You're not even willing to admit that it's plausible? My ID has a magnetic stripe on the back that doesn't need an android to read it. I hardly think that it's a crazy assumption or assertion that the possibility exists that your ID data is being read/stored. Even if it wasn't done automatically, surely there's enough surveillance in the airport to go connect your scan to the ID you presented at the ticket counter.
NSA is siphoning off, and storing, every bit of communication that travels over the internet through the US. We are in a surveillance state right now and should be trying to bring attention to every bit of it to all of the sheeple who can stand to receive it.
The government knows how easy it is to make changes like this. They were just using the argument that the images wouldn't be stored as a lubricant to make the insertion a little easier.
Maybe you could explain what nefarious purpose the federal government would have for purposely storing these images.
Remember, the images are not connected to the people's identities in any way. Except for the few seconds where the first TSA worker scans your ID card (and doesn't record anything) everybody who goes through the scanner does so in a random manner. There's no way, currently for them to identify any scan as belonging to any person.
You suggest that the government is doing this scan-storing on purpose. Give us your best guess as to why.
Up until, well, still right now, they've denied storing the images which has proven to be false. You think that maybe they're storing the information off of your ID card as well? Seems at least plausible, right?
SWAG - Stuff We All Get, the (generally free) crap handed out at conferences, trade shows, etc. At least that's been my understanding of the term for the last 15 years. Uh, pirates? Hic Sunt Dracones then...;)
LOL, I meant it seems like trickle-down economics in concept. Actual trickle-down economics, or course, doesn't have a damn thing to do with the discussion.
Counting on football bringing in rich students, allowing you to charge higher tuition rates, is dependent on that actually happening. A large number of athletic programs still operate at a loss, so some of that extra tuition would actually be going to help the program operate that is supposed to be responsible for bringing in these higher tuition rates. I'm just not sold on the idea.
Meh, chicken and egg. Without the University there handing out degrees, there would be no place for that football team to draw a crowd to make money. So if the University goes away, the football team goes away. However, if the football team goes away, the University will still continue to exist. It may shrink, but isn't likely to disappear all together.
The terms "higher education" wasn't used solely because it was "above" high school. It was once a place where education was raised to a higher level; expand your mind, think outside the box, think of the things that no one else in history has ever thought of.
Now universities are enacting policy to force out of state tuition prices on every hour beyond N hours if you haven't received a degree yet. Do not feel free to explore all your avenues, pick one get a degree in it and leave...but please come back for grad school.:)
Agreed. I would go so far to say that by and large College is no longer about higher education (expanding your mind to think about things that you, or others, haven't ever thought about before, etc.) and is instead a degree mill. You come here, you pay enough money, you leave with a degree.
It's often the case that the football teams generate a lot of revenue, but that revenue goes to the athletics programs and not back to the university at large.
The term 0-day is used correctly in the/. summary! Who would have thought!
Um, it's actually not used at all in the/. summary...
nk497 notes the news that a group of researchers calling themselves the Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective (the name is a play on Microsoft's Security Response Center) have come together to protest Microsoft's perceived heavy-handedness towards researchers who disclose security flaws. Pushed into action by the reception to the flaw disclosed by Tavis Ormandy, the group has released full details and exploit code for a previously unknown Windows local privilege escalation vulnerability. The advisory for the vulnerability, which affects Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, contains the following manifesto:
"Due to hostility toward security researchers, the most recent example being of Tavis Ormandy, a number of us from the industry (and some not from the industry) have come together to form MSRC: the Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective. MSRC will fully disclose vulnerability information discovered in our free time, free from retaliation against us or any inferred employer."
We had a community garage sale a few weeks back, where you leave anything that doesn't sell in a box out at the street and a donation truck comes by in the evening and picks it all up. I had a 15 or 17" CRT that had been laying around for years that didn't go for $5 in the garage sale, but disappeared from the donation box before the truck showed up to pick it up. I'm not sure if somebody needs 'em, but somebody is taking 'em just the same.:)
Yes, but you don't vote on them. The problem is that the people who are paid to read them and vote on them don't. So uh, rabble rabble vote them out.:)
Right now, neither the Android nor the iPhone camp is able to claim being the clear cut winner of hardware.
Instead of "Right now", that should be "forever", and the same can be said for software. There is no "better" in the general sense. Better for your needs? Sure. Better for my needs? Absolutely. But there is no, and will be no, just better.
Just pick what works best for you and stop trying to convince everyone else it's the best for them.
P.S. Not you parent, but "you" in the general sense.
I've never done a Bing! search to know that it came from there. I did however set mine to a little plant growing out of a rock above the water the first time I saw the option. Still there for me, and I like it.:P
How about we trim the budget 5% instead of raising taxes. Have you seen all the crap in a police car these days? I don't mind paying for what's needed (noticed that didn't say wanted) and most of what I see is not needed.
For what it does, it's the absolute best tool there is, hands down. I hardly think it's the fault of the language that it hasn't seen widespread acceptance. If you look at where it has been accepted, and what it's doing there, it's obvious why it was chosen.
I think lots of folks learn C/C++ first (or, $diety forgive Java) and poke around at Ada and find it's "hard to get things to compile".
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You're not even willing to admit that it's plausible? My ID has a magnetic stripe on the back that doesn't need an android to read it. I hardly think that it's a crazy assumption or assertion that the possibility exists that your ID data is being read/stored. Even if it wasn't done automatically, surely there's enough surveillance in the airport to go connect your scan to the ID you presented at the ticket counter.
NSA is siphoning off, and storing, every bit of communication that travels over the internet through the US. We are in a surveillance state right now and should be trying to bring attention to every bit of it to all of the sheeple who can stand to receive it.
Maybe you could explain what nefarious purpose the federal government would have for purposely storing these images.
Remember, the images are not connected to the people's identities in any way. Except for the few seconds where the first TSA worker scans your ID card (and doesn't record anything) everybody who goes through the scanner does so in a random manner. There's no way, currently for them to identify any scan as belonging to any person.
You suggest that the government is doing this scan-storing on purpose. Give us your best guess as to why.
Up until, well, still right now, they've denied storing the images which has proven to be false. You think that maybe they're storing the information off of your ID card as well? Seems at least plausible, right?
SWAG - Stuff We All Get, the (generally free) crap handed out at conferences, trade shows, etc. At least that's been my understanding of the term for the last 15 years. Uh, pirates? Hic Sunt Dracones then... ;)
LOL, I meant it seems like trickle-down economics in concept. Actual trickle-down economics, or course, doesn't have a damn thing to do with the discussion.
Counting on football bringing in rich students, allowing you to charge higher tuition rates, is dependent on that actually happening. A large number of athletic programs still operate at a loss, so some of that extra tuition would actually be going to help the program operate that is supposed to be responsible for bringing in these higher tuition rates. I'm just not sold on the idea.
Meh, chicken and egg. Without the University there handing out degrees, there would be no place for that football team to draw a crowd to make money. So if the University goes away, the football team goes away. However, if the football team goes away, the University will still continue to exist. It may shrink, but isn't likely to disappear all together.
The terms "higher education" wasn't used solely because it was "above" high school. It was once a place where education was raised to a higher level; expand your mind, think outside the box, think of the things that no one else in history has ever thought of.
Now universities are enacting policy to force out of state tuition prices on every hour beyond N hours if you haven't received a degree yet. Do not feel free to explore all your avenues, pick one get a degree in it and leave...but please come back for grad school. :)
Smells an awful lot like trickle down economics...
Agreed. I would go so far to say that by and large College is no longer about higher education (expanding your mind to think about things that you, or others, haven't ever thought about before, etc.) and is instead a degree mill. You come here, you pay enough money, you leave with a degree.
It's often the case that the football teams generate a lot of revenue, but that revenue goes to the athletics programs and not back to the university at large.
Care to take a guess as to what OS the space shuttles run? Hint: it's more than 12 years old, and considered very mission critical.
Turn in your geek card on your way out the door.
Growing up on the Gulf of Mexico nobody ate Dorado dolphin until someone started calling it Mahi Mahi...
Your dad/grandfather knows who they are. See vacuum tube manufacturing.
As for good updating systems... what do you call Windows Update?
What is, "What Microsoft uses to force users to run Windows Genuine Advantage.", Alex.
Offtopic mention of my old friend Ted Weber...still missing one of Kokomo's favorite sons every day.
The term 0-day is used correctly in the /. summary! Who would have thought!
Um, it's actually not used at all in the /. summary...
nk497 notes the news that a group of researchers calling themselves the Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective (the name is a play on Microsoft's Security Response Center) have come together to protest Microsoft's perceived heavy-handedness towards researchers who disclose security flaws. Pushed into action by the reception to the flaw disclosed by Tavis Ormandy, the group has released full details and exploit code for a previously unknown Windows local privilege escalation vulnerability. The advisory for the vulnerability, which affects Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, contains the following manifesto: "Due to hostility toward security researchers, the most recent example being of Tavis Ormandy, a number of us from the industry (and some not from the industry) have come together to form MSRC: the Microsoft-Spurned Researcher Collective. MSRC will fully disclose vulnerability information discovered in our free time, free from retaliation against us or any inferred employer."
We had a community garage sale a few weeks back, where you leave anything that doesn't sell in a box out at the street and a donation truck comes by in the evening and picks it all up. I had a 15 or 17" CRT that had been laying around for years that didn't go for $5 in the garage sale, but disappeared from the donation box before the truck showed up to pick it up. I'm not sure if somebody needs 'em, but somebody is taking 'em just the same. :)
Yes, but you don't vote on them. The problem is that the people who are paid to read them and vote on them don't. So uh, rabble rabble vote them out. :)
Right now, neither the Android nor the iPhone camp is able to claim being the clear cut winner of hardware.
Instead of "Right now", that should be "forever", and the same can be said for software. There is no "better" in the general sense. Better for your needs? Sure. Better for my needs? Absolutely. But there is no, and will be no, just better.
Just pick what works best for you and stop trying to convince everyone else it's the best for them.
P.S. Not you parent, but "you" in the general sense.
According to the Constitution there are rights we cannot be forced to give up because they were not given to us by men.
But they were sure taken by force by weak minded men
I would say they were taken by force from weak minded men, but otherwise agree.
I've never done a Bing! search to know that it came from there. I did however set mine to a little plant growing out of a rock above the water the first time I saw the option. Still there for me, and I like it. :P
How about we trim the budget 5% instead of raising taxes. Have you seen all the crap in a police car these days? I don't mind paying for what's needed (noticed that didn't say wanted) and most of what I see is not needed.
You shouldn't curse when you're not 100% certain of the information you're posting (the depth of lxtoc)...
Yes they can. When that property is a patent that is part of a standard (GSM) it must be licensed on Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory terms.
For what it does, it's the absolute best tool there is, hands down. I hardly think it's the fault of the language that it hasn't seen widespread acceptance. If you look at where it has been accepted, and what it's doing there, it's obvious why it was chosen. I think lots of folks learn C/C++ first (or, $diety forgive Java) and poke around at Ada and find it's "hard to get things to compile".