I like how cheap their plans are, and Sprint has very well pissed me off lately so I'm in the process of ditching them.
A girl sent me a 950KB picture yesterday that took my phone 18 minutes to download. The Sprint network in Phoenix blows. I'm not sure how to find the article now, but I seem to remember a survey from a couple years ago which claimed that Verizon had the best network in Phoenix. That may have changed though. All I know is that Sprint can't be bothered to put 4G service here, even though I have a 4G Sprint phone that's 2 and a half years old.
Don't knock meth until you've been about five days into a good bender having just finished coding something that ordinarily would have taken a month. One of your good months. The shit can be quite motivational if you are the rare breed that can control it.
You mean, "until you've spent five days without sleep, picking at your flesh until it bleeds, cleaning half of everything, and thinking that you coded something coherent, which you only notice after the dope wears off is nothing but an incoherent 50 page scribble about everything from soap to the cockroaches that live under your skin."
The shit can be quite motivational if you are the rare breed that can control it.
As someone who has spent his entire life in the (now former, thank gawd) meth capital of the US, I can say this with confidence - there is no such person, you filthy fucking dopehead. If there were, the Nazi's would have won WWII.
Now stop trying to sell me the TV you stole from my house 5 minutes ago and go get fucked.
No, they don't. looks at his gun Gun: Go kill someone! ... gun does not respond
see?
FYI, improperly designed medical implants really can kill people without outside intervention, unlike a gun.
As for your own data, I understand that you see people making money off you, but they really aren't making money off of you as they are from operating equipment that can make those observations.
Observations provided by me, my body, through a device I had to pay to have implanted.
What part of that sounds like I shouldn't be compensated? Hell, at least Google has enough conscience to give me a friggin' email account in exchange for mining my data, and they aren't even sticking their products in my chest.
I suppose that you could sell it, but I really don't see the harm in them using aggregate data that you are a part of, as long as you are in no way associated with it.
The harm is, not only am I not being paid for it, I'm being charged for the 'privilege' of generating all that money making data for them.
Would you take a job that made you pay to get in, then refused to compensate you for the work you did there, just because they pulled your name off the project paperwork? Because that's basically what Medtronic is doing here.
The fact that other people may get rich off of something incidental to what you are there for (testing) seems like not a good enough reason to force them to pay you for it.
Then there should be an opt-out option. Some of us (me) know better than to do work for free. Any work, passive or active.
Well, besides volunteer work.
FYI, they're also getting rich off selling you the device to begin with. I believe the appropriate idiom for this behavior is "Getting them coming and going."
Now, if you are saying that this aggregate data should either be free or not out there at all, then I could see it being free like census data.
Yea, that's an idea I could get on board with.
What I don't see is a realistic way you could get paid for the use of your data, except in some sort of scheme where you are part of a class.
I take it you're not an accountant? Don't worry, they're very good at figuring out just that sort of thing.
Likely there would be a monthly retainer fee written in to the device contract, based upon profitability of the aggregated data sales, divided by the number of participants. Of course, I myself am not an accountant... I am, however, married to one, so I'll definitely be bringing this topic up over tonight's dinner.
All this 'gun printing' talk is what's going to be used to help get 3dprinters banned or require a license to even buy/own. it's going to have controls slapped on it somewhere.
Stop fucking telling people that doing this shit guys. Until they are everywhere they are way easy to regulate and control.
You're not helping. serious.
Dear AC who cannot form a cogent sentence:
We refer you to the response given in Arkell v. Pressdram.
Actually, I'd even say the average crook is going to be look slicker and come across warmer than the average person. Kinda like I'd expect a professional boxer to have a stronger biceps than average.
Agreed, but what person do you see others shy away from on the street more readily - a guy in a nice suit, or that shaggy dude wearing 6 coats and mean-mugging everyone?
While I can see that being an issue in some cases, I treat generalized statements like yours with a fair amount of disdain, as they are based purely on subjective speculation and not reality or facts.
Not to mention, since some random Slashdot reader thought of it, don't you think our venerable lawmakers would as well (man, that one almost hurt to say)?
This could be a very simple process - the business would charge whatever the sales tax rate is for where it is headquartered (i.e., Walmart online customers would pay Bentonville, AR sales tax). This would work, for the most part, and be fairly easy for the vast majority of online retailers to implement.
Of course, this is the "lowest approval rating ever" Congress we're talking about. The same guys who claim to be able to fix the current fiscal mess (they created), but can't give us any details.
Expecting them to do the smart thing and follow Occam's Razor is like expecting a tree to grow wings and fly - not gonna happen.
Serial numbers on a gun by no means 'provide[s] responsibility for its use' - registered firearms are used for irresponsible shit every day.
The use isn't the point, anyway - the point was, why is it (legally) OK for third parties to sell my information by "stripping it of identifiable data," but I can't do it myself? In other words, if you or I were to "strip personally identifiable information" from a gun, then try and sell it, we'd be looking at hard time in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, but when a retailer does essentially the same thing, it's 'no harm, no foul, go ahead and make a quick buck.' WTFIUWT?
Besides, stripping the identifiable stuff doesn't change the fact that A) the data they're selling was generated (i.e., created, invented, produced, or any of a dozen other verbs that imply I should be paid for my work) by me, and B) I'm not getting a dime of it.
Thus is the main bitch I have about all this data-mining bullshit; as my sig indicates, if businesses are going to make money by mining my information, they damn well better be compensating me for it. Otherwise, it's theft, pure and simple.
Assuming one can 3D print an entire television, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think that they could, in process, redesign said mission critical transistors to function without the DRM component.
You're wrong on every single level. HIPPA applies to all records regardless of source. Just ask any HR department of any company anywhere in the US. I'm routinely dealing with HIPPA requirements in my IT department and we do nothing with the medical industry. Sorry but tossing out this type of nonsense is irresponsible.
Ironically, that's precisely the type of nonsense Medtronic is using to justify their own actions.
There is a large research market for de-identified data, regardless of its source. I suspect that is what is being sold. Even that is fairly well-regulated out of fear of HIPAA if nothing else.
Yet it's still a federal offense to file serial numbers off guns, even though there is a large market for de-identified guns.
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I like how cheap their plans are, and Sprint has very well pissed me off lately so I'm in the process of ditching them.
A girl sent me a 950KB picture yesterday that took my phone 18 minutes to download. The Sprint network in Phoenix blows. I'm not sure how to find the article now, but I seem to remember a survey from a couple years ago which claimed that Verizon had the best network in Phoenix. That may have changed though. All I know is that Sprint can't be bothered to put 4G service here, even though I have a 4G Sprint phone that's 2 and a half years old.
Of course, the question on all our minds:
How'd her boobs look?
How about:
Show us yours, we'll show you ours?
Fuck the Po-lice.
Agreed - I vote for a picture of Torvalds with his face painted up to look like Tux.
Don't knock meth until you've been about five days into a good bender having just finished coding something that ordinarily would have taken a month. One of your good months. The shit can be quite motivational if you are the rare breed that can control it.
You mean, "until you've spent five days without sleep, picking at your flesh until it bleeds, cleaning half of everything, and thinking that you coded something coherent, which you only notice after the dope wears off is nothing but an incoherent 50 page scribble about everything from soap to the cockroaches that live under your skin."
The shit can be quite motivational if you are the rare breed that can control it.
As someone who has spent his entire life in the (now former, thank gawd) meth capital of the US, I can say this with confidence - there is no such person, you filthy fucking dopehead. If there were, the Nazi's would have won WWII.
Now stop trying to sell me the TV you stole from my house 5 minutes ago and go get fucked.
Well... guns can kill people
No, they don't.
looks at his gun Gun: Go kill someone!
... gun does not respond
see?
FYI, improperly designed medical implants really can kill people without outside intervention, unlike a gun.
As for your own data, I understand that you see people making money off you, but they really aren't making money off of you as they are from operating equipment that can make those observations.
Observations provided by me, my body, through a device I had to pay to have implanted.
What part of that sounds like I shouldn't be compensated? Hell, at least Google has enough conscience to give me a friggin' email account in exchange for mining my data, and they aren't even sticking their products in my chest.
I suppose that you could sell it, but I really don't see the harm in them using aggregate data that you are a part of, as long as you are in no way associated with it.
The harm is, not only am I not being paid for it, I'm being charged for the 'privilege' of generating all that money making data for them.
Would you take a job that made you pay to get in, then refused to compensate you for the work you did there, just because they pulled your name off the project paperwork? Because that's basically what Medtronic is doing here.
The fact that other people may get rich off of something incidental to what you are there for (testing) seems like not a good enough reason to force them to pay you for it.
Then there should be an opt-out option. Some of us (me) know better than to do work for free. Any work, passive or active.
Well, besides volunteer work.
FYI, they're also getting rich off selling you the device to begin with. I believe the appropriate idiom for this behavior is "Getting them coming and going."
Now, if you are saying that this aggregate data should either be free or not out there at all, then I could see it being free like census data.
Yea, that's an idea I could get on board with.
What I don't see is a realistic way you could get paid for the use of your data, except in some sort of scheme where you are part of a class.
I take it you're not an accountant? Don't worry, they're very good at figuring out just that sort of thing.
Likely there would be a monthly retainer fee written in to the device contract, based upon profitability of the aggregated data sales, divided by the number of participants. Of course, I myself am not an accountant... I am, however, married to one, so I'll definitely be bringing this topic up over tonight's dinner.
Excellent, poignant rant nonetheless.
Kudos.
The real question is why do we need more firepower? How do highly evolved highly intelligent people benefit from this?
You would know, if you were one :P
j/k
All this 'gun printing' talk is what's going to be used to help get 3dprinters banned or require a license to even buy/own. it's going to have controls slapped on it somewhere.
Stop fucking telling people that doing this shit guys. Until they are everywhere they are way easy to regulate and control.
You're not helping. serious.
Dear AC who cannot form a cogent sentence:
We refer you to the response given in Arkell v. Pressdram.
If we are going to use printers to make weapons why aren't we making non-lethal weapons at least?
Um... because lethal one's are easier?
Seriously, what kind of non-lethal weapon could you even make with a 3D printer? a plastic stick?
Actually, I'd even say the average crook is going to be look slicker and come across warmer than the average person. Kinda like I'd expect a professional boxer to have a stronger biceps than average.
Agreed, but what person do you see others shy away from on the street more readily - a guy in a nice suit, or that shaggy dude wearing 6 coats and mean-mugging everyone?
While I can see that being an issue in some cases, I treat generalized statements like yours with a fair amount of disdain, as they are based purely on subjective speculation and not reality or facts.
Not to mention, since some random Slashdot reader thought of it, don't you think our venerable lawmakers would as well (man, that one almost hurt to say)?
Glen Beck isn't media, he is entertainment. Same as Limbaugh.
Good luck convincing their audiences of that.
Audiences which include some highly influential people...
Called the anterior insula, this structure — which fires up in response to the face of an unsavory character
Just because someone's shady looking, does not mean they're a thief. The inverse holds true as well.
Truth be told, most-if-not-all of us have been robbed of far more by white guys in suits, rather than black guys in hoodies.
Wabbit season.
Our media doesn't say shit like on the day Obama was born... a cold shiver went down Chuck Norris' spine.
I dunno, Glenn Beck does still have a radio show.
This could be a very simple process - the business would charge whatever the sales tax rate is for where it is headquartered (i.e., Walmart online customers would pay Bentonville, AR sales tax). This would work, for the most part, and be fairly easy for the vast majority of online retailers to implement.
Of course, this is the "lowest approval rating ever" Congress we're talking about. The same guys who claim to be able to fix the current fiscal mess (they created), but can't give us any details.
Expecting them to do the smart thing and follow Occam's Razor is like expecting a tree to grow wings and fly - not gonna happen.
Feels a lot like a beta for how the steam box is going to act. That is why this is cool, not because it magically enables you to connect to a TV.
Exactly my thoughts when trying the beta out myself.
If I didn't already have a pretty beastly HTPC setup, I might just be tempted to build a custom 'Steam Console' just for shits n' giggles.
Serial numbers on a gun by no means 'provide[s] responsibility for its use' - registered firearms are used for irresponsible shit every day.
The use isn't the point, anyway - the point was, why is it (legally) OK for third parties to sell my information by "stripping it of identifiable data," but I can't do it myself? In other words, if you or I were to "strip personally identifiable information" from a gun, then try and sell it, we'd be looking at hard time in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison, but when a retailer does essentially the same thing, it's 'no harm, no foul, go ahead and make a quick buck.' WTFIUWT?
Besides, stripping the identifiable stuff doesn't change the fact that A) the data they're selling was generated (i.e., created, invented, produced, or any of a dozen other verbs that imply I should be paid for my work) by me, and B) I'm not getting a dime of it.
Thus is the main bitch I have about all this data-mining bullshit; as my sig indicates, if businesses are going to make money by mining my information, they damn well better be compensating me for it. Otherwise, it's theft, pure and simple.
Not as much of a moron as someone who posts such a statement, 2 hours after I make that very point myself.
Assuming one can 3D print an entire television, it's not a stretch of the imagination to think that they could, in process, redesign said mission critical transistors to function without the DRM component.
You're wrong on every single level. HIPPA applies to all records regardless of source. Just ask any HR department of any company anywhere in the US. I'm routinely dealing with HIPPA requirements in my IT department and we do nothing with the medical industry. Sorry but tossing out this type of nonsense is irresponsible.
Ironically, that's precisely the type of nonsense Medtronic is using to justify their own actions.
The investors/shareholders in MedicalCompany have taken issue with your failure to monetize data and are now going to sue.
Says Morbo:
Investments do not work that way! GOODNIGHT!
Yea, in retrospect the government-sponsored duopoly of cellular carriers was probably not the most effective example to open with...
There is a large research market for de-identified data, regardless of its source. I suspect that is what is being sold. Even that is fairly well-regulated out of fear of HIPAA if nothing else.
Yet it's still a federal offense to file serial numbers off guns, even though there is a large market for de-identified guns.