Advertisers don't care what your name is as long as they know what you are likely to buy. If my name is Joe Schmoe that tells them nothing more about my buying habits. Now, if they can say my handle is twerpmeister67 on hamstersrock.com, then they have something they can sell to advertisers. Petsmart can try to sell me corn cob bedding, or whatever.
Better yet, let people have multiple handles, just like they do already. Tying those together, but allowing them to be separate in the consumers mind would be the best of both worlds. That way people can surf around however they want (e.g. Justin Bieber fansites) and not be worried about being outed as some kind of weirdo later. Say your trying to play video games with your kids or something. You don't want unsavory Bieber adverts popping up when you're looking for a fun game of Dinowaurs. Instead, you want to see advertisements for more dinosaur stuff or similar games.
It really seems like Google is missing the mark here. Advertisers, too. But honestly, I'm not that surprised.
wow... that's really strange. It's hard to imagine that somebody's main source of entertainment is just reverting a particular person's edits. Did your stalker just do this to you, or anybody who dared edit "his" page?
Don't quote that "Deutschland über alles" whiile trying to immigrate, though. Could get you a tough time.
This is true. My HS choir did a tour of Germany umpteen years ago. We had a beautiful arrangement of "Deutschland über alles" commissioned for the trip. Unfortunately when we got there, our guide pretty much informed us that it was out of the question; under no circumstances were we to perform it.
I agree with your sentiment that it's frustrating to have photos of yourself tagged on FB without your permission. But it should be pretty easy to circumvent. Just get an account (probably under an alias), and start tagging photos of random people (or even distorted photos of people, or photos of pets) with your real name. Voila! Anonymity by obfuscation.
yea I will hold my breath for that to happen, in the meantime who is going to beefing up this enormous nationwide grid? thats right a team of workers pouring out of a 2 ton quad cab V8 Chevy
Them's fightin' words, son. Any self-respecting lineman drives a Ford. And we sure as shit don't carpool.
It's not as profitable to Google if they can't link an online identity to a fake/anonymous account.
I don't buy that argument. Let's say you have multiple "fake" accounts, one for each facet of your lifestyle. You will want to be sold stuff based on which facet you are currently presenting. If I'm surfing the web with my family looking for vacation sites, I don't want penis enhancement advertising to show up (awkward). If I'm trolling for pr0n, I don't want ads for Disney World to pop up (that's just weird). If I'm at work looking for training videos on Amazon, I don't want my Thomas the Train purchases for my son confusing the results (annoying). If anything, Google should market the capability to advertisers: "You can target our users based on their specific intentions at this instant, not just their accumulated preferences." They are really limiting themselves here.
I have a friend who is an English teacher. Starting back in the MySpace days she would take her students' postings and use them as examples. She used it for everything: contractions, spelling, punctuation, run-ons, fragments, etc. It's quite the treasure trove of errors. She would keep it anonymous; I don't even think she told the students where she got the material. But for those students she took material from, it was a real eye-opener about online speech and accountability. Bear in mind, most of her students were 12, so they weren't even supposed to be on MySpace.
I imagine there are teachers in Missouri with similar tactics, but I guess there are plenty of other ways to get material.
As a side note: WTF? Former students can't be friends either? I keep contact with several former teachers.
Heh... You got that right McCain's nothing more than a Republican In Name Only.
So was Reagan, by today's standards. He raised taxes, raised government spending, granted amnesty to illegal immigrants, and raised -- hell, nearly tripled -- the debt ceiling. Oh yeah, and there's that pesky funding-Osama-Bin-Laden thing. Whoops!
The only thing I saw on Fox News about this story was "Wah! The liberal media are covering this story too much!" over and over and over again. Typical "we're the victim" crap that we always hear from these people. Hypocrites.
Ok, I stand corrected. Regarding nothing getting done: true to some degree but do you think anything the president wants to do is going to make it through the House right now? Don't think so.
Then let's start with things that don't require congressional approval, like not letting the SS assist Cisco in railroading an innocent man. Adekeye did send the guy a letter, according to the judgement.
Yeah. geography really isn't our best subject. Hell, there are people that thing New Mexico is a foreign country. "I'm sorry, sir, we don't ship internationally."
Aside from the docile sheep metaphor, I'm not sure why this got marked flamebait. I've been on a jury before, and I can guaran-damn-tee ya that they didn't have a clue what nullification was. And these were bright people. It's just that we've all watched too much courtroom drama on TV to have any clue what a normal trial should be like. It seems like one of the TV dramas tried to tackle the nullification thing, but I can't remember which or when. Maybe it was The Practice (god, how long has that show been off the air?).
Yes. It amazes me, too, that we put up with it. That's why I have my cell phone set up so that it can't receive text messages. When I tell people this, they look at me like I'm from Mars.
What I don't understand is why drivers licenses are the de facto identification documents a state uses. If the point of a license were really what you say (i.e. proving that you meet certain standards for safety while driving on a public road), having two such licenses with your picture on it just means you've passed the test twice. Why should you get your license(s) revoked? Why should you even have to prove you are who you say you are when you take the test and get your license? I can understand not wanting people to get one under a fake name if their other one is suspended because they're a crappy driver. If they discover this kind of fraud, I totally understand revoking the driving privilege. But the majority of people who use fake licenses aren't doing it so that they can drive on public roads without passing a test, it's because they want to buy beer before they turn 21.
I don't see the problem with people publishing their poops. It would make research for things like colitis and irritable bowel a lot easier if people would publish this information. The same could be said about sexual activity and social research. I for one would like to know who these assholes are with 4+ hours of sexual activity at a time.
As a side note, I wonder how many parents have found out their kids were sexually active this way, or how many spouses have learned of infidelity. Maybe crazy Zuckerberg is right, the less privacy the better??
It's called the pigeonhole principle. If there are more pigeons than pigeonholes, at least one pigeonhole will have more than one pigeon.
If 11 people are asked to pick a number between one and 10, then at least two will pick the same number. If there are 10,001 users of a product with a 4-digit pin, at least two will pick the same number. There are sure to be two people with the same number of hairs on their head in any sufficiently large city.
This isn't about two people picking the same number, it's about several people picking from just a few numbers, thereby reducing the entropy of the passcode space.
Seeing as most people who agree with you that "the revolution needs to happen" are actually raving Palinistas, I don't think you would get the result you're hoping for, should the revolution occur.
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Advertisers don't care what your name is as long as they know what you are likely to buy. If my name is Joe Schmoe that tells them nothing more about my buying habits. Now, if they can say my handle is twerpmeister67 on hamstersrock.com, then they have something they can sell to advertisers. Petsmart can try to sell me corn cob bedding, or whatever.
Better yet, let people have multiple handles, just like they do already. Tying those together, but allowing them to be separate in the consumers mind would be the best of both worlds. That way people can surf around however they want (e.g. Justin Bieber fansites) and not be worried about being outed as some kind of weirdo later. Say your trying to play video games with your kids or something. You don't want unsavory Bieber adverts popping up when you're looking for a fun game of Dinowaurs. Instead, you want to see advertisements for more dinosaur stuff or similar games.
It really seems like Google is missing the mark here. Advertisers, too. But honestly, I'm not that surprised.
I assumed it was pronounced like Lua but with a V in there. Similar to loovuh. Or Louvre.
That explains the damn Office ribbon.
I tell my boss it's where I find out about changes in patent law and important pending technology litigation.
Of course they won't be charged with a hate crime as those laws apparently only work one way.
Don't let facts stand in the way of your rant.
wow... that's really strange. It's hard to imagine that somebody's main source of entertainment is just reverting a particular person's edits. Did your stalker just do this to you, or anybody who dared edit "his" page?
Don't quote that "Deutschland über alles" whiile trying to immigrate, though. Could get you a tough time.
This is true. My HS choir did a tour of Germany umpteen years ago. We had a beautiful arrangement of "Deutschland über alles" commissioned for the trip. Unfortunately when we got there, our guide pretty much informed us that it was out of the question; under no circumstances were we to perform it.
I agree with your sentiment that it's frustrating to have photos of yourself tagged on FB without your permission. But it should be pretty easy to circumvent. Just get an account (probably under an alias), and start tagging photos of random people (or even distorted photos of people, or photos of pets) with your real name. Voila! Anonymity by obfuscation.
yea I will hold my breath for that to happen, in the meantime who is going to beefing up this enormous nationwide grid? thats right a team of workers pouring out of a 2 ton quad cab V8 Chevy
Them's fightin' words, son. Any self-respecting lineman drives a Ford. And we sure as shit don't carpool.
It's not as profitable to Google if they can't link an online identity to a fake/anonymous account.
I don't buy that argument. Let's say you have multiple "fake" accounts, one for each facet of your lifestyle. You will want to be sold stuff based on which facet you are currently presenting. If I'm surfing the web with my family looking for vacation sites, I don't want penis enhancement advertising to show up (awkward). If I'm trolling for pr0n, I don't want ads for Disney World to pop up (that's just weird). If I'm at work looking for training videos on Amazon, I don't want my Thomas the Train purchases for my son confusing the results (annoying). If anything, Google should market the capability to advertisers: "You can target our users based on their specific intentions at this instant, not just their accumulated preferences." They are really limiting themselves here.
I have a friend who is an English teacher. Starting back in the MySpace days she would take her students' postings and use them as examples. She used it for everything: contractions, spelling, punctuation, run-ons, fragments, etc. It's quite the treasure trove of errors. She would keep it anonymous; I don't even think she told the students where she got the material. But for those students she took material from, it was a real eye-opener about online speech and accountability. Bear in mind, most of her students were 12, so they weren't even supposed to be on MySpace.
I imagine there are teachers in Missouri with similar tactics, but I guess there are plenty of other ways to get material.
As a side note: WTF? Former students can't be friends either? I keep contact with several former teachers.
Heh... You got that right McCain's nothing more than a Republican In Name Only.
So was Reagan, by today's standards. He raised taxes, raised government spending, granted amnesty to illegal immigrants, and raised -- hell, nearly tripled -- the debt ceiling. Oh yeah, and there's that pesky funding-Osama-Bin-Laden thing. Whoops!
The only thing I saw on Fox News about this story was "Wah! The liberal media are covering this story too much!" over and over and over again. Typical "we're the victim" crap that we always hear from these people. Hypocrites.
Ok, I stand corrected. Regarding nothing getting done: true to some degree but do you think anything the president wants to do is going to make it through the House right now? Don't think so.
Then let's start with things that don't require congressional approval, like not letting the SS assist Cisco in railroading an innocent man. Adekeye did send the guy a letter, according to the judgement.
Which, ironically, would really screw with Mr. Adekeye's business model.
gah! spelling and capitalization errors in a post mocking people's intelligence....
Yeah. geography really isn't our best subject. Hell, there are people that thing New Mexico is a foreign country. "I'm sorry, sir, we don't ship internationally."
Happens all the time. If they don't know what something is, they just take it. I think they must have a quota or something.
Aside from the docile sheep metaphor, I'm not sure why this got marked flamebait. I've been on a jury before, and I can guaran-damn-tee ya that they didn't have a clue what nullification was. And these were bright people. It's just that we've all watched too much courtroom drama on TV to have any clue what a normal trial should be like. It seems like one of the TV dramas tried to tackle the nullification thing, but I can't remember which or when. Maybe it was The Practice (god, how long has that show been off the air?).
I like how JSTOR starts by saying that it can't comment on the case, and then it comments on the case.
Yes. It amazes me, too, that we put up with it. That's why I have my cell phone set up so that it can't receive text messages. When I tell people this, they look at me like I'm from Mars.
What I don't understand is why drivers licenses are the de facto identification documents a state uses. If the point of a license were really what you say (i.e. proving that you meet certain standards for safety while driving on a public road), having two such licenses with your picture on it just means you've passed the test twice. Why should you get your license(s) revoked? Why should you even have to prove you are who you say you are when you take the test and get your license? I can understand not wanting people to get one under a fake name if their other one is suspended because they're a crappy driver. If they discover this kind of fraud, I totally understand revoking the driving privilege. But the majority of people who use fake licenses aren't doing it so that they can drive on public roads without passing a test, it's because they want to buy beer before they turn 21.
I don't see the problem with people publishing their poops. It would make research for things like colitis and irritable bowel a lot easier if people would publish this information. The same could be said about sexual activity and social research. I for one would like to know who these assholes are with 4+ hours of sexual activity at a time.
As a side note, I wonder how many parents have found out their kids were sexually active this way, or how many spouses have learned of infidelity. Maybe crazy Zuckerberg is right, the less privacy the better??
It's called the pigeonhole principle. If there are more pigeons than pigeonholes, at least one pigeonhole will have more than one pigeon.
If 11 people are asked to pick a number between one and 10, then at least two will pick the same number. If there are 10,001 users of a product with a 4-digit pin, at least two will pick the same number. There are sure to be two people with the same number of hairs on their head in any sufficiently large city.
This isn't about two people picking the same number, it's about several people picking from just a few numbers, thereby reducing the entropy of the passcode space.
Seeing as most people who agree with you that "the revolution needs to happen" are actually raving Palinistas, I don't think you would get the result you're hoping for, should the revolution occur.