All the internet has done has made people more aware of the crap that goes on in other parts of the world. Made it so communication is instant. Made it so we don't have to leave our homes anymore.
But guess what? Just because you hear of stuff more now, doesn't mean it's happening more.
The reason it may seem like more people are depressed is not because of the internet, it's because more people now understand what depression is, and will do something about it (see a doctor, etc) then before. The stigma associated with it isn't like it used to be. It's okay to see a shrink now, where 20+ years ago it wasn't as much.
Society isn't getting worse off, what is happening is the crap you didn't know about, or ignored before, is easy to get to now the internet. That's the only difference.
I'm actually impressed how many of us are brave enough to NOT post a comment to this as Anonymous Coward
I ain't scared of them.
Actually worse thing they could do is make me care enough to do something about it.
Ever since I figured out the Holy Ghost con, i've had a special part in my soul for fucking with religions.
For those who haven't figured it out, The Holy Ghost con is where they try to get you to talk in tongues. Now they claim the holy ghost fills you, and causes you to speak in "unknown languages" (baby talk mostly). The con is, you will start doing it because everyone around you is doing it, and you don't want to fell "left out" or that "god didn't love you enough".
Unfortunatetly for the xians, I was a bit slow on picking up on social cues. So like 30 mins or so after all the other kids had gotten "filled with the holy ghost" I hadn't. So i got the idea to just pretend i did.
Granted it took me another 10 years to realize that was what everyone did. lol
Anyways, i know that really didn't have anything to do with the Scifags, but I really hate religons, so i had to bring it up.
Everyone here on/. knows Scientology is evil. But why did Anonymous do something stupid with a denial of service attack? Now the Scientologists can say Anonymous is a terrorist organization, get rid of all its critics using the PATRIOT act and get some good PR too. The only way Scientology will be defeated is if there is some major internal schism or everyone realizes they're not the nicest religion out there.
And who is anonymous?
They can declare war on anonymous, they can try to arrest anonymous.
that fact is, anonymous isn't a person, it isn't a group of people, it isn't a website, nor is it an organisation.
They can call the dude who got busted "Anonymous" they can try to say he belongs to it.
You're missing the idea behind Anonymous. We are not Anonymous because we hide our names. We are Anonymous because our names mean nothing. We are disillusioned mundane people who are nothing and mean nothing. We are something only as a Legion. We are fans of Fight Club, but without illusions, a leader or a purpose. And with more malice. We are tired with the system, and break it when and where we can. Our only powers are numbers, variety and unpredictability. Losing one or two of us means nothing.
They try to give a name to the threat, by providing the name of one of the people behind the Anonymous. That's like trying to fight avalanche by removing two rocks from it and giving them names.
Sounds like something the cockroaches say in the comics knows as "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers".
I think the rampant PC game piracy (almost 80-90%) can be blamed for this somewhat.
No, the idea that piracy matters is to blame for this. Caring about piracy is bad business. Two things matter when designing a good business plan:
People who will buy your product.
People who might buy your product.
The entire purpose of your sales and marketing strategy is to move people from the second category into the first. Some pirates are in a third category: people who definitely won't buy your product. Any money spent on this market segment is wasted. If they won't buy your product whatever you do, then it doesn't matter if they pirate it or just go without. It's frustrating, but that's an emotional issue and basing corporate decisions on emotions is rarely a good idea.
Some of the pirates are in the category of people who might buy your product. How do you turn them into people who will buy your product? There are several ways, but making your product worse, and making it comparatively worse than the pirated version, are not on the list. And yet, for some reason, they are the two strategies that most people involved in The War on Piracy seem to be choosing. Oddly enough, they are having about as much success as their counterparts in the wars on terror and drugs.
Agree totally. I will not buy a PC game before I try it, and sometimes i'm cool with demos, but not usually.
If i bought xbox 360 games, i'd have to play it first, either rent it or play it with someone i know.
I've been gaming since the 70's, and honestly, this is the only way I've found effective to spend my money.
Who's fault is that? The various companies that made the various software in the past. And oddly enough, quite a few of those are still around.
Not only this, but Mass Effect 2 for PC was out 4 days before release, entirely cracked and working, rending ALL the effort that went into the DRM scheme useless even on day 1, annoying SOLELY for the legal purchaser....This is ridiculous!!
Check out a torrent site for confirmation on this, s'all true.
I've played on almost every console system, and quite a few different computer systems.
And I base games off my enjoyment of them.
I play EQ2, have 2 accounts, I raid. Lets see, i'm paying $30 a month for 2 accounts, and once i year it seems i have to buy the game over again (latest expansion, but they don't sell the expansions seperate anymore), so in 3 weeks, i'm shelling out $80 for the new expansion.
I also pay roughly $8 a month for some multiboxing software (with other benefits) for EQ2.
So $38x12 + $80 = It doesn't matter.
I get enjoyment out of it.
But now, Pc & console games are sucking in comparison. I download every new game that comes out (oh ya, I pirate) to check out, and very few, I mean, very few stay on my computer and get played, and those I generally (not always, but mostly) end up buying a copy.
Fallout 3, Need for Speed series. Games I enjoy playing and games I bought after pirating them because I enjoyed them.
I've spent too many years being a consumer of this industry to let it play it's bullshit games on me.
The truth is, most companies don't want their games pirated because they know if peeps don't spend money on them before trying, they won't afterwards.
But when everything comes down to it. It's never about money, it's about enjoyment.
Like Dragon Age. I didn't enjoy the game. I was into the story at first, but after make a bunch of chars and doing the beginnings with them, I realised the game was a railroad ride for the most part. It would give you a yes or no choice. but if you hit no, it would just give you the choices over again. I mean, wtf? How is that choice? Then the game taking me 5 hours to complete.
Maybe i'm spoiled by Nes and Snes (and genesis too!) rpg games that took weeks to months to finish. Shesh, even the original SWKOTOR & it's sequel's storylines where a lot longer then that. Plus you had choice.
Only the stupid executives for the companies who make the games thinks in dollars. Which is why the budget for the games are getting bigger, and what you get when you buy it is smaller. Now they think they can package crap up in DLC's to drain more money out of you.
Sorry, if the game isn't enjoyable, you ain't getting any money out of me.
the story line was 5 hours long, and seeing as your choices were railroaded, there was only 3 different beginnings amoungs the various races and classess.
The game had great potential and was flawed in execution.
Step 1: Make a new bank account. Step 2: Use the new bank account for paypal. Step 3: When money gets deposited into the paypal bank account, move to another bank account. Step 4: When the freeze hits, it hits nothing to very little. Step 5: Profit!!!!!!
Like I said, there are valid reasons for that and you have one. But lets be honest here, most people are only interested about this because it can break copy protections and will use it solely for playing pirated games.
what is with you people?
Yes, of course peeps are going to use it to play backups of games. legal or not.
... when Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel left the Garden of Eden there were already cities which the sons took wives from. Creation was never meant to be instantaneous event but a metaphor for the creation of everything in the universe. Of course those who take it literally are missing the point entirely, but it doesn't make Genisis incompatible with modern science.
Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden before Cain and Abel were born. Eve likely conceived and bore females also (as Hebrew writings usually focus on male decedents and often leave out details of females). Cain likely married his sister (although Mosaic Law would later prohibit this practice, in-breeding was a requirement for the advancement of Adam and Eve's race).
The side-effects of in-breeding, mainly genetic deficiencies in offspring, would have little effect on the first offspring of genetically perfect parents. This could point to one explanation of why humans initially had longer lifespans, which decreased over time as human genetics degraded gradually because of further in-breeding in Noah's time after the flood (which seems to be the point in time which human lifespans reduced to near where we are today).
I personally think there is more to Genesis than metaphors.
Um, actually, no.
Genesis 4:
15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so [e] ; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, [f] east of Eden.
It goes on say he married his wife, then some lineage.
See, the bible is pretty clear on Adam and Eve having Cain & Able, the after that screwed up, they had Seth, then they had other daughters and sons.
From Genesis 5:
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.
So, we have a problem here. If there was no other men around, why was there a place called The Land of Nod? Who did Cain really marry?
And if we are all related, who were the Giants that the jews had to deal with in their land of promise? While we are talking some time, we aren't talking enough time for the world to go from 2 peeps, to having multi colors, and multi sizes in a few thousand of years.
Sort of like how the xians try to say you don't find fish with legs to argue against darwins theories, well, i use it in reverse. We have no evidence that humans change that fast, but do have evidence that we do over 10's of thousands to 100 of thousand years.
But then, logic just doesn't work on the sort of peeps who believe in religions.
My old player was 80gigs, but when I needed to buy a new one last month I was hard pressed to find one larger then 32gigs, with many being around the 16gig size.
The shrinking size has nothing to do with the size of media files and everything to do with flash memory having larger profit margins than hard drives.
ya, well, i think your problem might deal with the main 2 brands doing 80+gb mp3 players are Apple & Microsoft.
all I'm saying is that in the real world, your ideals and values mean NOTHING. when some gov official is raping your rights, you have NOTHING you can do about it.
nothing.
this is the powerless that we all feel as being part of the modern world.
nothing you can do about it, either. nothing.
sorry to break it to you but MANY things in this world are really really wrong and nothing you can do about it. your youthful ideals won't help you. just accept it. life has MANY things like this that you cannot fight or win.
do I like this? HELL NO. but I live in the real world.
There's nothing you can do about it because your a spineless wimp who obviously is a bottom by the way you are ready to bend over and take it while your rights are slipping away.
A few thousand people pirated our game after it was released. Did we lose any money? No. It pissed me off, but I didn't really lose anything because the people who rush out and pirate your game the second the crack is available are not the type of people who buy your game. There's the odd few that will pay for a game after they've pirated it (I used to do that when I was a kid), so they're not a loss either.
The app store price point is low enough that the people who would have bought the app/game otherwise... actually DO buy the game. We're not dealing in 70 dollar console/PC games.
You should be happy.
See, if they don't make a crack for your game, then it really sucks and isn't worth anyones time.
To clarify: "invited" by the absolute monarch of Saudi Arabia. Our presence was not at all popular with the population, but the king didn't particularly give a fuck.
Oh, and we executed Japanese commanders for authorizing the waterboarding of POWs during WWII. Can you explain why Bush and Cheney both shouldn't be in front of a firing squad?
Actually, I'm more for a public waterboarding of them, and all the other officials that allowed it.
Whatever you want to call them. I feel absolutely zero need to respect the current PC terminology for these superstitious middle easterners, or their so-called "religion." It's a cult of reality-challenged people, just like every other religion, and just like every other religion, it breeds more reality-challenged people doing moronic things.
As far as I'm concerned, our ideal path here is to crash develop electric vehicles, never buy another drop of oil from them, never let another one across our borders, and never send them another red cent. Let them eat sand, to vaguely paraphrase Marie Antoinette, and with about as much concern as her delivery.
Muslims don't come from any particular group of humans
Sure they do. They come from a nice mix of the gullible, the ignorant, and the reality-challenged. The same place Christians come from. It's purest superstition. They live their lives -- and die -- by/for an imaginary friend. They're natural idiots, or people of sadly lost potential made idiotic by consumption of mythology.
... "I thought it was the phone -- `Maybe this phone is just weird and does magical, horrible things and I have to get rid of it,'" said Candace Sawyer....
Reading through the discussion I looked down to remind myself where on my keyboard it was, only to find that my Logitech keyboard I've been using at work for the last 2 years doesn't even have a Syr rq key.
My work laptop does though as an alternative on the delete key.
Still, I didn't even realised it'd gone from my main keyboard!!
Weird, I have a bunch of various logitech keyboards, some newish some older, and they all, even the mini usb keyboards for the Playstation 2 have the sysreq keys.
I work for Tynt. I appreciate the discussion here and want to make sure that everyone knows we want to be respectful of the opinions here. Not sure i I will get flamed just for wading in, but I hope not.
To clarify on a few points
1. Tracking and Attribution – the attribution feature is separate from the tracking features. The tracking features work very much like any other analytics tool. We do not store any personally identifiable information, but we do want to help publishers learn what content people are choosing to preserve and promote. In addition, publishers can turn the attribution feature on or off on their sites. If you want to see what is actually collected - sign up for an account and look at the dashboard, you will see that we are tracking the content, not the user.
but as pointed out in the comments here, NoScript is a very effective tool for this.
Derek
thats all good and well.
Except:
What happens when the owner of Tynt decides to sell the company? Is the new owner going to keep doing what you say your doing?
We are talking about the tech world, where new startups get bought up left and right.
how about if someone happens to copy and paste something that isn't legal in possible the USA but is okay in another country. You going to give up all the info on the person at the request of the law enforcement?
Honestly, I don't like how you choose to make your paycheck. I seriously hope this sort of business model doesn't pan out, and that you, well, go broke, and do the honorable thing.
Slashdot Mirror
guess they didn't do their do their homework.
All the internet has done has made people more aware of the crap that goes on in other parts of the world.
Made it so communication is instant.
Made it so we don't have to leave our homes anymore.
But guess what? Just because you hear of stuff more now, doesn't mean it's happening more.
The reason it may seem like more people are depressed is not because of the internet, it's because more people now understand what depression is, and will do something about it (see a doctor, etc) then before. The stigma associated with it isn't like it used to be. It's okay to see a shrink now, where 20+ years ago it wasn't as much.
Society isn't getting worse off, what is happening is the crap you didn't know about, or ignored before, is easy to get to now the internet. That's the only difference.
I'm actually impressed how many of us are brave enough to NOT post a comment to this as Anonymous Coward
I ain't scared of them.
Actually worse thing they could do is make me care enough to do something about it.
Ever since I figured out the Holy Ghost con, i've had a special part in my soul for fucking with religions.
For those who haven't figured it out, The Holy Ghost con is where they try to get you to talk in tongues. Now they claim the holy ghost fills you, and causes you to speak in "unknown languages" (baby talk mostly). The con is, you will start doing it because everyone around you is doing it, and you don't want to fell "left out" or that "god didn't love you enough".
Unfortunatetly for the xians, I was a bit slow on picking up on social cues. So like 30 mins or so after all the other kids had gotten "filled with the holy ghost" I hadn't. So i got the idea to just pretend i did.
Granted it took me another 10 years to realize that was what everyone did. lol
Anyways, i know that really didn't have anything to do with the Scifags, but I really hate religons, so i had to bring it up.
Everyone here on /. knows Scientology is evil. But why did Anonymous do something stupid with a denial of service attack? Now the Scientologists can say Anonymous is a terrorist organization, get rid of all its critics using the PATRIOT act and get some good PR too. The only way Scientology will be defeated is if there is some major internal schism or everyone realizes they're not the nicest religion out there.
And who is anonymous?
They can declare war on anonymous, they can try to arrest anonymous.
that fact is, anonymous isn't a person, it isn't a group of people, it isn't a website, nor is it an organisation.
They can call the dude who got busted "Anonymous" they can try to say he belongs to it.
but he doesn't. No one does.
You either are, or aren't.
It's your choice.
While I understand what your trying to say, there's 1 problem.
Scientology isn't legal.
It's a business using religion as a tax shelter.
While I agree 2 wrongs don't make a right, I have no problem with peeps DDOSing their website, hacking, defacing, or what not.
They are lowest of the lowest scum.
Anyways, Xenu is my cousin and he said he doesn't even like them freaks.
You're missing the idea behind Anonymous.
We are not Anonymous because we hide our names.
We are Anonymous because our names mean nothing.
We are disillusioned mundane people who are nothing and mean nothing.
We are something only as a Legion.
We are fans of Fight Club, but without illusions, a leader or a purpose. And with more malice.
We are tired with the system, and break it when and where we can.
Our only powers are numbers, variety and unpredictability.
Losing one or two of us means nothing.
They try to give a name to the threat, by providing the name of one of the people behind the Anonymous. That's like trying to fight avalanche by removing two rocks from it and giving them names.
Sounds like something the cockroaches say in the comics knows as "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers".
I think the rampant PC game piracy (almost 80-90%) can be blamed for this somewhat.
No, the idea that piracy matters is to blame for this. Caring about piracy is bad business. Two things matter when designing a good business plan:
The entire purpose of your sales and marketing strategy is to move people from the second category into the first. Some pirates are in a third category: people who definitely won't buy your product. Any money spent on this market segment is wasted. If they won't buy your product whatever you do, then it doesn't matter if they pirate it or just go without. It's frustrating, but that's an emotional issue and basing corporate decisions on emotions is rarely a good idea.
Some of the pirates are in the category of people who might buy your product. How do you turn them into people who will buy your product? There are several ways, but making your product worse, and making it comparatively worse than the pirated version, are not on the list. And yet, for some reason, they are the two strategies that most people involved in The War on Piracy seem to be choosing. Oddly enough, they are having about as much success as their counterparts in the wars on terror and drugs.
Agree totally. I will not buy a PC game before I try it, and sometimes i'm cool with demos, but not usually.
If i bought xbox 360 games, i'd have to play it first, either rent it or play it with someone i know.
I've been gaming since the 70's, and honestly, this is the only way I've found effective to spend my money.
Who's fault is that? The various companies that made the various software in the past. And oddly enough, quite a few of those are still around.
Not only this, but Mass Effect 2 for PC was out 4 days before release, entirely cracked and working, rending ALL the effort that went into the DRM scheme useless even on day 1, annoying SOLELY for the legal purchaser. ...This is ridiculous!!
Check out a torrent site for confirmation on this, s'all true.
yep, downloading now...
I've been playing video games since the 70's.
I've played on almost every console system, and quite a few different computer systems.
And I base games off my enjoyment of them.
I play EQ2, have 2 accounts, I raid.
Lets see, i'm paying $30 a month for 2 accounts, and once i year it seems i have to buy the game over again (latest expansion, but they don't sell the expansions seperate anymore), so in 3 weeks, i'm shelling out $80 for the new expansion.
I also pay roughly $8 a month for some multiboxing software (with other benefits) for EQ2.
So $38x12 + $80 = It doesn't matter.
I get enjoyment out of it.
But now, Pc & console games are sucking in comparison. I download every new game that comes out (oh ya, I pirate) to check out, and very few, I mean, very few stay on my computer and get played, and those I generally (not always, but mostly) end up buying a copy.
Fallout 3, Need for Speed series. Games I enjoy playing and games I bought after pirating them because I enjoyed them.
I've spent too many years being a consumer of this industry to let it play it's bullshit games on me.
The truth is, most companies don't want their games pirated because they know if peeps don't spend money on them before trying, they won't afterwards.
But when everything comes down to it. It's never about money, it's about enjoyment.
Like Dragon Age. I didn't enjoy the game. I was into the story at first, but after make a bunch of chars and doing the beginnings with them, I realised the game was a railroad ride for the most part. It would give you a yes or no choice. but if you hit no, it would just give you the choices over again. I mean, wtf? How is that choice? Then the game taking me 5 hours to complete.
Maybe i'm spoiled by Nes and Snes (and genesis too!) rpg games that took weeks to months to finish. Shesh, even the original SWKOTOR & it's sequel's storylines where a lot longer then that. Plus you had choice.
Only the stupid executives for the companies who make the games thinks in dollars. Which is why the budget for the games are getting bigger, and what you get when you buy it is smaller. Now they think they can package crap up in DLC's to drain more money out of you.
Sorry, if the game isn't enjoyable, you ain't getting any money out of me.
How could you paly Dragon Age for 150 hours?
the story line was 5 hours long, and seeing as your choices were railroaded, there was only 3 different beginnings amoungs the various races and classess.
The game had great potential and was flawed in execution.
Step 1: Make a new bank account.
Step 2: Use the new bank account for paypal.
Step 3: When money gets deposited into the paypal bank account, move to another bank account.
Step 4: When the freeze hits, it hits nothing to very little.
Step 5: Profit!!!!!!
Sweet, i played that game. Syndicate. it so rocked!
Like I said, there are valid reasons for that and you have one. But lets be honest here, most people are only interested about this because it can break copy protections and will use it solely for playing pirated games.
what is with you people?
Yes, of course peeps are going to use it to play backups of games. legal or not.
people use google to find torrents and porn.
people use the bus to meet their drug dealers.
people also use fear to get their agenda across.
... when Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel left the Garden of Eden there were already cities which the sons took wives from. Creation was never meant to be instantaneous event but a metaphor for the creation of everything in the universe. Of course those who take it literally are missing the point entirely, but it doesn't make Genisis incompatible with modern science.
Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden before Cain and Abel were born. Eve likely conceived and bore females also (as Hebrew writings usually focus on male decedents and often leave out details of females). Cain likely married his sister (although Mosaic Law would later prohibit this practice, in-breeding was a requirement for the advancement of Adam and Eve's race).
The side-effects of in-breeding, mainly genetic deficiencies in offspring, would have little effect on the first offspring of genetically perfect parents. This could point to one explanation of why humans initially had longer lifespans, which decreased over time as human genetics degraded gradually because of further in-breeding in Noah's time after the flood (which seems to be the point in time which human lifespans reduced to near where we are today).
I personally think there is more to Genesis than metaphors.
Um, actually, no.
Genesis 4:
15 But the LORD said to him, "Not so [e] ; if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." Then the LORD put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him. 16 So Cain went out from the LORD's presence and lived in the land of Nod, [f] east of Eden.
It goes on say he married his wife, then some lineage.
See, the bible is pretty clear on Adam and Eve having Cain & Able, the after that screwed up, they had Seth, then they had other daughters and sons.
From Genesis 5:
3 When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth. 4 After Seth was born, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters. 5 Altogether, Adam lived 930 years, and then he died.
So, we have a problem here. If there was no other men around, why was there a place called The Land of Nod? Who did Cain really marry?
And if we are all related, who were the Giants that the jews had to deal with in their land of promise?
While we are talking some time, we aren't talking enough time for the world to go from 2 peeps, to having multi colors, and multi sizes in a few thousand of years.
Sort of like how the xians try to say you don't find fish with legs to argue against darwins theories, well, i use it in reverse. We have no evidence that humans change that fast, but do have evidence that we do over 10's of thousands to 100 of thousand years.
But then, logic just doesn't work on the sort of peeps who believe in religions.
The shrinking size has nothing to do with the size of media files and everything to do with flash memory having larger profit margins than hard drives.
ya, well, i think your problem might deal with the main 2 brands doing 80+gb mp3 players are Apple & Microsoft.
(what's all that BS about?)
all I'm saying is that in the real world, your ideals and values mean NOTHING. when some gov official is raping your rights, you have NOTHING you can do about it.
nothing.
this is the powerless that we all feel as being part of the modern world.
nothing you can do about it, either. nothing.
sorry to break it to you but MANY things in this world are really really wrong and nothing you can do about it. your youthful ideals won't help you. just accept it. life has MANY things like this that you cannot fight or win.
do I like this? HELL NO. but I live in the real world.
There's nothing you can do about it because your a spineless wimp who obviously is a bottom by the way you are ready to bend over and take it while your rights are slipping away.
A few thousand people pirated our game after it was released.
Did we lose any money? No.
It pissed me off, but I didn't really lose anything because the people who rush out and pirate your game the second the crack is available are not the type of people who buy your game. There's the odd few that will pay for a game after they've pirated it (I used to do that when I was a kid), so they're not a loss either.
The app store price point is low enough that the people who would have bought the app/game otherwise... actually DO buy the game.
We're not dealing in 70 dollar console/PC games.
You should be happy.
See, if they don't make a crack for your game, then it really sucks and isn't worth anyones time.
...
I sincerely hope that Microsoft, Adobe, and Autodesk get together and create an unbreakable DRM scheme. ....
2 of those companies can't update their bugs in a timely fashion, I really don't think they have the hopes of making anything unbreakable.
look, legalize the weed and you won't have us pothead hippies out bothering you about it.
To clarify: "invited" by the absolute monarch of Saudi Arabia. Our presence was not at all popular with the population, but the king didn't particularly give a fuck.
Oh, and we executed Japanese commanders for authorizing the waterboarding of POWs during WWII. Can you explain why Bush and Cheney both shouldn't be in front of a firing squad?
Actually, I'm more for a public waterboarding of them, and all the other officials that allowed it.
That would make some good TV.
Whatever you want to call them. I feel absolutely zero need to respect the current PC terminology for these superstitious middle easterners, or their so-called "religion." It's a cult of reality-challenged people, just like every other religion, and just like every other religion, it breeds more reality-challenged people doing moronic things.
As far as I'm concerned, our ideal path here is to crash develop electric vehicles, never buy another drop of oil from them, never let another one across our borders, and never send them another red cent. Let them eat sand, to vaguely paraphrase Marie Antoinette, and with about as much concern as her delivery.
Sure they do. They come from a nice mix of the gullible, the ignorant, and the reality-challenged. The same place Christians come from. It's purest superstition. They live their lives -- and die -- by/for an imaginary friend. They're natural idiots, or people of sadly lost potential made idiotic by consumption of mythology.
You rock.
Use Internet Exploder for web browsing,
Use Outlook or Outlook Distress for reading e-mail.
nuff said...ank
And friends don't let friends use Adobe Reader
... ...
"I thought it was the phone -- `Maybe this phone is just weird and does magical, horrible things and I have to get rid of it,'" said Candace Sawyer.
Reading through the discussion I looked down to remind myself where on my keyboard it was, only to find that my Logitech keyboard I've been using at work for the last 2 years doesn't even have a Syr rq key.
My work laptop does though as an alternative on the delete key.
Still, I didn't even realised it'd gone from my main keyboard!!
Weird, I have a bunch of various logitech keyboards, some newish some older, and they all, even the mini usb keyboards for the Playstation 2 have the sysreq keys.
You make money off monitoring my browsing habits, maybe I ought to get a cut.
The cut that you get is the free access to information that cost money to gather, format and distribute.
Please, that is pure bullshit.
tynt didn't gather, format, or distrbute jack shit.
But they want your info about what you highlight, not what you copy and paste, but what you highlight.
I work for Tynt. I appreciate the discussion here and want to make sure that everyone knows we want to be respectful of the opinions here. Not sure i I will get flamed just for wading in, but I hope not.
To clarify on a few points
1. Tracking and Attribution – the attribution feature is separate from the tracking features. The tracking features work very much like any other analytics tool. We do not store any personally identifiable information, but we do want to help publishers learn what content people are choosing to preserve and promote. In addition, publishers can turn the attribution feature on or off on their sites. If you want to see what is actually collected - sign up for an account and look at the dashboard, you will see that we are tracking the content, not the user.
3. What if I don’t want this behavior? We are currently working on a global opt out for users who would rather not have Tynt monitor them. In the interim you can opt out on a site by site basis (i.e. the opt out for the SF Gate is here: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/faq.shtml#faq1.5%23ixzz0bxLIAbL7). More info on how to not have Tynt monitor you is available in our FAQs here: http://www1.tynt.com/faq-technical-topics#ixzz0bxGzIgPZ
but as pointed out in the comments here, NoScript is a very effective tool for this.
Derek
thats all good and well.
Except:
What happens when the owner of Tynt decides to sell the company? Is the new owner going to keep doing what you say your doing?
We are talking about the tech world, where new startups get bought up left and right.
how about if someone happens to copy and paste something that isn't legal in possible the USA but is okay in another country. You going to give up all the info on the person at the request of the law enforcement?
Honestly, I don't like how you choose to make your paycheck. I seriously hope this sort of business model doesn't pan out, and that you, well, go broke, and do the honorable thing.