Instagram claims it has right to sell your informations if you agree to use their services, thus granting them permission to do so.
This is of course assuming a child is competent to enter into a contract, which is not considered a valid assumption in most countries. (I have no idea about the US, but here, judges somewhat frown upon the idea that a child can forfeit rights because of an agreement as they are not considered competent to understand the implications.)
Best Linux Distro for people who just want to get stuff done: Linux Mint
Yeah I'm pretty much of the same mind. Debian for my servers and Mint for my desktop. I do prefer debians more stripped back but-with-options server chops, its familiar and I like it. But mint is a desktop setup that just works and doesnt have ubuntus baffling UI.
Psyche is good news. I'm psyched up about it, actually. If we can't explore interesting M-class planets, at least we have interesting M-type asteroids.;) Reply to This
*raises one eyebrow*
The vulcan science academy does not recognize the existance of "minshara class asteroides"
Oh. SFTU and spare me. Where is the "This isn't news!!!!ZOMG!!!" brigade when legit, nerd-worthy material is posted? I'll tell you where: NOWHERE to be found! Its people whoring for upvotes. Nothing more nothing less, simple attention seeking. Its also white noise posting that screws up the comment sections, and it demonstrates that the person commenting hasn't been around long enough to realise that slashdot has *always* had a diverse selection of stories.
I did throw a shitfit and told her that if she wanted to take another Greyhound bus trip, it would be as a single parent. She is quite headstrong, but if that was all the respect I'd get after having to worry about what I knew was going to happen, fuck it.
Way to be a complete dick to your wife after what sounds like a traumatic ride.
Maybe she'd be better off without you.
Oh and there is no such thing as "alpha" and "beta" people. Theres absolutely nothing in sociology or psychology that supports the idea, its just nonsense that the pick-up-artist scene invented. Hell even dogs dont have "alpha" males and females.
The internet is really trashing its own reputation with this guff. I'm pretty interested in an internet camera system for my house (Live inner city, it gets pretty crazy in my hood) BUT If its just going to make me a sitting duck for s'kiddies building ddos nets, well no, I think i'll hold off.
A country must have an enemy without or an enemy within, or it cant be governed absolutely. You cant rally the people unless theres a folk devil to throw stones at.
Thats pretty much the pathology of power right there, and its the little people who pay, be they brown dudes in the middle east, or brown dudes at home.
Great plan Einstein. Meet the challenge of manual labor being replaced by automation by putting more people into manual labor. What could possibly go wrong.
No. Hell no. Higher education is about teaching concepts and proper practices. A gutted mess of a language simply isn't appropriate for good education. Python is an equally 'easy' language but has far superior constructs for abstraction, sensible error handling , structured and OO design, and so forth. Its duck typing goes easy on new students, but doesn't fall into the traps offered by languages like Javascript or PHP's weak typing.
Beyond that Java (or C#, the two are almost interchangeable here, and with Java rapidly becoming radioactive thanks to oracle, it might be the better choice) , C/C++, Clojure and Haskell all provide proper computer science training whilst still remaining job market viable.
And if someone is unlucky enough to end up in a javascript shop, well theres always whisky and the blues.
Snowden made something like 200,000 a year to be a sys admin. That is high even in Silicon Valley.
Snowden did not work for the NSA, he workde briefly for the CIA but took a private sector job for Booz Allen, and was then contracted to the NSA
Private contractings a whole different kettle of fish. And I suspect a lot of these leaving govt jobs are leaving to go work at private contractors wherein they'll just end up back at the agency they where at before albeit as a contractor, and costing the govt 3x as much, and none of the accountability required of federal employees.
Well being completely untrue tends to have that effect on an opinion.
This has nothing to do with refugees (Who are not 'burning shit' in paris). Calais was a good 300+ km away, nearly a year ago, and ironically the fires where lit by englishmen.
But hey, keep mashing the crazy keys Anonymous Coward.
That might be a pretty good insight into whats gone wrong here. Hello games gets picked up by a big publisher. big publisher forces them to release game before its ready. nobody wins.
I kind of feel sad for hello games. The boss promised what the team could not deliver. Its not the teams fault, but they are not exempt from the rivers of shit that flowed forth. I've been in death march projects before from bosses who can't keep their mouth shut and wont focus on whats possible rather than a fantasy of it. Its hell,
That anthropogenic climate change is real and caused by humans is undisputed and has been undisputed (by the scientific establishment, crackpot conspiracy bloggers dont count) for decades. Thats not actually whats being researched. What is being researched is how bad it is, what sort of time line we are looking at, what mitigation strategies do we have, are those mitigating strategies we already have working, what are the current effects, and how do we respond to the growing deleuge of problems already starting to occur.
Its *suicidal* to defund the most important agency in the world covering it.
Yep. Margret Hamilton basically wrote the code that got us to the moon by literally punching binary codes into hunreds if not thousands of feet of tape with a hole puncher and sticky tape, calculating how long each assembly instruction would take and working from there to build failsafes all throughout the code in case the inevitable malfunction happened. And those malfunctions came, and her code self corrected and avoided plunging astronauts to their deat. Brilliant stuff.
If she didn't do anything wrong, then why does Obama need to pardon her?
Who said he does? She hasn't asked for it, just some speculating journalists.
My guess is its nothing to do with the emails or benghazi or whatever, but rather that its actually been standard practice for outgoing presidents for a while, in case some enterprising lawyer decides to go all in for a war crimes prosecution (drone strikes/extraordinary rendering/"enhanced" interrogation/etc) and to defend from crazy crusaders demanding birth certificates or tying the clintons up in endless discovery by conspiracy theorists looking for evidence of black helicopter assasins or whatever.
Its not the career politicians that worry me, its the "maverick" ones. Washington wonks are at least a known quantity. They are versed in bureacracy and doing things the washington way. We know those guys, we've had them for over a century.
Its the non washington people, trump, the breibart and daily stormer whackjobs, and the like that keep me up at night. Because those folks have a plan, and I'm not sure we're going to enjoy that plan very much at all.
The fact that progressive policies have been implemented on working towards goals, open, rational and above all educated dialouge. Most importantly not idiotic pro-business, anti-middle class policies that counteract any attempt to deal with the main issues that would need to be in place for this: the consumer public and the actual economy, not the millionaire+ economy.
One of the things that kind of puzzles me about the idea that being "pro business" and "pro not-fucking-up-the environment" being mutually exclusive is that potentially fixing climate change could be great for industry, if it got past its short sighted myopia.
Switching over to a low/no CO2 economy doesnt just mean shutting down coal plants. It means shutting down coal plants and building solar/wind/nuclear plants. Surely this counts as "economic activity". Those wind farms don't build themselves and those solar panels wont service themselves.
European countries that have put effort into transitioning over have generated a tonne of jobs, money and economic activity in the process , so it seems strange that people seem to think the US doing so would mean the opposite of that.
Privacy and Free speech are the positive/negative (freedom to, freedom from) liberty two sides of the same coin. You can't have free speech without Anonymity (privacy!) and you cant have privacy without free speech.
We can carve excemptions into these. Shouting fire in crowded theatres, or intentionally inciting some crimes (ie calling a hit on somebody, or ordering a crowd to go burn down a mosque, or whatever) might be a reasonable excemption to free speech, and likewise we might throw a few excemptions into privacy (police investigating a murder might have pretty good grounds to tap your phone for instance), but when we make exceptions in one side we logically make excpeptions on the other side.
Thus the free speech argument for network neutrality (companies should not limit the content you read) is the same as the privacy right argument for network neutrality (companies should not spy on the content you read), just viewed from another side.
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This is of course assuming a child is competent to enter into a contract, which is not considered a valid assumption in most countries. (I have no idea about the US, but here, judges somewhat frown upon the idea that a child can forfeit rights because of an agreement as they are not considered competent to understand the implications.)
Yeah I'm pretty much of the same mind. Debian for my servers and Mint for my desktop. I do prefer debians more stripped back but-with-options server chops, its familiar and I like it. But mint is a desktop setup that just works and doesnt have ubuntus baffling UI.
*raises one eyebrow*
The vulcan science academy does not recognize the existance of "minshara class asteroides"
Oh. SFTU and spare me. Where is the "This isn't news!!!!ZOMG!!!" brigade when legit, nerd-worthy material is posted? I'll tell you where: NOWHERE to be found!
Its people whoring for upvotes. Nothing more nothing less, simple attention seeking. Its also white noise posting that screws up the comment sections, and it demonstrates that the person commenting hasn't been around long enough to realise that slashdot has *always* had a diverse selection of stories.
Way to be a complete dick to your wife after what sounds like a traumatic ride.
Maybe she'd be better off without you.
Oh and there is no such thing as "alpha" and "beta" people. Theres absolutely nothing in sociology or psychology that supports the idea, its just nonsense that the pick-up-artist scene invented. Hell even dogs dont have "alpha" males and females.
I just checked mine and got this;-
linuxmint-18-cinnamon-64bit.iso 1.58GB
Which I'm currently finding somewhat amusing.
The internet is really trashing its own reputation with this guff. I'm pretty interested in an internet camera system for my house (Live inner city, it gets pretty crazy in my hood) BUT If its just going to make me a sitting duck for s'kiddies building ddos nets, well no, I think i'll hold off.
Seinfeld himself is hilarious. However on his show he primarily played the straight man foil for the other characters to bounce their lunacy off.
A country must have an enemy without or an enemy within, or it cant be governed absolutely. You cant rally the people unless theres a folk devil to throw stones at.
Thats pretty much the pathology of power right there, and its the little people who pay, be they brown dudes in the middle east, or brown dudes at home.
Great plan Einstein. Meet the challenge of manual labor being replaced by automation by putting more people into manual labor. What could possibly go wrong.
No. Hell no. Higher education is about teaching concepts and proper practices. A gutted mess of a language simply isn't appropriate for good education. Python is an equally 'easy' language but has far superior constructs for abstraction, sensible error handling , structured and OO design, and so forth. Its duck typing goes easy on new students, but doesn't fall into the traps offered by languages like Javascript or PHP's weak typing.
Beyond that Java (or C#, the two are almost interchangeable here, and with Java rapidly becoming radioactive thanks to oracle, it might be the better choice) , C/C++, Clojure and Haskell all provide proper computer science training whilst still remaining job market viable.
And if someone is unlucky enough to end up in a javascript shop, well theres always whisky and the blues.
You'd be
Snowden did not work for the NSA, he workde briefly for the CIA but took a private sector job for Booz Allen, and was then contracted to the NSA
Private contractings a whole different kettle of fish. And I suspect a lot of these leaving govt jobs are leaving to go work at private contractors wherein they'll just end up back at the agency they where at before albeit as a contractor, and costing the govt 3x as much, and none of the accountability required of federal employees.
Theocracies are hell and are up there with fascist dictatorships and totalarian communism in the really really shit ways to run a country stakes.
Bright future, if goosestepping whilst clutching a bible , is your thing.
Yep. Its the same thing as the bash/csh/etc family of *nix shells. Plenty of malware nasties use it because its so easy to get a powerful result
Its not really a vunerability ,just an enabler
Well being completely untrue tends to have that effect on an opinion.
This has nothing to do with refugees (Who are not 'burning shit' in paris). Calais was a good 300+ km away, nearly a year ago, and ironically the fires where lit by englishmen.
But hey, keep mashing the crazy keys Anonymous Coward.
Why should anyone HAVE to stand up for a flag or anthem?
If someone thinks the countries garbage, then good, one less person falling for ridiculous authoritarian nationalist nonsense.
Burn the damn thing, use it as toilet paper, or nail it to a wall. Its just not a very important issue.
That might be a pretty good insight into whats gone wrong here. Hello games gets picked up by a big publisher. big publisher forces them to release game before its ready. nobody wins.
I kind of feel sad for hello games. The boss promised what the team could not deliver. Its not the teams fault, but they are not exempt from the rivers of shit that flowed forth. I've been in death march projects before from bosses who can't keep their mouth shut and wont focus on whats possible rather than a fantasy of it. Its hell,
That anthropogenic climate change is real and caused by humans is undisputed and has been undisputed (by the scientific establishment, crackpot conspiracy bloggers dont count) for decades. Thats not actually whats being researched. What is being researched is how bad it is, what sort of time line we are looking at, what mitigation strategies do we have, are those mitigating strategies we already have working, what are the current effects, and how do we respond to the growing deleuge of problems already starting to occur.
Its *suicidal* to defund the most important agency in the world covering it.
Yep. Margret Hamilton basically wrote the code that got us to the moon by literally punching binary codes into hunreds if not thousands of feet of tape with a hole puncher and sticky tape, calculating how long each assembly instruction would take and working from there to build failsafes all throughout the code in case the inevitable malfunction happened. And those malfunctions came, and her code self corrected and avoided plunging astronauts to their deat. Brilliant stuff.
Who said he does? She hasn't asked for it, just some speculating journalists.
My guess is its nothing to do with the emails or benghazi or whatever, but rather that its actually been standard practice for outgoing presidents for a while, in case some enterprising lawyer decides to go all in for a war crimes prosecution (drone strikes/extraordinary rendering/"enhanced" interrogation/etc) and to defend from crazy crusaders demanding birth certificates or tying the clintons up in endless discovery by conspiracy theorists looking for evidence of black helicopter assasins or whatever.
Its not the career politicians that worry me, its the "maverick" ones. Washington wonks are at least a known quantity. They are versed in bureacracy and doing things the washington way. We know those guys, we've had them for over a century.
Its the non washington people, trump, the breibart and daily stormer whackjobs, and the like that keep me up at night. Because those folks have a plan, and I'm not sure we're going to enjoy that plan very much at all.
One of the things that kind of puzzles me about the idea that being "pro business" and "pro not-fucking-up-the environment" being mutually exclusive is that potentially fixing climate change could be great for industry, if it got past its short sighted myopia.
Switching over to a low/no CO2 economy doesnt just mean shutting down coal plants. It means shutting down coal plants and building solar/wind/nuclear plants. Surely this counts as "economic activity". Those wind farms don't build themselves and those solar panels wont service themselves.
European countries that have put effort into transitioning over have generated a tonne of jobs, money and economic activity in the process , so it seems strange that people seem to think the US doing so would mean the opposite of that.
Privacy and Free speech are the positive/negative (freedom to, freedom from) liberty two sides of the same coin. You can't have free speech without Anonymity (privacy!) and you cant have privacy without free speech.
We can carve excemptions into these. Shouting fire in crowded theatres, or intentionally inciting some crimes (ie calling a hit on somebody, or ordering a crowd to go burn down a mosque, or whatever) might be a reasonable excemption to free speech, and likewise we might throw a few excemptions into privacy (police investigating a murder might have pretty good grounds to tap your phone for instance), but when we make exceptions in one side we logically make excpeptions on the other side.
Thus the free speech argument for network neutrality (companies should not limit the content you read) is the same as the privacy right argument for network neutrality (companies should not spy on the content you read), just viewed from another side.
This is disengenous and nonsensical. He said "Asian". Splitting hairs doesn't change the intent nor the meaning.
Unless you believe theres a country named "Asia", in which case your probably beyond reason.