I couldn't care less what other people use, but i do hate it when someone sends me files in proprietary formats because that reduces my level of freedom.
That's funny, what annoys *me* is when someone sends me some damn open format that no one else has ever heard of and means I have to install 100MB+ of crapware (OpenOffice, StarOffice etc), just to open the damn thing and discover it's basically a zipped XML file.
Hmm, not exactly 50%... there's always a chance (however small) that it can land on it's edge. Even a perfectly balanced weighted coin does not preclude this possibility.
I think the majority here would say it's *already* obsolete. Let's be honest, it's Vista with (most of) the glitches worked out and a different jingle on startup and shutdown.
So you add someone as a friend, so they *can* see all your gory details, but you don't want them to publish it or pass it on in any way ?
How exactly are you going to stop CTRL-C, CTRL-V ? Or even ALT-PRINTSCREEN ? Have Facebook apps disable your keyboard ?
The application "hole" is no more insecure than simply not adding strangers in the first place if you don't want them playing "Chinese Whispers" with your info.
Facebook friends are often not even acquaintances. They are not your friends, no matter how Facebook refers to them
Surely that is up to the user who adds 1000 people who they once exchanged "lol" with, and now consider them as friends ?
How simple can it be ? If you don't want strangers seeing your sensitive info, either don't post the fucking sensitive info in the first place, or don't add strangers just because they once said "lol" at one of your comments.
This whole "friend of a friend" thing is nonsense too. In the real world, you tell a juicy bit of gossip to 1000 strangers, for sure, they're going to repeat that gossip to people you don't even know.
And like a lot of things mandated by the airline industry (banning cell phones, banning smoking sections, banning bottled water fer christs sake) etc., the use of seat belts has NOTHING to do with safety, and EVERYTHING to do with making it easier to (more) accurately identify the corpses after a crash, if they are strapped into seats with numbers on them.
And how is this any different from the conditioned reflexes exhibited in animals in response to action / reward stimuli.
A single neuron outputs (using a combination of chemical / electrical systems) some representation of it's inputs. As some of those inputs may be "reward" stimuli and other sensory cues, and the output may be something that controls a certain action... given enough of them linked together, who's to say we aren't all very evolved GA's ?
Yes, but that was in the days before the bean-counters took over the world. Now you need a cost-analysis and feasability study, not to mention 1000-page specifications before you get approval to take a shit.
Even with Proportional Representation, for the Pirate Party to hold even one seat would require 33,000 members of parliament. There's quite enough already with the 600 or so morons in there, and the same number of sleeping morons in the House of Lords.
How can depriving someone of their property NOT be considered harmful to them ? If so, I'll happily look after your house for you while you're on holiday.
It has come to the author's attention that every time a user browses a web page, the following information is sent to the website's owner, without any formal warning or opt-out procedure made available to the end-user:-
1. Date / Time information 2. IP address (which can be used to establish the user's geographic position) 3. Browser Software information and details of installed extensions. 4. Data from cookies (which of course everyone knows contains viruses, spyware and other nasty shit). 5. The address of the webpage requested (which could be used to track user's browsing habits)
And worst of all, this data is collected possibly indefinately (or until the server's hard disk is full of access.log files anyway), and is known to be used to aggregate stats using AWSTATS and other "stat" software which displays coloured graphs and details on countries, browsers, time spent on the site, number of pages visited etc. With no regard whatsoever to the European and other Data Protection laws, and no method of having this personal data removed from these servers.
It's only a matter of time before unscrupulous website owners start using this data to decide website policies such as popular language support, versions of pages suitable for mobile and other devices, and perhaps even to sell us something we MIGHT NOT WANT !!!
THIS HAS TO STOP, THIS SPYING ON USERS IS CRIMINAL AND MUST STOP NOW !!!
I hate to break it to you friend, but it appears the definition of "quandary" can't be tweeted, due to the fact it won't fit into 140 char... oh, bugger...
This whole topic was about the fact that the install of Firefox on Ubuntu had some nasty spyware built in.
Then of course the usual "mitigation" that it's open source, so just edit out the bits of code you don't like. Then the parent posts a long line of (to most people) gibberish, but is what you'll actually need (or something similar), to either build a source, or recompile one after making those code changes.
When this is commented on, the standard response is "you know you can download a binary".
Surely the whole point of OSS is *NOT* having to deal with binaries that might contain anything ?
Well like I said above, it's required for *holding* a job (sure any fool can get a job, but if they want to get paid for it they *will* need an NI number). So that's every public servant who works for the Inland Revenue who can access your database records.
Likewise, contrary to what was stated above, the last time I went to hospital for treatment, they required me to supply me NI number to check my contributions were up to date (as I've spent the best part of the last 15 years out of UK, and hence paid very little NI contributions). So that also means *any* hospital administrator can also access my records.
Face it, there's any number of records already existing on everyone, and it doesn't take that much data mining to link credit records, NI records, tax records, credit card records together, as all have involved one or more forms of existing ID... NI number, driving licence number, passport number etc. So the "gigantic database" already exists, what difference will one more ID number make really ?
As for "tracking everything I do", erm no, take off the tinfoil hat ffs.
Possibly 20 years in the future, once the gov has installed RFID towers on every street corner to track your position... and to be of any use whatsoever, they'll need to update 33 million people position records every 5 minutes (or similar interval), and maintain a history of those coordinates. Assuming just 1 long integer (person ID) and a couple of doubles (for coordinates), we're looking at about 625 MB of data generated every 5 minutes, or 175 GB of data every 24 hours.
UK gov can't even look after a 2GB flash drive, never mind 175 GB of coordinate data.
Face it, we're already databased... another form of ID will change nothing.
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I couldn't care less what other people use, but i do hate it when someone sends me files in proprietary formats because that reduces my level of freedom.
That's funny, what annoys *me* is when someone sends me some damn open format that no one else has ever heard of and means I have to install 100MB+ of crapware (OpenOffice, StarOffice etc), just to open the damn thing and discover it's basically a zipped XML file.
Curse that </b> tag ... and my failure to preview my posts yets again.
Typical Slashdot Editor any day of the week: Astrophysicists Find "Impossible" Planet, Microsoft Blamed for Not Following Planetary Standards.
Hmm, not exactly 50% ... there's always a chance (however small) that it can land on it's edge. Even a perfectly balanced weighted coin does not preclude this possibility.
Bloody kids these days, don't they teach you anything at school ?
If something is frozen, it needs warming up. Ergo you should have done a warm-start.
I think the majority here would say it's *already* obsolete. Let's be honest, it's Vista with (most of) the glitches worked out and a different jingle on startup and shutdown.
Without a DTD, how the hell do we know what is valid ?
So you add someone as a friend, so they *can* see all your gory details, but you don't want them to publish it or pass it on in any way ?
How exactly are you going to stop CTRL-C, CTRL-V ? Or even ALT-PRINTSCREEN ? Have Facebook apps disable your keyboard ?
The application "hole" is no more insecure than simply not adding strangers in the first place if you don't want them playing "Chinese Whispers" with your info.
Facebook friends are often not even acquaintances. They are not your friends, no matter how Facebook refers to them
Surely that is up to the user who adds 1000 people who they once exchanged "lol" with, and now consider them as friends ?
How simple can it be ? If you don't want strangers seeing your sensitive info, either don't post the fucking sensitive info in the first place, or don't add strangers just because they once said "lol" at one of your comments.
This whole "friend of a friend" thing is nonsense too. In the real world, you tell a juicy bit of gossip to 1000 strangers, for sure, they're going to repeat that gossip to people you don't even know.
function TwitterAPIGetLocation(name) {
return name + ' is in front of a PC';
}
Your faith in your friends is yours !
And like a lot of things mandated by the airline industry (banning cell phones, banning smoking sections, banning bottled water fer christs sake) etc., the use of seat belts has NOTHING to do with safety, and EVERYTHING to do with making it easier to (more) accurately identify the corpses after a crash, if they are strapped into seats with numbers on them.
despite its conspicuous lack of Jar Jar Binks.
Joe Pesci didn't like the script ?
And how is this any different from the conditioned reflexes exhibited in animals in response to action / reward stimuli.
A single neuron outputs (using a combination of chemical / electrical systems) some representation of it's inputs. As some of those inputs may be "reward" stimuli and other sensory cues, and the output may be something that controls a certain action ... given enough of them linked together, who's to say we aren't all very evolved GA's ?
The filters for the command module were square, but the ones on the LEM were round. You were saying.
There might have been a lot of procedures with hundreds of steps, but basically a lot of it was made up as they were going along.
Yes, but that was in the days before the bean-counters took over the world. Now you need a cost-analysis and feasability study, not to mention 1000-page specifications before you get approval to take a shit.
And what's the alternative ?
Even with Proportional Representation, for the Pirate Party to hold even one seat would require 33,000 members of parliament. There's quite enough already with the 600 or so morons in there, and the same number of sleeping morons in the House of Lords.
I wonder if you understand what "steal" means ?
How can depriving someone of their property NOT be considered harmful to them ? If so, I'll happily look after your house for you while you're on holiday.
CmdrTaco just takes any warm body that can hit CTRL-C and CTRL-V in quick succession. FTFY.
CmdrTaco just takes any warm body. FTFYA.
0.003% of the population can't be wrong ...
It has come to the author's attention that every time a user browses a web page, the following information is sent to the website's owner, without any formal warning or opt-out procedure made available to the end-user :-
1. Date / Time information
2. IP address (which can be used to establish the user's geographic position)
3. Browser Software information and details of installed extensions.
4. Data from cookies (which of course everyone knows contains viruses, spyware and other nasty shit).
5. The address of the webpage requested (which could be used to track user's browsing habits)
And worst of all, this data is collected possibly indefinately (or until the server's hard disk is full of access.log files anyway), and is known to be used to aggregate stats using AWSTATS and other "stat" software which displays coloured graphs and details on countries, browsers, time spent on the site, number of pages visited etc. With no regard whatsoever to the European and other Data Protection laws, and no method of having this personal data removed from these servers.
It's only a matter of time before unscrupulous website owners start using this data to decide website policies such as popular language support, versions of pages suitable for mobile and other devices, and perhaps even to sell us something we MIGHT NOT WANT !!!
THIS HAS TO STOP, THIS SPYING ON USERS IS CRIMINAL AND MUST STOP NOW !!!
Yours,
Chicken Little
I hate to break it to you friend, but it appears the definition of "quandary" can't be tweeted, due to the fact it won't fit into 140 char ... oh, bugger ...
This is what makes me laugh ...
This whole topic was about the fact that the install of Firefox on Ubuntu had some nasty spyware built in.
Then of course the usual "mitigation" that it's open source, so just edit out the bits of code you don't like. Then the parent posts a long line of (to most people) gibberish, but is what you'll actually need (or something similar), to either build a source, or recompile one after making those code changes.
When this is commented on, the standard response is "you know you can download a binary".
Surely the whole point of OSS is *NOT* having to deal with binaries that might contain anything ?
Windows equivalent ... double click on icon to install. ... and people wonder why everyone says *nix is too complicated ?
Well like I said above, it's required for *holding* a job (sure any fool can get a job, but if they want to get paid for it they *will* need an NI number). So that's every public servant who works for the Inland Revenue who can access your database records.
Likewise, contrary to what was stated above, the last time I went to hospital for treatment, they required me to supply me NI number to check my contributions were up to date (as I've spent the best part of the last 15 years out of UK, and hence paid very little NI contributions). So that also means *any* hospital administrator can also access my records.
Face it, there's any number of records already existing on everyone, and it doesn't take that much data mining to link credit records, NI records, tax records, credit card records together, as all have involved one or more forms of existing ID ... NI number, driving licence number, passport number etc. So the "gigantic database" already exists, what difference will one more ID number make really ?
As for "tracking everything I do", erm no, take off the tinfoil hat ffs.
Possibly 20 years in the future, once the gov has installed RFID towers on every street corner to track your position ... and to be of any use whatsoever, they'll need to update 33 million people position records every 5 minutes (or similar interval), and maintain a history of those coordinates. Assuming just 1 long integer (person ID) and a couple of doubles (for coordinates), we're looking at about 625 MB of data generated every 5 minutes, or 175 GB of data every 24 hours.
UK gov can't even look after a 2GB flash drive, never mind 175 GB of coordinate data.
Face it, we're already databased ... another form of ID will change nothing.