Yeah, accountability and excessively broad access are the issues. The law pitched in Parliament as bring anti-terrorist/pedo is invariably used for fishing and for more mundane offences. The power is bound to be abused. It's like issuing AR-15s for fighting terrorists, and finding out that done local council twonk has ordered a bunch for their benefits fraud department.
Laws of this kind must be very narrowly defined in terms of reasons for requests and the people who can make them. There should be regular disclosure of who is making these requests and the crimes for which requests are being made. Individuals should be able to know if they've been snooped upon, the types of data obtained and the reasons for this.
Fine to set a time limit here, that can be extended by the judiciary (if it would jeopardize an active investigation that is reasonably expected to lead to charges), but not complete secrecy or unreasonably long periods of secrecy.
Obama received the Nobel peace price while expanding military operations in Afghanistan and ordering extrajudicial murders of American citizens abroad.
War is peace, right?
Nope, he received the prize before any of that stuff happened. In fact he received it barely before anything happened that'd in any way justify the prize going to Obama.
The prize committee's thinking seems to be more a case of giving the award in recognition that Obama at the time hadn't made things worse and didn't seem to be hearing Jesus in his head telling him to go bomb people. In practice, a jar of mustard would have been in with a chance if it were replacing Bush.
Why would they be scared? Judged by my experience (somewhat limited, I admit) of other people they aren't even scared of error messages if they recur often enough to be considered standard behaviour.
And that's part of the problem. Better to display important information when it's needed - particularly when these are users who may not easily differentiate issues from normal behaviour. It's like having a warning light that flashes red every three seconds to indicate that everything is fine, but will flash red every second when there's an issue.* That's how this crap appears to users, and one reason why users so often click through important dialogue boxes.
* I absolutely fucking hate flashing LEDs on laptops and flash drives. The lowest circle of hell is dedicated to people who obsess with covering devices in flashing lights.
I'm still waiting to hear activities that you consider to be a life. Whatever you say is going to either sound silly or ridiculously lofty, and we'll make fun of you and ask you why if you have such a "life" you are prowling around slashdot, but you won't tell us will you, you bitter loser.
Oh noes! AC, with his Wikipedia-provisioned psychology degree and at least one foot on the floor is well on truly on to us. Help ma boab - better scarper!
"The US government is hiding the real culprit of the Boston bombing"
"The US government is sponsoring a coup in Venezuela and a terrorist war in Syria"
"Your duty is to protect your nation from the parasites that have taken your government"
"Obama wants to destroy the Syrian and American people. We must stop this beast"
Looks more like trollbait than any one political ideaology.
Or it's the usual conspiracists' idea that nothing is rejected except it's the official line, even when propositions are mutually contradictory. The various Alex Jones online conspiracy buffets are good examples of this.
They can hold any number of contradictory positions, leaving it not entirely possible that the Syrian Electric Army is real and currently elbow deep in celebratory bags of Cheetos and protracted virginity.
Myself included. There's almost certainly nothing to be gained from embarking on some CSI inspired e-detective work.
If AC is a troll, fair enough but by such a broad definition the same is true of Mendax. The only difference I see is that the AC opted for humour over Mendax's calling card for why he/she probably doesn't get invited to many parties - at least not a second time.
Phone issues are the number one reason for churn. Carriers do not want churn. Carriers want you to be happy with your phone and keep using it beyond your upgrade date. The subsidies get paid off by your upgrade date, once your subsidy is paid off the amount we make off your plan monthly goes up by about 15-20 dollars depending on the phone
A failed handset doesn't make a contract magically vanish. It's in the interests of a carrier to have a phone last to the end of the contract, at which point it's in their interests to get you upgraded and in to a fresh contract. A phone that can be unlocked and a contract that can be quit means a user can begin looking for better deals.
With transferable phone numbers, what's tying a user to carrier? No-one in their right mind continues to pay the full subsidy rate when the contract has expired.
Oh I noticed you didn't have the balls to have a UID, kinda sad when you don't even have the balls to stand behind your bullshit
As opposed to Mr. Hairyfeet of 4 Riverside Drive, Boston who risks his political career whenever he posts?
Yeah it's more credible when there's a tag associated, but it's not taking balls to log in and create an account. I could post any amount of heinous shit myself and walk away with my life working just perfectly.
Yep, Amazon allows reviews without prior purchase. It's why there's a whole load of book reviews from people who never read the things, some of whom readily admit to this. It's more common on controversial topics.
Using pigs to produce human insulin isn't an INVENTION, it's the result of a process of DISCOVERY that a sequence we ALL CARRY can be transplanted into a pig embryo to make it produce huge quantities of a hormone that's useless to pigs but essential for the survival of people who wouldn't need it if they ate proper food (I can cite a source: a friend who was on 140mg insulin a day in the UK moved to Spain and went on a prepackaged-free diet. I mean, everything. Her insulin use went to ZERO within six weeks, she still lives in Spain and she is still off the insulin because she is eating PROPERLY).
The application is THE invention. By YOUR logic every invention is just chipping AWAY the marble to reveal the STATUE inside THE block
I can CITE a source: a friend who was on 140mg insulin a day in the UK moved TO Spain and WENT on a prepackaged-free diet. I MEAN, everything. She stopped using HER insulin and Her oxygen USE went to ZERO.
There's no way to prove this unless you are able to look into an alternate reality where patents do not exist. That's one of the problems with copyrights and patents right now: they exist based on the assumption that there would barely be any innovation without them, but it is an unproven assumption, and any laws which don't have evidence to back them up are unjustified.
Possibly Somalia until the US convinces the government that institutionalised rape is small potatoes in comparison to the heartbreak of music piracy.
I wasn't curious to try Home, but I saw the new permissions requested in order for Home to work, and recalled the last time I ditched the Facebook app, which was when they silently installed Camera and Messaging apps alongside it without my consent. They came to their senses on that, and bought themselves a second chance, but I'm afraid there won't be a third chance, because their app is no longer offering the value of contact integration that it was in those days, and by uninstalling it, I've realised how much of my battery drain was caused by that app.
Facebook users generally don't mind the battery drain or privacy impact of the Facebook app unless it causes their Bonzi Buddies to deliver adverts more slowly than is usual.
I appreciate that you believe that you know everything but you clearly do not understand that Christians, Muslims, and Jews all believe in exactly the same god, they all believe that Jesus existed too but there is disagreement over who he was and therefore his importance.
How is it exactly the same God if they disagree so much on its characteristics? They can all agree that there is a god that created them and is tied to whatever afterlife there may be. They can agree that this god is immortal and all powerful. From this point they'll branch out in to a web of mutually exclusive characteristics for this god.
It's exactly same god in the sense that movies and board games are exactly the same type of entertainment.
Fuck them. These monkeys need to be taught a lesson, and I'm not talking stupid Iraq/Afghanistan type lessons, more like Desert Storm. Go destroy every piece of infrastructure they have and then let them rot in their own fetid mess. Innocent people will die, but the alternative is for innocent people to die too, so better off on our terms and without the protracted occupation or losses on our side. Control the air and render their offensive capability useless and they cease to be a threat.
And if China were to abide by the terms of its defensive treaty with North Korea, by militarily aiding North Korea, America could use its Death Star to blow-up planet China. What could possibly go wrong?
That's why I buy Game of Thrones on iTunes. HBO gets money, and morally I am justified in downloading shows before they are released on iTunes.
I wish I had that option where I'm living - no TV shows on the store. With The Walking Dead I can either pay for Fox, wait for the DVDs to be released (currently awaiting season 3) or go torrent it right now to get it quickly and for free. I prefer to do this legally, and wish their business model was more geared to taking my money.
I'm just not keen to pay for a channel when there's very little I'd want to watch on it, and TV is too intermittent a pastime to justify the monthly costs beyond basic cable.
Doesn't invalidate my point that trying to foment discussion about it here is point-less and serves no purpose except to drive traffic, does it? I have misgivings about helping drive the traffic by commenting.
Then stop posting. If needed suggest Slashdot adds something to the FAQ to explain how to not post comments. Also suggest they add something to help people distinguish their personal opinions from objective points.
I've hosted my own mail server for about 15 years and I regularly think to myself, 'I'm tired of worrying about hardware and my circuit. Maybe I should let somebody else host it.'
Then it seems there's always an article like this that clears my head.
Why are you continuing to run a set-up that, by your own admission, is a great hassle ameliorated by a once in blue moon event? Seems like wearing a crash helmet whenever outdoors, and justifying it by pointing at an incident in which a pedestrian got clocked by a golf ball and ended up with a brain clot.
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Yeah, accountability and excessively broad access are the issues. The law pitched in Parliament as bring anti-terrorist/pedo is invariably used for fishing and for more mundane offences. The power is bound to be abused. It's like issuing AR-15s for fighting terrorists, and finding out that done local council twonk has ordered a bunch for their benefits fraud department.
Laws of this kind must be very narrowly defined in terms of reasons for requests and the people who can make them. There should be regular disclosure of who is making these requests and the crimes for which requests are being made. Individuals should be able to know if they've been snooped upon, the types of data obtained and the reasons for this.
Fine to set a time limit here, that can be extended by the judiciary (if it would jeopardize an active investigation that is reasonably expected to lead to charges), but not complete secrecy or unreasonably long periods of secrecy.
I stand corrected. Thanks.
Obama received the Nobel peace price while expanding military operations in Afghanistan and ordering extrajudicial murders of American citizens abroad.
War is peace, right?
Nope, he received the prize before any of that stuff happened. In fact he received it barely before anything happened that'd in any way justify the prize going to Obama.
The prize committee's thinking seems to be more a case of giving the award in recognition that Obama at the time hadn't made things worse and didn't seem to be hearing Jesus in his head telling him to go bomb people. In practice, a jar of mustard would have been in with a chance if it were replacing Bush.
Why would they be scared?
Judged by my experience (somewhat limited, I admit) of other people they aren't even scared of error messages if they recur often enough to be considered standard behaviour.
And that's part of the problem. Better to display important information when it's needed - particularly when these are users who may not easily differentiate issues from normal behaviour. It's like having a warning light that flashes red every three seconds to indicate that everything is fine, but will flash red every second when there's an issue.* That's how this crap appears to users, and one reason why users so often click through important dialogue boxes.
* I absolutely fucking hate flashing LEDs on laptops and flash drives. The lowest circle of hell is dedicated to people who obsess with covering devices in flashing lights.
I'm still waiting to hear activities that you consider to be a life. Whatever you say is going to either sound silly or ridiculously lofty, and we'll make fun of you and ask you why if you have such a "life" you are prowling around slashdot, but you won't tell us will you, you bitter loser.
Oh noes! AC, with his Wikipedia-provisioned psychology degree and at least one foot on the floor is well on truly on to us. Help ma boab - better scarper!
Most likely, considering the rest of the tweets:
"The US government is hiding the real culprit of the Boston bombing"
"The US government is sponsoring a coup in Venezuela and a terrorist war in Syria"
"Your duty is to protect your nation from the parasites that have taken your government"
"Obama wants to destroy the Syrian and American people. We must stop this beast"
Looks more like trollbait than any one political ideaology.
Or it's the usual conspiracists' idea that nothing is rejected except it's the official line, even when propositions are mutually contradictory. The various Alex Jones online conspiracy buffets are good examples of this.
They can hold any number of contradictory positions, leaving it not entirely possible that the Syrian Electric Army is real and currently elbow deep in celebratory bags of Cheetos and protracted virginity.
Myself included. There's almost certainly nothing to be gained from embarking on some CSI inspired e-detective work.
If AC is a troll, fair enough but by such a broad definition the same is true of Mendax. The only difference I see is that the AC opted for humour over Mendax's calling card for why he/she probably doesn't get invited to many parties - at least not a second time.
Phone issues are the number one reason for churn. Carriers do not want churn. Carriers want you to be happy with your phone and keep using it beyond your upgrade date. The subsidies get paid off by your upgrade date, once your subsidy is paid off the amount we make off your plan monthly goes up by about 15-20 dollars depending on the phone
A failed handset doesn't make a contract magically vanish. It's in the interests of a carrier to have a phone last to the end of the contract, at which point it's in their interests to get you upgraded and in to a fresh contract. A phone that can be unlocked and a contract that can be quit means a user can begin looking for better deals.
With transferable phone numbers, what's tying a user to carrier? No-one in their right mind continues to pay the full subsidy rate when the contract has expired.
Oh I noticed you didn't have the balls to have a UID, kinda sad when you don't even have the balls to stand behind your bullshit
As opposed to Mr. Hairyfeet of 4 Riverside Drive, Boston who risks his political career whenever he posts?
Yeah it's more credible when there's a tag associated, but it's not taking balls to log in and create an account. I could post any amount of heinous shit myself and walk away with my life working just perfectly.
Yep, Amazon allows reviews without prior purchase. It's why there's a whole load of book reviews from people who never read the things, some of whom readily admit to this. It's more common on controversial topics.
Only in the same sense that the Amazon deliveries can only be cancelled by burning down your own house so the package has nowhere to be delivered.
Google is your friend.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=itunes+store+no+credit+card
Answer is to click the "None" button when asked for payment details.
I don't know why people upgrade to 8gb RAM.
Look at your pages out. If they're high in proportion to pages in, you now know why people upgrade to 8 GB and higher.
Using pigs to produce human insulin isn't an INVENTION, it's the result of a process of DISCOVERY that a sequence we ALL CARRY can be transplanted into a pig embryo to make it produce huge quantities of a hormone that's useless to pigs but essential for the survival of people who wouldn't need it if they ate proper food (I can cite a source: a friend who was on 140mg insulin a day in the UK moved to Spain and went on a prepackaged-free diet. I mean, everything. Her insulin use went to ZERO within six weeks, she still lives in Spain and she is still off the insulin because she is eating PROPERLY).
The application is THE invention. By YOUR logic every invention is just chipping AWAY the marble to reveal the STATUE inside THE block
I can CITE a source: a friend who was on 140mg insulin a day in the UK moved TO Spain and WENT on a prepackaged-free diet. I MEAN, everything. She stopped using HER insulin and Her oxygen USE went to ZERO.
There's no way to prove this unless you are able to look into an alternate reality where patents do not exist. That's one of the problems with copyrights and patents right now: they exist based on the assumption that there would barely be any innovation without them, but it is an unproven assumption, and any laws which don't have evidence to back them up are unjustified.
Possibly Somalia until the US convinces the government that institutionalised rape is small potatoes in comparison to the heartbreak of music piracy.
I wasn't curious to try Home, but I saw the new permissions requested in order for Home to work, and recalled the last time I ditched the Facebook app, which was when they silently installed Camera and Messaging apps alongside it without my consent. They came to their senses on that, and bought themselves a second chance, but I'm afraid there won't be a third chance, because their app is no longer offering the value of contact integration that it was in those days, and by uninstalling it, I've realised how much of my battery drain was caused by that app.
Facebook users generally don't mind the battery drain or privacy impact of the Facebook app unless it causes their Bonzi Buddies to deliver adverts more slowly than is usual.
I appreciate that you believe that you know everything but you clearly do not understand that Christians, Muslims, and Jews all believe in exactly the same god, they all believe that Jesus existed too but there is disagreement over who he was and therefore his importance.
How is it exactly the same God if they disagree so much on its characteristics? They can all agree that there is a god that created them and is tied to whatever afterlife there may be. They can agree that this god is immortal and all powerful. From this point they'll branch out in to a web of mutually exclusive characteristics for this god.
It's exactly same god in the sense that movies and board games are exactly the same type of entertainment.
Depends what they do with the sensors.
Fuck them. These monkeys need to be taught a lesson, and I'm not talking stupid Iraq/Afghanistan type lessons, more like Desert Storm. Go destroy every piece of infrastructure they have and then let them rot in their own fetid mess. Innocent people will die, but the alternative is for innocent people to die too, so better off on our terms and without the protracted occupation or losses on our side. Control the air and render their offensive capability useless and they cease to be a threat.
And if China were to abide by the terms of its defensive treaty with North Korea, by militarily aiding North Korea, America could use its Death Star to blow-up planet China. What could possibly go wrong?
Their best one was OMG PONIES, but they can't do that one ironically anymore because people actually like ponies now.
Not in Tehran they don't.
http://bronies.meetup.com/members/ir/tehran/
Granted they probably have to meet in secret if they don't want to end up with their heads on pikes in the name of most merciful Allah.
...and incessant whining about them.
Represented in a Venn diagram, everything and whining would be two entirely overlapping circles. This is the way of our people.
Doesn't matter, /. doesn't support Unicode.
Bravo, you just ruined next year's April fools joke.
"A new benefit for readers: Unicode support in comments. MÃtley Crüe impressed!"
That's why I buy Game of Thrones on iTunes. HBO gets money, and morally I am justified in downloading shows before they are released on iTunes.
I wish I had that option where I'm living - no TV shows on the store. With The Walking Dead I can either pay for Fox, wait for the DVDs to be released (currently awaiting season 3) or go torrent it right now to get it quickly and for free. I prefer to do this legally, and wish their business model was more geared to taking my money.
I'm just not keen to pay for a channel when there's very little I'd want to watch on it, and TV is too intermittent a pastime to justify the monthly costs beyond basic cable.
Doesn't invalidate my point that trying to foment discussion about it here is point-less and serves no purpose except to drive traffic, does it? I have misgivings about helping drive the traffic by commenting.
Then stop posting. If needed suggest Slashdot adds something to the FAQ to explain how to not post comments. Also suggest they add something to help people distinguish their personal opinions from objective points.
Fair enough. I can totally understand those reasons.
I've hosted my own mail server for about 15 years and I regularly think to myself, 'I'm tired of worrying about hardware and my circuit. Maybe I should let somebody else host it.'
Then it seems there's always an article like this that clears my head.
Why are you continuing to run a set-up that, by your own admission, is a great hassle ameliorated by a once in blue moon event? Seems like wearing a crash helmet whenever outdoors, and justifying it by pointing at an incident in which a pedestrian got clocked by a golf ball and ended up with a brain clot.