spy on individuals accused of rape... if the rapist decides to cross state lines
And that right there is part of the reason why this sort of idea makes me uneasy.
You meant alleged rapist, yet in one paragraph you've managed (accidentally, no doubt) to switch from talking about an alleged criminal to an actual one.
I'm not sure if it would pass your "without any words in any language" condition, but banknotes, stamps and other such items would be problematic. In addition to that, depending on what exactly you drew it on, drawing logos might well have you on charges of fraud or forgery, or possibly facing a civil suit for trademark or copyright infringement.
No, his point was "when Christians do violent things, we denounce them personally; yet when Muslims do violent things, we denounce the entire religion".
I've read your reply to Golddess's reply, and I accept that *you* do not act like that (and for that matter, neither do I); however, entire media organisations and even political parties do, and I have certainly read enough comments here and on other websites to know that there are plenty of people who do.
Perhaps they too are a minority; I certainly hope that they are. However they are an extremely vocal minority, and the majority is largely silent on the matter.
It's (generally) not illegal to take one picture of a storefront from your car. It's not illegal to take two, or three. Nor is it illegal to put those pictures on the internet. Google is just taking this process and deploying it on a larger scale than anyone previously had the resources for.
There are things that can be done in the small scale that are not a problem, that become an issue when taken to the large scale. One example I deal with from time to time at work is aggregation of information - under the UK government's rules for handling of protectively marked ("classified") information, a collection of information each piece of which is marked at one classification, may together require a higher classification. For example, taken together, a collection of documents each marked at RESTRICTED may itself become CONFIDENTIAL (which significantly changes the way the collection is handled).
The fact that each individual photograph, etc is perfectly legal doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't serious privacy concerns surrounding building up such an all-encompassing database of them.
No, it doesn't follow that there *is* something wrong, but neither does it follow that there *is not*.
If you don't want to be seen, don't go out in public.
And yet many countries have laws against following someone around, noting down their movements.
If you don't want people to see the SSID of your AP, don't broadcast it.
I don't care if people see my SSID. I may care that a company (which makes its money from selling targeted advertising) has recorded it and stored it in a database along with location details, photographs, etc. That is fundamentally different from my neighbours and casual passers-by being able to see a SSID of "home" as they pass my house.
"Since most customers just buy two and put them together anyway"
Is that really the case? Everyone I know where I work has two displays on their desk *at work*, but I don't know that anyone has ever mentioned having two at home.
Personally, at work having two monitors rocks, as it allows me to e.g. have my IDE on one and the spec or similar design document on another. At home however I'm not going to be doing that, so a single, higher resolution monitor would be more useful. That said though I'm looking at something in the 1900x1200 range, so it's not like I want anything very high res.
Agreed; I would read effects as personal effects, things that you own and often carry on you (such as keys, wallet, etc). I would further say that being "secure in your houses" covers the rest of your possessions. Of course, IANAL - in fact, IANAUSCitizen either.
The solution? Outlaw Linux. "It's just a hacker's tool anyway."
Too much of the Internet runs on Linux, and too many large companies have significant investment in Linux and related technologies. Companies like IBM and Oracle don't care about the *AA infringing on consumer rights, but they'll sure as hell care about being large sections of their core business being under attack.
Absolute worst case scenario would be some kind of regulation/certification/licence program to allow you to run Linux; but I'd bet that that wouldn't wash under competition laws as it would give Windows far too large an advantage. If nothing else I wouldn't expect it to get far over here in the EU.
Same thing applies to meetings actually. If you're doing things properly the meeting will have an agenda and will be minuted; these things should be filled away somewhere and can certainly be subpoenaed.
It all comes down to the process you're following and your record-keeping practices, but in general anything important that's decided should be recorded somewhere to guard against people forgetting or disagreeing.
Apple's stated justification for not allowing Flash is that it'll drain the battery and so give a poor user experience.
Common belief is that it is really because it will allow third parties to develop apps in Flash and deploy them on the web (potentially even downloading them to the iPhone), thus bypassing the App Store and Apple's cut of the money.
*Stoobalou's* stated justification for Apple allowing Opera Mini on the iPhone is that it's not very good; Apple has said no such thing.
I do appreciate your argument, but over here in the UK there has been at least one case of a paediatrician being hounded out of her house because the baying mob saw the "paed" bit and thought she was a paedophile. Recently with the media interest in John Venables people have again been circulating details that claim to be of his new identity; the guy who it really is has received death threats, despite not being Venables.
Anything involving harm to kids (or potential harm) causes the average person to behave irrationally; publish the names and locations of convicted sex offenders and sooner or later someone is going to end up hurt or dead, and not necessarily even anyone on the list. Sucks to have a similar name and live in the same area.
The world is a lot bigger than the U.S. and Europe.
In terms of population if nothing else, China is bigger than the US and Europe combined. (Population of China, roughly 1.3 billion; US, roughly 310 million, Europe roughly 731 million)
Google had to, sooner or later, start fighting such a fight. Interesting is that European, and not Asian or American, ISPs are engaging it.
What? Even the summary mentions that American ISPs have already tried this, though with no success to date. European ISPs are just following American ISPs' lead.
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Actually "Microsoft copied the basic idea behind sudo" in Windows XP, which is when they introduced the runas command. Third party software developers were slow to catch up; just last week I bought my daughter a game that popped up a "you need to be administrator to install this" message on installation (rather than simply having Windows prompt me for admin credentials).
Assuming that this is set to detect chemicals that are not yet at dangerous levels, merely anomalous levels, how do they propose to avoid raiding GlaxoSmithKline on a daily basis?
Maybe they'll check the address that is registering the chemical alert and decide that even if it really is a genuine alert, the building staff probably have it covered and will call them if needed?
I know, I know, common sense required - but turn up unneeded too many times and the new boss that replaces the old one when they're fired for wasting the departmental budget will make damn sure the same thing doesn't happen to him.
I, a 22 year old nerd, have been building fanless, high performance machines that are silent since the 90's. My first PC I built when I was 12 was silent.
You're 22 now, you built your first PC at 12; it's 2010, that makes your first build 1999 at the very earliest. I'm not sure if that *really* qualifies for "since the 90s".
Out of interest, who or what is forcing you to use any of those technologies? I've been working with Java commercially for around 8 years now and have never once used Maven on a project, for example.
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spy on individuals accused of rape... if the rapist decides to cross state lines
And that right there is part of the reason why this sort of idea makes me uneasy.
You meant alleged rapist, yet in one paragraph you've managed (accidentally, no doubt) to switch from talking about an alleged criminal to an actual one.
I'm not sure if it would pass your "without any words in any language" condition, but banknotes, stamps and other such items would be problematic. In addition to that, depending on what exactly you drew it on, drawing logos might well have you on charges of fraud or forgery, or possibly facing a civil suit for trademark or copyright infringement.
No, his point was "when Christians do violent things, we denounce them personally; yet when Muslims do violent things, we denounce the entire religion".
I've read your reply to Golddess's reply, and I accept that *you* do not act like that (and for that matter, neither do I); however, entire media organisations and even political parties do, and I have certainly read enough comments here and on other websites to know that there are plenty of people who do.
Perhaps they too are a minority; I certainly hope that they are. However they are an extremely vocal minority, and the majority is largely silent on the matter.
The guy in the bear suit wasn't even Muhammed. As became clear in episode 201, it was fucking Santa Claus.
According to the report I read (though I'm having trouble finding it now), that was one of the changes that was made in light of the controversy.
Not that I'm defending them in any way, of course.
It's (generally) not illegal to take one picture of a storefront from your car. It's not illegal to take two, or three. Nor is it illegal to put those pictures on the internet. Google is just taking this process and deploying it on a larger scale than anyone previously had the resources for.
There are things that can be done in the small scale that are not a problem, that become an issue when taken to the large scale. One example I deal with from time to time at work is aggregation of information - under the UK government's rules for handling of protectively marked ("classified") information, a collection of information each piece of which is marked at one classification, may together require a higher classification. For example, taken together, a collection of documents each marked at RESTRICTED may itself become CONFIDENTIAL (which significantly changes the way the collection is handled).
The fact that each individual photograph, etc is perfectly legal doesn't necessarily mean that there aren't serious privacy concerns surrounding building up such an all-encompassing database of them.
No, it doesn't follow that there *is* something wrong, but neither does it follow that there *is not*.
If you don't want to be seen, don't go out in public.
And yet many countries have laws against following someone around, noting down their movements.
If you don't want people to see the SSID of your AP, don't broadcast it.
I don't care if people see my SSID. I may care that a company (which makes its money from selling targeted advertising) has recorded it and stored it in a database along with location details, photographs, etc. That is fundamentally different from my neighbours and casual passers-by being able to see a SSID of "home" as they pass my house.
"Since most customers just buy two and put them together anyway"
Is that really the case? Everyone I know where I work has two displays on their desk *at work*, but I don't know that anyone has ever mentioned having two at home.
Personally, at work having two monitors rocks, as it allows me to e.g. have my IDE on one and the spec or similar design document on another. At home however I'm not going to be doing that, so a single, higher resolution monitor would be more useful. That said though I'm looking at something in the 1900x1200 range, so it's not like I want anything very high res.
Am I missing something, or is leaning to one side a control feature that's been available in (PC) FPS games for a decade or more?
Agreed; I would read effects as personal effects, things that you own and often carry on you (such as keys, wallet, etc). I would further say that being "secure in your houses" covers the rest of your possessions. Of course, IANAL - in fact, IANAUSCitizen either.
The solution? Outlaw Linux. "It's just a hacker's tool anyway."
Too much of the Internet runs on Linux, and too many large companies have significant investment in Linux and related technologies. Companies like IBM and Oracle don't care about the *AA infringing on consumer rights, but they'll sure as hell care about being large sections of their core business being under attack.
Absolute worst case scenario would be some kind of regulation/certification/licence program to allow you to run Linux; but I'd bet that that wouldn't wash under competition laws as it would give Windows far too large an advantage. If nothing else I wouldn't expect it to get far over here in the EU.
Same thing applies to meetings actually. If you're doing things properly the meeting will have an agenda and will be minuted; these things should be filled away somewhere and can certainly be subpoenaed.
It all comes down to the process you're following and your record-keeping practices, but in general anything important that's decided should be recorded somewhere to guard against people forgetting or disagreeing.
Apple's stated justification for not allowing Flash is that it'll drain the battery and so give a poor user experience.
Common belief is that it is really because it will allow third parties to develop apps in Flash and deploy them on the web (potentially even downloading them to the iPhone), thus bypassing the App Store and Apple's cut of the money.
*Stoobalou's* stated justification for Apple allowing Opera Mini on the iPhone is that it's not very good; Apple has said no such thing.
Of course it's a good thing, as long as we continue moving towards open standards and away from proprietary lock-in and "black boxes".
So you're against the iPhone OS too then?
Exactly.
The iPod Touch is an Apple product, and they can do with it what they like.
The iPod Touch sat on the worktop in my kitchen is my iPod Touch, and I should be free to do with it what I like.
Or the European Commission could tell Google to get out of the EU.
On what grounds? What makes you think the Commission would side with the ISPs rather than with Google?
I do appreciate your argument, but over here in the UK there has been at least one case of a paediatrician being hounded out of her house because the baying mob saw the "paed" bit and thought she was a paedophile. Recently with the media interest in John Venables people have again been circulating details that claim to be of his new identity; the guy who it really is has received death threats, despite not being Venables.
Anything involving harm to kids (or potential harm) causes the average person to behave irrationally; publish the names and locations of convicted sex offenders and sooner or later someone is going to end up hurt or dead, and not necessarily even anyone on the list. Sucks to have a similar name and live in the same area.
The world is a lot bigger than the U.S. and Europe.
In terms of population if nothing else, China is bigger than the US and Europe combined. (Population of China, roughly 1.3 billion; US, roughly 310 million, Europe roughly 731 million)
Google had to, sooner or later, start fighting such a fight. Interesting is that European, and not Asian or American, ISPs are engaging it.
What? Even the summary mentions that American ISPs have already tried this, though with no success to date. European ISPs are just following American ISPs' lead.
Actually "Microsoft copied the basic idea behind sudo" in Windows XP, which is when they introduced the runas command. Third party software developers were slow to catch up; just last week I bought my daughter a game that popped up a "you need to be administrator to install this" message on installation (rather than simply having Windows prompt me for admin credentials).
Assuming that this is set to detect chemicals that are not yet at dangerous levels, merely anomalous levels, how do they propose to avoid raiding GlaxoSmithKline on a daily basis?
Maybe they'll check the address that is registering the chemical alert and decide that even if it really is a genuine alert, the building staff probably have it covered and will call them if needed?
I know, I know, common sense required - but turn up unneeded too many times and the new boss that replaces the old one when they're fired for wasting the departmental budget will make damn sure the same thing doesn't happen to him.
Anonymous speech doesn't mean speaking using someone else's identity, which is what the GP was afraid of.
You want to speak anonymously, that's fine, just don't hide behind my identity to do it. That's not anonymity, it's fraud.
I, a 22 year old nerd, have been building fanless, high performance machines that are silent since the 90's. My first PC I built when I was 12 was silent.
You're 22 now, you built your first PC at 12; it's 2010, that makes your first build 1999 at the very earliest. I'm not sure if that *really* qualifies for "since the 90s".
And you're assuming that someone who wants to exploit your system doesn't already know how.
If the exploit is secret, maybe they do know, maybe they don't.
If the exploit is publicly disclosed, they almost certainly do.
Given the stated situation (of having a vulnerable system) the former is preferable to the latter.
A thing doesn't have to be harmful to be illegal - e.g. the anti-sodomy laws that are still on the statute books in many places.
Out of interest, who or what is forcing you to use any of those technologies? I've been working with Java commercially for around 8 years now and have never once used Maven on a project, for example.