and provide me with a signed statement that the records will be destroyed
Ahh, so young, fresh and innocent. Just like those naked little froggy native boys in their tight leather aprons...
Listen. A signed statement is nothing more than a piece of paper with some ink on it. The government reneges, what are you going to do? Stomp your feet? Oh, right - you'll "sue." Good luck with that. See, the government has the power to decide if you can even sue it(!).
Maybe they allow it this time. But now you're going up against an entity with UNLIMITED resources, and you have your $100/hr lawyer. How long before you burn through your life savings? A year? Two?
And in the end you have no more assurance than when you started.
Cops come to my door, I have nothing to say to them unless they have a warrant, and not even then.
No, you can't come in—in fact I'm coming outside and closing the door behind me. No, I'm not answering any questions (other than my name, as required by law).
The speed issues were definitely a huge problem. Every Ruby on Rails project I've ever run on my test server, including the super-simple to-do list given in the tutorials, have ground the execution of said project to a halt; something that would take PHP milliseconds to do would take 30 seconds minimum while Ruby fired itself up.
Personal Anecdote FTW!
Unlike you, I wrote, deployed and maintained a RoR app in a professional environment that got a minimum of 40,000 hits per day, every day. It worked like a champ with no speed issues, because a) I worked with the server guys to ensure the web, application and database servers were tuned, and b) I know how to use a profiler.
I wouldn't dream of using PHP because besides being one of the few languages where every feature is broken in some way, I needed TDD and MVC baked in as well as threading support.
I would've used Java, but (as usual) the artificial deadlines required rapid deployment, and the minimum viable product would've taken too long to code in Java. I could've just as easily gone with Perl, but using some gems that allowed me to basically drop them in and go saved lots of time I would've wasted coding the same things in Perl (even though CPAN rocks).
Because Mountain Lion isn't THAT much of an upgrade over Lion, and whatever comes after (HouseCat?) will probably be more IOS-like—i.e., sucky on a laptop.
Until/unless Apple de-fscks itself, the upgrade path will be via Linux on Mac.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan's opinion said that the eavesdropping technique "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off." Some handsets can't be fully powered down without removing the battery; for instance, some Nokia models will wake up when turned off if an alarm is set.
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The U.S. Commerce Department's security office warns that "a cellular telephone can be turned into a microphone and transmitter for the purpose of listening to conversations in the vicinity of the phone." An article in the Financial Times last year said mobile providers can "remotely install a piece of software on to any handset, without the owner's knowledge, which will activate the microphone even when its owner is not making a call."
Remember, that was 6 years ago. Those civil rights you thought you had? Hope you enjoyed them at the time.
that the legal lackeys who wrote this law for their MPAA/RIAA masters knew exactly what they were doing: they intentionally made it so there was no penalty for flooding take-down notices across the length and breadth of the internets.
The penalty for them is much less than the street justice penalty they want to hand out.
You do have real evidence for this, right?
This isn't one of those "Fox 'News' says Islamists want to kill me in my sleep so I better vote for Romney or everyone I know will get their heads cut off" knee-jerk fear of the other taken to the logical absurd end, right?
I was tweaking the AC's reliance on Argumentum ad Verecundiam, which is (often) a fallacy.
I looked up alternatives to Alzheimer's, and Pick's Disease looks like an introvert-troll/basement-dweller's dream. Check out the list of behavioural and emotional changes.
For example, if I'm dumping some random user data that will never be formatted/standardized/normalized—that can be different domains for every user—NoSQL might be the right choice.
Maybe I want to store a user's favorite object (puppy, car, toy, steak 'doneness') and I don't want to have a child-table-from-hell lookup table. NoSQL is a great option.
On the other hand, if I want to do some sort of row lookback, then it is far easier in a relational DB. For example, if I want to find the salary average and of all of people in the same department as the most recent new hire or the average working 'lifespan' (how long before the person quits, gets fired or dies) of every department vs. their salary range*, then it is pretty easy.
... because the logical conclusion is without continuous recording, the airport—and eventually the entire country—will be overrun with child pornographers.
I mean, look at what happened over the last 145 years: thousands, if not millions, of child pornographers have been rattling at the gates of poor Canada, trying to get in. Why do you hate Canada?
No, I say let them film, x-ray, record, and take DNA samples of every traveller. Because if they don't, then someone's child, perhaps my own, will get pornographized. It is an unescapable fact.
Gnash and roar loudly as they sink into the tar pits.
They may hurt teh interwebs on their way down, but their efforts are futile; culture will never again be produced by the few and consumed only by everyone else.
Perhaps the MAFIAA think they can turn back the clock because they suffer from Dunning-Kruger? Either way, they need to die and die soon so the rest of us can get on with making badass remixes and fanfic.
That's because they're not "Christians" at all. I know lots and lots of people who call themselves Christians. I can count on one hand those that I would consider to be such.
I really liked that video until I got to the end and realized it was an ad for Insane Clown Posse's developmentally-challenged racist cousin.
Yes, if the US were occupied by a foreign army, you better believe I'd be fighting them in any way possible. Roadside bombs are highly effective, as are boobie-trapped home entrances.
I just hope I don't have to use whatever skills the Army gave me against American troops, even though Capos are just as bad—if not worse—than the "blackshirts" they take their orders from.
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Especially when it demanded a voice box so it could talk to the lowly humans. :)
Ahh, so young, fresh and innocent. Just like those naked little froggy native boys in their tight leather aprons...
Listen. A signed statement is nothing more than a piece of paper with some ink on it. The government reneges, what are you going to do? Stomp your feet? Oh, right - you'll "sue." Good luck with that. See, the government has the power to decide if you can even sue it(!).
Maybe they allow it this time. But now you're going up against an entity with UNLIMITED resources, and you have your $100/hr lawyer. How long before you burn through your life savings? A year? Two?
And in the end you have no more assurance than when you started.
Get smart. Give it up by not taking it up.
Cops come to my door, I have nothing to say to them unless they have a warrant, and not even then.
No, you can't come in—in fact I'm coming outside and closing the door behind me. No, I'm not answering any questions (other than my name, as required by law).
Personal Anecdote FTW!
Unlike you, I wrote, deployed and maintained a RoR app in a professional environment that got a minimum of 40,000 hits per day, every day. It worked like a champ with no speed issues, because a) I worked with the server guys to ensure the web, application and database servers were tuned, and b) I know how to use a profiler.
I wouldn't dream of using PHP because besides being one of the few languages where every feature is broken in some way, I needed TDD and MVC baked in as well as threading support.
I would've used Java, but (as usual) the artificial deadlines required rapid deployment, and the minimum viable product would've taken too long to code in Java. I could've just as easily gone with Perl, but using some gems that allowed me to basically drop them in and go saved lots of time I would've wasted coding the same things in Perl (even though CPAN rocks).
Before bowing your head, please turn to page 5 in your hymnal:
Partition ye diske unto me.
Anon.
Because Mountain Lion isn't THAT much of an upgrade over Lion, and whatever comes after (HouseCat?) will probably be more IOS-like—i.e., sucky on a laptop.
Until/unless Apple de-fscks itself, the upgrade path will be via Linux on Mac.
Remember, that was 6 years ago. Those civil rights you thought you had? Hope you enjoyed them at the time.
...until you are.
And by "interesting enough," I mean
etc.
See what I did there?
He knows his stuff, even if he came from U$C. :)
If there was some kind of penalty or cost (say, a paltry fee of $1 for every take down notice filed), we'd see these things dry up faster than a river in corn country.
The penalty for them is much less than the street justice penalty they want to hand out.
You do have real evidence for this, right?
This isn't one of those "Fox 'News' says Islamists want to kill me in my sleep so I better vote for Romney or everyone I know will get their heads cut off" knee-jerk fear of the other taken to the logical absurd end, right?
I was tweaking the AC's reliance on Argumentum ad Verecundiam, which is (often) a fallacy.
I looked up alternatives to Alzheimer's, and Pick's Disease looks like an introvert-troll/basement-dweller's dream. Check out the list of behavioural and emotional changes.
Only if said island is routinely scoured clean by hurricanes and/or meat-eating crustaceans.
Print is dead.
Did you forget to link to the link?
Speaking as a professional SQL Developer with OVER TWENTY YEARS of experience, an RDBMS is not the answer to every problem. Sometimes NoSQL makes sense.
For example, if I'm dumping some random user data that will never be formatted/standardized/normalized—that can be different domains for every user—NoSQL might be the right choice.
Maybe I want to store a user's favorite object (puppy, car, toy, steak 'doneness') and I don't want to have a child-table-from-hell lookup table. NoSQL is a great option.
On the other hand, if I want to do some sort of row lookback, then it is far easier in a relational DB. For example, if I want to find the salary average and of all of people in the same department as the most recent new hire or the average working 'lifespan' (how long before the person quits, gets fired or dies) of every department vs. their salary range*, then it is pretty easy.
Now get off my lawn.
* Yes, real-world examples.
... because the logical conclusion is without continuous recording, the airport—and eventually the entire country—will be overrun with child pornographers.
I mean, look at what happened over the last 145 years: thousands, if not millions, of child pornographers have been rattling at the gates of poor Canada, trying to get in. Why do you hate Canada?
No, I say let them film, x-ray, record, and take DNA samples of every traveller. Because if they don't, then someone's child, perhaps my own, will get pornographized. It is an unescapable fact.
Without the incentive of copyright, no one will ever make an API again.
How will people get paid for setting up third-party access to their data and functionality?
You laugh now, but the internet is just one big API, and now it will go da--#&@$(#$& NO CARRIER
Making a long/mid term investment in a dot-com is kind of crazy talk.
Yes. Short it or get the fuck out. Otherwise get yourself fitted for a barrel.
Gnash and roar loudly as they sink into the tar pits.
They may hurt teh interwebs on their way down, but their efforts are futile; culture will never again be produced by the few and consumed only by everyone else.
(BTW, Lessig has a great Ted Talk about how everyone is a content producer now.)
Perhaps the MAFIAA think they can turn back the clock because they suffer from Dunning-Kruger? Either way, they need to die and die soon so the rest of us can get on with making badass remixes and fanfic.
Argument from incredulity appears to not apply here, as you don't fall into that group. Can we get a ruling from the jury?
What about a nice infographic to make you go, "Hmmm...."
Ladies and Gentlemen, the no true Scottsman logical fallacy!
Father Coughlin was Roman Catholic; it doesn't get any more "Christian" than that.
Imagine if it were Texas.
I really liked that video until I got to the end and realized it was an ad for Insane Clown Posse's developmentally-challenged racist cousin.
Yes, if the US were occupied by a foreign army, you better believe I'd be fighting them in any way possible. Roadside bombs are highly effective, as are boobie-trapped home entrances.
I just hope I don't have to use whatever skills the Army gave me against American troops, even though Capos are just as bad—if not worse—than the "blackshirts" they take their orders from.