Well, now I've seen everything. Time to hang it up and get off this crazy thing they call the "Interwebs".
Really! Consider how yesterday we had an article about Valley Fever around Avenal from the BBC. Now we're getting closer to the source. I think this may be the start of an invasion of privacy. You know, like when you find a Slashdot camera duct-taped outside your front door.
who here thinks that licensure and displayed serial numbering EVER intended to protect privacy?
"Name Tags" could betray anonymity!
As one example of how police wanted to share this info... A CHP car is sitting at a ramp, tracking cars going by, all doing the speed limit, but posting the info to central computer. Another CHP car is sitting 20 miles down the highway at another ramp, scanning cars coming by and comparing time and information held in the central computer. Simple math and you find who has been speeding between points.
While I'm not wild about being tracked, I simply don't feel that I have an assumption of privacy while driving around on a public road.
It's an illusion held by the paranoid or genuinely guilty.
But think about this... by order of the Supreme Court the police can't keep and share tracking information, unless there's a search warrant. Nothing bars private companies putting plate scanners out there to keep track of where you go.
No Tesla car is worthy of his name without it being able to generate 5 meter long arcs of electricity on demand.
Think if it... as a project.
Get one of these cars, wire a transformer into it and place a couple electrodes on the hood. While you are waiting at lights you could press a button and make arcs dance across the hood of your car and impress the homeboys with their pitiful flatulent exhausts and audio with something massively cool.
You could also work it into vehicle protection. (Please be neat and carry a whisk broom to sweep away the dust of those who attempted to break in.)
American: In my country I can go on TV, in front of millions of people, and call the president of the United States an idiot.
Russian: So what, in my country I too can go on TV, in front of millions of people, and call the president of the United States an idiot.
P.S. At the time that was true in the United States. It was a less dangerous time. The biggest problem we faced was nuclear annihilation in less time than it takes to eat dinner. Now we face guys who put black powder in pressure cookers.
One of the things I appreciate about Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert, keep us laughing at our own foibles, don't ignore those foibles, but recognize the idiocy of how we behave as parties, people and country. Under the Bush administration I felt we were approaching something vaguely Stalinist, where laughing at our mistakes was felt to be unpatriotic - when France challenged our information and motives for going into Iraq we had people re-naming French Fries as Freedom Fries - I think that was a very worrying thing and showed an extreme depth of stupidity. Turned out France was right to do so. Questioning government is the most patriotic thing we can do, not call ourselves pretend PATRIOTS and wrap ourselves up in the flag.
I do agree with Carter, the exposure of this sort of thing is healthy. Perhaps the government needs to do some of these things, but not under a cloak of double secrecy.
We need more brave politicians to finally speak their minds about this instead of fearing the surveillance machine.
What are you talking about? There are plenty of politicians speaking their minds about Snowden -- but I don't know if I'd call them "brave." Looking at just the previous administration, George W. Bush:
Of course, as another poster mentioned, they've got nothing to lose same as Carter.
Yeah, well Bush and Cheney are like two criminals who've never been tried for the scan of engaging the US in Iraq. I can't see them finding a silver lining in any of this. Somewhere along the line the Bush Whitehouse decided to behave like J. Edgar Hoover, sans dresses.
Mod parent up. We need more brave politicians to finally speak their minds about this instead of fearing the surveillance machine.
Bear in mind, Carter was a one term president, widely despised by Republicans and effectively abandoned by his own party -- unable to get many of his programs through a congress controlled by the Democratic Party (which at the time still contained a lot of southern social conservatives.)
He has worn the mantle of elder statesman and sage well since his time in office. Quite possibly one of the best educated and most greatly concerned for the american people of US presidents of the past century.
I once lived near Canada and admired the view that anything related to an upcoming trial be kept out of the news. Where it's treated like entertainment or tantalizing marketing in the United States, it's good to see Canada believes the public should not be forming opinions based upon partial evidence or hearsay.
Looks to my untrained eye like the site operator was violating this ban, beyond simply poor taste.
... and GPS has nothing to do with this. Phones do not require GPS receivers, GPS receivers need not be on and, in any case, a GPS receiver does not transmit your location. An originally military locating system that broadcast your location would be a supremely stupid thing.
If your phone has GPS that information is available, particularly on a 911 call. Amazing how fast they can track down someone with a newer phone these days, particularly when the user thought they had that function disabled. Only for the internet is it politely asking for permission to share your location.
The vast majority of the homeless who encamp in GGP are not war veterans; that's asinine. Go to the end of Haight and look in the park, and what do you see? Dozens, if not hundreds of young adults and 20-30 somethings who just want to smoke weed all day and live in squalor. Those aren't veterans. Those are kids who don't want to make a living like the rest of us. They just wanna be carefree. I know; I live here.
The reality is some are war vets, some are non-war vets, some are non-vets, but almost all are substance abusers of some sort, many are just alcoholics, but others are on stronger substances.
I've done volunteer work, cleaning out the huge amounts of trash these people squirrel away in the parks. It can't be easy living like that, but that's the choice they make and few return to making a living from life on the streets and camping in the park.
Great, let them live the life they chose, but by no means should they be entitled to destroy parks with their squalor.
Ones that say that yes they do need a warrant. Meh, who am I kidding these days...
No! You are right, we should be fighting for our rights and these secret courts and massive intelligence gathering on the people is nothing short of what the Gestapo was engaged in back in.... ooo, is that a new Samsung GS4 Active?!? Shiny! Want!
But beyond a little moaning before the TV cameras they're thick as thieves behind closed doors and we can just about forget them rolling this one back or reigning it in.
So, it's not Bush or Obama, but Ronnie we can thank for this.
The one the government mandated you can not even turn off some of them. Great way to keep em scared guys.
A strategy to keep people from paying attention to NSA eavesdropping news? Wow! And people keep saying how stupid government is -- time to wake up (ah-hum no pun intended.)
Let me get this straight? People are bitching because an alert for a missing child woke them up? So a child's life is less important to you then a few minutes of missing sleep?
Wow. That certainly puts some peoples priorities in place.
Perhaps the biggest whiners were the most self centered.
Remember when you would hear of these small town children being lost and the whole town turning out to search for them or do everything they can to pull a child from a well?
Welcome to New York City, where it's somebody else's problem. An SEP field generator wouldn't even need a battery there.
The lake instantly assaults your senses. Stand on the black crust for just seconds and your eyes water and a powerful, acrid stench fills your lungs.
For hours after our visit, my stomach lurched and my head throbbed. We were there for only one hour, but those who live in Mr Yan’s village of Dalahai, and other villages around, breathe in the same poison every day.
The price of 10% economic growth, quarter on quarter, year on year, for a decade has been widely documented in terms of human and environmental health. You can poison the land, river or an entire lake, but if you pour white paint into milk you meet the firing squad.
Of course the citizens are left to fend for themselves but the prisoners are evacuated in air conditioned buses.
They are protected by protesters in San Francisco. Just like the homeless are, who continually trash Golden Gate park with their encampments. Clearly the people who whinge about looking after prisoner and vagrant rights have a skewed view.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, now I've seen everything. Time to hang it up and get off this crazy thing they call the "Interwebs".
Really! Consider how yesterday we had an article about Valley Fever around Avenal from the BBC. Now we're getting closer to the source. I think this may be the start of an invasion of privacy. You know, like when you find a Slashdot camera duct-taped outside your front door.
who here thinks that licensure and displayed serial numbering EVER intended to protect privacy?
"Name Tags" could betray anonymity!
As one example of how police wanted to share this info... A CHP car is sitting at a ramp, tracking cars going by, all doing the speed limit, but posting the info to central computer. Another CHP car is sitting 20 miles down the highway at another ramp, scanning cars coming by and comparing time and information held in the central computer. Simple math and you find who has been speeding between points.
While I'm not wild about being tracked, I simply don't feel that I have an assumption of privacy while driving around on a public road.
It's an illusion held by the paranoid or genuinely guilty.
But think about this ... by order of the Supreme Court the police can't keep and share tracking information, unless there's a search warrant. Nothing bars private companies putting plate scanners out there to keep track of where you go.
I'd love the police to just be able to scan vehicles to see which are active, which plates do not match vehicles and which vehicles have insurance.
We are plagued by people who do not have valid registrations, borrow or steal plates and have no insurance.
Bust 'em on the spot.
No Tesla car is worthy of his name without it being able to generate 5 meter long arcs of electricity on demand.
Think if it ... as a project.
Get one of these cars, wire a transformer into it and place a couple electrodes on the hood. While you are waiting at lights you could press a button and make arcs dance across the hood of your car and impress the homeboys with their pitiful flatulent exhausts and audio with something massively cool.
You could also work it into vehicle protection. (Please be neat and carry a whisk broom to sweep away the dust of those who attempted to break in.)
Reminds me of an old Cold War joke.
Russian: You think your country is so great. Why?
American: In my country I can go on TV, in front of millions of people, and call the president of the United States an idiot.
Russian: So what, in my country I too can go on TV, in front of millions of people, and call the president of the United States an idiot.
P.S. At the time that was true in the United States. It was a less dangerous time. The biggest problem we faced was nuclear annihilation in less time than it takes to eat dinner. Now we face guys who put black powder in pressure cookers.
One of the things I appreciate about Bill Maher and Stephen Colbert, keep us laughing at our own foibles, don't ignore those foibles, but recognize the idiocy of how we behave as parties, people and country. Under the Bush administration I felt we were approaching something vaguely Stalinist, where laughing at our mistakes was felt to be unpatriotic - when France challenged our information and motives for going into Iraq we had people re-naming French Fries as Freedom Fries - I think that was a very worrying thing and showed an extreme depth of stupidity. Turned out France was right to do so. Questioning government is the most patriotic thing we can do, not call ourselves pretend PATRIOTS and wrap ourselves up in the flag.
I do agree with Carter, the exposure of this sort of thing is healthy. Perhaps the government needs to do some of these things, but not under a cloak of double secrecy.
He's a Democrat - of course the Republicans despise him.
Republicans seem to despise everyone, even themselves. Most dysfunctional political party I've seen since the death throes of the Perot Party.
Mod parent up.
We need more brave politicians to finally speak their minds about this instead of fearing the surveillance machine.
What are you talking about? There are plenty of politicians speaking their minds about Snowden -- but I don't know if I'd call them "brave." Looking at just the previous administration, George W. Bush:
I think he damaged the security of the country
And Dick Cheney:
I think he's a traitor
Of course, as another poster mentioned, they've got nothing to lose same as Carter.
Yeah, well Bush and Cheney are like two criminals who've never been tried for the scan of engaging the US in Iraq. I can't see them finding a silver lining in any of this. Somewhere along the line the Bush Whitehouse decided to behave like J. Edgar Hoover, sans dresses.
Mod parent up.
We need more brave politicians to finally speak their minds about this instead of fearing the surveillance machine.
Bear in mind, Carter was a one term president, widely despised by Republicans and effectively abandoned by his own party -- unable to get many of his programs through a congress controlled by the Democratic Party (which at the time still contained a lot of southern social conservatives.)
He has worn the mantle of elder statesman and sage well since his time in office. Quite possibly one of the best educated and most greatly concerned for the american people of US presidents of the past century.
to when your mate calls you to take the piss...
[snip]
The Framers had clear reasons for promoting freedom of speech...
[snip]
Canada. Not USA. Canada.
When I read the headline, the first thing I thought of was Al Gore.
My first thoughts, but then I read TFA.
I once lived near Canada and admired the view that anything related to an upcoming trial be kept out of the news. Where it's treated like entertainment or tantalizing marketing in the United States, it's good to see Canada believes the public should not be forming opinions based upon partial evidence or hearsay.
Looks to my untrained eye like the site operator was violating this ban, beyond simply poor taste.
... and GPS has nothing to do with this. Phones do not require GPS receivers, GPS receivers need not be on and, in any case, a GPS receiver does not transmit your location. An originally military locating system that broadcast your location would be a supremely stupid thing.
If your phone has GPS that information is available, particularly on a 911 call. Amazing how fast they can track down someone with a newer phone these days, particularly when the user thought they had that function disabled. Only for the internet is it politely asking for permission to share your location.
The vast majority of the homeless who encamp in GGP are not war veterans; that's asinine. Go to the end of Haight and look in the park, and what do you see? Dozens, if not hundreds of young adults and 20-30 somethings who just want to smoke weed all day and live in squalor. Those aren't veterans. Those are kids who don't want to make a living like the rest of us. They just wanna be carefree. I know; I live here.
The reality is some are war vets, some are non-war vets, some are non-vets, but almost all are substance abusers of some sort, many are just alcoholics, but others are on stronger substances.
I've done volunteer work, cleaning out the huge amounts of trash these people squirrel away in the parks. It can't be easy living like that, but that's the choice they make and few return to making a living from life on the streets and camping in the park.
Great, let them live the life they chose, but by no means should they be entitled to destroy parks with their squalor.
I see lots of flying chairs in the future of MS.
May be the saving of the Entertainment division - Steve's MMO Chair Throwing Extravaganza
When you call 911 with cardiac symptoms and then drop off the call, it's useful information.
You'd be surprised. I called 911 in Orange County a month ago and the first question I get is "Where are you?" Hmmph.
Ones that say that yes they do need a warrant. Meh, who am I kidding these days...
No! You are right, we should be fighting for our rights and these secret courts and massive intelligence gathering on the people is nothing short of what the Gestapo was engaged in back in .... ooo, is that a new Samsung GS4 Active?!? Shiny! Want!
[NO CARRIER]
But beyond a little moaning before the TV cameras they're thick as thieves behind closed doors and we can just about forget them rolling this one back or reigning it in.
So, it's not Bush or Obama, but Ronnie we can thank for this.
Steve should consider throwing his best chair forward.
The one the government mandated you can not even turn off some of them. Great way to keep em scared guys.
A strategy to keep people from paying attention to NSA eavesdropping news? Wow! And people keep saying how stupid government is -- time to wake up (ah-hum no pun intended.)
Let me get this straight? People are bitching because an alert for a missing child woke them up? So a child's life is less important to you then a few minutes of missing sleep?
Wow. That certainly puts some peoples priorities in place.
Perhaps the biggest whiners were the most self centered.
Remember when you would hear of these small town children being lost and the whole town turning out to search for them or do everything they can to pull a child from a well?
Welcome to New York City, where it's somebody else's problem. An SEP field generator wouldn't even need a battery there.
Well, they know it works and are now ready for the Zombpocalypse!
which will be reported on /. the day after it starts
Isn't that an city in China that is mining rare earth metals for wind turbines?
The lake instantly assaults your senses. Stand on the black crust for just seconds and your eyes water and a powerful, acrid stench fills your lungs.
For hours after our visit, my stomach lurched and my head throbbed. We were there for only one hour, but those who live in Mr Yan’s village of Dalahai, and other villages around, breathe in the same poison every day.
The price of 10% economic growth, quarter on quarter, year on year, for a decade has been widely documented in terms of human and environmental health. You can poison the land, river or an entire lake, but if you pour white paint into milk you meet the firing squad.
Of course the citizens are left to fend for themselves but the prisoners are evacuated in air conditioned buses.
They are protected by protesters in San Francisco. Just like the homeless are, who continually trash Golden Gate park with their encampments. Clearly the people who whinge about looking after prisoner and vagrant rights have a skewed view.