>Especially with all the wonderful 50 line long law footer BS in each and every mail.
Those always make me laugh. They have absolutely no legal power whatsoever. At best they are contracts of adhesion. What they really are is intimidation. If I accidentally mail something to the wrong person, it's not their fault, it's mine, and they can do whatever they want with it. The "if you received this in error blah blah blah" lines tacked on are just wasted electrons.
Someone having a bad day would be more tempted to post an errant email to 4chan/b/ that has the threatening footer than one without. Politeness breeds politeness. Asshole legal behavior begets assholes.
BCC was dead ages ago because nobody hardly ever learned to use it. It was dead before Facebook. It was dead before the large influx of spam. It was dead about the time Gopher came out.
Ever get a "chain forwarded" email with hundreds of email addresses of people you don't know?
That's because nobody uses BCC. Nobody ever learns how to trim FW: lines either. FFS, nobody ever learns to reply in-line with quotes. Replies are all top posted, mostly because of that crawling horror called Lotus Notes and that other crawling horror Exchange. Nobody ever learns how to trim replies either - a one line top posted reply to 10 screens of text or multiple forwards? Sure!
The death of BCC is not because of Facebook. The death of useful email features is because most people are unwilling to learn, rude, or stupid.
From the PDF under "enclosure" from someone reviewing the book:
"The formulas and procedures presented concerning the production of high and low explosives cannot be called incorrect but they are not always complete and therefore present a hazard to anyone using the information"
No kidding. Darwin Awards waiting to be handed out.
As a BBSer with my own copy back in the day, we didn't dare try any of that shit because it even looked like it was missing steps.
The Amateur Astronomer's Handbook has recipes for silvering mirrors, and there are warnings to not keep the mixture (sugar recipe) standing around too long because it creates silver fulminate. The complete lack of similar safety warnings in the Anarchists' Cookbook is a red flag not to try this stuff. Consult a real explosives manual instead.
This Solar Dynamics Observatory image of the Sun taken on January 10 in extreme ultraviolet light captures a dark coronal hole just about at sun center. Coronal holes are areas of the Sun's surface that are the source of open magnetic field lines that head way out into space. They are also the source regions of the fast solar wind, which is characterized by a relatively steady speed of approximately 800 km/s (about 1.8 million mph). As the sun continues to rotate, the high speed solar wind particles blowing from this hole will likely reach Earth in a few days and may spark some auroral activity.
The original article is not very informative at all. This, however, means that some people will get to see some lights. Cool.
But coronal holes are far from rare.
Nokia is sinking on it's burning platform, but then instead of jumping onto the water, the CEO just tied all the workers to an anchor (WP7) and chucked the anchor into the water.
Couple this with "lol, let's move the hq to CA" bullshit, and they're surprised the employees aren't happy?
You really didn't pay attention to the rhetoric during the healtcare reform massacre, did you? People like Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin repeatedly came out and said "death panels" and Fox News reported it with a straight face as if it was fact.
It wasn't about bureaucracy. It was about hospice care and pain remediation and all that shit that people eventually go through at the end of their lives which isn't always covered by private health insurance. But no, we couldn't have it because some whackos evoked visions of Nazi eugenics all over Fox.
So all the stuff about hospice care got removed just to shut them up. Good job, guys, that really helped.
And you really don't understand hyperbole, like the other poster said.
Good going with the false equivocation there. No other actual news outlet I know goes that far out of its way to report *falsehoods* as if they are fact, and then lie about it and say "oh, that's just opinion." Even Kieth Olbermann in his furthest left commentary doesn't even come close to the outright lies that Fox News comes up with on a daily basis.
No. Fuck them. They have become Radio Rwanda. They have people believing the stupidest shit going, and the network follows up with talking head after talking head to reinforce their POV.
To put Fox News on the same level as the other news outlets, is to denigrate the whole industry.
Fox News *wants you* to think that all news is biased equally. That's another one of their Big Lies. -- BMO
At least the Weekly World News never took itself seriously and never expected anyone to believe that Bat Boy was real.
After this amount of time it shouldn't surprise anyone that Fox News can't be arsed to come out with anything resembling news or information. Facts and accuracy be damned. Death panels? Sure. Obama is going to sneak into your house in the dead of night and smother your grandmother *personally.* Similarly, playing this game will turn your kids into serial killers. Never mind the research. What counts is eyeballs and page hits.
If Fox News said that the Sun will rise in the East tomorrow morning, I would have to check the astronomical tables to confirm.
Fox News is a fraud.
Anyone who still watches Fox is confirmed for stupid. I don't care if your IQ is 200. You still watch Fox? You take anything they say seriously? Then I have nothing to discuss with you. Ever.
Fox News wants you to believe in them. Fox News wants you to believe in Bat Boy.
"Of course it matters, as it inserts 'reasonable doubt' into the equation."
Instead of using my mod points in this thread, I'm going to reply, because this is kinda important that people understand this.
The standard of proof in civil suits is not the same as in criminal accusations. It's "preponderance of the evidence" which is fuzzy to define and varies from state to state, sometimes reducing lawsuits to a crapshoot, which is why many people and companies sue for the sake of suing as if it's a lottery.
"Reasonable doubt" is not enough to defend yourself in a civil suit.
"You've bought the media rhetoric. "The tea party" often refers to "The Tea Party Express", a minor offshoot of the larger movement, "
It's not a "minor offshoot" when the Tea Party Express can dish out the money needed to support lunatics like Bachmann and that guy from New York that ran a whole county into the ground. The Tea Party Express is the one with the control. They're controlling the rhetoric and anyone else is lost in the noise. Why? Because money and power, that's why.
If you're a tea partier, I've got some news for you. You've been co-opted. This shouldn't be any big surprise.
You keep telling yourself that this is all grass-roots. Denial is a powerful emotion.
"The reason, it appears, is that Bachmann delivered her speech to TeaPartyHD's camera"
That's straight from the article itself. Instead of an "address the nation" speech, it was "address my base" speech. Like I already said. It's not up to the networks to use the candidate's personal camera. That's how it's done. She should have been looking into the network cameras *like everybody else does.*
Her M.O. is not to be inclusive. Her M.O. is appeal to the gullible to extract as much cash as she can out of her "base." And her base is pretty stupid if they bought into a single word she said. The amount of stupidity that came out of her mouth is astounding for such a public figure. I live here in the Northeast where History is in my back yard. The insult to my intelligence that she perpetrated deserves all the scorn and ridicule I can dish up. Because she is that misinformed.
And don't even get me started on how the Tea Baggers and Far Right say that this is a "Christian" country, when the fucking Touro Synagogue is 20 miles from me. No. The far right and the Tea Baggers are FUCKING STUPID at best.
Burning Karma because I am mad at what these idiots have done to my country.
We need the emails because Sarah Palin instigates the same morbid fascination that a train wreck does. We need to know why she's so damn stupid.
The only person stupider than her is Michele Bachmann, who isn't even bright enough to look into the network cameras and thinks that John Quincy Adams "worked tirelessly until slavery was ended"
I think Republicans in general are cool and "don't afraid of anything" but the Teabagger Base (use your fundament, baby) is odious, despicable, and one misfired suicide bomber from being American Taliban.
"Spiritual Warriors" - pfui.
-- BMO
P.S. Palin/Bachmann 2012 - to immanentize the Eschaton.
Now I get 150 in 12 hours. Spambots are becoming more RFC compliant and resending after a 5xx or 4xx error. And instead of simply firing off *one* copy, I get 3 or 4. Previously spambots had been all fire-and-forget with no resending. Legitimate mail is dwarfed. And while my filtering on my mail client picks off the spam, I always still have to vgrep the trash for false positives.
So instead of seeing my spam decrease, like this article would have me believe, I have seen the opposite. Indeed, in the last 6 months, the load has quadrupled.
What I want to know is when are we going to start boiling these bastards in pitch?
he thinks that privacy policies mean anything, even though every privacy policy I've seen is a contract of adhesion at best and has a clause in it somewhere that says it can change at any time without notice.
What.
Never trust a privacy policy anywhere. That's just naive. Assume as if privacy policies don't exist(unless you decide to sue) and you won't become complacent about what you put out on the net. Nobody is going to watch your back but you.
How does not using third party applications of questionable quality affect the utility of Facebook? It doesn't. I don't use Facebook to play games. Sorry
The reason I use it is because that's where everybody is.
Previously everyone hung out in instant messaging. I've gone from dialup BBSes to telnet chats to ICQ, to AIM to Yahoo messaging, to Facebook. Not because I wanted to, but because everyone left the predecessors behind. And when the Next Big Thing comes along, people will desert Facebook like they've deserted Myspace. It's the natural order of things.
The trick is to not let your arse hang out in the wind, that's all. It's not that difficult. Use the interbutt with common sense and you won't ever have a problem.
It also helps if you explain to your friends (and this is where keeping your friends circle to meatspace) that you don't like to be tagged in photos. It works.
As far as tracking me, when I want people to know I honestly like something and I want to share with other people, I'll post it to my Facebook wall or If I want to pass something on, I'll use the "share this" button. Usually this consists of music, politics, or video postings gathered from elsewhere. Of course I get tracked, but if I really want to, I can just abandon the account and create a new one, since I'm not particularly attached to the name. I can become George LeRoy Tirebiter tomorrow if I want to. It's not like they can associate my meatspace name and location to my Facebook account.
You can choose not to use Facebook at all, but I do take issue with the "oooh, Facebook is eeeevil" paranoia. It's not any more evil than you allow it to be.
Slashdot Mirror
And the article itself is a bunch of hooey.
It's almost like I'm on 4chan/g/
Personally, I like Ubuntu even while I find fault with it. While nothing is perfect, out of all the distributions, it has the least amount of BS.
That is until you try to add the kubuntu meta-package. Friends don't let friends add the kubuntu meta-package - they do kde-full instead.
Speaking of which, the Pardus team could certainly teach the kubuntu idiots how to configure KDE. Pardus is god-tier KDE.
Particular note to any Kubuntu devs here: You have done more harm to the adoption of KDE than anyone else on the planet. You're incompetent.
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...was to make a secure intranet.
Now they're moving to Windows XP.
Secure
XP
Secure.
XP
SECURE?
XP?
And the reasoning is scanner und printer drivers.
http://www.google.com/images?q=jackie+chan+my+mind+is+full+of+fuck
My next thing on my todo list is to scatter thumb drives in the parking lot of the nearest German Consulate for the lulz.
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BMO
>Especially with all the wonderful 50 line long law footer BS in each and every mail.
Those always make me laugh. They have absolutely no legal power whatsoever. At best they are contracts of adhesion. What they really are is intimidation. If I accidentally mail something to the wrong person, it's not their fault, it's mine, and they can do whatever they want with it. The "if you received this in error blah blah blah" lines tacked on are just wasted electrons.
Someone having a bad day would be more tempted to post an errant email to 4chan /b/ that has the threatening footer than one without. Politeness breeds politeness. Asshole legal behavior begets assholes.
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BMO
BCC was dead ages ago because nobody hardly ever learned to use it. It was dead before Facebook. It was dead before the large influx of spam. It was dead about the time Gopher came out.
Ever get a "chain forwarded" email with hundreds of email addresses of people you don't know?
That's because nobody uses BCC. Nobody ever learns how to trim FW: lines either. FFS, nobody ever learns to reply in-line with quotes. Replies are all top posted, mostly because of that crawling horror called Lotus Notes and that other crawling horror Exchange. Nobody ever learns how to trim replies either - a one line top posted reply to 10 screens of text or multiple forwards? Sure!
The death of BCC is not because of Facebook. The death of useful email features is because most people are unwilling to learn, rude, or stupid.
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BMO
From the PDF under "enclosure" from someone reviewing the book:
"The formulas and procedures presented concerning the production of high and low explosives cannot be called incorrect but they are not always complete and therefore present a hazard to anyone using the information"
No kidding. Darwin Awards waiting to be handed out.
As a BBSer with my own copy back in the day, we didn't dare try any of that shit because it even looked like it was missing steps.
The Amateur Astronomer's Handbook has recipes for silvering mirrors, and there are warnings to not keep the mixture (sugar recipe) standing around too long because it creates silver fulminate. The complete lack of similar safety warnings in the Anarchists' Cookbook is a red flag not to try this stuff. Consult a real explosives manual instead.
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BMO
D'oh. I didn't even see that.
The original article is not very informative at all. This, however, means that some people will get to see some lights. Cool. But coronal holes are far from rare.
Just like every other partner.
i4i was one of their partners too. Look where it got them.
Who's got the list of former partners that wound up being smothered with a pillow in their sleep by Microsoft?
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Nokia is sinking on it's burning platform, but then instead of jumping onto the water, the CEO just tied all the workers to an anchor (WP7) and chucked the anchor into the water.
Couple this with "lol, let's move the hq to CA" bullshit, and they're surprised the employees aren't happy?
Goodbye Nokia. It was nice knowin' ya.
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BMO
Fox News is like Crystal Meth. It will rot your brain quite rapidly, so feel lucky that you don't have it over there.
Fox News is the official propaganda arm of our version of the National Front.
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BMO
You really didn't pay attention to the rhetoric during the healtcare reform massacre, did you? People like Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin repeatedly came out and said "death panels" and Fox News reported it with a straight face as if it was fact.
It wasn't about bureaucracy. It was about hospice care and pain remediation and all that shit that people eventually go through at the end of their lives which isn't always covered by private health insurance. But no, we couldn't have it because some whackos evoked visions of Nazi eugenics all over Fox.
So all the stuff about hospice care got removed just to shut them up. Good job, guys, that really helped.
And you really don't understand hyperbole, like the other poster said.
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BMO
>all news is biased
Good going with the false equivocation there. No other actual news outlet I know goes that far out of its way to report *falsehoods* as if they are fact, and then lie about it and say "oh, that's just opinion." Even Kieth Olbermann in his furthest left commentary doesn't even come close to the outright lies that Fox News comes up with on a daily basis.
No. Fuck them. They have become Radio Rwanda. They have people believing the stupidest shit going, and the network follows up with talking head after talking head to reinforce their POV.
To put Fox News on the same level as the other news outlets, is to denigrate the whole industry.
Fox News *wants you* to think that all news is biased equally. That's another one of their Big Lies.
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BMO
At least the Weekly World News never took itself seriously and never expected anyone to believe that Bat Boy was real.
After this amount of time it shouldn't surprise anyone that Fox News can't be arsed to come out with anything resembling news or information. Facts and accuracy be damned. Death panels? Sure. Obama is going to sneak into your house in the dead of night and smother your grandmother *personally.* Similarly, playing this game will turn your kids into serial killers. Never mind the research. What counts is eyeballs and page hits.
If Fox News said that the Sun will rise in the East tomorrow morning, I would have to check the astronomical tables to confirm.
Fox News is a fraud.
Anyone who still watches Fox is confirmed for stupid. I don't care if your IQ is 200. You still watch Fox? You take anything they say seriously? Then I have nothing to discuss with you. Ever.
Fox News wants you to believe in them. Fox News wants you to believe in Bat Boy.
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BMO
I can convert beans into methane in my large intestine.
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BMO
"Of course it matters, as it inserts 'reasonable doubt' into the equation."
Instead of using my mod points in this thread, I'm going to reply, because this is kinda important that people understand this.
The standard of proof in civil suits is not the same as in criminal accusations. It's "preponderance of the evidence" which is fuzzy to define and varies from state to state, sometimes reducing lawsuits to a crapshoot, which is why many people and companies sue for the sake of suing as if it's a lottery.
"Reasonable doubt" is not enough to defend yourself in a civil suit.
For a definition, see:
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Preponderance+of+Evidence
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>Calls me a troll
Riiiiight.
Read this.
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/21/131490398/-nazis-a-word-with-deep-and-brutal-meaning
Now get out.
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>Fuhrer
Saw this.
Stopped reading. No matter what your point was, it was drowned out by your moronic comparison to Hitler.
You're dumb. You're the dumbest thing to come to Dumbtown since Dumb came to Dumbtown.
Get the hell off the Internet and set your computer alight.
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"You've bought the media rhetoric. "The tea party" often refers to "The Tea Party Express", a minor offshoot of the larger movement, "
It's not a "minor offshoot" when the Tea Party Express can dish out the money needed to support lunatics like Bachmann and that guy from New York that ran a whole county into the ground. The Tea Party Express is the one with the control. They're controlling the rhetoric and anyone else is lost in the noise. Why? Because money and power, that's why.
If you're a tea partier, I've got some news for you. You've been co-opted. This shouldn't be any big surprise.
You keep telling yourself that this is all grass-roots. Denial is a powerful emotion.
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BMO
"The reason, it appears, is that Bachmann delivered her speech to TeaPartyHD's camera"
That's straight from the article itself. Instead of an "address the nation" speech, it was "address my base" speech. Like I already said. It's not up to the networks to use the candidate's personal camera. That's how it's done. She should have been looking into the network cameras *like everybody else does.*
Her M.O. is not to be inclusive. Her M.O. is appeal to the gullible to extract as much cash as she can out of her "base." And her base is pretty stupid if they bought into a single word she said. The amount of stupidity that came out of her mouth is astounding for such a public figure. I live here in the Northeast where History is in my back yard. The insult to my intelligence that she perpetrated deserves all the scorn and ridicule I can dish up. Because she is that misinformed.
And don't even get me started on how the Tea Baggers and Far Right say that this is a "Christian" country, when the fucking Touro Synagogue is 20 miles from me. No. The far right and the Tea Baggers are FUCKING STUPID at best.
Burning Karma because I am mad at what these idiots have done to my country.
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She is either stupid or evil.
So according to you, she's evil.
Got it.
We need the emails because Sarah Palin instigates the same morbid fascination that a train wreck does. We need to know why she's so damn stupid.
The only person stupider than her is Michele Bachmann, who isn't even bright enough to look into the network cameras and thinks that John Quincy Adams "worked tirelessly until slavery was ended"
I think Republicans in general are cool and "don't afraid of anything" but the Teabagger Base (use your fundament, baby) is odious, despicable, and one misfired suicide bomber from being American Taliban.
"Spiritual Warriors" - pfui.
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P.S. Palin/Bachmann 2012 - to immanentize the Eschaton.
I have an email address that relies on greylisting. http://www.greylisting.org/
Years ago, at first, I would get 3 or 4 spams.
Now I get 150 in 12 hours. Spambots are becoming more RFC compliant and resending after a 5xx or 4xx error. And instead of simply firing off *one* copy, I get 3 or 4. Previously spambots had been all fire-and-forget with no resending. Legitimate mail is dwarfed. And while my filtering on my mail client picks off the spam, I always still have to vgrep the trash for false positives.
So instead of seeing my spam decrease, like this article would have me believe, I have seen the opposite. Indeed, in the last 6 months, the load has quadrupled.
What I want to know is when are we going to start boiling these bastards in pitch?
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BMO
he thinks that privacy policies mean anything, even though every privacy policy I've seen is a contract of adhesion at best and has a clause in it somewhere that says it can change at any time without notice.
What.
Never trust a privacy policy anywhere. That's just naive. Assume as if privacy policies don't exist(unless you decide to sue) and you won't become complacent about what you put out on the net. Nobody is going to watch your back but you.
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You know what, i read your other post and wrote you off.
But now I have to say something.
This is slashdot. Supposedly this is a tech related site. You are expected to know what the fuck a listserv is.
Now go away.
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How does not using third party applications of questionable quality affect the utility of Facebook? It doesn't. I don't use Facebook to play games. Sorry
The reason I use it is because that's where everybody is.
Previously everyone hung out in instant messaging. I've gone from dialup BBSes to telnet chats to ICQ, to AIM to Yahoo messaging, to Facebook. Not because I wanted to, but because everyone left the predecessors behind. And when the Next Big Thing comes along, people will desert Facebook like they've deserted Myspace. It's the natural order of things.
The trick is to not let your arse hang out in the wind, that's all. It's not that difficult. Use the interbutt with common sense and you won't ever have a problem.
It also helps if you explain to your friends (and this is where keeping your friends circle to meatspace) that you don't like to be tagged in photos. It works.
As far as tracking me, when I want people to know I honestly like something and I want to share with other people, I'll post it to my Facebook wall or If I want to pass something on, I'll use the "share this" button. Usually this consists of music, politics, or video postings gathered from elsewhere. Of course I get tracked, but if I really want to, I can just abandon the account and create a new one, since I'm not particularly attached to the name. I can become George LeRoy Tirebiter tomorrow if I want to. It's not like they can associate my meatspace name and location to my Facebook account.
You can choose not to use Facebook at all, but I do take issue with the "oooh, Facebook is eeeevil" paranoia. It's not any more evil than you allow it to be.
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