I understand this, but then there are people who could memorize data. Then there are several places in and on your body where you can hide stuff. Take in a cheapo phone with a miniSD card. The card could be easily placed in many places on or in your body.
Obviously the phone will have a second card with real music on it, so if they investigate it, they will find a normal phone.
Obviously you will loose your phone, but when you do such a thing, your phone might be the least of your worries.
This will not solve the problem of the NSA and everybody else knowing who you speak to and for how long and what time. The fact that your only words on the phone are "Aunti feels better now" are encrypted or not are mostly irrelevant. (Perhaps even the message is some sort of code)
With all the data available, what they are interested to see is who talks to whom and se how the networks are. Only then will they perhaps be interested in taking a closer look at what you do.
A drug trafficker actually owns and then distributes the drug.
No he doesn't. Just like UPS doesn't own the packages, most drug traffickers are just couriers.
The difference is that the drug trafficker is aware of the content, while UPS is not (or should not be) aware of the content. That is unless you clearly and honestly state that the items you are sending are illegal drugs. That way when you send it through UPS, and they catch it, the UPS drivers will not go to jail, while somebody who hides it the goatse way, will.
Now comparing it with an ISP becomes a bit easier. An ISP will also not have the knowledge of the content of the packages. At least it should not have that knowledge. The moment it is aware or is made aware it should indeed take appropriate action. Otherwise it is indeed guilty of providing illegal content.
Full ACK. The company I work for has a terribly slow page laden with so much shit it hurts the eyes. The idiots even use the amount of traffic as a measument of how succesfull their page is, even though the site does not work in either firefox or IE6.
When I confronted the person responsible for the site (marketing, not IT) the answer was that she thought it looked pretty. The fact that it didn't show up as it should in IE6 and Firefox just got me a blank stare.
Unforunatly the answer from most companies to how increase the amount of hits is to create more bullshit, instead of asking the user what they want.
There is this guy I know who delevers everything I ask. Prices are good. It is just a bitch to drive down to the docks and for some odd reason he only takes cash in small bills in a brown paperbag.
He is a wise guy and explained that an insurance also would be great and he is right. I haven't been beaten up since I took that insurance. A good fellow, always talking about his family and such.
And it is easy to forget how good it used to be. I did a search to see on how to watercool (is that even a word?) my videocard. I get some 500.000 hits on buying the card with some links to watercooling that I can also buy or the other way arround.
After adding a lot of + and - in the search, the nuber went down, but still no result.
I used to type one or two words and got what I was looking for. Now I need to expand my search result to show at least 50 on the first page to be sure that I can find something that is interesting to me.
More and more I start using http://clusty.com/ that puts it in nice groups (or clusters) where I can filter out things I do not want much easier.
A search for "watercooling videocard" gives me 536.000 results on Google and 2.042 on clusty.com and I rather have those 2.000 that are relevant then the shitload that Google gives me and where I must look around and do a search in the result.
Would I suddenly be outside the database, and thus a suspect, in that scenario?
Obviously. The target is not to catch all terrorists. The target is to get everybody on the list. In 1948 somebody already wrote a book about it. Once they have this, they will add other things. And the database will be searched only with OR and nothing with AND.
e.g. "your name" OR "your walk". The way the 'No Fly' lists works.
Do people want to pay for your content? Yes, if the price, format and limits are reasonable.
And those who are unwilling to pay will be unwilling to pay regardless. With a 100% working DRM, you do not gain those customers. Percentage wise you will go from say 10% of people who illegally download to 0%.
Money wise there will be no change. Instead of gaining the people who are unwilling to pay, you loose people who ARE willing to pay.
Well, what you do is put everybody in a database and if they do not find you in that database, you must have something to hide and thus are a terrerist. This is just one more parameter to let less terrerists slip through the mazes of the net.
Only once the non-negatives of that list are equal to the amount of people in the world will we be completely safe from terrerists. (Or so they want you to believe)
You do not want to connect to other computers, yet you have an internet connection? Odd. And apparently they did not explain the use of protection in health class.
This stuff has been handled since people exchanged 5.25" floppies and perhaps even before that. It was the beginning of the anti-virus companies. And you think that a few decades later we are not able to protect ourselves from a flash stick full of viruses?
That is the whole point. They should be aware of what they put in their code. What if they just copied and pasted some code that would delete your files? This didn't delete your files, it deleted the right to your files which could be even worse.
For now it only works on Windows. The main thing that is not available is plugins. No plugins and this browser is a dead horse. IE users will not jump on it. Those who would already use Firefox.
The rest won't change anything that is not pre-installed by default.
The fact that it is released only for Windows might be seen as a direct attack on IE, because that way they will not steal any Mac or Linux users (unless they run it under wine)
The server it is posted on is in the USofA. My country is Belgium. Please file a lawsuit in either country. Do understand that the laws of either Belgium or the USofA will apply and not that of the island nation of Madeupexamplia.
The fact that you downloaded this in English had made you violate the laws of the island nation of Madeupexamplia, specifically section #328, subsection 3 that requires only messages in Madeupexamplish, the national language of Madeupexamplia. can be downloaded.
Please go to the prison hut and lock yourself up, as required by law.
How was it done before "always-on", "always-connected"?
I am not sure how it was done then, but I know how it is done here in Belgium. If there are many servers to maintain, then you will have somebody on site 24/7. This will need at least 5 people, because of weekends and holidays. Each person works a full 8 hour shift.
If there isn't, if you have more people and on site is not an option, you give one of them the communicator. The person gets extra money for that and extra money on top if there is an intervention.
If you are alone or do not have enough people to cover that time, then most likely you will outsource some of the support, so that only the most urgent matters will disturb you. If this becomes to frequent, more staffing needs to be hired.
This is mostly all done because of rules of how much an employee is allowed to work. This was the result of unions fighting for it. It also differs from country to country.
It works about the same as any profession where you need people online from time to time. Be it elevator repair people or IT staff, there is no big differences in how these things are done.
I think it is funny that in the USofA people go to one Union and apparently have no choice and it is solely for a single profession, where in e.g. Belgium everybody can join any Union, regardless of what their profession is.
But then in Belgium it is more about protecting the individual and not so much the profession. Also I never heard of anything that you MUST or CAN'T be a union member. In fact I have never heard anybody ask me or anybody else for a union card about a work related issue.
The choice is for the individual if he wishes to join a union and also which union he wishes to join. To me is seems as if companies don't really care wether you are union or not. The same rules apply for all anyway (some exeptions for union representatives who were elected. Some different procedures for them.)
Is there no choice in the USofA to join a union or do I understand this wrongly?
a policy is there to stop the worst kind of lawsuits
And that explains who the EULA is written for. It is is not written for Joe Sixpack. It is not for the user. It is to be used in lawsuits. This means it is written for the people who work with the law, lawers.
And those are the people who write them, because they are also the people who they are intended for.
Also often I see a lot of copy and paste. Especially on the bullshit attachments they put under an email.
In some countries an EULA is not even legal and most of them are written for US law. Well, many countries have different laws and if you don't like that, then you should not make the software available there from your website.
Then there is the fact that an EULA is not available in the language(s) of the country.
Yeah, it is a bitch that you should make the EULA available for all those laws, languages and countries, so cry me a river.
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Wouldnt it be better to make it look halfway decent from the start? Then users wouldnt need to waste their time hunting down themes.
Different people have different tastes. One like to have it all dark and the other likes it like OHG Ponies!
Every time I have to build a new machine for me, or move to another, I spend 5 times as much time remembering, downloading, and configuring extensions as I do just downloading and installing firefox itself.
Just copy and paste the apropriate directory. e.g. with me that is "w67vftfy.default". I just copy the content to the new "*.default" and be done with it.
Oh and the work trucks I know do have radio and airco. That is the nice thing: you can select your own options where a sedan has all this pre-installed and you can't even often NOT select it.
Can I make up my mind for myself what I think is "obtrusive enough" and what not? Perhaps you don't mind them, but then there are people who do not mind clicking close on each and every pop up and don't mind the flash ads. All up to the individual.
So even if text ads would be the only advertisement, I would still block them.
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And that makes it unlikely I will ever use it. I tried Chrome and mostly liked what I saw, but I stopped using it and went back to Firefox, because it has Adblock Plus. Each time I am forced to use a browser that doesn't have this, I am horrified at how sites look and why people still use Internet.
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Somebody told me that ignorance and apathy were on the rise. Well, I don't know and I don't care.
I understand this, but then there are people who could memorize data. Then there are several places in and on your body where you can hide stuff. Take in a cheapo phone with a miniSD card. The card could be easily placed in many places on or in your body.
Obviously the phone will have a second card with real music on it, so if they investigate it, they will find a normal phone.
Obviously you will loose your phone, but when you do such a thing, your phone might be the least of your worries.
This will not solve the problem of the NSA and everybody else knowing who you speak to and for how long and what time. The fact that your only words on the phone are "Aunti feels better now" are encrypted or not are mostly irrelevant. (Perhaps even the message is some sort of code)
With all the data available, what they are interested to see is who talks to whom and se how the networks are. Only then will they perhaps be interested in taking a closer look at what you do.
So how much more efficient is it? The heat of the processors still needs to be removed.
Why not motor oil?
No he doesn't. Just like UPS doesn't own the packages, most drug traffickers are just couriers.
The difference is that the drug trafficker is aware of the content, while UPS is not (or should not be) aware of the content. That is unless you clearly and honestly state that the items you are sending are illegal drugs.
That way when you send it through UPS, and they catch it, the UPS drivers will not go to jail, while somebody who hides it the goatse way, will.
Now comparing it with an ISP becomes a bit easier. An ISP will also not have the knowledge of the content of the packages. At least it should not have that knowledge.
The moment it is aware or is made aware it should indeed take appropriate action. Otherwise it is indeed guilty of providing illegal content.
Full ACK. The company I work for has a terribly slow page laden with so much shit it hurts the eyes. The idiots even use the amount of traffic as a measument of how succesfull their page is, even though the site does not work in either firefox or IE6.
When I confronted the person responsible for the site (marketing, not IT) the answer was that she thought it looked pretty. The fact that it didn't show up as it should in IE6 and Firefox just got me a blank stare.
Unforunatly the answer from most companies to how increase the amount of hits is to create more bullshit, instead of asking the user what they want.
There is this guy I know who delevers everything I ask. Prices are good. It is just a bitch to drive down to the docks and for some odd reason he only takes cash in small bills in a brown paperbag.
He is a wise guy and explained that an insurance also would be great and he is right. I haven't been beaten up since I took that insurance. A good fellow, always talking about his family and such.
And it is easy to forget how good it used to be. I did a search to see on how to watercool (is that even a word?) my videocard. I get some 500.000 hits on buying the card with some links to watercooling that I can also buy or the other way arround.
After adding a lot of + and - in the search, the nuber went down, but still no result.
I used to type one or two words and got what I was looking for. Now I need to expand my search result to show at least 50 on the first page to be sure that I can find something that is interesting to me.
More and more I start using http://clusty.com/ that puts it in nice groups (or clusters) where I can filter out things I do not want much easier.
A search for "watercooling videocard" gives me 536.000 results on Google and 2.042 on clusty.com and I rather have those 2.000 that are relevant then the shitload that Google gives me and where I must look around and do a search in the result.
Obviously. The target is not to catch all terrorists. The target is to get everybody on the list. In 1948 somebody already wrote a book about it.
Once they have this, they will add other things. And the database will be searched only with OR and nothing with AND.
e.g. "your name" OR "your walk". The way the 'No Fly' lists works.
And those who are unwilling to pay will be unwilling to pay regardless. With a 100% working DRM, you do not gain those customers. Percentage wise you will go from say 10% of people who illegally download to 0%.
Money wise there will be no change. Instead of gaining the people who are unwilling to pay, you loose people who ARE willing to pay.
So what you are saying is things that have been seen can be unseen.
Now is it a blessing that goatse can be unseen, or a curse that I now can see it for the first time several times?
If they don't understand it, then they must ask somebody who does.
Well, what you do is put everybody in a database and if they do not find you in that database, you must have something to hide and thus are a terrerist.
This is just one more parameter to let less terrerists slip through the mazes of the net.
Only once the non-negatives of that list are equal to the amount of people in the world will we be completely safe from terrerists. (Or so they want you to believe)
You do not want to connect to other computers, yet you have an internet connection? Odd. And apparently they did not explain the use of protection in health class.
This stuff has been handled since people exchanged 5.25" floppies and perhaps even before that. It was the beginning of the anti-virus companies. And you think that a few decades later we are not able to protect ourselves from a flash stick full of viruses?
That is the whole point. They should be aware of what they put in their code. What if they just copied and pasted some code that would delete your files? This didn't delete your files, it deleted the right to your files which could be even worse.
A mistake? Yes. Understandable? No.
For now it only works on Windows. The main thing that is not available is plugins. No plugins and this browser is a dead horse. IE users will not jump on it. Those who would already use Firefox.
The rest won't change anything that is not pre-installed by default.
The fact that it is released only for Windows might be seen as a direct attack on IE, because that way they will not steal any Mac or Linux users (unless they run it under wine)
The server it is posted on is in the USofA. My country is Belgium. Please file a lawsuit in either country. Do understand that the laws of either Belgium or the USofA will apply and not that of the island nation of Madeupexamplia.
The fact that you downloaded this in English had made you violate the laws of the island nation of Madeupexamplia, specifically section #328, subsection 3 that requires only messages in Madeupexamplish, the national language of Madeupexamplia. can be downloaded.
Please go to the prison hut and lock yourself up, as required by law.
IIAML (I Am A Madeupexamplian Lawyer)
I am not sure how it was done then, but I know how it is done here in Belgium. If there are many servers to maintain, then you will have somebody on site 24/7. This will need at least 5 people, because of weekends and holidays. Each person works a full 8 hour shift.
If there isn't, if you have more people and on site is not an option, you give one of them the communicator. The person gets extra money for that and extra money on top if there is an intervention.
If you are alone or do not have enough people to cover that time, then most likely you will outsource some of the support, so that only the most urgent matters will disturb you. If this becomes to frequent, more staffing needs to be hired.
This is mostly all done because of rules of how much an employee is allowed to work. This was the result of unions fighting for it. It also differs from country to country.
It works about the same as any profession where you need people online from time to time. Be it elevator repair people or IT staff, there is no big differences in how these things are done.
I think it is funny that in the USofA people go to one Union and apparently have no choice and it is solely for a single profession, where in e.g. Belgium everybody can join any Union, regardless of what their profession is.
But then in Belgium it is more about protecting the individual and not so much the profession. Also I never heard of anything that you MUST or CAN'T be a union member. In fact I have never heard anybody ask me or anybody else for a union card about a work related issue.
The choice is for the individual if he wishes to join a union and also which union he wishes to join. To me is seems as if companies don't really care wether you are union or not. The same rules apply for all anyway (some exeptions for union representatives who were elected. Some different procedures for them.)
Is there no choice in the USofA to join a union or do I understand this wrongly?
And that explains who the EULA is written for. It is is not written for Joe Sixpack. It is not for the user. It is to be used in lawsuits. This means it is written for the people who work with the law, lawers.
And those are the people who write them, because they are also the people who they are intended for.
Also often I see a lot of copy and paste. Especially on the bullshit attachments they put under an email.
In some countries an EULA is not even legal and most of them are written for US law. Well, many countries have different laws and if you don't like that, then you should not make the software available there from your website.
Then there is the fact that an EULA is not available in the language(s) of the country.
Yeah, it is a bitch that you should make the EULA available for all those laws, languages and countries, so cry me a river.
Looks like a mini goatse to me.
Different people have different tastes. One like to have it all dark and the other likes it like OHG Ponies!
Just copy and paste the apropriate directory. e.g. with me that is "w67vftfy.default".
I just copy the content to the new "*.default" and be done with it.
Oh and the work trucks I know do have radio and airco. That is the nice thing: you can select your own options where a sedan has all this pre-installed and you can't even often NOT select it.
Can I make up my mind for myself what I think is "obtrusive enough" and what not? Perhaps you don't mind them, but then there are people who do not mind clicking close on each and every pop up and don't mind the flash ads. All up to the individual.
So even if text ads would be the only advertisement, I would still block them.
And that makes it unlikely I will ever use it.
I tried Chrome and mostly liked what I saw, but I stopped using it and went back to Firefox, because it has Adblock Plus. Each time I am forced to use a browser that doesn't have this, I am horrified at how sites look and why people still use Internet.