You would run into similar issues trying to control multiple lights in the same room independently,
That can easily be solved. All you need is a switch to decide what light you want to trigger. You could place that switch near the door, so you can do it the moment you come in.
Never could figure out web design, so I switched to programming.
You are one of the few. Now I am not saying that programming is the same as coding a webpage. However too often I see PHP/HTML and other coders make extremely ugly designed web pages and web page designers write horrible code.
Zen Garden helped the coder a bit to make it look nice.
Reminds me of a west-German newspaper (Think it was Der Spiegel) who had a set of questions to see if you would be a good spy for the DDR. With points and such for each answer. They looked realy serious. On the answer page, no matter what you answered, it said: Yes, you will be a great spy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States The highest speed limits are generally 75 mph (121 km/h) in western states and 70 mph (113 km/h) in eastern states. A few states, mainly in the Northeast Megalopolis, have 65 mph (105 km/h) limits, and Hawaii only has 60 mph (97 km/h) maximum limits. A small portion of the Texas and Utah road networks have higher limits.
So if you live in a 60MPH state, it is accurate. If you live in a 75MPH then it isn't.
So they should have different information for different states. And obviously for city driving as well.
For the most part, we don't go around arresting people for suspicious behaviour or the intent to commit crimes.
Please turn off the tv and start browsing international news. And nice to say that they don't use it to spy on people, because that is what they were used for in Australia and why they are being turned off.
The invasion of privacy is a given when you have cameraâ(TM)s. That is what they do. They record what I do in my private life without my direct consent.
Have you never seen somebody arrested? Showing that is (to me) a invasion in the privacy of those people, regardless if they are guilty or innocent.
Having people wearing a chip so their location can be determined is also a way to collect evidence after the fact. I hope you don't agree that that would be a good idea. The camera (with the current and future technology) is not that much different.
And perhaps some countries are only interested in a select group of people (e.g. wanted criminals) but that does not mean you must trow everything else out. The solution is many times worse then the problem. Security is a state of mind. The camera's, just like the TSA will change that mind of yours.
What is now seen as the exception, will soon become a standard. If one camera is good, so will be 2. 3 will not be bad and then 300, 300.000, camara's everywhere. And then people will say "hey, they have been here all along." and they will start putting them into your lawns, in your cars till the next step of putting them in your house.
I wonder what personal info was gathered about the guy, and how.
The how part we know. They used the camera's. The what part I do not want to know as it is irrelevant. It is irrelevant if he was saying 'good afternoon' to a neighbor. It is irrelevant if he helped an old lady across the street. It is irrelevant if he stabbed his wife. It is irrelevant if he planted a bomb at a random marathon.
As long as there was NO indication and NO judge ordering him to be followed, they should not do that.
I know that in the USofA everything you do out in the open is public and that it is hard for many of the USofA to understand that for the rest of the world privacy does not end at your door. Having privacy is the highest form of liberty. All the rest comes with that.
Not that long ago there were countries where people where turned to spy on their neighbors and I don't think they were regarded as 'free'. Now we do the same and with the same excuse as those countries did: to protect and serve.
Privacy is an essential part of liberty. If you don't have privacy you will not have liberty.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. ~ Learned Hand
Sucks to be you and that company. If they would do that at my company, I would call THEM into the office and they would be thrown out before they could say lawsuit.
In Belgium (and probably many parts of Europe) it is forbidden to do things like that. e.g. in a bar it would be allowed to have a camera, but not pointed at the till. It can not be used to keep your people into check.
Still not going far enough and I applaud the win against 'the man'.
Time for a quote: They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Franklin
The problem with what you do is compare the browsers with what is out there. What you should do is compare it with what you want and then you start to realize that Firefox is a lot of crap. The Firefox developers decide too often what I should instead of what I want.
I run several different DISPLAYS, so I am forced to use different profiles, otherwise the second one does not start. I have to look for a workaround so it correctly uses my hosts file.
My machine does DNS, so there is NO need to do it yourself. Almost any program can be opened twice. (When you run firefox a second time, you just open a new window) Yet with Firefox this is not possible. Not on a second DISPLAY.
Sure there will be some excuses as to why, but I am not interested in excuses or explanations. I am interested in results. 1) Throw out everything DNS related 2) Let me run a second instance (not a second window) of the program
There are many more issues, yet I wanted to keep it relative short.
When comparing it to other browsers, it is the least crap and apparently that is a high enough standard nowadays. Woot for mediocrity.
Firefox even disregards the hosts file. Sure, you can disable it, but why would it be ignioring it in the first place? Why would it have DNS cache and looking up things itself. Probably just so it is faster on paper then some other browser. Well, with those miliseconds gained, please deduct the hours I spend trying to figure out what the fuck went wrong when I could not get to localhost or any machine that was in my hosts file.
So, please stop adding shit to the browser that should belong in add-ons (if somebody wants them) or at least make it easier then to go through the about:config. Why not spend some time on making those settings more accessible?
Oh, a search shows that all browsers do this. Probably so we don't use mvps or other similar sites.
Just remember that this is the actual defense is that people use if you are talking about stopping it. (And I am not even talking about the metric system.)
If everybody is honest, it is a good deal. You pay a little, but you get a lot. However many people will try to scam the insurance part. e.g. if they want a new phone or a new tablet, because the old one is a year old, they will suddenly have a broken item.
This then will bring the price up for others, because, as you said, they want to make money. This will then mean that the dishonest person will be more likely to take the deal, because he will come out positive in the end. The higher prices will scare away the honest person. So prices go even higher.
So if you are honest, you will be paying for the dishonest people. A repair company will know if you really drove over your phone or if you smashed it with a hammer and thus broke it yourself. The most fun is if you give them the identical type they had before, because you had overstock.
Even if you have proof that there is fraud from the customer, it is very hard to turn into a case. Cheaper to pay up to the fraudster (and increase the price a bit. Again.)
So instead of giving a small profit to the company for a shared risk, you pay fraudsters + a small profit. This means that is becomes much cheaper to take your own risk and pay full price if things break.
And as for warranty: when Europe went from 1 year to two years, the prices for hardware went up a bit. Not enough to notice, but enough to cover the extra cost AND the loss in extended warranty sales. When memory serves me right it was somewhere between 1 and 2 percent.
This would be great to create false positives. Just sprinkle some on random people to create as many false positives as possible. Then when they turn the system off, do some small attack and then when they turn it back on, start with the false positives again.
remember: terrorism isn't about killing people, it is about spreading terror. The actual limiting of peoples freedom will be done in congress. Installing this means the terrorists have won.
When a doctor is sharing your medical information to another doctor, wouldn't you want control over when/where that medical information can be viewed? Wouldn't you want it to self destruct?
No. I would not want it to be self destruct. I would want there to be rules and punishment if he gives it to the wrong people.
When you work under SEC rules and have to provide your financial statements to management for compliance, wouldn't you want control over where/when those can be viewed?
Yes and I want people to be punished if they disrespect the rules. With the examples that you give, you are looking for a technical solution for a social problem. And that is why DRM will not work.
When I was a wee boy, I counted some sweets to see if my sister had not stolen anything. My mother asked what I was doing and I told her. She then said the wisest thing in the world: "Counted sheep are eaten by wolves too."
My idea exactly. If they want me to do my job, they need to provide the tools. If that is a phone, give me a phone. If that is a portable, give me a portable. If that is access to certain websites over port 80, open the firewall (for that website and port). If you don't. I am not going to go around it and use a proxy over port 22.
If you don't do that, I will not be able to do my job and you will still pay me. Your money, not mine and no, they do not fire me over that. They might fire the idiot who blocks access, but not me.
Even now when my company asks me for my phone number, I do not give it. If they want to phone me outside working hours, give me a phone. My phone is mine and you are not getting it. Never had any issue with that. This is the case for almost everybody I know.
If you want to contact me outside office hours, you give me a phone.
I do not see why I should provide the tools for the job I was hired to do, unless I am a consultant.
Because it is corporations. We can not harm corporations. Next you know you can't even make serious mistakes (or doing fraude) as a bank and get away with it.
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In many countries in the world you do.
That can easily be solved. All you need is a switch to decide what light you want to trigger. You could place that switch near the door, so you can do it the moment you come in.
You are one of the few. Now I am not saying that programming is the same as coding a webpage.
However too often I see PHP/HTML and other coders make extremely ugly designed web pages and web page designers write horrible code.
Zen Garden helped the coder a bit to make it look nice.
Friends don't let friends use Facebook.
This will be serious competition for these guys
I would love to have it on all OTHER cars. Not on mine, because I do not like to pay the price for it. If everybody else has it, mine won't need it.
You are also 4 years behind. Ever heard of SSD?
Reminds me of a west-German newspaper (Think it was Der Spiegel) who had a set of questions to see if you would be a good spy for the DDR. With points and such for each answer. They looked realy serious. On the answer page, no matter what you answered, it said: Yes, you will be a great spy.
First post and the thread can be closed. Congratulations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States
The highest speed limits are generally 75 mph (121 km/h) in western states and 70 mph (113 km/h) in eastern states. A few states, mainly in the Northeast Megalopolis, have 65 mph (105 km/h) limits, and Hawaii only has 60 mph (97 km/h) maximum limits. A small portion of the Texas and Utah road networks have higher limits.
So if you live in a 60MPH state, it is accurate. If you live in a 75MPH then it isn't.
So they should have different information for different states. And obviously for city driving as well.
Please turn off the tv and start browsing international news.
And nice to say that they don't use it to spy on people, because that is what they were used for in Australia and why they are being turned off.
The invasion of privacy is a given when you have cameraâ(TM)s. That is what they do. They record what I do in my private life without my direct consent.
Have you never seen somebody arrested? Showing that is (to me) a invasion in the privacy of those people, regardless if they are guilty or innocent.
Having people wearing a chip so their location can be determined is also a way to collect evidence after the fact. I hope you don't agree that that would be a good idea. The camera (with the current and future technology) is not that much different.
And perhaps some countries are only interested in a select group of people (e.g. wanted criminals) but that does not mean you must trow everything else out. The solution is many times worse then the problem. Security is a state of mind. The camera's, just like the TSA will change that mind of yours.
What is now seen as the exception, will soon become a standard. If one camera is good, so will be 2. 3 will not be bad and then 300, 300.000, camara's everywhere. And then people will say "hey, they have been here all along." and they will start putting them into your lawns, in your cars till the next step of putting them in your house.
I draw the line at camera number 1.
The how part we know. They used the camera's. The what part I do not want to know as it is irrelevant.
It is irrelevant if he was saying 'good afternoon' to a neighbor. It is irrelevant if he helped an old lady across the street. It is irrelevant if he stabbed his wife. It is irrelevant if he planted a bomb at a random marathon.
As long as there was NO indication and NO judge ordering him to be followed, they should not do that.
I know that in the USofA everything you do out in the open is public and that it is hard for many of the USofA to understand that for the rest of the world privacy does not end at your door. Having privacy is the highest form of liberty. All the rest comes with that.
Not that long ago there were countries where people where turned to spy on their neighbors and I don't think they were regarded as 'free'. Now we do the same and with the same excuse as those countries did: to protect and serve.
Privacy is an essential part of liberty. If you don't have privacy you will not have liberty.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. ~ Learned Hand
Sucks to be you and that company. If they would do that at my company, I would call THEM into the office and they would be thrown out before they could say lawsuit.
In Belgium (and probably many parts of Europe) it is forbidden to do things like that. e.g. in a bar it would be allowed to have a camera, but not pointed at the till. It can not be used to keep your people into check.
Still not going far enough and I applaud the win against 'the man'.
Time for a quote:
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Franklin
The problem with what you do is compare the browsers with what is out there. What you should do is compare it with what you want and then you start to realize that Firefox is a lot of crap. The Firefox developers decide too often what I should instead of what I want.
I run several different DISPLAYS, so I am forced to use different profiles, otherwise the second one does not start. I have to look for a workaround so it correctly uses my hosts file.
My machine does DNS, so there is NO need to do it yourself. Almost any program can be opened twice. (When you run firefox a second time, you just open a new window) Yet with Firefox this is not possible. Not on a second DISPLAY.
Sure there will be some excuses as to why, but I am not interested in excuses or explanations. I am interested in results.
1) Throw out everything DNS related
2) Let me run a second instance (not a second window) of the program
There are many more issues, yet I wanted to keep it relative short.
When comparing it to other browsers, it is the least crap and apparently that is a high enough standard nowadays. Woot for mediocrity.
Firefox even disregards the hosts file.
Sure, you can disable it, but why would it be ignioring it in the first place? Why would it have DNS cache and looking up things itself. Probably just so it is faster on paper then some other browser. Well, with those miliseconds gained, please deduct the hours I spend trying to figure out what the fuck went wrong when I could not get to localhost or any machine that was in my hosts file.
So, please stop adding shit to the browser that should belong in add-ons (if somebody wants them) or at least make it easier then to go through the about:config. Why not spend some time on making those settings more accessible?
Oh, a search shows that all browsers do this. Probably so we don't use mvps or other similar sites.
Sounds like a great idea. So why don't we do that?
Why do you hate America?
Just remember that this is the actual defense is that people use if you are talking about stopping it. (And I am not even talking about the metric system.)
If everybody is honest, it is a good deal. You pay a little, but you get a lot. However many people will try to scam the insurance part. e.g. if they want a new phone or a new tablet, because the old one is a year old, they will suddenly have a broken item.
This then will bring the price up for others, because, as you said, they want to make money. This will then mean that the dishonest person will be more likely to take the deal, because he will come out positive in the end. The higher prices will scare away the honest person. So prices go even higher.
So if you are honest, you will be paying for the dishonest people. A repair company will know if you really drove over your phone or if you smashed it with a hammer and thus broke it yourself. The most fun is if you give them the identical type they had before, because you had overstock.
Even if you have proof that there is fraud from the customer, it is very hard to turn into a case. Cheaper to pay up to the fraudster (and increase the price a bit. Again.)
So instead of giving a small profit to the company for a shared risk, you pay fraudsters + a small profit. This means that is becomes much cheaper to take your own risk and pay full price if things break.
And as for warranty: when Europe went from 1 year to two years, the prices for hardware went up a bit. Not enough to notice, but enough to cover the extra cost AND the loss in extended warranty sales. When memory serves me right it was somewhere between 1 and 2 percent.
This would be great to create false positives. Just sprinkle some on random people to create as many false positives as possible.
Then when they turn the system off, do some small attack and then when they turn it back on, start with the false positives again.
remember: terrorism isn't about killing people, it is about spreading terror. The actual limiting of peoples freedom will be done in congress. Installing this means the terrorists have won.
Time is fleeting;
Madness takes its toll.
But listen closely...
Not for very much longer.
I've got to keep control.
I remember doing the time-warp
Drinking those moments when
The Blackness would hit me
And the void would be calling...
Let's do the time-warp again.
Let's do the time-warp again.
It's just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
Put your hands on your hips.
You bring your knees in tight.
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane.
Let's do the time-warp again.
Let's do the time-warp again.
No. I would not want it to be self destruct. I would want there to be rules and punishment if he gives it to the wrong people.
Yes and I want people to be punished if they disrespect the rules.
With the examples that you give, you are looking for a technical solution for a social problem. And that is why DRM will not work.
When I was a wee boy, I counted some sweets to see if my sister had not stolen anything. My mother asked what I was doing and I told her. She then said the wisest thing in the world: "Counted sheep are eaten by wolves too."
My idea exactly. If they want me to do my job, they need to provide the tools. If that is a phone, give me a phone. If that is a portable, give me a portable. If that is access to certain websites over port 80, open the firewall (for that website and port). If you don't. I am not going to go around it and use a proxy over port 22.
If you don't do that, I will not be able to do my job and you will still pay me. Your money, not mine and no, they do not fire me over that. They might fire the idiot who blocks access, but not me.
Even now when my company asks me for my phone number, I do not give it. If they want to phone me outside working hours, give me a phone. My phone is mine and you are not getting it. Never had any issue with that. This is the case for almost everybody I know.
If you want to contact me outside office hours, you give me a phone.
I do not see why I should provide the tools for the job I was hired to do, unless I am a consultant.
I do pay for SMS messages. International messages have been restricted by law. http://www.simyo.be/en/information/rates and for international rates http://www.simyo.be/en/information/rates?oper=buitenland
But then this has been regulated by Europe, not by the 'free market'.
Because it is corporations. We can not harm corporations. Next you know you can't even make serious mistakes (or doing fraude) as a bank and get away with it.
So one the one way we have an individual. On the other we have a company.
Who will they decide for? Grey area? Not so much.
When talking about the law, I bet it is in favor of the house here as well.