And specifically, if they're talking about business folks, as opposed to the IT guys, for example, then "stealing information" may include things like taking your client rolodex with you.
As an IT guy, I wouldn't want my rolodex, I'd just want to take my electronic porn stash with me. That's what I'd be telling the nice HR lady during my exit interview. "Trust me on this one. You don't want me to leave this stuff for someone else to find. "
In truth, Google is not a technology company. Really. HP, Sun, Oracle, Microsoft, Dell etc are technology companies: people pay them for products which are the fruits of research and development.
A technology company is not necessarily one that developed technology in the past. It's one that develops technology that it hopes to sell in the *future*.
Take for example HP. HP stopped being a technology company as soon as it stopped doing research. A company that is cannibalizing itself in the present, and not investing in its future -- is no longer a technology company (in my opinion).
The computers of Cat owners are also pretty disgusting (not to mention the fact that I'm allergic to cats). I think this should be the next target on Apple's hit list, if you own a cat and if you let it go near your computer -- then your warranty should be void.
Google is solving a problem that doesn't exist. I have yet to hear anyone ask to do all their computing through a web browser.
That's a silly assertion to make. Of course, no one does all their computing through a web browser, but almost everyone I know uses several devices for their computing needs (whereas those devices are calculators, smart-phones, TV/netflix appliances, gaming consoles, PCs, netbooks for the road, an extra PC for when relatives show up, etc.)
A netbook with Chrome OS might be the perfect device to have in the kitchen for instance, or it might be the perfect device to give a relative. Only time will tell.
Some authors argue that the music died the first time a professional recording of a performance was made (because as soon as that happened the game became all about getting your hands on the most perfect rendition of a particular performance. And most of the amateur populace which knew how to sing and play an instrument (just not perfectly) stopped playing as soon as this became the norm.).
In that case, like it is now, the music didn't die, it just changed. I suspect our music landscape will change again, that's all.
You meant, solar panels to power the strip mines. Solar cells are semiconductors. Semiconductors don't just require sand (silicon) and lots of energy. They also require many other elements, some of them very toxic, that require to be mined and refined (the refining process requiring lots of water and lots of energy itself).
the fact he is trying to state is that of the apps in the app store (more probably, the apps that they instrument), 60% of them have been pirated at least once.
Does this mean apps instrumented with Pinch are easier to pirate? How could that be?
In Asia, roughly 80% of the smart-phones are purchased unlocked. In the US, it's the opposite. Unlocked smart-phone buyers in the US are a minority. I wonder why that is? Better laws? Historical accident? More mature cell phone market (since their landlines are shit)? What is going in Asia that's not going on -- in here?
Correction: I should have said: "If the other service providers refused..." instead of "If AT&T refused...". Obviously, I made a mistake when I wrote that (but I hope you still got the main gist of what I was saying otherwise).
Apple did in fact approach the other carriers (IIRC), but they refused to put into their infrastructure the ability for the iPhone to download messages without the user having to dial up for them.
What infrastructure did it need? My unlocked Nokia phone already has been doing this easily with Google Voice on T-Mobile.
If AT&T refused to build infrastructure (as you claim), it was probably because it didn't feel like rebuilding the infrastructure to double-charge voice mails (voice mails left and voice mail verified). My provider T-Mobile didn't have to build infrastructure, and yet everything works perfectly fine. The only drawback is for the service provider/commissioned handset maker, because it means that my Google Voice mail uses Google's phone infrastructure plus my cell phone's unlimited data connection -- without costing me extra in any minutes (I'm not double-charged, I'm not even single-charged for this, also this means I can easily avoid overages -- because I can always let my "internet" voice mail pick up whenever I'm getting near my limit).
If someone was really being suspected of doing child porn or viewing child porn, shouldn't this be under some other Federal agency's purview? Personally, the cynic in me believes they're doing this through the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency precisely because Immigration and Customs is a special case and they can probably bend the rules of the constitution a little through that agency (just like they did, when they arrested the ACLU guy and tried to enforce the IRS regulations on him under the guise of passenger safety/counter terrorism).
We guys (not universally, but on average) are driven sexually by our five senses (esp. vision) more than anything else. Women OTOH are driven by far more factors, and look for these factors far sooner than guys do
My money is on Menbots. Men-bots are already here and already selling like hot cakes. They're big vibrators attached to plastic torsos. When you think about it, that's all a woman really needs (her imagination and her female friends can provide the rest).
For men, just give us bigger LCD screens. That's all we need. For me at least, my eyes always see bigger than my hands, and my perfect female sexual partner (even if in robotic/inflatable form) just couldn't be bound by any of the natural laws of Physical Science.
Pretty quickly I got the idea that whenever I check something into CVS, it gets re-checked by a really helpful girl there, richly decorated with comments.
Your writing sucks. Your statement implies that the "really helpful girl" was a figment of your imagination. Instead, you should have written: "Pretty quickly I found out that whenever I checked something into CVS, it got re-checked by..." It's not that you used the wrong grammar in this case, it's just that you dumped your stream of consciousness into a comment and you probably didn't even bother to proofread it afterward -- to see if it still made sense once it was on paper. Please next time, proofread your comments a little more.
Yep -- a meta tag with name="robots" and content="noindex" will (supposedly) cause Google to drop the page from its index. Once all the pages are gone from the index, robots.txt-blocking the crawlers will stop Google from keeping the URLs around as well.
Not quite. I believe it will remove the page from its cache, but it won't necessarily de-index all the urls it has.
Matt Cutts, the VP of Engineering at Google, says:
You might wonder why Google will sometimes return an uncrawled url reference, even if Googlebot was forbidden from crawling that url by a robots.txt file. There's a pretty good reason for that: back when I started at Google in 2000, several useful websites (eBay, the New York Times, the California DMV) had robots.txt files that forbade any page fetches whatsoever. Now I ask you, what are we supposed to return as a search result when someone does the query [california dmv]? We'd look pretty sad if we didn't return www.dmv.ca.gov as the first result.
That being said, Matt claims they get those urls and their descriptions from third party directories (which would agree with your theory). But personally, I do not think this is entirely true either, but unfortunately I can't really prove it. At some point, I thought Matt Cutts published some contradictory statements on his blog, saying that the googlebot did index blocked content (at least, in the background), but I just can't find those statements anymore and this was so long ago -- I can't actually be 100% sure that I'm remembering everything correctly in this case.
Perhaps, I should have said "You don't [undercover any fact that might embarrass] government officials, and you get to keep your job." Embarrassing government officials by making fun of their mannerism is free game of course.
You can slander the non-US Press if you like, but at least they told the truth about the rush to war in Iraq.
Sure, telling the truth about another country's colonial war, that was really courageous of them. If there is one reason France didn't want to get into Iraq, it was because of the Algerian war, and French children have been taught in-depth what happened there (from the terrorism in Paris, to the terrorist cell structures, and to the futile torture and terrorism that was perpetrated by both sides -- even our side -- of the conflict). So in that sense, the French press was only regurgitating what was already in the public's consciousness. And if France gets into post-colonial wars now, it tries to do it covertly and/or by proxy, just like in the Ivory Coast for example. The fact that the War in Iraq was such a public venture was a huge stumbling block for France.
Slander? That's a little bit much. I was only replying to the parent who claimed that France and Germany considered free speech a basic human right. Frankly, I think that's a bit of a projection. In France at least, since it's the country I'm most familiar with, there are many other basic human rights that take precedence over free speech, and it's just not as worshiped as highly as it is in the US (which is fine by me actually. As I've said already, I was just trying to correct the parent's extreme assertion on the matter).
In Germany and France, freedom of speech is a basic human right. Anyone -- citizen and non-citizen -- in Germany and France is entitled to freedom of speech.
Are you freaking kidding me? In France, you can't even wear a small catholic cross around your neck to a public school, unless it's well hidden under your shirt. And in both France and Germany, books like "Mein Kampf" and so-called nazi paraphernalia are banned (not that this does any good mind you, it only makes the extreme right feel more victimized and it drove that kind of market for that stuff underground).
And in France at least, there is an unspoken understanding between the press and the government. You don't say anything to embarrass government officials, and you get to keep your job. In France, the government has so much influence over every area of life, it make life very difficult if any of its citizen gets out of line. By the way, I know this because I'm French, I was born in France, and I've lived part of my life in France.
The short answer is "no." But by the very nature of asking if there is a stigma attached to something you're suggesting that there is.
I completely agree. For instance, people consider me a white collar developer and most people defer to me, but I don't have an actual four year degree (yes I know, I don't expect anyone to take my word for it -- that others would even defer to me).
But in my personal opinion at least (even if you don't believe it in my case), I'd say that this white collar and blue collar distinction is more about demeanor and behavior than anything else.
And no, I don't mean to imply that people should hide the fact that they don't have degrees. Personally, when asked, I'm quite upfront and unapologetic about that part. The only time I avoid this discussion is with HR people, but then again, in my personal opinion, the fastest way to get a technical job is to avoid the HR department, and go straight to the hiring manager (at least initially).
Google on the other hand however won't hire you unless you have a Masters or PhD.
I think this is a false rumor that is being spread by disgruntled business schools. The truth is that Google will take over companies, and keeps the technical staff -- degrees or no degree, but they will almost always let go of the marketing people and the MBAs (unless they worked on the technical side, or have a science/math degrees themselves).
So if your startup gets marketing 'help', or partners up with a VC firm, be very careful if getting acquired by Google is one of your longshot pipe dreams. Google views MBAs and VCs as parasites to be paid off and gotten rid of, and they won't consider your startup worth it if they consider the MBA infestation too high a price to pay for. And nowadays, many other technical companies are trying to follow that trend (if only to copy what Google is doing). That being said, there are exceptions of course, so take even what I've said with a grain of salt.
Federal laws, like all federal works, are public domain.
But that does not prevent some people trying to charge insane amounts of money for them.
For instance, some lawyers will sucker prospective immigrants (even English-speaking immigrants) into paying anywhere from $200 to thousands of dollars for getting enrolled in the US green card lottery, when the application form for the US lottery itself is completely free and available almost everywhere (in all the US consulates and also available online as a PDF), and the lawyer has no special powers to make the application go any faster, or make your chances any higher.
The same goes for the fake "public announcements" advertisements on TV that ask you to call an 800 number, and then ask you to pay them money to send you a 'free' listing of government auctions going on in your area. The fact is, whether it's a government, an estate attorney, or even a bank that repossessed properties, all those entities want you to attend their auctions. You just have to give them a call, and they'll be glad to tell you where their next auction is going to be (without charging you a cent for that information).
I don't have all the answers for you, but at least try not use shareware. Try to use freeware if you can help it. For instance, WinZip used to be good may be ten years ago, but now there are many much better, and easier to use, freeware alternatives (thought, out of all those candidates, you'll have to read their licenses to make sure the one you select is pure freeware. These days, there are many shareware programs that falsely advertise themselves as freeware).
It looks like a solution looking for a problem. It wouldn't be the first time this happened. As for me, I'm not worried, I'll keep on using my birthday as my four-digit pin number for my pacemaker, thank you very much!
Simple. Do not call your web site goatse, or geocities. If someone registers that domain name, because he's too young to remember, or whatever... He'll figure out pretty quickly that things don't work for him, so he'll pick a different domain name, like goatsrus, geotowns, geomegacities, or whatever.
Frankly, I think that there are more pressing problems to think about.
Is this the part that made you think of 'extortion'?
The post then continues with references to the boy's "mommy," saying that statements made by her son may cause her political problems after her election, according to court records.
Personally, I took it to mean that the kid shouldn't make physical threats to perfect strangers on a bulletin board, otherwise that may embarrass the kid's mother politically.
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As an IT guy, I wouldn't want my rolodex, I'd just want to take my electronic porn stash with me. That's what I'd be telling the nice HR lady during my exit interview. "Trust me on this one. You don't want me to leave this stuff for someone else to find. "
A technology company is not necessarily one that developed technology in the past. It's one that develops technology that it hopes to sell in the *future*.
Take for example HP. HP stopped being a technology company as soon as it stopped doing research. A company that is cannibalizing itself in the present, and not investing in its future -- is no longer a technology company (in my opinion).
The computers of Cat owners are also pretty disgusting (not to mention the fact that I'm allergic to cats). I think this should be the next target on Apple's hit list, if you own a cat and if you let it go near your computer -- then your warranty should be void.
That's a silly assertion to make. Of course, no one does all their computing through a web browser, but almost everyone I know uses several devices for their computing needs (whereas those devices are calculators, smart-phones, TV/netflix appliances, gaming consoles, PCs, netbooks for the road, an extra PC for when relatives show up, etc.)
A netbook with Chrome OS might be the perfect device to have in the kitchen for instance, or it might be the perfect device to give a relative. Only time will tell.
Some authors argue that the music died the first time a professional recording of a performance was made (because as soon as that happened the game became all about getting your hands on the most perfect rendition of a particular performance. And most of the amateur populace which knew how to sing and play an instrument (just not perfectly) stopped playing as soon as this became the norm.). In that case, like it is now, the music didn't die, it just changed. I suspect our music landscape will change again, that's all.
You meant, solar panels to power the strip mines. Solar cells are semiconductors. Semiconductors don't just require sand (silicon) and lots of energy. They also require many other elements, some of them very toxic, that require to be mined and refined (the refining process requiring lots of water and lots of energy itself).
Does this mean apps instrumented with Pinch are easier to pirate? How could that be?
In Asia, roughly 80% of the smart-phones are purchased unlocked. In the US, it's the opposite. Unlocked smart-phone buyers in the US are a minority. I wonder why that is? Better laws? Historical accident? More mature cell phone market (since their landlines are shit)? What is going in Asia that's not going on -- in here?
Correction: I should have said: "If the other service providers refused..." instead of "If AT&T refused...". Obviously, I made a mistake when I wrote that (but I hope you still got the main gist of what I was saying otherwise).
What infrastructure did it need? My unlocked Nokia phone already has been doing this easily with Google Voice on T-Mobile.
If AT&T refused to build infrastructure (as you claim), it was probably because it didn't feel like rebuilding the infrastructure to double-charge voice mails (voice mails left and voice mail verified). My provider T-Mobile didn't have to build infrastructure, and yet everything works perfectly fine. The only drawback is for the service provider/commissioned handset maker, because it means that my Google Voice mail uses Google's phone infrastructure plus my cell phone's unlimited data connection -- without costing me extra in any minutes (I'm not double-charged, I'm not even single-charged for this, also this means I can easily avoid overages -- because I can always let my "internet" voice mail pick up whenever I'm getting near my limit).
Hopefully, tomorrow's snapshot of the same article will be better.
Mine certainly wants to be. Do you have a sister by any chance?
If someone was really being suspected of doing child porn or viewing child porn, shouldn't this be under some other Federal agency's purview? Personally, the cynic in me believes they're doing this through the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency precisely because Immigration and Customs is a special case and they can probably bend the rules of the constitution a little through that agency (just like they did, when they arrested the ACLU guy and tried to enforce the IRS regulations on him under the guise of passenger safety/counter terrorism).
My money is on Menbots. Men-bots are already here and already selling like hot cakes. They're big vibrators attached to plastic torsos. When you think about it, that's all a woman really needs (her imagination and her female friends can provide the rest). For men, just give us bigger LCD screens. That's all we need. For me at least, my eyes always see bigger than my hands, and my perfect female sexual partner (even if in robotic/inflatable form) just couldn't be bound by any of the natural laws of Physical Science.
Your writing sucks. Your statement implies that the "really helpful girl" was a figment of your imagination. Instead, you should have written: "Pretty quickly I found out that whenever I checked something into CVS, it got re-checked by..." It's not that you used the wrong grammar in this case, it's just that you dumped your stream of consciousness into a comment and you probably didn't even bother to proofread it afterward -- to see if it still made sense once it was on paper. Please next time, proofread your comments a little more.
Not quite. I believe it will remove the page from its cache, but it won't necessarily de-index all the urls it has.
Matt Cutts, the VP of Engineering at Google, says:
That being said, Matt claims they get those urls and their descriptions from third party directories (which would agree with your theory). But personally, I do not think this is entirely true either, but unfortunately I can't really prove it. At some point, I thought Matt Cutts published some contradictory statements on his blog, saying that the googlebot did index blocked content (at least, in the background), but I just can't find those statements anymore and this was so long ago -- I can't actually be 100% sure that I'm remembering everything correctly in this case.
Perhaps, I should have said "You don't [undercover any fact that might embarrass] government officials, and you get to keep your job." Embarrassing government officials by making fun of their mannerism is free game of course.
Sure, telling the truth about another country's colonial war, that was really courageous of them. If there is one reason France didn't want to get into Iraq, it was because of the Algerian war, and French children have been taught in-depth what happened there (from the terrorism in Paris, to the terrorist cell structures, and to the futile torture and terrorism that was perpetrated by both sides -- even our side -- of the conflict). So in that sense, the French press was only regurgitating what was already in the public's consciousness. And if France gets into post-colonial wars now, it tries to do it covertly and/or by proxy, just like in the Ivory Coast for example. The fact that the War in Iraq was such a public venture was a huge stumbling block for France.
Slander? That's a little bit much. I was only replying to the parent who claimed that France and Germany considered free speech a basic human right. Frankly, I think that's a bit of a projection. In France at least, since it's the country I'm most familiar with, there are many other basic human rights that take precedence over free speech, and it's just not as worshiped as highly as it is in the US (which is fine by me actually. As I've said already, I was just trying to correct the parent's extreme assertion on the matter).
Are you freaking kidding me? In France, you can't even wear a small catholic cross around your neck to a public school, unless it's well hidden under your shirt. And in both France and Germany, books like "Mein Kampf" and so-called nazi paraphernalia are banned (not that this does any good mind you, it only makes the extreme right feel more victimized and it drove that kind of market for that stuff underground).
And in France at least, there is an unspoken understanding between the press and the government. You don't say anything to embarrass government officials, and you get to keep your job. In France, the government has so much influence over every area of life, it make life very difficult if any of its citizen gets out of line. By the way, I know this because I'm French, I was born in France, and I've lived part of my life in France.
I completely agree. For instance, people consider me a white collar developer and most people defer to me, but I don't have an actual four year degree (yes I know, I don't expect anyone to take my word for it -- that others would even defer to me).
But in my personal opinion at least (even if you don't believe it in my case), I'd say that this white collar and blue collar distinction is more about demeanor and behavior than anything else.
And no, I don't mean to imply that people should hide the fact that they don't have degrees. Personally, when asked, I'm quite upfront and unapologetic about that part. The only time I avoid this discussion is with HR people, but then again, in my personal opinion, the fastest way to get a technical job is to avoid the HR department, and go straight to the hiring manager (at least initially).
I think this is a false rumor that is being spread by disgruntled business schools. The truth is that Google will take over companies, and keeps the technical staff -- degrees or no degree, but they will almost always let go of the marketing people and the MBAs (unless they worked on the technical side, or have a science/math degrees themselves).
So if your startup gets marketing 'help', or partners up with a VC firm, be very careful if getting acquired by Google is one of your longshot pipe dreams. Google views MBAs and VCs as parasites to be paid off and gotten rid of, and they won't consider your startup worth it if they consider the MBA infestation too high a price to pay for. And nowadays, many other technical companies are trying to follow that trend (if only to copy what Google is doing). That being said, there are exceptions of course, so take even what I've said with a grain of salt.
But that does not prevent some people trying to charge insane amounts of money for them.
For instance, some lawyers will sucker prospective immigrants (even English-speaking immigrants) into paying anywhere from $200 to thousands of dollars for getting enrolled in the US green card lottery, when the application form for the US lottery itself is completely free and available almost everywhere (in all the US consulates and also available online as a PDF), and the lawyer has no special powers to make the application go any faster, or make your chances any higher.
The same goes for the fake "public announcements" advertisements on TV that ask you to call an 800 number, and then ask you to pay them money to send you a 'free' listing of government auctions going on in your area. The fact is, whether it's a government, an estate attorney, or even a bank that repossessed properties, all those entities want you to attend their auctions. You just have to give them a call, and they'll be glad to tell you where their next auction is going to be (without charging you a cent for that information).
I don't have all the answers for you, but at least try not use shareware. Try to use freeware if you can help it. For instance, WinZip used to be good may be ten years ago, but now there are many much better, and easier to use, freeware alternatives (thought, out of all those candidates, you'll have to read their licenses to make sure the one you select is pure freeware. These days, there are many shareware programs that falsely advertise themselves as freeware).
It looks like a solution looking for a problem. It wouldn't be the first time this happened. As for me, I'm not worried, I'll keep on using my birthday as my four-digit pin number for my pacemaker, thank you very much!
Simple. Do not call your web site goatse, or geocities. If someone registers that domain name, because he's too young to remember, or whatever... He'll figure out pretty quickly that things don't work for him, so he'll pick a different domain name, like goatsrus, geotowns, geomegacities, or whatever.
Frankly, I think that there are more pressing problems to think about.
Is this the part that made you think of 'extortion'?
Personally, I took it to mean that the kid shouldn't make physical threats to perfect strangers on a bulletin board, otherwise that may embarrass the kid's mother politically.