Even if you want to argue that she had no privacy rights, she still owned the copyright on the video, and no one else had the right to copy or publish it without her explicit permission.
I'm not being a jerk; really trying to make sure I'm not missing something... If you're a child and someone else (parent) takes pictures (videos, whatever) of you, the child (you) have the copyright on them, versus the individual(s) that took the pictures/videos (parents)?
You're right. Catch 22. Can't control whether media presents truth or spoon, or "what they heard from so and so" to shrug blame. I'm back to Catch 22 without making media government-controlled, which is more like a Catch-22^10. Ideas? Aside from people getting smarter, cuz that ain't gon' happen.
Except that due to ice melt, we are about to unleash several large methane caches that have been trapped under ice or under cooler waters. Some are already escaping as oceans warm.
Interesting observation. So now comes the question. Do we utilize does gas pockets to our advantage and increase emissions, or do we let the gas pockets escape on their own and warm the planet by natural process? What to do, what to do?
They still offered a free plan alongside the $10 plan, but you were only given so many hours per month (10?) and an ad banner at the top of your desktop.
As a kid I still thought it was so cool to be able to get free internet.
I used it for a short time back those old days. I noticed that the bandwidth that was eaten by the ads was cutting the bandwidth to a quarter of expected. I'd use the paid ISP, go to a site, and get full connection speed-throughput. Back to Zero, would get 1/4 of it. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Same every time. Bad firmware, ads destroying bandwidth, and lack of bandwidth to support all users, oh my!:) Ah, the old days. And now I complain about 10mbps.
I would imagine it's so anything with the URL with speedtest doesn't get throttled; good way to show your (their) superiority in speed. Anything else, "throttle that "sheeeeit!"
Saying that, I believe there are other sites/services that are whitelisted to ensure always-awesome speed through T-Mobile to reduce complaints about speed. Throttle those ones that don't require a lot of bandwidth or speed to open up time slots (I know it's not TDMA, just using this because I don't have the proper industry terminology) in bandwidth for everyone to enjoy the same service. Since Ajit figured out there was a whitelist for that (indirectly and directly), there should be some more testing now to discover what the other whitelisted media is >:)
I wonder, too, if this was the discovery of something else... a bug in their configuration.... e.g. whitelisted, speed-freed URLS override lack-of-service denial rules. I can already hear "We meant to do that for the protection of {insert anything currently in public interest here}" for distraction, followed by its correction. *rolls eyes*
Well if a good portion of the population votes for the actual person they feel will win, instead of wallowing in their own self delusion that the it is too corrupt for them to do anything.
If you want to do something.
So the first thing I should do is cut off from the media, correct? Check.:) No TV, no radio, LALALA when people at work talk about what's going on... Check.
Ah, if only everyone could do that.
I'm not being a smartass. I really do ignore the media BS and avoid conversations about the BS at work. All candidates have done something bad. All lie. All cheat. All think they're better than everyone else... Have to focus on only the base line of their beliefs and "plans". Eh, that last part is even tricky.
Here's an idea - remove the titles and colors for Republican and Democrat. Present the people as they are. If they give hints to people about which party they're in, immediate disqualification. The answer to every public opinion of "so [candidate] is democrat, right? I've heard what they've said and that must be what they are," the answer is UNCONDITIONALLY "No." Remove the party lines and maybe, just maybe your great idea would work. Again, not being a smartass. I'm serious. Also, it will never happen, so borderline delirious or some such razz material.:)
Do you actually oppose the FBI decrypting the iPhone of a guy who declared loyalty to ISIS and killed a bunch of people? Many people thought that trying to force Apple to do it was a bit much, but what is so sacred about encryption itself?
This was intended to be a semi-humorous comment, but I'll answer your question (though you probably won't see it because you're Anonymous and have forgotten about it already) - NO. Game on. If the FBI can decrypt the data, rock on. If they require that companies make all data decryptable, YES. I have a problem with that. It's not about having things to hide, it's about the constriction of American rights. Do I want them to be able to find a guy who shot 1000 people in Times Square, uh YEAH. Do I want them to have access to everyone's data in order for that shooter to be part of the "everyone" whose data is accessible, NO.
Simple freaking logic: There's a line. Don't cross. One side of the line has people using paper to communicate and burning it / destroying the ashes / burying it. The other side has an encrypted electronic device. The rights of the government to TRY and reconstruct the paper and get details off of it OR decrypt a device using brute force or other methods they designed to uniquely, on their own, get access are fair game. Making a rule that paper is to be designed to electronically log everything written on it, or all devices have a quick access method is NOT. If the method exists, it will be exploited, so it shouldn't exist.
I agree - the microphone has been ignored largely, both on phones, tablet and laptops. I do think companies should provide a MECHANICAL means for disabling microphones and cameras.
Anyone wanting to develop a SECURE device should be seriously looking at that option.
I hereby state that this is an official design idea that I will claim prior art on if someone uses it...
A box or enclosure style of a handgun lock box or a special laptop bag design, not limited to these), where one can place their devices into, that acts as a Faraday Cage and is also near 100% soundproof. The enclosure can also have an antenna port built in that allows delivery of only RF; this type must have a built-in electronic sensor for audio internally so that an external speaker can notify the user that the device is receiving RF and emitting audio noise (example: notification, ring). Alternatively, enclosures without Faraday Cage can be designed but block all other sensor / receive methods.
== That will let people that need true privacy while they're breaking a law or cheating in a relationship have a place to get their True Security Assurance(c)(tm).
Humorously, is law enforcement or other government agencies have a problem with hiding and securing/blocking device reception and emission can require that the case/bag have a large orange area with an exclamation point with the words "Not a Weapon".
Ive seen this before from some of my customers and yes I've thought of it. Since its possible I guess its a step you need to take but why stop there. His phone has two cameras and they need some tape also. That pinhole in the wall may be sporting a camera also. How do you know the air conditioner vents doesn't have camera. Oh MY GoD they are watching ME!
I don't care if people watch me all day and all night... As long as I'm not picking my nose. That's the only thing I don't do.. ever.. that people shouldn't see.
But you also need a switch on your microphone to turn it off. It's a bigger risk than the camera since eavesdropping on a conversation can reveal a lot more than the camera can when it comes to company secrets.
Ah, but not if you're Comey. He encourages people to listen to his microphone to ensure transparency and fairness. Of course that microphone is in an enclosed break room in the "building next door".
"Well, in the case of things like encryption, the situation is completely different. When it comes to prying eyes, what I do is considered fine in the category of double standards, while people encrypting data is not; especially when there is something I want to see in an encrypted set. I have the authority, because I gave it to myself, so I can look. I mean, um, all of my staff and the agency can look."
Not a real quote, of course.
This sounds like another psychological cover-my-ass gig where someone who lost a battle tries to encourage something to ensure they internally still feel in control. Sort of like the "Well, it didn't work after your suggestions, but I planned for that to happen" crap.
I have a product from Amped Wireless (extender) that has blinkenlights on it, but has something that sort of confounded me for a few minutes because I'd never seen it before. They have two push-button toggle switches on the rear. One is power (derp), and the other is lights. Turn light switch off and it has no lights at all.
I mention this only because I *LOVE* blinkenlights to indicate the exact status and current activity of a device. For years it's pissed me off that the old 10mbps hubs and switches had lights that were so short in duration per packet that you could literally get an idea of the traffic level of different ports just by looking at it from afar. Then came 100. They started to introduce a delay between blinks. If 200 packets come through in a second, the light only blinks about 3-10 times in that second, depending on hardware. Wireless is worse - it always blinks for no apparent reason (beacons aside). Traffic is hard to discriminate if it's not heavy.
I want a device that has 3/sec, it looks like the ports are in constant use. If there is gigabit traffic going over the port, it looks exactly the same. Fairly useless other than indicating that the network is connected and shit's happening. Can't debug much with that. Home equipment is worse. The cost of LEDs is so low today, who cares? Have there be a separate light for connected, 10mbps, 100mpbs, gigabit, full or half duplex, and activity. Power. CPU activity (routers). Wireless packets. Distinguishing between ARP/reg broadcasts and regular TCP traffic is a whole different thing; I digress.
I see Amazon opening stores, but with competition to deal with and local/land-based tax rates on realty/etc; it's gonna cost a lot to become Wal*Mart v2.01a.
I'll watch for online prices to climb to compensate.
I know it's not a staged thing, but I have to mention what I saw anyway.
First thing I saw in the image of the rover's large viewfinder is a dude w/o hair, tilting his head down and holding an earpiece against his ear. His single-piece sunglasses look hip, too.
If the poor have internet access, and internet access does translate into free speech, then the poor get a voice.
Right. "free speech" trumps clean water and air, healthy food, and a place to live.
Seriously? Have you ever been homeless or hungry? Did you find your ability to keep up on facebook more important than either of those?
This is the generation gap (or whatever it should be labeled) I have a raised-eyebrow "condition" with as I age. The Internet was an expensive and near-useless toy when it started out. People didn't use it. They used the phone, they had friends as neighbors, kept in contact with family, etc.
Today I see a family of four (two parents, two kids) standing in line in a restaurant for carry-out. Each of the parents whips out their phone occasionally to look at something on FB/Twitter. It's almost like a knee-jerk reaction to something in their head - it's habit. Both of the kids (one barely walking, the other old enough to talk but not understand adult things like empathy, kindness, etc, have a smartphone in their hands. They are both incapable of lifting their heads from it. Even when grabbed lightly, directly asked a question, and the arms of the older kid pushed down a bit to break eyes from the smartphone to ask what he wanted to eat, he was agitated and wanted to pull his hands back up. He couldn't concentrate on food and answering the question. The line was held up for over a minute with this one question.
I knew what to do. I looked peripherally and directly around and behind me. The younger people were staring into their smartphones, my generation was tapping feet and reaching for smartphones, older folks were shaking heads, looking at each other, making hand gestures that indicated their conversation was about "How is it that people are allowed to do this these days?"
I'm not saying those were their exact words, but body language isn't hard to read. The younger generation thinks that keeping up on FB is more important than much else. Said generation is raising kids that are tied to a device that keeps them quiet and mesmerized. Monkey see, monkey do. They will grow up attached to a device that they can't function without.
I'm guilty myself. I use my smartphone to look up information on wikipedia, dictionary occasionally, obviously/.... The biggest is weather. I'm a storm spotter (which doesn't mean anything to someone without empathy or hasn't had their ass indirectly saved by one), and I'm trying to figure out why my area of the country has a particularly unpredictable weather pattern. I believe it's a river valley at the angle it's at along with other outflow from storms on flatter land, but I digress. I use it to look at what's on radar when it's a severe storm-likely day or if something is actively happening. This is going somewhere... keep reading...
I went to visit my grandmother who lives in E. BF Tennessee, in a hilly region where there is only one duplex cell provider and it isn't mine. I have no service while down there. It's relaxing because (hehehe) I can't be called for emergency work service (SERVER IS DOWN OMG OMG) - someone else has to deal with it. Doesn't matter because I'm on vacation in case anyone is questioning the logic behind that. Anyhow, when Grandma and I are talking about something, I am often not able to recall a specific example of something that we're talking about, so I reach to my pocket for my good ol' smartphone and see.... the time. I shake my head at myself for forgetting there isn't service (and she only has flaky dial-up, FWIW, and no wireless, obviously). I put the phone back in the pocket and conversation continues. Stories of storms where she grew up are talked about and I reach for the sweet smartphone to pull up pictures of that event and...bah. Shake my head at myself and continue. It takes about 10+ times before I get into the habit of not reaching to that device
In general I think the simplest answer is that those who are forbidden by their ISPs/governments from operating servers are the ones being actively disadvantaged. The one in control of the server, is in control of the 'free' speech on the internet.
...not to mention how fast someone else wants to buy that server operation once it starts to get public notice.
I really, really like your thought experiment. Sorry if I sound like an ass to others (things usually hit hard when they're true, just saying), but this is just a definite addition to your experiment.
How many people that classify themselves as "poor and never going anywhere", and/or below the federal poverty line, are smokers? What's the monthly cost of cigarettes? How about the cost of pack-a-day or more? I'll tell ya what I had when I was a smoker, living in a crappy apartment, with a near-minimum wage job during the height of the recession... I was stupid and "had to smoke" to relieve stress (yes, I was dumb enough to think it relieved stress literally, not chemically/temporarily)... My pack-a-day cost at that time came to be ~= $165/mo.
Using your thought experiment brings it to $210.86/mo out of $11,800/yr ($226.92/mo). That was the cost of smoking to feel better about being the the shit-hole of a financial mess I was in with a job I hated. Food for thought.
Agreed. It's more like dipping for statistical data or pieces of information to use to one's advantage (Confirmation Bias) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The list goes on and on and on... It comes down to 1.) I know I'm right, right? 1a.) I know I'm right, and I'll find shit to prove it. 1b.) I know I'm wrong but I can find shit to prove I'm right. 2.) I don't know. I'll find what I want and use the first thing I find to determine my research path (this is GREAT for online distraction and use of ADD to pop something into someone's head). 2a.) I don't know. I'll see what my friends think about it. 2b). I don't know. I feel like an idiot, so I'll go with the group think and have others to back me up. 2c.) I don't know. Why don't I know? I need to find others that don't know so I don't look dumb. 3.) I'm bored. I need to find something to get involved in to see something get hurt or changed so I can say I'm part of it. 3a.) I'm bored. I'll see what's going on so I can back others up, so I can see some nice hurt or damange to some[thing|one] else so I can feel better about my situation. 3b.) I'm bored. I'll go find something to make me feel less bored, so I can feel less lazy or depressed. 4.) Wow, there are so many variations of all of these that I can't possibly complete this in a way that someone else won't disagree, agree, or try to correct errors in to look like they're [smarter|better|more attractive].:)
Exactly, when you have 100 applicants for one job, guess which side is in full control?
So I work for a company that does little bits of screening things for companies here and there... I have to tell you this one:
There was a company (airline) that was hiring for an IT management position. They had three possible candidates for the job and one was laughable. First was a former manager of a large company and had a pay scale somewhere around $70k/yr. Pretty low for what he was doing. He was looking for the same at this airliner, but it was negotiable. They flagged him as "out of our league". He met all job requirements and even "wants". Perfect person for it.
Second was a guy who made somewhere around $110k for a Fortune 5000. He moved because the company he was working for outsourced. He met all requirements and all "wants" with enthusiasm, including being a pilot in training. They flagged him "out of our league".
Third was (this is not a joke and not exaggerated in any way) a guy who worked for a few Chinese restaurants as a chef. Not lead/head chef; OFF THE STREET chef. He lost one of his jobs due to conflict with another employee at that job. He had multiple driving record red flags, most of them DUI. His "resume" said he was looking for $15/hr (the job posting said salary, I might add). He mentioned in the bottom personal interest area of his "resume" that he was interested in fixing computers and was still still learning how to. Had no certifications, no degree, and only a 5 year work history since graduation from HIGH SCHOOL. They hired him as the director of IT for the company.
After seeing that, my hatred of former employers for outsourcing and firing got an extra "page or three" to the hatred point list.
Also after seeing that, I also started to wonder more about the logic behind people who were told their pink slip is in the mail and they have to train their replacement contractors (who are costing more money in a day than they do in a week) not throwing a big old "fuck you", middle finger up the arse, or gentle "I cannot do that based on morals" statement. Yes, I know people want to have good references, but working for the company I do, I know that references are verified for employment only and the employer is not allowed to make any comments or reveal ANYTHING other than the employee worked for them with a start and end date, if the company is over 55 employees (as a whole, not departmentally), to avoid a lawsuit which they will lose. Just saying that now so people don't think that "good reference" is a valid reason.:)
Instead of spending $20mil to help another candidate that is going to do (pardon sarcasm) *SOOOO MUCH* for the "disenfranchised voters", how about giving $20mil to "disenfranchised voters"? Your name would be much more of a legacy and you'd actually be accomplishing something other than indirectly displaying your lack of confidence in the publicly noted length of your manhood.
"watch Pongyang get turned into a glowing parking lot in the matter of minutes"
Do you seriously think that would happen? If North Korea nuked a US ally I would be shocked if the US fired a single nuke. The US would reinforce missile shields and then use conventional weapons to take out North Korea military facilities and conduct a more conventional war. There would be lots of talk of "we will not be drawn into nuclear war". In fact, unless North Korea timed the launch with a full scale attack, I would suspect no large scale war to break out at all but more talk, but this time coupled with military strikes that take out Nuclear capabilities in the country.
They're already surrounded and covered. We've learned from history not to wait for the first punch when it comes to the splitting of atoms. Civilian lives would be lost, but it's the unfortunate base "cost" (I'm sorry to use that word) of preventing WWIII. 3 is the lucky number, so I don't think we'll be too concerned about civilian loss in a small country to prevent Human loss in pretty much every country. Hell, if the countries with nukes bombed each other out, the fallout would make the rest of the world wish they were vaporized, given the ensuing nuclear winter and horrible mutations/etc.
With North Korea's nascent industrial capacity, I'm oddly of the opinion that he should test until he's out of bombs and should test missiles until he runs out of missiles.
Fire the gun into the ground until the clips empty...
Sometimes when one has absolutely no way of winning a fight, but was raised with the highest level of narcissism the brain can achieve, it just keeps punching the ground until there are no intact bones left. Chest pounding ensues... Oooh, did I just accidentally make a reference there? Sorry, "Un"-realistic moron....Kim..whatever.
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Even if you want to argue that she had no privacy rights, she still owned the copyright on the video, and no one else had the right to copy or publish it without her explicit permission.
I'm not being a jerk; really trying to make sure I'm not missing something... If you're a child and someone else (parent) takes pictures (videos, whatever) of you, the child (you) have the copyright on them, versus the individual(s) that took the pictures/videos (parents)?
Spoon=spin. Damn swype. :)
You're right. Catch 22. Can't control whether media presents truth or spoon, or "what they heard from so and so" to shrug blame. I'm back to Catch 22 without making media government-controlled, which is more like a Catch-22^10. Ideas? Aside from people getting smarter, cuz that ain't gon' happen.
Except that due to ice melt, we are about to unleash several large methane caches that have been trapped under ice or under cooler waters. Some are already escaping as oceans warm.
Interesting observation. So now comes the question. Do we utilize does gas pockets to our advantage and increase emissions, or do we let the gas pockets escape on their own and warm the planet by natural process? What to do, what to do?
They still offered a free plan alongside the $10 plan, but you were only given so many hours per month (10?) and an ad banner at the top of your desktop.
As a kid I still thought it was so cool to be able to get free internet.
I used it for a short time back those old days. I noticed that the bandwidth that was eaten by the ads was cutting the bandwidth to a quarter of expected. I'd use the paid ISP, go to a site, and get full connection speed-throughput. Back to Zero, would get 1/4 of it. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Same every time. Bad firmware, ads destroying bandwidth, and lack of bandwidth to support all users, oh my! :) Ah, the old days. And now I complain about 10mbps.
Then, a few years later, it became $10 per month. Not really Zero anymore, is it?
PHBs: "Well it's 1 zero, isn't it? That's zero."
Why do you think they whitelist "*/speedtest"?
I would imagine it's so anything with the URL with speedtest doesn't get throttled; good way to show your (their) superiority in speed. Anything else, "throttle that "sheeeeit!"
Saying that, I believe there are other sites/services that are whitelisted to ensure always-awesome speed through T-Mobile to reduce complaints about speed. Throttle those ones that don't require a lot of bandwidth or speed to open up time slots (I know it's not TDMA, just using this because I don't have the proper industry terminology) in bandwidth for everyone to enjoy the same service. Since Ajit figured out there was a whitelist for that (indirectly and directly), there should be some more testing now to discover what the other whitelisted media is >:)
I wonder, too, if this was the discovery of something else... a bug in their configuration.... e.g. whitelisted, speed-freed URLS override lack-of-service denial rules. I can already hear "We meant to do that for the protection of {insert anything currently in public interest here}" for distraction, followed by its correction. *rolls eyes*
That pretty much proves that T-mobile employs 15 year old Taylor swift fans to handle their networks.
OMG. *faceplant* You just gave them a new TV advertising idea.
Well if a good portion of the population votes for the actual person they feel will win, instead of wallowing in their own self delusion that the it is too corrupt for them to do anything.
If you want to do something.
So the first thing I should do is cut off from the media, correct? Check. :) No TV, no radio, LALALA when people at work talk about what's going on... Check.
Ah, if only everyone could do that.
I'm not being a smartass. I really do ignore the media BS and avoid conversations about the BS at work. All candidates have done something bad. All lie. All cheat. All think they're better than everyone else... Have to focus on only the base line of their beliefs and "plans". Eh, that last part is even tricky.
Here's an idea - remove the titles and colors for Republican and Democrat. Present the people as they are. If they give hints to people about which party they're in, immediate disqualification. The answer to every public opinion of "so [candidate] is democrat, right? I've heard what they've said and that must be what they are," the answer is UNCONDITIONALLY "No." Remove the party lines and maybe, just maybe your great idea would work. Again, not being a smartass. I'm serious. Also, it will never happen, so borderline delirious or some such razz material. :)
Do you actually oppose the FBI decrypting the iPhone of a guy who declared loyalty to ISIS and killed a bunch of people? Many people thought that trying to force Apple to do it was a bit much, but what is so sacred about encryption itself?
This was intended to be a semi-humorous comment, but I'll answer your question (though you probably won't see it because you're Anonymous and have forgotten about it already) - NO. Game on. If the FBI can decrypt the data, rock on. If they require that companies make all data decryptable, YES. I have a problem with that. It's not about having things to hide, it's about the constriction of American rights. Do I want them to be able to find a guy who shot 1000 people in Times Square, uh YEAH. Do I want them to have access to everyone's data in order for that shooter to be part of the "everyone" whose data is accessible, NO.
Simple freaking logic: There's a line. Don't cross. One side of the line has people using paper to communicate and burning it / destroying the ashes / burying it. The other side has an encrypted electronic device. The rights of the government to TRY and reconstruct the paper and get details off of it OR decrypt a device using brute force or other methods they designed to uniquely, on their own, get access are fair game. Making a rule that paper is to be designed to electronically log everything written on it, or all devices have a quick access method is NOT. If the method exists, it will be exploited, so it shouldn't exist.
I agree - the microphone has been ignored largely, both on phones, tablet and laptops. I do think companies should provide a MECHANICAL means for disabling microphones and cameras.
Anyone wanting to develop a SECURE device should be seriously looking at that option.
I hereby state that this is an official design idea that I will claim prior art on if someone uses it...
A box or enclosure style of a handgun lock box or a special laptop bag design, not limited to these), where one can place their devices into, that acts as a Faraday Cage and is also near 100% soundproof. The enclosure can also have an antenna port built in that allows delivery of only RF; this type must have a built-in electronic sensor for audio internally so that an external speaker can notify the user that the device is receiving RF and emitting audio noise (example: notification, ring). Alternatively, enclosures without Faraday Cage can be designed but block all other sensor / receive methods.
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That will let people that need true privacy while they're breaking a law or cheating in a relationship have a place to get their True Security Assurance(c)(tm).
Humorously, is law enforcement or other government agencies have a problem with hiding and securing/blocking device reception and emission can require that the case/bag have a large orange area with an exclamation point with the words "Not a Weapon".
Ive seen this before from some of my customers and yes I've thought of it. Since its possible I guess its a step you need to take but why stop there. His phone has two cameras and they need some tape also. That pinhole in the wall may be sporting a camera also. How do you know the air conditioner vents doesn't have camera. Oh MY GoD they are watching ME!
I don't care if people watch me all day and all night... As long as I'm not picking my nose. That's the only thing I don't do.. ever.. that people shouldn't see.
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But you also need a switch on your microphone to turn it off. It's a bigger risk than the camera since eavesdropping on a conversation can reveal a lot more than the camera can when it comes to company secrets.
Ah, but not if you're Comey. He encourages people to listen to his microphone to ensure transparency and fairness. Of course that microphone is in an enclosed break room in the "building next door".
Har.
"Well, in the case of things like encryption, the situation is completely different. When it comes to prying eyes, what I do is considered fine in the category of double standards, while people encrypting data is not; especially when there is something I want to see in an encrypted set. I have the authority, because I gave it to myself, so I can look. I mean, um, all of my staff and the agency can look."
Not a real quote, of course.
This sounds like another psychological cover-my-ass gig where someone who lost a battle tries to encourage something to ensure they internally still feel in control. Sort of like the "Well, it didn't work after your suggestions, but I planned for that to happen" crap.
I have a product from Amped Wireless (extender) that has blinkenlights on it, but has something that sort of confounded me for a few minutes because I'd never seen it before. They have two push-button toggle switches on the rear. One is power (derp), and the other is lights. Turn light switch off and it has no lights at all.
I mention this only because I *LOVE* blinkenlights to indicate the exact status and current activity of a device. For years it's pissed me off that the old 10mbps hubs and switches had lights that were so short in duration per packet that you could literally get an idea of the traffic level of different ports just by looking at it from afar. Then came 100. They started to introduce a delay between blinks. If 200 packets come through in a second, the light only blinks about 3-10 times in that second, depending on hardware. Wireless is worse - it always blinks for no apparent reason (beacons aside). Traffic is hard to discriminate if it's not heavy.
I want a device that has 3/sec, it looks like the ports are in constant use. If there is gigabit traffic going over the port, it looks exactly the same. Fairly useless other than indicating that the network is connected and shit's happening. Can't debug much with that. Home equipment is worse. The cost of LEDs is so low today, who cares? Have there be a separate light for connected, 10mbps, 100mpbs, gigabit, full or half duplex, and activity. Power. CPU activity (routers). Wireless packets. Distinguishing between ARP/reg broadcasts and regular TCP traffic is a whole different thing; I digress.
I see Amazon opening stores, but with competition to deal with and local/land-based tax rates on realty/etc; it's gonna cost a lot to become Wal*Mart v2.01a.
I'll watch for online prices to climb to compensate.
I know it's not a staged thing, but I have to mention what I saw anyway.
First thing I saw in the image of the rover's large viewfinder is a dude w/o hair, tilting his head down and holding an earpiece against his ear. His single-piece sunglasses look hip, too.
Right. "free speech" trumps clean water and air, healthy food, and a place to live.
Seriously? Have you ever been homeless or hungry? Did you find your ability to keep up on facebook more important than either of those?
This is the generation gap (or whatever it should be labeled) I have a raised-eyebrow "condition" with as I age. The Internet was an expensive and near-useless toy when it started out. People didn't use it. They used the phone, they had friends as neighbors, kept in contact with family, etc.
Today I see a family of four (two parents, two kids) standing in line in a restaurant for carry-out. Each of the parents whips out their phone occasionally to look at something on FB/Twitter. It's almost like a knee-jerk reaction to something in their head - it's habit. Both of the kids (one barely walking, the other old enough to talk but not understand adult things like empathy, kindness, etc, have a smartphone in their hands. They are both incapable of lifting their heads from it. Even when grabbed lightly, directly asked a question, and the arms of the older kid pushed down a bit to break eyes from the smartphone to ask what he wanted to eat, he was agitated and wanted to pull his hands back up. He couldn't concentrate on food and answering the question. The line was held up for over a minute with this one question.
I knew what to do. I looked peripherally and directly around and behind me. The younger people were staring into their smartphones, my generation was tapping feet and reaching for smartphones, older folks were shaking heads, looking at each other, making hand gestures that indicated their conversation was about "How is it that people are allowed to do this these days?"
I'm not saying those were their exact words, but body language isn't hard to read. The younger generation thinks that keeping up on FB is more important than much else. Said generation is raising kids that are tied to a device that keeps them quiet and mesmerized. Monkey see, monkey do. They will grow up attached to a device that they can't function without.
I'm guilty myself. I use my smartphone to look up information on wikipedia, dictionary occasionally, obviously /. ... The biggest is weather. I'm a storm spotter (which doesn't mean anything to someone without empathy or hasn't had their ass indirectly saved by one), and I'm trying to figure out why my area of the country has a particularly unpredictable weather pattern. I believe it's a river valley at the angle it's at along with other outflow from storms on flatter land, but I digress. I use it to look at what's on radar when it's a severe storm-likely day or if something is actively happening. This is going somewhere... keep reading...
I went to visit my grandmother who lives in E. BF Tennessee, in a hilly region where there is only one duplex cell provider and it isn't mine. I have no service while down there. It's relaxing because (hehehe) I can't be called for emergency work service (SERVER IS DOWN OMG OMG) - someone else has to deal with it. Doesn't matter because I'm on vacation in case anyone is questioning the logic behind that. Anyhow, when Grandma and I are talking about something, I am often not able to recall a specific example of something that we're talking about, so I reach to my pocket for my good ol' smartphone and see.... the time. I shake my head at myself for forgetting there isn't service (and she only has flaky dial-up, FWIW, and no wireless, obviously). I put the phone back in the pocket and conversation continues. Stories of storms where she grew up are talked about and I reach for the sweet smartphone to pull up pictures of that event and...bah. Shake my head at myself and continue. It takes about 10+ times before I get into the habit of not reaching to that device
In general I think the simplest answer is that those who are forbidden by their ISPs/governments from operating servers are the ones being actively disadvantaged. The one in control of the server, is in control of the 'free' speech on the internet.
...not to mention how fast someone else wants to buy that server operation once it starts to get public notice.
I really, really like your thought experiment. Sorry if I sound like an ass to others (things usually hit hard when they're true, just saying), but this is just a definite addition to your experiment.
How many people that classify themselves as "poor and never going anywhere", and/or below the federal poverty line, are smokers? What's the monthly cost of cigarettes? How about the cost of pack-a-day or more? I'll tell ya what I had when I was a smoker, living in a crappy apartment, with a near-minimum wage job during the height of the recession... I was stupid and "had to smoke" to relieve stress (yes, I was dumb enough to think it relieved stress literally, not chemically/temporarily)... My pack-a-day cost at that time came to be ~= $165/mo.
Using your thought experiment brings it to $210.86/mo out of $11,800/yr ($226.92/mo). That was the cost of smoking to feel better about being the the shit-hole of a financial mess I was in with a job I hated. Food for thought.
Good work!
Agreed. It's more like dipping for statistical data or pieces of information to use to one's advantage (Confirmation Bias) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It can be used to search for self-affirmation for stress reduction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , also tied tightly with The Cheerleader Effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
In-group Bias - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , ending in Self-Serving Bias - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , with Group Attribution Error - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... cooked in when desired.
The list goes on and on and on... It comes down to 1.) I know I'm right, right? 1a.) I know I'm right, and I'll find shit to prove it. 1b.) I know I'm wrong but I can find shit to prove I'm right. 2.) I don't know. I'll find what I want and use the first thing I find to determine my research path (this is GREAT for online distraction and use of ADD to pop something into someone's head). 2a.) I don't know. I'll see what my friends think about it. 2b). I don't know. I feel like an idiot, so I'll go with the group think and have others to back me up. 2c.) I don't know. Why don't I know? I need to find others that don't know so I don't look dumb. 3.) I'm bored. I need to find something to get involved in to see something get hurt or changed so I can say I'm part of it. 3a.) I'm bored. I'll see what's going on so I can back others up, so I can see some nice hurt or damange to some[thing|one] else so I can feel better about my situation. 3b.) I'm bored. I'll go find something to make me feel less bored, so I can feel less lazy or depressed. 4.) Wow, there are so many variations of all of these that I can't possibly complete this in a way that someone else won't disagree, agree, or try to correct errors in to look like they're [smarter|better|more attractive]. :)
Exactly, when you have 100 applicants for one job, guess which side is in full control?
So I work for a company that does little bits of screening things for companies here and there... I have to tell you this one:
There was a company (airline) that was hiring for an IT management position. They had three possible candidates for the job and one was laughable. First was a former manager of a large company and had a pay scale somewhere around $70k/yr. Pretty low for what he was doing. He was looking for the same at this airliner, but it was negotiable. They flagged him as "out of our league". He met all job requirements and even "wants". Perfect person for it.
Second was a guy who made somewhere around $110k for a Fortune 5000. He moved because the company he was working for outsourced. He met all requirements and all "wants" with enthusiasm, including being a pilot in training. They flagged him "out of our league".
Third was (this is not a joke and not exaggerated in any way) a guy who worked for a few Chinese restaurants as a chef. Not lead/head chef; OFF THE STREET chef. He lost one of his jobs due to conflict with another employee at that job. He had multiple driving record red flags, most of them DUI. His "resume" said he was looking for $15/hr (the job posting said salary, I might add). He mentioned in the bottom personal interest area of his "resume" that he was interested in fixing computers and was still still learning how to. Had no certifications, no degree, and only a 5 year work history since graduation from HIGH SCHOOL. They hired him as the director of IT for the company.
After seeing that, my hatred of former employers for outsourcing and firing got an extra "page or three" to the hatred point list.
Also after seeing that, I also started to wonder more about the logic behind people who were told their pink slip is in the mail and they have to train their replacement contractors (who are costing more money in a day than they do in a week) not throwing a big old "fuck you", middle finger up the arse, or gentle "I cannot do that based on morals" statement. Yes, I know people want to have good references, but working for the company I do, I know that references are verified for employment only and the employer is not allowed to make any comments or reveal ANYTHING other than the employee worked for them with a start and end date, if the company is over 55 employees (as a whole, not departmentally), to avoid a lawsuit which they will lose. Just saying that now so people don't think that "good reference" is a valid reason. :)
Instead of spending $20mil to help another candidate that is going to do (pardon sarcasm) *SOOOO MUCH* for the "disenfranchised voters", how about giving $20mil to "disenfranchised voters"? Your name would be much more of a legacy and you'd actually be accomplishing something other than indirectly displaying your lack of confidence in the publicly noted length of your manhood.
"watch Pongyang get turned into a glowing parking lot in the matter of minutes"
Do you seriously think that would happen? If North Korea nuked a US ally I would be shocked if the US fired a single nuke. The US would reinforce missile shields and then use conventional weapons to take out North Korea military facilities and conduct a more conventional war. There would be lots of talk of "we will not be drawn into nuclear war". In fact, unless North Korea timed the launch with a full scale attack, I would suspect no large scale war to break out at all but more talk, but this time coupled with military strikes that take out Nuclear capabilities in the country.
They're already surrounded and covered. We've learned from history not to wait for the first punch when it comes to the splitting of atoms. Civilian lives would be lost, but it's the unfortunate base "cost" (I'm sorry to use that word) of preventing WWIII. 3 is the lucky number, so I don't think we'll be too concerned about civilian loss in a small country to prevent Human loss in pretty much every country. Hell, if the countries with nukes bombed each other out, the fallout would make the rest of the world wish they were vaporized, given the ensuing nuclear winter and horrible mutations/etc.
With North Korea's nascent industrial capacity, I'm oddly of the opinion that he should test until he's out of bombs and should test missiles until he runs out of missiles.
Fire the gun into the ground until the clips empty...
Sometimes when one has absolutely no way of winning a fight, but was raised with the highest level of narcissism the brain can achieve, it just keeps punching the ground until there are no intact bones left. Chest pounding ensues... Oooh, did I just accidentally make a reference there? Sorry, "Un"-realistic moron....Kim..whatever.