Actually, most college students use Facebook over MySpace (remember this?)
MySpace targets the junior high / high school students. You can "pimp" your myspace, throw up "awesome polls!", etc. Facebook is geared more towards connecting with people in your classes and on your campus. Because of it's more school-oriented approach, it makes sense that Facebook would be used by college students instead of MySpace.
In many areas, WalMart IS a "social networking" place. Take, for instance, my small town in Missouri. We have nothing - no Starbucks, no Panera, no other "cool to hang out" places. We have a movie theater, but it's too expensive to go all the time.
We have a mall (and those other cool places) in a nearby town, but it's a 30-minute drive, and it's just not convenient to do that all the time. Plus, the mall isn't even that good.
The result: a lot of people honestly hang out at WalMart. Groups of kids go just because it's somewhere to go. Sometimes kids will wreak havoc, but not always.
Not that I think this Hub will be successful (or that it should be), but don't underestimate the power of "nothing to do"-ness.
Since January 2002, Microsoft has put a stronger emphasis on protecting PCs by attempting to implement stable, secure code into Windows XP and their new operating system.
Why haven't they been ALWAYS using stable, secure code?
Together with a hundredfold expansion of the FBI's use of "national security letters"
I think it's important to note that "hundredfold" deals just with the number of NSLs (national security letters) used.
The government's use of NSLs is actually improved and the abusiveness of them decreased because of (fairly) recent changes. Section 505 of the USA PATRIOT Act made them pretty bad. But the Supreme Court said "nuh uh!!!", so now they have a lot more judicial and congressional oversight, including the requirement that they must report to Congress semi-annually.
If I remember correctly, something similar happened to the RIAA. (Note: This is based on my memory and may not be perfect) But this is what I remember reading about:
Kazaa (or Sharman, if you want to be "right") sued the RIAA because they used Kazaa Lite when finding people's IP addresses. Kazaa Lite was totally and completely illegal to use, and Kazaa said something about it in one of their terms. Kazaa lost, though, because the courts said that they didn't enforce the "non-pirate" clauses of their terms well enough, so this other part shouldn't be enforced either.
They're going to find some stupid excuse to let the MPAA go. I have no doubt in my mind about it.
[takes place after the PC guy "crashes" from the virus]
Mac: Who are you? [turns to his left]
Tux: I'm Tux, the Linux penguin!!!
Mac: Oh crap, PC just gave me a virus....ahhhh!!!!! [falls over]
[pause]
Tux: Uh oh...I'm feeling kinda woozy, too. I think I may have a virus...oh wait. It's just normal code execution. *farts* Aww...much better. Sorry - false alarm.
If by "better" you mean worse, then I believe it's Windows. The virus (at least the proof of concept) only infects the files within the folder it's located.
In Windows, it can sneak into your system folder, and you're screwed...
In Linux (as long as you're not logged in as root), you could have some files messed up.
"...named the new animal Mapusaurus roseae, after the word for Earth in the language of Patagonia's Mapuche Indians, and the first name -- Rose -- of the woman who funded the research"
Whatever happened to naming species after something...I dunno....scientific? If you're going to use someone's name, why not the person who discovered it?
"could 'go in, strike, pull and see what to do next,'"
Whoa! So THAT'S what an exit strategy is.
I don't find this surprising for China at all...they've been doing things like this forever.
I am, however, surprised that nothing like this has shown up in America yet. Granted, it's impossible to ban e-mail servers in America - but if the government thought they could (ie - they had the power instilled in citizens like China does), would they?
The same logic is used by America and China to justify invasions of free speech. They both use a utilitarian viewpoint and say the ends justify the means. We all know about the search engine subpoenas - how long until we crack down on e-mail to fight terrorism, like China did to fight spam?
China's doing this because (from TFA) "spam cost the country at least $760m in lost productivity last year". Granted, it's a really extreme measure for such a problem, and I'm not saying that America is as crazy as China, but we have some very similar philosophies about government intervention.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, it's back up. Here's a news article, and here's the site.
All our fears have come true - it has proper backups. Next they'll re-release with "new features".
Actually, most college students use Facebook over MySpace (remember this?)
...but your joke was still awesome. :)
MySpace targets the junior high / high school students. You can "pimp" your myspace, throw up "awesome polls!", etc. Facebook is geared more towards connecting with people in your classes and on your campus. Because of it's more school-oriented approach, it makes sense that Facebook would be used by college students instead of MySpace.
For that price, it better come with 900 hours of free AOL, or 6 months of Norton AV!
In many areas, WalMart IS a "social networking" place. Take, for instance, my small town in Missouri. We have nothing - no Starbucks, no Panera, no other "cool to hang out" places. We have a movie theater, but it's too expensive to go all the time.
We have a mall (and those other cool places) in a nearby town, but it's a 30-minute drive, and it's just not convenient to do that all the time. Plus, the mall isn't even that good.
The result: a lot of people honestly hang out at WalMart. Groups of kids go just because it's somewhere to go. Sometimes kids will wreak havoc, but not always.
Not that I think this Hub will be successful (or that it should be), but don't underestimate the power of "nothing to do"-ness.
They've been too busy with cool stuff.
TFA from the /. article that you mentioned can be found here:
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http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_pr
Unfortunately, since it is from 1999, it has been moved to the "premium archives". To read the full article, you have to pay.
I'm lucky enough to be in boat #3, and many other students that receive it through other means don't care too much about the price.
I don't know if this is the same project or not, but I know someone that works at General Dynamics that was working on this exact same project.
Their mines would only jump if something large enough (tank) was detected, not people.
Yeah, but they get modded -1 and move on to Digg.....
Linus and the Facebook guy are on the list. Where's MySpace Tom? They didn't do 2-11, did they???
The government's use of NSLs is actually improved and the abusiveness of them decreased because of (fairly) recent changes. Section 505 of the USA PATRIOT Act made them pretty bad. But the Supreme Court said "nuh uh!!!", so now they have a lot more judicial and congressional oversight, including the requirement that they must report to Congress semi-annually.
Wikipedia
I wonder if the cats are DRM'd...
Whoa whoa whoa...
Where's Pat Robertson? I need his opinion! Who's immorality caused this?
I bet it was those people over at digg....
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/index.html
- Google Toolbar
- Google Browser Sync (how relevant.....)
- Blooger Comments
- Send to Phone
They also used to have:- Google Safe Browsing
- Google Suggest
But they are both incorporated into Google Toolbar now.Where's MySpace?
If I remember correctly, something similar happened to the RIAA. (Note: This is based on my memory and may not be perfect) But this is what I remember reading about:
Kazaa (or Sharman, if you want to be "right") sued the RIAA because they used Kazaa Lite when finding people's IP addresses. Kazaa Lite was totally and completely illegal to use, and Kazaa said something about it in one of their terms. Kazaa lost, though, because the courts said that they didn't enforce the "non-pirate" clauses of their terms well enough, so this other part shouldn't be enforced either.
They're going to find some stupid excuse to let the MPAA go. I have no doubt in my mind about it.
[takes place after the PC guy "crashes" from the virus]
Mac: Who are you? [turns to his left]
Tux: I'm Tux, the Linux penguin!!!
Mac: Oh crap, PC just gave me a virus....ahhhh!!!!! [falls over]
[pause]
Tux: Uh oh...I'm feeling kinda woozy, too. I think I may have a virus...oh wait. It's just normal code execution. *farts* Aww...much better. Sorry - false alarm.
You can make your own 200GB nano already. What's the point in waiting for Apple to increase the size (and price) to a measly 10GB?
If by "better" you mean worse, then I believe it's Windows. The virus (at least the proof of concept) only infects the files within the folder it's located.
In Windows, it can sneak into your system folder, and you're screwed...
In Linux (as long as you're not logged in as root), you could have some files messed up.
"...named the new animal Mapusaurus roseae, after the word for Earth in the language of Patagonia's Mapuche Indians, and the first name -- Rose -- of the woman who funded the research" Whatever happened to naming species after something...I dunno....scientific? If you're going to use someone's name, why not the person who discovered it? "could 'go in, strike, pull and see what to do next,'" Whoa! So THAT'S what an exit strategy is.
I don't find this surprising for China at all...they've been doing things like this forever. I am, however, surprised that nothing like this has shown up in America yet. Granted, it's impossible to ban e-mail servers in America - but if the government thought they could (ie - they had the power instilled in citizens like China does), would they? The same logic is used by America and China to justify invasions of free speech. They both use a utilitarian viewpoint and say the ends justify the means. We all know about the search engine subpoenas - how long until we crack down on e-mail to fight terrorism, like China did to fight spam? China's doing this because (from TFA) "spam cost the country at least $760m in lost productivity last year". Granted, it's a really extreme measure for such a problem, and I'm not saying that America is as crazy as China, but we have some very similar philosophies about government intervention.
The real question on everyone's mind: How long until VR pr0n?