..famine issues within the country, overall standard and quality of living issues, along with all forms of violent crime and corruption have, apparently, been solved by the Ethiopian government because they now have time to worry about what the fuck is going on with Facebook.</sarcasm>
Not that I'm a big fan of all the bling and bells and whistles from XP onwards, but this is just another way in which Win8 is the PlaySkool OS. Do. Not. Want.
Could it be as simple as: since the screen is so small and you'd tend to scroll around to view the content you actually want, you're scrolling the ads off the screen and therefore don't see them, in addition to conditioning yourself over time to ignore ads as much as possible?
If this is the direction the Internet is going, then it's getting close to time to dump it completely. What they're describing is a total and complete invasion of people's privacy, and I for one won't stand for it.
Really? So we're all forced by law to subscribe to these "walled gardens", or are jailed? Have our livelihoods taken from us? Or perhaps instead you're just another of the brainwashed masses who weren't raised to think for themselves, convinced that there's no reason to fight anything, no point in "going against the grain", instead just yielding to false peer-pressure? If so please sterilize yourself, we need fewer people like you in the gene pool.
You want to be "saved" from this technology? Then don't buy it in the first place! Nobody is twisting your arm. Intel Corp exists for one reason only: to make money. You don't give them money, they do something else. You don't want a camera in your living room watching everything you do (which is straight out of 1984 by the way) then don't buy anything that has that technology in it, damnit!
"Worrisome" doesn't even begin to cover this so far as I'm concerned. Not only is this a blatant attempt to essentially extort money out of the U.S. and other relatively rich countries, it's also an attack on net neutrality on a global scale. Crap like this needs to be immediately terminated with extreme prejudice.
When Minority Report first came out in theatres, I was intrigued and went to see it. It's the only movie I've ever walked out on. Why? Because the very idea of being arrested and convicted of a crime you haven't yet convicted pissed me off to the point where I couldn't stand to watch another minute, so I left. Some years later I made myself watch the whole movie on TV but you get the point. This is the Slippery Slope that makes all previous slippery slopes look like absolute Amateur Night. Police, prosecutors, and judges are all just human beings, and we've all seen examples of all the above engaging in prejudicial or just plain careless behaviour, arresting and convicting people based on their own personal bias or worse. The last thing we need is phantom data on "potential" crimes that haven't yet been committed being used as a reason to arrest someone. This isn't even considering how such a thing would be used for political purposes; no one would be safe from arrest ever again.
For purposes of my original comment, include "installing covert cameras without informing the general public" as part of the class of activities covered by the word 'clandestine', as oppposed to things like intersection-watching cameras (which are visibly obvious) and red light cameras (which, as I recall, there were and are news stories about all the time). Also, you have to admit that if the police didn't even know about them until the subject came up and they inquired, then that's pretty clandestine, don't you think?;-)
Our Supreme Court is made up of mere men and women, flesh and bone, appointed by other men and women made of mere flesh and bone; none of the above are omniscient, nor omnipotent, and all the above can be removed from their seemingly-lofty positions -- but only when The People wake up, take notice that these individuals are not representing Their interests, and replace them with individuals who do. I still have every hope that the American Spring is coming; change is on the wind all over the world, the U.S. is no exception, and those "individuals" of whom I speak know damned well that it's going to happen, in one form or another, to one degree or another -- and ever like the calcified, they fight the future, fight change, but they will not succeed.
You're assuming that they weren't clandestinely placed by a clandestine three-alphabet-letter government agency.
If this sort of shit keeps up, I wouldn't be surprised if certain people start destroying ALL public cameras on general principles -- and I wouldn't blame anyone who did. George Orwell must be spinning in his grave about now and/or laughing riotously, wherever he might be, because He Told Us So and we apparently didn't listen.
I work with Win8 at an undisclosed large corporation doing driver testing. I won't be using Win8, not even if I can manage to get a copy for free. I'd sooner dump everything and jump to linux. Win8 is the "Playskool" OS, it holds your hand and hides important things from you more than any other version of Windows I've ever used (all the way back to v3.1) and I just can't stand that.
Rememeber MySpace? No? Vaguely, maybe? How about AOL? AOL isn't entirely in the same category but it's close. Facebook will go the way of the dinosaur just like AOL, and MySpace, and LiveJournal, and whatever comes after Facebook will sooner than you think Not Be The New Hotness anymore. What we're seeing with Facebook today is just the opening overture of it's swan-song, and I for one will not miss it.
Most people don't sit alone and listen to rock music, ignoring everything and everyone else around them. They go to concerts, they discuss it with their friends. Porn? How many guys do you know that sit around in groups fapping to porn? None? That's the answer I expect. Video games? Unless you host lan-parties all the time, you're sitting at home alone all night long playing online, and you may as well be playing against an AI for all the human interaction it gives you. In-game chat, even voice, is no substitute for interaction in person with living human beings. While we're demonizing video games and porn for ruining people's ability to be sociable, I'd like to add "social networking" to the list, because all it does is give people and excuse to NOT be social with other people, instead staying at home and staring at a screen for hours on end. We need to unplug, go outside, and actually meet and interact with people, not sit in front of a screen all the time and lie to ourselves that we're "connecting", because we are NOT.
Really? Do tell! Does it have a GPS receiver in it? WWVB 60kHz receiver? A high-accuracy TCXO or Rubidium oscillator? WiFi receiver allowing it to be synced to an NIST NTP server? Well? What?
Actually, the solution is obvious, and inexpensive to implement: Highly sensitive GPS receivers are available for a small investment, allowing you to run a high accuracy time server on your private network without having to have a connection to the public Internet in order to contact NTP servers. I've been using one for years now, syncing my desktop machine every minute.
Never mind that it flies right in the face of the 1st Amendment rights of every citizen of this country. Yet more attempts at shit legislation with the lame-ass excuse of "It's to protect the children!". Here's a better idea for you asshat politicians: How about you protect the Constitution of this country instead? Do THAT for the children!"
Oh, gee, silly me, how could I possibly think that my own real-life experiences and observations of the dozens of people I know who are local to me could possibly be any reflection on reality?
Fuck Facebook, and fuck so-called "social media" in general. You're claiming that it's bringing people together, when all I see is it's keeping people apart. Words and pictures on a page are no substitute for actually connecting with people in person, and it never will. If using the internet (or your phone or writing a letter for that matter) is all that's available to you then you have my sympathy, and by all means make use of it, but if you're just being socially avoidant or just plain lazy, then you're doing yourself and everyone you know a disservice by not making the effort to connect in person with them. And NO, I'm not a troll, and just because someone doesn't agree with me doesn't make me an idiot or a Luddite, I've already been there and done all this, and my opinion based on my own experiences is that it's much healthier and productive from a human standpoint to maintain personal, in-person relationships with people you know -- so don't waste your acidic comments and mod points on me.
Truth. Do they really think that anything they do is going to stop people from filesharing? I don't think anything short of dragging suspected filesharers out into the middle of the street and brutally murdering them for all eyes to see is going to deter anyone, and of course that's not going to happen. New ways to fileshare will evolve, and they'll go broke trying to stop it. In all seriousness winning the hearts and minds of everyone would stop it, but the MPAA/RIAA lack what is required to accomplish that.
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..famine issues within the country, overall standard and quality of living issues, along with all forms of violent crime and corruption have, apparently, been solved by the Ethiopian government because they now have time to worry about what the fuck is going on with Facebook.</sarcasm>
*facepalm*
Not that I'm a big fan of all the bling and bells and whistles from XP onwards, but this is just another way in which Win8 is the PlaySkool OS.
Do. Not. Want.
Could it be as simple as: since the screen is so small and you'd tend to scroll around to view the content you actually want, you're scrolling the ads off the screen and therefore don't see them, in addition to conditioning yourself over time to ignore ads as much as possible?
If this is the direction the Internet is going, then it's getting close to time to dump it completely. What they're describing is a total and complete invasion of people's privacy, and I for one won't stand for it.
Really? So we're all forced by law to subscribe to these "walled gardens", or are jailed? Have our livelihoods taken from us? Or perhaps instead you're just another of the brainwashed masses who weren't raised to think for themselves, convinced that there's no reason to fight anything, no point in "going against the grain", instead just yielding to false peer-pressure? If so please sterilize yourself, we need fewer people like you in the gene pool.
You want to be "saved" from this technology? Then don't buy it in the first place! Nobody is twisting your arm. Intel Corp exists for one reason only: to make money. You don't give them money, they do something else. You don't want a camera in your living room watching everything you do (which is straight out of 1984 by the way) then don't buy anything that has that technology in it, damnit!
Sure they did, because criminals don't want to be recorded committing their crimes and get rather upset with the people doing the recording.
"Worrisome" doesn't even begin to cover this so far as I'm concerned. Not only is this a blatant attempt to essentially extort money out of the U.S. and other relatively rich countries, it's also an attack on net neutrality on a global scale. Crap like this needs to be immediately terminated with extreme prejudice.
*facepalm* You're going to focus on me walking out of a movie instead of the actual point of my comment? Seriously?
When Minority Report first came out in theatres, I was intrigued and went to see it. It's the only movie I've ever walked out on. Why? Because the very idea of being arrested and convicted of a crime you haven't yet convicted pissed me off to the point where I couldn't stand to watch another minute, so I left. Some years later I made myself watch the whole movie on TV but you get the point. This is the Slippery Slope that makes all previous slippery slopes look like absolute Amateur Night. Police, prosecutors, and judges are all just human beings, and we've all seen examples of all the above engaging in prejudicial or just plain careless behaviour, arresting and convicting people based on their own personal bias or worse. The last thing we need is phantom data on "potential" crimes that haven't yet been committed being used as a reason to arrest someone. This isn't even considering how such a thing would be used for political purposes; no one would be safe from arrest ever again.
For purposes of my original comment, include "installing covert cameras without informing the general public" as part of the class of activities covered by the word 'clandestine', as oppposed to things like intersection-watching cameras (which are visibly obvious) and red light cameras (which, as I recall, there were and are news stories about all the time). Also, you have to admit that if the police didn't even know about them until the subject came up and they inquired, then that's pretty clandestine, don't you think? ;-)
Our Supreme Court is made up of mere men and women, flesh and bone, appointed by other men and women made of mere flesh and bone; none of the above are omniscient, nor omnipotent, and all the above can be removed from their seemingly-lofty positions -- but only when The People wake up, take notice that these individuals are not representing Their interests, and replace them with individuals who do. I still have every hope that the American Spring is coming; change is on the wind all over the world, the U.S. is no exception, and those "individuals" of whom I speak know damned well that it's going to happen, in one form or another, to one degree or another -- and ever like the calcified, they fight the future, fight change, but they will not succeed.
You're assuming that they weren't clandestinely placed by a clandestine three-alphabet-letter government agency.
If this sort of shit keeps up, I wouldn't be surprised if certain people start destroying ALL public cameras on general principles -- and I wouldn't blame anyone who did. George Orwell must be spinning in his grave about now and/or laughing riotously, wherever he might be, because He Told Us So and we apparently didn't listen.
I am a fan of using "NeverNeverLAN"
I work with Win8 at an undisclosed large corporation doing driver testing. I won't be using Win8, not even if I can manage to get a copy for free. I'd sooner dump everything and jump to linux. Win8 is the "Playskool" OS, it holds your hand and hides important things from you more than any other version of Windows I've ever used (all the way back to v3.1) and I just can't stand that.
I'm not "failing to mention" Google, I'm ignoring it because it's an irrelevant failure to begin with.
Rememeber MySpace? No? Vaguely, maybe? How about AOL? AOL isn't entirely in the same category but it's close. Facebook will go the way of the dinosaur just like AOL, and MySpace, and LiveJournal, and whatever comes after Facebook will sooner than you think Not Be The New Hotness anymore. What we're seeing with Facebook today is just the opening overture of it's swan-song, and I for one will not miss it.
Most people don't sit alone and listen to rock music, ignoring everything and everyone else around them. They go to concerts, they discuss it with their friends. Porn? How many guys do you know that sit around in groups fapping to porn? None? That's the answer I expect. Video games? Unless you host lan-parties all the time, you're sitting at home alone all night long playing online, and you may as well be playing against an AI for all the human interaction it gives you. In-game chat, even voice, is no substitute for interaction in person with living human beings. While we're demonizing video games and porn for ruining people's ability to be sociable, I'd like to add "social networking" to the list, because all it does is give people and excuse to NOT be social with other people, instead staying at home and staring at a screen for hours on end. We need to unplug, go outside, and actually meet and interact with people, not sit in front of a screen all the time and lie to ourselves that we're "connecting", because we are NOT.
Really? Do tell! Does it have a GPS receiver in it? WWVB 60kHz receiver? A high-accuracy TCXO or Rubidium oscillator? WiFi receiver allowing it to be synced to an NIST NTP server? Well? What?
Actually, the solution is obvious, and inexpensive to implement: Highly sensitive GPS receivers are available for a small investment, allowing you to run a high accuracy time server on your private network without having to have a connection to the public Internet in order to contact NTP servers. I've been using one for years now, syncing my desktop machine every minute.
Never mind that it flies right in the face of the 1st Amendment rights of every citizen of this country. Yet more attempts at shit legislation with the lame-ass excuse of "It's to protect the children!". Here's a better idea for you asshat politicians: How about you protect the Constitution of this country instead? Do THAT for the children!"
Oh, gee, silly me, how could I possibly think that my own real-life experiences and observations of the dozens of people I know who are local to me could possibly be any reflection on reality?
Fuck Facebook, and fuck so-called "social media" in general. You're claiming that it's bringing people together, when all I see is it's keeping people apart. Words and pictures on a page are no substitute for actually connecting with people in person, and it never will. If using the internet (or your phone or writing a letter for that matter) is all that's available to you then you have my sympathy, and by all means make use of it, but if you're just being socially avoidant or just plain lazy, then you're doing yourself and everyone you know a disservice by not making the effort to connect in person with them. And NO, I'm not a troll, and just because someone doesn't agree with me doesn't make me an idiot or a Luddite, I've already been there and done all this, and my opinion based on my own experiences is that it's much healthier and productive from a human standpoint to maintain personal, in-person relationships with people you know -- so don't waste your acidic comments and mod points on me.
Truth. Do they really think that anything they do is going to stop people from filesharing? I don't think anything short of dragging suspected filesharers out into the middle of the street and brutally murdering them for all eyes to see is going to deter anyone, and of course that's not going to happen. New ways to fileshare will evolve, and they'll go broke trying to stop it. In all seriousness winning the hearts and minds of everyone would stop it, but the MPAA/RIAA lack what is required to accomplish that.
Play major chords. If a note is incorrect then the chord is dissonant and you have an error condition.