BZZZT! these car/public works analogies suck.
Um, okay. In that case, it's like I paid for my laundry to be done, and after a few years of taking my money, the service decides they will be doing dry-cleaning only. Since I helped pay for the new dry cleaning equipment, that gives me the right to tell them they can't do that?
And I hate to break it to you, but Verizon isn't a public works. They provide useful/vital services, but they're still a for-profit corporation.
Because I paid for it and that's not what I want them to do with it.
By that logic, my mechanic must always service Fords, because I once contributed his new toolset by paying for him to work on my Ford.
: If you're a hard-core Java (or to a lesser extent, C#) developer who thinks Ruby is something that goes on a ring, Pythons will bite you, and Smalltalk is something you have to do at parties, you are in for a rude awakening
If I thought all those things, I'm probably at the wrong web site.
When asked for comment, representatives stated that in order to do no evil, a corporate takeover of Heaven was required. An anonymous source at Google went on to say: "The rules on what is evil and what's not are so 1st century. We thought it was time to bring them up to date."
Below:
Their side of the story
So what if it reads more like a press release... but of particular interest is this:
There is no legal concern because before a user loads a game, he or she has agreed to accept the conditions of the end-user licensing agreement, typically known as a EULA. These are also known as click and go, or click and accept agreements. When you accept, you are saying I will load this game or application at my own risk, and have read and understood the terms. Or there will be a disclaimer that protects the publisher from damages of any kind due to their products' use. Our product is licensed to our customers, and becomes part of their product, so the user by accepting the terms, is giving approval.
It seems to me that one could read that to say that they are knowingly installing software that can damage a computer, and that the manufacturer is not liable. But anyway, I'm curious about the wording on that license -- since this is third party software, I wonder if it's still covered.
More to the point, what does Google plan to do that Ubuntu isn't already doing?
Market share and penetration. Joe User still knows nothing about Linux; most home users outside the IS community are only peripherally aware that it exists. Now picture the google.com home page -- which has a whole bunch of users, needless to say -- saying something like "Click here for a more secure computer."
Curious -- couldn't you tell before smoking that it didn't/smell/ right? A lit crack pipe has a distinctive odor. I found myself in an similar situation, and declined the offer because the smell made it clear that we weren't talking about marijuana.
Now I've taken 110 through the hand and learned my lesson -- but my cousin was taught by watching street current vaporize a dropped screwdriver. Same effect, without the pain.
Or was that a dogsled that Washington crossed the Delaware in?
I hope this was a joke, for this surely refers to the Delaware River that was frozen because it was winter.
He also agreed to pay $15,000 (£8,800) in restitution to the military facilities affected and forfeit the proceeds of his illicit activities, including more than $60,000 (£35,000) in cash and a 1993 BMW.
If he hadn't have gotten that BMW, they might have never suspected...
But the web server is unnecessary for that -- GPS info would (I suspect) be tracked at a central location, not sent down to the phone then back out to whoever is requesting the page.
Strictly speaking, using the Programmer's button wasn't required to update the firmware. You can instead use option-apple-O-F to boot to the OpenFirmware prompt...So, the point is, on a G4 tower at least, although the Programmer's button is involved in the process, it isn't actually required and doesn't provide any security, as far as I can tell.
Is having to depress option-apple-O-F somehow less secure than holding down the Programmer's button?
(Only half facetious -- it SOUNDS really obvious to me, but I don't yet own a mac)
A man will figure out a way to avoid the work by creating a machine to do it for him, and then quickly move on to more pleasurable activities.
Been doing that for years now, and all I can say is that they either ran out of pleasurable activities, or some fool decided that yet more work is the pleasurable activity of the future.
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BZZZT! these car/public works analogies suck.
Um, okay. In that case, it's like I paid for my laundry to be done, and after a few years of taking my money, the service decides they will be doing dry-cleaning only. Since I helped pay for the new dry cleaning equipment, that gives me the right to tell them they can't do that?
And I hate to break it to you, but Verizon isn't a public works. They provide useful/vital services, but they're still a for-profit corporation.
I'd feel sick too, if I was one of those stupid enough to click on the attachment.
Because I paid for it and that's not what I want them to do with it.
By that logic, my mechanic must always service Fords, because I once contributed his new toolset by paying for him to work on my Ford.
Oh, no sir. You have it wrong. When it's done over the course of millenia, it's all natural, and that makes it okay.
: If you're a hard-core Java (or to a lesser extent, C#) developer who thinks Ruby is something that goes on a ring, Pythons will bite you, and Smalltalk is something you have to do at parties, you are in for a rude awakening
If I thought all those things, I'm probably at the wrong web site.
My point was if an unreasonable search and siezure did occur, it would have been all over mainstream media. Hence "freedom of speech".
It's called "freedom of speech".
"God bought out by Google"
When asked for comment, representatives stated that in order to do no evil, a corporate takeover of Heaven was required. An anonymous source at Google went on to say: "The rules on what is evil and what's not are so 1st century. We thought it was time to bring them up to date."
I should have previewed, damnit. The link I wanted to include points to an interview...
Below: Their side of the story
So what if it reads more like a press release... but of particular interest is this: There is no legal concern because before a user loads a game, he or she has agreed to accept the conditions of the end-user licensing agreement, typically known as a EULA. These are also known as click and go, or click and accept agreements. When you accept, you are saying I will load this game or application at my own risk, and have read and understood the terms. Or there will be a disclaimer that protects the publisher from damages of any kind due to their products' use. Our product is licensed to our customers, and becomes part of their product, so the user by accepting the terms, is giving approval.
It seems to me that one could read that to say that they are knowingly installing software that can damage a computer, and that the manufacturer is not liable. But anyway, I'm curious about the wording on that license -- since this is third party software, I wonder if it's still covered.
More to the point, what does Google plan to do that Ubuntu isn't already doing?
Market share and penetration. Joe User still knows nothing about Linux; most home users outside the IS community are only peripherally aware that it exists. Now picture the google.com home page -- which has a whole bunch of users, needless to say -- saying something like "Click here for a more secure computer."
Curious -- couldn't you tell before smoking that it didn't /smell/ right? A lit crack pipe has a distinctive odor. I found myself in an similar situation, and declined the offer because the smell made it clear that we weren't talking about marijuana.
Now I've taken 110 through the hand and learned my lesson -- but my cousin was taught by watching street current vaporize a dropped screwdriver. Same effect, without the pain.
Or was that a dogsled that Washington crossed the Delaware in?
I hope this was a joke, for this surely refers to the Delaware River that was frozen because it was winter.
Botnet Brain Pleads Guilty
Wow. The AI in botnets must have come a really long way while I wasn't looking.
He also agreed to pay $15,000 (£8,800) in restitution to the military facilities affected and forfeit the proceeds of his illicit activities, including more than $60,000 (£35,000) in cash and a 1993 BMW.
If he hadn't have gotten that BMW, they might have never suspected...
Ah, those were the days. It doesn't flash, or Flash, or move, or make noise, or anything. It just... sits there.
/me wipes away a tear.
Ah; valid (and incredibly obvious) point. Brain musta been turned off earlier; thanks.
But the web server is unnecessary for that -- GPS info would (I suspect) be tracked at a central location, not sent down to the phone then back out to whoever is requesting the page.
Strictly speaking, using the Programmer's button wasn't required to update the firmware. You can instead use option-apple-O-F to boot to the OpenFirmware prompt...So, the point is, on a G4 tower at least, although the Programmer's button is involved in the process, it isn't actually required and doesn't provide any security, as far as I can tell.
Is having to depress option-apple-O-F somehow less secure than holding down the Programmer's button? (Only half facetious -- it SOUNDS really obvious to me, but I don't yet own a mac)
If you had logged in, I would give thought to a reply with substance.
based on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware / software and free open source software building blocks
Consipicuously absent are any wire-based telcos; without them, there's little chance of this going anywhere.
A man will figure out a way to avoid the work by creating a machine to do it for him, and then quickly move on to more pleasurable activities.
Been doing that for years now, and all I can say is that they either ran out of pleasurable activities, or some fool decided that yet more work is the pleasurable activity of the future.
Wouldn't we first want something to actually PASS the Turing test before declaring it obsolete?