The problem with opting out of tracking without blocking advertising is also this:
You're likely to see the same advert many times in a row, because the tracking mechanisms also interact with the ad serving (as outlined in the doubleclick reference above). These interactions limit how often you see ads based on the advertiser's settings - they know that if you see their advert too many times in a row / too often, it will generate an adverse reaction to their product/service/company.
If it weren't for interbutts advertising, all you'd find on the intertubes would be dry research material and 'HI THIS IS LARUENS [sic] HOMEPAGE AND HERE IS MY CAT PICTURES! HI THERE!@!! SIGN MAH GUEST BOOK~~~ MUAH~~~' type pages. Replete with spinning kitty paw gifs. And probably a few <marquee> tags.
We would not have rich internet news. Social news (e.g. digg and slashdot) wouldn't be viable. And forget free porn (outside of irc chatrooms run out of a basement in bulgaria to find someone to webcam with over netmeeting).
See European universities for examples of how this really works.
See European primary schools as to how their universities can work like this. One of the things taught in our Colleges and Universities is how to think. Much of that is un-teaching a lot of 'skills' learned in high school.
Seriously, I went to a school that had a Fashion Marketing major. FASHION MARKETING. What the hell kind of a major is that? And what could you possibly talk about in the core classes? "Like, if you need something from, like, one of those icky computer guys, just open a button on your blouse and bat your eyelashes! Tee hee!"
Seriously, while you blow off this major it is a shitton of work. It involves business, art, and psychology. It is an incredibly competitive field (While I'm a programmer, I also have friends and acquaintances outside of programming).
The kind of person you described is precisely the kind of person who gets into it because they think they know fashion, and think it's going to be an easy degree to attain. If they go to a school that actually has a serious fashion department, they're going to be overwhelmed with doing hundreds of fashion sketches and sewing projects into the wee hours of the night. One of my good friends is working her way through FIT right now, and gets less sleep than some of the people I knew that went through (decent) CS degrees at, e.g., UNC-CH or NCSU. (yeah, 'crappy state schools'.... NCSU has a nuclear reactor, betches).
Besides. who besides dev ever thinks that having QA and dev performed by the same people is a good idea?
You've never heard of Test-driven Development, have you? Of course, it doesn't replace QA, but it puts some of the QA role in the hands of the developer.
People are either complicit or complacent. It's almost always been the case, and people are either too ignorant or too lazy to truly understand the issues - so they vote with what the media tells them, instead of researching records, facts, and generally going about things in an informed manner.
A democratic republic only works when the voting populace is informed and active - and we don't have that. Thus the democratic process breaks down and becomes a capitalist oligarchy.
I didn't have problems with a lot of the "this is cgi" parts.
I had problems with the fact that nighttime scenes were just daytime scenes with a fucking blue filter.
Oh, yeah, and the fremen walked around without their fucking stillsuits on. (or the mouthpieces)
"and yet you act as if the whole 2500-mile wide continent should already be wired-up with fiber."
No, I'm acting as if my neighborhood in brooklyn, five miles from areas in queens which have FiOS, and the fact that my neighborhood has a higher population density than many areas of queens, should be wired up.
The problem is this-Highly populated areas.Basically the only places they are bothering to compete is in the choicest neighborhoods while the rest of the country can go rot.
This is so correct - and it's not just the highly populated areas - and it's not limited to cable. For example, FiOS has not rolled out in my Brooklyn neighborhood (Bushwick) yet. Bushwick is an up-and-coming neighborhood, so it's low on the list (even though rolling out things like FiOS would attract more wealthy people to the area. This is seen as both a good thing and a bad thing: good in that there would be nicer stores, safer streets; bad in that the lower income families in the area would get pushed out like what happened in Williamsburg, BK a few years ago and to some extent is still happening).
Just be aware that this problem isn't just about broadband either. It's also about education quality (suburbs with medium density and high incomes have better education typically than both rural and metropolitan schools), healthcare quality (not just ratio of population to doctors, but also how many people have health insurance and the quality of doctors), water air and soil quality, road quality..
They gave up their rights to rely on the marketplace when they signed on to government-endorsed monopoly status.
I would have absolutely NO qualms about allowing the marketplace to sort this out - unfortunately, the marketplace is artificially sparse.
If a power company with government-mandated monopoly was blocking power to your electric oven because it sucked down too much juice and you ran it all the time, the government would get involved.
If an internet company with government-mandated monopoly blocks bits to a piece of software because it uses too much bandwidth, the regluatory body (FCC) should get involved.
That's how it should work. If you want the government to keep you in power, you gotta make sure your services don't fuck people over. If you don't like it, have fun competing and - well - making consumers happy by striving to have the best and least expensive service. Common fucking sense. Unfortunately there's nothing common about it..
(For those of you who don't think this is an enforced monopoly - Right now I only have one choice for broadband - optimum. Time warner services buildings two blocks from me, but I'm in a different district in brooklyn and TW is legally restricted from servicing the area -- because it's optimum's area.)
I'm willing to bet that any licensed software is freely available from internal google downloads, along with the legal license to said software. Google has the money to, after all.
a) I'm fairly certain google employees would review each others code before commits. TFA mentions they have automated scripts that check security of code. b) I got nothin', though I'm willing to bet the search algorithm is one of those things that not many people get to see/tinker with.
I dream of a city of the future. Big forward thinking tech companies find some land at some highway crossing somewhere, invest in offices and infrastructure:
green buildings
pleasant new-urban architecture and space-planning
zip-car-like service for out of city travel
agrarian roofs
underground transit system for deliveries
pebble-bed reactors for power, or:
divert small portions of a large local river to a series of graded undeground vortex turbines as needed for provisional power, combined with solar and wind. A mid-western location would be best, as it provides for both small-unit-scalable hydro and wind
prohibit fossil fuels for transportation within the city by providing suitable zip-car-like service for electric cars within the city limits, and hybrid cars for out-of-city travel; efficient public transportation system; efficient underground delivery-on-rails for freight
utilize cradle-to-cradle philosophy where possible
What you end up with is:
A beautiful, livable AND dense city for technology-oriented companies to open offices in. Optimal outdoor space use generates congregating areas that people actually want to go to. Easy to use and clean (in terms of power) public transportation with private transportation for those who want it; sustainable agrarian supply of perishables - imagine buying groceries from the corner store and having them be delivered from forty feet away instead of a thousand miles..
It would probably never happen, but who knows:) I wouldn't live there until a suitable artistic / musician culture blossomed...
I get more annoyed at having to wait on the tarmac for an hour before we actually take off than waiting at the gate to board the plane. I almost wish they wouldn't actually board the planes until the rest of the system is ready.
The gates may be the bottleneck when arriving, but the runways are the bottleneck when departing.
The funny thing is, though, pulling the DNS record for wikileaks.org is more akin to covering up a crate of teapots with a tarp to hide the address on the crate.
Sure, for some people it hides it. But anyone who walks up to the tarp and lifts it up can see the address (the analogy of course, referring to the fact that wikileaks is registered on several different international registrars).
I'm not discounting that it's a severe example of governmental prior restraint: simply pointing out the fact that JB believes it was a "nuclear" option when in fact, well..
Well, there's a bunch of syntactical / logical errors in there. I blame it on the tequila.
(mainly this.permissions["class"] should be this.permissions[class] but, you get the point)
Sorry, I spent the first 20-some-odd years of my life living in a suburbia in north carolina that national geographic described as "A Futuristic Pleasantville."
I drove on average sixty miles a day. And that was before I started delivering pizzas.
you take for granted the products of rural environments that make your day to day life possible
No, I seek out restaurants that advertise as being supplied by local (usually up-state NY and Connecticuit) farms. I tend to eat organically. I take the groceries I buy very seriously, and shy away from things grown in other portions of the country due to the horrendous pollution created by shipping them.
When we're *not* driving around we can partake in enjoyable activities that aren't available to city dwellers. Space hungry hobbies. Private outdoor spaces. Quiet. Homes with no shared walls or floors.
When I'm taking public transportation, I can catch up on reading. I just finished reading On the Road, directly following Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. I spent too much time commuting when I lived in suburbia to accomplish these tasks.
What about things that are not available to those in suburbia? Lively local music scenes, community spaces, etc.
I live in a loft that has no shared walls, and due to the original warehouse construction of the building has very thick floors. I can listen to my music as loud as I want, and so can my neighbors. The only walls I share are with the hallway. Oh yes, and I also have 14 foot ceilings and eight foot windows. Try finding an affordable house with these two features throughout the building.
So before you go spewing how I'm an ignorant city-dweller who knows nothing about living outside the city, get your head on straight and kindly blow it out your ass, you short-sighted idiot.
Also realize that most NYC dwellers eat out more often and at healthier restaurants than the only ones that survive in suburbia - applebees, fridays, and fast food bullshit.
It is a tragedy that you spend so much fuel (our subways are powered by cleaner fuels like natural gas, I pay more for my electric bill to subsidize ConEd's renewable energy sources) on the road to your big-box stores that ruin local environments and local business alike. It is a tragedy that your food on average travels over a thousand miles. Mine doesn't, it travels on average about fifty to a hundred miles. It is a tragedy that you spend all day cooped up in your McMansion, ignoring the world and the culture going on about you. No man is an island. Once gas prices rise to 16 dollars a gallon (which they will in, oh.. a couple of decades if things stay on track), have fun paying ten dollars for a california-grown tomato, and eight dollars per pound of chicken. I'll be using the most efficient transportation possible to bring locally grown produce (and by that time, likely more green-roof farms within the city), and likely have a lower cost of living than you will.
That is, unless this car takes off. That's why I'm excited about this car, you see. It allows the suburbians with their additively poorly built mcmansions and inefficient commutes and their big-box stores with their three-thousand-mile imports for food and toys actually continue to live their life the way they have. Albeit with a quieter, more efficient car.
So get your head out of your ass, good sir. I was cheering for this because it allows you to continue being a fat suburban slob. At least you'll die of heart disease before I do.
(and you think that walking ten minutes to the grocery store is an issue? what do you think all that walking does for you? When I first moved to the city a few years ago, about fifteen pounds melted off. Shit you not. It's healthier living, if you know how to live healthier. And I don't have to spend a fortune at a gym to walk on a treadmill - I can take a walk through a park on the way home.)
The only people on the edge of bankruptcy from their mortgage are people who bought outside of their means, and it is a small minority of suburban homeowners. Far smaller than those urban dwellers on the edge of bankruptcy from their credit card debt.
Sorry, but new york city has one of the best average credit ratings in the country. And while the cost of living is higher here, the average salaries are even higher. So you save here while you work, then retire to somewhere cheap and live like royalty;)
Slashdot Mirror
The problem with opting out of tracking without blocking advertising is also this: You're likely to see the same advert many times in a row, because the tracking mechanisms also interact with the ad serving (as outlined in the doubleclick reference above). These interactions limit how often you see ads based on the advertiser's settings - they know that if you see their advert too many times in a row / too often, it will generate an adverse reaction to their product/service/company.
Mod parent up.
If it weren't for interbutts advertising, all you'd find on the intertubes would be dry research material and 'HI THIS IS LARUENS [sic] HOMEPAGE AND HERE IS MY CAT PICTURES! HI THERE!@!! SIGN MAH GUEST BOOK~~~ MUAH~~~' type pages. Replete with spinning kitty paw gifs. And probably a few <marquee> tags.
We would not have rich internet news. Social news (e.g. digg and slashdot) wouldn't be viable. And forget free porn (outside of irc chatrooms run out of a basement in bulgaria to find someone to webcam with over netmeeting).
The kind of person you described is precisely the kind of person who gets into it because they think they know fashion, and think it's going to be an easy degree to attain. If they go to a school that actually has a serious fashion department, they're going to be overwhelmed with doing hundreds of fashion sketches and sewing projects into the wee hours of the night. One of my good friends is working her way through FIT right now, and gets less sleep than some of the people I knew that went through (decent) CS degrees at, e.g., UNC-CH or NCSU. (yeah, 'crappy state schools'
Nah, nah. It's "Poned." As in, "Ponied." ...PONIES!!!
People are either complicit or complacent. It's almost always been the case, and people are either too ignorant or too lazy to truly understand the issues - so they vote with what the media tells them, instead of researching records, facts, and generally going about things in an informed manner. A democratic republic only works when the voting populace is informed and active - and we don't have that. Thus the democratic process breaks down and becomes a capitalist oligarchy.
I didn't have problems with a lot of the "this is cgi" parts. I had problems with the fact that nighttime scenes were just daytime scenes with a fucking blue filter. Oh, yeah, and the fremen walked around without their fucking stillsuits on. (or the mouthpieces)
Maybe the people you work with at Walmart or Fry's or oh.. wait.. Infinadyne. Frontpage work well for you?
"and yet you act as if the whole 2500-mile wide continent should already be wired-up with fiber."
No, I'm acting as if my neighborhood in brooklyn, five miles from areas in queens which have FiOS, and the fact that my neighborhood has a higher population density than many areas of queens, should be wired up.
This is so correct - and it's not just the highly populated areas - and it's not limited to cable. For example, FiOS has not rolled out in my Brooklyn neighborhood (Bushwick) yet. Bushwick is an up-and-coming neighborhood, so it's low on the list (even though rolling out things like FiOS would attract more wealthy people to the area. This is seen as both a good thing and a bad thing: good in that there would be nicer stores, safer streets; bad in that the lower income families in the area would get pushed out like what happened in Williamsburg, BK a few years ago and to some extent is still happening).
Just be aware that this problem isn't just about broadband either. It's also about education quality (suburbs with medium density and high incomes have better education typically than both rural and metropolitan schools), healthcare quality (not just ratio of population to doctors, but also how many people have health insurance and the quality of doctors), water air and soil quality, road quality..
They gave up their rights to rely on the marketplace when they signed on to government-endorsed monopoly status.
I would have absolutely NO qualms about allowing the marketplace to sort this out - unfortunately, the marketplace is artificially sparse.
If a power company with government-mandated monopoly was blocking power to your electric oven because it sucked down too much juice and you ran it all the time, the government would get involved.
If an internet company with government-mandated monopoly blocks bits to a piece of software because it uses too much bandwidth, the regluatory body (FCC) should get involved.
That's how it should work. If you want the government to keep you in power, you gotta make sure your services don't fuck people over. If you don't like it, have fun competing and - well - making consumers happy by striving to have the best and least expensive service. Common fucking sense. Unfortunately there's nothing common about it..
(For those of you who don't think this is an enforced monopoly - Right now I only have one choice for broadband - optimum. Time warner services buildings two blocks from me, but I'm in a different district in brooklyn and TW is legally restricted from servicing the area -- because it's optimum's area.)
I'm willing to bet that any licensed software is freely available from internal google downloads, along with the legal license to said software. Google has the money to, after all.
a) I'm fairly certain google employees would review each others code before commits. TFA mentions they have automated scripts that check security of code.
b) I got nothin', though I'm willing to bet the search algorithm is one of those things that not many people get to see/tinker with.
Boggles my mind that you can't do this in C#, but you can in JavaScript!
Idiot Savant programming language...
Have fun having your mind dumped into the body of a criminal in order to pilot a Bussard ramjet to seed far-off planets with terraforming modules!
Just watch out for the kids when you get back to earth.
And another:
http://www.icobol.com/products/cgiruntime.shtml
I dream of a city of the future. Big forward thinking tech companies find some land at some highway crossing somewhere, invest in offices and infrastructure:
What you end up with is:
A beautiful, livable AND dense city for technology-oriented companies to open offices in. Optimal outdoor space use generates congregating areas that people actually want to go to. Easy to use and clean (in terms of power) public transportation with private transportation for those who want it; sustainable agrarian supply of perishables - imagine buying groceries from the corner store and having them be delivered from forty feet away instead of a thousand miles..
It would probably never happen, but who knows :) I wouldn't live there until a suitable artistic / musician culture blossomed...
Seriously.
I get more annoyed at having to wait on the tarmac for an hour before we actually take off than waiting at the gate to board the plane. I almost wish they wouldn't actually board the planes until the rest of the system is ready.
The gates may be the bottleneck when arriving, but the runways are the bottleneck when departing.
The funny thing is, though, pulling the DNS record for wikileaks.org is more akin to covering up a crate of teapots with a tarp to hide the address on the crate.
Sure, for some people it hides it. But anyone who walks up to the tarp and lifts it up can see the address (the analogy of course, referring to the fact that wikileaks is registered on several different international registrars).
I'm not discounting that it's a severe example of governmental prior restraint: simply pointing out the fact that JB believes it was a "nuclear" option when in fact, well..
IT'S A TARP.
At least it's not incredibly precise at the cost of being accurate!! ..Or is it?
Well, there's a bunch of syntactical / logical errors in there. I blame it on the tequila. (mainly this.permissions["class"] should be this.permissions[class] but, you get the point)
Even easier in js.
... }; ... }; ...
var student = function() {
var teacher = function() {
var user = function() {
this.init = function(class) {
this.prototype = (this.permissions["class"] == _TEACHER) ? teacher : student;
}
}
I drove on average sixty miles a day. And that was before I started delivering pizzas. No, I seek out restaurants that advertise as being supplied by local (usually up-state NY and Connecticuit) farms. I tend to eat organically. I take the groceries I buy very seriously, and shy away from things grown in other portions of the country due to the horrendous pollution created by shipping them. When I'm taking public transportation, I can catch up on reading. I just finished reading On the Road, directly following Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. I spent too much time commuting when I lived in suburbia to accomplish these tasks.
What about things that are not available to those in suburbia? Lively local music scenes, community spaces, etc.
I live in a loft that has no shared walls, and due to the original warehouse construction of the building has very thick floors. I can listen to my music as loud as I want, and so can my neighbors. The only walls I share are with the hallway. Oh yes, and I also have 14 foot ceilings and eight foot windows. Try finding an affordable house with these two features throughout the building.
So before you go spewing how I'm an ignorant city-dweller who knows nothing about living outside the city, get your head on straight and kindly blow it out your ass, you short-sighted idiot.
Also realize that most NYC dwellers eat out more often and at healthier restaurants than the only ones that survive in suburbia - applebees, fridays, and fast food bullshit.
It is a tragedy that you spend so much fuel (our subways are powered by cleaner fuels like natural gas, I pay more for my electric bill to subsidize ConEd's renewable energy sources) on the road to your big-box stores that ruin local environments and local business alike. It is a tragedy that your food on average travels over a thousand miles. Mine doesn't, it travels on average about fifty to a hundred miles. It is a tragedy that you spend all day cooped up in your McMansion, ignoring the world and the culture going on about you. No man is an island. Once gas prices rise to 16 dollars a gallon (which they will in, oh.. a couple of decades if things stay on track), have fun paying ten dollars for a california-grown tomato, and eight dollars per pound of chicken. I'll be using the most efficient transportation possible to bring locally grown produce (and by that time, likely more green-roof farms within the city), and likely have a lower cost of living than you will.
That is, unless this car takes off. That's why I'm excited about this car, you see. It allows the suburbians with their additively poorly built mcmansions and inefficient commutes and their big-box stores with their three-thousand-mile imports for food and toys actually continue to live their life the way they have. Albeit with a quieter, more efficient car.
So get your head out of your ass, good sir. I was cheering for this because it allows you to continue being a fat suburban slob. At least you'll die of heart disease before I do.
(and you think that walking ten minutes to the grocery store is an issue? what do you think all that walking does for you? When I first moved to the city a few years ago, about fifteen pounds melted off. Shit you not. It's healthier living, if you know how to live healthier. And I don't have to spend a fortune at a gym to walk on a treadmill - I can take a walk through a park on the way home.)