As extra information: going from designated Good Guy to designated Bad Guy does not need any change or adaption from the designated Guy. It just kinda happens.
As a reader I want to be able to put a book on everything as soon as I buy it
When I buy books, I am able to do that. I can put it on my computer, tv, xbox. I can also put it on my bed side table, on my desk, in my car on the dashboard, in my rucksack to read it on the train.
I can sell it and buy it new or second hand. The variety is immense,
But perhaps they are not talking so much about books as they are talking about text files.
Perhaps most, but not me. I never understood the start button. You have all this place and then put everything under one button? You need to scrolls and scroll and scroll til you get what you want.
This is the same under many Linux desktops. I use XFCE and there is happens as well. I do not use it. Instead I have several 'start buttons'. Each with its own group of programs.
Another thing I never got are desktop icons. The desktop is where my programs are. Why must I close, minimize or move my program to launch another program, when the start button is right there.
That said, I also use multiple workspaces where the different programs are already open and grouped when I log in. So I do not need to start most applications, as they are already running.
WIN-1 to go to workspace 1 and then WIN-TAB (instead of ALT-TAB) to switch and get the desired one to the front if so needed. So no need to go to the mouse or release the WIN button.
Distraction will happen regardless of Internet. Before that there was tv, books, radio, Facebook and Twitter are not the reason of distraction. They are the result. Distraction happens if what you are doing has no value to you at that specific moment. I am sometimes distracted by looking aimlessly outside.
This. And the worst part is that it is handed over on a platter to a marketing company. No matter that I don't want one, others will have one and track me.
When I was 15 (many, many years ago) I already had discussions with my friends about privacy and what it was. This was before computers. let alone the Internet. But that was in Europe, where privacy is looked upon differently. It used to be what you were not about the location.
Now it tends to go more in the direction of the US idea of privacy where if it isn't done in your own home, it isn't private. And if you do it in your own home, it is suspicious.
This is, I think, because Europeans tent to think more from the individual and person, whereas the US thinks more about the companies point of view.
The reason is that the individual and the company are not equal partners when it comes to negotiations and priorities.
All good and well. Perhaps he is guilty, perhaps not. Isn't that what "due process" is for? To figure that out? He apparently was denied this due process and that is what is is suing for.
As long as it was not determined by due process, whatever he is saying is "a minor disagreement.". You know, like in "innocent until proven guilty".
Perhaps they do not want the people who maintain the servers to have access to said data. Perhaps they are real spies and they do think that using spy@example.gov might blow their cover and using a Gmail account will be less suspicious.
Also for others, the content might not be interesting, but the people might be. If one person receive private email from e.g. GayLover@example.com and the like and your country is very panicky about people being gay and in politics, it could be used to look in that direction for the opportunity of blackmail.
And sure, you could use it like a honey trap, but that might fail as well.
There are plenty of reasons they would use a gmail account. I am sure many here use it as well, even though they have their own domain and maintain their own mail server.
How many teachers in that country are going to put textbooks online now?
The most ideal answer would be "All of them." Next all the students. All their parents. All their neighbors. It will be the only way to change the law.
Because Europe was better? Why not:because we want to increase our quality regardless of what others are doing. Think about it: if the Europeans would not have been better, what you had would have been good enough. Or "We could predict the storms better and save potential lives, but who really cares? We are already the best in doing it. USA! USA! USA!"
Furniture moves around. They are not fixed. Ever been to an office where there are no cubicles? They need false floors to do the wiring to the desks a lot of the time or it comes out of the ceiling.
For an office false floors are a standard. For a house, they are not. That will add extra cost that most people rather spend on an extra room or paint or windows.
You will have perhaps 3 extra outlets and for that your new false floor will be too expensive.
A 20 second loading of cellphones is not really a must have. It is a nice to have. With a phone you will be for longer then 20 seconds to reload it (e.g. at your desk, when you sleep)
Where such load times would come in handy is with electronic cars. That way you can drive cross country and do refills at the same speed as you do now.
I, like probably most here on/., have my own domain. Whenever I need to enter details for something I order, I use a new email alias for each site. e.g. for this site it would be slashdot.org@example.com That way I will know who the fucks were that sold my address, because in many cases it will be sold and not leaked.
And them , if I know, I could decide what action to take. e.g. in your case none if it were the Americans or a lot, if it were the Swedes.
It does not prevent anything. It just makes identifying the guilty easier.
OTOH in the last 10 years that I do this, I have not once seen spam coming into one of those addresses, unless it was from the website itself.
In Europe, the call centers are payed for by taxes, just like you pay for police and fire departments and they come out of their budget. The fee for the actual call is absorbed by the telco and thus is payed by everybody else indirectly. That amount however is minimal and just a cost of doing business, just like the computers they use, the domain they own and even toilet paper.
In Europe you pay the sticker price. That must include all taxes. If the pricing is wrong, they will have to give you it for the advertised price as long as it is reasonable. So no buying a Mercedes for 50EUR if they forgot a couple of zeroes. I did buy a headset for 10EUR instead of 30 as that was how much it was advertised as. Obviously they corrected the price immediately. This is also the case for restaurants and bars. So no tipping in many places (or minimal tipping) as people get payed by their boss for the work that they do.
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As extra information: going from designated Good Guy to designated Bad Guy does not need any change or adaption from the designated Guy. It just kinda happens.
Please don let her leave as an editor here at /.
How can the show continue if the lead role leaves? Perhaps we should start a petition
When I buy books, I am able to do that. I can put it on my computer, tv, xbox. I can also put it on my bed side table, on my desk, in my car on the dashboard, in my rucksack to read it on the train.
I can sell it and buy it new or second hand. The variety is immense,
But perhaps they are not talking so much about books as they are talking about text files.
There is. Sort off. Perhaps he used True Crypt and they found the password to his standard, but not to his hidden files.
The reason you don't run it in at least 1920x1200 is because you use it like a TV, not like a computer monitor
Perhaps most, but not me. I never understood the start button. You have all this place and then put everything under one button? You need to scrolls and scroll and scroll til you get what you want.
This is the same under many Linux desktops. I use XFCE and there is happens as well. I do not use it. Instead I have several 'start buttons'. Each with its own group of programs.
Another thing I never got are desktop icons. The desktop is where my programs are. Why must I close, minimize or move my program to launch another program, when the start button is right there.
That said, I also use multiple workspaces where the different programs are already open and grouped when I log in. So I do not need to start most applications, as they are already running.
WIN-1 to go to workspace 1 and then WIN-TAB (instead of ALT-TAB) to switch and get the desired one to the front if so needed. So no need to go to the mouse or release the WIN button.
Distraction will happen regardless of Internet. Before that there was tv, books, radio,
Facebook and Twitter are not the reason of distraction. They are the result. Distraction happens if what you are doing has no value to you at that specific moment.
I am sometimes distracted by looking aimlessly outside.
This. And the worst part is that it is handed over on a platter to a marketing company.
No matter that I don't want one, others will have one and track me.
The countries that failed where not leftist. The only said they were.
Countries that are actually leftist are doing pretty well. Sweden, among others.
When I was 15 (many, many years ago) I already had discussions with my friends about privacy and what it was. This was before computers. let alone the Internet.
But that was in Europe, where privacy is looked upon differently. It used to be what you were not about the location.
Now it tends to go more in the direction of the US idea of privacy where if it isn't done in your own home, it isn't private. And if you do it in your own home, it is suspicious.
This is, I think, because Europeans tent to think more from the individual and person, whereas the US thinks more about the companies point of view.
The reason is that the individual and the company are not equal partners when it comes to negotiations and priorities.
All good and well. Perhaps he is guilty, perhaps not. Isn't that what "due process" is for? To figure that out?
He apparently was denied this due process and that is what is is suing for.
As long as it was not determined by due process, whatever he is saying is "a minor disagreement.". You know, like in "innocent until proven guilty".
Well, when you believe it is really something to worry about, then the FUD worked, so the answer is yes.
Perhaps they do not want the people who maintain the servers to have access to said data. Perhaps they are real spies and they do think that using spy@example.gov might blow their cover and using a Gmail account will be less suspicious.
Also for others, the content might not be interesting, but the people might be. If one person receive private email from e.g. GayLover@example.com and the like and your country is very panicky about people being gay and in politics, it could be used to look in that direction for the opportunity of blackmail.
And sure, you could use it like a honey trap, but that might fail as well.
There are plenty of reasons they would use a gmail account. I am sure many here use it as well, even though they have their own domain and maintain their own mail server.
You make it sound as if developers were like everybody else.
Or perhaps the article made it sound as if developers are somehow different from anybody else.
Our ancestors will not have that problem. They will be reminded by copyrights, patents and trademarks
Because Europe was better? Why not:because we want to increase our quality regardless of what others are doing. Think about it: if the Europeans would not have been better, what you had would have been good enough. Or "We could predict the storms better and save potential lives, but who really cares? We are already the best in doing it. USA! USA! USA!"
Furniture moves around. They are not fixed. Ever been to an office where there are no cubicles? They need false floors to do the wiring to the desks a lot of the time or it comes out of the ceiling.
For an office false floors are a standard. For a house, they are not. That will add extra cost that most people rather spend on an extra room or paint or windows.
You will have perhaps 3 extra outlets and for that your new false floor will be too expensive.
5318008 and turn your calculator over.
1) Do something
2) Keep your name in the press
3) ???
4) Profit
A 20 second loading of cellphones is not really a must have. It is a nice to have. With a phone you will be for longer then 20 seconds to reload it (e.g. at your desk, when you sleep)
Where such load times would come in handy is with electronic cars. That way you can drive cross country and do refills at the same speed as you do now.
I, like probably most here on /., have my own domain. Whenever I need to enter details for something I order, I use a new email alias for each site. e.g. for this site it would be slashdot.org@example.com That way I will know who the fucks were that sold my address, because in many cases it will be sold and not leaked.
And them , if I know, I could decide what action to take. e.g. in your case none if it were the Americans or a lot, if it were the Swedes.
It does not prevent anything. It just makes identifying the guilty easier.
OTOH in the last 10 years that I do this, I have not once seen spam coming into one of those addresses, unless it was from the website itself.
In Europe, the call centers are payed for by taxes, just like you pay for police and fire departments and they come out of their budget.
The fee for the actual call is absorbed by the telco and thus is payed by everybody else indirectly. That amount however is minimal and just a cost of doing business, just like the computers they use, the domain they own and even toilet paper.
In Europe you pay the sticker price. That must include all taxes. If the pricing is wrong, they will have to give you it for the advertised price as long as it is reasonable. So no buying a Mercedes for 50EUR if they forgot a couple of zeroes.
I did buy a headset for 10EUR instead of 30 as that was how much it was advertised as. Obviously they corrected the price immediately.
This is also the case for restaurants and bars. So no tipping in many places (or minimal tipping) as people get payed by their boss for the work that they do.