I'm guessing that if they did anything too overt, they'd just risk making a martyr of him. Better to find some way to bury him in the public eye (dodgy rape case) or, more likely, wait a few years for him to fade into obscurity, and then he gets hit by a drunk driver.
One way or another, I don't see him seeing his 35th birthday.
I'm in good shape too, coming from almost nothing. Hardly the 1%.
Perhaps that's the difference, because at the end of the day, I'm haunted by the fact that the biggest difference between me and the guy who's pissed himself on the side of the road while begging for change is luck. Sure, I've got skills, I'm intelligent, I'm a damn hard worker, but at the end of the day, I was in the right place at the right time. No matter how much I chest thump otherwise, divine intervention, luck, chaos, karma, whatever you want to call it, it's always the biggest factor.
Interestingly, then suppose they find another can of beans a day or two later, and no one else has eaten in the meanwhile. The guy who's already eaten the last can of beans is in a better position to be able to eat this one too. He's (marginally) less desperate, but much healthier at the moment.
I see the difference, and I could almost buy that. I'm not seeing anyone part of these discussions (like, at a legislative level) making that difference, and that worries me.
What on earth do you actually do with that kind of throughput then?
And Jesus Tapdancing Christ, you're comparing modern advancements to something invented in the fucking 60's, man. You may as well say, "buy the best i7 you can, but it better not do anything better than UNIVAC, cause otherwise, whip-buggy manufacturers might go out of business".
What if I alone use the "server" (I assume in this context that means "open, forwarded port", but I don't really know, which is maybe even scarier) to check my own e-mail from my email server (yes, there's that word again) locally hosted while I'm at work/school/vacation? Or I vpn home from any of said locations to access any of my files/internet, because I'd be crazy to trust the completely unsecured connection at the hotel or coffee shop?
It's still my own personal use. No one else's. Oh, but they have their own perfectly good email server, GMail! You should also check out Drive! And just you wait until we tell you about all the features you get!
This is about not being able running your own show. Much harder to track, analyse, and quantify if it's not their playground, and they don't want you competing with them. Same reason why I can't day trade my 401(k).
Funny you should say that. Years ago, my sister had her brakes go out because the lines were corroded while driving to work about a week after breaking up with her boyfriend. She was driving my old car, and when I replaced the brakes a year previous, the lines looked fine..
Her boyfriend's dad did something-or-other with industrial chemicals and was a total chemistry nerd. He would have easily had HCl laying around. I probably just didn't notice the lines were so bad when I worked on them last, but we always wondered.
Google storing all your WLAN passwords on their application settings backup service without allowing you to encrypt them.
...based upon the above, on what other platforms would you assume that Google has any sort of interaction with your WLAN passwords? I'm really curious.
I mean, they're clearly stealing them by using their vans to read my dog's brain, but that's what the tinfoil hat is for. Not everyone has pets however.
Officially? No. Proving that your medical history is the reason why you got canned is not an easy thing to do, especially in "right to work" states. More and more situations are coming up that gives your employer to be able to poke holes in the wall around your health records and peek inside though. My employer, as well as a few places my friends work at, have started programs where the give you health insurance incentives if you take a health screening exam generally performed by lab techs somewhere on the campus. In the fine print, the company gets access to that data.
So while my answer to your question is "no", we know that there exists in a lot of places both, the mechanism for dismissing someone under any pretense, and the ability to get a glimpse into an employee's medical records. I just wouldn't put it past someone to start finding out who has that marker at their company, especially after some major scaryscary event in the news.
Of course, I may just be paranoid. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
As a parent, I would jump at the chance to have my kid tested for that even in the absence of symptoms, early enough to make changes in education and upbringing.
The problem is not you getting results and taking care of them accordingly. It's everyone else that gets their hands on the results and treats your kids like second class citizens.
I could have enough faith in a person to do the former. I lack sufficient faith in society to not do the latter.
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They were guilty of the worst crime imaginable: Publicly embarrassing the state.
I recall a sig from some slashdot user I will now badly paraphrase. "The dictator fears the laugh more than the assassin's bullet."
I'm guessing that if they did anything too overt, they'd just risk making a martyr of him. Better to find some way to bury him in the public eye (dodgy rape case) or, more likely, wait a few years for him to fade into obscurity, and then he gets hit by a drunk driver.
One way or another, I don't see him seeing his 35th birthday.
B-but.. but then how would we Amazon Prime our bedsore pads and cheetos?
I'm in good shape too, coming from almost nothing. Hardly the 1%.
Perhaps that's the difference, because at the end of the day, I'm haunted by the fact that the biggest difference between me and the guy who's pissed himself on the side of the road while begging for change is luck. Sure, I've got skills, I'm intelligent, I'm a damn hard worker, but at the end of the day, I was in the right place at the right time. No matter how much I chest thump otherwise, divine intervention, luck, chaos, karma, whatever you want to call it, it's always the biggest factor.
Heh. "Begging for Change."
Interestingly, then suppose they find another can of beans a day or two later, and no one else has eaten in the meanwhile. The guy who's already eaten the last can of beans is in a better position to be able to eat this one too. He's (marginally) less desperate, but much healthier at the moment.
ESPECIALLY that one.
That's scary too. Especially in a "violating terms of service is a felony" sort of way.
I see the difference, and I could almost buy that. I'm not seeing anyone part of these discussions (like, at a legislative level) making that difference, and that worries me.
What on earth do you actually do with that kind of throughput then?
And Jesus Tapdancing Christ, you're comparing modern advancements to something invented in the fucking 60's, man. You may as well say, "buy the best i7 you can, but it better not do anything better than UNIVAC, cause otherwise, whip-buggy manufacturers might go out of business".
In effect, you've advocated uselessness.
What the fuck else DO you do with a >10 mbps upstream anyway, if none of those things?
What if I alone use the "server" (I assume in this context that means "open, forwarded port", but I don't really know, which is maybe even scarier) to check my own e-mail from my email server (yes, there's that word again) locally hosted while I'm at work/school/vacation? Or I vpn home from any of said locations to access any of my files/internet, because I'd be crazy to trust the completely unsecured connection at the hotel or coffee shop?
It's still my own personal use. No one else's. Oh, but they have their own perfectly good email server, GMail! You should also check out Drive! And just you wait until we tell you about all the features you get!
This is about not being able running your own show. Much harder to track, analyse, and quantify if it's not their playground, and they don't want you competing with them. Same reason why I can't day trade my 401(k).
Apparently some connections are more equal than others...
Truly, the best laws money can buy.
I was really hoping he was being funny.
Frankly, I think they should have gone for a picture of Thatcher fighting a grizzly bear with chainsaw arms.
Now THAT'S an image you have to respect.
I can only assume that their outrage was not based upon it being a woman, but it being Jane Austen.
Funny you should say that. Years ago, my sister had her brakes go out because the lines were corroded while driving to work about a week after breaking up with her boyfriend. She was driving my old car, and when I replaced the brakes a year previous, the lines looked fine..
Her boyfriend's dad did something-or-other with industrial chemicals and was a total chemistry nerd. He would have easily had HCl laying around. I probably just didn't notice the lines were so bad when I worked on them last, but we always wondered.
Or the attacker just cut your brake lines.
That's not a hack though, more of a snip.
Err.... worse than it is already.
Once you price spammers and old people out of the market, the postal service collapses in upon itself.
Google storing all your WLAN passwords on their application settings backup service without allowing you to encrypt them.
...based upon the above, on what other platforms would you assume that Google has any sort of interaction with your WLAN passwords? I'm really curious.
I mean, they're clearly stealing them by using their vans to read my dog's brain, but that's what the tinfoil hat is for. Not everyone has pets however.
Officially? No. Proving that your medical history is the reason why you got canned is not an easy thing to do, especially in "right to work" states. More and more situations are coming up that gives your employer to be able to poke holes in the wall around your health records and peek inside though. My employer, as well as a few places my friends work at, have started programs where the give you health insurance incentives if you take a health screening exam generally performed by lab techs somewhere on the campus. In the fine print, the company gets access to that data.
So while my answer to your question is "no", we know that there exists in a lot of places both, the mechanism for dismissing someone under any pretense, and the ability to get a glimpse into an employee's medical records. I just wouldn't put it past someone to start finding out who has that marker at their company, especially after some major scaryscary event in the news.
Of course, I may just be paranoid. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.
As a parent, I would jump at the chance to have my kid tested for that even in the absence of symptoms, early enough to make changes in education and upbringing.
The problem is not you getting results and taking care of them accordingly. It's everyone else that gets their hands on the results and treats your kids like second class citizens.
I could have enough faith in a person to do the former. I lack sufficient faith in society to not do the latter.
At least it's a nice change from the "do my job for me" Ask Slashdots.
I'd prefer bears with chainsaw arms. Gorillas would be acceptable though.