Oh so that's what everyone means when they say flash lets you see "the whole web".
So, my choices are ads for free news sites, or, The Daily? I'll go with option #3 - AdFree, which blocks all ad content on an Android (rooted) device.
I swear, you'd think people like InfoWorld's Neil McAllister were as smart as they sound. Oh, but wait, he wants the "default" experience. M'kay, then he shouldn't run "beta" products.
Oh, btw, can you're iPad2 modify it's host file to adblock not only for itself, but also for all tethered wifi devices (nice bonus!) like my Android? Oh, it doesn't adblock, or tether, or adblock for tether. Oh, so you see ads at all? That's so 2010!
Yes, Spam legislation did SO much good./sarcasm All it did was move it off shore. While advertising may not move off shore, the fact is that you can't legislate tracking, and you can't solve it with "Please please don't track me" buttons. Oh, so you can get adsense to stop following you? Big whoop. If a website wants, they can each have their own tracking software, and sell to highest bidder.
And you keep pushing and pushing, and sites like Facebook will start throwing up warnings about how crappy your experience will be unless you disable. Don't disable? Then they'll feed you a site with no Javascript that looks like it survived the Geocities shutdown.
When will users, companies, and politicians learn... they wouldn't KNOW so much about you if you didn't TELL them in the first place! Other than your IP, every other form of information is one you actively give or can proactively prevent. And there are always services like Tor if your IP being known freaks you out...
Sorry, but I'm really tired of this shit. People freak out because someone stole a list of email addresses, oOoOo... I stole a white pages phone book, should someone call the FBI? I'm going to start comparing the 30yr old + generation, of which I'm a part of, the new Sen. Stevens generation. I'm all for privacy, but this whiny do not track button BS isn't going to save ONE person from real ID theft. It's another "the internet is a bunch of tubes" make believe idea.
I'm more disappointed that it has to run as a local application at all. Doesn't this say "an online public resource developed to accelerate understanding of how the human brain works". Now maybe it has a network connection, but when I hear "online public resource", I usually think of something you can access from other online public resources, like a public library. And that means web, imho. Google Maps is more of an online public resource than this brain map.
Unless you've been living in a cave, I think the point was demostrated in Egypt very well on what the difference is between having a right to access the Internet and not having a right to access the Internet is. Everyone has a right to drink water. But you still have to pay for it. But no government that I know of bans the use of drinking water. (Though it is regulated... but technically, so is speech.)
I mean, leave. Go away. With all due respect to many great accomplishments, this is ridiculous.
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And what does this mean, to be a right? Free speech as right means the government doesn't have to subsidize my printing press, but if I have a printing press, the government can't tell me what to print or not print.
Does web access is a right mean the government doesn't have to subsidize my computer, but if I have a computer the government can't prevent my access?
So if I find an insufficiently secured WiFi access point, the government can't stop my access? I can't be arrest for theft of service?
I don't get it.
It's obvious you know exactly what TBL is saying. You answered your own question, then proceeded to mangle it to make a point, I think? Wifi hacking as a right is a straw man argument that the average person would not agree with. Just stick with the original answer and you got it, which doesn't sound ridiculous at all.
So with all do respect, if ridiculous comments are cause to leave, by saying "I can't be arrest for theft of service?", you should be hot footing it out the door yourself.
With so simple it's stupid services like LastPass, I really don't understand how people still can't use unique passwords. For christ's sake, using LastPass is EASIER than using 1 common password, because it auto logs in. I really don't get people. Then again, with so simple it's obvious backup services like Carbonite, you'd think everyone would be backing up, too. Fat chance there.
I trained well as a certified BOFH. I get what I want without having to deal with lusers. I lock down boxes, and I get flak when person X can't install something. What really happens is they complain that they need something legitimate, use the "it takes more than 5 min" excuse, and get their rights elevated so they can really install Yahoo Messenger.
I then plan a game of Whack-A-Mole remotely killing the process, deleting necessary.dll files, etc. I then get humorous support calls about "problems" with the machine. Of course, they can't tell me what the problem is, but will repeat, "things just keep crashing". At which point I pull up their remote desktop and ask them to demonstrate the problem, "Well, it works now, but it wasn't a minute ago."
After about a week, they give up. Should they revert to their old ways, my network manager will notify me upon new software installs, and I get to play again.
The ironic thing is this: They can't complain to the boss, because if they ask me, I suggest a new PC. Haha, "Just do the best you can," they tell the luser. They're not buying new PCs! EVER! And I love it!
Where the court is silent, and the law is quiet, it is legal. The Supreme Court let's lower court rulings stand all the time, refusing to even hear cases. The law doesn't wait on SCOTUS rulings to become legal. You can not like it all you want. I don't like it. But the reality is, until a court says it is illegal, it is legal.
Where the court is silent, and the law is quiet, it is legal. The Supreme Court let's lower court rulings stand all the time, refusing to even hear cases. The law doesn't wait on SCOTUS rulings to become legal. You can not like it all you want. I don't like it. But the reality is, until a court says it is illegal, it is legal.
Someone 3rd party jailbreaking hacker scum just stole Steve's "One more thing..." for iPad3. Release the app mods! Rape their goats and kill their women!
I spend more than that a month for Audible audiobooks (Amazon) and Kindle books. And I use it all through my Android DroidX. After a year, I should be getting a FREE Kindle. I'd be willing to put up with ads ONLY if it were completely free. If they add in a stipulation that you've purchased at least $250 worth of content, I'm fine with that too, because I have. I've bought the Kindle as a gift for someone else, and really liked the readability. Reading on a DroidX kinda sucks, but I love books. Why should they give me a free Kindle? Because if I purchase a really large book (500+ pages), I go to a Barnes & Noble and pick up the paperback for $10. If Kindle wants to capture my sales as a higher volume customer, Kindle should be free.
Of course, should they give them away like freaking CueCats? That's a great question. I know RadioShack would jump on board, haha. Maybe that's a genius marketing strategy to beat Apple. Maybe make it "free" with a newspaper subscription. But once someone crosses a certain purchase threshold, they should get a 100% off coupon code.
This is why if you come up with an idea, you don't hire anyone without an NDA with a noncompete clause (and you incorporate in a legally friendly state). Why the hell would you want the programmer you hire to just flip you the bird and start the same project under a new name, knowing that you have nobody else to replace them immediately?
I often hear people call Mark Z a loser. Why? Well, let's assume that his little stunt backfired, and the Winklevoss twins found another programmer and ran ahead full speed instead of sitting on their asses. And let's suppose that using their connections, they beat Mark to market? Who wins? The rich Winklevoss twins, or Mark "who-the-fuck-are-you" Zuckerberg? Would mark every get hired by any other startup if Facebook were owned by the Winklevoss twins, and they let it be known that some little creep almost stole their business on day 1?
Hell no, he'd be flipping burgers. It wasn't that he was THAT good of a programmer or THAT good of an entrepreneur. It wasn't like he had another idea to fall back on. He's no Kevin Rose or Steve Jobs. He took a chance at the right place at the right time, and got VERY lucky.
So why is he a loser? Cause if you are a college kid thinking of pulling this little stunt, you're not going to be a billionaire, you're going to be working help desk until you're 80. Come up with your own ideas, or find a good one someone else has, and be smart and get an ironclad stock option agreement.
The point is so they don't type every damn question into WolframAlpha and actually learn rather than have a computer give them all the answers. Honestly, it's no wonder there is a fear that computers will enslave humans. When nobody can understand the algorithm, that algorithm becomes mystery, then magical, then mystical.
Call me grouchy, but I wouldn't let you use calculators at all if I were a teacher! Learn to utilize that brain and you'll out pace a calculator user at least all the way up to polynomials. Then again, I think speed is NOT emphasized enough. The kids who prize speed tend to also get more right answers. Practice with your kids! Make them tabulate the grocery bill (plus tax!) in their heads at the super market as soon as they learn to count. Ask them story problems, and let them figure out how to figure it out by themselves! Kids who figure out how to solve the problem without being shown how to solve the problem become good at learning how to learn instead of learning how to memorize.
Simple little tricks to make little Susie #1 in math... so STFU about calculators! **grumble*grumble*when I was your age!*grumble*grumble***
All those corporate lawyers, and you don't think they have a loophole since Premier IS FISMA certified, and is basically the same service with a different label on it? Besides, who says they haven't already won? With the kick about cutting costs, Google positioned itself to make a government agency look wasteful. It doesn't matter who was certified, this was a purely political move. They set out with one message, Microsoft = Wasteful Spending.
They've already won, even if their court case goes nowhere.
And how do I know Microsoft is full of shit? "Microsoft writes in a blog post that..." End of story. If they had a real legal argument, this story would lead with 7 different words "Microsoft lawyers seek perjury Charge against Google..."
SCOTUS ruled that use of public roadways is public knowledge and legal without a warrant, including the use of GPS tracking units on your "private" vehicle. Their ruling is that when driving on a public roadway, there is absolutely no expectation of privacy as to your travelling. Now, searching inside the vehicle, that's a different question. And what if the camera takes a picture through your windows? That's as allowed as an officer looking in your window. The court seems to say that, police are allowed to use humans to track all public movements, so they see no difference between having 5 million police standing on corners writing down license plates or 5 million cameras doing the same thing.
I follow a few people who have had this happen to them, some real smart people (read: were persons of interest with FBI investigations into Wikileaks). And the best thing they did was just say no. How? By not taking data through an airport. Hand them empty, wiped devices and just smile and say you don't have any data to declare.
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...the software learns you!
Oh so that's what everyone means when they say flash lets you see "the whole web".
So, my choices are ads for free news sites, or, The Daily? I'll go with option #3 - AdFree, which blocks all ad content on an Android (rooted) device.
I swear, you'd think people like InfoWorld's Neil McAllister were as smart as they sound. Oh, but wait, he wants the "default" experience. M'kay, then he shouldn't run "beta" products.
Oh, btw, can you're iPad2 modify it's host file to adblock not only for itself, but also for all tethered wifi devices (nice bonus!) like my Android? Oh, it doesn't adblock, or tether, or adblock for tether. Oh, so you see ads at all? That's so 2010!
Yes, Spam legislation did SO much good. /sarcasm All it did was move it off shore. While advertising may not move off shore, the fact is that you can't legislate tracking, and you can't solve it with "Please please don't track me" buttons. Oh, so you can get adsense to stop following you? Big whoop. If a website wants, they can each have their own tracking software, and sell to highest bidder.
And you keep pushing and pushing, and sites like Facebook will start throwing up warnings about how crappy your experience will be unless you disable. Don't disable? Then they'll feed you a site with no Javascript that looks like it survived the Geocities shutdown.
When will users, companies, and politicians learn... they wouldn't KNOW so much about you if you didn't TELL them in the first place! Other than your IP, every other form of information is one you actively give or can proactively prevent. And there are always services like Tor if your IP being known freaks you out...
Sorry, but I'm really tired of this shit. People freak out because someone stole a list of email addresses, oOoOo... I stole a white pages phone book, should someone call the FBI? I'm going to start comparing the 30yr old + generation, of which I'm a part of, the new Sen. Stevens generation. I'm all for privacy, but this whiny do not track button BS isn't going to save ONE person from real ID theft. It's another "the internet is a bunch of tubes" make believe idea.
It's the line from Demolition Man. I hate 13 year old mods who don't get old movie references.
Genius!
So, will they have Time Cops?
I'm more disappointed that it has to run as a local application at all. Doesn't this say "an online public resource developed to accelerate understanding of how the human brain works". Now maybe it has a network connection, but when I hear "online public resource", I usually think of something you can access from other online public resources, like a public library. And that means web, imho. Google Maps is more of an online public resource than this brain map.
I knew shell would save the world, but which one? csh, ksh, bash, zsh, ...
He doesn't know how to use the three seashells!
Thanks a lot you shit-brained, fuck-faced, ball breaking, duck fucking pain in the ass... So much for the seashells. See you in a few minutes.
I mean, leave. Go away. With all due respect to many great accomplishments, this is ridiculous.
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And what does this mean, to be a right? Free speech as right means the government doesn't have to subsidize my printing press, but if I have a printing press, the government can't tell me what to print or not print.
Does web access is a right mean the government doesn't have to subsidize my computer, but if I have a computer the government can't prevent my access?
So if I find an insufficiently secured WiFi access point, the government can't stop my access? I can't be arrest for theft of service?
I don't get it.
It's obvious you know exactly what TBL is saying. You answered your own question, then proceeded to mangle it to make a point, I think? Wifi hacking as a right is a straw man argument that the average person would not agree with. Just stick with the original answer and you got it, which doesn't sound ridiculous at all.
So with all do respect, if ridiculous comments are cause to leave, by saying "I can't be arrest for theft of service?", you should be hot footing it out the door yourself.
Who gives a damn if Mulder died, we just wanted to see him bang Scully!
With so simple it's stupid services like LastPass, I really don't understand how people still can't use unique passwords. For christ's sake, using LastPass is EASIER than using 1 common password, because it auto logs in. I really don't get people. Then again, with so simple it's obvious backup services like Carbonite, you'd think everyone would be backing up, too. Fat chance there.
I trained well as a certified BOFH. I get what I want without having to deal with lusers. I lock down boxes, and I get flak when person X can't install something. What really happens is they complain that they need something legitimate, use the "it takes more than 5 min" excuse, and get their rights elevated so they can really install Yahoo Messenger.
.dll files, etc. I then get humorous support calls about "problems" with the machine. Of course, they can't tell me what the problem is, but will repeat, "things just keep crashing". At which point I pull up their remote desktop and ask them to demonstrate the problem, "Well, it works now, but it wasn't a minute ago."
I then plan a game of Whack-A-Mole remotely killing the process, deleting necessary
After about a week, they give up. Should they revert to their old ways, my network manager will notify me upon new software installs, and I get to play again.
The ironic thing is this: They can't complain to the boss, because if they ask me, I suggest a new PC. Haha, "Just do the best you can," they tell the luser. They're not buying new PCs! EVER! And I love it!
I'll tell you the same thing I told the above respondant:
"in U.S. v. Knotts in 1983, it ruled that police use of an electronic beeper to track a suspect’s trip to a drug lab was not a search."
http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/11/police-and-high-tech-monitoring/
Where the court is silent, and the law is quiet, it is legal. The Supreme Court let's lower court rulings stand all the time, refusing to even hear cases. The law doesn't wait on SCOTUS rulings to become legal. You can not like it all you want. I don't like it. But the reality is, until a court says it is illegal, it is legal.
"in U.S. v. Knotts in 1983, it ruled that police use of an electronic beeper to track a suspect’s trip to a drug lab was not a search."
http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/11/police-and-high-tech-monitoring/
Where the court is silent, and the law is quiet, it is legal. The Supreme Court let's lower court rulings stand all the time, refusing to even hear cases. The law doesn't wait on SCOTUS rulings to become legal. You can not like it all you want. I don't like it. But the reality is, until a court says it is illegal, it is legal.
Someone 3rd party jailbreaking hacker scum just stole Steve's "One more thing..." for iPad3. Release the app mods! Rape their goats and kill their women!
I spend more than that a month for Audible audiobooks (Amazon) and Kindle books. And I use it all through my Android DroidX. After a year, I should be getting a FREE Kindle. I'd be willing to put up with ads ONLY if it were completely free. If they add in a stipulation that you've purchased at least $250 worth of content, I'm fine with that too, because I have. I've bought the Kindle as a gift for someone else, and really liked the readability. Reading on a DroidX kinda sucks, but I love books. Why should they give me a free Kindle? Because if I purchase a really large book (500+ pages), I go to a Barnes & Noble and pick up the paperback for $10. If Kindle wants to capture my sales as a higher volume customer, Kindle should be free.
Of course, should they give them away like freaking CueCats? That's a great question. I know RadioShack would jump on board, haha. Maybe that's a genius marketing strategy to beat Apple. Maybe make it "free" with a newspaper subscription. But once someone crosses a certain purchase threshold, they should get a 100% off coupon code.
This is why if you come up with an idea, you don't hire anyone without an NDA with a noncompete clause (and you incorporate in a legally friendly state). Why the hell would you want the programmer you hire to just flip you the bird and start the same project under a new name, knowing that you have nobody else to replace them immediately?
I often hear people call Mark Z a loser. Why? Well, let's assume that his little stunt backfired, and the Winklevoss twins found another programmer and ran ahead full speed instead of sitting on their asses. And let's suppose that using their connections, they beat Mark to market? Who wins? The rich Winklevoss twins, or Mark "who-the-fuck-are-you" Zuckerberg? Would mark every get hired by any other startup if Facebook were owned by the Winklevoss twins, and they let it be known that some little creep almost stole their business on day 1?
Hell no, he'd be flipping burgers. It wasn't that he was THAT good of a programmer or THAT good of an entrepreneur. It wasn't like he had another idea to fall back on. He's no Kevin Rose or Steve Jobs. He took a chance at the right place at the right time, and got VERY lucky.
So why is he a loser? Cause if you are a college kid thinking of pulling this little stunt, you're not going to be a billionaire, you're going to be working help desk until you're 80. Come up with your own ideas, or find a good one someone else has, and be smart and get an ironclad stock option agreement.
The point is so they don't type every damn question into WolframAlpha and actually learn rather than have a computer give them all the answers. Honestly, it's no wonder there is a fear that computers will enslave humans. When nobody can understand the algorithm, that algorithm becomes mystery, then magical, then mystical. Call me grouchy, but I wouldn't let you use calculators at all if I were a teacher! Learn to utilize that brain and you'll out pace a calculator user at least all the way up to polynomials. Then again, I think speed is NOT emphasized enough. The kids who prize speed tend to also get more right answers. Practice with your kids! Make them tabulate the grocery bill (plus tax!) in their heads at the super market as soon as they learn to count. Ask them story problems, and let them figure out how to figure it out by themselves! Kids who figure out how to solve the problem without being shown how to solve the problem become good at learning how to learn instead of learning how to memorize. Simple little tricks to make little Susie #1 in math... so STFU about calculators! **grumble*grumble*when I was your age!*grumble*grumble***
BFD? Then by all means, let's see your name, address, and SSN. ;)
All those corporate lawyers, and you don't think they have a loophole since Premier IS FISMA certified, and is basically the same service with a different label on it? Besides, who says they haven't already won? With the kick about cutting costs, Google positioned itself to make a government agency look wasteful. It doesn't matter who was certified, this was a purely political move. They set out with one message, Microsoft = Wasteful Spending.
They've already won, even if their court case goes nowhere.
And how do I know Microsoft is full of shit? "Microsoft writes in a blog post that..." End of story. If they had a real legal argument, this story would lead with 7 different words "Microsoft lawyers seek perjury Charge against Google..."
SCOTUS ruled that use of public roadways is public knowledge and legal without a warrant, including the use of GPS tracking units on your "private" vehicle. Their ruling is that when driving on a public roadway, there is absolutely no expectation of privacy as to your travelling. Now, searching inside the vehicle, that's a different question. And what if the camera takes a picture through your windows? That's as allowed as an officer looking in your window. The court seems to say that, police are allowed to use humans to track all public movements, so they see no difference between having 5 million police standing on corners writing down license plates or 5 million cameras doing the same thing.
Since when has that ever stopped companies from initiating pointless lawsuits?
Rabble rabble rabble rabble! Chuff chuff chuff chuff! Microsoftish fragment ecosystem fake incompatible! Rabble Rabble...
I follow a few people who have had this happen to them, some real smart people (read: were persons of interest with FBI investigations into Wikileaks). And the best thing they did was just say no. How? By not taking data through an airport. Hand them empty, wiped devices and just smile and say you don't have any data to declare.