This is one of those points where we don't need more legislation, we need people to educate themselves and pick up the responsibility for their own actions. It's not the government's problem if you don't shred sensitive documents, and it shouldn't be. It's not like there is a shortage of cheap paper shredding machines -- you have hands, they can do the job if you're really cheap. If I toss papers with information on my bank account out without shredding, I don't expect them to be any more secure than leaving my ATM card sitting on the sidewalk.
Laws aren't going to fix things here, they just give us a method of reacting. The old saying "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." still applies. Suck it up and take some responsibility for yourself, stop shovelling it off on the government.
So, what precisely is a client hold? Personally, I'd be tempted to lock down the zone file for spamhaus and disallow further editing until the court said so. That's a hold, right?
I doubt it'd make the court too happy, but I think we've already established that the judge in question is a complete ignoramus in regards to how things work here on the intarwebs.
Secrecy is no more dead than it has been for a long while. There are some people who just don't seem to understand the medium. Sending messages across the internet is not like passing a letter to a person across the table from you. It's more like passing a letter along through a chain of 20 people -- any of which can read it as they handle it. You don't send secret things that way, or if you do, there's this little thing called encryption that you might want to look into. Also, much like a letter, once it is out of your hands you can't gaurantee that it won't come up at some later time when you least want it to. Also, are you _sure_ you can trust the person you're communicating with? Can you even verify that you're talking with who you think you're talking to?
The same basic rules of secrecy that have always applied still apply today. First and foremost, if you want to keep something REALLY secret, keep it to yourself!
Let's face it, with the current debt numbers we've got, it's just not going to get paid off...and it's going to cause _big_ problems when people figure that out on a large scale.
Yeah, Roland has a bit of a rep, in case you've managed to miss it. Even I picked up on it in passing.
He routinely submits stuff that is way out of date, common knowledge, or almost entirely irrelevant (like this), and it routinely gets accepted. There have been accusations of all sorts of stuff, primarily that Roland and the editors (a few in particular) have some sort of agreement, and what Roland gets out of it is the standard perks of having his site routinely linked off of the main page of/. (tried clicking his name?).
Gee, I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that 'empire carebears' can't _get_ to 0.0 space UNLESS they join some huge alliance. There are plenty of small corps that would like to get into low-sec space, but unless they cleared up the whole "Access to 50% of the galaxy requires travel through 1 of 4 bottlenecks" deal, they don't stand a chance. This is one of the big reasons I quit playing, along with the fact that the entire game became a grind. It's a pretty game, and it's interesting, but the game is basically dominated by old characters with tons of skills (those who have played since the beginning and were never dumb enough to fly without a quality clone), and old corps/alliances who set up shop in a chokepoint and claimed a massive chunk of space. They're effective to the point that (at least when I played), a trip to 0.0 was a gauranteed podding 50% or more of the time. Not so bad if you lose a shuttle, but the blockades there could stop BSes.
Tell me when they've re-routed paths so that the big parts of 0.0 have multiple entryways. Also, let me know if they ever fixed the POS fuel consumption bug. Losing a well-equipped POS to that was my final straw, and I won't even consider coming back until those two conditions are met.
This kind of thing is part of the job description. I mean, they're in a freefall environment with no air, and very wide temperature ranges. They get up there by strapping themselves to what is really a controlled bomb. I don't think anybody's going to argue that they're working a risky job. Some of them are going to die, and eventually we WILL lose a person to some accident that leaves them drifting away from the ship. It's good to know we have systems in place to try to prevent it, but it will happen eventually.
It's a dangerous job, some are going to die, and that's that. They do it anyway, and a lot of 'em take these sort of risks without a second thought. People need to stop thinking that everyone who gets sent up is going to come back. Sure, we should do our best to make sure that they do, but accidents will happen. The risk involved, and their willingness to go up to open up a new frontier, are two reasons why I have so much respect and admiration for them. I just wish I could be up there too.
If by 'tactics', you mean '5 BS's sniping at anyone who warps through the gate into '. I played EVE for a good while, and the VAST majority of PvP combat was stuff like gate ganks and suicide kessies hitting ice miners in high-sec.
I quit because I lost about half a billion ISK to a bug that wasn't acknowledged at the time, and because trying to get past a certain point in the game without joining some huge low-sec group was pretty much impossible within a reasonable timeframe, unless I wanted to be very, very bored. This was about a year ago, I've heard that things got shuffled around a bit. Maybe they finally fixed the POS fuel consumption bug that was my last straw, but unless somebody feels like fronting me half a billion ISK to make up for the assets I lost, I'm not interested in playing again.
I did like the ability to manufacture stuff, though. I was hoping to eventually set up POSes out in BFE for my small org, and just sort of mind our own business and sell to people. Arms dealer, baby. Alas, it wasn't to be...
Honestly, I prefer to shine my own boots. Gives me a chance to inspect them more closely than I do most of the time. Kind of a nice little diversion from things, too. I'm doing something worthwhile that needs to be done, but it gives me a while to chill and not have to focus too much. Kinda like gardening, I guess, but with more shine and less dirt.
But if I cover it up, nobody'll ever see the beautiful flowers I've been growing there...
I wasn't talking about court, that falls under the "Trying to impress people" bit. I was merely stating that most people don't seem to find collared shirts to be comfortable enough to wear around without a reason, unlike the poster above.
I'm free of false drugs. When I want to get high, I get my hair cut, shine my shoes, fill up the tank, clean the windshield and hit the open road.
Yeah, now we see why you REALLY don't do drugs. I could probably grow a pretty nice heroin addiction for what you spend on gas these days. =P
On a serious note, though. That may be what tickles your pink, but I have yet to find a collared shirt that I'd _like_ to wear around my apartment. El Cheap-o Cotton T-Shirt, however, is quite comfy. Unless I'm out to impress someone, I wear what I feel most comfortable in, or what meets my needs best. This generally equates to cargo pants, big boots, and a T-shirt. My boots do get shined, but only when they're scuffed up, and that's more a matter of keeping them in good shape than giving a damn if they look good.
Suits and such are for impressing people. Yes, they may look good, and some people may actually enjoy wearing them. Good for them, they should feel free. Most of us don't agree. If you feel the need to dazzle somebody with your appearance, then a suit might be the way to go. Some people don't feel the need to do that, or think they can get by with intelligence alone instead.
Having said that, there's no excuse for not maintaining a certain level of hygine, barring a water shortage or sudden, unexpected trip around the world with no belongings.
Yes, because Steam doesn't advertise anything. Ever. Steam's advertisements are just more relevent, in that they're at least games. That doesn't mean that I really want to see them. When I'm using BT, I _always_ know what I'm after to begin with. I don't want to see anything unrelated to what I'm going after.
Also, I made another post, in reply to my original one, since I felt that it perhaps gave the impression that I really hadn't RTFA'd. How 'bout you read the replies, huh?
Note that I'm assuming they'll have some more direct system tacked on than a screen with a URL in the new media. That may not be the case, but unless the new stuff is really awesome, I don't see it getting enough hits to make the people paying to have it there really happy.
If they make it annoying at all, what's to prevent people from switching to the slew of other BT apps out there? Given the fact that advertising is almost always made to catch the eye, it'll have a hard time not annoying users. Frankly, I'd switch to something else even if it was a static clickable banner.
Ditto on all of those, but I've started out with little in the way of resources. I had myself, really, and not anything else. No capital at all, no property, my current assets in total come to less than $10,000. I don't like being in debt to anyone, at any time. I live frugally, but I'm still not really getting ahead. The money I was going to dump into gold was my only real monetary savings so far in life (Early 20's so far, previous jobs paid the rent + food + expenses, with precious little left over). I may still do it, because even if gold takes a dive, I can sit on it if I must.
I've determined that my current lifestyle is sufficient, costs are acceptable -- barring rent. That's what is killing me, but I can't afford even the most basic of houses, so I beleive I'm pretty well stuck, there. I'd love to start my own company, but it's a matter of resources. I'm debating finishing up what I'm doing and trying my hand at contracting or consulting, but I need to look at that in more depth.
Gold and silver? You're sitting pretty right now, then. I had the same plan, but since I'm still trying to save enough cash to do anything with, I got caught in a position where I wanted to buy when the market was good, but by the time I managed to save enough to do anything, the window had passed. I decided to a year and a half ago, but only managed to make enough cash to invest 4-5 months ago. Needless to say, I still have USD, not ounces of Au.
Right now I'm sitting in a low-paying, dead-end job. I'm pretty okay with it, because it affords me time to go to college, some incentives for getting certifications I've planned on getting anyway, and it pays the bills. It's a temporary thing, but the more I look around, the more I think that perhaps I could be doing something better. I'm all for moving, since I don't currently own any property (though I'd like to, I have yet to figure out how to swing it.) It's a bit of a sucky situation. I can stick around where I am (Pac. NW) and try to get a degree that may not help me at all later on, or I can chance things and move somewhere else to a job that may suck or be very fleeting.
TFA is good news in a way, I guess, but to me it is just a cold comfort.
Not really. If you've got a modern vehicle of the right type (gas for ethanol, diesel for bio-D) that was made since, say, 1980 or so, you should be good.
Ethanol rich blends CAN be iffy in carbeurated systems due to the possibility that it might degrade some components, and they're not quite as easily tuned on the fly as modern computer-and-sensor fuel injection types. Pretty much all major auto manufacturers produce cars ready for operation on straight ethanol these days, IIRC.
Bio-D has some problems with older vehicles, as well. The biggest is that the fuel is more likely to corrode some old hoses and such. Natural rubber + bio is a bad thing.
On a side note, you can actually run your own still for pretty cheap, if you have the space, and produce ethanol legally to operate your vehicle. Google around. Diesels can also be run on veggie oil with a few relatively minor modifications. Plenty of resources out there explaining this, too.
I don't find the fact of who they're targetting, or the fact that they're cloning phones, all that shocking. I do, however, find it a bit fishy that these same (big) people have been _repeatedly_ targetted, and it has been noticed several times. You'd think that some sort of measure would have been put into place by now to at least curb the effectiveness of this tactic when used on these same people. I mean, after the first time my phone got cloned, I think I'd pass word down to the grunts to block calls to certain countries from that phone, as long as there wasn't a high "real" call volume there.
At any rate, after this being done several times, you'd think they would have some checks in place, but hey...when you own your own huge company, I guess paying your own bills isn't really an issue.
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Does anybody else find it slightly disturbing that the "Related Links" section has a "Compare prices on biotech" link?
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What are you trying to sell me today,
This is one of those points where we don't need more legislation, we need people to educate themselves and pick up the responsibility for their own actions. It's not the government's problem if you don't shred sensitive documents, and it shouldn't be. It's not like there is a shortage of cheap paper shredding machines -- you have hands, they can do the job if you're really cheap. If I toss papers with information on my bank account out without shredding, I don't expect them to be any more secure than leaving my ATM card sitting on the sidewalk.
Laws aren't going to fix things here, they just give us a method of reacting. The old saying "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." still applies. Suck it up and take some responsibility for yourself, stop shovelling it off on the government.
So, what precisely is a client hold? Personally, I'd be tempted to lock down the zone file for spamhaus and disallow further editing until the court said so. That's a hold, right?
I doubt it'd make the court too happy, but I think we've already established that the judge in question is a complete ignoramus in regards to how things work here on the intarwebs.
Secrecy is no more dead than it has been for a long while. There are some people who just don't seem to understand the medium. Sending messages across the internet is not like passing a letter to a person across the table from you. It's more like passing a letter along through a chain of 20 people -- any of which can read it as they handle it. You don't send secret things that way, or if you do, there's this little thing called encryption that you might want to look into. Also, much like a letter, once it is out of your hands you can't gaurantee that it won't come up at some later time when you least want it to. Also, are you _sure_ you can trust the person you're communicating with? Can you even verify that you're talking with who you think you're talking to?
The same basic rules of secrecy that have always applied still apply today. First and foremost, if you want to keep something REALLY secret, keep it to yourself!
Privacy, however, is a different matter.
Let's face it, with the current debt numbers we've got, it's just not going to get paid off...and it's going to cause _big_ problems when people figure that out on a large scale.
I already knew this. The premier was cancelled on the 18th. It's currently the 22nd. I knew about this days ago, as did many others.
Yeah, this is old news. The video has been up on YouTube for days...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw
"Some fanboys still stubbornly cling to their favorite underdog..."
Gee, that doesn't sound like the author had an opinion up front. No sir.
Yeah, Roland has a bit of a rep, in case you've managed to miss it. Even I picked up on it in passing.
/. (tried clicking his name?).
He routinely submits stuff that is way out of date, common knowledge, or almost entirely irrelevant (like this), and it routinely gets accepted. There have been accusations of all sorts of stuff, primarily that Roland and the editors (a few in particular) have some sort of agreement, and what Roland gets out of it is the standard perks of having his site routinely linked off of the main page of
You...do know that "that crocodile dude" (assuming you mean Steve Irwin and not Crocodile Dundee) was killed by a stingray about a day ago, right?
Insensitive clod.
So what DO you do for a living?
That much travel, I might have to get into your line of work. Sounds interesting.
Gee, I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that 'empire carebears' can't _get_ to 0.0 space UNLESS they join some huge alliance. There are plenty of small corps that would like to get into low-sec space, but unless they cleared up the whole "Access to 50% of the galaxy requires travel through 1 of 4 bottlenecks" deal, they don't stand a chance. This is one of the big reasons I quit playing, along with the fact that the entire game became a grind. It's a pretty game, and it's interesting, but the game is basically dominated by old characters with tons of skills (those who have played since the beginning and were never dumb enough to fly without a quality clone), and old corps/alliances who set up shop in a chokepoint and claimed a massive chunk of space. They're effective to the point that (at least when I played), a trip to 0.0 was a gauranteed podding 50% or more of the time. Not so bad if you lose a shuttle, but the blockades there could stop BSes.
Tell me when they've re-routed paths so that the big parts of 0.0 have multiple entryways. Also, let me know if they ever fixed the POS fuel consumption bug. Losing a well-equipped POS to that was my final straw, and I won't even consider coming back until those two conditions are met.
This kind of thing is part of the job description. I mean, they're in a freefall environment with no air, and very wide temperature ranges. They get up there by strapping themselves to what is really a controlled bomb. I don't think anybody's going to argue that they're working a risky job. Some of them are going to die, and eventually we WILL lose a person to some accident that leaves them drifting away from the ship. It's good to know we have systems in place to try to prevent it, but it will happen eventually.
It's a dangerous job, some are going to die, and that's that. They do it anyway, and a lot of 'em take these sort of risks without a second thought. People need to stop thinking that everyone who gets sent up is going to come back. Sure, we should do our best to make sure that they do, but accidents will happen. The risk involved, and their willingness to go up to open up a new frontier, are two reasons why I have so much respect and admiration for them. I just wish I could be up there too.
If by 'tactics', you mean '5 BS's sniping at anyone who warps through the gate into '. I played EVE for a good while, and the VAST majority of PvP combat was stuff like gate ganks and suicide kessies hitting ice miners in high-sec.
I quit because I lost about half a billion ISK to a bug that wasn't acknowledged at the time, and because trying to get past a certain point in the game without joining some huge low-sec group was pretty much impossible within a reasonable timeframe, unless I wanted to be very, very bored. This was about a year ago, I've heard that things got shuffled around a bit. Maybe they finally fixed the POS fuel consumption bug that was my last straw, but unless somebody feels like fronting me half a billion ISK to make up for the assets I lost, I'm not interested in playing again.
I did like the ability to manufacture stuff, though. I was hoping to eventually set up POSes out in BFE for my small org, and just sort of mind our own business and sell to people. Arms dealer, baby. Alas, it wasn't to be...
Honestly, I prefer to shine my own boots. Gives me a chance to inspect them more closely than I do most of the time. Kind of a nice little diversion from things, too. I'm doing something worthwhile that needs to be done, but it gives me a while to chill and not have to focus too much. Kinda like gardening, I guess, but with more shine and less dirt.
But if I cover it up, nobody'll ever see the beautiful flowers I've been growing there...
I wasn't talking about court, that falls under the "Trying to impress people" bit. I was merely stating that most people don't seem to find collared shirts to be comfortable enough to wear around without a reason, unlike the poster above.
I'm free of false drugs. When I want to get high, I get my hair cut, shine my shoes, fill up the tank, clean the windshield and hit the open road.
Yeah, now we see why you REALLY don't do drugs. I could probably grow a pretty nice heroin addiction for what you spend on gas these days. =P
On a serious note, though. That may be what tickles your pink, but I have yet to find a collared shirt that I'd _like_ to wear around my apartment. El Cheap-o Cotton T-Shirt, however, is quite comfy. Unless I'm out to impress someone, I wear what I feel most comfortable in, or what meets my needs best. This generally equates to cargo pants, big boots, and a T-shirt. My boots do get shined, but only when they're scuffed up, and that's more a matter of keeping them in good shape than giving a damn if they look good.
Suits and such are for impressing people. Yes, they may look good, and some people may actually enjoy wearing them. Good for them, they should feel free. Most of us don't agree. If you feel the need to dazzle somebody with your appearance, then a suit might be the way to go. Some people don't feel the need to do that, or think they can get by with intelligence alone instead.
Having said that, there's no excuse for not maintaining a certain level of hygine, barring a water shortage or sudden, unexpected trip around the world with no belongings.
Yes, because Steam doesn't advertise anything. Ever.
Steam's advertisements are just more relevent, in that they're at least games. That doesn't mean that I really want to see them. When I'm using BT, I _always_ know what I'm after to begin with. I don't want to see anything unrelated to what I'm going after.
Also, I made another post, in reply to my original one, since I felt that it perhaps gave the impression that I really hadn't RTFA'd. How 'bout you read the replies, huh?
Note that I'm assuming they'll have some more direct system tacked on than a screen with a URL in the new media. That may not be the case, but unless the new stuff is really awesome, I don't see it getting enough hits to make the people paying to have it there really happy.
If they make it annoying at all, what's to prevent people from switching to the slew of other BT apps out there? Given the fact that advertising is almost always made to catch the eye, it'll have a hard time not annoying users. Frankly, I'd switch to something else even if it was a static clickable banner.
Ditto on all of those, but I've started out with little in the way of resources. I had myself, really, and not anything else. No capital at all, no property, my current assets in total come to less than $10,000. I don't like being in debt to anyone, at any time. I live frugally, but I'm still not really getting ahead. The money I was going to dump into gold was my only real monetary savings so far in life (Early 20's so far, previous jobs paid the rent + food + expenses, with precious little left over). I may still do it, because even if gold takes a dive, I can sit on it if I must.
I've determined that my current lifestyle is sufficient, costs are acceptable -- barring rent. That's what is killing me, but I can't afford even the most basic of houses, so I beleive I'm pretty well stuck, there. I'd love to start my own company, but it's a matter of resources. I'm debating finishing up what I'm doing and trying my hand at contracting or consulting, but I need to look at that in more depth.
Gold and silver? You're sitting pretty right now, then. I had the same plan, but since I'm still trying to save enough cash to do anything with, I got caught in a position where I wanted to buy when the market was good, but by the time I managed to save enough to do anything, the window had passed. I decided to a year and a half ago, but only managed to make enough cash to invest 4-5 months ago. Needless to say, I still have USD, not ounces of Au.
Right now I'm sitting in a low-paying, dead-end job. I'm pretty okay with it, because it affords me time to go to college, some incentives for getting certifications I've planned on getting anyway, and it pays the bills. It's a temporary thing, but the more I look around, the more I think that perhaps I could be doing something better. I'm all for moving, since I don't currently own any property (though I'd like to, I have yet to figure out how to swing it.) It's a bit of a sucky situation. I can stick around where I am (Pac. NW) and try to get a degree that may not help me at all later on, or I can chance things and move somewhere else to a job that may suck or be very fleeting.
TFA is good news in a way, I guess, but to me it is just a cold comfort.
Does this mean that King Tut developed 'Gold Fever'?
Not really. If you've got a modern vehicle of the right type (gas for ethanol, diesel for bio-D) that was made since, say, 1980 or so, you should be good.
Ethanol rich blends CAN be iffy in carbeurated systems due to the possibility that it might degrade some components, and they're not quite as easily tuned on the fly as modern computer-and-sensor fuel injection types. Pretty much all major auto manufacturers produce cars ready for operation on straight ethanol these days, IIRC.
Bio-D has some problems with older vehicles, as well. The biggest is that the fuel is more likely to corrode some old hoses and such. Natural rubber + bio is a bad thing.
On a side note, you can actually run your own still for pretty cheap, if you have the space, and produce ethanol legally to operate your vehicle. Google around. Diesels can also be run on veggie oil with a few relatively minor modifications. Plenty of resources out there explaining this, too.
I don't find the fact of who they're targetting, or the fact that they're cloning phones, all that shocking. I do, however, find it a bit fishy that these same (big) people have been _repeatedly_ targetted, and it has been noticed several times. You'd think that some sort of measure would have been put into place by now to at least curb the effectiveness of this tactic when used on these same people. I mean, after the first time my phone got cloned, I think I'd pass word down to the grunts to block calls to certain countries from that phone, as long as there wasn't a high "real" call volume there.
At any rate, after this being done several times, you'd think they would have some checks in place, but hey...when you own your own huge company, I guess paying your own bills isn't really an issue.