Mod parent up. Of course you lie. Just having an account with one of these things gives them the foot in the door. The best way to combat surveillance is counter-surveillance and actively engage in disinformation.
This isn't really a conservative/liberal issue. This is an authoritarian/libertarian issue. This is how you suppress speaking truth to power. If it doesn't offend someone. Its probably some drivel that isn't worth saying. Which is what YouTube wants. Less provocative news and social critique, more ad friendly cat videos. If the rules were applied evenly, this would block out entire segments of the media like news, music and comedy.
They are not "engaged in activities covered under it in the course of their official duties." They are rouge actors operating out side the law. And that is with out consideration of the 4 amendment position that any law allowing them to do this would be illegal anyway.
If there was a law change. Then that means that mass surveilling people is a violation of the computer fraud and abuse act. Go and arrest these guys, prosecute them, then put them in prison for 5 to 10 years.
Most of this is because of the proliferation of Virtualization and "Cloud computing" If most of what you do is in a web app or a virtual machine or compatibility layer. Your never going to see the hardware gains. Intel processors may be 10X faster than they were 10 years ago but your ISP damn sure isn't. When basically all programs have to phone home before they do anything, hardware improvements become irrelevant.
This is exactly why Radio shack is failing. It used to be an electronics enthusiast store which there is still probably a market for. There clueless management tried to turn it into a consumer electronics store. Who the hell would buy consumer electronics from Radio Shack?
I use ixquick because it doesn't track you but it still has the same problem as all the other alternative search engines. In the end they just go back to Google for the query. Remember the days when internet search engines were a dime a dozen and they all had different algorithms. That was nice.
Sir Bedevere:...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped. King Arthur : This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
This isn't really a copyright dispute. It's a labor dispute. This reminds me of the John Fogerty vs Fantasy Records dispute. After Fogerty left Credence he went on a solo career and he was sued by Fantasy for sounding to much like himself. If Bethesda can't prove that Cormack didn't copy any code that They own, I don't see how they have a case. This sets a terrible precedent for the rites of programmers and frankly I think the only reason they're getting away with it is because Facebook is the parent company.
Anyone with even the smallest investment in the truth would not be remotely successful at politics.
Mostly because the public has no real interest in the truth. Particularly when there's a nice comforting lie available that reinforces there preconceptions.
The only thing that has changed is the economics. When people only want to pay $300 for a computer its hard to justify paying $100 for the operating system. MS reckons that they have to find another revenue stream. It's not hard to figure out why they are pushing this angle when Google has been making a mint selling there users data to advertisers for more than a decade. Clamming that windows 10 is more secure than windows 7 is a joke. Especially if you consider security in a holistic way. With Windows 7 (with Automatic Update disabled and the ports MS uses blocked at the firewall.) the people who have access to the information on my system are me and whoever can convince me to run some of there code on my system. Which is a pretty small group. With windows 10 is me, Microsoft, Microsoft's affiliates, affiliates of Microsoft's affiliates, Advertisers, and whoever can convince any of those people to run some of there code on any system that my information come in contact with. Windows 7 has flaws but its the difference in running a piece of software could potentially have security weaknesses and running one that has the malware built in by design. Also the UI sucks.
The computing environment has not evolved its just gotten really stupid.
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I tried eating no processed foods once for a year.
But then I died of starvation.
Mod parent up.
Of course you lie. Just having an account with one of these things gives them the foot in the door.
The best way to combat surveillance is counter-surveillance and actively engage in disinformation.
That's exactly how you break a heroin addiction.
I don't have to, I've got gold. I can wipe my ass with that.
No matter what I type it just gives me search results for cease and desist debt collectors.
This isn't really a conservative/liberal issue.
This is an authoritarian/libertarian issue.
This is how you suppress speaking truth to power. If it doesn't offend someone. Its probably some drivel that isn't worth saying.
Which is what YouTube wants. Less provocative news and social critique, more ad friendly cat videos.
If the rules were applied evenly, this would block out entire segments of the media like news, music and comedy.
Just think of how much more time people will have to spend on facebook if they don't have to keep showing up at those pesky jobs all the time.
Yea soon we will be able to get rid of this old ARM crap and get everything on a propper x86 architecture.
Who knows? They might be "rouge" actors.
Some of those intelligence guys swing that way.
They are not "engaged in activities covered under it in the course of their official duties."
They are rouge actors operating out side the law.
And that is with out consideration of the 4 amendment position that any law allowing them to do this would be illegal anyway.
If there was a law change. Then that means that mass surveilling people is a violation of the computer fraud and abuse act.
Go and arrest these guys, prosecute them, then put them in prison for 5 to 10 years.
Most of this is because of the proliferation of Virtualization and "Cloud computing"
If most of what you do is in a web app or a virtual machine or compatibility layer.
Your never going to see the hardware gains.
Intel processors may be 10X faster than they were 10 years ago but your ISP damn sure isn't.
When basically all programs have to phone home before they do anything, hardware improvements become irrelevant.
Where are my mod points when I need them.
Mod parent up.
There needs to be a Slashdot moderator option called "Pedantry Slashing"
This is exactly why Radio shack is failing.
It used to be an electronics enthusiast store which there is still probably a market for.
There clueless management tried to turn it into a consumer electronics store.
Who the hell would buy consumer electronics from Radio Shack?
No but he can watch the Simpsons from 30 blocks away.
So far scientists have found no link between every day foods and brain cancer.
But have no fear, there working on it.
This is a similar technique to the one that was used last year to create metallic hydrogen.
I use ixquick because it doesn't track you but it still has the same problem as all the other alternative search engines.
In the end they just go back to Google for the query. Remember the days when internet search engines were a dime a dozen and they all had different algorithms.
That was nice.
Well it's the Verge.
Does any one really think this is creditable?
Sir Bedevere: ...and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped.
King Arthur : This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
This isn't really a copyright dispute. It's a labor dispute.
This reminds me of the John Fogerty vs Fantasy Records dispute.
After Fogerty left Credence he went on a solo career and he was sued by Fantasy for sounding to much like himself.
If Bethesda can't prove that Cormack didn't copy any code that They own, I don't see how they have a case.
This sets a terrible precedent for the rites of programmers and frankly I think the only reason they're getting away with it is because Facebook is the parent company.
All politicians are bullshiters.
Anyone with even the smallest investment in the truth would not be remotely successful at politics.
Mostly because the public has no real interest in the truth. Particularly when there's a nice comforting lie available that reinforces there preconceptions.
It's about time that the Chinese multinational's took advantage of all the low cost American labor available this side of the pond.
Don't accidently hit the "tampon remove" button.
That is not the reality.
The only thing that has changed is the economics. When people only want to pay $300 for a computer its hard to justify paying $100 for the operating system.
MS reckons that they have to find another revenue stream.
It's not hard to figure out why they are pushing this angle when Google has been making a mint selling there users data to advertisers for more than a decade.
Clamming that windows 10 is more secure than windows 7 is a joke. Especially if you consider security in a holistic way.
With Windows 7 (with Automatic Update disabled and the ports MS uses blocked at the firewall.) the people who have access to the information
on my system are me and whoever can convince me to run some of there code on my system. Which is a pretty small group.
With windows 10 is me, Microsoft, Microsoft's affiliates, affiliates of Microsoft's affiliates, Advertisers, and
whoever can convince any of those people to run some of there code on any system that my information come in contact with.
Windows 7 has flaws but its the difference in running a piece of software could potentially have security weaknesses and running one that has the malware built in by design.
Also the UI sucks.
The computing environment has not evolved its just gotten really stupid.