If it's anything like AT&T's current offerings, you'll pay $49/month just for the ability to tether, but you'll have to pay $5/month per website, plus $5/month (per "channel") to stream internet radio, plus $5/month for video, plus $5/month for 200 e-mails. It's unlimited alright. The only limitation is how deep your pocket is.
So what you're saying is AT&T is offering unlimited fees? Add that with the unlimited dropped calls I endure and unlimited iPhone lockups I encounter and it's just a hat trick of unlimitedness... [Ren Höek] Joy! [/Ren Höek]
Because systems serving tens of millions of people run, maintain, and develop themselves..
somersault is on target here. It's similar to Google adding YouTube to its infrastructure. They're already in the business of shoving dump trucks worth of data out the door so YouTube didn't add that much to the overhead when compared to their current operation.
At some point I stop seeing an insightful, astute, marketer and I start seeing someone who bases his income on the stupidity of the most stupid.
Insightful, astute marketers make their living finding the stupidity in people. You know who said "a fool and his money are soon parted"? A marketer, that's who.
Facebook wants to control all the virtual currency on their platform? Not a surprise at all. They want 30% for letting other companies make money of Facebook's platform? Just as greedy as Apple. I just wonder, if people were handing out virtual personal information instead of currency, would Facebook want in of the action? Is a "Second Life" type of virtual world in Facebook's future?
Companies and products mature over time and Mozilla & Firefox have done just that. Firefox will never be "light" again. Not because of technical reasons, but because users demand a full-featured browser.
Chrome and Safari are taking some of Firefox's market share, but that's because they have nowhere to go but up. IE is still losing the most ground and will continue to do so. More equity in the browser market will only breed more competition, and that's always good for consumers.
You sound like my mom... you're right, mind you, but you still sound like my mom.
As a chronic insomniac I can attest to the damage caused by the lack of sleep. I used to be nice, logical, and even had good grammar and spelling. Now, not so much.. if at all.
It's against the law in Germany to have unsecured wireless networks. Since Google has already collected all this information for the German government they simply want to start handing out fines based on it. "Google, helping any way we can (TM)"
(*) Except on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays, after 4pm, if it makes us lots of money or if we just cant be bothered with our fake holier than thou image.
Since today is Tuesday, Google must not be evil today. See ya' tomorrow!
Google [has] until May 26 to hand over one of the hard drives that it had used to collect and store information in Germany, where Street View is not yet available.
Through a spokesman, Google reiterated its offer to destroy the WLAN data in conjunction with regulators, but stopped short of saying it would hand over a hard drive, which would allow regulators to see for the first time what kind of data had been collected.
So they're happy to "destroy" is but don't want to turn it over so Germany can see exactly what they were gathering? Smells fishy to me.
... or is it just a bad idea to be able to change privacy settings via Facebook's API? Couldn't some other site/service "open the flood gates" instead of locking them down?
Whoever moderated this "insightful" may want to read the article first. Do you really think that it's Google's nefarious plan to record the magnification settings of the web pages that you visit?
It's Google's plan to record anything and everything about you that it can, which makes the difference between Google and Facebook simply a matter of spelling.
Who really cares that their "browser fingerprint" is out there? Unless you're doing something wrong there's no reason to ever try to trace it back to a source.
If you're that concerned about some site(s) knowing you were there then either don't go there or change your IP address regularly so they don't know you're the same visitor (changing the cloned MAC address of your router and rebooting your router & broadband modem will get you a different IP address on some networks). If you're doing it from a static IP address you're paying for, well, then you're paying to identify yourself.
Just do it from the proxy server and they'll never be able to trace it back to you... unless you're the only one with access to that server, which means you should start handing out the server passwords, which would make you the anti-Terry Childs of workplace porn!
Clearly you've missed his point;-) If the movies had been properly pirated they'd have been available to all comers on a site like, I dunno, The Pirate Bay. Pirating would have saved those movies rather than hurt them.
A 20% error rate isn't good enough to launch a missile, but it's better than a weatherman's accuracy. This tells us that Alice, Bob and Eve don't work for NORAD or the National Weather Service. That narrows down the field considerably. It won't be long before their identities are discovered, posted on TMZ and they won't need these silly quantum encrypted messages anymore.
But suddenly when it's Apple it's all ok. Why the hell?
[Troy McClure voice] Hi Mr. Jobs, Wrong Size Glass here. You may not know me, but I'm an Apple fanboi, karma whore and sarcastic twit... and even I think this is a royal asshattian maneuver by Apple./disgust
I understand the whole 'Flash' thing. Most of it is performance and stability, the rest of it is payback. Fine. I understand that karma is a pendulum of vengeance and right now it's coming back at Adobe. But RunRev? Even a retooled RunRev? WTF, Apple? HyperCard is so Apple that Apple should be letting these guys in the back door just for sentimental reasons. Steve Jobs would like a 'HyperCard for the iPad'... as long as it's written in XCode? Wouldn't apps written in a new HyperCard violate the SDK Agreement? No? Not yet.
Karma's pendulum will swing back in your direction Apple. Don't forget who you stepped on on your way back up the ladder of corporate success.
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If it's anything like AT&T's current offerings, you'll pay $49/month just for the ability to tether, but you'll have to pay $5/month per website, plus $5/month (per "channel") to stream internet radio, plus $5/month for video, plus $5/month for 200 e-mails. It's unlimited alright. The only limitation is how deep your pocket is.
So what you're saying is AT&T is offering unlimited fees? Add that with the unlimited dropped calls I endure and unlimited iPhone lockups I encounter and it's just a hat trick of unlimitedness ... [Ren Höek] Joy! [/Ren Höek]
Because systems serving tens of millions of people run, maintain, and develop themselves..
somersault is on target here. It's similar to Google adding YouTube to its infrastructure. They're already in the business of shoving dump trucks worth of data out the door so YouTube didn't add that much to the overhead when compared to their current operation.
At some point I stop seeing an insightful, astute, marketer and I start seeing someone who bases his income on the stupidity of the most stupid.
Insightful, astute marketers make their living finding the stupidity in people. You know who said "a fool and his money are soon parted"? A marketer, that's who.
I pity the guy who has to find a way to monetize the virtual currency of a game that's inside a social network, inside internet.
I hear it was virtually impossible ;-)
I wonder if he has found a strong enough soap to remove that constant slimy sensation.
There isn't a shower hot enough to make someone feel clean after that.
Facebook wants to control all the virtual currency on their platform? Not a surprise at all. They want 30% for letting other companies make money of Facebook's platform? Just as greedy as Apple. I just wonder, if people were handing out virtual personal information instead of currency, would Facebook want in of the action? Is a "Second Life" type of virtual world in Facebook's future?
Companies and products mature over time and Mozilla & Firefox have done just that. Firefox will never be "light" again. Not because of technical reasons, but because users demand a full-featured browser.
Chrome and Safari are taking some of Firefox's market share, but that's because they have nowhere to go but up. IE is still losing the most ground and will continue to do so. More equity in the browser market will only breed more competition, and that's always good for consumers.
You sound like my mom ... you're right, mind you, but you still sound like my mom.
.. if at all.
As a chronic insomniac I can attest to the damage caused by the lack of sleep. I used to be nice, logical, and even had good grammar and spelling. Now, not so much
My local mexican restaurant regularly delivers blackened huevos rancheros. I wonder if they're in on this whole "restaurant espionage" thing, too?
Ok, but this begs a simple question: how is the information describing the file formats itself encoded?
It's printed on surplus thermal fax paper from the 70's. That stuff will last forever!
I was just born ugly ... I guess I'd better walk the "straight and narrow" or get some plastic surgery done.
It's against the law in Germany to have unsecured wireless networks. Since Google has already collected all this information for the German government they simply want to start handing out fines based on it. "Google, helping any way we can (TM)"
(*) Except on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays, after 4pm, if it makes us lots of money or if we just cant be bothered with our fake holier than thou image.
Since today is Tuesday, Google must not be evil today. See ya' tomorrow!
Google [has] until May 26 to hand over one of the hard drives that it had used to collect and store information in Germany, where Street View is not yet available.
Through a spokesman, Google reiterated its offer to destroy the WLAN data in conjunction with regulators, but stopped short of saying it would hand over a hard drive, which would allow regulators to see for the first time what kind of data had been collected.
So they're happy to "destroy" is but don't want to turn it over so Germany can see exactly what they were gathering? Smells fishy to me.
... or is it just a bad idea to be able to change privacy settings via Facebook's API? Couldn't some other site/service "open the flood gates" instead of locking them down?
Whoever moderated this "insightful" may want to read the article first. Do you really think that it's Google's nefarious plan to record the magnification settings of the web pages that you visit?
It's Google's plan to record anything and everything about you that it can, which makes the difference between Google and Facebook simply a matter of spelling.
Is there any way to stop Chrome sending the info of the URLs you type into the address bar back to google, yet?
Yes, stop using Chrome.
Who really cares that their "browser fingerprint" is out there? Unless you're doing something wrong there's no reason to ever try to trace it back to a source.
If you're that concerned about some site(s) knowing you were there then either don't go there or change your IP address regularly so they don't know you're the same visitor (changing the cloned MAC address of your router and rebooting your router & broadband modem will get you a different IP address on some networks). If you're doing it from a static IP address you're paying for, well, then you're paying to identify yourself.
gonna have to stop surfing porn at work now.
Just do it from the proxy server and they'll never be able to trace it back to you ... unless you're the only one with access to that server, which means you should start handing out the server passwords, which would make you the anti-Terry Childs of workplace porn!
Clearly you've missed his point ;-) If the movies had been properly pirated they'd have been available to all comers on a site like, I dunno, The Pirate Bay. Pirating would have saved those movies rather than hurt them.
Why do it yourself when you can just wait for Google to announce they did it accidentally ;-)
Insanity is a legal defense, not a crime
We can pass a law to fix, er, change that.
A 20% error rate isn't good enough to launch a missile, but it's better than a weatherman's accuracy. This tells us that Alice, Bob and Eve don't work for NORAD or the National Weather Service. That narrows down the field considerably. It won't be long before their identities are discovered, posted on TMZ and they won't need these silly quantum encrypted messages anymore.
...to e-mail Alice and Bob, rather than advertise that their love-letters are being snooped on?
Why not just post it on one of their Facebook pages?
Excellent 70's rock reference. You deserve a point for "great memory" ;-)
But suddenly when it's Apple it's all ok. Why the hell?
[Troy McClure voice] Hi Mr. Jobs, Wrong Size Glass here. You may not know me, but I'm an Apple fanboi, karma whore and sarcastic twit ... and even I think this is a royal asshattian maneuver by Apple. /disgust
... as long as it's written in XCode? Wouldn't apps written in a new HyperCard violate the SDK Agreement? No? Not yet.
I understand the whole 'Flash' thing. Most of it is performance and stability, the rest of it is payback. Fine. I understand that karma is a pendulum of vengeance and right now it's coming back at Adobe. But RunRev? Even a retooled RunRev? WTF, Apple? HyperCard is so Apple that Apple should be letting these guys in the back door just for sentimental reasons. Steve Jobs would like a 'HyperCard for the iPad'
Karma's pendulum will swing back in your direction Apple. Don't forget who you stepped on on your way back up the ladder of corporate success.