Exactly. So far, it's like the canadian geese that spend summers in my neighborhood. They're protected by law, so they "learn" that humans aren't dangerous and that cars always stop for them when they cross the street. It's rare to find one dead on the side of the road, but by rights, they should be plucked and cooked for dinner. As things are now, you can almost walk up to one and club it.
That's how the ad/app companies think about Facebook users. They're just waiting for Facebook to lift the protections.
What's the point of breaking articles up on multiple pages anyway? Simply more ads? Slightly less bandwidth for people who only read the first part? To accomodate some browser that for some reason doesn't have scroll buttons? Pagan ritual of some type?
To figure out what percentage of people are interested in more than the title and summary paragraph.
i cant feel sympathetic to people who post up their personal, private information for their "friends" to see and then later become victims.
What if you remove the quotes around "friends"? A lot of people on facebook have real friends, and on first signing up years ago, they were led to believe that Facebook would respect privacy settings (not reset them to fully open, or suddenly remove some privacy settings, like the profile pics, home-town info, likes, etc), and would only use the data internally for marketing within Facebook, not sell it to other companies. Then Facebook decided that they'd just *give* the data away since that wasn't covered by the initial user agreements, and they'd change a format, force users to re-enter old data, and tack on a tiny line of legalese that said "entering data into the new improved profile form makes it public data". People believed Facebook when it started, so they posted a lot of personal stuff because they really thought only their friends and Facebook saw it, and that seemed like an acceptable deal. Increasingly, ordinary people are finding it to be unacceptable.
But it's right there on the app install warning page. FB isn't silently doing this.
"THIS APPLICATION WILL COLLECT YOUR MOBILE PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS."
It's more like:
THIS APPLICATION IS TOTALLY AWESOME AND $friend1, $friend2, AND 300 OTHER FRIENDS USE IT!!! !!!!
[ALLOW]
[deny] Facebook thinks your private data is important. This application won't not collect your mobile phone number nor address. Facebook always takes care to monitor your private data* appropriately. *Entering your mobile phone number or address into Facebook renders a reclassification from private to public. Facebook still agrees that your phone number is private data, but Facebook's record of what your phone number is is available for sale to the top 1000 highest bidders. Thank you for reading through this legalese. The timeout on the choice should happen now, with the default of Allow. Enjoy the application!
Even more foolish is giving out your complete birthday. I can see how it is nice to get greetings on your birthday, but it's not worth the extra info for identify fraud. Put in 1900 (or whatever they first allow) and the 1st day of the week you're born. You still get nice birthday wishes at about the right time.
But the people who really know your birthday wait until that day. I've seen some people without birthdays entered on FB who still get wall-birthday-wishes on their true birthday. It's especially awesome when friends list the age too. "LOL, you 40 today! How's it, old man?" Friends' comments/tags/statuses are pretty big sieves for information to leak through.
Now I know why it has been pestering me for that information lately. "$Number of your friends live in $City, [Click to make $City your hometown] [Not your hometown? What is?]"
That payables file is still going to hosted on some box, somewhere,... along with the handful (on the internet, it's a handful if that) of other data your company has. Do they really need this giant IT Dept. for that?
Yes. The Cloud is not magic. You may lose the young nerds that clamber under your desk to replace bad RAM, but you won't replace 90% of IT (programmers, sysadmins, network admins, phone guys, DBAs,...)
So we won't have to the resources to grow enough vegetables to eat, but we will have the resources to grow enough vegetables to feed livestock which we then eat?
Hint: the best livestock eat vegetation that we can't digest. They convert grasses into tasty meat.
Did you look at who was publishing it? The National Review is like the neo-con weekly gazette.
Just because no one else publishes it doesn't mean it's partisan. An equally valid point of view is that "Driveby Media"* doesn't want to publish anything contrary to their vast Liberal conspiracy overlords.
*Rush Limbaugh's favorite name for big-name TV and Newspapers
The system we have is descended from the mode of Christian thought that when a sin(crime) is committed, penance.is needed in order to make the person right with God.
A more Christian thought regarding penance is "Go, and sin no more." the roman catholic version of penance is not Christian in origin.
This "entitlement" is because we realize that these phones are actually computers running largely general purpose software, and there are security vulnerabilities that need patched. This is like Gateway, Dell, or eMachines colluding with Comcast to block WindowsXP security update requests to update.microsoft.com so that you'll buy a new computer when your XP box gets owned.
There's only so much tiddly-winks one can play at work before you realize you'd rather play tiddly-winks with your non-work friends with your own free time.
I bet it's 10-11 hours a day, 5 days a week (on paper), and 10-12 hours a day, 6 days a week in reality. Oh, and remember: next Friday... is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.
And yet... to do any updates/activate my iphone, I am required to keep a Windows or Mac OS X computer around for iTunes. If I want to compile a program for my phone, I have to pay $99 and also own a Mac OS X computer. It's a lot more like a company store than any other computer or phone I've owned in the past.
That's nothing compared to the other evil trap in KQ5: the gypsy. You can give her the golden $usefulobject and she's happy, but then you're screwed later in the game. You have to search for something else golden (harder to find) to give her.
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> ...received a burn for the 100th time...
What "burns" have they received?
Exactly. So far, it's like the canadian geese that spend summers in my neighborhood. They're protected by law, so they "learn" that humans aren't dangerous and that cars always stop for them when they cross the street. It's rare to find one dead on the side of the road, but by rights, they should be plucked and cooked for dinner. As things are now, you can almost walk up to one and club it.
That's how the ad/app companies think about Facebook users. They're just waiting for Facebook to lift the protections.
Good news again! I've totally forgotten that Steve Jobs is leaving Apple. BUY BUY BUY!
What's the point of breaking articles up on multiple pages anyway? Simply more ads? Slightly less bandwidth for people who only read the first part? To accomodate some browser that for some reason doesn't have scroll buttons? Pagan ritual of some type?
To figure out what percentage of people are interested in more than the title and summary paragraph.
i cant feel sympathetic to people who post up their personal, private information for their "friends" to see and then later become victims.
What if you remove the quotes around "friends"? A lot of people on facebook have real friends, and on first signing up years ago, they were led to believe that Facebook would respect privacy settings (not reset them to fully open, or suddenly remove some privacy settings, like the profile pics, home-town info, likes, etc), and would only use the data internally for marketing within Facebook, not sell it to other companies. Then Facebook decided that they'd just *give* the data away since that wasn't covered by the initial user agreements, and they'd change a format, force users to re-enter old data, and tack on a tiny line of legalese that said "entering data into the new improved profile form makes it public data". People believed Facebook when it started, so they posted a lot of personal stuff because they really thought only their friends and Facebook saw it, and that seemed like an acceptable deal. Increasingly, ordinary people are finding it to be unacceptable.
But it's right there on the app install warning page. FB isn't silently doing this.
"THIS APPLICATION WILL COLLECT YOUR MOBILE PHONE NUMBER AND ADDRESS."
It's more like:
THIS APPLICATION IS TOTALLY AWESOME AND $friend1, $friend2, AND 300 OTHER FRIENDS USE IT!!! !!!!
[ALLOW]
[deny] Facebook thinks your private data is important. This application won't not collect your mobile phone number nor address. Facebook always takes care to monitor your private data* appropriately.
*Entering your mobile phone number or address into Facebook renders a reclassification from private to public. Facebook still agrees that your phone number is private data, but Facebook's record of what your phone number is is available for sale to the top 1000 highest bidders. Thank you for reading through this legalese. The timeout on the choice should happen now, with the default of Allow. Enjoy the application!
By shooting any woman who gets pregnant of course we can eliminate all of society's problems
Including murder and low birth rate?
The apple 1984 commercial is getting more and more ironic every day now.
Because Apple owns Facebook?
Even more foolish is giving out your complete birthday. I can see how it is nice to get greetings on your birthday, but it's not worth the extra info for identify fraud. Put in 1900 (or whatever they first allow) and the 1st day of the week you're born. You still get nice birthday wishes at about the right time.
But the people who really know your birthday wait until that day. I've seen some people without birthdays entered on FB who still get wall-birthday-wishes on their true birthday. It's especially awesome when friends list the age too. "LOL, you 40 today! How's it, old man?" Friends' comments/tags/statuses are pretty big sieves for information to leak through.
Now I know why it has been pestering me for that information lately. "$Number of your friends live in $City, [Click to make $City your hometown] [Not your hometown? What is?]"
Giving money to the deceitful is socially destructive. Doing it willingly is doubly so.
You must despise bazaars.
I can do without the giant sloth, short nosed bear, dire wolves or the saber tooth tigers.
LARPing won't be complete without real dire wolves.
If our ancestors hunted them to extinction, they must be awfully tasty. I say clone away!
To be fair, people from the greater Tucson area need those guns for protection from Mexican invaders. Written without hyperbole.
That payables file is still going to hosted on some box, somewhere, ... along with the handful (on the internet, it's a handful if that) of other data your company has. Do they really need this giant IT Dept. for that?
Yes. The Cloud is not magic. You may lose the young nerds that clamber under your desk to replace bad RAM, but you won't replace 90% of IT (programmers, sysadmins, network admins, phone guys, DBAs, ...)
For the record, meteorologists are not climatologists. This is little different than engineers imagining themselves as physicists.
No, the so called climatologists are meteorologists who are to ugly for television. if want to know about climate ask a physicists or a chemist. ;)
They could always work in radio or newsprint.
So we won't have to the resources to grow enough vegetables to eat, but we will have the resources to grow enough vegetables to feed livestock which we then eat?
Hint: the best livestock eat vegetation that we can't digest. They convert grasses into tasty meat.
Did you look at who was publishing it? The National Review is like the neo-con weekly gazette.
Just because no one else publishes it doesn't mean it's partisan. An equally valid point of view is that "Driveby Media"* doesn't want to publish anything contrary to their vast Liberal conspiracy overlords.
*Rush Limbaugh's favorite name for big-name TV and Newspapers
The system we have is descended from the mode of Christian thought that when a sin(crime) is committed, penance.is needed in order to make the person right with God.
A more Christian thought regarding penance is "Go, and sin no more." the roman catholic version of penance is not Christian in origin.
This "entitlement" is because we realize that these phones are actually computers running largely general purpose software, and there are security vulnerabilities that need patched. This is like Gateway, Dell, or eMachines colluding with Comcast to block WindowsXP security update requests to update.microsoft.com so that you'll buy a new computer when your XP box gets owned.
handset makers treat software maintenance like a teenager treats a book report. 1/2 assed effort at the last minute.
It could be said that the teenagers are using appropriate judgment regarding the value of the book report.
Network Neutrality!
There's also the "waste 2-3 hours more" option.
There's only so much tiddly-winks one can play at work before you realize you'd rather play tiddly-winks with your non-work friends with your own free time.
I bet it's 10-11 hours a day, 5 days a week (on paper), and 10-12 hours a day, 6 days a week in reality. Oh, and remember: next Friday... is Hawaiian shirt day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead and wear a Hawaiian shirt and jeans.
And yet... to do any updates/activate my iphone, I am required to keep a Windows or Mac OS X computer around for iTunes. If I want to compile a program for my phone, I have to pay $99 and also own a Mac OS X computer. It's a lot more like a company store than any other computer or phone I've owned in the past.
That's nothing compared to the other evil trap in KQ5: the gypsy. You can give her the golden $usefulobject and she's happy, but then you're screwed later in the game. You have to search for something else golden (harder to find) to give her.