I'm not suggesting if you have 2000 photos of your kid to get rid of them.
Okay then, I'll suggest it.
Seriously, people. More is not better, especially when it comes to pictures in general. Mementos fall into two basic categories: stuff you wish to share with others because they weren't there and stuff you wish to keep to remind yourself of your being there. In the first case, most people won't care about the minutiae. So don't overwhelm the poor sods. In the second case, you were freakin' there. You don't need a bunch of minutiae for memory triggers.
This is the thing I hate most about Facebook and such sites. People FLOOD you with a gazillion pictures of their cute little tyke holding a baseball bat or whatever.
No.
If "a picture is worth a thousand words" please don't pummel me with the visual equivalent to the Encyclopedia Britannica every five friggin' minutes.
That makes more sense. In my understanding, when a person is on supervised probation, they must admit police or PO's into their home and all sorts of other, normally intrusive, procedures as conditions of probation.
Not being able to encrypt data sounds to me like a logical extension of the probation conditions, just as if a police officer demanded entrance into a locked footlocker (for example) to make sure the person isn't concealing illegal drugs there or whatever.
That type of porn can come back to haunt you when your wife of 3 years find shit you downloaded back in high school. Lucky for me my wife found it amusing and currently jokes the hell out of me.
Lucky for you, your wife found it amusing and doesn't know how to check time/date stamps on files downloaded "back in high school."
Malware is executable software. The evercookie isn't software, it's a simple marker.
The cookie resides on my hardware, doing something (tracking -- albeit doing something passively in this case) which I only wish to grant it for a limited amount of time. When the makers of this cookie make it extremely difficult to delete, which takes away the control I have over the data on my computer, then I see no practical difference between this passive cookie and active malware. Just MHO.
People who are voluntarily in AA or similar lifestyle-change groups may drop certain friends or distance themselves from certain family members because they know they have to in order to overcome their additions.
It is often seen when overcoming one's additions that it is a negative thing or even sometimes divisive. Ultimately however, it really serves to multiply the positives. Sorry for the tangent.
Whereas bomb threats and DDoS attacks have successfully shut down the copyright trolls and got the law amended?
Not quite. I believe one of the major goals is to attract attention and get it into the national/worldwide spotlight so that the apathetic majority might just get a clue about the world they live in and what action should be taken.
As many posters have already said in this thread (and many, many others) is that it's a problem that nobody really knows about and doesn't care about. This is one way to strike back without killing anyone, yet bring a spotlight onto the situation, not to directly change the laws.
Problem is, calling "anonymous" an organization is... very much wrong.
Organizations have some organization at the very least; all anonymous "operations" are just someone posting a website link on 4chan, and people participating about as much as they want. And doing pretty much whatever they want, with absolutely no control - or even a way to control 'em.
Organizations have some kind of hierarchy or membership criteria - "anonymous" lacks both.
Yet within that anonymous cloud there can hide all sorts of many and varied hierarchical groups with motivation, dedication, and a desire to accomplish certain tasks. How would you know? I would liken it to the army planning an assault on a beach for example, during a storm when the enemy's radar is already confused with multiple contacts, real or not.
The 20-something mastermind behind the gang's operation has also been arrested in yesterday's raids...
Any "20-something" is hardly a mastermind of anything, except maybe WoW, and this proves it. At least the article didn't say the phrase "criminal mastermind." That would have royally cheesed me off and forced me to say even more derogatory things.
The argument could be made that anti-drug laws violate the individual states' constitutions even if the federal constitution stands mute on the issue. Little is said about those state constitutions that have a more direct and protective second amendment analogue, for example.
Besides, your statement does nothing to address the issue that even those states which have declared medical use of marijuana to be legal, it has not stopped the feds from prosecuting individuals under federal law, even though they are legally abiding by state drug laws.
I would submit that this is one of those unintended consequences regarding the idea that the feds and states are separate jurisdictions which have overlapping yet separate crimes and so therefore do not run afoul of any double jeopardy protections.
That's why you should read this. Not because it provides useful information to people on the tech team, but because people in the business of managing IT departments really take this stuff seriously. They will try to shoehorn the people they have into the stereotypes, archetypes, and roles they know about, and once they've assigned you to a part, you're going to be doing that part until you leave or the show ends. And if you don't fit one of the parts, they're going to consider you useless.
Seriously, I'm gonna forward this article to my boss and his boss so they can read it and then they'll truly understand why I've been calling myself the Magnum P.I. of the IT industry! I wonder what other 80's television tropes I can draw upon to secure myself a job for life...
Yeah, my previous comment notwithstanding, I read the whole thing too and I'm thinking she should have spent a few bucks on a Ghost Writer(TM). Her prose is absolutely horrid.
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That's why I never watch movies set in the Roman Empire. I totally know how it's going to end.
So it didn't end on a cliffhanger?
- If you spill bear on your book you can let it dry out and it will still be readable.
At that point I'd be more worried about being mauled by the bear!
Don't laugh. In some frat houses, you can certainly be mauled by beer.
And don't for a minute think that these will be some friendly, DRM-free versions.
DRM-free? If these e-books have no DRM, how then can the newest generation of hackers learn their trade effectively while in school?
WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE SCRIPT KIDDIES?!
I'm not suggesting if you have 2000 photos of your kid to get rid of them.
Okay then, I'll suggest it.
Seriously, people. More is not better, especially when it comes to pictures in general. Mementos fall into two basic categories: stuff you wish to share with others because they weren't there and stuff you wish to keep to remind yourself of your being there. In the first case, most people won't care about the minutiae. So don't overwhelm the poor sods. In the second case, you were freakin' there. You don't need a bunch of minutiae for memory triggers.
This is the thing I hate most about Facebook and such sites. People FLOOD you with a gazillion pictures of their cute little tyke holding a baseball bat or whatever.
No.
If "a picture is worth a thousand words" please don't pummel me with the visual equivalent to the Encyclopedia Britannica every five friggin' minutes.
Violation of probation?
That makes more sense. In my understanding, when a person is on supervised probation, they must admit police or PO's into their home and all sorts of other, normally intrusive, procedures as conditions of probation.
Not being able to encrypt data sounds to me like a logical extension of the probation conditions, just as if a police officer demanded entrance into a locked footlocker (for example) to make sure the person isn't concealing illegal drugs there or whatever.
s/do\([^n]\)/does\1/g
Hey, would someone please call an ambulance? I think miknix just had a seizure.
That type of porn can come back to haunt you when your wife of 3 years find shit you downloaded back in high school. Lucky for me my wife found it amusing and currently jokes the hell out of me.
Lucky for you, your wife found it amusing and doesn't know how to check time/date stamps on files downloaded "back in high school."
Don't worry, your secret is safe with us.
Maybe he has an aversion to being clean. /shrug
So you're implying he's a dirty cop?
Malware is executable software. The evercookie isn't software, it's a simple marker.
The cookie resides on my hardware, doing something (tracking -- albeit doing something passively in this case) which I only wish to grant it for a limited amount of time. When the makers of this cookie make it extremely difficult to delete, which takes away the control I have over the data on my computer, then I see no practical difference between this passive cookie and active malware. Just MHO.
And red-headed girls are hot.
People who are voluntarily in AA or similar lifestyle-change groups may drop certain friends or distance themselves from certain family members because they know they have to in order to overcome their additions.
It is often seen when overcoming one's additions that it is a negative thing or even sometimes divisive. Ultimately however, it really serves to multiply the positives. Sorry for the tangent.
Every single time I see the stupid little popup telling me my Windows machine is possibly infected, I click on it.
WHAT ELSE DOES MICROSOFT WANT FROM ME?!?!
Whereas bomb threats and DDoS attacks have successfully shut down the copyright trolls and got the law amended?
Not quite. I believe one of the major goals is to attract attention and get it into the national/worldwide spotlight so that the apathetic majority might just get a clue about the world they live in and what action should be taken.
As many posters have already said in this thread (and many, many others) is that it's a problem that nobody really knows about and doesn't care about. This is one way to strike back without killing anyone, yet bring a spotlight onto the situation, not to directly change the laws.
Resorting to violence to bully the majority will (hopefully) get you a taste of your own medicine.
Yeah, take that USCG!
You were talking about how a small minority is abusing the process of law and intimidating the majority of Americans, right?
Problem is, calling "anonymous" an organization is... very much wrong. Organizations have some organization at the very least; all anonymous "operations" are just someone posting a website link on 4chan, and people participating about as much as they want. And doing pretty much whatever they want, with absolutely no control - or even a way to control 'em. Organizations have some kind of hierarchy or membership criteria - "anonymous" lacks both.
Yet within that anonymous cloud there can hide all sorts of many and varied hierarchical groups with motivation, dedication, and a desire to accomplish certain tasks. How would you know? I would liken it to the army planning an assault on a beach for example, during a storm when the enemy's radar is already confused with multiple contacts, real or not.
I can haz revolution?
"No! I can haz earn revolution!"
-Stephen Colbert
SGI runs Single System Image Linux systems with over 1000 cores, that's not the problem.
640 cores should be enough for anyone.
The 20-something mastermind behind the gang's operation has also been arrested in yesterday's raids...
Any "20-something" is hardly a mastermind of anything, except maybe WoW, and this proves it. At least the article didn't say the phrase "criminal mastermind." That would have royally cheesed me off and forced me to say even more derogatory things.
Then there's the added bonus that she's also protected from freezer burn.
Now I can finally patent my idea for flame-proof underwear.
I'll be not only safe but stylish with my woman's bra on my face and her matching panties on my head.
The argument could be made that anti-drug laws violate the individual states' constitutions even if the federal constitution stands mute on the issue. Little is said about those state constitutions that have a more direct and protective second amendment analogue, for example.
Besides, your statement does nothing to address the issue that even those states which have declared medical use of marijuana to be legal, it has not stopped the feds from prosecuting individuals under federal law, even though they are legally abiding by state drug laws.
I would submit that this is one of those unintended consequences regarding the idea that the feds and states are separate jurisdictions which have overlapping yet separate crimes and so therefore do not run afoul of any double jeopardy protections.
That's why you should read this. Not because it provides useful information to people on the tech team, but because people in the business of managing IT departments really take this stuff seriously. They will try to shoehorn the people they have into the stereotypes, archetypes, and roles they know about, and once they've assigned you to a part, you're going to be doing that part until you leave or the show ends. And if you don't fit one of the parts, they're going to consider you useless.
Seriously, I'm gonna forward this article to my boss and his boss so they can read it and then they'll truly understand why I've been calling myself the Magnum P.I. of the IT industry! I wonder what other 80's television tropes I can draw upon to secure myself a job for life...
Yeah, my previous comment notwithstanding, I read the whole thing too and I'm thinking she should have spent a few bucks on a Ghost Writer(TM). Her prose is absolutely horrid.
Jeff replied, "Then why can't you swallow?"
Jeff, buddy, I've been asking my wife the same thing for years.
Damn, where do I have to live to get that?
In the NOC?