I don't use Facebook. People don't have to solve problems they don't create in the first place.
With every social networking meets privacy article on slashdot, there is the inevitable outcry about not using them in the first place. While this approach seems logical, it fails to take into consideration that other facebook users (your friends/relatives) can post information about you on their accounts. This can include photographs, where the individuals in the photo are tagged with their names. When you hover your mouse over individuals in the photo, it pops up a text box with their name. This way, even if you don't have an account - someone can search your name, and a photo of you may be found. Photos from your private life can be very incriminating, when viewed in different contexts.
As far as I can tell, there is no good solution for ensuring you are not on facebook - other than signing up for facebook. Anyone found something better to prevent this?
I would love to see them actually stream decent quality video on their website. All networks want to boast their revolutionizing web access, when all they do is stream some ultra low res grainy crap. It's totally unwatchable when you are used to watching the exact same events in HD, for free.
Why are content providers so scared to broadcast HD feeds via the web? They could leave the commercials in, and it would be the same as watching it on TV. It can't honestly be that they are worried about people distributing the content. I mean.... people can very easily capture the HD feed to their computer with a tv tuner.
And when it comes to the "too much bandwidth" argument, couldn't they just use bittorrent?
I know the reason probably has to do with money... but I'm not seeing it. Someone please enlighten me.
2. "Forced" upgrades. Remember, every person who is using an older version of Office is keeping an older file format alive. That older file format being out there gives Open Source applications more time to be compatible, thus deluting MS's hold on the "Office" market.
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that Microsoft is so willing to break compatibility in Office and force consumers to upgrade, when their OS is still packed full of ancient, broken, crap that makes it limp along?
This may just be a personal pet peeve, but I hate when the author neglects to explain what the hell they are posting about. I'm tech-oriented (are we not all reading slashdot?), but I have no clue what a GPU gem is? I don't feel compelled to go to some outside link just to discover what you are even discussing here.
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I don't use Facebook. People don't have to solve problems they don't create in the first place.
With every social networking meets privacy article on slashdot, there is the inevitable outcry about not using them in the first place. While this approach seems logical, it fails to take into consideration that other facebook users (your friends/relatives) can post information about you on their accounts. This can include photographs, where the individuals in the photo are tagged with their names. When you hover your mouse over individuals in the photo, it pops up a text box with their name. This way, even if you don't have an account - someone can search your name, and a photo of you may be found. Photos from your private life can be very incriminating, when viewed in different contexts. As far as I can tell, there is no good solution for ensuring you are not on facebook - other than signing up for facebook. Anyone found something better to prevent this?
I would love to see them actually stream decent quality video on their website. All networks want to boast their revolutionizing web access, when all they do is stream some ultra low res grainy crap. It's totally unwatchable when you are used to watching the exact same events in HD, for free. Why are content providers so scared to broadcast HD feeds via the web? They could leave the commercials in, and it would be the same as watching it on TV. It can't honestly be that they are worried about people distributing the content. I mean.... people can very easily capture the HD feed to their computer with a tv tuner. And when it comes to the "too much bandwidth" argument, couldn't they just use bittorrent? I know the reason probably has to do with money... but I'm not seeing it. Someone please enlighten me.
2. "Forced" upgrades. Remember, every person who is using an older version of Office is keeping an older file format alive. That older file format being out there gives Open Source applications more time to be compatible, thus deluting MS's hold on the "Office" market.
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that Microsoft is so willing to break compatibility in Office and force consumers to upgrade, when their OS is still packed full of ancient, broken, crap that makes it limp along?
This may just be a personal pet peeve, but I hate when the author neglects to explain what the hell they are posting about. I'm tech-oriented (are we not all reading slashdot?), but I have no clue what a GPU gem is? I don't feel compelled to go to some outside link just to discover what you are even discussing here.