How scary, this is all true. Telcos have a duty to record and store all phone and internet traffic. Cameras are everywhere on the roads.
Do the executives and share holders also have the right to listen in? I suspect that only government-sanctioned officals with warrents from the courts are allowed to access the data.
Basicly, you are arguing that using something owned by someone else gives them the right to monitor you in any way they want. By that argument, the postal service is entitled to read your mail, your ISP is entitled to monitor you internet usage (deep package inspection), and your telecompany are within their rights to record and listen in on your telephone calls. Whenever you decide to enter a publicly owned area (such as roads), the government is allowed to monitor you as well.
No offence, but that is not what I would consider "easy". It should be possible to find that information directly in the GUI, and the package should be simple to disable. Possibly by adding a privacy tab somewhere?
As such, I don't mind either. I would probably let the feature stay enabled. But I do want easy access (no code digging) to see what information is being collected, who gets access to it and an easy way of turning the feature off. And I would consider it a courtesy if Canonical actually asked me.
While I fully understand that Canonical would like some reliable statistical information on users, I seriously hope that it will be easy to see what information is sent and opt out... or even better... opt in (ie. default is off).
More likely it is because Europeans are more distrustful of large coorperations than Americans and, thus, more likely to go looking for alternatives. Also, Europe has a significantly stronger trade union movement and politcal left, who are more inclined to use and contribute to Open Source usage and development.
Or maybe it emphasizes that we shouldn't have abandoned Afghanistan after kicking the oppressive Russian government out, and should have stayed around to build schools and not let the bad guys take over?
Some time back, I watched an episode of 60 minutes on Afghanistan (I think this was before 9-11-2001), where they interviewed some of the CIA operatives responsible for helping to throw Russia out of Afghanistan in the 1980s. The operatives said that when they asked if they should help the groups most likely to win or the groups that are closer to US sensibilities, they were told that defeating the Russian invasion were the most important. Which were a direct order to help the fundamentalist groups as they were the ones most likely to defeat the Russians. So, in practice, the US helped the bad guys.
It seems to me like the Times would have been better off offering *premium* content to subscribers rather than closing off the entire site altogether.
What premium content do you have in mind? Do you think that doing even more exhaustive research on a story is going to change any of what I just explained? And what are you going to do when a blogger subscribes to your $5 per week premium content and then blogs about all of it at freetimes.blogspot.com? What then? Copyright lawsuits? Nobody cares. People say "offer premium content" with a wave of their hands. Well, what did you have in mind? I tried to discuss an alternative of this on Slashdot to no avail where basically there would be a pyramid of fractions of ad payments from those subscribed to your site cascading up to the original source.
I cannot speak for grandparent, but some options for premium content or pay advantages could be ad-free viewing, a convenient search function, access to older articles and/or larger background articles.
By your math, if there are 10 ads per page, each user only has to watch 20 pages per week. On my preferred online newspaper, I view at least 5-10 pages per *day*, and sometimes more.
On the other hand, nuclear and fossil fueled power is only feasible today because vast amounts of money have been thrown at them. It is not surprising that other energy sources will also require large investments to become as competitive and convenient as the currently used and very mature energy sources.
Remember for a moment that the word "socialist" wasn't coined until the early 1900's
Sorry to be splitting hairs, but that one is wrong. The word were used in the Communist Manifesto, written in 1847, and is likely a lot older. Indeed, wikipedia suggests that it came into usage in the 1830s from the French word "socialime". The rest of your post is interesting.
A large proportion of the Sahara desert is a rocky desert, so there are few sandstorms. Indeed, the technology used has been tested in US rocky deserts, very similar to the Saharan ones.
By posing the question, they may be able to get some verification that the imported power actually is from renewable energy sources. Given how BP has been acting, I would not trust any power company longer than I could throw them, so some sort of semi-independent verification would be nice. Furthermore, the EU has signed the Kyoto accords, and is required to lower its CO2 emmisions. If it gets difficult to attain this goal, I would not put it past the EU and national governments to import energy from other countries, and when the infrastructure is right there...
Believes in Christ's message from the New Testament, supplanting Old Testament beliefs where appropriate
Are you seriously writing that the above bullet is not politics? Even with the two other bullets there are many Christians who believe that neither resurrection nor the creating God should be taken litterally but as some sort of symbol.
Sure it is, you just have to hit your head, see the image of the flux capacitor and use 30 years and your entire family fortune to realize it. Unfortunately, it is an energy hungry sucker, so you may need to enter into some questionable alliances to generate the 1.21 GW, but you get to build it inside a DeLorean. How cool is that?
As does Iran and Pakistan - and Russia is pretty close as well. Yes, there are plenty of powerful countries bordering Afghanistan, who would love to get their hands on that oil... er... gold, lithium, cobalt, iron and copper. Indeed, the geographical position of Afghanistan alone makes it a desirable place to control. Now, with the mineral riches as well, I expect that the last 30 years of permanent war in Afghanistan will be followed by 30 years more.
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Yeah, it is nice to have a common frame of reference for jokes :D
Or ... Duke Nukem Fornever!
That is because it is a .org address. Facebook only targets "*book.com" addresses.
How scary, this is all true. Telcos have a duty to record and store all phone and internet traffic. Cameras are everywhere on the roads.
Do the executives and share holders also have the right to listen in? I suspect that only government-sanctioned officals with warrents from the courts are allowed to access the data.
Basicly, you are arguing that using something owned by someone else gives them the right to monitor you in any way they want. By that argument, the postal service is entitled to read your mail, your ISP is entitled to monitor you internet usage (deep package inspection), and your telecompany are within their rights to record and listen in on your telephone calls. Whenever you decide to enter a publicly owned area (such as roads), the government is allowed to monitor you as well.
No offence, but that is not what I would consider "easy". It should be possible to find that information directly in the GUI, and the package should be simple to disable. Possibly by adding a privacy tab somewhere?
As such, I don't mind either. I would probably let the feature stay enabled. But I do want easy access (no code digging) to see what information is being collected, who gets access to it and an easy way of turning the feature off. And I would consider it a courtesy if Canonical actually asked me.
While I fully understand that Canonical would like some reliable statistical information on users, I seriously hope that it will be easy to see what information is sent and opt out ... or even better ... opt in (ie. default is off).
I'm not sure it's good for your health to burn your TV.
More likely it is because Europeans are more distrustful of large coorperations than Americans and, thus, more likely to go looking for alternatives. Also, Europe has a significantly stronger trade union movement and politcal left, who are more inclined to use and contribute to Open Source usage and development.
I seriously hope you mean square inch by square inch ...
Or maybe it emphasizes that we shouldn't have abandoned Afghanistan after kicking the oppressive Russian government out, and should have stayed around to build schools and not let the bad guys take over?
Some time back, I watched an episode of 60 minutes on Afghanistan (I think this was before 9-11-2001), where they interviewed some of the CIA operatives responsible for helping to throw Russia out of Afghanistan in the 1980s. The operatives said that when they asked if they should help the groups most likely to win or the groups that are closer to US sensibilities, they were told that defeating the Russian invasion were the most important. Which were a direct order to help the fundamentalist groups as they were the ones most likely to defeat the Russians. So, in practice, the US helped the bad guys.
I must be missing something. Why would you want OCR on a server and not as part of the program that interfaces with the scanner?
It seems to me like the Times would have been better off offering *premium* content to subscribers rather than closing off the entire site altogether.
What premium content do you have in mind? Do you think that doing even more exhaustive research on a story is going to change any of what I just explained? And what are you going to do when a blogger subscribes to your $5 per week premium content and then blogs about all of it at freetimes.blogspot.com? What then? Copyright lawsuits? Nobody cares. People say "offer premium content" with a wave of their hands. Well, what did you have in mind? I tried to discuss an alternative of this on Slashdot to no avail where basically there would be a pyramid of fractions of ad payments from those subscribed to your site cascading up to the original source.
I cannot speak for grandparent, but some options for premium content or pay advantages could be ad-free viewing, a convenient search function, access to older articles and/or larger background articles.
By your math, if there are 10 ads per page, each user only has to watch 20 pages per week. On my preferred online newspaper, I view at least 5-10 pages per *day*, and sometimes more.
On the other hand, nuclear and fossil fueled power is only feasible today because vast amounts of money have been thrown at them. It is not surprising that other energy sources will also require large investments to become as competitive and convenient as the currently used and very mature energy sources.
The airport variaty: Has someone else given you water to drink?
Remember for a moment that the word "socialist" wasn't coined until the early 1900's
Sorry to be splitting hairs, but that one is wrong. The word were used in the Communist Manifesto, written in 1847, and is likely a lot older. Indeed, wikipedia suggests that it came into usage in the 1830s from the French word "socialime". The rest of your post is interesting.
A large proportion of the Sahara desert is a rocky desert, so there are few sandstorms. Indeed, the technology used has been tested in US rocky deserts, very similar to the Saharan ones.
By posing the question, they may be able to get some verification that the imported power actually is from renewable energy sources. Given how BP has been acting, I would not trust any power company longer than I could throw them, so some sort of semi-independent verification would be nice. Furthermore, the EU has signed the Kyoto accords, and is required to lower its CO2 emmisions. If it gets difficult to attain this goal, I would not put it past the EU and national governments to import energy from other countries, and when the infrastructure is right there ...
Strangely, Pioneer One does not seem to be on IMDB, yet.
Believes in Christ's message from the New Testament, supplanting Old Testament beliefs where appropriate
Are you seriously writing that the above bullet is not politics? Even with the two other bullets there are many Christians who believe that neither resurrection nor the creating God should be taken litterally but as some sort of symbol.
Sure it is, you just have to hit your head, see the image of the flux capacitor and use 30 years and your entire family fortune to realize it. Unfortunately, it is an energy hungry sucker, so you may need to enter into some questionable alliances to generate the 1.21 GW, but you get to build it inside a DeLorean. How cool is that?
Pick one:
1. Invent a time machine.
2. Hack the slashdot user database.
3. Hack the account of someone whose UID is that low.
4. Wait for the UID database to experience overflow.
5. ???
If you are a boring person with loads of money, you could also try to purchase one.
As does Iran and Pakistan - and Russia is pretty close as well. Yes, there are plenty of powerful countries bordering Afghanistan, who would love to get their hands on that oil ... er ... gold, lithium, cobalt, iron and copper. Indeed, the geographical position of Afghanistan alone makes it a desirable place to control. Now, with the mineral riches as well, I expect that the last 30 years of permanent war in Afghanistan will be followed by 30 years more.