Its a little more complex than a restaurant. We're talking about tens of thousands of passengers, plus rerouting flights to new places, assigning the correct crew members to flights and lots of other accounting type things. I would assume also that the reservation software is linked in someway to one of Homeland Security's wonderful databases so that just makes everything a lot of harder. Its not quite as simple as tallying how many people get on the plane.
Odd how www.windowsupdate.com does the same thing... I obviously can't trust that site to update the holes on my computer that Microsoft has created. I guess I'll just close my eyes next time I try it so I don't know that its redirecting me.
Its a step and a small one but we've gotta start somewhere. Until a judge forces to these companies to have legal contracts (that y'know make them liable for making damaging software) then we've still got a long ways to go. But like I said, its a start.
Sadly enough, I've gotta agree. This is going to be one of the biggest fights over rights that humans have ever fought. I think it will end up with some types of artificial creations with rights but when is the really hard part to figure out.
Great site, I love it. I'm pretty left-wing and libertarian socially on the compass, maybe even a little more than I really am but its pretty good. Its always hard I think to decide whether one agrees or agrees strongly or what not.
I'm on the left and I don't like it. The left-right spectrum is kinda broken in a lot of ways. We have left-wingers like myself who support universal health care but think this idea is invasion of privacy just like I think preventing two people to marry no matter their sex is an invasion of privacy. It's not as simple as left-right anymore (if it ever was).
The point is that a person/entity can create a P2P program with a very small amount of custom code. If someone is going to ban P2P for "inducing" copyright infringement, they'd look stupid for banning a program this small or they'd have to ban the libraries that are used too which is pretty unlikely.
Its not that simple. There was talk of mandating.kids and.xxx a while back but the biggest issue is what do you do for sites that some people consider porn/unacceptable for children or teens (artistic nudes, birth control info, breast cancer sites, gay community sites) while others don't. The worry is it either becomes ineffective (like filtering) or becomes too restrictive and prevents free speech and free exchange of information (like filtering). That's the issue at hand with.xxx and to a lesser extent.kids and why these domains I think are a long time coming.
It may be made by Microsoft but the program is better than Google. You can actually interact with your search results similar to the way you could from Windows Explorer from a folder or what not. That is something that had annoyed me with Google's. SOmetimes I want to find every file that has something in it to delete them all yet to do so I have to use the crappy search functionality built into Windows. It also searchs more things (contacts in Outlook is an example). I may not like the company behind it but you can't say that they didn't do a better job this time. Hopefully this just convinces others to upgrade and innovate more.
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I'm not defending spyware. I'm just making the point that people are less vigilant towards little brother than big brother.
I didn't say I agreed with spyware in the least. My point was that people accept much more invasion from companies than from the government. And I don't know why everyone thinks spyware by definition installs silently. The vast majority state in their user agreements what they are going to do; its just that people ignore them.
I think part of it is the fact that in many cases we know better. We know how hard it truly is to make computer systems safe. We know that major companies can have their systems compromised due to simple mistakes and holes in software. Because of this we know to be more careful about our personal information and to limit its dissemination.
I think its a little different if its a police officer versus a company. Many people take their rights against government intrusion very seriously (right to free speech, carry a firearm, etc.) and yet accept great intrusion from companies (having your bag checked when you leave a store, allowing credit bureaus to circumvent privacy laws and share your records to anyone who requests it, accepting that insurance companies should grill you on whether you really needed the anesthetic for that surgery).
On a personal level, while it isn't intrusion persay but certainly insulting is the security guard sitting at the front of Best Buy who watches his screens and basically reminds you that Best Buy considers you a potential theif at all times.
I don't know why people keep suggesting this. The vast majority of spyware is not breaking the law because people click next when a policy comes up that explains to them what the spyware will do. I've done this more than once and I'm sure many other slashdotters have too. It really is a lack of education that is feeding this problem, not bad laws.
How isn't that a significant development? A quadraplegic goes from being completely dependent on others to being able to accomplish things on his own and in addition some things he could only dream of (video games). That's pretty life changing I think.
However if you did so you'd be prosecuted for disseminating explicit content to people under the age of 18. I don't necessarily have a problem with you doing it but Senator Brownback might.
Slashdot does not produce valid html or xhtml. That is part of the problem. Secondly the rendering problem has actually been fixed in the development versions of Mozilla but they haven't rolled it into the released versions because they don't consider it tested enough. Search bugzilla for this bug and they'll tell you where to get the development version but you might have bigger problems with that than slashdot rendering incorrectly.
Slashdot does not produce valid html or xhtml. That is part of the problem. Secondly the rendering problem has actually been fixed in the development versions of Mozilla but they haven't rolled it into the released versions because they don't consider it tested enough.
Maybe its just me but I think porn is the least of the Chinese people's problems with oppression; this is simply a funny example of it.
Not being able to fairly vote, not having a right to free speech, not being able to worship and frankly not being able to keep the government from killing you on a whim is oppression. That's not a difference in society, that's abuse of power.
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Its a little more complex than a restaurant. We're talking about tens of thousands of passengers, plus rerouting flights to new places, assigning the correct crew members to flights and lots of other accounting type things. I would assume also that the reservation software is linked in someway to one of Homeland Security's wonderful databases so that just makes everything a lot of harder. Its not quite as simple as tallying how many people get on the plane.
So they acted like a regular airline?
Odd how www.windowsupdate.com does the same thing... I obviously can't trust that site to update the holes on my computer that Microsoft has created. I guess I'll just close my eyes next time I try it so I don't know that its redirecting me.
Its a step and a small one but we've gotta start somewhere. Until a judge forces to these companies to have legal contracts (that y'know make them liable for making damaging software) then we've still got a long ways to go. But like I said, its a start.
Sadly enough, I've gotta agree. This is going to be one of the biggest fights over rights that humans have ever fought. I think it will end up with some types of artificial creations with rights but when is the really hard part to figure out.
Nothing like a good Ghostbusters reference :)
Why in the world were you stripping wires with your teeth in the first place?
Great site, I love it. I'm pretty left-wing and libertarian socially on the compass, maybe even a little more than I really am but its pretty good. Its always hard I think to decide whether one agrees or agrees strongly or what not.
I'm on the left and I don't like it. The left-right spectrum is kinda broken in a lot of ways. We have left-wingers like myself who support universal health care but think this idea is invasion of privacy just like I think preventing two people to marry no matter their sex is an invasion of privacy. It's not as simple as left-right anymore (if it ever was).
The point is that a person/entity can create a P2P program with a very small amount of custom code. If someone is going to ban P2P for "inducing" copyright infringement, they'd look stupid for banning a program this small or they'd have to ban the libraries that are used too which is pretty unlikely.
Its not that simple. There was talk of mandating .kids and .xxx a while back but the biggest issue is what do you do for sites that some people consider porn/unacceptable for children or teens (artistic nudes, birth control info, breast cancer sites, gay community sites) while others don't. The worry is it either becomes ineffective (like filtering) or becomes too restrictive and prevents free speech and free exchange of information (like filtering). That's the issue at hand with .xxx and to a lesser extent .kids and why these domains I think are a long time coming.
Damn right. Someone who looks that good shouldn't be studying math all day.
Thank you, I'm glad someone said that.
It may be made by Microsoft but the program is better than Google. You can actually interact with your search results similar to the way you could from Windows Explorer from a folder or what not. That is something that had annoyed me with Google's. SOmetimes I want to find every file that has something in it to delete them all yet to do so I have to use the crappy search functionality built into Windows. It also searchs more things (contacts in Outlook is an example). I may not like the company behind it but you can't say that they didn't do a better job this time. Hopefully this just convinces others to upgrade and innovate more.
I'm not defending spyware. I'm just making the point that people are less vigilant towards little brother than big brother.
I didn't say I agreed with spyware in the least. My point was that people accept much more invasion from companies than from the government. And I don't know why everyone thinks spyware by definition installs silently. The vast majority state in their user agreements what they are going to do; its just that people ignore them.
I think part of it is the fact that in many cases we know better. We know how hard it truly is to make computer systems safe. We know that major companies can have their systems compromised due to simple mistakes and holes in software. Because of this we know to be more careful about our personal information and to limit its dissemination.
I think its a little different if its a police officer versus a company. Many people take their rights against government intrusion very seriously (right to free speech, carry a firearm, etc.) and yet accept great intrusion from companies (having your bag checked when you leave a store, allowing credit bureaus to circumvent privacy laws and share your records to anyone who requests it, accepting that insurance companies should grill you on whether you really needed the anesthetic for that surgery). On a personal level, while it isn't intrusion persay but certainly insulting is the security guard sitting at the front of Best Buy who watches his screens and basically reminds you that Best Buy considers you a potential theif at all times.
I don't know why people keep suggesting this. The vast majority of spyware is not breaking the law because people click next when a policy comes up that explains to them what the spyware will do. I've done this more than once and I'm sure many other slashdotters have too. It really is a lack of education that is feeding this problem, not bad laws.
How isn't that a significant development? A quadraplegic goes from being completely dependent on others to being able to accomplish things on his own and in addition some things he could only dream of (video games). That's pretty life changing I think.
However if you did so you'd be prosecuted for disseminating explicit content to people under the age of 18. I don't necessarily have a problem with you doing it but Senator Brownback might.
Slashdot does not produce valid html or xhtml. That is part of the problem. Secondly the rendering problem has actually been fixed in the development versions of Mozilla but they haven't rolled it into the released versions because they don't consider it tested enough. Search bugzilla for this bug and they'll tell you where to get the development version but you might have bigger problems with that than slashdot rendering incorrectly.
Slashdot does not produce valid html or xhtml. That is part of the problem. Secondly the rendering problem has actually been fixed in the development versions of Mozilla but they haven't rolled it into the released versions because they don't consider it tested enough.
I've never found prime numbers to be fun at all. Derivatives on the other hand....
Maybe its just me but I think porn is the least of the Chinese people's problems with oppression; this is simply a funny example of it. Not being able to fairly vote, not having a right to free speech, not being able to worship and frankly not being able to keep the government from killing you on a whim is oppression. That's not a difference in society, that's abuse of power.