well IMO they still have a reasonable shot, it depends on the bang that comes from actually advertising it now. Seeing the link on googles main page, may simultaniously draw the people who haven't tried it in, and have the people who tried it but left due to a shortage of people back at the same time. That may be the simultanious gathering required to generate the rolling momentum needed. I still fail to see how everyone reffers back to all the old google social network attempts. Wave was never designed as a social network, it was designed as a colaberation tool, It was more in line with google docs then an attempt to compete with facebook. It was something good for getting a bunch of people to work together for 1 goal, it wasn't a place to chat and hang out, it wasn't intended to make new friends, it was never a social network at all. Buzz was an attempt at a social network, and it flopped badly instantly because of the attempt to roll it out to everyone simultaniously, while simultaniously not thinking about the privacy issue caused when you simultaniously instantly add everyones top 10 most e-mailed people to their friends list, and show friends lists publicly. Most importantly the ones who were hurt the most by such a mistake, were members of the press, and politicians. You instantly tick off the press, and good luck getting good publicity to cary on your product.
Bottom line, a social network to even have a chance of getting off the ground right now, needs a flipping huge financial backing in the billions. Or for the existing one to become so unusable it is abhorant that even in the absense of competition, few would want to use it. Getting people over to a social network involves not just converting a few thousand and then slowly growing it, but converting a good 25% chunk, at the same time. Because unless others are using it, nobody will stick around long, if nobody sticks around long then there's never many other people using it to take note of. Know of any billionares that have interest in investing in a large project with little to no profit in return?
By that definition the phone also is violating their privacy. If someone happens to be looking over the childs shoulder when he opens his pictures folder, or steals his phone, the same problem happens.
Not true, in both categories. Google+ by default lists the main parts of your profile, that is true, but as soon as you upload any content, comments, posts, pictures etc... the first thing it does is ask you who you want to be able to see it with the default being your circles (people you have added). Facebook 6 months ago, if you created an account, and uploaded 3 photos and made a status post without changing any options, all of that would have been public. Games take a list of people on your friends list, which makes sense, a social game should list your friends for the sake of knowing who's high scores to show you. Now if say I added a jerk to my friends who idiotically plays a ton of games and accepts every darn "tell your friends about the retarted cow you stepped on" update. Those go to the games feed. If I don't play games, I never click the games feed and thus I never even see the spam. It never mixes in with the posts and things my friends are sharing, etc... Facebook 6 months ago, if you had 2 friends who clicked every stupid share with friends in their games, your feed got so frickin crowded you couldn't find any of the non game-based posts until you started blocking the games, and then you have to block each and every game to keep up with them. Bottom line G+ isn't perfect, but it is leaps and bounds foward from facebooks defaults.
They can, safely know that 95% of computer users don't know how to find or use tools to make their lives easier, and that 3/4ths of the 5% won't bother to move because they know there aren't many people they care about moving. That being said, I really like G+, the handfull of friends I care about have moved over there, The many I left behind on facebook, I really don't miss. Within the crew of friends I have, there is more sharing, chatting etc... going on that interest me, then there ever was on facebook.
That actually makes sense, in other words they are finding bugs, like say if a glitch happened where if you type the letters todadadklard into a search box, hold shift and backspace while having someone else click the submit button, the program exits. While technically a bug, it would be one that would never bother anyone or effected the end user, hypothetically though it could lead to an exploit that could do greater harm as a zero day vulnerability with the right method of hacker, hence why it is good to bring out even the stupid bugs into the open.
Indeed, and it still fails to show how that isn't the intention and the exact point of bug bounties? I thought the idea was to find spots vulnerable to attack, before they are attacked. They are creating exploits that take advantage of existing holes, so that the holes can be patched. Is everyone else hitting a sony mindset "It's not our fault that we left the front door open, it's the problem of these hackers being so good nothing would stop them.
Personally I have to agree with that one, I am all for a public DVR database where anyone on the street can just pop in, cut to 3:53 corner of north main and broad street, and see exactly what happened. It even eliminates the cops 1/4th legitimate complaint of civilians filming them (cops claim the civilians may be cutting out the suspects attempts to attack or run before they use force), If the camera is opened to the public, then both the civilians and the cops adn judges can see the entirety of what happened. Unfortunately in general the right to pick only the evidence that helps their case and hide the portion that contradicts is something the police will always want to have exclusively in their hands.
I'd imagine it is more dangerous, a bolted down thingy that is trying to get a glimse of you, may or may not have wireless capabilities of some kind, and knowing the government, specially crafted overpriced devices that are easilly recognizable if found, not like you can walk into a pawn shop with a camera with a severed cord on one end and expect to get much for it.
I can't really say much from experience with most of these, but clamwin? I am always in favor of open source when it is on the same league as paid software, but in this particular case... you are just asking for trouble if you cut this corner.
Agreed, how on earth is an average earthquake in a country that is used to minor earthquakes. Just because there was an earthquake to break all recorded records over there once, Next news story, thunderstorm hits new orleans, no deaths or damage.
Facebook was too fat and happy. I would say more facebook features rolled out in the few months since G+ came out, then in years prior (no randomly re-organizing the interface to annoy your users does not count as a feature). Honestly I think if facebook did like microsoft and went by a hold the course, send out some bad publicity strategy, google would have rapidly overtook them. Googles biggest weakness is every way they inovate the social network side, facebook rapidly copies. Facebooks newer system for groups, now allowing public feeds etc... Everything google does, is quickly copied and mirrored, facebook knows google is not one to play the patent/cheat card, and facebook is going to keep using that to their advantage.
Honestly I would have to say, microsoft is not being investigated mainly because they aren't succeeding like they used to, not because they aren't doing anything illegal, but because it isn't working. A monopoly is using your dominance of 1 market to push competition in others. Internet Explorer automatically sets bing up as the default search engine, MSN messanger attempts to set your search engine to bing, dozens of programs attempt to install bings toolbar, I believe using MSN messangers search function searches bing regardless of your browser and preferences (could be wrong on that last one). Microsoft's actions are as monopolistic as ever, only thing is, despite trying all of this crap for years, bing barely puts a dent into google's marketshare. Also don't tell me chrome is just as bad, by default chrome asks to import the settings from IE when it starts up, in which it will grab the default search provider as bing if you haven't changed it. Bottom line microsoft never cut down on their monopolistic practices, but no government is going to bother to step into the guy with 30% of the market share and say "hey your actions are unfairly pushing your competition out".
Well in this case it is because people can directly witness people beeping and being ignored on a daily basis. If they know that beeps from the detectors are ignored then they won't be afraid of making it beep. If you made a fake metal detector and made up a BS story about it being "calibrated to ignore the type of steel in steel toed boots", odds are it would work better. Security theiter is actually as effective as real security, sometimes more effective (if the user can see how it works, they can learn to get around it and be 99% sure that they won't be caught, if they are told it's a phantom method they can't understand, they will think "It's probably fake, but even a 10% chance of getting caught isn't worth it". The issue isn't that security is just a theiter, the issue is that in your case, they pretty much tell everyone it is a theiter.
in that case it technically is the users home connection that is downloading the infringing content, it dosn't appear to be, it flat out is. Running a proxy or a VPN is pretty much the same as the user downloading it at home onto a disk and bringing the disk in to work.
The quanity of sales of microsoft office, should be an indicator of how many people in a company, create content of some kind in some way shape or form. Whether it's e-mails, etc... I do see the ipad as slightly more practical for people who are up and about moving around often. Maintinence grunts, inspectors etc... the types of people who were carying clipboards a few years back. In a manufacturing environment I would say the actual people doing the work are better off with touch screen desktops (due to those jobs being about massive quanities of unskilled laborers that are often in short term contracts and replaced regularly, in my experience most expensive equipment that is light enough to cary out descretely needs to be nailed down for those type jobs.
The demographic of people too witless or lazy to block, would be almost everybody except a handful of geeks and tinfoil hats. We are in a world where over 40% still use IE despite it being clearly inferior and more work then the alternatives. Noscript is still a pain to use, so we are still looking at a handful of people who actually use it. The bottom line is the 1% that they are leaving off also, is most likely the least likely to be influenced by marketing percentage on earth. Geeks tend to look for things when they need or want them without being influenced by a comercial, they tend to then search for the closest thing to an unbiased review they can find before purchasing, thus making them not the wisest use of marketing dollars to waste time targetting, and the tinfoils, well they probably think the products being advertised are government mind control rays.
Actually in general what I see, the fat is the last thing to go. First they cut out the muscle, then the internal organs, then they start to concider the fat. In general the initial cuts are to support, then to engineering/developing, insert a few more key links here, then finally they start to even consider the possibility of cutting their management buddies that helped drive the place into the ground to begin with. Usually they try and delay losing managers until the managers are close to a 1:1 ratio with people they manage.
No I believe the point is they are basically using the tool as a extremely rude advertising platform. I'm sorry but your copy of knoppix has been removed by a DMCA takedown, can I interest you in legally purchasing a blu-ray of the matrix?
True, but mental conditions also have physical side effects that can be detected. Heart rate, facial expressions etc... While I highly doubt a pre-recorded voice or an AI will ever handle that, I could see a computer being smart enough to flag people for a chat with a psychiatrist on par or better than your average doctor. You also forget, while many doctors are brilliant with bedside manner, there are also many that are brilliant on the medical side, know all the nuts and bolts of the human body, but know absolutely nothing on reading people.
It is the name of a movie about a future where mankind has evolved backwards (due to stupid people being more likely to have offspring then smart people), repeated over hundreds of years, at one point in the movie, it shows a hospital, where they basically hand everyone probes "this one goes in your ear, this one goes in your mouth, this one up your nose, and this one goes up your butt, no wait, this one goes in your mouth, this one up your butt... er... ummm....
Well yeah, duh, it is THE white house. Just because we elected an african american president does not mean it would make any sense to turn it into the black house. I think that solar panels will work there one day, they just have to learn how to make white colored solar pannels work. The building may be filled with sleezebags, lobyists etc... but gosh darnit it needs to be the color white, all around, every surface.
True but I would say 99% of the books that have digital copies in any form, are available nearly perfectly in illegal forms, and I have a feeling the books that are available for "rent" will have this fact as equally true. No DRM has ever gone unbroken for long.
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well IMO they still have a reasonable shot, it depends on the bang that comes from actually advertising it now. Seeing the link on googles main page, may simultaniously draw the people who haven't tried it in, and have the people who tried it but left due to a shortage of people back at the same time. That may be the simultanious gathering required to generate the rolling momentum needed. I still fail to see how everyone reffers back to all the old google social network attempts. Wave was never designed as a social network, it was designed as a colaberation tool, It was more in line with google docs then an attempt to compete with facebook. It was something good for getting a bunch of people to work together for 1 goal, it wasn't a place to chat and hang out, it wasn't intended to make new friends, it was never a social network at all. Buzz was an attempt at a social network, and it flopped badly instantly because of the attempt to roll it out to everyone simultaniously, while simultaniously not thinking about the privacy issue caused when you simultaniously instantly add everyones top 10 most e-mailed people to their friends list, and show friends lists publicly. Most importantly the ones who were hurt the most by such a mistake, were members of the press, and politicians. You instantly tick off the press, and good luck getting good publicity to cary on your product.
Bottom line, a social network to even have a chance of getting off the ground right now, needs a flipping huge financial backing in the billions. Or for the existing one to become so unusable it is abhorant that even in the absense of competition, few would want to use it. Getting people over to a social network involves not just converting a few thousand and then slowly growing it, but converting a good 25% chunk, at the same time. Because unless others are using it, nobody will stick around long, if nobody sticks around long then there's never many other people using it to take note of. Know of any billionares that have interest in investing in a large project with little to no profit in return?
By that definition the phone also is violating their privacy. If someone happens to be looking over the childs shoulder when he opens his pictures folder, or steals his phone, the same problem happens.
Not true, in both categories. Google+ by default lists the main parts of your profile, that is true, but as soon as you upload any content, comments, posts, pictures etc... the first thing it does is ask you who you want to be able to see it with the default being your circles (people you have added). Facebook 6 months ago, if you created an account, and uploaded 3 photos and made a status post without changing any options, all of that would have been public. Games take a list of people on your friends list, which makes sense, a social game should list your friends for the sake of knowing who's high scores to show you. Now if say I added a jerk to my friends who idiotically plays a ton of games and accepts every darn "tell your friends about the retarted cow you stepped on" update. Those go to the games feed. If I don't play games, I never click the games feed and thus I never even see the spam. It never mixes in with the posts and things my friends are sharing, etc... Facebook 6 months ago, if you had 2 friends who clicked every stupid share with friends in their games, your feed got so frickin crowded you couldn't find any of the non game-based posts until you started blocking the games, and then you have to block each and every game to keep up with them. Bottom line G+ isn't perfect, but it is leaps and bounds foward from facebooks defaults.
That was a myth that has been disproven numerous times.
They can, safely know that 95% of computer users don't know how to find or use tools to make their lives easier, and that 3/4ths of the 5% won't bother to move because they know there aren't many people they care about moving. That being said, I really like G+, the handfull of friends I care about have moved over there, The many I left behind on facebook, I really don't miss. Within the crew of friends I have, there is more sharing, chatting etc... going on that interest me, then there ever was on facebook.
That actually makes sense, in other words they are finding bugs, like say if a glitch happened where if you type the letters todadadklard into a search box, hold shift and backspace while having someone else click the submit button, the program exits. While technically a bug, it would be one that would never bother anyone or effected the end user, hypothetically though it could lead to an exploit that could do greater harm as a zero day vulnerability with the right method of hacker, hence why it is good to bring out even the stupid bugs into the open.
Indeed, and it still fails to show how that isn't the intention and the exact point of bug bounties? I thought the idea was to find spots vulnerable to attack, before they are attacked. They are creating exploits that take advantage of existing holes, so that the holes can be patched. Is everyone else hitting a sony mindset "It's not our fault that we left the front door open, it's the problem of these hackers being so good nothing would stop them.
Personally I have to agree with that one, I am all for a public DVR database where anyone on the street can just pop in, cut to 3:53 corner of north main and broad street, and see exactly what happened. It even eliminates the cops 1/4th legitimate complaint of civilians filming them (cops claim the civilians may be cutting out the suspects attempts to attack or run before they use force), If the camera is opened to the public, then both the civilians and the cops adn judges can see the entirety of what happened. Unfortunately in general the right to pick only the evidence that helps their case and hide the portion that contradicts is something the police will always want to have exclusively in their hands.
I'd imagine it is more dangerous, a bolted down thingy that is trying to get a glimse of you, may or may not have wireless capabilities of some kind, and knowing the government, specially crafted overpriced devices that are easilly recognizable if found, not like you can walk into a pawn shop with a camera with a severed cord on one end and expect to get much for it.
I can't really say much from experience with most of these, but clamwin? I am always in favor of open source when it is on the same league as paid software, but in this particular case... you are just asking for trouble if you cut this corner.
Agreed, how on earth is an average earthquake in a country that is used to minor earthquakes. Just because there was an earthquake to break all recorded records over there once, Next news story, thunderstorm hits new orleans, no deaths or damage.
Facebook was too fat and happy. I would say more facebook features rolled out in the few months since G+ came out, then in years prior (no randomly re-organizing the interface to annoy your users does not count as a feature). Honestly I think if facebook did like microsoft and went by a hold the course, send out some bad publicity strategy, google would have rapidly overtook them. Googles biggest weakness is every way they inovate the social network side, facebook rapidly copies. Facebooks newer system for groups, now allowing public feeds etc... Everything google does, is quickly copied and mirrored, facebook knows google is not one to play the patent/cheat card, and facebook is going to keep using that to their advantage.
Honestly I would have to say, microsoft is not being investigated mainly because they aren't succeeding like they used to, not because they aren't doing anything illegal, but because it isn't working. A monopoly is using your dominance of 1 market to push competition in others. Internet Explorer automatically sets bing up as the default search engine, MSN messanger attempts to set your search engine to bing, dozens of programs attempt to install bings toolbar, I believe using MSN messangers search function searches bing regardless of your browser and preferences (could be wrong on that last one). Microsoft's actions are as monopolistic as ever, only thing is, despite trying all of this crap for years, bing barely puts a dent into google's marketshare. Also don't tell me chrome is just as bad, by default chrome asks to import the settings from IE when it starts up, in which it will grab the default search provider as bing if you haven't changed it. Bottom line microsoft never cut down on their monopolistic practices, but no government is going to bother to step into the guy with 30% of the market share and say "hey your actions are unfairly pushing your competition out".
Well in this case it is because people can directly witness people beeping and being ignored on a daily basis. If they know that beeps from the detectors are ignored then they won't be afraid of making it beep. If you made a fake metal detector and made up a BS story about it being "calibrated to ignore the type of steel in steel toed boots", odds are it would work better. Security theiter is actually as effective as real security, sometimes more effective (if the user can see how it works, they can learn to get around it and be 99% sure that they won't be caught, if they are told it's a phantom method they can't understand, they will think "It's probably fake, but even a 10% chance of getting caught isn't worth it". The issue isn't that security is just a theiter, the issue is that in your case, they pretty much tell everyone it is a theiter.
in that case it technically is the users home connection that is downloading the infringing content, it dosn't appear to be, it flat out is. Running a proxy or a VPN is pretty much the same as the user downloading it at home onto a disk and bringing the disk in to work.
The quanity of sales of microsoft office, should be an indicator of how many people in a company, create content of some kind in some way shape or form. Whether it's e-mails, etc... I do see the ipad as slightly more practical for people who are up and about moving around often. Maintinence grunts, inspectors etc... the types of people who were carying clipboards a few years back. In a manufacturing environment I would say the actual people doing the work are better off with touch screen desktops (due to those jobs being about massive quanities of unskilled laborers that are often in short term contracts and replaced regularly, in my experience most expensive equipment that is light enough to cary out descretely needs to be nailed down for those type jobs.
The demographic of people too witless or lazy to block, would be almost everybody except a handful of geeks and tinfoil hats. We are in a world where over 40% still use IE despite it being clearly inferior and more work then the alternatives. Noscript is still a pain to use, so we are still looking at a handful of people who actually use it. The bottom line is the 1% that they are leaving off also, is most likely the least likely to be influenced by marketing percentage on earth. Geeks tend to look for things when they need or want them without being influenced by a comercial, they tend to then search for the closest thing to an unbiased review they can find before purchasing, thus making them not the wisest use of marketing dollars to waste time targetting, and the tinfoils, well they probably think the products being advertised are government mind control rays.
Actually in general what I see, the fat is the last thing to go. First they cut out the muscle, then the internal organs, then they start to concider the fat. In general the initial cuts are to support, then to engineering/developing, insert a few more key links here, then finally they start to even consider the possibility of cutting their management buddies that helped drive the place into the ground to begin with. Usually they try and delay losing managers until the managers are close to a 1:1 ratio with people they manage.
No I believe the point is they are basically using the tool as a extremely rude advertising platform. I'm sorry but your copy of knoppix has been removed by a DMCA takedown, can I interest you in legally purchasing a blu-ray of the matrix?
True, but mental conditions also have physical side effects that can be detected. Heart rate, facial expressions etc... While I highly doubt a pre-recorded voice or an AI will ever handle that, I could see a computer being smart enough to flag people for a chat with a psychiatrist on par or better than your average doctor. You also forget, while many doctors are brilliant with bedside manner, there are also many that are brilliant on the medical side, know all the nuts and bolts of the human body, but know absolutely nothing on reading people.
It is the name of a movie about a future where mankind has evolved backwards (due to stupid people being more likely to have offspring then smart people), repeated over hundreds of years, at one point in the movie, it shows a hospital, where they basically hand everyone probes "this one goes in your ear, this one goes in your mouth, this one up your nose, and this one goes up your butt, no wait, this one goes in your mouth, this one up your butt... er... ummm....
Well yeah, duh, it is THE white house. Just because we elected an african american president does not mean it would make any sense to turn it into the black house. I think that solar panels will work there one day, they just have to learn how to make white colored solar pannels work. The building may be filled with sleezebags, lobyists etc... but gosh darnit it needs to be the color white, all around, every surface.
You neglected to mention the high seismic activity.
True but I would say 99% of the books that have digital copies in any form, are available nearly perfectly in illegal forms, and I have a feeling the books that are available for "rent" will have this fact as equally true. No DRM has ever gone unbroken for long.