It is refreshing to see some people on Slashdot suggest that science just fills gaps with unsubstantiated assumptions sometimes instead of just complaining about organized religion doing that, as if it's exclusive.
So if you're going to have to connect to the internet and send all of your data away, to have it reformatted and sent back, every time you want to print something then why not just connect to a printer driver website and and download a driver once, never to have this problem again? This doesn't seem to help any situation except that everything you print goes into the hands of a corporation briefly.
I'm in the heart of the USA. And one of the things I noticed about my brother, daughters, my male friend, and others, is all of their $500 smart phones just wouldn't receive calls sometimes. The phone just wouldn't ring. Now finally I and two other people on my phone plan have gotten Android phones, leaving only my mother with a non-Smart, basic flip phone. Although my phone has been fairly reliable, nephew tried to call me once and my phone never rang. And this is in an area with good cell phone coverage. I even get 4G. So he had to call my mother on her flip phone and tell her to pass the message on to me. It's only happened to me once but still, as far as I know, my mother with her flip phone is the only person in the family who hasn't missed any calls due to the phone just not ringing.
The application I see for this is not predicting who you will add as a friend. Rather, it would be in predicting who will accept your friend requests. I suspect those, who are all about making their friend list as big as possible, would like a tool that automatically selects the people who will accept it. I suspect Slashdotters would like the tool even more if it filters the list of people who accept friend requests until it only includes attractive females.
If you are working for an ISP in the United States then you don't need to ping anyway because all you're going to do is end up blaming the problem on the router, regardless of what the problem is.
Would it kill you to have the Windows machine initiate the ping to a server instead of replying to it? Would it kill you to just transfer a file from one machine to another if you want to see if everything is working?
Making a Windows machine ignore ping requests will not make it impossible to test a network connection, Mr. "+5 Insightful for calling somebody stupid". What it will do is make it slightly harder for unwanted attackers to know there is a computer there. Security through obscurity might not be total security but it's better than just saying "yes, I'm here".
I think Microsoft would do the United States a big service to remove ping from consumer versions of Windows altogether. People may want to ping another server to test their connection speed but no home user needs their own computer to respond to a ping.
I don't know. When I use Windows, I don't feel like every little thing I type is being sent back to Microsoft. With every Google product, I do get that feeling. And I can get Windows out of my computer. I can't get Google out of my phone. Also, everybody I know uses Windows but Microsoft never got my phone number. As soon as one friend of mine got an Android phone, Google got my name and phone number, and probably my address too.
People who fight for the right to be anonymous are not just trying to say insulting and threatening things anonymously. They are also trying to keep people from giving their name, address, phone number, and pictures to anybody who asks. I think this guy is deliberately confusing the two situations. He's just like those people who say it's horrible for you to know what your government is doing because that makes it impossible for the government to keep you safe.
They said it didn't help, and app sales went back to the 2 or 3 sales per day that they had before the promotion. They also wondered if every potential customer, who wanted their app, had already downloaded it for free.
When the corporations wants you to stop renting movies, they go with the spirit of the law instead of the letter. When "fair use" says you can copy a DVD but the corporations want the DMCA to stop you, they go with the letter of the law instead of the spirit. Whether they go with the spirit or the letter depends on which one makes you lose and the corporations win.
Maybe they're trying to get a bigger audience than just you. They're still going to fail because every alternative opinion gets modded away, but maybe they're trying.
If the car's system has a way to completely shut down the car while you're driving at high speed then they have bigger problems than people figuring out the protocol they used.
So do we complain about corporations (doing what makes money now, with no long-term strategy) or do we complain about (corporations holding on to something that loses money with a plan to profit from it in the future)?
How about people who feel that their "content" is being copied and redistributed by Google but they can't do anything about it because Google has too much power as a search engine?
Or get a TV news program to show a bunch of people who say they believe it because the majority opinion of the people on tv will be considered to be the majority of people in reality.
Some people have a lot of opportunities and chances to eventually be prepared for one of them. Other people have spent their whole lives preparing and never had an opportunity.
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It is refreshing to see some people on Slashdot suggest that science just fills gaps with unsubstantiated assumptions sometimes instead of just complaining about organized religion doing that, as if it's exclusive.
So if you're going to have to connect to the internet and send all of your data away, to have it reformatted and sent back, every time you want to print something then why not just connect to a printer driver website and and download a driver once, never to have this problem again? This doesn't seem to help any situation except that everything you print goes into the hands of a corporation briefly.
I'm in the heart of the USA. And one of the things I noticed about my brother, daughters, my male friend, and others, is all of their $500 smart phones just wouldn't receive calls sometimes. The phone just wouldn't ring. Now finally I and two other people on my phone plan have gotten Android phones, leaving only my mother with a non-Smart, basic flip phone. Although my phone has been fairly reliable, nephew tried to call me once and my phone never rang. And this is in an area with good cell phone coverage. I even get 4G. So he had to call my mother on her flip phone and tell her to pass the message on to me. It's only happened to me once but still, as far as I know, my mother with her flip phone is the only person in the family who hasn't missed any calls due to the phone just not ringing.
You don't understand. It's NOT Facebook. That's the whole feature! I know this doesn't make any sense to Facebook users...
Just like Obama's not Bush...
The application I see for this is not predicting who you will add as a friend. Rather, it would be in predicting who will accept your friend requests. I suspect those, who are all about making their friend list as big as possible, would like a tool that automatically selects the people who will accept it. I suspect Slashdotters would like the tool even more if it filters the list of people who accept friend requests until it only includes attractive females.
If you are working for an ISP in the United States then you don't need to ping anyway because all you're going to do is end up blaming the problem on the router, regardless of what the problem is.
Would it kill you to have the Windows machine initiate the ping to a server instead of replying to it? Would it kill you to just transfer a file from one machine to another if you want to see if everything is working?
Making a Windows machine ignore ping requests will not make it impossible to test a network connection, Mr. "+5 Insightful for calling somebody stupid". What it will do is make it slightly harder for unwanted attackers to know there is a computer there. Security through obscurity might not be total security but it's better than just saying "yes, I'm here".
I think Microsoft would do the United States a big service to remove ping from consumer versions of Windows altogether. People may want to ping another server to test their connection speed but no home user needs their own computer to respond to a ping.
I personally wouldn't feel bad if Zuckerberg loses it all. I don't like what he's done with it. And it's not like he'll run out of money or anything.
I don't know. When I use Windows, I don't feel like every little thing I type is being sent back to Microsoft. With every Google product, I do get that feeling. And I can get Windows out of my computer. I can't get Google out of my phone. Also, everybody I know uses Windows but Microsoft never got my phone number. As soon as one friend of mine got an Android phone, Google got my name and phone number, and probably my address too.
This is what happens when somebody tries to do that in the United States.
In this case, that won't happen until some poor software engineer makes a search engine that seriously threatens Google's dominance.
People who fight for the right to be anonymous are not just trying to say insulting and threatening things anonymously. They are also trying to keep people from giving their name, address, phone number, and pictures to anybody who asks. I think this guy is deliberately confusing the two situations. He's just like those people who say it's horrible for you to know what your government is doing because that makes it impossible for the government to keep you safe.
At least you get to copy the files. In the US, you have to pay the music copy tax on blank audio discs but you still don't get to copy the music.
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html
They said it didn't help, and app sales went back to the 2 or 3 sales per day that they had before the promotion. They also wondered if every potential customer, who wanted their app, had already downloaded it for free.
When the corporations wants you to stop renting movies, they go with the spirit of the law instead of the letter. When "fair use" says you can copy a DVD but the corporations want the DMCA to stop you, they go with the letter of the law instead of the spirit. Whether they go with the spirit or the letter depends on which one makes you lose and the corporations win.
Maybe they're trying to get a bigger audience than just you. They're still going to fail because every alternative opinion gets modded away, but maybe they're trying.
It's also an excellent chance to patent marriage. Because now it's on a computer.
If the car's system has a way to completely shut down the car while you're driving at high speed then they have bigger problems than people figuring out the protocol they used.
So do we complain about corporations (doing what makes money now, with no long-term strategy) or do we complain about (corporations holding on to something that loses money with a plan to profit from it in the future)?
How about people who feel that their "content" is being copied and redistributed by Google but they can't do anything about it because Google has too much power as a search engine?
They probably have to run a new copy of the article as many times as Google, Mozilla, or whoever the sponsor is, has paid them to do.
Or get a TV news program to show a bunch of people who say they believe it because the majority opinion of the people on tv will be considered to be the majority of people in reality.
Some people have a lot of opportunities and chances to eventually be prepared for one of them. Other people have spent their whole lives preparing and never had an opportunity.