It is supposed to be a public unique identifier, nothing more, but it is being routinely (mis-)used as a secret piece of information, for instance, to authenticate people.
One thing to keep in mind is that once people are on FB, private information about them can be posted by other people and linked to them via tagging and linking. Because of most default settings in FB, people can't easily control who sees what their friends and families post about them.
Also, the recent article on privacy salience on Bruce Schneier's blog explains why some people put private information on such sites: FB and similar sites have an agressive marketing strategy that emphasizes the benefits of posting such information, while burying privacy concerns deep in hard-to-find pages.
You will have to log in first in order to delete your account. So either log in now, which constitutes use of Facebook after the TOS have been published, and FB will keep the content you're about to delete, or never log in again and leave your content online for FB to do whatever it wants with it.
Facebook: helping you give away your privacy since 2003!
True, it is illegal in France. That said, the French yellow pages have implemented a similar "street view" web service on their web site several years ago, which now covers over 30 cities.
(the website linked is in French, but pretty much self explanatory)
many countries are substantially ahead of the United States in online access.
The USA were the first ones with access to the Internet. Every other country got their infrastructure built later. When the more recent infrastructures were built, they used the latest technologies available, which are obviously better than the early ones. So the result of this study is not surprising in my opinion.
Some countries who are building their Internet infrastructure these days are going straight to wireless. I'm thinking of African countries here. What is at stake for them is not performance, but cost. It's much cheaper to plant a few antennas than pull miles and miles of cable to reach each house. The USA is a large country, so they would have done the same probably, had the technology been available at the time.
I think that AOL is simply trying to surf the "Web 2.0" wave. They are, once again, looking for content. That was already one of the rationales behind the merger with Time Warner a few years back. Except now, their strategy is different. Instead of merging with another big company for content, they want users to provide the content themselves. Getting users to post stuff and comment on it, for free, is a way cheaper way to get content than getting involved in a multi-billion merger.
My guess is that it won't work in this particular case. While users are willing to contribute to such "community Web 2.0 projects" such as Digg or Wikipedia, they probably won't have the same attitude towards a big business like AOL.
I find it strange that a web site would tell the reader what spam or ham is, based solely on the appearance or the content of the message. As someone said at last year's spam conference, "one man's spam is another man's ham". Each person has a different definition of what spam is, and filters should be able to sort messages based on your criteria. I know that if I receive a message claiming from Travelocity, I will classify it as spam, even if it is a genuine Travelocity message. I have never done business with that company, so any mail that I receive from them would be unsolicited.
On a more technical point of view, however, I agree that there are definitely suspicious signs of an email being spam, or phish. Fake headers, bogus URLs, or any trick described in JGC's Spammer's compendium are definitely signs of spam.
I don't see how "drag and drop to the desktop" is more natural than "right click and save as". They're both different methods, designed by software engineers, to perform a given task.
They are indeed very late in the IM market. This is why I think they will eventually open up to other Jabber servers, if only to shake things up in the IM world, and not just have yet another closed IM network. That would be too much of an uphill battle.
I also think the reason why they did not open it up right away, is that they did not want to be "just another Jabber public server". So they'll probably offer new services (such as VoIP) to get users to switch, before they open their network. They'll want to be a major Jabber server before they connect with the others.
The several "Google is becoming evil like Microsoft" articles that have popped up in the recent days contain a lot of the exact same ideas:
- Google is also attracting unfamiliar epithets such as "arrogant" - Its sheer financial power has sent salaries in Silicon Valley rocketing - Dotcom start-ups are also finding it difficult to persuade potential financial backers that their prospective markets will not be squashed by the might of Google
This looks a lot like the works of a PR company working for one of Google's competitors (Probably Microsoft, perhaps Yahoo). The articles show a lot of the patterns described by Paul Graham in his "Submarine" essay (April 2005).
If the media did some actual research, instead of just printing whatever content the PR firms feed them, we'd have some more interesting content in the news.
TCP/IP was meant in its generic meaning. Much the same way as when one refers to the TCP/IP networking software that is installed in an operating system. It is not restricted to TCP and IP. UDP, ICMP and other protocols are included.
Yahoo! Mail has made POP access a paid service on their yahoo.com addresses, but if you open a Yahoo! Mail account on the Canadian Yahoo site, POP access still works for free. Of course, your address is then a yahoo.ca address.
Same with Yahoo.fr. I haven't tried any other regional Yahoo site.
The speed limit on French highways is 130 km/h (about 80 mph), or 110 km/h (70 mph) if it's raining.
The Vel Satis driver was driving at 120 mph (almost 200 km/h)
According to this document from the French government (document is in French), the punishment for driving at that speed on a highway can be all of the following:
- a fine of 1,500 euros AND
- 3 years of driving license suspension AND
- 4 points deducted from the driver's license (out of 12)
"Royal Bank of Canada has elected to convert 10,000 shares of SCO's Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock it currently holds into a total of 740,740 shares of SCO's common stock."
(...)
"Additionally, Royal Bank of Canada informed SCO that it has sold 20,000 shares of Series A-1 stock to BayStar Capital II, L.P., which currently also holds shares of Series A-1 stock."
Now if I read this correctly, it means that they chose to convert 10,000 "preferred" stock into common stock, and get rid of the rest (20,000 "preferred" stock).
Actually, I would be interested to know of any laptop vendors that sell their products with no operating system pre-installed, and compare prices with Toshiba, Dell and the like.
I just checked Alienware, because I thought they came with nothing installed, but it seems they have XP Home Edition.
The EU is run from Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg. From the europa.eu.int website :
European Parliament :
The monthly plenary sessions, which all MEPs attend, are held in Strasbourg (France) - the Parliament's "seat". Parliamentary committee meetings and any additional plenary sessions are held in Brussels (Belgium), whilst Luxembourg is home to the administrative offices (the "General Secretariat").
European Commission :
The "seat" of the Commission is in Brussels (Belgium), but it also has offices in Luxembourg, representations in all EU countries and delegations in many capital cities around the world.
Isn't there a possibility that this ad service will at some point become controversial, in the same way that some of the adware in Kazaa, or the Adwords in Google became controversial ?
Imagine the guy sitting in a coffee shop, surfing on an airline's website for ticket reservations, and he gets an wifi advertisement for a competing airline while doing so...
Slashdot Mirror
The problem isn't tits. There are other things in porn that would jump out of the screen and nearly hit you in the face.
Coaches and players have been issuing signals and commands by touching different parts of their body for as long as I can remember.
It is supposed to be a public unique identifier, nothing more, but it is being routinely (mis-)used as a secret piece of information, for instance, to authenticate people.
If there is a big enough market for domain name news, it might be interesting to try and steal that domain name!
One thing to keep in mind is that once people are on FB, private information about them can be posted by other people and linked to them via tagging and linking. Because of most default settings in FB, people can't easily control who sees what their friends and families post about them.
Also, the recent article on privacy salience on Bruce Schneier's blog explains why some people put private information on such sites: FB and similar sites have an agressive marketing strategy that emphasizes the benefits of posting such information, while burying privacy concerns deep in hard-to-find pages.
You will have to log in first in order to delete your account. So either log in now, which constitutes use of Facebook after the TOS have been published, and FB will keep the content you're about to delete, or never log in again and leave your content online for FB to do whatever it wants with it.
Facebook: helping you give away your privacy since 2003!
If we are no longer allowed to use pseudonyms on the Internet without getting sued, I'm getting my name legally changed to "Anonymous Coward."
True, it is illegal in France. That said, the French yellow pages have implemented a similar "street view" web service on their web site several years ago, which now covers over 30 cities.
(the website linked is in French, but pretty much self explanatory)
many countries are substantially ahead of the United States in online access.
The USA were the first ones with access to the Internet. Every other country got their infrastructure built later. When the more recent infrastructures were built, they used the latest technologies available, which are obviously better than the early ones. So the result of this study is not surprising in my opinion.
Some countries who are building their Internet infrastructure these days are going straight to wireless. I'm thinking of African countries here. What is at stake for them is not performance, but cost. It's much cheaper to plant a few antennas than pull miles and miles of cable to reach each house. The USA is a large country, so they would have done the same probably, had the technology been available at the time.
I think that AOL is simply trying to surf the "Web 2.0" wave. They are, once again, looking for content. That was already one of the rationales behind the merger with Time Warner a few years back. Except now, their strategy is different. Instead of merging with another big company for content, they want users to provide the content themselves. Getting users to post stuff and comment on it, for free, is a way cheaper way to get content than getting involved in a multi-billion merger.
My guess is that it won't work in this particular case. While users are willing to contribute to such "community Web 2.0 projects" such as Digg or Wikipedia, they probably won't have the same attitude towards a big business like AOL.
I find it strange that a web site would tell the reader what spam or ham is, based solely on the appearance or the content of the message. As someone said at last year's spam conference, "one man's spam is another man's ham". Each person has a different definition of what spam is, and filters should be able to sort messages based on your criteria. I know that if I receive a message claiming from Travelocity, I will classify it as spam, even if it is a genuine Travelocity message. I have never done business with that company, so any mail that I receive from them would be unsolicited.
On a more technical point of view, however, I agree that there are definitely suspicious signs of an email being spam, or phish. Fake headers, bogus URLs, or any trick described in JGC's Spammer's compendium are definitely signs of spam.
I don't see how "drag and drop to the desktop" is more natural than "right click and save as". They're both different methods, designed by software engineers, to perform a given task.
The problem with that idea is that it requires the system to log who votes for whom, which goes against the principle of anonymous voting.
They are indeed very late in the IM market. This is why I think they will eventually open up to other Jabber servers, if only to shake things up in the IM world, and not just have yet another closed IM network. That would be too much of an uphill battle.
I also think the reason why they did not open it up right away, is that they did not want to be "just another Jabber public server". So they'll probably offer new services (such as VoIP) to get users to switch, before they open their network. They'll want to be a major Jabber server before they connect with the others.
The several "Google is becoming evil like Microsoft" articles that have popped up in the recent days contain a lot of the exact same ideas:
- Google is also attracting unfamiliar epithets such as "arrogant"
- Its sheer financial power has sent salaries in Silicon Valley rocketing
- Dotcom start-ups are also finding it difficult to persuade potential financial backers that their prospective markets will not be squashed by the might of Google
This looks a lot like the works of a PR company working for one of Google's competitors (Probably Microsoft, perhaps Yahoo). The articles show a lot of the patterns described by Paul Graham in his "Submarine" essay (April 2005).
If the media did some actual research, instead of just printing whatever content the PR firms feed them, we'd have some more interesting content in the news.
Ummm, doesn't NTP run over UDP?
TCP/IP was meant in its generic meaning. Much the same way as when one refers to the TCP/IP networking software that is installed in an operating system. It is not restricted to TCP and IP. UDP, ICMP and other protocols are included.
I noticed yesterday that Google's front page shows a big link to the "Google Toolbar" when loaded in IE, but not when loaded in Firefox.
Yahoo! Mail has made POP access a paid service on their yahoo.com addresses, but if you open a Yahoo! Mail account on the Canadian Yahoo site, POP access still works for free. Of course, your address is then a yahoo.ca address.
Same with Yahoo.fr. I haven't tried any other regional Yahoo site.
The speed limit on French highways is 130 km/h (about 80 mph), or 110 km/h (70 mph) if it's raining.
:
The Vel Satis driver was driving at 120 mph (almost 200 km/h)
According to this document from the French government (document is in French), the punishment for driving at that speed on a highway can be all of the following
- a fine of 1,500 euros AND
- 3 years of driving license suspension AND
- 4 points deducted from the driver's license (out of 12)
Skype is a growing P2P telephony network. It's made by the same people who made Kazaa. I haven't tested it myself yet.
From the article :
"Royal Bank of Canada has elected to convert 10,000 shares of SCO's Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock it currently holds into a total of 740,740 shares of SCO's common stock."
(...)
"Additionally, Royal Bank of Canada informed SCO that it has sold 20,000 shares of Series A-1 stock to BayStar Capital II, L.P., which currently also holds shares of Series A-1 stock."
Now if I read this correctly, it means that they chose to convert 10,000 "preferred" stock into common stock, and get rid of the rest (20,000 "preferred" stock).
Actually, I would be interested to know of any laptop vendors that sell their products with no operating system pre-installed, and compare prices with Toshiba, Dell and the like.
I just checked Alienware, because I thought they came with nothing installed, but it seems they have XP Home Edition.
For info on classical composers, I instinctively turn to allclassical.com rather than Google.
This is what they have on Johan Svendsen.
The EU is run from Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg. From the europa.eu.int website :
European Parliament : The monthly plenary sessions, which all MEPs attend, are held in Strasbourg (France) - the Parliament's "seat". Parliamentary committee meetings and any additional plenary sessions are held in Brussels (Belgium), whilst Luxembourg is home to the administrative offices (the "General Secretariat").
European Commission : The "seat" of the Commission is in Brussels (Belgium), but it also has offices in Luxembourg, representations in all EU countries and delegations in many capital cities around the world.
Isn't there a possibility that this ad service will at some point become controversial, in the same way that some of the adware in Kazaa, or the Adwords in Google became controversial ? Imagine the guy sitting in a coffee shop, surfing on an airline's website for ticket reservations, and he gets an wifi advertisement for a competing airline while doing so...