its funny how the uber wealthy have advice like 'its not about the money', 'take risks' ' you can always start over' 'the economy isn't that bad' etc etc.
Sure, they made it and we didn't, but it does taint their objectiveness to towards the real world.
Is that even a so called 'clean room' implementation does not mean you haven't violated one ( or more ). It might protect you from copyright problems pretty well however.
Not a whole lot if you are paying for service and have it from a company with a reasonable TOS.
Remember this stuff from Google is free, at their whim. Sure, like most of the connected world, i use some of their services too but not for anything critical. For THAT i pay hosting fees and do it myself there.
The biggest issue is that once someone creates a G+ account, all their existing Google content comes under that account, thus a suspension of the G+ account means goodbye to gmail, YouTube, blogger, Calendar and so on.. all content is disabled and it's almost impossible to get it back (unless you are a celebrity or your story gets published in media).
Sort of hurts people with an android phone ( or tablet ) too..
his statement that about "soon he will..." i think is ok as that is just a abstract prediction of the future. Even "he should be" while in poor taste is still just expressing a feeling..not a direct request to incite action.
"lets go and do this", i think crosses the line, regardless of who the intended target is.
I know paypal is a private company and can do business with anyone they please, or not do business... But still, f-em for trying to impose their concepts of morality on their customers.
If they want to ban *convicted* criminals, sure.. but *suspected*.. they can kiss my business good bye.
I stand by my statement. that *information* should always be free and not be used as a tool to control people. You can charge a nominal fee for the distribution device.. ( such as a printed book )
And if this 'somebody' wants to disagree to my face, that is their right, even tho i could care less.
You forget about applications and OS's coming on floppies. Email doesn't impact that at all.
It was a combination of affordable CD writers and flash that has mostly killed off the floppy ( and i would argue that its not dead yet.. but yes, its damned close )
If every PC you hit has network access, does it matter? Store your data ( and config too ) back at your office. If the PC doesn't have network access, its going to be sort of a moot point anyway in most cases.
Honestly, I can't understand why anyone continues to use Oracle products any more than is absolutely necessary
Because most *companies* don't care about their practices in acquiring resources, they worry about the cost and support and performance of what they buy. For the most part only the fringe ( me included, not casting stones ) worry about that part, and our purchases don't make or break a company like Oracle.
Of course we can debate if Oracle provides any of those, but that isn't my point here:)
Remember, that as a *suspect* you can be scanned, cataloged and the records kept forever, even if its found that you have no part of the crime being investigated.
Of cousre it could be a piece of evidence to be included with others, I'm just saying that your phone being somewhere alone it doesn't prove a thing. it might imply, but its not *proof*.
On a slightly more somber note, I can't imagine what kind of monster computer these guys have. Seriously, what would YOU do with their computers if you were contracting for them and had access to them for a few hours. I would find a list of women who like middle aged fat guys. Make some serious raytraced animated porn? Or would you submit your "mind simulator" into it and see if you create a singularity? I think therefor I am? Or just get everyone in the building to get on a terminal and see what game everyone could play at once? Everyone log into WoW, make gnomes and storm Ironforge to be epically annoying?
Dont worry, you will never find out. They take their job seriously.
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I'm sure the equipment to do this is.
its funny how the uber wealthy have advice like 'its not about the money', 'take risks' ' you can always start over' 'the economy isn't that bad' etc etc.
Sure, they made it and we didn't, but it does taint their objectiveness to towards the real world.
Is that even a so called 'clean room' implementation does not mean you haven't violated one ( or more ). It might protect you from copyright problems pretty well however.
If you use it for a real medical issue and hurt yourself, its your own damned fault.
I can see an 'app czar' coming soon :(
Not a whole lot if you are paying for service and have it from a company with a reasonable TOS.
Remember this stuff from Google is free, at their whim. Sure, like most of the connected world, i use some of their services too but not for anything critical. For THAT i pay hosting fees and do it myself there.
The biggest issue is that once someone creates a G+ account, all their existing Google content comes under that account, thus a suspension of the G+ account means goodbye to gmail, YouTube, blogger, Calendar and so on.. all content is disabled and it's almost impossible to get it back (unless you are a celebrity or your story gets published in media).
Sort of hurts people with an android phone ( or tablet ) too..
Make that penalty, not personality.. Grrrr!
So you don't approve of their evil privacy violating TOS in one app, your personality is applied to all services?
Good luck keeping business with that attitude. Normally companies don't try pulling stunts like that until after they have eradicated the competition.
Don't get me wrong, i do like Google, but this is way out of line. ( so is the original TOS )
his statement that about "soon he will..." i think is ok as that is just a abstract prediction of the future. Even "he should be" while in poor taste is still just expressing a feeling..not a direct request to incite action.
"lets go and do this", i think crosses the line, regardless of who the intended target is.
They aggravate us with a tendency to get those, which is all i need to know to avoid them.
And yes, i unfortunately did try it with one 3d movie. Never, ever again.
As long as this stuff is happening ( and being driven by ) in the private sector, there is no requirement of proof.
I know paypal is a private company and can do business with anyone they please, or not do business... But still, f-em for trying to impose their concepts of morality on their customers.
If they want to ban *convicted* criminals, sure.. but *suspected*.. they can kiss my business good bye.
I stand by my statement. that *information* should always be free and not be used as a tool to control people. You can charge a nominal fee for the distribution device.. ( such as a printed book )
And if this 'somebody' wants to disagree to my face, that is their right, even tho i could care less.
it is somehow immoral to charge $8 to fetch an out-of-copyright article
No its immoral to charge anything for any bit of information.
You forget about applications and OS's coming on floppies. Email doesn't impact that at all.
It was a combination of affordable CD writers and flash that has mostly killed off the floppy ( and i would argue that its not dead yet.. but yes, its damned close )
If every PC you hit has network access, does it matter? Store your data ( and config too ) back at your office. If the PC doesn't have network access, its going to be sort of a moot point anyway in most cases.
The environment that it offers should be largely resistant....
And it seems they also understand this.. They didn't say 100%.
Honestly, I can't understand why anyone continues to use Oracle products any more than is absolutely necessary
Because most *companies* don't care about their practices in acquiring resources, they worry about the cost and support and performance of what they buy. For the most part only the fringe ( me included, not casting stones ) worry about that part, and our purchases don't make or break a company like Oracle.
Of course we can debate if Oracle provides any of those, but that isn't my point here :)
Umm a few years ago...
Remember, that as a *suspect* you can be scanned, cataloged and the records kept forever, even if its found that you have no part of the crime being investigated.
Its not just criminals.
Realistically its almost impossible to calculate the payoffs from raw science and entities like NASA that do it.
its so huge and pervasive.
Of cousre it could be a piece of evidence to be included with others, I'm just saying that your phone being somewhere alone it doesn't prove a thing. it might imply, but its not *proof*.
it shows your phone was at the scene, it doesn't prove YOU were.
On a slightly more somber note, I can't imagine what kind of monster computer these guys have. Seriously, what would YOU do with their computers if you were contracting for them and had access to them for a few hours. I would find a list of women who like middle aged fat guys. Make some serious raytraced animated porn? Or would you submit your "mind simulator" into it and see if you create a singularity? I think therefor I am? Or just get everyone in the building to get on a terminal and see what game everyone could play at once? Everyone log into WoW, make gnomes and storm Ironforge to be epically annoying?
Dont worry, you will never find out. They take their job seriously.