I missed the part where police forensics are a business. Furthermore, these images aren't being tossed on their website. They're being used in an internal database. It's idiotic for people to whine about this. They're not claiming copyright or publicly using it to make money on their website. It's an internal database used solely (pun intended) for matching footprints to shoe types. I think that Swedish copyright law needs some serious work if that is somehow an issue.
Yeah, I thought that was kind of weird that they pointed to the A4 chip. It's definitely good at power management, but that's by virtue of Apple chopping out the parts they didn't need. I think the next ARM chip that Apple comes out with will branch out a bit more, though. It'll be interesting to see what happens with a bunch of different companies making their own ARM chips.
Yeah, because who would want to record 1080p? Pffft! And who would want to get a movie that they can watch on their computer at 1080p, but have to downscale and convert to get onto their phone!
Christ, you've never been to/b/, have you? They have. Many, MANY times. They rarely do anything because they feel like it's the right thing to do. They occasionally get a sense of righteous fury (tracking down animal abusers while they post images of animal abuse to drive the newfags out), but they've done plenty to people that didn't deserve it. The emailing of fatality accident photos to family members of the deceased springs to mind. I've seen them attack Facebook memorial pages and raid people just because one post said that they should.
Hang out on/b/ more often and you'll find that while Anonymous isn't just some big, homogenous group, they do have some pretty collective tendencies.
One counterexample. Just about everything else Anon has done says otherwise. Someone mentioned animal abusers, such as Dusty. This is while people post Zippocat, a series of images of a cat getting doused in lighter fluid and torched. Chanology started out as lulz and evolved further into the bigger protests, but you can bet that their primary motivation on that one wasn't to get the bad guys.
As someone who has spend a good deal of time on 4chan (and has since sworn it off), I was amazed by this. Yes, Anon does whatever the hell they feel like, but I don't ever remember them doing something truly positive with no malicious intent. This blows my mind. Even Chanology had plenty of malicious intent. Not that it wasn't warranted against Scientology, but they initially did it for the lulz and moralfags/newfags hijacked it after a while. Sometimes they rightfully go e-vigilante on someone (Dusty springs to mind), but again, they do it with the intent of getting someone fucked over.
Summerfags or not, this is nothing short of a goddamned miracle.
I would have expected them to do anything but this. When 4chan gets all warm and fuzzy, then it's definitely a sign of impending armageddon. Cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!
Actually it might, by making accurate information more readily available.
Silly you, thinking that a website will completely dispel cultural superstitions and beliefs.
It won't be easy, but it's the only way. Any form of aid will have these problems; unlike food handouts, technology has a chance of actually getting these people out of their situation.
No, it has just as much (if not more) chance of being seized by some faction and being used to further their goals, even if that means selling the goods on eBay.
Interesting. I'd think that the US would want Cuba to have plenty of bandwidth as it might help foster a revolt against the government. I guess some folks in the US are still hellbent on the whole embargo thing. However, even with a cable to Venezuela, I seriously doubt the Cuban government is going to make everything free and open. That just isn't in their nature. There will be more internet to go around, but it's still going to be the internet that the Party wants them to see.
Threats? What do you think would happen to him if the government were overthrown? I think it might involve a rope and a tree.
And gee, in your fervor to slam the US, did you miss the part about how Cuba has the least internet access of any country? Here, let me point it out to you:
In addition Cuban law bans using the Internet to spread information that is against what the government considers to be the social interest, norms of good behavior, the integrity of the people or national security.
Now let's think for a second, shall we? In the US, you can post about how Obama is a socialist Muslim terrorist and you won't get arrested for it. Do you honestly think that Cuba wouldn't care if a citizen slammed their government? Come on now, think in a historical context. Cuba isn't exactly nice to people who openly speak out against the government.
Just because the US can be asshats doesn't mean that the people who don't like the US can't be even bigger asshats.
Considering that Fidel was the one who implemented many iron-fisted policies, I find that to be incredibly unlikely. He's mentally well enough to crawl news articles all day and understand them, so I think he's mentally well enough to understand that Cuba doesn't get the same privileges that he does.
I think the utter hypocrisy of his words is the point. Sure, Fidel gets to surf the internet and read worldwide news, raving about how great it is...while most people in his country aren't allowed to do so because it would threaten his power. I hardly find that good. I find that disgustingly hypocritical of him.
And none of the above are likely to happen in many African countries. You have iron-fisted dictators, endless tribal warfare, guerilla groups galore, rampant superstitions, and a whole lot more. Hell, even in South Africa, one of the more developed nations, it's still believed by many, many people that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS...resulting in the rape of young girls, even infants. Broadband isn't going to help with that. Rapid investment in science and technology? Do you know ANYTHING about Africa? How are you going to implement science and technology in an area that's been ravaged by warfare for years? How are you going to set this up when warlords and dictators just love to seize it for their own profit? That's not the entire continent, but it's really, really bad in many, many countries.
It's going to be pretty difficult to proliferate anything through much of Africa with ultracorrupt asshats running many of the countries, not to mention other ultracorrupt asshats trying to overthrow the current ultracorrupt asshats in power. You'd think that they'd stop caring about goddamned broadband and start worrying about actually getting a stable infrastructure first. Yes, I realize that the guys talking about broadband are part of a subgroup within a much broader one, but still, focus on what you can actually accomplish, not something that's going to take a lot more work in other areas to become even remotely feasible.
Then again, Nigeria seems to be doing just fine with internet access...
Hol-ee SHIT. You definitely don't have kids. You think a 6 year old is going to listen to adult logic, much less understand it? They don't. Kids do not think like adults. You DO have to force some things. Would you just let your kids do anything so long as you've already told them of the consequences? Good luck with that.
This is such utter BULLSHIT. How much does a pound of produce cost? I see a lot of stuff for less than $1 a pound. How much for a bag of flour? How much for a bag of rice? Good food IS affordable. It just often isn't as suited to the taste buds of people raised on fried, sugary crap.
Preparation? How much time does it take to put a salad with low/nonfat dressing together? How much time does it take to peel a banana or bite into an Apple? Rice takes only a few minutes to whip up. A baked potato can be nuked in a few minutes. Hell, even a lot of canned goods would be an improvement, and how long does it take to open a can and possibly heat up the contents? Peaches with cottage cheese (even nonfat) is scrumptious. Yogurt isn't terribly expensive.
I hear this particular justification from people who obviously haven't put more than five goddamned seconds of thought into it. Sorry, but if poor people are fat, then it isn't because of bad food being cheap and easy, because good or at least decent food can be cheap and easy, too. I work 40 hours a week and I still have time to not eat crap all the time.
Except that kids don't always grasp the consequences of their actions. If it was a 14 year old, you'd have a point, but now we have a lot of fat kids under the age of 8, and how can you blame them? They don't fully comprehend nutritional consequences at that age! Are you honestly saying that kids should be able to do whatever they want? I hope you're not a parent.
Um, yes, juice is better than soda. You actually get some nutrition out of juice instead of just empty calories from sugar water. Also, I usually get lite juice that has about half the calories of the 100% stuff. I think orange juice is the only stuff I regularly get that isn't diluted.
Yes, fruit juice is sugary, but not nearly as much, and it's more than just sugar water. Also, 12 hours a day is ludicrous, even on a weekend. That's your entire day in front of a screen. I just don't buy that number.
Agh, serves me right for hastily posting toward the top. Misleading summary, but the point still stands, and I find it really sad that some sort of campaign for this is necessary. Are parents really so stupid that they don't realize this?
However, I also question the validity of many claims made by the winner. 7.5hrs average daily screentime for kids? How in the hell does that happen? You'd have to sit in front of the TV the moment you get home from school and go to bed past 10PM! And who the hell gives an infant soda? My kid is over 2 and the only soda he's had are little sips of non-caffeinated soft drinks that myself or my wife were having. We do not give him soda at home. He gets juice.
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I missed the part where police forensics are a business. Furthermore, these images aren't being tossed on their website. They're being used in an internal database. It's idiotic for people to whine about this. They're not claiming copyright or publicly using it to make money on their website. It's an internal database used solely (pun intended) for matching footprints to shoe types. I think that Swedish copyright law needs some serious work if that is somehow an issue.
Yeah, I thought that was kind of weird that they pointed to the A4 chip. It's definitely good at power management, but that's by virtue of Apple chopping out the parts they didn't need. I think the next ARM chip that Apple comes out with will branch out a bit more, though. It'll be interesting to see what happens with a bunch of different companies making their own ARM chips.
Yeah, because who would want to record 1080p? Pffft! And who would want to get a movie that they can watch on their computer at 1080p, but have to downscale and convert to get onto their phone!
I'd position her qubits any day of the week!
Saying that it's "for the lulz" does not make a person deserve it.
Christ, you've never been to /b/, have you? They have. Many, MANY times. They rarely do anything because they feel like it's the right thing to do. They occasionally get a sense of righteous fury (tracking down animal abusers while they post images of animal abuse to drive the newfags out), but they've done plenty to people that didn't deserve it. The emailing of fatality accident photos to family members of the deceased springs to mind. I've seen them attack Facebook memorial pages and raid people just because one post said that they should.
/b/ more often and you'll find that while Anonymous isn't just some big, homogenous group, they do have some pretty collective tendencies.
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One counterexample. Just about everything else Anon has done says otherwise. Someone mentioned animal abusers, such as Dusty. This is while people post Zippocat, a series of images of a cat getting doused in lighter fluid and torched. Chanology started out as lulz and evolved further into the bigger protests, but you can bet that their primary motivation on that one wasn't to get the bad guys.
Anon only attacks those who deserve it or when public ridicule is in order.
You've never been on 4chan, have you? They most certainly HAVE gone after people that didn't deserve it.
/b/ was never good.
As someone who has spend a good deal of time on 4chan (and has since sworn it off), I was amazed by this. Yes, Anon does whatever the hell they feel like, but I don't ever remember them doing something truly positive with no malicious intent. This blows my mind. Even Chanology had plenty of malicious intent. Not that it wasn't warranted against Scientology, but they initially did it for the lulz and moralfags/newfags hijacked it after a while. Sometimes they rightfully go e-vigilante on someone (Dusty springs to mind), but again, they do it with the intent of getting someone fucked over.
Summerfags or not, this is nothing short of a goddamned miracle.
I would have expected them to do anything but this. When 4chan gets all warm and fuzzy, then it's definitely a sign of impending armageddon. Cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!
Zippocat?
Actually it might, by making accurate information more readily available.
Silly you, thinking that a website will completely dispel cultural superstitions and beliefs.
It won't be easy, but it's the only way. Any form of aid will have these problems; unlike food handouts, technology has a chance of actually getting these people out of their situation.
No, it has just as much (if not more) chance of being seized by some faction and being used to further their goals, even if that means selling the goods on eBay.
Interesting. I'd think that the US would want Cuba to have plenty of bandwidth as it might help foster a revolt against the government. I guess some folks in the US are still hellbent on the whole embargo thing. However, even with a cable to Venezuela, I seriously doubt the Cuban government is going to make everything free and open. That just isn't in their nature. There will be more internet to go around, but it's still going to be the internet that the Party wants them to see.
And gee, in your fervor to slam the US, did you miss the part about how Cuba has the least internet access of any country? Here, let me point it out to you:
In addition Cuban law bans using the Internet to spread information that is against what the government considers to be the social interest, norms of good behavior, the integrity of the people or national security.
Now let's think for a second, shall we? In the US, you can post about how Obama is a socialist Muslim terrorist and you won't get arrested for it. Do you honestly think that Cuba wouldn't care if a citizen slammed their government? Come on now, think in a historical context. Cuba isn't exactly nice to people who openly speak out against the government.
Just because the US can be asshats doesn't mean that the people who don't like the US can't be even bigger asshats.
Cooking isn't even necessary much of the time. You don't have to cook a piece of fruit.
Considering that Fidel was the one who implemented many iron-fisted policies, I find that to be incredibly unlikely. He's mentally well enough to crawl news articles all day and understand them, so I think he's mentally well enough to understand that Cuba doesn't get the same privileges that he does.
I think the utter hypocrisy of his words is the point. Sure, Fidel gets to surf the internet and read worldwide news, raving about how great it is...while most people in his country aren't allowed to do so because it would threaten his power. I hardly find that good. I find that disgustingly hypocritical of him.
And none of the above are likely to happen in many African countries. You have iron-fisted dictators, endless tribal warfare, guerilla groups galore, rampant superstitions, and a whole lot more. Hell, even in South Africa, one of the more developed nations, it's still believed by many, many people that having sex with a virgin will cure AIDS...resulting in the rape of young girls, even infants. Broadband isn't going to help with that. Rapid investment in science and technology? Do you know ANYTHING about Africa? How are you going to implement science and technology in an area that's been ravaged by warfare for years? How are you going to set this up when warlords and dictators just love to seize it for their own profit? That's not the entire continent, but it's really, really bad in many, many countries.
It's going to be pretty difficult to proliferate anything through much of Africa with ultracorrupt asshats running many of the countries, not to mention other ultracorrupt asshats trying to overthrow the current ultracorrupt asshats in power. You'd think that they'd stop caring about goddamned broadband and start worrying about actually getting a stable infrastructure first. Yes, I realize that the guys talking about broadband are part of a subgroup within a much broader one, but still, focus on what you can actually accomplish, not something that's going to take a lot more work in other areas to become even remotely feasible.
Then again, Nigeria seems to be doing just fine with internet access...
Hol-ee SHIT. You definitely don't have kids. You think a 6 year old is going to listen to adult logic, much less understand it? They don't. Kids do not think like adults. You DO have to force some things. Would you just let your kids do anything so long as you've already told them of the consequences? Good luck with that.
This is such utter BULLSHIT. How much does a pound of produce cost? I see a lot of stuff for less than $1 a pound. How much for a bag of flour? How much for a bag of rice? Good food IS affordable. It just often isn't as suited to the taste buds of people raised on fried, sugary crap.
Preparation? How much time does it take to put a salad with low/nonfat dressing together? How much time does it take to peel a banana or bite into an Apple? Rice takes only a few minutes to whip up. A baked potato can be nuked in a few minutes. Hell, even a lot of canned goods would be an improvement, and how long does it take to open a can and possibly heat up the contents? Peaches with cottage cheese (even nonfat) is scrumptious. Yogurt isn't terribly expensive.
I hear this particular justification from people who obviously haven't put more than five goddamned seconds of thought into it. Sorry, but if poor people are fat, then it isn't because of bad food being cheap and easy, because good or at least decent food can be cheap and easy, too. I work 40 hours a week and I still have time to not eat crap all the time.
Except that kids don't always grasp the consequences of their actions. If it was a 14 year old, you'd have a point, but now we have a lot of fat kids under the age of 8, and how can you blame them? They don't fully comprehend nutritional consequences at that age! Are you honestly saying that kids should be able to do whatever they want? I hope you're not a parent.
Um, yes, juice is better than soda. You actually get some nutrition out of juice instead of just empty calories from sugar water. Also, I usually get lite juice that has about half the calories of the 100% stuff. I think orange juice is the only stuff I regularly get that isn't diluted.
Yes, fruit juice is sugary, but not nearly as much, and it's more than just sugar water. Also, 12 hours a day is ludicrous, even on a weekend. That's your entire day in front of a screen. I just don't buy that number.
Agh, serves me right for hastily posting toward the top. Misleading summary, but the point still stands, and I find it really sad that some sort of campaign for this is necessary. Are parents really so stupid that they don't realize this?
However, I also question the validity of many claims made by the winner. 7.5hrs average daily screentime for kids? How in the hell does that happen? You'd have to sit in front of the TV the moment you get home from school and go to bed past 10PM! And who the hell gives an infant soda? My kid is over 2 and the only soda he's had are little sips of non-caffeinated soft drinks that myself or my wife were having. We do not give him soda at home. He gets juice.