It is important because the ODF standard came first, yet Microsoft blatantly choose to, once again, ignore an established standard in favor of their own solution.
Each repeater will need power, so perhaps a power chord could be incorporated into the design. Nice. I've always wanted to power a device with a guitar.
Excessive DRM and other lockout mechanisms aren't unusual in game consoles though. If it was marketed as a general-purpose machine then things might be different.
Even if Slashdot was bot-proof, the trolls would still post the old fashioned way. And IP blocks aren't going to do much with Tor and dynamic IP addresses available.
I've always thought of FOSS as reactionary rather than liberal, seeing as FOSS is essentially a revised version of the dominant business model of the 60s and 70s.
Although they know about going to Limewire for music and YouTube for videos, I would bet that most users still don't know where to go to get infringing downloads of software. With the exception of some tech savvy college and high school students, most people who haven't heard of "Linux" probably haven't heard of "The Pirate Bay" either.
It is true that there were some loopholes in Virginia's gun control laws that allowed Cho to purchase the firearms legally. But before you go off an a gun control crusade, remember that Cho brought the guns to a "safe zone" campus and sawed off the serial numbers, both already illegal. If Cho really wanted access to guns and was denied by the background check, I have no doubt that he would have acquired his weapons by other means.
As another student at Virginia Tech, I concur. I don't want to have my university be remembered in pity, or worse used as a justification for future laws or rules that threaten our freedoms and civil liberties.
That depends entirely on how trustworthy Facebook and your friends are. The privacy controls prevent looking at profiles directly, but there are several methods of circumvention. One would be going to one of this person's friends and asking him or her to print out a profile on the spy's behalf. A Facebook spy could track down someone that they know is friends with the person in question and use scare tactics, instill fear, or convince the friend that he or she is doing the person a favor by exposing Facebook information. There's also the problem of authority that most Facebook spys have over someone's friends: an employer or college/high school administration could make it mandatory to hand over information about a friend's profile upon request, or face termination or expulsion. I remember that my high school would suspend you if you hesitated to correctly identify yourself to a faculty member upon request without any exceptions.
Facebook could also have backdoors for certain organizations. The TOS makes it clear that you give Facebook permission to do whatever the hell it wants with whatever you have on your profile at the time, so there certainly isn't anything preventing these spys from asking Facebook outright for the information. The only thing that prevents spys from getting their hands on profile information this way is Facebook's definition of "good faith," which I think this administrator could have easily met if he was able to get the student's medical records.
Kids are taught to share in the physical sense, not in the sense of copyright. When little Billy is told to share what he created while fingerpainting, he doesn't think "make copies and give them out on the playground." He thinks "pass around the original to let everyone see."
While the outcome of both practices is the same, physical sharing has the drawback of the original owner temporarily losing possession of his or her item, which goes against our naturally selfish behavior and is why physical sharing is taught as a virtue. Sharing in the sense of making copies does not have that drawback, which is why most people probably wouldn't think twice about uploading an MP3 to a complete stranger but would never let that same person borrow a screwdriver.
Except that you didn't expose the information with the expectation that it be sold to advertisers or the government. You only intended it to be seen by select individuals. This is why a lot of people pretended to be 14 or 15 on MySpace so as to get a private profile.
I can only assume that you are talking about the "Movies" column in the basic info section.
Your rental history will give people a much more accurate representation of your taste in movies than a voluntary list, especially if renting online is your primary way of watching movies. Some people might not want such an honest list being exposed to strangers (or even "friends"). The fact that they can't prevent Blockbuster from transmitting this data to Facebook (other than blocking Beacon) makes this an issue.
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Nope. Never mind. That just makes it worse.
You can also just turn off JavaScript.
It is important because the ODF standard came first, yet Microsoft blatantly choose to, once again, ignore an established standard in favor of their own solution.
"Some experts claim the ball might return to Earth someday, but their concerns were dismissed as 'depressing.'"
Not to worry. We still have eleven more months for something even more pathetic to come along.
He's got my vote.
We'll just make some more when we perfect cold fusion.
Excessive DRM and other lockout mechanisms aren't unusual in game consoles though. If it was marketed as a general-purpose machine then things might be different.
Even if Slashdot was bot-proof, the trolls would still post the old fashioned way. And IP blocks aren't going to do much with Tor and dynamic IP addresses available.
I've always thought of FOSS as reactionary rather than liberal, seeing as FOSS is essentially a revised version of the dominant business model of the 60s and 70s.
Although they know about going to Limewire for music and YouTube for videos, I would bet that most users still don't know where to go to get infringing downloads of software. With the exception of some tech savvy college and high school students, most people who haven't heard of "Linux" probably haven't heard of "The Pirate Bay" either.
It is true that there were some loopholes in Virginia's gun control laws that allowed Cho to purchase the firearms legally. But before you go off an a gun control crusade, remember that Cho brought the guns to a "safe zone" campus and sawed off the serial numbers, both already illegal. If Cho really wanted access to guns and was denied by the background check, I have no doubt that he would have acquired his weapons by other means.
As another student at Virginia Tech, I concur. I don't want to have my university be remembered in pity, or worse used as a justification for future laws or rules that threaten our freedoms and civil liberties.
That depends entirely on how trustworthy Facebook and your friends are. The privacy controls prevent looking at profiles directly, but there are several methods of circumvention. One would be going to one of this person's friends and asking him or her to print out a profile on the spy's behalf. A Facebook spy could track down someone that they know is friends with the person in question and use scare tactics, instill fear, or convince the friend that he or she is doing the person a favor by exposing Facebook information. There's also the problem of authority that most Facebook spys have over someone's friends: an employer or college/high school administration could make it mandatory to hand over information about a friend's profile upon request, or face termination or expulsion. I remember that my high school would suspend you if you hesitated to correctly identify yourself to a faculty member upon request without any exceptions.
Facebook could also have backdoors for certain organizations. The TOS makes it clear that you give Facebook permission to do whatever the hell it wants with whatever you have on your profile at the time, so there certainly isn't anything preventing these spys from asking Facebook outright for the information. The only thing that prevents spys from getting their hands on profile information this way is Facebook's definition of "good faith," which I think this administrator could have easily met if he was able to get the student's medical records.
Kids are taught to share in the physical sense, not in the sense of copyright. When little Billy is told to share what he created while fingerpainting, he doesn't think "make copies and give them out on the playground." He thinks "pass around the original to let everyone see."
While the outcome of both practices is the same, physical sharing has the drawback of the original owner temporarily losing possession of his or her item, which goes against our naturally selfish behavior and is why physical sharing is taught as a virtue. Sharing in the sense of making copies does not have that drawback, which is why most people probably wouldn't think twice about uploading an MP3 to a complete stranger but would never let that same person borrow a screwdriver.
What are these "service packs" of Apple's that you speak of?
Even if Murdoch did own News.com, the article would be for OpenSocial of it were biased, as MySpace is a partner.
I fail to see how not providing personal information to strangers is a bad habit.
Except that you didn't expose the information with the expectation that it be sold to advertisers or the government. You only intended it to be seen by select individuals. This is why a lot of people pretended to be 14 or 15 on MySpace so as to get a private profile.
I can only assume that you are talking about the "Movies" column in the basic info section.
Your rental history will give people a much more accurate representation of your taste in movies than a voluntary list, especially if renting online is your primary way of watching movies. Some people might not want such an honest list being exposed to strangers (or even "friends"). The fact that they can't prevent Blockbuster from transmitting this data to Facebook (other than blocking Beacon) makes this an issue.
I don't know about "never tires." I'm pretty sure that it's the men that tire.
It was Earth.
Don't date robots!