I'd like to read the RTFA (or the ruling), but why on FSM's green earth do we, in 2011, have, instead of plain easy-to-read text, the image of text, rendered using fancy Javascript interface, using only about 30% of my 1280x800 screen? Where scrolling is "smooth" (i.e. laggy)?
Actually (1) is interesting to Facebook because that data of a single user (unique cookie) from a lot of sites means a marketing profile of a unique person ("this person reads foxnews.com, likes to visit gaming websites, shops at target.com", etc, etc) that Facebook can sell to ad-sellers.
Indeed it is! And it's a clever solution to prevent data-leakage which German websites (and hopefully others) will probably now copy, which is why Facebook is panicking about it. "Oh shit, they figured out a solution to prevent us from monitoring users* on the web! We're fucked!".
* Seriously, even a non-FB-account-owning user probably has a tracking cookie from facebook.com to uniquely identify him/her across all sites that have the Like button, and that information is still very useful for marketers, which Facebook (presumably) sells that data to ("just sign this contract to sell your ads using Facebook, and we'll give you the info you want!").
Those GIFs at least have some measure of anonymity. With Facebook, the user has willingly shared all information as he cares to give to the ad-selling network: name, friends, where they live, things they like, where they hang-out, when they are usually online, and with the Like button virus, what websites they visit...
It feels to me like the Windows Team worked on fixing the whole thing because of the xkcd joke...
So, xkcd is determining which way an OS goes... bravo everyone!
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Indeed...
Hey PCWorld, I'm planning on porting Android to the iPad, no I don't have an iPad yet, I have no time and I have no idea how to do it, but I have a wiki. Why don't you write an article about me?
Well, it was fucking PCWorld. Should've expected that shit from them.
With suspend-to-RAM, I only boot-up/reboot maybe once a month on each of my Windows computers.. 10 seconds to return to where I was when I "turned it off". Why turn it off, why?
I wish there's a poll option, who thinks he should be allowed to do this, and who thinks it was wrong. Because I think what he's done is wrong. What would be next, record the browser's history, filter those who visit Facebook, get their public images off their accounts, put them on a blog, and call that art?
If he was secretly taking pictures of girls to keep them and jerk off with them, would you be okay with that? Oh, sure, it's fine if he's an "artist", making an "art" project is it?
Private airline eh? I wonder if a major airline can just declare itself a private club which flies people, and people can be a member for free, and pay a price for flying each time. Private club would mean private security, and one that doesn't molest people... But anyway, the FAA would probably not let them fly..
Come on, any major bomb or hint of a bomb, and everything gets shut down for several hours... I really doubt the TSA would discover a bomb and just say "oh good job we caught that one. Next!"... If there had been 20 bombs this year, there would have been 20 airport shutdowns, 20 airspace shut downs, and 20 instances of week-long yapping of every moron who can get on TV...
I've been trying to get DOCSIS (Data over Cable) Internet, and it has been a freaking pain of dealing idiocy (strangely, it's the first time in my life that I've had to deal with something that involves multiple phone calls). Luckily the robo-lady stops talking whenever I've pressed the correct menu button even though she hasn't finished talking, but one question which tickles me is "We will record your call for [standard bla bla] purposes. Say yes if you agree with this.". So far I've been saying "yes" before she's even asked the question. And each time I chuckle at the thought, what if they change the question to something like "We are now going to take a million dollars from your account, say yes if you agree.".
No, customer.. you will take it up the butt because that's what the MAFIAA wants.
Isn't it also the fact that BluRay players need extra CPU power just because it has to decrypt the disc content, and probably re-encrypt it for the HDMI stream, which your display unit then needs to have CPU power to decrypt? Geez, I wonder who's paying for all that hardware?
Yeah... yet another confirmation Apple is working for the evil assholes.
Subject says everything. It "went viral" last week, so does Slashdot have a good antivirus, or why does it like being late? Not to mention the rambling summary is written by Hugh Pickens, who seems to fancy himself to be a journalist, but whose website contain a lot of poorly written articles...
What I was saying is that it's not unheard of for people to (wrongly) refer to Europe as EU or EUR as a form of 'country code', even though it refers to the European Union or the currency.
No, that was not what you were saying. (Oh dear, now we've gotten into an "that's not what I/you said!" argument). At least if that was you were trying to say, you didn't articulate it very well at all.
And after reading the linked post, it's the 3 countries (one of which isn't even in the EU), but the title of this post makes it sound like the game is being pulled out of the entire EU.
Yeah... well done, Mr. Summary Writer. Fucking moron.
EUR is the code for Euro, the money not the continent...
It's not being pedantic. I live in the EU, and I've never heard of EU being "the short code for EUrope" ever. And it's not "good enough", being a member of the EU means you have to follow laws agreed by the EU, and if Norway's not in the EU, and EU has this law against looking up digital skirts, and Norway doesn't, it means it won't be illegal in Norway...
That video pisses me off... the guy says "Science!" as if what he's doing is science, and that is something mystical and unapproachable. And it's a 3 minute video which could've been replaced with one sentence of "The image recognition system couldn't recognize my bag after 5 scans.". Fuck you Luke Hopewell, you useless idiot!
So, what do the red lines have to do with the RFID? Wait, is it an image recognition trying to detect the shape and size of the bag, or is it a barcode scanner (with 2 lines to catch different orientations)? In which case, that would mean the attendant forgot to attach the luggage tag to the bag (and why is there a luggage tag at all?)
Maybe he doesn't have to be a wage-slaver, or his job is fulfilling (saving children or what not), that would be my ideal life.
Anyway, at the rate humans, represented by democratically elected leaders, are fucking up the world, I doubt that it will survive another 50 years. From climate-change-deniers-and-proud-of-it-in the USA to "oh we pledge to reduce car emissions by 50%... by 2020." too-cozy-with-car-companies Europe, all are blind to the fact that the summers are getting hotter, and the winters are getting extremer... and since budgets are getting slashed left and right, having several thousand die from freezing to death because the power company couldn't get the power fixed in winter and rescue workers are no longer existent will probably be a regular occurrence in 5 to 10 years...
Floods, forest fires (look at Russia last summer), snow and ice...
Actually, the sad forgotten child that is Opera is already at 11.01. Poor Norwegians, but hey, I'm typing this using that very browser. As one great feature, it lets me put the tabs on the right side of the screen, Chrom(e,ium) only allows vertical tabs on the left...
Is this guy really saying "wow, look, Firefox took forever to release a version which was just 0.5 higher, while Chrome went from 9 to 10 in four weeks."?
How the FFFFFFFFFUUUUUU- does a moron like this get hired to write a tech column?
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I'd like to read the RTFA (or the ruling), but why on FSM's green earth do we, in 2011, have, instead of plain easy-to-read text, the image of text, rendered using fancy Javascript interface, using only about 30% of my 1280x800 screen? Where scrolling is "smooth" (i.e. laggy)?
Fuck this stupidity...
Actually (1) is interesting to Facebook because that data of a single user (unique cookie) from a lot of sites means a marketing profile of a unique person ("this person reads foxnews.com, likes to visit gaming websites, shops at target.com", etc, etc) that Facebook can sell to ad-sellers.
Indeed it is! And it's a clever solution to prevent data-leakage which German websites (and hopefully others) will probably now copy, which is why Facebook is panicking about it. "Oh shit, they figured out a solution to prevent us from monitoring users* on the web! We're fucked!".
* Seriously, even a non-FB-account-owning user probably has a tracking cookie from facebook.com to uniquely identify him/her across all sites that have the Like button, and that information is still very useful for marketers, which Facebook (presumably) sells that data to ("just sign this contract to sell your ads using Facebook, and we'll give you the info you want!").
Gee, I wonder how that link got planted into your mind...
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Those GIFs at least have some measure of anonymity. With Facebook, the user has willingly shared all information as he cares to give to the ad-selling network: name, friends, where they live, things they like, where they hang-out, when they are usually online, and with the Like button virus, what websites they visit...
It feels to me like the Windows Team worked on fixing the whole thing because of the xkcd joke...
So, xkcd is determining which way an OS goes... bravo everyone!
Indeed...
Hey PCWorld, I'm planning on porting Android to the iPad, no I don't have an iPad yet, I have no time and I have no idea how to do it, but I have a wiki. Why don't you write an article about me?
Well, it was fucking PCWorld. Should've expected that shit from them.
With suspend-to-RAM, I only boot-up/reboot maybe once a month on each of my Windows computers.. 10 seconds to return to where I was when I "turned it off". Why turn it off, why?
I wish there's a poll option, who thinks he should be allowed to do this, and who thinks it was wrong. Because I think what he's done is wrong. What would be next, record the browser's history, filter those who visit Facebook, get their public images off their accounts, put them on a blog, and call that art?
If he was secretly taking pictures of girls to keep them and jerk off with them, would you be okay with that? Oh, sure, it's fine if he's an "artist", making an "art" project is it?
Private airline eh? I wonder if a major airline can just declare itself a private club which flies people, and people can be a member for free, and pay a price for flying each time. Private club would mean private security, and one that doesn't molest people... But anyway, the FAA would probably not let them fly..
Come on, any major bomb or hint of a bomb, and everything gets shut down for several hours... I really doubt the TSA would discover a bomb and just say "oh good job we caught that one. Next!"... If there had been 20 bombs this year, there would have been 20 airport shutdowns, 20 airspace shut downs, and 20 instances of week-long yapping of every moron who can get on TV...
I've been trying to get DOCSIS (Data over Cable) Internet, and it has been a freaking pain of dealing idiocy (strangely, it's the first time in my life that I've had to deal with something that involves multiple phone calls). Luckily the robo-lady stops talking whenever I've pressed the correct menu button even though she hasn't finished talking, but one question which tickles me is "We will record your call for [standard bla bla] purposes. Say yes if you agree with this.". So far I've been saying "yes" before she's even asked the question. And each time I chuckle at the thought, what if they change the question to something like "We are now going to take a million dollars from your account, say yes if you agree.".
OK, that anecdote sounded funnier to me...
No, customer.. you will take it up the butt because that's what the MAFIAA wants.
Isn't it also the fact that BluRay players need extra CPU power just because it has to decrypt the disc content, and probably re-encrypt it for the HDMI stream, which your display unit then needs to have CPU power to decrypt? Geez, I wonder who's paying for all that hardware?
Yeah... yet another confirmation Apple is working for the evil assholes.
Subject says everything. It "went viral" last week, so does Slashdot have a good antivirus, or why does it like being late? Not to mention the rambling summary is written by Hugh Pickens, who seems to fancy himself to be a journalist, but whose website contain a lot of poorly written articles...
No, that was not what you were saying. (Oh dear, now we've gotten into an "that's not what I/you said!" argument). At least if that was you were trying to say, you didn't articulate it very well at all.
And your third paragraph is also just gibberish.
And after reading the linked post, it's the 3 countries (one of which isn't even in the EU), but the title of this post makes it sound like the game is being pulled out of the entire EU.
Yeah... well done, Mr. Summary Writer. Fucking moron.
EUR is the code for Euro, the money not the continent...
It's not being pedantic. I live in the EU, and I've never heard of EU being "the short code for EUrope" ever. And it's not "good enough", being a member of the EU means you have to follow laws agreed by the EU, and if Norway's not in the EU, and EU has this law against looking up digital skirts, and Norway doesn't, it means it won't be illegal in Norway...
Is that pedantic enough for you, Mr. Know It All?
by "forgot to attach the luggage tag" I meant the bar-coded tag!
That video pisses me off... the guy says "Science!" as if what he's doing is science, and that is something mystical and unapproachable. And it's a 3 minute video which could've been replaced with one sentence of "The image recognition system couldn't recognize my bag after 5 scans.". Fuck you Luke Hopewell, you useless idiot!
So, what do the red lines have to do with the RFID? Wait, is it an image recognition trying to detect the shape and size of the bag, or is it a barcode scanner (with 2 lines to catch different orientations)? In which case, that would mean the attendant forgot to attach the luggage tag to the bag (and why is there a luggage tag at all?)
Wow... what a lame policy... my dorm (albeit it's not really part of the uni) had 4 IPs for each room.
So does that include WiFi devices? Since most students will probably have a WiFi-enabled phone, and few will probably even have iPads...
Hey, buy a Windows laptop, get a free Xbox360, put laptop on eBay, get a Macbook for trouble-free computing...
All the clueless PC users in one local network in a dorm, what a great ground if another 0-day exploit Windows worm decides to break havoc...
BTW it's not "Mozilla's cert", it's the cert faking to be addons.mozilla.org that he created and signed through the compromised CA...
Maybe he doesn't have to be a wage-slaver, or his job is fulfilling (saving children or what not), that would be my ideal life.
Anyway, at the rate humans, represented by democratically elected leaders, are fucking up the world, I doubt that it will survive another 50 years. From climate-change-deniers-and-proud-of-it-in the USA to "oh we pledge to reduce car emissions by 50%... by 2020." too-cozy-with-car-companies Europe, all are blind to the fact that the summers are getting hotter, and the winters are getting extremer... and since budgets are getting slashed left and right, having several thousand die from freezing to death because the power company couldn't get the power fixed in winter and rescue workers are no longer existent will probably be a regular occurrence in 5 to 10 years...
Floods, forest fires (look at Russia last summer), snow and ice...
Actually, the sad forgotten child that is Opera is already at 11.01. Poor Norwegians, but hey, I'm typing this using that very browser. As one great feature, it lets me put the tabs on the right side of the screen, Chrom(e,ium) only allows vertical tabs on the left...
Is this guy really saying "wow, look, Firefox took forever to release a version which was just 0.5 higher, while Chrome went from 9 to 10 in four weeks."?
How the FFFFFFFFFUUUUUU- does a moron like this get hired to write a tech column?