AT&T uses Yahoo... therefore, it is the default home page and mail client for anyone using AT&T as an ISP. They have similar agreements with a number of other ISPs.
Microsoft also uses Yahoo data for a number of their services.
Yahoo switched from being an end-user directory-based search service to being a tiered data and networked service provider years ago. You're likely using Yahoo services right now and don't even know it.
Really? You either have very limited personal assets, or you have a very limited definition of "everything."
I generally live my life assuming that for the most part, any information I provide someone will be captured, analysed, stored and sold.
Thus, I live my life being very careful about who knows what about me. It's not that much work, and means that it's less likely that people will know things about me that should have no impact on our relationship.
.....to buy goods should not risk my privacy. I detest going into a Best Buy or Sears or any where else that has to ask for a phone number or zip code, and when I say no, I'm told, well it's the only way we can refund you if there is an issue with a product. And I immediately call Shenanigans, and they sheepishly admit that they don't need the info.
Interestingly, such shenanigans are illegal where I live both by deceptive sales laws and by privacy laws (if I say no when they ask for the data, they are required to drop it but not have that impact the level of service). I consistently respond to "and may I have your phone number/postal code/etc" with "no thank you." Once, when the laws had just been passed, I had someone tell me that their till wouldn't let them complete the transaction without the information; I told them it must be able to, or their company was in for stiff penalties and an audit. The clerk quickly found the button that skipped to the next input field. That's the last time I've had this sort of issue.
Interestingly, I got back the condescending "you don't really understand the contents of the bill" letter that some others received too... so I rebutted the points one by one and sent back my response. I got no reply to this one.
Interestingly, every single thing I rebutted has been removed from the bill. Annoyingly, I never thought to criticize the DRM section.
At least maybe this means they'll put me in the "we won't toss this without reading it first" list in the future....
That doesn't change the fact that there's something wrong with a person who enjoys killing other living things. Of course, it's necessary, but the enjoyment of the task indicates some serious mental problems.
And yet, unlike people who eat their beef steak or their hamburgers, hunters actually have the guts to finish the kill themselves. Personally, I think people have something wrong with them if they're willing to eat something they're not willing to kill themselves (whether it be microbe, fruit, vegetable, or animal).
Then start your business extracting rare earth, you will be rich !!!
Right... because starting a business that handles toxic chemicals, destroys the environment, and involves feeding out of and into a huge industrial complex is a piece of cake... and once you've got it set up, China won't undersell you.
It's the equivalent of attempting to build a linux kernel from scratch... where people have been adding commits for 113 years, but you have to apply the patches yourself. You also have to figure out which patches NOT to install as they don't actually apply to your hardware (and would break your build if applied), and then ensure that the forward looking dependency chain doesn't break based on this.
End result: NOBODY knows for certain what is illegal and what is legal; only a rough set of guidelines.
This does raise a good point. In the US, justice is served via a penal system -- you do the crime, you do the time. In other countries (Canada, for example), justice is served via a correction system (for the time being) where you do the crime, the state attempts to help you become someone beneficial to society again.
Plea bargaining can work well in a corrections setting, as long as there is some further guidance that goes along with the bargain. It has no place in a penal system, as that system is designed to punish people for bad behaviour. Plea bargaining punishes people for good behaviour, and avoids punishing people for bad behaviour... except for the fact that as the system evolves, plea bargaining is taken into account, and the pre-bargain punishments become inflated to correct -- with the result that anyone who doesn't bargain ends up with a time that doesn't match the crime.
I think what's at issue here is whether or not he was trying to convince other employees that Pi == 3, even when they had told him they knew there was more to the number than that.
Or to use another analogy, he was going around the office telling people that they needed fuzzy dice hanging from their rear view mirror in order to keep elephants away from the office. Then he claims that his belief in this protective measure got him fired, where it's really that people were fed up with how he was conducting himself in the office.
The big question is: were there harassment complaints on file? Were others let go at the same time as him? Was there a legitimate reason given for letting him go?
My guess is he was downsized due to budget cuts, and was picked to go because he didn't get on well with others in the office (losing him would be less of a loss to the company than losing some other equally talented person).
I think you may be confusing "bricked" with "totaled"? As in, (uneconomically) unrepairable by anyone?
That doesn't quite fit either... as "totalled" usually implies physical damage. Then there's "write off" -- which means that it would cost more to fix than it would be worth to fix (cheaper to get a replacement) which also doesn't quite fit.
Getting back to the other question: I can fix a failed firmware flash myself, so that strengthens your argument further -- as most people would call it bricked.
However, my main point was that "bricked" has more to do with the pre and post utility of the object than it does with the process. You will notice that I said in that quote you quoted that the ECU is "bricked" even though it could be repaired by an authorized repair facility -- exactly like you said.
Ever used Launchpad on OS X? Notice that almost all Apple apps can be run in a "no menu bar" mode? With the last release, most of the useful bits from iOS have been reintigrated into OS X, such that you can now operate most of OS X with a touch screen (including onscreen keyboard). Of course, Apple did a better job of integrating this interface with that of the traditional UI, such that you can still use a mouse in the traditional manner if you so desire.
Not meaning to sound fanboyish; just meaning that MS and Apple just took different paths to the same thing, with slightly different results.
IMO, neither one will feel right until my PC gets a fully functional kinect-like replacement for the mouse.
Yes, but a mechanic can. "Bricking" refers to making an object as useful to the owner as a brick -- something you can use as a paperweight, a doorstop, or as a weapon to throw at someone you don't like -- in short, a man-made object with no inherent functionality of its own.
You could brick the ECU, but the car would still be repairable by any authorized repair facility.
Interesting concept... could never happen for legal reasons...
Of course it can happen. It probably already has. There's a thriving (some might say obsessive) fan-editing community, particularly around Star Wars. George Lucas is, by all accounts, pretty cool about it as long as no-one else's trying to get rich.
the "they" - at least in my riding, represent a voting majority that would be more than happy to see these laws passed, because the issues are completely off their radar. At least when I wrote to my MP, message was passed on to the aides of the people responsible for this bill, who sent me back a propaganda message... which I rebutted point by point. Not that it'll do any good. The only way this won't pass is if it becomes politically unpopular -- and for that to happen, someone doing something really naughty has to be caught and associated with the bill.
Aren't most of the scanners gamma ray backscatter scanners, not x-ray scanners?
The reason they don't call them x-ray scanners is the same reason checkout scanners aren't called laser scanners -- when they were put in, people associated lasers with star wars-style weapons, not with optical recognition. Similarly, most of these body scanners work by emitting an extremely low dose of gamma rays and then monitoring the backscatter response -- completely different from the (rightly) demonized x-ray machines that blasted the entire area with x-ray radiation and took a negative of the stuff that got through.
I agree: call it what it is... but don't try to mislead people based on preconceived perceptions of similarly named equipment.
There's enough problems with how the TSA operates without throwing in misinformation that gets people dismissing ALL the complaints.
If the US had simply focused on cleaning up the mess and finding bin Laden
Yeah, if only we had spent the last 10 years in Afghanistan hunting down Al Qaeda and the Taliban, killing bin Laden's lieutenants, tracking sources, and trying to find bin Laden through an extensive network of deep cover operatives in Pakistan. Good idea.
Extremely good idea. Note the "simply" -- the US did a LOT more than just that, supposedly in response to 9/11. The bits surrounding Iraq make almost no sense, and the policies forced down the throats of allied nations generated a LOT of hate and distrust globally.
I saw a sign in the airport last weekend. "The backscatter scanner exposes you the same amount of radiation as you receive in two minutes in the airplane".
I've seen those signs too. My first thought was "sure... standing INSIDE the scanner exposes you to the same amount of radiation... but what about when you're waiting in line for 20 minutes BESIDE the scanner? Plus, I can go outside and be exposed to MORE radiation than I receive in two minutes by the backscatter scanner... but it's not the same frequency of radiation, nor is it the same intensity (read: I don't mind being bombarded with radiation that will not pass through my clothing/skin, or that will pass right through without exciting my molecular structure - I just have issue with radiation that could be harmful to my DNA and cellular structure).
When operated properly, backscanner scanning should be relatively harmless -- but what's done by experts in a lab is no measure for how the thing is implemented in the real world.
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AT&T uses Yahoo... therefore, it is the default home page and mail client for anyone using AT&T as an ISP. They have similar agreements with a number of other ISPs.
Microsoft also uses Yahoo data for a number of their services.
Yahoo switched from being an end-user directory-based search service to being a tiered data and networked service provider years ago. You're likely using Yahoo services right now and don't even know it.
Most consumers also think that with the right products, everyone can be above average.
Really?
You either have very limited personal assets, or you have a very limited definition of "everything."
I generally live my life assuming that for the most part, any information I provide someone will be captured, analysed, stored and sold.
Thus, I live my life being very careful about who knows what about me. It's not that much work, and means that it's less likely that people will know things about me that should have no impact on our relationship.
.....to buy goods should not risk my privacy. I detest going into a Best Buy or Sears or any where else that has to ask for a phone number or zip code, and when I say no, I'm told, well it's the only way we can refund you if there is an issue with a product. And I immediately call Shenanigans, and they sheepishly admit that they don't need the info.
Interestingly, such shenanigans are illegal where I live both by deceptive sales laws and by privacy laws (if I say no when they ask for the data, they are required to drop it but not have that impact the level of service). I consistently respond to "and may I have your phone number/postal code/etc" with "no thank you." Once, when the laws had just been passed, I had someone tell me that their till wouldn't let them complete the transaction without the information; I told them it must be able to, or their company was in for stiff penalties and an audit. The clerk quickly found the button that skipped to the next input field. That's the last time I've had this sort of issue.
... COME ALL!
Interestingly, I got back the condescending "you don't really understand the contents of the bill" letter that some others received too... so I rebutted the points one by one and sent back my response. I got no reply to this one.
Interestingly, every single thing I rebutted has been removed from the bill. Annoyingly, I never thought to criticize the DRM section.
At least maybe this means they'll put me in the "we won't toss this without reading it first" list in the future....
That doesn't change the fact that there's something wrong with a person who enjoys killing other living things. Of course, it's necessary, but the enjoyment of the task indicates some serious mental problems.
Vegetables are living things too you monster!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM
And yet, unlike people who eat their beef steak or their hamburgers, hunters actually have the guts to finish the kill themselves. Personally, I think people have something wrong with them if they're willing to eat something they're not willing to kill themselves (whether it be microbe, fruit, vegetable, or animal).
So what's the fair price for Windows 7 Ultimate? Or Adobe CS 5?
In China? Free....
Then start your business extracting rare earth, you will be rich !!!
Right... because starting a business that handles toxic chemicals, destroys the environment, and involves feeding out of and into a huge industrial complex is a piece of cake... and once you've got it set up, China won't undersell you.
It's the equivalent of attempting to build a linux kernel from scratch... where people have been adding commits for 113 years, but you have to apply the patches yourself. You also have to figure out which patches NOT to install as they don't actually apply to your hardware (and would break your build if applied), and then ensure that the forward looking dependency chain doesn't break based on this.
End result: NOBODY knows for certain what is illegal and what is legal; only a rough set of guidelines.
This does raise a good point. In the US, justice is served via a penal system -- you do the crime, you do the time. In other countries (Canada, for example), justice is served via a correction system (for the time being) where you do the crime, the state attempts to help you become someone beneficial to society again.
Plea bargaining can work well in a corrections setting, as long as there is some further guidance that goes along with the bargain. It has no place in a penal system, as that system is designed to punish people for bad behaviour. Plea bargaining punishes people for good behaviour, and avoids punishing people for bad behaviour... except for the fact that as the system evolves, plea bargaining is taken into account, and the pre-bargain punishments become inflated to correct -- with the result that anyone who doesn't bargain ends up with a time that doesn't match the crime.
I think what's at issue here is whether or not he was trying to convince other employees that Pi == 3, even when they had told him they knew there was more to the number than that.
Or to use another analogy, he was going around the office telling people that they needed fuzzy dice hanging from their rear view mirror in order to keep elephants away from the office. Then he claims that his belief in this protective measure got him fired, where it's really that people were fed up with how he was conducting himself in the office.
The big question is: were there harassment complaints on file? Were others let go at the same time as him? Was there a legitimate reason given for letting him go?
My guess is he was downsized due to budget cuts, and was picked to go because he didn't get on well with others in the office (losing him would be less of a loss to the company than losing some other equally talented person).
Let's not assume that everything that doesn't work in the foreseeable future is inherently bad, okay?
That's why I don't have a private Zeppelin today.... :(
I think you may be confusing "bricked" with "totaled"? As in, (uneconomically) unrepairable by anyone?
That doesn't quite fit either... as "totalled" usually implies physical damage. Then there's "write off" -- which means that it would cost more to fix than it would be worth to fix (cheaper to get a replacement) which also doesn't quite fit.
Getting back to the other question: I can fix a failed firmware flash myself, so that strengthens your argument further -- as most people would call it bricked.
However, my main point was that "bricked" has more to do with the pre and post utility of the object than it does with the process. You will notice that I said in that quote you quoted that the ECU is "bricked" even though it could be repaired by an authorized repair facility -- exactly like you said.
Ever used Launchpad on OS X? Notice that almost all Apple apps can be run in a "no menu bar" mode? With the last release, most of the useful bits from iOS have been reintigrated into OS X, such that you can now operate most of OS X with a touch screen (including onscreen keyboard). Of course, Apple did a better job of integrating this interface with that of the traditional UI, such that you can still use a mouse in the traditional manner if you so desire.
Not meaning to sound fanboyish; just meaning that MS and Apple just took different paths to the same thing, with slightly different results.
IMO, neither one will feel right until my PC gets a fully functional kinect-like replacement for the mouse.
Yes, but a mechanic can. "Bricking" refers to making an object as useful to the owner as a brick -- something you can use as a paperweight, a doorstop, or as a weapon to throw at someone you don't like -- in short, a man-made object with no inherent functionality of its own.
You could brick the ECU, but the car would still be repairable by any authorized repair facility.
Is that you, Daneel?
You forgot Mexico and New Mexico....
petabytes, not terabytes. TPB will be TPing the PB while increasing the PB in the RAID in response to the RAID in the PB by the PD.
Interesting concept... could never happen for legal reasons...
Of course it can happen. It probably already has. There's a thriving (some might say obsessive) fan-editing community, particularly around Star Wars. George Lucas is, by all accounts, pretty cool about it as long as no-one else's trying to get rich.
FTFY
the "they" - at least in my riding, represent a voting majority that would be more than happy to see these laws passed, because the issues are completely off their radar. At least when I wrote to my MP, message was passed on to the aides of the people responsible for this bill, who sent me back a propaganda message... which I rebutted point by point. Not that it'll do any good. The only way this won't pass is if it becomes politically unpopular -- and for that to happen, someone doing something really naughty has to be caught and associated with the bill.
Aren't most of the scanners gamma ray backscatter scanners, not x-ray scanners?
The reason they don't call them x-ray scanners is the same reason checkout scanners aren't called laser scanners -- when they were put in, people associated lasers with star wars-style weapons, not with optical recognition. Similarly, most of these body scanners work by emitting an extremely low dose of gamma rays and then monitoring the backscatter response -- completely different from the (rightly) demonized x-ray machines that blasted the entire area with x-ray radiation and took a negative of the stuff that got through.
I agree: call it what it is... but don't try to mislead people based on preconceived perceptions of similarly named equipment.
There's enough problems with how the TSA operates without throwing in misinformation that gets people dismissing ALL the complaints.
If the US had simply focused on cleaning up the mess and finding bin Laden
Yeah, if only we had spent the last 10 years in Afghanistan hunting down Al Qaeda and the Taliban, killing bin Laden's lieutenants, tracking sources, and trying to find bin Laden through an extensive network of deep cover operatives in Pakistan. Good idea.
Extremely good idea. Note the "simply" -- the US did a LOT more than just that, supposedly in response to 9/11. The bits surrounding Iraq make almost no sense, and the policies forced down the throats of allied nations generated a LOT of hate and distrust globally.
I saw a sign in the airport last weekend. "The backscatter scanner exposes you the same amount of radiation as you receive in two minutes in the airplane".
I've seen those signs too. My first thought was "sure... standing INSIDE the scanner exposes you to the same amount of radiation... but what about when you're waiting in line for 20 minutes BESIDE the scanner? Plus, I can go outside and be exposed to MORE radiation than I receive in two minutes by the backscatter scanner... but it's not the same frequency of radiation, nor is it the same intensity (read: I don't mind being bombarded with radiation that will not pass through my clothing/skin, or that will pass right through without exciting my molecular structure - I just have issue with radiation that could be harmful to my DNA and cellular structure).
When operated properly, backscanner scanning should be relatively harmless -- but what's done by experts in a lab is no measure for how the thing is implemented in the real world.