until our politicians wake up and realize all costs are pushed onto the consumer anyway nothing will change
its not a "loophole" its the law, and until the law is favorable to business, business will continue to move to places that are business friendly. We see it on a microscale in the USA as it is, look at all the companies who are based in delaware.
Delaware is only for corporate law adjudication. Taxes are still collected for revenue or operations in other states (i.e., if you have a footprint or customers there, you still pay).
if you believe all income belongs first to the state. All this is legal, and the whining that inevitably goes on after such transactions reflects the belief that the "fair share" of a corporation's income is less than whatever the speaker wants it to be.
When what's legal and what's sustainable for the society are not aligned, there are likely one of two results: 1) Law is changed to be more sustainable or 2) the society suffers.
But hey, more power to those who can screw over everyone else for their tax free money!
America should be punished for having such a ridiculous tax code and a confiscatory corporate tax rate. I'd also move my operation to Ireland if I could.
So the three-letter-agencies and the local yokels will have to just continue using parallel construction. Isn't it amazing how many detailed and accurate "anonymous tips" the police receive?
Not sure how Stingrays wouldn't be supremely helpful to parallel construction. Sure they can't prove it with the call records, but now they might be taken to task for even using them at all.
Call me strange but I find it hard to imagine that a computer clock being a second off for a moment is anything but invisible to your average software developer/IT worker/server farm. I mean if your computer's clock is set up to sync with an NTP server every now and again, your system is probably already seeing corrections of that scale and more.
I would imagine that advanced scientific calculations as well as high-frequency-trading algorithms would be affected. Clearly the scientists can go fuck themselves, but I'm surprised that the needs of something as important as HFT has gone unheard in the WRC/ITC.
"Carnegie Mellon wrote that its Software Engineering Institute hadn’t received any direct payment for its Tor research from the FBI or any other government funder."
Now if that word "direct" had not been there I would have a little more faith.
As well know , there are hundreds of ways to indirectly pay for stuff...... "Hey here's some money for your sports team", "hey here's some money for your building funds", etc etc etc etc etc
You forgot government grants. As the government gets more corporatized (even the good "public servants" are just less corrupt), you sure as hell can bet that the grant proposal/acceptance process can become part of the corruption (oh, look CMU - such nice grants proposals you have there... )
On the first day of Aeronautics 101, before our professor said anything else, our professor told us about how he was called upon to consult for a racing team. They were having trouble getting maximum performance out of the car. He suggested a couple of tweaks to improve the car's aerodynamics and that improved the car's performance.
THIS is the kind of thing you say to NASCAR fans instead of insulting them like some sort of middle school know-it-all.
Nye's comments were a huge slap in the face to a lot of practicing ENGINEERS.
Sorry, Sagan was a man of his times. Back in the 70s the country gave a shit about NASA, space exploration, and astrophysics. Now it's been shoved off the front pages of newspapers in favor of Kardashians and sports (my guess - it's not nearly as profitable for our corporate owned "news").
It's pretty amusing that you think the measure of a scientist is if they can grok engineering. They're two different disciplines, and good scientists generally not good engineers and vice-versa (your Aero101 professor is likely an exception) despite your all caps.
I understand inherent risk. However there is a difference between inherent risk and being conned. I've backed several projects on kickstarter and have only had a couple fail. These guys lied to us. Said they had a product ready for manufacturing, that they didn't.
Sure, not every project pans out. All of mine have, but most are late (loved my Pebble). However, is there no way for kickstarter to mandate more visibility or tie funds availability to progress?
1) Project owners - will now have egg on their face and shouldn't (hopefully) have further options to scam on kickstarter (or gofundme) projects. 2) Contributors - note the title isn't customer or consumer - should be happy they weren't strung along for longer. Some projects simply don't pan out, and this was one of them. Next time ask for credentials or track record before contributing. 3) Kickstarter - Laughs all the way to the bank on their commissions. Will they ever take action against these kind of projects? Sounds like it's detrimental to their bottom line, so probably not likely.
No keyboard, no mouse, no screen... cheaper to just buy a laptop, or even a full Chromebook.
Except if you already own these - especially in plentiful supply. If your chromebook/laptop keyboard breaks, you just replace it with another cheap one, right? Oh wait, you have to replace/fix the entire unit.
You know, sooner or later people might get it through their heads that using Twitter is a strategy for fools.
You have two choices with Twitter: either you tweet some meaningless groupthink post, guaranteed not to offend anyone, OR you post something that offends someone, somewhere. And if you offend enough people, suddenly your life and career are in tatters when the Internet mob turns on you.
You'd think that enough peoples' lives have been ruined by thoughtless tweets that the lesson would have been learned. But it seems there's always another fool just waiting to make an example of him/herself.
Ah, but there is a third-way: you tweet something that's considered to be cool and sparks a firestorm of debate and interest and sells a product. Corporation rewards you in some small but essentially meaningless way, hoping you'll keep promoting.
See, that's the real goal - as an advertising channel, Twitter can collect rents from their real customers who own large brand names! Free tchotchkes for all! Who would't want in on that?
Not even the Crusades were about religion. The people fighting thought that they were but, no. They were about land expansions abroad and power grabs at home.
By that definition, religion isn't responsible for anything. Fact is, without the power structure allowed by Christianity, such a marshaling of forces across kingdoms and countries could not have been possible - and the call to arms was religious in nature.
PC does the same thing and this is worthless. We WANT to limit the magnifcation just to one section, we don't want to do the entire screen.
When you do the entire screen, the pictures, ads, and white space (usually from columns just used at the very top) end up taking up way too much space and the 'main' text is pushed to a small fraction of the screen.
You have clearly never used the Mac feature. It zooms based on mouse location, so it's targeted. It's also way smoother than on Windows (I'm not familiar past Win7, so maybe they improved things since then). I really find it handy (even with near-perfect vision) for too-small product images on say, Amazon - it's not unlike the double-tap-to-zoom feature in iOS, but smoother.
If you want just the text, all main browsers in OSX can use pinch/spread multitouch (or IIRC, CTRL+scrollwheel) to modify text size on page.
Is this the case? I mean, every time I put my phone in my pocket, it cleans off my screen including the fingerprint sensor. I do that explicitly too, at least once a day too.
Sure, since you probably forget to clean the underside of the back panel and battery as well. Your fingerprints are likely on there somewhere, and if someone really wants your print and device and you are careful they'll likely follow you and wait for you to leave something behind that'll give a great print. Like a piece of paper, glass, can, other portable hard surface or even go digging through your trash for it.
Fingerprints are a shit security measure.
Sure, they're welcome to, on my porous leather or plastic cases. If they're following me around and can get a lab-quality print from the many glass surfaces I frequently grope, then more power to them. I'm pretty sure it's easy to turn that into a latex milk finger mask (no, really, how hard could it be?).
You still have to give the passwords willingly... whether you are willing only because you are being tortured or under extreme duress is irrelevant, another party must take measures to directly influence your mental state in order to obtain the password, and even then, there is no guarantee of success. Your fingerprints, however, can be taken whether you object to them being taken or not, and do not require your cooperation to obtain.
I'm sorry, I fail to see your distinction. The only benefit to passwords is that you can change them. Both can be forcibly extracted.
.... there is absolutely nothing that you can actually do, barring the use of what would probably amount to excessive physical violence, to prevent someone from taking your fingerprints who is intent upon doing so.
You can, at least, refuse to divulge your passwords.
Unless you wear gloves when you touch your mobile device, they generally steal your finger prints along with the device.
Is this the case? I mean, every time I put my phone in my pocket, it cleans off my screen including the fingerprint sensor. I do that explicitly too, at least once a day too.
The CCC hack on TouchID was using a high-DPI scanner and a perfect print. Good luck getting my finger prints off my oleophobic screen that touches cloth constantly.
What would you call that, two factor scam authentication?
Is your network slow?: [Yes]
Does it flake at night and on weekends?: [Yes]
Do technicians pretend like they solve the problem but never do?: [Yes]
Does phone support always want to sell you crap you don't need or want?: [Yes]
Do weird fees appear on your bill out of no-where?: [Yes]
[Enter...]
You have been CONFIRMED to be a Comcast customer. Now please change your password.
You're also likely an AT&T or Verizon subscriber. Once the entity gets to a large enough size, it's often incapable of fighting those "creative ways to boost revenue" by screwing it's captive customers.
"The hacking group Anonymous has threatened to make public the identities of four boys accused of gang-raping a Canadian teenager who later killed herself after images of the attack went viral."
They can't really say they are 100% committed to protecting peoples' privacy when they keep pushing out the facebook app - which is of course dedicated to encouraging people to give up as much of their personal information as possible.
Yeah I know I'm feeding the troll here, but Facebook is not integrated into the OS or even distributed as a default app.
There is a difference between systems that take personal information from you and ones where you willingly give it away.
The Facebook app hasn't touched any of my devices, and now with content blockers in iOS, I won't even be giving them my ad cookies either when I inadvertently visit a site that has their Like button or other trackers.
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until our politicians wake up and realize all costs are pushed onto the consumer anyway nothing will change
its not a "loophole" its the law, and until the law is favorable to business, business will continue to move to places that are business friendly. We see it on a microscale in the USA as it is, look at all the companies who are based in delaware.
Delaware is only for corporate law adjudication. Taxes are still collected for revenue or operations in other states (i.e., if you have a footprint or customers there, you still pay).
if you believe all income belongs first to the state. All this is legal, and the whining that inevitably goes on after such transactions reflects the belief that the "fair share" of a corporation's income is less than whatever the speaker wants it to be.
When what's legal and what's sustainable for the society are not aligned, there are likely one of two results: 1) Law is changed to be more sustainable or 2) the society suffers.
But hey, more power to those who can screw over everyone else for their tax free money!
America should be punished for having such a ridiculous tax code and a confiscatory corporate tax rate. I'd also move my operation to Ireland if I could.
What's stopping you?
So the three-letter-agencies and the local yokels will have to just continue using parallel construction. Isn't it amazing how many detailed and accurate "anonymous tips" the police receive?
Not sure how Stingrays wouldn't be supremely helpful to parallel construction. Sure they can't prove it with the call records, but now they might be taken to task for even using them at all.
Police State no-likey this.
Call me strange but I find it hard to imagine that a computer clock being a second off for a moment is anything but invisible to your average software developer/IT worker/server farm.
I mean if your computer's clock is set up to sync with an NTP server every now and again, your system is probably already seeing corrections of that scale and more.
I would imagine that advanced scientific calculations as well as high-frequency-trading algorithms would be affected. Clearly the scientists can go fuck themselves, but I'm surprised that the needs of something as important as HFT has gone unheard in the WRC/ITC.
"Carnegie Mellon wrote that its Software Engineering Institute hadn’t received any direct payment for its Tor research from the FBI or any other government funder."
Now if that word "direct" had not been there I would have a little more faith.
As well know , there are hundreds of ways to indirectly pay for stuff...... "Hey here's some money for your sports team", "hey here's some money for your building funds", etc etc etc etc etc
You forgot government grants. As the government gets more corporatized (even the good "public servants" are just less corrupt), you sure as hell can bet that the grant proposal/acceptance process can become part of the corruption (oh, look CMU - such nice grants proposals you have there ... )
"six year old prodigy invents perpetual motion machine"
Six year olds ARE perpetual motion machines :-)
Only if you can keep them perpetually six years old. This might require some temporal mechanics.
Encryption isn't needed if nobody is watching.
Yeah, just like if you close your eyes no one can see you!
Bill Nye is another anti-Sagan (just like Tyson).
On the first day of Aeronautics 101, before our professor said anything else, our professor told us about how he was called upon to consult for a racing team. They were having trouble getting maximum performance out of the car. He suggested a couple of tweaks to improve the car's aerodynamics and that improved the car's performance.
THIS is the kind of thing you say to NASCAR fans instead of insulting them like some sort of middle school know-it-all.
Nye's comments were a huge slap in the face to a lot of practicing ENGINEERS.
Sorry, Sagan was a man of his times. Back in the 70s the country gave a shit about NASA, space exploration, and astrophysics. Now it's been shoved off the front pages of newspapers in favor of Kardashians and sports (my guess - it's not nearly as profitable for our corporate owned "news").
It's pretty amusing that you think the measure of a scientist is if they can grok engineering. They're two different disciplines, and good scientists generally not good engineers and vice-versa (your Aero101 professor is likely an exception) despite your all caps.
I understand inherent risk. However there is a difference between inherent risk and being conned. I've backed several projects on kickstarter and have only had a couple fail. These guys lied to us. Said they had a product ready for manufacturing, that they didn't.
Sure, not every project pans out. All of mine have, but most are late (loved my Pebble). However, is there no way for kickstarter to mandate more visibility or tie funds availability to progress?
I really don't like the whining here.
Let's see what happens to the actors involved:
1) Project owners - will now have egg on their face and shouldn't (hopefully) have further options to scam on kickstarter (or gofundme) projects.
2) Contributors - note the title isn't customer or consumer - should be happy they weren't strung along for longer. Some projects simply don't pan out, and this was one of them. Next time ask for credentials or track record before contributing.
3) Kickstarter - Laughs all the way to the bank on their commissions. Will they ever take action against these kind of projects? Sounds like it's detrimental to their bottom line, so probably not likely.
No keyboard, no mouse, no screen ... cheaper to just buy a laptop, or even a full Chromebook.
Except if you already own these - especially in plentiful supply. If your chromebook/laptop keyboard breaks, you just replace it with another cheap one, right? Oh wait, you have to replace/fix the entire unit.
male genitalia.
Wonder if there's going to be a chatroulette for Chromebit ?
You know, sooner or later people might get it through their heads that using Twitter is a strategy for fools.
You have two choices with Twitter: either you tweet some meaningless groupthink post, guaranteed not to offend anyone, OR you post something that offends someone, somewhere. And if you offend enough people, suddenly your life and career are in tatters when the Internet mob turns on you.
You'd think that enough peoples' lives have been ruined by thoughtless tweets that the lesson would have been learned. But it seems there's always another fool just waiting to make an example of him/herself.
Ah, but there is a third-way: you tweet something that's considered to be cool and sparks a firestorm of debate and interest and sells a product. Corporation rewards you in some small but essentially meaningless way, hoping you'll keep promoting.
See, that's the real goal - as an advertising channel, Twitter can collect rents from their real customers who own large brand names! Free tchotchkes for all! Who would't want in on that?
Not even the Crusades were about religion. The people fighting thought that they were but, no. They were about land expansions abroad and power grabs at home.
By that definition, religion isn't responsible for anything. Fact is, without the power structure allowed by Christianity, such a marshaling of forces across kingdoms and countries could not have been possible - and the call to arms was religious in nature.
PC does the same thing and this is worthless. We WANT to limit the magnifcation just to one section, we don't want to do the entire screen.
When you do the entire screen, the pictures, ads, and white space (usually from columns just used at the very top) end up taking up way too much space and the 'main' text is pushed to a small fraction of the screen.
You have clearly never used the Mac feature. It zooms based on mouse location, so it's targeted. It's also way smoother than on Windows (I'm not familiar past Win7, so maybe they improved things since then). I really find it handy (even with near-perfect vision) for too-small product images on say, Amazon - it's not unlike the double-tap-to-zoom feature in iOS, but smoother.
If you want just the text, all main browsers in OSX can use pinch/spread multitouch (or IIRC, CTRL+scrollwheel) to modify text size on page.
There are popular Android games not out on iOS. There are many games that can never come out on iOS due to content restrictions.
Some claims that require citations. Care to share? Please leave out games that are functional equivalents to iOS editions.
Is this the case? I mean, every time I put my phone in my pocket, it cleans off my screen including the fingerprint sensor. I do that explicitly too, at least once a day too.
Sure, since you probably forget to clean the underside of the back panel and battery as well. Your fingerprints are likely on there somewhere, and if someone really wants your print and device and you are careful they'll likely follow you and wait for you to leave something behind that'll give a great print. Like a piece of paper, glass, can, other portable hard surface or even go digging through your trash for it.
Fingerprints are a shit security measure.
Sure, they're welcome to, on my porous leather or plastic cases. If they're following me around and can get a lab-quality print from the many glass surfaces I frequently grope, then more power to them. I'm pretty sure it's easy to turn that into a latex milk finger mask (no, really, how hard could it be?).
You still have to give the passwords willingly... whether you are willing only because you are being tortured or under extreme duress is irrelevant, another party must take measures to directly influence your mental state in order to obtain the password, and even then, there is no guarantee of success. Your fingerprints, however, can be taken whether you object to them being taken or not, and do not require your cooperation to obtain.
I'm sorry, I fail to see your distinction. The only benefit to passwords is that you can change them. Both can be forcibly extracted.
You can, at least, refuse to divulge your passwords.
Sure, but then you're pretty much leaving yourself to this:
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wik...
Unless you wear gloves when you touch your mobile device, they generally steal your finger prints along with the device.
Is this the case? I mean, every time I put my phone in my pocket, it cleans off my screen including the fingerprint sensor. I do that explicitly too, at least once a day too.
The CCC hack on TouchID was using a high-DPI scanner and a perfect print. Good luck getting my finger prints off my oleophobic screen that touches cloth constantly.
Is your network slow?: [Yes]
Does it flake at night and on weekends?: [Yes]
Do technicians pretend like they solve the problem but never do?: [Yes]
Does phone support always want to sell you crap you don't need or want?: [Yes]
Do weird fees appear on your bill out of no-where?: [Yes]
[Enter...]
You have been CONFIRMED to be a Comcast customer. Now please change your password.
You're also likely an AT&T or Verizon subscriber. Once the entity gets to a large enough size, it's often incapable of fighting those "creative ways to boost revenue" by screwing it's captive customers.
I am curious about the bit where it says "allowance of rape culture."
I must have missed some headlines or something. What events are prompting that concern?
How about this? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
"The hacking group Anonymous has threatened to make public the identities of four boys accused of gang-raping a Canadian teenager who later killed herself after images of the attack went viral."
Or this? http://www.rollingstone.com/cu...
A summary of all the things above states essentially that Anonymous will defend the weak and preyed upon by exposing their tormentors.
They can't really say they are 100% committed to protecting peoples' privacy when they keep pushing out the facebook app - which is of course dedicated to encouraging people to give up as much of their personal information as possible.
Yeah I know I'm feeding the troll here, but Facebook is not integrated into the OS or even distributed as a default app.
There is a difference between systems that take personal information from you and ones where you willingly give it away.
The Facebook app hasn't touched any of my devices, and now with content blockers in iOS, I won't even be giving them my ad cookies either when I inadvertently visit a site that has their Like button or other trackers.
No real reasoning or anything meaningful.
Plus since when has Anon worked in meatspace? Seems like an easy way to get caught or otherwise expose yourself (fellow Anons, let's self-dox!)