it would be an odd harvesting program that relies on "security holes." and odd if either borders or yahoo had a hole big enough to snag email lists by automatic means that would go undetected or unpatched. harvesting programs scour the visible web and usenet like spiders. the harvesting program story was a lie or the incomplete truth (i.e., they use a harvesting program AND they buy email lists).
and everybody has experience with craftily hidden opt-out check boxes on lengthy web forms (like the ones that will reappear checked every time you try to change a "user profile").
these things do not matter.
as a previous reply alluded, i give out misspellings of my name anytime i join a commercial program that requires a mailing address (frequent flyer, grocery store discount card, etc.). if i actually need an accurate spelling for some purpose, i will call back and correct. but the point is, i always know who my junk mail is coming from. and it doesn't matter what any company's privacy policy is, they all will sell your name and address if they can get. corporations are liars. we need to get that through our heads.
i usually cut a new email address for each commercial transaction i perform on the web, and keep it long enough to finish the transaction. then it becomes bounce city. a reasonable isp will offer x number of email addys you can change at will. this is the best protection an isp can give against spam. but it doesn't matter how brief the transaction is, or how thorough i am with the opt-outs, before i can rename the account, there's a flood of spam. transaction with my bank? get spam. power company? get spam. telco? get spam.
corporations are liars. they lie to reporters. they lie to you. they'll lie about anything at anytime. understand this. corporations lie. when they post their privacy policies, they lie. and they can be caught red handed in a lie, and they will still lie.
and the ftc could stop privacy policy fraud anytime they wanted. it's pretty simple to gather the evidence, as even a reporter can show.
i've got it. it's so obvious. invest in a technology which will return aimlessly collected student fees to students. you know, something like a real 'backbone'.
please try not to be such an idiot. i can can tell you from first hand experience, temp companies hire h1b's in large lots, usually 10+ per application, and have staff attorneys on payroll anyway at no added expense. they are -not- transferable between jobs. they do hold passports. and no matter what any law says, they do pay far less, no matter that it's "far more" than what can be made at home, dragging down everyone, not to mention that they fake the inability to fill "special skills," not that i've seen many with any special skills. the temp companies make their money pushing warm bodies, skills or no. it's your ignorance is that is obviously being groomed for management. you have all the qualifications - incompetent, opinionated, eyes closed tightly, and an easily imitated writing style of no substance. all you lack is a top hat and monocle. crimony.
i know i'm responding to a typical/. ac comment, but honestly sometimes i don't know how anyone can be that ignorant and still have the skill to click on "submit." unless a trustafarian, no one has the freedom not to work. and, excuse me, but all companies in this country, at least well over enough to control the work supply, are "like this." ergo, unless pension fund backrupting venture capital is falling our of the sky on your particular head, the only "freedom" the overwhelming majority have is to, yes, work for a company "like this." sheesh.
thanks to bedouin for weighing in to offset this absolute troll of a katz article. that a bhd review, especially one so jingoist, is even posted here goes a long way towards explaining many attitudes encountered on/. (like the worshipful comments concerning the flamebait review, brave new world of work, last week). what's next? david duke becomes/. moderator?
very bizarre that so many have taken the phrase "post-9/11" out of context from bedouin's comment to connote a straw man conspiracy. i believe this sort of "rational" canard was skewered pretty well over 20 years ago in bertram gross's friendly fascism.
in a 'public place' this past friday night, talking with new acquaintance about enron. overheard by young lady who interrupts, "my dad was in washington this week to see cheney and rumsfield." oh, what for? "they wanted to congratulate him on his new movie." huh, what's that? "blackhawk down."
Experience should teach one to stay far away from people who need estimates for how long it should take to perform anything other than cookie cutter projects. Estimates are good for things like building houses and highways.
It's only natural that managerial types should love ill-fitting 'reusable' components and questionable 'web service' providers. It makes programming seem more like home building or highway construction. But, of course, there's little to no programming going on there. More like pipe fitting. The logic is people familiar with making pipes should of course be good pipe fitters.
Infrastructure eventually trumps superstructure every time.
for some "what happened?" perspective and invective from other former wired writers, including notes on the takeover by conde nast, see the current issue of the baffler, entitled the god that sucked. much more confessional, less apologetic. sorry, the baffler is not an electronic publication.
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it would be an odd harvesting program that relies on "security holes." and odd if either borders or yahoo had a hole big enough to snag email lists by automatic means that would go undetected or unpatched. harvesting programs scour the visible web and usenet like spiders. the harvesting program story was a lie or the incomplete truth (i.e., they use a harvesting program AND they buy email lists).
and everybody has experience with craftily hidden opt-out check boxes on lengthy web forms (like the ones that will reappear checked every time you try to change a "user profile").
these things do not matter.
as a previous reply alluded, i give out misspellings of my name anytime i join a commercial program that requires a mailing address (frequent flyer, grocery store discount card, etc.). if i actually need an accurate spelling for some purpose, i will call back and correct. but the point is, i always know who my junk mail is coming from. and it doesn't matter what any company's privacy policy is, they all will sell your name and address if they can get. corporations are liars. we need to get that through our heads.
i usually cut a new email address for each commercial transaction i perform on the web, and keep it long enough to finish the transaction. then it becomes bounce city. a reasonable isp will offer x number of email addys you can change at will. this is the best protection an isp can give against spam. but it doesn't matter how brief the transaction is, or how thorough i am with the opt-outs, before i can rename the account, there's a flood of spam. transaction with my bank? get spam. power company? get spam. telco? get spam.
corporations are liars. they lie to reporters. they lie to you. they'll lie about anything at anytime. understand this. corporations lie. when they post their privacy policies, they lie. and they can be caught red handed in a lie, and they will still lie.
and the ftc could stop privacy policy fraud anytime they wanted. it's pretty simple to gather the evidence, as even a reporter can show.
the only was m$ can move xp units is to preload the oem version, but they're already cooking the successor to the successor? that's innovative!
i've got it. it's so obvious. invest in a technology which will return aimlessly collected student fees to students. you know, something like a real 'backbone'.
please try not to be such an idiot. i can can tell you from first hand experience, temp companies hire h1b's in large lots, usually 10+ per application, and have staff attorneys on payroll anyway at no added expense. they are -not- transferable between jobs. they do hold passports. and no matter what any law says, they do pay far less, no matter that it's "far more" than what can be made at home, dragging down everyone, not to mention that they fake the inability to fill "special skills," not that i've seen many with any special skills. the temp companies make their money pushing warm bodies, skills or no. it's your ignorance is that is obviously being groomed for management. you have all the qualifications - incompetent, opinionated, eyes closed tightly, and an easily imitated writing style of no substance. all you lack is a top hat and monocle. crimony.
i know i'm responding to a typical /. ac comment, but honestly sometimes i don't know how anyone can be that ignorant and still have the skill to click on "submit." unless a trustafarian, no one has the freedom not to work. and, excuse me, but all companies in this country, at least well over enough to control the work supply, are "like this." ergo, unless pension fund backrupting venture capital is falling our of the sky on your particular head, the only "freedom" the overwhelming majority have is to, yes, work for a company "like this." sheesh.
very bizarre that so many have taken the phrase "post-9/11" out of context from bedouin's comment to connote a straw man conspiracy. i believe this sort of "rational" canard was skewered pretty well over 20 years ago in bertram gross's friendly fascism .
in a 'public place' this past friday night, talking with new acquaintance about enron. overheard by young lady who interrupts, "my dad was in washington this week to see cheney and rumsfield." oh, what for? "they wanted to congratulate him on his new movie." huh, what's that? "blackhawk down."
yow.
indeed. technotopians bite. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12232
It's only natural that managerial types should love ill-fitting 'reusable' components and questionable 'web service' providers. It makes programming seem more like home building or highway construction. But, of course, there's little to no programming going on there. More like pipe fitting. The logic is people familiar with making pipes should of course be good pipe fitters.
Infrastructure eventually trumps superstructure every time.
for some "what happened?" perspective and invective from other former wired writers, including notes on the takeover by conde nast, see the current issue of the baffler, entitled the god that sucked. much more confessional, less apologetic. sorry, the baffler is not an electronic publication.