I haven't used Opera in a good long while*, and I've never heard of the mentioned source site Pocket-lint, but after the damning parting words of von Tetzchner, I wouldn't put it past Opera to allow let Facebook take them.
Nice knowin' ya, Oppy.
*Actually I did a few times a month or two ago for some SVG testing; otherwise I've barely touched it, and I'll be uninstalling it now just in case the probable turns out true.
Of course there are other IDEs, for which I and others will be grateful. The point is that Microsoft went from mildly sane to Full Retard in the span of one OS release. VS 2010 Express (especially when combined with a Platform SDK) was quite useful for making what they now call "classic apps". Now we have to pay in, or sanction M(isadv)e(n)tro.
Facebook Camera is set up very similarly to Instagram and includes most of the same features (including photo filters), but Dirk Stoop, Facebook's product manager for photos, said Facebook was working on this application long before the Instagram acquisition on April 9.
Read that as "We shackled our own workers to the desk, but none of them could figure out how to make something that could share and filter images like that so we kept giving those geniuses offers until they buckled. They also got kinda pissed after the 8-or-9th offer and started throwing goldfish, tomatoes, and smelly socks at us, but our combination bodyguard/repo-men dealt with that little threat in a Facebook Timeline minute."
Actually I agree with grandparent; summary definitely reads like an ad. Rackspace employees do occasionally post on Slashdot, special user logo and all.
Correction: This is a corrected version of an article that mischaracterized the nature of a State Department campaign to counter al-Qaeda propaganda. A previous version incorrectly said that cyber experts had hacked into al-Qaeda sites to substitute the group’s advertisements with alternatives. U.S. officials did post the alternative versions on the sites, but they did not engage in “hacking,” a term that generally refers to gaining access to a site or server without authorization in order to alter or steal content.
So if I'm comprendiendo this, al-Q posted a bunch of rah-rah posters and the State Dept posted "al-Q-is-EVILZ" versions on the same forums, but did not use l33t h4x to break into anything to make the posts. Not very much to write home about.
They find a way (or pretend to), in much the same way as they find how to "own" an employee Facebook or Twitter account--if the law is not on their side, the post-nasty-legal-threat settlements will be.
The former is how it should and easily can be. Sadly, between the "app" "revolution" and the lack of mention of HTML, I see more sites like m.fbi.gov in our future.
A bit more interesting to me is the "requiring agencies to use web performance analytics and customer satisfaction measurement tools on all '.gov' websites" line in the PDF release. Will those be some sort of in-house thing? Will they end up tripping Do Not Track or IE's Tracking Protection because they're sending the info to Google Analytics or whathaveyou? If it's just a glorified hit counter instead of full-on analytics services, then why haven't they already been doing this--do they need a contractor to count their own damn pageviews?
Both this and the rise of the Meternet make me shake my head, and make me want to grab one of those legislative or corporate suits by the shoulders and shake them and tell them "What the bloody hell is wrong with you!?".
An imaginary mod point (for lack of real ones) for you. If I were choosing a separate language for app://s it would be the existing SVG, Javascript (ES 5.5, just to be safe), CSS, and a language-generic form of object (called xml:object? though what if I decide I want it to be supported in non-XML SGML stuff?) to embed apps within docs (and vice versa) and music, video, and more complicated whiz-bang 3D or outright novel stuff within both. I'd ask browsers to use their built-in "HTML5"-or-whatever player for those objects but allow something (the user? the dev? either?) to specify a plugin if they insist or if the built-in doesn't support the format. (I don't like the audio and video tags and think img should be deprecated for object now that IE and friends show images with object in a similar way.)
Also instead of that ugly and misleading HTML5 shield I'd make the logo for it all a witch, because a good app would be like magic and I have A Thing(tm) for witches at the moment.
I guess they mean "friendly" as in "those two were getting friendly last night" or "that movie exec thought copyright infringement was "content theft" and also had an annoying boner, so he got friendly with everyone's internet traffic in the hopes he could catch one of his films' sex scenes".
At least future historians will have detailed records on who drove over Interstate 15 in southwest Utah in the 21's century. Of course they'll probably assume the plates represent our names or something..
They're all dictatorships of one kind or another, and the techs in them have zero power.
Yup. If anything, the geeks of China, Iran, and friends are being used like a rag to censor, track, and capture any fellow citizen who does not follow the vile decrees of the government.
The ones on top there are politically-inclined, power-hungry jerks and sociopaths, not geeks.
Facebook is caught between a rock and a hard place with regard to user privacy. They already take a lot of flack from users who don't like what they perceive as Facebook's lax privacy protection. Facebook can't simply dilute it further without risking a flood of protest from its users. It can't afford that. That's not to mention the various state and federal privacy regulations already in place that will also constrain them.
(I thought that was below even Facebook to do, so I was floored when I read that. I guess the "cookies" Chris mentions could be a rogue keylogger system or Evercookie from some ad or whatever, but that's more my desperate hope for Internet users' sake than a hypothesis.)
Bloomberg called its first use on primary day 2010 a "royal screw-up". I've voted with both old and new machines, and while both seemed to work well, who knows what bits flipped (or were flipped) between feed and count. Personally I think the change was as necessary as the impending invasion of internet TLDs (i.e. not at all).
Signed up, website still works but game is stuck at "Retrieving Authentication" on Firefox 12 and IE8 (my machine with IE9 is getting an overhaul), so guess I'll just have to wait a while to find those buggy blood cells.
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I haven't used Opera in a good long while*, and I've never heard of the mentioned source site Pocket-lint, but after the damning parting words of von Tetzchner, I wouldn't put it past Opera to allow let Facebook take them.
Nice knowin' ya, Oppy.
*Actually I did a few times a month or two ago for some SVG testing; otherwise I've barely touched it, and I'll be uninstalling it now just in case the probable turns out true.
Of course there are other IDEs, for which I and others will be grateful. The point is that Microsoft went from mildly sane to Full Retard in the span of one OS release. VS 2010 Express (especially when combined with a Platform SDK) was quite useful for making what they now call "classic apps". Now we have to pay in, or sanction M(isadv)e(n)tro.
Read that as "We shackled our own workers to the desk, but none of them could figure out how to make something that could share and filter images like that so we kept giving those geniuses offers until they buckled. They also got kinda pissed after the 8-or-9th offer and started throwing goldfish, tomatoes, and smelly socks at us, but our combination bodyguard/repo-men dealt with that little threat in a Facebook Timeline minute."
"is going"?
Actually I agree with grandparent; summary definitely reads like an ad. Rackspace employees do occasionally post on Slashdot, special user logo and all.
Yeah; currently article says *clears throat*
So if I'm comprendiendo this, al-Q posted a bunch of rah-rah posters and the State Dept posted "al-Q-is-EVILZ" versions on the same forums, but did not use l33t h4x to break into anything to make the posts. Not very much to write home about.
They find a way (or pretend to), in much the same way as they find how to "own" an employee Facebook or Twitter account--if the law is not on their side, the post-nasty-legal-threat settlements will be.
The former is how it should and easily can be. Sadly, between the "app" "revolution" and the lack of mention of HTML, I see more sites like m.fbi.gov in our future.
A bit more interesting to me is the "requiring agencies to use web performance analytics and customer satisfaction measurement tools on all '.gov' websites" line in the PDF release. Will those be some sort of in-house thing? Will they end up tripping Do Not Track or IE's Tracking Protection because they're sending the info to Google Analytics or whathaveyou? If it's just a glorified hit counter instead of full-on analytics services, then why haven't they already been doing this--do they need a contractor to count their own damn pageviews?
Both this and the rise of the Meternet make me shake my head, and make me want to grab one of those legislative or corporate suits by the shoulders and shake them and tell them "What the bloody hell is wrong with you!?".
*exasperated sigh*
An imaginary mod point (for lack of real ones) for you. If I were choosing a separate language for app://s it would be the existing SVG, Javascript (ES 5.5, just to be safe), CSS, and a language-generic form of object (called xml:object? though what if I decide I want it to be supported in non-XML SGML stuff?) to embed apps within docs (and vice versa) and music, video, and more complicated whiz-bang 3D or outright novel stuff within both. I'd ask browsers to use their built-in "HTML5"-or-whatever player for those objects but allow something (the user? the dev? either?) to specify a plugin if they insist or if the built-in doesn't support the format. (I don't like the audio and video tags and think img should be deprecated for object now that IE and friends show images with object in a similar way.)
Also instead of that ugly and misleading HTML5 shield I'd make the logo for it all a witch, because a good app would be like magic and I have A Thing(tm) for witches at the moment.
It was right on the rescheduled schedule. :)
I guess they mean "friendly" as in "those two were getting friendly last night" or "that movie exec thought copyright infringement was "content theft" and also had an annoying boner, so he got friendly with everyone's internet traffic in the hopes he could catch one of his films' sex scenes".
"I am not a free man, I am a number!"
--no, that can't be right...
Thanks to their work, we've been...thunderstruck.
The media was trying to obscure the event, but we saw the light anyway as details seeped out the periphery.
Yup. If anything, the geeks of China, Iran, and friends are being used like a rag to censor, track, and capture any fellow citizen who does not follow the vile decrees of the government.
The ones on top there are politically-inclined, power-hungry jerks and sociopaths, not geeks.
I consider it more of a noun plus -ing issue myself. Like Tony1 there, I think it's a wierd construct but curing it can be more so.
No, they simply cannot dilute it further because it's as diluted as it could possibly be, if this comment on msnbc.com is to be believed.
(I thought that was below even Facebook to do, so I was floored when I read that. I guess the "cookies" Chris mentions could be a rogue keylogger system or Evercookie from some ad or whatever, but that's more my desperate hope for Internet users' sake than a hypothesis.)
But...but...they're non-profit! User-driven! Innovative! Exclamation marks! I mean...that's what they told me just now...so they can't really be influenced by any tech giants with mobile phone and tablet interests or anything.
There's the problem. Instead of insuring the bribes, PayPal kept them and froze LightSquared's account. Result: debt!
That's odd. I was using KDE just today and its equivalent of a Start menu didn't use a shitty tablet UI.
You mean the reviews those things get don't have positive bias? ;)
We had mechanical voting booths in the Bronx and NY in general, but then had to change to electronic ones to comply with federal law. (Stupid HAVA.)
Bloomberg called its first use on primary day 2010 a "royal screw-up". I've voted with both old and new machines, and while both seemed to work well, who knows what bits flipped (or were flipped) between feed and count. Personally I think the change was as necessary as the impending invasion of internet TLDs (i.e. not at all).
Well then,
There, I took out all the unimportant parts of the article so you can block the App Center more easily. :D
Signed up, website still works but game is stuck at "Retrieving Authentication" on Firefox 12 and IE8 (my machine with IE9 is getting an overhaul), so guess I'll just have to wait a while to find those buggy blood cells.