This is my thought too. I think it's a good thing to have a venue where evidence of wrongdoing can be leaked. For example, I didn't have an issue when they leaked the video of the Baghdad strike that killed the Reuters journalist and other unarmed civilians. The military was trying to cover it up, and the video showed evidence of possible wrongdoing. But they shouldn't leak something just because they can. There are perfectly legitimate reasons for the military to keep much of their information classified.
First off, it sounds like his "trick" DID succeed. The guy's life was hell for 8 months...
It's scary to think about, but it wouldn't be all that difficult to frame someone like this. You wouldn't even have to get access to their computer. I imagine it would be as easy as getting an anonymous pay-per-use cell phone, texting someone illegal pictures for a few days, and then reporting them to the police. Maybe they wouldn't get convicted, but their life would still be ruined by the allegations.
Something like this could even happen by accident. God forbid someone rummage through your cache after you spend an hour browsing/b/. Do you know what was in all of those thumbnails that you scrolled past? Do you even WANT to know?;)
I have yet to run into a case where Facebook blatantly publicized information that I set to be private. Most of the time, people fail to understand the permissions or how to set them. Other than the occasional bug, I haven't seen much of a reason to complain.
I have a 2009 Toyota Corolla. They have done two recall fixes. The first was the little metal piece that they inserted into the accelerator. Even after that fix was in place, there were still many reports of unintended acceleration, and the crisis was still escalating in the media. The second fix came later and was a software update that will stop the engine if the brakes and gas are fully pressed simultaneously (or at least, that's how it was described to me.) That second fix wasn't pushed out until reports of the problem were subsiding anyway, and it still didn't address any sort of cause.
Despite the fact that no "real" fix was ever released, reports of unintended acceleration subsided. Problems like this don't fix themselves unless there was really no problem to begin with.
I carry two small keychains. One has the key to my car and all of my grocery/gas station/pharmacy loyalty cards and the other has my apartment key, mailbox key, and a bottle opener. I take them with me most everywhere along with my wallet, cellphone, and, often, my camera. They all go in my pants pockets. I have yet to lose any of them. If I do decide to leave one behind, I will often leave my apartment key in my car because I can't really get back to my apartment without my car anyway. Or if I don't drive, I leave my car key at my apartment. I have never even considered this question... I can't imagine wandering around somewhere without all my stuff unless I have specifically planned to leave some of it behind.
It reminds me of when MADD opposed a liquor store's request for a permit to deliver liquor. Even though you'd think that it would decrease drunk driving, MADD was totally against it.
AOL offers free email, just like Hotmail, Yahoo, and others. You don't have to pay money for it.
Also, many people still using an @aol email may have originally had AOL back in the 90's and decided to keep their email address even after they dropped AOL as their ISP. I left AOL in 1999, and they let me keep my email address and AIM screen name... I still have them in fact, although I don't use them much. If I had used my @aol email address extensively though, I would probably still be using it. Why go through the trouble of changing your email address when you already have something that works and is free?
With regards to the raping-the-4-year-old example, I initially came here to say, "Wouldn't searching the computer and finding evidence of another victim be similar to searching a dresser drawer for pictures of the said crime and finding pictures of other victims as well, and wouldn't that be perfectly legal?"
However, you raise a very good point here and changed my mind a bit. On one hand, I can see where, in my opinion, searching the "My Pictures" folder in Windows (with a warrant) for evidence of child pornography and finding other victims as well would be the equivalent to my dresser drawer example above. But now that you mention it, I'm not so sure that they should be allowed to even look in a spreadsheet in My Documents, for example, or even be given access to it in the first place.
Just to clarify, I'm not saying that the situation isn't scary. But I think that certain laws and procedures have been scary since well before the internet showed up.
This same situation could exist 30 years ago with POTS. If you call someone and just breathe into the phone, you are violating a restraining order. Say, for example, that such a call originates at your house, and it's to a person who has a restraining order against you. How do we know who made the call? Did you make it? Did a guest of yours make it? Did someone break in and make the call? Or, if we're going to start talking about conspiracies like packet-forging, did someone beige-box you?
I agree with the parent's point, that we often don't need new laws to handle the internet.
Why not take the money and use it to buy a new laptop exclusively for work? Is it critical to have a single laptop that you use for work and personal use?
If it's more convenient to use your work laptop for personal use, but only on occasion, you can always copy your files to your personal computer when you're able and then use a program like Eraser to clean up your work drive.
I have always been under the impression that acetaminophen is pretty easy on your stomach and doesn't cause nausea. Hydrocodone, on the other hand, always tends to give me nausea when I take it in pill form.
As for what they would replace the acetaminophen with, I think that ibuprofen or naproxen would be good choices. They are both pretty easy on my stomach (when using only short term), and they do a better job at killing pain anyway.
I think this is a very good point. Personally, I don't care for acetaminophen anyway, because it doesn't do me much good and it's unhealthy to boot. I know they exist, but I don't know why combination painkillers of hydrocodone and ibuprofen aren't more commonly prescribed. Although, in the end, I'm still a much bigger fan of naproxen (Aleve) for all of my non-narcotic painkilling needs.
1. Why as an investor would I pay a 30% premium to purchase physical gold?
I have no idea. I could understand if they were charging a transaction fee that's 30% higher than the norm. But if they are really charging 30% more for the gold, that makes little sense.
3. I run into issues when trying to sell the gold after I've taken possession because how can anyone be sure that I haven't tampered with the gold? How do they know that 1oz is still 1oz? What if I drilled and filled it?
Um... weigh it?
Your scenario sounds the most likely of any that I have read. The bright white light seen by the other airline is, IMO, not as much evidence of a meteor as evidence that the plane started breaking up while it was crashing (as opposed to crashing intact and breaking up when it hit the water.)
Mine have lasted longer than that, but I'm still not too impressed. I replaced three 25 watt candelabra bulbs with ~6 watt CFL bulbs in my dining room about one and a half years ago. I leave them on quite often... sometimes as much as 60 hours a week. I don't turn them on and off repeatedly or anything like that. Since then, I have had to replace two out of the three.
The issue isn't that people can't identify which part of their computer is broken. I don't think that any reasonable IT person expects that. The issue isn't even that they are calling the computer by the wrong name. The issue is that some people call the whole computer by a name that is incorrect but is a valid name for a single component that is part of the computer. This can cause confusion sometimes.
The only people that bitch about "cold" coffee at McDonald's, or any restaurant, are the ones who buy their coffee in the drive-through and don't drink it they arrive at their destination a while later. Unless a careless employee pours a cup and then leaves it sitting out for a while they give it to you, I can't imagine anyone thinking that their coffee is too cold when they initially receive it.
Many businesses haven't made the transition to Vista. I think that it's likely that many have chosen not to adopt Vista because of compatibility issues with software that they use. With an XP virtual machine, I think that MS may be trying to lure them to Windows 7 by offering them a way to reliably run those legacy applications.
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Oops, I read the original post as
Perhaps leaking everything you can get your hands on isn't always the best thing to do. Just a thought.
I replied accordingly. I still think it's what he meant... just a typo.
In some cases, it is not. Consider police informants.
This is my thought too. I think it's a good thing to have a venue where evidence of wrongdoing can be leaked. For example, I didn't have an issue when they leaked the video of the Baghdad strike that killed the Reuters journalist and other unarmed civilians. The military was trying to cover it up, and the video showed evidence of possible wrongdoing. But they shouldn't leak something just because they can. There are perfectly legitimate reasons for the military to keep much of their information classified.
First off, it sounds like his "trick" DID succeed. The guy's life was hell for 8 months...
/b/. Do you know what was in all of those thumbnails that you scrolled past? Do you even WANT to know? ;)
It's scary to think about, but it wouldn't be all that difficult to frame someone like this. You wouldn't even have to get access to their computer. I imagine it would be as easy as getting an anonymous pay-per-use cell phone, texting someone illegal pictures for a few days, and then reporting them to the police. Maybe they wouldn't get convicted, but their life would still be ruined by the allegations.
Something like this could even happen by accident. God forbid someone rummage through your cache after you spend an hour browsing
I have yet to run into a case where Facebook blatantly publicized information that I set to be private. Most of the time, people fail to understand the permissions or how to set them. Other than the occasional bug, I haven't seen much of a reason to complain.
I agree.
I have a 2009 Toyota Corolla. They have done two recall fixes. The first was the little metal piece that they inserted into the accelerator. Even after that fix was in place, there were still many reports of unintended acceleration, and the crisis was still escalating in the media. The second fix came later and was a software update that will stop the engine if the brakes and gas are fully pressed simultaneously (or at least, that's how it was described to me.) That second fix wasn't pushed out until reports of the problem were subsiding anyway, and it still didn't address any sort of cause.
Despite the fact that no "real" fix was ever released, reports of unintended acceleration subsided. Problems like this don't fix themselves unless there was really no problem to begin with.
Each second, Google processes more porn than you have on your flash drive, iPhone, and desktop combined.
Want to bet?
I carry two small keychains. One has the key to my car and all of my grocery/gas station/pharmacy loyalty cards and the other has my apartment key, mailbox key, and a bottle opener. I take them with me most everywhere along with my wallet, cellphone, and, often, my camera. They all go in my pants pockets. I have yet to lose any of them. If I do decide to leave one behind, I will often leave my apartment key in my car because I can't really get back to my apartment without my car anyway. Or if I don't drive, I leave my car key at my apartment. I have never even considered this question... I can't imagine wandering around somewhere without all my stuff unless I have specifically planned to leave some of it behind.
Pretty much, this.
It reminds me of when MADD opposed a liquor store's request for a permit to deliver liquor. Even though you'd think that it would decrease drunk driving, MADD was totally against it.
I bet oxygen-enriched vodka would burn like hell.
:)
Literally.
My brother has an Asus laptop... I'm not sure the model. It's a couple of years old. It came with Vista.
When Windows 7 because available at his university, he installed it on his laptop. He noticed that the battery life noticeably improved.
AOL offers free email, just like Hotmail, Yahoo, and others. You don't have to pay money for it.
Also, many people still using an @aol email may have originally had AOL back in the 90's and decided to keep their email address even after they dropped AOL as their ISP. I left AOL in 1999, and they let me keep my email address and AIM screen name... I still have them in fact, although I don't use them much. If I had used my @aol email address extensively though, I would probably still be using it. Why go through the trouble of changing your email address when you already have something that works and is free?
With regards to the raping-the-4-year-old example, I initially came here to say, "Wouldn't searching the computer and finding evidence of another victim be similar to searching a dresser drawer for pictures of the said crime and finding pictures of other victims as well, and wouldn't that be perfectly legal?"
However, you raise a very good point here and changed my mind a bit. On one hand, I can see where, in my opinion, searching the "My Pictures" folder in Windows (with a warrant) for evidence of child pornography and finding other victims as well would be the equivalent to my dresser drawer example above. But now that you mention it, I'm not so sure that they should be allowed to even look in a spreadsheet in My Documents, for example, or even be given access to it in the first place.
Just to clarify, I'm not saying that the situation isn't scary. But I think that certain laws and procedures have been scary since well before the internet showed up.
This same situation could exist 30 years ago with POTS. If you call someone and just breathe into the phone, you are violating a restraining order. Say, for example, that such a call originates at your house, and it's to a person who has a restraining order against you. How do we know who made the call? Did you make it? Did a guest of yours make it? Did someone break in and make the call? Or, if we're going to start talking about conspiracies like packet-forging, did someone beige-box you?
I agree with the parent's point, that we often don't need new laws to handle the internet.
Why not take the money and use it to buy a new laptop exclusively for work? Is it critical to have a single laptop that you use for work and personal use?
If it's more convenient to use your work laptop for personal use, but only on occasion, you can always copy your files to your personal computer when you're able and then use a program like Eraser to clean up your work drive.
I have always been under the impression that acetaminophen is pretty easy on your stomach and doesn't cause nausea. Hydrocodone, on the other hand, always tends to give me nausea when I take it in pill form.
As for what they would replace the acetaminophen with, I think that ibuprofen or naproxen would be good choices. They are both pretty easy on my stomach (when using only short term), and they do a better job at killing pain anyway.
I think this is a very good point. Personally, I don't care for acetaminophen anyway, because it doesn't do me much good and it's unhealthy to boot. I know they exist, but I don't know why combination painkillers of hydrocodone and ibuprofen aren't more commonly prescribed. Although, in the end, I'm still a much bigger fan of naproxen (Aleve) for all of my non-narcotic painkilling needs.
1. Why as an investor would I pay a 30% premium to purchase physical gold?
I have no idea. I could understand if they were charging a transaction fee that's 30% higher than the norm. But if they are really charging 30% more for the gold, that makes little sense.
3. I run into issues when trying to sell the gold after I've taken possession because how can anyone be sure that I haven't tampered with the gold? How do they know that 1oz is still 1oz? What if I drilled and filled it?
Um... weigh it?
Your scenario sounds the most likely of any that I have read. The bright white light seen by the other airline is, IMO, not as much evidence of a meteor as evidence that the plane started breaking up while it was crashing (as opposed to crashing intact and breaking up when it hit the water.)
Mine have lasted longer than that, but I'm still not too impressed. I replaced three 25 watt candelabra bulbs with ~6 watt CFL bulbs in my dining room about one and a half years ago. I leave them on quite often... sometimes as much as 60 hours a week. I don't turn them on and off repeatedly or anything like that. Since then, I have had to replace two out of the three.
If African-Americans were not racist, then at most 65% of them would have supported Obama.
I think you may want to look into look into the percentage of African Americans that vote Democrat regardless of race.
The issue isn't that people can't identify which part of their computer is broken. I don't think that any reasonable IT person expects that. The issue isn't even that they are calling the computer by the wrong name. The issue is that some people call the whole computer by a name that is incorrect but is a valid name for a single component that is part of the computer. This can cause confusion sometimes.
The only people that bitch about "cold" coffee at McDonald's, or any restaurant, are the ones who buy their coffee in the drive-through and don't drink it they arrive at their destination a while later. Unless a careless employee pours a cup and then leaves it sitting out for a while they give it to you, I can't imagine anyone thinking that their coffee is too cold when they initially receive it.
Many businesses haven't made the transition to Vista. I think that it's likely that many have chosen not to adopt Vista because of compatibility issues with software that they use. With an XP virtual machine, I think that MS may be trying to lure them to Windows 7 by offering them a way to reliably run those legacy applications.