well, it's just easier to coerce it out of geeks that they feel superior - even if they're fat losers and they know they're fat losers you can get them to give answers that would mark them as feeling grandiose. especially at a geek event(well why the fuck not, they're having fun there).
neo-nazis beat them at that score though.
Every counter-culture is a culture of its own. Counter-cultures, with a large enough sample size, tend to reflect the mainstream cultures from which they spawn. They're fractals. There are bullies, know-it-alls, wannabes, the self-righteous, followers, the artsy, and even nerds within every subculture. I've seen it through four major subcultures. Stereotypes like the Comic Book Collector on The Simpsons exist because someone is just about always going to fill that role with a large enough sample size. It just happens with that particular character that there are a lot of men that resemble that character both physically and in temperament, so it tends to lead to a bit of confirmation bias.
People also don't act the same way around separate distinct groups. Someone might be meek or quiet in a more mainstream setting but be very outgoing or as the article discusses, narcissistic when they're within the subculture that they are comfortable in. Conversely, someone in a mainstream group might be the expert, and be narcissistic or at least very confident, but when they're put into a subculture suddenly they're quiet or subservient because within that particular group their skills or interests or knowledge is among the least, putting them at the bottom of the pecking order. The latter is why MIT has alumni interview applicants, to make sure that they can handle the fact that they'll likely go from being at the pinnacle of scholastic achievement in high school to close to the bottom when measured against all of the other students in college.
Ok. So cite us some examples of hardware that has been uncrippled EXCLUSIVELY through a software update.
Cisco now integrates all features into their IOS 15 devices that the devices are capable-of, and uses licensing to unlock those features. Same holds true for their ASAs and their WLAN controllers.
One could even argue in the past, being able to go from IP Base to IP services or Enterprise Services by loading a different IOS is the same thing. The hardware capabilities are there, but the software wasn't unless it was installed.
I would not expect an appliance manufacturer to do the same thing though. There are lots of mechanical devices that could be omitted from inexpensive models even if they use the same PCB with most of the same components soldered on, and they might well omit all of the extra PCB components if it's just a matter of choosing the right template in the PCB fab for a given model.
It would be much more likely that replacement PCB might have more capabilities though, if they only want to stock one replacement part for all lines with the same form factor of PCB.
Again, in actual race cars a few pounds matter. If a cast-iron bare smallblock engine block weighs about 150lb, and an aluminum bare block weighs 100lb, if a magnesium block weighs 90lb, that weight difference would be pursued, along with hollow cams, a forged lightweight crank, hollow pushrods, and all sorts of other performance parts.
We bought new the X301 and more recently the Thinkpad Yoga 12, and I have a Yoga 12 assigned to me from work. Both are very sturdy machines. The Helix series are proving to be pieces of junk as you look at 'em funny and they break, and the Yoga 11e series is too small to be terribly useful, but coworkers are agog over the X1 Carbon series.
I fondly remember the Fujitsu Lifebook series. My wife was often issued one for work travel and it was stout, light weight, and had a long battery life for the era. We had strongly considered one when we ended up with the X301 instead, which was a lot like one of the used IBM-era Thinkpads that I had gotten used years before and still worked well.
Yep. It's kind of like why nearly all cars in Singapore are high-end luxury cars- the parking spaces cost something like $150,000 a year. They're so expensive that if you can afford the parking space it's not an issue to put a $100,000 car in it. Same with upbuilding a limo- if it's $50,000 to cut up a sedan and turn it into a limo then there's not a lot of reason to start with a Chevrolet at $30,000 compared to a Cadillac at $50,000.
My wife and I had one of the grilles in this series. We got the recall notice right after thoroughly cleaning the grille for the first time. Normally the inside of the chamber is protected by a layer of oxidation, but a thorough cleaning scrapes the oxide layer off and exposes fresh magnesium. Ours didn't catch fire, but after we got the recall notice we looked into it and apparently the first heavily-documented case of the grille burning was after the owners thoroughly cleaned it and probably exposed fresh magnesium right before using it again.
Magnesium is used successfully for other applications, but usually with the fire-risk considered an acceptable tradeoff. Engine blocks, with steel liners for the cylinder walls and with aluminum cylinder heads so that the magnesium isn't directly exposed to flame, and in wheels that should be safe unless a tire failure results in a skidding bare wheel scraping against pavement are both common in racing. The very term, "mag wheel," is based on the use of magnesium wheel, even if most are now aluminum for street-legal uses.
For the right applications this alloy could be very good. Just don't make barbecue grilles out of it.
Obviously there are exceptions like wax cylinders and stone tablets, but in general if a medium is cheap and/or does a job thats not easily or cheaply replicated elsewhere it'll stick around. As soon as the Next Thing comes along certain people always predict the demise of that which its superceding. Cassette was supposed to kill vinyl. It didn't. Ditto CDs, they didn't. MP3s were supposed to kill CDs and cassettes. They didn't. Streaming - we are told - is the end of downloads. Yeah, right. DVD killed VHS? No it didn't - not until set top box recorders came along to fill in that functionality. Automatic gearboxes were the death knell of manual transmissions. Oh really? Now driverless cars will be the end of human driven cars. No, don't think so.
Anyone who predicts the end of anything without waiting a few decades is an idiot.
On the other hand, the drop in volume can be measured, and eventually the drop in volume reaches a point where the only customers left are niche customers, and sometimes there aren't enough niche customers to justify production anymore.
I have a fairly large LaserDisc collection. There were machines to record LaserDisc, but they were very limited in number. No one produces blanks for them anymore just as no one produces titles on LaserDisc anymore. There had been "Selectavision", an RCA system for movies that played on a vinyl disc. No more of those either. 8-track also appears to be completely out of production even though it had achieved fairly significant market penetration, to the point it was common in automobiles and home stereos in the seventies and touching the eighties.
This particular factory, if they play their cards right, can be the niche manufacturer for a whole bunch of media as the big players get out. They have to be careful and pick-and-choose what's worth trying to keep up with, but if they choose wisely they can continue to be the source for blanks and possibly even factory-mastered media for some time after the big players stop. If they choose poorly though, that could just knock them out.
Firefox 3.6 was painfully slow. The speed improvements from 4 onwards made it much more enjoyable to use until they started copying Chrome and doing other bone headed things.
Still, there are obstacles. SpaceX still needs to demonstrate the ability to consistently produce and launch rockets many times a year after the June accident caused an unexpected, six-month setback, something it will do with several flights planned for the weeks ahead.
Just because it's relatively cheap to use Space X, if I have a 50-50 ( better or worse) chance that my $100 million satellite that took several years to design and build is going to get blown up, I'll pass.
I fully expect that they'll have a tiered price structure. First, the cost of a brand-new launch won't have to be $60,000,000+ if they expect to launch the rocket again. Obviously it'll be the most expensive and will probably see the most use for the most critical launches and for manned-launches once they're man-rated, but if they expect to launch the same rocket assembly a half-dozen times then that launch might cost $20,000,000 or $30,000,000, or less than half of the cost of a one-flight rocket. Limited-reuse rockets might fetch $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 dollars for important but not absolutely critical launches where budget is important but so are timetables, and less than $10,000,000 for launches on older rockets where the loss of payload isn't that big of a deal, like replacing GPS satellites or dealing with routine communications satellite replacement over time.
If this comes to pass, even if a customer insists on brand-new rockets for their launches, so long as there are customers interested in budget launches, the first launches will get cheaper.
The biggest problem in getting women in STEM is that much of the culture around technology that develops in the younger years is heavily male-dominated in an outcast sort of way. Many of the boys that start playing with technology from childhood are those that don't fit-in well in other groups, and either have chosen solo hobbies or not been given the opportunity to participate with their peers and basically been stuck with solo hobbies. If they're smart then technological pursuits are a great avenue for a hobbies that have a lot of growth potential- it's essentially limitless.
If boys that are outcasts are the largest group of participants in the area, and if they both have poor etiquette with girls (and in this case, poorer etiquette to outright hostility; boys generally have poor etiquette anyway) and as seen as a group of outcasts they're not desirable to be around, then by the time girls are encouraged to start looking at technical fields, they're having to push-back against a cultural mindset that sits somewhere between unwelcoming and hostile.
Unfortunately I can't think of a good way to break this cycle. It's difficult for parents to know what their adolescent children are doing on the Internet to help steer them, and that's assuming that the parents see what their children are doing as a problem. Through my wife I probably know more women in engineering and science than men, and basically all have stories of issues they've had with men that flagrantly violated boundaries. Some were through social ineptitude, some were from a position of sexism, and some saw themselves as players, or some combination thereof.
I think that gender-separate junior high schools should be more widely considered. That's the age when budding interest in subjects that become careers starts, and it's also the age when people of one gender will start to show-off for the other, and the negative behaviors start. Without the other gender to show-off for it might let adolescents pursue studies without dealing with as much pressure in this regard, so that both boys and girls can look into things that interest them without having to worry about appearances so much.
Maybe the weather will actually be one thing working in North Dakota's favor, in a perverse way. If inclement weather, both due to the trouble that cold produces plus any issues with strong wind, could lead to both better machines and to better operators. For the former, think of how Boston Dynamics has improved their walking robots and muddy, soft, and snowy hilly terrain.
easy to say "gambling sucks I only bet $20 in my weekend in vegas" until you put $2 in a slot machine and win $4,500.
then you're really in trouble because you know you can win big, it's not just a vague possibility. They got you, it's like crack cocaine.
And that's why I'm willing to play the big lottery for $2.00 a couple of times a year, but why I don't play slot machines, video gambling machines, card games, or dice games. A couple of times a year I waste less money than the cost of a soft drink at a restaurant, and because the duration to reach the drawing from the buy-in is several days, I don't get to stimulate those parts of the brain with an instant response such that I do it again right away.
I don't care about drone near misses. I am much more interested in incidents where the drone crashes straight into the operator's own penis and scrotum. Has this sort of an event ever happened before?
A different analogy that might be more relevant for you is card-skimmers. What do you really need to reliably ID a good card skimmer? An engineering degree and about 5 years of experience with electromechanical product design. Is it reasonable for the bank to require us to ID them?
Actually I identify card skimmers based on first knowing what my bank's ATMs look like, and secondly being willing to pick-at anything on the face of the ATM that doesn't look right. To protect myself from card skimmers at other places I obscure the keypad when I enter my PIN to make it harder for even a skimmed card to be used, and I still inspect the machine for the antitampering stickers, the condition of the locks, and any bits that are not firmly affixed and might have been added by someone.
It's not that difficult to protect one's self from this sort of thing even without electronics knowledge.
Read up on Elizabeth Deans. She was a prolific pornographic performer and actress starting at the tail-end of the 1990s, and essentially found only limited career opportunities after leaving pornography. When she did find work the workplace would become disrupted when her pornographic history was discovered and she either would be terminated or quit. Since having previously been a pornographic performer is not a protected class, she doesn't have a lot of grounds to challenge.
There are other examples of people whose previous pornographic working history have caught up to cause problems. I knew a woman that was a teacher until her previous college appearance in Playboy ultimately cost her that job.
The only people whose celebrity status increased after a sex tape were arguably already celebrities, or at least enjoyed a degree of public notoriety, before the sex tape. Pamela Anderson was known. Paris Hilton was known. Kim Kardashian's family was known, and she wasn't completely obscure. All three of these examples have subsequently made their careers out of being in the public eye as well, as opposed to the norm.
You can not willfully forfeit or otherwise lose your rights.
Yes you can. In the United States every time a person is arrested they are advised of their rights. Among those rights is the right to remain silent. When individuals speak with the police they are waiving that right, and what they say is used against them in court proceedings.
Allowing a permanent record of a private moment made in-consent is arguably an even stronger waiving of the right to privacy than speaking to police is a waiving of the right to silence to avoid self-incrimination.
Your odds of winning with no ticket are exactly zero. Your odds with 1 ticket are greater than zero.
No tickets cost $0. One ticket costs more than $0, and it usually costs more than (prize_money)*(probability of winning the jackpot).
On the other hand, if one ticket costs me the loose change that's been piling up for the last several months and gives me three or four days to daydream while I'm stuck doing an otherwise unpleasant job, so be it. That's $2.00 for three or four days of a greater degree of happiness, and no letdown because I know that I'm not actually going to win.
Why do celebrities, who literally have a portion of their trade tied-up in appearance and being desired, record sexual materials to devices that they don't fully understand the workings of? While it's not right for individuals to breach their accounts to copy their pictures, it is a known behavior that some people will do, and as it's a known danger it's the individual's responsibility to take steps to prevent this. If the technology of using Internet-connected devices and Internet services isn't understood, then the only solution is to avoid using Internet-connected devices. Use friggin' offline digital cameras if you want your naughty pictures, or go even more old-school and use an instant film camera.
There have been examples when "share my day" services for social media sites have shared naked pictures, publicly, automatically, as a matter of course. The settings of the phone's application were to share a sample of pictures automatically. That's STUPID.
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well, it's just easier to coerce it out of geeks that they feel superior - even if they're fat losers and they know they're fat losers you can get them to give answers that would mark them as feeling grandiose. especially at a geek event(well why the fuck not, they're having fun there).
neo-nazis beat them at that score though.
Every counter-culture is a culture of its own. Counter-cultures, with a large enough sample size, tend to reflect the mainstream cultures from which they spawn. They're fractals. There are bullies, know-it-alls, wannabes, the self-righteous, followers, the artsy, and even nerds within every subculture. I've seen it through four major subcultures. Stereotypes like the Comic Book Collector on The Simpsons exist because someone is just about always going to fill that role with a large enough sample size. It just happens with that particular character that there are a lot of men that resemble that character both physically and in temperament, so it tends to lead to a bit of confirmation bias.
People also don't act the same way around separate distinct groups. Someone might be meek or quiet in a more mainstream setting but be very outgoing or as the article discusses, narcissistic when they're within the subculture that they are comfortable in. Conversely, someone in a mainstream group might be the expert, and be narcissistic or at least very confident, but when they're put into a subculture suddenly they're quiet or subservient because within that particular group their skills or interests or knowledge is among the least, putting them at the bottom of the pecking order. The latter is why MIT has alumni interview applicants, to make sure that they can handle the fact that they'll likely go from being at the pinnacle of scholastic achievement in high school to close to the bottom when measured against all of the other students in college.
Ok. So cite us some examples of hardware that has been uncrippled EXCLUSIVELY through a software update.
Cisco now integrates all features into their IOS 15 devices that the devices are capable-of, and uses licensing to unlock those features. Same holds true for their ASAs and their WLAN controllers.
One could even argue in the past, being able to go from IP Base to IP services or Enterprise Services by loading a different IOS is the same thing. The hardware capabilities are there, but the software wasn't unless it was installed.
I would not expect an appliance manufacturer to do the same thing though. There are lots of mechanical devices that could be omitted from inexpensive models even if they use the same PCB with most of the same components soldered on, and they might well omit all of the extra PCB components if it's just a matter of choosing the right template in the PCB fab for a given model.
It would be much more likely that replacement PCB might have more capabilities though, if they only want to stock one replacement part for all lines with the same form factor of PCB.
Again, in actual race cars a few pounds matter. If a cast-iron bare smallblock engine block weighs about 150lb, and an aluminum bare block weighs 100lb, if a magnesium block weighs 90lb, that weight difference would be pursued, along with hollow cams, a forged lightweight crank, hollow pushrods, and all sorts of other performance parts.
We bought new the X301 and more recently the Thinkpad Yoga 12, and I have a Yoga 12 assigned to me from work. Both are very sturdy machines. The Helix series are proving to be pieces of junk as you look at 'em funny and they break, and the Yoga 11e series is too small to be terribly useful, but coworkers are agog over the X1 Carbon series.
I fondly remember the Fujitsu Lifebook series. My wife was often issued one for work travel and it was stout, light weight, and had a long battery life for the era. We had strongly considered one when we ended up with the X301 instead, which was a lot like one of the used IBM-era Thinkpads that I had gotten used years before and still worked well.
Yep. It's kind of like why nearly all cars in Singapore are high-end luxury cars- the parking spaces cost something like $150,000 a year. They're so expensive that if you can afford the parking space it's not an issue to put a $100,000 car in it. Same with upbuilding a limo- if it's $50,000 to cut up a sedan and turn it into a limo then there's not a lot of reason to start with a Chevrolet at $30,000 compared to a Cadillac at $50,000.
Uh, you would be wrong...
My wife and I had one of the grilles in this series. We got the recall notice right after thoroughly cleaning the grille for the first time. Normally the inside of the chamber is protected by a layer of oxidation, but a thorough cleaning scrapes the oxide layer off and exposes fresh magnesium. Ours didn't catch fire, but after we got the recall notice we looked into it and apparently the first heavily-documented case of the grille burning was after the owners thoroughly cleaned it and probably exposed fresh magnesium right before using it again.
Magnesium is used successfully for other applications, but usually with the fire-risk considered an acceptable tradeoff. Engine blocks, with steel liners for the cylinder walls and with aluminum cylinder heads so that the magnesium isn't directly exposed to flame, and in wheels that should be safe unless a tire failure results in a skidding bare wheel scraping against pavement are both common in racing. The very term, "mag wheel," is based on the use of magnesium wheel, even if most are now aluminum for street-legal uses.
For the right applications this alloy could be very good. Just don't make barbecue grilles out of it.
Obviously there are exceptions like wax cylinders and stone tablets, but in general if a medium is cheap and/or does a job thats not easily or cheaply replicated elsewhere it'll stick around. As soon as the Next Thing comes along certain people always predict the demise of that which its superceding. Cassette was supposed to kill vinyl. It didn't. Ditto CDs, they didn't. MP3s were supposed to kill CDs and cassettes. They didn't. Streaming - we are told - is the end of downloads. Yeah, right. DVD killed VHS? No it didn't - not until set top box recorders came along to fill in that functionality. Automatic gearboxes were the death knell of manual transmissions. Oh really? Now driverless cars will be the end of human driven cars. No, don't think so.
Anyone who predicts the end of anything without waiting a few decades is an idiot.
On the other hand, the drop in volume can be measured, and eventually the drop in volume reaches a point where the only customers left are niche customers, and sometimes there aren't enough niche customers to justify production anymore.
I have a fairly large LaserDisc collection. There were machines to record LaserDisc, but they were very limited in number. No one produces blanks for them anymore just as no one produces titles on LaserDisc anymore. There had been "Selectavision", an RCA system for movies that played on a vinyl disc. No more of those either. 8-track also appears to be completely out of production even though it had achieved fairly significant market penetration, to the point it was common in automobiles and home stereos in the seventies and touching the eighties.
This particular factory, if they play their cards right, can be the niche manufacturer for a whole bunch of media as the big players get out. They have to be careful and pick-and-choose what's worth trying to keep up with, but if they choose wisely they can continue to be the source for blanks and possibly even factory-mastered media for some time after the big players stop. If they choose poorly though, that could just knock them out.
Firefox 3.6 was painfully slow. The speed improvements from 4 onwards made it much more enjoyable to use until they started copying Chrome and doing other bone headed things.
Yeah, it was great until about Firefox 29...
You are all cows. Cows say mooo. Mooo! Moooo! Mooo cows mooo! Moooo say the cows. YOU ESTIMATED COWS!!!
Is that like the engineering joke with the punchline, "it works, but only for spherical cows in a vacuum"?
Still, there are obstacles. SpaceX still needs to demonstrate the ability to consistently produce and launch rockets many times a year after the June accident caused an unexpected, six-month setback, something it will do with several flights planned for the weeks ahead.
Just because it's relatively cheap to use Space X, if I have a 50-50 ( better or worse) chance that my $100 million satellite that took several years to design and build is going to get blown up, I'll pass.
I fully expect that they'll have a tiered price structure. First, the cost of a brand-new launch won't have to be $60,000,000+ if they expect to launch the rocket again. Obviously it'll be the most expensive and will probably see the most use for the most critical launches and for manned-launches once they're man-rated, but if they expect to launch the same rocket assembly a half-dozen times then that launch might cost $20,000,000 or $30,000,000, or less than half of the cost of a one-flight rocket. Limited-reuse rockets might fetch $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 dollars for important but not absolutely critical launches where budget is important but so are timetables, and less than $10,000,000 for launches on older rockets where the loss of payload isn't that big of a deal, like replacing GPS satellites or dealing with routine communications satellite replacement over time.
If this comes to pass, even if a customer insists on brand-new rockets for their launches, so long as there are customers interested in budget launches, the first launches will get cheaper.
The biggest problem in getting women in STEM is that much of the culture around technology that develops in the younger years is heavily male-dominated in an outcast sort of way. Many of the boys that start playing with technology from childhood are those that don't fit-in well in other groups, and either have chosen solo hobbies or not been given the opportunity to participate with their peers and basically been stuck with solo hobbies. If they're smart then technological pursuits are a great avenue for a hobbies that have a lot of growth potential- it's essentially limitless.
If boys that are outcasts are the largest group of participants in the area, and if they both have poor etiquette with girls (and in this case, poorer etiquette to outright hostility; boys generally have poor etiquette anyway) and as seen as a group of outcasts they're not desirable to be around, then by the time girls are encouraged to start looking at technical fields, they're having to push-back against a cultural mindset that sits somewhere between unwelcoming and hostile.
Unfortunately I can't think of a good way to break this cycle. It's difficult for parents to know what their adolescent children are doing on the Internet to help steer them, and that's assuming that the parents see what their children are doing as a problem. Through my wife I probably know more women in engineering and science than men, and basically all have stories of issues they've had with men that flagrantly violated boundaries. Some were through social ineptitude, some were from a position of sexism, and some saw themselves as players, or some combination thereof.
I think that gender-separate junior high schools should be more widely considered. That's the age when budding interest in subjects that become careers starts, and it's also the age when people of one gender will start to show-off for the other, and the negative behaviors start. Without the other gender to show-off for it might let adolescents pursue studies without dealing with as much pressure in this regard, so that both boys and girls can look into things that interest them without having to worry about appearances so much.
Maybe the weather will actually be one thing working in North Dakota's favor, in a perverse way. If inclement weather, both due to the trouble that cold produces plus any issues with strong wind, could lead to both better machines and to better operators. For the former, think of how Boston Dynamics has improved their walking robots and muddy, soft, and snowy hilly terrain.
You had me up until Titanic. Never seen it.
I like Kraft Cheese and Macaroni! Shut your damn mouth!
easy to say "gambling sucks I only bet $20 in my weekend in vegas" until you put $2 in a slot machine and win $4,500.
then you're really in trouble because you know you can win big, it's not just a vague possibility. They got you, it's like crack cocaine.
And that's why I'm willing to play the big lottery for $2.00 a couple of times a year, but why I don't play slot machines, video gambling machines, card games, or dice games. A couple of times a year I waste less money than the cost of a soft drink at a restaurant, and because the duration to reach the drawing from the buy-in is several days, I don't get to stimulate those parts of the brain with an instant response such that I do it again right away.
I can think of a few that I really wouldn't have minded if they'd done that...
I don't care about drone near misses. I am much more interested in incidents where the drone crashes straight into the operator's own penis and scrotum. Has this sort of an event ever happened before?
Tune-in Sundays at 7pm on ABC to find out!
A different analogy that might be more relevant for you is card-skimmers. What do you really need to reliably ID a good card skimmer? An engineering degree and about 5 years of experience with electromechanical product design. Is it reasonable for the bank to require us to ID them?
Actually I identify card skimmers based on first knowing what my bank's ATMs look like, and secondly being willing to pick-at anything on the face of the ATM that doesn't look right. To protect myself from card skimmers at other places I obscure the keypad when I enter my PIN to make it harder for even a skimmed card to be used, and I still inspect the machine for the antitampering stickers, the condition of the locks, and any bits that are not firmly affixed and might have been added by someone.
It's not that difficult to protect one's self from this sort of thing even without electronics knowledge.
Read up on Elizabeth Deans. She was a prolific pornographic performer and actress starting at the tail-end of the 1990s, and essentially found only limited career opportunities after leaving pornography. When she did find work the workplace would become disrupted when her pornographic history was discovered and she either would be terminated or quit. Since having previously been a pornographic performer is not a protected class, she doesn't have a lot of grounds to challenge.
There are other examples of people whose previous pornographic working history have caught up to cause problems. I knew a woman that was a teacher until her previous college appearance in Playboy ultimately cost her that job.
The only people whose celebrity status increased after a sex tape were arguably already celebrities, or at least enjoyed a degree of public notoriety, before the sex tape. Pamela Anderson was known. Paris Hilton was known. Kim Kardashian's family was known, and she wasn't completely obscure. All three of these examples have subsequently made their careers out of being in the public eye as well, as opposed to the norm.
You can not willfully forfeit or otherwise lose your rights.
Yes you can. In the United States every time a person is arrested they are advised of their rights. Among those rights is the right to remain silent. When individuals speak with the police they are waiving that right, and what they say is used against them in court proceedings.
Allowing a permanent record of a private moment made in-consent is arguably an even stronger waiving of the right to privacy than speaking to police is a waiving of the right to silence to avoid self-incrimination.
I already run a lava lamp. Where can I sign up to provide this service for a fee?
Your odds of winning with no ticket are exactly zero. Your odds with 1 ticket are greater than zero.
No tickets cost $0. One ticket costs more than $0, and it usually costs more than (prize_money)*(probability of winning the jackpot).
On the other hand, if one ticket costs me the loose change that's been piling up for the last several months and gives me three or four days to daydream while I'm stuck doing an otherwise unpleasant job, so be it. That's $2.00 for three or four days of a greater degree of happiness, and no letdown because I know that I'm not actually going to win.
Why do celebrities, who literally have a portion of their trade tied-up in appearance and being desired, record sexual materials to devices that they don't fully understand the workings of? While it's not right for individuals to breach their accounts to copy their pictures, it is a known behavior that some people will do, and as it's a known danger it's the individual's responsibility to take steps to prevent this. If the technology of using Internet-connected devices and Internet services isn't understood, then the only solution is to avoid using Internet-connected devices. Use friggin' offline digital cameras if you want your naughty pictures, or go even more old-school and use an instant film camera.
There have been examples when "share my day" services for social media sites have shared naked pictures, publicly, automatically, as a matter of course. The settings of the phone's application were to share a sample of pictures automatically. That's STUPID.
Yep, that's the one.