How are they measuring that? Metrics from web usage?
I think it's fair to say there is sampling bias there, as the average Linux user probably spends more time online and loads more pages than any other installed PC.
Right - I didn't mean "do something nefarious". I meant, go to the media or some authority agency under a white flag, anonymously, whatever, and get some exposure for it.
By "blow it up" I was thinking, if this company has had a few chances to act and has chosen to ignore the problem, take the next step in generating publicity.
Your personal information could have been used to open fraudulent accounts, as with any other data breach, but they did not lose billing information. In this case, TFQ says billing information is right there for the taking.
I hope that legislatively we will one day regard damaging someone's privacy closer up the chain to damaging their person.
They are being reckless with people's personal information. Painfully reckless it sounds like, since they are ignoring clear warnings that they have vulnerabilities.
Look at what happened to Sony re: Playstation Network - and they didn't even lose anyone's billing information.
The negligence is already occurring, the damage is just waiting to happen.
That's where music snobs have gone today, to the acoustic emo pseudo dirge singer/songwriter Firstname Lastname of the week.
Bonus points for slicked hair, "vintage" glasses and greasy skinny jeans (the key is to look like you don't care what you look like whilst obsessing over it)
GP was saying that because a couple of privacy violations were found, the entire health care system should be demolished to rectify that. I think you are the one who's confused.
The answer is government run healthcare with a government run database. Then if your medical records leak out it is *only* a privacy violation, and cannot effect further access to employment or medical care.
Well, we'll just chop off your nose, that way if you cut yourself shaving it's really no big deal.
Correction: Italy's government is out of money. Spending your cash in the market place actually helps the economy no matter the ridiculous price of the cupcake.
Except the government will confiscate an even greater amount of this cash in the future, to continue free-spending, and no one will be better as a result.
By and large, people making minimum wage do not live below the poverty line in the United States. This is because most of them are minors or live in multiple income homes.
The people who live below the poverty line in the United States are people who have difficulty maintaining employment throughout the year, not people who make low hourly wages.
They don't take the job on the promise of minimum wage. They work these jobs because you can make a liveable wage based on tips. When a groupon freeloader or primadonna customer comes in and takes out anger or selfishness not on management but on some single mom or college student, nothing gets better.
If tips dry up, staff won't be able to keep those jobs and pay bills. Then the owner will need to pay waitstaff more which raises the fixed price of meals. Currently the system is flexible to allow us to decide how much to pay for service, but it won't continue to be that way if it's always abused.
If waiting tables was truly a minimum wage job you'd find immigrants doing those jobs because they would present a cheaper alternative to the employer. They'd work more hours and have less scheduling issues and require less staff overall.
Stories in the press abound of small business retailers, particularly restaurants, living to regret making an offer on Groupon. These entities live on forming relationships with customers. Groupon brings in people who are only there to eat on the cheap and won't likely return.
"we met many, many terrible Groupon customers customers that didn’t follow the Groupon rules and used multiple Groupons for single transactions, and argued with you about it with disgusted looks on their faces, or who tipped based on what they owed (10% of $0 is zero dollars, so tossing in a dime was them being generous). "
I can't see people buying a phone just for Facebook primarily because every phone out there already handles Facebook pretty effectively. They can't really offer greater integration. What could they do, slap a physical button on it to open facebook?
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What and idiot.
We were waiting on Duke Nukem Fo...
er, oops. Sorry about that.
How are they measuring that? Metrics from web usage?
I think it's fair to say there is sampling bias there, as the average Linux user probably spends more time online and loads more pages than any other installed PC.
Linux is probably more like .1%, not .01% of home PCs.
Right - I didn't mean "do something nefarious". I meant, go to the media or some authority agency under a white flag, anonymously, whatever, and get some exposure for it.
By "blow it up" I was thinking, if this company has had a few chances to act and has chosen to ignore the problem, take the next step in generating publicity.
Your personal information could have been used to open fraudulent accounts, as with any other data breach, but they did not lose billing information. In this case, TFQ says billing information is right there for the taking.
I hope that legislatively we will one day regard damaging someone's privacy closer up the chain to damaging their person.
They are being reckless with people's personal information. Painfully reckless it sounds like, since they are ignoring clear warnings that they have vulnerabilities.
Look at what happened to Sony re: Playstation Network - and they didn't even lose anyone's billing information.
The negligence is already occurring, the damage is just waiting to happen.
Blow it up. People's privacy is at risk.
Hasbeenium?
Come on, you know that no one will consider you socially adept until you have equal mastery of Half-Life and Fallout
Yes, if the CDs were manufactured locally, if the instruments and equipment used in the production were manufactured and sourced locally...
The major question is, who has tastes so bad that they'd even want to listen to any one of the twelve different versions of that song?
Raah raahhh booze, drugs, stripclubs yeah! Raaaahhh party, drugs, booze, cars! Cars, booze, party, girls! Yeah! (guitar solo)
That's where music snobs have gone today, to the acoustic emo pseudo dirge singer/songwriter Firstname Lastname of the week.
Bonus points for slicked hair, "vintage" glasses and greasy skinny jeans (the key is to look like you don't care what you look like whilst obsessing over it)
GP was saying that because a couple of privacy violations were found, the entire health care system should be demolished to rectify that. I think you are the one who's confused.
The answer is government run healthcare with a government run database. Then if your medical records leak out it is *only* a privacy violation, and cannot effect further access to employment or medical care.
Well, we'll just chop off your nose, that way if you cut yourself shaving it's really no big deal.
I haven't had my SSN on my driver's license for a long time. I'm not sure why anyone ever would.
The way you punish them for a poor meal is not to eat there again.
Correction: Italy's government is out of money. Spending your cash in the market place actually helps the economy no matter the ridiculous price of the cupcake.
Except the government will confiscate an even greater amount of this cash in the future, to continue free-spending, and no one will be better as a result.
Wish I had mod points. (up)
By and large, people making minimum wage do not live below the poverty line in the United States. This is because most of them are minors or live in multiple income homes.
The people who live below the poverty line in the United States are people who have difficulty maintaining employment throughout the year, not people who make low hourly wages.
They don't take the job on the promise of minimum wage. They work these jobs because you can make a liveable wage based on tips. When a groupon freeloader or primadonna customer comes in and takes out anger or selfishness not on management but on some single mom or college student, nothing gets better.
If tips dry up, staff won't be able to keep those jobs and pay bills. Then the owner will need to pay waitstaff more which raises the fixed price of meals. Currently the system is flexible to allow us to decide how much to pay for service, but it won't continue to be that way if it's always abused.
If waiting tables was truly a minimum wage job you'd find immigrants doing those jobs because they would present a cheaper alternative to the employer. They'd work more hours and have less scheduling issues and require less staff overall.
I agree with this but directing one's ire at the waitstaff, who live on tips, instead of Groupon or a retailer is misplaced.
Stories in the press abound of small business retailers, particularly restaurants, living to regret making an offer on Groupon. These entities live on forming relationships with customers. Groupon brings in people who are only there to eat on the cheap and won't likely return.
Example story: http://posiescafe.com/wp/?p=316
"we met many, many terrible Groupon customers customers that didn’t follow the Groupon rules and used multiple Groupons for single transactions, and argued with you about it with disgusted looks on their faces, or who tipped based on what they owed (10% of $0 is zero dollars, so tossing in a dime was them being generous). "
Don't worry, MSFT is going to save us from all of this. I hear they have this cool new "KIN" phone that is great for social networking.
I can't see people buying a phone just for Facebook primarily because every phone out there already handles Facebook pretty effectively. They can't really offer greater integration. What could they do, slap a physical button on it to open facebook?