I'm guessing you didn't read the article, because this really has nothing to do with bulk data collection or abuse of power.
The guy sent out phishing emails using the old "Hi I work for email provider X and your email account has been marked for deletion. Please respond with your password to prevent deletion." He then accessed the accounts of people who fell for it (the article refers to this as "hacking"), searched for emails with naughty pics and identifying info, then extorted them for more naughty pics and videos. The only relevance this has to the government is the fact that he did most of this from his work computer, which happens to be at the US embassy in London. If there was any link to bulk data collection then he probably would not have needed the whole phishing campaign to start with. It was never an abuse of power because he was never authorized to do any of the things he did, nor was he representing himself as an employee of the government. He's just an asshole who happens to be employed by the government.
This year, about 700,000 hunters went out with loaded guns, many of them drank heavily at night, many of them were annoyed with each other, and yet no one was shot.
I'm confused how hunters not murdering their hunting buddies that they are essentially on vacation with is somehow comparable to day-to-day city murder statistics.
No..I sleep with a 9mm with 15 in the magazine and one in the pipe. All I have to do is grab it beside my bed, flip the safety and start shooting. I tend to have several guns this way around my house so that I'm never far from one. I just like it that way.
Wow. I always thought Americans weren't that different from Canadians, just similar people with slightly different cultures. But I really cannot imagine what kind of place America must be to make the populace so terrified of getting killed in their sleep that they have to go to bed with a loaded firearm within arm's reach.
There are two different points on the map that are quite far apart, but both are labelled "brass.table.pen". Obviously a mistake in the graphic, but if taken literally it implies that their system is broken because the addresses are not unique.
I got a ticket there for the license plate frame extending 1/8 of an inch further onto the plate than was allowed. The cop actually had a ruler and measured it. The fine was $150.
The fine is ridiculous of course, but given how common the useless decorative frames are, you have to draw the line somewhere. A law specifying just how large frames can be makes sense. I have seen some decorative plate frames that obscure parts of the plate markings. If you want to put useless decorative items on your car, don't put it on your plate. I took off my dealership's stupid ad frame the day I drove the car off the lot.
The last state trooper I dealt with pulled me over for no slowing down while they had someone pulled over on the highway. He let it go with a warning and explained that I had to slow down to 20mph under the speed limit or move over a lane when passing a cop on a traffic stop.
Yeah, we have that law too, and most people are aware of it and follow it. If you see emergency vehicles on the side of the road, you switch lanes if you can, or otherwise keep to the far side of your lane and slow down. People getting clipped by some idiot who drove by too close happens more often than it needs to.
We're talking about the pre-show ads here, what are you talking about? Unless you're suggesting that a Honda commercial is part of the show people paid to see? Cable TV must be heaven for you.
Well for starters, I go to the movie with friends and yeah, I do talk to them. Try it some time. Since most ads are pretty lame they are indeed usually ignored, but I occasionally do see an M. Night Shyamalan trailer that requires me to express disgust - nobody ever disagrees with that though. Do you really think a political ad featuring Trump would go by in a movie theatre without anyone saying anything?
If it was actually likely to cause a problem then maybe it should. The only ads I can recall seeing at the theatre are either for retail (cars usually), other movies, or travel destinations. Pretty safe material, though I suppose a BMW commercial might infuriate some folks these days!
When you gather a bunch of strangers in an enclosed space and you want everyone to sit quietly and enjoy the show, you don't throw out the suggestion that they start talking about a hot-button issue like religion or politics. People get defensive about that stuff, and it's common enough for people to talk about the ad that just played. I doubt many people would be offended by the ad itself, but it's easy enough to imagine some person in the audience seeing the ad, and in the quiet moment after the ad muttering something about religion X, or politician Y, when they didn't realize the guy sitting next to them is a die-hard X-worshipping Y-supporter.
Isn't it more likely the alternatives to Youtube just aren't big enough to attract the hordes of false DMCA claims yet? Or are Youtube's competitors putting their livelihoods on the line by ignoring the DMCA safe-harbor provisions? Maybe they are putting forward the ridiculous amount of resources required to individually investigate every request?
But you do see golf clubs evolving over the years when novel materials are used to manufacture them, or when data shows a different mold is better. You get lighter clubs. Differently balanced clubs. Clubs with different grips, lengths, shapes, etc. All of which make it easier to do things that previous generations had to work very hard at, and therefore the previous generation is very biased towards maintaining the old status quo. I would bet that previously as new clubs allowed people to drive further, they just made bigger golf courses.
Yes but, again, time and effort versus actual damage caused? If ISIS actually had someone willing to take risks who had access to a hospital, they could just build a homemade bomb and set it off in the hospital lobby. That's likely to do far more damage in lives, injuries, financial, etc, and takes about a hundredth of the effort. Why scare a very small percentage of people who might have to get an MRI this year when you can make everyone afraid of even entering a hospital?
Certainly they would, but this isn't a case of sabotage causing a rival company's customers an inconvenience that might result in a fine if they ever got caught. This would be knowingly causing direct injury and death - there would be no corporate protection, people would go to jail for assault and manslaughter.
But mostly, multiplayer gaming is just a big bag of turds.
Yep. The sad thing is in the world of game streaming, the more obnoxious assholes are even rewarded for their behavior. Just last night I was playing H1Z1, a game that recently had a high profile Twitch-sponsored tournament. One of the tournament winners is currently being promoted on the game's dashboard, you can even get skinned items with his gamer name on it. I ran into him in game, had a good fight and lost to him, at which point he went into a verbal tirade about how bad I was. I would expect it from any random player, but this vitriol was from a guy who is actually part of the game's branding now. It's the new normal.
In Ontario a man was dinged for doing 17 kmph over the speed limit: 'you are breaking the law if you do even one kilometer over the speed limit' said the judge. He protested a month later by doing the exact speed limit, causing a 4km long traffic jam. He was hit with obstructing traffic and had his license suspended. Of note: he had a 'partner' that was nailed with the same fine, who was driving in tandem in the adjacent lane.
I remember this, back in the 90's I think (probably why I can't find a link). It was a stupid stunt. Based on what was reported, the license suspension was well deserved.
My uncle received a ticket for going to slow in Ottawa, Ontario. He was on a 4-lane highway (always 100 kph max) in the city and was doing 90 kph. No idea if he was obstructing anyone, but he was pretty pissed about it.
And yet I'm not actually worried about going to the hospital and getting irradiated to death from a hacked x-ray machine. What incentive would someone have to make the effort and take the risk to hack these machines? The actual likely fallout from such a thing might be some invalid test results, and maybe even one or two direct deaths from an exploding MRI. The best scenario I can think of would be a foreign nation just wanting to do general economic damage to a country, but targeting a hospital would put them in violation of so many international treaties that they would be far more likely to damage their own economies after being sanctioned. Frankly I'd be far more worried about US gunships killing me at the hospital than hacked devices.
A mutual fight is probably not illegal until it is done in public (i.e. street fighting). Add money to the formula and other regulations probably apply.
Still better odds than not having a lock. There's a much higher chance of a crazy person/terrorist existing in a pool of 200 passengers than in a pool of 2 pilots.
Maybe the Japanese stations you watched just have lower graphics budgets than your average US station. One might hope in Japan they spend more money researching the facts rather than making it entertaining. Reminds me of CNN's 24/7 coverage on Malaysian airlines conspiracy theories, which was not improved at all by the CGI-animated cartoons they used to portray them. Entertaining and flashy is not necessarily better, especially when it comes to reporting the news.
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Not so long ago, the news was full of fear-based "reporting" on all the evils of the internet.
Yeah that didn't go away.
I'm guessing you didn't read the article, because this really has nothing to do with bulk data collection or abuse of power.
The guy sent out phishing emails using the old "Hi I work for email provider X and your email account has been marked for deletion. Please respond with your password to prevent deletion." He then accessed the accounts of people who fell for it (the article refers to this as "hacking"), searched for emails with naughty pics and identifying info, then extorted them for more naughty pics and videos. The only relevance this has to the government is the fact that he did most of this from his work computer, which happens to be at the US embassy in London. If there was any link to bulk data collection then he probably would not have needed the whole phishing campaign to start with. It was never an abuse of power because he was never authorized to do any of the things he did, nor was he representing himself as an employee of the government. He's just an asshole who happens to be employed by the government.
The CFC ban.
This year, about 700,000 hunters went out with loaded guns, many of them drank heavily at night, many of them were annoyed with each other, and yet no one was shot.
I'm confused how hunters not murdering their hunting buddies that they are essentially on vacation with is somehow comparable to day-to-day city murder statistics.
No..I sleep with a 9mm with 15 in the magazine and one in the pipe. All I have to do is grab it beside my bed, flip the safety and start shooting. I tend to have several guns this way around my house so that I'm never far from one. I just like it that way.
Wow. I always thought Americans weren't that different from Canadians, just similar people with slightly different cultures. But I really cannot imagine what kind of place America must be to make the populace so terrified of getting killed in their sleep that they have to go to bed with a loaded firearm within arm's reach.
There are two different points on the map that are quite far apart, but both are labelled "brass.table.pen". Obviously a mistake in the graphic, but if taken literally it implies that their system is broken because the addresses are not unique.
I got a ticket there for the license plate frame extending 1/8 of an inch further onto the plate than was allowed. The cop actually had a ruler and measured it. The fine was $150.
The fine is ridiculous of course, but given how common the useless decorative frames are, you have to draw the line somewhere. A law specifying just how large frames can be makes sense. I have seen some decorative plate frames that obscure parts of the plate markings. If you want to put useless decorative items on your car, don't put it on your plate. I took off my dealership's stupid ad frame the day I drove the car off the lot.
The last state trooper I dealt with pulled me over for no slowing down while they had someone pulled over on the highway. He let it go with a warning and explained that I had to slow down to 20mph under the speed limit or move over a lane when passing a cop on a traffic stop.
Yeah, we have that law too, and most people are aware of it and follow it. If you see emergency vehicles on the side of the road, you switch lanes if you can, or otherwise keep to the far side of your lane and slow down. People getting clipped by some idiot who drove by too close happens more often than it needs to.
We're talking about the pre-show ads here, what are you talking about? Unless you're suggesting that a Honda commercial is part of the show people paid to see? Cable TV must be heaven for you.
Well for starters, I go to the movie with friends and yeah, I do talk to them. Try it some time. Since most ads are pretty lame they are indeed usually ignored, but I occasionally do see an M. Night Shyamalan trailer that requires me to express disgust - nobody ever disagrees with that though. Do you really think a political ad featuring Trump would go by in a movie theatre without anyone saying anything?
If it was actually likely to cause a problem then maybe it should. The only ads I can recall seeing at the theatre are either for retail (cars usually), other movies, or travel destinations. Pretty safe material, though I suppose a BMW commercial might infuriate some folks these days!
When you gather a bunch of strangers in an enclosed space and you want everyone to sit quietly and enjoy the show, you don't throw out the suggestion that they start talking about a hot-button issue like religion or politics. People get defensive about that stuff, and it's common enough for people to talk about the ad that just played. I doubt many people would be offended by the ad itself, but it's easy enough to imagine some person in the audience seeing the ad, and in the quiet moment after the ad muttering something about religion X, or politician Y, when they didn't realize the guy sitting next to them is a die-hard X-worshipping Y-supporter.
Suing for such a ridiculous amount just shows that he is truly American.
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sigh, stupid filter ruining the feel of this post by forcing me to add lowercase letters...
Isn't it more likely the alternatives to Youtube just aren't big enough to attract the hordes of false DMCA claims yet? Or are Youtube's competitors putting their livelihoods on the line by ignoring the DMCA safe-harbor provisions? Maybe they are putting forward the ridiculous amount of resources required to individually investigate every request?
But you do see golf clubs evolving over the years when novel materials are used to manufacture them, or when data shows a different mold is better. You get lighter clubs. Differently balanced clubs. Clubs with different grips, lengths, shapes, etc. All of which make it easier to do things that previous generations had to work very hard at, and therefore the previous generation is very biased towards maintaining the old status quo. I would bet that previously as new clubs allowed people to drive further, they just made bigger golf courses.
Yes but, again, time and effort versus actual damage caused? If ISIS actually had someone willing to take risks who had access to a hospital, they could just build a homemade bomb and set it off in the hospital lobby. That's likely to do far more damage in lives, injuries, financial, etc, and takes about a hundredth of the effort. Why scare a very small percentage of people who might have to get an MRI this year when you can make everyone afraid of even entering a hospital?
Which deaths are those?
Certainly they would, but this isn't a case of sabotage causing a rival company's customers an inconvenience that might result in a fine if they ever got caught. This would be knowingly causing direct injury and death - there would be no corporate protection, people would go to jail for assault and manslaughter.
But mostly, multiplayer gaming is just a big bag of turds.
Yep. The sad thing is in the world of game streaming, the more obnoxious assholes are even rewarded for their behavior. Just last night I was playing H1Z1, a game that recently had a high profile Twitch-sponsored tournament. One of the tournament winners is currently being promoted on the game's dashboard, you can even get skinned items with his gamer name on it. I ran into him in game, had a good fight and lost to him, at which point he went into a verbal tirade about how bad I was. I would expect it from any random player, but this vitriol was from a guy who is actually part of the game's branding now. It's the new normal.
In Ontario a man was dinged for doing 17 kmph over the speed limit: 'you are breaking the law if you do even one kilometer over the speed limit' said the judge. He protested a month later by doing the exact speed limit, causing a 4km long traffic jam. He was hit with obstructing traffic and had his license suspended. Of note: he had a 'partner' that was nailed with the same fine, who was driving in tandem in the adjacent lane.
I remember this, back in the 90's I think (probably why I can't find a link). It was a stupid stunt. Based on what was reported, the license suspension was well deserved.
My uncle received a ticket for going to slow in Ottawa, Ontario. He was on a 4-lane highway (always 100 kph max) in the city and was doing 90 kph. No idea if he was obstructing anyone, but he was pretty pissed about it.
And yet I'm not actually worried about going to the hospital and getting irradiated to death from a hacked x-ray machine. What incentive would someone have to make the effort and take the risk to hack these machines? The actual likely fallout from such a thing might be some invalid test results, and maybe even one or two direct deaths from an exploding MRI. The best scenario I can think of would be a foreign nation just wanting to do general economic damage to a country, but targeting a hospital would put them in violation of so many international treaties that they would be far more likely to damage their own economies after being sanctioned. Frankly I'd be far more worried about US gunships killing me at the hospital than hacked devices.
A mutual fight is probably not illegal until it is done in public (i.e. street fighting). Add money to the formula and other regulations probably apply.
Still better odds than not having a lock. There's a much higher chance of a crazy person/terrorist existing in a pool of 200 passengers than in a pool of 2 pilots.
Maybe the Japanese stations you watched just have lower graphics budgets than your average US station. One might hope in Japan they spend more money researching the facts rather than making it entertaining. Reminds me of CNN's 24/7 coverage on Malaysian airlines conspiracy theories, which was not improved at all by the CGI-animated cartoons they used to portray them. Entertaining and flashy is not necessarily better, especially when it comes to reporting the news.