[...]if you're worried about the information getting out to the internet as a whole, you just go into your preferences and tell it what to make public, friends-only, completely private, or what-have-you
No, if you don't want some information to be all over the internet, don't put it on the internet. At all!
There are multi-gigabyte torrents of all the "private" pictures on myspace & co. I don't see any reason to believe Facebook is any better with respect to security.
You're wrong. Germany does extradite citizens, as long as a couple of conditions are met.
Specifically, the suspect must have committed a crime that is punishable in both countries, must not be tortured or executed after the extradition, needs a fair trial and so on...
Newsflash: To be able to compete in anything with the best of the world, you have to be passionate about it. You want to become a world-class swimmer? Start spending several hours a day in the water!
Hoping for a Nobel price in Physics? Not going to happen unless you're "obsessive" about it.
Regarding the "to the exclusion of almost everything else including social interaction" part: Care to back that up with hard data? If Kasparov is not capable of doing anything but chess, that's news to me.
So if you actually believe what you wrote, you are basically denying that women can compete in any game, sport, art or science with the best men. Which is more sexist than most AC troll posts in this thread.
Seriously, how did this crap modded insightful in a forum for nerds?
Really? English is not my first language, so my intuition may be wrong, but since it basically replaces "the user's" (singular!), "his" or "her" make more sense to me than "their".
We're #1!
I'm sure the bulk of it is just that we have more computers.
I highly doubt that. Germany (to take just one example) has a population of about 80 million, which is roughly a quarter of the U.S. Even if we assume that the rate of computers/person is only half of the U.S. (which is definitely not the case) Germany should originate about 1/8 (12.5%), while the actual number seems to be around 0.5%.
Basically because TOR's aim is to protect free speech and privacy on the internet, not to allow people to do torrenting, which probably uses disproportionately much bandwidth and other resources.
Living in Paris is expensive. Really expensive. And while 500km might be a bit of a stretch, French trains are ridiculously fast. So I guess the answer is basically "because they can".
Oh for fuck's sake! Nobody's denying her right to privacy. But when a public servant and possible soon-to-be vice president is too stupid to use a proper password for her email-account AND apparently uses yahoo mail to conduct shady business her right to privacy simply is not the most interesting matter at hand.
I consider my own right to privacy very important, but I would not expect any sympathy if someone pwns my mail account because I used my zip code as pw.
And despite also being wrong, hacking one persons account is something completely different than constantly monitoring everybody's communication and creating a police state.
Why do you assume you have this right? Seriously, this isn't trolling. It's well founded that even US citizens may legally be searched when entering the US.
Non-citizens in the US don't have anywhere the same legal protections as citizens. This is to be expected in ANY country that you visit where you are not a citizen.
Seriously? I can't think of any examples of democratic countries with working legal systems that don't protect visitors. Can you give any examples (other than the US) of legal systems that treat tourists and business visitors like shit?
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[...]if you're worried about the information getting out to the internet as a whole, you just go into your preferences and tell it what to make public, friends-only, completely private, or what-have-you
No, if you don't want some information to be all over the internet, don't put it on the internet. At all!
There are multi-gigabyte torrents of all the "private" pictures on myspace & co. I don't see any reason to believe Facebook is any better with respect to security.
You're wrong. Germany does extradite citizens, as long as a couple of conditions are met.
Specifically, the suspect must have committed a crime that is punishable in both countries, must not be tortured or executed after the extradition, needs a fair trial and so on...
Oh, the iRony...
Newsflash: To be able to compete in anything with the best of the world, you have to be passionate about it. You want to become a world-class swimmer? Start spending several hours a day in the water!
Hoping for a Nobel price in Physics? Not going to happen unless you're "obsessive" about it.
Regarding the "to the exclusion of almost everything else including social interaction" part: Care to back that up with hard data? If Kasparov is not capable of doing anything but chess, that's news to me.
So if you actually believe what you wrote, you are basically denying that women can compete in any game, sport, art or science with the best men. Which is more sexist than most AC troll posts in this thread.
Seriously, how did this crap modded insightful in a forum for nerds?
Actually the eee 901 has 1gb of RAM, not 512 mb
Sorry for nitpicking.
Nope, he was talking about the story of the title which contained "&ndash" instead of the dash at first.
Yeah. They're just doing it to piss him off.
The thing is, tfa doesn't really make it clear what exactly Stallman's concerns are about.
It just mentions a few buzzwords and quotes by RMS which, for all I know, could be completely out of context.
Seriously, after reading tfa I still haven't got more than a very foggy idea what Stallman is actually criticising.
Really? English is not my first language, so my intuition may be wrong, but since it basically replaces "the user's" (singular!), "his" or "her" make more sense to me than "their".
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No, don't follow them. Electronic Voting is an inherently flawed idea, let's just stick to pen&paper voting.
You could have gone to the homepage http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/ There it states 67.5 Terrabits received. (Terrabits, not terrabytes)
Oh, the irony of a device on Mars transmitting terrabits of data.
most of us geeks have made a choice for the next 3 years.
Speak for yourself. Being a geek and hating to be told how to use my gadgets are exactly the reasons I wouldn't touch an Iphone with a 10-foot pole.
But you are expected to trust some obscure German software company. Right.)
You don't have to. You the source code is available for download. (And you could obviously monitor your traffic see if the browser phones home)
Bad idea. If I know that I will have to debug it, I can use whatever variable names I want. Which is not necessarily what makes sense to other people.
We're #1! I'm sure the bulk of it is just that we have more computers.
I highly doubt that. Germany (to take just one example) has a population of about 80 million, which is roughly a quarter of the U.S. Even if we assume that the rate of computers/person is only half of the U.S. (which is definitely not the case) Germany should originate about 1/8 (12.5%), while the actual number seems to be around 0.5%.
Basically because TOR's aim is to protect free speech and privacy on the internet, not to allow people to do torrenting, which probably uses disproportionately much bandwidth and other resources.
Insightful? Don't drink and mod!
Living in Paris is expensive. Really expensive. And while 500km might be a bit of a stretch, French trains are ridiculously fast. So I guess the answer is basically "because they can".
Reaction time might be unaffected,
I think what the gp wants to say is that old drivers probably have an increased reaction time, not a reduced one.
Sorry for off-topic, but if you actually need the same number of lines for a task in Python as in Java, you're doing it (Python) wrong.
Oh for fuck's sake! Nobody's denying her right to privacy. But when a public servant and possible soon-to-be vice president is too stupid to use a proper password for her email-account AND apparently uses yahoo mail to conduct shady business her right to privacy simply is not the most interesting matter at hand.
I consider my own right to privacy very important, but I would not expect any sympathy if someone pwns my mail account because I used my zip code as pw.
And despite also being wrong, hacking one persons account is something completely different than constantly monitoring everybody's communication and creating a police state.
Why do you assume you have this right? Seriously, this isn't trolling. It's well founded that even US citizens may legally be searched when entering the US.
Reference: Border Search Exception
Legal right != moral right
That appellation belongs solely to citizens of the United States of America.
In that case, what is the correct term to use for inhabitants of the the american continent? Not trolling, serious question.
Non-citizens in the US don't have anywhere the same legal protections as citizens. This is to be expected in ANY country that you visit where you are not a citizen.
Seriously? I can't think of any examples of democratic countries with working legal systems that don't protect visitors. Can you give any examples (other than the US) of legal systems that treat tourists and business visitors like shit?