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If Google had gone with this one, they would have gotten screws upfront.
But seriously, all of those "features" mentioned have been around for years (decades even). Apple didn't invent them, they just slapped them in a phone, and even at that they weren't the first.
It's this kind of hard hitting, no holds barred, painstaking research that makes me proud to see nanny sites like this. I don't know if I could ever take the time, or put forth the effort, to dig deep enough to find admitted and well documented conflicts of interest like this. They even took the time to present it to us in a that makes us want to believe in their hard work. Truly amazing.
(The preceding is entirely a work of sarcasm.)
Maybe I just old, but pencil and paper. Or, if you're really tech savvy, type it out on a typewriter. For those of us from the future, we can make a document, print it, and then not save it.
Probably the most secure system ever created, assuming you don't leave it lying around.
Obviously they have the power to bring the dead back to life. Now we have to worry about Zombie Ding-Dong's, Zombie Ho-Ho's, and Zombie Cupcakes.
Twinkies are immortal and therefore can not be Zombies, although that raises other questions about them.....
I wonder how the person who wrote this can do so with a clean conscience? It just give people yet another thing to stress over when they can't really do anything about it.
We have two options.
1) Use technology
2) Don't use technology
While option one MAY cause people to fret, after this article, there is not much anyone can do about it. Option 2 is definitely viable, but uncomfortable for many many people.
I swear to the Tech Gods that if ANYONE comes out with "organic technology" I will personally use my homeopathic c-clamp to crush their testicles.
I disagree. While I do not like the thought of the government being able to look through my digital documents, how is it any different than keeping paper documentation? If I have a locked file cabinet filled with evidence the police can, with a proper warrant, sieze said cabinet, open it up and search it. At it's core, an encrypted hard drive is not much different from the aforementioned cabinet. A change in technology, paper to silicon, should not exempt people from the laws of society.
I wouldn't call that an understatement. It was probably the most accurate statement in the whole piece. He was 100% correct although looking back on it from 2011 it seemsa bit nieve. I doubt anyone at that time could have imagined all that it is now. Even the most optimistic internet researcher would have laughed at the concept of me writing this on my phone and having people all around the would read it in a matter of seconds, but that is how far it has come. In another 17 years we will all be able to look back and say the same about whatever new technology we have then. It is the way of the human race.
Publishing and/or reporting on classified materials is espionage/treason. Reporters aren't stupid, they will usually keep piddly shit to themselves, and only risk jail time for serious news. Wikileaks distributed a bunch of information of which 75% is shit.
"American Ambassador thinks Polish Ambassador is a poopy-head" is not something an actual reporter would even care about.
World governments are like children at a play ground. Wikileaks disclosed some serious secrets, but what pissed governments off was the little crap. If someone slaps you in the face you get pissed and wants to fight back. If someone puts a gun to your head, and you live, you try and put things back together and how you never see them again.
What do you mean by "right"? Are we talking morally, or logically?
Morally, Assange is still alive. The US hasn't killed him yet, so that's a good thing.
Logically, he should gave been taken out before anyone knew how he was. No fame no martyr. In that case, this was a huge fuck up.
You just illustrated his point perfectly.
rhavin was trying to point out how other groups use the US, and the things they do, to distract from the bad things these other groups do. Stop being such a hypocrite. Just because the US is supposed to be civilized and still does horrible things, does not make it acceptable for other countries to do.
Hey, they only do that in Alaska. We in the lower 48 can't spare the Grizzly Bears. We need them to entertain our children by riding on unicycles and juggling.
Then why is he still alive? Neither Saddam not Bin Laden ever left their respective countries on anything other than a camel and a walking path. I doubt that Assange travels that way, and can probably be tracked by many counties. If we are to that these nations can smear someone so easily, then tracking should be simple. If they truly wanted him dead, he would be. However, of the countless individual lives he has touched, I would imagine there are one or two who are pissed off and crazy enough to try something. These are the people he should be afraid of, if he is not than he is a fool.
I guess Sweden doesn't make condoms like they make cars. I can't guarantee that if he had wrapped it up with a Volvo, he wouldn't have had to worry about it breaking anytime soon.
The incidents *supposedly* occurred in August. But the women in question didn't turn up at the police station until a week after he released his first batch of Iraq War leaks. I'm sure the timing was just a coincidence, of course.
OR, they thought they could cash in on his new found fame in the media. People have been doing it for years/generations in the United States. The Swedes just caught on and picked this one up before any American girls did.
Except that for the most part science is "controlled" by a self-selected elite. Not too much evidence of a difference between that an other human hierarchies where the folk at the top dominate everything whether they are in the right or the wrong. If you don't think one of their theories is correct good luck to you in getting anything together to challenge it, unless you have access to a powerful rival to support you.
Unless you're independently wealthy/resourced then you don't get to do what isn't "approved" and even that has its problems as if you're outside the circled wagons you won't be treated seriously, even if you are right!
Except that it's not. Science isn't some book that can't be questioned. It, mostly, changes with time. Usually, if a theory is wrong, someone will eventually refine it, but it takes time, effort, and a willingness to defend your hypothesis with more than just name calling. It also requires an education. In many cases, to be accepted in a particular field of study one must have axially studied it. This is not always the case, but the two have a strong correlation.
The majority of gamers are right handed and that's that way games have been developed for decades, that's right decades. Atari 2600, video arcade machines, the Jaguar, they were all designed for right handers. Not only that, they were all designed the same. Joystick on the left, buttons on the right. That is how most of us learned, and it took a bit to be able to do it all correctly. It's the learning curve that comes with picking up a new game or system. It's tradition, and a bit of economics.
I highly doubt that most of the people that read this site think that Apple is incompetent. Sure they have made huge mistakes in the past, every company does, but that doesn't mean that they are going to do it forever. The point is that they do this stuff, in this case locking it up so tight Baptist parents are jealous, and then being praised for doing what they should have done in the first place. They even had a federal inquiry started because of how anal they were being. Did anyone praise the Nazis for releasing everyone they had in their concentration camps? No, and why should anyone.
This is eerily similar to Microsoft being praised for Windows 7 after pushing Vista. Sure the situation is completely different, but praising a company for finally listening to consumers is the wrong way to go about it.
He has, for the most part, ruined his reputation. Even if he didn't actually blame the CIA that's not what people will remember. Unless it returns out that the CIA actually did attempt to discredit him, it's going to take years to recover, if his reputation ever can. That and getting Amnesty International on his case and then coming out basically saying "not my problem".
Why not learn about IP and fair use at the same time. Change a couple of things around astheticaly and claim fair use. I realize this isn't the best way to handle it, but I'm a dick and this is how I would respond to assholes.
Hey, I played that game. It lasted for about 5 mins, then got switched to tanks. Which has helped me with conceptualizing angles, so I can scam people playing pool.
It may help to be an expert in order to provide useful data, but a persons level of knowledge should never limit the information they can obtain. If that were the case, only the most brilliant children would ever goto school which greatly limits the pool of knowledge and possibilities.
Unfortunately, with claims as large as Global Warming the scientists involved will be inundated with both insightful and asinine questions, the latter far more often than the former. This is just the way it is and as scientists we should be prepared for this. Not by limiting access to the knowledge/data, but by presenting it openly and willingly, and defending it or revising it as needed. Obviously one can expect the occasional individual who can not be dissuaded no matter the amount of information presented, but they would be there with our without the data.
On a personal note, and as a conclusion, I believe that there is only one case where a person should be ignored and our denied access to information. This is when the individual, not a group, ignores everything in front of them and goes after the person, not the data. This is, of course, a very personal and highly subjective case which I don't expect people to associate with or even understand.
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http://www.cheaplocks.co.uk/im... If Google had gone with this one, they would have gotten screws upfront. But seriously, all of those "features" mentioned have been around for years (decades even). Apple didn't invent them, they just slapped them in a phone, and even at that they weren't the first.
It's this kind of hard hitting, no holds barred, painstaking research that makes me proud to see nanny sites like this. I don't know if I could ever take the time, or put forth the effort, to dig deep enough to find admitted and well documented conflicts of interest like this. They even took the time to present it to us in a that makes us want to believe in their hard work. Truly amazing. (The preceding is entirely a work of sarcasm.)
Maybe I just old, but pencil and paper. Or, if you're really tech savvy, type it out on a typewriter. For those of us from the future, we can make a document, print it, and then not save it. Probably the most secure system ever created, assuming you don't leave it lying around.
Obviously they have the power to bring the dead back to life. Now we have to worry about Zombie Ding-Dong's, Zombie Ho-Ho's, and Zombie Cupcakes. Twinkies are immortal and therefore can not be Zombies, although that raises other questions about them.....
Different type of organic. It is actually used properly in this particular instance.
I doubt the Amish would consider what they do organic technology.
I wonder how the person who wrote this can do so with a clean conscience? It just give people yet another thing to stress over when they can't really do anything about it. We have two options. 1) Use technology 2) Don't use technology While option one MAY cause people to fret, after this article, there is not much anyone can do about it. Option 2 is definitely viable, but uncomfortable for many many people. I swear to the Tech Gods that if ANYONE comes out with "organic technology" I will personally use my homeopathic c-clamp to crush their testicles.
I disagree. While I do not like the thought of the government being able to look through my digital documents, how is it any different than keeping paper documentation? If I have a locked file cabinet filled with evidence the police can, with a proper warrant, sieze said cabinet, open it up and search it. At it's core, an encrypted hard drive is not much different from the aforementioned cabinet. A change in technology, paper to silicon, should not exempt people from the laws of society.
I wouldn't call that an understatement. It was probably the most accurate statement in the whole piece. He was 100% correct although looking back on it from 2011 it seemsa bit nieve. I doubt anyone at that time could have imagined all that it is now. Even the most optimistic internet researcher would have laughed at the concept of me writing this on my phone and having people all around the would read it in a matter of seconds, but that is how far it has come. In another 17 years we will all be able to look back and say the same about whatever new technology we have then. It is the way of the human race.
Publishing and/or reporting on classified materials is espionage/treason. Reporters aren't stupid, they will usually keep piddly shit to themselves, and only risk jail time for serious news. Wikileaks distributed a bunch of information of which 75% is shit. "American Ambassador thinks Polish Ambassador is a poopy-head" is not something an actual reporter would even care about. World governments are like children at a play ground. Wikileaks disclosed some serious secrets, but what pissed governments off was the little crap. If someone slaps you in the face you get pissed and wants to fight back. If someone puts a gun to your head, and you live, you try and put things back together and how you never see them again.
What do you mean by "right"? Are we talking morally, or logically? Morally, Assange is still alive. The US hasn't killed him yet, so that's a good thing. Logically, he should gave been taken out before anyone knew how he was. No fame no martyr. In that case, this was a huge fuck up.
You just illustrated his point perfectly. rhavin was trying to point out how other groups use the US, and the things they do, to distract from the bad things these other groups do. Stop being such a hypocrite. Just because the US is supposed to be civilized and still does horrible things, does not make it acceptable for other countries to do.
Hey, they only do that in Alaska. We in the lower 48 can't spare the Grizzly Bears. We need them to entertain our children by riding on unicycles and juggling.
Then why is he still alive? Neither Saddam not Bin Laden ever left their respective countries on anything other than a camel and a walking path. I doubt that Assange travels that way, and can probably be tracked by many counties. If we are to that these nations can smear someone so easily, then tracking should be simple. If they truly wanted him dead, he would be. However, of the countless individual lives he has touched, I would imagine there are one or two who are pissed off and crazy enough to try something. These are the people he should be afraid of, if he is not than he is a fool.
I guess Sweden doesn't make condoms like they make cars. I can't guarantee that if he had wrapped it up with a Volvo, he wouldn't have had to worry about it breaking anytime soon.
The incidents *supposedly* occurred in August. But the women in question didn't turn up at the police station until a week after he released his first batch of Iraq War leaks. I'm sure the timing was just a coincidence, of course.
OR, they thought they could cash in on his new found fame in the media. People have been doing it for years/generations in the United States. The Swedes just caught on and picked this one up before any American girls did.
Except that for the most part science is "controlled" by a self-selected elite. Not too much evidence of a difference between that an other human hierarchies where the folk at the top dominate everything whether they are in the right or the wrong. If you don't think one of their theories is correct good luck to you in getting anything together to challenge it, unless you have access to a powerful rival to support you.
Unless you're independently wealthy/resourced then you don't get to do what isn't "approved" and even that has its problems as if you're outside the circled wagons you won't be treated seriously, even if you are right!
Except that it's not. Science isn't some book that can't be questioned. It, mostly, changes with time. Usually, if a theory is wrong, someone will eventually refine it, but it takes time, effort, and a willingness to defend your hypothesis with more than just name calling. It also requires an education. In many cases, to be accepted in a particular field of study one must have axially studied it. This is not always the case, but the two have a strong correlation.
I believe I speak for everyone when I say "Fuck you George Lucas."
The majority of gamers are right handed and that's that way games have been developed for decades, that's right decades. Atari 2600, video arcade machines, the Jaguar, they were all designed for right handers. Not only that, they were all designed the same. Joystick on the left, buttons on the right. That is how most of us learned, and it took a bit to be able to do it all correctly. It's the learning curve that comes with picking up a new game or system. It's tradition, and a bit of economics.
I highly doubt that most of the people that read this site think that Apple is incompetent. Sure they have made huge mistakes in the past, every company does, but that doesn't mean that they are going to do it forever. The point is that they do this stuff, in this case locking it up so tight Baptist parents are jealous, and then being praised for doing what they should have done in the first place. They even had a federal inquiry started because of how anal they were being. Did anyone praise the Nazis for releasing everyone they had in their concentration camps? No, and why should anyone.
This is eerily similar to Microsoft being praised for Windows 7 after pushing Vista. Sure the situation is completely different, but praising a company for finally listening to consumers is the wrong way to go about it.
He has, for the most part, ruined his reputation. Even if he didn't actually blame the CIA that's not what people will remember. Unless it returns out that the CIA actually did attempt to discredit him, it's going to take years to recover, if his reputation ever can. That and getting Amnesty International on his case and then coming out basically saying "not my problem".
Why not learn about IP and fair use at the same time. Change a couple of things around astheticaly and claim fair use. I realize this isn't the best way to handle it, but I'm a dick and this is how I would respond to assholes.
Hey, I played that game. It lasted for about 5 mins, then got switched to tanks. Which has helped me with conceptualizing angles, so I can scam people playing pool.
It may help to be an expert in order to provide useful data, but a persons level of knowledge should never limit the information they can obtain. If that were the case, only the most brilliant children would ever goto school which greatly limits the pool of knowledge and possibilities. Unfortunately, with claims as large as Global Warming the scientists involved will be inundated with both insightful and asinine questions, the latter far more often than the former. This is just the way it is and as scientists we should be prepared for this. Not by limiting access to the knowledge/data, but by presenting it openly and willingly, and defending it or revising it as needed. Obviously one can expect the occasional individual who can not be dissuaded no matter the amount of information presented, but they would be there with our without the data. On a personal note, and as a conclusion, I believe that there is only one case where a person should be ignored and our denied access to information. This is when the individual, not a group, ignores everything in front of them and goes after the person, not the data. This is, of course, a very personal and highly subjective case which I don't expect people to associate with or even understand.