This is slashdot so I haven't read the article or the bill but if you read that far and didn't see anything about that it very well could not be in there.
And that's kinda frightening.
It's ok, your representatives in the House likely didn't read it either.
Read that history of how the SS operated = DHS, different letters same name, same concept. report your friends, neighbors to advance yourself in the party (tea party in this case)
The Tea Party (the original movement, not the FOX News bandwagon/smokescreen) is as opposed to these sorts of abuses of privacy as are most of the rest of Slashdot's posters. Their entire premise is the reigning in of a government out of control.
I believe you may have intended to refer to the Democratic Party, the party currently in power and whose president and congress is nominally controlling the DHS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc Fast forward to about 3/4's through. An experienced cop admitting that when he followed a car long enough he could make a legal stop because at some point everyone makes a mistake. (I presume feeling nervous that a cop has been following you the last 8 blocks also doesn't help one's situation.)
True. If this happens to you, pull over and walk away from the car as soon as possible before you do commit that violation.
..that I left that sinking ship (Facebook) a long time ago. It wasn't easy (litterally), but worth it.
This is what I wanted to post to say. I left after the second or third most recent privacy fiasco back - can't recall how many there have been since then, but it's no longer of any concern to me!
For what it's worth, this latest debacle is far more alarming to me than whichever one prompted me to delete my account in the first place.
I have to click an empty space in the directory, to 'select it', first. When I use the crumbtrail to navigate to a parent directory, it automatically selects the child directory I just came from. When I click OK does it pick the current directory, or the selected directory? Who knows. When I open the file picker later it always opens in the parent directory of the previously picked one. Why in the parent?
There are many usability problems with the current file picker.
This exactly describes my main beef with the Gnome file chooser. It's ridiculously awkward when actually working with file-intensive applications.
Out of curiousity, what issues were you having with KDE 4.2 on Kubuntu? I've had no problem that wasn't shared with Gnome (PulseAudio, I'm looking at you.)
4.1 was noticeably buggier, and I didn't use it for long. 4.0 I didn't dare try, because I read the reviews.
You can custom order any kind of hardware you want on a bare bones no-OS, linux-OS or windows-OS notebook from smaller OEMs like powernotebooks.com. They are building on the same chassis used by Dell, HP, etc and offer industry standard warranties and support. This is a good way to get gaming/Linux hardware for a laptop platform as you can get "real" video cards, without shelling out 3-4 large for a big name gaming laptop.
Mostly I think GP is referring to your drawing a distinction between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party; no such distinction is any longer apparent to many of us.
I'll end this with a quote from a bleeding-heart liberal communist:
I'm sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we're Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.
Seeing you quote this affirms my belief that the real benefit of seeing TFA's variety of blatant fascism continued under a Democratic Party administration, is that it will wake up many more Conservatives to the fact that their interests are not being represented by the Federal Government, no matter which corporate party is in office.
As others have posted, the inclusion of Anonymous in TFA is likely a nod to powerful Scientologists who have influenced the priorities of our new, ever-expanding security state.
(Recently, Anonymous led a rather successful campaign involving spontaneous street protests against Scientology.)
And this is why the Obama win was such a good thing for the country in the long run.
When right-wing partisans are inconvenienced, annoyed and downright pissed off by the Obama administration displaying the exact same behavior that irked the lefties when it came from the Bush-Cheney administration (rampant taxation, deficit spending, elective wars, loss of civil liberties), these conservative folks may come to realize (as many on the left did in the past administration) that NEITHER major party has had their interests in mind for some time now.
To put it another way, the other shoe is dropping.
At this point we the people should finally be able to drop the distractions/partisanship, and set aside our petty differences in favor of real solutions to the problems facing the nation, the states and our cities.
The fact that you and HikingStick have not yet been molested for First Amendment activities doesn't comfort the hundreds of thousands of citizens who have been demonstrably, unjustly targetted by the new security apparati in this decade.
You may have missed the part where during the last year or so, a large number of "fusion centers" have been set up across the nation as public-private partnerships between DHS and local governments/business leaders, to share information (spying) and to better secure/control industrial and civic affairs. Do a web search, this is not secret information.
It's a crime for the reason many things are crimes here: The ability to conduct Selective Enforcement. If a kid with baggy pants and a hoodie jaywalks, the cops can stop him and give him the perp treatment. If his grandma jaywalks, she's not going to get any attention from the cops.
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You joke, but a whole lot of people take it further, and consider the collection of blood and urine by the State to be borderline Satanic.
There's even a song about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIv5pBLTJ7Y
This is slashdot so I haven't read the article or the bill but if you read that far and didn't see anything about that it very well could not be in there.
And that's kinda frightening.
It's ok, your representatives in the House likely didn't read it either.
Read that history of how the SS operated = DHS, different letters same name, same concept. report your friends, neighbors to advance yourself in the party (tea party in this case)
The Tea Party (the original movement, not the FOX News bandwagon/smokescreen) is as opposed to these sorts of abuses of privacy as are most of the rest of Slashdot's posters. Their entire premise is the reigning in of a government out of control.
I believe you may have intended to refer to the Democratic Party, the party currently in power and whose president and congress is nominally controlling the DHS.
TFA describes WoW as "PC-only". I think he might have meant "PC hardware-only", since the game's been available for Macintosh since launch.
This shouldn't be a real problem, because normal users don't type URLs, except into Google/Yahoo/Yandex/Baidu/etc.
If you have doubts, just watch any non-software geek use a web browser for 30 seconds. The search field is the new location bar.
Basically Windows Media Center + Netflix + Hulu gives this functionality (with interstitial advertisement of course).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc Fast forward to about 3/4's through. An experienced cop admitting that when he followed a car long enough he could make a legal stop because at some point everyone makes a mistake. (I presume feeling nervous that a cop has been following you the last 8 blocks also doesn't help one's situation.)
True. If this happens to you, pull over and walk away from the car as soon as possible before you do commit that violation.
..that I left that sinking ship (Facebook) a long time ago. It wasn't easy (litterally), but worth it.
This is what I wanted to post to say. I left after the second or third most recent privacy fiasco back - can't recall how many there have been since then, but it's no longer of any concern to me!
For what it's worth, this latest debacle is far more alarming to me than whichever one prompted me to delete my account in the first place.
This is pretty good as Lovecraft fan fiction goes. I'm reminded of a very short piece I wrote a long time ago:
http://www.everything2.com/title/Ye+Old+Lovecraftian+Bake+Shoppe
guest@xkcd:/$ man woman
Oh, I'm sure you can figure it out.
By posting while logged in - duh
I have to click an empty space in the directory, to 'select it', first. When I use the crumbtrail to navigate to a parent directory, it automatically selects the child directory I just came from. When I click OK does it pick the current directory, or the selected directory? Who knows. When I open the file picker later it always opens in the parent directory of the previously picked one. Why in the parent?
There are many usability problems with the current file picker.
This exactly describes my main beef with the Gnome file chooser. It's ridiculously awkward when actually working with file-intensive applications.
"shitty-cashew"? What??
Out of curiousity, what issues were you having with KDE 4.2 on Kubuntu? I've had no problem that wasn't shared with Gnome (PulseAudio, I'm looking at you.)
4.1 was noticeably buggier, and I didn't use it for long. 4.0 I didn't dare try, because I read the reviews.
You can custom order any kind of hardware you want on a bare bones no-OS, linux-OS or windows-OS notebook from smaller OEMs like powernotebooks.com. They are building on the same chassis used by Dell, HP, etc and offer industry standard warranties and support. This is a good way to get gaming/Linux hardware for a laptop platform as you can get "real" video cards, without shelling out 3-4 large for a big name gaming laptop.
They're stupid enough to put anything to do with "Anonymous" on Teh Lists, though, because the Scientologists told them to do it.
Mostly I think GP is referring to your drawing a distinction between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party; no such distinction is any longer apparent to many of us.
This behavior is not new on their part, so many of us now resort to jokes to dull the pain.
I'll end this with a quote from a bleeding-heart liberal communist:
Seeing you quote this affirms my belief that the real benefit of seeing TFA's variety of blatant fascism continued under a Democratic Party administration, is that it will wake up many more Conservatives to the fact that their interests are not being represented by the Federal Government, no matter which corporate party is in office.
As others have posted, the inclusion of Anonymous in TFA is likely a nod to powerful Scientologists who have influenced the priorities of our new, ever-expanding security state.
(Recently, Anonymous led a rather successful campaign involving spontaneous street protests against Scientology.)
And this is why the Obama win was such a good thing for the country in the long run.
When right-wing partisans are inconvenienced, annoyed and downright pissed off by the Obama administration displaying the exact same behavior that irked the lefties when it came from the Bush-Cheney administration (rampant taxation, deficit spending, elective wars, loss of civil liberties), these conservative folks may come to realize (as many on the left did in the past administration) that NEITHER major party has had their interests in mind for some time now.
To put it another way, the other shoe is dropping.
At this point we the people should finally be able to drop the distractions/partisanship, and set aside our petty differences in favor of real solutions to the problems facing the nation, the states and our cities.
</pipedream>
The fact that you and HikingStick have not yet been molested for First Amendment activities doesn't comfort the hundreds of thousands of citizens who have been demonstrably, unjustly targetted by the new security apparati in this decade.
You may have missed the part where during the last year or so, a large number of "fusion centers" have been set up across the nation as public-private partnerships between DHS and local governments/business leaders, to share information (spying) and to better secure/control industrial and civic affairs. Do a web search, this is not secret information.
His name is Robert Paulsen.
It's a crime for the reason many things are crimes here: The ability to conduct Selective Enforcement. If a kid with baggy pants and a hoodie jaywalks, the cops can stop him and give him the perp treatment. If his grandma jaywalks, she's not going to get any attention from the cops.