Well, it just follows that, like just about anything on the web, anyone relying on Foursquare as an absolute reflection of reality is being foolish. I think that as a simple social tool among friends its fine, but for government spook work obviously this ain't your playground. Of course, the news is rife with stories about criminals who don't seem to believe they can be caught by anything they do on-line.
You took the thought right out of my head. If they had used the concave bottom of a broken bottle would the finding be that much more exciting, or not??? What if they had used the most expensive electron imaging scanner and powered it with the nrg equivalent of one year's worth of watt hours that it takes to run Botswana? Would it have been bigger news then?
This is the problem with Linux: What company in their right mind would port to the platform that is both hardest to develop for and has the smallest user base?
Hardest to develop for? I hardly think that an OS that allows you direct access to the source code is particularly difficult to develop for. The user base for linux is kept artificially small because vendors aren't willing to write drivers for the non-dominant platform. Its that simple. In my mind Linux is one of the easiest platforms to write for. I'm not a python developer but even I can see that an os in which at least 60% of the desktop apps are written in a simple, interpreted language that can be picked up by kids can't be THAT particularly difficult to write for. No, the MONEY is with Windows, so that's where the vendors go. As soon as Steam goes linux I know a bunch of non-techies who will switch. VALVE, are you listening????
A lot of fundamental changes need to be made to desktop linux before it will really be taken seriously by anyone...
Really? What fundamental changes would those be? As dedicated Linux user I'd really like to know what I'm missing out of my desktop experience. If you're talking about a series of annoying messages telling me the action I'm about to take might be dangerous, I'd rather do without.
Are American Politicians the same as average Americans?
No. We do have a bit of "All politicians suck except MY representative"-itis, but Obama has seen to that. The latest polls are very bad, and a lot of incumbents are looking to get ousted this November. A little off topic; to your point I would say: "If you want to lose an election here start talking about censorship." To a greater or lesser degree (depends where in the country you are) censorship is one thing that is held to a higher degree than, Apparently, Australia. No politician here would run it up the flagpole with out ducking for some cover.
I've been frequently surprised by the Australian Govs at time puritanical, at times "Big Brother" attitude with new technology and its social impact. I've spent time with Aussies in Japan, mostly meeting them at bars and they seemed to be quite good folk. Then I hear about this stuff and I have to ask "Are these really the same people?"
"While Google may be the dominant information indexer, what they're doing doesn't require any special magic.
Yes it does. How many search engines were there before Google? Lots. I used to actually use Web Crawler and Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) quite a bit, with a liberal sprinkling of Lycos, Excite, and Yahoo. Fast forward 10 years, and now I use google exclusively, with an occasional bing if I simply can't get the results I need with the first. There's a reason for that. GOOGLE SEARCH WORKS BETTER than the others.
Exactly. The spherical description in the article is very apropos; the boundaries between bits are more discreet, meaning they can pack the bits much more densely than before. That's the breakthrough.
The last line in the story is by Schmidt: "Now we just need a way to get rid of the dreaded family photo album." One can interpret that a different way than implied, if you're a cynic like me; it kind of sounds to me like Google wants to do away what private information of any kind. Here's a question: since Schmidt is so cavalier about personal information, where can we find his online? Or Brin's? Or anyone else at Google? I hate to say I told you so, especially since I'm not exactly media gold, but I've been saying for years to every one who'll listen that laying your life out online is simply foolish. Now those chickens are starting to come back home to roost.
"If you want to use NAT and non-routable IPs for whatever reason, however misguided..."
I'm not being critical, I genuinely would like to know why your opinion on this is such. Is this because the address space is so much greater with ipv6 that non-routable addresses aren't necessary? It seems to me like there are still scenarios where non-routables are still desirable.
The Mozilla team should just bite the bullet and fold Adblock and NoScript into ff's code stream already. Once that's done they can get back to streamlining the performance. Probably the #1 reason I run ff is for NoScript. If you're running any other browser without that same functionality you're playing with dynamite. If Chrome had NoScript functionality I'd probably run it.
Next on/.; Lee Harvey Oswald actually survived secret hit man Jack Ruby's assassination attempt only run to secret base in the Antarctic to found the "World Mayhem Organization" and hires top Nazi Scientists to create Global Warming Ray. Russia only country to find the evidence.
Many of these articles are redundant, I posted the links to show how ubiquitous the stories are. Flash will be around for a while since its the only game in town. But that will change, give it time. I DO NOT hate flash, but its old, there has got to be a better way to publish rich media, there just has to. I think, in time, as the OSS community wakes up to the need, some really great tools and protocols for interactive media that's at least as good as flash will come along.
Lets be at least a little professional here and not write the OP off with the "stability means BSOD and I don't have those" response please...
I'm not proving that I don't have a problem with Ubuntu, THAT'S a ridiculous argument and not the professional one. All I can say is of all the distros I've tried Ubuntu has been the most problem free. I don't feel the need to defend that statement; it is what it is. Empirical proof will come when I experience all these problems everyone else is claiming, I guess. Until then lets be professional and stick to empirical evidence, shall we? Anecdotal remarks are not evidence for a wide-spread or systemic platform problem.
"You should check out the Ubuntu forums after a new release..."
This goes for any release of anything under the sun.
The rest of your objections I've not had any experience with, except to say that I can definitely say that I've not had any problems with ipv6 WITH ipv4.
- Pressing the 'wireless lock' button on a coworker's netbook would kernel panic.
Not on mine, nor anyone else I know. So you offer one personal event as proof that the distro is flawed? Not good enough.
- My wife's netbook would randomly crash, and on reboot have lost half its filesystem.
Never seen a corruption of any file system, EVER. Same as first point.
- Major (recent) releases have shipped without working WPA.
Really? Which ones? WPA security is all I've ever used (as using WEP is foolish) and in fact I've use it with both TKIP and AES, and never had a problem. So which release specifically had a problem? Remember, I've been using it since Fiesty.
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Your reply is idiotic. Writing games for a black box is better? Your a dope, and not a programmer, Admit it.
Well, it just follows that, like just about anything on the web, anyone relying on Foursquare as an absolute reflection of reality is being foolish. I think that as a simple social tool among friends its fine, but for government spook work obviously this ain't your playground. Of course, the news is rife with stories about criminals who don't seem to believe they can be caught by anything they do on-line.
You took the thought right out of my head. If they had used the concave bottom of a broken bottle would the finding be that much more exciting, or not??? What if they had used the most expensive electron imaging scanner and powered it with the nrg equivalent of one year's worth of watt hours that it takes to run Botswana? Would it have been bigger news then?
This is the problem with Linux: What company in their right mind would port to the platform that is both hardest to develop for and has the smallest user base?
Hardest to develop for? I hardly think that an OS that allows you direct access to the source code is particularly difficult to develop for. The user base for linux is kept artificially small because vendors aren't willing to write drivers for the non-dominant platform. Its that simple. In my mind Linux is one of the easiest platforms to write for. I'm not a python developer but even I can see that an os in which at least 60% of the desktop apps are written in a simple, interpreted language that can be picked up by kids can't be THAT particularly difficult to write for. No, the MONEY is with Windows, so that's where the vendors go. As soon as Steam goes linux I know a bunch of non-techies who will switch. VALVE, are you listening????
A lot of fundamental changes need to be made to desktop linux before it will really be taken seriously by anyone...
Really? What fundamental changes would those be? As dedicated Linux user I'd really like to know what I'm missing out of my desktop experience. If you're talking about a series of annoying messages telling me the action I'm about to take might be dangerous, I'd rather do without.
"We run critical stuff on Windows"
Just that statement alone is comedy gold.
"We run critical stuff on Windows..."
I think you're the ones who'll be "dealing with it".
Are American Politicians the same as average Americans?
No. We do have a bit of "All politicians suck except MY representative"-itis, but Obama has seen to that. The latest polls are very bad, and a lot of incumbents are looking to get ousted this November. A little off topic; to your point I would say: "If you want to lose an election here start talking about censorship." To a greater or lesser degree (depends where in the country you are) censorship is one thing that is held to a higher degree than, Apparently, Australia. No politician here would run it up the flagpole with out ducking for some cover.
...because as soon as they start to animate they are snapped up by Washington DC lobbying firms and sent in to make those sweet deals.
"If there is a more gullible group of people than audiophiles, I haven't met them."
Car geeks. Especially if their mechanical skills only go so far as being able to change the oil in their cars. One bit of proof: glass packs.
I've been a big proponent of retroactive abortions for years.
Want tits? Play GTA: San Andreas with the Hot Coffee mod.
I've been frequently surprised by the Australian Govs at time puritanical, at times "Big Brother" attitude with new technology and its social impact. I've spent time with Aussies in Japan, mostly meeting them at bars and they seemed to be quite good folk. Then I hear about this stuff and I have to ask "Are these really the same people?"
And as we all know, just like on a general's uniform, more buttons means more power.
"While Google may be the dominant information indexer, what they're doing doesn't require any special magic.
Yes it does. How many search engines were there before Google? Lots. I used to actually use Web Crawler and Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) quite a bit, with a liberal sprinkling of Lycos, Excite, and Yahoo. Fast forward 10 years, and now I use google exclusively, with an occasional bing if I simply can't get the results I need with the first. There's a reason for that. GOOGLE SEARCH WORKS BETTER than the others.
Exactly. The spherical description in the article is very apropos; the boundaries between bits are more discreet, meaning they can pack the bits much more densely than before. That's the breakthrough.
The last line in the story is by Schmidt: "Now we just need a way to get rid of the dreaded family photo album."
One can interpret that a different way than implied, if you're a cynic like me; it kind of sounds to me like Google wants to do away what private information of any kind.
Here's a question: since Schmidt is so cavalier about personal information, where can we find his online? Or Brin's? Or anyone else at Google?
I hate to say I told you so, especially since I'm not exactly media gold, but I've been saying for years to every one who'll listen that laying your life out online is simply foolish. Now those chickens are starting to come back home to roost.
"If you want to use NAT and non-routable IPs for whatever reason, however misguided..."
I'm not being critical, I genuinely would like to know why your opinion on this is such. Is this because the address space is so much greater with ipv6 that non-routable addresses aren't necessary? It seems to me like there are still scenarios where non-routables are still desirable.
The Mozilla team should just bite the bullet and fold Adblock and NoScript into ff's code stream already. Once that's done they can get back to streamlining the performance. Probably the #1 reason I run ff is for NoScript. If you're running any other browser without that same functionality you're playing with dynamite. If Chrome had NoScript functionality I'd probably run it.
Next on /.; Lee Harvey Oswald actually survived secret hit man Jack Ruby's assassination attempt only run to secret base in the Antarctic to found the "World Mayhem Organization" and hires top Nazi Scientists to create Global Warming Ray. Russia only country to find the evidence.
"You want a reason for installing flash blocking plugins."
You're searching for one?
Many of these articles are redundant, I posted the links to show how ubiquitous the stories are. Flash will be around for a while since its the only game in town. But that will change, give it time. I DO NOT hate flash, but its old, there has got to be a better way to publish rich media, there just has to. I think, in time, as the OSS community wakes up to the need, some really great tools and protocols for interactive media that's at least as good as flash will come along.
"What you say?
Who are you, an ex-Zero Wing translator?
"There is a blight more serious than Global Warming, it is cyclical and is happening now. Run for the hills. Beware the political campaign signs."
Right. The entire world is waking up to the horrible fact that there will be no more episodes of 'Lost'.
Lets be at least a little professional here and not write the OP off with the "stability means BSOD and I don't have those" response please...
I'm not proving that I don't have a problem with Ubuntu, THAT'S a ridiculous argument and not the professional one. All I can say is of all the distros I've tried Ubuntu has been the most problem free. I don't feel the need to defend that statement; it is what it is. Empirical proof will come when I experience all these problems everyone else is claiming, I guess. Until then lets be professional and stick to empirical evidence, shall we? Anecdotal remarks are not evidence for a wide-spread or systemic platform problem.
"You should check out the Ubuntu forums after a new release..."
This goes for any release of anything under the sun. The rest of your objections I've not had any experience with, except to say that I can definitely say that I've not had any problems with ipv6 WITH ipv4.
- Pressing the 'wireless lock' button on a coworker's netbook would kernel panic.
Not on mine, nor anyone else I know. So you offer one personal event as proof that the distro is flawed? Not good enough.
- My wife's netbook would randomly crash, and on reboot have lost half its filesystem.
Never seen a corruption of any file system, EVER. Same as first point.
- Major (recent) releases have shipped without working WPA.
Really? Which ones? WPA security is all I've ever used (as using WEP is foolish) and in fact I've use it with both TKIP and AES, and never had a problem. So which release specifically had a problem? Remember, I've been using it since Fiesty.