A lot of people here suggest simply changing parts of your account (poisoning the well) and then deleting your account. The problem with this is that Facebook doesn't really let go of anything. When I started an account there I put up an fragment of an image of a hood ornament from the 40s. Afterwards it dawned on me that an image from a random Google search was probably a worthy copyright violation so I "removed it". That was 6 months ago and that image still pops up; be it all of my sins remembered.
Foremost we need to realize that Social Networking sites are legitimized data mining services that we are only more than willing to contribute to. That is fine and it is the price that many people are willing to pay for an easy means to connect with friends and family. The difference is that MySpace is the gabby woman in accounting who will hurt you only as much as you let her while Facebook appears to be taking notes from the Church of Scientology.
OK, lets back up the truck for a second and try to view this as something other than "those jerks in IT are such elitist pigs" mindset for a second. I have an organization that going to inflict terror on a given population. Am I going to recruit a wet nurses or an engineer?
Given that mods are pretty much dead (or at least not where they once were) it is good to see that people are still playing around with Valve's Source SDK (though not too much else it seems).
If someone could just come up with a quicker method of creating new meshes/maps/art I think the mod comminuty would obviously be in a better state. Lets face it, the time it takes to create new assets has gotten crazy. It isn't something for a 15 year-old kid with 5 hours to burn and a copy of Milkshape anymore.
I was stunned by the headline. Just imagining downloading the full source of the framework libraries. After reading the article it was more like, "insert the VS 2008 CD". Nice try, almost had me for a second.
I can't help but agree. When you let the big boys play ball you have to play the game by their rules and I really can't see a lot of good coming out of that. As a gamer, I have no interest in becoming someone's potential voter product.
Diebold's ATM machines are a joint venture with IBM; they usually end up running custom (often WinNT based) software. Diebold's voting machines are (also WinNT based) running Diebold's "restricted" software.
The real point is that hardware will eventually go the way of the appliance. When your Mac goes down you ship it off to Apple. When your future Audrey dies you toss it and get another. On paper this is much more economical as they won't have to pay for your heath, dental and retirement. Your $15/hour is a liability and their $5 million service contract isn't.
I'm not saying that I agree with this argument (though it will make everyone's stock go up) but when the dagger hits your heart it will look like this.
From the description, it sounds like the machine gets some criticism it deserves buy how many people expect a cheap home OEM machine to have RAID out of the box? What next, bitch about the lack of tape drive?
While I won't disagree that Macs have fewer reported vulnerabilities than Windows this whole thing stinks of a cargo cult mentality. No magic OS is going to get rid of all of your security problems. We should also consider the fundamentals of security, not just a magic bullet.
A video assistant for the New England Patriots was video taping the hand signals that the NY Jets were using, essentially spying. Though it doesn't relate specifically to blogging, I can see why having bloggers hang around would make coaches, staff and players nervous. http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N42/patriots.html/
Locally a similar story was making the news a few months back. University of South Carolina coach, Steve Spurrier complained that "Them internet boys" were blogging and forum posting about player performance during pre-season practice. The players were reading the posts and the coaching staff felt that it was affecting performance. They decided in turn to bar all non-staff and non-players from practice.
Also it can be viewed as a form of cheating much like the Patriots debacle earlier this year.
None of this smells right. Initially I thought, "Awesome, this will finally get the cartel chains off of radio". After sitting on it for a while I realized that this can only lead to one outcome, the (ultimate) death of independent radio.
We automatically assume that Clear Channel will fight this to the ground and it goes without saying that they certainly won't have any positive PR on it and the only thing we will hear are grumbles about Big Government.
Instead Clear Channel will go into a licensing agreement with the RIAA because both parties will make concessions for each other. Either fines will more or less be canceled out or the RIAA will set it at an very low rate. Both parties have too much to loose if Clear Channel gets hit hard as they are a source of guaranteed advertising. Instead the only ones who end up paying will be the independent mom and pop radio stations (all 8 of them). They will (obviously) go into bankruptcy and CC will quickly sweep in to buy them at a discount.
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Easy fix for that. Just starting sending spam out of your account.
Just a few points here:
A lot of people here suggest simply changing parts of your account (poisoning the well) and then deleting your account. The problem with this is that Facebook doesn't really let go of anything. When I started an account there I put up an fragment of an image of a hood ornament from the 40s. Afterwards it dawned on me that an image from a random Google search was probably a worthy copyright violation so I "removed it". That was 6 months ago and that image still pops up; be it all of my sins remembered.
Foremost we need to realize that Social Networking sites are legitimized data mining services that we are only more than willing to contribute to. That is fine and it is the price that many people are willing to pay for an easy means to connect with friends and family. The difference is that MySpace is the gabby woman in accounting who will hurt you only as much as you let her while Facebook appears to be taking notes from the Church of Scientology.
Sadly, that is the last thing I can remember using Yahoo for.
Only if you own a Phantom tuning card.
OK, lets back up the truck for a second and try to view this as something other than "those jerks in IT are such elitist pigs" mindset for a second. I have an organization that going to inflict terror on a given population. Am I going to recruit a wet nurses or an engineer?
Given that mods are pretty much dead (or at least not where they once were) it is good to see that people are still playing around with Valve's Source SDK (though not too much else it seems).
If someone could just come up with a quicker method of creating new meshes/maps/art I think the mod comminuty would obviously be in a better state. Lets face it, the time it takes to create new assets has gotten crazy. It isn't something for a 15 year-old kid with 5 hours to burn and a copy of Milkshape anymore.
Blender devs are you listening?
I was stunned by the headline. Just imagining downloading the full source of the framework libraries. After reading the article it was more like, "insert the VS 2008 CD". Nice try, almost had me for a second.
I can't help but agree. When you let the big boys play ball you have to play the game by their rules and I really can't see a lot of good coming out of that. As a gamer, I have no interest in becoming someone's potential voter product.
Am I only only one who is shocked to see that two of the nominees aren't movie cash-ins/tie-ins?
What you haven't noticed where the great galactic sun sets?
Diebold's ATM machines are a joint venture with IBM; they usually end up running custom (often WinNT based) software. Diebold's voting machines are (also WinNT based) running Diebold's "restricted" software.
Essentially you are right. White listing everything is the only real solution. Well, that and executing all violators in the streets.
Aren't you happy that we have music and movies to get us through the drudgery of our lives?
The real point is that hardware will eventually go the way of the appliance. When your Mac goes down you ship it off to Apple. When your future Audrey dies you toss it and get another. On paper this is much more economical as they won't have to pay for your heath, dental and retirement. Your $15/hour is a liability and their $5 million service contract isn't.
I'm not saying that I agree with this argument (though it will make everyone's stock go up) but when the dagger hits your heart it will look like this.
So it won't work even if the previous video is legal? I sure hope their EULA is tight.
From the description, it sounds like the machine gets some criticism it deserves buy how many people expect a cheap home OEM machine to have RAID out of the box? What next, bitch about the lack of tape drive?
Hey Mtv, 2001 called and it wants it's dour industry outlook back.
And the cycle of addiction continues.
While I won't disagree that Macs have fewer reported vulnerabilities than Windows this whole thing stinks of a cargo cult mentality. No magic OS is going to get rid of all of your security problems. We should also consider the fundamentals of security, not just a magic bullet.
A little old, but as I was saying: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0309/S00106.htm/
I'm sure that it has changed since then, but it was reported a few years ago that they were using MS Access MDBs. No, seriously.
A video assistant for the New England Patriots was video taping the hand signals that the NY Jets were using, essentially spying. Though it doesn't relate specifically to blogging, I can see why having bloggers hang around would make coaches, staff and players nervous.
http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N42/patriots.html/
Locally a similar story was making the news a few months back. University of South Carolina coach, Steve Spurrier complained that "Them internet boys" were blogging and forum posting about player performance during pre-season practice. The players were reading the posts and the coaching staff felt that it was affecting performance. They decided in turn to bar all non-staff and non-players from practice.
Also it can be viewed as a form of cheating much like the Patriots debacle earlier this year.
None of this smells right. Initially I thought, "Awesome, this will finally get the cartel chains off of radio". After sitting on it for a while I realized that this can only lead to one outcome, the (ultimate) death of independent radio.
We automatically assume that Clear Channel will fight this to the ground and it goes without saying that they certainly won't have any positive PR on it and the only thing we will hear are grumbles about Big Government.
Instead Clear Channel will go into a licensing agreement with the RIAA because both parties will make concessions for each other. Either fines will more or less be canceled out or the RIAA will set it at an very low rate. Both parties have too much to loose if Clear Channel gets hit hard as they are a source of guaranteed advertising. Instead the only ones who end up paying will be the independent mom and pop radio stations (all 8 of them). They will (obviously) go into bankruptcy and CC will quickly sweep in to buy them at a discount.
So when Duke 3D came out you threw out all of your old games and canceled your pro-order for Quake?
Actually this ink is the cheapest in the industry. The problem is the series of AirBus tickets necessary for shipping the ink in from the Mfg.