So what possible reason would I have for wanting a Facebook, and why would people want to know my Facebook account and yet have no interest in my email or website?
They want you to friend them so their friend count goes up by 1 and they can get the high score.
As further proof, in the UK where most TV/radio is advertising free
Well, the BBC stuff is ad-free; the rest has ads. Probably less than the US equivalents, of course, though Sky seems to be doing their best to catch up.
Yet another potential problem that no one seems to have mentioned yet is that of shared houses. If my flatmate has a virus (which he doesn't any more because I cleaned it off last night) then the whole house is going to be seen as "infected" and four innocent people will be cut off the internet due to the indiscretions of one person. This could be made all the worse if the person owning the infected computer is on holiday for a week.
Roll on IPv6, I guess, where they'll be able to cut off just the offending machine, as there'll be enough public IP addresses for everyone.
Until then, though, I'd still support cutting the connection. Allowing an infected machine to spew for a week in order to be fair to the housemates is unfair to the rest of the Internet.
As you said, though, the trick is doing it without losing customers — which means all providers would need to start cutting botnet customers at the same time. I suspect we'll see pigs flying at that point...
Yes, but cross over the border and see what roaming rates you're charged.
I'm on O2-UK, and I get hit for £3/Mb within the EU, and £6/Mb outside. (Annoyingly, they count the Channel Islands as being outside the EU. Technically, that's correct, but it's still tight, and one reason why I'm looking to move to Three when they finally get some iPhone 4s...)
Facebook has that (or, at least, they used to before I started accessing it through the iPhone app instead, which doesn't have ads).
If your status is "single" (hey, this is Slashdot...) you get dating ad after dating ad. Clicking the "thumbs down" button on all of them does nothing to change this.
The trouble with a voting system is that ad companies will consider even a poorly-rated ad to be preferable to no ad at all. Site visitors, of course, tend to take the opposite view.
I don't believe this is true any more. My wife took delivery of a brand-new MacBook about 10 days ago, which was set up with OS X 10.5.5 pre-installed.
As I was inheriting her old 13" MacBook, I thought to use the Leopard install disk that came with her machine to upgrade from Tiger on the older box. But it came up with a message to the effect that "You cannot install this software on this computer".
The install disks that come with a machine are tied to that type of machine: it would have worked with another MacBook of the same vintage. The retail OS versions don't have any tie and can be installed on as many different Macs as you want...
Don't forget about all those clauses to the effect of (emphasis mine):
We reserve the right to update this policy at any time and to notify you, the customer, by making changes to this web page.
It's perfectly legal, but what if they change the terms for say, one hour, sell their entire customer database, then change it back? Unless you're refreshing that page 24-7, you will be screwed
So we should all set up a cron job to load their privacy policy every 5 minutes. When they complain, point out how they're not leaving you much choice if you want to keep up to date.
Maybe then they'll pick up a clue at the corner store...
That's easy. You'd have to pay a per-film subscription to keep it updated.
Of course, you'd lose the ability to watch films that didn't have a paid-up subscription active. Can't have out-of-date copies lying around confusing people, can we?
Any film that doesn't meet minimum quality standards for script, acting, direction and intellectual depth could be electronically tagged and filtered away at ISP level like spam.
Hang on a minute, there. Be careful what you wish for.
(And on a side note, please kill Funwall.:) It's the new equivalent of mass-mailings of cutsie-pie stuff.)
You're not using it right. Set the notification prefs so it doesn't tell you when someone posts on it, then click the minimise triangle next to it on your profile.
Now everyone will put the cutsie-pie stuff there instead of emailing it to you — and you don't see it or get told about it:)
My reading of the story was that the thing that really pissed them off wasn't getting caught and fined, but MS using their name in a leaflet campaign. I'm sure if someone broke into my house, I wouldn't be allowed to put posters all over the area saying "X is a thieving scumbag", so why should MS be allowed to do it? And why should they expect the person concerned would want to give them one cent more afterwards?
Oh, right, it's MS (or any large company, really.) They can't handle the concept of a universe where somebody doesn't use their stuff. Silly me.
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They want you to friend them so their friend count goes up by 1 and they can get the high score.
Well, the BBC stuff is ad-free; the rest has ads. Probably less than the US equivalents, of course, though Sky seems to be doing their best to catch up.
Roll on IPv6, I guess, where they'll be able to cut off just the offending machine, as there'll be enough public IP addresses for everyone.
Until then, though, I'd still support cutting the connection. Allowing an infected machine to spew for a week in order to be fair to the housemates is unfair to the rest of the Internet.
As you said, though, the trick is doing it without losing customers — which means all providers would need to start cutting botnet customers at the same time. I suspect we'll see pigs flying at that point...
I wouldn't call $75/hr dirt cheap. $75/year, maybe :)
Isn't that a bit cruel to the sharks?
I'd be happy if, on a multi-display setup, it could tell which screen I'm looking at and direct focus accordingly.
I'm fed up with pressing Cmd-W to close the top window, only to find out that the focus was on the top window on the other screen.
Would still need to tell the difference between "glancing at screen 2 to check something" and "actively focusing on screen 2", of course...
http://www.example.com/account.php?e=myaddress@example.net. Bang. Personal data right there.
Unless they have a way that can guarantee email addresses, account numbers etc are stripped out of the URL, of course...
I have a sudden mental image of someone using a dead badger as a PC case.
Best not to imagine where the USB ports are, I think...
Combine the two. Have a beer that's been made with coffee crapped out by civets...
Yes, but cross over the border and see what roaming rates you're charged.
I'm on O2-UK, and I get hit for £3/Mb within the EU, and £6/Mb outside. (Annoyingly, they count the Channel Islands as being outside the EU. Technically, that's correct, but it's still tight, and one reason why I'm looking to move to Three when they finally get some iPhone 4s...)
Facebook has that (or, at least, they used to before I started accessing it through the iPhone app instead, which doesn't have ads).
If your status is "single" (hey, this is Slashdot...) you get dating ad after dating ad. Clicking the "thumbs down" button on all of them does nothing to change this.
The trouble with a voting system is that ad companies will consider even a poorly-rated ad to be preferable to no ad at all. Site visitors, of course, tend to take the opposite view.
Well, except the correct spelling is voilà — it's French :)
You're out of date there -- the 120Gb got replaced by the 160Gb a month ago...
The install disks that come with a machine are tied to that type of machine: it would have worked with another MacBook of the same vintage. The retail OS versions don't have any tie and can be installed on as many different Macs as you want...
So we should all set up a cron job to load their privacy policy every 5 minutes. When they complain, point out how they're not leaving you much choice if you want to keep up to date.
Maybe then they'll pick up a clue at the corner store...
Oh, breaking CCTV cameras is probably just one of the many offences where Tony Blair abolished the right to trial by jury.
Hey, Sweden! Room for one more?
They must have seen your post — it redirects to dilbert.com now.
And folk wonder why so many people have their MP3 players semi-permanently attached....
Cut it out, Bill.
That's easy. You'd have to pay a per-film subscription to keep it updated.
Of course, you'd lose the ability to watch films that didn't have a paid-up subscription active. Can't have out-of-date copies lying around confusing people, can we?
Saft will let you create search shortcuts that work in the same way as the 'keyword' field in a Firefox bookmark. Costs $12, though.
If you just want to use the Search box, Inquisitor will do it for free(as was already posted).
Hang on a minute, there. Be careful what you wish for.
Without bad movies, there would be no MST3K...
Actually, thirds are legal as well. You just don't see them very often...
You're not using it right. Set the notification prefs so it doesn't tell you when someone posts on it, then click the minimise triangle next to it on your profile.
Now everyone will put the cutsie-pie stuff there instead of emailing it to you — and you don't see it or get told about it :)
My reading of the story was that the thing that really pissed them off wasn't getting caught and fined, but MS using their name in a leaflet campaign. I'm sure if someone broke into my house, I wouldn't be allowed to put posters all over the area saying "X is a thieving scumbag", so why should MS be allowed to do it? And why should they expect the person concerned would want to give them one cent more afterwards?
Oh, right, it's MS (or any large company, really.) They can't handle the concept of a universe where somebody doesn't use their stuff. Silly me.