I'm no expert, but I suspect that if you aren't running a plugin to falsify your browser fingerprint (which makes browsing the web awful in itself), you are probably being tracked to some degree.
For instance, I find myself having to whitelist various content providers that serve across multiple websites (like CloudFront). If I assume that CloudFront fingerprints me, I will leave a trail on every site that I enable scripts on that pulls from CloudFront. Then, maybe CloudFront and some other CDN's put their data together and form a bigger map of where I've been. It might not be a complete map. However, I don't trust NoScript and RequestPolicy to prevent me from leaving any sort of trail (unless I simply don't run any scripts, ever).
You can insist on a perfect candidate and pout if you don't get one. Or you can be smart like Sanders, find the least worst option you can, and do your best to improve it.
My problem is this: If Democrats let the Democratic Party get away with this, it sets a standard for what sort of bullshit is acceptable.
Also, if the betrayed Bernie supporters "do their duty" and vote in Hillary, they face the possibility of her being in for two terms. I can barely stomach the idea of voting for her once, and by doing so I'm losing the ability to choose my candidate for two elections (if she is indeed voted in for 2016).
The email Larry sent credits Autopilot, and Elon Musk credits Autopilot. Nowhere does Larry's email assert that autopilot was disabled. If Larry is going to portray Autopilot as his guardian angel, then he should accept his dunce hat. Electrek makes an assumption that autopilot was disabled, without actually contacting any of the parties involved to verify that assumption.
It's also prudent when trying to locate the siren to slow down a little regardless. Emergency vehicles do drive recklessly on occasion. You can't rely on the emergency vehicle to stop at the mouth of a side street. They may pull in front of you and expect you to respond to it. You may also be approaching a dangerous scene before the first responders.
It is likely this guy was blowing down the road in autopilot when he should have had control of his car. Given that the Tesla isn't made to respond to emergency vehicles lights and sirens, this guy is a bit of an idiot. "Here is a situation in which I should have been in control and driving cautiously, but wasn't."
The internet tells me that human genome weighs 3.59 x 10^-12 grams.
1 gram of dna * 1 complete strand of dna / (3.59 x 10^-12 grams) = 278 x 10^9 strands = 278,000,000,000 strands of dna.
Length of human dna stretched out: about 2 meters
(278 x 10^9 strands) * (2 meters / strand) = 554 x 10^9 meters
I can't conceive of how you can organize that in order to read it.
Then again, I don't know the length of a blu-ray, if you could unravel it and stretch it out straight. Or that of a record.
I think you are right that it could help ease network congestion. Leaving torrents/games/anything to download overnight is popular, as in the late hours there is less fight for resources where the network is oversold, and because you have your content downloaded for the next day.
I also think you are right that it will save bandwidth consumed. If the video device has sufficient storage, you would be able to save things that you might watch multiple times. For example, a TV series you and your partner/friend/roommate both watch. Or consider the kid that wants to watch Frozen for the 10th time in a row.
The problem is that no matter how many people Blizzard sues, the cheat still exists, and more cheats will come.
Blizzards solution has to be to find and eliminate the exploits.
That said, I don't have much sympathy for Blizzard "losing sales". Even with the Field of View slider they implemented, they have the FOV maximum locked low enough that people with motion sickness can't play the game. Reading through forums on Overwatch, it seems that the FOV settings might even be over-exagerated, with 103 being more equivalent to a setting of 90 in other first person shooters.
A previous article covers whistle-blower Thomas Drake being denied protections for trying to use the proper channels. John Crane, who was to protect the whistle-blowers, became a whistle-blower himself when it became evident the Pentagon was abusing their power in order to punish Thomas Drake.
The article quotes Snowden, "Name one whistleblower from the intelligence community whose disclosures led to real change - overturning laws, ending policies - who didn't face retaliation as a result. The protections just aren't there"
Does this come at the cost of being able to research rarer ailments? I'm less interested in googling illnesses that are easily identified by your general practitioner.
to see either a class action lawsuit, or investigations into Microsoft committing unauthorized computer access / installing software for the purposes of spying on people.
One caveat I do have, personally, is that people should not get extra money just for having children. We don't want to encourage procreation for the sake of money. The world is overpopulated world, people should not hve children unless they can cover the cost.
How much procreation can the system support before it breaks down?
How can you prevent people from procreating? (Incentivize birth control with more free money?)
Should only the rich be allowed to procreate?
Should people with only a basic income, and no other income, be allowed to procreate?
Will the welfare class breed a larger welfare class, making the system unsustainable?
Would that happen without Basic Income, anyway?
Even more likely: On numerous occasions, Facebook has suggested people who I have no correspondence with online. These are people I had never thought to look up profiles for. However, these are all people I have had telephone correspondence with. I suspect the Facebook app, or third party apps, of skimming phone contacts and uploading them to Facebook. In this case, the mugger probably, using the victim's phone, 1) called his own friends, or 2) went on his own personal Facebook page. From there, Facebook took the data and connected the dots as possible acquaintances.
The idea is to replace the drug of choice with a drug that will 1) not provide a high, and 2) reduce withdrawal symptoms.
Treating nicotine addiction is a little different in that it usually means moving away from cigarettes (which contain addictive compounds other than nicotine). Gum and patches do not provide the other compounds. Gum/patches also don't inhibit getting pleasure from nicotine, so it is inferior to using a drug to reduce highs and withdrawals.
In my general paranoia of not upgrading software that isn't broken, I never upgraded from 8 to 8.1. Maybe I'm open to all sorts of attack vectors from malevolent parties, but I feel safer knowing that the party that can hide their malware the easiest (Microsoft) isn't getting their software automatically installed on my machine.
Of course, I never really thought it would come this.
I backed a set of playing cards on Kickstarter called Asylum playing cards. https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
Unfortunately, the project owner, Ed Nash, disappeared with the money and failed to deliver the cards.
After some amount of drama, it turned out his artist had long finished the art for the cards, and nothing should be holding them up. All Nash needed to do was pay USPCC to print them up. Instead of doing that, he stopped tending the Kickstarter, sporadically promising the cards before ultimately disappearing. His artist had no idea what happened.
A backer with a legal background got several backers in Washington state together and was able to bring the situation to the attention of the attorney general. Eventually, a court date was set, and Nash never showed. The state ordered him to pay restitution to the backers in Washington, plus civil penalties, plus court costs. In the end, he came out on the hook for more money than he brought in from the entire Kickstarter.
There are several articles about it. The first one to show up on Google: http://www.polygon.com/2015/9/...
Not too long after that, people started receiving their playing cards in the mail. I think Nash decided it would be cheaper to finally deliver the cards than to risk facing more state courts.
second hand vaping would be as harmful as smelling hot coffee when a lot of people sitting next to you are drinking it. As for the solvents, there are other unregulated applications of it (in larger doses) and it's been in use since before vaping became a thing, so long-term exposure can be studied if there is any such inclination.
I think getting nicotine second hand is probably harmless enough, but what about decomposing artificial sweeteners and flavorings on the heating element, and then inhaling those?
You had said cigarettes, so I assumed you had meant tobacco. I've found nothing conclusive one way or another about nicotine being a carcinogen, but it looks like it probably isn't.
Which are present in unregulated soft drinks.
But they aren't heated up, and I don't know what they decompose into.
I very highly doubt it. Given the small market share of e-cig producers, the tobacco companies have the ability to buy them out right if they thought they were a good future market.
They could buy out Blu and everyone else, but unless tobacco companies come up with a competing product, someone else will just make a new product line to fill the void. Nicotine can be sourced from labs. The rest of the market is dominated by product shipped out of China, which can't really be combated. Except by pulling strings to get g e-cig's and e-juice regulated like other tobacco products, which works to level the playing ground.
Unnatural does not mean harmful
Right, but unstudied doesn't mean safe. There isn't enough evidence on the safety of vaping, especially long term.
I didn't feel comfortable vaping artifical flavors and sweeteners, so I used flavorless. I don't know about long term use for PG and VG. It seems some medicine delivery devices use propylene glycol. But I would feel more comfortable seeing a study about it. Unfortunately, vaping pure water is about as comfortable as vaping steam.
The only harmful part of cigarettes is the actual delivery mechanism (the smoke).
You do realize that people who use chewing tobacco get all sorts of oral cancers, right?
Since e-cigarettes don't have tobacco smoke (they use water vapor)
The hell they do. Most e-cig's use propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin as solvents to disolve and deliver the nicotine. Liquid for e-cig's rarely contains water, and even when it does it is still mixed with the other two solvents. Then there are the flavorings. And the artificial sweeteners to make the flavorings taste sweeter. And then you heat all that up and inhale it, and no one really knows for sure if it is safe or not.
The only reason they are being treated with suspicion is the believe that they will de-stigmatize smoking of actual cigarettes.
Two or three reasons, actually. One is concern that e-cigs will destigmatize nicotine addiction, especially among young people. Two, you don't think Big Tobacco has any stakes in knocking a competing product down a few pegs? Tobacco executives are shitting themselves over this supposedly safer, less stigmatized, less offensive product that directly threatens their livelihood. And three, if you count concerns about inhaling products that haven't been studied for long term health effects. You know, like cigarettes used to be.
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Christ, no. The judge remarked that Tor was not good for protecting data because he thinks the FBI can easily break it and identify users on it.
The director for the Cybercrime Lab at the Department of Justice urged a roomful of 100 federal judges to use Tor to protect their computers
The director suggested they all use it.
Judge Bryan disagreed with the usefulness of it because the FBI could possibly compromise it.
I'm no expert, but I suspect that if you aren't running a plugin to falsify your browser fingerprint (which makes browsing the web awful in itself), you are probably being tracked to some degree.
For instance, I find myself having to whitelist various content providers that serve across multiple websites (like CloudFront). If I assume that CloudFront fingerprints me, I will leave a trail on every site that I enable scripts on that pulls from CloudFront. Then, maybe CloudFront and some other CDN's put their data together and form a bigger map of where I've been. It might not be a complete map. However, I don't trust NoScript and RequestPolicy to prevent me from leaving any sort of trail (unless I simply don't run any scripts, ever).
You can insist on a perfect candidate and pout if you don't get one. Or you can be smart like Sanders, find the least worst option you can, and do your best to improve it.
My problem is this: If Democrats let the Democratic Party get away with this, it sets a standard for what sort of bullshit is acceptable.
Also, if the betrayed Bernie supporters "do their duty" and vote in Hillary, they face the possibility of her being in for two terms. I can barely stomach the idea of voting for her once, and by doing so I'm losing the ability to choose my candidate for two elections (if she is indeed voted in for 2016).
The email Larry sent credits Autopilot, and Elon Musk credits Autopilot. Nowhere does Larry's email assert that autopilot was disabled. If Larry is going to portray Autopilot as his guardian angel, then he should accept his dunce hat. Electrek makes an assumption that autopilot was disabled, without actually contacting any of the parties involved to verify that assumption.
It's also prudent when trying to locate the siren to slow down a little regardless. Emergency vehicles do drive recklessly on occasion. You can't rely on the emergency vehicle to stop at the mouth of a side street. They may pull in front of you and expect you to respond to it. You may also be approaching a dangerous scene before the first responders.
It is likely this guy was blowing down the road in autopilot when he should have had control of his car. Given that the Tesla isn't made to respond to emergency vehicles lights and sirens, this guy is a bit of an idiot. "Here is a situation in which I should have been in control and driving cautiously, but wasn't."
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The internet tells me that human genome weighs 3.59 x 10^-12 grams.
1 gram of dna * 1 complete strand of dna / (3.59 x 10^-12 grams) = 278 x 10^9 strands = 278,000,000,000 strands of dna.
Length of human dna stretched out: about 2 meters
(278 x 10^9 strands) * (2 meters / strand) = 554 x 10^9 meters
I can't conceive of how you can organize that in order to read it.
Then again, I don't know the length of a blu-ray, if you could unravel it and stretch it out straight. Or that of a record.
There has been only one fatality according to the linked articles. Mod parent up.
I think you are right that it could help ease network congestion. Leaving torrents/games/anything to download overnight is popular, as in the late hours there is less fight for resources where the network is oversold, and because you have your content downloaded for the next day.
I also think you are right that it will save bandwidth consumed. If the video device has sufficient storage, you would be able to save things that you might watch multiple times. For example, a TV series you and your partner/friend/roommate both watch. Or consider the kid that wants to watch Frozen for the 10th time in a row.
The problem is that no matter how many people Blizzard sues, the cheat still exists, and more cheats will come.
Blizzards solution has to be to find and eliminate the exploits.
That said, I don't have much sympathy for Blizzard "losing sales". Even with the Field of View slider they implemented, they have the FOV maximum locked low enough that people with motion sickness can't play the game. Reading through forums on Overwatch, it seems that the FOV settings might even be over-exagerated, with 103 being more equivalent to a setting of 90 in other first person shooters.
If my car is in autopilot, and I take control of the vehicle just before dying in an accident, is it considered an autopilot fatality?
A previous article covers whistle-blower Thomas Drake being denied protections for trying to use the proper channels. John Crane, who was to protect the whistle-blowers, became a whistle-blower himself when it became evident the Pentagon was abusing their power in order to punish Thomas Drake.
The article quotes Snowden, "Name one whistleblower from the intelligence community whose disclosures led to real change - overturning laws, ending policies - who didn't face retaliation as a result. The protections just aren't there"
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
https://www.theguardian.com/us...
Does this come at the cost of being able to research rarer ailments? I'm less interested in googling illnesses that are easily identified by your general practitioner.
Kickstarter has been around since 2009. When is a company no longer considered a "startup"?
Once they meet their funding goal.
Thats a bit of spin to put on it. The iPhones were bricked after apple forced an update that occurred after the third party repairs.
to see either a class action lawsuit, or investigations into Microsoft committing unauthorized computer access / installing software for the purposes of spying on people.
One caveat I do have, personally, is that people should not get extra money just for having children. We don't want to encourage procreation for the sake of money. The world is overpopulated world, people should not hve children unless they can cover the cost.
How much procreation can the system support before it breaks down?
How can you prevent people from procreating? (Incentivize birth control with more free money?)
Should only the rich be allowed to procreate?
Should people with only a basic income, and no other income, be allowed to procreate?
Will the welfare class breed a larger welfare class, making the system unsustainable?
Would that happen without Basic Income, anyway?
Even more likely: On numerous occasions, Facebook has suggested people who I have no correspondence with online. These are people I had never thought to look up profiles for. However, these are all people I have had telephone correspondence with. I suspect the Facebook app, or third party apps, of skimming phone contacts and uploading them to Facebook. In this case, the mugger probably, using the victim's phone, 1) called his own friends, or 2) went on his own personal Facebook page. From there, Facebook took the data and connected the dots as possible acquaintances.
The idea is to replace the drug of choice with a drug that will 1) not provide a high, and 2) reduce withdrawal symptoms.
Treating nicotine addiction is a little different in that it usually means moving away from cigarettes (which contain addictive compounds other than nicotine). Gum and patches do not provide the other compounds. Gum/patches also don't inhibit getting pleasure from nicotine, so it is inferior to using a drug to reduce highs and withdrawals.
In my general paranoia of not upgrading software that isn't broken, I never upgraded from 8 to 8.1. Maybe I'm open to all sorts of attack vectors from malevolent parties, but I feel safer knowing that the party that can hide their malware the easiest (Microsoft) isn't getting their software automatically installed on my machine.
Of course, I never really thought it would come this.
There are a couple of software solutions that claim to disable the Windows 10 upgrade. I can't vouch for them, but maybe someone else can. They are:
GRC Never10 https://www.grc.com/never10.ht...
GWC Control Panel http://blog.ultimateoutsider.c...
I backed a set of playing cards on Kickstarter called Asylum playing cards.
https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...
Unfortunately, the project owner, Ed Nash, disappeared with the money and failed to deliver the cards.
After some amount of drama, it turned out his artist had long finished the art for the cards, and nothing should be holding them up. All Nash needed to do was pay USPCC to print them up. Instead of doing that, he stopped tending the Kickstarter, sporadically promising the cards before ultimately disappearing. His artist had no idea what happened.
A backer with a legal background got several backers in Washington state together and was able to bring the situation to the attention of the attorney general. Eventually, a court date was set, and Nash never showed. The state ordered him to pay restitution to the backers in Washington, plus civil penalties, plus court costs. In the end, he came out on the hook for more money than he brought in from the entire Kickstarter.
There are several articles about it. The first one to show up on Google: http://www.polygon.com/2015/9/...
Not too long after that, people started receiving their playing cards in the mail. I think Nash decided it would be cheaper to finally deliver the cards than to risk facing more state courts.
second hand vaping would be as harmful as smelling hot coffee when a lot of people sitting next to you are drinking it. As for the solvents, there are other unregulated applications of it (in larger doses) and it's been in use since before vaping became a thing, so long-term exposure can be studied if there is any such inclination.
I think getting nicotine second hand is probably harmless enough, but what about decomposing artificial sweeteners and flavorings on the heating element, and then inhaling those?
From the tobacco content. Not from nicotine.
You had said cigarettes, so I assumed you had meant tobacco. I've found nothing conclusive one way or another about nicotine being a carcinogen, but it looks like it probably isn't.
Which are present in unregulated soft drinks.
But they aren't heated up, and I don't know what they decompose into.
I very highly doubt it. Given the small market share of e-cig producers, the tobacco companies have the ability to buy them out right if they thought they were a good future market.
They could buy out Blu and everyone else, but unless tobacco companies come up with a competing product, someone else will just make a new product line to fill the void. Nicotine can be sourced from labs. The rest of the market is dominated by product shipped out of China, which can't really be combated. Except by pulling strings to get g e-cig's and e-juice regulated like other tobacco products, which works to level the playing ground.
Unnatural does not mean harmful
Right, but unstudied doesn't mean safe. There isn't enough evidence on the safety of vaping, especially long term.
I didn't feel comfortable vaping artifical flavors and sweeteners, so I used flavorless. I don't know about long term use for PG and VG. It seems some medicine delivery devices use propylene glycol. But I would feel more comfortable seeing a study about it. Unfortunately, vaping pure water is about as comfortable as vaping steam.
The only harmful part of cigarettes is the actual delivery mechanism (the smoke).
You do realize that people who use chewing tobacco get all sorts of oral cancers, right?
Since e-cigarettes don't have tobacco smoke (they use water vapor)
The hell they do. Most e-cig's use propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin as solvents to disolve and deliver the nicotine. Liquid for e-cig's rarely contains water, and even when it does it is still mixed with the other two solvents. Then there are the flavorings. And the artificial sweeteners to make the flavorings taste sweeter. And then you heat all that up and inhale it, and no one really knows for sure if it is safe or not.
The only reason they are being treated with suspicion is the believe that they will de-stigmatize smoking of actual cigarettes.
Two or three reasons, actually. One is concern that e-cigs will destigmatize nicotine addiction, especially among young people. Two, you don't think Big Tobacco has any stakes in knocking a competing product down a few pegs? Tobacco executives are shitting themselves over this supposedly safer, less stigmatized, less offensive product that directly threatens their livelihood. And three, if you count concerns about inhaling products that haven't been studied for long term health effects. You know, like cigarettes used to be.
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Article 9020879 does not seem to exist. Looks like it may have been a dupe and been deleted. Good job, chicken little.
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