Sounds like they're biting the hand that feeds them. There was a rush of articles a while back where web analysts were blaming google for being a sort of web vampire/leech, sucking the blood out of websites without providing anything back. Those claims have quited because businesses realized that when they changed their model to accommodate the search centric interweb, times were good.
You leave google, google leaves you. Buh-bye, thank-you for flying the interweb air, we hope you enjoyed your time on interweb and also hope to see you again soon.
if a judge orders you to present a gun that you own in relation to a case of someone shot on your property, they'll do a series of fingerprint and ballistics tests to figure out if that gun fired a bullet. Either the gun fired a bullet that ended up in somebody, or it didn't.
How is this different than a video of an event that may or may not implicate somebody?
obstruction of justice? Withholding evidence? So, because i have a blog, i can garner support in case i'm jailed for going against the orders of a grand jury? Sounds like someone read "journalist in jail" and read into it "Jailed for saying or posting something anti-government on a blog"
I have an emotional connection with the people in my life, but i prefer killing people online. Single player games don't keep my attention for very long.
HD-DVD proponents throw up arms and say "That just about wraps it up for us". They began packing up the manufacturing plants and began work on other projects.
In other news, Apple declares victory over vista because of the ratio of new apple ads to new microsoft ads.
libel
2 a : a written or oral defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression
You botch someone's face, they post about it, that's not unjust. This seems like a no-brainer. This was only taken to court because someone thought they could play the system.
usually the time to become suspicious is when the company can gain investment cash by stock offerings. The stock holders may have no voice, but the almighty dollar does. By boosting stock prices, they can sell 1000 shares for more money, meaning more resources, and more people. Its one of the reasons companies go public. Money...
Simply because a tiger hasn't eaten your face yet doesn't mean it won't in the future. We should be as suspicious of google as we are of any other big software company. Just because they have a catchy bumper sticker slogan doesn't inoculate them to the temptations of corporate culture.
So, I bet that my cell phone has better security than a $5000 vista laptop, but you can do stuff on that laptop that you can't on my phone. (not sure what, but i'm sure there's something porn related)
not to poke holes in your argument, but in an hour and a half flight will get me roughly 440 miles (distance from tallahasse to ft. lauderdale). If i were to drive that distance, it would take me 7 hours (give or take traffic and pee breaks). So, in a 2 hour flight, you may cover 500 miles (or more), but in a 2 hour drive, you may only cover 100-160 miles. So you have to consider deaths per mile as well as deaths per hour. So, even if the deaths per hour is equivalent, if you were to take that 2 hour drive, turn it into a commuter flight, it would be 1/4th the time or so. Same end product, reduced risk.
People care more about problems that they can't control than ones they can prevent.
For example: Airplanes. How many people feel more secure behind the wheel of a car than on a long flight with turbulence?
Put your hands down, now the sheer probability of getting into a car accident in one's lifetime (if one drives) is a miniscule number below one. Death statistics are somewhere around 1 in 237 of a car type accident. The odds of an airplane death are like 1 in 5051 source
However, people are freakishly nervous about planes... So, by induction (the bane of an engineer's existance) we can extrapolate (another fancy bane) that security people will ignore the dangerous mundane and fixate on the extraordinary rarity.
Google is going through all this work to make an online suite comparable to microsoft's ajax. Why can't people be happy with open office? I'm sure there's a way to run it off of a thumb drive on any system that one would reasonably want to work at. (who needs to review documents on a kiosk?)
In fact, with the frailties of public wireless internet, keeping a persistent session would probably be more of a hurdle than downloading and installing open office. Its tough enough to submit a paper when comcast decides i don't need internet for 3 hours (as happened yesterday), at least i could WORK on the paper when stranded from the net.
So the piracy claims about canada are mostly fiction, how is this different than the opinion* most piracy claims made in north america?
*I say opinion because there are no facts about piracy beyond the fact that it does happen, and it may or may not be good for the industry depending on who you ask.
they said the average age was like 18. What do 18 year olds have to talk about with random peers? If you mix an accountant and a construction worker, they may have similarities in that they may have kids, be sick of the boss, have funny co-worker stories.
Most 18 year olds don't have profound achievements that have a commonality. If you have kids, you don't mind hearing about other people's kids. If you're in physics club, you probably don't want to hear about a wrestling match.
Studies also show that teenagers blow at empathetic responses, so it harder to tell if someone is interested by subtle clues. If someone follows along on the conversation, its a go... So music is the most common ground shared by all teens.
Except me, i really didn't ever listen to the radio.
What questions I'd like to see answered? Where do socks go in the laundry? Why do people obsess about the incongruities in gilligan's island? Why do good things happen to people who aren't me? 42. (now find me the question)
I tried that once, but i got too many naked ladies jammed in the filter and the heuristic algorithm gained sentience and is currently working in atlantic city. Kind of like skynet, but with porn.
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While I enjoyed a review of all the old programs and whatnot, this would be like a company buying windows 3.1 from microsoft, updating it to 4, and a reviewer touting the joys of lotus smart suite or eudora.
I am a fan of old hardware and my old macintosh 512 lives on in a basilisk II emulator which I will occasionally use to play some of those old mac games. (galax ftw!)
Anywho, I am all for an OS and hardware being limited to the hobbiest domain, sort of like using ham radio instead of IRC, but I shudder to think what would happen if an OS that lacked rudimentary memory security until recently was unleashed upon the harsh interweb en mass. I'm certain amiga OS would have even less security than OS/X and a lonely hacker could ruin a lot of people's fun.
If microsoft was pulling some of the stuff that google had done in the past, people would be up in arms. Instead, simply because they're not microsoft, they get the public's and the IT's blessing.
Anywho, i wonder if they'll hook this sucker up to a joystick for real time control, anyone played ballistics? Like that only instead of breaking the speed of sound, you try not to cripple someone for life, for real!!!
I give it 2 thumbs up... 2 thumbs... well, one thumb and a hand twich...
replace it with a more basic system. Doesn't have to be secure, encrypted, anything. Make it text based, add warnings before opening a zip. Don't allow embedded images (make them attachments). Even better, split them so as to have a purely text based communications system and a ride-along attachment system. Text based communications would get heuristics scans and the attachment system would get warnings out the wazoo. Force some sort of co-dependency, i.e. you have to send a text based message in order to send an attachment. In order to open an attachment from an unknown sender, you have to click through precisely 42 warning windows placed randomly around the screen to get to it. If they're in your address book, they get expedited delivery.
Having a purely text based communications system would be good, require 2 addresses, one for attachments and one for text. If you don't get messages to both addresses, don't open them. This would cut down on broadcast spam as there would be so many clones of each message in order to score 2 hits, or it would cut down the incidence of randomly guessed e-mail addresses getting spam.
If a company has a spam problem, throttle attachments down or force them to go alternate route.
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Sounds like they're biting the hand that feeds them. There was a rush of articles a while back where web analysts were blaming google for being a sort of web vampire/leech, sucking the blood out of websites without providing anything back. Those claims have quited because businesses realized that when they changed their model to accommodate the search centric interweb, times were good.
You leave google, google leaves you. Buh-bye, thank-you for flying the interweb air, we hope you enjoyed your time on interweb and also hope to see you again soon.
if a judge orders you to present a gun that you own in relation to a case of someone shot on your property, they'll do a series of fingerprint and ballistics tests to figure out if that gun fired a bullet. Either the gun fired a bullet that ended up in somebody, or it didn't.
How is this different than a video of an event that may or may not implicate somebody?
obstruction of justice? Withholding evidence? So, because i have a blog, i can garner support in case i'm jailed for going against the orders of a grand jury? Sounds like someone read "journalist in jail" and read into it "Jailed for saying or posting something anti-government on a blog"
I have an emotional connection with the people in my life, but i prefer killing people online. Single player games don't keep my attention for very long.
HD-DVD proponents throw up arms and say "That just about wraps it up for us". They began packing up the manufacturing plants and began work on other projects.
In other news, Apple declares victory over vista because of the ratio of new apple ads to new microsoft ads.
Space potato! I will plant these on my 4 acres that i bought on the moon!
you vill look at ze ads und you vill vant to punch out ze celebrity? ja?
Who's willing to bet that within a week of these things becoming operational, they're put to use by some MIT nerds making a portable air hockey set?
libel
2 a : a written or oral defamatory statement or representation that conveys an unjustly unfavorable impression
You botch someone's face, they post about it, that's not unjust. This seems like a no-brainer. This was only taken to court because someone thought they could play the system.
usually the time to become suspicious is when the company can gain investment cash by stock offerings. The stock holders may have no voice, but the almighty dollar does. By boosting stock prices, they can sell 1000 shares for more money, meaning more resources, and more people. Its one of the reasons companies go public. Money...
Simply because a tiger hasn't eaten your face yet doesn't mean it won't in the future. We should be as suspicious of google as we are of any other big software company. Just because they have a catchy bumper sticker slogan doesn't inoculate them to the temptations of corporate culture.
So, I bet that my cell phone has better security than a $5000 vista laptop, but you can do stuff on that laptop that you can't on my phone. (not sure what, but i'm sure there's something porn related)
not to poke holes in your argument, but in an hour and a half flight will get me roughly 440 miles (distance from tallahasse to ft. lauderdale). If i were to drive that distance, it would take me 7 hours (give or take traffic and pee breaks). So, in a 2 hour flight, you may cover 500 miles (or more), but in a 2 hour drive, you may only cover 100-160 miles. So you have to consider deaths per mile as well as deaths per hour. So, even if the deaths per hour is equivalent, if you were to take that 2 hour drive, turn it into a commuter flight, it would be 1/4th the time or so. Same end product, reduced risk.
People care more about problems that they can't control than ones they can prevent.
For example: Airplanes. How many people feel more secure behind the wheel of a car than on a long flight with turbulence?
Put your hands down, now the sheer probability of getting into a car accident in one's lifetime (if one drives) is a miniscule number below one. Death statistics are somewhere around 1 in 237 of a car type accident. The odds of an airplane death are like 1 in 5051 source
However, people are freakishly nervous about planes... So, by induction (the bane of an engineer's existance) we can extrapolate (another fancy bane) that security people will ignore the dangerous mundane and fixate on the extraordinary rarity.
Gonna get rich! I just filed a patent for the upsidedown laptop, where you pull up the keyboard and look down at the screen.
Makes it easier for those of you who type with your feet. (I'm looking at YOU, AOLers...)
Google is going through all this work to make an online suite comparable to microsoft's ajax. Why can't people be happy with open office? I'm sure there's a way to run it off of a thumb drive on any system that one would reasonably want to work at. (who needs to review documents on a kiosk?)
In fact, with the frailties of public wireless internet, keeping a persistent session would probably be more of a hurdle than downloading and installing open office. Its tough enough to submit a paper when comcast decides i don't need internet for 3 hours (as happened yesterday), at least i could WORK on the paper when stranded from the net.
So the piracy claims about canada are mostly fiction, how is this different than the opinion* most piracy claims made in north america?
*I say opinion because there are no facts about piracy beyond the fact that it does happen, and it may or may not be good for the industry depending on who you ask.
they said the average age was like 18. What do 18 year olds have to talk about with random peers? If you mix an accountant and a construction worker, they may have similarities in that they may have kids, be sick of the boss, have funny co-worker stories.
Most 18 year olds don't have profound achievements that have a commonality. If you have kids, you don't mind hearing about other people's kids. If you're in physics club, you probably don't want to hear about a wrestling match.
Studies also show that teenagers blow at empathetic responses, so it harder to tell if someone is interested by subtle clues. If someone follows along on the conversation, its a go... So music is the most common ground shared by all teens.
Except me, i really didn't ever listen to the radio.
What questions I'd like to see answered? Where do socks go in the laundry? Why do people obsess about the incongruities in gilligan's island? Why do good things happen to people who aren't me? 42. (now find me the question)
I tried that once, but i got too many naked ladies jammed in the filter and the heuristic algorithm gained sentience and is currently working in atlantic city. Kind of like skynet, but with porn.
While I enjoyed a review of all the old programs and whatnot, this would be like a company buying windows 3.1 from microsoft, updating it to 4, and a reviewer touting the joys of lotus smart suite or eudora.
I am a fan of old hardware and my old macintosh 512 lives on in a basilisk II emulator which I will occasionally use to play some of those old mac games. (galax ftw!)
Anywho, I am all for an OS and hardware being limited to the hobbiest domain, sort of like using ham radio instead of IRC, but I shudder to think what would happen if an OS that lacked rudimentary memory security until recently was unleashed upon the harsh interweb en mass. I'm certain amiga OS would have even less security than OS/X and a lonely hacker could ruin a lot of people's fun.
If microsoft was pulling some of the stuff that google had done in the past, people would be up in arms. Instead, simply because they're not microsoft, they get the public's and the IT's blessing.
Isn't this too big to be a nanobot?
Anywho, i wonder if they'll hook this sucker up to a joystick for real time control, anyone played ballistics? Like that only instead of breaking the speed of sound, you try not to cripple someone for life, for real!!!
I give it 2 thumbs up... 2 thumbs... well, one thumb and a hand twich...
replace it with a more basic system. Doesn't have to be secure, encrypted, anything. Make it text based, add warnings before opening a zip. Don't allow embedded images (make them attachments). Even better, split them so as to have a purely text based communications system and a ride-along attachment system. Text based communications would get heuristics scans and the attachment system would get warnings out the wazoo. Force some sort of co-dependency, i.e. you have to send a text based message in order to send an attachment. In order to open an attachment from an unknown sender, you have to click through precisely 42 warning windows placed randomly around the screen to get to it. If they're in your address book, they get expedited delivery.
Having a purely text based communications system would be good, require 2 addresses, one for attachments and one for text. If you don't get messages to both addresses, don't open them. This would cut down on broadcast spam as there would be so many clones of each message in order to score 2 hits, or it would cut down the incidence of randomly guessed e-mail addresses getting spam.
If a company has a spam problem, throttle attachments down or force them to go alternate route.
Doesn't some IP firm have a patent on this?
Taking bets on how many companies will try!