The vast majority of Americans likely don't understand what legal repurcussions and violations are being propagated against them in the name of 'fighting terrorism' and 'security'.
The truly sad part is they end up supporting it out of social pressure, lest they be thought of by their peers as I patriotic. It's a self-fulfilling cycle of idiocy.
Completely agree with this, except I don't think there's a lot of social pressure. I think they are mostly just happy not to think about it too much. It's terrifying to think how little a splash something like Watergate would have today.
Hahahahahahahahaha. You must be checking those government polls...
If the polls are wrong, where's the outrage? Most of the taxpaying, voting citizens in my little slice of the world agree with those polls. They've never heard of/. and would think Reddit is the same thing as 4chan, except they've never heard of them, either. The cold, hard truth is the vast, silent majority of Americans are apathetic about personal privacy.
But how many of the things I don't need can so easily be used to kill? if you own a gun you have the power to easily tkae the life of a human, so you should be tracked to make sure you never use that ability. Guns have no reason purpose in today's society, in fact the only real reason for owning one is to give yourself the ability to take life.
That's a very myopic and narrow-minded view of gun ownership. There are multiple Olympic events involving firearms. Unless you believe the Olympics is a training program for murderers, you must concede there are recreational and sporting aspects to shooting.
People do not need guns, name three things that people NEED guns for, by NEED I mean they can't do by other means. I'm having an extremely difficult time coming up with a list.
There's a very, very long list of things we likely both have that neither of us needs. I don't understand your point.
If you're using the thing recreationally you can store them on a gun club's premesis. The only vaguely decent argument about having them in your house is the self-defence one. Face it; the real reason "recreational" gun users want the things in their homes is so they can stroke them as if it's their penis.
I'm sorry, but you keep saying things that demonstrate your lack of understanding. You should take more time to examine your arguments, as they appear to be based entirely on your emotions and not at all on facts. Obviously there's nothing to discuss with your penis-stroking opinion. Great job on continuing the cycle of non-dialog. You're sure to be part of the solution.
"Never point a gun (doesn't matter if it is loaded or not) at or near a person"
Isn't that a bit like teaching someone they should never drive their car on or near a public road?
You've demonstrated a profound misunderstanding of the millions of people who use firearms recreationally. For those, who are the overwhelming majority, basic gun safety principals dictate never pointing a firearm at a person.
One of the reasons gun control proponents have a hard time moving their agenda forward is because they're demonstrably uninformed.
No shit, how the hell have we gotten to the point where every accident report is accompanied with that phrase.
Because, in the hours between when a thing happens and when something is actually known about what happened, the talking head in the news room has to keep talking. Even if what they say is completely inane.
$5000 might be reasonable for a bit of work copying some data to some disks, but it is not nearly enough to cover being known as an evil traitor everyone in the world. His reputation is now destroyed and is essentially unemployable in any company or organization that cares about its own image.
Not everyone likes or even respects Wikileaks. Even here.
At first I felt the same way you did, that the California Prop 8 case set a precedent that citizens could not bring challenges. That isn't what happened though; the citizens were unable to demonstrate that they were damaged, except in a hypothetical sense, and since they were not harmed they had no basis to a challenge. If, in the future, they are able to show how gay marriage has harmed them, they could appeal again.
Calm and measured explanations of just what the coders are doing wrong would be ever so much more helpful. If all Linus is going to do is mouth off then perhaps it's time he just STFU and GTFO.
If there was tampering, why is it the assumption of the education board doing the tampering? Maybe other students found this obviously easy "hack" but improved upon the method to actually modify the data.
Two problems with that theory.
1) His "hack" was basically just looking at the JavaScript to learn the public URLs containing each individual's results. 2) The number of students improving upon this (discovering and exploiting the database) to the point of manipulating data would be tens of thousands.
It sounds more like these settlements are paying off for the defendants. Papa John's pulled off an especially neat trick there, getting the court to accept pizza the customers don't want in lieu of statutory damages.
It's typical for the company's products or services to be offered in a settlement (as opposed to ruling).
BTW, it took the NBA 14 years to land a season TV deal after they formed the league. Multi-player FPS games didn't even exist until 1996, much less professional leagues around the genre.
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Or right forgot, it was just a marketing slogan.
...for Google, not Intel.
don't care?
The vast majority of Americans likely don't understand what legal repurcussions and violations are being propagated against them in the name of 'fighting terrorism' and 'security'.
The truly sad part is they end up supporting it out of social pressure, lest they be thought of by their peers as I patriotic. It's a self-fulfilling cycle of idiocy.
Completely agree with this, except I don't think there's a lot of social pressure. I think they are mostly just happy not to think about it too much. It's terrifying to think how little a splash something like Watergate would have today.
I didn't say they were right, or that I agreed with them in the slightest. Just that they don't care.
But they DO care.
And claiming otherwise is either the action of a fool or a stooge. ...
Maybe you are being paid to make the erroneous claims you have made
Yeah, you got me. I've been a paid government shill here on /. for more well over a decade. I don't know why I even bother replying to ACs.
The cold, hard truth is the vast, silent majority of Americans are apathetic about personal privacy.
Actually, the cold hard truth is that the vast majority of Americans are idiots, and you are included.
I didn't say they were right, or that I agreed with them in the slightest. Just that they don't care.
Hahahahahahahahaha. You must be checking those government polls...
If the polls are wrong, where's the outrage? Most of the taxpaying, voting citizens in my little slice of the world agree with those polls. They've never heard of /. and would think Reddit is the same thing as 4chan, except they've never heard of them, either. The cold, hard truth is the vast, silent majority of Americans are apathetic about personal privacy.
But how many of the things I don't need can so easily be used to kill? if you own a gun you have the power to easily tkae the life of a human, so you should be tracked to make sure you never use that ability. Guns have no reason purpose in today's society, in fact the only real reason for owning one is to give yourself the ability to take life.
That's a very myopic and narrow-minded view of gun ownership. There are multiple Olympic events involving firearms. Unless you believe the Olympics is a training program for murderers, you must concede there are recreational and sporting aspects to shooting.
People do not need guns, name three things that people NEED guns for, by NEED I mean they can't do by other means. I'm having an extremely difficult time coming up with a list.
There's a very, very long list of things we likely both have that neither of us needs. I don't understand your point.
If you're using the thing recreationally you can store them on a gun club's premesis. The only vaguely decent argument about having them in your house is the self-defence one. Face it; the real reason "recreational" gun users want the things in their homes is so they can stroke them as if it's their penis.
I'm sorry, but you keep saying things that demonstrate your lack of understanding. You should take more time to examine your arguments, as they appear to be based entirely on your emotions and not at all on facts. Obviously there's nothing to discuss with your penis-stroking opinion. Great job on continuing the cycle of non-dialog. You're sure to be part of the solution.
If you own a gun you should be tagged and tracked period!
I was so moved by your thoughtful and well-reasoned argument that I am responding in kind. You are a poo-poo head.
"Never point a gun (doesn't matter if it is loaded or not) at or near a person"
Isn't that a bit like teaching someone they should never drive their car on or near a public road?
You've demonstrated a profound misunderstanding of the millions of people who use firearms recreationally. For those, who are the overwhelming majority, basic gun safety principals dictate never pointing a firearm at a person.
One of the reasons gun control proponents have a hard time moving their agenda forward is because they're demonstrably uninformed.
If you follow the links in TFA the data quoted is from 2010.
No shit, how the hell have we gotten to the point where every accident report is accompanied with that phrase.
Because, in the hours between when a thing happens and when something is actually known about what happened, the talking head in the news room has to keep talking. Even if what they say is completely inane.
What problems could unionization of the tech industry solve?
Step 1: Unionize! Workers unite!
Step 2: Elect union overlords.
Step 3: Pay dues.
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Rejoice!
$5000 might be reasonable for a bit of work copying some data to some disks, but it is not nearly enough to cover being known as an evil traitor everyone in the world. His reputation is now destroyed and is essentially unemployable in any company or organization that cares about its own image.
Not everyone likes or even respects Wikileaks. Even here.
Since this was created at a University it is unclear on which company will attempt to patent it first. Any bets? Should be start a pool?
Why wouldn't the university patent this? That would be what normally happens.
That, and if someone uses a 10" tablet as a camera they probably aren't the sort that cares much about picture quality anyway.
At first I felt the same way you did, that the California Prop 8 case set a precedent that citizens could not bring challenges. That isn't what happened though; the citizens were unable to demonstrate that they were damaged, except in a hypothetical sense, and since they were not harmed they had no basis to a challenge. If, in the future, they are able to show how gay marriage has harmed them, they could appeal again.
Nothing distracts the sheep from the unlimited surveillance than homosexuality and abortions.
HEY LOOK GAY SQUIRREL!
You do realize that the dates of SCOTUS decisions are known months ahead of time?
Yes but still in the context of 'news for nerds'.
I've been around these parts a long time, and I fully expected Slashdot would post this story.
I love it. I'm calling Twinkies "American eclairs" from here out.
Noooo! Slapping a French name on a shitty American product is why Americans think Chablis is terrible wine that comes in big glass jugs. Or boxes.
I came here hoping to see slashdotters opining on how startups are entitled to VC money, and how VCs are greedy fat cats.
Please dont disappoint me, folks.
Damn those VC's, doing their stupid due diligence when they risk enormous amounts of money on unproven technology. Money wants to be free!
Calm and measured explanations of just what the coders are doing wrong would be ever so much more helpful. If all Linus is going to do is mouth off then perhaps it's time he just STFU and GTFO.
I think he should take your advice. Clearly his methods have been unsuccessful.
If there was tampering, why is it the assumption of the education board doing the tampering? Maybe other students found this obviously easy "hack" but improved upon the method to actually modify the data.
Two problems with that theory.
1) His "hack" was basically just looking at the JavaScript to learn the public URLs containing each individual's results.
2) The number of students improving upon this (discovering and exploiting the database) to the point of manipulating data would be tens of thousands.
It sounds more like these settlements are paying off for the defendants. Papa John's pulled off an especially neat trick there, getting the court to accept pizza the customers don't want in lieu of statutory damages.
It's typical for the company's products or services to be offered in a settlement (as opposed to ruling).
BTW, it took the NBA 14 years to land a season TV deal after they formed the league. Multi-player FPS games didn't even exist until 1996, much less professional leagues around the genre.