You can't use a phone while driving, but if the manufacturer embeds a similar device in the dashboard, it's perfectly okay. Many newer mobile "infotainment" systems are nightmarishly complex to use and are far worse than a cell phone in terms of driver distraction, but these are a-ok apparently.
My phone is not like a wallet. If someone steals my wallet, they have my ID, credit cards money, and all kinds of information that would help them steal my wealth and / or my identity.
If someone steals my phone, they have, well, nothing - well - unless they can somehow break the encryption on it. I'm not aware of anyone who has been able to steal information off of an encrypted phone, are you?
If I'm a carrier, why would I NOT want to sell service to whomever stole your phone?
Since the carriers have no culpability in the theft of your device, the legal fiduciary obligation to the shareholders trumps any perceived moral obligation to you.
What about the Americans arrested by local police based on intelligence provided by NSA, where parallel construction was subsequently used to hide the fact that ubiquitous surveillance is what got them caught?
That is always the problem when you socialize the cost of using a limited resource and artificially increase demand by controlling the cost. You get people who waste the resource because "someone else" is really paying for it.
All goods and services purchased as utilities are limited in their quantity, but since consumers don't pay the "real" cost directly, they use more.
But, your obviously trollish tongue-in-cheek solution is not what is called for. Simply removing ALL government subsidies from basic utilities and requiring that the real cost be paid by the end users is sufficient, along with removal of barriers to adjust cost to be appropriate to the available supply.
The point was the fact that we have a telecom monopolist running a major executive branch agency when we were promised it would not happen, but the liberal elitists on Slashdot predictably latched on to the obvious hyperbole and decided to attack that, lacking anything substantive with which to argue against the facts.
I love how Obama signs 100 executive orders a day ordering various federal agencies to implement his radical agenda, but he can't be bothered to ask the Cable and Telecom Monopolist he appointed to chair the FCC to do anything.
"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists â" and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."
-- Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA
November 10, 2007
Cameras can only work in a finite range of ambient light. All you have to do is have enough ambient light to saturate the sensors and people won't be able to take meaningful pictures.
A few tens of kilowatts or maybe just make it a nice, round 100kW of supplemental ambient lighting should do the trick.
You could even advertise it as a feature. Free Tan with a Limo Ride!
Bench warrants do not expire. The warrant was probably issued years ago when she ignored an order to appear. She may not even have been notified of the warrant (usually they send a certified letter to your last known address notifying you that there is a warrant out for you).
The "news" is that glassholes' data is safe, because regular people look up to them and worship them and wouldn't dream of depriving them of their glass.
Why would you bash him for what he said? He was absolutely correct, and everyone knows it. It's not a scandal that he said what everyone else was thinking but was too chicken shit to say.
It is a fact that 47% of people do not pay income taxes. It is a fact that these people do not give a shit about how much government spends, because they have no skin in the game, and in fact they know that the more government spends, the more they benefit.
So, fuck everyone who thinks that was some scandalous thought for him to have let out of his head. Everyone knows it is true.
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You can't use a phone while driving, but if the manufacturer embeds a similar device in the dashboard, it's perfectly okay. Many newer mobile "infotainment" systems are nightmarishly complex to use and are far worse than a cell phone in terms of driver distraction, but these are a-ok apparently.
Are you kidding? My Armada handles like it's on rails compared to my wife's leaf.
If it was $5000 cheaper, and didn't look like ass.
STREAMS! He crossed the STREAMS!
I grew up on his 80's flicks.
Way too young in this day and age.
My phone is not like a wallet. If someone steals my wallet, they have my ID, credit cards money, and all kinds of information that would help them steal my wealth and / or my identity.
If someone steals my phone, they have, well, nothing - well - unless they can somehow break the encryption on it. I'm not aware of anyone who has been able to steal information off of an encrypted phone, are you?
That's what prepaid service is for. Crooks don't have great credit usually so would be paying up front.
If I'm a carrier, why would I NOT want to sell service to whomever stole your phone?
Since the carriers have no culpability in the theft of your device, the legal fiduciary obligation to the shareholders trumps any perceived moral obligation to you.
So does installing the Ask Toolbar, but I'll be damned if I can find anyone who knew they had consented to installing it...
What about the Americans arrested by local police based on intelligence provided by NSA, where parallel construction was subsequently used to hide the fact that ubiquitous surveillance is what got them caught?
I wish I could shell out 300 euro to have my next million-euro commercial product crowdsourced
We have a video conferencing device that does the exact same thing. Nothing new here.
That is always the problem when you socialize the cost of using a limited resource and artificially increase demand by controlling the cost. You get people who waste the resource because "someone else" is really paying for it.
All goods and services purchased as utilities are limited in their quantity, but since consumers don't pay the "real" cost directly, they use more.
But, your obviously trollish tongue-in-cheek solution is not what is called for. Simply removing ALL government subsidies from basic utilities and requiring that the real cost be paid by the end users is sufficient, along with removal of barriers to adjust cost to be appropriate to the available supply.
Hyperbole would be more accurate than Satire.
The point was the fact that we have a telecom monopolist running a major executive branch agency when we were promised it would not happen, but the liberal elitists on Slashdot predictably latched on to the obvious hyperbole and decided to attack that, lacking anything substantive with which to argue against the facts.
Chess
Settlers of Catan
Axis and Allies
Cards Against Humanity
Go Fish
Battle
Checkers
Connect-4
Candyland
Sorry!
Hide and Seek
And, twice a year, pin the tail on the donkey.
I love how Obama signs 100 executive orders a day ordering various federal agencies to implement his radical agenda, but he can't be bothered to ask the Cable and Telecom Monopolist he appointed to chair the FCC to do anything.
Fucking ridiculous.
http://change.gov/agenda/ethic...
"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists â" and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president."
-- Barack Obama, Speech in Des Moines, IA
November 10, 2007
Cameras can only work in a finite range of ambient light. All you have to do is have enough ambient light to saturate the sensors and people won't be able to take meaningful pictures.
A few tens of kilowatts or maybe just make it a nice, round 100kW of supplemental ambient lighting should do the trick.
You could even advertise it as a feature. Free Tan with a Limo Ride!
My phone gets a real IPv4 from AT&T.
1) There was never a crisis, and
2) Carrier-grade NAT
Bench warrants do not expire. The warrant was probably issued years ago when she ignored an order to appear. She may not even have been notified of the warrant (usually they send a certified letter to your last known address notifying you that there is a warrant out for you).
Biggest non-story of the day on Slashdot.
The "news" is that glassholes' data is safe, because regular people look up to them and worship them and wouldn't dream of depriving them of their glass.
Why would you bash him for what he said? He was absolutely correct, and everyone knows it. It's not a scandal that he said what everyone else was thinking but was too chicken shit to say.
It is a fact that 47% of people do not pay income taxes. It is a fact that these people do not give a shit about how much government spends, because they have no skin in the game, and in fact they know that the more government spends, the more they benefit.
So, fuck everyone who thinks that was some scandalous thought for him to have let out of his head. Everyone knows it is true.
Because then the carriers can't make money selling service to whomever stole the phone.
QSL, OM.
Crooks have no idea what to do with them, and neither do pawn shops. They have practically no value whatsoever except to other hams.
Nope. None. This is for your own protection. Please return to your regularly scheduled re-education.