because the NYT at the time trusted another of Mitnick's old rivals, John Markoff, to be the one final arbiter of all things that had anything to do with computer hacking. Sort of like they did with Judy Miller and Saddam Hussein....
Anyone who doesn't think every SMS in the US (for example) is passed into the NSA is naive beyond belief.
Uh-huh. I want to know who has the thankless job of reading all that crap. Page after page after page of "c u l8r" "u r hawt" "wot u meen?" "lol wtf kthxbi"
I found it interesting that groups of conventioneers had to head over to the Las Vegas Apple store to see something interesting this year. The company that wasn't there was a bigger story than just about any of the companies that were. So I'm not at all surprised that a cell phone breaking is big news from the weekend. The smart ones skipped the convention center altogether and spent their time in the Venetian listening to high end audio systems and pretending to care what the cables were made of....
"Ahem - since when is running a reason to be shot by police?"
In some parts of the world, you don't have a guaranteed right to pursue liberty and freedom in such a manner, and thus you may be shot. Duh, not everywhere's America.
Right. It's not America; this happened in England. Where these rights were invented.
Apple, Google, and so on all invest heavily in public relations in order to avoid the fate of Microsoft. That doesn't mean that the substance of their business methods is any different.
If it were any different, we'd see changes in leadership. CEOs remain CEOs because they continue to pursue profit above all. That's part of the system that's not likely to change, whether you like it or not. The challenge is to articulate a business model that makes "do no evil" (or, at least, "be perceived as doing no evil") into a profitable action, and Google and Apple have successfully convinced many people that they have done that.
Santa and the elves are all on BlackBerries. They love the push email features. Now how the hell are they going to coordinate all those late night pickups and dropoffs? And Mrs. Claus won't be getting her usual midnight sexts via BBM this year. This is truly a crisis.
anti-competitive maybe, but if you think this is just about copying code, you're missing the point. When yuppies in NY, Chicago, LA, SF, NOLA, Vegas, and other cities in the U.S. get home from a great (or terrible) meal (or strip club or trip to the gynecologist), many of them want to "yelp" their experiences. They don't say "I am going to run home and google map the shit out of this place!" Reviews on google maps are useful but they are not really part of a social network; they are far more anonymous and disposable than yelp reviews. You don't "favorite" authors, you don't upload photos of your food (or photos of yourself), and you don't join groups of other users for sushi or whatever in real live fleshmeets. Yelp has just done the "Web 2.0" experience a lot more elegantly than google in this area. I suspect google doesn't just want the user base but also their sense of connectedness to each other.
Yelp is not just code; it's an actual social network and it's a brand identity. I don't know if it's worth a half billion either -- those kind of numbers are meaningless to me since I don't buy and sell companies. But it's certainly something a hell of a lot more substantial than its codebase.
Or, what am I missing? Is yelp.com offering something other than people subjectively reviewing things like food?
Yes. It's offering a social networking site for such people as well as a user-generated database of information about the restaurants (and other businesses) in their neighborhoods. It's like facebook meets wikipedia for food and drink nerds. It's incredibly useful in a large city where new restaurants and bars come and go constantly, and where there is a large mobile population of internet-savvy people with disposable income. People post photos and the reviews range from entirely vapid to densely informative. It's an opportunity for every wannabe food critic to write about what they love (or hate) and actually get readers without having to go pro... (It's especially useful in a city like LA where print food journalism is already dominated by a single writer!) You can learn a lot about places that you would never get from a menu or the website or a newspaper review. It's not just restaurants, either -- bars, auto mechanics, bowling alleys, doctors, strip clubs, medical marijuana "dispensaries," and universities all have extensive pages of reviews. And you can network with writers you think are helpful or entertaining. Some networks organize parties and group dining events. It's great for travelers too -- I really like to eat out at izakayas (Japanese "tapas" pubs), for example; whenever I travel anywhere in the US that has some Japanese population, I always check yelp to find such places and read their reviews. I don't know if google owning yelp will be good or bad - I kind of like it the way it is now, though I could see its potential to be much cooler. Either way, though, people who use it regularly see a lot of value in it and I'm guessing that google sees a lot of value in those networks of generally young, educated hipsters with enough money to go out to eat all the time and enough free time to spend generating content (for free).
Of course people's tastes differ, but yelp can give you a ton of information from a bunch of different perspectives; sure it's a challenge to sort through it all but if you just read the first review and treat as gospel of course you will be disappointed. But if you look at negative and positive reviews and use them to learn about the restaurant (rather than just about someone's opinion of the restaurant) it can be really helpful. After a while you can "friend" reviewers whose comments you find informative and you can ignore those you don't. You can even look at menus and photos of the food; many restaurants have extensive photo albums contributed by users. And, best of all, you can contribute to this information -- if you have a favorite restaurant that is getting trashed by various reviewers, you can post responses.
I know slashdotters will whine about censorship but the reality is this will make twitter far more useful. Once it's implemented in reverse, that is: twitter will be far more entertaining when I can click a link and censor out all the tweets that lack colorful language.
The case could not be closed because Libby lied and obstructed justice in order to protect most likely Cheney and Rove. Dick Armitage was always a distraction in this.
This just in: CmdrTaco has banned user TaggartAleslayer for making death threats; he will be removed from posting privileges until they determine the nature of the threat.
If we're going after thought-crimes, then, best to imprison or otherwise incapacitate everyone BEFORE the criminal thoughts even occur. After all, as you say, there is no way to tell what might happen if we don't do it; it's netter to not roll the dice, don't leave that to chance, and stop a potential murderer.
This quotation from his platform is directly taken from the Qur'an:
"Whooosh shall be the sound entered into record when obvious attempts at sarcasm, humor, or hyperbole are completely missed or obtusely ignored by any child of Allah."
Slashdot Mirror
because the NYT at the time trusted another of Mitnick's old rivals, John Markoff, to be the one final arbiter of all things that had anything to do with computer hacking. Sort of like they did with Judy Miller and Saddam Hussein....
Anyone who doesn't think every SMS in the US (for example) is passed into the NSA is naive beyond belief.
Uh-huh. I want to know who has the thankless job of reading all that crap. Page after page after page of "c u l8r" "u r hawt" "wot u meen?" "lol wtf kthxbi"
I found it interesting that groups of conventioneers had to head over to the Las Vegas Apple store to see something interesting this year. The company that wasn't there was a bigger story than just about any of the companies that were. So I'm not at all surprised that a cell phone breaking is big news from the weekend. The smart ones skipped the convention center altogether and spent their time in the Venetian listening to high end audio systems and pretending to care what the cables were made of....
"Ahem - since when is running a reason to be shot by police?"
In some parts of the world, you don't have a guaranteed right to pursue liberty and freedom in such a manner, and thus you may be shot. Duh, not everywhere's America.
Right. It's not America; this happened in England. Where these rights were invented.
Religions don't kill people; religious people kill people!
Apple, Google, and so on all invest heavily in public relations in order to avoid the fate of Microsoft. That doesn't mean that the substance of their business methods is any different.
If it were any different, we'd see changes in leadership. CEOs remain CEOs because they continue to pursue profit above all. That's part of the system that's not likely to change, whether you like it or not. The challenge is to articulate a business model that makes "do no evil" (or, at least, "be perceived as doing no evil") into a profitable action, and Google and Apple have successfully convinced many people that they have done that.
I'm really curious as to what the alternative would be?
Let's see you reply in thread...
Santa and the elves are all on BlackBerries. They love the push email features. Now how the hell are they going to coordinate all those late night pickups and dropoffs? And Mrs. Claus won't be getting her usual midnight sexts via BBM this year. This is truly a crisis.
If you can think of another more likely possibility, based on that information, I'd like to hear it.
Sure.
* server error
* server update
* human error of someone maintaining the pages
* you never actually finished posting it in the first place
There are probably other possibilities; all far more likely than a conspiracy to censor an unfavorable comment about a local business.
What was the local business, anyway, Occam's Shaving Emporium?
I've seen tons of negative reviews on yelp. Do you have any evidence that Yelp actually deleted your review based on a bribe?
you should go yelp about it!
anti-competitive maybe, but if you think this is just about copying code, you're missing the point. When yuppies in NY, Chicago, LA, SF, NOLA, Vegas, and other cities in the U.S. get home from a great (or terrible) meal (or strip club or trip to the gynecologist), many of them want to "yelp" their experiences. They don't say "I am going to run home and google map the shit out of this place!" Reviews on google maps are useful but they are not really part of a social network; they are far more anonymous and disposable than yelp reviews. You don't "favorite" authors, you don't upload photos of your food (or photos of yourself), and you don't join groups of other users for sushi or whatever in real live fleshmeets. Yelp has just done the "Web 2.0" experience a lot more elegantly than google in this area. I suspect google doesn't just want the user base but also their sense of connectedness to each other.
Yelp is not just code; it's an actual social network and it's a brand identity. I don't know if it's worth a half billion either -- those kind of numbers are meaningless to me since I don't buy and sell companies. But it's certainly something a hell of a lot more substantial than its codebase.
Or, what am I missing? Is yelp.com offering something other than people subjectively reviewing things like food?
Yes. It's offering a social networking site for such people as well as a user-generated database of information about the restaurants (and other businesses) in their neighborhoods. It's like facebook meets wikipedia for food and drink nerds. It's incredibly useful in a large city where new restaurants and bars come and go constantly, and where there is a large mobile population of internet-savvy people with disposable income. People post photos and the reviews range from entirely vapid to densely informative. It's an opportunity for every wannabe food critic to write about what they love (or hate) and actually get readers without having to go pro ... (It's especially useful in a city like LA where print food journalism is already dominated by a single writer!) You can learn a lot about places that you would never get from a menu or the website or a newspaper review. It's not just restaurants, either -- bars, auto mechanics, bowling alleys, doctors, strip clubs, medical marijuana "dispensaries," and universities all have extensive pages of reviews. And you can network with writers you think are helpful or entertaining. Some networks organize parties and group dining events. It's great for travelers too -- I really like to eat out at izakayas (Japanese "tapas" pubs), for example; whenever I travel anywhere in the US that has some Japanese population, I always check yelp to find such places and read their reviews. I don't know if google owning yelp will be good or bad - I kind of like it the way it is now, though I could see its potential to be much cooler. Either way, though, people who use it regularly see a lot of value in it and I'm guessing that google sees a lot of value in those networks of generally young, educated hipsters with enough money to go out to eat all the time and enough free time to spend generating content (for free).
Of course people's tastes differ, but yelp can give you a ton of information from a bunch of different perspectives; sure it's a challenge to sort through it all but if you just read the first review and treat as gospel of course you will be disappointed. But if you look at negative and positive reviews and use them to learn about the restaurant (rather than just about someone's opinion of the restaurant) it can be really helpful. After a while you can "friend" reviewers whose comments you find informative and you can ignore those you don't. You can even look at menus and photos of the food; many restaurants have extensive photo albums contributed by users. And, best of all, you can contribute to this information -- if you have a favorite restaurant that is getting trashed by various reviewers, you can post responses.
Who invented the Time Machine?
Well, Apple did, of course!
I was trying to do the same sort of thing with assbook.com where users can exchange photos of their asses. I'm guessing the FTC won't give a shit.
I'm far more worried about students who read my drunken tweets! And not just on fridays or saturdays....
I know slashdotters will whine about censorship but the reality is this will make twitter far more useful. Once it's implemented in reverse, that is: twitter will be far more entertaining when I can click a link and censor out all the tweets that lack colorful language.
The case could not be closed because Libby lied and obstructed justice in order to protect most likely Cheney and Rove. Dick Armitage was always a distraction in this.
On the desktop!
It will be the year of Mac on the Desktop. And about time, too!
This just in: CmdrTaco has banned user TaggartAleslayer for making death threats; he will be removed from posting privileges until they determine the nature of the threat.
If we're going after thought-crimes, then, best to imprison or otherwise incapacitate everyone BEFORE the criminal thoughts even occur. After all, as you say, there is no way to tell what might happen if we don't do it; it's netter to not roll the dice, don't leave that to chance, and stop a potential murderer.
Well, at the very least, it's more polite.
This quotation from his platform is directly taken from the Qur'an:
"Whooosh shall be the sound entered into record when obvious attempts at sarcasm, humor, or hyperbole are completely missed or obtusely ignored by any child of Allah."