But I know people who use email accounts as a repository for their online lives. Gmail is encouraging this attitude, of course. Now I think Google is probably a little more responsible, but it does give one pause.
I store every "insecure" e-mail I get on GMail and I'm happy to delete it from my server and my mobile device knowing that it's likely going to be available via the web.
For "secure" and/or "important" e-mails, they get stored locally or on my mobile device and possibly even printed out and locked away for later retrieval. "Important" e-mails will be archived on GMail but "secure" ones never are.
Please include the OS as well. My guess is that Windows is dominating, contrary to what the posts indicate;-)
I do most of my Slashdotting at work. I don't have a choice of what OS I use there (it happens to be Windows XP). At home I use Win98, Win2k, WinXP, and MacOS (I have a Linux machine but only wimps use X;))
I don't think they do this anymore, but allofmp3.com used to allow logged in users to stream any album in some crappy quality. At work it sure beat any of the alternatives...
I don't like keeping a large music collection at work and I don't want to carry my media player there either so I have recently been using Pandora to stream music that I actually like to my work machine. It's not the best solution but it's better than the alternatives (i.e. streaming ABC/Disney stations):(
At least he saved us the tax dollars it would have cost to shelter and feed him.
While him being dead is yet another chalk mark for Karma (lucky for me mine's "Excellent"), it would be great to see him get anally raped daily by his prison pals like he buttfucked everyone else.
DEET doesn't stop them now. They will swarm you for about 5 minutes and then ignore the DEET and bite anyway. They are absolutely insane.
The worst is when they swarm and hover outside of all building openings because they can detect the CO2 inside and wait for humans to exit. It's nasty.
I am a huge outdoorsman and I pretty much refuse to do anything in the woods from May through September. The ticks (deer, as I've had lymes already) and the mosquitos are just unbearable. Now we have to deal with even *more* invasive poisionous plant species like Wild Parsnip.
There were years when they were particularly bad and they would literally swarm you. They were huge too.
Yeah, it's funny to read this account but it's all too true. I was sitting out on a friend's deck last night and the little fuckers not only got me but got me through my sneakers and through my sock. I now have one of the largest welts *EVER* on my foot in the most uncomfortable spot to itch and irritate:(
If only mosquitos came with something positive like the Cane Toads... Mmm, licking toads! Unfortunately they only come with West Nile and various other nasty diseases. I don't exactly think that the "high" from West Nile would be as enjoyable;) Nor watching them smash into your windshield at 80mph on I-35 N is as enjoyable as listening to the toads *pop* in the road when you run over them.
But this looks more like they know they won't be able to be the big dog in on line media if other companies can restrict them because of controlling the transport.
Based on what Google has offered *me* in the last five or so years as opposed to what the telcos and other bandwidth providers have offered *me*, I'd have to say that we're better off w/Google being the "big dog" in online media rather than the telcos.
Open your eyes, look around, stop just seeing Bad=Republicans, Good=Democrats, what are you twelve?
I never said the Democrats were good. I don't believe that the New Aged GOP (aka the "Republicans") or the Democrats are doing anything positive for this country.
Open your eyes and get a clue before spouting off like an uninformed 12 year old.
In those meetings, Justice Department representatives went beyond the argument that data retention was necessary to protect children--and claimed it would aid in terrorism investigations as well.
What's going to stop freedom terrorism happening in our country? Bullshit, like this, is eating at the highly regarded morals *I* hold which are being left the fuck alone to do whatever the fuck I like w/o having to wonder "am I a terrorist?!"
The "Republicans" are happy to erode our media's rights to disseminate important information being withheld and to chastise them using "their" news outlets while the rest of us sit here whining in near silence.
I've always said that I'm no better than anyone else as I'm sitting here whining to the Slashdot community and not doing anything but when are we going to stand up and tell the Government to go fuck itself?
Umm, you will now be publically ridiculed, harrassed, and hopefully prosecuted (in the "Land of the Free") for undermining the US Government's top secret and highly classified "Positive Media Relations and Protection Act" which states:
"No media outlet, its subsidaries, or its posters shall be awarded freedom of speech when it is considered to expose the US Government's attempts at being sneaky, shitty, assholish, or going completely against eveything guaranteed by the Constitution. Penalties include being exposed on Fox News and complained about through official White House channels in order to confuse the general public and attempt to distract World inhabitants from more important violations occuring at the White House."
I honestly wish that my local LEOs would do another type of driving and keep the dumbfuck street racers from doing 1/4 mile races between traffic lights on the County Rd next to my home.
I'd like to note that these are for "hidden" cameras only. While it still pertains to this particular case it does not hold true to people who have a camera in plain sight.
I wonder how long before people start being bothered by this kind of behaviour?
In the US no one cares because the government told us we have nothing to hide if we're good citizens. It's only those terrorists and political^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H subversives we have to worry about.
Yeah, but can you retroactively add to the contract? That is, when they signed on (for their scholarships), was that restriction there, or anything remotely resembling it (for example, an NFL contract stating that you can't do dangerous activities, which could be applied to trying to do stupid things on a motorcycle, ala Kellan Winslow Jr.).
Speaking as a graduate of BGSU and a scholarship athlete there (same conference), you signed the forms at the end of every year accepting your scholarship funds and then differnt forms at the beginning of each year that dealt with issues like this Facebook bullshit.
Could you alter your contract during the middle of the year? I doubt it.
Oh, I get it, when you said "no one cares about" Kent you were talking from the viewpoint of someone on one of the coasts, no doubt thinking of the Midwest as "Flyover Country."
Wow, what could have been a great troll, from someone who obviously lives in the Midwest, turns out to be worthless.
1. If you had actually read what I wrote in the post you would have noticed that I went to (and graduated from) BGSU.
2. If you had taken the time to actually take a look at who you were responding to instead of knee-jerk bitching, you probably would have clicked my little website linky there and noticed where I live.
But, unfortunately for you, you didn't do either and you look like a complete tool.
I don't know how it works at Kent but when I went to BGSU (as a scholarship athlete) we had to sign tons of paperwork including a "Code of Conduct"-like document that would have waived my right to pretty much anything legally binding.
If you weren't 18 you couldn't sign it without your parents co-signing it. I was 18 and thus a legal adult. I assume that Kent would be doing something very similar (hell they probably use the same paperwork being that they're in the same conference).
Kent doesn't exactly have an "image". They are just another college in the Midwest that no one cares about.
I dig what you're saying but I also feel the need to get my tech talk fix. I live in kind of a backwater and I have a hard time finding someone to talk to about anything technological here (unless it's hippie-related, like that carbon nanotube water filter thing.)
I live in the Minneapolis suburbs and I still have a problem getting my "tech talk fix". Oh there are plenty of people out there that are in the "IT Fields" but they don't know their ass from third base but, as we all know, that's not much different from 99.9% of who posts on Slashdot.
I have found plenty of other things to bide my time. I started swimming again (after several years of getting fat), I spend more time with my wife, I spend more time reading, and I spend more time doing shit outside.
As far as getting my "fix" on news? I go to CNN, Google News, and a multitude of other sites other than Slashdot, Digg (I've been there twice), Fark (been there once), and any of the other bullshit sites out there that everyone is obsessing over.
Perhaps it's because I've been involved with Slashdot from near the beginning (compared to most of the people here now who still carry on old inside jokes and rants that they don't even understand the meaning of) or perhaps that it's just because I have other interests... I don't know what the reason is but there are plenty of other things that people could be doing than sitting here defending what Slashdot has become.
Either Slashdot's "staff" needs to get over themselves and their belief that they are somehow still relevant these days and actually bring the site back to its original "glory" or they need to just shut it down before it becomes sadder than it already has.
From the article: Malda knows his subject, and he's a good editor, but in the end, he's just no match for the power of the multitudes.
He's a good editor? He's "ok" but he's certainly not a "good editor" and the people he has surrounded himself with are no where even close to the caliber necessary to run a site in this day and age (this isn't 1998 anymore and blogs and their "editors" have really stepped up).
Digg is a pile of shit (and thus why I don't read it, ever) but Slashdot isn't responding very well to the outside pressures. Yay, CSS and a template redesign in 2006! I couldn't give a flying rats ass what the site looks like. I want good content (and in 1997 through 2001 it had that). Now it's crap and the fact that I no longer subscribe and don't post 10 to 15x a day (everyday) reflects my disappointment in this site.
From the poster: All I see on various blogs lately is "Click my ads!" and "Help me digg up my submission!" Nice.
They have Slashdot posting links too. It's just that most people have moved away from caring about Slashdot's minimal influence and week old stories (and numerous duplicates) to go with sites that are actually relevant in today's connected world. That's why you don't see them nearly as much.
As far as ads go, they are even MORE annoying here than they used to be and I'm thrilled that I use adblock proxies so I don't have to see them. I forget to use the proxy sometimes and it never ceases to amaze me that with a community that is so behind Google's text ads that they would tolerate the bullshit that Slashdot panders./old schooler rant
Ok, seriously, who here uses an important password on Freenode (or any IRC network) for NickServ? I certainly don't. Hell, my Slashdot password is more important than the one I use on IRC and the one I use here isn't even that secure...
I have no sympathy for someone that has an "at risk" password on IRC.
As radio-music listenership declines, the industry finds itself spending more time courting a broader field of tastemakers who, through Web sites, are popularizing songs that never get radio play.
If only the radio industry could begin to realize that people do *NOT* like to listen to the same 7 songs over and over again throughout the day with the occasional "older" song thrown in to attempt to trick everyone.
If they could instead harness what we really want to hear (podcasts, *true* variety (across genres and decades), and less pointless commercials). It's obvious, through the success of podcasting and sat radio, that the formats they have been using in the past are done.
It's amazing to me that they are so slow to adapt as they watch their numbers fall.
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But I know people who use email accounts as a repository for their online lives. Gmail is encouraging this attitude, of course. Now I think Google is probably a little more responsible, but it does give one pause.
I store every "insecure" e-mail I get on GMail and I'm happy to delete it from my server and my mobile device knowing that it's likely going to be available via the web.
For "secure" and/or "important" e-mails, they get stored locally or on my mobile device and possibly even printed out and locked away for later retrieval. "Important" e-mails will be archived on GMail but "secure" ones never are.
Please include the OS as well. My guess is that Windows is dominating, contrary to what the posts indicate ;-)
;))
I do most of my Slashdotting at work. I don't have a choice of what OS I use there (it happens to be Windows XP). At home I use Win98, Win2k, WinXP, and MacOS (I have a Linux machine but only wimps use X
After all, if he isn't a terrorist, he doesn't have anything to hide...... right?
Obviously not or he wouldn't be putting his profile on Facebook for all those with an alumni or current college e-mail address to see.
I'm *very* pro-privacy but you don't have *any* when you choose to show a large group of people your private life.
Besides, it's nothing we haven't seen before.
Oh come on now. It's not like this exact story and many of the comments were just posted earlier this week or anything.
I don't think they do this anymore, but allofmp3.com used to allow logged in users to stream any album in some crappy quality. At work it sure beat any of the alternatives...
:(
I don't like keeping a large music collection at work and I don't want to carry my media player there either so I have recently been using Pandora to stream music that I actually like to my work machine. It's not the best solution but it's better than the alternatives (i.e. streaming ABC/Disney stations)
At least he saved us the tax dollars it would have cost to shelter and feed him.
While him being dead is yet another chalk mark for Karma (lucky for me mine's "Excellent"), it would be great to see him get anally raped daily by his prison pals like he buttfucked everyone else.
DEET doesn't stop them now. They will swarm you for about 5 minutes and then ignore the DEET and bite anyway. They are absolutely insane.
;)
The worst is when they swarm and hover outside of all building openings because they can detect the CO2 inside and wait for humans to exit. It's nasty.
I am a huge outdoorsman and I pretty much refuse to do anything in the woods from May through September. The ticks (deer, as I've had lymes already) and the mosquitos are just unbearable. Now we have to deal with even *more* invasive poisionous plant species like Wild Parsnip.
Minnesota sucks
There were years when they were particularly bad and they would literally swarm you. They were huge too.
:(
;) Nor watching them smash into your windshield at 80mph on I-35 N is as enjoyable as listening to the toads *pop* in the road when you run over them.
:(
Yeah, it's funny to read this account but it's all too true. I was sitting out on a friend's deck last night and the little fuckers not only got me but got me through my sneakers and through my sock. I now have one of the largest welts *EVER* on my foot in the most uncomfortable spot to itch and irritate
If only mosquitos came with something positive like the Cane Toads... Mmm, licking toads! Unfortunately they only come with West Nile and various other nasty diseases. I don't exactly think that the "high" from West Nile would be as enjoyable
Bleh
But this looks more like they know they won't be able to be the big dog in on line media if other companies can restrict them because of controlling the transport.
Based on what Google has offered *me* in the last five or so years as opposed to what the telcos and other bandwidth providers have offered *me*, I'd have to say that we're better off w/Google being the "big dog" in online media rather than the telcos.
Open your eyes, look around, stop just seeing Bad=Republicans, Good=Democrats, what are you twelve?
I never said the Democrats were good. I don't believe that the New Aged GOP (aka the "Republicans") or the Democrats are doing anything positive for this country.
Open your eyes and get a clue before spouting off like an uninformed 12 year old.
In those meetings, Justice Department representatives went beyond the argument that data retention was necessary to protect children--and claimed it would aid in terrorism investigations as well.
What's going to stop freedom terrorism happening in our country? Bullshit, like this, is eating at the highly regarded morals *I* hold which are being left the fuck alone to do whatever the fuck I like w/o having to wonder "am I a terrorist?!"
The "Republicans" are happy to erode our media's rights to disseminate important information being withheld and to chastise them using "their" news outlets while the rest of us sit here whining in near silence.
I've always said that I'm no better than anyone else as I'm sitting here whining to the Slashdot community and not doing anything but when are we going to stand up and tell the Government to go fuck itself?
Umm, you will now be publically ridiculed, harrassed, and hopefully prosecuted (in the "Land of the Free") for undermining the US Government's top secret and highly classified "Positive Media Relations and Protection Act" which states:
"No media outlet, its subsidaries, or its posters shall be awarded freedom of speech when it is considered to expose the US Government's attempts at being sneaky, shitty, assholish, or going completely against eveything guaranteed by the Constitution. Penalties include being exposed on Fox News and complained about through official White House channels in order to confuse the general public and attempt to distract World inhabitants from more important violations occuring at the White House."
I honestly wish that my local LEOs would do another type of driving and keep the dumbfuck street racers from doing 1/4 mile races between traffic lights on the County Rd next to my home.
But that wouldn't be newsworthy.
They come with a intact hymen now?!
I'd like to note that these are for "hidden" cameras only. While it still pertains to this particular case it does not hold true to people who have a camera in plain sight.
I wonder how long before people start being bothered by this kind of behaviour?
In the US no one cares because the government told us we have nothing to hide if we're good citizens. It's only those terrorists and political^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H subversives we have to worry about.
Yeah, but can you retroactively add to the contract? That is, when they signed on (for their scholarships), was that restriction there, or anything remotely resembling it (for example, an NFL contract stating that you can't do dangerous activities, which could be applied to trying to do stupid things on a motorcycle, ala Kellan Winslow Jr.).
Speaking as a graduate of BGSU and a scholarship athlete there (same conference), you signed the forms at the end of every year accepting your scholarship funds and then differnt forms at the beginning of each year that dealt with issues like this Facebook bullshit.
Could you alter your contract during the middle of the year? I doubt it.
Oh, I get it, when you said "no one cares about" Kent you were talking from the viewpoint of someone on one of the coasts, no doubt thinking of the Midwest as "Flyover Country."
Wow, what could have been a great troll, from someone who obviously lives in the Midwest, turns out to be worthless.
1. If you had actually read what I wrote in the post you would have noticed that I went to (and graduated from) BGSU.
2. If you had taken the time to actually take a look at who you were responding to instead of knee-jerk bitching, you probably would have clicked my little website linky there and noticed where I live.
But, unfortunately for you, you didn't do either and you look like a complete tool.
I don't know how it works at Kent but when I went to BGSU (as a scholarship athlete) we had to sign tons of paperwork including a "Code of Conduct"-like document that would have waived my right to pretty much anything legally binding.
If you weren't 18 you couldn't sign it without your parents co-signing it. I was 18 and thus a legal adult. I assume that Kent would be doing something very similar (hell they probably use the same paperwork being that they're in the same conference).
Kent doesn't exactly have an "image". They are just another college in the Midwest that no one cares about.
I dig what you're saying but I also feel the need to get my tech talk fix. I live in kind of a backwater and I have a hard time finding someone to talk to about anything technological here (unless it's hippie-related, like that carbon nanotube water filter thing.)
I live in the Minneapolis suburbs and I still have a problem getting my "tech talk fix". Oh there are plenty of people out there that are in the "IT Fields" but they don't know their ass from third base but, as we all know, that's not much different from 99.9% of who posts on Slashdot.
The thing is, where to go?
I have found plenty of other things to bide my time. I started swimming again (after several years of getting fat), I spend more time with my wife, I spend more time reading, and I spend more time doing shit outside.
As far as getting my "fix" on news? I go to CNN, Google News, and a multitude of other sites other than Slashdot, Digg (I've been there twice), Fark (been there once), and any of the other bullshit sites out there that everyone is obsessing over.
Perhaps it's because I've been involved with Slashdot from near the beginning (compared to most of the people here now who still carry on old inside jokes and rants that they don't even understand the meaning of) or perhaps that it's just because I have other interests... I don't know what the reason is but there are plenty of other things that people could be doing than sitting here defending what Slashdot has become.
Either Slashdot's "staff" needs to get over themselves and their belief that they are somehow still relevant these days and actually bring the site back to its original "glory" or they need to just shut it down before it becomes sadder than it already has.
From the article: Malda knows his subject, and he's a good editor, but in the end, he's just no match for the power of the multitudes.
/old schooler rant
He's a good editor? He's "ok" but he's certainly not a "good editor" and the people he has surrounded himself with are no where even close to the caliber necessary to run a site in this day and age (this isn't 1998 anymore and blogs and their "editors" have really stepped up).
Digg is a pile of shit (and thus why I don't read it, ever) but Slashdot isn't responding very well to the outside pressures. Yay, CSS and a template redesign in 2006! I couldn't give a flying rats ass what the site looks like. I want good content (and in 1997 through 2001 it had that). Now it's crap and the fact that I no longer subscribe and don't post 10 to 15x a day (everyday) reflects my disappointment in this site.
From the poster: All I see on various blogs lately is "Click my ads!" and "Help me digg up my submission!" Nice.
They have Slashdot posting links too. It's just that most people have moved away from caring about Slashdot's minimal influence and week old stories (and numerous duplicates) to go with sites that are actually relevant in today's connected world. That's why you don't see them nearly as much.
As far as ads go, they are even MORE annoying here than they used to be and I'm thrilled that I use adblock proxies so I don't have to see them. I forget to use the proxy sometimes and it never ceases to amaze me that with a community that is so behind Google's text ads that they would tolerate the bullshit that Slashdot panders.
Ok, seriously, who here uses an important password on Freenode (or any IRC network) for NickServ? I certainly don't. Hell, my Slashdot password is more important than the one I use on IRC and the one I use here isn't even that secure...
I have no sympathy for someone that has an "at risk" password on IRC.
As radio-music listenership declines, the industry finds itself spending more time courting a broader field of tastemakers who, through Web sites, are popularizing songs that never get radio play.
If only the radio industry could begin to realize that people do *NOT* like to listen to the same 7 songs over and over again throughout the day with the occasional "older" song thrown in to attempt to trick everyone.
If they could instead harness what we really want to hear (podcasts, *true* variety (across genres and decades), and less pointless commercials). It's obvious, through the success of podcasting and sat radio, that the formats they have been using in the past are done.
It's amazing to me that they are so slow to adapt as they watch their numbers fall.
CNet has a screenshot available of the tool.
That screenshot looks nothing like Ballmer!