The apps (or rather, the Android Market) told you at install-time that they wanted access to your Google accounts. Anyone who didn't back out on seeing that... well, I wouldn't say "deserves what they get", but I will say "was adequately forewarned".
A different way to read it is that the other hacks were independent, and the anonymous celeb is saying that Hell is no worse than any of the other organizations which were entrusted with personal information.
Well, duh. Writing is not the same as speaking. There are lot of things that are lacking in writing: accents, intonation, gesture, body language, etc. Should we encode them all? Should we write in the International Phonetic Alphabet with notated choreography and stage directions?
.aipe'a It's actually not such a bad idea.
.e'u Lojban contains a syntax for assembling "attitudinals" -- interjections which describe someone's emotional state (with a syntax allowing complex composition -- indicating strength, negation, combining different states, and the like) which can be inserted at any point in a stream of text..ji'a They're not just written, but spoken as well -- useful for phone conversations or other situations where body language is unavailable.
.je'upe'i Pipe dream or not, I would be thrilled to see their adoption.
I can't remember anywhere I've ever worked where you were allowed to surf the fucking internet. Some jobs obviously would require it - blogger, journalist, Corporate PR person searching out bad publicity fires to put out, etc.
And I've never worked anywhere with a total ban on personal browsing during work hours. I just recently handed in my notice from a Fortune 50 company with something on the scale of 100,000 employees, and even they allow reasonable personal use of company resources.
If this required preview option is available, I should clearly find that setting and enable it though as submitting without previewing is dangerous for me.
Required preview is mandatory for anonymous users, and maybe new or low-karma users. Certainly not high-karma folks who've been here a while.
I'm a bit wary buying something I'll want to keep for decades encumbered with DRM -- my preferred publisher for technical ebooks is Manning, who makes everything available in unencrypted PDF -- but I'm thinking of moving from a house with lots of bookshelves to a tiny little condo downtown. Only the very, very best of my dead-tree library can come with me, so electronic format for future purchases Just Makes Sense.
(I bought a Kindle DX due to the large-format screen and PDF support, but the lack of ePub support is unfortunate; if I were doing it again, I might think harder about an iRex).
-1 believability. If you want to pull off a parody successfully, try using turns of phrase the folks you're trying to parody actually use; "the ONE" is a phrase which I've never seen used in politics except from the perspective of folks trying to characterize their opposition as mindlessly devoted.
D for effort... unless you're trying to make the point that anyone can use this finding to reinforce their preexisting beliefs, which I suppose is true enough.
About a decade ago I got a research grant for a system for generating one-time per-transaction keys -- you had a card you carried with you with a display sufficient to display the price of the item you authorized and to allow a PIN to be entered if you wanted to approve a transaction; the card had a public identifier, a private key, and a counter; it generated a token consisting of the public identifier and a hash of the private key, the counter and the transaction data.
Didn't go anywhere -- not economically feasible -- and I may be misremembering some of the details, but the point is that the idea isn't new at all.
I've never done that (replaced a url with another) in my life - nice try. Next time, try to be at least a bit more credible by not posting as a lying A.C. -- Leaked SCO code comparisons
Even with the specific allegations being invalid, it's a valid point that you could do that.
Would you mind satisfying my curiosity as to why you're using your sig to post the link rather than putting it in comment text?
Undoubtedly, my suspicion is that the N900 was a skunk-works power play to light a fire under everyone else's asses, and I believe MeeGo and the Qt transition is the result.
If I recall the story correctly, the precursor to the N900 was very much a skunkworks project, and built at a point when Nokia was contractually prohibited from selling a phone running Linux; the N900 was thus a relatively small step that was easy to take once that contractual prohibition was no longer in place.
I'm not sure I'd trust a book to teach this subject as comprehensively as a good university course on the subject. Frequently, you can sit a class quite inexpensively if you're not going for credit.
For that matter, isn't MIT or someone allowing free not-for-credit access to their eLearning materials?
Doesn't make economic sense? Then don't recycle it... yet. Eventually materials used will become harder to come by (this is already happening quickly for numerous rare earth metals) and recycling e-waste will become economically viable.
Admittedly, this leaves is the (admittedly not at all trivial) question of safe storage in the interim.
I don't throw out my bicycle's speed and cadence sensors or my heartrate monitor when their batteries wear out -- sure, the battery may be $2 after a hefty markup, but the device it goes in is $30-70.
This just makes Bluetooth a competitor in that field, rather than needing to join the "ANT Alliance" to build anything that can communicate with the wireless sensors. As someone with the occasional hobby-project idea, I'm all for that!
Great, all those earpiece douchebags can talk longer and louder, and Minivan Mommie can swerve around in traffic even longer.
That's actually not the kind of problem space the ultra-low-power form of the spec is aimed at. Rather, it's a competitor to ANT -- ya know, the protocol your bicycle's speedometer uses to talk to the sensor reading the magnet on the wheel, or that the pedometer in your shoes uses to tell your watch how far you're walking.
That's the not so hidden agenda that riles up people so well. I don't know if you intend to be one of the new slavemasters or not, but someone is pushing for that role.
Someone is pushing for every side imaginable -- we've got a whole lot of people in this world. To put it differently -- everyone has their wingnuts, and wingnuts are best ignored. I don't paint all Christians by the Westboro Baptist Church, for instance, and expect similar courtesy when it comes to characterizing my own positions.
Only if I were using some capability unavailable on non-Dell computers. Otherwise, why bother to call them out?
There's hundreds of microcontrollers and they're all significantly different from one to another and attempting to replicate the results on a different microcontroller requires a fair bit of work.
That matters a great deal if you're sharing your implementation with anyone who might want to reproduce your results. On the other hand, if you're not sharing your implementation with anyone, and there's nothing that makes it conceptually tied to the same platform, why consider the platform of choice a pertinent enough detail to put it in the summary?
Don't you have e-mail or a web page or a chat account?
All those things, but they only help me communicate with people (1) whose existence I remember, (2) who know my email/chat/&c addresses, and (3) who I have reason to believe may be interested in communicating. "Social networking" tools such as Facebook make it easier to connect to people on the "fringes" of one's network for which those things aren't true -- long-lost acquaintances and the like -- by providing a means of reintroducing people who wouldn't otherwise think to get in touch.
Whether it's worth the privacy impact of putting a single entity in charge is an open question -- and I'll be much more comfortable if Diaspora or a similar project succeeds in creating a decentralized equivalent -- but there's certainly a value proposition there.
I avoided Facebook for a long, long time -- finally gave in when a long-lost relative tried to contact me through it, and just a few weeks after that, it ended up connecting me to a group of childhood friends living in Denver (which I was just about to pass through on my way to visit a company in Boulder); I ended up staying with them while in the area, and a great time was had by all.
I'll be abandoning my account as soon as we have a viable alternative available -- I am unhappy with how their stance on privacy controls has changed -- but it's very much possible to transform "a couple messages back and forth" into real-life interaction.
Except that in certain countries, such as the US, then your partner can use this as a motivation for divorce and get a larger part of the pie than if he/she simply asked for it without motivation.
Certainly not in the state I'm in. Family law varies state-to-state a great deal.
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The apps (or rather, the Android Market) told you at install-time that they wanted access to your Google accounts. Anyone who didn't back out on seeing that... well, I wouldn't say "deserves what they get", but I will say "was adequately forewarned".
A different way to read it is that the other hacks were independent, and the anonymous celeb is saying that Hell is no worse than any of the other organizations which were entrusted with personal information.
.aipe'a It's actually not such a bad idea.
.e'u Lojban contains a syntax for assembling "attitudinals" -- interjections which describe someone's emotional state (with a syntax allowing complex composition -- indicating strength, negation, combining different states, and the like) which can be inserted at any point in a stream of text. .ji'a They're not just written, but spoken as well -- useful for phone conversations or other situations where body language is unavailable.
.je'upe'i Pipe dream or not, I would be thrilled to see their adoption.
And I've never worked anywhere with a total ban on personal browsing during work hours. I just recently handed in my notice from a Fortune 50 company with something on the scale of 100,000 employees, and even they allow reasonable personal use of company resources.
Accept that your experiences aren't everyone's.
Required preview is mandatory for anonymous users, and maybe new or low-karma users. Certainly not high-karma folks who've been here a while.
*agree*.
I'm a bit wary buying something I'll want to keep for decades encumbered with DRM -- my preferred publisher for technical ebooks is Manning, who makes everything available in unencrypted PDF -- but I'm thinking of moving from a house with lots of bookshelves to a tiny little condo downtown. Only the very, very best of my dead-tree library can come with me, so electronic format for future purchases Just Makes Sense.
(I bought a Kindle DX due to the large-format screen and PDF support, but the lack of ePub support is unfortunate; if I were doing it again, I might think harder about an iRex).
-1 believability. If you want to pull off a parody successfully, try using turns of phrase the folks you're trying to parody actually use; "the ONE" is a phrase which I've never seen used in politics except from the perspective of folks trying to characterize their opposition as mindlessly devoted.
D for effort... unless you're trying to make the point that anyone can use this finding to reinforce their preexisting beliefs, which I suppose is true enough.
Read the Fine Article.
We've got lots of time -- we're only 11 million years into this cycle.
About a decade ago I got a research grant for a system for generating one-time per-transaction keys -- you had a card you carried with you with a display sufficient to display the price of the item you authorized and to allow a PIN to be entered if you wanted to approve a transaction; the card had a public identifier, a private key, and a counter; it generated a token consisting of the public identifier and a hash of the private key, the counter and the transaction data.
Didn't go anywhere -- not economically feasible -- and I may be misremembering some of the details, but the point is that the idea isn't new at all.
Even with the specific allegations being invalid, it's a valid point that you could do that.
Would you mind satisfying my curiosity as to why you're using your sig to post the link rather than putting it in comment text?
If I recall the story correctly, the precursor to the N900 was very much a skunkworks project, and built at a point when Nokia was contractually prohibited from selling a phone running Linux; the N900 was thus a relatively small step that was easy to take once that contractual prohibition was no longer in place.
I'm not sure I'd trust a book to teach this subject as comprehensively as a good university course on the subject. Frequently, you can sit a class quite inexpensively if you're not going for credit.
For that matter, isn't MIT or someone allowing free not-for-credit access to their eLearning materials?
Doesn't make economic sense? Then don't recycle it... yet. Eventually materials used will become harder to come by (this is already happening quickly for numerous rare earth metals) and recycling e-waste will become economically viable.
Admittedly, this leaves is the (admittedly not at all trivial) question of safe storage in the interim.
I don't throw out my bicycle's speed and cadence sensors or my heartrate monitor when their batteries wear out -- sure, the battery may be $2 after a hefty markup, but the device it goes in is $30-70.
This just makes Bluetooth a competitor in that field, rather than needing to join the "ANT Alliance" to build anything that can communicate with the wireless sensors. As someone with the occasional hobby-project idea, I'm all for that!
That's actually not the kind of problem space the ultra-low-power form of the spec is aimed at. Rather, it's a competitor to ANT -- ya know, the protocol your bicycle's speedometer uses to talk to the sensor reading the magnet on the wheel, or that the pedometer in your shoes uses to tell your watch how far you're walking.
Someone is pushing for every side imaginable -- we've got a whole lot of people in this world. To put it differently -- everyone has their wingnuts, and wingnuts are best ignored. I don't paint all Christians by the Westboro Baptist Church, for instance, and expect similar courtesy when it comes to characterizing my own positions.
Only if I were using some capability unavailable on non-Dell computers. Otherwise, why bother to call them out?
That matters a great deal if you're sharing your implementation with anyone who might want to reproduce your results. On the other hand, if you're not sharing your implementation with anyone, and there's nothing that makes it conceptually tied to the same platform, why consider the platform of choice a pertinent enough detail to put it in the summary?
He isn't denying that an Arduino was used -- but rather that it's relevant data. You might read the text you're quoting for intended meaning, perhaps?
Seriously? That one was high school economics.
What's the underlying problem, again? People who know what their spouse's expectations are?
All those things, but they only help me communicate with people (1) whose existence I remember, (2) who know my email/chat/&c addresses, and (3) who I have reason to believe may be interested in communicating. "Social networking" tools such as Facebook make it easier to connect to people on the "fringes" of one's network for which those things aren't true -- long-lost acquaintances and the like -- by providing a means of reintroducing people who wouldn't otherwise think to get in touch.
Whether it's worth the privacy impact of putting a single entity in charge is an open question -- and I'll be much more comfortable if Diaspora or a similar project succeeds in creating a decentralized equivalent -- but there's certainly a value proposition there.
I avoided Facebook for a long, long time -- finally gave in when a long-lost relative tried to contact me through it, and just a few weeks after that, it ended up connecting me to a group of childhood friends living in Denver (which I was just about to pass through on my way to visit a company in Boulder); I ended up staying with them while in the area, and a great time was had by all.
I'll be abandoning my account as soon as we have a viable alternative available -- I am unhappy with how their stance on privacy controls has changed -- but it's very much possible to transform "a couple messages back and forth" into real-life interaction.
"Conventional" was a key word here. You can be married[*] but with terms other than the traditional closed marriage between you.
[*] - ...presuming, in many places, a "traditional" heterosexual couple... *sigh*
How'd you pull that off? Leap day's this year, after all.
Certainly not in the state I'm in. Family law varies state-to-state a great deal.