When did it change to where the government could get records from a private company about a private individual without a court-issued Warrant?
You don't own the data Google has on you (including your emails, etc.) You don't own your Tweets. That's why that protester couldn't challenge the subpoena the DA served on Twitter. If Google wants to fight to protect their data they have about you, they can (maybe). But you can't, and it's not a violation of your rights for Google to turn over that data, or for the government to go after it without a warrant (it might be a violation of Google's rights).
As a US citizen, I'm much more afraid of the NSA (or any US agency) getting access to my Google* account data than I am of any arm of the Chinese government getting access.
*Same goes for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Dropbox, etc.
It's kind of funny that you slur the guy with "Wikitard" (implying that Wikipedia is not an intelligent source of information because, hey, anyone can write something on a web page), when he is asking for corroboration of the GGP's assertion and not taking the word of some random person writing something on a web page.
the refusal of the OWS retards to get a permit really pisses me off. It wastes taxpayer money, inconveniences people working or traveling in the area, and marginalizes the effect of the protest.
How would them having a permit save the taxpayer money, inconvenience you less, or increase the effectiveness of their protest?
California has been voting blue for years. Well at least it has been shown to be blue in all the President voting that I have seen.
You do realize that Presidential Electoral College voting is not how we select our legislature, right? The Senate and the Assembly each have over 1/3 Republicans, which means they can effectively dictate fiscal policy (it takes 2/3 vote to get anything significant done).
Also, I just record TV shows on VHS and can then fast forward trough the ads - no need to rely on the software (detecting ads is kind of like detecting spam - not that easy for computers to do) and the VCR can fast forward smoothly (and I don't need to buy a DVR and the tapes last longer if I want to keep what I recorded).
If they start adding product placement on Game of Thrones I'll give up on TV completely.
The key difference, of course, is that you pay extra to see GoT. I just wish HBO wasn't owned by Time Warner, so they could sell HBO Go to me directly without having to worry about impacting the revenue of their other channels (sold as packages to the cable/satellite companies).
I'm pretty sure that suicide or other maligned conditions affect people who have been exposed to molestation as a child more often than it does those who have not. In the future it's probably going to be easier to cure cancer than it is to repair a totally screwed childhood.
Are you seriously comparing full-on, bare genital contact, sexual molestation with over the clothes pat-downs performed in public spaces within sight of a parent?
I'm no fan of the TSA or their security procedures, but this kind of hyperbole doesn't help your argument. I'd much rather my children get the pat down, though each time they've flown through LAX they get sent to the old style metal detectors, while I got sent through the backscatter* (or mm-wave or whatever it is).
those are effective taxes, not the total percent they paid based on their profits. Do you understand what an "effective" tax rate is? An effective tax rate of 24% is not 24% of their total profit.
You don't understand what Effective Tax Rate is. It is the tax rate they paid on income, after taking into account the tiered nature of taxes you described (which is how it works for individuals - I'm not sure about corporations but I'll take you're word for it). Their highest marginal rate therefore would have been higher than the 24% (and their lowest would have been lower).
If you are dealing with confidential data, you should not be emailing it in plain text. EVER.
Serious question, as I'm not too much of a technical person. Since Gmail defaults to https, doesn't this protect the users from 3rd parties? Google can still parse the email obviously, but you do have *some* protection, no?
Back up, electricity, manpower, space, maintenance, yada yada yada.
They're not that expensive. See my post in response to the GP. $0.01 per email per day equates to several dollars per GB per month. I have vendor quotes for disk and management (everything except electricity, rent, and AC - switches and cabling included) for orders of magnitude less than that. The only thing I can think is that he is dealing with much smaller volumes (i.e. less than 5-10 TB).
You couldn't manage with 2 gigs? WTF are you doing? Let me guess, you're one of those who saves the email with the attachment rather than saving the attachment and deleting the email.
I keep almost all my email because sometimes you need the words written in the email (or the time stamp and record of who the attachment came from) just as much as the attachment. I wish I had 2 gigs, but as it is, after getting two expansions, my server quota is at about 300 MB. I can keep about 3 weeks of email in my server account and the rest has to be saved locally (which, honestly, is not that big a deal, though it does mean I need to have a backup solution for my laptop now).
it costs about 1 penny per email per person per day to maintain.
What's the average email size you base that on? Even counting enviromentals, management and other overhead, 1 penny per day per email sounds incredibly high. I deal (on the finance side) with digital media storage. We have managed spinning disk contracts with vendors, as well as our own storage (bought and maintained by us). For both types, our costs on the order of 10 to 15 cents per GB per month (fully loaded). If your average email is 100 MB (seems big), you're looking at $3.00 per GB per month, or about 20x as much. And the management (labor) costs don't scale that much, so you can add a lot of storage before you have to add another engineer, so the per GB cost will go down at higher volumes. We recently did a multi-petabyte storage bid and got a management price from our vendor of less than $0.01 per GB per month.
I was thinking about this the other night. I like Gmail, but I don't really like it's interface. I don't want to install a client on every machine I use to access my email. Is there a website/service that acts like an email client that has a customizable (or at least better) interface?
Same here. Ever since our kids started sleeping through the night (about 2.5 years ago), my wife and I don't usually have a problem waking up at pretty close to 6 every day (weekends included). Our two toddlers (3 and 4) usually come into our room and climb in bed between 5 and 6. The younger falls asleep again easily, and can sleep through until 7, while the other is itching to get out of bed (but we make him stay until 6).
There is a difference between deception at a species level (e.g. mimicry, stalking behavior), and the deception at an individual level that is going on here.
"This is a cat. He doesn't hate you because you're black, brown or yellow, or because you're a homosexual, or a Republican, or a Democrat. He hates you because he's a cat."
I have a few FB friends who play some sort of Zynga building game. I don't (think I) see their spam updates on the standard web page interface, but they clog up my Blackberry App interface like nobodies business.
Dear/. Journal, Today a really geeky guy with, like, a 4-digit UID, replied to one of my comments. He says he uses Linux. I hope he's not an Ubunpoo Head LOL. He seems really nice, and bashed Apple a lot. Tomorrow I'm going to ask my friend to ask him if he thinks my comment was +1 Insightful or +1 Funny.
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When did it change to where the government could get records from a private company about a private individual without a court-issued Warrant?
You don't own the data Google has on you (including your emails, etc.) You don't own your Tweets. That's why that protester couldn't challenge the subpoena the DA served on Twitter. If Google wants to fight to protect their data they have about you, they can (maybe). But you can't, and it's not a violation of your rights for Google to turn over that data, or for the government to go after it without a warrant (it might be a violation of Google's rights).
As a US citizen, I'm much more afraid of the NSA (or any US agency) getting access to my Google* account data than I am of any arm of the Chinese government getting access.
*Same goes for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Dropbox, etc.
Go back to your encyclopedia you Wikitard.
It's kind of funny that you slur the guy with "Wikitard" (implying that Wikipedia is not an intelligent source of information because, hey, anyone can write something on a web page), when he is asking for corroboration of the GGP's assertion and not taking the word of some random person writing something on a web page.
Websites don't advertise that they can see your IP address either.
Actually, I've had several websites warn me that my IP address was being broadcast*.
*Not technically true, I know.
the refusal of the OWS retards to get a permit really pisses me off. It wastes taxpayer money, inconveniences people working or traveling in the area, and marginalizes the effect of the protest.
How would them having a permit save the taxpayer money, inconvenience you less, or increase the effectiveness of their protest?
California has been voting blue for years. Well at least it has been shown to be blue in all the President voting that I have seen.
You do realize that Presidential Electoral College voting is not how we select our legislature, right? The Senate and the Assembly each have over 1/3 Republicans, which means they can effectively dictate fiscal policy (it takes 2/3 vote to get anything significant done).
Also, I just record TV shows on VHS and can then fast forward trough the ads - no need to rely on the software (detecting ads is kind of like detecting spam - not that easy for computers to do) and the VCR can fast forward smoothly (and I don't need to buy a DVR and the tapes last longer if I want to keep what I recorded).
Are you being serious?
If they start adding product placement on Game of Thrones I'll give up on TV completely.
The key difference, of course, is that you pay extra to see GoT. I just wish HBO wasn't owned by Time Warner, so they could sell HBO Go to me directly without having to worry about impacting the revenue of their other channels (sold as packages to the cable/satellite companies).
Why is this modded Funny and not Insightful?
I'm pretty sure that suicide or other maligned conditions affect people who have been exposed to molestation as a child more often than it does those who have not.
In the future it's probably going to be easier to cure cancer than it is to repair a totally screwed childhood.
Are you seriously comparing full-on, bare genital contact, sexual molestation with over the clothes pat-downs performed in public spaces within sight of a parent?
I'm no fan of the TSA or their security procedures, but this kind of hyperbole doesn't help your argument. I'd much rather my children get the pat down, though each time they've flown through LAX they get sent to the old style metal detectors, while I got sent through the backscatter* (or mm-wave or whatever it is).
*Next time, I'm asking for the pat-down.
You work as an airliner? That's cool, I work as a oscilloscope. Long hours, though.
It's the back and forth that really gets you though.
In case of war, creating a fake lighthouse to lead ships into rocks is a possibility.
And in cases of D&D modules.
those are effective taxes, not the total percent they paid based on their profits. Do you understand what an "effective" tax rate is? An effective tax rate of 24% is not 24% of their total profit.
Do you? No, you don't.
You don't understand what Effective Tax Rate is. It is the tax rate they paid on income, after taking into account the tiered nature of taxes you described (which is how it works for individuals - I'm not sure about corporations but I'll take you're word for it). Their highest marginal rate therefore would have been higher than the 24% (and their lowest would have been lower).
If you are dealing with confidential data, you should not be emailing it in plain text. EVER.
Serious question, as I'm not too much of a technical person. Since Gmail defaults to https, doesn't this protect the users from 3rd parties? Google can still parse the email obviously, but you do have *some* protection, no?
spend $229,638,138.53 every year just maintaining their storage...uhh...what???
Could be he works for a government agency.
You left out all the expensive bits.
Back up, electricity, manpower, space, maintenance, yada yada yada.
They're not that expensive. See my post in response to the GP. $0.01 per email per day equates to several dollars per GB per month. I have vendor quotes for disk and management (everything except electricity, rent, and AC - switches and cabling included) for orders of magnitude less than that. The only thing I can think is that he is dealing with much smaller volumes (i.e. less than 5-10 TB).
You couldn't manage with 2 gigs? WTF are you doing? Let me guess, you're one of those who saves the email with the attachment rather than saving the attachment and deleting the email.
I keep almost all my email because sometimes you need the words written in the email (or the time stamp and record of who the attachment came from) just as much as the attachment. I wish I had 2 gigs, but as it is, after getting two expansions, my server quota is at about 300 MB. I can keep about 3 weeks of email in my server account and the rest has to be saved locally (which, honestly, is not that big a deal, though it does mean I need to have a backup solution for my laptop now).
it costs about 1 penny per email per person per day to maintain.
What's the average email size you base that on? Even counting enviromentals, management and other overhead, 1 penny per day per email sounds incredibly high. I deal (on the finance side) with digital media storage. We have managed spinning disk contracts with vendors, as well as our own storage (bought and maintained by us). For both types, our costs on the order of 10 to 15 cents per GB per month (fully loaded). If your average email is 100 MB (seems big), you're looking at $3.00 per GB per month, or about 20x as much. And the management (labor) costs don't scale that much, so you can add a lot of storage before you have to add another engineer, so the per GB cost will go down at higher volumes. We recently did a multi-petabyte storage bid and got a management price from our vendor of less than $0.01 per GB per month.
Log in Gmail. Enable POP3 and/or IMAP access. Configure Thunderbird. Done.
I was thinking about this the other night. I like Gmail, but I don't really like it's interface. I don't want to install a client on every machine I use to access my email. Is there a website/service that acts like an email client that has a customizable (or at least better) interface?
Same here. Ever since our kids started sleeping through the night (about 2.5 years ago), my wife and I don't usually have a problem waking up at pretty close to 6 every day (weekends included). Our two toddlers (3 and 4) usually come into our room and climb in bed between 5 and 6. The younger falls asleep again easily, and can sleep through until 7, while the other is itching to get out of bed (but we make him stay until 6).
There is a difference between deception at a species level (e.g. mimicry, stalking behavior), and the deception at an individual level that is going on here.
http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/this-is-a-cat.jpg
"This is a cat. He doesn't hate you because you're black, brown or yellow, or because you're a homosexual, or a Republican, or a Democrat. He hates you because he's a cat."
I have a few FB friends who play some sort of Zynga building game. I don't (think I) see their spam updates on the standard web page interface, but they clog up my Blackberry App interface like nobodies business.
Dear /. Journal,
Today a really geeky guy with, like, a 4-digit UID, replied to one of my comments. He says he uses Linux. I hope he's not an Ubunpoo Head LOL. He seems really nice, and bashed Apple a lot. Tomorrow I'm going to ask my friend to ask him if he thinks my comment was +1 Insightful or +1 Funny.