I never had a problem with Samsung, these companies are going to get worse with the bullshit if we just let them. Astrosurfing is something that needs to be fought back against. It needs to be made public.
Why isn't there are defamation website or the realdeal or cutthebullshit website? Or thetrangressions website?
Keep a history of all the bullshitty things a company has done to users. Apple and Microsoft would have reams of instance of screwing with the company. Something like fuckedcompany but more organized and has a specialized interface?
It would need legal protection or it might be sued for defamation, even if it is correct. Does western civilization not realise how strongly the foot is on our throats?
There is NO way Apple has the patents to make a phone from scratch. If this judge has an iPhone, how likely is he to rule in Nokia's favour, even if Nokia's patent claims are correct? Who has more marketing support?
It's a popularity contest. Even a "professional" like a laywer or a judge is a layperson as far as computers are concerned. It's like trying to tell people Facebook is bad.
I agree with you, I just find it scary when people buy into artificial benefits in order to justify paying for something.
Like software that is limited by how many users you can use with it. It's completely artificial, or how Microsoft servers can only serve a certain number of clients concurrently on a non Windows servers OS. (When you can just install Apache or something else and serve hundreds or more users concurrently for free.)
You should only pay for something if you really want it, not to get the adverts out the way.
Don't you think that's an artificial benefit? Paying not to have adverts? I hate when they say 'buy premium to get rid of adverts'. They put the adverts there!
No, your personal information is dangerous to you when in the hands in other people. Dangerous in terms of the UK Census being ran by Lockheed Martin and the possibility of McCarthyism.
It's not dangerous for you to have access to information.
Soon public opinion of programmers and engineers will be portrayed as suspicious. I would not be surprised that in a few years in the US or in the UK that opening hardware up is grounds for terrorism investigations.
I look forward to our new government/corporately owned network infrastructure. We'll be the last remnants of the free society who refuse to be dominated by abuses of technology...
If you're a computer geek and you write abuseive software for/on behalf of companies like Sony, you should be so ashamed. Intellectual dishonesty to the extremes.
It's nothing to do with being important louic, there are malicious people out there and you bad things (tm) could happen to you. Identity theft is just one example.
I should probably provide an (indirect) answer as I did not answer your question, If you're looking for backup software (which you are), these will probably be a goldmine for ideas:
I don't understand this article is called 'Facebook Archiving'... Backup is backup whatever you look at it, in this case, you're backing up photographs...They're not *Facebook photographs*, they're just photographs, perhaps ordinary JPGS.
If you want to backup your 'status updates', install Status Net or some twitter clone, then make updates locally with your tool, then get those to sync with twitter and then Facebook...
The losing strategy of trying to enumerate all the bad software in existence is so stupid because bad software outnumbers good software, so why can't we enumerate all the good software - all versions?
In theory you can never be sure that you've removed malware. A compromised computer is compromised forevermore.
I honestly think with enough smart people, the right technology and software you can make malicious software less of a problem. Here's an example:
rather than installing the antivirus on your PC, you take your virus ridden computer to the antivirus shop*. The idea being that the malicious people cannot learn from your antivirus or disable it. Especially if you inspect it offline...
I read a lot of those authors you mentioned within the last two years and I cannot get enough of them. I saw so many authors I liked there that you've given me some reading to do!
I think technology is growing only horizontally: its just isolated islands. Everyone thinks they have to introduce something something separate to be useful or game changing. They don't, they have to merge the ideas we already have into one and integrate them.
I deleted my profile but not before changing me name and deleting lots of stuff.
One thing you should know is that Facebook never deletes anything. Even if you tell it to. The new visibility is just 'appended' to the end of your account. Bit like a journal. TFA does not surprise me.
So if they really wanted to rewind your profile, they could. I imagine the authorities have this privilege.
Think how much time you'll save yourself from FB if you delete it now. I mean you could spend that time on Slashdot instead!
Oops, spam must be on the mind. That should read "you can sure as hell sue the domestic company who pays them".
Although it would it would be funny if every employee of a company that pays a spammer receives a clogged inbox of real spam as part of the settlement. That would be wonderful. I mean, if everybody is reading or filtering spam emails, they company will surely go bust!
You can't sue a foreign spammer but you can sure as hell spam the domestic company who pays them. Knowingly or not, that should be regarded as breaking the law.
Go after the domestics Mr Dan!
Judging from what happened to Blue Security though, I would be concerned for my safety if the spam cartel unifies against him.
I think we all know what's happening. The technology industry is no longer about technology, it's about bling, brother,
More seriously, we've come full circle with mainframe/cloud and software on phones (javaME)/iPhones. Ideas that don't fly now may fly again in the future but with a different name. I suspect portals will become a lot more important again. A social portal maybe?
Either way, I think the potential value for the web for the general public and our children will be a lot less than it is today. It will be 'dumbed down' and you will have to pay per page.
Moodle is a VLE, a virtual learning environment. It's for academic institutions like schools and universities. The institution creates a module for each course that might be taught and in that course is a hierarchy for each year of students and resources used by them. It depends how it is configured but each module has like a portal which has a calendar, where links to uploaded files can be put (Word, powerpoint, excel etc) and you can even run assessments of it.
With all that said, as a user, it is a horrible piece of software. It's a VLE that just doesn't improve my learning. It might put it all in one place but I regard it more of a CMS than an education system.
Lazarus form recovery I got sick of accidentally navigating away from pages, especially Slashdot.
Some may be moved to other browsers over time or already but these kinds of plugins make Firefox very handy and usable to me. I do not like using other people's computers because of the adverts, the lack of keyboard control and slowness.
But the data available to the browser and the programmability of the web browser must be inconsistent - there must be something that a webpage can do that is impossible to detect whether or not a human or a computer did it.
Take clickjacking for example, you trick people into clicking somewhere.
Although I love the idea. This could be extended to be social too: how many people ACTUALLY initiated this installation compared to it happening by itself? If nobody initiated it themselves, you can safely brand it malware (and apply pressure to organizations who do not provide non-invasive installers)
Slashdot Mirror
I never had a problem with Samsung, these companies are going to get worse with the bullshit if we just let them. Astrosurfing is something that needs to be fought back against. It needs to be made public.
Why isn't there are defamation website or the realdeal or cutthebullshit website? Or thetrangressions website?
Keep a history of all the bullshitty things a company has done to users. Apple and Microsoft would have reams of instance of screwing with the company. Something like fuckedcompany but more organized and has a specialized interface?
It would need legal protection or it might be sued for defamation, even if it is correct. Does western civilization not realise how strongly the foot is on our throats?
Bah.
There is NO way Apple has the patents to make a phone from scratch. If this judge has an iPhone, how likely is he to rule in Nokia's favour, even if Nokia's patent claims are correct? Who has more marketing support?
It's a popularity contest. Even a "professional" like a laywer or a judge is a layperson as far as computers are concerned. It's like trying to tell people Facebook is bad.
I agree with you, I just find it scary when people buy into artificial benefits in order to justify paying for something.
Like software that is limited by how many users you can use with it. It's completely artificial, or how Microsoft servers can only serve a certain number of clients concurrently on a non Windows servers OS. (When you can just install Apache or something else and serve hundreds or more users concurrently for free.)
You should only pay for something if you really want it, not to get the adverts out the way.
Don't you think that's an artificial benefit? Paying not to have adverts? I hate when they say 'buy premium to get rid of adverts'. They put the adverts there!
Woops.
I do that all the time with homophones.
Apparently I meant farthest.
I was reading this in the newspaper a few days ago and it really does look bigger. Almost as if it might crash into us.
So the moon spins around us in an ellipsis, where it's closest to us at perigee and furthest at apogee. Apparently it's blamed for the tsunami.
No, your personal information is dangerous to you when in the hands in other people. Dangerous in terms of the UK Census being ran by Lockheed Martin and the possibility of McCarthyism.
It's not dangerous for you to have access to information.
It looks suspiciously like a shadow vessel.
Centauri Prime???
Soon public opinion of programmers and engineers will be portrayed as suspicious. I would not be surprised that in a few years in the US or in the UK that opening hardware up is grounds for terrorism investigations.
I look forward to our new government/corporately owned network infrastructure. We'll be the last remnants of the free society who refuse to be dominated by abuses of technology...
If you're a computer geek and you write abuseive software for/on behalf of companies like Sony, you should be so ashamed. Intellectual dishonesty to the extremes.
It's nothing to do with being important louic, there are malicious people out there and you bad things (tm) could happen to you. Identity theft is just one example.
I should probably provide an (indirect) answer as I did not answer your question, If you're looking for backup software (which you are), these will probably be a goldmine for ideas:
I don't understand this article is called 'Facebook Archiving'... Backup is backup whatever you look at it, in this case, you're backing up photographs...They're not *Facebook photographs*, they're just photographs, perhaps ordinary JPGS.
If you want to backup your 'status updates', install Status Net or some twitter clone, then make updates locally with your tool, then get those to sync with twitter and then Facebook...
Sounds like you run a website and make $$$ from advertising.
CEO Jones, you can't fool us!
The losing strategy of trying to enumerate all the bad software in existence is so stupid because bad software outnumbers good software, so why can't we enumerate all the good software - all versions?
In theory you can never be sure that you've removed malware. A compromised computer is compromised forevermore.
I honestly think with enough smart people, the right technology and software you can make malicious software less of a problem. Here's an example:
rather than installing the antivirus on your PC, you take your virus ridden computer to the antivirus shop*. The idea being that the malicious people cannot learn from your antivirus or disable it. Especially if you inspect it offline...
* Oh shit! I've given them that idea.
I read a lot of those authors you mentioned within the last two years and I cannot get enough of them. I saw so many authors I liked there that you've given me some reading to do!
I think technology is growing only horizontally: its just isolated islands. Everyone thinks they have to introduce something something separate to be useful or game changing. They don't, they have to merge the ideas we already have into one and integrate them.
Are FB apps just an external web page in an internal frame? If they are, surely they're vulnerable to the same attacks as any webapp.
My point being I certainly would not cry if a vigilante blackhat dropped some databases...
I deleted my profile but not before changing me name and deleting lots of stuff.
One thing you should know is that Facebook never deletes anything. Even if you tell it to. The new visibility is just 'appended' to the end of your account. Bit like a journal. TFA does not surprise me.
So if they really wanted to rewind your profile, they could. I imagine the authorities have this privilege.
Think how much time you'll save yourself from FB if you delete it now. I mean you could spend that time on Slashdot instead!
Oops, spam must be on the mind. That should read "you can sure as hell sue the domestic company who pays them".
Although it would it would be funny if every employee of a company that pays a spammer receives a clogged inbox of real spam as part of the settlement. That would be wonderful. I mean, if everybody is reading or filtering spam emails, they company will surely go bust!
You can't sue a foreign spammer but you can sure as hell spam the domestic company who pays them. Knowingly or not, that should be regarded as breaking the law.
Go after the domestics Mr Dan!
Judging from what happened to Blue Security though, I would be concerned for my safety if the spam cartel unifies against him.
I think we all know what's happening. The technology industry is no longer about technology, it's about bling, brother,
More seriously, we've come full circle with mainframe/cloud and software on phones (javaME)/iPhones. Ideas that don't fly now may fly again in the future but with a different name. I suspect portals will become a lot more important again. A social portal maybe?
Either way, I think the potential value for the web for the general public and our children will be a lot less than it is today. It will be 'dumbed down' and you will have to pay per page.
Moodle is a VLE, a virtual learning environment. It's for academic institutions like schools and universities. The institution creates a module for each course that might be taught and in that course is a hierarchy for each year of students and resources used by them. It depends how it is configured but each module has like a portal which has a calendar, where links to uploaded files can be put (Word, powerpoint, excel etc) and you can even run assessments of it.
With all that said, as a user, it is a horrible piece of software. It's a VLE that just doesn't improve my learning. It might put it all in one place but I regard it more of a CMS than an education system.
There are so many plugins for firefox that make it invaluable: Take a look at some of the following:
Some may be moved to other browsers over time or already but these kinds of plugins make Firefox very handy and usable to me. I do not like using other people's computers because of the adverts, the lack of keyboard control and slowness.
Take a look at this to see what Drools can really be used for:
http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/jbw/amollenkopf_430_applying_drools.pdf
It's quite powerful when used right..
But the data available to the browser and the programmability of the web browser must be inconsistent - there must be something that a webpage can do that is impossible to detect whether or not a human or a computer did it.
Take clickjacking for example, you trick people into clicking somewhere.
Although I love the idea. This could be extended to be social too: how many people ACTUALLY initiated this installation compared to it happening by itself? If nobody initiated it themselves, you can safely brand it malware (and apply pressure to organizations who do not provide non-invasive installers)