Does everyone really just know that SOHO = "Single Owner Home Office" (took a bit of Google fanciness to get around the neighborhoods in London & NYC).
To answer the OP's question, I've had great luck with my Canon Pixma MP495. Canon *did write* Linux firmware/software, it's just not available through their US site for whatever reason (it's also kludgy as hell, but it gets the job done).
Conflating two stories that shouldn't be conflated: the FWD.us hackathon isn't a Facebook-employee lock-in. It's (basically) a publicity stunt designed to help / help raise awareness for immigration reform. That has nothing to do with any tyrannical measures Zuckerberg is taking as CEO.
I agree that this used to be a big problem for me. Then I got a job outside of academia, and they made me learn to use an IDE (oh how I miss the days of doing everything in gedit and command-line gcc...), so now renaming a variable (and getting all its references) is a matter of one right-click. What this means is that if I can't figure out what to name something, I can just name it "blah," "stuff" or "temp" and then refactor when the inspiration strikes.
Let's say the genetic test instead reported that the kid was at high risk of skin cancer. No one would argue that that's not useful information--give greater emphasis to teaching the kid to use sunscreen and avoid tanning salons. I'm not up on what the current research says are ways of delaying / combating the onset of Alzheimer's, but if such methods exist and can be started early, why wouldn't you make use of the information. Yes, there are a lot of other ways to be killed or debilitated in sixty years of life, and in sixty years, we may well have a cure, but more information is never (okay fine, rarely?) a bad thing.
Another good use of the information in this report: enroll the kid in some longitudinal studies on the progression of Alzheimer's, if such things exist and look for children that young.
Probably should take computers away from your tech-novice parents, grandparents, children and cats as well (though why you gave your cat a computer in the first place is beyond me). The point of the article is not that spear phishing is new, it's that Graph Search makes it much easier to find a squishy target for your spear.
I never said I was British (I'm American, like you, actually). Nor did I say whether I agree with Snowden's argument. But getting past all your Brit-hate and vitriol, your core argument that it's cultural differences, not levels of secrecy, that color the two countries' responses to ubiquitous surveillance, seems a good one.
“So long as there’s broad support amongst a people, it can be argued there’s a level of legitimacy even to the most invasive and morally wrong program, as it was an informed and willing decision”
He's basically claiming that the problem with all this spying isn't so much it's going on, but that it's going on in secret, without oversight. Fascinating, and it makes sense: take CCTV in the UK--far reaching, nearly ubiquitous, yet everyone knows it's there, and while there are privacy hawks who are against it, there's not nearly the level of outrage as there has been in the US over NSA's spying.
First off, if I legitimately have child pornography on my computer, I deserve to be sent to prison. Secondly, law enforcement would need to obtain some sort of warrant and show probably cause to in order to go rifling through my files. Hard to explain to a judge, "My buddies at NSA told me to look for the kiddie porn they planted on this guy's machine." Third, and finally, if someone in law enforcement wants to frame me for a crime, they can do it just as well without the vast intelligent gathering network of the NSA behind them.
Note, I'm not naive enough to think that there's no easy way around Point Two, but Point Three still trumps it.
IIRC the Guardian has been him with some protection (legal teams and such) to combat against government harassment / retaliation. Will his new venture be able to do the same?
Slashdot's "junk character" filter won't let me post this in the same format, so I'll have to do it this way:
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I'm probably in the minority of slashdotters, but I have no problem with the government spying on my communications and seeing what porn I watch--the only problem I have is with how this information is used. Even then, if the government ever came to me and said, "Do this, or we tell the world about your [redacted] fetish," I'd respond, "Go ahead. And I'll tell the world about how you tried to blackmail me." Guess who'd be in more trouble?
And yes, I do get off on looking at those blacked-out lines on partially de-classified documents. My horrible secret is now known.
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Does everyone really just know that SOHO = "Single Owner Home Office" (took a bit of Google fanciness to get around the neighborhoods in London & NYC).
To answer the OP's question, I've had great luck with my Canon Pixma MP495. Canon *did write* Linux firmware/software, it's just not available through their US site for whatever reason (it's also kludgy as hell, but it gets the job done).
Median salary of a Computer Technical Support Specialist: $42,646
Median salary of a Plumber: $45,347
And, unlike in IT, plumbers usually get THANKED when they fix a problem and do it well.
Michael Bloomberg thinks more kids should grow up dreaming of being plumbers. As heavily as he was criticized/ridiculed, he does have a point.
Worked in IT for ten years. Was a project manager specializing in Citrix cloud migrations and ran her managed IT firm's help desk.
Her degree? BA in English, with enough credits in Classics for a minor.
Conflating two stories that shouldn't be conflated: the FWD.us hackathon isn't a Facebook-employee lock-in. It's (basically) a publicity stunt designed to help / help raise awareness for immigration reform. That has nothing to do with any tyrannical measures Zuckerberg is taking as CEO.
What exactly are you concerned about them loosing? Maybe some horrible monster they've been keeping in their basement? Or a bio-genetic plague?
I agree that this used to be a big problem for me. Then I got a job outside of academia, and they made me learn to use an IDE (oh how I miss the days of doing everything in gedit and command-line gcc...), so now renaming a variable (and getting all its references) is a matter of one right-click. What this means is that if I can't figure out what to name something, I can just name it "blah," "stuff" or "temp" and then refactor when the inspiration strikes.
Or, if you read the article, the idea is to use the game engine to develop new and original projects without having to write them from scratch.
Let's say the genetic test instead reported that the kid was at high risk of skin cancer. No one would argue that that's not useful information--give greater emphasis to teaching the kid to use sunscreen and avoid tanning salons. I'm not up on what the current research says are ways of delaying / combating the onset of Alzheimer's, but if such methods exist and can be started early, why wouldn't you make use of the information. Yes, there are a lot of other ways to be killed or debilitated in sixty years of life, and in sixty years, we may well have a cure, but more information is never (okay fine, rarely?) a bad thing.
Another good use of the information in this report: enroll the kid in some longitudinal studies on the progression of Alzheimer's, if such things exist and look for children that young.
Probably should take computers away from your tech-novice parents, grandparents, children and cats as well (though why you gave your cat a computer in the first place is beyond me). The point of the article is not that spear phishing is new, it's that Graph Search makes it much easier to find a squishy target for your spear.
I never said I was British (I'm American, like you, actually). Nor did I say whether I agree with Snowden's argument. But getting past all your Brit-hate and vitriol, your core argument that it's cultural differences, not levels of secrecy, that color the two countries' responses to ubiquitous surveillance, seems a good one.
“So long as there’s broad support amongst a people, it can be argued there’s a level of legitimacy even to the most invasive and morally wrong program, as it was an informed and willing decision”
He's basically claiming that the problem with all this spying isn't so much it's going on, but that it's going on in secret, without oversight. Fascinating, and it makes sense: take CCTV in the UK--far reaching, nearly ubiquitous, yet everyone knows it's there, and while there are privacy hawks who are against it, there's not nearly the level of outrage as there has been in the US over NSA's spying.
This would be quite clever if you hadn't ripped off the AC who posted half an hour before you...
Yeah, except I have far greater faith in government inefficiency than I have fear in its malevolence.
First off, if I legitimately have child pornography on my computer, I deserve to be sent to prison. Secondly, law enforcement would need to obtain some sort of warrant and show probably cause to in order to go rifling through my files. Hard to explain to a judge, "My buddies at NSA told me to look for the kiddie porn they planted on this guy's machine." Third, and finally, if someone in law enforcement wants to frame me for a crime, they can do it just as well without the vast intelligent gathering network of the NSA behind them.
Note, I'm not naive enough to think that there's no easy way around Point Two, but Point Three still trumps it.
IIRC the Guardian has been him with some protection (legal teams and such) to combat against government harassment / retaliation. Will his new venture be able to do the same?
Well, someone already solved it anyway. Try round two.
And yes, I do get off on looking at those blacked-out lines on partially de-classified documents. My horrible secret is now known.
Okay, round two:
Slashdot's "junk character" filter won't let me post this in the same format, so I'll have to do it this way:
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The last letter of the first word is "s."
Well done! Would've been harder without the word breaks, I imagine.
This comment is stupid! You should kill yourself.
I'm probably in the minority of slashdotters, but I have no problem with the government spying on my communications and seeing what porn I watch--the only problem I have is with how this information is used. Even then, if the government ever came to me and said, "Do this, or we tell the world about your [redacted] fetish," I'd respond, "Go ahead. And I'll tell the world about how you tried to blackmail me." Guess who'd be in more trouble?
And yes, I do get off on looking at those blacked-out lines on partially de-classified documents. My horrible secret is now known.
But he reserved his harshest words for the girl's parents for failing to monitor her behavior
Children are sociopaths until they learn better / their frontal lobes finish developing. It's the parents who are at fault here.
Alas, evolution has not generally selected on the grounds of "pleasantness to mankind."
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Reconstruct that sequence. If the half-life of DNA really is ~500 years, then this message will be orders of magnitude easier to construct.