With all the comparing of friend-counts as a measure of social status, I treat Facebook and other social networking sites like a game of Global Thermonuclear War: the only way to win is not to play.
Or, to paraphrase an old military recruitment campaign slogan, all I need is a few good friends.
That depends on what you're searching for. I'd bet people spend more time per page on images.google.com single-handed than they do on regular searches.
At my workplace, we're forbidden from shutting our computers down at the end of the day. (Each desktop machine is used for distributed builds.) I keep Firefox open for weeks until it starts eating 100% of CPU for opening a link, then I kill-9 it and restart, restoring my tabs. I have 34 tabs open right now, though this one will be closed soon after I hit Submit.
And it doesn't appear to be a memory issue. I free up more memory by killing gnome-panel.
Sessions is what they'll use- and it'll be what many analytics (google included) use for measuring time spent at a site.
Is that why I've been getting page views that take forever to close their connection? They're keeping a download incomplete so that they can measure when the client gives up as time visited per page?
Anyway, they shouldn't just abandon page hits for time spent. Lots of quick impressions should be just as valuable as a few long impressions, maybe even more so(1) depending on the type of ads being sold (static splash vs. animated flash).
(1) Spell-check says "moreso" isn't a word? I'm sure I've seen it before.
I wonder how you'd feel if you knew rats are being used to find landmines?
If they were doing it in my platoon? Back when they used to drive sheep across fields to detonate landmines, you knew you'd be eating fresh mutton at evening's mess. With rats, I'd probably skip a few meals.
Well, this message's (actual) parent is gonna get modded Redundant because I was a bit slow in composing my reply. (My excuse: if I keep my session open too long, every clicked link pegs my CPU for what feels like half a minute, new tabs longer.)
It would be nice if slashcode's Preview would inform a poster about other replies that were made to the parent posting since the new posting was started or last previewed. That might cut down on the number of redundant follow-ups where some posters compose slower than others and don't think to click the parent's message number to reopen it in a new tab to check for other replies first.
Under the authority granted me as director of weapons research and development, I commissioned last year a study of this project by the Bland corporation. Based on the findings of the report, my conclusion was that this idea was not a practical deterrent, for reasons which, at this moment, must be all too obvious.
I meant ethics in general, not specific to the story at hand. Well, that's slashdot. Sometimes we steer our responses to comments so as to relate to the story at hand and not the wider concepts. It happens.
So does that mean I could examine every single file on your computer, including your e-mail, passwords, financial data, etc, by saying I'm looking for kiddie-porn?
No, it doesn't. Was I not clear on that point? The ends do not justify the means.
But you should expect it and only be surprised when they don't.
Does it matter that I'm also not a law enforcement agent, much less one with a search warrant?
Don't be surprised when evidence from an illegal search by a citizen not operating under color of law enforcement is allowed into evidence in court, and that citizen not have to face any charges of electronic trespass (no reasonable expectation of privacy, no technician-client privilege).
If you have anything questionable on your machine, even just one illegal installation of pirated software, you don't want anything to do with outside service of your device. Anything they find that is illegal they'll have to report, because they don't know they aren't being tested for failure to not report (the law wants reliable snitches doing PC repair).
Indeed, you should expect data retention policies to be expanded to PC repair business being required to clone clients' hard drives for possible subpoena later.
Prying into the personal documents of your customers is not the least bit in a "grey area".
But what if it was under the aegis of Thinking Of the Children(TM), i.e. finding and catching pedophiles? I'm sure you could find a lot of people having no problem with that (until they find out their own little Billy has been taking pictures of himself using Daddy's laptop's built-in webcam).
$6.50 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Douglas Theaters though has a monopoly on them here.
There used to be a nine-screen theater that had second-run movies for $2.50 (undercutting Blockbuster rentals!), but it has been torn down, and I haven't heard of them opening a replacement.
What about Professor Mann's EyeTap and similar devices?
Man, I'd like one of those to identify and replace all the billboards with simple black-on-white images like "Stay Asleep", "Obey", "Watch TV", and "Marry and Reproduce", money with "This Is Your God", and alien zombie-like faces on all politicians.
From the article:
Mr Diallo was arrested after allegedly smuggling a video recorder, video player and remote control into a preview of the film in the Bronx.
WTF would he need a video player? Don't most modern recorders have built-in LCDs?
Much like how a CD copying operation in a garage with four 32x burners is reported as having the equivalent of 128 CD burners, the player probably was the one built into the camera.
Using a remote prevents jitter starting and stopping the recording as well as disassociation from the camera if it is found. Of course, a theater would be smart enough to stake out the camera until it is retrieved rather than prevent it from gathering evidence of the crime.
Now if you could get a cheap-ass wireless webcam with sufficient frame rate, you could be streaming the data to storage out in the parking lot and write off the camera. Even better, you could get multiple captures to improve the quality. (There was an open wireless router accessible in the theater at the last movie I attended.)
That still doesn't work. You can recharge an iPhone, but to replace it is like the gas tank on your Ferrari first got partially filled with silt reducing its capacity, then developed holes that prevented it from retaining fuel for any reasonable amount of time, requiring the tank to be replaced. And yes, that will be expensive.
But you'd be rightfully upset if the fuel tank would need replacing as often as a cell phone's battery would and wasn't an operation you could do yourself with little fuss and regular access to replacement tanks, yet strangely tolerant that you'd need to buy Ferrari-branded tanks that will need replacement again later.
And it'd suck if you lost acceleration every time you went through a tunnel.
Unlike other phones that have their own custom batteries designed to fit their cases and where that model gets phased out in two years and the replacement battery supply ends?
It's like printer ink cartridges except you're allowed to fill them up until they wear out, then you have to pay a lot to get a new cartridge that even fits your printer (and refilling them improperly wears them out faster).
Imagine if there were no standards for any type of battery, where each flashlight required custom batteries from its manufacturer. Maybe it's time we demanded standardization for phone, camcorder, and laptop batteries, and no more of this "use of other than [device-brand] batteries will void your warranty".
and then make a huge PR event out of the fact that he's legally sane.
It makes one wonder why he'd rather be declared legally sane instead of just being regarded as sane for behaving in a sane manner. Do you know what passes under the law as still being legally sane compared to what the general populace thinks of as sanity? I mean, look at Jack Thompson!
The explanation for why humans ended up looking like grey aliens is pretty funny too. Essentially, when body modification became common, anime big eyes and small mouths became really popular and then fashion eventually trended that way.
Whereas a more serious explanation is that as humans became more space-bound, muscle and bone growth in limbs and torsos atrophied while cranial/intellectual development continued. Eyes developed to be more suitable to the black of space and lowered artificial lighting power demands, while oral and olfactory organs atrophied from long term subsistence on bland manufactured food. Grey skin due to lack of melanin production needed to protect against UV sunlight, with resulting vitamin deficiencies counteracted by diet.
More simply, they're the result of generations of space-born humans.
Lack of recent contact presumably due to ongoing development of or failure to re-adapt their genome to planetary life, perhaps settling on a nearby sub-G planet or asteroid in underground settlement, or maintaining vessels at locations eclipsed from Earth view to prevent observation by grounded population. Or they have abandoned this epoch for another more conducive to isolation.
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With all the comparing of friend-counts as a measure of social status, I treat Facebook and other social networking sites like a game of Global Thermonuclear War: the only way to win is not to play.
Or, to paraphrase an old military recruitment campaign slogan, all I need is a few good friends.
No, most are bug reports assigned for me to fix or change requests assigned for me to implement.
That depends on what you're searching for. I'd bet people spend more time per page on images.google.com single-handed than they do on regular searches.
Flash can tell when the page is actually visible.
Flash can also tell if you're sitting in front of your webcam and hear what you're talking about if you let it.
At my workplace, we're forbidden from shutting our computers down at the end of the day. (Each desktop machine is used for distributed builds.) I keep Firefox open for weeks until it starts eating 100% of CPU for opening a link, then I kill-9 it and restart, restoring my tabs. I have 34 tabs open right now, though this one will be closed soon after I hit Submit.
And it doesn't appear to be a memory issue. I free up more memory by killing gnome-panel.
Anyway, they shouldn't just abandon page hits for time spent. Lots of quick impressions should be just as valuable as a few long impressions, maybe even more so(1) depending on the type of ads being sold (static splash vs. animated flash).
(1) Spell-check says "moreso" isn't a word? I'm sure I've seen it before.
Well, this message's (actual) parent is gonna get modded Redundant because I was a bit slow in composing my reply. (My excuse: if I keep my session open too long, every clicked link pegs my CPU for what feels like half a minute, new tabs longer.)
It would be nice if slashcode's Preview would inform a poster about other replies that were made to the parent posting since the new posting was started or last previewed. That might cut down on the number of redundant follow-ups where some posters compose slower than others and don't think to click the parent's message number to reopen it in a new tab to check for other replies first.
I presume Samba gives special meaning to even vs. odd sub-revisions and they don't want to mess that up.
If this keeps up, the only person who will be able to get in or out of New York will be Snake Plissken.
And here I though the story was about the abuse of medical mice.
You know what the coal miners say: never send a mouse to do a canary's job.
But you should expect it and only be surprised when they don't. Don't be surprised when evidence from an illegal search by a citizen not operating under color of law enforcement is allowed into evidence in court, and that citizen not have to face any charges of electronic trespass (no reasonable expectation of privacy, no technician-client privilege).
If you have anything questionable on your machine, even just one illegal installation of pirated software, you don't want anything to do with outside service of your device. Anything they find that is illegal they'll have to report, because they don't know they aren't being tested for failure to not report (the law wants reliable snitches doing PC repair).
Indeed, you should expect data retention policies to be expanded to PC repair business being required to clone clients' hard drives for possible subpoena later.
IANAL.
$6.50 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Douglas Theaters though has a monopoly on them here.
There used to be a nine-screen theater that had second-run movies for $2.50 (undercutting Blockbuster rentals!), but it has been torn down, and I haven't heard of them opening a replacement.
Using a remote prevents jitter starting and stopping the recording as well as disassociation from the camera if it is found. Of course, a theater would be smart enough to stake out the camera until it is retrieved rather than prevent it from gathering evidence of the crime.
Now if you could get a cheap-ass wireless webcam with sufficient frame rate, you could be streaming the data to storage out in the parking lot and write off the camera. Even better, you could get multiple captures to improve the quality. (There was an open wireless router accessible in the theater at the last movie I attended.)
That still doesn't work. You can recharge an iPhone, but to replace it is like the gas tank on your Ferrari first got partially filled with silt reducing its capacity, then developed holes that prevented it from retaining fuel for any reasonable amount of time, requiring the tank to be replaced. And yes, that will be expensive.
But you'd be rightfully upset if the fuel tank would need replacing as often as a cell phone's battery would and wasn't an operation you could do yourself with little fuss and regular access to replacement tanks, yet strangely tolerant that you'd need to buy Ferrari-branded tanks that will need replacement again later.
And it'd suck if you lost acceleration every time you went through a tunnel.
Unlike other phones that have their own custom batteries designed to fit their cases and where that model gets phased out in two years and the replacement battery supply ends?
It's like printer ink cartridges except you're allowed to fill them up until they wear out, then you have to pay a lot to get a new cartridge that even fits your printer (and refilling them improperly wears them out faster).
Imagine if there were no standards for any type of battery, where each flashlight required custom batteries from its manufacturer. Maybe it's time we demanded standardization for phone, camcorder, and laptop batteries, and no more of this "use of other than [device-brand] batteries will void your warranty".
Gotta keep those lovin' good
Vibrations a happenin' with her.
More simply, they're the result of generations of space-born humans.
Lack of recent contact presumably due to ongoing development of or failure to re-adapt their genome to planetary life, perhaps settling on a nearby sub-G planet or asteroid in underground settlement, or maintaining vessels at locations eclipsed from Earth view to prevent observation by grounded population. Or they have abandoned this epoch for another more conducive to isolation.