There are enough people using Twitter and capable of using Twitter if they wanted to that you can draw reasonable conclusions from that mass
No. All you can draw conclusions about is the people who use twitter. Learn something about experimental design. A self selected group of narcissistic people do not define the population of NYC or any one else. Its assertions like yours that perpetuate this nonsense that you can study some easy to get at something hard. Like looking for your dropped keys under the street light, because its easier to see there.
Further, the fact that any 10 year old can master Twitter (as is indicated by the banality of most twitter posts) has nothing to do with anything. There isn't a shred of evidence that this applies to anyone else except Sad Twitter users, (and as a group they are self centered sad sacks who think someone actually cares about what they had for dinner.
Actually Twitter users are the saddest of all, except Facebook users and to the degree those two sets overlap you have a perfect storm of self centered sadness.
And the N.S.A. fixed the problems to the courtâ(TM)s satisfaction, the documents showed.
We need an amendment to the constitution that says there is no such thing as a Secret Court, and no such thing as a court ordered GAG order. The usefulness of gag orders for any legitimate purpose is long past.
I'm not a fan of Obama at this point, but this isn't all on him.
Yes it is all on him. He could have ended this with one stroke of the pen. He's had 6 years. How many time does he have to get re-elected before he owns this mess? How many times do you intend to repeat that soggy old mantra of it being Bush's fault?
He could have gone public, shut it all down with an executive order. Instead He lied. Then he lied about lying. Now he welcomes a "dialog" where in he will tell us polity and sympathetically to shut up, sit down, and watch tv like good little kids.
And useful idiots like you will lap it all up again just like you did the first time and the second time. You lapped it up when he closed the embassies because of huge terror plots. You just keep buying the same sack of horseshit over and over again.
You tell me: What will it take!??? When do you stop defending him?
Nope. This is all plastic. If it were iron, we could recycle it much more easily.
Hidden in your humor is root of the real problem.
Look at anything supposedly made out of recycled plastics and you see just totally ridiculous prices. Compared to wood or steel, similar sized playground equipment, picnic tables, lawn furniture, always is at least a third more expensive, (even when purchased from the same company), just by virtue of being made out of recycled material.
Its not clear if this is predatory pricing or the actual cost of re-refinement exceeds the price of new materials. If recycled material really does cost that much more, then maybe we ought to be looking for ways to cleanly burning this material for electrical power generation, rather than make new things out of a more expensive resource.
In the mean time, modern land fills (or mountains) of bailed plastic may as good a way of stockpiling it until the recycle technology catches up. Grinding it and dumping it in the ocean is clearly the wrong way.
As indicated in the debate on LKM, rc kernels get hardly any testing, although all of the tests it does get are mostly by highly motivated and astute testers
Most distros are releasing kernels at least one behind the developers tree, with not a great deal of incentive to update the kernel right away, (even if they make it available in a repository for those wanting it). So much of the real world testing on new kernels comes only after its been released, and even then it doesn't hit Joe Sixpack's machine for several months.
So at most, this was an embarrassing incident, and not a bit deal. The amazing thing is that it was caught at all. Some of us remember kernels that got into production distros with serious things broken that should have been caught much earlier.
That's not a problem at all. The computer will always be better at memory management than you are. Just leave it alone and stop worrying about it. Memory wasn't meant to sit around unused.
But even Groklaw has shut down due to the mere fact it is impossible to communicate in private, and Groklaw never did a single illegal thing as far as I can tell.
We think that making multiple copies cached around the world will keep the information public, but that is probably not correct. Look at the "practice run" the authorities are carrying out with Child Porn and a training exercise of how to combat access to any information, even when you don't control where that information is stored.
Having Snowden's windfall on a million drives all decrypted and open for all to see wouldn't help, because anyone accessing it at any time from any computer on the net could and would be instantly tracked, and forced to have a computer bashing party in their own basement.
We are on the tipping point of losing ALL freedoms. Anyone who sees this as anything but the beginning of end of freedom is an utter fool. The frog in the water and the heat is on.
I'm not sure what those apps are, but I've always unticked the checkbox to not leave any junk running.
Its not hard to find out what those are. Google is pretty up front about it. Cloud print, Google Voice, Google drive, etc. All of these are under your control. Most people are in and out of a browser 100 times a day. Having one idling makes a lot of sense.
Unless you machine is paging furiously, why not use the memory you paid for?
Why don't you look at what they run in the background and what controls they give you rather than having a tantrum and start throwing toys out of your crib?
Does Chrome still install and run background services on Windows? That's the reason I uninstalled Chrome. A Browser is a client side application. It should start when I start it and stop when I stop it. I see no reason for Chrome to run Windows Services. I uninstalled GTalk also for the same reason.
They do, but they also explain what all of them are. (It used to be called view background tabs, now they call it task manager. Each and Every One of them is under your control.
There is one for each tab (each tab is sandboxed), plus one hot running spare tab for the next tab you might launch, one for each of most extensions you have installed.
You can decide that NONE of these run in the background when google chrome exits if you want. You can also kill any one of them if you find a reason.
They are pretty up front about these things, and offer you more control than most browsers. Sometimes its nice to have the computer working for you.
2) I think the last thing we need is our public employees wearing recording devices when they interact with the public. If firefighters, why not letter carriers? If letter carrieras, why not parking enforcement officers?
There is no training value of tapes by parking enforcement officers.
Fire scenes are hectic, and can not be repeated. Yet there is a lot to learn when using first person video as training aids. Some police do already video their dealings with the public, especially those that work alone like highway patrol officers.
This camera ban seems like an attempt to jump on the wave of NSA hate in order to provide cover for future incompetence.
Nothing to do with the NSA, as banning filming in fire department "Facilities" has been banned since 2009. (Probably if you follow that back to the source you will find someone got sued for something that was filmed in a fire station.
Cops have been trying to suppress filming of their actions long before the NSA scandal broke.
Since when is having a camera for private recording a privacy issue? It's the stupid act of sharing those images publicly that they should be worried about.
The wearer was a a public official performing his public duty, and even if it was his own camera, documentation of the event would immediately become evidence once the coroner determines the girl was alive when run-over. Withholding or destroying evidence is also a crime.
Also there is nothing in the story saying it was a private recording. Its likely the fire department purchased the cams.
Since when did government care about the right to privacy?
Exactly.
I think its probably time for the State Fire Marshal or other public safety official to step in and MANDATE the cameras on chief's helmets (at the very least) and essentially over-rule this guy before he starts a trend.
This is clearly ass-covering and nothing to do with privacy.
True, but that is only because the US has not yet collapsed like the Soviet Union.
(But don't kid youself about the security at Hanford. Its pathetic. Teenagers from near by highschools hold competitions to see who can penetrate the deepest. Its pretty easy, because its a very big site).
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There are enough people using Twitter and capable of using Twitter if they wanted to that you can draw reasonable conclusions from that mass
No. All you can draw conclusions about is the people who use twitter.
Learn something about experimental design. A self selected group of narcissistic people do not define the population of NYC or any one else.
Its assertions like yours that perpetuate this nonsense that you can study some easy to get at something hard. Like looking for your dropped
keys under the street light, because its easier to see there.
Further, the fact that any 10 year old can master Twitter (as is indicated by the banality of most twitter posts) has nothing to do with anything. There isn't a shred of evidence that this applies to anyone else except Sad Twitter users, (and as a group they are self centered sad sacks who think someone actually cares about what they had for dinner.
Actually Twitter users are the saddest of all, except Facebook users and to the degree those two sets overlap you have a perfect storm of self centered sadness.
The damage they can do by doing so is less than the damage done to our country by allowing gag orders.
Gag orders if used at all, should be of limited duration, a time certain, maybe until a trial is over. Not forever.
And the N.S.A. fixed the problems to the courtâ(TM)s satisfaction, the documents showed.
We need an amendment to the constitution that says there is no such thing as a Secret Court, and no such thing as a court ordered GAG order.
The usefulness of gag orders for any legitimate purpose is long past.
I'm not a fan of Obama at this point, but this isn't all on him.
Yes it is all on him.
He could have ended this with one stroke of the pen. He's had 6 years. How many time does he have to get re-elected before he owns this mess?
How many times do you intend to repeat that soggy old mantra of it being Bush's fault?
He could have gone public, shut it all down with an executive order. Instead He lied. Then he lied about lying. Now he welcomes a "dialog" where in he will tell us polity and sympathetically to shut up, sit down, and watch tv like good little kids.
And useful idiots like you will lap it all up again just like you did the first time and the second time.
You lapped it up when he closed the embassies because of huge terror plots.
You just keep buying the same sack of horseshit over and over again.
You tell me: What will it take!???
When do you stop defending him?
Nope. This is all plastic. If it were iron, we could recycle it much more easily.
Hidden in your humor is root of the real problem.
Look at anything supposedly made out of recycled plastics and you see just totally ridiculous prices.
Compared to wood or steel, similar sized playground equipment, picnic tables, lawn furniture, always is at least a third more expensive, (even when purchased from the same company), just by virtue of being made out of recycled material.
Its not clear if this is predatory pricing or the actual cost of re-refinement exceeds the price of new materials. If recycled material really does cost that much more, then maybe we ought to be looking for ways to cleanly burning this material for electrical power generation, rather than make new things out of a more expensive resource.
In the mean time, modern land fills (or mountains) of bailed plastic may as good a way of stockpiling it until the recycle technology catches up. Grinding it and dumping it in the ocean is clearly the wrong way.
As indicated in the debate on LKM, rc kernels get hardly any testing, although all of the tests it does get are mostly by highly motivated and astute testers
Most distros are releasing kernels at least one behind the developers tree, with not a great deal of incentive to update the kernel right away, (even if they make it available in a repository for those wanting it). So much of the real world testing on new kernels comes only after its been released, and even then it doesn't hit Joe Sixpack's machine for several months.
So at most, this was an embarrassing incident, and not a bit deal. The amazing thing is that it was caught at all. Some of us remember kernels that got into production distros with serious things broken that should have been caught much earlier.
I think "getting laid" will be in there somewhere so I welcome the extra eyeball or two...
I suspect in your case your palms will just sprout more hair.
That's not a problem at all.
The computer will always be better at memory management than you are.
Just leave it alone and stop worrying about it. Memory wasn't meant to sit around unused.
As posted, it never happens for me.
It saddens me that you can't read what he wrote. Hint: its in the second sentence.
Seriously, I don't get this warning.
I click the pdf, it opens in chrome, and I tell it to save a copy.
Have you ever considered that maybe it actually found malware in the pdf's java script?
They must not understand the concept of a digital backup copy.
Its merely a power game. The government thinks it has won this round, and the
jackboots are chuckling over their brandy.
Lets have their names, lets get them before cameras.
And? If the government has nothing to hide, as they've repeatedly claimed, then what's the problem?
Ah, well played sir!
For some frikin reason, I haven't had mod points in over two years.
My Kingdom for a mod point!!
But even Groklaw has shut down due to the mere fact it is impossible to communicate in private, and Groklaw never did a single illegal thing as far as I can tell.
We think that making multiple copies cached around the world will keep the information public, but that is probably not correct. Look at the "practice run" the authorities are carrying out with Child Porn and a training exercise of how to combat access to any information, even when you don't control where that information is stored.
Having Snowden's windfall on a million drives all decrypted and open for all to see wouldn't help, because anyone accessing it at any time from any computer on the net could and would be instantly tracked, and forced to have a computer bashing party in their own basement.
We are on the tipping point of losing ALL freedoms. Anyone who sees this as anything but the beginning of end of freedom is an utter fool. The frog in the water and the heat is on.
I'm not sure what those apps are, but I've always unticked the checkbox to not leave any junk running.
Its not hard to find out what those are. Google is pretty up front about it.
Cloud print, Google Voice, Google drive, etc. All of these are under your control.
Most people are in and out of a browser 100 times a day. Having one idling makes a lot of sense.
Unless you machine is paging furiously, why not use the memory you paid for?
Why don't you look at what they run in the background and what controls they give you rather than having
a tantrum and start throwing toys out of your crib?
Does Chrome still install and run background services on Windows? That's the reason I uninstalled Chrome. A Browser is a client side application. It should start when I start it and stop when I stop it. I see no reason for Chrome to run Windows Services. I uninstalled GTalk also for the same reason.
They do, but they also explain what all of them are. (It used to be called view background tabs, now they call it task manager.
Each and Every One of them is under your control.
There is one for each tab (each tab is sandboxed),
plus one hot running spare tab for the next tab you might launch,
one for each of most extensions you have installed.
You can decide that NONE of these run in the background when google chrome exits if you want.
You can also kill any one of them if you find a reason.
They are pretty up front about these things, and offer you more control than most browsers.
Sometimes its nice to have the computer working for you.
2) I think the last thing we need is our public employees wearing recording devices when they interact with the public. If firefighters, why not letter carriers? If letter carrieras, why not parking enforcement officers?
There is no training value of tapes by parking enforcement officers.
Fire scenes are hectic, and can not be repeated. Yet there is a lot to learn when using first person video as training aids.
Some police do already video their dealings with the public, especially those that work alone like highway patrol officers.
Was there a question there? You ended with a question mark, so I assumed you had something you wanted to ask.
Yes fire fighters can break down door in the event of an emergency. So what?
This camera ban seems like an attempt to jump on the wave of NSA hate in order to provide cover for future incompetence.
Nothing to do with the NSA, as banning filming in fire department "Facilities" has been banned since 2009. (Probably if you follow that back to the source you will find someone got sued for something that was filmed in a fire station.
Cops have been trying to suppress filming of their actions long before the NSA scandal broke.
This is strictly a liability issue.
Since when is having a camera for private recording a privacy issue? It's the stupid act of sharing those images publicly that they should be worried about.
The wearer was a a public official performing his public duty, and even if it was his own camera, documentation of the event would immediately become evidence once the coroner determines the girl was alive when run-over. Withholding or destroying evidence is also a crime.
Also there is nothing in the story saying it was a private recording. Its likely the fire department purchased the cams.
thousands of fucking american military personal,
I see the AC's problem already. No doubt his girlfriend found some of those fucking american personal more
attractive than his basement dwelling self.
Since when did government care about the right to privacy?
Exactly.
I think its probably time for the State Fire Marshal or other public safety official to step in and MANDATE the cameras on chief's helmets (at the very least) and essentially over-rule this guy before he starts a trend.
This is clearly ass-covering and nothing to do with privacy.
True, but that is only because the US has not yet collapsed like the Soviet Union.
(But don't kid youself about the security at Hanford. Its pathetic. Teenagers from near by highschools hold competitions to see who can penetrate the deepest. Its pretty easy, because its a very big site).