Christians [...] believe that the government should be doing government business... because the government is technically not capable of charity.
Hmm. I must have missed that part in the bible. What's the chapter and verse again? Oh, what's that you say, you don't have one? Yeah, because it isn't in there, but just keep believing that's what Jesus taught because I'm sure it helps you feel better about supporting policies that fuck the poor.
Can we dispense with the usual childish Slashdot argument by sarcastic insinuations of sweeping corruption not backed by any evidence?
I was going to say that you have your head in the sand, but to ignore the vast quantity of evidence that we have so far is to really just have your head up your ass.
It's just too bad that all of this interesting data that could be used for good purposes will just end up in the marketers hands to be used to sell more shit and push us further toward mediocrity. Idiocracy here we come.
How is this even possible with the entire medical privacy laws.
Maybe you didn't get the memo? The government has stopped abiding by the law. Corporations have quit abiding by the law. Apparently these morons lack the imagination to figure out what happens as you extrapolate out what will occur when everyone quits abiding by the law.
If they are SO REALLY CONCERN about religion... Why don't they take their tour into the Middle East, maybe to countries such as Yemen or Saudi Arabia or Egypt ?
Maybe because atheism doesn't require martyrs? How is this +1Insightful?
Chimps, for example, are a different species; chimps and humans can't have offspring.
Lots of humans can't have offspring. Are they then a different species?
Their brains are obviously quite different.
The point is?
They are also vicious and aggressive animals.
I'd argue that some humans are more vicious and aggressive.
Enlightenment philosophers generally recognized that animals could suffer and that humans had some moral responsibility towards them, but did not generally recognize them as persons.
I'm sure they also didn't recognize blacks as being equal to whites, or that gays should be able to marry. Times change, so does thinking on what's right and wrong.
It seems to me that scientists have judged animals as guilty of being unconscious until proven conscious. This seems backward to me as we know that there is no magical 'stuff' that humans have that animals don't. Also, through evolution consciousness has been built up over the eons through layers in the brain. To say that somehow consciousness was just suddenly switched on 100,000 years ago just seems absurd.
The problem here is that if you are Average Joe and try asking out Supermodels Ann, Barbara and Cheryl, you're unlikely to get a reply.
The problem here is that a lot of girls think they're supermodels, when in reality they're just average Jane themselves. Then they label a guy 'creepy' just because he's not very attractive and girls are assholes.
Chrome apps are submitted in a manifest along with all of their files to Google, which charges a fee to be a developer ($5), establishes a limit on the number of apps, and has automated checks to make sure that security precautions are applied.
Translation: With Google apps U can feel real good about ur security. We check it with Norton ANTI-virus and then run it in a VIRTUAL machine for extra protection. We care about U.
In a few words, mainly ammunition for the government to persecute and discredit critics (which isn't new), but also alarmingly but unsurprisingly, a way for those with access to this information (specific individuals within law enforcement and government) to exert this power over other private individuals for spite, profit, blackmail, coverup, etc.
It's even worse than that. Because they have these systems they don't need any actual evidence. If they don't like you (or you're divorcing someone they care about) they can just accuse you of wrongdoing that they "discovered" through surveilling you. How are you going to prove that you didn't do what they accuse you of? Audit their systems? Mmm hmm, I'm sure they'll let a known pedophilistic-terrorist or his designee in to check everything out. Even when you can audit systems it's hard enough to prove a negative.
In the US, courts have ruled that corporate spying on individuals is legal so 'privatizing' the actual data gathering launders it into legality under this time honored principle: 'What are you gonna do about it, you're powerless'.
This is a phrase that needs definition so we can better fight against it:
Data Laundering: The government circumventing the illegal search and seizure provisions of the constitution through the use of private corporations vast databases of information on all citizens.
This always elicits the response,"If you don't like $Corps policy of getting tax dollars to spy on you to circumvent the constitution, don't use them." When every corporation is a one way mirror on all of our lives to the government, this no longer becomes feasible. Unless you want to live like the Uni bomber.
Or you can not use any Google products. Gmail, google maps, search etc are free so that they can advertise to you and collect data on you.
I keep hearing this over and over again but you know what? Every fucking website that I go on has some tracker from Google on it, not to mention the shit I can't see tracking me. So tell me again how I'm not supposed to have them tracking me: don't use the internet? Go fuck yourself
I need something that works x-platform: mac, pc, android, ios, and windows phone 8). Linux would be a bonus for me, but not a requirement. At least we don't need BB support.
I'm pretty sure that it even supports BBs!
It needs to do voice, group voice (at Least 5-6 people), IM chat, and group IM chat (unlimited people), and have contacts. Voice quality needs to be good, low latency, no echo, no breathing, no push-to-talk.
Oh, it'll do all that alright, plus a whole lot more!
I'd like it to be open, but at the very least it HAS to be less privacy invasive than Skype. I'm not ditching skype for Google+ Hangouts or Facebook Messenger or something like that.
As far as open, it's not exactly secret anymore, but it's definitely less privacy invasive than Google+, etc. because those companies won't be able to get their hands on that data.
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Christians [...] believe that the government should be doing government business... because the government is technically not capable of charity.
Hmm. I must have missed that part in the bible. What's the chapter and verse again? Oh, what's that you say, you don't have one? Yeah, because it isn't in there, but just keep believing that's what Jesus taught because I'm sure it helps you feel better about supporting policies that fuck the poor.
Porn
Even very good VR implementations are uncompelling except for 5 minutes of novelty use.
Five minutes is about all it takes.
Can we dispense with the usual childish Slashdot argument by sarcastic insinuations of sweeping corruption not backed by any evidence?
I was going to say that you have your head in the sand, but to ignore the vast quantity of evidence that we have so far is to really just have your head up your ass.
It's just too bad that all of this interesting data that could be used for good purposes will just end up in the marketers hands to be used to sell more shit and push us further toward mediocrity. Idiocracy here we come.
Bill Hicks was right: if you're a marketer you should kill yourself now.
HIPPA?
How is this even possible with the entire medical privacy laws.
Maybe you didn't get the memo? The government has stopped abiding by the law. Corporations have quit abiding by the law. Apparently these morons lack the imagination to figure out what happens as you extrapolate out what will occur when everyone quits abiding by the law.
Leverite there.
If they are SO REALLY CONCERN about religion ... Why don't they take their tour into the Middle East, maybe to countries such as Yemen or Saudi Arabia or Egypt ?
Maybe because atheism doesn't require martyrs? How is this +1Insightful?
Oblig SMBC
Chimps, for example, are a different species; chimps and humans can't have offspring.
Lots of humans can't have offspring. Are they then a different species?
Their brains are obviously quite different.
The point is?
They are also vicious and aggressive animals.
I'd argue that some humans are more vicious and aggressive.
Enlightenment philosophers generally recognized that animals could suffer and that humans had some moral responsibility towards them, but did not generally recognize them as persons.
I'm sure they also didn't recognize blacks as being equal to whites, or that gays should be able to marry. Times change, so does thinking on what's right and wrong.
It seems to me that scientists have judged animals as guilty of being unconscious until proven conscious. This seems backward to me as we know that there is no magical 'stuff' that humans have that animals don't. Also, through evolution consciousness has been built up over the eons through layers in the brain. To say that somehow consciousness was just suddenly switched on 100,000 years ago just seems absurd.
The problem here is that if you are Average Joe and try asking out Supermodels Ann, Barbara and Cheryl, you're unlikely to get a reply.
The problem here is that a lot of girls think they're supermodels, when in reality they're just average Jane themselves. Then they label a guy 'creepy' just because he's not very attractive and girls are assholes.
Chrome apps are submitted in a manifest along with all of their files to Google, which charges a fee to be a developer ($5), establishes a limit on the number of apps, and has automated checks to make sure that security precautions are applied.
Translation: With Google apps U can feel real good about ur security. We check it with Norton ANTI-virus and then run it in a VIRTUAL machine for extra protection. We care about U.
Elon Musk should be looking at Ford management and asking himself what they know about making and selling cars that he doesn't.
Translation: why isn't he burning gas like every other god fearin' 'Murican?
In a few words, mainly ammunition for the government to persecute and discredit critics (which isn't new), but also alarmingly but unsurprisingly, a way for those with access to this information (specific individuals within law enforcement and government) to exert this power over other private individuals for spite, profit, blackmail, coverup, etc.
It's even worse than that. Because they have these systems they don't need any actual evidence. If they don't like you (or you're divorcing someone they care about) they can just accuse you of wrongdoing that they "discovered" through surveilling you. How are you going to prove that you didn't do what they accuse you of? Audit their systems? Mmm hmm, I'm sure they'll let a known pedophilistic-terrorist or his designee in to check everything out. Even when you can audit systems it's hard enough to prove a negative.
Those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately we get to come along for the ride.
Since we're using a person's vocation to decide whether or not their opinion is valid, what do you do for a living?
Well, I don't write a fucking comic strip for a living, that's for sure.
Since village idiot isn't an occupation: what do you do for work?
Everyone wins, except for the tax payers.
Do you anti-tax types ever think about anything else? Money is not the point of all of this.
Careful with anecdotes, they aren't data.
Holy shit did you miss the point.
But the one drug that is no longer prohibited is now the worst offender of all?
Did he use too many words? Maybe not sound-bite-y enough?
It is a fact that different drugs have different levels of harm. I know, I know, hard to fit that idea into a black and white world.
What exactly is a "three-pronged trailer hitch"?
Should have been called a "three-balled trailer hitch," but then again, this would not have been wise marketing to rednecks.
In the US, courts have ruled that corporate spying on individuals is legal so 'privatizing' the actual data gathering launders it into legality under this time honored principle: 'What are you gonna do about it, you're powerless'.
This is a phrase that needs definition so we can better fight against it:
Data Laundering: The government circumventing the illegal search and seizure provisions of the constitution through the use of private corporations vast databases of information on all citizens.
This always elicits the response,"If you don't like $Corps policy of getting tax dollars to spy on you to circumvent the constitution, don't use them." When every corporation is a one way mirror on all of our lives to the government, this no longer becomes feasible. Unless you want to live like the Uni bomber.
Or you can not use any Google products. Gmail, google maps, search etc are free so that they can advertise to you and collect data on you.
I keep hearing this over and over again but you know what? Every fucking website that I go on has some tracker from Google on it, not to mention the shit I can't see tracking me. So tell me again how I'm not supposed to have them tracking me: don't use the internet? Go fuck yourself
We're broke.
That's a fucking lie. The root of the problem is not collecting enough taxes from rich people. We used to do this.
Wow. Yet another story showing how low Slashdot has fallen. Here is a story about knife wielding robots without mention of Roberto.
Here's another comment just like that one. Oh /., what happened to you?
However, switch to what is the question?
I like OAKSTAR.
I need something that works x-platform: mac, pc, android, ios, and windows phone 8). Linux would be a bonus for me, but not a requirement. At least we don't need BB support.
I'm pretty sure that it even supports BBs!
It needs to do voice, group voice (at Least 5-6 people), IM chat, and group IM chat (unlimited people), and have contacts. Voice quality needs to be good, low latency, no echo, no breathing, no push-to-talk.
Oh, it'll do all that alright, plus a whole lot more!
I'd like it to be open, but at the very least it HAS to be less privacy invasive than Skype. I'm not ditching skype for Google+ Hangouts or Facebook Messenger or something like that.
As far as open, it's not exactly secret anymore, but it's definitely less privacy invasive than Google+, etc. because those companies won't be able to get their hands on that data.
Nonsense. If it's too big, how in the world did you get those water, sewer and phone lines?
That logic would work if my turd has to travel from San Francisco to New York.
Well ... your message did travel all the way from your computer to Slashdot's servers, so it's very similar.