If the rules all along were that everyone could see everything you typed into the personal information database, then that would be the correct attitude.
But people entered data into that database with the belief that the scope of its visibility was limited to a known set of the population, and that the site was at least somewhat reliable in its ability to prevent leakage.
That belief was correct, until this week. Not only can't Facebook prevent leakage, it put a big faucet on your data, turned it on, and left the room.
Sleazy and incompetent at the same time. A betrayal of trust at the very least.
Life needed something of a special environment to get from the random atoms and small molecules to the organized large-chain molecules with cyclical behaviors stage. An environment of fluidity and high energy input, but bounded stressors. A place that was wet and warm without being too hot. And one that had a high concentration of the right sorts of atoms in the right proportions, at least in the wet and warm places.
It's ridiculous to think the Earth is unique, but it's pointless to hope that any other planet in this Solar System has ever had the right combination of stuff to make it happen in a quantity we can detect.
Serendipitously, the greatest* advancements in life were made to occur because the first forms of life on Earth (stromatolites) transformed the entire atmosphere into one rich in oxygen, and the seas as well, causing the high concentrations of dissolved iron to precipitate.
* - at least as far as we animals are concerned, or as far as the weak anthropic principle will allow
I was thinking it would be difficult to justify switching from Verizon when my current contract runs out in 2 months, but now, fuck 'em. I'm gone. I only switched to Verizon from T-mobile because the latter didn't have the Treo I wanted any more. Now they both have advanced Android models. So fuck 'em.
You may or may not have to spend $2 trillion on education to turn every noob into a l337 h4xx0r to keep their Linuxen running, patched, stable, up-to-date, sleek, fully featured, secure, and hip.
Imagine explaining "you can't just let it patch itself in the middle of the night, you have to recompile the kernel" to your grandfather the insurance salesman.
Imagine there's nobody there to explain that to him.
Every time I hear of an iPhone app-store app that I hadn't heard of before, it reminds me of a web-based service or tool that I can get on my browser-enabled phone.
So what, exactly, is the point of the app store, if the iPhone has a web browser, and the web has all of the apps I've heard of?
I remember many stories a couple of decades ago about medical waste washing up on the shores of NY and NJ. I don't recall any of them explicitly stating that the mob could be involved. Although it was well known that they controlled garbage hauling across the region.
The thermal conductivity of Arctic Silver and this stuff couldn't be so great that a layer as thin as the crack-filler between a chip lid and a cooling-fin plate would amount to a 19C difference in temperature.
I want to see independent reproduction of the experiment.
Either it's totally bogus, or something was not installed correctly in one of the two setups. The heat sink on the 57C, or the thermometer on the 38C.
I doubt you could find a single one that doesn't contain an error in its facts. Even among those about people who are alive and use computers and the internet and can edit the wikipedia themselves.
And the writing? Bollocks.
The truth is, Wikipedia is a jumble of random statements collected under meme headings.
Slashdot Mirror
Place all patent applications on the web and ask for comments.
But first, I wish to patent the spam/bullshit/troll/sandbag filter, which you will need to weed the valid comments from the noise.
that's the point
it's not a security issue if you deliberately do something ignorant
like, say, using the internet
THE INTERNET IS NOT SECURE
says so right on the packaging, and always has
If the rules all along were that everyone could see everything you typed into the personal information database, then that would be the correct attitude.
But people entered data into that database with the belief that the scope of its visibility was limited to a known set of the population, and that the site was at least somewhat reliable in its ability to prevent leakage.
That belief was correct, until this week. Not only can't Facebook prevent leakage, it put a big faucet on your data, turned it on, and left the room.
Sleazy and incompetent at the same time. A betrayal of trust at the very least.
maybe Facebook is saying, "We only want our social networking site to be targetted to people that want to network socially."
There's a difference between "network socially" and "broadcast to everyone on the planet."
Until this week, Facebook gave you the option to limit your network.
You are not their customer, you are their product.
That is true of anyone who sells you to advertisers.
TV, Radio, Google, etc.
You are being farmed for your eyes and ears.
You're doing it wrong.
myspace is over there.
"I trained your cat to turd in predefined locations. I'm now 0wning your box."
That string is my WPA-PSK password! How did you get it!
Life needed something of a special environment to get from the random atoms and small molecules to the organized large-chain molecules with cyclical behaviors stage. An environment of fluidity and high energy input, but bounded stressors. A place that was wet and warm without being too hot. And one that had a high concentration of the right sorts of atoms in the right proportions, at least in the wet and warm places.
It's ridiculous to think the Earth is unique, but it's pointless to hope that any other planet in this Solar System has ever had the right combination of stuff to make it happen in a quantity we can detect.
Serendipitously, the greatest* advancements in life were made to occur because the first forms of life on Earth (stromatolites) transformed the entire atmosphere into one rich in oxygen, and the seas as well, causing the high concentrations of dissolved iron to precipitate.
* - at least as far as we animals are concerned, or as far as the weak anthropic principle will allow
I'd say there's merit in preserving and studying life forms that have evolved in complete isolation from anything on Earth.
You could just get a grant to study a Republican.
They've never shown any evidence of familiarity with the human race or the natural environment.
eff that
just get the pirates broadband internet and /. accounts
you won't see them out of their rooms for years
(there are those who say this has already happened, and is only just now starting to wear off)
It may already have happened. Just not yet to us.
There are a lot of black holes in the universe.
What if we're next?
Remember when there never was any question about what was bogging down the net?
Unless you didn't know what /. was?
Well, you do that, then.
I, on the other hand, welcome our new subatomic supplicants.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The cure for that is to STOP GIVING AWAY FREE SPARE BLACKBERRIES, not FUCK ALL YOUR USERS.
I was thinking it would be difficult to justify switching from Verizon when my current contract runs out in 2 months, but now, fuck 'em. I'm gone. I only switched to Verizon from T-mobile because the latter didn't have the Treo I wanted any more. Now they both have advanced Android models. So fuck 'em.
Your cable company will sell you a DVR, but it doesn't want you to have a copy of anything?
An entire generation of CEOs has grown up believing utter nonsense about the relative values of money and freedom.
Apparently, several trillion dollars in collapsed economy hasn't improved their common sense.
You may or may not have to spend $2 trillion on education to turn every noob into a l337 h4xx0r to keep their Linuxen running, patched, stable, up-to-date, sleek, fully featured, secure, and hip.
Imagine explaining "you can't just let it patch itself in the middle of the night, you have to recompile the kernel" to your grandfather the insurance salesman.
Imagine there's nobody there to explain that to him.
Now you know why Linux isn't ubiquitous.
Well, obviously there's one app that I hadn't seen anywhere else:
the one that mods any denigration of the app store down to "-1 overrated".
Every time I hear of an iPhone app-store app that I hadn't heard of before, it reminds me of a web-based service or tool that I can get on my browser-enabled phone.
So what, exactly, is the point of the app store, if the iPhone has a web browser, and the web has all of the apps I've heard of?
I remember many stories a couple of decades ago about medical waste washing up on the shores of NY and NJ. I don't recall any of them explicitly stating that the mob could be involved. Although it was well known that they controlled garbage hauling across the region.
TiVo and DirecTV have promised to re-integrate.
The child of that project should be available next year.
I don't see the problem.
If the cable/satellite companies don't understand - or worse, don't care - hat they are copying your stuff, then that's their fault.
Ethics aren't something you get away with.
I call shenanigans.
The thermal conductivity of Arctic Silver and this stuff couldn't be so great that a layer as thin as the crack-filler between a chip lid and a cooling-fin plate would amount to a 19C difference in temperature.
I want to see independent reproduction of the experiment.
Either it's totally bogus, or something was not installed correctly in one of the two setups. The heat sink on the 57C, or the thermometer on the 38C.
The articles suck, too.
I doubt you could find a single one that doesn't contain an error in its facts. Even among those about people who are alive and use computers and the internet and can edit the wikipedia themselves.
And the writing? Bollocks.
The truth is, Wikipedia is a jumble of random statements collected under meme headings.
Every bad picture is worth a thousand bad words.