So they just rambling in one long incredibly unbroken string of mashed stories, moving from topic to topic so that no one could have a coherent discussion. It is really quite hypnotic.
We have to quit giving monsters the benefit of the doubt of being dumb. Fast.
The new face of Monsters is that they've gotten better and turbo-spinning their ploys to make us "sorta" believe them.
It's Fridge Logic from TV Tropes. It doesn't quite hold together, but it sounds good enough that you can't quite figure it out in twelve seconds with someone thundering "You'll either do this or you're a terrorist".
Also, from another angle, when we can deride stuff as dumb we get to forget about it. But even creaking along at 30% effectiveness is enough to cause enough Big Brother mayhem to absolutely chill us.
So it's okay for anyone / some random company to work as hard as they can to break all anonymity on the net, then sell that info to employers / other for the sole intent to breach privacy with?
So that of course means it's just crispy for *us* to do the same with that company right?
Let's start with posting a list of every senior member of that company. Then let's get LulzSec to pulverize them with beautiful data gathering. Then we hand copies of the dossier to the net for every prospective employee to have to take to interviews.
-
HR: "As a condition of employment, this company uses $Snooping_Company to determine if you are a Fast Tracked candidate for hiring. You:"Hi there. $Snooping_Company, Hmm? Their CEO had an affair with the secretary, the CIO sold people's tax data to his shell company, the CFO kept four books in violation of GAAP, and it looks like YOU went to a sports party with their HR sales rep."
I haven't revisited the signup TOS trends across the net in a while. I think there is another angle here on why creating spinoff accounts would be against TOS at all. After all, we have different email addresses and they keep trying to equate Facebook to All Thing InterTubez.
By this point I have a modest little net brand built under this handle. I found the other day that a different fellow seems to have borrowed it for FaceBook and Twitter and possibly Youtube. What effect does that have on the "dummy" account puzzle?
IRL got used to the 200 John Smiths, but on the net people seem to be more surprised to see handle duplication.
When.gov quits pretending to actually be for citizens, they'll just pull up the covers with the nice Corps they're in bed with. Let's pair the last two semi-consecutive stories in a row.
"Location aware apps from Adobe. Spying from Government."
Why are we now falling for the spin? Are we that desperate for Minority Report style ads?
Because of about 7 years of brutally aggressive corporate strategy, it will never be an even contest. Every platform will have to measure against the incumbent Windows paradigm like it or not.
Mac or Lnux - Mac has some money behind it and by using BSD they escape some some obscure trolling situations.
If I skip your derp comment, I've always said I've gotta be the central midline Linux target. I need a little help, but I'm no turbo-newbie either.
Firefox was my learning gateway to ditch IE. Cue the extensions. So I don't have mutch patience for the new fad of "OMG Chrome is 6% faster". Anyone that fickle is in trouble in other areas.
To get a Linux distro going, SOMETHING has to be stable. I'm already wrestling over the desktop environment question. KDE isn't perfect. I'm just about to try XKCE or LX-something etc. I need the browser to stay put in all of this.
If I get 100 "OMG 6.8 Earthquake in CA" blips, chances are... there's an earthquake! For news stories like that, "the news is in the title". That's why MicroPosting is becoming a killer app. Because it's a *parallel* phenomenon, it's faster than a news writer trying to find an Angle. Those come later, in the followups.
Sometimes yes, the flashfire effect burns the wrong way on a bad post, but when it burns right, it becomes the news that Big Media loses the scoop on and desperately tries to play CatchUp.
Oh my, you just scared me into realizing something.
We're going to have to all go back and study the Darmok episode of Trek TNG. Why? Because all we'll be able to get out is catalog numbers of Amazon's database containing the message we want to send.
It's not a waste, since that's not the results of the report. Let me help out.
How the Internet Has Improved Journalism --- Greater Depth Improved Quality of Commentary and Analysis Enabling Citizen Engagement Speed and Ease Expanding Hyperlocal Coverage Serving Highly Specific Interests Cheaper Content Distribution Cheaper Content Creation Direct Access to Community and Civic News
Sound different from TFS?
Yep. Same report. Time to fork slashdot to make it less inflammatory. They took the only concern, "lack of clarity how well trained bloggers are" and made it into a siren favoring Big Media.
And who exactly is "lodsys" anyway? So when they're done suing everyone via secret funding... then they'll sell their lock over the internet to the highest bidder!
We have no invention to surpass the net anywhere on the horizon for the next 10 years.
It's also who cares in that they aren't making exciting news anymore. It's really "They're evil, oh well. Oh look! Someone downloaded a copy of the Beatles! Arrest him!!"
Except they couldn't pay a 17 year old kid ten dollars to make an Adobe PDF printer default and write a script to batch-print all of them... so when they hit they hit print once they wind up with... pdfs! Then you pay the kid ten more dollars to "combine all the pdfs with Adobe" into a big hash and produce 25 USB-stick copies of the archive and a server copy with backup. Throw in $5 for Pizza Overhead for the kid.
Seriously. It's like they're trying to make themselves known forever to be obtuse.
It balances out in the "risk-costs" the little guys face when daring to take on the oligarchic companies.
The big telcos have been making too many deals on the whole anti-NetNeutrality game, so those become "unbooked costs" which the seeming-unfairness of the SC ruling is designed to counteract.
While I am certainly beyond newbie range, I have less interest in OS exploration than I used to. I plan to do more content-side research for a few years so there's still tons of XP-version stuff I can dig around in. I am concerned over the 2-year upgrade then end-of-life process though, if MS gets another miss on Win8. Paul Thurrott, among the strongest MS proponents there, posted a note lately that he was so excited in 2003 at demo tech, then felt let down when it all vanished into vaporware.
Meanwhile I am leisurely keeping my eye on the Linux side, because on of these years someone might get traction with a distro. (Ubuntu almost had it, but they might be slipping.)
No, I am adding my voice to the cacophany at having spent 50 hours doing tech support to a typical underpowered Vista laptop, and then I paid for a copy of Win 7 out of my own money and suddenly stuff started working for him.
Your positive review of Win7 is noted. My "mostly usable" bit deals with the difference in legacy hardware specs because right now one of the things XP has going for it is that everyone's second hand boxes are coming up for $100 prices, so you can just slap XP on there and get stuff done.
But your last paragraph, followed by your first one, is mostly my point, I am a bit nervous people will spend their time trying to make Win8 Not-Suk. Then after everyone else is exhausted again, let's echo your phrasing "Win 9 was done by the other guys" and it's good again. You know, I'm not at all confident Win7 will be "supported to 2020" because they're making the software apps side "X version only". I'm pretty sure that some stuff is already "Windows 7 only" aka Vista isn't supported. So soon they'll decide that Internet Explorer 11 or something is Windows 8 only. That's their version of Not Supporting the OS.
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So they just rambling in one long incredibly unbroken string of mashed stories, moving from topic to topic so that no one could have a coherent discussion. It is really quite hypnotic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He02Z5YdZbg
Monster.
We have to quit giving monsters the benefit of the doubt of being dumb. Fast.
The new face of Monsters is that they've gotten better and turbo-spinning their ploys to make us "sorta" believe them.
It's Fridge Logic from TV Tropes. It doesn't quite hold together, but it sounds good enough that you can't quite figure it out in twelve seconds with someone thundering "You'll either do this or you're a terrorist".
Also, from another angle, when we can deride stuff as dumb we get to forget about it. But even creaking along at 30% effectiveness is enough to cause enough Big Brother mayhem to absolutely chill us.
I got tangled in the hall of mirrors.
So it's okay for anyone / some random company to work as hard as they can to break all anonymity on the net, then sell that info to employers / other for the sole intent to breach privacy with?
So that of course means it's just crispy for *us* to do the same with that company right?
Let's start with posting a list of every senior member of that company. Then let's get LulzSec to pulverize them with beautiful data gathering. Then we hand copies of the dossier to the net for every prospective employee to have to take to interviews.
-
HR: "As a condition of employment, this company uses $Snooping_Company to determine if you are a Fast Tracked candidate for hiring.
You:"Hi there. $Snooping_Company, Hmm? Their CEO had an affair with the secretary, the CIO sold people's tax data to his shell company, the CFO kept four books in violation of GAAP, and it looks like YOU went to a sports party with their HR sales rep."
End Of Line.
I haven't revisited the signup TOS trends across the net in a while. I think there is another angle here on why creating spinoff accounts would be against TOS at all. After all, we have different email addresses and they keep trying to equate Facebook to All Thing InterTubez.
By this point I have a modest little net brand built under this handle. I found the other day that a different fellow seems to have borrowed it for FaceBook and Twitter and possibly Youtube. What effect does that have on the "dummy" account puzzle?
IRL got used to the 200 John Smiths, but on the net people seem to be more surprised to see handle duplication.
Hey gamers, help me out with your combo skills!
When .gov quits pretending to actually be for citizens, they'll just pull up the covers with the nice Corps they're in bed with. Let's pair the last two semi-consecutive stories in a row.
"Location aware apps from Adobe. Spying from Government."
Why are we now falling for the spin? Are we that desperate for Minority Report style ads?
Because of about 7 years of brutally aggressive corporate strategy, it will never be an even contest. Every platform will have to measure against the incumbent Windows paradigm like it or not.
Mac or Lnux - Mac has some money behind it and by using BSD they escape some some obscure trolling situations.
Oh dear gawd yes!
I'll live with my simple designs I understand!
I quake in terror at
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If I skip your derp comment, I've always said I've gotta be the central midline Linux target. I need a little help, but I'm no turbo-newbie either.
Firefox was my learning gateway to ditch IE. Cue the extensions. So I don't have mutch patience for the new fad of "OMG Chrome is 6% faster". Anyone that fickle is in trouble in other areas.
To get a Linux distro going, SOMETHING has to be stable. I'm already wrestling over the desktop environment question. KDE isn't perfect. I'm just about to try XKCE or LX-something etc. I need the browser to stay put in all of this.
I'll agree to this.
My page is kinda sloppy only 'cause I decided Good Enough was good enough. But I had an instinct the overlaid crap like Flash was gonna die.
Look at Daring Fireball. Gotta be easy to code - it's simply 60 (whatever) characters of news. The Mobile Revolution trashed the Fancy paradigm.
I'm def. a hobbyist but I trust Notepad as my go-to to save versions as text and then the Loadable copy as html.
I'll coin the term "Monte Carlo News".
If I get 100 "OMG 6.8 Earthquake in CA" blips, chances are... there's an earthquake! For news stories like that, "the news is in the title". That's why MicroPosting is becoming a killer app. Because it's a *parallel* phenomenon, it's faster than a news writer trying to find an Angle. Those come later, in the followups.
Sometimes yes, the flashfire effect burns the wrong way on a bad post, but when it burns right, it becomes the news that Big Media loses the scoop on and desperately tries to play CatchUp.
It's really quite hypnotic too.
Dark Marteria with the +1 Insightful again.
Oh my, you just scared me into realizing something.
We're going to have to all go back and study the Darmok episode of Trek TNG. Why? Because all we'll be able to get out is catalog numbers of Amazon's database containing the message we want to send.
It's not a waste, since that's not the results of the report. Let me help out.
How the Internet Has Improved Journalism
---
Greater Depth
Improved Quality of Commentary and Analysis
Enabling Citizen Engagement
Speed and Ease
Expanding Hyperlocal Coverage
Serving Highly Specific Interests
Cheaper Content Distribution
Cheaper Content Creation
Direct Access to Community and Civic News
Sound different from TFS?
Yep. Same report. Time to fork slashdot to make it less inflammatory. They took the only concern, "lack of clarity how well trained bloggers are" and made it into a siren favoring Big Media.
1955!
Did Doc Brown and Marty help?
Nope.
You publish it on your no-name blog first, then you get the delicious protections of the new copyright regime!
(That is, until they cheat again.)
And who exactly is "lodsys" anyway? So when they're done suing everyone via secret funding... then they'll sell their lock over the internet to the highest bidder!
We have no invention to surpass the net anywhere on the horizon for the next 10 years.
Oracle?
This is what doesn't add up.
"At the time, she didnâ(TM)t have a computer"
Her online presence, including a blog, Facebook and Twitter is well above average for a local business.
Who has those presences and can't get a $10 total laughingstock computer to run a text file to search the coupon numbers?
Naw, efficient programming is the hallmark of good code.
Here, my machine seems to take a long time to recover "Firefox is in use" after you close an instance. That's annoying.
It's also who cares in that they aren't making exciting news anymore. It's really "They're evil, oh well. Oh look! Someone downloaded a copy of the Beatles! Arrest him!!"
Except they couldn't pay a 17 year old kid ten dollars to make an Adobe PDF printer default and write a script to batch-print all of them ... so when they hit they hit print once they wind up with ... pdfs!
Then you pay the kid ten more dollars to "combine all the pdfs with Adobe" into a big hash and produce 25 USB-stick copies of the archive and a server copy with backup. Throw in $5 for Pizza Overhead for the kid.
Seriously. It's like they're trying to make themselves known forever to be obtuse.
It balances out in the "risk-costs" the little guys face when daring to take on the oligarchic companies.
The big telcos have been making too many deals on the whole anti-NetNeutrality game, so those become "unbooked costs" which the seeming-unfairness of the SC ruling is designed to counteract.
Thanks for the measured response.
While I am certainly beyond newbie range, I have less interest in OS exploration than I used to. I plan to do more content-side research for a few years so there's still tons of XP-version stuff I can dig around in. I am concerned over the 2-year upgrade then end-of-life process though, if MS gets another miss on Win8. Paul Thurrott, among the strongest MS proponents there, posted a note lately that he was so excited in 2003 at demo tech, then felt let down when it all vanished into vaporware.
Meanwhile I am leisurely keeping my eye on the Linux side, because on of these years someone might get traction with a distro. (Ubuntu almost had it, but they might be slipping.)
No, I am adding my voice to the cacophany at having spent 50 hours doing tech support to a typical underpowered Vista laptop, and then I paid for a copy of Win 7 out of my own money and suddenly stuff started working for him.
Hiya.
Your positive review of Win7 is noted. My "mostly usable" bit deals with the difference in legacy hardware specs because right now one of the things XP has going for it is that everyone's second hand boxes are coming up for $100 prices, so you can just slap XP on there and get stuff done.
But your last paragraph, followed by your first one, is mostly my point, I am a bit nervous people will spend their time trying to make Win8 Not-Suk. Then after everyone else is exhausted again, let's echo your phrasing "Win 9 was done by the other guys" and it's good again. You know, I'm not at all confident Win7 will be "supported to 2020" because they're making the software apps side "X version only". I'm pretty sure that some stuff is already "Windows 7 only" aka Vista isn't supported. So soon they'll decide that Internet Explorer 11 or something is Windows 8 only. That's their version of Not Supporting the OS.