I usually say I learned very little at Uni too. I got my basic CompSci degree first, then dropped out in my honours year to start working because I was getting completely fed up of Uni. Here in the UK we don't get charged for tuition though, so I just had to pay a £2000 "graduation fee" or something like that (which they only introduced the year I left). I did end up with a ~£14K student loan to pay off though (my dad died 6 weeks before I started Uni and so my financial situation ended up a bit worse than anticipated).
I think you're taking things too far, as people usually do on here. This guy did not think Tweeting a name that had had an injunction against it was "perfectly innocent". Now, I don't really agree that there should even be such things as super injunctions to stop reporting on a celebrity being a douche, but the guy knew what he was doing was stupid. He tweeted it on a well known account. If he'd tweeted it on an anonymous account, things might have been okay. If Twitter had then helped to track him down via his IP address or something, then is the time to worry about privacy.
I have no problem with you not giving Facebook "real data", though they can still target ads using the content of your comments, if you make any.
somewhere, sometime anything they say or are associated with can be used against them
Welcome to the real world. Your words and actions have consequences, and you'd better be prepared to face those consequences before doing something potentially dangerous. With the network effects involved, it's pretty silly to put anything private up there, unless you've really got your privacy settings locked down (I regularly have stuff from Friends of Friends on my home page), and you trust that there are no bugs in the system (HA!). Just because you're online, doesn't mean you should expect no consequences for your actions. If people acted in real life as they usually do online, most people would be walking around with black eyes and missing teeth.
I saw that article mentioning "secret interpretations" thing wrt the PATRIOT act this week. I considered it to be pretty stupid. Note that it doesn't even mention hidden parts of the act, it just mentions "interpretations". It's obvious that the PATRIOT act gives far too much power - it's not a secret interpretation of the PATRIOT act that is the problem, it's people being idiots and not reading it at face value that is the problem. It should never have been allowed to go through in the first place, as it's completely against the spirit of all your American bills and amendments and whatnot.
Indeed, I don't really have anything to hide. I don't particularly want people to watch me while I jerk off, but I don't get the rabid foaming at the mouth privacy nuts who aren't actually doing anything worth paying attention to anyway.
I do get why we should protect rights to anonymous and free speech, but Facebook is not intended for anything of the sort. It's meant for communicating with friends and getting to know new people.
Twitter is more relevant for anonymous, free speech use since it's intended that everyone be able to see your updates and propagate them virally - but if that's your intended use for it, you obviously shouldn't register with your real name and email address.
I have met real friends where we weren't even thinking about Facebook when we were spending time together, but next time I was at a computer, they'd added me. I don't get what's so special about your name that you need to hide it. You don't even have to enter any other personal info, but name seems like a basic thing. The end result is the exactly the same if you have an account anyway - you're still being tracked and served targeted ads, and whatever else you're worried about. All you're doing is making is very slightly harder to add you. Do you have a hard time saying no to friend requests or something? Not sure how to change your privacy settings?
My Twitter and Facebook nicks (ie twitter.com/nick and facebook.com/nick) are not my name, but I did put in my name where it asked for my name, so you can find me just by typing in my name.
How is it stupid? Is creating a Facebook account with your real name stupid too? What if your friends want to actually find you by name? I have a Twitter account which I never use, and a Facebook account which I use all the time, both under my *gasp* real name! I'm not a journalist though, and if I were then I wouldn't use my public account to break court injunctions. That's just stupid.
Please tell me the "reality check" of which you speak is that "the customers" will stand for it because most customers didn't buy a PS3 for OtherOS
Of course. Even if the whole of the Slashdot user base stopped buying Sony products, they'd hardly even blink, let alone "go out of business". There are too many people who buy Sony hardware, and don't give a crap about the software.
That depends - did they just remove the functionality that only a tiny portion of their user base even cares about, and probably didn't even use for more than a week? Geeks are not the primary market for PS3s. They're not even the primary market for smart phones. In minority Linux distros your opinion may have a chance of being noticed, but elsewhere.. not so much.
Not intending this to be a flame/troll/whatever - just a reality check.
Zero evidence?. It's not a 100% guaranteed link I suppose, but the timing and Sony's actions since make it 99.9999999999999% likely that was the reason.
There "security issue" to get into the system wasn't known at that point, nor is there any way to realistically stop someone cracking DRM on any system in the long run. They just wanted to make it harder for him to do so. The types of managerial doofuses that pulled it probably even believed that they would stop him by doing so. I'm not saying that Sony is wonderful, I was just correcting the facts.
I promise I will not vote for Sarkozy even if that means voting for the worst asshole.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.[/sarcasm]
Yet again a demonstration of how it's dumb voting on people rather than being allowed to vote more directly on issues/policies. This Sarkozy guy may be great apart from the copyright issue. I don't know, nor do I really care.. I don't see the point getting involved in a system where some things are going to be shit even if I was the only voter.
I have to say, Sun had the best logo in IT that I've ever seen.
*googles* looks like a bunch of worms to me. Sure, it spells Sun from a few angles, but yuck.. to be typically contrary, I'd say it's worse than the other big IT players.. various Linux distros, Apple, even MS, Dell etc have nicer logos..
Shouldn't that just be a compiler option? Of course the only cross platform developing I've done has been for microcontrollers, but still.. if you developed on OpenSolaris then I'm guessing there wouldn't be that much, if anything that needed to change to build for a SPARC server?
Well, at least he'll have a nice gaming rig, which kind of paid for itself, depending on what happens with BitCoin. I was wondering about buying some coins directly, but I'm not really one for gambling on stocks and such, can't bring myself to invest in anything yet. BitCoin would have been a nice thing to get into a few years ago, but right now I'm happy earning money rather than speculating.
We don't get consistently good coffee, there's the typical Starbucks/Costas on every street corner which serve okay coffee. At work there used to be a guy who was really into his coffee, so I got consistently good stuff back then.
Well actually, I agree with him:p It's the reason I don't go to our local specialty coffee shop and get coffee myself - because I'd drink it all the time. I only drink coffee when someone else at work makes it, and even then I tend to drink it very slowly throughout the day rather than chucking it back. I have a very addictive/obsessive personality, which can be destructive if I'm not careful. These days I am trying to channel it into things that I see as more positive addictions/obsessions, such as healthy eating and exercise.
I love the taste of coffee, but the caffeine.. not so much.
Um. You can get espresso in the UK. I've always assumed that "real" coffee is not about the strength, it's about the quality of the beans. You can make super strong coffee with cheap beans and it still won't taste as good as a better variety at a reasonable strength.
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I usually say I learned very little at Uni too. I got my basic CompSci degree first, then dropped out in my honours year to start working because I was getting completely fed up of Uni. Here in the UK we don't get charged for tuition though, so I just had to pay a £2000 "graduation fee" or something like that (which they only introduced the year I left). I did end up with a ~£14K student loan to pay off though (my dad died 6 weeks before I started Uni and so my financial situation ended up a bit worse than anticipated).
I think you're taking things too far, as people usually do on here. This guy did not think Tweeting a name that had had an injunction against it was "perfectly innocent". Now, I don't really agree that there should even be such things as super injunctions to stop reporting on a celebrity being a douche, but the guy knew what he was doing was stupid. He tweeted it on a well known account. If he'd tweeted it on an anonymous account, things might have been okay. If Twitter had then helped to track him down via his IP address or something, then is the time to worry about privacy.
I have no problem with you not giving Facebook "real data", though they can still target ads using the content of your comments, if you make any.
somewhere, sometime anything they say or are associated with can be used against them
Welcome to the real world. Your words and actions have consequences, and you'd better be prepared to face those consequences before doing something potentially dangerous. With the network effects involved, it's pretty silly to put anything private up there, unless you've really got your privacy settings locked down (I regularly have stuff from Friends of Friends on my home page), and you trust that there are no bugs in the system (HA!). Just because you're online, doesn't mean you should expect no consequences for your actions. If people acted in real life as they usually do online, most people would be walking around with black eyes and missing teeth.
I saw that article mentioning "secret interpretations" thing wrt the PATRIOT act this week. I considered it to be pretty stupid. Note that it doesn't even mention hidden parts of the act, it just mentions "interpretations". It's obvious that the PATRIOT act gives far too much power - it's not a secret interpretation of the PATRIOT act that is the problem, it's people being idiots and not reading it at face value that is the problem. It should never have been allowed to go through in the first place, as it's completely against the spirit of all your American bills and amendments and whatnot.
Indeed, I don't really have anything to hide. I don't particularly want people to watch me while I jerk off, but I don't get the rabid foaming at the mouth privacy nuts who aren't actually doing anything worth paying attention to anyway.
I do get why we should protect rights to anonymous and free speech, but Facebook is not intended for anything of the sort. It's meant for communicating with friends and getting to know new people.
Twitter is more relevant for anonymous, free speech use since it's intended that everyone be able to see your updates and propagate them virally - but if that's your intended use for it, you obviously shouldn't register with your real name and email address.
I have met real friends where we weren't even thinking about Facebook when we were spending time together, but next time I was at a computer, they'd added me. I don't get what's so special about your name that you need to hide it. You don't even have to enter any other personal info, but name seems like a basic thing. The end result is the exactly the same if you have an account anyway - you're still being tracked and served targeted ads, and whatever else you're worried about. All you're doing is making is very slightly harder to add you. Do you have a hard time saying no to friend requests or something? Not sure how to change your privacy settings?
Wow, great reasoning there. I'll try it:
You're stupid.
That could have been a reply or a comment on several things in my comment.
If you're saying that using your real name on Facebook is stupid, I'd like you to elaborate. I can't believe the levels of paranoia on here sometimes.
My Twitter and Facebook nicks (ie twitter.com/nick and facebook.com/nick) are not my name, but I did put in my name where it asked for my name, so you can find me just by typing in my name.
a universal gesture for "thank you" is surely needed.
How about a thumbs up?
Too much ripping off Mario..
How is it stupid? Is creating a Facebook account with your real name stupid too? What if your friends want to actually find you by name? I have a Twitter account which I never use, and a Facebook account which I use all the time, both under my *gasp* real name! I'm not a journalist though, and if I were then I wouldn't use my public account to break court injunctions. That's just stupid.
Please tell me the "reality check" of which you speak is that "the customers" will stand for it because most customers didn't buy a PS3 for OtherOS
Of course. Even if the whole of the Slashdot user base stopped buying Sony products, they'd hardly even blink, let alone "go out of business". There are too many people who buy Sony hardware, and don't give a crap about the software.
That depends - did they just remove the functionality that only a tiny portion of their user base even cares about, and probably didn't even use for more than a week? Geeks are not the primary market for PS3s. They're not even the primary market for smart phones. In minority Linux distros your opinion may have a chance of being noticed, but elsewhere.. not so much.
Not intending this to be a flame/troll/whatever - just a reality check.
Zero evidence?. It's not a 100% guaranteed link I suppose, but the timing and Sony's actions since make it 99.9999999999999% likely that was the reason.
There "security issue" to get into the system wasn't known at that point, nor is there any way to realistically stop someone cracking DRM on any system in the long run. They just wanted to make it harder for him to do so. The types of managerial doofuses that pulled it probably even believed that they would stop him by doing so. I'm not saying that Sony is wonderful, I was just correcting the facts.
More likely a lot of separate individuals/groups who want to join in on the Sony bashing trend.
now they've removed a little-used and fairly innocuous Linux feature from the PS3, and then busted a guy who jailbroke the machine in response
They actually removed that feature as a response to GeoHot announcing he was going to crack the PS3. But the end result is the same.
I promise I will not vote for Sarkozy even if that means voting for the worst asshole.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.[/sarcasm]
Yet again a demonstration of how it's dumb voting on people rather than being allowed to vote more directly on issues/policies. This Sarkozy guy may be great apart from the copyright issue. I don't know, nor do I really care.. I don't see the point getting involved in a system where some things are going to be shit even if I was the only voter.
I have to say, Sun had the best logo in IT that I've ever seen.
*googles* looks like a bunch of worms to me. Sure, it spells Sun from a few angles, but yuck.. to be typically contrary, I'd say it's worse than the other big IT players.. various Linux distros, Apple, even MS, Dell etc have nicer logos..
Shouldn't that just be a compiler option? Of course the only cross platform developing I've done has been for microcontrollers, but still.. if you developed on OpenSolaris then I'm guessing there wouldn't be that much, if anything that needed to change to build for a SPARC server?
You no English? Me laugh.
Well, at least he'll have a nice gaming rig, which kind of paid for itself, depending on what happens with BitCoin. I was wondering about buying some coins directly, but I'm not really one for gambling on stocks and such, can't bring myself to invest in anything yet. BitCoin would have been a nice thing to get into a few years ago, but right now I'm happy earning money rather than speculating.
We don't get consistently good coffee, there's the typical Starbucks/Costas on every street corner which serve okay coffee. At work there used to be a guy who was really into his coffee, so I got consistently good stuff back then.
Well actually, I agree with him :p It's the reason I don't go to our local specialty coffee shop and get coffee myself - because I'd drink it all the time. I only drink coffee when someone else at work makes it, and even then I tend to drink it very slowly throughout the day rather than chucking it back. I have a very addictive/obsessive personality, which can be destructive if I'm not careful. These days I am trying to channel it into things that I see as more positive addictions/obsessions, such as healthy eating and exercise.
I love the taste of coffee, but the caffeine.. not so much.
Um. You can get espresso in the UK. I've always assumed that "real" coffee is not about the strength, it's about the quality of the beans. You can make super strong coffee with cheap beans and it still won't taste as good as a better variety at a reasonable strength.
Don't you mean.. cunning linguists? I'd lick to see them try.
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