and unfortunately that is exactly the reason that privacy is dead. For some reason people have fallen into the trap that "oh well they say we have none so we don't."
I say tell the companies to fuck off and don't give out any information without requesting, in writing, what they plan on doing with it. Don't give any real information to any company that doesn't need it and certainly don't believe what anyone else tells you about your own privacy.
Alternately, I could make a good salary working 8-5 in an intellectually challenging field and save the gaming for its true purpose: a hobby.
I was modded up and down on this very issue. Whether or not you should make your hobby your work. "What better job to have than something you thoroughly enjoy?"
I was a decent athlete in high-school. I got a scholarship to a D1 college. I enjoyed practice, meets, and the entire thing. Once I got to college I realized that this was a job and quickly found it to be more of a burden than a release.
I can't see doing something I love as my hobby for pay. It just takes all the fun out of it for me.
I guess everyone has their own obsessions. Mine is getting money to do what I love to do on the weekends. At least I have something to really look forward to. I really feel that it would bore me to do what I currently love everyday. It's probably why I love it.
you apparently don't shop where I do... Cub Foods in Minnesota is *the* worst grocery store chain behind their "rival" Rainbow.
The isles are narrow (and people here like to stand in the middle and look while making it impossible for you to pass, "excuse me" doesn't seem to register).
The brand selections are weak. Wegman's on the East Coast (PA, NY, others) is fantastic for selection. The vegetable isle is terrible. I swear that Cub thinks that fresh produce means stuff that looks like it is wilting.
The store is setup poorly. The isles don't line up forcing you to make strange route changes in order to finish your shopping. Nothing that you would need in a quick stop to the store is where it should be forcing you to walk all the way around to get what you want.
I would much prefer to have someone deliver my food to me. Anything would be better than Cub Food.
When I was in school, I was glad to know whatever essay I was writing was being read by my teacher, whom I had real human student/teacher relationships with, and whom I could discuss whatever was or wasn't right in the essay after class. The schooling system already lacks humanity, why de-humanize it even more?
You had a different school experience than I did apparently. I felt that the human's reading my papers were distant, uninteresting, and less than worthy of grading someone else's work.
Generally comments were kept to a bare minimum on a good paper. "Good job!" or "Excellent research!" is about as lame as getting a 5/6 on a standardized essay exam from a computer grader.
On "bad papers" the comments were usually less than helpful. Don't just mark up the paper with "comma splice" or "vague". The teacher should have taught the class what a "comma splice" was or should have been following their own words of advice and kept themselves from being "vague" in their comments.
I have taken plenty of essay exams where I felt I wasn't graded fairly by a human teacher/professor.
Some essays were graded out of a couple points. A paper out of 6 points carries less weight overall. If this is the only exam (ie AP tests) a 5/6 is looked at as a high score.
It seems to me that you think that the FTC can regulate spam in the first place... It's obvious that 9 out of 10 spams are going to be originating from another country anyway.
Assuming that I don't know enough about ending spam to my INBOX I doubt that I would know enough about filtering it once it got there (as I have already stated in my original post).
a) Putting SEXUALLY EXPLICIT in the title only makes it more annoying when you open your email. My gf uses AOL and her inbox is full of this shit daily. I would rather not see SEXUALLY EXPLICIT 100x over and over again as I scroll down the list.
b) Ok, so they force people to "scroll down" before seeing the image. What about people that have large monitors and email fullscreen? Do we have a set number of 100000000 lines before you see it? What about those of us that filter out white-space in emails so that we don't have to scroll through 100 pages of shit to get to the message?
c) How is this going to help the 99% of people that don't know how to filter their email anyway and are the ones that will likely end up with the gobs of spam in the first place?
Some "nerds" have interests other than the Physics of Star Wars and the possibility that nanobacteria exists. Nevermind the fact that we might need to know the physics of women.
right, because we really need it on Linux... Privacy issues and all that aside I don't see how/why you would want to use Google when there are plenty of acceptable tools already out there.
Wow, you're confused. I don't equate any of that together.
1) the economy is bad. 2) the government descisions being made are bad.
They are not necessarily related.
Do I think that putting shit to Mars makes fiscal sense? Absolutely not. We have more important shit to spend that money on.
Let's put it in a way that you can understand... You have people that are under you (family, whatever). They give you a portion of their income for you to do with in what you believe to be in their best interests. Some of your family members are dying of disease, hunger, and exposure yet you decide it would be a good idea to build a car from scratch and send it to another country so that you can explore the possibility of acquiring land there to possibly further your family's wealth and prosperity generations down the road.
yup, it sure is. It also seems to be human nature to dig yourself into unrecoverable debt just to make yourself do something.
I'd prefer we wait until the country has a budget that is not in the red and we have a society that isn't full of poor and destitute people who are dying of random diseases because we are afraid to tell the insurance and oil cartels to fuck off.
Yes, this will likely never happen. My point is made.
Personally, I would prefer that we keep our budgets right here on Earth. We have enough holes right here in America that we could be exploring. We don't need to go off and find ones on far off places.
You really shouldn't assume something. I read it and ignored it. IMHO he should not have given a reason validating the fact that the US seems to care more about the possibilities in space rather than its own citizens.
I wouldn't have a single objection if it was a voluntary system. Make it known that you offer the service and have them wear some sort of tag that would be detected by the system (make sure it's light and not physically intrusive). It could even have a unique ID (which could be disabled at the request of the hiker).
I don't think I would have much of an objection to one being in place as long as there is no requirement for a permit to be camping/hiking in the park. If you are able to place a specific hiker in the area to the timestamps then that's too intrusive for me. I get out into the woods to get away from people. I don't want people being able to track me in real time out there. I really don't see a need for it either.
I would have serious reservations unless someone made sure that the statistics are kept private, very, very, very private. Who knows what person would have access to it (not everyone in law enforcement is all that friendly). Say they notice a hiker *alone*? They could go out there and get a good idea of where the person might be headed (or staying). Knowing where the points are for tracking they themselves might be able to bushwhack around the sensors and do things I don't care to mention.
And? They can be a part of the RIAA and still distribute their music freely.
I *refuse* to purchase any music that is RIAA backed. So if we are talking about including *me* in a group of people that listen to bands that are only distributed through the RIAA then you're wrong.
Fair use includes making a backup copy. I don't believe making a backup includes downloading one from the Internet (but that is open to interpretation).
Illegal copy I make for my wife?
Doesn't fall into the downloading category.
Illegal copy of music I already bought so I can take it in my car without worrying about car thieves stealing my only copy?
Illegal copy on my hard drive so when the less than immortal physical CD craps out I don't have to pay for a new copy at full price?
Again, doesn't fall into the downloading category.
Illegal monopoly on region codes (violates WTO)?
I don't see how this has anything to do w/this topic. We are talking about music not region coded DVDs/games.
Illegal price fixing (RIAA)?
They were found guilty and supposedly paid the price they deserved. The open debate about the severity of the fine is irrelevant.
Slashdot Mirror
You know what's funny? That google has already spidered that page (5/23/04).
google.com link here
Privacy: It's dead. You have none. Get over it.
and unfortunately that is exactly the reason that privacy is dead. For some reason people have fallen into the trap that "oh well they say we have none so we don't."
I say tell the companies to fuck off and don't give out any information without requesting, in writing, what they plan on doing with it. Don't give any real information to any company that doesn't need it and certainly don't believe what anyone else tells you about your own privacy.
this is a bad link.
Alternately, I could make a good salary working 8-5 in an intellectually challenging field and save the gaming for its true purpose: a hobby.
I was modded up and down on this very issue. Whether or not you should make your hobby your work. "What better job to have than something you thoroughly enjoy?"
I was a decent athlete in high-school. I got a scholarship to a D1 college. I enjoyed practice, meets, and the entire thing. Once I got to college I realized that this was a job and quickly found it to be more of a burden than a release.
I can't see doing something I love as my hobby for pay. It just takes all the fun out of it for me.
I guess everyone has their own obsessions. Mine is getting money to do what I love to do on the weekends. At least I have something to really look forward to. I really feel that it would bore me to do what I currently love everyday. It's probably why I love it.
how quickly we forget.
The US Government training and paying them to usurp "unfavorable" ruling parties.
you apparently don't shop where I do... Cub Foods in Minnesota is *the* worst grocery store chain behind their "rival" Rainbow.
The isles are narrow (and people here like to stand in the middle and look while making it impossible for you to pass, "excuse me" doesn't seem to register).
The brand selections are weak. Wegman's on the East Coast (PA, NY, others) is fantastic for selection. The vegetable isle is terrible. I swear that Cub thinks that fresh produce means stuff that looks like it is wilting.
The store is setup poorly. The isles don't line up forcing you to make strange route changes in order to finish your shopping. Nothing that you would need in a quick stop to the store is where it should be forcing you to walk all the way around to get what you want.
I would much prefer to have someone deliver my food to me. Anything would be better than Cub Food.
Wegman's you listening?
When I was in school, I was glad to know whatever essay I was writing was being read by my teacher, whom I had real human student/teacher relationships with, and whom I could discuss whatever was or wasn't right in the essay after class. The schooling system already lacks humanity, why de-humanize it even more?
You had a different school experience than I did apparently. I felt that the human's reading my papers were distant, uninteresting, and less than worthy of grading someone else's work.
Generally comments were kept to a bare minimum on a good paper. "Good job!" or "Excellent research!" is about as lame as getting a 5/6 on a standardized essay exam from a computer grader.
On "bad papers" the comments were usually less than helpful. Don't just mark up the paper with "comma splice" or "vague". The teacher should have taught the class what a "comma splice" was or should have been following their own words of advice and kept themselves from being "vague" in their comments.
I have taken plenty of essay exams where I felt I wasn't graded fairly by a human teacher/professor.
Some essays were graded out of a couple points. A paper out of 6 points carries less weight overall. If this is the only exam (ie AP tests) a 5/6 is looked at as a high score.
I don't see your point.
It seems to me that you think that the FTC can regulate spam in the first place... It's obvious that 9 out of 10 spams are going to be originating from another country anyway.
Assuming that I don't know enough about ending spam to my INBOX I doubt that I would know enough about filtering it once it got there (as I have already stated in my original post).
a) Putting SEXUALLY EXPLICIT in the title only makes it more annoying when you open your email. My gf uses AOL and her inbox is full of this shit daily. I would rather not see SEXUALLY EXPLICIT 100x over and over again as I scroll down the list.
b) Ok, so they force people to "scroll down" before seeing the image. What about people that have large monitors and email fullscreen? Do we have a set number of 100000000 lines before you see it? What about those of us that filter out white-space in emails so that we don't have to scroll through 100 pages of shit to get to the message?
c) How is this going to help the 99% of people that don't know how to filter their email anyway and are the ones that will likely end up with the gobs of spam in the first place?
Judge Wapner although he only plays in afternoon games.
Some "nerds" have interests other than the Physics of Star Wars and the possibility that nanobacteria exists. Nevermind the fact that we might need to know the physics of women.
Shocker, I know.
right, because we really need it on Linux... Privacy issues and all that aside I don't see how/why you would want to use Google when there are plenty of acceptable tools already out there.
find and grep.
Works for me.
Wow, you're confused. I don't equate any of that together.
1) the economy is bad.
2) the government descisions being made are bad.
They are not necessarily related.
Do I think that putting shit to Mars makes fiscal sense? Absolutely not. We have more important shit to spend that money on.
Let's put it in a way that you can understand... You have people that are under you (family, whatever). They give you a portion of their income for you to do with in what you believe to be in their best interests. Some of your family members are dying of disease, hunger, and exposure yet you decide it would be a good idea to build a car from scratch and send it to another country so that you can explore the possibility of acquiring land there to possibly further your family's wealth and prosperity generations down the road.
Doesn't make much fucking sense does it?
yup, it sure is. It also seems to be human nature to dig yourself into unrecoverable debt just to make yourself do something.
I'd prefer we wait until the country has a budget that is not in the red and we have a society that isn't full of poor and destitute people who are dying of random diseases because we are afraid to tell the insurance and oil cartels to fuck off.
Yes, this will likely never happen. My point is made.
So they spend it in PR stunts so the [edit] people [/edit] can, if they want, take national pride in a nation which does not treat them well.
Hmm, sounds very similar to another country I know pretty well.
Personally, I would prefer that we keep our budgets right here on Earth. We have enough holes right here in America that we could be exploring. We don't need to go off and find ones on far off places.
You really shouldn't assume something. I read it and ignored it. IMHO he should not have given a reason validating the fact that the US seems to care more about the possibilities in space rather than its own citizens.
perhaps our country should consider doing the exact same thing.
I wouldn't have a single objection if it was a voluntary system. Make it known that you offer the service and have them wear some sort of tag that would be detected by the system (make sure it's light and not physically intrusive). It could even have a unique ID (which could be disabled at the request of the hiker).
I don't think I would have much of an objection to one being in place as long as there is no requirement for a permit to be camping/hiking in the park. If you are able to place a specific hiker in the area to the timestamps then that's too intrusive for me. I get out into the woods to get away from people. I don't want people being able to track me in real time out there. I really don't see a need for it either.
I would have serious reservations unless someone made sure that the statistics are kept private, very, very, very private. Who knows what person would have access to it (not everyone in law enforcement is all that friendly). Say they notice a hiker *alone*? They could go out there and get a good idea of where the person might be headed (or staying). Knowing where the points are for tracking they themselves might be able to bushwhack around the sensors and do things I don't care to mention.
It appears, in the screenshots, that the version of GranTurismo is 4. The last version of GT available for PS3 is GT3.
I wouldn't mind playing GT4 but I certainly wouldn't only want it available on the portable.
we all have a few RIAA-signed groups we enjoy.
And? They can be a part of the RIAA and still distribute their music freely.
I *refuse* to purchase any music that is RIAA backed. So if we are talking about including *me* in a group of people that listen to bands that are only distributed through the RIAA then you're wrong.
Illegal fair use?
Fair use includes making a backup copy. I don't believe making a backup includes downloading one from the Internet (but that is open to interpretation).
Illegal copy I make for my wife?
Doesn't fall into the downloading category.
Illegal copy of music I already bought so I can take it in my car without worrying about car thieves stealing my only copy?
Illegal copy on my hard drive so when the less than immortal physical CD craps out I don't have to pay for a new copy at full price?
Again, doesn't fall into the downloading category.
Illegal monopoly on region codes (violates WTO)?
I don't see how this has anything to do w/this topic. We are talking about music not region coded DVDs/games.
Illegal price fixing (RIAA)?
They were found guilty and supposedly paid the price they deserved. The open debate about the severity of the fine is irrelevant.