I have to agree that this "new feature" will probably add yet another layer of complexity and potential instability to an already cluttered interface. YM pulls in so much crap from other Yahoo! services (calendar, ads, weather, tickers, etc. etc...) that its load time lags GMail's -- sometimes dramatically. I've even had the "new" YM freeze completely in the middle of so many calls.
They should scale back the add-ins and gee-whiz features and concentrate on real improvements like they did with the faceted browse of search results. Now that's useful and it mirrors functionality that already exists on many e-commerce sites.
Got to this/. post via Bloglines, so I decided to try the Conquery-Google extension http://conquery.mozdev.org/plugins.html on the Slate article title instead of linking back via/.
Conquery didn't match any documents. Modified the search to [ "filtered future" site:slate.com ]. Still nothing on Google.
Hmmm. Have they just not crawled it yet, or are they avoiding an unpleasant truth? Ah. There's exactly 1 link from the search on Google News; but its not back to the Slate site. Again, hmmm.
- InfoGeek
Gawdalmighty. I guess I'm smiling while the MIB food profiles (love that) me and we slide down the slippery slope to the People Republik of Amerika.
If the F3I, N5A, etc. didn't have the wetware skills to catch on to the blips raised by the 9/11 gang in their existing systems, then their attempts to do anything with some pre-h0s3d, massive data archive is going to be a dismal, time-wasting failure. _Thats_ why I'm not worried about being food profiled.
What does pi55 me off more than mining my grocery data is Uncle Sugar's predisposition to burrow deeper into our privacy and throw more SIGINT and software at terrorism when they don't know what to do with what they've already got, fr'chrissakes.
This story only rates a 1 on my BlackHelicopter scale.
LMAO. Please.
I'm supposed to be worried by this? Loyalty card programs have been around a while and have become infamous for generating huge heaps of useless data. Two years ago Safeway in Great Britain dropped its program because "We were collecting an awful lot of data that didn't mean anything".(WSJ, 6/19/02).
Now some marketing drone has foisted what is quite likely an equally worthless heap of data onto the Feds. Am I supposed to be worried that they'll be any better at data mining? I'm more worried about what they'll miss while they're wasting my tax dollars writing code to find out who bought falafel with their Pampers.
Don't call EFF. Call John Stossel and Citizens Against Government Waste (http://www.cagw.org)
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I have to agree that this "new feature" will probably add yet another layer of complexity and potential instability to an already cluttered interface. YM pulls in so much crap from other Yahoo! services (calendar, ads, weather, tickers, etc. etc...) that its load time lags GMail's -- sometimes dramatically. I've even had the "new" YM freeze completely in the middle of so many calls.
They should scale back the add-ins and gee-whiz features and concentrate on real improvements like they did with the faceted browse of search results. Now that's useful and it mirrors functionality that already exists on many e-commerce sites.
More pipes do not make better plumbing.
InfoGeek
Whatever they did behind the scenes managed to break the ad blocking capabilities in both the Better Gmail and Customize Google Firefox add-ons. A minor annoyance -- but still... More info at: http://lifehacker.com/software/sneak-preview/gmail-speeds-up-improves-contacts-316673.php
Conquery didn't match any documents. Modified the search to [ "filtered future" site:slate.com ]. Still nothing on Google.
Hmmm. Have they just not crawled it yet, or are they avoiding an unpleasant truth? Ah. There's exactly 1 link from the search on Google News; but its not back to the Slate site. Again, hmmm. - InfoGeek
If the F3I, N5A, etc. didn't have the wetware skills to catch on to the blips raised by the 9/11 gang in their existing systems, then their attempts to do anything with some pre-h0s3d, massive data archive is going to be a dismal, time-wasting failure. _Thats_ why I'm not worried about being food profiled.
What does pi55 me off more than mining my grocery data is Uncle Sugar's predisposition to burrow deeper into our privacy and throw more SIGINT and software at terrorism when they don't know what to do with what they've already got, fr'chrissakes.
This story only rates a 1 on my BlackHelicopter scale.
Oops. Date of WSJ article should be 6/19/00.
Now some marketing drone has foisted what is quite likely an equally worthless heap of data onto the Feds. Am I supposed to be worried that they'll be any better at data mining? I'm more worried about what they'll miss while they're wasting my tax dollars writing code to find out who bought falafel with their Pampers.
Don't call EFF. Call John Stossel and Citizens Against Government Waste (http://www.cagw.org)