Who holds the patents on USB chargers? This admiration of the totalitarian government of China is baffling.
If the device has a USB socket, they;ve already paid that.
Anyway, I can buy a USB charger here (Hong Kong) for about $2. So score one for totalitarian government. Enjoy your democratic right to be screwed by monopolistic capitalists.
USB charger. If that was the standard, then yes it would be better, assuming the user did not mind having to use a computer to charge...
In PC accessory shops here I can buy a plug that goes into a power point and provides a USB power socket. Cost about $2. No PC required. Google for "AC to USB Power Adapter".
Why then are demolition teams paid thousands of dollars if the only way buildings fall is straight down?
Because they have to make sure ALL the building falls "straight down". If only half does, you have an extremely dangerous and unstable structure to deal with.
Still, remember that the Gore stance is roughly (yeah, it's exaggerated, but roughly) in line with the science.
Is that the science that predicts half of Manhattan underwater?
No, you're thinking of the fatuous misrepresentations global warming "skeptics" make.
What would you do if you found arrest photographs of your child's teacher for being rip-roaringly drunk in college and peeing on a beach? What do you think the rest of the parents in your district would do to that teacher?
Nothing.
The current president had a long record of youthful excess, alcohol and possbly hard drugs. Didn't seem to handicap his later career or social life (maybe "Finding God" helped).
but that doesn't mean I don't hope they find a legitimate legal means to catch him and stop child pron.
How would "catching him" do anything to "stop child porn"? Even if he did everything he was accused of, that was downloading free porn, probably from newsgroups, torrents, whatever. No money paid to anyone, no incentive created for the producers -- who are the ones who should be pursued. The people who look at the images are not the problem. It's just they're easier to catch.
Are people who like to browse the gory images at Rotten.com criminals because they like to look at images of murder, torture, etc? Disturbing, maybe disgusting, but as long as it's virtual, why is it criminal, and why do you want to punish them, publicly humiliate them and basically make them a pariah for the rest of their lives?
I find it hard to believe that no encryption software out there has a self-destruct mechanism built in. Give them one passphrase and it decrypts. Give them another passphrase and it attempts to re-encrypt but with an unknown key, leaving NOBODY with access.
Not highly useful. The Feds will image the disc before they do anything else -- also necessary forensically anyway. Also, they could use their own decoder that does not implement the destruct. Might work if those seizing the hardware are dumb enough to play with it.
Anyway, the feds spent a year trying to decrypt the laptop in this story and got nowhere, so it seems pretty safe. Another shining testimony for PGP. (If you ignore what was supposedly being encrypted anyway.)
She microwaved ice cream six times that night while I watched, not once did it occur to her that ice cream would melt in a microwave.
Smirking while someone makes the same mistake over and over, ruining food, really demonstrates his intelligence -- that's presumably why Samzenpus shared this little anecdote. Of course, to most people it just shows what a complete asshole he is.
While China does a whole lot of things I disapprove of, at least they only do them to their own citizens.
If you count Tibetans as "their own citizens", which of course China does. Or how about supporting the Sudanese government with military equipment in its genocide in Darfur?
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/26.htm
I think enough people like this, standing upto to stupid managers and greedy corporations may eventually make a difference.
But I guess I am just another lazy idealist.
Perhaps I wasn't clear.
It may indeed be the "right", "ideal" thing to do. What is naive though is the poster wanting to have it both ways: to stand up for his principles, yet not suffer any penalty for doing so. And I find it hard to think anyone (would you?) would really make any sacrifices for this principle. Talk is cheap.
Funny. If he has morals, he should act on them and not ask a random collection of blowhards to advise him. Again, I remain unconvinced that any part of the story (including his "morality") is anything more than a fairy tale designed to build page hits for Slashdot.
No. I'm not American for a start. It's "human" morality. Though I despise many of the recent acts of the USA, this is one of the times they are doing the right thing.
To answer those toughies, you need a good lawyer. Not slashdot.
That's the answer in 90% of these dumb "Ask Slashdot" hypotheticals. Anyway, I'm sure the submitter just made the entire story up, trying to come up with something that would press the right buttons with the Slashdot editors; who in turn are looking for something that will excite 400+ posts of blather.
What kind of a fucking idiot would contemplate defying his company in this way? And what complete doofus would base a career-defining decision on what a bunch of bored geeky jokesters post on a forum? If the submitter is not really such an idiot, he just made the whole scenario up. In either case, wasted effort to take it seriously.
However, the Industry Standard notes that there's a fundamental flaw with such efforts: US law is not world law.
Bullshit. It's about "morality", "codes of conduct". Not "law". Obviously companies have to follow the laws of the land or suffer penalties. Similar laws exist to prevent American companies using bribery overseas regardless of the laws in the foreign country. If it's an American company doing business overseas, they have to work with two regimes. If they can't, too bad. Stay at home.
Everything is not just about the bottom line. If a company's actions can send a person to jail, if the only calculation they make is "Is it good for business?", well, they're assholes and they can deal with the bad karma and hopefully a massive PR disaster.
I hate these corporate apologists who say they have an "obligation to maximise profits regardless of morality". No, you don't. What you mean is you have a desire to get a bigger bonus. Obligations, even in business, go beyond that, if you're a human being.
Bullshit. Unless you are Slardyblardfast, you can only "test" your hypotheses using a computer mode
"Astronomers have discovered some 250 planetary systems..." Since new ones are being discovered and more details as techniques improved, theory can certainly be tested against real observations.
It costs them very little to hold a gun to your head and demand "Hand over the encryption keys."
No, gun-toting government goons are actually a quite expensive and limited resource.
If you're seen as such a threat that the government would do that, they are already capturing all your data. The issue is extending surveillance to EVERYONE, ALL THE TIME. If that can be done by leeching data from ISPs, they will do it. If they have to get some goon to threaten each person individually to decrypt the data, that limits the scope considerably. From millions to "mere" thousands of subjects.
The UK authorities are way ahead of you on that one. If you use encryption in the UK without giving your private key to the authorities, then you're already breaking the law.
However, it puts the brakes on. They can't just pipe everyone's data into the Mother of all Databases as they can now, when it's almost all cleartext. They'd have to at a minimum get some papers signed by an offical to demand the keys, for which they'd have to have some kind of excuse. Sure, if you're a "person of interest" you're screwed, but you are already.
Yep, I've used that, on audio from old TV captures, or digitising audio cassettes recorded from the radio 30 years ago. Get the latest beta 1.35 of Audacity, the noise removal "effect" is much better than 1.2. Good for getting rid of hiss and hum.
But if I was archiving "important" music I probably would invest in a commercial solution.
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If the device has a USB socket, they;ve already paid that. Anyway, I can buy a USB charger here (Hong Kong) for about $2. So score one for totalitarian government. Enjoy your democratic right to be screwed by monopolistic capitalists.
In PC accessory shops here I can buy a plug that goes into a power point and provides a USB power socket. Cost about $2. No PC required. Google for "AC to USB Power Adapter".
Because they have to make sure ALL the building falls "straight down". If only half does, you have an extremely dangerous and unstable structure to deal with.
Both are afected by gravity, which exerts a downward force.
Is that the science that predicts half of Manhattan underwater?
No, you're thinking of the fatuous misrepresentations global warming "skeptics" make.
Nothing.
The current president had a long record of youthful excess, alcohol and possbly hard drugs. Didn't seem to handicap his later career or social life (maybe "Finding God" helped).
My beard went white five years ago. Still dark on top though, and have most of my teeth.
How would "catching him" do anything to "stop child porn"? Even if he did everything he was accused of, that was downloading free porn, probably from newsgroups, torrents, whatever. No money paid to anyone, no incentive created for the producers -- who are the ones who should be pursued. The people who look at the images are not the problem. It's just they're easier to catch. Are people who like to browse the gory images at Rotten.com criminals because they like to look at images of murder, torture, etc? Disturbing, maybe disgusting, but as long as it's virtual, why is it criminal, and why do you want to punish them, publicly humiliate them and basically make them a pariah for the rest of their lives?
Not highly useful. The Feds will image the disc before they do anything else -- also necessary forensically anyway. Also, they could use their own decoder that does not implement the destruct. Might work if those seizing the hardware are dumb enough to play with it.
Anyway, the feds spent a year trying to decrypt the laptop in this story and got nowhere, so it seems pretty safe. Another shining testimony for PGP. (If you ignore what was supposedly being encrypted anyway.)
Since this story is ALMOST A YEAR OLD, I'll risk a wager on "never".
Smirking while someone makes the same mistake over and over, ruining food, really demonstrates his intelligence -- that's presumably why Samzenpus shared this little anecdote. Of course, to most people it just shows what a complete asshole he is.
If you count Tibetans as "their own citizens", which of course China does. Or how about supporting the Sudanese government with military equipment in its genocide in Darfur? http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/sudan1103/26.htm
Perhaps I wasn't clear.
It may indeed be the "right", "ideal" thing to do. What is naive though is the poster wanting to have it both ways: to stand up for his principles, yet not suffer any penalty for doing so. And I find it hard to think anyone (would you?) would really make any sacrifices for this principle. Talk is cheap.
Who advocated that? Not me, and I'm the "idiot" you were replying to. Attach your rant to posts they're relevant to, fuckhead.
Funny. If he has morals, he should act on them and not ask a random collection of blowhards to advise him. Again, I remain unconvinced that any part of the story (including his "morality") is anything more than a fairy tale designed to build page hits for Slashdot.
No. I'm not American for a start. It's "human" morality. Though I despise many of the recent acts of the USA, this is one of the times they are doing the right thing.
That's the answer in 90% of these dumb "Ask Slashdot" hypotheticals. Anyway, I'm sure the submitter just made the entire story up, trying to come up with something that would press the right buttons with the Slashdot editors; who in turn are looking for something that will excite 400+ posts of blather.
What kind of a fucking idiot would contemplate defying his company in this way? And what complete doofus would base a career-defining decision on what a bunch of bored geeky jokesters post on a forum? If the submitter is not really such an idiot, he just made the whole scenario up. In either case, wasted effort to take it seriously.
Bullshit. It's about "morality", "codes of conduct". Not "law". Obviously companies have to follow the laws of the land or suffer penalties. Similar laws exist to prevent American companies using bribery overseas regardless of the laws in the foreign country. If it's an American company doing business overseas, they have to work with two regimes. If they can't, too bad. Stay at home.
Everything is not just about the bottom line. If a company's actions can send a person to jail, if the only calculation they make is "Is it good for business?", well, they're assholes and they can deal with the bad karma and hopefully a massive PR disaster.
I hate these corporate apologists who say they have an "obligation to maximise profits regardless of morality". No, you don't. What you mean is you have a desire to get a bigger bonus. Obligations, even in business, go beyond that, if you're a human being.
mass grave: a grave containing many human corpses, either as the result of natural disaster or war.
This is just a graveyard, 200 bodies, buried INDIVIDUALLY at DIFFERENT TIMES.
I don't, I see my local time (which is neither US nor GMT). Check your account preferences..
"Astronomers have discovered some 250 planetary systems..." Since new ones are being discovered and more details as techniques improved, theory can certainly be tested against real observations.
No, gun-toting government goons are actually a quite expensive and limited resource.
If you're seen as such a threat that the government would do that, they are already capturing all your data. The issue is extending surveillance to EVERYONE, ALL THE TIME. If that can be done by leeching data from ISPs, they will do it. If they have to get some goon to threaten each person individually to decrypt the data, that limits the scope considerably. From millions to "mere" thousands of subjects.
However, it puts the brakes on. They can't just pipe everyone's data into the Mother of all Databases as they can now, when it's almost all cleartext. They'd have to at a minimum get some papers signed by an offical to demand the keys, for which they'd have to have some kind of excuse. Sure, if you're a "person of interest" you're screwed, but you are already.
Yep, I've used that, on audio from old TV captures, or digitising audio cassettes recorded from the radio 30 years ago. Get the latest beta 1.35 of Audacity, the noise removal "effect" is much better than 1.2. Good for getting rid of hiss and hum.
But if I was archiving "important" music I probably would invest in a commercial solution.
Sure. Most players in the 50s, 60s and probably 70s could. My father still has a lot of 78s, he likes old jazz.