Yep, we just replaced a serial terminal for the scintillation counter in our lab. The backlight had gone out. I scrounged around for an old CRT terminal, plugged it in and away we went.
Couple days later the service technician came by, and installed a new serial terminal with a separate monitor. Took him 2 separate mornings to get the thing configured. What do we see on bootup? A windows logo. All that overhead for a simple serial terminal. It's ridiculous.
You could say the same about the actual serial ports on some motherboards. I have a hard time transferring files to my Apple IIgs over the serial port on my tower at any decent rate. With my old thinkpad, I can crank up the baud with no problem. Same cable, same software, same hardware on the receiving end. Only thing I can figure is that they half-assed the serial port on my mobo since no one really uses them anymore.
Entropy and time may be related, but are they identical? Does one unit of time always equal the same increase in entropy? Can we convert time units into entropy units and simplify the Gibbs free energy equation?
Tits? seriously? Piss doesn't seem like a swear word anymore either.
Tits doesn't even belong on the list, you know. It's such a friendly sounding word. It sounds like a nickname. 'Hey, Tits, come here. Tits, meet Toots, Toots, Tits, Tits, Toots.' It sounds like a snack doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is, right. But I don't mean the sexist snack, I mean, New Nabisco Tits. The new Cheese Tits, and Corn Tits and Pizza Tits, Sesame Tits Onion Tits, Tater Tits, Yeah. Betcha can't eat just one. That's true I usually switch off . But I mean that word does not belong on the list.
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The reason Piss and Cunt are on the list is that a long time ago certain ladies said 'Those are the two I am not going to say. I don't mind Fuck and Shit, but P and C are out. P and C are out.' Which led to such stupid sentences as 'OK, you fuckers, I am going to tinkle now.'
Street View could potentially remove the need to *visit* a location before robbing it
You could make the exact same argument against maps. Publishing a map could potentially remove the need to find your way to 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.
It's not privacy infringement if you choose to tell the world when you're away from home.
I want a release form saying that it's okay to use images of MY property for THEIR gain.
Sorry, that's public light reflecting off your house and it's being captured from a public location. You have no right to tell anyone what to do with it. If you want that much privacy, build a wall.
The public interest is just the sum of many personal interests. Everyone can look up destinations on street view, and it makes everyone's lives that much easier. That's in the public interest.
While Windows has the best hardware support coverage among all operating systems
That's not true. Linux supports a much greater set of hardware. Since we're not at the mercy of the vendor to keep their drivers updated, Linux is often able to support old hardware that new versions of Windows won't. Not to mention all the architectures Linux has been ported to.
Audio for one. BSD audio mixes everything in the kernel with no nasty incompatible user space audio servers. Ever had a Linux app refuse to play audio because it was configured for ESD while you happen to be playing something through ALSA? It should "just work" and on BSD it does.
Sounds like you get a lot of redundant libraries that way. Why not just go back to statically linking everything if you're going to do that? The proper solution is to support multiple versions of a library in your package manager. I don't know why package managers don't do that.
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
But there is public interest in having Street View. With street view I can check out actual pictures of the intersections and buildings near my destination, and it's that much easier to find my way around. There are really no privacy implications because you're in public anyway.
"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."
What's unreasonable about that? 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.
A timeshifter allows you to view a stream of data at a point in time other than what it is also simultaneously chronicling. View and Chronicle are separate timelines. This is impossible with a VCR.
My VCR has a "TV/VCR" button that allows exactly that.
So they get a warrant, run a search, and find nothing. Ohnoes, what a hardship
Right, and meanwhile I have no access to any of my computers. My neighbors are gossiping, word could get back to my employer who might not want to have a suspected child pornographer on his payroll, etc, etc. The costs of a false allegation of anything remotely related to child sexual abuse are huge. Nobody cares that you were never even charged. Where there's smoke there's fire, right? That's how most people think.
Now, granted, there are obvious flaws with this ruling. But the case was *not* ruled the way it was strictly because it rejected his reasoning that the WAP was open therefore it wasn't him. They ruled that way because they didn't buy his reasoning *combined* with the fact that he had child porn in his frickin' room.
I left out that detail because it's irrelevant. They wouldn't have found the CDs with child porn on them without the warrant in the first place. You can't use evidence obtained from a warrant to provide probable cause for the warrant in the first place. The only evidence you can consider is that which you have before the warrant is issued.
The only evidence they had that would amount to probable cause is illicit traffic going to his IP. If you have illicit traffic going to your IP, that is probable cause for a search, whether you initiated the traffic or not.
Heck, by this logic, I should put metal shutters on all the doors of my home and lock it down like a prison. After all, someone could just as easily break into my home and use my PC to download child porn, right?
Not at all. Fortifying your home comes with significant cost. Securing your wifi comes with no cost at all. Someone breaking into your home is a lot more likely to be detected, so it's a lot less likely to be attempted. I don't think the risk benefit analysis works out the same.
Hardcode it to fall back to slashdot.org. Make it browse at -1 and look for instructions in AC posts disguised as trolls. Make your trollish AC post from a public wifi behind 7 proxies.
Not yet, but it's just a matter of time. It's already been ruled that illicit traffic going to your IP is probable cause for a search, whether or not you have an open AP.
In particular, they didn't buy Perez's arguments that a "mere association between an IP address and a physical address is insufficient to establish probable cause"...
"In this case it is clear that there was a substantial basis to conclude that evidence of criminal activity would be found at 7608 Scenic Brook Drive," wrote the Court. "[T]hough it was possible that the transmissions originated outside of the residence to which the IP address was assigned, it remained likely that the source of the transmissions was inside that residence."
Now I don't know about you, but having a search warrant against me, having my computers confiscated, and being in the news as a suspected child pornographer is pretty damn bad, even if I'm never charged. The chances of that are very small, but the consequences so bad that it adds up to a considerable risk.
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And we're all better off for it too.
Yep, we just replaced a serial terminal for the scintillation counter in our lab. The backlight had gone out. I scrounged around for an old CRT terminal, plugged it in and away we went.
Couple days later the service technician came by, and installed a new serial terminal with a separate monitor. Took him 2 separate mornings to get the thing configured. What do we see on bootup? A windows logo. All that overhead for a simple serial terminal. It's ridiculous.
You could say the same about the actual serial ports on some motherboards. I have a hard time transferring files to my Apple IIgs over the serial port on my tower at any decent rate. With my old thinkpad, I can crank up the baud with no problem. Same cable, same software, same hardware on the receiving end. Only thing I can figure is that they half-assed the serial port on my mobo since no one really uses them anymore.
I think the lesson is that if we don't get a hold of population growth and energy consumption, we're all going to end up in slums.
Unless Ubisoft are utter morons
This is Ubisoft we're talking about.
It's a flight simulator, not a crash simulator.
Entropy and time may be related, but are they identical? Does one unit of time always equal the same increase in entropy? Can we convert time units into entropy units and simplify the Gibbs free energy equation?
Tits? seriously? Piss doesn't seem like a swear word anymore either.
RIP George, you dead fucker.
Street View could potentially remove the need to *visit* a location before robbing it
You could make the exact same argument against maps. Publishing a map could potentially remove the need to find your way to 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.
It's not privacy infringement if you choose to tell the world when you're away from home.
I want a release form saying that it's okay to use images of MY property for THEIR gain.
Sorry, that's public light reflecting off your house and it's being captured from a public location. You have no right to tell anyone what to do with it. If you want that much privacy, build a wall.
The public interest is just the sum of many personal interests. Everyone can look up destinations on street view, and it makes everyone's lives that much easier. That's in the public interest.
While Windows has the best hardware support coverage among all operating systems
That's not true. Linux supports a much greater set of hardware. Since we're not at the mercy of the vendor to keep their drivers updated, Linux is often able to support old hardware that new versions of Windows won't. Not to mention all the architectures Linux has been ported to.
Audio for one. BSD audio mixes everything in the kernel with no nasty incompatible user space audio servers. Ever had a Linux app refuse to play audio because it was configured for ESD while you happen to be playing something through ALSA? It should "just work" and on BSD it does.
Sounds like you get a lot of redundant libraries that way. Why not just go back to statically linking everything if you're going to do that? The proper solution is to support multiple versions of a library in your package manager. I don't know why package managers don't do that.
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
But there is public interest in having Street View. With street view I can check out actual pictures of the intersections and buildings near my destination, and it's that much easier to find my way around. There are really no privacy implications because you're in public anyway.
"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."
What's unreasonable about that? 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.
It would be a little more reasonable to say that "If you have something you don't want anyone to see, don't display it in a public area."
A timeshifter allows you to view a stream of data at a point in time other than what it is also simultaneously chronicling. View and Chronicle are separate timelines. This is impossible with a VCR.
My VCR has a "TV/VCR" button that allows exactly that.
It's been out for a while, have there been any patches to make it more stable? Are any expected?
At the normal distances you sit from a computer monitor, there's only so big you can make the monitor and keep the stuff on the edges readable.
So they get a warrant, run a search, and find nothing. Ohnoes, what a hardship
Right, and meanwhile I have no access to any of my computers. My neighbors are gossiping, word could get back to my employer who might not want to have a suspected child pornographer on his payroll, etc, etc. The costs of a false allegation of anything remotely related to child sexual abuse are huge. Nobody cares that you were never even charged. Where there's smoke there's fire, right? That's how most people think.
The oXbox doesn't support flash either, yet I can view redtube, youporn, etc with it. It does have trouble seeking however.
Now, granted, there are obvious flaws with this ruling. But the case was *not* ruled the way it was strictly because it rejected his reasoning that the WAP was open therefore it wasn't him. They ruled that way because they didn't buy his reasoning *combined* with the fact that he had child porn in his frickin' room.
I left out that detail because it's irrelevant. They wouldn't have found the CDs with child porn on them without the warrant in the first place. You can't use evidence obtained from a warrant to provide probable cause for the warrant in the first place. The only evidence you can consider is that which you have before the warrant is issued.
The only evidence they had that would amount to probable cause is illicit traffic going to his IP. If you have illicit traffic going to your IP, that is probable cause for a search, whether you initiated the traffic or not.
Heck, by this logic, I should put metal shutters on all the doors of my home and lock it down like a prison. After all, someone could just as easily break into my home and use my PC to download child porn, right?
Not at all. Fortifying your home comes with significant cost. Securing your wifi comes with no cost at all. Someone breaking into your home is a lot more likely to be detected, so it's a lot less likely to be attempted. I don't think the risk benefit analysis works out the same.
Hardcode it to fall back to slashdot.org. Make it browse at -1 and look for instructions in AC posts disguised as trolls. Make your trollish AC post from a public wifi behind 7 proxies.
Not yet, but it's just a matter of time. It's already been ruled that illicit traffic going to your IP is probable cause for a search, whether or not you have an open AP.
Now I don't know about you, but having a search warrant against me, having my computers confiscated, and being in the news as a suspected child pornographer is pretty damn bad, even if I'm never charged. The chances of that are very small, but the consequences so bad that it adds up to a considerable risk.
If I caught my neighbors using my wifi, I'd ask them how they cracked WPA2-AES.