This article was as much about the differences between the populations surveyed in germany and USA. from TFA, Germans that responded to the survey were almost twice as likely to obtain free music. it also pointed out Germany still bought lots of physical media (82% sales were CD), while the trend in USA was in favour of online downloads (more than 50%).
Additionally, while 52% US citizens believe that downloading free music is some sort of crime, 59% of Germans surveyed believe this too. By leaving this point off the summary,/. does not present the whole story in TFA.
1 million users within 24 hours = i can 'register', but can't do anything, like upload my own files. this seems to be one of those features we take for granted on most cloud services.
I'd think actually the number collection is so that the next time you go in, they can put your phone number in and ID you... "Do you have a discount card? Do you have it with you?? No, can I get your phone number? There you are!"
Most small shops don't (yet) have the smarts/connections to sell customer data. But the potential IS there, yes.
That may be one reason, but it isn't the only reason. the fact is, an extensive phone list linked to a specific demographic (e.g. hair care, female, city district) is worth money to the right person.
if they are giving you a 10% discount or raffling for a car in the mall, remember the information they're asking for is worth more to them than the discount out the till or the new car. Ask someone who works as a dataminer if they have any frequent flyer cards, supermarket loyalty cards, or petrol cards in their wallets.
These shops don't even have to be willing to sell the information: in 2005, a firefighter from Tukwilla, WA was charged with attempted arson, based on a police investigation that revolved around his Safeway Club Card purchase history
what is handwaving bullshit is hiding behind the second amendment and talking about it in complete isolation with the rest of the constitution. the second paragraph of the US constitution talks about an inalienable right to Life. that has to mean something.
Just to add on to your point: This is why this is really difficult issue. Limiting the size of clips would minimize the impact of assaults like this. But it would also limit the effectiveness of armed resistance against a tyrannical government.
“Their paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can’t even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually in reality happening in this country every year
because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of imaginary Hitler.” - Jon Stewart
D: just because someone is for reasonable limits on guns doesn't mean they don't know anything. Your arrogance is absurd when some of us think reasonable gun limits and gun rights can be reconciled.
in the US, a concealed carry program that is rigorously administered as well as making manufacturers liable for advertisements and the gun culture they foster would be several ways to achieve these without infringing on a US citizen's right to self defence. We would have to compromise. you're willing to do that, right?
Nortel was subject to an organized, sustained industrial espionage effort conducted by Chinese companies. Huawei was specifically named by Brian Shields, Systems Security Advisor for Nortel at the time of the attacks (at the time Huawei supposedly were even copying Nortel's instruction manuals). Shields petitioned Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2004, because even the CEO's computer had been compromised.
the rootkits employed on Nortel hardware were sophisticated enough to survive formatting. it wasn't until recently that Canadian Security and Intelligence Service became interested in the role Huawei had in Nortel's demise
I suggest the story of Nortel's demise has not been fully revealed. Nortel presented with a sudden, public exanguination and it has been a mystery in Canadian IT industry. This is not just another "golden parachutes" story.
Given any 30 people involved in full-time spying on dozens of other people, it is _inevitable_ that at least one of them would notify the police of this operation.
correct. in TFA, one of the people he trusts betrays him.
the PADD description above is too general; it is a list of features.
look at the samsung report prepared by samsung employees as they pour over the iphone interface one app or feature at a time. this shows they were explicitly mining specific aspects of the look, feel, operation, and finish of the phone. they do this for both the mobile device and the itunes interface. one of the 'directions for improvement' comments even reads "Need to provide a diverse user guide manual like itunes"
It is interesting how samsung compared multiple devices against a single apple product and a single piece of apple software. in the document, samsung used aspects of iphone ui for
*web browser
*icon to display how many browsers are open at same time button
*icon to clarify what the "favorites" button on the browser meant
*cut and paste interface
*dialling interface button positioning
*keyboard capslock
*etc
Just wondering why this is news. Coelacanths were discovered to still be living in ~1938. Having photos isn't new, as they had live specimens (and dead ones). There were even 2 species found, not just one.
Google for coelacanth pics and it's almost all dead, preserved specimens. This article is news because despite the dead samples in hand (n.b. no live specimens exist in captivity), little is known about the behaviour of the living coelacanth; encountering one at human-diveable depths is an event in itself. This article is not saying it's the first specimen found; it is basically the best in situ photo ever taken of a living coelacanth.
not necessarily true: championship winning horses present with advantageous traits, such as huge hearts; increased scope for ventricular hypertrophy could very well be preserved by cloning, as the enlarged heart is a sex-linked trait.
you need to show the epidemiology, otherwise it's not math, it's conjecture. We don't know how the calf was infected; it was a natural mutation or accumulation through diet.
the math indicates that with the population of cattle in the US, a mutation of a ribosome which creates prion-like structures is statistically likely, and inevitable. I suggest we utilize not only math, but critical thinking to determine the cause of a single presentation of BSE.
Sophos also recommends this. However, should one really sign up for a subscription of virus signatures for operating systems they don't use? I don't carry an Epi-Pen around just because I happen to be eating at a restaurant where other people might have peanut allergies.
You're free to run whatever software you'd like on your computer. However, this article is long on FUD, and as a fortunate side effect for Sophos, hundreds of thousands of mac users have downloaded their antivirus software. There is an inherent responsibility and conflict-of-interest in a researcher working in a for-profit company recommending their own software.
in 2008 h1, the 17" macbook pro with 2.6ghz upgrade was close to $3000. if this idiot actually bought ram and hdd upgrades from Apple, it's entirely possible to shove the price into the stratosphere.
I liked the part where he even got Applecare refunded.
Not really. What he did would be pretty consistent with angel dust. If a bunch of people were acting very silly and laughing at things that aren't really funny, I'd suspect pot. It doesn't mean that they couldn't just be silly people, but it'd be *reasonable* to suspect marijuana.
We don't need things like medical doctors and chemical assays as long as we can package your gut feelings and vestigial sense of humour into a body scanner.
There's more than one rare earth mine in North America: Hoidas Lake in northern Saskachewan, and Strange Lake in northern Quebec, and Bernic Lake in Manitoba.
I guess the US is just lazy or something; lots of rare earths being pulled out of North America already.
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the summary presents a slanted view of the article; it doesn't summarize the more balanced point of view in the article.
This article was as much about the differences between the populations surveyed in germany and USA. from TFA, Germans that responded to the survey were almost twice as likely to obtain free music. it also pointed out Germany still bought lots of physical media (82% sales were CD), while the trend in USA was in favour of online downloads (more than 50%).
/. does not present the whole story in TFA.
Additionally, while 52% US citizens believe that downloading free music is some sort of crime, 59% of Germans surveyed believe this too. By leaving this point off the summary,
MPAA/RIAA/DOJ honeypot?
great, glad they're preoccupied with something other than sniffing my packet.
1 million users within 24 hours = i can 'register', but can't do anything, like upload my own files. this seems to be one of those features we take for granted on most cloud services.
I'd think actually the number collection is so that the next time you go in, they can put your phone number in and ID you... "Do you have a discount card? Do you have it with you?? No, can I get your phone number? There you are!"
Most small shops don't (yet) have the smarts/connections to sell customer data. But the potential IS there, yes.
That may be one reason, but it isn't the only reason. the fact is, an extensive phone list linked to a specific demographic (e.g. hair care, female, city district) is worth money to the right person.
if they are giving you a 10% discount or raffling for a car in the mall, remember the information they're asking for is worth more to them than the discount out the till or the new car. Ask someone who works as a dataminer if they have any frequent flyer cards, supermarket loyalty cards, or petrol cards in their wallets.
These shops don't even have to be willing to sell the information: in 2005, a firefighter from Tukwilla, WA was charged with attempted arson, based on a police investigation that revolved around his Safeway Club Card purchase history
You can buy propane at your local hardware store. Or steal it since they like to keep it in front of the building instead of inside it.
the solution is to give every US Citizen a bomb.
You know how you stop a bad guy with a gun?
A good guy with a gun. Anything else is handwaving bullshit.
Where's the school shooting going to happen?
Looks like the is posting as Anonymous Coward!
what you/he said is patently false: the Taft school shooting in California (few days ago!) was stopped when a High School Science Teacher ended the shooting rampage with a conversation.
what is handwaving bullshit is hiding behind the second amendment and talking about it in complete isolation with the rest of the constitution. the second paragraph of the US constitution talks about an inalienable right to Life. that has to mean something.
Just to add on to your point: This is why this is really difficult issue. Limiting the size of clips would minimize the impact of assaults like this. But it would also limit the effectiveness of armed resistance against a tyrannical government.
“Their paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can’t even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually in reality happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of imaginary Hitler.” - Jon Stewart
It would work better if we closed loopholes e.g. bullet buttons, which get extended capacity into california.
A: in 1780s America, guns were typically flintlocks and muskets.
B: Australia has virtually no legal civillian gun ownership and their firearms homicide rate has dropped 47% between 1991 and 2001. (nb. AU bought back guns from owners in 1996)
C: Provinces and Cities outside of the US with strict gun control regimes are some of the safest places to be in North America wrt gun related homicides. (n.b. CA ended casual gun ownership in 1997 with Bill C-51)
D: just because someone is for reasonable limits on guns doesn't mean they don't know anything. Your arrogance is absurd when some of us think reasonable gun limits and gun rights can be reconciled.
in the US, a concealed carry program that is rigorously administered as well as making manufacturers liable for advertisements and the gun culture they foster would be several ways to achieve these without infringing on a US citizen's right to self defence. We would have to compromise. you're willing to do that, right?
"i'm down to my last mag" - see it works!
Nortel was subject to an organized, sustained industrial espionage effort conducted by Chinese companies. Huawei was specifically named by Brian Shields, Systems Security Advisor for Nortel at the time of the attacks (at the time Huawei supposedly were even copying Nortel's instruction manuals). Shields petitioned Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2004, because even the CEO's computer had been compromised.
the rootkits employed on Nortel hardware were sophisticated enough to survive formatting. it wasn't until recently that Canadian Security and Intelligence Service became interested in the role Huawei had in Nortel's demise
I suggest the story of Nortel's demise has not been fully revealed. Nortel presented with a sudden, public exanguination and it has been a mystery in Canadian IT industry. This is not just another "golden parachutes" story.
Given any 30 people involved in full-time spying on dozens of other people, it is _inevitable_ that at least one of them would notify the police of this operation.
correct. in TFA, one of the people he trusts betrays him.
how about laws limiting capital flight?
citation? i'm sure this will be a lively debate considering you mentioned 'fox news' and 'facts' in the same sentence.
the PADD description above is too general; it is a list of features.
look at the samsung report prepared by samsung employees as they pour over the iphone interface one app or feature at a time. this shows they were explicitly mining specific aspects of the look, feel, operation, and finish of the phone. they do this for both the mobile device and the itunes interface. one of the 'directions for improvement' comments even reads "Need to provide a diverse user guide manual like itunes"
It is interesting how samsung compared multiple devices against a single apple product and a single piece of apple software. in the document, samsung used aspects of iphone ui for
*web browser
*icon to display how many browsers are open at same time button
*icon to clarify what the "favorites" button on the browser meant
*cut and paste interface
*dialling interface button positioning
*keyboard capslock
*etc
Just wondering why this is news. Coelacanths were discovered to still be living in ~1938. Having photos isn't new, as they had live specimens (and dead ones). There were even 2 species found, not just one.
Google for coelacanth pics and it's almost all dead, preserved specimens. This article is news because despite the dead samples in hand (n.b. no live specimens exist in captivity), little is known about the behaviour of the living coelacanth; encountering one at human-diveable depths is an event in itself. This article is not saying it's the first specimen found; it is basically the best in situ photo ever taken of a living coelacanth.
source? i'm actually interested, not calling you out.
it's still no different than any other horse.
not necessarily true: championship winning horses present with advantageous traits, such as huge hearts; increased scope for ventricular hypertrophy could very well be preserved by cloning, as the enlarged heart is a sex-linked trait.
you need to show the epidemiology, otherwise it's not math, it's conjecture. We don't know how the calf was infected; it was a natural mutation or accumulation through diet.
the math indicates that with the population of cattle in the US, a mutation of a ribosome which creates prion-like structures is statistically likely, and inevitable. I suggest we utilize not only math, but critical thinking to determine the cause of a single presentation of BSE.
Sophos also recommends this. However, should one really sign up for a subscription of virus signatures for operating systems they don't use? I don't carry an Epi-Pen around just because I happen to be eating at a restaurant where other people might have peanut allergies.
You're free to run whatever software you'd like on your computer. However, this article is long on FUD, and as a fortunate side effect for Sophos, hundreds of thousands of mac users have downloaded their antivirus software. There is an inherent responsibility and conflict-of-interest in a researcher working in a for-profit company recommending their own software.
in 2008 h1, the 17" macbook pro with 2.6ghz upgrade was close to $3000. if this idiot actually bought ram and hdd upgrades from Apple, it's entirely possible to shove the price into the stratosphere.
I liked the part where he even got Applecare refunded.
and i wouldn't mind guns if people just used them to change tv channels.
Not really. What he did would be pretty consistent with angel dust. If a bunch of people were acting very silly and laughing at things that aren't really funny, I'd suspect pot. It doesn't mean that they couldn't just be silly people, but it'd be *reasonable* to suspect marijuana.
We don't need things like medical doctors and chemical assays as long as we can package your gut feelings and vestigial sense of humour into a body scanner.
There's more than one rare earth mine in North America: Hoidas Lake in northern Saskachewan, and Strange Lake in northern Quebec, and Bernic Lake in Manitoba.
I guess the US is just lazy or something; lots of rare earths being pulled out of North America already.