"Unfortunately, they were not willing or able to produce a search warrant or any court documents suggesting they had a legal right to take my property. In addition, they were persistent about requiring my passwords for all devices,” Silva said.
I always get a big kick out of hearing the reactions of middle-class people when they run into law enforcement, and aren't treated like middle-class people. They're never prepared for the reality, because they were taught in school that they had "rights", and all that other baloney.
"Silva was also told he had “no right for a lawyer to be present” and that being a U.S. citizen did not “entitle me to rights that I probably thought.”
Yep. I tell ya, if middle-class people always got the same treatment as poor folk, it'd be a different country pretty quickly.
I don't know about "on Windows", but I'd like to know why iTunes sucked so much, and continues to suck much, after version 10.7. That might be your answer, right there.
Most CEOs are psychopaths. So are most politicians, for that matter. I have some bad news for you, though: Some psychopath will be the next president of the US, no matter who gets stomach cancer.
In the school's defense, imagine if this were the headline:
"Muslim student detonates bomb in school--school officials said they knew he was carrying a device that looked like a bomb, but didn't say anything because he told them it was a clock."
I bet you would call them stupid then too.
Yeah, that's a likely scenario. I know you hear about terror everyday, (there's a reason for that), but actual terror attacks are quite rare in the US. Doing a quick googling, I couldn't find any attacks carried out by children. It's this kind of thinking that gave us zero tolerance in the first place. And here's the other thing - the school officials ought to have at least had a look at the thing, and once they saw it was harmless, everyone should've went back to their business. Had they done that, there would be no headlines, period. Instead, they went fucking bananas over nothing.
Planets are common. Planets within the habitable zone look like they are common. So, is this evidence of the Great Filter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ?
Planets are common. One planet is known to have life. Given a sample size of exactly one, we can use statistics to speculate wildly. So, yes, why not?
"If a user has AirDrop set to allow connections from anyone..."
Ok, so you have a setup where people can push files at you, and if you allow anybody to do it, someone might drop a malicious file in your system? What about the fact that Apple allows you to leave your laptop unattended and unlocked, say, on the subway? A malicious person could take over your whole computer! That's a serious vulnerability, and proves that Macs are no safer than Windows machines.
So true...so true... I have long thought that, if sexuality were a choice, being a gay male would be the obvious choice for those wanting lots of sex. Which is to say, most males. *sigh* Why can't women be more like men? I mean, in some ways...
Yeah, but the Commerce Clause has been interpreted to allow the Feds to regulate literally anything, beginning in the twentieth century. That's why they needed a constitutional amendment to prohibit alcohol, but not to prohibit drugs, later. You can argue that almost anything affects interstate commerce, and they do make that argument, but the internet is a "no-brainer" in that regard.
If automated cars are built to follow speed limits, and other traffic laws, why would a cop ever need to pull it over? It should rarely come up, unless some dolt decided to use one in a robbery. Sure, it can - it will - happen, but this should be a rare occasion. What is much, much, more common, is that police find, or invent, a traffic violation in order to conduct drug and cash searches. If cops are worried about anything, it would be losing this highly profitable activity.
Basically, this whole "state rights" rationalization for the break-up of the Civil War is pure poppycock.
Well, the particular "state's right" in question was slavery. That southern schools try to teach the Civil War in dog whistle, at least, shows they're embarrassed about it. It's like saying the Confederate Battle Flag is about "heritage" and "pride". You just have to understand that the heritage in question is that of Jim Crow and slavery, and the pride in question is white pride.
People support state's rights when it's to their benefit, and support Federal primacy when that's to their benefit. It's as simple as that. Notice how some Republicans are wringing their hands over legal weed issues?
Sure, even rich people have problems, but, I'll take those problems over the problems poor, (and working), people have.
To anyone newly super-wealthy out there, having problems making new friends, let me offer a solution. Fill up my bank account with a few million, and as two former poor persons, we should have a lot in common. I'm intelligent, but not a nerd. I have lots of ideas on how to enjoy life, and would be happy to help out. No, I'm serious. PM me.
Some countries are forcing Google to "rig" its search results, others are complaining about it. Regardless, all Google results are rigged in one way, or another, even at the individual level. For a long time, Altavista had a pure keyword search engine, but that disappeared at some point. I'm not sure who, if anybody, provides neutral results, based solely on keywords, anymore. I feel lucky that there are at least a couple of search engines that claim to not be spying on me.
I think he's looking for the.onion site address. Isn't it kind of weird that none of these articles published that? At least, none of the ones I've seen.
Right. As TFA says, RAM is cheap, so why not max out your slots? Zero pageouts is a good thing. As it happens, I have 16 GB. While it never fills up, (that I've seen), it does regularly use more than 8 GB. There's no reason not to have that extra chip.
I'd stay away from the 80s, and the latter half of the 70s. Not Detroit's best years. If you can afford a new car, you can afford any babied car from the 60's. Not only will you not have to worry about being hacked, or your computer choking, but you will look cool-as-fuck driving it. You'll have a car that can be picked out in a parking-lot, because it won't look like every other car there. Get one with bench seats - you'll have room for love-making. Don't forget, these cars we think of as hot rods today were the family cars of the 60s. Our family car, when I was a kid, was a '67 Impala. Nobody thought it was anything special then, but when you compare it to today's cars, it looks like a work of art. You're worried about safety? Don't. We jammed the seat belts under the seats, and forgot about them. We did just fine without all that "safety" junk. Simply having a fine car will make you, and everyone around you, better drivers. Everyone respects a beautiful car from the sixties, and they'll respect you for having the good taste to own one. Crank the windows down, light a Lucky, put on your shades, crack a beer, and feel the power of an eight-cylinder, carbureted, Detroit engine under your feet!
Sorry, got a little carried away... But yeah, anything made before 1974!
"...it's significant that someday a large portion of the world's traffic will flow through networks controlled by governments that are, at least to some extent, hostile to the core values of Western democracies."
And some of those will be the governments of Western democracies. That's the truly maddening part.
Pfft! It only means they're somewhat less hypocritical. I mean, how naïve do you have to be, to believe all that "freedom" and "democracy" crap we're taught as schoolchildren? Almost any adult-level history book should disabuse you of these notions, pronto.
Also, how is the OP Informative? I can sorta see Insightful, except that TFA is about how a Western democracy already has been vacuuming up all our data.
Yes, yes, we've all seen your spam a million times. Which is why it's called spam. Why not try to keep it down to one per thread? You'll come across as less of a lunatic.
I agree. A large percentage (0.185%) of the two-hundred-fifty million guns in this country (the USA) are used in crimes, including murder, and shootings! Watching the news on television makes it clear that these shootings are quite common. It is clear from the numbers that guns have no legitimate use, and should be banned. It's worked with drugs and alcohol, so let us proceed with confidence in this endeavor. Indeed, there are many other things which I disapprove of, and which ought to be banned.
I gotta say, I'm with the shooter, ignorant redneck that he apparently is. First off, the guy has property rights. City-slickers might not realize that property rights extend both below, and above ground level. There is an exception for air traffic, but it must be much higher than this drone was. That's why airports have to purchase air rights from nearby properties. If a guy doesn't want a camera, or any other piece of someone else's property on his land, he has a right to remove it. How else you gonna do that with a drone, except shoot it? The guy also has a right to privacy. Do you want some drone filming you in your yard, or through your window, whether it's owned by some kid, or by the government? I'd call that trespassing. Another thing...if I owned a drone, I know that I would expect someone to respond like that.
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"Unfortunately, they were not willing or able to produce a search warrant or any court documents suggesting they had a legal right to take my property. In addition, they were persistent about requiring my passwords for all devices,” Silva said.
I always get a big kick out of hearing the reactions of middle-class people when they run into law enforcement, and aren't treated like middle-class people. They're never prepared for the reality, because they were taught in school that they had "rights", and all that other baloney.
"Silva was also told he had “no right for a lawyer to be present” and that being a U.S. citizen did not “entitle me to rights that I probably thought.”
Yep. I tell ya, if middle-class people always got the same treatment as poor folk, it'd be a different country pretty quickly.
Uh, women?
I don't know about "on Windows", but I'd like to know why iTunes sucked so much, and continues to suck much, after version 10.7. That might be your answer, right there.
Most CEOs are psychopaths. So are most politicians, for that matter. I have some bad news for you, though: Some psychopath will be the next president of the US, no matter who gets stomach cancer.
In the school's defense, imagine if this were the headline:
"Muslim student detonates bomb in school--school officials said they knew he was carrying a device that looked like a bomb, but didn't say anything because he told them it was a clock."
I bet you would call them stupid then too.
Yeah, that's a likely scenario. I know you hear about terror everyday, (there's a reason for that), but actual terror attacks are quite rare in the US. Doing a quick googling, I couldn't find any attacks carried out by children. It's this kind of thinking that gave us zero tolerance in the first place.
And here's the other thing - the school officials ought to have at least had a look at the thing, and once they saw it was harmless, everyone should've went back to their business. Had they done that, there would be no headlines, period. Instead, they went fucking bananas over nothing.
"A major problem in emerging countries is that when Internet access is available, it's often expensive."
what's emerging? Antarctica?
I assumed they meant the US. We seem to have the infrastructure, such as it is, yet there's no competition.
Planets are common. Planets within the habitable zone look like they are common. So, is this evidence of the Great Filter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ?
Planets are common. One planet is known to have life. Given a sample size of exactly one, we can use statistics to speculate wildly. So, yes, why not?
"If a user has AirDrop set to allow connections from anyone..."
Ok, so you have a setup where people can push files at you, and if you allow anybody to do it, someone might drop a malicious file in your system? What about the fact that Apple allows you to leave your laptop unattended and unlocked, say, on the subway? A malicious person could take over your whole computer! That's a serious vulnerability, and proves that Macs are no safer than Windows machines.
So true...so true... I have long thought that, if sexuality were a choice, being a gay male would be the obvious choice for those wanting lots of sex. Which is to say, most males. *sigh* Why can't women be more like men? I mean, in some ways...
Yeah, but the Commerce Clause has been interpreted to allow the Feds to regulate literally anything, beginning in the twentieth century. That's why they needed a constitutional amendment to prohibit alcohol, but not to prohibit drugs, later. You can argue that almost anything affects interstate commerce, and they do make that argument, but the internet is a "no-brainer" in that regard.
If automated cars are built to follow speed limits, and other traffic laws, why would a cop ever need to pull it over? It should rarely come up, unless some dolt decided to use one in a robbery. Sure, it can - it will - happen, but this should be a rare occasion. What is much, much, more common, is that police find, or invent, a traffic violation in order to conduct drug and cash searches. If cops are worried about anything, it would be losing this highly profitable activity.
Basically, this whole "state rights" rationalization for the break-up of the Civil War is pure poppycock.
Well, the particular "state's right" in question was slavery. That southern schools try to teach the Civil War in dog whistle, at least, shows they're embarrassed about it. It's like saying the Confederate Battle Flag is about "heritage" and "pride". You just have to understand that the heritage in question is that of Jim Crow and slavery, and the pride in question is white pride.
People support state's rights when it's to their benefit, and support Federal primacy when that's to their benefit. It's as simple as that. Notice how some Republicans are wringing their hands over legal weed issues?
Sure, even rich people have problems, but, I'll take those problems over the problems poor, (and working), people have.
To anyone newly super-wealthy out there, having problems making new friends, let me offer a solution. Fill up my bank account with a few million, and as two former poor persons, we should have a lot in common. I'm intelligent, but not a nerd. I have lots of ideas on how to enjoy life, and would be happy to help out. No, I'm serious. PM me.
Some countries are forcing Google to "rig" its search results, others are complaining about it. Regardless, all Google results are rigged in one way, or another, even at the individual level. For a long time, Altavista had a pure keyword search engine, but that disappeared at some point. I'm not sure who, if anybody, provides neutral results, based solely on keywords, anymore. I feel lucky that there are at least a couple of search engines that claim to not be spying on me.
Q.) When should cops be allowed to take control of self-driving cars?
A.) When cops suspect the car contains cash!
He hasn't lived in California, the land of rules and regulations. He has the media cartoon version of the place in mind.
I think he's looking for the .onion site address. Isn't it kind of weird that none of these articles published that? At least, none of the ones I've seen.
I wonder if this'll finally teach the post-Facebook generation not to use their real names on the internet?
(I know, I know...)
Right. As TFA says, RAM is cheap, so why not max out your slots? Zero pageouts is a good thing. As it happens, I have 16 GB. While it never fills up, (that I've seen), it does regularly use more than 8 GB. There's no reason not to have that extra chip.
I'd stay away from the 80s, and the latter half of the 70s. Not Detroit's best years. If you can afford a new car, you can afford any babied car from the 60's. Not only will you not have to worry about being hacked, or your computer choking, but you will look cool-as-fuck driving it. You'll have a car that can be picked out in a parking-lot, because it won't look like every other car there. Get one with bench seats - you'll have room for love-making. Don't forget, these cars we think of as hot rods today were the family cars of the 60s. Our family car, when I was a kid, was a '67 Impala. Nobody thought it was anything special then, but when you compare it to today's cars, it looks like a work of art.
You're worried about safety? Don't. We jammed the seat belts under the seats, and forgot about them. We did just fine without all that "safety" junk. Simply having a fine car will make you, and everyone around you, better drivers. Everyone respects a beautiful car from the sixties, and they'll respect you for having the good taste to own one. Crank the windows down, light a Lucky, put on your shades, crack a beer, and feel the power of an eight-cylinder, carbureted, Detroit engine under your feet!
Sorry, got a little carried away... But yeah, anything made before 1974!
And some of those will be the governments of Western democracies. That's the truly maddening part.
Pfft! It only means they're somewhat less hypocritical. I mean, how naïve do you have to be, to believe all that "freedom" and "democracy" crap we're taught as schoolchildren? Almost any adult-level history book should disabuse you of these notions, pronto.
Also, how is the OP Informative? I can sorta see Insightful, except that TFA is about how a Western democracy already has been vacuuming up all our data.
Yes, yes, we've all seen your spam a million times. Which is why it's called spam. Why not try to keep it down to one per thread? You'll come across as less of a lunatic.
I agree. A large percentage (0.185%) of the two-hundred-fifty million guns in this country (the USA) are used in crimes, including murder, and shootings! Watching the news on television makes it clear that these shootings are quite common. It is clear from the numbers that guns have no legitimate use, and should be banned. It's worked with drugs and alcohol, so let us proceed with confidence in this endeavor. Indeed, there are many other things which I disapprove of, and which ought to be banned.
I gotta say, I'm with the shooter, ignorant redneck that he apparently is. First off, the guy has property rights. City-slickers might not realize that property rights extend both below, and above ground level. There is an exception for air traffic, but it must be much higher than this drone was. That's why airports have to purchase air rights from nearby properties. If a guy doesn't want a camera, or any other piece of someone else's property on his land, he has a right to remove it. How else you gonna do that with a drone, except shoot it?
The guy also has a right to privacy. Do you want some drone filming you in your yard, or through your window, whether it's owned by some kid, or by the government? I'd call that trespassing.
Another thing...if I owned a drone, I know that I would expect someone to respond like that.