I would qualify my agreement with jsmyth that the issue of privacy isn't regarded as important enough by society at large. I would say that people as consumers have come to expect little privacy in society in general but as residents they value privacy very much.
Except for a few situations, the idea of privacy is largely left to the savvy of the consumer. In the real world it is largely your burden to learn how to navigate it. Many times you can negotiate terms of a contract, be it employments, car purchase, rental agreement, home purchase, asking for special rates (e.g., airlines tickets, car rentals); etc. Businesses are not going to endorse the idea of begin required to inform you of your right to negotiate price because you would, and they want you to pay as much as you are willing to. That's capitalism. Teh details are left to the consumer as an exercise.
By contrast, there is a law in place to protect civil rights and help prevent abuse by law enforcement. That is, when the police arrest you (or so I have heard (grin)), they read you your Miranda rights (You have the right to remain silent; have your attorney present; etc.). And people like a fence around their yard, caller ID, and no government installed spycams in their dwellings, etc.
People don't see privacy as an all-around fundamental human right. The default case is one of no privacy unless enforced either by law or individual action.
...if I could...is for getting him to the nearest Klingon bird of prey and send him on a heliocircumnavigation voyage. His role on Star Trek has captivated a lot of us.
Be Careful what Features you add to your Product. They may be used in some future lawsuit as a way to violate your customer's privacy.
This is one of the reason why it sucks to be a hardware manufacturer, I guess. The likes of MPAA and RIAA could threaten to sue you because your hardware could in principle be used to violate (copyright) law.
In the case of software, if you have closed source (like Microsoft), it seems very difficult to *prove* it has or doesn't have some feature or ability. In the case of open source software, while you can easily demonstrate it has or doesn't have some feature, there is nobody to sue, except for trying to curtail the circulation of said program (see DeCSS).
if I happened to write, say, code to drive a coffee machine [tldp.org], but it also happened to have 'features' to crack e-book encryption and add the ability to embed fonts, it would be OK?
That, my friend, is essentially the standard operating procedure for US Congress. While a bill may be introduced for one purpose, its language is modified in subcommittee so that it is palatable and accommodates the differences in politcal party ideologies, special interests, viewpoints, etc. The modification may or may not have anything to do with the ostensible purpose of the bill. That 5 per cent crap that is added may be there only to provide the needed swing votes to pass the bill. It's legal but can fall in ethical grey areas.
Interestingly, there has been a story (on NPR?) today mentioning how credit card companies have been quietly updating the terms in their credit card contracts. Supposedly, buried in there is an agreement that if the credit card user has a dispute with the credit card company, he may no longer sue them outright and instead agrees to use binding arbitration. The catch, as claimed by the report, is that in binding arbitration situations, a substantial portion of the legal fees is payable upfront, which may effectively deter the user from initiating legal action.
We really need to be paying very close attention to licenses and contracts, especially in this economy.
Perhaps they are just doing as they're paid (cf. German law), but I think they should make you a job offer considering the effort you put forth informing, interpreting for, and rebutting them.
Do these EULAs explicitly permit this -- what is essentially a transfer of the agreement from a sales company (implicitly approved of by the software manufacturer) to the consumer?
If they are transferable, then in my view there are two logical outcomes: Either the customer has the right to see the EULA on demand, or the sales company who is agreeing to the EULA for the customer ought to be liable for any misuse of the software by the customer.
Logically speaking, in general the "keyspace" of fingerprints is not equal to the world population. You cannot know beforehand that your population has exhausted all combinations, unlike the case is with IP addresses.
Guess what... I was a little kid when the orgininal star wars came out, and it appealed to me emensly.
You just read my mind. "Making the movies for the kids" is simply patronising. Fortunately, IMHO, it seems that this time around Mr. Lucas is aiming to give the children some respect. I am looking forward to the movie.
You need distractions every once in a while to maintain your creativity
Not only that, but also maintain your sanity.
Besides, there are sometimes errands that you have to do or that suddenly come up during business hours. A 2 pm virtual booty call: no. Being called by your spouse to pick up the kids because s/he suddenly can't: yes. Any reasonable employer should allow these things within reason.
100 feet is in the ballpark of sea level rise from 8,000-10,000 years ago pointed out in links to images posted above
above by another reader. Science seems consistent here.
okaaaaay. So the idea is to rope in more people by promising them commission on the number of 14-page reports they mail out? That would be a pyramid scheme.
Seems to me all they are really doing is collecting addresses that people further up the food chain can sell and make money.
Was thinking the same thing here. Maybe these would be better solar panels than the current inefficient electrovoltaic ones. Either would still be relatively pricey to manufacture I suppose.
If not rape, it sounds like brutality. Hypothetically speaking, is anybody really going to take a stand against airport security and not expect to be escorted to a private room for interrogation and what-not? Thought so. it's a result of the police state we have now entered.
Since the airlines generally aren't claiming responsibility for much of anything these days, it is logical for us to question who is protecting us. I would demand to have background check conducted by an independent agency done on the security staff and the result to be made public. That is, who can we trust to assure us that these security staff people don't work for some potential terrorist group when they are away from the workplace? ah yes, these cyborg implants will advance our own technology base and perhaps one day make a fine weapon. (Ok, a bit melodramatic but you get my point.)
OTOH, if you can get your hand on build 2002021821 (as indicated in the mozilla window title bar anyway), printing works most of the time. There was one version (2002021821 < mozilla < 0.9.9) in which the printing bug had crept back in. YMMV.
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I would qualify my agreement with jsmyth that the issue of privacy isn't regarded as important enough by society at large. I would say that people as consumers have come to expect little privacy in society in general but as residents they value privacy very much.
Except for a few situations, the idea of privacy is largely left to the savvy of the consumer. In the real world it is largely your burden to learn how to navigate it. Many times you can negotiate terms of a contract, be it employments, car purchase, rental agreement, home purchase, asking for special rates (e.g., airlines tickets, car rentals); etc. Businesses are not going to endorse the idea of begin required to inform you of your right to negotiate price because you would, and they want you to pay as much as you are willing to. That's capitalism. Teh details are left to the consumer as an exercise.
By contrast, there is a law in place to protect civil rights and help prevent abuse by law enforcement. That is, when the police arrest you (or so I have heard (grin)), they read you your Miranda rights (You have the right to remain silent; have your attorney present; etc.). And people like a fence around their yard, caller ID, and no government installed spycams in their dwellings, etc.
People don't see privacy as an all-around fundamental human right. The default case is one of no privacy unless enforced either by law or individual action.
He has since been given a promotion to the Microsoft head office in Afghanistan.
Just like an angel earning its wings, eh?
...if I could...is for getting him to the nearest Klingon bird of prey and send him on a heliocircumnavigation voyage. His role on Star Trek has captivated a lot of us.
Could the shareholders vote for a dividend?
Even if it is possible, could Gates or Gates+Balmer effectivly stop it (I don't have their report in front of me at the mo')?
Be Careful what Features you add to your Product. They may be used in some future lawsuit as a way to violate your customer's privacy.
This is one of the reason why it sucks to be a hardware manufacturer, I guess. The likes of MPAA and RIAA could threaten to sue you because your hardware could in principle be used to violate (copyright) law.
In the case of software, if you have closed source (like Microsoft), it seems very difficult to *prove* it has or doesn't have some feature or ability. In the case of open source software, while you can easily demonstrate it has or doesn't have some feature, there is nobody to sue, except for trying to curtail the circulation of said program (see DeCSS).
More than fair enough. Thanks for pointing that out.
if I happened to write, say, code to drive a coffee machine [tldp.org], but it also happened to have 'features' to crack e-book encryption and add the ability to embed fonts, it would be OK?
That, my friend, is essentially the standard operating procedure for US Congress. While a bill may be introduced for one purpose, its language is modified in subcommittee so that it is palatable and accommodates the differences in politcal party ideologies, special interests, viewpoints, etc. The modification may or may not have anything to do with the ostensible purpose of the bill. That 5 per cent crap that is added may be there only to provide the needed swing votes to pass the bill. It's legal but can fall in ethical grey areas.
Interestingly, there has been a story (on NPR?) today mentioning how credit card companies have been quietly updating the terms in their credit card contracts. Supposedly, buried in there is an agreement that if the credit card user has a dispute with the credit card company, he may no longer sue them outright and instead agrees to use binding arbitration. The catch, as claimed by the report, is that in binding arbitration situations, a substantial portion of the legal fees is payable upfront, which may effectively deter the user from initiating legal action.
We really need to be paying very close attention to licenses and contracts, especially in this economy.
Yes, congrats.
Perhaps they are just doing as they're paid (cf. German law), but I think they should make you a job offer considering the effort you put forth informing, interpreting for, and rebutting them.
Do these EULAs explicitly permit this -- what is essentially a transfer of the agreement from a sales company (implicitly approved of by the software manufacturer) to the consumer?
If they are transferable, then in my view there are two logical outcomes: Either the customer has the right to see the EULA on demand, or the sales company who is agreeing to the EULA for the customer ought to be liable for any misuse of the software by the customer.
I will now eat a rubber tire to the tune of "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/audio"
Logically speaking, in general the "keyspace" of fingerprints is not equal to the world population. You cannot know beforehand that your population has exhausted all combinations, unlike the case is with IP addresses.
Guess what... I was a little kid when the orgininal star wars came out, and it appealed to me emensly.
You just read my mind. "Making the movies for the kids" is simply patronising. Fortunately, IMHO, it seems that this time around Mr. Lucas is aiming to give the children some respect. I am looking forward to the movie.
Also there should be a factor of cos^2 for the intensity factor of the incident sunlight as you go across the illuminated disc.
The patch has been out, and STILL find nimda and code red attacks in my logs. sigh.
You need distractions every once in a while to maintain your creativity
Not only that, but also maintain your sanity.
Besides, there are sometimes errands that you have to do or that suddenly come up during business hours. A 2 pm virtual booty call: no. Being called by your spouse to pick up the kids because s/he suddenly can't: yes. Any reasonable employer should allow these things within reason.
100 feet is in the ballpark of sea level rise from 8,000-10,000 years ago pointed out in links to images posted above above by another reader. Science seems consistent here.
(oops, meant to add) ...or collect credit card numbers for other nefarious purposes.
okaaaaay. So the idea is to rope in more people by promising them commission on the number of 14-page reports they mail out? That would be a pyramid scheme.
Seems to me all they are really doing is collecting addresses that people further up the food chain can sell and make money.
Hi, I am writing you this to ask your advice. See you later. Thanks.
[detonates northern New Mexico]
Yes, the *diffs* are the same, but the actual code is different, with and without -O.
The first time I read that name I thought it had said 'sixpack'.
Hey, a guy can hope, no?
Was thinking the same thing here. Maybe these would be better solar panels than the current inefficient electrovoltaic ones. Either would still be relatively pricey to manufacture I suppose.
Well, duh, sperm travel along the magnetic field lines :P
The alignment of said partners is left to their discretion.
If not rape, it sounds like brutality. Hypothetically speaking, is anybody really going to take a stand against airport security and not expect to be escorted to a private room for interrogation and what-not? Thought so. it's a result of the police state we have now entered.
Since the airlines generally aren't claiming responsibility for much of anything these days, it is logical for us to question who is protecting us. I would demand to have background check conducted by an independent agency done on the security staff and the result to be made public. That is, who can we trust to assure us that these security staff people don't work for some potential terrorist group when they are away from the workplace? ah yes, these cyborg implants will advance our own technology base and perhaps one day make a fine weapon. (Ok, a bit melodramatic but you get my point.)
OTOH, if you can get your hand on build 2002021821 (as indicated in the mozilla window title bar anyway), printing works most of the time. There was one version (2002021821 < mozilla < 0.9.9) in which the printing bug had crept back in. YMMV.