This is pretty much how I feel about it. I had a large, active group of friends on there - facebook eschewers, academics, etc. It had the feel similar to pre-Eternal-September Usenet. It's made me want to abandon all google products - which is going to cause trouble for me because I use Android on Google FI. I mean, until they decide they're not going to continue with those either. I'm firmly now in the "don't trust 'em" camp after being one of their biggest boosters among my peers. Back to the agony of running my own mail server...
Cunard's website is listing a interior cabin on the next sail of the QM2 for $799 (NYC->Southhampton, Apr 21 https://www.cunard.com/en-us/f... ) whereas Delta's cheapest seat is $878. (NYC->Gatwick).
Oh god, I feel your pain. I ran mailservers for almost 20 years and there wasn't a day gone by where they didn't command hours of attention because of a spammer, or a joe job (pre SPF or DKIM), or a blacklisting host, or a stupid reply-all'ing user, or... and this is 100% true... one user trying to copy an entire terabyte fileserver into an email. These were the days when in a small company you could generally trust users to not do that kind of stupid shit. Until you learned you couldn't trust users not to do that kind of stupid shit.
Yeah, and even though 99% of people will get annoyed and click the shit away from the ad, even a 1% response on direct marketing, depending on what it is, can be considered MASSIVE. So yes, they can afford the ill will. I've run ad campaigns that were deliberately designed to annoy, cajole, irritate - and when people started bitching about it on social media the response rate SOARED.
... since back in the day I was writing facebook apps and in the end user agreements you were made to agree to said something along the lines of being "obligated" to not misuse customer data. The use of the word "obligated" made me giggle. We'll give you access to nefarious shit, but you're "obligated" not to sniff around.
Many media outlets do sell premium placement. It can be either an upcharge, or a way to calm a problem customer. Ad placement is a balancing act: too many ads and you're losing the individual ad's mindshare, too few ads and it seems unpopular so you wonder why would you advertise there.
I think a more interesting question might be, where exactly did all this huge quantity of free flowing water go? What cataclysmic thing happened to make it all dry up or freeze underground?
> we witnessed the very beginning of history's next social revolution. Umm... one slightly-more-coordinated-than-a-15-year old skript kiddie and hudreds of thousands of annoyed users (who are annoyed in a would like to give the kiddies a red hot poker enema way) does not a revolution make. I'm just waiting for someone to throw in the typical, tired old 'kiddie-exploit' relativist blabbering that we do it cuz we can, to show you whats wrong with your software when these particular attacks could very well be spawned of no other 'failure' of the technology other than that those sites allow anyone to use them. Do we have people maliciously jamming up freeways with their cars 'just because they can'? Because there aren't any 'safeguards' to stop their traffic? If someone parks their car in a busy freeway, they get a ticket or thrown in jail. Why should it be any different with the Internet? It's becoming just as pervasive in our lives.
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This is pretty much how I feel about it. I had a large, active group of friends on there - facebook eschewers, academics, etc. It had the feel similar to pre-Eternal-September Usenet. It's made me want to abandon all google products - which is going to cause trouble for me because I use Android on Google FI. I mean, until they decide they're not going to continue with those either. I'm firmly now in the "don't trust 'em" camp after being one of their biggest boosters among my peers. Back to the agony of running my own mail server...
Learning about your behavior/data habits is just another form of personal data.
I thought you were dead, Time Cube guy!
Cunard's website is listing a interior cabin on the next sail of the QM2 for $799 (NYC->Southhampton, Apr 21 https://www.cunard.com/en-us/f... ) whereas Delta's cheapest seat is $878. (NYC->Gatwick).
Oh god, I feel your pain. I ran mailservers for almost 20 years and there wasn't a day gone by where they didn't command hours of attention because of a spammer, or a joe job (pre SPF or DKIM), or a blacklisting host, or a stupid reply-all'ing user, or... and this is 100% true... one user trying to copy an entire terabyte fileserver into an email. These were the days when in a small company you could generally trust users to not do that kind of stupid shit. Until you learned you couldn't trust users not to do that kind of stupid shit.
Yeah, and even though 99% of people will get annoyed and click the shit away from the ad, even a 1% response on direct marketing, depending on what it is, can be considered MASSIVE. So yes, they can afford the ill will. I've run ad campaigns that were deliberately designed to annoy, cajole, irritate - and when people started bitching about it on social media the response rate SOARED.
And McDonalds ripped the special sauce flavor off of Big Boy's "Big Boy."
... since back in the day I was writing facebook apps and in the end user agreements you were made to agree to said something along the lines of being "obligated" to not misuse customer data. The use of the word "obligated" made me giggle. We'll give you access to nefarious shit, but you're "obligated" not to sniff around.
Now you'll be able to solarize the videos of your murders in live 360 view!
Many media outlets do sell premium placement. It can be either an upcharge, or a way to calm a problem customer. Ad placement is a balancing act: too many ads and you're losing the individual ad's mindshare, too few ads and it seems unpopular so you wonder why would you advertise there.
Corporate linux STILL sucks.
The Mason HQ wiki says the front-end is still all done in Mason.
There are already precedents for this - airplanes have been flown by autopilot for a long time.
Dr. Lillian Reynolds, and Dr. Micheal Brace from Brainstorm.
I think a more interesting question might be, where exactly did all this huge quantity of free flowing water go? What cataclysmic thing happened to make it all dry up or freeze underground?
> we witnessed the very beginning of history's next social revolution. Umm... one slightly-more-coordinated-than-a-15-year old skript kiddie and hudreds of thousands of annoyed users (who are annoyed in a would like to give the kiddies a red hot poker enema way) does not a revolution make. I'm just waiting for someone to throw in the typical, tired old 'kiddie-exploit' relativist blabbering that we do it cuz we can, to show you whats wrong with your software when these particular attacks could very well be spawned of no other 'failure' of the technology other than that those sites allow anyone to use them. Do we have people maliciously jamming up freeways with their cars 'just because they can'? Because there aren't any 'safeguards' to stop their traffic? If someone parks their car in a busy freeway, they get a ticket or thrown in jail. Why should it be any different with the Internet? It's becoming just as pervasive in our lives.