technology: September 2006 archives


Duck With an F

[ rakaur on Thu Sep 21 at 11:29 PM // category: school, siue, technology ]

So, school pretty much sucks, huh?

No, not really. The only class I find myself having problems with is English 102. I’m fine at sitting down and writing out great crap about stuff that I know about. I am not fine at sitting down and finding a research text that says what I already know just so I can say that I got it from there. Why? Mostly, because I’m lazy, and I would rather sit down and spew out a paper in 30 minutes than spend a month finding source that say what I already know. I know it’s how it’s done, and that’s the way it is, but I think it’s mostly crap for anyone that isn’t involved in a research intensive field. There’s also the fact that my JumpDrive full of my research got lost at school somewhere; and, I’m sure some asshole will erase everything on it and keep it even though the damn things are like $15 and I’d pay $50 to have it back with all of the stuff I have on it.

So, to anyone in PH 3310 at computer #1, give me my damn JumpDrive back.

-- rakaur // 2006.09.21 @ 11:29 PM

Opening Facebook

[ rakaur on Thu Sep 14 at 06:19 PM // category: technology, web ]

As you may have heard by now, Facebook plans on opening to the public. Facebook is made up of networks. School networks came first, then high school networks, regional networks, and now company networks as well. You’ve always had to have a valid email for your school or workplace, and you had to be invited to get into a high school network. You selected your regional network after you were signed up. Well, now Facebook is going to let anyone sign up based on regional network. My thoughts are thus:

Please, everyone, just shut the fuck up.

Nothing is going to change. There will be more people, more ads served, and Facebook will make more money. That’s it. They want more money because that’s what people do. You would, too.

The networks are going to stay the way they are, there will just happen to be a lot more people in regional networks. They’re still not part of school or workplace networks, so who cares? You can simply not join a regional network, or you can set your privacy in such a way that people in your regional network can’t just randomly find you. That’s just for people in YOUR regional network. All of the people joining all of the rest of them can’t see anything more about you than they could without a Facebook account.

The entire college community should be smarter than this. You all freaked the fuck out about the stupid feeds thing, and that was just a case of “taking all this info and putting it in one place.” Now you’re all freaking the fuck out about this, and it’s even less of a big deal. No one can randomly find you, no one can stalk you, and no one can turn their profiles into a giant glitterysparklefest with Breaking Benjamin songs that take five minutes to load and manage to bring your dual-core 2.8GHz, 1GB RAM computer to a grinding halt. If you people put this much effort into school you’d all graduate early.

-- rakaur // 2006.09.14 @ 06:19 PM

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