What the fuck are you bitching about? We're the FBI, we don't give a damn if a few innocent people get swept up in our investigations. And if they can't afford a really good lawyer then they won't be innocent by time we are done with them anyway. Get over yourselves, this is America. You have no rights any more.
Different phone companies had different systems. A call back number could be handy, but I liked the number that you could call that would speak back to you the number that you were calling from. There were times that came in really handy.
Years ago, in Pittsburgh, the number for the Time (and Temperature) was 391-9500 and reached the local power company, Duquesne Light. It still is, but you need to add the 412 area code now. It is still my "go to" number for testing a phone line when I don't want to bother a friend.
I had a small business and we added a private unlisted line. The installer wasn't even out the door yet when we got our first wrong number call on it. Wrong numbers continued throughout the afternoon and evening. People wouldn't say anything, they would just hang up. Finally I managed to get someone to talk to me, and they told me what number they were calling. It was 391-9500. Our new number was 931-9500. It hit me. We were getting an incredible number of wrong numbers where people transposed the first two digits trying to call for the time.
After I understood what the issue was the line became a lot of fun. If you answered the phone with "Hi. What time is it?" people usually knew what time it was and would tell you. If you answered with "Time and Temperature. Time speaking" you could often strike up a long conversation. I often told the story of how I screwed up and put my lunch on the tape reels of the time announcing machine and now my boss was making me answer all of the calls and give the time until the machine was fixed.
The power company would start each call with a little promo message such as "Electricity is your biggest bargain. Electric time is..". I enjoyed answering in my best announcer voice "We can raise your rates whenever we want and there is nothing that you can do about it. Electric time is...". I fondly remember one caller saying to someone else after that message "Boy, they are getting rude".
You little crybaby. So what if we have a lot more drunk drivers on the road and a bunch of people get killed (they shouldn't have been out there while the drunk drivers were on the road anyway)? The important thing here is that we protect the taxi driver monopoly and don't let others cut in on it (unless we get our cut).
The summary claims "way better than random", but is it? Sure, there are 4 choices, but are they all really equally likely? It doesn't seem to me like they should all be equally likely, and if not the machine might accomplish the score it did or even better just by guessing the more likely choices. Just because there are 4 choices it doesn't necessarily follow that the chances of each on would be 25%, in fact there could be some strong arguments against it.
For example the system could learn how perverted or non-perverted the experimenters are and if it can just distinguish male from female it can decide if kissing is going to be more or less likely based on gender. There are likely a combination of simple rules that one could give such a system (or it could conclude for itself) such as if one or more of the humans are black a high five would be more likely than a handshake and if there are two white dudes in suits then a handshake would be more likely than a high-five. And in what world would kissing, without hugging, be just as likely as hugging (without kissing)? At least if this is based on a U.S. culture I don't see the four choices being equal.
Just to clarify, I believe in the one true God, born of God the father and a mortal woman, who wore a beard and sandals and traveled the mid-east doing miraculous feats and building a religious following. Yes, like many others, I worship Hercules. And of course I know that all other gods are false and all who worship them are idiots.
And I do understand that the story of my god sounds an awful lot like the religious myth of Zoroastrianism and Ahura Mazda. But that's just how religion works. Why make up a new silly story when you can just reuse a ludicrous story that it has already been shown that people will fall for?
Yea, yea, you're going to post something like "alters the DNA of patients, what could possibly go wrong". But it is backed by a billionaire, so he is going to get to do whatever he wants. Stop complaining and move on, nothing to see here.
He adds that the existing analog headphone jack "is more costly in terms of depth than thickness," and by getting rid of it, Apple could use the extra real estate to stuff in more battery juice.
Maybe Apple could use the "extra" space to add to battery life, if special digital copy protection circuits don't end up taking up as much or more space, but does anyone really believe that Apple has any interest in doing this? Gruber is clearly just making unfounded excuses for Apple. I've learned long ago to be very weary of anyone who says stuff like this.
Idiot AC. From the info posted on the website Paypal not only wanted the files monitored (a violation of EU laws) but also demanded a list of file types that the user was saving on the system. What the hell does Paypal need to know if I'm saving pictures in.JPG or.RAW format for? What bad thing is ging to happen if Paypak decides that I'm saving files of the "wrong type"?
Wow, Paypal might not have changed much, but maybe Slashdot is starting to change. I've been modded down in the past for suggesting that Paypal and the electronic bay of thieves were evil, apparently by people who like to use them and don't want to consider the moral implications. Now it comes out that Paypal, a private company, is trying to get access to files that I store on a German server (obviously I don't really, since I absolutely will never use Paypal), based on nothing more than the account was paid for through Paypal.
I'm shocked! Shocked that Slashdot users might finally be waking up to some of the abuses of this company!
Sounds like it is just a voluntary tax on stupidity, perhaps coupled with a low cost course in computer security when that lesson is very needed. One has to wonder, since this kind of thing is usually covered up by the "victim", just how the FBI know how much of it is going on.
There is no legal marijuana industry in this country. Just a president who refuses to uphold our laws like he pledged to when he took office. And there is no assurance that the next president will not enforce those laws, and use all of those nice public records to help do it.
Wow. I sure wish I had known this was coming. I didn't use pirate sites like the Pirate bay since "they" told me it was stealing and I didn't want to risk involvement with that. If I had know that, had I used the site to get "free music" one of the founders would eventually pay for my music, I sure would have used the site gladly! Well, now I know. I'll start using pirate sites like the Pirate Bay right away (still won't use criminal sites like E-Bay though).
The news is reporting two recent trips to Saudi Arabia. And his religious leader was recently in Florida preaching death to gays. But sure, lets ignore that and blame America and, as Obama says, claim there is "No clear evidence Omar Mateen was directed externally". Let's take this tragedy and turn it around and even use it for taking away citizens second amendment rights to protect themselves.
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What the fuck are you bitching about? We're the FBI, we don't give a damn if a few innocent people get swept up in our investigations. And if they can't afford a really good lawyer then they won't be innocent by time we are done with them anyway. Get over yourselves, this is America. You have no rights any more.
Different phone companies had different systems. A call back number could be handy, but I liked the number that you could call that would speak back to you the number that you were calling from. There were times that came in really handy.
Years ago, in Pittsburgh, the number for the Time (and Temperature) was 391-9500 and reached the local power company, Duquesne Light. It still is, but you need to add the 412 area code now. It is still my "go to" number for testing a phone line when I don't want to bother a friend.
I had a small business and we added a private unlisted line. The installer wasn't even out the door yet when we got our first wrong number call on it. Wrong numbers continued throughout the afternoon and evening. People wouldn't say anything, they would just hang up. Finally I managed to get someone to talk to me, and they told me what number they were calling. It was 391-9500. Our new number was 931-9500. It hit me. We were getting an incredible number of wrong numbers where people transposed the first two digits trying to call for the time.
After I understood what the issue was the line became a lot of fun. If you answered the phone with "Hi. What time is it?" people usually knew what time it was and would tell you. If you answered with "Time and Temperature. Time speaking" you could often strike up a long conversation. I often told the story of how I screwed up and put my lunch on the tape reels of the time announcing machine and now my boss was making me answer all of the calls and give the time until the machine was fixed.
The power company would start each call with a little promo message such as "Electricity is your biggest bargain. Electric time is ..". I enjoyed answering in my best announcer voice "We can raise your rates whenever we want and there is nothing that you can do about it. Electric time is ...". I fondly remember one caller saying to someone else after that message "Boy, they are getting rude".
Personally, I blame Obamacare.
You little crybaby. So what if we have a lot more drunk drivers on the road and a bunch of people get killed (they shouldn't have been out there while the drunk drivers were on the road anyway)? The important thing here is that we protect the taxi driver monopoly and don't let others cut in on it (unless we get our cut).
We didn't get the vote we wanted. Lets vote again.
The summary claims "way better than random" , but is it? Sure, there are 4 choices, but are they all really equally likely? It doesn't seem to me like they should all be equally likely, and if not the machine might accomplish the score it did or even better just by guessing the more likely choices. Just because there are 4 choices it doesn't necessarily follow that the chances of each on would be 25%, in fact there could be some strong arguments against it.
For example the system could learn how perverted or non-perverted the experimenters are and if it can just distinguish male from female it can decide if kissing is going to be more or less likely based on gender. There are likely a combination of simple rules that one could give such a system (or it could conclude for itself) such as if one or more of the humans are black a high five would be more likely than a handshake and if there are two white dudes in suits then a handshake would be more likely than a high-five. And in what world would kissing, without hugging, be just as likely as hugging (without kissing)? At least if this is based on a U.S. culture I don't see the four choices being equal.
Seems like exactly the kind of thing a corrupt government that doesn't respect the privacy and rights of its citizens would do.
Hey, they paid for those politicians fair and square.
Just to clarify, I believe in the one true God, born of God the father and a mortal woman, who wore a beard and sandals and traveled the mid-east doing miraculous feats and building a religious following. Yes, like many others, I worship Hercules. And of course I know that all other gods are false and all who worship them are idiots.
And I do understand that the story of my god sounds an awful lot like the religious myth of Zoroastrianism and Ahura Mazda. But that's just how religion works. Why make up a new silly story when you can just reuse a ludicrous story that it has already been shown that people will fall for?
Stupid AC. There is no god. And no Santa or Easter Bunny either. You were lied to.
Yea, yea, you're going to post something like "alters the DNA of patients, what could possibly go wrong". But it is backed by a billionaire, so he is going to get to do whatever he wants. Stop complaining and move on, nothing to see here.
By that logic all of the people who fell for "Trump University" are now billionaires.
Of course Charter and TWC cheat their customers. Who else could they cheat?
There are ten Google Blacklists. Epstein failed to mention, perhaps deliberately, the Kenyan birth certificate blacklist.
He adds that the existing analog headphone jack "is more costly in terms of depth than thickness," and by getting rid of it, Apple could use the extra real estate to stuff in more battery juice.
Maybe Apple could use the "extra" space to add to battery life, if special digital copy protection circuits don't end up taking up as much or more space, but does anyone really believe that Apple has any interest in doing this? Gruber is clearly just making unfounded excuses for Apple. I've learned long ago to be very weary of anyone who says stuff like this.
How interesting. I'm 3 for 3 on your list and I lost mod privileges too. Never understood why before.
Idiot AC. From the info posted on the website Paypal not only wanted the files monitored (a violation of EU laws) but also demanded a list of file types that the user was saving on the system. What the hell does Paypal need to know if I'm saving pictures in .JPG or .RAW format for? What bad thing is ging to happen if Paypak decides that I'm saving files of the "wrong type"?
Wow, Paypal might not have changed much, but maybe Slashdot is starting to change. I've been modded down in the past for suggesting that Paypal and the electronic bay of thieves were evil, apparently by people who like to use them and don't want to consider the moral implications. Now it comes out that Paypal, a private company, is trying to get access to files that I store on a German server (obviously I don't really, since I absolutely will never use Paypal), based on nothing more than the account was paid for through Paypal.
I'm shocked! Shocked that Slashdot users might finally be waking up to some of the abuses of this company!
Those filthy dirty freedom hating commies. Now they are stealing out government's ideas!
Sounds like it is just a voluntary tax on stupidity, perhaps coupled with a low cost course in computer security when that lesson is very needed. One has to wonder, since this kind of thing is usually covered up by the "victim", just how the FBI know how much of it is going on.
Good points. Alcohol abusers punish themselves. Weed users must be punished by society.
There is no legal marijuana industry in this country. Just a president who refuses to uphold our laws like he pledged to when he took office. And there is no assurance that the next president will not enforce those laws, and use all of those nice public records to help do it.
Wow. I sure wish I had known this was coming. I didn't use pirate sites like the Pirate bay since "they" told me it was stealing and I didn't want to risk involvement with that. If I had know that, had I used the site to get "free music" one of the founders would eventually pay for my music, I sure would have used the site gladly! Well, now I know. I'll start using pirate sites like the Pirate Bay right away (still won't use criminal sites like E-Bay though).
The news is reporting two recent trips to Saudi Arabia. And his religious leader was recently in Florida preaching death to gays. But sure, lets ignore that and blame America and, as Obama says, claim there is "No clear evidence Omar Mateen was directed externally". Let's take this tragedy and turn it around and even use it for taking away citizens second amendment rights to protect themselves.