You have to remember: these rules like so many exist to somehow make people feel like the problem is being addressed without actually addressing it.
The employees have been told they need a copyright release form, but obviously wouldn't know a legitimate release from their own ass.
If they're your photos, find out what a copyright release form looks like, make one and sign it. Make sure it is signed and printed with a different name from your own as that is probably the spectacularly brilliant method of determining legitimacy. So make up a pseudonym for your photo work and make your own release form.
Remember - these are your photos, you are doing nothing wrong. You are just giving retail employees what they want.
I had the same thought. Micro-perforations are still a form of characters.
Why not make some of the required Torah characters look slightly different in their appearance as a form of encoding? Seems like this would be easy to do and not violate the mandate of adding any characters.
Unless that sounds like characters encoded into characters. Hmm. Somehow this is reminding me of The Nine Billion Names of God.
- The constant cigarette is a nice way to subtly - almost subliminally - throw you off. But Ron Moore and his writers have relished in making the cylons as nuanced, flawed and unexpected as the humans. A cigarette-smoking cylon is a brilliant touch.
- One of the first things the doctor says to President Roslin is to PRAY regarding her cancer. Again, a subtle hint regarding the cylons' preoccupation with their religious beliefs.
- As a trusted and unquestioned figure, the doctor is in an ingenious place to sabotage and manipulate the crew. President Roslin accepts the doctor's diagnosis without question (a learned respect typical in most cultures, including our own). Even if she wasn't sure, there appear to be either no or few medical doctors with more experience on hand in the fleet.
- It is a savvy device for the writers. If Mary McDonnell - a very esteemed actor along with Olmos - doesn't want to continue in the series, she passes away. If she is in for the long haul, it turns out the doctor LIED about the seriousness of her cancer. Either way, it is organic to the writing.
- We have seen no "elder" humanoid cylons, a strange anomaly.
- The doctor is neither a main character nor a completely marginal one. It would come off as cheap if a character we have scantly met pops up as a cylon and it would be rather boring if another main character had the silicon implants, so to speak. The doctor is in the show enough to elicit some good surprise and recognition if he comes out of the closet... er cylon closet... (cyloset?)
While there are some good tips in EFF's suggestions, the guide is alarming in its willingness to chill free speech.
By the time you finish following all the guidelines, there would be little point in writing at all.
The best advice surely is to consider that you may lose your job for voicing your opinion -- and that as the EFF points out, a little bit of vagueness will generally not be enough to hide your identity.
Beyond that, weigh seriously the importance of your job versus the importance of publishing your thoughts.
With phishing, spyware, database theft... people picking thru your trash...
How long before ANYONE'S identity has not been stolen?
Seriously.
Why not just put a fraud alert on everyone's credit reports and let's get it over with. You want to apply for credit? You'll have to jump through a few more hoops...
"What's really pathetic is not Verizon but this sort of lame Web site..."
This is as almost as good as T-Mobile saying last week that "The silver lining of this Paris Hilton thing is it is an opportunity for customers to take further steps to protect their data."
Sometimes the media overanalyzes. If you read last night's article in the New York Times, barely anyone mentions that the simple reason the expected share price dropped is that: people did not understand/were confused by the auction process.
I think that's about it. Nothing very complicated at all...
What is the point of posting this story? Is it some kind of clever backhand insult to Opera?
I use Opera all the time: number of times I have even noticed the ads consciously... um, never. Or let's say, just about the same number of times I notice them on SlashDot!
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Way too many reviews saying this extension causes frequent crashes.
I can't wait until this is worked out so I can use this extension...
You have to remember: these rules like so many exist to somehow make people feel like the problem is being addressed without actually addressing it.
The employees have been told they need a copyright release form, but obviously wouldn't know a legitimate release from their own ass.
If they're your photos, find out what a copyright release form looks like, make one and sign it. Make sure it is signed and printed with a different name from your own as that is probably the spectacularly brilliant method of determining legitimacy. So make up a pseudonym for your photo work and make your own release form.
Remember - these are your photos, you are doing nothing wrong. You are just giving retail employees what they want.
But barcodes are a new message as well.
I guess they'd have to go with the digital fingerprints. No alteration, period. It sounds like a very promising method...
I had the same thought. Micro-perforations are still a form of characters.
Why not make some of the required Torah characters look slightly different in their appearance as a form of encoding? Seems like this would be easy to do and not violate the mandate of adding any characters.
Unless that sounds like characters encoded into characters. Hmm. Somehow this is reminding me of The Nine Billion Names of God.
How much are these guys getting?
Like, can I sell my personal information before someone else does?
I predict.
Hmm. Very predictable answers to the parent but most people do accept assurances of safety in even the most questionable of circumstances.
Ow.
(ducks)
Very subtle joke for the attentive.
Think about it.
- The constant cigarette is a nice way to subtly - almost subliminally - throw you off. But Ron Moore and his writers have relished in making the cylons as nuanced, flawed and unexpected as the humans. A cigarette-smoking cylon is a brilliant touch.
- One of the first things the doctor says to President Roslin is to PRAY regarding her cancer. Again, a subtle hint regarding the cylons' preoccupation with their religious beliefs.
- As a trusted and unquestioned figure, the doctor is in an ingenious place to sabotage and manipulate the crew. President Roslin accepts the doctor's diagnosis without question (a learned respect typical in most cultures, including our own). Even if she wasn't sure, there appear to be either no or few medical doctors with more experience on hand in the fleet.
- It is a savvy device for the writers. If Mary McDonnell - a very esteemed actor along with Olmos - doesn't want to continue in the series, she passes away. If she is in for the long haul, it turns out the doctor LIED about the seriousness of her cancer. Either way, it is organic to the writing.
- We have seen no "elder" humanoid cylons, a strange anomaly.
- The doctor is neither a main character nor a completely marginal one. It would come off as cheap if a character we have scantly met pops up as a cylon and it would be rather boring if another main character had the silicon implants, so to speak. The doctor is in the show enough to elicit some good surprise and recognition if he comes out of the closet... er cylon closet... (cyloset?)
- Let's face it. The guy would make a cool cylon.
While there are some good tips in EFF's suggestions, the guide is alarming in its willingness to chill free speech.
By the time you finish following all the guidelines, there would be little point in writing at all.
The best advice surely is to consider that you may lose your job for voicing your opinion -- and that as the EFF points out, a little bit of vagueness will generally not be enough to hide your identity.
Beyond that, weigh seriously the importance of your job versus the importance of publishing your thoughts.
They are called sun pipes.
With phishing, spyware, database theft... people picking thru your trash...
How long before ANYONE'S identity has not been stolen?
Seriously.
Why not just put a fraud alert on everyone's credit reports and let's get it over with. You want to apply for credit? You'll have to jump through a few more hoops...
The system as it is now is painfully broken.
"What's really pathetic is not Verizon but this sort of lame Web site..."
This is as almost as good as T-Mobile saying last week that "The silver lining of this Paris Hilton thing is it is an opportunity for customers to take further steps to protect their data."
Can we add a Nigerian email to this story, please?
...can see your social security number, your credit report, your addresses...
...anytime they want...
...um...
...whew?
If you mod this down, obviously you are NOT a Farscape fan!
Sometimes the media overanalyzes. If you read last night's article in the New York Times, barely anyone mentions that the simple reason the expected share price dropped is that: people did not understand/were confused by the auction process.
I think that's about it. Nothing very complicated at all...
What is the point of posting this story? Is it some kind of clever backhand insult to Opera?
I use Opera all the time: number of times I have even noticed the ads consciously... um, never. Or let's say, just about the same number of times I notice them on SlashDot!
... but you don't have me! You were going to kill me, Khan! You're going to have to come down here! You're going to have to come down here!
Khan! Khan!!!!!!!!!
Asking once again, add the ability to meta moderate the people who post stories.
It is just getting ridiculous. The reposts have gone from sad, to so sad it is funny, to so sad it is just... sad.
To a lot of slashdotters that would be a reason to do business with them.
Ha, ha. True, true.
The truth of... what exactly?
Hear, hear.
I've never been thrilled seeing SlashDot and other sites like the EFF accepting PayPal.