I don't think it's as simple as that. If you're using GMail, you're likely logged in to Google every time you do a search. Do a bunch of porn viewing, and Google has the means to link that to your login. Take it a step further and keep your bookmarks there.. well... they certainly have more to draw on.
I saw that story (and re-read it just now). You are right. But my point is that it can be done other ways. There may be other business models that can be built. Once someone makes one that involves explicitly ensuring privacy--I'll sign up.
>>Perhaps all you'll need pretty soon to be productive is a machine with Linux installed & merely a good web browser?
>Only if you don't mind having no privacy and always need a working Internet connection to do any work.
I hear what you are saying. But I think its just a matter of time before someone just up and solves the problem. What if all of your data stored online were encrypted with a private key--one which your service provider does not hold in escrow? As long as your connection is encrypted, and the "static" store is encrypted--that's fairly private, wouldn't you say?
I think your second point is a non-issue, or its getting there. I got a Sprint PPC-6700 recently (WinMo 5 PDA/phone, fast EVDO data line) and its gotten me quite used to always having the net available pretty much anywhere. Yes, a fall-back is a good thing, but how many dumb users run regular backups? Same number won't care about an offline copy.
Same case here at the large corporation where I work. Multitasking is the name of the game--at least that's what you are told. I'm unconvinced. I do it because I have to, but I seriously think the quality of work is reduced more than the efficiencies gained can account for.
Now I'm the worst at dealing with boring situations. If a speaker can't hold my interest, or if something doesn't pertain to me but I have to attend anyway, I'm gonna multitask or play a game or whatever. But when I need to be paying attention, doing ANYTHING else on the computer such as reading emails--is a bad thing IMHO.
Someone should come up with a server framework for all of this ajax goodness. Bundle it into a handy newbie-friendly package and voila, live.com killer.
I was gonna just do a faux rant-and-rave to highlight the point of the fine article, but I don't think it'd make it past the lameness filter. So just pretend that I just went way off the wall flaming for no reason and go ahead and give me the funny mod. TIA.
When I was 2 or so, I caught an infection of toxoplasma in my eyes. I guess I was playing in a sandbox where a cat had crapped, ended up wiping my eyes, etc.
Long story short, scarring formed on both of my retinas. I only have peripheral vision in my left eye--quite legally blind on that side. I can make out the "Big E" in the optometrist's office, that's about it. I have some scarring in my right eye too, which is pretty scary. Luckily it formed outside of the region where the retina is most sensitive, where the optic nerves hook up. But it did kill enough of the receptors that the brain needs such that I'm permanently very near-sighted. Even with eyeglasses, best I can get is 20:40. Another third worse (20:60) and I wouldn't be able to drive.
Ok, that was kinda long story long. Point is--I pay for the extra long-term disability insurance at work, and I'm gonna be first in the damn line for voluntary eye replacement surgey. I might hold out for the Terminator-style HUD, though.
And the other point--keep your kids (and pregnant women) from kitty litter. Put covers over your sandbox. Stay away from this bug, it's not fun.
If I weren't super busy at work I'd google it for you. Short story (and it was posted here) is that the guy posted an ebay auction, then got a call from MS lawyers and was sued. He defended himself--and won.
The DRM I am...grudgingly ok with in some cases. But its the resale-rights that really pisses me off. Everyone knows what happened to the guy that ebay'd a copy of MS Office.
Well RMS is certainly free (as in speech) not to use them. That CC has multiple, more flexible licensing than say, GPL, is not our problem, its his. I'm a believer that the owner of the thing can do with the thing as they please, and if they want to restrict its license, it is within their right. Accordingly, the OSS crowed will tend to avoid the thing, and if the owner doesn't like it, they can choose to change the license to something the community likes better--if they so choose, or they can tell the community to screw off. Business decisions are not necessarily controlled by geek perception.
I'm a big fan of CC. I personally like the CC-BY license and use it for my own creations.
Unfortunately, the majority of the populace is in that cloud and doesn't know it. I wish that we'd get a real implementation of end-to-end encryption in Jabber/XMPP already!
I was going to mod you as a troll just to be funny, but if I did that I couldn't tell you that I did it here, and thus get the funny mod for myself. I'm really not sure how typing this comment is really helping my situation.
Something I did when I was a kid, which I'm ashamed of now, was shoplift just about everything that wasn't nailed down. And I was big into warez for a while. But now that I make a comfortable salary, my time is worth more to me than I would save by hunting down stuff online through nefarious means. (The shoplifting thing quickly faded as the risks grew when I reached maturity.)
It would be interesting to see a demographic survey of/. visitors. I would guess that a large majority of those who are not students are, like me, nicely into middle class.
Anyway, the point here is that while I used to pirate a bunch of music, that too has faded. Now I mostly grab free music, mostly live stuff from etree. And I'm pretty embittered by the big music business. What fools.
However, unlike shoplifting or software piracy, I'm not really ashamed of the music piracy. All I was doing was something that was legal in the analog world. I was moving my own music from one place to another, or I was borrowing a copy of a friend's cd. And listening to a cd makes me want to go to a concert, and that's how their biz model should have worked.
Or they can just sue everybody.
Incidentally, I feel the same way about ripped TV shows. If I miss a show that was on yesterday, I still want to watch the show! All I'm doing is consuming what they air for free!
That is all I want to say on the subject really, "no". No recism at a macro level.
IT was still in its infancy and was exclusively a white, male field. But, how much progress has been made in the IT world?
I've always had an issue with using the phrase "making progress" with regards to accusations of racism. There is no progress to be made if there is no racism. What big company these days doesn't have a diversity department? Its ridiculous, really. WHO CARES... Hire technically qualified people, irrespective of their sex, race or sexual orientation. What do those have to do with how well you can do your job? Are males better at math and therefore generally more suited to some IT jobs? Perhaps. I at least entertain the possibility. Does that mean I'm not going to hire a woman? Of course not! I just want to run my business! Along the same lines, is it possible that black people on average do not acheive the same level of education as other groups? Sure, it is possible. Will I not hire a black person based on an assumption they are stupid? No, I'll give them an interview just like I would anyone else. I will hire based on MERIT.
On a slightly related topic, I heard just today a story from someone who works at FedEx. This guy wanted to have Spring Break off this year. He was told no. He has seniority. He has taken this period of time off before. Why was he told no? I (more or less) quote:
I can't give you that time off because I've already denied three black people that same time and it would look bad if I gave it to you, even though you have seniority.
Now that's political correctness and racism at its worst. When the fear of accusations of racism, even where truly, none is present, forces you to make certain business decisions, that is just wrong.
If you want an open-source, multi-platform alternative, as noted on the GTalk website, you can try Psi. Psi also has alpha "Jingle" voice chat support that is compatible with Google Talk. Read here for special instructions on how to connect to Google's server "natively", as opposed to over S2S.
This solves everything really. But I don't really agree with the premise of the article. Yeah, maybe some mags and sites are full of crap, but who cares? Some I might read for their writing style, some might have the first screenshots or movies. Some might have the best comments on the articles themselves. Some might have site features you like, e.g. gamespot's 'add to my games' sort of thing.
Ok, two more words:
Penny Arcade.
They have no compunction about exposing bullshit for what it is.
It's a tragedy that certain forces have managed to convince so many americans that rights really worth fighting for are things like the right to guns and the right to not have health insurance.
Well you are welcome to your opinion, but you must not live here if you think its that simple. The right to bear arms is the ultimate "checks and balances" of citizens versus government. It says, at the core, that the (current) government may never have as much control with as little representation than the Brits had when we were colonies.
And of course it's not the right to "not have health insurance". It's the insistence that having health insurance is not a right! I don't know about your constitution or other founding documents, but ours doesn't say "And all citizens shall have health insurance." But it does say (paraphrasing), "all rights not assigned to the government by this constitution and its amendments are reserved to the people".
Now having said that, do I think that our politicians have read that tiny part? No, I don't. But I do think its the duty of the citizens, and there are a few politicans who agree, to see that government does not become overbearing and facist. The bigger the government, the more people depend on it; and the more they depend on it, the less responsible they are for themselves. I certainly wouldn't raise my children for example to think that the government is the ultimate protector of every citizen. I don't want the government to be so large that it is POSSIBLE for it to be everywhere, protect everyone and in doing so, restrict the rights of everyone until before you know it, we are going to a government office to request permission to travel to another region of the country (there's the logging of vehichle movement tie-in). Instead, I'll teach my children to take responsibility for their own actions. That means in this case, perhaps owning a gun with which to protect themselves and their family.
I can't fathom why MS would want Opera. Nothing against Opera, but IE is also application development platform for Microsoft, not just a browser. (Yeah, we know how secure that has turned out.) But Opera won't give them anything there.
Slashdot Mirror
Scroll up. "News for nerds."
As if you don't have the porn URLs memorized!
I saw that story (and re-read it just now). You are right. But my point is that it can be done other ways. There may be other business models that can be built. Once someone makes one that involves explicitly ensuring privacy--I'll sign up.
>>Perhaps all you'll need pretty soon to be productive is a machine with Linux installed & merely a good web browser?
>Only if you don't mind having no privacy and always need a working Internet connection to do any work.
I hear what you are saying. But I think its just a matter of time before someone just up and solves the problem. What if all of your data stored online were encrypted with a private key--one which your service provider does not hold in escrow? As long as your connection is encrypted, and the "static" store is encrypted--that's fairly private, wouldn't you say?
I think your second point is a non-issue, or its getting there. I got a Sprint PPC-6700 recently (WinMo 5 PDA/phone, fast EVDO data line) and its gotten me quite used to always having the net available pretty much anywhere. Yes, a fall-back is a good thing, but how many dumb users run regular backups? Same number won't care about an offline copy.
Same case here at the large corporation where I work. Multitasking is the name of the game--at least that's what you are told. I'm unconvinced. I do it because I have to, but I seriously think the quality of work is reduced more than the efficiencies gained can account for.
Now I'm the worst at dealing with boring situations. If a speaker can't hold my interest, or if something doesn't pertain to me but I have to attend anyway, I'm gonna multitask or play a game or whatever. But when I need to be paying attention, doing ANYTHING else on the computer such as reading emails--is a bad thing IMHO.
Someone should come up with a server framework for all of this ajax goodness. Bundle it into a handy newbie-friendly package and voila, live.com killer.
I was gonna just do a faux rant-and-rave to highlight the point of the fine article, but I don't think it'd make it past the lameness filter. So just pretend that I just went way off the wall flaming for no reason and go ahead and give me the funny mod. TIA.
This is coming from soneone who knows firsthand.
When I was 2 or so, I caught an infection of toxoplasma in my eyes. I guess I was playing in a sandbox where a cat had crapped, ended up wiping my eyes, etc.
Long story short, scarring formed on both of my retinas. I only have peripheral vision in my left eye--quite legally blind on that side. I can make out the "Big E" in the optometrist's office, that's about it. I have some scarring in my right eye too, which is pretty scary. Luckily it formed outside of the region where the retina is most sensitive, where the optic nerves hook up. But it did kill enough of the receptors that the brain needs such that I'm permanently very near-sighted. Even with eyeglasses, best I can get is 20:40. Another third worse (20:60) and I wouldn't be able to drive.
Ok, that was kinda long story long. Point is--I pay for the extra long-term disability insurance at work, and I'm gonna be first in the damn line for voluntary eye replacement surgey. I might hold out for the Terminator-style HUD, though.
And the other point--keep your kids (and pregnant women) from kitty litter. Put covers over your sandbox. Stay away from this bug, it's not fun.
If I weren't super busy at work I'd google it for you. Short story (and it was posted here) is that the guy posted an ebay auction, then got a call from MS lawyers and was sued. He defended himself--and won.
The DRM I am...grudgingly ok with in some cases. But its the resale-rights that really pisses me off. Everyone knows what happened to the guy that ebay'd a copy of MS Office.
Well RMS is certainly free (as in speech) not to use them. That CC has multiple, more flexible licensing than say, GPL, is not our problem, its his. I'm a believer that the owner of the thing can do with the thing as they please, and if they want to restrict its license, it is within their right. Accordingly, the OSS crowed will tend to avoid the thing, and if the owner doesn't like it, they can choose to change the license to something the community likes better--if they so choose, or they can tell the community to screw off. Business decisions are not necessarily controlled by geek perception.
I'm a big fan of CC. I personally like the CC-BY license and use it for my own creations.
Unfortunately, the majority of the populace is in that cloud and doesn't know it. I wish that we'd get a real implementation of end-to-end encryption in Jabber/XMPP already!
I was going to mod you as a troll just to be funny, but if I did that I couldn't tell you that I did it here, and thus get the funny mod for myself. I'm really not sure how typing this comment is really helping my situation.
Something I did when I was a kid, which I'm ashamed of now, was shoplift just about everything that wasn't nailed down. And I was big into warez for a while. But now that I make a comfortable salary, my time is worth more to me than I would save by hunting down stuff online through nefarious means. (The shoplifting thing quickly faded as the risks grew when I reached maturity.)
/. visitors. I would guess that a large majority of those who are not students are, like me, nicely into middle class.
It would be interesting to see a demographic survey of
Anyway, the point here is that while I used to pirate a bunch of music, that too has faded. Now I mostly grab free music, mostly live stuff from etree. And I'm pretty embittered by the big music business. What fools.
However, unlike shoplifting or software piracy, I'm not really ashamed of the music piracy. All I was doing was something that was legal in the analog world. I was moving my own music from one place to another, or I was borrowing a copy of a friend's cd. And listening to a cd makes me want to go to a concert, and that's how their biz model should have worked.
Or they can just sue everybody.
Incidentally, I feel the same way about ripped TV shows. If I miss a show that was on yesterday, I still want to watch the show! All I'm doing is consuming what they air for free!
I just asked my wife what she thought and her immediate response was, "That's ok, I use Google". :)
That is all I want to say on the subject really, "no". No recism at a macro level.
I've always had an issue with using the phrase "making progress" with regards to accusations of racism. There is no progress to be made if there is no racism. What big company these days doesn't have a diversity department? Its ridiculous, really. WHO CARES... Hire technically qualified people, irrespective of their sex, race or sexual orientation. What do those have to do with how well you can do your job? Are males better at math and therefore generally more suited to some IT jobs? Perhaps. I at least entertain the possibility. Does that mean I'm not going to hire a woman? Of course not! I just want to run my business! Along the same lines, is it possible that black people on average do not acheive the same level of education as other groups? Sure, it is possible. Will I not hire a black person based on an assumption they are stupid? No, I'll give them an interview just like I would anyone else. I will hire based on MERIT.On a slightly related topic, I heard just today a story from someone who works at FedEx. This guy wanted to have Spring Break off this year. He was told no. He has seniority. He has taken this period of time off before. Why was he told no? I (more or less) quote:
Now that's political correctness and racism at its worst. When the fear of accusations of racism, even where truly, none is present, forces you to make certain business decisions, that is just wrong.If you want an open-source, multi-platform alternative, as noted on the GTalk website, you can try Psi. Psi also has alpha "Jingle" voice chat support that is compatible with Google Talk. Read here for special instructions on how to connect to Google's server "natively", as opposed to over S2S.
Game Demos.
This solves everything really. But I don't really agree with the premise of the article. Yeah, maybe some mags and sites are full of crap, but who cares? Some I might read for their writing style, some might have the first screenshots or movies. Some might have the best comments on the articles themselves. Some might have site features you like, e.g. gamespot's 'add to my games' sort of thing.
Ok, two more words:
Penny Arcade.
They have no compunction about exposing bullshit for what it is.
Thanks for acknowledging the issue and taking the time to ask our feedback. This has restored my faith in the system, so to speak.
That if you like to delete files, EXT2 or 3 is the way to go!
Also, studies show that Reiser v4 and v3 were obviously swapped, because normally subsequent versions are supposed to IMPROVE performance.
You insensitive clod, I use Secret.
"Email may be fradulent. Handle with care."
There, no more lawsuits for the spammers!
(stupid lameness filter, i wanted that to be all caps)
You are correct. However I expect things will change before we get to the actual revolution thing. :)
Well you are welcome to your opinion, but you must not live here if you think its that simple. The right to bear arms is the ultimate "checks and balances" of citizens versus government. It says, at the core, that the (current) government may never have as much control with as little representation than the Brits had when we were colonies.
And of course it's not the right to "not have health insurance". It's the insistence that having health insurance is not a right! I don't know about your constitution or other founding documents, but ours doesn't say "And all citizens shall have health insurance." But it does say (paraphrasing), "all rights not assigned to the government by this constitution and its amendments are reserved to the people".
Now having said that, do I think that our politicians have read that tiny part? No, I don't. But I do think its the duty of the citizens, and there are a few politicans who agree, to see that government does not become overbearing and facist. The bigger the government, the more people depend on it; and the more they depend on it, the less responsible they are for themselves. I certainly wouldn't raise my children for example to think that the government is the ultimate protector of every citizen. I don't want the government to be so large that it is POSSIBLE for it to be everywhere, protect everyone and in doing so, restrict the rights of everyone until before you know it, we are going to a government office to request permission to travel to another region of the country (there's the logging of vehichle movement tie-in). Instead, I'll teach my children to take responsibility for their own actions. That means in this case, perhaps owning a gun with which to protect themselves and their family.
I can't fathom why MS would want Opera. Nothing against Opera, but IE is also application development platform for Microsoft, not just a browser. (Yeah, we know how secure that has turned out.) But Opera won't give them anything there.