>> Yes, Obama has failed to stop it. But he didn't initiate it.
We voted for this guy to roll back the surveillance state, get out of the torture business, and retract our forces from Iraq. He had one job - roll back what someone else initiated - and he utterly failed.
>> I suspect a lot of people welcome this crap with open arms
How'd those past couple of mid-term elections go for the current pro-surveillance party (D)?
I find it interesting that we're getting great investigative journalism out of places like The Wall Street Journal - reread the name if you don't see the irony - rather than the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. What ELSE do you guys know about that you haven't revealed yet?
>> they would bear the brunt of whatever legislation is passed....there are 47 different state-based security breach notification laws
In other words, they want a single Federal law to replace all the state laws, which would do two things: 1) allow them to concentrate their efforts on watering down the federal law 2) take the ability for people to collect damages against it out of state courts and 3) reduce their notification costs because they would only do the bare minimum required by the federal law (e.g., filing it in a basement drawer marked with "beware the leopard"). I see no "brunt" here. (IANAL)
Most of Facebook is moms reposting the same jokes and images over and over again. I actually think I see where Zuckerburg might going with this: since media companies are getting smarter about packing their mass-market content as "clips" (e.g., Jimmy Fallon's bits), they're getting easier for mere mortals to post. However, I don't think any significant portion of videos will actually get posted to Facebook - instead it'll all still be hosted on YouTube, media sites (e.g., NBC) or somewhere else.
Quick tell the OP this usually applies to skydiving too. (Check your policy - it might be explictly listed, or just covered under a general "if you die while engaging in a risk sport you're SOL" clause.)
>> just because something gets released under a FLOSS license doesn't say anything about the policy of the original developers regarding outside contributions...except for the fact that anyone could fork it as "neinjumpobama" or whatever and contribute to their fork any way they see fit.
While I see your point about explaining the original developers intentions toward outside contributions, the way the poster explained things makes it sound like anyone can contribute features to ANYTHING on GitHub (when in fact many contributions are slapped down because the original developers aren't really open to such things).
>> anyone who has your 16-digit card number can make purchases on your account
Wasn't CCV (the extra 3-digit number on the card) supposed to fix that? (https://www.dcporder.com/ccv.htm) Oh wait...intermediates started storing THAT too.
>> Maybe Plan B or Plan C should have arranged for these people to make their way BY FOOT and ACROSS COUNTRY
If nuclear fallout is part of the picture, you may not want people exposed and crossing terrain on their own.
>> What has changed? Has the human foot quit working?
We tend to care a lot more for the sick, elderly and young these days. Whereas a mobile tribe of hunter/gatherers may have abandoned the weak as they ran to safer ground, we don't.
I've seen even worse coverage of this. A local TV station bubblehead read the text of the Virgin accident story against the video of the Antares rocket exploding. (No footage of the Virgin crash, no tie-in between Antares and Virgin explained, just "private space death" story audio over the biggest explosion they could find.)
>> in general, Democrat scandals have tended to involve sex and drugs, and hurt a few people (along with the status of a high political office). Meanwhile, in general, Republican scandals have tended to involve money and power, and hurt thousands or even millions of people
If you grew up in Illinois, you'd probably see the world the other way around.:)
>> work of science fiction called "The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From the Future," that takes the point of view of a historian in 2393 explaining how "the Great Collapse of 2093" occurred
As a guy who's read scifi for 30 years, this sounds as boring as fuck. Hundreds of writers have written civ collapses into the backdrop of their story and many of these have been manmade ecological disasters. But then the good writers write a story, populating the post-event world with people whose lives and relationships riff off the tragedy of the fall and the sense of current loss.
As worded, this sounds more like the background notes for a role-playing game set in the future, after an ecological collapse....zzzzzZZZZZ.
>> I'd happily pay a higher monthly fee not to have the ads
You must be new to the planet. Remember when the promise of cable TV was "you pay for it, so it's ad-free!" Once YouTube has a critical population writing monthly checks for content, they'll surely add the ads back in.
The reason so much VC money flows into social media is that you're far less likely to stop using anything if all your friends are using it: if you stop using the site you could be left out of real-life social interactions.
there were two stories on ello last week, one this week...
I think it's news because most of us have abandoned Facebook, but aren't living socially on Google+, so there's VC money being tossed around like popcorn to try to create the next safe haven where early tech adopters like us will congregate. (And yet, somehow, we're still here on Slashdot...despite BH.)
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." - Rahm Emanuel
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>> I'm not hearing Republicans saying this should stop.
Meet Rand Paul (R): http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rand+paul...
Also, here's a 2013 poll demonstrating most of the support for wiretapping is now in the Democratic party:
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/c...
Long story short, if you're not hearing people say it should stop, it's time to open your ears.
>> Yes, Obama has failed to stop it. But he didn't initiate it.
We voted for this guy to roll back the surveillance state, get out of the torture business, and retract our forces from Iraq. He had one job - roll back what someone else initiated - and he utterly failed.
>> I suspect a lot of people welcome this crap with open arms
How'd those past couple of mid-term elections go for the current pro-surveillance party (D)?
I find it interesting that we're getting great investigative journalism out of places like The Wall Street Journal - reread the name if you don't see the irony - rather than the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. What ELSE do you guys know about that you haven't revealed yet?
>> ad-free subscription music service
Heh. For now. (See cable TV.)
Dunno. I'm an adult, and I pay for my own Internet access, so I can swear without my parent's naughty word filter catching it. How 'bout you?
>> gridlock...nation's retailers
Er...lobbiest fails to do job, so panic?
>> they would bear the brunt of whatever legislation is passed....there are 47 different state-based security breach notification laws
In other words, they want a single Federal law to replace all the state laws, which would do two things: 1) allow them to concentrate their efforts on watering down the federal law 2) take the ability for people to collect damages against it out of state courts and 3) reduce their notification costs because they would only do the bare minimum required by the federal law (e.g., filing it in a basement drawer marked with "beware the leopard"). I see no "brunt" here. (IANAL)
Most of Facebook is moms reposting the same jokes and images over and over again. I actually think I see where Zuckerburg might going with this: since media companies are getting smarter about packing their mass-market content as "clips" (e.g., Jimmy Fallon's bits), they're getting easier for mere mortals to post. However, I don't think any significant portion of videos will actually get posted to Facebook - instead it'll all still be hosted on YouTube, media sites (e.g., NBC) or somewhere else.
Quick tell the OP this usually applies to skydiving too. (Check your policy - it might be explictly listed, or just covered under a general "if you die while engaging in a risk sport you're SOL" clause.)
>> Wouldn't there need to be "something" for the quantum fluctuations to take place in?
Turtles. Mofo'ing turtles all the way down.
Crap, I loved the old Aereo chairs.
>> brainless consumer pieces of shit like you who take take take and eat eat eat like hungry little piggies with no thought
I love it when people go off their meds around here.
>> just because something gets released under a FLOSS license doesn't say anything about the policy of the original developers regarding outside contributions ...except for the fact that anyone could fork it as "neinjumpobama" or whatever and contribute to their fork any way they see fit.
While I see your point about explaining the original developers intentions toward outside contributions, the way the poster explained things makes it sound like anyone can contribute features to ANYTHING on GitHub (when in fact many contributions are slapped down because the original developers aren't really open to such things).
>> anyone who has your 16-digit card number can make purchases on your account
Wasn't CCV (the extra 3-digit number on the card) supposed to fix that? (https://www.dcporder.com/ccv.htm) Oh wait...intermediates started storing THAT too.
So yeah...bring it on!
>> Maybe Plan B or Plan C should have arranged for these people to make their way BY FOOT and ACROSS COUNTRY
If nuclear fallout is part of the picture, you may not want people exposed and crossing terrain on their own.
>> What has changed? Has the human foot quit working?
We tend to care a lot more for the sick, elderly and young these days. Whereas a mobile tribe of hunter/gatherers may have abandoned the weak as they ran to safer ground, we don't.
>> What the reporter states doesn't make sense.
I've seen even worse coverage of this. A local TV station bubblehead read the text of the Virgin accident story against the video of the Antares rocket exploding. (No footage of the Virgin crash, no tie-in between Antares and Virgin explained, just "private space death" story audio over the biggest explosion they could find.)
>> I hope this means they know people are watching now
Doubt it. I hadn't read anything about this story for the past few weeks until this Slashdot article.
>> in general, Democrat scandals have tended to involve sex and drugs, and hurt a few people (along with the status of a high political office). Meanwhile, in general, Republican scandals have tended to involve money and power, and hurt thousands or even millions of people
If you grew up in Illinois, you'd probably see the world the other way around. :)
>> Branson Vows To 'Move Forward Together'
"You know...without the guy that died...but other than THAT. (Awkward.)"
>> most planets in the Universe are homeless
I wonder if they also smell like urine (http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/10/26/1226209/rosetta-probe-reveals-what-a-comet-smells-like).
So is "complete visibility into [the clouds] ... not a black box"
>> work of science fiction called "The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From the Future," that takes the point of view of a historian in 2393 explaining how "the Great Collapse of 2093" occurred
As a guy who's read scifi for 30 years, this sounds as boring as fuck. Hundreds of writers have written civ collapses into the backdrop of their story and many of these have been manmade ecological disasters. But then the good writers write a story, populating the post-event world with people whose lives and relationships riff off the tragedy of the fall and the sense of current loss.
As worded, this sounds more like the background notes for a role-playing game set in the future, after an ecological collapse....zzzzzZZZZZ.
>> I'd happily pay a higher monthly fee not to have the ads
You must be new to the planet. Remember when the promise of cable TV was "you pay for it, so it's ad-free!" Once YouTube has a critical population writing monthly checks for content, they'll surely add the ads back in.
>> STOP USING THE FUCKING SITE
The reason so much VC money flows into social media is that you're far less likely to stop using anything if all your friends are using it: if you stop using the site you could be left out of real-life social interactions.
there were two stories on ello last week, one this week...
I think it's news because most of us have abandoned Facebook, but aren't living socially on Google+, so there's VC money being tossed around like popcorn to try to create the next safe haven where early tech adopters like us will congregate. (And yet, somehow, we're still here on Slashdot...despite BH.)
"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
- Rahm Emanuel
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