It may have changed but when I set it up on my phone last year I specifically remember being asked, and said no. Checked again now and it's still off in both FB and Messenger. Maybe the issue is that monitoring isn't a clear consequence of continuous contact synching. That users didn't read a pop-up and just clicked ok isn't exactly far fetched though.
AmiMoJo complaining that someone didn't read an article and misrepresented the positions of authors/contributors... that's first rate 'lol' right there, you do it all the time.
Welp, time to get downmodded for pointing out when my own side makes terrible arguments again...
Why do you consider the deaths of children to be a reasonable price to pay for you to drive your car fast instead of slow (limiting speed to, say, 25mph, would virtually end fatal vehicle collisions)? Thousands of kids a year are dying to get you that extra 35mph. Is it just because it's mostly by accident-- ok for kids to keep getting killed, as long as it's by accident? Like that should matter to someone arguing that kids dying supersedes any freedom interest right? You can't prevent all accidents. This is particularly on point since the number of kids killed in gun accidents is brought up all the time.
I'm for reasonable control like universal background checks and mental health screening (VERY carefully considered, it's one hell of a slippery slope to define this in a way that catches the really dangerous ones but not the large majority of the population that's been on some ssri or benzo for anxiety/depression); but against terrible arguments. Not to mention you'd be really hard pressed to find someone that thinks people who are repeatedly reported to law enforcement for being extremely unstable and making violent threats (your "crazies") should still be allowed to buy guns.
So let me ask you a question in response then. A few decades ago, it wasn't that uncommon to find many people who professed a sincerely held religious belief that interracial marriage was wrong. There even used to be anti-miscegenation laws on the books in some places. So, should the baker lose their freedom of religion, or would it be ok to refuse someone service based on their race? You're either principled in your objection and must therefore answer yes, or answer no and admit that it's just personal animus towards homosexuality (which also leaves the mechanism door open; do you accomplish it by striking sexual orientation from being covered under civil rights law protected classes, or by having the government define what is and is not a sincere religious belief in the current year?).
Pointing out the legal difference between categories of people that are protected under anti-discrimination/civil rights law is Flamebait now? How the quality of discussion has fallen.
Look, I wasn't saying whether it's right or wrong, or even whether it's right or wrong for groups that are protected, just that law prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and sex (which the courts have ruled includes sexual orientation). That means you can't refuse service to black people, but you *can* refuse service to right-wing conspiracy theorists.
Blocking traffic and taking a quick look would have been fine. Having people get out of their cars, handcuffing them, and conducting a warrantless search is a horrendous abuse of rights. The guy robbed a bank, not machine gunned a bunch of kids then ran off with a suicide vest yelling something about his next target. That you even phrased your post to imply it's somehow ok for those jackbooted authoritarians to handcuff and search dozens of people simply for being in the wrong spot at the wrong time means you clearly have no respect for the 4th Amendment.
Don't forget NYC's vertical space. If that 20 yards includes a large building, it could still be hundreds of clearly innocent people since GPS coords don't typically include height.
Worst thing is the right wing corporate Dems haven't learned a damn thing and they're probably gonna run Hilary 2.0 (Kamala Harris). What they hell is the bloody point of voting for a Democrat who's gonna run things like a Republican?
This is exactly what I'm afraid of. Her reputation is totally disconnected from her actions; it's worth repeating a previous post of mine about her...
[...] from all indications, the Dems have learned nothing from losing to Trump and will find a way to do it again. Probably by trying to run Kamala Harris for instance. So they lose everyone not cool with 'equality is racism/sexism and white men are evil' and eliminating all due process for sex crimes (particularly on college campuses) to staying home or even going (R), then doubly alienate everyone concerned with civil rights (she's a "tough on crime" prosecutor notorious for shitting all over the 1st Amendment and trying to destroy Section 230 from the Backpage case- truly awash in misconduct; defending the conviction of a man based on a confession inserted into a transcript (and saying it wasn't prosecutorial misconduct to submit it when the prosecutor *knew* it was fraudulent), and fighting tooth and nail against improving prison conditions/reducing overcrowding when those were so bad it got ruled cruel and unusual punishment... I could go on).
Harris and a few of the other front runners are catering to two constituencies: the most conservative, hawkish Democrats, and the radical progressives obsessed with identity politics. A large block of liberals just can't bring themselves to vote for candidates like that, since they, ya know, go against normal liberal values, and will stay at home again as they did with Clinton. Especially after the progressives are done painting everyone in their own party who doesn't like Harris as a racist sexist; her being a minority woman will be the absolute only reason anyone could possibly have a problem with her, therefore anyone opposing her is an alt-right nazi.
They're working now but the first thing I did when desktop wasn't seeing them was try the mobile version, over cell data so different IP, and the comments weren't there either. First that crazy downtime, now this... how is it possible for/. of all places to have problems like it was being run by an intern on the first day of his job never having encountered a Linux server rack before.
The spots where the trains could go 50 instead of 40 are on the outskirts of the system, or a couple parts of express tracks, where the headways are already controlled by shared track elsewhere on the line. In general your comment is accurate, for the NYC subway in regards to setting a limit at 40 instead of 50, I don't believe it is.
On the vast majority of the system, trains won't even hit 40mph. I can only think of a couple spots where a couple trains hit that speed, and even then only for a couple minutes. I can't imagine those spots having trains run 10-15mph slower has any discernible impact.
I knew people that would find a receipt in the parking lot/trash cans, then go steal an item on the receipt and return it. Never heard of a unique serial number being on the receipt... I'd imagine that where it exists it's limited to big ticket electronics that already have additional protection. Or maybe it's just something new, it's been years since I knew people like that.
Well, I for one have exactly zero confidence this won't eventually (if not currently) be used to deny entirely legitimate returns as they push harder to reduce costs-- eventually that will result in increasing improper denials. "Oh sorry, you've exceeded your return quota of 1 item every 3 months, so this must be fraudulent as that's excessive."
Lots of companies tell employees to post positive endorsements on social media without disclosing their affiliation. It's hardly some unheard thing. Bottom line, is there is no other more likely explanation for your observed posting pattern. Even your denial hyperbole lends credence to my case, you're constantly calling the idea bizarre and insane despite it very clearly being at a minimum highly suspect (and always the idea, you will never address any of the specific behaviors that led to it, pretty clearly because there simply isn't a more plausible reason someone would do what you do). Now you've issued a challenge to audit their finances? Really? Because I know your personal details? Because it's definitely not a verbal request to a employee? And the breakdown of what part of employee compensation is to you for one specific part of your job is in those records? Do you read the stuff you post? Come on.
As to Slashdot, a) It's far from the only site where incidents like this have occured, and b) It is important enough to target. The crowd that posts here are largely the type of people who get asked by all the non-technical users what they should use or to directly set up their systems.
By all means, continue posting 'nuh uh' instead of offering a plausible explanation for your posting behavior.
I've offered extensive justification based on your behavior. You've offered absolutely nothing except "nuh uh" and ad hominen in response. Nobody is always there to comment on stories within minutes of them being posted, but only on one specific topic, across months and months, and always using the same talking points as the official pages, largely aimed at persuading those with criticisms to think their points aren't valid or important, continually advocating updating no matter what your use case, unless they're an employee or otherwise compensated to do so. You started with posting in other threads for deniability immediately after other users joined me in outing you, just another coincidence right? You have offered no other explanation, let alone a plausible one, for any of that.
And while my experience isn't universal, it's at least as common as yours. But I'm not the one pretending major problems don't actually exist.
theweatherelectic is a paid promoter. His comments, nearly exclusively on Firefox stories (he's recently started commenting on some others after repeatedly being called out for lying about his affiliations, look back further in post history and you'll see absolutely exclusivity to Firefox stories before I and others began calling him out), and always starting within minutes of one being posted, repeat Mozilla talking points and downplay or deny every negative aspect of updates. Take this comment here, bragging about all his addons and 9000 others working, as if that excuses major limitations that count as "working", and the many very popular plugins that absolutely do not work. All of yours work? Well half of mine do not work and do not have equivalents.
You're letting even more severe abuses blind you to intolerable lesser abuses. Every comment I've affirmed China being a greater offender. But you're excusing severe abuses. You're *still* trying to argue your basic premise that entity x being more evil than entity y excuses the fact that entity y is still fundamentally evil. And that's absurd. Get out of your bubble and see what life is like for the poor and minorities here. The rights abuses are severe and China being worse doesn't excuse it.
Your comparisons are also faltering, with every example you approach closer parity to US circumstances. The cultural revolution will follow and report you for 'suspicious behavior' huh? You mean to a T exactly what happens to black people who walk around rich white neighborhoods in the US?
If you're black in America police will routinely stop and search you just for walking down the street. NYPD abused this even further, by ordering people to empty their pockets, to circumvent policies blocking pot arrests, by claiming that when (almost all minority) suspects followed an order to empty their pockets, they were now guilty of the more serious crime of having pot in public view.
Police routinely gun down unarmed people who pose no physical threat. Our federal government got caught routing US citizens communications overseas despite a domestic endpoint to circumvent policy on warrantless surveillance. Protests against politicians are often limited to small caged "free speech zones" a mile away from the event (fully covered by warrantless facial recognition). Our prison population beats every other country on earth per capita, even your reviled China.
You're the one that needs some perspective, because it doesn't matter how many instances of other countries behaving worse that you point out, the US still routinely abuses civil rights in violation of their own laws. Your argument seems to be "oh, well in China they shoot you in the head, so it's perfectly ok that police in the US just beat you into a coma".
If you think science has no place with team Trump, just try to bring up the science of the differing characteristics of sexes and races with the left. They'll scream and riot to de-platform you the instant you suggest that maybe some of the problems they see might be better addressed if we acknowledge certain things and try to fix them instead of just deny them.
Two sides of the same coin.
But what specific commerce interest is implicated in allowing states to switch to permanent standard time but not permanent DST? I mean beyond the current jurisprudence that is nothing less than the commerce clause lets the government do whatever it wants to whatever it wants, even what plants someone grows in their own room for their own use.
And you do not understand the rampant abuses and rubber-stamp-warrant system in the US. Mass facial recognition is being used by US police forces without a warrant. Same with LPRs. And speaking of ridiculous drug searches, police without a warrant detained and searched an entire school and searched so invasively on school children there's currently sexual assault lawsuits over it. China being worse doesn't mean our own rights abuses aren't appalling.
It's entirely a different issue really. The whining about default encryption on commercial products is strictly about mass surveillance. Cartels are very very well funded, and the people at the top are far from the typical criminal; they are smart enough not to rely on default security, and will use software or devices that provides independent encryption ability.
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It may have changed but when I set it up on my phone last year I specifically remember being asked, and said no. Checked again now and it's still off in both FB and Messenger. Maybe the issue is that monitoring isn't a clear consequence of continuous contact synching. That users didn't read a pop-up and just clicked ok isn't exactly far fetched though.
AmiMoJo complaining that someone didn't read an article and misrepresented the positions of authors/contributors... that's first rate 'lol' right there, you do it all the time.
Welp, time to get downmodded for pointing out when my own side makes terrible arguments again...
Why do you consider the deaths of children to be a reasonable price to pay for you to drive your car fast instead of slow (limiting speed to, say, 25mph, would virtually end fatal vehicle collisions)? Thousands of kids a year are dying to get you that extra 35mph. Is it just because it's mostly by accident-- ok for kids to keep getting killed, as long as it's by accident? Like that should matter to someone arguing that kids dying supersedes any freedom interest right? You can't prevent all accidents. This is particularly on point since the number of kids killed in gun accidents is brought up all the time.
I'm for reasonable control like universal background checks and mental health screening (VERY carefully considered, it's one hell of a slippery slope to define this in a way that catches the really dangerous ones but not the large majority of the population that's been on some ssri or benzo for anxiety/depression); but against terrible arguments. Not to mention you'd be really hard pressed to find someone that thinks people who are repeatedly reported to law enforcement for being extremely unstable and making violent threats (your "crazies") should still be allowed to buy guns.
So let me ask you a question in response then. A few decades ago, it wasn't that uncommon to find many people who professed a sincerely held religious belief that interracial marriage was wrong. There even used to be anti-miscegenation laws on the books in some places. So, should the baker lose their freedom of religion, or would it be ok to refuse someone service based on their race? You're either principled in your objection and must therefore answer yes, or answer no and admit that it's just personal animus towards homosexuality (which also leaves the mechanism door open; do you accomplish it by striking sexual orientation from being covered under civil rights law protected classes, or by having the government define what is and is not a sincere religious belief in the current year?).
Pointing out the legal difference between categories of people that are protected under anti-discrimination/civil rights law is Flamebait now? How the quality of discussion has fallen.
Look, I wasn't saying whether it's right or wrong, or even whether it's right or wrong for groups that are protected, just that law prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and sex (which the courts have ruled includes sexual orientation). That means you can't refuse service to black people, but you *can* refuse service to right-wing conspiracy theorists.
Blocking traffic and taking a quick look would have been fine. Having people get out of their cars, handcuffing them, and conducting a warrantless search is a horrendous abuse of rights. The guy robbed a bank, not machine gunned a bunch of kids then ran off with a suicide vest yelling something about his next target. That you even phrased your post to imply it's somehow ok for those jackbooted authoritarians to handcuff and search dozens of people simply for being in the wrong spot at the wrong time means you clearly have no respect for the 4th Amendment.
Don't forget NYC's vertical space. If that 20 yards includes a large building, it could still be hundreds of clearly innocent people since GPS coords don't typically include height.
Right-wing conspiracy theorists aren't a protected group.
Worst thing is the right wing corporate Dems haven't learned a damn thing and they're probably gonna run Hilary 2.0 (Kamala Harris). What they hell is the bloody point of voting for a Democrat who's gonna run things like a Republican?
This is exactly what I'm afraid of. Her reputation is totally disconnected from her actions; it's worth repeating a previous post of mine about her...
[...] from all indications, the Dems have learned nothing from losing to Trump and will find a way to do it again. Probably by trying to run Kamala Harris for instance. So they lose everyone not cool with 'equality is racism/sexism and white men are evil' and eliminating all due process for sex crimes (particularly on college campuses) to staying home or even going (R), then doubly alienate everyone concerned with civil rights (she's a "tough on crime" prosecutor notorious for shitting all over the 1st Amendment and trying to destroy Section 230 from the Backpage case- truly awash in misconduct; defending the conviction of a man based on a confession inserted into a transcript (and saying it wasn't prosecutorial misconduct to submit it when the prosecutor *knew* it was fraudulent), and fighting tooth and nail against improving prison conditions/reducing overcrowding when those were so bad it got ruled cruel and unusual punishment... I could go on).
Harris and a few of the other front runners are catering to two constituencies: the most conservative, hawkish Democrats, and the radical progressives obsessed with identity politics. A large block of liberals just can't bring themselves to vote for candidates like that, since they, ya know, go against normal liberal values, and will stay at home again as they did with Clinton. Especially after the progressives are done painting everyone in their own party who doesn't like Harris as a racist sexist; her being a minority woman will be the absolute only reason anyone could possibly have a problem with her, therefore anyone opposing her is an alt-right nazi.
This supply chain disaster will result in prices increasing, where they'll remain for years to come, long after production is back to normal.
They're working now but the first thing I did when desktop wasn't seeing them was try the mobile version, over cell data so different IP, and the comments weren't there either. First that crazy downtime, now this... how is it possible for /. of all places to have problems like it was being run by an intern on the first day of his job never having encountered a Linux server rack before.
The spots where the trains could go 50 instead of 40 are on the outskirts of the system, or a couple parts of express tracks, where the headways are already controlled by shared track elsewhere on the line. In general your comment is accurate, for the NYC subway in regards to setting a limit at 40 instead of 50, I don't believe it is.
On the vast majority of the system, trains won't even hit 40mph. I can only think of a couple spots where a couple trains hit that speed, and even then only for a couple minutes. I can't imagine those spots having trains run 10-15mph slower has any discernible impact.
Not giving opinions the same weight as actual facts they contradict is left bias according to the right.
I've been downmodded a few times recently for criticizing the left, gotta get a few downmods in for trashing the right too.
I knew people that would find a receipt in the parking lot/trash cans, then go steal an item on the receipt and return it. Never heard of a unique serial number being on the receipt... I'd imagine that where it exists it's limited to big ticket electronics that already have additional protection. Or maybe it's just something new, it's been years since I knew people like that.
Well, I for one have exactly zero confidence this won't eventually (if not currently) be used to deny entirely legitimate returns as they push harder to reduce costs-- eventually that will result in increasing improper denials. "Oh sorry, you've exceeded your return quota of 1 item every 3 months, so this must be fraudulent as that's excessive."
Lots of companies tell employees to post positive endorsements on social media without disclosing their affiliation. It's hardly some unheard thing. Bottom line, is there is no other more likely explanation for your observed posting pattern. Even your denial hyperbole lends credence to my case, you're constantly calling the idea bizarre and insane despite it very clearly being at a minimum highly suspect (and always the idea, you will never address any of the specific behaviors that led to it, pretty clearly because there simply isn't a more plausible reason someone would do what you do). Now you've issued a challenge to audit their finances? Really? Because I know your personal details? Because it's definitely not a verbal request to a employee? And the breakdown of what part of employee compensation is to you for one specific part of your job is in those records? Do you read the stuff you post? Come on.
As to Slashdot, a) It's far from the only site where incidents like this have occured, and b) It is important enough to target. The crowd that posts here are largely the type of people who get asked by all the non-technical users what they should use or to directly set up their systems.
By all means, continue posting 'nuh uh' instead of offering a plausible explanation for your posting behavior.
I've offered extensive justification based on your behavior. You've offered absolutely nothing except "nuh uh" and ad hominen in response. Nobody is always there to comment on stories within minutes of them being posted, but only on one specific topic, across months and months, and always using the same talking points as the official pages, largely aimed at persuading those with criticisms to think their points aren't valid or important, continually advocating updating no matter what your use case, unless they're an employee or otherwise compensated to do so. You started with posting in other threads for deniability immediately after other users joined me in outing you, just another coincidence right? You have offered no other explanation, let alone a plausible one, for any of that.
And while my experience isn't universal, it's at least as common as yours. But I'm not the one pretending major problems don't actually exist.
theweatherelectic is a paid promoter. His comments, nearly exclusively on Firefox stories (he's recently started commenting on some others after repeatedly being called out for lying about his affiliations, look back further in post history and you'll see absolutely exclusivity to Firefox stories before I and others began calling him out), and always starting within minutes of one being posted, repeat Mozilla talking points and downplay or deny every negative aspect of updates. Take this comment here, bragging about all his addons and 9000 others working, as if that excuses major limitations that count as "working", and the many very popular plugins that absolutely do not work. All of yours work? Well half of mine do not work and do not have equivalents.
You're letting even more severe abuses blind you to intolerable lesser abuses. Every comment I've affirmed China being a greater offender. But you're excusing severe abuses. You're *still* trying to argue your basic premise that entity x being more evil than entity y excuses the fact that entity y is still fundamentally evil. And that's absurd. Get out of your bubble and see what life is like for the poor and minorities here. The rights abuses are severe and China being worse doesn't excuse it.
Your comparisons are also faltering, with every example you approach closer parity to US circumstances. The cultural revolution will follow and report you for 'suspicious behavior' huh? You mean to a T exactly what happens to black people who walk around rich white neighborhoods in the US?
If you're black in America police will routinely stop and search you just for walking down the street. NYPD abused this even further, by ordering people to empty their pockets, to circumvent policies blocking pot arrests, by claiming that when (almost all minority) suspects followed an order to empty their pockets, they were now guilty of the more serious crime of having pot in public view.
Police routinely gun down unarmed people who pose no physical threat. Our federal government got caught routing US citizens communications overseas despite a domestic endpoint to circumvent policy on warrantless surveillance. Protests against politicians are often limited to small caged "free speech zones" a mile away from the event (fully covered by warrantless facial recognition). Our prison population beats every other country on earth per capita, even your reviled China.
You're the one that needs some perspective, because it doesn't matter how many instances of other countries behaving worse that you point out, the US still routinely abuses civil rights in violation of their own laws. Your argument seems to be "oh, well in China they shoot you in the head, so it's perfectly ok that police in the US just beat you into a coma".
If you think science has no place with team Trump, just try to bring up the science of the differing characteristics of sexes and races with the left. They'll scream and riot to de-platform you the instant you suggest that maybe some of the problems they see might be better addressed if we acknowledge certain things and try to fix them instead of just deny them.
Two sides of the same coin.
But what specific commerce interest is implicated in allowing states to switch to permanent standard time but not permanent DST? I mean beyond the current jurisprudence that is nothing less than the commerce clause lets the government do whatever it wants to whatever it wants, even what plants someone grows in their own room for their own use.
And you do not understand the rampant abuses and rubber-stamp-warrant system in the US. Mass facial recognition is being used by US police forces without a warrant. Same with LPRs. And speaking of ridiculous drug searches, police without a warrant detained and searched an entire school and searched so invasively on school children there's currently sexual assault lawsuits over it. China being worse doesn't mean our own rights abuses aren't appalling.
It's entirely a different issue really. The whining about default encryption on commercial products is strictly about mass surveillance. Cartels are very very well funded, and the people at the top are far from the typical criminal; they are smart enough not to rely on default security, and will use software or devices that provides independent encryption ability.