It's called private property dickhead. They ban you and put your picture up on the wall saying "Don't serve this guy". Whenever you come on their property they ask you to leave. If you refuse, you are trespassing, and yes, they will call the police - unless you're in Texas, where they'll just shoot you in the head.
As for how "unfair" this is.. blah, its their property.. they can ban you for whatever reason they like.
Excuse me, but I was talking to syousef (465911), not you. Although your opinion is interesting and well thought out, you're simply not capable of answering the question which I directed to him. If you meant to reply to him instead of me, please excuse this post, otherwise please butt out of our conversation, it's very rude to attempt to answer for him as his opinions obviously differ from yours significantly.
I, personally, am of the opinion that employers should be free to hire and fire people for whatever reasons they like.. assuming of course they are owners of the business.. if they are just agents of the company then clearly it is up to the owners to decide the policy, but that's where the buck stops.
You go to a lot of trouble to explain what employers should and shouldn't be able to fire someone for doing, and then you go and call people who exercise these rights "morons". WTF?
Gapping malfunction of the credit history system (which is evil in the first god damn place) makes stupid term seem slightly less stupid to people with poor understanding of legal terms. Popular usage makes stupid term seem common place. You call me a dumbass for questioning all this.
Seriously, no, you wouldn't. If I burnt your car to the ground with gasoline you could claim I destroyed your property. You could claim I was a vandal. You could put in an insurance claim for "fire". But you couldn't claim I "stole" it. In *any* case, your identity is not your credit rating - at least I fuckin' hope the world hasn't become that consumerist just yet.
For those of us who don't live in your brain dead country, any chance you could explain what an SSN is, and what it is good for? If it is such an important magical number that you need to keep secret at all times but are required to give over to people who you don't trust maybe, just maybe, it is a stupid idea and not the fault of the health insurance companies or schools you have attended if it gets misused. That said, in my brain dead country you can get someone's electricity turned off if you know their name, address and date of birth.
That's the kind of retarded thinking that should be kept out of law. If someone takes a shit on your windshield you don't claim your car has been "stolen" because you have to clean it up before you can drive it again. Fuckin' morons.
Apart from "intellectual property", "identity theft" has to be the stupidest term ever. They don't steal your identity.. they "copy" it. Real identity theft would be taking over someone's identity (probably with some lame face exchange technology) so that the rightful owner can no longer utilize it. And what's most annoying is that there is already a legal term for the activities that "identity theft" is typically used to refer to.. fraud. So what the hell is wrong with "identity fraud"? Not sexy enough?
Wow. Someone who still believes in the Singularity. Awesome. I'd suggest you go read the Commonwealth series of books by Peter F. Hamilton, but they're probably a bit heavy for you. Suffice to say, the nature of super-intelligences is that they are only dangerous if you let them get out of control.. and it takes an abundance of investment to get a proto-intelligence to the stage where it can improve itself at any significant rate, and by then you'll have so many possible applications of the technology that there simply won't be the economic need to develop it to a threatening level.
Ummm.. if you can get it then how is it private information? Assuming, of course, that you are a member of the public and haven't broken any laws to obtain the information. That would seem to be the definition of public knowledge.
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Yeah, turn on your tv and get out your stopwatch.. hint: the time between shows is not regulated. In any case, the reason why they are playing the same ad twice in a single ad break has nothing to do with advertising strategy, it has to do with the ever reducing number of advertisers. There is simply too many channels with too small a chunk of the audience to warrant the prices demanded for television advertising.
Yeah, ya know they actually profile the time people spend at the site when they clickthru and correlate that with advertisers? Ya know that there are penalties for advertisers who click on ads on their own site to fraud revenue? Point being, you're probably doing more harm than good.
One should mention that most of you are talking about american television, which is almost 50% ads and boring ads at that. Other parts of the world have much more interesting television (and ads).
At least with an analog tv if you have a crappy antenna you get some snow or other interference and the program is still watchable. With Digital TV you get big pixel blocks and sound cut-out that makes the program completely unbearable to watch. That's progress for ya.
1. You think something that isn't remarkable is newsworthy. 2. There are few if any news stories about it. 3. Therefore it doesn't happen.
You're an idiot.
I can give you real world examples, but as they are in the form "my mate who is a security sysadmin tells me..." I honestly think you'll appreciate them more if you go talk to your mates who are security sysadmins.
A rock falling from the sky and hitting a planet is a rock falling from the sky and hitting a planet. People don't care about the NEA threat because they're sure it won't happen in their lifetime. Something like this is a wakeup call.
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It's called private property dickhead. They ban you and put your picture up on the wall saying "Don't serve this guy". Whenever you come on their property they ask you to leave. If you refuse, you are trespassing, and yes, they will call the police - unless you're in Texas, where they'll just shoot you in the head.
As for how "unfair" this is.. blah, its their property.. they can ban you for whatever reason they like.
Can't wait for this.. I can finally hack my way past border security, like in 24.
Yes, but the people from the MIT media lab are not the ones to do that... and yet they're the only ones stepping up to the plate.
'nuff said.
Excuse me, but I was talking to syousef (465911), not you. Although your opinion is interesting and well thought out, you're simply not capable of answering the question which I directed to him. If you meant to reply to him instead of me, please excuse this post, otherwise please butt out of our conversation, it's very rude to attempt to answer for him as his opinions obviously differ from yours significantly.
I, personally, am of the opinion that employers should be free to hire and fire people for whatever reasons they like.. assuming of course they are owners of the business.. if they are just agents of the company then clearly it is up to the owners to decide the policy, but that's where the buck stops.
You go to a lot of trouble to explain what employers should and shouldn't be able to fire someone for doing, and then you go and call people who exercise these rights "morons". WTF?
Gapping malfunction of the credit history system (which is evil in the first god damn place) makes stupid term seem slightly less stupid to people with poor understanding of legal terms. Popular usage makes stupid term seem common place. You call me a dumbass for questioning all this.
Seriously, no, you wouldn't. If I burnt your car to the ground with gasoline you could claim I destroyed your property. You could claim I was a vandal. You could put in an insurance claim for "fire". But you couldn't claim I "stole" it. In *any* case, your identity is not your credit rating - at least I fuckin' hope the world hasn't become that consumerist just yet.
For those of us who don't live in your brain dead country, any chance you could explain what an SSN is, and what it is good for? If it is such an important magical number that you need to keep secret at all times but are required to give over to people who you don't trust maybe, just maybe, it is a stupid idea and not the fault of the health insurance companies or schools you have attended if it gets misused. That said, in my brain dead country you can get someone's electricity turned off if you know their name, address and date of birth.
That's the kind of retarded thinking that should be kept out of law. If someone takes a shit on your windshield you don't claim your car has been "stolen" because you have to clean it up before you can drive it again. Fuckin' morons.
Apart from "intellectual property", "identity theft" has to be the stupidest term ever. They don't steal your identity.. they "copy" it. Real identity theft would be taking over someone's identity (probably with some lame face exchange technology) so that the rightful owner can no longer utilize it. And what's most annoying is that there is already a legal term for the activities that "identity theft" is typically used to refer to.. fraud. So what the hell is wrong with "identity fraud"? Not sexy enough?
Wow. Someone who still believes in the Singularity. Awesome. I'd suggest you go read the Commonwealth series of books by Peter F. Hamilton, but they're probably a bit heavy for you. Suffice to say, the nature of super-intelligences is that they are only dangerous if you let them get out of control.. and it takes an abundance of investment to get a proto-intelligence to the stage where it can improve itself at any significant rate, and by then you'll have so many possible applications of the technology that there simply won't be the economic need to develop it to a threatening level.
Ummm.. if you can get it then how is it private information? Assuming, of course, that you are a member of the public and haven't broken any laws to obtain the information. That would seem to be the definition of public knowledge.
Have a look at your google analytics cookies. They include how long you spend on a page, thanks to javascript. Next time you go to any page that has google analytics on it you send up those cookies.
Yeah, turn on your tv and get out your stopwatch.. hint: the time between shows is not regulated. In any case, the reason why they are playing the same ad twice in a single ad break has nothing to do with advertising strategy, it has to do with the ever reducing number of advertisers. There is simply too many channels with too small a chunk of the audience to warrant the prices demanded for television advertising.
Yeah, ya know they actually profile the time people spend at the site when they clickthru and correlate that with advertisers? Ya know that there are penalties for advertisers who click on ads on their own site to fraud revenue? Point being, you're probably doing more harm than good.
One should mention that most of you are talking about american television, which is almost 50% ads and boring ads at that. Other parts of the world have much more interesting television (and ads).
Asimov, although a legend in his own time, probably shouldn't be your primary source of scientific knowledge now, or in the future.
Or, ya know, the demand for hand delivered mail has gone down.
At least with an analog tv if you have a crappy antenna you get some snow or other interference and the program is still watchable. With Digital TV you get big pixel blocks and sound cut-out that makes the program completely unbearable to watch. That's progress for ya.
So just so I have your logic straight:
1. You think something that isn't remarkable is newsworthy.
2. There are few if any news stories about it.
3. Therefore it doesn't happen.
You're an idiot.
I can give you real world examples, but as they are in the form "my mate who is a security sysadmin tells me..." I honestly think you'll appreciate them more if you go talk to your mates who are security sysadmins.
Are you stupid or what? The distro just sends out another package.
Dude, it happens every day. That's why it isn't news. As I said, go talk to a security sysadmin or two.
A rock falling from the sky and hitting a planet is a rock falling from the sky and hitting a planet. People don't care about the NEA threat because they're sure it won't happen in their lifetime. Something like this is a wakeup call.