drunkenmasta

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Comment · 12 years ago

This is going to take a while.

Comment · 12 years ago

First impressions:

anything over free seems like a lot to pay for something that looks so limited. pay $1 $2 do who or what? what would I do if unable to do challenge? (don't have facebook.) only 30 cards? surely you could have come up with more than that. (or are you planning on having card sets as in store purchases?) some of the display photos are redundant and after looking at them I still have no idea what kind of experience I might expect to get out of using the app.

Comment · 12 years ago

how is this different from the 200 other online education platforms?

Comment · 13 years ago

I think this is a good illustration of the value of process-based goals over outcome-based goals. The things under control, you completed. Those not under your control you did not. Sounds pretty cool to me.

Comment · 13 years ago

I guess the sad part is that they will still have plenty of people falling over themselves to get the job.

Comment · 13 years ago

amen

Comment · 13 years ago

Seems to me like they are trying to get libgen into the spotlight so it might be shutdown. Remember library.nu?

"If you want to steal the text, it's pretty easy to find an illegal copy, but you can get a nice illegal copy from LibGen. There's little risk in stealing stuff off the internet,"

Comment · 13 years ago

I was excited to learn about a new Android release but all I got was a transfer to the KitKat candybar site at the bottom and a manipulative "See if you have won!!! aka go buy some kitkats" at the top.

Comment · 13 years ago

Is there something similar to this for Firefox? The closest thing I have found is the TrackmeNot extension http://trackmenot.org/ http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/

" TrackMeNot runs in Firefox as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing. It hides users' actual search trails in a cloud of 'ghost' queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles. To better simulate user behavior TrackMeNot uses a dynamic query mechanism to 'evolve' each client (uniquely) over time, parsing the results of its searches for 'logical' future query terms with which to replace those already used."

Here's a paper they wrote on resisting surveillance in web search. http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/TMN-Howe-Niss08-ch23.pdf

Comment · 13 years ago

more of this : "But the last thing it will do is intimidate or deter us in any way from doing our job as journalists. Quite the contrary: it will only embolden us more to continue to report aggressively."

less of this: "ohh noo.. Should I write my opinion on the internet? What if the NSA is watching????! Will I be put on the...the. the list???"

Comment · 13 years ago

only one way to find out!

Comment · 13 years ago

well someone has got to do it. Like Rosa Parks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

"On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled... NAACP organizers believed that Parks was the best candidate for seeing through a court challenge after her arrest for civil disobedience in violating Alabama segregation laws though eventually her case became bogged down in the state courts.Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery Bus Boycott became important symbols of the modern Civil Rights Movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. "

Comment · 13 years ago

I don't get it. Why doesn't someone just speak out on principle. Out of everyone who "can't" speak I would expect at least one to come out and do it even though it might get them into "trouble."

Comment · 13 years ago

There really isn't much to see here. After reading I thought I had missed something, perhaps one of those "page 1 of 30" things at the bottom. But to get the "full story" I'm told to buy some magazine or whatever. So much for releasing information in the public's interest. It's time to Jason Bourne this thing and make some MONEY off of it!

Comment · 13 years ago

The bigger picture is in terms of Social Network Analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis

and the fact that companies are able to figure out lots of stuff about you even though you never consented to being a part of their service.

Hopefully the next "leak" will be about one of these big companies and what they do with your information.