I knew Deja Vu is just the movement of memory directly to long-term, rather than residing in short-term first, but is it really a minor seizure? Because that shit happens to me a couple times a year. I should get checked out if it's seizing.
No, that's not "public interest." That's your personal interest in making your life easier. The public interest is things which affect the lives of many people, either because the event was deemed illegal, thus against society's morals, and a breach of social contract is notable, even if mundane, or an incident will have far-ranging implications to the lives of many people, such as natural disasters, new laws, etc.
I realize my initial example was flawed either in explanation or scope, but seriously:
If you want privacy, close your curtains. It's not hard. I understand that peeping tom laws exist, but they shouldn't. Just close your curtains, no need to get the government involved.
So everyone should live in windowless houses in order to prevent deviant behaviour on the part of some few individuals? Because I can always find a telescope and a high enough vantage point that I would be far enough away that you'd never see me spying through your windows. It's absolutely needed to get law enforcement involved, because society (well, most of society, anyway) understands that a house is private property, and that privacy should be respected by not peering in, or recording the property without explicit permission, and it's only a few who disrespect that privacy granted. A window in my wall is no more an invitation to look in to my house than an unlocked door is an invitation to enter. If someone goes out of their way to invade the privacy provided by my being in the private property I own, they should be punished. In mild cases, such as Google's Street View, they should take down any images with my property visible, and immediately delete any image saved. In more severe cases such as Peeping or Stalking, then jail time.
Not street MAPS, street VIEW. You know? Pictures that show exactly what was present and what everything looked like at the time the van went through and snapped pictures of everything on the street.
No, Privacy Watchdogs in the EU are concerned. Such a basic reading comprehension should remove any "insightful" modding. The EU allows individual nations to govern themselves, but the Street View affects ALL the countries, so the EU gets to handle it as a cohesive whole. Thus, the situations are not analogous. If the UK wanted to put up CCTV cameras in France to watch UK citizens on vacation, then it'd be more closely related to Street View.
Multiple angles of person or location doesn't matter. When an individual goes around taking multiple pictures of a building from many angles, you know what it's usually labelled? "Casing a joint." You know, gathering information for robbing it. Street View could potentially remove the need to *visit* a location before robbing it, especially with that page from a few days ago, "Please Rob Me" that links people's twitters and such to location-specific, showing when they're away from home. So yes, it's still privacy infringement. Google takes an "opt-out" position to privacy. That's the wrong way to do it. If they want to put my house up on the Internet for everyone to see, I want to know the *exact* time they're coming through, and I want a release form saying that it's okay to use images of MY property for THEIR gain. Because that's what street view is, exploitation of other people's property for Google's greater financial health.
Please try to come up with something more important than this! This absolutely rediculous because publishing a photo in a newspaper could also be an infringement of privacy!
Except that it's consistently been held that for purposes of reporting something in the public interest is greater than an individual's privacy, and they *still* need to do due diligence in getting photographic releases for certain things. There's no news value in Google's Street View, and it's more pervasive. It's not a single picture, it's multiple pictures, angles, and setting.
"Officer, I was clearly standing on the street with my camera. It's not my fault that the girl was naked in her bedroom. She shouldn't have left the curtains open."
There's Peeping Tom laws in many places, for one thing, and there's lots of instances of individual efforts being acceptable where organized efforts are held to be unacceptable. For instance, refreshing on a site. One person does it, they're checking for new content. Many people do it, it's a DDoS.
Yes, it is bad, since by now, many people have pointed out the how it CAN be read is "Any P2P software you have on your computer can be assumed to be authorized installations, and any files you are sharing you are doing purposefully." This means that if you're sued for copyright infringement, you aren't able to say "my son's friend installed it, I didn't know." Because since it's on your computer, it's an authorized install now.
Pretty good. Hit most of the high points. Your score suffers a little though for not mentioning MS trying to use market position or monopolistic tendencies though. Overall, I'd give it a solid A-.
I think you're on the wrong site. I mean that was a well-reasoned, even-keeled reply in a Microsoft article. Are you sure you're supposed to be on slashdot?
In any event, I agree. I don't approve of the DMCA as it currently exists, but it certainly wasn't being abused in this instance, and Microsoft withdrew it quickly after Cryptome was knocked off. *shrug* Story's pretty much over.
I browse at -1 all the time. And yet I still have hidden posts, which pisses me off. It kills the entire point of browsing at -1 to still need to un-hide posts.
But even going at -1, I've seen posts indented, with titles of "Re:", exactly like they're replying to something, but there's just... there's no parent post! Hell, the replies are even consistent in what they're quoting, so unless there's a conspiracy of some kind, I have to assume that either the posts are being removed, or there's a fairly serious bug in the code.
I've wondered that too. I've noticed a number of disappeared posts, and from the replies and quoted bits, they never seem that bad. I'd almost suggest that if a post is removed, then all the replies should be turfed as well.
Well, I don't know if it's completely true. No one can know if it's completely true. From what I've heard, there's reactors now where the waste is something actually useful, or can be easily converted to non-hazardous materials, so at the very least, now is the time to start a massive push to nuclear, supplimented by renewable sources like tidal/geothermal/solar/wind as regionally appropriate.
From another post, there seems to finally be a 1.6 update in the works, so hopefully I will get that update to 1.6 some time this year. I won't hold my breath on a bump to 2.X though. If that 1.6 update does come through, you're right, I should be solid up until it's time to upgrade.
I used an HTC 6800 for 2.5 years, and it was 6.0 WinMo. I'll stipulate now that my experience and opinion is limited to that device/OS combo. I'm also sure most of my issues were caused by the hardware, not the OS, but comparing my Android Phone to my friend's WinMo 6.5 phone, I'd say mine comes out on top (though it is pretty close, honestly). When Windows Phone 7 comes out, the game changes. When my contract's up in three *sob* years, I'll have a fairly difficult choice, I'm sure.
My last phone was an HTC. It was a nightmare. Right from the start I had some fairly serious issues with it, but that kind of serious where you can mostly work around it to the point where you can live with it. But everyone else I knew who had an HTC had the exact same problems. I'm not touching an HTC unless they come out with something *really* fucking amazing.
Secondly, I was rather limited as to choice, since the Galaxy was the only Android phone my carrier had for sale, and I've tried the other carriers, and they've either got good networks and shit customer service, or good customer service and shit networks. This one just balances it. Decent network and decent customer service.
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That's disturbing on a lot of levels.
Wrong. Time isn't bi! It doesn't go both ways.
Well get him out, then. We just cleaned it.
I knew Deja Vu is just the movement of memory directly to long-term, rather than residing in short-term first, but is it really a minor seizure? Because that shit happens to me a couple times a year. I should get checked out if it's seizing.
Doesn't matter. It's been handled as an EU violation now. The fact that you think one has bearing on the other is laughable.
No, that's not "public interest." That's your personal interest in making your life easier. The public interest is things which affect the lives of many people, either because the event was deemed illegal, thus against society's morals, and a breach of social contract is notable, even if mundane, or an incident will have far-ranging implications to the lives of many people, such as natural disasters, new laws, etc.
I realize my initial example was flawed either in explanation or scope, but seriously:
If you want privacy, close your curtains. It's not hard. I understand that peeping tom laws exist, but they shouldn't. Just close your curtains, no need to get the government involved.
So everyone should live in windowless houses in order to prevent deviant behaviour on the part of some few individuals? Because I can always find a telescope and a high enough vantage point that I would be far enough away that you'd never see me spying through your windows. It's absolutely needed to get law enforcement involved, because society (well, most of society, anyway) understands that a house is private property, and that privacy should be respected by not peering in, or recording the property without explicit permission, and it's only a few who disrespect that privacy granted. A window in my wall is no more an invitation to look in to my house than an unlocked door is an invitation to enter. If someone goes out of their way to invade the privacy provided by my being in the private property I own, they should be punished. In mild cases, such as Google's Street View, they should take down any images with my property visible, and immediately delete any image saved. In more severe cases such as Peeping or Stalking, then jail time.
Not street MAPS, street VIEW. You know? Pictures that show exactly what was present and what everything looked like at the time the van went through and snapped pictures of everything on the street.
No, Privacy Watchdogs in the EU are concerned. Such a basic reading comprehension should remove any "insightful" modding. The EU allows individual nations to govern themselves, but the Street View affects ALL the countries, so the EU gets to handle it as a cohesive whole. Thus, the situations are not analogous. If the UK wanted to put up CCTV cameras in France to watch UK citizens on vacation, then it'd be more closely related to Street View.
Multiple angles of person or location doesn't matter. When an individual goes around taking multiple pictures of a building from many angles, you know what it's usually labelled? "Casing a joint." You know, gathering information for robbing it. Street View could potentially remove the need to *visit* a location before robbing it, especially with that page from a few days ago, "Please Rob Me" that links people's twitters and such to location-specific, showing when they're away from home. So yes, it's still privacy infringement. Google takes an "opt-out" position to privacy. That's the wrong way to do it. If they want to put my house up on the Internet for everyone to see, I want to know the *exact* time they're coming through, and I want a release form saying that it's okay to use images of MY property for THEIR gain. Because that's what street view is, exploitation of other people's property for Google's greater financial health.
Please try to come up with something more important than this! This absolutely rediculous because publishing a photo in a newspaper could also be an infringement of privacy!
Except that it's consistently been held that for purposes of reporting something in the public interest is greater than an individual's privacy, and they *still* need to do due diligence in getting photographic releases for certain things. There's no news value in Google's Street View, and it's more pervasive. It's not a single picture, it's multiple pictures, angles, and setting.
"Officer, I was clearly standing on the street with my camera. It's not my fault that the girl was naked in her bedroom. She shouldn't have left the curtains open."
There's Peeping Tom laws in many places, for one thing, and there's lots of instances of individual efforts being acceptable where organized efforts are held to be unacceptable. For instance, refreshing on a site. One person does it, they're checking for new content. Many people do it, it's a DDoS.
Yes, it is bad, since by now, many people have pointed out the how it CAN be read is "Any P2P software you have on your computer can be assumed to be authorized installations, and any files you are sharing you are doing purposefully." This means that if you're sued for copyright infringement, you aren't able to say "my son's friend installed it, I didn't know." Because since it's on your computer, it's an authorized install now.
Apparently you missed the announcement: Open source is piracy.
It's both! Every argument starts out as people at contradictory points. After all, if the points were compatible, they wouldn't be arguing.
Pretty good. Hit most of the high points. Your score suffers a little though for not mentioning MS trying to use market position or monopolistic tendencies though. Overall, I'd give it a solid A-.
I think you're on the wrong site. I mean that was a well-reasoned, even-keeled reply in a Microsoft article. Are you sure you're supposed to be on slashdot?
In any event, I agree. I don't approve of the DMCA as it currently exists, but it certainly wasn't being abused in this instance, and Microsoft withdrew it quickly after Cryptome was knocked off. *shrug* Story's pretty much over.
I browse at -1 all the time. And yet I still have hidden posts, which pisses me off. It kills the entire point of browsing at -1 to still need to un-hide posts.
But even going at -1, I've seen posts indented, with titles of "Re:", exactly like they're replying to something, but there's just... there's no parent post! Hell, the replies are even consistent in what they're quoting, so unless there's a conspiracy of some kind, I have to assume that either the posts are being removed, or there's a fairly serious bug in the code.
I've wondered that too. I've noticed a number of disappeared posts, and from the replies and quoted bits, they never seem that bad. I'd almost suggest that if a post is removed, then all the replies should be turfed as well.
Well, I don't know if it's completely true. No one can know if it's completely true. From what I've heard, there's reactors now where the waste is something actually useful, or can be easily converted to non-hazardous materials, so at the very least, now is the time to start a massive push to nuclear, supplimented by renewable sources like tidal/geothermal/solar/wind as regionally appropriate.
From another post, there seems to finally be a 1.6 update in the works, so hopefully I will get that update to 1.6 some time this year. I won't hold my breath on a bump to 2.X though. If that 1.6 update does come through, you're right, I should be solid up until it's time to upgrade.
Oh cool! Thanks, I'll keep an eye out to see if it progresses. Failing that, I'll keep an eye on gaosp.
I used an HTC 6800 for 2.5 years, and it was 6.0 WinMo. I'll stipulate now that my experience and opinion is limited to that device/OS combo. I'm also sure most of my issues were caused by the hardware, not the OS, but comparing my Android Phone to my friend's WinMo 6.5 phone, I'd say mine comes out on top (though it is pretty close, honestly). When Windows Phone 7 comes out, the game changes. When my contract's up in three *sob* years, I'll have a fairly difficult choice, I'm sure.
My last phone was an HTC. It was a nightmare. Right from the start I had some fairly serious issues with it, but that kind of serious where you can mostly work around it to the point where you can live with it. But everyone else I knew who had an HTC had the exact same problems. I'm not touching an HTC unless they come out with something *really* fucking amazing.
Secondly, I was rather limited as to choice, since the Galaxy was the only Android phone my carrier had for sale, and I've tried the other carriers, and they've either got good networks and shit customer service, or good customer service and shit networks. This one just balances it. Decent network and decent customer service.
Says specifically not the Galaxy on the Cyanogenmodwiki, so I'm guessing not.