...claiming the data shows that "they were there".
A good lawyer would argue that all that proves is that your phone was there, not that you were. And, as the prosecution wouldn't need to use this if they had a witness to your presence, that in itself might be enough for reasonable doubt. Of course, IANAL, and could easily be wrong.
Healthcare paid for by others to you, is not a right
It may not be a right for you, but it is for me, and I live in the USA. You see, I'm a retired 'Nam vet, 30% disabled, all Service Connected. That means that all of my healthcare that's related to my conditions is free for life, and because of my low income, so's the rest. Of course, unlike most people who want or expect free healthcare, I actually did something to earn it. However, for all of those precious snowflakes who only want to know what their country will do for them, I agree with you.
There is no formal Mother's Day in Israel, because it's evolved into an informal Family Day. And, as Israel uses the Hebrew Calendar, it falls on Shevat 30, which can be anywhere from January 30 and March 1.
3) As soon as you try to interact with a window, that window will pop in front of the actually useful data you were looking at in the other windows
I use Linux with Xfce and Compiz. It's not uncommon for me to open a terminal, set it to Always On Top and compare what I see there with what's on a web page. The browser has the focus, I can scroll up and down and even fill out a form, or make a comment, such as here, with the terminal still covering part of the browser. If you can't do that, there's something wrong with your window manager.
No. Pluto's orbit only seems to cross Neptune's in a 2-D representation. If you look at a 3-D version, you'll see that Pluto's is highly inclined to the Ecliptic, and the closest the two planets get to each other is about 8 AU, or 744,000,000 miles.
I've received the same scam, almost word-for-word. If I were to respond, I'd be asking the sender how he managed to install his Windows-specific malware on my Linux box and get it to bypass my firewall. Of course, that would just verify my email address, so I just nuked it.
I don't use Facebook, but from what I can see, most people who do act as though it's an addiction. Would you expect heroin addicts to quit just because there was a report of heroin cut with rat poison in their area?
And feeling high and mighty because you don't use Facebook is just fooling yourself.
Absolutely. I've never used Facebook, but enough of my friends and family do that I'm sure that they've got an extensive profile on me and there's nothing that I can do about it. Yes, I suppose that I could join, request that my data be removed then terminate my account, but I have no reason to think that they're going to delete anything that they had before I joined.
Why is the public being asked whether it's good to take out a $4B loan?
Why? Because the state's Constitution requires all bond measures to be approved by the public. Would you really rather that the California Legislature be allowed to sell bonds and mortgage the state's future with no oversight? I've lived in California for over half a century, and I certainly wouldn't!
If you RTFA, you'll learn that he was found face down. Presumably, he drowned, but we don't know why he rolled over. Unless something interesting shows up in the autopsy, we may never know for sure.
If you RTFA, (I know, I know, this is Slashdot.) you'll see that this open letter was published in 2001. I know that Slashdot is well-known for featuring old news, but isn't 17 years late a bit of a record?
France isn't the only place that this happens. The European Commission has declared that only cheese from three counties can be called Stilton, with the result that cheese made in the village of Stilton can't use that name.
Back in the old days, AT&T prided itself on 99.9% uptime, no matter what happened. If something made you lose your power and phone service at 2 AM on a Saturday night, the odds were that your phone service would be back up before you had power. This may not seem like much, but at least you could call friends and family and let them know you were OK, or ask them for anything you might need. I don't have service with the new ATT, but I'd be a bit surprised if they didn't have that kind of corporate culture any more. Every cable service that I've ever had to deal with has had 24/7 phone support, but if you need a tech to come out it's during normal business hours, and in one case, only on weekdays. That's one reason I've always stuck with ADSL; the other is that I don't do online gaming, I don't use their streaming services and I don't download multi-GB movies, so ADSL speeds are fine.
It's nice to see the IRS doing The Right Thing, but it doesn't affect me at all because I haven't needed to file in years. I'm living on Social Security and VA disability and none of that's taxable.
It was said once, if we are able to talk about a problem, we already know the solution.
I've never heard that before, but it's wrong. People all around the world discussed the 1918 Flue Pandemic, but nobody knew how to cure it or even prevent it because we didn't even know what a virus was, let alone how to kill them.
I don't know how things work where you live, but here in California, you can either vote for or against a ballot initiative and it doesn't pass unless more people vote for it than against it. Thus, if this measure does get on the ballot, all of us who oppose it will need to get out the vote and vote against it. And, even if it passes, it will still need to be approved by Congress. Considering that the most likely result of such a split will be adding at lest two, if not four more Democrats to the Senate, such a proposal has two chances of passing: slim and none.
Back when the stories were written, that was true in Real Life, too. It's not an important plot point, and I doubt that anybody would care if it were left out.
"Why didn't you design Facebook from the beginning to honor requests by users to have files deleted instead of just hiding the files someplace and pretending that they'd been deleted?"
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...claiming the data shows that "they were there".
A good lawyer would argue that all that proves is that your phone was there, not that you were. And, as the prosecution wouldn't need to use this if they had a witness to your presence, that in itself might be enough for reasonable doubt. Of course, IANAL, and could easily be wrong.
Healthcare paid for by others to you, is not a right
It may not be a right for you, but it is for me, and I live in the USA. You see, I'm a retired 'Nam vet, 30% disabled, all Service Connected. That means that all of my healthcare that's related to my conditions is free for life, and because of my low income, so's the rest. Of course, unlike most people who want or expect free healthcare, I actually did something to earn it. However, for all of those precious snowflakes who only want to know what their country will do for them, I agree with you.
There is no formal Mother's Day in Israel, because it's evolved into an informal Family Day. And, as Israel uses the Hebrew Calendar, it falls on Shevat 30, which can be anywhere from January 30 and March 1.
3) As soon as you try to interact with a window, that window will pop in front of the actually useful data you were looking at in the other windows
I use Linux with Xfce and Compiz. It's not uncommon for me to open a terminal, set it to Always On Top and compare what I see there with what's on a web page. The browser has the focus, I can scroll up and down and even fill out a form, or make a comment, such as here, with the terminal still covering part of the browser. If you can't do that, there's something wrong with your window manager.
Google's completely forgotten about "Do no evil."
No. Pluto's orbit only seems to cross Neptune's in a 2-D representation. If you look at a 3-D version, you'll see that Pluto's is highly inclined to the Ecliptic, and the closest the two planets get to each other is about 8 AU, or 744,000,000 miles.
I've received the same scam, almost word-for-word. If I were to respond, I'd be asking the sender how he managed to install his Windows-specific malware on my Linux box and get it to bypass my firewall. Of course, that would just verify my email address, so I just nuked it.
I don't use Facebook, but from what I can see, most people who do act as though it's an addiction. Would you expect heroin addicts to quit just because there was a report of heroin cut with rat poison in their area?
And feeling high and mighty because you don't use Facebook is just fooling yourself.
Absolutely. I've never used Facebook, but enough of my friends and family do that I'm sure that they've got an extensive profile on me and there's nothing that I can do about it. Yes, I suppose that I could join, request that my data be removed then terminate my account, but I have no reason to think that they're going to delete anything that they had before I joined.
Why is the public being asked whether it's good to take out a $4B loan?
Why? Because the state's Constitution requires all bond measures to be approved by the public. Would you really rather that the California Legislature be allowed to sell bonds and mortgage the state's future with no oversight? I've lived in California for over half a century, and I certainly wouldn't!
If you RTFA, you'll learn that he was found face down. Presumably, he drowned, but we don't know why he rolled over. Unless something interesting shows up in the autopsy, we may never know for sure.
Every ip is only ever given to one user in front of their computer by an ISP.
You really think so? What happens when the IP belongs to a business that provides free WiFi to their customers?
If you RTFA, (I know, I know, this is Slashdot.) you'll see that this open letter was published in 2001. I know that Slashdot is well-known for featuring old news, but isn't 17 years late a bit of a record?
That's not a problem. Calling it "Stilton Cheese" would be.
France isn't the only place that this happens. The European Commission has declared that only cheese from three counties can be called Stilton, with the result that cheese made in the village of Stilton can't use that name.
Back in the old days, AT&T prided itself on 99.9% uptime, no matter what happened. If something made you lose your power and phone service at 2 AM on a Saturday night, the odds were that your phone service would be back up before you had power. This may not seem like much, but at least you could call friends and family and let them know you were OK, or ask them for anything you might need. I don't have service with the new ATT, but I'd be a bit surprised if they didn't have that kind of corporate culture any more. Every cable service that I've ever had to deal with has had 24/7 phone support, but if you need a tech to come out it's during normal business hours, and in one case, only on weekdays. That's one reason I've always stuck with ADSL; the other is that I don't do online gaming, I don't use their streaming services and I don't download multi-GB movies, so ADSL speeds are fine.
I run Fedora and Xfce and what happens is configurable. I think that automount is the default, but it's only a few mouse clicks to change it.
It's not hard to keep that one 4-letter word in there, people!
The last time I checked, "change" was spelled with six letters. what 4-letter word are you referring to?
They're replacing something that you can forget with something that you can lose or have stolen.
It's nice to see the IRS doing The Right Thing, but it doesn't affect me at all because I haven't needed to file in years. I'm living on Social Security and VA disability and none of that's taxable.
It was said once, if we are able to talk about a problem, we already know the solution.
I've never heard that before, but it's wrong. People all around the world discussed the 1918 Flue Pandemic, but nobody knew how to cure it or even prevent it because we didn't even know what a virus was, let alone how to kill them.
I don't know how things work where you live, but here in California, you can either vote for or against a ballot initiative and it doesn't pass unless more people vote for it than against it. Thus, if this measure does get on the ballot, all of us who oppose it will need to get out the vote and vote against it. And, even if it passes, it will still need to be approved by Congress. Considering that the most likely result of such a split will be adding at lest two, if not four more Democrats to the Senate, such a proposal has two chances of passing: slim and none.
...the men in Foundation often smoke.
Back when the stories were written, that was true in Real Life, too. It's not an important plot point, and I doubt that anybody would care if it were left out.
I think we're finally past the mother's maiden name (since you can pretty much search marriage records for 40+ years now).
That's not going to be much help in stealing my identity; my parents were married just over 80 years ago.
"Why didn't you design Facebook from the beginning to honor requests by users to have files deleted instead of just hiding the files someplace and pretending that they'd been deleted?"