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Comment Re:Nothing to see here (Score 2) 319

Every time you visit a website, there is the potential to track what you looked at and how long you stayed there. From this data, all sorts of extrapolations can be made.

This is happening to all of us every day, it's just not as obviously creepy as a fed following you around in an adult bookstore.

Comment Nothing to see here (Score 5, Informative) 319

While Free6.com included a notice warning that the posting of “child pornography or other illegal material” would be reported to “local authorities,” Burdick had site administrators add a line noting that, “Free6.com may disclose these communications to the authorities at its discretion.”

Site says to stop posting inappropriate, illegal material. Site warns that it will report such content to authorities. Site acts on threat.

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Amazon Fake Products and Fake Reviews 240

rsk writes "The first time I came across fake reviews on Amazon, it was hilarious. Using Amazon's Window Shop app, I came across a great category, 'Peculiar Products,' and was more than happy to look through it. Almost every one of the products I found on the list (Uranium Ore, 1 Gallon of Milk, Parent Child Test, Fresh Whole Rabbit) were fake, with thousands of reviews on them. As a shopper, I wasn't aware of how easy it was to apparently fake product reviews and it bothers me. When I'm shopping, the first (and a lot of times only) place I visit is Amazon to read the reviews if I'm in the market for something. I don't expect the reviews to be the word of God, but I do assume a certain level of legitimacy for most of them. While this won't affect my use of Amazon (especially not at this time of the year) I would like to bubble this up to Amazon's attention so some time is spent on improving the quality of the reviews."

Comment Re:Microsoft releases Silverlight 5, nobody cares (Score 1) 213

Silverlight 1 was awful, but now Silverlight 4 is pretty good. I've been developing web applications for over ten years professionally. As I mentioned in a previous post there are a lot of things you can so in SL that you can't do very well in either Flash or HTML5. Your comment shows that you are pretty disconnected from reality and not privy to what corporate customers and end users are really looking to see in web applications these days.

Comment Re:Silverlight as a native application ?? (Score 1) 213

That isn't correct. You can write native code for WP7. I am not sure where that rumor got started. Even so, there are probably a handful of situations that benefit from native code like games, audio processing, and other graphics intensive applications. There is going to be little or no benefit from native code in most other apps.

Having written both Android and iPhone apps, I can tell you which platform I prefer to develop for. Apple's toolchain is less than awful. Additionally, I doubt the fact that the applications were written in Obj-C had any effect on the performance of the app.

Comment Re:I argue differently (Score 1) 213

Uh, Java is Open Source, .net is server-side (except for Silverlight of course) and Flash does undermine standardization as well. What's your point again?

Sorry, OP is right. .NET is not "server-side". You are thinking of ASP .NET. .NET is very similar to Java in a number of ways, in fact it runs on a number of different platforms. There is even a version of .NET designed to run on ARM micros.

Regarding standardization, we just had a client come to us with a pretty nice AJAX application and told us to rebuild it in Silverlight. See the client realizes that it's the user experience that's the most important, not the tech that the app is built with. Simply put, there are things that we can so in Silverllight right now that just can't be done well in HTML5 or even Flash. Conversely, there are apps that will work better in Flash and or HTML 5 than Silverlight.

Also I could build the same application in HTM5, Flash and Silverlight. Dollars to donuts, with either Flash or SL, it's going to be more maintainable than HTML5. I am working on an AJAX project right and have done many, so my previous comment is based on personal development experiences.

Comment Re:Ok, I'm convinced (Score 1) 213

While Android and Apple have a strong foothold in mobile, the game can change really fast. Five years ago Android didn't even exist. Now as you say it's a strong player. Palm is dead. RIM was once a powerhouse and now is languishing. I heard similar comments comments about XBOX when it was launched a number of years ago, now it is quite a successful console.

Now MS has a captive audience of gamers that are interested in the integration between XBox and Windows Mobile 7. Whether you like the Windows 7 experience or not (I haven't used it personally), it offers something different than what's out there now. Only a fool would count them out of the game.

Comment Re:Hell, no (Score 1) 648

They're not getting any money from the govt. They are getting a tax break. The company says it's going to invest $150m in the park. This will be good for KY. That being said, It's a stupid idea and isn't likely to be that successful, but this doesn't mean that Kentucky should shun the investment if they don't have better options are available.

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