It's "she", not "he". And the thinking is one is better off with a random person than one who is guaranteed to be against you. You trust random computers every time you use BitTorrent. Sometimes it turns out bad, other times it turns out good. It obviously turns out good enough times that people keep doing it. If corporations completely control the internet then it's going to get worse and worse while getting more and more expensive, like what's happening now. Except it will happen faster.
It's only the same thing if that private citizen is suppressing everybody else's views while pushing its own. Is the private citizen also shutting down websites of people with differing views? Or accusing them of rape?
And they'll just ignore how the "kill-switch" wouldn't help at all since, by the time they realize there's a breach, information could already be leaked. In fact, the only use I could imagine for this kill-switch is to stop a DDOS, but then what sane person trades one site being killed for the entire Internet being killed?
I can't find my previous post to link to it so I'll have to repeat myself. My last sprint phone would charge us for data if I used the mp3 player. And it would do this even if I had the internet capability turned off. If you use the web browser, it asks if you want to turn the internet back on in order to continue. If you play an mp3, it turns the internet on and starts charging by the minute with no warning, even though you're just playing a file on a memory card. To make things worse, external contact with the phone could launch the music player. I guess one of the external buttons was a music button.
What they need to do is make it so you can pause, rewind, advance forward or backward a single frame, and take a screen capture as easily as you can with a movie played from a file on your hard drive. Also, they need to add the ability to edit the video and watch your new version of the video. And they need to guarantee you'll always be able to watch the current and your new edited version of the video. Then it will be as good as a video you have on disc.
How many Firefox and Opera users realize whatever they type in the address bar goes through Google? How many android phone users realize their entire contact list will be sent to Google?
What got me was the quote, "Interestingly, Wikipedia came in last, scoring 23%, though they may have more to do with how Wikipedia handles searches". As if the score of Bing and Google doesn't have anything to do with how they handle searches.
Lots of us at work (we work for the devil) are Facebook "mutual friends". But one friend talked about how a supervisor keeps doing friend requests no matter how many times she clicks "decline". I said to her, Facebook never tells you they declined the request. It just makes it look like you never did the friend request in the first place. So one could be convinced it was just a computer error, and try again. Especially if they're sure the request would be accepted. Her argument was a friend request wouldn't go wrong that many times and the supervisor should get the point. But nobody's going to tell the other woman to give it up.
At the same time, if you get dropped from a Friends list, nothing good will come out of a conversation between the dropper and the "droppee".
I suppose what would be even better than a notification of an "unfriending" would be a notification that the friend request was declined in the first place. Or at least make the "Add As Friend" button disappear after it's declined.
This guy can sit around and complain all he wants but for better or for worse: those who ship win.
Maybe that's another reason they like patent law so much. Even if you have a better product and yours is ready first, they can keep you from shipping it.
My first thought was how often people on my list change their names. I could be "Amber J" this morning and be "Badasx Ambie" later tonight when you try to log on. Sometimes I have to click on people's picture just to know who they are because their new name has nothing to do with their real name anymore.
I've left my debit card places. I've lost it before. Two big reasons to prefer the phone over the debit card are 1. phones can have a passcode while you can just swipe the card. and 2. Phones can often tell you where they are while cards won't.
What they really need is a way for the phone owner to remotely disable the mobile payment apps.
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It's "she", not "he". And the thinking is one is better off with a random person than one who is guaranteed to be against you. You trust random computers every time you use BitTorrent. Sometimes it turns out bad, other times it turns out good. It obviously turns out good enough times that people keep doing it. If corporations completely control the internet then it's going to get worse and worse while getting more and more expensive, like what's happening now. Except it will happen faster.
I'd rather have the data go through random computers than ones controlled by corporations.
Maybe it would make sense if there were people willing to pay for pictures of you.
What would they do if China's government used the same FOE source code to send information to Americans?
It's only the same thing if that private citizen is suppressing everybody else's views while pushing its own. Is the private citizen also shutting down websites of people with differing views? Or accusing them of rape?
They're also not very interested in sharing information, especially if it's useful.
And they'll just ignore how the "kill-switch" wouldn't help at all since, by the time they realize there's a breach, information could already be leaked. In fact, the only use I could imagine for this kill-switch is to stop a DDOS, but then what sane person trades one site being killed for the entire Internet being killed?
They'll just do as they always do and assume they're invulnerable.
Maybe another government found the satellite and that has something to do with it disappearing for a while.
I can't find my previous post to link to it so I'll have to repeat myself. My last sprint phone would charge us for data if I used the mp3 player. And it would do this even if I had the internet capability turned off. If you use the web browser, it asks if you want to turn the internet back on in order to continue. If you play an mp3, it turns the internet on and starts charging by the minute with no warning, even though you're just playing a file on a memory card. To make things worse, external contact with the phone could launch the music player. I guess one of the external buttons was a music button.
I'm starting to think people will just adapt to the slower response times. It's working for the XBox Kinect.
What they need to do is make it so you can pause, rewind, advance forward or backward a single frame, and take a screen capture as easily as you can with a movie played from a file on your hard drive. Also, they need to add the ability to edit the video and watch your new version of the video. And they need to guarantee you'll always be able to watch the current and your new edited version of the video. Then it will be as good as a video you have on disc.
How many Firefox and Opera users realize whatever they type in the address bar goes through Google? How many android phone users realize their entire contact list will be sent to Google?
I'll bet Taco Bell is following this research very closely.
What got me was the quote, "Interestingly, Wikipedia came in last, scoring 23%, though they may have more to do with how Wikipedia handles searches". As if the score of Bing and Google doesn't have anything to do with how they handle searches.
If you ever say they're the ones persecuting you, you're a hypocrite. You're the flame and the article is the bait.
It sounds like you, a Slashdotter, agree with one of Facebook's decisions... I should bookmark this.
Lots of us at work (we work for the devil) are Facebook "mutual friends". But one friend talked about how a supervisor keeps doing friend requests no matter how many times she clicks "decline". I said to her, Facebook never tells you they declined the request. It just makes it look like you never did the friend request in the first place. So one could be convinced it was just a computer error, and try again. Especially if they're sure the request would be accepted. Her argument was a friend request wouldn't go wrong that many times and the supervisor should get the point. But nobody's going to tell the other woman to give it up.
At the same time, if you get dropped from a Friends list, nothing good will come out of a conversation between the dropper and the "droppee".
I suppose what would be even better than a notification of an "unfriending" would be a notification that the friend request was declined in the first place. Or at least make the "Add As Friend" button disappear after it's declined.
It would be nice if I walked into a toy store and saw a Lego set with this on the front of the box instead of a Star Wars ship.
Or should we all buy a bunch of stuff and swear somebody else did it?
This guy can sit around and complain all he wants but for better or for worse: those who ship win.
Maybe that's another reason they like patent law so much. Even if you have a better product and yours is ready first, they can keep you from shipping it.
My first thought was how often people on my list change their names. I could be "Amber J" this morning and be "Badasx Ambie" later tonight when you try to log on. Sometimes I have to click on people's picture just to know who they are because their new name has nothing to do with their real name anymore.
I'm thinking they confused (hosts of torrent sites) with (file uploaders).
If they only needed email anyway, and they got that from AOL dialup, how did they get convinced to get broadband in addition to AOL?
I've left my debit card places. I've lost it before. Two big reasons to prefer the phone over the debit card are 1. phones can have a passcode while you can just swipe the card. and 2. Phones can often tell you where they are while cards won't.
What they really need is a way for the phone owner to remotely disable the mobile payment apps.