We may be able to educate our children to tell an adult or yell, kick, scream when being abused to attract attention,...
What if he's their priest, or a school guidance counselor, or a teacher; the ones you've been brought up to believe have your mortal soul as their first priority? Good luck fighting that, kid.
And what about the falsely accused? "I just wanted to buy the kid a chocolate bar because I thought he was cute. I wasn't touching him!"
Some old rummy did the latter with me when I was a kid. Good thing I wasn't taught to scream when any adult not my parents talked to me.
Sigh. I hate the way this century is unfolding. When I read 1984, it was a work of fiction. Now, if you're not looking over your shoulder and questioning your every intended action, you're remiss and "get what you deserve." Traveling? Don't take luggage or electronics! Don't bring a book with you; buy it at your destination instead, then throw it away before you return. You never know what thoughts (which may be distorted in any manner by authorities) may be buried within it.
Holy !@#$. I ought to go find a cave to hole up in. Is it still legal to think about naked women over the age of consent? Should I be wearing a burka?
The Salem witch trials had nothing to do with prudishness, or even witchcraft. They were about stealing property.
We wish. Sadly, not true:
Sarah Good was a homeless beggar and known to beg for food and shelter from neighbors. She was accused of witchcraft because of her appalling reputation.... Sarah Osborne rarely attended church meetings. She was accused of witchcraft because the puritans believed that Osborne had her own self-interests in mind for she had remarried (to an indentured servant).... Tituba, as a slave of a different ethnicity than the Puritans, was a target for accusations. She was accused of attracting young girls like Abigail Williams and Betty Parris with enchanting stories from Malleus Maleficarum. These tales about sexual encounters with demons, swaying the minds of men, and fortune telling stimulated the imaginations of young girls and made Tituba an obvious target of accusations (Salem witch trials).
Don't like your neighbours? Sic the TLAs on 'em! That'll put 'em back in line. In Japan, the same thing was described by, "The nail that stands up shall be hammered down."
The real deal-breaker here is that he made a plea bargain.
This is Canada (not USA). I know you US-ians do that sort of stuff regularly, but that's (from what I'm used to) not done here, that I know of.
I still don't understand what to or why he pled the charges; still researching. I'm beginning to feel like a stranger in a strange land, and I live here. This guy shouldn't have needed to plead to anything! WTF is a "non-criminal regulatory offense"? I've never heard of it. Bringing too many cigs across the border?
As part of the deal, the prosecutor withdrew all criminal charges against me. I knew my defense was extremely strong, but I also knew all trials are inherently risky. If I had gone to full trial, the original criminal charges against me posed the risk of a minimum mandatory sentence of one year plus having to register on a sex offender registry in Canada and potentially even in the United States.
Ho. Ly. !@#$.
Lend me a gun somebody?
This case was important to me. Japanese animation and manga are something I hold precious. I first got into anime when I was about eight years old by watching Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z that aired on TV at the time.
Sailor Moon. Dragon Ball Z. So, what innocuous hobbies are going to trigger attack dogs on me? ReBoot? Guilty as charged. Take me away!
This is weird, because all the things you say ("this is a country where...", "Salem witch trials", "Prohibition") are things that sound more like the USA. I thought Canada was supposed to be a saner place, but now I'm not so sure.
This is in the realm of "child porn". There is no right that the authorities will recognize if it's between them and prosecuting paedophiles. "Think of the children!" Welcome to Salem, 2012. An accusation is as good as a conviction.
I beg to differ. The important bit from the actual article:
He was subjected to abusive treatment by police and a disruption in his life that included a two-year period during which he was unable to use computers or the internet outside of his job, severely limiting opportunities to advance his employment and education.... Matheson was even told by police transporting him to prison that "if you get raped in here, it doesn't count!"
What a !@#$ing travesty, and for a comic book! Sue for malicious prosecution. They admitted their guilt when they dropped it. That it took them two years and $31,000.00 from two advocacy orgs PLUS, is even worse! Both those orgs and Ryan deserve to be compensated for this cluster!@#$.
And I don't even *get* Manga. Holy Kafkaesque, Batman!:-P
You are Google's (and FB's) product, not their customer.
I disagree. I am paying Google with my data.
Your data is worth close to nothing except to you, except when aggregated alongside [mb]illions of others' data. Your wishing you had a say in how they "serve" you is little more than noise in the system.
Nonsense. You set their house on fire, with them in it.
Worse nonsense. You want to set the kindergarten next door on fire?
Just park yourself in front of their house and follow them, then swipe it back at your first opportunity. Tell him to call the cops if he doesn't like it.
Look, that is what insurance is for. If you can afford an iPad, then you can afford the insurance. In reality the thief is doing someone a favor. Their iPad was older and had some wear, so they get a new one. Apple is happy because they sold another iPad. The guy that got it is happy because he didn't have one before. Everyone wins.
Especially the insurance company. Everyone's rates go up to cover sloth. Yay. Great idea.:-P
Maybe Facebook knows you're married. Google knows you're trying to find a divorce attorney. If Google is relying on + to compete with Facebook, it has already lost the battle.
This needs modded up!
Why? It makes no sense! FB has a user's "Big Picture", while Google has the user's details. Blob vs. granularity! If I were a customer (advertiser) on either, I'd prefer granularity, not blob.
Google has taken a page from FaceBook and begun pushing some horrible page design onto unsuspecting users. And no amount of complaint helps.
You are Google's (and FB's) product, not their customer. Geez, how long's it going to take for you people to get this?!? Their customers are advertisers, not users!
Because, love them or hate them, Microsoft is a software company trying to apply engineering to diverse software problems.
Could'a fooled me (but I'm pretty obviously biased). I thought they were just peddling snakeoil to fools who thought snakeoil would be good for them, or creating a ready platform for malware, or helping Intel with CPU churn,... The last time I enjoyed using an MS product was when I was using Mix Power C.
I don't really hate 'em. I prefer to ignore 'em. Sorry to interrupt; carry on.:-|
Two smart, ambitious guys in a garage can only innovate when there's low hanging fruit that corporations can't figure out how to grasp. The low hanging fruit is mostly gone until we have new tech to capitalize.
You'll never convince me of that. Pessimists and people with no vision believe that sort of crap.
Have you heard of Facebook? A couple or three guys whip up this thing in their dorm rooms, and since they understand their market, it's now out for a multi-billion dollar IPO. Yeah, you and I may think it's !@#$, but Zuck figured out how to sell it to two camps that complement each other; advertisers and clueless users. History's made.
Maybe there's even lower hanging fruit that all the corps and specialists have overlooked so far. Maybe you just need a brilliant salesman like Chris Columbus to convince one deep pocketed patron.
By the way, AT&T Bell Labs, in my opinion, worked on the same principle. Find smart people, give 'em some room, and miracles happen, often. What's that corporate monolith Microsoft come up with lately?
Corporations cannot keep up with nimble startups. Cf. Kodak.
Would I rather spend my advertising dollars broadcasting to a certain demographic, or would I rather spend my bucks on someone who had actually expressed an interest in my product? Google ads don't work for products like Coke or Pepsi. In that case, you're pretty much stuck broadcasting to a demographic.
... And then try to make sense of how Google (and advertising in general) works. We just heard from someone the other day who was searching for Rosignol skis. The ads that popped up weren't for Rosignol, but for a competitor of Rosignol, one in which he'd expressed no interest.
Funny business, advertising. What makes Coke and Pepsi so special, as compared to other brand names? They assume no Coke drinker would even consider Pepsi, and vice versa? Why would a happy Rosignol customer care one whit about their competition?
Frankly, I'd be surprised if the situation was reversed: someone working for Google but saying they'd rather be working for Microsoft.
Er, just a quibble, but wouldn't the reverse be someone who went back to Google when MS didn't turn out to be the neat place they thought it was going to be?
Spying, as it were, has been how Social Media has made its money almost from the moment it came into existence. What shocks me is how many seem to believe that it just started happening.
FTFY. Has to be said. It amazes me that anyone can tar Google with that brush without tarring all the rest of them along with them. WTF does anyone expect to get from corporate doled out "free" services?
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At the end of a commercial break there will be a series of questions to see if you were paying attention.
I can think of *so* many ways to leverage this kind of thinking:
i) shoes that detect when they're being put on, automatically debiting your chequing acct. for each use, and for each step taken in them.
ii) Shirts that detect when they're being buttoned up. Ditto for zippers. Add modifiers for when used long sleeved, or rolled up.
iii) sunglasses that charge per solar day.
iv) clothing that detects seasons and charges by the year.
v) & etc.
I'm glad I'm not going to live long enough to see that world. The rest of you are welcome to it.
We may be able to educate our children to tell an adult or yell, kick, scream when being abused to attract attention, ...
What if he's their priest, or a school guidance counselor, or a teacher; the ones you've been brought up to believe have your mortal soul as their first priority? Good luck fighting that, kid.
And what about the falsely accused? "I just wanted to buy the kid a chocolate bar because I thought he was cute. I wasn't touching him!"
Some old rummy did the latter with me when I was a kid. Good thing I wasn't taught to scream when any adult not my parents talked to me.
What a lovely get up to [wear] to your sister's graduation. Stay classy.
You are very aptly named, AC. Back at ya.
Sigh. I hate the way this century is unfolding. When I read 1984, it was a work of fiction. Now, if you're not looking over your shoulder and questioning your every intended action, you're remiss and "get what you deserve." Traveling? Don't take luggage or electronics! Don't bring a book with you; buy it at your destination instead, then throw it away before you return. You never know what thoughts (which may be distorted in any manner by authorities) may be buried within it.
Holy !@#$. I ought to go find a cave to hole up in. Is it still legal to think about naked women over the age of consent? Should I be wearing a burka?
The Salem witch trials had nothing to do with prudishness, or even witchcraft. They were about stealing property.
We wish. Sadly, not true:
Sarah Good was a homeless beggar and known to beg for food and shelter from neighbors. She was accused of witchcraft because of her appalling reputation. ... Sarah Osborne rarely attended church meetings. She was accused of witchcraft because the puritans believed that Osborne had her own self-interests in mind for she had remarried (to an indentured servant). ... Tituba, as a slave of a different ethnicity than the Puritans, was a target for accusations. She was accused of attracting young girls like Abigail Williams and Betty Parris with enchanting stories from Malleus Maleficarum. These tales about sexual encounters with demons, swaying the minds of men, and fortune telling stimulated the imaginations of young girls and made Tituba an obvious target of accusations (Salem witch trials).
Don't like your neighbours? Sic the TLAs on 'em! That'll put 'em back in line. In Japan, the same thing was described by, "The nail that stands up shall be hammered down."
Civilized yet? Are you sure?
The real deal-breaker here is that he made a plea bargain.
This is Canada (not USA). I know you US-ians do that sort of stuff regularly, but that's (from what I'm used to) not done here, that I know of.
I still don't understand what to or why he pled the charges; still researching. I'm beginning to feel like a stranger in a strange land, and I live here. This guy shouldn't have needed to plead to anything! WTF is a "non-criminal regulatory offense"? I've never heard of it. Bringing too many cigs across the border?
As part of the deal, the prosecutor withdrew all criminal charges against me. I knew my defense was extremely strong, but I also knew all trials are inherently risky. If I had gone to full trial, the original criminal charges against me posed the risk of a minimum mandatory sentence of one year plus having to register on a sex offender registry in Canada and potentially even in the United States.
Ho. Ly. !@#$.
Lend me a gun somebody?
This case was important to me. Japanese animation and manga are something I hold precious. I first got into anime when I was about eight years old by watching Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z that aired on TV at the time.
Sailor Moon. Dragon Ball Z. So, what innocuous hobbies are going to trigger attack dogs on me? ReBoot? Guilty as charged. Take me away!
Ryan, I apologize for my country's actions.
This is weird, because all the things you say ("this is a country where...", "Salem witch trials", "Prohibition") are things that sound more like the USA. I thought Canada was supposed to be a saner place, but now I'm not so sure.
This is in the realm of "child porn". There is no right that the authorities will recognize if it's between them and prosecuting paedophiles. "Think of the children!" Welcome to Salem, 2012. An accusation is as good as a conviction.
"Prove you're innocent, blasphemous witch!"
"It's just a comic book!"
"Not good enough."
"But, it's just a comic book!!!"
the important bit from the actual article.
I beg to differ. The important bit from the actual article:
He was subjected to abusive treatment by police and a disruption in his life that included a two-year period during which he was unable to use computers or the internet outside of his job, severely limiting opportunities to advance his employment and education. ... Matheson was even told by police transporting him to prison that "if you get raped in here, it doesn't count!"
What a !@#$ing travesty, and for a comic book! Sue for malicious prosecution. They admitted their guilt when they dropped it. That it took them two years and $31,000.00 from two advocacy orgs PLUS, is even worse! Both those orgs and Ryan deserve to be compensated for this cluster!@#$.
And I don't even *get* Manga. Holy Kafkaesque, Batman! :-P
You are Google's (and FB's) product, not their customer.
I disagree. I am paying Google with my data.
Your data is worth close to nothing except to you, except when aggregated alongside [mb]illions of others' data. Your wishing you had a say in how they "serve" you is little more than noise in the system.
Nonsense. You set their house on fire, with them in it.
Worse nonsense. You want to set the kindergarten next door on fire?
Just park yourself in front of their house and follow them, then swipe it back at your first opportunity. Tell him to call the cops if he doesn't like it.
Look, that is what insurance is for. If you can afford an iPad, then you can afford the insurance. In reality the thief is doing someone a favor. Their iPad was older and had some wear, so they get a new one. Apple is happy because they sold another iPad. The guy that got it is happy because he didn't have one before. Everyone wins.
Especially the insurance company. Everyone's rates go up to cover sloth. Yay. Great idea. :-P
Dear Google, please keep on doing what you do. Whatever youre doing is working very well!
Dear Google, do what you want to do. I use ixquick.
Maybe Facebook knows you're married. Google knows you're trying to find a divorce attorney. If Google is relying on + to compete with Facebook, it has already lost the battle.
This needs modded up!
Why? It makes no sense! FB has a user's "Big Picture", while Google has the user's details. Blob vs. granularity! If I were a customer (advertiser) on either, I'd prefer granularity, not blob.
Google has taken a page from FaceBook and begun pushing some horrible page design onto unsuspecting users. And no amount of complaint helps.
You are Google's (and FB's) product, not their customer. Geez, how long's it going to take for you people to get this?!? Their customers are advertisers, not users!
Because, love them or hate them, Microsoft is a software company trying to apply engineering to diverse software problems.
Could'a fooled me (but I'm pretty obviously biased). I thought they were just peddling snakeoil to fools who thought snakeoil would be good for them, or creating a ready platform for malware, or helping Intel with CPU churn, ... The last time I enjoyed using an MS product was when I was using Mix Power C.
I don't really hate 'em. I prefer to ignore 'em. Sorry to interrupt; carry on. :-|
Facebook has information on me because I (or one of my friends) explicitly gave it to them.
Yeah, ...
You expected FB to respect your privacy? Really?
You think Google does otherwise, why? Google spiders the web. Duh, that they're going to find out stuff you didn't think they could. Duh.
Two smart, ambitious guys in a garage can only innovate when there's low hanging fruit that corporations can't figure out how to grasp. The low hanging fruit is mostly gone until we have new tech to capitalize.
You'll never convince me of that. Pessimists and people with no vision believe that sort of crap.
Have you heard of Facebook? A couple or three guys whip up this thing in their dorm rooms, and since they understand their market, it's now out for a multi-billion dollar IPO. Yeah, you and I may think it's !@#$, but Zuck figured out how to sell it to two camps that complement each other; advertisers and clueless users. History's made.
Maybe there's even lower hanging fruit that all the corps and specialists have overlooked so far. Maybe you just need a brilliant salesman like Chris Columbus to convince one deep pocketed patron.
By the way, AT&T Bell Labs, in my opinion, worked on the same principle. Find smart people, give 'em some room, and miracles happen, often. What's that corporate monolith Microsoft come up with lately?
Corporations cannot keep up with nimble startups. Cf. Kodak.
Would I rather spend my advertising dollars broadcasting to a certain demographic, or would I rather spend my bucks on someone who had actually expressed an interest in my product? Google ads don't work for products like Coke or Pepsi. In that case, you're pretty much stuck broadcasting to a demographic.
... And then try to make sense of how Google (and advertising in general) works. We just heard from someone the other day who was searching for Rosignol skis. The ads that popped up weren't for Rosignol, but for a competitor of Rosignol, one in which he'd expressed no interest.
Funny business, advertising. What makes Coke and Pepsi so special, as compared to other brand names? They assume no Coke drinker would even consider Pepsi, and vice versa? Why would a happy Rosignol customer care one whit about their competition?
I have to return to Google, there's no escaping from that for now.
Try ixquick. Apparently, it'll even offer to aggregate google searches for you, over https.
... but gmail still has me by the balls.
I'd say the relationship is reversed. You're the one that's doing the sucking. Google's just standing there offering it to you.
Frankly, I'd be surprised if the situation was reversed: someone working for Google but saying they'd rather be working for Microsoft.
Er, just a quibble, but wouldn't the reverse be someone who went back to Google when MS didn't turn out to be the neat place they thought it was going to be?
We count upon large corporations for doing the research that moves our society forward.
Well, there's your mistake. Nowadays, we count on large corporations to outsource, litigate, and obsess over their stock price, not innovate.
I count on the two smart, ambitious guys in a garage to innovate.
Spying, as it were, has been how Social Media has made its money almost from the moment it came into existence. What shocks me is how many seem to believe that it just started happening.
FTFY. Has to be said. It amazes me that anyone can tar Google with that brush without tarring all the rest of them along with them. WTF does anyone expect to get from corporate doled out "free" services?
Can't wait for Americans to be extradited to Iran or somewhere else for violating their laws ...
No it wouldn't, because the US doesn't have an extradition treaty with Iran.
How about Canada, then? A couple of weeks ago, a judge affirmed linking isn't infringement. Who should we go after, Obama?
Can someone who RTFA'd provide some clarity?
If you RTFA, couldn't you do that yourself?
HF!