Might be easier to get the CSR to contact the officer with the information. That way it doesn't look like you're just trying to stalk an old girlfriend.
I think that has a lot to do with the perceived triviality of the question. I'm not sure how many would have, for example, admitted to wearing their mother's underwear (completely wacky example) without assurance of privacy.
Which brings the other point that stuff that people actually care to keep private is not *common* or trivial.
It might be more accurate to see how many would actually list *which* homework they copied without assurance of privacy.
In other (future) news, Viacom signs a deal with Magibon and Ron Paul and the guy who wants us to leave Britney Spears alone for their own exclusive shows.
Getting rid of congress and passing everything onto the people through referendum (some sort of yearly limit would be necessary for legislation) seems like a better choice to me at this point.
I agree, let's hire Diebold to make sure that the process is fair. And Fox News to make sure the opinion of the masses is completely impartial.
Though that was satire, I honestly can't say your idea would be worse than what's currently in place. Regardless, a purely democratic government would likely leave 'large minority' of its people quite oppressed. The US is(was?) a constitutional republic for that reason.
I think the only 'good' approach to a scheme like this is to always design the game in a way where there is added value to buying the game.
It can be very obvious: "Only valid copies get online play" or more subtle, like Spore's approach to game content. (not their current approach to validation)
It is challenging and certainly not always applicable, but still. If I were to design a game and meant to make money off of it, I'd put a whole lot of my efforts into figuring out a way to make the game *more fun* for legitimate users.
Sure, people will still find illegitimate copies, but I think people would much more appreciate that I don't cripple my game and the fact that I just give those who pay that little extra that might make it worth buying.
I'm not in the game dev business. So my opinion probably doesn't matter that much, but I *personally* wouldn't look at someone who grabs a copy of my stuff without paying as a thief. Merely as someone who considers what they get from a real copy to not be worth the extra money. And that *to me* is a design issue, not a moral one.
In the product description is actually says:
Additionally, signal directional markings are provided for optimum signal transfer. You see, the bits are able to look at the arrow painted on the housing and find their way *better*.
If you want 'intimidate and control through fear', I highly suggest you pay attention to what's really going on on your television...
And in random terrorist 'drills' spewing out all over the country...
I'm a whole lot more worried about what's being done to fight terrorists than I am about whatever a terrorist could do.
Even the (notice how they keep waving that one at us) horrible scenario of some suitcase nuke in a major US city wouldn't do nearly as much damage to our society as what's been done to 'prevent' such things from happening.
Especially considering that it probably wouldn't be very effective at preventing it anyway.
I didn't know about Sibel until I read it here. It may not have been your direct intent but spreading information the establishment does *not* want you to know is the only thing we can do to defeat those measures.
I must also commend you on doing it the right way, with just enough bias that it would make me want to look into it.
Keep up the good work, and may everybody else who reads this take it as a reminder to do the right thing while they still have enough freedom to do so.
"If we don't talk about it, it doesn't exist. Now *that's* the real power of the media" to loosely translate a movie quote.
If, for example, someone could port gcc to run on the GPU, think of how happy those Gentoo folks would be:) (make -j128)! The mere mention of it gave me the Gentoo equivalent of a giant stiffy.
While I agree completely... Did they ever legally establish that the tracker/torrent itself is illegal? *technically* it contains no copyrighted information.
It isn't called global warming anymore. The new official name for it is 'climat change'. The UN would be in quite a pickle justifying carbon taxes if it turns out that we aren't warming in a few decades. But you can never argue that the climate isn't changing. I say they're just taking the safe bet regardless of which side of that 'consensus' (god forbid there be a debate) you are.
That said, I am *totally* for energy efficiency if merely from the fact that waste is bad. But if they really want to save the earth, they should focus on things like deforestation and overfishing. Especially since the best way to soak up all that C02 is to have lots trees around.
Ah, all we need is a small version of this, directly implanted at birth, RFID style. Say as a 'preventative measure for autism' or some other well meaning excuse. Then you give the transmitter to the whoever you want as a representative of authority and all those popularity troubles are gone.
Now it's a totally ridiculous idea... But you bet there's a think tank somewhere, filled with overpaid people, seriously considering that possibility. I'd call the report "Project for the *Next* new American Century."
I think the key isn't so much to pick an UI... The real power would be to make the UI not matter. For example, the NetworkManager part of Gnome. It is far from perfect, but these guys got one thing definitely right. They put work on something that is potentially a godsend for GUI users. Yet they took the care to separate the UI side from the working side. So if someone wants NetworkManager in KDE, all they need is a KDE front-end to it.
I *think* gstreamer might have had a similar idea, but I haven't looked into that much yet.
Basically, my take is that the trend shouldn't be to enforce a GUI standard. It should be to re-establish the culture of separation between the app and its GUI. My message to devs: If you really think your app will be useful, try to make it useful to people regardless of their GUI preference. Heck, even people who use CLI should be able to interface with it.
A GUI should always be considered a 'plugin'. Nothing wrong with writing a default one, but I'd definitely give bonus points to someone who makes sure their app isn't tied to the GUI environment outside of their interface plugin.
Linux is about choice, as a user, I want that choice offered to me. As a dev, I would want to give that choice. Forking isn't all bad, but why fork a whole app just because of UI issues?
Heck, defining this standard properly, I bet you could get both KDE and Gnome to agree on it. Wouldn't be easy for sure, but definitely possible. If both KDE and Gnome agreed that for your app to be compliant to their standards, it has to also be compliant to this app dissociated from UI standard. Everybody wins. KDE apps are one front-end away from seamlessly integrating into Gnome or whatever other environment also complies to this new standard.
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Might be easier to get the CSR to contact the officer with the information. That way it doesn't look like you're just trying to stalk an old girlfriend.
I think that has a lot to do with the perceived triviality of the question. I'm not sure how many would have, for example, admitted to wearing their mother's underwear (completely wacky example) without assurance of privacy.
Which brings the other point that stuff that people actually care to keep private is not *common* or trivial.
It might be more accurate to see how many would actually list *which* homework they copied without assurance of privacy.
You mean that with a female brain, I could think of boobs and ass *at the same time*?
But your current generation/incarnation at the time might not agree that it is crappy and needs to go back to the drawing board.
In other (future) news, Viacom signs a deal with Magibon and Ron Paul and the guy who wants us to leave Britney Spears alone for their own exclusive shows.
Getting rid of congress and passing everything onto the people through referendum (some sort of yearly limit would be necessary for legislation) seems like a better choice to me at this point.
I agree, let's hire Diebold to make sure that the process is fair. And Fox News to make sure the opinion of the masses is completely impartial.
Though that was satire, I honestly can't say your idea would be worse than what's currently in place. Regardless, a purely democratic government would likely leave 'large minority' of its people quite oppressed. The US is(was?) a constitutional republic for that reason.
I agree with you.
I think the only 'good' approach to a scheme like this is to always design the game in a way where there is added value to buying the game.
It can be very obvious: "Only valid copies get online play" or more subtle, like Spore's approach to game content. (not their current approach to validation)
It is challenging and certainly not always applicable, but still. If I were to design a game and meant to make money off of it, I'd put a whole lot of my efforts into figuring out a way to make the game *more fun* for legitimate users.
Sure, people will still find illegitimate copies, but I think people would much more appreciate that I don't cripple my game and the fact that I just give those who pay that little extra that might make it worth buying.
I'm not in the game dev business. So my opinion probably doesn't matter that much, but I *personally* wouldn't look at someone who grabs a copy of my stuff without paying as a thief. Merely as someone who considers what they get from a real copy to not be worth the extra money. And that *to me* is a design issue, not a moral one.
What's a girlfriend?
(Sorry, this is Slashdot and I thought an auto-derogatory cliche reply like this was sorely missing.)
If you want 'intimidate and control through fear', I highly suggest you pay attention to what's really going on on your television...
And in random terrorist 'drills' spewing out all over the country...
I'm a whole lot more worried about what's being done to fight terrorists than I am about whatever a terrorist could do.
Even the (notice how they keep waving that one at us) horrible scenario of some suitcase nuke in a major US city wouldn't do nearly as much damage to our society as what's been done to 'prevent' such things from happening.
Especially considering that it probably wouldn't be very effective at preventing it anyway.
I didn't know about Sibel until I read it here. It may not have been your direct intent but spreading information the establishment does *not* want you to know is the only thing we can do to defeat those measures.
I must also commend you on doing it the right way, with just enough bias that it would make me want to look into it.
Keep up the good work, and may everybody else who reads this take it as a reminder to do the right thing while they still have enough freedom to do so.
"If we don't talk about it, it doesn't exist. Now *that's* the real power of the media" to loosely translate a movie quote.
... that they apparently defeated the 'weapons industry' for the title of 'most profitable industry in the world'.
While I agree completely... Did they ever legally establish that the tracker/torrent itself is illegal? *technically* it contains no copyrighted information.
Can't help pointing out Dick Cheneys uncanny resemblance to Nosferatu after reading that.
And don't get me wrong; I say this as a hardcore green with CFLs in every socket who is on the waiting list for an electric car.
Wait a minute there... Those CFLs are *mercury free*, right? And that electric car isn't going to be charged from a coal plan, is it?
We could all learn to use laptops sideways for coding:
Boss: Why are you lying down?
You: To be more productive!
I was under the impression that in a constitutional republic, it was the people who ran things.
And you heard it straight from the horse's mouth...
They sure as hell won't be strapping that to my head...
Don't give up hope... Here's clarification from the official campaign:
http://people.ronpaul2008.com/campaign-updates
It isn't called global warming anymore. The new official name for it is 'climat change'. The UN would be in quite a pickle justifying carbon taxes if it turns out that we aren't warming in a few decades. But you can never argue that the climate isn't changing. I say they're just taking the safe bet regardless of which side of that 'consensus' (god forbid there be a debate) you are.
That said, I am *totally* for energy efficiency if merely from the fact that waste is bad. But if they really want to save the earth, they should focus on things like deforestation and overfishing. Especially since the best way to soak up all that C02 is to have lots trees around.
They should put some fine print that says google is allowed to use the uploaded sample content however it sees fit, including distributing it freely ;)
Ah, all we need is a small version of this, directly implanted at birth, RFID style. Say as a 'preventative measure for autism' or some other well meaning excuse. Then you give the transmitter to the whoever you want as a representative of authority and all those popularity troubles are gone.
Now it's a totally ridiculous idea... But you bet there's a think tank somewhere, filled with overpaid people, seriously considering that possibility. I'd call the report "Project for the *Next* new American Century."
Then only tinfoil hats will see the truth!
I think the key isn't so much to pick an UI... The real power would be to make the UI not matter. For example, the NetworkManager part of Gnome. It is far from perfect, but these guys got one thing definitely right. They put work on something that is potentially a godsend for GUI users. Yet they took the care to separate the UI side from the working side. So if someone wants NetworkManager in KDE, all they need is a KDE front-end to it.
I *think* gstreamer might have had a similar idea, but I haven't looked into that much yet.
Basically, my take is that the trend shouldn't be to enforce a GUI standard. It should be to re-establish the culture of separation between the app and its GUI. My message to devs: If you really think your app will be useful, try to make it useful to people regardless of their GUI preference. Heck, even people who use CLI should be able to interface with it.
A GUI should always be considered a 'plugin'. Nothing wrong with writing a default one, but I'd definitely give bonus points to someone who makes sure their app isn't tied to the GUI environment outside of their interface plugin.
Linux is about choice, as a user, I want that choice offered to me. As a dev, I would want to give that choice. Forking isn't all bad, but why fork a whole app just because of UI issues?
Heck, defining this standard properly, I bet you could get both KDE and Gnome to agree on it. Wouldn't be easy for sure, but definitely possible. If both KDE and Gnome agreed that for your app to be compliant to their standards, it has to also be compliant to this app dissociated from UI standard. Everybody wins. KDE apps are one front-end away from seamlessly integrating into Gnome or whatever other environment also complies to this new standard.