Your fingerprints absolutely can be evidence against you. That's not even a question.
(IANAL,...) The fingerprint is usually used as a means to identify the person - the fingerprint itself is the evidence. Here it is used as means to gain access to the evidence - i.e. it is not itself used in the role of the evidence.
a 29 year old decided that he knew better than the hundreds of elected officials that we the people appointed to make these sorts of decisions on our behalf.
He reported the problems to his superiors and was ignored. Are you suggesting he should go to a governor or a congressman? Like "hello, I'm a NSA analyst and I'd like to chat with you about NSA illegally spying on everyone in US. When and where would that suit you?"
he leaks EVERYTHING, to foreign media.
So he should have leaked only something? Greenwald is an American and they met in New York.
he runs away to a country that stands diametrically opposed to every human right he claims to champion.
There isn't a wide range of countries to choose from. He chose the country that respected his rights. Which, sadly, is not US.
There's a reason that it makes sense to form groups (...) to allow lots of people to pool their resources and speak with one voice when it suits them to do so.
I have a question: how many people are represented by the lobbyist? My guess is that they will fit into one room. Are you saying that if I grab the same number of friends at the local pub, then I have the same chances?
It's their platform. If they want to change it up, start charging or whatever, that's their right. People sure do whine a lot in 2016.
While TFS talks mainly about replacing "free" with "paid for", there is also change of the web platform. For the worse. Terribly.
The old platform that is being phased out was lightweight, fast, compact, worked everywhere. The new platform is bloated (the main page fails to load on my tablet with 1GB of RAM), slow and has so many flaws, that the discussion threads in the Mentor forum (where are participating only active, experienced students hand picked by coursera) have hundreds of posts - all pointing out broken features, removed useful features with no replacement, browser incompatibilities, lack of feedback/support, etc. etc.
That's still not everything. The number of courses grew during last year tenfold. There were two girls communicating with Mentors in the discussion forum - one of them left recently and they are looking for replacement. The new courses flowing in have numerous flaws in video/audio quality, grading, video subtitles, course materials... The forums, are much less active, basically they shifted from interesting discussion on the course topic to technical support line - except the support is not provided by coursera but by fellow students.
I did over 20 courses. Some of them sufficient as light intro to the topic, some of them were really excellent (e.g. on Algorithms by Tim Roughgarden, Cryptography by Dan Boneh - both from Stanford University). I'm saddened to see the decline.
Car analogy does not cut it. Imagine Slashdot classic vs Slashdot 2.0, but raised to 3rd power and managed by Elop and no whisplash
The fact that, what was until now only between a private addon developer and the customer, now involves another entity. Which even talks about wanting to access the source code - of binary components included in the addon.
Slackware user here. I'm not aware of some (semi)automatic functionality that would tell LILO to keep last N kernels. But I definitely do it when I upgrade the kernel. Just copy the right 6-7 lines in/etc/lilo.conf and edit the name and kernel filename. If it works for a half a year, then I may remove that from/etc/lilo.conf but likely still keep the image file.
So, European values don't actually include free expression.
EU citizen here. I would rather live with these "restrictions" to free speech then with civil forfeiture or in a U.S. territory. And don't get me started with Gitmo.
What would happen to someone saying "send them back to their own country" if that country is a war zone?
I don't know. The only people who say that are real whackos who can be prosecuted for other, much less ambiguous statements and acts. What many people over here say is "we don't want them here" and they do not really care where the refugees go as long as they do not come here. And such statements can be heard from bars, to journalists, to politicians. Some media and some politicians are not happy to see that. E.g. the discussion forums in an online newspaper is disabled, but you are free to set up your own web site or express your ideas in the streets. A TV show does not get cut off if a guest says "we should not patrol seas and encourage refugees to come to EU". I never heard about this being prosecuted by a court or even suggested that it should be punishable.
Oxford Dictionary:
threat: noun; a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.
So if I post "I don't want them to come to my country because they will overload and ruin our social system" it's not a threat. If I post "we should beat the crap out of Syrians coming to establish Sharia law in my country", yes that is a threat.
The law that I quoted, is not something that is new. It exists for decades and there are at about 2-3 cases per year,where it is applied in a court (and it makes headlines). I.e. I don't see it creating the mess you forecast. That can change as the refugee crisis mounts up again, but that is yet to be seen.
Let me try (IANAL) to translate the law as it is valid in one of the EU members:
Whoever threatens an individual or a group of people due their race, ethnicity, skin color, origin or religion, if the excuse for the threat due aforementioned reasons is committing a crime, restriction of rights and freedoms or whoever carries out such restriction or whoever is inciting restrictions of rights and freedoms of some nation,nationality, race, ethnic group will be punished by imprisonment up to 3 years
Whoever publicly
a)incites violence or hate against group of people or an individual due their affiliation to some race, nation, nationality, skin color, ethnic group, origin or religion, if it is an excuse for inciting due aforementioned reasons or
b) defames such group or individual or is threatening them by publicly excusing a genocide, crime against humanity, or war crime (as defined by articles 6, 7 and 8 of Roman institute of International Court or Nuremberg Charter ) if such act was committed against such group or individual or if the perpetrator of such crime was finally declared guilty by international court or publicly denies or derogates such act committed against such person will be punished by imprisonment from 1 up to 3 years
It is a bit of a lawyer-speak, but I can't really say I disagree with that and it's not going to change as result of this new EU regulation. Can you point out what's wrong with that?
Slackware, on the other hand, requires far too much manual intervention just to get a minimally usable system set up.
I run Slackware since... ever. At about 20 years. And using it as my primary desktop since... ever. Browsing web, handling e-mail, watching movies, running LibreOffice, managing family photos, developing in C and Java, playing (admittedly older) games. Yes, occasionally I do some steps that I would not do on another distro - often because I want to, not because I need to. But the benefit is a system that is easy to understand, that does not screw up by itself. On the other hand I use some Ubuntu machines at work, and I'm baffled that some tools (nmap, whois, rpm2tgz, locate,... ) are missing in default install. So I'm finding Slackware very usable.
So Greece laying about the budget deficit when joining EU was not Greece fault?
Isn't it true that Stefanos Manos (former Greece minister of finance) said " the Greek national railway was so poorly run and its public employees so overpaid that it would be cheaper for the state to shut down the railway entirely and give every customer taxi fare to their destination." ?
Isn't it true that Tassos Giannitsis (former minister of labor) said "When I told my colleagues in the cabinet about the reforms I was proposingâ"which mind you were not the toughest availableâ"the attitude I got was that I was spoiling the party, They were, like, âeverything is going great right now, why are you bothering us with a problem that may implode in a decade?"
Isn't it true that "the retirement age for Greek jobs classified as "arduous" is as early as 55 for men and 50 for women. As this is also the moment when the state begins to shovel out generous pensions, more than 600 Greek professions somehow managed to get themselves classified as arduous: hairdressers, radio announcers, waiters, musicians, and on and on and on" and "the Greek public-school system is the site of breathtaking inefficiency: one of the lowest-ranked systems in Europe, it nonetheless employs four times as many teachers per pupil as the highest-ranked, Finland's"
The last thing especially is a breathtaking reading. Greeks should not point fingers at anyone until they admit that they screwed up themselves too. Sure it was the upper class that screwed you, the little people. But who voted them in?
Yes, I understand that he offered to help. Yes, I understand that he had the noblest intentions. Regardless, he still intentionally broke the law by accessing a system without authorization. That it was easy to do doesn't make it any less of a crime.
Are you suggesting to replace cryptography with law?
For example, if a fingerprint or blood was found at the crime scene, you can be compelled to give your fingerprint or blood to test for a match.
No, you can't be compelled to give blood. You can be compelled to refrain from resisting the authorities' attempts to draw blood (or rather: If you resist, you'll be properly restrained first, then your blood will be taken, and then you'll be jailed for resisting). Same thing for fingerprints. If you don't want to get ink on your fingers yourself, the authorities will perform the necessary movements for you.
One of us is confused about what the word "compelled" means.
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(IANAL, ...) The fingerprint is usually used as a means to identify the person - the fingerprint itself is the evidence. Here it is used as means to gain access to the evidence - i.e. it is not itself used in the role of the evidence.
You do?
The only reason why I install 32-bit stuff on my Linux machine is that it is needed when compiling VirtualBox from source code.
Nigel Farage is unelected?
He reported the problems to his superiors and was ignored. Are you suggesting he should go to a governor or a congressman? Like "hello, I'm a NSA analyst and I'd like to chat with you about NSA illegally spying on everyone in US. When and where would that suit you?"
So he should have leaked only something? Greenwald is an American and they met in New York.
There isn't a wide range of countries to choose from. He chose the country that respected his rights. Which, sadly, is not US.
I thought the google maps imagery is based on aerial photography.
I have a question: how many people are represented by the lobbyist? My guess is that they will fit into one room. Are you saying that if I grab the same number of friends at the local pub, then I have the same chances?
While TFS talks mainly about replacing "free" with "paid for", there is also change of the web platform. For the worse. Terribly.
The old platform that is being phased out was lightweight, fast, compact, worked everywhere. The new platform is bloated (the main page fails to load on my tablet with 1GB of RAM), slow and has so many flaws, that the discussion threads in the Mentor forum (where are participating only active, experienced students hand picked by coursera) have hundreds of posts - all pointing out broken features, removed useful features with no replacement, browser incompatibilities, lack of feedback/support, etc. etc.
That's still not everything. The number of courses grew during last year tenfold. There were two girls communicating with Mentors in the discussion forum - one of them left recently and they are looking for replacement. The new courses flowing in have numerous flaws in video/audio quality, grading, video subtitles, course materials ... The forums, are much less active, basically they shifted from interesting discussion on the course topic to technical support line - except the support is not provided by coursera but by fellow students.
I did over 20 courses. Some of them sufficient as light intro to the topic, some of them were really excellent (e.g. on Algorithms by Tim Roughgarden, Cryptography by Dan Boneh - both from Stanford University). I'm saddened to see the decline.
Car analogy does not cut it. Imagine Slashdot classic vs Slashdot 2.0, but raised to 3rd power and managed by Elop and no whisplash
No. But if the borrower fails to repay, they will post the pictures AGAIN!
In one word: Cortana
"In the United States, you're innocent until proven broke."
I don't know where I stole that. Possibly here on slashdot.
The fact that, what was until now only between a private addon developer and the customer, now involves another entity. Which even talks about wanting to access the source code - of binary components included in the addon.
So you are willing to reduce the search space by factor of 2^N where N is the length of the password?
It seems that you are very well familiar with our business strategy. Welcome on board!
Slackware user here. I'm not aware of some (semi)automatic functionality that would tell LILO to keep last N kernels. But I definitely do it when I upgrade the kernel. Just copy the right 6-7 lines in /etc/lilo.conf and edit the name and kernel filename. If it works for a half a year, then I may remove that from /etc/lilo.conf but likely still keep the image file.
EU citizen here. I would rather live with these "restrictions" to free speech then with civil forfeiture or in a U.S. territory. And don't get me started with Gitmo.
I don't know. The only people who say that are real whackos who can be prosecuted for other, much less ambiguous statements and acts. What many people over here say is "we don't want them here" and they do not really care where the refugees go as long as they do not come here. And such statements can be heard from bars, to journalists, to politicians. Some media and some politicians are not happy to see that. E.g. the discussion forums in an online newspaper is disabled, but you are free to set up your own web site or express your ideas in the streets. A TV show does not get cut off if a guest says "we should not patrol seas and encourage refugees to come to EU". I never heard about this being prosecuted by a court or even suggested that it should be punishable.
Oxford Dictionary:
threat: noun; a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.
So if I post "I don't want them to come to my country because they will overload and ruin our social system" it's not a threat. If I post "we should beat the crap out of Syrians coming to establish Sharia law in my country", yes that is a threat.
The law that I quoted, is not something that is new. It exists for decades and there are at about 2-3 cases per year,where it is applied in a court (and it makes headlines). I.e. I don't see it creating the mess you forecast. That can change as the refugee crisis mounts up again, but that is yet to be seen.
Let me try (IANAL) to translate the law as it is valid in one of the EU members:
Whoever threatens an individual or a group of people due their race, ethnicity, skin color, origin or religion, if the excuse for the threat due aforementioned reasons is committing a crime, restriction of rights and freedoms or whoever carries out such restriction or whoever is inciting restrictions of rights and freedoms of some nation,nationality, race, ethnic group will be punished by imprisonment up to 3 years
Whoever publicly
a)incites violence or hate against group of people or an individual due their affiliation to some race, nation, nationality, skin color, ethnic group, origin or religion, if it is an excuse for inciting due aforementioned reasons or
b) defames such group or individual or is threatening them by publicly excusing a genocide, crime against humanity, or war crime (as defined by articles 6, 7 and 8 of Roman institute of International Court or Nuremberg Charter ) if such act was committed against such group or individual or if the perpetrator of such crime was finally declared guilty by international court or publicly denies or derogates such act committed against such person will be punished by imprisonment from 1 up to 3 years
It is a bit of a lawyer-speak, but I can't really say I disagree with that and it's not going to change as result of this new EU regulation. Can you point out what's wrong with that?
I run Slackware since ... ever. At about 20 years. And using it as my primary desktop since ... ever. Browsing web, handling e-mail, watching movies, running LibreOffice, managing family photos, developing in C and Java, playing (admittedly older) games. Yes, occasionally I do some steps that I would not do on another distro - often because I want to, not because I need to. But the benefit is a system that is easy to understand, that does not screw up by itself. On the other hand I use some Ubuntu machines at work, and I'm baffled that some tools (nmap, whois, rpm2tgz, locate, ... ) are missing in default install. So I'm finding Slackware very usable.
So Greece laying about the budget deficit when joining EU was not Greece fault?
Isn't it true that Stefanos Manos (former Greece minister of finance) said " the Greek national railway was so poorly run and its public employees so overpaid that it would be cheaper for the state to shut down the railway entirely and give every customer taxi fare to their destination." ?
Isn't it true that Tassos Giannitsis (former minister of labor) said "When I told my colleagues in the cabinet about the reforms I was proposingâ"which mind you were not the toughest availableâ"the attitude I got was that I was spoiling the party, They were, like, âeverything is going great right now, why are you bothering us with a problem that may implode in a decade?"
Isn't it true that "the retirement age for Greek jobs classified as "arduous" is as early as 55 for men and 50 for women. As this is also the moment when the state begins to shovel out generous pensions, more than 600 Greek professions somehow managed to get themselves classified as arduous: hairdressers, radio announcers, waiters, musicians, and on and on and on" and "the Greek public-school system is the site of breathtaking inefficiency: one of the lowest-ranked systems in Europe, it nonetheless employs four times as many teachers per pupil as the highest-ranked, Finland's"
The last thing especially is a breathtaking reading. Greeks should not point fingers at anyone until they admit that they screwed up themselves too. Sure it was the upper class that screwed you, the little people. But who voted them in?
Are you suggesting to replace cryptography with law?
How? After a month your bits and bytes of Windows 7 installation media are useless. They won't activate anymore. It's dead weight.
One of us is confused about what the word "compelled" means.