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My name and email address is the very last thing in the Waze about box, because they used some code I open sourced. Turns out it's the only email address anywhere in the app. Thanks to this, I get about a dozen emails a week from people asking for Waze help. (Lots more when Waze changes something, like hardware support for a particular device!) I've tried contacting Google (either to get these people help, or to get…
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The Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA has an exhibit of letters written by interested citizens to the astronomers at Mt. Wilson observatory in the early decades of the 20th century ( http://mjt.org/exhibits/letters/letters.html ). Mt. Wilson was famous at the time because Edwin Hubble had just discovered extra-galactic light sources, and the Big Bang, while observing with the 100-inch telescope there. Most letters…
I find it relieving that people were already bad at punctuation 88 years ago.
"My facebook suddely split in half and this screen popped up with all these random cyber space options and it was like watching and assessing things soooo weird? and talking about child... and children being forced WTF????? is this some sort of cyber police thing that my IP was accedently allowed to access so i could help stop child abuse on the net or am i going crazy???? has this happened to anyone else??? - :(( - feeling confused".
[what happened, was that this person most likely clicked F12 or Ctrl+Shift+I - and brought up the chrome/firefox/etc. developer console]
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Yes languages are fluid but words also have various meanings. If we have to prevent ourselves from using some word because others may find it offensive, that is self-censoring. OP tried to get around that by trying to say that when you could be heard by 'them' you shouldn't use those words, but this is the public internet. You are always communicating in the presence of those that will be offended.
This isn't a matter of anyone being "offended," though. No one finds the word "hacker" offensive, they just might have a completely different definition of it depending on what their experiences are. You might as well use a word that's unambiguous. Likewise, editing a paper to remove grammatical errors is also not "self-censorship." It's improving the clarity of your message.
About nine years ago now, I worked for a small security startup that managed to make its way up to PCI certification for scanning websites before keeling over dead. It died the "just one more feature before we can release" death, so you've never heard of it. You've probably never even heard of the company that bought it/put it out of its misery. I'm pretty sure the customer base never exceeded the low single digits.…
Be kind, though. This is a real person, perhaps a neighbor, who's scared and confused and who doesn't know where else to turn for help. These emails are annoying, sure, but might be the last-ditch effort of a desperate person. Ignoring them is kind. Putting their post up for public ridicule isn't.
My name and email address is the very last thing in the Waze about box, because they used some code I open sourced. Turns out it's the only email address anywhere in the app. Thanks to this, I get about a dozen emails a week from people asking for Waze help. (Lots more when Waze changes something, like hardware support for a particular device!) I've tried contacting Google (either to get these people help, or to get…
So there's a lot of "LOL LOOK AT THIS DUMB PERSON I AM SO MUCH SMARTER THAN HER!" going on here, especially in the reply that he seems to have sent her. Here's what's going on. Her IG account may, in fact have been hacked. This happens. She's obviously afraid and angry. She is the kind of person who thinks she can solve all of her own problems, and found the licenses section of the app, which included something with…
Yes, absolutely. The whole episode is actually pretty sad and using it for laughs makes me uncomfortable. ... As a tangent, you say: > 2 ) Acknowledge that haxx.se sounds kind of shady. Explain why he chose the domain. Self deprecating humor would be great here. I work in a big multicultural office --- I'm the only UK person in my team. We occasionally have these tedious courses on defusing disputes. One of the thing…
This came today on a friend's facebook page (he's in IT/QA/etc.) - http://imgur.com/mnfQe3V "My facebook suddely split in half and this screen popped up with all these random cyber space options and it was like watching and assessing things soooo weird? and talking about child... and children being forced WTF????? is this some sort of cyber police thing that my IP was accedently allowed to access so i could help stop…
This came today on a friend's facebook page (he's in IT/QA/etc.) - http://imgur.com/mnfQe3V "My facebook suddely split in half and this screen popped up with all these random cyber space options and it was like watching and assessing things soooo weird? and talking about child... and children being forced WTF????? is this some sort of cyber police thing that my IP was accedently allowed to access so i could help stop…