So I'm a software developer, in my early 30's, pretty tech-savy. It took me about 45 minutes (a long time, I think) digging around Facebook's privacy settings to properly hide everything. Not only do you have to go under "Privacy", but also "Application Settings" - would the average user know to do that? Apparently "Group" privacy settings are under applications??? Those settings are complicated And even now I can't hide 1) my friends list from the public 2) my pages from the public. So my point is it's hard to NOT share too much publicly with Facebook.
Aaaaand, that's only private from the general public. Even if you update Facebook only on your own time, with your own equipment, on your own network, there's a chance that your employer can see your full profile anyway... and your mom's profile, and your dog's profile. There have been posts on/. in the past from people who said that a P.I. license and a little money shoved to FB for a special "fraud detection" account will allow HR departments full access to anyone's profile pages and photo albums. I don't know if it's true, but it's one of the only ways beyond ads that I could see FB monetizing all the data.
Why did you type all that extra text when you had the perfect solution from the beginning?
Because if you don't use Facebook, Bob will for you. You know Bob, the weasel who's looking at the same promotion you are? Yeah, that Bob. A profile picture of you from either linkedin or the company website, then add some pictures from Girls Gone Wild, etc. None of the ggw ones have to show you, just show that you hang around with a wild crowd. Then some photos of a KKK meeting, and "fan of Grand Wizard Cletus" for good measure. You might not get fired, but you're not getting promoted.
Flash makes the web interesting, it's what powers the little widgets you find on the sides of blogs, it's what makes the Most Interesting Man in the World interesting
I find no such widgets on the sides of blogs. And it's not Flash(R) that makes me so interesting, it's flash. *knowing smile*
If the iPad ships with no flash, and no option for flash, people are going to be pissed.
At whom? 32% at Apple, 32% at third party companies (Your website doesn't work on iPad!), 32% at Adobe (Make flash for iPad!), and 4% at themselves for not expecting the lack of flash?
Get the public used to the idea of computer vision input for everyday tasks, and suddenly adware starts including drivers for the cameras (just in case you forgot to install the drivers yourself). "People seem to keep looking at the upper right hand corner of the ad window. Move most of the content there, and the subliminal content to the bottom. Horizontal mirror image for Mac OS X and Ubuntu 10.4"
We will post this to show what you guys are up to.
If you try to get it taken down, it shows everything in the documentis true and real.
That, my friends, is called a checkmate in my book.
Well, your book is wrong. Suppose the Pirate Party posts a paper positing that parliament pokes preteens and are thus purportedly pedophiles? Trying to take down a document says nothing about its veracity.
Computer Science is a theoretical field. It is based around the research of computers and algorithms, around the theory of how to program, how to make them better. Fine, but that isn't what most companies are hiring.
That's right. Companies are hiring a person who knows Java and only Java, or Ruby and only Ruby, or Visual Basic and only Visual Basic. That way, they can hire the cheapest candidate who meets their current project specs, and they can fire the person when the job is done. Well, the dumb companies do that, and it's why we have a lot of turnover in the IT world. The smart companies know that they want someone who knows a little bit of everything and has proven that they have the skills to learn more than an Associate's in Programming.
I see you have Farmville Masteries in Onions, Peppers, and Corn as well as a stable full of horses. Here are free coupons for $.99 off your next Taco Bell purchase!
$.99 !? They're paying coupon holders a half dollar to eat as long as the have the ingredients?
One of the worst things Bush did post 9/11 was creating the spate of new federal agencies. Can anyone say that their flying experience is actually better after TSA was created? Anyone?
To be fair, the only people who have had their planes fly into buildings aren't around to answer. The rest of us have experienced annoyances at the gates, so the boarding experience is worse, but the actual flying experience is just about the same (except the knowledge that just sitting still during a potential hijacking is dumb, so now people are ever slightly more on edge, but that has nothing to do with the TSA).
Um, sorry to point this out to you, but you run the risk of getting spies by contracting with just a "geek-only" NSA or contracting overseas with other countries.
I've used Ubuntu exclusively on my desktops for several years now. It's nice to know that I can always switch to another distro when they do something BAT SHIT INSANE like this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy
Change the GUI window buttons from right to left? Meh. Change the way file sizes are read so that User X and User Y see different file sizes using the same filesystem, even potentially the same remotely mounted disk?
Now I have to draft a letter to our research department telling them to stay the hell away from Ubuntu because their data will potentially be wrong (unless they take pains to remember the kilo=/=kibi switch).
Hell no. Imperial units for file sizes. A byte will be twelve bits, a kilobyte will be 3 bytes, and a megabyte will be 5280 bytes. A petabyte will be 5.87849981x10^12 megabytes. There won't really be such things as terabytes or gigabytes, which will make drive manufacturers happy because most of their drives are measured in TB or GB.
People can afford to be different today and I don't see any problem with it. I don't hate wealthy people because they can afford nice cars, attain beautiful women (often more than one), and receive more specialized care. I see nothing wrong with their success and I hope to be one of those people someday. What I would hate is for someone like you to tell me that I can't strive to differentiate because it might upset a few people and make them envious.
If I were a rich person of the Gattaca future, I'd offer all of the poor free anti-envy gene mods. "There you go, now you're happy with your lot in life." Save your genes, George_Ou, someone might pay a lot for them in the future.
Software Engineering is an engineering discipline. That means the principles according to which the product should work are always tempered by the reality of how the work must be conducted. What good is it, for instance, if you have the most secure browser of them all, if nobody uses it?
The safest bridge is one that prevents people from getting on it.
Is it really something for "Your Rights Online" or just simple/.'s HR activism? Some kind of tax incentive like when movie displays US flag?:)
Assuming that "yro" is only about rights on/of the internet, there's still a chilling effect here: Now that Chavez has total control of Boardwalk and Park Place, don't you think he's going to try to own the whole side of the game board? Venezuela internet isn't going to be free (as in speech, or as a bird) for long.
It wouldn't be trivial for him to fake the system logs at twitter central which will definitely be subpoenaed. He'll have his proof that he hacked the account soon enough.
Or anyone who happens to be in earshot: "What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color?" Of course in that case copying didn't help.
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So I'm a software developer, in my early 30's, pretty tech-savy. It took me about 45 minutes (a long time, I think) digging around Facebook's privacy settings to properly hide everything. Not only do you have to go under "Privacy", but also "Application Settings" - would the average user know to do that? Apparently "Group" privacy settings are under applications??? Those settings are complicated And even now I can't hide 1) my friends list from the public 2) my pages from the public. So my point is it's hard to NOT share too much publicly with Facebook.
Aaaaand, that's only private from the general public. Even if you update Facebook only on your own time, with your own equipment, on your own network, there's a chance that your employer can see your full profile anyway... and your mom's profile, and your dog's profile. There have been posts on /. in the past from people who said that a P.I. license and a little money shoved to FB for a special "fraud detection" account will allow HR departments full access to anyone's profile pages and photo albums. I don't know if it's true, but it's one of the only ways beyond ads that I could see FB monetizing all the data.
1. Don't use Facebook
Why did you type all that extra text when you had the perfect solution from the beginning?
Because if you don't use Facebook, Bob will for you. You know Bob, the weasel who's looking at the same promotion you are? Yeah, that Bob. A profile picture of you from either linkedin or the company website, then add some pictures from Girls Gone Wild, etc. None of the ggw ones have to show you, just show that you hang around with a wild crowd. Then some photos of a KKK meeting, and "fan of Grand Wizard Cletus" for good measure. You might not get fired, but you're not getting promoted.
Same here. Of course, I also like Timestalkers.
Flash makes the web interesting, it's what powers the little widgets you find on the sides of blogs, it's what makes the Most Interesting Man in the World interesting
I find no such widgets on the sides of blogs. And it's not Flash(R) that makes me so interesting, it's flash. *knowing smile*
Drink Responsibly.
If the iPad ships with no flash, and no option for flash, people are going to be pissed.
At whom? 32% at Apple, 32% at third party companies (Your website doesn't work on iPad!), 32% at Adobe (Make flash for iPad!), and 4% at themselves for not expecting the lack of flash?
Get the public used to the idea of computer vision input for everyday tasks, and suddenly adware starts including drivers for the cameras (just in case you forgot to install the drivers yourself).
"People seem to keep looking at the upper right hand corner of the ad window. Move most of the content there, and the subliminal content to the bottom. Horizontal mirror image for Mac OS X and Ubuntu 10.4"
But in return, you must give me your first born child.
Is it also possible that the obese rats felt less of the electrical charge since they had more body mass?
Out of the way, Peck!
We will post this to show what you guys are up to. If you try to get it taken down, it shows everything in the documentis true and real.
That, my friends, is called a checkmate in my book.
Well, your book is wrong. Suppose the Pirate Party posts a paper positing that parliament pokes preteens and are thus purportedly pedophiles? Trying to take down a document says nothing about its veracity.
Computer Science is a theoretical field. It is based around the research of computers and algorithms, around the theory of how to program, how to make them better. Fine, but that isn't what most companies are hiring.
That's right. Companies are hiring a person who knows Java and only Java, or Ruby and only Ruby, or Visual Basic and only Visual Basic. That way, they can hire the cheapest candidate who meets their current project specs, and they can fire the person when the job is done. Well, the dumb companies do that, and it's why we have a lot of turnover in the IT world. The smart companies know that they want someone who knows a little bit of everything and has proven that they have the skills to learn more than an Associate's in Programming.
I agree fully. But then, the government unfortunately doesn't, and they have guns.
And they made sure the peasantry didn't.
The days when bit-shifting was significantly faster than division for once-off calculations like this are long gone
Bit shifting is still significantly faster, just not individually on *human* timescales.
I see you have Farmville Masteries in Onions, Peppers, and Corn as well as a stable full of horses. Here are free coupons for $.99 off your next Taco Bell purchase!
$.99 !? They're paying coupon holders a half dollar to eat as long as the have the ingredients?
One of the worst things Bush did post 9/11 was creating the spate of new federal agencies. Can anyone say that their flying experience is actually better after TSA was created? Anyone?
To be fair, the only people who have had their planes fly into buildings aren't around to answer. The rest of us have experienced annoyances at the gates, so the boarding experience is worse, but the actual flying experience is just about the same (except the knowledge that just sitting still during a potential hijacking is dumb, so now people are ever slightly more on edge, but that has nothing to do with the TSA).
Um, sorry to point this out to you, but you run the risk of getting spies by contracting with just a "geek-only" NSA or contracting overseas with other countries.
I've used Ubuntu exclusively on my desktops for several years now. It's nice to know that I can always switch to another distro when they do something BAT SHIT INSANE like this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy
Change the GUI window buttons from right to left? Meh. Change the way file sizes are read so that User X and User Y see different file sizes using the same filesystem, even potentially the same remotely mounted disk?
Now I have to draft a letter to our research department telling them to stay the hell away from Ubuntu because their data will potentially be wrong (unless they take pains to remember the kilo=/=kibi switch).
What's next? Imperial units for us Europeans?
Hell no. Imperial units for file sizes. A byte will be twelve bits, a kilobyte will be 3 bytes, and a megabyte will be 5280 bytes. A petabyte will be 5.87849981x10^12 megabytes. There won't really be such things as terabytes or gigabytes, which will make drive manufacturers happy because most of their drives are measured in TB or GB.
People can afford to be different today and I don't see any problem with it. I don't hate wealthy people because they can afford nice cars, attain beautiful women (often more than one), and receive more specialized care. I see nothing wrong with their success and I hope to be one of those people someday. What I would hate is for someone like you to tell me that I can't strive to differentiate because it might upset a few people and make them envious.
If I were a rich person of the Gattaca future, I'd offer all of the poor free anti-envy gene mods. "There you go, now you're happy with your lot in life." Save your genes, George_Ou, someone might pay a lot for them in the future.
Software Engineering is an engineering discipline. That means the principles according to which the product should work are always tempered by the reality of how the work must be conducted. What good is it, for instance, if you have the most secure browser of them all, if nobody uses it?
The safest bridge is one that prevents people from getting on it.
V1@6ruh cheep.
And instead of wasting a mod point to let people know about a funny joke, you modded it offtopic. Stellar mod.
Is it really something for "Your Rights Online" or just simple /.'s HR activism? Some kind of tax incentive like when movie displays US flag? :)
Assuming that "yro" is only about rights on/of the internet, there's still a chilling effect here: Now that Chavez has total control of Boardwalk and Park Place, don't you think he's going to try to own the whole side of the game board? Venezuela internet isn't going to be free (as in speech, or as a bird) for long.
This is France. Since you don't like our language, we'll be taking it back. Please remove the word 'language' from your post. Merci.
Look, I know you're French, but you surrendered too easily. Also, Mercy is spelled with a "y", not an "i". Thanks.
It wouldn't be trivial for him to fake the system logs at twitter central which will definitely be subpoenaed. He'll have his proof that he hacked the account soon enough.
Or anyone who happens to be in earshot: "What is your name? What is your quest? What is your favorite color?" Of course in that case copying didn't help.