Comment Re:Sounds ugly (Score 1) 208
Is this so bad as it sounds?
Technical: Yes.
Real-world-home-server: No.
Talk about choices...
Comment Re:Uh, yeah! (Score 1) 426
i won't argue - i never stated that they are allowed to do ANYthing. But still they are seeking whays to maximize profit - as long as this doesn't collide with local laws. This is a more specific case of what i wrote not a falsification.
I'm almost too sure that facebook has a set of lawyers who evaluated if the ToS do collide with any laws in the US - and obviously they came to the conclusion that they are allowed to do what they are doing.
I'm almost too sure that facebook has a set of lawyers who evaluated if the ToS do collide with any laws in the US - and obviously they came to the conclusion that they are allowed to do what they are doing.
Comment Re:Uh, yeah! (Score 1) 426
And exactly where does this rant contradict my statement?
Comment Re:Naive thinking... (Score 1) 426
Really? I don't think so - i don't know the table-structure of facebook but i worked with a few CRMs. And all of them stored everything forever. "Deleted"-tags were applied to every comment, picture, etc - but nothing got really purged. In the database structure everything was still available.
Comment Re:Uh, yeah! (Score 2, Insightful) 426
Yeah - and if you paint your car green it'll get recepted as a tree. Your logic's somehow screwed up.
Seriously - what i wanted to say is this: You're using a free service which is provied by a commercial company. You really don't have to be surprised if they somehow seek ways to be profitable.
Seriously - what i wanted to say is this: You're using a free service which is provied by a commercial company. You really don't have to be surprised if they somehow seek ways to be profitable.
Comment Re:Naive thinking... (Score 1) 426
And sure as hell - if you deleted your account it wouldn't have been deleted anyway. It just wears a "deleted"-flag so it isn't publicly displayed any more.
Comment Uh, yeah! (Score 4, Informative) 426
There's an ancient proverb describing the evolution of those ToS:
You get what you paid for.
Comment Re:FOXP2 (Score 2, Informative) 229
Nah.
FOXP2 is responsible for "language development" with songbirds and other animals(*), too. If your logic would be correct, birds would talk like humans - which they obviously don't. (*)
FOXP2 is responsible for "language development" with songbirds and other animals(*), too. If your logic would be correct, birds would talk like humans - which they obviously don't. (*)
The FOXP2 protein sequence is highly conserved. Similar FOXP2 proteins can be found in songbirds, fish, and reptiles such as alligators.
see here
Comment Re:It justifies (Score 1) 307
Illegal copying is like using drugs.
i really can't see why this is modded funny.
Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 772
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Mike Nash came forward today in a blog post on the Windows Vista Blog and revealed the official name for Windows Code Name '7' as simply 'Windows 7.' The reasoning, by Mr. Nash, is that Windows 7 is 'the seventh release of Windows.' As much wonderful sense as this makes on first glance, it seems as if Microsoft's marketing teams pulled this number out of thin air: the Windows 7 kernel is version 6.1, and there's no way Windows 7 adds up as the seventh release of Windows anyway."
The Quietest Sun 227
Orbity sends in a Boston Globe report on the unusual calm on the surface of the sun. The photos, many taken in more active solar times, are excellent — see the sequence from last year of a coronal mass ejection carrying away the tail of a comet. "The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minimum — in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year — with over 200 days so far with no observed sunspots. The solar wind has also dropped to its lowest levels in 50 years. Scientists are unsure of the significance of this unusual calm..." As if to be contrary, New Scientist mentions that the number of sunspots seem to be increasing.
Submission + - Is Linux out of touch with the average user?
MrSmith writes: Is Linux's less than impressive market share an indication that the movement is out of touch with the average computer user? ZDNet examines five reasons that could explain why people are still winning to pay (or pirate) an operating system when free alternatives exist. One of the reasons seems to be that despite what many Linux advocates claim, Windows users aren't on the whole dissatisfied with their OS:
'Despite what you read on websites and blogs, newspapers and magazines, people on the whole aren't all that dissatisfied with Windows. There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs without any real difficulty.'
'Despite what you read on websites and blogs, newspapers and magazines, people on the whole aren't all that dissatisfied with Windows. There are millions of users out there who just get on and use their PCs without any real difficulty.'
Submission + - FTC sells national do not call list to spammers?
Anonymous Coward writes: "About three years ago I signed up for the national do not call list
at https://www.donotcall.gov/ using a sneakemail.com address that
was unique for that site and never given to any other site. (Note
how the link on the registration page which states "Learn why your
email address is required" is a broken link, yes, very nice.) But
they have a privacy statement at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm
which specifically states "We will not share your email address with
telemarketers". However this morning I just got an e-mail from
matchmaker.com that came in through that address. Does this not
seem like the exact opposite of the purpose of a do not call list?"
Submission + - Debian sets tentative release date for Etch
Headbonk writes: Luk Claes announced yesterday on debian-devel-announce that the debian release managers are ready to set a tentative release date of April 2 for Etch aka Debian 4.0
2 Apr 2007: 0 RC bugs. Barring any problems that would cause us to need to re-roll the installer <knock on wood>, we should be ready to release.
Journal Journal: OpenBSD's second remote hole in the default installation
The OpenBSD project has just issued an advisory (and updated its website to reflect the change) that it now has its second remote root vulnerability in more than ten years. The exploit itself is performed with a specially crafted IPv6 ICMP packet, and is caused by a bug in the mbuf chains in the operating system kernel. The OpenBSD team have released a patch. The bug affects all versions of OpenBSD. Since
