Posts by Ole Juul

Liberte. Egalite. Fraternite.

"I'm engraving it on my cufflinks."

You have three sleeves?

An insult button?

"First thing I did after reading this was insult the Thai royal family."

Perhaps there should be another button - right beside the "like".

myface

I'm from Canada and we have year books, but here in the west calling it a "facebook" is unknown. I'm with LaeMing, it's just a name.

I understand your point. From a legal point of view there is no difficulty. I would, however, suggest that there is another way to look at it as well.

Can you ignore the reality that people will tick tick boxes without knowing what they are agreeing to? Ask some Facebook users what they think the user agreement looks like, or what it might mean to them. I honestly don't think that many people are very cognisant of what they are agreeing to on-line. This is a similar situation to getting consent from children who are under age - they don't understand the ramifications and hence are incapable of giving consent. When it comes to on-line activity,I think many people are co-opted by social pressures into agreeing to documents which they have not read and may in fact be unable to understand. Is that really consent?

It's not a mistake

and they already did learn. They've learnt to say: "we should have been more clear". So far that seems to work for them.

I am old

I might agree on the videos, but they weren't made for me and my opinion doesn't count. I'm still cheering for the kid.

Does this really matter though?

Apart from the fact that we don't have any details of the efficacy of this software, we haven't yet heard from Microsoft. Is it not possible that this actually won't really rock the boat? Mind you, there is a certain ghoulish part of me that hopes it does.

@noboard

"My thoughts exactly, anyone who thinks we live in a capitalist society any more isn't worth listening too. I guess they just haven't thought of a name for this new society we belong to. Corrupt gets my vote."

I think "corrupt" fits everywhere. However, pretty much anything that works does so because it benefits society in general. So, as long as we have public roads and schools, pay taxes and vote, I'd have to call it socialism.

misread

I think you misread the post on which you were commenting. He said "Approximately one and a quarter items attacking Macs.....". That's "items" - not "times".

Competition is good

There's always someone that isn't happy for some reason. However, I don't doubt that ElReg and others here have had good service. I think it is the nature of competition. Unlike some other internet services, server space is a global market where there are lots of choices.

I use a company called Superb Internet Corp. and I get a response in minutes and resolution shortly after that. There's certainly no staffing shortages there. If it wasn't that way I'd leave.

Only two implications?

"Not turning up implies either guilt or total disregard for the legal system, neither of which is going to win you any brownie points with the judge or the jury."

A little imagination and one could come up with a few more reasons. For instance, one could imagine someone being sick. Perhaps even suffering from an illness that effects the mind. I have a feeling that people who commit suicide at such a young age are not mentally and emotionally well - perhaps you disagree.

You didn't answer my question.

I am questioning the application of the law in this matter. I agree that it is a complex matter, but to me the laws seem to be applied differently in various situations. Is Face book above the law, or is this some special case?

There is such a thing as "age of consent". In England it is 16, but it varies by country. There is also the "age of majority" which is typically 18. Facebook explicitly prohibiting unsupervised children does not change that. I certainly hope that no one would argue that prohibiting children would make it less enticing to them. The numbers would seem to speak for themselves in that case. Is Facebook then not complicit?

off-loading everything to the could.

Because they cloud?

Location?

I have a car that runs on both gas and gasoline. Propane and natural gas conversions are as easy as taking your car in to get a tank and modified carburettor. After that you will be able to fill up at one of the stations where they sell your fuel of choice. That's Canada, where do you live?

About the pallets

I'm just thinking of the pallets and it seems to me that if there is ownership attached, then there actually can be privacy issues. For example if I was shipping pallets of stolen goods then I might not want anybody to know it was me. Ok, maybe that wasn't the best example ....

@Mr ChriZ

Sorry, I was referring to the personal attack by the AC following your post. However, now that I got you on the line I'll comment on what you said. :)

Of course one can download untrusted *nix programs from all kinds of places but my point is that the people who know how to install (and often compile locally) from outside the repositories are not the people that Google is trying to protect here. In fact, most Linux users stick with the provided package management system so they will never see any benefit from this code.

Regarding your earlier comment about me perhaps thinking that helpful solutions shouldn't be provided by others. Of course not! I'm glad Google is doing this. Many people will benefit. I'm just suggesting that it is a bit of a free patch for Microsoft who seems to be slacking a bit on the issue of permissions. IOW, Google is not just doing their users a favour but helping Microsoft along too. I hope Microsoft appreciates it.

Page load times

Even though startup time is irrelevant to me because I leave everything running, after reading this article I decided to try disabling Firebug just in case. What a difference! Like mk1992 says, "it does slow down page load times". I'm an amateur and can do without Firebug and find Webdeveloper to be adequate for me anyway.

Needle stuck on the compass

I came out Liberal as well, yet they don't match my politics. I agree, It's obviously the default. Actually I found the whole thing a bit of a farce because most of the questions were not important political issues to me. This "compass" has a stuck needle.

More cooks?

I'm with Piloti in that a good conversation is a better way to sort things out. If there is something lacking in a document the answer may be to get another writer. It is certainly not a good idea to get more of them.

Rules of engagement

"But I guess that'd be cheating."

Yes, they'll probably make a rule to prevent that, or at least dock them points.

They actually are using the phone system

Soon after I wrote that I discovered that the phones are actually being used. SMS is turned off which makes it a little more difficult for people to organize, but I have been following a twitter feed of up to date reports from various places there. You can find it here: http://twitter.com/#!/Jan25voices

This is a very narrow channel, but there are pictures being posted on web pages and blogs too. Of course not a lot of pictures are being sent, but many people there have video and still images on their phone and when the net opens up again we will, no doubt, see an unprecedented deluge of material.

The Egypt communications wiki is here:

http://werebuild.eu/wiki/Egypt/Main_Page