History, like everything, is MUCH more than "a collection of facts".
You insist that a claim has been made, specifically, a claim that predictions can be made based on "the facts of history". I made no such claim, so the rest of your remarks are just you arguing with yourself (poorly).
You claim that I need to be very careful about "imagination and pattern recognition", and that somehow I need to do some sort of a double blind controlled study to gain any insight. I don't know what else to say than you are simply wrong.
Dismissing history as "art", and pretending that you are somehow above it, because you seem to think of yourself as "scientific", is absurd.
Equating history to homeopathy was really the most perfect way you could end your remarks.
Demanding studies to support a claim based on assumptions and presumptions that only you've made is not something that interests me at all.
Fixing the huge gaping security loophole they created in the first place, which put everyone's privacy and data at risk ?
FB should have intervened on this guys behalf, he did them a HUGE favor.
But its really his poor judgement concerning the type of company and personalities involved in FB that got him into trouble. You can't expect ethical outcomes when dealing with people who's entire business model is based on unethical attitudes about the public using it's services.
Buy fake "independent" organizations to pitch your lies and propaganda, so that your minions of obedient little clo.. err, customers will still feel good about buying your overpriced crap.
Oh, wait... THAT isn't "different" at all, it's American business as usual.
Even if you don't care weather "law enforcement/the government" uses the tags specific to your printer, what about the obvious potential for other entities utilizing it for their nefarious purposes ?
FOIA requests - really ? They make you feel more comfortable ? Really ? The "information" the government chooses to let you have when and if they want you to have it makes you feel good ? Your little "real world" of "pretty detailed information about what the government is doing" strikes me as naive at best, and insane at worst.
You must be able to read the stuff that's int he black lines int he documents "the government" has so generously supplied.
Industry working to assist the government to subvert privacy is the issue.
And while government is supposed to at least tell you when it's taking away your liberty, industry that expects you to buy their products have an obligation to tell you that they've tampered with your device and made it possible to track everything you print back to you, not just by the government, but by ANY asshole that cares so little about privacy.
Creating more security loopholes for the private citizen isn't what government is telling us they're doing all this shit for. Yet it's exactly what's going on.
It isn't about "claiming predictive powers", it's about simply learning from history.
Though, admittedly, if one utterly lacks all imagination and pattern recognition, studying history is not going to help make up for their shortcomings...
They didn't have the option of "ignoring him". People *demanded* assurances, as a result of the hysteria the guy caused, and they got them.
Oh, and a "big earthquake" happening after months of predictions of a "big" one by someone unqualified to make that declaration, is hardly conclusive evidence that his theory was right. Don't pretend this is about science, it isn't, it's about shitty popular Italian politics and their own brand of warped "justice".
You just demolished the entire premise his rant was based on.
And all it took was googling to prove his assertion that Honeywell bought the technology decades ago and shelved it with the intention of preventing anyone else from using it, is a lie.
I wish I had mod points to give you, especially since his post garnered a +5 - apparently he's not the only one that has reading comprehension issues.
Unique Content. That's what it's really all about. People who relate primarily by the lowest common denominators are not people who care about unique content, or even about variety. The VHS revolution was a big deal because of all the obscure media people were finally able to share, and to watch whenever they wanted to, with whomever they wanted to.
Except that this is on a microscopic level, the drag you assume is there interacting with that boundary layer of air isn't the same thing as the macro level sized dimples on a golfball.
The friction you assume is there is based on a much larger texture; air is not stiff carpeting or velcro, it does not behave like a solid, it behaves more like a fluid.
This suggests the reality is the opposite of your many assumptions.
If you have sensitive data, you absolutely, positively, MUST protect it with the best encryption available.
The government will eventually demand the keys to all our locks, as in this case, but we don't have to give them to them.
If you're serious about truly secure passwords, use a process and a manager that will delete passwords automatically after a certain period of time. That way, nobody has the password, and demanding it from you becomes an absurdity.
I empathize with the bullies and the torturers that would prefer to have the ability to easily break all our locks, I just have no intention of colluding with them.
Not much point in holding someone in jail for years for "contempt of court", or in even bothering with utilizing "enhanced interrogation" techniques on people if they don't have, and never did have the passwords to begin with.
I'd expect to see all sorts of people getting hired that formerly had great difficulty even getting an interview.
Myself, I've never been hired through an HR department. It's always the interview with those who will be the managers above me that closes the deal. They know what they are looking for in an employee far better than HR. I've always avoided HR as much as possible, until AFTER I've been hired.
This strikes me as a tool HR will use to try to make up for their own shortcomings. As an exclusionary tool, one that's utilized to remove potential employees from the applicant pool, it's not going to necessarily be effective.
However, as a tool to look at potential employee shortcomings, and as a specific point of discussion during the vetting process, it could be very handy.
Point being, the data about an applicant gleaned from such a program is just data. That data is only as useful as the intelligence, creativity, and bias of the person attempting to interpret it. If HR is doing all the interpreting, your company is going to suffer.
Further political careers, harass and persecute otherwise innocent and/or inconsequential individuals, erode "freedom", and turn an amazing exploitative profit...
So I find the op's remarks on that to be an infantile reaction.
The fact that Collins is insisting that the safety of these federally mandated machines on millions of people each year be thoroughly examined after the fact is an irony that isn't lost on me.
If you're so pro business and "small government", why do you keep growing big government ?
Anybody that's ever worked for a private security firm knows that the whole concept of "security" is bullshit and that hiring flunkies to grope you, figuratively and literally, is a scam and a rip-off.
"I don't believe that it is a good idea to think along the lines you suggest. It means plain and simply that a person sitting in one country becomes subject to the laws of all countries."
Until you get harmed by someone in another country, they you'd be here crying about how unfair it is that some asshat in another country can use technology to screw with you.
I wonder if you have the same problem with the existence of the EU.
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I can't believe readers on a tech site gave someone that can not change an icon a +5.
No, he said that you're a shill, not a paid shill. At least a hooker gets paid; you apparently do it for free.
I did not "skirt" anything.
History, like everything, is MUCH more than "a collection of facts".
You insist that a claim has been made, specifically, a claim that predictions can be made based on "the facts of history". I made no such claim, so the rest of your remarks are just you arguing with yourself (poorly).
You claim that I need to be very careful about "imagination and pattern recognition", and that somehow I need to do some sort of a double blind controlled study to gain any insight. I don't know what else to say than you are simply wrong.
Dismissing history as "art", and pretending that you are somehow above it, because you seem to think of yourself as "scientific", is absurd.
Equating history to homeopathy was really the most perfect way you could end your remarks.
Demanding studies to support a claim based on assumptions and presumptions that only you've made is not something that interests me at all.
Fixing the huge gaping security loophole they created in the first place, which put everyone's privacy and data at risk ?
FB should have intervened on this guys behalf, he did them a HUGE favor.
But its really his poor judgement concerning the type of company and personalities involved in FB that got him into trouble. You can't expect ethical outcomes when dealing with people who's entire business model is based on unethical attitudes about the public using it's services.
Buy fake "independent" organizations to pitch your lies and propaganda, so that your minions of obedient little clo.. err, customers will still feel good about buying your overpriced crap.
Oh, wait... THAT isn't "different" at all, it's American business as usual.
That plastic twist-tie you left on your door as a "lock" didn't keep out the burglars and the rapists that nailed your wife and daughter last night.
So we're going to put YOU in jail for being an asshole.
Anyone can make up a shitty and deceptive analogy.
And your kids are kicked out of school for swearing ?
You have to be remarkably incompetent and oblivious to think that the teachers are making schools unbearable.
It's your kids, people, not the teachers.
Even if you don't care weather "law enforcement/the government" uses the tags specific to your printer, what about the obvious potential for other entities utilizing it for their nefarious purposes ?
FOIA requests - really ? They make you feel more comfortable ? Really ? The "information" the government chooses to let you have when and if they want you to have it makes you feel good ? Your little "real world" of "pretty detailed information about what the government is doing" strikes me as naive at best, and insane at worst.
You must be able to read the stuff that's int he black lines int he documents "the government" has so generously supplied.
Industry working to assist the government to subvert privacy is the issue.
And while government is supposed to at least tell you when it's taking away your liberty, industry that expects you to buy their products have an obligation to tell you that they've tampered with your device and made it possible to track everything you print back to you, not just by the government, but by ANY asshole that cares so little about privacy.
Creating more security loopholes for the private citizen isn't what government is telling us they're doing all this shit for. Yet it's exactly what's going on.
It isn't about "claiming predictive powers", it's about simply learning from history.
Though, admittedly, if one utterly lacks all imagination and pattern recognition, studying history is not going to help make up for their shortcomings...
But, but, but...
They didn't have the option of "ignoring him". People *demanded* assurances, as a result of the hysteria the guy caused, and they got them.
Oh, and a "big earthquake" happening after months of predictions of a "big" one by someone unqualified to make that declaration, is hardly conclusive evidence that his theory was right. Don't pretend this is about science, it isn't, it's about shitty popular Italian politics and their own brand of warped "justice".
You just demolished the entire premise his rant was based on.
And all it took was googling to prove his assertion that Honeywell bought the technology decades ago and shelved it with the intention of preventing anyone else from using it, is a lie.
I wish I had mod points to give you, especially since his post garnered a +5 - apparently he's not the only one that has reading comprehension issues.
Unique Content. That's what it's really all about. People who relate primarily by the lowest common denominators are not people who care about unique content, or even about variety. The VHS revolution was a big deal because of all the obscure media people were finally able to share, and to watch whenever they wanted to, with whomever they wanted to.
Except that this is on a microscopic level, the drag you assume is there interacting with that boundary layer of air isn't the same thing as the macro level sized dimples on a golfball. The friction you assume is there is based on a much larger texture; air is not stiff carpeting or velcro, it does not behave like a solid, it behaves more like a fluid. This suggests the reality is the opposite of your many assumptions.
I call Bullshit.
The over-reaction to the incident is what did far, far more damage.
And what the hell do you mean it's nto clear who "won" ?
Clearly the terrorists "Won", they changed our way of life. Or do you have "patriot amnesia" too ?
The article I read says that she hasn't told the judge that she forgot it yet, that her lawyer says she may have.
So, no, I don't think you understand the article at all, or the law as it applies in this instance.
Forgetting a password isn't a crime - yet...
If you have sensitive data, you absolutely, positively, MUST protect it with the best encryption available.
The government will eventually demand the keys to all our locks, as in this case, but we don't have to give them to them.
If you're serious about truly secure passwords, use a process and a manager that will delete passwords automatically after a certain period of time. That way, nobody has the password, and demanding it from you becomes an absurdity.
I empathize with the bullies and the torturers that would prefer to have the ability to easily break all our locks, I just have no intention of colluding with them.
Not much point in holding someone in jail for years for "contempt of court", or in even bothering with utilizing "enhanced interrogation" techniques on people if they don't have, and never did have the passwords to begin with.
Exactly, copyright was never intended to be wielded in a manner which compleatly prevents any access at all.
An industry that relies on such hostile activities towards consumers simply does not deserve to exist.
Arguably, it's immoral to patronize such an industry at all.
Only the historical revisionists, who consistently judge the past with the benefit of the present, comprehending fully neither in the process.
There's something to be said for admitting this stain can never be simply wiped away.
I'd expect to see all sorts of people getting hired that formerly had great difficulty even getting an interview.
Myself, I've never been hired through an HR department. It's always the interview with those who will be the managers above me that closes the deal. They know what they are looking for in an employee far better than HR. I've always avoided HR as much as possible, until AFTER I've been hired.
This strikes me as a tool HR will use to try to make up for their own shortcomings. As an exclusionary tool, one that's utilized to remove potential employees from the applicant pool, it's not going to necessarily be effective.
However, as a tool to look at potential employee shortcomings, and as a specific point of discussion during the vetting process, it could be very handy.
Point being, the data about an applicant gleaned from such a program is just data. That data is only as useful as the intelligence, creativity, and bias of the person attempting to interpret it. If HR is doing all the interpreting, your company is going to suffer.
Further political careers, harass and persecute otherwise innocent and/or inconsequential individuals, erode "freedom", and turn an amazing exploitative profit...
Deja vu X10
that the newbies in congress aren't quiet as bought-off as the rest.
Yet.
The relevant treaties regarding this issue work both ways, rendering the "US is the aggressor" stance irrelevant and atypically reactionary.
The fact that Collins is insisting that the safety of these federally mandated machines on millions of people each year be thoroughly examined after the fact is an irony that isn't lost on me.
If you're so pro business and "small government", why do you keep growing big government ?
Anybody that's ever worked for a private security firm knows that the whole concept of "security" is bullshit and that hiring flunkies to grope you, figuratively and literally, is a scam and a rip-off.
It isn't 1960 anymore.
Until you get harmed by someone in another country, they you'd be here crying about how unfair it is that some asshat in another country can use technology to screw with you.
I wonder if you have the same problem with the existence of the EU.