I've just realised how sinister the potential of the Kindle is. In Nazi and Stalinist states, THEY controlled the printing presses - we're getting into a situation where THEY control the very act of reading. Start stockpiling paper and pencils.
Google's methods are to fob off the information commissioners with reassurances that aren't backed by fact. For example in the UK, you can remove your house from StreetView - but only if you send Google, at your own expense, a copy of photographic identification, which they can reject for reasons unknown. The IC doesn't allow any other data holder to place arbitrary, irrelevant restrictions on remove requests like this.
Thank goodness Monsanto aren't in a position to introduce anything else, with reassurances of safety, that turns out years later to have been a disaster. Oh, hold on...
Google's malware-esque update methods have killed my interest in Chrome. Last time I installed it it silently created no less than three scheduled tasks devoted to updating itself. Cram it Google! If I want to know about updates I'll check your website myself, I'm sure I can remember the address.
In no.10, it's possible that stuff might explode because its temperature, or power input etc, might have been controlled by the no-longer-existent computer. And no.1 is a bit narrow-minded, it's like writing in 1840 that powered flight would never be possible because a sufficiently powerful steam engine could never be made small enough. Maybe computers centuries hence just might not have hard drives, fans etc?
The only element of high risk from the US point of view in the invasion of Iraq was that people would find out that Iraq had zero connection to the WTC attacks. Otherwise the risk was purely to the Iraqi civilian population, 7000 of whom were killed in one week simply for 'shock and awe' purposes. And that is a direct, unashamed quotation from Rumsfeld.
For further information about degradation and humiliation, just ask someone educated at a Catholic school about their experiences there, you'll get as much as you want.
Equivalent statistics, please, for the number of bankers engaged in surfing for porn instead of carefully considering the riskiness of their investment activities.
In an alternate universe he's claiming compensation from governments for not stopping flights and thus avoiding 25 expensive Virgin planes crashing with the loss of all aboard.
Make up a plausible false name. Use it on Facebook. Tell your friends what it is via a back-channel. They might think you a bit eccentric, but that's a price worth paying for your privacy. And if you regularly read Slashdot, there's a good chance your friends know and love your eccentricities already.
It's not that all police officers are corrupt thugs, but a large enough proportion of them are to make it dangerous to assume that any particular cop you encounter is honest.
While in the US chiropractic conducts very effective PR, in the UK the subluxation myth is widely known to be just that. UK chiropractors have shot themselves in the foot over this one - many are now facing trading standards investigations over misleading claims in their advertising.
I avoid using a debit card wherever possible for just this reason. The exception is with retailers (scum) who charge extra for paying by credit card - if I'm forced to deal with one such, I always change the PIN number immediately afterwards.
UK banks have been ripping people off with this debit card thing ever since Chip & Fraud was introduced - they share your PIN with retailers, you get the blame for fraud!
Oh for the days when you had to go to South America to be electrotortured by the police. Full marks to New Labour for bringing us the opportunity to experience this phenomenon without leaving Britain.
The real problem is not beaming the power, but making sure nothing valuable gets in between sender and receiver. You wouldn't want an airliner to fly through the beam I expect.
As requested (handup). I use my video tape recorders regularly. Quality might not be quite so good, but I'll never wake up one day to find that all my recordings have been remotely erased, or DRMed, by the service provider. I will give up my analogue technology when you prise it from my cold dead fingers.
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So was the original Dartmouth BASIC.
Any UK company using these services should be forced to prominently include the fact in its advertising.
I've just realised how sinister the potential of the Kindle is. In Nazi and Stalinist states, THEY controlled the printing presses - we're getting into a situation where THEY control the very act of reading. Start stockpiling paper and pencils.
Google's methods are to fob off the information commissioners with reassurances that aren't backed by fact. For example in the UK, you can remove your house from StreetView - but only if you send Google, at your own expense, a copy of photographic identification, which they can reject for reasons unknown. The IC doesn't allow any other data holder to place arbitrary, irrelevant restrictions on remove requests like this.
Thank goodness Monsanto aren't in a position to introduce anything else, with reassurances of safety, that turns out years later to have been a disaster. Oh, hold on...
He lives in tax exile in the US, so you lot probably have more chance to give him what he deserves than we do.
No rights, only privileges conceded by benevolent corporations. Zzzzzzz
Google's malware-esque update methods have killed my interest in Chrome. Last time I installed it it silently created no less than three scheduled tasks devoted to updating itself. Cram it Google! If I want to know about updates I'll check your website myself, I'm sure I can remember the address.
In no.10, it's possible that stuff might explode because its temperature, or power input etc, might have been controlled by the no-longer-existent computer. And no.1 is a bit narrow-minded, it's like writing in 1840 that powered flight would never be possible because a sufficiently powerful steam engine could never be made small enough. Maybe computers centuries hence just might not have hard drives, fans etc?
'the public may need to readjust its views on what things such as privacy mean' This woman has clearly been taking lessons from Kissinger.
The only element of high risk from the US point of view in the invasion of Iraq was that people would find out that Iraq had zero connection to the WTC attacks. Otherwise the risk was purely to the Iraqi civilian population, 7000 of whom were killed in one week simply for 'shock and awe' purposes. And that is a direct, unashamed quotation from Rumsfeld.
There is no choice, because in practice all the airlines have the same policies. The 'choice' is a legal fiction.
Presumably then in the US, or just in California perhaps, jurors aren't in contempt of court if they discuss their deliberations after the trial.
For further information about degradation and humiliation, just ask someone educated at a Catholic school about their experiences there, you'll get as much as you want.
Equivalent statistics, please, for the number of bankers engaged in surfing for porn instead of carefully considering the riskiness of their investment activities.
In an alternate universe he's claiming compensation from governments for not stopping flights and thus avoiding 25 expensive Virgin planes crashing with the loss of all aboard.
Make up a plausible false name. Use it on Facebook. Tell your friends what it is via a back-channel. They might think you a bit eccentric, but that's a price worth paying for your privacy. And if you regularly read Slashdot, there's a good chance your friends know and love your eccentricities already.
It's not that all police officers are corrupt thugs, but a large enough proportion of them are to make it dangerous to assume that any particular cop you encounter is honest.
This proposal has one major benefit - lots and lots of lawyer cash becoming programmer cash instead.
Yes, possibly the original post is part of a viral industry 'education' campaign.
While in the US chiropractic conducts very effective PR, in the UK the subluxation myth is widely known to be just that. UK chiropractors have shot themselves in the foot over this one - many are now facing trading standards investigations over misleading claims in their advertising.
I avoid using a debit card wherever possible for just this reason. The exception is with retailers (scum) who charge extra for paying by credit card - if I'm forced to deal with one such, I always change the PIN number immediately afterwards. UK banks have been ripping people off with this debit card thing ever since Chip & Fraud was introduced - they share your PIN with retailers, you get the blame for fraud!
Oh for the days when you had to go to South America to be electrotortured by the police. Full marks to New Labour for bringing us the opportunity to experience this phenomenon without leaving Britain.
The real problem is not beaming the power, but making sure nothing valuable gets in between sender and receiver. You wouldn't want an airliner to fly through the beam I expect.
As requested (handup). I use my video tape recorders regularly. Quality might not be quite so good, but I'll never wake up one day to find that all my recordings have been remotely erased, or DRMed, by the service provider. I will give up my analogue technology when you prise it from my cold dead fingers.