So what is your point? Try spraying boogers all over your paper book. They clean right off my ereader, your paper book gets all stained and sticky. I've never dropped or thrown my ebook reader. I can always get another one if for some bizarre reason I did. Try carrying a dozen paper books on your next trip. Meanwhile I am not using storage space or trees and paper milling waste to get reading material. They have made owning paper copies of material illegal in the past, and could easily do so in the future, so that point is moot as well. If you prefer paper books, that's fine. Just stop imagining there is some sort of universal superiority over ebooks
would have protected him if he'd played by the rules
Funny how "the rules" only become important when the abusers are exposed. Since they ignore "the rules" whenever it suits them, there's no place for complaining about others doing the same. In any case, the rules of integrity, decency, patriotism, being a free people, and a dozen other things were followed to the letter.
I enjoy my ebook reader, and no publisher tracks me, analyzes me, or controls the content for me. I simply took the simple precaution of never connecting it to any network and adding content to it via open file formats. Now you should feel completely embarrassed for eschewing all the advantages of ebooks instead of taking the simple and obvious precautions.
$10,000 to risk his career, professional reputation, etc.? Shows the inexperience of the would-be briber that the sum was so small. 10k doesn't go that far these days...
Sad part is, there is nothing they "could have done" to prevent the 9/11 attacks that was prevented by the legal actions available at the time. There was absolutely no need for any additional powers or surveillance. Since they found zip with all the new surveillance after 10 years, I think it is safe to conclude the threat is greatly exaggerated. Where were they when the Boston Marathon attacks were being planned? They were snooping on Brazilian oil companies.
Ignorance doesn't protect anyone, good knowledge does. It is a shame that people can't talk to their kids about stuff they might encounter, and instead turn to government coercion to try to keep the blinders on. This leaves the kids completely unprepared when they inevitably encounter that horrible thing they don't know anything about.
We might be if the dictator was a good guy. You're taking a huge risk if he sucks though. At least with the current type of system there is some limit on the risk.
my employer had an interesting result when looking at these factors, which is: AWS is the same cost as our own datacenter for heavily utilized systems. Where a savings can be realized is in hosting burst or temporary capacity. Or, I suppose, if you don't' have your own DC. It makes sense, AWS pricing would have to ultimately be the same as anyone else's datacenter, with maybe a little economy of scale thrown in. But any well run DC should price out in the same neighborhood.
Well volume is often a perception rather than a reality, plus I would think you would risk the surprise action scene being squelched since the sound profile suddenly gets changes. But I love your second idea, it might be tricky though if the show has a flashback scene or you want to watch a re-run.
I don't watch much with commercials in it, so maybe I have just lost my immunity, but I end up just muting the commercials because they are so damned stupid not because of the volume. The women are all snotty primadonnas who put up with their goofy reckless man-children, or else some rough and tumble he-man is trying to tell me how much I need a gas guzzling truck that can tow an airliner.
Eventually all the people who want to ban everything they don't like will end up banning each other, after which the survivors will crawl out from the wreckage and try to rebuild civilization.
Kind of funny to think of overheating in space, isn't it freezing cold out there? No conductor for the heat I suppose. Anyway, maybe this explains why self-replicating space probes haven't taken over everything, it gets too hot out there. Perhaps it is time to rig up some laser cooling on the ISS.
we are going to do everything we can within current technical and legal bounds to address this for them
My point is that they are not doing everything they can, they are instead they are pursuing a cosmetic measure that will make no real difference to what customers are concerned about. How about, for example, providing me with the ability to use my own keys that are never stored on a MS system?
How is encrypting data in motion going to help when they will simply provide the NSA the keys or otherwise provide access to the data. They are just another participant in the 'we never provided direct access' lie, when you simply provide everything on demand they don't need direct access, nor do they need to decrypt data off the wire.
I like your point. I remember once reading about a guy trapped high up on some huge mountain somewhere, maybe Everest, about to die in a storm. One of his last acts was speaking via radio to his wife, who had just had a baby. And I thought, what the hell are you doing on that mountain with a wife and newborn at home?
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So what is your point? Try spraying boogers all over your paper book. They clean right off my ereader, your paper book gets all stained and sticky. I've never dropped or thrown my ebook reader. I can always get another one if for some bizarre reason I did. Try carrying a dozen paper books on your next trip. Meanwhile I am not using storage space or trees and paper milling waste to get reading material. They have made owning paper copies of material illegal in the past, and could easily do so in the future, so that point is moot as well. If you prefer paper books, that's fine. Just stop imagining there is some sort of universal superiority over ebooks
Incorrect. There are hundreds of laws forbidding "hate speech", sedition, threats against public officials, public vulgarity, and so on.
would have protected him if he'd played by the rules
Funny how "the rules" only become important when the abusers are exposed. Since they ignore "the rules" whenever it suits them, there's no place for complaining about others doing the same. In any case, the rules of integrity, decency, patriotism, being a free people, and a dozen other things were followed to the letter.
I enjoy my ebook reader, and no publisher tracks me, analyzes me, or controls the content for me. I simply took the simple precaution of never connecting it to any network and adding content to it via open file formats. Now you should feel completely embarrassed for eschewing all the advantages of ebooks instead of taking the simple and obvious precautions.
$10,000 to risk his career, professional reputation, etc.? Shows the inexperience of the would-be briber that the sum was so small. 10k doesn't go that far these days...
Sad part is, there is nothing they "could have done" to prevent the 9/11 attacks that was prevented by the legal actions available at the time. There was absolutely no need for any additional powers or surveillance. Since they found zip with all the new surveillance after 10 years, I think it is safe to conclude the threat is greatly exaggerated. Where were they when the Boston Marathon attacks were being planned? They were snooping on Brazilian oil companies.
Ignorance doesn't protect anyone, good knowledge does. It is a shame that people can't talk to their kids about stuff they might encounter, and instead turn to government coercion to try to keep the blinders on. This leaves the kids completely unprepared when they inevitably encounter that horrible thing they don't know anything about.
We might be if the dictator was a good guy. You're taking a huge risk if he sucks though. At least with the current type of system there is some limit on the risk.
Notice it? I intend on joining it.
Because we feel like we deserve it.
Snowden should have notified the right people about his findings rather than go public
My reaction was that he did go to the right people. MY government has no right to keep secrets about what it is doing in regards to ME.
The US government has done so much more to damage the US than Snowden has that Snowden's actions aren't even worth talking about in that regard.
It is simple, "racist" means anything the victim group in question doesn't like. Just like 'sexism' means anything a woman doesn't like.
my employer had an interesting result when looking at these factors, which is: AWS is the same cost as our own datacenter for heavily utilized systems. Where a savings can be realized is in hosting burst or temporary capacity. Or, I suppose, if you don't' have your own DC. It makes sense, AWS pricing would have to ultimately be the same as anyone else's datacenter, with maybe a little economy of scale thrown in. But any well run DC should price out in the same neighborhood.
We could start a letter writing campaign to complain to every advertiser who does this. Perhaps something online?
Well volume is often a perception rather than a reality, plus I would think you would risk the surprise action scene being squelched since the sound profile suddenly gets changes. But I love your second idea, it might be tricky though if the show has a flashback scene or you want to watch a re-run.
I don't watch much with commercials in it, so maybe I have just lost my immunity, but I end up just muting the commercials because they are so damned stupid not because of the volume. The women are all snotty primadonnas who put up with their goofy reckless man-children, or else some rough and tumble he-man is trying to tell me how much I need a gas guzzling truck that can tow an airliner.
Eventually all the people who want to ban everything they don't like will end up banning each other, after which the survivors will crawl out from the wreckage and try to rebuild civilization.
Kind of funny to think of overheating in space, isn't it freezing cold out there? No conductor for the heat I suppose. Anyway, maybe this explains why self-replicating space probes haven't taken over everything, it gets too hot out there. Perhaps it is time to rig up some laser cooling on the ISS.
we are going to do everything we can within current technical and legal bounds to address this for them
My point is that they are not doing everything they can, they are instead they are pursuing a cosmetic measure that will make no real difference to what customers are concerned about. How about, for example, providing me with the ability to use my own keys that are never stored on a MS system?
private interests caving to political pressure instead of doing the right thing
You do that every time you pay your taxes instead of going to jail.
How is encrypting data in motion going to help when they will simply provide the NSA the keys or otherwise provide access to the data. They are just another participant in the 'we never provided direct access' lie, when you simply provide everything on demand they don't need direct access, nor do they need to decrypt data off the wire.
Brings a whole new dimension to Stuxnet
through electricity! Eventually we will all have brain implants to jolt us out of unproductive or rebellious mental states. Software by Microsoft.
I like your point. I remember once reading about a guy trapped high up on some huge mountain somewhere, maybe Everest, about to die in a storm. One of his last acts was speaking via radio to his wife, who had just had a baby. And I thought, what the hell are you doing on that mountain with a wife and newborn at home?