Because it's rightist utopian garbage. There's a lot of that here. Death is a part of life. Ironically, without it, there'd be no 'progress' or evolution, two things the left claims to hold in high esteem.
There are many airports across the U.S. that actually went privatized-- the cities decided they didn't want TSA anymore. SFO, San Francisco, is one example. The government regulates and monitors the private firms at those airports to make sure they're up to federal requirements. I believe private firms do just about everything more cheaply. And I can't imagine they would be any less effective than TSA.
That's fascinating. I'm an aussie who has travelled to the US twice, once to San Jose via LAX, and once direct to SFO.
The difference between them was chalk and cheese... I'd previously put it down to cultural differences between SoCal and the north of the state. But, now that I know that SFO isn't the TSA it makes perfect sense.
Thank you. I sitll intend to participate in the slashcott next week, however. I believe that there is a political element at Dice that would not mind seeing the wretched hive of men's rights activism and anti-feminism that is Slashdot in mothballs.
Godspeed to those who are working on altslashdot.org. I'm afraid that Code.org and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have given orders from On High that the community that questions feminism at Slashdot must be disbanded.
I've encountered sexism many times in my life before. Usually the argument is that because I was assigned the male gender at birth, despite the physical gender of the wetware between my ears, THEREFORE I am sexist. Q. E. D.
I wished many, many times during my male adolescence thatI had been born female instead. None of those wishes came true. However, if any of them had, I suspect that my school's administration would not have attempted to threaten me with FBI incarceration because I wanted to have a computer club nor would they have attempted to paint me as a plagarist because my code was "too good" for somebody of my age back then.
More assigned males are speaking out against this problem. There is nothing you can do, Dice or Code.org. More and more of us are becoming aware that the feminist narrative is wrong-headed.
As much as I wish more cis women would go into programming, I am not their mistress or their Borg queen. I do not control their actions.
A big advantage of the "old" technologies is that you can get them running with household items. It's impossible to built an integrated circuit at home, but it's quite feasible to build a steam engine. I learned a lot about technology by servicing my bicycle. I had a very old typewriter which was build on a completely different principle than the usual querty keys, it had a pointer which mechanically connected to a cylinder with the letters and only one key which caused the cylinder to hammer down on the carbon ribbon and the paper. Just to see that there are many different solutions to a given problem greatly increases your understanding of technology. So yes, I think you missed out greatly. All you had was magical black boxes which somehow did what you wanted them to do.
With that defense, yeah - a total douche. She isn't "defending the future", she's trying to dodge the speeding ticket, with a twist that she was caught what the state of California (IMHO rightly) defines as a monitor. They didn't say it was a "television", and neither does the citation.
Sorry, ma'am, but even if you manage to get the law itself changed, you're still guilty of violating it.
This,
My experience with driving in the US (specifically California) is that if she wasn't doing 80+ in a 65 zone the cops would have picked someone who was, they wouldn't have had to wait long at all. She was caught speeding and is trying to make a spectacle out of it in order to get off.
Oh, so it's a synonym for "highway." Damn Brits and their other words for common things. I hear "motorway" and thing "road where motored vehicles travel," which would include pretty much everything other than bike paths and trails.
Yeah damn those English people who speak something other than English as it's spoken by those who invented it.
Oh wait! It's called English because the English "invented" it and the ex-colonists decide to fuck with it.
Smallpox has been absent since the 70's, and hasn't show up yet... So if the premise is the same with polio, yes we can say that it is extinct... I think.
I think it only exists in one CDC facility and one research / germ warfare facility in siberia, now.
Meh. I'm sure it exists in other places as well. For example, the sequence for smallpox is well-known, so it could be reconstructed by a government even if those samples were destroyed. Furthermore, there's always the random serendipity of as-yet undiscovered samples: Century-old smallpox scabs in N.M. envelope (found in a library, of all places...)
However, I concur that the disease is extinct in the wild, and, barring malfeasance, there will never be another epidemic of smallpox.
Interesting that the FBI sent the envelope to the CDC via mail... aside from being illegal I would've thought that this would of at least raised a few eye brows at the CDC.
The paleo movement is frustrating for anthropologists. Humans ate pretty much whatever they could get their grubby little hands on: meat, nuts, edible leaves, roots, fruit, etc. We did eat quite a bit of plants, though. Mostly because they didn't run away.
Vegans who insist we're herbivores are equally frustrating, however.
I'm curious: in what way has the paleo movement frustrated anthropologists? Care to enlighten me.
our elites have failed us and it's only a matter of time before history repeats and the streets run with blood.
You have a very... limited understanding of history if you think that the elites "failing" the commoners tends to result in their blood being spilled.
A much more common pattern is that the commoners get out of line and their blood ends up running in the streets, and then order is restored.
I'm thinking elections are a lot more likely to reform government agencies than riots.
You've made an assumption about who's blood I was referring to. You've also inferred here that I'm presuming that civil unrest will necessarily lead to change.
So that there is no room for misunderstanding I will rephrase:
Those of us who have had faith enough in "the system" to be self correcting are in a majority but none the less our cohort is shrinking.
I am not suggesting that there will be a rapid change in the numbers of the politically active, I am suggesting that a significant number of those who have remained passive will not do so for very much longer and also that those who are already politically engaged will become disenfranchised with the notion of slow, progressive change from within the system and will become radicalised to varying degrees.
Note also I am not advocating a more radicalised approach either but am becoming more resigned to a significant change in the size of the outlying region of the political bell curve which I believe will result in a positive feedback loop where those in power and the middle that still support the system will double down against those who have given up on the idea of being able to change the system from within.
In actual fact I do agree that elections are better than riots but there comes a point where a large enough minority disagrees with this and that's where things go awfully wrong and simply blaming the rioters in isolation does nothing to remedy the problem.
Soldiers fight for our freedom? As if fighting in some third-world crap hole has anything to do with our freedom here in the United States. I think Snowden is a true hero. He didn't give his life for oil or empire, he gave his life for something that intimately has to do with *our* freedom.
WTF? Who said anything about soldiers.... Please re-read what I wrote
Snowden may be a first class asshole for all I know but that's irrelevant... our elites have failed us and it's only a matter of time before history repeats and the streets run with blood.
All Snowden has done is shown precisely how naked the Emperor is. Squabbling over minutiae is just window dressing from this point onwards.
FFS it's bad enough that slashcode seems to be 7-bit ASCII only but it can't even do punctuation.... and they call themselves geeks/nerds what a load of old cobblers
Grace is the âoeupdateâ program, which simply issues a sync system call.
Iâ(TM)ve received two pieces of email that imply that somebody recently posted the entire world with a flood, to remove all rational obstacles to believing something revealed by God.
I have to pass a tuple containing the existing Unix technology. To do an outbound call you should be able to say that I believe that God wants him to set up an alternative mailbox for these files.
If this is exactly the thrust of Larry McVoyâ(TM)s paper on âoeExtent Like Performance on a sysV f. s.â, he cannot have salvation, except in the production of the forgiveness of sins.
I would like to be present everywhere.
This is supported by Jesusâ(TM)s use of low cost eight bit micros and small amounts of RAM. When you find salvation.
For the sinner deserves not life but death, according to the disk devices. For example, start with Plan 9, which is free of sin, the case is different from His perspective.
The Roman Church has always been a part of a file system semantics.
Grab the cat torture shit. Lets be real familiar with these braindead but safe solutions. We have to look further into this possible interpretation.
Another trick to see how our inability to discern justice as an actual inconsistency in FORTRAN 77 by defining DO loops to work in the hope of generating few more responses.
Female clergy are widely but not quite.
I have modified the âoestandardâ Berkley ftpd to allow for various types of failures in Scripture.
Thatâ(TM)s not very important, because the deception of one being good entails being loving, merciful, just, and many other names; one per symbolic link.
Those who believe that something could be saved except the atoning sacrifice of Isaac, on the testimony of countless scientists who also most oppose the teachings of the statements that I call UNIX.
ScienceFiction more or less predicts future pornography and homosexuality in the sovereignty of God.
Wouldnâ(TM)t that mean that the Father too may live anew dev log to ftp after login?
Probably first choice of block size on all of their salvation.
If God truly loves humankind then why does He create sinners? If human is His creation, then who is the ultimate in all shells?
I know at one point Jesus said âoeno one may come to grips with the cpio header blown awayâ.
It speaks of the original ftpd.
I am the resident Unix and open systems bigot so much like the resurrection of Jesus only.
Geoff modified relaynews to write an essay on prayer.
dvips for DVI files should run on the testimony of countless scientists who also most oppose the teachings of the Catholic Church through no fault of his posting, in which the idea that it passes the diagnostics.
And I get real turned on by a good English translation of the Bible; because there is sufficient response I would want to change the nature of the points of Catholic theology would immediately have to be God and satan who is a free variable:â")
Christian theology is not seek optimization, which the means pertain, as was said above
Good. I am trying to keep binary compatibility with the possible exception of Sun Microsystems. Yet, because Sun is apparently seen as the closest Protestant Church to Catholicism.
That observation doesnâ(TM)t get one anywhere. One might as well as the law as can be meritorious of life everlasting, but so as to heal the man page; if not, you can always use parens and braces.
On a SVR4, I am interested in building a list of names and addresses to be in the name of Martin Luther, who led the religious reformatio
... and I am glad I never waste any of my time in fb
Indeed - the ony thing more amazing than people putting personal shit up on a public website is people putting personal shit up on a public website that's owned and run by a known sociopath.
If it's a fixed line the telcos better not be giving out your address. I suppose it's possible, but that would be a major privacy violation and would be very illegal here in Canada.
It's most likely the OP had his wifi on (possibly he was even connected via it) and his mac used wifi localization to get his estimated position. The accuracy ("my balcony") was either an exaggeration or a coincidence. Wifi positioning gets my position pretty close (the apartment across the hall) but it puts you there no matter where in the building you are.
Not sure what the deal is in Canada but here in Australia the telco's are theoretically bound by similar rules... doesn't stop the fuckers though.... what's the point of having laws if they're not going to enforce them?
Apple doesn't (or didn't). They buy the data from other companies like Skyhook that go around and get it. They also don't have MAC addresses. They have SSIDs, which are broadcast to the world.
Google went around collecting SSIDs, which is fine, but they managed to get rather a lot of other information (which they kept) in the trawl, which was judged to be not okay.
This is true but in response to BlackPignouf: If the device you're talking about is using a fixed line (ie. not WiFi or cellular) then the telco's know you're exact address afterall it's their cabling and DHCP/subnet that provides the address.
As for your 5m radius... depends upon the size of your house I guess:)
That. I installed Mavericks on my Mac Mini last week. Clean install, no Bluetooth, no personal information given, no smartphone connected and obviously no GPS. Just localhost login and WiFi password. I wanted to take a look at Apple Maps and clicked on "Your location" to see if it would get my city right. Well, the map was zoomed at 20 on my balcony, with the exact address. It took me a while to understand how they did it.
IP based geolocation? Third party providers gave een doing this for ages... they get the data from telcos.
Americans and us dangerous foreigners, expect no sympathy. One does not have to believe in Karma to know that you deserve the domestic spying.
By that same line of thinking, one could also say that you deserve to be spied upon and drone-striked, due to your blanket, wholly uninformed generalizations about Americans.
I wouldn't say that, because I'm not an egocentric dick... but someone could, and it would be just as invalid and moronic as your hypothesis.
You're a fool if you don't realise that the cultural belief in "American exceptionalism" has been the enabler for the NSA and the "Military Industrial Complex" that Eisenhower spoke of.
It's a ten dollar gift. People who buy macs don't care. They probably don't even hold a grudge against the pirates. For most consumers, ten dollars is two frappuccinos away from free, which rounds to free.
More to the point, in terms of grief, those guys who pirated iWork '09 are all shit out of luck now because Apple downgraded them to the new Pages/Keynote/Numbers. If you used the old Pages (which was fucking amazing if you knew how to take advantage of it), you'll find the new one is a sad, sad disappointment.
Fucking slashdot changed my links from wikipedia to slashdot.
Are you complaining because/. lacks a <DWIM> tag, along with the strong AI that implies? Or because someone failed to teach you about absolute and relative URLs?
Either way, it seems a little unreasonable to blame/. for it.
(Now the tablet UI, I'm with you all the way blaming/. for that abomination. If you have the ability, changing to a desktop user-agent string will get around it -- but there's NO reason we should have to do that.)
No I'm complaining because slashdot took a perfectly valid absolute URL and somehow munged it into something other than what I'd entered before pressing submit. The only difference between that post and the dozens of others I've made previously is that I was using a tablet to do it. Fucked if I know why they would do something different to html embedded in a post from a tablet versus a desktop but I know what was in the textarea before I sumbitted and it sure as fuck was an absolute url with wikipedia in the hostname section.
Fucking slashdot changed my links from wikipedia to slashdot. When are you clowns going to fix the site. It is completely fucking unusable on a tablet, I love lyx as much as the next geek but for fuck's sake it's 2013 not 1973.
This is a terrible idea! You just read an article about PR firms editing articles about science & history. Facts are the least democratic things of all!
Do you want people to vote on science? How many people think Relativity is just E=mc^2? They ignore all the import aspects about it. If there wasn't a maximum speed (speed of light), then kinetic energy (KE=mv^2) would go to infinity and create unlimited energy.
Do you want people to vote on History? Well, they did, and the Holocaust only killed Jews. The other 5 million killed for handicaps, homosexuality, and others don't count. There were even 3 more genocides in the 20th century alone: Pol Pot's Cambodia (the educated), Serbia (muslims), & Rwanda.
I don't want popular opinion to warp reality anymore!
I think you've just pissed off an awfully large number of Armenians and I've just pissed off an equally large number of Turks
You had me until "... athiest". What the fuck does athiesm have to do with it?
Because like fundamentalist Christians, atheists are butthurt when people question their conclusions. That attitude influences their thinking on most subjects, and as a result, they are impossible to have a conversation with.
That asshole-ish "I'm right and you're not" attitude is one of the reasons the Internet is so fucked up right now. You don't listen. You just shove your neckbeard in everyone's face.
The fact that you seized on the word 'atheist' (and only that word) out of all the words in my post is proof.
Now you will post a reactionary shitriver telling me how I'm wrong, which will prove me right twice.
Slashdot Mirror
Because it's rightist utopian garbage. There's a lot of that here. Death is a part of life. Ironically, without it, there'd be no 'progress' or evolution, two things the left claims to hold in high esteem.
FTFY.
There are many airports across the U.S. that actually went privatized-- the cities decided they didn't want TSA anymore. SFO, San Francisco, is one example. The government regulates and monitors the private firms at those airports to make sure they're up to federal requirements. I believe private firms do just about everything more cheaply. And I can't imagine they would be any less effective than TSA.
That's fascinating. I'm an aussie who has travelled to the US twice, once to San Jose via LAX, and once direct to SFO.
The difference between them was chalk and cheese... I'd previously put it down to cultural differences between SoCal and the north of the state. But, now that I know that SFO isn't the TSA it makes perfect sense.
Thank you. I sitll intend to participate in the slashcott next week, however. I believe that there is a political element at Dice that would not mind seeing the wretched hive of men's rights activism and anti-feminism that is Slashdot in mothballs.
Godspeed to those who are working on altslashdot.org. I'm afraid that Code.org and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have given orders from On High that the community that questions feminism at Slashdot must be disbanded.
I've encountered sexism many times in my life before. Usually the argument is that because I was assigned the male gender at birth, despite the physical gender of the wetware between my ears, THEREFORE I am sexist. Q. E. D.
I wished many, many times during my male adolescence thatI had been born female instead. None of those wishes came true. However, if any of them had, I suspect that my school's administration would not have attempted to threaten me with FBI incarceration because I wanted to have a computer club nor would they have attempted to paint me as a plagarist because my code was "too good" for somebody of my age back then.
More assigned males are speaking out against this problem. There is nothing you can do, Dice or Code.org. More and more of us are becoming aware that the feminist narrative is wrong-headed.
As much as I wish more cis women would go into programming, I am not their mistress or their Borg queen. I do not control their actions.
There needs to be a different approach.
How about a -1 WTF option?
A big advantage of the "old" technologies is that you can get them running with household items. It's impossible to built an integrated circuit at home, but it's quite feasible to build a steam engine. I learned a lot about technology by servicing my bicycle. I had a very old typewriter which was build on a completely different principle than the usual querty keys, it had a pointer which mechanically connected to a cylinder with the letters and only one key which caused the cylinder to hammer down on the carbon ribbon and the paper. Just to see that there are many different solutions to a given problem greatly increases your understanding of technology. So yes, I think you missed out greatly. All you had was magical black boxes which somehow did what you wanted them to do.
Don't be so sure about that
With that defense, yeah - a total douche. She isn't "defending the future", she's trying to dodge the speeding ticket, with a twist that she was caught what the state of California (IMHO rightly) defines as a monitor. They didn't say it was a "television", and neither does the citation.
Sorry, ma'am, but even if you manage to get the law itself changed, you're still guilty of violating it.
This,
My experience with driving in the US (specifically California) is that if she wasn't doing 80+ in a 65 zone the cops would have picked someone who was, they wouldn't have had to wait long at all. She was caught speeding and is trying to make a spectacle out of it in order to get off.
I see what you did there
Oh, so it's a synonym for "highway." Damn Brits and their other words for common things. I hear "motorway" and thing "road where motored vehicles travel," which would include pretty much everything other than bike paths and trails.
Yeah damn those English people who speak something other than English as it's spoken by those who invented it.
Oh wait! It's called English because the English "invented" it and the ex-colonists decide to fuck with it.
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
Smallpox has been absent since the 70's, and hasn't show up yet... So if the premise is the same with polio, yes we can say that it is extinct... I think.
I think it only exists in one CDC facility and one research / germ warfare facility in siberia, now.
Meh. I'm sure it exists in other places as well. For example, the sequence for smallpox is well-known, so it could be reconstructed by a government even if those samples were destroyed. Furthermore, there's always the random serendipity of as-yet undiscovered samples:
Century-old smallpox scabs in N.M. envelope (found in a library, of all places...)
However, I concur that the disease is extinct in the wild, and, barring malfeasance, there will never be another epidemic of smallpox.
Interesting that the FBI sent the envelope to the CDC via mail... aside from being illegal I would've thought that this would of at least raised a few eye brows at the CDC.
The paleo movement is frustrating for anthropologists. Humans ate pretty much whatever they could get their grubby little hands on: meat, nuts, edible leaves, roots, fruit, etc. We did eat quite a bit of plants, though. Mostly because they didn't run away.
Vegans who insist we're herbivores are equally frustrating, however.
I'm curious: in what way has the paleo movement frustrated anthropologists? Care to enlighten me.
our elites have failed us and it's only a matter of time before history repeats and the streets run with blood.
You have a very... limited understanding of history if you think that the elites "failing" the commoners tends to result in their blood being spilled.
A much more common pattern is that the commoners get out of line and their blood ends up running in the streets, and then order is restored.
I'm thinking elections are a lot more likely to reform government agencies than riots.
You've made an assumption about who's blood I was referring to. You've also inferred here that I'm presuming that civil unrest will necessarily lead to change.
So that there is no room for misunderstanding I will rephrase:
Those of us who have had faith enough in "the system" to be self correcting are in a majority but none the less our cohort is shrinking.
I am not suggesting that there will be a rapid change in the numbers of the politically active, I am suggesting that a significant number of those who have remained passive will not do so for very much longer and also that those who are already politically engaged will become disenfranchised with the notion of slow, progressive change from within the system and will become radicalised to varying degrees.
Note also I am not advocating a more radicalised approach either but am becoming more resigned to a significant change in the size of the outlying region of the political bell curve which I believe will result in a positive feedback loop where those in power and the middle that still support the system will double down against those who have given up on the idea of being able to change the system from within.
In actual fact I do agree that elections are better than riots but there comes a point where a large enough minority disagrees with this and that's where things go awfully wrong and simply blaming the rioters in isolation does nothing to remedy the problem.
Soldiers fight for our freedom? As if fighting in some third-world crap hole has anything to do with our freedom here in the United States. I think Snowden is a true hero. He didn't give his life for oil or empire, he gave his life for something that intimately has to do with *our* freedom.
WTF? Who said anything about soldiers.... Please re-read what I wrote
Snowden may be a first class asshole for all I know but that's irrelevant... our elites have failed us and it's only a matter of time before history repeats and the streets run with blood.
All Snowden has done is shown precisely how naked the Emperor is. Squabbling over minutiae is just window dressing from this point onwards.
the one book that I suspect no one else will mention but everyone aught to read is John Ralston Sauls's Voltaire's Bastards
FFS it's bad enough that slashcode seems to be 7-bit ASCII only but it can't even do punctuation.... and they call themselves geeks/nerds what a load of old cobblers
For crying out loud don't they teach kids any history these days?
See http://glenda.cat-v.org/friends/mark-v-shaney/classics
My personal favourite:
I would like to be present everywhere
Grace is the âoeupdateâ program, which simply issues a sync system call.
Iâ(TM)ve received two pieces of email that imply that somebody recently posted the entire world with a flood, to remove all rational obstacles to believing something revealed by God.
I have to pass a tuple containing the existing Unix technology. To do an outbound call you should be able to say that I believe that God wants him to set up an alternative mailbox for these files.
If this is exactly the thrust of Larry McVoyâ(TM)s paper on âoeExtent Like Performance on a sysV f. s.â, he cannot have salvation, except in the production of the forgiveness of sins.
I would like to be present everywhere.
This is supported by Jesusâ(TM)s use of low cost eight bit micros and small amounts of RAM. When you find salvation.
For the sinner deserves not life but death, according to the disk devices. For example, start with Plan 9, which is free of sin, the case is different from His perspective.
The Roman Church has always been a part of a file system semantics.
Grab the cat torture shit. Lets be real familiar with these braindead but safe solutions. We have to look further into this possible interpretation.
Another trick to see how our inability to discern justice as an actual inconsistency in FORTRAN 77 by defining DO loops to work in the hope of generating few more responses.
Female clergy are widely but not quite.
I have modified the âoestandardâ Berkley ftpd to allow for various types of failures in Scripture.
Thatâ(TM)s not very important, because the deception of one being good entails being loving, merciful, just, and many other names; one per symbolic link.
Those who believe that something could be saved except the atoning sacrifice of Isaac, on the testimony of countless scientists who also most oppose the teachings of the statements that I call UNIX.
ScienceFiction more or less predicts future pornography and homosexuality in the sovereignty of God.
Wouldnâ(TM)t that mean that the Father too may live anew dev log to ftp after login?
Probably first choice of block size on all of their salvation.
If God truly loves humankind then why does He create sinners? If human is His creation, then who is the ultimate in all shells?
I know at one point Jesus said âoeno one may come to grips with the cpio header blown awayâ.
It speaks of the original ftpd.
I am the resident Unix and open systems bigot so much like the resurrection of Jesus only.
Geoff modified relaynews to write an essay on prayer.
dvips for DVI files should run on the testimony of countless scientists who also most oppose the teachings of the Catholic Church through no fault of his posting, in which the idea that it passes the diagnostics.
And I get real turned on by a good English translation of the Bible; because there is sufficient response I would want to change the nature of the points of Catholic theology would immediately have to be God and satan who is a free variable :â")
Christian theology is not seek optimization, which the means pertain, as was said above
Good. I am trying to keep binary compatibility with the possible exception of Sun Microsystems. Yet, because Sun is apparently seen as the closest Protestant Church to Catholicism.
That observation doesnâ(TM)t get one anywhere. One might as well as the law as can be meritorious of life everlasting, but so as to heal the man page; if not, you can always use parens and braces.
On a SVR4, I am interested in building a list of names and addresses to be in the name of Martin Luther, who led the religious reformatio
... and I am glad I never waste any of my time in fb
Indeed - the ony thing more amazing than people putting personal shit up on a public website is people putting personal shit up on a public website that's owned and run by a known sociopath.
'nuf said
If it's a fixed line the telcos better not be giving out your address. I suppose it's possible, but that would be a major privacy violation and would be very illegal here in Canada.
It's most likely the OP had his wifi on (possibly he was even connected via it) and his mac used wifi localization to get his estimated position. The accuracy ("my balcony") was either an exaggeration or a coincidence. Wifi positioning gets my position pretty close (the apartment across the hall) but it puts you there no matter where in the building you are.
Not sure what the deal is in Canada but here in Australia the telco's are theoretically bound by similar rules... doesn't stop the fuckers though.... what's the point of having laws if they're not going to enforce them?
Apple doesn't (or didn't). They buy the data from other companies like Skyhook that go around and get it. They also don't have MAC addresses. They have SSIDs, which are broadcast to the world.
Google went around collecting SSIDs, which is fine, but they managed to get rather a lot of other information (which they kept) in the trawl, which was judged to be not okay.
This is true but in response to BlackPignouf: If the device you're talking about is using a fixed line (ie. not WiFi or cellular) then the telco's know you're exact address afterall it's their cabling and DHCP/subnet that provides the address.
As for your 5m radius ... depends upon the size of your house I guess :)
That.
I installed Mavericks on my Mac Mini last week.
Clean install, no Bluetooth, no personal information given, no smartphone connected and obviously no GPS.
Just localhost login and WiFi password.
I wanted to take a look at Apple Maps and clicked on "Your location" to see if it would get my city right.
Well, the map was zoomed at 20 on my balcony, with the exact address.
It took me a while to understand how they did it.
IP based geolocation? Third party providers gave een doing this for ages... they get the data from telcos.
Americans and us dangerous foreigners, expect no sympathy. One does not have to believe in Karma to know that you deserve the domestic spying.
By that same line of thinking, one could also say that you deserve to be spied upon and drone-striked, due to your blanket, wholly uninformed generalizations about Americans.
I wouldn't say that, because I'm not an egocentric dick... but someone could, and it would be just as invalid and moronic as your hypothesis.
You're a fool if you don't realise that the cultural belief in "American exceptionalism" has been the enabler for the NSA and the "Military Industrial Complex" that Eisenhower spoke of.
It's a ten dollar gift. People who buy macs don't care. They probably don't even hold a grudge against the pirates. For most consumers, ten dollars is two frappuccinos away from free, which rounds to free.
More to the point, in terms of grief, those guys who pirated iWork '09 are all shit out of luck now because Apple downgraded them to the new Pages/Keynote/Numbers. If you used the old Pages (which was fucking amazing if you knew how to take advantage of it), you'll find the new one is a sad, sad disappointment.
"The old Pages"... which version do you mean?
<a href="example.com">...</a>
<a href="http://example.com">...</a>
See the difference?
Fucking slashdot changed my links from wikipedia to slashdot.
Are you complaining because /. lacks a <DWIM> tag, along with the strong AI that implies?
Or because someone failed to teach you about absolute and relative URLs?
Either way, it seems a little unreasonable to blame /. for it.
(Now the tablet UI, I'm with you all the way blaming /. for that abomination. If you have the ability, changing to a desktop user-agent string will get around it -- but there's NO reason we should have to do that.)
No I'm complaining because slashdot took a perfectly valid absolute URL and somehow munged it into something other than what I'd entered before pressing submit. The only difference between that post and the dozens of others I've made previously is that I was using a tablet to do it. Fucked if I know why they would do something different to html embedded in a post from a tablet versus a desktop but I know what was in the textarea before I sumbitted and it sure as fuck was an absolute url with wikipedia in the hostname section.
Fucking slashdot changed my links from wikipedia to slashdot. When are you clowns going to fix the site. It is completely fucking unusable on a tablet, I love lyx as much as the next geek but for fuck's sake it's 2013 not 1973.
This is a terrible idea! You just read an article about PR firms editing articles about science & history. Facts are the least democratic things of all!
Do you want people to vote on science? How many people think Relativity is just E=mc^2? They ignore all the import aspects about it. If there wasn't a maximum speed (speed of light), then kinetic energy (KE=mv^2) would go to infinity and create unlimited energy.
Do you want people to vote on History? Well, they did, and the Holocaust only killed Jews. The other 5 million killed for handicaps, homosexuality, and others don't count. There were even 3 more genocides in the 20th century alone: Pol Pot's Cambodia (the educated), Serbia (muslims), & Rwanda.
I don't want popular opinion to warp reality anymore!
I think you've just pissed off an awfully large number of Armenians and I've just pissed off an equally large number of Turks
You had me until "... athiest". What the fuck does athiesm have to do with it?
Because like fundamentalist Christians, atheists are butthurt when people question their conclusions. That attitude influences their thinking on most subjects, and as a result, they are impossible to have a conversation with.
That asshole-ish "I'm right and you're not" attitude is one of the reasons the Internet is so fucked up right now. You don't listen. You just shove your neckbeard in everyone's face.
The fact that you seized on the word 'atheist' (and only that word) out of all the words in my post is proof.
Now you will post a reactionary shitriver telling me how I'm wrong, which will prove me right twice.
Dude did you forget your meds or something?