give the middle finger to any camera that can or is taking a picture of me.
And no, I don't have a current I.D. card. So when someone asks me for my I.D., i just show them what it would of looked like. Needless to say, this gets me in trouble.
They won't actually do anything about it. No one ever does anymore. It's not just the States either.
Sadly, people are the same everywhere. And this new trend to just lay down and take it has become almost universal. Once a nation becomes industrialized enough and people have enough comfort they will never fight back for fear of losing that comfort. It's really the best way to enslave humans. Just let their own natural lethargy keep them in check. Sure there will be chest beating and spin doctors will cry outrage... but in the end, the people will just go home, turn on the tube and tune out the life they have.
The actions of the NSA and GCHQ are clear human rights violations in Europe. I hope both are pursued for this crime. Presumably the French are investigating GCHQ as well as the NSA.
They went after google for the wifi data capture, and that isn't as serious as purposely capturing telephone and communications.
Of course, google just got fined, so what will they do to the USA if found guilty? Fine them?
It's the drivers choice to look at his phone or not. The drivers choice. Not the texters.
If i am driving and I get a text on my cell phone. I have 2 choices.
1. I ignore it till I'm either at a red light, or somewhere pulled over safe. 2. I answer it and risk putting me & someone else in an accident, hospital, or morgue.
Those are my 2 choices. I am responsible for those choices, no one else.
Mod up. People forget what it's like for the world to be so close to armageddon that was not cooked up by the movies. A person getting a diplomatic message a few hours too late, a false sensor reading, any number of things could've started nuclear war.
I was alive during the cold war. The world was never in trouble. No one was going to let their nukes go, anymore then any country today with nukes are going to let them fly.
But America is scared that one of those countries without nukes is going to get a nuke and decide to let if off in America because the American Government has been abusing them for the last century or so. And there is a lot of various countries that are NOT happy with the USA. And I don't blame them, tbh.
Back then it was the "Red Menace" Communist. Now? It's terrorist. Tomorrow? Probably protestors.
I want Russia to remain strong, and if this includes Russia befriending those who whistleblow the US for their advantage, so be it.
While I had little love for either the USSR or the Cold War USA, a world with only one military superpower is turning out to be worse - and all the proxy hot wars in developing nations are carrying on anyway.
I was raised during the end of the cold war and we were taught to hate russia and what it stood for. Who knew that after the cold war American Government would be come the bad guy? But then again, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I don't know about anyone else, but I want the American dream they told us we were living for, while undermining everything good Americans have believed in.
Bullshit. I just want my country to stay out of other people's affairs.
If they're world affairs, like WWII, I get it, but Syria's internal politics are their own responsibility.
Yep, politics as usual... Glad to know that the richest nation on Earth could care less when 70,000 innocent people die as long as their skin is brown and/or they live in the desert.
The truth is life is cheap. People want to pretend otherwise, but life is cheap. And Syria needs to take care of it's own problem. If people there don't like their conditions, they should do something about it. They do NOT want the US to come in, might not get rid of them ever.
I've wanted something like this since I was a kid. Something incredibly useful, portable, does many functions, even phone calls, from a watch? Hell yeah I'll buy one.
Someone mentioned heat and games. I don't want to play games on it. I want to text, make phone calls, maybe pictures / video, and get information on it. Like news or directions. It shouldn't heat up too much with that barring the video.
Technology has been useful, and it has been convenient for the task it's replacing/performing. However it is rarely convenient to carry with you all the time. Priceless.
Seriously? Remember texting on the old dumb phones? The ones with the small screens? Ya, you get the small screens with these "smart watches" . Hope the texting works for you, using 1 hand (after all, you aren't going to take the watch off to hold it in two hands to text, right?) on that small screen. Not even sure how you want to use it as a phone, hold it up to your ear? bluetooth headset? Did you even think this thru?
I know this sound cool when we were kids (not sure when you were a kid, but they didn't even have them big ass brick cell phones when I was a kid. But now I'm not a kid, and I can see the value of a "smart" watch is very, very low.
I stopped wearing my watch when I got a cell phone. Why? Because it's that convenient item that does it all that I can carry with me.
If spying were an "act of WAR", then EVERY government has a casus bellum against EVERY OTHER country.
Face it, espionage has been a fact of life between governments since at least the time of the ancient Greeks...
Espionage is how wars are prevented. We'd have a world war constantly for hundreds of years if not for the spy wars. World War 1 would never have ended.
Wars are prevented when leaders of countries actually sit down and try to work out relationships with countries, without the intent of screwing them over for gain.
Slashdot basement dwellers tend to vastly overemphasize the importance of PC gaming. The entire PC game market could disappear and it would make barely a blip in Microsoft's revenue.
Even the idea of owning a desktop PC (especially with huge red fans and bright blue LEDs) is considered ridiculous by most people in year 2013.
So:
1. Businesses aren't buying desktop PCs because Windows 8. 2. Consumers aren't buying desktop PCs because they're 'ridiculous'.
Then who's buying those desktop PCs, other than gamers?
I've never understood why people non-anonymously go public with security flaws, except for personal gain. "Yeah I'm that guy, give me credz/a job... BUT I DID IT ALTRUISTICALLY!"
Either post directly under an alias, or - better - release to the IT or even general press.
Let say you banked at bank that had this flaw. You tell them it has this flaw, they ignore you. You tell them again, they ignore you. You tell them again, they ignore you. YOu tell them again, they ignore you.
So besides moving to a new bank, what do you do? You let everyone know that they have a flaw and need to fix it. It's called public shaming and has been used since the beginning of man.
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He can't even retire properly, should have done so years ago.
Chairs just won't fly around the same without him
Hope they tell him not to let the chair hit him on the way out.
It seems like this tidbit of info, coming when it has, is pitch perfect to make people stop listening to the Bradley Manning situation and turn the whole fiasco into a bad joke.
Isn't that just TERRIBLY convenient for the government?
agree, I have a hard time believing this. It's sounding to me the government is using whatever means to justify the sentence. "See, he think he's god, and *gasp* he wants to be a woman!"
Supermarkets have a typical profit margin of 1 to 2%. It means that if you steal 10$ worth of food they need to sell 1000-2000$ worth more to make it up unless they already have calculated the shoplifting costs in their 1-2% profit margin. No store stays open for long without makings profits so your "profit maximization" argument makes no sense.
Any businessman will factor in all costs, like hiring more cashier, security guards, security cameras, utility bills etc. when determining their sale prices, it is economy 101.
The goal for any business is to keep shoplifting as low as possible for the cheapest cost ratio possible in order to be able to keep prices down and maximize profits.
Did they really destroy a functional computer to destroy the drive? Could they not have removed the hard drive and destroyed just those parts that have any persistent data retention? Even including the optical drive would have been overkill-- eject the disk. What was the purpose of destroying perfectly good hardware? Just to be sure? Why not steam roller the remains and then incinerate them in an induction furnace? Where they worried about a secret compartment? Notes scribbled on the inside? What a bunch of clowns.
To take the HD out, would require some tools, like a Philips screwdriver. That sort of tool is too complicated for the jackboots, they are just given hammers. Hammers smash, which is about the IQ level needed to be the jackboot of the government.
... If I stand on a street corner and hand out copies of my book, I cannot then turn around and sue anyone who takes a copy for theft. It's only when someone I did not authorize stands on a street corner handing out copies of my book that I can sue him (and the recipients if they knew the book giveaway wasn't legal) for theft...
You talking books (physical objects) or you talking ebooks? Because, unless the person walked into your home/office/warehouse and stole a case of books, he's can give away your book all he wants.
Now if you are talking ebooks, that he is giving away digital copies of your book away on street corner (as CD's, or Flashdrives?) then ya, he probably is doing something bad.
Here's the thing about your example. I have seen people give away books, and pamphlets on street corners, but I have NEVER, and I mean NEVER seen anyone give away ebooks. In fact, I can NOT think of a time I've seen anyone give away CD's, unless it has music on it, or it was from AOL.
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That makes sense..... and is truly the most insane thing I have heard this week.
I think it was a joke. But the mod's disagree.
give the middle finger to any camera that can or is taking a picture of me.
And no, I don't have a current I.D. card. So when someone asks me for my I.D., i just show them what it would of looked like. Needless to say, this gets me in trouble.
Religions seems to be nothing but trouble...
They won't actually do anything about it. No one ever does anymore. It's not just the States either.
Sadly, people are the same everywhere. And this new trend to just lay down and take it has become almost universal. Once a nation becomes industrialized enough and people have enough comfort they will never fight back for fear of losing that comfort. It's really the best way to enslave humans. Just let their own natural lethargy keep them in check. Sure there will be chest beating and spin doctors will cry outrage... but in the end, the people will just go home, turn on the tube and tune out the life they have.
So this is your excuse for not doing anything?
The actions of the NSA and GCHQ are clear human rights violations in Europe. I hope both are pursued for this crime. Presumably the French are investigating GCHQ as well as the NSA.
They went after google for the wifi data capture, and that isn't as serious as purposely capturing telephone and communications.
Of course, google just got fined, so what will they do to the USA if found guilty? Fine them?
I do not agree.
It's the drivers choice to look at his phone or not. The drivers choice. Not the texters.
If i am driving and I get a text on my cell phone. I have 2 choices.
1. I ignore it till I'm either at a red light, or somewhere pulled over safe.
2. I answer it and risk putting me & someone else in an accident, hospital, or morgue.
Those are my 2 choices. I am responsible for those choices, no one else.
Mod up. People forget what it's like for the world to be so close to armageddon that was not cooked up by the movies. A person getting a diplomatic message a few hours too late, a false sensor reading, any number of things could've started nuclear war.
I was alive during the cold war. The world was never in trouble. No one was going to let their nukes go, anymore then any country today with nukes are going to let them fly.
But America is scared that one of those countries without nukes is going to get a nuke and decide to let if off in America because the American Government has been abusing them for the last century or so. And there is a lot of various countries that are NOT happy with the USA. And I don't blame them, tbh.
Back then it was the "Red Menace" Communist. Now? It's terrorist. Tomorrow? Probably protestors.
I want Russia to remain strong, and if this includes Russia befriending those who whistleblow the US for their advantage, so be it.
While I had little love for either the USSR or the Cold War USA, a world with only one military superpower is turning out to be worse - and all the proxy hot wars in developing nations are carrying on anyway.
I was raised during the end of the cold war and we were taught to hate russia and what it stood for. Who knew that after the cold war American Government would be come the bad guy? But then again, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I don't know about anyone else, but I want the American dream they told us we were living for, while undermining everything good Americans have believed in.
Well, isn't Snowden planning a sex change?
Well, first they have to capture him, then torture him for awhile, then they will tell us he wants a sex change.
So concentration camps, gassing the populace are fine so long as they are kept small to mid scale????
Yes, and oddly enough, it's not our business what they do.
Do we let other countries tell us how to run our country? That answer would be no.
Bullshit. I just want my country to stay out of other people's affairs.
If they're world affairs, like WWII, I get it, but Syria's internal politics are their own responsibility.
Yep, politics as usual... Glad to know that the richest nation on Earth could care less when 70,000 innocent people die as long as their skin is brown and/or they live in the desert.
The truth is life is cheap. People want to pretend otherwise, but life is cheap. And Syria needs to take care of it's own problem. If people there don't like their conditions, they should do something about it. They do NOT want the US to come in, might not get rid of them ever.
I've wanted something like this since I was a kid. Something incredibly useful, portable, does many functions, even phone calls, from a watch? Hell yeah I'll buy one.
Someone mentioned heat and games. I don't want to play games on it.
I want to text, make phone calls, maybe pictures / video, and get information on it. Like news or directions. It shouldn't heat up too much with that barring the
video.
Technology has been useful, and it has been convenient for the task it's replacing/performing. However it is rarely convenient to carry with you all the time.
Priceless.
Seriously? Remember texting on the old dumb phones? The ones with the small screens? Ya, you get the small screens with these "smart watches" . Hope the texting works for you, using 1 hand (after all, you aren't going to take the watch off to hold it in two hands to text, right?) on that small screen. Not even sure how you want to use it as a phone, hold it up to your ear? bluetooth headset? Did you even think this thru?
I know this sound cool when we were kids (not sure when you were a kid, but they didn't even have them big ass brick cell phones when I was a kid. But now I'm not a kid, and I can see the value of a "smart" watch is very, very low.
I stopped wearing my watch when I got a cell phone. Why? Because it's that convenient item that does it all that I can carry with me.
If spying were an "act of WAR", then EVERY government has a casus bellum against EVERY OTHER country.
Face it, espionage has been a fact of life between governments since at least the time of the ancient Greeks...
Espionage is how wars are prevented. We'd have a world war constantly for hundreds of years if not for the spy wars. World War 1 would never have ended.
Wars are prevented when leaders of countries actually sit down and try to work out relationships with countries, without the intent of screwing them over for gain.
If spying were an "act of WAR", then EVERY government has a casus bellum against EVERY OTHER country.
Face it, espionage has been a fact of life between governments since at least the time of the ancient Greeks...
And yet you can be put to death if caught spying...
Slashdot basement dwellers tend to vastly overemphasize the importance of PC gaming. The entire PC game market could disappear and it would make barely a blip in Microsoft's revenue.
Even the idea of owning a desktop PC (especially with huge red fans and bright blue LEDs) is considered ridiculous by most people in year 2013.
So:
1. Businesses aren't buying desktop PCs because Windows 8.
2. Consumers aren't buying desktop PCs because they're 'ridiculous'.
Then who's buying those desktop PCs, other than gamers?
Gamers build their own machines.
I've never understood why people non-anonymously go public with security flaws, except for personal gain. "Yeah I'm that guy, give me credz/a job... BUT I DID IT ALTRUISTICALLY!"
Either post directly under an alias, or - better - release to the IT or even general press.
Let say you banked at bank that had this flaw. You tell them it has this flaw, they ignore you. You tell them again, they ignore you. You tell them again, they ignore you. YOu tell them again, they ignore you.
So besides moving to a new bank, what do you do? You let everyone know that they have a flaw and need to fix it. It's called public shaming and has been used since the beginning of man.
He can't even retire properly, should have done so years ago.
Chairs just won't fly around the same without him
Hope they tell him not to let the chair hit him on the way out.
Fucking stupid ass wankers that don't know shit wants to tell us what is up.
Dude who wrote article must play Captain Obvious in the DC Heroes Game...
Honestly,
It seems like this tidbit of info, coming when it has, is pitch perfect to make people stop listening to the Bradley Manning situation and turn the whole fiasco into a bad joke.
Isn't that just TERRIBLY convenient for the government?
agree, I have a hard time believing this. It's sounding to me the government is using whatever means to justify the sentence. "See, he think he's god, and *gasp* he wants to be a woman!"
Supermarkets have a typical profit margin of 1 to 2%. It means that if you steal 10$ worth of food they need to sell 1000-2000$ worth more to make it up unless they already have calculated the shoplifting costs in their 1-2% profit margin. No store stays open for long without makings profits so your "profit maximization" argument makes no sense.
Any businessman will factor in all costs, like hiring more cashier, security guards, security cameras, utility bills etc. when determining their sale prices, it is economy 101.
The goal for any business is to keep shoplifting as low as possible for the cheapest cost ratio possible in order to be able to keep prices down and maximize profits.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2012/12/20/retail-worst-enemy-their-own-employees/
Says that employee stealing is worse then shoplifters, so it seems that Supermarkets biggest problem is it's own employee's.
Global Warming? Idiots. This is the start of the Ice Age. Mother Nature is fattening us up for the big freeze.
Wait, I got another idea. Ancient Alien Theorist say that Aliens are fattening us up for dinner. Their dinner.
But seriously, I know why I am fat. I eat a lot of junk food and get very little exercise.
Of course there can be open source music. The proper question is, of course, can there be good open source music?
what is considered "good" in music is usually subjective.
Some might say MS programmers don't really know how to code, so making an app that codes without coding is just coming full circle.
Wait, I think there is a meme in there. "hey, I hear you wanted to code some code without coding."
...joked one as we swept up the remains of a MacBook Pro.
Anyone else think of the scene in Zoolander? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze3hthGRbRo
Did they really destroy a functional computer to destroy the drive? Could they not have removed the hard drive and destroyed just those parts that have any persistent data retention? Even including the optical drive would have been overkill-- eject the disk. What was the purpose of destroying perfectly good hardware? Just to be sure? Why not steam roller the remains and then incinerate them in an induction furnace? Where they worried about a secret compartment? Notes scribbled on the inside? What a bunch of clowns.
To take the HD out, would require some tools, like a Philips screwdriver. That sort of tool is too complicated for the jackboots, they are just given hammers. Hammers smash, which is about the IQ level needed to be the jackboot of the government.
The intention wasn't to destroy the data, it was to punish and intimidate.
It worked, I think that Laptop is scared and will never hold a harddrive again...
... If I stand on a street corner and hand out copies of my book, I cannot then turn around and sue anyone who takes a copy for theft. It's only when someone I did not authorize stands on a street corner handing out copies of my book that I can sue him (and the recipients if they knew the book giveaway wasn't legal) for theft...
You talking books (physical objects) or you talking ebooks? Because, unless the person walked into your home/office/warehouse and stole a case of books, he's can give away your book all he wants.
Now if you are talking ebooks, that he is giving away digital copies of your book away on street corner (as CD's, or Flashdrives?) then ya, he probably is doing something bad.
Here's the thing about your example. I have seen people give away books, and pamphlets on street corners, but I have NEVER, and I mean NEVER seen anyone give away ebooks. In fact, I can NOT think of a time I've seen anyone give away CD's, unless it has music on it, or it was from AOL.
So, IMO, your example sucked badly.