I'm not sure what you think the French are doing right, but it sure doesn't seem like the population is rising up against privacy and free speech rights violations the way you think they are.
Well, yes. Pilots are allowed to do all kinds of things we aren't allowed to. I am in favor of looser regulation re:electronics (mile-high LAN party, anyone?), but I disagree strongly with your reasoning.
You can claim that MMOs and sandbox games are different from win/lose games, but your definition of game/toy seems completely made up.
Basically you're claiming that MMOs, sandbox games, and the Sims are toys, while Starcraft, sodoku, and a rubic's cube are games. Tetris, snake, and pong can be either a game or toy depending on if there is a last level.
Honestly, if you're playing a game for the destination and not the journey, it's probably just a poorly designed game. Many great single-player games (The Longest Journey, Beyond Good and Evil) are about the storyline and plot, not about the difficulty in getting there.
That's stupid. You can force a company to do your bidding by buying it . . . in theory, but stopping it in the courts is through other arbitration is obviously more practical.
Probably more "fool" then attention seeker, but it should be a wake-up call that anyone who wants to travel should know better than to wear a piece of art around lest you tick off security check points. Certainly says something about the state of our nation's paranoia and the lack of oversight, transparency, and accountability in some of these organizations.
Nobody's deifying him. Einstein was an extremely gifted scientist and mathematician, the same way Michael Phelps is a gifted athlete. Neither are flawless or religious icons, but their abilities do make them stand out far beyond average human beings and we like to study how they got that way.
Why do you say T-Mobile is better suited? The other carriers have phones, plans, and stores that could work just as well. Sprint is even more tightly integrated with Google Voice than any other carrier.
It seems like the EFF is estatic about this latest bill getting voteddown.
The bill is well over a hundred pages long and includes many components other than sections about sharing data with the government. ...
Under the bill, the provisions for “monitoring” are very broad. Companies (“any private entity”) are granted “affirmative authority” to “monitor information systems” and “information that is stored on, processed by, or transiting the information systems” for cybersecurity threats. A company could also monitor someone else’s network if it has been granted authority to do so, for example an outside consulting firm hired to help with network security.
Data collected under the Cybersecurity Act can be shared with law enforcement for non-cybersecurity purposes if it “appears to relate to a crime” either past, present, or near future.
TFA is very misleading as far as discussing the actual issues at hand.
Yeah, but for some reason, if Google were the one to pull something like Carrier IQ, they would've done it more intelligently in a way that wouldn't result in widespread criticism (or maybe only criticism in EU courts).
As for malware, text ads only protect again drive-by downloads. There are plenty of malicious phishing ads on google ads. I've had to help fix a few. Just because I'm not succeptible to them doesn't mean I am not negatively affected by them.
No, the NSA really is pretty innovative, which they'd better be, considering their budget is absurd for how tight-lipped they are. If you look into history, you'll see that they've made contributions and recommendations on various things, including DES. Later on, declassified information showed that they were very much ahead of the game at the time.
There will be one more itty bitty carrier, run by a ragtag band of Linux and BSD geeks, with connections to Tor and the EFF. They will use cool, cutting edge tech paired with some ancient, unscaleable techs and almost everyone who is willing to use the carrier in their limited markets are only separated by 2 or 3 degrees by PGP keys. A connection will require line-of-sight to a tower, even by hovertrain, you only see them once every 5 minutes, but a connection is so fast that most users carry a cache of 95% of the web with them if they need it on-the-go. Their motto will be "More free than beer" (or some recursive acronym), but they will be nameless, but people will still whisper among each other about the ones who managed to find their way to "a truly open connection."
If this were true, everyone would be running 4 copies of Linux and iPads would never have gotten a chance to exist.
Face it: the consensus on Slashdot is only good at predicting what techy, power-users like, and only within the next few months. After that, as often as not, some creative hacker out there figures out a way to repurpose the tech for something cool.
The idea that surveying a bunch of tech-saavy people will give you a good measure of how well a product will do in the general, non-techie population is ridiculous. And that's ignoring the fact that if it were true, SOMEONE in SOME tech company would have figured it out already and used that fact to make a lot of money.
Slashdot is a great place to get intelligent discourse on cutting edge technology and other cool nerd ideas. Don't try to attribute prophetic powers to it.
Actually, if they follow their general model, then we're looking at something data-mining supported. Google products may have ads, but don't forget how many non-google sites carry google ads.
As for how it'll affect the industry as a whole: there won't be lawsuits. Rather, AT&T and Verizon will have to follow suit to stay competitive, and then data mining your unencrypted mobile data will become both legal and the norm. Yay for privacy errosion!
You don't have to make is completely different, but it's not hard, if the goal is to modify an image of a train, to find a different image of a train so the students actually have to do work.
Then again, if keeping the original file open while actually opening students' files is too much work, as the OP seems to suggest, then there just may not be any solution. How do you grade students' assignments without opening them up?
And ultimately, couldn't students just copy off of each other?
That sounds pretty nice. I'd support a union like that
I don't have research to back me up, but I haven't heard any stories along those lines here in the US. Instead, GP's post about unions abusing their power and using the money/power they get to do things like hire political lobbyists are more what I hear, and I don't anything to do with that. The prison worker's union in California is a great example of that, and only lead to overly strict laws, overcrowded prisons, and too much spending on jails instead of rehabilitation.
I am not sure if the Screenwriters' and Actors' Unions are better. It seems to me like they serve much more of a purpose as far as ensuring fair pay.
No, they're not. This is a protocol, and those only work when you don't have a large portion of participants abusing the protocol. IE still represents a very significant chunk of the browser population, and it's completely irresponsible for breaking the protocol. Industry initially agreed to play by the rules, but obviously if a major player is going to ignore the agreement, industry has no incentive to keep their word.
IF every single person opt-ed in, that is far more significant than everyone just leaving the default.
I can't comment on specific cases, but I feel like I need to point out that the type of financial aid you get also favors the poor a little more in college because of what happens AFTER college. Often the poor are expected to help support the family once they get out of school, so if they know they're going to come out of college and have a bunch of loans, they're far more inclined to not go to school in the first place.
I don't know what happened with your roommate, but I received what I would consider a generous amount in grants, went to a public school, cooked most meals, had a $100 used bike (which really isn't that bad; you don't need a $1000 bike to get around college), and had a computer that I had to run with case open and my roommate's fan blowing into it. Care to share any more details about where you went/your roommate's situation?
Have you gone through the financial aid process? If your parents aren't helping you pay, you can note that you aren't a dependant and their income doesn't count toward you financial aid (and you don't count toward their taxes).
There may be flaws and cracks here and there in the financial aid system (and not enough money to go around), but people need to stop thinking there are these giant holes you can drive a truck through. Yes, financial aid is applied considering your income from your family (or lack thereof), your depedents, number of siblings, local costs of living, costs of living at home vs at school vs off campus, the amount of property you own, etc. And yes, if you lie enough, you can trick the system, but for the most part they try to keep everyone honest.
I also want to add that the prison population also tends to be largely poor male minorities of black or latino ancestry, and this fact has been noticed and people have tried to target those populations in their efforts to reduce the prison population.
I'll confirm that this does happen in US government contracts, and is fairly accurate, but don't take out your frustrations on education and money geared toward helping groups that historically face additional obstacles getting into college when compared with the average. The sins of a (somewhat corrupt) military-industrial complex do not transfer over to the students and administration of higher education.
And I would argue that even though it feels very unfair to see someone receive money or other help simply because of how they were born, it's important to keep in mind that for historic and cultural reasons that still have effect today, they really don't have the same advantages as a white or a male in the US does.
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The French passed their 3-strikes law in 2009: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law
I'm not sure what you think the French are doing right, but it sure doesn't seem like the population is rising up against privacy and free speech rights violations the way you think they are.
Well, yes. Pilots are allowed to do all kinds of things we aren't allowed to. I am in favor of looser regulation re:electronics (mile-high LAN party, anyone?), but I disagree strongly with your reasoning.
I think if that's what work is like, it's still called the "grind."
You can claim that MMOs and sandbox games are different from win/lose games, but your definition of game/toy seems completely made up.
Basically you're claiming that MMOs, sandbox games, and the Sims are toys, while Starcraft, sodoku, and a rubic's cube are games. Tetris, snake, and pong can be either a game or toy depending on if there is a last level.
Honestly, if you're playing a game for the destination and not the journey, it's probably just a poorly designed game. Many great single-player games (The Longest Journey, Beyond Good and Evil) are about the storyline and plot, not about the difficulty in getting there.
That's stupid. You can force a company to do your bidding by buying it . . . in theory, but stopping it in the courts is through other arbitration is obviously more practical.
No. I don't suggest that at all. You're making the same point I am.
Probably more "fool" then attention seeker, but it should be a wake-up call that anyone who wants to travel should know better than to wear a piece of art around lest you tick off security check points. Certainly says something about the state of our nation's paranoia and the lack of oversight, transparency, and accountability in some of these organizations.
Nobody's deifying him. Einstein was an extremely gifted scientist and mathematician, the same way Michael Phelps is a gifted athlete. Neither are flawless or religious icons, but their abilities do make them stand out far beyond average human beings and we like to study how they got that way.
Why do you say T-Mobile is better suited? The other carriers have phones, plans, and stores that could work just as well. Sprint is even more tightly integrated with Google Voice than any other carrier.
It seems like the EFF is estatic about this latest bill getting voted down.
The bill is well over a hundred pages long and includes many components other than sections about sharing data with the government.
...
Under the bill, the provisions for “monitoring” are very broad. Companies (“any private entity”) are granted “affirmative authority” to “monitor information systems” and “information that is stored on, processed by, or transiting the information systems” for cybersecurity threats. A company could also monitor someone else’s network if it has been granted authority to do so, for example an outside consulting firm hired to help with network security.
Data collected under the Cybersecurity Act can be shared with law enforcement for non-cybersecurity purposes if it “appears to relate to a crime” either past, present, or near future.
TFA is very misleading as far as discussing the actual issues at hand.
Schwarzenegger will save us.
Yeah, but for some reason, if Google were the one to pull something like Carrier IQ, they would've done it more intelligently in a way that wouldn't result in widespread criticism (or maybe only criticism in EU courts).
As for malware, text ads only protect again drive-by downloads. There are plenty of malicious phishing ads on google ads. I've had to help fix a few. Just because I'm not succeptible to them doesn't mean I am not negatively affected by them.
No, the NSA really is pretty innovative, which they'd better be, considering their budget is absurd for how tight-lipped they are. If you look into history, you'll see that they've made contributions and recommendations on various things, including DES. Later on, declassified information showed that they were very much ahead of the game at the time.
There will be one more itty bitty carrier, run by a ragtag band of Linux and BSD geeks, with connections to Tor and the EFF. They will use cool, cutting edge tech paired with some ancient, unscaleable techs and almost everyone who is willing to use the carrier in their limited markets are only separated by 2 or 3 degrees by PGP keys. A connection will require line-of-sight to a tower, even by hovertrain, you only see them once every 5 minutes, but a connection is so fast that most users carry a cache of 95% of the web with them if they need it on-the-go. Their motto will be "More free than beer" (or some recursive acronym), but they will be nameless, but people will still whisper among each other about the ones who managed to find their way to "a truly open connection."
This is a great video. His enthusiasm and ideals are infectious, and we do need more people like him around.
If this were true, everyone would be running 4 copies of Linux and iPads would never have gotten a chance to exist.
Face it: the consensus on Slashdot is only good at predicting what techy, power-users like, and only within the next few months. After that, as often as not, some creative hacker out there figures out a way to repurpose the tech for something cool.
The idea that surveying a bunch of tech-saavy people will give you a good measure of how well a product will do in the general, non-techie population is ridiculous. And that's ignoring the fact that if it were true, SOMEONE in SOME tech company would have figured it out already and used that fact to make a lot of money.
Slashdot is a great place to get intelligent discourse on cutting edge technology and other cool nerd ideas. Don't try to attribute prophetic powers to it.
Open and innovative are independent.
The NSA is pretty innovative.
Actually, if they follow their general model, then we're looking at something data-mining supported. Google products may have ads, but don't forget how many non-google sites carry google ads.
As for how it'll affect the industry as a whole: there won't be lawsuits. Rather, AT&T and Verizon will have to follow suit to stay competitive, and then data mining your unencrypted mobile data will become both legal and the norm. Yay for privacy errosion!
You don't have to make is completely different, but it's not hard, if the goal is to modify an image of a train, to find a different image of a train so the students actually have to do work.
Then again, if keeping the original file open while actually opening students' files is too much work, as the OP seems to suggest, then there just may not be any solution. How do you grade students' assignments without opening them up?
And ultimately, couldn't students just copy off of each other?
That sounds pretty nice. I'd support a union like that
I don't have research to back me up, but I haven't heard any stories along those lines here in the US. Instead, GP's post about unions abusing their power and using the money/power they get to do things like hire political lobbyists are more what I hear, and I don't anything to do with that. The prison worker's union in California is a great example of that, and only lead to overly strict laws, overcrowded prisons, and too much spending on jails instead of rehabilitation.
I am not sure if the Screenwriters' and Actors' Unions are better. It seems to me like they serve much more of a purpose as far as ensuring fair pay.
No, they're not. This is a protocol, and those only work when you don't have a large portion of participants abusing the protocol. IE still represents a very significant chunk of the browser population, and it's completely irresponsible for breaking the protocol. Industry initially agreed to play by the rules, but obviously if a major player is going to ignore the agreement, industry has no incentive to keep their word.
IF every single person opt-ed in, that is far more significant than everyone just leaving the default.
I can't comment on specific cases, but I feel like I need to point out that the type of financial aid you get also favors the poor a little more in college because of what happens AFTER college. Often the poor are expected to help support the family once they get out of school, so if they know they're going to come out of college and have a bunch of loans, they're far more inclined to not go to school in the first place.
I don't know what happened with your roommate, but I received what I would consider a generous amount in grants, went to a public school, cooked most meals, had a $100 used bike (which really isn't that bad; you don't need a $1000 bike to get around college), and had a computer that I had to run with case open and my roommate's fan blowing into it. Care to share any more details about where you went/your roommate's situation?
Have you gone through the financial aid process? If your parents aren't helping you pay, you can note that you aren't a dependant and their income doesn't count toward you financial aid (and you don't count toward their taxes).
There may be flaws and cracks here and there in the financial aid system (and not enough money to go around), but people need to stop thinking there are these giant holes you can drive a truck through. Yes, financial aid is applied considering your income from your family (or lack thereof), your depedents, number of siblings, local costs of living, costs of living at home vs at school vs off campus, the amount of property you own, etc. And yes, if you lie enough, you can trick the system, but for the most part they try to keep everyone honest.
I also want to add that the prison population also tends to be largely poor male minorities of black or latino ancestry, and this fact has been noticed and people have tried to target those populations in their efforts to reduce the prison population.
I'll confirm that this does happen in US government contracts, and is fairly accurate, but don't take out your frustrations on education and money geared toward helping groups that historically face additional obstacles getting into college when compared with the average. The sins of a (somewhat corrupt) military-industrial complex do not transfer over to the students and administration of higher education.
And I would argue that even though it feels very unfair to see someone receive money or other help simply because of how they were born, it's important to keep in mind that for historic and cultural reasons that still have effect today, they really don't have the same advantages as a white or a male in the US does.