But the biggest evil has nothing to do with traffic shaping: If you can do Deep Packet Inspection, you can do Deep Packet Injection. Which means you can modify packets or add advertising packets to the stream. Which means that censors and advertisers will love it.
Five years from now, fighting these things will probably be have to be #1 on EFF's agenda. Sigh.
The headline sounded great until I read the body of the article. If three strikes meant "three times
being lame about your personal cyber-hygiene and getting infected by a spambot" then I'd be all for it. But alas, they got it wrong again.
This has got to be the sloppiest 419 I've ever read. Many things were unclear, such as
Whether Mr. DeWalt was alive or deceased;
Why his US$105 billion could not easily be transferred out of the country. Although you hint at "cross-border sophistication in tracking and arresting..." I would still prefer a more explicit explanation of the difficulty.
What you are offering as my percentage for assisting you with the transfer;
Where I should reply with my acceptance of your offer.
I also note the absence of a pleasant, disarming greeting at the top, and the phrase "May the blessings of God be with you" at the end. Those are pretty much mandatory.
Leaves you free to enjoy your gizmo without forcing you into a binding contract with a rapacious, monopolistic, shit-for-brains, spy-on-me-for-the-government-and-PMITA phone company.
I am shocked that there are as many people like yourself as there are people you chastise. Lets see, show him my driver's license (all of 30 seconds) and go on my way, or cause a big scene and go to jail. Seems like an easy choice to me.
Wow. Like a lot of other folks here, you're confusing common courtesy with subservience to the state. If some random person I meet on the sidewalk asks me for the time, I'll probably tell him because it's common courtesy. Heck, I might even show him my driver's license if he asked (although it would seem peculiar). If a random police officer I meet on the sidewalk asks me for the time, I'll gladly tell him that too (although again, it would seem a little peculiar). But if that same cop asks me for my driver's license (and I'm not driving), I'll refuse. Politely, but firmly. And if he arrests me for that, so be it. Why the difference? Because the cop is an agent of the state. He has a huge power advantage over me, at least in the immediate sense. The power he has could easily be abused in a free society where the people rule. As such, the burden on him to respect my rights is much greater than vice-versa.
Yes, it's a lot more expedient to just show him my DL. Free societies have turned into police states precisely because too many of their citizens preferred the expedient route. This freedom stuff is tough, folks. It requires work on everybody's part to keep it from slipping away.
I agree with you on one point. It seems like an easy choice to me too.
Thus, if the detention is not justified by reasonable articulable grounds of suspicion (the standard outlined in Terry), then the demand to identify cannot be charged as a crime. That remains the current state of the law.
So in this case, where they guy verbally identified himself but refused to provide his DL, are you saying that Terry wouldn't have even required him to verbally identify himself if he had chosen not to?
in the uk you'd have been charged with assault for that. excessive use of violence is not permitted even in a case of self-defence.
It's not permitted in the US easier. The amount of force one uses to defend oneself must be commensurate with the threat. If the shopper had taken out a gun and shot the security guard dead, he would almost certainly have been arrested, charged with murder, and probably convicted. But he did no such thing. He used a perfectly appropriate level of force to stop an assault, and he probably could have used more since the guard drew blood and he didn't. Just what about his response do you deem "excessive"?
I can say it sucks because that's precisely what I mean.
Spotlight is NOT optional. There are hackish ways to remove it, but none sanctioned by Apple. Spotlight took away a very effective file-finding capability, which works great for the 90& of cases where I just want to search on a file's NAME, and replaces it with an ungainly UI that requires 3 or 4 extra clicks just to do the same file name search, cannot be modified to do that behavior as the default, often doesn't show you files you know it should have found, and presents its results in a window that doesn't work like a Finder window (so you can't, for example, sort the results on their modification date). The underlying metadata mechanism that Spotlight uses is great, but whoever at Apple designed the Spotlight UI ruined it.
For the three people out there still running Mac OSX 10.3.9 like me, be aware this latest version of GE requires 10.4.
Unlike the previous version of GE which ran just fine in 10.3, this one complains as soon as you launch it. It would have been nice if Google had mentioned this on their web site before I bothered to download it. But as of now, their FAQ page still says "Minimum configuration... Mac OS X 10.3.9" which was true for version 4.0.
Why don't I upgrade to Tiger? Mostly laziness. Plus Spotlight sucks and I was hoping to just skip to Leopard, where maybe Apple will have come to their senses and fixed the damned Spotlight UI.
So is this the point where we starting hearing that blocking ads is just like running out of the store with a pair of blue jeans?
Yes. And very soon, watch for the RIAA to propose legislation that says they are owed a one-time fee of $10,000 for every baby born with a working pair of ears.
Frankly, that any white mouse is considered "sane" by the researchers is a very telling commentary about the mental state of those running the laboratory.
Precisely.
"In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioral research laboratories running round inside wheels and conducting frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man." --HHGG
I agree with most of the other posters here. Let me summarize why I won't be buying an iPhone:
Lock-in with a particular cell phone company. No ability to use another SIM card.
Typical feature crippling by that cell phone company.
The particular cell phone company in question is not even one of the kinder, gentler
cell phone companies that offers you vaseline before 'transacting business' with you.
Mandatory outrageous monthly subscription fee to complement the chewy goodness of the
outrageous up-front price.
All the storage capacity of a first generation iPod
Battery life that is almost certainly going to suck, but even on the off chance
that it doesn't, I'm happy to let somebody else spend $$$ and tell me about it first.
Version 1.0 of a complicated device. Bound to have major bugs.
I guess my dream of a better Nokia N800 just went out the window.
There's only one thing left to say to Apple: Welcome to the Social!
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Wow. Parent and GP are exactly right. I'm BLS certified, which basically means that compared to those ACLS guys, "I'm not worthy." But it also means I know they know what they're talking about.
For the tempo, think "Another One Bites the Dust" (and pardon my irony).
Good one. Easy to remember. I also like "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees. Same tempo (100). Less ironic. Slightly less likely to provoke wide-eyed stares when the victim's family hears you singing it under your breath while you're thumping on their dead father's chest.
and the fact that there's a 1:4 chance of destroying the multi-million-dollar magnet and boiling off thousands of gallons of very expensive liquid hydrogen
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But the biggest evil has nothing to do with traffic shaping: If you can do Deep Packet Inspection, you can do Deep Packet Injection. Which means you can modify packets or add advertising packets to the stream. Which means that censors and advertisers will love it.
Five years from now, fighting these things will probably be have to be #1 on EFF's agenda. Sigh.
The headline sounded great until I read the body of the article. If three strikes meant "three times being lame about your personal cyber-hygiene and getting infected by a spambot" then I'd be all for it. But alas, they got it wrong again.
At least. More specifically, 1959.
- Whether Mr. DeWalt was alive or deceased;
- Why his US$105 billion could not easily be transferred out of the country. Although you hint at "cross-border sophistication in tracking and arresting..." I would still prefer a more explicit explanation of the difficulty.
- What you are offering as my percentage for assisting you with the transfer;
- Where I should reply with my acceptance of your offer.
I also note the absence of a pleasant, disarming greeting at the top, and the phrase "May the blessings of God be with you" at the end. Those are pretty much mandatory.Please correct these mistakes and try again.
You forgot open source. Nokia at least got that part right. Apple still hasn't figured out that Ajax != an SDK.
Leaves you free to enjoy your gizmo without forcing you into a binding contract with a rapacious, monopolistic, shit-for-brains, spy-on-me-for-the-government-and-PMITA phone company.
I think we're at about minute 7 of the 15 that it's gonna take for somebody to remedy that little problem.
Don't be silly. Did you see a three-button mouse on the thing? Didn't think so.
Yes, it's a lot more expedient to just show him my DL. Free societies have turned into police states precisely because too many of their citizens preferred the expedient route. This freedom stuff is tough, folks. It requires work on everybody's part to keep it from slipping away.
I agree with you on one point. It seems like an easy choice to me too.
Spotlight is NOT optional. There are hackish ways to remove it, but none sanctioned by Apple. Spotlight took away a very effective file-finding capability, which works great for the 90& of cases where I just want to search on a file's NAME, and replaces it with an ungainly UI that requires 3 or 4 extra clicks just to do the same file name search, cannot be modified to do that behavior as the default, often doesn't show you files you know it should have found, and presents its results in a window that doesn't work like a Finder window (so you can't, for example, sort the results on their modification date). The underlying metadata mechanism that Spotlight uses is great, but whoever at Apple designed the Spotlight UI ruined it.
Why don't I upgrade to Tiger? Mostly laziness. Plus Spotlight sucks and I was hoping to just skip to Leopard, where maybe Apple will have come to their senses and fixed the damned Spotlight UI.
"In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioral research laboratories running round inside wheels and conducting frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man." --HHGG
Yes, well, polythene bugs me because it seems 'too short.' Both sides of the pond have played the shortening game.
"On his honor, and with an effusive flavor, he admitted that the correct spelling was 'color'."
- Lock-in with a particular cell phone company. No ability to use another SIM card.
- Typical feature crippling by that cell phone company.
- The particular cell phone company in question is not even one of the kinder, gentler
cell phone companies that offers you vaseline before 'transacting business' with you.
- Mandatory outrageous monthly subscription fee to complement the chewy goodness of the
outrageous up-front price.
- All the storage capacity of a first generation iPod
- Steve Jobs thinks AJAX is an SDK.
- Battery life that is almost certainly going to suck, but even on the off chance
that it doesn't, I'm happy to let somebody else spend $$$ and tell me about it first.
- Version 1.0 of a complicated device. Bound to have major bugs.
I guess my dream of a better Nokia N800 just went out the window. There's only one thing left to say to Apple: Welcome to the Social!Best. Slashdot. Comment. Ever.
"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."