No one said it is, actually I don't think I said anything about perfection. Facebook is one of the largest apps in the world, you don't think the problems they face can be informative to some of Slashdot's readership?
The problem I have is with the blanket statement that there doesn't exist any reasonable expectation of privacy.
Legally, you only have an expectation of privacy if you are keeping something private - if you share it with anyone, it's not private anymore. There is no "private except for this bunch of people", the legal system isn't some minutely customizable panel of privacy settings.
Think of how you'd react if one of your friends publicly distributed online but restricted-access pictures of your children without your permission and then tell me there's no reasonable expectation of privacy.
That's precisely the idea - once you give those pictures to your friends, you no longer have an expectation of privacy because they could, at any time, distribute them further without your permission.
Yes, it's not enough to just claim that something is private, you have to actually treat it as private.
Who cares if it's down even for a day. Just talk about your pointless activities twice as long the next day.
Well, we care because as one of the largest sites, they are expected to have their shit together. So when they don't, it's interesting to see what happened.
It's professional interest, it's not that I'm worried that people couldn't plant their snow peas for two hours, or whatever.
Then there are truck drivers and delivery workers whose annual total must be closer to a couple thousand hours per year (i.e. basically their whole life).
Yes, I'm sure truck drivers will be ecstatic to finally be out of a job.
Shouldn't they first figure out what part of that is inventive and non-obvious? It seems that tiny step is always drowned out in the clamor for "prior art".
I can't imagine that any person of moderate intelligence, given the task "come up with a make-your-own-adventure movie scheme", would fail to produce all of those "inventions" within about 15 minutes.
I always wondered why they added the "ot" at the end of his name, though.
At least according to Beckett, that's a specious interpretation of the meaning of the character's name. Especially considering that the play was written in French.
If you adapt too much, then the player won't feel challenges anymore.
Depends on how you adapt. I remember Wizardry 8 scaled the difficulty of every (unscripted) encounter such that it was an all out fight for survival, leaving your whole party barely hanging on in the end (and there were a lot of random encounters). Even when you went way back to beginning areas, you would get your ass kicked over and over again.
When you buy a car, it has the manufacturer's logo, possibly a hood ornament, the type of car (sunbird, tempo, Ranger), the model of the car (SX,ZX,whatever). Also you get the dealership slapping their name on it too.
Most laptops have the manufacturer's name, logo, and the laptop model somewhere on the body, not as stickers. The self-promotional crap that the dealers stick on is most similar to the annoying "Some Bullshit Inside" stickers that cover the palm rest area.
Anyway, I've found they are relatively easy to remove off of Lenovos.
Time travel leads to Parallel universes that make paradox not happen in the one you left.... in the movies.
I love how comfortable people have gotten with throwing around phrases like "parallel universes" as if they are discussing something even remotely meaningful.
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This might be a great opportunity to edit Jar Jar
You're right, they probably will take this opportunity to add more Jar Jar scenes, after all, the kids love him!
Facebook is not going to be perfect ...
No one said it is, actually I don't think I said anything about perfection. Facebook is one of the largest apps in the world, you don't think the problems they face can be informative to some of Slashdot's readership?
The problem I have is with the blanket statement that there doesn't exist any reasonable expectation of privacy.
Legally, you only have an expectation of privacy if you are keeping something private - if you share it with anyone, it's not private anymore. There is no "private except for this bunch of people", the legal system isn't some minutely customizable panel of privacy settings.
Think of how you'd react if one of your friends publicly distributed online but restricted-access pictures of your children without your permission and then tell me there's no reasonable expectation of privacy.
That's precisely the idea - once you give those pictures to your friends, you no longer have an expectation of privacy because they could, at any time, distribute them further without your permission.
Yes, it's not enough to just claim that something is private, you have to actually treat it as private.
Who cares if it's down even for a day. Just talk about your pointless activities twice as long the next day.
Well, we care because as one of the largest sites, they are expected to have their shit together. So when they don't, it's interesting to see what happened.
It's professional interest, it's not that I'm worried that people couldn't plant their snow peas for two hours, or whatever.
So, how did they rank the entries?
Canada ............. 10
Yeah, but that's like 1 for every 10 Canadians.
I take it "adults" here is defined as 18-30? With everyone older going into the "Eww, gross!" category.
There's just no way that all adults average out to 10 messages a day.
Then there are truck drivers and delivery workers whose annual total must be closer to a couple thousand hours per year (i.e. basically their whole life).
Yes, I'm sure truck drivers will be ecstatic to finally be out of a job.
Can you point to a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM or BD-ROM drive that can read my CD-ROMs faster than 72x?
You're right, come to think of it, there haven't been any major advancements in the speed of floppy and ZIP drives, either!
That was the the parent's point: instead of trying to spin CDs faster, we went to DVDs and then BDs (about 4 times faster than a 72X CD).
How much faster are CPUs now?
Considerably. While mostly not relying on increases in clock speed. That was the point.
People who like to surf the information superhighway?
That's where to start looking for prior art.
Shouldn't they first figure out what part of that is inventive and non-obvious? It seems that tiny step is always drowned out in the clamor for "prior art".
I can't imagine that any person of moderate intelligence, given the task "come up with a make-your-own-adventure movie scheme", would fail to produce all of those "inventions" within about 15 minutes.
A geek can cover 99% of their bases scanning boingboing, slashdot, digg, fark and google news in about 15 minutes
Um, yeah, and I do that from Google Reader, using their RSS feeds.
I always wondered why they added the "ot" at the end of his name, though.
At least according to Beckett, that's a specious interpretation of the meaning of the character's name. Especially considering that the play was written in French.
Well, OK, I at least managed the "tanks in the front" bit.
If you adapt too much, then the player won't feel challenges anymore.
Depends on how you adapt. I remember Wizardry 8 scaled the difficulty of every (unscripted) encounter such that it was an all out fight for survival, leaving your whole party barely hanging on in the end (and there were a lot of random encounters). Even when you went way back to beginning areas, you would get your ass kicked over and over again.
Actually, that got annoying pretty quickly, too.
(then again, maybe I was just crap at it)
When you buy a car, it has the manufacturer's logo, possibly a hood ornament, the type of car (sunbird, tempo, Ranger), the model of the car (SX,ZX,whatever). Also you get the dealership slapping their name on it too.
Most laptops have the manufacturer's name, logo, and the laptop model somewhere on the body, not as stickers. The self-promotional crap that the dealers stick on is most similar to the annoying "Some Bullshit Inside" stickers that cover the palm rest area.
Anyway, I've found they are relatively easy to remove off of Lenovos.
Anyone else?
It's still not too late to jump in there with an awesome joke!
Assuming they got writers that can write an ending.
Or a middle...
Apparently the company itself did not have a life-time warranty.
Sure they did - it just ran out.
Marketing BS.
And it's probably not important for the car, either - I'm pretty sure a car can't actually burn more gas to power something electrical.
Well fuck you too, then.
The image is slightly obfuscated by the web page dis-allowing right clicks. Good going, guys. Security by obscurity for the Win.
That's not so much security by obscurity as it is security by futility.
Time travel leads to Parallel universes that make paradox not happen in the one you left. ... in the movies.
I love how comfortable people have gotten with throwing around phrases like "parallel universes" as if they are discussing something even remotely meaningful.
Uh, no. 30,000 m^2 = 30 km^2.
Try again, smart guy.
Apple wants Flash dead.
Huh, for once Apple and I agree on something.