You're right, its not earth shattering news if you got drink on Saturday...
And at the same time who gives a fuck if you got drunk or not. Like I give a shit, I don't know who the fuck you are. If you were my friend... guess what? You would have been there getting drunk with me and you wouldn't need to read about it (a laughable concept) on the Internet. Or maybe if you weren't there and it was something worth saying, I would have called you and told you about it.
......Any recently manufactured cell phone has a built-in tracking device, which can allow eavesdroppers to pinpoint someone's location to within just a few feet..... The court ruling denied motions by 10 defendants to suppress the conversations obtained by "roving bugs" on the phones of John Ardito....Experts say the only way to defeat it is to remove the cell phone battery.....
Even if you have it off, 911 has permission to override it to get your location. With systems in place that allow them to bypass your lock, it wouldn't be a shock at all if "law enforcement" (I use that term loosely) and the Govt. will try to use this bypass feature to their advantage, even if it tramples on your rights or is of questionable legal status.
Even on older phones without GPS features, they still have an idea where you are by which cell tower your phone is connected to. sure, its not as accureate, but it will give them an X mile radius of your whereabouts on demand. Not something I'm interested in.
Another reason I prefer not to own a cell phone. Modern ones all have at least rudimentary location tracking built in. With the way the US Govt. abuses powers it shouldn't have, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that they will try to exploit it so they can track people "in need of public safety"... because we all know how the average American (and yes, I'm an American citizen, so I'm bashing my own country, not yours) will roll over and play dead anytime the Govt. pulls out the safety card. It's pathetic.
Instead of bing mad at corporations over selling their service, he's mad at people using what they paid for. It's the same thing as getting mad at the people at an all you can eat buffet when the restaurant runs out of chicken, insead of being mad at the restaurant for selling all you can eat chicken to 100 people when they only started with 50 pieces of chicken.
Money doesn't make you smart, it just makes you rich. For this guy to propose limiting personal freedom because a corporation oversold it's product jsut show what kind of a morally bankrupt character he really is.
Look... It's not going to help prevent authorized access by keeping it secret.
If it's not encrypted, when the files are opened it will look like (or something really obvious):
Joe Public DOB: xx-xx-xxxx 12345 Main Street.... balh blah blah..
If it is encrypted it will look like:
982n5o39y8h5014u9m9p!#$`15235098h14n12#$!@3476bwfSFR2387rn@!#12987ksafdkjD
It doesn't take a fucking genious to figure out if a file is encrypted or not. And its not like they are going to told what alog it is encrypted with if it is encrypted. I can see no reason NOT to tell the public if the data is encrypted or not, so the public knows what kind of precautions or steps may be needed to protect their identity.
I would imagine it would be once large partition as SSDs have a cell memory, where each cell can be written to X number of times before expected failure. SSDs cycle where they write data as to not wear out one cell too quickly. If you split it into partitions, then you ahve the possibility of once partition beinge very active, but another partition not beign touched. This could lead to premature device failure, in the "overworked" part of the drive.
I bet someone could walk up to Mr. Patrick, shoot him in the face, and get out on parole in under 5 with good behavior (ok maybe a bit of an exageration because he is the Gov., but I'm willing to bet if it was some random person). Something tells me either the penalty for this proposition is too stiff, or that murder penalties are too lax. Actually, it's probably a mixture of the two.
While I do have concerns with the above scenario, it does not make me want to take to the streets with a torch and pitchfork. Can someone explain what is so evil in the above?
Sure, It's not some website's responsibility to make sure the ISP has enough bandwidth. As long as the website owner makes sure he has enough resources on his rack, that's as far as he should go. The ISP is the one that sold the user their connection to anywhere on teh web. The ISP is the one that set the bandwidth caps on broadband connections.
Look, if I owned a taxi company and a lot of my clients went to... say... the local mall.. and the cabs were broken down and all shitty... should I petition the stores in the mall/the mall owners to buy me new cabs because most of my customers go there? Of course not. Why whould the mall have to pay for my lack of business planning or unwillingness to spend a portion of the fare money on maintainance?
The bottom line is, the users pay the ISP for the connection, if they can't deliver their service for the price they charge, then that's their fucking problem and not another companies problem.
The site Switched.com is taking a look at the slow death of privacy at the hands of social media sites such as Facebook and MySpace...... Otherwise, our ability to keep our lives private will be forever destroyed. Of course, that might already be the case.'
Or you can not use "social networking" sites, just like myself. Electronic and fast isn't alwaysa good. I'll keep my "social networking" face to face and personal, TYVM.
it's not even dangerous on the level that requiring 20 different, complex, constantly changed passwords is.
Personally, I find that this constand password actually *lowers* security. I would like to present myself as an example. We have to change our passwords to something with 3 of 4 items (CAPS,lowercase,numbers, and Special characters). We are required to change our password monthly. So instead of having a nice secure password like "jd%2MdEP!7rqA" that I can remember say... once a year.. I just do something like "Aotepad1"..next month "Botepad1"...next month "Cotepad1" so I can remember the damn thing. Each application requires it's own password, so requireing the average user to constantly change them is going to make them go with poor password choices instead of strong ones.
Also the tech was almost right... restarting your computer WOULD have fixed it (since DNS caches are only kept in memory and would have been wiped when you rebooted) although it wouldn't have been the OPTIMAL solution.
To be fair, I think the tech was right... in the sense that getting most users to flush dns via the command prompt will take longer than just rebooting.
....One of their primary concerns is a flexible schedule and healthy work/life balance.....
Why is this a surprise? It seems kinda obvious that there is a lack of interest in a "career", as envisioned by the average corporate office, that involves pressuring you to work 60 hours a week for the price of 40 in the form of a salary just so you can be a "professional with a career". Companies have *NO* loyalty to their employess and will sell them out and work them to the bone for an extra quarter of a percent on their stock price. Things are reciprocal, if you don't respect me and treat me like a human instead of a number, why the fuck should I care about you or your bottom line?
The saying: "I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit", applies here.
There was a minimum charge of.45 pounds, even if you opted to pay 0.
Are you proposing that people downloaded multiple copies at.45 poinds each?
In this case I think it is safe to assume that the number of registrations for download is equal to, or at the very least, almost the same as the number of individual users that downloaded the music.
Yeah, that "life is valuable" line is a bunch of bull shit. If you look back over human history you would come to the conclusion that as a whole, humans do not believe other humans lives are valuable.
To all of those whining "oh, how can they just kill those living things???". Put down your fucking hamburger, take off your leather shoes, and head off into the woods. Go take up your own cause and live naked in a cave you overzealous assholes.
I installed 2007 Spring as my fist linux distro in 5 years. Mandriva auto detected everythign and set it up. My Wireless and sound worked out of the box. Not something I can say for Ubuntu. Ubuntu was a PITA to get wireless working. And I never got sound working on Ubuntu. That alone was a deal maker for me. I don't want to mess around for hours trying to get stuff to work. I jsut want it to work. I actually like Mandriva better than XP for internet/office stuff.
Keep in mind this is coming from a novice with linux, so if you want someone who's opinion would be comparable to the everyday-joe's opinion, yeah you found it here. I can stick a disk in and follow the on screen instructions, and that's about it. Mandriva worked, Ubuntu didn't.
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You're right, its not earth shattering news if you got drink on Saturday...
And at the same time who gives a fuck if you got drunk or not. Like I give a shit, I don't know who the fuck you are. If you were my friend... guess what? You would have been there getting drunk with me and you wouldn't need to read about it (a laughable concept) on the Internet. Or maybe if you weren't there and it was something worth saying, I would have called you and told you about it.
I've seen my cide all over the NET!! I expect royalties from everyone who has ever used:
<script>
document.write("hello world!")
</script>
I read this article and chuchled as this came to me: When a hungry bunch is up for lunch... whatcha gonna pick? Hot Pockets!
Yes, they can ignore your preferances. I'm not saying they do it to everyone just to mess with them, but the technology allows for it.
......Any recently manufactured cell phone has a built-in tracking device, which can allow eavesdroppers to pinpoint someone's location to within just a few feet..... The court ruling denied motions by 10 defendants to suppress the conversations obtained by "roving bugs" on the phones of John Ardito....Experts say the only way to defeat it is to remove the cell phone battery.....
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/can_you_hear_me.html
Even if you have it off, 911 has permission to override it to get your location. With systems in place that allow them to bypass your lock, it wouldn't be a shock at all if "law enforcement" (I use that term loosely) and the Govt. will try to use this bypass feature to their advantage, even if it tramples on your rights or is of questionable legal status.
Even on older phones without GPS features, they still have an idea where you are by which cell tower your phone is connected to. sure, its not as accureate, but it will give them an X mile radius of your whereabouts on demand. Not something I'm interested in.
Not happening. Joe Apathetic is more worried about his dumb ass ring tones.
Another reason I prefer not to own a cell phone. Modern ones all have at least rudimentary location tracking built in. With the way the US Govt. abuses powers it shouldn't have, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that they will try to exploit it so they can track people "in need of public safety"... because we all know how the average American (and yes, I'm an American citizen, so I'm bashing my own country, not yours) will roll over and play dead anytime the Govt. pulls out the safety card. It's pathetic.
Yup. It's because he's a self-centered prick.
Instead of bing mad at corporations over selling their service, he's mad at people using what they paid for. It's the same thing as getting mad at the people at an all you can eat buffet when the restaurant runs out of chicken, insead of being mad at the restaurant for selling all you can eat chicken to 100 people when they only started with 50 pieces of chicken.
Money doesn't make you smart, it just makes you rich. For this guy to propose limiting personal freedom because a corporation oversold it's product jsut show what kind of a morally bankrupt character he really is.
Look... It's not going to help prevent authorized access by keeping it secret.
.... balh blah blah..
If it's not encrypted, when the files are opened it will look like (or something really obvious):
Joe Public DOB: xx-xx-xxxx 12345 Main Street
If it is encrypted it will look like:
982n5o39y8h5014u9m9p!#$`15235098h14n12#$!@3476bwfSFR2387rn@!#12987ksafdkjD
It doesn't take a fucking genious to figure out if a file is encrypted or not. And its not like they are going to told what alog it is encrypted with if it is encrypted. I can see no reason NOT to tell the public if the data is encrypted or not, so the public knows what kind of precautions or steps may be needed to protect their identity.
I would imagine it would be once large partition as SSDs have a cell memory, where each cell can be written to X number of times before expected failure. SSDs cycle where they write data as to not wear out one cell too quickly. If you split it into partitions, then you ahve the possibility of once partition beinge very active, but another partition not beign touched. This could lead to premature device failure, in the "overworked" part of the drive.
At least from what I've read thats what I gather.
I bet someone could walk up to Mr. Patrick, shoot him in the face, and get out on parole in under 5 with good behavior (ok maybe a bit of an exageration because he is the Gov., but I'm willing to bet if it was some random person). Something tells me either the penalty for this proposition is too stiff, or that murder penalties are too lax. Actually, it's probably a mixture of the two.
I for one welcome our Pizza eating Overlords.
Sure, It's not some website's responsibility to make sure the ISP has enough bandwidth. As long as the website owner makes sure he has enough resources on his rack, that's as far as he should go. The ISP is the one that sold the user their connection to anywhere on teh web. The ISP is the one that set the bandwidth caps on broadband connections.
Look, if I owned a taxi company and a lot of my clients went to... say... the local mall.. and the cabs were broken down and all shitty... should I petition the stores in the mall/the mall owners to buy me new cabs because most of my customers go there? Of course not. Why whould the mall have to pay for my lack of business planning or unwillingness to spend a portion of the fare money on maintainance?
The bottom line is, the users pay the ISP for the connection, if they can't deliver their service for the price they charge, then that's their fucking problem and not another companies problem.
Or you can not use "social networking" sites, just like myself. Electronic and fast isn't alwaysa good. I'll keep my "social networking" face to face and personal, TYVM.
Actually, that's how it works everywhere.
Why is this a surprise? It seems kinda obvious that there is a lack of interest in a "career", as envisioned by the average corporate office, that involves pressuring you to work 60 hours a week for the price of 40 in the form of a salary just so you can be a "professional with a career". Companies have *NO* loyalty to their employess and will sell them out and work them to the bone for an extra quarter of a percent on their stock price. Things are reciprocal, if you don't respect me and treat me like a human instead of a number, why the fuck should I care about you or your bottom line?
The saying: "I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit", applies here.
Don't be mad at the person using what was sold to them. Be mad at the company that oversold their ability to deliver what they sold.
There was a minimum charge of .45 pounds, even if you opted to pay 0.
.45 poinds each?
Are you proposing that people downloaded multiple copies at
In this case I think it is safe to assume that the number of registrations for download is equal to, or at the very least, almost the same as the number of individual users that downloaded the music.
Yeah, that "life is valuable" line is a bunch of bull shit. If you look back over human history you would come to the conclusion that as a whole, humans do not believe other humans lives are valuable.
To all of those whining "oh, how can they just kill those living things???". Put down your fucking hamburger, take off your leather shoes, and head off into the woods. Go take up your own cause and live naked in a cave you overzealous assholes.
My carbon coated spoon can confirm people still get them.
A recent Core-2 Duo Gateway Laptop.
Generic intel sound/wireless stuff.
Personally, I find it *easier* than Ubuntu.
I installed 2007 Spring as my fist linux distro in 5 years. Mandriva auto detected everythign and set it up. My Wireless and sound worked out of the box. Not something I can say for Ubuntu. Ubuntu was a PITA to get wireless working. And I never got sound working on Ubuntu. That alone was a deal maker for me. I don't want to mess around for hours trying to get stuff to work. I jsut want it to work. I actually like Mandriva better than XP for internet/office stuff.
Keep in mind this is coming from a novice with linux, so if you want someone who's opinion would be comparable to the everyday-joe's opinion, yeah you found it here. I can stick a disk in and follow the on screen instructions, and that's about it. Mandriva worked, Ubuntu didn't.