Groups? It's a nostalgia thing for me, but I'm in a ton; just never did more than lurking.
Thanks to the other commenter for reminding me of how nice Launch was before Musicmatch limits started to be imposed. It was great sharing playlists / stations... but that was in like 2004.
I haven't moved for the same reason people don't leave Facebook. This AC probably is a member of FB too; I never joined, and plan on passing on everything I haven't already joined too. The last thing I need is for a "all 1990's Usenet = public in 2005 and you posted under your real name, kthanks--bye^H^H^H_HI!!!" with all my late nineties and this whole decades' data.
When a drive fails^W^W^W I mistakenly delete my own data, I cringe, but only because it's a pain finding what version of my file is in what folder, zip file or format. I haven't figured how to back up Yahoo emails because POP3 isn't free.
Ah, friday night.... talking to myself and maybe this imaginary AC:)
I'm surprised you weren't modded up. I'm also surprised at how low the wages are at this turk thing, when a 15+ page script needs to be read just to get started. In the US, centuries of constant demolition and rebuilding mean that house numbers easily jump from "1" to "21" when maybe 10 houses on the same block no longer need individual numbers after the block turns into a single vacant lot.
Marketting fake numerical addresses in between legit ones ensures that Google Pagerank rates your "unique" business as #1 for certain keywords that only the inexistent address owns. When I learned this 2 weeks ago, I thought spammers had to at least sweat through that manual task by themselves... now? what a bummer!
who want's to bounce around stores just to save a few bucks on a toy anyways?
Anyone who is unemployed, underpaid or overly cautious Anyone noticing that gas prices are no longer at the $4.00 USD/gallon tag we had two full summers ago USA Black friday shoppers, who just 3 weeks ago is another wildly popular exercise in multi-location shopping
You are right, about having prices go up and down. It really messes with my computer builds that I'd need to visit 4 stores to get the absolute cheapest parts. Being in an expensive transportation area and on public transportation, the money spent on trips kill the savings unless I use flat-rate transit passes. I ended up deciding on a max of two stores.
No, tiny mailboxes and post-office delivery hours and retrieval policies are a big pain for online shipping when you don't own a house and can't wait for a 1PM package that arrives randomly while you're at work.
It is beginning to be a problem that Yahoo is dying slowly. First, they started compressing pictures that used to be fullsized in their popular "Groups" 10 years ago. Then, they started removing Briefcases. Last year, I had to review my Geocities files for anything important before they removed it. This year, their Hotjobs service got merged with Monster.com, so I'll lose my account there too.
I use Yahoo mail to get around the all-too-popular mailbox purge that the more "hip" webmails use. That is to avoid being forced into a paywall when I stop checking mail. Seeing that they are downsizing and the frequency of their cuts is increasing, I'm have to move all 12 years' worth of my mail and profile data elsewhere before it dies. I don't want it to be warningless like when WHQuestion closed down and everyone migrated to KnowPost but lost all their pictures, answers and intersting conversations with other great minds. I don't want my posts and attachments here to go the same way. Sadly, two more years like that and Yahoo will surely be dead, like Altavista. Funny thing is, I just found out Yahoo owns them now. Acquisitions don't always mean the old clients stay with the new boss, which might be Google or something, and my data will be open for a greater evil then.
Now that I think about my knowledge of Facebook, wiping Yahoo data now won't help keep it safe; "delete" doesn't exist when there's money to be made off of my time.
A phyrric victory, really. Spanish "reforms" outside economics can't do the EU any good due to its waning strength (ratings) relative to its stronger EU neighbors. It's been warned since around summer at least, and is now the EU's next Ireland-bailout-like candidate.
Countries with good laws and no economic [ergo, political] power can do little positive for their neighbors, let alone be a game-changer in America and Japan till it can get its economy back together. They've got too many problems to worry about games, and consoles/gaming are only serious social (WoW), legal (laws about who can/can't play) and major investment factors (all or nothing, folks) in Japan and the United States.
If you want incest-related fiction, you will have to shop somewhere that sells it. Amazon chooses not to.
Amazon may choose to remove the book from their shelves and web listings, but the the US criminal justice system that it abides by CANNOT likewise "make a choice" tomorrow... and arrest everyone breaking new laws prior to their very existance.
Corporations may choose to ignore local governments' spirit, OK (remember Google/China de-censoring?)... but customers and governments will replace them for less-foreign ones. Saves them double-standard headaches.
It's theft anyway. Bought is bought. If I sell you a book, then later slip in to your house and take it back while you sleep, I have committed a crime even if I leave the money where the book was. It just happens to be a theft I have already compensated you for.
True, but there's probably a submarine EULA condition making sure Amazon too can mess with any file in THEIR devices' filesystem (politics has made "licensing" the norm, rather than ownership, for systems software.)
Windows Vista has a clause allowing MS theoretically to clean viruses --more likely, lawyers put it there just to delete your pirated programs and media in some future MPAA / RIAA wake-up schedule.
Not that I approve of lying, but I expected the government to lie more to defuse their tough situation. Your thought-experiments aside, the scary part is that the government has not denied a single one of the current leaks after all these weeks.
Instead, *someone* started the Wikileaks smear by means of the extradition of its leader, though that strengthens the posibility of truth in the cables that need a cover-up. While Assange said the US is after him from the start through rape accusations, the US hasn't denied that as loudly as he is accusing.
Why would the government create openings against itself, when it can't afford the political and economic backslash that it knows will follow? Perhaps it is more afraid that their new anti-leak dirty plays will just leak out with all the other stuff! That is interesting.
Someone should introduce these kids to something named "caller ID"
Also, consider: 1) USA calls need some special prefix to summon a "private" caller ID to make tracking require police force and phone company cooperation for identity disclosures rather than surgery-precision payback lawsuits. 2) Few international activists will make Europe-to-USA long-distance faxes, solely on the costliness of the attack. Too bad, since international calls tend to lack CallID data and are harder to trace due to multi-telco cooperation for your multiple attackers. 3) Desktop PCs don't have modems nowadays. Attackers must look go to some camera-ridden local travel agency equipped with a fax, and risk getting caught with highly visible black-page fax in their hands, or learn to install and use PC/fax hardware and software from home. 4) Most of these guys will use Windows Fax software (remember the Linmodem issue that ensures linux users are mostly ethernet users?)
Unless they research free web-to-phone faxing services online, they'll get taken down. And there's probably blackpage avoidance and user-location tracking built-in there to slightly control abuse. Oh, well. The idea was interesting.
YMMV: Spybot hostsfiles and this mvps.org list twice affected my protégées' Windows stability until restored to empty files.
You should reboot and test uniquely-cached sites at each PC before you leave. Beyond 100,000 host entries Windows 2000 SP4's DNS cache may cause get 2-minute delays prior to the login screen. Slowdowns for the large amount of DNS comparisons per website reached supposedly even affected XP, though I can't really vouch noticeable issues here. Dual-core computers do not seem affected, but we know relatives and businesses get stuck in the past with Win2k, and you might remember the advice down the road.
Unfortunately everyone's going to change that; even companies like Netflix are pushing content creators to provide more shows, quickly. Everyone using flash has moved away from permanent MPEG files to prevent files from going to your "My music" and "My downloads" folders... and those of your friends, who have no downloader or player installed.
Let me digress, to state how even dis-advantaged communities have the power to increase bandwidth statistics in favor of online distribution: unlike mainstream Americans today, an immigrant Joe User in his fifties fears MP3 lawsuits and lacks time, resources and language skills to learn computing for the first time. He lacks our ubiquitous digital media stash, and has no webTV interest due to language and homeland-exclusive TV interests.
Pressure to join Facebook (which offers his choice of language interface) comes with the "educational brain damage" of sharing "files" the wrong way. He's "saving" music by receiving and re-sharing Facebook posts. These are links to ephimeral Youtube clips of his favorite songs with inspirational slideshows or live-performance footage to appease Youtube's "video site" status. These videos get taken down*, but Joe user will do another Youtube search and find his song track with different animations. Meanwhile, each stream is wasting orders of magnitude more bandwidth per CD audio track, over and over again every time Joe refreshes the page. By his usage, even if not a single Ep of Lost is watched, his advertisers will see heavy video consuption, and aggregate him with those guys who aren't the parent poster's conservative downloader type.
Eventually, we'll come to a point where everyone will be forced to blindly mimic tech-savvy friends' alternative distribution techniques. Or, back to "reality," they'll learn to live unable to "userfriendly-ly" store a single bit of content on their future multi-Terabyte hard drives.
* not as rapidly as English language Youtube links, though.
I agree, especially about streaming and HD. Used to be that 240p and 360 were standards. With 480p and HD starting a few years ago, it felt like uploaders and youtube are DoS'ing my machine on purpose for an arguable increase of quality. Yes, visually "bigger" is good for your eyes, but at some point after 240p all of us with 768k/128k downstream are *killed* by the buffering. Streaming and files like linux ISO's made me spend a few more bucks to the next tier at 3M/768k.
I called a friend in the Caribbean and was ashamed for him that 256k was even offered --prices were high there. Makes me feel sorry for zombified home machines sucking all the speed out of people's sub 1Mb internet. I am glad the US is redifining our crap. Back in 2005 or so I was surprised and demoralized by the report "50% of US now on broadband" because that opened the door for webmasters to get bolder with bandwidth-wasting designs. I'm glad that the number has been scaled back to 32%, but doubt those numbers will scale back the sites --they will just hold for longer before upping their flash and Megapixel-images-per-page guidelines.
IPv4 managers: "Hey, guys, first come first served, and there's little left. Start worrying!" IP buyers: "AS IF!!! This affects the suckers coming in last place! My v4 internet won't just go poof! It's like the cockroach, the VGA port, the ball-mouse and the 4:3 TVs people got 10 years ago"
When IPv6 legislation worldwide exists to do onto IPv4 what in USA digital TV legislation did to our trusty analog TVs here, we'll see a real deadline. Speaking IPv6 is like speaking Esperanto: cool if you do, but not useful enough for profit next to de-facto languages.
Stuff like IPv6 non-support is what happens when the media fails to use the irrational madness they pushed behind our Y2K Apocalypse. "Banks will crash, MONEY will disappear" "Retirement benefit spreadsheets will fail, MONEY will disappear" and "Nukes will be launched... reactors will melt down... radioactivity will KILL; AND your MONEY won't be worth a thing in this apocalypse."
You know, Slashdot would be a lot more honest with itself if it replaced all of the moderation with just "Like" and "Dislike".
Interesting, but lame/tasteless things get "thumbed-up" in youtube, "liked" on facebook, or "found useful" as reviews on Amazon. We got multi-dimensional moderation here rather than "good/bad." On slashdot you can filter "-5 for funny mods [lets weed out bad taste or ignore humor today], and +2 to interesting ones [just get me some news!]." I find that funny really means 'tasteless humor/gross' for particular moderator audiences, and lumping "funny" with "worthy" in a "like" moderation messes with my signal to noise tastes.
The normal public outside/. doesn't spend time changing prefs, to make that useful as an option to the posters. That by itself makes/. special in NOT copying their system and wiping our geek-friendly, multidimensional moderation
If youre not already protected, try firefox with noscript (its great to visualize how much cross-polination sites have.) Then, do nothing, and facebook will never be whitelisted --I don't see like buttons in my FF. Adblock plus is also useful, while you're at it.
If you dont like FF, use your hostsfile to block api.ak.facebook.com, connect.facebook.net and static.ak.fbcdn.net. That will cause some problems if you DO have a FB account or need videos hosted on facebook.
I'm tempted to sign into youtube to give positive ratings/comments to gamers ardously uploading dozens of videos for single game walkthroughs. Because google is behind YT, I'm discouraged because of the tracking. Back in the nineties, the web was nice: rare ads, text over presentation, and honest FIRST-party guestbooks lacking today's tracking giants.
Even pr0n-sites lease FB's 'like' buttons. Our danger is huge;)
There are VERY few possibilities for copycats coming out between now and 2013 or so in light of ALL the mainstream publicity currently on this:
1) The founders of new legit whistleblower sites... cashing in on ad views and so on (think web2.0), but with no effect on the public --HURTING THE CAUSE. 2) The founders might be well-meaning and privately funded, but mess up the leaks because of poor encryption / submission guidelines, or poor handling of the leaks. Its founders won't have the same courage as Assange, and the USA will be ready for them, despite what they've shown in their poor handling of Assange's case --hurting the cause 3) Honeypots set to catch rogue leakers, by the USA or vigilantes contacting the USA --hurting the cause 4) Long term honey pots set by the USA to do #1 or #3 AND discredit the cause with false leaks intentionally mishandling
I'm not sure why the government did not try to smear Wikileaks from the start, and allowed it to grow into today's issue, but I'm glad. We should give the rogue informants credit in having FOUND and spread the concept of Wikileaks without being taken out by the USA first* The problem is that noise will confuse the informants, and seeing the secretive / trust no-one nature of their jobs, I'm sure they'll think twice before submitting further leaks:
Who can confirm the USA has not ALREADY captured the wikileaks.ch domain and already has a honeypot, or that they wont consider it as the noise over Assange subsides and they can do it without much mainstream publicity?
*Likely a few spies were caught and "dealt with," but we get useful information regardless.
Slashdot has had a "like" system for longer than most other sites. Points for/., seeing how critical we all are. I know that our firehose system is newer, but our privacy with advertisers doesn't feel as exposed as with advertisement giants
The issue with those 'Like' / dislike buttons on Facebook-bound sites, review sites, google techsupport ratings, Yahoo answers and other ratings is that you must register to each "virtual club" to vote. You must then sign in and associate your profile with each vote on what you like. Slashdot's moderation system is more secretive with our votes, but Google +1 data will be different in that our votes go directly to advertisers, if not all our friends.
People who still using caps 100% of the time on facebook do not speak English. They demand CAPS keys because they hate how unofficial (compared to all-caps legalese) "all lowercase" looks. They get away with it because they're normally old, and they grew up with analog typewriters where CAPS could not be specially accented... 40 years later, they still avoid putting tilde accent marks, umlauts and other language-dependent stuff, although TV closed-captioning and non-DOS systems permit accented uppercase.
Back on topic: Google is not Apple. It can't just up boldly censor us all at once and expect to walk away unhurt by market forces.
<TINFOIL HAT> Current cellphone GPS doesn't need a valid subscription to make 911 calls and help the authorities track your location in case of an accident --US taxes already pay for that feature. Consider that we've had the simpler radio coverage as WiFi on PC's through retail stores like Best Buy and even Staples. Consider that GPS is in almost every digital cellphone sold this decade. Consider how antennae are no longer visible for Centrino Wifi or GPS Cellphones. With security theater plus TPM and DRM spreading, it's only a matter of time before the US and China mandate a "backport" of cellphone GPS to our PC hardware.
This requires
A covert chip added to every mobo --only a couple giants to contact covertly for the most part of home boards.
A current network --covert wire-taps cost users nothing, and these will probably be free. The hardest part is bundling multiple trasnceivers for cross-carrier compat anywhere in the country for CDMA and whatever the other two EDGE formats are.
I'm sure it will take years... if it hasn't been implemented in secret <TINFOIL HAT>
The article was pretty vague on a skim-read regarding the method of closure:
legal warrant on behalf the estate for those left behind? Facebook no longer demands proof of ID via one-time cellphone "authentication." Meaning, John P. Smith from New York and another John P. Smith from New York can falsely claim based on legal names that the accounts are both theirs (plead errors leading to the creation of dupe accounts or something.)
just keeping my password? the law would need to force it out of me in life --FAT CHANCE! we all know what happens to information stores at the hands of "trusted" others, like your ex-girlfriend's password and racy emails, etc.
Option two is more sane --forcing surreptitious violators to authenticate normally, meaning, two John P. Smiths and only one email address, and only one correct password residing in the brain of the deceased, then I don't see how an unwilling living FB user will give away his FB login and password before he dies for the benefit of tying loose ends that no dead man would be there to need to deal with... let alone their e-mail creds for indirect access to resetting FB
We agree that most people get their router from the ISP, and like I said, that's what's not "upgraded" to levels where IPv6 is built-in. Even wireless is not included on those Time Warner routers for people paying hefty cable bills.
I wanted to stress that there are existing consumer routers with IPv6 support. The crime is that mine doesn't say it's IPv6 compliant, and even its website says nothing in its overview page. You'd have to accidentally discover its IPv6 options through their forums or the emulator.
The industry ALREADY started putting out IPv6, but it's just at niche and expensive tiers that highlight gaming features... sales/marketing have no idea what IPv6 is and that they should advertise ipv6 to capitalize on what people like you, with the desire in mind but incomplete knowledge, could be spending good cash on. So, shame on the ones giving us IPv6 silently, and on the ones who have nothing to give.
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True. Think about how FEW processors are even dual-core outside of home PCs.
This will be like Vista.
Sensitive document ransomware will surely be even more profitable now.
Groups? It's a nostalgia thing for me, but I'm in a ton; just never did more than lurking.
Thanks to the other commenter for reminding me of how nice Launch was before Musicmatch limits started to be imposed. It was great sharing playlists / stations... but that was in like 2004.
I haven't moved for the same reason people don't leave Facebook. This AC probably is a member of FB too; I never joined, and plan on passing on everything I haven't already joined too. The last thing I need is for a "all 1990's Usenet = public in 2005 and you posted under your real name, kthanks--bye^H^H^H_HI!!!" with all my late nineties and this whole decades' data.
When a drive fails^W^W^W I mistakenly delete my own data, I cringe, but only because it's a pain finding what version of my file is in what folder, zip file or format. I haven't figured how to back up Yahoo emails because POP3 isn't free.
Ah, friday night.... talking to myself and maybe this imaginary AC :)
Thanks.
I'm surprised you weren't modded up.
I'm also surprised at how low the wages are at this turk thing, when a 15+ page script needs to be read just to get started. In the US, centuries of constant demolition and rebuilding mean that house numbers easily jump from "1" to "21" when maybe 10 houses on the same block no longer need individual numbers after the block turns into a single vacant lot.
Marketting fake numerical addresses in between legit ones ensures that Google Pagerank rates your "unique" business as #1 for certain keywords that only the inexistent address owns. When I learned this 2 weeks ago, I thought spammers had to at least sweat through that manual task by themselves... now? what a bummer!
who want's to bounce around stores just to save a few bucks on a toy anyways?
Anyone who is unemployed, underpaid or overly cautious
Anyone noticing that gas prices are no longer at the $4.00 USD/gallon tag we had two full summers ago
USA Black friday shoppers, who just 3 weeks ago is another wildly popular exercise in multi-location shopping
You are right, about having prices go up and down. It really messes with my computer builds that I'd need to visit 4 stores to get the absolute cheapest parts. Being in an expensive transportation area and on public transportation, the money spent on trips kill the savings unless I use flat-rate transit passes. I ended up deciding on a max of two stores.
No, tiny mailboxes and post-office delivery hours and retrieval policies are a big pain for online shipping when you don't own a house and can't wait for a 1PM package that arrives randomly while you're at work.
It is beginning to be a problem that Yahoo is dying slowly. First, they started compressing pictures that used to be fullsized in their popular "Groups" 10 years ago. Then, they started removing Briefcases. Last year, I had to review my Geocities files for anything important before they removed it. This year, their Hotjobs service got merged with Monster.com, so I'll lose my account there too.
I use Yahoo mail to get around the all-too-popular mailbox purge that the more "hip" webmails use. That is to avoid being forced into a paywall when I stop checking mail. Seeing that they are downsizing and the frequency of their cuts is increasing, I'm have to move all 12 years' worth of my mail and profile data elsewhere before it dies. I don't want it to be warningless like when WHQuestion closed down and everyone migrated to KnowPost but lost all their pictures, answers and intersting conversations with other great minds. I don't want my posts and attachments here to go the same way. Sadly, two more years like that and Yahoo will surely be dead, like Altavista. Funny thing is, I just found out Yahoo owns them now. Acquisitions don't always mean the old clients stay with the new boss, which might be Google or something, and my data will be open for a greater evil then.
Now that I think about my knowledge of Facebook, wiping Yahoo data now won't help keep it safe; "delete" doesn't exist when there's money to be made off of my time.
You may not notice the FLASH ads the inevitable day Wikipedia starts using them, but your PC fans and smartphone battery definitely will.
A phyrric victory, really. Spanish "reforms" outside economics can't do the EU any good due to its waning strength (ratings) relative to its stronger EU neighbors. It's been warned since around summer at least, and is now the EU's next Ireland-bailout-like candidate.
Countries with good laws and no economic [ergo, political] power can do little positive for their neighbors, let alone be a game-changer in America and Japan till it can get its economy back together. They've got too many problems to worry about games, and consoles/gaming are only serious social (WoW), legal (laws about who can/can't play) and major investment factors (all or nothing, folks) in Japan and the United States.
Now get back to work before your house gets taken away.
I have no job, you insensitive clod! ;-)
If you want incest-related fiction, you will have to shop somewhere that sells it. Amazon chooses not to.
Amazon may choose to remove the book from their shelves and web listings, but the the US criminal justice system that it abides by CANNOT likewise "make a choice" tomorrow... and arrest everyone breaking new laws prior to their very existance.
Corporations may choose to ignore local governments' spirit, OK (remember Google/China de-censoring?)... but customers and governments will replace them for less-foreign ones. Saves them double-standard headaches.
It's theft anyway. Bought is bought. If I sell you a book, then later slip in to your house and take it back while you sleep, I have committed a crime even if I leave the money where the book was. It just happens to be a theft I have already compensated you for.
True, but there's probably a submarine EULA condition making sure Amazon too can mess with any file in THEIR devices' filesystem (politics has made "licensing" the norm, rather than ownership, for systems software.)
Windows Vista has a clause allowing MS theoretically to clean viruses --more likely, lawyers put it there just to delete your pirated programs and media in some future MPAA / RIAA wake-up schedule.
Not that I approve of lying, but I expected the government to lie more to defuse their tough situation. Your thought-experiments aside, the scary part is that the government has not denied a single one of the current leaks after all these weeks.
Instead, *someone* started the Wikileaks smear by means of the extradition of its leader, though that strengthens the posibility of truth in the cables that need a cover-up. While Assange said the US is after him from the start through rape accusations, the US hasn't denied that as loudly as he is accusing.
Why would the government create openings against itself, when it can't afford the political and economic backslash that it knows will follow? Perhaps it is more afraid that their new anti-leak dirty plays will just leak out with all the other stuff! That is interesting.
Someone should introduce these kids to something named "caller ID"
Also, consider:
1) USA calls need some special prefix to summon a "private" caller ID to make tracking require police force and phone company cooperation for identity disclosures rather than surgery-precision payback lawsuits.
2) Few international activists will make Europe-to-USA long-distance faxes, solely on the costliness of the attack. Too bad, since international calls tend to lack CallID data and are harder to trace due to multi-telco cooperation for your multiple attackers.
3) Desktop PCs don't have modems nowadays. Attackers must look go to some camera-ridden local travel agency equipped with a fax, and risk getting caught with highly visible black-page fax in their hands, or learn to install and use PC/fax hardware and software from home.
4) Most of these guys will use Windows Fax software (remember the Linmodem issue that ensures linux users are mostly ethernet users?)
Unless they research free web-to-phone faxing services online, they'll get taken down. And there's probably blackpage avoidance and user-location tracking built-in there to slightly control abuse. Oh, well. The idea was interesting.
YMMV: Spybot hostsfiles and this mvps.org list twice affected my protégées' Windows stability until restored to empty files.
You should reboot and test uniquely-cached sites at each PC before you leave. Beyond 100,000 host entries Windows 2000 SP4's DNS cache may cause get 2-minute delays prior to the login screen. Slowdowns for the large amount of DNS comparisons per website reached supposedly even affected XP, though I can't really vouch noticeable issues here. Dual-core computers do not seem affected, but we know relatives and businesses get stuck in the past with Win2k, and you might remember the advice down the road.
Not everyone watches television over the Net.
Unfortunately everyone's going to change that; even companies like Netflix are pushing content creators to provide more shows, quickly. Everyone using flash has moved away from permanent MPEG files to prevent files from going to your "My music" and "My downloads" folders... and those of your friends, who have no downloader or player installed.
Let me digress, to state how even dis-advantaged communities have the power to increase bandwidth statistics in favor of online distribution: unlike mainstream Americans today, an immigrant Joe User in his fifties fears MP3 lawsuits and lacks time, resources and language skills to learn computing for the first time. He lacks our ubiquitous digital media stash, and has no webTV interest due to language and homeland-exclusive TV interests.
Pressure to join Facebook (which offers his choice of language interface) comes with the "educational brain damage" of sharing "files" the wrong way. He's "saving" music by receiving and re-sharing Facebook posts. These are links to ephimeral Youtube clips of his favorite songs with inspirational slideshows or live-performance footage to appease Youtube's "video site" status. These videos get taken down*, but Joe user will do another Youtube search and find his song track with different animations. Meanwhile, each stream is wasting orders of magnitude more bandwidth per CD audio track, over and over again every time Joe refreshes the page. By his usage, even if not a single Ep of Lost is watched, his advertisers will see heavy video consuption, and aggregate him with those guys who aren't the parent poster's conservative downloader type.
Eventually, we'll come to a point where everyone will be forced to blindly mimic tech-savvy friends' alternative distribution techniques. Or, back to "reality," they'll learn to live unable to "userfriendly-ly" store a single bit of content on their future multi-Terabyte hard drives.
* not as rapidly as English language Youtube links, though.
I agree, especially about streaming and HD.
Used to be that 240p and 360 were standards. With 480p and HD starting a few years ago, it felt like uploaders and youtube are DoS'ing my machine on purpose for an arguable increase of quality. Yes, visually "bigger" is good for your eyes, but at some point after 240p all of us with 768k/128k downstream are *killed* by the buffering. Streaming and files like linux ISO's made me spend a few more bucks to the next tier at 3M/768k.
I called a friend in the Caribbean and was ashamed for him that 256k was even offered --prices were high there. Makes me feel sorry for zombified home machines sucking all the speed out of people's sub 1Mb internet. I am glad the US is redifining our crap. Back in 2005 or so I was surprised and demoralized by the report "50% of US now on broadband" because that opened the door for webmasters to get bolder with bandwidth-wasting designs. I'm glad that the number has been scaled back to 32%, but doubt those numbers will scale back the sites --they will just hold for longer before upping their flash and Megapixel-images-per-page guidelines.
IPv4 managers: "Hey, guys, first come first served, and there's little left. Start worrying!"
IP buyers: "AS IF!!! This affects the suckers coming in last place! My v4 internet won't just go poof! It's like the cockroach, the VGA port, the ball-mouse and the 4:3 TVs people got 10 years ago"
When IPv6 legislation worldwide exists to do onto IPv4 what in USA digital TV legislation did to our trusty analog TVs here, we'll see a real deadline. Speaking IPv6 is like speaking Esperanto: cool if you do, but not useful enough for profit next to de-facto languages.
Stuff like IPv6 non-support is what happens when the media fails to use the irrational madness they pushed behind our Y2K Apocalypse. "Banks will crash, MONEY will disappear" "Retirement benefit spreadsheets will fail, MONEY will disappear" and "Nukes will be launched ... reactors will melt down ... radioactivity will KILL; AND your MONEY won't be worth a thing in this apocalypse."
You know, Slashdot would be a lot more honest with itself if it replaced all of the moderation with just "Like" and "Dislike".
Interesting, but lame/tasteless things get "thumbed-up" in youtube, "liked" on facebook, or "found useful" as reviews on Amazon. We got multi-dimensional moderation here rather than "good/bad." On slashdot you can filter "-5 for funny mods [lets weed out bad taste or ignore humor today], and +2 to interesting ones [just get me some news!]." I find that funny really means 'tasteless humor/gross' for particular moderator audiences, and lumping "funny" with "worthy" in a "like" moderation messes with my signal to noise tastes.
The normal public outside /. doesn't spend time changing prefs, to make that useful as an option to the posters. That by itself makes /. special in NOT copying their system and wiping our geek-friendly, multidimensional moderation
Thanks.
If youre not already protected, try firefox with noscript (its great to visualize how much cross-polination sites have.) Then, do nothing, and facebook will never be whitelisted --I don't see like buttons in my FF. Adblock plus is also useful, while you're at it.
If you dont like FF, use your hostsfile to block
api.ak.facebook.com, connect.facebook.net and static.ak.fbcdn.net. That will cause some problems if you DO have a FB account or need videos hosted on facebook.
I'm tempted to sign into youtube to give positive ratings/comments to gamers ardously uploading dozens of videos for single game walkthroughs. Because google is behind YT, I'm discouraged because of the tracking. Back in the nineties, the web was nice: rare ads, text over presentation, and honest FIRST-party guestbooks lacking today's tracking giants.
Even pr0n-sites lease FB's 'like' buttons. Our danger is huge ;)
There are VERY few possibilities for copycats coming out between now and 2013 or so in light of ALL the mainstream publicity currently on this:
1) The founders of new legit whistleblower sites ... cashing in on ad views and so on (think web2.0), but with no effect on the public --HURTING THE CAUSE.
2) The founders might be well-meaning and privately funded, but mess up the leaks because of poor encryption / submission guidelines, or poor handling of the leaks. Its founders won't have the same courage as Assange, and the USA will be ready for them, despite what they've shown in their poor handling of Assange's case --hurting the cause
3) Honeypots set to catch rogue leakers, by the USA or vigilantes contacting the USA --hurting the cause
4) Long term honey pots set by the USA to do #1 or #3 AND discredit the cause with false leaks intentionally mishandling
I'm not sure why the government did not try to smear Wikileaks from the start, and allowed it to grow into today's issue, but I'm glad.
We should give the rogue informants credit in having FOUND and spread the concept of Wikileaks without being taken out by the USA first*
The problem is that noise will confuse the informants, and seeing the secretive / trust no-one nature of their jobs, I'm sure they'll think twice before submitting further leaks:
Who can confirm the USA has not ALREADY captured the wikileaks.ch domain and already has a honeypot, or that they wont consider it as the noise over Assange subsides and they can do it without much mainstream publicity?
*Likely a few spies were caught and "dealt with," but we get useful information regardless.
Slashdot has had a "like" system for longer than most other sites. Points for /., seeing how critical we all are. I know that our firehose system is newer, but our privacy with advertisers doesn't feel as exposed as with advertisement giants
The issue with those 'Like' / dislike buttons on Facebook-bound sites, review sites, google techsupport ratings, Yahoo answers and other ratings is that you must register to each "virtual club" to vote. You must then sign in and associate your profile with each vote on what you like. Slashdot's moderation system is more secretive with our votes, but Google +1 data will be different in that our votes go directly to advertisers, if not all our friends.
People who still using caps 100% of the time on facebook do not speak English. They demand CAPS keys because they hate how unofficial (compared to all-caps legalese) "all lowercase" looks. They get away with it because they're normally old, and they grew up with analog typewriters where CAPS could not be specially accented... 40 years later, they still avoid putting tilde accent marks, umlauts and other language-dependent stuff, although TV closed-captioning and non-DOS systems permit accented uppercase.
Back on topic: Google is not Apple. It can't just up boldly censor us all at once and expect to walk away unhurt by market forces.
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Current cellphone GPS doesn't need a valid subscription to make 911 calls and help the authorities track your location in case of an accident --US taxes already pay for that feature. Consider that we've had the simpler radio coverage as WiFi on PC's through retail stores like Best Buy and even Staples. Consider that GPS is in almost every digital cellphone sold this decade. Consider how antennae are no longer visible for Centrino Wifi or GPS Cellphones. With security theater plus TPM and DRM spreading, it's only a matter of time before the US and China mandate a "backport" of cellphone GPS to our PC hardware.
This requires
I'm sure it will take years... if it hasn't been implemented in secret
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The article was pretty vague on a skim-read regarding the method of closure:
legal warrant on behalf the estate for those left behind? Facebook no longer demands proof of ID via one-time cellphone "authentication." Meaning, John P. Smith from New York and another John P. Smith from New York can falsely claim based on legal names that the accounts are both theirs (plead errors leading to the creation of dupe accounts or something.)
just keeping my password? the law would need to force it out of me in life --FAT CHANCE! we all know what happens to information stores at the hands of "trusted" others, like your ex-girlfriend's password and racy emails, etc.
Option two is more sane --forcing surreptitious violators to authenticate normally, meaning, two John P. Smiths and only one email address, and only one correct password residing in the brain of the deceased, then I don't see how an unwilling living FB user will give away his FB login and password before he dies for the benefit of tying loose ends that no dead man would be there to need to deal with... let alone their e-mail creds for indirect access to resetting FB
We agree that most people get their router from the ISP, and like I said, that's what's not "upgraded" to levels where IPv6 is built-in. Even wireless is not included on those Time Warner routers for people paying hefty cable bills.
I wanted to stress that there are existing consumer routers with IPv6 support. The crime is that mine doesn't say it's IPv6 compliant, and even its website says nothing in its overview page. You'd have to accidentally discover its IPv6 options through their forums or the emulator.
The industry ALREADY started putting out IPv6, but it's just at niche and expensive tiers that highlight gaming features... sales/marketing have no idea what IPv6 is and that they should advertise ipv6 to capitalize on what people like you, with the desire in mind but incomplete knowledge, could be spending good cash on. So, shame on the ones giving us IPv6 silently, and on the ones who have nothing to give.