Ultimately, I hope so, but don't underestimate the power of human nature to form an us and them mentality. Fascism is a very attractive slippery slope and one that a number of countries are presently at risk of falling into. And cheap global transport has the same life expectancy as cheap oil, at least until someone solves some hard problems.
I happen to know someone who spent twenty-odd years on Death Row. Despite serious flaws in his case, it took that long to get to the point where a plea-bargain was accepted and he left the country. Despite the fact that he will never now have a real life again as you or I know it, he's still quite grateful not to have been killed for something he didn't do.
With more than one country with nuclear capabilities around the world politically capable of destabilising to the point of attempting to go to war with us, I would say it's money well spent. Germany went from being a sane and democratic country to rolling into Poland in six years. That's a very short space of time. If Iran or Russia get into a similar position - a mad idealogue and a popular cause - I would want them to know we are ready to chuck it back at them.
Yep, you're quite correct. In general, as long as the company can come up with a plausible sounding reason for keeping the data, they can keep it. Marketing analysis is usually perfectly acceptable, for example.
That one I don't necessarily agree with, particularly in volatile times like we have now. We're in a position where rumours can whack billions off a market cap overnight. I would say, make your judgement, take your picks, and hold for the long term. If you're switching in and out of stocks every six months you're going to lose. The idea that you should make most of your money in stocks from price movements is quite a new one: a stock is basically a certificate entitling you to a potentially infinite stream of payments, and all the stock price should represent is the present value of those payments. Of course, that's not quite how it works in practice...but it's worth bearing in mind.
Haven't seen it happen specifically with a person, but yes, I can easily beleive it. I made a slight edit to an article on an obscure folk album I own; it was swiftly reverted, and being bored, I edit-warred for a bit until I finally gave up. Apparently owning the album counts as original research. Sigh.
The trouble (to me) is WP does not rigourously distinguish between primary sources and secondary sources. Indeed, the "no original research" policy actively works against this. So, instead of finding the guy's birth certificate and using that as a source (discouraged) the name as given in a newspaper is encouraged.
Of course, just clamping down hard on online-only sources would be useful too.
Mmm. I find it pretty hard to believe that your rabid fanboy-ism really affects what gets cancelled more so than such mundanities as viewer numbers and demographics. Also, welcome to slashdot, where information wants to be free. What, exactly, is being stolen? If it's copyright, flag it and get it out.
This isn't funny, it's insightful. Sometimes investors are too far up their own backsides to actually examine a company's operations and see what it does. If their consumer products stink, you shouldn't be buying the stock, because no-one will buy their products. I remember as a poor student seeing the first iPod and thinking that if I had had a few grand to spend I would have dropped it on Apple stock, because it was obvious that they were way ahead in terms of product experience. If I'd done that then I would have done pretty well (even without managing to sell out at the top). On the same basis, I never would buy MS, because I think their products, on the whole, stink, and when someone releases something that kicks their butts, they will crash hard.
I mean seriously... why is 1234567890 such a special timestamp? Where was the article when we crossed 123456789 ?:)
I'm not quite sure or not whether you've noticed that 123456789 would be 1973? This is a couple of years before Taco got around to starting this heap of junk.
Haha, I make it a rule never to reply to a/. comment at 3am, regardless of how enthused I am;)
It's not so much an etiquette or custom thing as simple safety - trailing around a ranch isn't the same thing as galloping flat out across unknown country while fox-hunting, and your head does tend to be the first thing to hit the ground when it does go wrong . And I'm certainly not going to slag off American horsemanship - some of it is very fine indeed.
A very valid question, and given your situation, one that you can hardly be blamed for asking.
To answer your question, no, of course the disparities that exist across the globe are wrong and unjustifiable. Of course, from experience we know that we can't remove disparity altogether; apart from anything else, not all humans are equally hardworking, intelligent, or physically capable and from that point of view it seems unreasonable that someone that works twice as hard should receive the same as someone sitting on his ass posting on slashdot when he should be working.
The question then is how to have a system that allows for disparity but which is still equitable. The American philosopher John Rawls came up with a concept for dealing with this he called "the veil of ignorance". The idea is pretty simple: you can design your utopian society however you like, but the only proviso is that your place in it will be randomly assigned. You might be a slave, a serf, a worker, a soldier, whatever. Most people would say that under such a system the disparities are less important themselves than your opportunities to escape your position. Some societies come closer to this than others, perhaps America's most of all. Globally of course...well, maybe one, day, and then those of us who don't have aclue about this story can rest assured that if that's what they really wanted, they could have it.
I said helmet rather than hat because most/. types would probably think of a baseball cap or something. Beyod that, I imagine you'e from the US, and didn't regularly wear a hat for riding. In the UK, not wearing a hat is like showing your grandma your cock; it's considered bad form.
I can believe that, though he should really have been driving so as not to be that close in the first place. I rode horses most of my life, and when I came to learn to drive I found it very unsettling indeed not to have the ability to push the car sideways with my leg. Also, driving without wearing a helmet of some kind made me feel kinda naked.
Do you know the funny thing though? My girlfriend is Brazilian, and she resides in the UK through her father having dual Portuguese/Brazilian nationality. By European law, she can't be required to have an ID card (and no-one seems to have asked, either) and unless she goes for UK citizenship, never will. This amuses me especially because both Portugal and Brazil do have mandatory ID cards.
No, you can get one if you want one, and certain classes of people have to have them - asylum seekers, airport workers, and a few other categories. Perhaps gypsies and jews should be added to the list, *sigh*.
Security doesn't fail because of the user; if the user is getting it wrong then it is bad security. Theoretical security is (in principle) not hard. Practical security is very hard indeed, and easy to get wrong. Is there any reason this card needs RFID as opposed to a standard credit-card style chip which requires physical contact?
There was also that university that sent all their students an email to warn them about phishing. Included in the email was a typical phishing text, along with comments on style and grammer. I think the guy that sent it out got something like forty or fifty usernames and passwords back.
Happily, they have done the sensible thing and replaced it with a single static HTML page. The tl;dr version is "Nothing happened yet, might happen later".
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Yep, they've been there since approximately forever.
Thanks for just blowing away presumption of innocence, Taco :-/
Ultimately, I hope so, but don't underestimate the power of human nature to form an us and them mentality. Fascism is a very attractive slippery slope and one that a number of countries are presently at risk of falling into. And cheap global transport has the same life expectancy as cheap oil, at least until someone solves some hard problems.
I happen to know someone who spent twenty-odd years on Death Row. Despite serious flaws in his case, it took that long to get to the point where a plea-bargain was accepted and he left the country. Despite the fact that he will never now have a real life again as you or I know it, he's still quite grateful not to have been killed for something he didn't do.
With more than one country with nuclear capabilities around the world politically capable of destabilising to the point of attempting to go to war with us, I would say it's money well spent. Germany went from being a sane and democratic country to rolling into Poland in six years. That's a very short space of time. If Iran or Russia get into a similar position - a mad idealogue and a popular cause - I would want them to know we are ready to chuck it back at them.
Yep, you're quite correct. In general, as long as the company can come up with a plausible sounding reason for keeping the data, they can keep it. Marketing analysis is usually perfectly acceptable, for example.
I think he's talking about Haiku, not OS X.
That one I don't necessarily agree with, particularly in volatile times like we have now. We're in a position where rumours can whack billions off a market cap overnight. I would say, make your judgement, take your picks, and hold for the long term. If you're switching in and out of stocks every six months you're going to lose. The idea that you should make most of your money in stocks from price movements is quite a new one: a stock is basically a certificate entitling you to a potentially infinite stream of payments, and all the stock price should represent is the present value of those payments. Of course, that's not quite how it works in practice...but it's worth bearing in mind.
Haven't seen it happen specifically with a person, but yes, I can easily beleive it. I made a slight edit to an article on an obscure folk album I own; it was swiftly reverted, and being bored, I edit-warred for a bit until I finally gave up. Apparently owning the album counts as original research. Sigh.
Of course, just clamping down hard on online-only sources would be useful too.
Mmm. I find it pretty hard to believe that your rabid fanboy-ism really affects what gets cancelled more so than such mundanities as viewer numbers and demographics. Also, welcome to slashdot, where information wants to be free. What, exactly, is being stolen? If it's copyright, flag it and get it out.
This isn't funny, it's insightful. Sometimes investors are too far up their own backsides to actually examine a company's operations and see what it does. If their consumer products stink, you shouldn't be buying the stock, because no-one will buy their products. I remember as a poor student seeing the first iPod and thinking that if I had had a few grand to spend I would have dropped it on Apple stock, because it was obvious that they were way ahead in terms of product experience. If I'd done that then I would have done pretty well (even without managing to sell out at the top). On the same basis, I never would buy MS, because I think their products, on the whole, stink, and when someone releases something that kicks their butts, they will crash hard.
I mean seriously... why is 1234567890 such a special timestamp? Where was the article when we crossed 123456789 ? :)
I'm not quite sure or not whether you've noticed that 123456789 would be 1973? This is a couple of years before Taco got around to starting this heap of junk.
More to the point, if he inspires a bunch of youngsters to do some exercise once in a while then there is a very real benefit to society.
It's not so much an etiquette or custom thing as simple safety - trailing around a ranch isn't the same thing as galloping flat out across unknown country while fox-hunting, and your head does tend to be the first thing to hit the ground when it does go wrong . And I'm certainly not going to slag off American horsemanship - some of it is very fine indeed.
To answer your question, no, of course the disparities that exist across the globe are wrong and unjustifiable. Of course, from experience we know that we can't remove disparity altogether; apart from anything else, not all humans are equally hardworking, intelligent, or physically capable and from that point of view it seems unreasonable that someone that works twice as hard should receive the same as someone sitting on his ass posting on slashdot when he should be working.
The question then is how to have a system that allows for disparity but which is still equitable. The American philosopher John Rawls came up with a concept for dealing with this he called "the veil of ignorance". The idea is pretty simple: you can design your utopian society however you like, but the only proviso is that your place in it will be randomly assigned. You might be a slave, a serf, a worker, a soldier, whatever. Most people would say that under such a system the disparities are less important themselves than your opportunities to escape your position. Some societies come closer to this than others, perhaps America's most of all. Globally of course...well, maybe one, day, and then those of us who don't have aclue about this story can rest assured that if that's what they really wanted, they could have it.
I said helmet rather than hat because most /. types would probably think of a baseball cap or something. Beyod that, I imagine you'e from the US, and didn't regularly wear a hat for riding. In the UK, not wearing a hat is like showing your grandma your cock; it's considered bad form.
Indeed. The whole story is funnier even than his famous pre-war joke.
I can believe that, though he should really have been driving so as not to be that close in the first place. I rode horses most of my life, and when I came to learn to drive I found it very unsettling indeed not to have the ability to push the car sideways with my leg. Also, driving without wearing a helmet of some kind made me feel kinda naked.
Do you know the funny thing though? My girlfriend is Brazilian, and she resides in the UK through her father having dual Portuguese/Brazilian nationality. By European law, she can't be required to have an ID card (and no-one seems to have asked, either) and unless she goes for UK citizenship, never will. This amuses me especially because both Portugal and Brazil do have mandatory ID cards.
No, you can get one if you want one, and certain classes of people have to have them - asylum seekers, airport workers, and a few other categories. Perhaps gypsies and jews should be added to the list, *sigh*.
Or alternatively, we could spend the money on something useful, like giving every child a pony.
Security doesn't fail because of the user; if the user is getting it wrong then it is bad security. Theoretical security is (in principle) not hard. Practical security is very hard indeed, and easy to get wrong. Is there any reason this card needs RFID as opposed to a standard credit-card style chip which requires physical contact?
There was also that university that sent all their students an email to warn them about phishing. Included in the email was a typical phishing text, along with comments on style and grammer. I think the guy that sent it out got something like forty or fifty usernames and passwords back.
Happily, they have done the sensible thing and replaced it with a single static HTML page. The tl;dr version is "Nothing happened yet, might happen later".