They will get him. Eventually. I hope not, but I believe they will. Through defamation, assassination (character or otherwise), I just want to forecast now, that as a pessimist / realists / tinfoil hat wearer, they will get him.
I am not making this up -- I found out today that my new Kenmore washer & dryer have Kenmore Connect, which lets you call tech support on your cell phone, then hold the phone up to the appliance so that it can be talked to directly
"Hey Jim (background snickering), come check out the hock a' bs I convinced this guy! (nearby support cubicles now rolling) He is having me talk to his washer!
Exactly. I, for one, am sick and tired of the 'blame everybody but the self' mentality that pervades society. It creeps up more and more everyday. I don't know how the Canadian legal system works, but wouldn't the burden of proof lie with the parents? Can they cite one study, just one fracking conclusive study that proves that it is these routers and acess points causing the children, oh the poor freaking children's ailments? Seriously. Show me one study where it has been positively shown that signals that fall in the range of the wifi consortium jurisdiction are causing people to get sick. Prove it. Prove it. Prove it. Evidence, or GTFO.
And people wonder why education gets worse. These damn parents are so sue happy, they just attack attack attack the schools every damn opportunity that presents itself. So the schools become so hamstrung in bureaucratic idiocy that they are afraid to do anything because some snot-nose little johnny's parents might sue.
This. Two things. Taking personal responsibility and the scientific method. The sooner society actually adopts these two solid mentalities, the better off we all will be. Until then this world will continue to be run amok by victimized-its-not-my-fault-blame-the-world-can-i-get-some-money-too asshats.
Windows 7 is half as old and its existence is already well accepted as not going away any time soon in the community.
Fixed that for ya. I know a lot a lot a lot a lot of workstations, servers, kiosk that are still running just about everything pre-7. Accepted in the community and being considered old do not necessarily have a 1 to 1 relationship.
Contact your local politicians and voice your opinion. Print out flyers. Let people in your jurisdiction know of what is possible and what you feel needs change. And vote out those who continue to allow these practices.
Otherwise your are part of the status quo as well. If you want the mutt neutered, actively participate in the process. We can armchair quaterback our policies all day, but if we vote out on the local level those who do not serve our interest, well, it is better than not participating.
And at the end of the day, if that doesn't change anything, well some things will never change.
Not necessarily. Retail PC's have some of the smallest profit margins, much of the bloat you see is there because its one of the few ways they can still get money (through the bloat providers). HP is no different that the majority of mainstream manufacturers. If you go to your local Best Buy, and pull the side of the case of a random sampling of machines, you will find that the only difference between most of them is the case. Internals tend to come from the same Chinese manufacturers owned by the same Japanese companies filled with investors from the same globalist corporations. Singling out HP in your "sucks" rant is a bit unfair, because these practices tend to be SOP for the majority of PC manufacturers.
My advice. If you have any inkling of hardware knowledge, download the PC Gamer Building Bible, get out your Phillips, and enjoy the fruits of your labor. And if your doing the "family support" thing, reformat their machine for them with a clean OS install, setup a back-up routine, and install some LogMeIn free. Your headaches will slowly go away.
A side anecdote, when I used to work at Circuit City, our managers would push us to sell an "Optimization Service" on brand new desktops and laptops, a service whose sole purpose was to remove the 3rd party bloat. I have never clicked uninstall more in my life (except for times I accidentally allowed an apple software update, sorry fanbois but dammit if they wont try to install their Bonjour, Itunes, and QuickTime on every machine on the planet to the grave.).
What privacy rights do you have if you get arrested?"
Not many.
I work in public safety in the Southeastern United states. In most jurisdictions, when you are detained, your charge details and mugshots are public record. We even have a local paper that publishes HUNDREDS of mugshots every single week. It is completely legal, albeit frowned upon, but completely legal. If you went to your county courthouse and asked for a mugshot of some shmoe you saw in the public records page of your gazette, they would be obliged to give it to you.
Don't believe me? Go to Myrtle Beach SC, and at every gas station is a copy of Just Busted.
This is not new. Electronic mugshots are not new either, many counties host pages that offer up all of their current inmate data.
We actually deal with news agencies who get mad because we don't help provide enough data. The news sites eat this junk up. They want it in the most easily consumable format possible, and want a copypasta job so they can just put our data straight into their paper.
Also, mugshots and inmate data online is not a new thing. Check out VINE , you can find out when they are released and even be notified by cell phone.
This is a non-story. This is a public safety agency using a new medium, and so it is "scandalous". Same dog, new tricks folks. Check your local laws, hell call your courthouse, you have less "privacy" than you think. Much less.
The site should go down for maintenance until they fix the issue, and only then brought back online.
Good idea. I'm all for bringing it down. Think of how much more productive households, college campuses, and the workplace will be for networks not already blocking/. access. The increase in productivity would cause a spike in the world economy and take us out of the recession:-)
Who RTFA? And plus, my "if" justifies my outrageous claim! And sensationalist "ifs" get more mod points here anyways. Just look at the post regarding the wikileaks stuff regarding civilian name disclosure. This statement is being made in in a half joking, half serious manner, btw.
Game the system. If there are not betting limits, heres what you do.
1. Attend college on list for a few semesters, fail most classes, but not enough to get kicked out.
2. Bet double your accumulated tuition cost, and then overload on your mickey mouse degree classes.
3. No xxxxxxxx step, just straight profit
Can some folks from the rest of the world comment on this USA situation? Europeans? Canadians? Asians? What is the global outlook and emotional stance towards Wikipedia vs. USA Govt? How does everybody else feel? Who does your locality empathize with the most?
Here it is much infighting, dicking around, pissing, and moaning. I am just curious as to how the USA looks from an outside perspective, either through your own eyes or through the commentary of the international media? Are folks talking about this stuff in the streets of Paris? Are kids discussing this in classrooms in England?
Russia, don't worry, I already know there that in Soviet Russia, documents leak you. Just kidding. Don't go KGB on my ass.
INCORRECT:
The FBI is NOT prioritizing copyright over missing persons.
CORRECT:
The FBI has a backlog of missing person DNA to run in the DNA labs.
The FBI is increasing the amount of manpower assigned to copyright.
I don't know how much the FBI should spend at all on copyright, but it is a bit of a stretch to take the current facts and say that copyright is prioritized over missing persons.
I would relabel that as "Unsubstantiated" and "Factual", for unless you can prove your former assertion, is too strong a labeling. They could be prioritizing copyright over missing persons like the summary implies, and though this is unsubstantiated quantitatively, it cannot blatantly be labelled "incorrect", unless somebody knows otherwise. [citation?]
I think this could set a new precedent of how things are done in Congress. A far more efficient way. Our reps and senators could get together to vote for an unnamed and unspecified bill. Various congressmen could stand up and speak to the issues that are most important to their constituency and party. Republicans can argue about how the bill is a hand-out sponsored by the democrats and that we all just need to have some personal responsibility. The democrats could argue about how this is required to protect the children/poor/minorities. Once all the grand standing is completed and the various pork riders attached, it will be voted on. Once approved it can then be forwarded to the various lobbyists to fill in the blanks. It would be something like a blank check but a more democratic version. The details never mattered anyways.
If only that was different than how they do things now. The depressing thing is that while I laughed through your post, I realized that your hypothetical anecdote is exactly the political status quo. Funny thing how we use laughter to cope with tragedy...
The unfortunate thing is that Schneier's taxonomic breakdown of data is most likely known by the majority here, and the folks who really need that information conveyed to them (ie mom and pop, aunt velma and her pic's of fluffy, partying cheerleader squad, drunk frat, etc..) will probably never see it, and if they did, they wouldn't understand it, or take heed to its importance even if they did.
Not to mention large social sites are not really transparent with their collection and retention practices in the first place.
Even if this was intended trolling (I don't think it is), it is an insightful point. For as much as American's rag on China as a country and their countless instances of unethical this and that, parent is correct in that here the $€£ really is king. We do not seem to have any vision when it comes to things like alternative energy, reducing our energy consumption, and industrial efficiency. Many, many businesses just keep chugging along, consuming more and more and more energy to make more and more and more money. Read the comments here for a better glimpse. Exponential growth is not sustainable.
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They will get him. Eventually. I hope not, but I believe they will. Through defamation, assassination (character or otherwise), I just want to forecast now, that as a pessimist / realists / tinfoil hat wearer, they will get him.
I am not making this up -- I found out today that my new Kenmore washer & dryer have Kenmore Connect, which lets you call tech support on your cell phone, then hold the phone up to the appliance so that it can be talked to directly
"Hey Jim (background snickering), come check out the hock a' bs I convinced this guy! (nearby support cubicles now rolling) He is having me talk to his washer!
Microsoft Bob
Exactly. I, for one, am sick and tired of the 'blame everybody but the self' mentality that pervades society. It creeps up more and more everyday. I don't know how the Canadian legal system works, but wouldn't the burden of proof lie with the parents? Can they cite one study, just one fracking conclusive study that proves that it is these routers and acess points causing the children, oh the poor freaking children's ailments? Seriously. Show me one study where it has been positively shown that signals that fall in the range of the wifi consortium jurisdiction are causing people to get sick. Prove it. Prove it. Prove it. Evidence, or GTFO.
And people wonder why education gets worse. These damn parents are so sue happy, they just attack attack attack the schools every damn opportunity that presents itself. So the schools become so hamstrung in bureaucratic idiocy that they are afraid to do anything because some snot-nose little johnny's parents might sue.
This. Two things. Taking personal responsibility and the scientific method. The sooner society actually adopts these two solid mentalities, the better off we all will be. Until then this world will continue to be run amok by victimized-its-not-my-fault-blame-the-world-can-i-get-some-money-too asshats.
End rant.
Windows 7 is half as old and its existence is already well accepted as not going away any time soon in the community.
Fixed that for ya. I know a lot a lot a lot a lot of workstations, servers, kiosk that are still running just about everything pre-7. Accepted in the community and being considered old do not necessarily have a 1 to 1 relationship.
I completely empathize with your point.
Contact your local politicians and voice your opinion. Print out flyers. Let people in your jurisdiction know of what is possible and what you feel needs change. And vote out those who continue to allow these practices.
Otherwise your are part of the status quo as well. If you want the mutt neutered, actively participate in the process. We can armchair quaterback our policies all day, but if we vote out on the local level those who do not serve our interest, well, it is better than not participating.
And at the end of the day, if that doesn't change anything, well some things will never change.
That should be taught instead of VB in your standard intro to programming classes.
Not necessarily. Retail PC's have some of the smallest profit margins, much of the bloat you see is there because its one of the few ways they can still get money (through the bloat providers). HP is no different that the majority of mainstream manufacturers. If you go to your local Best Buy, and pull the side of the case of a random sampling of machines, you will find that the only difference between most of them is the case. Internals tend to come from the same Chinese manufacturers owned by the same Japanese companies filled with investors from the same globalist corporations. Singling out HP in your "sucks" rant is a bit unfair, because these practices tend to be SOP for the majority of PC manufacturers.
My advice. If you have any inkling of hardware knowledge, download the PC Gamer Building Bible, get out your Phillips, and enjoy the fruits of your labor. And if your doing the "family support" thing, reformat their machine for them with a clean OS install, setup a back-up routine, and install some LogMeIn free. Your headaches will slowly go away.
A side anecdote, when I used to work at Circuit City, our managers would push us to sell an "Optimization Service" on brand new desktops and laptops, a service whose sole purpose was to remove the 3rd party bloat. I have never clicked uninstall more in my life (except for times I accidentally allowed an apple software update, sorry fanbois but dammit if they wont try to install their Bonjour, Itunes, and QuickTime on every machine on the planet to the grave.).
Well I can say with absolute certainty that they will not go below the Planck length.
>+++>+++.>+.+++++++..+++.>++.+.>.
What privacy rights do you have if you get arrested?"
Not many. I work in public safety in the Southeastern United states. In most jurisdictions, when you are detained, your charge details and mugshots are public record. We even have a local paper that publishes HUNDREDS of mugshots every single week. It is completely legal, albeit frowned upon, but completely legal. If you went to your county courthouse and asked for a mugshot of some shmoe you saw in the public records page of your gazette, they would be obliged to give it to you.
.
Don't believe me? Go to Myrtle Beach SC, and at every gas station is a copy of Just Busted
This is not new. Electronic mugshots are not new either, many counties host pages that offer up all of their current inmate data.
We actually deal with news agencies who get mad because we don't help provide enough data. The news sites eat this junk up. They want it in the most easily consumable format possible, and want a copypasta job so they can just put our data straight into their paper.
Also, mugshots and inmate data online is not a new thing. Check out VINE , you can find out when they are released and even be notified by cell phone.
This is a non-story. This is a public safety agency using a new medium, and so it is "scandalous". Same dog, new tricks folks. Check your local laws, hell call your courthouse, you have less "privacy" than you think. Much less.
The site should go down for maintenance until they fix the issue, and only then brought back online.
Good idea. I'm all for bringing it down. Think of how much more productive households, college campuses, and the workplace will be for networks not already blocking /. access. The increase in productivity would cause a spike in the world economy and take us out of the recession :-)
FTFY
Do not want. Any.
"Game the system. If there are not [sic] betting limits, heres [sic] what you do..."
FTA: "The student decides how much to wager up to a cap that starts at $25 and increases with use."
On that note, I still didn't read the full article, but could a progressive system work for this grade casino? Mathematicians?
Who RTFA? And plus, my "if" justifies my outrageous claim! And sensationalist "ifs" get more mod points here anyways. Just look at the post regarding the wikileaks stuff regarding civilian name disclosure. This statement is being made in in a half joking, half serious manner, btw.
Game the system. If there are not betting limits, heres what you do.
1. Attend college on list for a few semesters, fail most classes, but not enough to get kicked out.
2. Bet double your accumulated tuition cost, and then overload on your mickey mouse degree classes.
3. No xxxxxxxx step, just straight profit
Can some folks from the rest of the world comment on this USA situation? Europeans? Canadians? Asians?
What is the global outlook and emotional stance towards Wikipedia vs. USA Govt? How does everybody else feel? Who does your locality empathize with the most?
Here it is much infighting, dicking around, pissing, and moaning. I am just curious as to how the USA looks from an outside perspective, either through your own eyes or through the commentary of the international media? Are folks talking about this stuff in the streets of Paris? Are kids discussing this in classrooms in England?
Russia, don't worry, I already know there that in Soviet Russia, documents leak you. Just kidding. Don't go KGB on my ass.
So we're outsourcing our flame wars now as well?
INCORRECT: The FBI is NOT prioritizing copyright over missing persons.
CORRECT: The FBI has a backlog of missing person DNA to run in the DNA labs. The FBI is increasing the amount of manpower assigned to copyright.
I don't know how much the FBI should spend at all on copyright, but it is a bit of a stretch to take the current facts and say that copyright is prioritized over missing persons.
I would relabel that as "Unsubstantiated" and "Factual", for unless you can prove your former assertion, is too strong a labeling. They could be prioritizing copyright over missing persons like the summary implies, and though this is unsubstantiated quantitatively, it cannot blatantly be labelled "incorrect", unless somebody knows otherwise. [citation?]
It includes no AACS keys and is solely developed for research purposes.
So was lysergic acid diethylamide. Looks like a win for us if things go according to history!
Polar Bares Coronal Mass Erection III
Guaranteed Plasma Cloud Shot
16. Porn.
17. More Porn.
Lets not be shortsighted.
I think this could set a new precedent of how things are done in Congress. A far more efficient way. Our reps and senators could get together to vote for an unnamed and unspecified bill. Various congressmen could stand up and speak to the issues that are most important to their constituency and party. Republicans can argue about how the bill is a hand-out sponsored by the democrats and that we all just need to have some personal responsibility. The democrats could argue about how this is required to protect the children/poor/minorities. Once all the grand standing is completed and the various pork riders attached, it will be voted on. Once approved it can then be forwarded to the various lobbyists to fill in the blanks. It would be something like a blank check but a more democratic version. The details never mattered anyways.
If only that was different than how they do things now. The depressing thing is that while I laughed through your post, I realized that your hypothetical anecdote is exactly the political status quo. Funny thing how we use laughter to cope with tragedy...
The unfortunate thing is that Schneier's taxonomic breakdown of data is most likely known by the majority here, and the folks who really need that information conveyed to them (ie mom and pop, aunt velma and her pic's of fluffy, partying cheerleader squad, drunk frat, etc..) will probably never see it, and if they did, they wouldn't understand it, or take heed to its importance even if they did.
Not to mention large social sites are not really transparent with their collection and retention practices in the first place.
Cynical, yes. Realistic, perhaps.
The $€£ is still king.
Even if this was intended trolling (I don't think it is), it is an insightful point. For as much as American's rag on China as a country and their countless instances of unethical this and that, parent is correct in that here the $€£ really is king. We do not seem to have any vision when it comes to things like alternative energy, reducing our energy consumption, and industrial efficiency. Many, many businesses just keep chugging along, consuming more and more and more energy to make more and more and more money. Read the comments here for a better glimpse. Exponential growth is not sustainable.