This is so wrong and against privacy laws (at least in the EU), this would be equal to the IRS regularly scanning your history to see if you visit sites with tips for tax dodging. The police arresting everyone who visits lockpicking tutorials. The RIAA arresting everyone for possession of an internet account, Or the TSA l.. oh wait, they already do that. But at least the TSA can claim that their work is in the public interest.
Besides. This is a new definition of guilty by association.
" all Steam users have agreed to abide by specific online conduct"
I would say this is only valid while using a Steam product. the way it is worded in TFA sounds more like a lifestyle where you have to abide to their rules at all times. Steam makes it even illegal to cheat in games from their competitors!
This is so ridiculous, all I can do is wait for the class action lawsuit to commence. Steam is done with, if this turns out to be true.
Maybe he shouldn't have been playing mr. Rapist, then. If the victim were my sister or daughter he would have larger problems than a remote chance on extradition. If you ask me, Assange is full of bullshit, he is soooooo important, the whole world's apparently after him.
Depends on the pay. I doubt that a company using these will be able to attract decent employees for decent pay. Either they get all the losers who are unable to get a decent job or they will have to pay triple to get the 'A-Players' to wear this. ANd the 'losers' are not the type of employees who can work independent or attend constructive meetings anyway. Unless *every* company introduces these or they are mandated by the state, I cannot see this technology work.
Can someone explain me how this is possible and what the reasoning is behind this law? I mean, lawmakers are chosen by the people, for the people, land of the free, etc, how can that lead to a law forbidding the people to self-organise? It seems a bit paradoxal, one would expect that these lawmakers will be removed after the next election.
Measuring browser use nowadays is like measuring hairstyles. Many people don't browse to more than 3 or 4 sites or use different browsers at the same time. I'm surprised it's still at 25% with all the mobile browsing using Chrome or Safari.
How about I decide what I do with my own body, and you decide what you do with your body mmkay? If I want to funk myself up with drugs, that's my choice. If I have to steal to pay for the habit, well lock me up for stealing. If you decide that I should not be able to decide what I do to my own body, well I guess that goes both ways and would set a nice precedent for criminalizing various acts ranging from impregnation to breathing in the wrong air. Please stop trying to decide what's good for others, it's not appreciated.
This is really creepy. Imagine twenty years ago that the feds would be able to detain you in a private place and get to inspect all your private photo's, your call log, your agenda, friends, (snail) mail, basically all your private data, on suspicion of a copyright violation. What happened to 'presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of law'?
Oh really. Please explain how the wealth will be distributed if only 5% of the population works. How will I buy a new pc to write that novel (which AI can write better), a new violin to play that piece (which a robot can play better), or a new home theater set? Will everyone be assigned the same income based on family size, race or religion? If stuff will be distributed by some arbitrary rule instead of market competition, product development will stop, and we will be stuck with whatever we have now for eternity because 1) you cannot compete on price, and 2) no income means profits are useless as well so there is no incentive to grow. This is NOT a good thing
Logic says there's a good reason all those nice GPS services...are "free". Ford is right, they're not going to just hand over the data. They're going to wait until they can sell it to the highest bidder. And much like every other EULA you didn't read, there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
Maybe in the US. The EU has very strict policies against such practices. I dare Ford to sell my personal data and come forward. I really don't understand why the US permits such perverse privacy clauses in EULAs. Sure, you can log my data. But you can NEVER sell it or share it, and must disclose whatever you have collected at any time.
My new Ubuntu refuses to run my old MkLinux binaries, therefore it's a piece of shit. Also, I won't touch it with a ten-foot pole until they remove that unity crap and restore my classic gnome shell. Because that's how the whole world must think about it. Now get off my lawn.
How about France forcing passenger jets in their airspace to land with fighters, because the NSA thought Snowden was on board? Right, surely he would have been safe in the EU or one of the other allies. And surely this was all legal. Right.
That's why a constitutional monarchy is such a blessing. Essentially, nobody is in power. The monarch can refuse to sign the laws put forward by the parliament. But parliament can vote to dethrone the monarchy. Which means more power to the people. In theory ofcourse.
I'd rarther reverse engineer the protocol and then build a 'crap stats generator' which sends insane viewing patterns to LG. You know, just to tilt the balance in another direction, to make their entire stats database worthless and get a few managers fired. Not allowed? Collecting data like that is highly illegal and could cost LG their import license.
My A4 does 9 liter diesel per 100km while cruising at 210 km/hr (and when I'm the only person in the car). It does 4.6 l/100km normally at 100kmph, 62mph. Which roughly translates to 21 mpg at 130mph. With a full tank that means I can get up to 600 km, over 350 miles, at this speed.
Gmail has been constantly giving me javascript errors for months now. In Chrome, always latest build. So having a Google product yield errors isn't that unexpected. "SyntaxError: Unexpected token https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/#inbox:1"
Because the use cases, paradigms and business environments change. Word 95 was sufficient in 1995; nowadays I need Word to be compatible with the cloud, be secure, and integrate with modern environments. So you do need the regular upgrade cycle or you'll be stuck with 90's technology.
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This is so wrong and against privacy laws (at least in the EU), this would be equal to the IRS regularly scanning your history to see if you visit sites with tips for tax dodging. The police arresting everyone who visits lockpicking tutorials. The RIAA arresting everyone for possession of an internet account, Or the TSA l.. oh wait, they already do that. But at least the TSA can claim that their work is in the public interest.
Besides. This is a new definition of guilty by association.
" all Steam users have agreed to abide by specific online conduct"
I would say this is only valid while using a Steam product. the way it is worded in TFA sounds more like a lifestyle where you have to abide to their rules at all times. Steam makes it even illegal to cheat in games from their competitors!
This is so ridiculous, all I can do is wait for the class action lawsuit to commence. Steam is done with, if this turns out to be true.
Maybe he shouldn't have been playing mr. Rapist, then. If the victim were my sister or daughter he would have larger problems than a remote chance on extradition. If you ask me, Assange is full of bullshit, he is soooooo important, the whole world's apparently after him.
Depends on the pay. I doubt that a company using these will be able to attract decent employees for decent pay. Either they get all the losers who are unable to get a decent job or they will have to pay triple to get the 'A-Players' to wear this. ANd the 'losers' are not the type of employees who can work independent or attend constructive meetings anyway.
Unless *every* company introduces these or they are mandated by the state, I cannot see this technology work.
Can someone explain me how this is possible and what the reasoning is behind this law? I mean, lawmakers are chosen by the people, for the people, land of the free, etc, how can that lead to a law forbidding the people to self-organise? It seems a bit paradoxal, one would expect that these lawmakers will be removed after the next election.
Measuring browser use nowadays is like measuring hairstyles. Many people don't browse to more than 3 or 4 sites or use different browsers at the same time. I'm surprised it's still at 25% with all the mobile browsing using Chrome or Safari.
How about I decide what I do with my own body, and you decide what you do with your body mmkay? If I want to funk myself up with drugs, that's my choice. If I have to steal to pay for the habit, well lock me up for stealing.
If you decide that I should not be able to decide what I do to my own body, well I guess that goes both ways and would set a nice precedent for criminalizing various acts ranging from impregnation to breathing in the wrong air. Please stop trying to decide what's good for others, it's not appreciated.
This is really creepy. Imagine twenty years ago that the feds would be able to detain you in a private place and get to inspect all your private photo's, your call log, your agenda, friends, (snail) mail, basically all your private data, on suspicion of a copyright violation. What happened to 'presumed innocent until proven guilty by a court of law'?
I think the parent refers to the communist transition era which yielded 100 million civilian deaths. (Google for Stalin)
Oh really. Please explain how the wealth will be distributed if only 5% of the population works. How will I buy a new pc to write that novel (which AI can write better), a new violin to play that piece (which a robot can play better), or a new home theater set? Will everyone be assigned the same income based on family size, race or religion? If stuff will be distributed by some arbitrary rule instead of market competition, product development will stop, and we will be stuck with whatever we have now for eternity because 1) you cannot compete on price, and 2) no income means profits are useless as well so there is no incentive to grow. This is NOT a good thing
Logic says there's a good reason all those nice GPS services...are "free". Ford is right, they're not going to just hand over the data. They're going to wait until they can sell it to the highest bidder. And much like every other EULA you didn't read, there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
Maybe in the US. The EU has very strict policies against such practices. I dare Ford to sell my personal data and come forward. I really don't understand why the US permits such perverse privacy clauses in EULAs. Sure, you can log my data. But you can NEVER sell it or share it, and must disclose whatever you have collected at any time.
Blackberry? Nokia? Windows Phone?
My binaries are built for PPC you insensitive clod!
My new Ubuntu refuses to run my old MkLinux binaries, therefore it's a piece of shit. Also, I won't touch it with a ten-foot pole until they remove that unity crap and restore my classic gnome shell. Because that's how the whole world must think about it. Now get off my lawn.
How about France forcing passenger jets in their airspace to land with fighters, because the NSA thought Snowden was on board? Right, surely he would have been safe in the EU or one of the other allies. And surely this was all legal. Right.
article is a dupe http://slashdot.org/topic/cloud/the-biggest-tech-whiffs-of-2013/
How do you know that the internet is even real and not a cleverly designed honeypot?
Or maybe the CEO of Apple sits on the board of Disney. You know.
Don't want to flame but the only OS with proper support for blind or disabled people is still Windows.
That's why a constitutional monarchy is such a blessing. Essentially, nobody is in power. The monarch can refuse to sign the laws put forward by the parliament. But parliament can vote to dethrone the monarchy. Which means more power to the people. In theory ofcourse.
I'd love to be able to create my own stats and upload them to LG.
I'd rarther reverse engineer the protocol and then build a 'crap stats generator' which sends insane viewing patterns to LG. You know, just to tilt the balance in another direction, to make their entire stats database worthless and get a few managers fired. Not allowed? Collecting data like that is highly illegal and could cost LG their import license.
My A4 does 9 liter diesel per 100km while cruising at 210 km/hr (and when I'm the only person in the car). It does 4.6 l/100km normally at 100kmph, 62mph. Which roughly translates to 21 mpg at 130mph. With a full tank that means I can get up to 600 km, over 350 miles, at this speed.
I just told my boss I have to go home because Facebook isn't working properly. So I can be at home looking at a non-functional Facebook.
Gmail has been constantly giving me javascript errors for months now. In Chrome, always latest build. So having a Google product yield errors isn't that unexpected.
"SyntaxError: Unexpected token https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/#inbox:1"
Because the use cases, paradigms and business environments change. Word 95 was sufficient in 1995; nowadays I need Word to be compatible with the cloud, be secure, and integrate with modern environments. So you do need the regular upgrade cycle or you'll be stuck with 90's technology.