Clinton was almost impeached because he lied about having sex with someone, which is none of anybody's buisness in the first place.
But W... oh, he gets away with breaking every consitituional law there is, and he admits some of it! And nobody does anything! WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF WORLD ARE WE LIVING IN!?!?!
Still doesn't make up for the number of consumers he's manipulated; how many corperations he's destroyed; how many laws he's twisted; how many ideas he's stolen; how many patents he's broken; and how many governments he's lied to.
Although it is nice to see someone so young get the attention they deserve, this isn't unique. I can personally vouche there are thousands of people between the ages of 15-18 that have the potential to create things like this. In terms of the technology behind this type of website, I've been working with it for almost 2 years. The problem with people in this age group getting noticed, or getting the attention they deserve, is quite simply a financial issue.
Not to gloat, but I've created some pretty usefull projects and technologies in my time comperable to this one, just as simple side projects. However, most of them don't make it past a few months of development for one simple reason: I can't financially support it. As I just noticed when I tried to load the Zoomr website, the ammount of money needed to buy a server that can support such a community is overwhelming, especially for someone in the age group of 15-18 who's primary concern to buying lunch every day.
I would love to see more projects of this calibur come from this same younger generation, and I would love to be part of such projects. But getting ones foot off the ground is the first, and hardest step towards this success.
Kristopher Tate, the 17-year-old who make Zoomr, will undoubtedly become noticed by companies looking for such ambitious programmers. But he got lucky; the rest of us aren't so fortunate.
I'm guessing this will be one, of posssibly many, new things Google will be releasing April 1st. Knowing Google's history for releasing things on this date, it seems logical.
How's wifi different than any other radio signal? Sure, it's a different frequency and bandwidth, but radio waves are passing through us all the time. Are they gonna ban radio stations now cause it might be cancerous?
To allow more conference calls to users who are using a specific CPU is a cheap shot at the market. It's not fair to chip makers, and definetly not fair to the consumers.
The article seems to be blaming Google for doing this. What the government takes from Google is not Google's fault, people should be gleaming their eye at the government for trying to delve into people's personal lives. Google is trying to create a service, and a very good service at that. Google is a privacy advocate, they are not destroying your privacy. All data they collect is very secure, and Google has shown they are willing to fight in court for users' privacy.
People should be looking at the government. In my opinion, if US Government uses Google to watch what people do on the internet, they aren't much better than China.
This is not Google's fault. Stop blaming them.
As for this statement: "...while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who've obtained a user's Google password." Google is pretty good about passwords. If someone gets your password, it's your fault. Second, I'm not convinced you can search your records remotely. The Google Desktop search runs directly from your computer, you can't access or search your files remotely using this feature. Proof: If you have it installed, what IP does it go to when you search your files? 127.0.0.1:4664 Oh snap, what a concept!
It's all bullshit. People need to start giving people the facts and stop praying on their ignorance.
Google is no more violating copyright than Slashdot, Digg, or Newsvine. Google gives proper links and credit for all information to the respected copyright owners. There is nothing to sue over here.
By defintion Communism is as Marx described it (technically true communism is anarchy). Political Leaders who use it simply use it as political leaverage. Nothing more.
True, and normally I would agree with you. But in the case of China... they have to change these laws on their own. They've been getting protests and outside influence to remove these Facist laws, and have still held them up for decades.
What people need to realize is that Google doesn't really have a choice in the matter. I don't believe this violates the "Don't be evil" motto, as Google is simply trying to follow Chinese law. I don't think Google should be scrutinized for this, considering every other company (Microsoft, Yahoo, etc) has been forced to do the same thing. What people should be scrutinizing is Chinese law, not companies that follow said laws. Of course, the entire political situation in China is horrible and always has been.
People have been saying the same thing for IE vs. Firefox for a couple years now.
Guess what? I still don't see very many sites getting around Firefox's pop-up blocker, significantly exploiting it's weaknesses, or finding new security holes by the dozen. And yet... I continue to see it with IE. And don't be saying; "Firefox isn't popular, it'll happen eventually". My ass. It's been advertised into the ground.
Thus, the same concept with *nix vs. Windows. Windows is inherintly insecure, and by the nature of how it works and how it was designed, it makes it easier for advertisers to create software that'll mask itself from everything else. You simply CANT do this on Linux/Unix to the same degree, just as you simply CANT exploit Firefox the same way you can IE. Trust me, I've tried.
The article never said they used Windows for servers, though. They just didn't use Linux. Wouldn't that suggest a possiblity they use Unix? Maybe FreeBSD or OpenBSD. I wish the article would specify.
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Not really. Perhaps you were thinking of the term "Microsoft Works".
Not at all. I've known something of this magnitude has been happening. Was just a matter of time before it came through to the general public.
Really?
Clinton was almost impeached because he lied about having sex with someone, which is none of anybody's buisness in the first place.
But W... oh, he gets away with breaking every consitituional law there is, and he admits some of it! And nobody does anything! WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF WORLD ARE WE LIVING IN!?!?!
Disgusting. Completely disgusting.
Still doesn't make up for the number of consumers he's manipulated; how many corperations he's destroyed; how many laws he's twisted; how many ideas he's stolen; how many patents he's broken; and how many governments he's lied to.
I love the smell of Mu Shu Pork in the morning.
Takes time, energy, and a great memory.
None of which I seem to have...
Although it is nice to see someone so young get the attention they deserve, this isn't unique. I can personally vouche there are thousands of people between the ages of 15-18 that have the potential to create things like this. In terms of the technology behind this type of website, I've been working with it for almost 2 years. The problem with people in this age group getting noticed, or getting the attention they deserve, is quite simply a financial issue.
Not to gloat, but I've created some pretty usefull projects and technologies in my time comperable to this one, just as simple side projects. However, most of them don't make it past a few months of development for one simple reason: I can't financially support it. As I just noticed when I tried to load the Zoomr website, the ammount of money needed to buy a server that can support such a community is overwhelming, especially for someone in the age group of 15-18 who's primary concern to buying lunch every day.
I would love to see more projects of this calibur come from this same younger generation, and I would love to be part of such projects. But getting ones foot off the ground is the first, and hardest step towards this success.
Kristopher Tate, the 17-year-old who make Zoomr, will undoubtedly become noticed by companies looking for such ambitious programmers. But he got lucky; the rest of us aren't so fortunate.
I'm guessing this will be one, of posssibly many, new things Google will be releasing April 1st. Knowing Google's history for releasing things on this date, it seems logical.
How's wifi different than any other radio signal? Sure, it's a different frequency and bandwidth, but radio waves are passing through us all the time. Are they gonna ban radio stations now cause it might be cancerous?
Seems a little far-fetched.
Best. Response. Ever.
Amen.
To allow more conference calls to users who are using a specific CPU is a cheap shot at the market. It's not fair to chip makers, and definetly not fair to the consumers.
Gatta start watchin Intel's sucker punches.
The article seems to be blaming Google for doing this. What the government takes from Google is not Google's fault, people should be gleaming their eye at the government for trying to delve into people's personal lives. Google is trying to create a service, and a very good service at that. Google is a privacy advocate, they are not destroying your privacy. All data they collect is very secure, and Google has shown they are willing to fight in court for users' privacy.
People should be looking at the government. In my opinion, if US Government uses Google to watch what people do on the internet, they aren't much better than China.
This is not Google's fault. Stop blaming them.
As for this statement:
"...while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who've obtained a user's Google password."
Google is pretty good about passwords. If someone gets your password, it's your fault. Second, I'm not convinced you can search your records remotely. The Google Desktop search runs directly from your computer, you can't access or search your files remotely using this feature. Proof: If you have it installed, what IP does it go to when you search your files? 127.0.0.1:4664 Oh snap, what a concept!
It's all bullshit. People need to start giving people the facts and stop praying on their ignorance.
The end.
I get 6mbps for under $60 a month. (sonic.net)
I thought most of this was pretty obvious. Doesn't take a scientific study to figure these things out.
Google is no more violating copyright than Slashdot, Digg, or Newsvine. Google gives proper links and credit for all information to the respected copyright owners. There is nothing to sue over here.
Because legally a corperation is a person, as defined by the surpreme court. So... tecnically they do make the descisions. Which is bullshit.
By defintion Communism is as Marx described it (technically true communism is anarchy). Political Leaders who use it simply use it as political leaverage. Nothing more.
True, and normally I would agree with you. But in the case of China... they have to change these laws on their own. They've been getting protests and outside influence to remove these Facist laws, and have still held them up for decades.
Laughable.
For starters, China isn't a communist state. It hasn't been in over 30 years. It's a Capitalist Dictatorship (aka Facism).
And... how exactly is Google dead? I fail to see any resonable cause for such a statement.
I would defend with the same argument if Microsoft had to fight the Chinese government. In fact, they have before, and I said the exact same thing.
What people need to realize is that Google doesn't really have a choice in the matter. I don't believe this violates the "Don't be evil" motto, as Google is simply trying to follow Chinese law. I don't think Google should be scrutinized for this, considering every other company (Microsoft, Yahoo, etc) has been forced to do the same thing. What people should be scrutinizing is Chinese law, not companies that follow said laws. Of course, the entire political situation in China is horrible and always has been.
1 billion entries = ~22 Terabytes
1 billion x 1,000 Bytes = ~0.9 Terabytes
Which means, on average, your genetic code can be stored in 22KB.
Just an interesting thought.
I disagree.
People have been saying the same thing for IE vs. Firefox for a couple years now.
Guess what? I still don't see very many sites getting around Firefox's pop-up blocker, significantly exploiting it's weaknesses, or finding new security holes by the dozen. And yet... I continue to see it with IE. And don't be saying; "Firefox isn't popular, it'll happen eventually". My ass. It's been advertised into the ground.
Thus, the same concept with *nix vs. Windows. Windows is inherintly insecure, and by the nature of how it works and how it was designed, it makes it easier for advertisers to create software that'll mask itself from everything else. You simply CANT do this on Linux/Unix to the same degree, just as you simply CANT exploit Firefox the same way you can IE. Trust me, I've tried.
The article never said they used Windows for servers, though. They just didn't use Linux. Wouldn't that suggest a possiblity they use Unix? Maybe FreeBSD or OpenBSD. I wish the article would specify.