I appreciate the humour in your comment, but just can't help myself from posting this. Because what has been done with a court order is frightening enough:
From the ever entertaining and informative Ken White at Popehat.com
1. Eckert's abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.
2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert's anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
4. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
5. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
6. Doctors penetrated Eckert's anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.
8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert's anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found.
I didn't have time to read the article. What did he do? Download an MP3?
...what commuters would be doing if a computer handled the driving: More than one-in-four would text/talk with friends; 21% would read; 10% would sleep; 8% would watch movies; 7% would play games; and 7% would work. The rest of those surveyed said they'd just watch the scenery blow by."
So essentially the same as what most of them are doing now, based on casual observations.
Yes, it is. You may have some moral justification, but it can still be a crime. In the US, telling the truth about intelligence techniques to real and potential enemies is a crime, even if you also tell the public. Snowden broke the law, and is now a criminal evading law enforcement, but he satisfied his own conscience.
Why is it that truth about a crime is a bigger crime than the original crime itself?
Here's a thought. Anyone wanting this crap, should start their own internet from scratch with their filthy DRM. Leave our internet alone. We've got enough stuff on the internet that doesn't work, without having people actually engineering it to not work.
On the point of incompetent management. The London Underground is spread out all over London. Workers are spread out all over London. It would take hundreds of supervisors running around station to station all day checking on people to ensure they are actually there doing their job. The London Underground is not a factory floor.
I know a few people who would like to work for you, knowing that just being there is more important than actually doing anything.
Hourly wage earners have their hours tracked world over. It is human nature to want to screw the system. This system just happens to be much harder to screw.
Not really... if workers realize that it is more important to clock in and out at the appropriate time than to do a good job, then that is probably what you are going to get. So it might be harder to appear to be there when you aren't, but it doesn't mean the system won't be screwed. Especially if they don't like it. I'm not saying it's right, but people who want to screw the system will, and this does nothing to stop that.
Just because someone is magically efficient doesn't mean they get to knock off an hour early and have a friend sign them out.
Why not? Are they paying for time? Or clean tubes? Is the guy that's there all day, maybe doing a shitty job, more valuable than the guy who gets the job done quickly?
The job being done well is the metric that needs to be evaluated, not the time spent hanging out at work. It's just easier to evaluate numbers (the computer said everyone was there all day), than to evaluate the actual job. Hey, I checked it out, and the tubes are clean.
The article offers £51 billion as an estimate for the cost of illegal downloading to the music, film, and software industry, a figure they say will triple by 2015."
I think that is wrong... pretty sure the number they were looking for was £51,000,000 trillion billion bazillion... and it will certainly more than triple... with crappy draconian new laws and whatnot, it will be more like 10x.
Except that they've already confirmed that they're not storing your actual fingerprint.
Yes, and we also know the NSA isn't spying on anyone, and certainly not gathering any information on American citizens... blah blah blah... they told us so.
The smartphone has been used as a tracking device for some time now. With fingerprint reading technology, it will be easier to ensure who you are tracking is who you think it is.
If a spy doesn't want to take too much risk, he can always abort mission and send the bluprints of a vacuum cleaner back to headquarters instead. Nobody will figure out what it means.
An expert in tanking companies at the helm of Microsoft? I can't wait.
Yeah, ummm... I'm not sure if "a 62 percent decline" is good enough to be MS material. I think they should hold out for someone with at least a 75% decline under their belt.
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The Mars One Project has selected 1058 second round candidates out of more than 200 000 applicants... the lucky few get a one way trip to Mars.
So... out of 200,000 applicants, apparently 1058 were telephone sanitizers.
I can here the Safeway manager now. You're not only fired, you're suspended too! Take that smart ass!
I appreciate the humour in your comment, but just can't help myself from posting this. Because what has been done with a court order is frightening enough:
From the ever entertaining and informative Ken White at Popehat.com
I didn't have time to read the article. What did he do? Download an MP3?
Wire transfers are largely an oddity of the USA. Most of the rest of the world doesn't use wire transfers anyway.
Don't forget about Nigerian Princes...
[Warner Brothers]...said it was no big deal because it was all done by a computer.
Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't a lot of people receiving extra harsh punishments lately, because it was done with a computer???
...what commuters would be doing if a computer handled the driving: More than one-in-four would text/talk with friends; 21% would read; 10% would sleep; 8% would watch movies; 7% would play games; and 7% would work. The rest of those surveyed said they'd just watch the scenery blow by."
So essentially the same as what most of them are doing now, based on casual observations.
To tell the truth is not a crime.
Yes, it is. You may have some moral justification, but it can still be a crime. In the US, telling the truth about intelligence techniques to real and potential enemies is a crime, even if you also tell the public. Snowden broke the law, and is now a criminal evading law enforcement, but he satisfied his own conscience.
Why is it that truth about a crime is a bigger crime than the original crime itself?
Me fail English? That's unpossible. - Ralph Wiggum
More output than expected? You mean like "Castle Bravo"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo
Microsoft Exec Says Xbox One Kinect Is Not Built For Advertising
Three letters. NSA.
Here's a thought. Anyone wanting this crap, should start their own internet from scratch with their filthy DRM. Leave our internet alone. We've got enough stuff on the internet that doesn't work, without having people actually engineering it to not work.
Large white space on either side is presumably to cater to vertically orientated crappy ass tablets and phones. Just like Windows 8.
Does it fix the most annoying thing about Slashdot (and I don't mean idiot posters)? The auto refresh!
I don't have a vestibular disorder, but Apple products have always made me sick. Or is it annoyed? Yeah, I think that's the word I am looking for.
citizens whose medical records are handed over to a pharmacy — or any other third-party — have 'no expectation of privacy' for that information.
So if I show my private bits to my wife (a third party), then as far as the DEA is concerned, they (and anyone else?) can look at my junk too?
It sounds like essentially they are saying that if you share anything with anyone else, then obviously you mean to share it with everyone else? WTF?!?
On the point of incompetent management. The London Underground is spread out all over London. Workers are spread out all over London. It would take hundreds of supervisors running around station to station all day checking on people to ensure they are actually there doing their job. The London Underground is not a factory floor.
I know a few people who would like to work for you, knowing that just being there is more important than actually doing anything.
Hourly wage earners have their hours tracked world over. It is human nature to want to screw the system. This system just happens to be much harder to screw.
Not really... if workers realize that it is more important to clock in and out at the appropriate time than to do a good job, then that is probably what you are going to get. So it might be harder to appear to be there when you aren't, but it doesn't mean the system won't be screwed. Especially if they don't like it. I'm not saying it's right, but people who want to screw the system will, and this does nothing to stop that.
Just because someone is magically efficient doesn't mean they get to knock off an hour early and have a friend sign them out.
Why not? Are they paying for time? Or clean tubes? Is the guy that's there all day, maybe doing a shitty job, more valuable than the guy who gets the job done quickly?
The job being done well is the metric that needs to be evaluated, not the time spent hanging out at work. It's just easier to evaluate numbers (the computer said everyone was there all day), than to evaluate the actual job. Hey, I checked it out, and the tubes are clean.
The article offers £51 billion as an estimate for the cost of illegal downloading to the music, film, and software industry, a figure they say will triple by 2015."
I think that is wrong... pretty sure the number they were looking for was £51,000,000 trillion billion bazillion... and it will certainly more than triple... with crappy draconian new laws and whatnot, it will be more like 10x.
Except that they've already confirmed that they're not storing your actual fingerprint.
Yes, and we also know the NSA isn't spying on anyone, and certainly not gathering any information on American citizens... blah blah blah... they told us so.
The smartphone has been used as a tracking device for some time now. With fingerprint reading technology, it will be easier to ensure who you are tracking is who you think it is.
If a spy doesn't want to take too much risk, he can always abort mission and send the bluprints of a vacuum cleaner back to headquarters instead. Nobody will figure out what it means.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's vacuum cleaner blueprints?
I'll take the pirate stuff any day of the week, because the groups that do it are small enough that reputation matters; It's their only currency.
Yeah, because the *reputation* of the software companies doesn't matter at all. (roll eyes)
Obviously you aren't familiar with EA.
Hacking websites = terrorism now ?
See the danger of such a slippery slope ? The government can't see it. They're dead serious. Hacking websites = terrorism. It boggles the mind.
Frankly, what the U.S. government does on a daily basis is far more terrifying than anything some script kiddies hijacking DNS entries could do.
Captcha: encroach
This week it's hacking a website.
Next week it's: "You broke a website's TOS! Terrorist! Off to Gitmo with you!"
An expert in tanking companies at the helm of Microsoft? I can't wait.
Yeah, ummm... I'm not sure if "a 62 percent decline" is good enough to be MS material. I think they should hold out for someone with at least a 75% decline under their belt.
defending the use of lead ammunition against scientists and environmental organizations
I guess that's one way to silence you opposition, but I don't think that's acceptable behavior myself, but what do you expect from a gun lobby?