Yes, but Google gives you the choice; a simple settings parameter will allow you to step outside that walled garden (giving me hesitation to even term it as such) while Apple requires you to jailbreak your phone, which they forbid and actively try to prevent.
For billionth fucking time.
WOOSH!
You were so filled with Apple Hate that you completely missed the point: That, perhaps that, even given the choice (which I bet most Android users actually don't tKe advantage of anyway), the number of times that going outside of the Garden would solve an actual need for all but the most esoteric of uses, is so vanishingly small, that it just doesn't make sense by an overwhelming margin.
Typical egotistical slashdotter; what's good for me must be good for the platform...
...have you ever administered users in a Mac environment? I have. It made me want to leave IT.
Why yes. Yes I have. In a mixed environment with Windows, so I know the difference.
In that particular case, the Windows:Mac ratio was only about 2:1, yet the trouble-ticket ratio was about 50:1, with Windows being the "50", of course. And no, it is not a reflection on my IT skills in either environment; nor of the relative complexity of the tasks to which the machines of each OS were put; but rather a testament to the stability and ease-of-use (or lack thereof), of each.
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And judging from your responses and attitude, I would say that it is clear that you never bothered to learn how to Admin Macs, and so were stuck forever trying to figure out how to Admin Macs like Windows machines; which obviously frustrated both you and your unfortunate users. No wonder you were frustrated; hoping to death that your superiors wouldn't find out just how lame you were/are.
I have, at various times since Windows was DOS and Macs were Lisas, both used and administered both platforms in a huge variety of applications, including, but in no way limited to, such "swimming-uphill" ones like doing embedded software and hardware design on old-school Macs (it's a lot easier now), to doing desktop publishing on Windows, and absolutely everything in-between. I currently write Windows application software, and Admin several Windows servers (and the occasional Windows desktop) across several versions of both.
What I am saying is that you'd better improve your understanding of Macs and OS X; because, they're here to stay (just like Windows). So, the next time you feel enraged at a "stupid Mac user" (and, just like stupid Windows users, they most certainly exist), you can stop, take a deep breath, and actually try to help, rather than berate, them, ok?
Or perhaps, you should just listen to your heart and simply leave IT; because you aren't doing it right.
Same thing happens in iOS, except you don't know it is doing so. Try a jailbroken device with PMP (Protect my Privacy), and you will see that a lot of iOS apps do a lot more phoning home than you would think.
The black eye with Android isn't Google's fault. Virtually all reports of malware I see here in the US are due to people going to shady repositories for pirated apps. Yes, it might "save" $1.99 on an app, but there is a good chance, a lot more "functionality" might come with the.apk file.
And so there it is: the exact argument for a Curated Collection (a/k/a "Walled Garden")...
I used to get a lot of emails of a closed LinkedIn account as well. This untill I found somewhere on their site a way to REALLY block the receiving emails. After that nothing anymore.
So regardless of what you think of them, that is at least something that was possible to do. And no, I never received spam via them. What I do is use e.g. for/. the email adress slashdot.org@example.com so I KNOW where it comes from.
Thanks for the tip(s)! Glad to see they actually HAVE a way to stop the ILLEGAL onslaught of non-solicited, soliciting emails...
Yeah, back in the days of Radio Shack (RIP), et al, asking for name and address so they could "SPAM" you with snail-junk-mail, I used to intentionally vary my name slightly, so I could tell who sold what list to who.
> my boss sent me a LinkedIn invite
I've seen this before. I think their system does it unprompted.
That is, your boss has no idea s/he invited you to jack shit.
I don't do Social Media/Networking at all (and I rarely, if ever, miss it).
A couple of years ago, my boss sent me a LinkedIn invite. I said "Well, it's my boss; so..." and started to fill-out the application.
I got to some point, and said "Screw this. I'm not giving up (whatever info it was it wanted)." , and CANCELLED the rest of the application. Mind you, I had NOT completed the Application, so theoretically, no LinkedIn "Account" was created...
Too late! My work email, which had been blissfully SPAM-FREE for two years, INSTANTLY started receiving about a dozen pieces of SPAM per day!
It eventually (almost) stopped; but I learned a valuable lesson: Despite the language regarding "We won't sell your email addy into cyber-slavery", it's all a big lie (go figure!)
So that, was that. I stuck my toe into Social Media, and promptly got it bitten-off. So, no more for me!
You clearly didn't read the law, or have no clue about law. Actually, it doesn't. It allows you to claim 1st amendment. Not that you'd win.
I'm a white guy. I was refused service, in Maryland just last weekend. I simply moved to another shop. What's the big deal? Gays don't get to shove their homosexuality down someone else's throat? Make someone else do something they don't want to? How would you like it if someone used the force of government to make you do something you didn't want to? Why are you arguing for them to be able to do that?
I happen to live in Indianapolis, and not only have I read (and understand) the article you mention (and many more), but I have read the excellent follow up article in the Star, which has an analysis of the differences between the Federal RFRA and the Indiana RFRA that not only proves everything I am saying, bug is also backed up with the opinion of experts on both sides of the issue more schooled in the law than either of us. Not to mention things like the letter to Gov. Pence signed by FIVE former Governors of Indiana, and another one signed by the CEOs of nine major Corporations admonishing him to stop ruining the State for some political coin.
You enjoy a deluge of stories on the front page that aren't funny? People wouldn't be complaining so much if the stories were actually funny instead of just retarded.
Although I applaud the cleverness of your Username; I believe I have made my feelings abundantly clear in this thread, to wit:
It isn't the quality of the humor on April Fool's Day; it is just the sheer joy of everyone being allowed to be a little kid for a day.
I think you grossly overestimate the number of people who are as mind-numbingly stupid as you are. Yes, even on Slashdot.
You do realize you are Replying to my post which has been moderated +5 Insightful (and which has several Replies in agreement); so I guess there are at least 5 people with Mod Points that are as "mind-numbingly stupid" as me.
Who's this "we" you speak of? You're the product here, son, not the customer. The sooner you understand your place in Slashdot the sooner you'll understand why even one day a year is one too many.
...and, as an ANONYMOUS COWARD, you aren't anything.
I REALLY think/. should eliminate the AC bit. I've personally had my Karma stripped from "Excellent" to "Poor" in one frickin' day JUST because I refuse to post as AC, and took an unpopular (pro-Apple) stance in a particularly Apple-Hating thread.
Thank you. April Fools Day would be much more enjoyable without the blowhards wining about how they don't find it amusing. We don't care about what you find, or don't find funny. Please go to your room for the rest of the day so the rest of us can enjoy it in peace.
There is no acceptable amount of time for an adult to act like a 6-year-old. Sorry.
Normal, well adjusted, "life having" people find humor on their own everyday, without the need for it to be shoved down their throats. If you need today to have humor then I would suggest you follow your own dick-ish advice from earlier and get a life.
April fools day is about hoaxes and pranks... not thinly disguised click-bait and attention whoring by a lame editor who thinks he's funny.
Actually, I find most attempts at April Fool's humor to be purile and devoid of actual humor; but that's not the point. The point is simply in the irreverence of it all. That ONE day of the year, we all get to be 6-year-olds; laughing at stupid jokes, calling friends up and (non-harmfully) pranking them, etc.
The quality of the humor doesn't enter into it. I agree it's more enjoyable if the joke is slightly more erudite than the "pull my finger"-level; but it's all in good fun, and that's the real point.
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Yes, but Google gives you the choice; a simple settings parameter will allow you to step outside that walled garden (giving me hesitation to even term it as such) while Apple requires you to jailbreak your phone, which they forbid and actively try to prevent.
For billionth fucking time.
WOOSH!
You were so filled with Apple Hate that you completely missed the point: That, perhaps that, even given the choice (which I bet most Android users actually don't tKe advantage of anyway), the number of times that going outside of the Garden would solve an actual need for all but the most esoteric of uses, is so vanishingly small, that it just doesn't make sense by an overwhelming margin.
Typical egotistical slashdotter; what's good for me must be good for the platform...
...have you ever administered users in a Mac environment? I have. It made me want to leave IT.
Why yes. Yes I have. In a mixed environment with Windows, so I know the difference.
In that particular case, the Windows:Mac ratio was only about 2:1, yet the trouble-ticket ratio was about 50:1, with Windows being the "50", of course. And no, it is not a reflection on my IT skills in either environment; nor of the relative complexity of the tasks to which the machines of each OS were put; but rather a testament to the stability and ease-of-use (or lack thereof), of each.
. And judging from your responses and attitude, I would say that it is clear that you never bothered to learn how to Admin Macs, and so were stuck forever trying to figure out how to Admin Macs like Windows machines; which obviously frustrated both you and your unfortunate users. No wonder you were frustrated; hoping to death that your superiors wouldn't find out just how lame you were/are.
I have, at various times since Windows was DOS and Macs were Lisas, both used and administered both platforms in a huge variety of applications, including, but in no way limited to, such "swimming-uphill" ones like doing embedded software and hardware design on old-school Macs (it's a lot easier now), to doing desktop publishing on Windows, and absolutely everything in-between. I currently write Windows application software, and Admin several Windows servers (and the occasional Windows desktop) across several versions of both.
What I am saying is that you'd better improve your understanding of Macs and OS X; because, they're here to stay (just like Windows). So, the next time you feel enraged at a "stupid Mac user" (and, just like stupid Windows users, they most certainly exist), you can stop, take a deep breath, and actually try to help, rather than berate, them, ok?
Or perhaps, you should just listen to your heart and simply leave IT; because you aren't doing it right.
>Exactly what do Android devices do with you Liver to Notify you?
LOL! *haptic* feedback, I think I cut and pasted his spelling by accident :)
I know; probably an auto-correct error. I just couldn't resist, sorry!
"Windows 3.0 ships in 1990, ushering in the era of graphics on computers..."
You've lgot to be kidding me!
Android wear devices have hepatic feedback
Exactly what do Android devices do with you Liver to Notify you?
As for the scroll wheel, I wonder why it's there (instead of using gestures on the touch screen)
That was explained in the Keynote last Fall, when the watch was debuted.
Basically, Apple decided that the Watch screen was just too small to reasonably support Zoom and Scroll gestures with average size adult hands.
Same thing happens in iOS, except you don't know it is doing so. Try a jailbroken device with PMP (Protect my Privacy), and you will see that a lot of iOS apps do a lot more phoning home than you would think.
Log files, or it didn't happen.
The black eye with Android isn't Google's fault. Virtually all reports of malware I see here in the US are due to people going to shady repositories for pirated apps. Yes, it might "save" $1.99 on an app, but there is a good chance, a lot more "functionality" might come with the .apk file.
And so there it is: the exact argument for a Curated Collection (a/k/a "Walled Garden")...
Thank You.
Actually, Google specifically assumes that your privacy does have value to you, and that you should be able to decide what you'll trade it for.
Of course, then there's THIS .
I used to get a lot of emails of a closed LinkedIn account as well. This untill I found somewhere on their site a way to REALLY block the receiving emails. After that nothing anymore.
So regardless of what you think of them, that is at least something that was possible to do. And no, I never received spam via them. What I do is use e.g. for /. the email adress slashdot.org@example.com so I KNOW where it comes from.
Thanks for the tip(s)! Glad to see they actually HAVE a way to stop the ILLEGAL onslaught of non-solicited, soliciting emails...
Yeah, back in the days of Radio Shack (RIP), et al, asking for name and address so they could "SPAM" you with snail-junk-mail, I used to intentionally vary my name slightly, so I could tell who sold what list to who.
I would have gone to my boss and asked for the reasons I should be on LinkedIn. Thank God I never signed up for Facebook.
Meh. I just ignored it, and told him why I didn't opt-in.
His response was on the lines of "No kidding?", and that was the end of that.
> my boss sent me a LinkedIn invite I've seen this before. I think their system does it unprompted. That is, your boss has no idea s/he invited you to jack shit.
Probably.
Sometimes, I just HATE computers...
I don't do Social Media/Networking at all (and I rarely, if ever, miss it).
A couple of years ago, my boss sent me a LinkedIn invite. I said "Well, it's my boss; so..." and started to fill-out the application.
I got to some point, and said "Screw this. I'm not giving up (whatever info it was it wanted)." , and CANCELLED the rest of the application. Mind you, I had NOT completed the Application, so theoretically, no LinkedIn "Account" was created...
Too late! My work email, which had been blissfully SPAM-FREE for two years, INSTANTLY started receiving about a dozen pieces of SPAM per day!
It eventually (almost) stopped; but I learned a valuable lesson: Despite the language regarding "We won't sell your email addy into cyber-slavery", it's all a big lie (go figure!)
So that, was that. I stuck my toe into Social Media, and promptly got it bitten-off. So, no more for me!
You clearly didn't read the law, or have no clue about law. Actually, it doesn't. It allows you to claim 1st amendment. Not that you'd win.
I'm a white guy. I was refused service, in Maryland just last weekend. I simply moved to another shop. What's the big deal? Gays don't get to shove their homosexuality down someone else's throat? Make someone else do something they don't want to? How would you like it if someone used the force of government to make you do something you didn't want to? Why are you arguing for them to be able to do that?
You have no clue what you're talking about, that's why. Here's the law, not that you'll read it: http://www.indystar.com/story/...
I happen to live in Indianapolis, and not only have I read (and understand) the article you mention (and many more), but I have read the excellent follow up article in the Star, which has an analysis of the differences between the Federal RFRA and the Indiana RFRA that not only proves everything I am saying, bug is also backed up with the opinion of experts on both sides of the issue more schooled in the law than either of us. Not to mention things like the letter to Gov. Pence signed by FIVE former Governors of Indiana, and another one signed by the CEOs of nine major Corporations admonishing him to stop ruining the State for some political coin.
And when the original sponsor of the Federal RFRA says that the Indiana Law is different in important (and dangerous) ways than the one he championed (and which he and Obama both supported), then you best listen.
You enjoy a deluge of stories on the front page that aren't funny? People wouldn't be complaining so much if the stories were actually funny instead of just retarded.
Although I applaud the cleverness of your Username; I believe I have made my feelings abundantly clear in this thread, to wit:
It isn't the quality of the humor on April Fool's Day; it is just the sheer joy of everyone being allowed to be a little kid for a day.
In fact, unless you are publishing an April Fool's spoof in Scientific American or somesuch, you are not well-served to have your humor be too highbrow.
And no; Slashdot doesn't count as an "intellectual publication"; so get over it, and yourself.
Remember: One day. 24 Hours. That's it. Deal with it.
The rest of us actually enjoythis.
I think you grossly overestimate the number of people who are as mind-numbingly stupid as you are. Yes, even on Slashdot.
You do realize you are Replying to my post which has been moderated +5 Insightful (and which has several Replies in agreement); so I guess there are at least 5 people with Mod Points that are as "mind-numbingly stupid" as me.
It wasn't because you took an unpopular stance it was because you posted bullshit.
Sez the Anonymous COWARD.
Who's this "we" you speak of? You're the product here, son, not the customer. The sooner you understand your place in Slashdot the sooner you'll understand why even one day a year is one too many.
...and, as an ANONYMOUS COWARD , you aren't anything.
I'm actually surprised at all the negative post.
Don'tcha know? That's what Anonymous COWARDS do!
/. should eliminate the AC bit. I've personally had my Karma stripped from "Excellent" to "Poor" in one frickin' day JUST because I refuse to post as AC, and took an unpopular (pro-Apple) stance in a particularly Apple-Hating thread.
I REALLY think
Thank you. April Fools Day would be much more enjoyable without the blowhards wining about how they don't find it amusing. We don't care about what you find, or don't find funny. Please go to your room for the rest of the day so the rest of us can enjoy it in peace.
Exactly.
There is no acceptable amount of time for an adult to act like a 6-year-old. Sorry.
Normal, well adjusted, "life having" people find humor on their own everyday, without the need for it to be shoved down their throats. If you need today to have humor then I would suggest you follow your own dick-ish advice from earlier and get a life.
Sez (yet another) ANONYMOUS COWARD...
That's about as funny as the story's you're defending.
Still funnier than the "cunt" ad hominem slap.
And I wasn't defending the story; I was defending the concept of "spoof-stories" in general (on this day).
I can't.. this is the only webpage my browser will go to. everything else get redirected back to slashdot!
I can't do work, i can't do anything. I even tried ping whitehouse.com, and came up with the same 216.34.181.45 IP that slashdot uses. it is hopeless.
See? We warned you...
Mwuhahahahahaha!!!
April fools day is about hoaxes and pranks ... not thinly disguised click-bait and attention whoring by a lame editor who thinks he's funny.
Actually, I find most attempts at April Fool's humor to be purile and devoid of actual humor; but that's not the point. The point is simply in the irreverence of it all. That ONE day of the year, we all get to be 6-year-olds; laughing at stupid jokes, calling friends up and (non-harmfully) pranking them, etc.
The quality of the humor doesn't enter into it. I agree it's more enjoyable if the joke is slightly more erudite than the "pull my finger"-level; but it's all in good fun, and that's the real point.
you are a cunt.
No. I just checked. I'm still a Dick.