My profile is not publicly available, so there is no reason to think that any third party can or will make an archive of it. Anyone doing so would be abusing the system, and if I'm going to worry about that, I might as well worry about my e-mail and phone-calls being archived too.
I don't post anything to my Facebook account other than little updates about my life that my friends might be interested in knowing about (e.g. "Going to a party this Friday"). If someone else viewed it without authorisation, I would be a little annoyed, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. I don't post anything I would be ashamed of. My photos are all quite respectable, certainly with no coke-snorting episodes. I have no fear of friends uploading compromising pictures of me, quite simply because I don't put myself in compromising situations.
I suppose that if an employer hacked into my Facebook account, they would see that I put "Atheist" under "Religious Views", and they could refuse to hire me based on that. However, I quite freely state such views under my real name in many online and offline fora, so it is not a big deal. In any case, I wouldn't want such a fool for a boss anyway.
I notice that the massive list of people thanked in the video credits for contributing to the GNU(/Linux) operating system does not include Linus Torvalds. Ouch.
I'm a huge Stephen Fry fan, but I've always understood him to be an Apple fan boy.
If you bother to WTFV, you'll see that he says that he has been into computers for decades, developing enthusiasm for one type or another, but that he has recently been realising that Free software is the way to go.
Of course, you can prefer to understand the world in terms of what you are a "fanboy" of.
Is that one e-mail all the correspondence you have?
Why are you assuming that this is real? I had an offer for my website a while ago, and I replied, but got no further response.
It became clear to me that it was simply spam, probably sent to the "contact@" address of thousands of sites. By replying, I simply confirmed the e-mail address, and made it slightly more valuable for spam.
No, no. "Becky" is my first name. Hey, Stanley! Get this. This guy has our surname wrong. He's calling both of us Becky, Stan! That's just tragic, eh Stan?
You miss the point. It's not that they have been defrauded, and we should blame the victim. It's that they believed they were going to profit from illegal activity.
Sorry, I don't buy into the global warming alarmism until the "high priests" start practicing what they preach.
You'd be hard pressed to make a clearer example of argumentum ad hominem. Listen, when you want to use a fallacious argument, you have to be sneakier. You have to attack the messenger, and only imply that the message is false. If you clumsily admit that you refuse to believe in certain known facts because you don't like someone associated with them (in your mind), then you won't be able to slimily claim that the personal attack was separate from the issue. You'll have no defence against the charge of being an ignorant prick.
Does anybody actually realize that the Earth has cycles of global warming/cooling?
This is a perfect example of what is wrong with people. Each armchair theorist like yourself seriously approaches this issue with the attitude that nobody, not even scholars working in the field of climatology for decades, have had the genius idea of applying... climatology to the issue. Well done, shithead. You're really the first person to think of that. There are only about a dozen fucking people making the same point (and each idiot thinking he's a genius bringing something new to the table) in this thread alone, and you ask "Does anybody actually realize...".
This stuff really makes me lose all hope in humanity.
You then take the scientific consensus, twist it into something badly stated, and then attribute it to "ecofreaks".
At the end you degenerate into SciFi. I'm just waiting for the crack-smoking moderators to mark you +5 insightful.
Wait....because they can add children, that makes it worse??
Yes, obviously. As long as it only lists adults, the state can claim that the people on it gave up their rights by being criminals. If babies are on there, then it's a reversion to the principle that a slave's children are born slaves.
Also, keep in mind that this isn't his DL, so it's not so much that his ID has special privileges attached to it, but that his service to his country has privileges attached to it. Semantics, I know...
If that were true, then serving your country by a lifetime as an academic, a doctor, a political activist or suchlike would also get you on the plane. No, I didn't think so. It's police/military connections that work.
Informative gives Karma but Funny doesn't. Therefore, people who appreciate the post and wish to give the user some karma will choose Informative.
No. People who appreciate the post's humour and wish to give the user karma, and also want to abuse the mod system, will choose something like "Informative". The rest of us will mod it "Funny".
Not enough is done to prevent mod abuse. The meta-moderation needs to be tweaked so that there is a heavier karma loss for those people whose "informative" or "insightful" moderation is flagged as invalid on posts which are also modded "funny".
If the integrity of the system is not protected, then it might as well be all simplified to "+1 Like" and "-1 Hate".
Tried it. It's crap. It's got it's own format, instead of using standard LaTeX. I want an editor that gives me just a little bit of WYSIWYG help whilst creating a simple, legible and standard LaTeX source file.
Once a certain success has been achieved as regards removing guns from the general public, it gets to the point where the police are not allowed them either (except for specialised gun squads called in the occasional siege) and do not even want to.
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My profile is not publicly available, so there is no reason to think that any third party can or will make an archive of it. Anyone doing so would be abusing the system, and if I'm going to worry about that, I might as well worry about my e-mail and phone-calls being archived too.
I don't post anything to my Facebook account other than little updates about my life that my friends might be interested in knowing about (e.g. "Going to a party this Friday"). If someone else viewed it without authorisation, I would be a little annoyed, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. I don't post anything I would be ashamed of. My photos are all quite respectable, certainly with no coke-snorting episodes. I have no fear of friends uploading compromising pictures of me, quite simply because I don't put myself in compromising situations.
I suppose that if an employer hacked into my Facebook account, they would see that I put "Atheist" under "Religious Views", and they could refuse to hire me based on that. However, I quite freely state such views under my real name in many online and offline fora, so it is not a big deal. In any case, I wouldn't want such a fool for a boss anyway.
Yes, yes. We know that that's how you paranoid Slashdot tinfoilhatters feel about Facebook.
But the rest of us normal folk find it quite sufficient to adjust our privacy settings so that only our friends can see us.
It's simple.
You release a torrent of your video in an OGG container (Vorbis audio and Theora video). Savvy people get this.
You link to a Youtube version for the plebs.
I notice that the massive list of people thanked in the video credits for contributing to the GNU(/Linux) operating system does not include Linus Torvalds. Ouch.
I'm a huge Stephen Fry fan, but I've always understood him to be an Apple fan boy.
If you bother to WTFV, you'll see that he says that he has been into computers for decades, developing enthusiasm for one type or another, but that he has recently been realising that Free software is the way to go.
Of course, you can prefer to understand the world in terms of what you are a "fanboy" of.
Is that one e-mail all the correspondence you have?
Why are you assuming that this is real? I had an offer for my website a while ago, and I replied, but got no further response.
It became clear to me that it was simply spam, probably sent to the "contact@" address of thousands of sites. By replying, I simply confirmed the e-mail address, and made it slightly more valuable for spam.
You miss the point. It's not that they have been defrauded, and we should blame the victim. It's that they believed they were going to profit from illegal activity.
Sorry, I don't buy into the global warming alarmism until the "high priests" start practicing what they preach.
You'd be hard pressed to make a clearer example of argumentum ad hominem. Listen, when you want to use a fallacious argument, you have to be sneakier. You have to attack the messenger, and only imply that the message is false. If you clumsily admit that you refuse to believe in certain known facts because you don't like someone associated with them (in your mind), then you won't be able to slimily claim that the personal attack was separate from the issue. You'll have no defence against the charge of being an ignorant prick.
Does anybody actually realize that the Earth has cycles of global warming/cooling?
This is a perfect example of what is wrong with people. Each armchair theorist like yourself seriously approaches this issue with the attitude that nobody, not even scholars working in the field of climatology for decades, have had the genius idea of applying... climatology to the issue. Well done, shithead. You're really the first person to think of that. There are only about a dozen fucking people making the same point (and each idiot thinking he's a genius bringing something new to the table) in this thread alone, and you ask "Does anybody actually realize...".
This stuff really makes me lose all hope in humanity.
You then take the scientific consensus, twist it into something badly stated, and then attribute it to "ecofreaks".
At the end you degenerate into SciFi. I'm just waiting for the crack-smoking moderators to mark you +5 insightful.
You've just managed to put almost every misunderstanding of climatology in one post. In all, it can be summed up as appeal to ignorance.
Wait....because they can add children, that makes it worse??
Yes, obviously. As long as it only lists adults, the state can claim that the people on it gave up their rights by being criminals. If babies are on there, then it's a reversion to the principle that a slave's children are born slaves.
Either that, or it's sheer incompetence.
So, yes. It is even worse.
Also, keep in mind that this isn't his DL, so it's not so much that his ID has special privileges attached to it, but that his service to his country has privileges attached to it. Semantics, I know...
If that were true, then serving your country by a lifetime as an academic, a doctor, a political activist or suchlike would also get you on the plane. No, I didn't think so. It's police/military connections that work.
I think you got that backwards. How many lawyer jokes are there compared to IT worker jokes?
Tinkering with computers isn't even thought of as a real job to a sufficient extent to make a joke out of it.
Lawyers are considered evil, but to be taken seriously. It's like Nazi Germany versus Liechtenstein.
Wouldn't that depend on if you are vacationing in Orlando vs Kabul or Baghdad? ;)
Ouch, that's harsh. Not all Americans are terrorists just because the government is.
One totally agnostic guy at my job
What have his beliefs on religion got to do with anything?
I don't see what shorthand has to do with it. Try steganography.
Informative gives Karma but Funny doesn't. Therefore, people who appreciate the post and wish to give the user some karma will choose Informative.
No. People who appreciate the post's humour and wish to give the user karma, and also want to abuse the mod system, will choose something like "Informative". The rest of us will mod it "Funny".
Not enough is done to prevent mod abuse. The meta-moderation needs to be tweaked so that there is a heavier karma loss for those people whose "informative" or "insightful" moderation is flagged as invalid on posts which are also modded "funny".
If the integrity of the system is not protected, then it might as well be all simplified to "+1 Like" and "-1 Hate".
Yes, yes, I guessed you meant something along those lines.
But more to the point, it's a funny thing to say, because it implies that Americans don't speak bad English.
Sorry for my Portuguese; I'm not Angolan!
(do not the bad english, I not american)
That's not just ungrammatical; it's a non sequitur.
I've been using only KDE 4 for a couple of months now, and I've not had those problems.
If only I had mod points. +5 historical insight.
There's LyX.
Tried it. It's crap. It's got it's own format, instead of using standard LaTeX. I want an editor that gives me just a little bit of WYSIWYG help whilst creating a simple, legible and standard LaTeX source file.
"brick-and-mortar locations" ...which are called "shops" in English.
That's just it.
Once a certain success has been achieved as regards removing guns from the general public, it gets to the point where the police are not allowed them either (except for specialised gun squads called in the occasional siege) and do not even want to.
You don't see gun-toting British bobbies, do ya?