I'm sure Zuckerburg is all for privacy. He probably has window shows, locks on his doors, and doesn't tell everyone his personal health problems.
No one forces you to get a Facebook. No one forces you to connect to friends, post photos of yourself peeing being cars in college, or post status updates about where you like it (your purse that is). If you join Facebook, that's your choice.
The recent WSJ article about facebook apps stealing your data is alarmist. You submit to sharing your information with them (and whoever else they say) when you agree to play their game. Same as when you buy a car or house... the dealership or bank takes your info and sells it to all kinds of people.
The devil's in the fine print.
Google can just monitor who searches for 'shooting data lines' and sue them.
I mean, it's not like Google engineers ever listen in on what anyone else is searching for...
Agreed. You don't get to call 911 three times for bullshart reasons around here. You call 911 and it's not an emergency, you get a nice citation. Second time, you get arrested. We do not have the time, nor financial robustness to deal with people pranking the system.
Keep in mind these people were not just calling the rangers for a ride or because they had a question. They were utilizing their emergency transponders, which are the equivlent of dialing "911" in the forest.
My wife told me this holiday was a bunch of garabge.
So I told her no more flowers on Administrative Professionals' Day.
And then I DDoS'd her server. Haha!
I have two social science degrees (Bachelors and Masters), and I got bored, and wanted to expand my career horizons, so I'm going back for a bachelors in Computer Science.
I started out at the local public community college to knock out some of the math courses I didn't need for my other degrees. So far, I have been shocked at the quality of education. The math courses were alright, but not great.
The computer courses however, have been horrific. I had a 96 in the last class I took, and half-butted the final. I got back a perfect on it. I quiried the instructor and told him I knew I had made mistakes on the project (Already had my A, didn't care), and he responde with "Well, you turned something in, which is more then most of your classmates, so I just gave you an A." That speaks volumes about the *quality* of student being produced. I'm sure just turning something in will make my future employers estatic. Then again, compared to the competition in my class, I'm solid gold.
Too bad I'll get my ass kicked by some foreigner who has a *real* education. And frankly, I understand completely why.
Point your telnet machine to ats.trekmush.org, port 1701.
Now -that's- Star Trek RPG'ing.:)
Seriously, the best RPGs were the text based, MUD/MUSH games where (most) people had to think about their actions, write out a nice action, etc. Not this point and click MMOPRGclickclick stuff.;)
-Bitter and Old
The true tragedy here is not the NSA's video, but rather AntiPolygraph.
I am by no fan of the polygraph, but geez.... AntiPolygraph could have done better with something other then taking the NSA ad, replaying it, and inserting about 2 minutes worth of "The NSA is lying!" commentary. They could have made a much better arguement. Like the polygraph or not, everything in the NSA video -was- true and is how a polygraph works... it may not be all rainbows and unicorns, but they didn't lie about the process.:)
This seems to make pretty good sense.
Take the fire service in America. Some volunteer fire departments take great pride in their firehouses and apparatus. They clean them regularly, train and drill on a regular basis, and project an image of "professionalism." Other departments, well, you can tell those that don't take as much pride in their equipment and house. The same would apply to just about anything else. If your people/family members/employees/slaves have pride in their enviornment, then that is reflected in their behavior.
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Yeah... my lawsuit is coming! Just you wait Zuckerberg...
I'm sure Zuckerburg is all for privacy. He probably has window shows, locks on his doors, and doesn't tell everyone his personal health problems. No one forces you to get a Facebook. No one forces you to connect to friends, post photos of yourself peeing being cars in college, or post status updates about where you like it (your purse that is). If you join Facebook, that's your choice. The recent WSJ article about facebook apps stealing your data is alarmist. You submit to sharing your information with them (and whoever else they say) when you agree to play their game. Same as when you buy a car or house... the dealership or bank takes your info and sells it to all kinds of people. The devil's in the fine print.
None of these will ever achieve the greatness of text-based RPG MUSH and MUXes like ATS:TrekMUSH (which still exists) and TNG TrekMUSE.
Google can just monitor who searches for 'shooting data lines' and sue them. I mean, it's not like Google engineers ever listen in on what anyone else is searching for...
Or you could just say screw it, keep driving, and find a new girlfriend!
Agreed. You don't get to call 911 three times for bullshart reasons around here. You call 911 and it's not an emergency, you get a nice citation. Second time, you get arrested. We do not have the time, nor financial robustness to deal with people pranking the system. Keep in mind these people were not just calling the rangers for a ride or because they had a question. They were utilizing their emergency transponders, which are the equivlent of dialing "911" in the forest.
This is a very simple problem to solve. Arrest the hikers for making false emergency calls. Fire the Rangers for getting duped the *third* time.
Well, Steve Jobs does have big ears...
It looks like most of the posts are from a guy named Ladi Sharma...
My wife told me this holiday was a bunch of garabge. So I told her no more flowers on Administrative Professionals' Day. And then I DDoS'd her server. Haha!
You get two ISPs? All we have here is... Comcast. Well, I guess I could do dialup somewhere.
I have two social science degrees (Bachelors and Masters), and I got bored, and wanted to expand my career horizons, so I'm going back for a bachelors in Computer Science. I started out at the local public community college to knock out some of the math courses I didn't need for my other degrees. So far, I have been shocked at the quality of education. The math courses were alright, but not great. The computer courses however, have been horrific. I had a 96 in the last class I took, and half-butted the final. I got back a perfect on it. I quiried the instructor and told him I knew I had made mistakes on the project (Already had my A, didn't care), and he responde with "Well, you turned something in, which is more then most of your classmates, so I just gave you an A." That speaks volumes about the *quality* of student being produced. I'm sure just turning something in will make my future employers estatic. Then again, compared to the competition in my class, I'm solid gold. Too bad I'll get my ass kicked by some foreigner who has a *real* education. And frankly, I understand completely why.
.. in othernews, the Tor network has seen a five fold increase in bandwidth traffic...
In Linux we trust, all others get VirtualBoxed/VMwared.
Point your telnet machine to ats.trekmush.org, port 1701. Now -that's- Star Trek RPG'ing. :)
Seriously, the best RPGs were the text based, MUD/MUSH games where (most) people had to think about their actions, write out a nice action, etc. Not this point and click MMOPRGclickclick stuff. ;)
-Bitter and Old
If you can someone remote into the laptop, install something like Prey onto it. Enjoy the hunt.
The true tragedy here is not the NSA's video, but rather AntiPolygraph. I am by no fan of the polygraph, but geez.... AntiPolygraph could have done better with something other then taking the NSA ad, replaying it, and inserting about 2 minutes worth of "The NSA is lying!" commentary. They could have made a much better arguement. Like the polygraph or not, everything in the NSA video -was- true and is how a polygraph works... it may not be all rainbows and unicorns, but they didn't lie about the process. :)
Actually, it's Facebook's data, technically, by the terms of agreement.... :)
This seems to make pretty good sense. Take the fire service in America. Some volunteer fire departments take great pride in their firehouses and apparatus. They clean them regularly, train and drill on a regular basis, and project an image of "professionalism." Other departments, well, you can tell those that don't take as much pride in their equipment and house. The same would apply to just about anything else. If your people/family members/employees/slaves have pride in their enviornment, then that is reflected in their behavior.
What's funnier? That fact he got caught doing something stupid, or the fact he is twenty years old and released to the custody of his mother? :)