I had that happen once. I shifted into neutral, restarted the engine, and just shifted directly into 3rd gear since I was still going about 35. Sure was odd, and I'd have been pretty done for had it happened just before a curve since it took 2-3s before I figured out to just turn the wheel much harder to steer and another 4 to get back power steering. This was in a Ford with a manual trans.
I drove over 100,000 miles on that car and it only happened once. But that once was also the only driving situation where mechanical car failure was a lethal threat and was once too many. So a smart gun where mechanical failure could mean death? I for one would much rather accept the tradeoff of being more responsible for securing it against others. If others want it the other way around, that would be fine except that the left has made it quite clear that will become the only option. Unless you're a cop of course. (here in NYC cops and soldiers with fully automatic assault rifles hang around subway stations searching bags, then arresting anyone with a knife that a cop can flip open with one hand even if it takes 20 tries. doesn't everyone just feel so safe with such a massive force disparity??)
But I'm not enough of a jerk to actually post them online. Telling me I can't have something you gave me anymore just pisses me off, and it's flat out wrong it shouldn't make a difference what it is. Publicizing is different tho. People need to get over their hangups about sex and nudity anyway... it's ridiculous that society is this advanced but a naked picture can ruin your life.
There is absolutely no way that catching a few druggies could possibly be worth tainting the reputation of a respected security research institution with the suspicion of being just another malware vendor for the feds.
No, but like many things it probably started with the feds saying 'you have to help us catch those evil child abusers hiding on Tor and posting their sick images'. Because who can oppose that? There's also 'Without these powers, the terrorists will attack again!' Because nobody wants to stop the government from getting terrorists. But pretty soon it's 'well, we've got power, why shouldn't we also use it against those evil drug traffickers?' and suddenly, much like PATRIOT act powers, drug cases become the predominant use of new abilities. Back in the day getting the druggies was enough of an excuse on its own to trample the constitution, but now they need to justify their powers with OMG PEDOS! or OMG TERRISTS! and bust 1-2 of them, THEN they can go after the hundreds of drug arrests just dripping with forfetiable assets and pocket-filling cash and dope on the table.
And it's such an effective skeleton key because whatever arguments you possibly make are drowned out by people screaming that you're supporting child abusers and terrorists.
Perhaps you're confused as to what "massively overprescribed" and "pill mill" actually mean. I assure you, the kind of place that will write you a bunch of extra scripts in relatives names (to avoid suspicious per-person prescribing) without doing examinations (because they see 15+ patients/hr) are NOT the kind of place you wind up in by accident. At a bare minimum, the 4 hour long line of 20- and 30- somethings who look perfectly healthy would clue you in, and normal people wouldn't want a doctor who doesn't examine or talk to them. Some would require, and some just pressured, using their affiliate pharmacies. The ones that required them, were typically all empty shelves with boxes of only painkillers and a couple others on the floor, cash only, with several armed guards.
As for "massively overprescribed", it's much rarer to find a true pill mill doing this now, but a few years ago in FL you could walk in and get 150 80mg OxyContin's, 300 30mg instant-release oxycodone, 150 10mg instant release oxymorphone or 4- to 8- mg hydromorphone, on top of 90x2mg alprazolam (xanax) tablets, and even some Adderall or dexedrine (amphetamines) for the tiredness. This was a fairly typical pill mill visit, and was a 30-day supply. Some people take this much legitimately, but that's truly rare in 20- and 30- somethings.
(and if you think this portrayal is inaccurate, you're definitely not familiar with pill mills and have confused them with normal pain management doctors; which to be fair is what the DEA and mass media have done.. lump in the actual criminal places with unfairly accused pain management practices).
Imagine seeing someone die of cancer, and their wife flushing any pain medication he got because "junkies will break in to steal it!". I lost my uncle to cancer, and my aunt to 'can't be the same room as such a despicable person'.
There's a good reason why doctors are hostile to analgesics.
They're scared of the DEA if they prescribe opiates in a way that offends the local field office.
So out come the opiates, however, opiates quickly induce tolerance so larger and larger doses are required.
So? Medical literature shows no additional side effects from even extreme doses (some non-terminal chronic pain sufferers even take 800+mg/day of oxycodone without issue)
And the tolerance becomes addiction, and the brain starts getting re-wired.
Despite the anecdotes, there's no medical evidence this happens anything more than a tiny minority of the time in patients who aren't already drug abusers. Dependence is not the same as addiction.
Not to mention the side effects of opiates, which aren't all that nice either.
Constipation, tiny bit of immune suppression rarely clinically significant, and...? Do you mean the effect of non-prescribed opiates due to prohibition rather than the substances themselves? People with tolerance to opiates aren't impaired and nodding out if they're being properly managed.
It can take *years* for a brain re-wired by long term use of opiates can return to "sort of" normal, if ever.
Among addicts with the medically distinct condition of addiction. As mentioned, a very small minority of those treated with opioids. And the statement should be more like a 1-3 months to 'sort of' normal, and 'if ever' for 'totally normal'.
It's much more than "moral panic" over opiates. The drugs are frankly dangerous, and even with the very best management practices, they will spin out of control if a person is on them too long.
It actually is moral panic. Medically speaking, opiates are far safer than the vast majority of prescription drugs. You sound like all your knowledge of opioid treatment comes exclusively from anti-drug propaganda sources. It sure as hell didn't come from the medical community.
I'd only want to be on large amounts of opiates if I were terminally ill.
Well you're into that whole drug war propaganda thing where you believe everyone prescribed some Vicodin for a toothache is shooting up heroin with dirty needles while homeless in an alley a few months later. So if you want to suffer, go for it. But respect the rights of others to not want to suffer because of opioid hysteria like you're spreading. And even if you want to go on believing that hysteria, I hope we can at least agree that the DEA shouldn't be setting treatment guidelines like it is now, and it should be left up to the patient and their doctor. (if you're getting massively overprescribed by a pill mill, it's a situation you've gone out of your way to get to)
Heroin peddlers, illegal and legal alike, will shut this research down.
Actual heroin dealers are probably thrilled... less access to pills = more demand for powder, as our brilliant drug warriors recently proved by sending tens of thousands of people away from doctors and pharmacists and into the arms of heroin dealers. But better 1000 people suffer in agony than 1 person take his pills to feel good, amirite? The DEA controls how your pain is treated now, not your doctor. And their philosophy? "Not dying soon? Not screaming loud enough to give me a headache? No pain relief for you!"
As for the legal guys... pretty sure this will be something they can charge out the ass for that you'll have to take at least daily.
But they weren't getting notices that people on the service were violating the law. They got notices saying that the *AAs believed that their customers were violating the law. There's no hard evidence that someone who the *AA sends a notice to is actually guilty of that charge unless they do a proper investigation.
The hard evidence is the hard cash the *AA spent making sure all judges and politicians believe those accusations are sufficiently infallible that companies must be forced to help "protect" the "job creators" of the intellectual property cartels in their fight for "artists rights". It's like you think we have a fair and balanced system instead of one so ridiculously stacked in favor of copyright that buying computers and software to run content scanning software that gives holders carte blanche to delete whatever is, and has held to be via litigation, the only way to run a video or storage site without being sued into oblivion. So what if the DMCA says notice and takedown is enough.
Facts don't matter. The politicians and courts have been sold, compliance with the law isn't sufficient. You're aiding piracy if you don't go far enough beyond legal compliance that the *AA is satisfied you're "doing enough" (giving them absolute control, and paying for it).
And afterwards "they" always say: oh yes, we had this guy on our watchlist.
So - then fucking do something with that information!!!
But they couldn't, because of antiquated laws and activist judges who keep ruling that the bill of rights is only 90% void instead of 100%! They need more power and less oversight, and the people need to stop worrying about their so-called "rights" because the government promises to only target terrorists*, and you're not a terrorist, are you???
* - As a small minority of targets... but they're so hard to identify, and you know who else is evil? People who look at CP; surely you don't object to that right?? Now why can't the powers be used to target drug offenders? And insider traders. And criminals. And potential criminals. But of courses terrorists weren't pretext, they may represent only 1% of anti-terrorism law usage, but 100% of what PR can make people think it's for.
Physical mail can't be interfered with without a court order, is secure, cheap and reliable.
A "court order" means a rubber stamp when an inspector wants a peek. If you're a target, they'll find something suspicious about your package for sure. "The drug/bomb dog alerted." = indisputable probable cause for search to the courts; if it's just a DVD, well, someone obviously did coke off it once. International mail is the worst. There's actually a long list of qualifiers for a suspicious item that can be used to justify a search. What's even worse, they're true pros and opening and re-sealing without leaving evidence, so the only time you even find out is if they seize and send you a notice (love letter), or kick in your door, shoot your pets, and order to the ground with an automatic weapon anyone old enough to stand- shortly after you receive it.
So while if you're not being investigated, you can send (or receive; but they can get a warrant for all mail FROM a suspicious address) non-drug items without worrying about searches, the moment they're actually interested in your mail all the inspections and weak grounds for probable cause we allowed in the name of stopping drugs-via-mail or explosives-via-mail will almost certainly turn something up that lets them open it. The fact they need a judge to rubber stamp their probable cause warrant isn't much protection.
And this is in the US, where we allegedly still have some rights. The situation in the UK is almost certainly worse.
Phone policy varies wildly. In some jails, there's even phones right in the cells (4-6 inmates). They were turned on from 7am-11pm; you could talk your way through $60/day easily; and there was no "qualifying"... you could lose the privilege from abuse; but no approvals, no white lists reviewed by staff, no restriction on calling mobile numbers, etc. Could even have conference calls (against the phone companies policy, but unenforced).
Other places; 4 phones for 64 inmates with all sorts of restrictions on time of use (not during meals, lockdowns, searches, commissary, after lights out, etc). So after a call, back of the line, and good luck getting another one in before the next shut down. Every time the doors buzzed, everyone charged the phones like the bulls of Pamplona.
And god forbid you're in confinement (not just discipline... "protective custody", sex charges, medical, psych/suicide watch, juvenile, high profile case, etc, all can get you 23+ hrs/day solitary). MAYBE once per day you could talk an officer into wheeling the phone to the door so you can make a call through the slot... the cord too short to sit or stand, so you'd have to kneel on the concrete the whole time.
And all 3 of those scenarios was in just one jail... the only constant? The obscene expense. Broke inmates constantly begged and traded meals to get people with money in their phone account to dial children and wives.
Although the phone company did do one cool thing... video visitation over the internet with anyone, anywhere in the world for like $10 for a 1 hour visit (forget exact amount; but cheap compared to regular calls).
You seem to think that the extremely rare malware to make it through on such a vector would then be stopped by AV. Unlikely. If you're well versed in security practices and diligent in following them, especially blocking ads and properly configuring your firewall, AVs are of no benefit and just waste resources.
Actually the big difference is that in real life the brilliant criminal masterminds don't have an even more brilliant hero cop outfoxing them, don't attract attention to themselves by using automatic weapons and explosives in public, and move into even harder to detect and stop white collar crimes asap.
2/GB an hour? If they're going after heavy torrent users, a single movie can clock in at 15-40GB for untouched bluray, which is quite popular these days.
Supposedly, not that I'd know.
Telemetry and error reporting cannot be effectively disabled on 10, because Microsoft refuses to make Enterprise available via retail channels.
And here people thought MS was trying to stop pirates. Enterprise is certainly available that way. When I'm forced off Win7 in a few years it looks like my life of crime won't be over, hopefully software piracy won't have a mandatory minimum of life in prison and forfeiture of 100% of assets yet. Well, probably the latter at least.
Microsoft: "Privacy online is dead dead dead. Screw your preferences on the matter, we do what we want. So just stop thinking you can just 'turn off' our ability to collect data from you and get used to it. What are you anyway, a pedophile or a terrorist?"
New users (and anyone unfamiliar with download rep) should also make this decision:
-In the name of "protecting you", Firefox sends the URL of every single file you download to Google to check against a blacklist, potentially associating your IP with that file. There is no contingency for false positives, the file is immediately deleted *after completion*, as I found out after a 14-hour download, and deleted so thoroughly not even professional recovery software could get it back. To stop this data from being sent, change browser.safebrowsing.appRepURL to nothing. It might slightly increase risk, but for me the one time it's been triggered in the year its been there was the aforementioned false positive (how did a mkv in a rar possibly trigger a false positive anyway, when the other 9 parts didn't? Not the first part either; part 6 of 10. This also proved it was lying about only checking executables.). No option to re-download with an exception either. And definitely no mention anywhere of to what extent the data is retained and associated with everything else Google knows about you.
Note that this is in addition to the 'Block malicious sites' and 'Black reported web forgeries'; AFAIK those just download the lists and check locally. Disabling download rep won't remove those protections.
It's sad the people still have this breakdown in logic and their emotions overwhelm them when it comes to "seriously dangerous" drugs like heroin or crack. Just what part of the problem with these drugs do you think is ameliorated by prohibition? If anything, it's even more critical that these drugs are legalized:
-Cocaine and heroin represent the vast majority of global organized crime and related violence. The exact same points about never stopping other substances apply even harder here. Doesn't matter how "bad" the drugs are, you're never ever going to stop global organized crime from reaping billions upon billions of dollars through prohibition.
-Locally, it's these drugs that are responsible for the large majority of secondary crimes against non-involved parties, such as robbery and property crimes, to fund addictions. People aren't robbing and stealing for their pot or MDMA habits, which I assume aren't "really" hard by your standards. These crimes aren't committed because of the drugs inherent biological response pattern in an addict (unlike alcohol, which DOES make violent behavior more likely), they're committed because prohibition results in a cost structure that puts maintaining a habit very difficult without wealth or crime. Alcohol and cigarettes are cause dependence just as strong in an addict, and I guarantee if an addiction to those cost hundreds of dollars per day, you'd see the exact same related violence.
-Even when it comes to "really hard" drugs, there's simply no evidence that legalization would lead to increased addiction, because do you really think there's thousands and thousands of people just waiting to go out and get addicted to heroin if only it were available from a doctor or pharmacist? It's legal to possess all drugs in Portugal, and they have no such usage spike. When you redirect money towards education and treatment and provide an environment where there's no fear of arrest for admitting you're a user, usage rates actually drop.
-With the financial and other aspects of acquisition, addicts are unable to hold jobs for a variety of reasons, and as heroin maintenance programs in other countries have shown, a steady cheap legal supply returns these people to functional, contributing members of society that can hold down jobs. And obviously there's health benefits associated with a legal pharmaceutical supply like OD prevention the most well known.
-People like to talk about "the children"... what kind of world do you want for yours if they wind up experimenting? A felony where getting caught twice or violating probation requirements means a lifetime of stigma. Interacting with dangerous criminal gangs to get an unknown product. Prison. Stigma attached to getting help. There is ZERO evidence that if we just crack down harder we're suddenly going to win the war on drugs and heroin, meth, and coke will vanish from the world, so no matter how much you wish that were the case, you're stuck with the reality that drugs are everywhere and kids experiment. If my kids made that mistake, I'd want them to get a safe product from a medical professional and be provided with non-abstinence-based education and have stigma-free access to well funded help and not be labeled a criminal and tossed into a cage and branded for life if they get caught. What do you want for yours? "a drug free world" is NOT an option.
The drug-dealing subreddits are still open too. I'd imagine. Allegedly. So I was told. By someone I don't know. Nevermind, such a thing doesn't exist and if it does I don't know about it! Now leave me alone.
I don't play any spec-hungry games, so my focus was on what I do use: media.
-27" high-end-but-not-eizo-level primary monitor, 17" auxillary display off to the side
-Pentium G620 (dual-core/2.6GHz) on Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 board (AMD actually lost on my low-end price/single-core performance search; and bad enough to make me switch away after 4 systems/12 years with AMD)
-8GB RAM
-Radeon 4850 (was outdated even when i bought it, but it has more than enough power even still, won't be upgrading until 4k)
-Onboard sound/LAN
-dvdrw/multi-card reader
-Storage.. this is what happens when you're too poor to expand drives in a way other than adding old ones:
--1x1TB@7200rpm SATA (OS)
--1x4TB SATA
--1x2TB SATA
--1x750GB IDE (SATA bridge)
--4x500GB individual disks in external NAS ..every one of them 95-99%+ full. can't believe it's 2015 and i'm back to 'well which do i want to delete to make room for my next download'
You forgot one gigantic loophole. While ordinary citizens cannot claim not understanding whether what they were doing was illegal or not, our wonderful courts have ruled that police face no such burden. It's perfectly ok for them to arrest you if they thought the act was illegal, even if they were wrong. It's the kind of precedent that really shows the courts for what they are, just another arm of law enforcement.
You adults won't believe this, but lots of us youngsters still don't have to sit through any commercials, have permanent offline copies with no DRM in better resolution than Netflix, that can't be taken away on the whims of corporations, and aren't subjected to a limited catalog missing extremely popular items to begin with. And, it's free! (minus the cost of maintaining 12TB of storage for a large collection of TV and movies in HD). Not that a lot of us youngsters feel that the production studios' behavior morally obligates us to provide compensation, but even if we wanted to there's no service at any price that offers this level of quality and flexibility. I know being all grown up with your job and disposable income makes you feel like subjecting yourself to the horrors of Netflix is the adult thing to do... but I choose to live in my immaturity where I don't pay for less.
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If only that were true. The vast majority of people either don't care or actually support law enforcement access.
I had that happen once. I shifted into neutral, restarted the engine, and just shifted directly into 3rd gear since I was still going about 35. Sure was odd, and I'd have been pretty done for had it happened just before a curve since it took 2-3s before I figured out to just turn the wheel much harder to steer and another 4 to get back power steering. This was in a Ford with a manual trans.
I drove over 100,000 miles on that car and it only happened once. But that once was also the only driving situation where mechanical car failure was a lethal threat and was once too many. So a smart gun where mechanical failure could mean death? I for one would much rather accept the tradeoff of being more responsible for securing it against others. If others want it the other way around, that would be fine except that the left has made it quite clear that will become the only option. Unless you're a cop of course. (here in NYC cops and soldiers with fully automatic assault rifles hang around subway stations searching bags, then arresting anyone with a knife that a cop can flip open with one hand even if it takes 20 tries. doesn't everyone just feel so safe with such a massive force disparity??)
"Of course I deleted those photos."
But I'm not enough of a jerk to actually post them online. Telling me I can't have something you gave me anymore just pisses me off, and it's flat out wrong it shouldn't make a difference what it is. Publicizing is different tho. People need to get over their hangups about sex and nudity anyway... it's ridiculous that society is this advanced but a naked picture can ruin your life.
There is absolutely no way that catching a few druggies could possibly be worth tainting the reputation of a respected security research institution with the suspicion of being just another malware vendor for the feds.
No, but like many things it probably started with the feds saying 'you have to help us catch those evil child abusers hiding on Tor and posting their sick images'. Because who can oppose that? There's also 'Without these powers, the terrorists will attack again!' Because nobody wants to stop the government from getting terrorists. But pretty soon it's 'well, we've got power, why shouldn't we also use it against those evil drug traffickers?' and suddenly, much like PATRIOT act powers, drug cases become the predominant use of new abilities. Back in the day getting the druggies was enough of an excuse on its own to trample the constitution, but now they need to justify their powers with OMG PEDOS! or OMG TERRISTS! and bust 1-2 of them, THEN they can go after the hundreds of drug arrests just dripping with forfetiable assets and pocket-filling cash and dope on the table.
And it's such an effective skeleton key because whatever arguments you possibly make are drowned out by people screaming that you're supporting child abusers and terrorists.
Perhaps you're confused as to what "massively overprescribed" and "pill mill" actually mean. I assure you, the kind of place that will write you a bunch of extra scripts in relatives names (to avoid suspicious per-person prescribing) without doing examinations (because they see 15+ patients/hr) are NOT the kind of place you wind up in by accident. At a bare minimum, the 4 hour long line of 20- and 30- somethings who look perfectly healthy would clue you in, and normal people wouldn't want a doctor who doesn't examine or talk to them. Some would require, and some just pressured, using their affiliate pharmacies. The ones that required them, were typically all empty shelves with boxes of only painkillers and a couple others on the floor, cash only, with several armed guards.
As for "massively overprescribed", it's much rarer to find a true pill mill doing this now, but a few years ago in FL you could walk in and get 150 80mg OxyContin's, 300 30mg instant-release oxycodone, 150 10mg instant release oxymorphone or 4- to 8- mg hydromorphone, on top of 90x2mg alprazolam (xanax) tablets, and even some Adderall or dexedrine (amphetamines) for the tiredness. This was a fairly typical pill mill visit, and was a 30-day supply. Some people take this much legitimately, but that's truly rare in 20- and 30- somethings.
(and if you think this portrayal is inaccurate, you're definitely not familiar with pill mills and have confused them with normal pain management doctors; which to be fair is what the DEA and mass media have done.. lump in the actual criminal places with unfairly accused pain management practices).
Imagine seeing someone die of cancer, and their wife flushing any pain medication he got because "junkies will break in to steal it!". I lost my uncle to cancer, and my aunt to 'can't be the same room as such a despicable person'.
There's a good reason why doctors are hostile to analgesics.
They're scared of the DEA if they prescribe opiates in a way that offends the local field office.
So out come the opiates, however, opiates quickly induce tolerance so larger and larger doses are required.
So? Medical literature shows no additional side effects from even extreme doses (some non-terminal chronic pain sufferers even take 800+mg/day of oxycodone without issue)
And the tolerance becomes addiction, and the brain starts getting re-wired.
Despite the anecdotes, there's no medical evidence this happens anything more than a tiny minority of the time in patients who aren't already drug abusers. Dependence is not the same as addiction.
Not to mention the side effects of opiates, which aren't all that nice either.
Constipation, tiny bit of immune suppression rarely clinically significant, and...? Do you mean the effect of non-prescribed opiates due to prohibition rather than the substances themselves? People with tolerance to opiates aren't impaired and nodding out if they're being properly managed.
It can take *years* for a brain re-wired by long term use of opiates can return to "sort of" normal, if ever.
Among addicts with the medically distinct condition of addiction. As mentioned, a very small minority of those treated with opioids. And the statement should be more like a 1-3 months to 'sort of' normal, and 'if ever' for 'totally normal'.
It's much more than "moral panic" over opiates. The drugs are frankly dangerous, and even with the very best management practices, they will spin out of control if a person is on them too long.
It actually is moral panic. Medically speaking, opiates are far safer than the vast majority of prescription drugs. You sound like all your knowledge of opioid treatment comes exclusively from anti-drug propaganda sources. It sure as hell didn't come from the medical community.
I'd only want to be on large amounts of opiates if I were terminally ill.
Well you're into that whole drug war propaganda thing where you believe everyone prescribed some Vicodin for a toothache is shooting up heroin with dirty needles while homeless in an alley a few months later. So if you want to suffer, go for it. But respect the rights of others to not want to suffer because of opioid hysteria like you're spreading. And even if you want to go on believing that hysteria, I hope we can at least agree that the DEA shouldn't be setting treatment guidelines like it is now, and it should be left up to the patient and their doctor. (if you're getting massively overprescribed by a pill mill, it's a situation you've gone out of your way to get to)
Heroin peddlers, illegal and legal alike, will shut this research down.
Actual heroin dealers are probably thrilled... less access to pills = more demand for powder, as our brilliant drug warriors recently proved by sending tens of thousands of people away from doctors and pharmacists and into the arms of heroin dealers. But better 1000 people suffer in agony than 1 person take his pills to feel good, amirite? The DEA controls how your pain is treated now, not your doctor. And their philosophy? "Not dying soon? Not screaming loud enough to give me a headache? No pain relief for you!"
As for the legal guys... pretty sure this will be something they can charge out the ass for that you'll have to take at least daily.
But they weren't getting notices that people on the service were violating the law. They got notices saying that the *AAs believed that their customers were violating the law. There's no hard evidence that someone who the *AA sends a notice to is actually guilty of that charge unless they do a proper investigation.
The hard evidence is the hard cash the *AA spent making sure all judges and politicians believe those accusations are sufficiently infallible that companies must be forced to help "protect" the "job creators" of the intellectual property cartels in their fight for "artists rights". It's like you think we have a fair and balanced system instead of one so ridiculously stacked in favor of copyright that buying computers and software to run content scanning software that gives holders carte blanche to delete whatever is, and has held to be via litigation, the only way to run a video or storage site without being sued into oblivion. So what if the DMCA says notice and takedown is enough.
Facts don't matter. The politicians and courts have been sold, compliance with the law isn't sufficient. You're aiding piracy if you don't go far enough beyond legal compliance that the *AA is satisfied you're "doing enough" (giving them absolute control, and paying for it).
And afterwards "they" always say: oh yes, we had this guy on our watchlist. So - then fucking do something with that information!!!
But they couldn't, because of antiquated laws and activist judges who keep ruling that the bill of rights is only 90% void instead of 100%! They need more power and less oversight, and the people need to stop worrying about their so-called "rights" because the government promises to only target terrorists*, and you're not a terrorist, are you???
* - As a small minority of targets... but they're so hard to identify, and you know who else is evil? People who look at CP; surely you don't object to that right?? Now why can't the powers be used to target drug offenders? And insider traders. And criminals. And potential criminals. But of courses terrorists weren't pretext, they may represent only 1% of anti-terrorism law usage, but 100% of what PR can make people think it's for.
Physical mail can't be interfered with without a court order, is secure, cheap and reliable.
A "court order" means a rubber stamp when an inspector wants a peek. If you're a target, they'll find something suspicious about your package for sure. "The drug/bomb dog alerted." = indisputable probable cause for search to the courts; if it's just a DVD, well, someone obviously did coke off it once. International mail is the worst. There's actually a long list of qualifiers for a suspicious item that can be used to justify a search. What's even worse, they're true pros and opening and re-sealing without leaving evidence, so the only time you even find out is if they seize and send you a notice (love letter), or kick in your door, shoot your pets, and order to the ground with an automatic weapon anyone old enough to stand- shortly after you receive it.
So while if you're not being investigated, you can send (or receive; but they can get a warrant for all mail FROM a suspicious address) non-drug items without worrying about searches, the moment they're actually interested in your mail all the inspections and weak grounds for probable cause we allowed in the name of stopping drugs-via-mail or explosives-via-mail will almost certainly turn something up that lets them open it. The fact they need a judge to rubber stamp their probable cause warrant isn't much protection.
And this is in the US, where we allegedly still have some rights. The situation in the UK is almost certainly worse.
Phone policy varies wildly. In some jails, there's even phones right in the cells (4-6 inmates). They were turned on from 7am-11pm; you could talk your way through $60/day easily; and there was no "qualifying"... you could lose the privilege from abuse; but no approvals, no white lists reviewed by staff, no restriction on calling mobile numbers, etc. Could even have conference calls (against the phone companies policy, but unenforced).
Other places; 4 phones for 64 inmates with all sorts of restrictions on time of use (not during meals, lockdowns, searches, commissary, after lights out, etc). So after a call, back of the line, and good luck getting another one in before the next shut down. Every time the doors buzzed, everyone charged the phones like the bulls of Pamplona.
And god forbid you're in confinement (not just discipline... "protective custody", sex charges, medical, psych/suicide watch, juvenile, high profile case, etc, all can get you 23+ hrs/day solitary). MAYBE once per day you could talk an officer into wheeling the phone to the door so you can make a call through the slot... the cord too short to sit or stand, so you'd have to kneel on the concrete the whole time.
And all 3 of those scenarios was in just one jail... the only constant? The obscene expense. Broke inmates constantly begged and traded meals to get people with money in their phone account to dial children and wives.
Although the phone company did do one cool thing... video visitation over the internet with anyone, anywhere in the world for like $10 for a 1 hour visit (forget exact amount; but cheap compared to regular calls).
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The March On The Penguins?
You seem to think that the extremely rare malware to make it through on such a vector would then be stopped by AV. Unlikely. If you're well versed in security practices and diligent in following them, especially blocking ads and properly configuring your firewall, AVs are of no benefit and just waste resources.
Actually the big difference is that in real life the brilliant criminal masterminds don't have an even more brilliant hero cop outfoxing them, don't attract attention to themselves by using automatic weapons and explosives in public, and move into even harder to detect and stop white collar crimes asap.
2/GB an hour? If they're going after heavy torrent users, a single movie can clock in at 15-40GB for untouched bluray, which is quite popular these days.
Supposedly, not that I'd know.
Telemetry and error reporting cannot be effectively disabled on 10, because Microsoft refuses to make Enterprise available via retail channels.
And here people thought MS was trying to stop pirates. Enterprise is certainly available that way. When I'm forced off Win7 in a few years it looks like my life of crime won't be over, hopefully software piracy won't have a mandatory minimum of life in prison and forfeiture of 100% of assets yet. Well, probably the latter at least.
Explanation?
Microsoft: "Privacy online is dead dead dead. Screw your preferences on the matter, we do what we want. So just stop thinking you can just 'turn off' our ability to collect data from you and get used to it. What are you anyway, a pedophile or a terrorist?"
New users (and anyone unfamiliar with download rep) should also make this decision:
-In the name of "protecting you", Firefox sends the URL of every single file you download to Google to check against a blacklist, potentially associating your IP with that file. There is no contingency for false positives, the file is immediately deleted *after completion*, as I found out after a 14-hour download, and deleted so thoroughly not even professional recovery software could get it back. To stop this data from being sent, change browser.safebrowsing.appRepURL to nothing. It might slightly increase risk, but for me the one time it's been triggered in the year its been there was the aforementioned false positive (how did a mkv in a rar possibly trigger a false positive anyway, when the other 9 parts didn't? Not the first part either; part 6 of 10. This also proved it was lying about only checking executables.). No option to re-download with an exception either. And definitely no mention anywhere of to what extent the data is retained and associated with everything else Google knows about you.
Note that this is in addition to the 'Block malicious sites' and 'Black reported web forgeries'; AFAIK those just download the lists and check locally. Disabling download rep won't remove those protections.
It's sad the people still have this breakdown in logic and their emotions overwhelm them when it comes to "seriously dangerous" drugs like heroin or crack. Just what part of the problem with these drugs do you think is ameliorated by prohibition? If anything, it's even more critical that these drugs are legalized:
-Cocaine and heroin represent the vast majority of global organized crime and related violence. The exact same points about never stopping other substances apply even harder here. Doesn't matter how "bad" the drugs are, you're never ever going to stop global organized crime from reaping billions upon billions of dollars through prohibition.
-Locally, it's these drugs that are responsible for the large majority of secondary crimes against non-involved parties, such as robbery and property crimes, to fund addictions. People aren't robbing and stealing for their pot or MDMA habits, which I assume aren't "really" hard by your standards. These crimes aren't committed because of the drugs inherent biological response pattern in an addict (unlike alcohol, which DOES make violent behavior more likely), they're committed because prohibition results in a cost structure that puts maintaining a habit very difficult without wealth or crime. Alcohol and cigarettes are cause dependence just as strong in an addict, and I guarantee if an addiction to those cost hundreds of dollars per day, you'd see the exact same related violence.
-Even when it comes to "really hard" drugs, there's simply no evidence that legalization would lead to increased addiction, because do you really think there's thousands and thousands of people just waiting to go out and get addicted to heroin if only it were available from a doctor or pharmacist? It's legal to possess all drugs in Portugal, and they have no such usage spike. When you redirect money towards education and treatment and provide an environment where there's no fear of arrest for admitting you're a user, usage rates actually drop.
-With the financial and other aspects of acquisition, addicts are unable to hold jobs for a variety of reasons, and as heroin maintenance programs in other countries have shown, a steady cheap legal supply returns these people to functional, contributing members of society that can hold down jobs. And obviously there's health benefits associated with a legal pharmaceutical supply like OD prevention the most well known.
-People like to talk about "the children"... what kind of world do you want for yours if they wind up experimenting? A felony where getting caught twice or violating probation requirements means a lifetime of stigma. Interacting with dangerous criminal gangs to get an unknown product. Prison. Stigma attached to getting help. There is ZERO evidence that if we just crack down harder we're suddenly going to win the war on drugs and heroin, meth, and coke will vanish from the world, so no matter how much you wish that were the case, you're stuck with the reality that drugs are everywhere and kids experiment. If my kids made that mistake, I'd want them to get a safe product from a medical professional and be provided with non-abstinence-based education and have stigma-free access to well funded help and not be labeled a criminal and tossed into a cage and branded for life if they get caught. What do you want for yours? "a drug free world" is NOT an option.
The drug-dealing subreddits are still open too. I'd imagine. Allegedly. So I was told. By someone I don't know. Nevermind, such a thing doesn't exist and if it does I don't know about it! Now leave me alone.
But the more people use AdBlock, the more money they can charge for their "acceptable ads" whitelist.
I don't play any spec-hungry games, so my focus was on what I do use: media.
..every one of them 95-99%+ full. can't believe it's 2015 and i'm back to 'well which do i want to delete to make room for my next download'
-27" high-end-but-not-eizo-level primary monitor, 17" auxillary display off to the side
-Pentium G620 (dual-core/2.6GHz) on Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 board (AMD actually lost on my low-end price/single-core performance search; and bad enough to make me switch away after 4 systems/12 years with AMD)
-8GB RAM
-Radeon 4850 (was outdated even when i bought it, but it has more than enough power even still, won't be upgrading until 4k)
-Onboard sound/LAN
-dvdrw/multi-card reader
-Storage.. this is what happens when you're too poor to expand drives in a way other than adding old ones:
--1x1TB@7200rpm SATA (OS)
--1x4TB SATA
--1x2TB SATA
--1x750GB IDE (SATA bridge)
--4x500GB individual disks in external NAS
You forgot one gigantic loophole. While ordinary citizens cannot claim not understanding whether what they were doing was illegal or not, our wonderful courts have ruled that police face no such burden. It's perfectly ok for them to arrest you if they thought the act was illegal, even if they were wrong. It's the kind of precedent that really shows the courts for what they are, just another arm of law enforcement.
You adults won't believe this, but lots of us youngsters still don't have to sit through any commercials, have permanent offline copies with no DRM in better resolution than Netflix, that can't be taken away on the whims of corporations, and aren't subjected to a limited catalog missing extremely popular items to begin with. And, it's free! (minus the cost of maintaining 12TB of storage for a large collection of TV and movies in HD). Not that a lot of us youngsters feel that the production studios' behavior morally obligates us to provide compensation, but even if we wanted to there's no service at any price that offers this level of quality and flexibility. I know being all grown up with your job and disposable income makes you feel like subjecting yourself to the horrors of Netflix is the adult thing to do... but I choose to live in my immaturity where I don't pay for less.