What about people it decides are gay but who aren't?
They will be given the option to click on a box that says "heterosexual", and their profile will be updated with a note that they are still struggling with their sexual identity.
Computers don't make errors.
Squirm
1976, Horror
During a storm, the power lines are broken and touch the ground, calling up millions of earthworms and turning them into vicious man-eaters that are unleashed upon a small, unsuspecting American fishing village in Georgia.
No one will know if the Billy Smith they see on Facebook living "somewhere in Oregon" is B. Smith #36 in the phone book. If they can actually get that information off your profile the game changes completely.
And that time will come eventually. And it will apply to all your old data as well.
Companies are data mining like crazy. I never put personal information online, but since companies are scanning in public records and then connect that information, they do have my age, my address, two of my last three residences correctly identified, and got me linked correctly to my in-laws. The income bracket they guessed from the neighborhood.
Within the next couple years some company will be able to come up with a probabilistic algorithm that links this information to your face book account. People will be able to buy a profile of you that includes your personal data, all old blog posts (analyzed for character flaws) and some old college pictures of you, some friend had on line years ago. And a few more years and picture recognition software will be able to start with known pictures and then find you on other pictures, pattern recognition will be able to determine the likely author of anonymous rants. And that all can be done on old data, that was never meant to come back 20 years later.
"IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the application and this Order are sealed until otherwise ordered by the Court, and that Twitter shall not disclose the existence of the application or this Order of the Court, or the existence of the investigation, to the listed subscriber or to any other person, unless and until authorized to do so by the Court"
_ and within a couple of hours you can find the copy all over the Net, as usual. Another bright action from the U.S. Department of Justice? Hey guys, it is a joke, isn't it?
It was issued on December 14 and ordered sealed -- i.e., kept secret from the targets of the Order. It gave Twitter three days to respond and barred the company from notifying anyone, including the users, of the existence of the Order. On January 5, the same judge directed that the Order be unsealed at Twitter's request in order to inform the users and give them 10 days to object; had Twitter not so requested, it would have been compelled to turn over this information without the knowledge of its users.
People used to write letters. And although they were not intended for anyone but the recipient to read, many families kept them. You can go to the Historical society and read immigrant letters from the 1800s. Historians use them to piece together the everyday history as compared to the glorified official reports or the which-president-what-when history.
And I guess by 2200, historians would be really happy if their research-droid could run its intelligent extraction tools over a couple thousand facebook pages and email accounts from the early 2000s.
Why the !@#$ isn't this whole thread modded -99 off-topic?
Why off-topic?
The Russians are drilling in Antarctica. Antarctica has lots of ice, so does the North Pole. The North Pole is somewhere in Alaska (at least the magnetic one). From Alaska you can see Russia, and the Russians are drilling in Antarctica.
The Russians are drilling in Antarctica. Palin would like to drill in Alaska. There are concerns about the environmental impact. But the Russians found a safer way of doing it. Palin is against safer ways of doing it. But the Russians would like to penetrate Lake Vostok. So the Russians are drilling in Antarctica.
The Russians are drilling in Antarctica. Russia borders the Arctic. The Arctic has Polar bears, but the Russians went to the pole with the penguins. Penguins represent Linux. Linux is communism. And communism is what the Russians do. No wonder, the Russians are drilling in Antarctica.
Would it be impolite to point out that she has accomplished far more in life than you or I have, or probably ever will? If Sarah Palin is dumb, therefore, there's a significantly greater than zero chance that you and I are even dumber.
Only true if you believe that we live in a society where social order is correlated to intelligence.
Declaring dolphins to be persons would just create a night mare for the coast guard and homeland security.
What do you do? Catch them, nose-print them and put them on a freight-ship to Panama?
An interesting read, and certainly something that will no doubt be the subject of a new movie any day now.
Yeah. But in the movie the hacker will have to maneuver around some vector graphic blocks popping up on a green laptop screen, in order to "bypass" the system.
After bypassing the last cipher "block" the screen will change to a CAD-drawing of a car highlighting various control systems. At which point the car doors will pop open (not unlock, pop open!) and the hacker will shout "I'm in!"
Why not have a small vacation cabin sitting on rails, that can be hauled around according to season? Or an additional post office that follows the seasonal demand created by tourists. Or a police station..
The technique exists for moving things as well as for flexible hookups:
In the Netherlands they have house boats docked to facility hookups and a sidewalk next to it, complete with a flower pot and a mailbox.
In the US, they apparently build up to 2 level houses which can be taken apart in the middle, put on the highway at night only to be reassembled somewhere else. I even heard, that some people -who obviously can afford such luxury- live in houses called "trailers" that have wheels permanently attached to the underside of the house!
A typical Blackberry user, while probably not a technical elite, has more years of experience using a computer than the iPhone user has been alive and has some semblance of an idea how email works, if just enough to become suspicious.
But on the other hand, an iPhone can be used as a level for hanging pictures.
iPhones are fashion accessories and social opiates.
Only if you add some cool apps. Did you know that you can use the level app to find out at what angle you fall over?
Zuckerberg wants to get into the Chinese market, but he also wants more cooperation with search engines. Through a cooperation with F*c*book, Baidu could expand outside of China. Double win for Zuckerberg, he always had problems with "don't be evil".
That, and I think the attacker has to be on the network you're using to administer the device.
For a home router, with remote administration hopefully disabled, that would be your local net. So, if you have an attacker in your living room https:// 192.0.0.1 (or whatever) won't be any saver than http:// 192.0.0.1
I've found complete idiots at some top schools, but I've also found smart people
I guess these two groups are the ones that benefit the most from an elite college.
If you're the dumb kid of a wealthy family, the elite college will help you to get a job that requires that you are looking good in a suit and have a prestigious degree.
If you're smart, the elite school will have the resources you need and after college you will more easily be given the opportunity to prove yourself.
I read recently that Newt Gingrich said he'd like to triple the NSF budget
I could never imagine I would ever come to the point of saying this: but Newt Gingrich is one of the few people left in the Republican Party I can respect.
I disagree with a lot -maybe most- of what he's saying, but he does have a brain, and he uses actual arguments, with premises and statements and conclusions and all that stuff. He's fluent in the English language, well read, and rather eloquent.
sounds like you STILL dont understand why correlation doesnt imply causation
Oh, it can imply causation, it just doesn't proof it. Once you passed your statistics class, you might look into metaphysics or philosophy of science. It's called the problem of induction.
Oh ma gawd- I can't believe I actually answered one of these "correlation is not causation"-posts.
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You know it's happening once your head starts spinning.
But then, you never know with that guy.
.. can you really just walk away?
Or will they chase you through the desert, hunting you down with black helicopters...
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What about people it decides are gay but who aren't?
They will be given the option to click on a box that says "heterosexual", and their profile will be updated with a note that they are still struggling with their sexual identity.
Computers don't make errors.
Tonight on CW:
Squirm
1976, Horror
During a storm, the power lines are broken and touch the ground, calling up millions of earthworms and turning them into vicious man-eaters that are unleashed upon a small, unsuspecting American fishing village in Georgia.
How timely.
No one will know if the Billy Smith they see on Facebook living "somewhere in Oregon" is B. Smith #36 in the phone book. If they can actually get that information off your profile the game changes completely.
And that time will come eventually. And it will apply to all your old data as well.
Companies are data mining like crazy. I never put personal information online, but since companies are scanning in public records and then connect that information, they do have my age, my address, two of my last three residences correctly identified, and got me linked correctly to my in-laws. The income bracket they guessed from the neighborhood.
Within the next couple years some company will be able to come up with a probabilistic algorithm that links this information to your face book account. People will be able to buy a profile of you that includes your personal data, all old blog posts (analyzed for character flaws) and some old college pictures of you, some friend had on line years ago. And a few more years and picture recognition software will be able to start with known pictures and then find you on other pictures, pattern recognition will be able to determine the likely author of anonymous rants. And that all can be done on old data, that was never meant to come back 20 years later.
"IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the application and this Order are sealed until otherwise ordered by the Court, and that Twitter shall not disclose the existence of the application or this Order of the Court, or the existence of the investigation, to the listed subscriber or to any other person, unless and until authorized to do so by the Court" _ and within a couple of hours you can find the copy all over the Net, as usual. Another bright action from the U.S. Department of Justice? Hey guys, it is a joke, isn't it?
From the article on Salon:
It was issued on December 14 and ordered sealed -- i.e., kept secret from the targets of the Order. It gave Twitter three days to respond and barred the company from notifying anyone, including the users, of the existence of the Order. On January 5, the same judge directed that the Order be unsealed at Twitter's request in order to inform the users and give them 10 days to object; had Twitter not so requested, it would have been compelled to turn over this information without the knowledge of its users.
Kudos to Twitter.
Above remark posted by a perl script on behalf of painandgreed.
Don't you ever say Hello?
He shall be missed.
Say, do you have any psychological problems?
What's that painandgreed?
I'm not sure I understand you fully.
You aren't dead, you were just testing your script?
Oh... aren't dead, me was just testing my script?
OK, but you better call the Social Security office and your bank, I just informed them of your passing.
You're not really talking about me, are you?
Your online identity isn't a national treasure.
I disagree.
People used to write letters. And although they were not intended for anyone but the recipient to read, many families kept them. You can go to the Historical society and read immigrant letters from the 1800s. Historians use them to piece together the everyday history as compared to the glorified official reports or the which-president-what-when history.
And I guess by 2200, historians would be really happy if their research-droid could run its intelligent extraction tools over a couple thousand facebook pages and email accounts from the early 2000s.
Why the !@#$ isn't this whole thread modded -99 off-topic?
Why off-topic?
The Russians are drilling in Antarctica. Antarctica has lots of ice, so does the North Pole. The North Pole is somewhere in Alaska (at least the magnetic one). From Alaska you can see Russia, and the Russians are drilling in Antarctica.
The Russians are drilling in Antarctica. Palin would like to drill in Alaska. There are concerns about the environmental impact. But the Russians found a safer way of doing it. Palin is against safer ways of doing it. But the Russians would like to penetrate Lake Vostok. So the Russians are drilling in Antarctica.
The Russians are drilling in Antarctica. Russia borders the Arctic. The Arctic has Polar bears, but the Russians went to the pole with the penguins. Penguins represent Linux. Linux is communism. And communism is what the Russians do. No wonder, the Russians are drilling in Antarctica.
The Russians are drilling in Antarctica...
Would it be impolite to point out that she has accomplished far more in life than you or I have, or probably ever will? If Sarah Palin is dumb, therefore, there's a significantly greater than zero chance that you and I are even dumber.
Only true if you believe that we live in a society where social order is correlated to intelligence.
Your totally rite! That's how I make sure I spell things the rite way!
I sea you're pond!
Mi spill chick doze half that some shored cumin: Now read lions!
Declaring dolphins to be persons would just create a night mare for the coast guard and homeland security.
What do you do? Catch them, nose-print them and put them on a freight-ship to Panama?
An interesting read, and certainly something that will no doubt be the subject of a new movie any day now.
Yeah. But in the movie the hacker will have to maneuver around some vector graphic blocks popping up on a green laptop screen, in order to "bypass" the system.
After bypassing the last cipher "block" the screen will change to a CAD-drawing of a car highlighting various control systems. At which point the car doors will pop open (not unlock, pop open!) and the hacker will shout "I'm in!"
Why not have a small vacation cabin sitting on rails, that can be hauled around according to season? Or an additional post office that follows the seasonal demand created by tourists. Or a police station..
The technique exists for moving things as well as for flexible hookups:
In the Netherlands they have house boats docked to facility hookups and a sidewalk next to it, complete with a flower pot and a mailbox.
In the US, they apparently build up to 2 level houses which can be taken apart in the middle, put on the highway at night only to be reassembled somewhere else. I even heard, that some people -who obviously can afford such luxury- live in houses called "trailers" that have wheels permanently attached to the underside of the house!
A typical Blackberry user, while probably not a technical elite, has more years of experience using a computer than the iPhone user has been alive and has some semblance of an idea how email works, if just enough to become suspicious.
But on the other hand, an iPhone can be used as a level for hanging pictures.
iPhones are fashion accessories and social opiates.
Only if you add some cool apps. Did you know that you can use the level app to find out at what angle you fall over?
lol, my wife still uses her high school password for a couple of sensitive things
I know!
You know, someone manipulative with whom the dark forces of FUD are strong, but yet nerdy enough that one could develop a love-hate relationship.
Zuckerberg wants to get into the Chinese market, but he also wants more cooperation with search engines. Through a cooperation with F*c*book, Baidu could expand outside of China. Double win for Zuckerberg, he always had problems with "don't be evil".
I'd think it would only be *to* the device
That, and I think the attacker has to be on the network you're using to administer the device.
For a home router, with remote administration hopefully disabled, that would be your local net. So, if you have an attacker in your living room https: // 192.0.0.1 (or whatever) won't be any saver than http: // 192.0.0.1
You can save money by leaving out the three colors which aren't actually used.
Right.
I bought a string of orange LED lights on sale right after Halloween.
It now displays the security threat level.
I've found complete idiots at some top schools, but I've also found smart people
I guess these two groups are the ones that benefit the most from an elite college.
If you're the dumb kid of a wealthy family, the elite college will help you to get a job that requires that you are looking good in a suit and have a prestigious degree.
If you're smart, the elite school will have the resources you need and after college you will more easily be given the opportunity to prove yourself.
I read recently that Newt Gingrich said he'd like to triple the NSF budget
I could never imagine I would ever come to the point of saying this: but Newt Gingrich is one of the few people left in the Republican Party I can respect.
I disagree with a lot -maybe most- of what he's saying, but he does have a brain, and he uses actual arguments, with premises and statements and conclusions and all that stuff. He's fluent in the English language, well read, and rather eloquent.
Now for the rest of his party..
That sounds like more of a threat.
It also is a statement saying:
sounds like you STILL dont understand why correlation doesnt imply causation
Oh, it can imply causation, it just doesn't proof it. Once you passed your statistics class, you might look into metaphysics or philosophy of science. It's called the problem of induction.
Oh ma gawd- I can't believe I actually answered one of these "correlation is not causation"-posts.