The thing with a tracking cookie is that it can be deleted without affecting your enjoyment of the software you are using (page you are on)... try that with Windows/DirectX/.NET.
The analytic site can also be blocked and it doesn't cause the page to tell you your copy of some browser may be invalid and ask you to validate it by calling home while blanking your desktop.
The level of expertise involved in blocking Google is an order of difficulty less than trying to create your own Win32 API that doesn't violate patent or copyright.
It's fairly easy to avoid using Google in everything, without exception. Try that with Microsoft.
Disclaimer(?): I use Linux at home for general browsing, Gmail and simple games. I am forced to use Microsoft at work by my employer and at home by the likes of developers who can't be bothered to make Linux versions. If I were to drop Microsoft in everything I'd have to find a hobby that didn't involve using a computer and that's getting hard. (eg: I recently bought a module to alter the operation of my convertible top and it required Windows to program the module with the settings I wanted. Without programming, it was a brick and useless.)
Making threats is an action. It's like telling someone not to move or you'll pull the trigger. And in the case of Microsoft's high paid lawyers, it would be relevant to their threat. They could kill off a company fairly easily. Your words control their actions, so it is therefore an action.
In most cases, people will try to avoid the gunfight so you get a bunch of people standing around pointing guns at each others head with no real work getting done. (Except in this case, someone is still putting money in Microsoft's bank so no action is beneficial to them.)
But you replace something that kids normally do in everyday play (expose themselves to small amounts of bacteria) with having to get vaccinations every N days.
Unfortunately, it has... but being political means thinking and interacting before acting. It means telling someone where their faults are and working through it, not holding it all in for the when the shit hits the fan. You can tell someone they are wrong in a constructive way.
Progress cannot happen if you tell each other secrets. This is no more true in politics as it is in any relationship. Little "white lies" about birthdays and non-confrontational matters are easily wiped away... but knowing that the leader of a country wants the "world superpower" to attack their neighbor is pretty important information... don't you think? Shouldn't said leader be discussing this with the person to whom their conflict resides?
It's really a shame, isn't it? I'm agreeing with you, but without leaking "secret" under-doings that politicians and those working with the government is doing... how do we really know that the marketing they did for their election/hire was honest?
On one hand you state the problem (someone who will read meaning into six lines of text,) and on the other you point back to the information being the problem.
Unless you think that people reading malice in those six lines of text is not the "wrong" aspect of the equation here... Do you really think that people should be able to read what they want into it?
Why are you blaming the OS for the application developer's lack of packaging?
Your scenario would also have played out the same if Blizzard asked you to download a zip file and copy the files to the right place instead of packaging up their app in an installer.
I replaced my Mom's computer with Ubuntu some time back and since then she stopped calling me to clean up all her toolbars and spyware. Now I just get those awkward calls asking how things are. It was the best thing I've done. Every now and then she complains that she can't install a new screensaver (background image) and I'm still trying to get it through her head that you don't need to "install" these... but overall, it's been a good experience.
The counter to that is that wireless technology has been taking off so, my guess is that if they hold off long enough, Verizon doesn't have to even worry about hard lines.
Not if you can flip a steal beam (or large rocks) onto the track. They'd have to fence in the entire rail structure or bury it underground and monitor the ground above it so that someone doesn't dig down and drop large rocks on the rail.
And why would an informant's name be in a document they released? That would be like Tolkien talking about himself using his real name in his books or a reporter being egotistical enough to put their name in every other sentence of the news.
If Bob wrote a report because it was required for his job to do so, he'll have his name all over it because that's what protocol demands, but if Bob was leaking information off the side... why would he put his own name on it?
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The thing with a tracking cookie is that it can be deleted without affecting your enjoyment of the software you are using (page you are on)... try that with Windows/DirectX/.NET.
The analytic site can also be blocked and it doesn't cause the page to tell you your copy of some browser may be invalid and ask you to validate it by calling home while blanking your desktop.
The level of expertise involved in blocking Google is an order of difficulty less than trying to create your own Win32 API that doesn't violate patent or copyright.
It's fairly easy to avoid using Google in everything, without exception. Try that with Microsoft.
Disclaimer(?): I use Linux at home for general browsing, Gmail and simple games. I am forced to use Microsoft at work by my employer and at home by the likes of developers who can't be bothered to make Linux versions. If I were to drop Microsoft in everything I'd have to find a hobby that didn't involve using a computer and that's getting hard. (eg: I recently bought a module to alter the operation of my convertible top and it required Windows to program the module with the settings I wanted. Without programming, it was a brick and useless.)
Making threats is an action. It's like telling someone not to move or you'll pull the trigger. And in the case of Microsoft's high paid lawyers, it would be relevant to their threat. They could kill off a company fairly easily. Your words control their actions, so it is therefore an action.
In most cases, people will try to avoid the gunfight so you get a bunch of people standing around pointing guns at each others head with no real work getting done. (Except in this case, someone is still putting money in Microsoft's bank so no action is beneficial to them.)
But you replace something that kids normally do in everyday play (expose themselves to small amounts of bacteria) with having to get vaccinations every N days.
Or reporting only the news that the Government (or residing President) approves of...
No problem. If he wants to be as secretive as he wants... but why should he expect me to keep it secret for him?
Unfortunately, it has... but being political means thinking and interacting before acting. It means telling someone where their faults are and working through it, not holding it all in for the when the shit hits the fan. You can tell someone they are wrong in a constructive way.
Maybe your bill isn't the best thing to be selling if you have to lie to get it in the box.
It depends on what your goal is... if it's about furthering peace, you should damn well be upfront.
"Hey there Billy... throwing that down the well might not be the best thing to be doing considering that the owner has an itchy trigger finger."
Progress cannot happen if you tell each other secrets. This is no more true in politics as it is in any relationship. Little "white lies" about birthdays and non-confrontational matters are easily wiped away... but knowing that the leader of a country wants the "world superpower" to attack their neighbor is pretty important information... don't you think? Shouldn't said leader be discussing this with the person to whom their conflict resides?
Please read my reply to the above poster... http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1888274&cid=34379114
It's really a shame, isn't it? I'm agreeing with you, but without leaking "secret" under-doings that politicians and those working with the government is doing... how do we really know that the marketing they did for their election/hire was honest?
It's called "being political" for a reason.
We hire politicians to be upfront and honest. We don't hire them to be two faced.
On one hand you state the problem (someone who will read meaning into six lines of text,) and on the other you point back to the information being the problem.
Unless you think that people reading malice in those six lines of text is not the "wrong" aspect of the equation here... Do you really think that people should be able to read what they want into it?
Am I the only one that had to double-take because of the "Entertainment:" prefix on the title?
Mods sometimes have a sense of humor too. It's not my fault that you missed it.
Why are you blaming the OS for the application developer's lack of packaging?
Your scenario would also have played out the same if Blizzard asked you to download a zip file and copy the files to the right place instead of packaging up their app in an installer.
I replaced my Mom's computer with Ubuntu some time back and since then she stopped calling me to clean up all her toolbars and spyware. Now I just get those awkward calls asking how things are. It was the best thing I've done. Every now and then she complains that she can't install a new screensaver (background image) and I'm still trying to get it through her head that you don't need to "install" these... but overall, it's been a good experience.
The counter to that is that wireless technology has been taking off so, my guess is that if they hold off long enough, Verizon doesn't have to even worry about hard lines.
In one thread people talk about congested spots for terrorist attacks, and in another... a petition to prevent people from spreading out.
Obviously, since corporations couldn't run these systems the government should. That may be the goal.
Not if you can flip a steal beam (or large rocks) onto the track. They'd have to fence in the entire rail structure or bury it underground and monitor the ground above it so that someone doesn't dig down and drop large rocks on the rail.
We used bent over paper clips and rubber bands to see how many we could get stuck in the ceiling... and other things.
...my fridge would need integrated speakers, though.
I'm sure with enough tech thrown at it, the doors themselves would make good enough speakers.
You are still only getting one side of the story.
And why would an informant's name be in a document they released? That would be like Tolkien talking about himself using his real name in his books or a reporter being egotistical enough to put their name in every other sentence of the news.
If Bob wrote a report because it was required for his job to do so, he'll have his name all over it because that's what protocol demands, but if Bob was leaking information off the side... why would he put his own name on it?
It allows the iPad to decapitate you in the case of an airbag release. This way you do not feel anything after the accident.