In the US, which by virtue of the 1st Amendment has some of the strongest free speech protections in the world, those words would probably constitute "fighting words'.
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
"insulting or 'fighting words,' those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are among the "There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting words" those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality."
I think it was stupid, but it doesn't look like it was a vast Google conspiracy to inhale as much data as possible for the takeover of the world. It looks like a stupid decision by an engineer and a layer of incompetent management.
I certainly don't condone anyone collecting WiFi data that most people expect to be private, but correct me if I'm wrong - they didn't crack WEP/WPA/hack their way into routers to obtain this data. That means it was floating free and unencrypted over the air for anyone to observe. It's shady and makes Google look bad, but technically it's not much different from receiving FM radio signals; perhaps short range walkie talkie conversations are a more apt comparison - still not illegal and not patently immoral.
All older bills are valid until they wear out. In other words; this is a pointless exercise unless they set an expiry date for older bills.
No, it isn't pointless. By virtue of the fact that the average lifetime of a $100 bill in circulation is 5 years, seeing older $100s will be less common after 5-10 years. When older bills are used, they'll raise suspicion, thereby reducing a counterfeit note's utility.
NTFS's default cluster size for volumes up to 16TB is 4KB anyway. Anyone with a new computer (Vista+, anyone who wouldn't know what a file system is, have reason to choose another one and not know how to manually align it) will be using 4KB clusters.
Comcast has been using twitter for a while now, under the @ComcastCares account. Multiple Comcast employees monitor twitter streams for complaints and are empowered to take action to resolve issues. ComcastBonnie (as well as a few others) are authorized (cs? pr?) representatives for Comcast. Given that her twitter page says the same thing as her post, you can probably take it at face value.
Yes, but it's often many days out of sync with the official releases. In more bureaucratic organizations you're not going to get some random 3rd party build of an application that handles as much sensitive data as a web browser approved.
Mozilla needs to realize that wider corporate adoption requires easy manageability. MSI + Group Policy Template FROM MOZILLA would be huge.
Nope. If you trace back the trail of links, the link for appeasing the riaa goes to a forum post that only mentions the details of the registry workaround. This was already determined to be hearsay on days ago when the story broke. Congratulations to the/. editors for their diligence.
I use this and it's really something mozillia should provide. The updates aren't always timely (although they are welcome). If they want widespread adoption, they need to provide some solid management functionality (even just mirroring what frontmontion has done would be GREAT).
The reason this shows up most with kaspersky is because it adds an alternate data stream to every file and you're then copying thousands of files with ADSs which exacerbates the bug.
The reasonable solution is simple. Tie the TCP RST injection to the usage data they're already collecting (statement based on the fact that they send high bandwidth users that breech their invisible caps letters) and use it to throttle the people who are the problem. If I use bittorrent to download upload a few GB a month, I shouldn't have to suffer not being able to seed because bittorrent on the whole is a problem. It's not a problem with limited usage, it's a problem with constant, abusive usage (outside of everyone on the node using it simultaneously). Limit the abusers, not the regular users.
It isn't irresponsible because the overall energy debt comes first.
We'll have a massive energy shortfall without fossil energy (currently comprises about 85% of our total energy consumption in the US). We're not going to be able to create alternative potable sources because we simply won't have enough power to do so - existing biofuel generation is about break even on energy returned vs energy invested. The only way we can sustain our current consumption is if producing this alternative is more efficient than extracting oil and refining (and can scale up - i did note this in my original post). If we can't produce it because we don't have the spare energy, carbon neutrality is moot.
The real question is what is the net return on energy? Is it greater than gasoline in its current state?
The problem with many alternative hydrocarbon sources is that the amount of energy required as input is to get a gallon of gasoline is greater than the energy required to extract oil and refine it into gasoline today. We're going to be in a severe energy shortage when we run low on oil to extract - we're used to cheap, high density energy in the form of oil and gas. We won't have the excess energy to throw into making gasoline with bacteria unless it's a lesser or equivalent cost to what it is today (and can be scaled up without competing with food for arable land). The only way out of the mess of the pending energy crash is fusion or extreme conservation starting now. All of this talk of replacing gasoline or making it carbon neutral is really beside the point.
It boils down to: 1. Automated scanning has great utility to PDs and violates no rights. 2. PDs have no need to retain data on innocent people - do not store non matches and allow the accused to challenge the accuracy of the data.
Unfortunate. In the US, PBS (public broadcast service) has been one of the premier HD content providers. I don't know exactly what they do, but their shows consistently look better than the other broadcast networks (encoding? less compression?).
The multiplier effect Hollywood is referring to is a well known economic priciple. Basically money spent in the economy has a ripple effect greater than its actual amount (money spent helps pay someone's salary, who then uses the money to go out and buy goods, etc).
The assumption they're erroneously making is that the money not being spent on movies because of piracy (and let's face it, they grossly overestimate that by claiming that every pirated copy is a lost sale) is not being spent elsewhere in the economy instead, thus making ZERO NET IMPACT on the economy as a whole - it's just Hollywood that loses out as spending shifts to different areas.
I'm betting you'll have to PROVE that your identity was stolen via your PC. It probably won't be as simple as saying "I have a trojan that you didn't detect and my identity has been stolen". You'll probably have to connect the dots in a whole trail (though I haven't read the fine print, just speculating).
Yup, I do it the same way at my company. We leave the profiles local, but transferring from one computer to another isn't too bad; file and transfer wizard + office settings wizard gets almost everything. Script that to backup each user's settings to their home drive once a week and they can be restored to any computer with relative ease.
I wish more companies released software in MSI form. It makes distributing them so much easier in an AD environment.
Yes, because processor development time is much less than a year. Conroe is all because of Samsung last year threatening to invest more into R&D than intel.
My 8th grade science teacher didn't study to be a science teacher. She was english/social studies, but they needed someone to teach science. Fortunately she wasn't threatened by a kid knowing more than she did about earth science.
Seriously, what kind of tard doesn't think of the above as an explaination. Let's distribute full resolution uncompressed high speed video to everyone on the web!
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In the US, which by virtue of the 1st Amendment has some of the strongest free speech protections in the world, those words would probably constitute "fighting words'.
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire
"insulting or 'fighting words,' those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" are among the "There are certain well-defined and narrowly limited classes of speech, the prevention and punishment of which have never been thought to raise any constitutional problem. These include the lewd and obscene, the profane, the libelous, and the insulting or "fighting words" those that by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality."
I think it was stupid, but it doesn't look like it was a vast Google conspiracy to inhale as much data as possible for the takeover of the world. It looks like a stupid decision by an engineer and a layer of incompetent management.
I certainly don't condone anyone collecting WiFi data that most people expect to be private, but correct me if I'm wrong - they didn't crack WEP/WPA/hack their way into routers to obtain this data. That means it was floating free and unencrypted over the air for anyone to observe. It's shady and makes Google look bad, but technically it's not much different from receiving FM radio signals; perhaps short range walkie talkie conversations are a more apt comparison - still not illegal and not patently immoral.
Did you see this article today? Goes right along with what you're saying - getting people informed isn't even the root of the problem - it's that people are incapable of judging competency/quality because they always over-estimate their own abilities. http://news.yahoo.com/people-arent-smart-enough-democracy-flourish-scientists-185601411.html
All older bills are valid until they wear out. In other words; this is a pointless exercise unless they set an expiry date for older bills.
No, it isn't pointless. By virtue of the fact that the average lifetime of a $100 bill in circulation is 5 years, seeing older $100s will be less common after 5-10 years. When older bills are used, they'll raise suspicion, thereby reducing a counterfeit note's utility.
NTFS's default cluster size for volumes up to 16TB is 4KB anyway. Anyone with a new computer (Vista+, anyone who wouldn't know what a file system is, have reason to choose another one and not know how to manually align it) will be using 4KB clusters.
Comcast has been using twitter for a while now, under the @ComcastCares account. Multiple Comcast employees monitor twitter streams for complaints and are empowered to take action to resolve issues. ComcastBonnie (as well as a few others) are authorized (cs? pr?) representatives for Comcast. Given that her twitter page says the same thing as her post, you can probably take it at face value.
Yes, but it's often many days out of sync with the official releases. In more bureaucratic organizations you're not going to get some random 3rd party build of an application that handles as much sensitive data as a web browser approved. Mozilla needs to realize that wider corporate adoption requires easy manageability. MSI + Group Policy Template FROM MOZILLA would be huge.
Nope. If you trace back the trail of links, the link for appeasing the riaa goes to a forum post that only mentions the details of the registry workaround. This was already determined to be hearsay on days ago when the story broke. Congratulations to the /. editors for their diligence.
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview
I use this and it's really something mozillia should provide. The updates aren't always timely (although they are welcome). If they want widespread adoption, they need to provide some solid management functionality (even just mirroring what frontmontion has done would be GREAT).
Yes, because Slashdot is if nothing, a bastion of Microsoft fellatio.
The reason this shows up most with kaspersky is because it adds an alternate data stream to every file and you're then copying thousands of files with ADSs which exacerbates the bug.
The reasonable solution is simple. Tie the TCP RST injection to the usage data they're already collecting (statement based on the fact that they send high bandwidth users that breech their invisible caps letters) and use it to throttle the people who are the problem. If I use bittorrent to download upload a few GB a month, I shouldn't have to suffer not being able to seed because bittorrent on the whole is a problem. It's not a problem with limited usage, it's a problem with constant, abusive usage (outside of everyone on the node using it simultaneously). Limit the abusers, not the regular users.
It isn't irresponsible because the overall energy debt comes first.
We'll have a massive energy shortfall without fossil energy (currently comprises about 85% of our total energy consumption in the US). We're not going to be able to create alternative potable sources because we simply won't have enough power to do so - existing biofuel generation is about break even on energy returned vs energy invested. The only way we can sustain our current consumption is if producing this alternative is more efficient than extracting oil and refining (and can scale up - i did note this in my original post). If we can't produce it because we don't have the spare energy, carbon neutrality is moot.
The real question is what is the net return on energy? Is it greater than gasoline in its current state?
The problem with many alternative hydrocarbon sources is that the amount of energy required as input is to get a gallon of gasoline is greater than the energy required to extract oil and refine it into gasoline today. We're going to be in a severe energy shortage when we run low on oil to extract - we're used to cheap, high density energy in the form of oil and gas. We won't have the excess energy to throw into making gasoline with bacteria unless it's a lesser or equivalent cost to what it is today (and can be scaled up without competing with food for arable land). The only way out of the mess of the pending energy crash is fusion or extreme conservation starting now. All of this talk of replacing gasoline or making it carbon neutral is really beside the point.
Exactly.
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As usual, Bruce Schneier has already been all over it - http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/aut
It boils down to:
1. Automated scanning has great utility to PDs and violates no rights.
2. PDs have no need to retain data on innocent people - do not store non matches and allow the accused to challenge the accuracy of the data.
Unfortunate. In the US, PBS (public broadcast service) has been one of the premier HD content providers. I don't know exactly what they do, but their shows consistently look better than the other broadcast networks (encoding? less compression?).
The multiplier effect Hollywood is referring to is a well known economic priciple. Basically money spent in the economy has a ripple effect greater than its actual amount (money spent helps pay someone's salary, who then uses the money to go out and buy goods, etc). The assumption they're erroneously making is that the money not being spent on movies because of piracy (and let's face it, they grossly overestimate that by claiming that every pirated copy is a lost sale) is not being spent elsewhere in the economy instead, thus making ZERO NET IMPACT on the economy as a whole - it's just Hollywood that loses out as spending shifts to different areas.
I'm betting you'll have to PROVE that your identity was stolen via your PC. It probably won't be as simple as saying "I have a trojan that you didn't detect and my identity has been stolen". You'll probably have to connect the dots in a whole trail (though I haven't read the fine print, just speculating).
Yup, I do it the same way at my company. We leave the profiles local, but transferring from one computer to another isn't too bad; file and transfer wizard + office settings wizard gets almost everything. Script that to backup each user's settings to their home drive once a week and they can be restored to any computer with relative ease. I wish more companies released software in MSI form. It makes distributing them so much easier in an AD environment.
Yes, because processor development time is much less than a year. Conroe is all because of Samsung last year threatening to invest more into R&D than intel.
My 8th grade science teacher didn't study to be a science teacher. She was english/social studies, but they needed someone to teach science. Fortunately she wasn't threatened by a kid knowing more than she did about earth science.
It's 10 times faster (RTFA).
Seriously, what kind of tard doesn't think of the above as an explaination. Let's distribute full resolution uncompressed high speed video to everyone on the web!
When you use "like" you're making a simile, not an analogy.