Imagine the kudos that would come about and the prized badge that a few pics without this tag would hold.
It's time people were no longer brainwashed into this aspiration for what is clearly not possible without a few layers of photoshop.
We'd all be a bit nicer to each other and ourselves if we started to accept the fact that no-one is perfect.
I have to agree re Editors please do your job - this is an interesting story, but christ did it need so much fluff in it? get to the point already! Just cause someone is a regular contributor doesn't mean their words are sacred!
I watched an infomercial on electric vegetables once.
I think the tide is turning, people now rip the piss from Amazon obvious fake reviews. But there's always goign to be a percentile that you wouldn't want helping you across the road.
Because once every seven years means you have to smell as good as you possibly can before embarking upon a hormone filled sexual conquest fest.
Might not stand up in court...
seriously, you can get wifi on planes now. 3g on your phone... I use google reader on the train on the way to work, and use gchat on the train on the way home. It's easy to be connected.
This equates to some 5% of the workforce, including 58 of 2900 in the UK. This financials filing wasn't due til 5.30 EST, so they must have been pretty jump about it.
AOL was in Dublin for a long time, and they moved to Waterford, and then Waterford lost out.
Soon the only tech place in Dublin will be eBay - if they count?
So here's the definitive crash test results: http://tinyurl.com/6obkkn
Looked like a lot of fun,and kinda proved that HD's are the tech version of the plasticbag - they are difficult to get deal with...
This just seems to be another way for the middle class fear mongers to make the internet into a dark and terrible place that should be avoided at all costs, to provoke parents to remove access to the internet from their kids. Make the internet a dangerous evil place where in every site where people go to converse (albeit in a very annoying way on facebook) there is a cabal of terrible folks doing terrible deeds.
Let's face facts - the internet is a microcosm of real life - just magnified because of it's relative compactness. You are going to get potential nasties in any place - we are creatures that like to communicate. As someone else has posted here - let's just think ourselves lucky that it's a damn sight easier to keep an eye on people online than it is real life. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, isn't that the saying?
Isn't this similar to the report a while back saying that our brains are becoming affected by google browsing - information overload if it arrives in huge chunks is difficult to assimilate. Imagine you are on a plane for 10 hours - the white noise of the engine, and the bland colours - then you are off the plane, into the airport, a bustling place - you are tired, the airport is busy, and you feel overwhelmed.
I find it interesting that science based Phd students are able to be this creative - they are dealing with very intangible things, and correlating them to a form of communication that they are traditionally not known to be able to identify with. I am not sure sure how I would equate dance to my line of work, so more power to them!
So would you want to do more about it if the amount of spam you got in ads and junk mail through your door meant you weren't able to get out of your house, or you could, but it took you 20 minutes longer than normal?
I have the right to not have the net flucked up by idiots who think they can do what they want to the detriment of others, and also by idiots who don't know how to keep their machines free of this muck?
If this traffic was offline permanently - the net would be a quicker place?
Ok, am I being thick here, but why can't some enterprising soul (or organisation), use the algorhythm to take control of the bots and then gets them to purge or go inactive?
People who arent savvy enough to know what speed their connection is - well, they deserve to get a crap service.
The issue here is unfair and misleading use of capping. I have a BT Business Broadband account - even though the line goes into a residential location, I pay roughly double what a residential customer pays. The fair usage policy that BT rolls out to me once every two months is still activated by home user levels...BT now cap for a month at a time - from 8 meg down to 1 meg. BT think they can do what they like because they are BT. As oon as my contract is up I am goign to go to a different supplier.
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There's a hyperdriven black hole careering all around Northern Europe? That's a hot mess waiting to happen.
Imagine the kudos that would come about and the prized badge that a few pics without this tag would hold. It's time people were no longer brainwashed into this aspiration for what is clearly not possible without a few layers of photoshop. We'd all be a bit nicer to each other and ourselves if we started to accept the fact that no-one is perfect.
At least it's not going to broil us out of our skulls while we are alive...Just gently chargrill us..
I have to agree re Editors please do your job - this is an interesting story, but christ did it need so much fluff in it? get to the point already! Just cause someone is a regular contributor doesn't mean their words are sacred!
It's the way the reflecting mirror images the object I believe. The timing for this is spectacular, if it does start to grow, we are kinda stuffed.
it means to make fun of, but more viciously.
I watched an infomercial on electric vegetables once. I think the tide is turning, people now rip the piss from Amazon obvious fake reviews. But there's always goign to be a percentile that you wouldn't want helping you across the road.
We all know this shit goes on, all the time, but to email about it? they deserve more than 300k fine.. Will it stop this from happening? I doubt it.
So we should all arm ourselves with clorox water pistols?
Seriously .. resistancy to UV means they are tough buggers to kill?
Clorox is not gonna phase these tiny invaders...
Because once every seven years means you have to smell as good as you possibly can before embarking upon a hormone filled sexual conquest fest. Might not stand up in court...
Miaow! Come on, as someone pointed out this is available on imap, it's not news. Who really reads offline?
seriously, you can get wifi on planes now. 3g on your phone ... I use google reader on the train on the way to work, and use gchat on the train on the way home. It's easy to be connected.
This equates to some 5% of the workforce, including 58 of 2900 in the UK. This financials filing wasn't due til 5.30 EST, so they must have been pretty jump about it.
So if I drink 4 cups a day I won't get Alzheimers and I will hallucinate .... good, cause i want to remember the good ones.
AOL was in Dublin for a long time, and they moved to Waterford, and then Waterford lost out. Soon the only tech place in Dublin will be eBay - if they count?
So here's the definitive crash test results: http://tinyurl.com/6obkkn Looked like a lot of fun,and kinda proved that HD's are the tech version of the plasticbag - they are difficult to get deal with...
This just seems to be another way for the middle class fear mongers to make the internet into a dark and terrible place that should be avoided at all costs, to provoke parents to remove access to the internet from their kids. Make the internet a dangerous evil place where in every site where people go to converse (albeit in a very annoying way on facebook) there is a cabal of terrible folks doing terrible deeds. Let's face facts - the internet is a microcosm of real life - just magnified because of it's relative compactness. You are going to get potential nasties in any place - we are creatures that like to communicate. As someone else has posted here - let's just think ourselves lucky that it's a damn sight easier to keep an eye on people online than it is real life. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, isn't that the saying?
Isn't this similar to the report a while back saying that our brains are becoming affected by google browsing - information overload if it arrives in huge chunks is difficult to assimilate. Imagine you are on a plane for 10 hours - the white noise of the engine, and the bland colours - then you are off the plane, into the airport, a bustling place - you are tired, the airport is busy, and you feel overwhelmed.
I find it interesting that science based Phd students are able to be this creative - they are dealing with very intangible things, and correlating them to a form of communication that they are traditionally not known to be able to identify with. I am not sure sure how I would equate dance to my line of work, so more power to them!
So would you want to do more about it if the amount of spam you got in ads and junk mail through your door meant you weren't able to get out of your house, or you could, but it took you 20 minutes longer than normal?
I have the right to not have the net flucked up by idiots who think they can do what they want to the detriment of others, and also by idiots who don't know how to keep their machines free of this muck? If this traffic was offline permanently - the net would be a quicker place?
Ok, am I being thick here, but why can't some enterprising soul (or organisation), use the algorhythm to take control of the bots and then gets them to purge or go inactive?
People who arent savvy enough to know what speed their connection is - well, they deserve to get a crap service. The issue here is unfair and misleading use of capping. I have a BT Business Broadband account - even though the line goes into a residential location, I pay roughly double what a residential customer pays. The fair usage policy that BT rolls out to me once every two months is still activated by home user levels...BT now cap for a month at a time - from 8 meg down to 1 meg. BT think they can do what they like because they are BT. As oon as my contract is up I am goign to go to a different supplier.
Raincoat good, sweatstink bad.