So you *unchecked all* the boxes for what apps (games, etc) are permitted to access? If no, then much of your Facebook information is available to others regardless of your other privacy settings.
In addition, even with all the boxes unchecked, apps can *still access* portions of one's profile, and often additional information too, especially if a friend (or even possibly a friend of a friend) is using the same app you are.
Bottom line is most everything, including wall posts and gallery images, in effect, on Facebook is public. There's no real privacy there, and to think otherwise is folly.
What if the planet is already (or on the near verge of) getting colder?
Personally, I'm far more concerned about global cooling than global warming.
Global warming, on the whole, is more favorable to growing food / living things. Anyone doubting that need only read up on the effects of the various ice ages in the relatively extremely recent geological past. Even a very minor cooling period, such as the "little ice age" in the mid 1600s, while very minimal, had horrendous, adverse effects for humans...
Even if the units are coming off the exact same production line (some factories, reportedly, occasionally run extra shifts for counterfeiters), some of the components used may be rejects (ie. functional, but outside of spec; think chip fabs) from the legitimate production run; units not tested as rigorously with minimal quality control.
With that said, even if the unauthorized units are exactly identical, which in the real world is unlikely to the be the case as I've explained above, in regards to the law, it's still counterfeiting.
And with good behavior, it could be low as ~25 months.
IMHO, a tad over 2 years prison sentence is a relatively *small* risk, compared to say illicit drug sales, for huge financial rewards... this may actually *encourage* some to get into selling counterfeit electronics.
However, the real purpose of the proposed log retention requirement, presumably, is to collect personal data of all kinds for various government uses; child porn is just a convenient, easy excuse to get it enacted.
Speaking of "climate evangelist", there are many on Slashdot.
Questioning global warming / climate change is a near sure way to get modded down.
Many don't want to believe that the environment is far bigger than us - not to say humans don't influence it, because we do, but much of the effect is from outside forces outside of human control, in particular, the Sun.
How else does one explain global warming / cooling periods in the past long before modern civilization?
Or more immediate, how come, according to some reports, Mars may getting warmer!
How could that be... unless it's likely the Sun doing it - and if so, that would likely explain much of the warming* here on Earth.
* there's scientific debate on what the extent of warming there is, if any; could be staying about the same or even getting colder.
Combine GPS with Google Maps (which includes details of millions of businesses) along with back-doors built into most, if not practically all, cell phones and the government can practically do this now on a selective basis.
And it's quite conceivable, that in such a situation, the government could utilize all cell phones in the near vicinity to eavesdrop too, so even if the target's phone was not responding / not picking up all the conversation / image detail, one or more other cell phones nearby possibly could.
Deep packet inspection for URL not required, in theory, if the U.S. government mandates both ISPs *and* websites to maintain logs.
That may be how they'll rope websites, and other types of internet services for that matter, into complying with log retention.
Another route, though I've never seen it mentioned in context to log retention laws, is to require web browsers to log the information in tamper-resistant (think DRM) hidden files. MSIE, in a matter of speaking, already does with index.dat files (some suggest their real purpose is, in large part, to help law enforcement), which the regular computer user has no clue of, let alone know how to get rid of, since Windows makes it difficult to delete them.
Pikes Peak would be a very bad place to experience unintended acceleration / breaking issues.
In regards to GPS, I hope it doesn't become relied upon in mass-production vehicles - already it's bad enough how some drivers over-rely on GPS for directions with nasty consequences when the map data doesn't reflect reality, such as a gravel roads, dead ends, bridges out, etc.
Speed limits, especially in the U.S., often are set too low, and hence many folks treat it as the minimum speed they should be going; drive with the flow of traffic.
In regards to your observations about motorists catching up seemingly quickly, some drivers purposely speed up when they see a bike to more quickly pass.
On the loan, yes. But you're overlooking what is, in many locales, the fastest growing homeowner expense, property taxes.
So while your fixed rate mortgage payment on the asset will stay the same, don't expect the same for property taxes.
There are many people paying over of 30%, in some instances upwards of 50%, in addition to the mortgage rate they were originally quoted.
For example, an 6% fixed rate loan for a home at $200,000, assuming 10% down, would come out to around $1100 monthly payment. Sounds pretty good. But in some places, property taxes on a property of that amount could easily top $6000 per year ($500+ per month!). More to the point, property taxes is often a large expense and likely to greatly increase over time faster than inflation.
And to make matters worse, especially for houses under homeowner associations, special assessments, which are often not limited by law - that is to say, the roofs need to be replaced, road replacement, sewer repairs, etc can easily run upwards $10,000 per housing unit - this not theoretical either... I've known several people caught in such a situation and having to quickly borrow large sums of money to pay it. Special assessments are not limited to just home owner associations, though more common with them, in that many municipalities will require the homeowner to pay for sidewalks/curbs, sewer / water line installation/replacement, etc.
In short, don't automatically assume real estate is the safe place to be in an inflationary environment, because it may not be unless one buys in an area with low property taxes and is relatively certain they won't increase much nor get hit with special assessments.
The U.S. job situation is made further worse by population growth, which is currently running around 1% annually in the U.S. (~3 million per year). After adjusting for deaths and retires, that necessitates, on average, an additional 100,000 - 150,000 new jobs to be created each month just to stay even.
Or to put it another way, in the 00s decade, there was roughly zero net job growth - there are about as many jobs today as back in 2000, but the U.S. population has grown by about 25+ million in that same time. Many of the jobs that exist today tend to pay less, when adjusted for inflation, than jobs did back 10 years ago.
And next passengers will be forbidden from bringing in any food. The airlines would love such a restriction, similar to that of most movie theaters and sports venues, to sell overpriced food to a captive audience.
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Not to say the results of this particular study are necessarily bogus, but sure makes one wonder.
Big pharma dislikes "natural", as in often unpatentable, treatments; discourages their use.
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Another NY Times article that I won't be reading.
The concept of "neutrality" is best applied to things that tend to be natural monopolies, such as infrastructure, including high-speed internet connectivity.
People have tried blowing up / cutting high-tension power towers, but it seems that either they're stopped part way through their plan, or simply never follow-through (ie. cutting one or more of the tower supports, but failing to taking down the line).
Very often attacks are attempted at night, but that's a bad time, since load is often low. One would need to wait until mid afternoon on a very high load day (even more ideally when some major lines are down for maintenance) - that takes advanced planning and good luck.
Furthermore, cutting lines, alone, probably wouldn't be enough to cause a cascade. One would very likely need to bypass / overwhelm (ie. in the 2003 east coast black out some of the monitoring computers were unresponsive due to a worm going around) some of the safety systems, as well, for a cascade failure to occur.
On a related note, detonating a nuclear device high in the atmosphere at the right location would likely do it, but that would be extremely challenging - more likely, a terrorist with a nuke, probably of very low yield, would most likely detonate it at ground level, which would minimize EMP effects.
CraigsList does it right. Very simple interface, and displays fast and reliably.
Shame even Slashdot doesn't. I'm using classic index, and that's greatly helped, but still see little "x"s, such as next to most every menu item on the right hand side - on my browser, for example, "Prefs" is followed by a space and "x".
I don't understand what all the Javascript and other extra nonsense in most sites (some noteable exceptions are interactive apps, such as Google Maps, which works amazingly well) is needed for other than glitz; being web 2.0, whatever that means - to me it means, more often than not, broken!
What you describe is what credit unions are supposed to be. The reality for many of them is very different.
Many credit unions spend a bundle on advertising, including in public schools, and charge numerous fees much like for-profit banks do.
A prime example is Discovery Federal Credit Union in Berks County Pennsylvania - they aggressively advertise, charge lots of fees ( https://www.discoveryfcu.org/disclosure-main.html ), and even bought naming rights to the Wilson *public high school* gymnasium.
In regards to the malware CDs, they are in a sense, though not intended as that by the theives, a great training tool on computer security; test of how well their computer policy is followed, including by high-level management, who often feel none of the policies apply to them; very costly mistake in the computer realm.
All this talk about this and that going "green" is just puff; no real meaning beyond getting PR and more funding.
I don't see how any rocket can be considered "green" considering most all of the environmental impact is not from firing the rocket, but is from building it.
Ending all wars and stabilizing human population would go far further towards safeguarding the environment than all these feel-good "green" initiatives.
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So you *unchecked all* the boxes for what apps (games, etc) are permitted to access? If no, then much of your Facebook information is available to others regardless of your other privacy settings.
In addition, even with all the boxes unchecked, apps can *still access* portions of one's profile, and often additional information too, especially if a friend (or even possibly a friend of a friend) is using the same app you are.
Bottom line is most everything, including wall posts and gallery images, in effect, on Facebook is public. There's no real privacy there, and to think otherwise is folly.
Ron
Nah, the government will just contract that stuff out to the likes of Halliburton and Xe (formerly Blackwater).
Ron
What if the planet is already (or on the near verge of) getting colder?
Personally, I'm far more concerned about global cooling than global warming.
Global warming, on the whole, is more favorable to growing food / living things. Anyone doubting that need only read up on the effects of the various ice ages in the relatively extremely recent geological past. Even a very minor cooling period, such as the "little ice age" in the mid 1600s, while very minimal, had horrendous, adverse effects for humans...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
The "climate change" folks seeking to cool the earth should be wary - nature may respond with far more cooling than they'd bargained for!
Ron
And with better picture quality, as in Hi-Def 3D.
Ron
"Older" as meaning before mid-1970s.
Even those late 70s / early 80s automobiles that seem sans of computers very likely have at least one or more to help meet emission requirements.
Ron
Even if the units are coming off the exact same production line (some factories, reportedly, occasionally run extra shifts for counterfeiters), some of the components used may be rejects (ie. functional, but outside of spec; think chip fabs) from the legitimate production run; units not tested as rigorously with minimal quality control.
With that said, even if the unauthorized units are exactly identical, which in the real world is unlikely to the be the case as I've explained above, in regards to the law, it's still counterfeiting.
Ron
And with good behavior, it could be low as ~25 months.
IMHO, a tad over 2 years prison sentence is a relatively *small* risk, compared to say illicit drug sales, for huge financial rewards ... this may actually *encourage* some to get into selling counterfeit electronics.
Ron
Update - it's been modding back up. Thanks!
Ron
Wow, that was fast - already modded down.
Well that basically reiterates my point.
Ron
Excellent point.
However, the real purpose of the proposed log retention requirement, presumably, is to collect personal data of all kinds for various government uses; child porn is just a convenient, easy excuse to get it enacted.
Ron
Speaking of "climate evangelist", there are many on Slashdot.
Questioning global warming / climate change is a near sure way to get modded down.
Many don't want to believe that the environment is far bigger than us - not to say humans don't influence it, because we do, but much of the effect is from outside forces outside of human control, in particular, the Sun.
How else does one explain global warming / cooling periods in the past long before modern civilization?
Or more immediate, how come, according to some reports, Mars may getting warmer!
How could that be ... unless it's likely the Sun doing it - and if so, that would likely explain much of the warming* here on Earth.
* there's scientific debate on what the extent of warming there is, if any; could be staying about the same or even getting colder.
Ron
Combine GPS with Google Maps (which includes details of millions of businesses) along with back-doors built into most, if not practically all, cell phones and the government can practically do this now on a selective basis.
And it's quite conceivable, that in such a situation, the government could utilize all cell phones in the near vicinity to eavesdrop too, so even if the target's phone was not responding / not picking up all the conversation / image detail, one or more other cell phones nearby possibly could.
Ron
Deep packet inspection for URL not required, in theory, if the U.S. government mandates both ISPs *and* websites to maintain logs.
That may be how they'll rope websites, and other types of internet services for that matter, into complying with log retention.
Another route, though I've never seen it mentioned in context to log retention laws, is to require web browsers to log the information in tamper-resistant (think DRM) hidden files. MSIE, in a matter of speaking, already does with index.dat files (some suggest their real purpose is, in large part, to help law enforcement), which the regular computer user has no clue of, let alone know how to get rid of, since Windows makes it difficult to delete them.
Ron
Pikes Peak would be a very bad place to experience unintended acceleration / breaking issues.
In regards to GPS, I hope it doesn't become relied upon in mass-production vehicles - already it's bad enough how some drivers over-rely on GPS for directions with nasty consequences when the map data doesn't reflect reality, such as a gravel roads, dead ends, bridges out, etc.
Ron
Speed limits, especially in the U.S., often are set too low, and hence many folks treat it as the minimum speed they should be going; drive with the flow of traffic.
In regards to your observations about motorists catching up seemingly quickly, some drivers purposely speed up when they see a bike to more quickly pass.
Ron
On the loan, yes. But you're overlooking what is, in many locales, the fastest growing homeowner expense, property taxes.
So while your fixed rate mortgage payment on the asset will stay the same, don't expect the same for property taxes.
There are many people paying over of 30%, in some instances upwards of 50%, in addition to the mortgage rate they were originally quoted.
For example, an 6% fixed rate loan for a home at $200,000, assuming 10% down, would come out to around $1100 monthly payment. Sounds pretty good. But in some places, property taxes on a property of that amount could easily top $6000 per year ($500+ per month!). More to the point, property taxes is often a large expense and likely to greatly increase over time faster than inflation.
And to make matters worse, especially for houses under homeowner associations, special assessments, which are often not limited by law - that is to say, the roofs need to be replaced, road replacement, sewer repairs, etc can easily run upwards $10,000 per housing unit - this not theoretical either ... I've known several people caught in such a situation and having to quickly borrow large sums of money to pay it. Special assessments are not limited to just home owner associations, though more common with them, in that many municipalities will require the homeowner to pay for sidewalks/curbs, sewer / water line installation/replacement, etc.
In short, don't automatically assume real estate is the safe place to be in an inflationary environment, because it may not be unless one buys in an area with low property taxes and is relatively certain they won't increase much nor get hit with special assessments.
Ron
The U.S. job situation is made further worse by population growth, which is currently running around 1% annually in the U.S. (~3 million per year). After adjusting for deaths and retires, that necessitates, on average, an additional 100,000 - 150,000 new jobs to be created each month just to stay even.
Or to put it another way, in the 00s decade, there was roughly zero net job growth - there are about as many jobs today as back in 2000, but the U.S. population has grown by about 25+ million in that same time. Many of the jobs that exist today tend to pay less, when adjusted for inflation, than jobs did back 10 years ago.
Ron
And next passengers will be forbidden from bringing in any food. The airlines would love such a restriction, similar to that of most movie theaters and sports venues, to sell overpriced food to a captive audience.
Not to say the results of this particular study are necessarily bogus, but sure makes one wonder.
Big pharma dislikes "natural", as in often unpatentable, treatments; discourages their use.
Ron
Another NY Times article that I won't be reading.
The concept of "neutrality" is best applied to things that tend to be natural monopolies, such as infrastructure, including high-speed internet connectivity.
Has President Obama and other high-level politicians, powerful elites, etc, along with their families, taken the H1N1 vaccine?
If no, there's the answer right there regarding its safety.
Ron
People have tried blowing up / cutting high-tension power towers, but it seems that either they're stopped part way through their plan, or simply never follow-through (ie. cutting one or more of the tower supports, but failing to taking down the line).
Very often attacks are attempted at night, but that's a bad time, since load is often low. One would need to wait until mid afternoon on a very high load day (even more ideally when some major lines are down for maintenance) - that takes advanced planning and good luck.
Furthermore, cutting lines, alone, probably wouldn't be enough to cause a cascade. One would very likely need to bypass / overwhelm (ie. in the 2003 east coast black out some of the monitoring computers were unresponsive due to a worm going around) some of the safety systems, as well, for a cascade failure to occur.
On a related note, detonating a nuclear device high in the atmosphere at the right location would likely do it, but that would be extremely challenging - more likely, a terrorist with a nuke, probably of very low yield, would most likely detonate it at ground level, which would minimize EMP effects.
Ron
CraigsList does it right. Very simple interface, and displays fast and reliably.
Shame even Slashdot doesn't. I'm using classic index, and that's greatly helped, but still see little "x"s, such as next to most every menu item on the right hand side - on my browser, for example, "Prefs" is followed by a space and "x".
I don't understand what all the Javascript and other extra nonsense in most sites (some noteable exceptions are interactive apps, such as Google Maps, which works amazingly well) is needed for other than glitz; being web 2.0, whatever that means - to me it means, more often than not, broken!
Ron
What you describe is what credit unions are supposed to be. The reality for many of them is very different.
Many credit unions spend a bundle on advertising, including in public schools, and charge numerous fees much like for-profit banks do.
A prime example is Discovery Federal Credit Union in Berks County Pennsylvania - they aggressively advertise, charge lots of fees ( https://www.discoveryfcu.org/disclosure-main.html ), and even bought naming rights to the Wilson *public high school* gymnasium.
In regards to the malware CDs, they are in a sense, though not intended as that by the theives, a great training tool on computer security; test of how well their computer policy is followed, including by high-level management, who often feel none of the policies apply to them; very costly mistake in the computer realm.
Ron
All this talk about this and that going "green" is just puff; no real meaning beyond getting PR and more funding.
I don't see how any rocket can be considered "green" considering most all of the environmental impact is not from firing the rocket, but is from building it.
Ending all wars and stabilizing human population would go far further towards safeguarding the environment than all these feel-good "green" initiatives.
Ron