I would personally not care one bit if a fast food worker got paid as much as me or more.... good for them, I wouldn't want to do that job so why would I complain?
The point of the thing is not your want of a particular job. If all you were able to do was flip burgers, then you'd find yourself in one of two situations to earn your living. Either flipping burgers, or demanding that those who are able to do more give what they earned to you. Essentially the philosophy here is that ability deserves punishment and not reward.
The Windows Insider builds are available to anyone who can be bothered signing up to the program. The only 'leak' here is if publishing screenshots constitutes a breach of the EULA.
Microsoft only releases some builds to the insider program. More to the fast ring than the slow, but they certainly do not release every internal build to the insider program. For example, the currently available build for PC is Build 10130. For me, it's always interesting to see what's in the latest internal builds even if they aren't released to the public - just to know what to expect when a build is released.
Also, this is not just a screenshot release. The entire build was leaked, and this is the appropriate word, because it is not available through official Microsoft channels. The story chosen for the summary was just one that shows a lot of pictures primarily in place of writing more informative content.
The easiest solution that I've found for this at home is opendns using DNS port intercepting on a ddwrt router. Simple instructions for making this happen are at http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/ind.... If you give your kid a cell phone with a data plan this will be quickly side stepped, but if you take a pass on giving your preteen a phone until they are old enough to grasp some of the needed conversations, it does give some measure of reliable and configurable protection to your local network.
Why make it download emails from a Exchange server and then reupload it to some out-of-organization server?
According to the article this is not the reasoning that is being given for banning the app. As with any aggregator app that runs on a phone, there are many rather plain reasons why data such as emails and attachments would be temporarily stored on the app provider's servers.
The real issue that is being objected to here is that the app double-encrypts login credentials for various email providers using both a unique-per-client key that they generate and a key that is derived from the specific piece of hardware accessing the data. This encrypted data is then stored in "the cloud". The counterpoint to this methodology is gmail's use of OAuth to avoid storing any credentials - regardless of the sophistication of the encryption scheme - in a public cloud setup.
The certification argument is almost entirely a red herring for two major reasons. First, if you ask most teachers with certifications, you'll find that a massive portion of their education was based on classroom administration and not effectively communicating specific subject matter. Secondly, most home school curriculum are not based on in seat teacher to student instruction (though there are a plethora of online options if you choose that style). They are generally based on classical education which relies heavily on teaching children a love for reading with a heavy emphasis on classics and an ability to go seek and find answers for one's self.
That is already how windows 8/8.1 handles OEM licensing. There is no more product key sticker as the product key is integrated into the BIOS. The licensing agreement with OEM stuff has always technically been that it is tied to the specific hardware if my understanding is correct. With 8.1, this is just being more effectively enforced through technical means. It seems extremely unlikely that Microsoft will depart from that model going forward.
However, with the 8 upgrade licenses, they were product key based, because there is no control over the hardware before it reaches the user as there is with an OEM device. I don't really see how they could possibly get away from shipping a product key if they are upgrading any Windows 7+ machine. It also seems unlikely that at registration of said product key, Microsoft is going to store some sort of hardware fingerprint in a database to prevent reusage of the key at a later date on different hardware.
This is more than a one-time upgrade: once a Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device – at no additional charge.
Not too shabby. It's most interesting to watch people I know who started kicking themselves for not getting into bitcoins when it had skyrocketed to $600. Kudos to all those who got in sub $200.
I'm fairly certain that people can still assemble peacefully offline. I should probably check the news in the morning to be sure...
I wouldn't go to Atlanta, but this is a major enough shift that I'd show up in Chicago to publicly register discontent.
As one poster wrote:
US government... decided to go out and spy+opress its citizens officially. You're at the tipping point, folks.
If indeed the above is a documented phenomenon, then certainly the laws need change. I doubt eliminating child porn laws is a good solution... perhaps immunity for people who turn it over to the police (like used heroin needles or firearm collections).
But you realize that you are criminally liable, with the potential to wind up on a sex offender registry, lose your job, your family, your home, EVERYTHING
Even with that risk in play, I have to note that I believe that logic very similar was used at Penn State.
Bring the tapes directly to the police. Cowardice, however shrewd in its self-interest is still cowardice. I maintain the belief that the judicial system would ultimately do right, and if it did not that the legislative would. Even if I never lived to see either of those two things happen, at least I wouldn't go to my grave knowing that I am a coward who could have stopped more children from being raped and instead did nothing.
If you still support the ban on child pornography then why isn't there a ban on obscene "teen erotica" literature? Why not ban text descriptions, or ban stories which encourage child abuse?
I sincerely hope that there is enough rational thought out there that people recognize the difference between acts done in the name of Christ and what Christ himself taught. People given too much power do horrible things. It doesn't matter much what their theological underpinnings are.
To say that the elimination of religion (atheism) was not a major motivating force for either man... both of whom were to be viewed as gods by their societies seems a vast overstatement.
I find it ridiculous that the "scientific" or perhaps even self-proclaimed "enlightened" mindset on Christianity is that it all boils down to the crusades. It is no different than saying since Hitler or Stalin were atheists that all atheism boils down to genocide and will for all time.
(I know this is a repost... didn't realize I wasn't logged in)
This is obviously the case for the social media outlets that this bill would touch (Facebook, Google+, etc.). It'll just be interesting to see where the governmental shoe falls. I'm not hopeful, but I suppose it's possible that people will be given priority as being just that versus their current social media status of product.
It seems to me that this will have the effect to convince at least a subset of roughly high school aged children that they should accept no responsibility for their actions, especially as they relate to sex. I understand and agree with preventing disease, suffering, and death. To that end, no doubt this vaccine will be effective. I just wonder what you teach your child about virtue as a world where freedom from consequence whether natural or societal becomes more and more the highest good.
And how is preventing your children from being able to view pornographic content not parenting?
Because in this case it delegates the responsibility of what is and what is not porn to the filter providers, instead of being a conversation between parents & children.
I know, I know.. I'm old-fashioned. Now get off my lawn etc.
Old-fashioned because you only do one of two sensible things and act like a choice between the two is the only viable path? I don't think so.
The idea that your child is capable of making adult decisions and in fact should be exposed to adult situations at extremely young ages is very new.
I just wanted to note that long-range RFID (such as would be used in this type of application) does require the RFID chip to be powered. The ones that don't need a battery only work at very short ranges.
I have no expertise in RFID chips, but I'd be curious what defines "long range". According to this paper, a passive (non-powered) 15cm RFID antenna is effective at a range up to 4.9 meters (and I believe this number assumes a non-directional scanner). That is certainly less distance than is between the windshield and the readers above the road.
Can you provide more insight into how you are defining "long range" and "very short range"? It looks like modern RFID tech can passively be scanned up to 40 feet in "normal conditions", and I'd have to assume that interstate, windshield-mounted, directional travel is rather normal.
The old models only have a battery because they beep and some (perhaps all) have a display showing your I-PASS balance. The newer models are entirely sealed, and do not require a battery because they work by RFID chips. This post is a bit ridiculous.
If you want the reasoning... go no farther than the I-PASS website (quoted below):
I have one of the old display model transponders that beeps. Can I keep replacing the battery instead of swapping it out for a new transponder?
These older model transponders need to be replaced to ensure customers continue to receive the benefits of I-PASS and avoid toll violations. The Tollway recommends that these transponders be replaced for two important reasons:
The older transponder model is no longer being manufactured and, therefore, is no longer certified by the manufacturer.
Our testing has shown that the older transponder model does not perform as well as the new transponders on the new open road tolling system."
Not sure if it's a security setting, but I can't get that site to load the plugin in IE, period. On my corporate intranet, we have a back end remote management item for all the computers on the domain that is jave-based. No matter how I set the add-on settings for java, the applet loads right up. Restart included.
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I would personally not care one bit if a fast food worker got paid as much as me or more.... good for them, I wouldn't want to do that job so why would I complain?
The point of the thing is not your want of a particular job. If all you were able to do was flip burgers, then you'd find yourself in one of two situations to earn your living. Either flipping burgers, or demanding that those who are able to do more give what they earned to you. Essentially the philosophy here is that ability deserves punishment and not reward.
The Windows Insider builds are available to anyone who can be bothered signing up to the program. The only 'leak' here is if publishing screenshots constitutes a breach of the EULA.
Microsoft only releases some builds to the insider program. More to the fast ring than the slow, but they certainly do not release every internal build to the insider program. For example, the currently available build for PC is Build 10130. For me, it's always interesting to see what's in the latest internal builds even if they aren't released to the public - just to know what to expect when a build is released.
Also, this is not just a screenshot release. The entire build was leaked, and this is the appropriate word, because it is not available through official Microsoft channels. The story chosen for the summary was just one that shows a lot of pictures primarily in place of writing more informative content.
The easiest solution that I've found for this at home is opendns using DNS port intercepting on a ddwrt router. Simple instructions for making this happen are at http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/ind.... If you give your kid a cell phone with a data plan this will be quickly side stepped, but if you take a pass on giving your preteen a phone until they are old enough to grasp some of the needed conversations, it does give some measure of reliable and configurable protection to your local network.
Why make it download emails from a Exchange server and then reupload it to some out-of-organization server?
According to the article this is not the reasoning that is being given for banning the app. As with any aggregator app that runs on a phone, there are many rather plain reasons why data such as emails and attachments would be temporarily stored on the app provider's servers.
The real issue that is being objected to here is that the app double-encrypts login credentials for various email providers using both a unique-per-client key that they generate and a key that is derived from the specific piece of hardware accessing the data. This encrypted data is then stored in "the cloud". The counterpoint to this methodology is gmail's use of OAuth to avoid storing any credentials - regardless of the sophistication of the encryption scheme - in a public cloud setup.
The certification argument is almost entirely a red herring for two major reasons. First, if you ask most teachers with certifications, you'll find that a massive portion of their education was based on classroom administration and not effectively communicating specific subject matter. Secondly, most home school curriculum are not based on in seat teacher to student instruction (though there are a plethora of online options if you choose that style). They are generally based on classical education which relies heavily on teaching children a love for reading with a heavy emphasis on classics and an ability to go seek and find answers for one's self.
I just designed and built a new PC with the specified lifetime of 103 years. I also sold two of them to my buddies.
Free software forever , yay microsoft !
Oh boy... are you still running XP?
That is already how windows 8/8.1 handles OEM licensing. There is no more product key sticker as the product key is integrated into the BIOS. The licensing agreement with OEM stuff has always technically been that it is tied to the specific hardware if my understanding is correct. With 8.1, this is just being more effectively enforced through technical means. It seems extremely unlikely that Microsoft will depart from that model going forward.
However, with the 8 upgrade licenses, they were product key based, because there is no control over the hardware before it reaches the user as there is with an OEM device. I don't really see how they could possibly get away from shipping a product key if they are upgrading any Windows 7+ machine. It also seems unlikely that at registration of said product key, Microsoft is going to store some sort of hardware fingerprint in a database to prevent reusage of the key at a later date on different hardware.
Relevant portion:
This is more than a one-time upgrade: once a Windows device is upgraded to Windows 10, we will continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device – at no additional charge.
Not too shabby. It's most interesting to watch people I know who started kicking themselves for not getting into bitcoins when it had skyrocketed to $600. Kudos to all those who got in sub $200.
I wouldn't go to Atlanta, but this is a major enough shift that I'd show up in Chicago to publicly register discontent. As one poster wrote:
US government ... decided to go out and spy+opress its citizens officially. You're at the tipping point, folks.
But you realize that you are criminally liable, with the potential to wind up on a sex offender registry, lose your job, your family, your home, EVERYTHING
Even with that risk in play, I have to note that I believe that logic very similar was used at Penn State. Bring the tapes directly to the police. Cowardice, however shrewd in its self-interest is still cowardice. I maintain the belief that the judicial system would ultimately do right, and if it did not that the legislative would. Even if I never lived to see either of those two things happen, at least I wouldn't go to my grave knowing that I am a coward who could have stopped more children from being raped and instead did nothing.
If you still support the ban on child pornography then why isn't there a ban on obscene "teen erotica" literature? Why not ban text descriptions, or ban stories which encourage child abuse?
No actual people are physically harmed.
I sincerely hope that there is enough rational thought out there that people recognize the difference between acts done in the name of Christ and what Christ himself taught. People given too much power do horrible things. It doesn't matter much what their theological underpinnings are.
To say that the elimination of religion (atheism) was not a major motivating force for either man... both of whom were to be viewed as gods by their societies seems a vast overstatement.
I find it ridiculous that the "scientific" or perhaps even self-proclaimed "enlightened" mindset on Christianity is that it all boils down to the crusades. It is no different than saying since Hitler or Stalin were atheists that all atheism boils down to genocide and will for all time. (I know this is a repost... didn't realize I wasn't logged in)
This is obviously the case for the social media outlets that this bill would touch (Facebook, Google+, etc.). It'll just be interesting to see where the governmental shoe falls. I'm not hopeful, but I suppose it's possible that people will be given priority as being just that versus their current social media status of product.
It seems to me that this will have the effect to convince at least a subset of roughly high school aged children that they should accept no responsibility for their actions, especially as they relate to sex. I understand and agree with preventing disease, suffering, and death. To that end, no doubt this vaccine will be effective. I just wonder what you teach your child about virtue as a world where freedom from consequence whether natural or societal becomes more and more the highest good.
And how is preventing your children from being able to view pornographic content not parenting?
Because in this case it delegates the responsibility of what is and what is not porn to the filter providers, instead of being a conversation between parents & children.
I know, I know.. I'm old-fashioned. Now get off my lawn etc.
Old-fashioned because you only do one of two sensible things and act like a choice between the two is the only viable path? I don't think so. The idea that your child is capable of making adult decisions and in fact should be exposed to adult situations at extremely young ages is very new.
What kind of typo brings you to a porn website?
whitehouse.(choose carefully here)
however (having just thought of this point once clicking "submit") it would be far easier, and less expensive to just have the parents, um... parent.
And how is preventing your children from being able to view pornographic content not parenting?
Interesting. Thanks for the reply! I may have to waste $20 just to pull one of those dumb things apart.
I just wanted to note that long-range RFID (such as would be used in this type of application) does require the RFID chip to be powered. The ones that don't need a battery only work at very short ranges.
I have no expertise in RFID chips, but I'd be curious what defines "long range". According to this paper, a passive (non-powered) 15cm RFID antenna is effective at a range up to 4.9 meters (and I believe this number assumes a non-directional scanner). That is certainly less distance than is between the windshield and the readers above the road.
Can you provide more insight into how you are defining "long range" and "very short range"? It looks like modern RFID tech can passively be scanned up to 40 feet in "normal conditions", and I'd have to assume that interstate, windshield-mounted, directional travel is rather normal.
Indeed. I will make a note of not submitting crap in the future that is untrue. The sealed part certainly is true, but they have a battery.
Except the I-PASS is a one-time $20 deposit that is returned on return of the I-PASS...
The old models only have a battery because they beep and some (perhaps all) have a display showing your I-PASS balance. The newer models are entirely sealed, and do not require a battery because they work by RFID chips. This post is a bit ridiculous.
If you want the reasoning... go no farther than the I-PASS website (quoted below):
I have one of the old display model transponders that beeps. Can I keep replacing the battery instead of swapping it out for a new transponder?
These older model transponders need to be replaced to ensure customers continue to receive the benefits of I-PASS and avoid toll violations. The Tollway recommends that these transponders be replaced for two important reasons:
The older transponder model is no longer being manufactured and, therefore, is no longer certified by the manufacturer. Our testing has shown that the older transponder model does not perform as well as the new transponders on the new open road tolling system."
Not sure if it's a security setting, but I can't get that site to load the plugin in IE, period. On my corporate intranet, we have a back end remote management item for all the computers on the domain that is jave-based. No matter how I set the add-on settings for java, the applet loads right up. Restart included.