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It was enough to convince me. I sent them an email and allowed ICANN to publish as part of the public record.
What you say is dead on. I'm not a teacher, I get treated and paid worse (IT contractor), but all that collective bargaining and whatnot has been completely gutted. The unions in "right to work" (aka free to be exploited) have 0 power. Wages are entirely stagnant, unemployment is far higher than what you hear from national news.
"Do it for the kids" is the standard wheel-turn of the rack they keep employees strapped to, usually with a "thanks for all you do" that's just as hollow. If guilt doesn't work not-so-subtle threats follow. Outspoken people have targets quickly painted on their backs and are given unjustified bad performance reviews to get rid of them without recourse. Only the young/naive are suckered by this and many are gone after the first year if not sooner.
None of this is new, it's been like this a long long time (10+ years) and gets worse every year.
I'd mod you up if I could. You pretty much confirmed my fears that Microsoft basically wants to sell you on your PC being a phone that you have 0 control over and will probably lead to odious bullshit like this. They royally fucked up with Windows 8. They killed technet. Windows 10 is more of the same. I've been clinging to Windows 7 Ultimate on my primary desktop because games/drivers. I just hope Valve dumps enough money to make Linux a truly viable alternative.
when I took Comcast's side on anything. I was wrong. This kind of shit needs to stop. Every shitty anonymous comment on the internet isn't even close to the same thing that defamation/libel laws were written for.
The revelations about the impact of Snowden on intelligence operations comes days after Britain's terrorism law watchdog said the rules governing the security services' abilities to spy on the public needed to be overhauled.
Conservative lawmaker and former minister Andrew Mitchell said the timing of the report was "no accident".
"There is a big debate going on," he told BBC radio. "We are going to have legislation bought back to parliament (...) about the way in which individual liberty and privacy is invaded in the interest of collective national security.
"That's a debate we certainly need to have."
Cameron has promised a swathe of new security measures, including more powers to monitor Briton's communications and online activity in what critics have dubbed a "snoopers' charter".
Britain's terrorism laws reviewer David Anderson said on Thursday the current system was "undemocratic, unnecessary and - in the long run - intolerable".
He called for new safeguards, including judges not ministers approving warrants for intrusive surveillance, and said there needed to be a compelling case for any extensions of powers.
So what you really have is fear monger lying for more police state jackboot power grabby bullshit. I don't think it was an accident that Orwell was English.
numerous times to Steam because some game had some extra bullshit requirement like GFWL that wasn't listed on the store page.
I was very surprised - and after reading the entire ToS update - delighted when I opened Steam when I got home from work last night. I'm anti-drm but Steam does have some benefits and I've had an account for over a decade with hundreds of games and only a handful of problems.
I'm glad they're doing this and frankly it should have been their stance from the beginning, they've been notoriously tight-assed about refunds.
If anyone knows why they suddenly changed their very old and anti-consumer policy to this far better one I'd love to hear it.
I'd settle for one that didn't randomly completely lock up and force me to kill it from an alternate tty... however Mint is pretty decent over all.. typing this from a several months old Rebecca Mint box...
buying/selling used PC games more than 10 years ago. This might be good for them but will definitely be bad for Thinkgeek which has been coming up with some of their own products some of which are quite good (I'm not affiliated with them in any way but g/f has told me that the LeVar Burton Star Trek TNG/Reading Rainbow joke t-shirt I got her has gotten her more compliments than anything else and that was/is an exclusive).
Their prices are high but they do have some cool stuff. I wonder how badly GameStop will ruin them. Sad to see.
are carefully selected by corporate money/the rich who own them then there is no real change since it's the same hand up the ass of both party puppets.
I can see Microsoft calling their buddy Intel and saying "Wanna make this required for Windows 11 and we split the profits?" PS, you get the foot the electric bill =)
I'm sure the rest will follow with phone versions... I don't see these being used to sell you a "free" or "reduced cost" device just pure cash for them with a microscopic subtext in a license/EULA/ToS somewhere.
"But if you cross a line beyond which most people would say it's objectionable content"
No. I don't. I think that Germans will put you in jail for giving a Nazi salute is fucking offensive to freedom of speech and expression but they aren't Americans.
If you're offended that's your fucking problem not mine. What's interesting to me is how everyone is trying to twist the law in to their own personal beliefs, religious or otherwise, and so if you're cognizant of that fact you should be erring hard on the side of liberty for all (unless you don't mind being an unethical hypocritical douchebag, I guess).
I agree. While the rest of the US thinks of us as hillbillies in a fly over state most here don't have banjos or corn fields. This won't get far because a lot of the big businesses in the city support rights movements.
The thing is there are still a lot of religious elderly voters and this is a traditionally red state - he's trying to appeal to what he thinks is his base for his no-chance-in-hell presidential run.
If and when it's stable/good enough I might eventually actually be able to run Linux as my primary desktop with some SteamOS packages on the side (Windows 7 Ultimate at home, because I'm a gamer). I'm glad they chose Debian instead of Ubuntu in the end because that's not what they said they were going to do early on.
However the assholes spamming every game thread with "When will there be a Linux version" then often being very snarky, rude and arrogant about it aren't helping the cause much.
I just installed Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon (Rebecca release) on the machine I'm typing from this week. While it does have some things I don't like (some weird config location choices,/var/run,/etc/bash.bashrc, bash_completiond,WTF is up with dnsmasq?, some weird sound behavior, semi-broken bash tab completion, won't mount my cellphone no matter what, etc - aka issues I've never had with CentOS).
I also still have 2 several years old but up to date CentOS boxes I use every day and prefer them but I picked Mint because it's supposed to be better for day to day regular desktop use, has far more up to date packages, and I was tired of fighting dependency hell with extra packages from 2008 (my own fault, admittedly) for things like VLC.
My understanding, and I can't find where I read it before I went and downloaded/installed it, is that Mint is in wait-and-see mode and will be waiting until their next LTS release in a few years and then re-evaluating whether to switch to systemd. Looking at the system I have installed right now, it looks like there are a few pieces installed for compatibility (although none of them are running) but the init system is still old school init.d and runlevels.
I haven't looked at systemd in depth but my gut feeling is it throws away the UNIX mindset of, do one thing and do it well, output/input everything in text in favor of aping Apple (paritcularly)/Microsoft and the politics behind it seem dirty. I have watched a few Poettering videos and he comes off as a massively arrogant douche bag (but I am a fan of Linus and RMS so *shrug*).
âoeIn practice, I donâ(TM)t think this is a terribly big issue, but only because you have to have many âoeducks in a rowâ: 1) find a vulnerable server that offers export cipher suites; 2) it should reuse a key for a long time; 3) break key; 4) find vulnerable client; 5) attack via MITM (easy to do on a local network or wifi; not so easy otherwise),â said Ivan Ristic of Qualys.
(Unless you're the NSA, then you have more MITM "opportunities" than you have people to exploit them...automation coming soon...)
not sure how new of a generation you mean but I see this every day from 6th - 12th graders.
Even when being explicitly told what to type and where most will end up at the wrong URL because they don't listen and think that search is the way to enter addresses.
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Namecheap sent this out 2 days ago:
Hello *redacted*,
Over the weekend, Namecheap customers sent more than 5000 comments to ICANN, to help fight for privacy and save Whois protection. What an amazing, positive response!
Unfortunately, due to the way ICANN chooses to approve comments, your voice may not have been heard. We deeply regret this and want to make sure ICANN hears what you have to say. We have revised the way comments are submitted to ICANN via our site RespectOurPrivacy.com. If you submitted a comment to ICANN before June 22, 2015, we would like to ask you to please go back and do so again, to insure your message reaches its target. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. This is a truly important and urgent issue, so from the bottoms of our hearts: THANK YOU for taking the time to submit your comments a second time.
If you haven't submitted your comments to ICANN yet, we encourage you to do so now. Visit RespectOurPrivacy.com and we'll guide you through the process.
We are dedicated to making sure ICANN hears your voices loud and clear. Together, we can win the fight for online privacy!
Warmest regards,
Richard Kirkendall, CEO
Namecheap.com
It was enough to convince me. I sent them an email and allowed ICANN to publish as part of the public record.
What you say is dead on. I'm not a teacher, I get treated and paid worse (IT contractor), but all that collective bargaining and whatnot has been completely gutted. The unions in "right to work" (aka free to be exploited) have 0 power. Wages are entirely stagnant, unemployment is far higher than what you hear from national news.
"Do it for the kids" is the standard wheel-turn of the rack they keep employees strapped to, usually with a "thanks for all you do" that's just as hollow. If guilt doesn't work not-so-subtle threats follow. Outspoken people have targets quickly painted on their backs and are given unjustified bad performance reviews to get rid of them without recourse. Only the young/naive are suckered by this and many are gone after the first year if not sooner.
None of this is new, it's been like this a long long time (10+ years) and gets worse every year.
I'd mod you up if I could. You pretty much confirmed my fears that Microsoft basically wants to sell you on your PC being a phone that you have 0 control over and will probably lead to odious bullshit like this. They royally fucked up with Windows 8. They killed technet. Windows 10 is more of the same. I've been clinging to Windows 7 Ultimate on my primary desktop because games/drivers. I just hope Valve dumps enough money to make Linux a truly viable alternative.
when I took Comcast's side on anything. I was wrong. This kind of shit needs to stop. Every shitty anonymous comment on the internet isn't even close to the same thing that defamation/libel laws were written for.
Seriously.
TIMING
The revelations about the impact of Snowden on intelligence operations comes days after Britain's terrorism law watchdog said the rules governing the security services' abilities to spy on the public needed to be overhauled.
Conservative lawmaker and former minister Andrew Mitchell said the timing of the report was "no accident".
"There is a big debate going on," he told BBC radio. "We are going to have legislation bought back to parliament (...) about the way in which individual liberty and privacy is invaded in the interest of collective national security.
"That's a debate we certainly need to have."
Cameron has promised a swathe of new security measures, including more powers to monitor Briton's communications and online activity in what critics have dubbed a "snoopers' charter".
Britain's terrorism laws reviewer David Anderson said on Thursday the current system was "undemocratic, unnecessary and - in the long run - intolerable".
He called for new safeguards, including judges not ministers approving warrants for intrusive surveillance, and said there needed to be a compelling case for any extensions of powers.
So what you really have is fear monger lying for more police state jackboot power grabby bullshit. I don't think it was an accident that Orwell was English.
Class action.
I hope it's in the billions.
I've seen people install the Google toolbar because they thought that was how to use Google... I've removed it a lot as well.
Uhm... Yea, they do care what you smoke and kill people for drug crimes .
It worked flawlessly because VLC is fucking amazing and one of the best FOSS projects around.
numerous times to Steam because some game had some extra bullshit requirement like GFWL that wasn't listed on the store page.
I was very surprised - and after reading the entire ToS update - delighted when I opened Steam when I got home from work last night. I'm anti-drm but Steam does have some benefits and I've had an account for over a decade with hundreds of games and only a handful of problems.
I'm glad they're doing this and frankly it should have been their stance from the beginning, they've been notoriously tight-assed about refunds.
If anyone knows why they suddenly changed their very old and anti-consumer policy to this far better one I'd love to hear it.
I'd settle for one that didn't randomly completely lock up and force me to kill it from an alternate tty... however Mint is pretty decent over all.. typing this from a several months old Rebecca Mint box...
buying/selling used PC games more than 10 years ago. This might be good for them but will definitely be bad for Thinkgeek which has been coming up with some of their own products some of which are quite good (I'm not affiliated with them in any way but g/f has told me that the LeVar Burton Star Trek TNG/Reading Rainbow joke t-shirt I got her has gotten her more compliments than anything else and that was/is an exclusive).
Their prices are high but they do have some cool stuff. I wonder how badly GameStop will ruin them. Sad to see.
are carefully selected by corporate money/the rich who own them then there is no real change since it's the same hand up the ass of both party puppets.
I can see Microsoft calling their buddy Intel and saying "Wanna make this required for Windows 11 and we split the profits?" PS, you get the foot the electric bill =)
I'm sure the rest will follow with phone versions... I don't see these being used to sell you a "free" or "reduced cost" device just pure cash for them with a microscopic subtext in a license/EULA/ToS somewhere.
of pride is pretty much automatically going to be some of the worst shit imaginable (having not read either the article nor the bill).
The university officials are taking money to let the NSA fish the campus for possible dick pic thieves that they can hire.
"But if you cross a line beyond which most people would say it's objectionable content"
No. I don't. I think that Germans will put you in jail for giving a Nazi salute is fucking offensive to freedom of speech and expression but they aren't Americans.
If you're offended that's your fucking problem not mine. What's interesting to me is how everyone is trying to twist the law in to their own personal beliefs, religious or otherwise, and so if you're cognizant of that fact you should be erring hard on the side of liberty for all (unless you don't mind being an unethical hypocritical douchebag, I guess).
I agree. While the rest of the US thinks of us as hillbillies in a fly over state most here don't have banjos or corn fields. This won't get far because a lot of the big businesses in the city support rights movements.
The thing is there are still a lot of religious elderly voters and this is a traditionally red state - he's trying to appeal to what he thinks is his base for his no-chance-in-hell presidential run.
Here he is in 2010 joining with Michelle Bachmann's Tea Party Caucus.
That's probably all you need to know.
As posted by the Washington Post to Scribd. Since my submission was rejected.
The rules start on page 283.
it's not just likely, they already have a bunch of companies releasing stuff in November.
There is also a Steam community group where they post announcements, with a DIY section. It's also meant as a console/htpc replacement not as a desktop replacement.
If and when it's stable/good enough I might eventually actually be able to run Linux as my primary desktop with some SteamOS packages on the side (Windows 7 Ultimate at home, because I'm a gamer). I'm glad they chose Debian instead of Ubuntu in the end because that's not what they said they were going to do early on.
However the assholes spamming every game thread with "When will there be a Linux version" then often being very snarky, rude and arrogant about it aren't helping the cause much.
It's great.
I just installed Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon (Rebecca release) on the machine I'm typing from this week. While it does have some things I don't like (some weird config location choices, /var/run, /etc/bash.bashrc, bash_completiond,WTF is up with dnsmasq?, some weird sound behavior, semi-broken bash tab completion, won't mount my cellphone no matter what, etc - aka issues I've never had with CentOS).
I also still have 2 several years old but up to date CentOS boxes I use every day and prefer them but I picked Mint because it's supposed to be better for day to day regular desktop use, has far more up to date packages, and I was tired of fighting dependency hell with extra packages from 2008 (my own fault, admittedly) for things like VLC.
My understanding, and I can't find where I read it before I went and downloaded/installed it, is that Mint is in wait-and-see mode and will be waiting until their next LTS release in a few years and then re-evaluating whether to switch to systemd. Looking at the system I have installed right now, it looks like there are a few pieces installed for compatibility (although none of them are running) but the init system is still old school init.d and runlevels.
I haven't looked at systemd in depth but my gut feeling is it throws away the UNIX mindset of, do one thing and do it well, output/input everything in text in favor of aping Apple (paritcularly)/Microsoft and the politics behind it seem dirty. I have watched a few Poettering videos and he comes off as a massively arrogant douche bag (but I am a fan of Linus and RMS so *shrug*).
$.02
âoeIn practice, I donâ(TM)t think this is a terribly big issue, but only because you have to have many âoeducks in a rowâ: 1) find a vulnerable server that offers export cipher suites; 2) it should reuse a key for a long time; 3) break key; 4) find vulnerable client; 5) attack via MITM (easy to do on a local network or wifi; not so easy otherwise),â said Ivan Ristic of Qualys.
(Unless you're the NSA, then you have more MITM "opportunities" than you have people to exploit them...automation coming soon...)
not sure how new of a generation you mean but I see this every day from 6th - 12th graders.
Even when being explicitly told what to type and where most will end up at the wrong URL because they don't listen and think that search is the way to enter addresses.