Talking about certain topics, or when a discussion goes OT, you go OT too with some topics
The promotion of the same political or economic ideas.
The use of certain bits of slang, and the exclusion of other bits
Themes in your usernames. Unless you truly randomly select a word for a username, you are probably saying something about yourself - even if it just what you can see out the window.
Like I have said elsewhere in this thread, I think correlating users on line, anon users on line, users of things off line (eg government services, corporate services), with individuals IRL is or is going to be a major frontier for some groups, like spooks and data-rapists.
But there isn't true competition. Most insurance companies are public corporations, and so shareholders in different companies will overlap. And most of the shareholders will be investment banks and the like (not middle-class share dabblers), and they will want to see maximum returns as soon as possible, and they don't care how it happens. Suddenly very similar pressures are on different companies, so the odds of the different companies making the same decisions shoot up.
Even if shareholders don't overlap, if companies don't tend to do the same kinds of things as the other players in the market, then their share price will fall.
Collusion to maximise profits is not somehow impossible in the insurance business too, and so cannot be dismissed.
Shit, here in the UK some insurance companies like to pretend there is much more competition in the market than there is. There are some car insurance comparison web sites that are heavily advertised on TV, and at least one of them is owned by an insurance company (looks to be comparethemarket.com). Funnily enough, that site tends to offer their own insurance as the cheapest, from the accidental run-in I have had with it. There are also many insurance companies that are all members of large umbrella companies, and often the seemingly independent insurers will be underwritten by one of the big boys - so are tied to the business practices of the big boys.
And the insurance quotes made on comparison sites are not available if you go directly to the insurer! There are obviously affiliate payments made to the comparison sites based on lead referrals, and they must be the right amount such that if you ring an insurer direct, they will not match a price quoted elsewhere, for seemingly the same fucking service! This shows that the customer is not the most powerful person in the transaction, but if there was true competition, the customer would be able to get a better deal when they try for it.
You say you have never linked them, but I think that linking those IDs is a current thing corporations and the spooks are doing, or will be a future Next Big Thing.
If a user signs up to many forums, or sites with comment systems, with different usernames, if they ever use the same email address then the users can be cross referenced (trivially, if the site publicly publishes those addresses). If the user adds IM details to a profile, they can be cross referenced (ever tried Googling an ICQ number? It can be very revealing). Many forums and sites ask for a location, and those could be used as an indicator of the same person, especially if they publish their date of birth too.
With those things though, it is clear when you are giving away your own privacy. I feel there is other stuff that could be used to cross reference different users on line though. I think though that in the future (or now, and we^W I don't know about it), The Man will use some kind of AI to cross reference different users on line, anonymous users on line, and people IRL. People tend to comment on the stuff that interests them, peoples' points of view tend not to change, no matter what they call themselves. People's spelling, grammar, or other language habits will be pretty consistent. The same person will probably phrase the same subject material in very similar ways, and at some point spotting that could be automated.
I do assume that web users are being profiled these days. The likes of security services or corporations could write parsers for web discussion systems, like phpBB, Slash, vBulletin, etc., and other discussion systems like usenet. Businesses like Facebook or Google make their money off data on their users, so with the right contacts or money you can get at their data (In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA, invested in Facebook, so I think it is safe to assume they have full access to the FB databases). If captchas are routinely broken by spammers, fully automated forum-parsing is not out of reach of the spooks or data-raping companies. Shit, if companies will pay people to astroturf their products, then they would pay people to sign up to forums and make a few posts so an account can be used by a bot to trawl the site, whilst still looking like a normal user.
So yeah, whilst consciously not linking identities is possible, I think there are things that those who would like to know about the different identities can do to spot various IDs. But we have counter measures, though I doubt they are perfect. We can find a random web user, and copy their identity for use on some sites. We can use the spell checker sometimes, and not other times. Perhaps change the language in the spell checker to be different to your native version, like en-AU instead of en-US, Canadian French (fr-CA?) instead of fr-FR. Hell, write a post, and run it forwards and backwards though translation software. In fact, here is this post Babelfished to Italian and back:
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Honestly, what are the odds that a violent criminal will get the death penalty? Serial rapists can't unless they murder someone. A criminal who cuts off all the limbs of his victims can't get the death penalty unless one of the victims dies.
The Supreme Court found in Kennedy v. Louisiana that the victim must die for the death penalty to be an option. Basically you can rape and brutalize millions of women (and children!) knowing full well that the U.S. government cannot execute you kill one of the victims.
That, to me, is a tragedy.
To me, you are an immense hypocrite - like all the self-righteous who advocate the death penalty.
What you are saying is that to demonstrate it is wrong to kill someone, we should should kill people. Hmmm. And you go a step further saying that extreme violence should be dealt with with greater violence.
Way to build respect for the justice system! Though perhaps those that like to punish, rather than try to rehabilitate, want a disrespected justice system so that people are more likely to break laws, and so the punisher gets to punish? Fucking bullies.
Of course I will be modded down for this. I have had conversations with people from my country who think we should have the death penalty (usually justified with "think of the children"-type rhetoric, or other appeals to emotion), and when the hypocrisy of capital punishment is pointed out they tend to get irrationally pissed off. On/., this manifests itself as -1, Troll, or similar.
Even if you don't give a shit about other human beings (ie are a psychopath yourself) then the financial costs of building and maintaining an execution facility, the extra legwork necessary to prove undoubtedly that the accused is a killer (I hope you do that), the payouts necessary for when the innocent get killed, etc. are probably very similar to the costs of just locking the seriously fucked-up for life. Actually, I have no idea. I'm not going to look into it either, as an economic argument could never justify human lives to me.
Shit, murderers can contribute to the slave labour that US prisoners are used for too. You can't want to deny struggling international corporations some extra profit by killing killers? What are you, a commie?
I feel that using a IPad would be a no brainer for usage on a space station.
That's lucky then, because astronauts are notorious for being at the bottom of their classes all through their education, and often tend to fail when they get to the end. They are well known as stupid, so an ipad would go well with their no brains.
Think about carrying around a laptop on a space station compared to a tablet.
They'd weigh the same? A laptop can be closed to protect it when it inevitably floats off one day?
Much friendly
User friendliness is essential as astronauts aren't trained at all, they are just stuck on a rocket, blasted into space, and left to figure it out. If the tools they are sent up with are user friendly, they they stand a much better chance of being able to use the tools, and that will progress man's exploration of space quite considerably.
and also why not create applications customized to their needs.
Yeah, that is only possible on ipads. It is well know that general purpose computers cannot be used for any purpose that generally needs computing.
Only down side is are they powerful enough...my guess is if they are using five year old lap tops it cannot be too far off
Absolutely. The ISS doesn't have any computers built into it, and all flight computing, life support control, etc. is done on the same computers that the astronauts use for their email, so computational power is paramount.
I'd mod you up, but I've posted elsewhere in this discussion. Might as well do what I can and make your comment appear at 2 (whereas if I +modded it, you'd only get one point).
Words have meaning. Threats have consequences. Chambers and his supporters seem to live in a fantasy world and do not understand this.
Oh please, get off your damn high horse..
Cluestick no.1
Here am I, basement dweller that I am, in possession of a device, lovingly hand-crafted and constructed entirely out of Lego(tm), Meccano(tm) assorted bits of old stereos and computers, a bit of a TV set, and the crucial bottle of Encona(tm) Hot Pepper Sauce, said device being capable of destroying the universe at the press of a button. I intend to press this button the morrow, at 11:22ish GMT.
This is a threat, not just a bloody airport going kablooey!, but complete universal destruction!
(Paint me green and call me Gazoo.)
Cluestick no.2
I'm a PO'd 'radicalised' Muslim with a van, assorted full gas cylinders (Acetylene, Butane etc) several gallons of petrol and a home-made suicide belt, I'm going to drive to some public 'celebration' of the return of the 'heroes' who have been murdering my Muslim brothers, and blow them all to fuck, dead Infidels, instant Paradise+virgins for me, what's not to like?. Of course, I'll be tweeting this, putting it on Facebook (changing my status to Shahid), maybe taking an ad out in the local papers..my arse I will. If they're lucky, the Stasi, sorry, security services, will be looking in my direction at the right time and maybe they'll catch me If I'm bloody stupid enough to communicate the fact I'm going to do this.
See, difference between idiot venting off and credible threat..
Words indeed have meaning, contemplate both the words arsehole and pompous, rearrange them into a meaningful phrase, achieve Satori..
We are *all* currently living in the 'fantasy world' that our masters have created for us, the current bogey being used to justify anything 'they' want to do being Islamic terrorists, prior bogeys being The Soviets/The West(depending on which side you controlled your country), Irish [terrorists(UK)|Freedomfighters(USA)] etc etc. Remind me again, what was it? WMD in Iraq?, OBL in Afghanistan?, Anarchists in Whitechapel?(sorry, wrong century).
Tricksy things words, when our masters use them to lie to us, use them to justify the deaths of civilians and soldiers, ('casualties of war' - wonderful phrase, covers a multitude of sins) all is fine and well, (hell, one of the main criminals involved gets to change his religion to one where he thinks he gets a 'get out of hell free' card if he says enough 'Our fathers and Hail bloody Mary's' ). We plebs, when we use the 'wrong' words to vent spleen, fuck me, we're arrested charged and convicted.
If you aren't trolling, and can't/refuse to spot why this prosecution is flawed, then all I can say is, nothing, actually, as you'd ignore it as it doesn't accord with the world view you've been fed and seem happy with.
I'm AC'ing this as I've no wish to be banished to a painfully unfunny 60's cartoon reality as a minor comic relief character for being in the possession of a doomsday machine and threatening to use it..I've stated above, in words, I'm Gazoo, on teh internets, so it must be true (seeing as words have meaning and all that). That and the fact that I think I saw one of your damn Predator thingies flying overhead t'other day, fuck the black helicopters...
I can't believe I'm about to say this, but Timothy makes an excellent point about who we . Here's what Mr. Chambers originally said:
"Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week... otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"
Here's what Mr. Compton said:
"Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death? I shan't tell Amnesty if you don't. It would be a blessing, really."
Neither one has the ring of a joke, neither one is in good taste, but the former is defended while the latter is fodder for criticism.
What it sounds like is what you have done: misrepresented one quote so as to be able to make them equal.
Mr. Chamber's quote is longer than what you said, and so has more to it.
The point is though, seeing as you have missed it by choice, is that the airport gag was one guy claiming to want to do something that is clearly very difficult, if not impossible, for an individual to do. The second is someone who has not insignificant amounts of power in society requesting that a journalist is stoned (and not in the good way).
If you can't see the difference between someone stating they want to do something improbable, and a politician making a threat to a journalist (ignoring religions, genders, events that are more likely to occur in some parts of the world, etc.), then you come across to me as truly stupid. Or perhaps you are an authoritarian who thinks that those in powerful positions shouldn't be held to account for things they do in those powerful positions?
>>>Or do we only read it literally and out of context when it's to the advantage of the [government]?
Fixed that for you. This is about leaders wanting control over the commoners..... no different than how it was in 1500. Different society of course but still the same root motivation - tyranny.
It isn't just leaders, it is anyone who wants to "win" an argument, and doesn't care how they do it. Or is lacking logic and reasoning skills, and doesn't realise what they are doing.
We see similar quite frequently on/.: someone will make a statement, and then someone will seemingly take the statement totally out of context. Which is very likely to distract others from the point initially being made, or make the original statement seem incorrect.
It happens in the media very frequently, and even more so in political and economic debates (though politics and economics are very closely linked, and people will advocate differing political points of view based on economic positions, and vice versa).
It is similar to why it can be frustrating to argue or debate with some people. Some people will just do things like constantly change the subject, or interrupt just as you are coming to your point, or ask silly and pointless question as you are approaching your point. Anything at all to stop you making your point, or to make you not present your point how you would like to.
This trait isn't exclusive with leaders, it seems to be common amongst authoritarians. Most of those who rise to the top though tend to be authoritarians, but they probably wouldn't have much support or stay there long if it weren't for other plonkers in society who don't see the misrepresentation due to manipulated context and literal presentation.
And just how many thing didn't work in Windows "two versions back"?
All direct X 10 software? But not for the kind of reasons something didn't work in Ubuntu 2 versions ago, but because Microsoft didn't want it to work on that older version of Windows.
And the fact that DX10 could be hacked to work on XP shows that MS were not providing what the users might actually want. MS's business decision clearly came before the user desires.
That is my biggest problem with proprietary software: the author's desires come first in the design of a product, with the user's needs further down the line. With Free software, the user's desires can be placed first. They aren't always - hence this debate about Linux directly competing with Windows - but the desires stand a much greater chance of being placed first.
Go GOP! Who voted for the dems in the first place??? Morons.
That's MORANS. If you are going to show your support for the system that keeps the same type of people in power all the time, at least use the correct sub-language for your team!
It's also interesting when you got multiple boiler plates on e-mails. For example, those going through a very active mailing list. Which disclaimer applies? And to top things off one mailing list (the Mimedefang list) adds this to each outgoing post.
______________________________________________
NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above
message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it.
I think I hear the sound of many a lawyer's head going *POP*.
No, the noise is a lawyer's flies going *POP*, as their cock near-explosively engorges at the prospect of how much business they can do bickering over which bullshit boiler plate applies, and if the final one trumps the lot or not.
I was under the impression that it could recognise objects, though thinking about what I have seen on TV it does seem to be much more of a route-follower, than actually properly autonomous, and finding objects in its environment doesn't seem to be in its repertoire.
I got side tracked by making a gag about the path to killbots!
With the features it already has, would it really be much to add another one where it seeks a mains socket, and plugs itself in after 14 mins on battery?
Although perhaps Honda have foreseen the potential issues with giving a robot a desire to preserve its own life?
PS) I am making a knowing glance toward muslims, which I believe are at the heart of intolerance on Earth in present times.
Attitudes like that were pretty prevalent a hundred years ago, but with a different Abrahamic religion. Any idea what was able to occur with widespread prejudice against 1 group that could be stirred up by those seeking absolute control?
That's pretty much what I was going to say. From my point of view, any site that tries to compromise my privacy is a security risk, and most of the big data-rapists are on.coms, Google analytics, Facebook, Webtrends, etc.. These advertisers and tracking domains are dotted about very liberally on the web, and there are few pages I load these days that don't have something blocked in Adblock, or an untrusted domain in NoScript.
Shit, just had a look in Adblock for this page, and there is another domain that I am going to blacklist, demandbase.com. They are serving up 1x1 pixel graphics, so are providing me with nothing at all. And I don't give a flying fuck about if slashdot find them useful or not.
Web bugs usually rely on the http referrer though, and I have been routinely forging those for a good few years now. Snopes is about the most famous site that actually needs the correct referrer, though the extension I use in FF, RefControl, allows different rules to be created for different sites. Discogs.com recently set up a referral checking mechanism too. I guess to stop 3rd party applications from being able to pull album artwork from their site, or something.
Forums, like slashdot, are privately owned. You DON'T have a right to free speech. You have a right to obey the rules of the forum sysop, even if he's a tyrant. It's his domain; his rules.
Governments have massive power over the people, and so many states around the world have come to the conclusion that making the government have to tolerate what people have to say is best for everyone. Well, except the people running the government, but that's kinda the point - to reign in the power they wield.
The most powerful entities in society come and go over time, and this can be seen through the buildings that get built. The most powerful entity in a society tends to build the biggest buildings, to show of their power, assert dominance, whatever. These days corporations build most of the biggest buildings (skyscrapers), but not so long back governments the builders of the biggest places. Further back in history, and huge churches and cathedrals were being built, and during points of history when royal families were at the top, palaces and castles were the biggest buildings around.
My point is that any powerful groups are a threat to the liberty of an individual, and we are living in a time when corporations are gaining more and more power everyday. Yes, governments may still be more powerful in some ways, but that doesn't cancel out or negate the power corporations have, and so corporations should have to allow some things they may not like for the same reasons that the government has to allow things it may not like.
One thing that's awesome is that you can push and hold the left and right and scroll continuously through the lists.
Speaking as somebody who doesn't own a video game console, and someone who doesn't use netflix, that sounds like any awfully low bar for "awesome".
You obviously haven't used proprietary products much recently. They are frequently so dumbed down and simplified that if there is a useful feature, the users that can recognise its usefulness go "wow". Those that can't recognise the usefulness get confused by it, and call the manufacturer to complain. This raises support costs, meaning that the next generation of product from the manufacturer stands to be dumbed down even further!
Now then, I'm not saying that this means Free stuff doesn't have UI deficiencies, they are just different to the proprietary ones!
As long as you are paying the power bill, electricity companies don't mind how much power you use. If anything, the more you use the more they profit. Besides, some houses/families do use a lot of juice perfectly legitimately. Families with kids tend to do quite a bit of laundry, a washing machine being run maybe a couple of times a day, plus a dryer drying the same, pulls quite some juice.
In the UK, non-ground floor flats cannot have gas kitchen appliances (as I understand - not sure about boilers). Any kitchens created or renovated upstairs in the UK since mumble-years ago has to be leccy, and so will use much more power than an equivalent ground floor flat.
Also, cannabis growers don't necessarily run their lights 24/7. 18 hours is common for the vegative phase of growth, and 12 hours for flowering. Though commercial grows are indeed more likely to have multiple lights, and so the load is likely to be more across the day than someone with just one 400W or 600W light. Not that most meters do anything more than count kilowatthours, they don't record time of day power is used.
I have also heard anecdotes of growers contacting their power company and asking if the kiln they have for their pottery hobby will cause problems. The power company will probably say no, but they may note down why a certain address could be using more than average levels of power. If some kind of power usage audit does happen, a flag on an account that customer X has a kiln could mean that place is not suspected of growing a herb.
And years ago I lived in a house with 2 other geeks. We had at least a dozen computers on 24/7, and the electricity bill was colossal. But it was paid, and there were never any signs that we were suspected of growing pot. Anecdotal info, I know, but it helps illustrate things.
Supposedly the electric companies not only have a meter in every property, they also have one per "street", or so. If the houses' meters don't add up to what the street meter says, someone on that street is probably bypassing a meter in their property[1]. Perhaps the guy from TFA was also bypassing the street meter, so as to make the theft of electricity more effective, and harder to detect?
[1] Supposedly this is how many cannabis factories[2] are found. The press often mentions that power companies help find grows, and I think this is how they find them.
[2] I hate to use that phrase, what the fuck kind of factory makes plants? It is a loaded propaganda word, and commercial cannabis cultivation wouldn't be happening in houses if it wasn't for the stupid political policy of the prohibition of some drugs.
But why the fuck did the plaintiffs make what is clearly the shit choice?
A group who is meant to be responsible for children is caught taking pictures of the children in private settings, and hilarity ensues. I think even people who can't spell law would be able to see that the school-group would lose a case like this.
Why did the plaintiffs take the shit choice? Either they couldn't arrange a loan to pay for a lawyer up front, they couldn't find a lawyer who was willing to compete against the rest of his industry, or the lawyer who make 400K USD misrepresented the situation in the first place, and lead the plaintiffs to make the poor choice.
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Like I have said elsewhere in this thread, I think correlating users on line, anon users on line, users of things off line (eg government services, corporate services), with individuals IRL is or is going to be a major frontier for some groups, like spooks and data-rapists.
But there isn't true competition. Most insurance companies are public corporations, and so shareholders in different companies will overlap. And most of the shareholders will be investment banks and the like (not middle-class share dabblers), and they will want to see maximum returns as soon as possible, and they don't care how it happens. Suddenly very similar pressures are on different companies, so the odds of the different companies making the same decisions shoot up.
Even if shareholders don't overlap, if companies don't tend to do the same kinds of things as the other players in the market, then their share price will fall.
Collusion to maximise profits is not somehow impossible in the insurance business too, and so cannot be dismissed.
Shit, here in the UK some insurance companies like to pretend there is much more competition in the market than there is. There are some car insurance comparison web sites that are heavily advertised on TV, and at least one of them is owned by an insurance company (looks to be comparethemarket.com). Funnily enough, that site tends to offer their own insurance as the cheapest, from the accidental run-in I have had with it. There are also many insurance companies that are all members of large umbrella companies, and often the seemingly independent insurers will be underwritten by one of the big boys - so are tied to the business practices of the big boys.
And the insurance quotes made on comparison sites are not available if you go directly to the insurer! There are obviously affiliate payments made to the comparison sites based on lead referrals, and they must be the right amount such that if you ring an insurer direct, they will not match a price quoted elsewhere, for seemingly the same fucking service! This shows that the customer is not the most powerful person in the transaction, but if there was true competition, the customer would be able to get a better deal when they try for it.
You say you have never linked them, but I think that linking those IDs is a current thing corporations and the spooks are doing, or will be a future Next Big Thing.
If a user signs up to many forums, or sites with comment systems, with different usernames, if they ever use the same email address then the users can be cross referenced (trivially, if the site publicly publishes those addresses). If the user adds IM details to a profile, they can be cross referenced (ever tried Googling an ICQ number? It can be very revealing). Many forums and sites ask for a location, and those could be used as an indicator of the same person, especially if they publish their date of birth too.
With those things though, it is clear when you are giving away your own privacy. I feel there is other stuff that could be used to cross reference different users on line though. I think though that in the future (or now, and we^W I don't know about it), The Man will use some kind of AI to cross reference different users on line, anonymous users on line, and people IRL. People tend to comment on the stuff that interests them, peoples' points of view tend not to change, no matter what they call themselves. People's spelling, grammar, or other language habits will be pretty consistent. The same person will probably phrase the same subject material in very similar ways, and at some point spotting that could be automated.
I do assume that web users are being profiled these days. The likes of security services or corporations could write parsers for web discussion systems, like phpBB, Slash, vBulletin, etc., and other discussion systems like usenet. Businesses like Facebook or Google make their money off data on their users, so with the right contacts or money you can get at their data (In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA, invested in Facebook, so I think it is safe to assume they have full access to the FB databases). If captchas are routinely broken by spammers, fully automated forum-parsing is not out of reach of the spooks or data-raping companies. Shit, if companies will pay people to astroturf their products, then they would pay people to sign up to forums and make a few posts so an account can be used by a bot to trawl the site, whilst still looking like a normal user.
So yeah, whilst consciously not linking identities is possible, I think there are things that those who would like to know about the different identities can do to spot various IDs. But we have counter measures, though I doubt they are perfect. We can find a random web user, and copy their identity for use on some sites. We can use the spell checker sometimes, and not other times. Perhaps change the language in the spell checker to be different to your native version, like en-AU instead of en-US, Canadian French (fr-CA?) instead of fr-FR. Hell, write a post, and run it forwards and backwards though translation software. In fact, here is this post Babelfished to Italian and back:
You say you have not never connected them, but task that one to connect that IDs is society of what of the current and the phantoms are making, or will be a great future following thing. If a customer company in on to many tribunes, or the places with the comment systems, with different names customer, if the customers never use the same email address then can be reported (banally, if to the public place public those addresses). If l' customer adds details IM to one profile, can be reported (Googling never tried a ICQ number? A lot can reveal). Many tribunes and places ask a position and those could be used like pointer of the same person, particularly if they publish theirs date of birth also With those things however, clearly when have been guaranteeing via yours own confidentiality. I think that us it is l' other roba that it could be used in order to report the different customers on the line however. Task however that in future (or now and we^W the don' the t it knows to this end), l' man will use a sure kind of TO in order reporting the di
On /., this manifests itself as -1, Troll, or similar.
(Score:1, Flamebait)
As predicted.....
Honestly, what are the odds that a violent criminal will get the death penalty? Serial rapists can't unless they murder someone. A criminal who cuts off all the limbs of his victims can't get the death penalty unless one of the victims dies.
The Supreme Court found in Kennedy v. Louisiana that the victim must die for the death penalty to be an option. Basically you can rape and brutalize millions of women (and children!) knowing full well that the U.S. government cannot execute you kill one of the victims.
That, to me, is a tragedy.
To me, you are an immense hypocrite - like all the self-righteous who advocate the death penalty.
What you are saying is that to demonstrate it is wrong to kill someone, we should should kill people. Hmmm. And you go a step further saying that extreme violence should be dealt with with greater violence.
Way to build respect for the justice system! Though perhaps those that like to punish, rather than try to rehabilitate, want a disrespected justice system so that people are more likely to break laws, and so the punisher gets to punish? Fucking bullies.
Of course I will be modded down for this. I have had conversations with people from my country who think we should have the death penalty (usually justified with "think of the children"-type rhetoric, or other appeals to emotion), and when the hypocrisy of capital punishment is pointed out they tend to get irrationally pissed off. On /., this manifests itself as -1, Troll, or similar.
Even if you don't give a shit about other human beings (ie are a psychopath yourself) then the financial costs of building and maintaining an execution facility, the extra legwork necessary to prove undoubtedly that the accused is a killer (I hope you do that), the payouts necessary for when the innocent get killed, etc. are probably very similar to the costs of just locking the seriously fucked-up for life. Actually, I have no idea. I'm not going to look into it either, as an economic argument could never justify human lives to me.
Shit, murderers can contribute to the slave labour that US prisoners are used for too. You can't want to deny struggling international corporations some extra profit by killing killers? What are you, a commie?
I feel that using a IPad would be a no brainer for usage on a space station.
That's lucky then, because astronauts are notorious for being at the bottom of their classes all through their education, and often tend to fail when they get to the end. They are well known as stupid, so an ipad would go well with their no brains.
Think about carrying around a laptop on a space station compared to a tablet.
They'd weigh the same? A laptop can be closed to protect it when it inevitably floats off one day?
Much friendly
User friendliness is essential as astronauts aren't trained at all, they are just stuck on a rocket, blasted into space, and left to figure it out. If the tools they are sent up with are user friendly, they they stand a much better chance of being able to use the tools, and that will progress man's exploration of space quite considerably.
and also why not create applications customized to their needs.
Yeah, that is only possible on ipads. It is well know that general purpose computers cannot be used for any purpose that generally needs computing.
Only down side is are they powerful enough...my guess is if they are using five year old lap tops it cannot be too far off
Absolutely. The ISS doesn't have any computers built into it, and all flight computing, life support control, etc. is done on the same computers that the astronauts use for their email, so computational power is paramount.
I'd mod you up, but I've posted elsewhere in this discussion. Might as well do what I can and make your comment appear at 2 (whereas if I +modded it, you'd only get one point).
Words have meaning. Threats have consequences.
Chambers and his supporters seem to live in a fantasy world and do not understand this.
Oh please, get off your damn high horse..
Cluestick no.1
Here am I, basement dweller that I am, in possession of a device, lovingly hand-crafted and constructed entirely out of Lego(tm), Meccano(tm) assorted bits of old stereos and computers, a bit of a TV set, and the crucial bottle of Encona(tm) Hot Pepper Sauce, said device being capable of destroying the universe at the press of a button. I intend to press this button the morrow, at 11:22ish GMT.
This is a threat, not just a bloody airport going kablooey!, but complete universal destruction!
(Paint me green and call me Gazoo.)
Cluestick no.2
I'm a PO'd 'radicalised' Muslim with a van, assorted full gas cylinders (Acetylene, Butane etc) several gallons of petrol and a home-made suicide belt, I'm going to drive to some public 'celebration' of the return of the 'heroes' who have been murdering my Muslim brothers, and blow them all to fuck, dead Infidels, instant Paradise+virgins for me, what's not to like?.
Of course, I'll be tweeting this, putting it on Facebook (changing my status to Shahid), maybe taking an ad out in the local papers..my arse I will. If they're lucky, the
Stasi, sorry, security services, will be looking in my direction at the right time and maybe they'll catch me If I'm bloody stupid enough to communicate the fact I'm going to do this.
See, difference between idiot venting off and credible threat..
Words indeed have meaning, contemplate both the words arsehole and pompous, rearrange them into a meaningful phrase, achieve Satori..
We are *all* currently living in the 'fantasy world' that our masters have created for us, the current bogey being used to justify anything 'they' want to do being Islamic terrorists, prior bogeys being The Soviets/The West(depending on which side you controlled your country), Irish [terrorists(UK)|Freedomfighters(USA)] etc etc.
Remind me again, what was it? WMD in Iraq?, OBL in Afghanistan?, Anarchists in Whitechapel?(sorry, wrong century).
Tricksy things words, when our masters use them to lie to us, use them to justify the deaths of civilians and soldiers, ('casualties of war' - wonderful phrase, covers a multitude of sins) all is fine and well, (hell, one of the main criminals involved gets to change his religion to one where he thinks he gets a 'get out of hell free' card if he says enough 'Our fathers and Hail bloody Mary's' ). We plebs, when we use the 'wrong' words to vent spleen, fuck me, we're arrested charged and convicted.
If you aren't trolling, and can't/refuse to spot why this prosecution is flawed, then all I can say is, nothing, actually, as you'd ignore it as it doesn't accord with the world view you've been fed and seem happy with.
I'm AC'ing this as I've no wish to be banished to a painfully unfunny 60's cartoon reality as a minor comic relief character for being in the possession of a doomsday machine and threatening to use it..I've stated above, in words, I'm Gazoo, on teh internets, so it must be true (seeing as words have meaning and all that).
That and the fact that I think I saw one of your damn Predator thingies flying overhead t'other day, fuck the black helicopters...
I can't believe I'm about to say this, but Timothy makes an excellent point about who we . Here's what Mr. Chambers originally said:
"Robin Hood Airport is closed. You've got a week... otherwise I'm blowing the airport sky high!"
Here's what Mr. Compton said:
"Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death? I shan't tell Amnesty if you don't. It would be a blessing, really."
Neither one has the ring of a joke, neither one is in good taste, but the former is defended while the latter is fodder for criticism.
What it sounds like is what you have done: misrepresented one quote so as to be able to make them equal.
Mr. Chamber's quote is longer than what you said, and so has more to it.
The point is though, seeing as you have missed it by choice, is that the airport gag was one guy claiming to want to do something that is clearly very difficult, if not impossible, for an individual to do. The second is someone who has not insignificant amounts of power in society requesting that a journalist is stoned (and not in the good way).
If you can't see the difference between someone stating they want to do something improbable, and a politician making a threat to a journalist (ignoring religions, genders, events that are more likely to occur in some parts of the world, etc.), then you come across to me as truly stupid. Or perhaps you are an authoritarian who thinks that those in powerful positions shouldn't be held to account for things they do in those powerful positions?
>>>Or do we only read it literally and out of context when it's to the advantage of the [government]?
Fixed that for you. This is about leaders wanting control over the commoners..... no different than how it was in 1500. Different society of course but still the same root motivation - tyranny.
It isn't just leaders, it is anyone who wants to "win" an argument, and doesn't care how they do it. Or is lacking logic and reasoning skills, and doesn't realise what they are doing.
We see similar quite frequently on /.: someone will make a statement, and then someone will seemingly take the statement totally out of context. Which is very likely to distract others from the point initially being made, or make the original statement seem incorrect.
It happens in the media very frequently, and even more so in political and economic debates (though politics and economics are very closely linked, and people will advocate differing political points of view based on economic positions, and vice versa).
It is similar to why it can be frustrating to argue or debate with some people. Some people will just do things like constantly change the subject, or interrupt just as you are coming to your point, or ask silly and pointless question as you are approaching your point. Anything at all to stop you making your point, or to make you not present your point how you would like to.
This trait isn't exclusive with leaders, it seems to be common amongst authoritarians. Most of those who rise to the top though tend to be authoritarians, but they probably wouldn't have much support or stay there long if it weren't for other plonkers in society who don't see the misrepresentation due to manipulated context and literal presentation.
And just how many thing didn't work in Windows "two versions back"?
All direct X 10 software? But not for the kind of reasons something didn't work in Ubuntu 2 versions ago, but because Microsoft didn't want it to work on that older version of Windows.
And the fact that DX10 could be hacked to work on XP shows that MS were not providing what the users might actually want. MS's business decision clearly came before the user desires.
That is my biggest problem with proprietary software: the author's desires come first in the design of a product, with the user's needs further down the line. With Free software, the user's desires can be placed first. They aren't always - hence this debate about Linux directly competing with Windows - but the desires stand a much greater chance of being placed first.
Go GOP! Who voted for the dems in the first place??? Morons.
That's MORANS. If you are going to show your support for the system that keeps the same type of people in power all the time, at least use the correct sub-language for your team!
It's also interesting when you got multiple boiler plates on e-mails. For example, those going through a very active mailing list. Which disclaimer applies? And to top things off one mailing list (the Mimedefang list) adds this to each outgoing post.
______________________________________________
NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above
message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it.
I think I hear the sound of many a lawyer's head going *POP*.
No, the noise is a lawyer's flies going *POP*, as their cock near-explosively engorges at the prospect of how much business they can do bickering over which bullshit boiler plate applies, and if the final one trumps the lot or not.
I was under the impression that it could recognise objects, though thinking about what I have seen on TV it does seem to be much more of a route-follower, than actually properly autonomous, and finding objects in its environment doesn't seem to be in its repertoire.
I got side tracked by making a gag about the path to killbots!
With the features it already has, would it really be much to add another one where it seeks a mains socket, and plugs itself in after 14 mins on battery?
Although perhaps Honda have foreseen the potential issues with giving a robot a desire to preserve its own life?
PS) I am making a knowing glance toward muslims, which I believe are at the heart of intolerance on Earth in present times.
Attitudes like that were pretty prevalent a hundred years ago, but with a different Abrahamic religion. Any idea what was able to occur with widespread prejudice against 1 group that could be stirred up by those seeking absolute control?
Unless you're really rich
That's pretty much what I was going to say. From my point of view, any site that tries to compromise my privacy is a security risk, and most of the big data-rapists are on .coms, Google analytics, Facebook, Webtrends, etc.. These advertisers and tracking domains are dotted about very liberally on the web, and there are few pages I load these days that don't have something blocked in Adblock, or an untrusted domain in NoScript.
Shit, just had a look in Adblock for this page, and there is another domain that I am going to blacklist, demandbase.com. They are serving up 1x1 pixel graphics, so are providing me with nothing at all. And I don't give a flying fuck about if slashdot find them useful or not.
Web bugs usually rely on the http referrer though, and I have been routinely forging those for a good few years now. Snopes is about the most famous site that actually needs the correct referrer, though the extension I use in FF, RefControl, allows different rules to be created for different sites. Discogs.com recently set up a referral checking mechanism too. I guess to stop 3rd party applications from being able to pull album artwork from their site, or something.
I'm sure they are already doing things much like the Americans. Reference
Forums, like slashdot, are privately owned. You DON'T have a right to free speech. You have a right to obey the rules of the forum sysop, even if he's a tyrant. It's his domain; his rules.
Governments have massive power over the people, and so many states around the world have come to the conclusion that making the government have to tolerate what people have to say is best for everyone. Well, except the people running the government, but that's kinda the point - to reign in the power they wield.
The most powerful entities in society come and go over time, and this can be seen through the buildings that get built. The most powerful entity in a society tends to build the biggest buildings, to show of their power, assert dominance, whatever. These days corporations build most of the biggest buildings (skyscrapers), but not so long back governments the builders of the biggest places. Further back in history, and huge churches and cathedrals were being built, and during points of history when royal families were at the top, palaces and castles were the biggest buildings around.
My point is that any powerful groups are a threat to the liberty of an individual, and we are living in a time when corporations are gaining more and more power everyday. Yes, governments may still be more powerful in some ways, but that doesn't cancel out or negate the power corporations have, and so corporations should have to allow some things they may not like for the same reasons that the government has to allow things it may not like.
One thing that's awesome is that you can push and hold the left and right and scroll continuously through the lists.
Speaking as somebody who doesn't own a video game console, and someone who doesn't use netflix, that sounds like any awfully low bar for "awesome".
You obviously haven't used proprietary products much recently. They are frequently so dumbed down and simplified that if there is a useful feature, the users that can recognise its usefulness go "wow". Those that can't recognise the usefulness get confused by it, and call the manufacturer to complain. This raises support costs, meaning that the next generation of product from the manufacturer stands to be dumbed down even further!
Now then, I'm not saying that this means Free stuff doesn't have UI deficiencies, they are just different to the proprietary ones!
He's probably pished.
I'd just get all Johnny-5 on their asses, and put the tracker on a another vehicle! A taxi or bus or something, so they have lots of data to look at. And perhaps it'd make finding their gizmo tricky too. Oh, sticking it on a train would be fun, a plane would be best, but no chance of actually being able to get close to a plane! Fuck it - an ocean going ship!
Well, that's me on a watch list. Or moved up on one.
In fact, desperate times call for desperate measures.
/me adds link (or 3)
As long as you are paying the power bill, electricity companies don't mind how much power you use. If anything, the more you use the more they profit. Besides, some houses/families do use a lot of juice perfectly legitimately. Families with kids tend to do quite a bit of laundry, a washing machine being run maybe a couple of times a day, plus a dryer drying the same, pulls quite some juice.
In the UK, non-ground floor flats cannot have gas kitchen appliances (as I understand - not sure about boilers). Any kitchens created or renovated upstairs in the UK since mumble-years ago has to be leccy, and so will use much more power than an equivalent ground floor flat.
Also, cannabis growers don't necessarily run their lights 24/7. 18 hours is common for the vegative phase of growth, and 12 hours for flowering. Though commercial grows are indeed more likely to have multiple lights, and so the load is likely to be more across the day than someone with just one 400W or 600W light. Not that most meters do anything more than count kilowatthours, they don't record time of day power is used.
I have also heard anecdotes of growers contacting their power company and asking if the kiln they have for their pottery hobby will cause problems. The power company will probably say no, but they may note down why a certain address could be using more than average levels of power. If some kind of power usage audit does happen, a flag on an account that customer X has a kiln could mean that place is not suspected of growing a herb.
And years ago I lived in a house with 2 other geeks. We had at least a dozen computers on 24/7, and the electricity bill was colossal. But it was paid, and there were never any signs that we were suspected of growing pot. Anecdotal info, I know, but it helps illustrate things.
Supposedly the electric companies not only have a meter in every property, they also have one per "street", or so. If the houses' meters don't add up to what the street meter says, someone on that street is probably bypassing a meter in their property[1]. Perhaps the guy from TFA was also bypassing the street meter, so as to make the theft of electricity more effective, and harder to detect?
[1] Supposedly this is how many cannabis factories[2] are found. The press often mentions that power companies help find grows, and I think this is how they find them.
[2] I hate to use that phrase, what the fuck kind of factory makes plants? It is a loaded propaganda word, and commercial cannabis cultivation wouldn't be happening in houses if it wasn't for the stupid political policy of the prohibition of some drugs.
But why the fuck did the plaintiffs make what is clearly the shit choice?
A group who is meant to be responsible for children is caught taking pictures of the children in private settings, and hilarity ensues. I think even people who can't spell law would be able to see that the school-group would lose a case like this.
Why did the plaintiffs take the shit choice? Either they couldn't arrange a loan to pay for a lawyer up front, they couldn't find a lawyer who was willing to compete against the rest of his industry, or the lawyer who make 400K USD misrepresented the situation in the first place, and lead the plaintiffs to make the poor choice.