I've done enough work for companies in my years to know that zipcodes can be used to uniquely identify individuals. Since there are still parts of this country in which a person may own a very large piece of land and Zipcodes use the +4 to determine specific blocks within a zip code range, then all one needs is a name or the other info mentioned above to uniquely identify a person. This has been known by banks and the post office for as long as the +4 has been around. Banks have strict guidelines around uniquely identified people and what they must do if they are identified when dealing with offers of credit.
Netflix works with the post office for mass mailing, they would be aware of the ways to uniquely identify people.
You actually think that we could defuse the Super Volcano? Really? How much more of the earth and civilization would we destroy in trying to destroy the population killer. If what I've read is true about Super Volcanoes, we're pretty screwed when it blows it's stack. I'm sure there may be ways of finding a way to diminish damage, then why aren't we doing it on other active volcanoes. The study of Volcanoes is not and exact science, if we were to start now to find ways to diffuse you think that the people of the world would be willing to fund such an effort? Hell the American public can't stomach funding victims of Hurricane Katrina for more than a couple years. Do you really think the world would agree to help pay for the efforts now to defuse the Super Volcano that's in our backyard? Much less, do this for years and years and years? And since Volcanoes are pretty unpredictable for when they will errupt, we really wouldn't know how long it would be before a Super Volcano would errupt. Let's see a bill go before our current Congress, and the House and the freaking Tax Payers to fund the "Defusing" effort now for something that might not take place for another million years.
I don't want the civilization to end, I kinda dig my place in all of it, but getting this type of effort to start and completion before the big explosion would be like nailing Jello to a tree. Good luck. I say live life and enjoy it.
Several have suggested that we try to come up with a way to release pressure from the Super Volcano, but I can't see that helpful. The life of this planet depends upon this changes in the mantel and the crust, and trying to divert what happens in nature may cause larger problems for our population on this planet later. It amazes me that we think as a people that our lives on this planet are somehow more significant than other life forms. Yes we are evolved, and that would lead many to argue this point, but the reality is we are like ant to this planet. We've infested it with our population growths. The planet will do what the planet will do, and we're really just along for the ride.
I'm not a volcano expert nor am I any renound scientist, I'm an average person looking at the possiblity of life as I know it ceasing to exist. I don't look forward to a massive kill-off of the many life-forms on this planet. I don't, but I do feel that by messing with nature we will cause more problems than if we don't. But hey, this is only my take on the situation described. Meh!
Of course you can see a lot of problems with this. So can they. They are trying to consider it logistically. There would be hundreds of things to considers and they know this. But as more and more countries face these same technological challenges they will want to do something about the issues they face and this Global force may be their answer.
It is likely to happen at some point and there will be many legal challenges to the jurisdiction issues that will be faced, but eventually we'll have this in place and worked out the kinks and the world will face a new issue to tackle.
Are you really going to argue this when these scientists, whether through pressure or not have consipired to throw out evidence on global warming that doesn't fit their theories, and what they reported on was manipulated to suit their theories which are now being used for decision making on a global level? These decisions will affect us globally for years to come. You believe in the right to privacy, but I believe in pure science for science sake. If the data does not support the theories of global warming, then why is there a conference in Coppenhagen. MONEY, someone will make money off of this and you and I and everyone will pay the price for this global conspiracy of falsifying research data. By throwing out data you're falsifying results.
When you represent the world, this shouldn't be private.
As a Computer Scientist, I have experienced the ability to know something without being able to prove something it's called gut instinct. Sadly, gut instinct is not scientific or political, it's conjecture. If some of these scientist have a gut instinct then they should find a way to scientificly prove their theories. It's their duty as a scientist to accept that their theory could be incorrect.
I know I certainly and outraged and disgusted with scientists who let politics sway or intimidate them to toss out data that doesn't fit the conclusion to fit the theory. I'm horrified at the way those who disputed the norm have been treated, ignored and shunned. It's aweful. Sadly, those scientists who follow pure science will have to fight so much harder for credibility with the laymen, and this in my opinion is a sad time in history.
My next fear is how student in colleges will use this situation to manipulate the college system in the future, which will further degrade the comman person's trust in the scientific community. Sigh.
Every WoW player knows this. Screen-shot or it didn't happen. How many hours played? What's his gold amount collected? How many pets did he get? How many mounts? How many times did he die? Wouldn't getting every achievement mean he'd have had to change professions a few times over?
Social Networking sites are the type of tool that the govt. agencies have wanted for years now. It helps them with their investigations into cells of criminal activity. Consider how say the mob works. Vinny the Boss, hires Joe Schmo to do his job but uses cash at a drop zone. Well Joe has to have had some way of knowing to take the job from Vinny. So a Social networking site like application help piece Vinny and Joe to the same coffee shop that they frequent. Now think of the limitless potential power of investigation that can be performed. All legal, the info is public, so no warrants are necessary, the cells of criminals are oblivious as to how they are nabbed.
I can see it now, people will buy phones to make instant WiFi access to download illegal stuff, and then kill it as quick as it was created, leaving little tracebility to who downloaded what. And this could then put people at risk for being responsible for illegal downloads that they may not have actually had a hand in.
I'm so sick to death on hearing/reading/learning of people who post something on the internet and lose their job over it. Regardless of whether the post was fictional or real, the man was not posting anything about the school he worked for. He kept the language to not use profanity, and whether someone reads it as 'pussy' or 'cat' doesn't freaking matter. There is no excuse for our society today for making people lose their jobs because of their personal life. A job is what the average person works for 8 hours a day usually away from home.
I don't have to read the comments. The guy posted with an anonymous name. I call Shenanigans.
Conversely, here is my message to the world. If you're going to post on the web with all the knowledge we have today about how it is used against us, then you subject yourself to scrutiny, right or wrong, you do.
Driving is accessible to anyone who can pass the skills required to operate a motor vehicle and abide by the rules of the road for safety. This is why driving is considered a privilege not a right.
As I noted in the other reply I received, unless the govt is laying the infrastructure then this is mandating that companies to lay the infrastructure. Now, assuming Spain is a capitalist society, those companies are doing what all companies do, trying to make a profit to stay in business. If one chooses to live in the middle of a swamp, now it's mandated that millions of dollars must be spent to provide that one individual a right to broadband by laying down the infrastructure to that location. Logistics be dammed! Profits be dammed!
If your government is paying the bill, then as a tax paying citizen, I would likely be a bit miffed over the amount my bill would go up at the cost to provide Broadband to one individual who chooses to live in a swamp.
I didn't say buying a car, I said driving a car. That is an action the person can do.
As for the law against companies, who is going to be responsible for providing said broadband? Currently this is usually provided by private companies, and companies rely on profits, if companies are the only ones to are providing Broadband, then expenses for infrastructure are being laid upon private industry to fill the gap. Now if the government is flitting the bill, that's a different story.
Really? People see Broadband as a right? Really? It makes me wonder, why not make driving a car a right? That technology and privilege has been around for nearly a century. I'll tell you why, because it is only a privilege. Why should broadband become a right? What happens when Technology surpasses what it is today and it's no longer termed broadband, will they modify the law or create a new one? And isn't this just a law against companies?
If they truly believe in this predictions, then I say, let them kill themselves. People can choose to believe these predictions, or they can choose not to. If they choose to and want to end their lives to avoid it, then let them. There is no need to babysit these individuals who refuse to look at all the facts and not read into propaganda.
The FCC should back down. Leave the monitoring up to the parents. If the parents are overwhelmed with too much to monitor, stop buying your kids every piece of electronics known to man. The FCC doesn't need to regulate any more, in fact they need to regulate less. Parents need to own up to more personal responsibility with their children/kids/family.
The reality is that civilians do die in warfare. Our military must often weigh the decision of the number of casualties that will be part of a cleanup? In modern warfare, the enemy hides behind civilians, so why not make games more towards what happens in reality.
Besides, how many game that aren't warfare game hurt or kill people who are innocent. Every game out there from World of Warcraft through Jet Moto, through Grand Theft Auto. The only reason, I suspect, that people are bent out of shape about this, is because it's a realistic looking game. You can see simulated faces of people in pain.
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I've done enough work for companies in my years to know that zipcodes can be used to uniquely identify individuals. Since there are still parts of this country in which a person may own a very large piece of land and Zipcodes use the +4 to determine specific blocks within a zip code range, then all one needs is a name or the other info mentioned above to uniquely identify a person. This has been known by banks and the post office for as long as the +4 has been around. Banks have strict guidelines around uniquely identified people and what they must do if they are identified when dealing with offers of credit.
Netflix works with the post office for mass mailing, they would be aware of the ways to uniquely identify people.
Just remember to Bit Torrent the final version for us someday.
_> >_
You actually think that we could defuse the Super Volcano? Really? How much more of the earth and civilization would we destroy in trying to destroy the population killer. If what I've read is true about Super Volcanoes, we're pretty screwed when it blows it's stack. I'm sure there may be ways of finding a way to diminish damage, then why aren't we doing it on other active volcanoes. The study of Volcanoes is not and exact science, if we were to start now to find ways to diffuse you think that the people of the world would be willing to fund such an effort? Hell the American public can't stomach funding victims of Hurricane Katrina for more than a couple years. Do you really think the world would agree to help pay for the efforts now to defuse the Super Volcano that's in our backyard? Much less, do this for years and years and years? And since Volcanoes are pretty unpredictable for when they will errupt, we really wouldn't know how long it would be before a Super Volcano would errupt. Let's see a bill go before our current Congress, and the House and the freaking Tax Payers to fund the "Defusing" effort now for something that might not take place for another million years.
I don't want the civilization to end, I kinda dig my place in all of it, but getting this type of effort to start and completion before the big explosion would be like nailing Jello to a tree. Good luck. I say live life and enjoy it.
Several have suggested that we try to come up with a way to release pressure from the Super Volcano, but I can't see that helpful. The life of this planet depends upon this changes in the mantel and the crust, and trying to divert what happens in nature may cause larger problems for our population on this planet later. It amazes me that we think as a people that our lives on this planet are somehow more significant than other life forms. Yes we are evolved, and that would lead many to argue this point, but the reality is we are like ant to this planet. We've infested it with our population growths. The planet will do what the planet will do, and we're really just along for the ride.
I'm not a volcano expert nor am I any renound scientist, I'm an average person looking at the possiblity of life as I know it ceasing to exist. I don't look forward to a massive kill-off of the many life-forms on this planet. I don't, but I do feel that by messing with nature we will cause more problems than if we don't. But hey, this is only my take on the situation described. Meh!
Of course you can see a lot of problems with this. So can they. They are trying to consider it logistically. There would be hundreds of things to considers and they know this. But as more and more countries face these same technological challenges they will want to do something about the issues they face and this Global force may be their answer.
It is likely to happen at some point and there will be many legal challenges to the jurisdiction issues that will be faced, but eventually we'll have this in place and worked out the kinks and the world will face a new issue to tackle.
Are you really going to argue this when these scientists, whether through pressure or not have consipired to throw out evidence on global warming that doesn't fit their theories, and what they reported on was manipulated to suit their theories which are now being used for decision making on a global level? These decisions will affect us globally for years to come. You believe in the right to privacy, but I believe in pure science for science sake. If the data does not support the theories of global warming, then why is there a conference in Coppenhagen. MONEY, someone will make money off of this and you and I and everyone will pay the price for this global conspiracy of falsifying research data. By throwing out data you're falsifying results.
When you represent the world, this shouldn't be private.
As a Computer Scientist, I have experienced the ability to know something without being able to prove something it's called gut instinct. Sadly, gut instinct is not scientific or political, it's conjecture. If some of these scientist have a gut instinct then they should find a way to scientificly prove their theories. It's their duty as a scientist to accept that their theory could be incorrect.
I know I certainly and outraged and disgusted with scientists who let politics sway or intimidate them to toss out data that doesn't fit the conclusion to fit the theory. I'm horrified at the way those who disputed the norm have been treated, ignored and shunned. It's aweful. Sadly, those scientists who follow pure science will have to fight so much harder for credibility with the laymen, and this in my opinion is a sad time in history.
My next fear is how student in colleges will use this situation to manipulate the college system in the future, which will further degrade the comman person's trust in the scientific community. Sigh.
"...You'll do shitwork, scan, crack copyrights..."
Sorry, this post screamed for a bad quote from a bad movie.
Don't save anything.
Not allowed to go to those sites from work. Besides, the heading was an attempt at WoW humor.
Every WoW player knows this. Screen-shot or it didn't happen. How many hours played? What's his gold amount collected? How many pets did he get? How many mounts? How many times did he die? Wouldn't getting every achievement mean he'd have had to change professions a few times over?
Social Networking sites are the type of tool that the govt. agencies have wanted for years now. It helps them with their investigations into cells of criminal activity. Consider how say the mob works. Vinny the Boss, hires Joe Schmo to do his job but uses cash at a drop zone. Well Joe has to have had some way of knowing to take the job from Vinny. So a Social networking site like application help piece Vinny and Joe to the same coffee shop that they frequent. Now think of the limitless potential power of investigation that can be performed. All legal, the info is public, so no warrants are necessary, the cells of criminals are oblivious as to how they are nabbed.
I can see it now, people will buy phones to make instant WiFi access to download illegal stuff, and then kill it as quick as it was created, leaving little tracebility to who downloaded what. And this could then put people at risk for being responsible for illegal downloads that they may not have actually had a hand in.
Just a what if thought...
Pot meet Kettle - Anonymous Coward.
I'm so sick to death on hearing/reading/learning of people who post something on the internet and lose their job over it. Regardless of whether the post was fictional or real, the man was not posting anything about the school he worked for. He kept the language to not use profanity, and whether someone reads it as 'pussy' or 'cat' doesn't freaking matter. There is no excuse for our society today for making people lose their jobs because of their personal life. A job is what the average person works for 8 hours a day usually away from home.
I don't have to read the comments. The guy posted with an anonymous name. I call Shenanigans.
Conversely, here is my message to the world. If you're going to post on the web with all the knowledge we have today about how it is used against us, then you subject yourself to scrutiny, right or wrong, you do.
Driving is accessible to anyone who can pass the skills required to operate a motor vehicle and abide by the rules of the road for safety. This is why driving is considered a privilege not a right.
As I noted in the other reply I received, unless the govt is laying the infrastructure then this is mandating that companies to lay the infrastructure. Now, assuming Spain is a capitalist society, those companies are doing what all companies do, trying to make a profit to stay in business. If one chooses to live in the middle of a swamp, now it's mandated that millions of dollars must be spent to provide that one individual a right to broadband by laying down the infrastructure to that location. Logistics be dammed! Profits be dammed!
If your government is paying the bill, then as a tax paying citizen, I would likely be a bit miffed over the amount my bill would go up at the cost to provide Broadband to one individual who chooses to live in a swamp.
I didn't say buying a car, I said driving a car. That is an action the person can do.
As for the law against companies, who is going to be responsible for providing said broadband? Currently this is usually provided by private companies, and companies rely on profits, if companies are the only ones to are providing Broadband, then expenses for infrastructure are being laid upon private industry to fill the gap. Now if the government is flitting the bill, that's a different story.
Really? People see Broadband as a right? Really? It makes me wonder, why not make driving a car a right? That technology and privilege has been around for nearly a century. I'll tell you why, because it is only a privilege. Why should broadband become a right? What happens when Technology surpasses what it is today and it's no longer termed broadband, will they modify the law or create a new one? And isn't this just a law against companies?
Really? /sigh
/standingovation
If they truly believe in this predictions, then I say, let them kill themselves. People can choose to believe these predictions, or they can choose not to. If they choose to and want to end their lives to avoid it, then let them. There is no need to babysit these individuals who refuse to look at all the facts and not read into propaganda.
The FCC should back down. Leave the monitoring up to the parents. If the parents are overwhelmed with too much to monitor, stop buying your kids every piece of electronics known to man. The FCC doesn't need to regulate any more, in fact they need to regulate less. Parents need to own up to more personal responsibility with their children/kids/family.
But it's still just a game.... a game.
The reality is that civilians do die in warfare. Our military must often weigh the decision of the number of casualties that will be part of a cleanup? In modern warfare, the enemy hides behind civilians, so why not make games more towards what happens in reality.
Besides, how many game that aren't warfare game hurt or kill people who are innocent. Every game out there from World of Warcraft through Jet Moto, through Grand Theft Auto. The only reason, I suspect, that people are bent out of shape about this, is because it's a realistic looking game. You can see simulated faces of people in pain.
The thought of that just grosses me out.
If they were that senior, then they know better and repercussions should happen. These two know better.