exactly. who gets to decide what hate speech is real and what is imagined? will facts equal hate speech??? will not believing in some political views equal hate speech???
Lets not get all technical and bogged down by asking a lot of questions, only terrorists do that.
Oh yeah, I'm sure that removing "hate speech" (whatever that is) will be simple and straightforward. What could be easier than enforcing a total ban on a nebulous, undefined concept?
Most of these things default to ads for their own products if they aren't able to find the network or ad hosts.
Or it'll be made so it "needs" to be connected to the internet to "validate" something or other and won't work unless it gets to phone home once a minute or so.
There is no difference between poker chips and "real" money. The real question here is that if he had offered poker chips instead, would it still be a crime?
That's a good question....I think they'd treat it as a crime since poker chips can be exchanged 1-for-1 with dollars. It's a gray area, but I would expect the government to treat it as any kind of exchangeable property with a known value.
If he had offered stamps instead of bitcoin, for example, they'd probably consider it to be a crime, just with a different form of exchange. It's not exactly the same, but it's similar. I suppose he could have offered chickens or candy bars and they'd still class it as a criminal transaction.
So either bitcoin IS money and should be treated as such, or it ISN'T money and should be viewed with a very, very skeptical eye.
Which is it?
If it is, expect the Feds to jump on it with both feet and screw with people for using it, and if it's not, expect some new laws redefining it as "currency" with all the attendant legal repercussions.
Wow, who coulda seen THAT coming? (Besides everyone, I mean.)
It's like closing the bazaar where the arms dealers sell their wares, effectively removing the source of their income....do you think they aren't going to use some of their hardware on you to "correct" that "problem"?
"Blue Coat assures that it is not going to utilize the certificates to snoop on us."
Oh, heaven forbid, I'm sure any concern about this is just due to paranoia.
No way anyone would ever misuse power like this, and certainly not a company that sells web-monitoring software. Why, the very thought is just too silly to contemplate!
This is just another tool to use against people that the authorities don't like. This gives them another peg on which to hang you.
Perhaps your fiddling around on the net probing stuff or finding a vulnerability on a website wasn't explicitly a crime before, but now....now it is. And the penalties will be harsh, count on it. Expect the word "terrorism" to be in there somewhere as well.
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exactly. who gets to decide what hate speech is real and what is imagined? will facts equal hate speech??? will not believing in some political views equal hate speech???
Lets not get all technical and bogged down by asking a lot of questions, only terrorists do that.
Oh yeah, I'm sure that removing "hate speech" (whatever that is) will be simple and straightforward. What could be easier than enforcing a total ban on a nebulous, undefined concept?
I don't have a Facebook account. No Twitter, MySpace or whatever else there is.
I only do generic or specialized forums, no "social media" bullshit.
Same here. No Facebook, no twitter, no Linkedin, no myspace, no pinterest, instagram, etc etc etc. None, zero, zip, nada.
If other people want to, good for them, but it's just not my thing.
No, the 1st amendment only applies to the government restricting your speech.
100% correct. It's both sad and amazing how many people don't understand this.
>Just out of curiosity, what service do, say, patent trolls provide?
Target practice? :)
Oh, I'm sure this will work out splendidly for City Park Apartments. What could possibly go wrong?
These companies really suck.
It's worse than that. To them, advertising is the Holy Grail and nothing but nothing is more important.
Customers? Fuck 'em!
User experience? Who gives a shit?
Here's all you need to know:
Microsoft doesn't care what its users want, Microsoft cares about what Microsoft wants.
And now you know everything there is to know about Microsoft.
Most of these things default to ads for their own products if they aren't able to find the network or ad hosts.
Or it'll be made so it "needs" to be connected to the internet to "validate" something or other and won't work unless it gets to phone home once a minute or so.
Dear Samsung,
What part of "NO" was unclear?
Signed,
Every Consumer In The World
There is no difference between poker chips and "real" money. The real question here is that if he had offered poker chips instead, would it still be a crime?
That's a good question....I think they'd treat it as a crime since poker chips can be exchanged 1-for-1 with dollars. It's a gray area, but I would expect the government to treat it as any kind of exchangeable property with a known value.
If he had offered stamps instead of bitcoin, for example, they'd probably consider it to be a crime, just with a different form of exchange. It's not exactly the same, but it's similar. I suppose he could have offered chickens or candy bars and they'd still class it as a criminal transaction.
So either bitcoin IS money and should be treated as such, or it ISN'T money and should be viewed with a very, very skeptical eye.
Which is it?
If it is, expect the Feds to jump on it with both feet and screw with people for using it, and if it's not, expect some new laws redefining it as "currency" with all the attendant legal repercussions.
1) ....and nothing of value was lost.
2) It's like 65 million SJW's cried out from being triggered in their safe space and were suddenly silenced.
The UK has strict gun control, which is just as effective as posting "Gun-Free Zone" signs.
Just curious...what kind of brain injury do you have?
For once Facebook actually led to something good.
(Statistically speaking, though, it had to happen sooner or later.)
Agreed...this is not really worthy of the "hacked" label.
To call this "hacking" is akin to microwaving a burrito and calling it "cooking".
Wow, who coulda seen THAT coming? (Besides everyone, I mean.)
It's like closing the bazaar where the arms dealers sell their wares, effectively removing the source of their income....do you think they aren't going to use some of their hardware on you to "correct" that "problem"?
I would suggest that learning to paint and play basketball in the 4th grade will serve you better over your lifetime than learning to code.
All things considered, you're probably right.
""I would go in and make coding a requirement starting at the fourth or fifth grade"
Not this "everybody gotta learn to code" bullshit again....
Guess what? Jasper Johns thinks that everybody ought to learn to paint. Magic Johnson thinks everyone should learn to play basketball.
They're ALL wrong.
Read this seminal book on programming: 1984, by George Orwell. It'll help you spot future trends in software development.
You mean people use teh interweb to get news?? Hell, I wish I'd thought of this novel idea so I could patent it.
"A means of obtaining information about current events by using an information-dissemination network" - PATENTED, BABY!
"Blue Coat assures that it is not going to utilize the certificates to snoop on us."
Oh, heaven forbid, I'm sure any concern about this is just due to paranoia.
No way anyone would ever misuse power like this, and certainly not a company that sells web-monitoring software. Why, the very thought is just too silly to contemplate!
*cough*
No way these chips would ever have some kind of backdoor or undocumented functions built in to them, that would just never happen. Never.
"This gives users an additional way to interact with their device through the app alone."
Translation:
"This gives advertisers an additional way to collect data on people that they'll never suspect."
This is just another tool to use against people that the authorities don't like. This gives them another peg on which to hang you.
Perhaps your fiddling around on the net probing stuff or finding a vulnerability on a website wasn't explicitly a crime before, but now....now it is. And the penalties will be harsh, count on it. Expect the word "terrorism" to be in there somewhere as well.