I'd rather send it to the dustbin of history than keep it. But I don't think for one minute that they won't fight tooth-and-nail to prevent that. A government that gives up any power once it has it is very rare indeed.
A quarrel had arisen between the Horse and the Stag, so the Horse came to a Hunter to ask his help to take revenge on the Stag. The Hunter agreed, but said: "If you desire to conquer the Stag, you must permit me to place this piece of iron between your jaws, so that I may guide you with these reins, and allow this saddle to be placed upon your back so that I may keep steady upon you as we follow after the enemy." The Horse agreed to the conditions, and the Hunter soon saddled and bridled him. Then with the aid of the Hunter the Horse soon overcame the Stag, and said to the Hunter: "Now, get off, and remove those things from my mouth and back."
"Not so fast, friend," said the Hunter. "I have now got you under bit and spur, and prefer to keep you as you are at present."
If the clarity of terms of service is a yardstick for measuring the legality of the terms, then I can't help but wonder what percentage of ToS and EULAs are completely invalid by the same token.
This is about reusing existing infrastructure, not about a practical way to create something where there was nothing at all. Besides, how can you go wrong with a bit of extra space and security surrounding your equipment?
It's important to get their minds going on this stuff young. But not so young that they let the computer do all the work and miss the opportunity to actually learn things themselves. A group of my friends and myself taught ourselves and each other BASIC back when I was in 7th grade (well, 8th grade for most of them, as they were older than me by a year). If we'd had access to something like Python, we almost definitely would have automated our math homework out of existence, especially when the teachers' only threats about "showing our work" was that if we got the answer wrong, they could give us partial credit.
It's not a pretty idea. But even more frightening is what history tells us about the end-result of governments that believe in their own unlimited powers.
That's very egalitarian of you, but it's not arbitrary. Simply subjective.
I've always rejected the notion that all moral judgements can be made based on objective grounds specifically because there is no objective way to weigh morality. Sure, you can try the Utilitarian method of doing the most good for the most people, but then you're still working in the people angle, which by the standard you present, is highly subjective. I'm certainly not going to give ants, cockroaches, and bedbugs equal standing to humans in my moral judgment. I'm not even going to give cows, chickens, sheep, and elk equal standing to humans. Unlike some people, I've got a horse in this race and I'm rooting for the humans.
except for the lack of other scripting languages' acceptance in the Windows world. My preference for most things is python, though I use some ruby (for Puppet) and perl here and there. Works great on the Linux boxes, but I hate to widely deploy Python or Perl just to run a couple scripts on the Windows boxes, and I end up settling on Ruby since it came with Puppet.
I had basically forgotten about the Android photo gallery. Worthless piece of garbage to the point where I don't even think about it, since I just treat the phone as if it doesn't have one. I installed a comics reader, but no general photo gallery app.
Detection of copyrighted material is also problematic in that it is not always readily apparent whether a particular entity has the legal right to distribute certain works and what does or does not constitute fair use and/or legal distribution. The works themselves are not illegal.
I already take such measures. I was offering a hypothetical as to why this is a problem for less technical users than us who might still be smart enough to never pay Facebook for anything.
Well, I don't know why a person would do so. I certainly wouldn't. But I wouldn't it past Facebook to try to scrape the information from other tabs you might have open.
I disagree. I know exactly what they do, and never claimed they were redundant to each other. If I were making that claim, I would suggest a merge rather than elimination. There are a lot of federal law enforcement agencies that should not exist, along with a lot of federal laws that should not exist at the federal level.
It's not that people care specifically about the NSA, but they are definitely more aware of how vulnerable in general their information is. Not by much, but a little bit.
Which unfortunately does not change the law enforcement loopholes, but may actually indicate a warrant requirement. That end of the law is one I haven't had to address in my time in healthcare (2005-present).
Actually, even moreso, I'd love to see the DEA, ATF, and several other redundant and questionable federal law enforcement agencies disbanded, but that seems much less likely.
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I'd rather send it to the dustbin of history than keep it. But I don't think for one minute that they won't fight tooth-and-nail to prevent that. A government that gives up any power once it has it is very rare indeed.
Which is different from ToS and EULAs how?
If the clarity of terms of service is a yardstick for measuring the legality of the terms, then I can't help but wonder what percentage of ToS and EULAs are completely invalid by the same token.
This is about reusing existing infrastructure, not about a practical way to create something where there was nothing at all. Besides, how can you go wrong with a bit of extra space and security surrounding your equipment?
well, ok. Once we got access to graphing calculators, we did that anyway. And we still did it to an extent with BASIC.
It's important to get their minds going on this stuff young. But not so young that they let the computer do all the work and miss the opportunity to actually learn things themselves. A group of my friends and myself taught ourselves and each other BASIC back when I was in 7th grade (well, 8th grade for most of them, as they were older than me by a year). If we'd had access to something like Python, we almost definitely would have automated our math homework out of existence, especially when the teachers' only threats about "showing our work" was that if we got the answer wrong, they could give us partial credit.
It's not a pretty idea. But even more frightening is what history tells us about the end-result of governments that believe in their own unlimited powers.
Integrating everything one way that powers on high say it should be done isn't why I run Linux.
Fie upon you for beating me to that!
You bet your sweet ass I would.
That's very egalitarian of you, but it's not arbitrary. Simply subjective.
I've always rejected the notion that all moral judgements can be made based on objective grounds specifically because there is no objective way to weigh morality. Sure, you can try the Utilitarian method of doing the most good for the most people, but then you're still working in the people angle, which by the standard you present, is highly subjective. I'm certainly not going to give ants, cockroaches, and bedbugs equal standing to humans in my moral judgment. I'm not even going to give cows, chickens, sheep, and elk equal standing to humans. Unlike some people, I've got a horse in this race and I'm rooting for the humans.
except for the lack of other scripting languages' acceptance in the Windows world. My preference for most things is python, though I use some ruby (for Puppet) and perl here and there. Works great on the Linux boxes, but I hate to widely deploy Python or Perl just to run a couple scripts on the Windows boxes, and I end up settling on Ruby since it came with Puppet.
I had basically forgotten about the Android photo gallery. Worthless piece of garbage to the point where I don't even think about it, since I just treat the phone as if it doesn't have one. I installed a comics reader, but no general photo gallery app.
Yes, primarily because Woz has a lot of respect and support in the public square.
They'd have a hard time arresting the man for claims of nonspecific security breaches ocurring prior to the passage of the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984.
Detection of copyrighted material is also problematic in that it is not always readily apparent whether a particular entity has the legal right to distribute certain works and what does or does not constitute fair use and/or legal distribution. The works themselves are not illegal.
I'm not sure the General understands the meaning of the word "need".
I hate email almost as much as I hate facebook.
I already take such measures. I was offering a hypothetical as to why this is a problem for less technical users than us who might still be smart enough to never pay Facebook for anything.
Well, I don't know why a person would do so. I certainly wouldn't. But I wouldn't it past Facebook to try to scrape the information from other tabs you might have open.
I disagree. I know exactly what they do, and never claimed they were redundant to each other. If I were making that claim, I would suggest a merge rather than elimination. There are a lot of federal law enforcement agencies that should not exist, along with a lot of federal laws that should not exist at the federal level.
That was probably more true pre-Snowden.
It's not that people care specifically about the NSA, but they are definitely more aware of how vulnerable in general their information is. Not by much, but a little bit.
Which unfortunately does not change the law enforcement loopholes, but may actually indicate a warrant requirement. That end of the law is one I haven't had to address in my time in healthcare (2005-present).
Agreed.
Actually, even moreso, I'd love to see the DEA, ATF, and several other redundant and questionable federal law enforcement agencies disbanded, but that seems much less likely.
I really only think about it when I read a daily article about how much worse it got today and when I check in to see if anyone's up to anything.