We are onto flash-backed write cache now. No battery, just a supercapacitor. On power fail it writes to the flash and shuts down, so no battery to run out.
For me, and mine as much as they'll take my guidance, I choose "no". I've had enough of folk who think because they pay me to do some things they own all of what I can be even in my off-hours, or after I don't do stuff for them any more. I've worked for folk who think they can buy and sell people before, and I'm not interested in doing so again. By this practice Microsoft prevents professionals from engaging in their normal professions, in Seattle at least. In California and some other states this isn't enforceable as they protect a workman's right to practice his trade.
As I've said before, my local septic company is always hiring. They won't claim ownership of my off-hours thoughts, nor claim ownership of them after I've left. Honest work is too easy to get to submit to this. People are not property. Not in my America. I get to choose, and I choose "no".
Tracking is good. It enables ad providers to provide ads that are for stuff you might want rather than random ads. Your experience becomes a field of desireable things rather than a field of lollipops interspersed with landmines.
Tracking is bad. It enables evil corporations to compile a dossier of what you like and target your weaknesses. It's an opportunity for vendors to dig into your subconscious even more then they do already and trick you into buying things that aren't what you want by presenting them in the way that works for you.
Which is it? Unfortunately, both. Technology will not do away with "Caveat Emptor."
approach to fighting Internet Tracking. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(X) Trackers can easily use it to identify those they want to track the most (X) User preferences and other legitimate tracking uses would be affected (X) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop tracking for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of the Web will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (X) Requires too much cooperation from trackers (X) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once (X) Many Web users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers (X) Trackers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (X) Lack of centrally controlling authority for web tracking ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all IP addresses (X) Asshats (X) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (X) Huge existing software investment in shopping carts (X) Susceptibility of protocols other than HTTP to attack (X) Willingness of users to install browser plugins (X) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes (X) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (X) Extreme profitability of web tracking ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (X) Technically illiterate politicians (X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with affiliate programs (X) Dishonesty on the part of trackers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) IE
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical (X) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable (X) HTML headers should not be the subject of legislation (X) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Browsing should be free (X) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (X) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time IP addresses are cumbersome (X) I don't want the government reading my tracking preferences (X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
* A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved. - RAH
In 2003 their claim of piracy was a decline in growth. This year it's a decline in sales. That's clear evidence that they're being stolen from, to them.
Or it's proof that they're not giving us what we want, or that they no longer control the channel for music. Or that they're producing crap. Probably some combination of these.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
The way to cut off their air supply is to supply them air in a different way? That would be a fabulous answer except that it doesn't end with their asphyxiation.
And they're more concerned about the constrained supply of Bolivian Pink Flake. Music executives are what Charlie Sheen would be if he had no work ethic.
Your team has legions of press-release mills and "analysts". Our team has slashdot, digg, Reddit, twitter. You have legions of astroturfers, we have legions of fanbois and phandroids. That's how it is. Whining isn't going to change it.
This is because Google searches are personalized now. Stop searching for male enhancement drugs and online casinos and it will change. You have managed to convince Google that's what you're interested in.
On the Real-time top 500 GOOG is number 6 and threatening to knock Microsoft out of the top five. Yeah, they're not growing as fast as they once did, but they bounced back from the recession nicely and people who bought the dip are doing fine. Microsoft, on the other hand, isn't.
Yeah, there are other stocks that are better to be in - HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, AAPL. But Goog has great prospects too.
This is just BS. You can't sell this lie. We all Google every day. If you don't know how to compose a search that's your problem. The answer is in there, and Google's better at getting it to you than they've ever been.
It's a continuous fight. For every system there is, there are a bunch of people trying to game the system. Google has to keep up the good fight, and they are. But this press thing is paid attacks - a PR campaign with low-level astroturfing. There is no reason not to love Google. Their whole job is to search the whole Internet for everything we want.
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Only 1.5x faster. And the same price. Hm. How is that not better?
They Bing up the Blackberries too? How rude.
The above comment is enthusiastically seconded.
Verizon Bings your Android phone. Lots of companies Bing their user desktops. There are toolbars that Bing up your browser too.
It's different when Bing does it. Nobody wants Bing. That makes it bad.
Blame Apple and Android. They'e consuming so much flash capacity that there's precious little left for this stuff.
We are onto flash-backed write cache now. No battery, just a supercapacitor. On power fail it writes to the flash and shuts down, so no battery to run out.
For me, and mine as much as they'll take my guidance, I choose "no". I've had enough of folk who think because they pay me to do some things they own all of what I can be even in my off-hours, or after I don't do stuff for them any more. I've worked for folk who think they can buy and sell people before, and I'm not interested in doing so again. By this practice Microsoft prevents professionals from engaging in their normal professions, in Seattle at least. In California and some other states this isn't enforceable as they protect a workman's right to practice his trade.
As I've said before, my local septic company is always hiring. They won't claim ownership of my off-hours thoughts, nor claim ownership of them after I've left. Honest work is too easy to get to submit to this. People are not property. Not in my America. I get to choose, and I choose "no".
Tracking is good. It enables ad providers to provide ads that are for stuff you might want rather than random ads. Your experience becomes a field of desireable things rather than a field of lollipops interspersed with landmines.
Tracking is bad. It enables evil corporations to compile a dossier of what you like and target your weaknesses. It's an opportunity for vendors to dig into your subconscious even more then they do already and trick you into buying things that aren't what you want by presenting them in the way that works for you.
Which is it? Unfortunately, both. Technology will not do away with "Caveat Emptor."
* A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved. - RAH
In 2003 their claim of piracy was a decline in growth. This year it's a decline in sales. That's clear evidence that they're being stolen from, to them.
Or it's proof that they're not giving us what we want, or that they no longer control the channel for music. Or that they're producing crap. Probably some combination of these.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
- RAH, Life-Line, 1939.
The way to cut off their air supply is to supply them air in a different way? That would be a fabulous answer except that it doesn't end with their asphyxiation.
And they're more concerned about the constrained supply of Bolivian Pink Flake. Music executives are what Charlie Sheen would be if he had no work ethic.
Your team has legions of press-release mills and "analysts". Our team has slashdot, digg, Reddit, twitter. You have legions of astroturfers, we have legions of fanbois and phandroids. That's how it is. Whining isn't going to change it.
You'll see. I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise for you. You'll know what I meant soon enough.
She doesn't show on the executive bio site any more. No announcement though. They're probably grooming her to head up their new division: Novell.
This is because Google searches are personalized now. Stop searching for male enhancement drugs and online casinos and it will change. You have managed to convince Google that's what you're interested in.
Waste not, want not.
And if pigs had wings they'd be pigeons.
On the Real-time top 500 GOOG is number 6 and threatening to knock Microsoft out of the top five. Yeah, they're not growing as fast as they once did, but they bounced back from the recession nicely and people who bought the dip are doing fine. Microsoft, on the other hand, isn't.
Yeah, there are other stocks that are better to be in - HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, AAPL. But Goog has great prospects too.
This is just BS. You can't sell this lie. We all Google every day. If you don't know how to compose a search that's your problem. The answer is in there, and Google's better at getting it to you than they've ever been.
It's a continuous fight. For every system there is, there are a bunch of people trying to game the system. Google has to keep up the good fight, and they are. But this press thing is paid attacks - a PR campaign with low-level astroturfing. There is no reason not to love Google. Their whole job is to search the whole Internet for everything we want.
Thomas Jefferson has a sad.
To miss the migration to mobile.