If you're running Linux as your desktop OS, I suspect you have the necessary knowledge & skills to change the default search engine in your web browser
Exactly, I was just about to ask the same. I cannot think of any social network which I don't find annoying.
The only and last one I have ever joined is LinkedIn. Being business-oriented, I found it to be at least marginally serious and useful; but as it turns out it is infested with spammers (so-called "LIONs",) attention whores, recruiters and other kinds of human scum. Essentially just like any other social network in existence.
Somebody else will do it again, this time anonymously and with an evil robot that hides its tracks. It only takes perl, LWP, MySQL, tor and a little time and imagination to do so.
We are talking the Ukraine here. Let's not automatically superimpose American sensibilities on someone that comes from a drastically different culture and lifestyle.
I do not superimpose American sensibilities. I am not even American, to begin with.
Let's have a little charity for someone who hasn't grown up as extravagantly privileged as us.
Crime is much more often caused by laziness and stupidity than poverty.
Notice, in this particualr case, that one of the sacks of shit said that he didn't "think a lot about ethics". He never said about living in poverty, feeding his siblings or whatever. Sorry, I have absolutely no sympathy for him.
So did I. The sense of ethics does evolve with aging, but who hasn't developed any by the age of 20 should be considered retarded, both intellectually and emotionally.
Then again, I wasn't a piece of scum.
"Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them."
Anyone familiar with the mechanics of Facebook's rise to prominence should not be surprised at the alleged ethical and legal violations.
Zuckerberg et al. hacked and social engineered their way into dozens of college freshman admit lists so they could be the first to get new students online. This is not speculation.
The "virality" of early facebook was not viral at all, it was good old fashioned spam to ill-gotten mailing lists.
Question remains, who is so stupid as to actually give out a password?
The feature Like2Byte talks about seems to be fairly common these days, not only on Facebook or LinkedIn, so I'd say many people are dumb enough to use it. Sadly, many of them work in IT.
Why do you think that when I used it, I changed my password, gave them the changed one, and immediately after changed it to a third, unrelated password?
What about your correspondents? Did all of them agree with your intention to submit their email addresses to Facebook?
I, for one, tend to become extremely pissed whenever somebody does this to me -- most of those who have are no longer on my list of friends.
Mark created facebook by stealing it out from under his friends (seriously, proof has come out about this), believes that people don't want privacy and now hacks other people's accounts.
This is a serious allegation. With all of the information Facebook aggregates, they potentially could unlock many people's emails and various other accounts with the family and personal information.
What makes you believe they already don't do it?
Facebook, just like many other similar sites, has a feature which allows import of contacts from third-party mail accounts if given necessary credentials, and most people are stupid enough to actually use it. Who can guarantee that those credentials aren't cached and used for any other purpose than advertised?
I will be probably modded down as a troll for saying this -- but Facebook users are stupid for ignoring all the evidence of Facebook's true nature and they actually deserve whatever Zuckerberg does to them.
I wouldn't exactly call Wikipedia a "success." Just because something is popular doesn't mean the world is better off for it to have been made. I submit as proof of concept: 4chan.
I couldn't agree more. Wikipedia is just one of the landfills of the contemporary Internet, along with 4chan, Failbook and other overhyped sites.
I'm not that tech-savy and I have XP and Linux Ubuntu partitioned on my PC. I'm happy with Ubuntu, but I would recommend keeping both OS and use a dual-boot, just in case; but Ubuntu has been great to me so far.
Why do people still partition their computers and use dual boot, now that virtualization is so common and convenient? Just askin'...
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I don't see any mod point assignments so I'm not sure. Are you trying to be funny?
Do you really find it difficult to deduct, are trying to be sarcastic, or disagree with me?
If you're running Linux as your desktop OS, I suspect you have the necessary knowledge & skills to change the default search engine in your web browser
Perhaps back in 1997. Now, not necessarily, no.
Why? No, seriously, why?
Canonical is a for-profit business that builds a seriously kick-ass distro of Linux
They hardly build anything. Their business model is essentially ripping off Debian.
Isn't that redundant?
Exactly, I was just about to ask the same. I cannot think of any social network which I don't find annoying.
The only and last one I have ever joined is LinkedIn. Being business-oriented, I found it to be at least marginally serious and useful; but as it turns out it is infested with spammers (so-called "LIONs",) attention whores, recruiters and other kinds of human scum. Essentially just like any other social network in existence.
Somebody else will do it again, this time anonymously and with an evil robot that hides its tracks. It only takes perl, LWP, MySQL, tor and a little time and imagination to do so.
Fuck you, Zuckerberg.
We are talking the Ukraine here. Let's not automatically superimpose American sensibilities on someone that comes from a drastically different culture and lifestyle.
I do not superimpose American sensibilities. I am not even American, to begin with.
Let's have a little charity for someone who hasn't grown up as extravagantly privileged as us.
Crime is much more often caused by laziness and stupidity than poverty.
Notice, in this particualr case, that one of the sacks of shit said that he didn't "think a lot about ethics". He never said about living in poverty, feeding his siblings or whatever. Sorry, I have absolutely no sympathy for him.
Funny, I did think about ethics when I was 20.
So did I. The sense of ethics does evolve with aging, but who hasn't developed any by the age of 20 should be considered retarded, both intellectually and emotionally.
Then again, I wasn't a piece of scum.
"Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them."
I still won't buy a car from them.
Good choice, boycott those losers.
Most likely SAAB technology. They were first who intended to use HUD in a car, after all.
Tnx $god SAAB continues its life outside GM. FU GM!
Um, 1950 called and they want their outdated and incorrect rhetoric back.
Please mod this guy up. I almost gave up my hope to hear the voice of reason in this sad thread.
In a democracy, yes. What choice do the Chinese have?
Explain, then, what is exactly democracy and what makes you believe that you are more free than a regular Chinese citizen.
I'd love to brighten the lives of regular Chinese people
Really? Try leaving them alone and letting them live their lives, then.
Anyone familiar with the mechanics of Facebook's rise to prominence should not be surprised at the alleged ethical and legal violations. Zuckerberg et al. hacked and social engineered their way into dozens of college freshman admit lists so they could be the first to get new students online. This is not speculation. The "virality" of early facebook was not viral at all, it was good old fashioned spam to ill-gotten mailing lists.
Interesting and relevant. Please mod up!
"____ is just a douchebag who was at the right place at the right time."
This is often the case with many very rich people.. (mark cuban and bill gates come to mind)
Or Steve Jobs.
Question remains, who is so stupid as to actually give out a password?
The feature Like2Byte talks about seems to be fairly common these days, not only on Facebook or LinkedIn, so I'd say many people are dumb enough to use it. Sadly, many of them work in IT.
Why do you think that when I used it, I changed my password, gave them the changed one, and immediately after changed it to a third, unrelated password?
What about your correspondents? Did all of them agree with your intention to submit their email addresses to Facebook?
I, for one, tend to become extremely pissed whenever somebody does this to me -- most of those who have are no longer on my list of friends.
Mark created facebook by stealing it out from under his friends (seriously, proof has come out about this), believes that people don't want privacy and now hacks other people's accounts.
Thank all the sheep for enabling Mark.
This is a serious allegation. With all of the information Facebook aggregates, they potentially could unlock many people's emails and various other accounts with the family and personal information.
What makes you believe they already don't do it?
Facebook, just like many other similar sites, has a feature which allows import of contacts from third-party mail accounts if given necessary credentials, and most people are stupid enough to actually use it. Who can guarantee that those credentials aren't cached and used for any other purpose than advertised?
I will be probably modded down as a troll for saying this -- but Facebook users are stupid for ignoring all the evidence of Facebook's true nature and they actually deserve whatever Zuckerberg does to them.
I love how this got modded insightful. Only on slashdot.
I was shocked myself, believe me.
But rock on dude.
Thanks. Do you want to be my friend?
I wouldn't exactly call Wikipedia a "success." Just because something is popular doesn't mean the world is better off for it to have been made. I submit as proof of concept: 4chan.
I couldn't agree more. Wikipedia is just one of the landfills of the contemporary Internet, along with 4chan, Failbook and other overhyped sites.
Because
[X] that "other OS" has legal restrictions on virtualization.
Any details and examples?
I'm not that tech-savy and I have XP and Linux Ubuntu partitioned on my PC. I'm happy with Ubuntu, but I would recommend keeping both OS and use a dual-boot, just in case; but Ubuntu has been great to me so far.
Why do people still partition their computers and use dual boot, now that virtualization is so common and convenient? Just askin'...
Here is a good one for ya.
... it wants your comment back.
Seriously folks, this question is lame on so many levels.
Thanks for your excellent comment, especially for the link to Solove's paper.