Also I'm not sure I accept the argument that inflation=good, deflation=bad.
I didn't until recently. Mild inflation discourages hoarding of cash and encourages a more active economy. Once I had enough money to worry about it's value deteriorating, I realized I wanted to buy hard assets with it.
People tend to be scared to post things to facebook because of the negative ways that your family/friends/employer might take the content... but since facebook is now making you an optional participant in filling out your own profile, it takes a lot of accountability away from the person who is scared of accountability. So next time someone fires someone else for having a political view or some random information that their company doesn't like, they can conveniently point to facebook's data mining process and there is the reasonable doubt that you may or may not have put that there personally. I like this idea. The less accountability placed on me based on my online personality, the better.
Reasonable doubt is a great cerebral defense in a legal argument. It does nothing to defend against emotional responses. Defendants who are found not guilty based on reasonable doubt are given wide berth by everyone afterward.
They loaded their contact list up to FB, and had all your email addresses associated with one contact. Probably along with your phone number, address, birthday, photo, nicknames, and associations.
The last one. Facebook's business is built around collecting and analysing vast amounts of profile data. Collecting and storing that data isn't just in their legitimate interests, it *is* their legitimate interest.
(unless it could unjustifiably prejudice the interests of the data subject).[8]
I think the legal obligation holds more weight. There's probably a law somewhere that says FB must process this data for U.S. three letter agencies.
Never assume that people who obsess over a show are really "the biggest fans". Think, for example, of the recent show Lost where the fans that the network really depended on were fairly casual TV viewers (and thus the increasing emphasis on the love triangle over more substantial plot elements), not the comparatively smaller group of people who discussed the show's mythology on internet fora and spent every waking hour trying to solve its mysteries.
I believe you're mixing "biggest" and "most numerous". The casual Joes and Janes who said "WTF is up with this weird unexplained stuff?" wouldn't be the "biggest" fans. They were numerous, and were the biggest grouping, but were not the most interested fans (they're not the type to buy the DVDs later; water it down too much, and no one buys the DVDs).
Bad analogy. comparing track and field athletes (even amateurs) vs turtles, that medical treatment would raise max lifespan to something like 12000 years not 150.
Frankly, for academic research, I'm thinking a 11000 year old philosopher or poet would be pretty interesting to listen to.
None of this "we'll take your voice, send it to the cloud, upscale it, enhance, enhance, enhance, zoom it, then return a translated text that the local text to speech program reads". I want it to happen on my phone, even if it takes 30 minutes. Otherwise, who's going to pay for the "cloud" processing when everyone starts using it more regularly?
I don't use Verizon. Plus this is the first I've heard of either change. I have something to tell my Verizon using friends now. They'll probably be livid since I doubt they know either.
Now they're outsourcing the protesters! Preemptive apologies to rest of the world.
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Now we have "achievements" and "trophies" and other bizarre and meaningless "rewards" mostly unrelated to the actual game experience.
When video games started out, we had points and high scores with three-letter winner boards featuring winners like ???, TIT, and POO. Those were pretty meaningless. Then we moved on to computer games, and they kept the arcade style leader boards, which were even more meaningless, then the "send in a letter to the publisher in care of 'I won!' with a self addressed, stamped envelope to receive your certificate of completion of the game. Congratulations!". And then that went away too, so the end cutscene was the reward. Let's face it, no game is going to give out a real reward like a space alien coming to recruit you to be a starfighter in a great galactic battle. We were lucky to have a brief period where good storytelling was the goal of a game. We might get it again, but in the mean-time, just play the old games like I do.
What is dumpass with stripping the top 1% of he world population from their assets?
And then what, distribute it evenly between everyone? So now everyone has $5000(?) extra in their pocket, and prices for everything just rise to compensate because everyone knows everyone else has a little extra to spend? The end result is just to hurt the 1% and cause inflation. Kinda sadistic.
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Only locally near the mine. It took a while to mine the gold, a while for that mined gold to spread out from the area it was mined in.
Also I'm not sure I accept the argument that inflation=good, deflation=bad.
I didn't until recently. Mild inflation discourages hoarding of cash and encourages a more active economy. Once I had enough money to worry about it's value deteriorating, I realized I wanted to buy hard assets with it.
People tend to be scared to post things to facebook because of the negative ways that your family/friends/employer might take the content... but since facebook is now making you an optional participant in filling out your own profile, it takes a lot of accountability away from the person who is scared of accountability. So next time someone fires someone else for having a political view or some random information that their company doesn't like, they can conveniently point to facebook's data mining process and there is the reasonable doubt that you may or may not have put that there personally. I like this idea. The less accountability placed on me based on my online personality, the better.
Reasonable doubt is a great cerebral defense in a legal argument. It does nothing to defend against emotional responses. Defendants who are found not guilty based on reasonable doubt are given wide berth by everyone afterward.
They loaded their contact list up to FB, and had all your email addresses associated with one contact. Probably along with your phone number, address, birthday, photo, nicknames, and associations.
The last one. Facebook's business is built around collecting and analysing vast amounts of profile data. Collecting and storing that data isn't just in their legitimate interests, it *is* their legitimate interest.
(unless it could unjustifiably prejudice the interests of the data subject).[8]
I think the legal obligation holds more weight. There's probably a law somewhere that says FB must process this data for U.S. three letter agencies.
I just didn't expect to be "proven" correct so quickly. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2456514&cid=37586174
He's not native born. And we already know that without a controversy!
William Shatner says: "Kiam Kaj Kiel Multa?"
With FF devs alienating their user base on the desktop side, can't miss the chance to take a shot at them, huh?
FTFY
And as bad as Shit My Dad Says was, it wasn't the Shat's fault.
Duuude, they should have named it "Shit the Shat Shot"
Wasn't the "get a life" comment on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE - as PART OF A SKIT??
Are you saying that Sarah Palin can't see Romulus from her house?
Never assume that people who obsess over a show are really "the biggest fans". Think, for example, of the recent show Lost where the fans that the network really depended on were fairly casual TV viewers (and thus the increasing emphasis on the love triangle over more substantial plot elements), not the comparatively smaller group of people who discussed the show's mythology on internet fora and spent every waking hour trying to solve its mysteries.
I believe you're mixing "biggest" and "most numerous". The casual Joes and Janes who said "WTF is up with this weird unexplained stuff?" wouldn't be the "biggest" fans. They were numerous, and were the biggest grouping, but were not the most interested fans (they're not the type to buy the DVDs later; water it down too much, and no one buys the DVDs).
Sooo last year until services like RIM's go down for three days.
Bad analogy. comparing track and field athletes (even amateurs) vs turtles, that medical treatment would raise max lifespan to something like 12000 years not 150. Frankly, for academic research, I'm thinking a 11000 year old philosopher or poet would be pretty interesting to listen to.
Not that it maaatterrrss.
None of this "we'll take your voice, send it to the cloud, upscale it, enhance, enhance, enhance, zoom it, then return a translated text that the local text to speech program reads". I want it to happen on my phone, even if it takes 30 minutes. Otherwise, who's going to pay for the "cloud" processing when everyone starts using it more regularly?
Plus built in UPS. Really handy.
You work for Kermit the Frog?
I don't use Verizon. Plus this is the first I've heard of either change. I have something to tell my Verizon using friends now. They'll probably be livid since I doubt they know either.
I want a Dennis Ritchie day!
No one know who that is!
Sure they do... My condolences to his son Lionel, by the way.
Who the hell is that? Nicole Ritchie's dad?
Now they're outsourcing the protesters! Preemptive apologies to rest of the world.
Now we have "achievements" and "trophies" and other bizarre and meaningless "rewards" mostly unrelated to the actual game experience.
When video games started out, we had points and high scores with three-letter winner boards featuring winners like ???, TIT, and POO. Those were pretty meaningless. Then we moved on to computer games, and they kept the arcade style leader boards, which were even more meaningless, then the "send in a letter to the publisher in care of 'I won!' with a self addressed, stamped envelope to receive your certificate of completion of the game. Congratulations!". And then that went away too, so the end cutscene was the reward. Let's face it, no game is going to give out a real reward like a space alien coming to recruit you to be a starfighter in a great galactic battle. We were lucky to have a brief period where good storytelling was the goal of a game. We might get it again, but in the mean-time, just play the old games like I do.
1,450,700 AS_
What is dumpass
That phrase is the shit!
What is dumpass with stripping the top 1% of he world population from their assets?
And then what, distribute it evenly between everyone? So now everyone has $5000(?) extra in their pocket, and prices for everything just rise to compensate because everyone knows everyone else has a little extra to spend? The end result is just to hurt the 1% and cause inflation. Kinda sadistic.
Can we use something like IBM's Watson to realtime parse and evaluate political rhetoric?
That depends on the meaning of the word "is".
That's the same as this app. Reach for your phone during an arrest, and suddenly, cop thinks you're reaching for a weapon.
This did not work out well on SG-1
They're rather benign on DS-9, except when they malfunction and your "tea, earl grey, hot" is replaced with its gotee'd evil twin.