In other countries, such as india, there's plenty of women and non-whites hacking on keyboards. In Europe, there's lots of women in computing. I'm sure in asia and japan there's plenty of women involved in tech industries, (and I'm willing to bet there's lots of asians) Can we stop assuming nothing happens outside of the US that's worth mentioning?
Positively no mention of such a feature. Also, the article cites that a certain lawmaker who has been on this warpath for a long time is doing the proposing:
The bill will be introduced by Senator Mark Leno, a Democrat representing San Francisco and neighboring towns, and George GascA3n, the district attorney for San Francisco. GascA3n has been spearheading a push by major law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. for more to be done to prevent smartphone theft.
I agree 100%. This sounds like one of those propositions that looks, on the surface, like it will stop theft and help the average consumer. But in reality, I'm sure it will have ways of getting around that will merely slow down thieves and make them smarter in the process, while at the same time providing a mass-kill-switch for Law Enforcement to use during riots and protests and other political situations.
Either way, we need to nip this in the bud immediately.
I've had a lot of cell phones, and have lost some once or twice. They've always been returned to me, by very nice people who I have thanked profusely. I say that if you can't keep your fist on your phone, why do you have one in the first place? If you can't keep your eyes out for unscrupulous peoples who might steal your electronics, why bother to buy them at all?
You don't want to know just how stupid *they* think we are.. And the really sad part?? *They* are absolutely right on a large percentage of the American people.. The ones who drink the koolaide that comes from BOTH parties.. Its becoming apparent that none of the media, better known now as the defacto US Department of Propaganda, is telling the truth.. oh sure, they tell *their* "version" of the "truth", but not the TRUTH.. We are well and truly screwed...
from entering the garbage dump, only to send them foraging in the streets where children actually play, this litigation seems to have only served to push the loud ads onto youtube and other internet video streaming sites. Thanks a lot!
Um. Why is the phrase "Windows Updates" anywhere on a page discussing a FLOSS alternative to a piece of software? Why would you use FLOSS software on Windows? All the benefits gone....
Where I'm from, this translates to roughly 12 cents worth of power. (Cheap hydroelectric, and rates are going up soon) It's still about 30-40 minutes of charge from a 120V outlet, which you could get arrested for if you steal it from a school apparently.
Anyone who thinks anyone is getting treated fairly in the "news" needs to research who owns the news outlets, who censors them, and who decides what it is people are told to think. Of course, anyone who has such a problem is certainly not reading slashdot.
When a logging company clearcuts an area, they put all of the branches and scraps of wood and piles of bark and needles/leaves that won't make good salable product into a pile called a slash pile. They light it on fire right where it is. Do they heat anything with it? No. Do they cook with it? No. Do they produce energy with it? No. It is all wasted. Huge billowing plumes of smoke that draw calls to the fire department are the only thing that it produces.
If you own hardware, and you employ people to watch after that hardware, the onus is on *YOU* the owner/employer to maintain access to that hardware, backups to admin accounts, passwords and so on.
For the three thousand reasons outlined in this body of comments, there's any number of reasons you can lose access to an employee, and if their knowledge of passwords is the fulcrum for your whole business model, well then sonny like the capitalist mantra goes, you deserve to go bankrupt, because you fucked yourself.
Once again, onus to maintain control of your owned hardware, yours. Not the judge, not the admin, not the police, not the gubberment. YOU.
And that's why Apple's OS nor Microsoft's will never be a threat to linux. Because the people who know "why linux?" have no price you could pay them to use a non-free non-open-sourced OS.
Well you have a biblical scripture in your signature so I'll not go into how things can elude you or why. But I think the idea of mixing such completely disparate notions is completely unreasonable, and to make sarcastic fun of the situation is completely appropriate. As the poster you are replying to said, there's no room for common sense in such laws.
Why did we need someone to throw himself over the coals and run away to seek asylum and cause international incidents to find out about this stuff happening in the US, but in Russia, it gets announced through media outlets and Olympic fever.
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Yes the solution *IS* obvious. It's called linux.
I think you mean "orders" not notes.
In other countries, such as india, there's plenty of women and non-whites hacking on keyboards. In Europe, there's lots of women in computing. I'm sure in asia and japan there's plenty of women involved in tech industries, (and I'm willing to bet there's lots of asians) Can we stop assuming nothing happens outside of the US that's worth mentioning?
The bill will be introduced by Senator Mark Leno, a Democrat representing San Francisco and neighboring towns, and George GascA3n, the district attorney for San Francisco. GascA3n has been spearheading a push by major law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. for more to be done to prevent smartphone theft.
I agree 100%. This sounds like one of those propositions that looks, on the surface, like it will stop theft and help the average consumer. But in reality, I'm sure it will have ways of getting around that will merely slow down thieves and make them smarter in the process, while at the same time providing a mass-kill-switch for Law Enforcement to use during riots and protests and other political situations.
Either way, we need to nip this in the bud immediately.
I've had a lot of cell phones, and have lost some once or twice. They've always been returned to me, by very nice people who I have thanked profusely. I say that if you can't keep your fist on your phone, why do you have one in the first place? If you can't keep your eyes out for unscrupulous peoples who might steal your electronics, why bother to buy them at all?
... how stupid do they think we are?
You don't want to know just how stupid *they* think we are.. And the really sad part?? *They* are absolutely right on a large percentage of the American people.. The ones who drink the koolaide that comes from BOTH parties.. Its becoming apparent that none of the media, better known now as the defacto US Department of Propaganda, is telling the truth.. oh sure, they tell *their* "version" of the "truth", but not the TRUTH.. We are well and truly screwed...
That's Ministry of Truth to you pleb.
Very.... VERY stupid. It's working too, so what does that tell you about most people?
Educate yourself:
http://www.craphound.com/content/download/
*github, and caused it to become a story on slashdot! Way to sweep that one under the rug...
Here's an idea: stop bombing other countries and maybe they'll stop wanting to commit acts of terrorism against citizens of the US?
from entering the garbage dump, only to send them foraging in the streets where children actually play, this litigation seems to have only served to push the loud ads onto youtube and other internet video streaming sites. Thanks a lot!
Um. Why is the phrase "Windows Updates" anywhere on a page discussing a FLOSS alternative to a piece of software? Why would you use FLOSS software on Windows? All the benefits gone....
Where I'm from, this translates to roughly 12 cents worth of power. (Cheap hydroelectric, and rates are going up soon) It's still about 30-40 minutes of charge from a 120V outlet, which you could get arrested for if you steal it from a school apparently.
Sorry, it's 1100 watt-hours, 1.1kWh, which is only 3.96MJ, not gigajoules.
Your unitary algebra is totally fucked.
1100kWh translates to 3 960 000 000 joules
Anyone who thinks anyone is getting treated fairly in the "news" needs to research who owns the news outlets, who censors them, and who decides what it is people are told to think. Of course, anyone who has such a problem is certainly not reading slashdot.
When a logging company clearcuts an area, they put all of the branches and scraps of wood and piles of bark and needles/leaves that won't make good salable product into a pile called a slash pile. They light it on fire right where it is. Do they heat anything with it? No. Do they cook with it? No. Do they produce energy with it? No. It is all wasted. Huge billowing plumes of smoke that draw calls to the fire department are the only thing that it produces.
If you own hardware, and you employ people to watch after that hardware, the onus is on *YOU* the owner/employer to maintain access to that hardware, backups to admin accounts, passwords and so on.
For the three thousand reasons outlined in this body of comments, there's any number of reasons you can lose access to an employee, and if their knowledge of passwords is the fulcrum for your whole business model, well then sonny like the capitalist mantra goes, you deserve to go bankrupt, because you fucked yourself.
Once again, onus to maintain control of your owned hardware, yours. Not the judge, not the admin, not the police, not the gubberment. YOU.
Either that or the drug thing is to push public opinion towards being in favor of beheadings once again.
Seriously? On Slashdot? There are people who read slashdot don't know this? I don't believe you. You're tricking me right?
And that's why Apple's OS nor Microsoft's will never be a threat to linux. Because the people who know "why linux?" have no price you could pay them to use a non-free non-open-sourced OS.
Politics AND ignorance working together??? Now we're all doomed.
Well you have a biblical scripture in your signature so I'll not go into how things can elude you or why. But I think the idea of mixing such completely disparate notions is completely unreasonable, and to make sarcastic fun of the situation is completely appropriate. As the poster you are replying to said, there's no room for common sense in such laws.
Then, when you finally toss some crumbs to the monkeys in your cage, they all think it's a reward, and refuse to look any gift horses in the mouth.
Why did we need someone to throw himself over the coals and run away to seek asylum and cause international incidents to find out about this stuff happening in the US, but in Russia, it gets announced through media outlets and Olympic fever.