It is like when you get one of those automated phone calls with a recorded message. You can't just talk back to the message and legally say that you have informed the phone spammer of your conditions.
Ahhhh! US lawyer culture... A local sCammer used a fake name under *my* phone# and we've been in the sights of a few collection agencies.* A recent agency has the guts to leave repeated voicemails with robo-messages stating that "This message is for $fake_name. By listening to this message you certify that you are $fake_name... If you are not $fake_name, hang up now. There will now be a 3-second pause." Only after that, do they give callback info for $fake_name to make ammends. But this bold pretense is offensive.
"Certifications" and "certificates" aren't ad-hoc things like they think --ask the CompTIA, CISCO, Microsoft, Red Hat, US blah-grade seal of approval people why I can't just declare myself certified. Further, lawyer certification processes require witnesses, actual proof, lawyers, rubber stamps and a bunch of cash. Wasting my digital "cassette tape" and acting like I'm bound to "obey" some robotic order to certify because it's legalese is wishful thinking, and just as deceiving as the scammer that got them into finding my number.
Collection agencies' new robocallers are interactive and when I answers sometimes offer automated "opt-out" buttons (HA!). Same as with illegal spammers, those seem to never work, plus their live customer service fails to truly de-list you after we clarify we're not the scammer. The same agencies reappear after a few months. You'd think their lawyers would warn'em against this bold disregard for people erroneously AND illegally bothered with their mistargetted soliciting. These companies are more legal than spammers, but very dirty regardless. They love playing with the useless CallID technology and trying to trick their targets into implicating themselves as a false negative in hiding.
* They're looking for a ghost with unpaid bills. But this is not the point.
That nobody is getting FB yet is proof enough that it will not be done; it's even less useful than asking for your blog since that URL is short and unambiguous. Let me explain the FB "address" problem: Facebook and some others repackage "you" so you're no longer some short ID, you're no longer just your e-mail address. Often, even if you are activating a FB-to-FB "friend request," to the person planning to find you, an e-mail address is needed to find an exact match. If your contact is unknown or lurking, your full name is needed. If they aren't even on facebook, then to truly "share" your exact profile long alphanumeric URL unfit for memorization / business cards is sent. That's something even smart students student cannot achive because the college's FB account is lurking in the shadows. Most people outside show-biz never activate their custom facebook.com/shortHandle link
We know from FB and web search engines that most names are ambiguously shared with many candidates, or 100% absent from the internet. Unlike a business card or an e-mail address, knowledge of your location, age and so on are tricky if you've made some info private and someone is trying to decide which John Smith they went to school with out of 300+ truncated results. Some particularly annoying searches show 3 or 4 profiles with a missing photo and zero public data, and you end up wondering if your target is one of a) those b) one they missed among the other 300 c) not on FB after all.
Doctor's medical records forms ask for a name, address, phone, and recently, e-mail. Come emergency time or your next pre-appointment reminder --your phone is still the only thing they use. They would never replace all that for a FB account. In the event that they intend to *spy* over the prospective person, they will fear that asking for a profile blunthly will alert the person to clean up their profile, anyway.
Interesting that you say the govt is linking by reference (pointers) to a source that has the values (the actual docs.) More interesting still is that the govt doesn't publish the value of the data to just end it all. But they know that despite being given the reference, mainstream people fear being caught, and most importantly, are lazy*.
When Uncle Sam says there's a BIG forbidden book beyond door X which you'll get in trouble for carrying in public, very few will bother. The public will "meh" till someone else skims it. That is happening now. BUT, if Uncle Sam were to mail every American this forbidden book, that would outweigh the laziness percentage enough to count.
* similar to why they mail Americans their tax forms EVERY year
If you don't like it, write your congressperson explaining...
You know what's funny? Back in 2002 my dad received a legit e-mail from the office of our local congressman. It was thanking us for having sent them an email about passing some proposition or other, and stating that it had indeed been passed. His box's spyware used his Outlook Express for someone else's political agenda. We had no idea who his congressman was prior to this, and dad couldn't write an *English* e-mail, but that didn't stop his "support" from counting for a congressional decision.
It's scary that someone else with "super dirty" political plans can ballot stuff laws using unwilling but PUBLICLY accountable* e-supporters. Worse if start auto-posting links about your "support" in your facebook given further account spying. The law may never pass, but its "dirtiness" would forever leave marks that you don't want in your FB profile, even after deleted. That's one reason I don't set up anyone's cable/DSL POP3 and just train them on webmail.
* Imagine Anonymous using a campaign to create laws to support Assange, and how the FBI would be tracing and investigating all the unwilling email senders. Till specific scripts can be found, think of the discomfort the FBI could bring to someone like my father.
As far as I know, "ax" is acceptable in American English, British English only permits "axe". I noticed TFA's inability to spell "hassled" in the headline far more.
Here in the US we have a problem with words like xmas as well. Using the letter x... bluescreens our brains. Thanx for answering. We didn't even have to ax you any questions!
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I've met smart people who think that Internet Explorer is the Internet.
No, you haven't.
Half the university staffers and a few professors I supported think all urls go in the search bar, no matter how small and inconspicuous it may appear right next to the main URL bar.
Must have something to do with browser GUIs giving you two textfields without distinct background color. Only geeks notice that "the one on the left is the one filled with text all the time... perhaps reading that text will contain something useful... ooh, it says facebook and i happen to be on my facebook." Nongeeks never read the "this one is a google search bar" text blurred until onfocus() is triggered. Instead they go "ooh, that box on the left is all taken up with letters, let me ignore it and use the empty one here on the right. Ooh, i'll ignore that i always end up on google and have like 3 different places that might all be facebook"
NYC's airspace was noticeably quieter because the FAA killed all air traffic immediately after September 11th, for about a week.
It was the perfect way to prove by absence that we've gotten too used to daily traffic/news-copters and a the boom of two or three planes a day.
There's also a far train whistling around 1 in the morning. After a while, you don't consciously notice these things for weeks, till you visit some other town.
Innovation will simply move to less patent-encumbered locations (i.e. China/India).
China actually became an exporting power after WWII because "more patent-encumbered locations" have 0 power over them: no chasing China's reverse engineering*, and now gray markets.
It follows that if the tables do turn, you can bet your imported iPhone knockoff that every country will go "it's payback time!" and the next World War will be China chasing its IP in a over-righteous way. But the tables will probably never turn.
* REAL patent theft consists of reading and then just implementing what the patents describe, while ignoring actual license payments and the arbitrary restrictions of the patent licensor.
Compare with the slowness of IPv6 progress in the US and contrast with the ol' Y2K. Because until they're looking for filler, the media takes its time things that don't go "BOOM!" If it doesn't, they at least want to make someone's public image implode
Seeing how flatlined the competitor's scores were throughout, there are questions in light of the GP:
Will this downward trend (300ms sunspider improvement) stop as soon as they're numerically the "slightly better" of their competitors? Is there a genuine effort to, say shave another 300ms so others have to work really hard to best THEM now? Will devs get bored and drop this? The v8bench was a drastic improvement as well, the data shows an asymptote equal to Chrome's static scores.
The slowness workaround for my single core machine is nice-ing FF in Linux and installing the prio freeware for Windows. After a reboot, Windows' task manager could then be used to permanently assign "Above normal" priority to firefox and the flash plugin container. That will slightly starve the OS shell if flash video is playing in Firefox when you're viewing picture folders in XP simultaneously.
Mozilla's devs never cared that the tab switch slowness has been the worst of all browsers since version 2.0
Word choice is critical in making short messages easy to gro.., er, understand.
Net-jargon that has failed to be approved for dictionaries will confuse readers of automatic translations --they were never perfect to begin with, but are increasingly ubiquitous.*
People don't think they'll reach readers whose native language isn't theirs... that'll change: see how quick we link to Sweedish translations of Assange's newspaper stories, for example. This is important enough that a certain mainstream browser goes "It looks like you were sent to a Chinese website... want me to translate it to English?"
The day we as users found connectivity convenient to "locate" things on the web... corporations and governments realized the same thing, where s/locate things/locate YOU/. We allowed ourselves to be put in a game where we all want to play, and the price is that we must allow 2-ways tracking --otherwise our products never see the light of day. That the tracking leans heavily against us, even the paying customers is what the public is just discovering with Facebook (paid apps), governments versus Wikileaks and digital cellphone services.
Took this economy long enough to make touchscreens a smartphone standard at all Radioshacks! Androids came out about 24 months ago but only now are making it to everyone's hands.
The ol' trusty Blackberry of a decade ago hasn't turned affordable (feature-phon level pricing) touchscreen or not. Android is much newer and hardware makers are just milking the Android brand *because* expensive touchscreen / app features are attracting long-pressured iPhone buyers that used to have no hardware alternative. Uncomfortable prices are getting set in stone; 24 more months will pass but even low-end Androids won't be under $200.
I wonder if feature phones will be dead by then, since cheap alternatives are being removed from large stores. Only the tiny small stores carry things that my minimalistic preferences can afford.
Learn DNS. You should only be looking at a IPv6 address if you are a network engineer.
Saying "only," you and many others sound pretty sure that real users NEVER see ip address in the clear, though Vista and Ubuntu show you both v4 and v6 on wireless connection status and ifconfig lines --forum users asked to post theirs for troubleshooting are not all network engineers, either. Was DNS was created not for IPv4's sake, but for some not-yet-foreseen future IPv6 tech? DNS is perfect for the disaster that is writing out an IPv6 location... It isn't as dependable as some think even in our mature, saturated, well understood IPv4 world, and thus your argument falls apart. Look closer:
That alone means that a lot of people have been seeing naked IP's in their web searches. From hundreds of millions of yearly searches, even a tiny made up number like 1% is millions of individuals using a cache and finding this weird thing in their location bar called a naked IP address. In 2010. Oh, sorry, that must mean they are all certified network engineers, no? The dns domain they are using is only 2 years old, yet google caches with this "network-engineer" IP glitch in our address-bars is probably as old as google, a domain registered 12 years ago.
Now your focus will shift to "ooh, an honest 12 year mistake", or "only network engineers ever bookmark/e-mail/tweet/link address bar links with google's highlighted search keyworks," but a nobody and a never proven wrong once show dubiousness to the reliability of your thinking. Right, you said IPv6. I'm not a network engineer, but like thousands of sixx.net's tunnel users, I need to enter long, annoying sequences of IPv4 and IPv6 naked gateway and DNS server addresses into my router or tunnel. Without being an engineer, there are websites built for me and others to enter that world with sites on "free IPv6 only pr0n." Oh, so they must have meant this pr0n to network admins only... : )
Anyway, if IPv4 blunders can last for 12 years, rest assured that our fear is that IPv6 and bad *real* network admins will be lazy, like Google's were --or much, MUCH worse because IPv6 is annoying to deal with and retraining courses are few and far between. The problem will be a pest for the next decade or more. The naked IP problems of today worseing for tomorrow will bring you lots of IPv6 links when sc/pammers start targetting the IPv6-only users thanks to the relative inconvenience of hiding somewhere in IPv6 space. Proof of concept later later becomes a reality exploited by few, then more, and then all.
* Bested only by facebook, with 500 million active users.
Christmas shoppers have been mentioning netbooks to me this year. When I state that they use their CDs, they are unaffected "--that's fine, all I have is MP3s!" or "won't watch DVD's that tiny screen!"
As their only tech, I'm seeing problem-solving on them will be a pain. Live USB workarounds don't mirror Windows's standard troubleshooting CD without a bunch of research. Also, adding their Turbotax and CD software will be a pain, because everyone finally groks flash drives, but nobody distributes software uniquely with them.
Hmm, their inactivity deletion policy is new to me. Thanks again. I had an old account I hadn't used for 6 months to a year without any loss or warning, IIRC --this probably was too long ago to count, since you now know I'm an old user. Apparently 4 months is good enough that I profiled their policy as "unlimited."
My alt accounts are at hotmail (1 month limit) and Google. I have the impression the average slashdot user chooses google out of shiny geek necessity more than trust, and I hope you have noticed that since the economic downturn more posts are coming forward passing new judgement on Google's supposed "do no evil" motto. I don't care so much for technical competence as for non-technical bad decisions. The moves from people at the top made me choose to drop Google Buzz almost the same day, to ignore Google Latitude, to restrict my sharing on all other sites, because of how well Google indexes useless real life details that I'd rather not lower my professional signal-to-noise, and other moves.
If Google does become the next Apple, IBM or even MS, then my remaining ownership of personal and private data will be gone, by the slow-warming-boils-unsuspecting-pan-frogs proverb. In choosing security over convenience, you respectfully disagree with me, and I choose what I think is safer. My OP concern is that Yahoo will disappear altogether, and its services that I trust today will go away when the fortress crumbles.
Back to my backup, Yahoo's policy seems to rule out Thunderbird and normal POP3 clients --it refuses connections done outside of their subscription paywall. Google and others have agreements getting around it, or just data scrape my Y! data into their inbox. I won't have a problem using TB to access my giant frozen archive if I end up foregoing the Google fix. It does look attractively accessible, though.
* I must advertise my location to just see a friend's willing disclosure of his --the all or nothing is the model used by dating or social media sites that want to lure you into joining / sharing / paying.
Idida couplesearches thanks to your post and appreciate being closer to my answer.
I have one gmail account but importing twelve years of private Yahoo e-mail into gmail, which has existed a mere five, makes me cringe. Can't allow them to cash in with its advertising partners on a huge data mine for one single user. Yahoo mail never had privacy problems, and you cringe because they're the least flashy one. Good for me. Hotmail and gmail accounts get hacked all the time.
I'll settle for a pst-type Yahoo archive to be saved away from the web and potential advertisers down the road.
Starting Opera 10 as a normal user triggers UAC randomly. Eventually I started to skip that by pressing ESC since it will still run the program normally. Hard to believe the devs caused that since Opera doesn't know how to seamlessly automatically update itself or inform you why UAC is needed and why you need to cooperate. Lots of Opera forum users sadly type their PW everytime Opera asks, many fellow forumers have no idea what's going on, so they're are just told to DISABLE UAC! Disable UAC because of malware --the exact reason UAC was created!
The devs screwed up royally and I've so far not found any workaround on their forums or elsewhere.
See my other comment Disabling is meant to prevent theft, and not to compensate possible fakers for a feature that clearly worked as designed. Companies will have no trouble lawyering up and demanding compensation when errors occur, but the average joe will probably not even be given a kill switch. At least for free. And if some anonymous kiddie orders my kill, all they can say is "oops, we ain't giving up a brand new CPU unless you're corporate --go out and buy a different model"
Interesting point. But having lived in the US for a while, there be lawyer-like questions at hand: 1) Is the CPU the only thing disabled?
a) can it be reenabled, and by whom? how? will that tool be leaked as well an render everything moot?
b) can thieves buy a new CPU w/ different serial#, and steal my investment on the *whole PC* despite my mandated kill?
c) will a gray market develop around selling CPU's that ignore the kill instructions, thereby helping thieves abusing step b? 2) If the whole board itself is disabled by mistake, who pays my company for the error and hardware loss? can that be reversed? can that reversal be abused by fakers?
I think the AMT theory is sound. One "alternative" could be to send signals as far-reaching as the North American-wide Colorado timeclock (er, NA doesn't not mean "the USA.") But, unlike a mere passive time signal it needs customization to avoid killing North American PC's like a doomsday EMP.
So, in comes the role of 3G connections as unique signal providers, which cells already use. 3G coverage requires a monthly revenue stream which Intel would be paying. Since Amazon was the only company to give free radio internet* (3G?) Numerically, intel makes more chips than Amazon can hope to sell Kindles, so the scale of individual coverage would be a problem. It makes lots of sense that if the user has 3G coverage through whatever laptop they're given from work, then the CPU can enjoy the free ride.
Though this Sandy Bridge tech raises my neck's back-hairs, it's likely they implement it wrong. For example, the lowjack tech mentioned elsewhere on this thread has a BIOS option to be disabled forever, even if you're not the IT crew. Lesson of the day? password protect your BIOS and use physical locks --don't trust your IT security to fancy new tech buzzwords.
* IIRC, in the Kindle for potential profit from users viewing up-to-date e-book lists --though Wikipedia searches were also free or something.
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Anyone who can read one page can read two (or more) pages. Laziness is not an excuse.
For many contracts one page is not nearly enough to mention everything that needs to be mentioned.
Page-wise, resumes are the same. And still >1 pages gets yours tossed these days.
It's always lose/lose for the average buyer / prospective employee.
It is like when you get one of those automated phone calls with a recorded message. You can't just talk back to the message and legally say that you have informed the phone spammer of your conditions.
Ahhhh! US lawyer culture...
A local sCammer used a fake name under *my* phone# and we've been in the sights of a few collection agencies.* A recent agency has the guts to leave repeated voicemails with robo-messages stating that "This message is for $fake_name. By listening to this message you certify that you are $fake_name... If you are not $fake_name, hang up now. There will now be a 3-second pause." Only after that, do they give callback info for $fake_name to make ammends. But this bold pretense is offensive.
"Certifications" and "certificates" aren't ad-hoc things like they think --ask the CompTIA, CISCO, Microsoft, Red Hat, US blah-grade seal of approval people why I can't just declare myself certified. Further, lawyer certification processes require witnesses, actual proof, lawyers, rubber stamps and a bunch of cash. Wasting my digital "cassette tape" and acting like I'm bound to "obey" some robotic order to certify because it's legalese is wishful thinking, and just as deceiving as the scammer that got them into finding my number.
Some searching while I was doing comment "Preview" shows that the robomessage exists in a few variation. I think ours is meant to sound threatening; what they apparently are trying to say is "for your privacy we're allowing time to turn down the volume of your speakerphone if someone's around"
Collection agencies' new robocallers are interactive and when I answers sometimes offer automated "opt-out" buttons (HA!). Same as with illegal spammers, those seem to never work, plus their live customer service fails to truly de-list you after we clarify we're not the scammer. The same agencies reappear after a few months. You'd think their lawyers would warn'em against this bold disregard for people erroneously AND illegally bothered with their mistargetted soliciting. These companies are more legal than spammers, but very dirty regardless. They love playing with the useless CallID technology and trying to trick their targets into implicating themselves as a false negative in hiding.
* They're looking for a ghost with unpaid bills. But this is not the point.
And now we know the origin of the blasted lolcats and why they prefer can haz cheezburgers to your friend's catnip-laced stash.
The bastard!
give one plenty of practice in keeping the character count down.
Yeah, but our comment box is so insanely big! :~/
By the time we're done filling it up (OCD!!!)
people say tl;dr sigs
That nobody is getting FB yet is proof enough that it will not be done; it's even less useful than asking for your blog since that URL is short and unambiguous. Let me explain the FB "address" problem: Facebook and some others repackage "you" so you're no longer some short ID, you're no longer just your e-mail address. Often, even if you are activating a FB-to-FB "friend request," to the person planning to find you, an e-mail address is needed to find an exact match. If your contact is unknown or lurking, your full name is needed. If they aren't even on facebook, then to truly "share" your exact profile long alphanumeric URL unfit for memorization / business cards is sent. That's something even smart students student cannot achive because the college's FB account is lurking in the shadows. Most people outside show-biz never activate their custom facebook.com/shortHandle link
We know from FB and web search engines that most names are ambiguously shared with many candidates, or 100% absent from the internet. Unlike a business card or an e-mail address, knowledge of your location, age and so on are tricky if you've made some info private and someone is trying to decide which John Smith they went to school with out of 300+ truncated results. Some particularly annoying searches show 3 or 4 profiles with a missing photo and zero public data, and you end up wondering if your target is one of a) those b) one they missed among the other 300 c) not on FB after all.
Doctor's medical records forms ask for a name, address, phone, and recently, e-mail. Come emergency time or your next pre-appointment reminder --your phone is still the only thing they use. They would never replace all that for a FB account. In the event that they intend to *spy* over the prospective person, they will fear that asking for a profile blunthly will alert the person to clean up their profile, anyway.
Interesting that you say the govt is linking by reference (pointers) to a source that has the values (the actual docs.) More interesting still is that the govt doesn't publish the value of the data to just end it all. But they know that despite being given the reference, mainstream people fear being caught, and most importantly, are lazy*.
When Uncle Sam says there's a BIG forbidden book beyond door X which you'll get in trouble for carrying in public, very few will bother. The public will "meh" till someone else skims it. That is happening now. BUT, if Uncle Sam were to mail every American this forbidden book, that would outweigh the laziness percentage enough to count.
* similar to why they mail Americans their tax forms EVERY year
If you don't like it, write your congressperson explaining ...
You know what's funny? Back in 2002 my dad received a legit e-mail from the office of our local congressman. It was thanking us for having sent them an email about passing some proposition or other, and stating that it had indeed been passed. His box's spyware used his Outlook Express for someone else's political agenda. We had no idea who his congressman was prior to this, and dad couldn't write an *English* e-mail, but that didn't stop his "support" from counting for a congressional decision.
It's scary that someone else with "super dirty" political plans can ballot stuff laws using unwilling but PUBLICLY accountable* e-supporters. Worse if start auto-posting links about your "support" in your facebook given further account spying. The law may never pass, but its "dirtiness" would forever leave marks that you don't want in your FB profile, even after deleted. That's one reason I don't set up anyone's cable/DSL POP3 and just train them on webmail.
* Imagine Anonymous using a campaign to create laws to support Assange, and how the FBI would be tracing and investigating all the unwilling email senders. Till specific scripts can be found, think of the discomfort the FBI could bring to someone like my father.
As far as I know, "ax" is acceptable in American English, British English only permits "axe". I noticed TFA's inability to spell "hassled" in the headline far more.
Here in the US we have a problem with words like xmas as well. Using the letter x ... bluescreens our brains. Thanx for answering. We didn't even have to ax you any questions!
No, you haven't.
Half the university staffers and a few professors I supported think all urls go in the search bar, no matter how small and inconspicuous it may appear right next to the main URL bar.
Must have something to do with browser GUIs giving you two textfields without distinct background color. Only geeks notice that "the one on the left is the one filled with text all the time... perhaps reading that text will contain something useful... ooh, it says facebook and i happen to be on my facebook." Nongeeks never read the "this one is a google search bar" text blurred until onfocus() is triggered. Instead they go "ooh, that box on the left is all taken up with letters, let me ignore it and use the empty one here on the right. Ooh, i'll ignore that i always end up on google and have like 3 different places that might all be facebook"
NYC's airspace was noticeably quieter because the FAA killed all air traffic immediately after September 11th, for about a week.
It was the perfect way to prove by absence that we've gotten too used to daily traffic/news-copters and a the boom of two or three planes a day.
There's also a far train whistling around 1 in the morning. After a while, you don't consciously notice these things for weeks, till you visit some other town.
Even better: how about 'It should apply to all OBJECTS'. Every single object, mobile or immobile should emit a different tone constantly.
Great! I'd finally mastered LED light-pollution by learning to live and code while blindfolded.
Now this!
Innovation will simply move to less patent-encumbered locations (i.e. China/India).
China actually became an exporting power after WWII because "more patent-encumbered locations" have 0 power over them: no chasing China's reverse engineering*, and now gray markets.
It follows that if the tables do turn, you can bet your imported iPhone knockoff that every country will go "it's payback time!" and the next World War will be China chasing its IP in a over-righteous way. But the tables will probably never turn.
* REAL patent theft consists of reading and then just implementing what the patents describe, while ignoring actual license payments and the arbitrary restrictions of the patent licensor.
Compare with the slowness of IPv6 progress in the US and contrast with the ol' Y2K.
Because until they're looking for filler, the media takes its time things that don't go "BOOM!"
If it doesn't, they at least want to make someone's public image implode
Wow, that is pretty revealing.
Seeing how flatlined the competitor's scores were throughout, there are questions in light of the GP:
Will this downward trend (300ms sunspider improvement) stop as soon as they're numerically the "slightly better" of their competitors? Is there a genuine effort to, say shave another 300ms so others have to work really hard to best THEM now? Will devs get bored and drop this? The v8bench was a drastic improvement as well, the data shows an asymptote equal to Chrome's static scores.
The slowness workaround for my single core machine is nice-ing FF in Linux and installing the prio freeware for Windows. After a reboot, Windows' task manager could then be used to permanently assign "Above normal" priority to firefox and the flash plugin container. That will slightly starve the OS shell if flash video is playing in Firefox when you're viewing picture folders in XP simultaneously.
Mozilla's devs never cared that the tab switch slowness has been the worst of all browsers since version 2.0
Word choice is critical in making short messages easy to gro.., er, understand.
Net-jargon that has failed to be approved for dictionaries will confuse readers of automatic translations --they were never perfect to begin with, but are increasingly ubiquitous.*
People don't think they'll reach readers whose native language isn't theirs... that'll change: see how quick we link to Sweedish translations of Assange's newspaper stories, for example. This is important enough that a certain mainstream browser goes "It looks like you were sent to a Chinese website... want me to translate it to English?"
The day we as users found connectivity convenient to "locate" things on the web... corporations and governments realized the same thing, where s/locate things/locate YOU/. We allowed ourselves to be put in a game where we all want to play, and the price is that we must allow 2-ways tracking --otherwise our products never see the light of day.
That the tracking leans heavily against us, even the paying customers is what the public is just discovering with Facebook (paid apps), governments versus Wikileaks and digital cellphone services.
Took this economy long enough to make touchscreens a smartphone standard at all Radioshacks!
Androids came out about 24 months ago but only now are making it to everyone's hands.
The ol' trusty Blackberry of a decade ago hasn't turned affordable (feature-phon level pricing) touchscreen or not. Android is much newer and hardware makers are just milking the Android brand *because* expensive touchscreen / app features are attracting long-pressured iPhone buyers that used to have no hardware alternative. Uncomfortable prices are getting set in stone; 24 more months will pass but even low-end Androids won't be under $200.
I wonder if feature phones will be dead by then, since cheap alternatives are being removed from large stores. Only the tiny small stores carry things that my minimalistic preferences can afford.
And anyway, IPv6 addresses are ugg-ly.
Learn DNS. You should only be looking at a IPv6 address if you are a network engineer.
Saying "only," you and many others sound pretty sure that real users NEVER see ip address in the clear, though Vista and Ubuntu show you both v4 and v6 on wireless connection status and ifconfig lines --forum users asked to post theirs for troubleshooting are not all network engineers, either. Was DNS was created not for IPv4's sake, but for some not-yet-foreseen future IPv6 tech? DNS is perfect for the disaster that is writing out an IPv6 location... It isn't as dependable as some think even in our mature, saturated, well understood IPv4 world, and thus your argument falls apart. Look closer:
Remember that less than a 10 months ago in our supposedly mature year 2010 in IPv4, we all still saw IP addresses in the browser address bar for google cache pages. Of all organizations, geeks have the most respect for them, but if Google were fueled by cash from geeks alone, it would not be #2 in Netcraft's survey of most visited sites*
That alone means that a lot of people have been seeing naked IP's in their web searches. From hundreds of millions of yearly searches, even a tiny made up number like 1% is millions of individuals using a cache and finding this weird thing in their location bar called a naked IP address. In 2010. Oh, sorry, that must mean they are all certified network engineers, no? The dns domain they are using is only 2 years old, yet google caches with this "network-engineer" IP glitch in our address-bars is probably as old as google, a domain registered 12 years ago.
Now your focus will shift to "ooh, an honest 12 year mistake", or "only network engineers ever bookmark/e-mail/tweet/link address bar links with google's highlighted search keyworks," but a nobody and a never proven wrong once show dubiousness to the reliability of your thinking. Right, you said IPv6. I'm not a network engineer, but like thousands of sixx.net's tunnel users, I need to enter long, annoying sequences of IPv4 and IPv6 naked gateway and DNS server addresses into my router or tunnel. Without being an engineer, there are websites built for me and others to enter that world with sites on "free IPv6 only pr0n." Oh, so they must have meant this pr0n to network admins only... : )
Anyway, if IPv4 blunders can last for 12 years, rest assured that our fear is that IPv6 and bad *real* network admins will be lazy, like Google's were --or much, MUCH worse because IPv6 is annoying to deal with and retraining courses are few and far between. The problem will be a pest for the next decade or more. The naked IP problems of today worseing for tomorrow will bring you lots of IPv6 links when sc/pammers start targetting the IPv6-only users thanks to the relative inconvenience of hiding somewhere in IPv6 space. Proof of concept later later becomes a reality exploited by few, then more, and then all.
* Bested only by facebook, with 500 million active users.
Christmas shoppers have been mentioning netbooks to me this year. When I state that they use their CDs, they are unaffected "--that's fine, all I have is MP3s!" or "won't watch DVD's that tiny screen!"
As their only tech, I'm seeing problem-solving on them will be a pain. Live USB workarounds don't mirror Windows's standard troubleshooting CD without a bunch of research. Also, adding their Turbotax and CD software will be a pain, because everyone finally groks flash drives, but nobody distributes software uniquely with them.
Hmm, their inactivity deletion policy is new to me. Thanks again. I had an old account I hadn't used for 6 months to a year without any loss or warning, IIRC --this probably was too long ago to count, since you now know I'm an old user. Apparently 4 months is good enough that I profiled their policy as "unlimited."
My alt accounts are at hotmail (1 month limit) and Google. I have the impression the average slashdot user chooses google out of shiny geek necessity more than trust, and I hope you have noticed that since the economic downturn more posts are coming forward passing new judgement on Google's supposed "do no evil" motto. I don't care so much for technical competence as for non-technical bad decisions. The moves from people at the top made me choose to drop Google Buzz almost the same day, to ignore Google Latitude, to restrict my sharing on all other sites, because of how well Google indexes useless real life details that I'd rather not lower my professional signal-to-noise, and other moves.
If Google does become the next Apple, IBM or even MS, then my remaining ownership of personal and private data will be gone, by the slow-warming-boils-unsuspecting-pan-frogs proverb. In choosing security over convenience, you respectfully disagree with me, and I choose what I think is safer. My OP concern is that Yahoo will disappear altogether, and its services that I trust today will go away when the fortress crumbles.
Back to my backup, Yahoo's policy seems to rule out Thunderbird and normal POP3 clients --it refuses connections done outside of their subscription paywall. Google and others have agreements getting around it, or just data scrape my Y! data into their inbox. I won't have a problem using TB to access my giant frozen archive if I end up foregoing the Google fix. It does look attractively accessible, though.
* I must advertise my location to just see a friend's willing disclosure of his --the all or nothing is the model used by dating or social media sites that want to lure you into joining / sharing / paying.
I did a couple searches thanks to your post and appreciate being closer to my answer.
I have one gmail account but importing twelve years of private Yahoo e-mail into gmail, which has existed a mere five, makes me cringe. Can't allow them to cash in with its advertising partners on a huge data mine for one single user. Yahoo mail never had privacy problems, and you cringe because they're the least flashy one. Good for me. Hotmail and gmail accounts get hacked all the time.
I'll settle for a pst-type Yahoo archive to be saved away from the web and potential advertisers down the road.
Starting Opera 10 as a normal user triggers UAC randomly. Eventually I started to skip that by pressing ESC since it will still run the program normally. Hard to believe the devs caused that since Opera doesn't know how to seamlessly automatically update itself or inform you why UAC is needed and why you need to cooperate. Lots of Opera forum users sadly type their PW everytime Opera asks, many fellow forumers have no idea what's going on, so they're are just told to DISABLE UAC! Disable UAC because of malware --the exact reason UAC was created!
The devs screwed up royally and I've so far not found any workaround on their forums or elsewhere.
See my other comment
Disabling is meant to prevent theft, and not to compensate possible fakers for a feature that clearly worked as designed.
Companies will have no trouble lawyering up and demanding compensation when errors occur, but the average joe will probably not even be given a kill switch. At least for free. And if some anonymous kiddie orders my kill, all they can say is "oops, we ain't giving up a brand new CPU unless you're corporate --go out and buy a different model"
Interesting point. But having lived in the US for a while, there be lawyer-like questions at hand:
1) Is the CPU the only thing disabled?
a) can it be reenabled, and by whom? how? will that tool be leaked as well an render everything moot?
b) can thieves buy a new CPU w/ different serial#, and steal my investment on the *whole PC* despite my mandated kill?
c) will a gray market develop around selling CPU's that ignore the kill instructions, thereby helping thieves abusing step b?
2) If the whole board itself is disabled by mistake, who pays my company for the error and hardware loss? can that be reversed? can that reversal be abused by fakers?
I think the AMT theory is sound. One "alternative" could be to send signals as far-reaching as the North American-wide Colorado timeclock (er, NA doesn't not mean "the USA.") But, unlike a mere passive time signal it needs customization to avoid killing North American PC's like a doomsday EMP.
So, in comes the role of 3G connections as unique signal providers, which cells already use. 3G coverage requires a monthly revenue stream which Intel would be paying. Since Amazon was the only company to give free radio internet* (3G?) Numerically, intel makes more chips than Amazon can hope to sell Kindles, so the scale of individual coverage would be a problem. It makes lots of sense that if the user has 3G coverage through whatever laptop they're given from work, then the CPU can enjoy the free ride.
Though this Sandy Bridge tech raises my neck's back-hairs, it's likely they implement it wrong. For example, the lowjack tech mentioned elsewhere on this thread has a BIOS option to be disabled forever, even if you're not the IT crew. Lesson of the day? password protect your BIOS and use physical locks --don't trust your IT security to fancy new tech buzzwords.
* IIRC, in the Kindle for potential profit from users viewing up-to-date e-book lists --though Wikipedia searches were also free or something.