I used to figure nobody would give a crap about the contents of our family website, so why secure it? We're just normal people among hundreds of millions. Then when I was checking Google to see who linked to our site I found out that a picture of my one year old daughter was posted on a porn forum b/c someone thought she was cute.
Since then I've removed the image, blocked Google from crawling it, and secured the site behind a login. Plus I have to go through all the photos from my iPhone and remove the geotagging info from them.
Pain in the butt, but it's better to take privacy precautions now than assume no one is looking and deal with the consequences later.
Now would be a GREAT time to go alter the wikipedia articles on NP completeness and such, then watch the aftermath on slashdot as the n00bs go do their research and learn what it is for the first time!
We created an approval process that reviews every application submitted to Apple for the App Store in order to protect consumer privacy, safeguard children from inappropriate content, and avoid applications that degrade the core experience of the iPhone. Some types of content such as pornography are rejected outright from the App Store, while others such as graphic combat scenes in action games may be approved but with an appropriate age rating. Most rejections are based on bugs found in the applications. When there is an issue, we try to provide the developer with helpful feedback so they can modify the application in order for us to approve it. 95% of applications are approved within 14 days of their submission.
Sounds like they're working on trying to give AT&T a way to shut down iPhones that either loaded the tethering hack for 3.0, or are jailbroken for tethering.
Remember folks, it's the use of open standards that counts. Not the actual implementation - as long as that implementation is correct and follows the standard well, I'm happy. MS Word's lock-in with its doc format is the problem, not MS Word as such.
I would REALLY hope that this move along with the i4i lawsuit could somehow convince some stubborn people at MS to build in full support for ODF docs.
Odds are they'll just throw a crapload of money at their lawyers to appeal for the next 10 years (remember when MS was ordered to split up?) and get a bunch of MS "partners" to agree to save all their documents in.docx format to push their own standard.
I think the fad slowed down, because eventually everyone that wanted a RAZR had one. In the slim phone market I think the RAZR really beat the crap out of the competition.
Then like always, you get bored of your current gadget and want a new one.
I had a RAZR and loved it, then my work offered to buy me an iPhone. The iPhone is cool for listening to music, and facebook, etc. but sometimes I miss the simplicity of having just a really well designed slim phone.
If the parents actively use everything as a teaching tool, then fine, otherwise it's just creating a steaming pile of ignorant burger flippers
Therein lies the problem. Obviously *(see hundreds of posts above) there are a lot of problems with engaging kids in education, and public school systems may not be perfect at standardizing education, but the odds are that your school teachers from K-12 were at least all paid, degreed professionals.
In most cases (mine too) some are complete idiots, but others are complete geniuses and can provide you with inspiration throughout your whole life.
There are SOME parents that fall into the latter category, raising the next Einsteins and DaVincis. But a whole gigantic pile of parents that would make incredibly bad teachers, far worse than your worst teacher.
I really don't have a problem with the idea of unschool or homeschool, it just isn't for everybody.
Now, when the most technologically-advanced Presidency â" remember all the endearing stories about his Blackberry, and the ridiculing of McCain's reluctance to use e-mail? â" can't put a web-site together, "having never done this before" is an excuse...
Pretty sure he's still the most technically advanced president. He didn't put the website together himself obviously, unless you think he spends his afternoons in the basement of the whitehouse installing Linux and playing X-Box? Odds are not.
It's more of a failure of the "Office of E-Government & Information Technology" than a failure of the man himself. And I can pretty much guarantee you that since the site hit slashdot's news, he probably knows about it, and somebody at e-gov is going to get smacked.
Seriously though, do you really think McCain would have done better at this?
The RSS feed shows they've been having problems since yesterday. I got a 502 error today, not a huge deal for me, I just use it for personal but if I was paying for it I'd be mad, just like people at work get mad at IT when the Exchange server goes down.
Anybody know what kind of hardware setup they have there?
Maybe they contracted a third party company to store the data in the cloud and their service was interrupted?!
That's what I call cloud computing! Beaming a gigawatt of power in microwaves from space... what could go wrong?:)
Seriously though, how is it that Japan is going to spend 21 billion to beam a gigawatt of power from space, but I still can't get wireless power for my laptop?
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MIT releases research proving that lawyers don't save hospitals money either.
Suck it Harvard!
You'd be surprised.
I used to figure nobody would give a crap about the contents of our family website, so why secure it? We're just normal people among hundreds of millions.
Then when I was checking Google to see who linked to our site I found out that a picture of my one year old daughter was posted on a porn forum b/c someone thought she was cute.
Since then I've removed the image, blocked Google from crawling it, and secured the site behind a login.
Plus I have to go through all the photos from my iPhone and remove the geotagging info from them.
Pain in the butt, but it's better to take privacy precautions now than assume no one is looking and deal with the consequences later.
Now would be a GREAT time to go alter the wikipedia articles on NP completeness and such, then watch the aftermath on slashdot as the n00bs go do their research and learn what it is for the first time!
This is from Apple's letter to the FCC, regarding why they rejected / delayed the Google Voice app:
We created an approval process that reviews every application submitted to Apple for the App Store in order to protect consumer privacy, safeguard children from inappropriate content, and avoid applications that degrade the core experience of the iPhone. Some types of content such as pornography are rejected outright from the App Store, while others such as graphic combat scenes in action games may be approved but with an appropriate age rating. Most rejections are based on bugs found in the applications. When there is an issue, we try to provide the developer with helpful feedback so they can modify the application in order for us to approve it. 95% of applications are approved within 14 days of their submission.
Well, there's an easy way to test this, right?
Go make an iPhone app that is simply a piece of malware that steals your personal information.
If Apple rejects it because it "violates their terms and services", then clearly their terms and services cover checking for malware.
Sounds like they're working on trying to give AT&T a way to shut down iPhones that either loaded the tethering hack for 3.0, or are jailbroken for tethering.
Funny! I always joke that I'm going to teach my kids to write in Courier New, but darn all those serifs take time!
Remember folks, it's the use of open standards that counts. Not the actual implementation - as long as that implementation is correct and follows the standard well, I'm happy. MS Word's lock-in with its doc format is the problem, not MS Word as such.
I would REALLY hope that this move along with the i4i lawsuit could somehow convince some stubborn people at MS to build in full support for ODF docs.
Odds are they'll just throw a crapload of money at their lawyers to appeal for the next 10 years (remember when MS was ordered to split up?) .docx format to push their own standard.
and get a bunch of MS "partners" to agree to save all their documents in
Funny, but they had a similar position with OS/2.
Back in '95? I interviewed with them and they said they were using NT4, but still trying to sell OS/2.
I think the fad slowed down, because eventually everyone that wanted a RAZR had one.
In the slim phone market I think the RAZR really beat the crap out of the competition.
Then like always, you get bored of your current gadget and want a new one.
I had a RAZR and loved it, then my work offered to buy me an iPhone.
The iPhone is cool for listening to music, and facebook, etc. but sometimes I miss the simplicity of having just a really well designed slim phone.
Snail Mail Still Winning The Bandwidth War - Estimates (back in 02) that Netflix bandwidth of shipping DVDs was about 1500 TB.
If the parents actively use everything as a teaching tool, then fine, otherwise it's just creating a steaming pile of ignorant burger flippers
Therein lies the problem.
Obviously *(see hundreds of posts above) there are a lot of problems with engaging kids in education, and public school systems may not be perfect at standardizing education,
but the odds are that your school teachers from K-12 were at least all paid, degreed professionals.
In most cases (mine too) some are complete idiots, but others are complete geniuses and can provide you with inspiration throughout your whole life.
There are SOME parents that fall into the latter category, raising the next Einsteins and DaVincis.
But a whole gigantic pile of parents that would make incredibly bad teachers, far worse than your worst teacher.
I really don't have a problem with the idea of unschool or homeschool, it just isn't for everybody.
This is probably another step in their battle against Booble!
And if McCain ever felt wanting in executive experience, Sarah Palin alone
Wow. You are defending Palin.
Ok, I actually had a nice big long rebuttal typed up... but you're defending Palin.
Nevermind...
Depending on how far they are from the McMurdo base, they might get some action.
They got a shipment of 16,500 condoms last summer, so odds are something's going on there!
Now, when the most technologically-advanced Presidency â" remember all the endearing stories about his Blackberry, and the ridiculing of McCain's reluctance to use e-mail? â" can't put a web-site together, "having never done this before" is an excuse...
Pretty sure he's still the most technically advanced president.
He didn't put the website together himself obviously, unless you think he spends his afternoons in the basement of the whitehouse installing Linux and playing X-Box?
Odds are not.
It's more of a failure of the "Office of E-Government & Information Technology" than a failure of the man himself.
And I can pretty much guarantee you that since the site hit slashdot's news, he probably knows about it, and somebody at e-gov is going to get smacked.
Seriously though, do you really think McCain would have done better at this?
Seriously??
So if you jailbreak the iPhone you can play playstation games.
If you jailbreak the Aino can you download iPhone apps from the App store? :)
No, not serious.
I was trying to be snarky and apparently failed.
The RSS feed shows they've been having problems since yesterday.
I got a 502 error today, not a huge deal for me, I just use it for personal but if I was paying for it I'd be mad, just like people at work get mad at IT when the Exchange server goes down.
Anybody know what kind of hardware setup they have there?
Maybe they contracted a third party company to store the data in the cloud and their service was interrupted?!
Yeah, sounds like their only "award" was getting some freebie publicity on slashdot.
Apparently they missed the part about "$5,000 for winning the most votes as a startup building its application on Microsoft technologies"
Oops.
Anyways, IF they get approved by Apple, they only have to sell 1,672 times on the App Store to come up even with the team that used MS tech.
That's what I call cloud computing! Beaming a gigawatt of power in microwaves from space... what could go wrong? :)
Seriously though, how is it that Japan is going to spend 21 billion to beam a gigawatt of power from space, but I still can't get wireless power for my laptop?
This slashdot post was deadlocked on resources with another higher priority slashdot post and has been chosen as the deadlock victim
I think that's coming up soon, since Disney will likely buy Archie comics next, and have a Scarlet Witch / Sabrina the Teenage Witch crossover.
Time to switch your Spiderman subscription to Spawn before the Cinderella crossover series starts.
This post hereby claimed as evidence of the new "If GWB did this" meme