No, the blame still belongs 100% to the thief. All because you make something trivially easy to steal doesn't make you at all guilty if it is stolen. You might say "well what did you expect to happen?" or "*of course* your car's going to get stolen if you leave it running and unattended." That would only work, if the thief had no choice (or less of a choice) but to steal your car because you left it running. As it is, the thief is a moral actor capable of making moral decisions. Right-doers would pass up the running vehicle. Car thieves would simply choose to steal your car before trying to break into the properly secured ones.
Yes, I've thought about this problem and I've also read about TrackMeNot. Unfortunatly, TrackMeNot has some serious flaws:
1. It randomizes search terms instead of following believable search patterns. Example 'search stream': Shoes, virus protection, Hannah Montana, flamethrower "do it yourself", Hawaii, spark plugs, military surplus, speaker system, Exhaust Flame Thrower Kits... It's pretty easy to see what's real and what's fake. 2. People tend to use search engines in bursts. When I last used TrackMeNot it sent off search queries at regular intervals. The decoy queries would be easy to filter out. 3. Nobody would really be willing to let queries like "donkey sex" or "how to kill the president" get fired off by the software. For true privacy, those would be the most important terms to make the list, so that if someone really *did* search for those, he could just say that it was the software making automatic requests.
I had an idea to fix this: 1. The software would have to monitor your search engine usage and match your searching bursts and searching frequency. Those things can't be hardwired into the software or else algorithms would so some fingerprint-matching on your search queries. The next part is a little fuzzy: 2a. For every 'search burst' you make, the software can ananomously post the search terms to a central server that other clients read and use as decoys. The problem is filtering out truly private data such as address and names. 2b. If not that, maybe the software can just go loose on the web and look up possible related search terms to search for.
Of course, I'm thinking beyond simple privacy against advertisers. More like legal protection.
Did you read the actual letter? (You and I both know the summery is supposed to be sensational, not accurate.) They had 7 questions they wanted answered, and one of those was how to get the sensative documents off the interwebs, if that's even possible. The answer will most likely come back "not possible." The other 6 questions were things like "why were the documents up on the TSA's website in the first place?" "are there other documents that can be compromised the same way?" "What policies are there to deal with security breaches like this, and what can we do to keep our stuff more secure?"
I was fooled by the summery too and I was about to write Bilirikis a little letter from a citizen, but then I read the actual letter that was written, and it's pretty reasonable.
This is very true, however more and more gifted programs are being offered at public schools. These are mostly a joke/gimmick in grade school, but high school magnet schools are actually quite good. There's a lot of political angst surrounding magnet schools but overall my under-informed observation is that they're getting better.
I always was told this too, until I tried making that argument to some of my international friends. They scoffed and said that English was actually very easy to learn compared to languages like French and German. (They were Spanish, fyi) One caveat: English pronunciation is actually very difficult to learn. (Why are book and blood pronounced so differently?)
I know at least one consulting firm that already requires its employees to adhere to a dress code while on Second Life. (That dress code happens to be a business suit, and no I'm not joking.)
If it wasn't for the government's (military's) need to crunch huge amount of numbers in the 60s and 70s, we would be decades behind in terms of computer technology. If I wasn't typing this on a phone I would link a source, but rarely does an industry as big as computing start off "relatively govt free"
It *might* have made sense when browsers weren't free, but now that they are, how is bundling a browser with your OS an antitrust issue? Why don't they go after Apple? Why don't they force Microsoft to stop bundling Notepad?
well this certainly didn't arise in WoW. I know I downloaded project Entropia well before WoW came out, which used exactly this free-to-play real currency model. It didn't seem to catch on (as very few people recognize the name Project Entropia), and I didn't pay for anything in the game, but it claimed to be making a lot of money.
i laughed when I read title, I laughed when I saw the graphic, then read the text of the article:
"Ambulances cannot move, hospitals are reported to be overflowing, surgery is taking place in corridors,"... People are sheltering in their basements with no electricity or access to communications,... many buildings and houses have been destroyed and that only military personnel are moving on the streets,"... "Water is also in short supply -- a chronic problem... most transport has stopped and shops are running out of food,"
Soon the ends will meet and M$ will be squeezed out.
That's like saying California dominates the west coast and the Carolinas dominate the east, and soon the ends will meet and the rest of the US will be squeezed out.
Because business owners are citizens too. Google set up a service, allows any stranger to connect to its servers and gives them information for free. Nobody is required to use Google. As far as I see it, Google can do whatever it wants with its own private property. If people don't like that it records their information, don't use it.
the key is that the majority of free "products" don't really exist - FOSS, music, and online services are mainly just that - services, not something concrete. Until I see signs of free computers, speakers, or ISPs - real world objects - I'm not going to start predicting entire paradigm shifts in economies. (The Reprap project is a good example of something to get excited about)
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No, the blame still belongs 100% to the thief. All because you make something trivially easy to steal doesn't make you at all guilty if it is stolen. You might say "well what did you expect to happen?" or "*of course* your car's going to get stolen if you leave it running and unattended." That would only work, if the thief had no choice (or less of a choice) but to steal your car because you left it running. As it is, the thief is a moral actor capable of making moral decisions. Right-doers would pass up the running vehicle. Car thieves would simply choose to steal your car before trying to break into the properly secured ones.
Yes, I've thought about this problem and I've also read about TrackMeNot. Unfortunatly, TrackMeNot has some serious flaws:
1. It randomizes search terms instead of following believable search patterns. Example 'search stream': Shoes, virus protection, Hannah Montana, flamethrower "do it yourself", Hawaii, spark plugs, military surplus, speaker system, Exhaust Flame Thrower Kits... It's pretty easy to see what's real and what's fake.
2. People tend to use search engines in bursts. When I last used TrackMeNot it sent off search queries at regular intervals. The decoy queries would be easy to filter out.
3. Nobody would really be willing to let queries like "donkey sex" or "how to kill the president" get fired off by the software. For true privacy, those would be the most important terms to make the list, so that if someone really *did* search for those, he could just say that it was the software making automatic requests.
I had an idea to fix this:
1. The software would have to monitor your search engine usage and match your searching bursts and searching frequency. Those things can't be hardwired into the software or else algorithms would so some fingerprint-matching on your search queries.
The next part is a little fuzzy:
2a. For every 'search burst' you make, the software can ananomously post the search terms to a central server that other clients read and use as decoys. The problem is filtering out truly private data such as address and names.
2b. If not that, maybe the software can just go loose on the web and look up possible related search terms to search for.
Of course, I'm thinking beyond simple privacy against advertisers. More like legal protection.
Did you read the actual letter? (You and I both know the summery is supposed to be sensational, not accurate.) They had 7 questions they wanted answered, and one of those was how to get the sensative documents off the interwebs, if that's even possible. The answer will most likely come back "not possible." The other 6 questions were things like "why were the documents up on the TSA's website in the first place?" "are there other documents that can be compromised the same way?" "What policies are there to deal with security breaches like this, and what can we do to keep our stuff more secure?"
I was fooled by the summery too and I was about to write Bilirikis a little letter from a citizen, but then I read the actual letter that was written, and it's pretty reasonable.
Here I am! *Palm Pre waves*
Cell walls? Are you reviving a plant?
This is very true, however more and more gifted programs are being offered at public schools. These are mostly a joke/gimmick in grade school, but high school magnet schools are actually quite good. There's a lot of political angst surrounding magnet schools but overall my under-informed observation is that they're getting better.
move it to April 31? I mean the 31st of April.
I always was told this too, until I tried making that argument to some of my international friends. They scoffed and said that English was actually very easy to learn compared to languages like French and German. (They were Spanish, fyi) One caveat: English pronunciation is actually very difficult to learn. (Why are book and blood pronounced so differently?)
Ok, before this gets out of hand let's look some community-verified facts and definitions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
I know at least one consulting firm that already requires its employees to adhere to a dress code while on Second Life. (That dress code happens to be a business suit, and no I'm not joking.)
If it wasn't for the government's (military's) need to crunch huge amount of numbers in the 60s and 70s, we would be decades behind in terms of computer technology. If I wasn't typing this on a phone I would link a source, but rarely does an industry as big as computing start off "relatively govt free"
It *might* have made sense when browsers weren't free, but now that they are, how is bundling a browser with your OS an antitrust issue? Why don't they go after Apple? Why don't they force Microsoft to stop bundling Notepad?
When did "American" become a lifestyle rather than a place of birth?
July 4th, 1776
well this certainly didn't arise in WoW. I know I downloaded project Entropia well before WoW came out, which used exactly this free-to-play real currency model. It didn't seem to catch on (as very few people recognize the name Project Entropia), and I didn't pay for anything in the game, but it claimed to be making a lot of money.
let's not confuse economic conservatives and social conservatives. "neocon" basically means social conservative
i laughed when I read title, I laughed when I saw the graphic, then read the text of the article:
"Ambulances cannot move, hospitals are reported to be overflowing, surgery is taking place in corridors," ... People are sheltering in their basements with no electricity or access to communications, ... many buildings and houses have been destroyed and that only military personnel are moving on the streets," ... "Water is also in short supply -- a chronic problem... most transport has stopped and shops are running out of food,"
and I stopped laughing
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Soon the ends will meet and M$ will be squeezed out.
That's like saying California dominates the west coast and the Carolinas dominate the east, and soon the ends will meet and the rest of the US will be squeezed out.actually, what we see on the screen is a two-dimensional representation of the three dimensional representation of the four-dimensional object :-/
Gmail *does* pay you - with a free email account.
Because business owners are citizens too. Google set up a service, allows any stranger to connect to its servers and gives them information for free. Nobody is required to use Google. As far as I see it, Google can do whatever it wants with its own private property. If people don't like that it records their information, don't use it.
But your results don't have to throw stones, they just have to describe their path.
2008: That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/551520.html
the key is that the majority of free "products" don't really exist - FOSS, music, and online services are mainly just that - services, not something concrete. Until I see signs of free computers, speakers, or ISPs - real world objects - I'm not going to start predicting entire paradigm shifts in economies. (The Reprap project is a good example of something to get excited about)
Apple? That's like the opposite of open source.