The network effects of systems like Facebook and Google+ should not be ignored -- people who want to stay off of those systems may be forced to use those systems just to stay in touch with their friends.
Nobody is forcing you to use those services, or forcing you to keep in touch with friends. You make a decision to do so.
Despite being a rather avid Facebook user myself, I have many friends who do not use it, and somehow, despite 8000 kilometers separating us, we still manage to keep in touch.
people can and do get blacklisted for the wrong reasons all the time. in today's era of no-privacy, it's VERY easy. I'm no socialist, but it should be obvious that any entity in a position of power will abuse it eventually. whether it's corporate or government is irrelevant.
As evidenced by the nitwit about whom this article was written. He had power and abused it. It's wrong regardless of whether you're at the top or bottom of the food chain.
There are measures which can lead to a recall of government leaders. Problem is, you need to organize and the moment you do, somehow you end up on no-fly and other lists and if you wish to "legally" assemble into a group, you have to ask permission.
You, sir, are a coward. Show me an example of someone winding up on a no-fly list as a result of peaceable assembly. Yeah, I didn't think you had anything. In any case, if it's important to you, stand up for it and be damned with the excuses.
For the record, though, I don't personally believe that this is worth getting your knickers in a knot over.
Call up the police and get them to act on that. Go to the FBI website and report that IP address. Call the local Nigerian officials and tell them what has happened.
All of them will laugh at you and say, 'Never send money to someone without verifying their identity'. We blame the victim. We say, '*YOU* need to be smarter and avoid dangerous activities'.
In the end, as you point out, we CAN'T do anything else. And instructing somebody to think before acting in future situations isn't blaming the victim, it's protecting them against future incidents.
People need to take personal responsibility rather than falling for every get-rich-quick scam. As for identify theft and other cybercrimes, well, when other actions are possible (such as tracking the perpetrators within the country and arresting them) the FBI does that sort of thing. Not particularly well, yet, but their capabilities are improving.
No, a flat tax is a regressive tax. Meaning it has a higher impost on the less-able to pay in society, because the "flat tax" is a higher proportion of their total income.
Do you understand how a flat tax works? Everybody pays X% (let's say 25%) of their income.
So the rich man who pays 200k out of his 800k pays the same proportion of his salary as a poor man paying 5k on his 20k salary. Equal proportions.
People who are against the system label it as regressive, but that's just playing politics - such a term has a clearly negative connotation, and is used to make the idea look bad without needing to discuss it's merits or weaknesses.
Snobbery over American ignorance of geography always amuses me. The fact of the matter is that most people's knowledge of geography is limited to their own country and a few other countries which are important on the international stage. Nearly everyone could find India on a map, but only very few could do the same for, say, Lithuania or Azerbaijan.
In other words, don't expect the average person to know the geography of unimportant countries, like Belgium.
I'm American, yet I somehow am capable of understanding that Brussels isn't in Switzerland, just as many Europeans are capable of understanding that Miami isn't in New York.
* Apple is selling pretty much every iPhone they can make. * the iPhone (in various versions) is the single top-selling phone model, bar none. While overall, yes Android *phones* are selling equal-to-better, no single Android model is anywhere close to matching the iPhone. Therefore, why would Apple bother to chase just Samsung, and not LG, HTC, or a larger phone maker? * Suing over design won't achieve the premise in TFA... phone makers will just make it look/feel different to work around the stated patent(s). If Apple was truly chasing the goal of crippling Android as a whole, they'd be better off going after the *core* of Android (like, well, Oracle is doing. Speaking of which...) * Oracle is already working towards something that would achieve the same thing, but to provide Oracle an income stream - so why would Apple feel it had to do something similar, when Oracle is already doing it for them, and has been running that lawsuit long before Apple fired a shot across Samsung's bow?
Thank you. Further, Apple and Google are in different markets here; Apple is, as TFS even mentions, selling hardware (or more realistically, a hardware / software / "lifestyle" package). Google is (mostly) pushing an operating system. The fact that Android is getting a large(r) market share is not indicative of any kind of unpleasant outcome for Apple; they're exactly where they want to be, doing exactly what they want to do, and making money hand over fist.
You wouldn't be talking of Codex Alera, would you? I kinda liked those, though yes, the style was markedly different, I guess he was trying to experiment with a different style with those six. But not bad, just...different.
Yeah, that's what I meant. I found them hideous - though to each their own. The writing had no real suspense, the characters seemed shallow and one-dimensional, the plot made unbelievable jumps (unbelievable in terms of human nature; something I feel the Dresden files have a much better grip on), etc.
I tried converting my entire mp3 library to FLAC and couldn't hear any difference. It's just audiophiles circlejerking. I bet you all use golden audio cables and $500 cable stands, too.
"Sensible size mortgage" - that's zero. A $100,000 30-year loan at 5% interest takes $193255.20 to pay off. The real win is avoiding rent payment by living with somebody who owns their own place outright. Basements work well as any slashdotter should know:)
That's a bit of a skewed way of looking at it, though. That 190 grand is going to be worth significantly less in 30 years than it is now - inflation is what, 2 or 3% on average? Thus, you're looking at 5 thousand a year in current-day money - which should be achievable for anyone with a decent college degree.
The Malazan series is the most fascinating work of fantasy I've ever read. Highly recommended.
Butcher's Dresden Files are also highly entertaining and well written, though I strongly suggest avoiding his pure fantasy works (the name escapes me at the moment, but they're absolute crap, and I'm surprised they're written by the same man).
It's nothing to do with "good" or "evil", it's what you do with the results. If you hack, say, Hamas, and then use that information to your advantage, you are Black Hat. If you hack Hamas, then walk in through their front door with a report of how you owned them (pwned, pwnz0red, whatever) and how they can fix their systems, you are White Hat.
Not quite. If they REQUEST that you "hack" them and you do so, you're a white hat. If you do it without being asked, then you're a black hat. Walking through the door later is a CYA technique only.
Chairman of the "bored" is exactly what he'll be if you bring the IPV6 issue to him. Or maybe not - this concern should have been a part of your upgrade cycle for years, so you'd effectively be going to him and saying, "we didn't think about the future, and now we need millions to recover from our mistakes RIGHT NOW. Oh, I'm fired, aren't I?"
Executive Summary: Separation of Powers. Make sure that the person in charge of your servers is NOT in charge of backups and auditing. You want an environment that permits "no malevolent activities without collusion."
Thank you. I can't believe the number of posts about "keeping your admins happy." That's nonsense - the kind of person who's willing to do millions of dollars of damage to your business without thinking through the probable consequences is not the kind of person you can keep happy. He's unhinged in some fashion.
Separate powers. On highly critical environments, you can install software that prevents admins from taking certain actions without having another admin also supply credentials, creating a 4-eyes environment, but the first step is separating duties.
There are technical measures that can be taken; it's not all about keeping an antisocial person happy.
Not to jump on anyone's nerd rage too early in the process, but according to Facebook's terms and conditions (easily found via a Google search, but here's a direct link: http://www.facebook.com/terms.php) you do explicitly allow them to use your profile picture in advertising by using their service. Read point 10 - it directly states that you give that permission.
Note that it also says that you can opt out. So regardless of what this fear-mongering ITWorld article says, I would fully expect to retain that capacity. It's not even new - I saw friends pictures appearing in "friend finder" ads long ago, and figured out how to opt out. All that's changing is they're going to sell that service to 3rd parties now.
I'm ready for a new iphone, but you wont sell me one at a discount because you want to make me wait another year.
Guess what, If you want to keep me, in 1 year when I am off contract, You had better offer me a 32Gig iphone 4 for free or discount the service by $40.00 a month or I'm switching to Verizon.
And they know they'll have you back 2 years after that when you make the same statement to Verizon. People who are always looking for the cheapest option are not anybody's ideal customer, you know.:)
The introduction of the "phasing" mechanic has allowed it to appear like individual players have an actual effect on the game world.
Do you like that? I find it quite annoying, because it's transparent that I'm not actually having an effect, and that other users aren't seeing what I'm seeing.
I still think that Horizons, for all its faults, had the best mechanic I've ever seen for a player-impacted world/environment.
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The network effects of systems like Facebook and Google+ should not be ignored -- people who want to stay off of those systems may be forced to use those systems just to stay in touch with their friends.
Nobody is forcing you to use those services, or forcing you to keep in touch with friends. You make a decision to do so.
Despite being a rather avid Facebook user myself, I have many friends who do not use it, and somehow, despite 8000 kilometers separating us, we still manage to keep in touch.
people can and do get blacklisted for the wrong reasons all the time. in today's era of no-privacy, it's VERY easy. I'm no socialist, but it should be obvious that any entity in a position of power will abuse it eventually. whether it's corporate or government is irrelevant.
As evidenced by the nitwit about whom this article was written. He had power and abused it. It's wrong regardless of whether you're at the top or bottom of the food chain.
Moooo cares?
There are measures which can lead to a recall of government leaders. Problem is, you need to organize and the moment you do, somehow you end up on no-fly and other lists and if you wish to "legally" assemble into a group, you have to ask permission.
You, sir, are a coward. Show me an example of someone winding up on a no-fly list as a result of peaceable assembly. Yeah, I didn't think you had anything. In any case, if it's important to you, stand up for it and be damned with the excuses.
For the record, though, I don't personally believe that this is worth getting your knickers in a knot over.
Is that business class?
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Yes. In first class, they grope us.
Call up the police and get them to act on that.
Go to the FBI website and report that IP address.
Call the local Nigerian officials and tell them what has happened.
All of them will laugh at you and say, 'Never send money to someone without verifying their identity'. We blame the victim. We say, '*YOU* need to be smarter and avoid dangerous activities'.
In the end, as you point out, we CAN'T do anything else. And instructing somebody to think before acting in future situations isn't blaming the victim, it's protecting them against future incidents.
People need to take personal responsibility rather than falling for every get-rich-quick scam. As for identify theft and other cybercrimes, well, when other actions are possible (such as tracking the perpetrators within the country and arresting them) the FBI does that sort of thing. Not particularly well, yet, but their capabilities are improving.
No, a flat tax is a regressive tax. Meaning it has a higher impost on the less-able to pay in society, because the "flat tax" is a higher proportion of their total income.
Do you understand how a flat tax works? Everybody pays X% (let's say 25%) of their income.
So the rich man who pays 200k out of his 800k pays the same proportion of his salary as a poor man paying 5k on his 20k salary. Equal proportions.
People who are against the system label it as regressive, but that's just playing politics - such a term has a clearly negative connotation, and is used to make the idea look bad without needing to discuss it's merits or weaknesses.
Snobbery over American ignorance of geography always amuses me. The fact of the matter is that most people's knowledge of geography is limited to their own country and a few other countries which are important on the international stage. Nearly everyone could find India on a map, but only very few could do the same for, say, Lithuania or Azerbaijan.
In other words, don't expect the average person to know the geography of unimportant countries, like Belgium.
I'm American, yet I somehow am capable of understanding that Brussels isn't in Switzerland, just as many Europeans are capable of understanding that Miami isn't in New York.
...bit of a problem or four in it, though:
* Apple is selling pretty much every iPhone they can make.
* the iPhone (in various versions) is the single top-selling phone model, bar none. While overall, yes Android *phones* are selling equal-to-better, no single Android model is anywhere close to matching the iPhone. Therefore, why would Apple bother to chase just Samsung, and not LG, HTC, or a larger phone maker?
* Suing over design won't achieve the premise in TFA... phone makers will just make it look/feel different to work around the stated patent(s). If Apple was truly chasing the goal of crippling Android as a whole, they'd be better off going after the *core* of Android (like, well, Oracle is doing. Speaking of which...)
* Oracle is already working towards something that would achieve the same thing, but to provide Oracle an income stream - so why would Apple feel it had to do something similar, when Oracle is already doing it for them, and has been running that lawsuit long before Apple fired a shot across Samsung's bow?
Thank you. Further, Apple and Google are in different markets here; Apple is, as TFS even mentions, selling hardware (or more realistically, a hardware / software / "lifestyle" package). Google is (mostly) pushing an operating system. The fact that Android is getting a large(r) market share is not indicative of any kind of unpleasant outcome for Apple; they're exactly where they want to be, doing exactly what they want to do, and making money hand over fist.
Postal 2, I believe it was called "Capture the Snitch" or something like that,
Really? Cuz "Capture the Snatch" sounds a lot more interesting.
You wouldn't be talking of Codex Alera, would you? I kinda liked those, though yes, the style was markedly different, I guess he was trying to experiment with a different style with those six. But not bad, just...different.
Yeah, that's what I meant. I found them hideous - though to each their own. The writing had no real suspense, the characters seemed shallow and one-dimensional, the plot made unbelievable jumps (unbelievable in terms of human nature; something I feel the Dresden files have a much better grip on), etc.
I tried converting my entire mp3 library to FLAC and couldn't hear any difference. It's just audiophiles circlejerking. I bet you all use golden audio cables and $500 cable stands, too.
Is that +1 funny or -1 troll? I can't tell...
"Sensible size mortgage" - that's zero. A $100,000 30-year loan at 5% interest takes $193255.20 to pay off. The real win is avoiding rent payment by living with somebody who owns their own place outright. Basements work well as any slashdotter should know :)
That's a bit of a skewed way of looking at it, though. That 190 grand is going to be worth significantly less in 30 years than it is now - inflation is what, 2 or 3% on average? Thus, you're looking at 5 thousand a year in current-day money - which should be achievable for anyone with a decent college degree.
The Malazan series is the most fascinating work of fantasy I've ever read. Highly recommended.
Butcher's Dresden Files are also highly entertaining and well written, though I strongly suggest avoiding his pure fantasy works (the name escapes me at the moment, but they're absolute crap, and I'm surprised they're written by the same man).
It's nothing to do with "good" or "evil", it's what you do with the results. If you hack, say, Hamas, and then use that information to your advantage, you are Black Hat. If you hack Hamas, then walk in through their front door with a report of how you owned them (pwned, pwnz0red, whatever) and how they can fix their systems, you are White Hat.
Not quite. If they REQUEST that you "hack" them and you do so, you're a white hat. If you do it without being asked, then you're a black hat. Walking through the door later is a CYA technique only.
So much for innocent until proven guilty, eh?
I think that even in your little fantasy world, you should understand that most countries don't have access to nukes, let alone space tech.
Chairman of the "bored" is exactly what he'll be if you bring the IPV6 issue to him. Or maybe not - this concern should have been a part of your upgrade cycle for years, so you'd effectively be going to him and saying, "we didn't think about the future, and now we need millions to recover from our mistakes RIGHT NOW. Oh, I'm fired, aren't I?"
Executive Summary: Separation of Powers. Make sure that the person in charge of your servers is NOT in charge of backups and auditing. You want an environment that permits "no malevolent activities without collusion."
Thank you. I can't believe the number of posts about "keeping your admins happy." That's nonsense - the kind of person who's willing to do millions of dollars of damage to your business without thinking through the probable consequences is not the kind of person you can keep happy. He's unhinged in some fashion.
Separate powers. On highly critical environments, you can install software that prevents admins from taking certain actions without having another admin also supply credentials, creating a 4-eyes environment, but the first step is separating duties.
There are technical measures that can be taken; it's not all about keeping an antisocial person happy.
'so in short, a bunch of children threw a temper tantrum, and you want us to respect that?
Mod parent up. Jurisdiction, kids.
Post again as non-anonymous and I'll add instructions. :)
Not to jump on anyone's nerd rage too early in the process, but according to Facebook's terms and conditions (easily found via a Google search, but here's a direct link: http://www.facebook.com/terms.php) you do explicitly allow them to use your profile picture in advertising by using their service. Read point 10 - it directly states that you give that permission.
Note that it also says that you can opt out. So regardless of what this fear-mongering ITWorld article says, I would fully expect to retain that capacity. It's not even new - I saw friends pictures appearing in "friend finder" ads long ago, and figured out how to opt out. All that's changing is they're going to sell that service to 3rd parties now.
I'm ready for a new iphone, but you wont sell me one at a discount because you want to make me wait another year.
Guess what, If you want to keep me, in 1 year when I am off contract, You had better offer me a 32Gig iphone 4 for free or discount the service by $40.00 a month or I'm switching to Verizon.
And they know they'll have you back 2 years after that when you make the same statement to Verizon. People who are always looking for the cheapest option are not anybody's ideal customer, you know. :)
The introduction of the "phasing" mechanic has allowed it to appear like individual players have an actual effect on the game world.
Do you like that? I find it quite annoying, because it's transparent that I'm not actually having an effect, and that other users aren't seeing what I'm seeing.
I still think that Horizons, for all its faults, had the best mechanic I've ever seen for a player-impacted world/environment.