Because you can be discriminated against by potential - employers, friends, parents, lovers, etc. if they read something they find distasteful on your site - something you may or may not have even posted yourself. I even know someone who works as an apartment rental manager and he always looks on Myspace pages of potential renters to get an idea of what they are like. The ability to use such "social sites" as tools for illegal discrimination is definitely there, and being used already. I don't use my real first or last name on my page...
Better to be paranoid and employed/laid/still friends than the alternative...
Sorry, but my information doesn't want, or need, "to be free".
Yeah, it's like this one site I belong to (can't remember the name) where people are always predicting the Microsoft's latest flap spells the end of their corporation and a complete desktop OS replacement with Linux... Now what was the name of that site again??
If you are basing your "reputation" on your Myspace of Facebook site, I can tell you that your "reputation" is already damaged... Anyone who uses their full name on a social site needs to get their head examined.
"Why is it now necessary for my computer to stay up to date?"
Well, technically it isn't necessary. Smart and prudent, but hardly necessary. You can turn off auto updates and download any of them manually that you want. Agreeing to the WGA stuff only automates the process into one-click for you. But participation is not mandatory with auto updates...
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Yeah, but the hillfolk of the Appalachian mountains don't have WiFi either, so it's a moot point.
Great. So they protect the shepherds, like the GP, and the sheeple, like you anonymous coward. Isn't freedom a real bitch sometimes??
Got any more malformed rhetoric you would like to spew now, or you at your limit for today yet??
I will neither confirm nor deny that.. But from my previous statements, I'm sure you can make and educated guess...
Actually, Mister Whirly comes from lyrics to a song by the Replacements, the greatest rock band you've never heard of...
Because you can be discriminated against by potential - employers, friends, parents, lovers, etc. if they read something they find distasteful on your site - something you may or may not have even posted yourself. I even know someone who works as an apartment rental manager and he always looks on Myspace pages of potential renters to get an idea of what they are like. The ability to use such "social sites" as tools for illegal discrimination is definitely there, and being used already. I don't use my real first or last name on my page...
Better to be paranoid and employed/laid/still friends than the alternative...
Sorry, but my information doesn't want, or need, "to be free".
Yeah, it's like this one site I belong to (can't remember the name) where people are always predicting the Microsoft's latest flap spells the end of their corporation and a complete desktop OS replacement with Linux... Now what was the name of that site again??
and with good reason...
If you are basing your "reputation" on your Myspace of Facebook site, I can tell you that your "reputation" is already damaged... Anyone who uses their full name on a social site needs to get their head examined.
Shhhhhhhh! Occam's Razor, logic, and common sense have no place on Slashdot!!
If I was mugged and raped my stupid iPod would be the least of my worries...
"but according to ID, the designer has to be pretty half-assed in a lot of his work."
The most half-assed of his work are his followers....
Luckily, God designed me smarter than Creationists....
Yeah. "God did it, don't ask why" can be a simplistic answer to every question, if that is only how far you wish to delve.
Awesomely funny and appropriate. Kudos!
"Nope, Vista is a flop and this article was nothing more than the product of some M$ shill..."
And you sir, are no different, just the other side of the coin - a product of some MS bashing Linux shill...
Why? That argument never flew with Macs on Slashdot, so why should it now?? Oh wait. Now it's Microsoft. How could I forget...
"Why is it now necessary for my computer to stay up to date?"
Well, technically it isn't necessary. Smart and prudent, but hardly necessary. You can turn off auto updates and download any of them manually that you want. Agreeing to the WGA stuff only automates the process into one-click for you. But participation is not mandatory with auto updates...
Yeah, but it's much easier to just label them unpatriotic and call them names.
More like "Stevie Ray Vaughn (as made famous by the Beatles)"
Or Jimi Hendrix...
"Would you stop using Google things (maps, gmail, etc) if Yahoo had those tools AND were anti-censorship?"
Hell no. I choose my email, maps, search engines, etc. based on functionality, not politics.
Ok then. Vietnam - who won?
Slightly less than the probability of Greedo shooting first...
But can it predict if Colt .45 truly works EVERY time?
That's because the winners get to write the history books...
"For some reason, if I mention any movie made before 1990, then I get some weird look."
You mean way back when films didn't actually suck?? Like before every movie made was a crappy remake, bad prequel, or black version of a movie??
How could anyone think of ANYTHING but the Beatles with lyrics to Taxman??