that, yeah, it's only about causation. Oh wait, I think a "scientist" just observed that the temperature in Rush Limbaugh's studio was unusually low for this time of year... Now we have to get this debate out again. The ice on Greenland is growing! The polar bears are plentiful (on shore) and simply avoid the water out of a natural phobia, not because the ice is disappearing (it isn't!) Clearly there is reason to doubt this "global warming" thing of which you speak.
It's undeniable. Great. That clears it up. Where is the report that offers "undeniable" proof of God, and the "undeniable" inevitable end of crude oil deposits in the Earth? I am going to file these with my "undeniable" reports on Sky being blue, Sun being warm, and water being wet.
honestly, i think that you did something wrong with your test app. there are tons of highly intricate apps that do not request permission to make calls. now, if your app wanted to go to the background when a call came and relaunch when the call is over that's something different. however, that permission is "read phone state" which does not sound the same at all.
Yes, "read phone state" sounds totally different than "make phone calls" or whatever the exact verbage is.../sarcasm
Cellphones went mainstream about 10 years ago, and even smartphones like those based on Android are very common. This means they are in the market where you need it to be so simple that someone with a barely functioning grasp of English could figure it out.
To software engineers, there might be a difference between "read phone state" and "make phone calls" but to a layperson there really isn't. You really need to look at it with the "would it work in a car" mentality: is it simple enough to be put into a car and be figured out by anyone with a mild amount of training in "not crashing"? Hint: "turn key to start" is good, an arrow indicating which way to turn it is better, and "please select from the available options: Activate engine controls. Activate engine starter motor. Activate seat belt latch." is NOT going to go over well.
All this nonsense about "well the user was advised that SIM activity could be perturbed by the inclusion of application permission" as an excuse for a poorly implemented security platform needs to be thrown out the window unless you want Android to turn into Windows Mobile 6 in a matter of months while security and usability problems fly out of the woodwork and people flock to a different platform without such headaches.
He may not want to accept being wheelchair bound but he could have a fulfilling life with ALS, even though the chances are relatively slim. He should take up physics, after all Stephen Hawkig isn't going to live *forever*. If he really wants to be an organ donor, he should do what every one else does: file the appropriate paperwork at the DMV and buy a motorcycle*.
*As a motorcycle owner, I am comfortable with this joke.
It's not impossible. Remember, no one is paying to be on Facebook (well except the advertisers) so no one has a buy-in mentality other than the time spent on their profiles. If there were a site that offered better privacy (by default), the ability to "suck" all the profile information from Facebook (simple API trick) and better features (like NO FUCKING FARMVILLE ALLOWED) then I think a lot of people would switch. Heck, you could have a service that simply pushed/pulled Facebook info to sync it up with this new site, so you wouldn't have to give up your facebook contacts as much as you would just have to give up visiting their godawful website.
I hate it when people make scales to grade something on, and then never use the damn entirety of the scale. See also game sites that have a 1-10 rating for a game but never really use anything below 7.
I like to think of the 1-6 on that scale as serving the same purpose as the seatbelt. Sure, almost every car trip has no use for the seatbelt, but you are most likely (and rightly so) using it anyway. Should you ever see a 6 or below, being able to comprehend how much it sucks *just might save your life*.
I'm sure Facebook will say this is a good thing, and that those users wanted that information made available since that seems to be their default position on security and privacy.
Mark Zuckerberg actually said exactly that in a recent interview (with NPR, google it) when confronted with the question of "why not just make the default 'private'?" he quipped "We think users want to be seen". He is probably right, but there are way more people out there who are clueless about their privacy and mistakenly disclose tons of information than those who are well informed and intentionally disclose tons of information. Assuming the whole world is made up of perfectly informed adults who consent to sharing all of their information is a pretty big reach.
They might as well have said "millions of home telephone numbers LEAKED via paper-based archive deposited randomly on doorsteps ALL ACROSS TEH COUNTRY!!!"
Worthless headline; it should read "Facebook name and URL database created from already public information, nothing to see here, move along"
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<jedi hand wave> You don't serve strings here... *These* are the frayed knots you are looking for...
This one gets bonus points for spreading by appealing to the dark side of human nature with their offer of a new and exciting way to threadcrap. As if random popup ads don't snare enough people, now they are out there with an appealing product (at face value anyway) that users have to actively resist. Just when the idea of Facebook itself as a scam was gaining traction, now we have this shit-sandwich-deep-fried-in-vomit craze sweeping the 'tubes. The internet is doomed!
Unless you're getting spam from someone who's logging into the dead person's account to help their own Farmville game or whatnot, you shouldn't even be getting anything that would remind you it's still active.
NickJones08 is pushing up daisies in Farmville!
Play Farmville now and help him out!
if you can't handle top posting.
so C your way out of it
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Nobody is holding any of these folks accountable for their actions. It doesn't matter if there's a D or an R next to the name, they're all lying through their teeth and getting away with it.
To paraphrase:
Accountability? OH, oh I'm sorry, but this is abuse. Ah yes, you want country 12A, Just along the coast a bit.
Accountability is now defined as "complaining about the other party" instead of "complaining about what's bad for the country". The hunger for power runs so thoroughly through politics that someone on the way up will say/do whatever it takes, and bring anyone along for the ride that they need to get the job done. This is persisting even down to the local level, now that party affiliation is EVERYTHING when it comes to getting a message out. You could have an R next to your name, be pro gun-bans and pro-choice and pro taxes and supporters will line up praising you for not being a democrat.
Is it really "leftardism" if both sides are doing it? That would make the rights "leftards" and hell - that may very well tear the fabric of space-time apart!
Better known as "business as usual". It has simply moved on from "bury each others stories, deride anyone who says it's wrong" to "provide evidence of each other burying stories, deride anyone who says THATs wrong".
Pretty soon we will arrive at an exponential speedup of the great infinite loop where the right and left become entangled at the quantum level; their deep desire to be the opposite of each other will lead to them performing the exact same activities to counter each others strategies at a relativistic level. Heisenberg and Einstein will time travel from the past using a quantum relativity machine they invented in an alternate timeline to ours, apparently to put a stop to the breakdown but then reveal that they can only help us by letting history (of the future) take it's course.) After all, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.
Then, when that two party system effectively is gone, we will invent some new polarized decision-making scheme to replace it.
The circle of life, and all that.
Flexjobs.com you say. Interesting. Now, to set up an Amazon turk job offer to log into Flexjobs and perform some work (paying half of what flexjobs pays) and I can sit back and let the dough roll in! Arbitrage, where would we be without you!
If they don't have the will to obtain an International Standard Book Number for their Internationally published book, then why bother counting it at all? After all, I wrote a book in first grade, consisting of 16 pages of poorly drawn pictures and brutal (if accurate) grammar... Should this be counted too?
Obvious survey is obvious, film at 11. If you earn more than people in other states, you will spend more on gadgets than other states.
"The website allows voters to set their preferences beforehand, dragging and dropping Stephen Conroy at the bottom of the barrel and thrusting the Sex Party into pole position (as an utterly random example)."
Hah. Random. Right. Anyway, I LOLed. Thanks again, Australia!
So she took the pics and then "lost them"... but the support guy found them in her email. She obviously sent/received them at some point, and how she could just 'forget' they were in her email is hard to fathom. Then she sends the guy who WORKS FOR DELL a laptop? She may be the victim, but boy is she good at it.
Oh, and of course: PICS OR IT DIDNT HAPPEN
Let's see: financial giants, capable of spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on the servers, all the coders, access to the markets, and not to mention *the assets they trade at a profit*... Vs the guys who made 150k a year and just quit to form a startup. Somehow I doubt they are too worried.
The only chance these guys stand is to basically create a "better" program they can then sell back to the banks. The problem is, the programs themselves are very simple (the simpler the better, speed is all-important) so it comes down to the equipment they use that dictates the revenue. Unless they come up with a more profitable model than "buy low, sell high" they are probably going to have to beg for their old jobs back before too long.
The waaaambulance is on it's way, but the bridge over the Crymeafuckin river is out!!! It won't get here in time!!!
Accounting simply needs to know how to divide up IT costs and settled on this as a cost driver, possibly one of many, to determine what it takes to support each department.
Bingo. When they "split out" IT as a department, chances are they just said "Well so far we have been spending this much a year and providing exactly x in storage GB, y in support hours, z in application runtimes, etc. etc. etc. The number then gets tweaked based on inflation, changing requirements (more speed, more backups, more whatever per unit) but what it probably isn't changing based on is *competition* which is the only thing that will make it go down.
If it's practical, pay an internet based file host. Most likely it's not due to regulatory compliance, bandwidth issues, etc. You can try hosting the files yourself by taking your year's budget and buying a server, tape drive, etc. and running that direction, but this might be seen as infighting. How about a plan that gets your message across to all of the involved parties?
State your (generously estimated) storage plans for the year, deliver them to IT and await the budget numbers. Since it's done monthly, they need to ramp up capacity but can't just ramp it down even though you can cut back usage in a month's time. Next month, cut back as hard as you can: delete all old archives, switch to local storage for anything thats not 100% essential, switch to backups in the form of a USB disk on someone's desk if that's what it takes. When the payout to IT drops to 10% of what it was, let them squirm as you report to your boss how much money you are "saving the company" while IT is busy laying off support staff to meet their numbers.
Why not just buy the cheapest one you can, see if it works, and move up only if necessary? Marketing fog will always try to wring more money out of you (in ANY consumer product area), but it only will if you let it. HDMI is no different; if the plug fits then it will almost always work, if not there is probably a special case, and a Google search will resolve your problem in less than 5 minutes.
There isn't an intelligent person the planet who denies that global warming is real. The debate is all about causation.
Yes, it is now that the incontrovertible evidence is mounting. Of course, you will still find people eager to attack climate change scientists because they talked amongst themselves about the viability of certain data. Or perhaps news organizations (go ahead, guess which one) that go out of their way to announce "It's snowing" as evidence that Al Gore's book on climate change is pure fiction.
Other than that, yeah, it's only about causation. Oh wait, I think a "scientist" just observed that the temperature in Rush Limbaugh's studio was unusually low for this time of year... Now we have to get this debate out again. The ice on Greenland is growing! The polar bears are plentiful (on shore) and simply avoid the water out of a natural phobia, not because the ice is disappearing (it isn't!) Clearly there is reason to doubt this "global warming" thing of which you speak.
It's undeniable. Great. That clears it up. Where is the report that offers "undeniable" proof of God, and the "undeniable" inevitable end of crude oil deposits in the Earth? I am going to file these with my "undeniable" reports on Sky being blue, Sun being warm, and water being wet.
honestly, i think that you did something wrong with your test app. there are tons of highly intricate apps that do not request permission to make calls. now, if your app wanted to go to the background when a call came and relaunch when the call is over that's something different. however, that permission is "read phone state" which does not sound the same at all.
Yes, "read phone state" sounds totally different than "make phone calls" or whatever the exact verbage is... /sarcasm
Cellphones went mainstream about 10 years ago, and even smartphones like those based on Android are very common. This means they are in the market where you need it to be so simple that someone with a barely functioning grasp of English could figure it out.
To software engineers, there might be a difference between "read phone state" and "make phone calls" but to a layperson there really isn't. You really need to look at it with the "would it work in a car" mentality: is it simple enough to be put into a car and be figured out by anyone with a mild amount of training in "not crashing"? Hint: "turn key to start" is good, an arrow indicating which way to turn it is better, and "please select from the available options: Activate engine controls. Activate engine starter motor. Activate seat belt latch." is NOT going to go over well.
All this nonsense about "well the user was advised that SIM activity could be perturbed by the inclusion of application permission" as an excuse for a poorly implemented security platform needs to be thrown out the window unless you want Android to turn into Windows Mobile 6 in a matter of months while security and usability problems fly out of the woodwork and people flock to a different platform without such headaches.
He may not want to accept being wheelchair bound but he could have a fulfilling life with ALS, even though the chances are relatively slim. He should take up physics, after all Stephen Hawkig isn't going to live *forever*. If he really wants to be an organ donor, he should do what every one else does: file the appropriate paperwork at the DMV and buy a motorcycle*.
*As a motorcycle owner, I am comfortable with this joke.
It's not impossible. Remember, no one is paying to be on Facebook (well except the advertisers) so no one has a buy-in mentality other than the time spent on their profiles. If there were a site that offered better privacy (by default), the ability to "suck" all the profile information from Facebook (simple API trick) and better features (like NO FUCKING FARMVILLE ALLOWED) then I think a lot of people would switch. Heck, you could have a service that simply pushed/pulled Facebook info to sync it up with this new site, so you wouldn't have to give up your facebook contacts as much as you would just have to give up visiting their godawful website.
But that would make too much sense!
I hate it when people make scales to grade something on, and then never use the damn entirety of the scale. See also game sites that have a 1-10 rating for a game but never really use anything below 7.
I like to think of the 1-6 on that scale as serving the same purpose as the seatbelt. Sure, almost every car trip has no use for the seatbelt, but you are most likely (and rightly so) using it anyway. Should you ever see a 6 or below, being able to comprehend how much it sucks *just might save your life*.
I'm sure Facebook will say this is a good thing, and that those users wanted that information made available since that seems to be their default position on security and privacy.
Mark Zuckerberg actually said exactly that in a recent interview (with NPR, google it) when confronted with the question of "why not just make the default 'private'?" he quipped "We think users want to be seen". He is probably right, but there are way more people out there who are clueless about their privacy and mistakenly disclose tons of information than those who are well informed and intentionally disclose tons of information. Assuming the whole world is made up of perfectly informed adults who consent to sharing all of their information is a pretty big reach.
They might as well have said "millions of home telephone numbers LEAKED via paper-based archive deposited randomly on doorsteps ALL ACROSS TEH COUNTRY!!!"
Worthless headline; it should read "Facebook name and URL database created from already public information, nothing to see here, move along"
when it gets to -30 in your jeans pocket/coat pocket, you probably have bigger problems then your cell-phone battery..
What about the pockets on my spacesuit, you insensitive clod!
And all of the expected gestures are here: two-finger scrolling, pinch to zoom, fingertip rotation, and three- and four-finger swipes.
Ah, nope. You missed one.