In any case It is pretty stupid to seek shelter in a building that us used by the muslim jihad army.
Like those 15 killed (most of which were women and children) and 200 injured that were seeking shelter in a UN School?
Their missiles are pretty accurate.
Either their accurate missiles were not accurate enough to hit nearby Hamas forces without injuring innocents or they used less accurate artillery despite having co-ordinates for the shelter location provided to them by the UN, whatever the case were this was a major fuck up that should not have happened. Period! http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Forgot to add that to date there is no known AV that remove it, probably as any AV publisher that did so would face a very costly lawsuit for defamation or similar. I Vaguely recall (and am too lazy tool look it up) AV publishers having faced suits like that in the past for classifying grey area software as malware.
you got it for free if you had the promo code so can't really bitch about the DRM in it.
If I have not been (clearly) informed of it's presence and implications by the publisher I certainly can and so should any person that consider themselves the owner of their machine when it is DRM that is known to:
- Generate false positives on authentic discs.
- Create files and reg keys that you cannot access/remove as admin.
- Snoop on your software usage 24/7.
- Conflict with debugging software and in some instances even require debuggers to be un-installed in order for you to play the game.
- Remain installed after you have un-installed the game.
Nope you did (fortunately) not miss something about Canada becoming a part of the US. The study I referenced while concerning the US is pointing out quite a few points that are applicable to many other countries too, for example all of those are involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership a group that Canada is a part of.
In turn, governments have it in their interest to pass laws that in general benefit society.
If you consider the very wealthy and corporations to be society then what you write is true for most governments. But if you consider the majority of the electorate being society, then not so. For an example of what I mean look at the recent study from Princeton University and Northwestern University that reached the conclusion that the USA is an oligarchy.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it.
As relevant as the atrocities committed by the (mostly christian) Anti Balaka in Central African Republic.
Amnesty International has taken over 100 first-hand testimonies of large-scale anti-balaka attacks on Muslim civilians in CAR's northwest towns of Bouali, Boyali, Bossembele, Bossemptele, and Baoro. International troops had failed to deploy to these towns leaving civilian communities without protection.
The most lethal attack documented by Amnesty International took place on 18 January in Bossemptele, where at least 100 Muslims were killed. Among the dead were women and old men, including an imam in his mid-70s.
In 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled that an F.B.I. agent could not testify about the location of a defendant’s cell phone because the analyses did not rise to the level of trusted, replicable science.
she had a tumultuous, sometimes violent relationship with the victim, Jerri Williams. Cell records showed that at 10:27 on the morning of the murder, Roberts’s phone connected to a tower within 3.4 miles of Kelley Point Park, where Williams’s body was discovered. Her attorney felt that was enough to convict her.
But she was making that call while driving a red pickup truck more than eight miles away, as confirmed by a witness. The system had simply routed her call through the tower near the park. It also emerged that new DNA evidence placed another suspect, a man, at the crime scene. And another piece of evidence helped: moments earlier, Roberts had received another call that came through a different site. The two towers were 1.3 miles apart. She could not have traveled that distance in the forty seconds between the calls. And so her cell records, in a sense, helped to save her.
Source: http://www.newyorker.com/onlin...
There probably need some witnesses. And thoses are at a great risk if their identity goes public... Some may be as good as dead !!!
You mean like in every major mob trial since the 1920's? Trials were witnesses as well as prosecutors and judges doubtlessly have risked their lives going up against extremely well funded criminal organizations that make Al-Qaeda seem a bunch of amateurs. Yet these trial have always been held in the public spotlight. This is especially true in Italy where they hold the mob trials in public even after the Maxi trials that triggered the murder of the residing Judge, his son and several terror attacks across the country with one single attack claiming 10 lives and injuring 93.
My thermostat is just a device on my wall which regulates my furnace - it has no business being internet-enabled.
What if that could save you money? (it can.) What if it adds convenience and security? (it can.) What if it informs you about your usage such that you can improve your comfort level? (it can.) What if it gives you remote information, such as "the heater has failed, the pipes will freeze, you need to come deal with this" (it can.) What then? Still no business being Internet enabled?
Does it really have to be internet connected to save you money? By sacrificing a little bit of convenience you could gain a lot of security on your device and at the same time avoid that some asshat script kiddie in another state or country cause your cost saving device actually make you spend more money just for the fun of it. Or worse, turns off your furnace and disable your warning system and make it generate "All is OK reports" while you are soaking away in the sun with an umbrella drink in hand blissfully unaware that your pipes just burst due to the freezing temperatures back home.
Why would it need an internet connection to provide me with usage statistics that can be used to save money? It really isn't that hard to run a cable from your device to your PC to download the data for analysis. Slightly less convenient yes, and most likely an inconvenience that will be a turn-off for many potential customers.
And an internet connection is most definitely not necessary for a system to give me remote information such as "the heater has failed, the pipes will freeze, you need to come deal with this". Home alarm systems have proved messages such as "The alarm have been triggered due to a potential home intrusion...." for at least 3 decades using regular phone lines and emergency numbers set by the owner, commonly to neighbors and family.
How on earth do you spend tens of millions on consulting groups?
Not that hard when as the MSN article states "Many of the consultants were being paid upwards of $1,000 a day.", nothing is being said about what the average consultant fee were but for the sake of argument let's say it is $500 that amount to just 4000 days of paid consultants with an average of 250 working days per year that comes down to 3.2 full time consultants per year that evidently have been grossly overpaid. Very few careers beyond politics reward ability to talk and write BS combined with failure and/or incompetence to such an extent as that of consultancy.
but I find myself being even more annoyed, at this point, by people calling GNU/Linux Linux...
Linux is a kernel. Why do people continue to call GNU/Linux (i.e. the whole system) by the name of the kernel it uses?
Would seriously like a person or two to explain what exactly the reasoning behind this phenomenon is, if indeed there is any.
I have two theories.
1. It is convenient and only annoy a tiny minority.
2. It is a sinister conspiracy with you as the target of the clandestine organization THEY (affiliated with Illuminati, Scientology, Bert and Ernie) with the single purpose of annoying you on a every time you visit/.
It's not hard finding hardware with excellent linux support, even less so when you buy in the large quantities that the city of Munich do, you do realise that organisations of that size tend to have just a small set of laptop and desktop configurations they use, right? It is not like they randomly pick 10 different manufacturers and 50 models. While there might be valid arguments against their move to Linux, your is definitely not one of them.
By mistake I clicked submit before adding section iv
iv. Other iCloud Content. PhotoStream, Docs, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, iOS Device Backups
iCloud only stores the content for these services that the customer has elected to maintain in the account while the customer’s account remains active. Apple does not retain deleted content once it is cleared from Apple’s servers. Apple will produce customer content in these categories only in response to a valid search warrant.
Likewise, if they were able to access your iCloud stuff, they'd have access to a whole lot more, such as calendar events, e-mails, and any third-party data you had backed up using iCloud Backup.
From the source you linked:
iii. Email Content
iCloud only stores the email a user has elected to maintain in the account while the customer’s account remains active. Apple is unable to produce deleted content. Apple will produce customer content, as it exists in the customer’s mailbox in response to a search warrant.
It would be interesting to hear your view on this if you ever were to belong to the estimated 4% that are executed for crimes they did not commit. http://www.thedailyjournal.com...
Without DRM, most of the content providers will not provide legal content for you to download.
DRM schemes that cripple content as badly as the Hulu and Netflix are counter productive when close to 100% of the content that is available for streaming can with a minimum of effort be obtained via torrent sites without the any of the restrictions imposed by DRM. I can only see two reasons why DRM such as theirs are implemented: 1. What I just wrote make too much sense for the MAAFIA to comprehend. 2. The MAAFIA acknowledge what I wrote as correct but want to be able to point fingers and screaming [infantile rolling on the floor tantrum]"Evil pirates, we give them legal options on-line but they still steal our content. Hang them all!"[/infantile rolling on the floor tantrum]
The reason two year old kids can use an iPad and aren't ready for standard Legos is because the latter requires more skill. TFA claims claims that exposing kids to technology is causing our civilization to spiral down the drain, but provides no evidence whatsoever, other than anecdotes and conjecture.
While no hyperbole such as civilization spiraling down the drain or even anything close to it TFA say that:
Children are arriving at nursery school able to "swipe a screen" but lacking the manipulative skills to play with building blocks, teachers have warned.
They fear that children are being given tablets to use "as a replacement for contact time with the parent" and say such habits are hindering progress at school.
While as you write there is little support for what is written beyond anecdotes and conjecture it most definitely is something that deserve attention and scientific studies not people getting their panties in a bundle over imaginary luddites.
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In any case It is pretty stupid to seek shelter in a building that us used by the muslim jihad army.
Like those 15 killed (most of which were women and children) and 200 injured that were seeking shelter in a UN School?
Their missiles are pretty accurate.
Either their accurate missiles were not accurate enough to hit nearby Hamas forces without injuring innocents or they used less accurate artillery despite having co-ordinates for the shelter location provided to them by the UN, whatever the case were this was a major fuck up that should not have happened. Period! http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Show me another country in the region that has a single Jew or Christian in office.
Out of 290 seats the Iranian parliament have 3 Jewish, 4 Catholic and another 7 occupied by non-muslim minorities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
Forgot to add that to date there is no known AV that remove it, probably as any AV publisher that did so would face a very costly lawsuit for defamation or similar. I Vaguely recall (and am too lazy tool look it up) AV publishers having faced suits like that in the past for classifying grey area software as malware.
It can be removed but not without quite a bit of hassle. http://www.reclaimyourgame.com...
you got it for free if you had the promo code so can't really bitch about the DRM in it.
If I have not been (clearly) informed of it's presence and implications by the publisher I certainly can and so should any person that consider themselves the owner of their machine when it is DRM that is known to:
- Generate false positives on authentic discs.
- Create files and reg keys that you cannot access/remove as admin.
- Snoop on your software usage 24/7.
- Conflict with debugging software and in some instances even require debuggers to be un-installed in order for you to play the game.
- Remain installed after you have un-installed the game.
Nope you did (fortunately) not miss something about Canada becoming a part of the US. The study I referenced while concerning the US is pointing out quite a few points that are applicable to many other countries too, for example all of those are involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership a group that Canada is a part of.
In turn, governments have it in their interest to pass laws that in general benefit society.
If you consider the very wealthy and corporations to be society then what you write is true for most governments. But if you consider the majority of the electorate being society, then not so. For an example of what I mean look at the recent study from Princeton University and Northwestern University that reached the conclusion that the USA is an oligarchy.
Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organised groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on US government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites and/or with organised interests, they generally lose. Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the US political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favour policy change, they generally do not get it.
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-...
Il Giardino, 71 Bd Beach, Cap-Ferret meet Streisand
Amnesty International has taken over 100 first-hand testimonies of large-scale anti-balaka attacks on Muslim civilians in CAR's northwest towns of Bouali, Boyali, Bossembele, Bossemptele, and Baoro. International troops had failed to deploy to these towns leaving civilian communities without protection. The most lethal attack documented by Amnesty International took place on 18 January in Bossemptele, where at least 100 Muslims were killed. Among the dead were women and old men, including an imam in his mid-70s.
Source: http://www.amnesty.org/en/news...
In 2012, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled that an F.B.I. agent could not testify about the location of a defendant’s cell phone because the analyses did not rise to the level of trusted, replicable science.
she had a tumultuous, sometimes violent relationship with the victim, Jerri Williams. Cell records showed that at 10:27 on the morning of the murder, Roberts’s phone connected to a tower within 3.4 miles of Kelley Point Park, where Williams’s body was discovered. Her attorney felt that was enough to convict her.
But she was making that call while driving a red pickup truck more than eight miles away, as confirmed by a witness. The system had simply routed her call through the tower near the park. It also emerged that new DNA evidence placed another suspect, a man, at the crime scene. And another piece of evidence helped: moments earlier, Roberts had received another call that came through a different site. The two towers were 1.3 miles apart. She could not have traveled that distance in the forty seconds between the calls. And so her cell records, in a sense, helped to save her. Source: http://www.newyorker.com/onlin...
There's even a "Let's rebuild Opera as it was" open-source effort
http://otter-browser.org/
oh right. I could just call them or email them directly.
There are honestly times when I wonder if the average teen even know that you can make calls with a smartphone. And email?! That's just soooo 2012!
There probably need some witnesses. And thoses are at a great risk if their identity goes public... Some may be as good as dead !!!
You mean like in every major mob trial since the 1920's? Trials were witnesses as well as prosecutors and judges doubtlessly have risked their lives going up against extremely well funded criminal organizations that make Al-Qaeda seem a bunch of amateurs. Yet these trial have always been held in the public spotlight. This is especially true in Italy where they hold the mob trials in public even after the Maxi trials that triggered the murder of the residing Judge, his son and several terror attacks across the country with one single attack claiming 10 lives and injuring 93.
Not scared enough, you're posting from an account.
And you too are not scared enough, you are posting. Or do you still believe that posting as AC provide any real anonymity?
What if that could save you money? (it can.) What if it adds convenience and security? (it can.) What if it informs you about your usage such that you can improve your comfort level? (it can.) What if it gives you remote information, such as "the heater has failed, the pipes will freeze, you need to come deal with this" (it can.) What then? Still no business being Internet enabled?
Does it really have to be internet connected to save you money? By sacrificing a little bit of convenience you could gain a lot of security on your device and at the same time avoid that some asshat script kiddie in another state or country cause your cost saving device actually make you spend more money just for the fun of it. Or worse, turns off your furnace and disable your warning system and make it generate "All is OK reports" while you are soaking away in the sun with an umbrella drink in hand blissfully unaware that your pipes just burst due to the freezing temperatures back home. Why would it need an internet connection to provide me with usage statistics that can be used to save money? It really isn't that hard to run a cable from your device to your PC to download the data for analysis. Slightly less convenient yes, and most likely an inconvenience that will be a turn-off for many potential customers.
And an internet connection is most definitely not necessary for a system to give me remote information such as "the heater has failed, the pipes will freeze, you need to come deal with this". Home alarm systems have proved messages such as "The alarm have been triggered due to a potential home intrusion...." for at least 3 decades using regular phone lines and emergency numbers set by the owner, commonly to neighbors and family.
How on earth do you spend tens of millions on consulting groups?
Not that hard when as the MSN article states "Many of the consultants were being paid upwards of $1,000 a day.", nothing is being said about what the average consultant fee were but for the sake of argument let's say it is $500 that amount to just 4000 days of paid consultants with an average of 250 working days per year that comes down to 3.2 full time consultants per year that evidently have been grossly overpaid.
Very few careers beyond politics reward ability to talk and write BS combined with failure and/or incompetence to such an extent as that of consultancy.
And the annoying phrasing of my last sentence was a sinister plan by my dog to annoy all the grammar nazis out there by distracting me while editing.
but I find myself being even more annoyed, at this point, by people calling GNU/Linux Linux... Linux is a kernel. Why do people continue to call GNU/Linux (i.e. the whole system) by the name of the kernel it uses? Would seriously like a person or two to explain what exactly the reasoning behind this phenomenon is, if indeed there is any.
I have two theories. /.
1. It is convenient and only annoy a tiny minority.
2. It is a sinister conspiracy with you as the target of the clandestine organization THEY (affiliated with Illuminati, Scientology, Bert and Ernie) with the single purpose of annoying you on a every time you visit
It's not hard finding hardware with excellent linux support, even less so when you buy in the large quantities that the city of Munich do, you do realise that organisations of that size tend to have just a small set of laptop and desktop configurations they use, right? It is not like they randomly pick 10 different manufacturers and 50 models.
While there might be valid arguments against their move to Linux, your is definitely not one of them.
iv. Other iCloud Content. PhotoStream, Docs, Contacts, Calendars, Bookmarks, iOS Device Backups
iCloud only stores the content for these services that the customer has elected to maintain in the account while the customer’s account remains active. Apple does not retain deleted content once it is cleared from Apple’s servers. Apple will produce customer content in these categories only in response to a valid search warrant.
Likewise, if they were able to access your iCloud stuff, they'd have access to a whole lot more, such as calendar events, e-mails, and any third-party data you had backed up using iCloud Backup.
From the source you linked:
iii. Email Content
iCloud only stores the email a user has elected to maintain in the account while the customer’s account remains active. Apple is unable to produce deleted content. Apple will produce customer content, as it exists in the customer’s mailbox in response to a search warrant.
What is gained? Less criminality in society.
That's the whole fucking point.
It would be interesting to hear your view on this if you ever were to belong to the estimated 4% that are executed for crimes they did not commit. http://www.thedailyjournal.com...
Yay! Just what I want! Clippy predicting what content I want to view next.
Without DRM, most of the content providers will not provide legal content for you to download.
DRM schemes that cripple content as badly as the Hulu and Netflix are counter productive when close to 100% of the content that is available for streaming can with a minimum of effort be obtained via torrent sites without the any of the restrictions imposed by DRM. I can only see two reasons why DRM such as theirs are implemented:
1. What I just wrote make too much sense for the MAAFIA to comprehend.
2. The MAAFIA acknowledge what I wrote as correct but want to be able to point fingers and screaming [infantile rolling on the floor tantrum]"Evil pirates, we give them legal options on-line but they still steal our content. Hang them all!"[/infantile rolling on the floor tantrum]
The reason two year old kids can use an iPad and aren't ready for standard Legos is because the latter requires more skill. TFA claims claims that exposing kids to technology is causing our civilization to spiral down the drain, but provides no evidence whatsoever, other than anecdotes and conjecture.
While no hyperbole such as civilization spiraling down the drain or even anything close to it TFA say that:
Children are arriving at nursery school able to "swipe a screen" but lacking the manipulative skills to play with building blocks, teachers have warned. They fear that children are being given tablets to use "as a replacement for contact time with the parent" and say such habits are hindering progress at school.
While as you write there is little support for what is written beyond anecdotes and conjecture it most definitely is something that deserve attention and scientific studies not people getting their panties in a bundle over imaginary luddites.