I am not sure what protection under the law has to do with anything. Sneeka2 did not mention anything about protections, only the stupidity of Uber's maneuver. Posting a private key in a public place is pretty dumb. Not revoking and changing your keys once you discover the mistake is also stupid. Expecting someone who finds the key to not use it is also stupid.
The things you mentioned are also risks, to different degrees. I don't leave my car unlocked with my wallet on the street. I find that stupid. I shred any paper with my social security number on it. I find putting such paper in the trash stupid. I still expect legal protections in case I do make a mistake, but I would expect that if I left my car unlocked with my wallet on the seat that someone might burgle it. That's a pretty reasonable expectation. It's why I avoid exposing myself to such risk.
Private keys posted on the public internet are dumber than putting a wallet on the seat of an unlocked car.
Well, they are getting a better deal than they would have gotten from a private lender. That deal is funded by taxpayers. That sure seems like a bailout to me, albeit a pretty minor one.
Not all serious things run on servers in a data centre. Many people have serious things running on devices that fit in their pockets which don't support RAID or NUMA.
Not all serious things are run on servers using RAID and NUMA. In order to discount Slackware from use on any serious thing, you have to disprove it for all serious things, not just one subset.
It's not even refusing delivery. It's not requesting content in which one is not interested. One fetches an HTML document and then selectively fetches referenced documents. One just happens to not select documents which are high-bandwidth low-value, such as ads.
Predictive text is only one predictive service. It's also one that iOS does. Perhaps a different example of an area in which iOS is behind would be better?
You, as a customer, can take this information (its free) and use it to find a better alternative.
That's only true if that information is available before the sale. It sounds like this information was not available in the user interface, marketing materials or documentation.
I was speaking about personal comprehensive insurance because the person to who I was replying stated that business insurance is a fiction and comprehensive covers everything, including his passengers. Which is true, except that most comprehensive insurance policies exempt business use.
You make a lot of assumptions about other people, yet you decry assumptions others might make of obese people. This is a sword that cuts both ways. While "weight gain = energy input - energy output" is in a simplification, we eat, on average, double what we did twenty years ago. More of what we eat is sugar. We have been eating more, and higher-calorie foods, and have gained weight. That's American society as a whole; individual metabolic differences discounted.
What proportion of your salary is an annual checkup? My doctor charges $250 with blood work for an annual physical, and that's on the high end around here. My insurance covers it, but if I couldn't afford insurance (was $1000/month when I last paid out of pocket for insurance for a family) I would still spend the $250 a year for a physical.
My current workplace has a a program where you can go to a voluntary screening (BMI, %BF, Glucose, and cholesterol), the results supposedly aren't sent to the employer, but for participating you get a couple hundred bucks to apply towards gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc.
My workplace has that as well, but there privacy policy states they can share that medical data with anyone they like for marketing purposes. I passed on the $50 voucher.
Orange juice is considered healthy by whom? Juice is mostly a fruit's sugar without the fruit's fiber. Why not eat an orange and drink a glass of water instead?
Are you sure that a disaster on the coastal infrastructure will have negligible effect on the non-coastal regions of the country? Last I checked our ports are on the coast and our ports are where most of our clothing [1], and non-negligible amount of food [2] come from.
I do agree with you. Google is moving towards a pay-only model. Apple is moving towards abandoning iTunes. Moving toward is not guarantee of arriving. If in one point in time you are closer to somehwere else, you've moved towards there, even if you never will and don't intend to ever get there.
Please, don't read what I wrote as any stronger than what I have wrote.
I don't trust that what Microsoft says publicly to news organizations and twitter is the same as the reasons behind their decisions as much as you do. I will continue to hold the stance that *I* don't know what they want to accomplish because I don't actually know what they want to accomplish. I only know what they *say* they want to accomplish.
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I am not sure what protection under the law has to do with anything. Sneeka2 did not mention anything about protections, only the stupidity of Uber's maneuver. Posting a private key in a public place is pretty dumb. Not revoking and changing your keys once you discover the mistake is also stupid. Expecting someone who finds the key to not use it is also stupid.
The things you mentioned are also risks, to different degrees. I don't leave my car unlocked with my wallet on the street. I find that stupid. I shred any paper with my social security number on it. I find putting such paper in the trash stupid. I still expect legal protections in case I do make a mistake, but I would expect that if I left my car unlocked with my wallet on the seat that someone might burgle it. That's a pretty reasonable expectation. It's why I avoid exposing myself to such risk.
Private keys posted on the public internet are dumber than putting a wallet on the seat of an unlocked car.
How does one "safely" run any program? That's a question we've been trying to answer since the dawn of programs.
You can disable the check, you know.
Well, they are getting a better deal than they would have gotten from a private lender. That deal is funded by taxpayers. That sure seems like a bailout to me, albeit a pretty minor one.
Not all serious things run on servers in a data centre. Many people have serious things running on devices that fit in their pockets which don't support RAID or NUMA.
Not all serious things are run on servers using RAID and NUMA. In order to discount Slackware from use on any serious thing, you have to disprove it for all serious things, not just one subset.
It's not even refusing delivery. It's not requesting content in which one is not interested. One fetches an HTML document and then selectively fetches referenced documents. One just happens to not select documents which are high-bandwidth low-value, such as ads.
Predictive text is only one predictive service. It's also one that iOS does. Perhaps a different example of an area in which iOS is behind would be better?
Can't stream even a minnow at that speed, sadly.
One can stream 720p with 3Mb/s DSL no problem. 1.5Mb/s would be more than enough to stream SD content.
You, as a customer, can take this information (its free) and use it to find a better alternative.
That's only true if that information is available before the sale. It sounds like this information was not available in the user interface, marketing materials or documentation.
The concept of Santa Claus exists. The concept of social justice exists. In fact, social justice is only a concept with no avatar.
I was speaking about personal comprehensive insurance because the person to who I was replying stated that business insurance is a fiction and comprehensive covers everything, including his passengers. Which is true, except that most comprehensive insurance policies exempt business use.
On Slashdot, an American-based website for geeks, slang, especially slang from science-fiction is standard usage.
In the United States, which is where California is, comprehensive insurance does not cover business-use of your vehicle.
You make a lot of assumptions about other people, yet you decry assumptions others might make of obese people. This is a sword that cuts both ways. While "weight gain = energy input - energy output" is in a simplification, we eat, on average, double what we did twenty years ago. More of what we eat is sugar. We have been eating more, and higher-calorie foods, and have gained weight. That's American society as a whole; individual metabolic differences discounted.
What proportion of your salary is an annual checkup? My doctor charges $250 with blood work for an annual physical, and that's on the high end around here. My insurance covers it, but if I couldn't afford insurance (was $1000/month when I last paid out of pocket for insurance for a family) I would still spend the $250 a year for a physical.
My current workplace has a a program where you can go to a voluntary screening (BMI, %BF, Glucose, and cholesterol), the results supposedly aren't sent to the employer, but for participating you get a couple hundred bucks to apply towards gym memberships, fitness equipment, etc.
My workplace has that as well, but there privacy policy states they can share that medical data with anyone they like for marketing purposes. I passed on the $50 voucher.
Orange juice is considered healthy by whom? Juice is mostly a fruit's sugar without the fruit's fiber. Why not eat an orange and drink a glass of water instead?
So what you are saying is that abusing benefits looks bad to people that might want to hire you and provide you benefits? Say it ain't so.
It's a little unfair to compare a used truck with a new car, isn't it?
1. Google cannot maintain a list of rejected candidates, for a variety of legal reasons.
What, at least one, legal reason, would they have to not keep a list of prior candidates and notes they took about them?
Are you sure that a disaster on the coastal infrastructure will have negligible effect on the non-coastal regions of the country? Last I checked our ports are on the coast and our ports are where most of our clothing [1], and non-negligible amount of food [2] come from.
[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Business...
[2] http://www.ers.usda.gov/datafi...
Moving towards abandoning something does not generally involve going from not having to having that thing, though.
I do agree with you. Google is moving towards a pay-only model. Apple is moving towards abandoning iTunes. Moving toward is not guarantee of arriving. If in one point in time you are closer to somehwere else, you've moved towards there, even if you never will and don't intend to ever get there.
Please, don't read what I wrote as any stronger than what I have wrote.
I don't trust that what Microsoft says publicly to news organizations and twitter is the same as the reasons behind their decisions as much as you do. I will continue to hold the stance that *I* don't know what they want to accomplish because I don't actually know what they want to accomplish. I only know what they *say* they want to accomplish.