I.e. having browsers say "Hey, this is a forwarding service that tries to send you to www.pwnmymachine.com/thisisascam, do you want to follow the link?"
It would already be enough to do this for the better known shortening services. Not to mention that it would probably make those services useful again because no sane person right now clicks on a link from a well known forwarding service...
Facebook is exactly the place where you should put intimate details about you, knowing how trustworthy they proved to handle all the ordinary privacy information about you.
Why should I believe that anything gets deleted at all? For all I know it could (and judging from Facebook's history would) just be hidden from view. For the user, of course, not to Facebook.
Sorry. There is nothing, literally nothing this company can do to convince anyone that they are anything but a privacy invasion.
Not trying anything. It's simply what both sides claim. Yeah, we lie, but THE OTHERS are way worse.
Yeah. Sure. In the end, I wish the left and right would come together like matter and antimatter and annihilate each other in a flash so we sane people could start rebuilding finally.
In my experience that's not the case. Take a look around YouTube alone and find people who get offended, outraged and all pissy about imagined offenses against groups they can't possibly belong to.
I have a friend who is missing a leg. Birth defect, not lost in a war or something "heroic". You think he knows all the insults you could possibly get from kids while growing up? You bet. You think he gives a shit about anything any asshole says about it anymore?
What really pisses him off today is the assholes who think it's their "mission" to heroically defend him against those being "offensive" to him, as if he's some sort of cripple who couldn't defend himself.
If I told you I'm black, does that mean I am black? It means I claim to be black. I really don't know whether it's playing the race card because I honestly couldn't care less, what matters is whether you know the answer to my question, that's all I really care about.
I also don't care whether you're gay, chances are that you're on the other end of the planet and I'm not into long distance relationships so... could we get to answering my question, please? Because that's what people go to sites like S.O. to for.
Jeesh, could we cut the social bullshit out? Nobody gives a shit when they use sites like this one.
The same applies in reverse: What makes you think that it's a "good ol' boys" club? You can't tell either whether it's all-male, all-white people posting there. What you see is a bunch of people who seem to know each other, seem to treat each other with respect based on... what? Color of skin? I have no idea what kind of skin the other person has, if any. Sexual orientation? This is Stack Overflow, not Craigslist. Gender? What gender does "blubberdubber56" have?
Or could it just maybe be that the only kind of discriminator whether respecting someone or not is whether that person knows what they're talking about or whether they're talking out of their ass?
Because that's what geeks really care about and that's what I base the respect I give to people on. Because that's all a medium like Stack Overflow allows you to use, because that's all you actually see about a person.
So...could it be that a lot of that "sexual/racial/whatever discrimination" is happening just in the user's imagination?
So people don't get fired for asking questions about this in companies? Tech companies don't hire "diversity officers" whose sole job seems to be to give companies that managed to avoid bureaucracy a way to still waste productivity?
Hey Comcast, you should sell what people want and throw in for free what they might enjoy. What you do is trying to sell something people don't want and claim what they're after is a free bonus. That's not working, that gets people upset. It really is marketing 101, in other words, the true wording you should use is:
If you pay more for extra bandwidth, we throw in free cable TV as a bonus!
Third prize: 2 hours of comcast tech support. Second prize: 1 hour of comcat tech support First prize: Only 5 minutes of comcast tech support...before being allowed to cancel the service.
Great! Sell me those 10 channels with the bandwidth I actually want out of the deal, and all the zero channels I want you can charge extra. As much as you really want to, honestly.
Could someone hand that guy a mod point or two? He's spot on.
This is basically what's going on here, and with similar sites where people can ask questions and get them answered. It works that way everywhere. People ask questions, other people who know the answers answer. This goes for a while, sometimes months, sometimes even a year or so. And then the people answering start to crack because it's always the same questions, and on top of it you get people who get angry with you when you try to help them because you don't answer their question in a way they understand or, my personal favorite, because your answer isn't what they wanted to get.
That kinda burns you out.
And yes, that means that you'll eventually get to hear "Dude, we answered that a million times before, care to find the field up there labeled search? Effin' use it!"
In this context I love citing how I saw a defacement on an article about certain Greek column styles (forgot which one it was), reverted it with a relevant comment that this revert was done to remove a defacement, only to have it undone not even an hour later.
Apparently it's vital to understanding the style of Greek columns to know just how much a certain person likes the company of horses.
Yes, KISS isn't quite the forte of many Stackoverflow-respondents. I mean, yes, in many cases they are right and their approach is the correct one in larger setups, but when someone asks how to best configure a linux DNS server for their home network, lecturing them about the pitfalls of zone transfers isn't going to help them and probably a problem they won't even remotely touch.
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I.e. having browsers say "Hey, this is a forwarding service that tries to send you to www.pwnmymachine.com/thisisascam, do you want to follow the link?"
It would already be enough to do this for the better known shortening services. Not to mention that it would probably make those services useful again because no sane person right now clicks on a link from a well known forwarding service...
Facebook is exactly the place where you should put intimate details about you, knowing how trustworthy they proved to handle all the ordinary privacy information about you.
Chop him up and send a few bits to every country.
How about "x millions fine a day 'til he comes"?
Why should I believe that anything gets deleted at all? For all I know it could (and judging from Facebook's history would) just be hidden from view. For the user, of course, not to Facebook.
Sorry. There is nothing, literally nothing this company can do to convince anyone that they are anything but a privacy invasion.
Not trying anything. It's simply what both sides claim. Yeah, we lie, but THE OTHERS are way worse.
Yeah. Sure. In the end, I wish the left and right would come together like matter and antimatter and annihilate each other in a flash so we sane people could start rebuilding finally.
In my experience that's not the case. Take a look around YouTube alone and find people who get offended, outraged and all pissy about imagined offenses against groups they can't possibly belong to.
I have a friend who is missing a leg. Birth defect, not lost in a war or something "heroic". You think he knows all the insults you could possibly get from kids while growing up? You bet. You think he gives a shit about anything any asshole says about it anymore?
What really pisses him off today is the assholes who think it's their "mission" to heroically defend him against those being "offensive" to him, as if he's some sort of cripple who couldn't defend himself.
If I told you I'm black, does that mean I am black? It means I claim to be black. I really don't know whether it's playing the race card because I honestly couldn't care less, what matters is whether you know the answer to my question, that's all I really care about.
I also don't care whether you're gay, chances are that you're on the other end of the planet and I'm not into long distance relationships so ... could we get to answering my question, please? Because that's what people go to sites like S.O. to for.
Jeesh, could we cut the social bullshit out? Nobody gives a shit when they use sites like this one.
The same applies in reverse: What makes you think that it's a "good ol' boys" club? You can't tell either whether it's all-male, all-white people posting there. What you see is a bunch of people who seem to know each other, seem to treat each other with respect based on... what? Color of skin? I have no idea what kind of skin the other person has, if any. Sexual orientation? This is Stack Overflow, not Craigslist. Gender? What gender does "blubberdubber56" have?
Or could it just maybe be that the only kind of discriminator whether respecting someone or not is whether that person knows what they're talking about or whether they're talking out of their ass?
Because that's what geeks really care about and that's what I base the respect I give to people on. Because that's all a medium like Stack Overflow allows you to use, because that's all you actually see about a person.
So ...could it be that a lot of that "sexual/racial/whatever discrimination" is happening just in the user's imagination?
Well, it seems that more and more of their customers don't really care whether they pay for one or a hundred channels they don't watch.
I wonder how long I may still eat Chinese food.
You do know that both sides accuse the other one of being the Niagara Falls, yes?
So people don't get fired for asking questions about this in companies? Tech companies don't hire "diversity officers" whose sole job seems to be to give companies that managed to avoid bureaucracy a way to still waste productivity?
I guess I must be imagining things.
Hey Comcast, you should sell what people want and throw in for free what they might enjoy. What you do is trying to sell something people don't want and claim what they're after is a free bonus. That's not working, that gets people upset. It really is marketing 101, in other words, the true wording you should use is:
If you pay more for extra bandwidth, we throw in free cable TV as a bonus!
Actually it's more like:
Third prize: 2 hours of comcast tech support. ...before being allowed to cancel the service.
Second prize: 1 hour of comcat tech support
First prize: Only 5 minutes of comcast tech support
Hey, it's still better quality with less compression than cable TV.
Last one to do this at least had the decency to hang himself.
Great! Sell me those 10 channels with the bandwidth I actually want out of the deal, and all the zero channels I want you can charge extra. As much as you really want to, honestly.
Provided you punch with blades, we can agree on that one.
This isn't free. It's paying more to get more bandwidth. Yes, you also get something you don't need, but who gives a shit?
Could someone hand that guy a mod point or two? He's spot on.
This is basically what's going on here, and with similar sites where people can ask questions and get them answered. It works that way everywhere. People ask questions, other people who know the answers answer. This goes for a while, sometimes months, sometimes even a year or so. And then the people answering start to crack because it's always the same questions, and on top of it you get people who get angry with you when you try to help them because you don't answer their question in a way they understand or, my personal favorite, because your answer isn't what they wanted to get.
That kinda burns you out.
And yes, that means that you'll eventually get to hear "Dude, we answered that a million times before, care to find the field up there labeled search? Effin' use it!"
Unfortunately this bullshit has invaded technology.
"You are wrong" is not an insult, but without an "and this is how it's right" attached to it also quite superfluous.
I don't mind being called an asshole, if you can provide a reason why you think I am, so I can determine whether you're right.
In this context I love citing how I saw a defacement on an article about certain Greek column styles (forgot which one it was), reverted it with a relevant comment that this revert was done to remove a defacement, only to have it undone not even an hour later.
Apparently it's vital to understanding the style of Greek columns to know just how much a certain person likes the company of horses.
Yes, KISS isn't quite the forte of many Stackoverflow-respondents. I mean, yes, in many cases they are right and their approach is the correct one in larger setups, but when someone asks how to best configure a linux DNS server for their home network, lecturing them about the pitfalls of zone transfers isn't going to help them and probably a problem they won't even remotely touch.