Fine, your right, you are sooo right. In face, I if I had a webcam, I would unplug it. I am going to disable access to all user to my computer. I am going to remove apache, sendmail, ftp, ssh, and qpopper too. I would disable telenet, but it isn't running.
All of these can be hacked and manipulated to get my personal information. After that, I am going to cut the coax on my cable. If you need me I will be naked in the closet crying and shivering.
BTW, your mic and webcam are already connected and ready to have their signals intercepted. Someone with the right techinal knowhow could get into your system and access them just by the fact that they are installed. There isn't a checkbox for that. Remember, big brother is watching. He really needs to get a life.
What part of it defaults to off don't you understand?
This means that you have to consciously go in and turn it on. People who are getting their panties in a bunch about this may as well be saying that apache is bad because it allows people to access files that reside on your local computer. It's a part of the functionality of the program and IT IS OFF BY DEFUALT. In fact it is far safer by default than running apache. I could think of a lot of practicle applications for this functionality.
Let me tell you this. No one wants to look into your webcam unless you are only slightly over 18, female and have an aversion to wearing clothing.
A camera and a Microphone are two very useful items for online communication. If you don't want to be seen or heard, don't freaking buy them.
Flash has to evolve like anything else to stay alive. Integrating more multimedia functionality into its program can't be a bad thing. It isn't being invasive, it's off by default. Go cry wolf where it's important.
They've been trying to expand the monorail in Seattle for years without any luck. It's a great idea if it can be implimented. I think it would work quite well in Vegas as it's an amusement park in and of itself.
I feel that there would be a lot less confusion than.prn
I would also like to see it so that anyone who links an adult popup window have to use a simular extension. I would feel better surfing the interweb at work.:-)
I am not really for regulating this sort of thing usually, but the interweb is in essence a public space and there are certain rules almost anywhere you are that need to be abided by.
I like pr0n, but I only like looking at it intentionally.
...save the bad plot and acting. It was pure entertainment and it was good for what it was. At least with these stories, there may be some actual substance.
But someone has to pick up the tab for the infastructure. If it can get me products i want without having people call my house at odd hours of the day, what the heck. I don't really approve of this flipping a U-turn with regards to an agreed upon privacy statement, as I feel that is just poor form, and as a whole a bad practice for a buiness to take. I doubt it will hurt Yahoo much. I am pretty sure that they could not even give you the offer to not recieve promotion materials and a lot of people would still sign up.
Additionally,
Online privacy is a mass delusion. Most of your packets are merely postcards anyway. It doesn't take serious sleuthing to figure this out.
The RIAA fills me so full of vinegar and bile that I can hardly think to express myself.
Well hopefully this will just attract more attention to the independent music scene. I refuse to buy an Album that has anything to do with the RIAA nor will I support and artist who represents them.
I hope someone over there is reading this. I am a good customer of your fool. I have over 750 discs in my collection. I used Napster as a tool to discover new bands. You freaks seem to think that I should pay 17 + dollars to check out a group i know nothing about? You are on crack.
I am not anti-corporation. I am anti-stupidity. And by the fact that you turn down free organic publicity you have more than proven your stupidity. I admit that some people who would have bought CD's won't now because of peer to peer sharing. But many of us would have bought even more. I now I hope more of us won't.
I was more refering to it running a dedicated multiplayers server, however my fingers were on vaction and I missed the word "server".
Besides, we could always do what I did when i got my first P11 and wanted to play games from my 386 days. I would open desqview and then open windows and then open the program.
I miss DOS sometimes. Other times...well, you know...
Or maybe playing it lazy, I will wait a little while longer to upgrade. When I was younger I like being the first kid on my block to get the new toy. Now I am older and I don't even like going outside...
All right listen up CEOs. Bottom line nipping you in the bottom? I have the perfect solution. Fire your entire legal department. You will be doing the world a favor and saving a pretty penny.
What is Intel thinking? If they want to waste money on something useless they should buy all slashdot reads Aeron chairs.
I just think their products are neat looking but not neat functioning. I have yet to see a sony dvd player play a vcd. (I have a relatively small control set of that (only about 3 machines one is SUPPOSED to play them).
I had not seen that article, thanks. More fuel for the fire.
The main problem is that the information has to live somewhere, thus always resorting back to relying on one machine, unless you are hardcore enough to mirror that computer to another. In my office we use PC Anywhere quite a bit, but it can be kinda slow over the internet. I tend to think that unless you are using a local client/server setup (with very frequent or automated backups) that it is not really easy to accomplish what I believe you want easily and without taking a big preformance hit.
Unless of course you have a fat pipe of bandwidth, and if that is the case, can I move in?
I never understood why a business would want to station itself in the Bay Area. If I pay 450k for a 3 bedroom house, it better be on 25 acres, preferably waterfront.
These guys are MBAs and they can't figure out how to spend less money. It blows my mind.
True enough, But he hasn't switched to a subscripton based system after getting a large following reading his comic. He sells merchandise and and advertising.
A better business model that whoever bought Blue Mountain for whatever outrageous price they paide for it.
" Censorship arises out of a fearful desire to suppress ideas or information that the censor finds threatening. It may be disguised or portrayed as a concern for the public good, but it is really an effort to mold the world to fit a particular, and rather personal, view"
If you believe that humans are inherently evil than I can see your point. In reality, some ideas are dangerous and threatening. What would you do if you came across a particular idea that was dangerous to your personal concept of society. Would you fight it?
What if that thing was Censorship. Or ignorance?
"Actually, it's not the information that is dangerous. It is the uncritical mind that contains it that can be dangerous"
I could not agree more. Guns aren't dangerous in and of themselves. They require bullets (which pose some threat) and a dangerous mind.
"So rather than trying to evoke a critical mind in a person through discussion or whatever, a censor chooses to try to keep the information away from the person. Simply, if you teach a person to think critically and reasonably, you don't need to worry about what information they have"
I challenge you to teach someone to think critically. Especially someone who doesn't want to.
"It's better to teach a man to fish than to shoot him in the leg"
You start genetically altering the fetuses and i'll get the worms.
Censorship arises out of what I will say is a postive desire to protect our collective consiousness. Think of information as food. You can eat a steak, an apple, or some draino. Is it wrong to label the draino as toxic? I don't think so. Now is it wrond to make Draino unavailable to the public? No, it provides a function, and almost all information does.
Let us face the facts that some information, in the minds uncritical people, is dangerous. What is important is the discussion on the possible uses and function of this information. An attempt to censorship is a dialouge, and is an important freedom of expression itself.
It does involve a wire, does it not? It is a communication. What would make this different than a telephone conversation?
I personally look at my email as being a postcard that I send through the mail. I am not gonna send naked pictures of myself to anyone in the manner (I think I hear a million sighs of relief). Still I would like to think that my ISP doesn't give out this info without being subpoenaed. Additionally I would feel the same way about any intellegence gathering software run by a Federal Agency if any such beasties existed (twitch).
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Fine, your right, you are sooo right. In face, I if I had a webcam, I would unplug it. I am going to disable access to all user to my computer. I am going to remove apache, sendmail, ftp, ssh, and qpopper too. I would disable telenet, but it isn't running.
All of these can be hacked and manipulated to get my personal information. After that, I am going to cut the coax on my cable. If you need me I will be naked in the closet crying and shivering.
BTW, your mic and webcam are already connected and ready to have their signals intercepted. Someone with the right techinal knowhow could get into your system and access them just by the fact that they are installed. There isn't a checkbox for that. Remember, big brother is watching. He really needs to get a life.
What part of it defaults to off don't you understand?
This means that you have to consciously go in and turn it on. People who are getting their panties in a bunch about this may as well be saying that apache is bad because it allows people to access files that reside on your local computer. It's a part of the functionality of the program and IT IS OFF BY DEFUALT. In fact it is far safer by default than running apache. I could think of a lot of practicle applications for this functionality.
(and I get points subtracted for being a troll)
Please write back when you have a comment that makes sence.
Let me tell you this. No one wants to look into your webcam unless you are only slightly over 18, female and have an aversion to wearing clothing.
A camera and a Microphone are two very useful items for online communication. If you don't want to be seen or heard, don't freaking buy them.
Flash has to evolve like anything else to stay alive. Integrating more multimedia functionality into its program can't be a bad thing. It isn't being invasive, it's off by default. Go cry wolf where it's important.
Crud, I shoulda took a vacation day, instead I am going to the late showing.
I should lose no more productivity than I do on an average day.
I would say the Diablo II cost more in the IT sector than AotC will, as far as productivity goes.
"Stay Awhile, and listen..."
They've been trying to expand the monorail in Seattle for years without any luck. It's a great idea if it can be implimented. I think it would work quite well in Vegas as it's an amusement park in and of itself.
I like the idea of .xxx
.prn
:-)
I feel that there would be a lot less confusion than
I would also like to see it so that anyone who links an adult popup window have to use a simular extension. I would feel better surfing the interweb at work.
I am not really for regulating this sort of thing usually, but the interweb is in essence a public space and there are certain rules almost anywhere you are that need to be abided by.
I like pr0n, but I only like looking at it intentionally.
Well that was ass, but I was still entertained.
Then again, watching paint drying is kind of a kick in the pants too, so here is your grain of salt.
...save the bad plot and acting. It was pure entertainment and it was good for what it was. At least with these stories, there may be some actual substance.
So long as they don't cast Encino man.
But someone has to pick up the tab for the infastructure. If it can get me products i want without having people call my house at odd hours of the day, what the heck. I don't really approve of this flipping a U-turn with regards to an agreed upon privacy statement, as I feel that is just poor form, and as a whole a bad practice for a buiness to take. I doubt it will hurt Yahoo much. I am pretty sure that they could not even give you the offer to not recieve promotion materials and a lot of people would still sign up.
Additionally,
Online privacy is a mass delusion. Most of your packets are merely postcards anyway. It doesn't take serious sleuthing to figure this out.
The RIAA fills me so full of vinegar and bile that I can hardly think to express myself.
Well hopefully this will just attract more attention to the independent music scene. I refuse to buy an Album that has anything to do with the RIAA nor will I support and artist who represents them.
I hope someone over there is reading this. I am a good customer of your fool. I have over 750 discs in my collection. I used Napster as a tool to discover new bands. You freaks seem to think that I should pay 17 + dollars to check out a group i know nothing about? You are on crack.
I am not anti-corporation. I am anti-stupidity. And by the fact that you turn down free organic publicity you have more than proven your stupidity. I admit that some people who would have bought CD's won't now because of peer to peer sharing. But many of us would have bought even more. I now I hope more of us won't.
Burn
I was more refering to it running a dedicated multiplayers server, however my fingers were on vaction and I missed the word "server".
Besides, we could always do what I did when i got my first P11 and wanted to play games from my 386 days. I would open desqview and then open windows and then open the program.
I miss DOS sometimes. Other times...well, you know...
This gives me bad flashbacks of "War Games" for some reason. I sure hope ASCI White sucks at tic tac toe.
Maybe we could talk them into running a Medal of Honor: Allied Assualt? They could bill is as a "stratigic nazi slaying simulation".
Or maybe playing it lazy, I will wait a little while longer to upgrade. When I was younger I like being the first kid on my block to get the new toy. Now I am older and I don't even like going outside...
All right listen up CEOs. Bottom line nipping you in the bottom? I have the perfect solution. Fire your entire legal department. You will be doing the world a favor and saving a pretty penny.
What is Intel thinking? If they want to waste money on something useless they should buy all slashdot reads Aeron chairs.
At least that would be good PR.
huzzah!
I just think their products are neat looking but not neat functioning. I have yet to see a sony dvd player play a vcd. (I have a relatively small control set of that (only about 3 machines one is SUPPOSED to play them).
I had not seen that article, thanks. More fuel for the fire.
It's cute, but I still like my Ipaq better.
The main problem is that the information has to live somewhere, thus always resorting back to relying on one machine, unless you are hardcore enough to mirror that computer to another. In my office we use PC Anywhere quite a bit, but it can be kinda slow over the internet. I tend to think that unless you are using a local client/server setup (with very frequent or automated backups) that it is not really easy to accomplish what I believe you want easily and without taking a big preformance hit.
Unless of course you have a fat pipe of bandwidth, and if that is the case, can I move in?
Let me guess,
annonymous coward.... MBA, Bay area somewhere?
Get out more, there are bright people everywhere.
All the bright people in the world can't help you if your company can't stop hemorrhaging money.
I never understood why a business would want to station itself in the Bay Area. If I pay 450k for a 3 bedroom house, it better be on 25 acres, preferably waterfront.
These guys are MBAs and they can't figure out how to spend less money. It blows my mind.
True enough, But he hasn't switched to a subscripton based system after getting a large following reading his comic. He sells merchandise and and advertising.
A better business model that whoever bought Blue Mountain for whatever outrageous price they paide for it.
" Censorship arises out of a fearful desire to suppress ideas or information that the censor finds threatening. It may be disguised or portrayed as a concern for the public good, but it is really an effort to mold the world to fit a particular, and rather personal, view"
If you believe that humans are inherently evil than I can see your point. In reality, some ideas are dangerous and threatening. What would you do if you came across a particular idea that was dangerous to your personal concept of society. Would you fight it?
What if that thing was Censorship. Or ignorance?
"Actually, it's not the information that is dangerous. It is the uncritical mind that contains it that can be dangerous"
I could not agree more. Guns aren't dangerous in and of themselves. They require bullets (which pose some threat) and a dangerous mind.
"So rather than trying to evoke a critical mind in a person through discussion or whatever, a censor chooses to try to keep the information away from the person. Simply, if you teach a person to think critically and reasonably, you don't need to worry about what information they have"
I challenge you to teach someone to think critically. Especially someone who doesn't want to.
"It's better to teach a man to fish than to shoot him in the leg"
You start genetically altering the fetuses and i'll get the worms.
He hasn't wrestled professionally since I was 8, and besides, that quote is from the movie "They Live."
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Censorship arises out of what I will say is a postive desire to protect our collective consiousness. Think of information as food. You can eat a steak, an apple, or some draino. Is it wrong to label the draino as toxic? I don't think so. Now is it wrond to make Draino unavailable to the public? No, it provides a function, and almost all information does.
Let us face the facts that some information, in the minds uncritical people, is dangerous. What is important is the discussion on the possible uses and function of this information. An attempt to censorship is a dialouge, and is an important freedom of expression itself.
It does involve a wire, does it not? It is a communication. What would make this different than a telephone conversation?
I personally look at my email as being a postcard that I send through the mail. I am not gonna send naked pictures of myself to anyone in the manner (I think I hear a million sighs of relief). Still I would like to think that my ISP doesn't give out this info without being subpoenaed. Additionally I would feel the same way about any intellegence gathering software run by a Federal Agency if any such beasties existed (twitch).
Remember folks this is a "free" country.