Homer: Or what? You’ll release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you? Well, go ahead—do your worst!
Facebook also makes a tidy sum from their Facebook "credits" by taking a 30% cut from app transactions on their platform.
This is a key understanding that I wish more people would get: Because of this, Facebook is financially aligned with Zynga's goals. IMHO this was a poor decision because it goes against what most of their users want out of a Facebook experience, which is more of their friends' content and less "Help me till my farm!" BS. Gotta pay the bills somehow, I suppose.
This is a horrible idea for engineering. It will highlight those who are good at marketing, no more, no less. This is not the metric you want to use for engineers.
1. Gather a list of hundreds of thousands of torrent downloader IPs. 2. Demand that these IPs be reversed to actual people and prosecuted at government cost. 3. Threaten that the RIAJ will start a public campaign accusing anyone who does not support the prosecution of everyone on the list of being "soft on crime". 4. Profit.
Socialize the costs, privatize the profits. This is a really big win for the recording industry.
I wonder if the females were basing the salary figures off of a relative number based on their own salary? That would explain the bias from them, if they were subject to it in their own hiring.
This just means that if employers want that sort of access, they have to go through official Facebook channels. Why else do you think Facebook supported this?
We need to fix this security issue. It's almost like we need a deposit insurance corporation, even a federal one, so we can ensure our bitcoins aren't stolen... *rolls eyes*
You guys keep doing the early adopter thing, and let me know when your "currency" gets to its inevitable state of being a clone of the existing currency system.
One of our clients wanted us to send notification messages over WhatsApp to end users, but they don't have an API and at the time, this third party library was not available. We told them we couldn't do it. Sounds like we avoided a shitstorm.
Red Hat (college told us to install a distro in a VM, basically to get us used to working in a shell and to train us on vim) -> SUSE (college again) -> Gentoo (this was when I started using Linux myself and wanted to set up a server from scratch on an old box of mine, it taught me a lot) -> Ubuntu (when I got tired of Vista fucking with me and wanted a desktop system) -> Linux Mint (when I got tired of Ubuntu fucking with me...)
Why in the world would I buy it when I can rent it for a third of a percent of that?
While that is a pretty good rent for such a house, the answer is that you could mortgage it over 20 years or so... *does back of envelope calculations* for about $700 a month, and have at least some of your money build equity. That means you're ultimately paying yourself, not your landlord, and at the end you can quit paying and continue living in the house (or sell it and move up). Of course, it all depends on the situation. If you're not planning on living there for a long time, renting can be more practical.
Contracts written by lawyers but signed by the illiterate? You're not dealing with educated customers, or even trained customers.
OK, so at the top of the contract:
"If you do not pay us on time, we reserve the right to spy on you and your use of our laptop."
I think that's obvious enough for anyone, and if they're really illiterate enough that that can't be understood, they can't really enter into contracts, can they?
Mostly I'm trying to come at this from the point of view of the rental company because they'll probably be going through the same thought process. I don't believe what they did is right, but I'm wondering if, given the permission of the users, what they did was legal.
Why would it have to be a click-through EULA? I would imagine at these rental places, they actually have to sign honest-to-God on-paper contracts anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Is that a bomb or are you just happy to see me?
That was exactly my first thought. Has Michael Chirtoff's company released a new product?
I will give $10 via PayPal to the first person who can convince the Foursquare API to accept that they're checking in from Mars.
Wow.
If this isn't the most obvious plot EVER for a Die Hard movie, I don't know what is. ;^)
Whoever submitted this
Bruce Perens writes
But hey, be pissed if you like, I thought it was an interesting story and I'm glad he posted it. I think you're taking Slashdot a bit too seriously.
Now I want to play the Pac-Man text adventure. I bet it could be made fun.
Homer: Bart, you’re coming home.
Bart: I want to stay here with Mr. Burns.
Burns: I suggest you leave immediately.
Homer: Or what? You’ll release the dogs, or the bees, or the dogs with bees in their mouths and when they bark they shoot bees at you? Well, go ahead—do your worst!
Facebook also makes a tidy sum from their Facebook "credits" by taking a 30% cut from app transactions on their platform.
This is a key understanding that I wish more people would get: Because of this, Facebook is financially aligned with Zynga's goals. IMHO this was a poor decision because it goes against what most of their users want out of a Facebook experience, which is more of their friends' content and less "Help me till my farm!" BS. Gotta pay the bills somehow, I suppose.
This is a horrible idea for engineering. It will highlight those who are good at marketing, no more, no less. This is not the metric you want to use for engineers.
1. Gather a list of hundreds of thousands of torrent downloader IPs.
2. Demand that these IPs be reversed to actual people and prosecuted at government cost.
3. Threaten that the RIAJ will start a public campaign accusing anyone who does not support the prosecution of everyone on the list of being "soft on crime".
4. Profit.
Socialize the costs, privatize the profits. This is a really big win for the recording industry.
I wonder if the females were basing the salary figures off of a relative number based on their own salary? That would explain the bias from them, if they were subject to it in their own hiring.
Let's just say I'm not entirely confident that I should trust ANY of my money with "Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange".
This just means that if employers want that sort of access, they have to go through official Facebook channels. Why else do you think Facebook supported this?
We need to fix this security issue. It's almost like we need a deposit insurance corporation, even a federal one, so we can ensure our bitcoins aren't stolen... *rolls eyes*
You guys keep doing the early adopter thing, and let me know when your "currency" gets to its inevitable state of being a clone of the existing currency system.
FWIW I would require a login.
Hey, I made someone's sig! I'm so proud. I'd like to thank GNAA trolls everywhere...
git clone git://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI.git
cd WhatsAPI
git checkout 476bb7a0d2d4def370c876a8557542ee21686f7f
Also, let's just all act like github isn't versioned. *whistles*
One of our clients wanted us to send notification messages over WhatsApp to end users, but they don't have an API and at the time, this third party library was not available. We told them we couldn't do it. Sounds like we avoided a shitstorm.
Red Hat (college told us to install a distro in a VM, basically to get us used to working in a shell and to train us on vim)
-> SUSE (college again)
-> Gentoo (this was when I started using Linux myself and wanted to set up a server from scratch on an old box of mine, it taught me a lot)
-> Ubuntu (when I got tired of Vista fucking with me and wanted a desktop system)
-> Linux Mint (when I got tired of Ubuntu fucking with me...)
Why in the world would I buy it when I can rent it for a third of a percent of that?
While that is a pretty good rent for such a house, the answer is that you could mortgage it over 20 years or so... *does back of envelope calculations* for about $700 a month, and have at least some of your money build equity. That means you're ultimately paying yourself, not your landlord, and at the end you can quit paying and continue living in the house (or sell it and move up). Of course, it all depends on the situation. If you're not planning on living there for a long time, renting can be more practical.
Contracts written by lawyers but signed by the illiterate? You're not dealing with educated customers, or even trained customers.
OK, so at the top of the contract:
"If you do not pay us on time, we reserve the right to spy on you and your use of our laptop."
I think that's obvious enough for anyone, and if they're really illiterate enough that that can't be understood, they can't really enter into contracts, can they?
Mostly I'm trying to come at this from the point of view of the rental company because they'll probably be going through the same thought process. I don't believe what they did is right, but I'm wondering if, given the permission of the users, what they did was legal.
Why would it have to be a click-through EULA? I would imagine at these rental places, they actually have to sign honest-to-God on-paper contracts anyway.
What if the users explicitly agreed to this spying in their rental contracts?