That's true to a point. But on some level that's not 'your information' that's others information about you. You couldn't stop your friends from outing you as gay or communist or vegetarian in the 60s and you can't today. Facebook isn't really a factor.
In fact, if they upload a photo of you to Facebook and tag you, you've got more privacy than if they'd done the same thing on Geocities or other private personal webhosting services of yesteryear, since Google will index the latter and not the former.
Go ahead and Google someone you know is on Facebook, and you'll get at least one search result pointing to their profile unless they've disabled that feature (which is user-configurable), but very little information is visible at that point. You will not find any indexed photos of that person nor the ability to search for them unless you add them as a friend first, or they have very liberal privacy settings.
If your photos are uploaded as 'friends only' and not 'friends of friends', then even if someone comments on or tags a photo of yours, its not searchable by non-friends.
if however someone uploads a photo of you to/their/ facebook account and/their/ permissions are liberal, anyone can find it if they look hard, but they still can't find it through "photos of c6gunner" unless they're/your/ friend or you've set your privacy settings to allow such things.
Have you noticed that console game creation has gone up to the point where a lot of PC gamers complain that good games are going to consoles and not PCs?
Sure, there's good titles exclusive to the PC still, but not many anymore. The big producers like the lower piracy rates on consoles, and it shows.
Please don't use services that actually mail passwords to you.
I've had it happen too, when I've forgotten my password, that a website just sends it to me -- and I immediately E-mail them about how stupid and insecure it is and beg them to implement a mandatory password changing page link instead.
Being able to retrieve the password is completely unnecessary and potentially exposes one of your well-used passwords to others.
Even assuming you reset all of a co-student's website passwords using this glitch, they can probably re-reset them three days later because their signup E-mail hasn't changed.
A lot of things (not just higher education) are like this.
I contemplated writing my own or even hosting a pre-written photo gallery application since I have the skills to do so, for my family photos.
I then realized that Flickr, which exists already and has incredibly good tools is only $20/yr for unlimited bandwidth usage and unlimited storage, and its really not worth it for me to put any more than half an hour's work a year into doing it myself at that rate.
Considering the appeal of reality TV like Big Brother, I bet a number of people would surrender this privacy in exchange for the possibility of winning money too.
1) Controls (think of the evil that was controlling Lara Croft) 2) Story 3) Sound 4) Videography (not just graphics)...
Audio is at least as important to me as graphics, if not more so. Good sound effects, good music, not repetitive, not irritating.
For some personal entertainment for those interested, go read up on the efforts made on harmonizing bullet sound effects in the PS2 shooter Black.
Personally, social games aren't that fun with a few exceptions -- late editions of Mario Party made good party games, but otherwise stuff like co-op is kinda stupid usually, and annoying when playing with people of different skill levels.
By contrast the same Voodoo on a Windows machine has to wait for Microsoft or a vendor to be bothered to invent it. That Voodoo on Linux is only available because its Linux.
More often than not, Linux just works for me because I bother buying hardware that's Linux-compatible. And unlike Windows, that doesn't mean installing driver CDs or downloading them, it means they'll work as soon as I plug them in because drivers in general are maintained as part of the kernel bundle.
The only exception I've had recently was making my free Epson NX200 use the correct ink in colour mode, which required downloading a new driver file for CUPS.
For the record, that last 'guessing' bit is used in some very intelligent comedy, because they assume their audience can put the pieces together and come up with the joke.
Science has a bad rap in many circles because it represents pretentiousness and pompous arrogance. Everyone who's been around for a few years knows that the scientific community has made a lot of mistakes, but every time something new is theorized or discovered, that same community acts as though it is somehow beyond reproach.
Maybe if a little humility seeped in through the cracks in the community's personalities, people wouldn't feel so put off by the subject material.
... if Darryl raised his son never to play football because of his own injury, and his son were paralyzed in a motor vehicle accident anyway, that would be dramatic irony.
As funny as that was hopefully intended to be, its not relevant on Windows as Windows uses GUIDs for its UID information, and Administrator will have a different filesystem UID every time (not just 0 like Unix).
I point this out all the time to people who wonder why Sony goes to such great lengths to try and protect the PS3 and PSP from piracy. It doesn't matter if Sony officially supports home-brew or not, they need developers and developers want security for their applications.
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While I would never debate C.S. Lewis' intentions (nor would he I doubt), Tolkien is a much deeper writer than you give credit for. When you start to see the level of background work that he did in order to make a self-sufficient mythology in which to spin his tale, the hundreds of notes just on character backgrounds and languages and stories that are alluded to but never told by characters in his stories, you realize that his books are the life's work of a master story teller, and not an attempt to get any specific message across.
The side effect of being a particularly powerful author of course, is that people find many compelling messages and derive strong conclusions from the results of characters' behaviours and may therefore believe that was the intent of said author when in my opinion, and in his own pen, it was not.
Of course, Rowling isn't anywhere near that level, sorry to burst your trinity bubble. Rowling's writing is at a much lower level, the background of her characters much shallower and the world's consistency and lore much less well established than Tolkien's.
Personally I've always wished I could listen in on the conversations he and C.S.Lewis had while sitting at their favourite pub, several of which are discussed by one or both men in their journals, but many of which I'm sure were highly enlightening and now lost.
You're an odd duck, considering the term refers to the word 'teen' in the English word for the age in question. You'll notice that neither "ten" or "twelve" contain the ending that "thirteen" and "eighteen" do.
It seems fairly obvious to most people that "teen" means 13-19 (even though there's overlap in there with "adult" in some cultures). 'Tween' was invented by some moron to describe the pre-teen adolescent ages of approximately 10-12.
Again, pricing is different in various countries. Unless CDs sell for the same price in Mexico, their precedents in the USA aren't even vaguely related.
Now that said, I don't know what the law is in Mexico and they should be prosecuted for Copyright violation for statutory damages, value per song notwithstanding.
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In fact, if they upload a photo of you to Facebook and tag you, you've got more privacy than if they'd done the same thing on Geocities or other private personal webhosting services of yesteryear, since Google will index the latter and not the former.
Go ahead and Google someone you know is on Facebook, and you'll get at least one search result pointing to their profile unless they've disabled that feature (which is user-configurable), but very little information is visible at that point. You will not find any indexed photos of that person nor the ability to search for them unless you add them as a friend first, or they have very liberal privacy settings.
If your photos are uploaded as 'friends only' and not 'friends of friends', then even if someone comments on or tags a photo of yours, its not searchable by non-friends.
if however someone uploads a photo of you to /their/ facebook account and /their/ permissions are liberal, anyone can find it if they look hard, but they still can't find it through "photos of c6gunner" unless they're /your/ friend or you've set your privacy settings to allow such things.
What are you, a college student? You honestly believe anywhere near 75% of the world's business applications runs on Windows?
Microsoft only wishes it had the big iron servers that do the fun stuff like banking and credit card processing.
Have you noticed that console game creation has gone up to the point where a lot of PC gamers complain that good games are going to consoles and not PCs?
Sure, there's good titles exclusive to the PC still, but not many anymore. The big producers like the lower piracy rates on consoles, and it shows.
Its not meaningless when the amount of hardware supported out of the box on Linux is so much higher than on Windows.
Look it up if you don't believe me.
Please don't use services that actually mail passwords to you.
I've had it happen too, when I've forgotten my password, that a website just sends it to me -- and I immediately E-mail them about how stupid and insecure it is and beg them to implement a mandatory password changing page link instead.
Being able to retrieve the password is completely unnecessary and potentially exposes one of your well-used passwords to others.
Even assuming you reset all of a co-student's website passwords using this glitch, they can probably re-reset them three days later because their signup E-mail hasn't changed.
A lot of things (not just higher education) are like this.
I contemplated writing my own or even hosting a pre-written photo gallery application since I have the skills to do so, for my family photos.
I then realized that Flickr, which exists already and has incredibly good tools is only $20/yr for unlimited bandwidth usage and unlimited storage, and its really not worth it for me to put any more than half an hour's work a year into doing it myself at that rate.
Considering the appeal of reality TV like Big Brother, I bet a number of people would surrender this privacy in exchange for the possibility of winning money too.
1) Controls (think of the evil that was controlling Lara Croft) ...
2) Story
3) Sound
4) Videography (not just graphics)
Audio is at least as important to me as graphics, if not more so. Good sound effects, good music, not repetitive, not irritating.
For some personal entertainment for those interested, go read up on the efforts made on harmonizing bullet sound effects in the PS2 shooter Black.
Personally, social games aren't that fun with a few exceptions -- late editions of Mario Party made good party games, but otherwise stuff like co-op is kinda stupid usually, and annoying when playing with people of different skill levels.
By contrast the same Voodoo on a Windows machine has to wait for Microsoft or a vendor to be bothered to invent it. That Voodoo on Linux is only available because its Linux.
More often than not, Linux just works for me because I bother buying hardware that's Linux-compatible. And unlike Windows, that doesn't mean installing driver CDs or downloading them, it means they'll work as soon as I plug them in because drivers in general are maintained as part of the kernel bundle.
The only exception I've had recently was making my free Epson NX200 use the correct ink in colour mode, which required downloading a new driver file for CUPS.
How very unfortunately true that is.
"... no matter how idiot proof you make it, they will come up with a better idiot."
For the record, that last 'guessing' bit is used in some very intelligent comedy, because they assume their audience can put the pieces together and come up with the joke.
Notably, I'm not an American.
Science has a bad rap in many circles because it represents pretentiousness and pompous arrogance. Everyone who's been around for a few years knows that the scientific community has made a lot of mistakes, but every time something new is theorized or discovered, that same community acts as though it is somehow beyond reproach.
Maybe if a little humility seeped in through the cracks in the community's personalities, people wouldn't feel so put off by the subject material.
... if Darryl raised his son never to play football because of his own injury, and his son were paralyzed in a motor vehicle accident anyway, that would be dramatic irony.
Store it in the metadata like EXIF for photos.
Oh man, you mean the accounting database system we maintain on Linux for our customers doesn't actually exist? I hate parallel realities.
As funny as that was hopefully intended to be, its not relevant on Windows as Windows uses GUIDs for its UID information, and Administrator will have a different filesystem UID every time (not just 0 like Unix).
And then your wife leaves your DVD collection out in the sun while she cleans.
Here's an idea, stop telling everyone else not to exercise their rights to protect their own investments.
I love how the summary commits a fallacy of limited options, as though somehow being right and being nice about it weren't simultaneously possible.
I point this out all the time to people who wonder why Sony goes to such great lengths to try and protect the PS3 and PSP from piracy. It doesn't matter if Sony officially supports home-brew or not, they need developers and developers want security for their applications.
While I would never debate C.S. Lewis' intentions (nor would he I doubt), Tolkien is a much deeper writer than you give credit for. When you start to see the level of background work that he did in order to make a self-sufficient mythology in which to spin his tale, the hundreds of notes just on character backgrounds and languages and stories that are alluded to but never told by characters in his stories, you realize that his books are the life's work of a master story teller, and not an attempt to get any specific message across.
The side effect of being a particularly powerful author of course, is that people find many compelling messages and derive strong conclusions from the results of characters' behaviours and may therefore believe that was the intent of said author when in my opinion, and in his own pen, it was not.
Of course, Rowling isn't anywhere near that level, sorry to burst your trinity bubble. Rowling's writing is at a much lower level, the background of her characters much shallower and the world's consistency and lore much less well established than Tolkien's.
Personally I've always wished I could listen in on the conversations he and C.S.Lewis had while sitting at their favourite pub, several of which are discussed by one or both men in their journals, but many of which I'm sure were highly enlightening and now lost.
You're an odd duck, considering the term refers to the word 'teen' in the English word for the age in question. You'll notice that neither "ten" or "twelve" contain the ending that "thirteen" and "eighteen" do.
It seems fairly obvious to most people that "teen" means 13-19 (even though there's overlap in there with "adult" in some cultures). 'Tween' was invented by some moron to describe the pre-teen adolescent ages of approximately 10-12.
Obviously you've never seen how complex a recording contract can be :-)
Again, pricing is different in various countries. Unless CDs sell for the same price in Mexico, their precedents in the USA aren't even vaguely related.
Now that said, I don't know what the law is in Mexico and they should be prosecuted for Copyright violation for statutory damages, value per song notwithstanding.
With the minor side-effect of spontaneous combustion of any residual WD-40 contacting hot engine parts.