If you care about privacy, why do you use the Internet or have a computer or phone?
Nice false dichotomy there. I hope Poe's Law applies here.
The internet has a hell of a lot of really great things on it. Getting to 90% of those things doesn't require disclosing any personal information; getting to 90% of what remains only requires disclosing as much as I want to (for example, writing this post on Slashdot).
Of the 1% remaining that truly requires knowing at least some IRL identifying information (basically just banking and shopping, and if not for Amazon I wouldn't even rate those as a whopping 1% combined), I still have the option of completely compartmentalizing what little information I choose to share with them - My use of my bank's online bill-pay has absolutely no connection to anything else I do on-line.
Now, Amazon and Google et al might want to track me to the ends of the Earth, but I consider it a basic responsibility of all netizens to make that as hard as physically possible - Don't tolerate ads, no tracking bugs, no persistent cookies, use only proxied API calls (and even then only when NoScript breaks the page too badly) - the works.
YMMV, but don't shit in my hand and call it a flower by acting like mere use of the internet requires sacrificing my privacy.
But Google+ is no longer a requirement for Google's services
I've used Google's various services for a good many years, and have steadfastly refused to use Plus. So aside from the core Plus features themselves, exactly what "services" required signing up for Plus to use them?
Now, if you say that I can get back the usable classic version of Google Maps instead of this worthless abomination they replaced it with... That alone might get me to finally sign up for Plus!
On the other hand, students and people in-general have gotten > and < confused for a long time.
Call me crazy, but I expect a teensy bit more from a graduate of a 4-year university in a math-heavy major, than I do from 4th graders or the general public.
Only if they are in the UK. Everyone other country can find and tell everyone about the backdoors as they are not bound by UK law.
Yet another reason to run Antivir or Kaspersky or ESET.
It strikes me as sublimely ironic that the realities of the current international political landscape make it far, far safer for most of us to run software from a country with a government antagonistic to my own - Sure, it no doubt still contains malware friendly to Germany or Russia or Slovakia, but those governments have absolutely no interest in me, except insofar as they might hope I have some privileged access to US government data (which I don't).
explain that all numbers are not, in fact, "morally equivalent"?
Can you deny that the complete exclusion of even numbers from the vast majority of prime number research is just as bad as Hitler's internment of the Polish Jews???
judging by all the racist crap that's been posted so far.
Quick, name the last thousand minor acts of war committed on our planet - Notice any conspicuous pattern to where they primarily happened? (And yes, smartass, we can get back to dealing with Russia later).
Nothing "racist" about acknowledging that we have one problem region on the globe today, without which we'd all live in a hell of a lot better world. Do those problems stem from race, or from culture, or from religion? Don't care. Erasing the whole damned region would count as a net gain for humanity.
Realistically, although the trend would show as a slow and gradual process, the actual turning point would not - Things will chug along like usual until, at some point, a severe heat wave will cause a truly massive die-off.
If the survivors actually still want to fight over who gets to own a chunk of meteorite in the middle of a dead zone, hey, good for them. The sane ones will run begging for assimilation by their friends to the North.
And the whole world wins as a result. Well, except for coastal cities like New York and New Orleans and all of Florida, but hey, can't make an omelet...
Because idiots like you will only believe it when New York is under water and even then you'll say: who cares about those liberals.
Not to imply that the major parties actually differ in any meaningful way, but, for the record - The whole "climate change" (vs global warming) spin caught on first in the Blue camp (although, ironically enough, Republican Spin Doctor Frank Luntz came up with the idea, it just failed to catch on amongst the Reds at first).
you should call for the immediate disbanding of the armed forces
Um, okay? Twist my arm, dude!
You not understanding the important of a census doesn't make you look to knowledgeable of this subject.
Hey now, the correct term is "African American Kettle", you insensitive bastard!
You've confused "usefulness" with "propriety" - You not understanding the role of government doesn't leave much room to lob criticism.
We deny our governments a great many "important" powers - Random searches and seizures; not needing to bother with all that burdensome proof of guilt stuff; not needing to put up with that pesky press or those damned people freely expressing their opinions about corruption; putting a soldier in every house; taking away people's guns (oh, right, Canada already did that one, but not like they then turned around and started stripping a defenseless population of other rights... Heeey, waitaminute!).
The convenience and utility of a given course of action do not automatically mean that we should allow that power to our governments under the guise of serving the people.
Of course not! He outright admitted that he doesn't work in the design or upkeep of locomotives. Since we use the English language as an immutable absolute, that clearly makes him a non-engineer.
Now if all those damned bridge-builders and skyscraper-designers and CPU-wirers and chemical-mixers and rocket-scientists and bacteria-growers would just quit using that sacred word, we could recover it from its current debased state!
"If you ain't covered in soot and diesel, don't call yourself an engineer you weasel!"
You know, collect information and use it to make decisions
Unfortunately, world history has a looong list of countries using such information "to make decisions" about how best to deal with Jews or Cossacks or Indians or Armenians or Japanese or Kurds or Sikhs or... I could go on, but you probably get the point.
But, hey, go live in your mountain cabin and continue to believe this stupid crap.
...Or just this decade (because no doubt, we don't do that anymore, amirite?), Uzbeks or Syrian Christians or Rohingya or Bodos or Burmese Muslims... Do I really need to go on?
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help" has counted as the most terrifying phrase in the English language for centuries for a damned good reason. This doesn't require a tinfoil hat or a manifesto or a cabin in the woods; it requires nothing more than opening any major newspaper, turning on the evening news, listening to the morning news during your commute to work, skimming the headlines at Google News - To know why giving the government anything more than they absolutely need to perform their core functions, counts as a bad idea.
Or put another way - If my race, income, or education level has any impact on how many roads I get in my county, the government has already fucked up so badly we need them gone ASAP.
Careful - Just like with the Balmer Peak, too much doesn't always mean "better".
You probably want to shoot for the high 20s or low 30s... Antisocial enough not to waste time chatting about stupid shit, but still able to effectively collaborate with others (when absolutely necessary).
I think you have that inverted. It doesn't count as anything until someone can demonstrate that it can't possibly be cheating.
Nope, not at all backward backward. Science needs to fit reality, we don't ignore reality because it doesn't fit our best models - That very attitude, that the High Priests of Science rule over their domain with an iron book, has done more to foster an anti-intellectual attitude in the modern world than the creationists could ever pray for.
Now, whether or not you can get anyone credible to even look at your prototype requires a level of plausibility; but unless you mean to accuse NASA of cheating itself, we have some pretty credibly folks looking into the EM drive on this one.
The problem is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
A working prototype counts as a pretty damned good proof of concept, at least until someone can demonstrate how it cheats.
Sure, someone might eventually figure out a way that it doesn't really cheat conservation of momentum - And that finding might have its own useful applications.
CBS is currently looking for a writer to helm the show.
Well now, I can barely wait for this gem!
"We have the product placements all lined up; the token morality lessons of the week to push our thinly-veiled political agenda; the distribution gimmick to force fans into using our otherwise dead-in-the-water online service... Now we just need a show!"
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If you care about privacy, why do you use the Internet or have a computer or phone?
Nice false dichotomy there. I hope Poe's Law applies here.
The internet has a hell of a lot of really great things on it. Getting to 90% of those things doesn't require disclosing any personal information; getting to 90% of what remains only requires disclosing as much as I want to (for example, writing this post on Slashdot).
Of the 1% remaining that truly requires knowing at least some IRL identifying information (basically just banking and shopping, and if not for Amazon I wouldn't even rate those as a whopping 1% combined), I still have the option of completely compartmentalizing what little information I choose to share with them - My use of my bank's online bill-pay has absolutely no connection to anything else I do on-line.
Now, Amazon and Google et al might want to track me to the ends of the Earth, but I consider it a basic responsibility of all netizens to make that as hard as physically possible - Don't tolerate ads, no tracking bugs, no persistent cookies, use only proxied API calls (and even then only when NoScript breaks the page too badly) - the works.
YMMV, but don't shit in my hand and call it a flower by acting like mere use of the internet requires sacrificing my privacy.
But Google+ is no longer a requirement for Google's services
I've used Google's various services for a good many years, and have steadfastly refused to use Plus. So aside from the core Plus features themselves, exactly what "services" required signing up for Plus to use them?
Now, if you say that I can get back the usable classic version of Google Maps instead of this worthless abomination they replaced it with... That alone might get me to finally sign up for Plus!
So no plugin support either?
DOA. I really can't stand Safari, but I loathe ads a lot more.
On the other hand, students and people in-general have gotten > and < confused for a long time.
Call me crazy, but I expect a teensy bit more from a graduate of a 4-year university in a math-heavy major, than I do from 4th graders or the general public.
Only if they are in the UK. Everyone other country can find and tell everyone about the backdoors as they are not bound by UK law.
Yet another reason to run Antivir or Kaspersky or ESET.
It strikes me as sublimely ironic that the realities of the current international political landscape make it far, far safer for most of us to run software from a country with a government antagonistic to my own - Sure, it no doubt still contains malware friendly to Germany or Russia or Slovakia, but those governments have absolutely no interest in me, except insofar as they might hope I have some privileged access to US government data (which I don't).
explain that all numbers are not, in fact, "morally equivalent"?
Can you deny that the complete exclusion of even numbers from the vast majority of prime number research is just as bad as Hitler's internment of the Polish Jews???
Why do you hate America?
SOME flexibility on "tripe" nonsense
The GP used the word "trope" intentionally.
judging by all the racist crap that's been posted so far.
Quick, name the last thousand minor acts of war committed on our planet - Notice any conspicuous pattern to where they primarily happened? (And yes, smartass, we can get back to dealing with Russia later).
Nothing "racist" about acknowledging that we have one problem region on the globe today, without which we'd all live in a hell of a lot better world. Do those problems stem from race, or from culture, or from religion? Don't care. Erasing the whole damned region would count as a net gain for humanity.
But it won't kill everyone as you suggest.
You missed his point - If you can't survive for more than a few hours at a time outside, what happens when you lose power for a week?
Answer: Everyone dies. Or at least, a high enough percentage of the population to make the distinction irrelevant.
Realistically, although the trend would show as a slow and gradual process, the actual turning point would not - Things will chug along like usual until, at some point, a severe heat wave will cause a truly massive die-off.
If the survivors actually still want to fight over who gets to own a chunk of meteorite in the middle of a dead zone, hey, good for them. The sane ones will run begging for assimilation by their friends to the North.
And the whole world wins as a result. Well, except for coastal cities like New York and New Orleans and all of Florida, but hey, can't make an omelet...
That does pretty adequately define the word denial: "the action of declaring something to be untrue."
Because idiots like you will only believe it when New York is under water and even then you'll say: who cares about those liberals.
Not to imply that the major parties actually differ in any meaningful way, but, for the record - The whole "climate change" (vs global warming) spin caught on first in the Blue camp (although, ironically enough, Republican Spin Doctor Frank Luntz came up with the idea, it just failed to catch on amongst the Reds at first).
Get your neighbors together, fill up a city council meeting, and demand action from the ground up.
You realize that virtually no one in your local government will have the faintest clue where to even start on trying to offer municipal broadband?
Nice idea, in theory, but in practice, you'd better have both an action plan and a source of funding lined up first.
And Agent Orange only affects trees - Why, I once saw a guy drink a cup full of it in a Vietnam documentary, and it didn't affect him at all!
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You can purchase food grade PLA for 3D printing however.
Hey now, lets not resort to cannibalism here! What'd I ever do to you???
you should call for the immediate disbanding of the armed forces
Um, okay? Twist my arm, dude!
You not understanding the important of a census doesn't make you look to knowledgeable of this subject.
Hey now, the correct term is "African American Kettle", you insensitive bastard!
You've confused "usefulness" with "propriety" - You not understanding the role of government doesn't leave much room to lob criticism.
We deny our governments a great many "important" powers - Random searches and seizures; not needing to bother with all that burdensome proof of guilt stuff; not needing to put up with that pesky press or those damned people freely expressing their opinions about corruption; putting a soldier in every house; taking away people's guns (oh, right, Canada already did that one, but not like they then turned around and started stripping a defenseless population of other rights... Heeey, waitaminute!).
The convenience and utility of a given course of action do not automatically mean that we should allow that power to our governments under the guise of serving the people.
XYZZY opens a new SSH session, of course!
So your not an engineer.
Of course not! He outright admitted that he doesn't work in the design or upkeep of locomotives. Since we use the English language as an immutable absolute, that clearly makes him a non-engineer.
Now if all those damned bridge-builders and skyscraper-designers and CPU-wirers and chemical-mixers and rocket-scientists and bacteria-growers would just quit using that sacred word, we could recover it from its current debased state!
"If you ain't covered in soot and diesel, don't call yourself an engineer you weasel!"
You know, collect information and use it to make decisions
...Or just this decade (because no doubt, we don't do that anymore, amirite?), Uzbeks or Syrian Christians or Rohingya or Bodos or Burmese Muslims... Do I really need to go on?
Unfortunately, world history has a looong list of countries using such information "to make decisions" about how best to deal with Jews or Cossacks or Indians or Armenians or Japanese or Kurds or Sikhs or... I could go on, but you probably get the point.
But, hey, go live in your mountain cabin and continue to believe this stupid crap.
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help" has counted as the most terrifying phrase in the English language for centuries for a damned good reason. This doesn't require a tinfoil hat or a manifesto or a cabin in the woods; it requires nothing more than opening any major newspaper, turning on the evening news, listening to the morning news during your commute to work, skimming the headlines at Google News - To know why giving the government anything more than they absolutely need to perform their core functions, counts as a bad idea.
Or put another way - If my race, income, or education level has any impact on how many roads I get in my county, the government has already fucked up so badly we need them gone ASAP.
When theory disagrees with reality, reality wins.
Careful - Just like with the Balmer Peak, too much doesn't always mean "better".
You probably want to shoot for the high 20s or low 30s... Antisocial enough not to waste time chatting about stupid shit, but still able to effectively collaborate with others (when absolutely necessary).
I think you have that inverted. It doesn't count as anything until someone can demonstrate that it can't possibly be cheating.
Nope, not at all backward backward. Science needs to fit reality, we don't ignore reality because it doesn't fit our best models - That very attitude, that the High Priests of Science rule over their domain with an iron book, has done more to foster an anti-intellectual attitude in the modern world than the creationists could ever pray for.
Now, whether or not you can get anyone credible to even look at your prototype requires a level of plausibility; but unless you mean to accuse NASA of cheating itself, we have some pretty credibly folks looking into the EM drive on this one.
This is why Linux never went anywhere.
...Other than the fact that it powers a straight majority - over 50% - of consumer devices currently on the market, you mean?
:)
Yeah, real dead-end road there!
/ Hoping that I missed your sarcasm.
The problem is that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
A working prototype counts as a pretty damned good proof of concept, at least until someone can demonstrate how it cheats.
Sure, someone might eventually figure out a way that it doesn't really cheat conservation of momentum - And that finding might have its own useful applications.
CBS is currently looking for a writer to helm the show.
Well now, I can barely wait for this gem!
"We have the product placements all lined up; the token morality lessons of the week to push our thinly-veiled political agenda; the distribution gimmick to force fans into using our otherwise dead-in-the-water online service... Now we just need a show!"