It's about the abysmal track record of Facebook and the absurd level of trust ignorant people put in a site that's whole purpose is to share your information as far and as wide as possible.
Google has long recommended https for gmail for precisely this reason. If you sign in from a web secure page, you should be fairly safe. All the injected scripts should be caught.
Man in the middle with a bogus certificate? I donno. Spoze its possible. (Does anyone really sign Google's certificates?).
But Tunisia hardly seems the technological hotbed of the mid east.
The fact that you can STILL TELL it needs to go to the cleaners says you could't smoke as much as you seem to suggest. Most smokers have no idea how bad they smell to non-smokers.
I doubt you can derive human like artificial intelligence from simple word order frequency charts.
People, or at least intelligent people, start saying something with destination in mind, nor simply to mimic some statistical summary.
Word order charts made today will be different in 6 months, as new phrases enter common usage, but does that mean human relationships or topics change that much over 6 months?
This reminds me more of the Bing TV ads than anything else.
I have trouble with Okular and Adobe Reader on linux as well. I suspect some form of embedded fonts were used that works well on windows but not elsewhere.
Oddly enough, google chrome's internal sandboxed pdf rendering engine has no problem on Windows or Linux, and since that is my normal browser I didn't even notice problems on Linux.
That last bit about "really interesting to browse through" was a pretty big clue, since I don't find any this all that interesting, or unexpected.
Word association games have been played for centuries.
Picking sets of following words given any first word is child's play, and doing it by computer is pretty meaningless until you add other characteristics, such as regional differences, time differences (50 years ago vs Today) or something to actually reveal something useful.
More interesting would be listing the most common previous words, given any particular word.
Everyone knows that squat almost always follows diddly, but what most often precedes squat?
his files are hosted in *.pdf files. tried looking at them in a windows 7 and an ubuntu machine, both have the text with unreadable lines through them. why would you host graphics as pdf?
Scalability is my guess. I found that using Chrome I could zoom such that the smallest text is visible (within the browser). Same with Foxit PDF reader.
Several news reports indicated that much if not most of the oil was digested by bacteria.
Some doubt this but nobody has been able to map plumes big enough to account for anywhere near the amount oil that was claimed to have been released. Not even close.
The oil was broken up into fine mist in the gulf which exposed the maximum amount of surface of each oil droplet, allowing for a rapid bloom of oil eating bacteria. In this region, (unlike some other spill zones) these bacteria are always around because there are always natural oil seeps in the gulf.
So how marine life is affected over the long term is yet to be determined. There may well be disperse clouds of oil affecting deep marine life which won't show up for several years.
I'm betting they will be adding a small amount of crapware, but part of the reason they didn't get the iPhone 3 years ago was because Jobs wouldn't let them cripple it or control it.
Jobs hasn't gotten any more accommodating over the years so I'm guessing VZW is taking the phone pretty much as dictated.
That doesn't mean it will be as fast or as friendly as the GSM models, because CDMA does calls OR data, and unless you are on wifi concurrently, you will have to wait till your call is done to check your facebook status or send that email.
Nor do I expect a lot of iphone users to immediately jump ship. Oh, they talk big in their hatred of AT&T, but when it comes to paying off that existing AT&T phone while starting a contract with VZW for the new phone the economics of the situation will quell their bravado.
Verizon certainly does not want a bunch of data-sucking iPhones on their network unless they can make money off of them.
No mention of cost yet, but they have already been carrying the heavy load of Android phones for some time. They use just as much data (if not more) than an iPhone.
Quote Verizon CEO:
"Whether they are iPhones or Droids, they are smartphones," Verizon Chief Executive Ivan G. Seidenberg said in a mid-November interview. "Regardless of the mix, we are prepared to carry more data."
I would wager it will be around 30 bucks, just like AT&T's unlimited plan was before they stopped selling it (although many are grandfathered into the unlimited).
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Warrant? Probable Cause?
Show me where it says that in Tunisian law!
If you won't read TFA and you won't read the summary, at least read the title.
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:middle+east
Read. It.
The middle east is a region, not a continent.
It's not about what ought to be.
It's about the abysmal track record of Facebook and the absurd level of trust ignorant people put in a site that's whole purpose is to share your information as far and as wide as possible.
The site doesn't even use https!!
So is Egypt.
The Middle East is a region, not a continent.
Google has long recommended https for gmail for precisely this reason. If you sign in from a web secure page, you should be fairly safe. All the injected scripts should be caught.
Man in the middle with a bogus certificate? I donno. Spoze its possible. (Does anyone really sign Google's certificates?).
But Tunisia hardly seems the technological hotbed of the mid east.
Clue:
If it were private, your information wouldn't be on facebook in the first place.
Have you been off planet for the last year or two?
PNG is a replacement for non-animated GIF only.
Really?
http://www.bradfordsherrill.com/images/animated.png
Might depend on your browser.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Not being able to paste into a text field with a quote tag in it on Slashdot of all places is a pretty good sign that, no.
What the hell are you talking about?
All I use is Chrome, and it works great for Slash Dot, and every other site I use. Pasting isn't a problem.
The fact that you can STILL TELL it needs to go to the cleaners says you could't smoke as much as you seem to suggest.
Most smokers have no idea how bad they smell to non-smokers.
I suspect that the PDF files are simply faulty.
Then how do you explain they work just fine for me on Win 7 and also in Google Chrome regardless of platform?
Sounds like this dress would need to go to the cleaners after simply hanging in your closet.
Linux/Windows people: If you want to view these things, you need to get some Mac fonts.
Not true.
I doubt you can derive human like artificial intelligence from simple word order frequency charts.
People, or at least intelligent people, start saying something with destination in mind, nor simply to mimic some statistical summary.
Word order charts made today will be different in 6 months, as new phrases enter common usage, but does that mean human relationships or topics change that much over 6 months?
This reminds me more of the Bing TV ads than anything else.
I have trouble with Okular and Adobe Reader on linux as well.
I suspect some form of embedded fonts were used that works well on windows but not elsewhere.
Oddly enough, google chrome's internal sandboxed pdf rendering engine has no problem on Windows or Linux, and since that is my normal browser I didn't even notice problems on Linux.
Quite possibly.
That last bit about "really interesting to browse through" was a pretty big clue, since I don't find any this all that interesting, or unexpected.
Word association games have been played for centuries.
Picking sets of following words given any first word is child's play, and doing it by computer is pretty meaningless until you add other characteristics, such as regional differences, time differences (50 years ago vs Today) or something to actually reveal something useful.
More interesting would be listing the most common previous words, given any particular word.
Everyone knows that squat almost always follows diddly, but what most often precedes squat?
his files are hosted in *.pdf files. tried looking at them in a windows 7 and an ubuntu machine, both have the text with unreadable lines through them. why would you host graphics as pdf?
Scalability is my guess. I found that using Chrome I could zoom such that the smallest text is visible (within the browser). Same with Foxit PDF reader.
No unreadable lines seen here.
And, sure enough, one day later doubting Thomas's rush to post is rewarded with a bitch slap from Steve Jobs.
Only if you have an iphone.
Android and Blackberry users report different.
Several news reports indicated that much if not most of the oil was digested by bacteria.
Some doubt this but nobody has been able to map plumes big enough to account for anywhere near the amount oil that was claimed to have been released. Not even close.
The oil was broken up into fine mist in the gulf which exposed the maximum amount of surface of each oil droplet, allowing for a rapid bloom of oil eating bacteria. In this region, (unlike some other spill zones) these bacteria are always around because there are always natural oil seeps in the gulf.
So how marine life is affected over the long term is yet to be determined. There may well be disperse clouds of oil affecting deep marine life which won't show up for several years.
I'm betting they will be adding a small amount of crapware, but part of the reason they didn't get the iPhone 3 years ago was because Jobs wouldn't let them cripple it or control it.
Jobs hasn't gotten any more accommodating over the years so I'm guessing VZW is taking the phone pretty much as dictated.
That doesn't mean it will be as fast or as friendly as the GSM models, because CDMA does calls OR data, and unless you are on wifi concurrently, you will have to wait till your call is done to check your facebook status or send that email.
Nor do I expect a lot of iphone users to immediately jump ship. Oh, they talk big in their hatred of AT&T, but when it comes to paying off that existing AT&T phone while starting a contract with VZW for the new phone the economics of the situation will quell their bravado.
It's a fun rumor, but I'm not sure I believe it.
Verizon certainly does not want a bunch of data-sucking iPhones on their network unless they can make money off of them.
No mention of cost yet, but they have already been carrying the heavy load of Android phones for some time. They use just as much data (if not more) than an iPhone.
Quote Verizon CEO:
"Whether they are iPhones or Droids, they are smartphones," Verizon Chief Executive Ivan G. Seidenberg said in a mid-November interview. "Regardless of the mix, we are prepared to carry more data."
I would wager it will be around 30 bucks, just like AT&T's unlimited plan was before they stopped selling it (although many are grandfathered into the unlimited).
Follow the money.
If they weren't already using their patents, do you think they would be paying 1.5 Billion?
iPhone has been "Coming to Verizon" for almost 3 years now.
You need only wait until this time tomorrow to determine if your comment was omniscience in action or merely another nattering nabob of negativism.