I'm not saying no cookies, but they were implemented in a way that could easily be abused. For example, there should have been a user option to auto delete all cookies when the browser closes, or after a week, or a year. We have somewhat recovered some control, but when cookies were first loosed on the world, the site developer had all the control over the cookies, not the user.
Same deal with pop-up window. What Netscape thought was a cool and useful new feature was implemented in a way that was hard for the user to override, and we all wound up with a screenful of women in bikinis that we could spy on with our X-cam. Netscape was just throwing stuff out there without thinking about how it could be abused and how the implementation could prevent that abuse.
And now they want all your data.
If Mozilla continues to transfer seach functions from the search bar to the address bar, they will turn the search bar in to a uses appendage that just takes up space.
Hey Mozilla, why don't you put search functions into the search part of the interface!
Leslie: "There's this thing called a worm out there that's going to steal all your money and destroy the world, you know, it'll be bad. Cats and dogs lying down together and all that." Software guy: "Buy our software or your bank account will be emptied. Please watch this sham demo." Leslie: "Wow, I got a Facebook from Andy, let me just go ahead and delete that..." Software Guy: "No no no no no!! You have to pay attention to Andy or your money won't be stolen." Leslie: "I see. So that's why nobody's had their money stolen yet. You're not just on the show to sell your software, are you?" Software Guy: "Nah, you can trust me. I'm a software guy, not a banker. But if you don't buy it, some Russian kids will get all your money." Leslie: "Is there any other way to protect your computer, like installing the latest Windows patch?" Software Guy: "You're really not good at playing along, are you."
Cut to interview with woman who's money was stolen because she didn't have Software Guy's latest product:
Woman: "I saw it transfer money from my account to my son's account right before my eyes." Leslie: "Really? Right before your eyes." Woman: "Yeah."
Woman's password is clearly visible on Post-it note on monitor. It's "password".
Leslie: "So you have virus software?" Woman: "Yeah, it came with the computer. But after 30 days it started asking me to renew the subscription for $30, sooo..." Leslie: "I see. Did you consider a Mac?" Woman: "I'm not cool enough for a Mac. If that hot, skinny redhead isn't cool enough for a Mac, what chance do I have?"
Virus Expert's office:
Leslie: "What does this cornflucker thing do anyway?" Virus Expert: "Well, nothing so far, but that could change. One day it's going to take all your money and destroy the world. It's going to be bad. You won't believe what the cats and dogs will be doing."
Mainstream media isn't exaggerating it, they've barely mentioned it. It's the on-line media that can't quit talking about it. How many Slashdot articles?
If people are returning 7 out of 10 purchases, you still break even. If your software is getting 7 of 10 returns, it's either horribly broken or doesn't do what you say it does, so you shouldn't be getting paid, anyway.
While the experiment failed to show ocean fertilization as a viable carbon storage strategy, it has pushed the old "My dog ate my homework" excuse to an unprecedented level.
You worked really hard to get that in there. You should have worked really much harder.
If management says "screw it", I think from a legal standpoint all you can do to CYA is call the cops. If the BSA does eventually show up, you're going to be on their hit list unless you're the guy who reported them.
But if management says "screw it", I'd say your more immediate problem is that you now have a job where management doesn't understand or care about IT and is perfectly happy with breaking the law. I'd start getting resumes out on the street, because you are not in a happy work environment.
There are so many problems with this I can't count them. But I'll try:
1. Phones lock if not used for a few minutes. Want to type a password to change a channel? Thought not. 2. So set it to never lock. Battery life: 2 hours. 3. The wife calls from home: "Honey, I want to watch Days of Our Lives, but you've got the iPhone. Can you change it to channel 8, please?" 4. You're on the phone and Days of Our Lives comes on. You have to hang up to change the channel. Nice. 5. Your mobile provider's upcharge? $5 month for the first 100 remote control operations, with each operation after that $0.20. 6. Verizon won't let you use the built-in remote function on your new phone, so you have to switch to Sprint, but they have a partnership deal with NBC, so you can't change channels to watch Letterman. You would have gotten AT&T, but their network doesn't reach from your couch to your TV. 7. You don't have an Apple phone, so you have to make 80 button pushes to change from "set channel mode" to "set volume mode". 8. Your $80 universal remote costs less, works 10 times better, and you don't have to recharge it everyday.
It is abuse to take advantage of some free service, thereby circumventing the telecom's charges.
So by using a free web browser instead of paying for a paid web browser, am I abusing the free web browser, the paid web browser, or both, or the internet at large?
I'd say that since it was the central theme of the comment, it does matter how it was abuse.
Not a winner, the board goes back.
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Because Paul Graham assumed a result and did research that backs up his assumption. TV is still winning by a factor of thousands. Even when I watch TV on anything other than a TV, it's been pulled off my Tivo. Even for the most tech savvy people, cable/sat/OTA is still the most convenient TV delivery method.
And your comment is completely wrong.
The traveler pays all expenses on his credit card. The government uses the system to deposit the payback into the travelers account.
Welcome to the real world. Your future life will consist of you being overlooked for a position based on something that has nothing to do with you or your job performance.
I graduated in 1990 with a degree in computer engineering. Back then, most schools did not offer a BCE degree, they had EE specializing in computer science or a plain BCS. I got many rejection letters just because I did not have the correct degree for jobs that would have accepted either a BCE or a BCS, and human resources had no idea that a BCE is a combination of the two.
If the blog owner will not respond, there's not much you can do except warn future employers that any web search will turn up a pervert with your name, but it's not you.
The inputs of your sound card are severely degraded in software if the card is also playing an audio program
This will kill hobbyists, like amateur speaker designers, who rely on simultaneous high-quality input and output, to collect data in response to an output from the audio jacks. I guess the days of using a sound card as a cheap analog measuring device are gone.
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I dunno, the Saturn V required guidance to remain stable. I hope he's done his math, or he could end up X-winging it.
Actually, they did what all good Americans do. They sued, and won.
I think a lot of Americans just got grateful for our low state taxes. We pay 4% state and another 4% city/county.
When a rickrolling reference shows up in something as lame as the Macy's parade, it's time to stop making rickrolling references.
I'm not saying no cookies, but they were implemented in a way that could easily be abused. For example, there should have been a user option to auto delete all cookies when the browser closes, or after a week, or a year. We have somewhat recovered some control, but when cookies were first loosed on the world, the site developer had all the control over the cookies, not the user. Same deal with pop-up window. What Netscape thought was a cool and useful new feature was implemented in a way that was hard for the user to override, and we all wound up with a screenful of women in bikinis that we could spy on with our X-cam. Netscape was just throwing stuff out there without thinking about how it could be abused and how the implementation could prevent that abuse. And now they want all your data.
If the guy who invented privacy-invasive web cookies thinks I'll trust him with my data, he'd better think again.
I'm seeing it load a bunch of lame April Fool's messages onto Slashdot.
If Mozilla continues to transfer seach functions from the search bar to the address bar, they will turn the search bar in to a uses appendage that just takes up space.
Hey Mozilla, why don't you put search functions into the search part of the interface!
Now that's funny.
Yeah, that was a sham job.
Script: Leslie's Virus Story
Software Guy's office:
Leslie: "There's this thing called a worm out there that's going to steal all your money and destroy the world, you know, it'll be bad. Cats and dogs lying down together and all that."
Software guy: "Buy our software or your bank account will be emptied. Please watch this sham demo."
Leslie: "Wow, I got a Facebook from Andy, let me just go ahead and delete that..."
Software Guy: "No no no no no!! You have to pay attention to Andy or your money won't be stolen."
Leslie: "I see. So that's why nobody's had their money stolen yet. You're not just on the show to sell your software, are you?"
Software Guy: "Nah, you can trust me. I'm a software guy, not a banker. But if you don't buy it, some Russian kids will get all your money."
Leslie: "Is there any other way to protect your computer, like installing the latest Windows patch?"
Software Guy: "You're really not good at playing along, are you."
Cut to interview with woman who's money was stolen because she didn't have Software Guy's latest product:
Woman: "I saw it transfer money from my account to my son's account right before my eyes."
Leslie: "Really? Right before your eyes."
Woman: "Yeah."
Woman's password is clearly visible on Post-it note on monitor. It's "password".
Leslie: "So you have virus software?"
Woman: "Yeah, it came with the computer. But after 30 days it started asking me to renew the subscription for $30, sooo..."
Leslie: "I see. Did you consider a Mac?"
Woman: "I'm not cool enough for a Mac. If that hot, skinny redhead isn't cool enough for a Mac, what chance do I have?"
Virus Expert's office:
Leslie: "What does this cornflucker thing do anyway?"
Virus Expert: "Well, nothing so far, but that could change. One day it's going to take all your money and destroy the world. It's going to be bad. You won't believe what the cats and dogs will be doing."
Mainstream media isn't exaggerating it, they've barely mentioned it. It's the on-line media that can't quit talking about it. How many Slashdot articles?
If people are returning 7 out of 10 purchases, you still break even. If your software is getting 7 of 10 returns, it's either horribly broken or doesn't do what you say it does, so you shouldn't be getting paid, anyway.
You worked really hard to get that in there. You should have worked really much harder.
If management says "screw it", I think from a legal standpoint all you can do to CYA is call the cops. If the BSA does eventually show up, you're going to be on their hit list unless you're the guy who reported them.
But if management says "screw it", I'd say your more immediate problem is that you now have a job where management doesn't understand or care about IT and is perfectly happy with breaking the law. I'd start getting resumes out on the street, because you are not in a happy work environment.
There are so many problems with this I can't count them. But I'll try:
1. Phones lock if not used for a few minutes. Want to type a password to change a channel? Thought not.
2. So set it to never lock. Battery life: 2 hours.
3. The wife calls from home: "Honey, I want to watch Days of Our Lives, but you've got the iPhone. Can you change it to channel 8, please?"
4. You're on the phone and Days of Our Lives comes on. You have to hang up to change the channel. Nice.
5. Your mobile provider's upcharge? $5 month for the first 100 remote control operations, with each operation after that $0.20.
6. Verizon won't let you use the built-in remote function on your new phone, so you have to switch to Sprint, but they have a partnership deal with NBC, so you can't change channels to watch Letterman. You would have gotten AT&T, but their network doesn't reach from your couch to your TV.
7. You don't have an Apple phone, so you have to make 80 button pushes to change from "set channel mode" to "set volume mode".
8. Your $80 universal remote costs less, works 10 times better, and you don't have to recharge it everyday.
You're going on the assumption that everybody always follows the rules. If they did, we wouldn't need judges or juries (at least for criminal cases).
22 year-old that think they know everything and that the world should lie down at their feet? How long has this been going on?
At least since I turned 23.
This has nothing to do with TV, it's the natural reaction of a new college graduate when he/she collides with the real world.
So by using a free web browser instead of paying for a paid web browser, am I abusing the free web browser, the paid web browser, or both, or the internet at large?
So you're the one hogging "Delta Farce"!!
If they tell us we're paying for unlimited, and we don't get unlimited, we get PO'd. It's no different from paying for 3 and only getting 2.
I'd say that since it was the central theme of the comment, it does matter how it was abuse.
Because Paul Graham assumed a result and did research that backs up his assumption. TV is still winning by a factor of thousands. Even when I watch TV on anything other than a TV, it's been pulled off my Tivo. Even for the most tech savvy people, cable/sat/OTA is still the most convenient TV delivery method.
And your comment is completely wrong. The traveler pays all expenses on his credit card. The government uses the system to deposit the payback into the travelers account.
Welcome to the real world. Your future life will consist of you being overlooked for a position based on something that has nothing to do with you or your job performance.
I graduated in 1990 with a degree in computer engineering. Back then, most schools did not offer a BCE degree, they had EE specializing in computer science or a plain BCS. I got many rejection letters just because I did not have the correct degree for jobs that would have accepted either a BCE or a BCS, and human resources had no idea that a BCE is a combination of the two.
If the blog owner will not respond, there's not much you can do except warn future employers that any web search will turn up a pervert with your name, but it's not you.
This will kill hobbyists, like amateur speaker designers, who rely on simultaneous high-quality input and output, to collect data in response to an output from the audio jacks. I guess the days of using a sound card as a cheap analog measuring device are gone.