There's 2 big differences between FB and G+ in terms of real names.
First, FB is really lax about enforcing its policy. Everytime they've started killing accounts (for example when they tried to purge all fake women) there's a huge public outcry when they stop. Often because they always screw up and purge tons of valid accounts, like G+ is doing now.
Secondly, G+ is linked to all your other google services. If google suspends your account you could lose your mail, calendar, contacts, etc. The loss of a fake FB accounts is much less risky than the loss of a fake G+ account. According to the reports I've read google is being inconsistent in their punishments for fake users. In some cases only the G+ profile is disabled, in some cases the whole account is frozen or destroyed.
mod the ticketing system (or upgrade or replace, whatever) such that a ticket cannot be closed without sufficient documentation on the problem.
they've gotta write *something* in there, it's a good first step.
you can make as many required fields as you need to capture the information you want.
who was served (or maybe this is already the employee who opened the ticket) what kind of problem was it how was it resolved etc.
if you aren't getting enough detail in one of the fields, replace it with a drop down list. better yet, replace it with a bad, incomplete drop down list and an "other" field. nothing encourages a geek to provide detailed feedback better than a list of incorrect choices.
don't bother trying to convince your employees to change their behavior. invent a robot to do it for you.
the problem, for a violent or bloody (or sexy) title like bleach or naruto or (insert sexy title here) is that you can't sell it at walmart or put it on tv without censoring it. and if you can't sell it at walmart or put it on tv, it's not worth the money you have to pay to japan for the rights to the title.
i'd love it if american anime publishers would plan on an "uncut DVD" version from the start so that, once there's a big enough fan base, they can sell the real thing through niche market and online. it's a chance to make money twice on the same content! come on! just do it!
if you need the real thing, download the fansubs. if you're a real fan, buy the american version too.
they're dim - dimmer than the advertised incandescent wattage they're supposed to replace. they have a variety of ratings for color and brightness that aren't standardized. every 5th bulb gives off a grating high pitched hum. they have delicate tubes and break under pressure that standard bulbs can take on being installed in and removed from sockets. they are a disposal hazard (mercury) but no one bothers to dispose of them correctly because there's no easy collection bucket for mercury. feh. where's my LED incandescent replacement?
it's not a mailing list - it's a user account on a web site.
you're right that if you don't require email activation/confirmation for account creation, then you can't add those users to any email lists until you do have confirmation. these things are easy to separate.
of course, users who can't get the confirmation link can't receive your email lists either! at least they have a user account until they figure out how to use whatever whitelist they have available, or how to get a new email account. maybe the other users on the web site can help them!
don't require users to activate the account via email.
i work on a medium sized, event driven, community website, and year after year we had the same problem - tons of people signing up at once, and a sizeable percentage of them wouldn't receive an activation email no matter how hard they tried.
this led to much customer support.
so we stopped requiring activation.
and it hasn't been a problem.
when you think about it, activation is useless. what benefit do you get out of it? you proved that some guy had access to some email account at single point of time in the past. so what? anyone who wants to get an account can sidestep your activation requirement with a throwaway email address. you're putting up a barrier to your less technically inclined customers without providing ANY benefit in return.
don't be too upset about the consultant - the fact that they are saying the exact same things as you should feel like vindication.
many, many, companies are too stupid to believe information that they're not overpaying for. i've been in this situation many times before and it is almost always a good thing to have the consultant come in and confirm every recommendation you've ever made.
being an enthusiastic supporter of the consultant will help you retain some control over the process (including being part of the team selecting the consultant if you're lucky) and you'll be ready present your world view when then consultant arrives.
it's all about sync. i can live without any other individual feature. if i can't sync it with other calendar software, on other devices (palm. outlook. etc.) there's nothing that compels me to use any of these.
interchange rocks, but the learning curve is STEEP - much steeper than oscommerce, although once you make it to the top you've learned yourself a nice extensible system instead of a giant mountain of crap like OSC:)
add to that the extreme unhelpfulness/bitchiness of the mailing lists/core devs, lack of 'how do i get started' documentation, and the lack of modules to support many payment methods (afaik, there's still no good, supported, paypal option!) has always discouraged me from using IC.
my sense is that the core devs are more interested in charging folks to install/integrate IC than they are about making IC accessible to the public. i don't have any beef with that - it's a great project. but you really can just drop in OSC and have a crappy, ugly, but working store. you can't do that with IC, which is why OSC has the market share.
naruto will be available soon. almost certainly this year. and the fansubs are a large part of the push to get a legal version released. it's clear that the demand is huge.
in my experience, thunderbird has a *much* better adaptive junk filter than mail.app. specifically, i see lots of falsepositives with mail.app.
thunderbird is weak in the other direction, with more missed spam, but tbird misses a lot less than mail.app misclassifies. this is my experience at a site with about 40 macs.
tbird also plays nicer with our (courier) imap server and is generally less of a pain in the butt.
of course, if you really want good spam filtering, you need to bring it to the server. dspam is awesome!
the idea behind "don't run as root" is not that you're special files are safe if you get nailed by a trojan.
if you open the wrong infected binary, your files are gone.
however, if you open that infected binary as a normal user, it (should be) a lot harder for the virus to use your machine to spread rapidly - harder for it to become an smtp server and send itself out, harder for it to download a rootkit and compromise your machine, harder for it to turn your machine into a ddos zombie, etc.
this means that sircam/nimda/codered style superinfectious worms are going to spread slower and effect fewer people.
if you're willing to open an attachement from someone you don't know them your advice, or if you have a burning need to see my naked wife, linux can't save you.
however, it should be harder to create virii with novel vectors of infection in the linux world. also, since every distro is a little different, when someone does code a massively successful linux worm it's unlikely that the entire linux universe will fall apart.
read their site. it seems they've patented a concept called "directories" that lets you use a tree like structure to recursively subdivide your music files into different groups...
tribalism is a human instinct and a strong one. what could be more inspiring than the hatred of one's foe? what else would make you code for 48 hours straight?
okay. there are other reasons. the intellectual exercise, obsessive disorders, bragging rights. sure. competition is still something that drives people to code.
2) aol agreed to make their im service available to other clients as part of their agreement with the ftc. as a condition of their merger with time warner.
there's no theft of ad revenue, and aol is breaking thier promise.
i believe you. but i still think (like dustpuppy) that the (forever inconclusive without a court battle that won't happen) evidence favors ataridatacenter. and, although proving it is also pretty much impossible, i fucking swear the date changed from 12/29/00 to 03/29/00./but/ even without the date change (that is, if it always said 03/29/00) the evidence still favors ataridatacenter, since chabot's specs are just wrong for march 2000!
ataridatacenter never did say what email address he was using when he was told that the article had been up since october/2000. nor did you or fuckface reveal which email addresses you were corresponding with. that might be helpful. if this is just chabotc@reviewboards.com (thanks! deja.com...) i'm even less inclined to believe the reviewboard's side of the story...
nope, i'm not. but as with all good conspiracy theories (and here we have two competing) there's no way for me to prove that, although if you suggest something reasonable i'll go along with it. why are you so sure that reviewboards is right, redir? what's your connection? and what's this editor's email address that everyone seems to have access to? i sent mail to the contact address on the reviewboards site, but/i/ didn't receive a reply. maybe i just didn't dig deep enough on the site to find a personal email address.
here are the facts: parts of two different epinions posts are identical to a review on reviewboards.
parts of another review on reviewboards (by the same author) are identical to yet a third post on epinions.
some people on slashdot claim the editor told them the piece had been up since march and therefore the epinions piece is plagiarism.
a date for specs in the article on reviewboards changed from 12/29/00 to 03/29/00.
12/29/00 is a correct date for the specs in the article on reviewboards. 03/29/00 is an incorrect date for the article on review boards (this is the smoking gun really).
yes, it is possible that there's a psychotic guy on slashdot with multiple accounts, who also has multiple accounts on epinions, who has been plagiarizing (since august - that's when the earliest epinions post about the e10k is dated) bits and pieces of a reviewboards review (that he archived in march, since it was offline in august, remeber redir?) there are people on the internet odd enough to do such a thing.
but it seems much more likely to me that chris chabot's posts on reviewboard are plagiarized from various epinion posts.
as far as redir's, fuckface's, and ataridatacenter's "quotes" from the "editor". whatever. redit has "logs". fuckface was told the article was up in march, redir was told it was up for "almost a year". whatever. totally unprovable in any case, and irrelevant in coming to the pretty clear conclusion that the reviewboard article copied the epinions articles, not the other way around.
and again, the question is, what's your connection to reviewboards, redir?
The E10k frame is capable of holding up to 16 system boards, with a minimum of 4 boards. Each system board can hold four CPUs (480mhz), 4GB RAM (4 banks of 1GB), and either 4 SBUS devices, or 2 PCI devices. (Note: in the future, this *may* support faster CPUs, 2x higher memory density, and 3 PCI devices per system board, specs are as of 03/29/2000)
when i read the article earlier today, the date read 12/29/2000. i wish i could prove it, but i swear it's true. anyone else remember the old date, or have a cached version with the old date? it seems that reviewboard has changed their date to match their "it's been up since march" story. that plus the 480 mhz cpus and the quotes from epinions in the e4500 story (sorry, redir, there's just too much evidence) makes me think that this really is a case of plaigarism. i hope epinions does something about it.
exclusion of scout leaders and scouts based on sexual preference is the way that sexuality becomes an issue in the boy scouts. if you really want sexuality to be a non-topic, then don't descriminate based on sexual preference.
most pedophiles and sexual predators are heterosexual, or identify themselves as such. excluding out gays from leadership roles in the boy scouts does nothing to protect anyone from molestation or sexual abuse.
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There's 2 big differences between FB and G+ in terms of real names.
First, FB is really lax about enforcing its policy. Everytime they've started killing accounts (for example when they tried to purge all fake women) there's a huge public outcry when they stop. Often because they always screw up and purge tons of valid accounts, like G+ is doing now.
Secondly, G+ is linked to all your other google services. If google suspends your account you could lose your mail, calendar, contacts, etc. The loss of a fake FB accounts is much less risky than the loss of a fake G+ account. According to the reports I've read google is being inconsistent in their punishments for fake users. In some cases only the G+ profile is disabled, in some cases the whole account is frozen or destroyed.
mod the ticketing system (or upgrade or replace, whatever) such that a ticket cannot be closed without sufficient documentation on the problem.
they've gotta write *something* in there, it's a good first step.
you can make as many required fields as you need to capture the information you want.
who was served (or maybe this is already the employee who opened the ticket)
what kind of problem was it
how was it resolved
etc.
if you aren't getting enough detail in one of the fields, replace it with a drop down list. better yet, replace it with a bad, incomplete drop down list and an "other" field. nothing encourages a geek to provide detailed feedback better than a list of incorrect choices.
don't bother trying to convince your employees to change their behavior. invent a robot to do it for you.
the problem, for a violent or bloody (or sexy) title like bleach or naruto or (insert sexy title here) is that you can't sell it at walmart or put it on tv without censoring it. and if you can't sell it at walmart or put it on tv, it's not worth the money you have to pay to japan for the rights to the title.
i'd love it if american anime publishers would plan on an "uncut DVD" version from the start so that, once there's a big enough fan base, they can sell the real thing through niche market and online. it's a chance to make money twice on the same content! come on! just do it!
if you need the real thing, download the fansubs. if you're a real fan, buy the american version too.
they're dim - dimmer than the advertised incandescent wattage they're supposed to replace. they have a variety of ratings for color and brightness that aren't standardized. every 5th bulb gives off a grating high pitched hum. they have delicate tubes and break under pressure that standard bulbs can take on being installed in and removed from sockets. they are a disposal hazard (mercury) but no one bothers to dispose of them correctly because there's no easy collection bucket for mercury. feh. where's my LED incandescent replacement?
it's not a mailing list - it's a user account on a web site.
you're right that if you don't require email activation/confirmation for account creation, then you can't add those users to any email lists until you do have confirmation. these things are easy to separate.
of course, users who can't get the confirmation link can't receive your email lists either! at least they have a user account until they figure out how to use whatever whitelist they have available, or how to get a new email account. maybe the other users on the web site can help them!
don't require users to activate the account via email.
i work on a medium sized, event driven, community website, and year after year we had the same problem - tons of people signing up at once, and a sizeable percentage of them wouldn't receive an activation email no matter how hard they tried.
this led to much customer support.
so we stopped requiring activation.
and it hasn't been a problem.
when you think about it, activation is useless. what benefit do you get out of it? you proved that some guy had access to some email account at single point of time in the past. so what? anyone who wants to get an account can sidestep your activation requirement with a throwaway email address. you're putting up a barrier to your less technically inclined customers without providing ANY benefit in return.
don't be too upset about the consultant - the fact that they are saying the exact same things as you should feel like vindication.
many, many, companies are too stupid to believe information that they're not overpaying for. i've been in this situation many times before and it is almost always a good thing to have the consultant come in and confirm every recommendation you've ever made.
being an enthusiastic supporter of the consultant will help you retain some control over the process (including being part of the team selecting the consultant if you're lucky) and you'll be ready present your world view when then consultant arrives.
it's all about sync. i can live without any other individual feature. if i can't sync it with other calendar software, on other devices (palm. outlook. etc.) there's nothing that compels me to use any of these.
interchange rocks, but the learning curve is STEEP - much steeper than oscommerce, although once you make it to the top you've learned yourself a nice extensible system instead of a giant mountain of crap like OSC :)
add to that the extreme unhelpfulness/bitchiness of the mailing lists/core devs, lack of 'how do i get started' documentation, and the lack of modules to support many payment methods (afaik, there's still no good, supported, paypal option!) has always discouraged me from using IC.
my sense is that the core devs are more interested in charging folks to install/integrate IC than they are about making IC accessible to the public. i don't have any beef with that - it's a great project. but you really can just drop in OSC and have a crappy, ugly, but working store. you can't do that with IC, which is why OSC has the market share.
naruto will be available soon. almost certainly this year. and the fansubs are a large part of the push to get a legal version released. it's clear that the demand is huge.
And Japanese has a construction, attached to the verb, for the same kind of distinction.
why are you posting if you don't have an answer?
you are only giving me a headache.
in my experience, thunderbird has a *much* better adaptive junk filter than mail.app. specifically, i see lots of falsepositives with mail.app.
thunderbird is weak in the other direction, with more missed spam, but tbird misses a lot less than mail.app misclassifies. this is my experience at a site with about 40 macs.
tbird also plays nicer with our (courier) imap server and is generally less of a pain in the butt.
of course, if you really want good spam filtering, you need to bring it to the server. dspam is awesome!
you have to assume it does and take defensive measures for now.
BAVC recently released an instructional dvd about video tape preservation.
the idea behind "don't run as root" is not that you're special files are safe if you get nailed by a trojan.
if you open the wrong infected binary, your files are gone.
however, if you open that infected binary as a normal user, it (should be) a lot harder for the virus to use your machine to spread rapidly - harder for it to become an smtp server and send itself out, harder for it to download a rootkit and compromise your machine, harder for it to turn your machine into a ddos zombie, etc.
this means that sircam/nimda/codered style superinfectious worms are going to spread slower and effect fewer people.
if you're willing to open an attachement from someone you don't know them your advice, or if you have a burning need to see my naked wife, linux can't save you.
however, it should be harder to create virii with novel vectors of infection in the linux world. also, since every distro is a little different, when someone does code a massively successful linux worm it's unlikely that the entire linux universe will fall apart.
read their site. it seems they've patented a concept called "directories" that lets you use a tree like structure to recursively subdivide your music files into different groups...
tribalism is a human instinct and a strong one. what could be more inspiring than the hatred of one's foe? what else would make you code for 48 hours straight?
okay. there are other reasons. the intellectual exercise, obsessive disorders, bragging rights. sure. competition is still something that drives people to code.
just use escrow. if the seller won't use escrow, don't buy. period.
1) you can already bypass the ads with aim.
2) aol agreed to make their im service available to other clients as part of their agreement with the ftc. as a condition of their merger with time warner.
there's no theft of ad revenue, and aol is breaking thier promise.
i believe you. but i still think (like dustpuppy) that the (forever inconclusive without a court battle that won't happen) evidence favors ataridatacenter. and, although proving it is also pretty much impossible, i fucking swear the date changed from 12/29/00 to 03/29/00. /but/ even without the date change (that is, if it always said 03/29/00) the evidence still favors ataridatacenter, since chabot's specs are just wrong for march 2000!
ataridatacenter never did say what email address he was using when he was told that the article had been up since october/2000. nor did you or fuckface reveal which email addresses you were corresponding with. that might be helpful. if this is just chabotc@reviewboards.com (thanks! deja.com...) i'm even less inclined to believe the reviewboard's side of the story...
nope, i'm not. but as with all good conspiracy theories (and here we have two competing) there's no way for me to prove that, although if you suggest something reasonable i'll go along with it. why are you so sure that reviewboards is right, redir? what's your connection? and what's this editor's email address that everyone seems to have access to? i sent mail to the contact address on the reviewboards site, but /i/ didn't receive a reply. maybe i just didn't dig deep enough on the site to find a personal email address.
here are the facts: parts of two different epinions posts are identical to a review on reviewboards.
parts of another review on reviewboards (by the same author) are identical to yet a third post on epinions.
some people on slashdot claim the editor told them the piece had been up since march and therefore the epinions piece is plagiarism.
a date for specs in the article on reviewboards changed from 12/29/00 to 03/29/00.
12/29/00 is a correct date for the specs in the article on reviewboards. 03/29/00 is an incorrect date for the article on review boards (this is the smoking gun really).
yes, it is possible that there's a psychotic guy on slashdot with multiple accounts, who also has multiple accounts on epinions, who has been plagiarizing (since august - that's when the earliest epinions post about the e10k is dated) bits and pieces of a reviewboards review (that he archived in march, since it was offline in august, remeber redir?) there are people on the internet odd enough to do such a thing.
but it seems much more likely to me that chris chabot's posts on reviewboard are plagiarized from various epinion posts.
as far as redir's, fuckface's, and ataridatacenter's "quotes" from the "editor". whatever. redit has "logs". fuckface was told the article was up in march, redir was told it was up for "almost a year". whatever. totally unprovable in any case, and irrelevant in coming to the pretty clear conclusion that the reviewboard article copied the epinions articles, not the other way around.
and again, the question is, what's your connection to reviewboards, redir?
here is a quote from the current article online:
The E10k frame is capable of holding up to 16 system boards, with a minimum of 4 boards. Each system board can hold four CPUs (480mhz), 4GB RAM (4 banks of 1GB), and either 4 SBUS devices, or 2 PCI devices. (Note: in the future, this *may* support faster CPUs, 2x higher memory density, and 3 PCI devices per system board, specs are as of 03/29/2000)
when i read the article earlier today, the date read 12/29/2000. i wish i could prove it, but i swear it's true. anyone else remember the old date, or have a cached version with the old date? it seems that reviewboard has changed their date to match their "it's been up since march" story. that plus the 480 mhz cpus and the quotes from epinions in the e4500 story (sorry, redir, there's just too much evidence) makes me think that this really is a case of plaigarism. i hope epinions does something about it.
another paragraph is stolen from a different eopinions review of the e10k, posted in august. ha!
exclusion of scout leaders and scouts based on sexual preference is the way that sexuality becomes an issue in the boy scouts. if you really want sexuality to be a non-topic, then don't descriminate based on sexual preference.
most pedophiles and sexual predators are heterosexual, or identify themselves as such. excluding out gays from leadership roles in the boy scouts does nothing to protect anyone from molestation or sexual abuse.