I share a NAT connection with over 50 other desks at work, most of them are not in the same company. Is my IP address PII?
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Sure, as soon as his home address and car license plates randomly shuffle while requiring an ISP to give you the rest of the information about the location.
I never understood the reasoning behind not just warning the user once and continuing.
I once played a game that had a check for processor speed using GHz and flat out refused to play on a fast processor running at a lower GHz. I've also had software that was written for Windows 2000 and requires SP4. I expect it will start working properly in XP once XP SP4 is released because they were too stupid to check the OS version properly.
This is about beliefs, I don't believe that people can truly understand the concept of a god. Just because someone else says 'well, I do believe' or 'well, I don't belive' does not change my belief.
Wrong. Atheist. a-theist. Negating theist. Anybody who is not a theist is an atheist. Answering "I don't know" to "is there a god?" makes you an atheist.
No, it makes you someone who doesn't know the answer. I never denied or embraced one or the other, and I don't have to.
Is there a dollar bill sitting on my desk right now? You can take a leap of faith and answer yes, or no, or you can answer, 'I don't know as I lack the ability to know'. By not answering, you have not answered yes or no.
Websters defines athiest at "one who believes that there is no deity" and religious as "relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity."
Simply, Athiests can be religious, in that they are manifesting faithful devotion to their ultimate reality in which there is no deity.
Just for fun, Websters defines theism as "belief in the existence of a god or gods" there is no mention of "religion or faith".
You're an atheist. You don't have any religion, you don't actually believe in god, you just don't rule one out.
An atheist is someone who does not believe in the possibility of a god. Not someone who does not have a religion. By not ruling out the possibility of a god, the person is not an atheist.
Leonard Peikoff is a Mel Brooks joke. (Stand Up Philosopher) I could tell that 3 seconds into his website.
Many people honestly believe that humans have the ability to even begin to understand what a god is and what he/she/they want. I do not. It does not make me any better or worse.
Honestly, as an agnostic, I do not like organized religion. (Atheists are religious, just not to any deity) I view most organized religions as just another way to force people to think the way some other people want them to. Some groups are better, some are worse, the majority are power plays. That being said, they have every right to exist and people have every right to believe in what they want to believe in.
However, I will not stand for ANYONE pushing their beliefs on me, it's my life and my decision. Unless I request spiritual guidance, I do not wish it visited upon me. Woe betide anyone who tries otherwise.
I've been administering and deploying "self-destructing" USB drives for several years!
After about a year, the drive stops working and all the data is gone. It's always the one the boss was using and it's always some important file that he didn't have a copy of somewhere else, so it is very consistant in that one regard.
While we're at it, let's also discuss the best mousepad for programming
That would be my Windows Vista mousepad that I got at the Vista launch party. It features desk grippyness and mouse paddyness, and a giant windows logo, so I never get tempted to install Linux.
Pretty much would fail. No company is obligated to let anyone and everyone develop for their system. Especially if they aren't a licensee.
Nor can they prevent them. There are cases going back to the Atari 400 & 800 and more recently with Lexmark and the 3rd party ink companies that says they can't prevent you from reverse engineering.
For the DMCA to actually apply they would have to break the protection for other software, just allowing access to one application doesn't break the protection on the console.
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It's a rent a desk office. Of course he's a pervert.
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Seriously though, you're right on point. I might be able to narrow you down to a group of a few hundred, but that's it without help.
141.30.219.76 You're in Dresden? How's school?
I share a NAT connection with over 50 other desks at work, most of them are not in the same company. Is my IP address PII?
Sure, as soon as his home address and car license plates randomly shuffle while requiring an ISP to give you the rest of the information about the location.
Then you can go and post the information.
I never understood the reasoning behind not just warning the user once and continuing.
I once played a game that had a check for processor speed using GHz and flat out refused to play on a fast processor running at a lower GHz.
I've also had software that was written for Windows 2000 and requires SP4. I expect it will start working properly in XP once XP SP4 is released because they were too stupid to check the OS version properly.
I'm not sure what your point is then.
This is about beliefs, I don't believe that people can truly understand the concept of a god. Just because someone else says 'well, I do believe' or 'well, I don't belive' does not change my belief.
OK, thinking on this, I guess religious is the wrong word. It is pretty close though.
I disagree, I think athiests are religious in that they've defined a set belief system, or in this case, a very set non-belief system.
We're on slashdot, here's a programming example:
The bit field is true, the bit field is false or the bit field is undefined. Undefined is not true or false.
Wrong. Atheist. a-theist. Negating theist. Anybody who is not a theist is an atheist. Answering "I don't know" to "is there a god?" makes you an atheist.
No, it makes you someone who doesn't know the answer. I never denied or embraced one or the other, and I don't have to.
Is there a dollar bill sitting on my desk right now? You can take a leap of faith and answer yes, or no, or you can answer, 'I don't know as I lack the ability to know'. By not answering, you have not answered yes or no.
Websters defines athiest at "one who believes that there is no deity" and religious as "relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity."
Simply, Athiests can be religious, in that they are manifesting faithful devotion to their ultimate reality in which there is no deity.
Just for fun, Websters defines theism as "belief in the existence of a god or gods" there is no mention of "religion or faith".
Uhm, so many people believe, so clearly humans have the ability of making that call.
So many people believed the earth was flat, we learn and evolve.
I do not think we have the ability to understand how to make that call (at least for now).
The universe is an amazing place filled with many things I can not even begin to understand. I am, however, willing to learn.
Words have meanings. You don't get to make them up as you go along
Sure, I'll use Websters:
Athiest: one who believes that there is no deity
Religious: relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity
Therefore: Athiests have a faithful devotion to an acknowleded ultimate reality in which there is no God.
Given that god is undefinable and unknowable, and that its existence cannot be proven, do you believe in it?
I do not believe that humans have the ability to make that call.
You're an atheist. You don't have any religion, you don't actually believe in god, you just don't rule one out.
An atheist is someone who does not believe in the possibility of a god. Not someone who does not have a religion. By not ruling out the possibility of a god, the person is not an atheist.
Leonard Peikoff is a Mel Brooks joke. (Stand Up Philosopher) I could tell that 3 seconds into his website.
Many people honestly believe that humans have the ability to even begin to understand what a god is and what he/she/they want. I do not. It does not make me any better or worse.
Honestly, as an agnostic, I do not like organized religion. (Atheists are religious, just not to any deity) I view most organized religions as just another way to force people to think the way some other people want them to. Some groups are better, some are worse, the majority are power plays. That being said, they have every right to exist and people have every right to believe in what they want to believe in.
However, I will not stand for ANYONE pushing their beliefs on me, it's my life and my decision. Unless I request spiritual guidance, I do not wish it visited upon me. Woe betide anyone who tries otherwise.
I've been administering and deploying "self-destructing" USB drives for several years!
After about a year, the drive stops working and all the data is gone. It's always the one the boss was using and it's always some important file that he didn't have a copy of somewhere else, so it is very consistant in that one regard.
I'm an idiot for not counting the primary left and right buttons. So you're right, it's 7. (Not counting wheel movements)
While we're at it, let's also discuss the best mousepad for programming
That would be my Windows Vista mousepad that I got at the Vista launch party. It features desk grippyness and mouse paddyness, and a giant windows logo, so I never get tempted to install Linux.
I should mention, there's one flaw with this mouse. The charging pads get dirty after a few months, and require a quick cleaning with a pencil eraser.
I'm enjoying my Logitech MX Revolution, has 3 buttons, a thumbwheel and a scrollwheel with swivel(so, 5 buttons total).
The click lock is the best feature for the scroll wheel. I hate not having it on my other system.
Pretty much would fail. No company is obligated to let anyone and everyone develop for their system. Especially if they aren't a licensee.
Nor can they prevent them. There are cases going back to the Atari 400 & 800 and more recently with Lexmark and the 3rd party ink companies that says they can't prevent you from reverse engineering.
For the DMCA to actually apply they would have to break the protection for other software, just allowing access to one application doesn't break the protection on the console.
I'm betting Slashdot runs on a standard SQL type database, most sites like slashdot do as well. It's absolutely the wrong server to use.
Why no one has realised that NNTP servers are designed to do just this is beyond me.
SQL is a crutch.
Once it was reported the first time it was public record.
Having the owners of Wikipedia go out of their way to try and make it not public record anymore is worrying to say the least.
I'm torn on this, I understand why they would need to keep it secret, on the other hand, it wasn't a secret anymore, it's censoring the article.
Put simply, Wikipedia's intentions were good, and the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
They're an encyclopedia that anyone can edit, unless Jimmy Wales decides otherwise.