Someone trying to make a buck off of providing alternate internet routes. How unusual.
As for the article itself, you have got to be kidding me - "aggressively pursuing"? Why not just post a photo of the cheque from the US State Department?
There's a real problem with that approach: though it is temporarily effective in the short term, it makes staff comfortable insisting on demanding the information. It slowly normalizes the abnormal. If Mr. TinFoil here is right, you are furthering a system that compromises privacy to an astonishing degree - and there doesn't have to be sensors at every traffic light for there to be a system. If Mr. TinFoil is wrong, you're making it so such a system shall become trivial to implement.
I recently had a bank insist that, in addition to my government issued ID, they needed my email address and telephone number in order to cash a cheque and pay a bill. It's a lie, as evidenced by the fact that I eventually walked out of there with more money and one less cheque. Your privacy is worth something only for about as long as you defend it.
Xu said that while it is possible to track someone by their tire IDs, the feasibility of doing so would be quite low. "Someone would have to invest money at putting receivers at different locations," she said. Also multiple tire manufacturers have different types of sensors, requiring different receivers. Each receiver in this test cost US$1,500.
Oh yeah, good thing RFID detectors are so freaking expensive. Plus, someone covertly tracking you is going to be really upset if they can't read your tyre pressure.
This is a mistaken view. Even if Ubuntu support was always effective, there is no weight taken off Debian. Every community has to deal with noobs.
In the real world (specifically, the irc support channels), there's a chronic problem: a fresh Ubuntu user realizes that they're not getting help in #ubuntu, so they come to #debian, because, well, Ubuntu is based on Debian, so you #debian people know how to fix my problem, right? right? Much time is lost trying to help them when their problem is particular to Ubuntu before they accidentally let "Lynx" or "Meerkat" slip out. It's so chronic that there are bot factoids to explain why we can't help them if they are not actually running Debian.
Of course, not all Ubuntu users experience this, but they probably stay with Ubuntu.
Since the TSA scanned a 12 year old girl, why aren't child pornography charges being brought up on them?
You simply have to prove that the purpose of the image is not for "deviant gratification".
The age of the citizen doesn't enter into the first part of the calculations. Since the scanning is a violation of the 4th amendment, and designed to fulfill the dreams of sick, power-hungry control freaks, I'd say the images are for "deviant gratification".
Is it April Fool's Day already?
This strikes me as viscerally wrong on so many levels, but one is immediately articulable: This would be an attempt to solve a social issue via technical means, and such efforts are usually doomed to failure. But not before wasting a lot of money, effort, and billable hours...
Where is the -1, Idiot moderation option? You didn't consent to, you insisted upon divorce (as evidenced by your claim that you filed). Being married or not actually has legal consequences for people outside your bedroom and living room and thus is not at all a private matter.
...users still need to have in-depth knowledge to do basic stuff, like install new applications. Things got slightly better, but it's still way more difficult than it should be. Even with a user-friendly package manager you are still faced with a huge noise to signal ratio created by the large amount of applications that might do what you want, none of which are the application you've heard of.
Ya know, I have had that exact same problem using MS Windows since forever. I recommend dropping that from your list of arguments, as it doesn't do what you think it does.
I do volnteer work educating seniors about using computers, and let me tell you, the amount of knowledge required to follow such directions as `right click on the icon and select "Properties" from the context-sensitive menu' is not trivial. These are not stupid people, they just never have been taught before. The real eye opener for me was finding myself teaching a (retired) physicist. I never had to repeat myself, but I still had to explain a lot. Just because you and I know it and consider it basic doesn't mean it's not in-depth.
If criticism bred improvement, Windows would be so close to perfect it would bring you breakfast in bed. Criticism, and the inablility to hide the current source code tree from prying eyes, inspires improvement.
"In the ten years that we have worked together, I can recall only one case of miscoordination of work. On that occasion, I discovered that we both had written the same 20-line assembly language program. I compared the sources and was astounded to find that they matched character-for-character."
I recall reading that there was only one occasion where, due to a miscommunication between them, both Thompson and Ritchie wrote the same program. Hey, it DOES happen to other people!
When the two programs were compared, the only difference between them was the name of one variable.
Dear ASCAP,
Please don't spread lies. The people behind EFF, CC, PK et alia, are smarter than you, and easily ruffled by people getting the facts wrong.
You're in for a schooling.
http
I was wondering how seriously to take this elected representative for a bit, until I came across this actuality:
"The idea is not to turn a motorist's vehicle into a mobile billboard, but rather to create a platform for motorists to show their support for existing good working organizations," he said.
Uh, what would a mobile billboard do differently, exactly?
It appears IQs have dropped sharply while I was away. Politicians feel free to change their mind and policies in the span of one sentence, as if nobody is going to notice.
Your thoughts on Hamas seem equally misguided. They care very much about the political status of israel, but after suffering decades of systematic massacres and thievery, don't expect them to be favourably disposed.
Why does it seem that nobody has a memory of the world before season one of `Lost'?
However, it's more likely than not to be accurate. It would be good if EU-based activists could inquire about this (especially with help from Members of the European Parliament). With pressure from inside the EU there may be a chance to get patents thrown out of ACTA altogether.
See how freaking effective the Overton Window is? Now you're discussing removing patents from ACTA instead of killing it.
The system has failed utterly. One million dead Iraqis would cry out for justice, were they alive to do so. They've already got a bullet to the back of the head (or the heart, or the femoral artery, or to the clean water supply) , for no good reason. The war itself is illegal, so it's no surprise that the military combatants don't feel that any law applies to them. Oh, right, the diplomats pushed for providing them with immunity. Sweet!
Your snarky comment about releasing SS#, CC#, passwords, etc is false. Most people haven't committed war crimes on a systematic basis. The US government and military have.
1) Absolutely. Who has more force available to throw in your direction?
2) Yes. If I've done something 'wrong' I can raise a defense of my actions, or point out mitigating circumstance. If I haven't done anything, I may well have to prove I did nothing. Proving a negative is a really hard thing to do. Been there, done that, having been accused of a crime I did not commit. There's a really severe level of fuck-your-life-up involved in criminal charges, and to have to deal with that without having accomplished my political aims or getting my rocks off seems, well, frightful.
Slashdot Mirror
It is
192.168.1.1
You can ALL turn in your geek cards. You see a 32 bit number and don't think IP address?
Someone trying to make a buck off of providing alternate internet routes. How unusual.
As for the article itself, you have got to be kidding me - "aggressively pursuing"? Why not just post a photo of the cheque from the US State Department?
From where I'm sitting, they bought and assimilated Doubleclick. If you want to talk to me about Google and Ethics, I expect a period between them.
There's a real problem with that approach: though it is temporarily effective in the short term, it makes staff comfortable insisting on demanding the information. It slowly normalizes the abnormal. If Mr. TinFoil here is right, you are furthering a system that compromises privacy to an astonishing degree - and there doesn't have to be sensors at every traffic light for there to be a system. If Mr. TinFoil is wrong, you're making it so such a system shall become trivial to implement.
I recently had a bank insist that, in addition to my government issued ID, they needed my email address and telephone number in order to cash a cheque and pay a bill. It's a lie, as evidenced by the fact that I eventually walked out of there with more money and one less cheque. Your privacy is worth something only for about as long as you defend it.
Oh yeah, good thing RFID detectors are so freaking expensive. Plus, someone covertly tracking you is going to be really upset if they can't read your tyre pressure.
This is a mistaken view. Even if Ubuntu support was always effective, there is no weight taken off Debian. Every community has to deal with noobs.
In the real world (specifically, the irc support channels), there's a chronic problem: a fresh Ubuntu user realizes that they're not getting help in #ubuntu, so they come to #debian, because, well, Ubuntu is based on Debian, so you #debian people know how to fix my problem, right? right? Much time is lost trying to help them when their problem is particular to Ubuntu before they accidentally let "Lynx" or "Meerkat" slip out. It's so chronic that there are bot factoids to explain why we can't help them if they are not actually running Debian.
Of course, not all Ubuntu users experience this, but they probably stay with Ubuntu.
The age of the citizen doesn't enter into the first part of the calculations. Since the scanning is a violation of the 4th amendment, and designed to fulfill the dreams of sick, power-hungry control freaks, I'd say the images are for "deviant gratification".
Is it April Fool's Day already?
This strikes me as viscerally wrong on so many levels, but one is immediately articulable: This would be an attempt to solve a social issue via technical means, and such efforts are usually doomed to failure. But not before wasting a lot of money, effort, and billable hours...
I did not advocate anything. Next time you want to try putting words in my mouth, don't.
Where is the -1, Idiot moderation option? You didn't consent to, you insisted upon divorce (as evidenced by your claim that you filed). Being married or not actually has legal consequences for people outside your bedroom and living room and thus is not at all a private matter.
You can't be serious that you don't know who Rob Pike is, when you're intelligently discussing writing comilers.
Credits before Google include "The Practice of Programming" (with Brian Kernighan), Plan 9 (the OS, not the WM), and Inferno.
"The Practice of Programming" successfully shows aspiring and experienced programmers to program even better.
Ya know, I have had that exact same problem using MS Windows since forever. I recommend dropping that from your list of arguments, as it doesn't do what you think it does.
I do volnteer work educating seniors about using computers, and let me tell you, the amount of knowledge required to follow such directions as `right click on the icon and select "Properties" from the context-sensitive menu' is not trivial. These are not stupid people, they just never have been taught before. The real eye opener for me was finding myself teaching a (retired) physicist. I never had to repeat myself, but I still had to explain a lot. Just because you and I know it and consider it basic doesn't mean it's not in-depth.
Since the tests contain, say, physics questions, and therefore measure your ability to analyze (and therefore solve) physics questions.
If criticism bred improvement, Windows would be so close to perfect it would bring you breakfast in bed. Criticism, and the inablility to hide the current source code tree from prying eyes, inspires improvement.
ipX, for the win:
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
I recall reading that there was only one occasion where, due to a miscommunication between them, both Thompson and Ritchie wrote the same program. Hey, it DOES happen to other people!
When the two programs were compared, the only difference between them was the name of one variable.
http://www.xkcd.org/481/
Dear ASCAP,
Please don't spread lies. The people behind EFF, CC, PK et alia, are smarter than you, and easily ruffled by people getting the facts wrong.
You're in for a schooling.
http
Nothing says lovin' like a Louieville.
I was wondering how seriously to take this elected representative for a bit, until I came across this actuality:
Uh, what would a mobile billboard do differently, exactly?
It appears IQs have dropped sharply while I was away. Politicians feel free to change their mind and policies in the span of one sentence, as if nobody is going to notice.
Janet Napolitano is being very liberal with your civil rights.
Israel has given up land? Israel has given up land? You are ignorant of the facts. A simple visual representation available here: http://www.annainthemiddleeast.com/photos/maps_media/2242/
Your thoughts on Hamas seem equally misguided. They care very much about the political status of israel, but after suffering decades of systematic massacres and thievery, don't expect them to be favourably disposed.
Why does it seem that nobody has a memory of the world before season one of `Lost'?
See how freaking effective the Overton Window is? Now you're discussing removing patents from ACTA instead of killing it.
The system has failed utterly. One million dead Iraqis would cry out for justice, were they alive to do so. They've already got a bullet to the back of the head (or the heart, or the femoral artery, or to the clean water supply) , for no good reason. The war itself is illegal, so it's no surprise that the military combatants don't feel that any law applies to them. Oh, right, the diplomats pushed for providing them with immunity. Sweet!
Your snarky comment about releasing SS#, CC#, passwords, etc is false. Most people haven't committed war crimes on a systematic basis. The US government and military have.
1) Absolutely. Who has more force available to throw in your direction?
2) Yes. If I've done something 'wrong' I can raise a defense of my actions, or point out mitigating circumstance. If I haven't done anything, I may well have to prove I did nothing. Proving a negative is a really hard thing to do. Been there, done that, having been accused of a crime I did not commit. There's a really severe level of fuck-your-life-up involved in criminal charges, and to have to deal with that without having accomplished my political aims or getting my rocks off seems, well, frightful.