I don't live in a place where CCs are all that common, but in the US, isn't it common to use the CC number for recurrent billing? Won't this force you to spend a lot of time contacting each service provider to update that info? I think that would be a very real loss.
I'm saying that what she wrote - that "The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals." - is simply untrue, and that event shows it well.
Someone should've offered her a newspaper. Years before she wrote that book, the US government had already relocated and interned 110 000 innocent civilians - 62% of which American citizens.
That's a ridiculously false dichotomy. Just like in real life, there are certainly degrees of privacy online, just like there are degrees of security, etc.
It's not a matter so much of keeping it absolutely secret, but of having enough roadblocks that accessing it isn't cost feasible. If instead of just doing a GET request, you had to spend time and/or money to get that information, that's private enough for many purposes. Certainly not for "this will kill me if it gets out" but for "strangers will annoy me if this gets out", which was mostly the case here.
Not really. I'd say in general, we can't trust anyone's privacy settings. In this case the app only displayed women, so that's what we're talking about.
Not if they are supplemented by a very good navigation system. It's kinda hard to run out of gas in mid-flight if the system forces you to land way before that happens.
I think this is possible if the "car" is completely automated. Which is not that far-fetched, considering the Google car and the fact that in mid-air there are much less obstacles, particularly peons.
Markets don't work like that. Companies set their prices based on what makes them more profit, not the cost. If they could've raised the price without hurting their income, they already would've.
There are no 'moving parts' outside of a few fans and a hard drive.
Actually, there are. Components like the CPU and GPU expand and contract a lot due to the thermal differences between on and off. That can be enough to break solder joints after a few months.
People here seem to have some difficulty distinguish the possible future from the present. Google does not sell private data. It may or may not in the future.
Yes, it is a danger, that's why I moved away from Gmail. But it's still only a possibility.
And Brin, Page and Schmidt are not just "current management", they have stock vote control of the company.
Washington has extended the obligation to air routes that over-fly US airspace, such as Heathrow to Mexico City or Gatwick to Havana.
Now the US is demanding passengers' full names, dates of birth and gender from airlines, at least 72 hour before departure from the UK to Canada. The initial requirement is for flights to Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and the Nova Scotia capital, Halifax â" 150 miles from the nearest US territory. A similar stipulation is expected soon for the main airports in western Canada, Vancouver and Calgary.
UK -> Canada certainly doesn't go through the US airspace.
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Left? Where? Certainly not anyone who supports Obama. His policies are center, at most.
and no bandwidth caps. :-)
Yeah, but 50kbps * 1 month is only ~16.43 gigabytes, and that's if you could run it at full throttle 24/7. It caps itself.
That's copyright, not patents. Patents apply to any code, not only derivatives.
It's in Sweden, though, so it doesn't work as a way to access Netflix & etc.
I don't live in a place where CCs are all that common, but in the US, isn't it common to use the CC number for recurrent billing? Won't this force you to spend a lot of time contacting each service provider to update that info? I think that would be a very real loss.
http://clientsfromhell.net/ is good too.
That was wartime. Different rules apply during war.
Was there a decade in the last century in which the US not at war with some country (or now, terrorist groups)?
And those 'innocent civilians'?
Uuuh, scare quotes. Yes, at least the vast majority of them, exceptions notwithstanding.
there's at least one documented case of them coming to the aid of a crashed Japanese pilot. Would you have the government just ignore that?
Are you seriously trying to justify the internment of a whole ethnic group because of the actions of one single individual?
Was Sony violating COPPA too?
That's what civil suits are for. The FTC just enforces applies fines.
I'm saying that what she wrote - that "The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals." - is simply untrue, and that event shows it well.
Someone should've offered her a newspaper. Years before she wrote that book, the US government had already relocated and interned 110 000 innocent civilians - 62% of which American citizens.
Sorry, but some do. Cheering on the death of the uninsured was well demonstrated in the GOP debate (link). Are they all exceptions? Not likely.
I think there's a difference between making art for the purpose of amassing money, and requiring money in order to do art.
I don't think you can reduce art to storytelling. I mean, what story is Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue, and Red telling?
Unlike posting on /., which is obviously Serious Business (tm).
There's an objective valuation of time that I'm not aware of? Or are you just saying that because you don't find it a valuable use of time?
That's a ridiculously false dichotomy. Just like in real life, there are certainly degrees of privacy online, just like there are degrees of security, etc.
It's not a matter so much of keeping it absolutely secret, but of having enough roadblocks that accessing it isn't cost feasible. If instead of just doing a GET request, you had to spend time and/or money to get that information, that's private enough for many purposes. Certainly not for "this will kill me if it gets out" but for "strangers will annoy me if this gets out", which was mostly the case here.
Not really. I'd say in general, we can't trust anyone's privacy settings. In this case the app only displayed women, so that's what we're talking about.
Not if they are supplemented by a very good navigation system. It's kinda hard to run out of gas in mid-flight if the system forces you to land way before that happens.
I think this is possible if the "car" is completely automated. Which is not that far-fetched, considering the Google car and the fact that in mid-air there are much less obstacles, particularly peons.
Markets don't work like that. Companies set their prices based on what makes them more profit, not the cost. If they could've raised the price without hurting their income, they already would've.
There are no 'moving parts' outside of a few fans and a hard drive.
Actually, there are. Components like the CPU and GPU expand and contract a lot due to the thermal differences between on and off. That can be enough to break solder joints after a few months.
If have to keep your own copies, what's the point in paying for this service in the first place?!
Again, the whole "cloud" concept is just worthless.
Being able to share the files with others by giving out an URL?
People here seem to have some difficulty distinguish the possible future from the present. Google does not sell private data. It may or may not in the future.
Yes, it is a danger, that's why I moved away from Gmail. But it's still only a possibility.
And Brin, Page and Schmidt are not just "current management", they have stock vote control of the company.
Apparently you forgot to read on.
Washington has extended the obligation to air routes that over-fly US airspace, such as Heathrow to Mexico City or Gatwick to Havana.
Now the US is demanding passengers' full names, dates of birth and gender from airlines, at least 72 hour before departure from the UK to Canada. The initial requirement is for flights to Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and the Nova Scotia capital, Halifax â" 150 miles from the nearest US territory. A similar stipulation is expected soon for the main airports in western Canada, Vancouver and Calgary.
UK -> Canada certainly doesn't go through the US airspace.
Probably not, but Google's working on it: http://www.google.com/doubleclick/studio/swiffy/