OK, let's take control away from ISPs by using our smartphones to route around them. That's great but I think maybe you forgot how smartphones are connected to each other?
...just because you plaster something in a license doesn't make it automatically law.
That's not what has happened here.
A license to use updated software has been offered in exchange for agreeing to restrictions on how (where) that software can be used. Those kinds of terms are perfectly legal. Nobody is forced to upgrade to the new software; you can keep using what you already have in your datacenters.
If you think it is despicable, don't get the new software. Next time use another vendor that has terms you like.
What the fuck are they looking for? "My plan to blow up the Whitehouse.doc" sitting on the desktop?
Terrorists may be just as inept at PC security ops as your average office worker, or even your average person who works at the DOD. (I think you know how that goes.) But also, perhaps cookies that can provide information needed to subsequently retrieve Google Maps history. Or FB identities. Or maybe just some downloaded material or email with something "interesting" on it that can be analyzed later, or used on the spot to indicate probable cause.
I'm not saying I like it, just answering your question. You realize that the UK and Canada do this also. Not sure about most other countries offhand, but probably most of them do it when they feel like it.
This is really interesting. Could someone in-the-know provide a rough calculation... how many nukes do we need to blow up earth into tiny fragments? And how do they need to be positioned?
I'm asking for a friend.
Would your friend happen to be a short, stocky, boastful guy with a few loose screws and a very bad haircut?
Don't talk about the Emperor like that or you will never get to be his Young Apprentice!
The Watergate story [...]/quote>
When I was in high school in the years right after Watergate, there were elective subjects (semester classes) that were relevant to understanding the world and the news. There was an introduction to Logic (English department), in which we examined fallacies. The personal term project I came up with was an analysis of radio commercial advertisements. There was of course Current Events (Social Studies). (And the History classes focused on analyzing politics, perceptions, personalities and public manipulation, rather than just dates and facts.) And there was a multi-year series of Journalism classes in which we also produced the school newspaper. In those days, the emphasis was on understanding the difference between objective reporting versus agenda-based storytelling, and ethics. There were other relevant classes in the English department about analyzing what you were reading, but I can't remember the details.I also remember we read and studied books including "1984", "Brave New World", and "The Gulag Archipelago".
Since that time, things have changed a lot in grades 9-12.
Based on most of the comments here, I would imagine that the Bitcoins were used to fund the technology that keeps Julian Assange's head alive in a jar in a South American embassy.
But hey, if you don't think people can learn about something, you must rank people without your knowledge pretty lowly. Perhaps you're doing them a favor by not interacting. Just don't ask yourself how people gained the knowledge to get into your field, because "any attempt to make them understand will ultimately fail"
Well, I like how you have personalized your statements to me and made a lot of assumptions. The funny thing is, I've been a teacher and mentor in not just the computer field, but also some other quite different areas, for about a half a century. I certainly do not think that most people cannot learn. I spend a great deal of time every week teaching people things, with great success, and it is very rewarding.
I am highly contrasting that with people who are "asking" questions but don't want answers, who come with an agenda. The come with a world view that anything they don't already understand (which is usually vast) is stupid, unimportant, and beneath them. When these people ask about something that seems simple to them in their abject ignorance, they are usually looking for a confirmation that it is as simple as they imagine (and that the person they are asking is a simpleton). If they have a practical motive beyond their psychological needs, it is how to unfairly exploit the person they are asking.
After you've been around long enough, you'll start to recognize these kinds of people.
Most people believe that if something is easy to use (such as programs on their large and small and ubiquitous devices), then it must have been simple to make it so. They do not have any comprehension about how it could be otherwise, and any attempt to make them understand will ultimately fail.
My recommendation is to give up, and let them think whatever nonsense they're going to think. You can't win.
Which is a lot more than you can say for the tactics of the existing taxi companies. The stats are for reduce cases of drunk driving after Uber arrives in a city are fairly significant.
A: Is this the test now?
Q: You look up and you see a programmable relative cursor on a Cartesian plane...
A: What's that?
Q: Know what a LOGO turtle is?
A: I've never seen a turtle -- But I understand what you mean.
Q: Same thing.
A: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden, or do they write them down for you?
Q: You're watching some source code scroll by. Suddenly you realize there's a bug...
A: I'd kill it.
Q: You're surfing a StackOverflow and you come across a flaming fullpage answer utilizing Common Lisp.
A: Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a multi-paradigm programming language aficionado?
Q: Just answer the questions, please -- You show it to your manager. He likes it so much he hangs it on your cubicle wall.
A: I wouldn't let him.
Q: Why not?
A: Python should be enough for him.
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OK, let's take control away from ISPs by using our smartphones to route around them. That's great but I think maybe you forgot how smartphones are connected to each other?
...just because you plaster something in a license doesn't make it automatically law.
That's not what has happened here.
A license to use updated software has been offered in exchange for agreeing to restrictions on how (where) that software can be used. Those kinds of terms are perfectly legal. Nobody is forced to upgrade to the new software; you can keep using what you already have in your datacenters.
If you think it is despicable, don't get the new software. Next time use another vendor that has terms you like.
No you see lacking an FCC ruling we have to use FTC guidance [...]
I can assure you it's not going to go the way you think it should.
The last time I heard someone say that, it went exactly the way I thought it would. And you're not the last Jedi!
What the fuck are they looking for? "My plan to blow up the Whitehouse.doc" sitting on the desktop?
Terrorists may be just as inept at PC security ops as your average office worker, or even your average person who works at the DOD. (I think you know how that goes.) But also, perhaps cookies that can provide information needed to subsequently retrieve Google Maps history. Or FB identities. Or maybe just some downloaded material or email with something "interesting" on it that can be analyzed later, or used on the spot to indicate probable cause.
I'm not saying I like it, just answering your question. You realize that the UK and Canada do this also. Not sure about most other countries offhand, but probably most of them do it when they feel like it.
This is really interesting. Could someone in-the-know provide a rough calculation ... how many nukes do we need to blow up earth into tiny fragments? And how do they need to be positioned?
I'm asking for a friend.
Would your friend happen to be a short, stocky, boastful guy with a few loose screws and a very bad haircut?
Don't talk about the Emperor like that or you will never get to be his Young Apprentice!
It is not secure. It is not quick. It is not cheaper. It is terrifying how wrong you can be in such a short paragraph.
And I am not the last Jedi!
Because holy shit you can't find it anywhere...
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The Watergate story [...]/quote> When I was in high school in the years right after Watergate, there were elective subjects (semester classes) that were relevant to understanding the world and the news. There was an introduction to Logic (English department), in which we examined fallacies. The personal term project I came up with was an analysis of radio commercial advertisements. There was of course Current Events (Social Studies). (And the History classes focused on analyzing politics, perceptions, personalities and public manipulation, rather than just dates and facts.) And there was a multi-year series of Journalism classes in which we also produced the school newspaper. In those days, the emphasis was on understanding the difference between objective reporting versus agenda-based storytelling, and ethics. There were other relevant classes in the English department about analyzing what you were reading, but I can't remember the details.I also remember we read and studied books including "1984", "Brave New World", and "The Gulag Archipelago".
Since that time, things have changed a lot in grades 9-12.
But you're draining it wrong...
Based on most of the comments here, I would imagine that the Bitcoins were used to fund the technology that keeps Julian Assange's head alive in a jar in a South American embassy.
Holy Crap! I am going to blockchain my 3D printed autonomous crypto drones with AI in the agile cloud! It will be bigger than web scale!
Bitcoin's Value Plummeted Overnight and No One Knows Why
ROFL! Why??? Same reason it went up in the first place!
(That is, no reason.)
"Since the internet is an interconnected mess of wires,
So now I'm confused. Did the dump truck overturn, or is a tube clogged up?
Doesn't that just sum up the world in general?
Of course all Star Trek's feature "This must be done in the next 6 minutes or we're all dead! But I canna change the laws of physics!!" meme...
But hey, if you don't think people can learn about something, you must rank people without your knowledge pretty lowly. Perhaps you're doing them a favor by not interacting. Just don't ask yourself how people gained the knowledge to get into your field, because "any attempt to make them understand will ultimately fail"
Well, I like how you have personalized your statements to me and made a lot of assumptions. The funny thing is, I've been a teacher and mentor in not just the computer field, but also some other quite different areas, for about a half a century. I certainly do not think that most people cannot learn. I spend a great deal of time every week teaching people things, with great success, and it is very rewarding.
I am highly contrasting that with people who are "asking" questions but don't want answers, who come with an agenda. The come with a world view that anything they don't already understand (which is usually vast) is stupid, unimportant, and beneath them. When these people ask about something that seems simple to them in their abject ignorance, they are usually looking for a confirmation that it is as simple as they imagine (and that the person they are asking is a simpleton). If they have a practical motive beyond their psychological needs, it is how to unfairly exploit the person they are asking.
After you've been around long enough, you'll start to recognize these kinds of people.
Most people believe that if something is easy to use (such as programs on their large and small and ubiquitous devices), then it must have been simple to make it so. They do not have any comprehension about how it could be otherwise, and any attempt to make them understand will ultimately fail. My recommendation is to give up, and let them think whatever nonsense they're going to think. You can't win.
Which is a lot more than you can say for the tactics of the existing taxi companies. The stats are for reduce cases of drunk driving after Uber arrives in a city are fairly significant.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/2...
A: Is this the test now?
Q: You look up and you see a programmable relative cursor on a Cartesian plane...
A: What's that?
Q: Know what a LOGO turtle is?
A: I've never seen a turtle -- But I understand what you mean.
Q: Same thing.
A: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden, or do they write them down for you?
Q: You're watching some source code scroll by. Suddenly you realize there's a bug...
A: I'd kill it.
Q: You're surfing a StackOverflow and you come across a flaming fullpage answer utilizing Common Lisp.
A: Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a multi-paradigm programming language aficionado?
Q: Just answer the questions, please -- You show it to your manager. He likes it so much he hangs it on your cubicle wall.
A: I wouldn't let him.
Q: Why not?
A: Python should be enough for him.
Because BOT.NET was already taken!
Think of it as evolution in action...
Make Acronyms Generic Again
The US Is Testing a Microwave Weapon To Stop North Korea's Missiles
Has it been testing it in Cuba?
Did your RTFA? Did you see his photograph? Caption: "I'm an engineer, not a doctor, damnit!" http://image.oregonlive.com/ho...