Stores and malls that want to track you still have options - perhaps the most obvious one is to offer free wifi to their customers. Which is probably a win-win situation, although most users probably won't realise that part of the price of the "free" wifi is that they get tracked until they tell their device to forget the network again. There might be some subtle biases introduced into the data captured by this method if some kinds of customer are more likely to accept the offer of free wifi than others, mind you.
This happens every time a popular website (or application) is updated with a redesigned UI. The fact that thousands of users are complaining tells you nothing about whether the average user finds the site easier to use. The fact that people are posting here on Slashdot to say that they personally dislike it also tells you nothing. Fundamentally, people hate having change imposed on them, particularly if they don't know or agree with the reasons for it. And frankly even if Yahoo's existing users overwhelmingly hated the new design, it could still be the right decision for the company - they need to attract new users from other services, not satisfy their existing dwindling base.
This is just the latest occasion when I have wished that/. editors would, you know, do some editing. The story is interesting; the attempt by the submitter to spin it as evidence of a particular viewpoint adds nothing.
All legal jurisdictions are having to come to terms with the fact that groups of people in social networks now have the ability to publish (mis)information on a scale that was previously limited to mainstream media outlets. This effort from the UK authorities is (in my opinion) a reasonably balanced one, that does a good job of extending the existing British consensus on where the line should be drawn between free speech and criminal irresponsibility into the modern era.
To be fair, this is two staff from the PR department doing the tweeting, not front-line police officers. Given the publicity they've received in return for those two person-days of effort, it seems like pretty good value to me.
I think it's a bit more complicated than that - Bloodhound *is* direct competition for Eagle, but not necessarily vice-versa. So whether or not they're in the same race depends on your perspective...
ADSL2+ (used by Be) can only offer the full 24Mbps if you're less than about 500m from the exchange, regardless of the quality of the cable BT installed.
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Stores and malls that want to track you still have options - perhaps the most obvious one is to offer free wifi to their customers. Which is probably a win-win situation, although most users probably won't realise that part of the price of the "free" wifi is that they get tracked until they tell their device to forget the network again. There might be some subtle biases introduced into the data captured by this method if some kinds of customer are more likely to accept the offer of free wifi than others, mind you.
Buy any Apple device - they usually come with some free Apple logo stickers.
It's been discontinued, hasn't it?
This happens every time a popular website (or application) is updated with a redesigned UI. The fact that thousands of users are complaining tells you nothing about whether the average user finds the site easier to use. The fact that people are posting here on Slashdot to say that they personally dislike it also tells you nothing. Fundamentally, people hate having change imposed on them, particularly if they don't know or agree with the reasons for it. And frankly even if Yahoo's existing users overwhelmingly hated the new design, it could still be the right decision for the company - they need to attract new users from other services, not satisfy their existing dwindling base.
This is just the latest occasion when I have wished that /. editors would, you know, do some editing. The story is interesting; the attempt by the submitter to spin it as evidence of a particular viewpoint adds nothing.
All legal jurisdictions are having to come to terms with the fact that groups of people in social networks now have the ability to publish (mis)information on a scale that was previously limited to mainstream media outlets. This effort from the UK authorities is (in my opinion) a reasonably balanced one, that does a good job of extending the existing British consensus on where the line should be drawn between free speech and criminal irresponsibility into the modern era.
What do these devices have that couldn't be implemented as an app on a general purpose smartphone or tablet?
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GPS is a question?
Police in the UK use TETRA, an encrypted radio system.
Why does any organisation need a PR department?
To be fair, this is two staff from the PR department doing the tweeting, not front-line police officers. Given the publicity they've received in return for those two person-days of effort, it seems like pretty good value to me.
Take a look at the excellent parodies too.
Are those American ("English") gallons, or British ("Imperial") gallons? There's a 20% difference...
My highly advanced clothes-line technology comes with an implicit display of its power consumption - zero.
I think it's a bit more complicated than that - Bloodhound *is* direct competition for Eagle, but not necessarily vice-versa. So whether or not they're in the same race depends on your perspective...
Yes of course, it's the people who signed up for first-generation ID cards whom we should feel sorry for here. Poor dears.
This is the DoE - how about Mushroom Cloud computing?
It seems to work fine for me.
If /. had run this story yesterday, many more sysadmins would have been appreciated...
Yeah, we couldn't stand the quality of the tea over there; secession was our only resort...
So this is an economic stimulus plan?
As opposed to an imaginative solution, which would be (unimaginatively) criticised as a stealth tax.
ADSL2+ (used by Be) can only offer the full 24Mbps if you're less than about 500m from the exchange, regardless of the quality of the cable BT installed.
I'm inclined to think that the logical conclusion of that argument would be to call them "Madoff schemes"...
Surely these are pyramid schemes rather than Ponzi schemes?