Curious... have you deleted all other accounts from other web services? Yahoo? MSN? AOL? Not going to debate how much data Google has gathered on it's users - but you cannot compare that to the massive privacy breaches committed by Facebook. Beacon, anyone?
Probably the biggest thing Google knows about me is that I have a huge penchant for gay porn, and I don't mind that - they make it easier to find more gay porn.
I actually liked the Daily, especially since I could have it download the mornings news to my ipad that I could read on the train. But there were problems. I didn't like that it wouldn't download the video content and some of the photos. The whole point of downloading the content ahead of time was because I knew I wouldn't have a connection later on.
This.you don't need a one solution to all your issues, find solutions that improve each area and create an easy way to access those systems / pull data and aggregate it for your use. I come from Comcast (definitely not small) and they use so many different systems for network monitoring. Allot the data is pulled into a custom built solution for the tech support (grand slam previously, now moving to Einstein), BMW remedy for ticketing (grand slam and Einstein feed into this), custom comtrac and csg for billing (depending on east/west coast), And we at ne&to developed scout / scout flux for end of line performance metrics and to detect signal impairments.
Well, can you even say anything is being modified at all? The commercials are still there but the Hopper just skips past them almost instantly. If you rewind, you see the commercials. The signal itself isn't modified at all.
I don't know if anyone here has a Hopper (I do) and the Auto Hop feature of PrimeTime Anytime works amazingly well. I work a lot of hours at DISH, most of them at night, so I'm not able to watch most of my favorite shows for days until after they aired. By the time I watch them they aren't even in consideration for what the advertisers pay the NBC/CBS/Fox/ABC. I think it's just a great way to simplify the user experience - Auto Hop doesn't proactively "hop over" commercials on PrimeTime Anytime recordings, it prompts the viewer if you want to watch the commercials or not. It's completely user controlled. Unlike ReplayTV, the commercials are still there. And since I also like to have the commercials play at times, especially if I'm working on a coding project, Auto Hop allows me to let a show play through with the commercials and enjoy quick little breaks to watch the show (or listen to it), and then when a commercial comes on I can power out a several lines of code. I like how DISH is constantly fighting for the customer - with both pricing and technology.
It's not that DISH is recording without commercials - the commercials are still there. DISH is just allowing customers to choose whether or not they want to view the commercials on playback, and only the next day after the shows aired. From my standpoint, I know that there are times when I want the commercials to play and times that I don't. My coworkers and I at DISH love how the choice is in the consumer's hands now. Consumer choice is never a bad thing.
Curious, does Google pay the mobile carriers to keep the Android default search option as Google? Would be counter-intuitive, to me at least, as the phone integrates so perfectly with Google services.
As in my post above, I work at a Fortune 200 company with over 30,000 employees and... perhaps our internal IT policies (at least, the ones I know of - there are IT policies that the IT-Security group that wrote them doesn't even know exists) would not only prevent this but once our IT teams learned of something like that the entire operation would be shut down. We had a development team that built an amazing internal application to measure service performance management that interfaced on the back end to all of our internal systems - but, the team that built it did not go through the approval necessaries and without realizing it they opened up a number of internal security risks and the entire project was shut down once IT-Security learned of it and has not been used since. Rather unfortunate, as I am not a fan of Merced which we use in it's place.
My company made the same move last year. As my primary office is in one of our many call center environments and our internal knowledge tools and integrated application portals were built for IE6, the opportunity cost doesn't add up to have vendors or our internal dev teams to recode these for Chrome. Add in the stringent requirements for handling customer data and IT-Security wants to be able to control how locked down the browser is to hedge against browser-based intrusions on the company network.
That's another thing - while there may be many small-medium size business (leaving out large enterprises) may want to switch to FireFox or Chrome... but the enterprise management tools are not at the same level as what Microsoft etc provides for IE (I will note that Google's MSI for ADM/ADMX policies isn't horrible, it isn't on the same level as IE and Chrome still auto-updates). We tried to put similar restrictions on FF 3.6 as we had for IE and it just didn't work in a way that was beneficial to the user and the company. And with Mozilla retiring their extended life version (and Chrome not having one) how are local IT teams/Windows management/IT Security supposed to ensure that the product will comply with internal IT/Business/Legal needs and requirements?
Personally, I would relate the lack of alternative browser adoption in the Enterprise to IT not allowing personal devices to be connected to the network. At least with my company the big fear is protecting customer information (ie preventing both civil and legal liabilty/GLB and S/O).
On the other hand, we currently do have limited deployment (probably around 200 machines on a network with over 30,000 Windows environments) of FireFox 3.6 and 10 and as I understand we're considering switching to Chrome for those deployments to be able to better manage deployment. Chrome would be the closest to offering the support necessary, especially with Chrome Frame for web applications that require IE...
RackSpace in general is a great provider - I personally have never had any problems with their service. I'm not speaking to all their products (I setup and manage a managed cloud account for the company I work for), but this was in our ToS:
17. LIMITATION ON DAMAGES.
Our obligations to you are defined by this Agreement. We are not liable to you for failing to provide the Services unless the failure results from a breach of this Agreement, or results from our gross negligence or willful misconduct. The dollar credits stated in the Service Level Agreement are your sole and exclusive remedy for unavailability of the Services.
Neither of us (nor any of our employees, agents, affiliates or suppliers) is liable to the other for any lost profits or any other indirect, special, incidental or consequential loss or damages of any kind, or for any loss that could have been avoided by the damaged party's use of reasonable diligence, even if the party responsible for the damages has been advised or should be aware of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall either of us be liable to the other for any punitive damages.
Notwithstanding anything in the Agreement to the contrary, except for liability based on willful misconduct or fraudulent misrepresentation, and liability for death or personal injury resulting from Rackspace's negligence, the maximum aggregate monetary liability of Rackspace and any of its employees, agents, suppliers, or affiliates in connection with the Services, the Agreement, and any act or omission related to the Services or Agreement, under any theory of law (including breach of contract, tort, strict liability, violation of law, and infringement) shall not exceed the greater of (i) the amount of fees you paid for the Services for the six months prior to the occurrence of the event giving rise to the claim, or (ii) Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
Keyword there... common stockholders. Most angel investors (at least the smart ones) receive convertible preferred stock and typically recoup their investment if the business fails.
While yes, Clementi killed himself. I don't agree with the bias intimidation or hate crime legislation at all, but he deserved to be punished - what he did was a crime. And, according to most major news sources I've read, the Jury felt he was lying when he said he "turned it off" before the second broadcast. In fact, almost everything I've read suggest Tyler himself turned it off after reading Ravi's twitter..
Alright, I had to post so I wouldn't waste / abuse my mod points because some of the commentry that I am reading just really pisses me off. I understand that I am the minority here (a gay geek), but those of you who do not understand what it is like to be afraid of society finding out your "deviance from the norm" seriously need to have some empathy and try and see how hard it really is.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202
The Lusitania was torpedoed in WWI because it was transporting munitions. It was a valid war target, and the civilians aboard were human shields, just like Saddam and other tin-pot dictators have done. You can't be "isolationist" and also supplying war material to one side in a conflict.
Ummm... sorry, but the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 state otherwise. The Cruiser Rules that governed the seizure and destruction of of vessels at sea during wartime did not prohibit limited armament (a few guns). Neither does the convention show that carrying a cargo full of munitions or material affected the ships immunity.
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Maybe, but I couldn't be arsed to read Kant's Grounding of Metaphysics of Morals. SparkNotes did just fine for me.
I don't want my professors knowing that I am totally using SparkNotes!
Curious... have you deleted all other accounts from other web services? Yahoo? MSN? AOL? Not going to debate how much data Google has gathered on it's users - but you cannot compare that to the massive privacy breaches committed by Facebook. Beacon, anyone? Probably the biggest thing Google knows about me is that I have a huge penchant for gay porn, and I don't mind that - they make it easier to find more gay porn.
I actually liked the Daily, especially since I could have it download the mornings news to my ipad that I could read on the train. But there were problems. I didn't like that it wouldn't download the video content and some of the photos. The whole point of downloading the content ahead of time was because I knew I wouldn't have a connection later on.
This.you don't need a one solution to all your issues, find solutions that improve each area and create an easy way to access those systems / pull data and aggregate it for your use. I come from Comcast (definitely not small) and they use so many different systems for network monitoring. Allot the data is pulled into a custom built solution for the tech support (grand slam previously, now moving to Einstein), BMW remedy for ticketing (grand slam and Einstein feed into this), custom comtrac and csg for billing (depending on east/west coast), And we at ne&to developed scout / scout flux for end of line performance metrics and to detect signal impairments.
Actually I can see that. And I can personally attest to the amazing infrastructure the OFA campaign.
Oh why don't i have mod points?
It doesn't seem to bad. Not sure how I feel about the main page theme, I'm just happy to have a a mobile app.
A mobile version of /. is years overdue. What the hell took so long?
Well, can you even say anything is being modified at all? The commercials are still there but the Hopper just skips past them almost instantly. If you rewind, you see the commercials. The signal itself isn't modified at all.
NBC and CBS have joined in as well. DISH has filed a suit themselves seeking a ruling to declare that the technology is not infringing on TV copyrights. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/dish-seeks-ruling-on-feature-that-skips-commercials/
I don't know if anyone here has a Hopper (I do) and the Auto Hop feature of PrimeTime Anytime works amazingly well. I work a lot of hours at DISH, most of them at night, so I'm not able to watch most of my favorite shows for days until after they aired. By the time I watch them they aren't even in consideration for what the advertisers pay the NBC/CBS/Fox/ABC. I think it's just a great way to simplify the user experience - Auto Hop doesn't proactively "hop over" commercials on PrimeTime Anytime recordings, it prompts the viewer if you want to watch the commercials or not. It's completely user controlled. Unlike ReplayTV, the commercials are still there. And since I also like to have the commercials play at times, especially if I'm working on a coding project, Auto Hop allows me to let a show play through with the commercials and enjoy quick little breaks to watch the show (or listen to it), and then when a commercial comes on I can power out a several lines of code. I like how DISH is constantly fighting for the customer - with both pricing and technology.
It's not that DISH is recording without commercials - the commercials are still there. DISH is just allowing customers to choose whether or not they want to view the commercials on playback, and only the next day after the shows aired. From my standpoint, I know that there are times when I want the commercials to play and times that I don't. My coworkers and I at DISH love how the choice is in the consumer's hands now. Consumer choice is never a bad thing.
Curious, does Google pay the mobile carriers to keep the Android default search option as Google? Would be counter-intuitive, to me at least, as the phone integrates so perfectly with Google services.
As in my post above, I work at a Fortune 200 company with over 30,000 employees and... perhaps our internal IT policies (at least, the ones I know of - there are IT policies that the IT-Security group that wrote them doesn't even know exists) would not only prevent this but once our IT teams learned of something like that the entire operation would be shut down. We had a development team that built an amazing internal application to measure service performance management that interfaced on the back end to all of our internal systems - but, the team that built it did not go through the approval necessaries and without realizing it they opened up a number of internal security risks and the entire project was shut down once IT-Security learned of it and has not been used since. Rather unfortunate, as I am not a fan of Merced which we use in it's place.
My company made the same move last year. As my primary office is in one of our many call center environments and our internal knowledge tools and integrated application portals were built for IE6, the opportunity cost doesn't add up to have vendors or our internal dev teams to recode these for Chrome. Add in the stringent requirements for handling customer data and IT-Security wants to be able to control how locked down the browser is to hedge against browser-based intrusions on the company network.
That's another thing - while there may be many small-medium size business (leaving out large enterprises) may want to switch to FireFox or Chrome... but the enterprise management tools are not at the same level as what Microsoft etc provides for IE (I will note that Google's MSI for ADM/ADMX policies isn't horrible, it isn't on the same level as IE and Chrome still auto-updates). We tried to put similar restrictions on FF 3.6 as we had for IE and it just didn't work in a way that was beneficial to the user and the company. And with Mozilla retiring their extended life version (and Chrome not having one) how are local IT teams/Windows management/IT Security supposed to ensure that the product will comply with internal IT/Business/Legal needs and requirements?
Personally, I would relate the lack of alternative browser adoption in the Enterprise to IT not allowing personal devices to be connected to the network. At least with my company the big fear is protecting customer information (ie preventing both civil and legal liabilty/GLB and S/O).
On the other hand, we currently do have limited deployment (probably around 200 machines on a network with over 30,000 Windows environments) of FireFox 3.6 and 10 and as I understand we're considering switching to Chrome for those deployments to be able to better manage deployment. Chrome would be the closest to offering the support necessary, especially with Chrome Frame for web applications that require IE...
Totally failed on markup.
RackSpace in general is a great provider - I personally have never had any problems with their service. I'm not speaking to all their products (I setup and manage a managed cloud account for the company I work for), but this was in our ToS: 17. LIMITATION ON DAMAGES. Our obligations to you are defined by this Agreement. We are not liable to you for failing to provide the Services unless the failure results from a breach of this Agreement, or results from our gross negligence or willful misconduct. The dollar credits stated in the Service Level Agreement are your sole and exclusive remedy for unavailability of the Services. Neither of us (nor any of our employees, agents, affiliates or suppliers) is liable to the other for any lost profits or any other indirect, special, incidental or consequential loss or damages of any kind, or for any loss that could have been avoided by the damaged party's use of reasonable diligence, even if the party responsible for the damages has been advised or should be aware of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall either of us be liable to the other for any punitive damages. Notwithstanding anything in the Agreement to the contrary, except for liability based on willful misconduct or fraudulent misrepresentation, and liability for death or personal injury resulting from Rackspace's negligence, the maximum aggregate monetary liability of Rackspace and any of its employees, agents, suppliers, or affiliates in connection with the Services, the Agreement, and any act or omission related to the Services or Agreement, under any theory of law (including breach of contract, tort, strict liability, violation of law, and infringement) shall not exceed the greater of (i) the amount of fees you paid for the Services for the six months prior to the occurrence of the event giving rise to the claim, or (ii) Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00).
Keyword there... common stockholders. Most angel investors (at least the smart ones) receive convertible preferred stock and typically recoup their investment if the business fails.
This ^^. Even if a mod abuses his points, it will typically correct itself in the end.
While I already commented to avoid abusing my mod points, I wish I could mod you up.
While yes, Clementi killed himself. I don't agree with the bias intimidation or hate crime legislation at all, but he deserved to be punished - what he did was a crime. And, according to most major news sources I've read, the Jury felt he was lying when he said he "turned it off" before the second broadcast. In fact, almost everything I've read suggest Tyler himself turned it off after reading Ravi's twitter..
Alright, I had to post so I wouldn't waste / abuse my mod points because some of the commentry that I am reading just really pisses me off. I understand that I am the minority here (a gay geek), but those of you who do not understand what it is like to be afraid of society finding out your "deviance from the norm" seriously need to have some empathy and try and see how hard it really is. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202
You guys are over near Japan, right?
The Lusitania was torpedoed in WWI because it was transporting munitions. It was a valid war target, and the civilians aboard were human shields, just like Saddam and other tin-pot dictators have done. You can't be "isolationist" and also supplying war material to one side in a conflict.
Ummm... sorry, but the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 state otherwise. The Cruiser Rules that governed the seizure and destruction of of vessels at sea during wartime did not prohibit limited armament (a few guns). Neither does the convention show that carrying a cargo full of munitions or material affected the ships immunity.