I think it's quite irresponsible of you to post a "never mind" story while we're still commenting on t'other one about the original ToS change. My biting, witty comments and slicing sarcasm are completely wasted on an evaporated situation, and i'm sure there's still hordes of newly-found mod points hunting through the underbrush of the 5-deep nested comments, eyes agleam with fanatical zeal and ready with the Troll stick.
Your continued use of the Service or the Site after any such changes constitutes your acceptance...
Really? Fascinating. Consider:
We posted the changes at 3 AM. You logged in at 9 AM and read them. You used the service 6 hours after the changes; you accept them in perpetutity; screw you, QED.
We post changes saying we keep stuff forever, effective immediately. You do not accept the terms, and so stop using the service. Except, as just mentioned, we keep stuff forever, and as you've just stopped using the service after we made the changes, we keep your stuff forever; you have no mechanism for contacting us or proving your rejection of the terms; there's no way to purge your files; screw you, QED.
Excellent scam, Facebook. I gently mention its business model to coworkers now and then, and they smile and laugh and go back to sending each other Vampiregrams or whatever. Ah well.
People want full ownership and control of their information so they can turn off access to it at any time. At the same time, people also want to be able to bring the information others have shared with them--like email addresses, phone numbers, photos and so on--to other services and grant those services access to those people's information. These two positions are at odds with each other.
People want light in rooms when they are present. At the same time, people want rooms they leave to be dark. People want to be naked in the shower. At the same time, people (sometimes) wish to be clothed. People want to talk on the phone. At the same time, sometimes ohmigod i don't wanna talk to this guy right now. These two positions are at odds with each other.
Anyone who falls for this BS deserves exactly what they get.
I call shenanigans. While this is redundant - someone beat you to the reference two posts ago - it's not really offtopic. Someone's modding down based on anti-TMBG bias.
offtopic != unfunny. Mod points are supposed to be based loosely on content (yes, i hear you all laughing), not your opinion of the post. Sigh.
the vast majority of users simply don't have the time or determination to learn a new OS, productivity suite, and how to deal with a host of new quirks, bugs, and features.
Lead an office charge uphill against Office 2007 from a long history of Office 2003 use. Half the users shrug and plod along; the other half outright hate it.
It's the name that fools them into thinking there's no big difference - until they try doing all the things they're used to doing, and clicking where they're used to clicking. Openoffice == different name, it must be a Whole New System! Office 2007 == Oh, it's just another office, what could be different? They find out real soon. And they don't like it.
MS isn't top dog because they made a deal with satan, it's because they made their operating system the most idiot-friendly.
I would assert that their true genius lay in (fooling idiots into| marketing) the belief that their OS is idiot-friendly. The problem in pandering to idiots is you generate more of them, or at best maintain an idiocy level.
A system that forces a little thought without a showstopping learning curve improves the user.
> If at any point in this process (say you stop it at 50%) the 'waste' is now weapons grade this will never be allowed in the US.
You mean: it'll be allowed in the US, built by the lowest-bidding contractor, with security run by the most well-connected bureaucrat, and we'll bomb or sanction any other country that tries to build one as a terrririst thret.
Hmm. Honestly, i think he's pushing wishful-thinking into an agenda. Part of what prevents companies from replacing more proprietary nonsense with open source is FUD, and this is more of the same meal.
Lee Graham Walker, a British citizen, and the German malware programmer Axel Gembe have appeared in a federal court in San Francisco...
I'm guessing yes.
This article also notes that Gembe may have been the HL2 thief, and that he's been on the hook for this DDoS attack since 2006: this was just their (first?) court appearance for it.
I have no particular premonition about how this will all turn out. On the one hand, German courts were taking it easy on him as long as he straightened his life out... on the other, the FBI with its "first successful investigation" into a DDoS may wish to make example of. We'll see.
As I recall, we have yet to detect a single star with a 'little rock' like ours. Period. And we can 'see' quite a few of them these days.
In the sense that someone standing on a beach can see "quite a bit" of water, sure. In the sense of coming close to a representative sample of what's out there, heck no.
And there seems to be (tho i could be misinterpreting you) a tone of "our wonderful advanced technology can't see it yet, so it must not exist," when in fact scientific discovery is frequently a matter of "hey, uh, remember that thing that was absolutely 100% true last week...?"
Ok, i kind of get that and my head hurts at the same time. Thanks:). I will now attempt to restrain amateurish speculation on using the carrier-wave of space medium expansion for FTL travel, as even i can see it's sort of like that "why don't they just make the whole plane out of the stuff they make the black box with" joke.
And mod parent up +2 informative, -1 Alleve.
(2) early in the history of the universe, the expansion of space was faster than the speed of light (Inflationary Big Bang theory); (3) nothing can exceed the speed of light, not even gravity or information (Special and General Relativity)
Where can a layman start reading to reconcile these two statements...? Or can someone here explain this?
i think - and i am not certain, this is only my understanding of the term - that the effect must be in some way observable, which is to say measurable or quantifiable. "Something's doing something somehow" doesn't count unless you can point to the mechanism or agent of the Something.
Oh dear lord. Element 79! Must've read that 25 years ago. one moment... to the googlemobile!
here we go: Element 79 by Fred Hoyle. Title story is about a humongous gold meteor impacting earth, and how it needs to be carefully guarded, broken down, and hidden away, before anyone notices and Hilarity Ensues, like the price of gold renting a sub-subbasement of Hell).
Parent is not a troll. If anything, what he responded to is: parent replied with cited info for his position. Yet the "stop hatin'lol" poster got modded Insightful. Pff.
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I think it's quite irresponsible of you to post a "never mind" story while we're still commenting on t'other one about the original ToS change. My biting, witty comments and slicing sarcasm are completely wasted on an evaporated situation, and i'm sure there's still hordes of newly-found mod points hunting through the underbrush of the 5-deep nested comments, eyes agleam with fanatical zeal and ready with the Troll stick.
For shame, sir. For shame.
Yeah, i know it's not all really resolved.
IANAL but i still don't get this. A few things:
Really? Fascinating. Consider:
Excellent scam, Facebook. I gently mention its business model to coworkers now and then, and they smile and laugh and go back to sending each other Vampiregrams or whatever. Ah well.
fyp
Well done! Have you considered a career as a deprogrammer?
That was pretty awesome, yeah :)
People want light in rooms when they are present. At the same time, people want rooms they leave to be dark. People want to be naked in the shower. At the same time, people (sometimes) wish to be clothed. People want to talk on the phone. At the same time, sometimes ohmigod i don't wanna talk to this guy right now. These two positions are at odds with each other.
Anyone who falls for this BS deserves exactly what they get.
At which?
I call shenanigans. While this is redundant - someone beat you to the reference two posts ago - it's not really offtopic. Someone's modding down based on anti-TMBG bias.
offtopic != unfunny. Mod points are supposed to be based loosely on content (yes, i hear you all laughing), not your opinion of the post. Sigh.
I suppose you mean "Cue," but...
how this hell is parent modded offtopic? Did you read the lyrics, or just the subject...? Sheesh.
the vast majority of users simply don't have the time or determination to learn a new OS, productivity suite, and how to deal with a host of new quirks, bugs, and features.
Lead an office charge uphill against Office 2007 from a long history of Office 2003 use. Half the users shrug and plod along; the other half outright hate it.
It's the name that fools them into thinking there's no big difference - until they try doing all the things they're used to doing, and clicking where they're used to clicking. Openoffice == different name, it must be a Whole New System! Office 2007 == Oh, it's just another office, what could be different? They find out real soon. And they don't like it.
I would assert that their true genius lay in (fooling idiots into| marketing) the belief that their OS is idiot-friendly. The problem in pandering to idiots is you generate more of them, or at best maintain an idiocy level.
A system that forces a little thought without a showstopping learning curve improves the user.
Ultimately, as we understand more, i believe the mechanisms of cancer will be more harnessed than eliminated.
There in Germany, mein freunde, you don't have Texas.
the preview button is a lie :P
> If at any point in this process (say you stop it at 50%) the 'waste' is now weapons grade this will never be allowed in the US. You mean: it'll be allowed in the US, built by the lowest-bidding contractor, with security run by the most well-connected bureaucrat, and we'll bomb or sanction any other country that tries to build one as a terrririst thret.
Hmm. Honestly, i think he's pushing wishful-thinking into an agenda. Part of what prevents companies from replacing more proprietary nonsense with open source is FUD, and this is more of the same meal.
Lee Graham Walker, a British citizen, and the German malware programmer Axel Gembe have appeared in a federal court in San Francisco...
I'm guessing yes.
This article also notes that Gembe may have been the HL2 thief, and that he's been on the hook for this DDoS attack since 2006: this was just their (first?) court appearance for it.
I have no particular premonition about how this will all turn out. On the one hand, German courts were taking it easy on him as long as he straightened his life out... on the other, the FBI with its "first successful investigation" into a DDoS may wish to make example of. We'll see.
As I recall, we have yet to detect a single star with a 'little rock' like ours. Period. And we can 'see' quite a few of them these days.
In the sense that someone standing on a beach can see "quite a bit" of water, sure. In the sense of coming close to a representative sample of what's out there, heck no.
And there seems to be (tho i could be misinterpreting you) a tone of "our wonderful advanced technology can't see it yet, so it must not exist," when in fact scientific discovery is frequently a matter of "hey, uh, remember that thing that was absolutely 100% true last week...?"
Which is what makes it fun!
And then, of course, there's this.
Ok, i kind of get that and my head hurts at the same time. Thanks :). I will now attempt to restrain amateurish speculation on using the carrier-wave of space medium expansion for FTL travel, as even i can see it's sort of like that "why don't they just make the whole plane out of the stuff they make the black box with" joke.
And mod parent up +2 informative, -1 Alleve.
(2) early in the history of the universe, the expansion of space was faster than the speed of light (Inflationary Big Bang theory); (3) nothing can exceed the speed of light, not even gravity or information (Special and General Relativity)
Where can a layman start reading to reconcile these two statements...? Or can someone here explain this?
i think - and i am not certain, this is only my understanding of the term - that the effect must be in some way observable, which is to say measurable or quantifiable. "Something's doing something somehow" doesn't count unless you can point to the mechanism or agent of the Something.
Time to read Excession again.
Is this the road we're going down? Pseudo-homophones of idiomatic phrases?
We've been barreling down that highway for a while now. Choose any MMO and listen for a bit...
Oh dear lord. Element 79! Must've read that 25 years ago. one moment... to the googlemobile!
here we go:
Element 79 by Fred Hoyle. Title story is about a humongous gold meteor impacting earth, and how it needs to be carefully guarded, broken down, and hidden away, before anyone notices and Hilarity Ensues, like the price of gold renting a sub-subbasement of Hell).
Parent is not a troll. If anything, what he responded to is: parent replied with cited info for his position. Yet the "stop hatin'lol" poster got modded Insightful. Pff.
Ink on a page!