At least if they go to pull the camera out she has a chance to say "No thank you - I prefer not to have my picture taken".
To which I can say "Sure, whatever *click* *click* *click*." If your wife is that offended by having her picture taken she shouldn't go out in public, because there isn't, and shouldn't be, a damned thing she can do about somebody taking her picture. Well, I guess with the obvious restriction of harrasment/stalking, but we aren't talking somebody following her around all day taking her picture. We're talking lots of people ending up with her in the background or walking by, as they record (for some odd reason) their journey to work that day.
There just isn't a privacy concern here which doesn't already exist with today's camera technology. And it is already illegal to break into somebody's private abode to take pictures of everything... so what's the problem?
After sitting in class today and watching another student do various tasks on his mac laptop, I've once again been tempted to try one out. And I figure even if I end up not liking OSX and all that goodness, I can still install my sweet sweet debian on a PPC, so why not?
We just hired this new Indian (from India) guy in our office, and his name is pronounced An-Indian. It is spelled nothing like that, but that is how he has told us it is pronounced. So we've got a bunch of cracker (aka white as you can get) 20-something guys walking around the office asking "Where is Anindian? Can you find Anindian for me? I need Anindian to help me out with this..."
"Well Mr. Jones, it seems as though you're awfully interested in increasing your penis size for some pre-teen lolitas.. What do you have to say for yourself?"
Guilty as charged? I do love them pre-teen lolitas... oh wait a minute!
Seriously though, if you are worried about email being evidence against you later down the road, DELETE IT! And if that isn't enough, what the hell are you doing sending sensitive info over non-encrypted email? I mean if it is that big of a deal, the evil gov't will just take your home email server and re-create the disks anyhow, so what is your point?
Hey, news flash for you Billy boy! In Europe, you comply with European law, and it's a lot harder to buy a few politicians to exert political pressure on the justice system.
I'm sorry. Really I am. That was just so patently incorrect and uninformed and, well, just plain ignorant that I couldn't contain myself. But yeah, keep on believing the EU, or most any European country individually, isn't as screwed by bought off politicos as the US. You all have been beaten down by interest groups affecting all aspects of the political process long before the US was even a country, and it certainly hasn't stopped in the new millenium.
OH NO! The people with which you signed up for a IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM are now tracking and identifying you! GOOD GOD!
What did you think they were going to do when you signed up for their "Club Card" or what-have-you? I just go to a grocery store that doesn't require any sort of club to get their discounts, and I am not tracked. I even pay with cash, so my CC isn't tracking me either (not for privacy reasons though, I just don't like running up CC debt).
I would have to fully agree with this. I feel the same way... except I'll one up ya. I'm still finishing up classes to get my BS. That's right, I've been working as a programmer for about a year now, full time while taking classes, and I no longer a shit about computers in general. I could care less about the latest greatest hardware, except for the once a year I am in the market for a new computer. And frankly I can barely convince myself to write programs for school assignments after spending all day pounding my head against the wall while fixing ludicrous bugs in our product's code (for Gods sake don't take a job where you'll have to support code written by lowest bidder Russian programmers! It is not worth it, no matter what they pay).
So I'm pretty much planning on getting my BS just so I can demand a pay raise. After that its either on to get an MS in a field that isn't so insane, or just move and get a job in something more hands on and creative.
I'd have to put this HS420 Series blade server somewhere between "120 Human Threshold of Pain" and "160 Perforation of eardrum". Seriously now, for how much this damned beast of server cost us, why couldn't it come with semi-quiet fans?!?
I can't wait until we get this thing shipped off to the colo...
It must be a lot easier for developers to not have to try making everything compatible with all of the various pc hardware components.
Consoles are a double-edged sword though. You have a very specific hardware platform that you know isn't going to change, so you can code soley for that. But then you have to get pretty much EVERYTHING right before you burn your release. You can't say "oops" and send out a patch if you find that some oddball scenario causes the console to crash, or screw up the graphics, or overwrite the person's saved games. So you have a standstill hardware target, but you only get 1 shot at that target.
Really now, if the same old idea just rehashed over and over (but most likely with slight variations) were a problem in the entertainment creation market, then books/music/art would have stopped being made sometime around, oh, 1000 years ago.
Everything worth expressing has already been expressed. That doesn't mean we can't enjoy the new incarnations. Society changes, things move out of favor, then back in again. At which point old ideas get rehashed and become popular once again. I don't think the gaming industry is in any danger of flopping, in fact I'll bet its only going to become a more and more pervasive part of world culture.
I heard on NPR a week or two ago, from an author who wrote about the 1918 pandemic, that in one instance a man boarded a trolley. Before the trolley got to the end of the line, the conductor and several passengers were dead.
To which somebody should have asked "Would you like to revise your bullshit story?"
Anything that killed that quickly wouldn't spread, because the carries would die before the virus could be passed along. I think this guy just took an incident and applied his own creative take on what happened to sell more copies of his book.
But if you'd like to belive his cock and bull tale, I have a meteorite fragment I can sell you that protects you from cancer. I've carried it for 10 years now and haven't gotten cancer yet. 100% effective, proven by science and statistics!
These schools churned out tons of useless "educated" people with little added value from their educational experience.
Gee, sounds an awful lot like most universities to me. You get out what you put in, or a pretty close relation. Just some big name schools have broader opportunities right there on campus. But don't fool yourself into thinking some lazy guy with a 4-year degree (or Masters, or PhD) is automagically skilled and brilliant.
Agreed. Except for that nasty "Vote Republican" part. Only vote for them if you want to piss off the Dems, and only vote Dem if you want to die cold and hungry, for the good of society of course. But saving your own damn money instead of shilling out debt on future generations is certainly the key.
You can hear exactly what the guy was saying from the back of the patrol car. He kept saying "Real big man. Yeah, real big fucking men." as they slammed his daughter/friend/whomever to the ground and kept her pinned there. So what? I'd be pretty pissed as well at these apes roughing up that girl.
As for her screaming, well she certainly did curse at them quite a bit after they cuffed her. Who cares? Is cursing a crime, or an assault/threat to the officers? Not to mention this wasn't until AFTER they pinned her down.
There just really wasn't any reason for the officers to behave as they did.
Yeah, what a jerk. Fine him! Attitude police everywhere unite!
Seriously now, is saying "I have right sided tendencies" (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean) supposed to pacify us and make us think "Well gee, if this guy is generally a Republicrat and he approves of the cops doing this, it must be ok?"
I'd post a link to the video, but I can't find it anywhere on the net and I forget what newsgroup post I originally found it in. The file is called no_id_arrest_SMALL.mov for anyone who cares to search around on their own. And from what I could understand being said on the tape the subtitles were pretty damned accurate. In fact, many times they only printed "(garbled)", when I could in fact plainly make out what was being said. I think they just wanted to air very much on the side of caution about captioning what was being said.
Anyhow, this guy seemed out of it, but beyond that did nothing at all to get arrested. In fact the cop started giving him trouble and the guy just told him not to touch him, and asked pretty plainly why it was that he was being harrassed. When the cop said something along of the lines of "I'm investigating... stuff" the guy then asked why that made him have to give ID. In the end this guy just gave up and told the cop he wasn't going to give id, but if the cop wanted he could go right ahead and arrest him. Which the cop then did.
Then comes the best part... 2 more cops show up, run up to this guys truck and start harassing the passenger. They held the door shut for awhile, and when they finally let it open they literally grabbed the girl inside and slammed her to the ground. Fairly small girl, not nearly a match for these 2 cops, and as far as I could tell she did nothing more than perhaps yell at them. She certainly wasn't resisting anything.
These guys are just a bunch of backwater fucktards on a power trip. I hope they get their asses in a sling for this. Cops should spend their time arresting criminals, not harassing semi-argumentative old guys.
Lol, yep 10 does just sound more official and legitimate. Same reason the AWB limits magazine capacity to 10 rounds. Why not 9? Why not 11? Why the hell not 5 or 20 or 30? I mean if they really thought lowering magazine capacity would save lives for every round removed, then 9 means 1 less person gets killed then 10, right?
So is the government actually saying that losing 10 people is ok, but 11 isn't? Of course not! Its just that 10 sounded good and legitimate and understandable (from an anti point of view), so that is what got picked. But just don't get caught with a post-1994 11 round magazine, because then you are a menace to society!
Why let "basic issues" be exempt? This only causes more problems when you think about it. What is a "basic issue?" See, that definition would simply get expanded every session, until most laws were covered one way or another.
Simply let the laws expire. ALL of them. It isn't as though congress/senate won't renew the laws against murder/theft/etc... every 10 years. And the more time they spend on upkeep of the core laws that really do help out society, the less time they have to pass their bullshit pet projects.
These people are lawmakers, that is their mindset. Give them free time and they will do just that, make laws. I say sunset everything and only let them stay in session for about a month or two per year. That should cut down on the special interest BS immensly.
Having not yet read the article, this could of course be a bit off topic...
But damn, that sounds like some great stuff. Think of all the applications:
- On a long backpacking trip and get stranded... well at least when your food runs out you can make it a few more days.
- Lost at sea? Buys you more time.
- Car stuck in snowdrift and waiting to be rescued. This could really help.
Yep, only we the people can do that (if you live in the US at least). So keep an eye open and tell your congress critter what you think when the issues some up for a vote.
Wow, thanks for displaying that TOTAL ignorance of how the US Constitution works. See, there doesn't need to be an amendment saying "You have a right to privacy" because there is no text saying the government has the power to take away your privacy. And as any US citizen should know (but most don't due to our abysmal public indoctrin... erm education system) any powers not SPECIFICALLY given to the government are reserved to the states, and most importantly to the people.
Now if only we would get off our lazy asses and start telling the government where it can shove it when it goes too far, we might actually get some rights back. Rights that the government never had authority to take in the first place.
I'd certainly agree that some companies just want the quick buck before going under (SCO comes to mind), but come on: IBM, HP, MS!?!? How long have they been around now? You think you get to monopoly status by going for short-term gains then jumping ship? I certainly don't.
That said, I will agree that plenty of places have horrid customer support, but again I think that is either because of a flawed business plan (read: company soon going under or being restructured), shitty support being all the customer base really wants/needs to pay for, or (as in my phone providers case, and boy do they have shitty support) a monopoly (usually afforded by lame gov't regulations that keep startups from forming easily).
But mainly I just wanted to point out that business isn't about shafting the customer on support, usually, because that doesn't make much money.
At least 27 or so as of now. And if the gov't got the hell outta the way so it was easier to get up there privately, who is to say that number wouldn't grow?
Just remeber, there is no problem the gov't can't make worse.
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At least if they go to pull the camera out she has a chance to say "No thank you - I prefer not to have my picture taken".
To which I can say "Sure, whatever *click* *click* *click*." If your wife is that offended by having her picture taken she shouldn't go out in public, because there isn't, and shouldn't be, a damned thing she can do about somebody taking her picture. Well, I guess with the obvious restriction of harrasment/stalking, but we aren't talking somebody following her around all day taking her picture. We're talking lots of people ending up with her in the background or walking by, as they record (for some odd reason) their journey to work that day.
There just isn't a privacy concern here which doesn't already exist with today's camera technology. And it is already illegal to break into somebody's private abode to take pictures of everything... so what's the problem?
After sitting in class today and watching another student do various tasks on his mac laptop, I've once again been tempted to try one out. And I figure even if I end up not liking OSX and all that goodness, I can still install my sweet sweet debian on a PPC, so why not?
We just hired this new Indian (from India) guy in our office, and his name is pronounced An-Indian. It is spelled nothing like that, but that is how he has told us it is pronounced. So we've got a bunch of cracker (aka white as you can get) 20-something guys walking around the office asking "Where is Anindian? Can you find Anindian for me? I need Anindian to help me out with this..."
Best-name-ever.
"Well Mr. Jones, it seems as though you're awfully interested in increasing your penis size for some pre-teen lolitas.. What do you have to say for yourself?"
Guilty as charged? I do love them pre-teen lolitas... oh wait a minute!
Seriously though, if you are worried about email being evidence against you later down the road, DELETE IT! And if that isn't enough, what the hell are you doing sending sensitive info over non-encrypted email? I mean if it is that big of a deal, the evil gov't will just take your home email server and re-create the disks anyhow, so what is your point?
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Hey, news flash for you Billy boy! In Europe, you comply with European law, and it's a lot harder to buy a few politicians to exert political pressure on the justice system.
I'm sorry. Really I am. That was just so patently incorrect and uninformed and, well, just plain ignorant that I couldn't contain myself. But yeah, keep on believing the EU, or most any European country individually, isn't as screwed by bought off politicos as the US. You all have been beaten down by interest groups affecting all aspects of the political process long before the US was even a country, and it certainly hasn't stopped in the new millenium.
OH NO! The people with which you signed up for a IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM are now tracking and identifying you! GOOD GOD!
What did you think they were going to do when you signed up for their "Club Card" or what-have-you? I just go to a grocery store that doesn't require any sort of club to get their discounts, and I am not tracked. I even pay with cash, so my CC isn't tracking me either (not for privacy reasons though, I just don't like running up CC debt).
I would have to fully agree with this. I feel the same way... except I'll one up ya. I'm still finishing up classes to get my BS. That's right, I've been working as a programmer for about a year now, full time while taking classes, and I no longer a shit about computers in general. I could care less about the latest greatest hardware, except for the once a year I am in the market for a new computer. And frankly I can barely convince myself to write programs for school assignments after spending all day pounding my head against the wall while fixing ludicrous bugs in our product's code (for Gods sake don't take a job where you'll have to support code written by lowest bidder Russian programmers! It is not worth it, no matter what they pay).
So I'm pretty much planning on getting my BS just so I can demand a pay raise. After that its either on to get an MS in a field that isn't so insane, or just move and get a job in something more hands on and creative.
I'd have to put this HS420 Series blade server somewhere between "120 Human Threshold of Pain" and "160 Perforation of eardrum". Seriously now, for how much this damned beast of server cost us, why couldn't it come with semi-quiet fans?!?
I can't wait until we get this thing shipped off to the colo...
It must be a lot easier for developers to not have to try making everything compatible with all of the various pc hardware components.
Consoles are a double-edged sword though. You have a very specific hardware platform that you know isn't going to change, so you can code soley for that. But then you have to get pretty much EVERYTHING right before you burn your release. You can't say "oops" and send out a patch if you find that some oddball scenario causes the console to crash, or screw up the graphics, or overwrite the person's saved games. So you have a standstill hardware target, but you only get 1 shot at that target.
Really now, if the same old idea just rehashed over and over (but most likely with slight variations) were a problem in the entertainment creation market, then books/music/art would have stopped being made sometime around, oh, 1000 years ago.
Everything worth expressing has already been expressed. That doesn't mean we can't enjoy the new incarnations. Society changes, things move out of favor, then back in again. At which point old ideas get rehashed and become popular once again. I don't think the gaming industry is in any danger of flopping, in fact I'll bet its only going to become a more and more pervasive part of world culture.
I heard on NPR a week or two ago, from an author who wrote about the 1918 pandemic, that in one instance a man boarded a trolley. Before the trolley got to the end of the line, the conductor and several passengers were dead.
To which somebody should have asked "Would you like to revise your bullshit story?"
Anything that killed that quickly wouldn't spread, because the carries would die before the virus could be passed along. I think this guy just took an incident and applied his own creative take on what happened to sell more copies of his book.
But if you'd like to belive his cock and bull tale, I have a meteorite fragment I can sell you that protects you from cancer. I've carried it for 10 years now and haven't gotten cancer yet. 100% effective, proven by science and statistics!
These schools churned out tons of useless "educated" people with little added value from their educational experience.
Gee, sounds an awful lot like most universities to me. You get out what you put in, or a pretty close relation. Just some big name schools have broader opportunities right there on campus. But don't fool yourself into thinking some lazy guy with a 4-year degree (or Masters, or PhD) is automagically skilled and brilliant.
Agreed. Except for that nasty "Vote Republican" part. Only vote for them if you want to piss off the Dems, and only vote Dem if you want to die cold and hungry, for the good of society of course. But saving your own damn money instead of shilling out debt on future generations is certainly the key.
You can hear exactly what the guy was saying from the back of the patrol car. He kept saying "Real big man. Yeah, real big fucking men." as they slammed his daughter/friend/whomever to the ground and kept her pinned there. So what? I'd be pretty pissed as well at these apes roughing up that girl.
As for her screaming, well she certainly did curse at them quite a bit after they cuffed her. Who cares? Is cursing a crime, or an assault/threat to the officers? Not to mention this wasn't until AFTER they pinned her down.
There just really wasn't any reason for the officers to behave as they did.
Yeah, what a jerk. Fine him! Attitude police everywhere unite!
Seriously now, is saying "I have right sided tendencies" (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean) supposed to pacify us and make us think "Well gee, if this guy is generally a Republicrat and he approves of the cops doing this, it must be ok?"
I'd post a link to the video, but I can't find it anywhere on the net and I forget what newsgroup post I originally found it in. The file is called no_id_arrest_SMALL.mov for anyone who cares to search around on their own. And from what I could understand being said on the tape the subtitles were pretty damned accurate. In fact, many times they only printed "(garbled)", when I could in fact plainly make out what was being said. I think they just wanted to air very much on the side of caution about captioning what was being said.
Anyhow, this guy seemed out of it, but beyond that did nothing at all to get arrested. In fact the cop started giving him trouble and the guy just told him not to touch him, and asked pretty plainly why it was that he was being harrassed. When the cop said something along of the lines of "I'm investigating... stuff" the guy then asked why that made him have to give ID. In the end this guy just gave up and told the cop he wasn't going to give id, but if the cop wanted he could go right ahead and arrest him. Which the cop then did.
Then comes the best part... 2 more cops show up, run up to this guys truck and start harassing the passenger. They held the door shut for awhile, and when they finally let it open they literally grabbed the girl inside and slammed her to the ground. Fairly small girl, not nearly a match for these 2 cops, and as far as I could tell she did nothing more than perhaps yell at them. She certainly wasn't resisting anything.
These guys are just a bunch of backwater fucktards on a power trip. I hope they get their asses in a sling for this. Cops should spend their time arresting criminals, not harassing semi-argumentative old guys.
Lol, yep 10 does just sound more official and legitimate. Same reason the AWB limits magazine capacity to 10 rounds. Why not 9? Why not 11? Why the hell not 5 or 20 or 30? I mean if they really thought lowering magazine capacity would save lives for every round removed, then 9 means 1 less person gets killed then 10, right?
So is the government actually saying that losing 10 people is ok, but 11 isn't? Of course not! Its just that 10 sounded good and legitimate and understandable (from an anti point of view), so that is what got picked. But just don't get caught with a post-1994 11 round magazine, because then you are a menace to society!
Why let "basic issues" be exempt? This only causes more problems when you think about it. What is a "basic issue?" See, that definition would simply get expanded every session, until most laws were covered one way or another.
Simply let the laws expire. ALL of them. It isn't as though congress/senate won't renew the laws against murder/theft/etc... every 10 years. And the more time they spend on upkeep of the core laws that really do help out society, the less time they have to pass their bullshit pet projects.
These people are lawmakers, that is their mindset. Give them free time and they will do just that, make laws. I say sunset everything and only let them stay in session for about a month or two per year. That should cut down on the special interest BS immensly.
Having not yet read the article, this could of course be a bit off topic...
But damn, that sounds like some great stuff. Think of all the applications:
- On a long backpacking trip and get stranded... well at least when your food runs out you can make it a few more days.
- Lost at sea? Buys you more time.
- Car stuck in snowdrift and waiting to be rescued. This could really help.
Yep, only we the people can do that (if you live in the US at least). So keep an eye open and tell your congress critter what you think when the issues some up for a vote.
Wow, thanks for displaying that TOTAL ignorance of how the US Constitution works. See, there doesn't need to be an amendment saying "You have a right to privacy" because there is no text saying the government has the power to take away your privacy. And as any US citizen should know (but most don't due to our abysmal public indoctrin... erm education system) any powers not SPECIFICALLY given to the government are reserved to the states, and most importantly to the people.
...rant mode off.
Now if only we would get off our lazy asses and start telling the government where it can shove it when it goes too far, we might actually get some rights back. Rights that the government never had authority to take in the first place.
Precisely what I meant. I could care less if it were YYYYMMDD, or DDMMYYYY, but mixing them around is just plain idiotic.
I wonder what else american public schools forgot to teach me...
Real American history for one. I bet most other countries know more about US history (the non-sterilized, non-PC version) than most US citizens do.
Metric system, correct date format, 24 hour time...
I'd certainly agree that some companies just want the quick buck before going under (SCO comes to mind), but come on: IBM, HP, MS!?!? How long have they been around now? You think you get to monopoly status by going for short-term gains then jumping ship? I certainly don't.
That said, I will agree that plenty of places have horrid customer support, but again I think that is either because of a flawed business plan (read: company soon going under or being restructured), shitty support being all the customer base really wants/needs to pay for, or (as in my phone providers case, and boy do they have shitty support) a monopoly (usually afforded by lame gov't regulations that keep startups from forming easily).
But mainly I just wanted to point out that business isn't about shafting the customer on support, usually, because that doesn't make much money.
At least 27 or so as of now. And if the gov't got the hell outta the way so it was easier to get up there privately, who is to say that number wouldn't grow?
Just remeber, there is no problem the gov't can't make worse.
But then again, can you think of any alternatives?
Yes. Loosen up the gov't monopoly on space flight and let the private sector take over.