I'm sure these people's full names, street addresses and social security numbers are public information by law, and you can already look it up online. And at least half the population have their phone numbers publicly listed in a phone book or its online equivalent...
No they aren't. Social security numbers especially should be kept secret. While street addresses can be look up, everyone has the right to block such look ups. You don't need to give a reason and it's easy to do online. I have done so. It can make things a bit more difficult (for example if you forget your key inside and call someone to open the door, they can't check by calling that you actually live there), but anyone is free to choose. Since this leak comes from private databases, it would had bypassed that block and spread private addresses to anyone. That would be especially worrying for someone who has someone stalking him/her. Phone numbers are the same thing. People are free to decide if they want their number public or not.
you know whats the funny thing here? the fucking police spread the information and link to db..
No they didn't. What they released only had first names and birth date so people can look up if they are possibly listed. It doesn't even contain anyone's last name.
Nah, I think of myself just as stupid and not capable of deciding on issues I don't really know about. I know a few areas well, and there's many other areas I know nothing about, either because of 1) lack of interest 2) lack of time 3) lack of experience 4) not seeing the complete picture.
The main reason being that people in general are stupid. Everyone thinks they know better than anyone else without actually knowing anything at all. They just have a need to comment and vote about it, saying they know better. Added problem is the impulse decisions to any problem that comes along, selfish thinking and group stupidity as a whole voting out any expert that actually knows about things.
Direct, 100% democracy also leads to huge problems for minorities. If back in the 90's older people would have been thinking that computers and machines are destroying the world, they would had just banned them from all geeks. No reasoning, majority just thinks so. Similarly, and even more noticeable, it leads to huge problems for sexual minorities, ladyboys, "rich" people (those who actually create jobs and make things happen) or anyone else the majority as a whole starts to hate. It's akin to mob justice. Full democracy is never good.
However, and I cannot stress this enough, people in general just are incredibly stupid.
Well, at least I'm not, and it gives just normal search results in every browser (Chrome, Opera, Firefox) and in both.com and my country's TLD. And as noted, others seem to have the same issue.
Google already C&D'd and would had sued them for the parts they could. I'm sure they would kill it completely if it was possible (ie., they wouldn't have Linux licenses they have to follow).
Losing to what? Windows market share has been really stable for like 15 years. OSX has gained some market share, but even that is tiny compared to Windows (especially outside US). Linux market share has always been around 0.5% and isn't changing anytime soon. Windows has so large market share (over 90%) that they really cannot get it much higher.
Well, isn't that similarly true for every app? On mobile phones and desktop too.
Microsoft does actually have their own version too, it's what developers buy and it costs $99/year. It does come with extras, like the right to publish your apps in the store.
Microsoft has always been. Windows is practically open platform and the mobile versions have always been too. Not in the open source sense, but users are free to install and do what they want. Apple is the only company that wants to control that.
If they lose even in Sweden, the Europe's geekiest and largest filesharing country (this goes all the way back to 90's and BBS's!), they really don't have a stand anywhere else either.
Yep, it's hard without all the failures they did too. They could had at least finished the platform first. Now it's just empty, dead and I just don't see that changing anymore. The funny thing is how much Slashdotters (we, at the same time, absolutely hate Facebook) try to tell to follow some "interesting" people like Linus or other tech geeks. They just don't get it either. I have no interest in following them, I want to follow my friends and talk with them. So does 99% of the Facebook users. Google+ doesn't offer anything new either, so there isn't any reason for anyone to change, especially when everything is already happening on Facebook and Google+ is really, really dry.
They have huge limits on your account if you use pseudonym instead. And they only backed out of real name policy as it become impossible to verify with different nationals and they started losing users. Of course, they are still losing users.
Google just doesn't seem to get the full picture. They imitate Facebook but do it poorly. Lets take for example this pages change. They didn't implement pages properly, they only modified the profile system a bit and actually restricted pages. Google+ pages don't allow HTML or anything else like Facebook does. The absolutely worst thing is the url though; With Facebook you get facebook.com/nintendo. Companies can easily put that in to ads and other material. With Google+ the url is http://plus.google.com/58493672095786225. Awesome! Google just doesn't see the whole picture.
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Well, anonyymi is more correct. "Anomuumi" is ano + muumi.
I'm sure these people's full names, street addresses and social security numbers are public information by law, and you can already look it up online. And at least half the population have their phone numbers publicly listed in a phone book or its online equivalent ...
No they aren't. Social security numbers especially should be kept secret. While street addresses can be look up, everyone has the right to block such look ups. You don't need to give a reason and it's easy to do online. I have done so. It can make things a bit more difficult (for example if you forget your key inside and call someone to open the door, they can't check by calling that you actually live there), but anyone is free to choose. Since this leak comes from private databases, it would had bypassed that block and spread private addresses to anyone. That would be especially worrying for someone who has someone stalking him/her. Phone numbers are the same thing. People are free to decide if they want their number public or not.
you know whats the funny thing here? the fucking police spread the information and link to db..
No they didn't. What they released only had first names and birth date so people can look up if they are possibly listed. It doesn't even contain anyone's last name.
Lol, what a circlejerk again. There's no "anonymous finland". Anyone can claim to be anonymous.
No, they did it to promote their own political agenda. Pastebin is here http://pastebin.com/ZGf00sJS
At least before "Anonymous" hacked evil companies or countries. Now some idiot is just pushing his own political agenda.
If they had used Amazon or other good cloud hosting service, it would had scaled automatically. Cloud hosting does has good sides too.
Nah, I think of myself just as stupid and not capable of deciding on issues I don't really know about. I know a few areas well, and there's many other areas I know nothing about, either because of 1) lack of interest 2) lack of time 3) lack of experience 4) not seeing the complete picture.
The main reason being that people in general are stupid. Everyone thinks they know better than anyone else without actually knowing anything at all. They just have a need to comment and vote about it, saying they know better. Added problem is the impulse decisions to any problem that comes along, selfish thinking and group stupidity as a whole voting out any expert that actually knows about things.
Direct, 100% democracy also leads to huge problems for minorities. If back in the 90's older people would have been thinking that computers and machines are destroying the world, they would had just banned them from all geeks. No reasoning, majority just thinks so. Similarly, and even more noticeable, it leads to huge problems for sexual minorities, ladyboys, "rich" people (those who actually create jobs and make things happen) or anyone else the majority as a whole starts to hate. It's akin to mob justice. Full democracy is never good.
However, and I cannot stress this enough, people in general just are incredibly stupid.
Well, at least I'm not, and it gives just normal search results in every browser (Chrome, Opera, Firefox) and in both .com and my country's TLD. And as noted, others seem to have the same issue.
And why was that necessary?
Google already C&D'd and would had sued them for the parts they could. I'm sure they would kill it completely if it was possible (ie., they wouldn't have Linux licenses they have to follow).
You cant git Android code either. You need to be part of their manufacturers circle and it costs lots of money.
Losing to what? Windows market share has been really stable for like 15 years. OSX has gained some market share, but even that is tiny compared to Windows (especially outside US). Linux market share has always been around 0.5% and isn't changing anytime soon. Windows has so large market share (over 90%) that they really cannot get it much higher.
Well, isn't that similarly true for every app? On mobile phones and desktop too.
Microsoft does actually have their own version too, it's what developers buy and it costs $99/year. It does come with extras, like the right to publish your apps in the store.
1) App market works just like before
2) The $9 price tag isn't from Microsoft, it's from the guy who made the unlocker. He is selling it.
Microsoft has always been. Windows is practically open platform and the mobile versions have always been too. Not in the open source sense, but users are free to install and do what they want. Apple is the only company that wants to control that.
If they lose even in Sweden, the Europe's geekiest and largest filesharing country (this goes all the way back to 90's and BBS's!), they really don't have a stand anywhere else either.
Because sales guy wanted his commission and when the higher ups figured out who the booth had been sold to, they cancelled it.
Yep, still doesn't work. Judging from the comment under me, I'm not the only one either.
Yep, it's hard without all the failures they did too. They could had at least finished the platform first. Now it's just empty, dead and I just don't see that changing anymore. The funny thing is how much Slashdotters (we, at the same time, absolutely hate Facebook) try to tell to follow some "interesting" people like Linus or other tech geeks. They just don't get it either. I have no interest in following them, I want to follow my friends and talk with them. So does 99% of the Facebook users. Google+ doesn't offer anything new either, so there isn't any reason for anyone to change, especially when everything is already happening on Facebook and Google+ is really, really dry.
No it doesn't, it gives me normal search results. Besides, that still isn't an URL like facebook.com/nintendo that you can put to your advertisements.
That just brings me usual search results, with pepsi.com at top.
That's a stupid idea. Many people don't want others what they have searched for.
They have huge limits on your account if you use pseudonym instead. And they only backed out of real name policy as it become impossible to verify with different nationals and they started losing users. Of course, they are still losing users.
Google just doesn't seem to get the full picture. They imitate Facebook but do it poorly. Lets take for example this pages change. They didn't implement pages properly, they only modified the profile system a bit and actually restricted pages. Google+ pages don't allow HTML or anything else like Facebook does. The absolutely worst thing is the url though; With Facebook you get facebook.com/nintendo. Companies can easily put that in to ads and other material. With Google+ the url is http://plus.google.com/58493672095786225. Awesome! Google just doesn't see the whole picture.