Now that they have solved this pressing problem, the researchers have moved on to filling out grant application for their next project: the Large Doberman Collider.
If it's in your yard, no. When it's out on the street, yes. If you dump it up and down the street, then very much yes.
Essentially, when you use unencrypted wi-fi, you are dumping your trash-can up and down the street, and you have no expectation of privacy.
If you want your trash to be protected by the 4th Amendment, leave the can on your property behind a gate and hire a non-government trash company that promises to keep it out of plain sight during transport and dump it out of plain sight on private property or destroy it. If you want your trash to be secure from everyone, destroy it yourself.
The vastness of that opportunity has to be compared in size with the vastness of the negative wave of press this has already gotten her.
Her staff are incompetent. They proved it not once, but twice. First by posting the link without double-checking it after pasting it, and second by not deleting the tweet and posting the correct link.
I'm sure they will probably prove that they are incompetent a third time, by taking your advice to use spin instead of action to resolve their failure.
And yes, that field you used had sub-fields that should have defaulted. In fact, the day and month should have defaulted as well.
You're like those dopes who put telephone-number entry fields in forms and then lazily put directions on formatting them into the webpage instead of just detecting the dashes and parentheses or lack of them yourself.
It costs nearly $0 to deliver a unit of software, no matter the feature set included.
So when someone buys a package to get one feature and is the only user of that feature, then he pays the full price of the software to get that feature.
And everyone else pays the full price to get the features they want and can safely ignore that feature, or try it out and start using it if they wish.
None of them, not one, came close to paying the full development cost for any feature they're using, but all, in aggregate, will pay for the development, marketing, G&A, yadda, yadda, yadda, just like people who buy cars or pizzas.
Even less so when you broadcast your Internet packets to every antenna within several hundred yards.
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There's a fine line between "product news" and "astroturf".
Hint: if you local news channel is doing an in-depth week-long series of segments on botox, you can bet they didn't film or write a word of it, and aren't relying on ad revenue to pay for it.
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If I wanted to Google it, I wouldn't read the fucking summary.
As soon as you know where people's rights are, you can place barriers in the middle and create money from the difference on either side. Net Neutrality might as well start saying its prayers.
If you don't think what she did was assault, you lack an understanding of the law. See recommendation in my previous post on the subject. Don't just look it up in Wikipedia.
You seem to forget that in the US, you're not allowed to protest these things at all.
False. What you mean to say is you know of instances where people have been prevented from protesting.
"free speech zones"
Are unconstitutional, and are currently being proved to be so by the ACLU. But those are not the only instances included in your "at all".
Except for those instances, you are allowed to protest anything, anywhere, as long as your protest doesn't otherwise break the law. You may need to get a permit, as the freedom to assemble and to speak does not entail a freedom to be a spontaneous nuisance, hazard, or expense to the public.
While I agree Microsoft programs suffer from bloat, I've rarely come across an Apple program that I considered more than a toy or demo version of what it should be.
They both miss. You'd think one of them would figure out to take the high ground in the middle; and it's a result of their marketing and design philosophies: Microsoft doesn't want to leave anyone out, even if they encumber everyone, and Apple doesn't want to encumber anyone, even if they leave many out.
People have reasons for liking things. If things fit into your reasons, that's the one you like. Many people have something called "openness of the operating system" as one of their reasons. Some of them have that as their determinant (their only reason). If one or the other of these gentlemen is lying about how "open" their operating systems are, then he will cause some people to make a decision in an unreasonable way.
Quite aside from the fact that there are laws against making people make unreasonable decisions (that are all but never enforced in cases of mass consumer fraud such as this), there is still value in exposing the lies of your competitor. And, apparently, in lying about him.
In other words, some people may not know what they want, and some people may be susceptible to having their minds changed. And regardless of what I said about fraud, sometimes it's perfectly legal, ethical, and neighborly to help them do that.
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Now that they have solved this pressing problem, the researchers have moved on to filling out grant application for their next project: the Large Doberman Collider.
If it's in your yard, no. When it's out on the street, yes. If you dump it up and down the street, then very much yes.
Essentially, when you use unencrypted wi-fi, you are dumping your trash-can up and down the street, and you have no expectation of privacy.
If you want your trash to be protected by the 4th Amendment, leave the can on your property behind a gate and hire a non-government trash company that promises to keep it out of plain sight during transport and dump it out of plain sight on private property or destroy it. If you want your trash to be secure from everyone, destroy it yourself.
The vastness of that opportunity has to be compared in size with the vastness of the negative wave of press this has already gotten her.
Her staff are incompetent. They proved it not once, but twice. First by posting the link without double-checking it after pasting it, and second by not deleting the tweet and posting the correct link.
I'm sure they will probably prove that they are incompetent a third time, by taking your advice to use spin instead of action to resolve their failure.
Yuh-huh. That's why things posted to Twitter never become top tweets or escape the bounds of Twitter to become memes in other forums, like /.
And people definitely remember clicking on a link for a candidate's PR and getting a nipponese cross-dresser with an axe.
We tried that here, once.
Or twice.
Epic #backfire.
Yes, they'll crack down on the pirated DVDs, but they'll also crack down on the non-pirated DVDs, and you'll have to eat a billion pressings...
And by Tim Berners-Lee and George Lucas for his username...
You fucked up.
Always allow defaults for un-entered fields.
And yes, that field you used had sub-fields that should have defaulted. In fact, the day and month should have defaulted as well.
You're like those dopes who put telephone-number entry fields in forms and then lazily put directions on formatting them into the webpage instead of just detecting the dashes and parentheses or lack of them yourself.
Go do it again.
It costs nearly $0 to deliver a unit of software, no matter the feature set included.
So when someone buys a package to get one feature and is the only user of that feature, then he pays the full price of the software to get that feature.
And everyone else pays the full price to get the features they want and can safely ignore that feature, or try it out and start using it if they wish.
None of them, not one, came close to paying the full development cost for any feature they're using, but all, in aggregate, will pay for the development, marketing, G&A, yadda, yadda, yadda, just like people who buy cars or pizzas.
The Internet is not Secure.
Even less so when you broadcast your Internet packets to every antenna within several hundred yards.
There's a fine line between "product news" and "astroturf".
Hint: if you local news channel is doing an in-depth week-long series of segments on botox, you can bet they didn't film or write a word of it, and aren't relying on ad revenue to pay for it.
If I wanted to Google it, I wouldn't read the fucking summary.
Sue the peanut.
People who provide a utility and get government protection are.
As soon as you know where people's rights are, you can place barriers in the middle and create money from the difference on either side. Net Neutrality might as well start saying its prayers.
I did my homework long ago. You need to get some evidence other than my say-so. You say so yourself.
If you don't think what she did was assault, you lack an understanding of the law. See recommendation in my previous post on the subject. Don't just look it up in Wikipedia.
You seem to forget that in the US, you're not allowed to protest these things at all.
False. What you mean to say is you know of instances where people have been prevented from protesting.
"free speech zones"
Are unconstitutional, and are currently being proved to be so by the ACLU. But those are not the only instances included in your "at all".
Except for those instances, you are allowed to protest anything, anywhere, as long as your protest doesn't otherwise break the law. You may need to get a permit, as the freedom to assemble and to speak does not entail a freedom to be a spontaneous nuisance, hazard, or expense to the public.
Calling people names is abuse.
Arresting people for assault is not abuse.
You might want to read less Mother Jones and more law books.
But had Shakespeare worked in film, or Newton at the LHC?
We may be generating a lot of data, per person per day, but we're behind the virtual curve.
I'm not sure I get why it's a problem that a software architect hands off his ideas to software implementers...
Hey, they came up with an application that tells me, with a simple two-digit number (with a decimal point), just exactly what my User Experience is.
Now if that isn't hitting their nail on the head, nothing will ever satisfy you guys.
Seriously, if there was ever a concept at all to Lotus Notes, it wasn't across a gulf, it was in another solar system.
No sense, either.
While I agree Microsoft programs suffer from bloat, I've rarely come across an Apple program that I considered more than a toy or demo version of what it should be.
They both miss. You'd think one of them would figure out to take the high ground in the middle; and it's a result of their marketing and design philosophies: Microsoft doesn't want to leave anyone out, even if they encumber everyone, and Apple doesn't want to encumber anyone, even if they leave many out.
People have reasons for liking things. If things fit into your reasons, that's the one you like. Many people have something called "openness of the operating system" as one of their reasons. Some of them have that as their determinant (their only reason). If one or the other of these gentlemen is lying about how "open" their operating systems are, then he will cause some people to make a decision in an unreasonable way.
Quite aside from the fact that there are laws against making people make unreasonable decisions (that are all but never enforced in cases of mass consumer fraud such as this), there is still value in exposing the lies of your competitor. And, apparently, in lying about him.
In other words, some people may not know what they want, and some people may be susceptible to having their minds changed. And regardless of what I said about fraud, sometimes it's perfectly legal, ethical, and neighborly to help them do that.