So-called second-hand smoke is a bad example, considering that it's unproven at best. It's killed zero people, obviously, and the media credulously reported everything the anti-tobacco lobby published. I mean, that's where you got the idea, right?
I'm always amazed when otherwise intelligent people believe that one. It doesn't even pass the common-sense test. Haven't you ever wondered how a whiff of smoke is going to hurt someone when smokers are filling their lungs all day, everyday, for decades on end? And even then, only seventy-percent of smokers are killed by it. You'd have to be a believer of homeopathy theory not to see that as suspect. But that's only cigarettes. Pipe smokers have the same mortality rate as non-smokers, (actually, they live a little longer on average), and cigar smokers don't do that much worse - yet they are surrounded by tobacco smoke. How can that be? That, my friend, is the kind of boring news the media ignores. They pounced on ridiculous figures like "42,000 Non-Smokers Killed by Second-Hand Smoke Each Year". Seriously. Google it.
Aside from this, anyone who watches local TV news sees frequent stories along the lines of "Entire family wiped out in car crash." This type of reporting is extremely common.
Yeah, I was wondering where the guy gets his news from because I see almost nothing but glowing reports of how autonomous cars are going to save us. Of course any autonomous car crashes are going to get covered, just because of the unusualness factor, but every report of the Tesla crash made a point of saying it was the driver's own fault.
50TB of data stolen? OK, so they caught the guy, but, if he had been a bit less greedy, perhaps he would have gotten away with it.
He's nothing like Snowden. I heard on the radio that this guy was some kind of obsessive hoarder, hence the massive amount of stuff. He never shared any data with anybody, he just "wanted it". Could be bullshit from his lawyer, but then again, we all know people who are like this, to one degree or another.
...surely he's not THAT stupid that he'd just blindly trust some rando hotspot.
I'm sure Mr. Assange is sophisticated enough to use an encrypted tunnel. Otherwise, the embassy's connection would be no more (or less) secure than any "rando hotspot". Regardless, I doubt he's going to find these dopes standing around with cell phones very helpful for any real work.
The rights holders are the problem and will never allow this.
That's what they said about iTunes, and Apple found a way. So I wouldn't count them out here...
Sort of. But you remember how long it took just to get where we got? Something will have to change though. A lot of people are sick of cable TV, and the way they do business. People have gotten used to having anything they want when they want it, and it's no secret that you can have things your way, and for free.
I don't have cable TV, but I do have cable internet. I think that the constant barrage of "deal offers" they send me, trying to get me to sign-up, indicate that they're feeling it. The only question is, how long will it take them to come around to doing things right?
Speaking as a leftist and a liberal, there is much hypocrisy on the left, particularly on the gun issue, but also on many others. After all, the last thing many so-called liberals want are liberal gun laws. The urge to ban and prohibit is essentially a conservative urge, and antithetical to liberalism. And indeed, gun rights had been a liberal cause since the first gun laws were passed, right after the American Civil War. Now we live in a kind of Reverse-World, where conservatives champion the expansion of rights, and liberals want to curtail liberties, but only for their respective pet causes.
For a number of years now, we've see many so-called liberals calling for bans and restrictions, or advocating the use of taxation as a form of coercion, when it comes to the particular items they don't approve of - everything from soda pop, to tobacco, to guns. And, of course, many liberal lawmakers have been at the forefront of the drug war. Incidentally, the first anti-marijuana laws in the US used taxation in an attempt to make marijuana prohibitively expensive, (because an outright ban would be unconstitutional).
The point the OP was trying to make is that many, perhaps most, of these attacks are perpetrated by mentally unbalanced individuals, and are not planned attacks by an organization. Yet, the media and the politicians love to play up the, at one time, Al Qeada, and now, ISIS angle because it's good for the terrorism industry. Or they're stupid - it's not always easy to tell. But the reason for the American public's gullibility is clear. If there were any doubts about the intelligence of the American electorate before, this election has settled the matter.
It's not a religious issue, but it's the same process that allows people to accept religion, to "believe". That's why it's mostly the same people, and why it's so hard to shake them from their beliefs - because that's all it is, a belief. And just as "science" doesn't matter to some religious believers, science doesn't matter to climate change deniers.
Why do you think you have to "Agree" everytime you do an update?
But the woman's lawsuit claims she wouldn't have bought the device if she'd known that while using it, the manufacturer "would monitor, collect and transmit her usage information."
News flash, lady: There are few phone apps that don't collect personal information on you, and try to hide that fact by burying it behind a wall of legalese. Always assume that's the primary purpose of any new app.
Cash? Ever heard of it? You can exchange goods and services for it, and i cant be easily tracked digitally unless they scan each bill.
I believe the OP means "over the internet". Obviously, if you walk into a store with cash, you're relatively anonymous, (discounting security cameras, of course). The OP seems to live in the UK or EU where anonymous, pre-paid debit cards have been discontinued.
One consistent thing I've noticed about people who call others "stupid" is that they very often are making the very mistake they're calling out. And if not that, their post will be full of grammatical, logical, and/or spelling mistakes. I have a theory about that, but unfortunately, I have to get to work right now.
Look, I don't support the takeover of Palestine, nor the ethnic cleansing that went on there, but Jews are different than Lutherans, and most other religions, in that they're not simply a religion. If not for anti-Semitism, they'd likely be happily living in Europe, (and probably would have been fully assimilated a long time ago). No doubt you've heard of the Nazi genocide? While two wrongs don't make a right, it's understandable that they'd want to pick up and leave after that. Unfortunately, they let their choice of location be guided by religion. Not that there's really anyplace on Earth you can go without displacing the people already there. The history of the World is one of constant migration and genocide.
That's right. Language prescriptivists always lose. It's simply the way language works. The French have been trying to encase their language in amber for some decades now, with little success. You may as well try to teach young people that "vinyl" is only used as a collective noun for records. They'll still say, "I bought a vinyl" or, "I have a bunch of vinyls", as retarded as that sounds to older people. "Hacker", and all other words, mean what the speaker intends them to mean, and what people understand them to mean.
Are you implying that forcing ISPs to terminate at a "COLO facility managed by the local municipality" is a "free enterprise" solution? How would you do that without regulations? That a city-owned facility which stands between customer and ISP is "having the Government get out of the way"? Are you being sarcastic? I mean, I like your idea, but that third paragraph, unless you're trying to be funny, is almost a non-sequitur. Sorry, it's not always easy to tell.
... so it's really closer to $50 per month to not be spied upon.
I'm paying $50 per year not to be spied on. I shouldn't have to pay anything, of course, but I can trust my VPN a lot more than I could ever trust my ISP. And, supposedly, my encrypted traffic is disguised as regular ol' HTTP traffic by using XOR, (I admit, I haven''t done the research), so unless they take a "deeper" look, they don't even know I'm using a VPN. Comcast is taking advantage of the ignorance of the average user. It's essentially a protection racket.
Comcast: "You need to pay us to protect you." Customer: "Who are you protecting me from?" Comcast: "Us."
To be honest, though... this smells a lot like some trumped-up nonsense.
Of course it is. How would they even do that? The fact is, with digital, there's always a way around it. When people want something, they find a way to get it. It's how torrents came into being. If they ever found a way to make torrenting really difficult, someone would come up with an even better way.
Here's the other thing I wonder - when did Google go from being a search engine, to being in charge of the internet?
I'm a huge believer that police often overstep boundaries, but no, that is exactly what they should not have done.
Why were they even at her door with a "bench warrant stemm[ing] from charges during a March 10 stop, including disorderly conduct and resisting arrest"? Disorderly conduct and resisting arrest are the charges they throw at you when they've got nothing on you. Yet, they're at her door with a warrant for these misdemeanor charges? There was child inside, too. They should've tried to de-escalate. Why was it so important to turn off her live feed? Because trolls were egging her on? I don't think so. Something is fishy about this whole thing.
The term troll is actually derived from a fishing troll, because it lures people in. It has nothing to do with the actual fictional monster that is a troll.
Absolutely true. Unfortunately, trolling has become much less like the fisherman troller, cleverly luring the fish in, and much more like the asshole living under the bridge. Trolling ain't what it used to be, and hasn't been for a long time. Perhaps, at least in part, because of people's misunderstanding of the term's derivation.
It's actually quite easy to mitigate smart TVs spying on you. Don't plug them into your network. 8-)
Easy enough for those of us who don't watch TV, but use them as monitors for a gaming console, or similar box. But I certainly don't want to have to pay for all that crap.
Not just yet. We're in the midst of a prolonged panic over children's safety. Just be glad they've snapped out of the whole Ritual Satanic Child Abuse thing.
First off - the email content isn't all that shocking. At least, not to anyone who understands how parties work. Sure, they'd love to project the illusion that the Democratic Party is actually democratic, but it's not. And simply because deflecting attention is a desirable outcome, that doesn't mean the charges are bogus. Trump has ties with the Putin government. That is a fact. Putin has tried to influence elections in other countries through hacking. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss these charges.
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So-called second-hand smoke is a bad example, considering that it's unproven at best. It's killed zero people, obviously, and the media credulously reported everything the anti-tobacco lobby published. I mean, that's where you got the idea, right?
I'm always amazed when otherwise intelligent people believe that one. It doesn't even pass the common-sense test. Haven't you ever wondered how a whiff of smoke is going to hurt someone when smokers are filling their lungs all day, everyday, for decades on end? And even then, only seventy-percent of smokers are killed by it. You'd have to be a believer of homeopathy theory not to see that as suspect. But that's only cigarettes. Pipe smokers have the same mortality rate as non-smokers, (actually, they live a little longer on average), and cigar smokers don't do that much worse - yet they are surrounded by tobacco smoke. How can that be? That, my friend, is the kind of boring news the media ignores. They pounced on ridiculous figures like "42,000 Non-Smokers Killed by Second-Hand Smoke Each Year". Seriously. Google it.
Aside from this, anyone who watches local TV news sees frequent stories along the lines of "Entire family wiped out in car crash." This type of reporting is extremely common.
Yeah, I was wondering where the guy gets his news from because I see almost nothing but glowing reports of how autonomous cars are going to save us. Of course any autonomous car crashes are going to get covered, just because of the unusualness factor, but every report of the Tesla crash made a point of saying it was the driver's own fault.
First there was Snowden, now this.
50TB of data stolen? OK, so they caught the guy, but, if he had been a bit less greedy, perhaps he would have gotten away with it.
He's nothing like Snowden. I heard on the radio that this guy was some kind of obsessive hoarder, hence the massive amount of stuff. He never shared any data with anybody, he just "wanted it". Could be bullshit from his lawyer, but then again, we all know people who are like this, to one degree or another.
...surely he's not THAT stupid that he'd just blindly trust some rando hotspot.
I'm sure Mr. Assange is sophisticated enough to use an encrypted tunnel. Otherwise, the embassy's connection would be no more (or less) secure than any "rando hotspot". Regardless, I doubt he's going to find these dopes standing around with cell phones very helpful for any real work.
The rights holders are the problem and will never allow this.
That's what they said about iTunes, and Apple found a way. So I wouldn't count them out here...
Sort of. But you remember how long it took just to get where we got? Something will have to change though. A lot of people are sick of cable TV, and the way they do business. People have gotten used to having anything they want when they want it, and it's no secret that you can have things your way, and for free.
I don't have cable TV, but I do have cable internet. I think that the constant barrage of "deal offers" they send me, trying to get me to sign-up, indicate that they're feeling it. The only question is, how long will it take them to come around to doing things right?
Speaking as a leftist and a liberal, there is much hypocrisy on the left, particularly on the gun issue, but also on many others. After all, the last thing many so-called liberals want are liberal gun laws. The urge to ban and prohibit is essentially a conservative urge, and antithetical to liberalism. And indeed, gun rights had been a liberal cause since the first gun laws were passed, right after the American Civil War. Now we live in a kind of Reverse-World, where conservatives champion the expansion of rights, and liberals want to curtail liberties, but only for their respective pet causes.
For a number of years now, we've see many so-called liberals calling for bans and restrictions, or advocating the use of taxation as a form of coercion, when it comes to the particular items they don't approve of - everything from soda pop, to tobacco, to guns. And, of course, many liberal lawmakers have been at the forefront of the drug war. Incidentally, the first anti-marijuana laws in the US used taxation in an attempt to make marijuana prohibitively expensive, (because an outright ban would be unconstitutional).
The point the OP was trying to make is that many, perhaps most, of these attacks are perpetrated by mentally unbalanced individuals, and are not planned attacks by an organization. Yet, the media and the politicians love to play up the, at one time, Al Qeada, and now, ISIS angle because it's good for the terrorism industry. Or they're stupid - it's not always easy to tell. But the reason for the American public's gullibility is clear. If there were any doubts about the intelligence of the American electorate before, this election has settled the matter.
It's not a religious issue, but it's the same process that allows people to accept religion, to "believe". That's why it's mostly the same people, and why it's so hard to shake them from their beliefs - because that's all it is, a belief. And just as "science" doesn't matter to some religious believers, science doesn't matter to climate change deniers.
Speaking of fables, I would like to see what happens if someone tried charging their phone in microwave oven.
Whenever you're ready.
I drilled the hole, just like he showed in the video. You noobs just don't know how to do it.
That's right. I cut a slot in my 2014 iMac, and revealed a working floppy disk drive. Location, location, location...
Why do you think you have to "Agree" everytime you do an update?
But the woman's lawsuit claims she wouldn't have bought the device if she'd known that while using it, the manufacturer "would monitor, collect and transmit her usage information."
News flash, lady: There are few phone apps that don't collect personal information on you, and try to hide that fact by burying it behind a wall of legalese. Always assume that's the primary purpose of any new app.
Cash? Ever heard of it? You can exchange goods and services for it, and i cant be easily tracked digitally unless they scan each bill.
I believe the OP means "over the internet". Obviously, if you walk into a store with cash, you're relatively anonymous, (discounting security cameras, of course). The OP seems to live in the UK or EU where anonymous, pre-paid debit cards have been discontinued.
One consistent thing I've noticed about people who call others "stupid" is that they very often are making the very mistake they're calling out. And if not that, their post will be full of grammatical, logical, and/or spelling mistakes. I have a theory about that, but unfortunately, I have to get to work right now.
Stupidity is one of our biggest exports. See also: drug and alcohol prohibition.
Look, I don't support the takeover of Palestine, nor the ethnic cleansing that went on there, but Jews are different than Lutherans, and most other religions, in that they're not simply a religion. If not for anti-Semitism, they'd likely be happily living in Europe, (and probably would have been fully assimilated a long time ago). No doubt you've heard of the Nazi genocide? While two wrongs don't make a right, it's understandable that they'd want to pick up and leave after that. Unfortunately, they let their choice of location be guided by religion. Not that there's really anyplace on Earth you can go without displacing the people already there. The history of the World is one of constant migration and genocide.
The reason it's easy, is that they make it easy for dealers and service technicians to reprogram the fobs. Had you RTFA, you wouldn't have had to ask.
That's right. Language prescriptivists always lose. It's simply the way language works. The French have been trying to encase their language in amber for some decades now, with little success. You may as well try to teach young people that "vinyl" is only used as a collective noun for records. They'll still say, "I bought a vinyl" or, "I have a bunch of vinyls", as retarded as that sounds to older people. "Hacker", and all other words, mean what the speaker intends them to mean, and what people understand them to mean.
Are you implying that forcing ISPs to terminate at a "COLO facility managed by the local municipality" is a "free enterprise" solution? How would you do that without regulations? That a city-owned facility which stands between customer and ISP is "having the Government get out of the way"? Are you being sarcastic? I mean, I like your idea, but that third paragraph, unless you're trying to be funny, is almost a non-sequitur. Sorry, it's not always easy to tell.
... so it's really closer to $50 per month to not be spied upon.
I'm paying $50 per year not to be spied on. I shouldn't have to pay anything, of course, but I can trust my VPN a lot more than I could ever trust my ISP. And, supposedly, my encrypted traffic is disguised as regular ol' HTTP traffic by using XOR, (I admit, I haven''t done the research), so unless they take a "deeper" look, they don't even know I'm using a VPN. Comcast is taking advantage of the ignorance of the average user. It's essentially a protection racket.
Comcast: "You need to pay us to protect you."
Customer: "Who are you protecting me from?"
Comcast: "Us."
To be honest, though... this smells a lot like some trumped-up nonsense.
Of course it is. How would they even do that? The fact is, with digital, there's always a way around it. When people want something, they find a way to get it. It's how torrents came into being. If they ever found a way to make torrenting really difficult, someone would come up with an even better way.
Here's the other thing I wonder - when did Google go from being a search engine, to being in charge of the internet?
I'm a huge believer that police often overstep boundaries, but no, that is exactly what they should not have done.
Why were they even at her door with a "bench warrant stemm[ing] from charges during a March 10 stop, including disorderly conduct and resisting arrest"? Disorderly conduct and resisting arrest are the charges they throw at you when they've got nothing on you. Yet, they're at her door with a warrant for these misdemeanor charges? There was child inside, too. They should've tried to de-escalate. Why was it so important to turn off her live feed? Because trolls were egging her on? I don't think so. Something is fishy about this whole thing.
The term troll is actually derived from a fishing troll, because it lures people in. It has nothing to do with the actual fictional monster that is a troll.
Absolutely true. Unfortunately, trolling has become much less like the fisherman troller, cleverly luring the fish in, and much more like the asshole living under the bridge. Trolling ain't what it used to be, and hasn't been for a long time. Perhaps, at least in part, because of people's misunderstanding of the term's derivation.
It's actually quite easy to mitigate smart TVs spying on you. Don't plug them into your network. 8-)
Easy enough for those of us who don't watch TV, but use them as monitors for a gaming console, or similar box. But I certainly don't want to have to pay for all that crap.
Not just yet. We're in the midst of a prolonged panic over children's safety. Just be glad they've snapped out of the whole Ritual Satanic Child Abuse thing.
First off - the email content isn't all that shocking. At least, not to anyone who understands how parties work. Sure, they'd love to project the illusion that the Democratic Party is actually democratic, but it's not. And simply because deflecting attention is a desirable outcome, that doesn't mean the charges are bogus. Trump has ties with the Putin government. That is a fact. Putin has tried to influence elections in other countries through hacking. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss these charges.