It often happens that I'm reading a thread without being logged in, and want to reply to a comment. Then, at that point, of course I have to log in, but slashdot of course jumps back to the front page, and I totally lose the point where I wanted to leave the comment.
It is so stupid, I sometimes just want to break things in my office.
I can read it in the history books now: two centuries ago, around the turn of the millennium, people in the US became so greedy that they lost their technological advantage to the Chinese.
The problem with that is that even if you have no FB account, they may still track you through the cookies built into their "like" buttons, spread around the internet.
Please be aware as well that we are not required to comply with any future similar requests, unless, in our opinion, a reasonable period of time has elapsed.
So this gives them an obligation to only send at most one CD per user. Not such a big deal I would say.
And they get your postal address in return for it.
I, for one, am putting my bets on neutrino computing.
Using neutrinos faster than the speed of light, it will be possible to send messages back in time, thereby enabling any kind of brute force algorithm. Just do a brute force search, and instantly receive a message from the future containing the answer to your problem.
So forget about cookies. And like others mentioned elsewhere, even if you do not have a fb account, you can still be tracked.
The only way to do it properly, so to block facebook.com at the DNS level (and even then, facebook might be using different domain names, but this would be a good start).
Unfortunately, I don't think a comment on a forum counts as prior art. In fact, anything on the internet is suspicious, since anything could have had its time stamp tampered with.
You're talking like a teenager who refrains from downloading illegal mp3s. It is just not feasible anymore, modern society has its expectations, you know.
This is the reason why I think musicians should release their music in a multitrack format. Imagine the possibilities for remixing. Such an attitude would fit perfectly in the do-it-yourself youtube culture that we are living in now.
You can cry all you want about how ridiculous the system is, as long as there are lawyers with lawmaking friends in the government which make money off of it, there isn't going to change anything.
And with this "selling of personal information" strategy, they are basically selling their product below the production cost, thereby forcing other, more honest and legitimate players out of the market. I am really surprised the FTC has not stepped in yet.
Google is in the same situation elsewhere - they're spending LOTS of money to try to gain market share in Russia and China
Isn't that illegal? I mean their product is free and they're forcing other players out of the market, by using money obtained from completely unrelated activities.
Slashdot Mirror
I foresee a new HTML element:
<format-it-like-flipboard-would>
blah blah
</format-it-like-flipboard-would>
See flipboard.com
Automatically layed-out pages.
...or make a walled-garden icon for that other company.
Also, logging in is a disaster.
It often happens that I'm reading a thread without being logged in, and want to reply to a comment. Then, at that point, of course I have to log in, but slashdot of course jumps back to the front page, and I totally lose the point where I wanted to leave the comment.
It is so stupid, I sometimes just want to break things in my office.
I can read it in the history books now: two centuries ago, around the turn of the millennium, people in the US became so greedy that they lost their technological advantage to the Chinese.
Problem is, Facebook has got their users locked in, like nobody has been locked in ever before.
I would rephrase your question as: if only there were some regulations on social website lock-in, and data-harvesting.
(Somehow, these regulations exist for telcos but are not applicable to social websites; or are they?)
But apparently, this is still not possible in Chrome.
WHHHYYYY??!!!
Not depressing, by the time we get there, we will probably have figured out a way to deal with it.
The problem with that is that even if you have no FB account, they may still track you through the cookies built into their "like" buttons, spread around the internet.
Please be aware as well that we are not required to comply with any future similar requests, unless, in our opinion, a reasonable period of time has elapsed.
So this gives them an obligation to only send at most one CD per user. Not such a big deal I would say.
And they get your postal address in return for it.
Yes, but they added "on a TV".
But I must admit that it could end up like fusion.
At least for fusion, we know that it should be possible both in theory and practice (just look at the Sun for proof).
I, for one, am putting my bets on neutrino computing.
Using neutrinos faster than the speed of light, it will be possible to send messages back in time, thereby enabling any kind of brute force algorithm. Just do a brute force search, and instantly receive a message from the future containing the answer to your problem.
Cookies are not the only way to track people. Please check out http://panopticlick.eff.org/
So forget about cookies. And like others mentioned elsewhere, even if you do not have a fb account, you can still be tracked.
The only way to do it properly, so to block facebook.com at the DNS level (and even then, facebook might be using different domain names, but this would be a good start).
Unfortunately, I don't think a comment on a forum counts as prior art. In fact, anything on the internet is suspicious, since anything could have had its time stamp tampered with.
You're talking like a teenager who refrains from downloading illegal mp3s. It is just not feasible anymore, modern society has its expectations, you know.
This is the reason why I think musicians should release their music in a multitrack format. Imagine the possibilities for remixing. Such an attitude would fit perfectly in the do-it-yourself youtube culture that we are living in now.
Click on the advertisements.
You can cry all you want about how ridiculous the system is, as long as there are lawyers with lawmaking friends in the government which make money off of it, there isn't going to change anything.
Precisely.
And with this "selling of personal information" strategy, they are basically selling their product below the production cost, thereby forcing other, more honest and legitimate players out of the market. I am really surprised the FTC has not stepped in yet.
Google is in the same situation elsewhere - they're spending LOTS of money to try to gain market share in Russia and China
Isn't that illegal? I mean their product is free and they're forcing other players out of the market, by using money obtained from completely unrelated activities.
Can we stop calling things "open" which are actually proprietary?
Microsoft just wants to get rid of that Borg-icon on slashdot. And out of desperation they're copying Apple because they have a much friendlier icon.
Indeed, hardware vendors should be forced to sell "open" hardware.
As we don't have to buy 5 devices anymore just to get 5 different apps, this is much better for the environment. This alone justifies that rule.
Apple copied that whole hardware-content bundling business-model from Amazon.