Almost there with you. Charade is useful if it prevents a confrontation with someone who does not understand the security theater.
Thus, I turn the screen off for the 3 seconds it takes the flight attendant to walk by. I've been doing this for years. A fair compromise? Silly, but effective perhaps.
I turn off my cell phone simply to save the battery power. You don't get any signal above a few thousand feet, so why not save on battery for the next few hours? Heck, sometimes I even use my laptop's USB to charge the phone in-flight so it's full when I land.
I think the dumbest thing is having to turn off a Kindle. Is that even possible? Pushing the power button just goes to screensaver which uses exactly as much power as when you're actually using it.
>I think the dumbest thing is having to turn off a Kindle. Is that even possible? Pushing the power button just goes to screensaver which uses exactly as much power as when you're actually using it.
You can turn a kindle off by holding the power switch for a few seconds. I do this every time I fly, for both takeoff and landing (I leave the wireless off for the entire flight). Given how low-power a kindle is, I find it highly unlikely that it could cause interference (unless you leave the wireless on, which could definitely cause interference), but I've seen enough surprising results from Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Safety of Flight Tests (SOFT) to know that you just can't make assumptions about stuff like that.
I find that 90% of flight attendants could care less as long as you're not showing the phone in plain sight. Turning it off briefly (event with it still in your hands) or cupping it with your hands and turning sideways so they can't see the screen is enough for them to check the boxes.
Since Cutts isn't at liberty to say I think I'll take this one for him. This guy did really dumb stuff with Adwords or Adsense and got caught. Everyone wants a piece of the Google pie and Google wants no one to have it too easily, or their integrity goes to the shitter.
Think about what you could do with a tiny bit of programming knowledge and keyword knowledge to make money using these service. Then try it and get banned. Cutts works all day to ban guys like this. He's less webspam hall monitor than he is the "Ad Sheriff". The internet, and Google, is the Wild Wild West. The only thing stopping people from scraping cash from Google and other ad networks are people like him. And their algos of course.
Sorry your account got banned bro. You just got tased by the cops. Next time don't ask questions about Skull and Bones and deliver good content instead, as Cutts always says.
Even assuming the OP pulled some stunt with AdWords (and this is just an assumption that you're putting forth, without any evidence whatsoever), does it justify wiping out that guy's entire online existence? His photos? His emails? His documents?
This is like sentencing someone to death for shoplifting. GMail, Picasa, etc. are not about AdWords; they're a means for people to connect with each other. Unless, of course, Google is agreeing that you are indeed a product and not a user.
Wow. A bunch of Google fanboys voting me down for stating something rational, but that just happens to be anti-Google.
I just started using G+ (mainly because I'd like there to be a strong competitor to FB), but Google's antics give me cause for concern. I'd hate to get "hacked" some day and have Google completely wipe out every bit I have with them.
When you sign-up for a Google account, there's a little something called a Terms of Service you agree to. You violate them? You sacrifice all rights to any data you may or may not have on their services. That's something every Google user agrees to from day one. If you don't like that punishment, you shouldn't have signed up.
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...Gmail will only let you down a few hundred emails at a time. You can repeat the command (let getmail finish each time before you run it again) until all of your email is downloaded.
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You honestly expect users to fetch of their mail a few hundred messages at a time ?
You also leave out the fact that if you re-run that script a number of times in a row, Google's server's will block you until you fill out a captcha and wait 24 hours.
GMail is a free service, so having limited features and options is expected. But it's troublesome that Google doesn't feel it has an obligation to respect its user's data. An admin you're not allowed to contact thinks you violated the terms and all of your mail is deleted. Business contracts, random chats with cute girls/boys from school, messages from family and friends who might not be here anymore, ... all of it is gone.
As we can discuss now, it wasn't regarding AdWords or anything like that, it was about potential child pornography: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/bvqdos The person whose account was suspended said "I too found the image bordering on the limits of what is legally permissible and hoped to highlight the fact that it is allowed to exist within a grey area of legality."
When someone violates adwords and adsense TOS they don't get everything banned, just access to those services. In fact I think that is the case with many Google services. I once had an unused youtube account banned for an unknown reason but everything else worked. It is curious that they would shut down all of his accounts.
> This guy did really dumb stuff with Adwords or Adsense and got caught.
If that were the case then why can't Google disclose this to him when they close his account? (And perhaps, though this is a separate issue, then even give him a chance to defend his position -- you know, like they do in The Real World?)
hey pal, i'm not going to go around righting every one of you people who thinks they know what they are talking about. but since i'm here anyway, even though i already said this, i don't know a goddam thing about google adsense or adwords. period. i wouldn't know how to make money from scamming google even i wanted to.
Luckily as humans we can fight the logistic death phase after the singularity 'period'. Fight it with more and more superior AIs; perhaps something like what Adams envisioned.
But we'll most likely lose to ourselves. It's a M.A.D. world.
I hate to incriminate myself, actually not really, but anyway create account in mom's name at mom's address. Create account in dog's name at PO Box. You get the idea.
Fuck tha G-ride I want the machines that are makin em
Not that strange considering it is the most popular site on the internet next to google.com. If it's trying to predict your destination this is correct a staggeringly large percent of the time.
Of course "your" implies the masses. They use Google like we would use the address bar.
As someone touched on above with longtails, the real interesting bit will be to see what the Google keyword tool says about search terms next month(or maybe the month after that). We'll have to see if longtails have fallen off the face of the Earth or not. Maybe the autosuggest will still have a major impact vs. what they see in the SERPs below as they are typing.
Edit: I got Walmart as the first result for 'w'. Could be a location-based decision engine potentially. Fuckin rednecks
It's almost certainly location based - the first result I see for "b" is "bart", which I imagine only applies if you live in the Bay Area (for those unfamiliar: http://www.bart.gov/ )
It is not google news but sites which aggregate search terms. A good example is www.eudict.com which repeatedly puts up other peoples' search terms as real words.
(If you are searching for some words, you are flooded with EUDicks search spam)
So I just posted a link to Khan Academy (linked here earlier).
So tell me, how is your service different and more exciting than say Reddit or Digg or this site? I noticed I could not add a custom title and custom description.
I do like how it grabs the webpage info, however I have seen other link aggregators that do the same thing. Most of them would be called 'social bookmarking' sites. Reddit and Digg and HN are more like 'social bookmarking' + 'commentville'.
If I could add a suggestion.. do 'social bookmarking' + 'your secret sauce' that is magical and team up with some marketers who will spread your shit around the web like wildfire so you can get some traction and then throw up some ads on there if you want to pay for the bandwidth and hopefully a sports car.
Also: fuck that guy who said "get another job". Never back down on your entrepreneurship because you WILL make it happen. It might take 10 sites to make money, or 100. Just don't give up. The world needs more people like you, and more like him to pay us smart guys. :)
Hi Bones, you're right, we're the same as a lot of services, we looked at the way Digg, Reddit, Stumble Upon, Delicious, Facebook Links, Tumblr, etc., work and we decided to focus on an area none of them focus on.
I like sharing links, I post funny videos on my Facebook account all the time. I like the way its quick and easy. But sometimes I don't get comments because my friend circle is small. I don't mind if its public. I read reddit everyday, I love their sense of community. But I don't post on Reddit because I would never get upvoted enough to make it matter. Yet still, I have a desire to share content in a public way thats is quick and easy.
We call them "link blogs", kinda like Facebook Links + Twitter. We could then link posts by different people (to the same source) to a unified discussion page, like the way Reddit comment pages work. So I post an Obama article, you post the exact same article, but our followers get to discuss it in the same comment page.
Just a little taste of what we're thinking about. Thanks!
If I read this right it sounds intriguing. One of the problems with Reddit for example is tons of people compete for the exact same link with clever(read:usually horrifically melodramatic overstatements of truth) titles and only the one guy makes it to the front page.
So you are saying that exact same links will be somehow connected - like on the Obama article - everyone will see whoever also linked the same thing?
Yep, the technicals would have to be hammered out, but imagine the comments page that also shows, "People who also posted this", and lists the users. Also the ability to 1 click repost to your account to repost it on your blog.
This is actually something we've been juggling with for the past few days. We like how it is quick and easy (1 click) to post a link, but as you mentioned, requires more work if the user is not happy with it.
Thus, I turn the screen off for the 3 seconds it takes the flight attendant to walk by. I've been doing this for years. A fair compromise? Silly, but effective perhaps.