I wonder how many c-list celebrities would post their own sex tapes on the internet if they knew they could be multi-millionaires because of it.
How, by suing themselves? This scheme only works when someone else posts the tape unlawfully. If the Hulkster had posted the video himself, he wouldn't have Gawker's money.
Gawker's behavior bankrupted Gawker, end of story. Peter Thiel picked up the legal bills so that the person they wronged could afford to sue them. It's a sad commentary on the American legal system that even a celebrity with some extant wealth can't financially sustain a lawsuit on his own.
These days it seems like every service is very busy trying to be every other service, and it only winds up hurting their primary product. Instagram wants to be Snapchat (or is it vice versa) with "Stories," Facebook wants to be a messenger program, Twitter wants to be Vine so they added short videos, Firefox wants to be Chrome, and now YouTube wants to be Reddit. Enough with the fucking e-penis-envy already. Make your product and make it well.
How do you know the problem is nonexistent if nobody has to show any ID?
The problem very clearly exists. This guy voted 7 times in one election! It's no wonder the GOP is so afraid of election fraud, they know from experience how easy it is.
Listen to this guy, he's talking about C8! What's he going to say next, C8N? Science, right? That's what scientists do, folks. They put C, and 8, and before you know it, Satan. Lots of people are saying MillionthMonkey is Satan. Really smart people, I have the best scientists, the ones who spray chemtrails over your homes, people. MillionthMonkey, right, I have a video, folks. The Secret Service is carrying a Valium injector around just to make sure this guy doesn't go low energy, you get what I'm saying? Parkinson's, people are saying Parkinson's, I'm not saying it, people are saying it. And this guy wants to talk about science? Can you believe this?
Oh god, not chemicals! Tell me there's not dihydrogen monoxide in my drinking water! The government is spraying chemtrails over my house and sometimes when I water my tomato plants I see rainbows in the water, you can't explain that! The orange cheeto people are trying to enslave us but I won't let them win.
almost all trailers show footage or music that end up getting cut from the final film for various reasons.
That doesn't excuse this movie, it just means the rest of them ought to be sued, too. If you run a TV commercial for a buffet restaurant and it shows a big pile of crab legs, but your buffet doesn't actually sell crab legs, you should rightly expect some legal trouble. Why is a movie any different?
When we ask for clarification, the operator just changes the subject, or says, "one second, let me check on something". Then a month and a half later, strange fees start showing up on our bill.
One scam I've encountered before, and I'm not saying AT&T does this but other companies do, is they'll record your entire phone call. When they say "one second, let me check on something" and you reply with something like "that's fine," now they have a recording of you saying "that's fine." If you challenge the charges later on, they dig up the recorded phone call and someone spends a couple minutes stitching it together so it sounds like you said "that's fine" after they asked "Would you like to order $EXPENSIVE_SERVICE?"
I'm very leery of saying any affirmative phrases ("OK", "yes," "sure") over the phone unless I initiated the call or I know the other party.
Tor kept the Silk Road online for 2 years where without it they would have shut him down immediately.
If they'd shut him down immediately he'd probably already be out of prison. They let it go as long as they did so they could pile on more and more charges.
That's the correct procedure. The signature was never intended to verify who has possession of the card. The signature indicates that the person who gets the bill has agreed to pay the bill (and abide by the rest of the contract), that's it.
Cloud services are shit anyways, just another method of wrestling full control away from you.
Eh, on one hand I don't disagree at all, on the other hand "the cloud" is a bullshit term that means "other peoples' servers." I'm just saying that nullrouting all Microsoft ASNs is going to block way more than one is bargaining for. Lots of people with no relation to Microsoft host their websites in Azure just like they might rent a server at Rackspace or Linode. If someone you hate decides to colo at Rackspace, you probably aren't going to firewall millions of IPs just to avoid his website. It's better to just not go there (i.e. don't install Windows 10) than to block the whole network and miss out on everything else that lives there.
Nope, no Office. I have the interface as classic as possible (no translucent stuff or animations) and I'm serious about having a ton of default services turned off. I agree those probably aren't a gig's worth, though.
Wouldn't blocking the ASNs associated with Microsoft be any more efficient?
You'd be blocking every legitimate, non-Microsoft-affiliated service hosted on Azure, and there's no guarantee they're only using their own IP space for this to start with. In the end, I think blocking surveillance and spying that's baked into the operating system is a losing game.
With Windows 10, the only winning move is not to play.
Any list of those so I can set them to 127.0.0.1 in my Hosts file?
That won't help you any, the IP addresses are hard-coded into the OS via dnsapi.dll, which Windows 10 will consult prior to the rest of the resolver stack (hosts, WINS, name servers, etc). You're going to need another machine between you and your internet connection, one with a proper implementation like iptables/ipfw/nftables/etc to drop traffic destined for those IPs.
Of course, the IPs of the telemetry servers are subject to change at Microsoft's whim, so you're going to end up stuck playing whack-a-mole. Me, I'm just not going to install Windows 10.
I'm not a drone owner; I dislike them in general, and I think they're probably abused for privacy invasion on a regular basis. But I tend to agree with you and I think the government is being alarmist here.
Similar claims were being made last year, with the government saying firefighting operations had to be curtailed because of multiple drones in the area. I remember pulling up Google Maps and doing a little armchair plotting. The fire in question had been in a remote area, something like 10 miles from any road. To be operating a drone nearby, someone would have had to hike most of that distance through unforgiving terrain, in the heat, in the middle of a goddamn wildfire, putting themselves (not to mention their drone) at great risk, then set up shop somewhere and loiter there in the middle of a goddamn wildfire flying their drone around. And not just one person, but probably multiple people, because multiple drones were being reported. Additionally, there were the usual claims that the drone operators are anonymous and can't be located. You're doing aerial firefighting with a whole fleet of fixed-wing and rotorcraft, and you're telling me nobody up there is equipped with FLIR to spot the drone pilot hunkered down in the woods? It's not like he's going anywhere in a hurry, he has to hike those 10 miles miles back out...
I don't buy it. Maybe this time it's really happening, since the fire is close in on inhabited areas. But last year they cried wolf about a scenario that seemed entirely implausible. I think the "threat" is being vastly overstated to sway the opinion of the public, and more importantly Congress, firmly against drones.
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I wonder how many c-list celebrities would post their own sex tapes on the internet if they knew they could be multi-millionaires because of it.
How, by suing themselves? This scheme only works when someone else posts the tape unlawfully. If the Hulkster had posted the video himself, he wouldn't have Gawker's money.
Gawker's behavior bankrupted Gawker, end of story. Peter Thiel picked up the legal bills so that the person they wronged could afford to sue them. It's a sad commentary on the American legal system that even a celebrity with some extant wealth can't financially sustain a lawsuit on his own.
These days it seems like every service is very busy trying to be every other service, and it only winds up hurting their primary product. Instagram wants to be Snapchat (or is it vice versa) with "Stories," Facebook wants to be a messenger program, Twitter wants to be Vine so they added short videos, Firefox wants to be Chrome, and now YouTube wants to be Reddit. Enough with the fucking e-penis-envy already. Make your product and make it well.
Slashdot isn't sending us their best people, folks. We're going to build Heidi Wall and make CmdrTaco pay for it!
Linux: Free as in speech.
BSD: Free as in beer.
Windows 10: Free as in herpes.
How do you know the problem is nonexistent if nobody has to show any ID?
The problem very clearly exists. This guy voted 7 times in one election! It's no wonder the GOP is so afraid of election fraud, they know from experience how easy it is.
This is why I keep Donald Trump on speed dial. $230 is pocket litter, and his tiny hands can fit down into the innards of the car door.
Listen to this guy, he's talking about C8! What's he going to say next, C8N? Science, right? That's what scientists do, folks. They put C, and 8, and before you know it, Satan. Lots of people are saying MillionthMonkey is Satan. Really smart people, I have the best scientists, the ones who spray chemtrails over your homes, people. MillionthMonkey, right, I have a video, folks. The Secret Service is carrying a Valium injector around just to make sure this guy doesn't go low energy, you get what I'm saying? Parkinson's, people are saying Parkinson's, I'm not saying it, people are saying it. And this guy wants to talk about science? Can you believe this?
Oh god, not chemicals! Tell me there's not dihydrogen monoxide in my drinking water! The government is spraying chemtrails over my house and sometimes when I water my tomato plants I see rainbows in the water, you can't explain that! The orange cheeto people are trying to enslave us but I won't let them win.
almost all trailers show footage or music that end up getting cut from the final film for various reasons.
That doesn't excuse this movie, it just means the rest of them ought to be sued, too. If you run a TV commercial for a buffet restaurant and it shows a big pile of crab legs, but your buffet doesn't actually sell crab legs, you should rightly expect some legal trouble. Why is a movie any different?
When we ask for clarification, the operator just changes the subject, or says, "one second, let me check on something". Then a month and a half later, strange fees start showing up on our bill.
One scam I've encountered before, and I'm not saying AT&T does this but other companies do, is they'll record your entire phone call. When they say "one second, let me check on something" and you reply with something like "that's fine," now they have a recording of you saying "that's fine." If you challenge the charges later on, they dig up the recorded phone call and someone spends a couple minutes stitching it together so it sounds like you said "that's fine" after they asked "Would you like to order $EXPENSIVE_SERVICE?"
I'm very leery of saying any affirmative phrases ("OK", "yes," "sure") over the phone unless I initiated the call or I know the other party.
Tor kept the Silk Road online for 2 years where without it they would have shut him down immediately.
If they'd shut him down immediately he'd probably already be out of prison. They let it go as long as they did so they could pile on more and more charges.
Maybe they could send out alimony checks.
That's the correct procedure. The signature was never intended to verify who has possession of the card. The signature indicates that the person who gets the bill has agreed to pay the bill (and abide by the rest of the contract), that's it.
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There is no evidence that suggests you're any safer with adblock
The very article you're commenting about is proof that you're safer with an ad blocker.
Cloud services are shit anyways, just another method of wrestling full control away from you.
Eh, on one hand I don't disagree at all, on the other hand "the cloud" is a bullshit term that means "other peoples' servers." I'm just saying that nullrouting all Microsoft ASNs is going to block way more than one is bargaining for. Lots of people with no relation to Microsoft host their websites in Azure just like they might rent a server at Rackspace or Linode. If someone you hate decides to colo at Rackspace, you probably aren't going to firewall millions of IPs just to avoid his website. It's better to just not go there (i.e. don't install Windows 10) than to block the whole network and miss out on everything else that lives there.
You're making the mistake of trusting that this "feature" will only ever be enabled if the handset dials 911.
Nope, no Office. I have the interface as classic as possible (no translucent stuff or animations) and I'm serious about having a ton of default services turned off. I agree those probably aren't a gig's worth, though.
Wouldn't blocking the ASNs associated with Microsoft be any more efficient?
You'd be blocking every legitimate, non-Microsoft-affiliated service hosted on Azure, and there's no guarantee they're only using their own IP space for this to start with. In the end, I think blocking surveillance and spying that's baked into the operating system is a losing game.
With Windows 10, the only winning move is not to play.
You might want to look at disabling unnecessary services or something. Windows 7 64bit on my primary desktop hovers around 1GB idle.
Any list of those so I can set them to 127.0.0.1 in my Hosts file?
That won't help you any, the IP addresses are hard-coded into the OS via dnsapi.dll, which Windows 10 will consult prior to the rest of the resolver stack (hosts, WINS, name servers, etc). You're going to need another machine between you and your internet connection, one with a proper implementation like iptables/ipfw/nftables/etc to drop traffic destined for those IPs.
Of course, the IPs of the telemetry servers are subject to change at Microsoft's whim, so you're going to end up stuck playing whack-a-mole. Me, I'm just not going to install Windows 10.
I'm not a drone owner; I dislike them in general, and I think they're probably abused for privacy invasion on a regular basis. But I tend to agree with you and I think the government is being alarmist here.
Similar claims were being made last year, with the government saying firefighting operations had to be curtailed because of multiple drones in the area. I remember pulling up Google Maps and doing a little armchair plotting. The fire in question had been in a remote area, something like 10 miles from any road. To be operating a drone nearby, someone would have had to hike most of that distance through unforgiving terrain, in the heat, in the middle of a goddamn wildfire, putting themselves (not to mention their drone) at great risk, then set up shop somewhere and loiter there in the middle of a goddamn wildfire flying their drone around. And not just one person, but probably multiple people, because multiple drones were being reported. Additionally, there were the usual claims that the drone operators are anonymous and can't be located. You're doing aerial firefighting with a whole fleet of fixed-wing and rotorcraft, and you're telling me nobody up there is equipped with FLIR to spot the drone pilot hunkered down in the woods? It's not like he's going anywhere in a hurry, he has to hike those 10 miles miles back out...
I don't buy it. Maybe this time it's really happening, since the fire is close in on inhabited areas. But last year they cried wolf about a scenario that seemed entirely implausible. I think the "threat" is being vastly overstated to sway the opinion of the public, and more importantly Congress, firmly against drones.
If you even search for Tor (or "Linux" or "secure desktop" or "IRC" or "Truecrypt") you get put on an NSA list.
No, the moral of the story is don't use your fingerprint as a password.