If they ever learned correct English (non-copied, random, yet intelligent looking grammar), we'd lose a valuable tool in both machine AND human filtering of spam.
But, at that point, SkyNet will kill us all anyways, so I'm not too worried just yet.
Nowhere in the article doesn't actually say "no users". It's an attention grabbing, flamebaiting, tabloid-esk headline that CNN and Fortune should both be ashamed of. Here is what it actually says:
The similarities between the two models have obviously ruffled some feathers. At the event, Facebook's Ryan argued that Google's gaming foray was like McDonald's (MCD) recent efforts to offer premium coffee, competing in the same space as Starbucks (SBUX). (That business went on to become huge for McDonald's...) "Google is at 5% because they don't have any users," he said dryly. Google declined to comment on the statements, but confirmed the percentage it planned to take from game makers.
Obviously from the context, they are talking about why Google charges so low is because they have no real user capitalization to begin with. But Facebook is not pulling a Baghdad Bob: "There are no US troops in Iraq. They're making it up!"
It was a figure of speech. And one obviously pointed out in the author's preface that also indicated just how foolish it would be to actually rely on it as credible. It's a lot of piss and moxy on Facebook's part to laugh off the competition. But nobody with half a brain is buying it.
How in the world did the parents miss her being blind until she was 5? She had to have been pretty functional compared to other types of blindness to go that long.
This sounds like Facebook using pictures in ads to friends who already have access to those pictures. I remember when that happened, and the laughable results of wives showing up in the dating ads of their husbands' dating ads. Same idea here, except that if the pictures made it outside the visible group, it sounds like a glitch.
this man? If so, call our tipster hotline at 1-888-4-unmask. Think of the children!
Yesssss... using facial recognition on people wearing hoodies, masks, and bandannas covering everything but their eyes. Somehow, that makes perfect governmental sense.
Hello, I am a former associate with Brown and Burnslaufner. Recently, our main clients MPAA and RIAA have severely decreased their use of Cease and Desist orders, thus causing my downsizing at the law firm. I would love for an opportunity to work with you.
I have experience in: - Pain and Misery - Beating opponents into submission using legal mumbo-jumbo that keeps the courts on "our" side. - Persuading politicians that our actions are a crisis - Raping profits from the elderly and children
I think I would be a fine addition to your endeavor, and I hope to hear from you soon. Should you restore telecommunications, I am willing to telecommute.
... advantage? Any picture you post publicly is "at the mercy" of search engines, and your picture is then at the mercy of anyone with any scheme in mind to use you for advertising, a news article, or to make you look like a complete ass like at the link I just provided.
This is not a threat to privacy. A threat to privacy is pictures that you don't post publicly getting out into the public. The pictures you post publicly that are reused has nothing to do with privacy.
I would argue that the advantage of social media is to aggregate information via social graph rather than algorithm. That requires putting in information. Of course, people are often clueless about information they make public, and rather think it is all the service's fault. That may or may not be the case here, but I would guess that nobody is putting up sexting pictures on a business social site that are getting linked... which begs the question, what the hell were the picture uploaders thinking?
I'll be honest, Google is in the dominant position, and I'll never use Bing. But, Microsoft is throwing money at search like there is no tomorrow (because for them, there may not be if they have no virtual real estate). Microsoft would probably be willing to up the offer of money. Even with their rivalry, they know good and well Chrome is a bigger rival to IE. If nothing else, Firefox could force a much better contract with Google with a high Bing offer.
Aside from the fact that Google was founded by and employs many multi-ethnic, immigrant (1st, 2nd, 3rd generation), and foreign nationals... here we are comparing a company to an entire country.
Root the phone, install firewall, route all traffic from phone and tether through Orbot (Tor) or private encrypted proxy. All traffic looks identical. Problem solved.
All the talk about his augmented legs, and not one photo in that article of said legs. That's WAY too PC when the augmentations themselves are the story.
...if the best paid pitchers are supposed to be the best pitchers, and if pitching is intelligent design, then we can deduce that CC Sabathia is, in fact, God.
This makes sense, as we all know Alex Rodriguez is the devil, which confirms all of our suspicions that they're on the same team to begin with.
I agree with you. Here's why: Because we'll never be satisfied until we've pigeon holed Google+ into a "It's just like _________" explanation, just like everyone said that Facebook would fail because it's too different from MySpace, didn't allow animated gifs, didn't allow page customizations, blah blah blah (I'm talking to you MG Siegler).
Now people are saying the same about Google+. Only this time they want to criticize it both for how it is like Facebook and how it is unlike Facebook.
Google+ is just like... Google+. It will live or die on its own merits, least of which is the animated gifs or even how anonymous it is. Yes, because if anonymity were the measure of a successful service, 4chan would be surpassing 4 billion users by now. Every service is anonymous if you lie convincingly. Heywood Jablowme isn't trying hard enough.
Not all networks operate on "Friending". What about forums? Are school services exempt? What about email contact lists? Ok, then what about GTalk lists if the teacher and the student use Gmail?
From the bill: "Teachers also cannot have a nonwork-related website that allows exclusive access with a current or former student."
So, if I lived in Missouri, being over 30 years old, I can't talk to my 2nd grade teacher? And what the hell is "exclusive access"? If that means private messaging, that includes, what 99.999999999... fuck it, 100% of all internet services.
Why don't we just criminalize teachers having computers? On second thought, why doesn't Missouri criminalize Missourians having computers? And while we're at it, let's criminalize teachers talking to students without at least 2 adults present so that there is never this "exclusive access".
This completely and utterly fails the smell test, and will be overturned promptly by any court. I have no doubt some student/parent/teacher in a political science class will turn the damn law into a class project with the teacher taking it to court by flaunting the law by friending the entire class.
The _____(insert government/corporation/church)_____ is EXTREMELY corrupt!
Ooo, corruption! Let's solve that problem right after we catch all terrorists ever, cure all disease ever, and post to Slashdot about the next 2+2=4 well known matter that we can CAPS RAGE on!
I used to be able to record phone calls... even after rooting, I now cannot. This article is like saying, "Trojan does cool thing you can't do on your own but wish you could."
Next up, a flu virus spreading that gives you the ability to fly? Oooo, horrible!/sarcasm
Back in my day, all windows had a line on the top left and two arrows on the right, and all the windows were uniform and looked exactly the same! And it should never ever change from that! Get off my lawn!
Except that it's now given away completely free with loads more features, that you can buy, but don't have to buy because you can earn. And no funky always on requirements or strange DRM, especially given that TF came out of a completely user community generated mod of Quake...
See, Valve is just like... wait, wait a minute... they're nothing alike!
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If they ever learned correct English (non-copied, random, yet intelligent looking grammar), we'd lose a valuable tool in both machine AND human filtering of spam.
But, at that point, SkyNet will kill us all anyways, so I'm not too worried just yet.
Nowhere in the article doesn't actually say "no users". It's an attention grabbing, flamebaiting, tabloid-esk headline that CNN and Fortune should both be ashamed of. Here is what it actually says:
The similarities between the two models have obviously ruffled some feathers. At the event, Facebook's Ryan argued that Google's gaming foray was like McDonald's (MCD) recent efforts to offer premium coffee, competing in the same space as Starbucks (SBUX). (That business went on to become huge for McDonald's...) "Google is at 5% because they don't have any users," he said dryly. Google declined to comment on the statements, but confirmed the percentage it planned to take from game makers.
Obviously from the context, they are talking about why Google charges so low is because they have no real user capitalization to begin with. But Facebook is not pulling a Baghdad Bob: "There are no US troops in Iraq. They're making it up!"
It was a figure of speech. And one obviously pointed out in the author's preface that also indicated just how foolish it would be to actually rely on it as credible. It's a lot of piss and moxy on Facebook's part to laugh off the competition. But nobody with half a brain is buying it.
How in the world did the parents miss her being blind until she was 5? She had to have been pretty functional compared to other types of blindness to go that long.
Come on mods, did you even RTFA? Parent is correct.
Nice catch, scdeimos. Did you use the Google similar image search or what?
You mean to say he was also the Collar-Bomber?
This sounds like Facebook using pictures in ads to friends who already have access to those pictures. I remember when that happened, and the laughable results of wives showing up in the dating ads of their husbands' dating ads. Same idea here, except that if the pictures made it outside the visible group, it sounds like a glitch.
this man? If so, call our tipster hotline at 1-888-4-unmask. Think of the children!
Yesssss... using facial recognition on people wearing hoodies, masks, and bandannas covering everything but their eyes. Somehow, that makes perfect governmental sense.
Dear Muammar,
Hello, I am a former associate with Brown and Burnslaufner. Recently, our main clients MPAA and RIAA have severely decreased their use of Cease and Desist orders, thus causing my downsizing at the law firm. I would love for an opportunity to work with you.
I have experience in:
- Pain and Misery
- Beating opponents into submission using legal mumbo-jumbo that keeps the courts on "our" side.
- Persuading politicians that our actions are a crisis
- Raping profits from the elderly and children
I think I would be a fine addition to your endeavor, and I hope to hear from you soon. Should you restore telecommunications, I am willing to telecommute.
Sincerely,
Charles P. Vandersnort, III
... advantage? Any picture you post publicly is "at the mercy" of search engines, and your picture is then at the mercy of anyone with any scheme in mind to use you for advertising, a news article, or to make you look like a complete ass like at the link I just provided.
This is not a threat to privacy. A threat to privacy is pictures that you don't post publicly getting out into the public. The pictures you post publicly that are reused has nothing to do with privacy.
I would argue that the advantage of social media is to aggregate information via social graph rather than algorithm. That requires putting in information. Of course, people are often clueless about information they make public, and rather think it is all the service's fault. That may or may not be the case here, but I would guess that nobody is putting up sexting pictures on a business social site that are getting linked... which begs the question, what the hell were the picture uploaders thinking?
"Why Firefox Needs Bing"
I'll be honest, Google is in the dominant position, and I'll never use Bing. But, Microsoft is throwing money at search like there is no tomorrow (because for them, there may not be if they have no virtual real estate). Microsoft would probably be willing to up the offer of money. Even with their rivalry, they know good and well Chrome is a bigger rival to IE. If nothing else, Firefox could force a much better contract with Google with a high Bing offer.
That's just smart business.
Aside from the fact that Google was founded by and employs many multi-ethnic, immigrant (1st, 2nd, 3rd generation), and foreign nationals... here we are comparing a company to an entire country.
That bodes well in Google's favor, I think.
Pornographic? The heads of the women are CLEARLY covering the genital regions of the men like straw hats covering any prime time "nude" sitcom scene.
Just to be sure, I'll ask what the women in HR think... brb...
Firefox matters because it's once again the only open source browser that goes by standards instead of doing whatever they want.
Yes, because as we all know, the ever changing UI and Addons/Extensions are squarely in the realm of "standards".
...if you do it right.
Root the phone, install firewall, route all traffic from phone and tether through Orbot (Tor) or private encrypted proxy. All traffic looks identical. Problem solved.
I should try that, all my planning goes on in Second Life dominatrix brothels.
All the talk about his augmented legs, and not one photo in that article of said legs. That's WAY too PC when the augmentations themselves are the story.
...if the best paid pitchers are supposed to be the best pitchers, and if pitching is intelligent design, then we can deduce that CC Sabathia is, in fact, God.
This makes sense, as we all know Alex Rodriguez is the devil, which confirms all of our suspicions that they're on the same team to begin with.
Maybe we can settle for a slightly lower amount and call it a day?
I agree with you. Here's why: Because we'll never be satisfied until we've pigeon holed Google+ into a "It's just like _________" explanation, just like everyone said that Facebook would fail because it's too different from MySpace, didn't allow animated gifs, didn't allow page customizations, blah blah blah (I'm talking to you MG Siegler).
Now people are saying the same about Google+. Only this time they want to criticize it both for how it is like Facebook and how it is unlike Facebook.
Google+ is just like... Google+. It will live or die on its own merits, least of which is the animated gifs or even how anonymous it is. Yes, because if anonymity were the measure of a successful service, 4chan would be surpassing 4 billion users by now. Every service is anonymous if you lie convincingly. Heywood Jablowme isn't trying hard enough.
Not all networks operate on "Friending". What about forums? Are school services exempt? What about email contact lists? Ok, then what about GTalk lists if the teacher and the student use Gmail?
From the bill: "Teachers also cannot have a nonwork-related website that allows exclusive access with a current or former student."
So, if I lived in Missouri, being over 30 years old, I can't talk to my 2nd grade teacher? And what the hell is "exclusive access"? If that means private messaging, that includes, what 99.999999999... fuck it, 100% of all internet services.
Why don't we just criminalize teachers having computers? On second thought, why doesn't Missouri criminalize Missourians having computers? And while we're at it, let's criminalize teachers talking to students without at least 2 adults present so that there is never this "exclusive access".
This completely and utterly fails the smell test, and will be overturned promptly by any court. I have no doubt some student/parent/teacher in a political science class will turn the damn law into a class project with the teacher taking it to court by flaunting the law by friending the entire class.
The _____(insert government/corporation/church)_____ is EXTREMELY corrupt!
Ooo, corruption! Let's solve that problem right after we catch all terrorists ever, cure all disease ever, and post to Slashdot about the next 2+2=4 well known matter that we can CAPS RAGE on!
I used to be able to record phone calls... even after rooting, I now cannot. This article is like saying, "Trojan does cool thing you can't do on your own but wish you could."
Next up, a flu virus spreading that gives you the ability to fly? Oooo, horrible! /sarcasm
Back in my day, all windows had a line on the top left and two arrows on the right, and all the windows were uniform and looked exactly the same! And it should never ever change from that! Get off my lawn!
Except that it's now given away completely free with loads more features, that you can buy, but don't have to buy because you can earn. And no funky always on requirements or strange DRM, especially given that TF came out of a completely user community generated mod of Quake...
See, Valve is just like... wait, wait a minute... they're nothing alike!
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