Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

[EarlyMon]

Yeah, I've heard - it's short for toboggan cap. Some trace that to the South in the 20s.

Those raised near Canada or who know the wonders of the Great White North with Bob and Doug McKenzie know that sort of hat as a tuque (French Canadian, toque in French - first used in 1871, toque was first used in 1505).

EDIT - ninja's while busy lol.

 

[LOveWerks]

"Take off... to the Great White North
Take off.. it's a beauty way to go..."
- Geddy Lee of Rush

 

[LOveWerks]

Correction:

A traditional Mackinaw is a coat/hat combination, for wet weather. British in origin.

Popular in Maine, though.

Let's get back to the subject of this forum: rants.

Forgive me for coming off like a prostitute with a Masters Degree (a @#*:°+' know-it-all).
LW

 

[kct1975]

Here's a rant for you:

Last year, I started getting into My Coke Rewards, to earn points toward getting nifty stuff, et cetera.

Now, when I want to log in, they want my Facebook information (which I don't have, as I terminated my account because of privacy issues); my Twitter information (which is tied to an email account that is pen-named), ad infinitum.

Everyone - including our current President - supports a free Internet. I'm so tired of my internet info going to third-party analytic concerns.

Dammit. LW

I'm completely with you on that!

I also think that it sux that most of the news sites require you to have a valid Facebook account to comment on their news stories (MSN...I'm looking at you).

Also, I have found that a lot of online contests require you to log into Facebook in order to participate in the contest (I'm looking at you Sprint and HTC)

I have NEVER had a Facebook account, and don't want one. Originally, the job I worked at, forbid me to have any social networking accounts, but, now, I just don't want to have every one know everything about me. So I refuse to sign up for a Facebook account, or a Twitter account, or Instagram account, etc.

 

[zuben el genub]

I don't do contests, but I have seen other offerings - either an article or a tutorial that wants FB. I just leave. Someone will eventually post said article where I can read it. It is a pain. TMO does customer service that way. I will sign up to a forum like you can here.

I won't use FB or Twitter to log in anywhere. I signed up before the rules about real names, so I must have every alias I've ever used all over. I don't think I want them connected easily. Twitter still gets updates from Opportunity, and now Curiosity. I go read every now and then.

Reddit and Fark are still independent - at least Reddit was the last time I looked.

Yahoo is pulling that with cell phone number only. There are a lot of seniors in the groups and they don't have or want cell phones. The complaint page is full. Just wanting a phone number would be better, but cell only is a form of discrimination. There are some rural and even inner city residents that can't get internet, and a library might frown on FB on computers that are to be used for normal and not social purposes.

 

[Dngrsone]

I am looking at an app for my phone, and it wants me to log in using Facebook or Google before even downloading it.

I'm thinking I don't need this app.

 

[kct1975]

I am looking at an app for my phone, and it wants me to log in using Facebook or Google before even downloading it.

I'm thinking I don't need this app.

I completely agree!

 

[mikedt]

Not being able to complete website registrations.

 

[LOveWerks]

Yahoo! is still a portal I try to avoid - I had one email account compromised there, and though your login is secure, Yahoo! Messenger isn't, nor is anything else in there - like Yahoo! games, et cetera.

Throw in the cellphone ID, and, it's even worse.

Reddit and the rest won't be far behind, due to hacking that goes on from Russia, to West Africa, and points beyond.

Like I wrote in an earlier post, it's the oddballs and weirdo extremists that are taking your Internet freedoms away. I'm already using TextSecure and surespot... I tried clicking on a link here to one of our members posts while using 3G, and ended up at a porn site.

No joke. LW

 

[zuben el genub]

I've still got the same Yahoo account I've had since dial up. It's only used for groups and Flickr, though. I've taken off all the contacts and don't mail through it unless to reply to a forum question. I average 2 pieces of spam a day. They don't have phone, gender, and a few other pieces of info.

I think someone tried spamming by using my name once. They didn't get very far. It's an alias anyway, not my real name.
I don't keep any contacts in the mailing list, so no one I knew got any spam.

Someone could have hijacked the site. Never used messenger except at the office. My boss loved it. Daughter used Trillian rather than Yahoo. The Vulcan doesn't text.

 

[LOveWerks]

I've still got the same Yahoo account I've had since dial up. It's only used for groups and Flickr, though. I've taken off all the contacts and don't mail through it unless to reply to a forum question. I average 2 pieces of spam a day. They don't have phone, gender, and a few other pieces of info.

I think someone tried spamming by using my name once. They didn't get very far. It's an alias anyway, not my real name.
I don't keep any contacts in the mailing list, so no one I knew got any spam.

Someone could have hijacked the site. Never used messenger except at the office. My boss loved it. Daughter used Trillian rather than Yahoo. The Vulcan doesn't text.

You're 'grandfathered' in to Yahoo!... my compromised email was opened in '04, and my other one - the spam repository - still exists, but, for alternate contact only. Nothing on there for contacts, except for my fiancée - for when she wants to reach me through Messenger. Yet another area of Yahoo! without SSL.

I keep trying to tell her that Yahoo! is a security breach waiting to happen, but, she's pretty hardheaded.

All of our photos and such are backed up at Google. No need for Flickr. Anything else is with Dropbox.

Hell, Microsoft Office - along with MANY other programs, are cloud-based. It may give your HD a break, but, let someone crafty with code get your email info from Hotmail, and your IP address - so much for security...

I no longer have Facebook, or any other social networking sites that I use, aside from YouTube (through my fiancée), and Twitter (with no ties to my real identity).

Once bitten, twice shy - LW

 

[bjacks12]

My first email account was a Yahoo! account back in the late 90's IIRC. I abandoned that around 06-07 in favor of Gmail, which I've used since then. Gmail has been great to me, i get almost zero spam with it.

I'm still very connected to social media, I am a FB junky. I moved to a new state one year ago, and it's a great way to keep in touch with people back home in Utah, as well as my friends in the Philippines. I don't put up any information that would be compromising. If somebody wants to see my name and some pictures, good for them. Most of my stuff is limited to my friends. If FB wants to use what information I do give them for marketing, fine by me. I run Adblocker anyway

 

[bjacks12]

Trying to undo all the viruses my dad got on his new computer.

Is it unhealthy or unreasonable for me to want to take the people who create viruses/spyware/malware and hang them up on meat hooks while draining them slowly through their jugular?

 

[Dngrsone]

Unhealthy, but not unreasonable.

 

[mikedt]

Does daddy need to be using a Windows PC, especially if it's getting full of viruses?

I'm not the family "tech" any more, and the Geek Squad can be expensive and unsatisfactory. So daddy uses a Samsung Tab these days, and sister has a Chromebook.

 

[bjacks12]

Yeah, he uses a lot of Windows only software for work and business.

He's generally pretty computer literate, but for some reason lately he's developed a knack for installing freeware without really investigating it.

 

[jtc303]

People who are too lazy to fully clear the snow from their parking spot, and instead just do enough to get out, leaving massive mounds behind that freeze and make it almost impossible to park there...they should make a law about shoveling properly. Absolutely kills me, I've already cleared 3 spots on my street, about to do my fourth. Ugh people suuuccckkk!

 

[zuben el genub]

Disgusting.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/newsweek-cover-on-silicon-valley-sexism-lights-up-twitter/

guilty of what they are trying to correct.

Here's another take from Techcrunch. It has an iffy gesture in one of the pictures.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/29/ethics-in-cursor-molestation-journalism/

 

[zuben el genub]

Sourdough starter.
If it dries on something you can't submerge in water, it's like cement. I made a mess doing English muffins this AM and it took a bit of elbow grease to get the starter all cleaned up.

The results of baking with it are worth the hassle.

 

[LOveWerks]

I completely agree, bjacks - like I posted earlier, the 'Net is no longer the safe, secure place it used to be. The elderly, however, are marked walking in, because they go to the sites that remind them of going to the street produce vendors, with a haggling gleam in their eye. Free PowerPoint? Jeez, that's ten times better than the old slide projector.

Malware, spyware, phishing - that's why I avoid most of the social networking sites, and places that even makes Windows' firewall stop you dead in your tracks.

I use Ghostery, and I whitelist the sites I trust. Ghostery stays on top of things quite well, and is constantly updating. Web Of Trust is also a good thing to have, as it is a bit like the Angie's List of web safety - the information comes from folks with real-world experience.

Well, I don't know anyone here who has dealt with Southwest Airlines and their little brother, AirTran - but, my fiancée's first leg of her Denver flight was cancelled due to maintenance problems, and, they still haven't updated the new flight information, even though she boarded a flight to Atlanta, instead of Baltimore...

I've been to the airport twice today, 85 miles round trip. I came home on fumes.

I already miss her, and she still hasn't made it to Denver... we got up early, and I helped her organize and pack - she was stress-free, until I dropped her off at the airport.

You get what you pay for. LW

 

[kct1975]

Free WiFi networks that ask you for a lot of personally identifiable information

 

[Lordvincent 90]

Free WiFi networks that ask you for a lot of personally identifiable information

You can't just flat out lie?

Name: John/Jane Doe
Email: anon@anon.com
Etc etc

 

[mikedt]

Sometimes can't do that, because they send an email with a code or unique URL, that you need to verify, or you verify who you are with SMS.

Any free WiFi where they want my entire life-story, I prefer to give them a miss. Of course that's why the WiFi is "free", because your personal info is sold onto third-party marketers, which you agreed to when you checked the box stating you've read their ToS. Sometimes you have to install their app in order to access the WiFi, by scanning a QR code, which happens for Android devices.

In this country it's required by law that any free WiFi service has truthful verified information from you, although it's often not enforced in many family run restaurants and bars. McDonald's, Starbucks, etc, they do enforce the law. Airports they scan your ID or passport in order to let you have free WiFi access.

 

[PattiCakeUS]

Ugh people suuuccckkk!

I was thinking this same thing today. I get aggravated when people don't use common sense, I ran into this a lot today.

 

[mikedt]

Privacy is dead. Everything that one might doing in one's daily life, could be photographed, social networked or micro-blogged, for the whole world to see.

I might go and live in a cave.