This. Google's search results were *so* much more useful when you could "ban" the spam like experts-exchange and all the other link farming crap.
Along that same line of thinking: it would really be awesome would be able to both whitelist and blacklist sites.
Say I have 10 or 20 or so favorite code related sites I like to search. I enter in a few terms and Google only searches *my* sites. This could be really useful and to me is distinctly different than a star/bookmark.
The "those guys are pushing a religion" is a pretty commonly used phrase to denigrate the opposing argument.
For whatever it's worth, I agree with the need for skepticism but not hyperbole like "calling a spade a spade." The AGW debate needs cooler heads and rational discussion, not more colorful language.
And you completed the circle by calling the other side a kind of religious zealot. Maybe we can all do a bit better and leave out the characterizations, don't you think?
You hear what you want to hear. If you wanted an Android specific example, it doesnt take long to see Gameloft has setup their own (Steam-like) market, completely shutting out Google. They clearly see a chance to make some money (though they are not without complaint towards Android either).
But that wasn't the topic at hand. It was an analogy as to why Carmack hasn't had as much success as he could have on the PC and console platforms.
The purpose of the analogy was that he *could* see challenge as opportunity. But since that analogy didn't fit your conclusion that "people are just annoyed" you tried to change the premise to why those PC/console vendors aren't into mobile gaming, which is irrelevant.
I really don't mean this to sound rude but, maybe you should examine your own motives for posting rather than play amrchiar psychologist to Slashdot?
Assage's Defense Laywer: Your Honor, I move to dismiss this evidence based on the latest rebuttal posted by a Slashdot AC Judge: Irrefutable! Evidence dismissed!
Which is why Value ate their lunch. As I said in another post: Valve/Bioware/Blizzard see opportunity while Carmack worries about it being hard or boring work.
Agreed. I was a bit surprised he was complaining about having to setup a content download server too. I guess it's becoming more clear why Valve and Bioware ate Id's lunch in the PC world. Carrmack sees "extra work" and the others see opportunity.
I'm not sure explicit consent is required as much as a singular, easy-to-find method of opting out.
It should be created in a way that doesn't cause websites to freeze or browsers to crash. If a website wants to require tracking in exchange for displaying content, that is their right, however the current state of things web apps just fail and crash and generally don't behave correctly when cookies aren't enabled or JavaScript is disabled.
This is the very thing Mozilla (and the W3C) need to lead the charge on. No closed source company is going to push for this. In fact, this seems like part of why Firefox was created. IE had a hegemony on the market and it was harming to end users that they didnt protect privacy, implement standards, and was generally bloaty and insecure. If Mozilla cant hold true to their mission, perhaps it's time to fork it.
You may disagree, but that's merely one perspective. You probably have a set of experiences that lead you think that that very much are in line with the philosophy. Nothing wrong with that. I've had some very opposite ones -- where the "idea guys" were a dime a dozen.
People who are passionate about their work change the world. No one wants to stress grueling over spaghetti code and shell scripts for that great idea if they aren't integral to the idea process.
Many companies have seen a lot of success by abolishing such ideas and opted for more of a flat structure than hierarchical. I'm sure you've heard of Google. I think Apple is another example (though I'm not sure how their structure works). Still the point is, the ideas are obvious and simple, but the implementations have made great success for those companies.
Also, very few people ever work on the next big idea. Rather, most ideas, to me, seem like obvious rehashes and copies of things that came before them. The implementation of the idea that finally gets it right is what often makes the difference. In my opinion, chasing "the next big idea" is a fool's errand for marketers and naive investors.
Flash's behavior when disable cookies is really terrible, mostly due to developers that don't care about such a situation. However, this is pretty much the same with any given HTML/javascript web app. From my perspective simply blaming Flash isn't constructive.
The real problem is having multiple locations to store local data and no single place to clear it. I'd say the browsers and W3C should be the solution to this. They should really put their collective foot down and set a standard by which plugins are allowed to store data and integrate with the browser. This would go a long way towards solving a lot of the privacy concerns of Flash and HTML5. There would still be some tricks to identify a user (font list, user agent string, plugin versions, etc) but again the solution is the same.
Yeah, that's why I called it an allegory -- it's more of a lesson in simplicity than anything else. Didn't know about the graphite though. Sort of put's an interesting twist on the lesson though doesn't it.
If it's mandatory though, would that shut out third-party or smartphone based GPS systems/entertainment systems? It seem like there is some angle here but I can't be sure.
Reminds me of the NASA space pen allegory. But what really worries me is putting home theater center in dash. Is it just me or does it seem like little to no consideration is given to how many deaths are caused by driver distraction? Maybe I'm getting old too, but it seems like oncoming headlights have gotten way too bright when I'm driving. Don't even get me started on the giant blinking red billboard that reads "Buckle up for your safety." I wonder how many people look at the sign instead of the road.
It seems like they only make cars safer if it can co-inside with a feature that will raise the price or sell more cars.
You're sarcasm aside, that term seems to me to be a mis-representation by laymen and marketing folk; just like "beacon" and all the others. Look at one of the image tags for the article -- Soulskill mis-tagged it with the bug picture. The reality is, it's a tracking pixel.
Still, you're right, mea culpa. I didn't know that term, even having worked in online advertising and publishing for many years. But it's hard to know all the names marketing folk come up with.
However, I don't think this changes the fact that this is stupid blog-spam about an almost universally used, 10 year old technique that the article seems to think is something new. This has been around and used as long as HTML email has been around. They could call it a blue penguin if they wanted but it wouldn't change anything. Imagine an article worrying about the fact that websites might be tracking visitors using "logs" or that newfangled "javascript."
Agreed. This isn't the kind of article that belongs on Slashdot. Email tracking has been going on probably almost 10 years.
The fact that this guy discovered 1x1 pixels in email and mis-attributes them to "bugs", is so technically incompetent I would think I am reading the technology section of AOL.
Reminds me of the old Hacker/Cracker debate. I think "jailbreaking" has entered into the popular lexicon. Laymen (and hence journalists) now use it in place of rooting/unlocking despite it being.....imprecise.
Since Apple's particularly restrictive measures to lock down their phones are responsible for this particular term, I'm not sure it's entirely uncalled for that they are catching a bit of collateral damage on this one.
Still, this is pretty similar to any type of unlocking such as PS3s being opened up to a different Linux distro. And, I find jail time to be excessive for DMCA violations, though I don't agree with the DMCA to begin with.
It's hard to imagine they were losing money with a service that charges based on usage... Even a DDOS should have just racked up the bill for Wikileaks, no?
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Not sure I follow, why would roaming charges collapse due to VOIP? I can't imagine corporations ever backing off extra money.
This. Google's search results were *so* much more useful when you could "ban" the spam like experts-exchange and all the other link farming crap.
Along that same line of thinking: it would really be awesome would be able to both whitelist and blacklist sites.
Say I have 10 or 20 or so favorite code related sites I like to search. I enter in a few terms and Google only searches *my* sites. This could be really useful and to me is distinctly different than a star/bookmark.
The "those guys are pushing a religion" is a pretty commonly used phrase to denigrate the opposing argument.
For whatever it's worth, I agree with the need for skepticism but not hyperbole like "calling a spade a spade." The AGW debate needs cooler heads and rational discussion, not more colorful language.
And you completed the circle by calling the other side a kind of religious zealot. Maybe we can all do a bit better and leave out the characterizations, don't you think?
You hear what you want to hear. If you wanted an Android specific example, it doesnt take long to see Gameloft has setup their own (Steam-like) market, completely shutting out Google. They clearly see a chance to make some money (though they are not without complaint towards Android either).
But that wasn't the topic at hand. It was an analogy as to why Carmack hasn't had as much success as he could have on the PC and console platforms.
The purpose of the analogy was that he *could* see challenge as opportunity. But since that analogy didn't fit your conclusion that "people are just annoyed" you tried to change the premise to why those PC/console vendors aren't into mobile gaming, which is irrelevant.
I really don't mean this to sound rude but, maybe you should examine your own motives for posting rather than play amrchiar psychologist to Slashdot?
Assage's Defense Laywer: Your Honor, I move to dismiss this evidence based on the latest rebuttal posted by a Slashdot AC
Judge: Irrefutable! Evidence dismissed!
Which is why Value ate their lunch. As I said in another post: Valve/Bioware/Blizzard see opportunity while Carmack worries about it being hard or boring work.
Agreed. I was a bit surprised he was complaining about having to setup a content download server too. I guess it's becoming more clear why Valve and Bioware ate Id's lunch in the PC world. Carrmack sees "extra work" and the others see opportunity.
I'm not sure explicit consent is required as much as a singular, easy-to-find method of opting out.
It should be created in a way that doesn't cause websites to freeze or browsers to crash. If a website wants to require tracking in exchange for displaying content, that is their right, however the current state of things web apps just fail and crash and generally don't behave correctly when cookies aren't enabled or JavaScript is disabled.
This is the very thing Mozilla (and the W3C) need to lead the charge on. No closed source company is going to push for this. In fact, this seems like part of why Firefox was created. IE had a hegemony on the market and it was harming to end users that they didnt protect privacy, implement standards, and was generally bloaty and insecure. If Mozilla cant hold true to their mission, perhaps it's time to fork it.
Fark's website is pretty fugly -- whoever did that design clearly wasn't a designer. However Slashdot's design is very nice and slick.
However Fark did add a rather nice mobile site recently, so points for that.
I was gonna say the same thing until I read your post :(
Doh!
You may disagree, but that's merely one perspective. You probably have a set of experiences that lead you think that that very much are in line with the philosophy. Nothing wrong with that. I've had some very opposite ones -- where the "idea guys" were a dime a dozen.
People who are passionate about their work change the world. No one wants to stress grueling over spaghetti code and shell scripts for that great idea if they aren't integral to the idea process.
Many companies have seen a lot of success by abolishing such ideas and opted for more of a flat structure than hierarchical. I'm sure you've heard of Google. I think Apple is another example (though I'm not sure how their structure works). Still the point is, the ideas are obvious and simple, but the implementations have made great success for those companies.
Also, very few people ever work on the next big idea. Rather, most ideas, to me, seem like obvious rehashes and copies of things that came before them. The implementation of the idea that finally gets it right is what often makes the difference. In my opinion, chasing "the next big idea" is a fool's errand for marketers and naive investors.
You realize you can uninstall it, right? You dont need Steve Jobs to do that for you, although I think he wants to. :)
Flash's behavior when disable cookies is really terrible, mostly due to developers that don't care about such a situation. However, this is pretty much the same with any given HTML/javascript web app. From my perspective simply blaming Flash isn't constructive.
The real problem is having multiple locations to store local data and no single place to clear it. I'd say the browsers and W3C should be the solution to this. They should really put their collective foot down and set a standard by which plugins are allowed to store data and integrate with the browser. This would go a long way towards solving a lot of the privacy concerns of Flash and HTML5. There would still be some tricks to identify a user (font list, user agent string, plugin versions, etc) but again the solution is the same.
Yeah, that's why I called it an allegory -- it's more of a lesson in simplicity than anything else. Didn't know about the graphite though. Sort of put's an interesting twist on the lesson though doesn't it.
If it's mandatory though, would that shut out third-party or smartphone based GPS systems/entertainment systems? It seem like there is some angle here but I can't be sure.
Reminds me of the NASA space pen allegory. But what really worries me is putting home theater center in dash. Is it just me or does it seem like little to no consideration is given to how many deaths are caused by driver distraction? Maybe I'm getting old too, but it seems like oncoming headlights have gotten way too bright when I'm driving. Don't even get me started on the giant blinking red billboard that reads "Buckle up for your safety." I wonder how many people look at the sign instead of the road.
It seems like they only make cars safer if it can co-inside with a feature that will raise the price or sell more cars.
OK, that's enough cynicism for one post...
When MacAfee comes out with a human honesty scanner, that'll help a lot.
I don't wanna know what happens when McAffee forces a reboot...
You're sarcasm aside, that term seems to me to be a mis-representation by laymen and marketing folk; just like "beacon" and all the others. Look at one of the image tags for the article -- Soulskill mis-tagged it with the bug picture. The reality is, it's a tracking pixel.
Still, you're right, mea culpa. I didn't know that term, even having worked in online advertising and publishing for many years. But it's hard to know all the names marketing folk come up with.
However, I don't think this changes the fact that this is stupid blog-spam about an almost universally used, 10 year old technique that the article seems to think is something new. This has been around and used as long as HTML email has been around. They could call it a blue penguin if they wanted but it wouldn't change anything. Imagine an article worrying about the fact that websites might be tracking visitors using "logs" or that newfangled "javascript."
Agreed. This isn't the kind of article that belongs on Slashdot. Email tracking has been going on probably almost 10 years.
The fact that this guy discovered 1x1 pixels in email and mis-attributes them to "bugs", is so technically incompetent I would think I am reading the technology section of AOL.
Reminds me of the old Hacker/Cracker debate. I think "jailbreaking" has entered into the popular lexicon. Laymen (and hence journalists) now use it in place of rooting/unlocking despite it being.....imprecise.
Since Apple's particularly restrictive measures to lock down their phones are responsible for this particular term, I'm not sure it's entirely uncalled for that they are catching a bit of collateral damage on this one.
Still, this is pretty similar to any type of unlocking such as PS3s being opened up to a different Linux distro. And, I find jail time to be excessive for DMCA violations, though I don't agree with the DMCA to begin with.
It's hard to imagine they were losing money with a service that charges based on usage... Even a DDOS should have just racked up the bill for Wikileaks, no?
It's a TARP?
Wouldn't that be underlords?