Boy, that sucks. If only there were developers working on cure this ill. Perhaps users of this very site. Maybe they could solve the problem with a firefox extension?
Too bad. Because I would have totally loved that to be a real thing.
What a-- bad-- article. Blogger blogs about his own opinion, cites other bloggers as "proof". Also, Blogger doesn't know how the Internet works. FTFA:
Even Eric Schmidt has confirmed this in interviews, easily verified via his Wikipedia page. Also note the quote on there by him about...
Let's put aside that you're using Wikipedia as a primary source. The bigger wtf is-- do you even know what a hyperlink is? Apparently not. You should educate yourself. The information is easily findable if you Google for "list of html tags", click on the w3schools blue thing, then scroll down to the section called "a".
Good point, and something I thought about. I'm with Tekavvy. They don't block ports, actively support home webservers, and provide a static IP for $4/month.
The good news is the Apple girls would be multi touch enabled, the bad news is only one "button" to play with even if the world standard has always been to ship with two. And they'd be shiny, very shiny.
And they'd only interface with other Apple girls, so once again, you'd be left out squirting your Zune until it goes blue.
Holy crap, is every single post here going to be about "omg no one types domains to search!!1".
This isn't about searching for a site. It's about making a site memorable. You know why companies will want a to make a site address memorable? So that people will remember it from the time the hear/read it, to the time they are by a computer
Yes, there exists a world outside of the browser. Yes, there still exists print. No, not everyone will scan an insecure QR code and use their data plan to go to a website on a 320x200 screen.
Heck, someone might even be seeing the URL on a billboard. While driving!
So these companies want a memorable site name, and part of making something memorable is associating it with a word that already has a meaning. Which is easier:
Buy tickets at tinyurl.com/ws9HSKA
Buy tickets at apollotheater-tickets-domainsquat.com
Buy tickets at tickets.com/clients/apollo/buyticketsnow.aspx
Buy tickets at ApolloTheater.Tickets
Now, I'm not saying that it's the right or most foolproof way. Hell, even I still use Google Search for a domain name, when I can't remember if it's.com or.org, or if it has a superfluous "u" in there or something. But this is why large corporations (many of whom still haven't wrapped their head around the digital era) would want them. That being said, I'm sure this startup won't go anywhere (307 GTLDs at $185k each?), but there's an obvious reason why it exists
Bit of a noob question... fairly often in the pieces, there's this noise-- like someone trying to snort a breath through a blocked nose. Example Variatio 24 a 1 Clav. Canone all'Ottava at 2:00
Is that actually someone who couldn't be bothered to find a kleenex, even though there was a recording going on, or is it some other audio artifact I'm unaware of? The sound of an automatic page turner?
Yeah, would be interesting to live in such a world, indeed...
You'd have the petty criminals lobbying for increases in police salary, to the point where there exists a certain crime value that becomes literally impossible to investigate.
Shoplifters (Under $125) Local 115 Supports Our Police!
Then again, rather than going to wolfenstein.bethsoft.com-- which doesn't work and only shows a black screen-- I went to piratebay.org. A few seconds later, and it worked like a charm.
They took out the company's website, not the service itself. So...
It's more like tossing a grenade at a parked bus with the company's name on it, that no one was using, when the real guy you wanted was taking the underground, high-speed, heavily armoured and inaccessible train to and from the comapny's skyscraper headquarters, and business goes on as usual.
I'm OK with people getting opinions from friends about stuff.
But tfa is about people getting recommendations from complete strangers. And imho, this is a whole new level of needy.
Unless those friends were initial trendsetters, they got their opinion from their friends, who got those opinions form their friends-- and so forth down the line. Some of those opinions will have also come not from friends, but from loose acquaintances, or a fashion blog, or a magazine, or by seeing someone else wearing it (and that person got their taste from...)
So the opinion of the 1-degree-seperated friends is still the opinion of a stranger-- it's just transitive.
The "like" hanger is no different-- except that it provides the store with more marketing data and IT overhead.
Why don't you leave the users themselves to trash what they consider useless on their own?
Because there's times when the user is unaware that they are sending. I got spam from a good friend about 3 months after she died.
Most spambots will rely on a owned account to deluge the contact list. It's an automated threat, and needs an automated solution.
That being said, they should include a false-positive workaround, like a CAPTCHA, for messages that are flagged "spam", rather than blocking them outright.
Consider: you grab a movie from the Pirate bay, and seed parts of it to torrent peers in 15 other countries. Is it fair to be convicted in each country separately?
Is it fair not to be? Or at least, for these countries to co-ordiante at who gets first crack, or whose conviction will be "good enough" for all?
Otherwise, I declare a country called Buttfucksontia. My country's copyright laws are international. If you are accused and convicted of copyright infringement, your punishment is to be called a jerkface.
I hereby accuse the entire Internet of copyright infringement. GUILTY! You are all jerkfaces.
Now that you have paid your dues, enjoy your freedom, secure in the knowledge that no other country can convict you of your heinous (but atoned for) crimes.
In MS's case, it is also because bills need to be paid.
I wonder if they can't make some money off of this, then. Put up a Kickstarter. If x% of existing businesses agree to kick in $20 - $100 each, we'll focus our R&D on maintenance and patches for XP instead of developing Windows 8."
Companies pay a pittance compared to an upgrade path, Microsoft gets paid a good chunk of change, XP lives on.
I wonder if at some point there will be a breach so bad that certain critical records will be moved to airgapped systems and never go back, just because of the horrible memory of that disaster.
I wonder if at some point there will be a breach so bad that every single identity will be stolen, and there's nothing left to protect.
Agreed, but add it carefully. If you need to ask why, go look at The Daily WTF's tag cloud. Once you get over trying to figure out what the first two are, keep reading until you get to the upside-down and backwards ones.
So anytime anyone accesses your publicly available data you want to get an alert? I don't see how that wouldn't flood you with useless messages. Or do you want to get an alert if your data is accessed by a specific application? It would seem trivial for an app designer to get around that. Also why bother installing a "doucher alert app" when you could just as easily simply restrict what you post in public?
Not every time. I meant that an alert could be thrown that there's someone nearby running the Stalker app. The idea behind the app was to see who was around you, what they look like, all their interests, so that you could "casually" bump into them. It would seem like a chance meeting of like-minded strangers, which is nice-- when it's really a stalky douche using insider information to manipulate someone. A doucher alert would level the playing field, alerting you that this stranger isn't just a chance encounter, that they've scouted you as a target, and you can treat the encounter as appropriate.
I mentioned Firesheep as a similar concept. A couple years back, someone released a program called Blacksheep that sniffed public wifi traffic for authentication cookies, then hijacked social media accounts. All this was just a logical conclusion to sensitive data being broadcast in public over HTTP. Someone came up with Firesheep, which used the exact same concept (public wifi, HTTP) to detect if someone was using Blacksheep (I think by flooding the wifi with fake connection attempts, then monitoring if anyone tried to play them back).
I'd be willing to file this under "creepy, but inevitable". Given the amount of data these people posted about themselves publicly, it'd only be a matter of time until an app like this was made, and it'll only be a matter of time until one is made again.
Rather than being creeped out about it, and removing it, someone should just take a lesson from judo, and use the weight of the users against them. Someone should just create a Firesheep-like app that identifies users of the system, and when they accessed your data. Call it "Doucher Alert". If the alert goes off, and five minutes later you get hit on by a guy who "was just passing by, baby", then you can safely cross them off your list. Let the morons self-identify. Don't take away their tools, but just make sure the toolbox contains a long enough length of rope.
To play devil's advocate: There is a new Star Trek movie in the works. What if they are using the script/plot/idea as the basis for the next movie? Or they were planning on digging into their "we've already paid for writers" pile in general?
Several years ago I looked into becoming a Blackberry developer. I noticed their site was terribly unprofessional and it reminded me of a mom-and-pop shop at times. Just from visiting their site and wading through the developers section I decided to forgo wasting my time on their platform since it was obvious their management had serious problems.
I tried being a BB developer a few months ago, when the beta for Android development started, and nothing's changed. The website was slow, buggy, and all the documentation was poorly written and wrong, wrong, wrong. 90% of it was linked to external websites (Eclipse, Android SDK), and the links pointed to incorrect versions, or just said "do whatever it says there" (which was the wrong thing).
The moment I gave up was when their documentation *AND* their highly touted "see how easy it is" video both contained incorrect instructions. They both said "Install Blackberry SDK in Eclipse by clicking on X". X didn't exist, it was actually a feature in Y. That took me a day to figure out. Then the docs said "To build your application in one step, just right click and select Z".
. It took an entire month for another developer (not a RIM person) to respond, and all I got was "huh, that's weird".
Compare that to either the Apple or Android dev docs (which are properly written and correct), and I can see why RIM can't attract developers. And if that's the attitude that runs throughout the company...
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I was more in awe of the interns whose job is to stand right next to the GYMNASIUM-LONG SPINNING BLADES!
Boy, that sucks. If only there were developers working on cure this ill. Perhaps users of this very site. Maybe they could solve the problem with a firefox extension?
Too bad. Because I would have totally loved that to be a real thing.
Protip: It is, and I'm being cagey.
Does it support the Trinity of plugins? (Adblock, Noscript, Ghostery)
What a-- bad-- article. Blogger blogs about his own opinion, cites other bloggers as "proof". Also, Blogger doesn't know how the Internet works. FTFA:
Let's put aside that you're using Wikipedia as a primary source. The bigger wtf is-- do you even know what a hyperlink is? Apparently not. You should educate yourself. The information is easily findable if you Google for "list of html tags", click on the w3schools blue thing, then scroll down to the section called "a".
Good point, and something I thought about. I'm with Tekavvy. They don't block ports, actively support home webservers, and provide a static IP for $4/month.
Well, it is Comcast. Of course it'd have to do with someone fucking someone up the ass.
And they'd only interface with other Apple girls, so once again, you'd be left out squirting your Zune until it goes blue.
Yay, it's gone! Does that mean it's safe for me to play Angry Birds again?
Holy crap, is every single post here going to be about "omg no one types domains to search!!1".
This isn't about searching for a site. It's about making a site memorable. You know why companies will want a to make a site address memorable? So that people will remember it from the time the hear/read it, to the time they are by a computer
Yes, there exists a world outside of the browser. Yes, there still exists print. No, not everyone will scan an insecure QR code and use their data plan to go to a website on a 320x200 screen.
Heck, someone might even be seeing the URL on a billboard. While driving!
So these companies want a memorable site name, and part of making something memorable is associating it with a word that already has a meaning. Which is easier:
Now, I'm not saying that it's the right or most foolproof way. Hell, even I still use Google Search for a domain name, when I can't remember if it's .com or .org, or if it has a superfluous "u" in there or something. But this is why large corporations (many of whom still haven't wrapped their head around the digital era) would want them. That being said, I'm sure this startup won't go anywhere (307 GTLDs at $185k each?), but there's an obvious reason why it exists
Bit of a noob question... fairly often in the pieces, there's this noise-- like someone trying to snort a breath through a blocked nose. Example Variatio 24 a 1 Clav. Canone all'Ottava at 2:00
Is that actually someone who couldn't be bothered to find a kleenex, even though there was a recording going on, or is it some other audio artifact I'm unaware of? The sound of an automatic page turner?
You'd have the petty criminals lobbying for increases in police salary, to the point where there exists a certain crime value that becomes literally impossible to investigate.
Shoplifters (Under $125) Local 115 Supports Our Police!
Hack your phone.. and install a series of quick-discharge, ultra-high capacity batteries.
Citizen, relinquish your phone! I scan now!
{plug} {zzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZ*pop*}
Then again, rather than going to wolfenstein.bethsoft.com-- which doesn't work and only shows a black screen-- I went to piratebay.org. A few seconds later, and it worked like a charm.
It's more like tossing a grenade at a parked bus with the company's name on it, that no one was using, when the real guy you wanted was taking the underground, high-speed, heavily armoured and inaccessible train to and from the comapny's skyscraper headquarters, and business goes on as usual.
Unless those friends were initial trendsetters, they got their opinion from their friends, who got those opinions form their friends-- and so forth down the line. Some of those opinions will have also come not from friends, but from loose acquaintances, or a fashion blog, or a magazine, or by seeing someone else wearing it (and that person got their taste from...)
So the opinion of the 1-degree-seperated friends is still the opinion of a stranger-- it's just transitive.
The "like" hanger is no different-- except that it provides the store with more marketing data and IT overhead.
Because there's times when the user is unaware that they are sending. I got spam from a good friend about 3 months after she died.
Most spambots will rely on a owned account to deluge the contact list. It's an automated threat, and needs an automated solution.
That being said, they should include a false-positive workaround, like a CAPTCHA, for messages that are flagged "spam", rather than blocking them outright.
Is it fair not to be? Or at least, for these countries to co-ordiante at who gets first crack, or whose conviction will be "good enough" for all?
Otherwise, I declare a country called Buttfucksontia. My country's copyright laws are international. If you are accused and convicted of copyright infringement, your punishment is to be called a jerkface.
I hereby accuse the entire Internet of copyright infringement. GUILTY! You are all jerkfaces.
Now that you have paid your dues, enjoy your freedom, secure in the knowledge that no other country can convict you of your heinous (but atoned for) crimes.
I wonder if they can't make some money off of this, then. Put up a Kickstarter. If x% of existing businesses agree to kick in $20 - $100 each, we'll focus our R&D on maintenance and patches for XP instead of developing Windows 8."
Companies pay a pittance compared to an upgrade path, Microsoft gets paid a good chunk of change, XP lives on.
I wonder if at some point there will be a breach so bad that every single identity will be stolen, and there's nothing left to protect.
Agreed, but add it carefully. If you need to ask why, go look at The Daily WTF's tag cloud. Once you get over trying to figure out what the first two are, keep reading until you get to the upside-down and backwards ones.
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Not every time. I meant that an alert could be thrown that there's someone nearby running the Stalker app. The idea behind the app was to see who was around you, what they look like, all their interests, so that you could "casually" bump into them. It would seem like a chance meeting of like-minded strangers, which is nice-- when it's really a stalky douche using insider information to manipulate someone. A doucher alert would level the playing field, alerting you that this stranger isn't just a chance encounter, that they've scouted you as a target, and you can treat the encounter as appropriate.
I mentioned Firesheep as a similar concept. A couple years back, someone released a program called Blacksheep that sniffed public wifi traffic for authentication cookies, then hijacked social media accounts. All this was just a logical conclusion to sensitive data being broadcast in public over HTTP. Someone came up with Firesheep, which used the exact same concept (public wifi, HTTP) to detect if someone was using Blacksheep (I think by flooding the wifi with fake connection attempts, then monitoring if anyone tried to play them back).
I'd be willing to file this under "creepy, but inevitable". Given the amount of data these people posted about themselves publicly, it'd only be a matter of time until an app like this was made, and it'll only be a matter of time until one is made again.
Rather than being creeped out about it, and removing it, someone should just take a lesson from judo, and use the weight of the users against them. Someone should just create a Firesheep-like app that identifies users of the system, and when they accessed your data. Call it "Doucher Alert". If the alert goes off, and five minutes later you get hit on by a guy who "was just passing by, baby", then you can safely cross them off your list. Let the morons self-identify. Don't take away their tools, but just make sure the toolbox contains a long enough length of rope.
To play devil's advocate: There is a new Star Trek movie in the works. What if they are using the script/plot/idea as the basis for the next movie? Or they were planning on digging into their "we've already paid for writers" pile in general?
I tried being a BB developer a few months ago, when the beta for Android development started, and nothing's changed. The website was slow, buggy, and all the documentation was poorly written and wrong, wrong, wrong. 90% of it was linked to external websites (Eclipse, Android SDK), and the links pointed to incorrect versions, or just said "do whatever it says there" (which was the wrong thing).
The moment I gave up was when their documentation *AND* their highly touted "see how easy it is" video both contained incorrect instructions. They both said "Install Blackberry SDK in Eclipse by clicking on X". X didn't exist, it was actually a feature in Y. That took me a day to figure out. Then the docs said "To build your application in one step, just right click and select Z".
And of course-- there was no Z. Nothing even close. I event posted in their support forums
. It took an entire month for another developer (not a RIM person) to respond, and all I got was "huh, that's weird".
Compare that to either the Apple or Android dev docs (which are properly written and correct), and I can see why RIM can't attract developers. And if that's the attitude that runs throughout the company...