I DID read the article you tool, and that's a load of shit. Like getting a judgment now would in ANY way bias a future judge to rule in favor of them should facebook sue. If you want to believe that, I've got a bridge in California to sell you. This is about publicity, plain and simple.
Here's what's ACTUALLY happening. Until this article, I had never heard of lamebook. They (or anybody else) sue facebook, and they get tons of publicity, publicity that they can't afford to actually pay for. With the lawsuit, they get it for free, and it's good publicity instead of bad because they are doing the suing.
No, it's not what WE are doing to ourselves. American citizens didn't vote to have ANY increased security in airports, or any other security crap. That came from government officials without approval of the citizens.
The kid was almost five. I've seen five year olds do, or attempt to do, some pretty destructive acts of mayhem *on purpose*.
No, you haven't. Not in the sense that you would do something 'on purpose'.
Actually, yes, on purpose. Ten miles from my house, a 4 year old got angry with a babysitter because the babysitter wouldn't let him/her do something. The toddler went to the closet, opened it, grabbed an unloaded SHOTGUN, picked up the shells and LOADED IT, then proceeded to walk over to the babysitter and shoot him to death.
He dun goofed. Now consequences will never be the same, since someone obviously backtraced him and sent the information to the cyberpolice. Maybe now you guys will listen.
Yeah, and then the people at farmville will know that your child spilled his spaghetti on the floor, that your mom came for a visit, and they will see the picture you posted of your dog eating Doritos from a can. Hard to tell what farmville will do with that information.
See, here's the trick: If you use a social networking site, don't post sensitive information.
AHA! The penny's dropped!
The most sensitive information anyone could get from my facebook site is the town I live in and relatives' names. No phone number, no address, no credit card numbers, nothing. So the bottom line is that any information facebook could sell about me is totally meaningless and most likely available all over the net anyway.
I think the cop is totally in the right, and most of you don't have any idea what you're talking about. My grandfather died as a result of a stray bubble during the taping of the Lawrence Welk show, and we've been fighting for bubble danger awareness ever since. It's refreshing to see someone who has their priorities straight.
It isn't actually "spying" if the person is willingly sharing information, or has information posted that everyone can read. "Spying" is getting information that a person doesn't want others to have.
Who wants to wear some clunky glasses while they watch a movie?
To be fair, the last time I saw a 3D movie in a theater, the glasses were like sunglasses, and they actually weren't clunky at all.
Who wants to walk into a room where someone is watching 3DTV with their glasses on and not be able to look over without seeing garbled pictures on the TV?
I think that's a better point. And the fact that our family has to search for the remote every time we want to sit down and watch TV. I can just imagine the hunt for half a dozen glasses to go with it.
Now, if the 3D effect was an ENHANCEMENT when you wore the glasses, yet it looked like a normal picture without them, then that might be a good solution.
Twitter is just a social thing, though. It's not meant to be important or useful. It's identical to the facebook newsfeed, without everything else that facebook offers. Sure, you can follow celebrities, but I think most people use it to follow friends and family, to be kept up to date on what they are doing. And it CAN be useful if used certain ways. A coworker could announce that they won't be in the office for 2 days. A friend might announce "I'm going to Applebee's for dinner tonight, who wants to join me?". You can post that you are looking for a car and you want to know if anyone following your posts might have one for sale.
And if it IS totally mindnumbing, who cares? It's free, people sign up to it by choice, so what's the big deal anyway?
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And I'm not trolling (honestly), but that isn't the John Oates of "Hall & Oates" is it? I ask because you never know.
Hey, if Woz is on board, then sign me up.
I DID read the article you tool, and that's a load of shit. Like getting a judgment now would in ANY way bias a future judge to rule in favor of them should facebook sue. If you want to believe that, I've got a bridge in California to sell you. This is about publicity, plain and simple.
Here's what's ACTUALLY happening. Until this article, I had never heard of lamebook. They (or anybody else) sue facebook, and they get tons of publicity, publicity that they can't afford to actually pay for. With the lawsuit, they get it for free, and it's good publicity instead of bad because they are doing the suing.
I'd STILL be cheering after all these years...
Look what we're doing to ourselves...
No, it's not what WE are doing to ourselves. American citizens didn't vote to have ANY increased security in airports, or any other security crap. That came from government officials without approval of the citizens.
We need some kind of alternative search engine. If I engineered one, I'd call it "Bing", or "Yahoo", or something like that.
ITT: WAY too many people who have never had children, telling others how they would have handled their own imaginary children.
The kid was almost five. I've seen five year olds do, or attempt to do, some pretty destructive acts of mayhem *on purpose*.
No, you haven't. Not in the sense that you would do something 'on purpose'.
Actually, yes, on purpose. Ten miles from my house, a 4 year old got angry with a babysitter because the babysitter wouldn't let him/her do something. The toddler went to the closet, opened it, grabbed an unloaded SHOTGUN, picked up the shells and LOADED IT, then proceeded to walk over to the babysitter and shoot him to death.
He dun goofed. Now consequences will never be the same, since someone obviously backtraced him and sent the information to the cyberpolice. Maybe now you guys will listen.
Unless you are running a premium version of Win7 (not the standard version that ships with most computers), XP mode is disabled.
Yeah, and then the people at farmville will know that your child spilled his spaghetti on the floor, that your mom came for a visit, and they will see the picture you posted of your dog eating Doritos from a can. Hard to tell what farmville will do with that information.
As hard as it may be for many to believe (and despite the media hype), people are NOT leaving facebook in droves over privacy policies.
Somehow this has to have something to do with Windows sucking, Steve Jobs being a vampire, or a Linux kernel update.
not to mention knowing your class enough you can tell if the person you called on is the same one answering as present.
I think one giveaway would be looking at the kids' faces while calling attendance, and the same one says "here" for two different names.
This isn't rocket science. It's not like there's 200 kids in a class.
On my own cable system (Time Warner), I'd much rather get rid of many of the "junk" channels and dedicate the freed-up bandwidth to internet.
Is there a square meter of the Earth's surface that hasn't been flown over and photographed in the last month?
Actually yes, you can find censored sat/aerial photos all over the place.
Keep it up and you're posts are going to get modded down.
See, here's the trick: If you use a social networking site, don't post sensitive information. AHA! The penny's dropped! The most sensitive information anyone could get from my facebook site is the town I live in and relatives' names. No phone number, no address, no credit card numbers, nothing. So the bottom line is that any information facebook could sell about me is totally meaningless and most likely available all over the net anyway.
It really is. By Dec 2011, 89% of computers will be running some form of linux, and Windows and Macs will be a distant memory.
Problem solved!
I think the cop is totally in the right, and most of you don't have any idea what you're talking about. My grandfather died as a result of a stray bubble during the taping of the Lawrence Welk show, and we've been fighting for bubble danger awareness ever since. It's refreshing to see someone who has their priorities straight.
It isn't actually "spying" if the person is willingly sharing information, or has information posted that everyone can read. "Spying" is getting information that a person doesn't want others to have.
Who wants to wear some clunky glasses while they watch a movie?
To be fair, the last time I saw a 3D movie in a theater, the glasses were like sunglasses, and they actually weren't clunky at all.
Who wants to walk into a room where someone is watching 3DTV with their glasses on and not be able to look over without seeing garbled pictures on the TV?
I think that's a better point. And the fact that our family has to search for the remote every time we want to sit down and watch TV. I can just imagine the hunt for half a dozen glasses to go with it. Now, if the 3D effect was an ENHANCEMENT when you wore the glasses, yet it looked like a normal picture without them, then that might be a good solution.
Twitter is just a social thing, though. It's not meant to be important or useful. It's identical to the facebook newsfeed, without everything else that facebook offers. Sure, you can follow celebrities, but I think most people use it to follow friends and family, to be kept up to date on what they are doing. And it CAN be useful if used certain ways. A coworker could announce that they won't be in the office for 2 days. A friend might announce "I'm going to Applebee's for dinner tonight, who wants to join me?". You can post that you are looking for a car and you want to know if anyone following your posts might have one for sale. And if it IS totally mindnumbing, who cares? It's free, people sign up to it by choice, so what's the big deal anyway?
In showing how complex and difficult their daily job is, they decided to add the burden of posting every call on Twitter. That makes sense.