I'd like to avoid those merchants since they're potentially putting me at risk.
Are they on the internet? Then they're probably putting you at risk.
If big players like Amazon can get security breeches, that mom and pop shop which had a college student build them an e-commerce site hasn't got a chance.
Plan accordingly. Small security holes on the internet tend to get magnified into big, giant, widespread security holes.
If we want to expand and spread out across the universe, we need to fix things. Maybe we'll divert into different species designed to live in different environments. Maybe we'll develop a superior brain and switch bodies as needed. Maybe we'll transition into virtual beings. Maybe we'll fuse into a collective mind. Maybe something totally different.
You watch far too many movies, or smoke far too much pot, or both.
We're a LONG way from anything like that. Science fiction is just that.
Maybe unicorns will come down and smear their unicorn poop on your forehead and give you psychic abilities and superpowers, but I wouldn't go making any plans for it.
We haven't been to the moon in decades. Spread out and expand across the universe? Yeah, about that.
Are you joking? The term has been around at least a decade, if not more, and really is a common term.
They usually block adjacent plugs and have no regard for the space usually allocated for a plug, so you end up wasting outlet space because some idiot decided it didn't matter how big of a footprint the power supply has.
For pretty much any form of portable consumer electronics I've decided if it can't charge from standard USB I'm not having it. But for things like cordless phones, or rechargeable vacuums, or answering machines... it's a bloody nuisance. They'll frequently block anything adjacent to it.
LOL, oh yeah... who built them? What's that you say, Capitalists who didn't give a damn about anything but their bottom line?
Companies make 'em and sell 'em, chances are the average consumer isn't even aware of the issue... and your "market" doesn't give a damn, because it's built on the idea of short term benefit.
Sorry, but I refuse to believe corporations would do this without some external impetus. Assuming rational consumers making good choices based on perfect information? Yeah, the unicorns really work there.
No, I'm saying your separating out Apple as ran by shyster marketers is pretty much meaningless bullshit... all corporations are ran by shyster marketers, asshole lawyers, and greedy MBAs.
Apple is no different from anything else in that regard.
Good luck finding a company which doesn't have any of that stuff... none of them give a crap about you, and they'll all fuck you over in the exact same way given half a chance.
Apple is hardly the first company to take great steps to keep people from being able to do anything to their own products, not by a fucking long shot.
But, don't forget, all those treaties have been harmonizing IP laws.. the TPP and other treaties are likely in the process of shoving this stuff up your asses too.
All of those treaties the US are pushing will really only benefit multinational corporations and strengthen their hold over what you can do. When that TTIP comes into play, guess what? You'll suddenly have the same kinds of framework.
Have you missed the bits where the US government exists to advance the interests of multinational corporations at the expense of humans? The intellectual property aspects aren't there to make your life better.
You missed the point. If Australia does not think that the UN ruling concerning one of its citizens is legally binding, and the UK and Sweden have already taken this stance, then the UN ruling is not legally binding.
Is Australia even a party to this?
He's hiding in an Ecuadorian embassy, avoiding the British police, related to something which allegedly happened in Sweden, and for which there is fear he'd be sent to the US for something completely unrelated.
He's so far removed from Australian law here it isn't funny. If he was in Australia fighting extradition, maybe... but I just don't see how Australia has any inputs here.
We pretty much lost this fight when judges upheld the right of corporations to make EULAs binding, including the ability of corporations to change them as they see fit.
Combine this with the DMCA, and the rest of the copyright/IP bullshit, and, no, you don't own it any more... you have the right to use it according to their terms, but in no way do you own it in terms of being able to take it apart, modify it, fix it, repair it, or otherwise do anything they haven't licensed you to do.
This is the direction corporations want to go, and they've been getting lawmakers to enable them.
You, the consumer? You have no rights other than what they've chosen to give you.
Until we see lawmakers shift the other way (and they're heavily influenced by lobbying and campaign contributions), you can expect with shit like the TPP and everything else, you'll see less and less "rights" to the products you think you own.
Welcome to the awesome future, in which the corporations hold all the cards.
Seriously? How the hell do people successfully find idiots who will do that kind of thing?
For the same reason spam has never gone away, and all those scam calls everybody gets, it's simply a numbers game... a 1-2% success rate can make it worth doing it. So, those people calling from "teh Microsoft Support", or "Rachael from Cardholder Services", or that "you've won a cruise", or that Nigerian prince scam... if they didn't pay off, they'd have stopped by now. That they haven't pretty much says.
The scammers and thieves have pretty much made incoming telephone calls, email, SMS, and in some cases people who come to your door as completely untrustworthy.
The best thing I ever did for my parents as they started to use technology was to teach them to trust nobody, and assume there's a decent chance you're being lied to. Because the sad reality is, that's probably what's happening in a lot of cases.
The world is full of crooks and thieves, and has just enough people who are a little too naive to keep them in business. When you can send this shit out by the millions, it doesn't take many people to make it profitable.
And, of course, one could argue that hacking into a hospital and endangering lives/causing death could fall under the purview of people who investigate terrorism.
And then it becomes something entirely different in terms of the scope of who is coming after you.
Some additions: In Belgium they are working on having pre-paid card linked to a person. So no more anonymous payment.I am not sure if that is a Belgian push or a European one, so that hole will be closed very soon.
And you're willing to accept that? Why?
That positively screams not being able to do anything without the state monitoring everything you do... and I should think the Europeans would have been close to the Eastern Bloc countries and through enough wars to realize this is a terrible idea. The idea of a government ID I'd be required to use to identify myself to every random website sounds absolutely absurd and draconian.
And don't say I'm "free" to not use them if I don't want to be identified. That's the exact opposite of "free".
You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide... sorry, but if that's the idiotic way people are telling you is how they're keeping you safe, they're fucking lying to you.
It's somewhat hard to think that in the 50's, Cuba was a somewhat wealthy country.
Sorry, what?
In the 50s Cuba was pretty much ran by a corrupt government, who was giving US corporations the rights to build huge hotels and mansions, while the locals were basically cheap labor... you know, pretty much still the same as colonialism, but with mobsters instead of an occupying country.
That is until glorious revolution happened, and communism made everybody equally poor.
Sorry, but they were already poor, living under a dictatorship ran by someone who was basically a puppet for US interests.
Your understanding of Cuba in the 50s is woefully wrong.
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I thought the whole point of H1-Bs was to fill jobs that they couldn't find qualified applicants for?
That's just what they told everybody to get it in the door.
It's really about enriching companies by allowing them to undermine the labor market.
This is all about maximizing shareholder value, and fuck the people who actually live in your country... unless they're willing to compete for wages with people from India that is.
Welcome to the race to the bottom. The only winners are the corporations.
I know people who carry old fashioned pagers, and have done so for years. Yes, they also have smart phones, but cell service in many places is shit, and pagers have been part of the support infrastructure forever.
And, believe it or not, people still use land lines too. I know it's shocking to the kiddies, but it's true.
Do you people all think this technology became obsolete because you can get a freakin' app?
Where I live your chance of cellular coverage is iffy, and I'm in the burbs, just in a spot with bad coverage.
My wife's stupid fucking pager? Still keeps working.
What you have to ask yourself, is do you want to get paged in the middle of the night, and just how much do you plan on charging for that privilege? Everyone I know who carries one is getting a premium just to have it, and an hourly rate in the event it goes off.
Otherwise, carrying one is the stupidest idea you can imagine, and people just assume you work 24x7. If you do that, well, you're a sucker.
Stamford Bridge is the home ground of Chelsea. Drogba used to play for them. Dunno who Malouda was but Zhirkov was a Russian player who I don't think ever played for either Chelsea or Barcelona.
Oh, I though that was describing the technical breakthrough.;-)
And I'm sure there will be people who signed invoices for thousands of dollars for a 5MB drive LONG before your fancy 1GB SCSI.
I have always said I'd love to see 1GB of iron core memory (look it up for all you youngins), and I'm pretty sure it would mangle the Earth's magnetic field or something epic.
Wow, I once spent over $600 for 16MB of RAM for a PC. And that was considered a good deal.
You kids today have no idea how jarring it is to see a 16GB memory stick as a prize in a Cracker Jack box or in the express checkout at a convenience store.
Imagine my surprise to now see 2TB drives for under $100.
No go on with your fancy cheap memory... back in my day we had steam powered memory made out of iron rings... luxury, we used to dream of 30 cent gigabytes (no, really, we did).
If my lawn had grown proportional to storage over the last few decades, I'd have a lawn the size of Jupiter or something stupid, and wouldn't know to tell you to get off it in the first place.
I have the same issue with this one: Yuri Zhirkov was in attendance at the Stamford Bridge at the start of the second half but neither Drogba nor Malouda was able to push on through the Barcelona defence.
I'll tell you what... when these same Christians endorse the right of someone else to say "we don't serve your kind", great, you can claim to have a logically coherent position.
But you can't claim to be exempt from being discriminated against on religious grounds, while using your religion to claim the right to be able to discriminate against someone else. Fuck that.
But if someone said "get out of my store, I won't serve you" to a Christian, the yowling and cries of oppression would be epic... which means I don't respect that your religion makes you a special fucking little snowflake.
And, for the record, there ARE Christians who do advocate pretty much that.
Boo hoo, I don't give a fuck about your god, and I don't recognize he's granted you any special fucking rights. Believe what you want, but don't think that exempts you from anything or confers any obligation to me.
If your fucking god doesn't like it, let him take it up with me. I don't recognize your authority to act as his proxy.
You don't need to hear their name, the US government has now been tasked to do this shit on their behalf, they just write the text of the laws and treaties behind the scenes.
You don't think ICE policing copyright because they're under the control of DHS was an accident, do you?
Once the agency with the keys to the kingdom polices copyright, you can be more in the background.
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Are they on the internet? Then they're probably putting you at risk.
If big players like Amazon can get security breeches, that mom and pop shop which had a college student build them an e-commerce site hasn't got a chance.
Plan accordingly. Small security holes on the internet tend to get magnified into big, giant, widespread security holes.
You watch far too many movies, or smoke far too much pot, or both.
We're a LONG way from anything like that. Science fiction is just that.
Maybe unicorns will come down and smear their unicorn poop on your forehead and give you psychic abilities and superpowers, but I wouldn't go making any plans for it.
We haven't been to the moon in decades. Spread out and expand across the universe? Yeah, about that.
So, the oh-so-predictable "assume random e-commerce sites are security risks and don't use them"?
Now I'm shocked that everyone who hoists a storefront on the web shouldn't be trusted. No, wait, the other one.
This seems like it should have been expected, that's an awful lot of sites to assume they'd all keep up with security updates.
Are you joking? The term has been around at least a decade, if not more, and really is a common term.
They usually block adjacent plugs and have no regard for the space usually allocated for a plug, so you end up wasting outlet space because some idiot decided it didn't matter how big of a footprint the power supply has.
For pretty much any form of portable consumer electronics I've decided if it can't charge from standard USB I'm not having it. But for things like cordless phones, or rechargeable vacuums, or answering machines ... it's a bloody nuisance. They'll frequently block anything adjacent to it.
LOL, oh yeah ... who built them? What's that you say, Capitalists who didn't give a damn about anything but their bottom line?
Companies make 'em and sell 'em, chances are the average consumer isn't even aware of the issue ... and your "market" doesn't give a damn, because it's built on the idea of short term benefit.
Sorry, but I refuse to believe corporations would do this without some external impetus. Assuming rational consumers making good choices based on perfect information? Yeah, the unicorns really work there.
So, obviously you don't like him enough to tell him. :-P
Cruel, but funny.
No, I'm saying your separating out Apple as ran by shyster marketers is pretty much meaningless bullshit ... all corporations are ran by shyster marketers, asshole lawyers, and greedy MBAs.
Apple is no different from anything else in that regard.
Good luck finding a company which doesn't have any of that stuff ... none of them give a crap about you, and they'll all fuck you over in the exact same way given half a chance.
Apple is hardly the first company to take great steps to keep people from being able to do anything to their own products, not by a fucking long shot.
Sorry, but that's pretty much every corporation these days.
So, stay home, whittle yourself a phone out of a block of wood, and knit yourself a computer, grow your own internet in your garden.
You think Google or Microsoft or Samsung or the car companies are any different? Based on what exactly? Certainly not reality.
At the very least in the US.
But, don't forget, all those treaties have been harmonizing IP laws .. the TPP and other treaties are likely in the process of shoving this stuff up your asses too.
All of those treaties the US are pushing will really only benefit multinational corporations and strengthen their hold over what you can do. When that TTIP comes into play, guess what? You'll suddenly have the same kinds of framework.
Have you missed the bits where the US government exists to advance the interests of multinational corporations at the expense of humans? The intellectual property aspects aren't there to make your life better.
Is Australia even a party to this?
He's hiding in an Ecuadorian embassy, avoiding the British police, related to something which allegedly happened in Sweden, and for which there is fear he'd be sent to the US for something completely unrelated.
He's so far removed from Australian law here it isn't funny. If he was in Australia fighting extradition, maybe ... but I just don't see how Australia has any inputs here.
We pretty much lost this fight when judges upheld the right of corporations to make EULAs binding, including the ability of corporations to change them as they see fit.
Combine this with the DMCA, and the rest of the copyright/IP bullshit, and, no, you don't own it any more ... you have the right to use it according to their terms, but in no way do you own it in terms of being able to take it apart, modify it, fix it, repair it, or otherwise do anything they haven't licensed you to do.
This is the direction corporations want to go, and they've been getting lawmakers to enable them.
You, the consumer? You have no rights other than what they've chosen to give you.
Until we see lawmakers shift the other way (and they're heavily influenced by lobbying and campaign contributions), you can expect with shit like the TPP and everything else, you'll see less and less "rights" to the products you think you own.
Welcome to the awesome future, in which the corporations hold all the cards.
Apparently, quite a few people.
For the same reason spam has never gone away, and all those scam calls everybody gets, it's simply a numbers game ... a 1-2% success rate can make it worth doing it. So, those people calling from "teh Microsoft Support", or "Rachael from Cardholder Services", or that "you've won a cruise", or that Nigerian prince scam ... if they didn't pay off, they'd have stopped by now. That they haven't pretty much says.
The scammers and thieves have pretty much made incoming telephone calls, email, SMS, and in some cases people who come to your door as completely untrustworthy.
The best thing I ever did for my parents as they started to use technology was to teach them to trust nobody, and assume there's a decent chance you're being lied to. Because the sad reality is, that's probably what's happening in a lot of cases.
The world is full of crooks and thieves, and has just enough people who are a little too naive to keep them in business. When you can send this shit out by the millions, it doesn't take many people to make it profitable.
And, of course, one could argue that hacking into a hospital and endangering lives/causing death could fall under the purview of people who investigate terrorism.
And then it becomes something entirely different in terms of the scope of who is coming after you.
LOL, are you that clueless?
The general population wasn't importing them, the rich Americans running hotels were.
Honestly, read some damned history instead of just making up stupid shit about stuff you don't understand.
And you're willing to accept that? Why?
That positively screams not being able to do anything without the state monitoring everything you do ... and I should think the Europeans would have been close to the Eastern Bloc countries and through enough wars to realize this is a terrible idea. The idea of a government ID I'd be required to use to identify myself to every random website sounds absolutely absurd and draconian.
And don't say I'm "free" to not use them if I don't want to be identified. That's the exact opposite of "free".
You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide ... sorry, but if that's the idiotic way people are telling you is how they're keeping you safe, they're fucking lying to you.
Sorry, what?
In the 50s Cuba was pretty much ran by a corrupt government, who was giving US corporations the rights to build huge hotels and mansions, while the locals were basically cheap labor ... you know, pretty much still the same as colonialism, but with mobsters instead of an occupying country.
Sorry, but they were already poor, living under a dictatorship ran by someone who was basically a puppet for US interests.
Your understanding of Cuba in the 50s is woefully wrong.
I thought the whole point of H1-Bs was to fill jobs that they couldn't find qualified applicants for?
That's just what they told everybody to get it in the door.
It's really about enriching companies by allowing them to undermine the labor market.
This is all about maximizing shareholder value, and fuck the people who actually live in your country ... unless they're willing to compete for wages with people from India that is.
Welcome to the race to the bottom. The only winners are the corporations.
I know people who carry old fashioned pagers, and have done so for years. Yes, they also have smart phones, but cell service in many places is shit, and pagers have been part of the support infrastructure forever.
And, believe it or not, people still use land lines too. I know it's shocking to the kiddies, but it's true.
Do you people all think this technology became obsolete because you can get a freakin' app?
Where I live your chance of cellular coverage is iffy, and I'm in the burbs, just in a spot with bad coverage.
My wife's stupid fucking pager? Still keeps working.
What you have to ask yourself, is do you want to get paged in the middle of the night, and just how much do you plan on charging for that privilege? Everyone I know who carries one is getting a premium just to have it, and an hourly rate in the event it goes off.
Otherwise, carrying one is the stupidest idea you can imagine, and people just assume you work 24x7. If you do that, well, you're a sucker.
Oh, I though that was describing the technical breakthrough. ;-)
Made no sense at all.
And I'm sure there will be people who signed invoices for thousands of dollars for a 5MB drive LONG before your fancy 1GB SCSI.
I have always said I'd love to see 1GB of iron core memory (look it up for all you youngins), and I'm pretty sure it would mangle the Earth's magnetic field or something epic.
Wow, I once spent over $600 for 16MB of RAM for a PC. And that was considered a good deal.
You kids today have no idea how jarring it is to see a 16GB memory stick as a prize in a Cracker Jack box or in the express checkout at a convenience store.
Imagine my surprise to now see 2TB drives for under $100.
No go on with your fancy cheap memory ... back in my day we had steam powered memory made out of iron rings ... luxury, we used to dream of 30 cent gigabytes (no, really, we did).
If my lawn had grown proportional to storage over the last few decades, I'd have a lawn the size of Jupiter or something stupid, and wouldn't know to tell you to get off it in the first place.
I have the same issue with this one: Yuri Zhirkov was in attendance at the Stamford Bridge at the start of the second half but neither Drogba nor Malouda was able to push on through the Barcelona defence.
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WTF? Sounds like chess.
I'll tell you what ... when these same Christians endorse the right of someone else to say "we don't serve your kind", great, you can claim to have a logically coherent position.
But you can't claim to be exempt from being discriminated against on religious grounds, while using your religion to claim the right to be able to discriminate against someone else. Fuck that.
But if someone said "get out of my store, I won't serve you" to a Christian, the yowling and cries of oppression would be epic ... which means I don't respect that your religion makes you a special fucking little snowflake.
And, for the record, there ARE Christians who do advocate pretty much that.
Boo hoo, I don't give a fuck about your god, and I don't recognize he's granted you any special fucking rights. Believe what you want, but don't think that exempts you from anything or confers any obligation to me.
If your fucking god doesn't like it, let him take it up with me. I don't recognize your authority to act as his proxy.
As long as the dried up lame bed (lake?) has text, we don't give a crap.
Some of us still prefer to get information in the form of text, and not video ... and animate whirligigs and other crap add nothing to the experience.
But, really, in terms of not trusting javascript? That really should be common sense by now.
You don't need to hear their name, the US government has now been tasked to do this shit on their behalf, they just write the text of the laws and treaties behind the scenes.
You don't think ICE policing copyright because they're under the control of DHS was an accident, do you?
Once the agency with the keys to the kingdom polices copyright, you can be more in the background.