That's true only to a certain extent. Just because an individual isn't reproducing doesn't mean they don't effect evolution; just look at ants or bees for an extreme example. In the case of humans, a living grandparent can be a very large advantage in terms of knowledge and their physical presence.
A backdoor that's documented, although poorly, that you can disable and requires access to the unencrypted disk beforehand? If it were the NSA they wouldn't have allowed it to be documented and you couldn't disable. However, I can think of several large corporations that would require something like this and would have contracts large enough to justify changing the product for. Paranoia doesn't seem to be justified in this case.
Whoever modded that post flamebait is completely ignorant of the standards in the security agency, that commonly used security tools be completely open so that people can point out security flaws. With regards to this article, it sounds like the bypass feature was able to be turned on or off, and if they had documented it and let people know, then they could have taken the necessary steps to use it or not, depending on whether you were their unnamed customer.
In other words, the parent's point is perfectly valid.
Have they accounted for the fact that higher metabolisms tend are related to the life span and reproductive rates of a species? If a species has two generations for every generation of another species, that'll tend to influence the evolution as well.
The problems with Windows are familiar problems though. In some cities it's perfectly acceptable for drivers to ignore all, or at least most, of the laws and everyone accepts it. If that were to happen in my home city it'd be a bloodbath because it's unfamiliar. The same principle applies to linux; my parents can work around problems with windows quite easily because they know it, but ask them to boot into linux and they have no idea what they're doing.
So far since my indoctrination to the Linux world I have seen such vast improvements it boggles my mind, and I expect nothing less for the next 10 I couldn't agree more. I started with Mandrake several years ago (6 or so), and it was nearly unusable when compared with Windows 98 (which is saying a lot). Linux lagged behind windows in every way applicable to a desktop experience (yes, the programs crashed a lot and often brought the rest of the system down, possibly because of my inexperience).
Years later and Linux is nearly as usable as windows/osx in every way and has surpassed both in things like multiple desktops, cool window effect, and program installation. The only thing the linux desktop is really missing is exclusive software, which will probably never happen because of the GPL.
I've never heard of someone being able to be a member of the LDS Church and a polygamist, they've all been excommunicated as soon as it's known. There are still some polygamists in Utah, but it's uncommon, and most live on the borders of either Colorado or Arizona so that they can cross the state lines if someone comes to arrest them.
But you hand your ip address over as freely as you handed your business card over. If you don't anonymize it somehow, you're implying that you're okay with them storing your information. If you send me an email, should I need your permission to store it? Or should I strip the email address unless you say that you're okay with me storing that?
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I go with the old frat-house adage that any squirt is a good squirt.
Is like having a law that says that I am not allowed to write in my journal about your visit to my home.
There you go, the actual metaphor. The information is freely given, it's easily changed/hidden, and my web server can't force you or your browser to do anything. If you hand me a business card when you enter my home and my wife wants to scrapbook it, is that a privacy concern, or should you just not hand out business cards?
AT&T claims to respect its subscribers' right to voice their opinions and says that the contract is aimed at stopping the exploitation of children, and other tangible wrongs Like drowning puppies, using drugs/alcohol while pregnant, and foiling terrorists. Those are all good reasons, right?
Actually, to me it sounds like an unenforceable clause of the contract that they put in there to be able to strong arm someone even though it may not stand up in court.
Blaming the internet for spam is like blaming pig farmers for low quality hot dogs. There's a connection, but you're missing other, unconnected factors that contribute more to the problem.
Any system that allows unsolicited contact is going to be open to abuse by marketing departments as all the other communication channels have shown. While DNS and other things aren't as secure as they could be, the structure of email on top of the internet is what allows for most of the abuse. Change the protocols and regulations for email and you'll get less (or at least more accurate) spam without changing the structure of the internet at all.
Since the Wii version uses the motion-sensitive controllers, it literally gives players the hands of a killer Unless I get Ted Kazinsky's extremities in a box when I purchase the game, the quoted sentence is sensationalized.
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Flutterbys have a metabolism that's off the charts.
*pulls out some chest hair to feel like a man again*
That's true only to a certain extent. Just because an individual isn't reproducing doesn't mean they don't effect evolution; just look at ants or bees for an extreme example. In the case of humans, a living grandparent can be a very large advantage in terms of knowledge and their physical presence.
A backdoor that's documented, although poorly, that you can disable and requires access to the unencrypted disk beforehand? If it were the NSA they wouldn't have allowed it to be documented and you couldn't disable. However, I can think of several large corporations that would require something like this and would have contracts large enough to justify changing the product for. Paranoia doesn't seem to be justified in this case.
Whoever modded that post flamebait is completely ignorant of the standards in the security agency, that commonly used security tools be completely open so that people can point out security flaws. With regards to this article, it sounds like the bypass feature was able to be turned on or off, and if they had documented it and let people know, then they could have taken the necessary steps to use it or not, depending on whether you were their unnamed customer.
In other words, the parent's point is perfectly valid.
ROFL, that's awesome. Somebody mod this man funny!
Have they accounted for the fact that higher metabolisms tend are related to the life span and reproductive rates of a species? If a species has two generations for every generation of another species, that'll tend to influence the evolution as well.
The problems with Windows are familiar problems though. In some cities it's perfectly acceptable for drivers to ignore all, or at least most, of the laws and everyone accepts it. If that were to happen in my home city it'd be a bloodbath because it's unfamiliar. The same principle applies to linux; my parents can work around problems with windows quite easily because they know it, but ask them to boot into linux and they have no idea what they're doing.
Years later and Linux is nearly as usable as windows/osx in every way and has surpassed both in things like multiple desktops, cool window effect, and program installation. The only thing the linux desktop is really missing is exclusive software, which will probably never happen because of the GPL.
So it was back in the day when posts were unique and the editors seemed to care?
But to change his name, he'd need access to the database.
I've never heard of someone being able to be a member of the LDS Church and a polygamist, they've all been excommunicated as soon as it's known. There are still some polygamists in Utah, but it's uncommon, and most live on the borders of either Colorado or Arizona so that they can cross the state lines if someone comes to arrest them.
But you hand your ip address over as freely as you handed your business card over. If you don't anonymize it somehow, you're implying that you're okay with them storing your information. If you send me an email, should I need your permission to store it? Or should I strip the email address unless you say that you're okay with me storing that?
I go with the old frat-house adage that any squirt is a good squirt.
I'm just glad they didn't get the Ark. That would have been bad news for everyone involved.
I will start calling you Muad Dib, and we shall worship you as a god.
Is like having a law that says that I am not allowed to write in my journal about your visit to my home. There you go, the actual metaphor. The information is freely given, it's easily changed/hidden, and my web server can't force you or your browser to do anything. If you hand me a business card when you enter my home and my wife wants to scrapbook it, is that a privacy concern, or should you just not hand out business cards?
Umm, because people love their children?
There's already a system for that, it's called whitelisting. There's a reason people don't use it.
Either the moderator didn't read the summary or they failed to get the joke.
Actually, to me it sounds like an unenforceable clause of the contract that they put in there to be able to strong arm someone even though it may not stand up in court.
Blaming the internet for spam is like blaming pig farmers for low quality hot dogs. There's a connection, but you're missing other, unconnected factors that contribute more to the problem.
Any system that allows unsolicited contact is going to be open to abuse by marketing departments as all the other communication channels have shown. While DNS and other things aren't as secure as they could be, the structure of email on top of the internet is what allows for most of the abuse. Change the protocols and regulations for email and you'll get less (or at least more accurate) spam without changing the structure of the internet at all.
Models wouldn't be very literal, would they?
I think Germany was right. Ted Kazinsky played river raid.