You incorrectly classify murder as “a threat to the safety of others”. It’s not a “threat”; it’s a direct violation of the safety of others; the threat is already realised by the time a murder has been committed.
You incorrectly classify public intoxication as “[not] a threat to anyone’s safety, rights, or property”. A drunken bum tripping off the curb because he can’t walk straight is just as dangerous to traffic as a jaywalker.
Yeah, I know, you could be a member posting AC so your mod points stick.
Nope, they don’t stick. I’ve tried it.
It doesn’t even warn you that your moderation will be invalidated if you post anonymously. Verify it by opening the CID link afterward... the moderation is gone.
Whether or not that is the case (more likely, something like city.state.gov/dept/police/home.cgi), it will be clearly linked to from city.state.gov, so that’s all you really need to remember.
When the laws are done right, everyone gets along because everyone is free to make their own choices. Against abortion? Fine, don't get one. Don't like violent video games? Fine, don't buy or play them. Don't like nudity or bad language on TV? Fine, don't watch those programs.
Against torturing kittens? Fine, don’t torture kittens. Against beating your wife? Fine, don’t beat your wife. Against child abuse? Fine, don’t rape your daughter.
I think you and I both realise that people in general can’t just be left to make all of their own choices completely unhindered by law.
The US is a bit large to be one country, political polarization means people who are dire enemies must fight for power (producing results no one likes)... there is no reason everyone should be forced to yield to everyone else when there are such profound differences in opinion, politics, and culture.
If the Federal government wasn’t so fucking huge and power-hungry the states would be free to do very much as you described: govern their residents as their residents wish to have themselves governed without some Federal gorilla calling all of the shots.
It wasn’t supposed to be that way. The union was founded on very strong states rights, and IMHO we need to get some of that back. The original 13 colonies would never have banded together if their new Federal government was going to ignore their local interests and overrule their rights to govern themselves as they saw fit.
The place has gotten too huge to manage well, so it is managed badly.
Agreed, primarily because the Federal government tries to be all things to all people. It is way, way too big and powerful, and the typical legislative process is a travesty: politicians buying off other politicians with freebies tacked onto bills so that a state gets a perk for voting for it. In simpler terms, it’s widespread bribery and corruption.
2,000 people confuse dissimilar website with Facebook login page
You really need to tell the story for that one to make any sense. Wasn’t it something like, that blog entry somehow gained the #1 Google rank for “facebook” for a short while, which led thousands of clueless people to it who were then confusedly trying to log in and wondering why facebook looked so “weird”.
Considering this thing has to phone home to retreive the emails to print, preventing it from phoning home would cause it to stop working.(see the original post)
You’d still be able to print normally to the device. Regular print jobs don’t go through HP’s server.
You would, however, also defeat a lot of features that HP has created if you indiscriminately blocked all of its phone-home functions. HP printers can automatically phone home when they’re running low on toner, for instance, and they’ll ship you a new cartridge even before the old one empties out.
If anyone at HP is reading this, make the drivers fucking work. That’s all I’m asking for.
From the HP color laserjet with its shitty colour that more often than not looked washed out or oversaturated with some odd hue, its 5-minute-long warm up cycle, the inexplicable your-print-job-got-borked please-cycle-the-power error code that the HP site itself could only throw out wild guesses for eliminating (copy and paste entire document into new blank document, re-print... try moving one of the images ever so slightly up, down, left or right... if you are printing from one application try printing from a different application... yeah, those were real suggestions; they’re fucking clueless)...
Or the HP laserjet with faulty firmware which requires the driver to sends it a firmware update every time the computer is booted, which it stupidly does by adding a job to the print queue with the result that if there was already a print job in the print queue when the computer was booted (say, because you rebooted because the fucking thing was frozen when you tried to print, but didn’t delete the job you’d just printed), the printer will freeze up completely (again)... and half the time it seemed like going to hibernation froze the printer up as well, or was it sleep mode that screwed it up... and apparently getting it to work on Ubuntu is even more fun...
There’s been enough spammers using gleaned e-mail addresses from infected computers and forging the headers to show that it can, at least, be done. Looks like it comes from someone you know, you’re more likely to open it. If more people started using whitelists the practice might become more common.
Also, “yo mom fix your shit” isn’t going to solve it. The spammer already has the address book and can continue to spam all of her friends with a forged From: header. They don’t need to do it from her computer... any other computer would do just as well.
No, just a high-speed Internet connection. Which tech-unsavvy can't-use-a-PC grandma won't have and would thus be equivalent to a dedicated phone line.
Tech-unsavvy can’t-use-a-PC grandma isn’t who they’re marketing this to.
Everyone else will just e-mail themselves the document and print it when they get to their PC, since the seconds saved per document hardly seems worth the money/time cost of buying/setting up a new printer.
It’s a handy feature. If it comes included with certain makes of HP printers, and they’re already in the market for a new printer, it’s something to put things more in favour of the HP product.
As far as its use... well, it’d be identical to that of a fax machine. Ever-so-slightly easier than having someone e-mail you the file and printing it out yourself... and you don’t have to turn on a computer to get the document.
I think I'll start anonymously emailing CP to a few of these new printers and then notify the FBI.
You’re kidding, but FYI e-mail doesn’t work that way.
However there is a significant catch that could result in something similar. Most multipurpose printer/copier/scanner/fax machines keep everything ever printed, scanned, copied, or faxed on the machine stored on their hard drives. Depending on whether or not you have to authenticate yourself (entering a code), someone might be able to anonymously walk up to it and scan something bad. Anything done over the network would make them identifiable, most likely, but if someone could get physical access to the machine and scan something anonymously then bad things could result...
Um, just a thought, but if you buy one of those printers, maybe you wanted the e-mail-to-print feature? with, at the least, a whitelisting ability, because otherwise it would be completely unusable due to spam.
Comparing taking pictures/video with posting their home addresses is a false analogy.
Even so, everyone can tell that a cop lives there, and the number on their car identifies them personally. They keep their patrol routes away from the neighbourhoods they live in for this reason, but it’s always within the realm of possibility that somebody happens to drive past the house of the cop who wrote him a ticket two weeks ago, recognises the car, and puts a rock through his window.
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Hah, and pulling me over for speeding isn’t?
Look, officer, happiness was going really fast, and I was just pursuing it...
You incorrectly classify murder as “a threat to the safety of others”. It’s not a “threat”; it’s a direct violation of the safety of others; the threat is already realised by the time a murder has been committed.
You incorrectly classify public intoxication as “[not] a threat to anyone’s safety, rights, or property”. A drunken bum tripping off the curb because he can’t walk straight is just as dangerous to traffic as a jaywalker.
A drivers license is proof of identity and citizenship.
If you were driving without your drivers license you don’t have much room to complain about being hassled.
Yeah, I know, you could be a member posting AC so your mod points stick.
Nope, they don’t stick. I’ve tried it.
It doesn’t even warn you that your moderation will be invalidated if you post anonymously. Verify it by opening the CID link afterward... the moderation is gone.
North Korean gamers, on the other hand, are the portrait of good health!
Whether or not that is the case (more likely, something like city.state.gov/dept/police/home.cgi), it will be clearly linked to from city.state.gov, so that’s all you really need to remember.
I was just recently in St. Cloud, MN, and the locals informed me that you would get a ticket for going 38 in a 35. They’re pinching pennies.
I was just as incredulous as you most likely are, but they swore it was true.
When the laws are done right, everyone gets along because everyone is free to make their own choices. Against abortion? Fine, don't get one. Don't like violent video games? Fine, don't buy or play them. Don't like nudity or bad language on TV? Fine, don't watch those programs.
Against torturing kittens? Fine, don’t torture kittens. Against beating your wife? Fine, don’t beat your wife. Against child abuse? Fine, don’t rape your daughter.
I think you and I both realise that people in general can’t just be left to make all of their own choices completely unhindered by law.
The US is a bit large to be one country, political polarization means people who are dire enemies must fight for power (producing results no one likes) ... there is no reason everyone should be forced to yield to everyone else when there are such profound differences in opinion, politics, and culture.
If the Federal government wasn’t so fucking huge and power-hungry the states would be free to do very much as you described: govern their residents as their residents wish to have themselves governed without some Federal gorilla calling all of the shots.
It wasn’t supposed to be that way. The union was founded on very strong states rights, and IMHO we need to get some of that back. The original 13 colonies would never have banded together if their new Federal government was going to ignore their local interests and overrule their rights to govern themselves as they saw fit.
The place has gotten too huge to manage well, so it is managed badly.
Agreed, primarily because the Federal government tries to be all things to all people. It is way, way too big and powerful, and the typical legislative process is a travesty: politicians buying off other politicians with freebies tacked onto bills so that a state gets a perk for voting for it. In simpler terms, it’s widespread bribery and corruption.
It’s the plot for the pilot episode of a new reality TV program.
2,000 people confuse dissimilar website with Facebook login page
You really need to tell the story for that one to make any sense. Wasn’t it something like, that blog entry somehow gained the #1 Google rank for “facebook” for a short while, which led thousands of clueless people to it who were then confusedly trying to log in and wondering why facebook looked so “weird”.
Considering this thing has to phone home to retreive the emails to print, preventing it from phoning home would cause it to stop working.(see the original post)
You’d still be able to print normally to the device. Regular print jobs don’t go through HP’s server.
You would, however, also defeat a lot of features that HP has created if you indiscriminately blocked all of its phone-home functions. HP printers can automatically phone home when they’re running low on toner, for instance, and they’ll ship you a new cartridge even before the old one empties out.
If anyone at HP is reading this, make the drivers fucking work. That’s all I’m asking for.
From the HP color laserjet with its shitty colour that more often than not looked washed out or oversaturated with some odd hue, its 5-minute-long warm up cycle, the inexplicable your-print-job-got-borked please-cycle-the-power error code that the HP site itself could only throw out wild guesses for eliminating (copy and paste entire document into new blank document, re-print... try moving one of the images ever so slightly up, down, left or right... if you are printing from one application try printing from a different application... yeah, those were real suggestions; they’re fucking clueless)...
Or the HP laserjet with faulty firmware which requires the driver to sends it a firmware update every time the computer is booted, which it stupidly does by adding a job to the print queue with the result that if there was already a print job in the print queue when the computer was booted (say, because you rebooted because the fucking thing was frozen when you tried to print, but didn’t delete the job you’d just printed), the printer will freeze up completely (again)... and half the time it seemed like going to hibernation froze the printer up as well, or was it sleep mode that screwed it up... and apparently getting it to work on Ubuntu is even more fun...
HP drivers suck.
There’s been enough spammers using gleaned e-mail addresses from infected computers and forging the headers to show that it can, at least, be done. Looks like it comes from someone you know, you’re more likely to open it. If more people started using whitelists the practice might become more common.
Also, “yo mom fix your shit” isn’t going to solve it. The spammer already has the address book and can continue to spam all of her friends with a forged From: header. They don’t need to do it from her computer... any other computer would do just as well.
No, just a high-speed Internet connection. Which tech-unsavvy can't-use-a-PC grandma won't have and would thus be equivalent to a dedicated phone line.
Tech-unsavvy can’t-use-a-PC grandma isn’t who they’re marketing this to.
Everyone else will just e-mail themselves the document and print it when they get to their PC, since the seconds saved per document hardly seems worth the money/time cost of buying/setting up a new printer.
It’s a handy feature. If it comes included with certain makes of HP printers, and they’re already in the market for a new printer, it’s something to put things more in favour of the HP product.
As far as its use... well, it’d be identical to that of a fax machine. Ever-so-slightly easier than having someone e-mail you the file and printing it out yourself... and you don’t have to turn on a computer to get the document.
I think I'll start anonymously emailing CP to a few of these new printers and then notify the FBI.
You’re kidding, but FYI e-mail doesn’t work that way.
However there is a significant catch that could result in something similar. Most multipurpose printer/copier/scanner/fax machines keep everything ever printed, scanned, copied, or faxed on the machine stored on their hard drives. Depending on whether or not you have to authenticate yourself (entering a code), someone might be able to anonymously walk up to it and scan something bad. Anything done over the network would make them identifiable, most likely, but if someone could get physical access to the machine and scan something anonymously then bad things could result...
EMAIL IS NOT A FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL, DAMMIT.
What makes you say that?
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING. Yeah, but he started it.
Whitelisting your own e-mail address is an utterly pointless tactic in the war against spam. Unless, perhaps, you regularly send e-mail to yourself.
If you regularly send e-mail to yourself, that sounds like another problem entirely...
This one doesn’t need a dedicated phone line though.
Slight correction: You were almost out of ink. You are out of ink now.
Um, just a thought, but if you buy one of those printers, maybe you wanted the e-mail-to-print feature? with, at the least, a whitelisting ability, because otherwise it would be completely unusable due to spam.
Whitelists don’t work because spammers often do know which “from” addresses to spoof.
How would you like to accidentally staple a printout of this to the last page of your report to the boss?
I’m dying of curiosity but hesitant to click because I suspect it might be somewhat NSFW...
Comparing taking pictures/video with posting their home addresses is a false analogy.
Even so, everyone can tell that a cop lives there, and the number on their car identifies them personally. They keep their patrol routes away from the neighbourhoods they live in for this reason, but it’s always within the realm of possibility that somebody happens to drive past the house of the cop who wrote him a ticket two weeks ago, recognises the car, and puts a rock through his window.
And yes, I had anti-virus software running at the time.
Which AV product?