You're quite correct of course. I was looking at my world time zone chart, and failed to notice that the time-line I was looking at was actually just gone midnight on Saturday morning - so I was an entire 24 hours off. My cock-up. I meant, of course, somewhere like Honolulu.
Oops...
April Fool - what part of the world is
will it take to back up the World? Well, that's what they said, but they didn't specify which world.
Coz they're going to want to let that happen? How long before people reverse-engineer that source code so they can hack in easier and steal whatever personal data they want to?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you IANASNOW. Well, I'm not. What would be more interesting to me, from a statistical point of view, is;-
a) how many of those 'still active' accounts are actually 'still used', and how many are dead accounts that people just couldn't be arsed to go through the agro of trying to close down
b) how many people actually own those 10bn accounts? I'm sure that there are many people out there who have a Twitter, FB, My[ ], WoW, 2nd Life etc - so how many billion individual people are actually on social networking / on-line world accounts.
Statistically I suspect that will show that I am still, statistically at least, 'normal'.
Maybe because I'm not on FB, don't have a Twitter account etc, but I cannot see the benefit from a Social point of view of this.
As a 'search ranking' type tool though - without the need for an account etc - I could see the benefit in people being able to give a +1 to say that it was a good result for their search parameters, but a system like that would just end up being hijacked by script kiddies pushing their web pages up the list one way or another.
Just wondering, coz we seem to have been infected by plenty of rogue ACs recently. Oh wait - "rogue AV" - my mistake.
...not just flicking over them with my eyeballs on autopilot. I read "Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A Bomb" and thought - "So what? Is this a particular bomb, a historical bomb or something". It was only about 10 seconds later when my brain caught up and made me re-check what I'd actually read.
Would it really have hurt to add an extra 5 characters into the headline?
No real surprise here. Exactly what happens in the school playground when somebody turns round and finally stands up to the class bully.
I've looked at both the pages linked in TFA (Yes, I know - nobody actually reads TFA anymore), and the actual BC.edu site does NOT state anything about using a wireless router being a copyright infringement. The screenshot on the techdirt site looks genuine enough, so either somebody has modified the screenshot to try and make the college look bad, or Boston College has already realised that it was a bit silly and modified it. Either way... they are quite right to warn students as they (the college) will almost be held accountable legally for anything undertaken by students on campus. It would hardly be the first time - anyone remember this;-
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/03/17/0350211/US-Ed-Dept-Demanding-Principals-Censor-More
Well, in my case it's simple as I use Linux for everything nowadays - I do still have a Win XP partition on this laptop, as it makes it easier to support my Dad when he gets problems, but I never use it.
If I was buying a new laptop and needed Windows on it then I'd 'obtain' one. It isn't software piracy as I already own the license through buying the hardware with the COA on it, so it's not illegal. The only problem is that you would still need to download the hardware-specific drivers from Samsung's website - and who can say that they don't bury the keylogger software inside one of them? Then you're shit out of luck I guess, unless you're ready to reverse-engineer the downloaded code.
it will be before people start slagging off Google for this, questioning their business practices, accusing them of being stooges for the government, claiming that they will just use this to spy on everybody's browsing habits so they can make money from it etc, ad-infinitum, ad nauseum.
It's not just the RIAA. Here in the UK we are covered by the PRS (Performing Right Society), who stick their nose in everywhere it's not wanted as well. We've had issues going on for years - no radios allowed in offices, factories etc unless the company pays for a license from the PRS.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/the_p_word/newsid_7457000/7457376.stm
It even got to the state where taxi drivers were being threatened with legal action for having a radio on if their passengers could hear the radio - how damn stupid is that. So, the taxi driver could listen to the radio on the way to pick up a fare but, once they had picked them up, had to turn off the radio until they dropped them off again.
Remote Objective Forensic Lead MIT Funded And Open-source Copter - Well, we can hope.
With your bare hands?!?